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

 

 

VOL. CXXXVII. No. I9. i
Whole Number 3572.

COMPETITION is such teday in the
dairy business, and in fact, in the
'feeding' or all "live: stock, that
farmers" begin “to realize that. thelr'profits
depend largely upon'the'cost of feeding,
and they are becoming more and more
interested in the cost of rations and the
results which a given ration produces.
Our forefathers paid but very little atten-
tion to rations or to the foods which
compose a ration. In fact, they knew
practically nothing about the composition
of food. They knew but very little about
the physiological function of food ingredi-
ents and feeding, then. was purely an
art; there was no science about it. 'But
some of them discovered that when cer-
tain foods were fed in a certain combi-
nation the-y got better results and more
economical results thanxwhen they were
fed otherwise. For instance, the English
and Scotch feeder found out that animals
did better when they were fed a. succulent
food in the ration, and many feeders dis-
covered that when they fed a clover hay
instead of timothy hay, in connection
with ordinary grains grown on the farm,
they got better results than when the-y
fed timothy or corn stover. They did not
know the reason for this; they simply
discovered the facts.

This is on a par with the practical
farmer discovering that when he.“ grew
clover‘in the rotation he invariably got
better results with the other crops in the
rotation than he did when he did not
grow clover. Now he didpnot know the
reason, but the scientists took the prob-
lem up there and began to Study why it
was that: clover was a benefit to the
other crops in the rotation. They finally
discovered that clover had a power,
through microscopic plants which live up-
on its roots, to take‘free nitrogen from
the atmosphere which surrounds the roots
of plants and convert it into a. form of
nitrogen which other plants could use,
and the other plants in the rotation did
not have this power. That is a well un~
derstood fact now. The scientist had the
same problem to solve in feeding. He
knew that the farmer got better results
when he fed clover hay with corn than
he did when he fed timothy hay with
corn, and he began to investigate to find
out why this was so, and it was discov-
ered that animals require protein, carbo-
hydrates, and fat for development and
growth. Not only that, but that they
require the protein, carbohydrates and
fat in certain proportions in the ration in
order to produce economical results. It
was found that you could not use car-
bohydrates and fat cannot be converted
cause the animal would die, even if fed
an abundant ration. In other words, car-
bohydrates and fat cannot be converted
into protein or take the place of protein
in the animal ration. On the other hand,
protein can be used by the animal to take
the place of carbohydrates and fat. Pro—
tein, or that portion of the food which
contains nitrogen, goes to build up the
muscles and vital organs of the animal
body. Carbohydrates and fat produce
heat and energy. Protein is the most ex-
pensive part of the food. To have the
most economical ration, then, we want
just enough protein in the ration to sat-
isfy the wants of the animal, but not
an excess. We might better have an ex-
cess of carbohydrates and fat, because
they are cheaper, but while they do not
take the place of protein they do no par.-
ticular harm if fed in excess, and while
protein can be used by the animal to pro-
duce heat energy, it is not profitable to
do so on account of its price.

What the live stock man figures on to-
day is to have a ration which will con-
tain a «sufficient amount of protein to
meet the requirements of the animal, but
not an excess of it. He wants a ration

DETROIT, Mien. SATURDAY, Nov. 4, lgll.

FEEDS (ma

FEEDING.

 

that contains just as much carbohydrates
and fat as possible and still get the de-
sired results. If one feeds a ration that
does not contain protein in the proper
proportion the animal cannot do its best,
either in producing milk or in making
growth, unless it consumes more of the
carbohydrates and fat than is necessary,
because it must have the required amount
of protein. This is an unbalanced ration.
A balanced ration would be one which

to great advantage, and some would go
so far as to say that you could make a.
balanced ration out of alfalfa hay and
corn. But here another problem comes
in in the feeding of animals, and that is
the bulk of the ration. A. cow cannot do
well on too bulky a ration. She must
have some concentrated food in order to
do her bestp She can’t consume enough
of too bulky a. ration to get food ingredi-
ents enough to produce her maximum

 

 

  

 

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contains the‘protein, the carbohydrates,
and fat in the proper proportion to meet
the requirements of the animal without
waste of the food ingredients. Hence, “in
figuring rations for a dairy cow we figure
on the digestible protein in the ration,
taking care to not feed this in excess,
because we want to produCe just as many
pounds of milk as possible With a dollar’s
worth of feed. It would be foolish to
feed a dairy cow a ration composed of
clover or alfalfa hay for roughage and
cottonseed Ameal and wheat bran for a

  

 

 

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'Fred Shepherd, of Eaton County, 30x90 ft.

yield, and so even with the best of alfalfa
hay and corn silage it is profitable to
feed a grain ration and furnish a con-
centrated food so that the cow does not
have to eat too much in order to get
nutriment enough to do her best.

The art of feeding even with a balanced
ration is not obtained by every feeder.
To get the very best results one must
study the individuality of each animal
and feed accordingly. There is also some
sentiment in the care of live stock, and
animals will do better for one feeder than

 

 

 

3 81.00 A YEAR.
82.75 5 YEARS.

Early this fall two brothers, both
young farmers, _ combined forces and
bought a high-grade five-horse engine.
A little later, finding it was difficult to
go an ensilage cutting outfit to do their
Work when it should be done, they bought
an ensilage cutter with fan blast elevator
and drove it with their five-horse engine
to fill their silos. They found they could
cut and elevate just about as fast as
three teams could haul the corn.

Having finished their own cutting, their
neighbors, having corn ready to cut, per-
suaded the boys to help them out, which
they did by filling eight or ten silos in the
neighborhood, in some cases delivering
the silage 35 to 40 feet above the machine.
Everybody that saw it was surprised to
see What the little outfit would do, and
it seems to me it would be a thoroughly
practical outfit for every neighborhood,
if not for every farmer, to have, for the
entire outfit, brand new, cost less than
$250.

I do not see how any farmer can afford
to be without an engine, for such work
as cutting ensilage, shelling corn, grind-
ing feed and the hundred and one things
that an engine can do to save them hard
work as well as to save them many hard
earned dollars. With a. good little.,engine
the farmer can grind his own feedat a
cost of about a quarter of a cent per
bushel, and do it while he is doing chores,
and so havo fresh ground feed that is not
spoiled by heating as is often the case
when done in large lots at the mill. Then
it costs you less for grinding, and you do
not feel like cussing the miller for not
giving you as many pounds of feed as the
grain weighed which you paid him for
grinding.

The farmer’s question today is not,
“Can I afford power,” but it is, ”without
power can I compete successfully with
those who have power?"

Cass Co. H. L. CHAPMAN.

FARM NOTES.
Wireworms.

We have a strip of dry land mixed
with muck on which the wireworms will

‘not let any crops grow except potatoes,

 

Farm Home of Henry Booker, of Osceola County.

grain ration. These are all foods that
are rich in‘protein, and the animal would
consume more protein than necessary,
and consequently it would be a. very ex-
pensive ration. Vi'e figure on putting
corn or'corn silage. or corn stover, the
corn plant, it you please, as the principal
bulky part of the ration. It is cheap. We
can grow more tons of it to the acre than
any other plant, but it is deficient in pro-
tein. It is not profitable and economical
to feed the corn plant alone. It contains
carbohydrates and fat in excess. We can
feed this with clover hay or alfalfa hay

they will for another, even with the same
ration, because they learn that one per-
son is their friend who tries to do them
good, and they know that another person
is not their friend because he does not
treat them kindly.

COLON C. LILLIE.
FARM POWER FOR SILO FILLING.
Having read in your paper of October

21. the article, "Filling Silos,” by Mr. W.
F. Taylor,,I wish to tell something that
occurred in this vicinity.

 

and they are full of the worms. Please
tell us in your paper what you would
do to or for them. We expect to sow oats
and wheat, on it next summer. Will it
do any good to sow lime or salt on the
land before the crops come up? If so
how much had we better apply? ,

Barry Co. SUBSCRIBER.

The larvae of the wireworm lives in
the soil for two or three years before its
life cycle is completed and it develops
into the matured insect or beetle pre-
paratory for the propagation of another
generation of these destructive insects.
The best remedy is fall plowing, which
will leave the larvae more exposed to the
action of the elements over winter and
result in the destruclign of many of them.
Some claim to get beneficial results from
applying salt, but, in the writer’s opin-
ion, the better way is to devote the land
to some crop which will be injured to a
minimum degree only by the wireworms
for two or three years, or until the lar-
vae is cxterminated from the soil, and
then devote the land to a short rotation
of crops, which will prevent the develop-
ment of another generation of these
worms in sufficient numbers to be de-
structive to growing crops.

Among the crops which are distasteful
to wireworms, may be included buck-
wheat, which they do not appear to like,
and which is injure less than most
crops, although they work in it to some
extent. Rape is also distasteful to them,
and. this may be sown as a forage crop
to be pastured with sheep or hogs if de-
sired. Cats are injured to a very consid‘é'
erable extent, and 7unless the larvae is
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be better to substitute some other crop.
The method of handling the. field should,
however, depend upon its previous treat-
ment, for these worms will not be troub-
lesome if it has been in a cultivated crop
for two or three years.

Artichokes.

Does it pay. to‘grow artichokes for hogs
in Michigan? If the hogs are allowed to
partly narvest them in the fall and the
ground is Well harrowed in the spring,
will they make a crop without cultivation
the following year? What is about an
average yield?

Ogemaw Co. B. Vii It.

It is doubtful if artichokes can be prof-
itably grown on a large scale for hog
feed in Michigan. In small areas they
may be profitably grown as a late forage
for hogs. Further south they are used
quite extensively for this purpose. At the
Arkansas Experiment station and also at
the Maryland station they have'been
found to be very profitable winter feed
but at the Indiana station they did not
prove profitable.

The crop of tubers is variable, ranging
from 275 to 1,000 bushels per acre under
favorable conditions; the tubers have
about the same feeding value as potatoes.
The main requirement for the crop is a
dry soil; they will grow on almost any
well drained soil and will produce fairly
well on sandy or gravelly soil too poor for
many other crops. The tubers are plant—
ed about three feet apart each way, and
as the plant is not very sensitive to frost
the crop should be planted as early in the
spring as the condition of the soil Will
permit. Cultivation throughout the sea-
son should be about the same as we give
potatoes.

The crop matures in about five months,
when the hogs: may be allowed to par—
tially or completely harvest them, as de-
sired. If just partially harvested, the
tubers left in the ground will, as a rule.
grow the following spring, but for a good
yield it is advisable to replant each
spring, or at. least as often as once in two
years. Experiments in growing tins crop
in a new locality should preferably be
conducted on a small scale rather than on
a large area.

NEGLECTED THINGS.

 

 

We are all such creatures of habit that,
before we are aware of it we get into a
rut, and for the want of a little thinking
or study. we do not realize how we might
make our homes more pleasant, and have
conveniences that would be more sani-
tary as well as labor-saving without very
much expense. \Ve neglect such things
more. through force or habit than any-
thing else. Now that cement is becoming
so universal and cheap to use it requires
but little time or mechanical skill for a
farmer to put in walks, steps, etc., around
the dwellings, that will be permanent and
much neater than anything made of plank
or boards.

As an example, I will give some of my
experience along this line. The well was
dug close to the stoop on the north side
of the kitchen to my house. This well
was covered with a double board plat-
form. with a long wooden trough under
the pump spout, which emptied into an
open drain. The board platform over the
well proved a good breeding place for
anglcworms, which made it necessary to
go down into the well several times dur-
ing the summer to clean them out. A few
years ago I put a cement cover over the
well six inches thick, and extended the
cement for several feet around the well.
In the cover is a space for the pump, and
a square space large enough for a. man to
pass through to clean out the well if
necessary. This square space (or man—
hole) is covered with a tight-fitting piece
of plank that is kept painted. The angle-
worms do not trouble the well now, and
when it rains, filthy water does not run
in. The stoop f‘oor adjacent to the well,
had to be frequently painted, so I finally
took it up and put in cement, and at the
same time laid a cement walk out toward
the closet.

Becoming dissatisfied with the wooden
trough (or spout) from the well, and the
open drain into which slop water from
the house was emptied, I finally dug a.
drain 150 feet in length to the ditch by
the roadside. Into this drain I put four-
inch tile. At the head of this drain,
(which is about 15 feet from the kitchen
door), there is a cement box two feet
square and 10 inches deep with cement
bottom, so that all slop water poured into
this box immediately passes down the
drain 150 feet from the house. In place
of the wooden trough or spout from the
pump is a large galvanized pail to which
is fastened three iron legs 12 inches long.
Close to the bottom of this pail is a two-

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

inch galvanIZed spout long enough to
reach the cement box at the opening of
the slop drain. There is now no breed-
ing place for files, nor any foul smell from
slop water. which was sometimes the case
when'thrown into the open drain.

As the drain from the north side of the
kitchen works so well, the thought oc-
curred to me, why could not a drain be
put in from the south side so as to carry
off wash water and other slops, directly
from the kitchen without being 'obliged
to carry the same “out of doors.” So I
recently put in such a drain, 150 feet in
length, using four-inch tile. The upper
end of this .drain runs through the wall
down low enough to prevent freezing, and
comes out directly under the kitchen floor
at one end of the wash sink near the
cistern pump. A galvanized iron box 13
inches square and 16 inches deep, with a
two-inch pipe in the center long enough
to connect with the opening in the upper
side of the drain tile beneath the floor,
quickly carries off all water. This galvan-
ized iron box has a tight fitting hinged
cover, and the box is firmly fastened to
the wainscoting of the kitchen wall.

This improvement has been in use only
a few days but it is so convenient and
satisfactory that we would not want to
do without it. The cash outlay for the
improvements mentioned above, was less
than 320. So it is not so much the cost
that we do not have such conveniences,
but simply our habit of neglect which is
so easy to get into.

Ottawa Co.

JOHN JACKSON.

TRAVELING FARM EXPERTS.

 

 

Now that agricultural schools and ex-
)wl‘lment stations are fairly well estab—
lished throughout the country, is it not
time to go a step further? The. county
agricultural school is nearly the last step
that can be made in that direction. Short

agricultural courses in the rural district
St‘l’ltmls are certainly the limit. In dis-
tricts Him the I'pper Peninsula of Mich-

igan, where agricultural development is
extrcmely rapid, there are a very large
number of people that are farmers and
are eally anxious to learn the best meth-
ods of doing things. The county is just
waking up to the fact that some day its
apples will be famous, as are its straw-
berries. The difficulty is that there is no
one to show the farmers how to prune
their trees, how to set them out, how to
spray them and cultivate them. Rarely
a day passes but someone asks me to
tell them how to prune, etc. It strikes me
very forcibly that an expert should be
constantly traveling about telling each
and every farmer how to overcome his
difficulties; making suggestions as to ag-
ricultural methods, crop rotations, rations
for cows, sheep or pigs; recommendations
as to the best varieties to grow, the
cleanliness of stables, the drainage of
land, etc. I note with interest that a
country wide organization has been form-
ed with the idea of having a man in
every county to be paid for by the gov-
ernment, state and county jointly. The
idea strikes me as a good one. Let us
push it. XVhile it would appear that new
districts need such men more than old,
yet the older districts need a lot of teach-
ing. \Vork toward increasing the per-
centage of pure—bred sires, the coaching
of farmers so that they will weigh and
test their milk for butter-fat, will keep
a mighty good man busy in any county.
In order to continue to ‘feed our rapidly
increasing population it is necessary for
us to increase our .yields per acre one per
cent each and every year, ten per cent
each decade. How are we going to do
this? The personal contact plan is the
solution. Any other method is necessarily
slower. Some will say that the govern-
ment issues bulletins on nearly all sub-
jects. W'hile that is true, comparatively
few people realize that they can get them,
and if they do get them they will not
learn as readily from them as they would
from a personal visit. This matter is
similar to all others; personal contact
is what counts. It is an excellent plan
to have demonstration farms, but lots of
farmers won’t go to them nor read their
publications, while a call from a man Who
knows will always bring results.
Ontonagon Co. T. A. GREEN.

~—

Experiments conducted at the Geneva

station, New York, show that where'

cereals or grasses are grown in connec-
tion with legumes, an analysis of the
cereal or grass plants gives a larger per-
centage of protein content than of Sim-
ilar plants grown under the same-Condi—
tions except for the presence of the
legume plants. Thiswalue bfv‘le'gunies
has not been before noted; ’ ' ”

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STRANGLES (DISTEMPER).

Strangres, or what is commonly called
distemper, in horses, is an acute, con-
tagious disease peculiar to the horse and
is generally characterized by the forma-
tion of an abscess in the space between
the angles of the lower jaw. It is most
common in young animals, but I have
known horses twenty years old to suffer
from it; however, this is the exception.
Whenever a horse has had a genuine at-
tack of distemper the disease rarely ever
attacks him again.

Nearly 200 years ago a man by the
name of Gervase Markham, named the
disease strangles on account of the ur-
gent symptoms of strangulation mani-
fested. Strange to say, this disease is
peculiar to the equine race; other species
of animals appear to be immune from
its attack. In all cases this ailment is
attended with a certain degree of fever.
The suppurating tumor does not always
form in throat, but occasionally forms in
the groin, sometimes behind the shoulder,
sometimes in the intestines or messentery
and when the disease takes this irregular
or malignant form, it is very troublesome
to treat. This form is called “Bastard
Strangles” and is much more often fatal
than when the infection centers between
the angles of jaw or in throat. I have
had some very bad cases to treat where
the tumor formed on inside of thigh.

Some horses seem to escape the disease
altogether. Veterinarians are quite thor-
oughly agreed that the cause is due to
an organism, a streptococus. It should
not be considered as a highly contagious
disease, but exposure to contagion seems
to be‘ the most common cause of its
spread. I have known it to pass through
a stable where there were twenty or
thirty young horses and scarcely one of
them escaped this disease. In other
stables where there were a dozen or two
of horses, only one or two animals would
suffer from it. Some veterinarians claim
that strangles has been produced without
infection but I am of the opinion that it
is possibly not true. It may occur at any
season of the year and very often follows
the changing of a young horse from one
locality to another and right here I may
say that a country horse shipped into a
city seldom escapes an attack of dis-
temper. Horses stabled in damp, badly
ventilated basement barns and poorly
fed or overworked and exhausted, appear
to fall easy victims to distemper infec-
tion. Young horses taken from cold out—
door air and placed in warm barns are
very apt to have strangles.

The early symptoms of strangles is very
similar to those of catarrh. The acute
symptoms of the disease are manifested
by a dullness and weakness, the animal
perspiring very freely with little exer-
tion, being easily tired or fatigued with
generally considerable loss of appetite.
One of the first decided symptoms is diffi-
cult swallowing and a rise of tempera—
ture in all cases and the head is usually
kept in a. sort of stiff position and when
turned moves with some difficulty. The
coat is usually starry, bowels costive, ex-
crement covered with mucus and the
heart action is usually quickened. In
most cases there is an increased flow
of saliva from mouth and here is where
many people suppose the animal’s teeth
are hurting cheeks or tongue, or are in-
clined to believe that some foreign body
has become fast in mouth. Similar symp-
toms are presented in cases of laryngitis
or sore throat. In many cases a dis~
charge comes from both nostrils but it is
not always present.

Distemper, like all fevers, runs a certain
course, lasting never less than ten days,
and a recovery usually takes place in
twenty-one days When a chronic roarer
takes strangles he usually presents very
alarming symptoms on account of the
noise he makes breathing. The forma-
tion of tumor should be closely watched,
for if not opened early enough it may
break and empty into windpipe and cause
death by suffocation. It is always an en—
couraging symptom for the abscess to
form between angles of lower jaw. When
the animal shows abdominal pain, much
weakness and emaciation and absence of
throat swelling it should be considered
indicative of an abscess forming in some
other'part of the body, the disease is
then assuming a malignant or irregular
form. In some cases the brain and spinal
cord are affected or some of the nerve
centers. In cases that assume an irre-
gular type the abscess is most often found
in lung, but heart or abdominal viscea

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘ (3) 387

may be involved. In some cases I have
seen the whole jaw and head one mass
'of corruption.

Now, as the disease ordinarily occurs
it is by no means a difficult one to treat,
of course the animal should have good
care, plenty of fresh air furnished, and
fed whatever kind of soft feed he craves.
It is important to keep up the animal's
strength while he suffers from this low
type of fever and especially important to
give him good care after'fever subsides,
for their temperature may be sub-normal.
Under these conditions tonics and stimu-
lants are demanded and if given never
fail to produce good results. To hasten
the formation of abscess is always good”
practice to apply hot water or warm bran
or linseed meal or antiphlogistine poul-
tices. Stimulating liniments or mustard
and water applied to throat daily will
have a good effect in hastening suppura-
tion. ' ‘

And as I stated before, soon s hair

plucks off easily and bunch soften , open.

it up freely to allow pus to drop out.
Then wash out pocket with any good
home-healing remedy such as hydrogen
peroxide, or one part carbolic acid and
50 parts water, or one part coal-tar dis-
infectant and 30 parts water twice daily.
in opening the abscess it is well to keep
in mind that a blood vessel might be
wounded; therefore, if it is done with a
dull lancet or knife most of this danger
will be avoided as the wall of a. blood
vessel is usually tough and not easily out.
In some cases it becomes necessary to
insert a tracheotomy tube into windpipe.
This gives relief until throat swelling
recedes, then tube can be taken out. In
most cases it is good treatment to give
half-ounce doses of hyposulphite of soda
two or three times a day; also give 20
grains of quinine or one-ounce doses of
ground gentian three times daily. Re—
member, it is a mistake to try to cut
short the attack by giving cathartics. It
is also a mistake to put the animal to
work too soon.

Now, a word regarding one of the lat-
est and perhaps most effectual remedies
for strangles and the preventative of sep—
tic infection during this sickness. In my
practice and at my hospital I have found
anti-streptococcus serum to give good re-
sults when given in large enough doses.
It not only acts as a remedy, but if given
early enough it seems to ward off the
attack. I find it is the only reliable rem-
edy for irregular cases of distemper,
where the abscess is inclined to form in-
wardly. Taking for my guide the reports
of other reliable veterinarians, and my
own personal application of this new
serum treatment, I am well pleased with
it. Following this treatment the anima‘i
does not appear to become so much emav
cialcd and seldom becomes anaemic. This
serum is given with a hypodermic syringe
and any farmer can apply it. Manufac-
lurers of this anti-streptococcus serum
send it to you in glass containers with glass
syringe and the proper immunizing dose
is 10 C. C.; curative dose 20 C. C., and in
conclusion I might say that this serum
treatment does not in any way conflict
with other remedies or treatment you
might be using. In the shipment of all
young horses I advise giving them an
immunizing dose, for I believe it will
prove a profitable investment.

W. C. FAIR, V. S.

FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.

 

The Feeding Value of Roots.

\\'hat is the feeding value per ton of
rutabagas. carrots, mangels and sugar
beets? Would there be anything made
in buying grassers at $3 per cwt. with
hay worth $20 per ton and corn meal
$30? What would be a balanced ration
for 20 pigs eight weeks old, of skim-
millr. bran. corn meal and middlings?

Schoolcraft CO. C. W. J.

The actual feeding value of roots is
not very large, due to their large content
of moisture, there being only from nine
to 13 per cent of dry matter in the roots
mentioned in this inquiry. They have,
however, a much greater feeding value
than their content of nutrients would in~
dicate where there is no other factor in
the ration which will supply a needed
succulency to produce the best results in
animal digestion.

Of course, the value of roots varies
with the kind of stock fed and the
amount in which they are fed. At sev-
eral experiment stations it was found
that in pig feeding, where roots and
grain were fed for the most economic
combination, that 615 pounds of roots
would save 100 pounds of grain, which
conforms closely with similar experiments
in Denmark, where it was found one
pound of barley was equal to six or
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THEE "MICHIGAN FARMER.

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SELECTING THE STOCK RAM.

 

The old saying that “the sire is half
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worn and it may have lost some of its
old time significance. However, it is just
as true as ever and practical experience
in sheep husbandry tends to the con-
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the good flock sire.

The selection of a ram to head a flock
of good ewes is a task many flock owners
may well distrust their ability to wisely
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be undertaken intelligently and thought—
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is it more important to have one’s breed
type‘ clearly and definitely fixed in mind.
Besides the breed type, which should
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present in the flock sire. Very promi-

. had some experience

nent among these is masculinity, which
the ram should show in many features.
Most observers, perhaps, may notice this
quality in' inspecting a ram. Very few,
however, even among those who have

breeding sheep. have carefully arranged
and systematized their knowledge of those
qualities as to their relative importance
and value. All knowledge, however. com-
monly possessed, is much more effectively
used it well arranged and classified. It:
may be said that in all rams the face
should be broad and ,full between the
eyes, with a nose somewhat oval and
full, but not of great length. The crest
should be thick and rising and the neck
full and well developed.

If the body is deep down between the
fore legs and the ribs back of the fore
shoulder well sprung and round, making
the girth large and the brisket prominent
and wide, we have the best indications
of a stgong constitution, which is of so
great importance. The legs should be
straight and strong and short.

It is best that a ram be never exces-
sively conditioned. Some fine rams are
brought forward in the show ring so
heavy as to be almost useless as breed-
ers. Such fitting is unwise. A ram
should carry a reasonable amount of flesh
and it should be well distributed, even,
and firm, not gathered in masses or roll
on any part of the body.

His condition should never interfere
with his activity. In movement he should
always be bold, active and free, well de-
serving the appellation “head of the
flock.” Physical vigor is absolutely nec—
essary for the best results. This should
be accompanied by an erect and dignified
carriage. In other words, the ram should
show character and impressiveneSS as an
individual.

Due consideration should always be
given to the fleece covering the ram. Al-
though not large, the return from the
wool of the flock has a. considerable in-
fluence on the ultimate profits. This
may vary somewhat with the different
breeds but it is important with all. The
chief points are its quantity and quality.
The best way to determine the nature of
a fleece is to examine it carefully just
over the shoulder. Here will be found
the finest and best wool on the sheep.
The region around the thigh should next
be inspected. Here grows the poorest
and coarsest part of the fleece. Then the
covering of the belly is of importance.

Very often the wool here is thin and
poor. This denotes a lack of constitu—
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three parts a. fairly good estimate may be
made of the quality of the fleece. Then
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over all parts. Technically, density means
the number of fibers of wool that grow on
a given space. This closeness if fiber is
important, not only to secure a heavy
fleece but also to give greater protection
to the body of the sheep. The length of
staple is also an important feature from
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the owner's standpoint.

It usually takes some time and trouble
to find and secure a satisfactory breed-
ing ram. Comparatively speaking, really
desirable rams are not very common.
(mly the most particular breeders find
them.

\\'hcn a satisfactory animal is found,
we should be slow to part with him.
\\'ith proper care he is good for years of
Scl‘vu'e and grows better each year. .Be-
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stock getter. No matter how good an in-
dividual the young ram may be there is
an element of uncertainty in his value
as a sire. It takes time to determine
whether an animal is a successful sire
or not. ‘

Probably one reason why greater pro-
gress is not made in up-grading is due
to the too general use of untried sires.
It is a mistake to discard a ram simply
because there are a number of his get
on the farm.

Ingham Co.

THE NATIONAL MID-WINTER SHEEP
SHOW.

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H. M. YOUNG.

The National Mid-winter Sheep Show
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December 13-16, 191]. In conjunction with
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NOV. 4, 1911.
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Farmers in parts of the country have
been highly favored of late with good
pastures, and this has led to a. desire to
have stock to feed, a cheap growth being
made with the aid of a little corn orsome
forage. This has helped to stimulate the
demand for cattle and sheep to fatten.
Michigan has been a fair buyer of cattle
to feed, but the demand from the east
and southeast has fallen below the level
usual at this season of the year, and the
cheap stocker class of cattle, which are
usually taken, have become a drug in the
market. Quality has been sought by the
average buyer in the middle west, and
trashy light weight stocker cattle from
Wisconsin have moved off slowly at ex-
tremely low prices, numerous lots of
steers averaging from 500 to 750 lbs. going
at $3@3.25 per 100 lbs. Many farmers
always refuse to buy western range cat-
tle for fattening, but men who have made
judicious selections of such cattle in past
years have made it pay well, and there
has been a good demand of late for these
cattle.

Well-informed stock feeders are not
hurrying their pigs on to new corn, as
past experience has demonstrated that
time is required for adjusting pigs to a
new feed. The sickness known as hog
cholera is nothing more than the effects
of bad digestion following free indulgence
in new corn, and it should be noted by
farmers owning hogs that far more sick-
ness prevails among droves of pigs in the
corn belt states than for ten years past.
'VVhile corn will continue the main feed
for growing and fattening swine, careful
feeders are supplementing it with other
feeds, such as alfalfa, clover pasture and
field peas, while shorts, tankage and oil
meal are recognized as having espeCIal
merits. Experience shows that pigs pre—
fer tankage mixed with ground feed and
fed immediately after wetting. It has
been found that shelled grains not prop--
erly ground when fed wet in a trough are
often eaten without being properly di-
gested and passed by pigs in an undigest-
ed conditions. Experienced stockmeii
have found that either dry or wet grains
are better fed on a. clean cement floor,
where they must be eaten slowly.

A Chicago live stock journal says:
“High cost of corn and the shorter crop
grown this year has been a factor tend—
ing to shorten the demand for feeding
cattle, and the small hay crop was an-
other point which the feeder buyers had
in mind in making purchases of thin
stuff. A big feed bill has been the pros-
pect and when a feeder views his thin
steers as probable of costing him a
round sum to fatten, he naturally takes
a conservative stand in buying and goes
slow.”

The Chicago market for milkers and
springers is still mainly a prime cow deal
so far as reliability of demand figures.
The country demand fails to take in
backward springers, and these cows de-
pend on a packer outlet, selling on the
same basis as beef cows. Good to prime
forward springer-s are purchased largely
to ship east.

Because of the good pasturage in most
sections, farmers are not feeding much
hay, and the high prices offered are in-
ducing them to hold much more hay than
usual for marketing. Within a. short time
prime timothy hay has sold at wholesale
in the Chicago market for $23.50 per ton,
and other kinds of hay have sold rela-
tively high, with a good demand.

The enormous marketing of little pigs
in Chicago has become the subject of
much comment, and live stock com-
mission firms are sending out letters to
their country patrons urging them not to
sacrifice their healthy pigs. A greater
mistake than parting with thrifty grow-
ing young hogs at this time can hardly
be imagined. There is every reason for
believing that by maturing their pigs,
farmers will make nice profits, despite
the high price of corn. Already the fu-
ture hog supply has been greatly lowered
by the sales of mere pigs.

Packers have faced tms season the
shortest supply of grass cattle from the
northwest since the grazing industry in
Montana, \Vyoming and the Dakotas first
assumed liberal proportions. Kansas pas-
tures of late have been the only source
of beef supply west of the Missouri river
capable of furnishing normal supplies,
with a restricted movement from Okla—
homa and Texas. In a short time the
sources of supply for grass cattle will be
shut off, and after that owners of medi-
um-grade cattle will be in a position to
obtain better prices.

The outlook for sheep and lamb feeders
the coming winter is unusually bright, as
they have bought their ilocks at very
much lower prices than they did last
year, and all indications point to greatly
reduced feeding operations resulting from
lack of feed in some places and discour-
agement because of poor profits last
winter, when the business was greatly
overdone. The six leading western mar-
kets sent back to the country durin the
first nine months of this year 1,755,990
feeder sheep and lambs, or 354,326 less
than a year ago, and the October ship—
mflents promise to show a marked falling
o .
James Hogan. the well—known lamb
feeder of Michigan, was on the Chicago
market recently stocking up for the
winter, and in an interview published in
the Live Stock Report, said regarding
feeding operations in that state: “There
are not 50 per cent as many sheep and
lambs on feed in southern Michigan,
which is the main feeding belt of that
state, as one year ago. It is the lightest
number in 15 years for this time of the
season. I don’t know what our feeders
will do later on, but there is no doubt
that considerably fewer sheep and lambs
will be handled this season than in recent
years. Causes for this are not hard to
find. Big monetary losses were incurred
last year, hay is scarce this year, and is
costing $15@18 per ton, it takes 700 to
ship in corn, and we can safely figure on
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~ on Stock Feeding

Some folks imagine that a few ears of com and a forkful of hay is all there is in the feeding question,
but With the ambitious, thinking farmer, or the up-to-date stockman, it’s a vastly different proposition.
He looks upon the Steer, Cow or Hog as a machine for the transforming of feed into “Meat and Milk” and
should regard himself as a manufacturer rather than a common laborer. No one denies the necessity of proper
feed, and neither can anyone overlook the im ortance of proper digestion. The amount of growth and milk pro-
duced Will always vary with the digestion. A ealthy animal digests but half its feed, an unthrifty, ill-conditioned
animal less. Now, if t ese are facts, why not ay more attention to digestion ? Condition our horses, cows, sheep,
. swme and poultry. It was Dr. Hess' knowle ge of'wasted nutrition that resolved him to ormulate a plan to save a
part of this loss. The past :8 years that

DR. HESS STOCK TONIC

has been on the market, is proof of how well he wrought. No attempt can be made to contradict the effect of tonics on digestion.
No one can deny that there IS a waste of one-half or more of the food eaten. As proof, you often see whole corn in the droppings——
and you know many stockmen fatten their hogs on the grain that passes off undigested.

Our proposition. You get of your dealer a 25 lb. pail of Dr. Hess Stock
Tonic at $1.60, or 100 lbs. at $5.00 (except in Canada and the extreme
West and South). Use it all winter and spring. If it doesn’t pa you
and pay you well, get your money back. Every pound sod on
guarantee. If your dealer cannot supply you, we will.
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to our subscribers. Each communication
writ 1r. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
case in full; also name and address of
should state history and symptoms of the
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably find
the desired information in a reply that
has been made to some one else. When
reply by mail is requested. it becomes
private practice, and a fee of $1.00 must
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Feeding an Unbalanced Ration.-—For
the past three months my eight-months-
old pigs have shown some weakness in
their joints, but they have good appetites
and do not seem to be sick. I wrote you
regarding them some time ago and re-
ceived no reply. M. G. G., Vassar, Mich.
—You should change their food supply and
by feeding less corn, some cats, oil meal
and tankage, or roots, with some air
sluked lime added to each meal, they will
soon begin to show some improvement.
.\ teaspoonful is a full dose for a hog
weighing 150 or 200 lbs, and it should be
given to them twice or three times daily.
Perhaps your letter never reached us, or
it may have been without 'name or ad-
dress, same as many inquiries which come
1o 11s. I call the attention of readers to
headline of veterinary column and if you
conform to those you will be sure to read
a reply in this column. How are we to
tell who our subscribers are if they fail
‘to sign their full name and address to
communications? Every query, if of any
importance to our readers, is briefly an-
swered in this column.

Enlarged Gland.-I have a sow with lit-
ter of pigs four weeks old; she has lump
on jaw which is gradually growing larger
and it is hard. ’l‘nis bunch commenced to
grow three months ago. G. B., Swartz
Creek, Mich—Apply tincture of iodine
to bunch once daily: if it softens Open
and allow pus to escape. then wash out
with a three per cent solution of carbolic
acid and water.

Mud Fever.-——Occult Spavin.—I have a
seven-year-old mare that is troubled with
mud fever and am inclined to suspect her
showing symptoms of spavin lameness,
but has no enlargement of hock joint.
\Vhenever I allow her to stand still a few
minutes she starts showing lameness, but
soon shows less. E. (3.. East Jordan.
Mich—«Apply one part oxide of zinc and
live parts vaseline to sore parts once a
day. Give a dessertspoonful of Fowler‘s
solution at a dose twice daily. Give your
lame mare rest and apply one part red
iodide mercury and eight parts lard twice
a week. Light applications applied fre-
qui-nlly give fully as good results as
severe remedies applied Occasionally.

Stills Injury—Lymphangitis.—I have a
coil three months old that dislocated stifle
when three weeks old and I am told by
two different Vets. that he cannot be
helped. I also have another mare that
had an attack of lymphangitis, the leg
still remains thick. R. l’.. Elmira, Mich.
Apply tincture iodine to stifle three times
a week and it will help him. Chronic
stocking is not easily gotten rid of. but
1egular exercise, lmndaging for two hours
after work or exercise and giving 2 drs.
iodide of potassium at a dose in feed
twice daily will gradually reduce a thick
leg.

Indigesuvm~—\l'orms.—Seven months ago
I purchased a four-year-old mare; She
was thin when I got her and has re-
mained so ever since. Very little work
seems to tire her. She is in heat most of
the time and I would like to know if a
mare of this kind would have a diseased
colt. if she had one. H.‘ F. 15., Rives
Jumtion, Mich. ——Give her a tablespoonful
of the following compound powder at a
(lose in feed three times a day: Equal
parts powdered sulphate of iron, gentian,
ouassia and nux vomica. If she gets in
loal she 11 ould Iaise a good colt.

Laminitis#(Founde1). ——I have a four-
\ear- old mare that got loose in stable a
short time ago and ate a large quantity
of chop. I kept water away from her for
24 hours then drove her eight miles the
following day. The next morning she
was very stiff and has remained so, not-
withstanding the tieatmenl I gave her.
i .1111 told that she v.1 1ll lose her front feet
and if I thought so, i would haw her put
out of the way. C. P., Traverse City,
Mich—If pus has formed in feet and
hoofs loosened much she will perhaps
have to be destroyed. Standing her in
not clay two or three hours a day, feed-
ing her soft feed and giving her a des-
sertspoonful of nitrate of potash at a
dose three times a day will help her.

JOINT SALE

REGISTERED
26 ausnusrvs 26
PublicmAuciion
011 Tuesday, N111. 28,1 9 11

Al the O. Koogle Farm. Ohio City,o

26 head of Registered Guernsey: of both sexes and
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12772 and Prince Fern of Maplehursi: 1112113.
All stock No. l and Tuberculiu Tested.
AddremTCEAS. L. KOOGLE, for Sale List.
gnemlbtateo of0.KoolgIe- rtfiambemlll.
George and Oscar-W a tz.

THE . MICHIGAN. ~ FARMBR; , *

Jersey Bulls

At Your Prices.

Wewill sell withinihirty days, six or
more registered calves, yearlings or two-
year-olds. Full description will be
promptly sent. on aiplication. On receipt.K
of description, plc out. your bull and
write us by_ return the price you are
Willi“ to pay for him.

We guarantee to deliver the entire list
f. o. b. Pontiac, to the highest‘bidders on
or before November 30th.

Crates will be charged for at. cost.

Also REGISTERED BERKSHIRE

sows, pigs, yearlings and older sows on
same terms. Pontiac and Detroit Bank
references.

FISHERTON FARM.
PONTIAC. MICHIGAN.
CHAS. E. GROVES, Manager.

FIBSI Semi-Annual AUUTIUII

of Ohio Breeders Company

125 Head Rc‘gl 11 bolstein Friedan Cattle

a sold at the
Fair Grounds. Wellington. Ohio. Nov. 9-10
This will be an opportunity to secure some of the
best bloodof the breed at your own rice. See adver-
tieement in last week’s issue of ichigan Farmer,
which Blgivos Masonicul Don't. fall contend.
OICB an FRANK P. SUTLIFF, Miro.

BREEOERS’ DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.
ABERDEEN-AN GUS

Herd. consisting of Tro’jan Ericas Blackbirds and
Prides. only. is rton W. a Trojan Erica.
by Black Woodlawn. sire of t. e Grand Chamfii on steer
and bull at. the International in Chicago. ec.1910.
He is assisted by Undulata Black!) ird

W00 OODCO'I'E FARM. Ionla. Mich.

AYRSHIRES ‘81:: “3°er 1.1.11

and bullcalvesfor sale. Berkshir: swine. Po try. All
pure bred. Mi ohigan School f Deaf. Flint, Mich

Guernse Bulls*§.".‘£.“f....‘il‘£°’.‘°d mi... 32%;.

G ENN CLARKE. Bun Clalre. Mich.

“ Top Notch ” HOLSTEINS.

A fine young bull from an Advanced Re istry dam
Cornucopia Dido Count De 0] Born t.l4, 1810.
Sire, Piet‘ort‘J Hengerveld Meroena King; dam. Dido
Cornucopia ietortJe Pauline She has an official
record at 2 Vears, 1 month old. as follows:

Milk 1 day. 49 be. It Mil. 333.3Ibs.
Butter 7 days. 12. 34l lbs.

Her dam has an official record of 16. 70 lbs. butter in
7 days at 3 years old. His first six dams have official
records that. average 17. N lbs. butter in 7 days and only
one mature cow in the lot. His sire is a grandson of
Pietertje Hengerveld' I Count De Kol who has 7

Lighters with oiiicial records that. average over 30
lbs. butter in '1 days and 12 dau ghters that: average
over 100 lbs. milk in one day. He comes ”Te
producers on both sides is ngood individual nlice y
marlttzd. £1!“th more black than white. lWeight,

. c.e
McPIIERSOI FARMS 00.. Nowell. Michigan.

HUL‘SIEIN BULLS.

l Grandson of Manor De Kol. 2 years old.

1 Son of Sir Korndyke Pietertje Hengerveld,14
months old

1 Son of Aaggie Manor De Kol, 13 months old.

1 Son of Sir Jolie Johanna, 10 months old.

1 Son of Johanna Concordia Chain ion. out of a
daughter of De Kol Burk, who as four 31 lb.
daughters.

4 Grandsons of Pietertje Hengervelds Count De Kol.

7 Sons of Johanna Concordia Champion. the only
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34..06lbs butter in 7days. cows and heifers
bredtoth i.sbull

Let me sell on your next Bull or
Bull Calf. can please anybody.

LI El GONNELL’ ' rayoneg Ohio-

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 Buster Boy 3rd. and Colan-
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and mostly in the A. R. 0. Prices reasonable.
Purebred Registered
HOLSTEIN CATTLE

' ' ' Sand for FREE 111...me Booklets.
Holstein-Frisian. hum. Box I64. Bratileboro.Vt.
1icc. JONES Oak GrovJe, Mich.
HOLSTEI HEIFER CALF out of A. R. O. dam

BARTW. FAY. Eden. Mkhigan.
BULL—sired by best son of
d liters-and out of daughter
gflhiggkgfignafig Kol. over 24 lbs. butter in
E. Lansing.

Top Notch onngHoIsteln Bulls com
hold and have in the eastp asthelde' World’- Records for
milk and butter fat at fair

-Beg. St. Lambert Jerseys,

FOR SALE Cows and Bulls from high
producing stock. 0. A. BRISTOL, Benton. Michigan.
1 i Ind' Inter Blame41 Fair.

prize at M ch 91301.9..1‘5: in? days.” “lbs.

Send for list. 3W: loistein lam. Brecdsvilluich.
The Greatest Dairy Breed
—S I P
Holstein-Fried“ Callie bmi'zb..i‘i%1a§“r 5°33:
.1nod sire. You can't beat her breed-
HOLSTEIN CALF Pontiac Butterboy—
199%“ earth. P e
7d£g§DPWOOD Y. tic llifihchlgisn.
registe
bining in themselves theybl lood of cows "which now
McPHERSOI FARMPSM co.. Howell. I'llch.
REGISTERED JERSEY Yearling Bull—Won let
5
sat 3 $13.11. old. Priced very low.

Dam prod-1

priced still lower. 0. S. BASS ETT. Kalamazoo. Mich.

For Sale. Jersey Bull Calf,born d. i

of Merit cow.

It bull.

1 outwith
Grandsire Res sterof Mich

 

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N a wuss RMAN Ann Arbor.
uccessors to Murray-NWsterman Co.)

LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS:

Oows all inyeori hold to:
lendidm Bull v8.0?!"
Heifers ves. I gunning; satisfaction

service.
or mongfimfih

ON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Michigan.

REGISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some oombin.
ing the blood of St Louis and Chicago Wont-M's
Fair Champions by HERMAN BABES. Reese.“
from 2 to 12 mo onths. grand sons of

li'lmi- Buns Hengerveld D010 1. King 811 I.

iron! Yeoman Do Kcl, and King of the Hengervel
all tom mndol s. Prices very low, .b
considered. Long (Beach Bolstein ram. Augusta Mich.

 

FOR SALE—3 yearllgnfiolstein-Frieolan bulls. also
bred heigers h. Bull calvesfloto
war: :1

er. Photos and pedigrees on ambli.
cation. W. C. Jackson, South Bend. nd 719Rex -

 

- BUTTER BRED “Em’wEanni’é‘m

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

Dairy Bred Shorthomifiéewm “a $582.53:

Cashor good note. J. B. HUMME . Mason, Mich.

For 5 le—Double Standard Pulled Durham Bulls.
a heifers and cows. Iain closing out.
Write for prices. Sanford Gasser.,8herman. Mich.

JERSEY BULLS FOR SALE

Sired b Temisia’ 3 Interested Prince 71848. whose dam
made 1 l.bs butter in one year. authenticated test.
Choice individuals. Prices Reasonable

110011111111 11111, 11111 illlllli, 1111111., 11. r. 6. 7.
Register oi Merit Jerseys”... 0”“ Pill:

lot. of youn bulls from dams with oflolnl records
mm and u wards of butter.
‘3.“ N. Bay City. Michigan.

FUR SALE—SIX BEU PULLEU BULL UALVES

teeth to use. Oxford ewes. ES CARR. Homer. Mich.

2 Young Shorthorn Bulls for Sale

at right. prices. W. C. OSIUS, Hillsdalo. Mich.

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—A p re soorca snon'rnonn
For Sale. or}. lyear 01.1 OctoberBO 1911.

fit to head any herd and a ow an in
color. W. W. KNAPP, Howell. Michigan.

FOR SALE—2 Yearling RED POLLED
BULLS Erica $60 each
it taken now. J. M. CHASE .1 so 8 Ionia, Mich
—Shorthorn Cattle. Shrop-
Ofikdflle StOCk Farm shire Sheep. A few Voung
bulls for sale. W. J. LESSIT.ER Belding, Mich

SHEEP.

IMPORTED RAIS III! EWES

Special Offering at Farmon' Prices.

Shropshires, Oxfords, Cotswolds. Hampshires. all
ages. S londid individuals reaégg for breeding or to
show. 111' shoe have won rizes in the last
five weeks at Molneo—Ham inc—Milwaukee—
Detroit and St. Joe in the hottest competition.
Sheep sent to responsible Tpartiesmn approval at
our risk. Allow us to_quct.e 1011 prices, etc.

WM. COOPER & NEPREWS P. S. CO.

64 W. Illinois Street Chicago. Ill.
one so a few

HAMPSHIRE..-“ 1......

03’ Hampehires are handsome. hard , prolific and

large size. 0. D WOODBURY. East musing, Mich.
Choice. young Iarge.heavyfleeced '

20 One-third off to quick buyer. ”dam. Ra’s

Write wants to 8. II. SANDERS. Ashtnbuln. Ohio.

PARSONS’ POLLED DELAINE RAMS

will riflncrkease thee wxei h; of wool and lo vity‘gf
our cc 5i“ gradex 831%
I ." Grand Ledge.

Grad

‘PARSONS—the eSheep

Oxiord- Down Sheep “31>th

cattle for sale. J. A. Dr: GARMO. MuDir, Mich.

masons oxrousnrtiznisarsil:

will Iva-101011 I ay ex recs.

PAR ‘ONS—“The eep an." GrandIndge, Mich.
-—Good Yearling! Field

Oxford Down Slice 11......“ ewesof .11

f.orsnle I. R. WATERB RY. Highland. Michigan.

UXFUBU BARS and EWES “$0331.?“ "Egypt."

WriteB. F. Miller or G. L. Spillane. ”final!

XFORD DOWN RAMS FOB SALE—yearling
and lambs. Will sell a few aged ewes at at-
tractivefpriccs. S. E. GILLETT ,Ravenna. Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

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EGISTERFD RAMBOUILLETS—lst prize flock of
Barr} Co. for 1 1 rs. Special prices for next 2'!) days.
Both sexes. all ages. Ira Baldwin. Hastings. Mich.

REG. [tambouillets of the best breeding, rams and
ewes from one to car lot. at reduced price if taken
in Sept Breeding furnished. Alli in rfect h.ealth
Farm 2% miles E. of Mon-ice, on G. T. BOB.“ B.and M. U.
R. Come and see me or wri your wants. Shoe
shipped forlnspecticn if 0 ered. J.Q

0.111 Hill Stock Farm

VON HOMEVER RAMBOUILLET RAMS
at farmers'egtices for the next 90 days. Large. plain,
heavy flee' C. E. LOCKWOOD ILWuh-gtfl.“

 

 

MAI’LFThe RIDG E SHROPSHIRES—For sale the imp.
M,anager andgearling rams and ewes
sired by this enoted ram. tewnrt. Lennon Mich.

“OckheaderS—Cohoice eyealrling Shropshire rams

a 80 ll
ewes. JONES .11 1110111115111. milligmfiitléfi‘i‘f

SIIROI’SIIIREA refiner“ ngmlo lambs 812 each.

c. J. THOMPSON. enocknmi °.'B°"2.ii£.i'§fl°

51.. hire Hall Stock Farm .. . .... ......
... 3?: L 8 0mm...“ gangs .1151?

The Maple Shropshiresrfimgfgr gale 30

earling rains. and o r 3~ e
Davison and siredb buBritUaarYBgm?cxli ram. brgd by
EFL LELAND a N. Route No. 9. Ann Arbor, Mich.

Shropshire Bar I
EWEB and RAMS—Forty bl. “raga wofltiered
yearling rams from in SanIafaction guar-
anteed, .E. OTTAWAY. «I: 00.. Blushing. Mich.

Shropshire Rome for
ANBOOHEB. R. No. 1. Marion. 331°.

 

 

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elyear n 9
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lisnios‘lllci lunar“00d °“°‘ " "M” '
prices. Also ewes and owe
lambs. A. E. GREEN. Orchard Lake. Mich. loll Phone.

Pulled Maine Rams for Sale.

1“. L. BROKAW. Eagle. Michigan.

"008.

BERKSIIRES‘AM £13333 lrginlgutlghw BIB;
winning stoolr. Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont. Mich. '

FOR SALE. BERKSHIRE—2 boars A 3 gilts farsowed in June
shoe choice lot of Aug. and Sept. pigs. sired by Handsome
Prince 3d .1. Marion King. A. A. PA'I'I‘ULLO, Deckerville, Mich.

Whm-folvlu breid for fall’ 1111"“): bBoar p131;I $1:
a serv as. us y an reedi
class. Prioedroasonablble. (1%. Corey, New Haven. ich.

Berkshires—”“23 ”SEES. 333533132

fot sale. 0. s. BARTLETT .Pontiac. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES—Cholice 'oung

boars of March and A ril furrow. wil also
sell‘lgthoxa’u bred Holstein cows to freshen“ 111 Sept.
an ct.

.Wil son, Okemos. Mich. Both phones.

PURE o I C’s—Bro? from prise-winners and
Isl-fie type. Both sex mugbtnflltanis uick 3:332:13;
or write. F. QSchwei Herman. acntatzisuina.0

0s '- c- SWI N £113.39:er t1. acacia-{I

strain both males and females. Write for Live and
Let Live JpriceR on Dbpéiirs and tries not akin.
A.J ,m. No. 2. 15...... Michigan.

 

o I sis—either sex. Ma ahro furrow—the large.
- 1growthy kind. Bight t pe at. farmers'
prices. A. EWMAN. B..No 1. Mar ette. Michigan.

0' I c SWINE—Males welghin from 175 to 50
lbs. each very globe lot of ilts
GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Ingham 00.. 1(1):.

9 -Best quality, lar rowth
0- lo c 5 Far sale type. either sex.“3 a‘Irs no:
akin. some fine bred SCéUL. choice lot. of fa I pigs all
ages. OTTO ZR. Nashville. Michigan.

 

 

 

()1i .0.e—'B111ars60alAl 901g. 8 Choice you; sows weig 11-
11.180 11 3060 ep s, e or se ,
. Order early. Fred Niche, xMonroe. Mirth .parsis

FOB SALE—A few i b
nuroc Jersey S ffiood breeding “W :igte 03::
prices. .A. MITT ER Stockbridge. Michigan.
DUBOC- JERSEY BOARS of the large. henv V boned

typeand cod in uality, also gilts and fall 1
for sale. M. BRA .Okemos. (Ingham Co. ) High”

—ASK FOR

DU ROG-JERSEY ammo.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Mkh.

FOR SAL —DiUROC-JERSEY bred sows,

and Shepherd Pups. Ex-
press prepaid. EIBAENGH H,ART Lansing, Mich.

no akin

 

 

 

UROC-JERSEYS—25 fine spring gills. popular blood lines.
Good individuals; 10 fine boars, 5 bred sows due to
JOHN MchCOL, B. No. 1. North Star. Mich.

WALNUT HILL DUROCS—l’i fancy sows bredto
[-1 both for Augiigtd and "“Se t.farrow.1£5
ng sexes. r ri r
JPC Brimstoo WA R. Milté’r‘ilglfis.

MULE FOOT [1005 FOR SALE—Poland Chinss. Chester
White-1 and Shropshire yearling Rams; also Pollod Dur-
Frank Bartlett, Dryden, lich.

BIO POLAND OHIIMS.

flWe have 801 era] spring boars that are ready for ser-

v1oe now from curt.

Large Boers Biog Tom and Big Wonder. '

The dams of these boars we are offering were from

Happy Wilkes, s I 000-“: hog and
Jim Periection an 800- lb. hog.

We also have se1eral females. Vi rite 1 0
£0 will sell them at. farmers prices. 18 3 ur “ants;

LLEN BR08., Paw Paw. Mich.

man TYPE I) C —Lsrgest in Michigan. Pigs
0 0 from mammoth sires and
sows. Weigh 160 to 175 lbs. 11114 months. My motto—
"Not how cheap but how od." Will pa) ex- ‘
pensee of those "mi. come an do not find what I
advertise. ELIVINGSTON. Parmn. Mich.
izo.

BUILEB’ 8 BIG IIPE POLAND-GUI" mm. “33

gbifall bonnet”. We ringpi 3101:0315: 50f ll
85 each: 50 registereds Shrop bugs; at $10 to '15 a a pig:
Jersey bulls at $15 to .26 rep ewes at 810.
aret the farmer’ 3 friend. J. 5003111119.. Portland. Mich.

OLAND CHINA SPRING PIGS f l
stock. Also dairy bred Shorth 0:311: “if
all ages. prices low. ROBERT NEVE, Pierson.

farrow soon.

 

ham young Bulls, dairy bred.

 

styled
sexes.
Mich.

—-Spring and fall i f l.
POI!“ ”III“: medium style. at 1")”; tor 'irge and

i e. e tn
sex. E. D. BI SnOP. Route 38 Lake: r:ae:,l\iiicl‘1r.

GLAND CHINAS; —Home of Michigan' 5 Grand Champion
‘ Boar; large. growthy spring hours and gills by this great
sure; they' re p1iced right. E. J. MATHEWSON. Nottaus Mich

Poland Chlnas‘E‘i”pl’.§’.°d.i€iél‘“ “‘1

L. W'. BABNESA SON. Byron. ShiausmeeCc“ Kiss;

0. BOABS read for sen 1ce. heaVy boned I
P. type. Prices r 80m ILH H'Conrad. successcarrgtf)
rad A So..n R. No. 4, Lansing. Michigan.

P.C. Bears and Fall Pigs “l .i,“°“5h‘3 ".9.

noroa‘fcwls. Northrufiw and anada stock. Batis-
tion gunmn W.MILLS Saline, Mich

hm —Bred from large t1 9. Stock
POIand C 353] la“. both sexes. a: Farmers
prices. W. J. HAGELS AW, Augusta. Michigan.

Big Type P. C. Bears and Sowsg. “W3, :33

eion. A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. Michiga‘h.II

Three Extra Blind FallP. U. Roars

B1 NextIn Line. 32spri male 1 read is
I ship 0. 0. D. and fu rnxilsfiip edigpreg: pronIplfIthiff
you want. good as th 0 best, write me for prices.

WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, Michigan.

—Stock of all a esf r l P i ht.
Mulelooi Us 3 1.. 3 ° ‘3 e ““3”
at Lima. ego. audio” '11? Adamfimifac‘i... 11.1,

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all
PURE 1111111 vonxsmnts. .h‘i’hiiilifitfi 1.?“

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.NVILSON. Morley, Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Yorkshires.

Boar-sold enough for service." Aef ew Bows.
Fall Pip. pairs and tries not akin. I will ssell you fall
pigs at prices that will as you Satisf

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old enough for service. M. O

 

 

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toadvsrtisen Just say "8%
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NOV. 4. 1911.

 

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PREPARATIONS Foe THE WINTER.

 

 

 

The above topic is the one upon which
The Farmer would focus the attention of
all its readers this month. Its considera-
tion at this time is especially timely for
those who desire to make the poultry
flock pay for the feed and care given it
during the cold months. Upon some
farms much has already been done in the
way of constructing new buildings and
repairing old ones or putting them in
shape for the winter. In fact, all young
laying stock should be in their winter
quarters by this time, since it is essential
that the pullets, now rapidly approaching

maturity. become accustomed to their
surroundings before the laying period
begins.

Where preparations for winter have not.
progressed even this far it is advised that
the young stock be given immediate at-
tention and that everynecessary prepara-
tion for cold weather be completed dur—
ing the present month. In housing stock
that has had free range, and has, perhaps,
roosted in the open air all summer, do
not make the mistake of overcrowding
the quarters given them and keeping the
building too tightly closed at night. Colds,
and possibly roup, are apt to develop
from such conditions. See that they have
plenty of room on the roosts and an
abundance of fresh air. It is impossible
to have too much of the latter so long as
there are no drafts or dampness. A cold
dry house is far more conducive to health
than a warm damp one.

The storing of green feed, enough to
last the fowls a part of the winter at
least, should be attended to now. Cab-
bage can now be had and should be
stored in such manner as to keep as long
as possible. The best method, in my
opinion, is that of suspending them from
the ceiling, preferably in the cellar, where
they won’t freeze. If not placed so close-
ly together as to prevent a free circula~
tion of air they will keep for quite a
while. In feeding, cut the cabbage in two
and throw into the pens for the fowls to
peck at, or hang up just out of the fowls’
reach. The latter is the better method
as the fowls will derive some exercise
from their efforts in getting the food.
Other vegetables that should be stored
now are beets, turnips, carrots, potatoes-—
in fact, any vegetable that the fowls are
fond of. Some of these can be fed raw
and the others cooked, as preferred. The
cooked vegetables, mixed with table
scraps and bran, will be relished on cold
winter days, and the hens will show their
appreciation in an increased number of
eggs. Raw potatoes are invaluable. but
I find that all chickens will not eat them,
but those that seem inclined to like them
should be given the small ones that are
not of use for cooking purposes. Cut
them in two and throw into the pens; the
hens will dispose of them.

If straw or other suitable material for
litter is unavailable, leaves may be sub-
stituted. Gather up all the fallen leaves
and place them under cover where they
will remain dry and convenient for use
when desired. They will not last so long
nor provide as good scratching material
as straw, as they break up and pack
down too readily; they must, therefore,
be renewed more often than straw.

If the storing of dirt and dust for winter
use has been neglected it should be done
now. Road dust for the dust boxes should
be stored in some dry place. If black
loam can be procured it is a good idea to
put away a. quantity for use on the floors
of the brooders next winter or spring. If
placed on the floor of the brooder to the
depth of half an inch and covered with
chaff it will prove an ideal scratching ma—
terial for the chicks.

All brooders and brood coops should be
thoroughly cleaned and put away for the
winter. Do not put them away in a filthy
condition. Remove every trace of drop-
pings and scrub the interior thoroughly
with a powerful disinfectant. Then take
a hand spray and apply a mixture of
coal oil and crude carbolic acid, getting
this into every crack and crevice. Then
the interior should be thoroughly white-
washed, after which you may feel that
all vermin has been destroyed.

Indiana. 0. E. HACHMAN.

(Preparations for the winter, as the
last paragraph of the above article sug-
gests, can not properly be limited to pro-
viding for the wants of the present flock.
The forehanded farmer who gives his
poultry flock the attention it deserves
will include in his preparations for winter

 

!

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

The

the providing or facilities for starting the

new crop of fowls, which should be well
on its way before the return of warm
weather. Hence it is important that pens
for the breeding stock, as well as the in-
cubators and brooders, receive attention
now while outdoor work is still possible.
After cleaning and disinfecting the ma-
chines as recommended by this corres-
pondent, set them out on bright warm
days until thoroughly dried out. Then
store in a dry place and they will be in
good condition when' wanted—Ed.)

 

 

ROUP IN CHICKENS AND TURKEYS.

 

A Montcalm county subscriber writes
that his chickens have large swellings
about the eyes, causing them to go blind
and finally die, while a St. Clair county
reader reports his turkeys similarly af-
fected. In the latter case the swellings
are accompanied by discharges from eyes
and nostrils. These seem to be pretty
well developed cases of roup, a disease
which it is difficult to treat successfully.
The main thing is to prevent further
spread of the disease if possible. To do
this remove the fowls that as yet show no
symptoms of the trouble to fresh, clean
quarters—if practical, to a part of the
premises that has not been overrun by
the diseased fowls. Give them proper
protection from cold and wet and feed
them well, as the better their condition
the more likely are they to resist the
germ should they come in contact with
it. Remember that the droppings from
the diseased fowls, as well as all dis-
charges from the head are full of roup
germs, consequently the sick fowls should
be confined to narrow limits, preferably
in quarters which will not afterward
be used by the poultry, and the old quart-
ers thoroughly cleaned up and disinfected.

It may be possible to save some of the
diseased fowls, but if there are many
such it is a laborious task to apply most
of the treatments recommended for roup.
A comparatively simple one, which has
proved effective in many cases, is here
recommended: Apply pressure to the
swellings and to parts about the eyes
and nostrils to
matter as much as possible. Then plunge
the fowl’s head into a 1 to 2 per cent so-
lution of permanganate of potash and
hold it beneath the surface for 20.to 30
seconds. Give this treatment twice a
day, keep the fowls away from drafts
and dampness and give warm nourishing
food.

 

ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESSFUL WIN-
TERING OF BEES.

To winter a colony of bees safely the
first and main essential is a sufficient
number of bees. It matters little how
well the other requirements may be ful-
filled, a handful of bees, in this latitude,
cannot be safely wintered. and in hard
winters it requires a very strong colony
to safely go through the extremes of cold
which are often experienced. The num-
ber of bees which form the colony at the
beginning of winter often depends upon
circumstances entirely independent of
the will or managemet of the apiarist.
Probably the only time when the bee-
keeper can be 01 help to his bees, in se-
curing a sufficient amount of strength,
is after a short crop, when the bees have
gathered so small an amount of honey
that they have been unable, though prob-
ably willing, to rear a. sufficient supplyof
brood. By judicious feeding in time,
that is, before the opening of real cold
weather, quite an amount of brood rear-
ing may be induced and the strength of
the colony materially increased.

Next comes the question of food. If a
sull’icicnt number of bees is absolutely
necessary to safe wintering, it is equally

essential that enough food be had, and in
an available position, that is, within reach
of the bees. Twenty—live pounds of honey
is considered a sufficient amount, in an
ordinary winter, for the needs of a
('Ultlny.

The next question, and which I con-
sider third in importance, is the quality
of the honey. Iloney gathered in the fore
part of the season, thoroughly matured
and ripened, makes the very best kind of
stores for wintering, while honey gath—
ered late in the season, or at a time when
the weather is wet or cool, is not good for
wintering. Bees will consume more pounds
of the latter, develop dysentery and die,
or suffer what some call spring dwindling.
If bees are to winter in the best possible
condition they must have sealed honey,
or something that will take the place of
it, immediately above the cluster and in
direct contact with it as long as the cold
weather lasts. F. G. H.

loosen the discharging'

 

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Some of the Reasons Why

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Outwears Three Ordinary Ranges

The only range made entirely of charcoal and malleable iron.
Mellon“. iron can't break—charcoal iron won 't rust like steel.

The name of
bolts and 3
because neither heat nor cold affects them.
oven is lined throughout with pure
held in place by an open iron grating—you can see it—and
it stays there always.
lining assure an even . .

doors drop to form rigid shelves.
Mallcablc iron oven raclu slide out automtlcally.’ hold-
ing whatever they contain.

llie Grea
MAJESTIC

Charcoal and Molleable Iron

copfer reservoir which hosts like a tea kettle,
co per pock turn

I) e a
Ie i: band lining of
few minutes

 
   
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
    
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 

Economical In Fuel

the Matte-tic are riveted (not put together with
tove-putty)—they will alwaye remain air tight,
The Majcctic
asbestoc board,

Air tight‘ joints and pure asbestos
ing heat. saving one-half the fuel.
No cprinyo.

RANGE

through a
Kid from one piece of copper setting against

8 box. It boils 15 allons of water in a very
by turning a lever the rame and reservoir moves

Pure away from fire. Anexclusivepatented Melanie feature. Open end
Aubeiboo ash pan does away with shoveling ashes—ventilated 0:]:
card pit [oriental floor 5:01;: catching fire—ash ell“, catches ashes.
eyew- aeraosowyoute eareatlm.
provemenr ever put In a range. gr
_ Do‘n’t bu the range you ex ect to last a life
time_ ‘unsxg t, unseen," or ou’ I be sure to be dis-
appomted. Go to our dea er. and see the Great
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Charcoal planted—find out why the Mohawk: is 800% stronger
than all other ranges where most ranges are weakest.
Iron. It: is the best range at. any price and it should
dd' be in your kitchen" It is for sale by best: dealers
B me In nearl every county in 40 states. If you don't know
300% to who gel 3 them in your vicinity. write us and we will
_ send you our book. "Range Comparison." Everyone
Info of of buying a new range should first read it.
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Greatest of all egg-making
foods. Supplyit fresh. get it low
priced. Cut it at home with a

STANDARD

Bone Cutter

The cutter that handles hone In all conditions and doesn’t
break down. The favorite everywhere. It always makes

ood. Its easy turning, strength and nice work in cutting
genes across the grain please every user. Don’t buy
anycuttertill you know the Standard. Send for free book.

STANDARD BONE CUTTER (10.. Mlllord, Illss.

CASH Ior FIIIIS!

You get the highest prices and the
guickcst returns when you ship your
urs to Funston. Vie receive and sell
more furs direct from trapping sections
than any house in the world. The big-
gest. American and foreign buyers’lt‘ige
e
fierce competition among buyers en-
ables us to get, higher prices than any.
. ' one else. That's why we can send you
\ the most money for your furs, and
send it quicker. Trappers' outfits fur-
nished at cost.

.. Big Money in Trapping

While work is slack. do some trapping. It. pays big.
Use Funsten Animal Baits. $1.00 per can. Guaranteed
to increase your catch. or your money refunded.
Traps Furnlshed at Factory Prices

Write (code for Catalog. New Tm rte Guide,
Game Laws. at Market. ports and S pping Tags,
ALI. SENT FREE.

flatten anfiWZZSflmSLStbulgflzg

Oppoflun‘" TRAPP ERS

For 3 2 = 2
We pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES for all raw fur
skins because we use them for manufacturing.
Sell finished article direct to public—you get
middlemau’s profit. Write/or special Price List.

Fun A. E. BURKI-IARDT

 

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GUIDE . .‘ represented at. our regular stiles.

FREE

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Main st. cor. 3d, Olnoinnatl, 0.
Will"

you: . in the mobile: rumor."

Farmers’ Handy Wagon
at a low Price

fAllisolutelzy the besthagotn huillt1 ffr czar-y kind
0 envy eammg. ow s cc w 86! w e t!
Will lost a lifetime without repairs. ' '6"

STEEL WHEELS

for farm wagons
—any size to fit;

any axle.

or our 1‘ r e a
booklet before
you buy a wagon
or a. set of wheels.

EMPIRE mm. co.. Box 89L Qulncy. m.

BUI'RBON Red Turkeys—Thoroughlircds. healthy.
large Toms $5. hens $2.50 to 8'5. S. L. “'yandotte

Ck‘ls now $1 each. Mrs. Fred Miles,.NewHiid8011, Mich
“ ISHEL STRAIN White Plymouth Rock cockercls.

Special sale during Nov. Price $1 & $2. Guaranteed
to please. Bruce VIC brown, R. No, 3, Mayville, Mich.

' . . ' . l\ ’- .— ' '
Lake Ridge Farm. maths]:”lintifie‘ltllil“ilfiflt
$1 o0 to $3. Barred Rooks from Chicago prize-winners:
l~~unexcellod layers of largo,
0 e noonas white eggs. Utility cockerels
$1.00. pullets $1.50. W. FISHER. Watervliet, Mich

 
 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

FFF & White ()rpingtons, Buff dc White Leghorns
Barred & White Rocks, & R. C. lthodc. Island Ilt'ilt‘l
Okls. Selects $3, Mediums 32. Utility $1.50 (‘iit‘ll
Satifaction guaranteed. H. H. KING. Willis Mich

Ii "—8. 0. Brown Leghorn Cooker l..
EGGMAKERS State wide reputation. I can Selll‘l';
you. Vi rite me. Wm. J. Cooper. Mt. Pleasant, Ml(h.
HOROUGHBRED S. 0. BROWN LEGHORNH

A fine lot. of OOCKERELS at. right prices.
LEVI IS ’1. OPPENLANDER, R. No. 4. Lansing. Mich.

LILLIE FARHSTEAD POULTRY
I]; lgolrtoceks. I}. I. Bleds. 1‘55} ngangotftes ailid S. O. W.
n g or an e, o : .50;
ago. down 0. LILLIrE. Ooopgrlsvislle. Mast."

 

 

ILVER. Golden and White Wyandottes of l't '
young stock after November let. Fine circuflifiat‘r‘ee:
A few w ite roosters. 0. W. Browning, Portland, Mich.

—U f ' . ‘
WHITE IIIIIDOIIES “rehearsing... 3.3::

pays. A. FRANKLHV SMITH. Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

DOGS.
TRAINED running Fox Hounds. and some artly
trained rabbit dogs, and Shetland Ponies. err-eta

wanted. Send stomp. W. E. LEOKY. Holmeeville. U.

—E tra fine brood m t .
For Sale. Collies 3:... 0. mm... 0.3.3223.
bred. Also puppies. W. J. BOSS. Rochester. Mich.

 

 

 


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Thin, F eeble
and Under-Fed

people need more coal,
clothes and doctors
than the strong, robust
and hearty.

Scott’s Emulsion

Saves coal bills, tailors'
bills and doctors’ bills.

au. onucals rs
11-55

EVERLASTINGgltE

Made of best Ohio clay
Hard burnt, salt glued
No more froten adage
No more door jam to rot
Will withstand high winds
Never Needs Pa'nting
Absolutely iadeatrudible
Never needs repairs
ANY handy man who can
handle a trowel can

 

 

 

set up the tile They are
self centering. Simple in
construction. Absolutely

air tight and sanitary. Be-
ing hollow tile. there is no
. fear of ptomaine poison.
We have experimented for
9 several years before put-
ting this tile silo 011 the
market and fee! that it cannot be improved
upon Writ- ior mics: and fartlm information.

National Fire Proofing 00.. Canion. Ohio

Have You Plenty of Feed,

enough to last you until next summer? Whether
you have or not it will pay you to feed

Dried Beet Pulp.

Your stock will do better if beet pulp formpsl a
Dart of their ration. This 15 not “hot air "_t:ry _1_t
and prove it for yourself. You cannot lose by
doing so but you will undoubtedly profit thereby

It takes the place of bran. gives better results,
and is cheaper.‘ Especially good for dairy cows,
Dried Beet Pulp is used by the best dairymen.
Don’t be afraid to feed it because your grand-
father didn't use it. he probably never heard of it.

Ask your den lcr. If he does not keep it write to

 

 

 

 

 

'1'. F. MARSTON, Sales Agent for the Sugar Co.
Address Box i). Bay City. Mich.

 

 
   
   
 

flat/ll- 1mm?” ”kg: whim groan-5 male My
SUPERIOR DUPLEX Mill.

(WITH BAGGlR ATTACHMENT)

do the work oftwo ordinary mills-b w1th l esssplower.
Grinds mixed f corn on cob or in

 
      
  
   

   

 
  

never chokes. or
gasoline or steam
e n g i n e. Fully
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Superior I13. and
Ill] lilo.

5 East Street
Springfield. Ohio

 
 
     
 
   
 

 

KEYSTONE Dreaming

A simple, sure and humane device for
dehorning cattle Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Operation requires no experience.
Results certain. Valuable booklet (free)
on How Dehorning Benefits Cattle.

M. 1'. PHILLIPS, asses:

‘ 3... “Half Price Offer ll

The Capital Gasoline Engine
is not of cheap push rod type.
It has a revolving cam shaft on
the side Has no valves in the
cylinder head. Write for big
catalog. Get our profit- -shsring

‘ c. n. A Ilsslnner s maio.°c'33m1.'li{§§1‘e1rl°ii'£
.01.... SWEEP MILLS

Difmntfim all others. 40:2 homes.

hm oudau M
oral-:3. (Alsou make 10 sizes of hell mills)
I'll—Booklet 011'?“ III! Hall's.”
Ii. N. P.Iowsi1erCo..80Ill lend. Ind.

ALWAYS mention the IICIIGAN rum
when m are writing to advertisers.

 

 

 

 

   

  
    
    
  
 

 

 

 

 

CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLm.

 

PURE-BRED CATTLE AND THEIR AD-
VANTAGES.

 

Farmers generally, and many dairymen

as well, are slow to appreciate the value
of pure—bred cattle. Little, indeed, could
be told in a single article, of all that has
been done by proper breeding to better
the beef and dairy cattle so common
among us. Mr. Anderson, of the M. A.
C.. in his illustrated lecture, “Types
and breeds of cattle," impresses this fact
strongly upon those who see and hear it.
The people on the little island of Jersey
prevented importation of cattle long ago
that they might keep their breed pure
and the wide world profits now by their
wisdom. The Holsteins, bred for centuries
in Holland and the Netherlands, always
the pride of those who cared for them,
are today repaying manyfold the thought
and attention bestowed upon them in the
past. The possibilities of either the beef
or dairy animal are accumulative. Every
great exhibition of fat cattle demonstrates
as clearly the value of good breeding as
do the great dairy cows whose records
astonishes us and challenge our admir-
ation. Care, patience and wisdom will
accomplish almost everything desirable
in breeding.
Perhaps the greatest advantage of res-
istered cattle is the evidence that certain
lines have been followed in breeding. In
the main, the objections are that the oc—
casional poor individuals may be propa-
gated and registered and their presence
prove disappointing and harmful.

Registration based upon actual pcr-
formance is of great value. and as this
idea gains strength and prevalence, we
may look for more rapid ogress along
dairy lines. Every dairymai‘i should, as
soon as possible, become a breeder of
pure—bred cattle, if only in a. very small
way. True, their value is so generally
acknowledged and their numbers are so
few, that prices are high, but it is pos-
sible to gct a start, even under these con-
ditions, with the expenditure of but little
money and it is surprising how rapidly
the progeny of a single cow will multiply.
A friend of mine brought a very few
Holsteins into our locality some time ago
and after dividing his little herd started
out with two heifers and one male, which
were all fine animals. In a very short
time. he decided to move to Ohio. He
made a sale at which he disposed of a
number of pure-bred Holsteins along with
other effects. The cattle sold brought
excellent prices and besides, he took with
him to Ohio, a herd that was worth much
more than the one with which he start-
ed. Last week I attended a little Jersey
sale on a farm nearby. The owner came
from another state but a few years ago,
bringing with him a very small registered
herd. He has realized a good profit from
his dairy every year; he has sold a few
males from time to time and this was
his second public sale. The rapid increase
of his herd, their actual worth as dairy
animals and the prices received for those
which were sold, all emphasize the value
of pure-bred cattle and the wisdom of the
man who makes at least a small invest-
ment in them.

But the man who invests money in
pure—bred animals should give careful at-
tention to the nzatter of dairy perform—
ance. The scarcity of heifers and cows
of pure breeding which can be bought at
reasonable prices, makes it difficult some-
times for us to get just what we would
like. But there are always plenty of
males from which to select and with the
right kind of a sire. we have great rea-
son to hope for the future of the herd.
Personally, I have concluded to use no
sire in the future whose dam is not in
the “Register of Merit” Class. One of
the sires owned now in our breeders' as-
sociation boasts a mother that made last
year 587 pounds of butter and it is pos-
sible to secure many males of as good or
even better breeding.

The advantages of pure-him cattle may
be increased or diminished by care and
feeding. Cattle of excellent breeding are
sometimes so poorly cared for that it is
practically impossible to determine their
actual worth under favorable conditions.
The man who puts good money into a
pure-bred animal can ill afford to scrimp
it in the matter of the ration or to with-
hold the attention that insfures warmth
and comfort.

The showing of cattle at the local fair

 

is a great stimulus to better dairy meth-
ods and the acquisition of more valuable

animals. It is a. means of education also,
for, while the man who carries off the
premiums has the Satisfaction of winning
the one who falls learns why and the dis-
covery of weak points in his herd may
prove in time of much greater value to
him than a moderate premium. ‘We
should neglect no proper means that will
increase popular interest in the breeding
of better cattle. Those of us who do not
care for registered cattle may yet use
the pure-bred sire in the development of
a good grade herd that in time may-do
almost as well. But we need to wake
up. We need the best dairy literature.
\‘Ve should join a breeders’ association.
We should attend the dairy meeting and
the Grange and use all these helps to put
us abreast with the foremost thought up—
on this subject. We cannot know too
much about our business but interest,
enthusiasm, and the ability to realize our
dream by the aid of plenty of hard work;
these are worth far more than mere
knowledge.
Oceana C0. W, F. TAYLOR.

WATERING COWS lN THE STABLE.

Years of experience demonstrate the
practicability of watering cows in the
stable, allowing each cow an individual
bucket of her own so that she can drink
whenever she feels like it. This should
not do away with the practice of turning
the cows out in the middle of the day or
on pleasant days in the winter time to
give them exercise and an airing and
give a chance for the stable to air. But
where cows are compelled to go out of
doors to drink there is always some time
during the winter when it is absolutely
improper to turn them out of doors, the
weather being so exceedingly cold and
stormy, and when this time comes many
Cows do not drink what water they ac-
tually nced. Consequently, they should
have the water readily accessible in the
stable. Many a cow has been killed by
hcing turned out in an atmosphere be-
low zero and compelled to drink cold
water. When the water is in the stable
in individual buckets it is the same tem-
perature as the stable and a proper tem-
pcralure to be taken into the system.
When it is out of doors in a tank, with
the weather below zero, it is not of a
proper temperature to be taken into the
system, and if a cow is compelled to
drink at one time all she ought to have
for the entire twenty-four hours she will
drink too much of this cold water fur her
own good. \‘Vater buckets are liable to‘
get foul. The slobbering from the [bow
and the chaff and dust that getlinto
them must be taken care of. For this
reason it is necessary to occasionally
flush them out thoroughly. ‘

SELECTlON OF DAIRY COWS.

Steady and persistent breeding in one
line and for a single purpose is the only
safe rule for a dairyman to follow. After
having raised the standard of a herd by
careful breeding comes the final and crit-
ical test, to wit, individual selection. It
is, after all, capacity of the individual
demonstrated by actual test that fixes
the standard of the dairy cow. By breed-
ing the average. the general chances may
be vastly increased, and from the stock
thus produced the cows for dairy work
should be selected. As assistants in mak-
ing selections the scales and the Babcock
test are indispensable. They are to the
dairyman what the scales are to the
grocer and the yardstick to the merchant.
They are impartial, they fix the value of
the cow as a part of the herd with in—
flexible accuracy. The cream test is bet~
tcr than none, but it is so variable and
uncertain that it is of little value. It is
not uncommon to find cows whose cream
is twice as rich in butter-fat as that of
some others. I have known the difference
to be so great that it took 21/: quarts of
0110 cow’s cream lo furnish the same
amount of b11tter~fat contained in one
quart of cream from another.

Canada. W. R. GILBERT.

IMPORTATION OF DAIRY CATTLE.

During the period from April 1, to June
30,1911, 909 cattle were imported for
breeding purposes, for which the Bureau
of Animal Industry iSSued certificates of
pure breeding. Of these 909, 413 were
Guernseys, 357 Jerseys, 67 Alderneys, a
like number of Ayreshires and six Short,
home. The Department of Agriculture
will shortly issue a complete list of the
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BEST GRAIN TO FEED WITH TIM-
OTHY HAY AND CORN STOVER.

Having to buy the most of my grain
for my cows. would like to have you give
me the best ration. Will have corn stov-
er and timothy hay for roughage and
enough corn and oats to grind for prob-
ably about one-third of the grain ration.
Can buy cottonseed meal for $30, gluten
for about $26, bran about $25, oil meal
for $36, and middlings for $26.50. Which
would be the cheapest of these and how
much per cow?

Allegan Co. H. H. H.

Since there is no succulent food in the

ration mentioned, and timothy hay and
corn stover are to be used for roughage,
both of which are rather constipating
in their nature, I would suggest that
dried beet pulp be used as a part of the
grain ration, and as you have corn and
oats I would feed them as far as they
go; then for a food rich in protein to help
balance up this ration there is no ques-
tion but what you can get more digest-
ible protein for the money in cottonseed
meal than in any other one of the foods
mentioned. Therefore, I would make a

grain ration of beet pulp, corn and oats,
and cottonseed meal. As you have no

succulent food I am strongly of the opin-
ion that it would pay you to moisten the
beet pulp from one feed to another to
bring it back to something like its former
succulency, and feed this separate. That
is, don’t try to mix the dry beet pulp
with the corn and oats and cottonseed
meal. I would suggest a ration of 2 lbs.
of dried pulp, 2 lbs. of corn and oats,
and 1 lb. of cottonseed meal; that is, in
that proportion. Then I would feed each
cow as many pounds of this grain ration
per day as she produces pounds of but-
ter-fat in a week; but as I say, I would
not feed the beet pulp mixed dry with
the other foods because it won’t mix well
in the first place, and I think you would
get better results, everything consid-
ered, if you would moisten the beet pulp
and then add the corn and oats and cot-
tonseed meal after the beet pulp has been
put into the manger you would get better
satisfaction. If you prefer you can feed
the corn and oats once a day and cotton—
seed meal once a day, and the beet pulp
twice a day. If the beet pulp is moist-
ened so that it will be fresh but not wet,
the other grain will stick to it readily in
the manger and the cows will relish the
whole better than where the grain is fed
dry, and I am of the opinion that the beet
pulp will do more good in this way than
it will if fed dry. If you prefer you can
feed 2 lbs. of gluten feed to 1 lb. of cot-
tonseed meal. but this will cost more and
I doubt if you would get much better
results.

CEMENT FLOORS FOR COW STABLE.

 

Could you tell me if cement floor is
good for cows to stand on all winter, or
is it best to put planks over the cement?
Some farmers tell me that if my cows
stand on cement floor all winter they
will get stiff in the spring; so I thought
since you had cement floors in your cow
barn that you could tell me about this,
How many feet do you allow between
the manger and the gutter?

Presquc Isle Co. A. D.

I am aware that some dairymen object
to cement floors for cow stables because
they believe that they are too cold for the
cow to lie upon, especially too cold for
the udder of the cow. Some go so far as
to say that when the udder of the cow is
kept in contact with the cement floor for
any considerable length of time that it is
liable to cause garget or inflammation

of the udder. Others also claim that ce-
ment floors cause rheumatism and this

and that and other claims are made, but
I am positive that these ideas are largely
exaggerated. I know of many dairymen
who have cement floors and have the
stables so arranged that it is almost im—
possible to keep any bedding under them,
therefore the cows have to lie down on
the cement floor, and the cows have been
kept in this way for years and yet they
have experienced no difficulty whatever
with any of these troubles. Consequent-
ly, I am led to believe that there is little
or nothing in the idea that cement floors
are injurious. From personal experience
I cannot say very much upon this point
because with my system of keeping cows
in the model cow stall the cow does not
lie upon the cement floor. The 2x4 which
is placed behind the cow to compel her
to lie in front of it keeps the bedding from
working back into the gutter, and when
the cow lies down she always has bed-
ding under her, consequently she lies on
a bed rather than on the cement floor.
I do not believe that A. D. need have any
hesitancy whatever in making a cement
floor for his cow stable, and I do not
think he needs to go to the expense and
trouble of putting. board floors on top
of the cement. It is perfectly safe, and

I can speak from the experience of thou-
sands of others, to have cows stand on
cement floors without any injury to them
or to their udders.

Some people will tell you that you can’t
have horses stand on cement floors, all
kinds of injuries result, and yet several
year ago I put cement floors in my horse
barn, and did not put any boards on top
of the cement. The horses have stood
on these floors now for several years
with no injurious effects whatever, and if
I was going to build a hundred horse
stables, I would use a cement floor with
no boards on top of it. When you put
boards on top of a cement floor you are
getting a trap for filth. You cannot have
a sanitary stable and you cannot keep it
clean where lumber is used. No man can
afford now days to board floors in any
kind of a stable. They should all be
made out of cement and it is not neces-
sary to put boards on top of the‘cement.
It is, however, a splendid plan to see
that the stock have plenty of bedding,
and I do not believe that it is best for
them to lie upon a damp, cold floor. In
our hog pens and henhouses We keep
them covered with straw and chaff and
do not clean them out every day. We
keep putting in straw and let it accumu-
late until it gets so deep that it is in the
way of the animals, then We clean the
material out and put in dry straw again
so that the floor is always covered with
straw. The same way with our calf beds.
In this way we save every bit of the
liquid manure by letting the straw ab-
sorb it in which shape it is carried to
the field without loss.

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FEEDING STUFFS FOR THE DAIRY.

 

Dairymen should be widely informed
regarding feeding stuffs, since in these
days of economy few men go through the
year without purchasing supplementary
feeds to cheaper. the dairy ration and not
depreciate the value thereof. The per-
centage of protein in all feeds usually
marks its value and generally constitutes
the basis in determining its value by feed
inspectors. Among the feeds containing
40 per cent of protein and over are cot--
ionseed meal. meat scraps, bone meal and
feeding tankage. Feeds containing from
30 to 40 per cent of protein are linseed
meal, and some of the better gluten
feeds. Feeds containing between 20 and
30 per cent are some of the lower grades
of gluten feed, corn germ meal, corn
pressed cottonseed cake, dried distillers’
grain, calf meal, etc. Feeds containing
from 14 to 20 per cent are wheat bran,
wheat middlings, cottonseed meal and
hulls (feed meal), buckwheat mixed feeds
and many of the better brands of dairy
feeds. Those containing eight to 14 per
cent of protein are white middlings, corn
bran, corn and oat chop, other chop feeds,
besides many special brands offered to
tne trade. Low grade oat feeds, cotton-
seed hulls, buckwheat hulls, etc., contain
less than eight per cent of protein and
consequently are not very efficient in pro-
ducing dairy products.

Probably cottonseed meal is used more
than any other one kind of supplementary
feed purchased by Michigan dairymen.
There are different grades of this meal.
According to the interstate cotton crush-
ing association choice cottonseed meal
must be finely ground but not necessarily
bolted, perfectly sound and somewhat
sweet in odor, of a yellow color without
excess of lint and must contain at least
eight per cent of ammonia, or 49 per cent
of combined protein and fat. The second
grade which is called prime cottonseed
meal is essentially the same as choice cot-
tonseed meal, except that by anaylsis it
must contain at least 7% per cent of am-
monia, or 46 per cent of combined protein
and fat. The third class, denominated
good cottonseed meal, must be finely
ground, not necessarily bolted, have a
sweet odor, of a reasonably bright color
and by analysis must contain at least sev~
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combined protein and fat. Cottonseed
meal not coming up to these contract
grades may be of good delivery if within
one-quarter of one per cent of the am-
monia content or one and one-quarter
per cent of the combined fat and protein
content of the grade sold or of the sale
sample. However, in such instances it is
the rule of the association that the settle-
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International Live Stock Exposition at
Chicago close November 1. Arrangements
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. \I'ith the approach
The Cost and Benefit of the institute
ofinstitute Work. season, it would
not come amiss to
review the work which has been done at
Farmers' Institutes in our own and
neighboring states in recent years, in
order that we may arrive at a knowledge
of the cost of this work and {he extent
of the benefits which may naturally be
ascribed to it.

A special report of the United States
Department of Agriculture giving statis-
tics for the year ending June 30, 1910, for
12 states, including Michigan and those
surrounding it, permits of some interest-
ing deductions in this connection. Of
these 12 states, Michigan expended the
smallest amount of money for institute
wwrk during the fiscal year for which the
figures are given, or a total of $8,560.
With this money 1,136 institutes were
held with an attendance of 149,652, the
cost per session being $7.54 and the per
capita cost for that attendance being 5.1
cents, or the lowest of that in any of
the states for which Statisics are given
in the above mentioned report. The fig-
ures relating to the attendance do not
take into consideration the number pres-
ent at the round-up institute or on the
institute trains, which would have added
approximately 15,000 to the number pres-
ent at Michigan Institutes and reduced
the per capiia cost accordingly.

With two exceptions, the number of
mcetings held in Michigan was the larg-
est of any state included in the report,
lndiana having held 1,218 and Ohio 1,620.
Al the 1,620 meetings held in Ohio there
were present 421,040 persons; the total
expenditure for the meetings was $22,000,
the cost per session $13.58 and the cost
per person 5.2 ccnis. A comparison of
those figures shows that the average at-
tendance at the institutes in Ohio was
more than twice that in Michigan, and
notwithstanding the fact that nearly
three times as much money was expend-
ed and the average meetings cost nearly
twice as much, the per capiia cost for
those who attended was only fr’actionally
higher.

No other state closely approached this
low per capita cost of institute work that
was included in this report, Indiana being
the nearest competitor with a per capita.
cost of 9.8 cents. The highest cost was
that of North Dakota at 28 cents per
capita, while some of the older states

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having a. larger number of meetings, such
as New York and Minnesota, have a per
capita cost of 81 cents and Illinois a per
capita cost of 19 cents. These figures
show that for the attendance at the in-
stitutes, Michigan made a. good expendi-
ture of the money appropriated for this
purpose. They also show that there is
room for betterment of the institute
meetings through their more liberal pat-
ronage by the farmers of the state. Of
course, it must be taken into considera-
tion that many of the Michigan insti-
tutes are held in the sparsely settled sec-
tions of the lower peninsula as we‘ll as in
some of the upper peninsula, and that
these have naturally reduced the average
of attendance and increased the per cap-
ita. cost of our institute work.

There is no doubt, however,’ that the
results have well paid for the expendi-
tures involved and it is a. reasonable as-
sumption that the time has now come
when more money should be spent for
this work and the character of the in-
stitute meetings improved to a. degree
which will attract larger attendance and
be a. material aid in the solution of many
of the vexed problems of the farmer, 'in-
cluding the marketing problem as well
as the problem of production or the so-
cial problems of rural communities.

On another page of this
issue appears an article
from the pen of one of
Michigan's progressive
agriculturists who thinks favorably of the
scheme of having a. traveling farm ex-
pert detailed in each county, to be paid
jointly by the national, state and county
governments. to help the individual farmer
solve the difiicult problems with which
he is confronted. It would undoubtedly
be helpful in many ways, yet it is prob-
ably many years from realization, and
with that fact in view, every farmer
should resolve to secure “first aid" in the
solution of his problems from every pos-
sible available source at the present time.
lie may do this from the agricultural
papers, the farmers’ institutes, the ex-
periment station bulletins and the var-
organizations with which
he may become affiliated. We believe
that the agricultural papers may be made
more helpful by very many farmers than
they are at the present time. Vi’hlle a
constantly increasing number are seek-
ing information through this medium
each year, yet there is room for much
more valuable work along this line, and
it is with that fact in mind that the
Michigan Farmer has established the new
department of practical Science, through
which the elucidation of scientific prob-
lems will be undertaken as has the ex-
planation of practical problems through
the other departments of the paper in the
past.

This is a progressive age and the pro-
gressive farmer must keep well in the
front rank in all that relates to the
science of agriculture, as well as to the
details of practical agricultural practices
in the section where he’may be located.
But it is not alone “first aid” that is
needed, but a follow-up system ,by which
the farmer who is started along i... right
line of scientific investigation and prac-
tical application of the fundamental
principles of agriculture, may keep apace
with the modern demands for success
upon the farm.

. In the discussions which
Conservation of have recently occurred
Farm Labor. in the columns of the
Michigan Farmer re-
garding the amount of work which a man
should accomplish at different tasks on
the farm, the fact has been quite clearly
brought out that the character of the
horses used by the man accomplishing
that work will be a material influence
upon the amount of work which he should
accomplish. Clearly, then, as a means of
conserving the farm labor in getting the
most for our money in work accomplish-
ed, we should have good horses of the
right type in order that the farm labor
may be utilized to the best advantage.

The cost of horse labor upon the farm
has been made the subject of exhaustive
study at the Minnesota Experiment Sta-
tion and carefully kept records and ac-
counts of farm horses have been pub-
lished in Bulletin No. 117 of that station,
showing that the average cost of horse
labor on the farm is about 81,1, cents per
hour. This means that the actual cost
on the farm for a 10-hour day is 85 cents
per horse or $1.70 for a team. There is
no disputing the 'fact that it costs little
more to maintain good horses of the right
type for the accomplishment of a maxi-
mum amount of work upon the farm
than for the maintenance of those not so
well suited to the purpose, and when we

“First Aid" to
Agriculture.

take into consideration the fact that the
cost of a. man to drive the team is at
least equal to the cost of the team itself,
tnere is a double loss from the inefficiency
of the teams maintainedupon the farm,
where they are not well suited to do the
work in hand.

Thus, the extra money required in the
investment of a good teem as compared
with inferior horses will yield a very high
rate of interest in the resulting conserva-
tion of labor upon the farm, and as labor
is the largest factor in the cost of pro-
duction, this is one means which should
be taken to reduce the cost of production
on every Michigan farm. Fortunately,
the farmers of Michigan are breeding a.
better class of horses for farm work than
was the case in former years, and not-
withstanding ihe relatively high price of
horsefiesh at the present time, the av-
erage quality of Michigan farm horses is
better than ever before. Still there is
plenty of room for improvement in this
respect; and it should be the aim of every
farmer to approach the ideal in the type
of horses maintained upon the farm as a.
means of conserving the farm labor and
thus cheapening the cost of production to
a maximum degree.

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HAPPENINGS or THE WEEK.

National.

Two men were killed Sunday when a
freight train went through a. trestle over
Caesar Creek, six miles south of Xenia,
Ohio.

An open gas jet resulted in the as-
phyxiation of four persons at Bridgeport.
Conn.

A railway wreck one mile west of Belle-
vue, Texas. resulted in the death of one
man and the injury of a score of pas-
sengers. '

One man was killed and several others
severely injured by the collision of a
passenger and freight train near Ran-
dolph, Minn, Sunday.

Capt. Larsen succeeded in making his
second successful trip down the Niagara
River through the whirlpool rapids in his
motor boat, “The Niagara,” which is 15
feet long and equipped with a. 10 horse-
power cngine. Mr. Larsen made the six
mile trip through the turbulent waters in
25 minutes. '

Earthquakes in southwestern Alaska
revealed rich veins of gold, and as a re-
sult considerable excitement exists at
Valdez, Cordova and other southern
Alaska towns. It is reported that the
quartz assays from $15,000 to $24,000 per
ton.

Joseph Pulitzer, the noted blind editor
of the New York “'orid, died at Charles-
ton, S. C., Sunday afternoon. He was 64
years old and had been blind for 22
years. He was born in Hungary and
47 years ago arrived in New York with
only a 20-franc piece. His estate is now
estimated at $20,000,000.

The largest cave—in in the history of
mining in the state of California occurred
the past few days at the App mine, one
of the old time gold producers. in the
town of Quartz. Already the cave has
left a hole 200 feet by 300 feet and 150
feet deep. The disturbance continues
down to the tenth level of the mine.
Preliminary rumblings gave warning to
the miners and all escaped.

The tariff board provided for by the
fcderal congress has its report on the
woolen industry practically completed
and will be ready to submit same at the
Opening of the coming session of con-
gress. it is generally conceded that the
tariffs in Schedule K are the most com-
pllcated in the whole tariff list and
the presentation by the board of this re-
port will doubtless start a struggle
between the protectionists and the free
traders.

The greatest assemblage of American

battleships is being completed at New
York to be reviewed by President Taft
on the return from his western trip. One
hundred battleships, cruisers, torpedo
boats and other war craft will be in
line. Three new battleships are now in
column, the battleship Maine, the cruiser
North Carolina. and the dreadnaught
Utah. The new battleship Florida will
join the ilect this week.
. The national republican convention has
issued a call which provides for 1,064 del-
egates, unless Arizona and New Mexico
become states before the convention,
when 1,072 delegates will be provided for.
Michigan is allowed 30 of these.

President Taft is well on his way home
from his extensive trip through the west.
Sunday was spent in Chicago where he
{nude addresses before religious organiza—
10113.

Federal statistics indicate that Detroit
surpasses Pittsburg as a manufacturing
center. The number of employees has
increased 69 per cent during the past
five. years in Detroit, while in Pittsburg
1n the same period the number has de-
creased six per cent. That is, Detroit.
now has 81,011 wage earners employed in
her industries while Pittsburg has 67,474.

The congressional house committee on
appropriations will make a trip to Pan-
ama to investigate the progress being
made on the canal and on their return
trip will inspect the Wreck of the did
battleship Maine in Havana harbor, in-
asmuch as an additional appropriation
of $250,000 has been asked for to complete
the work and raise the wrecked craft.
There are seventeen members of this
committee.

Foreign.

The situation in China. appears to be
more critical and the ability of the gov-
ernment to cope with the rebels is now
seriously questioned. The spirit of revo-

 

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lution is crystallized. not only in the.
southern provinces, , but is being shown
in the central and northern portions of
the Empire as wellr The latest reports
indicate that Pekin itself» is in much
danger and that the Manchus, who con-
stitute the ruling class, are fearful lest
a general attack be made on‘ them and
so are going about robed as the ordinary
Chinese. Reports have not indicated any
severe fighting in the past few days, but
troops are being shifted by both parties
and additional precautions taken to give
each army advantages should a conflict
take place. Many of the imperial forces
are becoming disloyal and going over to
the rebels and a wider demand for the
establishment of a. constitutional govern-
ment is evidenced. It is reported that
the Emperor has been spirited away from
Pekin and that Prince Ching, who was
too old to flee has killed himself. The
American and other legations are guard-
ed with strong guards; foreigners are
asking refuge among the several lega-
ons.

An attack was made by Turkish troops
on Homs, a city but a short distance
from Tripoli last week. The attack was
unsuccessful; however, the Turks being
repressed with severe losses. The point
was within reach of the war ships in the
harbor, which aided the Italians mate—
rially.

The campaign by the ex-shah of Persia
to regain political control .of that coun-
try is meeting with some success. His
troops, enforced by Russian troops and
the use of Russian gunboats have recent-
ly defeated the forces of the Persian gov-
ernment at. Bendergez.

News coming by way of Constantinople
reports that 5,000 Italians were killed in
the campaign about Tripoli and that 7,000
were taken prisoners by the Turks. This
information has been corroborated by in-
formation from other sources; however,
it may be that the original news was
dictated by Turkish interests. Neverthe-
less, the reports suggest that the Italian
government may have been successful
in suppressing news of defeat, which
news would make it more difficult for

securing home support as well as favor

from other countries.

A late report affirms that the Emperor
of China has taken oath that he will
agree to yield to the demands of the
national assembly and empower them to
frame a constitution for the regulation
of the political affairs of the Empire.
It seems that the rebels are disregarding
the overture and demand that the pres-
ent dynasty must go.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Northern Isabella and Southern Clare
Co.’s, Oct. 26.—Snow is falling today.
Beet harvest in full blast; some of beets
18 inches under water; will not yield
over 75 per cent of a crop; 8c per lb. for
sugar and $5 per ton for beets~—some-
thing wrong. Newly sown wheat looks
poor. Potatoes turning out poorly and
rotting in low ground. No frost to speak
of up-to-date and pastures are pretty
good. Not much fall plowing done yet
—too dry at first and too wet at pres-
ent. Roads are almost impassable. Beans
yield from six to 17 bushelsvper acre;
some of them almost worthless, owing to
continued wet weather. Auction sales
quite numerous, and a lot of changes in
real estate.

Washtenaw Co., Oct. 23.—The contin-
ued wet promises to be but little less dis-
astrous to farmers than the prolonged
drouth. The bean crop was harvested
under difficulties and many suffered a 25
per cent depreciation in the crop before
it was secured. There is much com-
plaint of potatoes rotting, and corn has
sustained considerable damage, the fod-
der especially having lost at least 25 per
cent of its feeding value. Hay selling
readily in barn at $16, and bringing $19
@20 loose on wagon in market: Very
little corn husked~both field and fodder
being too wet for machine work. Large
quantities of apples have been picked;
m the sprayed orchards they are an im—
mense crop. Large shipments of live
stock have been made recently, many
farmers finding themselves short of both
hay and grain. Live hogs are selling
around $6, while eggs and butter promise
to bring remunerative prices this winter.

5. W. St. Clair Co., Oct. 29.—‘Weather
during the past two weeks has been
quite favorable for the prosecution of
farm work and the time has been util—
ized by every farmer who has crops to
harvest. Harvesting of the sugar beet
crop has progressed steadily, though the
saturated condition of the soil has made
the task more arduous, both in the pull-
ing of the beets and the hauling. From
11/; to 3 tons are taken at a load. The
soft condition of fields necessitates a
doubling of teams there. and a. consider-
able number are using three-horse teams
for the road. The harvesting of the beet
crop is done mostly by imported labor:
in. fact, the growing and harvesting of
this crop would be out of the question
without this foreign help. Under present
conditions it is next to impossible to se-
cure help to harvest the regular crops.
such as beans, corn and the like, and
wages of farm laborers are in an in-
flated state, ranging from $2 to $3 per
day. But little wheat sown. The pear
crop was a maximum one but the apple
crop was exceedingly light.

Ohio.

Hardin Co., Oct. 24.—Continued wet
Weather has put a stop to wheat sowing
through this section of the country and
IS spoiling some of the corn crop. It has
not been dry enough to haul out corn
for several weeks past. In southern part
of county clover seed is turning out well
for the amount of straw. Not a great
amount of com husked yet; some reports
of moulding in the crib. Chickens sell-
ing at Sc live weight; baled hay, $16 per
ton: oats. 40c per bu; wheat, 89c; hogs.
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EXPLORING THE NAKIMU CAVES.

the east side and thirty feet above

it, is the entrance to the Mill
Bridge series or caves, known as “En-
trance No. 1.” It is a mere cleft in the
rock strata, and is hardly wide enough
for the passage of a man’s body. The
length of this passageway was deter-
mined to be nearly or quite 400 feet, and
the height varies from ten to twenty-five
feet, while the width is fromxthree to
fifteen feet. At one place the passageway
twists in a. loop where the potholes are
of such curiously spiral form that the
name “Corkscrew" was given it. Across
this bend, about twelve feet above the
main floor, a gallery extends for 120 feet.

A little farther on the party came to
an irregular shaped chamber about sixty
by seventy feet having a. maximum
height of twenty feet, which was named
the “Auditorium.” Cougar creek, in its
flow beneath Mill bridge, passes through
this chamber, and as it falls seventy-five
feet in a distance of 200 feet from its
entrance, the space is filled with its
thundering roar, and by the faint day-
light entering through its passageway
the suroundings look dim and mysterious.
The frosts of winter have penetrated this
spot and huge stalactites and stalagmitcs
of ice form columnar groups beside the
dashing waters and for some distance be-
yond. The slow process of disintegra-
tion has created much havoc in the Au-
ditorium and the walls no longer show the
marks of water erosion, while the floor is
heaped with rock debris fallen'from the
ceiling. The adjoining passageways, how-
ever, are still intact, showing the power
of water erosion in the series of potholes
connecting one with another by short
narrow passages. The bottom of each
succeeding pothole, receding from the en-
trance, is on a lower level, sometimes as
much as ten or fifteen feet, and many
hold water in the hollows to the depth of
four or five feét. \Vith the aid of a
bridge carpenter rough ladders were con-
structed and placed from floor to floor,
and in one place the space was so wide
and the water so deep as to necessitate
a floating bridge.

Cougar creek, having followed its twist-
ing underground course under Mill bridge,
finds an exit at the bottom of a narrow
crack or “canyon," and flows through
this for nearly 250 feet to an abrupt wall
of. the ridge, where it again seeks its
subterranean bed far below the surface.
The canyon is eighty-five feet deep, and
its sides, almost perpendicular, are com—
posed of badly shattered limestone, af-
fording no easy descent to its bottom. To
descend the rock—cut walls with absolutely
no foothold, and rendered more danger-
ous by the winter’s ice and snow, was a
ticklish job and was only undertaken
after Deutschman had made the slide
down a knotted rope, hand under hand.
The party finally reached the canyon
floor in safety.

The break in the north end of the can—
yon, entrance No. 2, is a dome—shaped
opening into which the stream tumbles
with wild fury over a confusion of huge
fragments of rock littering its bed. The
entrance is fully thirty feet wide and
about the same height, and the leaping
plunging water, as seen from below with-
in the cave, causes a dissemination of
spray, so that the opening to the outer
world appeared through a luminous mist.
This main cave comprises the largest of

: BOT’T the middle of the Flume, on

tall the underground openings thus far

discovered, and very naturally so because
of the additional waters entering it. The
average height of the main channelway,
measured on the dip of the strata, is
about 100 feet, while the width, measured
perpendicularly to the bedded faces, ranges
from eight to twenty feet. The channel-
way is not of uniform width, as might
be supposed, but varies with the condi-
tions of flow of the water at the time of
its formation. With all the water flowing

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Giving Entrance to Mill Bridge Series of Caves.

through it on a steep grade it‘would be
narrow, and with only a portion of it,
the other portion running around some
other way, it would also be narrow. It
would be the widest where all the water
passcd through it and on a moderate
grade.

It was the conclusion of the engineers
that during its early history, it appeared
much like the passageway in entrance
number ]. But as the channelway grew
deeper and wider, through centuries of
erosion, many large masses of rock from
the hanging wall were loosened and fell
into the channclway, thus forming ob—
structions around which the water cut its
way, and at the same time wore away
some or all of them. As a result many
enlarged chambers were discovered here
and there, and still others were seen that
had been formed by potholes, like round-
ed shafts down which the water poured,
keeping boulders at their bottoms cease—
lessly grinding them deeper and dccper.
It was only a matter of time when, par-
ticularly at the (*ont'luencc of streams,
great masses of overhanging rock were
unfooted and droppcd in the great chan-

nelway and potholes. For those reasons
the main caves have bccn named “The
Ruined Aqumluct.” in one place an

enormous rock, resting in a nearly hori-
zontal position and having an upper sur-
face of about 1,200 square feet, nearly
filled a large chamber which was named
“The Hall-room.”

At the northwest corner of the Ball~
room a narrow passage leads to further
wonders of nature in the subterranean
depths. .\ sharp turn to the left brought
the explorers to the present channel of
Cougar creek, whose waters were there
augmented by “Bear Falls,” almost di-
rectly above and fully 400 feet high. Con-
tinuing to the northward they came to a,
sudden turn to the right, beyond which
were sccn the most ragged walls that
had yet been found in the caves. The
jagged points and grotesque shapes at
once inspired caution, and the place was
named “The Terror.” The peculiar rough-
ness of its walls and ceiling is accentu-
ated by thin knife—like blades of the un-
changed limestone extending from one to
two inches beyond the general surface of
the marble holding them. Farther south
the passage leads to a much lower level,
where “The Old Mill" ground for many
centuries before it fell into ruin and dis-
use. It tells a long story in history from
its grinding to the present day erosion,
probably more than 40.000 years. As it
was gctting late in the day, the party
retraced their way through the canyon
cntrancc, and by the use of the knotted
rope climbed to the floor of the valley and
proceeded to cmnp for the night.

The next morning the explorers found
it necessary to break a path through the
deep snow to Entrance No. 3. There by
crawling through a very narrow passage
on hands and knees. and then descending
a steep narrow water groove for about
lifty feel, the brink of a large cavcrn was
reached that was estimated to be 256 feet
deep, but its length and breadth were
not determinable. owing to their great
extent and to the insufficiency of light
at hand. It was very aptly named “The
Pit,” and the explorers noticed that sev-
eral openings led off from it to the east.
The plunge and roar of a great waterfall
somewhere down in the depths of this
cavern rcverberatcd in every corner and
nook of the cave and produced, in the-
listener, sensations so weird and magical
as to be unpleasantly startling. The rocks
here are of a dark blue-grey color and
have bands of white marble inserted in
them, which have been so crumpled by
pressure as to give the bands a zig-zag
appearance.

The easterly passage from the Pit joins
the main channelway which continues
southeasterly for about one thousand feet,
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of which are full of wonders of nature's
handiwork. About 200 feet from the Pit
a passage to the left leads to the brink
of a precipice which was named “.The
Turbine.” Across the chasm, at whose
bottom flows the main stream, a number
of waterspouts gush out of the rocks far
below with great force and a noise re-
sembling that produced by water falling
into the penstocks of a. turbine. Nearly
opposite, the floor and walls were found to
be covered with an lncrustation of car-
bonate of lime varying in thickness from
two to six inches. It is of a light creamy
color, shading off in some places to a
delicate salmon. The formation has a
ilorescent appearance and resembles cauli-
flower heads set closely together. This
particular spot was named the “Art Gal-
lery." A dividing passage led to “The
Dome,” so named because of its perfect
formation and great height. Farther on
“The White Grotto” was reached. which
proved a delight to the explorers on ac~
count of the curious and peculiar forma-
tion of its walls, all a dazzling whiteness.
From this place a low narrow passage
continues to “The Bridal Chamber," the
lime decorations of which are of the most
delicate trar-ery. Here the caves end in
a deep chasm, inaccessible by any means
at hand, and the party reluctantly re-
turned through other parallel passage-
ways. In the afternoon they broke camp
and returned to the Glacier House that
night.

The chasm at the end of the caves con—

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

I
talns a frightful waterfall, believed to be
the main stream of Cougar creek, and as
it is only 240 feet from the Wind Crack.
referred to as being seen on the way up
the valley, and is but 54 feet above it, it
is safe to assume that there is a connec-
tion between. The wind issuing from the
crack is probably caused by a water blast
in the chasm, due in some way to the
falls of the creek above.

it is the opinion of the engineers that
these caves have been formed entirely
by water erosion. The stream which did
it. Cougar creek, is entirely made up of
glacier and snow water and, above the
caves, is free from any lime salts. Its
capacity. therefore. to dissolve limestone
when brought in contact with it, is at its
maximum. The line grains of sharp sand,
loosened from the lime rock and caught
in the swift current of the small stream
that at first found its way through a
shrinkage crack of some particular bed of
limestone, have undoubtedly given the
water an uncommon erosive power, which,
through the countless ages of the caves’
history, has enabled that mountain tor-
rent to carve out a mammoth channel in
solid marble.

No evidence whatever was discovered
that any portion of the caves had ever
been used as a habitation by any human
beings of a. pre-historic race, or of tribes
of Indians in later days; nor were any
traces found of wild animals, such as
bears or wolves, having made their home
within the recesses and vaulted chambers.

 

SUE’S DEFENSE—BY DELtA H. BATHER.

“Just think of it. Sue. you‘ve tuufht
only a month, and you‘ve got titty dollars
to show for it.

Johnny Carson was ready to show
homage to such wealth.

“Gee!" he exclaimed, “I spent all thr-
morning fixin’ up to come to town after
you. I washed this buggy in four dif-
ferent waters.”

"it‘s against father’s principles to drive
around a mud-puddle, isn’t it Johnny?“

“Yes: he goes through ’em pell—mell,
lIe don‘t have the washin‘ of the buggy
to do. I had to take ma's scrubbin’
brush to old loll. l hate white horses.”

“lllack ones don‘t show the soil quite
as much, that‘s a fact. What in the
world have you been doing to the old
fellow‘s tail?”

“Oh, I started to get the pesky burrs

out. and he wouldn‘t stand for it. lle
raised his foot as if he was goin’ to kick
me.”

“You must have hurt him pretty badly,
Johnny, for I never heard of Bob‘s doing
such a thing before.”

“I s'pose l «lid. but let the old fool keep
Out of the llul'rs. I was makin‘ a pretty

good job of it with ma’s shears, when pa
stopped me. He said he’d bet on it that
money hadn‘t turned your head a par-
tielc.“

“Father knows his old chum too well
for that: and besides, Johnny, I haven't
got fifty dollars. In the City. you pay for
the pleasure of eating and sleeping. The
first two or three days I actually thought
l‘d learned to live without eating. “'ere
you ever homesick?”

"\X'as I? Do you remember that time
l went out to I’nclc Ben‘s? “'hy, I felt
all the'time l was there as if someone had
knocked me down and was everlastingly
kit-kin‘ me in the stomach.”

“That quite expresses my feelings." Sue
“But I'm quite at home
in the boarding house now. There are
some lovely people in the house. There
are a great many teachers, and the sweet-
est old lady who calls everybody ‘deal',’
even the dignified old lawyer whom all of
us stand in awe of. He doesn't talk Very
often. but when he does everybody
listens. Then there‘s a young doctor who
talks all the time."

“Do you have to eat with a fork. and
use a napkin all the time'.w

“Merry. yes! And I suppose I‘m the
only person there who ever ate off from
a l‘t‘ll tablecloth."

“V‘fhew'. They must be a swell lot.
Butll’d a heap rather cal ma‘s cookin‘
on a red tablecloth in the kitchen."

“So had I." Sue said with emphasis.

“'he‘n they reached home supper was
just ready.

"Little RTOlhel‘klnSheSuo was a head
taller than her mother~~“lmw do you al-
ways know the exact minute we will ar—
rive, and just what we’ve been crazy for
for a week?”

“I hain’t known you twenty—two years
for nothing. Sue.”

“But I’m just finding out what a treas-
ure I have for a mother.”

said. laughing.

It was a happy little reunion that night.
Wright-eyed Future waved her rosy-tip-
ped wand, and the kitchen fire became a
great shining coal stove; the mortgage
was paid; a. new house stood in front of
tht- old one; Sue was principal of one of
the city schools, and Johnny was nearly
through college.

_\l midnight the good-nights were said.
she's caresses for mother and Johnny
were unusually prolonged, but her head
rested longest on her father’s shoulder, as
it the, old husking wampus was the soft-
est pillow in the world.

“'hen she reached her room she found
it tlooded with moonlight.

“God's light," she whispered, “how you
put to shame electric lights. How soft
you are, and how you soothe me. So few
of them have a dear country home in
which to find real peace and rest."

I C 1! II

It was the close of “blue Monday,” and
Sue was tired to death. She had ridden
in from the country, and was tired to
start the day with. Then the children
had acted as if possessed. She was sure
it was not her fault, for she had made a
tremendous effort to keep good-natured.

As soon as the last child had departed,
she hurried to her room and found relief
in tears. Why was she here, anyway?
\Vhy hadn’t she been content to stay al-
ways in the home nest? WThy had she
been so crazy for an education which,
when secured, only brings dissatisfaction?

“Miss Carson is an all—fired pretty girl,
ell, W'atson‘?"

Sue salt bolt upright at the mention of
her name. The speaker was the doctor,
so-called, who hoped to place an M. D.
after his name in a couple of years.

“Rather pretty, yes,” the lawyer ad-
mitted, ”but she's too passive.”

The doctor laughed.

“She’s that all right, but you’re the
last fellow in the world I'd expect to take
exceptions to that. I'd an idea that the
girl for you would be a regular stiff.”

“On the contrary,” answered the law-
yer, “the more sparkling and vivacious
the better. Beauty is a secondary mat—
ter with me."

“That’s where we differ. Good looks
for mine."

“And you’ll furnish the wit, doctor?
There's where we differ again."

"Come now, Watson, no sarcasm. I’m
interested in the girl. I understand that
her father is a professor in some eastern
college, which, I presume accounts for
her dignity. I'm hanging around to ask
her to go to the play tonight. She’s so
wrapped up in those younkers that she
never gets home until dinner time."

“Not a bad fault in any profession
flood luck to you, doctor," and W'atson
was soon lost in his newspaper.

The voices ceased, and Sue's little room
witnessed another outburst, not tears
this time, but what she considered right-
eous indignation.

“So I’m passive,” she whispered ve-
hemently; “how I despise that term. In
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casionaily says, ‘quack! quack!’ and eats.
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nothing to me, and evidently I’m nothing
to him.” -

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paused before her mirror.

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point in one’s favor, but to be told you
don’t know anything in the same breath
takes all the pleasure out of the compli-
ment."

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sinking, a. glorious setting in red and
gold. Her mind flew back to the old
days. She had seen just such sunsets as
she stood at the farmyard gate with her
father while he waited for Johnny to
come with the cows.

“And you’re a professor in some east-
ern college, daddy. Well, let them think
so. They never had a. man among them
who knew half so much of Nature’s
book.”

Her little clock warned her that dinner
had already begun.

“Never mind," she assured herself,
“this is a good way to begin acting the
role of professor’s daughter. I’ll be sty-
lishly late. Then I’ll burst in and beam
on everybody. I’ll sparkle if it kills me.
Only, I wish I hadn’t heard them tonight.
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anybody was thinking or saying about
me. I know I shall be perfectly miserable
every minute at the play, but I‘ll go.
Exit passive Sue Carson. Enter, Miss
Susan Carson, the sparkling vivacious
daughter of the eastern professor.”

The doctor pointed to a vacant chair
beside him, which Sue took with smiling
acquiescence. She laughed merrily at his
jokes. She addressed lively remarks to
the lawyer, and noted the look of pleas-
ure on that gentleman’s face. Her
cheeks were red, her eyes bright. Her
whole being was full of life and exuber—

this morning,
must rest tonight.’

“Don’t you ever think it!” she burst
out. "You doctors are entering from dis-
location of a joke. My father knows
what’s going on as well as you do, and
he's a hayseed; and so am I, through and
through. Those country people, haysceds,
if you please, are well informed. They
know how to take a. joke, and turn one.
too. All the time you Were boosting that
hayseed, he was chuckling to himself.
Just about now, he’s telling his family
about it, and they’re roaring over it.”

She raised her glass to her lips.

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ical profession. Good-night, doctor.
Good-night, all."

That night the lawyer, apparently ab-
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book with a bang.

“By George!” he said, “women are co-
nundrums, anyway. She’d make a clever
lawyer herself.
be needing an assistant.”

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bring life to our old dry bones.”

For the first time in her life, Sue Car-
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Dinner was over, but the doctor an-
nounced that he had one more story to
tell, and they lingered.

”There was an old farmer standing on
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seed, overalls tucked in his cowhide boots,
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“ ‘Have you seen the President yet?’
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present. a sharp pcnknife.
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Should Children Be

 

Taught Politeness?

 

that I approach the subject of table

manners, having in mind the storm
aroused by a similar discussion in this
department a few months back. But
even at the risk of exciting some dis-
pleasure I want to write a few words re-
garding the behavior of children at the
table.

Indeed, from my recent observations.
and the stories told me by some of my
friends who have dined in homes where
two or three children rule, I have begun
to wonder if even the most refined Darn
ents take the trouble to teach their off—
spring the cardinal principles of table
manners.

At a recent christening-dinner two
young cousins of the infant were guests.
These children were eight and ten years
old, an age when, in my day, as all old
ladies say, children were supposed to
have learned polite behavior. But these
lads kept the room in an uproar and
spoiled the dinner for everyone. Every
time a new dish was brought in they
would pound on the table with fist or
knife handle and yell in chorus.

"Serve us first, serve us first. If you
don‘t there won’t be any left for us."

Then, when served. they would fall
upon their food with both hands, shove!
it into their mouths with fingers, knife
or spoon, which ever was handiesi, and
smack and suck with the gusto of young
pigsu And the mother Sat by and smiled
fondly at the liveliness of her darlings.
There were those present who were im-
polite enough to mutter under their
breath the things they would like to do,
but the ones most vitally concerned in the
boys seemed to think their behavior was
perfectly right and natural.

I! t t

This case is extreme, I hope and be-
lieve. Yet I have seen so many things
recently in the homes of really refined
people that I wonder if I am a crank
when I insist that my boys of three and
five shall keep their fingers out of their
food and shall not smack or chew with
their lips open? I remember a home
where the five-year—old was the apple of
her fond parents’ eyes. They had but
one child and plenty of time to wait upon
her at the table, yet either from careless-
ness or indolence her meat was never out
up for her. No matter what the kind of
meat roast, steak, bacon‘ or chicken bone
the little lady took it up in her fingers
and bit off what she desired. Instead of
being furnished with a crust to push her
food upon her spoon or fork, she took
her dimpled fingers The result was
sticky, greasy fingers which she sucked
or wiped on the table linen, as she
chose.

One night there were several guests for
dinner and little Susie calmly picked up
her meat as usual, much to the embar-
rassment of father and mother. “You
had better have your meat cut when
there is company,” whispered the father,
audibly enough for several to hear. 1
could not but think how much better had
he taken the pains to cut it every day and
teach his smald daughter that everyday
manners and company manners shod'ld be
one and the same.

IT is with a great deal of trepidation

* t

The smacking of young children may be
natural, but is it necessary! I have been
at children’s parties where children of
five smacked until I was crazy. All the
time my own two boys sat bursting with
the desire to call the young offenders to
time and were only restrained by the
stern looks of father or mother The
parents have told me I was too strict,
that these habits would drop as the chil-
dren grew older, but will they? And if
they will drop off of themselves is it
1eally necessary to have your meals
spoiled for eight or ten years by little
habits which a bit of extra time and firm-
ness might correct, while you wait for
the child to grow old enough to observe
others and drop the habits from shame?

Personally, I do not believe those hab-
its will drop off of themselves, especially
from boys. Girls are naturally imitative

 

and as they go out in society and watch
others they naturally pick up the habits
of refined people. But boys and men are
so intent on other things that the little
niceties of life escape them. I have in
mind one prominent professional man
whose name appears almost weekly in
the newspaper columns. He goes every-
where in good society, but he has not yet
picked up the refined table manners which
his mother neglected to teach him. It
never occurs to him to close his lips while
he is eating, and he talks and laughs with
his mouth so full you marvel at his abil-
ity to perform the feat and not choke to
death in the act.

Another man whose name I never
learned used to spoil three lunches a week
for me in the days when I took my noon
lunches in restaurants. He always fre»
quented the cafe where I ate and about
three times a week the head waitress put
him at my table. Although I never could
finish my meal I derived a morbid pleas-
ure from watching him and tracing out
the resemblance between him and the
porkers in the country barnyards. The
only point of difference seemed to be that
he kept his feet. out of the serving dish.

It t it

I always think of that man when my
friends tell me that children will outgrow
bad table manners, and wonder if his
mother brought him up with the same
idea. Maybe they will outgrow them,
maybe they will. I will not say until
these children are grown and I see into
what they develop. But in the meantime
I shall keep on insisting that mine ac~-
quire good habits from the start. We do
not think if we let a. child grow up lazy,
untruthful, dishonest and disobedient that
he will drop those habits through shame
and develop into an upright citizen. Why

should we expect other bad habits to
drop off? I should like to hear from
mothers of young children, and from

those whose brood has grown. Am I right
or wrong?
DEBORAH.

 

THE NEW HATS AND SUITS.

 

There is such a change in the shape of
hats this season that even we who hated
the “butterbowl” and “peachbasket” va-
rieties find it hard to just get used to the
new chapeaux, vastly more becoming
though they are. There are still a few
that fit down tightly over the head, but
they do not shade the face as did those
of detested memory, and the most popular
model actually has a rolled up brim.

Very popular, especially with young
girls and young women is the soft felt
turban with rolling brim. And it owes its
popularity to its adaptability. It may be
worn with the brim caught up at the
back, front or side, trimmed with bows
and ends of velvet, wings, breasts or
plumes, or not trimmed at all. It comes
in all colors. though blue and brown are
most popular.

For everyday hard wear the fuzzy black
ones trimmed only with a cord or abso-
lutely untrimmed are good. Then you
can get them in velvet or corduroy with
a high crown which may be dented in.
For more dressy wear there are smooth
finished felts with the under side of the
brim faced in a contrasting color. Black
faced with blue, lavender, red or green
are shown, and the colors faced with
black.

Plush and velvet are good for dressy
hats, and beaver is still much worn,
though it is not considered the leader as
for a couple of seasons back. The beav-
ers are broad brimmed and low crowned,
or have a high, rather peaked crown and
a narrow, rolling brim. They are trim-
med with feather bands, small wreaths of
made flowers, a cluster of small tips or
one huge willow plume. Or you can wear
your beaver untrimmed, if that suits
your purse better, and still be in style.

The plush and velvet hats are for the
most part high crowned, dress affairs.
White crowns with black brims are good,
this combination of black and white hold-
ing ever from spring.

For the general utility suit the rough
homespun goods are the first choice. The
jackets come to the hips, with a. slightly
raised wais‘t line, wide revers and diag-
pleated

onal closings. The skirts are
and have the loose front and back
panels.

Brown, gray and blue are leaders in
color. Homespun, double-faced, long
coats are quite popular, the outside a
plain color and the inside a plaid. These
have big collars, deep cuffs, wide revers

and pocket laps of the inside color. The
sleeves are in one with the coat.
Trains are again seen on the party

gowns. The really fashionable dame has
her gown short in front and slashed to
Show the ankle. Velvet and heavy bro-
cade are chosen for these gowns.

Buttons are much used as a trimming,
both on waist and skirt. A popular skirt
is slashed on the side to show a panel of
contrasting color. The upper part of the
skirt is buttoned over down to the knee,
then falls free to show the inset panel.
The buttons and buttonholes are contin-
ued to the bottom of the overskirt.

 

RECIPES.

 

Beef Loaf.

Two or three pounds of beef and a
little piece of pork, chopped fine; two
cups of crackers, four eggs, two table—
spoons of sweet milk. Season to taste

with salt, pepper and onion. Mix, roll
into a loaf and bake—Mrs. L. L. G.
White Taffy.

Two cupfuls granulated sugar, one-half
cupful of water, one-half cupful vinegar,
butter the size of an egg. Put over fire
and stir until it boils, then. cook without
stirring until it will spin a thread when
dropped from spoon. Be careful not to
overcook. Add a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract and pour into buttered molds until
cool enough to pull.~L. M.

Sea Foam.

Three cupfuls sugar, two-thirds cupful
syrup, one-half cupful water. Cook until
it will Spin a thread when dropped into
cold water. Beat the whites of two eggs
to a stiff froth and add the syrup, pour-
ing it in very slowly and beating all the
While. Stir in a cupi’ul of chopped nut
meats and pour into buttered tins to cool.
-—L. M.

We do not pay for recipes. Every sub-
scriber is privileged to ask for any de-
sired reclpe, and it is hoped she will send
her own favorites for the benefit of
others.

Fruit Cookies.

One cup of butter and two cups of
sugar, creamed together: two eggs, well
beaten, half a nutmeg. one-third tea-
spoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, one
cup of raisins, chopped, half cup sweet
milk, two teaspoons of soda, five cups of
flour. Do not be alarmed because no
baking powder is used for none is need-
ed. These shonld be handled as little as
possible and they will be delicious. I
would like other recipes for good cookies.
steamed pudding and home-made candies.
—-Mrs. L. L. (l.

Veal Cutlets.

Dip in egg and milk and roll in bread
crumbs and put on to fry before any-
thing else is started. After partly brown~
ing. pull to hack of range where they

will cook slowly as the bread crumbs
burn easily. Use a broad knife to lift
to chop plate.

Tomato Puree.

Equal parts tomato, milk, and water. a
pint of each will make enough for six
persons. Tomatoes should be warmed
and put through a sieve and cooked with
one-half teaspoon of soda. Milk should
be heated separately and both put to-
gether just before serving. Season with
salt, pepper, a pinch of nutmeg and
cloves, and butter. \Vhen tomatoes are
canned the juice can be strained and
canned also and be ready for soup in ten
minutes. If crackers are not on hand,
toasted bread is still better.

Potato Soup.

Mashed potato, milk, celery, either fresh
or the seed, a bit of onion and slightly
thickened with corn starch, is a soup
quickly prepared. Set the milk to heat;
put the seasoning in a little water to

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399
THE TEA PENALTY

A Strong Man’s Experience.

 

“'riting from a. busy railroad town the
wife of an employe of one of the great
roads says:

“My husband is a railroad man who
has been so much benefited by the use of
Postum that he wishes me to express his
thanks to you for the good it has done
him. His waking hours are taken up
with his work, and he Has no time to
write himself.

“He has been a great tea drinker all
his life and has always liked it strong.

“Tea has, of late years, acted on him
like morphine does upon most people.
At first it soothed him, but only for an
hour or so, then it began to affect his
nerves to such an extent that he could
not sleep at night, and he would go to his
work in the morning wretched and miser-
able from the loss of rest. This condition
grew constantly worse, until his friends
persuaded him, some four months ago, to
quit tea and use Postum.

“At first he used Postum only for
breakfast, but as he liked the taste of it.
and it somehow seemed to do him good,
he added it to his evening meal. Then,
as he grew better, he began to drink it
for his noon meal, and now he will drink
nothing else at table.

“His condition is so wonderfully im-
proved that he could not be hired to give
up Postum and go back to tea. His nerves
have become steady and reliable once
more, and his sleep is easy, natural and
refreshing.

“He owes all this to Postum for he has
taken no medicine and made no other
change in his diet. _

“His brother who was very nervous
from coffee-drinking, was persuaded by
us to give up the coffee and use Postum
and he, also, has recovered his health
and strength.” Name given by Postum
00.. Battle Creek. Mich.

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Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to
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steep and when the potatoes are ready to
mash for the table, drain them into the
soup pan and add the other ingredients,
boil and thicken and it is ready.

Tried Cake Recipes. _

For these cake recipes, a pan eleven
inches square and one and a half inches
deep, is used. Use a wire egg beater for
the yolks and the dover beater for the
whites—~it saves time. Grease the cake
pan and soften the butter, measure the
flour into the sitter, set over the greased
cake 'pan; have baking powder handy.
Beat yolks of egg in bottom of mixing
dish, adding a little of the milk or water
while beating; add sugar and beat
smooth; add butter, beat smooth; add
milk and part of flour, beat again, and
last, add the flour and baking powder,
put into pan as quickly as possible and
into oven.

Sponge Cake.

Three eggs, whites and yolks beaten
separately, one cup of flour, one cup of
sugar, granulated, three tablespoons of
water, teaspoon baking powder. Do not
grease pan but cut out slices as you want
them.

One-Egg Cake.

One egg, one cup sugar, one tablespoon
butter, one-half cup of milk, one and one-
half cups of flour, one teaspoon of baking,
powder, flavor with lemon. Oven must
not be too hot.

Molasses Cake.

One egg, one—half cup each of butter,
sour milk, molasses, and sugar, one tea-
spoon of soda, two and one-half cups of
flour; ginger, if liked.

, Graham Gems.

Two cups of graham ilour. one cup of
sweet milk, one-half cup of sugar, one
egg, two teaspoons of baking powder, a
little salt and a tablespoonful of short-
ening.

Muffins.

Add one egg and use white ilour instead
of graham. This recipe makes delicious
muffins.

Brown Bread.

One cup each of molasses, sour milk, hot
water and raisins; four cups of graham
flour, two teaspoons soda in the molasses
and sour milk; one teaspoon baking pow-
der in flour. One teaspoon salt. Divide
between five, pound baking powder boxes
well greased and steam for three hours.

Molasses Pudding.

Three cups of flour, one cup each of
molasses, hot water and butter, one tea-
spoon of soda. Steam three hours; serve
with sauce of butter and sugar worked
to a cream and thinned with a little hot
water. Raisins can be added to pudding.

Canned Corn.

To thirteen cups of corn, add a scant
cup of salt and one of sugar. lloil hard
for at least 20 minutes, stirring to keep
from burning. Put in blass cans and seal
up like fruit, is canned. Be sure that it
boils and boils.

TAKING THE GOOD THINGS AS THEY
COME.

 

llY I’EARLE WHITE M‘COWAN.
ll.\'l‘ a large per cent of the farm-

l ers and farmers’ wives of this

country are deliberately casting
aside some of the most potent means 01
advancement and improvement, both in
material and idealistic lines, are unpleas--
ant, truths that have been recently and
most forcefully brought home to me by
observation and certain inexplainable
facts.

.\ County Farmers' Institute was held
in our town some time ago. It was a
season when there was not much doing
on the farm. Nothing, in fact, except
chores that were absolutely necessary to
have done upon a certain day. Yet, I
think I can safely say that there were
not more than a hundred persons in at-
tedanee at any one session of that insti—
tute, and that number included a large
per cent of the village people who were
not farmers at all, but merely interested
listeners. For instance, at the woman's
congress, while a large majority had at
some times or other lived upon farms,
there were out of a total attendance of
74, only about 30 who were at present
rural residents.

And yet this is essentially a farming
country, one of our oldest and most
wealthy farm sections. In a distance of
five miles, I rapidly calculated as I
glanced over the audience, there was in
attendance, representatives from only
four families out of a total of at least 1.0
farm homes. And not one of those homes
was situated more than three and one-
half miles from the place of meeting.

Had every young Wife, and especially
every young mother, heard the addresses
they would have gone out with a higher
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bilities, and a firm determination to live
up to their ideals and enthuse those little
ones whom the great God had entrusted
to their care, with nobler, stronger pur-
poses and ideals. ‘

So much for some of the things the
farmers who did not attend this particu~
lar institute missed. But the idea, is this,
are there not other things as great or
greater, that are being missed right
along? For instance, what about our
Farmers’ Clubs and Grange meetings, our
mothers’ clubs and reading circles? Are
they as largely attended as they should
be?

Almost every community has one or
more of these organizations or some other
equally as worthy, and yet I’ll guarantee
that not one-third the people, as a rule,
attend these meetings at all regularly,
much less take any active part toward
making them a success.

“They are dry and uninteresting,” I
hear someone say. Well, then, take a.
hand yourself and help to put new life
into them, or at least try to enthuse some
others who have a talent for bringing
about pleasant and instructive things,
with an active interest in their upbuild-
ing. You surely will agree that there
are immeasurable possibilities of helpful-
ness to one another, and ofsocial uplift,
in any one of these organizations if it is
rightly conlducted and carried on.

“Too tired to go,” somebody else an-
swers. \Vell, very likely you wouldn’t
rest if you stayed at home. There’d be
numberless little inconsequential details
that would demand your attention—and
get it. But even if you would give up
and go to bed, there are other ways of
resting beside that, and the chances are
that if you’d fix yourself up a bit, and go
out and attend some good meeting or
entertainment, you’d go home refreshed
and invigorated, besides having a host of
pleasant memories to carry with you
through tomorrow's work.

“llaven’t time," growls another. Well,
a man died last summer, a farmer, and he
h ft property worth $40,000. Rich, you
say? Yes, if mere dollars and cents is
the. standard, but poor, immeasurably
poor, in the things that make life worth
the struggle. He didn’t have time either
Maud he has left a legacy of greed and
parsinomy that his children will never
outgrow. Ask them why they don’t at-
tend such things and they will tell you, as
their father did before them, “We don’t
have time. Some time, when we get a
little better fixed, financially, we're going
to get out to such meetings.” But they
won’t. That Almighty Dollar looms so
large before them that unless something
gives their ideas and ideals a shaking up,
they never will have time.

A young wife made the assertion, a.
little shamefacedly, that they didn’t at-
tend church because there were “always
so many little odd jobs to do on Sunday,"
but, she continued, “it’s coming on win-
ter now, and there won’t be so many
and we‘re going to go then, because We.
do enjoy it, and besides, we’d ought to
go.” But winter has come and gone and
the church services have not been graced
by their presence~and they won’t be.
They haven’t time. A. young man and
Woman just starting out, with all their
years of home-keeping and parenthood
before them——and they haven’t time for
anything but that everlasting dollar.

Such people remind me of the story of
an old farmer, who admitted an early
ambition to become rich, which his wife
had always met with the assertion that
all she wanted was “just to be comfort-
able.” “But,” he said, in telling the
story, “I succeeded in saving a few thou-
sands and counted myself rich, and for
years I’d have been willing to take life's
enjoyments as they come, but not so my
wife. She doesn't have time. She hasn’t
got comfortable yet."

Yes, if one wishes to make life worth
while, if he intends to get some enjoyment
out of it, he must take the good things
as they come along. Show me a man,
if you can, who has lost money because
he took the time to attend a church or
club meeting. The chances are that he
has more than made up any possible
chance of financial loss, through the new
ideas and mental equipment that has
come ‘to him there, to say nothing of the
broader outlook and the helpful spirit of
brotherhood that is thereby engendered.

To cook a ham so as to retain all its
flavor encase the ham with a. paste of
flour and water, completely covering it
so that the steam cannot escape. Bake
in a hot oven, allowing 'a quarter of an
hour for each pound. When cooked re—
move the paste and the rind with it. I
find a ham cooked this way delicious.—
M. A. P.

 

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glass of jelly, a. little dessert, 3. new kind
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farm. The things that are bought, such
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not expensive. It seldom pays to buy lit-
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‘THE ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL.

 

BY FLOYD W. ROBISON. .

:\ few Fairs ago when commercial fer-
tilizers began to assume a considerable
degree of importance much attention was
given to the chemical analysis of the
soil. It was expected that a considerable
amount of information could be gained
by a more or less detailed analysis of
each particular type of soil. Along with
the efforts of the various state experi-
ment stations in this matter, the United
States Department of Agriculture like-
w1se took up the theme and much time
and energy was spent in attempting to
interpret from the results of the chemical
analyses of the soils the degree of fer-
tility of those soils. Likewise it was hop-
ed that this same chemical analysis would
indicate the class of crops which could
be grown most advantageously on those
soils. This analysis did not take into con-
sideration at first hand one of the most
important points, namely, the difference
between the total amount of plant food
in the soil and the. amount which might
be available to the growing crop. It may
be easily understood that an analysis of
the rock would indicate an amount of the
various so-called plant food constituents,
as great, if not greater, than existed in
the soil derivcd from that rock. We know,
however, that it would be folly to at~
tempt to grow a crop under the original
conditions, i. e., from the rock alone. We
may realize, therefore, that there is some»
thing to consider in a soil other than the
gross amounts of Phosphorus, l‘otassium,
Calcium, etc. We recognize that much of
this plant food must be in a more or less
available condition, by which term we
mean a condition such that plants may
extract it from the soil so that it may
take part in the various administrative
functions incident to the growth of the
plant. .-\n analysis of the total soil in-
gredients therefore does not convey an
accurate idea of the value of that soil to
plants.

The chemist next turned his attention
to a method of estimating the amount
of plant food material which was avail-
able and so he had attempted to devise
means in the laboratory, solutions of dif--
ferent strength and different kinds which
would imitate, as near as may be, the
actual conditions prevailing in the soil.
This was without doubt in the right
direction, and much additional informa-
tion has been gained by these analyses!
So much importance has been placed on
this last kind of analysis that it is com-
mon now for farmers in speaking of the
fertility of their soil 01‘ the adaptability
of this or that fertilizer to the needs of
that soil, to speak of the available plant
food rather titan the total amount of
plant food. But then, even the results
obtained arc but indicators and do not
give the values desired nor the informa-
tion wanted concerning a particular soil.
The great value of this work has been
the stimulating of the scientific study of
the soil proper and men of exceeding
great ability have devoted their time and
energies to this work. The more modern
investigator has made study of the phy-
sics of the soil and an attempt has been
made to follow as closely as may be the
exact operations of the plant itself upon
the soil in order that that process may
be duplicated in the laboratory previous
to the trial with crops. This has result;-
cd in a careful study of the capillary
water of the soil, it being realized that
this capillary water of the soil is in real-
ity the nutricnt medium for the plant.
upon the concentration of the salts, or
mint-ral elements in the soil water, the
plant dcpcnds for its growing stimulus.
\\‘hcncc comes this mineral matter which
we find upon analysis in the soil water?
Manifestly this mineral matter is drawn
from the particles of soil themselves by
the solvent action of water, assisted per-
haps by a slight concentration of organic
acids and the like. Manifestly, if the
plant depends upon the soil water for its
nourishment and the soil water derives its
administrative forces from the soil itself,
then the question of prime importance
is, what are the conditions in a soil which
encourage the solution in the soil water
of the optimum quantity of the mineral
salts. Obviously, a chemical analysis has
not been sufficient to answer this ques-
tion. Likewise an additional determina-
tion of the so-called available plant food
constituents, while adding data of great
value, has in addition not been able to
properly answer the question. Turning

to the physics of the soil we find there
that the information which it may yield
is closely linked with the factors which
are revealed by both chemical analyses
heretofore referred to. In interpreting
the physical condition of the soil we have
been led to make a mechanical analysis
of the soil. By this analysis we have
learned the amount of organic matter
which that soil contains; we have learned
also, the fineness of division of the soil
particles, and we have ascertained the
various amounts of clay and sand and
their intermediate products which are
constituent parts of that soil. It will be
evident to our readers that it matters
litle how completely equipped any par-
ticular soil is so far as potassium, phos-'
phorus, calcium, etc., are concerned, un-
less that soil is in a state of division of
such fineness that the water of the soil
may extract therefrom the balance moat
favorable for plant growth. that soil will
not be an exceedingly fertile one. Just
so surely we know that no matter how
fine the state of division, no matter how
perfect physically the soil may appear to
be, that unless the ingredients are there,
which. taken up by the soil water can be
turned into a perfect nutrient medium,
the results as shown by plant growth are
no more encouraging than in the first
instance.

There was a time when the chemist
was supposed to be the sole source of in-
formation regarding the question of soil
fertility. Then it was discovered that
full reliance could not be placed on the
chemical analysis alone. As soon as the
factor of soil physics began to show its
influence, then the soil physicist was sup.
posed to be the source of general infor—
mation regarding the soil. Then it was
seen that physical condition alone did not
t-ntircly cover the situation. A further
study of these conditions led to the in-
vestigation of the influence of living mat-
ter in the soil. It was observed that not
only did earth worms and the like have a
tremendous influence on the activity of
the and its behavior toward plant
growth from promoting a desirable phy-
sical condition in the soil, but that living
organisms, bacteria, were largely influen-
tial in promotinga healthy, vigorous plant
growth. So we have turned to the bac-
teriologist to answer our question regard-
ing soil fertility. We find. however, that
the hacteriologist is likewise limited as
to the amount of information which he
may give regarding a particular soil. We
do find, however, that the greatest infor-‘
mation which we may obtain regarding
any particular soil will take into consid-
eration the total plant food in that soil
as determined by the chemical analysis;
it will likewise take into consideration
the amount of available plant food as de-
termined by our most modern chemical
methods: it will again take into consid-~
eration the physics of that soil as de«
termined by an analysis of the soil water
and by a mechanical analysis of that
soil.

ii‘e may gain from such data as this a
more or less correct opinion of a soil in
question. Vile will be aided. hoWever,
very materially in our knowledge of this
soil by a study of its condition with ref—
erence to the minute organisms, or bac~~
teria, which may or may not be actiVe in
that soil. it matters not, we see, where
the information comes from, whether it
comes from the chemist, from the phy-
sicist, or the hacteriologist, the true soil
investigator utilizes as much from each
particular source as his judgment indi-
cates is of value in making a diagnosis
or interpretation of that soil. It must be.
observed that this indicates a more or
loss complicated condition and, indeed,
there is probably no more complicated
problem or no more intricate question to
ask than the question of the fertility and
possibilities of any particular soil.

One thing the chemist has learned, and
that is that the obtaining of a sample is
perhaps the most vital point involved in
the whole analysis. So, with the making
of an analysis or attempting the diagnosis
of any particular soil, the method of tak-
ing a sample of that soil and the data
which should be transmitted at the time
the sample is taken is of the utmost im-
portance to the one making the examina-
tion. In the soil there are two natural
divisions which call for studY- We speak
of, first, the soil, and, secondly, the sub-
soil. By “soil" we usually mean the first
six inches of the ground proper, and by
“sub-soil" we usually refer to the second
six inches. There is a. natural division

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of the soil into layers which nearly every
farmer who .has been at an observing has
noticed in his work. The plow usually
strikes the top of‘ the sub-soil and it will
be observed that there is usually a strik-
ing difference in appearance between the
upper six inches, or the soil, and the
lower six inches, or the sub-soil. MOre
organic matter is usually found in the
soil than in the sub-soil. The physical
condition so far as penetratability to roots
is concerned, is usually much more lav-v
orable in the soil than in the Sub-soil.
The activity of bacteria and other living
organisms is more pronounced in the soil
than in the sub-soil. It will be under-

’ stood that the sub-soil more nearly re-

sembles the rock which was the source
of all soil than does the soil itself, except
perhaps in those sections where, through
glacial activity the whole soil has been
transported from another section. Even
there, however, we may still see that the
sub-soil shows more clearly its rocky
origin than does the soil proper. In tak-
ing a sample of the soil, therefore, care
should be taken that a section of the
first six inches of the soil should be kept
by itself and the six inches immediately
under the soil should also be kept by
itself, and marked “sub—soil." The gen-
eral surroundings ‘of the soil should be
observed at the same time. Is there a
hardpan near the surface? The presence
of a. hard~pan near the surface of the
soil may entirely alter the character or
the soil, or particularly the behavior of
that soil to plant growth. We have seen
soils containing hard-pan in which the
hard-pan was as near the surface as the
sub-soil and which was practically en-
tirely incapable of penetration by the
roots of plants. This indicates to us
that a hard-pan of this description would
entirely nullify the effect of an other-
wise valuable sub-soii upon plant growth.
The presence of hard—pan and its near-
ness to the surface should be noted at
the time the sample is taken and p03-
sibly a sample of the hard-pan should be
taken at the same time. We should also
note at the time of taking samples wheth-
er the soil is high or low. Can it be
drained. and is it drained? These same
answers will give the clue to the condi-
tion of aeration and the possibilities of
the entrance of air to that soil. It will
be remembered that, as stated before,
the great bulk of the constituents of
plants are taken from the air and there-
fore it is desirable, in fact necessary, that
there be a free interchange of air bo-
tween the atmosphere and the soil for
the growth of plants. It is as important
that the soil be properly ventilated as it
is that the house or the barn be properly
ventilated.

Since the chemist has found that from
his own diagnosis he has been unable to
predict the possibilities of a. soil as far as
plant growth is concerned, he has be-
come discouraged and gone to the other
extreme, claiming that a chemical analy~
sis furnishes no reliable data, regarding
the soil. The physicist has been disap-
pointed in the results obtained by the
physical analysis of the soil. The bacte-
riologist has been chagrined to find that
upon the results of his own laboratory
investigations he could not accurately
predict the behavior of the soil for crops.
Each one in his own particular field has
been led to proclaim that the analysis
of the soil from his standpoint has been
of little value. It is amusing, were it not
so serious, to note these conditions, for
each has in his turn contributed data.
which is of great value in soil interpre-
tation and, in fact, with the accumulation
of information which each has contribut-
ed, the analysis of the soil has been
fruitful indeed and has yielded invaluable
results.

A chemical analysis of any particular
soil, together with a machanical exam-
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for a very intelligent understanding of
the soil and if, with this data, informa-
tion as to drainage, slope, etc., is to be
had, it is by no means impossible to pre—
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LABORATORY REPORT.
Why Jelly Jeils.

What is it that causes fruit juicesto
jelly? Mrs. W. P.

The jelly-forming constituent of fruit
juices is a. substance called pectin. This
pectin is a product quite similar in its
composition to starch. Pectin bears no
relation whatever to gelatin, which is ob-
tained from animal bodies. The action
of the natural fruit acids on the pectin in
the presence of sugar is responsible for
the jellying phenomenon.

 

The department of Household Science

of the University of Illinois has published
a bulletin on the principles of jelly-mak-
ing that should prove of value in many
homes. The principal points brought
out in the bulletin are given in the sum-
mary as follows:

1. Fruit juice to be used for jelly-mak-
ing must contain pectin. It must also be
acidic.

2. Juices which are to be used for
jelly-making should be cooked out of the
fruit.

3. The most common cause of failure
in jelly-making is an over-production of
sugar to juice, i. e.. to the pectin in the
juice.

4. A short, quick test in jelly-making
is preferable to a test which involves a.
waste of time.

5. There need be no “second" quality
of jelly. All may be of first quality if
the juice is properly extracted and hand-
led.

6. Experiments so far indicate that the
mean-boiling process in jelly-making is
preferable to the long-boiling or to the
short—boiling process.

7. Any given juice, when once the boil-
ing is begun. should be transformed into
jelly as rapidly as possible.

8. The time necessary for the boiling
of a quantity of jelly apparently varies
with several factors: The proportion of
sugar to juice, the proportion of pectin
in the juice and possibly, too, with the
acidity of the juice.

9. The hot jellics should be poured at
once into hot sterilized glasses, and after
having “set" should be carefully sealed.

10. Jellies from but slightly acid fruits
may be made by adding a vegetable acid
to the juice, but this process is not rec-
ommended except in the case of sweet
apple or quince juices.

11. Cherry and strawberry jellies are
possibilities if the hot mass is boiled
somewhut beyond the first jelly test ob—
served.

12. The whiic innner skins of oranges
and of lcmons are prolific sources of pec-
tin. }lcncc genuine jellies of these fruits
may be made. The pectin from these
Skins may also be used for strengthening
oihcr fruit juices.

13. Apple juice may be made a basis
for other fruit jellies.

14. Blueberries are recommended as an
excellent fruit for jelly-making.

‘15. Boot sugar and cane sugar may be

used interchangeably in jelly-making.
16. Pectin is probably akin to starch
in its chemical nature. It has no rela-

tionship to gelatin.

17. Good jellies cannot be made from
all juices by rule 0’ thumb. Jelly—mak-
ing as practiced in the home is an art.‘
It consists in so controlling conditions by‘
means of sugar (and acid) and by boiling
as to cause the pectin to “set” in a con-
tinuous muss throughout the volume al-
lotted to ll.

 

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G. M. “'hiiuker, of the Bureau of Ani-
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cow dairies an added expense of five
cents per cow per day for labor, plus, in
extreme cases. 51;. ccnis for new or addi-
tional equipment; and if five cents more
is added to rernuncrute the proprietor for
his extra care and vigilance. there, will
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cow per day. 'l‘ho product of a cow
ranges from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds of
milk a your. or from live to 12 quarts a
day. The. addcd expense of hiboi- would,
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a cent to one cont :1 quart. and in the
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raise the increase one to iwi) cents a
quart more. But this added expense of
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production and incrcnscd economy of
feed, so that the net extra, expense of

producing clean milk would probably be
somewhat less than this. A reasonably
clean milk is worth two cents more than
common slovcnly milk. G. E. M.

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HORTICULTURE and the wormy apples counted. This is
_ work for the experiment stations, and I

should like to see it tried out in several

HARVESTING THE APPLE' CROP- orchards. If the later sprays are neces-

—— sary we do not care to omit them, but

if they are not they would better be
our attention for the last month, so close- omitted, as they leave the fruit dirty
ly, in fact, that we have hardly time to from the spray material. It is generally
write about it, or anything else. I‘Ve will conceded that the later sprays are neces-
have about 1,500 barrels of winter ap- sary to insure clean fruit, but I know of
pies, and perhaps 2.000 in all, including no conclusive experiments which have
the fall apples. These are scattered in demonstrated this to be a fact. Our fruit
small orchards for the most part from this season has certainly presented ques-
three to five miles from home, and with tions in spraying which we are unable t°

   

The above topic has been occupying

the weather we have been having it has answer.
been a difficult proposition to get them. As for the San Jose scale it is pretty

It is impracticable to pack in the orchard well controlled in orchards WhiCh have
under such circumstances so we have put been sprayed more than one season, In”
them in barrels as picked, and hauled to there was considerable of it in an orchard
the packing house where they are run which was badly infested and sprayed
d. for the first time this season. The wind

Through the mid-season the crew has was against us on this orchard, however,
consisted of eight pickers, two teamsters, and we could “Qt do a thorough jOb‘
three sorters, one to face and tail off “'hat the fruit would have been without
barrels and empty baskets, and one to spraying can be inferred from some sides
press and nail the heads into the barrels. or trees WhiCh we were unable to reach.
When the picking was fairly good we There was no fruit here worth picking,

would put up about 100 barrels per day. nothing but cider apples.
Most of the barrels were nailed up in The marketing problem presents some
advance, the balance being nailed by peculiar phases this season. Either the
the tcamsicrs or packers whenever oc— buyers are trying to get hold Of all the
casion offered. In order to get the crop fruit possible at a comparatively low rate
off as quickly as possible the pickers from an understood agreement to this
have started for the orchards at 6:30 and effect hoping to bOOSt prices after the bulk
lakcn but a half hour nooning, which 0f the CFOD is in their hands, or else the
gave thenlahoul 10 hours in the orchard. ('I‘OD reports of the fruit papers and the
A bad wind ncal' the beginning of the government reports are at fault. The de-
season causcd many drops, the best of mand is lame as compared with last sea-
which have been picked up before pick- son, more SO than the difference in the
ing the trees, and run into three grades, crop would warrant. There are many
those which showed practically no bruise, IthSGS 0f the problem ll'thh may affect
those with a slight bruisc. and ciders. In the market, however, for instance, the
the largest orchard the nws were fairly abundance of other fruit and fall apples
low and many of them hilll bccn mulched and good foreign crops. Possibly the
with straw and the grass had grown up buyers are partly right in their estimate
through this, so many of the drops wore 0f the Cl‘Oll. bill I look for a gradual rise
in good condition. This would llol have “i I'll'iCOS after the bulk 0f the CTOD has
been true with a cultivated orchard with changed hands and the poorer grades 0f
the abundant rains we have had. By i'l'lllcs are Off the market. We are dis-
taking the varieties which drop earliest, Posing of our No. 2 fruit as picked
such as I‘ewaukee, Fallawater, Snow, iln‘ollgh a commission firm, and storing
Greening, Baldwin, and the first picking most of the No. 1 in cellar storage be-
of Spy, and leaving to the last the Ben mouth the packing house. If we get what
Davis, Stark, winter Pippin and Russet, we considvr a fair price we will let it go
we. have been able to prevent ser- any time, but if not will hold until early
ious dropping, although the fruit is far- winter. Have sold one car of No. 1
ther along than usual this season. One mixed varieties to an organization 01’
thing has been in our favor; there has farmers at $3-00 per barrel on track here,
been no hard frosts to loosen the fruit. and have made a good many small sales
In general the fruit is better colored at $33-00 and 553-50, a few fancy at $500-
this season than usual. 1 han never At present we feel inclined to hold for
known a season when Spies Wcl‘e so well $13-00 fOI‘ N0. 1 fruit 0f 300d varieties in
matured and colored. Even those having carload lOtS- This is better than can be
little red, have the yellow color which realized through a. commission firm at
denotes quality and maturity. The Green- present, bUt I 100k for prices at the mar-
ings also have a yellow tinge denoting ket centers to pick up after the heavy
early ripening, and even the Stark have picking and Shipping season is OVGT. HOW-
taken on more color than is usual in a over' I would not care to play the specu-
Baldwin. This can probably be ascribed lator by holding tOO long. In general,
to the czll'liuess of the season, rather it is better fOI‘ the grower t0 sell When
lhan lo the ingl'cdicnts in the soil, as the offered a good price than to hold for a
better one, but I do not like to be obliged
to sell at a price which seems too low.
Calhoun Co. S. B. HAIR'I‘MAN.

over a sorting table, graded and packe

bctlcr color sccms nearly universal.
Many lessons in spraying can be learn-
cd from a careful observation of the crop.

We used lime-sulphur entirely as a fungi-
cidc this season, and have no criticisms PROTECTING FRUIT TREES AGAINST
RABBITS AND MICE.

 

to make. Tender varieties, like the
(:rcening and lien Davis, were not rus-
sclcd at all. which was never true of these Replying to a. query by T. E. Moon,
val-iciics when Bordeaux was used. The who asks about protecting fruit trees
scab was also fully conlrolled. Our suc- from the attacks of mice and rabbits,
ccss with the worms was more variable. would state that wrapping the trees with.
We did not give tlle August spray this wood veneer protectors is a good method
season, partly because of scarcity of time of preserving the trunks against damage
and condition of the orchards, and partly from these animals. The veneer will usu-
ln-cuusc we know of a few growers who ally curl close to the tree when dry, but
get excellent results without it. The re. as they are soaked by rains they have a
sulls \Vcl‘e variable. In the largest or— tendency to straighten out, hence it is
chard, which contained about 1,000 bar— policy to tie a string or small wire about
rcls, and most of the trees were loaded, the veneer, drawing it quite closely to the
there were practically no worms. One of trunk of the tree. It is well to mound
lho orchards which was sprayed but once earth about the trunk before applying the
(from both directions), after blossoming protector. Fine wire screening can also
lrzld only a small percentage of worms and be fastened about the trunks of the trees
lcw sczllc, anolhcr had too many worms with good results.

and too much scale. The other orchardS, The bcst method to get rid of mice
which were sprayed twice, (both direc- and rabbits is to destroy the places where
lions each time), after blossoming were they live, SUCh as bI‘USh heaps, straw
variable, some varieties bcing nearly free piles, old rail fences and the like. If the
from worms, while some contained more orchard has a. mulch about the trees, it
lhan there should be. In general, there is well to pull it away from the trunks
were. more worms where there were fewer and pack it down so that the mice will
apples. “'heihcr the omission of the not nest in it. A boy with a gun will do
August spray was the cause of more much toward reducing the damage done
wormy apples than usual in some of these by rabbits. PrOfeSSOI‘ Maynard recom-
orchards, I do not know, but infer that mends the use of Portland cement, mixed
this may be The 08.1180: however, in the as thick as paint, to which is added a
larger orchard, at least, the August spray little Paris green. This is painted on the
would ha’ve done littel good as there were trunks of the trees. Whitewash, to which
not enough worms to make it pay. These has been added soapsuds and tobacco
things should be tried out more carefully decoction, makes a good wash for this
with trees of the same variety in the purpose. Other remedies have been sug-
salne orchard bearing about the same gested, but we think from these the cOr-
amount of fruit. Give them all the same respondent and others will find means of
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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-
TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

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;
Munith.

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

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

 

Associational Sentiment.—
The farmer, he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.
- PROGRAM F'bR NINETEENTH AN-
NUAL MEETING.

 

“Tuesday, December 5, 1911.
10:30 A. M.

Payment of dues.

Presenting credentials.

Appointment of committees.

Presentation of resolutions,

1:30 P. M.

Music, furnised by School for the Blind.

Invocation, Rev. 0. J. Price.

Report of associational secretary, Mrs.
S. P. Johnson, Hadley and Elba. Farmers‘

l’ub.

Music, Ethel Markham, IV. Marshall
Farmers’ Club.

Teaching conservation of soil in the
primary schools, Mrs. Edna H. Ives, Ing-
ham Farmers’ Club.

Good Roads, Hon. Townsend H. Ely.
State Highway Commissioner. ,

Music,- Ethel Markham.

“Defects in Our Educational System
and the Remedy,” E. M. Moore, Wixom
Farmers’ Club.

7:00 P. M.

Music, furnished by School for the
Blind.
Address of Welcome, Hon. Chase S. Os-

born, Governor of Michigan.

Response, A. B. Cook, Maple River
Farmers’ Club.

Music.

Recitation, Alta Sackett, Eckford Farm-
ers’ Club.

Address, B. H. Rawl, Chief of Dairy
Division, Washington, D. C.

Music, Mrs. Garry Sanders,
Farmers’ Club.

President‘s address, B. A. Holden, Wix-
om Farmers’ Club.

Wednesday, December 6.
8:00 A. M.

Conference of Local Workers. directed
by Hon. D. M. Morrison, Washington
Center Farmers' Club.

10:00 A .M.

Reports of committees.

Miscellaneous business.

Ingham

11:00 A. M.
Election of officers.
1:00 P. M.

Music, Margaret Wright, Washington
and Almer Farmers’ Club.

Invocation, Rev. J. T. LeGear.

Report of committee on state affairs.

Music, Mrs. Garry Sanders, Ingham
Farmers’ Club.

“Making the Most of One’s Self,” Mrs.
Nettie Thomas, Marshall Farmers’ Club.

“Relation of the Farmers’ Club to the
Public School,” H. Eugene Bradley, Eck-
ford Farmers’ Club.

Music, Miss “'right.

Recitation, A. L. Bucknell,
Farmers’ Club.

“Forward.” Mrs. Ellen Purdy, Indian-
fields Farmers Club.

Symposium, “How can the farmer get
more than 35 per cent of the cost to the
consumer?” Hon. C. B. Cook, Owosso;
James N. McBride, Burton Farmers'
Club; Hon. I. R. Waterbury, Editor Mich-
igan Farmer.

7:00 P. M.

Music, furnished by Industrial School.

Treasurer’s report, Mrs. D. Sackett,
Eckford Farmers’ Club.

Music.

Recitation, Maud Slocum, Corunna. '

“Our Girls at M. A. C.” Miss Maud Gil-
christ, Dean of the VVoman’s Building.

Music, Miss Wright, Ellington and Al-
mer Farmers’ Club.

Address, “The School Book Problem,"
Hon. H. E. Straight, Goldwater.

Milford

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

Prisons and Taxpayers.——The October
meeting of the Ingham County Farmers‘
Club, held at the Fuller farm with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Seely. was a veritable
home-coming. Members and friends more
than a hundred strong gathered round the
festive board and the present owners are
keeping up the reputation of the place as
the center of culture and hospitality. Miss
Mary Hawley furnished music during the
dinner hour and President Ives called the
meeting to order and was very glad to
introduce as speaker one of our own
number in years gone by and one who had
Spent his boyhood days upon the home
farm. Otis Fuller, warden of the Ionla
Reformatory, who addressed the Club on
the subject, “Prisons and Taxpayers."
Mr. Fuller gave an interesting paper deal-
ing with facts and figures and looking at
things in a business way that was much

 

appreciated.

Patrick Hankerd.

'THE ' MICHIGAN FARMER.

The secretary expected to
have the paper to get the statistics that
there might ”be no mistake, when later in
the discussion it was requested to be
printed in full. Many questions were
asked, all 'of which Mr. Fuller answered
fully. As regards convict labor on the
highways he did not think it practical
only so far that they could be gotten back
at night. He had graveled the road from
Ionia to the Reformatory and after gct-
ting inside the city limits was ordered to
stop by the council, but he told them it
would not cost them a cent and that if
they wanted him to stop to serve an in—
junction. He wanted good roads to haul
the heavy freight; he thought road work
would be practical for the inmates of the
jail, in nearby territory. About the
“trusties,” the length of time sentenced
had nothing to do with it, or the length
of time already there, it depended en-
tirely upon the person and full 25 per cent
violated the parole.

Oppose Special Session—H. M. Young
offered the following resolutions which
were unanimously adopted: .

Whereas, The special session of the leg-
islature called by Governor Warner was
costly and resulteu in no legislation of
benefit to the people, and conS’idered no
questions which could not have profitably
waited until the regular session, and

Whereas, The special session of con-
gress called by President Taft to force
upon the country tariff discriminations of
the most extravagant kind against farm-
ers, paper manufacturers and lumbermen
bore no fruit except costly and prolonged
disturbance to business, and

Whereas, Every alleged taxation reform
scheme since Gov. Plngree first launched

his tax commission to increase property

valuations has resulted in increased rates
upon increased values, instead of lower
rates as promised, and has increased
taxes more than twice as fast as property
values have increased;

Resolved, That the Ingham County
Farmers’ Club favors fewer sessions of
congress and the legislature rather than
more frequent ones, and hereby records
its vigorous and earnest protest against
the proposed special session next winter
to tinker the tax laws, and discuss politi-
cal questions like the initiative, referen-
dum and recall, believing that these ques-
tions can safely await the next regular
session.

Resolved, That the Ingham County
Farmers’ Club believes that the producers
of the country have certain rights which
the “ultimate consumers" in the cities may
find ultimate profit in respecting, and it
would accord to the industries of the cit-
ies, whether private or corporate, the
same decent and generous treatment it
demands for agriculture. <

Resolved, That copies of these resolu-
tions be forwarded to Governor Osborn
and the press.

The next meeting will be held at Pleas-
ant Hill farm with Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Coy and will be Woman’s Day, with the
annual chicken-pie dinner. The com-
mittee in charge has a good program pre-
pared so do not fail to hear it.——Mrs.
Tanswell, Cor. Sec.

. GRANGE ”l

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Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be
first improved.”

 

 

 

THE LARGER MEANING OF THE
GRANGE.

When' the State Grange meets next
month there will have been added sixty
organized and re-organized Granges since
the State Grange meeting of 1910, and
thousands of patrons to the membership.
This is a great gain, but not the greatest
gain that the year measures. The Grange
can new claim a greater accomplishment
than increase in members. A larger
meaning has come, and is coming, into
the Grange and in this is found its great-
est gain. It is a prophecy of a still
larger influence, a greater usefulness.

In education, agriculture, home—making,
government, social uplift, sanitary en-
vironments, conservation of all that
makes for good citizenship, the year has
marked a decided advance; this is the
Grange’s greatest meaning.

In one county I traveled twenty miles
throughout which distance a noxious weed
could not be seen on the roadside, a re-
sult accomplished by the co-operation of
the Granges of that county. In another
county the Granges set aside a day, nam-
ing it “Home Betterment Day." The ad-
ded beauty and sanitary surroundings
brought about were simply marvelous.
One county has organized a domestic
science experiment running through six
months, each Grange reporting its ac-
complishments to the county Grange, and
great good has resulted. In one county,
blessed with an up-to-date, enthusiastic,
energetic county school commissioner who
is a member of the Grange, an “Author
and Ideal Day” was designated. On this
day each Grange made a report to the
county Grange of the accomplishments in
this field, and the larger meaning of life
coming to the members of the Granges in
this county can only be measured by
time. Commissioner Faunce, of VVex-
ford county, has organized a boys’ corn

growing contest and the corn will be ex-
hibited at the farmers’ -instltute and
Grange rally the coming winter. Com-
missioner Faunce is a géod patron.

The Granges in one county have studied
and discussed the parcels post idea, the
initiative, referendum and recall, and are
posted upon these questions. Several
subordinate Granges have inaugurated
annual reunions and home-comings and
great good has resulted. These glimpses
indicate the lines along which the pro-
gressive Granges and patrons are moving
and, with a great increase in the number
of Granges and membership, the future

is most promising.
D. E. MCCLURE.

WESTERN POMONA’S GOOD
MEETING.

An enjoyable meeting of Western Po-
mona was held at Hudsonville, Saturday,
October, 14, with a good attendance and
much interest shown. The hall was taste-
fully decorated with autumn leaves and
flowers and breathed an air of cosiness
and hospitality.

Although this was but a one-day meet-
ing the business of the day was not neg-
lected. Delegates were elected to attend
State Grange and a member of the ex-
ecutive committee was elected for a term
of three years. Reports 'of Granges were
given and a committee appointed to ar-
range the piaces of meeting for the com-
ing year. The proposition to hold a corn
show in connection with the January
meeting at Coopersviile 'was considered
and accepted. A fifth degree session was
held and four condidates received the de-
gree of Pomona.

The afternoon program was opened with
a song. Roll call was responded to by
telling some practical ways in which we
can express our patriotism. Some of those
mentioned were: Doing our very best in
whatever station in life we may be
placed; attending Grange meetings; doing
all in our power to establish a safe and
sane method of celebrating the Fourth of
July: passing on good things we have
learned that others may benefit by them;
upholding the government when we be-
lieve it is in the right, and doing our part
to correct whatever we believe is wrong;
taking enough interest in the election of
good men to public ofiice to attend the
caucus and help nominate them; obeying
the laws and teaching our children obedi-
ence and respect for law; doing honest
road work: giving our support to the pub-
lic school teacher.

The following topic was taken up for
discussion: “\Vhat do you consider the
best fodder for late summer and fall feed-
ing?” The majority favored sowed corn
(Evergreen sweet corn best) although
oats and peas were favored by some. The
sisters told about some of the household
improvements seen at the fairs or already
in use in their own homes. Bread mix—
ers, vacuum cleaners, gasoline flat-irons
and patent fruit jars were among the
things discussed. The brothers told of
recent improvements in farm implements
exhibited at the fairs, gasoline engines.
power cream separators, and cart harrows
being mentioned. Music and recitations
added to the pleasure of the session.

Mr. I'lorzice Barnaby, of Grand Rapids,
delivered the address of the evening on
“Civil Service Reform.” He is opposed
to measures which seek to establish
boards and endow them with extensive
power in appointing men to government
positions, but favors the plan of having
applicants pass an examination, after
which they are in line for appointment bv
the heads of departments. An excellent
program of music and recitations was
rendered. the numbers by the orchestra
being especially good—Myrtle B. Brown,
Secretary.

 

 

 

Full Parcels Post Demanded.—Mecosta
Pomona patrons, at the county conven-
tion hcld ()t'l. 12, went on record as being
opposed to a limited parcels post such as
has been proposed by the Postmaster
General. The full parcels post was de-
manded, In its recommendations to the
delegates who will represent this county
at State Grange. the patrons voiced their
disapproval of the action of congress and
of the President on the reciprocity pact;
favored uniform text books for public
schools, printed under contract at uniform
cost: favored representation in the Na-
tional Grunge based on Grange member-
ship, and urged State and National
Granges to co-operate in establishing a
Grange relief fund for sufferers from fire
and (loud or other great calamity, to be
maintained by an assessment of one to
five cents per member to be paid direct
to sufferers through the national commit-
tee and to have one assessment in readi-
ness at all times in the hands of the na-
tional treasurer. Nine of the county's
subordinates were represented at this
meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill, of
Chippewa, Grange, and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Kieffer, of Aetna Grange, were
chosen subordinate delegates to State
Grange, and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Man-
nahan and Mr. and Mrs. VVi’llis Bumford
were chosen as alternates. Barney Mosh-
er, of Fern Grange, and Miss Minnie An-
derson were elected to represent Me-
costa County Pomona.

 

 

COMING EVENTS.

National Grange, forty-fifth annual
session, opens at Columbus, Ohio, Wed-

nesday, Nov. 15.
Michigan state Grange, Thirty-ninth
annual session, at Kalamazoo, Dec. 11-15,
Pomona Meetings. . .'
Gratiot Co., with Sumner Grangemsat’n
urday, Nov. 4. Hon. Geo. B. Hovbdin'
state speaker. wot-

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November 1, 1911.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—There has been a declining
wheat market since last Thursday. The
cash dealers have withdrawn their sup-
port, 'inasmuch as present needs have
been fairly well provided for. This is
largely responsible for the decline, al-
though it is reported that the action of
the federal government toward the steel
trust and a threat to probe alleged ma-
nipulation of grain markets are also as-
cribed as reasons for lower prices. Then
again, the recent upturn in prices en-
couraged farmers to sell their holdings
which piled up supplies at primary ete-
vators and enabled the bears to make a.
strong talking point for their side; Aus~
tralia has had a little relief from her
long drouth by copious rains. The con-
dition in Argentine continued promising.
The Liverpool markets have been slightly
favorable to the bulls this week. A large
portion of the crop of the Canadian
northwest will be condemned as unfit for
making flour, frost having caught the
crop before properly matured. There is
a good demand for flour and the mills are
grinding to their fullest capacity. One
year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat
was 923/40 per bu. Quotations for the

week are as follows:

No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec. May.

Thursday ....991/2 .961/2 $10214 $1.07
Friday ...... 971/2 .9411? 1.0014 1.05
Saturday . . . 971,4; .941/2 1.00%, 1.05
IVIonday ..... 981;, .9314 1.00% 1.05%,
Tuesday ..... 963.; .933. 98% 1.0315
'\\'ednesday.. 96%, .9334 .9854 1.03%,

Corn—sin spite of the decline in wheat
quotations, corn has advanced and its
new position seems iirm. While deliv-
eries of new corn in the southern part of
the corn belt are increasing and better
Weather conditions prevail for husking
the crop, the damage that has been sus—
tained is permanent and will run
throughout the season. There appears
to be no hope of assistance from abroad
as the corn crop there has suffered as in
America. There is no activity in the lo-
cal market. One year ago No. 3 corn
was quoted at 521,420 per bu. Quotations
for the week are as follows:

No. 3 No. 3
Corn Yellow.
Thursday ...... 76 761A3
Friday ............. . . . . . . 76 761/2
Saturday .......... . ..... . 76 76%
Monday ............ . . . . . . 76 761,5
Tuesday .................. 76 76%
\Vednesday ............... 76 761A,
Oats—This grain has declined with

wheat and the trade has been slow. Some
of the large holders are disposing of a.
portion of their stocks. Markets closed
with a weak tone and at a loss of {$40.
A year ago standard oats were selling
at 341/2c per bu. Quotations for the week
are as follows:

Standard No. 3
White.

Thursday ................ 491/2 49

Friday ................... 491/2 49
Saturday ................ 49 «'54 49 14
Monday .................. 49-3; 4914
Tuesday .................. 49 481,41
\l'ednesday .............. 49 481A,

BeanspACash beans are quoted 5c high-
er than a week ago. There is some sell-
ing on the market here at the quotation
given. Reports show that the early esti-
mates of the damage done to the crop
were conservative and that the dete-
rioration due to heavy and continuous
rains during the harvesting period is
general in Michigan, as well as in other
states where beans are grown exten-
sively. Buyers are a little cautious about
taking offerings because of the poor con-
dition they find many consignments in.
it would seem that farmers should take
especial care in providing a place that
will enable the beans to dry out after
they hare been threshed. Following are
the quotations for the week:

Oct. Dec.
Thursday .................. $2.35 $2.32
Friday ..................... 2.35 2.32
Saturday .................. 2.35 2.32
Monday ................... 2.35 2.32
Tuesday ................... 2.35 2.3
\\'ednesday ................ 2.32 2.30

Clover Seed.—’l‘he offerings of seed are
smaller than usual. Prices show a little
advance over those of last week; the trade
is steady and probably will remain so.
Alsike is unchanged from a week ago.
Quotations are as follows:

Oct. Alsike.
Thursday . ............... $12.50 $10.50
Friday .. . . . . . . ........... 12.50 10.50
Saturday . . . ............. 12.35 10.50
Monday . . . . . ............ 12.40 10.50
Tuesday ................. 12.40 10.50
YVednesday .............. 12.40 10.50

Timothy Seed—\Vhile no sales are re-
ported, prime spot timothy seed is nom-
inally quoted at $7.20 per bu., which is
the price of a week ago.

Rye.—This grain has declined another
cent, Cash No. 2 now being quoted at 99¢
per bu. There is no dealing.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.

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

Straight . ........ . ............... . . . . . 4.10
Patent Michigan ............... . . . . . 4.76
Ordinary Patent ..................... 4 40

Feed. —All grades steady with last week.
Carlot prices on track are: Bran, $27 per
ton; coarse middlings, $29; fine middlings
$32; cracked corn, $30; coarse corn meal,
$30; corn and oat chop, $28 per ton.

Haw and Straw.—-Straw higher. Hay
remains steady. Quotations are: No. 1
timothy, $20@20.50: .No. 2 timothy, $18.50
@19; clover, mixed, $17@19; rye straw,

   

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$9.50@10; wheat and cat straw, $8.60@9
per ton.

Potatoes.—While potatoes are being
offered in good supply prices have not
only been maintained but have actually
advanced under a good steady demand
from consumers. Many of the tubers are
grading poorly. Car lots on track are
quoted at 63@68c per bushel. .

Provisions.——Family pork, $19@19.50;
mess pork, $16; medium clear, $15@17;
hams, 14c; bacon, 121,5@14c; pure lard
in tierces, Mic; kettle rendered lard,
10540 per lb.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Button—All grades of butter are high-
er, creamery showing the greatest ad-

vance. Demand is strong and the new
position is firm. The advance has been
general over the country. Quotations

are: Extra creamery, 3lc; firsts, do., 300;
dairy, 21c; packing stock, 20c per lb.

Eggs—Although local prices have ad-
vanced a half cent during the week, they
did not show the gain made in outside
markets. Demand is active and supplies
are moderate. Fresh receipts, case count,
cases included, are now quoted at 24%0
per dozen.

Poultry.—Attention is largely confined
to chickens, of which there is a liberal
supply. The demand has improved and
for the first time in weeks prices ruled
from steady to higher. Prices are: Live
-—Hens, 10c; turkeys, 14fi‘15c; geese, 8@
9c; ducks, 12Qi13c: young ducks, 14c;
spring chickens, 111,50; No. 2 chickens,
90 per lb.

Cheese.——-Michigan, old, 16((1‘161/20; Mich-
igan, late, 151,461,16c; York state, new,16@
161/;c; Swiss, domestic block, 19@210;
cream brick, 15@16c; limburger, 12@13c.

Veal.—Market lower for best. Fancy,
10@110; choice, 8090 per lb.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Cabbage—Steady. Selling at $1.60@

1.75 per bbl, for home—grown.
Onions.—Steady; 80@90c per bu.
Pears.—75c@1 per bu for average of-

ferings.

Apples—There is a fair demand for
this fruit. Good fruit is being held back
by growers until the inferior grades are
disposed of. Average offerings are going
at 50@75c, per bu; Snows are selling at
32.50603 per bbl.

Grapes.-—Niagara 4—lb.
t‘oncord, 4—lb. basket, 14c.

basket, 150;

OTHER MARKETS.
Grand Rapids.

According to Grand Rapids dealers, po—
tatocs are higher in Michigan than in
outside markets, the price at the present
time ranging from 45((155c. There is
quite a. lchly movement, and has been
since the season opened. Many reports
are made of large and hollow potatoes,
but few, if any, cases of rot have been
reported. Fresh eggs are very scarce
and are quoted nominally at 260, jobbers
to country shippers. Live fowls and
spring chickens are worth 8%c; ducks,
10c, and turkeys 14c. Turkeys will not
be fat this year, on account of mild
weather, and reports indicate a larger
supply than usual for Thanksgiving, With
prices Git/8c lower. Hay is worth $18.

 

New York.

Butter.-l\ll grades are higher with
other markets. Creamery specials are
quoted at 3361331/gc per lb; extras, 32@
321/2c; firsts, 29((0301/20; seconds, 26@28c;
thirds, 24.71250

ltlggs.~.r\.ll grades show a general ad-
vance of 2@i3c. Fresh gathered extras,
3llm3lc; extra, firsts, 29((p310; seconds,
2261.230; western gathered whites, 28cc)
33¢; per dozen.

PoultryfiLive—Steady; western chick—
ens, lll/gfi'lanVgc; fowls, 11@13c turkeys,
ltic. Dressed, quiet. Turkeys, 10@20c;
i‘owls, 7(0151/20; western chickens, 7@16c
per lb.

 

Chicago.

“heat—No. 2 red, 98%c@$1; Dec,
961/20; May, $1.02 per bu.

Corn.——No. 2, 73%@74%c; Dec, 63c;
May, 64340 per bu.

Oats—No. 2 white, 47@47%c; Dec,

4612.0; May, 4874.0.

Barley.—~Malting grades, $1.00@1.25 per
bu; feeding, 75(9950.

Butter.—77This market showed great
strength at the week's opening and prices
were moved up a cent in anticipation of
an advance at Elgin. Later, top grade
creamery made a further gain of lac.

Market steady at the higher range.
Creameries, 24%@3Lc; dairies, 22(0280
pcr lb.

Eggs—Offerings continue light and all
grades are higher, the better qualities
showing at 2C gain. Quotations: Prime
firsts, 24c; firsts, 22c; at mark, cases
included, 1661;19c per dozen.

Potatoes—Lessened receipts and con-
tinued active demand have brought an
advance of 5c. Michigan stock is now
quoted at 6861.70c per bu; Wisconsin, 65@
68c; Minnesota, 681L700.

Beans—Steady without price change.
Choice hand-picked pea. beans quoted at
$2.43@2.48 per bu; prime, $2.32@2.34; red
kidneys. $2.75@3.25 per bu.

Hay and Straw.--Hay is steady and
unchanged. Vi'heat straw $1 higher.
Quotations: Choice timothy, $22@23 per
ton; do., No. 1 $2061.21; do., No. 2 and
No. 1 mixed, SIBQLZO; do., No. 3 and No.
2 mixed, $14fll8; clover, $15@17: do., No.
2 and no grade, $861213; rye straw, $10@
11; oat straw, $9079.60 per ton; wheat
straw, $7@8 per ton.

Boston.

TVool.—There has been general selling
in the wool market this past week, the
activity extending to practically all
grades. Choice offerings have been
marked up while ordinary grades are
selling with former weeks. Michigan
wools have been particularly popular the
past seven days and a. good percentage
of: her stocks have been transferred.
Following are the leading domestic quo-
tations for fleeces: Ohio and Pennsyl-

 

vania fleeces—Delaine, washed, 30@3lc;
XX, 28c; fine unmerchantable, 22@23c;
biz-blood combing, 25@26c; %-blood
combing, 25@251,éc; l74,-blood combing, 24
@249“; delaine, unwashed, 25c; fine un-
washed, 210. Michigan, Wisconsin and
New York fleeces—Fine unwashed, 19@
20c; delaine, unwashed, 23@24c; yQ-blood
unwashed, 24%@25c. Kentucky, Indiana.
and Missouri—fig-blood, 24c; 1,4-blood, 23
@23%c.

Elgln.

Butter.——Market firm at 31¢ per 1b.,
which is a 1%0 advance over last week’s
quotation. Output for the week, 674,200
lbs., as compared with 687,300 lbs. for the
previous week.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

October 30, 1911.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens.
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 250 cars; hogs, 130 double decks;
sheep and lambs, 110 double decks; calves
1,400 head?

With 250 loads of cattle on our mar-
ket today, we are compelled to report the
worst market that we have had here in
three months. Cattle of all grades selling
from 15@25c lower, and in a good many
instances 400 lower. With 250 cars on
the market today, it is a. positive fact
there wasn’t a single load of prime cattle
here, and with orders here for several
loads of good weighty cattle, weighing
1,300 to 1,450 lbs., it was impossible for
buyers to fill their orders as there were
none of that kind here.

We quote: Best 1,400 to 1,600-lb. steers
$7.60((u7.75; good prime 1,300 to 1,400—lb.
do., $7@7.25; do. 1,200 to 1,300-lb. do. $6.25
(ad; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. shipping steers

55.50115; medium light butcher steers,
1,000 to 1,100, $5@5.50; light butcher
steers, $4.50@5; best fat cows, $4.25@

4.75; fair to good do., $3.25@4; common
to medium do., $2.25@2.75; trimmers,
$1.50Ct'o2; best fat heifers, $5@5.65; good
do., $4.25fiu4.85; fair to good do., $3.75@
4.25; stock heifers, $3.25@3.50; best feed-
ing steers, dehorned, $4.50@5;_ common
do., $3.75tg34; stockers, all grades, $3.75@
4; prime export bulls, $5@5.25; best
butcher bulls, $4.25((_u4.75; bologna bulls,
$3.25o3.75; stock bullls, $3603.75; best
milkers and springers, $50@60; common
to good do., $256035.

The trade in the hog department ruled
fairly active today, with the bulk of the
best quality mixed packers’ grades and
medium Weights selling at 3360611655, and
the best quality strong weight yorkers
generally at $6.60, with quite a number
at $6.55. Lighter weight yorkers ranged
on down to as low as $6.10. The choice
quality heavier weights are scarce, and
are bringing a premium over the mixed
and medium weights. This kind quotable
today from $6.65@6.75. Best quality and
weight pigs sold generally at $5.90, with
a few of the stronger weights up to 60
per 1b., and the light weight pigs rang-
ing from $4_;0@5_50 per 100 lbs. The
best quality rough sows sold generally
at $5.90, with a few selected up to 60,
and some of the commoner kind as low
as til/fie. Stags ranged from $4.50@5.25.
The supply is well cleaned up, with the
market closing steady.

The sheep and lamb market was active
today; most of the choice lambs Sold at
4357561580; wethcrs at $3.50@3.65. Ev—
crything about solid. Look for a little
improvement the last of the week.

\Ve quote: Best spring lambs, $5.75@
5.80; cull to common do., $4.50@5; weth-
ers, $3.50fitiH35; bucks, $2.50(w2.75; year-
lings, $3.756t4; handy ewes, $3@3.25;

heavy do., $3413.15; cull sheep, $1.50@2;
01 Jim 591.15 lyos'tstl ‘B-UXB 01 9010110 ‘SIBGA
good do., 38:41.9; heavy calves, $4@5.

 

Chicago.
October 30, 1911.
. Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ..... 23,000 30,000 50,000
Same day last year..34,707 26,547 45,654

Received last week..85,739 144,528 209,798
Same week last: year.77,577 111,925 199,802‘
After last week’s unusual slump in cat-
tle prices, brought about by glutted mar-
kets, owners were not eager to ship in
stock until time could be had for a re-
covery in values, and the run today is
qulte moderate, including 5,000 from
western ranges. These cattle, as well as
the grcat bulk of the fed stock from
farming sections, moved off briskly at
advances of around 106i‘150, and quite a
number of sales looked as much as 2061')
be higher. A new high record was made
early by the sale of a consignment of
fancy Missouri-fed Angus steers that av-
eraged 1,730 lbs, at $9. Hogs opened
firm to a shade higher, sales ranging at
$u.8061.6.65. one sale occurring at the to!)
figure. After the shippers had filled their
wants, however, the market ru‘led dull
and lower. .Pigs sold at $4@5.60, accord-
ing to .weight and grading, extremely
light‘weights going lOWest, and a few 46-
lb. pigs sold at $3.50. Stags sold at $6.40
((06.75 and boars at $2.75@3.25, all stags
selling subject to 80 lbs. dockage per
head. Hogs marketed last week aver-
aged 214 lbs., compared with 222 lbs. 3
week earlier; 201 lbs. three week ear-
her; 244 lbs. one year ago; 228 lbs. two
years ago and 207 lbs. three years ago.
Sheep and lambs were in less urgent de-
mand than usual and lacked firmness
feedggs and choice mutton flocks ex:
cep . A week a 0 ho
(06.721/2. g gs sold at $5.85
Horses have been in extremely poor
demand recently, and until the market
shows improvement in animation and
firmness country shippers should operate
cautiously, restricting their shipments to
horses that are really desirable in qual-
ity. Buyers are in small attendance
daily, and buying orders in the hands of
commission firms at the stock yards have
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.
November 2, 1911.
Cattle.

Receipts,_ 1,291. Market active at last
week’s prices on all grades.

W'e quote:_ Best steers and - heifers.
$5.50@5.75; steers ani heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $4.75@5.25; do., 800 to 1,000, $4@
4.75; grass steers and heifers that are
fat, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.75; do., 500 to 700.
$4Q44.50; choice fat cows, $4@4.25; good
fat cows, $3.50@3.75; common cows, $2.50

@3; canners, $1.75@2.25; choice heavy
bulls, $4@4.25; fair to good bolognas,
bulls, $3.50@3.75; stock bulls, $2.50@3;

choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@
4.75; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1,000,
$3.75@4.25; choice stockers, 500 to 700,
$3.50@3.75; fair stockers, 500 to 700. $3
@335; stock heifers, $3@3.50; milkers,
large, young, medium age, $40@60; com-
mon milkers, $25@35.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Bresnahan 7 can-

vners av 836 at $2; to Alexander 15 feed-

ers av 704 at $3.25, 1 do weighing 800 at
$3.25, 4 stockers av 680 at $3.75, 4 do av
570 at $3.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 12
butchers av 832 at $3, 6 do av 633 at $3.
8 do av 715 at $4, 4 canners av 825 at
$2.65, 1 do weighing 780 at $1.50, 10 do
av 927 at $2.50; to Mich. B. Co. 15 butch-
ers av 978 at $3.50, 5 do av 706 at $3.50,
2 cows av 1,000 at $3.20, 4 butchers av
745 at $4; to Rattkowsky 6 do av 816 at
-.'3, 1 cow weighing 1,080 at $4, 1 steer
weighing 1,080-at $4.50, 1 cow weighing
900 at $4, 2 do av 805 at $3; to Hammond,
S. & Co. 3 heifers av 733 at $4, 4 cows av
1,100 at $3.50, 1 bull weighing 720 at
$3.25; to Parker, W. & Co. 2 cows av
1,020 at $2.50, 6 do av 750 at $2.50, 2 do
av 995 at $2.50, 18 butchers av 620 at
$3.25; to Newton B. Co. 16 do av 722 at
$4; to Hammond, S. & Co. 10 steers av
722 at $3.65, 9 cows av 448 at $2.75, 1 bull
weighing 1,450 at $4.25: to Sullivan P. Co.
29 steers av 974 at $5.75; to Hartung 12
feeders av 824 at $4.50; to Thompson
Bros. 2 cows av 984 at $3.75, 2 heifers
av 865 at $4.60, 1 bull weighing 1,040 at
$3.75: to Rattkowsky 4 cows av 970 at
$3.25.

Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 bull
weighing 1,130 at $4; to Hammond, S. &
Co. 2 cows av 1,035 at $3.50, 2 do av 865
at $2.50, 4 canners av 855 at $2.25, 6
butchers av 575 at $3.75; to Sullivan P.
Go. 12 do— av 854 at $4.50, 2 steers av 875
at $4, 2 cows av 1,015 at $3.25, 4 canners
av 862 at $2.25, 1 do weighing 620 at
$1.50: to Bresnahan 20 stockers av 595
at $3.20: to Schlischer 5 butchers av 546
at $3.25, 7 do av 580 at $3.25, 1 cow
weighing 800 at $3.25; to Rattkowsky 5
butchers av 582 at $3.25; to Goose 7 do
av 300 at $3.15; to Regan 12 do av 533 at
$3.25, 1 heifer weighing 650 at $3: to
Newton R. Co. 12 heifers av 717 at $3.90.
to Rale 3 bulls av 666 at $3.00. 1 do
weighing 960 at $3.60. 2 do av 620 at $3.

Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull
weighing 970 at $4, 2 cows av 1.020 at
$2.75, 1 canner weighing 1,200 at $2.50,
26 steers av 1,002 at $5.50, 1 (lo weighing
930 at $5, 3 do av 770 at $4.75, 3 butch—
ers av 960 at $4.25, 1 bull weighing 1,730
at $4, 2 do av 1.150 at $3.75, 4 do av 767
at $3, 1 do weighing 1,730 at $4.25, 4
butchers av 890 at $4.25, 1 bull weighing
1,150 at $4, 2 canners av 910 at $2.2”, 1
do weighing 980 at $2.25, 4 do av 920. at
$2.40, 3 bulls av 633 at $2.90, 1 heifer
weighing 750 at $4.50; to Bresnahan 3
canners av 880 at $2: to Breitenbeck 33
butchers av 716 at $4: to (loose 5 do av
366 at $3, 10 do av 617 at $3.50: to Sulli-
van P. Co. 1 bull weighing 1,370 at $4.
2 canners av 750 at $2, 1 do weighing 790
at $1.50, 3 bulls av 510 at $3: to Kam-
man B. Co. 30 butchers av 881 at $4.40:
to Parker. W. & Co. 11 do av 945 at
$4.90; to Kamman '7 do av 571 at $3.25,
8 do av 720 at $3.25, 2 do av 695 at $3.50.
30 do av 890 at $4.40; to Schumaker 14
feeders av 700 at $3.90, 2 stockers av 600
at $3 50, 7 do av 605 at $3.90.

Roe Com. C0. sold Mich. B. Co. 20
steers and heifers av 869 at $4.35, 5 cows
av 902 at $3.70; to Newton B. CO. 10
butchers av 690 at $4; to Hammond, S.
& Co. 9 do av 683 at $4, 9 do av 913.at
$3.25, 2 do av 480 at $3, 1 bull weighing
1.100 at $4, 7 cows av 1,010 at $3.25, 2 do
av 900 at $3.25, 4 do av 1,060 at $2.75. 7
do av 780 at $2.25, 1 bull weighing 1,080
at $3 75: 'to Parker, W. & Co. 7 butchers
av 521 at $3.25: to Newton B. Co. 9 do
av 777 at $4.25. 4 do av 712 at $3.50; to
Strong 22 feeders av 784 at $3.75: to
Parker, W. & Co. 15 butchers av 855 zit
$3.20, 31 do av 870 at $4.50; to Hammond,
S. & Co. 9 do av 915 at $4.50, 1 cow
weighing 1,180 at $4.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 583. Market steady with
\Vednesday, 25c higher than last Thurs-
dav for good stuff; common dull. Best,
$358.75; others, $3.50@7.5o; milch cows

‘ syrin ers steady.
angishlop, %. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
8 av 120 at $8.50, 1 weighing 160 at $5, 8
av 145 at $8.50, 1 weighing 240 at $5,
2 av 120 at $8, 2 av 160 at $8.60, 11 av
270 at $4, 3 av 180 at $8.75, 4 av 135 at
$8.75; to Mich. B. Co. 7 av 140 at $8.50,
15 av 150 at $8.50. 13 av 140 at $8, 13 av

150 at $8.25; to Kull 1 weighing 130 at‘

8, av 125 at $8.60, 9 av_160 at $8.50, 1

iveighing‘ 1.30181 $6; to Goose 2‘ av 215 at

$4.50; to Friedman 2, av 135 at $8.50.
LB‘WAS sold ‘Newton B. Co. 3 av 140 at

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

Haley &. M. sold Rattkowsky.2 av 185
at 6, 1 weighing 280 at 4; to Goose 3 av
150 at $7.

Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B_. Co. 1
weighing 200 at $7, 4 av 155 at $6, 1
weighing 140 at $8.50.
$171§8ndall sold Burnstine 10 av 130 at
Bohm sold same 2 av 125 at $8.
Spicer & R. sold Goose 3 av 230 at
$6.50, 2 av 275 at $3.25; to'Newton B. Co.
2 av 115 at $6.50. 6 av 155 at $8.25; to
Rattkowsky 11 av 120 at $6.50; to Mich.
B. Co. 6 av 150 at $8.25; to Friedman 3
av 150 at $8.30; .to Goose 3 av 145 at $8.
Downing sold Sullivan P. Co. 4 av 156
at $8. .
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts. 5,669. Market steady at last
weeks opening; quality common. Best
lambs, $5.35@5.40; fair lambs, $5@5.25;
light to common lambs, $3.75@4.75; fair
to good sheep, $2.75@3.50; culls and com-
mon, $1.50@2.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Breitenbeck 37
lambs av 70 at $4.75, 13 do av 65 at $4,
11 do av 45 at $3, 5 do av 70 at $5, 6
sheep av 100 at $2; to Hammond, S. &
Co. 48' lambs av 73 at $5.25, 60 do av
70 at $5.25, 5 sheep av 95 at $2, 31 do av
115 at $3, 10 do av 92 at $2, 58 do av 115
at $3, 10 do av 110 at $2.75; to Harland
28 lambs av 70 at $5.25, 40 do av 80 at
$5.35; to Sullivan P. CO. 72 do av 50 at
$4.25, 50 do av 73 at $5.40, 29 do av 50
at $4, 23 sheep av 70 at $3.50; to Thomp-
son Bros. 8 do av 130 at $3, 22 lambs av
45 at $3.50, 69 lambs av 50 at $4; to Nagle
P. Co. 91 do av 73 at $5.10, 78 do av 80
at $5.25, 52 do av 65 at $5.15, 21 do av
55 at $4, 31 sheep av 95 at $2.75, 107
lambs av 75 at $5.25, 43 do av 75 at $5.35,
124 do av 70 at $5.10, 28 sheep av 115 at
$3, 5 do av 85 at $1.50, 8 lambs av 57 at
$4, 54 sheep av 122 at $3; to Mich. B. Co.
23 do av 110 at $3, 23 do av 125 at $2.75,
28 do av 100 at $3.25; to Parker, W. &
Co. 50 lambs av 52 at $4, 12 do av 53 at
$4.50, 10 sheep av 89 at $2, 27 do av 90 at
$3, 18 lambs av 68 at $5; to Barlage 15
lambs av 53 at $4, 37 do av 75 at $5.28;
to Mich. B. Co. 55 do av 50 at $4, 28 do
av 53 at $4, 34 do av 60 at $5.40.

Spicer & R. sold Kull 13 lambs av 70
at $4.75, 14 do av 80 at $4; to Mich. B.
Co. 187 do av 69 at $5.30. 20 do av 52 at
$4, 4 sheep av 105 at $2.50, 34 wo av 110
at $3, 34 lambs av 65 at $5.25, 16 sheep
av 65 at $2.85; to Eschrich 20 do av 70
at $2.60, 25 do av 70 at $2.60.

Downing sold Newton B. Co. 29 lambs
av 60 at $4.50.

Lewis sold same 21 do av 73 at $5, 13
sheep av 95 at $2.

Sandell & T. sold same 8 sheep av 107
at $2, 29 do av 70 at $3, 192 lambs av 70
at $5.

Roe Com. C0. sold Newton B. Co. 19
lambs av 74 at $5.

Hogs.

Receipts, 7,742. Market 5c higher than
\Vednesday; steady to 5c lower than last
Thursday: none Sold up to noon.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $6.20@6.30; pigs, $5.25@5.40; light
yorkers, $6.20fri6.30: stags, one—third off.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 340
av 200 at $6.30, 320 av 190 at $6.25.

Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
720 av 200 at $6. 25.

Haley & M. sold same 520 av 180 at
$6.25, 460 av 200 at $6.30.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, 1V. & Co.
1,560 av 200 at $6.30, 2,715 av 170 at $6.25,
730 av 160 at $6.20, 25 av 135 at $5.90.

 

Friday’s Market.
October 27, 1911.
Cattle.

Receipts this week, 1,879: last week,
1,193. Market 25c lower than the opening
Thursday.

We quote: Best steers and heifers,
$5.27; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,
$450415; do., 800 to 1,000, $4@4.40; grass
steers and heifers that are fat, 800 to
1,000, $4624.40; do., 500 to 700, $4604.25;
choice fat cows,'$3.75@4; good fat cows,
$3.25@3.75; common cows, $2.50@2.75;
canners, $1.50@2.25; choice heavy bulls,
$3.50; stock bulls, $2.50@3; choice feeding
$3.75; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $325620
steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@4.75; fair feed-
ing steers. 800 to 1,000, $3.75@4; choice
stockers, 500 to 700, $3.50@3.75; fair stock-
ers, 500 to 700, $3623.25: stock heifers, $3
753.50: milkers, large. young, medium age,
$4071.60; common milkers, $25@35.

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 929; last week, 799.
Market dull at Thursday’s prices. Best.
$8629: others, $3.50@7.50. Milch cows and
springers steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 8,885; last week,
4,960. Market 25c lower than on Thurs—
day. Best lambs, $5@5.10; fair to good
lambs, $4.50@4.80; light to common lambs,
33.50724; fair to good sheep. $2.75@3; culls
and common, $1@2.50.

Hogs.

Receipts this week, 13,060; last week,
9,469. Market steady at Thursday‘s prices.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, 362062630: pigs, $5615.40: light york~
ers, 362067630: stage one-third ot‘i'.

 

 

 

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Cabbage Weighing
24 Pounds in March

raised in Southern Alabama, Western Florida and along the Gulf
Coast, with shipping season commencing early in Ma and
oommandini from 02.00 to 82.50 per crate at ehippi

This some

n? point.
d then planted in sweet tatocs wil yield ””60
making

.150 per acre, end, in addition, an exce ent forage crop,

3 Crops a Season From Sam land

No long winters, but an average of 3113 world
Stock needs little protection and thrives on
with an abundance of good

days a year.
in; alone and
water. Bend for our booklets and

read of the actual experiences of former Northern and Western
farmers who are ra idly becoming rich off the fertile lands of
Alabama, Georgia, ennessee, Mississippi and Western Florida.

[0' IMD-I'IIP “1'3 Is! All Id TUESDAYS EACH ”IT.
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Greatest capacity, easiest to operate
and strongest of carriers. The carrier
wheels are roller-bearing and are
swiveled so that carrier will work
around curves. .

Runs on our celebrated Columbian
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radius and will carry heavy loads.

The hopper is held automatically
at any height and can be tripped at.
the will of the operator.

We make a large line of SANITARV
STEEL STALLS AND CATTLE
STANOHIONS.

Send for illustrated catalogue.
J. [2. Porter 00.. Ottawa. Ill,
mass or THE FAMOUS
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liberal advancements and prompt remittances.

Daniel McCailrcy’s Sons Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.
Reference Washington Trust Company, or any bank in city

FARMS Allll FARM, LANDS
EBB SALE OR EXCHANGE

Fun SALE—IGO-ncre farm. good hulldi good 01'th
ard, well and creek 70 acres cleared. miles from
town. price $3800. H. 13. Height. White Cloud. Mich.

$25.93. PER ACRE R's??-

which. has in it the making of an ideal stock farm_
ltunning water. and grass in abundance. For par.
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chInAL Mltfl.3§‘3§1°ii§a‘°°°.“’°m
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FAR MS semi. 5.1325323?

Cash For Your Form or Business. £3312;
and seller together, no matter where located. If you
want to buy or sell, address FRANK P. CLEVE-
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when you can buy
the Best Land in
Mich] an at. from
87 to 12 an acre

near Saginaw and Bay City. W’rite for ms and par-
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Just issued by Vermont'afl’ulblicity Bureau.
Homemaker-8' Guide to ‘1

Vermont
Farms

a book of general information about the State's
Agricultural resources. Also contains large
list. of desirable farms for sale. 1
Semi for it today. It is Free. ‘
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The Nation’s"
Garden Spot-

THAT GREAT mm AND TRUCK
GROWING SECTION-
along the

Atlantic Coast Line
RAILROAD

in Virginia, North and South Carolina:

Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to
WILIH'R MCCOY

A. 65 [. Agt. for Florida,
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Literature will be sentto any one in-

terested in the wonderful Sacra-

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the world. Unlimited opportunities. Thousands
of acres available at right. prices. The place for
the man wanting a home in the finest climate on
eagth. No landséfor sale: organized to ive relialble
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Valley Development As- caII ornla

sociation. SACRAMENTO.

Homeseekers-Allenlion

The territory traversed by the Nashville, Chat,-
tanoogatt St. Louis Railway is rich in natural
resources, and its climatic conditions and the
fertility of its soil offer unexcelled opportunities
for the profitable production of grains. grasses,
live stock and truck crops. Fertile and attract.-
ive farm lands may he had at very low prices.
Write me at once for free descrlpilve literature.
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275 Acres, 15 Head Stock.

Pair horses. sheep, poultry, wagons and machinery,
all included; you can move right in and make money
this winter from your cows and be ready for
spri g's work; 70 acres in machine-worked fields;
broo -wat.ered pastures for 30 cows: Rood fences: abun-
dance of fruit; estimated to cut 1,300 cords wood,
60.“ ft. timber: lO-room painted house. big barn,
stable. shed and poultry.house: the sacrifice )rice is
only M. part cash: buy an Eastern farm be ore the
liig advance: all details and traveling instructions
page 119.“Strout's Mammoth Farm (‘utalogue No 34,"
copy free. E. A. STRUU'I‘, Station 10]. Union Bank
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to 100022 Grape Fruit 6 Truck

PER ACRE.

Our farmers also
acre. Only a small amount of Florida soil is rich.
high. black hammock land. such as surrounds
our city. We, the Brooksville Board of Trade,
have no land to sell. but. want to interest am-
bitious men with from $500 to $1.000 capital to he]
develop tremendous agricultural and industrial 3 -
vanta sol Brooksville and Hernando County. Al-
thoug term and fruit land has been steadily going
up in price, some and land can still

be bought far be ow its real value. F R E E

Sand for Free Book
It tells you about the different
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best Oranges. Grape Fruit. Veg-
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(80 bu. to the acre) are grown here.
300 feet. above the sea—no swamps or
marshes. Ideal climate—schools.
churches, good roads. all modern
conveniences. you are not
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$500 to $1000 capital. come to Brooks
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you_ by givtng the benefit of our
adVice and experience. Write today.

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Write to-da for our Great Color Card and rices. U

clean wire. You save money in bu ing from us. d 6 double stalls, 10 ft.
$3 7-5-0 BUYS COMPLETE 101133539 is Our price for 6 gauge. (Ether causes as dgivfawgy. 091139.133] be used gimhorggnantgog
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j, strictly A No. 1 and firstoclass Write for our Free Wire C t 1 Wm . throughout. . '

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We Will furnish all the Plum in: material needed
for any of the houses shown in this advertisement
including one of the bathroom outfits describe
above, besides a one piece roll rim white enameled
kitchen sink. with white enameled drain board. a
30 gallon range boiler and all the necessary pipe
and fittings, and all material of every kind .to com-
plete the entire plumbing system, including all fix-
tures. furnished with iron pipe connec-

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OUR “STAR" BARN DESIGN No. 270
Size 53 ft. wide by 80 ft. long 24 ft. to comb.
An ideal barn roi- remote raisin stock
on a moderate scale: balloon type. The In -
.. mow extends to the ground floor and above tge
‘: Ni .. grain rooms on each end of the barn. Cattle
stalls on one side of the hay-mow: horse stalls

on the other. Excellent] ventilated in every
art. A practical barn we 1 built of guaranteed
rst-class material. and will give excellent. all

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It is suitable for fencing. stays;

grape vines or any pu as where

ordinary wirels used. T ‘ Galvan-

ere which we offer at this

Great Bargain Wrecking Price is
brand new smooth stock.

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riders and all kinds of repairs. It is new. smooth, for hogses. Has 12 single galls. 5 lf‘tlne'li::lli,.

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0813“! enameled over “'0“- he prices on Barbed Wire and everything in the wire

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- ing system. A modern heatingvsystem
g is now Within the reach of all. e have
hot water heating plants for modern
homes all the way from $100 up.

By following our simple plans and in-
structions, you can install your own ma-
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CEMENT COATED WINE NAILS the material itself insures a saving of 30 to 50%. . .
Per Keg. $1.92 gouge BARN DESIGN-N

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Sizgigyfstglgfilsifgg lgoeiigoeight A patent process coats these IRON PIPE‘ AND F I I IINGS Size, 20 ft. in diameter and 16 ft. high to
rooms'and bath pantry. vestibule and nails with a cement preparation p Rejuvenated Pipe. in mm late. Has 14 Sides, each side 14 ft. A 16 ft.
large hall. A s'uare. solid, substantial that 135‘s forever. Drives eaSiiy dom lengths, complete with ilo in the middle. same bein 36 ft. high and
construction Al space is advan- but are hard to pullout. Once couplings. suitable for gas, Will hold 160 tons of silage. Ila ca acit , 65
tagecusly utilized. The Colonial use them and you Will have no others. as for ever oxl. water. and conveyance tons. Will accommodate 130 ea of
windows and porch columns are dis- ur ose they are far superior to the common kin . of all liquids. Sizes inch to 12 inch. cattle. The 'many and excellent features
tinctive features. For convenience and Sul kegs—{ncgosfilgvgihgound weight. »- 8353301112 ggcfggation‘; ahd‘dgm” 1' totOtf .10 offctred lbyf thlshcgnitruction, 3119 high grade

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of appearance, and low price, this house Price per keg. ' '
is unequalled. .

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