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VOL. CXXXVI. No. H. ;

Whole Number 3539.





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY. MARCH 18, 1911.





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Essential Factors in Soil Management.





THE question of soil management is

a Very broad one, including, as it

does, such topics as the rotation

of crops, soil protection, cultivation as

related to soil moisture and soil fertility,

fertilizing, humus content, and soil ex—

haustion, besides other problems which

have an indirect bearing upon some phase‘

of the soil management question.

Rotation of Crops.



I will not attempt to say what rotation

of crops should be followed, for this will

vary so much with the soil and its con-

dition and the kind of farming carried

on, also the markets and tastes of the

farmer, that to lay down a hard and fast

rule would be folly. As I see the prob—

lem, about the only rule that could be

laid down concerning a rotation of crops.

for all farmers is that clover or some

other legume should comprise one crop

in the rotation.



I will give below a table of the rotation

which we follow in the main on our farm,

and explain some of the reasons for do-

ing so. It will at once be seen that some

of these reasons are not applicable to all

farms, and it is probable that the major—

ity of farmers would-not be in a. position

to follow this rotation to the' best ad:

vantage. ~ -



1. Wheat, seeding to



2. Clover, with sprinkling of timothy.

Cut hay and clover seed. Manure in fall,

winter, and early spring or pasture if no

seed. In early spring plow for



3. Corn, (or potatoes or beans on part).

After cutting corn, (first part of Septem-

ber), or removing potatoes or beans, work

up with cutaway and harrow and seed to



4. Wheat, (or part oats or strawber-

ries). Plow as soon as wheat is hauled,

top-dress with barnyard manure, and

seed to wheat again, thus beginning again

the above rotation.



Several things should be noted in the

above rotation. In the first place, there

are two wheat crops in the rotation, a

feature which many would consider un-

desirable. In our case we are near a vil-

lage where we can exchange straw for

manure and we also need considerable

straw for mulching strawberries and

young trees, hence we make wheat the

chief crop in the rotation. V‘Ve hear con-

siderable said against the

grain farmer and wheat

growing, but we find that

during the past seven

years wheat has paid us

better, acre for acre, than

any other farm crop, and

we have the figures on all

of them to submit as

proof. I believe hay and

clover seed are second

Corn is down near the

end of the list unless we

can figure some profit

above market price in

feeding, for the heavy

cost of growing and har-

vesting the crop cuts

down the profits.



Two wheat crops in

succession are compen-

sated by two manurings

in the rotation. More

manure is hauled from

town than is produced on

the farm, so that we are

generally able to carry

out this program. The

clover sod is covered dur-

ing the winter and spring

before plowing for corn,

and as a rule we top-

dress after the first wheat





nure is coarse we plow





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some of it under. Where possible we

cut the second growth of June clover for

seed, and always have seed for our own

use, keeping over enough for a year

ahead in case.of failure of the clover

seed crop.



One good feature of the above rotation

is that the ground is never left bare over

winter unless oats follow corn, in which

case it is well to sow rye or some catch

crop in the corn at the last cultivation





especially in a dry season like the last.

Humus and Cultivation as Related to Soil





Moisture and Soil Fertility.

Two things essential to proper soil

management are humus and cultivation,





and yet they are, in a way, opposed to

cach other. lly humus we mean vege-

table matter in the soil which has not

decomposed sufficiently to all be resodved

lo forms in which the lilant can take it

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as a winter protection and to supply

humus. The soil is kept covered and

busy at all times, and to compensate it

is well fed. I believe there is more virtue

in soil protection over winter than many

think. If the ground is kept covered

with a growing crop the nitrates which

are produced in fall and spring, and pos-

sibly somewhat in winter, are absorbed

and saved, more of the snow is held in

the fields, which means freezing to a less

depth and more moisture for the succeed-

ing crop, this being an important item,





looseness of the soil and supply a steady

amount of plant food. Cultivation hast-

ens the decomposition of humus and

causes a rapid unlocking of the plant

food, hence cultivation is necessary and

desirable during the growing season, al—

though it draws somewhat on the store

of humus. But during the period when

growth is not taking place or is not de-

sired it is better for the humus to re-

main undecomposcd, hence at such times

cultivation is not desired. After the

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Weed growth may begin and take up the

plant food liberatcd. l'nder certain limi-

tations this is a desirable condition. It

is better for the weeds to cover the

ground when there is no growing crop on

it and thus takc up and store the plant

food than for the soil to lie bare and

plant food he lost. If weeds are not de-

sired on account of infcsiing the soil

with their seed, or if they do not come





in naturally, a catch crop can be sown

for this purpose after the growing sea—

son. \\'ecds are not considered such 21.





bugbcar as formerly for they have their

place and function, but their plat-c is not

in the growing corn ilcld.

Cultivation has still anoihcr

namely the conservation of soil

by forming a dust mulch. This





function.

inoislni‘c

function





is closely related to the proper manage—

mcni of the soil, for \\'llllulll u wzlicr

supply the richest soils must i'nii. as

water is needed to dissolyc liic plant

foods and carry them to ihc Icon-s of the

plant. The best monuucmcm or the soil

Will include the propcr cultivation of it

from early spring lilllil lilcl‘c is no danger

of the crop sufferingr for lack of moisture,





that is, when the growing crops will ad—

mit of such cultivation. \Vhere they will

not it should include a thorough prepara—

tion of the soil with cultivation at fre—

quent intervals as long as possible before

the crop is sown. In general, the best re-

sults will be obtained if the cultivation

is done long enough after each hard rain

so that the soil will dry enough to crum-

ble when pressed in the hand, but before

it becomes hard or lumpy. This stirring

will interfere with the capillary of

water to the surface and require more

of it to remain in the soil or lic evapo-

rated through the leaves of the growing

plant after it has served its purpose of

bringing food to the plant.

Soil Exhaustion.



Poor soil management means in the

end complete or partial soil exhaustion,

which is a condition of the soil in which

it is deficient in humus content, or food

content, or moisture content, or all three,

and they usually go together. .\ soil that

has little or no humus has little food con—

tent unless it is supplied by concentrat-

ed foods like commercial fertilizers, and

even these will not pro—

duce good results in such

a soil. Then again, its

moisture content will be

at fault in a dry season

It is tight and hard,

bakes easily, and does

not have a dark, rich col-

01‘. It is too close, to be—

come aerated

some of the

tains docs

available.

crusty





rise





wcll,

food it

not become

and the hard,

condition is i‘av-

orablc to a rapid of

soil moisture liy evapo-

ration. In short, the soil

becomes very disagree—

able to work and does not

respond to the put

upon it.

lVe are

experience

soil.





so

("On—





loss





labor





having some

with such a.

“'hile not complcie-

ly exhausted it is some.

What “run down,” to use

a common expression,

does not work easily, and

does not respond to cul-

ture as it should. This

is a prairie soil, ,lying just

across the road from our

old farm and identical in

soil nature, yet as a rule,

the same amount of labor
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will not produce more than half the yield

as on the better managed soil on the old

farm.



This land I speak of up to the last few

years had been leased to tenants for per-

haps thirty years, and as there were no

buildings on it and it was near the vil-

lage the straw was sold or used on other

farms and little manure was returned,

with the above results. To bring this

soil back to a proper condition is neces—

sarily a slow and expensive process. “'6

are haulingr all the coarse manure we can

get on it and plowing under and letting

all the secondary growths go back on the

land, not pasturing at all. \\'e expect

to continue this, and to shorten the ro-

tation on this land, mal~:ing clover the

main crop, and to plow under one or two

clover crops during the next few years.

In this way we hope to get this soil back

to its prOper condition after a few rota—

tions. but it is much easier and less cx-

pensive to keep soil in good iiltll l'll' ft

proper system of soil management than

it is to bring it back after it has been

depleted by improper management. This

problmu of soil management is the deep-

cst and most important one we have to

sole on the farm. and we should all put

much study upon it.



Calhoun (‘1). S. B. HARTMAN.



ALFALFA CULTURE.



“'0 must look to the intrinsic value of



a feed in dctcrmining its. real worth as





a factor in our cropping system. “Alfalfa

hay.“ said \Villis II \\'inr_“. of Ohio, who

addressed thc fun: u' il‘w late {Hund-

I'p meeting at l unsfuu. "is- a: the present

time selling in mi? moun‘mnity at around

$15 per ton and ill- haw-ramp. wiu- yetr with

another, four tons 'l i:- - lu‘i‘ acre. This





2r,” per acre.

:lm amount of

w to give

ivl'li'O for





would give a gl'uss ovum

If we were to ('lllt'llluil‘

.‘y,





corn it would be norms“ _.

this same profit with the 1;»:





 





 





corn at 40 cents per bus‘m-l. l would find

it necessary to produce till bush is- per

acre; or, if we calculated in rim term:

of oats at 30 cents per bushel. o.-.r :Egzurcs

would tell us that it would be llt‘t‘-'<.\'ltl‘}.'





to grow ‘300 bushels of this cereal to Hi?“

:1: large feeding value as an ordinary ('l‘lull

of alfalfa. To a large extent the alfalfa

plant trims the placc. of grain and in some

regards it furnishes qualities in food that

cannot be gotten by tho use of graii‘s. in

the light of these consit‘leraLions it im-

presses the farmer with the wisdom of

giving extra. care to sccure a good stand

of alfalfa. He can afford to give the land

bcttcr culture, better fertilization and bet,-

ier drainage, because he is going to get:

much larger returns for his efforts than

he would from the same field put out in

corn, oats, wheat or any other of the or-

dinary cereal crops."



blr. “'ing took up separately the differ-

ent requisites for growing tips crop in





the east. as he had found that the- cxpt-ri-

ence of the western mun l'll'llll be used

as a guide in :9 general way only. “'0





must Work out our own :~':il\'£lil«!ll. llrain—

age is more important with this crop than

with red clover. 'i'hc “heaving" of the

soil should be reduced as much as pos—

sible by putting the water level down,

for the alfalfa plant is deep rooted and

naturally goes down long distances to se-

cure moisture. .\ shallow soil. limited by

the presence of water near the surface,

is not at all to its liking and it does poorly

when compelled to grow under such con—

ditions. So give the land artificial drain-

age if it is not naturally drained. I'se

large tile and the drains will not be so

readily clogged by the roots of the plant.



Lime should be in the soil in sufficient

quantities to keep it sweet. )Iany soils

are well provided: but a large amount of

land needs this element added. Mr. \Ving

calculated that the smallest application

of lime that would do bepciit to the crop

would be two tons per acre. l’muhle this

quantity would. in ‘many instances, be

found advisable.



’\\'ceds and grasses are enemies of the

alfalfa plant. As a rule. the. man who

keeps his fields well cleaned of weeds has

the best chance with this plant. Mr.

\Vine‘ suggcsttwl that in plowing land for

this crop it would be well to go down

from three to six inches deeper than the

land has been plowed. providing it can

be done without raising t0o much subsoil,

and thus bring to ill" surface earth that

is not filled with wood seeds. thus allow—

ing the alfalfa plant to get started and

occupy the. soil before foreign plants can

get a hold. On account of weeds, grow-1

ing the alfalfa crop with a nurse crop is

often as Successful as starting it without

one. The nuse crop keeps the weeds

down until the alfalfa has a start and

when the nurse crop is removed the alfal-





'llc would rather leave the plant a little





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fa at once pushes forward during a sea-

son specially fitted for its growth while

weeds do poorly during the dry weather

usually prevailing the latter part of July

and August. Barley was recommended

as an excellent nurse crop. He experi-

mented by sowing winter rye in the spring

and seeding with alfalfa and the test

proved very satisfactory. Grasses well

established in an alfalfa field makes it

almost necesary to break up the land

since alfalfa plants do not multiply as do

the grasses and when a plant of the for-

mer dies out a space is left for the grasses

to occupy and crowd against neighboring

alfalfa plants.



Soils to select: He has found that the

second level from a river which passes

through his farm, with a soil of black

clay such as is used in the manufacture

of tile, produces his best crops; the soils

with a white clay subsoil are next best;

a loam over gravel follows: his best corn

land comes fourth and the poorest land

for this crop is a peaty soil.



\\'hcn sowing with a nurse crop it is

best to get the seed in the ground as Soon

as the soil can be gotten in condition in

the spring. They sow in March or April.

He applies about 18 pounds of seed per

acre. It can be either broadcasted or

drilled. They usually drill.



Men often make the mistake of cutting

this plant too early. Mr. \\'ing has noted

that where they cut small patches for

feeding before new hay was made. that

the alfalfa was afterwards less luxuriant

over those patches. He, makes it a rule

to cut when the buds are well started.





too long than to cut it before this time.

\Vhile horses and hogs are not particu-

llrly detrimental to this crop when al-

lowed to pasture on it, cattle and sheep

should be kept out. and especially is this

true of all stock in the fall after a frost.

The tops of the plants are killed by the

freezing. then after a warm day or so





 





fermentation sets in. making them poison- .

ous to stock. C‘iti‘l~l have been known to;

die off “like flies“ from eating this frorzen'|

material under the (unditions mentioned.‘



ilr. \‘l'ing belim‘cs that in many in-

stances inoculatirn is necessary. it is

a wise plan to sow some alfalfa seed with

the clovers. The few plants will gener-

ally inoculate the land for later cropping

with alfalfa. Soil from another field where

the nodules are present on the plants, will

affect a good inoculation.





THE TOXIC QUALITY OF' PLANTS





 





 





“'ould like to know through your paper

if buckwheat leaves anything in soil detri—

mental to other crops. Have heard that

it poisons-d land. and corn. etc.. would not

do well after it. A. XV. 0.



There is a theory among scientists that

sillllC plants leave an excreta or toxic

poison in the soil which is injurious to

certain other plants when permitted to

follow in the crop rotation. It is con-

ceded, for instance, that corn does not do

well after sugar beets. and those who

have tried it have not had good success

with corn after potatoes. On the other

hand, the small grains do well after these

crops. and clover seeding is generally

more successful in grain following a root

crop than on land handled in some other

way. So far as buckwheat is concerned

we have never heard of its being charged

with leaving toxic poisons in the soil

which were deleterious to other crops

Buckwheat is a rather good gleaner. It

will often do well on a thin soil. partly

for this reason and partly because it

does not draw as heavily upon the avail-

able fertility in the soil as most other

grain crops. But a fairly good crop of

buckwheat may be grown upon a soil "that

is too thin in available plant food to grow

a good crop of corn. and will, of course,

leave the. soil still more destitute of avail-

able fertility for a corn crop which suc-

ceeded it. Corn has a longer growing sea-

son than any other spring grain crop

which we grow in this climate. and for

this reason it does well on sod ground,

in which the fertility becomes available

rather slowly throughout the season. as

the plant requires it. by this means pro-

viding the crop with a supply of plant

food to be drawn upon during the season

when it is maturing grain. It is always

best to give com the first place in the

crop rotation for this reason. and for the

reasons given above corn should never

follow a crop like buckwheat in the rota-

tion. The latter crop should be used as a

catch crop with which to seed to clover

or as a crop to clean a foul field or to

plow down for green manure on a thin

soil that is comparatively destitute of

humus. A proper rotation of crops is an

important factor in judicious soil man-

agement. and requires a maximum of

good sense and judgment in planning.





 





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MARCH 18, 1911.





TEN YEARS OF SUCCESS WITH

ALFALFA.





I thought the readers of The Farmer

might be interested in reading my expe-

rience in growing alfalfa. I commenced

growing alfalfa ten years ago and have

now 120 acres growing and it is doing

fine. I shall seed 30 acres more in the

spring. When I commenced growing a1-

falfa I inoculated the seed with chemical

bacteria obtained from the U. S. Depart-

ment of Agriculture, but my alfalfa did

not grow much the first year and looked

yellow and sickly, and the second year it

did not do anything up to the 20th of

June, and I could see that some of it was

dying out, so I sent down to southern

Indiana and purchased two tons of alfalfa

soil 'from a farmer, which he claimed he

took from a ditch he dug through his sev-

en-year—old field. This cost me $20 per

ton, including freight. I sowed the soil

broadcast by hand over my alfalfa, and to

my great surprise in less than four weeks

the alfalfa commenced growing rapidly

and all turned green and has been dark

green all over the field ever since. I

have cut from this field for the last five

or six-years about four tons per acre of

the nicest hay ever made. _



The question has been asked many

times, “when is the best time to sow

alfalfa seed?” and I will here give some

of my experience. Nine years ago I had

a 10-acre field of peas, and after I har—

vested the peas I plowed the ground and

fitted it in nice shape and sowed it to al-

falfa, (this being about the 20th of Au-

gust). I got a nice catch, but the freez-

ing in the fall and spring killed it, so I

had to reseed it that spring, and since

that time I sow no more alfalfa in the

fall. It is a very tender plant, and needs

all the root it can get in one season’s

growth to pull it through the first win-

ter. Since then I sow my alfalfa in June,

which, I believe, is the best time to seed

to alfalfa in this climate, and without a

nurse crop at that.



I have the best success with corn

ground for alfalfa. I keep the corn as

free from weeds as I possibly can, cut

the corn with a hoe, so there will be no

stubble, and as soon as it is dry enough

the following spring I put on a good

sharp spring-tooth drag, and harrow the

ground every two weeks up to about the

15th of June, and at the same time I have

inoculated the ground with soil from my

oldest alfalfa field, by putting on at least

a ton of soil to the acre, then sow about

15 pounds of seed to the acre. My expe-

rience is that where I inoculated my

ground with a ton or more of soil to the

acre, I can cut a good crop of hay the

first season, and where I inoculate light,

I can not cut any hay the first season,

and the hay will be light the second and

third seasons, so I know it pays me to

inoculate heavy.



I have been asked many times, “what

will you do when you want to break up

your alfalfa?" My answer is, “I hope

that I never will be so foolish as to want

to break up my alfalfa,” for I consider

land worth $100 per acre where there is

a good stand of alfalfa. A good stand of

alfalfa will cut, at a low estimate, three

tons of hay per acre annually, and again

at a low estimate, the hay will bring on

an average $12 per ton, (I am selling for

$20 per ton). At $12 per ton it will

amount to $36 per acre annually, and no

plowing or seeding at all, and your al-

falfa getting heavier each year for years

to come. I would ask where can you get

better returns for your $11 than that.

In Germany they call alfalfa live-forever

clover, on account of its long life.



Some claim that you can inoculate your

ground by mixing a small portion of al—

falfa seed with your red clover seed and

sew together, and the alfalfa will inocu-

late itself so that it impregnates the

ground sufficiently with the bacteria pe-

culiar to alfalfa to grow alfalfa there-

after without inoculation, I say that

theory is absurd; there is nothing in it.

If the seed has no bacteria in it and none

in the ground, I beg to ask where does it

come from. There must be a little nu-

cleus of bacteria from which the plant

can borrow in order to get a start. Seven

years ago I seeded 16 acres in the spring

to red clover, with no nurse crop, and

for an experiment I mixed some alfalfa

seed with the red clover seed and sowed

it together. The alfalfa'came up nice and

did fairly well for a while, until it needed

the aid of bacteria and could not find

any, therefore it naturally starved to

death, but not until the third season. I

advise my farmer friends not to try that

scheme.





Wexford Co. SANFORD. GAssn-R.





 





 





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SURFACE MANURING.



Leaving manure on top of the ground



is nature’s way. The leaves of the forest

and the grass on the prairies rot on top

of the ground, and all animals (except

the cat), leave their droppings on the sur-

face. We find the prairies full of fat-

ness, and the wood—lands very fertile

when first cultivated. Nature's way ap-

pears the best, when properly assisted by

art. When stable manure is spread on

top of. the ground the richest portion is

leached into the soil by the rains, and

melting snows, and is diffused, and dis—

tributed through the porous earth, every

particle of the soil receiving its due pro-

portion of plant food, in due time to be

imparted to the hungry plant roots push-

ing through it. The coarser portions of

the manure remaining on the surface

until the ground is plowed act as a mulch

to prevent evaporation and baking of the

soil. When manure is hauled out, and

immediately plowed under, the furrow

slice rolls it into streaks and lumps,

which do not for a long time get well dis-

tributed through the ground.

V The testimony of some of our best

farmers and writers is in favor of surface

manuring, especially in the winter on

land to be plowed for spring crops.



The writer has practiced drawing fresh

manure from the stable in winter and

spreading it on the field intended for

corn, with excellent results. He has also

spread it in the winter on part of a mea—

dow which had been mown for several

years, and was not yielding well. In May

following, the strawy portion of the ma—

nure was raked up and drawn back to

the barn lest it would be raked up into

the hay. The part of the meadow ma-

nured, produced twice as much hay per

acre, as the unmanured.



Pa. J. IV. INGHAM.





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I purchased a piece of low, swampy

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30 incnes deep. This last fall I thoroughly

underdrained it and plowed it. \Vhat kind

of fertilizer shall I apply to the muck to

make it do its best? I intend to put it

into corn, potatoes, onions and garden

stuff.



Ohio. , S. K. G.





Muck soils differ very materially, in





 





 





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Usually, however, muck lands are de-

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ways gives results on this kind of soil.





 





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FARM NOTES.





Seeding Alfalfa.



Vl'ould you advise seeding alfalfa with

peas"? \Vould you advise mixing alfalfa

with clover and timothy and seeding in

peas? Soil is sandy loam. \Vould you

advise inoculating seed with pure culture

before Sowing peas and alfalfa? How

many peas per acre would you sow where

seeding to the mixture mentioned above

which I would like to use if it is prac-

ticablc.



Missauliee Co. J. 17..



In the writer‘s opinion it would not he

practicable in most cases to seed alfalfa

with peas. In exceptionally favorable

circumstances this method of seeding al—

falfa might. be successful. but alfalfa is

as yet an uncertain proposition on most

soils in our state. and under these condi-

tions it is better to seed it without a

lltu'se prop. with a thin nurse crop of

spring: upon that will not shade the

ground to any cx'r-nt before it is cut for

hay in ul‘lli‘l‘ 1‘ glue the alfalfa the best

possible th;-_;.~o ’5: icir as inourulation for

alfalfa is w-nw-i ' ‘ i? is generally crvn-

ceded that lin-

is to sow soil tr

ticld. \thrr- this «:1: ~‘ h.» conveniently

done, the pure cuit'zrn may he used to

inoculate the send viti' i'w-wnnalile pros-

pect of getting a ::2i~w-:<z‘tii inoculation.





 





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'7‘. ‘t :<'i'-csst",zl alfalfa





 





but it is not so ('I‘I'Ctllt .Itid the effects

are not as quickly it Hit ;i.< where a

considerable amount of so? is used for





the purpose of inoculatin: 1w sill with





the bacteria peculiar to .tft‘nli‘. in an—

other column of this issue will lu- ful-l‘l'id

the experienfir of a very sun-.u-ssfzzl :t‘t_i':l"i

growcr with this matter of surrorst'nz lll-

mmlation. He has found it to pay well to

s rw as much as a ton per ut‘rr of inocu-

latcd s-dl on account of the earlier and

more compll-tc inoculation secured. as by

this inctlio-I lic hut szicwm; iwd in getting

a profitable crop r-i' hay the season the

seed is sown, while with lighter inoculat-

tir-n he has not found this posstblc. 'l‘his

samc man reports having tried the plan

of inoculating," the soil by na'urul lll'fl‘ill’hl

through the mixing of alt‘cilf-i. seed with

other grass seeds in seeding tlu- land. but





with poor success. Sonic t" ("s l l n

reported good Sllf':‘-‘~lw‘ by 2; :nctliw’:

but it is 1i~rohable that in :~ :~:; ('it"t‘< ' .





bacteria has been prcscn: ll. 'lu- :<I.. in

quantities that would have 5 mun-l he

sutcess (:t' the alfalfa had i l ‘

alone. which has been tt«':::~l to

case in Some filVUl‘t‘vl morn.- ,,_ ..



state. Several experiment: 113‘” in {Jiv—

grcss at the present time it. our state

def- rmine the llilVlli"':l_‘:§6. if any, in seed-





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in}; alfalfa with otlwr L';l":a<c.~'. It may

be all enough to cxzu rimcnt in this way

Nil a south scale and also to experiment

l!‘ the samu way ‘m'i: seeding alfalfa with

seeding the lure-r l'zl’i'zvl’ lightly and





 





(-vttins‘,’ them for Flat: but for the most or

tl-w area illicit-luv tor alfalfa we believe

it 1,, be the lllj'TC‘Z plan to wed without

it nurse wrop or with a light seeding of

lnslrdlnss lairlct’ to lw cut li’lfore maturity

in give the alfalfa the





 





:t< hay, in nus.‘

1w..- pr‘msilde than»: to 1:»: established.





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bi far as the lil-w‘llluii-ln o.‘ thc peas

\‘iill pure culture 1-; ins-urt- the pix-sense

of the bacteria pcvuiiir i- chi»: {liitlll is,

c:~:pcrimcn';1l





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Michigan. if Tl"! Er. :ill low 1' is

little need "i" such 11;.“va n. is





probably truc in :il' ioni'F-‘Euv: anti on all

farms “'lif'“(‘ peas have ht‘r'i. grown to any

considerable («Ltcnt in lit-{‘4‘ yo i Still





thcre are I".l~t".\' in which it has been tried





on just suit it forms with :.o,-arenti~f bene«

iicial results. But it is :t'vztw :15; import—





ant that the soil he grim-id in ill»: best

possible condition as a lit-thitation tor the

nitrogen—iixlng lululf‘l‘iu ;::‘<-uliar to the

several leguminmis plan's, :is thin the

colonies of bacteria he provided by inocu-

lation. and Where paws have not: been stir--

cessful. it is probable that an application

of lime is quite as essential as inocula—

tion for the success of the crop. In fact,

the two should go together where either

are necessary for best results in the en-

suing crop, since there is little use or

inoculating with the bacteria where there

is an acid condition of the soil which is

unfavorable for the development of these





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





minute plants, and where this condition

obtains, a thorough inoculation would bei

secured much more quickly after limingl

if nature is aided by artificial inoculation. i

The expense of the latter will be small,

and it should be tried in an experimentali

way at least, until it has been demon-l

strated whether it will produce better re— .

suits on any farm where this crop has not l

given the best results. Liming should be!

tried in a small way at least at the same i

time and for the same purpose. l

Seeding Alfalfa in Corn. l

I have four acres of rolling land. Soilfl

gravel, clay and sand. This was a clever;

and timothy sod, mowed two years, plant- 1

ed to beans last season. I wish to cover

all light spots with manure and plant to5

corn rowed each way, and before I cul-;

tivate the last time, (last of July), sow:

alfalfa and cultivate it in. Can some one!

of your readers give me information re-l

garding this method? Has it ever beenf

tested out? l

Eaton Co. L. D. F. 3

in some cases where the plan of seed-i

ing alfalfa in corn at the last cultivation:

has been tried. a successful stand hasi

been secured. But this was doubtless due

to especially favorable conditions, as it}

always is where clover is seeded in stand- '

ing corn. \Ve have seen excellent stands‘

of clover secured in this way, when the

weather conditions at and after seedingi

were favorable to the rapid developmenti

of the young clover plants. But, on the!

other hand. we all know that this is not:

a dependable method of getting a clever

seeding. In a season like the last, for in- '

stance, there was not sufficient moisturej

in the average corn field at the time of!

the last cultivation to have germinated;

the seed, to say nothing of insuring thel

rapid growth of the young plants and en~ I

:ibling them to get into a condition to

endure the winter well. It is a more diffi-

cult proposition to get a good.stand of

alfalfa than i: is to get a good stand

of clover up u the average farm, because

most Michigan ltnd is already inoculated

with the- ill-lr‘fz‘él'lll peculiar to the clover?

plant, and the plant itself is better am

climated to our t-lunatic conditions, s.ncc

we ordinarily sow seed coming from illimfi?

the same latitude» as the ground on which

it is to be smrn. Mn the other hand, arti-

tiwial inoculation is net-cssary upon many,

if not most. of our Michigan soils to in«

sure the sill-Doss of an alfalfa seeding

and then we are uncertain as to the

sourcc of our seed in most cases, so that

the alfalfa plant should be given a better

chance than clover if we expect to get a

Sll:‘(tl'.~‘f<flli stand. ln the course of a

year.» we will, from present indications,

be producing a liberal amount of alfalfa.’

wed in Michigan and. our soils will be

More generally inoculated with the alfalfa

inn-term, so that we can expect to soc—

vt-wl with alfalfa under much the same

< iii-litions that we now get success Willi

clover. but at the present time it would,

Scion to be a prn'iposititim of tilll_li)tfll]'\\'iS-;

dI-m to sow alfalfa under conditions which ;

would not be eitpectml to give the best‘

results with clover. If all the conditionsi

are favorable when the time comes to

seed in the corn at the last cultivation, it

might pay to try alfalfa in this way. but

if the conditions are not unusually favor-

able it would not, in the writer's opinion,

be good practice. and in any event not as;

likely to succeed as where the alfalfa is;

‘- wn alone on a well-prepared seed bed.i

Bromus lnermis vs. Alfalfa. !

\\'ill you please advise me what you

think of Bromus Inermis? Can you in—

form me if it will pay better on sandy

loam than alfalfa for hay? I never saw

it grown and Would like information.

Ottawa Po. G.

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grass, especially for the binding of loose

soils. it is tenacious of life and a drought

resistor, but is not at all in the same:

class with alfalfa where the latter can bc‘

grown. Its drought resisting qualities





make it well suited to thc semi-arid re-

ginns of the west. Wizvrc it gives great

promise as a pasture grass. It is not,





however. so well suitcd to use in our“

morc humid rcgiuns, cspofiwially in fields"

devoted to tl; regular crop rotation, since!

when once established it spreads byi

means of strong root stocks, something,

after the manner of quack grass, and like

it is inclined to become a wee: on good

tails. where it becomes well established.

For this reason it is best used only in the

permanent posture. where its quality of

permanence will be valuable instead of

objectionable. it should be experimented

w ith by Michigan farmers on a small scale

if at all, until we get well acquainted

with it and its habits.





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THE SOWS AT FARROWING TIME.





   





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Upon the sow’s care and management

during the latter part of pregnancy,

largely depends the probable success or

failure in farrowing. Men in different

lines of investigation in different states

who have studied the farrowing'problem

say that the average size of litters is less

than four. On many farms the number

raised is considerably less. _On others it

is somewhat larger. A litter of four is

entirely too small. We have found in our

experience that any sow can raise seven

or eight if properly cared for.



Probably the first essential thing is to

get the sow into such condition that far-

rowing will be easily and safely ac-

complished. In order to get into this

condition the sow needs a rather active

out-door life. The exercise is needed to

give her general system tone and vigor

and to harden up her muscles. Our own

sows have the run of a big open yard

that slopes to the south. Here, when-

ever tne sun is shining, they will be out

stirring about and getting needful exer-

cise. Sometimes they are turned out into





 





THE MICHIG,AN FARMER. ,. (5)





the whole feed. The reason for this is

so well known that it scarcely need be

stated here. It tends to fatten, rather

than to produce growth. Another objec-

tion to an all corn diet is that the pigs,

when they are farrowed, are fatter and

far more subject to thumps and other pig

ailments. This fact that the pigs are

just a little larger by being fatter is

another reason why farrowing is more

difficult in the case of the corn-fed sow.



We have fed alfalfa hay in racks with

very satisfactory results. We use the

finer hay from the last crop. The sows

are allowed to run to this at will. \Ve

never learned just how much they will

eat in this way but at any rate they take

considerable amounts of .t and we are

sure that it is beneficial. The alfalfa

satisfies a natural craving for something

bulky which the hog possesses. This

craving may be observed in the holes

which they will gnaw into any kind of

hay or straw to which they have access.

Whenever given the opportunity to choose

for themselves, the sows prefer alfalfa to

all other kinds of dry roughage. The

alfalfa is valuable as a feed for the sows

in that it is comparatively high in pro-

tein, which corn lacks.



Outside the corn belt quite a number

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their summer pasture. Of course, they

don’t secure much feed in the pasture but

they receive a great deal of benefit from

the exercise which they get in roaming

about.



The feed is an impertant factor in get-

ting the sow into that desirable condi—

tion. At this time the sow needs feed

to build up her own body and to nourish

the pigs that she is carrying. Further-

more, in the case of a young sow, part of

the feed must go to nourish and build up

her own body. From that point of view

the feed should be abundant and nutri-

tious. Some do not believe that a sow

should be heavily fed. They say that

she is apt to become too fat. That, as a

consequence, she will not farrow easily

and safely and that she will not be a good

suckler after farrowing. Our experience

has not borne out this theory, except

where the ration was exceedingly fatten-

ing and the sow to which it was fed did

not receive sufficient exercise. On the

other hand, when the sow was well fed

with feeds containing plenty of protein

and where she had sufficient exercise, no

such trouble ever occurred. Furthermore,

when fed as we have just advised the

sows seemed to farrow more easily and

the pigs were stronger and more lusty

than where the sows had not been well

fed.



To furnish the nourishment which the

sow needs corn will, in most cases, fur-

nish the basis of the ration. This is all

right and may well be so where corn is

the principal crop. It is very appetizing

and contains large amounts of digestible

nutrients. It is also one of the cheapest

feeds When everything is taken into con-

sideration. However, it will not do as





mixed with about an equal amount of

corn, ground barley,

shorts. The peas contain a high percent-

age of protein and, from that standpoint,

are very good. However, when fed alone

they do not put on the gains as fast as

some other feeds do and produce an in—

ferior quality of pork. Beans have been

used with results very similar to those

produced with peas, excepting that they

must be cooked. Perhaps the best single

feed, aside from corn, is barley. Those

who feed it regularly grind it to produce

tue best results.



There are quite a number of supple-

mental feeds that may be fed to gOOG

advantage. Chief among them is skim-

milk. \Ve have never had as much or

this as we would like to have had. On

farms where this product can be secured

it proves to be a very valuable adjunct.

\Vhen neither clover nor alfalfa. are fcd,

some protein supplemental must be pre—

vided. “'0 have found shorts, bran, oil

meal and tankage to be very good. The

tankage is exceedingly high in protein

and one-tenth or even one—twentieth with

corn will furnish suflicient protein. Oil

meal contains about half as much protein

and must be fed in correspondingly larger

amounts. Shorts and bran contain still

less and must be increased still more.

Bran is a little too coarse and bulky and

should in no case furnish the entire pro-

tein supplement.



These supplemental feeds must supply

another quality than merely furnishing

protein. They must be slightly laxative

upon the digestive system. For this pur-

pose we are just a little partial to oil

meal and bran. We are now feeding one

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parts corn and one part of a mixture of

oats, shorts, bran, and oil meal. This

seems to be just about the best ration

ithat we have ever fed to sows.





This matter of laxative feed is too often

overlooked. We had our eyes first opened

in regard to the matter by observing that

those sows which farrowed late in the

spring, after pasture had opened up, rare-

ly had trouble in farrowing. Sows that

farrowed safely and raised larger litters

than those that farrowed early. “’e are

not going to claim that the laxative ef-

fects of the green feed is entirely respon-

sible for this difference. Yet to exer-

cise and to the laxative feed do we give

nearly the full credit. The weather, of

course, has much to do Willi saving or

losing the pigs after they are fart-owed,

but it cannot have anything to do with

the act of farrowing and that is where

one of the greatest losses occurs.



A few days before the sow is due to

furrow, and especially when she has be-

gun to show signs of approaching par-

turition. she is put into one of the pens

in the hog house. She is not confined in

this small pen and deprrved of all exer-

cise, as that would be injurious, in that

it would tend to make the sow’s system

cioy pith feed and reduce her vitality. If

the weather is fit the sows are usually

turiw-d out into the big adjoining lot dur-.

ing the day. .\t :il‘; times they haw;- ac-

cess to the outside pens ELEl,Lt'l‘.c-i to the

hog house.



After the sows are l)!‘!’,\‘ii,‘£_li’ iz‘. {zir-

rowing their feed is reduc-wi ‘

quantity and bran is filibstiltil .‘z

of the corn. .l’lonty of gem

is supplied twice per day . .

kept clean and thinly bedded .. .

litter. A fender to protect the little pigs

is made by spiking L’xS's horizontally

eight inclics above the flour and entirely

around the pen. On the div-«r ->:‘ fnrrnxi'ing

tllC‘SLHV is fed little or :1) :‘e-y-i. ri‘he sec-

ond she is given (about. lit-iii the usual

amount if she appears. to ‘:c lining \vcll.

About the fourth or fit"

weather is such that she mi: _.

with her pigs, she will be setting it full



ccd again. in regard to {es-dine .l’ fur-

rowihg time we can learn ll good. Ecs‘swn

froizi illllll”. Take the SoW' that s‘czils

away and furrows under the edge of some

old hay stack. if observed closely it will

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tivo or three days before fui‘rmving For

:i Couple of days after she .2: v not leave

her nest at all. Then she 3....‘gins by going

out for a drink and :1 ii: if: feed iter

pigs are usually strong. lusty fellows and

it is very seldom that she 1 es one I‘x’or

is the sow suffering with g2::‘_,.

other disorder.



\\'henever we find it llel:'€\'\'ur:\' to he‘p

a sow in farrowing we feel that ii is due





 





 





 





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to our poor methods of feeling and man-





agement. However. one pw's‘ always be

prepared for the worst \,\.- have jzist

gotten a pair of highly rerun; .“l‘ieleal pig





forceps which we hope i' :‘lii not be

ti.cr-e;~'.—iar:~' to use. We 'l‘\.i'?.1.’”!‘,fmllQll

if they will be superior tr) our ..3.l wire

hoot. This hook is made ft‘oiz‘. .t piece

of number sixteen wire about a foot in

length. At one end is bent ll ring large

enough for a finger or two. At the other

is. made a hook. To make 'lllS hook about

three—duariers of an inch at the end of

the wire is slmrpciiml. Thin the sharp-

citrl purl is bent buck T2) :in angle of

Great

t‘ill‘t' must be (’Xl‘rxlSlWl iilv.‘2tys. The in-





17 degrccs with the main wire.





divuluitl I'ie'dill-‘ll‘lllt‘S of the different sows

must be studied. it sometimes seems

that :1 man is successful with hogs h-

_iusi the ~‘Xtcilt to which he puts his lll‘JLll‘.

into their care.

loam, II. E. )l:‘('.‘if'.TI\'FI‘.'.

FEEDS AND FEEDING AND THEIR

RELATION TO HEALTH.





ii; :1 tall; or. the zibovc [0,;in- m the nu

cent ltound-l’p. llr. it. i’. Lyman. of 31'.

A. t.‘.. described the limi'M‘ its an lllllfl'l.ti

with a small stoiirich, \Vllllll makes rin-

feeding problem not nearly so (us;- as in

the case of man. \\'h:itc\'cr goes into the

stomach of the horse has to puss on, as

it is impossible for lllt' horse to vomit. as

the dog or pig. Another peculiarity of the

horse is that it has no gall bladder. hence

idleness is more of :1 disturbing tin-tor to

the horse than to othci animals, The

horse has a total length of intestines of

SN) feet and here is cmploywl the import-

ant functions of digestion and nutrition.



Moldy, dusty and dirty foods are the

cause of heaves, which cause an enlarge-

ment of the lungs to nearly fill the space

operated upon by the breast muscles.

\Vhen the breast muscles cease to expand

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER,





purposes the abdominal muscles are}

called into play, which explains the move-

ments of the horse’s sides near the flanks,

so easily recognized among horses With

heaves. Idle horses should have their

grain rations reduced as the work ceases

to prevent azoturia. When the latter

disease occurs, stop at once. Many a

horse might have been saved if this pre-

caution had been obeyed. The effect of

over-feeding, causing founder, is the

Spreading of the laminae or layers above

the hoof, and the “sweeney” of the chest.

Lymphangitis is more prevalent among

drafters and is the inability of the system

to carry off the waste matter.



The horse should do most of its rough-

age eating at night, and should only have

a light feed of hay and grain at noon.

The practice of watering horses when

warm or at noon before eating is to be

condemned. The blood is mainly out of

the veins of the stomach and in the sur-

face veins when the stomach is empty

and the horse has been exerting itself.

\Vhen the stomach is cooled with water

and filled with feed. trouble is likely to

ensue. At any time there is no real merit

in watering before feeding. The horse

does not lie down and rest all night, but

is up and down, takes some hay while

up and then lies down again. For this

reason the hay feed should be mainly at

night and not at noon. Ensilage is not a

in food for horses. Corn is more likely.

to set up fermentation in the stomach;

than oats.





 





FORAGE CROPS FOR HOGS.



imal foods will produce good results

'\\'ll"lii fed in rations that are prop-

fli‘l)l)0!‘2lu!letl. so that all parts of the

l,'.l“.l“.'il will la; well’nourished. Corn is

no? a complem- animal food. flnly foods

that cmzmii: I‘u- required amounts of ash

and protein c.1n furnish the nutrimcnts

necessary for t'it- formation of bone and

muscle. To serirc the best growth and

crowing animal mzist‘





 





developmeni ‘ly

have a ration 4‘ ‘lillllllll‘i! a high percent,-

nge of protein .1in 't»:l.. The high cost of.





concentrate-l grain :iiid try—product fc-cd’





stuffs makes ‘l..|::‘ general use almost

prohibitive to the grower of market boils.

This brings us down to the question of

securing the necessary ash and protcin in

the cheapest and most palatable form.





In addition to securingr suitable foo-11





nutrimcnts which affect all growing and,

breeding animals there are other factors;

affecting the food of growing pigs and‘

bremling swine, two of which are bulk1

and succulcnce. Fortunately. the bestl

and cheapest sources of protein and ash

:~:.i\plg."thc necessary bulk and succulence

in the most healthful and palatable form..

in various sections we find successfull

brccders and feeders of hogs who derive".

an increased value from their corn by;

feeding it along with alfalfa. clover. cowI

peas, field peas. soy beans. blue grass,

rape. rye. and other bulky and succulent

feeds that will furnish the necessary ash

and protein to make up a suitable ration

for the hogs.



Carefully conducted experiments in hog

feeding prove that it is possible to reduce

the amount of grain foods about 40 per

cent by the judicious use of pasture and

forage crops. As soon as the hogs have

consui'ned one crop another should be

ready for pasture. Land that. is used for

hog pasture gains in fertility very rap-

idly. especially if the legumes (nitrogen

gathering plants), are grown for pasture:

crops and the land titted and re—sown as‘.

sotm as the hogs are turned into a new





 





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Many farmers advocate growing pigS‘.

on forage and 1;:18t‘.ll'(‘ alone, but my c):-

periencc with alfalfa, the queen of forage

plants. convinces me that it pays to sup-

“;lcment ![ with some kind of grain foods.

‘i\'hile living in the Arkansas Valley

where alfalfa and blue grass thrive I

found ‘lliil bcfler results could be at-

t.i.ir.c«l by fewding considerable grain to





my pigs and breeding swine vlien they:

were being pasturcd. .\ pig that is grown;

«in t'oi‘dgw crops with Just, enough gratinv

foods; to maintiin an even and vigorous

growth is capable of ceiling, digesting and!

tissimiluting more grain food when placed

in the fattening yards than one that has

been developed on a less bulky ration.

The forage ration enlarges the digestive

system and prepares it for the heavy

feeding period to follow. I have made a

careful study of this phase of hog feed-

ing and it will be my purpose to discuss

the kinds of forage and methods em-

ployed in utilizing these crops by suc-

cessful breeders and feeders in the states

of Kansas, Maryland and New York, as'

well as the methods practiced in growing

crops and planning a rotation that will





 





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What Does it Cost To

Operate An Automobile?





HAT depends almost entirely

on the make of car you buy.





The first cost of some cars is little and

the operating, or second cost, is big. ,





C] The logical and safe thing is

cost first, and the first cost last. .



1]] In designing, in selecting material, in manufacturing, Over-

land cars, we have spared no effort or expense to produce cars

that will give utmost service at the least possible expense.



(ll That our policy is Correct is: amply prover. by the unparalleled

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both in first cost and second cost.



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llTwenty-five thousand enthusiastic





to consider the second





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tinuous service—summer and winter. day and night.



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' GENTLEMEN—VVhen I talkec of buying an automobile more than a

year ago there was so many very important questions that no one was





prepared to answer: They were concerning the upkeep of the machine.”





I have kept a careful tabulated account of my year's expense, and am

glad to furnish you with this information.



\Vith the exception of ten days' sickness last winter, my machine

has been run as a physician runs a machine in his practice scattered all

over the city. besides taking many pleasure rides of evenings and some

Sunday rides to adjoining country towns~





My gasoline cost me for the year $59.67

Lubricating oil — - - - 8.65

Transmission greise - — ~ 2.63

Anti-freeze fluid - — - 3.25

Battery cells - — ~ - 4 25





This makes for the year an average of 211/20. per d3.“ for actual

running expenses.



Other expenses. including all supplies and mending tubes, tires,

patchesr (310., as well as licenses and. uh expenses connected with owning

Ll macrhuie, cost an additional 23112:: per day, making a total of 430- per

(a3. . have not heard 0: any car that compares with the Overland in

economy tor upkeep.





Yours for the Overland.



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nobil: value when purchase prite is considered and that it can be opcr~

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Model 51. (Fore-Door) no ind. wad \

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furnish bulky and succulent foods during

the whole of the growing season.

I Alfalfa.



As a forage crop for hogs alfalfa is un-

excelled by any forage or pasture grass.

Not only is it wonderfully productive un-

der a wide range of conditions and cir-

cumstances, but it is one of the most

nutritious of plants and is relished by

hogs of all ages when green or when cut

and cured for hay. It is rich in ash and

protein, thus providing the elements re-

quired to balance the corn ration in the

most economical manner. All feeders who

are interested in producing pork at the

lowest cost, should investigate the value

of this highly nitrogeneous forage crop

for it can be grown with great benefit to

their land and at a low cost. It requires

study and judgment to successfully grow

alfalfa, but when once well seeded, it is

easy to raise and will improve the soil

rapidly. When out for hay and well-

cured it makes good winter feed. The

best way to use alfalfa in tile winter is

to cut or grind it fine and mix it with the

hog's slop. This keeps the bowels and

digestive systems in the best condition.

Constipation is one of the worst dangers

that feeders have to contend with in the

winter when the animals do not exercise

freely, but When alfalfa is cut and fed as

a part ration, there; is no difficulty from

this source as the droppings will look as

green and fresh as when the animals are

running in a pasture. When pasturing

alfalfa we find it best to allow the hogs

the run of a large field and cut what is

not eaten for hay the same as if it were

not used for pasture. This does not ser-

iously injure the hay and the danger of

too close cropping is eliminated. Pigs

that have a wide range root less. I pre-

fer to feed about two bushels of corn

each day to 50 mature breeding hogs that

are running on the alfalfa fields and about

the same amount to 100 four or five

months’ old pigs. The hogs should be re—

moved from the pasture while being fin-

ished for market, to promote the firmness

of their flesh and improve its flavor.

About six weeks’ grain rations will put a

pig in shape for market after they are

removed from alfalfa pasture. “'here

alfalfa thrives is heaven for the hogs

and such a combination as corn and al—

falfa will bring in the greatest possible

returns in hog growing and feeding.

Where alfalfa thrives it will furnish graz-

ing from the fore part of May until frost

comes in the fall.



Common Red Clover.



There is no plant more valuable in a

northern climate than our common red

clover and when it is in full bloom it

will carry more hogs to the acre than any

other forage crop, with the exception of

alfalfa. After it has been closely pas—

tured, a few wet days will bring it on

again and the hogs may again be turned

on the field. This crop has two growing

seasons. It makes its most vigorous

growth from the middle of April to the

middle of June, and its second growth

from the first of August until cold weath—

er comes. Pasture close to the first of

July and withdraw the hogs until the

middle of August, or later if the season

is extremely dry.



Blue Grass.



Blue grass is an excellent flesh pro-

ducer, but should not be pastured until it

forms a close turf. The best blue grass

pastures are those that have been seeded

for a number of years. Like other grasses

it should not be pastured too close, but it

will stand closer grazing than many kinds

of forage and grass. “'hen it is desired

to seed down a small yard or pasture to

blue grass, sow the seed and throw some

shelled corn around where the seed drops

and the pigs will do the rest. This is a

slovenly method, but is practiced by many

good farmers when it is difficult to plow

small yards and pastures. One great ad-

vantage of blue grass pasture is the fact

that it can be utilized during the winter,

providing a good fall growth is left for

winter grazing. The cold‘weather does

not injure the forage to any serious ex-

tent, and it is available at a time when

other kinds of forage are frozen or dried

up. Great care should be exercised to

get the best cleaned seed for many times

a failure to get a catch is due to buying

adulterated seed.



. Cow Peas.



Cow peas, like clover and alfalfa, are

soil improvers and afford large crops of

excellent forage for hog pasture. They

are to the south what clover and alfalfa

are to the north and west—forage crops

well adapted to the needs of the region.





'In their habits of growth they resemble





beans more than peas. I have found this

crop excellent for hogs and obtained re-

markable gains in weight on our Kansas





farm. The tenth of August the vines

measured eight and nine feet long and

the peas were fully grown and matured

by the middle of September. In growing

cow peas we should keep in mind that it

is a southern crop and when grown in a

higher latitude it makes .ts best growth

during the warmest weather. Planting

should be delayed until warm weather.



\Vhen pasturing cow peas turn the hogs

on the field when the pods are beginning

to ripen. Ari acre of cow peas will pro-

vide forage for 15 or 20 hogs for a num-

ber of weeks and the gain in fertility

from the nitrogen of the plants and the

droppings of the hogs will more than off-

set the value of the forage eaten. The

gain in weight will represent so much

clear profit and the feeder will be better

off by a ton of choice pork for every two

acres of thrifty cow peas pastured with

good hogs. The hogs should be allowed

on the field only when eating, so as to

prevent the vines from being trodden un-

der foot and wasted.





 





Common Field Peas.

This crop is usually pastured before the,

peas are ripe, the common practice being!

to turn the hogs into the field about the'

time the peas are fit for table use, and

allow them the run of the lot until they

have consumed the whole crop. They eat

most all of the vines and the waste is

small. Sow small fields and sow often.

Never turn the pigs into a field until they

have become accustomed to the change of

food. as there is more or less danger of:

their becoming deranged and unthrifty.

\\'hen the pasture grows faster than the

pigs can consume the feed they may ber

cut and cured for hay or plowed down.

The field should be well-fitted and the;

peas drilled or broadcasted at various“

times during the spring, so that the pigs,

may have green peas at all times during

the season.





 





Soy Beans.



Soy beans are an excellent nitrogeneous

food, and when the pigs have a field of

this crop for pasture they will consume

the beans, leaves and stalks, leaving

nothing but the stubble. Little grain is

required when soy beans are available.

Soy beans are soil improvers and better

adapted as a forage crop for swine than

many other crops that seem to find pop-

ular favor.



Rape.



This member of the turnip family is‘

pre-eminently a forage plant for sheep‘

pasture, but many hog growers are utiliz-

ing it with success. \Vhen pastured with

hogs it should be pastured in small lots

at a time to avoid having the whole field

trampled down. This crop does not pos-

sess as high feeding value as many other

crops, but it is very conducive to good

gains while the animals are being fed

grain, and on this account is well thought

of by many feeders. It is especially adap—

ted to late summer and fall feeding. It

may be sown in drills or broadcast. \Vhen

buying seed select nothing but the Dwarf

Essex seed, for this variety has given

better results wherever it has been grown

than the other varieties.



Winter Pasture.



Every swine grower should plan to have

some late fall and winter pasture for his

hogs, especially if in a climate where the

winters are rather open. \Vheat or ryel





 





 





makes good winter hog pasture, and the; '





saving in the amount of grain required

is large. In many sections of the western

states the hogs are wintered largely on

the wheat fields and very little grain is

required to keep them until spring when

the other forage crops are available. In

this way it is profitable to carry over fall

pigs and make heavyweights of them the

next fall and early winter.



No matter what kind of forage crops





are used, one crop should be ready for, .





pasture as soon as the other is consumed. .

The soil may be improved rapidly by:

growing a succession of forage crops and

feeding grain foods with them. As ordi—

narily managed .hogs are great wasters of

fertility, but when it is planned to utilize

the fertility that is brought to the soil

through their feeding they can be made

a highly imporant factor in improving

and renovating old fields.

New York. XV, MILTON KELLY.





 





Tests show that a cement floor is colder

than a board floor where other conditions,

are the same. But while this fault existsi

and can be demonstrated by the use ofi

thermometers, practical stockmen have;i

gotten around the difficulty, and that by‘

no extra expense. \Vith a good supply Ofi

straw on the cement it is found that no:

evil results came from the animals lying

thereon and the influence of the cement

on the feet of the stock when standing

is better in some regards, than boards.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





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Break Your Horses of Any Bad Habits

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Prof. Jesse Beery. king of horse tamers and trainers.

has retired from his marvelous career in the arena and

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a horse to drive without rcins. tell the disposition of

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What Prof. Beery’s Students Are Doing





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selling them. perfectly broken. at alargo profit.”



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cess: broke ti five-yeiir-old

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The owner offered to sell it

. for $75.00. but after I



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42 Academy St. Pleasant Hlll, Ohio





   





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THE NATIVE LAMB As A FEEDER

FACTOR IN MICHIGAN.





 





The above subject was'ably discussed

at the recent Round-up Institute, by Jess.

N. McBride. of Shiawassee county, in

which section of Michigan lamb feeding

has attained its greatest development. A

synopsis of his talk follows:



The feeding of lambs has not settled

down to a final and finished line of op-

erations. Competition for the range lamb

is strong and the Michigan feeder pays

more than he can really afford to be-

cause of this competition among feeders.

The San Luis Valley calls for at least

100,000 to be fed on peas. Northern Col—

when the alt‘alia crop is good,

doubles this number. The Arkansas Val-

ley has great capacity for feeders. Then

comes the cornfield demand from the

great corn belt. All these competitors

for feeding lambs, while largely a com-

pulsory outlet for feed, must be supplied,

and Michigan feeders to get lambs must

play the game to the limit.



Vt'hen it comes to the market for the

finished product, Michigan feeders have

little, if any, advantage. as Chicago is

often quite as good a market as llufi‘ah’x.

At this point and under these conditions,

arises the questitn. is there any possible

chance to utilize native feeders to cmn-

1)ete with the western iatub‘.’ The. early





lambs from (-iarst "5:19. nit-idle wool flocks

is market in mid-





in Michigan gt. Eyes:

summer, when they .27.: Like: 911‘ the ewe

with their milk in! <'

southern lambs hast"

lighter end of this

best be shorn in Sci-'-

Of external parasites ;‘ .

pasture and light gran;

some time in December

2... native lambs shorn in >-.

duced the buying prit-c

pound of live weight and h:

when top wooled lambs \-.'cr-~

$6.30 in Chicago, these clippers-

$6.25.



The sheep owner in Michigan

the usual fztll clean—up in having it

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by feeding. Here is where the shearing





proposition pays.



On rough or hilly lands,

range country, 1 would

strong infusion of Merino blood, where

ilocks exceed 50 ewes. The point is that

as a posture. proposition the Merino stock

flock together and will stand more neg-

lct-t than the English breeds. 11‘ we are

willing to give English cure to their

breeds, and iinish on turnips and rape in

small flocks, they are profitable. \Vhere

this is not possible, use Alt-line?- grades.

An additional reason is sec!) in their

lighter weight and mu-cllent feeding, qual—

ities. The Merino also is not so Subject

to the ravages oi the stomach worm.

llany Michigan farmers have been driven

out of the sheep industry by failure to

fortify the English breeds with an ade—

‘ supply of bone—making feeds. The





or the northern

recommend a





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Merino bloods would have succeeded

where the English type failed. The m—





fnsiwn of Merino blood means not a per—

manent breed, but the opportune mingling

of these bloods. for perhaps not to exceed

two generations. No other state has the

conditions of good flocks to get stock

1mm. 1. 0., a continual replenishment of

foundation stock from the small farm

Hot-Ls: of course wools.



Alivhignn can grow alfalfa whith.

huge. contains about 1.7.0 lbs.

and with it we can put

up a fight as mutton finishers that prom-

ises more profit than at present. A (liVlS-

ion of the expense incidental to getting

the western lambs would in itself be a

fair profit. I am not certain but that the

necessities of the msc demand some con-

certed action on the part of sheep own-

ers, and possibly from the slate authori-

ties, similar to that of improving.r breeds

of cattle as is now carricd out by their

live. stock field man. “'0 must be clothed

as well as fed, and more people each year

demand good woolen clothing.





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~fuelling roug

of ash to the ton.





It is estimated that about noon cars of

cattle will be shipped from tltc Panhandle

of Texas to the Kansas and northern

pastures this spring, or 5,000 cars more

than were forwarded last spring. Ship-

ments began a few weeks ago, and i1 is

stated authoritatively by those who know

that reduced numbers will be sent to

northern pastures in Montana and Colo—

rado, the shrinkage being placed at about

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-‘ the maimed and mangled sheep from it; the

._ _ uneven shearing, cutting the animal in some

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the fleece in shreds and timers and spoiled with second cuts, OR the easy turning, fast, even shearing of 3





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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





This has been a phenomenal winter for

egg production. It appears that farmers

are paying more attention to poultry than

in the past, and more hens are held than

formerly. Then the mild, bright, sun-

shiny days have been favorable to the

production of eggs, and there was never

before a winter period when hens laid so

freely. The markets of the country have

been receiving unprecedentedly large

supplies of eggs, the southwest sending

especially liberal consignments to Chicago

and other western markets, and prices

have undergone such a great fall that ev-

erybody has been eating eggs in place of

beef, mutton, pork, and other meats, eggs

being so much cheaper. The cold stor-

age eggs go a begging, and the consump-

tion of meats is lowered to a degree that

injures the live stock trade.



The United States Department of Agri-

culture has issued the regular report on

the numbers of live stock of different

classes held by farmers on Jan. 1, and

the report is not received with much fa-

vor, as it presents as facts statements

that are known to be far from true. For

instance, it gives the farm value of hogs

Jan. 1 at $9.35 per head, or 20 cents more

than a year earlier, whereas the market

price was actually much lower than a

year earlier.



It is reported that cold storage ware-

houses in this country are carrying fully

sixty million pounds of creamery butter,

and holders are wondering how they are

going to dispose of it all, the unusually

large winter production of butter having

made a bad market for storage butter,

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should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

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Enlarged Thyroid Glands—My cow has

a hard movable bunch in throat which I

believe causes her to breathe heavy and

cough. Mrs. Id. C., Beaverton, Mich.—

Apply one part led iodide mercury, one

part iodine (resublimed), and eight parts

lard to hunch twice a week. Also give

2 drs. iodidc potassium at a dose three

times a day.



Acidity of Stomach—I have a cow that

has an unnatural appetite for wood and

rubbish. \\'hat can be done for an ail-

ment of this kind? .T. \V. C., “’ilmont,

MiclL—(live your cow three tablespoon-

fuls of cooking soda, two tablespoonfuls

of ground gclitian and four tablespoonfuls

of powdered wood charcoal at a dose in

feed three times a day. She should be

fed some roots.



Dchorninir Catile.——ll’hat had I better

apply to the head of cattle immediately

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HgRRSEEASLCNECESSITY ABOUT Too many stock feeders are holding Fill-"Iiifh IELIIE€¥1—l:\£lll’lllV 11:2;2‘23‘3111: 58:511332 tion, vill outlast three of other makes.

. ATTLE.SHEEP,SWINE, their hogs until they attain extremely bleeding, 0]. apply tar and oakum with “'e v nt every farmer to have this





   





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heav wei hts, the incentives to following . , . ‘ .7 ‘ ‘ ‘

this 3cfoursg being the great abundance of hmdl‘lgb (“fir 1:; m sea; till-e endsl (it?

cheap food and the open winter, which )..0m.vef%( Ts “lul a rednio‘ iron ant

has rendered fattening stock much \\111 stop liemoilhage. llieie' are many

Cheaper than in past winters. The de- useful home remedies that “‘1“ heal the

mand calls for lighter hogs, and these “"“mdg: however, a dusting powder com-

b' must be sold on the market at posed 0f “'l‘m‘ parts boric acu‘l, powdered

1g ones u i t R t" p from all alum and Iodoforln Will do the work and

a great discoun. epor 5 com it should be applied daily.





. i that farmers are realizin the

arounc g Blind Staggers—Partial Loss of Power. A ' REA TISE





necessity for increasing their pig “crops,”

——.\bout a week ago my horse became

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and are holding back their brood sows for _ _



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time to restore the hog supply of the (‘flntrOl of ills legsr-he staggers from one

country to normal proportions, for the Slde to the other and our local Vet. is

population of the United States is grow- unable to effect a cure. I. H..- Breeds-

ing rapidly all the time, while hog pro- Vllle. llIlcll.~l‘11‘st of all give him 1 dr.





duction has been retrograding for years. calomel, 8 (ll‘S~ aloes and 2 (lI‘S. ginger

made into a bolus and given at one dose.





Country shippers Of cattle and hogs in This will 'l(‘t as a cathartic if his bow-

Iowa are com Ilaining that they have been ‘ f; .. c _ . J -

suffering seric‘ius losses in money in mak- Sing? :10‘t‘giieenr‘l-‘ilfihallgeglll 15:9ng Idrcs

ing shipments to the Chicago market on broi'nide iot‘tssium rtnd 1 dr round nu‘i



'l of misleading reports sent . l f" f - g . ‘ .

the: sggenézrt; \Vestern Union Telegraph Vomica at a dose in feed three times a.

0‘1 ' . ' . day.



man earl in the morning, beiore ‘, . , ‘_ , ,



Sized; “Vere esstfablished. Quotations sent nggligdgg‘gd?'COIW“8]1;13 12:29:01)E3%W

out before markets are well established mill" this _ . ‘ t 1‘1“ " ,f “y



thless and have " *7 (0W appeals 0 )e pei ec y

for tge Ideas; agggegvoil‘n the past They healthy and was all right up to a week'

giggled bi abandoned. A shipping firm in Effer Sawg'lmlfifr‘8238 Ll/Ebcdlkgloggrog ygdlllt‘l



Iowa purchased two car * V.“ ‘ ' -



Dallas county, th' ‘tren th of such a may have kicked her Oi she may have

loads or hogs on e bu , g d suffered injured uddcr for want of bedding. Apply

repfrt fen; 8311:; wloeuclfinhzstveairnet with an 1 part tincture arnica and 6 parts water



1 a os, - , .

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” . ht' then go cow wounte one ca on 3.1.1 ice “ire

first be sure they are rig ’ last summer and our local \et. stitched

ahead.” wound, which healed fairly well, but milk



An Iowa firm of breeders and feeders 0f has leaked out of this opening ever since

Hereford cattle marketed 71 head '01’ and as she is about to go dry I thought

steers of this breed of their own breeding perhaps you could tell me how to heal it.

and raising in Chicago on Monday. Feb. A. s, Sparta, I\‘Ticll.-Mi\lzl.kc the edges of

13. at 556-90. topping the market, and wound raw, stitch wound and apply equal

demonstrating that 13 was a 1UCkY num- parts boric acid, powdered alum and ox-

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Obstructed Teats and Udder.—One

quarter of my cow‘s udder is sOmewhat

blocked and the teat seems to be filled

with two small hard bunches. M. W'. B.

———Apply iodine ointment to bunches once

daily. Her diseased quarter will perhaps

close and remain blind



(Stacked Heels—My 12-year-old mare

has scratches and a sort of cramming of

the leg takes place. I also find the back

tendons of leg thickened and are growing

worse. J. O. 01.. Silverwood, Mich—Ap-

ply one part oxide of zinc, and six parts

vase1.ne to sores and tendons daily.



Diarrhoea—«I have a cow that is trou-

bled with loose bowels and the medicine

I have given her fails to help her. G.

L 1)., Lawrence, Mich—Give 1 oz. ground

ginger and 1,13 oz. powdered sulphate of

iron at a dose in feed three times a day.



Bronchmrele—l have a dog that has a

bunch in throat which should be reduced.

C. F. (3.. Levering. t.l.-~—t‘1i\'e him Z1 grs

iodide ot‘ potasslu 11 at a dose in fccd

two or three times a day. It will do good

to apply tincture of iodine to bunch twice

a week.



Rheumatis:1.1.—\\'l'1en my brood mare is

allowed 1._» stand 111. the stable a few days

without exercise she seems to start quite

stiff and sore and the whole trouble seems

to be in fun l:i11.'. legs. 1.1. .\'.. Clare, )Iich.

——Jive her 1 dr. salicylic acid and 2 drs.

nitrate potash at a dose in feed two or

three times a day for '11 week or 10 days

and apply spirits of camphor to sore joints

twice a day.



Coins. filly eight- year-old horse has

done no 111111. this “inlet. but seems to be

troubled with coins and I would like to

know of a remedy tor them. It. .I. R,

Harbor Beach, Mil-l1.s~\\'l1en you get him

shod keep the pressure off corns and the

feet moist is perhaps all that is neces-

sary.



Soreness in Joints—My 1‘111.1:'~_1'e'11r-old

mare seems to be stiff ir. her joints, but

most of this stillness leaves as soon as

She is exercised. I]. A. l".. l'icmlot'k,

BIiClL-Give her a dessertspoonl‘u‘. 111' 11:1\\'-

tiered nitrate of potash and a teaspoonl‘ul

of colchi'um seed at a dose in feed two

or three times a day. She should be kept

in a dry. comfortable Stable and exercised

some every day.



Nasal (11eet —I1)r the past two years

my horse has been troubled with a dis-

chaige from nose. but has no cough and

is in good condition. I1 11. I... l’etoskey,

Mich ——If the dischaige is from. one nos-

tril it is the result of a diseased uppei

tooth but if from both nostiils and the

discharge does not iIQVt‘ an Ullt’llane odor

it is not the result 111 unsound teeth.

l1lve 2 drs powdered sulphate iron. 1._. oz.

ground gentian and 2 drs . of ground tenu-

greek at a dose in teed two or th1ee times

a. (18$.



\\ ounded Hind Leg—I have a pair of

hoxses that stand in stable with pole be-

tween them and one of the horses must



have kicked over this pole or the other

horse must have kicked him. wounding

the fore part or hind leg. He is quite

lame and I am afraid he may have, pro-

duced a spavin. L. I... l‘etoskey, Mich.—

l\Iix equal parts boric acid. powdered

alum. oxide of zinc and iodoform and ap-

ply to wounds twice a day. As soon as

1ou suctccd in healing the wounds l am

inclined to believe that his lameness will

disappear.



Chronic Stocking—Two years ago my

horse had scratches: some time later he

was kicked on fetlock joint. causing con-

siderable inflammation of leg which left

it thickened. Last September he had a11-

other attack. the leg swelled very large

and broke open, discharging pus for some

30 days, then it healed. but is badly stock.

ed yet. What can be done. if anything,

to reduce it‘.’ 4.1. I). I... Lake Odessa,

Mich—Give him I M: iodide potassium at

a dose in feed three times a day for 20

days and bandage leg in tuition. Irritating



linimcnts and blisters will make him

worse.



Indigestion—Melanotic Tumors —-I wish

you would tell me what to give a hm se

to sharpen his appetite. and also tell me

if a grey horse is more likely to have

tumors than a 1'la1'k—colored one S. S.

\'.. Schoharle Co, N. \'.fitlive him 11

tubiespoont‘ul of the following compound

powder at a dose three times a day:

rioual parts by weight of powdered sul-

phate of iron, gentian. nux vomica, bicar—

bonate of soda and fenug'reek. \Yhite

horses are much more likely to suffer

from black melanotlt- tumors than dark-

colored horses.



Six—year-old Marc Fails to Come in

lieai~—l’ul‘ty Hock—I have :1 six—year-

old male that I am anxious to use for

breeding purposes but have 111.1 ms tailed

to find her in heat. She has been repeat—

edly teased with a stallion in order to

test her. but without results. I have an

opportunity to purchase a fot'r-year-old

l.;’llO-lb. mare that has a bum .1 on fore

part of hock which does not hurt her,

but am afraid to buy her without your

advice. L. I{.. Park Lake, Mlchr—llive

your mare lz'. grs. powdered cantharides

and 1 dr. group-l nux vomlca at a dose in

feed three times '11 day and she will per—

haps come in heat as soon as warm

weather sets in, The 111'111'11 you refer to

is \‘fnl‘th tl-é‘ced'ourths as much as if she

were sound. It you like her other ways

and can ‘ouv her 1’igl11.1l1) so.



irritation oi" Necks. #I have a pair of

mares that are bothered every summer

with a sort of irritation of their necks.

The skin is no! 1'::.‘.1,'. but it must itch for





the mares are you uneasy during hot

weather. 1.. 5.. unison, .\li1.'l1.rs-'l‘l'1eir

necks should he kept t'lcan so should the





Collar and sweat pads: furthermore. the

skin should be treated with antiseptics or

cooling astringents. Apply one part per-

oxide of hydrogen and five parts water:

ten minutes later rub on some powdered

sulphur. or apply one part blchloride of

mercury and 500 or 1.000 parts water to

both shoulder and tollais. An othei very

good application is made b1 dissolving 11

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acid in a. gallon of water and apply this

lotion three times a day.. Take the col-

lars of! at noon and hang them up In the

sunlight. There are many other excellent

applications and I know of no better plan

than to keep on trying different remedies

until you hit upon the right one.

Solidified Bursal Bunches—My seven-

year-old mare has hard bunches on both

fore legs just above the fetlock joints and

I would like to know what to apply. J.

H. '1‘., Addison, Mich—Apply one part

iodine, one part red iodide mercury and

eig1.. parts lard lightly to bunches once

01' twice a week. You will find it very

difficult to reduce bunches of this kind.

Thoroughpin—Barrenness.——-I have a

mare that has a badly inflamed hock and

bunches appeared on both sides of hock

joint and I have failed to reduce the

swelling. This same mare fails to get

with foal. S. McC., Breedsville, Mich.—

If the bunches are situated in knee in-

stead of hock the treatment will be the

same. Apply equal parts spirits camphor

and tincture of iodine to bunches once

daily. Dissolve 3 ozs. cooking soda in 1/2

gallon of clean water and wash out va-

gina daily for ten days and be sure to

treat her a few hours before service.

Influenza—My cow breathes ’heavy,

seems to be feverish and both eyes are

covered with a film which affects vision;

she also calves three weeks too soon and

coughs some. K. “K, Sherwood, Mich.—

Blow some calomel into eyes daily and





give her 17$ oz. Donovan's solution at a.





dose three times a day. Disolve 1 dr.

permanganate of potash in one gallon of

clean water and wash out vagina daily

for ten days, using a small rubber tube

and funnel.



Anaemia—I was called to see one of

my neighbor‘s cows and was unable to

tell what ailed her. She died and our

local Vet. examined her after death and

found her blood vessels contained very

little blood, therefore I should like to

know what ailed her. H. IV. .I.. Breeds-

vllle. Mich—This cow did not digest and

assimilate food properly, consequently she

failed to make good blood. Her liver may

not have acted well or she may have suf-

fered from indigestion.



Warts on I'dder and Teats.—-I have .a

cow that has :' great many warts on ud-

der which should be taken off.

you prescribe acetic acid to be applied

to flat warts every two or three days and

my cow 1as many small sort of blisters

on bag and teats which dry and harden,

that I Would like to take off. C. S. 0.,

Sears. Mlcl1.w\'our ('oW may have cow

pox: if so appli one part oxide of zinc.

and four parts 111scllne dailv and she willl

soon get well .\1etit acid or vinegar will'

take off warts



Obstructed Tentvay five-year—old

cow has a small bunch as large as a pea.

in each of her four tcats.—— IV. B., Meta—

mora. Mich—If these obstructions can

be gotten at easily they had better be

removed with a knife; if not, apply iodine

ointment once a day.



Indigestion—I have a four—year-old cow

which I bought when fresh about a week.

I' began feeding silage with bran, ground

corn. oats and cottonseed meal. She was

all right for awhile. then gradually lost

her appetite. Her udder cakes, she acts

lifeless and shows no indication of coming

in heat. A. V. A., Kalamazoo, Mich.—

You have perhaps overfed her. Give 1

lb. epsom salts at a dose and one—half the

quantity the following day if the first

dose fails to purge her. Also give 1 oz.

bicarbonate of soda, 1 oz. ground gentian

and 2 ozs. of powdered wood charcoal at

a dose in feed three times a. day. Feed

1191 some roots and exercise her more.



Congestion of Lungs. —I have recently

lost two sheep that were taken suddenly

sick; they acted dumpish, breathe quick

and appear distressed until they die. They

have a slight discharge from both nos-

trils. but I do not believe that this causes

their death, as one of them had very lit-

tle discharge R. A. S., Columbiaville.

Mich. ——Your sheep died 01: congestion of

the lungs and may have had some nasal

catarrh Apply 1 part turpentine, 1 part

aqua ammonia and 4 parts sweet oil to

sides once a day. Give 3 drops tincture

of aconite every three hours if you be-

lieve the sheep has fever. Give a. tea-

spoonful of whiskev and a teaspoonful of

aromatic spirits of ammonia at a dose in

l ozs. cold water four times a day. There

me many other remedies equally as good.



Barrenness—leficulty in Churning.-—

I have a two- year- old heifer that came

fresh last June: since then she has

been bred four times and falls to get with

calf. She is fed mixed hay and roots,

but keeps thin. It is almost impossible

to 111ake butter from her milk. When

churning the cream foams and appears

to remain thin. R. II, Barryton. Mich.—

lncrease your helfer’s grain ration and

try to get hcr in better condition before

you brccd her again. Before breeding

her wash out vagina several times with a.

solution made by dissolving 3 ozs. of hi-

carbonate of soda In two quarts of tepid

water, the last application should be made

withm a few hours of service. I imagine

that your heifer is unprofitable for dairy

purposes and if so she. might as well be

dried. You keep the cream in too cool

a place.



Barren Cow. I have a cow that has

been bred to three different bulls. but

fails to get with calf. This is an extra

good cow. and I am anxious to keep her

for breeding and dairy purposes. G. M.,

Flanders. Mich—There are many reasons

why cows fail to get with calf. The open-

ing into womb may be closed; if so, it

sh0u1u be dilated gently with fore finger

or a tapering sound. Also dissolve 1 dr.

permanganate potash In a gallon of clean

tepid water and wash out vagina once

a day for a few days. then dissolve three

ounces of bicarbonate soda in one- -half

gallon tepid water and wash out vagina

daily and be sure to do so a few hours

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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd. consisting of Trojan Eritrea. Blackbirds and

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

111' Black W' oodlawn. sire oft 9 Grand Chum ion steer

and bull at the International in Chicago. 60..



He is assisted by [In dulata Blackb1rd

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. DIIch.





 





 





 





AY RSH I RES—High type of Dairy animal.

Young bulls and bull c1111 es

for sale. Prices Iow.IIn%11iries solicited.

. SHIRE SWIN

FINE POUL’I‘ Y—W h1te and Barred Rocks.

W h1t1e & Bufl' Orpiugtons. White W \andottes and

Le horns. in season 10c

M CHIGAN ESCHOOL FOR THEDEAF. Flint. Mich.





HE double standard Pulled Durham. \’l‘ild eyed Abotts burn.

Milk strain. Grand Champion silver cup winner at I910

Michigan State Fair. JAS. H. HALL, Port Austin. Michigan





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS





Top Notch registered 10ung Holstein Bulls com-

bining in themselves the blood of cows which now

hold and have in the past. held W orld’ 5 Records for

milk and butter fat. at faiprrloe



MCPHERSON FAR 5 C01. Howell, Mich.





 





 





 





E KOL Korndike Bull Calf—Choicest A. It. 0.

hreodin. Splendid individual. mostlv white, 375.

COLE BRO HE S Ypsilanti Farina, Ypsilanti. Mich.





' ——I am goingto sell 15 bulls in March.

"CISINR Bu": Won' 1; you help me by buvine one?

W'rite me as soon as You read this. I lune one two

years old; 3 year-lingo. 5. 6 to 8 months old. The rest.

are younger. W ill also sell a. number of heifers bred,

and stew good cows Don i. wait until spring work begins

before you buy one of these. L. E. CONNEI.I., Fayette. Ohio.





Holstein Friesian Cattle $023521. 622.1%; .11.:

B. J.ONES Oak Grove. Michigan.





 





 





 





OLSTEIN- FRIESIAN Cattle and Duroc Jersey

swine. ()ne gilt. bred by 11 son of Defender for

sale. Price 3415. E. R. CORNELL, Howell. Mich.





Holstein Cows Wanted‘i.§g“g§.§°iff 11‘?” “5?





Records. address. Chas. E. Winters. Crosser. Mich.





 





 





OLSTEINS—4 heifers. 2 bred. tno- year-olds. and 2

. yearlings. F ushiomtblv bred and some worlds rer-

ords close up. Hobart W. F ay. Eden. Ingham Co .Mlch.





0R SALE—Holstein Bu112 years old $125. Bull

Calves 6 months to 1 year 5,230 to 3101131911 heifers

$150 to $200 Oldest herd in Ind. Send for Photos and

Pedigrees.W. C. Jackson. 715llex St. South Bend. Ind.





FOR SALE—3.35.1321Lfillli’flmfi'i1‘ii‘i;





producing stetk. C. A. BRISTOL, Fenton. Michigan





 





201110111115 Id 8

kfiifl'rodc JBISBI Bil", kind fromotoiv 11121111338333

be of butter er yae 8 z". also six bull calies

cheap C.BU'I‘ ER. PORTLAND. MICHIGAN.





H E R E F O R D S‘s’ifimsd‘faims Xi‘s‘i 33.1253?





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





 





Register oi Merit Jerseys. ,9,ng 18111.1;

lot of youn bulls from dams withe lofllcltti records

483¥mnM s :knd u wards of butt.

0N. Bay City. Michigan.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS.





“ER” BULLS {Villas Signal St. L. No. 58197.

Jubilee' a Foxhall, No. 82299.

Bull calves sired by these real; bulls. and out. of

splendid dairy cows. many of i: am in test. for register

of merit. Also a few heifers and heifer cakes f0 or

sale. Write for description and prices. Satisfaction

1. amnteedo money refun ed

‘OLONO c. LILLIE. Coopersvllle. Michigan.





BUTTER BRED JERSEYS BULLS





YSTAL SPRING STOCK FIR





 





 





 





and weak she should be built up.





CYB

Sllv er Creek. Allegan County. MIcMhlgan.





 





 





MARC-H 18, 1911;





REGnISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin-

ns the blood of St Louis and Chicago Worlds

Fair Champions by HERMAN EARMS. Reese. Mich.





born A ri110.1910. Dam will



Jersey Bl“ can miIoas in ngistry of Merit a‘inhis

year. gave 8224 lbs. 2-Idyr-o Sires



11130 lbs. milk: in 10% ”.months THE M UBRAYS -



WATERMAN 00. R. 6.Ann Arbor. Mich. Bell Phone.





Dairy Bred Sltol'tlturns—1115‘.1.53313v %%‘a $333.12

good as cash. J. B. HUMMEL. Mlson, l'llch,





SHORTHORHS and POLLEB DURHAM. 1138131113?





A. D. DeGARMO. Highland. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





SHEEP.



Ewes bred for March 1!: April:

"amp Shire registered stock: Choice in-

dividuals. p0 D. WOODBURY. Lansing,Mlch1gan





Oxford-Down Sheep “3.11.1133“

cattle forsale. J. A. DJ]: GARMO. Muir. Mich.





 





 





 





Oxford Down Shee 11(1‘1’1‘1’3111‘3’23‘1‘13‘311 iii 5.11.13





for sale. I. R. WATERB RY. Highland. Michigan.

—I have 100 ewes. amen them

Reg. Rambouillets all of my youngest an best.





also i5 ewe and Tram lambs Live 2% miles east of

Morrice on G.T “Road Address J. Q. A. COOK.





INGLESIDE 31111093111115 ‘§:$?an§l1“§fini§€£





H.113. Powell. Robt. Groves, Shepherd Ionia. Mich.





SHROPSHIHE HALL SIOBK FARM





Has for sale. twenty- five choice bred yearling ewes.

at a low price. also a few good three and four year-

old. bred ewes.





L. ,8. DURHAM &. Sons. Concurd, Michigan.

H005.





 





 





 





 





 





 





rowth y S rin Boats & Gilts

”97°93 &' Viclorias—G of choicest rec in from Prize

Winners. M. '1‘. S.RTORY .248. Lowel . Michigan.





 





ERKSHIRE Yearling sow bred for July Yarrow,

also two fall Giles and choice lot of M arch farrow~

ed. (Pigs eith. sex.) A. A. Pat-tulle. Deckerville.Mich.





BERKSHIRES gfiéfiiiie‘iofiifi‘ig‘ilfi 333531;

fall pigs. T. V. HICKS. [LN o..11 Battle Creek. Mich-





DAMS BROS. Litcbfield. Mich. breeders of Imp. Cheater

White and Tamworth swine. service hours, sows bred or

open. of either bread. Shorthorn Cattle. Bufl Rock. Buff Wynn-

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





GILTS. due to (arrow in A ril-

”lll'oc Jersey Also service boars and s ringlpigs

either sex. B.RAY Okemos, Mic igan.





DUROG-JERSEYS‘iiiit”all.g $33





sale. CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings, Michigan.





cap "0' Herdm DUROC JERSEY Swine established

One last Spring Boar and Sept.

1910 Gilts for sale. J.H. Banghart. R5. Lansing. Mich.





DU Rocs—ZS Bred Sows. of high uality. 10

.— Excellent Boersr readye ora service.

1:) Fall Pfisbothsen Write nd



J. C. BA NEY. COLDWATE8100MIeCHIGAN.





MPROVED CHESTERS—Young boars ready for

service, orders taken for sows bred for spring far-





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

ing. W. .WILSON. Okemos. Mich. Both Phones.





0. l. C. Ho





and more. H. II. JU





0 l C Swine—Spring. summer &. fall ferrowed.

both sexes. breeding and t1') )0

right. Geo. P. Andrews. Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mic





O l C -—15 Choice Sows bred for A ril f11r<

.' 0 row. From V'sVorld‘ Fair Winners.

Low prices. Glenwood Stock Farm. Zeelnnd, Mich.





0. I. C. Earl Fall Plus {‘33 23235111? 31111114





C. J. THO PSON. Rockford. Michigan.





FOR SALE—Fall PI 5 and Bred Gills





B. M. WING & SO . Sheridan. Michigan.





GREAT POLAND-CHINA HOG SALE.

JANUARY 20111.





60 sows bred for spring furrow. I! you want. the best.

attend my sale as I have the best. in the state.





WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





sail ages. Sows bred.

sMales wei hiing 195 lbs.

.Munith. Mic i.gnn





 





 





 





 





 





 





I —t ' l1 - 1.

Butler 3 Famous Wonder: “1:23. 3.15151in 01.13.1133,

row big. because they have been bred big r111



y.ears Some great Aug. Sept... Oct... pigs. good

enough for any breeder, 01108. as enough for any farmer.

J. C. BUTLER. Portlan Mich. Bell Phone.





0 I C SWINE—Boers all sold. 20 young 8011's



bred for spring furrow. for sale.

E. E. BEACH & SON. 0.3 Brighton. Michigan.

0' I 0.4311111 sows iall sold,1 June boar left





AA l‘ewW fall MAI‘IBSRJ either sex. Satisfaction.

LMarlette. Michigan.





—F H

POLAND-CRINAS so“... ”$851321‘12'15335 {33115





.W'. Barnes 1% Son. Byron. hiawassee 00.. Mich.





—-M herd b

Poland- 01111138 forysale ganglia: 1312130121113 3%,” iaii





pigs. E. D. BI ISHOP. Route38 . Lake Odessa, Mich.





9 —-Best quality, 1111' r wth

0 I. C S For Sale type. either sex.88 ugh: no:

akin. some tint;3 bred llus. choice lot of fa 1 pigs all





 





 





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ages. OTTO . ULZE. Nashville. Michigan.



0 l C —Fall pigs either sex and one June

- Boar oft. SIi am also booking



orders for a tin furrow. ed on ap rmnl.





HARRY T. ELL. CASS TY. MIC GAN.





sPECIAL SALE of heavv boned Poland- China

Sows bred. Boar-a readv for use. Prices low Photos

ROBERT NEVE, Pierson. Michigan





POLAND-CHINAs-B 1» «1 111111:





. . d 1

spring pigs. WOOD & SONS. Saline. ficallaganY .—





LARGE "PEP C -—Largest in Michigan" Set



11111 the herd 11 tEimi; pigs “mi3h mi? i75 111i».

— 'I 1.1 an



1.111111111111111; W.E .LIVING 511%}: 013311112." toil.”





LILLIE FARMS'I‘EAII YORKSHIRES.





The great medium bacon type. The hog that. wins

on sheer merit. Large. vigorous. rolifle Gilte bred

for March or April ufurrow. Fa. pigs. either sex.

Pairs not akin. I teesati sfactlon or monev

refunded 001.011 x.mLILLIE. Coopersville, Mich.





For sale-Thorougbred Yorkshire Boat 16 mos. old.





Very reasonable Must. cha

address. A. 'R1pma. R. No.11. Grand 31111135911531?





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‘the illustrated address of Prof.





MARCH 18, 1911.





 





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: THE DAIRL





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CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.





 





 





POWDERED MILK.





 





A powdered milk factory is locating at

Standish. They contract for whole milk,

then separate and powder it. None of

the farmers about here know anything

about this new industry and would ap-

preciate any help The Farmer may offer.

We understand that more is paid by these

people for milk during the winter months

than in the summer season.



Arenac Co. INTERESTED. FARMERS.



The product known as powdered milk

is new to the farmers of Michigan. As I

understand it, some of the milk is dried

into powder whole before skimming and

some is skimmed and then the skim—milk

made into powder. Practically all of the

milk is first skimmed by running it

through the separator, because it is not

uniform with regard to butter-fat. Then

afterwards, a portion of the milk at least,

has the cream put back into it to supply

a certain per cent of butter-fat for the

powdered product. For instance, if a

company guarantees two per cent butter-

fat in the powdered product, they would

skim the milk and then add two per cent

of butter-fat. They could not make the

product in any other way so as to guar-

antee the amount of butter-fat.



I do not understand the process very

well, having never had the pleasure of

visiting a powdered milk plant, but I un-

derstand that the milk is thrown in a

fine spray through superheated air so

that the spray is reduced to powder. The

moisture is reduced to such an extent

that the product after being dried will

keep indefinitely, just like flour or meal.

Now this product can be made suitable

for table use by simply mixing water

with it and getting it back to the same

composition as the milk was in the first

place. I do not think this product is used

extensively for table use, but it is largely

used by cooks, bakers and that class of

people.



I do not think a farmer generally, need

feel any concern about the responsibility

of people going into a business of this

kind. It requires considerable capital to

put up a plant suitable for this work, a

good business organization and a good

amount of capital to place the product

on the market; consequently, no set of

business men go into a deal like this un-

less they have considerable financial re-

sponsibilities. Therefore, I feel that it

would be reasonably safe on general prin-

ciples, for farmers to patronize the plant,

providing, of course, that they can get as

much for their milk as they could at a

cheese factory or a creamery or as they

could to sell their milk for direct con-

sumption for the city trade.



It usually makes but little difference in

what way you dispose of milk. If a man

sells milk to the wholesaler in the city

to be sold as table milk, the price of that

milk is largely based on the price of but-

ter. If a man delivers milk at a cheese

factory, the cheesemaker fixes the price

he pays for milk largely upon the value

of that milk when made into butter, and

so the people at a powdered milk factory

would base the price of their milk largely

upon the butter market. The butter

market is taken as a standard. Usually

butter is higher priced in the winter than

in the summer time, consequently, it

makes no difference what the milk is

used for, you will usually get better

prices in the winter than in the summer

time. People usually pay no more for a

product than they are compelled to.





 





THE CONSERVATION OF GOOD

DAIRY BLOOD.



The sentiment expressed in that inter-

esting novel, “To Have and to Hold,”

was paralleled by the idea carried through

George

Humphrey, of \Visconsin, before the last

State Round-Up at Lansing, when he de-

clared it was one thing to secure good

cows and another to maintain the stan-

dard over a term of years. There is no

definite way to determine the value of a

well-bred prepotent sire from a dam and

granddam of milking qualities, but Prof.

Humphrey deduced in a logical and thor-

oughly interesting manner the probable

increase of profits coming from a herd

of 30 cows headed by a sire of superior

breeding and of individual merit over a

herd headed by a scrub bull to be around

$2,000 at the end of a few years, or until

the heifers of the bull were producing.

No one could take exception to the con-

servative figures forming the basis of his





”system of grading. Mr. Eldridge, in reply,





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





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syllogism, yet when the aggregate

amount of the improvement brought to

the herd by the better bull was present-

ed it seemed almost beyond belief. The

point made went far to prove that should

competition in the production of dairy

products become keen, the first dairymen

to go bankrupt will be those who cling to

the scrub sire. Good care need also be

tendered the head of the herd, for his

environment, his feed and his health all

go to produce "superior results. Prof.

Humphrey then proceeded to show, by

giving the records of two animals and

their progeny for several generations,

that it was the well-pointed dairy animal

that gives the largest results. One of

the animals, while a well-bred individual,

had a deficient udder, which defect show-

ed even to the third and fourth genera—

tion, and the profits from this family was

below that of another family of similar

breeding but where the dam had a

well-developed udder, as did also her

female progeny. These records were from

cows kept at the \Visconsin experiment

station, and showed in a convincing man-

ner what men who are close observers

have believed in a general way to be

true. In conserving good dairy blood it

is essential that we know the good cows;

these we determine by the use of the

Babcock tester and scales as well as by

pedigrees.





 





ANNUAL MEETING OF MICHIGAN

DAIRYMEN.





(Continued from last week).

The best attended session of the entire

meeting was that of “’ednesday after—

noon, which convened in Odd li‘ellows’





 





hall with Mr. \Vm. Bechtel in the chair.

The program opened with a short paper

on “The Future of Gathered Cream

Plants,” by F. L. Eldridge, who held

that their future hinged upon their abil-

ity to improve the quality of their pro—

duct. Admitting that the present quality

is not what might be desired, he declared

that the workmanship in the factory is

not at fault and therefore the remedy

must lie in bettering the quality of the

raw material. IIe advocated grading

cream where this is practical but did not

believe it practical for the small factory,

since cream grading calls for separate

churning of the various grades. 1f grad-





 





ing is undertaken he favored the making

of not more than two grades. In reply to

a question by Mr. Shilling he said his fac-

tory is not grading cream at present but

plans to begin doing so about April ].

One member stated that his factory tried

grading for a period of two months, dur-;

ing which time they lost 40 per cent of“

their customers. They paid l/zc above"

New York extras for good sweet cream!

and 30 below New York extras for the

remainder. Their competitors offered 2c.

above Elgin for any and all kinds of‘

cream, which compelled his factory tor

return to the old system. He statedd

however, that he is still in favor of a





 





 





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argued that it is not good business for

any factory to convert low-grade cream

into butter, this being evident from the

fact that the difference between butter

scoring 87 and butter scoring 93 points,

as measured by Chicago quotations, is at.

present 91/2 cents. In view of this differ-3

ence it would seem better to refuse all‘

low-grade cream, as the losing of such

product to a competitor may be depended

upon to finally drive the latter out of

business, since the time has come when

the butter-maker must turn out a top-

price product or produce at a loss. A

producer offered, as a solution, the prop-

osition that the creamery gather the milk

or cream, declaring, that the farmer can-

not afford to deliver often enough. Mr.

Bechtel stated that this is his practice

and that he finds it very effective in bold-

ing his customers. His factory collects

three times a week during the hot

months, twice a week in spring and fall

and once a week in winter.



In a well-written paper on “Market

Conditions,” Mr. H. Soudergaard, of Phil-

adelphia, offered some valuable suggeS-

tions to butter-makers and creamery

managers touching the churning, salting,

coloring and packing of their product,

all of which must receive careful atten-

tion if it is to meet with favor at the

hands of the consumer. After all, it is

the consumer who makes the price, and

Mr. Soudergaard injected a gentle remin-,

der that the present spread of 8 to 10!

cents in prices is the result of an over—.

production of low-grade product. He.l

too, voiced the opinion that butter-mak-I

ers must demand a better quality of raw

material and favored a system of grad-

ing that would make a. discrimination of





 





 





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Exactly the some differences

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the farmer can’t tell whether or

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ycar in quantity and quality of

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





at least 4 cents in favor of A No. 1 sweet

cream.



"Creamery Accounting” was the sub-

ject of a lengthy and carefully prepared

paper presented by Mr. Martin Seidel, of

Bay City, in Which he emphasized the

importance of accurate and systematic

accounting and the need of familiarity,

on the part of the accountant, with every

phase of creamery work. This paper

left no doubt in the minds of butter-mak-

ers present as to the value of a. (30111-

plete system of bookkeeping as a means

of tracing out leaks which affect the

profits. It also demonstrated how valu-

able may be the assistance of a fully in-

formed accountant in adjusting differw

cnccs between manager and patron.





.-\t the banquet held on Wednesday

evening the usual amount of enthusiasm

and good cheer prevailed. many of the

leading creamerymcn and dairymen re-

sponding to appropriate toasts.



Thursday forcnoon was given over to

the exhibitors of machinery and supplies.

In the afternoon two meetings were tot

be held, one by the cheesemakers. the

other by the new organization known as

the Creamery Managers' and Owners .\s—

sociation. There was such an interest in

this newly formed organization that the

cheesemakers’ meeting was not called.





' The principle subject discussed by the

creamery managers and owners was





whether the creameries of this state





should begin now, this spring, to grade

cream and pay for it according to quality.

.\11 admitted that this is the crying need

of the dairy business in this state and





iilcu prcvziilcd that if all the butter in

t'lilll slot-ago at the present time. which is

such u mcnace to the butter market, had





 





would not exist as this buttcr would have

bccn consumed before this time. had it

becn .\. No. l butter. But, being of at

low grzulc. made from excessively sour

cream. lllt‘ consumption on this line of

goods has iwi'li low and consequently \\'C

have an csts. ‘



The association lunlulisciissec‘l the ques-

tion of grading ct‘cuin before, and had

appointed 2L tonnnltlce to investigate.

This committee rcported the following

standard: l



No. 1 cream shall consist of sweet1

cream of clean flavor, containing 'over 30:

per cent of butter-fut; the. test for the}

acidity shall be the government test ofl

11,1. per cent acidity. 1



Second grade cream shall consist of;

Sour cream of clean flavor containing-

ovcr 30 per cent butter-int, and sweet;

cr-‘uim containing not. less than 15 per.

(will butter-fut nor over 2?! per cent.‘



Third grade cream shall consist of

(‘llllt‘l' sweet or sour cream of off flavor

or belov: 13 per cent of butter-fat,



Tilt? committee recommended that

cream grading No. 2 should be paid for

at 1r; per lb. of butter-fat less than No.





1 l, and cream grading No. 3 should be paid





for u .30 per lb. less than N0. 1.





The rcport provoked very much discus-

sion, which at times was earnest. Mr.





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grin grading cream two years ago. They

received contracts for butter which stip-

ulatcil that it be made from pasteurized

sweet. cream. They found, when they

began to ill] the contract. that they were

not getting enough sweet cream. there-





fore, the): were compelled to grade their.

‘cream. ’l‘hcy did so and paid 1c per 1b.





morc for sweet cream. The result was

that there was a marked increase in the





amount oi‘ :mcci cream delivered. and;

thcy wci‘c cuublcil to fill their contract

on tinzc. fair. Lillie stated that he be—

lieved the» granting of cream is entirely

practicnhiw. The only way to get better

cream is in pay a better price for good

crcrivn. .\s long as creameries are will-





ing to tm)‘ the same price for all kinds of.

cream zhcrc is no inducement for the}

formu- to who better care of his cream

than he docs at the present time. In

fact. it is not fair. It is not a square

deal for the farmer. The man who knows

how to take. care of his cream and does

take care of it, and who delivers a good





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Lillie, of Coopersville Creamery Co., was





grading cl‘eanl. He stated that they 136—?





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get my proposition on just the Engine you want

before you decide to buy anywhere else.



When we decided to manufacture 55,000 Gasoline

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thrbugh them, testing every part, every piece of material. every

practical working feature so we would be sure our engines would

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Then another set of my experts figured the cost of mate-

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and then they fixed the price based on 55,000 output.



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running. My account experts found that we could sell this engine at a.

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This means a saving of $105.50 in cash to every customer over the price

they would pay for the other engine. And I give you a better engine toboot.





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the farmers will respond.





There were several doubting Thomases

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in fact. the only way to improve the pro-

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





began to grade cream the other fellow

would get their customers. Mr. Lillie ex-

plained that this had not been the condi-

tion at Coopersviile. They did not lose

customers; in fact, they gained cus-

tomers.



Others thought that if you paid 1c per

1b. more for sweet cream than for sour

it would bring~the price of sour cream

down, in this state, so that outside par-

ties would come in and purchase it. Oth-

ers thought that if they paid more for

the sweet cream they could not sell the

butter for enough more to make it profit-

able. These and other objections were

offered. Some even went so far as to

say that good sour cream would make

just as good butter as sweet cream. Mr.

Lillie explained that the theory of butter-

making is that the buttermaker must

have control of the ripening process where

ripened cream butter is made. If you

allow the farmer to ripen the cream you

have just as many different grades 01

butter as you used to have under the old

system of dairy butter, for every farmer

ripens the cream according to his own

notion and intelligence. After much dis-

cussion the standard was adopted un-

animously and a majority of the cream—

erymen present agreed to go home and

begin grading cream.



As is always the case at the meetings

of the Dairymen's Association, the last

day found everybody anxious to get home.

Buttermakers and dairy farmers cannot

be away from their business many days

at a time. In consequence of so many

going home, the cheesemakers session





 





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.planned for Friday forenoon was not

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‘How TO MAKE NEUFCHATEL AND

CREAM CHEESE.





Two varieties of cheese that are much

relished by most people and that are

much sought on the market, are Ameri—

can Ncufchalel and cream cheese. Both

‘ are perishable cheese, like cottage cheese,

'and should be made upon forms situated

They can also be handled

to advantage by those operating milk

routes in cities. But whether the inten-

tion is to market the cheese or not, they

should in any event be made in suilicient

quantity to supply the needs of the home

where they will constitute a cheap and

most wholesome food.





There are two methods by which Am-

erican Neufchatel cheese may be made,

namely, with and without the use of

starter. The method of making the

. cheese without starter is as follows: Place

the night’s milk preferably in shotgun

cans and cool to a temperature as near

70 degrees F. as possible. Next add at

the rate of about one teaspoonful of ren-

net extract for each hundred pounds of

Whole milk. The rennet should first be

'diluted in a cup of water and then thor-

' oughly mixed with the milk. If the tem-

perature of the milk is kept at 70 degrees

‘F. it will be thoroughly curdled in from

'15 to 20 hours, when it should be per-

ceptibly sour to the taste. The actual

1' amount of acidity at this stage should be

about 0.3 per cent. The curd is now

l poured onto a strainer rack covered with

a cotton strainer cloth, or it may be

dipped into cotton bags, to

After the curd has drained an

hour, light pressure should be applied

to it which may be gradually increased

to hasten the draining. As a rule, it is





near markets.





 





drain.





'desirable to have the draining completed





in about three hours, the temperature

during this process being maintained at

about 70 degrees F. As soon as the curd

has sufficiently drained, salt is added at

the rate of one ounce to every five or six

pounds of cheese. The cheese should

be thoroughly kneaded with the hands to

distribute the salt evenly and to give it

a smooth consistency. It is now molded

into cylindrical packages, 134x234 inches,

weighing one-fourth of a pound. These

cylindrical masses of cheese are first

wrapped in thin parchment or oiled paper

and then wrapped in tin foil. These pack-

ages usually retail at five cents each.

When starter is used a better flavored

and more uniform cheese is possible. The

starter may consist of well thickened

whole milk, allowed to sour in a natural

way, but whole milk soured with pure

culture of lactic acid bacteria is prefer-





 





able. Where pure cultures are used the

whole milk intended for starter should

be pasteurized before inoculating it with

the culture.



When starter is used the cheese is

made as follows: Add at the rate of one

pound of starter to three pounds of fresh





'lishcd with





whole milk The mixture should have a

temperature of ’1'? degrees F. Next add

at the rate of one— half tablespoonful of

rennet extract per hundred pounds of

milk, mixing the rennet with the milk as

previously explained. VV'hen thoroughh

cur,dled which usually requires about one

hour, the curd is ready to drain The

rest of the process is carried out the

same as when no starter is used.





Cream cheese is made from milk con-

taining about ten per cent butter- fat;

that is, milk reinforced with cream. Like

Ncufchatcl chcese, this cheese may be

made with and without starter, and the

processes are the same as with Ncuf—

chaicl cheese, except that it will be found

advantageous to have the temperature

from three to five degrees higher. Much

butter-fat is saved when making cream

chccse bv the starter method Cleam

cheese are molded in rectangular i'OIms.

11,131- Axe inches, holding about one—

quartcr of a pound. These packages us~

ually rctail at ten cents each.





Another kind of choose that

much relished and that can be made b_1

anyone, is known as “club” or “potted'

cheese. The method of making this

chccsc is as follows: G1ind up with an

o1dinary meat grinder five pounds of old

111 ell- -ripencd cheddar cheese of good ila-

vor, and mix this 11ith one pound of good

butter. The mixing is easily accomp—'

a bread 111ixcr. The mixingr

should be continued until the cheese has

:1 un‘ifo1m consis 1111111, fiec from lumps

Running the mixture thlough the grindcr

and 11 orking it 11i1h the hands 11111 assist

in chucing tho lumps. This cheese can

be 11:11 kcd in small tin top jelly tumblers

1.1111111i11g the top oi the cheese with

parchment paper. This makes an c\—

cccdingly 11:1]:1.1:1bl11 cheese which rel uls

rule, at forty cents a pound.



JOHN annns.





as :1,

\Yisconsin.





THE CREAM SEPARATOR.





.»\n agent for :1. standard make of (11.11111

permission to 11::11‘11‘11

111:1111i11c in our home for us to givc :1

trial. \\'(1 had very little intcntion 1:

buying, although we did not in any 11‘:1_\‘

doubt the incrits of the machine,



In consideration of the price o!‘ (‘11

machine we. felt that it was rather boym. 1'

pcople in our circumstances, but 2.11'11‘1

giving it a thorough trial we came to 11111

conclusion that it would pay for itself as

quickly as any machinery to be used on

a farm.





separator asked





is VQI‘Y .





Ilcretofi‘u‘e we had used :1 water sepa-'





rator. l suppose our 1‘1-111‘117-1‘s are moslly

familiar with them, uscd by adding cold

water to the milk as soon as possible af-

ter milking and allowing

cream to raise. l>11sirlng to know

could get more butter, with

fugal separator than with the 11‘:1.lcr.s1‘p-





if we





time for the,





the contri- ‘





aiator, we dividcd the milk at cuch milk— 1





ing until we had

milk in each way, and one churning found

we had just one pound more butter from

the milk run through the ccntrii'ugal

separator than by the water process.





separated 100 lbs. 01‘.





There might not be that much difference





at all times of the ycur,

actual dift‘crcho in warm woulhcl‘,

a: all l‘mtcr-nuikcrs know that is the

worst time to get all the butter-fat from

the milk it was no small factor

of the machine.



This fact, in

having the. warm





connection with

milk, conluining all

the substances, («111-111 1111‘. b11l‘11.1'-i‘at, to

feed lo calves and pics,11uitc decided us

in favor of buying the separator.



\\'c sent our cream to a crcamery for

one _\'1‘ar instead of making our own but-

tcr, receiving for it 336.59, after all

creamcry expenses, such as butter-mak—

ing, hauling, etc., were taken out. The

hauling of the cream amounting to 01111

$121.01 for the ycar, much less than it

would have been had we sent the whole

while the fresh, warm milk is no

small item in fccding calves or

pigs, far superior to that which

home at evening from 1111) crcamory.





milk,





This fact can hardly be expressed in

words. Only by act ual experience can

one realize the value of fresh. warm





skim—milk, which contains all the grow-

ing qualities of the whole milk minus the

fat, which is more economically obtained

by feeding corn, or other grains.



One more fact let me add: A separator

removes every particle of dirt from milk

and cream, such as could not be detected

without the use of a separator. I had

heard this mentioned but I could not

realize to what extent until actual opera-

tion of the machine showed what was

taken out.‘





Branch Co. J. H. CORRELL.





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machine. It has been manuiactured

and sold for the past five years. 11ml .t

is rapidly displacins: (1191,.“ -ly adver

tiaed Cream S“‘;1:1ra'.01'$.:olnl at two

and three times its price.



“'0 want you 111 «11 1 our stor1. “'3

want you to l111111v1l11‘ Macy (111:1111

Separator. It will add {111111 915.10) to

$31101) per cm. pcr :1111111111 to 1,11111 110

l11$.ltwlll 11:11 [111 itsc ll in 1115i :1 {1‘ ‘11;

months and {1111‘ 11111 bctlc‘r 51111110211111

morc lusting: s111lc1‘ th in any other

Crca m :cparntos 111;1nuf:1ctur1 d.



Do not h1. misled by tlic claims

madc on behalf of otl1c1‘Lr1nm 5111:1-

r:1loi‘s.Do not be inllucuc‘cd by the

snccrs and inslnu: itions of lhc n1:11111

factorch of the old stylc ()rcn111.111:1

ratms who are constantly attacking

those manufactun rs and 1111111” who

are selling more up- to d: to 111:1c11in1‘s.





Learn the Truth





InvestigatcforyourSclf. Amcrlcnn

Farm Folk arc the most iniclliccnt

Citizenshipwc‘havc. Tho farmcrthlnks

for himself: he rcachcs his own con-

clustons. and thcn he acts. All that 11111

want you to do is to mt our proposi-

tion, We will leave all the rest of it to

you. We will send the Macy Crcam

bcparator to your farm to be tested by

you—to try out in competition with any

othc r Cream Separator manufacturc d:

none of them are barred, We want

you to run the Macy beside the otlicr

Cr1.:1m Scp arators. Try it on hot or

cold milk: tcst it for buttcr fat; test it

for easy turning, for 0:1 y cleaning:

submit it to any test that you may

think of or the agent of any other

Cream Separator may suggest. 811 l)-

mit it to tl11s1tcsts for all days and

if at thc 1.‘ 11d of that time the M .1cy has

not dcmonstmicd that it is the best

Crcam Scpnr: Itor from tho standpoint

of skimming officic ncv. cnsv running

1‘ asy clcuninm s1m pllcdy and durabllitv



1‘11 turn it to us at our C\p1‘nsc of

transportation chargcs both 1va1s.





We Want to Send You





0111' Crcnm Scparnlor oi'fcr. ‘Wc want

to tell you how you can $211111 one—half

or two-thirds on your Crczuu Scparnlor.

VV’c want to in-ll you how to add from

$15.00 to $20,00p11r cow to you1‘iucom1‘.

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you have been gctting in the past



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to day saying. ”‘Pl1 ‘:1sc 51‘ nd me your

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CURRENT COMMENT.



. Pursuant to a proc-

Write to them About lumaticn i S S u e (1

Canadian Reciprocity. by the i‘I'usideni,



the 62nd

of the ['niied States will Convene in 5119—

ciai session on April 4 for the considera-

tion of the agree 1ent cntcrcvl into with

Canada by the administration Tic con-

ve ping 0f the now congrcss '11 special

ses..ion for this purpom, due to the failure

of the Senate to r-ea1h :1 row on tho 31-:-

Call bill at the session \\'lll\il closed on

"March 4, is: in line with 11'." previously de-

clared intention of the l’l‘t-sidclli. AS

forecasted in our 191 cm i'UJ'lilzlt‘Fl on this

contingency, it no": liel'oltlcw' impcz'utive

that the 1'111'11101‘5 4-1‘ the Ini,ll‘.1l‘:\’ act in

unison to moot this cmcit. (”n -v if they

would avert the impcnding danger to their

~ industrial welfare which threatens in the

raiidcation of this ngrcci'iieni, which is

probable if not certain unlcss the opposi-

tion of the farmers of the middle west

and border SiziicS is voiced in a most vig—

orous manner.

it appears certain that ilicrc is no hood

to comment further upon the details of

this agreement at this Limo. From the

cvidcncc at hand it would seem that our

rcudcrra arc practically unanimous in their

opposition \oi(:c.-l





congress





opposition lo ii. But

only at home will have liiilc 91‘ no ci‘i‘cct.

’l‘ruc, Granges, Farmers' Clubs and Farm-

orS‘ lnSii‘iutc societies have passed reso—

luiions by the score oppoSing this agree-

mcui. AlSo, pciiiions by the hundred

have inch 1': ccly Signed and forwurdod to

\\'11S?:i11g1on by interested farmers. All

ihcsc are (‘le‘llllilt‘l to reveal thc semi-

mcnl. of ihc 1,1'1111rs of out S'lilll" 41:1 ibis

important :gs1csii1un. but ?l‘.c5 arc wcak

and impoti-ru ill‘ compurcd with 1-. more





direct and liki'n'llllc’il appeal by lctic: to the

mob. who will reprcscni Michigan in 11:13

63nd congress. l'lvcrj' man who is intcr-





es‘ied in ihc fate of this agrccemcnl, us

every Tiliclzigan farmer ccrminly is,

Should make that interest known by wril—

ing‘ 1‘191‘5011111 lcilch lo the men who will

represent him in the congrcSS which will

convene on April 4, and particularly to

the two mom who will repio ‘cnt Michigan

in the senate. in our last issue we com-

mented on the position of Senator-elect

Townsend as voiccd by his public expres-

sions on this proposition. Senator Smith





has not. so far as we have been able to

learn, given out any public statement

with regard to his position on the ques-





THE MICHIGAN ,FARMER.





tion. but some of his close personal and

political friends who would seem to be in

a position to know something of his attl~

tude believe that he will favor the agree-

ment.



W'ith the impending probability that





both [7. S. senators from Michigan may

favor this agreement, the thousands of

our interested readers who are so ear-

nestly opposed to it certainly owe it to

themselves to write Senator \Villiam Ai—

den Smith, at Grand 1 apids, and Senator

Charles E Townsend, at Jackson, Mich...

as well as to the congressman from their

district. prior to the convening of con-

gress on April 4, and preferably at once,

courteously but vigorously expressing

their views upon this question. Such a

direct personal appeal will at once com—

mand the attention and respectful con-

sideration of these gentlemen.



“'hile the suggested action is indeed a

little thing for one to do in his own in-

terest, a concerted movement of this kind

by Michigan Farmer readers would do

more than could be accomplished in any

other way toward helping to avert this

impending calamity. or at least the im-

pending danger that it may be favored

by Michigan's representatives and sena-

tors in the 62nd congress.



A prominent insti-

Agricultural Exhibits tute Speaker 11 a

an Attraction. recent discussion

. 0f the efficiency

of the farmers' institute and the changes,

if any, which should be made in the

prescnt plan of holding farmers' insti-

l‘liGS in Michigan, stated that in practi-

cally every case where a display of any

kind of agricultural products was made

in ('Iii‘l‘cclion with an institute the in-

tcrcs: in and attendance of the meeting-

was in: 1111(‘11’1‘ normal. This is a fact

,<[i¢_".'l{‘.l note if it Should be

found than it obtained with few exceptions

throughmu llzc state during the institute

scarzon which ins juSi Closed. There is

no question 1111.1 11 local exhibition of

choicc agrhuliurul products, which can

be compm'cd by tho 1111111ch in amend-

ancc at a pica-ling where they can talk

over in 11 fricndly way the methods used

in producing ihch. is 1111131 beneficial {is

well 11:: inicresling. The (,irange and

ll‘armers’ Club fairs held in Michign

during recent years have been almost uni-

iormly successful from the standpoint of

interest taken in them by the member—

ship of these 01 gum/(1110 s, as have the

local corn Shows held by th1, local and

county corn improvement associations. If

the same should prove generally true of

the local exhibit in connection with farm-

ch' institutes, it is a feature of institute

york that should be commended and en-

couraged.





xvi ril‘ y 111





“’ith the approach

The Season’s Plans. of spring the plans



for the summer

campaign on the farm should be well de-

veloped to the end that the actual work

may be started in season. The special

discussion (If the subject of “Farm Man-

agement," which was given space in our

columns during January, and the like

discussion of “Soil Management,” which

is being similarly treated in the issues of

the current month were designed to direct

the reader's attention to some of the

fundumcnial principles which should be

made the foundation of our agricultural

practice, and with which our plans for

the SPEISnn'S campaign should be made

to conform. First among them: essentials

comes a judicious system of crop rota-

tion So planned as to maintain the soil

in :1 good mechanical condition and con-

serve its available plant food in a man—

ner which will increase its crop producing

power, and thus augmcnt the profit which

may accrue to us from its cultivation.

'l'hc problem of increasing, as well as con-

St'i'ving the fertility of the soil Should also

in: well c<,in;<i<,lcrcd in this connw-tion

when \1 c are Shaping up our plans for the

scuson's campaign. All of those are basic.

considerations and Should be given 111:1—

turc consideration. “'0 can not plan

most Successfully for a Single Season, but

must take into consideration the promise

of the future as wcll as the miSlnch of

the past if we arc to so outline the year’s

campaign on tho farm that it may count

most toward our permanent success in

agriculture.



Rut these are what we are prone to

consider the larger and more important

factors of success. In a sense they are,

and yet without just as thoughtful con-

sideration of the smaller things which

cntcr into good farm and soil manage-

ment we cannot attain the highest de-

gree of success. Among these little things

is the careful selection of the seeds we

cred and every detail of our practice made





to conform to our knowledge of advanced

methods, rather than to our convenience

or habit. ,



plant. Clover and grass seeds are high

in price, and there is a. proportionately

strong incentive to market poor, foul and

adulterated seeds. There has been a.

rapid increase in the number of weed

pests on Michigan farms in recent years

through the use of foul grass seed. Among

the more recent and dangerous of these

pests is dodder, which has been described

and illustrated in the Michigan Farmer

several times during the past two years.

The government has sent out a word of

warning to the effect that large importa-

tions of dodder-infested seed have come

in from South America, and that there is

grave danger of a. further spread of this

pest in the clever growing section of this

country. This makes it more than ordi-

narily important that every farmer care-

fully examine the clever seed and grass

seed which he purchases. The treating

of the Seed oats for smut and the testing

of the seed corn for germinating quality

areiother little things which make for

success and should not be neglected. In

fact, there are many such things of which

these are but examples, and the season‘s

plans will not be well made, if every

phase of the season's work is not consid-





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





National.





It is expected that the grand jury in-

vestigating the vote selling traific of Dan-

villc, lllinois, will publish its report this

week. '



The citizens of Richmond, Mich, are

moving to force the Grand Trunk railway

company to change the name of the sta-

tion from Lenox to Richmond, owing to

the confusion which arises from the two

names. ‘ _



\‘illiams and Amherst colleges have

planned for an innovation in college con-

tests in the form of a balloon race to take

place in lune



The supreme court. of the United States:

unanimously held the provision of the

Payne-Aldrich tariff law which provides

for the federal taxation of corporations

to be valid. The basis fo1 the opinion

1cStS upon the peculiar privilege of cm-

porate 01 joint Stock businesseS, i. e., it is

11 tax on doing business under the ad-

vantages of corporate existenCe. The tax.

collected from this source by the federal

government for 1910 was over $27,000,000.





The sudden mobilization of troops along

the Mexican border has taken the Am-

erican people by surprise. It is an—

nounced that the administration is but

fulfilling a general policy adopted to put

an end to the filibustering parties organ—

ized in this country for the purpose of

starting revolutions in the central Am-

erican republics with promises from the

interests that if they succeed and estab—

lish a government instead of the one at-

tacked and grant liberal concessions to

the interestS sending them, that large

bonuses will be awarded. These parties

have gone out to disturb the peace of the

little republics more frequently than the

general public knows, and the complaints

coming to the dcpartmcnt of foreign af-

fairs at Washington have so impressed

the administration that it was thought

wise to establish a precedent discourag-

ing further organization of like parties.

Another reason ascribed for the collecting

of troops along the border ,and for the

patrolling of the Mexican coast is that

European countries being unable to come

here and protect their interests because

of the attitude of this country as estab-

lished by the Monroe doctrine. depend

upon this country to protect those inter-

ests in their behalf. England has much

money invested in railroads and mines

and other properties in Mexico which

are being harraSScd by the present rev-

olutionary disturbance.



The explosion of three car-loads of

dynamite at the powder works near

Pleasant Prairie, \\'iS(-onsin. Shook the

earth for one hundred miles distant from

the accident. Only one life was lost.

Houses in the vicinity of the works were

thrown to tho ground. \\'indows were

broken a score of miles away and the

Shock was felt in Chicago and across

Lake Michigan in the border counties of

this State. The inhabitants are now ap-

pealing to thc legislature of that state to

prevent the rebuilding of the mills at the

former Site, and the courts will be ap-

pealed to to charge the powder company

for the damage resulting from the cxplo-

sion. N0 cause for the accident has been

assigned.



Express companies in New York are

again having trouble, drivers are on

strike for more Wain-S. It is stated that

chauffeurs have voted to go out in case

demands for more pay are not heeded.



A cave-in at the Virginia minc ncnr

Duluth crushed 26 men into almost an

unrecognizable mass. Ton of the bodies

have been removcd, the others have not

been reached.





The Farr'neis National Bank at I'nion





City was closed by diiC<lion of the ied-‘





cral bank examiner, the bank having dc-

posits to the amount of $169. 000 and as-

sets aggregating $100, 000. The stock -

holders are able to pay the deficit and

probably will do so, turning the entire

business over to one of the other banks

of that place.

Foreign.



A severe earthquake, accompanied by

strong detonations from Mount Vesuvius,

occurred Monday and a large section of

the crater fell away, it being estimated





MARCH 18, 1911.





that the portion would measure ’1,000 by

250 feet. The funicular railway was bad-

ly damaged.



France has adopted standard time. Last

briday night her clocks were stopped, to

start again when it was twelve o’clock at

Greenwich, England. It has taken the

country a. quarter of a. century to over

come the prejudice against accepting

English time. Since it has been done the

French now believe that it would be

proper for the English to adopt exclusive-

ly the metric system.



Russia is mobilizing troops along the

frontier of China, especially at Kulja, in

anticipation of China’s refusal to accept

an ultimatum forwarded from St. Peters-

burg to the effect that China. should im-

mediately re-open consulates specified in

the treaty of 1881,and establish free trade

in tea and certain other products.



The Canadian parliament is debating

the trade pact proposal with the United

States at ,Ottawa. Orf Monday of this

week a proposition was introduced look-

ing toward the construction of a. Georgian

Bay canal and delaying reciprocity ,ar-

rangements with the United States until

an established line of trade was opened

through this new channel, but the pro-

posal was ruled out

' Nineteen sealing vessels carrying about

4,000 men sailed Monday from St. Johns,

Newfoundland, for the seal fishing fields

of the north.





MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.





“heat—In answer to the question “Has

wheat during February suffered injury

from any cause?” 222 correspondents in

the southern counties answer “yes,” and

133 “110;” in the central counties 124 an-

swer ‘V‘yes,” and 31 “110;" in the northern

counties 44 answer “yes,‘ and 111 “no;”

in the upper peninsula 29 answer “no,”

and in the state 390 “yes“ and 304 “no.'



Snow protected wheat in the southern

counties 0.88 of a week; in the central

counties 0.87; in the northern counties

3.29; in the upper peninsula 4.00 and in

the state 1.56 weeks.



The average depth of snow on February

15111 in the southern counties was 0.78;

in the central counties 0.49 of an inch;

in the northern counties 9.87; in the up-

per peninsula 24.00, and in the state 4.0!)

inches. On the 28th the average depth of

snow in the southern counties was 0.03:

in the central counties 0.04 ,of an inch; in

the northern counties 5.66; in the upper

peninsula 20.66 and in the state 2.45

inches.



The total number of bushels of wheat

marketed by farmers in February at 108

ilouring mills in 141, 713 and at 93 elevat01s

and to grain dealers 124, 872, or a total of

1366, '85 (If this amount 181, 527 bushels

were murkciml in the southern four tiers

of counties, 67, 869 in the central counties

and 17,189 in the northern counties and



upper peninsula.



The amount of wheat yet remaining in

poSSQSSion of growers iS estimated at 7,-

700,000 bushels. Sixty-Six mills, elevators

and grain dealers report no wheat pur-

chased in February.



The average condition of live stock in

the state is reported as follows. compari-

son being made with stock in good, heal-

thy and thrifty condition: Horse's, sheep

and swine 96; cattle 94.





 





NATIONAL CROP REPORT.



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bu—

reau of Statistics of the United States

Department of Agriculture estimates,

from reports of correspondents and agents

1hat the quantity of wheat on farms,

March 1, 1911, was about 179,690,000

bushels, or 23.8 per cent of the 1910 crop,

against 173,344,000 bushels, or 23.5 per

ccnt, of the 1909 crop on farms March 1,

1910, and 164,031,000 bushels, or 23.3 per

cent, the average for the past ten years.

About 54.5 per cent of the crop will be

Shipped out of the counties where grown,

against 59.3 per cent of the 1909 crop, and

57.0 per cent, the average of the past ten

years so shipped-



The quantity of corn on farms March

1. 1911, was about 1,265,634,000 bushels, or

40.5 per cent of the 1910 crop, against 1,-

050,8w,000 bushels, or 37.9 per cent of the

I909 crop on farms March 1, 1910, and

953,100,000 bushels, or 38.3 per cent the

average for the past ten years. About

22.2 per cent of the crop will be shipped

out of the counties where grown, against

23.1 per cent of the 1909 crop and 20.7

per cent, the ten-year average so shipped.

The proportion of the total 1910 crop

which is merchanlable is about 86.4 per

cent, against 82.6 per cent of the 1909

crop and. 83.6 per cent, the ten-year av-

erage. '



“The quantity of oats on farms March

1, 1911, was about 421.713.3000 bushels, or

37.4 per cent of the 1910 crop, against

163,159,000 bushels, or 36.] per cent, of the

1909 crop on farms March 1, 1910, and

317,985,000 bushels, or 36.4 per cent, the

average for the past ten years. About

3.2 per cent of the crop will be shipped

out Of the counties where gr',ovin againSt

327 per cent; of the 1909 crop, and 28.1

per cent, the ten-year average.



The quantity of barley on farms March

1, 1911, was about 31,062,000 bushels, (1‘

19.1 per cent of the 1910 crop, against 41,-

220,000 bushels, or 24.2 per cent, of the

I909 crop, on farms Mulch 1,1910. About

'.0.i per cent will be shipped out of the

counties uhcie grown, against 51.7 per

cent of the 1909 010p.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





Gratiot 00., March 11.—-Exceptionaily

fair weather has prevailed here Since

curly February. The ground freezes a

little nearly every night. Sugar-making

is well under way. There is some frost

yet in the ground as there have been no

rains. Farmers are improving the oppor-

tunity of getting the manure out early.

Auction sales are rife, one county paper

advertising twelve this week. Horses are



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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY OF SYRIA—BY WARREN EDWIN BRISTOL.





 





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YRIA is not recog—

S nized by the Turk-



ish geographers as

a separate division of

their great empire; yet to

all western nations, it

comprises the territory

extending from the Bay

of Alexandretta and the

Taurus Mountains on the

north to the Red Sea. on

the south, and from the

Arabian desert to the

Mediterranean.



From a horticultural

point of View, this narrow

strip of land, containing

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prices soaring, the hard—

ship is severe; for no

home, however poor, can

be without its jar of

salted olives. The price

of olives, as of all other

commodities, is governed

by the universal law of

supply and demand. In

this case, inasmuch as

the demand is constant,

it all depends upon the

supply. olive trees hear

every other year, so if a

majority of the trees yield

their small crop the same

year, the available sup-





 





 





and about three million





persons, bears much the Nazareth and Her Orange Groves.





same relationship to the rest of the Sul-

tan's domains and to the neighboring

countries, as California and Florida do to

the rest of the United States. Here are

grown all the fruits of a semi-tropical

climate, and also most of those of the





Bird’s- Eye View of





 





ply is necessarily cur-





Damascus. tailed.





A large amount of work is necessary

to start a good orchard; but, when once

started, it is sure to prove a good invest—

ment. The value of a grove depends

upon its situation, the nature of the soil,

and the distance from a market. .\n av-





temperate and north—temperate zones. erage orchard in proper twilililinfl will

The OOUDU‘Y naturally divides itself into pay for itself in the course or three years.

The fact that the returning emigrants in-





four regions, each having a more or less

distinctive flora, due to the difference in

levels. The lowest is that of the Jordan

Valley and the Dead Sea (1,292 ft. below

the level of the sea); next coming the

coast plains varying from nothing to

several miles in width, the great inland

plateaus, and the snow—capped mountains.



These extremities in altitude, found in

no other country in the world, give a

most varied and interesting flora. The

Jordan valley was once green with date

and banana. palms, and sugar cane, but

today these are cultivated to a far less

extent. The littoral regions are now the

scenes of many actively-operated or-

chards particularly of orange, lemon and

olive. On the tablelands and low foot-

hills flourish grapes, melons, mulberry

trecs, figs, and numerous cereals, while

apricots, apples, pomegranates, almonds,

acadinias, carub and walnuts are not un-

common. All of the mountain peaks are

now practically barren of vegetation, ex-

cepting for a few species. On the slopes

are still found forests of oak, pine and

cedar trees though these do not reach the

magnificence of past ages. The seed of

the pine is extensively used in confections

and pastry.



The principal fruits deserve detailed

description, though it is not the purpose

of this article to more than briefly sur-

vey these. Syria is the home of the olive.

In Scriptural history we learn that the

olive tree, its fruit and its oil played an

important part in the lives of





 





 





 





 





 





Fruit and Vegetable Sellers at Tripoli.





vest their small savings in the fruit busi-

ness helps to keep up the prices. (me of

the principal reasons for the low selling

prices of olives is the wage paid Work-

men. .-\ day laborer does not ask more

than thirty—tive cents a day, and olive

pickers may he hired for twenty. .-\ll of

the best: fruit is hand picked. The in-‘

ferior varieties are knocked or shaken

from the trees and picked up from the

ground.



The largest olive groves are along the

hrlcditerrnncan coast but on every hillside,

from north to south, one tinds these purp¥

lish green leaved trees, alone or in groups.

The fruit of the higher altitudes is pre—

ferred by many to that of the coast.

Damascus is famous for its large varic-

ties. Some of these attain a length of

two and a half inches and nearly twice

that in circumference. It goes without

saying that the average person does not

nced many of these to make up the fruit

course of a meal.



Comparatively a small amount of the

year’s yield is exported, notwithstanding

the fact: that the orchards of Damascus

alone grow more than 3:30 tons annually.

.-\ large portion of each crop finds its

way into the oil preses. Some of the very

best fruit is used for oil. The oil is used

in a multitude of ways, from the greasing

of machinery and the making;r of soap to

the packing of fruit, and as a sauce for

numerous dishes. By far the greatest



portion of the entire output





 





the people. To the present in-

habitants they are no less im-

portant. The olive is a house-

hold necessity. It appears in

the menu of every meal. A

constant companion of the na-

tive bread, it is as essential

to the meal of the Syrian as

butter is to that of the Ameri-

can. Every one who has

traveled in the Holy Land re-

calls the familiar sight of a

workman sitting in the shade

of a fig or a mulberry tree

eating his scanty lunch of

bread and olives. The cheap—

ness of this fruit is partly

responsible for its popularity.

The Syrian product does not

command a high price in the

local market, if compared to

that of American growth.

During an average season a

bottle (5% 1b.) may be pur—

chased for four and a halt

piastres (14c). Were it not

for this extremely low price

they would not be such an im-

portant factor in the diet of

the common people. Hence,





 





 





One of the Mulberry Orchards at Beirut,





is used in the manufacture of

the uitivc soap. This prod-

uct (‘fl'cclivcly competes with

the soaps of foreign make;

and, as a general cleanser,

if not exactly as useful, it

iills the demands of the most

over-fastidious Syrian house—

keeper. lt lits the hand and

the pocketbook as well. At

the same time, this article

finds a ready welcome in for-

eign markets.



Second in importance stands

the orange, crop. This fruit is

extensively cultivated along

the coast from the northern

boundaries as far south as

.l'affa. The principal crops

come from ’l‘ripoli, Alexan-

dretta, Sidon and .Taffa. .-\ll of

these regions are situated

within easy access of the

Mediterranean boats, with the

exception of Sidon, which has

to send its fruit over land by

camel and donkey to Beirut.

Beirut being the natural sea-





 





 





with a Silk Mill Adjoining.





port of Sidon, many tons are

sent from her wharfs each
328 (16‘;





season, but only a small number of then

oranges are raised in me vicinity. The

Syrian oranges are shipped to Austria,

Germany, France, Russia, Roumania,

England, Egypt and other parts of ,the

Turkish Empire, to the amount of a. mil-

lion dollars’ worth a year.



The methods of handling the crop do

not differ materially from those of other

land. The picking commences in early

winter and continues until after Easter.

Orange pickers and packers, mostly boys,

get about eleven cents a day. In some

places the wages are slightly higher.



Grape raising forms one of the most

important phases of husbandry. The ter-

raced slopes of the Lebanon mountains

produce a grape of excellent quality. In

Palestine, the German and Jewish colon-

ies are doing much to improve and en-

large this industry. The wines that are

made are principally sweet, and con-

sumed in the country. They do not com—

pete very successfully with the wines of

France and Italy. Less than $100,000

worth a year leave 'the country. A far

greater business is carried on in the dry-

ing of raisins.



Bananas are raised along the southern

part of the coast commencing at Beirut,

but they do not compare favorably with

the fruit found in the American fruit

store. They are small in size and much

less delicious. Apples and apricots are

raised in the Antilebanon. Nearly all of

the trees are ungrafted, and therefore





THE? MICHIGAN FARNIER.‘ _





be" “common fruit.” Very little has been





done to develop the apple in this country.



Rig trees abound through the land. The

usual crop is of excellent quality and finds

a ready sake. in the local markets. Dried

tigs sell at the opening of the season for

three to five cents a pound. The Syrian

fruit is not equal to the famous Smyrna.

line in size and does not enjoy so good a

name abroad. The time of harvest de-

pends largely upon the location of the

orchard. In the mountains, this season is

the latter part of August, while on the

coast it is a few weeks earlier. This is

one of the few fruits which the children

do not eat green.



“‘hile not strictly included under the

caption, “fruit industry," a word about

the cultivation of the mulberry may not

be out of place here. The mulberry is not

raised in Syria for its fruit. Growers find

it more profitable to feed the leaves to

silk—worms, and to this end the trees are

pruned so as to put out more branches

and hence more leaves. It would make an

expert forester or- gardener gaze awe-

stricken at the method adopted. I’Vith an

ordinary sickle and a strong arm, the op-

eration is short. No attempt is made to

cover the wound, or to make it neat with

a sharp instrument. It is no wonder that

the fungi lose no time in getting in their

work, and that in a few years the trees

hollow from the branches to the ground.

The period of luxuriant growth is thereby

seriously shortened.





 





 





 





THE GATES OF BAKAPPLEIN





B 4 ELIZABETH ann'r'r BROWN

Y an?) SUSAN JEWETT HOWE.





 





 





 





Chapter XVll~l.—Old Joe Rises to the

Occasion.



For over a year old Joe Green had

bided his time awaiting Ned's return

when he could say a few things publicly

that he had desired to say for a long

time. His first thought, after the e):-

citement had died down, was that the

time. had come when he could vindicate

Ned in the eyes of the town's people: for

Ned had returned in the very nick of

time. covering himself with glory at the

outset. None of them at the barn could

possibly liave reached the engine in time

to prevent the terrible consequences of

'young Joe‘s act of drunken interference,

for the young fellow, not having sense

enough to know that there Would be no

wood sawing that day. and finding the

engine alone had thought to anticipate

Ben Baker in starting it for once. as the

man would never allow anyone, to touch

it but himself. So accordingly lze had

tilled it to overflowing and then started

it, chuckling to himself over his chance

to outwit Ben.



Awed and silent at the thought of what.

might have happened if the boys had not

arrived at that Illl'lll{‘ilt. the men stood

staring at Ned uu-l l‘wy. while Merle and

hiary wept for joy and Sculls would not

find words 1:) express His delight, But

the boys took their honors modestly, Ned

finally declaring he was so hungry that

he would not explain anything until he

had had some of Mary's coffee. 'i‘heu,

submitting to a hearty kiss from that

autmrut, though he dodged when he saw

her coming. cxtmcting his cuslomary cuff-

iizg. he finally recovered enough to in—

troduce lloy, who at one“ applied to

Searls for a job. saying that he would

(-onu- in handy no muttwv‘ what happened.



“if he don't i will." said Mary. giving

bin: us hearty a kiss us she did Ned.

“I know you are all right by the way you

have been hustling. Now both of you

wash off some of that dirt and i'll cook

you the best breakfast the place. affords.”



Searls held out his hand. “You have

earned a life-long welcome." he said,

“you and Ned both."



Old Joe’s heart wus full.

he. led his son away to sleep off his spree.

He know well that he had lost his chance

for working on that place. Twice Ned

.l'aclg‘on had saved him from death: once

Merle had saved his life, and now the

time had come when old Joe felt that he

could pay back his debt of gratitude to

both of them by making folks believe

that. as be said. “he. had allers knowed

that Ned was a tbcrrerbrcd and now oth-

er folks had got to know it iew.”



He quit work early that night and

drove to King's store, where he. knew

that three-fourths of all the men and

boys of the town congregated when there

were no counter attractions elsewhere.

He lugged a bushel basket in with him

and, finding a convenient seat on top of a

cracker barrel, he set :the basket down

between his legs and began to smoke

contentedly.





Sorrowfully





For awhile he made no special conver-

sation, us both King and his clerk Jimmy"

were busy waiting on customers, while

Saropht. perched on her stool in her little

railed off inclosm‘e. worked industriously

at her books. apparently paying no atten-

tion to the group of loungers who

smoked, chewed and gossiped there night

after night to their hearts content.



Naturally, the return of Ned Jackson,

the tragedy he had averted, and the Jack~

sou baby were the topics of the hour and

Joe. was appealed to as an authority.

“Jackson needs a hoop on, so he won’t

bust, ch——now that he‘s got a boy," said

Cal Chase to him.



“Guess he ain't no more pleased than

the rest uv us air," said Joe, philosophi-

cully. “I ain‘t seen the young man yet,

but from all accounts he’s a bummer; I

hccrd him. though,” he added.



“'l'ltcy won't be adoptin' no more girls

now, i guess," said another. “Is is true,

JIM}. llllll Searls had papers made out

‘doptiu‘ his cousin, Merle? I know that

Yvonne Benoit and Martha Malley are

‘dwpud hard and fast, but how about

the 'lotlici‘?"



“ will, Searls don‘t tell me all his biz-

ness. and as I never ast, I can't possibly

suy t‘cr say-tin, but I think he did; and as

l'c‘.‘ their 'doptin’ more children, I don‘t

see nothiu’ ter hinder their doin' it if

they see. fit," he drawled.



"I hear Ned's got back." snapped King.

“And from what I hear he is pretty near

a trump. Had to come back on a cattle

car to git here at all. Thought he was

gall}. to paint the country red when he

lrft here.”



“He may yit." answered Joe, slowly.



“Lot's uv thing's happin' erlong. John

King. that we don‘t think is goin' to."

‘ “;\l~.xuin' what?" demanded King,

wratl’lfully. “Yew can‘t come in this

store and go to insultin’ folks as long as

I'm owner, I can tell you."



“Good Lord!" .Ioe looked up innocent].v

with an expression of complete surprise

on his big face. “Didn’t know as I had

insulted nobody. Hadn't got to that part

uv the program yit. All I said wuz that

Ned Jackson might paint the town red

yet. i didn‘t say he wuz goin’ to buy the

paint in his own measure and git a gill

over every quart. Now did I, boys?" he

asked, beaming around {it the group who

hoped for a quarrel and did not wish to

lose one word of it.



King growled inarticulately that he did

not buy paint that way, then retreated

behind the counter.



“ ’Course you don't," Joe continued

sweetly, “but it is jest coz you can‘t.

Don't see what you’ve got agin that re-

mark. 101’ the shoe don't fit ye ain’t er-

bleeged to put it on, fer all that I know.

I wuz talkin’ about Ned Jackson and not

about yew.”



“There‘s some pretty tough stories

about Ned.” remarked Chase, pointedly.

"Guess that Searls ain’t any too glad to

have him come back. I heard pretty

straight that he don’t hesitate to turn a.





dollar his my it he gets the chance.

Eighty rough on Searls when he pretends,

to be such a. smighttorwd mistiani

to have such a relation; but I have al-

ways held that Searls would bear watch-

ing,” he said knowingly. ,



“So'll a settin’ hen, and 8. met, and

a sick man," agreed Joe. “It's the folks

that won‘t bear watchln’ that I’m stand

of; but we will leave Searls out of the

talk. Man and boy, I’ve knowed him all

his life and if I can’t say nothln’ agin

him the rest uv you had better shet up

and stay shet while you're about it,” he

added pointedly. “Now about Ned. I

ain’t denyin’ that Ned wuz brung up to

hev a mighty good 'pinyun of hisself.

He never learned how to work, and he:

wuz brung up ter feel above it; but I’m:

also sayin' that he has learnt a pile sencef

he went away. He’s come back fair andj

square with the world, and the fust man





in this town, or in the next, that sez one;

word agin Ned Jackson’s honesty will:

hev to answer to me; and after they git?

through with me, I reckon, after what;

Ned done today, and considerln‘ that;

Searls knows more’n he did about some;

things, they’ll hev to answer to Searls?

Jackson. Has enybody enything tert

say?" he demanded, “coz ef thar haln’t;

I want ter tell a. little story. Any objec-l

tions?" he asked of King who had again

entered the group.



“If you don't stop your insinuationsi

I‘ll make you go petty darned quick.”l

King yelled, forcing himself through the‘

crowd and shaking his fist under Joe’s

nose.-



“A hit bird allers flutters.” said Joe,

quietly taking his pipe from between hiss

lips and waving it casually around but;

managing to have the hot bowl strike?

King‘s hand. “Can‘t see what you ’airl

so uneasy about, friend King,“ he con-;

tinued. “but if my presence here annoysI





 





you, why I’ll jest go acrost to the hotel, i,





an’ if this crowd will foller me I’ll tell;

’em suthin‘ mighty interestin‘ about—'

well. about this basket." he said, shamb—

ling down from the barrel and picking

up the basket, while the men started to

go with him. E



King darted to the door ahead of Joel

and locked it. “If you have got anythingl

to say against me you say it here," he!

panted. “I won‘t hev no talkin' goin’ on,

behind my back." ‘ i



“All right," said Joe, serenely settling:

back on the barrel. “What makes yewl

so sure I was goin‘ to talk about yew? I!

can’t remember that I have mentioned.





your name. have I? “'all, ef you want

to hear the lettle story I hev in mind, all

right. I’ll accommodate all uv ye. I’ve

be‘n achin' to tell it fer a long time but I

promised to keep still till Ned Jackson

got back. It is suthin' he told me.”





The crowd was silent. King had re—

turned to his place behind the counter.

Sarepta had stopped her writing and was“

leaning forward on the stool, with her;

ears strained to listen. Joe smoked a few:

moments unconternedly, then he said ir—i





relevantly: “Ned brought a mighty smart: ‘





young feller home with him ter (lay and:

I reckon he'll Stay around here as long:

as he wants to. Don‘t know when I've

seen a boy that I tuk to as I did to him;

his name is Roy Nelson.



“\i'hat's that got to do with your

story?" asked one, impatiently.



“Nothiu’ much: only I thort I'd jest.

speak about him. He's a feller that's

be'n crushed all his life. but: now he's

bound ter git to the top, Lots uv other

folks, like towns. when wuust crushed

stay so, but this chap ain't that. kind."



“\Vhat are you gettin‘ at?” growled

King. “No man has ever done more fer

this town than I have."



“Seems ter me yew air turrible sensi-

tive tonight," said Joe, aggravatingly.

"Yep; that‘s right. New have done this

town mor‘u cnnyl'mdy else over did, that's

right; but towns, like folks. don't ailcrs

stay down!" Then as the men roared he

continued between puffs: “Don‘t know

as yew hev used me any wusseh than I

deserve. I ain’t kickin' on my account.

lut I hev got in my pocket here a list uv

the families in this town that yew hey

tried to crush; it’s mighty interestin’

readin’. Saw a pitcher the other day ’at

made me think uv yew. An elerfunt

stepped on a bird and killed her. Then

when he saw she had a lot uv young un’s

he said, ‘Too bad! the poor things will

starve to death, so I‘ll put ’em outen

their misery,’ so he stepped on them tew.

See the pint?” then the men laughed

again. “That’s the way yew hev used the

Malleys—J’



“You leave my folks out of the ques-

tion,” snarled Jimmy, who had not ven-

tured a remark before.



(Continued on page 330).





 





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MARCH is, 1911..

m sap-11m;





BI FIDY 5. MMWNB. ‘





’Long ’bout this time err! sparing.



Dad jee’ makes the old camp ring;



Gills out angers. raffles an’ pans,



Pots an' pails, an’ old tin cans;



Taps the am an? splits the Wood,



An’ us boys help—we’re awful good

In sap-time.





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Then we have dead loads 0' fun



\Vadi‘n’ mow-banks 11’ our knees,



Chasin' chipmunks in the trees;



We tend the tires, an’ raise the deuce.



Dad says: ”Gosh! kids, you're let loose

In sap—time.





Best of all is after night,

Settin’ round the kitchen light,

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Ma spoons up sugar pipin’ hot.

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.XVish all kids lived up our way





, In sap—time.





MARIAN’S WHEREWITH.





Br GLADYS mam SINCLAIR.

”What is it, Marian?" asked the half-





invalid mother cheerily; "another puz-

zle‘.’"

“0. dear, yes, mammy mine! I have





read and re-read every thing in the house

and the neighborhood; 1 do so want some

more tea roses to fill up by bed this

spring; and my heart just aches to help

Jess Carmody to the school books she

needs—and my pocketbook is flat. I be-

lieve I feel the worst about Jess. I can

easily believe that the ‘Lord loveth a

cheerful giver,‘ I love them so myself. I

would be one, too, if I had the where—

with." .



“But a cheerful giver isn’t always a

giver of money, Marian. “”20 was a

cheerful giver when she gave up her art

school scholarship for the year td‘ stay

at home with her no-good mommy? Who

artistic talents to

'rugs and curtains and cushions and flow-

ers and daintil,’ arranged tables and the

beauty of cleanliness in the old home, in-

stead of to the pictures she had dreamed

of so long?"



Marian’s lips quivered. “Thank you,

mammy,” she said softly; “but 1 think

I ought to earn my own extra expenses,

don’t you? When papa works so hard

and gives me money for clothes I cannot

bear to ask him for money to buy less

needful things, too. I can‘t bear to take

even my Grange dues and church collec-

tion money."



“You are right; but perhaps we can

manage for ourselves. I think 1 hear part

of your wherewith this minute."



“Trill?” cried Marian in astonishment

as the melting notes of the Hartz moun-

tain canary, her mother's Christmas gift,

flooded the room with melody.



“No, sell Trill’s children. Aunt Grace

and Mrs. Seymour would lend you their

female birds; you could raise four broods

this summer and Would surely get live or

six singers. When they were trained by

Trill they would sell readily. Mrs. Stamf~

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





to bespeck her lady birth and returned

withtlwpmmlseoftbmamwitha'

basket of pale green eggs. ”Mammy, see:

AuntGrmgnve-etheseandmesaid

that well comer of the new meadow is

just the place for ducks. What do you

think about it?"



“So it is; and if you wish; to add the

care of baby ducks to the care of baby

birds, Thanksgiving time will bring you

a handful of wherewith for the poor and

destitute.” '



”How quickly you think—and what

splendid thinks! Care? I’ll learn to-

quack if necessary. And I’ll buy school

books for Jess and a warm coat and mit-

tens for Jack Bates next winter, and

who knows. what besides?"



At corn planting time the ducks' eggs

were being mothered by the most faithful

b-iddy of the flock. Four gaping young-

sters in the canary's cage required con-

scientious care every day. It was disa-

greeable work; Marian did not pretend

to like it. ”But I suppose the cheerful

pert comes in here as well as later," she

thought. “Cheerfully doing the work that

earns the money must mean as much as

cheerfully giving the money itself."



“Father," she said one evening, “may I

have. three rows of corn clear across the

field if 1 plant, and weed, and hoe, and

cut, and husk it?"_ .



“Of course, daughter; but aren't you

taking a big contract? That is a long

field."



"The longer the better, for this is to

be book-and-flower corn. I will pay you

for the seed when I sell the corn and the

rest of the price goes into my book and

posy box. I shall have to plant hybrid

perpetual roses in the fall instead of teas

now, and wait for my books; but the

hybrid perpetuals are.more hardy and

sure to live anyhow, and I need new

books worse in Winter. l‘ll save some of

the money for next summer‘s reading.”



“I see,” answered the fathcr.

amused. “W'ell, i will donate lhc seed

on condition that you don’t take part of

the price for some gimcrack to pay for

your backaches.”





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“0 my, 0 me!" sighed a weary girl,

casting herself on the steps at her moth-

er’s feet late in the afternoon, three days

later. “That corn is buried, my hand is

blistercd, eleven of the ‘dcstitnic duck-4'

are hatched and I've worked my alleged

brain till it cracks, without a single idea

as to gift money."



"1 have spun a plan for gift money but

I am afraid you won’t like it, dear," and

the mother hesitated.



“More blisters?”



“No, a sacrifice; but it is only an idea.

Father is anxious to get some of Mr.

Stamfner’s blooded pigs but hasn’t the

money to spare just now. If you bought

two he would gladly raise one for you,

keeping the other one. A fat porker

would mean quite a lot of gift money

before Christmas.”



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pay three dollars for one. If your birds

brought only a dollar each you would

have your collection dimes for nearly a

year.”



“W'hat a. scheme!” cried Marian. “And

I will mark a box ‘Grange and Church’

and put every cent of that money into it.

Then I shall be sure of those expenses

anyway.”



Next morning she tripped down the hill





my hat?" The sweet face fell. “But

I've planned for it so long and decided on

just what I want! How can I give it up?”

“Don’t, unless you are sure you would

get more pleasure out of the gift-giving.

You are the one to be satisfied. Sit here

and think it over; I will get supper.”

Marian sat still and tried to decide but

her thoughts ran to a perfect tangle of

chiffo , and giftless Christmases, 'and fat

pigs, and plumes, against the joy of hav-





ing material for the burned work and

embroidery she loved and which formed

most of her gifts. At supper time the

mother could not guess which way the

battle went until Marian said, “Father,

that com is under ground and I am ready ‘

for another deal. Do you want some of

those piglets on shares?” Father was so

pleased with the proposition that they

went after their little grunters that very

evening and Marian set to work with

merry, skilful fingers to remodel the old

hat. “it isn't a new one, mammy, but it

might look wot-so,” she said", as she pin~

med it on at tho most bewitching angle

the day of the Lakeside picnic.



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does.”



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yesterday that l felt like borrowing

enough of father to buy a. couple, but i

didn't. Something might happen to my

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another pig when the rim» should come?



The “destitute ducks" took kindly to;

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The four broods of “collccticn canarics‘"

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made buss work as they grow older.

cn o." the birds pro‘x'ml to be

They \rcrc casily sold and six of the dol—‘t

lars were cxchangcd for sixty dimer: to go

jingliitg into ll‘c church bank. “The com-‘

lza‘vim: a dime all ready to slip]

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du-larcd Marian.





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THE GATES OF BAKAPPLEIN.

(Continued from page 328).





“All right, I will, Jimmy. Ever sence

your father died, and your baby wuz.

borned, you’ve acted half-way decent;

yew've got a good wife an‘ I hope bimeby

she'll get some uv your natchal cussed-

ness outen yew. But to go on with my

story. I ain't kickin’ coz King sold me

a cow wunst that would never let no man

milk her. 'Course he didn‘t tell me that,

and fust time 1 tried she kicked me and

the pail and the milkin‘ stool clean outen

the barn. But that ain't the most inter—

estin‘ part uv what l've got to tell." he

continued, mysteriously. "lladn‘t we bet-

ter go over tew the hotel. .lohn King?"



“You say what you‘ve got to say and

say it here; but if you dare accuse me

of lying and cheating, or taking more‘n

what belongs to me, I’ll tell some things

about that Ned .lackson you are standing

up for. If he ever dares step foot in this

store. again I will—”



“You will, will you,’ almost roared Joe

in sudden wrath. “See here, boys, we've

got down to brass tacks at last. That

man is so pesky low—down with his lyin’

and cheatin’ that he can't rest. Natehelly

so fully of mean, stinkin’, low-down tricks

as he is, he thinks everybody is jest like

him. \\'hy, 1 don’t wonder but what ef

that prowlin’ varmint that we all know

about could talk it would say that all

critters smelt jest. as bad as he does. it

King wants to hear what l‘ve got tew

say he shall hev the pleasure, and have





9





it right off the bat. l>o yew see this

basket?" lie held it up to plain view.

"My boy. Tom. has got another." llere





'l‘om stepped forward with another bushel

basket, while King. darting through the.

group of men. tried to grab the one .loe

had but was not quick enough. lie was

a little man. while Joe was tall, and,

standing on the barrel. he held it high

above the heads of the men. ”This is

one that King had made special. Yew

all know that when he buys ennything uv

yew tellers he measures it in his basket

—” a groan went tip from the group of

farmers and King edged Ll\‘.tt:\', shaking

with wrath.



“He told me to tell it, so T'm goin‘ tew.

Never mind how I got hold of this ’ere

basket. Ned Jackson put me wise to the

fact that it held five pounds more'n the

regular baskets dew, so fer every twelve

bushel of taters yew've sold him yew’ve

gin him one. Yes, sir, that‘s what yew

hev bcn doin’ all this time and not one

on ye, not even myself, wuz smart enough

to find it out; so, friends, yew kin jest

tigger tew yer own satisfaction how many

bushels uv taters and other stuff yew've

ben givin’ this manmthis man in tho

middle-who has robbed both yew. the

perducers, and the consutiters—robbed

with both hands all these years. and

while he has bcn gittiu’ richer, we‘Ve lien

a gittin’ poorer. Now that‘s what l‘ve

hen achin‘ tew tell for a hull year. Ned

Jackson wuz smart enough to find it out,

so when he ink that car load uv taters

away he kep‘ every twelfth bushel fer

himself thinkin‘ he had as much right

tcw them as King had, whitch, uv course,

wuz no right at all. That's what the row

wuz about. That mean, low-down, yeller-

skinned skintlint over thar wuz so afeered

Ned “'(ltlld tell about, his big basket that

he agreed tew not say nothin' agin‘ Ned,

pervidiu’ Ned would leave him pcaccable

and keep his mouth shet. But he didn’t

keep still, and now that Ned has got

back, 1 shan't. And boys," he continued,

impressively, “that pore Ned Jackson al-

most starved himsolt‘ to send that money

back to Kingerrrto King that stole it frum

yew in the fust place—an’ that's why I

say ef I ever hear a man sayin‘ a word

agin Ned Jackson not bein’ honest I’ll

wallup him till he can‘t set down. An’

another thing. 'l‘hese tew baskets look

alike; at fust glance yew would think

they wuz the same, but all uv yew air

free tcw come to my house and measure

tatcrs or cnnything in ’em and see. if i

ain‘t tellin‘ the truth. Ask him of it is

a lie?” He pointed at King who, white-

faccd and gasping with rage, had fled to

the enclosure with Sarepta and was shak-

ing his list at him through the wire net-

ting. threatening him with the law if he

didn't keep still. "lie knows it ain‘t no

lie; I know it ain’t no lie, and so dew all

on you. an’ cf you want ter keep on trad—

in' with him. payin’ all the profits to the

man in the middle, why yew kin of yer

wants tow, I don't care. Yew hev all

hcerd how a jammed-in milk can don't

hold quite so much as one, that, ain’t

jammed, and so it is with these baskets;

the big one ain’t jammed in: it’s jammed

outmand I’m thinkin’ it will jam King

outen bizness yit, fer he made the mis-

take uv his life wunst in slanderin’ Ned





Jackson. I don’t stand fer that agln

sech a young feller as he is, ’specially af-

ter the tew brave things he has did.”



He slowly clambered down to the floor.

“Now that I’ve told my leetle Story I’ll

go home,” he said, sociably. “Thar ain’t

mutch more, only I could tell as how Ned

says his hay scales air doctored, tew—

one way fer buyin’ an' one way fer

sellin‘; but as I can‘t prove it I’ll say

nothin’ about ’em. And as King natchelly

don't want ter see me no longer I'll hike

erlong hum tew the old woman, who’ll

be wondrin’ as tew what has become on

me, basket an' all.”



Chapter XIX.—The Gates of Bakapplein.



No twinges of conscience were felt by

Joe Green the next morning when he

heard that John King was seriously ill

and that his physician advised him to

leave the country for a change of climate.

“it he don‘t." observed Joe in the black-

smith shop. where he had gone to do his

share of talking, “he will be perty shure

to land in a hotter one sooner than he is

lookin’ fer. I wuz in hopes he'd stay

here sowve could see what a dry funeral

he’d get. I don't believe there‘d be tears

ernuft’ shed to damp a hank-chiff a. ha‘f

inch square. I've ben hopin' he’d arrest

me fer what I said, as l‘m achin’ tew tell

all I know again in court.” But that

pleasure was denied him, for King and

wife soon left “'est “'inthrop for a few

months, and the store passed into other

hands.



’l‘owns, like individuals, are fickle. The

people who had been ready enough to

condemn Ned, now, when King's double

dealings were fully exposed, turned loy—

ally to the young man and refused to be-

lieve that there had ever been anything

wrong with him. Such hero worship did

not disturb him, however. He was so

glad to be at home once more, glad of the

chance to prove to his cousin that he

could nutke something of himself, that he

took his honors very modestly. He was

thoroughly ashamed of his follies, and all

he. asked was a chance to do honest

work.





ltoy had been welcomed into the home~

'laoth Searls and Nell were anx—i

ions to help him make a man of himself‘





at once.





and assist him in obtaining the education

he was determined to have, so he at once

began work on the farm, taking young

.loc‘s place. The latter, sobered by the

knowledge of what he had done, had gone

to Manning Beverly and humbly asked

if he could come. there, as at last he had

fully determined to reform." And Man-





ning. who was soon to be married to_

Merle Jackson, gladly gave him employ- .

ment and old Joe's heart was full of‘





gratitude.



Ned redeemed his watch with Old Mal-

ley’s money, and then, until a chance

should open for him with Mr. Amidon,

began working on the farm, doing what-

ever there was to do, and, what was bet-

ter yet, going with Searls on his business

trips, for his cousin had at last realized

that the young fellow’s natural bent was

that way.



One bright afternoon in March Ned

came. back from the woodlot with his axe

on his shoulder. lie was whistling

blithely, for he had cut enough wood

that day to win Ben Baker's approval.

As he neared the Gates of Bakapplein he

saw the. flutter of a blue dress and he

ouickcned his steps, thinking Merle, who

was to be married within a few days, had

come to meet him with little Yvonne,

but as he drew nearer, the girl who had

stepped from behind the white post was

none other than Grace Amidon.



lie felt the blood surge to his face as

he met her frank gaze. “Are you going

to try to dodge me this time?” she

laughed. “You know the two other times

I have seen you lately you have wanted

to run away.” She held out her gloved

hand which he took in his heavy—mit—

tcned one.



“No,” he said lightly, though his voice

trembled, “I won't run, though I’d have

been more presentable if I had known

you were coming. \Vhen did you arrive,

and how’.’ From the clouds?”



She laughed again. “We came on the

express this noon. Just a flying trip be-

fore the wedding. Merle wrote us you

were here and papa wants to see you——

so we came.”



“Your father wants to see me!” a great

light breaking over his face. “'I‘hen——”



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cried happily. “Oh, we. have been hear—

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Green, was at the station and he offered

to bring us along, so we accepted and, of

course, we heard about the gasoline en-

gine fire—and how you paid King and—

and everything. You are actually a hero,

Ned.”



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"I have never done anything out make

a; greater fool of myself than nature in-

tended, which was unnecessary. But if

your father wants to "see me I surely

Wish to see him,” ‘ -



She looked at him critically. “I think

you will pass," she remarked, approv-

ingly.



“In these clothes,” he joked. "You are

a. pretty swell looking girl to stand here

talking with a wood chopper. These

things are great for ,warmth but not

much for style. These mittens are Mary’s

patent. She has actually adopted me

since I returned.”



“So I heard. Never mind your clothes.

It is yourself. I don’t see quite so much

ego about you as there used to be. You

are more—more manly than formerly,"

she continued, still searching his face

with her earnest eyes. “There is some-

thing so different about you than there

was even last fall. I really believe you

have become a man instead of a conceited

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“Thank you," he said gravely. “I

value your criticisms, Grace. I have been

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face. Searls approves of me. So does Ben

Baker, consequently I think I have taken

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She flushed under the earnestness of

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She raised her face and smiled.



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some day we will enter the Gates of

Bakapplein together.”



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to be just as good as those in the Ama-l

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lieved to be only a matter of time wheni

what is called the cultivated rubber cropi

will be sufficient to supply the needs ofj

the world: and probably at a much lower}

cost than manufacturers have been pay—g

ing. l



“ln 1908 this cultivated crop of rubber!

from Ceylon did ‘not exceed 2,000 tonszl

the next year it was 4,000 tons: last year;

it had grown beyond 8,000 tons, and this;

year‘s crop is estimated as likely to reach 5

H.000 tons. A few years hence the cul-{

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Wind Bells, March Hares and Shamrocks

for the March Party—By Marjorie March.





In the early springtime the hostess who

wishes to entertain has many inspirations

to guide her choice. St. Patrick‘s Day

comes at the end of March and may prove

the occasion for a pretty little party

where “the wearin’ of the green" may

furnish symbolism for amusement. Other

quaint fancies such as a wind party or a





the entertainment the desired character.

For place cards St. Patrick’s Day post

cards would be suitable and are easily

obtained. At a March hare party if the

guests are asked to come dressed as

characters in “Alice in “ionderland’” the

party will be even more delightful, but

even with simph reading se ‘ections from





 





 





 





 





 





The Centerpiece Wind~Mili Cake for St. Patrick's





Day Wind Party. Croquettes





with Pin Wheels at Left.





March hare party are also innovations

which will asure an entertainer success

it she uses their decorative motifs for a

little cvu’iing of enjoyment,



A March Hare Party.



The center table decoration can be a

procession of most fanciful papier mac-he

“March hares” reaching down a long

luncheon runner, stretched lengthwise of

the table through its center, the covers

being arranged on doilies cut in bunny

shape also. Those cut from stiff white

paper are most effective. The March

hare in the center of the table can be the

largest one with a realistic “carrot" in

his mouth, While before him and behind

him ‘march” other mad hares each as.

bewitching as a faVor rabbit can be!

Teapots at the four corners of the table

can hold imitation “hare-bolls” while a

cup and saucer at each place can hold

some escallopcd oysters or some equally

“mad” arrangement consistent with a

l\[arch hare tea party. A table of this

sort would be dainty for an evening chaf-

ing dish affair where a ”rabbit” can be

served with the usual accompaniments.



A Wind Party.



Invitations for a wind party can be sent

on cunning little fans, or on cards decor-

ated with umbrellas blown inside out. If

desired to make this party coincident with

St. Patrick's Day thc umbrellas may be

green. Decorate the rooms with fans and

paper umbrellas and hang tinkling wind-

bclls over the doorways.



()tll‘ illustrations show two pretty fan-

cies for the table for such a party. One

is a centerpiece. cake iced in green and

white, green “l"s" to stand for “l'atrick”

upon the sides of the cake while a quaint

little Windmill makes a decorative top.

At the left are shown some croquettes

which can form one. of the courses, each

with a wee pin wheel ornamenting its

top. The second picture shows ice cream

in tall glasses with little fans on top,

cakes at the left on :1. tray. It is possible

to decorate the dishes with different

kinds of fans, some with wee Jap um-

brellas blown inside out. \Vind-bells

hanging from the chandelier will keep up

a pretty tinkling if candles are used for

lighting the table and enough heat is

thrown upward from them.



For amusement a “feather match,”

having tWo lines stretched on the floor

using fans to blow the feather into the

adversary’s territory, will prove fun and

a game of old—time battledore and shut—

tlecock ever delights old and young.



Afterwards music and recitations may

entertain the company and it is possible

to find enough selections with reference

to the “\Vild winds of March” to give





this delightful child classic a “Mad March

llare Party” can be made a success.

Favors for "March can be almost any--

thing the hostess desires. It is possible

to get many little woodsy treasures by

pushing away the dead brown leaves and

bringing the roots into the house to come

to life early by reason of the warmth of

the rooms, and such bits of mother earth

always delight the city visitor who can—

not live as near to nature as those upon

the farms. Cunning clay pipes, suggefi-

tivc of St. Patrick‘s Day can also hold a

bit of the “auld sod" in which can be a

little fern or other green growing thing,

and these make pretty trilles to put at

each plate. The realistic silk-covered

“potatoes,” which can be bought in the

city shops for pin cushions, would also

be suitable for St. Patrick Day gifts, as

would, indeed, any article made of green

material, whatever that material may be.

It is not necessary to go to a great deal

of expense in planning such a party. The

simplest thing at hand will often serve as

well as the most expensive favor. The

clay pipe suggestion, for instance, would





of crumbled cheese, (any preferred kind).



Blend this well and season with salt and



pepper and spread over the inner hearts



of lettuce. Serve with mayonnaise.

Spring Delight.



Spread some lady fingers or squares of

sponge cake with apricot jam which has

been warmed a little. Put one or two

layers of these in a baking dish and over

them pour a hot Custard made with the

yolks of eggs, milk, a little sugar and

vanilla flavoring. Leave the sponge cake

in the custard two hours, then put the

baking dish in the oven and when it is

thoroughly heated through beat the

whites of the egg stiffly into a meringue,

spread over the pudding and brown deli-

cately in the oven.



Asparagus Pudding.



Take the chopped tips of asparagus,

about one eupful, and blend with a cream

sauce, seasoned and rather thick. Beat

the yolks of three eggs, stir into the mix-

ture and lastly fold in the beaten whites

and bake quickly. This makes a good

dish when a little asparagus is left over

and may be made with fewer eggs al.

though it is not then so rich.



March Daisies.



This is a simple little dish with a fanci-

ful name. Boil four eggs hard. Into a

rich cream sauce chop the whites of the

eggs and pour over squares of toast or

crisped crackers. Then grate the yolks

of eggs over this in round dots and in

the center of each round press a bit of

olive. Garnish the dish with parsley 0r

celery green.



Date Pudding.



This is a variation of plum pudding

that. is delicious steamed. One cup of

brt-éttl crumbs, one cup of chopped suet,

three chopped apples, one cup of sugar

and one of raisins and one of chopped

dates. Quarter of a cup of molasses, half

a cup of shredded Citron, a little nutmeg,

cloves and cinnamon and a teaspoonful of

soda, three eggs well beaten. Steam for

three hours and a half and serve with

stuffed dates and whipped cream.



Chicken Loaf.



Add to chopped chicken some rolled

cracker crumbs until the mixture meas-

ures a quart. Add two eggs, well beaten,

3. tablespoonful of melted butter, a little

celery salt, a eupful of chicken stock, or

white sauce if the stock is not at hand.

Mix well. Pack in buttered moulds and

bake in a moderate oven.



St. Patrick Cakes.



Any good recipe for cake can be baked

in little patty tins and frosted white or

green and decorated with wee candles

which can be put on to represent little

Shamrocks. Shamrock leaves can also be

cut from majolica and embedded in the

frosting, while little gilt paper harps can





 





 





 





 





 





Ices for a Wind

cost only the trifle expended for the

“pipes,” for the wee ferns can be found

on the place.



I give below a number of suggestions

for recipes that are delicious for the sea-

son of the year when appetites, with all

nature, are waking up.



Lettuce Salad.



Chop fine a tablespoonful each of onion



and parsley and add two tablespoonfuls





Party in March.

also decorate such cakes attractively.

Favors can be any little fancy in green

and white, as crepe paper boxes holding

green mints and white peppermints, or

any pistachio bonbons. Tiny candy rab-

bits will decorate the March cakes pret-

tily or rabbits may merely be traced on

in white frosting over chocolate or pit-

tachlo frosting, Gingerbread iced brown

with “patches of snow” in white frosting





MARCH 18. 1911.





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Mix one pint of granulated sugar with

1/2 pint of warm water, and stir for 2

minutes. Put 21/; ounces of Pinex (fifty

cents’ worth) in a pint bottle; then add

the Sugar Syrup. It has a pleasant taste

and lasts a family a long time. Take a

teaspoonful every one, two or three hours.



You can feel this take hold of a cough

in a way that means business. Has a

good tonic effect, braces up the appetite

and is slightly laxative, too, which is

helpful. A handy remedy for hoarseness,

bronchitis, asthma and all throat and

lung troubles.



The effect of pine on the membranes

is well known. Pinex is the most val-u-

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white pine extract, and is rich in guiaicol

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Other preparations will not work in this

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This Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe has

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A guarantee of'absolute satisfaction,

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and candied violets embedded here and

there amid green majolica leaves will

make a, most decorative cake which will

surely suggest the early springtime.

Tiny cup cakes, iced all white can be

offered on a plate with gilded straws

stuck in their sides to suggest little clay

pipes. It made the right shape and size

these are very realistic and may be





. serv . with pistachio ice cream cut with





a three-leaved cocky cutter into neat and

inviting "Shamrocks.”



The hostess may think of other trifles

and fancies which well lend a pretty

meaning to a March party. Next month

spring April and Easter speak their mes-

sage in one and. we shall speak of some

table decorations that are simple and in-

expensive, and easily arranged by the

country entertainer.





SUPPOSE YOU CHANGE PLACES.





HERE is an old fable of two sol-



l diers who fought over the ques-

tion of whether a certain shield



were gold or silver. One looked at one

side and declared for silver, the other,

who looked at the reverse side, held it

was gold. Of course, both men were

right as one side of the shield showed

silver and the other gold. Then there is

the fable of the blind men and the ele-

phant, the story of the little rohins who

declared that the whole wide world was





 





' ra‘s, mud and threads, , - - ‘

made Of twigs. g s (f tl at cnnposi be too hard on Mrs. \\. l. A. She has

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because their nest “nab J ‘ i h point the a right to her opinion. i int“ booklet-gfultloi momma".

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same moral.



Great students of human nature were

the writers who penned those tales. “'e

are all very apt to look at our own sur-

roundings and to declare that everything

is like what we see close at hand. Have

not the letters which the discussion of

the “College Girl as a Farmer's \‘Vit‘e"

brought out that idea beauti-

writing from

a faithful





aroused

fully? Mrs. \V. Y. A.,

farm life as she sees it, draws

picture of the farm home in the newer,

unsettled sections of the state, where

farms are heavily mortgaged, the soil

poor, crops light, money scarce and mod-

crn conveniences of light, water in the

house and telephones almost unknown.

Social life is a dead letter; there is no

church or Sunday School, no clubs. no

clothes, no books, no ”life." nothing to

attract anyone, least of all a college girl.

Can you wonder that she warns girls to





think twice before they mIU'l‘Y a farmer? utilizing every Scrap" and “thinkingI

Down in the southern part 0f the state waste is crime." usually come.q after MATTRESS VVEESHS FULL





where the country is only a suburb of

seine city. the farmers’ wives see things

differently. for their life is entirely dif-

ferent. Here is money. which. hough

the root of all evil, is the only thing utter

all which makes life comfortable if not

the only thing which makes: life worth





perhaps a car line by the door. certainly

a telephone, and easy access "to church

and to mill." Of course, they are happy

and contented and they wonder wmt

woman in her sane mind could be dis~

satisfied with such a life. Conseuuently

when Mrs. \V. V. A. repines against farm

life. these worthy ladies arise in their

might and smite her on both checks.

From their own point of View they are

right. But they either do not know or

they forget that there are two sides to

the picture.



\\'c, must all rcmcmber that Michigan

is a very large state. and that conditions

in the ncwcr settled sections are now

what they were in the south u couple or

generations ago. There are none of the

comforts which the farmers of the south





Trus- MICHIGAN FA’RMER.‘ ' ' (21)





nourishment. Methinks that all the beau-

ties of nature would not make up for lack

of companionship, warm clothes and good

food.



Or, granted you have all these, can you

not imagine a. temperament that would

be miserable on a farm with comforts.

but happy in a city with only bare neces-

sities? There are some natures that‘de-

mand the life of the multitude. it mat-

ters not. if they know no one in the

throng, the rushing, ,teeming life with all

its suggestions, the sense of thousands of

others near you all living your life, all

enjoying your pleasures, all striving for

the things you want, the noise. the bustle.

the excitement, are all that some people

want in life. Fresh air children, it is

said, must often be taught to see the

beauties of the country. To them there

is more beauty in a mob chasing a

fire engine, than in the most glorious

rural sccne. There are many grown peo-

ple the same. They must have motion,

vividness, life, or they are miserable. It

is barely possible that Mrs. XV. V. A. is

of this type. If so, she has my sym-

pathy. I should die of loneliness on a

farm, no matter if I had two telephones,

a dozen mail deliveries, and three clubs

to attend. I want the feeling of people

near me all the time, the stimulus of

others to keep me going. I'm glad that

others do not, for the pictures of happy

home life shown in these letters has been

most inspiring to us all. However, don't





THE LETTER BOX.





 





College Girls Unfitted for Farm Life.



Editor Household Department—Here,

too, Mrs. ‘\\'. V. A., about the college girl'

marrying the farmer. After the honey-

moon she will lind but little time for her

accomplishments. -\s time goes on, she

is going to discovm‘ that she has not

stepped into the life she has fitted her-

self for. She will see that she might have

filled a bigger place: she will lint be on

common ground with the man who is her

inferior educationally: she will not find

in which





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many "hours to hang heavy,"

“to turn to her truest friends. books.‘

Anyway, college women are not the only

ones who can enjoy good reading. .\'or

are they the only one who know enough

to dress quietly, Hcr "<_-.1.p2t':)ility of





years of :{perience on lite form and not

in her college course. ’i‘hc few col'cge

women of my acquaintance. capable

housekeepers tl‘iough they were. were

simply resigned to their farm life. with

constant thoughts of things itiissed. NV

girls, it‘ you have a college aducationw





 





crine Grimes's article seems like a lot of}

ll‘i'.“‘()1':\'.‘~3ll‘i<. M. t, Big Rapids. 1

Nothing “Cheap” About this Fari'n Home“



Editor Household Department—4 have

been a reader of the Michigan Farmer

for years and we would feel lost without

it. Today. in reading the cormnents by

Mrs. \\’. V. .\., on the college girl as a

farmer’s wife, I am indignant. and in a

few words would say, she. it‘ a college:

girl herself. and on a farm, has lost much

by not being a lover of nature. Here, in

ltmking out either way she. can see the

handiwork of God, instead of brick and

stone built by man. ;



l have been a farmer‘s wife for many.

years and have a beautiful home, built1

up by our own hands and brains. and aml





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with stove putty to make them air-tight. Stove putty “dope”- ,

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family and felt them good enough to ride

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘





Carvel, Ben Hur, Eben Holden, the Crisis,

yes, I could name enough to fill three

secretaries, and first among them I would

place my Bible for my guide.



Now, my dear college girl, if your

heart goes out in love to an honest, in-





This College Girl Is Happy as a Farmer’s

Wife.



Editgr Household Department:——Com-

menting on Mrs. ,VV. V. A.’s article on

the college girl's sacrificing herself in

marrying a farmer, I hardly think the

young farmer will feel flatered after.

reading that article. Now, I am a col-'

lege graduate, I married a. farmer, I do‘

my own housework, most of my sewing,

and take care of the chickens, except'

when the snow is too deep, and I assure,

you I do not feel that I am “sacrificing”'

myself in the least. 011 the other hand,

I feel that life is well worth the living,_

especially on the farm. I lived in the

city for a few years, so I know just a. lit-

tle of that side of the question, and i find

I have more “freedom” and more real

“pleasure” as a farmer’s wife than I ever

had in the city, and I had a good posi-

tion and a. goOd salary. Now as to the

isolated life, with the telephone to have

a friendly chat with my neighbors, letters

from home, and friends delivered at' the

door, a horse and buggy at my disposal,

except, of course, when the horse is need-

ed in the field, I must plead “not guilty”

to any feelings of isolation. I get up





 





 





:quite early, do my work as quickly as I





‘(un without hurry, and I find I have an





 





hour or two in the afternoon to read, and

‘nnt a chcap magazine, either. The Lad-

ics' Home Journal, Youth’s Companion,

i'l‘hc Mother’s Magazine, and the Mich-

‘ igan 'l<‘armer, none of these can be called

“cheap" 1 am sure. And I get more good

and helpful hints in the Magazine Sec-

tion of the Michigan Farmer, than any

of the other papers. To be sure, the

(magazines Wore Christmas presents, but

I gave a chicken and a ‘:print" of butter,

and a. dozen lovely fresh eggs to the

senders, and my! how they were appre-

ciated.



As to that “calico dress, or gingham

gown." I am guilty of wearing a calico

dress to work in, but I get a new suit

whenever I need it, and by watching the

sales, I get a good one “cheap,” and I

lam just as happy and just as content, as

ithough I didn’t have to watch the sales,

lso what is the difference?





 





“’e had a young man working for us

last year who had to leave school before

finishing the third grade. I do not think

a, “college girl” could be happy with that

man, there would be so little in common

between them, but his case is the excep-

tion rather than the general rule. My

husband was not a. college boy, simply

graduated from the high school, but I

never made him feel that he was specially

blessed for having “raised his eyes” to a

college girl—on the other hand, my two

little girls, as well as their mother, are

so proud of our big, honest, good—natured

six-foot “Daddy” that we feel specially

blessed, especially when he playfully asks

the baby, “who can cook better than 'our

mother,’ " and her prompt reply is “no

one.” I certainly feel that this college

girl made no sacrifice.



It is just 18 years since I left college,

and my old chum, now living in Denver,

Colo, and who inherited a snug little

fortune, last fall, writes me that if “Dad”

were only younger, and not so ignorant

along agricultural lines, she would cer-

tainly invest. in a farm, where she could

gbc sure of ending her days in peace and

l comfort. I



I would like to hear more on this sub-

ject. “'on’t some nice young farmer

iboy give us his ideas regarding the col-

‘ lcgc girl as a wife?

why a, farmer shouldn’t demand the same

kind of a wife as the merchant? I think

not. rrrrr Mrs. J. “1, Monroe.





 





 





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MARCH 18, 1911.





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bushel, bags free. Yielded 55 bushels per acre for me



last season. . . EMENS. Holton, Michigan.





 





A lambs about all shipped out and prob-





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. - <23) .





(Continued from page 326).

in good demand at high prices. Produce

is falling off somewhat in price. Wheat,

82@830; oats, 28c; beans, $1.60; com, 250;

hogs, $6.25@7; potatoes, 35c; eggs, 15c,



butter, 14@20c. ‘

Branch Co., March 8.—VVeather for

some time has 'been unfavorable for

wheat. Ground bare and continued freez—

ing and thawing, combined with dry

winds, has been hard for the plant. Early

sown wheat that has a. good top to help

protect the root is not believed to have

been seriously injured as yet, however,

but late sown crop looks bad. “'estern





ably lost their feeders an average 01

at least $1.00 per head. Feed getting

scarce. Many farms changing hands.

Less stock on hand than usual, except

possibly brood sows. New seeding in bad

shape.



Sanllac 00., March 10.—~\Veather very

fine and roads good but not very much

produce moving. Prices are not generally

satisfactory, excepting clover and tim—

othy seed. The oldest settler cannot re-

member when timothy seed sold as high

as $6 per bu. Clover is worth from $861}

9. People that have sugar bushes are

preparing for their season‘s work. \Vheat

is suffering from exposure and meadows

as well. Rural carriers are looking hap—

py, caused by raise of $100 per year. l}ut-

ter, creamery, 22c; dairy, 16c; eggs, 10c.



Ohio.



Hardin Co., Feb. 27.—The weather has

been fine for sugar making and cutting

wood. Most farmers busy at this work at

present. \Vheat looks good yet, owmg to

the freezing weather, but [he clover

looks badly. some fields nearly destroyed.





 





It is a hard matter to procure good seed

lcorn on account of our drouih lust sum-

lmer. Hogs selling at 71/2c; hayh clover,

$8; wheat, 85c; oats, 30c. l’ublic sales

lvei'y numerous and lots of changes this

spring.



Williams Co., March 7.-—The weather

during the month of February was very

windy and changeable and very muddy

most of the time. The weather so far in

March has been very much the same but

we have been having excellent roads.

Both wheat and grass has been very

much damaged by the weather during the

past six weeks. All live stock doing

well. Horses are bringing large prices,

ranging from $150 to $250 and $300 each.

Cows are not quite as good price as m

the fall Hogs from $7.23fii7.50 per out;

eggs, 140: buy, $12.50; butter scarce in

the market but only 206L250. .\ good

many have opened their sugur camps.

It seems to be u very good outlook-for

maple syrup this spring. Syrup is hung

ing from $161.30 per gallon. Most 01 the

farmers have their summer's wood cut

.and manure hauled. ready to begin the

spring plowing. A good many public sales

are being held this winter and spring.

Feed is becoming scarce and very high.

Not very much plowing has been done

yet. Nearly all the farmers are glad the

:reciprocity bill was defeated.



: Wisconsin.





l Ashland Co., March 11.——February pass—

ed out very pleasantly, although weather

mild and pleasant, good slcighing contin-

ues. Some parties have their contracts

filled and have tied up for the season.

Others will finish in a few days, while

for others the season is never long

enough and they would have logs left in

the woods if sleighing lasted until July

4th. Ground is still well covered with

snow and wheat and clover should come

through all right. Stock is looking well





 





and grade very poor. Potatoes, 400; but-

ter has taken a tumble and now sells for

240; eggs also lower, selling at 25c. Cows

will be high this spring as many sold last

fall on account of high prices of feed and

there will be few who will want to sell,

consequently will have to ship in to sup-

ply demand.





 





as weather has been milder than usual.i

Hay prices are holding up very high, $23,:





 





BETTER FARMING INSTITUTE

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The Agricultural College, with the 00-:

operation of the Grand Trunk Railway

will run an institute train through cen-,

tral Michigan during the last week in‘

March, which will stop at various points

at the hours named below. The trainl

will consist of several coaches, in which;

lshort addresses upon topics related to}

farming and fruit growing will be givenj

by experts. There will also be four bag—‘

gage cars filled with exhibits, samples of

dairy and spraying machinery and sup-

plies, types of breeds of poultry, alfalfa,

corn. grain and forage crops, and samples

of hog cholera and tuberculosis, with cul-

tures of various kinds. Opportunity will

be given to hear the addresses and ex—

amine the cxhibits. The public is re-

quested to bring in samples of milk for

testing, and of insects and plant diseases

for examination. Any one who suspects

the presence of the San Jose scale in his

orchard should by all means bring a

sample of bark. Stops of one hour VVlli

,be made as follows:



f Monday, March 20.



l Shaftsburg, 8:00 a. m.; Morrlce, 9:30 a.

,m.: Bancroft, 11:00 a. m.; Swartz Creek,

11:00 p. m.; Davison, 2:30 p. m.; Elba, 4:00,





 





 





 





Tuesday, March 21. ;



Lapeer, 8:00 a. m.; Attica. 9:30 a. m.;.



Imlay City. 11:00 a. m.; Capac, 1:00 p.



m.; Emmett, 2:30 p. m.; Goodells, 4:00:

p. m.





Wednesday, March 22.



Vernon, 8:00 a. m.; Burton, 9:30 a. m.;

Ovid, 11:00 a. m.; St. Johns, 1:00 p. m.;

,Fowler, 2:30 p. m.; Muir, 4:00 p. in.



Thursday, March 23.



Saranac, 8:00 a. m.; Lowell, 9:30 a. m.;?

Ada, 11:00 a. m.; Berlin, 1:00 p. m.; Coop- i

srsville, 2:30 p. m.; Nunica, 4:00 p. m.



L. R. TAFT,

Supt. of Institute.





 





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March 15, 1011.

Grains and Seeds.





Wheat.———VVith the visible supply of

wheat for the country running about 14',-

000,000 bushels ahead of the amount in

sight at this time a year ago and the

condition of the growing crop improvmg

where there was danger of drought and

unharmed in those sections supplied With

all the advantages that could be asked,

the wheat trade found itself swinging into

the territory of the bears and prices

showing further tendency downward, al—

though the change for the week is but

fractional. The oppOnets of this slide to

lower levels have clung to the argument

that farmers are delivering small amounts

of grain, making it certain that the sur-

plus which now shows in the visible sup-

ply will be used before the new crop is

here, and the further argument that Hes-

sian tiles are troubling the new crop in

sections; the truth regarding the insects'

work is questioned in some places but

the reports had an influence in prevent-

ing larger declines. Liverpool has fol-

lowed quite closely the trend of values

on this side, except that on Tuesday

heavier shipments from Argentine creat—

ed an easier feeling in the English mar-

ket. One year ago the price for No. 2

red wheat was 31.19%. per bu. The quo-

tations for the week are:





NO. 2 N0. 1



Red. \Nhite. May. July.

Thursday ...... 89 .861/3 .92 .89

i1 riday ...... . .90 .8714; .93 .9013,

Saturday ...... 901/; .8753»; .9311 .9011;

Monday ....... 891,13, .86 .92 .893":

Tuesday ....... 8931 .8611; .9211, .901/5J

\\'edncsday ....8911; .8611, .921; .8994





Corn.~~'l‘he visible supply of corn is

below :he amount that was in sight a





year agc. but the movement for the past

wt-ek. although about a quarter less than

for 11's; pram-us week, is about a third





greater than for the corresponding week

of 1910. Bet-rinse of this bullish situation

prices have advanced for corn in spite of

the decline in what values. One year





ago the price for .\ 3 corn was 621/20

per bu. Quotations for the week are:

No. 3 No. 3

Corn. Yellow.

Thursday ................. 47 _ ’48

Friday .................... 71:13 48%

Saturday ................. -‘.._5"-,, 48%

Monday .................. 41“., 4834

Tuesday .................. 471‘, 48%,

\Vednesday .............. 4 T 3., 48 3,4





Oats—There is no material change in

this doal and prices are ruling on the

basis of a week ago. There is only a

small volume of business at present.

which is expected to be augmented soon

by an increased demand from farming

sections. One year ago the price for

standard oats was 4734c per bu. Quota-

tions for the week are:



Standard No.3





VVhi2te.

................. 32%, 3 14

3111312551”: .................. 33 32 14;

Saturday ................. 33 321/2

Monday .................. 33 32%

Tuesday .................. 3. 32 1/3

\Vednesday ............... 33 321,;





Beans.——There has been some trading





‘ in the bean department of the market this





past week and prices have gone down a

few cents as the result, this being true

of both cash and May goods. 'l‘rices rule

about 25c below those of last year. Quo-





tations are:

Cash. May.





Thursda .................. $1.38 $1.90

Friday y .................... 1.88 1.90

Saturday .............. ,, . .. 1.88 1.90

Monday .................... 1.88 1.90

Tuesday ................... 1.88 1.90

\Vednesday ................ 1.88 1.90





Clover Seed.——This trade was active the

past week. Prices are about 250 below

the figures given out a week ago and

about $1.75 higher than those of 1910.

Quotations are:





Prime Spot. Mar. Alsike;

Thursday ....8900 $9.00 $9.20

Friday ........... 8.75 8.75 9.00

Saturday ......... 8.75 8.75 9.00

Monday .......... 8.75 8.75 9.00

'l‘uesday .......... 8.75 8.75 ....

\V’ednesday ....... 8.75 8.75 9.00





Rye.——Market continues to go up. Grain

scarce with a fair demand for spring

sceding. The price for No. 1 rye is now

88c, which is lc above last week’s figures.



Timothy Seed.-»J.l‘here is a fair demand

for this seed and sales are being made

at slightly lower prices than ruled last

week, the selling price for prime spot

Tuesday was $5.30, which is So below the

price for the previous Tuesday.



Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.





* ............. 30,222,000 39,868,000

($3M ............ ...12,014,000 11,804,000

Oats ............... 15,100,000 15,420,000

Rye ................ 237,000 251,000

Barley ............. 1,300,000 1,341,000





Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.

Flour. Market continues slow with

prices unchanged. Quotations are:





 





Clear ................................. $4.25

Straight .................. . ...... 4.65

Patent Michigan ....... . ..... . . . . . . . 5.30

Ordinary Palcnt ..................... 4.90





Hay and Straw.~—Values are unchanged.

Quotations on baled hay in car lots 1’. o.

b. Detroit are: No. 1 timothy, $165061)

17; No. 2 timothy, $15.506016; clover, mix-

ed, $15; rye straw, $7607.50; wheat and

oat straw, $6606.50 per ton.



Feed.——Prices are steady with a week

ago. Carlot prices on track are; Bran,

$27 per ton: coarse middlings, $26; fine

middiings, $28; cracked corn, $22; coarse

corn meal, $22; corn and oat chop, $20

per ton.



Potatoes.—No excitement has yet oc-





curred to awaken hope in the potato deal.

The market is dull and easy with values

ruling on last week’s basis except the

lower limit is down 20. There are many

inferior consignments getting into the

trade. In car lots Michigan potatoes are

selling at 3560400 per bu.



Provisions—Family pork, $20@22;mess

pork, $196020; medium clear, $186020;

smoked hams, 1360140; briskets, 111,60;

shoulders, 1034c; picnic hams, 10%c; ba-

con, 14566015540; pure lard in tierces,

9143c; kettle rendered lard, 101/2c.



Hides.——No. 1 cured, {ll/fie; No. 1 green,

9c; No. 1 cured bulls, 81/20; No. 1 green

bulls, 7c; No. 1 cured veal kip, 101/20; N0.

1 green veal kip, 9c; No. 1 cured mur-

rain, 90; No. 1 green murrain, 7542c; No. 1

cured calf, 15c; No. 1 green calf, 131/20;

N0. 2 kip and calf, 11750 off; No. 2 hides

lc off; No. 1 horsehides, $3.50; No. 2

horsehides, $2.50; sheepskins, depending

on wool, 500@$1.50.



Dairy and Poultry Products.



Butter.—-A brisk demand for butter and

a shrinkage in receipts from creameries

has crowded prices for manufactured

goods a cent higher than last week. Dair-

ies are steady. Extra creameries are

quoted at 26c pcr lb; firsts, 23c; dairy

butter, 16c; and packing stock, 131/2c. .



Eggs.—The consumption of eggs is

reaching large proportions and, while

the receipts are unusually large, the re-

duction in prices for the week amounted

to only a half cent, making the quotation

for fresh receipts, case count, cases in—

cluded, 161,50 per dozen.



Poultry.—Chickens and fowls are ad-

vanced a fraction while dressed turkeys,

ducks and geese are lower. The tone of

the trade is easy. Quotations are: Dress-

eil-“Turkeys, 200; chickens, 156116c; fowls

15c; ducks, 17@18c; geese, 136014c per lb.

Live—Spring chickens, 141/260150; fowls,

15c; old roosters, 1060110; turkeys, 1760

18c; geese, 1260130; ducks, 1560160 per lb.



Cheese.——Michigan, 17c; Michigan, late,

17.611612 York state, September, 17@18c;

do. late made, 15@16c; limburger, old,

166117c; Swiss domestic block, 18@22c;

cream brick, 1660180.



Veal.—Market steady. Choice, 1060110;

ordinary, 9c per lb.



Rabbitsstteady. Per dozen, $1.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cranberries.—«Steady. Quoted at $3.50

per bu.



Cabbage.~Steady. Selling at $1.75 per

bill. for new.



Onions—Steady. Quoted at 7560800 per

bushel.



Honey.——Choice to fancy comb, 15@170

per lb.



Apples. The trade is firm and the

market is active. Fancy Greenings are

quoted at 35.506116; Baldwins, $450606;

Steel reds, $6; ordinary grades, $3603.50

per bbl. \Vestern apples, $2.25602.75 per

box.





 





OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.



Local dealers were paying 15c for eggs

Tuesday, 210 for dairy butter and 260 for

creamery. XVheat is lc lower, the mills

paying 85c for No. 2 red and 84c for No.

1 white. Dressed hogs are in good sup-

ply this week and many are being bought

for 8c. The poultry market is reported

weak outside but strong here, dealers

paying 131/20 for spring chickens and 121,60

for fowls. Hay is worth $16@17. The

potato market continues weak, 250 being

the ruling price at most places.





Chlcago.



VVheat.—No. 2 red, 89146090560; May,

910; July, 8916c per bu.



Corn—No. 2, 47@471,éc; May, 491740;

July, 501/10 per bu.



Oats—No. 2 white, 3114@32c; May,

31%,c; July, 31c.



Barley.~Malting grades, 80@99c per

bu; feeding, 6060700.



Butter.——Top grades firm and moving

freely; others steady and only moderately

active, with last week’s values ruling all

along the line. Quotations now are:

Creameries, 1660260; dairies, 15@21c. .



Eggs.—-The margin between miscellan-

eous offerings and prime stock has nar—

rowed materially, due undoubtedly to the

fact that the quality of current receipts

is high at this season. Miscellaneous re-

ceipts are quoted 1A,@1c higher than a.

week ago, while prime firsts are 10 lower.

Quotations are: Prime firsts, 161760;

firsts, 16c; at mark, cases included, 141/2

60150 per dozen.



Potatoes—Prices are again slightly

lower, notwithstanding the fact that re-

ceipts continue light. There is a better

feeling among holders, however, due to

a little more active demand. Choice to

fancy are quoted at 4064.420 per bu; fair

to good, 366i‘38(:.



{cans—Market very quiet and values

lower, pea beans showing a decline of

1061.12c since this time last week. Choice

hand-picked pea beans quoted at $18660

1.93 per bu; prime, $1.76@1.85; red kid-

neys, $275613.



llay and Straw-«Market firm with _last

week’s advanced figures ruling. Quotations

are: Choice timothy, $18.506019.50; No. 1

timothy, $176018; No. 2 do. and No. 1

mixed, $156116; No. 3 do. and No. 2 mix-

ed, $961114; rye straw, $8608.50; oat straw,

$7607.50; wheat straw, $6606.50 per ton.





 





 





New York.



Batten—Market steady at slightly high-

er values. Creamery specials are quoted

at 27%0; extras, 251/26026c; seconds to

firsts, 176023c per lb.



E‘ggs.~1rregular and fluctuating under

heavy receipts. Fresh gathered extras,

1961‘20c; firsts, 171/260180; do. seconds, 17c;

western gathered, white, 1960210



Poultry—Live, steady. Western chick-

ens, 1460150; fowls, 1560151/20; turkeys,





,156018c per lb. Dressed, easy. Western





chickens, 14c; fowls, 131/2@14c; turkeys,

1560220. .





 





Boston.

VVool.——The demand by manufacturers

for raw material is not wide and is of

small volume. The orders are mostly for





THE. MICHIGAN, FARMBR.





territory wools and a. few near-by fleeces.

Following are the leading domestic duo-

tations for offerings of the fieecestates:

Ohio and Pennsylvania fieeces—Delaine,

washed, 33%@34c; XX, 31%@320; fine un-

merchantable, 25@26%c; fi-blood comb-

ing, 2960300; %-blood combing, 29c; IA-

blood combing, 26%@27c; delaine un-

washed, 26%@27c; fine unwashed, 220.

Michigan, \Visconsin and New York

fleeces—Fine unwashed, 20@2lc; delaine,

unwashed, 2660261/2c; 1/2-blood, unwashed,

280. Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri—

%-blood, 27@27%c; l/,,—blood, 2560251,§c.





 





Elgln.



Butter.——-Market firm at 260 per 1b.,

which is the quotation of last week. Out—

put for the week, 439,200 lbs., as compared

with 440,600 lbs, for the previous week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

March 13, 1911.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens.

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 145 cars; hogs, 13,600; sheep and

lambs, 21,000; calves, 1,500.



W'ith 27,000 cattle reported in Chicago

today, and 145 cars here, our market, as

a rule, was about 10@15c per cwt. lower,

although in quite a number of instances,

early in the morning, cattle sold about

steady with last Monday. There were a

few better cattle shown here today than

any time in the last three weeks; ten

head in a load averaged 1,583 lbs. and

Sold at $6.75.



We quote: Best 1,300, to 1,400—lb. steers,

$6.50@6.65; good prime 1,200 to 1,300-lb.

steers, $5.756:6.30; best 1,100 to 1,200 lb.

shipping steers, 855060620; medium

butcher steers, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs., $5.35@

5.75; light butcher steers, $437561. 5.25; best

fat cows, $4.756ii5.25; fair to good do.,

$4604.50; common to medium do., $32560

3.75; trimmers, $275,361,315; best fat heif-

ers, 3555060575; good fat heifers, 35.1060

5.50; fair to good do., $42561 4.75; stock

heifers, 342560450; best feeding steers,

dehorned, $5605.25; medium to good feed-

ing steers, $4.40@4.60; stockers, all grades

342560450; best bulls, $5605.40; bologna

bulls, $4.25604.75; stock bulls, fair to good

$3.75604.25; best milkers and springers,

$50@60; good to best do., $406050; common

to good do., $256035.



The hog market was generally about

20c lower than the close of last week.

Liberal receipts and lower prices at west-

ern points made against the trade here.

and all buyers slow in taking hold. ' The

bulk of the good quality yorkers, mixed





and medium weights, sold at $7.40; with





pigs 745607.50. Heavy weights on down

to $7.25; roughs, $6.40606.45; stags, $5@

5.25. Trade ruled fairly active at the

prices after the opening, and the hogs

were fairly well cleaned up. Market clos-

ing steady.



Lamb market opened active today; most

of the choice handy lambs selling at $6.75

606.85; heavy lambs, that is, weighing 100

lbs. and over, selling mostly at $6606.10.

Look for steady prices the balance of the

week unless the runs should be moderate,

may be able to raise them a little the last

of the week. Sheep market was active

today; most of the choice ewes selling at

345060465; wethers, $5605.25. Look for

about steady prices on sheep the balance

of the week.



We quote: Best handy lambs, $615650

6.85; heavy lambs, $6606.10; bucks, 33.25617

3.75; heavy ewes, 342560450; yearlings,

$5.75@5.90; wethers, $5605.25; cull sheep,

33.25604; handy ewes, $4.50604.65; veals,

choice to extra, $9.756010.25; fair to good

do., $8609.25; heavy calves, $4.50@6.





 





Chicago.

March 13, 1911.



Cattle. Hogs. Sheep

Received today ...... 25,500 60,000 18,000

Same day last year..20,821 32,485 10,472

Received last week..46,943 149,158 78,518

Same week last year.54,482 86,101 53,214

This week starts off with an ample

cattle supply, and on the whole there is

no startling change in values, although

early _in the day part of the steers below

the $6 line were 56010c lower. The best

steers of good weights brought $7, but.

generally speaking, heavy beeves were

slower than handy weights and hardly as

firm. Only moderate receipts of cattle

will be needed for some time in all prob-

ability, and country shippers should bear

this in mind. \Varmed-up cattle of the

kind selling under $6 may be expected to

sell none too well. Hogs were in unusu-

ally heavy supply today, and prices broke

early 150, but trade was lively at firmer

values for good lots. liogs sold at $6.60

607.20, with shippers good buyers of the

choicer lots. llogs received last week

showed a surprising increase in weight,

the average jumping to 238 lbs., compared

with 229 lbs. a week earlier, 215 lbs. 8.

year ago and 207 lbs. two years ago.

Provisions declined sharply this morning,

in sympathy with hogs. Sheep and lambs

were in small supply today, and the best

lots advanced 10c or more, lambs selling

at $5.25606.60, following a rise last week

of 256040c. Sheep and yearlings advanced

3561750c last week, and they were tending

upward today, a sale of prime two-year;

old heavy wcthers being made at $5.50,

with other sales at $4605.25 for inferior

to choice. Ewes were salable at $3.506!)

4.90, bucks at $2.256I.3.50 and yearlings at

$5.25605.75. Shorn lambs were salable at

$5605.85, and breeding ewes were scarce

and wanted at $450615. Feeder lambs



were firm at $525606, being scarce.

Cattle were in no more than moderate

general demand last week, the Lenten

season tending to diminish the consump-

tion of beef, but the receipts continued

within moderate proportions, and this

made a firm market most of the time,

small advances taking place Monday and

Thursday, while the Wednesday market

was a little lower. Beef steers averaged

a. little higher on the whole. with sales





 





MARCH 18, 1911





largely at $5.80@6.75, the common to fair

lots selling at 856236 and the better cities

at $6.50@7, while a. sale was made Mon-

day of 27 extra fine Iowa-fed Angus year-

lings that aver/aged 1,155 lbs. at $7.35, the

only carlot transaction of the week higher

than $7.25. A good class of cattle sold

at $6.30@6.55, and yearlings were espec-

ially good sellers at $6.25 and upward,

going as high as heavy steers and fre-

quently higher. Cows and heifers had a.

fairly active movement at 33.50606, While

cutters sold at $3@3.45, canners at $2.25

602.95 and bulls at $3.70@5.50. The stock-

er and feeder trade has fallen off consid-

erably in volume recently, and packers

have purchased many good cattle of the





weighty feeder class, and. some sales





were made at reduced figures, although

values were still very high compared with

prices realized for matured beef cattle.

Stockers have been finding buyers at

$4.15605.60, feeders at $5605.90 and stock

and feeder heifers at $3.75@4.65. Calves

were traded in at $350609 per 100 lbs.,

the only reliable demand being for choice

light vealers. Milkers and springers were

in fairly large demand at $306060 per

head, the eastern shippers wanting only

choice cows, especially Holsteins, while

good backward springers were in demand

for shipment to Ohio dairy sections. A

year ago choice beef cattle were unusually

high owing to their scarcity, but the

commoner cattle were scarcely any higher

than they are now. Steers sold two years

ago at $4.70607.35- and three years ago at

“20606.50. Good beef cattle are expected

to sell better as the summer" season ap-

proaches. The best heavy beeves sold

last week at $6.90.



Hogs sold lower last week than at any

previous time in two years, and the

packers succeeded during the last

half of the week in securing their droves

at a lower cost than at any previous date

Since March, 1909. Packers were ex-

tremely bearish in their views and lost

no opportunity in depressing values, the

only support to the market coming from

shippers and speculators.‘ The hogs av-

eraged choice in quality, while still heav-

ier than most buyers wanted them, al-

though there has been a growing ten-

dency of late to market hogs before they

attain extreme size. The ruling price of

cured hog meats are still so high as to

seriously lessen their consumption, and

during February the combined stocks of

prov1sions held at the five principal west-

ern points of storage underwent an in-

crease of 41,500,000 lbs., compared with

an increase of 9,930,000 lbs. two years ago

and 63,462,000 lbs. three years ago. The

increase in stocks in February last year

was 12,350,000 lbs. Light weight bacon

hogs have sold the highest, as usual, and

strong weight pigs also sold high. Hogs





are maturing rapidly everywhere, and





the_time for large shipments to market

havmg arrived, prospects appear to favor

further reductions in values, unless mar-

ketings fall off ,in volume considerably.



Sheep and lambs have been bringing

much better prices of late on account of

the moderate supplies offered, the general

demand being no larger than is usually

witnessed during the Lenten period.

There has been a steady demand for both

breeders and feeders, but offerings were

so limited that not much business was

possible. Receipts of lambs from Michi-

gan and Colorado comprised a. good share

of the receipts, and lots that were not too

heavy in weight sold well. Shorn flocks

arrived much more freely, and they had

a good sale, the dullness in the wool trade

being largely responsible for this, al-

though it must be admitted that their

good dressing out was greatly in their

favor. Under prevailing conditions sheep-

men are profiting by shearing their flocks

before marketing them. A good lmany

fiocks are still to be marketed, shearing

delaying shipments. '



‘I-Iorses have been arriving liberally and

met with a large sale when their quality

was good, out—of—town buyers having been

in large attendance. Wagon horses had

a better outlet at $140@175 per head, and

sales were made of small chunks at $7560

125, while drivers were in moderate de-





.mand on a basis of $14060300, few going





as high as $250. Drafters were in excel-

lent demand at $200@300, with the strong-

est call for heavy animals of superior

quality. Farm horses were extremely ac-

tive at $7560265, mares being largely

wanted and selling much the highest.

\.ell-matched pairs of work horses that

weighed 1,400 to 1,600 lbs. were in good

city demand at $40060550. F.





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W. H. Weeks, traffic manager of the

Kansas City Stock Yards, returned re-

cently from a visit to Oklahoma and

Texas and found fully as many cattle, if

not more, on feed in Oklahoma as last

year, while he found, so far as his obser-

vation went, that fewer cattle were feed-

ing in Texas. A large share of the cattle

fed in Texas have been marketed, and

comparatively few remain at the various

oil mills. Fully 15,000 and perhaps 20,000

cattle are on full feed in Oklahoma, and

there are probably 8,000 to 10,000 in Tex-

as. These figures do not include cattle

that are being caked on grass and which

Will not be marketed before May or

June. There are caking between 40,000

and 50,000 cattle in the San Antonio ter-

ritory, and nearly the usual number

around Fort W'orth.



T_o re-stock the depleted game of the

United States, with the purpose of in-

creasing the food supply, is the object of

the expedition to South Africa that left

several days ago, led by Major Burn-

hammon.



Complaint has been made by the Chicago

Live Stock Exchange to the various lines

of railroads leading into that city that

delay in getting empty stock cars weighed

and obtaining freight returns is a serious

handicap to business. The railroads

prognise prompt consideration of the sub-

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Stock markets on report: of last week;

all other markets are right up to date.

Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the but edition. The first

edition is mailed Thursday the last edi-

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Thursday‘s Market.

March 16, 1.911.

Cattle.



Receipts, 1,180. Market dull and 10@

15c lower than last week. _



“’e quote: Best steers and he1fers, $6;

steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $55009

5.75; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000, $56.0

5.50:: steers and heifers that are fat. m0

to 7'00, $4.5o@4.75; choice fat cows, $4.50

((04.75; good fat cows, $3.75@4; common

cows, $3.25@z.5o; manners, sassoazs;

choice heavy bulls. $4.75; fair to good

bolognas, bulls, $4.50@4-»65; stock bulls,

$4604-50; choice feeding steers, 800 to

1.000, $4.50@5; fair feeding steers, 800 to

1,000, $4604.50; milkers, large, young me—





dium age, $40@50; common milkers, $25

was.

CRoe Com. Co. sold Kamman 2 heifers





av 755 at $5.25, 3 heifers av 726 at $4.25;

to Regan 10 butchers av 587 at $4.50; to

Newton B. Co. 10 do av 762 at $4.90; to

Mich. B. Co. 3 bulls av 1,173 at $4.65, 18

steers av 863 at $5.25: to Smith 8 stock-

ers av 535 at $4.50; to‘Bresnahan 14

steers av 1,034 at $5.40; to Mich B. CO.

4 bulls av 1,142 at $4.65.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Thompson Bros;

11 steers av 884 at $5.25. 2 bulls av 833

at $4.25, 2 cows av 1.010 at $4.50, 1 do

weighing 830 at $3; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 15 steers av 1,068 at $5.65, 3 do av

880 at $5.25. 1 cow weighing 920 at $4.50,

3 do av 1,047 at $3.75, 1 bull weighing

1,450 at $4.75; to RattkOWSky '5 cows av

1,036 at $4.15, 1 do weighing 880 at $4: to

Mich. B .Co. 9 steers av 922 at $5.15; to

Fromm 3 cows av 957 at $3.85: to Sulli-

van P. Co, 14' steers av 1.076 at $5.50, 3

cows av 1,033 at $4.50: to Parker, \V. &

Co. 20 butchers av 868 at $5.10, 23 do av

900 at $5.10, 4 cows av 900 at $4, 1 steer

weighing 1.100 at $5.50: to Bresnahan 2

cows av 1,090 at $4.73: (0 Hammond, S.

8.: Co. 2 steers av 1,225 at $6, 7 do av

986 at $5.25, 4 cows av 932 at $3.40. 3

(10 av 913 at $3.40, 1 bull weighing 1,720

at $1.75, 1 do weighing 1,170 at $4.50, 16

butchers av 856 at $5.10, 2 do av 625 at

$4.27»: to Newton B. 00. 20 do av 965 at

$4.95, 2 cow‘s av 950 at $3.25, 21 steers

av 873 at $5.25, 2 cows av 925 at $4.25,

1 bull weighing 1,180 at $4.50, 1 cow

weighing 770 at $3, 1 do weighing 910 at

$4, 6 heifers av 701 at $4.85; to Thomp-

son Bros. 6 cows av 1,028 at $4.25, 4 do

av 017 at $3.35, 2 heifers av 590 at $4.25,

1. bull weighing 1,160 at $4.50, 2 steers av

865 at $4.85, 3 do av 1,060 at $5.40; to

Laboe 6 butchers av 840 at $5; to llam-

mond. S. & Co. 1 cow weighing 1,110 at

$4.50, 8 do av 900 at $3.40. 3 steers av

800 at $5; to Bresnahan 5 do av 1,106 at





$5.60; to Mason 6 butchers av 008 at

$4.50: to Schuman 5 steers av 9:14 at

$5.60; to Sullivan P. CO. 3 cows av 1,087





do

do

at

av





at $3.75, 6 steers av 1,061 at, $5.50, 3

av 823 at $5, 18 do av 838 at $5.30, 3

av 986 at $5.50, 12 butchers av 773

$4.75, 3 cows av 1,083 at $4.25, 2 do

1,015 at $3.50.



Spicer & R. sold Rattkowskv 3 cows av

920 at $3.90, 2 do av 1.025 at $3.90, 1 bull

weighing 890 at $4.50, 2 do av 1,300 at

$4.60: to Newton B. Co. 3 cows av 1,093

at $4, 2 do av 1,125 at $3.75, 2 steers av

975 at $5.50, 1 heifer weighing 790 at $5,

5 cows av 1,000 at $3.75, 2 do av 765 at

$3, 1 do weighing 710 at $2.50, 1 do

weighing 810 at $3. 5 do av 034 at $3.50,

2 do av 800 at $3.25. 4 do av 025 at $3.75,

1 steer weighing 920 at $5.25. 1 do weigh—

ing 820 at $5, 9 do :‘v 1,120 at $5.85; to

Kamman B. ('o. 5-butchcrs av 870 at

$5.25, 5 do av 1.032 at $4.25, 3 do av 900

at $5.25, 2 cows av 1,190 at $4.50. 11

steers av 882 at $5.25, 1 cowyweighing

1.200 at $4.50; to Brcsnahan 2 heifers av

865 at $4.73. 1 do weighing 620 at $4: to

(loose 3 cows av 783 at $3; to Newton B.





00. 9 steers av_8‘il at 35.85, 2 cow and

bull av 1,260 at $5. 2 steers av 9.9.3 at

$5.40, 1 cow weighing 910 at $3, 1 do





weighing 870 at $13. 2 do av 1,110 at $3.75,

1 do Weighing 1.130 at $3.25; to Thompson

Bros. 3 steers av 58:} at $4.90; to Sullivan

P. Co. 1 bull weighing 950 at $4.50. 2 do

av 1,425 at $4.75; to Bresnahan 7 do av

550 at $4.25. .



Haley & M. sold Kamman 3 cows av

1,133 at $4.15,'1 steer weighing 300 at

$5.25. 6 butchers av 670 at $4.60; to New-

ton B. Co. 1 cow weighing 1,370 at $4.50,

4 do av 820 at $3; to Schuman 6 steers av

911 at $5.30, 2 do av 965 at $5.60, 1 cow

weighing 900 at $3.25: to Marx 7 stockers

av 554 at $4.35; to Mich. R. (‘0. 2 heifers

av 680 at $3 70; to Goose 1 cow weighing

1,040 at $3.85.



Adams sold Bresnahan 4 steers av 812

at $5.25.



Lowenstein sold Mich. B. Co. 10 cows

av 982 at $3.60.



Prucha sold Lingeman 5 cows av 1.086

at $3.25, 9 steers av 931 at $5.10.



Groff sold same 4 steers av 1,000 at $5.



Miller sold Sullivan P. (To. 5 cows av

1,200 at $4.75. 13 steers av 1.010 at $5.85.



W'ilson sold Kamman 1 cow weighing

1,090 at $3.50, 1 bull weighing 1,200 at





$4.25, 6 butchers av 708 at $5, 7 do av

981 at $5. .



Prucha sold same 1 bull weighing 1,250

at $4.60.





Woodmansee sold Newton B. 00. 19

butchers av 772 at $5, 3 cows av 960 at

$4.25.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





Veal Calves.



Receipts, 854. Good grades 250, (0th!!!

‘Wfic bower than h’st week. Best, $8.50

@9; others, $4@8; much cows and spring-

ers steady. -



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 weigh-

ing .140 at $6, 9 av 140 at $8.50, 10 av .125

at $8.50; to Goose 1 weighing 280 at $5;

to Newton 13. Co. 10 av 138 at $8.50, 2 av

130 at $6.50; to Goose 7 av 135 at $5.50:

to Golden 7 av 120 at $5.25; to McGuire

5' av 125 at $8.50; to Golden 3 av 130' at

$7.50; to Brown 5 av 150 at $8.75, 17 av

120 at $7, 18 av 125 at $8, 9 av 150 at

$8.50, 4 av 150 at $6,, 4 av 125 at $8.75, 7

av 120 at $6.50, 5 av 150 at $8.75, 4 av

125 at $7, 6 av 115 at $6.



Roe Com. C0. sold Hammond, S. &

Go. 1 weighing 280 at $5, 3 av 140 at

$6-50, 8 av 130 at $8.50; to Goose 17 av

175 at $7, 8 av 150 at $5.50; to Rattkowsky

11 av 150 at $8.



Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 6 av

140 at $8, 11 av 125 at $8. 3 av 250 at $4;

to ,8 av 105 at $6.50, 2 av 100 at

$6.50; to Mich. B. CO. 8 av 150 at $9, 11

av 160 at $8.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, 1V. & Co.

2 av 115 at $9, 5 av 1.80 at $8.75, 1 weigh-

ing 160 at $9, 4 av 145 at $8.50. 10 av

133 at $9, 14 av 130 at $9. 4 av 130 at $9,

28 av 135 at $0.25, 2 av 143 at $0.25; to

Goose 12 av 120 at $5.50, 11 av 100 at

$6.50, 1 weighing 110 at $5: to Rattkow—

sky 8 av 125 at $8; to Swift & Co. 10 av

150 at $3, 2 av 125 at $5. 3 av 140 at $9;

to Rattkowsky 4 av 100 at $6.



Kendall sold Sullivan 1". Co. 17 av 135

at 3o. “



Torrey sold same 4 av 130 at $8.50.



Kendall sold McGuire 5 av 125 at $8.60.



Belheimer sold Hammond, S. & Co.

22 av 150 at $8.50.



Long sold Burnstine 5 av 165 at $3.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 3,425. Market 251717350 higher

than last week.

good lambs, $6.25@6.60; light to common





sheep, $4.50@4.75;

$3.5063.75.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, i‘i'. & Co.

123 lambs av 65 at $6.40; to Swift 8: Co.

56 do av 100 at $5.75, 36 sheep av 120 at

$4.75, 122 lambs av 88 at $6.40. 19 sheep

av 125 at $4.50. 3 do av 140 at $3: to

Nagie P. Co. 6 lambs av 60 at

do av 85 at $6.60; to Sullivan 1’.

do av 85 at $6.50, 56 do av 78 at $6.35,





culls and comm on,





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53 do av 85 at $6.35, 17 do av 75 at $6.25..





15 do av 70 at $5.60. 28 clip sheep av 70

at $4.50; to Hammond. S. & Co.

av 63 at £5.33. 15 do av 60 at $6.



Haley & .11. sold Newton B. C'o. 11

lambs av 60 at $5.50: to Hammond, S. 8:

C0. 56 do av 75 at $6.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond. S. &

Co. 1 sheep av 130 at $3.50. 10 lambs av

67 at $5, 36 do av 88 at $6.50: to Thomp-





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Best, 366562670; fair to‘





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$5.50, 733

C1). 44:





son Bros. 50 do av 80 at $6, 6 sheep av

135 at $3.50.

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





.1 lambs av 80 at $6.65: to Nagle P. Co.

63 spring lambs av 57 at $10: to Newton

B. Co. 76 lambs av 80 at $6.65. 23 do av

70 at $6.40, 16 do av 83 at $6.50. 6 sheep





av 88 at $3.50; to Mich. B. Co. 90 lambs

av 75 at $6.70, 50 do av 80 at $5.50, El do

av 85 at $6.10; to Thompson Bros. 30 do

av 90 at $5.60.





Hogs,



Receipts, 3.597. Market 10@15c higher

than on “'edncsday and last Thursday.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, 3171500725; pigs, $7.25; light yorkers,

2571001720; heavy. $7.10.



Spicer & ll. sold Parker. “1 & Co. 420

av 170 at $7.25, 75 av 200 at $7.20.



Haley & M. Stu some :30 21v 170

$7.25, 56 av 200 at $7.20.



Sundry shippers sold same 310 av 20’)

at $7.20. ~





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Bishop, B. & II. sold Hammond, S. &-

(30., 850 av 150 at $7.25, 725 av 180 at





$7.20, 180 av 230 at $7.15.

lioc Com. (‘0. sold Sullivan 1’. 00.

av 190 at $7.20, 36 av 221 at $7.10.





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Friday’s Market.

March 10, 1011.





Cattle.

Receipts this wcclr, 1,363; last wcck

1.439. Market steady at ’l‘hursdav's

prices.





We quote: Best steers and hcifers. $6:

steers and heifers, 1.000 to 1,200, $5.254.”

5.75; do. 800 to 1.000, $56,115.50; steers and

heifers that are fat, 500 to 700, $4624.65:

choice fat cows, $4.50@4.75; good fat

cows, $4@4.25; common cows. $3.50@3.75;

canners, $6003.25; choice heavy bulls.

$5; fair to good bologna bulls, “@450:

stock bulls. 340114.25; choice feeding steers

s00 10 1,000, $475615; fair feeding steers,





800 to 1,000, $1fil4.50; milkers, large, young?





medium age, $40@57; common milkers,

$330135.

Veal Calves.





Receipts this week, 948; last week, 938.

Market steady at Thursday's prices. Best

$0019.25; others, $4@8.50. Milch cows and

springers slcudy.



Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts this week, 7,702; last week,

6.383. Market strong at Thursday’s

prices. Best lambs. $6.35: fair to good‘





lambs, $5.75@6; light to common lambs,’

$5615.50; fair to 200d sheep, $4@4.50; culls'





and common, $3073.50.



Hogs.

Receipts this week, 5,355;

5,059. Market 5fi10c higher

Thursday. flange of prices: Light to

good butchers, 871502725; pigs, $7.256?

7.30; light yorkers, $7.15@7.25; heavy and

mixed, $7@7.15.





last week,

than on





President L. F. Swift, of Swift & Co..

in his recent report to the stockholders.

stated that the profits made during the

past year were derived from by-products,

which were wasth before the packers

lcarned how to utilize them by the aid of

modern machinery and scientific hand-

ling. The annual statement showed net

profits of $7,050 000, equal to 11.75 per

cent on the capital stock. The company

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()R SALE-4m acres, 40 improved, 30 timber, partly

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Inquire owner, A. D. Clark. R. No. 4, Hormonal. Mich.





Jersey Meadow Farm





Everything up—to~date.

R R. '1' 9 000.





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FOR SAL -A fine 120 acres in Eaton



00. Good building‘s. barn



40x74, hip roof and basement. Good frame misc. 8



rooms. steel mill and tanks fine clay loam soil, over



100 under low. Price $7,800. Must be sold at oncc.

E. C. ANES & 00., Chat-lotto. Michigan.





Fun SHE cHEAP on account illness rcquiring rc-



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1.

EPOULTRYMBEES:





MAKING AND USING THE FIRELESS

BROODER.





 





 





Several requests for information re-

garding the so-called cold-air or tireless

brooder have been received, one corres-

pondent asking whether it is really pos-

sible to raise chicks out of doors in March

without artificial heat. The brooding of

chicks without the aid of artificial heat

is a comparatively new method and dur-

ing the past year or two has been receiv-

ing the careful attention of the country’s

best poultrymen. The method completely

reverses the long accepted teaching that

in raising brooder chicks great care must

be exercised to prevent crowding and

huddling, for the cold brooder system has

been built up on the theory that if the

chicks are allowed to congregate under

favorable conditions they will be kept

warm by the heat from their own bodies.

Experience seems to Show that there is

something in this, as those who have

adopted this method of brooding declare

that while the chicks huddle closely there

are no losses from smothering.



In brooding chicks that are hatched in

March by this method it would seem ad-

visable to locate the brooders in some

outbuilding, preferably one to which air

and a reasonable amount of sunlight can

be admitted freely. A section of an open—

front poultry house, or an open-front col-

ony house. would be most satisfactory.

If not feasible to place them in a build-

ing it is neeesary that they be located

where they will receive the full benefit

of the sun and yet be amply protected

from cold winds.



1t is apparent that these brooders must

be small since it would not be practical

to brood a large number of chicks in one

body by this method. Several authorities

advise making the lu-oodcr about 2 ft.

square, which will accommmlete 50 chicks

until they have reached the age of two

weeks. Others favor making it a little

smaller and placing but 25 or 30 in each

brooder. The brooder may be a simple

box of the dimensions given and about

8 in. deep. \Vhere wanted for use as

early as March the sides are generally





 





have 30





But, it





 





 





 





lined by tacking pieces of burlap at the

bottom, stulling soft straw or hay behind.

them and tacking at the top. A stillI

better way would be to make the sides or[

walls of the box double, leaving a small3

air space between. A false bottom, with

an air space between it and the real bot-

tom, would also make the brooder warm-

er. A door in one side, about 6 in. square,

is neeesary to allow the chicks to leave

the brooder on warm days. In fact,

where the brooder is located in a build-

ing the chicks should be able to spend a

portion of each day outside the brooder

almost from the first.



The hover is the next thing, and the

dimensions of this are practically the

same as the interior measurements of the

box. A. lath frame of the same width as

the box and about half an inch shorter is

constructed, this frame to rest upon cleats

nailed to the sides of the box a few inches

bclow the upper edge. Curtains made

from a good duality of cotton blanket are

hung from the edges of this frame, reach-

ing,r to the floor, and the under side of the

frainefis covered with a piece of the same

material so tacked on as to sag about

21/;3 in. from the frame, thus bringing the

top of the hover down to the chicks’

backs. The curtains are slit into 3-in.

strips so that the chicks can get through

easily. The hover being half an inch

shorter than the box gives a little space

at each end for ventilation. To facilitate

ventilation several half-inch holes are

bored in each of the side walls and sev- i

cral in the rear wall. The cover is closely

fitted and put on with hinges so that it“

may be propped up on warm days. In

severe weather a cushion of chaff or cot-

ton batting which just fits the space be-

tween the hover and the cover of the box

ias been used with good results. Sev-

eral thicknesses of newspaper are spread

on the iloor, which is then well covered

with litter. This should be renewed daily.

Experience has shown that the chicks





 





 





$ Bathe 140lEgg





$4.50 'Buys the Best Brooder





Both Incubator and Broader, Ordered Together first“

—— ost You Only $ 1 1 .50 -— F "318 t repal 0'7:“§;%§

n y -





f‘nd brooder—and I’ll send all money back ' together. You'll surely need the brooder,

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. 1 . o sen or m I E:l I I : l i - ‘ -

illustrated, free booklet, “Hatching Facts. ' unrnnteed or money back No “51" how





in ordering right now from this ad. Incubators and BrOOders tised in this paper for many years and treat





Thousands do_this Way every year. I my customers liberally.

guarantee to ship all orders sent from this _ad on day received—(from I've always given my customers more for their money than any

warehouse nearest you, freight prepaid.) No disappointments. other incabator manufacturer in the world—that’s why we do so





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ‘~ I I 1 MARCH 18,1911.





Big News For causes”





The famous Bone City Incubator win: the “Tycoc” Cup Contest over machines

coating 2 to 5 times as much—making it the Double World’s Champion. And the

winner raised over 97% of the chicks. ORDER NO W— Got in the champion clan of

chicken raiserc. ’





Order Direct From This Advertisement





to get early start. W S. Reynolds, Avon, Mics" says: “My first Belle City hold:

was 7 6 75 BETTER THAN the highest priced machine made which stood alongside.

I lost nothing by ordering direct from :your ad. Count on me for4 to 8 machines. If

others did business as you do there would not be much trouble in the business world. ”

not ’8 my policy. You take no risk. Road remarkable offer below. Then order or send

for “HA TCHING FA C TS ”—FREE. J. V. ROHAN. President Belle City Incubator Company.





   





 





 





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HY PAY MORIT? Investigate—send your name and address Order a Complete 140-

today, the eaSiest way, by postal or letter. I tell you the Chick Belle City Hatching

prices right here—and how my machines are made. You can Outfit. Send only $11.50 for both Incubator and Brooder

or 60 days’ trial on both incubator —freight prepaid when ordered





ever you order. »The editor of this paper





in a hurry, you are perfectly safe knows me to be responsible—I’ve adver-





much business.



Belle City Incubators will hatch more chickens—under

the same conditions—than any other incubator made, or

your money will be refunded. This lguorantee. Double

walls—dead air space all over—copper tank and boiler—

hot-water heater—best regulator—deep, roomy nursery-—

strong egg tray~high legs—double door—and everything

that’s any good on an Incubator-all in the Belle City. High-

grade thermometer—egg tester—burner and safety lamp in-

cluded. The Belle City Broader is the only one having

double walls and dead air spaces. I guarantee it to raise

more healthy chicks than any other Brooder made. Hot-

water top heat-large, roomy, wire runway yard. with

platform—metal safety lamp and burner.





‘ Complete Hatching Outfit Only $1 1.50





: Over 50,000 machines in use—all doing perfect work.



. The Belle City should be your choice. Send your order



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particulars. Don't pay more than my price. N 0 machines.

at any price, are better hatchers or brooders.

J. V. ROI-IAN, President



BELLE CITY INCUBATOR COMPANY

Box 14 . Racine, W18.





 





 





 





 





 





a: $1 000 lZO-Egg Incubator





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Endorsed by If. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Write for free booklet

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100 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK





 





The 1911 catalog by Robert. H. Essex,



poultry and incubator expert, 3;: 7

will start on right. Improved incu- ‘,‘

baton; null broodurs. Read “ Why ,

Some Succeed Where others Full. ’





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Brooder has safety lam p—can't explode or break. his roomy, cozy,





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IIE NATIONAL INOOBATOB 00., 140 18th Street, Racine, Wisconsin °“° ' and Aim-m. ior 1911 has 224 pages with many

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huddle under the sagging cloth which

forms the top of the hover, and when

they get too warm they spread out as

chicks do under a hen. It is said, hOW-

ever, that they require close attention

until they have learned to go into the

brooder when they begin to feel the need

of protection from cold, but they soon

learn if not allowed to huddle outside in

the sun. Some users advocate having

windows in the sides, covered with isin-





 





 

 





about chickens, their prices, their care, diseas-

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Brices and their operation. All about poultry

ouses and how to build them. It's an encyclo-

sedin of chickendom. You need it. Only 159.

C. SHOEMAKEB, Box 911. Freeport, Ill.





BEE 'HOW TO lVIAKE THEM PAY.

lhe pleasures, the work and the





 





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Why pay more than our price! It ordered together we send



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profits of bee keeping are fully cover-





. ' Incubators are shed in natural colors showing the high ratio lumber ed In “Gleam’ngs in Bee Culture.” 6 months trial sub-

nsed—no paint to cover inferior material. Ityou will compare our machines wit others offered at anywhere sortption 25 cents. Write for book on Bees and free

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MARCH 18, 1911. ; .





" A Truss





Allerl'liirly Years Experience I llave

Produced An Apfiliance ior Men,

Women or i: ildren Thai

Cures Ruplnre.



l Send It On Trial.





If you have tried most everything else. come to

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The above is C. E. BROOKS of Marshall. finch.

who has been ourlni: Rupture for over

30 years. If Ruptured write

him to—dny.





send you free my illustrated book on Rupture and

its cure, showing my Appliance and giving you

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I send on trial to prove what i say is true. You

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hundreds of patients whose letters you can also

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the farmers and





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The reason is simple. Filler is the main



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An Engine catalogue worth reading





glass of mica, to admit light, their ar-

gument being that the chicks take to the

breeder more readily if they find it rea-

sonably light inside.



Being small, a. brooder of this kind is

conveniently handled, and it is possible

for the owner of a. large flock, who de-

sires to use this system of brooding, to

have a number of them, as they are quite

inexpensive. It is recommended that the

chicks be placed in the breeder at the age

of 24 hours, being given sufficient litter

or bedding to enable them to make a nest

in the center of the hover.





“LOSS-OFF” SYSTEM OF BUY-

ING EGGS.





THE





A few years ago the Bureau of Animal

Industry of the U. S. Department of Ag‘

riculture conducted a general survey of

the conditions under which the country's

egg supply is produced and marketed, the

results proving conclusively that an enor-

mous loss is being sustained annually

through spoiled or deteriorated stock. As

nearly as could be determined this loss is

due to careleSsness, indifference or ig-

norance on the part of the producer and

to dilatory and unsatisfactory methods of

marketing. The actual money loss is suf-

fered mainly by the producer, while the

loss in quality is borne by the con-

sumer.



As a result of this investigation the

Bureau began a campaign for the im-

provement of conditions surrounding the

handling and marketing of eggs, which

du'ing the summer of 1910 was pushed

with considerable energy. Kansas was

the state chosen in which to begin the

Work. In addition to sending field men

among the prmlucers to

them the necessity of keeping eggsdn-

tended .for market in a cool dry place and

ot‘ marketing them frequently, the Bureau

obtained the co-operation of the egg buy—





impress upon _





 





ers of the state and succeeded in having“





the

adopted.

lar to the system of grading proposed by

buyers of cream in this state, except that.

in the case of eggs the very inferior pro-

duct is rejected outright, which of course

enables the buyer to pay a better price

for the good stock. This measure proved

to have a definite and far-reaching in-

fluence. and brought about such a mate-

rial improvement in the quality of the

state’s egg supply that the movement

spread to adjacent states, in some of

which efforts are now being made to se-

cure legislation establishing this system

of buying, at least during the hot months.

WARNING TO BEE-KEEPERS.



We have been urged by Prof. Pettit, of

the Michigan Experiment Station to di-

rect a warning to bee-keepers in their

own interest, by advising them to take

extra precautions about closing the en-

trance to every hive in which the bees





may have died during the past winter.‘0n





“loss off" or quality system of buying

This system is somewhat simia





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Especially is this advisable where there is.

any possible chance of foul brood exist- ;A Few Quotations From the Bargains





ing in the combs contained in the





containing the dead colony to secure the

honey. and in so doing the germ devol-





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ed to all hives in the apinry.

American foul brood has been



ered in thirty-five counties of Michigan



and the European type in eight counties,





hive. ,

Bees from other hives will visit the onegTarred Felt Roofing.





discov- ;





this exceeding the number of counties”

known to be infected in any other static.

by five. In the light of this knowledge it

seems urgent ihat every bee—keeper

should be parth ular himself, and should

take pains that his neighbor who has,

bees is informed of the danger from?

foul brood. In other words, every bcc-i

keeper who has had colonies die during}





winter should endeavor to

cause of death before allowing his

bees to come in contact with the combs.



In this connection it may be Said that

the present foul brood law does not pro-

vide for adequate inspection of apiaries,

a fact which is no doubt responsible for

the steady spread of this disease in re-

cent years. Under the present law but

one inspector of apiarles is provided for,

and as the season during which inspec-

tion for foul brood may be effectively car—

ried on is comparatively short the result

has been inadequate inspection and in-

ability to use all of the appropriation

made for this purpose. A bill proposing

such changes in the law as will remedy

this defect is before the present legisla-

ture and should have the support of every

bee—keeper in Michigan, since the prompt

suppression of foul brood in this state is

of the utmost importance to every one of

its 20,000 bee-keeping farmers.





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()LDS ENGINES





are as safe to buy





as government bonds.





It is not surprising that you are tempted to listen to the





alluring offers of some engine concerns.





What they offer and





promise and say would be all right if the quality of the engine





didn’t have to be considered.





After all, it’s the quality of the thing that you buy; not the





looks when you buy it.





There’s as much difference in gasoline engines as there is





in automobiles.





They all go at the start; their value to you depends upon

their reliability to keep going in good order for years and years





of hard service.





It takes a good engine to do that.





It is im-





possible to build that kind out of anything but the best Ii‘iaterials





and on the simplest lines.





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tlic siuualzml of tho World for ill) years.

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pump), l'rce rcpuirs for one year, re-

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enginc unzil ilicso important things

are invcsiigulcil.



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of Quality. Early liutchcd ("ockcrcls,

1" 1- REDS both combs. $2.00 and 53.11:] ouch

ELMER MATHE“ SUN. St. Joe. (‘o.. Nottau'n. .‘Ilch'





UFF PLY. ROCK (‘UI‘KICIIIGLS— Form ruiiwil

healthy, good size. shnpc and color. At farmers

prices. Eggs in season, Allwrt “oils. Suranuc, Mich.





FGGB: EGGS: EGGS—“Willa a. Bull ()ryington,

A White 6: Barred Rocks. Black & White 3 inorczn,

“'hite & Bull chhorns. llosc k Sing!H (‘omb Iic-iis'

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4 White Orpingtons. All pure brcll ri'.

Nor 2for .95. Eggs fromrnny one of these at $3.51) pcr 13.

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Brown Leghorn-l.

15: $1.43 pcr 3“): ”Sign

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—Kulps 242 egg strain, priz x

ll. of Brown Leghorns winners. farm range. select

(wigs 51.00153; $3.00 50. S. ‘5'. HENSEL, Basil, Ohio.





! Huff Hock Bockerels‘fliéf".ilii‘if’lindflé‘fili’fiy' £3333

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COCKERELS FOR SALE—Light Brahma. White

5 , Wyaniiotto .91. B. P. lint-ks. good ones. also pullets_

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

--Kul strain. the best

R. c. 8. Leghorn “flakerEIS ”mg {5.151 to 5; Eggs



1, in season. C. H'. VVAITE, Gobleville, Michigan.

, QINGIJ‘.‘ (‘UMB BLACK. MINilIiCAS—A few more

, x lino lany- cockI-rcls. Satisfaction guuruutcod.

Eggs $3 per 13. ‘t. \V. MILLS. ‘





Sullnc, Michigan.





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. Slandard Brad 8. L Redsy l'lggs cither varici). 31.30

l at $1 pcr 13. ll. C's. at $6 per hit linml sir». color and

L:roal.\\'inicr l:i_\'cz'< linlxl'lmli lic'l lurk-M's show qualiiv.

eggs 506 czu‘li. World's l'c: (iruy Africnn gm.- , -. during April

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k, largest Ivremlorsoi' the Brown Bcuuls'n winniniz

ut llli‘. lending shows, Send I'or catalog v. II b lll’li‘I‘a and

. photos of my birds. inx 324 l). (‘llurlurs Ruff, :it (lzvir, Mich.

~S. 0. (Hill R. C. lillodu Island



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‘ FOR SAL licrl I‘Iggs. 1.3 ioi‘li .l‘ll: oi) for





a 3?. 75: 100 for 3‘» BI’EIJ. BROS, Ann Arbor. Mich.





l ”NICK, (i()l.l)l<).\' and WHITE WYANDO l"l‘l€S 100

! White cockcrcls at $2 and $3 each. New circular.





after January 13th. C. W. Browning. Portland, Mich.

Strai u S. C. W.





‘vka0" and Blancnar Leghorn. I“ u r m

5niscd. Trap nested, hcnvy winter layers. Eggs 100 $5.

10 S3. 15 $1. 1“. 1‘1. BOSTEDOH, Eaton Rapids. Mich.





' and S. I". “'liiie Leghnrns.

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. ——.Votwl fir their size. \‘igzii‘ null

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for those beautiful sable and white Collie Puppies.

of the finest breeding. and from stock workers.

MENTlow the Michigan Farmer when writ-

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' Big Money in flats





New Seed Oats. Big money in oats if you

raise theright kin . Here’syourchance

to get them. Imported Canadian Seed

Oats for sale; extra fine. Send for free

sample. Its eaks for itself. Thlssame

oats we sol last year in the United

States and proved their merit and our

statement that the farmers need a

change of seed in this country. We

make a specialty of growing extra fine

seed oats on our big Canadian farm-

new,clean land; no weeds. Have best

known varieties. Regenerated Swedish

, ,. Select went 116 bushels to acre this year;

. Early New Market. Canada‘s favorite. 110

bushels to acre. Both of these are big, early

yielders. We absolutely know from ex-

perience it will pay you to get a change of

seed. Try some of these cats. Thearemge oats are

inbred and run out. Canadian Government Grain

Inspector graded this grain No. 1 White. Havestiit

straw, white berry, thin husk. enormous yielder. It

is as easy to put in and harvest a big crop asasmall

one. The reason your oat crop is not bigger is be-

cause your seed is run out. This has been proven.

Look at this cut. Taken from photograph of two

stalks from Gallows Brothers’ field, over 200 ker~

nels to the stalk. V rite early for free sample. or,

send ten cents each for lacket of one or both kinds.

Will also send you ree booklet entitled “Big

Money in Oats and How to Grow Them,” by Galloway

Bros. and Prof. M. L. Bo\vman,former professor of

farm crops Iowa Agricultural College. Information

in this book is priceless. Get it free. Resolve to start

a seed patch on your high—priced land this year. The

book tells you how.





GALLOWAY B S.-BOWMAN CO“

642 Galloway Statlo Waterloo. Iowa.





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Fresh, pure. reliable, and hand selected— °

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surpassuble vegetable and [lower seeds-

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JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY I

136 South 8th St. La Crease Wlo.





 





 





 





 





 





FRUIT TR E E 5





Peers, Bartlett, Seckel and others. Fine, healthy

trees. Cherries, very low in price. Plume. all

best varieties. Peaches, grown from buds .

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Currants ah? Grapes.

any quan i y. b‘pc—

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Lot Otters, for gar-

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= use: Our prices have not been

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800 Seeds Cabbage 3 Best Varieties 3 piste.

2.600 " Lettuce 4 “ “ 4 ‘

800 “ Onion 2 “ “ 2 “

1.000 ” Radish 4 u u 4 u

30 “ Tomato 3 “ “ 3 “

3.000 “ Turnip 4 " “ 4 “

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MAKING CONCENTATED LIME-SUL-

PHUR WASH AT HOME.





ETHODS used in making the con-



M centrated lime—sulphur wash at



home have been a. matter of



much interest to fruit growers during

the past two seasons.



There are several formulas now in

use and in all of them the proportion of

the lime to the sulphur is about the same,

one of lime to two of sulphur. It has

been found by careful chemical investi-

gations that from this combination the

largest proportion of the sulphur can be

rendered soluble, and this is just what is

wanted. The more sulphur in the liquid

form in the concentrated lime~sulphur

wash, the more valuable it is, for the

more it will have to be diluted for spray-

ing.



Ordinarily the skill and apparatus of a

chemist would be necessary to tell how

much sulphur there is in solution in any

sample of the concentrated lime—sulphur

wash but by the use of the Baume Ily-

drometer, this can be approximately de-

termined by anyone, as the degrees in-'





 





 





 





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





this formula, and it is apt to haveless

sediment.



A formula known as the Geneva formula

is now proposed by the New York Ex-

periment Station, and is 36 pounds of

lime, if pure, or 38 pounds of lime if 95

per cent pure, or 40 pounds of lime if

90 per cent pure, and 80 pounds of sul—

phur and 50 gallons of water. When

well made this wash will test about 23 to

25 degs. Baume, meaning about 15 per

cent sulphur in solution.



Probably the greatest annoyance in

making the concentrated wash at home

is the large amount of sediment that de—

velops in the wash and the difficulty of

getting rid of it. When this wash is

made by commercial chemical manufac-

turers the sediment is separated from the

liquid by powerful filters operated under

pressure, in a way that is impossible to

do at home. The most that a grower can

do to leesen the bother from the sedi-

ment is to use a. grade of lime that con-

tains but a very small amount of im-

purities, magnesium oxide being very 0b-.

jectionable.



The sediment-is not an injurious sub-

stance, and there is no objection to stor-

ing the clear liquid, sediment and all, in

barrels or tanks until wanted. After SCV\

cral days or weeks the clear liquid can

then be drawn off from the sediment.





 





 





 





 





The Cement Wall Makes a Cosy Corner for the Hot-Bed.





dicated by the hydrometer have a defi-





finite relation to the amount of sulphur in

solution, and from this reading and with





the use of the “Diluting Table” it is a

simple matter to dilute any concentrated

lime-sulphur wash to the proper strength

for spraying. As an example for spray—

ing dormant trees:



\Vhen the Baume test reading is 20

dogs. dilute 10% gals. of concentrated

lime-sulphur with water to 50 gals of

solution; when. reading is 21 dogs. dilute

101/2 gals. to 50 gals. of solution; when

reading is 22 (legs. dilute 10 gals. to 50

gals of solution; when reading is 23 degs.

dilute 9% gals. to 50 gals. of solution;

when reading is 24 dogs. dilute 91/2 gals.

to 50 gals. of solution; when reading is

25 (legs. dilute 9 gals. to 50 gals. of solu—

tion; when reading is 26 dogs. dilute 8-31

gals. to 50 gals. of solution; when reading

is 27 dogs. dilute 81/2 gals. to 50 gals. 01

solution; when reading is 28-degs. dilute

71f; gals. to 50 gals. of solution; when

reading is 29 dogs. dilute 71/2 gals. to 50

glLlS. of solution; when reading is 30 degs.

dilute 7 gals. to 50 gals. of solution; when

reading is 31 (legs. dilute 63.1 gals. to 50

girls. of solution; when reading is 32 degs.

dilute 61/2 gals. to 50 gals. of solution;

when reading is 33 dogs. dilute 61/4 gals.

to 50 gals. of solution.



This table for making the dilutions can

also be found in the Experiment Station

Bulletin on spraying, and should be given





. in “Directions for Using” that come with

{the hydrometer.





The formula used last year by many

Michigan fruit growers, and with success

was 60 pounds of lime, 125 pounds of sul-

phur and 50 gallons of water. With good

lime and sulphur and proper boiling a





‘concentrated wash testing about 29 de-





grees Baume which means 22 per cent

sulphur in solution should be obtained.

The Pennsylvania formula is 50 pounds

of lime, 100 pounds of sulphur and 50 gal-

lons of water. With good materials and

proper preparation the concentrated wash

should test about 26 degrees Baume. Not

as much sulphur being used there will be

less in solution in the wash made from





Chemical tests have shown that wash

stored for several months with the sedi—

ment does not lose any of its original

strength.



In buying lime to be used in making

the concentrated lime-sulphur

specify a grade that has a very high





percentage of calcium oxide, (which is the?

and not,

more than 5 per cent magnesium oxide.‘





chemical name for pure lime),

Manufacturers know the grade of lime

they are selling and can give a. guarantee

of its purity.



ll'e are frequently asked if there is a.

way that lime can be easily tested at

home to determine its value for making

lime-sulphur in the concentrated form. It

is a careful piece of work for a chemist

to do this, but it has been suggested that

it can be done in a rough way at home

by making a small batch of the wash,

and if there is a large amount of sedi-

ment to conclude that the lime is not

suited for this purpose, and if there was

not much sediment it would do. The

trouble with this way of testing the lime

is that such a small amount of it is used,

(about 2 025. of lime, 4 02s.. of sulphur

and 1 qt. of water), that it cannot be re-

lied upon with great certainty.



Nearly every grower has his own way

of making the wash, one good way is as

follows: Into the barrel, if cooking is to

be done with steam, or kettle if by fire,

pour about 10 gallons of water and bring

to a. boil, add the lime and while this is

slaking add the sulphur and stir vigor-

ously and then add enough water to

make the full amount, add more water

from time to time as it evaporates, to

keep this volume about the same. Boil

for one hour.



After boiling strain into barrels, and

when cooled cork tightly, test a. sample

of the clear liquid with the hydrometer

and mark the strength on the barrel. It





will not pay to attempt to separate the'





clear liquid from the sediment, but draw

off the liquid as it is needed.



(The above article was prepared by

Profs. H. J. Eustace and A. J. Patten, of





the Michigan Experiment Station—Eds.) ‘ "'1'" “I“ 5'0“-





     

 





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gravel, with enough water to sufficiently

moisten it. This he .shoveled over until

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‘\\'hen the blocks were sufficiently hard—

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Illinois. E.





INTENSIVE METHODS OF FRUIT

GROWING.





.I. HALL.





 





Paul Rose, of lleiizie county, addressed

the Annual Round-Up Institute upon the.

above topic, in an informal but iiitei'est-’

ing way. By transforming the elements:

contained in the soil and air into i'ruit,‘

the horticulturis‘. beComes a public bene-

factor. in that he makes into food for:

.llliL1:l{IIId that which is unavailable as:

‘s'n-Ei before his skill is used. and lrcliig

such a man, Mr. Rose suggested no more

fitting bequest could be given the or

chardist’s children than a thrifty,

growing apple plantation, which leading:

them to exercise their own genius and?

skill in its care will be of far truer value:

to them than a liberal insurance policy. I



Coming directly to his subject, ‘Mi‘.

Rose first mentioned location. \\'hilc our:

great western shores of Michigan. as well

as many other parts of the state, arel

noted throughout the country as fruit’

producing territory, there are thousands1

of locations within this great fruit belts

that are not adapted to fl'llil~§.'.'l‘l)\\‘lllg.!

The man who plants must therefore have;

his eyes open wherever he nay locatel

The fruit man should specialize, accord-l

ing to Mr. lose. Ills specially should be

either the fruit he loves to grow

Wien he should move to a locality most

titted for its production, or he should:

grow that fruit oi fruits. variety or vai'ie-j

.ties for which the locality he has cliosel'l_‘

seems inost fitted to produce. I



Secure trees in the fall and heel them;



. in. This is done by selecting a place that;

.is only moderately exposed, and where;

:the snows during the winter will not5

,bank, and where the winds will not sweep

Sit bare. Dig a trench, ilirowing ihe earth‘

lilo the east. Take each tree and prune

ltbe roots as you wish them to go into

;ihe ground the following spring. Lay

them in the trench with the tops on

f the bank thrown out. Then pile the earth

upon the trees in this reclining position

: even as high as the first limbs. By prim-

ging the roots in this manner they have a

lchance to heal over during the winter and

lare really to send out little fibrous root-

i lets as quickly as planted in the spring.

! \Ye plant our trees too close together.

:The orchard operations are easier and

lbctter done, and consequently trees give

better results when more room is avail-

able for each of them. Mr. Rose plants?

peaches 23 feet each way, cherries 2:”) to:

30 feet, and apples 40 to 50 feet aparti

It is a mistake to plant peaches as fillers'

between apple trees, peaches requiring

different treatment as to culture and

spraying than apple trees. Care must be

taken where young trees are planted in

sod, to protect them against cutworms,

the worms climbing the trees and eating

citythc buds. A band of cotton may be

wrapped about the trunk of each tree

and tied near the bottom, the top of the

cotton is then pulled over the string so as

to form an obstacle through or over

which the cutworms cannot go. He also

uses poison bait to kill off the worms. He

heads his peach trees low, so low that

children can pick a large amount of the

fruit while sitting upon the ground.



As to spraying materials, Mr. Rose has





 





 





 





 





 





 





not yet been converted to the utility of the





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341





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Just After the Blossom Falls——





   

 

   

 





HE arsenatc of lead goes

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where the worm of the cod-

the apple. Spray this Summer





with Swift’s, and next Fall worm)‘ apples will be scarce.





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342 (30)





lime-sulphur spray for summer spraying.

especially for peach trees. He intends to

continue the use of Bordeaux until he

can be better convinced of the need of a

change. -



During the early part of the season

orchards should be cultivated thoroughly

and kept clean. Mr. Rose uses a three-

horse gang spike—tooth hart-ow for most

of his cultural work. A man with three

horses and such an implement can cover

40 acres a day. lie believes it better to

thus cultivate and go over the ground

oftener, than to. use an implement that

tears the soil up more and go over it less

frequently. He supplements this culture

by work with a spring-tooth harrow,

passing up and down the rows, zig-zag-

ging between the trees as he passes down,

doing the same coming back, thus com-

pletely working the soil on all sides of

each tree of the row. leaving but a small‘

area about the trunk untouched. The

turning of the team about the tree causes

the harrow to pull in close to the body

thereof. Any surface left untouched is

afterward stirred with a hoe. He throws.

manure about the roots of the trees. For?

this purpose he is having large amounts-

shipped in from Chicago, which costs him

$2.00 per ton. He also draws clay and

throws it about the trees to secure a bet-

ter soil texture. 1n the summer time he

mounds earth about each trunk, which)

prevents the borer moths from laying

eggs where they will remain undisturbedl

by depositing them in the surface of this:

mound. Disturbance by the elements ex-

poses the eggs and borers to the birds,

which devour them as food.



The only crop which Mr. Rose has at-

tempted to grow among his trees is the

canteloupcs. Where he grows canteloupcs:

he feeds the soil to an extent that wilii

enable the trees to make normal growth,l

besides furnishing suilicient food for the}

melon crop. Commercial fertilizers are!



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used liberally. lie does not always sup

ply the same brand of fertilizer, changing

it to suit the needs of the tree. For ex

ample, one year ago he used a fertilizer;

containing 4 per cent nitrogen. 8 per cen l

phosphoric acid and 6 per cent potash}

\Vhile this coming season he will use 10_

per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent

potash, believing that there is sufficient

nitrogen in the soil to supply the plantsl

A year ago he applied 1,000 bushels of the ‘

first mentioned fertilizer per acre in the:

spring, then in July applied a similar}

amount again. The fruit was superior

where the two applications were made.‘

The yield was larger and the fruit sold

for a higher price on the market. He re-

ceived for this particular crop $3.00 per

bushel, the commission mcn writing that

they wanted more of it. .\s to old apple

trees he stated that they can be brought

into bearing in three years, at least, pro-

viding plant food is gin-n them in liberal

amounts. For covci' crops he prefers

peas, barley and oats mixed, the lcgumi-

nous plants furnishingr nitrogen and all

of the supplying humus.



l‘wlr. Rose has from '12:? to 180 people

employed during cherry picking time. He

furnishes these persons with tents and

manages boarding houses for their benc-

tit. lie is careful that the employes are

well paid and given t-Vcry convenience

and benefit that he can secruc, and thus

he finds that the same people return to

him year after year to assist him in the

work. lie pays them by the day, and

not. by the piece, as he gets better results

by this method. His cherries are packed

in boxes tlxlxxl inches, inside. dimensions.

Thcy are divided in the centre of the long

way, making two receptacles nine inches

square. Three layers of cherries are

placed in the receptacle, and the cover

pressed down and fastened. The cherries

shipped in these packages are very choice

and he has out-sold the products shipped

in from California the past two seasons.

He states that one must carefully in-

struct the packers how to put up the

fruit. They will not become skilled in

a few days or even in a season. The

fruit is cratcd from the basket in which

it is picked. He makes Nos. 1, 2 and 3,

and his name goes on all the crates,

which he says assists him in advertising

his fruit, since the party who buys N0. 2

and finds that better than most fruit

crated No. i, wonders what his No. 1

must be like. it is along this very line

that Michigan has suffered very greatly.

An improvement in our packing would

benefit the fruit industry of the state.

He ventured to state that if every man

in the state was compelled to put his

name on the packages of fruit which he

placed upon the market there would re-

sult a great benefit to Michigan horticul-

ture.





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MAY EVERY GRANGE RESPOND.





“nth only two weeks remaining before

the date on which congress will convene

in extra. session for the express purpose

of taking action on the Canadian reci-

procity agreement, it is proper that a

matter of so much consequence to agri-

culture be included among the subjects

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ings. Many Granges have already ex—

pressed themselves and have advised their

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tire. The Grange has always stood for

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cussion came with the failure of the last

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sition. Indeed, the Grange leaders who

fought the measure so strenuously in the

last congress were most concerned in se-

curing, for the great agricultural class,

an opportunity to duly consider the meas-

ure and to present its conclusions. They

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tee by National Master Bachelder are

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ganized agriculture to say whether they

are sound or otherwise. Let no Grange in

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upon this question:



The two principal arguments put for-

ward on behalf of this so-called reci-

procity proposition, are, first, that it will

reduce the cost of food stuffs to the con-

sumer; and, second, that it will not de-

crease the prices received by our farmers

for their products. Both of these state-

ments can not be true, and it is our Opin-

ion that neither of them are. The news-

papers of the cities have been filled with

glowing promises of cheap food, which

they claim will be the result of the free

admission of Canadian farm products.

Vi'e believe this to be wholly a delusion,

and that the removal of the duties on

these products will not reduce in any ma-

terial degree the prices paid for them by

the consumers of the cities. Take for

example milk. The duty on Canadian

milk is now two cents per gallon. It has

been shown by investigations conducted

by the U. S. Department of Agriculture,

that on the average the farmer in this

country gets for his milk 30 per cent of

the price paid by the city consumer, the

difference being absorbed by the middle-

man, railway company, and retailer, Sup-

pose the duty of two cents per gallon on

Canadian milk is abolished? Does anyone

believe that the people of the cities will

get their milk two cents per gallon less

than the present price? “hat is true of

milk is true of practically all other farm

products.



After having proved to their own satis-

faction that reciprocity will reduce the

cost of living, the advocates of this prop<

osition turn around and assert that it will

not in any way decrease the profits of our

farmers. I'nfortunately the facts are

against them. The mere introduction of

this bill has already forced down the. price

of wheat six or seven cents per bushel,

owing to the existence in Canada of im-

mense stocks of wheat, which, if this bill

is enacted, can be rushed into this coun-

try. I *



And here let me point out that the price

of wheat has fallen 30 cents per bushel

since a year ago. Has the price of bread

to the consumers of our cities fallen '33

per cent? You know that it has not. and

if as the result of reciprocity the price or

wheat is forced still lower, it will not

benefit the consumer, for flour is still

taxed 50 cents per barrel.



It is impossible in the brief time allot-

ted me to go into details showing how the

farmers will be injured by the provisions

of this bill, but I will take as an illustra-

tion the manufacture of cheese. In the

state of New York this is a most import-

ant branch of agriculture, the total pro-

duction being about 125,000,000 pounds.

With the tariff of six cents per pound our

dairymen are just able to make a living

profit, and most of them have only exist-

ed because they have been taking more

and more each year from the fertility of

their soil. The Canadian cheese pro-

ducer has cheaper land, cheaper labor,

cheaper supplies, cheaper machinery.





cheaper feed for cows, and a richer soil.





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(THE MICHIGAN FAR.MER.





The Province of Ontario, just across from

New York, exported in 1909, 164,000,000

pounds of cheese. How could our cheese

makers compete with those of Ontario,

when the latter have so clear an advan-

tage in the cost of production?



But we are told that while it is true

that this bill deprives the farmer of the

very moderate protection, averaging less

than 25 per cent, now given him by out

tariff laws, he receives compensation in

the form of reductions of duties on man-

ufactured articles. This is not true. The

reductions made by this bill will not in

the least decrease the cost of the manu-

factures the farmer buys, since Canada

is not to any extent a manufacturing

country. Thus we have the Hon. Secre-

tary of Agriculture stating that “free

barbed wire fencing will be a boon to our

farmers." As a matter of fact this pro—

vision will not benefit one farmer to .the

amount of one per cent. We. exported to

Canada last year 100,000,000 pounds of

wire. and imported practically none.





 





 





New Subordinate in Muskegon.——Per-

manent organization of Sullivan Grange,

with 21 charter members, was effected at

that village by a small party of Patrons.

early in March. At the head of the depu-

tation which did the work was John S.

‘Walker, master of Muskegon Pomona,

and with him were W'ilbur F. Taylor,

deputy district master, and W. C. Nistle,

lecturer of Muskegon Pomona. The Sul-

livan farmers chose for the name of the

new organization that of the village.

They were very enthusiastic over the

new Grange and prospects are bright for

excellent results in the near future. Offi—

cers were elected as follows: Master,

Chas. Gustafson; overseer, John More-

house; lecturer, Grover C. Baker; sec-

retary. Fred Sheringer; treasurer, Theo—

dore Christian; steward, George Spoon;

assistant steward, John Vanderjagt; gate-

keeper, S. C. Tortillett: chaplain, Mrs.

May Christian: Ceres, Mrs. D. G. She~

valier; Flora, Mrs. John Morehouse: lady

assistant steward, Mrs. George Spoon.





COMING EVENTS.





 





Pomona Meetings.



Ingham Co., with Mason Grange, Wed-

nesday, March 22. Lecturers’ conference

and conferring of fifth degree.



Genesee Co., with Davison Grange, Fri—

day, March 24.



Manistee Co.,

at Bear Lake,

March 21 and 22.

ductor.



\\'ayne C0..

day, March 31.





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The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

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(Pomona and Institute),

Tuesday and “'ednesday,

D. E. McClure. con-

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Associational Sentiment.—-—

The farmer, he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





‘ THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE.





Paper read by J. C. McDowell, of the

T7. 5. Department of Agriculture, before

the State Association of Farmers' Clubs.



(Continued from last week).





The farmer of the future will re—claim

the so-called abandoned farms of the

country, and cause them to produce large

crops of all kinds adapted to that sec-

tion; he will re-forest the steep hillsides

from which we have cut the timber, and

he will drain the swampland everywhere.

He will irrigate the land in the arid sec-

tions of the west to the full capacity of

the water supply of that region, and he

will double the yield of all our farm

crops, because he will make as good use

of his muscles as we are doing and he

will use his brains a great deal more. He

will clear the cut-over lands of Northern

Michigan, Northern “'isconsin and North-

ern Minnesota, and on this vast area he

will produce enough to feed an empire.

lie will also find out what crops can best

be produced on our jack pine lands, and

doubtless he will bring them nearly all

under cultivation. He will know how

deep to plow for wheat and other crops,

how much humus each kind of soil should

have, and his soil will always be main—

tained in a high state of fertility. He

will practice hill selection of seed pota—

toes, sow only the large plump kernels

of wheat, select his seed corn on the

stalk, treat his seed potatoes for scab,

his seed wheat for smut, his seed flax

for wilt, and apply the best knowledge at

his command, to all phases of plant pro-

duction. In that day Southern Michigan

will rival North Yakima and the Hood

River Valley in the production of apples,

our sandy lands will produce clover and





’ vetch in abundance, our swamp lands will





produce cabbage and celery, and almost

all Michigan farmers will produce large





..the plant grows.





crops of alfalfa. The farmer of the fu-

ture will so rotate his crops as to bring

grain, legumes, and cultivated crops in

logical order. He will also be able to

practice successfully the single cropping

system. In the past the single cropping

system has been the cause of much un-

successful farming, and at the present





time it takes a great deal of courage to.





say a word in its favor: but I believe the

time is at hand when we are about to use

even this system of farming in such a

way as to fatten our pocketbooks without

depleting our soils.



To the farmer of the future genera-

tions, the cow that produces only 150

iounds of butter a year will be unknown.

20 bushels of wheat per acre will be a

small yield, and because of greatl-i‘ pl")-

duction farming will be lifted to a higher

plane. “'0 will then feed our animals so

as to get the most out of the iced,

live stock will all be of superior breeding,

and our barns as well as our houses will

be up-to—date and sanitary. \‘t'c will then

welcome the inspection of our dairies,

and be pleased to have our cattle tcstet

for tuberculosis.



The rural schools of the future are des-

tined to change for the better with other

improved conditions. Either we will have

the consolidated rural school, or else

some better way of solving the present

rural problem will be found. I

firmly believe that the time is rapidly

approaching, if it is not already at our

door, when our children are to have most

of the tuivantngcs of the city schools

without their many defects. Nature study,

agriculture, anti domestic economy should

be mught to our children at some period

before they begin life for themselves.

This work should be supplementary, and

should not displaw anything that is now

in the Course of study. The art of agri-

culture mnst be kept in the background,

and the semi-scientific phases of agricul-

ture must be pushed to the front in our

common and secondary schools. The

children Should know the story of how

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names and characteristics of the wild.

flowers, the cultivated plants, and the

wcedsfi They should be taught the prin-

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and something of the care and manage-

ment of farm animals. This work must

of necessity be elementary in its scope,

but it should be interesting and accurate.

Corn growing and corn judging contests

may well be a part of the course. This

work will not be a burden to the teacher,

but will be a pleasure to teacher and

pupil alike. In the schools of the future

the three 1's will be as prominent as they





are today: but as someone has said. the

three ii's, too. will have a prominent

place; that is, we will i-ducate not only

the head. but also tln- heart (and the‘

hand. I have little sympathy with the

old style education that taught us to ap-

preciate all that is best in music. lilcra-v

ture and art. but neglcctwl to teach us

how to earn the dollars with which to_

purchase these things.





(Continued next week).





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Pass Resolutions Opposing Reciprocity.

—’I‘he Hadley and i'ilba iiiririci‘s' Club

was very pleasantly entertained at Sun-

nyside. by Mr. and Mrs, F, in)

Feb. 16. The roll call, respond-id to by a

story, song or recitation, was a very

amusing number of the program. The

topic of the day, “\Vhich is the most

profitable. $75 invested in cows, Charles

Relev; swine, R. .I. Pierson; sheep, C. P.

Johnson and If I‘. ICPHQ‘X. hens, Carrie

Snook was much apprcciutwl. The next

the most interesting of the. year. each

speaker relating his or her experience and

giving the financial report of the same.

Mesolutions opposing the pending reci-

procity bill were adopted and copies for-

warded to our congressmen and Michigan

If. S. senators. Music by Master “Card

Mott. Mrs. and Miss lie Clercq and Carrie

Snook was much aprpeciatcd. The next

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Hold Local Option Meetingr—Thc Rives:





C. P. Johnson, Cor. See.

and East Tompkins Farmers' Club, of

Jackson county, met M'arch 4 with an at-

tendance of 00. The election of officers

and other business occupied the forenoon.

After dinner a local option program was

rendered. Three gentlemen from Jackson

gave us interesting talks on local option

and they brought many new ideas, from

personal experience, from the merchant's

point of View, and from the pulpit. Many

remarks followed but all were unanimous

in agreeing that nothing could be better

than state—wide local option and that our

own town had never been so prosperous

as within the last two years despite the

wets’ argument to the contrary and if we

Wish to save the boys and girls, all the

voters must be ready to do their duty

and to fight. for local option in Jackson

means that right must fight against might

and only time will tell whose the victory.

—Ina Strinkham, Cor. See.





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Wire Fences





CHEAPER

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Superior Fences, Gates and Arches

of all kinds. Superior workmanship. Catalogs sent. free





Dwiggins Wire Fence Co..212leulns Ave, Anderson, ind.





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Made of High Carbon Double Strength

Called Wire. Heavily Galvanized to

prevent rust. Have no agents. Sell at

factory prices on 30 days' free trial.

We pay al I freight. 37 heights of farm

and poultry tence. Catalog Free.

COILED SPRING FENCE CD.

Box 21 Winchoalor. Indiana.





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For 18-ln. 14 8-4c tor 224m Bog '

Fence; 154: for 26-inch; 18 8-40

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V‘ \' fence 28 1-2c. Sold on so dayi

trial. 80 rod spool Ideal Barb

Wire $1.45 Catalogue free.





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48 “FEES? 25c





Best high carbon coiled steel

wire. Easy to stretch over

hills and hollows. FREE

Cntalog—fences,tools. Buy

from factory at wholesale

prices. Write today to Box 68





 

 





 





 

 





 





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THE MICHIGAN FAR-MER.





 





Big -, House

'5 . Furnishing

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Reail This Boiled Down list





it will give you a faint idea

oi the values tlus sale otters

Bleached Muslin

15.000 boltu(the 110 quality). For yard. 70

Percale

at manufacturer's prices. ling-cent. vnlno

for, per yard ............................ 7540





Black Tailela Silk

Full yard wide, on y .................... 850





Gingham

Solid weave, fine quality. 10 yds. for 490





Poplin

The kind retail stores sell for 25 cents.

Our sale price, per yard ............. I 2560

Dolled Swiss

Fine quality—price for 60 days only. For

yard ..................................... I0c

Panama Cloth

36-inch all worsted Panama cloth, ggly





per yard ................................. 0

Famous .Behrens’ Pongee Silk

10 colors, only per yard ............... 380





Venetian Spot Silk

Exactly the some quality that. regularly

retails at. 45 cents a. yard. Our sale price

only ..................... - ................ 2 3o



Sheeting

llnllli‘ili'lu‘d, 68 in. wide, only per yd. I90

lilom-hei. 70 in. wide. Sale price. per

yard ..................................... 2Io

Japonica Silk

In 14 colors at half the regular pgtsie.





Only, per yurd .......................... c

Striped Poplin



Eleven colors. Regular 25-cent value.



0111' sale price only, per yard ........ I 2560





Ladies’ Handkerchiefs

Hemetitclied extra fine cnmbric. This is

a handkerchief that sells everywhere for

10 cents apiece. Our sale price only, per

dozen .................................... 0

Ladies‘ colored border hematitched hnnd<

kerchiefs, per dozen only ............. 280





Table Linen

Heavy German Dice Damask. per yd. 390

Heavy Cream All-Linen Damask, per

nrd ..................................... 480

hlcnched All-Linen Satin Damask per

yar ....... . . . ......................... S l

Table Cloths

Hammad German Table Cloths. Size,

58x75 inches. Ench ................. . I

Silver Bleached Table Cloths. Size, 58x

62 inches. Each .................... . I

Bleached Pure Linen. Size. 70170 inches.

ach .................................. SI . 9

Complete Hemstltched;

Damask Set

Table Cloth and six Napkins. 010th size

62x80 inches. Napkins 17x17 inches.

Price per set. ........................ '32. 8

Pillow Shams .

Hematitched and open work. Size 30x30

inches, Only. per pair ................ 600

Plano Scar!

Beautiful white renaissance Lace. Size

27x84 inches. only .................. .9

Towels. '

70.000 pieces of cod Bleached Linen

Crush Toweling. “forth double our price.

For this sale onlynfmr yard ............. o

Fringed Damask owela. Unmatchable

value. 17x38 inches. only .............. . 0

White Hematitched Huckaback. 20128 1n.





on .....................................

Herhmed Pure Linen Huckabaok. 20x4

inches. only

Fine Satin Damask Towel. hematitched.

Handsome flowered designs, 21x41 inches.

only .............................. ........430

Bed Spreads

Our 3810 prices range from 8 I . I 5 for our

big leader up to $2. .





 





 





Cornlorters

12 carionds of big values bought especially

for this sale. Prices run from 8 I . I8 to

$2.75.

Sheets and Pillow Cases

Annual oti'erin of Hemmed Sheets and

Pillow Cases. i bur ain. Best quality





Bleached Sheets, 2x90 inches ........ 69c

Pillow Cases._20x32 inches, only ..... I 70

Embroideries





Imported and domestic. Six pages of hi

lmrgnin values in our March and Apri

Sale Book. Get your copy today.





Ladies’ Neckwear

Very latest novelties. Direct from the

maker at little more than the maker’s

cost.

Auto Scarls



Splendid bargains. One cannot be ur-

(hurled at retail for less than 8 .00.

Sine 26x68 inc-hes. 10 colors. Our sole

price. only .............................. 440





Furniture

21 bargain filled pages from which you

can furnish your home com lete from

kitchen to attic at a saving o from one-

fourth to one-half.



Here are a few of the items, that you

may the better aipreeinte their values.

High grade Reed ‘huira and rockers. onlv

each .................................. 83.



High Grade Box Seat

Dining room chairs. Leather seat and

back. only each ...................... $3.48

Furniturefor entire room, four ieces in

Mission. 1 rocker. 2 chairs. 1 tulile. only





.......... $9.9

Three piece parlor suite upholstered in





genuine leather. On y .......... . 5

library Rocker, only .............. $4.96

Mission Hull Clock. Height 5 t. 8 in..

only ............................... . .. $3.96





 





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en for “2 Page Bargain





 





L ' I You can’t come to our big city stores so we

IS have prepared for you a book that describes

-— this big sale in detail. Every article is care-

fully illustrated, fully described and priced so low

that you will reckon your saving in dollars. This

book has been so painstakingly prepared, every

illustration has been so carefully drawn, every

statement so closely edited that you could not learn

more about the goods were you to actually visit our

stock rooms. Send for this book today. Your copy

has Just come from the press and is here waiting

your request. Even though you plan to purchase

only a few articles for your home or wardrobe this

spring, don’t let this prevent your securing the book.

You will without a doubt find listed the very articles

you want and in every case you will make a worth

while saving.





To sum it all up in a single sentence. This is per-

haps the most complete and the largest House

Furnishing and Women’s wearing apparel sale ever

attempted. You cannot gain the slightest idea of its

size or magnitude or of the values offered, however,

until you see the book. Fill out the coupon and mail it today.





NOTE—The prices given here are taken from our Chicago

Book. Our Kansas City House has issued a book contain-





guru-letter] Oak Sewing Egbglg ing a line equally attractive, suited to their territory.





 





Mission Rocker

only..... ........................... ..-$I.99 "

Brass Bed I

2 inch posts. only .................. 3 I 5.97

Turkish Couch

imitation leather covered. only... $8.86

Kitchen Cabinet

with large cupboard. only .......... $7.33 I

Large Porch Swing

weathered oak, with chains and hooks

complete. only ...................... 82.98 I

Large Refrigerator

only .................................. $6.80

Curtains and Ru 9 I

Curtains and curtain materia suited to

eVery room in the house at. prices that are

just about half what you would ordinarily

expect to pay. .

Rugs are shown in their actual colors.

Prices range from SI .65 upward.





3 Big Sewing Machine Bargains





Clocks

Handsome, big values. suited for dining I NAME





rooms. hall. living room or library.





Silverware. China. Kitchen-

ware





You have a wide range of choice in all TOWN





these. Prices are extraordinarily low for

this sale.



Stoves and Ranges

for coal, wood. gas and kerosene. Every

one a bargain offer. '





Washing Machines

and laundry supplies. A full and complete





line.

For_Your Wardrobe

Here you Will find 29 pages containing





can possibly want. or need. Knit: un er-

wear. Muslin underwear. Stockin , Shoes.

Wrappers. Dressing Saouues, imonoa.

A wide range of dry goods and dress mu-

teriuls, suits. gowns and millinery.





every article of wearing apparel that on I





This Coupon Brings this Big

City Sale to Your Door.

Sign and Mail it Today.





MONTGOMERY WARD 6 60., Gentlemen:

Chicago and Kansas City

Please send me a copy of the Book describing your

“March and April Sale of House Furnishings and Women's

Wearing Apparel.” [ 9 ]





 





 





 





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Four New Catalogues lust oil the Press

Check with an (X) the look you want.





Wall Paper Paint

gives actual samples gives actual samples





D Baby Carriages





Cut out the Coupon and send it to our nearest house, Chicago or Kansas City





MONTGOMERY WARD & [0.





150





Chicago and Kansas City





 





Chicago Avenue Bridge, CHICAGo

19th & Campbell Sis. KANSAS CITY





 

 





[:l Bicycles. Motorcycles





 





 





Save dealer’s profits.





MPIRE FENCE





Get the genuine EMPIRE big

wire fence, direct, at wholesale.





 

 





let Galloway Save You $25.00





 





 





 





“SON FENCE 00., LEESBURG. 0.





 

 

 

 





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Big Factory. Big

Sales. 23 Styles

No traveling salesmen small

expense, prices low. Every-



thing guaranteed. Free samples by

mail. Prices of leadingstyles (rel ht pro-

paid to all points north of the Ohio and

east of the Mississippi River:-





 

 

 





 





 





lnuhes high Medium Weight Extra heavy (all No.9)

39 230 per rod 370 per rod

17 26¢: per rod 410 per rod

65 820 per rod 490 per rod





Special rates beyond this territory.

BOND STEEL POST (20.. 16 E. Manna Stu Adrian. Mich.





 





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Send for prices with

manufacturers’ dis-

counts on

and farm hard wire

fence. Best of

vanlzlng. Gr a

strength—long ser

vice. Write today.

The Ward ll‘enee

Box 875, Decatur





 





CEDAR FENCE POSTS & SHllililE8 ilitlElimizilfi





chip mixed carioads. H. ROSE. Mecosta, Mich





 





WHEN





writing to advertisers Just say “Saw





your ad. in the Michigan Farmer."





 





to $40. 00 on a Manure Spreader





If you’ll send a postal for my Special 1911 Spreader Offer, I believe

we can make a deal. If we do, you’ll save atleast $25.00, perhaps $40.00.

according to size and style you want. And you get a free trial and a

guarantee that would break me if my Spreader wasn’t rig/d. I know I

have to go lug/z on quality and low on price, because I sell by mail. The

' other fellow is right on the ground to persuade you personally. My quality

and price has to do all my persuading. Let me try it. Our capacity is 42,000





Spreaders this year in order Prices, $39.50 up. Frei ht

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to quote the low prices





I do—30 to 365 days free WM g“

trial and my long [M





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' antee in writing.

' $25.00 to $40.00 saved—think of it!

That’s fair, isn’t it? If you can

think of a fairer proposition than 1’].

make you. I'll print it in my next

advertisement.



Get your encll or pen right now, and send

me a postal or my big Spreader Book, showln -

5 styles and sizes. from $39.50 up. I’ll send the.





 





 

 

   

   

 





 

 

 

 

 





   

 

 





book free and a roposltlon that will make‘you do 8 If

some tall think as whether you buy from me or not. Address on



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