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VOL. CXXXVII. No. 20. i

Whole Number 3573.





FARM NOTES.





 





Hard Vs. Soft Tile.





A few words in regard to tile drainage.

Several in this vicinity claim that soft-

burnt tile are as good, if not better, than,

hard—burnt. They claim that-they absorb

more water. What do you say? -What

is your opinion of cement tile? It is a.

good plan to cover the tile with straw'

to prevent the_loose dirt from enter-_





ing the joints?

Kent Co. G. W. R. C.





There is no difference in the immediate

results secured from the use of hard or

soft burnt tile in the laying of tile drains

since the water enters the tile at the

joint rather than by penetration, even

where soft tile is used. Cement tile give

the best of results and are conceded to

be as,good as any kind of clay tile and

are given the preference by many. There

is no object in covering the tile with

straw or any other material in ordinary

soils if they are properly laid, the joints

being made as close as possible, especial-

ly at the top. If properly laid to grade

they will not fill with sediment, but if

unevenly laid there willbe trouble from

this cause no matter what precaution

may be taken in laying them; hence. the

grade stakes in the tile drain should be

«WY, marked and-tho . .‘ .





the drains, causing them

to nn up With sediment.

Weeds and Yields.

. Practically éy’a'v farm-

er realizes that " weeds

in the cultivated cropg'

reduce the yields mate-

rially, but few appreciate

the fact that when the

land is allowed to become

foul with weed seed, the

grain crop suffers to a

cdrresponding degree.

Some investigations re-

cently made by Profes-

sor W. C. Palmer, of the

North Dakota Station,

throw an interesting

light upon this problem.

To get some idea of how

much weeds might re—

duce 'the yield of grain

crops, he selected a field

that was weedy with

pigeon grass and when

the wheat was ripe and

ready to harvest he

-measured aout, a Square

yard at several] places,

pulled the weeds care-

fully so as not to disturb

the wheat, and weighed

the weeds in order to de-

termine the amount of

weeds per acre, and the

moi’s‘i‘ure which would

be consumed in their





 





growth. The results as

announced in the press

bulletin, are as follows:





The weights of the

Weeds without, roots were 91 02s., 58 02s.,

64 02s., 56 02s., and 60 02s., making an

average of 66 ozs. per square yard. The

first one is quite a little above the aver-

age. If that is left out the average will

be 60 ozs. to the square yard, or 3% lbs.

This would make 14,520 lbs. to the acre.

A sample of weeds was dried and gave

21 per cent dry weight, or 3.049 lbs. of

dry matter, 11/2 tons, or enough to re-

duce the yield of wheat 25 bushels, pro—

vided‘wheat could have‘ made as good

use of’the moisture and plant food. ‘One

thing is certain, and that is that the

growing ofpthese Weeds used up -2,100

tons of water, the equivalent of 18 inches

of rainfall‘and 'thatis rain that was ac-

tually in the soil where the wheat could

have secured it. There is no place for





 





DETROIT. MICH" SATURDAY. NOV.





the weed. It is an expensive thing to

have on the farm.

Top-Dressing wltn Clover Chaff to Get

a Seeding. >

We have a 10-acre field that is rather

rundown ‘on‘ which we failed to‘get a.

good seeding with oats the past'season.

{Will We be able to get a seeding by top-

dressing with clover chaff (both alsike

and' June) without sowing any nurse





crop? If so when is the best time for

top-dressing? Should the ground he

disked in the spring after top-dressing





for best results?

Lapeer Co. D. C. M.





The inquirer does not make it entirely

plain whether he expects to utilize the

seed not hulled from the clover chaff in

seeding this land, or whether the chaff

is simply to be used as a top-dressing

and clover seed sown. If the former it

would, in the writer’s opinion, have been

better to disk the ground up thoroughly

this fall before applying the chaff, and

then either disk lightly or roll the ground

as early as possible in the spring after

the chaff has been applied. In case seed

is to be sown other than that which will

be contained in the chaff, it will prob-

ably' be better to disk the chaff in next

spring and Qen sow the seed and go

over the land with a. weed'er or roller.





H. 19”.





undoubtedly it is much easier to get a

seeding without a nurse crop on any soil

that is comparatively free from weeds,

and there should be every prospect for

success in seeding this land, as suggested

in the inquiry.



.The Cost and Value of Ensilage.





“'ill someone plcase tell me what en-

silage, made from good mature corn, is

worth per ton? Also. how many tons a

silo 14x30 ft. and which has now settled

5 ft.', would contain?



Gladwin Co. G. B.-





The value of a thing may be properly

estimated in two different ways, viz: its

cost, or its value for the purpose for

which it is used. The cost of growing

a crop of corn and putting it in the silo

has been the subject of investigation at

a number of experiment stations and is

variously estimated at from $1.95 to $2.50

per ton where a normal crop is grown

under favorable conditions. There is no

doubt, however, that silage is worth ver.\

much more than this as a succulent feed

for live stock in general and dairy cows

in particular. In the cow testing associa-

tions which are operated in Michigan, the

Value of ensilage fed in tests made of

dairy cows, is figured at $3.50 per ton,

which appears to be the consensus of





$1.00 A YEAR.

$2.75 5 YEARS.





THE COST OF RAISING A BUSHEL OF

WHEAT.



At no other time in the history of the

country has there been as much interest

centered in some of the different branches

of agricultural pursuits as at the present

time. The economists, as well as the

philosophers, seem to be bending their

efforts toward solving some of the diffi-

cult agricultural problems. In many

cases they seem to be vying, one with

the other, each trying to delve deeper

than the other and render more assist-

ance to the tillers of the soil. At times

it looks as though people who aim to be

wise, look upon the farming classes as

subservient to their will, and think that

they should, from necessity, accept vol-

unteer advice from them in order to

solve some of the intricate problems

which the farmers themselves have bcen

unable to solve, after many ymlrs of anx-

ious thought and varying expwriwnces.



During the past season tllHNt' who raise

wheat have been rccciving a good deal

of volunteer advice, and a good deal of

criticism. Perhaps some of the criticisms

are merited, and il‘ listened to might do

some good in the future. But I believe

that average farmers





 





The writer has never had any experi—

ence in getting a seeding by sowing clo-

ver chaff on the land, although some

farmers claim to have had excellent re-

sults from this method. There is no

doubt, however, that the addition of clo—

ver chaff or any other vegetable matter

to the surface of the soil will prove ben-

eficial to the seeding, no matter at what,

time of the year the same is applied, and

regardless of whether it is left on the

surface or disked in as suggested. in this

inquiry. There_is something about a.

light mulch of vegetable matter which

has a beneficial effect upon the soil, par-

ticularly when left over winter,~- aside

from the fact that it» is beneficial inncon-

serving the soi'l’sp,,meisture, which "will

be needed by the young clover plant'sfr





 





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opinion among exports and dairymen in-

terested as to the practical feeding value

of good corn ensilage. A very practical

discussion of this particular phase of the

ensilage question was considered in the

able contribution by Dr. Robison in the

Practical Science department of the Oc—

tober 28 issue, on page 375, under the

caption, “Economical Production.”



The approximate capacity of a silo 14

ft. in diameter and 30 ft. high, would be

91.4 tons. This would be the amount

contained, providing the silo were well





packed as it was filled so as ‘to reduce





the settling to a. minimum. Five feet

would not appear to be an excessive

amount for the silage to settle. The silo





doubtless contains from 80 to 90 tons of

silage. _ ~





lock with a good deal

of suspicion on the

advice of theorists, and

prefer to cling to” facts

that have been establish-

ed by experiments, and

hard‘rearned experience.





The wheat crop seems

to be a “free-for-all”

subject. No matter if a

man is a stock broker, a

professional man, or

whatever his occupation

in life may be, if-he is

alive to the doings of the

day, he is ready to

(‘zlich on to the various

changes in the business.

world which will influ-

encc the price of wheat.

The wheat in the mar-

kcts of the civilized

world seems to act as a

kind of a barometer that

very readily rcllccls a

stringency in the mone-

tary markets, or rises in

price in response to the

conditions that stimulate

the manufacturing and

general business interests:

of the country. “’e are

the greatest wheat grow—

ing nation in the world

and feel the pulsations-

of depression or stimula-

tion Very readily.



Sincc the present era

of agricultural prosperity

began, there have arisen

many false prophets and

self—constituted philoso-

phers who seem to take

delight in gloating over the immense

profits, and enormous incomes which

they claim are being received by the

farmers of wheat-growing districts. They

neglect to mention the toil, hardsfii’ps,

privations and disappointments that have

to be endured, and only dwell upon the

glaring brilliancy of wealth accumulations

that have come to the lot of those fortu-

nate enough to live on a farm. They

seem to want to convey the idea that

the land in our great and glorious coun-

try needs only to be tickled with the.

plow and in due time will laugh with a,

golden harvest that is sure to swell the

volume 0f the bank accounts which are

accredited to the fortunate farmers.



During the past year there has been

considerable discussion as to the possi‘
410 ' 121





bilities of wheat production in the Uni- have been. We sowed our com ground

ted States and, farther, the cost of pro- with a grass seeder and disked it in with

ducing a bushel of wheat. There are a cutaway barrow. The ground contin-

Some who seem to take great pleasure in ued so wet that we could not get it in

making the difference in the cost of rais- shape to drill so we adopted this meth-

ing a bushel of wheat, and the selling od. ‘We have quite a nice even stand,

Price. 88 wide apart as possible. They and by lapping half the ground was left

seem to aim to reach heights sublime fairly even, and by turning the disk to-

and in the end they sink to the level of ward the "shocks the wheat was covered

the ridiculous. closer to the row than could‘ have been

In the year book of the Department of done with the drill.

Agriculture for 1899 may be found, in The wheat buyer reports that the fly

substance, the statement that between was quite prevalent last week, and he

1530 and 1896 the time of human labor found them on the wheat stalks, and

required for the production of a bushel feared the results would show up later

of wheat was reduced from three hours if the warm weather continued. With

to ten minutes, while the cost of the a sudden change to cooler, their work

labor required for this purpose declined may be checked, though we have had no

from 17% to 31/3 cents. . hard frosts as yet to check them. If we

I would like to ask, where, in this have done the best we could, it is useless

great country of ours, and at what date, to worry about the fly as we can not

was wheat ever raised at a cost for labor help matters now.

not greatly exceeding the figures named? Late Potatoes.

it may be a pleasure for some to play Farmers have been trying to dig late

with figures, denominated statistics, to potatoes as best they could between

tickle minds that are hungry for some- showers. The crop is better than was

thing startling, but when statements are expected, though the stand is poor. Buy-

published for the enlightenment of the ore are offering 40 cents delivered at car,

farmers, let us have the facts, plain and but few are selling. The quality is quite

simple. ‘good and size quite uniform, but many

“'hat will average farmers say when are damp and hardly suitable to car.

told that 314’, cents represents the labor Calhoun Co. S. B. HA’BJ‘MAN.

cost of growing a. bushel of wheat when —.—————-—-—-—-

it has cost them 10 cents per bushel for CORN JUICE LEAKs FROM SILO.

threshing their crops, which is in addi- _ in f

tion to the cost of plowing and fitting I am having some trouble wt one o

.1... .01.... °s Wd W231”:

the crop. cutting, shocking, hauling, remedy. A liquid has been running frOm

stacking or storing in mows, and finally the bottom of my smallest silo ever since





 





 





. it was filled. It is not running as much

hauling, to market before the returns now as at first but is running a good

are realized. Think of the sturdy pio- deal vet I nevel had silage do that way





logged and befme and can 't imagine what the trouble

is. An answer through the Michigan

Farmer will be greatly appreciated]:





neers who felled forest trees,

cleared the brush away to get a little

open surface on which to sow some \Vashtena‘w Co.



wheat, when It required harrowing six Nothing is the mattex with the silo, and

or eight times to dig ”p enough dirt to hullllllg in particular is the matter with

cover the seed; who cut their crops with the com silage Your corn contained a

a sickle or a cradle, threshed them on an llllle bit too much moisture when it was

11 111-11 space of ground with a flail, and 11111 111111 the silo, it was a. little bit green

hauled the grain along distance to mar- and contained too much juice and the





ket in an ox cart. Did they d? it all :3 pressure in thc silo presses this juice out

a 111311mum cost per bushe. of 11,. 1,1 111.1 1111.1..111: I have had this happen

cents. surreal times during the course of my silo





The figures quoted do not seem to be-

long to our own country. “'hen repeat-

ed they sound more like the Wicca for for it 11111: be that the own was out in the

labor in orinctai countries when; the i-aln attex it was cut and was soaked

tillers of the soil are. mere serfs—«slaves “h.“ put in \t any rate there was too

1‘" aristocratic masters. much moisture in filling the silo.



Rracmcal farmers fully understand the The same thing happens when you put

difficulty in trymg to answer the ques- beet tops into a silo. Last year the Juice

tion as to the cost of raismg a bushel of frorr the beet tops in my beet top silo

wheat. Th? vatrialtilounr: 1?} lthe griffegigt ran out and ran all over the yard. One

casesare 1a mos , se “fad ) eh. h let ’ Would think that something certainly was

the (l1ificu ty orfiea ,1 “1 mm 0:11 the matter, but it was simply tins excess

be. prepared f0: 8 01201: 1 S lertth ty, t e of moisture in the beets and the pres—sure

Chmauc Stem)“ ons “ I“ 111211: e plant from above forced it out. When this

“Nd ava1lablc for the crop’ t e wea er GXCGSS of moisture is pressed out there

conditions 1n general from the time the will be no more trouble, but I am pm.“

crop is 5.0“.“ "1.1““ It is securgdtfind 503' tire that had you waited until the CNN?

The varymg “I“? or labor ant 811W}? ‘- was a little more mature or that moisrure

mg Of the) machinery used, e c., a ave was not incorporated therewith by being





e>.1:111ienc1- , and it always comes when we

put in cmn that is a little bit immature,





the” {mung infilleicefh on :he “i?“ (i): allou ed to lie on the ground during a rain

promwhon’ 1 thin 11 0 e ng ’ that there would have been no excess

certain. Farmers do not feel that they





juice to run out and that you would have

had better silage. The probability is now

that your silage will be a little acid, per-

haps more acid than it. ought to be, and

yet it will be fairly good silage. You

need have no fear in using it,



Conox C. LILLm.





itl‘c getting rich very fast raising wheat,

even at present market prices.



As to fixing the figures on the cost

of raising "a bushel of wheat. it will be

left to the self—styled philosophers who

consider themselves endowed with super-

natural knowlexlge and who swarm

around the corner grocery to settle the

great questions of weather and national





 





CLEARING STUMP LAND.





 





“fall's; .m‘ to (the figure—manipulating Where one has new land covered with

statistlmans, whose conclusions are stumps or small grub: which could be

reached. from tho summing up of the easily removed by the light but powerful

multifarious guesses made by a mm- stump machines which are now available

t1tud1nous array of guessers. which are at a moderate price, the present season

sorted. sifted. averaged and reduced





offers peculiar advantages for the ac-

complishment of that work. The unusu-

ally copious fall rains have softened up





to the fineness of a “sliver of a fraction"

and are thcn sent out to instruct, but





 





“hi0“ oftener astonish, the masses. the soil in such a manner as to make the

Wayne CO. N' A' CLAPP' pulling of stumps or grubs much easier

— —_ than where soil conditions are more re-



THE FARM CROPS- fractory. Then, with prospects of an



h__‘ open fall, this work can be done to better





The Wheat Crop. advantage than at any other .season of

Our 1911 crop of wheat was the poorest the year, and the ground can be gotten

we have grown for many years, for into condition for spring plowing at a

which condition we have the Hessian fly minimum of cost. Where one has new

to blame. About the only consolation lands which could profitably be put un-

we can get from the crop is that it could “er the plow, as a great many Michigan

not havetaken much from the soil. The faimers have, it will pay them to investi-

average was about 1'1 bushels per acre. gate the proposition of modem stump

Many fields in the neighborhood did not pullers, such as axe listed in the adver-

go half this amount, in some cases the tising columns of this paper, and there is

yield not being sufficient to pay for har- no better season to consider the DI‘ODOSL

vesting and threshing. tion than the present. C T H B

The new crop is now in the ground, ' “—1.-..





 





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tober as in September Most farmers ber of Commerce Building. This office





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“MW

AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS’ EXPERI-

ENCE WITH INCUBATORS.

About fifteen years ago I bought my

first incubator. They were not so plenti-

ful then—probably would not find over a

dozen in a. day’s drive. While the incu-

bator had even then passed beyond the

experimental stage, it was still looked

upon with a. great deal of suspicion by a

majority of farmers. This is all changed

now, and the utility of the incubator is

almost as generally recognized today as;

that of the self-binder, the hay loader

and the cream separator.



The incubator had an uphill fight to

gain its rightful place in the. estimation

of the Public. Much ridicule was heaped

upon it and much facetiousness indulged

in at its expense. The farmer’s wife

who purchased an incubator reaped a.

whole harvest"‘of witticisms and “I told

you sos” when her inexperience brought

her hatch to grief and the garbage: pail;

and dire prophecies, when she had a good

hatch, of the chickens all coming to

some bad end. But this has all become

history, except in isloated instances, and

today you will find mighty few progres-

sive poultrymen who are not disciples of

the incubator. They have been “shown”

that the incubator was right on the "do-l-

lar route."



There are still people who contend

that the “old hen” is best; that she

doesn’t burn any oil; that she never

goes out nights and lets the temperature

go down to ruin, etc.; that the incubator

is too great a care; that the incubator

chicks are, in their motherless state, an

even greater one. Some contend that

the chicks do not possess vitality; that

they are slow to mature; that they never

come to a. full “chickenhooc,” or rather

to a full “henhood” or “roosterhood;”

that there is 3. mysterious something

lacking in the. incubator chicken—just

what, even they don’t exactly know, but

it is not natural, anyway.



I wish to say that my experience, cov-

911115 a period of fifteen years, has been

highly sati§1aetory.I have had setbacks

I have had poor hatches, I have even

had great chicken losses, but it was al-

ways" caused by carelessness, ignorance

or unforseen misfortune, entirely apart

from the responsibility of the incubator.



Make Early Chicks Posslble.



The adVantage possessed by the incu-

bator over the hen in producing a. large

flock of early chicks is one of the great-

est of all. Every intelligent or experi-

enced poultryman recognizes this. He

also recognizes that the vitality of the

early chick is pro-eminent; that, eve-ry-

1hing else equal, they have a. start, and

gain on that start, over any hatched

later in the: season.



Of course, there may be cases where



half-starved or overworked fowls, late

in winter or early in the spring, will pro—

duce eggs of poorer vitality than they

will produce later in the season, after

they have recuperated. These cases are,

however, not worth mentioning in the

aggregate.

I cannot too strongly emphasize the

advantage of early hatching. It is but

the rule that holds good in all of na-

ture’s doings, both in animal and vege-

table production. It is the early crop

that counts, in this latitude at least.





A mistake that a. lot of people make is

that of buying too small an incubator.

A large one takes but little more care

and fuel than a. small one. Suppose you

wish to raise 150 or 200 chickens—a. very

common farm flock. Why not get a. 250

or 300-egg machine? Then, if you get

one good hatch you are through for

that season, and, with the right kind of

care, a uniform flock is assured.



It is just as easy to care for a. flock of

200 to 300 as a. smaller one, or, if not

precisely just as easy, it is a. whole lot

easier than spreading the hatching and

brooding over a. whole summer and fall,

and then not get your full quota. of chick-

ens, or quality, either.





Care of the Chicks.

I think there are more mistakes made

in caring for the chicks than are made

in handling the incubator. An incubator

can give “never so good” a. hatch and

have its reputation assailed by one who

has killed a good hatch by “fool” care.

A great many people make a. practice of

giving the hatches to broody hens. In

some cases this is very successful, but

on the whole, I do not recommend it.





 





 





“There are several reasons; one is lice;





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





there is another, that is lice! and yet an-

other, that is licell





There are surprisingly few poultrymen

who realize the extent of lice infection.

The hen may live and thrive after a

fashion when so infested, but give her :1

flock of young chickens and the results

are usually diszistrous to the chickens.

'l‘hen their owner sends up a. wall about

“poor vitality of incubator stock.”





Again, it very often happens that a

bunch of broody hens, destined to do the

natural for the orphans, object to these

terms of mothcrhood. Then there is real

trouble and dead chickens. IVelll, it would

take a pretty brilliant liar to blame the

incubator under these conditions, but

some make montal reservations to that

effect, nevertheless.



Now, I fail to see the profit in raising

chicks under hens. You have to feed the

chicks anyhow, and the hen with them,

and she generally seems to think her

especial duty in the matter is to gobble

the choicest bits herself. She is mighty

little to be depended upon as a. protector

against the elements, but if allowed to

room she can be depended upon to drag

her flock through the dews of early morn.

These early morning walks may be heal-

thy and promote an appetite, but they

usually result in from one to half a

dozen missing chickens. This is often

allowed to go on until she gets down to





one. This one she usually raises. Isn't

this “so, you advocates of the “hen

mother?”





Isabella Co. WM. J. COOPER.

MAKING A HOME MARKET FOR

HONEY.





 





Many farmers who have honey to sell

ship it to distant markets when the peo-

ple in their town or neighborhood ought

to be eating it. Because it islnot brought





to them, or their attention called to it,

they do not use it. All people like good

food, and they will buy and use good





honey just as they will fresh eggs and

the best butter, and will become steady

customers of the one who brings it to

them. I have worked up a. market in

this way and created a demand for hon-

ey where there was none to speak of





before.

The first and most important consid-

eration in building up and keeping a





home market is the quality of the honey.

Under no circumstances do I attempt to

sell anything but well ripened honey. It

should also be of the best possible. color.

Of course, we shall have to dispose» of

some dark honey, but our customers

should have a fair opportunity to sample

it, and it should be sold at a lower price

than the whiter goods. I leave as much

as possible of the dark honey in the

brood-nest, but even then I have two or





three thousand pounds of it to dispose

of in an ordinary season. I find that my

customers prefer it at the. lower price,





and as they understand exactly what

they are gelling there is no excuse for

complaint. In making my fall sales I

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honey in the same load, which gives cus-

tomers a fair opportunity of seeing the

difference in price and of determining

the difference in quality. They govern





themselves accordingly. In this, as in

all matters pertaining to the marketing

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policy. One price to all should be the

rule.



A reputation for honest and Square

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those who are unduly suspicious of adul-

teration in homy. There are still some

ignorant enough to suppose that granu-

lation of hone-y is positive proof of the

presence of sugar or some other foreign

substance. I label it all “Pure Honey,”

and on the label are printed directions

telling them What to do if it granulates.

It is also necessary to supplement this

with verbal explanations in many cases.

How much of it is believed by the cus—

tomer depends largely upon the amount

of confidence placed in the salesman. I

have found it profitable in many cases

to leave a copy of a honey leaflet which

explains clearly the subject of granula-

tion and explodes some of the popular

myths in regard to adulteration.





But most important of all is to become

acquainted with customers and to win

their confidence so that they may be

more ready to accept the explanation of

these matters. After long years spent in

building up a home market, I am com-

mencing to reap the fruits of my labor,

and have secured a. long list of regular

customers who depend upon me for

their annual supply of honey.



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That the economical feeding of live

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Albumlnolds, Protein or Nitrogeneous



"r Foodstuffs.



These feeds are the meat and milk

making foods. and their base is nitrogen.

This element is nearly pure in the white

of an egg. and it predominates in al-

bumin, gluten, gelatin, fibrin, casein and

all proteins. both vegetable and animal.

This protein is the expensive element and

the element which is deficient in the

generality of home-grown stock foods.

Hence we should make a special effort

to produce foods on our own farms that

are rich in this element, such as clover,

alfalfa, cowpeas, soy beans, rich pasture

grasses and other forage and fodder

crops that are rich in protein.

Carbohydrates or Carbonaceous Foods.



These are the heat and fat producing

foods, and their base is carbon. This

element predominates in the diamond,

coal, wood, fibre, starch, sugar, oil,

resin, etc. These foods are cheaper than

the protein foods, and most of our home-

grown foods contain an excess of these

carbohydrates. The proper balance of

these two classes of foods for young and

growing animals and milch cows is about

one part of protein to six parts of car-

bohydrates. The ration for each 1,000

pounds of live weight is 24 pounds of dry

food a day. of which 15 pounds must be

digestible, and 2.5 pounds of this must

be nilrogeneous or the equivalent of

this. Thirty pounds of clover hay is

about an equivalent. In order to more

fully explain the subject I will quote a

few tables and try to show their relative

values when fed singly or in combina—

tion with others. Below is given the

institute ratio of some of the so—called

nitrogeneous foods:





Skimmcd milk .................. l to 1.9

Buttermilk ...................... 1 to 2.6

Cottonseed cake ................ l to 1.8

Brewers' grains ................. i to 3.0

Hcmpseed cake ............... .. 1 to 1.5

Red clover ...................... i to 3.8

Alfalfa before bloom ............ l to 2.3

Flaxseed ........................ 1 to 3.1

Linseed cake ................... l to 2.0

Rape cake ...................... i to 1.7

Malt sprouts .................... l to 2.2

Sunflower seeds ................. i to! 3

Pasture clover .. ................. i to 2.5

Peas .. . ....... . .................. l to 2 9

Field beans ..................... 1 to 2 3

Pea meal ....................... i to 8.0





These foods should be balanced with

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jure the animal or go to waste. The

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"THE. MICHIGAN *FARMER.





muscle, casein or cheese. These foods

are the most expensive and difl'icult to

obtain, hence they are seldom averted.

It has been clearly demonstrated that the

fats in milk do not come from carbona-

ceous foods but from a proper combina—

tion of these with nitrogeneous foods.

All concentrated foods should be fed

with care and caution. The aim of the

feeder should be to feed both bulky and

concentrated foods at the same time.

The wise feeder will grow a variety of

both classes of foods to supply the needs

of his animals and buy such as he can—

rot grow on his own farm to feed in

connection with what he may be able to

grow at home. It will pay, not only as a

gratification to his animals, but as a

true economy from the money side of

the question. The attention of the farm-

er should be devoted to the science of

feeding animals in an economical and

efficient manner.





There is another class of foods that

are fairly well balanced as far as protein

and carbohydrates are concerned, but

these foods must be utilized with coarser

foods to give the stomach proper stimu—

lus of distension to keep its contents

loose so that the gastric juices may act

on and digest them. When we feed two

classes of foods that are not properly

balanced there is a waste. True econ-

omy consists in the feeding of a prop-

erly balanced ration and one the animals

will eat up clean. The various foods may

be balanced by feeding them alternately

as well as in combination, but when feed—

ing some of the more highly concentrat—

ed grain foods it is often desirable to

utilize some of the more bulky foods as

a divider in the ration, so that the juices

of the stomach may obtain a more fav-

orable action on the fine particles of

food and prepare them for more perfect

digestion and assimilation. While feed<

ing dairy cattle we have found that they

are enabled to make better use of their

grain foods when they are fed with en-

silage in this way the ensilage acts as

a divider and helps to separate the par-

ticles of grain food and assists in the

Work of digestion. The juices also act

upon the grain food and assist in the

Work of digestion. There are some kinds

of grain food that are made more pal-

atable by the use of a. divider, such as

middlings. low grade flour, oil and other

foods that are inclined to form a sticky,

doughy mass~that makes them unpal-

atable to some kinds of farm animals.

Cut clover and alfalfa can be used to ad-

vantage as a divider of grain foods, and

when horses are being fed heavily of

grain it is many times safer to mix the

grain with cut hay to prevent them

from becoming gorged with too much

food. Swine also obtain great benefits

from clover, grass and other supplement-

ary foods while they are being fed corn

meal and other rich, concentrated foods,

that have a tendency to form a doughy,

sticky mass in their stomachs. We must

plan to make all our rations palatable as

well as balanced. Some animals do not

like one kind of food as well as another,

and a careful feeder will study the likes

and dislikes of his animals as well as

their capacity to consume the various

rations at a profit, and pian' his system

of feeding to meet the individual needs

of the animals that are being fed.





Another point that we should keep in

mind, and to illustrate it we will con-

sider alfalfa. Here we have a food that

is fairly well balanced, but if anything

it contains a little too much protein, so

we add a little corn ensiiage or timothy

hay to make a balanced feed, but when

we feed it we do not get as good results

as our figures Show. V’V‘hat is the rea-

son? Simply that the ration contains too

much coarse, woody, indigestible fibre,

and it requires too large a waste of the

animals' energy to eat, digest and as-

similate the ration. Thus we see it

would be better to supplant the alfalfa

hay with concentrated grain food.



As a general proposition the great

problem is to find foods rich in protein

to supplement the carbohydrates, but in

feeding skim-milk we face a different

problem, for here the carbohydrates have

been removed and the protein of the





 





 





   





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among farmers in general is that early

out and properly cured hay contains from

20 to 50 per cent more digestible nutri-

ments than late cut hay. Among the

foods that are classed as well balanced

foods may be named the following, giv-

ing the. nutritive- ratio of each:





Cow’s milk ..................... 1 to 4.4

VVheat-meal ............ . . . 1 to 5.7

\Nheat-bran ..................... 1 to 5.6

Millet ........................... 1 to 5.4

Red-top ......................... 1 to 5.4

Alsike ............... . ........... 1 to 4.9

Quack grass .................... 1 to 5.2

Turnips ......................... 1 to 5.8

Cottonseed ...................... 1 to 4.6

Wheat ........................... 1 to 5.8

Red clover ...................... 1 to 5.7

Barley-middlings ................ 1 to 6.0

Beet leaves ..................... 1 to 4 0

Buckwheat-bran ................ 1 to 4 1





All these foods should be fed with

others, or alternately, so as to make

them palatable. and prepare them for

perfect digestion. Some may be fed al-

ternately with good results but care

should“ be taken to feed a. wide variety

and not two foods alone.



Next we will consider the carbonaceous

foods. If not fed other food the animals

will gorge themselves and yet crave the

nitrogeneous elements which these foods

are deficient in. We must keep in mind

that these foods contain chiefly fat and

heat-producing elements. If the animals





‘ are exposed to the weather they will re—





quire more of these foods than if kept

in a warm barn or stable. The following

is a. list of some of these foods with the

nutritive ratio of each:





Cream ......................... 1 to 30.5

Corn-bran ..................... 1 to 10.3

Vt'hcat-middlings .............. 1 to 6.9

Pumpkins ...................... 1 to 12.4

Buckwheat grain .............. 1 to 7.4

Corn ........................... 1 to 8 6

Oats ............................ 1 to t‘ 1

Barley ......................... ] to 7 9

Rye ............................ 1 to 7 0

Carrots ......................... l to 0.?

Sugar beets .................... 1 to 17.0

Rutabagas ...................... 1 to 8 'i

Potatoes ........................ 1 to 10.4

Artichokes ..................... 1 to 8.3

Cornstalks ...................... 1 to 34.4

Oat straw ..................... l to 29.9

Rye straw ..................... 1 to 52 0

Corn ensi'lage ................. 1 to 12.0

Sorghum ....................... 1 to 7.4

Fodder oats ................... 1 to 7.2

Hungarian grass ......... l to 7.1

Fodder rye .................... 1 to 7.2

Bluegrass in bloom ........... 1 to 7.5

Timothy ........................ 1 to 8.1

Orchard grass ................. 1 to 6.5

Meadow hay in. bloom ..... i ..... 1 to 8.0

Apples and pears .............. 1 to 43.0

Corn-cobs ...................... 1 to 71.2

Oatachaff . ..................... . 1 to 33.8





Many eflthese carbonaceous foods are

more valuable than others owing to their

mechanical condition. Some of the root

crops may be utilized as a source of pro-

tein up to a certain amount a day and

take- the place of protein foods. Root

crops can be more profitably fed if the

animals are being fed no other form of

succulence. There are numerous protein

feeds on the market, and I would advise

every feeder to keep in close touch with

his nearest experimental farm and agri-

cultural college and read the bulletins

concerning these feed problems and know

the value of various kinds of foodstuffs.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

lNTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK



EXPOSITION.





 





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Once more We have arrived at that

period of the year when farmers from

every section of this country and Can-

ada begin thinking of the International

Live Stock Exposition, which will be held

in Chicago from December 2 to 9. This

show has come to occupy a position

among the live stock breeders of Ameri-

ac as high as has the great Royal Show

of England been emulated by the pro-

ducers and breeders of stock in the

British Isles. No adequate estimate of

the educational value of this great ShOVV

can be made. Here not only do we find

exhibited the best individual animals as

well as flocks and herds that the conti-

nent produces, but we also come in touch

with the world’s best judges of live stock

and see them actually choosing, in the

judge’s ring, those animals which most

closely conform to their ideals.





Michigan farmers have patronized this

great exposition liberally in the past and

have been close students of the great

work which the organization has ac-

complished. \Ve are yet to learn of a.

single person who has been disappointed

in what he has seen and learned at the

International. This fact alone should be

sufficient to encourage those who have not

heretofore enjoyed the privileges offered,

to plan on attending the show this year.

Many a young .man has received a new

revelation as to the possibilities in the

production of live stock by the ex-

hibits at former shows.



There is every promise that the entries





   





f THE MICHIGAN FARNIER.





this year. will be well up to the standard

of former years, and indeed, there is reh-

son to believe that the general exhibits

will excel, inasmuch as it has become

necessary to select a. “sifting” commit-

tee whose duty it will be to pass on the

animals entered for certain classes for

the purpose of rejecting such individuals

as, in the opinion of the committee, ap-

pear to be unworthy of consideration.

The scope of the show is so comprehen-

sive that none who are. interested in the

production of meat animals will be dis-

appointed in not finding their favorites

well represented. Should you listen to

our appeal and for the first time. attend

the International, We are certain that

you will afterwards thank us for pressing

the matter “home."





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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





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Fortunately for the interests of farm-

ers and the country at large, a fine, large

“crop" of fall pigs is reported, and it is

safe to say that they will receive the

best of care and feed. Pigs in clover or

on pasture during the summer period did

not thrive well, as the drought made poor

feed, and later sickness broke out in

Illinois, greatly decimating the supply

and frightening many farmers into hur-

rying their little pigs to market without

delay.



A. L. Duncan, known widely as one of

the most successful of Illinois stock feed-

ers, says he has all the confidence in the

world in the future high market for

fat beeves. He recently marketed at

Chicago a consignment of 54 head of

steers that averaged 1,437 lbs. and sold

for $7.90 per 100 lbs. He says: “I have

recently met feeders from Nebraska,

Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, and they

all told me the same story of fewer cattle

for feeding the coming winter because of

high-costing thin cattle and prospective

dear-priced feed. They also stated that

matured hogs were pretty well marketed

and that the presence Of disease or fear

of it among young swine was of such an

extent that the “crop” of pigs and shoats

has been materially reduced by free mar~

keting in recent weeks. There should

he no surprise if prime beef steers touch

$9.00.”



There are a good many farmers in

Michigan. Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois,

Wisconsin, and other near-by states who

are going into breeding sheep, and of

late the supply of choice young breeding

ewes offered at the Chicago stock yards

has fallen well short of the active de-

mand. The demand for feeders from the

range country has also been extremely

large, and the only thing that tends to

hold it in check appears to be the lack of

hay and other feeds in various parts of

the middle west. Hay commands such

high prices in the market, if choice in

quality, that many farmers regard it as

too dear to use freely on the farm, and

the same is true of corn, in a measure.

There is every reason to think that the

coming winter will prove a profitach





one for farmers who understand the

sheep industry and make their flocks

prime before returning to market. Of





course, there are new beginners who go

at it wrong and send in warmed-up flocks

that net losses instead of profits, and

in recent years they have formed a large

class.



There is an abatement of swine plague

in Illinois, where it has raged in recent

weeks to a far greater extent than at

any previous time in ten years. The

llvlinois State Board of Live Stock Com—

missioners is doing a great work in ex-

tending assistance to farmers in check—

ing sickness among the pigs, and serum

has been widely used with the best of

results, although farmers say it is not

always to be rolled on as a. preventive.



it is clear that the great decline in

prices for hogs predicted months ago by

some of tho packcl's is not going to take

place, and farmers should cease sacrific-

ing their heullliy growing young hogs.

They have in inziny instances sold their

pigs that were in perfect health. taking

the view that with high—priced corn and

low-priced matured hogs, it was the best

policy to market their pigs without de-

lay and have their corn for marketing.

Now that the grout bulk of the matured

hogs have been shipped to market, and

the future supply of hogs cut into seven--

ly by the sales of mere pigs, everyone is

predicting high prices for matured begs

for months to come. The figures issued

by the national bureau of statistics not

long ago show plainly that the increased

hog production docs not begin to keep

pace with the enormous increase in the

population of the United States.



"Mike” chnun, who has spent: 35 years

in the Chicago hog trade, says he has

never known a time when choice fut

medium and heavy hogs were as scarce.

at this time of the year. This tells a

story of a. growing scarcity of matured

hogs, and he, as well as other leaders in

the trade, looks for moderate receipts ’of

matured hogs the coming winter and

spring months.



The great scarcity of cattle for feeding

in the southwest is expected to result in

good importations into Texas from Mex-

ico during the next two months. South—

ern Texas has plenty of water and grass.



\Vord comes from northern Colorado

that sheep and lamb feeding operations

the approaching winter are likely to show

a. falling off of from 30 to 40 per cent

from last year, when the smallest num—

ber in several years was fed. In the

southern part of Colorado lamb feeding

is expected to be carried on extensively,

however, the San Luis Valley having

good crops of both hay and peas. The

sheep men of that region are in the

habit of turning big flocks loose in the

pea fields, where they get as fat as

butter.





 





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writ 1r. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

case in full; also name and dress 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

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Out of Condition—Nearly all my horses

have rough coats, are out of condition.

and I would like to know what to give

them to build them up. F. L. G., Jasper.

Mich—First of all let us understand. thin

live stock must be well fed and receive

good care or they will not thrive. no

matter what drugs you give them, they

should have nourishing food. Good groom—

ing always pays. besides, fresh air should

be used freely; furthermore. a good bed

is always a good investment. If your

horses lack appetite give each one two

iablespoonfuls of ground gentian and the

same quantity of ginger at a dose in feed

three times a day.



Partial Displacement of Stlfle Cap——

Paralysis—l have a cow eight years old

that seems to have lame spells where one

hind leg is peculiarly affected. She has

been inclined to drag toe on ground for

a few steps, then leg sort of jerks into

place, then she goes sound. I have

thought it a case of stringhallt. My

neighbor‘s cows are in bad condition; a

few have died, others now sick and will

surely die. This disease seems to puzzle

our local Vets. Cows show stiffness and

105s of power, grow weaker and weaker,

then die. A. .l., Kinde, Mich.»—'l‘he whole

trouble is in stifle and she will be greatly

benefited by applying equal parts turpen-»

tine, aqua ammonia and raw linseed oil

once or twice a day. Either food or wat-

er supply is responsible for the death of

your neighbor’s cattle. Give each cow 1

rlr. ground nux vomica at a dose in feed

three times a day; this dose may be

safely doubled without doing any harm.

Salt them well. Another very useful drug

to use is iodide of potassium twice daily



Abscess on Abdomen—Last spring I

noticed a swelling on my sow's belly be-

tween two of her teats; this bunch in-

creased in size until it became very large,

then it broke open and reduced in size.

This sow farrowed three weeks ago and

since then this bunch has decreased in

size. A sister to this cow also had

bunches of a similar nature. C. A. D.,

Tecumseh, Mich.—~Give her 5 grs. iodide

of potassium at a dose in feed three times

a day. Apply a saturated solution of

boracic acid to wound twice a day. alSO

dust on some boric acid occasionally.



Enlarged Glands—I wrote you some

time ago about my two-year-oid heifer

having! lumps on each side of the wind-

pipe and you called it goitre. You pre-

scribed for her, advised external appli-

cations of tincture of iodine and spirits

of camphor, and to give her iodide of

potassium. I followed this line of treat-

ment and it has failed to reduce the

bunches: however. they have not grown

any larger. She is not sick. F. J. C.,

fliudson, Mich—Clip hair off bunches and

apply one part red iodide of mercury and

four parts lard every few days. You must

use your own good judgment as to how

often and how much of the medicine you

apply. Cattle are more susceptible to

iodine than most people suppose, there-

fore it is not best to give too much of it.

but if you find it necessary give iodide

of potassium in larger doses than before.



indigestion—Acidity of Stomach—I

would like to know how to treat horses

that gnaw fences, and whatever is given

them must be drugs which will not harm



brood mares and young colts. R. H.,

Okemos. Mich.——Live stock that are in-

clined to feast on decayed wood. lick old

bones, chew pieces of leather. rags and

filthy rubbish usually suffer from some

sort of stomach ailment and it is best

corrected by changing their food supply,

adding cooking soda. gentian, ginger and

wood charcoal to each meal. Mix equal

parts by weight and give each cow four

tablesx‘voonfuls of this compound powder

at a dose two or three times a day. It

is needless for me to say, salt them well.





Stiiie lameness—Our eight-year—old

cow fell, dislocating stifle joint. Our local

Vet put it back into place. but cow drags

her leg and i would like to know what to

apply. H. A. l’.. VVebberville, Mich.—

Ciip hair off stifle and apply cerate of

cantharides once a week. If the joint is

much sw'ollen occasionally apply tincture

iodine.



Sitfast~Colic~lndigestion.—My horse

shows shoulder lameness caused by two

hunches that have been on shoulder for

sometime. Another horse has attacks of

colic; would like to know What will pre—

vent further attacks. F. A. B., Modest

Town, \'a.~—lf you can have the bunches

cut out the horse will perhaps go sound

soon after the wound heals; if you do not

care to cut them. apply tincture iodine

daily. Feeding a good quality of food

in not too large quantities, and giving a

iablespoonful ginger with each meal will

help prevent colic.



Pneumonia—Chronic Cough—Enlarged

Throat Glands—My five—year-old black

mare had distemper last spring, relapsed

and Suffered from pneumonia. Seem-

in‘giy recovered but has coughed more or

less ever since. She also has loose

bunches in throat. J. 0., Grand Rapids,

Mich,——-Apply tincture of iodine to en-

larged glands three times a week and

give 1 dr. iodide potassium. 1 dr. pOW~

tiered opium and 2 drs. muriate ammonia

at a dose in feed three times a day.



Subscriber, Sumner. Mich—See treat-i

ment for chronic cough this column.





MC Mahon’s

Absorbent





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it fails. Mail It.

great remedy today

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is llog House





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JOINT SALE

26 liliflils‘ii’ 26





The undersigned will sell at





Public Auction





[in Tuesday,N0v. 28,1911





At l0 o'clock.





Al the 0. lioogie Farm, Ohio City. 0.





26 head of Registered Guernsey: of both sexes and

all ages (15 females and 11 males) from the Sires

Prince Rosendale 4291. Sir Bonny 6&4. Cloettes Echo

9875. Rosamonds ad 8474. Glen Rose of Beechwood

12772 and Prince Fern of Maplehurst 1MB.



All stock No. 1 and Tubercuiin Tested.



AddresGEOlIAS. L. KOOGLE, for Sale List.

Signed. Estate of O. Resale-Robert. Chambers. J. 0.

George and Oscar Walt-z.





BREEDEIS’ DIREC'NRY.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd. consisting of Trojan Ericns Blackbirde and

Prides. only. is headed by rton . a Troian Erica.

by Black Woodlewn, sire of t. e Grandoham ion steer

and bull at. the International in 01110350. .. 1910.

He is assisted by Undulata Blackbird Ito.



WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





 





 





 





 





AYRSHIRES“°“° 0*? mm d...

B. .rme em. bull:



db ll .alvesfor sale. rk reew no. on r ..

zlilre llirtfd. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint. ich.





— ire. pedi-

Guernse Bulls NY°““mmm right.

GxeNN CLARKE. Bull Claire. Mich.





 





“Top-Notch” HOLSTEINS.





A fine young bull from an Advanced Registry dam.

Beauty Pietert'e Kornd is King No. use. Born Nov.

26. 1910. Sire. illowbri ,Boe. Dam. Anne Hownt e

Lenore who has an official record of milk 1 day. .3

lbe.: milk '1 days. 546.2 lbe.: butter? “or" 31% lbs.

She ve 18,972 lbs. milk in Widen an has. given

101.55a lbs. milk in her first nine milking periods.

averaging 3‘25 days eaohhinoludlna the one at 2 years

old. She has two 'A. . 0. daughters. one as an

official record of 23 B lbs. butter in '1 days is 4_yl'fi. 3

months old. Her dam gave 753 lbs. mi 1: In 349

days and has three A. R. 0. duo ten. fl‘he sire of

this yonn bull in agrandson of uty Piesort 9. who

has an o cial record of 30.5111». butter in days.

and was the first 30~lb. cow of the breed to produce a

I'll-lb. daughter. He comes of lame pmducers on both

sides. is a fine individual, nicely marked with a little

more black than white. Weight. about 700"... Price $150.





MPHERSOI FARMS 00., Howell. Ilohigan.





MAPLE AVENUE 8106K FARM





Nov._ Bull Special





will tell all about 20 Iullo that are for solo,

DON'T buy a bull until you have read the 30v.

Special. which is yours for the asking. Help

me to sell this lot in November by buying ONE.





L. E. CORNELL, - Fayette, Ohio.





HOLSTEIN BULLS





FOR SALE





Re istered bulls from four to ten months old for

sale gthat are closely related to Hansel-void

De Kol. De Kols 2nd Butter Boy 3rd. and Colan-

ths 4th's Johanna. The dams are heavy milkers

and mostly in the A. R. 0. Prices reasonable.

Send for list. Biteiow'l man Penn. Breeosvillefllch.





Purebred Remand





HOLSTE IN CATTLE





The Greatest Dairy Brood

. ' ‘ Sand for FREE 11W Booklets.

Holstein-Friction. ADO.) Box I“. MMVL





' ' ' --8pooiel Prices on young

ha-Frmuallalllo bll mum f. r-

1.1.9: w. B. Jomuolik Gil-owe. M '°





(I! L a. 0. M

in mm cm on}; t .

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HOLSTEIN 8“,. Er“ '”

W registry «mung—3w:

o Korndyke Queen Do Kol .





7 dogs. Wbmdi on earth. Price

. D. OODB Y. E. Lansing.





FOR SALE‘gé’E. Eiffihif'éo‘fififi

producing stock. 0. A. BRISTOLzll'enton. Michigan.





REGISTERED JERSEY Yearling Bull-Won lot

prize at Michigan Indiana Inter State Fair.

Dam produced 15 lbs. 13 on. butter in 7 days. 414.1be.

In? months at 8 years old. Priced very low. Calves

priced still lower. 0. S. BABSETT, Kalamazoo. Mich.





For Sale. Jersey Bull Gall. ‘33:; “£4:- m.“



of Merit cow. Grandsim Register of Merit bull.



WATERMAN a WATERMAN Ann Arbor. Mich.

(Successors to Murray-Waterman Co.)





LILLIE FARMSTEAD JERSEYS.





‘ Cows all in yearly test. Four Bulls old 4 for

service. Several s lendid Bull Calves. few

Heifers and Heifer elves. I guarantee, satisfaction

or money refunded.



OOLO C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Elohim.





REGBTERED JERSEYS For Sole—Some combln.

in; the blood of St Louis and icons World's

Fair Champions by HERMAN HARMS. Reese. Mich.





from2tol2m the. randbonsof

IOISlelll Bulls Household- rl'onxoi. "King 531'.—

Kin, Voeman De ROI. and King of the Hemrvel

all rem mud old dams. Prices very low. :breeii‘ing





 





 





 





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considered. Long Beach Rdstoin Porn, A cl.

OR BALE-3 yearlin ' Holstein-[Frieda bulls. also

bred heifers $150 to cook. Bull calves 340 to ”til.





33 years a breeder. otoe and l on a l

w. 0. Jackson. flout]: 3.3%? file. 119 3.2%..





BUTTER BRED JE%§‘Q§H§”





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK F 9

Silver Creek. Alleges: County. Michigan.





D‘ n“ Bred Slim—altar bfsd heifers far

Oashor upod note. J. B. sniffing figiwfilgui

For “0.35%?" Standard Polled Durham Bulls.





rs, and cows. Ism closing out.

Write for prices. Sanford Gasser.‘.8herman. Mich.





JERSEY BULLS F01! SALE





Sired % Temisia's Interested Prince 71348, whose dam

made lbs. butter in one year. authenticated test.

Choice individuals. Prices Beaoo





3300mm run, out MIMI, mica. n. r. 6.1.

Register oi Merit Jerseys. 33:3. 1°32:





lot of you: bulls from dams with oflcial records

of 43 gnu and words of butter.

. F. MARS . Bay City. Michigan.





Red Polled Bull Calves





6to7 months old. 340 «.350. Cows $0 to 875. Also

Percheron Stallion 3 gears oldb fine style, a big

bargain at 8250. E. BRAO ETT sz N. Allegan, Mich.





2 Young Slim-thorn Bulls for Sale





at. right prices. W. 0. OBIUS. Hillsdalc. Mich.





—2

FOR sALE Batting.sn.tr:si

if taken now. J. M. CHASE & Solis. Ionia. Mich.





0.1.4.1. Stock rmslssizalt‘lsfizrs

bulls for sale. W. J. LEB‘SITER, Belding. loll.





SHEEP.





RAMS and RAM LAMBS at

$10 to $15 each. Also a few

ewes and owe lambs. cheap.





(it? Hampehires are handsome hard . mild and

large size. 0. D. wooDBURY. East iagsing. (lilich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Choice. young. large. hes fleeoed '

2“ One—third off to quickvybuyer. ”Glam. "am

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





' —Yearling and ram lambs from Chem ion

Liam flock of Thumb of Mich. Also select rk-

shire swxne. Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.





Oxford-Down Sheep ““fitl’é’rth‘i”

cattle for sale. J. A. DE GABMO. Muir. Mich.

—Good Y ll F' i

oxford DOW]! Shag Rams andoglmsngf all :39:

forsale. I. R. WATEBB BY. Highland. Michigan.





OXFllllll RAMS and EWES F“ by "“1 was bred to

Write B. F. Miller or G. L. hifilffef" ill‘ai?’usf.‘f;





OXFORD DOWN RAMS FOR. SALE-yearling;

and lambs. Will sell a few aged ewes at at.

tractive (prices. 8. E. GILLETT. Revenue. Ohi .





 





 





 





 





 





REGISTERED RAMBOUILLETS—lst prize flock of

, Barry 00. for 7 yrs. Special prices for next 30 days.

Both sexes. all ages. Ira Baldwin. Hastings. Mich.





REG. Bamboulllets of the best breedi . rams and

. ewes from one to car lot at reduced pr co if taken

in Sept. Breeding furnished. All in rfeot health.

Farm 256 miles . of Morrice. on G. '1‘. ER. and M. U.

it. Come and see me or write your wants. Shes



shipped for i napectlon if ordered. . . COOfi





Oak Hill Stock Farm





VON HOHEVEI IAUBOUILLEI' RAHS

at farmers’ rice: for the next 90 days. Large. lain.

heavy fleeces. c '





. E. LOCKWOOD, Wuhan“. .





 





 





1‘1 $313,113;ng SHBOPSdHIRES—For sale 3:10 imp.

, . anager. an r

sired by this noted ram. H. gtewarg? 15:30:. 31°12?





—Choioe yearlin Slim l

Flockheaders for sale: also fouling-gull? as;

ewes. JONES a MOBRISH. Flushing, Michigan.





SlROPSllllll: ”Sigma" “1“ lambs ‘12 each.

c. J. mongos'blvfenoc' OilogiPom uremia?"

Slit





hire "I." Stock F h“ a few choice

‘0' “a 6. L. 8- DURHAM a swaggoglr‘g. dial?





The Maple Shropshires-yeggmr....i. 30





2')

yearling rams. and our 3- . ewes.



Devioon and sired by Brityiggrfégmsxx ram. bred by

E E. LELAND & SON. Route No. 9. Ann Arbor, Mich.





Shropshire Bargains:

fififf.“.....“e "i‘hr'i’db‘f' “‘5’“ "°“ °°"”°“

' mm m o e s res. ief l -

anteed J. n or'rievu a 00.. rléshfiéofifilr





 





Shropshire Ram f

DAN HOOKER. R. No. Lian-1°05. glaze.





naorsmn yearling Rams and 0.1. 0. s i

SBoarsl Iva. One year“ Boar. Shrophirgregg

lambs later. a. n. anions 0N. Brighten. Mich.





SM:W at {Olll'm' riceo. Have aflne bunch of

b in. m?" n as mm? vs!





 





Nov. 11;.1911.’





*—

M—m ’





[1008.





F0! SALE, BERKSHIRE—2 been a 8 gilt- tsrsowedin Juno ‘

also e choice lotof Aug. and 5017‘. via. sired by Handsome

Prince 8d &_Merion King. A. A. PA'i‘TULLO, Decker-ville. m.





B.ms—Sows bred for fall furrow. Boer pins for

, full service. Quality and breed! first.-

claee. Prieedreasonabie. C. 0. Corey. New Haven. lob.





«B rvioe Boar sow.

Berkshires cl‘llgas.”0ther stock .1...

for, sale. 0. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.





m 0 I cos—Bred from prize-winners and

j t o Bo.th strait thet igek growtlhy and

ar ype. sex no a in. r em .

Cu or write. F. A. 0. hweiterman. mat-93mins. 3.





0- In Go SW'NE £30951! anchors

strain both males and females. Write for Live and



t. Live price on' its and on not at n.

A’. J. GORDO . R. No. 2. rr. Michigan.





1 —either sex. Kan-ch farm—the

0.1.08 rowthy kind. It tt ”slug

prices. A. KEWMAN. R. No. lither Mew fMiohll‘ggn.

0 l c SWINE—Melee weighin from 175 I





to a

lbs. each. Also a we ' i lt f ills

GEO. P. ANDREWS. Wlfi. might 0002 Ifloh.





0. l. C's l-‘or Sal?” “m" “If"

, type either sis-n3;





' m.

akin. some line bred 1 choice lot of

m o'rro s. sorftin.





Nashville. lick

I. (L's—Boers all sold. Choice yo oowewe , -

O.in¢ aloofllA .tsept. emrunpais

no skin. relecke . onroe, Mioh..B. .





 





 





 





 





 





or early.



FOB BALE—A few rt boars

lime Jerseys of cod breeding. ”when for

prices. J. A. MITTfiEB. Stookbridxo. Michigan.

DUROC-JERSEY BOA BS of the large. heevldboned





type and good in uality. also slits and 1 pi

for sale. M. A. BRA . Okemoo. (Ingham Co.) Mlch‘.I





D U R 0 C-JE RSEYS‘éfin'fi’é





CAREY U. EDMONDQ Hustlm mull.





read for service. 8 is!



3? "1‘..." 9}?” 99.5.? Paints?" “3.”...me

. y can 1: . s s o



803 or write. J. C. BABNEY. Coldlwaoer. Mich. >





FOR SALE—DUBOf-JEBSEY bred sowsZ

press prepaid. J. H. {blfnaé‘ngl'ig'flfifimtfifi

DUROC-JERSEYS—Z'i fine springr gills. popular blood lines.





Good individuals; lo fine hosts, 5 bred sows due to

JOHN MchCOL. it. No. 1. North Star. Illicit.





 





furrow soon.





 





MUM-f. FOOT 8065 FOR SALE—Poland Chinss. Chester

Whites and Shropshire yearling Rams; also Pulled Dur-

hmn young Bulls. dairy bred. Frank Bartlett. Dryden. lick.





BIG POLAND GHINAS.





 





We have several spring boars that are ready for eer- ’





vice now from our two

Large Bears Big Tom and Big Wonder.

The amsofthese boars we are storing were 2mm .

Happy Wilkes, a I 000-": hog and .

Jim Porloclion on 8004b. hog. ~' :

We also have several females. Aerte us your wants:

we will sell them at farmers prices. .

ALLEN BROS" Paw Paw. Mich.





man TYPE P C ~Largelt in Michigan. Piss



. o 0 from mhmmoth sires and



Weigh 130 to 175lbs. at 4 months. My motto-



h ood." Will pay ex-



do not find what I

W. E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma. Mich.





BUTLER'S Alli TYPE POLAND-OlllIAS'fiflltb?“

big fall boars at. 8%: 100 airing pigs 810 120815: 50 fall plus

one ; 50 registered 8 top bucks at. $10 to 015: 8

Jersey bulls a 815 to 825; 50 re . Shrop ewes at news

are the farmer's friend. J. C. utler. Portland. Mich.





 





 





GLAND CHINA SPRING PIGS f 1 st 1

Pstock. Also airy bred Shorthogzn 55$ sefiifo.‘i

all ages. prices low. ROBERT NEVE, I‘lerson. Mich.





' —-Spring and fall i f l d

Poland chma‘ medium style. at 1% torlcgfiitihgr

sex. E. D. BISHOP. Route 38. Lak ease. Mich.





01.th CHINAS;-—Home .‘l lichigm's Grand Champion ‘

; large. growthy spring boars' and silt: this (real

sire; they're priced right. E. J. MATHEWSON. Not we. lick. .





Poland Chinas‘fil'apWJm'.“ 2;.“

L. W. BARNES & SON. Byron. Shiaweesee 00.. Itch:





 





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on BALE-Poland osmium. s d so u l tel ‘

F bull White Holland Turkeys. Barred-Thong)“:

Rocks. llie Pups. L. Birkenstock. Fall River. Wis.

P 0. BO Sready for service. heavy boned large

type. rioee right. 11. E. Co . memo

L. i. Conrad .2 Son. R. No. 4. Lalilirsing.‘ Michig'ml‘.’





f ' '

{flulfilfrsnfifll‘mmnl'gs 31%? an:

n . a .

tion guaranteed. 1. W. MIgll‘laS.a8alin:: 11231?





 





 





—Brod f l .

Poland Chinas .u $1.3... "shrugs: .





prices. W. J. HAGELsgAW. Angela. Michigan.





Poland Chinas—SW“ elm 1 mm

both sexes. n. J. Launh‘ifirgf‘dufgfiggss :5





Type P. C. Bears and Saws “ELK





A. A. WOOD l SON. Saline. Michigan.





Three Extra Good fail P. 0. Boats





By Next In Line. 32 eprin male i d ' .

I ship 0. D. and fumisi {iodlspng mbm’ptizclyfihlff

you want good as the best. wr to me for prices.





WM. WAF F LE, Goldwater, Michigan.

"EM "0 it"s? of i‘ill ageefor sale Price ri t.

w... (.53. xi... tow-licisssafsfil:

PilliE IIEll YORKSHIRE . “l “M MW“- 0“”





r can f

old enough for service. M. 0.%VILS(§I§?OMd:é‘e$FmE





Lillie Farmstead Yorkshire.





old enough for service. A f bred .

F122 Eggs. gig;- fidftfiqlln“ akin. I 3?" sell 103%“:

p p s M cur ri ' ' '

guaranteed. 00mm 0. mnhwug‘éngliigf ‘13:}?





When writing to adver-

tisers please mention the





 





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NOV. 11. 1911.





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Walter E. Ward Cow Barn Dormanruille. MY:

Mad was NEPausE‘I’ Paroid anfing





Get Your Roofs Ready

for Winter





Do not put 03 till spring the job of

re-roofing that ham or stable.;Do it

after the Fall’s work when you are

putting things in shape for the Winter.





EPnNEET





PARC") ROOFING

Rivals Best Shingles for Long Wear





Costs less to buy. less to lay. and adds fire

protection. These are not word-claims. they

are facts based upon actual records of wear.



Farmers everywhere are buying NEPBNSET

Paroid for their biggest and best barns-all

farm buildings.



You may get a good roof in shingles or some

other high grade material—but you are sum of

a permanent roof with NEPDNSET Paroid be-

cause it is absolutely certain quality. Guaran-

teed. of course.





Write for all the facts and dealer’s name.





NEPINSET Proslate for houses—looks like

stained shingles.





F. W. BIRD & SON

196 Neponset St., East Walpole, Mass" U.S.A.





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Here is an engine that comes as

near costing you nothing to run

as can be built. Its price is very

low, and, moreover, it is a com-

plete engine—does not have to



berropped against its work. It

wil do a large part of the hard

work of everyone on the farm.





Pump 2000 0.119.?

for line Cent“. ' “k





Enough for the or- _

dinary farm from ‘

the ordinary well. Ofcoursei your well 113 extra

deep, it will cost a trifle more. Let ustell you

what it gull coshp nd send you a lot of other im-



formatin aboutgasoilne engines that will in-

sure‘ you a saving in cost. in repairs, give a

greater range of usefulness. longer service. Our

engine books will make you a still better judge

of what an engine ought to be and how it

should be built. They also describe our



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an engine that is winningfriends ever where. Runs

from sun to sun on a gallon of gasoln n.e Does all

the jobs you hate todo—not only pumpin, but run-

ning machinery from the se arator up. 11 en his

true to its name. Air-coo ed or hopper- coo ed.

Drop us a postal today for facts.



JAGOBSON mourns MPG. co. ,Dept. F ,Warron,Pa





Earn $10 a day.





Sawing firewood, lumber, lath. posts.

etc. on contract work. You can cut

more and out much easier with a.





Hertzler & Zook





Portable 5 aw





Wood





Ag [owns Absolutely the cheapest and best saw

n1.nde Guaranteed for 1 your.

Sold at fuctory prices—$10 and up.



Ssvcniidillemun‘ s profit. Operates

easier th: in other saws becauso'

stick is low and the saw

, draws it on as soon as it

’ touclics the saw. Only $10

saw to which ripping table can

be added. Big nionev makers

and suvers. Send for Catalogue.





HERTZLBR eh 200K 00.

Box 23 Belleviile, Pa.





 

   

   

   

 

 





 

   

 

     

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





   

   

   

   

   

   





 

   

   

 

   

 





 





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see our new Illustratelccilgatalogue No. 14. Send





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And pay highest prices for Coon.

Mink, Skunk, Possum. Muskrat.

and all other Furs, Hi des and

Ginseni. Best facilities' in America.

' Send for Free Price List and Ship-

. 5,") / ping’rags. No commission charged.

ROGERS FUR COMPANY

'i as: 11. min St. St. Louis. s...





S—ALL KINDS Trees and Plants.

APPLE TREE EPrices reasonable. Salesman ‘

wanted. MITCH SNUB SERY. Beverly, 0,

PEAQ" Trees. 21:. up. Splendid trees for sale to planters





atwholesale rices No agents. Save 50%. Cat. free.

APPLE TENNESSEE ivussssr 00.. Cleveland. Tennessee.





will soon be here. We sell

Time to Plant directto lanter at lowest

A ple an erry Trees 80.

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MANUFACTURE OF CIDER VINEGAR

ON THE FARM.





 





 





 





 





The statutes of the state of Michigan

require, among other things, that before

a cider vinegar may be marketed it shall

contain not less than four per cent of

absolute actic acid. It is, we apprehend,

common knowledge that in the process

of converting cider into vine-gar, the

cider first undergoes what is known as

an alcoholic fermentation by means of

which the sugar which is present in the

cider is first converted into alcohol. After

this conversion is more. or less complete

the alcohol then undergoes what is

known as an acetous fermentation by

which process the alcohol is in turn

changed into acetic acid. Most cider,

when fermented, will produce not less

than four per cent acetic acid if the fer-

mentation and conversions are more or

less complete. The minimum strength

which the law permits, namely four per

cent, Is for the purpose of establishing a.

definite strength, or a minimum strength,

for the pure article. This does not mean

that any vinegar which contains four

per cent acetic acid may be sold, but it

does mean that any pure vinegar which

contains four per cent acetic acid may be

sold.



It has been common practice for many

years for farmers to lay down during the

apple season from one to four or five

barrels of cider with the- idea of ulti-

mately converting that cider into vine-

gar. This product they have recognized

as absolutely pure in that it contained

no other product than cider. Frequently

this product, when marketed, will be

found deficient in acetic acid and on that

account grocerymen at the present time

hesitate to buy the vinegar produced by

the farmer because they are afraid it

will not come. up to the standard required

by law. Farmers, knowing that their

product is absolutely pure, have not been

able to understand why at times their

product was deficient in strength. We

have found many times, in investigating

this matter, that the trouble lay in not

having a complete fermentation of the

sugar in the alcohol in the first instance,

so that the vinegar when analyzed would

show a considerable amount of uncon-

verted sugar. Sometimes the sugar would

be all converted into the alcohol but the

alcohol would not be changed into acetic

acid, and here again the result would be

a difference in the total quantity of acetic

acid in the vinegar.



The difficulty here has consisted in the

Impcrfection in the process of manufac-

ture. A very common custom is to take

the barrel of cider to the cellar, or base-

ment, where it is rather cold and the

temperature is too low to permit of the

rapid working of the yeast plant which

converts the sugar in the cider to al-

cohol. In fact, the operation is so slow

that it will take some times many years

before its conversian is complete. The

same difficulty prevents the change from

alcohol into acetic acid. If the cider is

stored in a warm room it will be only a

short time before the sugar is complete-

ly changed into alcohol and if it is kept

in the warm room with the barrel freely

exposed to air, the further change into

acetic acid will be» quite rapid. Remove.

the bung and plug with raw cotton.





The method of manufacturer of cider

vinegar on a quick scale in the vinegar

factories is to fill a large vat with beech

shavings and allow the alcoholic liquid

to percolate drop by drop through this

vat of shavings. When it comes out at

the bottom it will have been changed

completely into vinegar. On a small

scale this may be- done by getting an or-

dinary tight pork barrel which has been

thoroughly cleaned, filling it with broken

pieces of corn cobs or with beech shav-

ings, and after pouring on the corn cobs

or shavings some vinegar in order to get

the shavings inoculated with the fer-

ment, the fermented liquid is then al-

lowed to run through the- barrel in a.

very fine stream, (drop by drop, is bet-

ter), and usually when the product comes

out at the bottom it will be found to

have been quite completely changed into

vinegar. If it Is still quite sweet it may

be run over the generator 3. second time.





If there is any doubt now about the

product conforming to the standard, a.

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Never before have growers given the

attention to marketing their fruit that

they have this season. Surely good things

will come from the- thought given the

question, although they may result only

after a struggle with “the powers that

be.” Produce papers are taking a. dif—

ferent attitude toward the apple market

and are now falling in line with the con-

servative statements of the agricultural

press, and we believe, as we have re—

cently stated in these columns, that those

who are not anxious to dispose of their

good fruit immediately will secure more

satisfactory prices than they can get at

the present time. The extended wet

weather has reduced the amountofancy

fruit in the large apple producing sec—

tions and windstorms have worked to—

ward the same end.



At Louisville, Ky., large quantities of

apples are coming in but only a. small

percentage is fit for storage purposes, it

being stated that the storage houses will

not have one-half the volume that was

put away a year ago. 'Inasurvey of the

crop of western New York, it was found

that over half of the apples have been

blown from the trees by the severe

winds. Some orchards from which it

was expected heavy pickings would be

secured the owners are failing to get

more than one—third of the estimated

yields. lied apples scem to be particu-

larly short. In the Hudson River Valley

where a “bumper” crop has been grow-

ing, rains, winds and frcezing will reduce

it to a nominal one and just now the

growers are straining every muscle to

get the windfalls to the market that they

might secure some returns from them.

As a. result, the apple market in New

York is easy. Howevcr, fancy fruit is

commanding reasonable figures, selling

up to $4 to $4.50 per barrel. At boston

there exists a good demand for fancy

red table apples while other kinds are

selling slow. The Chicago dealers are

also on the watch for red apples and last

week quotations were advanced for that

kind. At Pittsburgh it became necessary

to reduce values in the regular run of

this fruit in order to move the large

consignments of the lower grades; fancy

kinds, however, stood the market well

with prices substantially maintained.

.Shipments of apples from ’Grand Val-

‘ley, Colorado, will fall short of the ship-

ments of 1909 by several hundred cars.

In \Vayne county, New York, York

county, l’a., and New Jersey, reports of

largo yields are made, but complaint is

also entered to the effect that heavy

windfalls will reduce the amount of good

fruit to be put on the market.





WINTER PROTECTION OF THE FRUIT

TREES.



“'erc the annual losses to the various



tree industries. both in the nursery row



and those plontcd out, 10 be tabulated in





 





readable form it would reach into as-

tounding figures. I recall one winter

several years ago when engagcd in the

tree business, that the damage to the

nursery mock in and about Rochester,

N. Y., by the mice alone was estimatcd





to exceed a million dollars. So we say

ihat whilc we have a. young tree insecure

from these enemies it is too early to quit.





The problem of protection against the

mice is comparatively cosy; but as to

rabbits is far morc difficult of solution,

as they arc wcll 11p in the pruning busi-

ness as well as girding the bodies. An

eastern grower of considerable repute

surprised at one

time to find many of his young peach

trees, especially yearlings, trimmed al—

most to whips; and it was only by pa-

tient watching and careful investigation

that he was able to place the mischief

upon the rabbits. They would sit up and

as far as able to reach, clean up the

tender growth of limbs to a finish. The

bodies from the ground to the starting

of the tops is casily protected against

both intruders in one and the same way;

but when we have to protect both body

and top it is not so easy. Some years

ago we saw it stated upon what we be-

lieved to bc undoubted authority, that

rubbing the bodies well with hard soap

late in the fall was absolute protection

against the rabbits. We have not tried

the remedy, as fortunately we have been

in a locality for several years, compara-

tively free from the trouble. But if ef-

fective, then we believe that thorough

Spraying late in the fall and again in

winter, if need be, with a, heavy solution

of whale oil soap would meet the re-

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NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.





 





The sixth annual meeting of the Na-

tional Dairy Show, which closed Novem-

ber 4, was by all odds the biggest and

best ever held, and it was a truly na-

tional show in every respect. After sev—

eral moves in the search for an ideal lo-

cation, the show was this year brought

back to the International Amphitheatre,

at the Union Stock Yards at Chicago.

Here, in the home of the great Interna-

tional Live Stock Exposition, the Nation-

al Dairy Show promises to equal if not

surpass its great rival as the biggest

event of the year in the live stock world.

The mammoth amphitheatre was crowd—

ed to the limit and both cattle and ma—

chinery were turned away for want of

space. There were nearly a. thousand

head of cattle in competition for prizes,

coming from all parts of the country, and

the products and machinery exhibits were

larger than ever before.





The time has passed when the Nation-

al Dairy Show must make excuses for

deficiencies and lack of interest and at~

tendance. It has passed the experiment-

al stage and is established as one of the

greatest shows of the year. It has been

termed the greatest of all conservation

movements. Its problems are the prob-

lems of all classes and all people. The

development of the dairy cow, the utili-

zation of farm-grown feeds in the pro-

duction of food for human consumption,

the manufacture and marketing of that

food and the ever—present problem of

greatest return from the soil with the

least expense of soil fertility all center

in the dairy industry. And this move-

ment has just begun. As our population

increases and the area of production be-

comes more thickly settled, the demand

for more and better dairying must in-

crease. There will be little room for the

special beef animals in congested areas

and less for the poor dairy cow. Inten-

sive farming calls for the highly devel~

oped dairy breeds, and constant improve-

ment in production of dairy products.

.Ihese are “bread and butter" problems

for both city and country people.



The big event of the show was the

attendance of President Taft on‘October

30. His brief address was well received

by a large and appreciative audience.

The President’s silver trophy for the

winner of the students' cattle judging

contest. was awarded to Russell Jensen

of the South Dakota. Agricultural College.



The judging contest was one of the

best of its kind ever held. There were

30 contestants and the competition was

unusually keen. The Kentucky State

l'nivcrsity team won first with a score

of 3,849 out of a possible 4,800 points.

The Iedm from the Ohio College of Ag-

riculture was second with a score of

3,675 and the team from the South Da-

kota State College took third place with

3,593 points. The Kentucky team won

the special Guernsey and Holstein tro—

phies and the Maryland team was first in

judging Ayrshires and Jerseys. Russell

Jensen of the South Dakota team did re-

markable work, standing first in judging

Ayrshires and Holstelns and second in

judging Jerseys. In addition to the

President’s trophy he won a $400 scholar-

ship.



The cattle entries included 153 head

of Ayrshires from six different states,

65 Brown Swiss from two states, 18

Dutch Belted from Arizona, 214 Guern-

seys from seven states, 200 Holstein-

Frlesians from seven states, 142 Jerseys

from ten states and 14 Dexters from two

states. It was without a doubt the

greatest gathering of pure-bred dairy

cattle ever in one show in this country.

The Guernseys demonstrated their grow-

ing popularity by quality as well as num-

bers. The top honors of the breed went

largely to \V. W. Marsh, of Iowa; W. S.

Dixon, of Wisconsin, and Wilcox &

Stubbs, of Iowa. The Holsteins were

represented by some of the best herds

in the country. The Zehrings Bros.’ herd

from Ohio, competed with the famous

Show herds owned by the Pierson Stock

Farm, of Michigan; A. L. Williams, of

Wisconsin; E. A. Vandervort, of New

York, and others. The Jerseys were not

shown in as large numbers as some of

the other breeds, but they furnished

some of the best quality and keenest

competition in the show. The prize cat-

tle from the Elmendorf farm of Ken-

tucky, the Thomas W. Lawson herd of





 





Massachusetts, the Insets!- herd of Te:-

as and the T. S. Cooper' &. Son's herd of

Pennsylvania, competed for every honor.



An interested visitor at the show was

John A. Perree, secretary of the Royal

Jersey Agricultural Society of the Jersey

Islands. While particularly interested in

the Jersey show he expressed himself as

agreeably surprised at the general ex-

cellence and quality of all classes shown.

He said he expected to find good Jerseys

here, but he did not expect to find the

perfection of finish in which they were

shown. One of his observations may

well be considered by some of our breed-

ers. He expressed the opinion that some

of our herds were kept on the show clr-

cuit for too long a time. He thought

this applied particularly to the young

animals, as the long strain of travel and

care under show feeding and manage-

ment put a strain on the young animals

that would seriously interfere with their

later development. Some of the young

cattle shown were .too valuable to be

subjected to such treatment, and some,

he thought, had already shown signs of

“going stale" from the long show season

which they Were just completing. He

was impressed with the American tend-

ency to increase the size of the Island

Jerseys. He thought this might be due

to the difference in feeding, the difference

in the character and composition of our

feeds, etc, or to a desire on the part of

our breeders to bring the jerseys more

nearly to the weight of our heavier dairy

breeds. While he did not feel justified

in questioning the wisdom of this tend-

ency he was not ready to admit that in-

creased size meant increased production.



The machinery exhibit surpassed that

of all previous shows. Sixty-three com-

panies showed farm and creamery equip-

ment, including about everything that is

connected with the dairy industry. There

was a. great show of heavy machinery

such as is used in the manufaétuI-e and

handling of products in a. large commer-

cial way. There was less of the small

practical equipment which would appeal

lo the smaller dairymen and dairy farm-

ers. The manufacturers of this smaller

(Equipment may well take a lesson from

the manufacturers of the heavy ma-

chinery and exhibit at this Show.



The departments looking after the ex-

hibits of dalry products were filled and

the entries showed exceptional quality.

There were 103 entries of dairy butter as

compared with four entries last year.

There were 55 entries from. Illinois, 21

from New York, five from Michigan, four

from Manitoba, three from Ohio and 15

from other states. Nine entries scored

above 95 points, Miss Margaret Raab, of

Indiana, winning first with a score of

96; Mrs. Frank Grant, of Illinois, was

second with 95% and L. H. Bailey &

Sons, of Ohio, were third with 95 3-5.

There were 651 entries of creamery but-

ter and about 100 entries of milk and

cream.



The dairy shows are setting a. new

standard of purely educational features.

The show this year has never been sur-

passed in the variety and extent of this

department. The Dairy Division of the

United States Department of Agriculture

gave demonstrations in herd management

and feeding especially adapted to farm

conditions. The demonstration was ac-

companied with daily talks on dairy sub-

jects by leading authorities. The dairy

division of the University of Illinois had

a very instructive exhibit dealing with

herd selection, testing, feeding, stabling.

and diseases of animals. The Chicago

Health Department exhibited charts and

photographs illustrating the effects of

right and wrong uses of milk. care of

milk and butter, sanitary condition of

eating and sleeping rooms, etc. Demon-

strations by models and actual opera-

tions were made of milking cows by ma-

chinery, ice cream and butter making,

refrigeration, model working dairy, model

barns and stables, model milk houses.

etc.



Meetings of important dairy and breed





organizations were held throughout the ,





show. These were well attended and

instructive programs rendered. The Na-

tional Dairy Union, the American Dairy

Farmers‘ Association, the National

Creamery Butter Makers' Association and

the American Dairy Institute held meet-

ings at which were discussed a wide

range of questions of importance to the

various phases of dairy work. One day

was set aside as wage earners’ day for1

the entertainment of the laboring classes

of the city. John J. Mitchell, vice-presi-

dent of the American Federation of La-

bor gave an address dealing largely with

the greater need of co-operation between

organized labor and farmers.





NOV. ‘11, 1911.





 





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conscience by the fact that he strained

the milk but trys to forget that straining

will not remove any of the soluble filth

that may be in the milk, is working

against his own interests.



The dairyman must have clean cows

if he expects to have clean milk. A cow

will lie down on the floor of her stall to

rest, without regard to what filthy matter

may be upon that floor. Very often her

udder and teats will lie upon a. heap of

manure for several hours and then her

keeper will milk her without cleaning

any of the filth from her. It goes with-

out saying that that pail of milk will not

be very clean. The stalls should be kept

as clean as they possibly can and the

cows should be brushed and the udder

and teats washed and wiped with a clean

towel before milking. Any chance of

filth getting into the milk will be avoided

and the dairyman can get top prices for

his products if he lets the people know

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becomes dry and buy one in her place

that is fresh, and more times than not

she is of less value than the one he sold.

This continuous bringing into the herd of

new cows is very apt to bring disease in

also. A great many herds have been

ruined by just such a. practice as this.

Another evil often practiced is selling the

milk too soon after a cow is fresh. For

several days after a cow is fresh her

milk is ropy and wholly unfit for use.

The dairymen who would sell this milk,

especially for children to be fed upon,

ought to be prosecuted and we feel sure

that the law provides no penalty that is

too severe for him. The milk from a

fresh cow should go to the calf for three

weeks but how many dairymen are will-

ing to sacrifice a small per cent of their

porfit for the benefit of the calf. All of

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of variable quality, much of it unclean

and a great deal of it wholly unfit for

human use being offered for sale in the

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want can certainly build up a. trade that

will more than repay him for the extra

attention given to his herd.



The best quality of milk is secured

from cows that receive a. good supply of

wholesome food. Each cow in a herd

seems to’have peculiarities of her own.

Food that is eagerly eaten by one is

'often rejected by others. If a cow re-

jects one thing give her somethingelse

that she seems to prefer. As great a

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CURRENT COMMENT.





rue mama FAfiMER





this vexed problem and so concise as to

be easily understood by the citizen of

average intelligence, the "scientific” and

“logical” method of tariff revision will

not be further popularized. Mere gen-

eralities, such as have served as cam-

paign arguments to beiog, rather than

clarify the public understanding of these

matters, will not suffice in this case, nor

do we apprehend that such will charac-

terize the report.



We do believe, however, that if the

report is all that might be desired in

the way of furnishing accurate informa-

tion on this phase of the tariff problem,

it Will show that the first cost of the

raw material, as paid to the producer,

with the tariff premium or that portion

of it which he may receive added, is but

a minor factor in the cost of the finished

article to the ultimate consumer, while

by far the larger factor of its cost is the

expense of. and profits from, its distribu-

tion. In other words, we believe it may

be revealed that here is another instance

in which modern methods of distribution

and marketing have imposed upon the

public a burden which has been wrongly

attributed to the too high cost of the

raw material.



With these possibilities in View, every

Michigan Farmer reader, and particularly

every wool grower, will await the report

of the tariff commission with the interest

which an issue of such widespread im-

portance merits.





In ancient and





What Complicates Our mediaeval days

Labor Problem. and even mod-

ern times, the





slave furnished the common source of

labor for the great civilizations that

mark the progress of the race. It was

not until the 19th century that the law

of division of labor, as known to present

economists, became a factor in indus-

trial affairs, but so thoroughly and rap—

imy has it entered into the organization

of our scheme‘ of production, that in a.

single century methods have been en-

tirely revolutionized, and today the ag—

who has found his business

nmcnable to the new order, is

liccause the laboring man has

for without the help of

the farmer fails to secure

land the maximum of profit





IlOt Sn

suffering

forsecn him,

laboring men

from his





The bulletin of ag- consistent with permanent agriculture.





The division of labor has degraded the





is- all-around man’s productivity and de-





sued by the Inter- veloped the specialist in order to provide





The World’s Cereal riculiural statistics

Crop. for September,

national Institute of Agriculture,





lomc, affords official





at greater economic production.

world data in re- culture prohibits the extensive applica-





Good agri-





gard to the production of cereal crops in tion of this law since it is the all-around





the Northern Hemisphere.





The figures man that the farmer needs.





The farmer,





as expressed in percentages between the therefore, requires a man who possesses





estimated

production last year

basis for comparison.

wheat in the prcseni year

of countries included





affords





The production of required of an employe

in the group

in the bulletin,

which represents about four-fifths of the when one

world's total production, is 100.5 per cent wages, as they now prevail,





production this year and the a. greater degree of application and a.

the best greater breadth of understanding than is





in almost any

other branch of our industrial order.

This condition is complicated the more

recognizes that agricultural

are not com-





of last year's production. This year’s mcnsurate with the value of a man's ser-

crop is greater than that of last year in vices in other lines of industry and in

Spain, Great Britain, Italy and India, proportion to wages paid elsewhere. Fig-





lm: is smaller in Prussia, Roumania, Eu-

ropcan Russia and the I'nited States.

The production of other cereal

"the countries included in the bulletin,

compared with last year, are. as follows:

llye, 96.4 per cent; barley, 99.5; oats, 88.9;

corn, 86.6..



These figures arc of especial interest

when compared with the estimates wmch

have been published regarding this year's

wheat crop by private authorities. The

differcnces brought to light by this com-

parison which in some instances vary

considerably,

work which is being accomplished by the

institute in the compiling in one report

of the official figures of the production

for the entire world.



With the approach



An Issue of Great of the season for the

Interest. assembling of con-

gress in regular ses-



vc are reminded of the impending

tariff commission





siou.

rcport of the national

touching its investigations relating to

Schedule K of the tariff law. This is an

issue of more than ordinary interest, not





alone to wool growers but as well to

every purchaser of woolen goods, and

indeed to every producer and consumer





of any Sul‘t of commodity.



{711011 the character of the report ren-

dered by the tariff commission on this

question will depend the country‘s ver—

dict touching its future usefulness in

the scientific solution of the tariff prob—

lem. It would appear that plenty of

time has intervened for a most exhaust-

ive scientific study of this phase of our

tariff law. and unless the forthcoming

report is so complete as to fully elucidate





ures gathered by the commissioner of

agriculture of Vermont show that the





CTODS in common rate of wages in a number of





factories is 19 cents an hour for nine

hours of work per day, or a rate of

$45.50 per month of 234 working hours,

whereas, the average wages on several

dairy farms in that state are 13 cents per

hour of 11 hours per day, or $39.50 per

month of 302 working hours.



It will be seen from this that there is

an inducement for laborers to migrate

from the farm to the city where they can





illuslrute the value Of the be employed in large shops at what ap—





pears 'to them to be more attractive

wages, and since these shops are likely

to retain the efficient workmen and dis-

charge the inefficient, who return to the

farms again, it falls to the farmer’s lot

to receive back the more undesirable por-

tion of, this migrating class of workmen.

Consequently, the present law appears

to place inefficient labor where the most

efficient is needed.



Capital is needed

in running a. farm

to the best advan-

tage as well as in any other business in

which one may be engaged. In fact, a.

larger amount of capital is needed in

farming to the best advantage than is

the case with many other large busi-

nesses for the production of a like profit.

A very large proportion of farmers are

hampered by the need of more capital,

yet the greater proportion of them cannot

be blamed for this condition. The be;-

ginner does wisely in securing a farm.

even if he cannot equip it as he would

like or as well as it should be equipped

for amaxlmum of good results in its op-





Financlng the Farm.





oration.» But , as the profits, from the

operation of that farm accumulate, his

first thought should be in perfecting its

equipment rather than in adding to the

area of his farm. Of course, a farm of

reasonable area. can be operated more

cheaply in comparison with the smaller

farm, because the cost of necessary

equipment is not so very much larger and

the per acre cost is considerably smaller.



However, it will generally be found that

with the increased area which comes

from the purchase of more land. the need

for. equipment keeps pace with the ln-

creased area. of the farm and the man

who once gets the habit of farming with-

out the proper equipment is altogether

too likely to continue that practice and

it is a. noticable fact that some men who

have acquired this habit keep on adding

to their acres until thaey may well be

termed “land poor,” instead of adding to

their equipment, which would place them

in a position to reap the largest possible

benefit from the land they already own.



There is every prospect, of course, that

the land may increase in value, while

the equipment will deteriorate with use.

but it will be noted that the price of land

in; any community depends not a. little

upon the character of the farms in that

community. If they are well provided

with buildings, well equipped with the

necessary implements for good farming,

veil fenced and well stocked with im-

proved live stock, they will be occupied

by prosperous farmers who like their

business and who place a high value upon

their land, so that every farmer is under

obligations to himself and to his com-

munity to so conduct his farm as to add

to the attractiveness of the community as

a. place in which to live.



Experience has shown that at least

one—half as much money should be in-

vested in equipment and buildings as in

land, and on the smaller farms yet larger

proportions will be required to be so in-

vested for best results. Consequently, it

will be wise for every farmer, who has

been hampered with a lack of capital to

properly conduct his farm, to give atten-

tion to these details of farm manage:

incnt as well as to the home comforts

which are desirable for himself and his

family, before adding to the area of land

which he may own. This, however, does

not necessarily mean that it is not de-

sirable to accumulate land, especially for

the man who has children growing up

who may desire to follow them in the

occupation of farming. This is a com-

mendable ambition, but it should not be

allowed to warp one’s better judgment

With regard to the immediate conduct of

his business.





 





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





National.





A movement is on foot to construct a.

stone load from Detroit to Saginaw.



Dr Guy l’o1ter Benton was recently

inauguialed as the twelfth president of

the University of Vermont.



At least three persons are dead and

five injured as a. result of a bridge span

collapsing near Auburn, 0211., last Sat—

urday night. The victims were building

a caisson when the concrete pillars gave

way



Public sentiment has become so strong

in Lansing against the Sunday opening

of the moving picture shows, that the

proprietorsof these placed closed them

on Sunday last.



Galbraith l’. Rodgers practically com-

pleted an ocean- to- ocean journey with a.

biplane when he arrived at Pasadena,

Cal” November 5. He is the first to ac-

complish this great feet with a biplane.

'lhe distance coveied was 4,231 miles

and the actual flying time was 4, 924 min~

ules; his journey began at New York

010’ There were a number of mishaps

to his biplane on the trip but none so

important as to cause any long delay.



Eelcctions a1e being held in several

states this week. In Massachusetts the

republicans have made the tariff an is-

sue in an attempt to defeat the election

of Gov. Eugene N. Foss, democrat. Louis

A. Frothingham is the republican candl-

daie. Stale tickets will also be elected

in Maryland, Kentucky and New Mexico.

In none of these states, however, has a.

prominent national issue been brought

fmward in the campaign. New Mexico

will choose its first governor at this elec-

tion. California also holds an election in

which women will have a chance to vote

in all counties of the state, except in San

Francisco. where the regulations of the

city’s registIation is such as to make it

impossible for the women to register for

this election



The employers’ liability and the work-

men’s compensating commission, appoint-

ed by the last congress, a1e in session in

Washington now to consider the desira-

bility of a law for the insurance of em-

ployee against accidents, and are holding

their final meeting this week. Repre-

sentatives of the interstate railways are

present and will be heard. It is expected

that a. measure will be framed to pre-

sent at the coming session of congress.



The 59th annual meeting of the Mich—

igan State Teachers' Association was

held in Detroit last week, when the larg-

est delegation that has eyer attended

the association’s gatherings, was record-





 





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ed. So many were present that it be-

came necessary to hold auxiliary meet-

ings to nocommodate the visitors. Some

of the best talent afforded by the country

gave addresses. The teachers went -on

record as being unanimously in favor of

adopting the Bible as a. text book in the

schools. The elections resulted in the

selection of the following officers for the

coming year: President, E. E. Ferguson;

Bay City, first vice-president; Prof. E

Ypsilanti; second vice-presi-

dent, Miss Anna Bernard, Mt. Pleasant;

third vice-president. W. B. Wright, Ben—

ton Harbor; treasurer, L. A. Butler,

Boyne City; executive committee, Miss

Cornelia Hulse, Grand Rapids, and J. F.

Thomas, Detroit. The dues were raised

from 50 cents to $1. 00 a year.



The United Daughters of the Confed—

eracy will hold their 18th annual conven-

tion at Richmond, Va... this week, when

it is expected that 600 delegates from 3').

states will be present.





Foreign.





A fire consumed several large business

places in London, Canada, last week.

The estimated loss amounted to $850,000.



It is believed that a. counter revolution

has been prevented in Mexico by the dis-

covery of documents, evidently signed by

prominent men of the Republic, and be-

ing used among dissatisfied politicians

and others to stir up prejudice against

the new government and administration.

Several small outbreaks have been quiet-

ed by the federal troops.



The revolutionists in China are coming

forward with plans looking toward the

final organization of a republic which will

control the territory of both shores of

the Yangtse Klang. Since the southern

part of the empire has not participated

strongly in the revolution, effort is now

to be made by the revolutionists to cap-

ture the imperial forces there, if pos-

sible, without any bloodshed. since the

success of the rebels has greatly modified

the attitude of those who originally were

strong in favor of imperial government.

The Chinese fieet which aided in the-

campaign against the rebels, has re-

turned to Shanghai with only four ships,

which are in a pitiable condition. The

other ships were lost .whlle en route, the

soldiers, however remain loyal. Yuan

Shai Kai, who has been offered the pre-

miership of the empire, has refused to

accept, even though assured the support

of the national assembly and of General

Chang, who has command of the Lan-

chau troops. Chinese reports indicate

that 50,000 persons were killed in the

siege and capture of Hankow. ,



A decree has been signed by King Vic-

tor Emmanuel II, of Italy, declaring

Tripoli and Cyrenajca to be placed under

the full and entire soverignty of Italy.

Laws will be framed making definite

regulations for the administration: of

public affairs, but until such laws "can be

formed and officials detailed to enforce

them, affairs will be carried on by royal

The powers have been notified

of the annexation and. given assurance

that their interests will be protected in

the territory involved. Turkey protests

to the United States that the action of

1taly is in violation of the ”Hague pact,

and asks that this country= interfere. The

matter is now up to Secretary of State

Knox at Washington, to answer the pro-

test. Owing to the nature of the strug—

gle in Tripoli, the situation is reported

to be extremely Serious and is described

as a. reign of terror, since the place came

into Italian hands.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Eaton 60., Nov. 4.—-—Wea.ther cool and

cloudy most of the time, with snow

squalls. First snow Oct. 26, just enough

to whiten the ground, mercury down to

20 degrees twice so far. Corn husking

the order of the day, other crops about

all secured, though it took a lot of hust—

ling to get the late beans in, with so

little sunny weather. A good many not

harvested until the very last of October.

The crop will be short. Potatoes turned

out better than expected. There was a.

very poor stand owing to the dry weath-

er in the spring One of the farmers

here who was short, early in September

contracted his winter's supply at $1 and

now regrets his haste. Wheat is look-

ing fine, and'pastures holding out good.

The large amount of rain has done con-

siderable damage to the corn fodder,

which is hard, considering the high price

of hay. Wheat, 90c; rye, 92c, corn, 680;

oats, 44c; beans, $2.10; potatoes, 500; but-

tec'r, 250; eggs, 22@300; hogs, $5. 50; calves



7.c



Ogemaw Co.—The recent cold snap

caught some of our people napping, some

roots and potatoes out and silos not all

filled, but for the most part work is

pretty well along and a. good lot of plow-

ing done. Several cars of potatoes have

been shipped out at 40@45c, but they





were mostly unripe and not fit wto store.~





Most farmers expect to get considerably

more than present prices and will hold

in pits for a time. Cattle and hogs are

down, pork being down to 5c on foot.

Butter and eggs are scarce and dealers

don’t get enough for home use at 23c

for butter: eggs, 24c. Shelled corn is sell-

ing for $1 per bu; good hay, $15@16.

Pasture is still good.

Ohio.



Wayne 00., Nov. 6.——The weather has

been very wet. Not nearly the usual

acreage of wheat sown on account of

wet wather. Lots of potatoes to dig

yet; the yield is not more than half a.

normal crop. Corn husking is in pro-

gress; larger part of crop remains-to be

husked; yield is pretty good. Pasture is

nearly all gone and quite a few farmers

have begun to feed their stock. Wheat

has dropped from 95c to 92c per bushel.

Buyers are offering 30¢ per basket for

corn out of the field. Shippers sire offer-

ing 50c for potatoes. Oats are 400 per

bu. Hay balers are offering $15 for good

clover hay, and $18 for timothy. Butter.

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The Mason and Dixon’s line has passed

from the country's map, not only as the

boundary line of serious political dimer-

ences between the two sections of our

country commonly described as the north

and south, but also as the dividing line

between the rapid advancement of agri-

culture upon the one hand and its slow

but gradual rehabilitation upon the other.

In the period which marked the rapid

agricultural growth of our nation, during

which such rapid strideswere made in

the North and West for the economic

betterment of American agriculture, the

South we in the process of the recon-

struction of its soil and economic sys-

tem, the result of which was a period of

stagnation so far as agricultural improve-

ment was concerned. In that great sec-

ton of our country the one mule farmer

was the rule and corn and cotton the

staples, with the tobacco crop an import-

ant factor in some sections.



The lack of application of science to the



agricultural problems of the country was

evidenced by the gradual exhaustion of

the soil and material losses by soil ero-

sion on the rough and exposed lands. But

in recent years there has been a great

change in this regard, partly due to the

steps taken by the agricultural depart-

ment of our government in the agriculture

of the South, but more largely to the

enterprise of the railway lines traversing

that section of the country in bringing

in the more progressive farmers of the

North and Xi’est as permanent settlers in

the various sections of the country, ill--

eluding all of the states generally desig-

nated as the south, and particularly those

east of the Mississippi river.

, With the introduction of more scien-

tific methods. the adaptation of legumi-

nous crops in their rotations, and with

the better equipment and greater energy

which this new blood brought to southern

agriculture there has been a great evo-

lution, and what may properly be termed

a “New Agriculture of the South" has

been developed. A favorable climate has

been an important factor in the reward

which has repaid the energy thus expend-

ed and today the valuable agricultural

opportunities which are open throughout

the south are becoming well recognized

by a great many northern people who

have heretofore considered them as neg-

ligible.



W’ith a commercial improvement which

is keeping pace with the agricultural de-

velopment, this great section of our coun-

try is again coming into its own and is

sure to keep its balance with the most

favored sections which circumstance per-

mitted to reach an earlier development.

With the defeat of the Canadian Reci-

procity Pact, the disengaged farmers of

our northern and western states might

well turn their attention to the oppor~

tuniiies afforded throughout the South

where good lands may be purchased at

reasonable prices and Where the agricul-

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which they might have found in the great

northwest, even under the advantages

which reciprocity would have afforded

them. In those sections, however, as

elsewhere where agriculture is being rap-

idly developed, the investor should be

careful in the selection of lands. Unfor-

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good from an agricultural standpoint that

one may not make a poor investment in

supposedly good agricultural lands, and it

is always better to consult some unbiased

authority with regard to the particular

section in which bargains may be offered.

The commercial organizations of the cit—

ies, the industrial agents of the railways.

or better yet, the immigration commis-

sioners of the state, where such an office

is maintained, will furnish reliable in-

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ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL—ll.





 





BY FLOYD \V. ROBISON.





is true that these deductions have been

severely criticised heretofore by such

authorities as Hilgard, of California, and

Hopkins, of Illinois. Their criticisms





\Ve have observed that an entirely in- Giave rested on the ground 0f the meth-





telligent understanding of any particular

soil is not possible through a chemical

analysis alone of that soil. \Ve have ob-

served that no matter how completely

equipped any particular soil may be in-

sofar as its content. of so-called plant

food constituents are concerned that un—

less its physical condition, etc., are most

favorable, that in part, at least, the great

importance of its most favorable chem-

ical condition is nullified thereby. in a

similar way it is true that for certain

very desirable crops, at least, coupled

with the best mechanical or physical

and the best chemical condition of that

soil must be an active flora of various

types of bacteria.



As we stated before, when it was dis-

covered that a chemical analysis alone

(lid not furnish the information which

was desired regarding the soil, the chem-

ist became discouraged with

bility of predicting in advance the prob-

able behavior towards crops of that par-

ticular soil. (‘ertain specialists have

maintained that the best clue to the con—

(lition of fertility of the soil can be ob-





tained by chemical anaiysis of the crop

which is grown upon that soil. For ex—

ample, it would be assumed that if corn

were growing on a soil that a chemical

analysis of the corn plant would furnish

the best clue to the fertility condition

of that soil. Vt'e think the fallacy of

this argument is quite apparent on its

face. To secure the most favorable

growth of corn without doubt to our





minds, a more or less balance, which wc





may call perhaps a physiological balance,

of that: soil is desirable. It may be as—

sumed, then, that if a crop of corn is

grown at all on such a soil that. it will,

insofar as it is capable, act upon the





ingredients of soils in

a more or less regular manner. If that

soil is deficient in any one of the in-

gredients which go to make this balance,

the result will show in the diminution

of plant growth rather than in an ab-

normality of plant growth insofar as the

different plant food constituents are con-





so-callcd mineral





ccrned. The analysis of the plant does

not convey the information desired.

Again, it is exceedingly probable that





the failure of the crop on a. particular

soil may not be due to the, deficiency in

the phosphoric acid, potash and lime,

or nitrogen and humus. It is possible

that a deficiency in any one of these in-

gredients may throw the soil constituents

out of balance and thus the soil solution

which nourishes the plant would not be

in its most favorable state of equilil'n‘iuni.



In sclccting a soil for farming pur—

poses there are two points which should

be duly impressed upon us. First. the

permanent productive capacity of that

soil, and second, the immediate produc-

tive capacity of: the soil. There are mul—

titudinous examples of virgin soils which

will withstand for several successive

years the removal of a practically maxi-

mum crop, and yet which may be shallow

and of little use in permanent agriculture.

\Vcre we to judge these soils by their

immediate productive capacity, so to

speak, we would be greatly deceived

thereby. On the other hand, there are

many soils of far—reaching possibilities

whose immediate productive capacity is

Very low indeed. This soil has a much

greater future than is the one with the

low permanent productive capacity and

.high immediate productive capacity. '\\'c

may judge of the permanent productive

capacity of a soil quite closely by a

'comprchcnsivc analysis of that soil. I

|wish to emphasiZc again that by the an—

alysis of the soil we do not limit our-

selves to a purely chemical analysis but

according to the scheme outlined here-

tofore. V‘Vc may judge of the immediate

productive capacity of a soil by an esti—

mation of either its water soluble plant

food constituents, or the so—called avail-

able food constituents. In determining

the fertility of the soil our analysis will

include a study of the soil proper, that

is, the first six inches of the soil: the

analysis of the sub-soil, or the second six

inches; and the study of the nature of

the sub-strata which lie underneath the

soil.



It has been observed (Bureau of Soils,

Bulletin 22), that soil solution, or the

capillary water of the soil, is more or

less constant for any particular soil. It





the possi-'





ods employed, more perhaps, than any

other feature, and it has been our im-

pression tnat these criticisms have been

more or less well founded. In spite of

the above criticisms, however, these find-





ings of the Bureau of Soils have given

an added impetus to soil investigation

and indirectly have resulted in a great





deal of good. \Vithout doubt, an analysis

of the natural soil solution will furnish

an important index to the immediate

productive capacity of the soil.



One reason to our minds why, from the

experiments of the Bureau of Soils in

this matter the soil solution was found

in their short duration periods to be

more or less constant, was because of

wnat may be called the zeolitic function

of the soil. By this zeolitic function we

mean the capacity which such a soil has

of fixing the soluble constituents of that

soil. \Vere it not for this zeolitic func-

tion it may easily be seen that improved

drainage would necessarily mean the

facilitating of the waste of plant food

constituents in the soil.



To make it plainer, perhaps, if to a.

given quantity of soil we pour on a solu—

tion of phosphoric acid in a water

soluble condition, if new we attempt to

imitate rainfall condition and pour quan-

tities of water on this soil to which the

soluble phosphoric acid has been added,

we may, perhaps, be surprised to find

that the phosphoric acid is not readily

washed out of the soil. The soluble.

phosphoric acid has been fixed or ren—

dcrcd more or less insoluble, or perhaps

I'M'crtcd, due to the zeolitic function of

llic



As far back as 1864, two German agri—

cultural chcmists, Illbricht and Schultze,

ascertaincd that it was well nigh impos-

sible to cxhaust a. soil by repeatedly

leaching with water. Both King and Hil-

gard have substantiated these findings.

After the first extraction, or leaching

which may, perhaps, represent in a meas-

ure the first cropping of the virgin soil

the remaining lcachings should as a rule

show lower concentration of plant: food

constituents, but after one or two crop-

pings this concentration becomes quite

uniform and will retain its uniformity of

lower concentration until the immediate

productivity of that soil has been consid—

erably lowered.



“'e give herewith the results of the

analysis of a low productive capacity

soil which had been leached for perhaps

five or six times, and U'lbricht’s figures

for the concentration of plant food con-

stituents.



The Several Extracts Contained in 1,000,-





Still.





000 Parts:

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Potash ....... 7 6 7 7 . .

Soda. ........ 41 ' 11 26 17

~Lime ......... 96 70 55 48 62

Magnesia .... .14 10 9 7 8

i’hos. Acid .. " 2 " 1 ..

Total ...... 158 99 97 80 70

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In pursuing the investigation relative to

the effect of silage on reducing the grain

ration in the feeding of dairy cows,

conducted at the Ohio Experiment Sta-

tion, it is commendable that this same

experiment was later extended to fatten-

ing steers. The problem in so far'as the

fattening of animals Where marketing is

concerned is entirely different than the

one involved in the economical produc—

tion of milk. There is a certain finish

which is desired by the buyer, which fin-

ish is determined by mere expert judg—

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milk can be weighed, neither can this

finish value be so clearly shown as is the

cost in the marketing of butter-fat. With-

out doubt. however, the conditions in the

food which would produce most econom—

ically one pound of butter would be apt

to produce economically meat as well,

but whether it would leave the carcass

with the finish most desired for market

purposes is another thing. Carmichael,

at the Ohio Station, attempted to ascer-

tain the effect of corn silage in the fat-

tening of cattle. It is desirable to em-

phasize again that in the adjustment of

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" 0. “mm" J . H. Dillon, of San Benito, in the lower

0. dogma part of the Gulf Coast Country of Texas



0 and Louisiana, late last winter, planted 7

acres of Irish potatoes. The total cost of seed,'

planting, water, cultivating and harvesting was

$21.0. He got 552 bushels, which sold for

$993.60, leaving a net profit of $783.60. He

followed this crop with cotton and got 81/4 bales,

which sold for $478.50. The cost of producing

the cotton was $105 and his net profit $373.50.

Here is a net profit of $1157.10 from the 2

crops on this 7 acre farm, and he is now grow-

inga third crop—Fall potatoes—which will be marketed before Christmas.

This is something to think about, you northern farmers who are limited to one

crop. Here is a man growing3 crops in 1 year and making a good living on 7 acres,

You’d be surprised the way everything grows in the





Gulf Coast Country of Texas and Louisiana





Take a run down there While you have the time.





The pleasure of a trip to the Gulf Coast Country of Texas and Louisiana, via the

FriSCO Lines, is well Worth the little cost of going. On the first and third Tues-

days of each month, round trip fares, via Frisco Lines,are greatly reduced to any

point in the Gulf Coast Country—not more than $37.50 from Chicago, $32.50 from

St. Louis and Kansas City and $37.50 from Birmingham, $20 from New Orleans and

Baton Rouge. To some points in the Gulf Coast Country fares are even less.





The Frisco Lines operate splendid, electric lighted, all steel trains, daily, from

Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Birmingham, and New Orleans. Every day these

trains carry through cars and on excursion days also carry through tourist sleepers





to the Gulf Coast Country. 3 Splendid Books FREE





One on the Mid-Coast country of Texas, one on the lower irrigated sec-

tions of the Rio Grande Valley and one on Louisiana. all beautifully

illustrated, showing scenes in actual colors. They describe the country

and crops, from one end to the other. giving examples ofsucccsses and

personal statements by men who have gone there and made good.

Write for your free copies, today, While you think of it. .





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ie My Shipping Tag to Your

Next Shipment of F ms—





and see what a difference there will be in be cash you will re-

ceive for your trapping.





I Have No Padded Price Lists—but i Grade Honestly





Grade and Value Your Own Furs—if I can not pay your price or more,

I Will return them _to you, express prepaid. You have probably had

some experience With firms‘making glorious promises of big prices.

only to disappoint you by ‘sharp” grading.

26_ years of honest dealing and thousands of testimonials from trappers testify as to

straightforward treatment of my shippers. I pay express charges on all shipments over $10,

and remittances are forwarded same day furs are received. I do not solicit shipments amount-

111.3“ to less than 510.09. Any shipment of furs held separate for your approval if you request it.

I will telegraph valuation upon consignments amounting to $100.00 or upwards. Write to—day for

full Information, latest prices and valuable advice. . I will give you my personal attention. Address:

'31 Congress Sh. Wool, DETROIT, MIG".

103 Church snout. TORONTO, ONT.

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works freely under the brush. Sold by

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develop more power at. less cost, send it back quick. No conditions. We are

willing to let. you be theiudge and Jury. Kerosene (common lamp 011) is by

far the cheapest fuel today. The price of gasoline is climbing all the time

while kerosene remains the same, and in the right engine, it lasts longer an

produces more power per gallon than gasoline. You get ALL the power when

_ you use a Columbia, because it is the right engine. It. is the one really simple

and perfect kerosene engine. It. never bucks when you need it most. Itlo

always on the loo. . .

Write for Particulars of Our Big Specml Offer

We are going to double our output, for next year. We can do it easilSI. ,Itis

IuSt a matter of getting engine users to test. the Columbia. for themselves.

\ So we are making a great. special money saving offer on Columbia. Kerosene

infighting! Tlhis offer‘isillable to be withdrawn at agyhtitmeéoso vgéte Eodaigzo:

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Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





NOV. 11, 1.911.





lever to success in the economical pro:

ductlon‘of meat.



The following ration was selected at

the beginning'or the experiment: One

lot' of 20 steers being given a sucCulent

ration containing corn silage and one lot

of 21 steers being given a dry feed. The

steers receiving corn silage received the

following ration when on full feed: THE NOVEMBER PROGRAMS.



Shelled com, 17 pounds; cottonseed ____

meal, 2% pounds: corn silage. 25 pounds; Suggestions for .Second Meeting.

together with what dry roughage they Song—Grange chorus.

would eat. The lot receiving dry feed re~ Book review—by a man.

ceived 20 pounds shelled corn; 2% pounds Recitation—“Give thanks for what?"

cottonseed meal and whatever roughage sufig’er‘lr’neébfih’ziggsfihis 173:3: s‘tlggk;r83:

they cared to eat. At the beginning of with poultry; 4, with cooking; 5' with

the experiment the silage-fed lot re- home and farm improvements.

ceived shelled corn, seven pounds, in— MySiC. by Grange orchestra. i

creasing gradually. until 17 pounds, the pagerra—‘Ebys awarglllimiiadlng in my favor to

Iull feed, was given. The cottonseed Recitation.

meal was fed at the beginning, one-half Tableaux, illustrating Thanksgiving.

pound, increasing until 2%, pounds were





Exhibit of fruit, each person bringing

fed. In the dry-fed lot the shelled corn firgingra%°r§te?§§gflenkm charge 0f

began at seven pounds and gradually in—

creased until 20 pounds was given, the

cottonseed meal being the same as with ' .- .

the Silage-fed lot. The dry-fed lot, of With the kindling of the autumn fires

course, consumed more of the dry rough- and the lengthening of, the evenings, the

age than did the silage—fed lot. The main hours of labor shorten on the farm and

point of difference in the two rations the hope of mental improvement revives.

then was really in the amount of rough- Herein lies an Opportunity for the Grange

age which was consumed by the steers. which we ought not to neglect. If we

The results of the experiment seemed to could but determine upon a few definite

indicate that where silage was used in the things that need doing in the way of leg.

place of. roughage in the ration and did turer's work, and then set ourselves to

not take the place 0f the grain portion the task, we might make real progress.

in the ration, there was very little differ- It is not a hard thing to do either. I

once in the finish of the animals at the fear sometimes that we are failing to

end of the experiments. grasp. in large measure, the opportuni-



On the Pittsburg market the steers ties that the Grange affords us. Per-

from the silage-fed lot were kept in a haps it is because we do not appreciate

pen by themselves ahd the dFY-fEd 10t the need of things that the Grange might

were kept in a pen by themselves. The do for us, but it seems more likely that

expert buyers, however, did not favor one we are in need of a revival of faith in

over the other so far as finish was con- our order. This faith might be strength—

cerned. The aVerage daily gain fOI‘ 63011 ened by an appreciation of the sterling

steer was almost exactly the same in both worth of the thousands of men and

lots. The cost of the gains, however, was women inside the Grange gates.

quite markedly different. Taking every- The officers and excctive committee of

thing into consideration, the final profit the State Grange have always done their

P9!“ steer Of the Silage—fed lot was $13-97. work well, perhaps never better than

while the profit per steer of the dry—fed they are doing it today. As individuals

lot was $3.99, showing quite a marked they have sometimes differed, but this

balance in favor of the silage-fed lot- It was inevitable, and their differences have

Will be remembered that, in the discus— been, almost without exception, in the

sion last week, on the influence 0f silage spirit of fraternity. The finances of the

on the economical production in the ra— order haVe been managed with exactness

tion. it was shown that silage could quite and with perfect honesty and, in short,

advantageouslywtake the place 0f grain the entire record and administration of

where grain was high. In these experi- Grange affairs in Michigan is clean. But,

ments 01} the fattening 01' cattle, silage while this is true, the glory of the Grange

hfifpeen shown to be of quite material is not alone, nor even principally, in its

a ahtage hi replacing the roughage por- officers who have faithfully discharged

tion of the ration, and this year, with their duty, but in the thousands of men

hay and roughage commanding the ex- and women, scattered over Michigan,

ceedingly high prices which they do, it who compose its membership. It is for

would seem that much could be gained the betterment of these that the Grange

in replacinga considerable portion of that exists. It is they who are the Grange,

roughageration with corn silage. . and in everything for which the order



FLOYD W. ROBISON. stands they are practically a unit. They





 





 





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LABORATORY REPORT- stock, their orchards, their dairies. They

‘ “‘m“ want better home surroundings. They

503:: {3:138 issméhendlegegeryeello‘wlegolor 0f are working for better conditions in the

Wayne Co. SUBSCRIBER, community, for better schools and better

We have repeatedly called the atten- country churches. The ideal of each

tion of women’s clubs to the fact that in progressive man and woman in the

many bakeriesan imitation egg color is Grange includes a better township. 3.

used in cakes in place of eggs. This better county, a better state and nation,

product is usually a coal tar dye and and so the Grange is striving for higher

perhaps if it be one of the certified dyes citizenship. They want the initiative and

it cannot be considered especially harm- referendum because it elevates the indi-

ful. However, when a cake is colored vidual and tends to make “government of

yellow we think that the consumer has a. the people. by the people, and for the

right to consider that color due to egg people," more nearly a fact.

which has a definite fodd value. If it is These are some of the great objects of

not egg, but an artificial color, then we our order and to their accomplishment

think that cake has been made to "ap- we may well give our best efforts. I

pear better and of greater value than it have said that we were agreed in these

really is" and this is one of the defini- things, and this is true. In these im-

tions for adulteratlon under the law. portant particulars the thousands of

Artifiically colored cakes or other pro- Grange members in Michigan are united,

ducts to imitate the color from eggs are and thus we must continue if we would

clearly unlawful. reap the best results. The defeat of an

-—.-—— individual, or the elevation of another to

An additional laboratory report will be office, is of secondary importance so long

found. on page 415’ where Dr. R°b§S°n as the work progresses satisfactorily. We

2:318;gzntageflzrrlglmfituing aide: Jugs): should permit no man to divide us into

recently sent-to this office, asking for in- parties and factions. Life is short, on-

formation along this line. Requests for uortunities for labor are fleeting- and we

further information on the manufacture should rally, one and all, not to a stan-





f vine r will be answered insofar as . . .

gvailabliraknowledge can be had. Should dard built of human ambition but around

questions arise f8 to iwhether cgrtari‘n an ideal which includes the great objects

Vinegars meet t e requ rements o t e _ . . _

state law, they can be satisfactorily an- 0" our order W F TAYLOR

swered by sending a. sample of the ma—

terial to The Farmer for analysis.





 





 





CALHOUN POMONA PATRONS MEET

WITH NEW SUBORDINATES.





 





 





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CATALOG RECEIVED. ____



v ’ 3“" ii i t d cat Calhoun County Pomona held its first

Mtge igg‘vgdretcseivgle auggw YWD;;,eMotor meeting with the new Granges of Partello

Company, oeransing, Mich, which is and Rice Creek. at the Rice Creek

now being distributed. Detailed infor- church, Thursday, Oct. 12_ Rice Creek

mation regarding 'the “New Way" twin Grange has made a promising start, its

cylinder engine, the Bosch high tension membership now numbering 70. A short

gear-driven Magneto equipment, together business meeting was held in. the morn-

with colored scenes showing the “New ing, after which a bountiful picnic dinner

Way” In operation, may be found in this .was served in a most hospitable manner.

neat catalog, a copy of which any reader An inviting program, enlivened with ani-

of this paper may possess by writing to mated discussions and witty remarks,

the above company. filled the afternoon hours very pleasant-





 





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AN ,FARMER.‘ f as) 421





~ly.. Orwin Adams, Pomona master, talk- has to that of many other Clubs of the



ed on “The Value of a Grange to the state.



Community." He greeted the new .



Granges with appropriate words of en— We regret that reports nave not been



couragement and instruction. He said forwarded by the corresponding secre-



that theidGirange is fihzdbeStt'orngizdaflon taries of all Clubs which have held a fair

or prov ng genera uca ions. a van- - .



tages in a rural community, as it takes this'year, bl” those WIElCh have been



in both sexes, young and old. published are sufficxent in number and

“Making the Farm Home Convenient strong enough in character to be most



tagrtisgétmctévgl: 12:31]?) tltfirgf 81111213; convincing evidence of the value of Club



Minges,gofp113attle Creek.y She 'said, in Fairs as a special feature of Club work



part, that a home to be attractive must in any local Farmers’ Club of the state.



give forth an atmosphere of comfort, ____



peace and love. It will reflect the per-



sonality of the home-maker, being made FARMERS, CLUB FA'RS-



beautiful by her artistic touches and the ——-~—



careful selection of simple furnishings. Washington Center Club.





Ehe man (at the house looks upon his The washington Center Farmers' Club

“ng as a. aven or rest. ,TO the woman of Gratiot county, held their tenth annual



‘5 a pace where her love 0‘ beauty fair October 12 at the home f M and

may have free swmg. The writer urged Mrs, N Cu'rren The weoathe: was





the use of convenient appliances and '

named several devices, such as carpet ideal for SUCh a gathering and the roads

were very good. 'lwo large banners





swe ) -s or ‘ - -

mg efigt—ironsricolh‘vglnighefnvsgiersglsfstgits, stretched across the buildings announced

drainage from kitchen sink, and good that all_were welcome 'to the Farmers

washing machines as labor savers. The Club Falr. Flags, bunting, crepe paper,

patent dish-washing machine was also evergreen branches and “min". leaves

fully discussed. These conveniences converted the ins1de of the building into

should be used so that, the housewife a bower or beauty. A tent was erected

may economize time and strength, thus for the poultry, and some very fine Barred

giving her an opportunity to cultivate Plymouth Rocks, White Leghorns and

ilowers. read and rest, and give thought Rhode Island Reds were on display. Ev-

to her personal appearance and the cry department was well filled, there be;

adornment of her home. A plea was ing more than 200 entries. The display

made for flowers, for music, for art and 0f apples was especially fine, including

for simplicity and quiet colors. These nearly every variety known in this part

elements constitute the home beautiful, or me state, and would have been a

from which radiates an influence which “:9?” to a state 0': county fair. The ex—

helps to mould the souls and characters hiblt of canned fruits and jellies was fine.

of the future men and women—the little and the corn exhibit was very good, also

ones who live there. vegetables and grains of all kinds, all of

Recitations were pleasingly rendered Whioh merit especial mention. One

by Fannie Wilson and Blanche Hotch- squash weighed 33 ”’5'; a sugar beet

kiss, of Rice Creek. and excellent chorus weighed 20 ”)5- Cornstalks measuring

numbers were offered by Rice Creek eight feet in height and corn-81,4, inches

members also. The closing paper was in circumference were also among the

read by F. B. Garratt, of Pennfield, and exhibits. A Chinese exhibit included a

merited much applause and many ex- 1'9be' opium pipe, fan, umbrella, comb.

pressions of praise. The subject, “Civic gmger jars, and In fact nearly everythim,r

Righteousness,” was handled with mark- b1” the Chinaman. There was also a

cd ability. display of 500 souvenir postal cards, a

plate of paw paws, hickory nuts and





Seventh Ann I _ black walnuts, quilts and fancy work,

us Products Contest. amateur photography, alfalfa and clover,





Vi'ashtenaw Pomona patrons will hold roots and all.



their animal products contest in the More than 100 partook of the chicken-

Masonic Temple, at Ypsilanti, Tuesday. pie dinner. In the afternoon u good pro—

Nov. 14, The aim of these annual events, gram, consisting of vapors. l'l‘t'llilflOflS





 





 





 





the first of which was held six years and music, was given. The: interest in

ago, has always been educational but the fair seems to be int-rousing every

they'liavc continually widened in scope. year, and this was one of the best the

Speclal attention is now paid to the work Club has ever held. The nt-xt meeting

of boys and girls under 18 years of age. will be held at tho “t‘olionwomls,” with

(This year all such young exhibitors are Mr. and Mrs. W. (Y. [mpg on November

inVlted to dinner as guests of the Grange. ii. at 10:00 a. m. The li’lceling closed





Following dinner, Prof. Jeffery, of M. A. with singingsr Mrs. J. F. Kiscr, Cor. Sec.

0., \‘l’lll make the awards on the corn N l ,

eXhlbits and talk on “Modern Corn Cul- apo 6°" C “b-

ture,” and Miss Swingle, of Ann Arbor, Although it was a very busy time of

will make the awards on the baked pro- year, a large number of members and

ducts and talk on "Modern Corn Cook- “My”? 0f ”‘9 Nap'w‘m‘ Farmers" Ch“)

ery. Prizes have been provided for al- gathered at the town hall Saturday, Oct.

most every kind of field, garden and or— 2i, for the annual fail. After the 9x-

chard crop as well as for bread, butter, h‘bits had be?“ arranged, all went t0 ”‘9

pie, cake and various kinds of needle- Baptist church where dinner was served.

work. Upon returning to the hall some time

___ wars htaken up in viewing and judging the

ex i its. after which the meeting was

COMING EVENTS' called to order and an interesting pro—

—-—-- gram rendered, the chief feature of which



Ohio State Grange, at Columbus. Nov. Was an address 0“ “Dairying," by Pl‘Of-

13.15 A. .T. Anderson, of M. A. C.



National Grange, forty-fifth annual ses- The exhibits were many and of very

sion, at Columbus. Ohio, Nov. 15-24. Sev- fine quality. Those 0n the gentlemen's

enth Degree session, Nov, 16. side were judged by Murray Hess and



Pomona Meetings. Z. _'l‘. \Villlams. Some idea as to the

. . ‘ variety of products is gained from the



Inghalm (o._ “'lth Capital Grange, Fri- awards made, which were as follows:

day, l\ov. 7. J. C. Ketcham, state “1,1 Nichols, first prize on wheat,

speakcr. _. . Greening, Snow. King. Wine, and North—

3Lenuwcc (W, at 'Adrlan, Thursday, ern Spy apples. Hubbard Squash, rice

ice. 7. Annual meeting and election of popcorn and kohl rabi: second on oats

OmCEY‘S- and Lee’s Favorite potatoes.



"1 Herman Mellcncamp, first prize on oats.





 





 





 





Noxall potatoes, Baldwin apples; second





E , on Bellfiower apples.

Dan \Vatson, first prize on pumpkins.

3 Will Greenwood. first prize on Jap-





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.WAAA.AMAMM anese pumpkin, second on yellow pop-

Corn.





THE FAIR AS A SPECIAL FEATURE M. E. Russell, first prize on Early

OF CLUB WORK. Breakfast, Maule‘s Early, Early Michi-

gan, Sir Walter Raleigh and \‘i'hite Star

”— potatoes, Citron, endive. sunflower, shell



As the reports of the Farmers’ Club beans and winter radish. _

Fairs, held by the different local Clubs FEUgFj-he Brgmlrgy, fitrst gritze on hee's

, , _ , , ‘ . ‘flVOI'l e an usse po a oes, ye ow‘

thloughout thestatc, we received. and dent corn, Rellfiower apples, and turnips.

published in this department, it Will be “'in. Russell, first prize on carrots,

noted that the correspondents arc in parsnipS. cucumbers, radish; second on





practically every case enthusiastic with cabbage.





 





, ‘ -. ‘ , \Yill Vi’atson, first prize on melon, y l-

regard to this spccml featule of (,lul) low popcorn: second on rice DOPCOI‘H-

work. There seems to be lltile difference Lorris Russell, first prize on mixed

in this regard whether the Club has been fourdS. twelve varieties, and pair ban-

~ . . . ,,. _ ams.



holding a fat” f0! many 3“”S' or wheth Mrs. Wm. Hall and Mrs. A. I. Hoag-

the report is of the first effort in thls land acted as judges of the ladies' ex-

direction. In either case there is promise hibits and awarded miles as follows:



. W ,. l ) . _ hrs. E. Bromley, first prize on fresh

that the ream” “11,1 {0 m‘adc a pelma strawberries, Pocket lemons, canned veg—

ilcnt one In the particular Club for which e'tables.

the event may be reported. It will also Mrs..R. T). Palmer,.first prize on grapes

he noticed that the scope of the exhibits 3“th unified bouquet 0f flowers, and pieced



.‘ , ,. 1, . soa p’ ow. .

5ft Ithcse Chlb_ falls “11:3 considelably m 'Mrs. \X'. J. Nichols, first prize on cauli-

(ilfferent localities wliele they are held, flower“ flowering: pepper. orange pie.

while the program feature is more or less pumpkin and raised biscuit.

an important factor in the fair meetings Mrs. \i’m. Russellufirst pr”? on canned

, ,ff p ‘1 b' fruit, Jelly, embrmdered pillow cases,

in the ‘1‘ ercnt C u 5- _ _ . arrangement of bouquet of dahlias, and



However, there is unanimity of opinion embroidered sofa pillow.



regarding the benefits to be derived from Mrs. Fl. A. Harrington. first prize on

such a meeting by any local Farmers' 232331: pie-pumpkin, and Sugar Trough

CIUb- It “"mld appear _10 'be profitable Mrs. G. TV. Butler. first and second on

to every member who is lnterested in drawn work. variety and perfection in

the development of the work of his Club ”0131116,?! 0f dahllas; second on embroid-



. , .' ere p1 ow cases.

to carefull) read the reports 0t: these fa“ Mrs. A. A. Hackett, first prize on out-

meetmgs which are published in this de- line work of sofa, pillow.

partment with a view to gaining ideas Nils M E. Russell, first prize on.



hi 1 m . _ cro chet.

from them _“ Cl ay be DUt into prac Mabel Lester, first prize on cabbage.

tlcal operatlon in. his own Club, to the Marjorie Lester. first prize on cross—

end that this speClal feature of Club work stitch sofa pillow.

may be made to contribute to the Welfare The Club adjourned to meet With Mr.





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’ ARCADIAN





MALLEABLE

NON'BREAKABLE





RANGE





The Arcadian -—-America’s Best

Range, cuts down the fuel bill at least

one-third. It stays a perfect baker,

not only for the first year but for a

lifetime. It never needs blackening

—just a wipe-off with oily cloth and

it looks like new. It saves awoman

steps and makes enough saving in

fuel to pay for itself over and over.





BUILT LIKE A LOCOMOTIVE BOILER





The Arcadian is built of malleable

iron, and charcoal iron—no cast iron

or steel. It is riveted together, meta]

to metal, not simply bolted together

and the seams stuffed with stove

putty, fike cast iron and so~ealled

steel ranges. Because it is riveted

air-tight without the use of stove

putty, it stays airtight.





There are no bolts to loosen in the

Arcadian, no stove putty to crumble

out and let in false drafts to boost

your fuel bills as happens with brit-

tle cast iron and steel ranges.





Write for our Interesting Free Booklet.

This book is worth a good many dollars to

anyone about to buy so important a house-

hold necessity as a range. It tells about the

way a good range must be built. and shows

how to pick out the weak points in poor

ranges-gives you the inside facts about

. ranges. Write for this valuable free book-

let today.

The Arcadian is sold by dealers.





ARCADIAN MALLEABLE RANGE C0.

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There is a

warm, Comfort-

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ahead of the man who buys





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F leeceuLined Underwear





Lambsdown’s thick, downy fleece

protects the body from colds and

draughts. and wards off colds and

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seasons‘ wear.





Made for Men and Boys

in Separate Garments and Union

Suits at 50c, 75c and up. Write

for Bodygard Booklet No. 43 I

UTICA KNITTING CO.

Utica New York





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WANTED!





Farmers' wives or daughters to buy Beans for us

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BACK TO THE CITY.





DEAR HOUSEHOLD EDITORz—I





 





have noticed that occasionally a,



woman writes to this page and

frees her mind, and as mine is filled to

bursting just now, I thought I would

try this way of letting off steam. I dont

dare talk to my neighbors, and talking to

my husband isnt any relief, it is too

common.



I have always lived in the city until a

year ago. All that time I have had a

“dream country” in my mind with a.

beautiful home of my own where I could

bring up my boys and girls close- to na-

ture's heart and let them absorb learn-

ing from every brook and stone, leaf and

flower. 1 call it a. "dream country” be—

cause it was made up only of what I had

gathered from books and poems. I read

avidiously everything on country life,

revelled, in my imagination. in its sim-

plicity and ease, saw my children growing

strong and rosy, heard them calling ev-

ery flower by name and saw them feed-

ing the birds from their hands while

they lovingly pointed out to me the dif-

ferent Species.



A year ago we moved to the country

and set about the establishment of our

luradise. But in one short year I have

discovered that my “dream country” was

after all only a dream, and that the real

thing is as different and inferior as one

could imagine.



I dismvercd that my city bred chil-

drcn knew more about the wild flowers

than these native sons of the soil. The

little country boys perhaps knew the

names of one or two. Our boys could

tell 30 at sight. And where the country

boys knew only the names of the wild

birds, ours could tell all about their

habits, how the nests are built, the man-

ner of caring for the young, all the little

peculiarities each displayed and, in fact,

dozens of things the country boy had

never heard. -



All these things our lads had learned

in trips to park and field with their





teachers. The teachers in the country

school never dare take their charges

afield. Parents send their children to





school hcre to "learn to write and fig-

ure, not to go traipsin’ around the woods

tearing their clothes and wearing out

thcir shoes." Far from learning more

of nature, our children will learn less

than they (lid in the city unless their

father or I go with them on their pil-

grimagcs.



In the matter of strength, too, our

boys are vastly the superior of these

country boys. Exercise in the gymnasium

and directed outdoor sports have de-

veloped their muscles. The country boys

are fatter, but it is fat caused by over

eating. Thcir muscles are undeveloped

for their only exercise is the chores they

do night and morning, and the younger

ones do not do enough to really help

them devclop. in a matter of endurance

our boys are so far ahcad of the country

lads that it is really pitifu-l, for combined

with their regular exercise they are eat-

ing only strength-giving foods, milk,

eggs, cereals, meat, potatoes, whole

wheat bread, etc., while their new play-

mates gorge on pie, cake, greasy fried

cakes, soggy bread, salt pork and the

like, all of which they bolt without the

formality of chewing at all, to say noth-

ing of the prescribed “32 bites.”



But this is not the worst. Our children

have learned more downright badness

here in this one Short year than they

could have learned in ten had we stayed

in the city. I have read all about the

bad, vile boy of the city streets, and the

good little, pure little boy of the country.

ln fact, it was those two boys who helped

me decide to'move to the country. But,

after an acquaintance with both I must

say I prefer the city youth. I can keep

my children from associating with the

bad boys in town and everyone will ap—

plaud. If I forbid them to play with the

boys here I am called stuckup and ac-

oused of thinking myself better than my

neighbors. So I must let my boys play

with these lads, whose minds seem to be

given over only to speculation on the

mysteries of life, on which they put the

worst interpretations. Instead of com-

mitting to memory bits of poetry and





 





grand and noble thoughts, these boys

are learning immoral couplets and bits of

indecent doggerel. It is no wonder the

teacher can never get them to learn a

bit of pure poetry to recite last days.

Their minds are too filled with other

things.



‘Ve are going back to the city in the

spring, if not before. Going before our

boys are entirely ruined. Perhaps we

are too late now. At any rate, it Will

take years to efface the things they have

learned in “God’s pure country.” Here-

after, when I read that, I shall give

thanks to God that if he did make. this

particular bit of country He let man

make the beautiful, wonderful city.



A DISILLUSIONED MOTHER.



Oakland Co.





JEWEL AND BEAD EMBROIDERY.

No. 12.





 





DY MAE Y. MAHAFFY.





Jewel work has long been a prominent

feature in dress trimmings, and is util-

ized in combination with fancy stitches

in various other forms of embroidery,

but its usage the past season has become

remarkable, owing largely to the popular

craze for head trimmings. The use of

beads in embroidery designs almost in-

variably calls for some jewel work, and

hence both forms are just now in the

lead for trimmings. Since they are al-

ways splendid features, no matter what

fad may be to the fore, it is well for

cvr-ry necdleworker to understand just

how to make» the best of both heads and

jewels in an ornamental way.



The jcwel work is little more than a

ruiscd satin stitch, described previously

undcr the head of “Solid \Vork or Satin

Stitch.” This solid work was found in

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above, they may be intermingled with

almost any other stitchwork to splendid

advantage. whether on linen or some

heavier fabric.



A tray of gems in a jeweler’s window

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possibilities in the color line. To be

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application of exactly copied colors should

be aimed at: the same leniency is allowed

in this field as in any of the other emu

broideries, but consideration of the real

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size that it is practicable to shade them'

a trifle, but as a rule they are best

worked in one shade, the mingling of col-

ors and tints being achieved by mass-

ing groups of the jewels, each in its own

particular coloring: Then, too, pleasing

results are often arrived at through the

use of the vari-colored or shaded floss,

though this must be used with care, as

any marked change from one shade to

another while working a given jewel will

produce startling results. Select about

the same tone in all the different colors,

daintier, more artistic effects thus being

attained.



In the disks, work across in one direc-

tion in the satin stitch first to form the

padding, and. cross these stitches closely

and smoothly for the outer embroidery.

By beginning the outer work in the cen-

ter and working out to the edges alter-

nately it will be found very easy to pre-

serve the contour of the circle, a very

important item. In the ovals the pad-

ding may be placed lengthwise, with

outer stitches straight across, or the

padding may be slanted diagonally in one





 





Designs Suitable for Beading.





direction, and the outer layer of stitches

be placed on exactly.the opposite slant.

'J. his latter is perhaps the most effective

method. The padding must always be

made especially heavy near the center.

so that the desired rounding figures will

result. After the solid work is placed

fine outline stitches in black, rich brown,

or in a shade darker than that of each

jewe1,'.-are worked around each, the ex-

act. forms being carefully maintained.



In doing bead embroidery fine needles

an silk thread of the same shade as the

material or,of_nthe heads will be needed.

Asto the background fabrics there seems

to be no limit. Naturally, one would ex;

De ,to see bead work on non—washable

fa _ ics only, but washable gowns, waists,

ete".. are ornamented quite freely in the

same fashion. However, silks, marqui-

settes, chiffons, voiles, challies, and sim-

ilar materials will prove better adapted

to the work. When washable goods are

embellished in this way attention will

need to be given the laundering process.

No rubbing of the beads is allowable.

and in ironing the article must be placed

on a heavily padded surface. and as lit-

tle weight placed upon them as is prac~

ticable to prevent breakage.



Two designs suitable for beading are

shown, but almost any embroidery de-

sign may be beaded, particularly those

for French knot or cross—stitch work.

In the latter, each of the crosses is rep-

resented by a bead, while in the former

the French knots are replaced by beads.

As a rule, outlining or couching is com-

bined with the bead work, and frequently

some solid work. It is not wise to stamp

the regular embroidery patterns on any

material for bead work, as the beads will

'not cover all the stamped lines. The

pattern may be basted underneath trans-

parent fabrics and readily followed. On

others use the design stamped on tissue

paper basted over the material, working

right through both, and when the beading

is completed tear the paper away.



The beads are sewn down to the goods

with as short stitches as possible so

that the thread will not show beyond the

head, the thread being carried along on

the wrong side. The beads are placed

quite close together when a small size

is used, but larger ones may be spaced

3. bit. The centers of flowers are formed

of groups of beads, of one larger bead or

sequin, or of a jewel in satin stitch. They

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GRAHAM BREAD AND NUT, LOAF.





BY ELLA E. nocxwoon.



Making graham bread, or brown bread,

as it is now more commonly called, is in

many homes a sort of bugbear to the

cook, who hesitates to attempt it because

she is not quite sure how it is going to





 





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





turn out.

by adding to the ordinary “sponge” suffi-

cient graham flour to make a 80f\. loaf,

kneading itruntil smooth but not at all

hard. Let this rise and bake slowly 40

to 45 minutes.



A quicker method of making brown

bread does away with yeast and substi-

tutes baking soda as a leavening agent.

The following is a tested recipe and the

amount will make one loaf:



Two cups of buttermilk, one cup of

graham flour, one cup corn meal, one-

half cup of white flour, one-half cup of

molasses, two teaspoonfuis of soda, one





-teaspoon baking powder, one—half tea-





spoon salt. Ail measures level. Raisins

may be added if desired. Mix and place

in a greased bread pan. Bake very slow-

ly seas not to form a thick crust. Or

the leaf may be steamed 45 minutes and

finished in the oven.



Another most delicious bread is cal-led

nut loaf. Like the former, this bread is

sometimes made with yeast. But here

is another recipe that calls for baking

powder instead, and is easily and quickly

prepared. By following instructions

closely failure is impossible as all meas-

urements are accurate.



Four cups white flour, one-half cup of

granulated sugar, four teaspoons (round~

ing), baking powder, one level teaspoon

salt. Mix all together dry or put through

a sieve, then add one cup chopped hick-

ory nut meats. Beat two eggs and add

to them two cups sweet milk. Pour over

the dry ingredients, beat well and put

into a buttered bread pan. Let stand 20

minutes to rise then bake slowly about

45 minutes. A



This makes delicious sandwiches for

any social function yet is suciently simple

and inexpensive for the family table,

where it is sure to prove a. favorite.





 





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then making mincemeat, try grinding

the apples unpeeled, very fine, in the food

grinder. The work will' be much less—

ened and the apples have a better flavor.

—M. A. P.



Perhaps good housekeepers will not ap-

prove of my plan of making work seem

lighter but here it is and you may take

it for what it is worth. After dinner I

pile my dishes neatly on the table and

go at once to my sewing and work until

the nervous strain commences. Then I

drop the sewing and wash dishes. I find

the sewing much easier in this way.—

E. L. .



For your loose machine band, drop on

a little castor oil, then turn the wheel

quickly and the band will contract—D. T.





In these days of high-priced brooms

try sweeping your kitchen floor with

your mop. Have the cloth shorter than

usual and barely damp. A little experi-

ence will enable you to do better work

than with a broom as it takes fine dust

as Well as litter.—-Mrs. W. C. M.





A piece of screen cut to fit over the

pipes under your register will greatly

prevent the dust and dirt entering. Also

anything can be easily rescued that might

be dropped through the register.——Mrs.

G. A. R.



When making fruit cake heat your food

cutter as hot as boiling water can heat it

and fasten it in position and run your

citron, orange and lemon peel through it

while hot and it will not clog. Repeat

heating if necessary till needed candied

peel is cut—Mrs. J. R.



A hot knife will cut soft cake and will





not get sticky as a cold knife always ‘





will.-—Mrs. J. R.



When frying eggs put a. few drops of

water in two or three places after eggs

are in the spider, and cover them a few

minutes. They will not have any hard

rims—L. C.



A good deal of glistening can be ob~

tained on imitation cut glass by we oiling

it in a strong solution of soap powder

Let this dry on it, then rub with a soft

cloth—Mrs. C. P. S.





When making jelly if the pulp is first

drained in a colander then the liquid

strained through a jelly bag it will not

take nearly so long. If, after the jelly is

cold it is not quite as hard as wanted,

set it in a. sunny place, covering with a

cloth to keep out dust. yet allow the

moisture to evaporate. It may take sev-

eral days to get as hard as desired but it

is much more satisfactory than to boil it





'again.—-—Mrs. R. S.





Quick route to nice baked potatoes:

Prepare in the usual way for baking.





plunge into boiling water that has been »





salted. cook rapidly until nearly done,

then finish in the oven—K.





An excellent loaf can be made .





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BY MILLIE GRISWOLD REILEY.





When the year grows old,

And the trees of green

Have turned to gold,

And the squirrels are seen

To store their nuts

In the hollow hold,

The turkey struts

In his manner bold.





\Vhen the days are brief,

And the evening’s long,

\l’e drown our grief

'\\'ith a laugh and song.

W'e heed the call

Of the winter gray,

And store up all

For a stormy day.





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And we‘re gathered round,

The jolliest group

That could be found,

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At the stories told.

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BY RUTH RAYMOND.





Thomas Clark sat down in the wood-

shed to rest his tired back after splitting

a large pile of Wood. Tomorrow would

be Thanksgiving, and the family (all but

Thomas) was going to Grandpa. Brown’s

to keep the day. Tom’s father had said

that very morning, “Someone must stay

at home and look after things, and our

Tom is reliable. Ben or'Fred would for-

get something, and they would be sure

to go to the neighbors to play the lilost

of the day; but Tom’ll be right hcre, and

he never cares much about holidays any-

way."



The lad wondered how his father knew,

since he could not remember to have

ever had a holiday.



A change had been coming over the

youth of late. He was becoming dis-

contented and discouraged. \Vhile he

sat thinking about the unpleasant things

of life, a brood of turkeys went strutting

by. Ile picked up a. stick and threw it

at the gobbler. “They will have'turkey

at grandpa‘s for dinner tomorrow, but

ham will be good enough for me,” he

murmulred. As he spoke he noticed his

tégchei‘ passing in front of the. house on

her way to her uncle's. where she was to

spend the holiday.



Tom joined her, walking down the

road.



“Glad you came out. Thomas. I was

just deliberating whether or not to come

to the door and inquire for you. I’ve

been at the schoolhouse straightening up

before our short vacation. \Vhere are

you going to spend Thanksgiving?”



“At home. i believe, splitting wood and

doing the chores, while our folks go to

GlenWood to spend the day at grandpa’s.

Being reliable, I must stay at home.”



This was said with such bitterness

that Miss Forest was surprised. She

had never heard her favorite scholar

speak in this tone before. Looking at

him closely she thought she understood

his trouble. The lad was fast growing

into manhood and was beginning to long

for his place in the world.



“You are very reliable and everyone

depends upon you. I do, for you do help

me so much with the big boys. You are

a born leader, and where you go they are

sure to follow.”



Thomas looked pleased as she contin-

ued: “When I iirst came to this school,

where there were so many unruly boys,

I was quite distouragcd. for i saw they

lonkmi upon a slip of a girl like me with

disdain. There was rebellion in their

faces, but when you cnterod the school»

house door they all took notice to see

how you treated the situation. 1 watched

your face and saw that you were a boy

I could rely upon to do your very best,

and I have found you a friend in every

emergency. \Vc have a school to be

proud of, Thomas.”



“Thank you, teacher. It is good of you

to praise me so much, but one does get

tired of being—just a. good boy.”



The teacher laughed. “You are right,

and you should have you} share of

pleasure with the rest, but be patient

and it will come out all right I am sure."



Feeling much better, Thomas bade her

good-bye and hastened back to the barn

to do the evening chores.



Thanksgiving dawned fair but cold.

The inmates of the farm house were

early astir and while Thomas looked

after the stock the others dressed for

their journey. His mother had pre-





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





kitchen table. Everyone was happy; ev-

en Thomas whistled at his work, though

there was sadness in his heart.

work all day,” his mother said when

they were ready to depart. “You might

go over and play with the Green twins

for a spell.” Thomas laughed. The

Green twins were four years younger

than he, but mother did not seem to re-

member that he was getting to be. a big

boy and not in a mood for childish

games. "I’ll manage all right, mother,”

he answered, seeing she was afraid he

would be lonely.



About eleven o'clock a. boy came with

a note from his teacher. It was an in-

vitation for him to dine with her at her

uncle’s at 2:00 o’clock. The lonely lad

was much pleased and hastened his tasks

that he might be ready on time.



When he dressed for his first dinner

out, how he longed for a pair of long

trousers like other boys of his age wore;

his legs seemed so big and awkward. At

the appointed time he appeared at Mr.

Genung’s and was welcomed by the fam-

ily, including the teacher. Dinner soon

followed and was all that a Thanksgiving

dinner should be, including roast turkey.

There were several young people pres-

ent, and Thomas, who was always at

ease, enjoyed himself to the utmost.

This was what he had longed for, to be





among those who understood he was not»





a child, but almost a man.



Games followed music and singing,

and then Mr. Genung proposed to take

the guests for a ride in his big touring

car, but Thomas excused himself as it

was time for him to be at home. “Al-

ways reliable,” said his teacher, as she

gave him her hand at parting. “It is

the better way, my friend.”



Thomas was soon at home and doing

chores after having changed to his work-

ing clothes. The stock on the farm all

liked the lad, who was always kind to

animals. His especial care was the big

colt which he had halter—broken and was

looking forward to saddle—breaking. But

he had heard his father telling one: of

the neighbors that he thought of selling

the colt, providing the man who wanted

him decided to give the» price. This was

one of the things which had made Tom

discontented. He wanted that colt some

day' for his very own.



"When Thomas entered the barn to at-

tend to the horses he thought he smelled

smoke. \Vhere could it come from? He

rushed about the barn, looking every-

where, until suddenly a bright flame

burst into view in an almost empty cor—

ner of the hay—loft. Picking up a. pail of

water which stood on the floor, he ran

up a ladder to the loft and, by using his

meager supply of water to the. best. ad-

vantage, managed to extinguish the

blaze. Then he stamped out the sparks

that were struggling to get another start.

it was the work of but a. moment, yet he

felt weak when it was done. He realized

how near he had been to having a big

fire and at a time when his father was

away. His reliability might have been

questioned had anything serious hap-

pened.



Where the lad had poured the water

he found a whiskey bottle nearly empty.

He decided that a tramp had been rest-

ing in the loft. Seeing Thomas return-

ing home, he had probably thrown down

a lighted cigar and left the place with-

out being seen.



He now busied himself with prepar—

ing supper for the family, which would

be coming soon and would doubtless be

hungry. It was nine o’clock when they

came and his mother was very glad to

find a good cup of tea. awaiting her.

Everybody talked at once but Thomas

did not tell them about the fire until the

nt-xt morning, as he thought it might

make his father nervous. The next.

morning he took his father to where the

tire started and was praised for the, way

in which he had prevented a conflagra—

tion.



A few days after this Mr. Clark was

driving past Mr. Genung’s house when

the teacher came out and asked the priv-

ilege of riding to the village. “Glad to

have. you,” said the farmer. “You are a

little woman, but you do: manage the big

boys fine. I’d like to know how you do

it, Miss?”



“Your Thomas helps me,” she answer-

ed, smiling. “I could never teach those

boys but for him." '



“Yes, Thomas is reliable,” proudly an-

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the fire and how quickly it had been ex-

tinguished. This gave the teacher the

chance she had hoped for, and when she

parted with Mr. Clark he thanked her

for her kind suggestions and promised

to act on her advice.



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Clark announced his intention of going

to the town where they did their trad-

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time.” Everyone was surprised, as this

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The happy boy was soon ready and

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The teacher soon learned of Thomas'

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Rose City, Mich.,

Sept. 20, 1911.

Dear Mr. Brooks.





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November 8, 1911.

Grains and Seeds.

Wheat.—~There was no market on Tues-

day owing to the elections held in the

several states and many cities. Prices

have continued the decline begun two

weeks ago. it appears that the recent





. bulge and present decline are largely due





to the manipulations of big holders. it





_seems that an attempt was made by





large buyers to corner the May option,

during which attempt. there was a gen-

eral advance in quotations due to the

buying of the speculators, but when it

became apparent that this future could

not be cornered, the speculators who had

loaded themselves heavily began to sell.

At first, innocent outsiders took the offer-

ings readily, but soon they realized that

the big men were getting out from under

when nobody wanted to buy and every

broker stood ready to dispose of his

holdings, with the result that pricts have

declined. Another reason for'the decline

is that the government seems determined

to bring action against large brokers and

incidentally make an investigation of the

methods employed in the “pits.” Should

this occur, all desire to be without grain,

or at least, only hold that which is neces:

sary to meet regular demands. The

spring wheat crop of the northwest is

being marketed rapidly and it is expect-

ed that the crop will soon be in the ele-

vators, as it is short. The visible supply

shows an increase of over two and one-

half million bushels, primary receipts

are heavy. Flour is about steady; mills

are busy. A year ago the price for No.





2 red wheat was 92lg- per bu. Quotations

for the week are as tolIows:

No. 2 No. 1





Red. \Vhite. Dec. May.





Thursday . . . .963], .9334 .9833, $10315

Friday ...... 96 .93 .98 1.023,;

Saturday ..... 961; .9314 .981], 1.03



Monday 1.0111.





..... 95 1,; .92 1,; .96 1};

Tuesday ......... .. . .. .. . . .

\Vednesday ..951/2 .921/2 .97 1.01534



Corn—In spite of the decline in wheat,

corn has been able to maintain the prices

ruling a week ago. This is due to the

strong position of this trade and the

damage done the crop by continuous

heavy rains. In Missouri the state report

shows there has been a shrinkage of

several bushels since the crop has been

harvested, due to the above cause, and

this condition prevails throughout the

greater portion of the corn belt. Much

of the corn is so bad that it is hardly fit

for feeding purposes. While the price is

restricting the use of the cereal, there is

a comparatively liberal amount being

uséd by feeders, due to the general un—

derstanding that well finished cattle will

be scarce later in the season. One year

ago the price of No. 3 corn was 511/31?





per bu. Quotations for the past week

are:



No. 3 No. 3



Corn. Yellow.

Thursday 76 761/;

Friday ......... 76 761A,»

Saturday ........ 76 76%

Saturday ................. 76 761/;

Tuesday .................. . . . . . .

\Vednesday .............. 75 751/:





Oats—The quotations for this cereal

haVc been steady with the closing prices

of last week. There has been a fair

demand for the cereal which keeps the

markt steady. One year ago the price

for standard oats was 34%0 per bu. Quo-

tations for the past week are:



Standard No.3





. White.

Thursday . . . . . ..... . ..... 49 481,43

Friday ................... 49 481/2

Saturday ................. 49 481/2

Monday .................. 49 481g.

Tuesday ................. .. . . ..

\Vednesday .............. 49 4815





Beans—Prices have declined on the lo-

cal market the past week. The reason

for the change is that consignments are

in poor shape and contain too much

moisture, making the shrinkage large and

endangering their keeping quality. The

amount handled locally. however, is not

large at present, farmers being inclined

to hold where they feel safe in doing so.

Following are the quotations:





Oct. Dec.

Thursday .......... . .. . . . . $2.32 $2.30

Friday ..................... 2.32 2.30

Saturday . ...... 2.32 2.90

Monday ....... . ........... 2.30 2.2.8

Tuesday ....... . ............... ....

\\'ednesday ................ 2.28 2.26





Clover Seed.—There is an active de-

mand for seed and prices are maintained

at those of a week ago. The price drop-

ped 13c on Friday last, but recovered

the following day. Alsike is steady. Fol-

lowing are the leading quotations:



' Prime Spot. March. Alsike.





Thursday ....... $12.40 $12.50 $10.50

Friday ........... 12.25 12.35 10.50

Saturday ....... 12.40 12.50 10.50

Monday ......... 12.40 12.50 10.50

Tuesday

\Vednesday . . .. 12.40 12.50 10.50





Timothy Seed.—There is no changein

this product. Prime spot nominally quot-

ed at $7.20 per bu.



Rye.——Rye has again declined and is

now selling 2c below the price of a week

ago, or at 97c per bu. for Cash No. 2.



Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.



Noun—«There is a fair demand for

flour, with prices unchanged.



Straight ......... 410

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





THE MICHIGAN FARME§.





$32; cracked corn, $30; coarse corn meal,

$30; corn and oat chop, $28 per ton.



Hay and Straw.——Hay has advanced

particularly the lower grades. Straw re-

mains steady. Quotations are: No. 1

timothy, $2061.21; No. 2 timothy, $19@20;

clover, mixed, $186019; rye straw, $950611)

10; wheat and oat straw, $8.50@9 per ton.



Potatoes.———Prices here and at primary

points out in the state indicate a steady

market for potatoes. They are being de—

livered to the big markets in quantities

that satisfy the current demand but not

in such abundance as to burden the

trade. Car lots on track are quoted at

6061162c per bu. in bulk,1:,and‘65@67c in

sacks.. ‘ ‘ ,



Provisions.—Family pork, $19@19.50;

mess pork. $16; medium clear, $16@17.50;

hams, 14c; bacon, 126513%c; pure lard

in tierces, 9i/2c; kettle rendered lard.

101,130 per lb.



Dairy and Poultry Products.





Batten—The supply of butter is shrink-

ing and since storage people were fright—

ened into not putting away much of the

surplus last spring and summer because

of threatened legislation and the expecta-

tion of free trade relations with Canada,

the demand is boosting prices, which

have advanced all over the country, to

an unusual altitude for this season. Quo-

tations are: Extra creamery, 32c; firsts,

do., 31c; dairy, 210; packing stock, 200

per lb. .



Eggs—The current receipts here and

at the other big markets are growing

smaller and prices are advancing. The

increase here amounted to 11/20. Fresh

receipts, case count, cases included, are

now quoted at 260 per dozen.



Poultry.—Chickens of all grades have

suffered a decline in values due to a

fair supply and-to the habit of buyers

who usually make a dent in quotations

just previous to a holiday that they may

secure stock at reduced values and then

sell when the increased demand pushes

quotations up. Other poultry is steady

except geese, which are higher. Prices

are: Live—liens, 9611100; turkeys, 1461)

15c; geese, 1061.11c; ducks, 126013c; young

ducks, 14c; spring chickens, 11c; No. 2

chickens, 80 per lb.



Cheese—Michigan, old, 16611161/20; Mich—

igan, late, 151,561116c; York state, new,16@

16ch; Swiss, domestic block, 1960210;

cream brick, 15@16c; limburger, 12@13c.



Veal.—~l\tlarket steady. Fancy, 10@110;

choice, 861.90 per lb.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cabbage—Steady. Selling at

1.75 lit r bbl, for home-grown.



Onionswerb‘teady; 806190c per bu.



Peal‘s.—75c611 per bu for average of-

ferings.



Apples.~Market steady with offerings

sutlicicnt to meet the present demand.

Average offerings are going at 5061175c

per bu; Snows are selling at $2.50@3 per

barrel.





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OTHER MARKETS.

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The potato market is higher and buy-

ers are paying 5061550 at loading sta-

tions. The faimers are selling freely and

the movement of stock out of Michigan

is quite heavy. Local buyers are paying

$1.50611.75 for apples. The egg market

continues firm at 260 for fresh stock.

llairy butter is also worth 26c and is Very

scarce. Wheat is off a little, No. 2 red

bringing 900 and No. 1 white 870. Rye

is worth 84c; oats, 48c, and old corn Tile.



——-4

Chicago.



“'heat. No. 2 red, MIA—96%; Dec.,

927w; May, 9935,60 per bu.



t.‘orn.—»l\‘o. 2, 7360750; Dec., 621/8c; May





6331 e per bu.



Pats—No. 2 white, 48@481/,,c; Dec.,

463%: May, 491/30



Barley—Malting grades, $1.00@1.26 per

bu: feeding, 75621950 ,



Butter—The advance at Elgin added

strength to this market but up to VVed-





 





nesday quotations had not been.ad-

vanced. Creamei‘ies, 241/269310; dairies,





2261‘28c per lb.



Eggs.—~Offerings continue light and all

grades are higher, the better qualities

showing a 26330 gain. Quotations: Prime

firsts, 2561270; firsts, 22@24c; at mark,

cases included, 1761:20c per dozen.



T’otatoes.—»~ Market very firm with quo-

tations showing a gain of 5@80 over this

time last week. Michigan stock is now

quoted at 7361178c per bu; Wisconsin, 70

6175c: Minnesota, 73617780.



1eans.—»I‘ea beans are higher; prices

being firmly maintained on all kinds.

Choice hand-picked pea beans quoted at

32.476125? per bu; prime, $2.36@2.43; red

kidneys, $2.756i3.25 per bu.



llay and Straw.——Hay is steady and

unchanged. Rye straw slightly lower.

Quotations: Choice timothy, $22@23 per

ton; do., No. 1 $206321; do., No. 2 and

No. 1 mixed, $196320; do., No. 3 and No.

2 mixed, $146918; clover, $15@17; do., No.

2 and no grade, $86113; rye straw, $9.50

6110.50: oat straw, $9619.50 per ton; wheat

straw, $76178 per ton.





New York.





Britten—Steady; quotations practically

unchanged. Creamery specials are quot-

ed at 3369331éc per lb; extras, 32617321/20;

firsts, 296030120; seconds, 27@281,éc; thirds

2460260 per lb.



Eggs—Firm at a general advance of

2603c. Fresh gathered extras, 36@37c;

extra, firsts, 32@34c; seconds, 26@28c;

western gathered whites, 3069400 per doz.



l7'01”Wye—Chickens are slightly lower.

“'estern chickens, 11@12c; fowls, 11@120;

turkeys, 16c. Dressed-Good stuff is 10

higher. Turkeys, 10@21c; fowls, 7613

161/20; western chickens, 7@17c per lb.



. Boston.



Wool—The amount of wool moved on

theiocal market last week is estimated

at 5,000,000 lbs., and this is less than the





amount exchanged the previous week.

Prices for fleece wool‘ are firmer although

no marked advances are yet notable. The

recent demand for ég-fleeces has cared

for a c‘éTisiderable quantity of that grade

and left the market with practically no

more bargain lots to sell. The ship—

ments of wool from Boston from January

1 to November 2, inclusive, were 151,-

183,884 lbs., against 178,356,304 lbs. for

the same time in 1910. The receipts for

that period in 1910 were 238,958,666 lbs.,

whereas in the same period of the pres-

ent year they aggregated 265,883,358 lbs.





 





Elgln.





Buiter.—Market firm at 32c per 1b.,

which is a lo advance over last week’s

quotation. Output for the week, 667,500

lbs., as compared with 674,200 lbs. for the

previous week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

November 6, 1911.





(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens.

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 220 cars; hogs, 140 double decks;

sheep and lambs, 150 double decks; calves



1,000 head. .



\\'ith 220 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and 35,000 reported in Chi-

cago, it was a. significant fact that there

wasn’t a single load of good cattle on our

market, to till orders here for a dozen

loads of good prime cattle that could

have been sold from $7.75@8 per 100 lbs.

Anything of any quality that showed

fat sold from 10@200 higher than last

Monday.



\\'c quote: Best 1,400 to 1,600-lb. steers

$775618; good prime 1,300 to 1,400-lb. do.,

$7.256117.50; do. 1,200 to 1,300-lb. do., $6.50

617; best 1,100 to 1,200~lb. shipping steers

$575616: medium butcher steers, 1,000 to

1,100 lbs., $5.25615.65; light butcher steers

$4.75615.10; best. fat cows, $450615; fair

to good'do., $350614; common to medium

do., $2.2561,2.75; trimmers, $1.50@2; best

fat heifers, $5.2561.‘5.75,‘ fair to good do.,

$3.75@4.25; good fat heifers, $4.5061j5.25;

stock heifers, $3.256113.50; best feeding

steers, dehorned, $4.75@5; common do.,

$375614; stockers, all grades, $3.256j»3.50;

prime export billls, $56,125.25; best butcher

bulls, $4.25@4.75; bologna bulls, $325614:

stock bulls, $3613.75; best milkers and

springers, $506160; common to good do.,

$2ifiVl/33.



(vur hog market was in an unsatisfac-

tory condition today; the bulk of the

choice quality mixed and medium weights

selling at $6.20; a few selected decks

running to the heavier weights at $6.25,

and a very few fancy selected at $6.30,

while the choice quality yorkers ranged

from 3661561620, and a good many very

good kind of yorkers on down to 60 per

lb. Light yorkers ranged from $57061)

5.90, according to weight and quality,

and the good quality pigs from $550611

5.60; the bulk of the good quality rough

sows went at 51/20 An oversupply is

responsible for this decline today, and We

think our market should react a little in

the next few days. Late trade ruled

fairly active at the prices, and the hogs

were fairly well cleaned up except the

late arrivals.



The sheep and lamb market was slow

today; most of the choice lambs sold at

$5.75; few at 565.806.315.85; wethers at $3.50

$3.75. There are a good many unsold

market closing dull. Don’t look for much

improrcinciit the balance of the week

unless the runs are light Friday.



“’e quote: Best spring lambs, $5.756?

580; call to common do., $4.5061‘5; weth-

ei‘s, $3.50613.75: bucks, $2.5061‘2.75; year-

lings, $375614: handy ewes, $36,113.25;

heavy do., $3613.25; cull sheep, $150602:

vcals, choice to extra, $9619.25: fair to

good do., $8619; heavy calves, $4@5.





 





Chicago. '

November 6, 1911.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 35,000 28,000 52,000

Same day last ycar..39,083 23,701 68.565

Received last week..58,675 141,877 176.596

Same, week last year.81,710 105,445 152,961



Last week’s good advance in prices of

cattle resulted in greatly increased re-

ceipts today, the run including only about

4,000 western range cattle. Choice beeves

were in comparatively small supply, and

and buyers paid steady prices, there be-

ing a good demand, and some fat steers

sold at_$9, but they were not as prime as

those sold last Wednesday at $9.10 and

$9.15. Common and medium cattle. in—

cluding butcher stock, as well as steers.

moved off slowly at reductions of 10

@150.



Hogs were in limited supply today and

sold actively at advances of 56110c, the

top being $6.55. inferior to prime light

hogs weighing 35 to 195 lbs. went at

6370611035. and choice hogs weighing

around 245 to 295 lbs. sold highest, stags

going at $6.3561‘6.75 and boars at $2.756D

2.25. Mixed lots of pigs weighing 110 lbs.

and under sold at $4694.90 and selected

pigs weighing 100 to 130 lbs. at $4.956!)

5.40. Owing to the large receipts of pigs

last week, the average weight of the

hogs and pigs declined to 203 lbs.



Sheep were about steady today, and an

exceptionally prime consignment of fed

yearlings that averaged about 96 lbs.,

numbering about 200 head, brought $4.75.

Lambs on the mutton order were off 250

or more, with a $6 top, but feeders were

active and unchanged.



Cattle. got such a blow week before

last, when 85,739 head were received.

that owners shipped in stock far less

freely last week, preferring to wait for

recoveries from the general slump in

prices. This resulted in bringing about

the desired reaction, and prices had sev-

eral lively advances for the general run

of the offerings, the poorest showing the

least rise. Prime beeves made a new

high record for the year Monday by





 





 





 





‘Nov. 11, 1911. '





bringing $9, while there were several

sales \Vedensday at that figure and

sales also at $9.10@9.15. No good steers

have been selling below $7.50, with choice

lots bringing $8.60 and upward, while

medium 10 good cattle sold around $6.25

@745 and inferior to fair steers at $4.40

@620. Prime yearlings sold up to $8.66.

and butchering lots of cows and heifers

brought $3.30@6.90, a few going higher,

and there was a sale of two head of

fancy 1,325-lb. heifers at 398' Cutters sold

at $3.80'i0325; cannei's at 513175611275 and

bulls at $275696. Calves brought $2506}

9 per 100 lbs., while milkers and spring~

ers had a fair sale at $30@75 each, the

demand being smaller than a short time

ago. ‘tVestern range cattle had their

share in the upward movement, being

offered much less freely, and there was

a good demand, steers going at $42561)

7.50 and cows and heifers at $365.50. The

range shipping season is nearing a close,

and the average quality of the receipts

is poorer than heretofore. The same

holds true of fed cattle, there being a

marked lack of prime beeves, and they

are expected to go still higher. It seems

a good time to feed well-bred cattle, and

a good many have been going to the

country, although prices advanced last

week- sharply for good lots. Stockers

sold at $3605.20 and feeders at $440636,

with very few stockers or feeders 'selling

near top figures. Ohio has taken lots of

good stockers, as Well as medium to good

feeders. The greater part of the cattle

of all kinds have recovered their recent

decline.



Hogs have shown a weak undertone

much of the time recently, with liberal

receipts, while the eastern shipping de-

mand was variable, being on a limited

scale on several days. The percentage

of little and medium weight pigs market-

cd has continued very large, and buyers

have refused to take them except at big

concessions from prices paid for matured

hogs. The pigs of extremely light weight

were mostly sick or had been exposed to

sickness, but many of the heavier

Weights were perfectly healthy and mar-

keted simply to save feed bills. Shippers

led off in paying advances for hogs

whenever prices were moving up, and

local packers invariably held back and

tried their best to force prices lower for

packing hogs. Choice hogs weighing be-

tween 210 and 300 lbs. were the highest

sellers, and the spread in hog prices was

the widest of the season. The best hogs

sold Saturday 10c, lower than a week ago.



Sheep and lambs were weak early

last week under a liberal Monday run.

close to 54,000 head sending the best

lambs off to $5.90 and thin lots suffering

a considerable break, but later in the

week lambs advanced materially under

much smaller offerings. On account of

much reduced receipts of range lambs,

there was a much larger call for fat

natives, and the demand for range feeder

stock was lively at well maintained

prices. The range shipping season ’is

nearing its close. and already the market

has been 1’ receiving the promised

strengthening in prices.

promises high prices during the com—

ing winter season for fat stock, and

farmers who understand making prime

lambs for the market should make

good money. The close of the week

showed sheep and yearlings selling at

about the prices of a week earlier, but

lambs were much higher, bringing $3.506};

6.25, feeder lambs bringing $325615. Ewes

sold at $1.75613.35; wcthei's at $360617

3.90: bucks at $2612.75 and yearlings at

$3.7561‘4.40. Breeding ewes sold at $310617

4, and feeders paid $3.756?»4.15 for year—

]ings and $3.25@3.60 for wethers. '



ll'orses have been meeting with an ex—

tremely small local and eastern shipping

demand for a week past, and common

and medium animals were apt to sell at

lower prices, while all that kept better

horses from weakening in value was

their scarcity. Light weight drafters are

selling at $175611220 per head, with a bet-

ter and heavmr class salable at $22561)

325, while wagon horses are worth usu-

ally $16061‘200. Inferior to medium horses

go at $656rl45. F.



LIVE STOCK NOTES.



Thomas Cross, who for a period of sev-

en years, was head of the cattle-buying

force of the, National Packing Co. at

Chicago, and for nearly a year has been

beef steer salesman for Clay, Robinson

&. 00., also of Chicago, predicts that good

to prime cattle are sure to bring prices

for months to come that will cause good

cheer to pervade the camps of feeders,

unless some unforeseen adverse condi-

tion arises. He believes that the time is

at hand to stock up with good quality

fleshy f eders. as the best are now avail~

able aroind $3 per cwt. below tops for

prime fat beeves,



In Missouri stockmen are finding their

supplies of corn reduced by the long pe-

riod of wet weather, and part of it is

unfit even for feeding on the farm. T. C.

\Vilson, secretary of the Missouri Board

of Agriculture, keeps in close touch with

agricultural conditions all over the state,

having more than 700 c espondents,

nearly all of whom report uch rotting

corn and damage by worms. Mr. Wilson

says summer drouth was not to blame

for the reduction of the corn crop of the

state from the average of 32.4 bu. an

acre last year to an estimated yield this

year of 29 bu., the damage having been

done by seven weeks of continuous rainy

weather. The late rains have so rotted

the corn that two to three bushels an

acre will be ruined.



VVeilingt‘on Leavitt, of Swift & Co., at

Chicago, a cattleman of keen judgment

of values and conditions, says the time

is coming, and is not far off, when the

northwest will furnish the country with

fat beef cattle the year around. ”They

have the breeding stock up there, and

each vear they are producing more feed.





 





We need not fear that the northwest is-





going out of the cattle-raising business!"





Everything.





 





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tion Friday mining. The mu aim is 3W mall M P. 001. 16 M av

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500 to» 700. $8.510“; chime m cows. $45 fismflmmfi’ 3223103,, “5 “19316 $53”

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fiasw 341;; tfiaiirr imfiyfizfimm bulls. to ~Slnllrvalvl P. On. 87 lhllmlbs my 45 ml

Ming 1% 2m ttmi 1m ruin-@1375- k 00- 39 M W ~89 ““1 “$2, 4 ‘30 a“? ’1'”

rah-r am. m m 1000 50711341302. enhance m W 3” "lambs. "7 W a“ ‘55; t0 SW31 &

StClClkBI‘S’ 500 W m' $33w@fi'm. m an” 00.380 60 11V 70'21’. $5.15,, 13 do av 73821

500 he 7% $361i35fl;;"filzmdk Wells $2.15qu $3335» 3‘” d0 3" “3‘” $5527" 4‘35 Sheep ml

332;; mil-1km, m m, male than 38-93.. 11115) at $2.10), 10 Minimum Till at $5.20; _to

$405050; mm my mt.) . W was. {511 mm av ~42 at $3.310.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mm 'P. Co. 69 811981) 3W '39 1“ $350, '23 ‘30 m 1130 a“

3 COWS ’av m M $2.50, 11 “0 Wing 900 $2.73), 10 limbs 837 96 at $330., 111 $511681):

at $3130, ‘1 ’b'n'l'l weig'himg 1:980 at 53.50. 3 W .120 alt 153’ 67 ‘30 33" 39 “it $230» 1‘32

cannems my 2013 at $2.40; min Seminacher 4 lambs av ‘73 at $430" 33 do “‘7 .7031 $13.50;?

cows av .970 at 53...“); to “mm 2 do our .to Esc‘hmich 34 odo‘av 50 at $3,511,; .to flam-

730 at $8.30"; to Schumaikim f8 steers EV #301138- .‘& CO' '32, d9 aw rm at $5.; '10;

844 alt $4; to Heinrich 11 «110 av 1,030 at ESCT‘T‘C'h 26 do avfl'g’gat $330-

1540; no ‘Mic’h. B. Co. 25 «:10 av 1,000 at . - ,

$5.25, 14 will» cw ones at :55, 15 cows av 958 Receipts, “3302-, Marika stead)? t0 5‘3

at $3.25., 2 no av 1,000 at $2.50.; ho Hm— 3W“ '1»th last Fhumdmfl

mond, s. .21 ch. 2 oa-nners ~a'v £9110 at , , .. , ,- .

$2.50, 1160 weighlmg "1110 .at $2, 5 1311-239th ems. $(i.l:n@~6.2u; mags, $3.2.)‘rfl'5Jl'D; light

av 784 at $3, :2 £31) aw 955 at $4.50., ‘18 on lesersv @3336?!“ “as; (me-third ill-£-

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do 'a‘lv 940 at $2.25,; ttlo ‘Fa'mnm 5 butchers , . _

av 630 at $3.10.; to Goose 4 (lo av 970 wt 3633’ 3,43) '3” Jr” 31* $6, 3:03'0 W 370 ‘31

$3, 6 oh av 1040 :a‘t 13100:; to .Sulli'vnm :P.. Wall-5: '53" 3V 1"? 3" '36-??- , 0-

Co. S cows za‘v :954 at $2.171, 1 do weighing 8%“ fin:— 50,33 Pa” 1591’! “‘ 3% C’" “"

1,050 at $3.175; It!) Hammer] .7 butchers our “1" ., ,g‘Ptdb-bv T", 13" 1 9 %EO$6'*°-,00 ,.

620 at $4 41 eh m7 830 -at $5- to Stdhilll‘ mm. -‘ ‘ M- 50‘ Slim“ “'3. av ~. ‘1‘

.m'alher 2; More «wv .935 an «4 733- to suzlrl- $223 “80 “3W 18” at ”lb-20' 1‘0 av "’0 at

’ - 7 - f' . ‘~_,- 5’ 5. ’* ‘- .15. l

msflwa'f’mf, §?%?n§fv31’3”0 fiji-Vd‘lbgg 1121101660131. Co. 59m Sullivan r. Co. 180‘,

23.1 $2 80' in) Hamil-mind 'S .8: lC‘o l3 butch- :39”? $136.25, '5‘)” av 180 at $G'20’ 86 av,

r.~.,l . ,',,. ». m, _.'. .

tars W m at $330: D “310:8? “30 at 3 ‘1 mm, 13. & Iii hold segue-’150 av 1.70:





 





'B. 'CO. 7130 Wm‘tldhers 11W 877.9 nit $143.10, 1 bull





bdllnwéWlimg 1:009 Bit $330; Tt-O Newton 311556.20 115518“! 1570 81156.1» 1 ,.

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weighing 31.51330 all: $4.10: 10 Fromm 14 . _

butchers Irv 1343 art $8.10: rto Hammond. iF-rir‘hy's ggke‘tt.) ,3 1911

s. It; 100. a cow «weighing 1,040.11: $2.50, ONE 6"“ er , ‘ - l





Zdoaw1,n.' -,‘ , -="1.- 7i, .. .. , 1

1btfll‘waitfiggméxttgafibgafgd?gréibnveg‘xgilrilri' Reoemts ill/ms “eek, 1,694; last week,

8.20 at 53.1110; :10 .Siillai'vam r. ch. as stream 1'8.”- M‘mfiet Steady at Thurs‘lal’s

a‘v W wt 37,30. to 3119.501} .1 :00“, wdighing .1mloe5._ “We rogote: Best steers and helf-

1.080 mil. 155:2}?- yfo Wesnalham 13 {cows aw ms, shank-(mm); steers and heifers, 1.000

8410 out nem- 11h Lmlmn 1 she-er 'weig‘hing $041,203 $4~15'@’5-2";."30" 500 “7 1-000' $53

77710 at: 03.25411 do :aw €900 .th $425. 10 Bres- 1.7:); steers and heifers that are fat, U00

1112311911 ,4 ‘ca‘t’xmerrs 11v 19111) at $2.40 .3 .60 av m 7100, “@450"; enema 53“ COWS! “(’1

$00 am "32.25:; m!) (Goose 0.3 cows £137 77.7 :81 4‘25; £0051 ”ta-t 'CWS’ $3'fima3‘v‘7‘f’; common

$8.30: 1m :Bdhlli'mdher 21 ibut-dhelts aw 793 “W‘JL’MW’BJWW'11-7561'2351‘0h0m

mm. W: r2: .2

Q. _. in. . ‘Brena ’ ‘3.” :9 1151'. 1 s, ...‘ a .40; 's on " u s. .3 (1‘3:

mm. :7 35;: 23min, -20g «3:821; .391 at “£9103 1'"me m' ’30” 'm 1’90”» $4550":

$335, 2110 iii.) .a-v .530 41.1 $3, .3 ‘do .av 43-3 at 4'“).; fair feeamg steers, 8.00 “to 1‘000' $35”

$2.50; no mm. , as. & «oh. 1 COW ”@335? 3th 510mm, 390 30 799» 53'5”?

wrgirnrg 77-30 'at $2.27), .13 (‘10 ’av 1:033 ‘21": $3. 3337-5, heir :EtOGkBYYS, Bill) 7110 700, ‘036032 .;





ling 11,3150 art $3.50, fl do weighing 1,630 at ‘. ‘ _.., _



rum, 1 cow weighing 000 at: $2.25. 4 do milkerb, 32.3113». .



aw 047 m 02.25, 4 tan av 785 at $15.7 1 . . V9" “we?



limit weighing 1,070 at $3.75, 1 row Weigh- “tempts ““5 Week- 945’ ‘9“ W891" 929‘



$80 at $2.25. 1 do weighing 930 at $2.50, Nuj‘kd steady at Thursaalf‘s prices. Best



:3 canners av 813 at 3.2.25: m Kammam moonlit»: others, $14’@1£. .‘Mlich cows and

' springers .steady.





53. Co. .30 butchers all! 836 at $4.40: to

L. .1 --, . “1 .7. "2:23. ‘ Sheepand Lanibs.

“iulllv'ln .l’. (30. 2 canners TV 8’6) at *5 1, Receipts th' ,- k, 8,902; last eek,





{to Rafi} . :2 to" 11W : :040 art 3.40,; . , .

:19 \vatguxsggmkeg: 35v 61-11at $3.40.$ 8.899.? Market, quallty considered, steady

lBohm 'solfl ‘Qohlmlalker ‘3 smokers av ‘X‘UE Thursday, that WGY’Y 'fluU; ’befit lal'mbS

m7 at $3.80, 1 steer weighing 1.130 'at ~35. 1333613353 fair to good lambs. $4-7M»

'lBohm .sold Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weigh- ,5~,0; ”em to Common lambs, “mo-4.50;

73'” ”‘30 3005 Sheep. “$2575'@350; culls and’





ihxg 1,300 at $3.85. _ _

{Haley & M. «solfl lK'amnnan $34 “butchers ‘C’Dmmon- 51-70(‘2-33





mm 790 at $4.20, '28 do av 575 at $3.37); to , _ =»Q.QS- . 4 -

BQreitenlwwk 4 cows:a'v1980.at $3, Boom; mesemts this weak 1822832.; last week, .

133184. Market meady :at Thursday’s j





$112 at $3.13: to Hogan 13 butchers av 536

at $3 071‘; 3to .A'U‘Dk‘lflillnl 2 cows o'v 1,100





alt $3. illutc'hel's £0v 371731; $3.70; to Ratt- , . ‘ , . _ .

llmwsl‘f ‘3 cows UV 890 at $3125: to Heill- m' $6.206r6.3:1; wigs, 35256110340; light





mich ll butchers :asv £53 at $4.30: to Sulli- Q'urkers, 55—20((06393 Stags '0D&fl11Fd off.

van 1‘. (To. .1 bull weighing 87.0 at $3.23, . '

12 :cows 2v “1185 at $2.27., 5 ('10 av 980 at cRecalling of their relative scarcity .in the,

82:60, 2 cannons :atv 890mm $2.25; 'to Mich. Chicago ~marl<et, sheep have declined to

EB. Co. 2 bulls av 1.260.211.0315, .21 hutoh- a smaller extent “than lambs in recent,

ears av £03 at $3190. W‘BOKS- "The Western ranges have been





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“I don't know where you first got hold of mgr ,

but the arrived at my house one day. - opened

it and one of the artlcles, a fine one too, adwsing

theimmed’late purchase of Feeders. {took the hint

and went and . Everything happened just as

pedictedunthc‘ ’ Idecitiled that amper like

flnt msljnst the kind for men like me, and that the

firm pub inning it was worthy of my patronage. I Con-

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Above letter speaks for itself. The “Report” is a lS-page

ruddy ILLUSTRATED market and general live stock paper

published by as from Chicago, but covering all the leading

markets. Any perm who ships one or more cars of

live stock per year can have flie paper for merely the cost of

m, viz.: 50c per year. We knot solicit not desire sub-

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’Early potatoes are one of the best-paying .crqps cais- . .in‘ outhcm. laama, Western

Flor1da.Tennessee antiakmgfithe Gulf Coast. ‘Good prices are alwaysobtainable and demand

for same ‘bcyond the supply. Read what a fanmmatbummerdalc. Ala...has'xosay on this crop:





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hle potatoes this year. per acre, was 150 bushels, which sold readily at $1.50

perzbushel. thlszbeing who zflrsturqpnn thelnnd. I lollowcd this crop with 5111;301:99th

anmaweetcnm mid:tlien.plnnmt1-cowpeas. :Irulsedrhrec crops onlthczlandin one you,“

of whicll'broughn good prices." ‘

Sweet potatoes produce big returns and are usuallyrpla-nted after ltlSl’hpOtatoeshave

hreehundred bushels an acreare produced and brmg;from 50cents to

an end you our illustrated booklets and learn what can be done in a

land canbe purchased cheaply and where there are-312 twat-hing

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FRoe Com. (‘0. sold Sullivan 1‘. To. :3 glmlng'Wesmn markets with lambs in

mnners :w .887 .at $2.50, 3 do EbV 8:10 at antlcmatlon of .an early appearance of

$2.50, 1 mm weighing 1,060 rat $3775: to .Wmtmj weather, and feeding distnicts oi

Slewton 1:. (lo. .2 lheiiers av 505 at $3.50; “10 Middle lfweStfhflve been furnishing too

it!) Goose 3 butchers law 430 at 032. large ‘Sulllllms UT .1?"an “that came 'from



”Veal Calves. wash-y pastures. _”These natives have ran



Receipts, I119. "Market .230 lower than largely to a shrmkxy, 1W<dreesmgkind,

cast 'l‘hurmialx'. Rest, $8018.60: others, and buyerc haw when when} at .11qu the

”@750 mllch 'cows and slir'rnqers dull, biggest 6.159011!“ from EDTICES .Dald fOI‘

*5 head, lower, ‘ range lambs ever known.

7 S icer u& .3. .sold Sullivan '1’. 1C0. '27 , _‘—T “m.

av 14?) at $7.25 2'wv 140 at 413 511v 12:; While “live is renewed animation in

at $7. ’ ‘ ' the demand .for :hlgll—cless stallions and



r’Halcv & m. sold Mldh. B. ’03. 19312150 males "1‘ ”mm“ 'mrt‘s 101' ”the 'Oounm’.

at $7.50, 1 weighing 250 at $6. g”“t;ltlere ”leaf £91191?th an?“ “extra heavy



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atfiélgungs so 1 0 1 av 110 fhat the cost of breeding and raising

. . scrubs is almost as ,great as that of





Bishop, B. & H. sold ‘Parker, W. ‘&"CO.





1'28 av 150 at $8, 6 .av J25 at $7375. 6 av raising choice animals. High-bred draft-





ans of .good weight one wanted .in the





113?. at 38,1'weig’hlng‘110 at $3, ,1 Weighing tChi o -manket rat ,$300@500 *per h ..





1180 at 38:50.13 av ’150 51008550, 2 av 135 at





35, 2 av 114531 08:50, '3 av 150 at $8; to 101" “he-V have 10 ‘be fancy and A-extra





heavy :to suit the buyers. There are big





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lHamm ’ S ’& 00 weighing 4 at mercantile and manufacturing concerns.





:50, 1 weighing .240 at $6, 2 zav ‘135 at, 1. . , ,

g, 2 av 140 at $8.78 av 145 at 38,"? av 155 'flu‘it "”5““ upon vimwmg Dnmie (matters

at $8.50, ’11 av-1‘4’7 m ‘58; “to “Mich. 93. Co. ‘dfvfinelanmmEGe-mnd they stand mod:-

29 new 145 at < .25. - to Day from $400,113 31,000 .per pair .for



9‘ ‘*' and lamb animals that Just fill the bill. .



'FReceipts, 62,977. Market 10@150 lower _.__..._._ — .

tthan last Thursday. Best lambs. $5.26; :Kansas farmers are great ‘believers 'in

Mr to good lambs, $4.50@5; light to com- $1198. in 'Octeber, 1909, there were said

anon limits, wammm; flair tto mania .tD he‘mi‘ihlrnlmolfllosmnfixanmsQMS.

weep, 32.506133; lam-16am] loommon, .-.$1’@2. .while 110w there .are ,upwara 01‘2,000.'The



,rspicer & B. sold 16111an :P. «.00. .59 -farmem of that vstate have 'learned the

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“Sal- Vet is g‘l‘ving‘ fine results. I lost "sheep all the tirhe and have 'found its ‘ “I: have meanest-set benefit from For 3wrionth’s I led my on ndi’tianed

fewer lambs by 50 per cent this year use very e’ffe‘ctive in keeping out worms, feeding Sal- Vet. One of my colts voide‘d animals Sal- Vet. .Every anima “r‘ound—

while feeding Sai- Vet than in either of and the sheep in av generally healthy con- at least a tablespoonful of worms once ed” into splendid shape. I hesitated to

the two preceding years when it was dition. We have also found it an excel- or twice a. day until I commenced feeding use medicated feeds thinking good feed~





not fed. ” lent conditioner and worm cleaner for 8211- Vet. Since then I haven't seen a ing and care would give best results, but

E. J Downing St Charles, Mich - horses Our experience is that of many Single worm and the colt is as thrifty and Sal- Vet certainly improved my stock. " 1

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I have done it for thOusands of farmers and stockmen—I’m doing I sites, Wh‘Ch are the biggest drain on your StOCk pmfim AW‘

“ every day—1’ 11 do it for you. All- I ask is the privilege of send- you see the wonderful results Sal- Vet produces, you will be only “’0

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I simply want to show You what a remarkable change Sal-Vet will Remember, I don’ t ask a penny of pay in advance-

work on your sheep, your hogs, your horses and cattle. I want. I prove all my claims first—and if you are not satisfied at the end of

to show you how it will improve their condition—make them thrive sixty days, you are nothing OPt- You have nothing to risk, but

better—100k better—put on more flesh on less feed and above all get everything to gain by this open; honest, liberal offer.





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Second, a conditioner. Sal-Vet is a stockmen, who are using Sal-Vet. Their

medicated salt. It contains several medici- - word is based on their own actual ex- ' 1

nal elements which premptly kill and ‘ R26 11.5 FM ‘0” 3! perience. It is proof that 18 positive, '

expel stomach and intestinal warns G l Worm 08$er er and Gondliloner yet I do not ask you to even take their

and parasites, and in the meantime starts The ”a y ' word. I’ll prove it for you.





and puts the stomach and digestive organs in a healthy, vigorous 'wo 1m defigMfilll‘L LETTERS . .

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They Doctor Themse ves Solnvii‘igiil; 21nd 1110111111.: sheep in 1 good 31:31:11er$3313.32IntfilgzfliviglnnregggLitéfiifioigaesclzgg

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info, 01;; in this advertisement how it will keep your sheep and lambs send ”0 Money .. Simply

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If you could sit at my desk for just one day—open and read the .etters Iget,

voicing the gratitudc~the appreciation of hundreds of stockmen and farmers

t“ ’ {4.} how it will save you money in saving feed—how —who have taken advantage of my liberal Offer to “prove” the merits of

. +091,» 1 it will make you more rofit by making your Sal-Vet, you would not delay a minute in sending me the coupon requesting



(250 50:0 ~¢ . stock more valuable—- UT you might still enough Sal-Vet to feed your stock 60 days, especially when I do it before





you a . Now fill 1n the cou n—mail it at once—it’ a your chance to make

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1 ~“. 5 two ‘ Ihlt 15 W11 I want to [”3070 t 18 In Sal—Vet sent to you

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