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

 

 

VOL. CXXXVII. No. 15.;
Whole Number 3568.

DETROIT. MICI'L. SATURDAY. OCT. 7. 1911.

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FARM NOTES.

 

Saving the Seed Corn. .
Much has been said and written upo

this topic in recent years, yet each spring
many farmers find themselves without

seed corn that will germinate properly.

and have to depend upon purchasing a

supply for planting or run the risk of a

poor stand by using such seed as they

have, and in many instances both chances
must be taken. This can 'all be avoided
by the saving of sufficient seed corn in
the fall and storing it in such a way that
its germinating qualities will not be im-
paired during the winter. The advantages
of selecting seed corn from the stalk be-
fore the crop is cut have been enumerat-
ed in previous issues of the Michigan
Farmer, and a considerable proportion of
farmers have taken that precaution.

‘Another method of saving the seed
corn which affords a degree of natural
selection was related to the writer by a
prominent farmer recently, who stated
that he husked the ears which the corn
binder knocked off from a 30-acre field
and found that a very considerable por-
tion of them were good seed ears. These
ears were gathered as soon as possible
after the corn was cut and were properly
stored in a suitable rack in the basement
of the house near the furnace, so that
the seed will be practically fire dried.
This kind of selection insures the saving
of both early and heavy ears and is per-
haps as good a selection as would be se-
cured by any other method. In order to
make this method available the work
should be done before heavy rains have
occurred after the corn is cut. Of course,
it is now too late to practice this kind
of selection this year but the idea may
be worth a trial in subsequent seasons
by those to whom it has not occurred.

Those who have not already saved their
seed corn, however, must do so from the
product as it is husked. Where the corn
is husked by hand, this can easily be
done by leaving a. few husks on the ears
saved and drawing them to one side
when the husking is done and gathering
them all separately before or at the time
the corn is drawn. Where the husking
is done by machine huskers, the seed ears
can be saved when the corn is being
shoveled into the cribs for storage. The
disadvantage of this method is that one
cannot take into consideration the char—
acter of the plant upon which the ears
grew. However, it is more preferable to
save the corn this way in the fall and
properly store it so that it will be thor—
oughly cured before winter than to at—
tempt to select corn for planting from
the crib, as so many farmers find them-
selves obliged to do at planting time.

The manner in which the corn is stored
is not so important so long as some
method is used which will permit a free
circulation of air all about the cars. It
can be quickly secured by the use of
binder twine, two strands being crossed
between the ears, forminga long string of
ears which can be hung from a rafter or
other convenient place in the garret or
some suitably dry room. A corn rack
can be made by\the use of two by fours
and narrow strips or by the use of a pole
into which nails have been driven to hold
the ears by simply sticking them on at
the butt or by any of the numerous sat-
isfactory methods which have been fre-
quently described in these columns. It
matters not the method so long as the
corn is thoroughly cured out and stored
in a suitable place which will prove sat-
isfactory. But it would mean many do]-
lars in the pockets of Michigan farmers
in the aggregate if every farmer would

' 'give this matter his early attention in

order that the seed for next year’s crop
might be uniformly good and thus insure

a. uniformly good stand of corn through-

out the statc. . ‘
Harvesting the Potato Crop.

directly into the cellar for storage or cured in the late planted crop in all see-
pitting them in the field, the advantage tions of the state, due to the unusually
lies with immediate storage, in the writ- hot weather which prevailed at planting

Early in October, potato digging is the er’s opinion, as the work is no greater time. However, this may not affect the

an important cash crop in our state and

more farmers are each year making it

a factor in their operations. With the
present scarcity and high price of farm
labor the method of harvesting the pota-
to crop is of considerable economic im-
portance upon any farm where even a
small acreage is grown. An increasing
number of machine diggers are being an-

impcrtant work upon a great majority and all danger of freezing will then be yield as greatly as has been anticipated
of Michigan farms. The potato crop is

avoided, as will the labor of handling and the relation of the number of plants
again if the crop is not sold at once. per acre to the yield secured will be an
Opinions differ as to the advisability interesting development in. harvesting
of sorting in the field or picking the cn- this year’s crop.
tire crop up as it is dug. With the avail- The date at which digging should begin
ability of the machine sorter the work of is another matter in which the grower's
sorting can be most cheaply done when individual judgment must be exercised.
the crop is marketed and as this is an The writer has made potatoes a cash crop
important factor in order to get the crop for a good many years and has made it
secured before freezing weather it is an almost invariable rule to begin dig-
ging not later than the second week in

 

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A Fine Field of Sugar Beets on the Farm

    

nually used because of the saving of la-
bor effected, and under nominally favor—
able conditions the digger is a valuable
factor in the economic harvesting of the
potato crop.

The handling of the tubers is, however,
not less important and here methods vary
greatly. However, it has been thoroughly
demonstrated that the most economic
method of handling the crop is to pick
them in crates and draw them either to
market or to the cellar for storage in the
crates into which they are picked. A
platform wagon is a great convenience
for this work, but Where it is not avail—

 

Seed 0an Should Not be Stored in Piles, But on Racks in a Dry Room-

able the crates can be piled on top of
each other and drawn on an ordinary
wagon bed of planks. Where they are
to be placed in the cellar for winter stor-
age it is a much better plan to slide the
crates down a plank through, a window
or door into the cellar to be dumped by
hand, rather than to empty them into a
chute as is quite commonly done, since
they peel‘considerably When so handled
and the bruises will make them look
badly when taken out for marketing.

As to the two methods of putting them

October, as in normal years this will not
give any too much; time to get the
crop harvested before freezing weather
occurs. However. when frosts do not
occur until late and the crop is too green
to dig, it may be necessary to delay the

potato harvesting until a. lair-r datc than
above indicated. From present appear-
:lnccs it would seem that this is likely
to be the case this year. but in that event
every preparation should be made to

push the work when it is begun and
shorten the harvesting period as much as
possible in order that damage from freez-
ing maybe eliminated, as a crop of frost-
ed potatoes is a difficult and expensive
proposition to handle. In the, harvesting
of the potato crop there is great latitude
for the exercising of good judgment on
the part of the grower to secure the most
economic results.

Adding Humus to the Soil.
generally considered most economical to i have some land up in Clare county
eliminate sorting in the field, especially north "f Harrison. It is sand and gravel,
as the labor employed will not always do {[11:39 11121311113129Illeflt)_un}e(zvoolffd 11121122 {gefiiois
the work sulisl'actoriy. what the best plan would be to bring the

\Vhere any portion of the crop is dug 5”“ ‘0 its highest producing D0W€1‘- I

. , . ,. . ,. - , thought of sowing it to cowpeas in the
by hand somt, of .the best pioduclng hills spring, plowing those under and sowing
should be saved tor seed to be used m a it to clover. “'0de it be necessary to

seed bedding plot the following year. Mil on .any commercial fertilizer? If SO.
i‘ . ,lv z , c , . w1at kmd and how much? Would it' be

Th 5 will “I“ mvo e t‘rgxeat amountpf better to put in the clover first?

labor and 1s a means to the end of m— Allegan C0. N L

creasing the yield of Vill‘iel." WOW“, There is no doubt of the wisdom of ads

which should not be neglected. (ling vegetable matter to this soil as the

 

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of Geo. A. Weller, of Eaton County.

As to the advisability of selling the. quickest means of bring it to a point'
crop when dug, or storing thcm for inter where it will profitably produce ordinary
marketing. advice is of little vnlue. 'l‘his farm crops. In a good many instances it

has been found practicable to seed burned
over lands in midsummer by sowing clo-
vcr and grass seed, depending upon the
autumn rains to cover it so as to insure
successful germination. All through the
northern portion of the upper peninsula
where, the snow comes early and pre-
vents a severe freezing of the ground,
lhis has been found a practicable means
of getting at least a partial stand of grass
upon wild lands which will enable its use _
l'or pasture until such time as the hard
wood stumps have rotted off. Sometimes
the seed is harrowcd in the ground with
:lll .\ drag such as is commonly used on
How land.

This inquiry docs not make it plain
whether this land has been cleared and
previously farmed or not. At any rate,
it is now too late in the season to use
this method of seeding clover, and from
the statement that the cowpeas are to be
sown in the spring to" be later plowed
down as a green manure, it would appear
that this is cleared rather than wild land.
in that case, it would doubtless be bene—

, _ . iicial to add some commercial fertilizer
is an individual problem into \\'thh the at the time when sowing the cowpeas

facilities for storing, the 11860 f01‘ the as by this method a larger crop can be
money which the CI‘OD would bring and grown for the purpose of plowing down
the statistics of the season’s production later, and the ultimate results would
should all be taken into consideration. doubtless be, more satisfactory than if the
Government reports have shown the crop fertilizer was used when the clover is
prospects to be the poorest in many sown. If the ground contains the bac-
years. The fall weather has, however. teria peculiar to cowpeas, no nitrogen
been favorable for the late development would be needed, at least only avery
of the crop and final yields are hard to small percentage of this plant food could
estimate even at this date. ,One factor be profitably used but the mineral ele—
which will doubtless reduce the Michigan ments of plant food. 01‘ DhOSDhOPiC acid
yield considerably is the poor stand se— and potash will help the cowpeas to make

 

        

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a better growth and will not be,.lost to
any extent by subsequent leaching, and
any residue of the plant food not utilized
by the cowpeas will remain in the soil
for the benefit of future crops.

For the most profitable result, it would
in the writer’s opinion, pay to utilize the
cowpeas in some manner, such as hogging
them down in the fall; or a portion could
be sown to common Canada peas, and
thus be available for the hogs before the
cowpeas reached a suitable stage of ma-
turity. In this way some profit would be
derived from the crop grown for green
manure and the plowing down of this
crop could be delayed until it had prac-
tically ripened, which will generally pro-
duce better results, since the plowing
‘down of a large growth of green vegeta-
tion has a tendency to cause an acid
condition of the soil, which might necessi-
tate putting on an application of lime.

Handled as above suggested, the soil
would be well covered over in the winter
and the vegetable matter could be plowed
down in the spring and possibly added to
a profitable extent by discing in rye and
vetch in the early fall, when the land
would be in condition to use for a regu-
lar crop rotation in which clover should
be used at as early a period as possible.

YVithout doubt, this inquirer is beginv
ning in the right. place for the improve-
ment of this comparatively new soil and
a very large proportion of Michigan farm-
crs would do well to begin at the same
point in the improvement of their worn
lands. the fertility of which has been
depleted perhaps as greatly by depriving
them of their humus as of their actual
plant food.

Fall Plowing for Cucumbers.

How would it do to fall plow land in-
tended for cucumbers next year?

Montcalm Co. N.'H.

There would be nothing to be gained

by fall plowing for the cucumber crop.
For best results, if the crop is planted
on a clover sod, the ground should be
well covered with stable manure during
the winter or in early spring, and plowed
(arly and worked thoroughly to prepare
a good seed bed before the time to plant
the crop. Since a fine seed bed can be
prepared by spring plowing, there would
be nothing gained by plowing in the fall,
as is sometimes the case with early
planted crops.

 

 

LlLLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

Alfalfa.

The common belief is that alfalfa is a
drought resisting plant; that it will grow
continually in dry weather, but my alfal—
fa don't seem to be of that variety. As
I have stated before, we got no second
growth of alfalfa this year. It didn’t
produce as large a growth as common red
clover in the same field. On the clover
meadows i got quite a nice little growth
for seed and cut it and saved it, but the
alfalfa never grew enough so that we
could harvest it. I put the mowers on
and clipped it but didn't attempt to rake
it up, and it didn’t grow at all until the
recent heavy rains. On that field which
has been seeded now two years, during
Ine drought, I top-dressed with 500 lbs.
of commercial fertilizer. The fertilizer
analyzed 1:814. The theory is, of course,
that I ought not to have used the brand
containing one per cent of ammonia be-
cause alfalfa is a nitrogen gatherer and
all that was necessary to use was the
phosphoric acid and potash, but this
brand I could get easily and no phos-
phate and potash was at hand, and then
i have learned from experience, I think,
that one does not lose anything when
they buy a little bit of nitrogen whether
it is for alfalfa or corn or wheat or oats,
or any other crop. A little nitrogen helps
put the right kind of color into the grow-
ing plant. W'ell, since the rain has come
1 never saw anything grow in my life
like the alfalfa. It has grown in the last
two weeks, a foot, and if it was not so
into in the season I believe I would cut
it and make bay of it, although if the
present rains continue it would be im-
possible to cure it. But I want to give it
the best kind of a chance and so I am
going to leave this on the ground to pro-
tect it over winter. \Vithout doubt, the
fertilizer had a little to do with this
growth but the dominant factor in this
growth was moisture. Alfalfa seems to
need moisture and responds to moisture
as much as any crop that I ever grew.
Of course, the red clover fields are com-
ing on for a third crop now, after we
have cut off the crop for seed. They look
green and luxuriant as far as you can
see them.
' Saving seed Corn.

.~\ portion of my seed corn this year T
selected from the growing stalks. I picked

- THE MICHIGAN . FARMER.‘

it off from what I considered to be typi-
cal corn plants, but only a small portion
of it, because this is a slow process. I
need about 10 bushels of shelled corn for
ensilage corn seed and I do not attempt
to select this seed from the growing plant.
This year we selected it from the seed
which the binder knocked off in cutting
30 acres of corn. “'e followed the binder
pretty closely in picking up the corn as'it
is knocked off, husking it, and taking
care of it before it was even Wet. In all,
there was about 100 baskets of corn (in
the ground, big, nice, well developed ears
the most of them. As a matter of fact,
I have the nicest ears of corn this year
that I think I ever grew. I attribute
part of it to the 500 pounds of commer-
cial fertilizer which I put onto the ground
last spring before planting. Besides that
it has been warm weather this summed
and warm weather will make corn grow.
However, this corn got a bad start. As
I stated earlier in the season, immedi-
ately after planting we had a’severe rain
which packed the ground, rotted some of
the corn, and it was a long time before
we could get onto the ground to cultivate.
When we did get on the ground was hard
and we had to put the cultivators in so
that it was almost all that a team could
pull to loosen up the ground. It was hard
work. Yet in spite of all this we have
got the corn. Not a big crop because I
didn’t have a perfect stand. But we have
got. good sound corn, and I have selected
ensilage corn seed from this corn, and I
have got it on the racks in the basement
of the house away from the wet weather
where we have a fire almost every evening
now, and will have more and more, so
that it will be thoroughly fire dried, and
it is where it Will not freeze this winter.
and I am positive that I will have good
prime seed corn next year.

Last spring I bought a bushel of Wing’s
White Cap Yellow Dent. I was a little
afraid that this corn, grown down in
Ohio, would be a little bit late for our
latitude, and such has proven the case.
There is no soft corn, yet we have had
an exceptionally good corn year. Had it
been a poor corn year there would have
been very much of it that would have
been soft corn, and yet I like the corn.
It has vigor, it is a grower, and has some
tremendous ears. I am of the opinion
that if this corn is planted thickly it will
make a most excellent ensilage corn, it
contains so much vigor, and I am going
to save quite a lot of it for ensilage seed,
and have selected out some of the ear-
liest ears and will plant part of the field
corn to this again next year. I am sure
that this will, with a fair season, mature,
by selecting the earliest ears. I wouldn’t
want to do this every year because I be-
lieve that it will lower the vitality of the
plant by selecting every year the earliest
ears, but we must have a corn that will
ripen for field purposes.

My I-iolt’s Mammoth has done exceed-
ingly well this year, and, of course, I am
going to save the major portion of the
seed corn for next year from Holt’s Mam-
moth.

Sugar Beets.

Since the rains have come the sugar
beets seem to have taken on a new lease
of life. There was getting to be a yel-
lowish tinge to the field before the rain
came which showed that they were ma-
turing, but now they are green and rank
and are growing wonderfully. What ef-
fect this will have upon the percentage of
sugar I do not know, yet I do not think
they were far enough along so that there
is any new growth started. They have
simply revived and if warm weather can'—
tinues two or three weeks they are bound
to make a splendid growth, and they were
pretty well grown to begin with.

Ensilage Corn.

\Ve did not; get cur ensilage corn plant-
ed until well in June again this year, and
part of it is hardly lit to go into the silo
at the present writing, (September 28),
and I am making plans to cut it and fill
the silos next week. -A portion of the
field was planted to a larger kind of en-
silage corn which I sent off and got and
it is not fit yet, but I shall not wait, and
next year I will plant my own seed corn
for ensilage. No more of the big southern
corn for me. This makes two or three
times that I haVe experimented with a
larger corn, and it is not satisfactory.

Rye and Rape in the Hog Run.

Before the rains came the hog run
which has been sown to rape and rye the
very first part of August had made no
growth. In fact, in some places it had
not come up. Since the rains it has made
a wonderful growth. In some places the
rape is a foot high and rye covers the
ground and is rank and green.

COLON. C. LILLm.

THERE is

absolutely
no word to express
the efficacy of

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Emulsion

in the treatment

 

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OCT. 7, 1911.

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Soil Decreasing?

The Farmers on the Prairie
lands of Illinois found that largest
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ground Phosphate Rock. The one
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Phosphate Beck. Our goods are
prepared to give best results. Let
us tell you how and why.

. FEDERAL BHEMIGAI. COMPANY,

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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.

 

Beet Tops as a Green Forage.

Are beet tops all right to feed to sheep?
What is the best way to preserve them
without a silo? Are they all right to feed
to sheep, if bean pods are fed in con-
nection with them? How heavy should
I feed each if they are both good?

Clinton Co. READER.

There is considerable difference of opin-
ion among beet growers as to the value
of the tops as a green forage for live
stock. Dairymen who have fed them in-
telligently, using only a moderate feed of
the green tops or the ensilage made from
same once each day in combination with
corn silage and dry forage, value the tops
very highly for this purpose. On the
other hand, some who have fed them
more liberally have noticed deleterious
results, and especially when they have
been fed liberally to sheep.

Some sheepmen have suffered consid-‘

erable loss from the liberal feeding of
beet tops. as well as unwholesome results
where fed liberally to cattle. These un--
desirable results have doubtless been due
to'the presence of a considerable amount
of potash salts and a degree of oxalic
acid in the beet leaves. There is, how-
ever, no question but that the beet tops
can be safely fed to dairy cows if only a.
moderate feed is given once each (18.37.
and while he has never used them it is
the writer's opinion that they could be
made a moderate factor in the ration for
sheep with safety, although, as above
noted, there is undoubtedly some danger
in their use as a sheep feed, particularly
where care is not exercised in feeding
them.

They are, however, too valuable as a.
supplementary feed, especially under the
present conditions of high-priced hay, to
make it a good business proposition to
neglect their use. Of course, the silo is
the best means of preserving the tops for
later feeding, although they can be placed.
in a pit made from lumber or even rails
or packed in a compact pile for later feed-
ing with the loss of only a foot or so of
the outside which will decay and exclude
the air from the interior of the pit or
pile. For late fall feeding they can be
left in the field in small piles as they are
placed after the beets are topped and
draWn directly to the barn as needed. The
feeding should begin gradually and never
be excessive, using only a small feed once
each day in connection with other forage,
and particular care should be exercised
if they are fed to sheep and the feed
discontinued or reduced in case any dele-
terious effects are noted.

A Ration for the Working Horses.

In feeding corn and oats to horses,
is it better to grind them together? I
so what proportion should be used of
each? If ground, should the corn be
crushed, cob and all?

Branch Co. A. R.

Where corn and oats are fed to horses
it is a good plan to grind them together
as suggested in this inquiry. Where
horses are at hard work and where tim-
othy hay is fed as a roughage, a satis-
factory ration from the standpoint of
maximum results is about one-third corn
and two—thirds oats. “'here good clover
hay or mixed hay is used, a mixture of
one—half corn and one-half oats may be
a very satisfactory feed for work horses,
and in the winter season an even larger
proportion of corn, say two-thirds corn
and one-third oats can be used with sat—
isfactory results. A little bran used in
connection with the feed will prove a
valuable aid in keeping the horses in
good condition. However, when cats are
high and scarce, approximately the same
nutrients can be secured by the combi-
nation of and old process oil meal.
Nine pounds corn and two pounds of oil
meal will furnish approximately the same
digestive nutrients as 14 pounds of oats,
and if a mixture of this kind is combined
with some oats and a little bran, the ra—
tion will be somewhat cheapened.

The writer has used a ration composed
of 600 pounds of corn, 100 pounds of oil
meal, 100 pounds of bran and about 200
pounds of oats with very good results.
Oats have a tonic effect not possessed by
other grains and the presence of the cat
hulls lightens the feed and makes it
more easily penetrated and acted upon
by the digestive juices. A degree of the
same effect will be secured by grinding
the corn cobs and all, although there is
little, if any, actual feeding value in the
corn cobs and it is difficult to get them
ground flne enough. and for horses it is
doubtful whether there is anything to be
gained in grinding the corn, cobs and all,
where either oats or bran are to be used.

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. .

in connection with the corn meal making
up the grain ration. '

SELECTING THE BREEDING FLOCK.

 

“Such a high standard of perfection has
not yet been reached in cross—breeding
that our flocks do not possess some un-
desirable qualities. Many of these it is
very undesirable to have transmitted to
the progeny, Especially is this true when
we may want to keep some to increase
our breeding flock, or to replace any that
may be passing the stage of their highest
usefulness. .

The first and greatest law of breeding
is “like begets like." 'We should always
remember that the progeny may inherit
the bad, as well as the good, qualities of
the ancestry. In many cases the ten-
dency is stronger to reproduce the former
more prominently.

In all forms of life, both animal and
vegetable, there seems to be a natural
tendency to degenerate. Unless a per-
sistent and intelligent effort is made to
select those individuals that show the
most good characteristics the effort for
improvement will be unsuccessful.

The season is now at hand when the
sheep breeder should be looking over his
flock for the last time to determine which
are the best specimens to reserve for fu-
ture use as breeders.

One of the greatest hinderances to the
most effectual and permanent improve-l
ment of our flocks is that the breedex“
does not study carefully enough the in-,

dividual qualities of his sheep.
He depends perhaps too much on the

general appearance of‘ his flock as a

Whole.

In many cases the ilock is turned out:

to pasture in the spring and but little

more attention is paid to them except to‘
see that they have salt regularly and are I , ‘

not molested.
When weaning time comes they are

gotten up, the lambs sorted out, and the'
flock is turned away again till mating,

time comes later in the season.

It always pays well to give much at-,
This is true;
with the growing lambs and also in thc‘

tention to individual merit.

.further development of the younger mem-
bers of the ilock.
A close acquaintance with the individ-

ual makes more easy the intelligent in-'
troduction of new blood. This will result;
in the desirable qualities becoming fixed,’
and transmitted to the progeny with a;
There are;

greater degree of certainty.
always individuals in every flock that
materially influence the selling price of
both wool and mutton. Their produce,
which must sell along with the rest, is of
superior or inferior quality. The elimi-
nation each year of the most undesirable
animals from the flock means a more firm
establishment of a strong flock founda-
tion. Upon this we may continue to
grade to a higher standard of excellence.
This always means greater satisfaction
and greater profit.

In retaining animals to constitute the .

breeding flock for next season those in-
dividuals that have shown strong pre-
potency should be selected. They will
more firmly fix those desirable qualities
sought for and tend to increase the pro-
ductivcness of the flock.

There are usually some ewes that have
served their days of usefulness and had
better be discarded. In selecting lambs
to take their places it is important to
look well to the good and bad qualities of
their parents.

Many lambs are far from being as good
individuals as either of their parents.
Of course, such would be undesirable
material with which to replenish our
flocks.

Ewe lambs from individuals that have
proven themselves good breeders and
producers are the safest ones to be re-
tained for breeding purposes.

One thing that every breeder should
always strive to do is to establish some
particular type throughout the flock. This
is of much importance. Nothing goes
farther than uniformity. It never fails
to attract attention. It always pleases
the eye of the visitor or prospective pur-
chaser. This quality has many times
sold a flock of very common or medium
quality for a long price.

Individuals that are strong producers
have usually inherited the' trait from
their ancestors. The development should
always be encouraged. There may be
ewes in the flock that produce a. fleece
of greater length and stronger fiber than
others. This should be noted and re-
membered in the selection for the up-
keep of the flock. They are important
factors in profitable sheep husbandry.

Ingham Co. 'H. M. YOUNG.

 

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You can tell a reliable case by the depth of the engraving and
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Deep engraving always indicates a thick gold—wearing surface. In
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Don’t be misled by irresponsible “guarantees" stamped inside the
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284 (4)

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.
l——__I-I-_—_-_---

'READ THIS GREATEST TRUST - BUSTING OF F ER—$1'75 SAVE,

 

 

Tear 0111‘ this (Id—it is good for a 6 H. -P. Gasoline Engine 60 Days FREE

(This offer good for only the first farmer sending from each postoffice)

This “SIX MULE TEAM” GASOLINE ENGINE

must absolutely do all work on the farm—right under my own

OCH}. 7, 1911.

J.

 

—a $300 gasoline engine for 5125.

best in the world. and save him $175.

price and live right.

 

38,000 of Our Gasoline Engines Sold—16 Returned

Our "Six Mule Team” Engine is the greatest success of our two-years‘ light against gasoline engine trusts

First. we saved the farmer 530 with that record-maker engine. “The Chore Boy"—then we saved him $50 with
the 2% H.-P. beauty. “The Hired Man"—-now we come out with a 6 H.-I’. engine. the greatest, the strongest. the
We call it "Six Mule Team” and it lives up to the name.

.. Two years ago when the farmer was paying two prices for a cheaply-made rattle-trap scrap of iron, dubbed
a Gasoline Engine." when he was paying out his hard-earned money to support corporation officers. who never
walk. but ride aroupd in taxicabs—we first sold our little uChore Boy" Engine. And the gasoline engine trust
sneered and said. All right—they will be out of business in six months.
They don’t know how to make money on gasoline engines—they are a bunch of rubes.’
Since then we have sold over 38.0“) zaaoline engines.

Doesn't this look as though the farmer knows a square deal when he meets it face to face—as though it paid
to make an engine that was A-l in every particular and sell it at a decent price. instead of trying to put 100 per
cent dividends in the pockets of kid-gloved. cigarette-smoking sports who do not know a gasoline engine from a
threshing machine. and who spend their time and money on women in Peacock Alley or along Broadway.
think it does-that is why we are selling this "Six Mule Team” Gasoline Engine at $175 less than the trust. It‘s
your big chance—tear out this whole page. send it in today with your name and address. Nothing else necessary.

They cannot sell an engine at that

nose—for 60 days—before
I pay you a penny cash

Associated Manufacturer: Company,
Waterloo, Iowa '

GENTLEMEN—If you will take all the risk and send me this great big,
massive, beautiful, quiet running, powerful gasoline engine, called “Six
Mule Team,” and guarantee that it will develop from 6 to 8 H.-P. or I
don’t pay, I will accept it for 60 Days’ FREE TRIAL. You must instruct
the station agent to- allow me to carefully uncrate and examine this engine
—if it does not suit me, I’ll tell the agent to ship it back. freight collect.

\‘V e

 

 

“Six-Mule Team”

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURERS COMPANY - - -

Specifications:

Speed 260 Rev. per M.
Stroke 10 inches.
Bore 6 inches.

Shaft 42% inches.
Length 70 inches.
Width 40inches.
Height 41 inches.
Weight 1500 lbs.

Fly Wheel 40 inches.
Pulley 10 x 8 inches.
Color, Red.

Base 19 x 38 inches.

You also guarantee that this “Six Mule Team” has a larger bore and
a longer stroke, larger fly wheels, and is heavier than any mail order or
trust engine made, selling as high as $300, and that I will save $175 for
my own pocket——that the

Price is ONL Y $125

f. o. b. Waterloo, Iowa.

If I like the engine when I see it at the station, I will take it out to
my farm, abuse it, overload it, put it up against work that my neighbors
are using a 6 H.-P. engine for. If it does not do the work with less
gasoline per H.—P. per hour, if I do not decide that it is the best engine I
ever saw—~ii I don’t make up my mind that this “Six Mule Team” engine
is the best bargain I ever made, then—I will on or before 60 days ship it
back freight collect. If I accept it I will send you $125 cash, or if I prefer,
send you half cash, and three notes, due in 30, 60 and 90 days, 7% interest.

This engine to be fully covered by your protection-for-life guarantee.

Name

 

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Frt. Station

WATERLOO, IOWA

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NEGLIOT
wm lluin .
Iour lime , . , .
Befnd to day ' ' OKAGE
0*" '0" y 33 PA
PERMANENT ' will cure any case or
money refunded.
$I PACKAGE
cures ogdmary casesé
Postpai on receip o
SAFE price. Agents Wanted.
CERTAIN. Write for descriptive booklet. _

Mlnoral Hum lsmody 00.. 463 lourlh Arm. Plll:burg.h.
m

DUNHAM’S

PERGHERDNS

Our summer importation. in our estimation
the best. lot; of horses we have ever had at
Oaklawn. has arrived. Numerous impor-
tant. prize-winners are included, then the
high average is the main thing, as every
animal would he a. creditin any herd. Write as,

BUNIIAMS, Wayne, Illinois.
_

i “infirm-Jay nmrcronr.
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.
Herd. consisting of Trojan Ericas Blackbirds {and
l’ridec. only. is headed by Egret-ton W. a Troisn Erica.
by Black Woodlawu. sire of the Grand Chain ton steer
andbull at the International in Chicago. 60..
He Is assisted by Undulntn Blackbird Ito.
‘VOODCOTE STOCK F ABM. Ionla. Mich.

HOLSTEIN BULLS

FOR SALE——

Registered bulls from four to ten months old for
sale that are closely related to Hengerveld
De K01. De Kols 2nd Butter Boy 3rd, and Colan-
tha 4th‘s Johanna. The dams are heavy milkers
and mostly in the A. It. 0. Prices reasonable.
Send for list. Blgclow's Holstein Farm, Breedsvllloxlch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purebred Registered

HOLSTE IN CATTLE

The Greatest Dairy Breed
Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets.

flolatein-I‘rioaiam Anon Box I“, maturation-0,“.

TOP N OTCH HOLSTEINS

Top Notch registered young Holstein Bulls com
bining in themselves the blood of cows which now
hold and have in the pact held World's Records for
milk and butter fat. at fair prices.

McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. l'ltch.

HOLSTEIN BULL—sired by best son of
CAL!" Pontiac Butterboy—
56 advanced registry daughters—and out. of daughter
of Korndyke Queen De K01. over 24 lbs. butter in
7 days. Best breeding on earth. Price right.

C. I). WOODBURY. E. Lansing. Michigan.

LL 0R SALE—Handsome thoroughbred year-
BU F H Holstein Bull, excellent-
ly well bred. 1)”:de h bi'mw'thAt mbargam.
C‘ t b. d l' .at. or t. roe lines 9 rice.

“mo ROOIIIICEMONT FABMS.'Detl-oi)t. Mich.

' —G d f Pietertje Bengcrvcld’s Count
"OISIGIIIS DfIi‘blr'Innsignths-tOS years old. Breeding
beat, priceslowest../ II BART W. FAY. Eden. Mich.

—P rties wishi to upgrrfie
HOISteins wiiite for my Bu 1 proposition.
CHAS. S. RILEY, R. I. Metamora. Itchtgan.

’ ' —BULL CALVES.
BOISICIII FrICSIan came Grandsonnof Can.
ary Mercedes. W. B. JONES. Oak Grove. Michigan.

OLSTEIN BULLS—1 with a 20.11). Dam. A grand
H one at a. low 6 urc. Severn] flue ones at. lower cost.
LONG BEACH FfiRM. Augusta. Kalamazoo 00.,Mtch,

.KOL-KORNDYKE Holstein bull calf. choicest A.
D}I{. O. breeding. Splendid ndivldunl. $50. Ypsilanti

Farms. Ypsilanti. Mich. Cole Brothers. Proprietors.

1'10“ SALE—3 yearling Holstein-Friesian bulls. also

bred heifers 8150 to $200 each. Bull calves S40 to $60.

33 ' b eder Photos and pedigrees on appli.
whirl? aVII. r8 Jackson. South Bend. Ind.. 719 Rex St-

——I have for sale a few cows and year‘
“III-ISTEINS ling heilfers iflr'ec}I to JghannahConé
’ ' .theonybu 0 an' wose
giiiiggflgi‘iiige 34.061bs. butter in "Iduys. Also bull
calves and service bulls. L. E. Connell. Fayette. O.

——A fl 6 Guernsey Bull. Old Homestead
For saIe winnldr. Rog. No. 18379. Ready for service.
First 360 takes him. Jas. E. 8kidmorc.Ves-It.nburg.Mich.

FOR Ds—Both sexes and all ages
H ER: for sale. Also Poland-
China hogs. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Mich.

SALE—Reg. St. Lambert. Jerseys.
FOR. Cows and Bulls from high

producing steak. 0. A. BRISTOL, Fenton. Michigan.

BUTTER BRED “Eiv‘fi’frysfgé‘”

YSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
SilvegRCreek. Allergen County. Michigan.

‘ ED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin.
REiirfgs'tihld-Rblood of St. Louis and Chicago World a
Fair Champions by HERMAN HARMS. Reese. Mich.

' — f bred heifers for
Dairy Bred Shorthorns .XIQZEMB 375.00 mu.
Cash or good note. J. B. HUMM . Mason. Mich.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS.

. . 197
In» wussmwrsaa s2. at...
all calves sired by then reatballl.‘ andout of

y of them in fo

B
lendid dairy cows. man teat r
. few homers and heifer calves or
3|; magi-Rf}; description and prices. Satisfaction

sale.
. or mono rofu

 

.mntood n -
‘ 001.016 0. LIL m. Cooper-ville- 1mm

0 I c Fa" Pi S either sex. Pairs not. skin. A few

.- - - g spring males. also booking orders for

grits bred for Iglpring farrow. All atockahlpped C. O. I).
if desired. . '1‘. ORANDELL. Cass City. Mich.

I. Q's—Bonn all sold. Choice young sows weigh-

. ing 1&1. 313060 Aug. &Sept. pigs, either sex, pairs

no akin. Order curly. Fred Nickel. Monroe. Mich.,li.1.

DUROC-JERSEY SOWS bred for Sept. farrow. Also

spring gilta and boars of choicest. breedin at;
right prices. E. R. CORNELL. Ilowell, Illic .

FOR SALE—A fa , '
lluroc Jerseys .. go... needing? ”{v‘l‘l‘mmréi

' ' OE . r
Register oi Merit Jerseys. mid. Pauli
lot. of young bulls from dams with official records
of 483 {Funds and upwards of butter.

. F. MARSTON. Bay City. Michigan.

 

For Sale—Double StandardZPolled Durham Bulls.
. . heifers. and cows. Iam closing out.
“rite for prices. Sanford Gasser. Sherman. Mich.

JERSEY BULLS Hill SALE

Sired by Temisin's Interested Prince 71648, whose dam
made 435 lbs. butter in one year. authenticated test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choice individuals. rices Reasonable. prices. J. A. MITTEER. Stockbridgc. Mich'ga .
BROOKWATEB FARM. ANN ARBOR, Mlllll., ll. F. D. 7. , . I n
BUILEH 8 BIG TYPE P0LlND-CHINIS’3‘:$..§??“$6

l' f llb tS‘A'); 100 ' 1 1 ; '
HOGS‘ iii 5aregiggdi'gd Shrop gsiiggailfiowiisili 1.530893131133835

 

bulls at. SL5 to ‘25: 50 reg. Shrop ewes at 510. W

are the farmer's friend. J. C.Butler. Portland.,Mich°;
——ASK FOR

DU ROG-JERSEY CATALOG.
CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Mich.

FOR SAL —D_UI}OC:JERSEY bred sows.

press prepaid. J. H. IifNiéliiiiiii‘lplifii‘iiiiilrigpil-Iigii-

. ' ' —Growthy B rin Boar's a Giltc
IIIIIOCS &' VICIDIIaS of choicest iiree in from Prize
Winners. M. ’1‘. STORY, It. 248. Lowelfi Michigan.

 

 

' —Sows bred for fall farrow. Boar pigs for
BerkSIllIes fall service. Quality and breeding first-
class. I rlt-eslreasonablo. C. 0. Corey, New Baven.Mich.

‘ ——Bn_v a service Boar now.
BerKShlreS (-lwnp. Other Htock also
for sale. 0. S. BAlt’l‘LE'l'T. Pontiac. Mich.

BERKSHIRE ready for nor-

3 CHOIC BOAR PIGS Vice. Master-

piece? and Premier Longfellow blood—none better.
L. D. WOODBURY. E. Lansing. Michigan.

 

 

 

UROC-JERSEYS—25 fine spring gilts. popular blood lines.
Good indi\'idunls;10 fine hours. 5 bred sows due to
furrow soon. JOHN MchCOL. R. No. 1. North Star. Mich.

ALNUT HILL DUROCS—l'l fancy sow b
. Mich. bcglli for August.d and Se t. farsrowliedltg
, _ .. . _ igs. o sexes. rice ri ht. rite or (3
V\ O Berkshire (ultra. sired by Handsome Prince 3 filing? p ARNE ome
TBlmod for Arig.%fairro\\-ing, will sell at S40 d: S45 8130 B I CO DWA ER. MICHIGAN.
a ow spring pigs e t. A. A. I’ATTLLUO. Deckerville. Mich. _—Lar ' ' ' '
_ gent tn Mtohlgan. Pugs
Berksh- S 0 —-Throo kePGWEeirg‘hYIZOEtoPIYSClb iii)? mali‘linouliISims and
. F. ' III . —
ll'e CPI/ICC Boar I01' sale years “Not how cheap but. how ““39. sWillyrixitgttgx.
old. magnificent specimen. Son of the great Long- ‘

. . ,. ftfhoeo who come on do not. find 'b t. I
follow 8 Duke. Dam by Baron Master lece. None pensego W a ‘ ‘ ‘ ' u. a
better ztfiiéwhcre. For one-third value l’oIi' quick sale. adver lbe‘ ' F. LIVINGSVIUN. Parma, Mmhl

UUEMONT FARMS. Detroit. Mlt‘zh- Poland Chinas—gfira good spring and

MPROVED CHESTER WHITES—Ch ice m n L. w. Bananas SON B jigsasseeem‘" 9'?"
hours of March and April furrow, 01' Will 31mg, ' yron, 8111““ 00.. hitch.

sell llltlloroughbred Holsteln cows to freshen in Se t.
and Oct. IV. 0. Wilson, ()komos. Mich. Both phcngs.

 

 

 

 

 

GLAND CHINA SPRING PIGS f l .
stock. Also dairy bred Shorthiigi-‘tii. (this?) 12253
all ages. prices low. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich:

Big Typc‘P. C. Bears and Sows “flag!

sion. A. A. WOOD 8L SON. Saline. Michigan.
I __ . . ’ ‘,
Poland.Chmas 1A" trades? one Sept. out. bred

_ , . far-r0 . s:
pigs. E. D. BISHOP. Route 38. LukeWOdgisX Bligh-IE

Three Extra Good Fall P. 0. Bears

By Next In Line. 32 spring male pigs read '
I ship . O. D. and furnish pedigree pronipttiygmff
you want good as the best, write me for prices.

WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater, Michigan.
For Saline ERIE]? YORKSIIIRE MARS

ADY FOR SERVICE.
WATERMAN 8e WATERMAN
.r. to the Murray-Waterman Co.. ANN ARBOR. MICE

llllie Farmstead York ' -Ho I w an
Oak Lodge blood predominateghllfifxgg algfimn‘g

 

DAMS BROS” Litchfleld. Mich.. breeders of Imp. Chester
White and Tamworth swine. service boarl. sows bred or
open, of either breed. Shorthorn Cattle, Bufl Rock. Buff Wynn-
dotta, W. Orpmgton. Girls. All breeding stock, leading winners.

FOR SAL E~3 Chester White Boats. for-

rowcd last; March flight in
every wnydalpd tong" fog szrvu-u. Sire winner of 9 first
prizes an am it ‘rnn n i t. , -
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—March igs with unlit d be i-
0. I. C- 'fi‘rees. Order now(1 and ygeIntirstssizhgige.
C. J. HOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan.

PURE 0 l C’s—Brod from prize-winners and

o 0 strains. the nick growthy and
largo type._ Both sexes. not. akin. t. is a )ring furrow.
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- - growthy kind. Right type at furmern’
prices. A. NEWMAN. R. No. 1. Marlette. Michigan.

9 —Bect, quality. I r wth
0. l. C s For Sale up... either .31.” aft: mi
akin. some tine bred llrs. choice lot of faIl plan all
ages. OTTO B. 80 LZE. Nuhvllle. Michigan.

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August furrow. The best he on earth. Satisl tion
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Almost every farmer suffers an
actual money loss much larger
than he realizes, through the rav-
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and granaries.

Concrete foundations for cribs stop
this loss instantly. They are abso-
lutely vermin-proof and practically
everlasting. '

LEHIGH.

PORT LAND
CEMENT

is especially adapted for use on the
farm for silos. water troughs, barns,
etc.. on account of its remarkable
strength and durability.

At least one good dealer in your
town handles LEHIGH. Remember
the name—LEHIGH—and be sure to
ask for LEHIGH. Watch for the LE-
HIGH trade-mark if you want the
best cement for your particular use.

OurFree Book gives you just the in-
formation you want about cement.
A complete manual on the use of con-
crete on the farm. Your name .and
address on a postal or letter brings
It postpaid. Address

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horse-blanket factory in the world—your
dealer buys direct from our factory—cuts out
all middleman's profits and gives the benefit.
The 5A Storm King is large (84x90 inches)
ensures warmthin the coldest weather and
affords perfect comfort. And the 5A Storm
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. show you one. it your dealer cannot supply
1 I you. write us.

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Buy a '5A Square Blanket for sheet
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

LIVE STOCK AWARDS AT THE STATE
FAIR. ' '

[(Conlinued from last week).
CATTLE.
Herefords.

Bull 3 years or over—First, J. H. & J.
W. VanNattu, Lafayette, ind.; 2nd, \V.
'l‘. McCray, Kentuland, lnd.; 3rd, Louis
Norton, Quimhy, Mich.

Senior Yearling Bull-«First, \V.
Cray.

F. Ble-

Junior Yearling Bull—First, J. ll. & J.
\V. VunNatta.

Senior Bull Cull—First, .1. F. McCray;
2nd, .1. .11. 6': .l. W. VunNuttu; 3rd, Louis
Norton.

Junior Bull Cult'v~First, .1. ll. & J. \V.

VanNaIlu; 2nd, W. ’.l.‘. McCray; 3rd, Louis
Norton.

Cow 3 years or over—First, .1. ll. & J.
\Y. VunNuttu; 2nd. W. '1‘. McCray; 3rd
and 4th. Louis Norton.

Heifer 2 yeurs——i“irst, J. H. & J. \V.

VanNutiu; 2nd, \‘\'. T. McCray; 3rd, Louis
Norton.

Senior Your-ling" Heifer——First, J. H. 6’;
J. XV. \'unNuttu; 2nd, W. T. McCray; 3rd,
Louis Norton.

Junior Yearling Heifer—First, \V. ’l‘.
McCray: 2nd, .I. ll. & .l. \V. VanNutla;
3rd, Louis Norton.

Senior ,l'loil‘or Culf——First, \V. '1‘. MC-
Cray.

Junior lleil'vr Calf—First and 2nd. J.
H. &, J. W. \‘unNultu; 3rd, \V. T. Mc-
Cray; 4th und 5th, Louis Norton.

Exhibitor‘s Herd—“First. .1. i1. & .l. \V.

\‘anNaItu: 2nd, \V.
Norton.

Breeder's I'lerd—First, .1. l1. & J. \V.
VanNuttu; 2nd, W. '1‘. McCray; 3rd, Louis
Norton.

Four gel of sire~ First, .l'. H. & J. \V.
‘VanNuttu: 2nd, W. ’I‘. McCray; 3rd, Louis
Norton.

’1‘. MCCruy; 3rd, Louis

Senior Chumpion linil~~liibbon budge,
J. H. & .I. W. \'un.\'ullu.

.lunior Champion linll »llil)l)on budge,
\V. 'l‘. McCray.

Seniur Chump. Fomulc~ltihhon budge,
J. H. & .i. \\'. \‘unNullu.

Junior Chump. Fomule rltihhon badge,
J. H. & .l. \\'. \'unNulIu.

Grand Champion Bull ~Cup, J. H. & J.
\V. \‘unNultu.

Grand Champion Fomulo Cup, J. lei. &
J. \V. \‘unNuilu.

Shorthorn Steers.

Steer 2 yours old or ovl'r First and 4th,
Carpenlor & lioss, Munstivld. 0.; 2nd, J.
Lessiter's Sons, (‘lurkslon, Mir-11.; 3rd, L.

C. Kelly. Ypsilunli. Mich. »

Steer 1 your :Ind undor :1~First and
2nd. Curponlor .K’v Ross: :lrd, Lessiter’s
Sons: 4th. i.. C. livlly.

Steer under l your" First. Curpenter &
Ross: 2nd, liossilor's Sons; 3rd. L. C.
Kelly.

. Chumpion SloorwCurm‘nlor & Ross.

SHEEP.
Rambouillet.

Ham :3 yours or over. First and 2nd,
F. S. King Bros, Lurumio, \\'yo.; 3rd, A.
1.; Green. ()rohurd Luke. Mich; 4th. E.

M. Moore, \\‘ixom, Mich.: 51h, l’. C. Free-

man &- Son, Lowell, Mir-h.

.Ium 1 your o1d-—-~1<‘irsi. 2nd and 4th, F.
S. King: 3rd, .\. ill. (lrel-n; 5th, 1’. C.
Freemun A‘v Son.

Rum liumlr rFirst und 5th, F. S. King;

2nd und 11h, l‘. C. Freeman; 3rd, E. M.
.llooro.

liwo it yours und over—First, 2nd and
Eli‘dnli‘. S. King; 1111i, 1’. C. Freeman; 5th,
A. .l-l. (h'oon.

lu'wo l _\I".ll' olllv Ii‘Il'Sl, 2nd and 4th, F.
S. King: :lrd, 1‘. C. li‘reemun; 5th, P. C.
Freemun.

Ewe Lumh .Firsl, F. S. King; 2nd and
4th, 1‘. C. Freeman; 3rd: John E. \Vebb,
Sonthport. 1nd; 51h. ll]. M. Moore.

Flock rli‘irsi, F. S. King; 2nd, P. C.
Froemun: 3rd. 19. M. Moore; 4th, A. E.
Green: 51h. .lohn ll). \\'ebb.

Four Luinhsm—li‘irsi‘, F. S. King; 2nd,
1’. C. Freeman; 3rd, ll}. M. Moore; 4th,
.lohn 1'). Webb; 5th, A. 1*]. Green. '

(.lruini Chumpion RumiCup, F. S.
King.

(lrund (.‘humpion Ewe—Cup, F. S.
King.

Hampshire Down.
lium 2 yours or ovei‘~~First, \Vm. Coop-

er a“ Nophows. Chicugo, 111.; 2nd, C. O.
.lndd. Hunt. Hhio.

Rum 1 your o1d~-First and 2nd, C. O.
Judd: 3rd. (‘oopor it: Nephews.

Rum 1.21mi) First unll 4th. C. (l. Judd;
2nd and 3rd. Cooper & Nephews; 5th, l“.
‘~.\’. Hui-ding. \\'uul<eshu. \\'is.

lin'o :3 yours or (Worm-First and 2nd. C.
0. Judd: Ill-d. Cooper 8; Nephews; 4th,
11. 11. Cherry, Xoniu, Ohio: 5111, F. \V.
llurding.

llln'e 1 your old~AFirst und 4th, Cooper

& Nophows: 3nd and 3rd, C. 0. Judd; 5th,

F. \\'. llurding.

I‘lwo Lump First and 3rd. C. 0. Judd;
2nd. Coopm‘ 6‘; Nephews; Alih and 5th, F.
\V. Harding.

Flocly'wli‘irsl, C. O. Judd; 2nd. Cooper
& Nophows: 3rd. F. \\'. Harding.

Four lulmhsn—Firsi. C. (l. Judd: 2nd,
Cooper & Nophews; .‘lrd, F. '\\'. llurding.

(lrund Chumpion Rum—Cup, Cooper &
Nophews.

Irund Champion lllwowCup, Cooper &

Nephews.
Horned Dorsets.
Ram 2 years old or oven—First, H. H.

Cherry. Xenia, Ohio; 2nd, '\\'m. Newton,
Pontiac.

Ham 1 year old—First, H. H. Cherry;
2nd, “'m. Newton.

Ham Lamb—First and 2nd, H. H. Cher-
ry: 3rd, Wm. Newton.

Ewe 2 years old or over—First and 2d,
H. H. Cherry; 3rd, Wm. Newton.

Ewe 1 year old—First and 2nd, H. H.
Cherry; 3rd, TVm. Newton.

Ewe Lamb—1st, 2nd and 3rd, H. H.
Cherry; 4th, Wm. Newton.

Flock—First, H. H. Cherry; 2nd, Wm.
Newton.

Four Lambs—First, H. H. Cherry; 2nd,
Wm. Newton.

Grand Champion Ram—Cup, 'H. H.

Cherry.

Grand Champion Ewe—Cup, 1-1.. H.
Cherry.
Southdowns.

Ram 2 years old or over—First, Chas.

Leet. Mantua, Ohio; 2nd, J. Lloyd Jones,
Burford, Ont; 3d, Wm. Newton, Pontiac.
Ham 1 year old—First, Chas. Leet; 2nd,
J. Lloyd Jones; 3rd, Wm. Newton.
Ram Lamb—First, Chas. Leet; 2nd and
3rd, J. Lloyd Jones; 4th, Wm. Newton.

Ewe 2 years or over—First, J. Lloyd
.lonos; 2nd and 3rd, Chas. Leet; 4th, ‘Wm.
Newton.

lee 1 years old—First and 2nd, Chas.
Leet; 3rd and 4th, J. Lloyd Jones; 5th,
\\'m. Newton.

I‘on Lamb—First and 2nd, Chas. Leet;
3rd und 4111, J. Lloyd Jones; 5th, \Vm.
Newton.

Flock~First, Chas. Leet; 2nd, J. Lloyd
Jones: 3rd, \Vm. Newton.

Four Lambs—First, Chas. Leet; 2nd, J.
Lloyd Jones; 3rd, \Vm. Newton.

Grand Champion Ram—Cup, Charles
Leet.
Grand Champion Ewe—Cup, Charles
Loot.

HORSES.

Belgian.

Stallion -1 years or over—First, XV. W.
Collier, l’ontiac; 2nd, Bell Bros; \Vooster,
()hio.

Stallion 3 years———First, 2nd and 3rd,
Boll Bros.

Stallion 2 years—First and 2nd, Bell
Bros.

Mare 4 yours or oven—First and 2nd,
\\'. \\'. Collier. .

Mare 2 years old—First, Bell Bros.

Champion Stallion—~Cup, Bell Bros.

Champion Mare—Cup, .llell Bros.

American Carriage.

Stallion 4 years or over—First, \V. \V.
Collier, Pontiac; 2nd, .I. 11. Psalm & Son,
\\'inchester, 111.; 3rd, G. '\\'. Slaughter,
Detroit: 4th, \Vm. Bowermun, Jackson.

Stallion 3 years old and under 4-First,

l’eake & Son; 2nd, \Vm. Bowermun; 3rd
und 4th, (1. \\'. Slaughter.
Smilimi 2 years or under 3—First, \V.

W. Collier; 2nd und 3rd, Ferrite & Son.
Stallion 1 your old und under 2—~First,
2nd und 3rd, \\'. \V. Collier; 4th, Peake &
Son. .
Stallion Colthirst, \V. \Y. Collier.
Mare 4 years old or over—First and 4th.
l‘eulte 8: Son; 2nd, G. \\'. Slaughter; 3rd,

 

'\\'. \\'. Collior.

M'ure P. years old and under 4 First,
W. W. Collier; 2nd, C. J. Buchanon, In-
diunupolis, 1nd,; 3rd, Peake & Son; 4th,
F. L}. Korhy, llelroit.

Mare 2 yours and under 3—Firsl‘, W.

\V. Collier; 2nd and 3rd, I’eake & Son.
Mare 1 your and under 2—First, Peake
&. Son; Lind, \\'. \V. Collier.
Filly Colt—--l4‘irst, W. \V. Collier.
Stallion with 4 of his get of either sex
—First, l’eake & Son.
Mare and 2 of her 1)roduqe——Flrst and
2nd, \V. \V. Collier.

Champion Stallion‘kCup, XV. \V. Collier.
Champion Mare-«Cup, i’eake & Son.
Ciydesdaies.

Stullion -1 yours old or over—First, Geo.
Ackerman & Son, llllkton, Mich.; 2nd, A.

ll. Haynes, Applegute, Mich.
Stallion 3 yours oldflFirst, Endicott
.Furms, Birmingham, Mich.; 2nd, Aoker—

mun 8: Son.

Stullion 1 your old—First, Ackermun &
Son.

Slullion Colt~First, Ackermun. & Son.

 

 

Iiiurv 4 years old or over—First, 2nd
and 3rd. .\(-kermun & Son.
)luro 1 your old~—.\(-kermun 6‘: Son.
Muro Coll First, Ackermun & Son; 2d
and :lrd, 141ndioott. Farms.
Stullion and his 4 got—Ji‘irst, Ackerman
& Sill].
Mure with 2 of her produce— First, Ack-
ermun & Son.
Champion Stullion—Cup, Ackormun &
Son.
Champion Mare Cup, Aclterman &
Son.
English Shire.
Stallion 3 yours old First, Bell Bros;
2nd, Miller & Singor, \\'yundotte, Mich.
Champion Sizillioanllp, Bell Bros.
Heavy Draft Mares and Geldings.
Mure or gelding.r It yours old or over,

shown in hurnvss rli‘irsl, 2d, 3rd und 41h.
.\(-kermun & Son.

Mare or gelding fl yours old, shown in
llzll‘lit‘SSA—li‘ll‘Si, .\<‘1\'(‘srmun & Son.

Muro or geldinngirsl, Achermun &
Son: 2nd, ltir-hurd Muirhoud.
Mure or gelding l your old—First
2nd. .\(‘kermun 8:. Son.
Filly or Stullion (‘oll~¥l“ll‘Sl,
Farms: 2nd, Ackormun & Son.
Brood Muro with (‘olt under 3 yoursi
First, 2nd and 3rd. Arkorman &, Son; 1111,
lindicoll Furms.
Four grade (‘olts uny utter—First, Ark-
ormun & Son.
I’uir houvy drufl horsos
'I‘VlI‘Sl und 2nd, .\<‘k(-rmun
l‘JlNllOoit Forms.
Shetland Ponies—Breeding Stock.

Slullion .‘i yours or ovorlFirst, 2nd and

a nd

Endicott

over 1,500 lbs.
& Son; 3rd.

3rd. C. 1‘}. iunn, l’ooriu, 111.; lth, Stony—
l-roi‘t Furms, l’ontiuc.

Slullion 2 years old—First and 2nd, C.
1'). Bonn.

Stallion ‘1 your oldv—Firsl and 2nd, C.

1‘). lhmn.
Stullion ("oil—First und 2nd, Stonycroft
Furms.

Muro '2 yours or ovor with (roll under
2 years—First, 2nd and 3rd, C. lu‘. Bunn;
41h, Stonyoroft Farms.

Mare 2 years old—~First and 2nd, C. E.
Bunn: 3rd, it. .I. 11211], Detroit.
More 1 your old—First and 2nd, C. E,
Bunn.
Mare Colt—First,
Stonyvroft Farms.
Percherons.

C. E. Bunn; 2nd,

Stallion 4 years or over—First and 2nd,
Bell Bros.

Stallion 3 years—First and 2nd, Bell
Bros.

Stallion 2 years—First, 2nd and 3rd,

Bell Bros.
Mare 3 years old——First, Bell Bros. -
Mare 2 years old—First, Bell Bros.
Percheron Special.
Best five stallions—First, Bell Bros.
Champion Stallion—First, Bell Bros.
Champion Mare—First, Bell Bros.

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claim—take empty bottle back and get your money.

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Natives digging and loading asphalt at Trinidad Lake

Genasco is the roofing of
the age. lts foundation has
stood for ages past.

It beats shingles. They warp,
crack, split, and rot—more so now
than ever before (lumber is get-
ting scarcer, and shingle-quality
is becoming poorer every year).

Beats tin, which rusts and needs
painting regularly. And even with
paint tin doesn’t last like it used to
-—qua1ity has deteriorated here,
also.

Coal tar has the same old faults
it has always had—gets soft and
melts in the summer sun, and gets
brittle and cracks in the cold, and
leaks.

Genasco

the Trinidad-Lake-Asphalt Roofing

is the one roofing that lasts. It is made
of Nature 5 everlasting waterprooier.

Trinidad Lake Asphalt has withstood
the suns and storms of centuries; and

' in Genasco it gives the same lasting re-
sistance to sun, rain, snow, wmd heat,
cold-—-and even fire.

The oily nature of this natural asphalt
keeps Genasco alive and strong to de-
fend itself; and this is why Genasco is
lastingly waterproof.

The Kant-leak Kleet waterproofs the
seams of Genasco without cement, and
prevents nail- leaks besides. It gives
the roof an attractive appearance.

Ask your dealer for Genasco mineral
or smooth surface Roofings with Kant-
leak Kleets packed in the roll. Guar-
anteed, of course. Write us for samples
and the Good Roof Guide Book.

The Barber Asphalt
Paving Company

Largest producers of asphalt, and largest
manufsonusrs of ready roofing in the world.

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HEDMWY

CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.

 

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THE COST OF PRODUCING CLEAN
MILK.

 

The movement is general for the pro-
duction of better milk to supply our great
centers of population. The National De-
partment of Agriculture, the different
State Departments, and the Boards of
Health of the states and cities have all
been investigating, publishing suggestions,
influencing legislation, and enforcing or-
dinances and statutes for the purpose
of getting to the public a product that is
more suited to conserve health and please
the palate. But while the varied sug-
gestions are made to farmers to clean up
their barns and premises and conditions
are forced upon them by legislative
enactment, when the farmer attempts to
charge the city patrons for the additional
work demanded of him in order that he
may deliver his milk, there is general de—
nunciation of his greedy nature. And
this raises the question, “How much
much should the farmer receive for the
extra expense incurred in the production
of clean milk?"

Little work has been done to furnish
accurate statements regarding the in-
creased cost of producing milk of a sani-
tary nature over the cost of producing
the ordinary kind. The United States
Department of Agriculture has recently
undertaken to learn how much extra a
farmer should receive to cover the ad-
ditional cost. A system of scoring dairies
has been instituted by the department
and it has been determined that to in-
crease the score of a dairy from 42 points
to approximately 70 points, where 15 cows
are kcpl, an added expense of about five
calls per ("UVV' per day for labor and, in
extreme. cnzscs, five and one-half cents for
ncw and additional equipment is re-
ouircd. To this should probably be added
five cents more to remunerate the pro-
pricior for his cxtra care, which makes
an additional~increase of from 15 to 151,4
cents per cow per day for producing milk
under modern sanitary conditions. The
avcragc. cow produces from five to twelve
quarts of milk per day. The additional
expense would therefore be from one to
three cents a quart. The larger the
amount cf milk produced by a cow the
less would be the additional cost per
quart. From these figures it would seem
that under, average conditions and with
avoragc cows, reasonably clean milk
would cost around two cents more per
quart than slovenly milk.

Tl'ould it be reasonable for any farmer
to charge the city man this additional
two cents per quart for the milk he fur-
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pure milk is worth more. It is cheaper
for me consumer, for it better conserves
health and is certainly much more pala-
table to him and his family than is the
product which contains bacteria and dirt
of all kinds. Dirty milk ought not to be
considered as a merchantable article at
any price no matter how low it may be
sold. Indiana has a statute prohibiting
the sale of milk in which a sediment can
be found. It would seem that such a law
is commendable but when the farmer is
requ1red to produce a better quality of
milk he should be paid for the additional
labor and it seems that two cents
per quart would measure approximately
the additional cost of milk produced un-
der modern sanitary conditions.

 

A RECORD WHICH SHOWS THE POS-
SIBILITIES IN DEVELOPING A

DAIRY HERD.

McKinney, proprietors of
Meridale Farms, located in Delaware
county, New York, have attained notable
results in their efforts to make their
herd return a profit at the pail and
churn. There are now in this herd, 97
cows which have qualified for the Ameri-
can Jersey Cattle Club Register of Merit,
in a year's authenticated work. These
averaged for the year. 7,596 lbs. of milk,
with an average of 5.306 pcr cent butter-
fat, and 462.33 lbs. of butter per cow.
In these 97 are included 44 which are
less than four years old, 42 between the
ages of four and ten years. and 11 ani-
als ranging in age from 10 to 18 years.
The 42 cows in their prime averaged
8,497 lbs. of milk and 510.7 lbs. of butter
per cow. The 11 cows over ten years of
age averaged 7,979 lbs. of milk and 491
lbs. of butter. The 44 youngsters aver-
aged 6,640 lbs. of milk, 409 lbs. of butter.

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, each.

.these produced 14,192 lbs.

‘02! these 44,17 were heifers with first

calf. and these produced 104,586 lbs. of
milk, 6,352 lbs. of butter, an average of
6,152 lbs. of 111111: and 373 lbs. of butter
Two of these were but two years
old at the beginning of the test, and
of milk, 780
lbs. of butter, an average of 7,096 lbs. of
milk and 390 lbs. of butter. or the ani-
mals under four years of age, 18 ex-
ceeded by 62 lbs. per cow, the highest
Register of Merit butter- fat requirement
for any age. In their year’s work, 69
cows exceeded an average of 500 lbs. of
butter per cow. Their average milk pro-
duction was 8,210 lbs. per cow, with an
average of 5.306 per cent of butter—fat.
Eleven cows produced over 600 lbs. of
butter per cow during the year; their
average being 10,017 lbs. of .milk, and
603 lbs. of butter per cow.

 

THE NATIONAL DARIY SHOW.

 

Announcements are at hand for the
1911 annual meeting of the National Dairy
Show, to be held in Chicago from October
26 to November 4. It will pay every
dairyman and all who are interested in
the dairy business, directly or indirectly,
to attend this great national exhibition
of dairy cattle, dairy products, dairy ma-
chinery and general dairy educational
exhibits. Dairymen can find no better
place to study the conformation of dairy
cattle than here. Over 1,000'herd of the
very best milch cows in the country will
be on exhibition; all the pure—bred asso-
ciations will have booths, from which lit-
erature will be distributed regarding their
respective breeds. Here the farmer and
dairyman will be able to see and meet the
world’s leading dairy authorities. Lec-
tures will be given on dairy products; ob-
ject lessons will be presented showing
how to care for and market dairy pro-
ducts with increased profits; a pure milk
exposition will consitute a part of this
division of the show. There will be en-
tries to the milk, butter and cheese con-
tests from all states in the T‘nion. The
latest inventions in the line of dairy ma-
chinery and supplies, together with farm
lighting plants, automobiles and auto
trucks, will be displayed for the benefit
of the patrons.

The T‘nited States Government and Ag-

ricultural Collcges are planning to carry
on demonstrations showing how to build
barns and silos, plan crop rotations, bal-
ance rations and grow alfalfa. Here will
be an opportunity to discover how feeds
can be utilized more economically. En-
tertainment features of a very high class
will add interest to the show. In all, it
seems that the splendid program arranged
should meet a general response from men
and women concerned in the dairy busi-
ness.
GUERNSEY CATTLE AWARDS AT
STATE FAIR.

 

Following are the awards for Guernsey
cattle which were not available for pub-
lication in our last issue with those for
other dairy breeds:

'llull 3 \cars 01 over—First, W. F. Bar-
bour,Bii1ningham, Mich; 2nd and 4th, A.
\V. & 11‘. ll. l1‘ox \\ aukesha, \Vis.; 3rd,
\V. S. "Dixon, irzmdon, \l'is.

Bull 3 years old—l1“. rst, A. W. & F E-
Fox: 211d, M. 'l‘. lhillips,P01ner0y, Pa

Yearling liull—~First, A. W. & F. E.
Fox; 2nd \\ 11‘. Barboui.

Senior Bull Calf—First,
2nd, \\. 11‘. Ba1bour;
& 11‘. E. Fox.

.lunio1 Bull Calf~l1‘irst, W. F. Barbour.

Cow 4 years or ovei—First and 3rd,
\\'.l1‘. Barbou1;2nd and 4th, A. W. & F
11}. l1‘ox;51h, \V. S. Dixon.

Cow 3 years old First, A. W. & F. E-
110x; 2nd, \V I". Barboui.

llcifer 2 vears old—FiIst and 5th, W.
11‘. Balbour; 3nd and 4th, A. \V. & 11‘ E.
11‘;0x 3rd, \V. S. Dixon.

Yearling Heifer—First and 4th,
8.: F. E. i10x; 211d, \V.
5th, W. F. Balbour.

Senior lleifer Calf~First and 2nd, “’
S Dixon; 31d and ith, A. \V. & F. 11‘.
110x.

Junior Heifer Calf—First and 5th, XV.
F. Barbour; 2nd, W. S. Dixon; 3rd, A. \V.
& F. E. Fox.

'l1lxhibtor’s }lerd~11‘irst, W. F. Barbour;
2nd, A. W. & 11‘. JG. Fox; 3rd, \V. S.
Dixon.

Breeder’s Iicrd~A. \V. & F. '11]. Fox.

Calf Herd—A. W. & F. E. Fox.

Four get of sire--I1‘lrst, A. W. & F. E.
Fox; 2nd, \V. F. Barbour.

W. S. Dixon;
3rd and 4th, A. \V.

 

A. W.
S. Dixon, 3rd and

Two produce of Cow—First, A. W. &
l1‘. 113. Fox; 2nd, W. 11‘. Barbour; 3rd, W.
S. Dixon.

Senior Champion Bull—Ribbon badge,
W. 11‘. Barbour.

Junior Champion Bulk—Ribbon badge,

A. \V. & 11‘. E. FOX.
Senior Champ. Female—Ribbon badge,
’VV. 11‘. Barbour.
Junior Champ.
W. F. Barbour.
Grand Champion Bull—Cup, W. F. Bar-

our.
Grand Champion Female-Cup. W. F.
Barbour.

Female—Ribbon badge.

”OCT. 7. 1911. ‘_ ,'

 

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OCT. 7. 1911.
AUTUMN DAIRY PROBLEMS.

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At this season of the year it will _pay
every dairyman to take an inventory of
his home-grown feeds and the number of
cows he expects to feed during the win-

‘ter. He knows approximately the amount

of home-grown feeds he will have and
whether his hay is good or indifferent.
If it was out early and properly cured it
is good; but if it stood until too late it
will not have nearly the feeding value'of
that cut at the proper time. He knows
the amount of hay he has in his barns.
He. knows the amount of ensilage, fodder
and straw he can profitably use. He
knows the number of cows in his herd
that are worth keeping over for another
year. '

The profits from his farming for the
coming year will depend in a large meas-
ure upon how he begins the year, or in
other words, how he balances his feeds
and the kind of cows he keeps on his
farm. If he has nothing but corn fodder
and timothy hay for roughage, it will
pay him to sell the timothy hay and buy
some clover or alfalfa if he can; or, if
not he had better use his corn fodder
to the best possible advantage and buy
supplemental protein feeds. Cows can-
not do their best on timothy hay and
corn fodder, as so many cows are fed.
\‘Vhen these feeds make up the bulk of
the roughage they should be fed with
protein feeds that will make up the de-
ficiency of milk-making elements. Pro-
tein is needed to build up the blood, bone
and muscles. Every part of the body
but the fat is made out of protein in
combination with mineral matter and
water. Corn fodder and timothy do not
contain the needed amount of protein to
enable the cow to give a satisfactory
yield of milk. It is better to sell some of
the cows than to try and keep the whole
herd through the winter on corn fodder
and timothy hay.

Dairy cows will maintain a good flesh
condition and give some milk if fed
plenty of corn ensilage and good clover
hay. If we do not have clover, or alfalfa
hay, we will have to buy some kind of
supplementary protein feeds to~furnish
the necessary amount of that element.
Youngcattle will need practically the
same kind of foods as milch cows. They
are not laying on fat, but growing. They
need the kinds of feed that will keep
them growing and hardy and enable them
to make. a good growth the next summer
when turned out to pasture. It will be
better to sell some of the timothy hay
and buy a little bran and oil meal for
the young stock and milch cows. Feed
is high but we must use it in proper
combinations to maintain a suitable
milk flow and keep young stock 'in a.
thrifty, growing condition.

Situated as I am, in the business of
producing milk for the city trade and
depending upon purchased cows for use
in my herd I have an opportunity to
study the dairying conditions on many
farms where I go to select my new cows.
As a rule I buy new cows in the fall be-
cause we plan to make more milk during
the winter and because it is possible to
buy good cows for less money in the sec-
tions where I buy them than in the
spring. Then again, we do not have
enough pasture land to keep extra cows
during the summer and autumn months.

it seems almost incredible in these days
that so many dairymen will neglect their
cows during this critical time of the
year. There is no possibility of any man
making a success of. the dairy business
if he allows his cows to fall away in
milk yields and flesh condition during the
i'all months. By keeping dairy cows in
a drouth-stricken pasture, in a state of
famine and starvation, so that you can
see the full number of ribs in their bod-
ice, the very condition of the animal is
changed before it goes into the stable for
winter. Every time I have bought a
bunch of these run down cows late in the
fall and tried to bring them to life I have
lost money. Looked at from every side
of the qtiestion the fall care of the dairy
herd is one of the most vital factors in
determining the profits for the year. Any
practical dairy farmer, who has good
natural pastures, can buy cows that are
in comparatively low flesh during the
spring and get something out of them
during the summer but the cow that goes
into the stable at the beginning of the
winter in a run down, emaciated condi-
tion is about as hopeless a proposition as
I know of.

No cow is going to produce a satisfac-
tory flow of milk when her system is run
down and her circulation and skin are
out of condition. No matter how good
feeds you have or how well you propor-

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. (7)

tion them\ it requires four or five months
time to get such cows in good working
condition and that means a loss of time
and many dollars worth of high priced
grain foods before we can begin to get
any profit out of them. “’e must have
evenly balanced cows as well as evenly
balanced rations to begin the winter with
if we realize a profit from our business.

The question of handling new cows that
are brought onto the farm in the fall
and fed heavily for milk production in
the winter needs study and attention. As
a rule I prefer to buy new cows from
dairy farmers who keep their cows in
good condition and do not feed heavy
rations of grain foOds. These new cows
all have an individuality of their own
and We should study them and get ac-
quainted with it as soon as possible. By
making inquiries as to their subsequent
care and food we can plan our manage-
ment so as to get them settled down to
the new conditions as quickly as pos-
sible. Then we can gradually change
their rations until they can make. a. prop-
er use of a full ration of grain and rough-
age without danger of upsetting their
digestion.

The cow’s habits and eccentricitics de-
pend a great deal upon how she has been
treated and she should be watched at
.the start and given sensible treatment
until she settles down to the new order
of things. It requires patience and com-
mon sense to buy new cows and get them
to start off well under new surroundings
and conditions, but the. little extra care
and thoughtfulness pays big returns.

It requires skillful farm management
to have plenty of available feeds to carry
the cows through the autumn months in
good condition. Grass does not grow
rapidly after cold weather comes and
what does grow contains but little nour-

ishment. The (airy farmer who plans
to have plenty of supplemental green~
foods available ‘at this season is wise

indeed, but wiser still is the farmer who
grows enough ensilage so that he can
open one silo and begin feeding his
cows as soon as other fall feeds begin to
deteriorate. ,

The next best feed after ensilage is
oats and peas sowed during July and
cut and hauled to the stable and fed.
To make the best use of oats and peas
they should be cut and fed when in the
milk stage of the oats and this will re-
quire that we sow at various times so
that one plot will be ready to feed as
soon as it is needed for feeding. I gen-
erally sow one bushel of cats with one—
half bushel of peas in each one-third
acre plot. With the exception of alfalfa
there is no kind of feed superior to this
mixture. to keep up the flow of milk and
keep the cows in good condition.

For early fall feeding there is nothing
that will be eaten with more relish and
give better results than sweet corn. This
may be put in with a grain drill by
closing all but three holes and it will
make a. good growth and furnish many
ears which will add to its value as a food
for the cows. Sweet corn is a very pal-
atable. feed and cows will eat large quan-
tities of it, in many cases enough to
make up for the shortage of pasture
grass. .

Keeping the cows comfortable is an—
other neglectcd point in the management
of the herd during the fall months. As
soon as the cold nights come the cows
should be‘ kept inside every night, but i
think it best to allow them to run out

 

 

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whenever the weather is favorable in the?

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weather and the comparatively short
season of pasture life makes it desirable
for the cows to be out and get all the
good air and sunshine possible during
the. year. If we allow the cows, more
particularly the young heifers, to become
dry early in the fall we are cultivating
a. habit that is very hard to overcome,
for once a heifer or cow is allowed to go
dry after being milked a few months it
is very hard to make her continue the
period for a longer time after she again
freshens. Training as well as the meth-
ods of breeding and feeding influence the
cow‘s usefulness. W. MILTON KELLY.

 

Dr. Harvey \V. Wiley, of the Bureau of~
“There has lately I

Animal Industry, says:
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churning butter so as to hold more water. i

and people are going around the country
today selling preparations and apparatus

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to innocent farmers who do not know!

that they are violating the law. They
say, ‘I will make you three pounds of but-
ter where you are now making only two.’
They do this either by adding to the
cream some drug like enzyme, which in-
corporates a lot of casein and water into
the butter, or by a process of churning
which mechanically incorporates the wat-
er in the butter. We have been engaged
in studying those methods and warning
the farmers against them.”

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a roofing that can be left out in the
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The Wearing surface is mineral
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coating of pitch and never ne
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We shall be glad to send on a
sample of Amatite free of c arge
if‘ you will send a postal request
for it to our nearest office. The
sample will Show you what the
mineral surface is like.

Everjet Elastic Paint

A lustrous carbon black paint, very
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Tin makes a. good roof iffyou
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Canvas makes a goon roof {ff/oat
paint it.

Any felt makes a good roof of
you paint it.

Even paper makes a good roof
ifyou paint it.

. But Amatite makes a good roof
if you DON’ T paint it.

On a painted roof, the paint is
what. gives the real protection.
The rest of it has no function
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cracks, to which the paint can be
applied. Anything which has
strength enough to keep the wind
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Amatite Roofing, however, needs
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them into coats (for men or women)
robes. rugs or gloves when so

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ver and we pay the freight both ways.

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THE ' MICHIGAN ’ fiARMER.

‘ POULTRY 3

MAMA—LAMA“

A SHAPING up THE LAYING FLOCK.

If the culling out of old .and undesirable
hens has not yet been done this task
should not be longer delayed. As a gen-
eral rule it is best to do this culling be-
fore the moulting period begins, as many
of the old fowls are in fair market condi-
tion at that time, but, after moulting, it
will require considerable grain to bring
them back to that condition in case it is
thought inadvisable to risk their produc-
ing eggs at a profit during the coming
winter. Losses can be traced directly to
this failure to dispose of questionable
hens at the right time. For some time
old hens have been bringing 10@llc per
11)., wiih a good demand, and, so long as
there is a doubt about their ability to
make good as winter layers, it does not
pay to hold them over and fatten them,
after the moon. on high-priced grain.
Another reason why many flocks fall to
bring in greater returns to their owners
is that many hens, too old to make a liv-
ing, are kept year after year. It takes
courage. to be “sure, to dispose of so
many likely looking hens. but it is neces-
sary if we are to realize the greatest
amount of profit. Farmers, usually, have
no means of telling the very old hens
from the yearlings or two-year—olds. This
can be simplied if they will take the
trouble to mark them each year. Leg
bands are cheap and, if placed on the
feeds“ legs loosely. can be used over and
over. An easy way to distinguish the
age of hens is by changing the bands on
the legs. The first year place the band
on the left leg; the second year remove
and place on the right leg; the third year
one can be placed on each leg. This is as
long as it is desirable to keep hens. Then
when the hens are to be marketed they
can be selected according to their age
without the liability of unintentionally
selling the year-hugs. O. E. HACHHAN.

 

IN ANSWER TO
Dry Mash—Height of Perches.

VVili someone who has had good results
from keeping a dry mash before laying
hens kindly advise as to the composition
of the same?

I would also like information as to
proper height of perches from floor. I
have placed droppings platform 2 ft.
from floor (which is of wood), and the
lowest perch is 2 it. above the platform.
the highest being 2% ft. I have been told
that Plymouth Rock hens will injure
themselves in jumping from this height.

Saginaw Co. F. C. H.

It is hoped that readers who have
adopted the hopper system of feeding a
dry mash to their layers will respond to
the above request. Meanwhile it may be
said that this system of feeding appears
to be giving general satisfaction wherever
tried. At the Maine station hoppers or
protected troughs containing a dry man
are constantly within reach of the lay-
ers. The mash used there is composed of
the following products, mixed in the pro-
portions stated by weight: Wheat bran,

INQUIRIES.

2 parts; cornmeal, 1 part; middlings, 1
part; gluten meal, 1 part; linseed meal,
1 part; beef scrap, 1 part. Brewers’

grains are sometimes substituted for glu-
ten meal in this mash. Oyster shell, dry
cracked bone, grit and charcoal form an-
other mixture thich is always before the
hens in other hoppers. .In addition to the
dry mash, however. the hens receive var-
ious kinds of green or succulent food,
chopped clover and some whole grain fed
in the litter.

The average height recommended for
perches is about 3 ft. The danger of in-
jury depends largely upon the kind of

lLll'i- of the floor and whether it is kept
well covered with litter. Fowls of the
m('{ll breeds. which are always hcnvy and
more or less clumsy, should have lower

fowls kept, and somewhat upon the na—!

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run and arrives on hme.

Foreign railroad men marvel at the
reliability of American train service.
Thqdonotrealise the character of the
American railroad employee—his acute
sense of time—smith: watch he carries.

The HOWARD Watch is railroad
standard-fiddly certified and adopt-
ed by the Time Inspectors of 180 leading
American railroads. .

Its adjustment is so finely accusto—
its special herd-tempered balance and
its sturdy pivots run so true under jolt
and vibration.

These are the crucial'points where the
ordinary watch goes back on its owner—

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Send us your name on a postal card and we will send you—FREE—
' our pamphlet—THE STORY OF EDWARD HOWARD AND
THE FIRST AMERICAN WATCH. It Is a chapter of History
that every man and boy" :11 this country should read.

E. HOWARD WATCH WORKS

the jar of driving over rough roads, or
even of walking, knocks it out of true.

A HOWARD Watch is always worth
whatyoupavforit. Itistheonly watch
that has a real investment value—and
about the only one there is any dietinc~
tion in carrying.

The price of each watch—from the
"~de (double rolls!) in a Crescent or
Bougoid-filledcaseatflOtothe
Eli-jewel in a 14K solid cold case at $150
—-ie fixed at the factory and a printed
ticket attached.

Find the HOWARD jeweler in your
town. When a man makes a permanent
investment like the purchase of a
HOWARD Watch be naturally wants
to see what he is buying—he wants to
get: the dealer’s expert advice. The
HOWARD Watch is sold only by legiti-
mate jeweler-and not every jeweler
can sell you a HOWARD. The jeweler
who can is a representative merchant-
a good man to know.

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._ A LollDIN ”ml CARRIER changes barn drudgery into child‘ a play.
With wonderful worm gear (an exclusive London feature ”Ind
sell oacha isliiis 40
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load automatically and returns to you.

pounds is baa—boy can hoist half a ton.

imr heap, wherever you went in dumps

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Keeps barns clean and sanitary—Keeps cows healthy—they. willlfivc
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lsudens soeciai

. ducts I beautiful. lasting finish. Looks clean—easy to keep clean—
never tuna—lasts much longer than ordinary hot process galvanizing.
Our 40yesrs experience in fitting barns is at your service for the asking.
Hand your dealer a rough around plan oi your barn, and ask him to

mail it to us for rice. Th
on't accept
good. " Write us

and valuable book on manure values.

LOUDEN MACHINERV CO. . 603 Broadway. Fairlield. lows.

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pert-hes than the lightm .md more aczilvx
breeds. Four feet is not too high full
Legliorns or Minorcas. and we. belicwf
there should be no trouble from perching:
Rocks at this br-lght unless. they are ex-
ceptionally heavy fowls. Better put the
perches all on the same level, however,
as the natural tendency among fowls to
Ff‘e'k the highest perch is apt to result in
crowding. it is not necessary that the
roasts be placed on a. slant to correspond
with the droppings platform. Where it
seems advisable to lower the roosts, or
where an extra amount of space beneath
the platform is desired, the perches and
platform may be placed closer together
than you have them. However, the ar-
rangement should be such as to make
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EEGHIKEBS State wide 'repmon. I can suit
you. Write me. Wm. J. Cooper, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

08E COMB REDS—The farmers' breed— breedin
R pens of 1 male. 8 females. all 1910 hatched.4 810w
per pen Write J. Ezra Welsh Box 255 lMaeon, lMioh.

EGGS: EGGS: EGGS-White aBufl Ofip ington.
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HOKOUGHBRED 8. 0. BED OWN LEGEOBNB.
A fine lot of OOOKE ERELB at right prices.
LEWIS OPP ENLA 1mm]! B._No.4. Lanainn. Mich.

B. c. l. Leghorn (locksmith ‘3’” “"‘“'£’°1¥2

in season. WAITE. Goblevil e. ”Michigan.

LILLIE FARHSTEAD POULTRY
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OCT. 7. 1911. 5 ..

HINTS ON BUYING COCKERELS,

At this time of year poultry breeders
are advertising .their surplus cockerels.
and others are anticipating the purchase
of "new blood” in the form of young
males for next season's breeding. There-
fore, a few hints to the novice may be
of service.

Too much importance cannot be at-
tached to the selection of males for the
breeding pen. The selection of a wrong
male bird is calculated to infuse into
one’s stock such faults as will take years
of careful breeding to eliminate. Im-
provement of the stock should ever be
the object aimed for by those desiring to
turn poultry keeping to the most profit-
able account. Let us suppose that, un-
knowingly, a coekerel of an exhibition
strain were bought and mated to laying
stock; one can readily understand what
a damaging effect the blood of such a
fowl would have upon the laying qualities
of, the progeny. Exhibition fowls are
generally inbred generation after genera-
tion to maintain certain characteristics
in_the future generations, and this in-
breeding has the effect of lowering the
vitality and consequently reducing their
egg-producing capabilities. To produce
strong, healthy laying stock, inbreeding
must be avoided. Line breeding may be
resorted to by experienced breeders of
utility fowls, but inbreeding, such as the
mating together of brothers and sisters,
is not to be recommended.

Breeding for Utility.

In purchasing cockerels for the breed-
ing of utility fowls care should be taken
that. they emanate from stock equaling
or even surpassing, in merit the hens it
is intended to mate to them. If one is in
possession of females that have proved
fairly good egg producers, the cockerel
bought to mate to them should be the son
of a hen that has been an extra good egg
producer. Such a male can be secured
from a breeder who specializes in pedi-
gree-bred laying stock, and although he
may cost double, or even treble, the
amount of a chance bird, that is, a bird
picked up at a low price irrespective of
his parentage or strain, he will prove far
the 4cheapest in the end.

Male is Half the Breeding Pen.

It has often been said that the male is
half the breeding pen, and to a very
great extent this is true. He has a good
or bad influence upon the laying traits
of his progeny, according to the good or
bad egg-producing qualities of the stock
from which he emanates. Too many
novices imagine that because the hens
alone are responsible for the production
of eggs they alone are worthy of consid-
eration when selecting the breeders, and
therefore, males of an inferior strain are
secured at a low price and bred from. A
more ridiculous course could not be fol-
lowed. A few extra dollars expended in
the purchase of a well-bred male from a
tip—top laying strain will be recovered 10
times over in the extra number of eggs
laid by the progeny. One need not neces-
sarily pay a fabulous price for a good
cockerel. Many people annually invest
money in sittings of eggs from those who
breed high-class laying stock, and they
generally hatch out more cockerels than
they require for stock purposes. They
advertise the surplus as being of such-
and-such a strain, and at prices within
the reach of most poultry keepers. These
are the males to negotiate for, but the
same should be seen before purchase is
actually made to ascertain that they are
strong and healthy and of a desirable
type. The good stock cockerel is medium
in length of leg, his thighs are muscular
and firm, his eye bold and bright, and
his comb blood red, denoting that he has
been reared on a good range and has
emanated from sound stock. If he has
been reared in confinement he will, as
likely as not, lack the good points indicat-
ed above, and he should, therefore, be
returned to his owner. Although it is
quite possible to rear breeding males on
ungrassed runs, their progeny naturally
lacks that vitality so marked in young-
sters from males that have had full
liberty on a good grass range during the
growing period. The latter class of cock—
erel should, if possible, be chosen.

Canada. W. R. GILBERT.

BOOK NOTICE.

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Principal in the Public Schools of New
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clearly and interestingly described: their
battles, their work and play. and their
insect neighbors and enemies. Cloth,
12mo, 216 pages, with illustrations. Price,
40 cents. American Book Company, Chi-
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' Raising Plump Poultry

Over 13 years ago Dr. Hess set about tackling the problem of wasted nutri-
tion—one of the drawbacks. that cost poultry raisers thousands of dollars
annually. After prolonged feeding and scientific experiments in his laboratory he
introduced Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce—a, a preparation consisting of highly concen-

trated tonics, which enable fowl to extract the largest possible amount of nutriment
from their ration and convert it into eggs, flesh, blood and feathers. In other words,

Dr. floss Poultry Pan-a-oe-a

solved the digestion problem, carrying out “The Dr. Hess Idea" that the more food digested,
the more went to the system-building and less to waste. At this time of year, when cholera
is prevalent among poultry, Dr. Hess Pan—a-ce-a is particularly beneficial, as it strengthens
and tones up the system and helps fowl ward off disease. It also cures Roup, Gapes
and other poultry ailments and keeps hens in splendid condition for laying winter
eggs. A penny's worth feeds thirty fowl per day. Sold under this guarantee: -

Our Proposition

You buy Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a of your dealer. If it fails to make your hens lay
more eggs and keep your poultry healthy, he is authorized by us to refund your money.
1% lbs., 25c., mail or express, 40o; 51bs., 60c.; 121bs., $1.25; 25—lb. pail, $2.50;

except in .Canada and the extreme West. If your dealer cannot supply you,
we Will. Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess' 48-page Poultry Book, FREE.

DR. HESS & CLARK
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It is a sure flesh and milk producer. lOO-lb
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sack, $5.00; 25-lb. pail, $1.60. Except in Canada and extreme West and South.

FREE from the 1st to the 1ath of each monih~Dr. Hess (M.D.,D.V.S.) will prescribe
for your ailing animals. 96-page Veterinary Book Free for the asking.
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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

Now that the fair
Lessons from the season is practically
Season’s Fairs. closed, the exhibits
seen at the various
fairs which the reader may have attend-
ed will furnish much food for profitable
thought. In the discussions of the mar-
keting problem, which have been pub-
lished in the Michigan Farmer during
the past month, the fact was clearly
brought out that the bulk of theproducts
of the farm could be most profitably mar-
keted through good live stock, since by
this method not only can their whole
value be secured in the returns received
from the live stock product, but the plant
food represented in the feeding stuffs can
largely be retained upon the farm for
the conservation of its fertility.

)very farmer who begins to study this
proposition finds that it is-a problem of
progression, since the products of a farm
can be more profitably fed to live stock
of the. best producing quality, and when
one engages in the production of live
stock of this class he sees the necessity
of growing bciter crops to feed them, and
the fact that the stock is maintained up—
on the farm will enable the growing of
better crops. Also. the methods em-
ployed by the live stock farmer in the
production of good crops are gem-ally
better planncd and more efficiently car—
ried out than is the case with other
classes of farmers, which is an added in-
ducement for every farmer to become in-
terested in the growing of some kind of
pure—bred live stock, and every reader
should have received some inspirations
and ideas to that cnd from attending his
local, district or state fair.

The same will apply to other products
of the farm, such as grains. vegetables,
fruits, etc, and also applies to an even
greater degree with regard to farm ma-
chinery and equipment, which is an im—
portant factor in thc exhibits at our
larger fairs. One who keeps pace with
the improvements in this line is far bet-
ter equipped for economic production up-
on his farm, as has recently been deter-
mined by an exhaustive investigation on

this subject in whole townships, as well

as by the experiences of individual farm-
ers. '

In panning out future farm campaigns,
good ideas are as valuable as in any oth-
er kind of business and when once enter-
tained or inspired they should be fol-
lowad out to a Successful culmination.

One cannot, of course. point in detail to
the many lessons which may be derived
from attending the fairs except by 111*
adequate examples as above outlined. but
the individual reader, when his thoughts
are directed along that line, will be,able
to draw many lessons from the recent
fairs which will accrue greatly to his per-
sonal benefit.

It‘ appears that

The Farmers were Not the time will nev-
the Victims. or come when

get - rich - quick

schemes cannot be worked upon the Am-
erican public, but the farmers are not
always the victims. The Bohemian oat
swindle which caused such a furore some
years ago was mere child's play as com-
pared with the latest swindle in circles
of high finance as revealed in the opera-
tions of J. Flagg. Jr., of New York, who
is alleged to have secured $1,500,000 of
easy money by an attractive offer of one
per cent per week which he paid the in-
vestors in his concern, ostensibly from
the profits made on their investment
through a system of working the stock
market, but which his accusers declare
was paid from the rapidly increasing
funds secured from new investors by a
judicious use. of personal advertising of
the large dividends which were remitted
to customers. A peculiar feature of this
modern example of frenzied finance lies
in the fact that almost none of the vic-
tims of the swindle appear willing to ac-
knowledge their connections with this

institution, naturally not caring to have

it known that they had been attracted
by such a scheme.

Apparently the time has gone by when
the farmers of the country are consid—
ered the easiest marks by the get-rich-
quick operators and the legerdemain of
high finance, either within or without the
indefinite pale of the law, is now em-
ployed by the get-rich-quick artists in
more profitable fields. It is, however,
still difficult for the average man to get
something for nothing and the conserva-
tism and intelligence of the average Am-
erican farmer is becoming so well known
to professional sharks that attempts to
swindle him by the employment of get-
rich-quick schemes are growing more
rare, while the fleecing of the more self-
confident and worldly-wise urban resi-
dent through methods of frenzied finance
is becoming more common.

With the advent
The Hunting Nuisance. of the open sea-

son for hunting
wild game in Michigan the irresponsible
hunter has again developed into a nui-
sance in the average community, and
more farmers than ever have been driven
to the action of posting their farms to
exclude this class of hunters, as a con-
sequence of which the true sportsman
must also suffer. However, there is no
question but that every farmer is justl-
fied in the forbidding of hunting upon his
land when one takes into consideration
the mean and small, not to mention the
wantonly cruel acts of many irrespon-
sible gun carriers who roam through the
country at this season of the year, since
not a few instances have been reported

THE-”5 ”MICHIGAN - ” FARR/113R.

ed that a. material saving in lumber was
practicable by cutting it into odd lengths
instead of the usual even lengths in which
lumber has been heretofore marketed. In
following the general custom of selling
lumber in even lengths only, considerable
loss from cutting off the ends of the odd
lengths to make them even is sustained.
A considerable percentage of the mill
output consists of boards having knots,
decayed spots or shaky ends, and in order
to make them into merchantable boards
of even lengths it is often necessary to
cut off a foot or so of good lumber and
this good lumber is thus Wasted. A
similar waste also often occurs in work-
ing lumber of even lengths in building
operations.

As a result of this investigation an ef-
fort will be made to bring about the
marketing of lumber in odd as well as
even lengths for all purposes. ashas for
some time been the case with flooring.
This will result in a considerable saving
and is in line with the best meaning of
the term conservation. There are a great
many cases in which conservation may
be applied to the business of the farm
and instances of this kind should prove
an inspiration to many farmers to note
the opportunities for practicable conser—
vation in the elimination of unnecessary
waste upon the farm and then apply a.
practical remedy.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE' WEEK.

 

National.

It is estimated that the loss of life in
the flood at Austin, Pa., which occurred
last Saturday, will be between 150 and
300 persons. The property loss it is esti-
mated will exceed $6,000.000. The flood
was caused by the breaking of the dam
belonging to the Bayliss Pulp Paper Co.,
which over-towered the small town. It
is now generally believed that the col-
lapse of the dam was due to neglect in
keeping open notches the function of
which was to relieve the high pressure
upon the structure.‘ These notches had
become filled and the excessive water due
to heavy rains, finally became so large
that the dam could no lbnger hold out.
The high wave swept before it houses,
buildings, fences. and other structures.
The debris formed a. temporary dam in
the city of Austin which so retarded and
diverted the water that the western part
of Costello, a. village below Austin in the
same valley, was saved from ruin. The
eastern side of the village, however, was
entirely destroyed which rendered fully
400 people homeless. Only three lives
are known to have been lost in Costello,
the people there having been warned of
the danger before the water reached
them.

Rain delayed President Taft’s train 12
hours in his journey from Omaha. to
Kansas City. The rains were general ov-
er the western states and great damage
has been done to crops that have not
been secured, and in places the water
has driven families from their homes to
higher lands about.

Anticipating war between their country
and Turkey, Greeks in the city of Detroit
have raised money to buy uniforms and
otherwise equip 400 men to aid in the
struggle which they expect may begin
any day.

The railroad statistics for the last fiscal
year indicate that operating expenses
have grown $236 per mile and revenues
decreased $70 per mile. Increase in taxes
and decrease in revenue make an aver-
age deerease in the net returns to rail-
roads of the country to the amount of
$318 per mile. This means that the rail-
road income has been cutabout $75,000,-

the present season in whilch live stock 000

has been shot as a means of providing
sport for a degenerate mind.

Apparently our laws are inadequate for
the protection of the public'against this
class of hunters, and there remains no
recourse for the farmers where they are
troublesome except to prohibit hunters
from roaming over their lands and en-
force the prohibition to the best of their
ability. The influential sportsmen of the
state have strongly advocated a. gun
license as a means of correcting this evil,
and if this will accomplish the desired
end it doubtless will be welcomed by a
large majority of the farmers of the
state, even though it might prove a hard-
ship to the farmer boys who derive pleas-
ure from an occasional day’s hunting, es-
pecially since, under present conditions
the fields are not only iramped over, the
gates left open and the fences either cut
or shot to pieces. but the song birds, as
well as the wild game, threatened with
extcrminatlon by the irreSponsible horde
that go forth to shoot and kill indis-
criminately, and that, without the first
instinct of the true sportsman, with the
coming of the open season.

Some investigations

A New Application carried on the last
of Conservation. year by the United
States Department of

of Agriculture, co-operating with the
lumber manufacturers in different sec-
tions of the country, resulted in a. new
application of the conservation idea.
which has been taking hold of our people
in recent years. This investigation show-

The fifteenth annual convention of the
Grain Dealers' National Association will
be held at Omaha, Neb.. next week. at
which time problems confronting the men
who deal in grains will be considered by
experts. One question to be considered
is the proposmon of buying grain on the
basis of 100 pounds rather than by the
bushel, such a system being successfully
i‘olIOch in European countries.

(in Monday of this week the shopmen
of the llarriman lines who are demanding
recognition by the company of the newly
organized federation, began a strike
which they hope will bring the company
to terms. Strike breakers are being im—
ported by the company to offset the ef-
rects of the mun “walking out."

Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley,
U. S. Navy, retired. fell dead on West
Fouriy-fourth street, New York Cltv.
Monday afternoon. His death was at-
tributed to cerebral hemorrhage. Admiral
Schley was one of the central figures in
the controversy growing out of the de-
struction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago
Harbor during the Spanish-American
war. He was second to Rear Admiral
Sampson, but the latter was some dis-
tance from the conflict while the fighting
was going on, while Admiral Schley was
present to give immediate orders, and as
a consequence. he is generally credited
with the victory by the American peo-
ple. Schley was born in Maryland in
1839, he graduated from the naval aca-
demy at Annapolis in 1860. In 1861 he
was promoted to the rank of Master and
attached to the frigate oPtomac. In 1862
and 1863 he was on the steam gunboat
Winona and had an engagement with a
field battery near Port Hudson, La. In
1862 he was commissioned lieutenant. He
distinguished himself in 1865 during the
insurrection of the Chinese coolies on
the Middle Chincha Islands. was made
lieutenant-commabder in 1866 and acted
as instructor of languages at Annapolis
from 1867 to 1869. He rescued Lieutenant

 

Greeley from the Arctic regions in 1884.
From 1889 to 1891 he commanded :the
cruiser. Baltimore during, the difliculties
with Chili. He ’was given command of
the flying squadron at the outbreak of
the Spanish-American war.

It is reported that the scourge of ty-
phoid fever has been largely eliminated
as a trouble in the army by the intro-
duction of vaccine treatment whiCh
makes a large percentage of the soldiers
immune. In experiments extending over
1,000 vaccinations, 94 per cent showed
mild reactions. five per cent moderate
reactions and one per cent severe reac-
tions from the effect of the vaccinations.

The first step taken toward the hold-
ing of the National Republican Conven-
tion of 1912 Was the call of a meeting of
the National Republican committee which
will meet-in New York City, Dec. 12.

Foreign.

War has been declared between Italy
and Turkey. Some fighting has already
taken place. Italy is reported to have
captured the cities of Tripoli and Ben-
ghazi. It is also asserted that a landing
has been made at Preversa. A naval
battle was fought off the coast of Epirus
in which the Italians were victorious.
Two of the Turkish ships were badly
damaged by shells. In another conflict
between the Turkish fleet and some Ital-
ian barges off the coast of Chios. two
Italian bargeswere sunk. Italian troops
have already invaded European Turkey
and the war area is rapidly widening.
Italy has now proclaimed a blockade of
the coast of Tripoli.

Early returns are coming in of the
election held in Mexico which shows that
Francisco I. Madero will undoubtedly be
elected chief executive of the country.
The returns also show with considerable
certainty that Plno Suarez of the 'same
ticket, will be elected as vice-president
Election day was extremely quiet and it
is asserted that no more than 60 per cent
of the registered voters of Mexico City
went to the polls.

It is reported that Americans have
gained a foothold in Manchuria by leas—
ing 50,000 acres of land which will be im-
proved by American money.

In order to destroy as much as possible
lawlessness in the southern part of the
Philippine Islands, the authorities have
decided to take away all arm from the
Moros. It is expected that the execution
of this measure will cause considerable
strife in that portion of the Philippines
but the authorities believe it is the best
way to deal with the situatiou.

There is considerable apprehension on
the part of the Japanese government re-
garding the concession secured by the
United States interests in Manchuria. It
is believed that once a foothold is gained
in Chinese territory that large amounts
of American capital will be invested
there, much to the profit of this country
and to the disadvantage of Japan and
other nations. ,

The Italian-Turkey war has distracted
attention from the controversy between
France and Germany over the Moroccan
interests. It appears, however, that
France is quite satisfied with the pres—
ent situation and believes she will ulti-
mately gain her demands in the conflict
with Germany.

CROP AND Mmorsa

Gratlot Co.. Sept. 30.—To date no kill-
ing frosts have occurred. Corn, even the
latest,'matured and the greater part of
the crop is harvested. The weather has
been very bad for bean harvest, as more
or less rain has fallen at frequent inter-
vals for three weeks. Scarcely any have
been secured without being wet after
pulling, though as a whole, they are not
greatly damaged. A large acreage of
wheat has been sown in the past two
weeks. Apparenty very few sowed with-
out using some commercial fertilizer, un-
less they‘had an abundance of manure.
Late potatoes have done well since the
rains came on but are still selling at $1
in the market.

Livingston Co.. Sept. 23.—Bean harvest
is progressing’very slowly, owing to the
wet weather. and while the crop has not
been damaged materially it requires con-
stant work to keep them from spoiling.
Wheat seeding is about completed, with
conditions ideal for the quick germination
of the seed. Fruit of all kinds very
plentiful. A large number of silos have
been erected and filled this fall, showing
that farmers are beginning to realize
more than ever the importance of con-
serving all the feeding value of the corn
plant. Dairying is becoming more and
more popular, owing to the good prices
paid for milk and also on account of the
fertility returned to the soil.

Ogemaw Co.. Sept. 30.—~The numerous
fine rains of the last few weeks have
started the grass, and pasture is now ex-
cellent. Wheat is making a good show-
ing. Most of the hay has been contract-
ed for at $15@16. \Vheat brings 720; but-
ter, 200; eggs. 18c; cream, 250. Fall ap-
ples are plentiful at 500 per bushel and
enough pears to supply home demand at
$1@1.50 per bushel. Potatoes are turn-
ing out better than expected, local stores
paying 600 for them.

PICKLE GROWERS ORGAN IZE.

 

 

The growers of pickles in the vicinity
of McBrides, Montcalm county, met at
the town hall Saturday evening, Sept. 23,
and organized a. pickle growers' associa—
tion, the object of which is to get the
farmers closer together. demand more for
their product and have something to say
about the contract they are asked to
sign. Pickle picking is about the hardest
work any one ever does and the growers
feel, that they do not get their share of
the consumer's dollar. An effort is be-
ing made to reach the growers at
pickle growing points. At the meeting
90 growers were present. 0. W. m
was chosen president and S. F. Willis.
secretary. C. W. 0mm.

    

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

   

LITERATURE
POETRY
HISTORY an?
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OYSTER FARMING-=An Important Industry of Texas.

By Louise E. Dew.

lantic to the Pacific, and the mari-

time provinces, contain oyster fish-
eries. “Oyster culturists,” the Chesa-
peake Bay and Long Island oystermen
style themselves, while in the Lone. Star
state the industry is classed with other
agricultural pursuits, and the oyster
“farmer" talks as glibly of "seed oysters”
and “oyster crops” as our northern and
eastern farmer speaks of his seed corn
and various grain crops. And why not,
for he plants his seed oysters

EVERY coastwise state from the At-

favorable on muddy bottoms which are
usually well stocked with the minute or-
ganisms upon which the oyster feeds.
Oystermen usually determine the best
growing and fattening grounds by actual
experiment, which often entails the ex-
penditure of much time and capital. For
instance, the muddy bottom may be
there, and yet the currents be such as to
carry most of the food organisms away.

a. picturesque group of sail boats from
which fishermen are clearing the grounds
-—a slow and laborious process as can be
imagined. Even in the case of soft mud-
dy bottoms, it is necessary for the surface.
to be prepared in some way in order to
prevent the oysters from becoming sub-
merged, and suffOcated in the soft de
posit. Texas planters strew oyster and
clam shells, gravel or sand over the bot-

market six months after they art- bed-
ded. Port Lavaca farmers either collect
the seed for themselves, or buy it from
those who make a specialty of that
branch of the industry. The price varies
from ten cents to one dollar a bushel,
according to the growth of the seed.
Culled seed is. of course, the more desir—
able as it is free from rubbish and grows
better oysters, which mature more rap-
idly and are less susceptible to the at-
tacks of enemies.

It is an interesting sight. to
watch the sowing of the seed,

 

and harvests his crops just
like the tiller of the Soil.

To become an oyster farmer
in Texas, one must assure
Uncle Sam that he is a resi-
dent of the state, whereupon
he is given the riparian right
to locate as many as fifty
acres of land, covered by wa-
ter, for an oyster bed. He
must then pay a surveying fee
of ten dollars, and a rent of
ten cents per acre for the first
five years, after which his
yearly rent is twenty-five
cents per acre. So long as his
rent is promptly paid, he is
amply protected, and he is al-
so permitted to gather seed
oysters from certain reefs for
planting. As the cost of trans-
planting is less than fifteen
cents per barrel, and the mar-
ket price of good oysters is
from seventy-five cents to one
dollar and twenty-five cents
per barrel, a good margin is
left for the expense of gather-
ing and marketing.

Owing to the mildness of
the Climate, and the long
growing season in Texas, the

 

 

 

Which is usually scattered chr
the beds from boats or scows
and is distributed as evenly
as possible, for when thrown
in heaps many are prevented
from getting a proper supply
of food. Then, too, the shells
grow irregularly, which at't'twts
their market value. It is cus—
tomary to mark out: HH‘ lwd
in areas about :30 feet square
into which the. seed is smit-
tcred broadcast. with show-ls
or scoops. Sometimes the bout
is anchored on the bed while
a gang oi." eight or ten men
distribute the required amount.‘
\thn tht‘ scow is emptied the
place of the lust deposit is
marked with a buoy or stake.
From three hundred to six
hundred bushels of seed are
used per acre.

Many Texas oystermen
transplant in the springtime
from muddy beds to a hard
bottom, in the bayous and
coves, for several months be-
fore sending them to market,
as they believe that this meth—
od of procedure imprth-s their

 

 

 

oyster is especially prolific, as
the spawn or seed is less lia-
ble to injury from cold, and a

 

Oyster Lugger Landing, at Port Lavaca, Texas.

iiavor and appearance owing
to a better food supply. As
the seed-producing power of
the natural beds is becoming

 

good spat (supply of young I _,
oysters) for each year is
more certain. Of the forty
bays, lakes and coves along
the coast of Texas, there are
few if any without a natural
oyster bed, hence there is no .
lack of seed oysters within i.
easy reach of good grounds. -

The most prolific farms are
located at Palacios, Matagor- ' '
da, and Port Lavaca, the lat-
ter being the center of the
largest and oldest established
oyster trade in this region. In
March of their first: year, Port
Lavaca. farmers planted ten
thousand bushels of seed oys-
ters and by November the
crop was in fine condition and
of a marketable size. Here in
the market season the shell-
strewn beach in the vicinity
of the packing house is a re—
markable sight, as there are
literally millions of shells
heaped in miniature mount-
ains, ready to be hauled away
and utilized for various com-
mercial purposes, the manu-
facture of buttons being an
important one. The shell road
too, is preferred to macadam

 

 

 

 

reduced, greater attention is
being paid to planting with
cultch or stool, to which 'l‘ex—
as oystermen say We must
doubtless look for future
growth in this important in-
dustry.

Oyster shells are largely
used as collectors in this lo—
cality. They are merely spread
upon the bottom, being thrown
broadcast from boats the same
as when planting seed oys-
ters. From :2in to 500 bushels
of shells are used per acre.
()ld tin cans and scrap tin are
utilized for the cultch, as tin
has tllc advantage of becoming
corroded, and gradually dis-
solving in the salt water, thus
releasing thc young oysters
when they begin to crowd one
another. Brush and ingots,
too, make efficient collectors
when thrust firmly into the
mud in such a manner that.
the small branches are above
the bottom. The current of
the water keeps them clean,
and in water well charged
with the “mother oysters"
will almost certainly yield a

 

 

in the new southwest, and au-
tomobilists drive for miles ov-

er perfect roads, upon which

oyster shells have been powdered to dust
by heavy rollers.

The life of an oyster farmer is not one
of ease, as so many suppose, for he has
something to do after planting his seed.
In the first place he. must see that there
is a suitable bottom for the cultivation of
the oyster—which means a firm substra-
tum, above which is a layer of soft mud,
or a firm, sandy bottom. In the latter
event the oysters do not grow as rapidly,
however, as food conditions are more

An Oyster Packing House and Shell-strewn Beach.

Having located and marked the bound-
aries of his planting grounds with stakes
in order to avoid disputes with other
planters, the oyster farmer next prepares
for planting. All debris and snags are
cleared away, while mounds are leveled
and hollows filled. If it is necessary to
build stockades to protect the oysters
from fish, this step is next in order. At
Port Lavaca the clearing up of the
grounds-is done by means of steam
dredges, although one occasionally sees

tom, thus serving the double purpose of
preventing the submerging of the oyster,
and also offering a place of attachment
for the spat—a less expensive process
than in France where they macadamize
their oyster bottoms.

There are two ways of planting, either
seed oysters being used or the spat
which has been caught in a cultch (ma-
terials used for the spawning bed). The
seed oysters may be mere “blisters” or
good-sized oysters which are ready for

full set of spat. The brush is
lifted at the proper time by
means of a crane or Windlass,
with the seed intact. Shells of clams and
related mollusks, broken stone, brick,
gravel, bones, brush, and old tarred net-
ting, are all employed in one place or an-
other on Texas coasts.

The farmer who fights insect pests has
but little anxiety compared with the oys-
tcrman whose “products” are all in deep
water. The price he pays for being an
oyster farmer is eternal vigilance in order
to see that enemies do not attack his
spatting bed. Vast schools of water area.-

 


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toms and fish are ever on the alert for
food, and the young fry if available, at-
ford them a fine menu. In Texas the
oyster has but“ few“ enemies compared
with those of the east, the only» one that
is dreaded being the drum fish. There
are not star fish and but few worms or
conch. The thrifty oysterman surrounds
his bed with palisades or stakes driven
into the bottom at sufficiently close in-
tervals to prevent the paSsage of fish be

THE "MicmoAN FARM-ER.

tween. Tangles or, mops are also used-—
devices long in use by naturalists for col-
looting spiny‘forms.

During the months which incorporate

anl“r” in their spelling, oyster consumers-

may be interested in knowing that the
oyster feeds upon both animal and vege-
table foods—primarily upon the plant life,
about 90 per cent consisting of diatoms
or minute plants, which disputes the idea
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THE “SPELL" AT NUMBER SIX.

 

BY MRS. MARY E. UNDERWOOD.

 

There had always been a good deal of
rivalry between school districts No. Five
and No. Six. When No. Six built a
schoolhouse a good deal more pretentious
than the one in the other district, the
“No. Fivers," as they were called, said
tauntingly: “Fine schoolhouses aren’t
everything, and we can outspell you any
day."

Great value was put upon correct spell-
ing in those days. Grammar was regarda
ed as a mere accomplishment and some
there were who scoffed at the suggestion
of pupils “wasting their time" studying
physiology; but not to know how to spell
was fatal to one’s chances of success in
life. One of the educational and social
features of the long winter evenings was
the spelling school held in the country
schoolhouse. The boy or girl who could
“spell down" the rest of the school
was admitted to be ”mighty smart.”
Sometimes one school would chal-
lenge another to a spelling contest
and then the interest rose to fever heat.
Loud and taunting were the cries of the
victorious, while the vanquished would
at once challenge the victors to another
contest. Thus it was that spelling “bees”
were of frequent occurrence and not even
the singing school of the olden time could
equal them in interest.

Mr. Bassford. teacher of No. Six, was

' about to dismiss school one evening in

January when there came a. knock at the
door. Before the teacher could reach the
door it opened and a severe looking old
man, with piercing black eyes, came into
the room. He nodded almost curtly to
Mr. Bassford, who said: “How do you
do, Judge Butler? I was about to close
the school, but I am sure the boys and
girls would be glad to remain later than
usual if you will make a. few remarks.”
"It won't take me but a. minute or two
to say all I have to say." replied the
judge. “I hear that No. Five has chal—
lenged No. Six to a spelling match next
week. That so?"
“Yes; they have sent us a challenge.”
“Of course you’ll take it up?”
“Certainly judge. We’re not afraid of
them,” replied the teacher, with a laugh.

“I sh'd be ashamed of you if you were,”
said the judge, tartly, and then he ad-
ded: “I been thinking that I’d do some—
thing to kind 0’ stimulate our young folks
to do their-best. You know I put good
spelling first in value when it comes to
education. Nothing makes a, worse im-
pression than bad spelling when one has
a letter to write. Neat, plain handwrit-
ing and correct spelling can carry a boy
a. good ways toward success in life, and
a. boy who can't write or spell well is
sort 0’ handicapped. I just come over to

‘ say that I plan to give a prize to the best
‘ speller when you have your contest with

the No. Flvers next week. I hope some-
one in our school will win it, but the best
speller shall have it, no matter which
district he or she lives in. The prize will
be two hundred dollars in gold, and the

'one that wins it must use the money for

two years of Schooling at the academy
over in Farmington. That’s my offer,
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keep it from going into No. Five. You’ll
never hear the end of it if they get it.
Good-night,” and the somewhat eccentric
old man departed as suddenly as he had
arrived.

Intense interest in the forthcoming
spelling contest was created by the offer
of old Judge Butler, and the old, blue-
covered spelling books in both districts
were brought into immediate use. They
were taken home at the close of school
and pored over 'for hours. The long
“jaw-breaking" words and thOSe in which
were so many senseless “silent” letters
were studied and spelled over and over
again. Interest in all other lessons waned,
and the pupils spent most of the noon
and recess intermissions in pronouncing
words to each other.

It was generally conceded that if the
golden prize remained in No. Six it would
be won by Lucy Marks, Harry Venner or
Tom Pryde, for they were the best spell-
ers in the school and were always de-

pended upon to sustain the reputation of
No. Six .in any spelling contest.

- Mary Warder and Paul Denley were
the champion spellers in No. Five, but
the prize offered -by Judge Butler had
acted as such a stimulus that ‘ had set
all of the pupils to studying and some of
them had shown such improvement in
their spelling that it was doubtful as to
who would win the prize, and it was pre-
dicted that some “dark horse” would
probably appear to_ defeat those who
were usually successful.

The No. Fivers were as much excited

over the forthcoming contest as were the
pupils of No. Six, and there was a good
deal of boasting done by both schools.
' It goes without saying that the little
schoolhouse at No. Six was packed to the
doors on the night of the contest. .It was
a clear, cold night in January and the
sleighing was never better. The full
moon rode high in the cloudless sky and
countless stars were shining. The voices
of young people coming up over the bills
or through the woods in sleds or pungs
could be heard singing snatches of merry
songs. A party of No. Fivers would seek
to pass a party of No. Sixes, and there
would be some mad racing and a good
many good-natured jeers and jibes. There
were horses hitched to all the trees
around the little schoolhouse, and some
of the boys had come long distances on
foot.

Each family had been asked to send a
candle to help light the house. Lamps
were not in common use. There was .but
one in the schoolhouSe that night, and it
was on the teacher’s desk. The big box
stove in the center of the room was red
hot.

Of course Judge Butler was there. He
was a. very prosperous man who lived
alone in his big house on his fine farm.
True, he had one or two hired men and
a woman for a. housekeeper, but he had
none of his “own folks" around him. A
sorrowful thlrig in the life of the judge
was that he had long been estranged
from his “own folks." His wife had been
dead for a good many years, and his only
child, a. daughter, had so offended her
father by marrying against his wishes
that he had disowned her, although she
had married a young man of excellent
character and industrious habits. But
the judge was a man who could not bear
to be crossed in anything, and he was
bitter in his rcsenlments. People did
him no injustice when they said that he
was a hard man. Now and then some
unexpected strain of kindliness or gen-
erosity would become apparent and peo-
ple would admit that the judge had his
“good streaks” after all. The offering of
the prize in the spelling contest had been
regarded as one of the judge’s “good
streaks." His neighbors had said, when
the judge disowned his daughter, that one
of his “good streaks” would induce him
to forgive her and seek a reconciliation
but this had not come to pass at the end
of nearly twenty years. The daughter
had moved to another state and the judge
had held no communication with her.
Not even the coming of grandchildren
had softened his heart, and his daugh—
ter’s letters to him had been returned
unopened.

Tom Bentley of District No. Five and
Joe Haiton of No. Six headed their re-
spective lines when it came time to be-
gin thc spelling match. The first contest
was to be simply a"‘spelling down" con-
test. The two schools faced each other
in two long parallel lines and the school
that first “spelled down" the other would
be the winner. This contest revealed the
fact that there had been a good deal of
hard studying done and it took nearly an
hour for the No. Sixers to “Spell down”
the No. Fivers. Then came a brief in-
termission, and after that, the real con-
test of the evening. The spellers from
the two schools faced each other again,
and it was understood that the boy or
girl from either school who stood up
longest should be adjudged the winner
of the prize which Judge Butler had held
up to view in a small knitted purse,
through the meshes of which the yellow
gold coin was shining in a very tempting
way that put the spellers on their mettle.

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for fifteen minutes at a time. The spell-
ers could have but a single “try" at a
word, and no favoritism was shown by
either teacher.

At the end of 'the first twenty minutes
eight of the No. Fivers were standing
and but five of the scholars from No.
Six. “Among the scholars from No. Five
was a young fellow of perhaps fifteen
Years, who seemed to be a stranger to
every one in No. Six. He had come to
the schoolhouse with the Bensons, a fam-
ily that had but recently come to No.
Five to live. No names had been called
in choosing those who were to take part
in this contest. It had simply been an-
nounced that any pupil from either dis-
trict who cared to enter the contest was
at liberty to do so, and this boy had tak-
en his place with the other boys from
No. Five. It was evident that he was a
“mighty ‘good speller,” and some of the
older pe0ple nodded their heads approv-
ingly when he spelled very glibly some
of the long “jaw-breakers" with so many
“silent" letters. He was smaller and ap-
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when there were but three of the No.
Fivers left standing and four of the No.
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softly when the boy spelled a long Word
that .two of the spellers from No. Five
had been compelled to "sit down” on.
At last there was no one left standing
but Harry Venner of No. Six and the un-
known boy from No. Five. There was a
great clapping of hands when the con-
test had narrowed down to these two
boys, who were apparently of about the
same age. They faced each other with
folded arms and the contest grew in-
tensely interesting. Both boys were per-
fectly self-possessed. Some of those who
had been compelled to sit down had “lost
their heads" through excitement, but
Harry Venner and his opponent were not
likely to do this. They spelled each word

Ivery slowly and very distinctly with a.

certain little note of defiance in their
voices. The silence in the room was so
intense that each boy’s voice penetrated
to the most remote corner, and the least
movement on the part of anyone was
heard.

Harry Venner hesitated half a minute
before spelling the word “pomaceous,”
but spelled it right, and his opponent re-
flected carefully for a moment before
spelling the word “railleur,” but he also
spelled the unusual word correctly amid
much applause on the part of the No.
Fivers.

For nearly half an hour the two‘ boys
faced each other, spelling in a way that
elicited many nods of approval and oc-
casional applause. The interest was at
fever pitch when the word “Sibylline”
was given to Harry to spell. A little. too
over—confident as to his ability to spell
the word, he did not hesitate a second
but spelled the first syllable with a. “y"
instead of an “i."

"Next," said Mr. Bassford, who was
pronouncing. .

“What!” exclaimed Harry. “I spelled
it right."

“No, Harry, you did not,” said his
teacher, with a note of regret in his

voice. “Next.”

The boy from No. Five spelled the word
correctly and the No. Fivers “went wild.”
Hats were thrown up to the ceiling; feet
in clumsy boots and shoes were pounded
on the floor, and hands were clapped. In
the midst of it all Harry Venner did a
'fine and manly thing. He reached out
his right hand to his successful opponent,
and they clasped hands heartily. This
created another wild outburst of applause
and did much to prevent any sneering
jibes or taunts from either side. No one
applauded louder than old Judge Butler,
regardless of the fact that the prize had
been won by No. Five, and he would
much preferred to have had it gone to
someone in his own district.

When the excitement had subsided
Judge Butler requested the prize winner
to come to the platform. With the purse
of gold in his hand, he said: “You have
spelled wonderfully well, my boy, and I
am proud of you, even if you do not be-
long to our district. You have won the
prize fairly and with great credit to
yourself. I congratulate you and I—but
I don’t seem to know you. You must be
a newcomer to No. Five. \Vill you tell
me your name?”

“Horace Butler White.”

The old man stepped back and looked
at the boy curiously. Again there was
dead silence in the room.

“My—my name is Horace Butler, too.”
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ly. as he stood before the Judge, a slim,
erect lad, with a handsome face and
manly hearing. “I know it, and 1—1——
was named for you—grandfather."
. Judge Butler dropped into the chair
from which he had risen. His arms fell
limply to his sides and the ruddy color
left his face for an instant. His lips
opened and closed for a moment, but no
sound came from them. Then he looked
wistfully into the face of the boy who
had drawn a. little nearer to him. Sud-
denly the judge leaned forward and put
forth his hand. Placing it upon the arm
of the boy he drew him toward him and
kissed him on his white brow. Then
the applause broke out again, and some
of the women put their handkerchiefs to
their eyes. Indeed, the eyes of some of
the men were suspiciously moist.

Then the judge stood erect, with his
arm around the boy's shoulder, and said
simply: “Good friends, I am sure that
you will agree with me that the prize has
been fairly won by my grandson, Horace
Butler White, of whom I am very proud."

The explanations that followed a little
later revealed the fact that Mrs. Benson
was a relative of the father of Horace
Butler White, and that the boy had come
to stay several months with her and had
become a pupil. of No. Five school, and
was, therefore, entitled to enter the con-
test.

A complete reconciliation between the
judge and his daughter was the result of
Horace winning the prize. Within a few
weeks his big house was brightened by
the presence of a half dozen healthy and
sturdy grandchildren, of whom the judge
became excessively fond. Sometimes he
said to Horace: “I’ve always said that
it was a mighty good thing for one to
know how to spell, and I'm more than
ever convinced of it now.”

JOSHUA COFFIN; WHITTIER’S FIRST
TEACHER.

 

 

BY RUBY BAUG HMAN.

 

Every American school lad and lassie
remembers VVhittier’s picture, in his
poem, “In School Days," of the country
schoolhouse in which the poet received
the greater part of his scanty school edu-
cation. XVhittier's brief school experience.
although it began when he was seven or
or eight years old, covered only a few
winter terms of three or four months each
and two terms at Haverhill Academy.
every day of it bought by personal sacri—
fice on the part of his family and himself.
The little building which he knew in his
early days as the farm bOy, near Haver—
hill, has been destroyed long since by fire,
but its indestructible memory still lives
in
“Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,

A ragged beggar sunning;

Around it still the sumachs grow,

And blackberry vines are running.

Within, the master’s desk is seen,
Deep—scarred by raps official;

The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knife’s carved initial;

The charcoal frescoes on the wall;
The door’s worn sill, betraying

The feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went storming out at playing.”

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buryport, Mass, Whittier writes: “Its
learned and genial historian, Joshua
Coffin, was my first school teacher ‘ "’

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was born in 1792 and died in 1864. He
was graduated from Dartmouth in 1817
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communities near his home town. An
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boyhood, by expressing a sentiment in
which I trust every son of the old town
(Newburyport) will unite: Joshua Coffin,
historian of Newbury, teacher, scholar,
and antiquarian, and one of the earliest
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his memory be kept green, to use the
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Island keeps its post and a sturgeon leaps
in the Merrimac River.’ ”

And this is the story of the debt to
which Whittier refers. The Whittier
library, as was fitting for the household
of a Quaker farmer, contained the Bible;
a wearisome epic “The Davideis” written
by an English Quaker friend of Milton;
biographies of Penn, Franklin, Scott, Fox,
Burroughs, and Tufts; Elias Smith’s “Un-
iversalism," and a few others, numbering
perhaps twenty altogether, of a similar
sort. The deficiencies of this collection
Whittier supplied by borrowing. In the
poet’s own words, “When I was fourteen
years old, my first school teacher, Joshua
Coffin, brought with him to our house a
volume of Burns’ poems, from which he
read, greatly to my delight. I begged
him to leave the book with me, and set
myself at once to the task of mastering
the glossary of the Scottish dialect at its
close. This was about the first poetry I
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dent), and it had a lasting influence upon
me. I began to make' rhymes myself, and
to imagine stories and adventures.”

\Vhittier, however, must have dabbled
with rhymes before this time, for an old
friend and schoolmate in Haverhill writes
that he “instead of doing sums on his
slate in school, was always writing verses.
even when a little lad.” At any rate, the
poetry of Burns was the first strong ex-
ternal impulse to Whittier’s native faculty
and for that stimulus he was indebted
to Joshua Coffin.

In his poem “To Burns,” Whittier re-
calls his boyish delight in the Scottish
poet to whom his teacher had thus opened
the way for him.

“\Vild heather—bells and Robert Burns!

The moorland flower and peasant!

How, at their mention. memory turns
Her pages old and pleasant!

I call to mind the summer day,
The early harvest mowing,

The sky with sun and clouds at play,
And flowers with breezes blowing.

I hear the blackbird in the corn,

The locust in the haying;

And like the fabled hunter's horn,

Old tunes my heart is playing.
llow oft that day, with fond delay,

I sought the maple’s shadow:

And sang with Burns the hours away,
ll‘orgetful of the meadow!”

An intimate account of Coffin’s regime,
\Vhittier gives in ”To My Old School-
master.”

“1. the urchin unto whom,

In that smoked and dingy room.
\Vhere the district gave thee rule
O’er its ragged winter school,
r,l‘hou didst teach the mysteries
Of those weary A B C’s—”

The seasons of the district school were
held, during Cofl‘in’s incumbency, in a
room of a neighbor’s home while the
schoolhouse was in the process of build—
ing, whence the following'allusions to do-
mestic interruptions:

"‘Where to fill the every pause

Of thy wise and learned saws,
Through the cracked and crazy wall
Came the cradle rock and squall,
And the goodman’s voice. at strife,
\Vith his shrill and tipsy wife—4’

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bit more modern than those of many of
his contemporaries appears in

“Luring us by stories old,

\Vith a comic unction told,
More than by the eloouence

Of tense birchen arguments
(Doubtful gain. I fear) to look
IVith complacence on a book!
Where the genial pedagogue
Half forgot his rogues to flog—”

The “Brisk wielder of the birch and
rule," who was “master of the district
school” in “Snow-bound," vcrirten when
'\Vhittier was close to sixty years old, Eli
not this early instructor Coffin. b," er:-
other young Dartmouth man win... illn;
Coffin, bolstered up a limp porglrerlumc la

teaching during the cofiege vacations His
name was George Haskell. He her-arm: a 1
physician and moved to lllinois, where he j
helped to found Shurtlef'f College. Later5
he removed to New Jersey where he had ,

a share in the establishment: of a model
industrial school and a. model communis-
tic experiment. It seems that he never
knew that his famous pupil had honored
his instruction by immortalizing his
teacher in verse. In fact, it was not til!
late in life, about the time he wrote
“Snow—bound," that Whittier was able to
recall Haskell's name. The poet had no
trouble, however, in remembering the
name of his first teacher, to whom he
wrote,

“Old friend, kind fricndf lightly down
Drop time’s snowflakes on thy crown!
Never be thy shadow less,

Never fail thy cheerfulness:

I, the man of middle years,

In whose sable locks appears

Many a warning fleck of gray—
Looking back to that far day,

And thy primal lessons, feel,
Grateful smiles my lips unseal

As, remembering thee, I blend

Olden teacher, present friend."

TH‘Ef MICHIGAN FARMER.‘ . ' _' we 75 we

 

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m, when I am around home,” laughed

a neat little housewife, tying on a.
pretty affair of ordinary gingham. “I
like to wear them, and I just love those
little ribbony, lacy things they put in the
papers; but I don’t have time for frills
when it comes to washing and ironing, so
I just make my gingham ones as pretty
as I can, and let it go at that."

'Many a busy housewife echoes the
same sentiments. Although she may be
much interested in the dainty, fancy ac—
cessories, she finds herself most nearly
concerned with the utilitarian articles of
dress. If she can combine use with good
taste, she is doubly happy, for she has
solved her problem and satisfied her
longing at the same time.

Some one has called the gingham ap-
ron “the universal badge of woman's
sufferings,” _and when one notices the
awkward, graceless things too often
made to do kitchen dtuy, the expression
seems apt enough. It is just as easy
to study the esthetic possibilities of
gingham and calico as those of silk and
fine linen, and the ordinary housekeeper
will find more satisfaction in doing so.

In Selecting goods for kitchen aprons,
the wearing qualities must be first con-
Sidered. Calicoes are largely tabooed be-
cause they are lacking in this respect,
yet their use may be excusable, because
there are many pretty colorings and de-
signs among the prints not found else-

]: NEVER feel dressed without an apron

where. One tires of the endless “apron
checks" shown in ginghams, and wants
a change. Many of the pretty dress

ginghams, in plain colors, may be utilized
for aprons, without sacrificing service-
ability, and one occasionally finds a good

. stout piece of chambray that is suitable

for the purpose.

The colorings should be chosen so as
to harmonize with the gowns to be worn
about the house. The plain, dark dress
so much liked can be worn with almost
any pretty, bright color, but the gown of
pronounced tint must be aproned har-
moniously, or its effect is spoiled. It is
a good plan to buy enough material like
the gown for two or three aprons, mak-
ing and trimming them differently for
the sake of variety. A plain house-dress
of cadet blue was very attractive with
an apron of the same goods, trimmed
with narrow bands of black sateen. The
bands were used to outline the shaped
pockets, and as a heading for the wide
ruflle across the bottom. Another apron
of the same goods was made with a
pretty, ruffled “bib," and trimmed in
blue and white finishing braid. The whole
effect was very dainty and tasteful,
while if the gown had been worn with
the ordinary chacked brown-and-whlte
apron, its appearance would have been
spoiled.

Children are especially fond of bright-
ness, and the mother of a family will do
well not to wear too many somber colors.
The dark dress saves washing, and is
always a favorite with the woman who
has a great deal of work to do. If it is
brightened up with colored aprons, the
greatest objection is overcome. Children
dearly love to see mother “blossom out,
and the touch of color secured in this
way gratifies them without adding to the
burdens of laundering.

At least one big, long-sleeved apron
should be kept on hand, to slip on over
a good gown when one comes in from
town or church, and does not wish to
Two or three large ones without

change.
sleeves will be found useful to wear
when one is cleaning house, canning,

making. sausage, or doing other unusually
“dirty" work. For ordinary purposes,
however, the short, waistless apron is
ample protection, and may be made in a
variety of pretty shapes, none of them
taking over two yards of goods. They
are easy to make and easy to launder.
One especially pretty and easily made
apron is a simple square, edged with a
two and one-half inch ruffle. The square
is held comerwise, and the needed full-
ness and shape at the waist line are se-

: cured by‘ssveral small tucks running up

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THE EVERYDAY APRON;By Catharine A. Grimes.

and down. The upper corner may be
cut off, or left to make a tiny bib. An-
other attractive style is made with a grad-
uated flounce, plain and narrow over the
hips, and wide and full at the bottom.
The edge of the apron is rounded. The
flounce is headed with a band of some
contrasting material, as are also the
shaped pockets.

Speaking of pockets, it should be re-
membered that every apron should be
supplied with them. The old—fashioned
"patch pocket" is chiefly a. nuisance, as
it is always catching on something and
tearing down at the corners. The shaped
pocketthat runs up into the belt at the
front edge is far better, as well as more
graceful.

A. handy little apron to wear while
sewing is made with a rounded lower
edge, plainly hemmed, and having small
brass rings sewed on about three inches
apart all around the sides and bottom.

vThrough these is run a stout tape, or a

stitched fold of the goods. \Vhen one has
to get up to see to something else, the
thread, pieces, etc., may be caught up in
the apron, the tape looped over the arm,
and both hands left free. Another little
square sewing apron has a strip of wash-
able linen tape measure stitched to the
lower edge, on the wrongside. It saves
a great deal of time looking for that use-
ful article, which is never at hand when
it is needed.

For afternoon wear about the house, a.
pretty, colored gingham or calico apron
is as good as an elaborate white one. It
is a good plan for the busy mother, who
likes to “dress up” a little before the
children come home from school, to keep
her newest aprons for afternoon wear,
and. when they have lost their freshness,
relegate them to the kitchen. In this
way the aprons are all utilized, and there
are no half-worn, stringy light garments,
“too good to throw away, too light to
work in, and too worn to look attrac-
tive," lying around in the way. A new
apron costs only a few cents, and three
or four may be made in an afternoon. so
it is by no means extravagant to have
all one Wants of them.

RECIPES.

 

Cracker Pie.

Four common crackers broken up, one
and one-half cups of water, one cup of
sugar, a little vinegar to give it a tart
taste, a pinch of salt and a grated nut-
meg. Bake with upper and under crusts.
I sometimes add a little fruit juice. This
makes one pie—Mrs. E. K.

Kidney Beans with Brown Sauce.

Put one pound of red kidney beans and
one pound of round beef, cut into small
pieces, into a saucepan, cover with boil-
ing water and cook half an hour, then
add a teaspoonful of salt and cook till
tender. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter
into a frying pan and when brown add
two tablespoonfuls of flour. Rub smooth
and add one pint of the water in which.
the beans were cooked, a little salt, pep-
per and one—fourth of an onion chopped
very fine. Drain the beans and let them
simmer in the sauce for ten minutes. De-
licious—A. E. L., Dundee.

Cranberry Pie.

One cup'of cranberries and one-half
cup of raisins cut in two. One cup of
sugar, one cup of cold water, one table-
spoonful of flour. Stir flour and sugar
together, add the water and then cran-
berries and raisins. Bake between tWO
crusts—V. W., Spring Creek, Pa.

String Beans a New Way. .

String the beans and cut in two length-
ways. Cook in salt water. Slice two or
three onions in a tureen. When the
beans are cooked tender lift them from
the water, place in the tureen, add two
tablespoons of butter or pork fat if you
are frying pork, a half cup of vinegar and
pepper to taste—L. T. F.

Scones. .

Take a pint of flour and sift in two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix in
enough lard to make it as short as you
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to enable you to roll out and cut as bis-
cuit. Place a skillet over a medium fire,
but do not put in grease or water. Place
the biscuits in the skillet, cover them and
allow them to remain 15 minutes. Vi’hen
they are of a delicate brown, they are
ready to serve. Cover with sugar,-butter
and cream for dessert or eat with butter
as biscuit. They are delicious with honey.

Fried Carrots.

Cook carrots in salted water until ten-
der, remove the skins, cut in slices cross-
wise ,dip in beaten egg, then cracker
crumbs and fry a nice brown—R. R.

‘ Eggless Cake.

One cup brown sugar, one cup raisins,
ChODDed, one scant cup lard or butter,
one cup buttermilk, one tablespoonful of
molasses, one level teaspoonful soda, two
cups flour, spices of all kinds to suit the
taste. Bake in slow oven—Mrs. D. 8.,
Breckenridge.

A Carpet "Bug Destroyer.

As a thank offering for the many helps
that I have received from you, I will send
my way of killing carpet bugs. Take
three corrosive sublimate antiseptic tab-
lets and one ounce of sugar of lead; dis-
solve in one quart of water and spray the
carpet where the bugs are troublesome.
I did that three years ago and have had
no trouble since and I am using the same
carpet—A Reader, North Star.

“'e do not pay for recipes. If you wish
a recipe write and ask for it, and send
your favorite recipe in exchange.

Coloring Bear Skin Coats.

I colored a white bearskin- coat success-
I used black walnut shucks, as
our grandmothers used to do. I filled a
small coppcr wash boiler two-thirds full
of shucks and boiled them an hour, then
strained thcm and to the liquor added five
cents worth of copperas. Then I put in
the coat and boiled it two hours, stirring:
often, rinsed it well and dried in the
wind. It looked as good as new, and
lthough worn almost threadbare now the
color is still good—Mrs. S. R, Charlotte.
Uncooked Chili Sauce for Mrs. G. w. E.

Half peck ripe solid tomatoes chopped.

half cup of salt. half cup sugar, two cups
celery chopped fine, two cups finely chop-

ped onions, two small red peppers chop-
ped, one cup white mustard sced, one
tablespoon cuch black pepper and ground
cinnamon, one quart vinegar. Mik all
together. put in a stone crock and cover
With Cloth only—Mrs. G. R.
Appetizing Dish from Left-overs.

Take cold roast beef, or beef and pork
mixed, and the gravy that may be left
over, and season to taste with salt, pep-
per and a little onion, or any favorite
seasoning. Ilse deep baking dish, line
sides with rich biscuit dough; place in
center of dish a icacup upside down,
which prevents gravy from boiling
through crust. Put in the meat mixture
and cover over with biscuit dough. The
dish is then placed in a quick oven and
baked until crust is nicely browned. Many
people enjoy potatoes with the meat as
given above—K. S., Xi'ayne Co.

Women Wh ire Doing Things.

—.____—.—

Mrs. (ieo. 0. Robinson.
N EVV YORK has formed such a habit

 

of claiming every man and woman

Of prominence in the country that
when a Michigan woman heads a na—
tion-wide movement, every other woman
in the statc feels almost as much pride
in the fact as though the achievcmcnl
had been hers.

Mrs. George 0. Robinson, of Detroit.
is the chief promoter of an organization
which has spread over the country in the
quiet manner of every great movement
and with the powerful influence for good
which belongs to all great and silent
movements. The Deaconess work of the
Methodist church in the United States
owes its) present growth and influence to
Mrs. Robinson and that its work has
been for good the poor of the cities will
testify. For it is among the poor of the
slums that the black bonneted, white-tied
women work.

Those women who are signing to do
something great might learn from a
glimpse into Mrs. Robinson’s life that

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“Up to 2 years ago," a woman writes,
"I was in the habit of using both tea and
coffee regularly. ’

“I found that my health was beginning

‘to fail,' strange nervous attacks would.

come suddenly upon me, making me
tremble so excessively that I could not
do my work while they lasted; my sleep
left me and I passed lo‘ng nights in rest-
less discomfort. I was filled with a nerv-
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“A friend suggested that possibly tea
and coffee were to blame, and I decided
to give them up, and in casting about for
a hot table beverage, which I felt was
an absolute necessity, I was led by good
fortune to try Postum.

“For more than a year I have used it
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during the rest of my life.

“Soon after beginning the use of
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instead of tossing on a sleepless bed
through the long, dreary nights, I dropped
into a sound, dreamless sleep the mo-
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"Then I suddenly realized that all my
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at once been restored so that I ate my
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“All the nervous dread has gone. I
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work every day and enjoy it. I find an
interest in everything that goes on about
me that makes life a pleasure. All this
I owe to leaving off tea and coffee and
the use of Postum, for I have taken no
medicine." Name given by Postum 00..
Battle Creek, Mich.

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greatness comes only after years of ‘hard
work and preparation. There were years
‘devoted to study in the Troy Female
Seminary, the State Normal School of
Albany, N. Y., and the SyracuseUniver-
sity, from all of which schools she was
graduated. Then for seven years Mrs.
Robinson, who was at that time Miss
Jane Bancroft, held the position of Dean
of the Woman’s College of the North-
western University of Evanston, Ill., and
professor of the French Language and
Literature in that institution. In 1885
she went to Bryn Mawr to take up his-
torical studies and the following year
went to Europe where she entered the
University of Zurich to study political
and constitutional history. Here she be-
came interested in the Deaconess move—
ment and when the following year she
entered the University of France in Paris,
she continued her study of the deaconess
work in that city.

Leaving the University of France, she
studied this branch of charitable work in
London and all over the continent of
Europe, with a view to returning home
and starting the work here. Interest in
the movement was just taking form upon
her return and with her wide knowledge
of the subject she was looked upon as
the right woman to take charge. The
work was first started in Chicago, with
Mrs. R. S. Rust. of Cincinnati, and Mrs.
Rutherford B. Hayes, wife of the late
President Hayes, as sponsors. From the
small beginning there it has spread over
the country until every city where pov-
erty is known knows also of the deacon-
essesses who work among the needy.

Training schools where young women
may prepare for the work have been es-

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Mrs. Geo. 0. Robinson.

tablished through Mrs. Robinson’s efforts.
The first of these was the Lucy \\'ebb
llayes National Training School in \\'ash-
ington, D. C., which was started in 1890,
and now has property worth a quarter of
a million dollars. Connected with it are
Sibley Hospital, where there is oppor-
tunity for 30 young women to receive
training in hospital work, and Rust Hall,
the dormintory. A new hall which is to
be erected at a cost of $100,000 will be
known as Robinson Hall, in honor of
Mrs. Robinson and her husband who has
assisted her in all her work. In addition
to this national training school are two
other national schools, one in Kansas City
and one in San Francisco, and conference
training schools in Grand Rapids and in
Des Moines, la. The organization holds
property values at about $800,000 and ex-
pends $200,000 yearly in carrying on its
work. There are 500 women working in
the institutions and stations, the whole
movement managed by five bureaus, of
which Miss Henrietta Bancroft, Mrs
Robinson‘s sister, is general superintend-
ent. Mrs. Robinson is chairman of the
committee on National Training Schools.

Mrs. Robinson is well known to manv
Michigan women as a platform speaker.
Her splendid education, which, by the
way, has earned her the title of Ph.D.,
combined with a ready flow of language,
make her an entertaining and convincing
lecturer. As an example of the strenu-
ous life, Mrs. Robinson has few peers. In
addition to her work in the deaconess
movement she is a member of the Amer—
ican Economic Association, the American
Historical Society, and various other so-
cieties, and keeps two or‘ three steno-
graphers busy with her correspondence

THE MICHIGAN FARMER. '

and literary work. Her book on “Deacon-
esses in Europe and Their Lessons for
America,” has gone through three edi-
tions and is the accepted authority on the
subject.

Between times Mrs. Robinson is a
housekeeper and looks after two homes,
the' family residence in Detroit and a
summer home on Grosse Isle.

THE LETTER BOX.

Are Women Ready for the Ballot?

In spite of the fact that legislatures
seem powerless to relieve the prevailing
conditions, would it better matters to
give woman the ballot and simply double
the number of votes? Is it not doubtful
if woman, untried and untrained in poli-
tical matters, could vote intelligently when
man has failed so signally? Woman is
very human. “lould she do better than
man has done, even if thoroughly compe-
tent to vote? ,

Men’s opinions differ radically as to
what produces these high prices and
what remedy should be applied. The
more thoughtful women will agree that
woman, as a class, is far from being ready
for the. ballot. But it is als‘o very plain
that present conditions are quite stimu-
lating to the mental powers of even the
dullest, and no one accuses woman of
dullness.

As woman becomes more and mere a
wage—earner, taking her place daily side
by side with man in the business world
and constantly becoming more and more
identified with the industrial interests of
the country, will not her enfranchisement
follow in the natural course of events,
an advance for which both she and society
will be fully prepared? \‘Vhen she has
proved herself capable, man will be ready
to own her as his political equal, for the
American man, whatever his faults, is the
best in the world, the most liberal and
just. And the American woman, whether
she possesses her full rights or not, is the
most blessed among women.

Just now woman's vote is not needed.
Ten to one, at present, she would vote as
hcr family always had or her husband
told her to. Woman must learn to think
independently and man will have to learn
to recognize and respect her individuality
before her cni‘ranchisement will ever be
successful.

In spite of the difference of opinion as
to the cause of the prevailing high prices,
one thing is certain. \Vhatever benefit
the farmer derives from them is more
than counterbalanced by the exorbitant
prices he must pay for what he buys.
Those powers which now seem to govern
our land are ever watchful and swift to
return an attack. Some time ago several
newspapers and magazines of large cir-
culation undertook to explain the situa-
tion to the people. They must have come
somewhere near the truth for the price
of paper took a sudden leap, then postage
rates on periodicals were raised so that
an increase in the subscription price of
the publications was necessary. No in-
crease in postal receipts must be expected
for the better class of reading matter will
simply be beyond the reach of many
families.

Though men have been trying for years
to solve this problem which has con-
stantly become more complicated, would
the enfranchising of women simplify the
situation? “'hat we need is an aroused
people, an informed and organized people,
who will know what they want and
where and how to get it.

By all means let the women investigate,
organize and co-operate with other so~
cietics. Knowledge always helps. But
give the men a chance to set things right
before overwhelming the ballot box with
floods of votes directed by no better
knowledge than that already possessed.
\Vomcn hold a tremendous force in their
hands and they will use it to better ad-
vantage in organizing for the enlighten—
ment and advancement of their sex than
in demanding the ballot box or leading
a mob, as our sisters across the water
are doing.

Don’t think that women could not play
the political game. Dear me, they were
training for that while the men were
still slaying wild animals with wooden
clubs. True, Barak had his Deborah.
Charles VII his Joan of Arc and the mod—
ern man wants to take notice. If these
be idle words, forget them.—E. E. D.
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OCT. 7,1911.

Keismlvaculuonshl m SCHOOL.

BY ELLA E. nocxwoon.

Now that school has begun again par-
ents ought to see that children are reg.

, ular in attendance and do not stay at

home whenever the fit takes them to do
so. Children are not supposed to know
what is best for them and it is up to the
fathers and mothers to enforce certain
rules.

One of these should be that no child
stays home from school save for good
and sufllcient reasons. Illness. of course.
comes in as one of these legitimate rea—
mns, but even then there are times
When the indisposition is more in the

imagination than anything else. Putting

the child to bed often dissipates this dit—
flculty, as he would far rather go to
school than to bed, and speedily finds
that he is not so sick as he thought he
was.

To permit staying away from school
because company is expected or to go
visiting, is entirely unnecessary, yet it
is customary in many homes.

School means so much in every life
and the years which can be devoted to
it are so few that every possible effort
ought to be bent toward making the most
or them. If parents would co-operate
with teachers in securing regular at-
tendance results would be more gratify-
ing than they are at present. This mat-
ter of attendance is, however, making
headway, for absence from school is now
far less prevalent than it used to be.

Let me urge upon parents the import-
ance of keeping boys and girls in school
every day. Let nothing interfere with
this program, and in the years to come
you will receive their thanks for so doing.

MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.

 

These patterns may be obtained from
the Michigan Farmer office at the price
named. Be sure to give pattern numbers
and size.

 

 

 

 

No. 5519, Ladies’ Norfolk Outing Waist

Closed at Front. Cut in 6 sizes, 32 to 42
inches bust measure. Size 36 requires
4% yards of 36—inch material; 9/. yard
of 27—inch contrasting goods. Price, 10
cents.

No. 5565, Ladies' 28-inch Length Dou-
ble-Breasted Coat. Cut in 6 sizes, 32 to
42 inches, bust measure. Size 36 re-
quires 3 yards of 50-inch material. Price,
10 cents.

No. 5541, Girls’ Sailor Dress. Cut in
sizes, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Age 8 re-
quires 3 xyards of 36-inch material with
% yard of 27-inch contrasting goods;
2% yards of braid. Price, 10 cents.

..No. 5552, Ladies' Six-Gored Skirt. Cut

in 5 sizes, 22 to 30 inches, waist meas-
ure. Size 24 measures 3‘4 yards around
the lower edge and requires 4%. yards
of 36-inch material. Price, 10‘ cents.

No. 5524, Boys’ Double-Breasted Coat.
Cut in 6 sizes, 2, 4 and 6 years. Age 4
requires 25);; yards of 36-inch material;
1% yards of braid. Price. 10 cents.

 

When canning sausage use fruit cans.
Fry the sausage. then put in cans and
put about two inches of grease in can.
seal and turn upside down until cool.
This saves using so much grease and the
sausage keeps just as nice—N. H.

To get rid of ants try cleanliness. Keep
everything covered and ants will leave.
This is' m‘y,experlence.~—L. F.

“Fruit cooked in a stone crock, keeps
whole. ‘There is no danger of burning

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THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER.

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a“ your money or make any fair exchange or adjustment.

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today. Ask everywhere. clothes are a recommendation in them-

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' but we all know they often help a lot. It is easy to be we] in, and more

CM! and RI” It? and not expensive either. Let our new clothing book

A new carpet. or

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Save Enough on Winter Farm
Necessities to Clothe the Family _

g feed cooker—s good one-that’s what. on need this winter.
{or sp- you stand more in need of a tank. he: are: an incubator or a
feeder or some other Winter farm necessity.

Whatever you need. we have it. We carry a big variety of every
form necessity. The prices on these are of course the very lowest
just as they are on all the rest. of our merchandise. Send for book 8.

Check the Book You Want

Let us show you. free at all out. how you can save , _
‘ ' and co in It on ever saw. Then
“was? everything you buy to “x or "a,“ lite m and egrythinyg else the he needs. Be
Sond Coupon to Room Address
- _ — - - j everything for baby and he

Montgomery Ward & C0. shoes. or to "put away for a “IRES”.

When the wind howls and
end the snow sitts in under

   

from the glowing coals.
In the morn n3 you'll be
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. ” perhaps n ru will show you how to dress well at a small expense. t brings right pm.
“brighten up that room you thin does into your home a. wonderful collection of clothes. weaves. pot- The number of the Grocery Book is 11.

stove and a good range are going
comfortable to toast your toes on the go of your stove or baseburnor.
read and talk and then dose 01! into a it is nap in the pleasant warmth

to give you real satisfaction is this: For
less money you are getting better qual-
food Then. of can
you know that everythlnrys so clean an
nd absolutely mile 10.

Don’t. ima ine youoen’t aflord one. Our Every style is new, nobby and u to—dote. Remember itoosts When we receive your rs ucct we will ut
ca mg to] catalogue, book No. 15 you not
con us some price surprises for you. today.

hing to get this book. otter have. us mail you. one your name on our mailing lot to receive he
The women's book is No. 80. the men’s book is No. 83. new Grocery Lut every two months.

Stoves at 1-2 the Usual Cost

the boards creek and the windows rattle
e door sill think of the comfort to warm
to give you. It's going to be mighty

glad that you thought about ottln that
ml! the aroma of piping hot‘cofleg and '

on boys; 0.
It's going to be 00 d this tor. You must have a good stove. You

now Stove and Renee Book that has just

This Book is for Mothers

It's the "Baby Book.” There are some of the duintlest. rettiest little arm
ll are are snug. warm “mg ties" and stockings-

ds and cube. so-certs. high chairs. toys.

rattles-well, you'll just bode i heed when you see it. .
And everything is so reasons is! Without even knowing it you will have bought
ve a nest cum left—maybe enoug

to buy a rug or e pair of
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it Wanton in catalogue No.64.
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Our forty years’ experience in export
fur buying is at. your sex-Vice.

Sewing Machines

A reliable. smooth running sewing
machine will soon save Its cost in time.
strength and labor saved.

Our years of ex rience enables us
to offer you hv for t 9 host machine; on
the market at the prices quoted.

The sewing machine book is No. 19.

Dry 63d- every woman admires—ere fully shown
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\ Fall killing will be profit-
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products than in hogs
\ ._ on the hoof. To get
' greatest profit buy an

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points,

ofsuee- - Sausage Sluller
"or!!! \N-s. and Lard Press

This perfect machine. does the
work quickly and easily, savmg time
. and labor. it makes sausage that keeps—air
cannot enter the casing to start fermentation. _ When used .as a
press, the lard cannot ooze over the top, as in interior machines.
The one perfect machine of its class. Like all that bear the name Enterprise
-——built on honor, to last.
$5.50 for 4—quart size at hardware and general stores. To be sure of
satisfaction, be sure you see the name Enterprise.

Enterprise Meat and Food Chopper. The chopper that really cuts. Does
not shred. Four-bladed steel knives revolve against perforated steel plates.

Enterprise Bone. Shenandcorn Milk-an invaluable part of the equi ment
of every vultry owner. Enterprise Fruit and Wine Presses- aism
Seeders— ad irons-Coffee Mills, etc., each best of its class.

So d4”! ' clamp. f ‘ book. ”The Enterprising
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.Rnlneoals and Rubber-coats

Rain weather has no terrors for '01:
it on we a good raincoat. on
rat or emoy splashing around in the
wet..when you are warm and dry. Damp
—rsxny—-snowy weather will soon be
here. Better get. your raincoat now
end be ready for it.

Send for book No. 81

Underwear Sam lea
A suit 01_ soft. warm, vlv’ell fitting

underwear will be on ty fine to jump
into when those col . frosty mornings
come. Our underwear sample book
shows you one of the and most
complete lines of knitted underwear
thatwvou ever saw.

rite today for book No. 24.

Pianos and 0:-

Purity of tone and we: of
materials are the distinguishlna' marks
of our pianos and organs. (loot. plus
onesmel rofltis allweuk. Beacon.
locus No. forpianoc; No. 3 for organs.

 

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is made for men who investigate.

who look for proof, men who want

to know. ' \
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Peerless fence of all No. 9 wire, Crossbars 6 inches ’

apart, appeals to this: careful buyers.

. Frame
All Galvanized Fdlinss
Fittings

They look better and will last' longer than any
painted gate.

Never sag; spring up tree and clear from the
ground. swung oversnow, stones, grass orrubbish; they
always work—nothing to give out and cause trouble.

Ask your dealer about Peerles gates. If he doesn't
know. ask us.

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' spool of ideal galvanized
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CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS 0F SOILS.
No. 3.

 

BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.

In our studies throughout this course
we shall be making continual use of
chemical terms. “'e shall therefore at
this point make the acquaintance of the
chemical factors most largely involved
in agriculture.

The changes which the earth has un—
dergone have been to a great degree phy-
sical in character, but the chemical
changes have been likewise of very great
importance. Physical change may be
sufiiclent to reduce rock to soil but life
is impossible without the intervention of
the factors of chemical energy.

The rusting of a nail is a typical 'ex-
ample of the effect of chemical forces.
A nail may bend or it may be cut in two

by the action purely of physical and me-_

chanical agencies but the rusting process
is an evidence of chemical activity. This
rusting process is a type of a. process
with which we shall deal with much fre-
quency in our studies in practical science.
It is perhaps the most common of all
chemical operations.

Matter of all kinds tnay be divided into
parts so small as to be unmeasurable by
our ordinary mechanical devices. The
composite structure of the soil, or of
plants, etc., may be divided into almost
indefinitely small divisions and the rela-
tions of the constituents therein remain
the same. There mttst come a point,
however, ultimately, at which it is im—
possible to further divide without de—
stroying some of the characteristics by
which that material has been commonly
recognized. A grain of corn is compHSvtl
of starch, oil, albumen, etc. lly various
mechanical and physical means the indi-
vidual constituents of the grain of corn
may be separated and gathered together.
it is possible to separate the starch by
m‘cthods which are purely mechanical and
in this way alter the structure of the
grain of corn. “'e may, in analogous
ways, separate likewise the oil and the
albumen of which the grain of starch is
composed. \\'e may now find that these
different components may in turn be di—
vided almost indefinitely without altering
their specific structure. \Ve may imagine,
for example. a particle so small that it
can with difficulty be seen with the aid
of a powerful microscope and yet we may
be certain that it is. possible for such a
particle of starch, having all of the char—
acteristics of the large mass of starch,
to exist and have a definite structure.
if we could imagine a point at which it
would be impossible to further divide a
particle without destroying its structure,
that is, without destroying the character-
istics by which we recognize it to be
starch, we would then have the smallest
possible division of the substance starch,
which division we may conveniently refer
to as. a molecule. \Ve have now reached
the limit: of division by physical or me-
(hauical forces. x\\'e would find that if
to this particle was applied heat, for ex-
ample, it would bc changcd further, and
so we recognize that when we have
reached the extrem litnit of divisibility,
physically and meclutnically that product
is still capable of further division chem—
ically. \Yerc we to analyze this molccule
of starch we would find it consisted of
several different constituents. For ex—
ample, we would find Carbon; we would
find Hydrogen, and we would find Oxy—
gen.

“'0 now find by comparing the sub-
stances Carbon, llydrogcn, and Oxygen,
all of which together go to make up the
molecule of starch, that they are essen-
tially different in most of their charac-
teristics. The molecule of starch -is very
large for it is made up of many mole-
cules of Carbon. Hydrogen and Oxygen.
[Each of these individual molecules may
be resolved in turn into their constituent
atoms. Just how far this division may
go is purely the realm of theory. The
fact is that below the point of divisibility
into what we call molecules and atoms,
a form of enetgy still manifests itself,
has given rise to the electron theory of
matter.

Just in the same way that Carbon,
Hydrogen and Oxygen grouped together
in one case might make a molecule of
starch and in another case might make
a molecule of sugar. or again might make
a molecule of oil, all of which products
differ essentially in many of their char-
acteristics, we may for the sake of clear-
ness consider the electrons grouped to-

gether in a certain manner and in a.
certain .number in one instance to form
an atom of the element of Carbon, an-
other to form an atom of the element of
Hydrogen, and still another to form an
atom of the element of Oxygen, etc., all
of which elements while formed from this
common source are found to differ ma—
terially in their several characteristics.

An element, then, is the simplest pos—
sible division of matter. There have
been discovered about eighty of these
different elements in the universe. In
agriculture we deal with comparatively
few. There are perhaps 14 which in
varying quantities make up the structure
of soils and plants, and animal tissue. In
reality there are‘but four or five with
which we are intimately interested. We
will mention these different elements so
that we may become somewhat familiar
with them. They are Potassium (symbol
K), Phosphorus (symbol P), Calcium
(Ca), Carbon (C), Sodium (Na), Iron
(Fe), Aluminum (A1), Magnesium (Mg),
Silicon (Si), Chlorine (Cl), Sulphur (S),

Bitrogen (N), Oxygen (O), and Hydro— .

gen (H). Of theset Nitrogen, Oxygen,
Hydrogen and Chlorine are gases, the
others in their natural state are solids.
With very few of them do we deal in
their elemental state. Carbon is met
with frequently in the elemental state
as Carbon. Charcoal and the diamond
are typical examples of the element Car-
bon. Nitrogen and Oxygen—both gases
——are most commonly met with in their
free, or elemental, state, in the air we
breathe. Chlorine is at times observed
in its free gaseous condition. Sulphur
exists in solid form and very frequently
without being in combination with any
other substance. Iron is met with in the
free condition at times. But to obtain
the ()lllt‘l‘S in their elctnental condition,
free from combinations with other ele—
ments, it is necessary to resort m man-
ufacturing processes of separating, as
they are not known in their free Condi-
tion in their relation to agriculture.
Nitrogen and Oxygen are the two gases

which in the tnain make up the atmos—'

phere. For animal and plant life it is
commonly understood that an abundance
of Oxygen in the air is necessary. Just
what olfice Nitrogen fulfills, more than
acting as a reserve supply for the Nitro—
gen in soils and plants is not known.
Mixing mechanically as it does with the
Oxygen in the air, it becomes of service
as a diluent. of the Oxygen, which con-
dition is very favorable for the highest
development of plant and animal life.

\\'hen the particle of starch is disin-
tt-grated by heat, then the constituent
elements of which it is composed, that is,
Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen, change
their relationship to each other. The
solid Carbon combined with the gaseous
Oxygen, forming another gas which con-
sists of both Carbon and Oxygen. This
gas is called Carbon Dioxide (CO2), or
sometimes Carbonic Acid Gas, which has
played such an important role in the dis-
solving of rock and the formation of soil.
This combination of Carbon with Oxy-
gen is exactly analogous to the change
which takes place when the iron nail is
rusting. \\'hen the nail rusts, the ele-
ment Iron combines with .the element
Oxygen and gives the compound known
as iron Oxide. W'hen the Carbon is
burned it is united with the element Oxy—
gen and forms a compound known as
Carbon Dioxide (C02). The oxide of
Iron, or the rust, is a solid. The oxide of
(‘arbon is a gas, at ordinary tempera-
tures.

Again, when the starch is burned the
Hydrogen and the Oxygen combine to-
gether and form a compound known as
\Vater (H20). These two elements in
this combination have had an exceed-
ingly important influence in the history
of the world.

So we see that each of the elements
which have gone to make up the molecule
of starch have in an entirely different
form and in different combinations exer-
cised highly important functions previous
to the time when they began the fulfill-
tnent of their mission in the building up
of the compounds of starch.

The compound of Carbon and Oxy-
gen occurring as COZ, that is in the pro-
portion of-one part of Carbon and two
parts of Oxygen, is a factor of prime im-
portance in agriculture. In solution in

water it has been the great agent caus-
ing the breaking down of the rock and

THE - MICHIGAN ~ FAR’MER. ' , ‘ .

PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

OCT. 7, 1911.

 

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which the plant and the animal secures
is food. ,

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in the soil and in all vegetation. Silicon
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it is freely soluble in the drainage water
and is therefore transported wherever
the demand becomes apparent. Certain
rushes in streams are very gritty in their
stems and it is found that their stems
have been beautifully strengthened by
the sliicic acid deposited therein.

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them. The remaining elements—Nitro-
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Benton Harbor Fair.

The show of fruit, vegetables, poultry,
and horses was fine, the raccs were good
and everything was done by the officers
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tractive features of the great show. The
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’ THE MICHIGAN, FARMER.

it frequently remains for weeks at a‘time.
in- the spring. Labor, 'too, is generally
more plentiful in the fall, and as other
work is not so pressing, the planting is
performed with greater care.

Before the advantages of fall planting
can be fully appreciated, one must realize
that the growing season of trees is com.
paratively short. Most of the growth is
or Should be, produced before the first
or middle of July. It becomes very es-
sential then, especially the first season.
that the trees enjoy as much of this pe-
riod as possible. Frequently in the spring,
the soil‘ remains wet, work is pressing
or the trees do not arriVe from the nur—
sery, so they are not planted until the
middle or latter part of July. The grow-
ing season is then half over and ash
takes the trees a little time to send out
their roots and to take hold, they make
little growth the first season. By fall
planting, the trees frequently start their
growth a week or two before the soil is
dry enough to plow or handle, thus en-
joying the full benefit of the entire grow-
ing season. This frequently results in
a growth almost as great as of a two-
year spring planted tree.

Whether or not one should practice
spring or fall planting will depend upon

 

Oceana County’s Fruit Display at State

Exhibits.

by the Agriculttiral Society for the best
country exhibit. This entitles ()ceana
county to retain permanent possession of
this beautifully designed piece. \\'e pre—
sent herewith an illustration of this ex-
hibit showing the cup mounted in the
centre. Other counties had good displays
which went to prove to the general public
that the adaptability of this state to the
culture of fruit is more general than has
been heretofore understood.

There were only two outside fruit ex-
hibitors and these were from Ohio. It is,
therefore, most complimentary to Michi—
gun that from her own soil she can place
before the public such evidence of her
natural adaptability to the production of
fruit; and since this general knowledge
and conviction is what makes the indus—
try profitable, we believe that the display
at the recent i‘air will be of large direct
and indirecr value to our state, and es-
pecially to our fruit growers. M‘uch
credit is due Mr. Dow and his corps of
workers who brought together and ar-
ranged this attractive exhibit of fruit.
ADVANTAGES OF FALL PLANTING.

.\s a rule. in transplanting, it may be
said that the ideal time is while the tree
is dormant and the soil and weather con-
ditions fayorabie. \\'ith a few exceptions,
as in thc case. of tree like the peach that
are subject to winter killing, this rule
holds good. The fall and spring, then,
are the two seasons of the year that pos-
sess these conditions. As to just which
is preferable, however. for planting, de-
pends largely upon one's own local con-
ditions.

The first advantage of fall planting is
that it induces the grower to get his nur-
sery stock earlier than if planting in the
spring. lie is. therefore, not apt to re—
ceive left-overs in the nursery but rather
the pick of the stock. The nurseries, too.
are not so busy in the fall and naturally
give more care and attention to stock de-
livered at this time. The fruit growers,
therefore, by planting at this season, has
a better choice of stock to start his young
orchard.

The weather in the fall is frequently
ideal for planting. The soil is moist
enough and is not too wet to handle, as

Fair. Awarded First Place in County

 

 
 
  
  
   
   
   
  
 
    

 

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the kinds of trees to be planted. Apfi

pies, pears, currants and gooseberries are
all hardy kinds that do well by fall plant—
ing, while peaches, Japanese plums and

other less hardy fruits may be seriously‘
winter killed by planting at this time ii"

followed by a severe winter.

then planting in the fall, the treesi

should be mounded with soil to a height
of about 18 inches and the pruning of the
tree should be deferred until spring.

Agri. 001., Mich. C. P. HALLIGAN.

FARMERS HAVE BEEN GOLD-
BRICKED.

During the past summer parties claim-
ing to be agents for an Indiana nursery
have been taking orders in a number of
counties in western Michigan for peach
and catalpa seedlings and have made
preposterous claims for their trees.

The peach trees are to be four-year-old
seedlings and will be entirely hardy and
free from yellows and all other diseases.
It is claimed that they will bear every
year after planting and the third year
will produce a bushel of large peaches.

The catalpa seedlings are said to be‘ '
entirely hardy and to reach a size large:

enough for posts the third year and that
they will make four posts the sixth year.

The facts are that the peach (called
Friday) has never been fruited in Mich-
igan and there is no reason for thinking
that it has any of the merits claimed for
it. Really, it is likely to be less valuable
than almost any of the standard varieties
which can be obtained for one-half the
price, or less.

The hardy catalpa is not quite hardy
in Michigan and, with ordinary care, not
one tree in ten is likely to eyer make a
post and it will take three to five times
as long as claimed. The price also is
nearly ten times as much as it should be.

Many of the parties who have given the,
orders haVe countermanded them and will
refuse to take the trees.

It is understood that the agents referred
to have been repudiated by the Indiana
nursery and, as they had not taken out
licenses as dealers in nursery stock, they
had no authority to sell trees in Michigan.

L. R. TAFT, '
State Inspector of Nurseries.

      

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Early potatoes are one of the . est-paying crops raised in outhem - a - ama, estern
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“ My yield of soluble potatoes this year, per acre, was 1 bushels, which sold readily at $1.50
per bushel, this being the first crop on the land. I followed this crop with sweet potatoes
and sweet. corn and then planted cow peas. I raised three crops on the land in one your, all
of which brought good prices.”

Sweet potatoes produce big returns and are usually planted after Irish potatoes have
been dug. Two to three hundred bushels an core are produced and bring from 50cents to
$1.75 per bushel. Let me send you our illustrated booklets and learn what can be done ‘in a
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THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER.

‘ FARMERS’ CLUBS
Ml

OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

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President-B. A. Holden, Wixom.
Vice-Pres, J. D. Leland, Corunna.
Secretary—Mrs. C. P. Johnson, Meta-
mora.

Treasurer—Mrs. Lewis Sackett, Eckford.
Directors—A. R. Palmer. Jackson; Wm.
'H. Marks, Fair Haven; C. L. Wright,
Caro; E. W. Woodruff, Blanchard; C. P.
Johnson, Metamora; Patrick Hankerd,
Munith.

Associationai Motto.—

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

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

_
HON. PATRICK HANKERD.

 

 

Every Club member, and particularly
those who have acted as delegates to the
Annual Meetings of the State Associa—
tion of Farmers’ Clubs at Lansing, in
recent years, will feel keen regret at the
announcement of the death of the Hon-
orable Patrick Hankerd, of Jackson coun-
ty, which occurred on September-22. Mr.
Hankerd has been a prominent figure in
Associational work for many years! and
at the last meeting was elected a Direct-
or of the State Association of Farmers'
Clubs. He has ever been a. prominent
man in his home community, having for
many years served the people of his
township in various public offices, and
having twice served his district in the
Michigan legislature. He was a success-
ful farmer and active in all that would
advance “the agriculture of his state, a
broad minded citizen, ever interested in
the public welfare and exercising a strong
influence for good which extended far
beyond his local neighborhood. He was
born in Dexter county, W'ashtenaw town—
ship, in 1845, and had resided in Jackson
county since 1850. His loss will be keen—
ly felt in future gatherings of the Mich-
igan State Association of Farmers’ Clubs

him in that organization will one and all
regret his death and extend their heart-
felt empathy to his immediate circle of
relatives and, friends.
—
EDUCATION FOR FARMERS' SONS
AND DAUGHTERs.

 

Synopsis of a paper read by Miss Carter
at the September meeting of the Odessa
Farmers’ Club on the subject, “Which
has the greater need of a college educa-
tion, the farmer's son or daughter?”

“Vi’hat is the object of an education,
anyway?” Someone has said, it is to en-
able one to live completely—with head,
heart and hand. This would train the
mind to associate ideas, make generaliza-
tions and draw conclusions. It would c‘ul—
tivate the heart to be generous to all
mankind and open to kindly influences.
Would it be any assistance to the farm-
er’s son—so soon to become a farmer
himself, a help in his own business in his
relations with his fellowmen or in civic
affairs, if every faculty were trained to
its fullest capacity? Would it be of any
less value to a. farmer’s daughter, to have
her faculties developed? Has she any
less need of training for the administra-
tion of her household, in the care of her
children, in her relations with those out-
side her own homecr in civic affairs?
The time has passed when Woman's need
for education in this latter line was
doubted. Education is of many kinds.
but dividing it into two great classes I
would say esthetic and practical or pro-
fessional. For the first I would say
briefly. get all you can of it. Put all the
beauty and poetry and music and art into
your lives you have time and money for,
you will never regret it. But under the
practical or professional head I admit
that the lines of education for farmers’
sons and farmers’ daughters may diverge
quite widely. It is a question under ear-
nest discussion by leaders of the present
time that their education may diverge all
the way. I'am conservative enough to
think that even then they need to keep
in hailing distance of each other.

Neither needs it more than the other
Every farmer’s ‘son and every farmer’s
daughter needs every bit of mental train-
ing they can get. It is not to help us get
a living without work that we are edu-
cated, but to enable us to do more and
better work. The pride of .America is her
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Our, Motto—“The Farmer is of more
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Suggestions for Second Meeting.

Phonograph selection.

Declamation, “The farmer that grows,”
by a. man or boy.

What I would look for if I went to buy
a farm—discussion led by a. man and
woman.

Roll call—responded to by each giving
the name of his farm or suggesting one
which might be given it.

Character song—N0. 64 in Grange Mel-
odies.

Book review—by a. woman.

Recitation—“The farmer’s challenge.”

What is worth reading in my favorite
paper.

Phonographic selection.

Exhibit of ribbons and trophies won at
fairs—(in charge of Ceres and Overseer).

 

 

THE GRANGE AT LENAWEE COUNTY
FAIR.

 

The manner in which the Lenawee
Oranges and the county fair association
co—operate, to the very evident benefit of
both Granges and fair, has frequently
been desoribed and commented on in
these columns. It was naturally expected
that under such an admirable arrange-
ment the artistic exhibits designed and
installed by the various Granges would
show gradual improvement from year to
year. This result has been realized to
such an extent that the Grange building

has become an extremely prominent fea-
ture of this fair. This year the seven
Oranges to which the booths were as—
signed responded in such splendid fashion
as to warrant the assertion that for
beauty and originality of designs, as well
as variety of products, the showing made
has not been surpassed at any previous
fair. Such exhibits are of interest to
all Granges and especially so to those
endeavoring to secure a working arrange-
ment, similar to the one in existence in
Lenawee, with their county and local
fair associations. To the Adrian Times
are we indebted for the following descrip—
tion of the Grange exhibits seen at Ad-
rian last week:

Madison Grange had a color scheme in
black and yellow, with panels outlined in
corn, surmounted by a huge star in the
same grain. Ceres with her horns of
plenty, poured at her feet all kinds of
fruit, grain, vegetables, melons and pro-
ducts of the field.

’llipton Grange had a grain—decorated
table loaded with fruits. potatoes and
other vegetables, some sizable pumpkins
and melons. with the products of fruitful
orchards spread about. A figure formed
of oat straw sat at one end of the table.
The Grange name was formed of green
peppers.

 

South Dover Grange had a fancy en-
trance lending to an exhibit of vegetables,
grains, ileld products. surrounding figures
of a farmer and wife. The color scheme
was pink, yellow and blue.

    

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Four Towns Grange had pyramids and I ------------ ——=-—-—.—.-‘ 3
strings of corn, with a. woven tapestry n . :
over the entrance. A corn—husk castle, :M°r°pur°h”m8 : g
with occupants of the same material, was I A Wet Weather g I
seen in one corner, the ground about the team.“ locket 0 ) J
habitation being“ plentifully besprinkled n . , a
with hops, herbs, vegetables. flowers, su- ,thfeaionstrucuon.“ t
gar cane, fruits, melons and other farm :° ° .1
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orman .range at one o c pre y g ‘ .
entrances—11' tapestry of seeds opening , REFLEXSLICJCER l E,
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corn, vegetables, melons. plants and flow- coaéhREFilfiX], 12,3
ers, all prettily arranged on shelves. m ins' estorm apaso a,

Wolf Creek Grange introduced crab ap- aR ”awn:

plea on its name plate, and inside the
booth 0110 saw a cleverly arranged rural
scene. One farm hand was pitching oat
bundles from a wagon, while another was
busily stacking. Moss, flowers, vege-
tables and field products complcted the
showing.

Macon Grange featured the grape in its
showing. having an arbor arranged on
the ceiling, loaded with the delicious
fruit. Baskets of grapes also were shown,
along with other features of fruits, vege-

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DETROIT _WHOLESALE MARKET.

October 6, 1911.
Grains and Seeds. -

Wheat—Wheat prices have experienced
many fluctuations during the past week,
the range, however, being slightly above
that of the previous week. Traders ap-
pear to be somewhat confused as to the
real condition of the market. Receipts
are piling up in Chicago and Minneapolis
and also in Winnipeg. The rains, early
this week delayed marketing and was a
slight bullish influence in the deal. In
the Canadian northwest bad weather is
doing damage to the unthreshed fields.
The war situation in Europe has had a
bullish influence but this news will not
affect the trade as much as if Russia
had a large crop. Frosts are reported in
the Argentine. Mills are using a consid-
erable amount of cash grain to be man-
ufactured into flour and there is a brisk
demand for the manufactured product.
The strength in corn is one of the lead-
ing bullish factors of the trade at the
present time. No. 2 red wheat was sell-
ing on Detroit markets a year ago at
980 per bu. Quotations for the past week

are-
No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec. May.
Thursday . . . .931/2 .901/2 99%; 551.04%
Friday ...... 94 .91 ' 1.00 1.05
Saturday . .9311; 90% 99% 1.04%
Monday ...... 94 .91 99% 1.04%
Tuesday .. . . .933; .9034 .991/2 1.04%

Wednesday “93% .9055 .9914 1.04%,

Corn.——This grain continues to advance
and with the unfavorable weather condi-
tions in the corn belt, there is no reason
why the cereal will not only maintain its
present position, but will also advance to
a higher level. Floods in many of the
western states are reported to be spoil-
ing the ears in the shock which will
greatly decrease the amount of No.
corn. In the local market there is a
good demand for corn and nobody desires
to sell. One year ago No. 3 corn was
quoted at 530 per bu. Quotations for the
past week are as follows:

H

0. No.3

Corn. Yellow.

Thursday .70 71
Friday 701/2 711/2
Saturday ................ 701/2 711,41
Monday .................. 701/2 711/2
Tuesday 71 72
\Vednesday 71% 72%

Data—This trade continues firm with
quotations slightly advanced over those
of last week. There is a good demand
on the local market which appears to be
true all over the country. Dealers do not
think that prices, much lower than the
present basis, will be seen the coming
winter. One year ago the price for stan—
dard oats was 353,4c per bu. Quotations
for the week are:

Standard No. 3

White.
Thursday 49 481/2
Friday 491A. 49
Saturday 49% 49
Monday 49% 49
Tuesday 49% 49
\Vednesday ....... . . ..... 49 1%, 491:,

Beans.—Prompt beans are rulin.I on the
same basis as a week‘ ago while October
option has advanced. Unfavorable
weather in harvesting the bean crop
should be an influence for higher values
since a large percentage of the crop will
be damaged, thus reducing the supply.
Quotations for the week are:

Oct. Nov.
Thursday $212 $2.10
Friday 2.12 2.10
Saturday 2.12 2.10
Monday 2.15 2.13
Tuesday ..... 2.17 2.15
\Vednesday 2.20 2.18

Clover Seed.—There is no change in
quotations from a week ago, the mar-
ket ruling firm with a fair amount of ac-
tivity, considering, of course, the small
offerings from farmers. Quotations are
as follows:

Oct. Aisike.
Thursday ................$12.00 $10.50
Friday 12.00 10.50
Saturday 12.00 10.50
Monday ...... ..... 12.00 10.50
Tuesday ................. 12.00 10.50
\\'ednesday .............. 12.00 10.50

Rye.—-.-\nother advance of 4c is noted
in the rye deal. The grain is scarce
with a fair demand. Cash No. 2 is quot-
ed at 990 per bu.

Timothy Seed.—~The present. price for
this seed is the highest known in the
history of the market. Prime spot sold
in the Detroit market Tuesday at $7 per
bushel.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.

Fiour.——There is a brisk demand for
flour, with prices unchanged.

Clear ................................ $3.90
Straight .................... . ......... 4.10
Patent Michigan ........... . ........ 4.75
Ordinary Patent ..................... 4.40

Feed—Bran has advanced another dol-
lar this week. Other feeds are steady.

‘ Carlot prices on track are: Bran, $27 per

ton; coarse middlings, $29; fine middlings
$32; cracked corn, $30; coarse corn meal,
$3 : corn and oat chop, $28 per ton.

Hay and Straw.——The market continues
steady for all grades of hay, while straw
is higher. Quotations: No. 1 timothy,
$20@20.50; No. 2 timothy, $18.50@19: clo-
ver, mixed, $186019; rye straw, $8608.25;
wheat and oat straw, $7.50@8 per ton.

Potatoes.——There has been general im-
provement in the late potato crop and
prices are declining. The deal is easy.
Average receipts are selling around 600
per bu. in car lots. on track. Last week
quotations were 90c.

Provisions.—Family pork, $19@20; mess

THE MICHIGAN V-FARMER.

pork, $17.50; medium clear, $18@19; smok-.

ed hams, 150; shoulders, 10c; picnic hams

90; bacon, 1361314540; pure lard in tierces,

101,40; kettle-rendered lard, 11340 per lb.
Dairy and Poutry Products.

Butter.—Both creamery and dairy but-
ter advanced a cent since last week. De-
mand continues steady and supplies are
decreasing. The market is firm at the
new figures. Quotations: Extra cream-
ery, 27%0; firsts, do., 26%0; dairy, 19c;
packing stock, 18c per lb.

Eggs.—.—There.is no change in quota-
tions but demand brisk and offerings are
limited. Fresh receipts, case count, cases
included, are now quoted at 21c per doz

Poultry.—-Broilers are a shade lower.
Other kinds steady. The market is easy
owing to the liberal supply. Prices are:
Live—-Hens, 11@120; old rooswrs, 8c;
turkeys, 146t15c; geese, 8@9c; ducks, 12
(/0130; young ducks, 14@150; broilers.
121.4,g@13c per lb.

Cheese.—Michigan, old, 170; Michigan,
late, 15112611160; York state, new, 16@
161/20; Swiss, domestic block, 19@21c;
cream brick, 1561160

VeaI.—--Market steady. Fancy, 11@120";
choice, 8Gr90 per lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Cabbage—Lower. Selling at $1.75 per
bbl, for home-grown.

Pears.—75c(d‘1 per bu for average of-
ferings.

Peaches—Market is about steady with
last week. Quotations: .~\. A., $2; A.,
341.50.711.75: R, 900613311 per bu.

Apples—Growers are still holding the
market down by marketing their poor
stock. Average offerings are going at
5060750 per bu.: Snows are selling at
$2.50 per bbl.

From Farmers' Wagons on Detroit East-
ern Market.

There were fewer wagons on the mar-
ket \\'ednesday morning than usual,
which was probably accounted for in
part by the storm on the day previous.
The fruit and produce as a consequence
sold more briskly than when the offerings
were more plentiful. Potatoes have. tak-
en a decided drop and are now selling
at 80c per bu. Cabbage is coming in
quite plentifully and quoted at 40c; egg
plant, 3061400; onions are selling around
$1 per bu; string beans, 500; turnips,
35c; celery, 20617250 per bunch: water—
melons. 50: 10c eacli. Grapes are offered
moderately and quoted at 200 per 8-lb.
basket and 75647850 per bushel basket.
Peaches were scarce and quotations
ranged from $1 for the poorest to $2.50
for the best; pears were quoted at 50ch
$1 per bu; apples were not offered very
pientifully and were quoted at from 750
011.40 per bu. Hay is quoted at from $20
r3125, according to quality. There were
more loads of hay on the market Tues-
day morning than has been seen any
morning this fall.

OTHER MARKETS.
Grand Rapids.

Dealers report a quiet potato market
with prices to farmers ranging from 40
@450, and they are looking for the mar-
ket to go 5c lower. Late potatoes are
turning out better than was expected.
Not many apples are moving as yet and
the price offered for good winter varieties
is around $1.50 per barrel for the fruit.
The egg market is steady at 200. Dairy
butter at 21c. Live chickens range from
941.10g \Vhite beans, machine scheened,

A are quoted at $1.90, hand-picked at $2.10.

Beans that remained unharvested in the
fields have been badly damagd by wet
weather.

 

Chicago.

\\'heat.—No. 2 red, 955/3@98c; Dec.,
977.90; May, $1.037/g per bu.

Corn.-~No. 2, 69%@700; Dec., 641,40;
May, 651/20 per bu. ,

Oats—No. 2 white, 48940; Dec., 47%0;
May, 501/,c.

Barley—Making grades, $1.05@1.25 per
bu; feeding, 75@95c.

Butter.——\Vith supplies running lighter
than had been anticipated, and a con-
tinuance of a rather brisk demand, this
market has developed considerable
strength. Creameries have advanced a
full cent since this time last week, while
dairies are quoted 1%0 higher. Cream-
cries, 22%(1‘274/20y dairies, 201/2@251A;c
per lb.

Eggs—No change in conditions sur-
rounding this market. Ordinary qualities
are plentiful and barely steady at former
values. Fancy stock in limited supply
and very firm. Quotations: Prime firsts,
201;.(‘1 firsts, 19c: at mark, cases includ—
ed. 1575180 per dozen.

Jlilai()eS.-"’rhj5 week opened with of-
ferings showing a decrease of over 80
cars from the corresponding days of last
wr-ck, producing an undertone of firm-
ness which resulted in Michigan and
\\'isconsin stock recovering a small part
of last week’s heavy decline. Michigan
stock is now quoted at 637L650 per bu;
\t'isconsin, 606162c; Minnesota, 6869700.

Beans. (fl‘hoice pea beans have made
another good advance. Prices on all
grades are being well maintained. Choice
hand—picked pea beans are quoted at
51228711235 per bu; prime, $2.17@2.21; red
kidneys, $275613 bcr bu.

Hay and Straw.~ilay is firm at an ad-
vance of $1 per ton on all grades except
straight clover. Straw firm at unchanged
figures. Quotations: Choice timothy,
252350612450 per ton: do., No. 1, $21.50@
22.50: do., No. 2 and No. 1 mixed, $19.50
(0720.50: do., No. 3 and No. 2 mixed, $14
61/18: clover, $106104; do., No. 2 and no
grade, $561.12: rye straw, $8.50@9; oat
straw, $7o7.5o per ton; wheat straw, $5
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New York.

Rotten—Creamery specials are 11/20
higher, while other grades have advanced-
proportionately. Market firm. Creamery
specials are quoted at 300 per lb; extras,
29c; firsts, 251746027150; seconds, 23%@
25c; thirds, 21%@23c.

Eggs—firmer, with prices generally

showing a lo gain. Fresh gathered ex-
tras, 27@29c; extra, firsts, 24@26c; sec-
onds, 18@200; western gathered. whites,
23612280 per dozen.

Poultry—Dressed. Quiet; young tur-
keys and broilers quoted lower. Turkeys
10@18c; do., young, 25c; fowls. 10@17c;
western broilers, 12@19c. Alive—Quiet
and slightly lower except on turkeys.
Western spring chickens, 14c; fowls, 13%
@150; turkeys, 150 per 1b.

Boston.

VVooL—There has been a slight revival
of activity in wool during the past week.
Demand for territory stock was good,
with prices remaining steady. A slight
falling off is noted in the sale of fleece
wools. Trade conditions among clothing
dealers is improving. Following are the
leading domestic quotations for the week:
Ohio and Pennsylvania fieeces—Deiaine
washed, 300; xx, 280; fine unmerchant-
able, 22@23c; 1/2-b100d combing, 251/2@
260: 3;,-blood combing, 25c; 14-blood
combing, 24@241/2c; delaine unwashed,
25c; fine unwashed, 210. Michigan, Wis-
consin, New York fleeces—Fine unwashed
1.960200; delaine unwashed, 23@24c; V2-
blood unwashed, 24174623250. Kentucky,
Indiana and Missouri—%-blood, 250; 11,,-
blood, 231/2@240.

 

Elgin.

Butter.—Markct firm at 271,40 per 1b.,
which is 10 above last week’s quotation.
Output for the week, 720,300 lbs., as com-
pared with 739,300 lbs. for the previous
week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Buffalo.
October 2, 1911.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens.
New York Central Stock Yards,
East, Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 190 cars: hogs, 100 double decks;
sheep and lambs, 80 double decks; calves,
1,400 head.

1Vith 190 loads of cattle on the market
here today, and 30,000 reported in Chi-
cago, and being Hebrew holiday, known
as Yom Kippur, our market on all grades
of cattle, except the extreme tops. sold
strong 1562250 per cwt. lower, and in
many instances 25@400 lower. A few
loads of top cattle sold steady with last
week. There was not a single Hebrew
buyer on the market here today, and the
market was slow and draggy from start
to finish.

TVe quote: Best 1,400 to 1,600-lb.‘ steers
$7.60@7.75; good prime 1,300 to 1,400-lb.
do., $7657.25; do. 1,200 to 1,300-lb. steers,
$6.50@7.25: best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. shipping
steers, $5.85fi16.25; medium butcher steers
1,000 to 1,100, $5.10fi‘5.60; light butcher
steers, $4.50fti5; best fat cows, 84.2561)
4,75; fair to good do., $350624; common
to medium do., $250603; trimmers, $1.75
@250; best fat heifers, $5.25@5.75; good
do., $4.75fi15.25; fair to good do., $46.3
4.75; stock heifers, $3@3.25; best feeding
steers, dehorned, $4.50@4.75: common
feeding steers, dehorned, $3.50@4; stock—
ers, all grades, $3.25@3.50; prime export
bulls, $5695.25: best butcher bulls, $4.25@
4.75; bologna bulls, $3.25@3.75: stock bulls
$3.25@3.75: best milkers and springers,
$506560; common to good do., $256335.

Today’s hog market ruled fairly active
at the prices: the good quality yorkers,
mixed and mediums going mostly at $7
617.05, with the common grades in these
weights ranging on down to around $6.75.
The market was stronger on pigs; the
bulk of the good kind going around $6.40
with a few strong weights up to $6.50.
The light weight pigs sold around 50 per
pound. The good kind of rough sows
sold mostly at $5.75; stags, $5605.50. Trade
is ruling slow on the commoner grades,
and we advise a good margin, as a good
many of these are showing heavy shrink-
age.

The sheep and lamb market was active
today at the prices. Most of the choice
lambs sold from $6.65@6.75. V’Vethers
from $4.10@4.35. Look for a shade lower
prices for the balance of the week; ev-
evrything about sold tonight.

\Ve quote: Best spring lambs, $6.65@
6.75; wethers, $4.10@4.35: cull sheep, $1.50
((02.50; bucks, $2.50@2.75; yearlings, $4.50
((114.75; handy ewes, $3.75@4; heavy ewes,
$3.50frb3.75; veals, choice to extra, $10@
10.25; fair to good do., $8.50@9.50; heavy
calves, $4@6.

Chicago.
October 2, 1911.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 30,000 23,000 45,000
Same day last year..30,346 24,451 66,160
Received last week..58,937 124,146 157,677
Same week last year.70,316 84,037 203,193
T.he close of last week found the poorer
classes of cattle selling 10613150 lower than
a week earlier, while the choice class
were largely 150 higher. Receipts of
western range cattle this season to the
close of the week were 106,700 head, com-
pared with 171.900 a year ago, and ex-
cept the better lots of westerns, the mar—
ket averaged last week 15 to 200 lower
than a week earlier. The cattle market
today was depressed for the cheaper
kinds by the arrival of around 13,000
western rangers, the largest run of the
year. Fat beeves were good. sellers, but
others were slow and reported 10@15c
lower. A late sale was made of 44 head
of fancy 1,532-lb. branded Hereford steers
that were fed in Missouri at $8.35. Hogs
'are 5613100 higher today, with a small sup-
ply and an active demand, sales ranging
at $5.80@6.90, the largest rise being in
prime lots. Pigs are numerous, and last
week's hog receipts averaged only 215
lbs., this comparing with 241 lbs. three
weeks earlier and 264 lbs. a year a o. A
week ago hogs, sold at $6.35@7.10. Pigs
weighing 11.0 lbs. and under go at $4.20@
5.30 and selected lots weighing 100 to 130
lbs. at $5.40@6.30. Sheep and lambs are
steady for the better class, others ruling
slow. Lambs declined last week largely
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at $4@6; wethers at $3.75@4.25; ewes at
$2@3.75; bucks at $2.50@3 and yearlings
at $3.90@4.60. Feeders pay $5.30@5._40 for
most of their lamb purchases, extreme
sales being at $4.50@5.50. Feeding weth-
ers go at $3.25@3.70 and feeder yearlings
at $3.85@4.50. ‘

Cattle were marketed much too un-
evenly last week, country shippers crowd—
ing 31,551 head in. the stock yards Mon—
day, while on other days supplies were
quite moderate. The natural result was
a break of 10@150 in the great bulk of
the Monday offerings, followed by quick
recoveries later in the week, although by
Thursday plain cattle sold slowly at weak
values. On \Vcdncsday a sale was made
of 15 prime 1,584-lb. Shorthorns at $8.25,
which was a dime higher than any trait—
saction the preceding week, and choice
beeves were strong at $7.70@8.15, with
only moderate offerings. The aggregate
receipts of cattle for the week were
smaller than a week earlier or a Year
ago, and even the fair to middling class
sold well, despite the restricted consump-
tion of beef due to its dearness. Desir-
able yearlings went at $76118, and no really
good steers were bought under $7, export
steers being quoted at $6.50@7.10, while
the lower class of grass-fed native steers
went for $4.75@5.75. A large share of
the steers offered brought $5.75@7.75,
there being a good trade on Wednesday
in fat lots at $7.80@8.15. Local packers
have been large buyers at $6@7, and

butchering lots of cows and heifers had

a free outlet at $3.30@7, with not many
offerings good enough to sell above $6.
Cutters went at $2.75@3.25, canners at
$1.75@2.70 and bulls at $2.75@5.75, while
calves sold at $3.50@9.65, the best vealers
being active. The stocker and feed‘er
trade showed a good deal of life, although
scarcity of the best clase, of these cattle
and their dearness checked trade consid-
erably. Stockers sold at $3.50@5.25 and
feeders at $4.50@5.75, and a sale was ef-
fected of 147 prime stock calves that av-
eraged 370 lbs. at $6. Western range cat-
tle were in fairly large supply and in
good demand, steers selling at $3.75@7.15
and cows and heifers at $3@6, with stock
and feeding steers going at $3.75@5.25.
Milkers and springers were purchased at
5153061170 per head, the demand centering in
good to choice forward springers and top-
py milch cows. The beef cattle market
promises well for the better class for
some months.

Hogs have been marketed freely ,for
another week, with an extremely large
showing of pigs, especially little ones,
these coming from sections where sick-
ness prevails among the pigs. Numerous
sick pigs arrived, and many well oncs
came, too, farmers fearing that they
would be affected if held longer. The
packers were as bearish in sentiment as
ever, and prices reached the lowest lev-
els touched since last June, with pigs
going at an enormous discount from
prices prevailing for matured hogs. About
the only noteworthy change in the mar-
ket was the larger eastern shipping de—
mand at times, this being regarded as an
indication that the east has fewer hogs
in the home territory to market. Droves
of hogs averaging 180 to 250 lbs. were
usually the highest sellers, and heavy old
sows sold lowest of anything except lit-
tle pigs. On different days hogs were
allowed to accumulate extensively in
the hands of sellers, and nearly 9,000
were carried over Tuesday night, thereby
swelling the next day’s offerings to un-
comfortably large numbers. The large
numbers of pigs marketed has caused

the average weight of the hogs to fall to >

the lightest since March, 1910. A year
ago the proportion of pigs received was
very small.

Sheep and lambs have been marketed
liberally for another week, causing de-
clines in prices, despite a very good gen-
eral demand, including large buying of
feeders from the ranges. Lambs con-
tinued the favorite sellers and brought
the usual large premium over yearlings
and sheep, with liberal supplies of mut—
ton and feeding lambs from Idaho. The
percentage of native sheep and lambs
offered continued very small, and many
of them failed to show sufficient fat,
causing unsatisfactory prices.‘ There Was
a good call for breeding ewes, and more
could have been sold than were offered,
buyers paying $4604.50 per 100 lbs. Re-
ports from various quarters say that
farmers in sections where there is a
short hay crop have bought a good many
feeders and that these will come back on
the market after being warmed up. This
is done every year, usually with very un—
satisfactory results to the men who carry
on the business. .Many Michigan men
are staying out because of their losses
last winter.

Horses must be attractive in appear-
ance to attract favorable attention from
buyers at the present time. and others
are neglected and hard to sell, even after
concessions are made inprices. The de-
mand runs mainly on business horses, al-
though the call for feeders has started
up, these horses being wanted at $1406?
265 per head. YVagoners are selling on
the basis of $160@200, a few extra ones
selling all the way up to $250. Choice.
heavy drafters are in demand at $225617
325, with not many prime enough to sell
as high as $275. while light weight ones
are taken at $175@220. F.

 

Pastures in southwestern Wisconsin
are reported in fine condition, while farm-
ers have good corn and other crops. as
well as plenty of steers and fair num—
bers of hogs, most of the hogs being
young and healthy. They also own fair
numbers of native lambs.

Texas cattle feeders are deliberating
the question whether to feed or not the
coming winter season, many of them
looking upon ruling prices for feeder cat-
tle as unreasonably high. They also re.-
gard feed prices as too high, and after
last year’s painful experience in cattle
feeding operations they are slow about
trying it again; The mills are holding
meal and hulls very high.

 

 

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In the first edition - the Detroit Live
stock markets are. reports of last week;
all othermarkets are right up to date.
Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets
are given in the last edition. The first
edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-
tion Friday morning. The first edition is
mailed to these who care more to 'get the
paper early, than they do for Thursday's
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Thursday's Market.

October 5, 1911.
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Receipts, 984. Market steady at last
week’s prices.
We quote: Best steers and heifers

36.766615; steers and heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $565.50; steers and heifers, 800 to
1,000, $4.50@5; grass steers and heifers
that are fat, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@5; do. 500
to 700, $3.75@4.50; choice fat cows, $4@
4.50; good fat cows, $3.75@4; common
cows $363.25; canners, $1.50@2.75; choice
heavy bulls, $3.75; fair to good bolognas,
hulls, $3@3.50; stock bulls, $3@3.50; choice
foedin steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@4.75; fair
do. 8 to 1,000, $4.25@4.50; choice stock-
ers, 500' to 700, $4@4.40; fair stockers,
500 to 700, $3.50@3.75; stock heifers, $3@
3.50; milkers, large, young, medium age,
$40@60; common milkers, $256235.

Roe Com. Co. sold Parker, W. & Co. 9
butchers av 586 at $3.85; to Goose 6 do
av 425 at $3.50; to Hammond, S. & Co.
3 bulls av 1,133 at $3.85, 1 do weighing 730
at $3.25, 1 cow weighing 1,050 at $4, 1 do
weighing 870 at $3, 1 do weighing 750 at
$2.25; to Regan 4 heifers av 535 at $3.75;
to Fry 5 butchers av 744 at $4.50, 4 do
av 745 at $4.50, 1 do weighing 630 at $4;
to Park§, W. & Co. 4 cows av 837 at
$2.75, 10 utchers av 980 at $3.75; to Goose
9 do av 480 at $3.50, 36 do av 600 at
$3.90: to Sullivan P. Co. 6 cows av 1,063
at $4. 2 do av 925 at $4.

Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
2 cows av 1,060 at $3.90, 1 heifer weigh—
ing 580 at’ $4.25, 1 cow weighing 950 at
$2.75, 1 do weighing 1,050 at $3; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 3 steers av 973 at $4.90, 6
butchers av 636 at $4.15, 1 cow weighing
1,050 at $3.50, 2 heifers av 355 at $3, 8
butchers av 525 at $4; to Parker. W. &
Co. 3 do‘av 416 at $3.40. 7 do av 541 at
$3.90; to Breitenbeck 3 steers av 850 at
$4.65, 1 cow weighing 810 at $3.50; to
Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weighing 790 at $3.50;
to Goose 7 butchers av 611 at $3.65, 2 do
av 750 at $3.25, 2 heifers av 750 at $4; to
Bresnahan 3 cows av 910 at $2.75, 7 cows
av 891 at $2.75; to Applebaum 4 butchers
av 785 at $3.75; to Parker, 15'. & Co. 8
do av 506 at $3.65, 7 do av 585 at $4; to
Marx 2 cows av 910 at $3.65, 5 steers and
heifers av 670 at $4.60; to Rattkowsky 2
cows av 1,005 at $4; to Lachalt 8 steers
av 850 at $4.85. - _

Bishop, B. dc H. sold Hammond, S. &
Co. 1 bull weighing 1,300 at $3.75, 2 do
av 875 at $3.50, 5 canners av 834 at $2.60,
1 do weighing 1,000 at $3.25, 1 cow weigh-
ing 940 at $4; to Gerisch 21 steers av
1,188 at $6; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 cow
weighing 1,280 at $4.75, 4 do av 775 at $3;
to Heinrich 27 steers av 1,030 at $5.25; to
Sullivan P. Go. 9 heifers av 611 at $3.75,
2 cows av 650 at $2.50, 2 do av 780 at
$2.85; to Thompson Bros. 4 butchers av
762 at $4.40, 6 do av 570 at $3.70, 11 do
av 1,071 at $5; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull
weighing 1,180 at $4, 3 do av 957 at $3.75,
5 heifers av 600 at $3.15, 9 butchers av
770 at $4.50, 4 cows av 910 at $3.75, 1 bull
weighing 670 at $3.75, 1 cow weighing 900
at $3; to Parker, W. & Co. 4 cows av
770 at $2.75, 1 do weighing 720 at $3.50,
1 bull weighing 820 at $3.50; to Mich. B
Co. 11 steers av 1,072 at $5; to Regan 6
heifers av 521 at $3.25; to Hammond, S. &
Co. 1 bull weighing 940 at $3.60, 6 cows
av 1,033 at $3.60, 6 steers av 866 at $5.25,
2 do av 740 at $4.50, S cows av 963 at
$3.35, 5 do av 940 at $2.75; to Sullivan P.
Co. 9 butchers av 794 at $4.40; to Austin
8 feeders av 780 at $4.35; to Sullivan P.
Go. 4 cows av 1,017 at $3.75, 2 canners av
. , to Thompson Bros 2 bulls
av 1,100 at $3.75; to Parker, W. & Co. 4
cows av 875 at $2.75, 2 do av 990 at $3.75,
1 bull weighing 880 at $3.75; 2 cows av
775 at $2.75, 1 heifer weighing 840 at $5,
10 butchers av 670 at $3.75; to Hammond,
S. & Co. 16 do av 790 at $4.30.

Spicer & R. sold Breitenbeck 14 cows
av 965 at $3.65, 30 steers and heifers av,
809 at $4.75; to Bresnahan 9 heifers av
573 at $3.50, 1 cow weighing 880 at $3.25,
1 do weighing 930 at $2.25, 11 butchers av
561 at $3.40, 2 canners av 825 at $2.75, 2
do av 925 at $2.75, 3 heifers av 607 at
$3.40; to Heinrich 9 butchers av 655 at
$4.25, 2 cow and bull av 905 at $4; to
Hammond S. & Co. 4 cows av 962 at $3;
to Goose1é bulls av 777 at $3.50; to Otter
2 feeders av 805 at $4, 27 stockers av 620
at $3.75, 3 feeders av 837 at $4; to Mich.
B. Co. 2 bulls av 1,180 at $4, 3 cows av
1,083 at $4; to Kull 4 bulls av 655 at $3.50,
1 steer weighing 870 at $4.25; to Thomp-
son Bros. 7 heifers av 494 at $3.60: to
Sullivan P. Co. I bull weighing 1,300 at
$4; to Mich. B. Co.— 1 steer weighing 1,200
at $5.50, 14 butchers av 843 at $4.25.

Rosenheim sold Mich. B. Co. 1 cow
weighing 850 at $3, 1 do Weighing 1,360
at $5, 1 do Weighing 1,020 at $4.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 552. Market strong at last
week's prices. Best, $9629.50; others, $4
@875; milch cows and springers steady.

Blshop, 'B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 20
av 160 at $9, 12 av 160 at $9, 4 av 190 at
$5, 6 av 210‘at $4.50, 6 av 150 at $8.50: to
Goose 3 av 130 at $9; to Friedman 3 av
130 at $8.50, 4 av 155 at $8; to McGuire 3
av mo at $9.50, 2 av 135 at $7, 6 av 150
at $9.50, 2 av 145 at $9.50, 1 weighing 190
at 910: to Parker, W. & Co. 2 av 180 at
$9.50, 7 av 140 at $9.25, 2 av 140 at $8.50,
3 av 155 at $9.50, 2 av 140 at $9.50. 6 av
145 at $9.50, 1 weighing 170 at $9.50; to
Hammond‘.'-S. 8; Co. 6 av 165 at $9.50, 1
weighing 130 at $7, 2'ev 200mm. $6, 26 av
150 at $9; to Burnstine 8 'w 145 at $9.50,
7 av 150 at $9.25. ‘

THE MICHIGAN PARME‘R.

Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 6 av 165 wound should be stitched and artificial

at $9.25, 5 av 145 at $8.50, 17 av 125 at
$8.50; to Thompson
$5.50, 5 av 120 at $8.50; to Rattkowsky
3 av 180 at $6; to Goose 4 av 250 at $4.50:
to Kull 4 av 150 at $8, 3 av 155 at $9, 4
av 115 at $8.50; to Mich. B. Co. 26 av
160 at $8.75.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 6 av
150 at $9.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 5,507. Market steady at last
week's prices. Nagle Packing Co. started
buying again this week. Best lambs, $6;
fair lambs, $5.50@5.75; light to common
lambs, $4634.50; fair to good sheep, $3@
3.25; culls and common, $1.50@3.

Haley 8: M. sold Barlage 7 sheep av
80 at $2, 32 do av 100 at $3.25, 15 lambs
av 70 at $5.75; to Mich. B. Co. 60 lambs
av 70 at 3,6; to’ Sullivan P. Co. 20 do av
50 at $4.50; to Youngs 182 do av 75 at
$5.55; to Eschrich 10 sheep av 96 at
$2.75, 31 lambs av 50 at $4.25, 7 do av 60
at $4.25, 12 sheep av 90 at $3, 22 do av
70 at $2.25.

Spicer &. R. sold Mich. B. Co. .15 lambs
av 65 at $5.75, 53 do av 75 at $5.65, 33 do
av 70 at $5.75, 52 do av 75 at $5.80; to
Newton B. Co. 198 do av 68 at $5.75; to
Sullivan P. Co. 15 do av 45 at $4.40, 41
sheep av 65 at $2.75, 20 do av 90 at $2.65,
19 lambs av 50 at $4.25, 45 do av 65 at
$5.65, 41 sheep av 110 at $3, 37 do av 90
at $2.90, 75 lambs av 65 at $5.25; to
Saunch 8 do av 105 at $5; to Hammond,
S. & Co. 88 do av 68 at $5.85, 30 do av 65
at $5.25, 27 sheep av 90 at $2.25; to Breit-
enbeck 113 lambs av 58 at $5.20; to Kull
19 do av 65 at $5.75, 10 yearlings av 80
at $4.25, 7 sheep av 100 at $3.

Bishop, B. 8': H. sold Nagle P. Co. 11
sheep av 85 at $2, 13 do av 105 at 2.50,
23 lambs av 60 at $4.50. 141 do av 75 at
$5.85, 6 sheep av 73 at $2.50, 18 do av
107 at $3, 17 do av 85 at $2, 8 do av 100
at $2.75, 4 do av 88 at $2.75, 15 do av
95 at $3.25, 21 lambs av 65 at $5.75, 14
do av 72 at $5.75, 61 do av 65 at $5.40, 65
do av 78 at $6, 25 do av 65 at $4.25, 5
sheep av 108 at $3, 40 do av 80 at $3; to
Newton B. Co. 74 lambs av 55 at $5.25, 5
sheep av 90 at $2, 22 do av 90 at $3.25; to
Hammond, .S. & Co. 37 lambs av 65 at
$5.75, 59 do av 75 at $5.90, 56 do av 56 at
$4.75, 13 do av 45 at $4.50, 37 do av 73 at
$5.75, 7 sheep av 125 at $3; to Sullivan P.
Co. 20 lambs av 45 at $3.75, 13 do av 47
at $4, 49 do av 70 at $6, 7 do av 80 at $6,
9 sheep av 115 at $3; to Mich. B. ('0. 23
lambs av 55 at $5.25, 77 do av 54 at $4.60,
178 do av 70 at $5.75; to Hammond, S. &
Co. 24 do av 75 at $5.75, 52 do av 55 at
$4.85; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 29 do av 70
at $6; to Nagle P. Co. 35 lambs av 80 at
$6, 31 do av 56 at $5, 10 do av 66 at $5,
11 sheep av 120 at $3.25, 28 do av 80 at
$3, 127 lambs av 75 at $5.85, 52 do av 75
at $5.85, 166 do av 75 at $5.85; to Fitzpat—
rick Bros. 23 sheep av 115 at $3.50; to
Thompson Bros. 74 lambs av 55 at $4.75:
to Sullivan P. Co. 20 do av 55 at $4.50,
4 sheep av 135 at $3.

Sharp sold Sullivan P. Co. 27 lambs av
65 at $5.35.

McLaughlin sold 'Newton B. Co. 18
lambs av 75 at $5 25

Hope.

Receipts, 4,599. Pigs 3562400 higher than
last week; others 10@15c higher. Steady
with Vl’ednesday.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $6.50@6.65; pigs, $6@6.25; light york-
ers, $6.50@6.65; heavy, $6.50@6.60.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
1,715 av 170 at $6.50, 1,520 av 180 at $6.55.

Sundry shippers sold same 510 av 175
at $6.50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 47
av 200 at $6.55, 310 av 190 at $6.50, 24 av
140 at $6.35.

Sundry shippers sold same 160 av 180
at $6.50.

Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
210 av 185 at $6.55.

Spicer & R. sold same 360.av 180 at
$6.55, 213 av 170 at $6.50.

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S and muttontype. Prices ri ht. befits gmwfia‘rtgl
“mo. 1. c. Swme. Geo. r. An mm. Dansville.Mich:

The, Maple Shropshiresfggmg ‘35,;2‘0 32
yearling rams. and our Z‘Lyear—nld stock ram bred by
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E. E. LELAND & SUN. Route No.9. Ann Arbor. Mich.

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EWES and RAMS— Forty big. strong well covered
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Shropshire Rams
DAN BOOHER. R. No. 1. Mata: filgiTO.

HBOPSHIRE yearling Rams and ()
Slicers (7' Rows. One yearling Boar. Illmgbiggggg
E. E. BEACHkSON. Brighton. Mich.

' at farmers’ prices. Have 11 b
‘S’Mhlms yearlingsand ram |amhs.allao 281733551313;
ing ewes. HARRY POTTER. Davison, Mich.

PARSONS? POLLED DELAINE RAMS

Will increase the weight of wool and ion evity of
ypnrflook. Grade x.n5: ado xx. :20: {xx .
masons—ole Sheep Mir“ Grand Ledge. Mich.

Ramboulllel Iams*.?.‘:22..°l‘l%‘l. 33.. 21:739..
lambs. A. E. GREEN. Orchard Lake. Mich. Bell Phone.

lambs later.

 

Pulled Delalne Rams for Sale.

F. L. BROKAW, Eagle. Michigan.

 


 
 
  

 

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Seamed Tapestry Brussels lluu
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aves feed
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of Den-
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Size No.toKeg Price Size No.toKeg Price
60d 1,100 10d 6,600 32.02

50d 1,300 8d 10,000 2. I 7
40d 1.800 S] 92 6d 17,900 2.27
30d 2,400 ' 4d 29,800 2.37
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Flno Slnelo Strap Homes.

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Per Roll ol IOI Sq. Ft. .
Best quality, made from
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Not allootod by heat or cold.
Recommended by fire un-
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We secured the entire stock at
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Order by Lot No. 25~W. 62. :4.
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Stock Feed Cookers

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