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

DETROIT. MICH" SATURDAY, JAN. 21. 19”.





VOL. CXXXVI. No. 3. E

Whole Number 353i.





FARM NOTES.





June Clover and Alfalfa.





From a field of 13 acres we cut 30 good

loads of June clover hay. This fall we

harvested 20 bu. of seed and had good

pasture for 13 head of cattle for two

weeks in same field. Now how.much

better will a field of the same size in

alfalfa pay, taking into consideration the

fertilizer Lou leave in the soil.



Ingham Co. L. D. P.





Thirty loads of good clover hay and 20

bushels of clover seed from 13 acres of

land is certainly a profitable season's

yield. \Ve presume the hay was not

weighed, but if it would average a ton to

the load this would be a yield of a little

more than 2.3 tons per acre, and if for

the purpose of comparison we estimate

its worth at $10 per ton would make the

hay from the first cutting worth $23 per

acre. Twenty bushels of seed from the

13 acres would mean a yield of a little

more than 3143 bushels per acre, which

at $9 per bushel. which is about the pres-

ent quotation for clover seed. would be

worth $13.50 per acre. This would make

a total of $36.50 per acre from the clover

field, aside from the value of the feed

secured from it during the ‘two weeks it

was pastured. When the benefit to the

soil from the growing of the clover crop,

to which L. D, P. calls attention, is con-

sidered, this is certainly an argument for

the growing pt liberal areas of clover on

all Michigan. farms, but it can not he

rightly considered ,as an argument against

growing alfalfa. .



The crop above described is perhaps

near the limit of production for the clover

crop in lower Michigan in an average

year, so that in comparing it with alfal‘lia.

it would be a Ian proposition to take an

unusual example. The writer was in a

small field of alfalfa last fall which was

sown three years ago as an experiment

by Ex-Governor ‘Varner on one of his

Oakland county farms. At that time the

third crop to be harvested from the field

last summer was nearly ready to cut. and

in the writer‘s judgment it would yield

not less than two tons per acre. From

the previous cuttings of these three acres,

six and five loads respectively had been.





secured. Estimating these loads at one

ton each as with the clover hay and

adding the estimated cut for the third





crop we would have 17 tons of hay from

the three acres, or a little more than 5.6

tons per acre wh‘ch. at $10 per ton. or

the same value placed on the clover hay

for comparison, and we find the value of

the season‘s production from this field

of alfalfa to be $56 per acre. Really it was

much more than this, as good alfalfa hay

is worth much more than that for feed.

having a fecding value for its protein

content alone, almost equal to that of

wheat bran. These figures are also of a

nature to make every farmer realize that

it would be a good thing for him to have

a. moderate acreage of alfalfa growing on

his farm. Of course. it costs more to get

a stand of alfalfa than it does to get a

stand of clover, but when it is taken into

consideration that the alfalfa can be cut

for several years with as good or better

results, and that it is as great a soil im-

prover as clover, the alfalfa does not

suffer by a comparison with that plant.

But comparisons of this kind serve no

other good purpose than to illustrate the

value of alfalfa as a forage plant to Mich-

igan farmers. Really. it should not be a

question of clover vs. alfalfa. but of clover

and alfalfa. No well informed student of

agriculture would advise the displacement

of clover in our crop rotations by alfalfa.

We need the'clover just the same. It is

too valuable an agent in the maintenance

of soil fertility to be dispensed with. We

need more of it, and need to have it come

more frequently in the crop rotation on





the average, far-m. But we do not always

get it when we need it, and generally we

do not get enough of it to supply the

home demand for feeding purposes. But

when we once get alfalfa established on

(ur farms we can depend on it to give

a profitable crop each year for a number

of years. It helps us to produce more

home-grown protein without drawing on

the fertility of our soils, but rather help-

ing us to improve the soil at the same

time. It is a. cheap and available source

of the best of all rough feeds for our live





it difficult to determine its nature. That

broken-down vegetable matter in the

form of decayed sawdust is of some value

as a fertilizer is provcn by the fertility

of the soil about an old woodpile. But

unless the sawdust is decayed to an ex—

tent which reduccs it to a condition of

vegetable mold. it will prove of little

value except on hcavy clay soils. where

its mechanical effect may prove valuable.

The best way to use it is to remove it

from the surface of the pile as it dries

out in the summer season and use it. as





 





 





 





The Evergreen Trees and Hedges Lend Color- to the Winter Scene. Farm Home

of W. H. Phelps, Shiawassee COunty.





stock. both in the quality of the forage

and in the quantity which can be pro-

duced on a given area of land. It “has

been a boon to the agriculture of every

section of the country where it has been

grown, and it will prove the same to the

agriculture of Michigan. Consequently

cvery Michigan farmer should experiment

with it until he has solved the problem

of growing it successfully, but no farmer

should neglect the clever crop for this

reason. There is room for both on every





an absorbent in the stable. for which pur-

pose it will be found valuable, and you

will, at the same time, get the benefit of

such fertilizing value as it may have.

The Principle and Practice of Subsoiling.

’lcasc discuss "subsoiling" for a nov-

icc: how practiced; what 10015. are re—

quired; whether or not advantageous in

:1 soil that is shallow sand loam with

light sand bclow. What is the theory of

its practice; its claimed advantages, etc.

Berrien Co. R. G. B.

A generation 21:0 subsoiling was much





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Grain and Hay Barn on Leach Bros.’ Farm, St. Clair Co., 36x110 ft., 18-ft. POSts.





farm, and no well managed farm will be

long without them.

Sawdust as a Fertlllzyer.



I would like information regarding the

value of rotted sawdust as fertilizer.

Some claim it is as good as stable ma-

nure, while others say it is useless. I

can get all I want for 'the hauling of it.



Ingham Co. SUBSCRIBER.



To make a valuable fertilizer the saw-

dust should be so well rotted as to make





more commonly advocated and practiced

than it is today. It gave best results on

impervious soils with poor natural drain—

age, on which it was found that opening

the furrow to a greater depth by follow-

ing the ordinary plow with a subsoil plow

improved the natural drainage, let in the

air and produced beneficial results in the

crops which followed. Later, with the

advent of the tile drain to get rid of the





55!.00 A YEAR.

($2.75 FIVE YEARS





excess water in the soil where needed,

and the growing of clover in the crop ro-

tation to loosen up the subsoil and unlock

some of the unavailable fertility which it





contains, subsoiling gradually lost in

favor until it is no longer p‘ractiwd to





any extent. in recent the same

theory has been revived in another foam

by the advocates of dccp tillage in which

two furrows are plowcd, Ullt' plow run—

ning in the bottom of the first

loosening up the soil and mixing it In a

tonsiderable extent with thc sill-fine S-ill.

Good results are claimed for this syslcin

by those who have tricd it and plows

have been devised and are now manufac—

tured 10 do the whole preccss at one op—

eration. This form of tillage. like the

subsouing which was formerly

to it considerable cxtent are.

tettcr adapted to use in heavy,

\‘ious soils than in loose. opcn soils.

as is described lll

deleterious, rathcr than bcm-ticial l‘t'rlllis

would be likcly to follow loo (it‘t‘li tillage

no matter what the method followcd, for

the reason that it is already too (qwll and

porous, and a furtiu-r nurture of" :in

in the subso'l with the

lessen its

lower its powci' to iciniu moisture. Such

soils should be «lccpencd gradually by

plowing a littlc dccpcr each time and by

a corresponding increase in humus con-

tent by plowing down vegetable matter.

“Blight” afithe' Bean Crop.



In rctcnt years the blight has attacked

our beans, picvcnling lots of the pods

from filling at all. Can it be stopped by

spraying them with lime and sulphur so-

lution? If not, let me. know how strong

it can be uscd, when it should be applied

for the, first time. how Mint and how

many times in a scason. Ur is there some

othcr rcmedy‘.’



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There are a numbcr of fuugous discascs

which attach the plant. lllt‘ most

H‘l'ltills and common of which is anthi'mw





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Ilia-ht. or rust. This is sometimes to la-

n-Im‘ci'vcil in the young plants in lhc l'HI'ui

of brown or suukcn spots on tho

and the plants arc sometimcs destroywl

by it at this stage of growth. More oi'tcn

it will be first noted by the appearance

of the leaves, which will be

especially along the veins on th» uudcr~

sido. which will appear brownish and

«load. llut it is on the pods theiiisclvos

that the most serious cvidencc of tlrc dis—

case will be t‘oinparutivcly litigat-

brown. sunken spots will appear in tho

tissue of the pods, iu the center of which

a pink mold can oi‘tcn bu secn. This is

the sccd 0r spores of the disease, which

must have prcscnt in thc

plaulcd. in the soil on which the crop is

grown or





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SUCH.





been scco

deposited on the plants by in-

soinc othcr agency to cause the

trouble in the plants on whit h it aprmai‘s.

'l‘hc rcmcdy is to plant sccd which is t‘rwc

:roni the. diswasc. This can be secure d

by care in its stlcction from thc Held. by

the hand-picking of the pods. for (*llull'lll

to grow thc scml for the stit'w't‘cdiiig ycai‘

if noctissary. ."\

Loans (in not





crop rotation in which

come too ot‘tcn on the same

land is also csscnlial. it is largelv'duo

to the presence of this disease that bean

growers havo gottcu the common idca

that it injures the crop to cultivate when

thcrc is a dcw on the vines or after a

shower. l'ndcr thcsc conditions the spores

of the fungus stick to the vines and

find an entrance into the tissuc of the

plants much more readily than when they

are dry. But if seed from a clean tield

can not be secured, the seed uscd should

be carefully hand-picked and every bean

not perfectly sound and bright should be

rejected. This will eliminate a large pro—

portion of the diseased seed, as the spots

on the, pods reach and affect the beans,

leaving them somewhat discolored on one





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side. Treatment of the seed has not

proven effective enough to make it a safe

protection against the trouble, and spray-

ing, while a prevention from the spread-

ing of the disease in the field, is not effec-

tive where diseased seed is planted

Where spraying has been practiced, the

application of Bordeaux mixture in which

six pounds of copper sulphate, and four

pounds of lime are used to 50 or 60 gals.

of water with the addition of resin soap,

has been most successful. The resin soap

is made by mixing two pounds of resin

and one pound of crystalized sal soda in

two quarts of water and boiling it until

a clear brown solution is secured. This

amount is added to each barrel of the

mixture, and makes it spread more easily

and causes it to be less easily washed

off by the rains. Where the crop has

been sprayed by New York growers, the

spraying was commenced at about the

time the third leaf forms and about two

more sprayings are given as the season

advances. \Ve have no data on spraying

with the lime-sulphur solution, but it

would appear that this would prove as

effectual in combating fungous trouble

in beans as in fruit trees. ‘



Another disease of the bean plant which

is also some-what common in this state is

Lacteriosis. This trouble is seen in the

form of large brown spots on the foliage.

which become dry and break away, leav—

ing the foliage ragged in appearance.

Later the disease appears on the stems

and pods and it is perpetuated through

the seed like anthracnose. for which rea-

son the two may be considered as the

same disease so far as results go. Spray-

ing is also about as effective with one as

the other, and where the disease is noted

during the early part of the growing pe-

riod it will probably pay to try spraying

as a means of saving the crop. But the

best remedy is the preventive of plant—

ing clean seed. and every commercial

bean grower should take the precaution

to secure and plant some clean seed in a

seed-breeding plot at least to the end

that the disease may as far as possible.

be eliminated from future crops. For-

tunately, it does not seem to spread read-

ily without some active agent to carry it.

so the matter of getting and keeping pure

seed is more simple than would other—

wise be the case.





The Value of Straw on the Farm.



\tht is the commercial or fertilizing

value «if the straw from ll acres of oats?

Hats yielded about 40 bu, per acre. were

clean and free from weeds, and the Straw

was large. There is at the least calcu—

lation {our tons of the straw. Can I

afford to sell straw and purchase half a

ton t$l3l of commercial fertilizer? Mv

point is to know which is the cheaper

and the. better for land.



Allcgun (‘0. J. G. P.



it is hardly necessary to compute the

value of the actual plant food contained

in oat straw to answer this question in«

telligently. although. roughly speaking,

the actual fertilizing constituents con-

tained in four tons of this straw would

be. nearly equal to the plant food con-

tained in a half ton of high-grade fer-~

tilizer which would cost $15. But the oat

straw has an additional value for use on

the farm. It will have. some feeding value

for the stock if it is bright and clean

and is so used as to give them an oppor—

tunity to pick it over without compelling

them to eat it closely. Then, when used

as an absorbent in the stable or yard it

will aid in saving the more valuable liquid

portion of the manure voided by the stock

for application to the soil. And last, but

not least. the application of the straw it-

self will add vegetable matter to the soil

which will be decomposed and converted

into humus or vegetable mold, which is

an essential to soil fertility quite as nec-

cssary as is available plant food. There

are few cases in which it will pay to sell

straw of any kind off the farm. It will

always pay better to use it as an absorb-

ent in the making of manure, or even to

apply it to the land as a mulch to be

plowed down than to sell it. And where

the straw is used in this way 'to aid in

keeping up the humus content of the soil

it “'1“ be found that an application of

commercial fertilizer will pay much bet-

ter than where the latter is used as a

substitute for stable manure or coarse

vegetable matter as an application to the

soil.





 





WINTER WORK ON THE FARM.



Many farmers are heard to say that

they haven’t any work to do during the

winter months. Some days ago I was

talking to one of my neighbors, who re-

marked, “I haven’t anything to do now.

My corn is all husked and in the crib and

my fuel is all ready for use and I haven’t

anything to do but feed and make fires.”





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THE MICHIGAN. FARMER.

I then asked him if he had those fence

posts cut that he was telling me about





some time ago. “Why, no," he said, “I

didn’t intend to do that until later.” It is

good practice on the farm to never put

anything off until later that you can do

now. '



I know one farmer in my community

that never loses a work day in the year

and when you look around his farm you

can see the results, His stables and yards

are kept clean and the manure is not

wasted. being hauled out on the most

unproductive field of his farm. His farm‘

is all well fenced and this work was

largely done during the winter months,

thus obviating the loss of valuable time

during the crop season.



Not enough farmers give the fence

question the attention they should. How

many acres of excellent pasture is lost

every year by slack farmersyvho have

no fence? If complete figrues could be

given on this question it would start

many to thinking, and many dollars would

be saved.



Winter thinking on the farm is neglect-

ed as well as work. The farmer should

ask himself if he has proper tool sheds

and other outbuildings. If not much can

be done to supply this need during the

winter. Thousands of little things can ’be

done around the farm during the winter

that will save time during the summer

and every farmer should work for more

time in the crops, as every hour there

means something.





Illinois. COY C. MCCUAN.





SMAIL SEED FEM-rose.





I notice that small potatoes raised a

"racket,“ while the large ones have fail-

ml. so far this season, to cause comment.

1 am not coming to the rescue of Mr.

Lillie because he needs help, for I believe

he is just as liable to reach the 200 bush-

els per acre mark with small seed as Mr.

Schneider with a selection. From the

inquiry for small potatoes for seed every

spring it would seem that many besides

Mr, Lillie and the writer plant small p0-

tutoes. It is simply a matter of the eye,

and an eye from the small potato will

grow a good stalk, and if the land is rich

enough to grow 200 bushels per acre, you

can't tell the difference in four weeks.



In the spring of 1909 I planted 2% acres





‘with small seed, all cut in two or three





pieces. In eight days they were up, very

dark green in color and with stiff, broad

leaves. It was exceedingly dry but by

measure there were stalks three feet

high, and potatoes so plentiful, with no

market. that I simply g0t just about pay

for my labor. But I am sure, after 50

years’ experience on the farm, that I

would much rather plant none larger

than an average hen’s egg, throwing out

extremely small ones, and I presume this

is the seed Mr. Lillie expects to plant and

raise his 200 bushels, and he can do it.

Isabella Co. P. M. LOOMIS.





 





HANDLING CLOVER AND CLOVER

HAY.





 





The general idea seems to be that

clover sown on wheat in the spring should

not be clipped the following fall.. I have.

two fields. one I clipped, the other did

not. “'hen winter set in the field over

which I run the mowing machine had a

thick mass of clover (from eight to 12

inches high. In the other field the clover

was almost hidden by weeds. Now if

there are any reasons why the clover

field covered with weeds is in better con-

dition than the one covered with the

clover and no weeds, I would like to see

them in the Michigan Farmer.



Successful experience is better than

prevailing “habit.” My way with clover

is this: _



l. Procure the best seed obtainable.



2. Sow not less than six quarts per

acre, and usually add two quarts of

alsike.



3. Wait until ground is in good con-

dition to work, then sow twice over the

field, walking between the places walked

the first time, using hand-seeders.



4. Harrow thoroughly.



5. Sometimes clip about the middle of

August, and think we always should.



I use the weeder if the ground is mel-

low, instead of the barrow. have used

weeder once in five years. Our soil is

sand and gravel here, but was a heavy

clay in Ohio, where we practiced the





same. Clipping has always been satis-

factory. I speak of the little red, or June

clover. We aim to cut when one-fourth





or one-third of the heads have turned

brown.



I am aware it is neither seed sowing

or hay making time, but we are too busy





to write when it is. I now have four

bushels of seed, well cleaned, .ready to

sow on 20 acres, and want to add at

least 20 quarts of. alsike.



To Have Good Clover Hay.



1. Be ready for work.



2. Cut enough to fill the mow, or one—

third or one-half of it. in one day.



3. Haul in and fill the mow, or the one-

half or one—third, in one day, filling the

mow or one—half or one-third of it. en-

tirely full in the one day. Then keep off

it. The object is to have the entire mow,

or that portion of it filled, go into and

through the sweat naturally and at

once, and not have the first filling packed

while going into the sweat, or having

the later fillings of the mow dampened

before it should be and thus made too

damp and hot, and kept too long in that

condition.



To spoil clover hay have a 30-ton mow.

put five tons over the bottom; wait two

or three days, then put in five tons more.

and after three days. five more until mow

is filled. The result is to pack each layer

when damp by sweating, and have the

whole kept damp and hot as long as





possible.

. Branch Co. C. EWERS.

ECONOMY IN FARM MANAGEMENT.





 





The Weighing Habit.





I am not a farmer, but was reared one,

and since have been engaged in profes-

sional pursuits, and in my business re-

lations have had opportunity of observing

the methods that prevail in the manage-

ment of great industries. -P'rom these'ob-

servations and from my memory of the

methods. or rather lack of methods, that

prevail on many of the farms. I am con-

strained to make these observations.



In the economy of great corporations a

purchasing department is one of the

agencies that makes for success. The

prices, qualities and .utility of each and





every article that enters into the con-r





struction of the product of the plant, are

of great importance.



On the farm where all departments are

united under a single management, there

is none the less a necessity for careful

examination into quality, utility and cost

of necessary supplies, and the farmer, or

his wife. acting as purchasing agent for

the farm. bears the same relationship to

the farm and its success. that the cor-

poration agency does to its prosperity.



The average article that is of use on

the farm for sustenance of the family, or

for use in tillage or improvement, must





be approved or condemned by the sameI

that recommend the practical:





qualities.

purchaser for the great corporation and

induce him to take or reject it. “'ith a

great proportion of these articles the

question is generally that of weight. qual-

ity and utility being standardized and

conceded. Sugar. for example. A's pur—

chasing agent for the farm, then, the use

of the scale to ascertain the true weight

of such articles. and so determine what

one is getting. is apparent. In my own

experience a steelyztrd has often been the

test from which 1 determined which of

two dealers who asked for patronage, was

entitled to it.



It is often, and justly. suggested that

the farmer sells his product to one who

makes the price, and when he in turn

becomes purchaser, he finds that condi-

tions are reversed. and that time the

seller makes the price. This is perhaps

inevitable under the present non-organi-





zation that exists among farmers. But: . ‘

if obliged to submit to this disadvantage: ‘





so much the more should he use all means

to counteract these conditions, by requir-

ing that in matter of weight, he be treat—

ed fairly and honestly. The weighing

habit does ample justice both to him, and

to the dealer who is actually honest. in

this matter and tends to the elimination

of a dishonest dealer. or a careless one.



On one occasion not long ago. I went

into a city market to buy a small quan-

tity of meat. My purchases were care-

IQSSU’ thrown onto the computing scales,

and Quickly withdrawn, and the cost an-

nounced. On reaching home I carefully

“'eighed the meat with my steelyards,

and found that I had actually paid slight-

ly over 3] cents for each pound of meat

bought, although the prices announced

were 18 cents and 24 cents. A series of

experiments with different (1. lcrs soon

taught me where to buy.



A farmer friend of mine sold green peas

to a canning company. He was a meth-

odical man, and weighed every load. The

first load that he brought in showed a

shrinkage of 1'5 per cent rbetween farm

and factory. He argued, however. that

this might be the result of a mistake but

when the next few loads showed the same





JAN. 21, 1911.“





FAMILY OF FIVE ID





All Drank Colloe From Infancy.





 





It is a common thing in this country

to see whole families growing up with

nervous systems weakened by coffee

drinking. .



That is because many parents do not

realize that coffee contains a. drug—caf-

feine—which causes the trouble.



“There are five children in my family,"

writes an Iowa mother, '_‘all of whom

drank coffee from infancy up to two years

ago. '



“My husband and I had heart trouble

and were advised to quit coffee. W'e did

’so and began to use Postum. We now

are doing without medicine and'are en-

tirely relieved of heart trouble.



(Caffelne causes heart trouble when

continually used as in coffee drinking)-



“Our eleven-year-old boy had a weak

digestion from birth, and yet always

craved, and was given, coffee. When we

changed to Postum he liked it and we

gave him all he wanted. He has been

restored to health by Postum and still

likes it.



_“Long live the discoverer of Postum!”



Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs.

“There’s a. Reason.”





Ever read the above letter? A

new one appears from time to

time. They are genuine. true,

and full of human interest.





 





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shrinkage, he made complaint. only to

be told that such shrinkage was to be

expected in transportation of green peas.

This did not appeal to his farmer sense

and he figured out that a shrinkage of 15

per cent on the three-mile haul would,

by the rule of three, result in his having

absolutely nothing left: in case of a 20

mile haul, so he protested more vigor-

ously, with the result that thereafter the

difference between the farm weight and

that at the factory became a negligible

quantity.



The writer a few years ago had busi-

ness in one of our more western states,

and there became acquainted with the

man in charge of an elevator. This man

weighed the wheat, it was a wheat coun—





try, and determined the tare to be

charged, and also the grading of the

wheat. This man confided to the writer





that he was expected to send down the

hue to Duluth better wheat in grade, and

more in weight. than he paid the farmers

for, and attributed his long term of ser—

vices for the company to the fact that he

learned this lesson early and had con-

sistently adhered to it. The recent dis—

closures of weighing frauds on the part

of the sugar trust, was a surprise only

to the uninitiated.



-The scales will also give a basis for a

great deal of economic farm knowledge

as to foods. This is a practical question

for the farm purchasing agency, and in

asking questions, and seeking by weigh-

ing and computation to determine wheth-

er you are paying relatively too much for

food products you are not acting the nig-

gard, but you are doing exactly what the

great and successful corporations that are

controlling the production of many lines



'of goods, are doing.



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best, and weigh all you buy that is sus-

ceptible of weighing. Let your dealer

know that you have the weighing habit.

if he is honest he will be glad. If he is

not honest you will discover the fact. and

it will inure to your advantage. Make

integrity profitable, by the elimination of

the, disreputable. 1n the winter evenings





study the economy of purchasing, and

learn. if possible, to confine your pur-

chases to things of utility quality. and





to insist that you receive just what you

pay for, and a good start has been made

for success, and success, after all, is what

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SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF' THE

SMALL FARM.





As before stated. my farm is not a very

large one, and for this reason different

management is required from what is

usually practiced on a large farm. in or—

der to come out even at the end of the

year, or to make any profit. It is not:

very encouraging to run a farm, if a

man can only just barely make a living.

lie might as well, or perhaps better, work

at some trade. On a small farm the

owner must depend less on hired help;

which, at the present time, at: least, is

rather expensive. In order to rtin my

farm without the aid of much hired help,

I use three medium—sized horses which

are hitched together on most tools, these

tools having a seat on which to sit and

side, or some device on which to stand.

as it is hard work for a man in middle





life to tramp all day after a team, es-

pecially over plowed ground. For ex-r

ample, across the rear of the fertilizer





disk drill which I use, I have fixed a nar-

row plank which is bolted to the frame

of the drill by a couple of braces at each

end. one end of each brace is bolted to

the plank. and the other end to the drill

frame. These braces are just long enough

so the plank is about 12 inches from the

ground when the drill is in opt-ration.

his plank serves a double purpose. not

only to stand upon and ride. but is a

help 0 step upon while putting grain or

fertilizer in the box. because it saves

much lifting. By attaching my three

horses to the drill, it makes easy work

for them, and it is certainly not very

hard work for me to stand on the plank

and guide my team, standing, first on

one end, when going across the field in

one direction, and then changing to the

other end when coming back. This is a

fair sample of the way I do most of‘my

work on the farm. If a tool does not have

a seat on it, I put on some sort of an

attachment so I can ride, so as to make

my team do as much of the hard work as

possible.



My general rotation is corn. followed

by oats, then wheat which is seeded down

to clover, with a. little timothy mixed in.

The sod which is plowed for corn, is first





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ' <3) 51





covered with stable manure, which is

drawn out and applied as fast as made

when it is practical to do so. As I only

plant an average of eight acres of corn

each year, with the aid of a man to help,

this work is quickly and satisfactorily

done with hand planters. And also by

the aid of a man to help, my corn is cut

up and shOcked with less. cash outlay than

if a machine was used. And by com-

mencing to husk early, and hauling the

stalks or fodder into the'barn before they

become weather-beaten, my cows eat

them tip very clean, so I have never

thought that it was necessary to be to

the expense of shredding them, as shred-

ding does not add anything to the feeding

value. I plant corn that grows a medium

sized stalk, and not the kind that grows

stalks 10 or 12 feet high and two inches

through at the butt.



I keep from live to

medium-sized ,flock of Lincoln sheep,

some of which are registered. The milk

from each cow is weighed both night and

morning, and occasionally tested and a

separate account kept. and then at the

end of the year it is easy to figure out

just what the returns have been from

each cow. By weighing the grain fed

daily, and estimating the market value

of other feed. I am able to tell very

closely the profit made from each cow.

A. cow that does not produce at. least $60,

(including calf and butter-fat), is. sold to

the butcher.





six cows, and a





\Vhile there is no doubt I could make

more money by making a specialty of

dairying, I would have to work harder

myself, employ more hired help. which





would also make more work for my wife.

The keeping of a. medium-sized flock of

first-class sheep. in connection with my

cows adds but very little to the labor of

the farm, and the income from them is

,very satisfactory.



What is received from my cows and

sheep is not the only income from the

farm by any means. I aim to always

raise a first—class variety of oats. which

are treated to prevent smut. These oats

are reclcancd and sold in the spring for

seed, for several cents above the market

price, and I have never been able to sup-

ply the demand. Every bushel of my

wheat was sold this season for seed, at

quite an advance above the market price.

I have found that it always pays to raise

as good an article as possible to place on

the market. This winter I am feeding

10 shoats and buying all the feed for

them (except milk), something I have

never done before. But I will know next

spring whether there is any profit in the

transaction.



All my farm tools, when not in use. are

stored in a building made expressly for

that purpose. This building is 13 feet

wide and 46 feet long. Before it is time

to use any of these tools they are looked

over, and repairs made if needed. This

often saves much valuable time.



For many years I have kept a daily

farm book account. This account is

closed up and balanced at the end of the

year. ii'hile this account is not kept

strictly according to the rules of book-

keeping. yet it gives me a knowledge of

my income and the source from which it

is received. and how and for what every

dollar is expended. Such a knowledge is

very satisfactory. to me at least. although

some farmers think that keeping such an

account does not amount to much.



Ottawa CO. JOHN JACKSON.





THE DRAFT OF PLOWS.





This subject is one that has received

the careful study of several agricultural





colleges and experiment stations and the

results of these are in such form as to be

of value to the farmer. As yet there are





Inuny farmers who do not use a sulky

]'1l0\\' because they contend that the

“(454m of the driver and the apparatus





that makes it possible for him to ride is

bound to increase the draft of the plow.

To a certain extent they are right, but in

another way they are far from being so,

because the actual in draft is

so small as to hardly receive serious con-

sideration. The reason for this is, that

the wheels remove a great deal of the

draft that is caused by the friction of the

landside and the plow bottom against

the sides and the bottom of the furrow.

This difference in draft amounts to about

.1 of a pound in draft per square inch of

furrow slice. The conclusions to be drawn

from the results of these investigations

are: That the plow Should always be

run at full. capacity. and that to do its

best work at the point of least draft it

must cut the furrow the whole width of

the mouldboard.





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THE LIVE STOCK MEETING.





 





   





The twentieth annual meeting of the

Michigan Improved Live Stock Breeders'

and Fccdeis‘ Associat' eld at the

Michigan Agricultural College East Lan-

sing, Mich.. on Jan. 11- ' as announced.

The first day was devoted to the sectional

meetings. the different brccd associations

holding scpurate meetings in the rooms

of the new agricultural buElding assigned

to them for the purpose. \\'e have not

at hand the complete data. of these Several

mcctings, but will undertake to publish

brief reports of the deliberations of these

several bodies. together with a list of

new officers elected, in an early issue.

The day closed most pleasantly with a

general conference of all sections of the

general association. I



Thursday Morning Session.



The first session of the general meeting

was called to order in the spacious room

on the top floor of the new agricultural

building by President E. N. Ball, whose

annual address showed careful thought in

its preparation and held much encourage-

ment and inspiration for every man who

is interested in any department of live

stOck breeding or feeding. Vi'e rcgret

that space will not petrmit the publica-

tion of President Ball‘s address in this

issue. but must defer further reference

to it until seme future time.



Following the president‘s address, Prof.

II. II. Vi'lng. of Cornell University, gave

a talk on dairyingl in which he referred

to a recent publication in which the writ-

cr referred to the experiments conducted





 

 

 





, in Maine in the breeding of chickens from





the hens with the best record for egg

production, and to the records of Jersey

cows with I‘c-Jnrtls which admitted them

to the 2.1d\’2incwl rcgistry and arrived at

the cunt-lusion that in the effort to breed

high-prmlut-inu vows omx is no more likely





:to arrive at lbw :lt-sired goal where only

cows with high records are used than if





cows not in lll~' advanced registry class

are used in tho bit-Ming operations. This

conclusion was read from the text of the

1’:-of. Wing. who took

issue with the stutclncnt and attempted

to ShOVV from the records of llolstcin cows





:ln the advanced registry that the con-





clusion reached by the author as quoted

was not warrantnl by the facts.

Factors in Milk Production.



As a. premise upon which be based his

talk, Prof. \X'ing asserted that the amount

of milk or butter-fat produced by a dairy

cow depended lazgcly upon two factors,

the first of which is heredity and the sec-





ond environment, or the fecd and care





which the cow receivcs. The impossibil-

ity of separating these fat-tors makes it

pructicztliy impossible to arrive at any in-





controvertible conclusion with regard to





the int-tor of heredity alone. but a com-





‘Dal‘ls‘nll of data at hand will help us to





arrive at a conclusion wh‘ch will make

the position of the author more untenable

than the conclusion-that heredity is a

most importunt factor in the development

rf pi'oiirublt- dairy cows. In speaking of

the A. R, 1). requirements for the Holstein

\‘i'ing stated that notwith-

relatively small number





bl‘ccd l':'»)f.

standingr the





lpasst-d. the requirements were not a sc—





vere task for most COWS and the fact that

a large number of the cows of the breed

were outside the advanced register was

because they had not been given a chance

to get in. 3y this he does not mean to

state that all cows of. the breed could

meet with the advanced registry require-

ments, but simply that the requirements

are not high enough to put the cows in

the advanced registry in a marked class

by themselves. This fact he illustrated

by statistics regarding the cows now re-

corded in the advanced registry. To il—

lustrate the point iic sought to make be

divided these cows into four classes. with

the following results:

What the Record Shows.



Cows with both parents in A. R. 0.

class. 39 per cent: cows with neither par-

ent in A. R. 0. class. 23 per cent: cows

with sire only in A. R. 0. class. 23 per

cent; cows with dam only in A, R. 0.

class, 13 per cent.



Cows exceeding A. R. 0. requirements

Cows with both parents

in A. R. 0. class. 52 per cent; cows with





‘neither parent in A. R. 0. class, 15 per





cent; cows with Sire only in A. R. 0.

class, 20 per cent: Cows with dam only

in A. R. 0. class, 13 per cent.



Cows exceeding A. R. 0. requirements

by 100 per cent: Cows with both parents





lin A. R. 0. class, 73 per cent; cows with





 

 

 





neither parent in A. R. 0. class, 3 per

cent; Cows with sire only in A. R. 0.

class, 15 per cent; cows with dam only in

A. R. 0. class, 9 per cent.



As further proof of the point which he'

desired to make, Prof. Wing also pre-

scnted the following figures expressed in

percentages: Cows with two or more A.

R. 0., daughters hvaing records. 54 per

cent; cows with two or more A. R. 0.

daughters having no records, 46 per

cent; cows with four or more A. R. 0

daughters having records, 71 per cent:

cows with four or more A. R. O. daugh-

ters having no records. 29 per cent.



By these figures. presented in tabular

form on a. chart prepared for the pur-

pose, Prof. W'ing sought to justify his con-

clusion that the larger the record of the

cow the greater the percentage having

parents of high productive capacity and

the capacity of reproducing their kind, so

far as production is concerned. This po-

sition he sought to emphasize by giving

some statistics regarding the producing

capacity of bulls and the percentage of

bulls with A. R. 0. daughters having A.

R. O. parentage. These figures showed

that the larger the number of daughters

in the A. R. 0. class the greater the per-

centage of bulls having A. R. 0. parents.

Prof. Wing left these figures to the in-

terpretation of his hearers. without mak-

ing any positive statements regarding

them. except that they pointed to hered—

ity as a very considerable factor in the

improvement of the producing capacity

of our dairy animals.



Next came an address by Dr. R. P.

Lyman, Dean of the Veterinary Division

of M. A. C.. on “The Relations of the

Stockman and Veterinarian.” Dr. Ly-

man's address was scholarly and showed

a thorough knowledge of the'interests and

problems of the stock breeder and feeder,

as chl as tho iicltl of the veterinarian,

and the advantages which would accrue

to both by the establishment of a proper

relation between thi- two. He. reviewed

the growth and development of the vet-

erinary profession from the early days

when the community “horse doctor"

without learned skill was the only re-

course for the treatment of animals, and

stated that he believcd this class, had

filled a needed place and been of benefit

to the communities in which they lived

and the industry which they strived to

aid. and also in the development of the

more skilled veterinary practitioner, but

that their usefulness had passed With

that development. His address was one

which needed to be heard to be fully ap-





 





preciated, hence we pass it without fur-

ther comment in this report. except that,

it was well receive-d by the stock breeders

and feeders present.



Contagious Abortion.



Next in ordvr was an address bv Dr.

\Yurd Giltncr of M, A. (7., on “Our Pres-.

cnt Knowledge (‘vvncerning Contagious

Abortion." lll'. Gillllv'i‘ prefaced his talk

with the stall-Emmi that about all the

positive knowledge at present possessed

with regard I.) cuuagioux abortion is

that it is an infectious d‘scase. Speaking,

of treatment he dist-ouutg’vtl the use of.

heroic means in treating the cow and1

tlei'n'ecalcd the :u-lion of the makers of:





certain prt’ipz‘ictai'y rcmmlics in claiming

their goods to be a specific for the dis—

ease. His advice to the owners of herds

in which contagious abortion appears was1

0 practice the most thorough sanitation;



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in the stables and in keeping the cow’s

rcztr cxti'cniitics and uddcrs thoroughly

(lisinch-tcd and cleanly. He would scgre—l

gain the affected individuuls 21;: fur as:

possible, and lIlSltflll of selling out the

bum and beginning anew would 1-19ch

right on brooding the cows, letting a pe—Z

riod of six months (‘Iilth‘ after abortion:

m-wurs I|(‘f:u‘(} brooding them again, dur-l

in:~ which period the tow will be disin-.

l‘t-ctcd by natural means. This he con-E

siders the far more preferable method of

combating the disease for the reason that

tho cow becomes immunized after two 01‘

three years and is not likely to be fur-

ther troubled with the malady. Dr. Gilt-





ncr described the symptoms and effects





of the disease. which is apparently con-

fined to the placenta. and also described

:inotbcr disease which is often found in

ihc- same herds. and the symptoms of

which are often confounded with it. He

hesitated to give specific directions for

keeping the disease in control, since it is

important to observe the details carefully,

which the casual listener will not gener-

ally do. He advised all his hearers that

he would be glad to write out specific in-

structions in any case where a. breeder

thought he had contagious abortion in his

herd and applied "to him for the infor-

mation.





JAN. 21, 1911.





 





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WlNTERlNG THE FALL PIGS.



I am aware that many writers on swine

topics advise farmers and breeders not

"to raise fail pigs, contending that they

are too much trouble, and the percentage

of loss from disease is too great to make

it practicable. They c‘ontend that the

gains on the fail pigs can not be made

as cheaply as with the spring pigs.



If a farmer or breeder is too shiftless

and indifferent to properly attend to his

business, and fails to-give pigs farrowed

in the fall proper care, and favorable

tonditions, I am willing to admit that fall

pigs are not likely 'to prove to be profit--

able. UnieSs a man has a genuine love

for his business and ambition enough to

attend to all the details promptly, he

might as well stay out of it and let the

painstaking fellows have the trade and

the profits in it. The “unlucky” go-cusy

swine breeder will never make a success

at the business. He had better stay out

of it, for the losses caused by neglect

will more than balance the gains by

“lucky hits.”



Because our forefathers allowed their

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and contract lung difficulties that last all

winter if they live until spring. It is bet-

ter to make a false covering over the

nest but a little distance above them,

than to let them get chilly during cold

nights. The temptation with most mana-

gers is to use too much straw in the nest,

depcnding on it to keep the pigs com"

i'ortable. The false cover is much better

for several reasons. The health and

comfort of the pigs should be the first

consideration. .

Feeding the Pigs.



The man who thinks that throwing a,



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giving them a little coid'drink once a:

day, is giving them a good chance, has

a very poor conception of what good,

economical and profitable feeding really

means. There is a difference in feeding

to just make the pigs live through the

winter, and feeding in a manner that will

make the greatest gains from the time

the pigs are weaned to the day they are

sent to market. The man who feeds 'to

make pigs just live throws away feed,

while the man who feeds to get the

greatest gains, gets the greatest returns‘

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t'tlltl winds, does not prove





when prices for pork ments are high.

liettcr methods will bring greater profits.



There are many good reasons why both

farmers and breeders wisi to raise fail

pigs. It costs almost as much to keep a

brood sow a year to raise one as two

litters. The sow will be more contented

and more. likely to continue a sure breed—

er, if she raises two litters per year, than

if compelled to skip six months every

year. There are some feeds on the farm

that can be turned into money with

greater profits by feeding them to pigs

than by any other method. There is more

profit in feeding the pigs along, selling at

from six to eight months of age. thus

disposing of two crops a year. than by

feeding a long period and selling only

once a year. Zrecdcrs. especially, who

desire to increase the numbers of pigs

of the most desirable strains of blood,

desire to raise fall litters.



Making Favorable Conditions.



The secret of succcss in wintering the

fall pigs, lies in the ability of the man

who has the pigs in charge to make the

tonditions favorable for a constant

growth. ‘lic must know what the pigs

need, and not only know how to meet





their needs, but be prompt in meeting

them. A few hours‘ neglect may mean





a physical condition of the pigs that will

lead to disease and loss.



One of the first needs of the pigs is a

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than half of the time. sleeping and rest-

ing. The pigs should not be compelled

to lay in a damp, filthy nest. They should

not have to lay Where there is draughts

of cold air coming in at the sides of the

pen. There should not be any cold air

noming in from above on account of too

much space between the covering and the

nest.



I am aware that the last mentioned

condition is overlooked by breeders in

more cases than any other one of those

mention’edfand yet the-‘suc'cess in keep-

ing pigs warm and comfortable depends

on it. The cold air coming down from

above chills the pigs and they crawl.

down in the nest, put their noses under

the straw, breathe foul air, generate filth,





stand the cold better than those poorly





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fed. A pig with a stomach full of cold

iced will shiver and suffer while the pig

with a stomach full of warm feed will

feel comfortable and thrive. Cold feed

rotards the process of digestion. while

warm feed hustcns digestion, and pro-

motes growth.



No one kind of fccd will produce good

results at a low cost. To feed only one

kind, of iced is to make pork slowly at

a considerable expense. t‘orn meal and

wheat middlings. equal parts, mixed,

scolded and fed warm. makes a good ra-

tion. A better one is corn and Outs

ground together, equal parts, mixed with

an equal amount of wheat middlings.

scolded and fed warm. This can be im-

proved by adding five pounds of oil meal

to every hundred pounds of the mixture.

Skim-milk, buttermilk and table wastes

will also add to the value of the feed.

making it more palatable and more easily

digested. The milk aids in digesting oth-

er feeds.



Except when pigs are small, two feed—

ings of warm, sloppy fccd per day. morn-

in;r and evening. is suiiicient. A light

feeding of whole corn at noon will help

by tiding over the long day and getting

the pigs out of the nest. Fccd just as

much of the warm sloppy feed, each





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time, as they will out up readily, and no

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it will help them.



Exercise.



Exercise is of prime importance in sev-

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a clean, dry spot of ground on which to

exercise. they will enjoy it and get much

benefit. but to wallow in filth is distaste-'

fui and unhealthy for even a pig.



It is a good plan to have the feeding

troughs a considerable distance from the

nests. They will enjoy a scamper to the

feed and then stroll back, after eating,

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Indisz'esztion—Fcedinr: Bean Straw to

cows,—~\\'c have 11 cow that had hollow

horn several works ago. \\'c 11'ez11c1i her

for the same and she partialu overea.

She is still thin. has a poor appetite and

is not thriving. She will come fresh in

about two months. Is bean straw a prop-

cr food for pregnant cows?

seem fond of it. Some of our cattle are

tioubled with lice this winter; we have

tried to rid them with lice powder, but

failed. G. VV. It C. Kent City, Mich-—

There is no such disease. as hollow born.

The hollow condition of horns is the re—

sult of lack of proper nourishment. Give

her two tablespoonfuls of groundgen-

tian. two tablespoonfuls of cook'Jlg soda

and a tablespoonful of powd1r1d fenn-

greek at a dose in feed three times a da\.

Increase her food supplx. Bean straw

possesses very little nourishment and is

not regarded a very good food for any

kind of animals. A 11911111111111 made by

boiling 4 ozs. of Staveszterc (crushed)

seed in a gallon of wan-r will kill lice

quickly and 11111 injure your cattle. It

will be necessary to soak the seed in hol

water for about two hours. or boil it 31)

minutes. but till to original quantity.



Infiamed Ud11er.——»Cow vamc fresh :1

short time ago: her udder became in—

flamed and result was the calf could not

get enough m'lk to satisfy its appetite.

Now I haVe another cow 111111 to freshen in

about six werks and I would like. to know

how to manag (1 her to 111'1'\'1'lll a similar

occurrence. J. V'l'. H, Arcadia. Kansas.

—Infia1nm:11ion of udder is frcuuently the

result of insullicicnt bcdvline‘, over—feed—

ing. und1'11'—cxer1~isinu‘. 1'Xl111s‘lll‘e to cold

and “ct. 1'11 inf-Action through 11131 open—

i111's.Verydc'1p milkels are t-OIIIt‘lllll s

benefited by milking a poltion of milk out

111 udder twi1e dail3 1111 :1 week before

calving. If this is not done her food sup-





ply should be reduced and her bowels-





kept open; this is best done by feeding

some “mil-salted bran mashes 01' giving

ig-lb. doses of epsom salts daily until

bowels act freely.



lii-kets—I have a litter of pigs nine

weeks old that I am fer-ding on skim-

milk and nil-idling». ’l‘ln-y all appear

fairly hcalthi' but are stiff in their less.

(1111' local V11. prescribed sulphur and

charcoal, which I have been giving. but

none of tlnm show any improvement. .I.

K.. I 1.11111'1nt,

skim milk iced 51111111 nuts, oil meal and

roots: also gin- each one 13 teaspoonful

11f air—staked lime at a dose two or three

times daily. They should be l:1-pt in a

dry. warm place and obliged to exercise

some every day.



Stomach \Vornm.~l\ly lambs: are trou-

bled with a cough; besid-s they are weak

and breathe fast. I am inclined to be-

lieve that they are troubled with stomach

worms.

each lamb 2 117.5. of a solution made by





addiiu: one. part coal tar creosote to 90.





or 1111) parts water; give two doses :1 week

for two weeks, or you may try giving a

ll‘aSpHrIllIlll of "asoline in 2 or 3 ozs. of

swat milk I\\I(t‘. a week for tuo weeks

or _\1111 111.13 give ~'3 teaspoonud of turpen-

tine in “J ozs. of sweet oil once a week for

1l1r1-11 \1'1-11ks. \thn giving this medicine

avoid holding the nose too high; pour the

medicinc into month slowly,



(.‘onacstion 111' I.un.\.;.~'.~--.\ly ram died

rather suddenly; from symptoms given in

:1 book on diseases of shecp I thought he

died of tIIbcI'cuiosis. \\'l1en opened, all

his organs appear-wt healthy except the





lungs. and they wore dark colored. Now.





I Would like 111 know if this ailment is

contagious. and ‘.'.'l11'tl‘."." or not I had het-





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\'liet. Alli'll." Your ram 1ii1-1I the result of

1'1ln'.'1-Sli11n of lungs. therefore his ail-

ment is not (11111112111115.



I.\‘II’1]1I1'1nqiti:<. ~ My h11lS"S Occasionally:

los(g 111::1' appr-tite 11nd :1 swwllin: appears





on inside of Ice: seems to remain ten-l0."

lor two or tln'm- days. 1l11'1n gets all right.

\l'hcn in this 1'11l11IlIIHl‘I the horses eat

some hay, but 1111 grain. \Vhat ails them?

(‘, I}. Freesoil, I\Iich.-—-‘i’ou!' horses have





mild attacks of li'nipllangitis. perhaps the;





lcsult of eating too much grain and hav-

ing too littlc 11x.-1'1-i>'11; or it mar be the,





rcsult of standing in a cold draft. When





your burs-1s :11'1- idle. f1-111l \1'1-ll-sz1ltccl.





bran mashes 1111.1 some roots to kcen thclr

bowels 11111111 and 11111 more than one-third

as much grain as if 11111:; were \‘i‘Ul‘klllLI'.

By following out tho-111 instruction.S you

will have. very little future trouble. \thn

an attack of this kind sets in give :1 ca-

thartic composed of 6 111's. aloes. 20 am.

colonial and 1’ drs. ginger. one dos-- only.

or give a quart of raw linsccd oil; how—

cvcr. this medicinr1 should not be given

to a pregnant mare. lathe swelling with

lmt water two or three times a day and

apply one part alcohol in two parts warm

water after using: 1hr- hot water.



Speck on Eye—Yearling Durham bull

has a spot as large as a penny on eye-

ball. J. W. K.. Erie. M'ch-Jt is possible

that the growth on ('i'ehall cannot be

safely removed by drugs and will have to

be cut off; however, you had better try

blowing calomcl into eye once a day; also

apply the following eye wash once a davr.

Dissolve 1 gr. nitrate silver and ’1‘; gr.

sulphate atropia in 1 oz. clean water.





“Prairie Stock. Farm





OUR NEXT IMPORTATIO'N. Consisting of





High class Percheron 2:32.21:





WILL ARRIVE ABOUT SEPT. 15.





We cordially invite everybody to come and visit. our

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importer in America. Terms to suit purchasers.

‘ N iles is ninety miles from Chicago 011 the Michigan Central.





E. METZ HORSE lMPflRTING 80., Niles, Mich.





Farmers’ llaindy Wagon

at a Low Price





Absolutely the best. wagon built for every kind

of heavy teaming. Low steel wheels. wide tires

Will lust; a lifetime without; repairs.





 





 





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the saw you buy gives you straight facts—

statements w§rch we guarantee our saws

to back up. on need the booklet to help —High t_\pe of Dam animal

you pick out exactly the saw you want AYRSHIRES Young bulls and bull calves

whether it be for cord wood poles or logs. “fiizjlgkg’fi'fgfil‘fwllg “mes ”“01““-



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now While you think of it. Price $100. Also one reg. bull calf 4 months old.



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20 ' price $50. Geo. W. Reeves. R. No. 2. Gd. Rapids. Mic-In



Appleton Mfg. C0. Buhvin,lll.,U.S.A.

» Fon SALE—Registc red Guernse) Bull two years

- old. 'I uberc ulin tested. Bired by Glen-

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any axle. Semi

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EMPIRE MFG. co.. Box 39w Qulncy, III.





FOR SALE astem Iéllrg§'3&§e%id?efihei€sfi





ure foal getter. W. .FRERHOBN Mason. Mich.

BKEEIII'IIIS’ IIIREC'I‘IIIIY.

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd. consistlng of Trojan Ericas. Blackbirds and

Prides, only. is headed by rton W. a Trojan Erica.

l1) Blackw oodlawn. sire of t 6 Grand lChaniB'gnm steer

and bull at the International in Chi cage.



He is assisted by Undulata Blackbird Ito

WOOD COTE STOCK FARM, lonla. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





' —Youug bulls of high qunlit3 and low

“OISICIIIS rices considering breedi Get. our





mg.

descriptions. UNG BEACH FARM. Augusta, Mich.





TOP N OTCI'I HOLSTEINS





Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls com.-

blning in‘ themselves the blood of cows which now

hold and have in the past. heldes World 3 Records for

milk and butter fat at faiMpSic



MCP HERSON FAR bCO.. Howell. I'llch.





' —lt) goad young cows, bred to



25 HOISIG'n cows For sale a son of l’ietcrtje Hengerveltls

Count De K 11. due to freshen in I‘eby. 1k Mar. l5 others bred

to equally as good bulls. IO bull calves. mostly from A. It. 0.

DAMS. l yearling bull sired. Admiral Prilly Walker, 1mm, a

daughter of Manor De Kol. This is 211111] stuff. ifyou wants-mic

of it, write niejust what you want. 1.. E L'oiiliell. Fayette. Ohio.

BULL L‘ALF— —a dumb. His





"OI-STE' dam and sires dam haie A. ll.





0. records. averagin over 22% lbs. butter and 5-H

lbs. milk in 7 days. ricc 01111 $50.

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all 0131-11-3. Costs you noth-





 





HOLSIEl BULLS It)“ SAI II-Also Duroo Jersey

boars. Hired by Defender Grand Chain-

piou at. Chicago. 1909 I ll. t‘or.nell How.ell Mich.





Holstem FrIeslan Cattle il’i‘fz.‘:..‘:."§.’l;‘ll°§:.f

Cookerels. \I'. B. JUNES. Oak Grove. Michigan.





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The Wilber II. 1 . ' l Cilllefl 6 months to I 311111‘ 911-10 to'FSIOU. le‘ed heife'r;

. . $151110 $2tl0.(lld11-1t. herd in 11111. Send for Photos and

I’edigrces.W.U.J'1(llson 11:31:11 St South Bend. Ind.





HEREFORD 41"“ "-1" W. ... m...

‘ . I111 5111111. \lso l'olnII1I-'

China hogs. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Mich.





Register ol Merit Jerseys. 2.55:;1‘1‘ 1”"





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of 11153 poulnds and upuards of button

I‘. . MAIISTON. Bay City. Michigan.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS

llERl) BULLSI.l'l.‘lili.§".i“i‘.‘.f.lz.1'1;R3:2313-;





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l1cii1-rs 111111 heifer 1' '1l1'1s tor





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1 DETROIT. MICHIGAN



‘ Highest Market Prices paid for all kinds of

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your. Ira-'11, 1-214 lbs. milk as Err-old. Sire-1 Dani's

I'tjt'tfl'tl'l'tlfl) lbs. milkInltl‘;m11ntlls. ’I'HE MURRAY-

“ AI LIIMAN ('10.. It. ti. AIIILArlmr. Mich. Bell l’l11HIE.





For Sale—Registered Jersey Cattle. "if-ll.“





also Ilei: t) l. (‘. hogs. (1‘. A. llIiISMIUI. Fenton. Midi





FURS. We guarantee you honest and liberal

assortment, and quick returns. References,

any bank or mercantile house in the United

States Write for Price.List. You will be

money "1 Pocket 11’ you *9th your furs *0 “3- 11m 1'11 ll 11111'111 11. N.» “111.11.11.14 Michigan





tails' tal and 311 s 480 II“.

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14“)“ Sll l. 41111115111111 Jt‘l‘m. 1 Bull one 3911112325

llull t.1ll'\\'l1) B1rr111l 1.111 I1 (111 ken-Is $1.: (I.





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Puller; Press; Wrench; 'l'irc‘ 'l‘ightner; JOHN LESSI'I'ER'SSONS. .No. l. (‘lnrkstom Mich





Vice; Clamp. etc. Useful in a hundred ways . W. ,.

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Local Agents—Salesman 11.... 0M 1.. 3......“ 1......

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;/ in home county. Fine ,,





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Exclusive .1... “valley-1111c Parsons Polled Delalne Rams “1......‘1'

WWWM- me 00d“ conutitut-I and shearina qualities of your lambs



mama-Mme": term!!- PARSONS. "the Sheep Man."Gr1md Ledge. Mich





, 1111“" mm m 1111.

/ Box 102, Bloomfllld, Ind. cattle torsale. 11-11.11: J. A. DE GARMO. Muir. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





lot of 31mm: bulls from (1.11118 with ofli1i'll records '





4" . .

“A w U R S splendid1i;Iir\'c(1w1-'.manv 11l' tI11III in [1 st for n ulster

0t 1111' rit \lso 11 low





sale. Write for tlcs1 I' iption and prices Satisfaction

gunr.1111.-1.11-| or IllUIlH)‘ refunded .

(JOLUN (. l I! I III. (‘ooper'silllm Michlgan.





1 l . .' ' . ,. '

Jersey Bull tal 111.111.21.111.3931 .1111; 2.1:}: 1





‘ble Iron and Steel. Wire—Fence —'l \ mug Bulls and 11 low

Stretcher and Splicer; Lifting Jack; Post Scouth Shoflllorlls cm}; and heifer-1 lor an].- 2





NGUS“ and I’OmLI ED DURHAM (‘ATTLP— .





JAN. 21, 1911.





-—Good Yearling Field



OXfOI'd Down Sheep Rams and ewes of all ages

for sale. I. R WATERBURY. Highland. Michigan.

' ~—I havelmeiiemnmon them



R93 Ram“ lets all of m3 youngest and best.

also $ ewe and Tram I 11.111115 Live 2% miles east of

Morrioe on (1LT 1.10311. Address J. Q. A. COOK.





 





 





Has for sale tw'm five (25) very chOIce bred 3'.r ew es.

a few good aged ewesm. loneba choice two-year-old

ram. alsothreegood





L. S. DUIHIM&nSal1s, concord, Michigan.

lllliLESlllE SHROPSHIBE “51??? 31'..“1‘.“§§'fi.. i353."





H. E. Powell. Bobt. Groves. Shepherd onia. Mich.

H008.





' —Grout.h3 Sprin Bears 1! (‘ilta

lllll'ocs &1 “Clorlas 0t choRioest bree inf from I’Jrize

Winners. M. '1‘. STORYR .218. Lowel Michigan.





I'IUPP FARM BERKSHIRES!





WON 189 PRIZES IN 1909

Stock of both sexes and all akgees for sale. Breeders 0|?

Guernsey Cattle. M. B. Turk aBarred Bock Chick-

ens. Pekin Ducks. GEORGE sC HUPP. Manager.

Drawer A. Birmingham. Michigan.





-Two yenrlin sous bred for s rin

BerkShireS fan-owing if few choiceJuly p iltg

(labour pig for sale. A A attullo. Deckerville. ll ich.

BERKSHIRES Unexcelled in breeding. Select-



od boars. sows and ilts. Choice





l’all pigs. '1‘. V. HICKS. It. No. 11. Battle reek. Ml'Ch.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





DAMS BROS. Litclifield. Mich. breeders of Imp. Chester

White and Tamworth swine. service bouts. sows bred or

open. of either breed. Shorthorn Cattle. Buff Rock. Bufi Wynn-

dotte. W. Orpington. Ckls. all breeding stock leading winners.





DUROC-JERSEY 13.9.1 5°“





0 For Sale.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastlnzs. Michigan.





DURocs—E Bred Saws. of hi unlity.10

Excellent Boars tea 3' or service.

75 Fall Pigs both sex Write or come and see.

J. C. BARNEY. COLDWATISR. MICHIGAM





BURCC JERSEY Swine established

Capitol nerl One last: Spring Boat and Sept

1910p Gills for sale. J. H. Banal; art. R5. Lansing, Mich.





FEW first. I ' '

A mus-1.23“” Duroc lam; Samoa Hours

.A. BRAY. ()kemos.InghamCo ich. Indpt phone





MPRCVED CHESTERS—Young boars ready for

sennce. orders taken for son's bred for spring far-

row. Also Holstein Bull Calves of the best of breed-

Ing. W. 0. WILSON. Olmmos. Mich. Both Phones.





0 I C’s—Hogs all ages for sale. sows bred

or open. boars any ”age or size.



Shilppe ped on approval. HARRY T. AN DELL.

1113 View Stock Farm. CASS CITY. MICHIGAN.





0. I. C. Ho 53” 3898' Saws bred





sMules wei ins 13311.16.

and more. H. H. JU.





. Munith. Mic igan.

o I c —Sp printfi‘boarsallsold havergood June boars

I left. ws bred for Rspring arrow. fall pi.

either sex. A. NEWMAN. .No. L Mariette Mic





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





0 l C —-Sow pigsall sold, but 0391- some extragood

boar pigs for sale pt. fan-ow. at reason-

able pr1ces.FltI-1D NICKEL. Monroe. Mich. R. No. L





~Spring. summer II: fall farmwed.

0- l. C. SWinc both sexes. breeding and ty

right. Geo. P. Andrews. Dnnsvllle. Ingliam 00.. Mic .





0. I. C. Early Fall Pigs E125 fifii‘ighnf’fil'e‘.‘





C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan.





9 -Au extra good lot. of last.



0- l- C S F0“ SALE bzpriug pigs-1 either sex.



weighing from1300l1 \ear rliug boar and

30 fall pigs. ()C'ITO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mir-.11



—I“or sale no 31





Ool.C.SWlNEaIIPig-120th3





lrand Son of Jackson Chief the World 1-1 (I hampion

and Grand Champion 0. I. .130er W rite for live

let lite prices on pairs not akin



A. J. G ORDIJN. It t. \o. 2. Dorr. 1““ hlgan.





will make 011

Our Big Type Poland-(Shims mama-1;...

have been bred big for 20 3c.1rs.1t' rou want. good r1stutl‘

11111111 to the fountain head A11_.g plus weighingl. itllhs

$211): Sept. fiigsfl $10 to $15: ()ct. pigs $10.1’.1irs and trim

not akin. ell Phone. .I.t‘. Bl".L'lI.1I It Portland. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





° —Bou1s ready for service;

Potand‘Chlnas sprin pigs. either sex.

Write L.W. Barnes 61' Snn.B\ ron. ghiawassee Co..l\lich.





GREAT POLAND-CHINA IIOG SALE.





JANUARY 20th.

60 sows bred for spring furrow. Iffi'ou want the best.

attend 1113' sale as I have the best. in the state.





WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, Michigan.





Poland-Chinas





the home of the Michigan State Fair-\rinnem.

“1 won '24 prizes at. Detroit in 1910.1’igs of both

sexes tor sale. sire1l1l‘13' our prize- -11innem.





M. BEA'I 6: SUN. West Unity. Ohio.





' RECORDED MULE FOOTED HOGS





:111- said to be immune from hogdioh r11.St.o1k ol .1”

.11.;1'sI'111‘511l0. John H. Dunlap. Bo'x' M. Willinmsport t).





 





 





' ' —Boiirs all sold. 2031111111.: sous

" 0. l. C. SWINE bred for spring furrow. for sale.

l'.‘ I11. BEACH & SUN. II. No 3. BrIghton. Michigan.

0 I. c —-(‘hoi111 Brod Sous. Roam readr for service





and fall pigs. F 111111 V\1')rld 11 1" air \\ 11111e11-1.

Lilenuood Stock 1‘ arm. Zeeland :\'I 1c liigan. I’ bone. 94.





2' P c B ready for sori‘ice. sired [13' a Son of the

1 . . oars VVnrld's Champion file-Idler: dam. un-

defeated Lady Louise. Z. Kinnc. Three (mks. Mich.



' ' hrxd for spring farrow. Fall Pigs

Puland' ohma Gllls 11111IS.t‘. \‘i Leghorns. (.‘eo1lxeiels

$1 oath B M. W mg and Son. Sheridan. \li1'hlizan.





 





 





)t)LANI)-(‘HINAS— Lar'w 113i1d tiilt's and older

1 son-.- l11ed.ll~:1rs rc'1d1 1' use also fall I’igs





l’rioes I11“. now-.111 \I‘V'l'" lierson. Michigan.





P. c. sow brle- for-spring farm“. Big

\'.l1'.etori-11111111111111. Some.





1.511111 l111.\rs.“0()!) & SUNS. Saline. hilchlgnn.





 





 





011 \ND CHINAS—Sous oi big t3pe. Gilts bred

for spring. A fun choke hoarsand fall pigs.

E. I). BISHOP, Route 35‘. Lake Odessa. Michigan.





P. C. B 0A R S ’l‘filii' "limiihéfl’fifiy





7 lb l\l1nor1.1c111-k1rels.It.“ MILLS. Saline Mich.





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:Large Type P. C’s $531“: '31;- .’.i1 $3

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Order a fall pig curly from my great. erd and get

choice. Nouebetter. W. E. Livingston. Purina. Mich.





 





' I ARGE IMPROVED ENGLISH YORKSHIRE boar

J Sand 1-1 1w igs for sale. prices reasonable. MoKAY

{MED .o.N 1 Hersey. Mich. Bell Phone.





LILLIE FARMSTEAII YORKSIIBES.





The great. medium bacon lope. The hog that wins

nsheer merit. Large. vigorous. rollfic. Gilta bred





 





and P lled for Mamba oru Au-il furrow Fal pigs. either sex

ox’ord-Down Sheep Durhgm lPairs not: lIII.'.:11n.rantee'sat‘.isfaetion. or money





refmded. aCOLON C. LILLIE, Coopersville, Mich.





SHHDPSHIBE HALL SIOGK FARM:
JAN. 21, 1911. THE : MICHIGAN





 





 





 





 





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REPRODUCED IN 14 PERFECTLY BLENDED COLORS BY A MARVELOUS NEWLY INVENTED

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THIS SPLENDID PAINTING OF DAN’S HEAD WAS MADE FROM LIFE AND IWANT TO PERSONALLY ASSURE YOU THAT

IT IS AS NATURAL AND LIFE LIKE AS IF DAN STOOD RIGHT BEFORE YOU.



THE 14 COLORS PICTURE OF DAN’S HEAD THAT I WILL SEND YOU IS PRINTED 0N EXTRA HEAVY ENAMEL PAPER ABSOLUTELY

FREE OF ADVERTISING AND WILL BE MAILED, POSTAGE PREPAID, IN A SPECIAL MAILING TUBE SO THAT IT WILL REACH YOU

IN PERFECT CONDITION. THE PICTURE SHOWN ABOVE IS A GREATLY REDUCED ONE COLOR, PHOTO ENGRAVING OF THE

SPLENDID 14 COLORS PICTURE YOU WILL RECEIVE. YOUR LARGE, 14 COLORS PICTURE WILL BE 16 BY 22 INCHES.





THIS IS AN ELEGANT PICTURE Fall FRAMINI TO HANG IN THE FINEST HOME 0R OFFICE



IT IS AN EXACT AND PERFECT COLORED REPRODUCTION OF THE FINEST PAINTING EVER MADE OF THE SENSATIONAL AND

WORLD FAMOUS CHAMPION STALLION, DAN PATCH 1:55. I THINK SO MUCH OF THIS PAINTING THAT I HAD IT REPRODUCED IN

A BEAUTIFUL STAINED, ART GLASS WINDOW IN MY COUNTRY HOME. THIS PICTURE WILL BE A PLEASURE FOR YOU AS LONG

AS YOU LIVE BECAUSE IT SHOWS DAN’S TRUE EXPRESSION OF KINDNESS AND HIS LOVABLE DISPOSITION AS NATURAL AS

LIFE. YOU CANNOT BUY A PICTURE LIKE THIS BECAUSE I OWN THE PAINTING AND HAVE RESERVED IT EXCLUSIVELY

FOR THIS USE. WOULD YOU LIKE A LARGE REPRODUCTION OF A VERY FINE PAINTING OF THE GREAT CHAMPION?

@ A SPLENDID, I4 COLORS REPRODUCTION OF ABOVE PAINTING MAILED ABSOLUTELY FREE IF YOU ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS. ”Q!



Write me today,a Postal Card or Letter and ANSWER THESE TWO QUESTIONS. lat. How many head of Each Kind of Live Stock and

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Would you like the Finest 14 Colors, Hone Picture ever published in the world of the Fastest Harness Horse in all Horse History? '



Wnte me today and I will mail you one copy, size 16 by 22, promptly and with Postage Prepaid. If you love a Great Champion I do not believe you



Would take $10.00 For The Picture I will send you free, if you could not secure another copy. Write Me At Once.





YOU MUST ANSWER THE TWO QUESTIONS. M. W. SAVAGE, Minneapolis, Minn.

DAN PATCH HAS PADED I4\M|LES AYERAGING “561/2, 30 MILES AVERAGINGII571/z, 73 MILES AVERAGING 1:591/2
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CLOVER HAY FOR LAYING HENS.





Few farmers and poultrymen know about

the feeding value of bright. well-cured

clover hay for laying hens. Instances are

very common where farmers sweep the

clover leaves and chaff that accumulate

on the barn floor out the back door.

thinking them worthless for feeding pur-





 





 





 





 





poses. Now, a very large portion of the

feeding value of clover hay is in the

leaves. After clover hay has been stored





for a time it becomes very dry, and when

handled the leaves break off and accum-

ulate in large quantity at the base of the

mow. If attention is not paid to mixing

the leaves that accumulate on the barn

floor with the hay as it is being fed out,

there occurs a great loss that materially

lessens the feeding value of the clover

ration.



Every farmer knows that sheep make

greater gain when clover is given in con-

nection with their grain ration than can

be made on almost any other kind of

roughage. This is accounted for by the

fact that sheep consume a larger propor-

tion of the clover leaves and not so much

of the coarse woody stalk. This fact

ought to convince every farmer that the

chaff and leaves that accuumulate on the

barn floor are too valuable to go to waste.

They should be carefully conserved and

fed to the poultry during the winter

months. It takes but little time and la-

bor to sweep up the leaves. As they ac—

cumulate daily on the floor, carry them

out to the poultry and save no small part

of 'the feeding value of the hay crop.



Clover hay. when properly cut, cured

and stored, contains from 10 to 16 per

cent of protein. As every poultryman

knows, or should knew, protein is an im-

portant and invaluable ingredient in the

ration for egg production. When pur-

chased upon the market it costs consid-

cmblc money. No form of green food

available for winter use contains any-

where near so much protein as does clo-

yer hay. When hens are being fed a

heavy ration for egg production there is

great danger of feeding too much highly

concentrated protein. While, under such

conditions, the egg flow continues for a.

time, ultimately the physical endurance

of the fowl becomes impaired and a

breaking down of the entire system may

occur. However, clover hay is an excel-

lent source of protein for hens as it is a

roughngc, is not extremely rich in protein

and furnishes variety. which is very es-

sentinl. It is a natural food for laying

hens and can be given in large quantities

without endangering the health of the

fowls. .



During the summer months poultry

consume a large umonnt of green forage.

The green feed to a. 1112‘ch extent. takes





the place of grain during the summer

season. While it can not answer the

same purpose during the winter, it can

be made a very helpful portion of the





ration. Clover hay, after being stored for

a few months, muy lose a portion of its

original palaiability, but its nutritive val—

tie is still in the lcavcs. '\\'hcu led to

liens in winter it has a strong tendency

to stimulate the action of the digestive

system and to encourage the consumption

of large quantities of grain with less dan—

ger of indigestion.



The feeding of clever hay to poultry is

a very simple matter and can be success—

fully donc by any farmer or poultryman.

There are sevi-ral different ways. all hav»

ing their advantages and good results. I

have fed it 'to fowls during the winter in

several forms and am not fully convinced

as to which method is the most practical.

At the present time I am feeding it in

two ways, as I desire to encourage as

large consumption as possible. In the

morning two parts of clover leaves are

mixed into the mash. which consists of

two parts bran. one part corn meal and

one-third part cottonseed meal. I find

that the hens consume this mash very

greedilv and are doing well upon it. At

noon i i‘ccd clover leaves and some of the





sialks which huve been steamed in pails

for two hours. The steaming consists of

pouring sufficient boiling water over the

lcrlvcs to cover them and allowing 'to





stand for two linurs. The. hens take to

this change of feed very kindly and con-

sume three times more than in the morn—

ing when the leaves are a part of the

mash. The hay and leaves may also be

fed dry to good advantage.



A great many farmers and poultrymen

try feeding clover hay to their laying

hens. but because they do not see im-





mediate results they discontinue it. New,





 





THE; MICHIGAN. FARMBR.





it might as well be understood at the be-

ginning that clover hay alone. or a. corn

ration alone‘, will not produce a. profitable

flow of eggs. Clover hay is an excellent

supplemental feed. '





Shiawassee Co. LEO C. REYNOLDB.





 





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“Slips" Among Capons.





I have been experimenting with capons

the past season. that is, caponizing my

roosters. I have been informed that some

of them are slips and are not worth any

more than any other common chicken.

These roosters have as big combs as

most any rooster. Please explain to me

why some of these have so much comb

while others have scarcely any.



Oakland Co. W. O.





So—called “slips" are likely to occur

among capons, especially where the ope-

rator is just learning, as in your case. It

is due to failure to take away every part

of the generative organs, and the most

unmistakable evidence of this is the al—

most normal development of wattles and

comb. When a rooster has been com-

pletely emasculated or caponized his

spurs continue to grow but the comb

and wattles diminish rather than increase

in size and they lose their bright red col—

or. Care is therefore necessary in re-

moving the organs, for if any part re-

mains it may grow again and the fowl

may retain his breeding power. You

have probably found considerable diaer-

ence between the real capons and those

on which the operation was not an entire

success, the former being more quiet and

docile, fattening much more easily and

attaining greater size. The most expert

caponizers occasionally make an unsuc-

cessful operation of this kind, and, the

beginner usually has quite a proportion

of failures, but experience and familiarity

with the work reduces the percentage to

the point where it is scarcely worth men-

tioning. Your experience of the past sea-

son should enable you to do the work

much more satisfactorily another season.



Rye as Food for Layers.





What is the value of rye as a feed for

laying hens? I do not get results when

I feed rye and would like to hear from

others on this point.



Illinois. E. H. G.



Very little is known about the actual

value of rye as a poultry food. From the

very meager information obtainable it

would appear that it is not to be classed

among the desirable foods. and yet it is

rather difficult to understand just why it

is not held in greater favor. So far as its,

digestible food nutrients are concerned“

it is nearly the equal of wheat and some-‘

what superior to oats. Very few'feeding:

tests to determine the digestiblity ofj

grains, etc., when fed to poultry have

been made in this country. The Maine}

station has recently done some work,

along this line but, so far as we have‘l

been able to ascertain, rye was not among‘

he grains tested. However, from results

of some tests of this nature, made prin-i

l-inally by German scientists, we learn‘

lhzlt fowls are able to utilize almost as

largo a proportion of the digestible nu-

lr‘cnis in rice as in wheat or oats. The~~

v-ii‘lll‘lliif.'. illl'n, rye should prove almost

as valuable for poultry feeding as wheat

HL‘ mils, and no one questions the value

of cilhcr of these grains for the purpose.



When we come to the practical side,

limvcvcr, we encounter the complaint from





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grain is fcd freely it has a tendency to

product- bowel trouble, but that rye bran

is rich in egg-producing material and may

be fed to advantage with corn meal. The





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conclusion would seem to be that it is

not advisable to attempt to feed this grain

whole, nor to the exclusion of all other

grains.



Rheumatism or Leg Weakness.



An Allegan Co. reader wants ‘to know

what to do for chickens that cannot walk

well. They look all right ill evcr- other

way but their legs are swollen and they

stagger and fall when they try to walk.

if the swelling is mostly in the joints and

the legs are hot and feverish the trouble

is no doubt rheumatism, which has prob-

ably been brought on by exposure to

dampness or cold. Rub the swellings

with carbolated vaseliue and give a. 20-





grain dose of epsom salts to clear the

‘bowels. The following day put bicar—





bonate of soda in the drinking water,

about 30 grs. to each quart. Also give 2

grs. salicylic acid twice daily until im—

It goes without say-

ing that the fowls must have dry warm

quarters. Rheumatism is most common

in old fowls and they show an inclination

to squat upon the floor when thus af-

fected.



If the symptoms. on further examina—

tion, do not fit the above description and





the foWls are very fat and heavy, it is,





probably leg weakness, induced by the

feeding of too lnuch starchy food. In that

case reduce the grain ration and give

some protein foods, like skim-milk, meat

scrap. green bone, etc. By thus balanc—

ing the ration you should be able 'to re-

store the fowls to health, gradtutlly reduce

their weight and induce the belts to lay

freely.



MISTAKES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF



BEES.





 





\Ve learn more from mistakes than from

successes. but as most bee—keepers are

averse to telling of their mistakes we scl—

dom have opportunity to profit from er-

rors, except as we make them ourselves.

and this is expensive. th why should

we be ashamed of them for we all make

them. However. most of us are not can-

did enough to admit it. 1 propose to re-

vcal some of the common mistakes which

many of us make, and perhaps 1 shall

plead guilty to some ol"thcm myself.



One of the common mistakes beginners

make is in thinking that bee—keeping is

a highroad to fortune and that all they

have to do is get started in the busincss

and fortune is assured. Those who go

into it with that belief are doomed to dis-

appointment, for you‘ve got to hustle for

all you get out of the bees, just the same

as in any other business you may take

up. There are obstacles in the path,

whatever we attempt to do, and we must

go at our work with a determination to

surmount all obstacles. If you are look—

ing for something easy, with lots of mon-

6y in it, don‘t try bee-keeping. if you

like bees, and are willing to work for

what you get, there is a good living til it,

and to the lover of bees there is a strange

fascination in the pursuit. Nearly all

who have made a business of it have been

able to lay up some, money, but very few

ever become rich at it.



The most likely mistake is that of

starting out with too many bees before

obtaining practical knowledge of them.

Get one or two colonies and work with

them; study them, and at the same time

secure the assistance of at least one

good bee book and take a good bee jour-

nal. Better yet, go and put in one or two

seasons with a good bee-keeper and get

a, knowledge of the practical side of the

business as handled by a practical man.

Thcn adopt some good method and stick

to it. for another very common mistake is

that of trying every new idea that comes

along. They look very good to us, and

we drop ottr old and tried method for the

new one which holds out sttcll glittering

promises. but which is hardly ever a suc-

cess. for we forget, in our eagerness. that

while the new way may be a success ill

the hands of the man whose hobby it is,

it may be altogether different with us.



I don’t mean that we. should not be

progressive, but rather that we should go

slow. If you are making a fair thing as

you have been working. you will lose

nothing by sticking to it a year or two

more. In the meantime you *an be test-

ing ottt the new way. If it proves a suc—

cess with you. then work into that meth-

od with the rest of your bees. If it does

not prove successful you will thank your

lucky stars that you did not stake every-

thing upon it.



An instance in which Time and Money

- were Wasted.



Let me tell of one or two mistakes that

I made. A few years ago one of our

prominent writers was advocating spring





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feeding for stimulative purposes. Among;

the rest, I became very much enthusedl

with the idea. The next spring I triedl

it on several colonies but was much dis—,

appointed when these did no better than,

those not so fed. The trouble and ex—

pense had been for nothing, and I have

since found that bees well supplied with

stores in the combs will average up better

than those stimulated, as a general thing.

You see, I had not; taken locality into con— ‘

sideration. This writer‘ advocated setting

the weak colonies upon the strong, with

a honey-board between to keep the queens?

apart, claiming thereby to give the weak:

colony the advantage of the heat from

the strong one without hurting "the latter.

I tried it out, and in my hands it was a

miserable failure. Later I learned that!

there was a difference in his and my deli-i

nition of a strong colony. My idea of a,

strong hive was one. that had come out:

in good shape in the spring, with plenty!

of bees to make a. good roaring colony at;

the beginning of the honey flow. l’lisi

was a colony fairly boiling over with bees. T

No doubt if I had taken such colonies as‘

he meant I should have been more sue»

cessful. 5



Don't Make Bees a Side Line.



Another mistake is in not keeping more

bees after one has thoroughly learned the:

business. Too many make bees a side‘

line to something else when, if they would

take the bees alone, they would make

much more. But, you say, supposing one

hasn‘t enough bees to keep him busy?

Get more bees! A prominent Michigan

l-ec-keeper, when asked what made the

lust side line to go with bees, said, “Get

more bees." This view is pretty getter-

ally accepted now by nearly all bee—keep-

cl's. although at the time he made the

assertion most people thought they must

rave something to go with the bees or

tilcrc would be years when they would

see some pretty hard times. With the

present methods of handling bees, how-

.\cr, there is no more uncertainty about

the. crop than there is about the other

«tops you raise on tlle farm.



it is clearly a case of poor management

where one. tries to adapt the hive to the

nature of the bees. Many do this and

they carry it so far they lose sight of the

more important factor of adapting the

hive to the needs of the. bee—keeper. Bees

will work in almost any style or size of

Live and do good work, but some hives

are, much easier, to manipulate than oth—‘

«rs. 'i‘herefore, it is a mistake to put the

needs of the bees ahead of those of the

apiarist.



.-\ very common error is the belief that

bccs will smother if allowed to become

banked over with snow. The truth is‘

that they do much better when covered

with snow, as it furnishes a much need—

cd protection and they will get all the air

they need through the snow. Another

is the idea, prevalent among some bee-

keepers, that you must not allow colonies

to get beyond a certain strength or they

will get so strong that they will rob out

cverything near them and so prove a

nuisance. Now in reality such colonies

are not necessarily more inclined to rob

than the colony of ordinary strength.

They will, on the other hand, produce

more honey. Don’t allow ally of your

(Olt’llllPS to become weak and the problem

of avoiding robbing will be solved. Build

your bees to the highest possible strength

and have no fear about robbing.



Hundreds of bee—keepers think that

bees cannot be handled without: allowing

them to swarm. Now there is no more

excuse for allowing bees to swarm in’dis-l

criminately than there is for allowing

weeds ‘to grow undisturbed in the potato

patch. They will swarm. of course, if

you take no measures to prevent it, and

so will the weeds grow if left to pursue

their natural course. 1



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general rule, it is neither good

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the hope of making something that will‘

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now in use. Other evidence of defective

management is the failure to put hives

cud fittings ill good condition during the

inactive season. and to order necessary

new supplies early. Manufacturers and

dealers find it a hard matter to till late

orders promptly, and the hoe-keeper

whose management. has been thus at fault

pays the heavy penalty of not having sup—

plies when they are needed. -

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An organized effort

Organized Work for is to be made to-

a Better Market. wurd the establish.

ment of a fancy

potato trade for Western Michigan. A

member of the W'estern Michigan De—

velopment Bureau recently made a. care-

ful investigation of the potato market

situation in Chicago, and rcporicd that

there is an increasing demand from a.

large class of hotels and restaurants for

extra fine stock for baking purposes, and

that from 10 to 20 cents above the pre-

vailing market is being paid for stock

suitable for that use. At the present

time Colorado stock is being used, but it

is believed that just as fine potatoes can

Ibe grown in Michigan as in Colorado or

anywhere else in the country. and a

movement is now on foot for the develop-

ment of a fancy stock of potatoes for

planting in \Vcstcrn Michigan which may

be used in securing this trade. To this

end new stock will be brought in for seed

and the planting season will be advanced

so that more time may be given for the

tubers to grow and ripen before the early

fall frosts.



The two factors mentioned are the es—

sential points to be observed in an effort

of this kind. The first essential is a.

fancy, uniform quality of the product of-

fered and the second is efficiently direct-

cd organized work in securing a market

for the product where quality is appre-

ciated and will be willingly paid for. The

efficiency of such a combination has been

well illustrated in the success of western

fruit growers along this line. Vl'cstern

apples sell for a big premium in our

Michigan markets as elsewhere for the

reason that the product offered is strictly

fancy and uniform in quality. The same

uniformity is observed in "the packing of

the citrus fruits produced on the Pacific

coast and Sold throughout the country.

In these cases the organization takes

charge of the packing and selling of the

fruit. as well as the working up of a.

market for the fancy product. This in-

sures expert and uniform grading, which

in turn insures a. degree of satisfaction

on the part of the buyer that will per-

petuate the trade when it is once es-

tabllshed.



EXDerience has seemed to prove quite

COMIUSiVBIY that success in the making

Of a Special market for a fancy product





THE "MICHIGAN FARMER.





of any kind involves the making of some

provision for expert and ‘uniform grading

and inspection of the product before it is

shipped. The grower is likely ‘to be pre—

judiced in the matter and if the grading

is left to him it is almost impossible to

keep the quality of any product offered

from any section up to the fancy point.

If left to the dealer, the lion’s share of

the extra price which can be secured for

the fancy product is likely to go into his

pocket, as he has control of the special

market. Obviously it is better for an or-

ganization of growers to handle their pro-

duct in‘a co-operative way in grading it

and getting it to the fancy trade. as is

done by the western fruit growers, and

to reach the highest degree of success

any movemcnt to specialize in a fancy

grade of potatoes rfor a. special market

should be conducted in the same way by

the growers of any community or section

of 'the country. So conducted, there is

no doubt about the profit and success

which would result. But in any event,

the bettering of the quality of the pota-

toes grown in any section of the state or

in the whole state. for that matter. would

bring abOut an improvement in mode-

mand for Michigan stock in the market

as at present organized, and would prove

beneficial to the industry as a whole, and

any movement in this direction is com-

mendable and worthy of general support.





Everywhere in the

potato producting

sections of Michi-

gan, growers who stored a portion of

their crop in the hope of getting a better

price for them than prevailed at digging

time. are seeking to learn what the pros.-

pM-t is of that hope being realized. Of

course, it is impossible for anyone to pre-

dix-t future market conditions with any

dcgrce of accuracy. The best we can do

is to study the situation with reference

to the apparent supply and demand and

act accordingly. According to the final

cstimulcs of thc Bureau of Statistics of

the l'. S. Department of Agriculture, the

potato crop of the country for 1910 was

338311.000 bushcls compared with 376.-

537.000 hushcls in 1909, a difference of

38,000,000 bushels in round numbers. The

amount of this difference will be better

appreciated by the average reader if. it

is stated that it is between two and three

million bushels grcaler than the entire

Michigan crop. The price throughout the

marketing season has been comparatively

lu\\', so that consumption should not have

been curtailed to any extent on that ac-

count. nor has it been high enough to

make the importation of foreign potatoes

:1 factor in our market. There has, how-

cvcr, been a comparatively free move—

mcnt of potatoes from the start, and no

scarcity has bccn felt in any market, for

which reason there has been no advance

in thc price. Prices have remained at

practically the same level for many

wccks. From many communities come

rcporis that dealers are not paying as

much as formerly for stock and do not

\vunl it :it the price. This is due in many

casrs to the fact that they have potatoes

Siol‘Ol‘l which will be Shipped on the first

advance so that the growers who have

lhcm will be compelled to wait longer

fur a more favorable market than now

pi‘cvuils. There are so many contribut-

ing factors that it is impossible to tell

what may occur to affect the later mar-

ket, but present indications would seem

to point to a. comparatively steady mar-

ket for some time with a. fair prospect of

a reasonable advance as the winter pro-

gresses and shipments become a little less

free. \Ve still believe that the grower

who holds for the most favorable oppor-

tunity to sell will get a. price which will

make the storing of the tubers a. profit-

able investment but believe it doubtful

that very high prices will prevail, and

should this occur at all it would be too

late in the season to make it a safe spec-

ulation to hold the crop for them.





The growth of the



The Growth of State small state banks

Banks. in the small towns



of Michigan in re-



cent years has been made the subject of

comment in these columns. That such

growth in Michigan is typical of a sim-

ilar growth in all sections of the country

is evidenced by the result of an investi-

gation by Prof. Barnett, of Johns Hop»

kins University. a report of which is con-

tained in a volume just published by the

National Monetary Commission. In this

report Prof. Barnett asserts that not-

withstanding the prevailing idea. to that

effect, he has been unable to find that the

rate of failure among state banks is any

higher than among national banks, al-

though he believes that the failed na-





The Potato Market.





tionai banks have paid a. higher percent-





an examinatiOn of the statistics for the

period of 1892 to 1909. ACcording to this

report 'the prosperity and growth of this

class of banks has been phenomenal in

recent years. there being at the present

time about twice as many state as na-

tional banks, although their combined

capital is only about half as much. This

great growth is ascribed very largely to

the fact that state banks have, to a very

large degree, supplanted private banking

institutions, thus affording the advan-

tages of corporate organization and offer-

ing better security to depositors through

the combined liability of stockholders and

partly to the fewer restrictions imposed in

the making of loans and in reserve re—

quiremeuts as compared with national

banks.



Without doubt this great increase in

the number of small banks throughout

the country, particularly in the west and

middle western states, has been condu-

cive to an increased prosperity of those

sections through the increased banking

facilities afforded the farmers and busi-

ness men of those sections. They have

served as a medium to keep any idle

money in active circulation in the home

communities, and have increased the fa-

cilities for the improvement of busi-

ness opportunities in the communities

where they exist through the use of the

merited credit of the substantial citizens

of those communities, in order to meet

the home needs for the transaction of

business incident to the production and

marketing of crops and the providing of

needed supplies. Next: to a comprehen-

sive system of co-operative credit banks

these local institutions have provided the

best possible means for the upbuilding of

the several communities in which they

exist by affording an elasticity to the'

currency of the realm which finds its way

into their vaults, by keeping the dollars

moving nimbly where they will do the

most good for the community at large.

Unquestionahly the legislative policy of

the states in providing a way for the

establisluncnt of this class of banks un-

der proper regulation and supervision has

been a wise one, and one which has made

for the substantial prosperity of the

Whole country.





 





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





National.



In his estimates to congress the secre-

tary of the treasury has asked that ap-

propriations be made for Michigan cities

as follows:. Ann Arbor. $7,000; Boyne

City, $10,000; Charlotte, $10,000; Dowa-

giac, $10000; Traverse City. $30,000; Al-

bion, $14000; Big Rapids, $14,000; Cadil—

lac, $22,000; Holland, $16,000; Three Riv—

crs, $12,000; Ypsilanti, $15,000. These ap-

propriations are for public buildings.

sites. rentals and like expenditures.



A bill has been introduced into the Uni-

ted States senate for the erection of a fog

signal station on Michigan Island in Lake

Superior and another bill for a similar

station, with at light, at Portage river

pier head. The bills carry an appropria-

tion of $140,000.



Near Newtown. N. J.. beavers have

propagated rapidly and, being protected

by .the state kiwi are damming streams

and flooding the low flat land in some

places to the detriment of owners.



The demOcrats of the New York as-

sembly, who are now in a majority in





JAN. 2'1, 1911,~ ‘_





, San Francisco. Where the explosives“5

age of claims. This assertion is based on r





dropped 475, feet they shnwed power to.

wound within a. radius of ’10 yards from





where the bomb struck.





Four persons were killed and four oth-

ers injured by a gas explosion in a hotel

zit Niobrara, Neb., Sunday. A leak in a

gas plant located in the cellar is thought

to have been the cause of the accident.



Foreign.



The rebuilding of Messina, Italy, was

begun Monday when the municipal build-

ings were started. The building is being

done with solid masonry.



It is rumored that James Bryce is about

to retire as American ambassador, and

that the British ambassador to Spain is

to succeed him.



The French chamber of deputies has

forwarded to the committee of foreign

affairs at resolution recommending that

France join and urge the movement ini-

tiated by the United States of securing

arbitration treaties with- all the foreign

powers.



England honored General Wolfe, Can—

ada's hero, by the erection of a. monu-

ment on the village green at Westerham.

England, the home of the general.



The revolutionary movement in Hon—

duras has had a week of success. The

rebels succeeded in capturing the City of

Truxillo and are now moving upon Ceiba.

The engagements so far have been small.

The fragmentary reports that come indi-

cate that the people generally are in sym-

pathy with the revolutionists. The ac—

tivity taken by parties in Guatemala has

demanded a warning from the United

States that that government should look

well to obeying the Washington rules

adopted by the convention held at the

American capital recently. '



Advantage has been taken of the un-

settled situation in Mexico by bandits,

who are plundering a large territory in

the northern part of that. country.



The epidemic of cholera at Funchal.

Maderia, is growing worse, there having

been up to date 1.646 cases and 535 deaths.



Communication of all kinds is obstruct-

ed by the heavy snow storms in northern

Spain.



The demands of soldiers at some of the

Portugal garrisons have been granted by

that government and the men are now

receiving increased pay.



A movement has begun in China that

may result in the extinction of the queue.

A queue—cutting society has been formed

amoug the Chinese and many of the morc

progressive Chinamen are now having

their queues cut off. many of them being

cut before the public.



It is reported that great suffering ex—

ists in the earthquakc districts of Asiatic

Russia. Extremocold has added much

to the bitterness of the situation for the

natives.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Washtenaw 00.. Jan. 13.—Thc January

thaw has put in its appearance and re-

moved nearly all the snow from fields.

The wheat and grass lands show up near—

ly as green as spring. The-wheat crop

has certainly had an exceptionally favor-

able time so far. The ice harvest has

been in full swing for the last two weeks;

of good quality and easily handled on the

good sleighing. Sonic hay being baled at.

$13 per ton. Feed likcly to be scarce

before spring. Hogs mostly marketed in

fhis vicinity at about $7.50 per hundred.

Not many sheep or cattle on feed. Eggs.

30c; butter, 33c; potatoes. demund limit-

ed, 35c per bu.



Genesee C0., Jan. 14.7'Snug winter

weather and plenty of snow until the

present week when a genuine January

thaw took off most of the snow. Many

ice houses filled aircady with a fine

quality of ice. Farmers realize what a

luxury it is and are not slow to avail

themselves of a bountiful supply. Roads

not injured by the thaw and wheeling is

fine. Farm produce finding its way 'to

market steadily at generally satisfactory

prices. Quotations as follows: Wheat.

94C; oats, 31c: corn. 48c (for ncw). 570

(for old): beans, $1.85; dressed hogs,





that body, selected William F. Sheehar‘QI/zc; dressed beef, TGch; fowls. 11%@12¢;





as their choice for candidate for United

States senator to succeed Chauncey De-

pew. The latter was selccted by the re-

publicans to succeed himself.



Rear Admiral Barry, of the United

States Navy, who is charged with con-

duct unbecoming an officer of his stand-

ing, has hauled down his flag and quit

the Pacific fleet.



Two large automobile shows are in

session in Detroit this week, at which

over 300 models for 1911 cars are on ex-

hibition.



The plan of the socialists to furnish

music for the people of Milwaukee has

not succeeded financially. The plan was

to furnish Sunday concerts of a. high class

for ten-cent admissions.



The high school at Northville, Mich.,

has established a course of instruction in

agriculture.



Reports from Chicago Show that the

open-air schools for tuberculosis children

are proving a decided success and that an

extension of the work is warranted from

the benefits the affected children have

received through the instruction given in

open-air rooms. There was an average

gain in weight of the children in attend~

ance, of four pounds in six months.



A statement issued in the interests of

the people of the United States by per-

sons of high standing gives six reasons

for not fortitying the Panama canal. They

are in substance: That the canal would

be safer in time of war: that it was the

original intention of the government to

have no fortifications; that the Suez canal

'has succeeded without such protection;

that history does not warrant such a

precaution, and that the initial expense

and maintenance would be a heavy tax

upon the country.



A satisfactory test was made of throw-

ing actual bombs from an aeroplane at





potatoes, 40617500; onions,90c(w$l; apples,

$1631.50 per bu: hay, bulcd. $106113; loose.

$14@16; dairy butter scarce at 30c; stor~

age eggs, 26c: fresh, 30c and scarce.



Southern Clare and Northern Isabella

Co.’s., Jan. 4.——Four weeks of good

sleighing and more of the beautiful still

falling. Good winter weather. VVoeat

well protected and but little frost in the

ground. But little work being done on

the farm as the farmers are resting up

after a hard summer’s work. The sugar

companies have their men out to write

contracts for the farmers, but they find

little to do. Don’t know of any one per-

son that raised beets last year that has

contracted for 1911. Chicory and beans

will be the money crops unless the beet

companies raise in price.



Mecosta C0., Jan. 12.—Huve had some

quite stormy weather already this month,

yet the thermometer has not registered

as low as zero this winter. Work is dull

here now. This is a good time to prepare

the tools for spring work. The potato

situation is quite discouraging. Only 230

per bushel, the lowest they have been

this winter, and the buyers don’t want

them at that figure. Fa't hogs and cattle

are nearly all disposed of. Hogs, 71/40:

beef, 3140 per lb; hens, 8c; butter, 260;

eggs, 300 per doz.



Lapeer C0., Jan. 11.—The January mild

period now on, snow going fast. Many

potato growers are hauling their surplus

to_market. Some are pressing hay, which

brings good prices.- Hay is scarce and

hard to get. Prices for hogs better than

two weeks ago, and not many for drovers

of late. Some wheat fields have been

clad in ice for the last week. Most Wheat

fields free from insects. Farmers are





pleased to note that the wheat market

is improving and seems more favorable,

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FORT STEPHENSON AND ITS DEFENSE.





BY CLYDE A. WAUGH.





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T has been said that fact is stranger

than fiction. Even with that comfort-

ing assurance in mind, it seems a lit-



tle like overstepping the bounds of truth

to speak of a mere youth who, with but

one cannon and a small, raw and undis-

ciplined force of two hundred men, pro-

tected ‘by a mere Stockade, stood off and

successfully repulsed an army consisting

of five hundred trained regulars and nine





hundred bloodthirsty Indians fitted out

with the best arms then known. Yet

that is what Major George Croghan did





at Fort Stephenson, where the thriving

city of Fremont, Ohio, is now located. It

seems like an impossibility. yet. on ac—

count of that very quality. it has gone

down into our annals as one of the most

spectacular and sweeping victories in our





history. Perhaps the word romantic de—

scribes the defense of Fort Steplu.-nson.

Still it appears, like Ticonderoga. New





Orleans and Stony.Point. in almost every

history of the nation. Indeed. it was a

most trying test of that superb totality of

the American nation which we call

“nerve,” and the bluff worked. But it

was more than a, bluff, infinitely more.



In the early days the greater portion

of northwestern Ohio was covered by an

impenetrable swamp. The Sandusky

river, flowing to the north. skirted the

edge of the wetlands, so. naturally. that

stream became the thoroughfare of the

tribesmen. Many villages were built on

its banks the largest of these being at a.

point where the village of Lower San—

dusky, later the city of Fremont. was sit—

uated. The place became a sort of depot

to which prisoners were brought and dis-

posed of before being forwarded to De-

troit or Canada. The strategic value of

the position was recognized by the red-

men.



As late as 1812 there was no white set-

tlement on Lake Erie west of Cleveland.

Thus, the entire northwestern section of

the state was at the mercy of the Indians,

who were being confederated by the dip-

lomatic and brilliant Tecumseh. This

confederation would harass the line of

communication between the east and De-

troit: and Fort Dearborn (Chicago). In

order to protect that line a number of

‘frontier outposts were erected. and that

a crossing might always





upon and crush whoever might be be-

ncath.

After having become disgusted at his





failure to take the poorly garrisoned Fort





Meigs with his force of five thousand,

Proctor lifted the second siege of that





place and, on July 28, 1813, sailed down

the hIaumce river with all his siege guns

and men. On the evening of August 31

a reconnoitering party reported his ap-

proach up Sandusky bay. toward Fort

Stephenson.



General Harrison had decided that the





lost their way and were late in arriving.

It was so late when he received the or—

ders that he decided a retreat was not

safe. as the redmcn were prowling about

in large numbers. He called a council of

his officers and they coincided in his opin—

ion. Then the youug hero sent a message

to the commanding otiicer at Fort Mcigs

that clearly showed the young man's

character, the messagc reading: “We

are determined to hold the fort, and, by

heavens, we can.‘



On the. night of the





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.‘l‘lst more Indians





 





 





“Old Betsy,” the Gun that forced Defeat upon the British at Fort Stephenson.





work was not strong enough to resist the

heavy battering artillery of the enemy,

and as it was not large enough to ac-

«ommodate more than two hundred men,

l‘.(’ abandoned all hope of defending it

with a larger force. So he left in charge

Geolge Croghan, a young Kentuckian who





was a graduate of William and Mary

tollege and who had been one of the





General's aides at the battle of Tippeca-

noe. However, if the British approached

in force with artillery, he was to imme—





wcre seen and the tlcet could be seen

sailing up the river. As it neared the

fort. several shots from the six-pounder

within the walls grcctcd the new arrivals.

At that time began the career of a his-

toric gun for "lictsy t‘roghan" was the,

only cannon they had to use against the

fourteen hundred stormers. though by

moving her about the fort, and by shoot—





ing from different angles. Croghan in-

duced the enemy to believe that he had

several cannon within lllt- place.





force. and the Raisin river affair, the

speech sectncd rather ironical, though

the Americans knew. from past experi»





once, that after the tight was once on the

British wouldn't care much about tortures

or efquion of blood. However, Ensign

Ship replied. for the Americans, that they

were determined to hold the place to the





last. and that no force, however grcflt.

could induce them to surrender, as they

were resolved to maintain the, post or to

bury themselves in its ruins. That was

not mere bravado. for were the llritish to

capture them. the Indians would imme-

diately massacre those not already dead.

It was win or die.



Then the enemy opened tire upon the

fort from their ships in the l‘l\'t*l'_ and

from the howitzer that they had taken

ashore, which tiring they kept up during

the night with little intermission and

without much effect. ’i‘ccumseh was sta-

tioned on the road to Fort Mcigs with

three thousand lndians who were to iuv

terccpt any reinf‘orccmruits which might

route from that point. lluring the night

“Old ictsy ” (‘roghan‘s Slkalbvllllllt‘l'.

spoke at occasional intezvals, though

each time from a dit‘t‘v‘rem point. .\s the

enemy directed most of can tire toward





the northwest angle of the fort. the coin-~





rounder was led to think that they would

try to storm it at that point. Acting

upon that llnniu’lll. he had the faithful

"lictsy" loaded with grape-shot and all

sorts of sinus. after which she was set in

a blockhouse from which the cannon

would take that angle of the fort. The





hole or embrasure through which the gun





would shoot was then masked or made

to look as it‘ there \\‘¢'l‘¢' no hole at that

p: tint.





Early on the morning of the Ft‘t‘tlnd of





 





be in the power of our

troops, Col. Stephenson

came to Lower Sandusky

and erected a fort on the

hostile side of the stream.





which post has since

borne the name of its

builder.





“'hen Harrison first be-

gan his campaign he

placed Major George,

Croghan in command of

the post, who, upon arv

riving. labored night and

day to put it in a state

of defense. The fortifica—

tion had been made of

logs, some of these being

round and others being

squared on one side. They

averaged about eighteen

inches in width and ten

feet high. being driven

perpendicularly into the

ground each log set close

to the next and sharpened





 





 





at the top. The youthful

commander then dug a





trench six feet deep and

nine feet wide at the top.

around the entire enclosure. throwing the





earth up against the upright logs and

grading it down ~rather sharply to the

bottom of the trench. In order to keep





the enemy from climbing over the pick-

ets, large timbers were placed on the tops

of them and so adjusted that the least

jar or touch would dislodge them from

their position and cause the logs to fall





 





Monument and Park which Mark the Site of Historic Old Fort Stephenson.





diately evacuate the place and retreat to

the main army encamped at Fort Meigs.



As soon as Harrison found the enemy

to be approaching the post on the San-

dusky, he immediately despatched two

Indians and one white scout with orders

that Croghan should abandon the post at

once, set it aflre and retreat with all pos-

sible speed to Fort Meigs. The Scouts





Proctor sent a Major Chambers to de-

mand the surrender of the fort. He stat-

ed that his commander was anxious to

spare the “effusion of human blood,"

which they should not be able to do were

they placed under the necessity of reduc-

ing the position by the powerful force of

Indians and regulars under their com-

mand. After the massacre ofrDudley‘s





August the Tlritish opcncd tirc upon the

fort from guns which they had taken

from the vessels and had planted ashore.

only a few hundred yards from the fort.

(‘roghan began to think that they would

attempt to make a breach in those parts

of the wall upon which they were con-

centrating their fire. Consequently, in

order that those points might be espec-

ially strong. he piled bags of sand and

flour behind the pickets.



Late in the afternoon. when the smoke

from the firing of the

batteries hung low and

tbswured cvcrything. the

clucllly made the expect-

Hl :llltl lmnlx'ml for ;l~?.<;lllll.

'l‘wo l‘eints~—what the

boys call false liltlYt'F—

were made against the

southern angle. when

suddcnly, through rho

smoke, a column of three

hundred and fifty regu-

lars were discovered

charging against the

stm-kade. not more than

sixty feet from the north-

west angle. The Amcriv





cans shot at them as they

would shoot at targets,

and very few bullets

missed. Though the

backwoodsman did not:

make a trim soldier. he

was a marksman. Each

shot told, and the llritish

ranks were thrown into

great confusion.



(‘oloncl Short, who

H' charge. rallied

with great bravery

calling upon the

rain-dated line behind him to follow.

leaped into the ditch. The column paused

a moment and then eagerly followed him.

jumping into the ditch‘ until it was crowd—

ed. it looked black for the Americans.

Then a hole was opened in the unbroken

walls of the fort. and scarcely before any-

one realized it the double-charged

“Betsy" was trained upon the struggling





led

his





l

lllt'll

and.
60 (12)





crowding mass of British regulars below.



With the small shot, and at the very

short range, the old cannon poured such

destruction upon those in the ditch that

few were fortunate enough to escape

alive. Colonel Short, who but a few mo—

inents before had so bravely ordered his

men to tear down the stockade and to

show the Americans no quarter, fell mor-

tally wounded. Waving a handkerchief

aloft at the point of his sword, he now

begged for that mercy which "he had just

denied the Americans.



An immediate and disorderly retreat

was the result of the assault. Many of

the English ofiicers, bravely, though vain-

ly, tried to rally their men. The whole

force fled to an adjoining wood. Colonel

Short and a number of dead privates

were left in the ditch. Twenty-six had

been taken prisoners and altogether the

British lost over one hundred and fifty

men. Seven Americans were wounded

and one had been killed because of his

curiosity. In his intense desire to see a

redcoat he craned his head over a block-

'housc and a stray cannon iball struck

him.



The terrible assault had lasted only a

brief half—hour; but those thirty minutes

have gone down upon our nation's annals

as one of the most successful and historic

half—hours known. A soft wind came up

and carried the smoke of the battle far

over the dark green of the summer forest





. THE MicHiGA‘N FARMER.





toward the' waters or! Lake Erie, and in

$116 twilight of that long-to-be—remem-





bered Sabbath evening, the young, gallant





and noble George Croghan addressed the

brave two hundred in words eloquent of

praise and gratitude.



The British fled in such confusion that

they left a sail-boat containing a great

deal of clothing and some valuable mili-

tary stores behind them. Seventy stands

of arms and a great number of pistols

were likewise left.



General, and later President. “'illiam

I-I. Harrison speaks thus of Major Cro-

ghan: “it will not be among the least of

General Proctor‘s mortiiications that he

has been baffled by a youth who has just

passed his twenty~first year. He is, how-

ever, a hero worthy of his gallant uncle,

General George Rogers Clark." The pres-

ident of the United States immediately

conferred the rank of lieutenant—colonel

upon Major Croglian, and in 1835 his gal-

lantry was further recognized by a joint

action of congress presenting him a gold

medal and each of his officers a sword.



Following upon this victory came events

which constitute the most glorious page

of the history of the middle west. Te-

cumseh‘s warriors became disgusted with





Proctor. and there followed a series of

brilliant triumphs of American arms.

Perry’s decisive battle on Lake Erie





turned the scale, and the battle of the

Thames settled affairs in the Northwest.





 





ATHE GATES or BAKAPPLEIN





TH JEWETT BROWN

ELIZABE JEWE‘I‘T HOWE.





By an?)





SUSAN





 





 





Synopsis of Preceding Chapters—Ned

and Merle Jackson, son and daughter .of

wealthy parents, become dependent, while

yet in school, through the business re—

verses of their father shortly before his

death, On their own solicitation they be-

come members of the household of a

cousin, Searls Jackson, possessor of the

old Jackson homestead. a fine large New

England estate. Here Merle has the care

of Yvonne, the little adopted daughter.

while Ned is given an opportunity to





learn to work. The latter, however. re-

gards manual labor degrading and at-





tempts to conceal his identity when

friends from the city, the Amidons, yiSit

the farm. At the suggestion of Mr. Ami-

don, Merle. plans to Join the earners by

serving refreshments of baked apples and

cream to the numerous automobile parties

which frequent. the section, in conse—

quence of which the old home is named

Bakapplcin. Near by is Old Beverly, the

ancestral home of Searls‘ .lacksons wife,

Nell, and now in the hands of Manning

Beyerly and his sister Madaline, Man-

ning's wife having recently died. bearls

Jackson has entered public life and is a

busy man, lcaving the farm operations

largely in the hands of his foreman, Ben

Baker, under whose authority Ned grows

discontented. 'l‘he climax is reached when

Ned and Young Joe Grccn. during the

ice harvest, become incapacitated through

indulgence in hard cider. On snails re—

turn Merle. pleads for her brother. who

has not yet rccchrnd from his dobauch.

and the cousin promises to give him one

more chance.

Chapter V.——-(Continued).



“You needn‘t irriulne yourself about

me, Searls Jackson." she-med Ned. com-

ing into the room. his eyes bright with

liquor and his vo'cc thick. “i heard what

vou said. and l mu man enough to stand

up for my rights and say that I won't be

ircatcd as a dog any longer on this place.

You pay me what is coming to me and I

will get out: or I will stay if you send

Ben hiker pal-king. There is no room

for him and me on this farm."

drunk.” said Seal-is, con-

icmpiuously. ”\thn you recover your-

swlf I will talk with you. At present I

advise you to return to your room until





“Yiiil a re





you are sober."



“I'm not drunk.“ he retorted, trying to

stand straight. "i am only standing up

for my rights like a man. Once lnore. I

want to know whether you will Stand up

ior your own blood against a Baker or

not."



“Ron stays." he replied briefly.



“'l‘hcn I go.” boasted Ned. He turned

to Mci'lc. “C(lnlf‘, sis. get on your things.

You and I lcavc at once. \Ve won’t stay

hero any longer to be treated as niggers.”



“Merle. remains with me!" Searls spoke

decidedly. “So can you—if you behave

yourself."



“l'll stay if I can be treated as a white

man and at Jackson and not as a hired

man."



“How do yOu wish to be treated?"



“As the boss when you are not here,”

he blustered. “I want to manage things,

to buy and sell as you do and not do any

dirty work. Remember that I am a gen-

tleman and should be treated as such."



“You look it," sneered Sear-ls. losing all

patience. “Once. more. I tell you. if YOU

can behave yourself you stay; if not, you

leave. Now go to your room until you are

sober. I am ashamed of you."





Ned turned from him with a roar of

rage. His befuddled brain grasped the

thought that his cousin was ashamed of

him, and his one idea was to get out of

his sight as quickly as possible. He

straightened up, walked steadily into the

hall, took down his heavy coat and cap

and, without another word, left the house

and started down the walk towards the

road.



Merle flew after him, calling him to

come back, but he did not turn his head.

The biting cold drove her‘back to the

piazza, where she stood sobbing, watch-

ing him as he walked unsteadily down the

snowy path. “He will fall down and

freeze to death,” she cried bitterly. re-

cntering the sitting—room where Searls

was kneeling by the couch playing with

Yvonne who was waking from a troubled

sleep. “He has no place to go and God

knows what will happen to him.”



“He will think better of his folly, he

answered, indifferently. “There is noth-

ing like a walk in the cold air to bring a.

man to his senses."



“But won’t you go after him? Do g0,

Scarls. Bring him back and then he will

be ashamed of himself.”



“No." he answered in a voice like iron.

“\Vlicu that wretched boy wishes to re-

turn he is at liberty to do so: but I will

ncver ask him back. He has had his

chance and lost it.”



She. hesitated a moment. Ned was' the

dcarcst person on earth to her, and if

anythingr happened to him she felt that

life Would end for her. For a moment

she did not know what to do. Then the

thought. of Manning Beverly came to her

and she felt that. for her sake, he would

take Ned in for the night and not let him

wander aimlessly until he fell exhausted.

somewhere. to die.



Scarls was busy with the child and did

not notice her. She knew that even if he

refused to allow her to go. she would defy

him and all the world, if need be, for the

sake of her brother. In a ‘trice she had

slipped into her heavy coat and pulled

on her warm overshoes. Then, with her

scarlet tam 0‘ shanter pulled down over

her ears, she sped down the walk after

Ned.



Searls called to her from the door but

she flung back the answer that where

Ned went she was going also. Like a

flash she hurried down the road until she

came to where he was wavering from side

to side in a vain effort to keep in the

sleigh tracks of the not-too-well-broken

road. Once or twice he had fallen down

and after she reached him he fell again.

\Vitliout a word she helped him to rise

and with her arm linked in his she slowly

piloted him over the long stretch of more

than a mile between her home and Old

ficverly.



He had lost all sense of direction and

of himself by the time they turned in at

the gate. The sun had set and the ter-

rible cold was gripping the world with

merciless fingers. Merle was becoming

so chilled and numbed that it was with

difficulty that she could walk herself and

drag him along, but she kept on steadily.





n





.n’ionth to come. I





her whole being centered in the faith

that Manning would take Ned in and

give him refuge that night. Further

than that she did not try to think.



Grandpa Beverly threw open the front

door and, with his strong arms, pulled

the unresisting boy into the hall, led him’

into the sitting—room and placed him up-

on the lounge. '



“Searls telephoned that you were on

the way.” he said simply, “and I was

looking for you. As soon as Manning

comes in from the barn he will take you

home, for Searls said you were to return

as soon as possible.”



She sank like a tired child into the

depths of the old arm chair by the glow—

ing stove. “Oh, Grandpa Beverly,” she

cried agonizedly, “why do folks have to

live in this wicked, wicked world? I wish

that I could lie down out there in the

snow and forget it all.”



lie laid his kind hand on her bowed

shoulders. “My little girl," he said gently,

“perhaps this will be the making of Ned;

but be assured of one thing, such a de-

voted love as yours will never be wasted;

it will bear fruit sometime." .



“But Manning.” she faltered, “will he

let Ned stay, and will ,he be good to

him?”



“He will treat him like a brother.”

answered the old man. taking the baby

from her high chair and putting her into

Merle’s arms. “See, she wanted to come

to you. Take her and be comforted. for

nothing in this world ever gives greater

comfort than comes from the touch of a

baby’s hands.”





Chapter VL—Old Jae Green.



The intense cold moderated rapidly, to

be followed by a genuine January thaw

which extended into early February, mak-

ing the reads a mass of slush and snow.

Wading determinedly through the well-

nigh impassable ‘going.’ Joe Green made

his way to Bakapplein one gloomy after-

noon for the express purpose of seeing

Searls about his son, Joe. ‘



He found him in the barn. .Searls look-

ed up from his work as the man Iumbered

in and greeted him cheerfully. “Did not

know but that you had deserted the

farm,’ pointedly. “You have not been

here since the ice~cutting. How is Joe?"



“That is what I want ter see you

about,” he answered; “and I want to see

you bad, too—to know ef you won't take

him back and giv’ him another chanst.”



Searls arose from his work, his brow

darkening. “I told Joe the last time he

was drunk that if it ever happened again

'he would have to leave, and I see no rea-

son to change my mind," he replied

sternly.



“He don’t expect you'll take him,” said

old Joe, humbly: “he says he don't de—

sarve it, but it looks tcr me as if he had

suffered most enough now without bein’

knocked out uv work. Dr. Dixson jest

pulled him out uv the new-mony by the

skin uv his teeth, to say nothin’ uv the

frost bites. Ills feet are sutliin’ drefful

yet and he won‘t be able to work fer a

thought you might

take him back then." he entreated.



Searls shook his head. “See here, Joe.”

he said firmly. “ilici'c is no need. of our

going over ,ihis subject again. What do

you suppose h's drunkenness has cost me!

If Kenton Ih-vcrly, the veterinary, had

not happened to come home for a day

after that ficcziug the team got I would

have lost at least one of that span of

blacks; as it is, I will not be able to use

that horse on hard work for some time.

No, Joe; I’m sorry for you and your wife,

but I can't give Joe a chance again. He

will have to prove himself worthy first.”



“But thar's others jest as bad,” urged

the father desperately. ”I'm wusser than

the boy ever wuz. He tuck the likin’ uv

the drink frum me and I thort it wuz

smart, allers, but I know now that I'm

the one for blame. not him. Ef you got

to discharge somebody, Searls, fer the

love of God let it be me, but take Joe

back. “’9 don't want him ter work no-

whar’s else, and ef he stays here, so close

tcr hum, he will behave hisself fer awhile.

He feels drefful; he does. 2111' it's perty

near killed the old woman: so I sayt let me

go, but keep my boy. I ain't askin’ noth—

in’ fer myself but fer him.”



Sear-ls hesitated for a moment. He had

already diSt‘llSHmi the subject with his

wife and she had urged him to discharge

Jimmy Malley but to keep the others in

his employ. That he had refused to do.

But the sight of the poor old drunkard‘s

sorrow for his son moved him to pity.

He saw the boy was struggling against

an inherited appetite. and perhaps if be

cast him off he would go straight to ruin.

The memory of Ned's debauch was still

very bitter in his heart; the disgrace of

it haunted him constantly, and in the





x





JAN. 21, 1911.





hunted, suffering look in old Joe’s face

he saw his'own misery intensified a hun-

dred times, so he answered slowly: . -



“It never has seemed to me just right

to 'punish'one person vicariously, Joe, so

for your sake and his mother’s sake I

will give the boy one more chance—J'USE

one more, remember. You know the last

debauch he had be neglected one of my

cows, with the result that I lost her. His

sprees are too expensive for me and he

must stop them if he stays here.”



Joe’s heavy face lit up with such a

smile that he seemed transformed into



uitc another person. “I don’t quite know

what you mean by that big; word, Mr.

Jackson, but I take it that you’ll give Joe

another chanst. I’ll be back to work ter-

morrer. I ain’t had the heart ter come

before, fer the boy wuz so sick that I

couldn't very well leave him. I tell you

Mr. Jackson. I’ve ben in hell these last

days,” he groaned. “Me and the old

woman have both ben ‘t-har. Thar ain’t

nothin’ kin hurt so bad as terv see yer

own yummins goin’ to the bad the same

way Ye went yerself. It don’t seem haf

so bad when it is yer own self that's

goin’, but when yer see yer boy a’ goin’

thar. and yer know that it wuz yer own

act that sent him thar in the fast place,

why, then’s the time yer feel like crawlin'

ter the Lawd and askin’ him why' he

don’t kick such a wuthless good-fer-no'th-

in’ cuss as you be off'n the face uv the

airth. I don‘t ’spose Mis’ Jackson and

Merle be in the house, air they?” he

asked wistfully. “I kinder want ter go

in and thank the girl fer runnin’ through

the cold and lookin’ Joe up that night.

It wuz her that saved him in the fust

place.” _



They saw him coming from the barn and

Merle opened the sitting-room door. He

entered slowly, stopping to pat Bruiser,

who gravely wagged a welcome from his

place on the rug. '



“That's what I like about dogs," he ob—

served. “They've got more truth in their

tails than human bein's liev got in their

hull bodies. I sometimes think that

Heaven won‘t be full uv nothin‘ but dogs.

as they air the only critters that nothiii’

will buy a wag frum.”



“Bruiser is the best dog in the world,"

agreed Merle. “He does miss Ned so

much. Vt'e can’t speak his name but that

he will look up and act as if he wanted

to know where he is.”



“Ned orter liev come back here instead

uv goin’ to King's to work.” continued

Joe. “But that's the way uv the world.

He could liev come back as well as not,

Manning told me, fer Searls would have

been glad to have fergive and fergot ev-

crything. seein‘ as the boy wan’t himself

that night. but he wuz too shamed to

come: but my boy had ter have me go

and beg fer him, fer I jest couldn‘t stand

it nohow to liev him work somew-har else.

I want him whar I kin keep an eye on

him; but I know I’d stand a better chanst

in keepin’ him straight ef it wan‘t fer

Jimmy Malley.”



“I am very glad that Joe is coming

back here,” Nell ansWered. ”As for

Ned's working for King. it is something

we had nothing to do about. Perhaps he

will like the work there and do well. I

hope so at least. He seems contented

and telephones every night that he is all

right. He isn’t a farmer and I think it

was a mistake to try to make him into

one. But acting as King's agent seems

to be congenial work for him.”



“He is away from Jimmy at any rate,”

cried Merle. “I don’t like that fellow at

all and if Searls felt as I do about him

he would discharge him at once.”





“I don’t like him nuther,” said old Joe.

“Ef there is any good in him it is so far

down in that there ain’t ben no magnet

yet strong enough to drug it out into

daylight so folks could see it. But I’ll

risk Ned at King‘s. He is smart, Ned is:

and that old skinflint won’t git the better

uv him, not much. I don‘t like to criti—

cise my betters, but I can‘t help but think

Searls made a mistake in not lettin’ Ned

do some hizness. Ilc’d ben more content-

ed, for that is what he is cut out fer. I’ve

seen him a few times, an' it’s done him a

lot uv good ter hcv a chanst to dicker.

It’s his New England Yankee blood crop-

pin’ out in him, and as he hated farm

work he is better off where he is.”



“XVe all make mistakes,” agreed Merle.

“Perhaps he will continue to make them

where he is; but I am willing to trust

him to take care of himself, though from

what I have heard. that man King uses

everybody as mean as he can before he

is through with them.”



“He does,” old Joe returned philosophi—

cally, “but he ain’t a goin’ to use Ned



(Continued on page 64).
JAN. 21, 1911.





‘ MY CORNSTALK FIDDLE.





BY ALONZO RICE.





I've seen the band that marched about

The street in Indian file,



A-tramping all their music out,

And it has made me smile



To see them play a tune whose sense

I've never found unless



One half 'as in the instruments,

The other, in the dress;



The music's made too much of notes,

And lacks the life and ring



That makes a fellow feel his oats,

And cut the pigeon wing;



I've never seen a kind of band

That ever pleased the so



\‘i‘ell as my cornstalk fiddle and

My shoe-string bow.





Then. there is the piano, that‘s

A great big long concern,

Vt'ith a Greek alphabet of flats

And sharps no one can learn; .

There is too much of noise and dln,

' You cannot play at ease, ‘

And hug it up beneath your chm

Or set it on your knees.

Or clasp your fingers round its throat

And press it to your car,

And listen to the silvery note

That rises rich and clear,

And softly play with trembling hand,

"John Anderson, My .lo,“

Like. on my cornstalk fiddle and

My shoe-string bow.





Perhaps I did imagine! VVhat‘s

That? "I‘was SWeeter titan

The music which the day allots

To him who is a man!



And that is why, when drifting back

To childhood's mellow clime,



I find my hand is getting slack

In_ finishing this rhyme;



1 seem to sit an idle lad,

And play to her whose eves



“'ere all the music that I had,

And which the night denies;



So *here within that quiet land.

On willows bending low,



I've hung my cornstalk fiddle and

My shoe-string bowl





LITTLE CHAM ELEON’S COATS.





 





BY JANET THOMAS VAN USDEL.





Little Chameleon had never been far

from the spot of moist earth where his

mother had made a home for him under

some dried leaves. So he was happy

when his mother said she would takc him

on an excursion. 'l-lefore starting he

peeped into Mother t.‘ltamelcon's mirror.

which was just some, dcwdrops gathered

in an oak leaf, and he saw that his ncat.

dull gray coat was exactly the right fit.



Then Little Chameleon took hold of his

mother’s hand and off they went to a

beautiful sunny place, tilled with flowers

and shrubbcry. As they moved up onto

the large green leaves of one of the

shrubs, Little Chameleon gave a cry of

pleasure.



“0, mother. how warm it is here. and

how beautiful!"



“Yes, Little Chameleon. Now rest on

yottr green bed while I go on a little far—

ther, for yonder I see an old neighbor.

I wish to chat with her that I may know

how her children are getting on with

their climbing and insect “atching.



Little t‘hatnclcon was so happy on the

green leaf in the sunshine that he did not

care a whit how long it took his mother

to learn of the doings of her old neigh-

bor’s children. He laughed at the sky

and he blinked at the sun and then he

looked down at his dull gray coat. But

there wasn't any gray coat. He was

wearing a coat of bright green that look-

ed quite as neat as the neat dull gray and

was exactly the right. tit.



“Llother, 0 mother. come quick?" cried

Little Chameleon. "A thict‘ has stolen

my neat dull gray coat and has put on

me a coat of bright green. but it is ex-

actly the right fit."



But his mother was so busy telling her





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old neighbor all about her son's bright





tricks, that she did not, hear the cry. so

Little Chameleon started to her. He

soon grew so tired that when he tutnbled

down on the white wall he lay still to

rest. -



“After all. green is brighter than gray."

thought Little Chameleon. “I believe I'd

rather let the thief run away with the.

neat dull gray coat, so that I may keep

this bright green." He looked down to

admire it. But there was no green coat

there. He was wearing a white coat that

,was just as neat as the dttll gray and the

br'ght green, and that was exactly the

right fit.



Little Chameleon wailcd. “0. mother!

Someone stole my neat. dull gray coat

and left me one of bright green. Now

someone has taken my bright green coat

and left me a pale white. Mother, help

me find the thief!"



But‘Mrs. Chameleon was still so busy

talking that she did not hear. and Little

Chameleon tried to hurry to her. The

walking and climbing made him very tired

'and when he reached a big sunflower he

climbed up to the big head and nestled

down upon the yellow rays to take a wee





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





nap. XVhen he awoke he felt like new,

but .he was so hungry that he stuck out

his tongue and ate all the little bugs that

tame onto it. Then he remembered about

his coats. ,



“A white coat is very nice for summer.

I believe I like it better than the dull

gray or the bright green. I think I will

let the thief run away so that I may

keep this pale white coat." As he looked

down to admire it he gave a cry. There

was no White coat there. Instead he \‘as

wearing a beautiful yellow coat, and it

was exactly the right fit.



“Mother, mother!” he cried. “A thief

stole my neat, dull gray coat and left one

of bright green. Then someone took

away my bright green and left me a pale.

white. Now a thief has stolen my pale

white and left me a beautiful yellow!"



He dropped to the ground and hurried

to meet his mother, who was now coming

toward ‘him. He told his mother the

whole story and turned to show his beau-

tiful yellow coat. But there was no yel-

low coat there. ‘



“Vt"hy—ee, it‘s my old, neat. dull gray

coat," gasped Little Chameleon.



“Don't Worry, Little Chameleon." said

his mother, taking his hand and turning

homeward. “It is kind Mother Nature

who changes your coat so many times.

If she hadn't changed it to a bright green

while you rested on the leaf :1 sharp—eyed

snake might have gobbled you. If she

hadn‘t given you the white coat while.

you rested on the wall, I fear me you

would now be in the hands of that fat.

little boy who climbed over the wall. If

she hadn't given you the yellow coat

when you rested on the rays of the sun—

flower, you would still be hungry for the

little insects would not knowingly come.

near the tongue of Little Chameleon. And





now while you walk along this dull ground





.\‘ou wear the neat, dull gray coat and no

passerby can spy you.”



“Dear Mother Nature!" cried Little

Chameleon. "Now shall I nevcrmorc have

frars. for I know she will always change

my coat at the right time."



A FARMER BOYS’ BAND.



That it is possible for almost every

farm community to have creditable musi-

cal organizations is evident, from the his-

tory of the band. wholly composed of

farmch boys, which is pictured here-

with. This band was organized in "the

vicinity of a small town in the neighbor-

ing state of Ohio. Although organized

some years ago, and original members

have given way to raw recruits from time

to time, it has been a continuous organi-

zation and its history and success teach

the lesson that we wish to drive home—

that there is always a way to interest the.

young men and women of a community

if someone will just undertake it.



At the start the boys gathered up such

instruments as they could in the. sur-

rounding towns. Then they hired a teach-

cr, who worked with them for about a

year. After that one of their number

took charge of the band and is still lead—

er. Soon after he became leader the boys

decided that they needed better instru~

ments, so they bought second-hand ones

of a better grade than the ones they

started with.



As they got to playing a better grade

of music the second lot of instruments





mained a debt of $595. This amount was

borrowed from a farmer, father of four

of the boys in the band. and then the

band set about paying off the debt, by

giving entertainments. As high as $50

was earned on a single night, and the in-

strumcnts were soon all paid for.



An unusual feature about this band is





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that it is composed entirely of farmer

boys, and it is gratifying to know that

there is not an undesirable young man

in the membership. Where the young

men of a community can organize upon

such a basis as this a band is a good

thing~not only for its members but for

the community itself.





Factors in-A‘Rural Education—911.4» w. F. TayIOr.





The Singing School.



\Vhat memories Come as I begin to

write of the singing school—memories of

the old days when the forest came almost

to the dwellings, when great stumps

thickly dotted the little fields and stood

in the streets of our town!



I recall the first musical effort in which

I was permittcd to take part in our com—

munity. The occasion was that of a little

Sunday School in the old schoolhouse,

where the meetings of the literary society

mentioned in the preceding article of this

series. were held. The number was en-

titletl. “'l‘will All lie Over Soon.” It was

one of the most hopeless efforts I ever

listened to. If any one hit the tune at

all it was by accident, and all the pleas-





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had secured a class for each night in the

week. Members of one class had the

privilege of attending as many of the

othcr schools as they could, and it was a

common practice for them to go in great

loads from one point to another.



The membership of these classrcs was

not confined to the young. Men and

womcn in middle life, and others much

older. often attended.



The work accomplished was sometimes

of a high m'dcr. Splendid choruses. and

anthems quite difficult and exceedingly

good, were rcndcrcd now and then in a

manner that would surprise many of our

liltitlt'lll singers of much musical culture.

thcsc





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me there was in it was contained in the

title.



llut anon came the singing master. an

bccn only motl-

lines and





chlcrly man. who had

«‘ratcly successful in other

without broad experience as a teacher of

family ncar us, having

house into the





music. A kind

tnovcd “out of the obi

new." 'gave us the use of the old 11);:

house in which to hold the singing school.

Young and old turned out and duringr

the. winter that followed wc built a small

rail of the foundation of one of the best

inral communitics upon which the sun

ever shone. 'l‘hcrc was a time when there

was scarcely a boy or girl in the settle—

tnent who had reached the age of fifteen

and could not rcatl music. Of course,

this time came years later, after the first

teacher had done his work and had been





followed by another. a graduate of a

splendid institution, who taught winter





after winter and often during the sum-

mer as well.



The singing school was the most fav—

ored pastime among the country people





 





 





 





became inadequate, so an entire new eut—

fit of instruments was bought. costing

$1.106. The old instruments were turned

in as common property of the band and

each member paid 30 per cent of the dif-

ference between the cost of the old and

new instruments. They were allowed $153

on the old instruments and when each

member had paid in his share there re—





 





 





The singing mas-





of a half century ago.

ter would meet. the people of the neigh—

borhood at a church or little schoolhouse,

explain the object of the meeting, sing

for a time and then proceed to o-ganize

Perhaps on the next evening

he would hold a similar meeting in an





his class.





adjoining neighborhood. Thus he would

continue the work of organizing until he





out-silonablc untitucics. They seldom

attended church and when they did. or

prcscnt at cntcrtahn

schoolhousc. thcy would

More than one of them

halt been arrcstcd for disturbing public

mcctings. lnt thc singing school had

awakened in tlpm a new interest. They

came bccausc thcy cnjoycd it. and they





whcn they \\ crc

mcnts at the

licar watching.





but only gave no troublc in the classes,

but people \\‘n> llfltl avoith-d them before

lit't‘ttlllc intcttstni in tliclll and there was:

no further trouble on th-ir account.



lint who docs not chcr'sn memories of

In fancy we can still

sr-c the staffs upon thc blackboard and

the “army of notcs paraded on them" by

the master. How we chargcd upon that

army again and again. and with what

varying sucm ss. \Ve pct-formed our parts

'l‘hcrc

\\‘ct'e those who scented born to sing al—





the singing” school.





with cvcry degree of prt‘tticicncy.





ways; there were those who did the work

Well but with cytrcmo difficulty; and

there seldom hit the

tune at all nnlcss it struck them. For

the master to take these pupils. varying

so widely in musical ability, and make

out of them o. harmonious chorus was

surely a difficult task.





were othtrs who





'l‘ln-rc wcrc grrat nights in the singing

school that will never be rra>cd from the.

1-agcs of int-ntory. In fancy we can see

thc loads tullllllL‘.‘_ sonic drawn by oxen

horses, over thc





and some by snowv





ioads to lllt' old church. "hcrc had been

a thrcc—days‘ blizzard. but the storm had

(casctl at noon. the nn-n had turned out

and by hard and rapid work rendered

thc roads partly passable. \\'c had not

expected a ciowtl on such a night. but

it sccmcd now that everyone was com--

ing. tine load had upset twice and an~

other three they all

were at last. dry and warm, an". the

mastcr annonnccd the first number. a

rollicking \Vith what chI they

sang. 'l‘hcrt- were women with gray hair,

and incn with thin and scattering locks,





timcs. bit here





alctl.





who mingled their voices in that chorus,

but they grew as young as the youngest

while the happy hours sped on. Two

sweet girlish voices join in a. duct, and

as I listen I seem to hear,

“Il'ark the Saviour's gentle summons as

he stood by lalilee.

Calling to those weary ‘toilers.

your nets and follow me.‘ ”

Then ame a hearty chorus by the





class. and by and by the master said,





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“Class, last week We tried that splendid

anthem, ‘The. Lord is My Rock.’ W'e

had a bad time with it at first but we

did pretty well the last time through. ‘I

believe we can sing it better tonight.

Will Henry Smith sing the bass solo?"



One elderly lady looked up at the mas—

ter and her face wore an expression of

doubt. Henry was the leader of a num-

ber of young men who had wrecked sev-

eral melon patches during the preceding

autumn, and rumor had it that they had

not stayed in on Hallowe’en night either.

Henry was not a bad boy, but he was full

of life. He must do something all the

time, and now and then he had listened

to the “call of the wild." But the singing

school was his delight. He had a rich,

strong bass voice. he liked to sing, and

now he waited for no second invitation.



“Stand by the organ Henry," said the

master, “and at the proper time I want to

hear every single voice in this chorus."



I can hear llcnry now .is he sang, softly

at first. gaining strength and confidence

as he went on. "The Lord is My Rock.

My Rock and My Fortress. My Fortress

and My Deliverei‘."



Who would have thought he could do

it! The good old lady forgot her melons.

Every eye was upon him. Everybody

caught the spirit of the song and when

the time came for the chorus no one

failed.



How our pulses quickened and our

hearts warmed toward the old line; as we

sang.



“Let the hills and voles resound,



Every heart with rapture bound,



Our tlag doth fly ‘ncath freedoin‘s sky.

“'ake now our song."



\Vhat cared we for the storm! The

unpleasant experiences of the past and the

possible dark days of the future were all

forgotten and we lived in a joyous pres-

ent, flooded with light, pulsating with

life and energy and full of hope.



At last I seem to see the master move

his baton slightly in the signal to rise,

and we stand and sing softly togctlierm

“Oh how each gentle thought is stirred.



“’hile We breathe the parting \vortl,



good night,

Oh could we ever feel as now.



Our hearts with love upraiscd.



And while our warm affections glow.



Here in murmurs soft and low, good—



night."



\Ve need the singing school today almost

as much as it was needed in years gone

by. 'ifhousauds of our young people come

short ot‘ what they might do, and be, for

want of the right sort of environment.

The singing school would furnish a splen-

did opportunity, bringing old and young

together upon common ground.





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In every neighborhood there is suffi-

cient musical talent to provide fairly good

music on {while occasions if it were onty

developed. An old singing mastei once

said to me: “I began my work in Lil's

city of Detroit. From tut-re I went Souts

into Indiana. then back into Michigan.

across the state to the western country.

I then worked my way north to whore

you find me. it is many years since i

began but I could find my path all the

way back by the singcrs who have bcen

developed in my classes.“ The old man

had not much of this \vorid’s goods. but

as I listened to him it scented to lllt' that

the splendid service he had rendered the

world was ample Compensation for a lift-

time of strenuous labor.



Instructing a few of our girls, and co.

casionally a boy, by private tutors is not

sufficient. All should be given an uphill“

tunity i‘or musical instrtuition. it is for—

tunate that ntusiv is taught licrc null

there in the public s-hool. but cvcn this

is not enough, \\’e ll“\‘tl to satisfy in part

the social demands of our young people

by bringing llll'lll togmhcr with us iii

large classes led by competent instruc-

tors. We lived thc social and moral up-

lift that t'fll‘llt'.“ from singing together in

large numbers those songs and chorusws

that reveal the strongest and best elc--

ments in the great hearts oi" their au-

‘tliors.



The writer taught his first singing class

before he rcachcd the age of seventeen

and t-oiitiiiucd in the work much of the

titnc for a period of twenty—live years.

Other activitics rctiuirc all of his time at

present and he. shall probably never teach

again. but, when the summer is past and

the frost has Clallllt'tl the. ilowcrs and

garden, when auttiinu has painted all the

landscape in scarlet and gold and he.

feels how fleeting are the scenes of time,

then. floating,r down the silent aisles of

memory, come sweet voices of the long

ago and he joins with them and softly

sings——



“0 beautiful land of Zion, Thou shalt be



my home.

Where flowers eternal bloom, and sorrows





never come.

How often my thoughts go questing. over





 





THE MICHIGAN ’ FARM‘BR.





the far off sea

I know I shall find the resting. all "there

is to be." .





WHEN MAMMA PIECED A QUILT.





 





BY L. M. THORNTON.





ii’hen Mamma was a little girl,

She never used to fret

If days were hot or days were cold

01' sunshlny or wet.

She dressed her dolls and played get tea,

And cute play—house. built.

And then one long vacation time

My Mamma pieced a quilt.





She cut her calico in blocks

’l‘wo inches square or more.



And then upon her finger small

A little thimble wore.



Her stitches, they were set just so,

To miss one, deepest guilt.



Since every seam must perfect be

When Mamma pieced a quilt.





But Mamma did not roller skate.

She never played croquet,



She had no “jacks" or tennis court,

No games to learn to play.



She did not ride a wheel, jump rope.

Ur walk upon a stilt,



So when she was a little girl

My Mamma pieced a quilt.





I wonder if I'd get time?

“'e’re. going to the Shore



And little girls. somehow, don‘t seem

'l‘o sew seams any more.



lint then. I guess I’ll really try.

\thn my sand forts are built,



To do as she did years ago,

When Mamina pieced a quilt.





A WINTER SUNRISE.





BY Z. I. DAVIS.





A rocket cleaves the eastern sky.

'l‘hen merges into lines of gray,



Accompanied by the frost Wind's sigh,

And angels part the gates of day.





The chariots of fire appear.

And King Sol, liveried in gold.



Rides forth resplendent with good cheer

To scatter happiness untold.





The world‘s white temple lies below;

Space sifts the gold dust through the

door \

And scatters diamonds on the snow

Where nature's marvels are in store.





Star sentinels above the west

ltotrcot like shadows of the night.

And ‘ncath the sunlight’s jeweled crest

Earth is transformed with waves of

lftz'ht.

Dear sunny south. yet not sublime

W'ith scent-s our wayward winters show

From God's hand in our northern clime

Along the gallery of snow.





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THE RIVAL OF THE FIRE HORSE

WINS.





BY JAMES COOKE MILLS.





One admirable and efficient arm of the

fire—fighting forces of our cities and towns,

the willing and altogether faithful fire

horse, is rapidly being shelved to a less

conspicuous place in public service, and

in its stead the motor-driven fire engine

is making new records almost every day.

The Spectacular and thrilling scenes of

horse-drawn fire apparatus rushing

through the city streets, with smoke

belching and whistles screeching, are

changing, while one wonders, to momen-

tary flashes of speeding motor—driven

wagons with engines, chemical extin-

guishers, hose, and torches and fire axes,

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THE MICHIGAN. FARMER.





the waiting for» the steamer to work up

its effective pressure, nor the difficulty

often experienced by the engineer and

stoker in keeping it to the full duty capa-

city of 1,000 allons a minute.



Not long ago a motor-driven engine,

in responding to an alarm turned in from

a manufacturing plant more than ‘two

miles distant from its station, passed two

steamers and one truck on the way. and,

by a speed of 35 miles an hour, reached

the fire, which was a small blaze in the

roof, put it out, hauled in its hose and

actually started back to the station as

the first steamer arrived. The other

company and the truck were met still

several .blocks from the scene. The fire-

men all agreed that had there been the

usual delay in getting the steamers to the

fire and in effective service, the roof of

the structure would have been ablaze





from one end to the other, and the whole





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little doubt that the gasolene engine will

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is still a more practical side which lies

in the many economics realized through

the use of this positive force in the pro-

pulsion of, and in the pump driving of,

fire-fighting apparatus.’ .



The. largest saving effected is in re-

duced number of men needed to handle

the fire-fighting machinery. In a large

city fire station nine men will do more

effective work with the motor—driven en-

gines than twelve ‘an possibly do with

the old fire steamers drawn by three—

horse teams. This item alone is a saving

of $3,000 a year. Then there is the feed

of five horses, or $800; harness repairs at,

say, $200; and 25 tons of anthracite coal

to keep the steam generatOr hot (by boiler

in basement) or $180. The actual econo-

mics thus amount to about $4,000 yearly

for each company. The repairs and dc—

preciation to steam engines, hose wagons

and other running gear, together with the

wearing out of horses and the cost of





shoeing, it is held. just about offset the»





repairs and deterioration of the gasolene

fire engines. The cost of fuel while fight-

ing fires is about the same in either case.

The initial investment. moreover, for the

complete equipment of a fire station is

not greater for the single fighting unit

than for the two or more units required

by the horse—drawu method. A minia—

ture machine shop takes the place of the

horse stalls, and a skilled machinist, who

is one of the fire fighters, replaces the

hostlers. And then, too. the station

throughout is much cleaner and more

sanitary under the modern method. than

where five horses are stabled in the

building.



The principal advitntage of the gaso—

lene motor-driven engine is that it not

only has all the pumping machinery in

most compact and convenient arrange-

ment in the front and under the driver’s

seat. but it carries the hose. amounting

to 1,000 feet, some short. light ladders,

all axes, torches. and tools. and ’the nine

men of the company. The entire fire-

fighting force of the station. with the

complete equipment. thus arrives at a

fire at the same moment. Instead of lay-

ing the hose from the fire plug to the

blaze. as is done with the old equipment,

the motor fire engine goes direct to the

fire. drops off the men needed there. and

then rushes direct to the nearest fire plug.

By the time the fire fighters have made

ready for the streams. the water is at

the nozzles for use. A simple shifting of

gears by the motor driver applies the

power of the engine. still running, to the

pump, and it will then keep on going for

hours with little attention. There is not





plant cndangcrcd. The damage to the

roof in this case amounted to only $25.



It is the opinion of many of the old and

experienced firemen, however, that the

largest and best type 01‘ steam firc cn—

gines should be retained in service for





use at dangcrous and stubborn fires.

where valuable property is at stake. The

gasolcne motor engines. where about





equally distributed among the stations.

would prove the chief factor in fighting

probably half of the fires. At the other

fires the largest steamers would win out

because of their greater pumping capac-





is of the worm, and selective type with

18-inch wheel, and the brakes are the iri-

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ternal contracting on counter-shaft, hav—

ing a surface of 400 square inches.



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fan, pump and other attachments is





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usual design, is a 90 horse-power, six-

cylinder type. guaranteed to drive the





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working parts of motor. The transmis-

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direct drive on high gear. with four'

speeds forward and one reverse, selective

type. The clutch is a three disc with

cork inserts, and the drive is by double,

chain dircct to rear wheels. The control

is by 'hand throttle in steering wheel,‘

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gallons. Therc are broad steps on the

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THE GATES 0F BAKAPPLEIN.

(Continued from page 60).



nor none uv the Jacksons mean without

heurin' frum me»: so take it frum me.

Miss Merle, that whatever happens. your

biot‘her Ned will tlnd a friend in old Joe

Green."



Chapter Vll.——Malley, the Pauper.



The richest man in \\'est \Vinthrop was

John King, and. next to Seat-ls Jackson.

he was the most influential. He owned

a large general store where everything

that farmers needed in their every—day

work could be obtained. Like a huge

spider he sat in the middle of his web,

which radiated into every part of the

town, and with greedy eyes he watched

his townspeople being drawn into his

meshes of easy credit. with [he eel-minty

that few of them would ever struggle

out intact. Besides being the largest

grain dealer in the country. he carried a

splendid stook of groceries for a country

town. with a she line of staple dry goo‘ls

and boots and shoes. He was also agent

for fertilizers, gasoline. and the best

makes of [farming implements. all of

which he sold to the farmers on easy-

credit terms. but for which he never

failed to take his pound of flesh when the

luckiess creditor failed in making pay-

ments. It was said of his store that one

could buy anything there from a second-

hand pulpit to :1 diamond ring, and as a.

test a stranger had once gone there and

solemnly requested both, learning to his

intense surprise that King had the former

in his store room. which he had secured

when buying a dismantled church build-

ing. and the (llummul ring had been ob-

tained as a final settlement with a cer—

tain womztn who could extricate herself

from his credit web in no other way.



His wife, formerly Sarepta Barry. was

the real head of the store. It was she

who kept the books with rigid accuracy

while her husband attended to the many

details of his business of buying any-

lhing‘ and everything Ihu farmers bud in

sell. and it was in this line that he needed

young Ned Jackson. Ills store was the

center of the town gossip. and as he

learned at once that Ne-l hall l't't Scarls’

form he lost no time in offering him a.

position with him. Ills years were telling

on him in the shape of rheumatic knees,

and he needed :l. young fullow who could

drive a good bargain. “'hfle Ned had

been driving~ tlw market wagon King had

noticed him uni HUDX'UVPd of his ability

in oltuining custom and driving sharp

bargains. As lze was a shrewd judge of

humun nuturo he. sic: in young .li‘.('kHOIl

the qualities he desired in his business,

so accordingly he offered him a goivd sul-

uv‘y at the beginning. with prospect of

~lvunrcment.



Ned had accepted eagerly. He had :1.

mm belief in his own abilities and an

ubounding faith in his own good luck;

and King's offer. coming as it did when

he was thoroughly ushurm-d of himself,

he accepted it as Lt tribute to his own

worth which Senrls Jackson had been

too blind to nppl‘l’wiulv. He knew that it‘

l'is cousin laud gin-n him the chance to

buy and sell his delrnut-h would never

have occurred. It was simply because

he had been (lrurnxlvd to farm labor that

lu- had been wutk l‘l1nllli'h to disgrace

himself and Tulle; and. rensonin: thus,

he soon cominud himself that Searls,

and not he. was the one to blame. Yet,

when he enterwl Killu's employ he was

perfectly sure :hat such a thing would

never happen again. He had learned his

lesson. he told. Merle ovor the telephone.

and slip nut-d new-r fear of a repetition.

As :1 Jackson and u gentleman, he was

now in a position to prove his mettle to

the world.



His work was congenial from the first.

Besides his other deals. King bought

quantities of wood. tics and lumber from

the farmers, and he, was. delighted to find

that Ned could drive as good a bargain

as he could himself. In fact, he could do





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





better, for people mistrusted King. both

from long experience with him and also

because .of his 'Iongr lean, fox-like face





’with its crafty mouth and small eyes.





Ned Was different;- his face was frank.

and open; his manner engaging, and with

his easy good—natured way and. ability

to control his temper, though never yield-

ing a point, he made sales, and King con—

gratulated both himself and Ned upon

their partnership.



“Stay with me. boy," he said after a

month's trial, “and I will make you rich.

You will learn the tricks of the trade

soon. Searls was a blind fool to keep you

on the farm. Why. if he had seen in you

what I saw in you, you, two would have

driven me out of business,” he chuckled.

"High finance. my boy. can be practiced

here in the country as well as on “'all

street. It is nothing but a question of

‘dog eat dog’ every time. You remember

that, every deal you make, and we will

(“Dme out ahead. Somebody will get

eighty-one cents on a dollar, as Jimmy

Malley says, and it might as well be us





as the other fellow. See!"





Ned saw, and King did more business

than ever, with the result that he in-

creased Ned’s salary in three months,

for he could afford to be generous when

it helped his own pocketbook. The only

thing in Ned‘s surroundings that was not

congenial to him was his boarding place

in the home of Thad Hobby, who lived

on a good farm near King's residence.

He was fairly well to do but was generally

regarded as a. hard. close man in his

family. It was the only place then where

he could obtain board near his work. so

he was obliged to go there. though at

first he cliat‘ed at the style of living, it

being so different from what he had ever

been accustomed to at school or at his

«ousin's home. He instinctively disliked

the. man. but he liked the woman a thin,

overworked creature who struggled des—

pcl‘alely from dny to day with the burden

of her bonsc. her three small children and

the care of her father, poor old Henry

Malley, the crippled cobbler, who, though

only sixty years of age. was in reality

older than Grumlt‘nthcr Beverly, who had

passed his fomth score milestone years

lzet'ore.



Ned noticed. with keen sympathy. "the

difference between the two men. Each

had had his measure of joy and sorrow;

«at-h had labored hard for his sustenance,

and both had been honest. God—fearing

men. Butt although the life of Grand-

father Beverly ‘had been hard and disap-

pointing in many ways. yet his intelli-

gent. contented face did not Show the

marks of the struggle, for his children

bud been the joy of his manhood. and

his grandchildren were the comfort of his

old age.



It had been difl’erent with Henry Mal-

ley. lie had made two unfortunate mar-

iinges. llis first Wife, an invalid for

years. had left him with two children——

Amanda, the .wife of Thad Hobby. and

Jimmy. Afterwards, he had married, out

of sympathy a young girl, hoping to save

lcr from herself and a life of dissipation,

with the result that she wrecked his hap-

piness and her own. finally dying in a

drunken debuuch and leaving him with

three children, the youngest a crippled

whild of tenu-little Martha—the idol of

his heart, whose left arm was gone at

the elbow from her birth.



lie was heavily in‘ debt to King at her

death, and nothing remained for the old

man but to go to the home of his daugh-

twr. There he went, with his crippled

child and faithful old dog. while the two

older children were sent to the Home.



iller husband had given him shelter.

though not unwillingly. the first year. as

luig as the old man was able to do light

chores and general work on the farm.

Hut rheumatism laid 'him up in the fall,

:ind then Thad began to begrudge him

the Sent by his fireside as, day after day

he sat by the kitchen fire, with his crip-

pled, twisted hands idle in his lap and

his head bowed on his sunken breast,

while at his feet lay his little old dog that

had been his faithful follower for years,

shuring with him the long hours spent

at the cobblcr‘s bench or patiently fol—

lowing his master’s slow steps across the

fields. but now. like himself. grown old

:-nd past his usefulness. The dog's big

brown eyes were dim with age and his

short legs unsteady, yet his love for the

old mun was as true as ever, and day

after day he lay beside his chair ready to

thump his bushy tail on the floor as a





gentle reminder of his presence every.





time his master spoke or moved. He was

only a mongrel. but the love and com-

panionship. which was all he had to give.

kept the old man’s heart warm and he

loved him with almost the love of a. child,





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for his daughter Mandy was too over-

“;orked and burdened with the care of her

hard life to do more than passhls food

at the table and attend. to all his outside

wants, while the little crippled Martha

had but Scam time to spare. ‘with him, as Ki {) 1)E



she was kept constantly busy while out a“, * " ,5.

of school. And so the old man had lived - ‘ ’_ 1 .1h1



during the long winter—the first idle WALIJ "s. ~' 0

months he had ever spent in the long. ' - ' ; .

hard years of his life. j: .



“It has been my first vacation,” he said '

pleasantly to Ned one bright morning in

April when Mandy had placed his chair

by the open door in the first warm sun-

shine of spring. and Rover had curled

himself contentedly at his feet.



He beat and patted the dog's head with

his thin, crippled hand, while his face lit

up with affection. “There is nothing like

the friendship of a dog, Ned." he said

feelingly in his gentle voice. “They‘ll

stick to you. no matter what comes,

whether you can do for them or not.

They still love you; they are never un-

grateful."



“W'hat did ye say about bein ungrate—

ful?" demanded Thad Hobby, lumbering

around the house with his ox good in his

hand. “I’d like to know what. I‘ve got

to be grateful to you for? You settin'

around here, eatin’ my bread and never

liftin’ your finger to do nothin’. I‘m sick

or it, and I've had about all I' will have

on it: and you ain't goin’ to be throwin'

it out to my boarders about bein' on—

gmtefui. Do you hear?" He advanced

threateningly towards the old man with

his ox goad raised. but a warning growl

from Rover made him step back. i



“Ill kill that dog." he swore. ”I'll be’

hanged if I will pay his tax, which has

got to be paid termorrow if he is kept.;

No 0, sir; I wont feed no wuthless dog

another day. Here I‘ve taken care of

you and your kid and your dog fer over;

a yean and I won't do it no longer. not

if I know myself. You pull that dog out

from under that cheer and hand him over

here," he thundered, towering above the

old man who was shaking with rage.



“That I‘ll ncvcr do.” cried Malley. “You

never shall kill my (log, not if you turn

me our of your house.” ' ,



“Then out you git," he shouted, his

ugly face purple with rage. “I won't

work my l’fe out fer any good fer nothin‘v

old crank like you with a crippled bratT

and a dog thrown in. Out you go. the

hull passe! uv you." he cried again, as

the old man tried to speak. “Go to your

son, Jimmy; ask him to take keer on the .

hull three nv you. It is as much his place}

{as mine. and see if he will pay the tax,

he sneercd. j



“I will pay it." interrupted Ned, re-;

straining himself with difficulty from

pitching into Thad Hobby and thrashingr

him “I will ply it myself.” He opened

lis pocketbook and took out a fiv—e —dollari

bill which he gave the old man. “There

is his tax and something besides fox

yourself. and I will sac that his tax is

paid as long as he lives. Let him keep}

him. Mr. Hobby. lie is a great comfort

to the old man and. it wou‘d be a piece

of cruelty to take him away"



“Humph!” snarled the man; “will you

pay his board. too‘.’ I tell ye it costs

suthin' to feed that dog. and I shan‘t do

it fer nothing no longer."



“Yes, I will." cried the boy. angrily”

W'lth all his faults Ned had a warml

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“I'd do it if I could." Ned answered hotly. l

“but it is Jimmy's place to do that andi

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wouldn't treat my worst enemy this way,

to say nothing of a helpless old man."



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Ned.



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of twentycfour hours unless that precious "

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still threatening him-”with his heavy whip

Whilst)“ dog growled 'menacingly under

the 'dhAir. "Do you hear it? You and

your brat have got to git out uv here and

you can go to the devil for all I care.

Get back in the house and help your

sister." he snarled at the little girl who

had thrown herself in her father’s arms.

“Get back in the house. and be quick

about it before I break every bone in

your body," he ordered, grasping roughly

at her crippled arm and striking at ‘her

with the whip.



The child screamed with terror and

Ned, with a sudden movement, wrested

the whip from the man‘s grasp and threw

it out in the yard. “Touch either of them

if you dare,” he said threateningly, “and

I will have you arrested in an hours

time. I'll teach you that the rights of

old age and childhood are to be respected,

and if you injure either of them or the

dog you will answer to me."





Hobby, like most bullies, was cowed





by Ned's threats, which he knew instinc- .





tively the boy would fulfill. He backed

off the steps and picked up his whip sul‘

lenlv, 'while Ned, with blazing eyes and

fists ac'hlng for a fight. confronted him.

He grasped the boy’swords that he was

going to get another boarding place at

once, that he would not stay under .the

roof with such a. mean, contemptible

skunk any longer, and then he weakened.

The board money was an item to be con-

sidered, and, muttering that he didn’t

quite mean all he said. he disappeared

around the 'house towards the barn.



Ned pulled out his watch. It was near-

ly seven; knowing King's strict rules of

punctuality he did not dare stay longer.

Mandy was crying bitterly in the kitch-

en, but he could not wait to speak to her.

He entered the officet flushed and breath-

less, running into Joe Green who was

just coming out.



“What's the matter?” the latter asked.





quizzicaily. “Yew look as ef yew wanted





ter fight."



“I do." said Ned, emphatically. “I wish

I was big enough to knock lightning out

of Thad Hobby. He is too mean ‘to live.

The way he uses 01d Malley after all the

work the old man has done for him!

Heaven knows a short life is more to be

desired than such an old age.”



“Yes," drawled Joe, “that's what I

think. There's been suthin' in the wind

lately, and that's What I wuz up; so early

fer. I wanted ter see King pertickler,

but I guess I’ll hev ter wait a. spell. He’s

got a car load uv grain comin’ to sell

to us pore devils that don’t know enough

to use the best land in New England to

raise our own corn on. so we buy it uv

him and he gets rich and we get the

nineteen cents," he added whimsically.

“Guess I‘ll go over and see Hobby to find

what's ailin’ him," he chuckled to him-

self as he waddled down the street.



Ned had plenty of work to occupy ‘him

that morning, but‘about eleven o‘clock.

when King and the second selectman,

Cal Chase, were sitting on the front porch

talking in guarded tones. Ned found it

difficult to keep his mind on his figures,

and especially so a little later when he

saw old Malley slowly making his way

up to the. door, followed by his faithful

little dog. He wheeled around in his

chair in order to hear better what was

said as the old man brokenly asked the

two town officers for help. lie shielded

his son-in-law all he could for the sake

of his daughter. telling nothing of the

abuse he "had received, simply saying that

they could not afford to keep him any

longer.



“Then why don‘t you ask Jimmy to

help?" demanded King. unfeelingly. “This

town has already all the paupers it can

afford to take care of.“



The old man winced. “I did ask him——

thfs morning—Joe Green took me to see

’hlm—but he said 'he couldn‘t afford—40

do it—either.” he answered brokenly.



“Guess he could afford it all right."

snapped Chase, a burly, hard-faced man.

“Why he pays in checks! So he refused

you a cent, did he?"



“He did." Old Malley’s

scarcely more than a. Whisper.



“What did he say for himself, any-

way?" questioned King. “You gave him

his time at fourteen, and "he has been

there at Jackson’s ever since, getting the

very best pay. You ought to have brung

him up better,” he continued, irritably.

“That’s what’s the matter. The fault’s

all in the bringing up. You nexer licked

him haf enough or suthin’. But, then, I

don’t know as I blame him much for

not wanting to be tied down to an old

dad. When I was young. like him, there

was nothing I hated as much as old





voice was





.you and your henchmen who kept her in





This MICHIGAN. FARMER.





folks, and I don’t blame young folks for

not liking them. That‘s why I never had

children. You spend your money on

them, and when you are old you do not

have anything for yourself. Why, Mal-

ley, if you had the money now that you

spent in bringing up your five kids and

Goerge Wallace. you wouldn’t need to

come to the town for help. And they

have never been no comfort to you, any-

how.” ‘



“They have been, and they are yet.”





His trembling voice rose as he answered‘





“Mandy is

Heaven





King's hard, metallic tones.

as good a girl as ever lived.





 





knows she would care for me if she could, ;





but he won't let her.

down the road, with the baby in her arms

and the other two hanging on to her

skirts. She was crying and sobbing and

begging me not to blame her for this—”

his voice broke in heart-rending sobs.

“and my poor little Martha! He 'has

turned her away too, and God knows what

will become of us both.”



“Come, come,” interrupted King, cross~

1y, “don‘t make a fool of yourself. If

they have turned you out the town will

have to take care of you I suppose. Col—

lins'es would take another pauper to

board.”



“Don’t,” the old man cowered as if he

had been struck with a whip. Ned, from





and shoulder the burden Of the old man's

support himself, his distress was so pit-

iable. “Don’t send me there. I've always

lived among respectable people and I

want 'to die among them.

Collins’es and how they use their poor."



King’s thin lips curled derisively. “You

are a stickler after respectability, you are.

Look at your last wife; she was respect-

able, she was!"



“Don't you say that again, John King."

tried the old man with sudden dignity.

"It is you who made ‘her father what he

was, and caused her to be born with the

desire 'for liquor, and her sins are on

your head. It was you who helped her

father along the road to hell, and it was





drink. Don't say it again. John King. or,

old as I am, I will make you take it

back.”



King quailcd perceptibly before the fire.

in the old man’s eyes and the righteous

indignation in his voice. “She cost me

my election some years ago," he mut-

tered, “and I swore I’d get even with her,

and I t'hink I did," he added gloatingly.

“No man or woman ever crosses me but

they suffer for it. for I never forgot," he

said thrcateningly. “But come to busi—

ness. “'hat Jen. Malley did is neither

here nor ‘thorc. Beggars can‘t he choos-

ers, and if you don’t want to go to Col-

lins’es where do you want to go?”



“Couldn’t I go to the poorhouse in IVin-

throp? I know that I would be used de-

cently there and have good cure the rest

of my days, which, I assure you, will not

be many."





King paused to light an expensive

cigar. Then he answered pompously:

“There is no use for you to get angry,





Malley, and dictate where you are to go.

This town ain't going to pay no dollar

extra for your board out of this town.

NOW l'OLi’ve come down to bein' a pauper





you’ve got to take pauper’s fore. Busi-

ness is business. “'e run this town

economically, and as (‘ollins'es will take'





the paupers at the. lowest rate. why they

have them, that's all. Once it man's a

pauper he has nothing to say for him-

self."



“Why do you call me a pauper?" cried





I

the window, felt a fierce longing to go out‘

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the old mam his voice trembling with the

‘hurt inflicted by King’s cruel words.

“Haven’t I given this town all the laborI

of my life? Haven’t I worked hard for.

cvery penny I ever received? I havel

worked upon your highways; I have

helped build your bridges and lay your

walls; I have leveled and smoothed your

lands; I 'have worked by the day and by

the month, besides far into the night, at

tho cobblcr’s bench in order to support

my family. And this is what I get 'for all

the labor of my life—the name of a pan—

per and the fare that I would have been

ashamed to have given a dog. Does this

town owe me nothing? In the true sense

of the word. am I a pauper? What is a

pauper? Tell me that?” he demanded

with sudden energy. turning to Chase

who was eyeing him contemptuously.

“Tell me.” he repeated. shaking with ex—

citement, “What is a pauper?”

(To be continued).





 





Man is made equal to every event. He

can face danger for the right. A poor.

tender-painful body, he can run into

flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty

for his guide—Emerson.





 





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UNSELFISH MOTHERS OFTEN OVERDO.





 





E hear a great deal about the

beautiful unselfishness of moth-



ers, their self-sacrificing devo-



tion. their entire sinking of self in the

interests of their children, etc., etc. But

there are occasions when I wonder if it

isn't all worse than wasted; if it would

not. be better, in fact. if mothers were a

little more selfish. a little less ready to

give tip everything for daughter or son,

a little more determined to stand tip for

their own rights as women in a big world.

An vauaintant-e l have recently made

impresses me more than ever with the

ugliness of too much sacrifice on iiioth«





er's part. A new family has just moved

into the neighborhood consisting of

DAUGHTER (big black type, please).





Father (note there is one capital). and

mother (the smallest, most ordinary type

you have, please .\lr. Printer). That is

the relative position and iiiiportahec of

the three members of the family. Father

does manage to keep in sight. because he

pays the bills, but mother. having no such

useful purpose, is completely shadowed

and eclipsed by DAUGHTER.



The keeping of llaug‘litcr in anything

approaching a state of good humor re-

minds ol‘ie of the way the ancients pro-

pitiated an angry goddess. Mother rises

<arly to prepare her darlings favorite

dish for breakfast and to see that the

coffee is just right. The viaiids ready,

they are arranged daintily on a silver

tray and mother. with her heart in her

throat, creeps trcmulously upstairs and

taps dcprccatingly on the door. Perhaps

Ll sleepy grunt, perhaps a surly, “\Vell,"

is llt'l’ response. Slic ventures in. expect-

ing she knows not what, enquires anx—

iously how tlw'cndolin slept, apologizes

for being late, for the coffee, the toast,

the. egg. the grapefruit, the service, her-

sclf. everything she can think of that may

call forth a complaint from the girl.



Breakfast over, the mother trots ineekly

away with the tray and comes back to

play lady‘s maid to Daughter. She pre-

pares the bath, lays otit the clothes. prob-

ably having to change the inciiiiiig dress

two or three times. buttons, hooks and

"eoii'ftii't-s“ my young lady. All the while

she cringes and fawns as no self-respect!-

iiig woman should do to anyone. least of

all to her daughter. The mother’s only

thought is how to keep the girl placated.

The girl‘s only thought of her mother is

of something useful in the scheme of her

own utterly useless and selfish existence.



* t *



\\'hen the girl goes on the street, I

must admit, she is a dream so far as

clothes and manners are concerned. No

one can criticise a thing from the tip of

her willow plume to the toe of her shoe.

which her mother has polished and but-

toned on for her. She is all graciousness.

too. and smiles. courteous. low-voiced,

tiei‘erciitial to older women. all in appear—

.inct-s that a young girl should be. You

are charmed until you study her face

closely.

the selfish mouth betray her. For such

is the justice of Mother Nature that she

paints ottr real character on our faces

where it can not be ‘hidden. no matter

what brand of powder or make of rouge

we smear over her handiwork.



it is such instances as this which makes

me decry motherly unselfishness. I know,

without being told, that the mother

spoiled the child from the hour of its

birth. Such was her mother love that

she could not bear a smile or a frown

from her baby. and baby soon learned

the lesson. Years made the child an

adept in getting her own way. the mother

a slave to the caprices of the most cruel

of mistresses. V



How much better had the mother shown

that her love was divinely human instead

of animal in its nature. for it is only ani.

mal love which can not bear to see its

young suffer from pain and will go to

any length to silence the cry of its iittle

one. Intelligent human beings know that





Then the cool, calculating eyes.





a little suffering now will avert a great

deal later, in many cases; they know

that discipline is not only right and just

but necessary if we are to have perfect

characters and they do not hesitate to

discipline their offspring. And in so do-

ing they show far greater love than those

foolish aprents who love their children so

much they can not bear to see them suf-

fer the consequences of their own wrong

doing. True love is always tempered with

a. sense of justice, and will insist on jus-

tice to itself.

. * I



After all, mothers are individuals as

well as daughters and have as much right

to a place in the world. They can love.

suffer and enjoy as keenly as young folks

and there is no reason why they should

be shoved to the background and left

with liusks while the daughters take the

center of the stage and demand the. best

that is going. And the mother who will

not submit to such treatmen but quietly

takes what is hers by righ enjoys the

respect and love of her children to a far

greater extent than the woman who lets

the children push her to one side. No one

admires a weakling. and it is only a very

weak woman who submits to being made

a drudge by her daughter.



DEBORAH.





A SMART AND POPULAR CAP.





Nething quite so popular in the way of

licadwear as the “automobile toque”

has appeared for some time. Girls and





young women, even women who can not

claim to be young, have taken up this

"lllal't cap and one sees them wherever





 





 





an outdoor costume is worn. They are

very becoming 'to youthful faces, espe-

cially when made all of one color. a deep

red or a creamy white. blue or whatever

your favorite color may be. Many are

made with the top of white and the roll

of a dark color, green, blue, red. pink,

even black. 'ly way of decoration some

small girls run ribbons through the roll

and tie a smart bow on the left side. The

iesult is not bad, but the caps are pret-

tier when plain and unadm-ned.



They are easily and quickly made. A

10-year—old girl who ’has made two or three

tells me she can make one in an after-

roon. Below are printed directions. You

need from three to five balls of Wool and

a bone crochet hook.



Make a chain of four stitches and join

to a ring. Now work 12 groups of puffs.

in this ring as follows: Chain 1, * yarn

over hook. draw a loop up through the

ring: there are 3 loops on book. draw

through all. Repeat from * around and

join. Chain 1, yarn over hook and draw

a loop up where you join, yarn over hook

and draw through all 3 loops, * yarn over





 





 





hook. drap a loop up in the next stitch.

yarn over hook. draw a loop up in same

place yarn over hook and draw through

all 5 loops on hook. Repeat from "' around

and increase in the 4th. 8th and 12th

stitches by making an extra group in

same stitch. .



Third Round—Like 2d round.



Fourth Round—Like 2d round, increase

and 20th stitches also.





 





Fifth ROUI]d-lll('l'GaSC in the 10th and

20th stilt-lies only.



Sixth Round—viiicrease in the 8th. itith

and 24th stitches.



Seventh Rouiid-wliierease in 14th and

29th stitches.



Eighth, Ninth and

“'itliout increasing. .



\\'ork four rounds for ‘the turn over, but

turn your work each round.





Tenth Rounds——





 





 





l’arty Frocks for Country Girls By Hilda Richmond.





 





To make an ideal party gown for a.

country girl a fabric must possess two

requisites in addition to being beautiful,

it must Stand reasonably hard wear and

must not require laundering or pressing

too often. Since. the best times for the

young people in the country‘ come in the

winter the dress must not he too thin

and yet it must not look heavy like a

street suit. These look like formidable

restrictions in buying. yet with them all

in mind. it is eaSy to pick out goods at

moderate cost that will be suitable, beati-

tiful and durable. Then, if the fabric is

made tip simply with a little appropriate

trimming. it will last for two seasons at

least and always look well. A young

girl's. health is too precious to risk wear-

ing thin. unseasonable garments in the

winter. no matter how pretty and airy

they look, nor how much she may think

Of them as the only appropriate things

for a party.



For summer. when social affairs are

not very numerous one or two wash

frocks will do. and they need not be el—

aborately trimmed to be pretty. Any

clean. dainty, white frock looks well for

all summer occasions, and the party gown

may be made to answer for visiting,

church and street wear. A well—bred girl

avoids very low necks and exaggerated

styles of all kinds. so that a little frock

made by her own bands will answer for

every occasion. A pretty sash. pretty

l'air ornaments. shining shoes, a string

of beads, a dainty collar and other at:-

cessories help out even a plain dress, and

give it a party air. if only it is clean and

fresh. It isn’t the summer that tries the

patience of the country girl, for then she

can appear as fine and dainty as she

pleases. but the winter when heavy wraps

must be worn. and snow and mud and

rain encountered.



Perhaps the best all~around party gown

is constructed of light colored silk, not

always a light—weight silk, though the)"

are very good. but light enough in color

to give it a. festive air. At the end of

the summer season, when the summer

goods are being sacrificed at the stores.

it is easy to pick tip a dress length of

pin-striped or checked or dotted or flow-

ered silk that will make tip beautifully

with a touch of white at the throat and

a little lace for trimming. A rather small

young lady found enough pretty silk at

25 cents per yard to make her a party

dress that was a. thing of beauty as long

as it lasted, but it required careful cut-

ting tO get it otit of the short length. It

was helped out with a white vest and was

much admired whenever she wore it. To

keep it clean a thin slip made of an old

silk waist was always worn under the

heavy winter wrap. and a large handker-

chief protected the white collar. As it

happened to be on the gray order, gray

shoes were worn with it, but they were

not low shoes to give the girl a cold

Though the costume looked airy and sum-

mery it was warm enough for ’the coldest

wcathor for a party frock and lasted two

seasons.



Armlhcr fine fabric is white serge. and





really nothing looks as well on young

gills or: white or cream colored goods.





Hot-h a dress will not last with a silk one.

but with care it. can be washed and

ironed again and again, coming out of the

bath looking like new. It falls in soft,

clinging folds that are very graceful, and

it does not need the pressing that silk

requires. The serge has an added ad-

vantage in that, when it is too old to





wear for best, it will make a good under

frock for a thin dress like china silk or

similar fabric. Challis in some soft, deli-

cate tint or any of the fine, half wool

weaves work. tip very nicely. and if de—

cided colors are avoided the dress will

be beautiful. Nothing is more tiresome

than a pink or lavender party frock that

must be worn often. In the piece it looks

very pretty. btit made tip it is conspicu-

oiis and tiresome. Unless a girl can have

many dresses it is best to stick to white

and neutral shades.



For bitter cold weather or for sleigliing

or skating parties, a smart silk waist with

a dark skirt or skirt to match the waist

in color, is better than the thin dress.

\Vhile. a skirt and waist of heavy material

votild not be pretty, and since the waist

need not be as heavy as the skirt with

the extra undcrjackets worn just now, the

silk in some gay color will lighten up the

dark cloth and give a “dress tip" air that

will be charming. instead of avoiding

bright shades, it is well to buy the pret-

tiest. brightest plaids or Pcrsion to be

found. as sad colors are out of place, and

the light, soft tones so beautiful for whole,

frm its not be to thought 01’. Such a waist

answers well for general purposes in win—

ter, and on a dark day has an inspiring

effect upon the wearer.



There are always little ornaments, fans,

gloves. combs, ribbons, simple jewelry

and bead chains to add beauty to even a

quiet frock. though good taste demands

that very few ornaments be worn. Young

girls are so lovely themselves with their

bright eyes, rosy checks and their inno—

cent joyousncss and good humor that

they need very little to set off their

beauty. Everytliiiif-l' in the way of heavy,

expensive drt-‘ssing should be left to el—

derly ladies, and youth and health will set

off a dainty, simple party frock to the

best advantage. \‘i‘liile, in turn, 'the ap-

propriate garment will show to all be—

holders that its wearer posscses not only

beauty. but intelligence and good taste

as well.





 





RELAXATION AS A CURE FOR

TEMPER.





BY FRANCIS CALBREATII lNGERSOLL.



The angry word may “wound the heart

that loves us,” but too often the wound

rankles deepest in the heart of the Spoak—

er herself. Proneness to anger is not al-

ways a sign of a “bad” disposition. It is

often the result of ill—health and multi—

tudinous cares that rasp the nerves to

the breaking point. In such a case, lie

flat upon the back upon the floor, and

relax the entire body tiiitil you are as

“limp as, a rag.”



Five minutes of this two or three times

a day will not only take the “kinks" out

of the temper, but out of the entire Sys-

tem. if the brain be relaxed at the same

time until you are absolutely “thinking

of nothing." it will relieve brain-fag and

its consequent incoherence and irritabil—

ity. Try it.



The instant 'anger arises, there is at

tension in some set of muscles. The fin-

gers contract, or the lips tighten, or 'the

Jaw becomes rigid. The greater the fit

of anger, the tighter this tension becomes.

then all. or nearly all, those muscles are

involved. it means a beautiful ease of

hysteria. it is impossible to get angry

with relaxed muscles.



The next time you “get your temper

up.” notice what set of muscles are af-

fected in your anger, then relax. If you
.t 1.





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RELIE'F‘FOR COLD FEET.





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- BY.ELLA E- ROCKWOOD.

' HOSE who are troubled with cold

I feet at night 'will find a pair of

bed-socks extremely eclnfortable.

These may be made out of eiderdown

cloth or of any heaVy woolen material

which may be at hand. A pair of ordi-

nary worsted bed—room slippers which are

usually provided with soles of lambs’ wool



will answer the same purpose.



If made out of cloth, first cut a pattern

following the outline of the foot, with a

single seam dowu center of instep and

extending the entire length of the sole to

the heel. These socks, or slippers.“ may

be made perfectly plain, or ornamented

by a frill of yarn crocheted around the

tops, as preferred. They require no lin-

ing. Place an elastic around the top.



As a method of warming cold feet and

inducing refreshing sleep this is far supe-

rior to a soap-stone or jug of hot water

in the foot of the bed.



Old people are particularly inclined to

suffer from this cause and will welcome

relief in the manner suggested.



As age~ advances the blood becomes

thin and the body is more easily chilled

than with those of less mature years.

For this reason aged persons should not

attempt to sleep in a cold room. If this

is Unavoidable then the bed should be





supplied with outing blankets, which now.





come in excellent quality, or else with

those of wool, instead of the cotton sheets

ordinarily used.





CROCHETED PENDANTS.





 





BY MAE Y. MAHAFFY.



So many of the dainty crocheted ja—

-bots, ties, etc., are now finished with

drops or pendants. likewise of crocheting.

that a majority of workers will be glad





 





to know just how these little accessories





are made. It is not a. difficult task at all

for any one familiar with plain crochet-

ing, and several may be made. with but

slight effort, in the course of an evening‘s

chat around the fireside.



In the first place, select a crochet cot-

ton, No. 40 or 50, and a small hook. Have

a 'box or roll of cotton at hand, the very

whitest being necessary. That found in

most medicine chests, absorbent cotton,

will be most satisfactory unless a choice

bit of batting is in readiness. Only a.

small amount is needed.



A ball and flower form are illustrated,

and there are numerous ways besides

these that the pendants may be ar-

ranged. These secm to be the two most

popular forms. and are probably easier

to execute than more complicated ones.

To _make the ball chain three stitches

and join in a circle with a slip stitch.

Chain one, and in the tor) of each previous

stitch place two single stitches. In the

next row place two single stitches ill ev-

ery other stitch, and continue thus for

three rows. Thcn crochet two more rows.

stitch for Stitch. You will now have a

Small cup-like shape. illto’whil-h a bit of

the cotton is crowded. makingr it as firm

and shapely as possible. Procccd to cro-

chet the remainder of the ball by nar—

rowing. first Skipping every third stitch,

and then every other one. endeavoring to

make this end of the ball appear as near-

1y as possible like the first. When only

one stitch remains chain a length suffi-

cient to attach the ball to whatever arti-

cle it is to decorate. and secure the thread

by slipping it through the last loop.



The flower heart is made like the ball

until ‘the center is reached. where more

rows of straight crochetiug are utilized

to give additional length. It is then nar-

rowed off as before, after filling with the

cotton, 'but a length of thread is left with

which to crochet the chain later. The

petals are now made by crocheting a cen-

ter as before, widening until there are 27

stitches. Turn by chaining one. and

making a single stitch into each of nine

of the former row; turn again, chain one,





THE: MICHIGAN FARMER. a»: 67





and crochet Seven single stitches into the

row of nine; turn, chain one, and crochet

five singles into the row of seven; turn.

chain one,'and Crochet three singles into

the five, and then fasten off with a chain,

one single, and a chain, securing the

thread neatly. Each of the other petals

are made in like manner on the remain-

der of the .27 stitches. it being necessary

to tie the thread into place after fasten-

ing off in each case. Now slip the loose

thread left on the pendant through the

center of the petals, taking a stitch

through to hold it in place, and chain the

stern.



These pendants will wash, if handled

carefully, and pulled into shape at once.

They may be made somewhat larger and

of coarser cotton for edging curtains,

bedspreads, etc.





HOME QUERY.





 





Editor Woman's Departmentz—I am a

farmer’s wife and am obliged to be out

in all kinds of weather, and the question

of a warm, and at the same time neat

and becoming covering for my head, is

perplexing me.



Being subject to neuralgia, the scarf

worn so much now are not sufficiently

warm. Isn't there some pretty combina—

tion of fur and velvet. or of other mate~

rials, in shape of a hood or bonnet, to

be made, that's not too difiicult for home

construction? I might add, “for a young

woman of 40.”



I wish, too some one would tell us of

the new rag rugs. I have about exhaust-

ed 'the possibilitlcs of the blue and white

combinations, and would like suggestions

for combining other colors, also any idea.

about the new rag rugs. Can they be

made with designs without the use of

the stencils?—M.



I think the “automobile toque” de

scribed ill all articlc in this issue of The,

Farmer would meet your wants as a head.

covering. If you want a fur bonnet, I

saw one of mink for on the street rc--

ccntly which was becoming to the woman





 





who wore it. but it would require an un-l

usually bright, youthful face to carry off:

the extreme style. It was made like the:

popular Dutch bollllcls for babies, a round

piece ill the back, with the front fitted;

on. This ullc covercd the hair completely;

and was tied willl brown ribbons. Velvet;

and fur hills arc very hard to make by?

amateurs, though, and I would suggest?

that you try the crocheted cap. An arti-r

cle on rugs will appear in another issue.

DAINTY UNDERWEAR.



Thcse patterns may be secured for tne

prices given. by writing Michigan Farmer. ‘

In ordering give number and size.



No, 4914—Ladies' Combination.»~chen

sizes. 32 to 4-4 inches bust mcasure. For

36 bust it requires 51,; yards of 17 inch

fiouncing, with one yard of material 36

inches wide. Price 15 cents.



No. 2484—Ladies’ Nightgown—Eight,

sizes, 32 to 46 inches bust measure. Forz





 





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3G bust it requires 61,4, yards 36 inches

wide; 31/: yards of casing. 15/3 yards of

insertion. Price 15 rents.



No. 5127—Ladies’ Corset Coven—Cut in

six sizes, 32 to 4G bust measure. Size 36

requires 11,; yards of 27-inch material.

Price 10 cents.



No. 4152—Ladies’ Five-Gored Petticoat.

——Eight sizes. 22 to 36 inches, waist meas- ,

ure. For 24 waist it requires 5% yards

36 inches wide. Price 15 cents.



No. 1006—Ladies’ Closed Drawers.—

Nine sizes. 20 to 36 inches waist measure.

For 24 waist it requires 1% yards, 36

inches wide, with 2% yards edging.





 





 

 

 

 





 

 





 

 





 





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are in the habit, as some are when angry,

of tapping the floor with the foot, or

drumming with the fingers, relax until

such action is impossible. .



Then you simply cannot get angry. Of

course, if you really enjoy “getting mad.”

go ahead and tighten up on your nerve

strings until they snap, and you are a

fit candidate for a lunatic asylum. But

if you regret your “tempers” and grieve

over your “inability" to control them, try

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THE FINE ART OF SEASONING.



No. 33.





 





BY MRS. ALTA L. LITTELL_



A certain famous cooking school has

three heads of departments. One is fam-

ous for her cheap. practical recipes; 8.

second for 'her dainty table decorations,

garnishings and ways of serving and the

third for her seasonings. She knows just

how and when and where to put in a.

dash of paprika, a pinch of cayenne, a bit

of bay leaf, a teaspoonful of lemon juice

or a trifle of parsley. And it is of this

knack I wish I) speak.



'Few housekeepers realize how much the

success of a dish depends upon correct

seasoning. You make a dish yourself and

a neighbor makesthe same. Yours is

flat and insipid and hers tastes as though

prepared by a French chef. You ask for

her recipe and find it is exactly like

yours, but—she put in a dash of seasoning

which you left out.



“That could not make the difference.”

you argue. But it could and did. Sea-

sonings are to foods what humor is to

conversation.



If you have not already done it, buy a

bottle of kitchen bouquet and five cents

Worth of bay leaves the next time you go to

town. Raise a little mint and Parsley

yourself and onions you have always with

you. Paprika, cayenne pepper and celery

salt I take it, you already have: and, of





course, every cook has her bottles of ila—V





yorings and spices,

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a quarter of a tr-aspr’nonful of your kitch-

en bouquet to it and a similar amount to

your soups. A faint. delicious flavor hint—

ing of all sorts of viands will be the re-

sult. Two hay leaves boiled with your

tomatoes for cream of tomato soup will

change the “complexion" of the dish. es—

pecially if you throw in as well three or

four cloves and a few slim-s of onion. Of

course. these must he strained out before

the soup is served.



3ay leaves cloves and a small carrot

sliccd with your pot roast will so change

the flavor of the meat 'hat you will

scarcely recognize your old friend. You

can take these tlavorcrs out with a spoon

before making your gravy or leave them

in and strain the gravy before serving.



Onion juice may he used any place you

would use onions for flavoring. in stuff-

ing for fowls, in soups. gravies, etc. A

dash of paprika in stuffings gives a new

tone to the. dish while a touch of it in

our old friend, the stew. gives added zest,

A little lemon juice adds greatly to many

a dish. Beef loaf is improved by adding

two tablespoonfuls. and bread puddings

are better for a hit. The range of its

. possibilities may be seen when we learn

that we can add it with benefit to straw-

berry whip, oat meal cookies and calf’s-

foot jelly. Desserts, pastry and meats.

all are improved by just a suspicion of

its piqnancy.



Worcestershire sauce is a valuable ad-

junct. too. in the stock of flavorings. Use

it with meats. gravies etc. Mint and

parsley are meat flavorings and as they





 





Convenient Stationary Wash Tubs.





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make pretty garnishings they serve a

double purpose. A taste of cloves and

mace may be imparted to ”made dishes”

of meat, such as stews and meat pies and

loaves if one likes the flavor of these

spices.



A half dozen flavors combined in the

same dish give it quite an air of being

something new and may set everyone

guessing as to its contents. The combin-

ing of flavors is a fine art. though, and

should not be attempted by a new cook

unless she follows printed directions. The

experienced housekeeper might experi:

ment along these lines and feel all the joy

of a discoverer if her experiment is hailed

with delight by the family. Do not over-

do by using too much of any one flavor.

Just a dash of five or six flavors that rea—

son tells you will combine well as lemon

juice, parsley, paprika, and cayenne in

sauces, and peppercorns. cloves, parsley.

bay leaf, carrots and onion in stew.



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If you are out of vanilla when you are

preparing a dish with chocolate, try cin-

namon as a flavorer. Many like it better

than vanilla. Lemon, too, "goes well with

chocolate, though someway or other we

never use it. To my mind the best choc-

c-late icing I ever tasted was flavored

with lemon extract. It seemed to “cut“

the chocolate, and had not the sickish-

sweet taste of vanilla flavored ch0colate.





 





“BLUE MONDAY" MAY LOSEITS

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“Blue Monday.” our friend Fletcher,

cane eating apostle, tells us is the direct

result of over-eating Sunday. Perhaps

he is right as to the blueness of men on

Monday, but the Monday depression of

Women isvcaused by the weekly washing.

.\nd’ the blucst thought about that wash-

ing is of the tubs to be filled and emptied,

isn‘t it?



if the. tubs were always “right there,"

with no need to tug them up out of the

cellar or in from the woodshed. and you

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of hot and cold water run in; if, when

thc clothes were rubbed you could pull

a plug out of the tub and let the suds run

out. then let all the clean water run in

for rinsing that you really needed, would

rot washday be robbed of half its horror?



The thought of the pails of water to be

carried to the tub makes one’s back ache

before the actual work is begun. And

half the clothes of the country are not

really clcan because human strength gives

out before sufficient rinsing water can

he carried to rinse out all the suds.



\Vhy not do away with this unnecesary

work by putting stationary tubs in your

farmhouse? Many a farmhouse has an

unused bathtub. which the owners wore

determined to have in order to be. tip-to-

date, when, for a great deal less money

they might have put in washtubs which

would pay for themselves by the saving

These tubs are made of

soapstone, slate. enameled





in strength.

composition.

iron or of solid porcelain, according 'to the

price you wish to pay, the composition

tubs with faucets, traps and pipe, to the

floor costing only from $12 to $15. The

outside drainage the men of the house

could put in themselves and it might be,

either of crock or one of the wooden box

affairs that are already used in so many

homes. Of course. the water should be

conducted quite a ways from the house

as the soapsuds sours.



There is no reason in the world why

farmhouse already equipped with

Even if





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you do not have the hot water piping.

think of the saving of strength to have

the cold water at hand. A hot water

heater could be attached to the range at

slight cost so your house could have the

hot water as well, or a. small hot water

heater might be set up in the basement

and run at small expense.



Even the cry of “no room" is easily

answered. Just dispense with your kitch-

on table, have your tubs set up where

the table stood and a hinged table top

built over them. This can easily be

turned up against the wall on washday,

and every other day it can cover the tubs

shutting out dust and dirt.





RAISINS IN MANY WAYS.





 





 





m' LALIA MITCHELL.

\Vhen fresh fruits are difficult to obtain





the raisin will be found an excellent sub-

stitute and cooked in anyone of a half

dozen ways becomes most appetizing‘. The

following recipes should be tested by the

cook who enjoys appetizing dishes that

can he prepared at a minimum of ex-

pense:

Raisin Short Bread.



Sift two teaspoont‘uls of baking powder



into two cupfuls of flour and to this add





one—half teaspoonful salt and one-half

tablespoonfuls shortening. \Vork these

together. using a silver fork or well-





fioured fingers. and pour in a third of a

cup,of milk. Flour one cupful of seeded

raisins, work into the bread and bake

for a half hour in a shallow pan.

Cornmeal Raisin Bread.





Into a quart of boiling water pour one1





cup of corn meal, add salt to taste, stir

until it boils and then cook for an hour

on the back of the range. Remove from

the stove. add one egg well beaten, and

a half cupful of seeded raisins. Place in

a cake tin and bake 20 minutes in a hot

oven. ’

Rice and Raisins.

To one cup of cold boiled rice add one





 





cupful of seeded raisins and mix thor.

oughly together. Dissolve one tablespoon-





t‘ul of gelatin in cold water, add one table-’

lemon





spoonful sugar. one teaspoonful

juice and a small cupful of boiling water.





Add this to the rice and raisins and set.j

Serve withl





away in a mold until cold.

caramel sauce or whipped cream.

Raisin Dessert.



Stew one cupful of seeded raisins, pour

into a deep glass dish until cool. Cover

the top with sliced orange, sprinkle with

granulated sugar and serve with whipped

cream over the top.





 





SHORT CUTS TO HOUSEKEEPING.



Large, bakingpowder cans are splendid

for baking bread to be used for sand-

wiches, as well as for baking or steam-

ing salmon, veal or beef loaves,'or var-

ious puddings. inverted they serve as

fine cooky cutters. Small ones with holes

punched in the tops answer nicely for

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the stove—hi. Y. M.



The cans in which syrup and sorghum;

are put up are splendid for canning t0-

matoes. as the lids fit snug, and only re-

quire a bit of sealing wax run round the

seam to make them air tight.—M. Y. M.



To preserve linoleum, heat a piece of;

paraffin until melted. Rcmch from firel

and stir in turpentine until thin enough to,

apply with cloth or brush. Must be used“

quickly and is splendid.~1\l. B. S. l



\Vhen canning raspberries. try puttingi

about one—half rhubarb with the berries|

for a change. You will have a delicious:

sauce, bcsidcs helping out when berries

are scarce. A. E. L.



To make an old fowl tcndcr: Kill the

fowl and. while the body is still warm.

bury it in the earth. Let it remain there

24 hours. This will make any old fowl

as tender as ('lllt‘lit‘ll.~-l\'li‘>i. It. I.. B.



To removc spots on white goods caused

by contact with colored goods covcr well

will «lanmcncd baking sodas—ii]. M. ll.



A. fruit jar cover makes the best kind

of kettle scraperxrl‘}. NI. II. l



To rcmovc mildew soak goods in but-,1

termilk and hang in the sun to dry, rc-;

pcatingr process until mildew disappears?

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When baking pics I usually make a few;

extra crusts to fill as wanted. To do so,‘

line a pan with the dough. take another

pan of the same size flour the bottom and}

set inside the. other pan. having the dough 1

between the pans. This prevents thel

dough from bulging and getting out of

shape—Mrs. L. L. G. -



Try swallowing saliva when you have

a sour stomach.———J. W.



Try a sun bath for rheumatism.——J. W.



Instead of embroidering your initial or

menogram in your kerehief, write it

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JAN. 21, 1911. ,





This Home-Made Cough '

Syrup will Suprise You





Stops Even Whooping Cough

Quickly. A Family Supply

at Small Cont.





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Here is a home-made remedy that takes

hold of a cough instantly and will usually

cure the most stubborn case in 24 hours.

This recipe makes a pint—enough for a

whole family. You couldn‘t buy as much

gr as good ready—made cough syrup for

2.50.



Mix one pint of granulated sugar with

1/2 pint of warm water, and stir 2 min-

utes. Put 21/2 ounces of Pinex (fifty cents'

worth) in a pint bottle, and add the

Sugar Syrup. This keeps perfectly and

has a pleasant taste—children like it.

Braces up the appetite and is slightly lax—

ative_ which helps end a cough.



You probably know the medical value of

pine in treating asthma, bronchitis, and

other throat troubles, sore lungs, etc.

There is nothing better. Pinex is the

most valuable concentrated compound of

Norway white pine extract, rich in gui-

aicol and all the natural healing pine ele-

ments. Other preparations‘will not work

in this formula. ‘



The prompt results from this inexpen—

sive remedy have made friends for it in

thousands of homes in the United States

and Canada. which explains why the plan

has been imitated often, but never suc-

cessfully.



A guarantee of absolute satisfaction,

or money promptly refunded. goes with

this recipe. Your druggist has Pinex or

will get it for you. If not, send to The

Pinex CO., 232 Main St, Ft. \Vayne, ind.





 





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.‘m’ me for our ‘ Big [lee Book Of Fall“

agons and Factory Fillies-Freight Prepaid





drop to 27c. Not much ice has been cut

and stored as yet in this part of the

state.



Buy your wagon direct and save from $10.00 to $30.00 'ing capital now sells to you direct and

according to the wagon you need and the locality in which gives you full value for every dollar

you reside. Keep that money in your pocket—deal direct you invest in a wagon. Write at once



with headquarters, the largest wagon factory in the world. for our free book which tells the whole story

We prepay the freight. Buy wagons f known value, of this semalz‘amzl change in the wagon business.

known f01' generations. known to be the ‘ Get our Free Trial. freight prepaid. low factory price offer on





best wa .ons that off: be built, bu, an“Old i I

Hickoryg or a Fennessee, y famous -. ‘OId HIckorynaflduTennessee” wagons

E A Size, Siyla and Price for Every Man





among farmers for 40 years. 000,000 of



them have been made and sold in the



past 40 years. The largest wagon manu-



iacturer 0‘ all “’1‘“ over 52000-000 WOFk' Sent on four weeks trial—backed by a two-year legally

binding signed guarantee. Take your choice of “Old

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and price. Our big book gives you a greater selection



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Ohio. .

Carrol 00., Jan. 11.-—The weather has

been cold until this week. Some farmers

still have some corn to husk. Some are

clearing new ground. Some fat hogs‘

and beef to butcher yet. Sheep are in

good order this winter. Nearly all live

stock doing well. The roads have been

very rough, with not enough snow for

good sleighing. Looks as it com will be

scarce in the spring, but the price is now

10W, ear c0rn‘60c per bu: oats, 40c; wheat

900; butter, 300 per lb; eggs, 34c per

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Indiana.



Laporte 60., Jan. 14.—January thaw

has been here all the week and this has

stopped packing ice until cold weather

comes again; 10 to 12—inch ice has been

put up during the last two weeks, and

the large shippers have their houses about

half filled. Heavy rains last night and

snow mostly gone. ICy roads the last two

weeks. Good time to feed and feed is





   





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 

 

   

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 





A holding out well. New corn, 40c; oats, , _ , , , ,

45c; hay will be fed up 0105.3; butter, 35c; big saying, if it doesn t prove. every claim we make

eggs, 40¢ after4 weeks of hard test, ship it back at our expense.



Illinois. Sand Postal Now for book, prices and all interesting facts about

this sensationalchange in the wagon business. A saving of





$10 to,$30 on the best wagon built is bound to interest you.

100nm at ”out Hickory" and ”Tennessee” Wagons: It you

now have one of our wagons and, owing to accident

or long use, you need repair parts, write for our gen-

erous proposition on parts needed.



We have had the trade of dealers for over30

years and in making this radical change in our

selling method will be fair to them as well as to

you by filling first orders out of their stocks of

'Old Hickory" and “Tennessee" wagons if they

consent to let us do so. Address





KENTUCKY WAGON MANUFACTURING COMPANY

cum, 296 West “K” Strut, LouivaIIo, Kentucky





Perry 00., Jan. 9.—-Havln~ fine winter

Weather in this part of the country; have

no snow and had none since Dec. 5. Had

some zero weather Jan. 2-3-4, but fine

since. The freezing nights and thawing

slightly during the middle part of the day

is not very good for the Winter wheat,

rwhich was in very poor condition any-

way at the beginning of winter. Corn is

about all gathered. Some out in shocks

yet. ‘Roads are fine. Not much real es-

tate changing hauls. Considerable land

being leased by oil companies, which are

boring now for oil within 15 to 20 miles

of this place. Cattle and hogs are still

scarce and high. Hogs, dressed, 90 per

1!); feeders and pigs from 50 to 70 lbs.,

10c per lb; eggs, 30c; butter, 25c; hens,

9c; turkeys, 18c; ducks, 90; potatoes, 50c;

sweet potatOes, $1; corn, 400; wheat, 90c;

timothy hay. $12@15 per ton; pea hay,

$10; bran, $1.20 per cwt.



' Wisconsin.



Ashland Co., Jan. 9,—January is mar-

shalled in with a foot of snow, and wind

which is piling it up for cold storage uses.

Jan. 4 was a cold one, registering over

40 below, and not much better since. This

is what makes a farmer happy to think

he has water in the barn and does not

have to go out himself, or his stock

either. See some neighbor farmer driv—

ing his cows out in the snow trying to

get them to drink out of a hole in the

ice with water a foot below the surface.

and then he wonders why his cows don't

give much milk. Log hauling is under

full swing and plenty of work for all

teams, at $4.50 and $5 per day. Show

has blown off wheat, and meadows bad

in places. Hay still $22@23; western hay

$20; cuts, 500; eggs, 30c; butter, dairy,

32c per lb.





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The frame is the foundation of a manure Spreader—ii: must stay square illltl

Jew] «)l' the lilziclilnery parts Will soon stop working right. Ulll‘ frame

is made of solid oak—every piece is carefully select-





ed, every piece well seasoned. It is braced and

trussed by steel rods.so that it is always Square and

always level,all the time and under all condi-

tions. There is no other wood as good as

Oak.for this purposeand there is ab.

solutcly no other frame equal

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The Lakeview Corn Improvement Asso- m 't.

elation held a very successful corn shigw, 8 0‘ Send for FREE Catalog.

winter fair and institute meeting dur ng o confident are we that our machine will stand on its merltathat w r

the three days of January 11-13, inciu— Manure Snreadertobe,and to do.all that we claim tor it tnourapr'eader e 8‘18 Integthe :pnleton

sive. There was a good display of the book. Thisbook of facts is treeto you. Send torlttoday. Minnezzzclise’.Min-. Stevillebtllilcgliiktfhé‘imgteel





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leading varieties of corn grown in the

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community, as well as junior classes and

a class for "school corn,” grown by the

school children. There was also a gen-

eral exhibit of small grains. as well as





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fancy work made by the ladies. The show ur 0: peratlve an;





and meetings were held in the spacious

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auditorium in the village of Lakeview,



and at “the institute meetings var- ————————-—~ Mm .

ious topics. relating to agriculture in gen- :

eral, as well as to corn in particular,

were presented by various speakers, in- .

eluding a representative of M. A. C. and

a member of the Michigan Farmer edi- ‘

torial staff. It was estimated that the ‘

largest attendance at any meeting reached



largest and most progressive of the local ON I HE FARM

700 people. while 500 were present at

other sessions and there was a good crowd - ‘ 1 , . .

Tat every session. A banquet held on the 15 he “10% .SiltleuCtory, costs less and offers more ‘ll‘lVillltilgOS to the

ast evening of the series of meetings , , ‘ ‘7 1‘ .. i

was a great success, provision being f‘u‘nler than (”13 “til” H ”h" EggkzllhyaAMllllidxtieBolzllll-‘glgfigill-.ltilvhitillllzlilipl-licis





Intlile for 125 plates and PVPY‘Y seat was ‘ i lucutson stoves absolutely suriass aaniug ever

filled. This association is one of the DOES I I PAY? We can refer ‘ produced- 99""W’m"°d3¥f;”"°°éalal°3-

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LECTURER’S PROGRAM AT STATE

GRANGE.





(Concluded from last week).



In closing 'her annual report the State

Lecturer prepared her audience for the

program which was to follow. this part

of the report reading as follows:



For a number of years it has been cusu

temary at this hour in the session of

State Grange to conducta “Lecturers’

Conference." Instead of taking 11p tech-

nical lecture work problems this year, a

short program has been arranged for

what we call a “Country Life Confer-

ence.” The aim of the three addresses

to follow will be to give some idea of the

scope of the Grange lecture field. The

lecturer who has ltad a vision of his op—

portunity, in the first place. helps his fel-

low neighbors to material things which

are adapted to the best modern farming

and home keeping. In the second place,

the lecturer appreciates that material

things may also support a life of enjoy-

ment and culture quite apart from their

physical life and creature comforts. lie

knows that the man and woman who find

this culture in the open country live

twice as mttch as those do who are blind

and deaf and dulled to all but life‘s toil

and hardnesses. As lecturer he endeav-

ors to lead all people into an apprecia-

tion of the cultural value of country life.

Then, in the third place. gr ttcr than its

material, ‘highcr than its KNIT csthctic

side, the keen-s'ghied lecturer sees the

human side, with all its experiences. its

joys. its sorrows. its temptations and its

triumphs, the immortal possibilities of

life and its reaching out for something

beyond itself—all these he recognizes





and. as best he can, does his humble part

in trying to realize t'hem in the lives of





THE MICHIGAN ‘FARMER.’





Weather is not to be blamed for'prerferri'ngi

city life. There was a. time when this

condition was perhaps unavoidable but

‘tha‘t time has passed. The modern fur-

nace is not expensive and there is little1

excuse for not having the entire





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Lighting systems, also, are now within





the means of most farmers. The bane of:

farm life has long been the difficulty of;

securing help in the house, and the farmer.

who desires to give his family the best!

conditions that his means will allow VVIIIl

welcome any convenience that promises“

to help solve t'his problem. He especially"

advocated the installation of an electric

lighting system since such a system can

lie made to furnish power for such ma—

chines as are now available for the light-

ening of woman’s work. Among such he

mentioned the power washing machine

and the electric fiatiron. Both of these

are in his home and he had no hesitancy

in pronouncing t‘hem successful inventions

and labor—savers of the first rank.





A never-failing water supply in the

farm house is no longer an unfulfilled,

dream of the housewife—it actually exists3

in many modern farm homes. He briefly

described several of the systems now in,

successful operation and stated that}

through the installation of one of these

systems, in connection with a furnace.





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is possible to have ‘hot water at any 10...; A 7 Million ROd Price‘





of the day or night, a fully equipped bath

room and all the conveniences found in?

the best city residence. Mr. Lillie closed1

with a plea to farmers to put more of

their surplus earnings into comforts for

the home instead of into increased acreage‘

as is too often the case. i



The next speaker was Mrs. Dora Hi‘

Stet-ltman. who addressed her remarks,

to the beauty side of farm life and to?

presenting a few of what she called “pic-

tttres in the farm art gallery.” She as-~

sertcd that the great forces are the silent

ones, and that the world is full of beauty

that we see not. Every farm has at least

the picture that would command the at-

tention oi' the trained artistr and in

searching for that picture we learn to 0b-,





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





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friends and neighbors with whome his lot

is cast. In the short talks that will fol—

low, we shall see these three features of

the G'ange lecture field mirrored forth.

It is a field the sight of Which should

prove to any thoughtful person that rural

life, no less than the city slums. has its

difficulties and its possibilities, and its

high call to service.



The first of the three addresses com--

prising this Country Life Conference was

delivered by lion. Colon C. Lillie, who

made a plea for the improvement of the

tural home in a material way. He said

that for many years he had been telling

the farmers of Michigan. from the plat-

form and through the agricultural press,

how to increase the profits from their

itarms, At this time he desired to offer

some suggestions as to ways in which

those profits, or a rcastmablc proportion

of them at least. should be used if the

farmer and his family are to get the most

1111 of life. No held that practically ev-

ery farmer can well afford to spend a

portion of 'his income. in making his home

more convenient and more comfortable;

that farmers. as a class. are altogether

too slow about taking advantage of the

comforts and conveniences which are nOW

within their reach 11111 which a few years

ago were regarded as luxuries. He ad—

mitted that the majority of farmers live

well. that is. they always ’have enough to

eat and to wear. bttt this is not all in life.



Discussing the heating problem he said

that the farm boy who is obliged to OC-

cupy an unheated room in the severest





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Apple Display Seen at State Grange.





serve and appreciate many of the inter—

esting and beautiful things in nature. She

advocated equipping the farm boy or girl

with a good camera. It will prove no;

more expensive than allowing them to

attend five-cent shows. and in their

search for attractive Views they will ac-,

ouirc a knowledge of nature—of her trees,

and birds and flowers—that will cause‘

them to hesitate about leaving the farm.’

Then there, is that great gallery of minia-E

tttrcs. composed mainly of the insect

world. entrance to which may be had

through the aid of a simple hand magniu

tier. The wings of the butterfly were re-;

i‘erred to as the exquisite tapestries on}

the walls 01‘ the farm art gallery. Mrs :

Siockman especially commended suclil

study of the various forms of animal and‘

vegetable life to the women and to other

members of the family who naturally





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Tribune. Bay City. Mich.... .. 2 75 1 85

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“The, Human Side of Farm Life” was

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of Young Men’s Christian Associations.





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Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





NEED OF, AND BENEFITS TO BE DE-

RIVED FROM THE STATE ASSO-

CIATION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.





 





Paper read before the State Association

of Farmers' Clubs by Mr. A. R. Palmer,

of the Columbia Club.



This topic has to do with the very life

of our Association, and I can only wish

that you 'had a better man to handle it.

If there is a reason for its existence we

ought to be able to show it. That there

are many throughout the state who do

not believe it worth supporting, is evident

from the fact that there are so many

Clubs that are not members of our Asso—

ciation, and from the indifference of many

Clubs that are connected with us. It

was in the hope to remove tome of this

indifference that the topic was placed on

the program. We do not come here each

year to have a good social time, merely

to hear good music and fine addresses. If

that were all. we could fill the need else-

where at less trouble and cost.



The need and benefits of organization

have often been advocated and much dis-

cussed- yet there seems a necessity that

this discussion be continued as the great

majority are still oblivious to both a need

and benefit, and have not connected them-

selves with any form of united effort. and

many who 'have, realize the value of such

connection so slightly that they neglect

its claims on- the slightest pretext.



Organization has been defined by Chas.

R. Flint, to be the “bringing together of

interdependent parts into a single organic

whole so that they will work together

with the least possible fl'l(_10n;” and

again. “the highest type of business or-

ganization is the bringing together into

one of the separate littles and making

them work as one.” .



Organization is recognized as the first

requisite for self defense. and for secur-

ing improved methods and needed legis-

lation. Single and alone, man is weak





' and can do little, united and working to~





gethcr he is strong, and few things seem

The need of union has

been long recognized but its successful

attainment has seemed more diflicult

among farmers than any other class.



Says L. H. Bailey: “Farming encour-

ages individualism; isolation breeds inde—

pendence; the restricted means of inter-

course hinders the free exchange of opin—

ions which conduce to oneness of belief

and action. The farmer is often sus—

picious, jealous of leadership. unwilling

to keep the pledges of union. unable to

sink personal views and prejudices." Yet

some progress has been and is being made

toward a oneness of opinion and a will-

ingneSS to work together: and with us

here, the formal organization usually

takes the form of a Grunge or 3. Farmers'

Club.



The primary motive in the life of the

Farmers’ Club. as I see it, is social. The

lrange is organ‘zed on a more formal

plan and its primary idea or motive is

business. In the local Club it is the so-

cial element that has most value and that

holds the Club together. The day of fam-

ily visits which once largely supplied the

social need has nearly passed. (except the

Sunday visiting. of which there is much).

Social life is now found in church func-

tions. in the Clubs and in similar gath—

erings. The social need which the Club

does so much to supply is a very real

one: and the Club meets the need more

completely than does the Grange.



The Club is also an educational force.

It imparts much knowledge to many. and

it reveals and develops the powers and

capabilities of its members. It increases

the intellectual life and force of the com-

munity in which it exists. It affords a

needed outing to 'the farmer. Every life

needs some interest or hobby outs‘de of

the steady grind of the daily life. It in-

spires a greater degree of contentment

with his lot in life. It cultivates a regard

for appearances leads a man to improve

and beautify his home and its surrOund—

ings—and his own person. It makes him

a better farmer and more of a man. The

hints and suggestions received are often

of financial value.



Then the Club has a business and polit-

ical value.



Co-operation in buying and selling has

not been developed to any extent but

there are possibilities in that direction.

More attention has been given to political

matters, ‘and the Clubs have not been





THE -MI_CHIGAN FARMER.





without some influence upon legislation,‘





in the township, in the counties, and in

the state as a whole.



It is here that the need of a state or-

ganization begins to appear. A single

person can do little. He may lift voice

and pen and by word and press get a

hearing, but unless others will follow his

lead it will result in little. But in union

there is strength and the larger the union

the greater the influence in a constantly

increasing ratio. A few scattered Clubs

here and there can do little. Each work--

ing by itself and alone has little force

outside of its own community. There is

need of some central body which shall

gather up and unite the force of all of the

separate units in one. and shall furnish

the lenders drawn from many sources. to

wield it effectively; then it may become

a power capable of effecting much.



The need of such a central body is seen

and recognized by all organized societies.

Political parties. churches, Vlabor organi—

zations, business men. bankers dealers

of all kinds, professional men, mail car—

riers, even the women‘s clubs, have their

federated bodies. or county, state and na-

tional societies. There is the same need

of such an organization by the Clubs. It

is only the carrying out of the plan that

has been found to work best in our or-

ganization as a government. The town-

ship and municipal units are brought to-

gether in counties. the counties in states.

and the states in a nat‘on. So the local

unions are brought together in county or

state societies, and in the state in na-

tional and international organizations.

The formation of separate local organiza-

tions is only part of the work. To attain

their full usefulness they must be com-

b‘ned so that they may mutually help each

other. and that their influence may be

massed and wielded as one. Hence the

occasion and the need of this State Asso-

ciation.



To speak briefly of the benefits derived

from the State Association, its existence

is a help to the local Clubs both directly

and indirectly. It affords the local Club

an additional motive and incentive to

keep up its organization and meetings.

The reports that are called for. the dele-

gates that are expected. the desire of the

local Club to do its part in the general

state work. the knowledge that they are

only one amongr many organizations of

the same kind, the return of the delegates

from the slate meeting filled with new

enthusiasm; all help to overcome dis-

couragement and inspire persistence in

keeping up the meetings of the Club. A

desire to make a good showing in tlic

annudi repoits. and even a sp'rit of rival-

ry among the different Clubs,

much to inspire a vigorous life.



It affords the more ambitious members

of the local Club an opportunity to

tend their labor andinfluence by becom-





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ing workers in the State Association, and;





it may excite their ambition to do this.



It acquaints the local Club with

methods of other Clubs. some

may be adapted to their own use. There

is probably not a Club in the state that

has not been directly benefited by some

of the ideas and methods brought out in

the reports from the Clubs in these annual

meetings.



It helps to bring about unity of action,





of thought, of discussion and of method,

have‘





and those methods the ones that

been found to be the best. Subjects are

suggested for discussion. ideas advanced,

go from one Club to another, until upon

many subjects. and more especially upon

those embodied in our resolutions, there

grows up a practical unanimity of opinion

among all. ,



It brings members together from dif-

ferent parts of the state widens their ac-

quaintance with people, with condit'ons,

with difficulties, and with the means of

success. Many acquaintances are made

here that are of lifelong value. not only





to the individual himself, but often to

the community and the state. The indi-

vidual is the better prepared to do his





duty as a citizen from his wider acquaint-

ance with men and With the leaders of

thought and influence.



It is an educational force. The ad-

dresses at the state meeting are usually

of a high order of excellence. and often

are from experts in the subject of which





they treat. Those taking part are in-‘

spired to do their best. Contact with

men of wider knowledge and broader





training reveals to us our own deficiencies

and leads to a struggle to remedy them.



Finally, and perhaps chiefly. the State

Association brings the influence of the

local Clubs, and of the farmers 01' the

state to a focus and greatly increases

their power in all affairs of a public na-

ture. There is no organization in the

state better fitted to express the free and

untrammeied sentiment of the farmers of

the state than this, and only one. the

Grange. that can compare with it. If the

Clubs and Club members of the state de-

sire to influence legislation, to promote

reform. to elevate rural life, to inaugurate

an era of better living. it is largely

through this organization that it must be

brought about. The Association is. ours.

Itmdepends upon us to make it what we

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.





Grains and Seeds.





Wheat.—~At prescnt there is much un-

certainty in wheat circles as to the fu-

ture of the market. it is not known

whether heavy holders in Chicago have

a controling grip on the market or not;

many believe they have. The tendency

of prices this past week have been down-

ward, but the reactiott Tuesday, with a.





 





general feeling of strength leaves the

trade rather encouraging to sellers.





Stocks in the northwest are decreasing,

the situation in the southwest continues

to be serious. while news from abroad





shows a diminislted world movement;

but just now there is a liberal amount

afloat. Argentine shipments are not





bulky. The situation makes buyers un-

easy and tends to encourage sellers to

hold onto their stores. .luly option did

not suffer the margin of decline that

cash goods did and has recovered all the

decline of the week. One year ago the

price for No. 2 red wheat was $1.24 per

bu. Quotations for the week are:

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Red. \Vhite. Ma y. July.

Thursday . .99 .98 1.03 3;; .99

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blonday .9734 36%





Tuesday ..... .981); .9734 1.03% .90

\Vednesday .931}; .9734 1.03%,» .99





Corn—Largely upon the news thatAr-

gentine is having a poor yield of corn,

there was a stiffening in Chiago prices

Tuesday, although the feeling was not

reflected in values here in Detroit. The

bulls are made happy at the outlook and

hope they will succeed in raising quo-

tations. Some cables stated that unless

the drought is soon broken Argentine

will have no corn to export. Should

this be even approximately correct, it is

certain to have a decided influence on

future price making here. The amount

of feeding in the country is, large and the

demand from that source is good, One

year ago the price for No. 3 corn was

67c per bu. Quotations for the week





ar :

6 No.3 No. 3

( orn Yellow.

Thursday 4s 40

Friday ....... 45 49

Saturday ...... 4S 49

Monday ...... 471,1: 481/2

Tuesday ........ 471,1; 481/3

'\\'ednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 48 49





Oats—The local oat market shows no

encouraging sympoms to those having

the grain to sell; there appears to be a

fairly good supply in country granaries.

Pries are not. very buoyant and appear

more likely to sink lower than to soar

above the present basis. Following are

the leading quotations for the week:





Standard. No. 3



\Vhite.



Thursday 35% 35

Friday 351/; 3:)

Saturday ................. 351/2 3.;

Monday 35 5341/2

71:551an 343/; 341,;

\Vednesday ....... . 34?; 341,;





Beans.——The same figures mark the

quotations of this week as were used a

week ago and the conditions of the trade

are unchanged from then. The prices

given out are nominal. no trading of mo-

ment being reported upon llll' market





here. Following are the (ltltllaliOnSZ

(.‘ash. Jan.

Thursday $30”) $2.10

Friday ... . . . . ............. 2.05 2.10

Saturday ................. 2.05 2.10

l’Ionday ................... 2.05 2.10

Tuesday .................. 2.05 2.10

\Vednesday ................ 2.05 2.10





Cloverseed.—~A ten cent delinc has oc-

curred in the common clovcrseed market

and steadyoprices prevail for alsike. Deu

spite the little changes in prices the

trade has.continucd active the past week

and considerable seed is changing hands.

The present condition rather forcasts

that farmers not having seed for spring

use will probably have to give a good

price should they wait till the seed is

needed before purchasing. Following are

the quotations for the week:





Prime Spot. Mar. Alsikc.



Thursday ........$0.10 $9.15 $9.10

Friday ........... 9.00 9.0.1 9,10

Saturday 9.00 9.05 9.10

Monday .......... 9.00 9.05 9.10

Tuesday ......... 9.00 9.05 9.10

\chnesday ...... 9.00 9.05 9.10

Barley. There is a slight improvement





 





in barley circles for the seller. the price

having gone to $1.00612.00 per cwl.



Rye—There continues to be a lack of



interest here and the deal is dull and a



little lower than a week ago, the price

now being 841/2C for No. 1 rye.

Visible Supply of Grains.



This week. Last week





Xi'heat . . .......... 42.297.000 43.920000

(‘orn . . ............ 6.893.000 6.527.000

flats ............... 15.045.000 15.592000



1N0 ..................... 4R2 O00

l’urley ............. . . . 1,758,000





Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.





Float—The flour trade is easy with

prices unchanged. Quotations are:





lear $465

Sitaight .............. ..... .. . 4.65

Patent Michigan ........ . . . ..... 5.20

Ordinary Patent .................... 4.75

Hay and Straw.—Hay values are





steady. Quotations on baled hay in car

lots f. o. b. Detroit are: No. 1 timothy,

15165061317; No_ 2 timothy, $15.50@16; clo-

ver. mixed. 6155061716; rye straw, $7@

17.50; wheat and oat: straw, $6606.50 per

on.



Feed.~Market is unchanged. Carlot prices

on track are: Bran. $25 per 'ton;

coarse middlings, $26; fine middlings, $26;





THE, MICHIGAN FARM-BR.





7,164,910 for

spending period in 1910.

the same periods were 1,724.746 and 6.-

864.209 lbs. respectively for this year and





cracked corn, $23: coarse corn meal, $23;

‘corn and eat chop, $21 per ton.



Potatoes—There is nothing to cheer

potato growers, as -conditi0ns remain un~

altered and prices are steady with a

week ago. In car lots Michigan potatoes

are selling at 37617400 per bu.



Provisions—Family pork, $236fl‘24: mess

pork, $23; medium clear, $20.50@21.50;

smoked hams. 141/261‘150; briskets, 131/2c;

shoulders, 3c; picnic hams, 13c; bacon.

1,8611%; pttre lard in tierces. 1114c; ket-

tle rendered lard, 121/40.



Dairy and Poultry Products.



Butter.~The slump in butter noted last

week was followcd by another 01' larger

proportions this week. Elgin 10st 2 cents.

Chicago four cents. the. local market two

cents and New York a cent. It appears

that heavy holders of storage butter de~

sire to get their goods into the, hands of

consumers as rapidly as possible and

they are doing this by cutting prices.

Ext‘a creamery is quoted at 271/20; firsts,

25c; dairy, 19c; packing stock, 15c pcrlb.



Eggs—Hens are beginning to lay anal

hen owners are sending the first fruits

of the year to market to gather the good

prices that are now being offered, with

the result that price reductions are be-

ing made. Here fresh receipts. case

cottnt. cases included. are quoted at 2370

per doz.. which is 3%,c below the price of

last week.



Pottltt‘y.~—A better demand for chickens

has advanced prices for both dressed and

live birds of that kind. Other classes of

poultry remain about steady with not

mttch activity. Quotations are: Dressed

~Turkeyls. 20@23c; chickens. 1561,151/2c;

fowls. 1461‘1141/2c; ducks, 18c: geese. 1461)

15c per lb. Live—Spring chickens. 1461)

141/20; fowls. 13@131/2c; old roosters. 9c;

turkeys, 141G200; geese, 1361;14c; ducks,

146115c per 1b.



Cheese.~Michigan, 17c; Michigan sharp,

1761;181/2c: York state, 171/26118c; York

state sharp, 190; limburger, old, 1661‘17c;

Swiss domestic block, 20@22c; cream

brick, 17617180. '



Dressed Pork.—Price is higher at 10617

101,.«.’_.c per lb.



Vea|.—~Market steady. Choice, 12@

1315,71; ordinary. 86(110c per lb.



Rabbits.—~Stcady. Per dozen, $1.75.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Apples—Market is quiet and steady.

Fancy greenings are quoted at $52560

5.7.0; Kings, 3952560550; Baldwins. $4.50;

Steel reds, $6; ordinary grades, $3613.50

per bbl.



Cranberries—Steady.

per bu.



Cabbage «Steady. Selling at $1.75 per

l‘l-l. for new.



Onions—Easy and lower. 80@85c bu.



Honey.—Choice to fancy comb~ 1564170

per lb.





Quoted at $3.25





 





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.

The Chicago slump in burter and eggs





have affected this and other markets.

Creamery butter has dropped 2c since

last week dealers paying 261/20 Dairy





is worth 220. The, price of storage eggs

is 230. while fresh eggs are quoted at

26fl27c. Potatoes are doing a little bet--

er. the price paid in this section being

around 250, while the Greenville district

is paying 2861300 The movement is light.

The bean market is unchanged. white

beans remaining on $1.75 basis while red

kidneys are worth $150623. Poultry and

veal are unchanged. Dressed ltogs are

bringing 91/260100





Chicago.





“'heat.~N0. 2 red. 98%@9997;c; May,

51.01%; July, 97c per bu.



Corn—No. 2. 461/2@47c; May, '5013c;

July. 51-340 per bu.



Oats—No. 2 white, 33%@33§4c; May,





35c: .luly', 3455.10.

Barley.—Malting grades,

btt: feeding 70@80c.

Bttttcr.——'I‘he sharp reduction at Elgin

on Monday caused this market to slump

badly and top grades of creamery are

quoted .‘lc lower. However,'the reduction

has stimulated interest in the market

and this, with the colder weather ruling

this week would seem to make a reac-

tion probable. Quotations now are:

(‘rcamerics 1760250; dairies. 106122c.

Eggs—The quality of miscellaneous

receipts is showing so mttch improve-

ment that quotations on this grade have

made a good advance while the higher

grades have declined 2 to 3c. The trade

appears to be banking on lighter reeipts





86@97c per-





bccausc of colder weather. but this

seems rather improbable. Quotations;

l’rintc firsts. 26c: firsts. 27c: at mark.





cases included. 22fit26c per doz.



Potatoes.—~The improved demand not-

ed last week has carried prices up sev-

eral cents. Receipts the past week about.

even with last year. ("hoice to fancy

oootcd at 466i«4Rc per bu; fair to good.

1261450



mans—Market steady with last week’s

advance well maintained. T’ea beans

choice hand-picked. are quoted at $21560

2.18 per bu: prime, $2.0561'2.10; red kid-

neys. $2.756?3.50. .



Hay and t1‘aw.—-Rye straw and all

grades of hay are 50c per ton higher. with





market ruling strong. Quotations now

are: (‘hoice timothy. $19.5061i20; No, 1

timothy. $1R6F19c; No, 2 do, and No. 1





mixed, 31650671750: No. 3 do. and No_ 2

mixed. $126016; rye straw. $750678: oat

straw. $7617.50; wheat straw, $6@‘6.50

per ton.



Boston.



\Vool.—Not only more manufacturers

are calling upon the brokers for wool but

larger amounts are being asked for.

\Vhile territory wools are popular and

are being given the greater part of the





buyer’s attenfion. fleeces have an in-

creased intercst for manufacturers this

week and prices show a tendency to

harden. Sales of delaine are going at





340 for washed and 270 to 28c for un-

washed. Shipments of wool from Bos-





ton for the year up to January 12 in-

clusive amounted 0 6,187,085 pounds as





compared with the corre-





The receipts for





last year. The 'movement and the urg-

tut-y with which manufacturers a. -

ing hold of the trade are promising.





New York.



Butter.—The market is steady at lower

prices. Creamery specials are quoted at

28c; extras, 26c; thirds to firsts, 19@

241/212 per dozen.





Eggs—The freedom of storage offeru

lugs and the coming of liberal quanti-





ties of fresh eggs had a bearish effect

upon last week's market. The quotations

are lower. Nearby eggs quoted at 3461)

:15c: fresh gathered extras. 281/26029c;

titsts. 28c; refrigerator stock, 2111/2611249’212

per dozen.

Poultry.—-Dressed——\\'estern

l»l‘.i.61191,;’;c;

(11330.





, chickens,

fowls, 15671734“; turkeys, 18





Elgin.



Button—Trade iirtn at 270 per lb..

which is 2c below the quotation of last

week. Output for the week. 557,600 lbs.

as compared with 574,600 lbs. for the pre-

vious week.



THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

January 16, 1911.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens.

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as fol-

lows: Cattle. 125 cars; hogs, 12,000;

sheep and lambsp15.400; calves. 950.



125 loads of cattle on our market here

today, which Chicago reported 36,000 and

lower on all steer cattle of 1,200 lbs.

and, the market was only steady to strong

with last week. The butcher grades all

sold from 1061150 per hundred weight

higher.



\\'c quote: Best 1.300 to 1.400-lb. steers

$6.506: 6.75; good prime 1200 to 1.300-11).

steers, $5.85616.40; best 1.100 to 1.200-11’).

shipping steers, $5.50616.25; medium

butcher steers, 1,000 to 1.100 lbs., $5.50?!)

6; light butcher steers. $4.856p525; best

fat cows, $4.75615.‘_’5; fair to good do..

$3.8561»l.50; common to medium do, $3.50

614; trimmers. $2.75613.25; best fat heif-

ers $5.506:13.25; good fat heifers, $56?

5.50; fair to good do.. $4.5(l61,‘4.75; stock

heifers, 325613.50; best feeding steers,

deltorncd, $1.50614.75; medium to good do.

$4614.25; stockers. all grades. $375604;

best bulls. $5615.50: bologna bulls, $4.25

614.75; stock bulls. $4614.25; best milkers

and springcrs. $506160: good to best (10.,

$406150; common to good do., .$25@35.



impossible to sell late springers at any

kind of satisfactory prices; have to be

sold by the pound.



(JllI‘ hog market today opened steady

to a nickel higher than Saturday's best

time. Closing up strong with the open-

ing. with a good clearance. Prospects

look fair for the near future.



\Ye quote: Heavies $8.05618.15; mixed

and medium. $8.25618.35; yorkers, 1.18.4061?

8.50; pigs and lights. $8,756,118.85; roughs,

$7.15617.25; stags. $6606.75.



The lamb market opened active today;

most; of the choice handy lambs selling

at $6.70610.75.

Heavy lambs a little more active today,

although lambs weighing around 90 lbs.

were rather slow sale: this class selling

around $t3.1561‘6.25. generally; few catch

sales at 5365061655. These prices are not

safe. as with liberal supplies, lambs

weighing around 90 lbs. would not bring

over $0616.15. Look for lower prices on

lambs after \Vcdncsday. Sheep market

was active today; most of the cnoice

ewes selling at $1.50614.75; wethers. $4.75

615. Look for about steady prices on

sheep balance of week.



We quote: Iicst handy lambs. $670617

6.75; heavy lambs, $5.506175.75; bucks $3@

3.75; heavy ewes, $4.2561‘4.75; yearlings,

$5615.75; wethers, $4.756115; cull sheep,

175613.75; handy ewes. $4.50@4.75; nor-

thern l\'lichigan lambs. $6616.25; veals.

choice to extra. $10.5067211; fair to good

do, $7.50@10; heavy calves, $5636.50.



Chicago.

January 16, 1911.





Cattle. llogs. Sheen.

Received today ...... 37.000 37.000 23.000

Same day last year..28,0.\‘5 34.265 29.030





Received last week..501770 157.406 100,471)

Same week last year.liii.90.\‘ 152.294 81.187



The week starts off with rather too

many cattle, although the general demand

is pretty good. especially for butcher

stock. which is going at steady prices.

ioth prime heavy beeves and fancy

_vcarlings are Selling up to $7. bttt part

of the steers are called a dime lower,

This follows last week’s advance of 1061)

20c, heavies having shown the most gain,

Hogs are up 5c today. with an active de-

mand at $175618. following last week‘s

decline of 1061‘25c. The. remarkably

narrow range of prices is due to the uni-

formly good quality of tltc offerings. Last

week's receipts averaged in weight 224

lbs, compared with 208 lbs. a year ago,

202 lbs. two years ago and 214 lbs. three

years ago. Sheep and lambs. which de—

clined last week 106i25c; are about steady

today with a good general demand. lambs

being salable at $4.506116.50. wethers at

$360674“), ewes at $275614, bucks at

$2.50603.25 and ycarlings at $4.50@5.50.

The weather is colder and more favor-

able for the, consumption of mutton.





More yearlings have shown up of late

than ever before in January and this





hurts the sale of' the heavier lambs.

There is a fair call for breeding ewes.

and yearlings of this class are bringing

394150605 readily. Iowa sheep feeders are

in today in fair numbers and report large

numbers of sheep and lambs feeding and

some of them report an increase .in

breeding operations.



Cattle began last week with an over-

supply and 10617150 lower prices, the Mon-

day run exceeding 31.000 head, but later

in the week there were good advances

on greatly lessened receipts, and fat cows





Heavy lambs, $5.506115.7‘5.-





JAN. 21,‘ '1911.‘ l





and heifers sold especially well, sales on

Thursday of these being largely 250 high-

er than on Monday. Beef steers sold dur-

ing the week chiefly at $5.50@6.60,' with

the commoner lots of light—weight steers

bringing $4.6561i5.50, while the better class

of weighty cattle brought $6.20@7. Pack-

ers wanted a good many cattle of the

medium ‘class selling around 315.60.61.7615:

and here was a good call for cows and

heifers at $3.506116.25, with not many sell-

ing near the top; however, while canners

sold at $2.256_1=2.85, cutters at $2.90@3.43

and bulls at $3.20@3.50. Calves shot up

once more under an active demand, bring-

ing $3.7561'10. and milkers and springers

were scarcer and higher, with a good

eastern shipping inquiry at $306175 per

head. Stockers and feeders were in

stronger position titan ever, with inade-

quate offerings and a big demand from

feeding districts all around Chicago.

Stockers went at $4605.65, feeders at $5.10

6116 and stock and feeder heifers at $3.60

(($4.60. These prices are abnormally high

and are relatively much above the prices

paid for beef cattle. Perhaps those who

are going to prepare them for the market

will come out _with satisfactory profits,

but they are certainly assuming big

chances. rendering the industry altogether

too speculative. However, the supply of

cattle available for feeding is short, and

farmers should begin to breed their own

beef cattle. The range cattle are no

longer available in any large numbers.

as ranges are being cut up into small

farms, and farmers are not. taking any

active steps to breed cattle. Those who

begin now to breed high-grade cattle.

with the view of marketing prime little

yearlings will stand a fine chance of mak-

ing substantial profits in the end.



Hogs came to market last week much

more freely, the. recent boom that sent

the better class up to $8608.25 encourag-

ing many farmers to make quick ship-

ments. The Monday receipts were nearly

43,000 hogs, which was much the largest

supply seen in a long titne, and naturally

prices began a decline which lasted until

Thursday, when curtailed receipts brought

about an early small advance, that dis—

appeared before the day was over. Last

spring’s pigs are arriving at marketable

weights, and if market prices suit own-

ers, there will undoubtedly be larger

receipts from now on. The lighter hogs

are now prime favorites with most buy-

ers. causing them to sell at the highest

prices. while very heavy swine are slow

and go at a big discount. Pigs have





been scarce and sold higher than hogs'





when. they were nearly of. light 110g

weigl‘tts. Small packers have been good

buyers, and so have. eastern shippers,

bttt for all that a good many hogs were

left unsold some days. Hogs have con-

tinued to average extremely well in qual-

ity and weight. and it is evident that corn

has been fed lavishly, its abundance and

cheapness leading farmers to shovel it

ottt liberally. The consumption of pro-

visions is greatly checked still by high

prices.



Sheep and lambs have been sent to

market freely for a week past, and buy—

ers discriminated to a greater extent

than heretofore against heavy weights.

Light and handy weights of lambs. year—

lings and sheep were mainly called for,

except now and then when an export or-

der called fer heavy wethers, such as the

137-113. lots that sold on Monday at $4.35.

Numerous shecpmen have made the great

mistake of holding their lambs too long

because they hoped to make larger prof-

its by feeding plenty of corn. but the

results were disastrous. 0n recent days

when choice light lambs were selling for

$6.50 per 100 lbs., lambs weighing 100 lbs.

and over sold at $5.25 and under. and

more sold at $5 than at any other price.

Stormy weather has been a big influence

in marketing sheep and lambs, while the

abnormally warm weather that followed

greatly checked the consumption of mut-

ton throughout the east. where mttch of

the western product finds a final market.



Horses have been marketed too freely

this month so far. receipts running much

larger than a year ago. and sellers state

that some recent sales of good horses

wcre as much as $50 per head lower than

prices of a year ago. Drafters have sold

at $17561‘5100 for medittm to fancy grades.

expressers at $16561‘215, feeders at $1606?)

210 and drivers on a basis of $15061300.

Small southern chunks have been espec-

ially active at 3560617125, with sales mainly

at $75@100. F.





LIVE—SEBCK NOT-ES.





It is learned that there are numerous

sheep sheds in Michigan that are, still

empty. and this explains the persistent

demand from that great sheep state for

feeding lambs. Occasionally. there is a

consignment inthhe (,‘lticago market of a

bttnch of westcr range lambs from some

stockman in Illinois, Iowa or Missouri

that is only half-fat, and in such a case

some Michigan shcepman is almost cer—

tain to show 111‘1 mam- to bid in the lot

and ready 10 1131' "d R'OOd round price for

them. The season has been so phenome~

n:tll_v mild and favorable for feeding

flocks. and corn and forage have been so

plentiful and cheap that sheepmcn have

been making their stock fat, and feeders

are now few and far between in the west-

ern markets.



There is nearly everywhere a strong

demand among the farmers for stock

Digs. but not many are. offered for sale

by owners. the average farmer preferring

to fatten them himself. XVithin a short

time stock hogs that tipped the scales

at 170 lbs. have been purchased for $8

per 100 lbs.



Charles Adkins. of Illinois, who has

been elected as speaker for the legisla-

ture of Illinois at Springfield. has a wide

reputation as a highly successful Short-

horn breeder, having acquired his reputa-

tion for the superiority of his stock on the

state fair circuit. Mr. Adkins is the first

live stock breeder who has held the gavel

in the Illinois legislature.
“him-wags» my a... Manure... . .. .. ..,





JANer. 1911.





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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Thursday’s Market.



January 12, 1911.

Cattle.

Market steady at last





Receipts. 1.037. ,

and a, good, active





Thursday’s prices

trade. _



We quote: Best steers and heifers,

$5.75@6.20; steers and heifers, 1,000 to

1,200, $5.50@5.75; steers and heifers, 800

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

are fat, 500 ‘to 700, $4.25@5; choice fat

cows, $4.50; good fat cows. $4694.25; com-

mon cows, $3.25@3.50; canners, $2.50@3;

choice heavy bulls, $4.75; fair to good

bolognas, bulls, $4@4.50; choice feeding

steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@5; fair feeding

steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.25@4.50; chmce

stockers, 500 to 700, $4.25@4.50; fair stock-





ers, 500 to 700, $4@4.25; milkers, large,

young, medium age, $40@60; common

milkers, $25@35.





Spicer & R. sold Newton B. Co. 4 steers

av 985 at $5.50, 9 do av 960 at $5.50, 2-do

av 720 at $5.25, 1 bull weighing 1,380 at

$4.50, 4 do av 912 at $4.50, 3 cows av 1,210

at $3.75, 4 steers and heifers av 760 at

$4.75, 1 cow weighing 1,130 at $3.75; to

Kull 1 do weighing 880 at $4, 5 heifers av

730 at $4.80, 4 cows av 1.080 at $4, 2

steers av 865 at $5; to Mich. B. Co. 31 do

av 850 at $5, 28 do av 880 at $5, 1 co_w

weighing 950 at $4, 1 bull weighing 1,340

at $4.75; to Goodwin 6 cows av 1,123 at

$4; to Sullivan P. Co. 12 butchers av 691

at $4.50, 1 bull weighing 1,220 at $4.50. 4

cows av 1,045 at $4; to Thompson Bros.

9 do av 992 at $3.75, 1 heifer weighing 800

at $4.50; to Bresnahan 8 do av 430 at $4;

to Goose 3 cows av 953 at $4.15, 1 do

weighing 920 at $3.25;

heifers av 493 at $4.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 cow

weighing 800 at $3, 4 do av 942 at $4. 2

bulls av 975 at $4.50; to Newton B. Co.

8 steers av 1,030 at $5.25, 8 butchers av

695 at $4.50, 3 cows av 970 at $3.75, 2 do

av 1,015 at $3. ‘



Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co.‘_7

cows av 917 at $4.25, 3 do av 983 at $3.35,

1 do weighing 750 at $3; to Hammond. S.

& Co. 9 steers av 900 at $5.35, 1 do weigh—

ing 820 at $4.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 can-

ners av 770 at $2.75, 6 cows and bulls av

1,125 at $4. 9 butchers av 696 at $4.20, 12

cows av 800 at $3, 9 steers av 866 at $5.25,

4 butchers av 637 at $4.25, 6 cows av 926

at $4.40, 1 canner weighing 770 at $2.75;

to Kull 29 butchers av 920 at $5.2"; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 2 steers av 915 at

$5.25, 2 cows av 925 at $3.25; to Newton

B. Co. 7. do av 907 at $4.25; to 13121102131“

10 cows av 1,055 at $4.40; to Kamman

B. Co. 20 steers av 981 at $5.40; to Mich.

B. Co. 19 do av 830 at $4.90; to Ham-

mond, S. & Co. 3 do av 937 at $5.35, 3 do

av 960 at $4.75, 2 do av 900 at $5.25, 2

bulls av 885 at $4.25, 1 d0 weighing 1 270

at $4.75, 1 do weighing 1,630 at $4.75, 4

cows av 812 at $3.25, 4 do av 1,030 at

$4.25, 3 do av 800 at $3.25; to Sullivan 1’.

Co. 2 steers av 1,030 at $5.75, 2 heifers

av 650 at $4.25, 1 bull weighing 1,240 at

$4.50, 7 cows av 880 at $3, 5 do av 1.200

at $4.60, 2 do av 950 at $3.25, 2 steers av

950 at $5.50, 6 do av 683 at $5, 2 bulls av

850 at $4.25; to Hammond, S. & C0.

steers av 1,086 at $6.20.



Haley & M. sold Kamman B. Co. 5

steers av 744 at $5; to Golden 6 butchers

av 928 at $4.75, 1 steer weighing 800 at

$5; to Newton B. Co. 6 do av 751 at $4.75,

1 cow weighing 1,050 at $3; to Heinrich

11 butchers av 920 at $5.10; to Marx 11

do av 934 at $5.10.



Lowenstein sold Mich. B. Co. 2 cows

av 1,055 at $4, 1 do weighing 900 at $3.



Allington sold Lingeman 13 butchem av

770 at $3.50.



Bohm sold Kammun 1 cow weighing

1010 at $3.25, 1 heifer weighing 750 at

$4.25, 2 steers av 1.030 at $5.



Johnson sold Newton B. Co. 13 butch-

ers av 815 at $4.50, 3 cows av 1,020 at





Veal Calves.





Receipts, 522. Market steady at last,

Thursday’s prices. Best, $9@9.50; oth-

ers. $4@8.50; milch cows and springers

steady.





Kendall sold Newton B. Co. 5 av 95 at

$6, 15 av 130 at $8.50, 12 av 140 at $9.10,

10 av 142 at $9.10.



Robb sold Mich. 8. Co. 2 av 115 at $8.50.



Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 14 av

140 at $8.60. ‘



McLaughlin sold Hammond, S. & C0.

2 av 160 at $9, 2 av 110 at $8.



Leach sold Burnstine 3 av 100 at .57. 5

av 160 at $8.50.



Chase sold same 2 av 160 at $8.



BiShOD. 3- & H. SOld Sullivan P. CO.

2 av 90 at $7, 1 weighing 220 at $4.50, 7

av 155 at $9. 2 av 95 at $7, 2 av 130 at

$9; to Parker, W. & Co. 6 av 140 at $9,

2 av 140 at $9.50, 7 av 150 at $9.50, 21 av

140 at $9.25.



Spicer & R. sold McGuire 8 av 125 at

$7, 3 av 125 at $9.25; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 3 av 140 at $9, 12 av 135 at $9; to

Goose 2 av 110 at $8; to Burnstine 4 av

150 at $9.25; to Goose 6 av 180 at $8; to

Hammond, S. & C0. 6 av 125 at $8.65, 2

av 135 at $8.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 4 av

130 at $8, 1 weighing 160 at $7.50, 2 .av

160 at $7, 6 av 165 at $8.50.



Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts, 6,245. Market 15@25c lower

than last Thursday; steady with Wed-

nesday.





Best lambs. $6: heavy lambs, $5@5.25;

light to common lambs, $4.50@5.50; fair





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to good sheep, $3.25@4; culls and com-

mon, $2.50@3.



Peabody sold Nagie P. Co. 60 lambs av

95 at $5.65.



Robb sold Mich. B. Co. 52 lambs av 85

at $5.50, 9 sheep av 140 at $3.50.



”Boyle sold same 16 sheep av 100 at



.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. E. Co. 173

lambs av 85 at $6; to Thompson Bros. 8

sheep av 140 at $3.50.



Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. 8: Co.

40 lambs av 75 at $6, 59 do av' 65 at $6,

7 do av 75 at $6, 16 do av 85 at $6, 7

sheep av 100 at $3.50, 3 do av 140 at $3.25;

to Nagle P. Co. 6 lambs av 65 at $5, 72

do av 85 at $6, 71 do av 120 at $4.10; to

Thompson Bros. 38 do av 80 at $6; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 10 sheep av 126 at

$3.75; to Newton B. Co. 71 lambs av 90

at $6.10: to Fitzpatrick Bros. 17 sheep av

120 at $4, 33 do av 110 at $3.50.



Haley & M. sold Nagle P. Co. 73 lambs

av 95 at $5.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 29 do

av 75 at $6.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 6

sheep av 115 at $3.25, 18 do av 95 at $3.50,

16 lambs av 53 at $5.50 43 do av 85 at

$6, 24 sheep av 120 at $3.50, 30 lambs av

70 at $5.75, 40 do av 60 at $5.50; to

Parker, W. & Co. 50 do av 83 at $5.90; to

Newton B. Co. 164 do av 90 at $6, 19 do

av 110 at $5.25, 162 do av 87 at $6; to

Nagle P. Co. 30 do av 105 at $5.25. 588

do av 80 at $6, 131 do av 85 at $5.75, 10

do av 60 at $5; to Mich. B. Co. 41 sheep

av 110 at $3.65; to Sullivan P. CO. 19

lambs av 50 at $5.50; to Mich. B. Co. ‘59

do av 65 at $5.25; to Nagle P. Co. 321 do

av 80 at $5.75, 162 do av 80 at $6, 153 do

av 73 at $5.50, 9 do av 80 at $5.25, 8 do

av 50 at $5. 68 do av 80 at $6; to Fitz—

patrick Bros. 10 do av 96 at $5, 7 do av

90 at $6, 17 sheep av 100 at $3.75.





H093.



Receipts, 3,236. Market 20c lower than

last Thursday.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $8; pigs, $8; light yorkers, $8; stags

one-third off.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.

2,280 av 180 at $8.



Haley & M. sold same 640 av 180 at $8.



Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

535 av 190 at $8.



Sggdry shippers sold same 910 av 185

at .



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 577

av 200 at $8.





 





Friday’s Market.





January 13, 1911.

Cattle.



Receipts, this week, 1,298; last week.

907. Market strong at Thursday's prices.



We quote: Best steers and heifers. $6

@650; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1.200,

$5.50@5.75; steers and heifers,, 800 to

1.000, $5@5.50; steers and heifers that are

fat 500 ‘to 700, $4.25@5; choice fat cows,

$4.50; good fat cows, $4@4.25; common

cows, $3.25@3.'50; canners, $2.75@3.15;

choice heavy bulls, $4.75; fair to good bo-

logna bulls, $4@4.50; choice feeding steers

800 to 1,000, $4.50@5; fair feeding steers,

800 to 1.000, $4.25@4.50; choice stockers,

500 to 700, $4.25@4.50; fair stockers,. 500





to 700, $4@4.25; milkers, large, young.

med’um age, $40@60; common milkers,

$25@35.





Veal Calves.

Receipts this weck. 709; last week. 677.





Market steady; best, $9609.50; others,

$4fiz‘850. Milcli cows and springers

steady.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts this week. 8,910; last week,

5.856. Market 15(925c lower than on

Thursday. Bcst lambs, $5.75@5.85; heavy

lambs, $5€z 5.25: light to common lambs,





$4.50(a;5.50; fair to good sheep, $3.25@3.50;

culls and Common, $2.75@3.

Hogs.



Receipts this week, 5,007; last week,

6.895. Market 5c lower than on Thurs-

day.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $7.95; pigs $7.95@8; light yorkers,

$7.95; stags one—third off.





 





A. 11’. Cheney, proprietor of the Clover

Lcaf Stock Farm, and a well-known

breeder of Aberdeen-Angus cattle and

Duroc-Jersey hogs, at Graham, Kansas,

reports a Scarcity of hogs in that region,

and he says it is very hard work getting

cnough hogs to run after the cattle in the

fccd lots. Corn in that part of the coun—

11‘)! was about half a crop and is worth

40c a bushel. The weather has been fine

for stock. but much too dry for winter

wheat. Stock cattle are high in price

and few in numbers.



Attention has been called recently to

the startling falling off in the production

of swine by farmers of this country.

There has been a steady decrease in the

number of hogs in proportion to the Don-

ulation at every census taken since 1850.

The number of hogs per 1,000 people has

been: 1.309 in 1850; 1.066 in 1860; 708 in

1870; 995 in 1880; 913 in 1890; 837 in 1900;

520 in 1910.



The past year saw wonderful fluctua-

tions in cattle prices in the Chicago mar—

ket. The highest prices paid for prime

native beef steers were seen in March

and June, the choicest bringing $8.85 per

100 lbs. The closing month of 1909 wit-

nessed the highest market prices on rec-

ord, prime heavy beevcs fetching at that

time $9.50. Cnlvcs were wonderfully good

sellers most of the year in the Chicago

market. prime light-weight live calves

selling as high as $10.50 per 100 lbs. in

March, a. record-breaking figure.



It seems a pity that so many stalk

fields are going to waste in western Iowa

for want of cattle to fill them, but farm-

ers regard ruling prlccs for good stock

and feeding cattle as dangerously high

and are deferring making purchases un-

til later in hope of a lower scale of prices,



The packers are larger buyers of com-

parativelv_cheap and medium-priced cat-

the in Chicago and other western mar-

kets than usual, as the great dearnesg of

beef in the retail markets of the country

has made a larger demand for beef that

does not come ~too high. Killers have





 





been freezing large quantities of meets

for the future trade, and it takes fewer

prime, high-priced beef cattle to meet

trade requirements than in former years.

There is a marked falling off in the mar-

ketings of choice cattle, the greater part

having been sold by stock feeders, and

this is the only important sustaining in-

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Stifie Lameness.—I turned a two-year-

old filly out to pasture last spring with

other horses; they chased her about t‘he

lot a great deal and she soon showed

stifle lameness. of which she has never





fully recovered. I have applied several

blisters. \Vhen traveling the joint snaps

as if it slips in and out of place. E. A..

G., Elba, Mich.—~Apply one part red

iodide mercury and six or eight parts

cerate of cantharidcs three times a

month.





Nervousness.~'l‘en—year-old mare has a

very strange ailment. “'hen going ahead

she seems to be all right. but backs with

considerable difficulty. It seems to pro-

duce considerable excitement for, after

backing she kicks and stamps, changing

hind feet very often. I have owned her

six months, but have known her for 18

months and she is now in same condition

as when I first knew her. A. A. W., La.-

peer, Mich—Your mare may have in-

jured her back or stifle some time ago.

leaving them weak and. when backing, it

may hurt her. Give her 21 teaspOOnful of

ground nux vomica and a dessertspoonful

of powdered rosin at Ll «lose in feed two

or three times a day. Perhaps you had

better rub stifles with some liniment. such

as one part aqua ammonia. one part tur—

pentine and three or four parts olive oil.





Diseased Molar Tooth—W'art on Eve-

lid.—Ten-year-old mare has had a dis—

charge from one iiOstril for about a year,

but no cough. The lining membranes of

both nostrils are about the same color.

She has had very little treatment. Last

week another of my horses commenced to

discharge from one nostril. Discharge

from both horses has very offensive odor.

A yearling heifer has a wart on her upper

eyelid. H. H.. Bradley,

quite certain the discharge comes from

the root of a diseased upper molar tooth.

You will find a little bulging of the face,

but there may be no decay of the lower

portion of tooth. The offensiveness of

discharge leads me to believe that it is

the result of diseased bone tissue; there—

fore, the only remedy is to extract the

tooth. To remove tooth it may be nec—

essary to trephine through bone of face

and punch tooth into mouth. In my prac-

tice I always remove warts from the eye-

lids with the knife; therefore I suggest

that you cut them off and apply boric

acid to wound daily.



Dandruff—Stallion colt 2179 years old

does not appear Sick but his skin is cov—

ered with dandruff; is inclined to rub

both his mane and tail. P. S., Pewamo,

Mich.——Feed him some well—salted bran

mashes and some roots; also give him a

tablespoonful of bicarbonate soda. a tea—

spoonful of sulphur and two tablespoon-

fuls of powdered charcoal at a dose in

feed two or three times a day. lie should





be groomed well twice daily and exer-

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FRUIT FARM MANAGEMENT.

Two vital forces are most essential to

success in any business. They are prin-

ciple and method. _These fundamentals

are too often left out of consideration in

all lines of agriculture. The old hit-and-

miss methods are rapidly giving way to

the happy combination of brain and

brawn.



Earlier in our agricultural history with

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regular plant and animal enemies, all

kinds of farming flourished with little

thought. Today the fruit man especially

must deal with a soil that has become

more or less exhausted. Fungi and in-

sects are on every hand to carry on their

work of deprcdation and the man who





essays to rank as a fruit producer must

ply well the old adage, “Eternal vigilance

the price of liberty.”



In the management of a fruit farm.

principle must be the foremost factor.

No matter how thoroughly a scheme may

be exccutcd if the principle is wrong “'0





A mind and body constantly worn out

with long hours of hard physical toil can

never be at its best to think clearly, den--

nitely and accurately along any line of

farm management. The farming world

is waking up to the fact that it takes

quite as much head-work to run a farm

to its best advantage as it does to handle

successfully a. manufacturing plant or a

professional office.



A general outline can often be placed

on paper and filed away, that not only

helps to clear up the situation for the

next season’s routine but it often proves

of great value in years to come in so far

as the past treatment of fields and crops

have much to do with the future scheme

of rotation and fertilizing. '



In ordinary farming a good system of

rotation naturally becomes a regular and

most essential feature of farm manage-





ment. Not so with ordinary fi‘uit farin-

ing. In many cases a direct rotation of

fruit trees is practically impossible for





long periods. \Vith such cases the gen-~

eral management must be so planned as

to make some systematic method of soil

building and plant feeding a feature of

the farm. A total disregard for this most

vital requisite is making itself felt on

thousands of fruit farms in the fruit-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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are doomed to disappointment. Among

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from well-chosen sites for the fruit area.





Tllo 'iiiipoi'tance of elevation, air drain-

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care and feeding of his fruit lands. An—

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LIME-SULPHUR VS. BORDEAUX AS

A SUMMER SPRAY.





Perhaps the most interesting exhibit at

the recent meeting of the Michigan Horti-

cultural Society at Benton Harbor, was

the collection of fruit from various grow-

ers in the state, showing a comparison

of fruit from the same orchards sprayed

with Bordeaux and with lime—sulphur.

The exhibit was collected by the horti—

cultural department of the Agricultural

College, from growers about the state

who had made a comparative test of Bor—

deaux and lime-sulphur for their own en-

lightenment. The samples comprised a.

half bushel or more of each variety, and

the spray formulas used were placed with

the exhibit; making it a very instructive

comparison. \Ve give below particulars

concerning these exhibits, with a few

notes on each:



1. “'agner and Baldwin varieties from

L. H. Stoddard, Kalamazoo Co. Those

sprayed with lime-sulphur, 312250, with

arsenate of lead, after blossoming, had

little russeting and very little scab. Those

sprayed with Bordeaux, three sprays. 3:

4:50, and lime—sulphur last spray. 3:2:50.

had much russcting and the fruit was

rather small, and dull in color.



2. A. B. Coith, Van Buren Co._ showcd

“’agncrs sprayed with commercial lime—

sulphur, 1:40 ai'scnate of lead, 2 lbs. The

fruit showed very little russeting and the

color was fair to good. The sample

sprayed with Bordeaux. 223.50, had about

the same color, but there was much more

russeting.



3. Xi’agncrs from Ed. Hissong. Mason

Co., wlici‘e commercial lime-sulphur and

ni‘scnnte of load, 1 to 25 and 1 to 35 were

used, showed very little russeting, with

a slight trace of scab. \Vhile those

spraycd with Bordeaux, 4:51.30, and ar—

senate of lead, had a more green color,

fruit at little smaller. and more russeling.



4.. Baldwins and “'agnei‘s from C. XV.

Wilde, of Kent Co., sprayed with four

sprays of lime—sulphur, 3:5:50. boilcd one

hour and 2 lbs. lead. were clcan, had good

finish, color and size and almost no rus-

seting, while those sprayed with Bor-

deaux“, four sprays. 2:5:50, wow a little

smaller, color more dull and green and

some russet, especially on Wagner.



5. Baldwins from O. S. Bristol. of Ma—





comb Co., upon which lime-sulphur was

used exhibited good size and color, with

a slight trace of russeting. Whereas. the

samples from trees sprayed with Bor-

deaux were smaller, more green, and

much russeted.



6. Baldwins from David McCann, of





Van Buren Co., sprayed four times with

commercial lime-sulphur, 11,5 to 50 and

2 lbs. lend, showed some russcting. fuir

color and finish. But the other sample

sprayed with Bordeaux, 3:6:50. and ar-

senate of lead. four sprays, presentcd a

more green color and were i-usscting

badly.



7. Baldwins from T. A. Farr-and, Eaton

Co., treated three times with commercial

lime—sulphur, 1:10:50. 1:25:30, 1:35:50, were

of good size and color and had 21 trage of

i‘usscting. while those treated with Bor-





., deaux, twicei 214250, were of good size and





color, but had more russeting.



S. Greenings, VVagners and Baldwins

from S. B. Hartman. of Calhoun Co.,

sprayed four times with lime—sulphur. 11/3

to 50, after blossoming with 21/2 lbs. of

lead. were of good size and color, a little

i'ussct. bad no scab. and finish better

than with Bordeaux. while the ones

sprayed four times with Bordeaux. 3:5.50.

21/3 lbs. of lead. were of good size and

color. but finish more dull and there was

more russeting.



It will be notcd then. on the whole, that

the lime—sulphur as a summer Spray gave

the most satisfactory results as regards

russcting, color. and finish. and in some

cases apparently size. though this may

have been due to other conditions. The

Bordeaux gave more russcting, and a

duller. greener color, lacking the gloss of

the lime-sulphur sprayed fruit. Both

were comparatively free from scab. This

exhibit presented a good argument for

the use of lime-sulphur as a. summer

spray for apples.





Calhoun Co. S. B. HARTMAN.





 





THE MICHIG‘AN' FAsRMER.





PROCEEDINGS OF STATE HORTICUL-

TURAL SOCIETY.

Problems in Making Commercial Lime-

Solution.



Prof. A. J. Patton. chemist of the ex-

periment station, handled this difficult

subject so as to present it quite clearly

to the grower. The first: problem ex-

plained was the composition of 'arious

limes. The results of his experiments

were given on shects which were dis-

tributed through the audience, and which

showed the calcium oxide in the various

lincs analyzed to vary from 57.66 per

cent to 96.40 per cent. and the, magnosiumi

oxide from .13 per cont to 41.07 per cent.

The lime containing the most calcium

oxide gives the best rcsults. The manu—

facturer should guarantee the amount of

calcium oxide contained, and stamp it;

on the barrel. Fix-sh limo is best as old?

lime has absorbed carbon dioxide and bc-l

comes calcium carbonate, which will ap-l



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pear as a. residue. The sulphur has been

found to be practically all pure, but the

fine flowers of sulphur gocs into solution

fastest.





Tho limo—sulphur used in the experi-

ments was madc ill at large tank, using}

steam for cooking. and about twice as:





vu





more is always;

in an experi-’





limo.





sludge.





much sulphur as

some sediment. or

ment to determine the kccping qualities

of this solution it was found that when

stored over its sediincul for six or sevcn

wccks lost from two to 18 per cent of

its; sulphide sulphur. Where the solution

was filtered and kopt from the free access

of air lllt‘l‘C was practically no loss.

“'licrc air t-Oi'iic:< in mulzivt‘ with tho so—

lution some of it is oxitlizml and precipi-

tated. hence in storing this solution we

should first filter it to take out the sludge

and keep tho solution in receptacles that

are limii‘ly full and stoppered tightly.

From this it is inferred that commercial

or liomc—iumlc solution kept in tight bar—

rcls over winter is ncarly us good as that





 





i‘i'cslily lllliill'. This refers to the new

formula where l\\’iI'P .is much sulphur as

lime is UHt-il, and to the filtered solution.

The results oi“ {ill cxpci'iment in lit-:xiiug

or reboiiiiic; tiio solution bui‘ore using

showed that lllllO was guinea in so «So-





iug. unless a large umouiit of sulphur had





chrysizilizctl out.

In answer to questions. Prof. Palll'll‘

cxpluincd that. the Baumc reading H'-





i'ci'i'cd to the weight of tho solution com-





pui‘etl with the weight of an equal vol—7

ume of water, and that the more solids;

it contained. e. g” sulphur, the l1iglicixf

will be its llauinc i‘cailliic‘. so this is auf

zippz'oxlmzitely accurate method of ilctci‘—‘

mining the strength of lllt‘ solution. It3

is difficult to ilC‘lOl‘lllllli‘ the strength ot‘l

21. solution without a liytli'onicici‘. but he

has found the makes analyzed all good.

and contuiniiig at li‘llFi 21 per cent sul-





not on cntirelyi

cont of sulphur'





pliui'. 'l‘lic llfx'i’ll‘l‘vllll’il'l' i.—:





accurate llltlt‘X of lllv lwl‘





in solution. as they ilo not always vary:

in exact proportion. l



Hydrated limo is iuuil'ly as good as:

freshly bui'ncil limo if freshly liydi‘ziicd.‘





Prof. Patton was in iloubt as to the all-g

visability of adding :1 Eiinc solution to:

commercial lime-sulphur lw‘i‘oi-c applying;

Rain water causcnl :1 sham precipitate;





but when a littlc limo \\':l.\' uuml. lllt" sag

lut’on remained limit" :ii‘lci‘ filtering.E

Forty—five minuics was round to be about





 





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KIND OF- GRAIN TO FEED WITH

CORNSTALKS AND MIXED HAY.





 





 





I have cornstalks and plenty of mixed

clover and timothy hay for my cows.

What kind of grain, and how much, must

I feed to make a balanced ration?



Huron Co.



There are two things to keepin mind

where one has only cornstalks and mixed

hay for roughage. First: This roughage

does not contain a very large per cent of

protein. If you had clover hay or alfalfa

hay instead of the mixed hay, you would

want a different grain ration. Second:

You have no succulent food for your ra-

tion, neither corn silage nor roots. F. C.

does not say whether he has any grain

of his own or not. Where a man has a.

certain kind of grain on hand that he

wants to feed, then we figure to buy oth-

er grains to mix with the liome-grOWn

to make a. balanced ration; but in case

there is no home—grown grain and all has

to be purchased, we would make a little

different selection. Since there is no suc-

culent food 'in the ration. neither roots

nor corn silage, I had to buy all the

grain ration. I would put in dried beet

pulp as a part of the ration, because this

does, in a way, take the place of succu-

lency in the ration; but with the pulp you

want other foods rich in protein to help

balance up the cornstalks and the mixed

hay to make an economical feed. I would

purchase both cottonseed meal and lin-

seed meal to mix with the beet pulp and

1 would mix them in proportion of 100

lbs. of beet pulp to 100 lbs. each of cot-

tonseed meal and linseed meal. While

both of these latter mentioned foods are

rich in protein, still, taking into consid.

eration that the roughage and beet pulp

both lack protein. it will not make any

more of this element than the cows ought





'to have. Now feed the cows all the corn-





stalks and mixed hay they will eat up

clean, with the exception of the butts, as

we ought to feed them a liberal enough

ration of cornstalks so that they could

select out the better portion and not be

compelled to eat the bottoms. For the

grain ration feed each cow per day as

many pounds of the above grain as she

produces pounds of butter—fat in a week.

Feed this in two feeds. night and morn-

ing, mixing the cottonseed meal and the

oil meal with the beet pulp. The beet

pulp is much bulkier and will assist in

the digestion and assimilation of the cot—

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TIMOTHY HAY COMPARED WITH

CLOVER HAY.





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What is you opinion on feeding timothy

hay to dairy cows? Where can one se-v

cure milk records? \Vould you recom-

mend sugar ‘beets for covvs giving milk

and would a grain ration consisting of

equal parts of ground oats and gluten

meal be an economical one to feed?



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Timothy hay is not as good a food for

a dairy cow as clover hay. because it is

deficient in protein. It is much the same.

as feeding skim—milk to a calf, but if you

will put oil meal in the ration with the

timothy hay, you will have good results.

Timothy does not contain half as much

protein as clover hay, but it is fairly rich

in carbohydrates. If you balance up the

ration with a feed rich in protein, as cut-

tonseed meal, or linseed meal, you can

get good results by feeding timothy hay

lo dairy cows. But it will take more of

these highly concentrated foods than if

you fed clover hay.



Milk Records.



You can get milk records, or milk

sheets, of the dairy and food department

at Lansing, by writing for them. Then

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sheets in connection with the scales.

Also, you may be able to get some milk

sheets from the experiment station at

East Lansing.



Sugar- Beets.



I think sugar beets are an excellent

food to add succulency to the ration. You

must have some kind of succulent food in

a good ration for any dairy cow. Not

having corn silage, I know of nothing bet-

ter than sugar beets. It is all right to

run them through a root cutter, or to

feed them without cutting. After the

cows get a little used to eating them, they

will eat beets without putting them through

the root cutter; but it is all right to cut

them up and, mix with grain, cut corn-

stalks, or out hay, as it makes all more

palatable. The cows relish the sugar





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. (29) 77





beats very much and you can probably

get them to eat more dry matter if mixed

with the cut beets.



Now a grain ration of equal parts of

ground oats and gluten meal, I think,

would be a splendid ration for cows. I

don’t think you could get anything better

at the present price of most anything,

than such a. combination of those two

feeds. I would not feed the cows all

alike. You say you are feeding six or

seven pounds of this grain ration per day.

That is enough for certain cows but it is

hardly enough for real good dairy cows.

I would have an established rule with re-

gard to feeding this grain. Mix your

ground oats with your gluten feed equal

parts by weight. Then feed each cow as

many pounds per day of this feed as she

produces pounds of butter-fat in a week.

I would divide the grain ration into two

feeds. morning and evening. It would

be a splendid feed if you would pulp your

beets and then put your grain ration up—

on the beets. You can mix the beets

after they had been through the cutter

and the grain ration of each cow to~

gcther, you can then give the cow her

proper amount of grain. A cow ought

to be given a grain ration in proportion

to the amount of butter-fat produced. and

the only way you could do that is to

weigh the grain'ration fed to each cow.

So the best way is to put the beets into

the manger and then give the required

amount of grain for each cow upon the

beets. This is better than it would be to

mix it with the pulp.





TESTING MILK AND CREAM WITH

THE BABCOCK TEST.





“U11 you tell me how to test milk and

cream with the Babcock tester? I make

my test this way: Measure the milk and

put it in the test bottles. The acid is

next measured and put in the test bottles

with the milk. The bottles are then put

in the machine and whirled for five min-

utes. Boiling hot water is then put in

and whirled another minute, after which

another portion of hot water is put in and

another whirl of a half minute is given.





 





I have been told that the proper way is1

to put the milk in the test bottles andf





whirl four minutes. then put in the acid

and whirl five minutes. then boiling wat-

er and whirl of one minute to be giVClL:

then more boiling water and another half— 3'

minute whirl. I have heard of cream

testing 56 per cent and higher. In such.

a case would it be proper to weigh one:

pound of cream and one pound of water.‘

mixing them thoroughly together, and

test as you would for cream of a lower

percent? My cream bottles do not read

higher than 50 per cent. If test is made:

right, what color is the cream in the

bottles?



Bay Co, A. .T. . .



Your method of manipulating the Bah

cock test is, substantially correct. Take}

17.6 cc of milk and put it in each test1

bottle with an equal amount of sulphuric‘

acid, then by a. rotary motion, gradually

mix the acid with the milk, so that the

acid will act upon the caseine of the milk'

and separate it from the fat, or leave it

in condition to casily separate by centri-

fugal force. Now put the bottles in~the

tester and whirl them at the proper speed

for five minutes, then add your hot water

and whirl again for about a minute. Now

it is not necessary to whirl. the third time,

but just simply put hot .water into the‘

test bottle unil you raise the column of1

fat into the graduated neck of the bottle

so that you can read the per cent of hut—l

tor-fat. The reason for putting in hoti

water is to keep the'fat liquid hot so that

it will rise readily and flow in the small‘

neck of the bottle. If you let the fat getl

cold, it will not float readily and the:

reading is apt to be inaccurate.



In testing cream, you should weigh the,

sample of cream instead of trying to takel

it with the pipette. The reason is, the!

cream is so thick that you can‘t get anl

accurate sample. Much of it will stickl

to the pipette. No one now attempts to?

take a sample of cream for testing in[

that way. They weigh it. You want a.

pair of nicely adjusted balance scales and

weigh out 13 grams of cream, which

would make 17.6 cc: put this into your‘

test bottle, put in the usual amount 0tEl

acid and treat in a similar way as you

would the milk. Your test 'bottle Should

be a regular cream test bottle, properly

graduated so that you can read the wholes

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per cent, you can simply put your 18

grams of cream into two test bottles and

then put in about the usual amount of

acid, part of it in one test bottle and part

in 'the other, then treat it in just the

szrilrlie way as you would milk. Now you

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MENTION THE MICHIGAN FARMER whonl

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.a chemist.





.ply to herbivorous animals that





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





SOME PHASES OF THE FEEDING

PROBLEM.





 





Economical feeding is an integral part

of success in

claimed, and not disproved. that Ameri-

can dairymen could add more than one-

third to their annual profits through ‘the

use of cheaper and better dairy rations.

The foremost problem in mixing feeds for

dairy animals is to make up the the defi—

ciency of protein in the generality of farm.

grown feeds. Protein may be defined as:

the element nitrogen multiplied by the

factor 6125 so that in purchasing a feed-i

ing stuff which bears a guaranty of. for'

instance, 30 per cent protein. it means

that the feed when submitted to chemical:

analysis will SllOW 4.8 per cent nitrogen.’



Nitrogen is the most expensive element.

both in plant and animal feuds; but on»

combined nitrogen is of no value to the,

higher forms of plants or animals. It is

only when this element is in combination

with other elements that it can be utilized ;

by plant or animal life. Plants feed"

upon nitrogen in simple mineral combi-K

nations such as in the form of alumouia‘

or of nitrate of soda. Animals can feed

upon it. only when it is present with ele-‘

incnts which go to make tip the organic.

compounds or bodies. These organic

compounds are -very complex. If an ani-,

mal makes an economical use of thesei

nitrogen compounds they must he morel

or less analogous to the tissues of their

own bodies.





 





\Vhen nitrogen is present in





l



‘ many of its organic compounds it is of not

l .



nutritive i



give. an entirely unknown feeding; stuff to5



I





value to an animal. “'e may

he may analyze it and report

it rich in protein when its actual feeding

value may be low, or even ailvcrse to the;

health of the animals. It is only by giv—

innr the feed to the animals and watching.r

the results that we. can learn anything as

to its feedingr value. '

it is true that protein bodies,

to be of the greatest nutritive value;

should he analogous to those ini

in the body of the animal itself; and that

flesh—eating,r animals can utilize protein

from the flesh of their own kind better

than protein from animals of a different

kind. \Yhile this reasoning might not ap-

live not

vegetable ‘





in order





closely





upon animal foods but upon





bodies, yet there is, without doubt, a vast

difference. in the value of protein matter =AMERI‘ AN=





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A brand new, WC“ made, easy running, easily

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Thousands in use giving splendid satis-



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from higher bred grain and that

derived from by-products that have been

through various manipulations and proc—

'l‘his is why I have





crops





csses of manufacture.





always maintained that feeding- author-

ities have made a serious mistake in





claiming that the protein from one source





ment from an entirely different source.

\Vhat will work out nicely in the. chem-

ist‘s laboratory will not always work otit

the same. in the cow's stomach. In no

possible way can feeding authorities give

out tables of composition of the various

feeding stuffs that will enable you to mix

a ration that contains so many pounds of





protein from entirely different sources

and insure you that the totals will be

anywhere near the same, so far as the





animal is concerned, when the given

weight of protein is taken from one kind

of feeding stuffs, as they would be from

an entirely different lot of ft‘Jllllg stuffs.



Just as there are many kinds of pro-

tein. there are many kinds of fats and

Fat. as determined by the chemist,

extract, and ether dissolves

many things other than fats.





oils.





is the ether





extract of corn meal and cottonseed meal.





both of which are classified as fats in

tables of composition of feeding stuffs.

oift‘cr greatly in composition and nutri-





ii\'t‘ \'.'tlll(‘, 'l‘iic so-ctillcd fat of llm'illlY

hay is not at ail analag‘ous to the fat of

highly lll‘i‘tl



The only way to test a

to determine its value for plant

to attempt to grow plants with it. in a

like manner the only sure way to test ilo





grains.

new fertilizer

{will is





new feeding material is to feed it to the

animals and note the results. It is only

when a plant or animal food is put to the.

actual test that ai'iything‘ definite can be,

learned as to its real feeding value. No:

matter how good feeds may appear from

the chemical analysis. dairymen should:

so slow in buying new and untried t'ced—'

insr materials. 4



.-\t the present time the

full of the so-called mixed feeds and pre-

pared balanced rations. If these, feeds

were all clean and put on the market by

honest feed manufacturers their value

would be plain, btit the uncertainty comesi

from the materials or refuse matter that;

is used in connection with the cheaper

grains. “'hen any man quotes you prices





on ground feed that are lower than the





markets are





 





the dairy business. It is»





The tun-rj





 





SOME OF THE





by strong patents.





JAN. 21. 1911.





REASONS WHY





the





United States Separator





Is the BEST in the World.





The l'nited States Separator employes a, feeding device to

deliver the whole milk beyond the cream Z1lllt'“'pl'€\'t.‘llllllg any

remixing of cream and skimmilk and any conflict of currents.

No other device of any other Separator will do this

work so well, as the records show. This device is patent-

ed. and can he used on no other separator.





The l'nitcd States uses non-aligned channels for the cur-

rents of milk through the separator howl.





This is c« )Vt‘l‘t‘d





. No discs or other construction can

equal its perfection in separation.





It iron the world’s





record for skimming, i1150 consecutive runs continuing 30

days, Witll the milk of ten different breeds of cows.





99 - v -

9911?; of the (‘1‘?llllt‘l'lt‘b‘ use cr ‘am gathered from I mtcd





States Sepal‘ati)l‘s’**‘and are eager for more.





(‘ream from





the I'nited States is smooth and perfect for butter making.





The l'uit'cd States skims





cleaner, runs easier, washes





easier and lasts longer than any other separator. Ask the man





who runs one.





Ask us for catalogue No. 111 at once.





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Feed a balanced ration. ,
JAN. 21, 1911.





price pe‘r’ ton of the whole grains, you

can rest assured that he is not in the

feed‘business for his health, but that his

profits come from the sale of cheap by-

products that are mixed and ground with

the grains in the process of manufacture.

Oat hulls, ground alfalfa, weed seed. ele-

vator dust, corn bran. floor sweepings

and various other mixtures are used as

adulterants to cheapen the cost of the

mixture. The weed seeds are very rich

in nitrogen and help to add to the per-

centage of protein. But the analysis gives

no information as to the nutritive value

of the protein derived from the weed

seeds. Some weed seeds are known to

be poisonous and others are known to

have an injurious effect upon certain or-

gans and their functions. The only way

to find out positively is to feed them to

the animals themselves.



It is not my purpose to present any new

truths or confuse the readers as to the

ingredients of feeding stuffs, but I think

it is high time that every feeder of dairy

cattle should understand more about the

limitations of chemical analysis and know

that a pound of protein or a pound of fat

from one source may not be at all like

a pound of fat or a pound of protein from

an entirely different source. For ex-

ample, the protein in wheat bran is not

like the protein in wheat flour. and the

protein of the whole wheat is different

from the protein from the wheat flour or

Wheat bran taken by themselves.



In corn, oats, wheat and barley, nature

has provided the proper proportions of

nutriments and crude fiber as to make it

(lifiicult for the animals to injure them-

selves through overeating, while the feed

manufacturer sometimes removes more or

less of one or more kinds of nutriments

which disturbs the proportions and leaves

the resultant feed in an unbalanced con-

dition; consequently it must be used care-

fully and be mixed with other products

if the best results are obtained.



Protein, fat and crude fiber are usually

stated in percents on the sacks. Feeds

containing a high per cent of protein are

highest in price. Fat is less important

as an addition to farm-grown feeds,

though feeds rich in fat are to be pre-

ferred where other things are equal.

Crude fiber, or filler, is the thing to avoid

in buying mixed feeds. It has but little

nutritive value and what it does have is

less digestible than in the higher class

feeds. These facts should govern the se-

lection of feeds. A careful study of the

feed problem will increase Lhe feeding

power of the dollar. -.



Digestibility' of Feeds.



The only true method of ascertaining

the digestibility of dairy feeding stuffs is

to feed them to our COWs and note results.

and not base their value upon chemical

analysis entirely. The chemist can tell

us how much crude protein, fats and car-

bohydrates a feed carries but he cannot

tell until after definite digestion experi-

ments with animals how much of these

are available for nutrition. 'V‘Ve should

not only know the composition of a new

feeding material. but we should know

how it nourishes our animals. Many claim

that alfalfa is fully as valuable, pound

for pound, as wheat bran because it car-

ries about as much protein as we find.

or should find. in a ton of bran. and that

it may be used to replace bran and other

concentrates that carry a like quantityr of

protein. This is a. proposition that is not

true in our common farm feeding. A

comparison of closely allied feeding stuffs

is a fair measure of their comparative

values, but it is not so when comparing

the difierent kinds and classes 0f animal





foods. Alfalfa and wheat bran carry

about the same percentages of protein,

but in wheat bran eight—tenths of the





protein is digestible, while less than sev-

en-tenths of the protein in the alfalfa is

digestible. Protein in oat hay is not the

complete finished protein of ‘grain oats.

Protein in corn stover is not as nutritive

as the protein in the grain of the plant.

The chemist tells us that corn ensilage

and alfalfa makes a balanced ration and

the milk yield should be satisfactory.

Practical feeding experience proves that

the milk yields can be greatly increased

by feeding a few pounds of concentrates.

Hence it pays to feed some of the more

easily digested grain feeds with ensilage

and clover or alfalfa hay when the cows

can utilize them profitably.



In these days of high—priced grain feeds

commercial feed stuffs have grown rap~

idly in general use. Some of the old

standard feeds have been on the market

for years, but with the increasing demand

fOr something to replace the high-priced

farm-grown grains many new feeds have

appeared. W. MILTON KELLY.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





GRAIN TO FEED‘ WITH CORN AND

COB MEAL.





 





Will Mr. Lillie please tell me how ‘tO'

balance my ration for dairy cows? I have

corn and cob meal, wheat bran, cotton-

seed meal, and linseed meal, for grain;





corn silage and clover hay for roughage.





Kalamazoo Co. N. E. H.



At the present price of bran, I am in

clined to think that I would not feed it

as long as I had corn and cob meal of

my own. I would mix corn and cob meal,

linseed meal and cottonseed meal to-

gether, equal parts by weight; that is,

100 lbs. of corn and cob meal. 100 lbs. of

linseed meal and 100 lbs. of cottonseed

meal. Mix all together thoroughly and

feed them on the ensilage night ani

morning. I would feed each cow as many

pounds per day of this grain as she pro-

duces pounds of butter—fat in a week.

This will be a good liberal feed. If you

have good dairy cows, they will pay well

for this feed. I would feed clover hay

and corn silage liberally, all they will eat

up clean twice a day. If your clover hay

supply is short, you can feed the corn

silage in the morning and then a good

liberal feed of clover hay at noon. This

plan should give you excellent results.





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Having been a reader of your valuable

paper for years, I would like a little ad—

vice on silo building. I expect to keep





from 15 to 20 cows, Holsteins, and am

thinking of building two silos. one to

supply summer and one winter feed. I





have timber on farm and think of build-

ing a studded frame, plaster, with cement

on inside. and side with housesiding five

inches wide on outside. I have white or

water elm and very nice cottonwood for

lumber. Could elm be sawed and handled

so as to make the studding or is it apt

to warp too much. and if so would the

cottonwood be better, and the elm do to

lath up the inside? How thick and wide





ought lath to be? How large would you

build? I have thought of constructing

it 12 feet in diameter and 28 or 30 feet

high. 1 have basement barn and the

ground would leave the silo about level

with stable floor. How deep would you





go in ground for foundation? How would

you mix cement and sand for plastering

what would you cover



How are the doors ar-

ranged?





Ionia Co. G. \V. H.



I think your plan for a silo is all right

and I believe you can make the silo out

of your elm lumber. Use the elm for

studding, and elm is certainly all right

for the lath on the inside. I do not an-

ticipate that the elm will warp enough

so that it will make any material differ—

ence with the silo when used for stud-

ding. The lath ought to be about one

and one—half inches thick by five—eighths

of an inch thick. This thickness would

be better

make your silo stronger.

Wood will make gwnl

outside.

for the outside and bend it around the

form of the silo, it would be much better

than common house clapboards, because

these boards, being of unequal thick-

nesscs on each edge do not shift around

very well. Go down in the ground for

your foundation so that you will have a

good solid one. Mix two parts of fine sand

with one part of cement for plaster. Put





silo on inside and

top of silo with?





The

clapboards for





l

.





than half—inch because it would .

cotton- '.

tho ‘

If you could only get lap sidingi





the first door three feet from the bottom.:





Lath on the inside and clapboard on the

outside up to the next door and between

every door, because this will strengthen

your silo. Do not have a continuous

doorway. Make the doors so that they

will fit from the inside. Make them all

alike so that you will not have to num-





vber them and keep track of them. By all





means have two silos, one for summer





feeding and one for winter feeding and‘





then have the winter silo 15 feet in dia-

meter and the summer silo 12 feet in dia-

meter. The higher you have them the

better.





 





A FEW STANDARD CROPS BEST.





 





Where intensive dairying is practiced it

is best that the dairyman confine his ef-

forts to the production of a few standard

crops. By doing this he becomes better

acquainted with the requirements of the

plants and he can keep his rotation of

crops less confused the result of which

is to get better crops and consequently

better returns from the land. A good

system of soiling is to grow rye and wheat

for early feed, alfalfa to follow, with

oats, peas and corn for filling in the re—

mainder of the season. Or the plan may

be further simplified by simply growing

corn and alfalfa. It is possible to begin

the feeding about the middle of May.

when the alfalfa will be large enough to

furnish a considerable amount of feed.

and the. season will last till frost in the

fall.





 





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Is Oleomargarine

As Good As Butter?





Because olerunargarino is

like butter and even tastes

butter?



The umkers CLAIM it is.



You KNlHV it is not.





Colored like butter and looks

like butter, is it as good as





You know that it is an inferior article, that it is sohl

by inisreprt:-.<eiitation, and you wouldn’t touch it with a





ten foot pole.





Now similar conditions prevail in the separator business.



The DE LAVAL is everywhere recognized by cream—

erymen, prominent dairymen and buttermakers as being

by far the best cream separator on the market.



98% of the world’s crcamerymcu use the DE LAVA l.





to the exclusion of every other make.

pretty conclusive evil‘lenCe that the





separation of cream and





That looks like,

men who make the





the making of butter A





BUSINESS, the men who know, are not in any doubt as

to which is the best cream separator.

The lllnkers of inferior separators acknowledge that





the DE l..\\'.\l. is





best when they say to you “Our

separator looks like the DE





LAVAL” or hit’s just as





good as the DE LAVAL, but we will sell it to you for a





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little less money.’





Why do they offer to sell their nutchincs cheaper?

I or the Very same reason that. the makers of oleomargarinc





Scll their product cheaper than butter





 





he ‘ausc they COST





less to MAKE and are \VORTH less.

The DE LAVAL has many imitators but no equal.

There is no substitute for the DE LAVAL anv more

than there can be a substitute for butter. ‘





If you newl :1 cream sep:

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You will save yourself time,

getting the genuine DE LAY





less’





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traitor, why experiment with

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money and trouble by





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nearest office of THE DE LAVAL Slil’AllA’l‘lllt (10.,





1o?) Broadway, New York;





4']. East illnlllsoll Street,





Chicago; Drumm and Sacramento Streets, San Francisco;

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the endorsements of tens of thousands of

Kow-Kure customers—men who have been



buying it for years and who know that it



makes money for them by keeping their

cows in top-notch condition every month

in the year.





semi for fig “Cow

Money” Booklet





We never issued a more complete

Booklet. It indicates wherein profit

from cows can be increased by curing

every cow in the herd of cow diseases.

It you cannot buy Kow-Kure from your

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“BATH IN OIL”

ngll Grads Separator—Blunt





Save $25 to 350 direct at my hctorv

price—freight prepuirl. (Let the: only

. Separator that runs in ”limb of Oil,"

"e like a $33,000 automobile. This

alone is worth $51) extra, but

. costs you nothing extra.

Take





90 Days’

Farm Tat—Freight Propald





Why pay $85 to $110 to dealers or agents



‘ who cannot sell you a separator equal



to the Galloway~closcst skimmer-



easiest run—easiest cleaned—104:.



. guarantee. Scnd for BOOK FREE

II. GALLONAY 00.



643 Galloway St... Waterloo. In.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 





 





 





 





 





“mum; Durymel Take a Look at

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It’s the original and

“only thing" fox-driving

cream separators with

gasoline engines. ()nee

tried. alums used. TllY

ONE. Ask ,\our dealer

for u “S'l'lil'l‘l‘l” or

write us direct Don't

take an imitation.

Strife Governor Pufley Co.

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DAlRYMEN





You better try





lllEll BEET PULP





this year. You can not lose but you will pmfit by doing

so. Used by many of the best feeders of the state who

find it a valuable feed. selling below it’s true feeding

value as compared to the other feeds and grain.

Cheaper, and gives better results than





 





bran for





Y which it is substituted by the best. dairymen.





Forms u valuable addition to any ration, being veg...

table the mechanical (-ll'cl't is good which causes .‘i

better assimilation of the other feeds.



I'lspnt'liill)’ good with cotton seed meal as it counter

acts the objectionnl features of this feed.



Dried Beet l’ulp will cheupcn any ration. Substitute

it for a portion of the ration .Vou use and .mu will

secure better results in both production and improve-

ment in the health of your animals.



Call on your dealer. if hecunnot supply you write





T. F. MARSTON,

Center St., Bay City, Mich.

Michigan Broker for the Manufacturers.





 





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