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VOL. CXXXVII. No. 2|. ;

DETROIT. MICH" SATURDAY, NOV. 18.

 

Whole Number 3574.
HE extension of the principles util-
l . ized in the automobile to fields of
industrial pursuit is Well known.
Naturally, the greatest progress along
this line has been made in cities where
streets are paved and a large amount of
traffic carried on. However, the pro-
gressiveness of the farmer has quickly
discerned the utility of these machines
for transporting the products of his farm
to the town or cities.

Within a radius of 30 or 40 miles of the
city of Detroit, farmers have found it
profitable_to deliver fruit and vegetables
upon the city market, since the increased
prices secured more than pays for the
expense and trouble of toting the pro-
ducts to the city. The expense of doing
this, however, is no small item in the
year’s account, it being a common prac-
tice of the farmers living near the 30
mile route to pay $10 per load to have
their produce delivered in Detroit. As a
resultcf this high expense, these farmers
have turned their attention to theutility
of the auto truck. At the present time
there are 11 machines, includingautomo—
biles fixed over so as to fit them for car—
rying products, doing service on the De-
troit eastern market.

It was the pleasure of the writer to ac-
company a party on a trip from the mar-r
ket to a farm over 30 miles distant and
back again, on a one-ton auto truck.
The accompanying illustrations and the
following facts were secured on this trip
and from parties who have had a season' 5
experience with the trucks. Vie submit
them to the reader for what they are
worth. knowing that many are consider--
ing the question of securing similar ma—
chines for use upon the farm, and will be
interested.

The car employed had been in use on
the Eastern Market throughout the pres—
ent season. It had traveled about 12,000
It is a double cylinder, 20 horse-
power, measured according to the Am-
erican League Automobile Manufacturers’
rating. and 24 horsepower according to
the break test. The platform was about
5% ft. by 10 ft. and of the stake-body
type. The capacity of the truck‘was
rated at one ton. The price of this car
was $1,300 when fitted with patent cush—
ioned tires and $1,150 when fitted with
pneumatic or solid tires.

The trip in questibn was 64.3 miles ac-
cording to the cyclometer. The actual
traveling time from Detroit Eastern Mar—
ket to‘the farm,‘which lies vamong the

THE AUTO TRUCK ON THE FAR

the city of Rochester in Oakland county,
was actually two hours and five minutes,
no time was lost on the outgoing trip on
account of the car. A considerable por-
tion of the road. was very good, consisting
of city pavements until the city limits
was reached, cement road for a few miles,
six miles of Royal Oak sand, then pos-
sibly 12 or 14 miles of gravel road which
was in first-class condition. The re-
mainder was largely ordinary dirt road,
much of it of a sandy nature, which, on
this particular day, was wet, a. condition
not altogether suited to power traffic. The
last six or seven miles of the journey
were among the hills where steep grades
were encountered, steeper, probably, than

as discovered later. Inquiry of a party
who had been using the machine the
past year showed that he had not failed
to reach the market on a single trip this
season.

The truck was loaded with fruit, con-
sisting of 38 bushels of pears, 111/2 bush-
els of grapes and four bushels of apples
at the farm‘ of Jacob Perry, who lives
near Goodison and who has been deliver-
ing fruit on the Detroit market for the
past twenty years. The truck weighed

alone 3,060 pounds and with the load of ,

fruit 6,190 pounds, making the fruit weigh
3,130 pounds, or over 50 per cent more than
the rating of the car. Three persons
were carried on the car besides the load,

 

 

 

Ready for the Trip of Thirty Miles Back to the City.

would be found in most parts of our
state. In climbing these hills the truck
was compelled to go over long stretches
of very stony road.

The test was made on October 5, and
for two weeks previous excessive rains
had fallen. The dirt roads were wet and
mud holes of considerable length and
depth were found. We give an illustra-
tion showing the machine in one of these.

The journey back to the city took two
hours and 35 minutes actual running
time. We stopped once on account of the
car, the supply of gasoline having become
exhausted through an oversight. The
tank of the machine was supposed to have

hills about five miles to the northwest of‘beernJilled, when it actually hadnot been,

 

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Putting on a' 3,130-Ib.

 

Load at Fruit Farm of

Mr. Perry, Mr. E. P. Telotte, who has
been using the machine on the Detroit
Eastern Market for the past season, and

the writer. Our combined weights were
about 500 pounds. The truck appeared to
carry this load very nice-1y. There was

apparently no shifting of the load what-
ever on the trip. While making the out-
going journey bundles were laid on the
center of the platform and in traveling
over rough places it was seldom that they
would be jarred from their position, thus
indicating the steadiness with which the
vehicle held its load.

From observation on this occasion and
the experience of those who have used
the machine during the past year, one is

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sed with the fact that the fruit

‘ a better condition than when
agons A little considera—
_ this to be reasonable. In
the first plac, the fruit is on the road a.
much shorter time. It takes a good team
eight or nine hours to cover this route,
where the auto truck delivers it in two
hours and thirty-five minutes. So, in-
stead of the fruit being jarred for eight
or nine hours, it is jarred in this case
loss than one-third the time. Then again,
the rapid movement of the fruit through
the air cools it. Anyone who has ridden
in an auto, even on a still, warm day,
knows that with a machine traveling at
fifteen miles an hour, there is a stiff
breeze and one feels like buttoning his
coat. This breeze has the same cffext
upon the fruit. It has been the c}. peri-
ence of growers that strawbvnics de-
livered on the truck, when sold beside
those from the same field and of the same
grade: and picking, delivered on a wagon,
brought higher prices. thus testifying to
the condition of the fruit delivered.

Kn advantage which is often overlooked
when considering this proposition of get—
ting fruit to market with the auto truck,
is that the farmer is\enabled to watch
both ends of the business. That is, he
can have supervisory control over the
harvesting of hisnfruit crops and at the.
same time attend to the selling side.
\Vith the auto truck he. leaves the farm
in the evening after supper, arriving on
the market in good iime to retire in the
evening, sells his load early in the morn-
ing and is back home again between 9:30
and 12:00 o'clock. This enables him to
look after the pickers, watch the packing
of the fruit and do such other work as
befalls the owner of a fruit plantation.
’With teams, the owner must apply his
efforts to practically one end of the busi-
ness alone, either that of harvesting the
crop or disposing of it upon the market,
leaving the other end to some subordi-
hate.

The final question to which all proposi-
tions of this kind are put is the cost, and
the question, “Can I deliver my fruit
more cheaply by use of an auto truck
than by the old system of using horses?"
is the one most interesting to the ma-
jority of men. By as extensive an, in-
quiry as it was possible to make, we find
that an auto will regularly do the work
of three teams on the route above men-A
iioned, since a team cannot stand making
(Continued on page 432).

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FARM NOTES.

 

A Water Supply for the House.

Is there any better way to store rain
water for the kitchen sink and' bathtub
than in a tank in the attic? How can
We have a well-water supply for closet?

SUBSCRIBER.

There is no cheaper way, which will
afford fair satisfaction in use, to supply
rain water to a kitchen sink and bath
tub than to have a large tank in the
attic. The writer has seen such a tank
arranged instead of using a cistern, a
galvanized steel tank being used in this
case, whi’l'h has a capacity of 30 barrels.
The, water runs into this tank auto-
matically from the roof of the house and
and is discharged when the tank is full
through an artificial wastepipe which
prevents the water overflowing the tank.
Service pipes deliver the soft water to
the sink and elsewhere, as desired in the
house.

For a supply of well-water under pres-
sure, one can also use the gravity sys-
tem, although what is known as the
pressure system is generally considered
a better way. In the pressure system,
the tank is placed in the cellar or buried
in the ground as desired, and the water
is forced into it under air pressure which
is sufficient to drive it to any part of the
hous‘c desired. Many of these systems
have been installed in Michigan and give
universal satisfaction wherever they are
installed, and while a little more expen-
sive than the gravity system, are gen-
erally considered more satisfactory.

Preparing for the Alfalfa Crop.

I have a piece of sandy loam ground
that I want to sow to alfalfa. “'ould it
help any to get a good catch if I soch
the land to sweet clover first? ls s‘wect
clover hay any good to feed and is it
any good as a fertilizer to plow under?

Kent Co. B. C.

It would undoubtedly hc easier to get
a catch of clover on land that had first
grown sweet clover. but it would not, in
the writer’s opinion, be profitable to sow
sweet clover as a preparation for alfalfa
for scveral reasons. First, unless the
soil contained the bacteria pcculiur to
these plants, which are said to he idcnti-
cal on these legumes, the swect clover
would not succeed much better than the
alfalfa without first inoculating the
ground. Consequently one might as well
fit the ground for alfalfa and inoculate
with soil from an old alfalfa field or from
a sweet clover patch, which would pro—
vide the bacteria quite as well as grow-
ing the sweet clover on the land, pre-
vious to sowing the alfalfa. Of course,
if the sweet clover or any other plant
were grown and plowed down as a crop
for green manure, the land would be im—
proved for alfalfa or any other crop, but
if the sweet cloycr were to be cut for
hay, as suggcstcd. this benefit would not
be derived from it.

There is considerable difference of
opinion regarding the value of sweet
clover hay. If it is out early the stalks
contain too much fibre, stock will be
well nourished by it and will learn to
like it, as attested by many who have
had experience with it, especially in the
south. It, however, has a peculiar odor
and flavor which is not liked by stock as
well as alfalfa or clover hay.

Quite a necessary preparation for al-
falfa on much of our Michigan soil, is the
application of lime, and wherever the
crop has not been demonstrated to do
well without applying lime, it would be
profitable to use limc upon at least a
portion of the area sown, as an experi-
ment and determine whether the crop is
benefited by it or not. The writer was
unable to get a successful catch of al—
falfa without the use of lime, but has
apparently secured a very good stand
this year on ground that was limed last
year, both by sowing alone with a nurse
crop and by seeding with oats. Notwith—
standing the dry weather which com-
pletely burned out the clover seeded in
the oats, there is a good stand of alfalfa
which is making a good fall growth.

Lime and inoculation on a good dry,
fertile soil are evidently the essentials
required for success with the alfalfa crop
in Michigan. The source of seed is also,
doubtless, an important factor for suc-
cess and northern grown seed should be
secured if possible, especial care being
taken that no weeds are brought on to
the farm with it, arid especially dodder,
which is destructive to the erol) itself.
The season to sow is dependent upon the
weather conditions to some extent, al-
though, other conditions being equal,
most successful alfalfa growers believe
medium early spring sowing better than
sowing at any other season, although
good stands have been secured by mid-
summer, and even by late‘ summer seed-
ings. With the demonstration that alfal-

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'I‘HE MICHIGAN FARMER.

fa can be successfully grown ‘in Michi-

,gan, it will be" made a factor in the

cropping systems of more farms than
ever before, .and even where it is not
tried on a large scale it should be tried
in an experimental way at least, since
there is no other forage crop which com-
pares with It. either in producing power
or in the quality of the forage produced.
A Blower Attachment for Cutting Box.

Can you give. me an idea or plan for
making a small blower to put on a cut-
ting box? My cutting box is made with
knives on the shaft.

St. Clair Co. SUBSCRIBER.

It would, in the writer’s opinion, hardly
be profitable to attempt to build such an
attachment on a cutting box. If it Is
desired to have some arrangement which
will deliver the cut fodder at a little dis-
tance from the box it would be better to
arrange a mechanical carrier, something
like a straw carrier, which any man of
ordinary ingenuity could easily do. The
blowers necessarily have ,to run at high
speed and it takes considerable power to
drive them and where the cutting box is
not designed for this sort of an arrange-
ment, it would be dili‘lcult to make one
which would do satisfactpry work. There
are several cutting boxes and ensilage
cutters of this description on the market
which are advertised in the Michigan
Farmer in season, and their cost is not
so high but that one might better pur-
chase a new one than to build a make-
shift device of this character.

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THE BEAN CROP.

 

 

 

 

Of all the crops severely tried by the
peculiar weather conditions of the past
scason, beans have been the hardest hit,
incurring not a little loss. Vl'hen is the
best time to plant beans? This is an
open question, variously answered in
practice to accord with one’s convenience
or his adopted theory. An early seeding,
it is reasoned, will catch the drouth of
summer and fail to fill properly, While
the latc maturing crop stands in jeopardy
of prolonged autumn rains. Some years
one practice proves its wisdom, then vice
versa; again both or neither may give
satisfaction.

In my own case the early plan was fol—
lowed last spring, when a newly set
cherry orchard was planted to red kid-
neys the last of May to give time for the
crop to ripen in season to seed to rye
and vetch. Though the drouth tried its
destructive best, frequent cultivation
saved the situation till the later rains
finished the crop in fine condition and
harvesting was completed the third week
of September. Some beans in the neigh-
borhood, planted late in June, were still
in the ripening process when the wet
wcathcr came. Others were submerged
after pulling before. they could be prop—-
crly secured.

A drive through the county the last
days of October showed large fields of
beans still standing, cultivated clean as
a market garden, vines loaded with well
tilled pods.

The red kidney variety, on account of
its greater market value, is raised greatly
in excess of the white varieties in this
section of the state. The color of the
kidney is a matter of commercial im-
portance as the hull is used for dyeing.
\Vell matured and cured seed has the de-
sired dark shade. Those gathered before
the pods are dry, while the bean is still
pink; never later acquire the proper tone
and give the mass 21 mottled appearance
not pleasing to the trade. There is a
tendency in this variety to revert to
original types and sports creep in which
must be watched for and rejected. These
are easily detected in the field. borne as
they are on long, trailing vines, and may
be discarded in pulling. Buyers look
sharply for the little purple intruders,
showing their disfavor by docking the
price. The writer this year took special
pains to select seed of fine appearance.
Already hand-picked beans were resort-
ed, looking to uniformity of shape, size,
and color. The result has justified the
pains by giving a very even yield with
few culls, eliminating much of the tedious
task of hand-picking.

Close planting, so that the growing
vines form continuous rows, shading the
ground. secures the largest yield and, if
weeds are not present, little hoeing is
necessary. But where weeds are a. force
to reckon with, or in an orchard, it is
desirable to plant in checks for cultiva—
tion both ways.

Bean growing on a commercial basis
has made such rapid strides in the
county the last few years as to rival the
potato in importance. Implement dealers
now carry all the up-to-date ,machinery
and the flail has given place to the steam

'béan thresher.

Some popular features of
the crop are the ease of raising, the
abundant yield, its non-perishable char-
acter, and its ever welcome and good
price in market. Its presence in the
farmer's storehouse represents the possi-
b111ty of cash; furthermore it has added
an accumulation of nitrogen to the soil,
while the. straw and culls are still wait-
ing for an accounting as stock feed
eventually to contribute their substance
to the enrichment of the earth.
Oceana Co. M-. A. Hov'r.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

 

Not in my experience in farming, nor
in my remembrance, have we had so
much rain during one fall as we have had
this year. The weather bureau at Grand
Rapids about two weeks ago reported 10
inches of rainfall since the 26th of Sep—
tember, and we have had three heavy
rains and a. snow storm since then, so
there must be between a foot and 15
inches of rainfall since our first rain of
September 26. The consequences are
that We have made practically no pro-
gress in farming operations. My en-
silage corn was planted late, and I tried
out two new varieties of corn for en-
silage which are later than the kind I
usually grow. Consequently, I put off
cutting the ensilage corn so as to catch
this late variety at good advantage and
at the same time not lose very much
upon the earlier variety. The corn was
ready to go into the silo the first week in
October. That was jsut the time to get
the largest per cent of digestible nutri-~
ents out of the crop, taking both variea
ties of corn into consideration. But we
had so much rain that we couldn’t cut
the corn with a corn binder. It costs
more. to cut by hand, and more time is
required in handling loose corn for the
silo, both in putting it on the wagon in
the. field and unloading at the ensilage
cutter. Men cannot handle it as rapidly
nor as easily, consequently it takes more
men. So .I waited a whole week, then
came another heavy rain and delayed us
again. Finally, on Saturday, October 14,
the ground got dry enough so that we

could, by having heavy lugs on the
wheels, run the corn binder, and we
started it. The next Monday morning,

the 16th, we began filling the silo. We
had a fine day and put in a nice lot of it.
Everything was working nicely but that
night it rained again. An inch and one-
third of water fell during one rain. We
didn't cut any more corn that week.
Then the soil dried enough so that we
out another day and one—half, when it
rained again. \Ve worked that way and
finally finished cutting on November 2.

My acreage of ensilage corn was a little
bit short this year, and then, owing to
the cxtrcmely dry weather during the
summer, I didn’t get the growth that I
ought to have had and so my silos are
not quite full; still I have a good crop,
probably 350 tons and it is in fairly good
condition even though some of it is late.
on one portion of one field I experimented
in planting a smaller amount of seed to
the acre. On this plot the ears got pret-
ty ripe and were large and well devel-
oped. I huskcd out the better part of
the corn; besides, when we couldn’t work
on the land at all, we husked some of
the regular field corn and hauled the
stalks and cut them into the silo. In this
way I have the silos nearly full. We
have quite a start on the corn husking
now and if I can get the men I am going
to finish husking the entire 30 acres by
hand and then later on run the stalks
into the silo and wet them as we put
them in. I’ll have the room in the silo
to do it this year if I hold off until De-
cember and I am sure that I will get a
greater feeding value out of them by
handling in this way than by shredding
or feeding them whole. There has been
so much wet weather that the cornstalks
haven't dried out very well and probably
wouldn’t keep well in the mow.

I have five acres of potatoes out and
not a hill dug. The ground at this writ-
ing is so soft that you can hardly walk
across it, not only that, but it is covered
with snow. I bargained for a. brand new
potato digger this year but we haven’t
set it up yet and I don‘t think I can use
it at all. Of course, one never can tell
what the weather will be. It may be
that November will be a nice month and
the ground will be dry enough so that we
can dig a portion or all of these potatoes
with the machinery digger, but if we
can't I don’t know what we will do. We
will try and get enough of them out of
the mud so that we will have what we
want to eat, and let the rest go. The
potatoes have commenced rotting in

 

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places and many of tliem will not be fit
to dig at all. 9

We haven’t started t6 harvest the sugar
beets. I have a fine crop, about 16 acres
and an immense amount of tops to feed
the cows. At this time it doesn’t look as
if we would ever be able to harvest them,
yet I have hopes that we can save the
crop. There hasn’t been a November in
the last ten years but what we could
harvest the beets.

It has been my practice for the last
few years to fall plow for sugar beets and
some of the fields for corn, because by
' leaving till spring we have so much work
that we have to work the horses too
hard. We haven’t plowed a furrow this
fall and I do not see that we will be able
to, the ground is so wet, and we probably
will lack time because we have beets and
potatoes to take care of. If we can't
do any fall plowing it looks as if we
might need a traction engine in the
spring to hustle up the spring work.

COLON C. LILLIE.

CORN HUSKING BY POWER.

 

 

It is seldom; that one extreme is not
followed by the other. The severe
drouth of last summer, when farm work
came nearly to a standstill, has been fol-
lowed by a period of long continued
rains. During this wet autumn, farm—
ers throughout the state have been hind—
ered greatly with their fall work. In
many instances the corn will not be
husked when cold north winds begin
sweeping across the hills and through
the vales, unless outside help of some
form is secured.

Right here the labor problem confronts
the farmer with braineracking perplexity.
In many sections of the state it is a
serious one, good farm out-of—door help
being secured only at an enormous price,
while the securing of men to husk corn
by hand at a fair wage is almost impos—
sible. But on the farm where brains
have the right of way over brawn, the
farmer will prove that he is bigger than
his work and will solve the problem. If,
however, the farmer has placed his trust
in brawn instead of brains, then the
snow may fly and old Jack Frost may be
troublesome before his corn is half
husked and the score of endless odd jobs
are completed.

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corn shredder. The husking of corn by
power under favorable
everything in its favor over hand husk—
ing. However, conditions cannot always
be expected to be most favorable, but
the mas‘ler farmer does not let unfavor-
able conditions prove stumbling blocks.
'His progress is not stopped, for he
rides over the diffichlty of securing a
corn shredder, the scarcity of labor and
the wet weather, and has his corn
husked and stover shredded at the same
time by‘power, while his hard-working
neighbor works the entire day on the
damp ground, in a chilly air. with crack—
ing fingers, aching legs and the ever—
increasing possibility of a disagreeable
doctor’s bill of no small proportions for
some future day.

The husking of corn ,by power elim-
nates the loss of fodder experienced in
hand-husking.
shocks become badly damaged from the
fall storms while still in the field. Prior
to being husked the shocks become
weather beaten; then, frequently the
bundles of stalks are left after husking,
exposed to the elements for a long pe-
riod. \Vith the shredder the corn crop
is harvested and stored without this dou-
ble weather exposure, and thus the feed—
ing value cannot help but be increased.

And not alone is the feeding value of
the corn stover increased by saving the
very best part uninjured from the weath-
er, but the shredding of the long stalks
and mixing them with the leaves and
husks adds to the feeding value of the
stover. The writer has seen the faithful
cow and the thrifty yearling chewing a
long stalk, only to finally give up from
jaw fatigue before it was consumed.
There is feeding value in a portion of
that stalk, and the corn husker shreds
it into shape for the live stock to easily
devour.

Shredded corn stover makes an ideal
feed for indoor feeding. Indoor feeding
is very desirable during cold and stormy
days, as live stock, especially cows, do
better if thus fed. The high price of hay
makes hay feeding unprofitable and a
substitute that may be given in the man-
ger very, desirable. The farmer without
silage will find shredded corn stover of
more value this year than ever before.
What the animals do not eat of the
stover may be easily cleaned from the

 

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mangers and used for bedding, as it is
a good absorbent and easily handled. No
more will the farmer ‘who has his corn
shredded be pestered by having to re—
move the butts of cornstalks from man-
gers and place them where they are al-
ways of more or less bother. Instead of
all this work and future bother, the un—
eaten refuse goes for bedding and finally
out to the fields with the manure to help
increase the soil fertility.

The expense and labor of husking by
power is surprisingly small. This is es-
pecially true where several farmers ex-
change work in husking. One man can
pitch from the shock, onto wagons, all
the corn that a medium-sized machine
will husk, provided it is in bundles. Two
or three teams will draw it, from a rea-
sonable distance, fast enough, and each
man can unload his load, although a
boy or man to cut the bands lightens
the work. With a larger sized husker,
of course, more help will be needed, but
more corn is husked and the job more
quickly completed.

Sometimes it happens that the corn is
unbound. Under such conditions the
labor of drawing to the machine is
greater. The proper way to load loose
corn so it will unload t0 the best advan-
tage is to place the butts all one way.
A high standard should be placed at the
rear of the rack to hold the corn on and
against which the corn should be piled.
’l‘he roan on the wagon always remains
upon the rack-bottom and piles the 1m-
husked corn up high, working from the
rear end toward the front. Loose corn
loaded in this way will always unload
easily and rapidly. However, only small,
light loads can be put on, which means
more wagons and teams being required.

The shredded fodder should not be
packed in the mow by tramping unless
very dry. By adjusting the blow—pipe
occasionally, a man is not needed in the
mow. Care should be taken to fill the
side farthest from the outlet first. If
the nearer side is filled first the stover
will not come out of the mow without
binding. By running the husked corn di-
rectly into a wagon-box as husked, to be
shoveled out later, one man can attend
to both stover and corn.

The corn crop husked by power will be
harvested and stored cheaper, quicker,
with less waste, and will have a greater
feeding value than the hand—husked
crop. The farmer without a, silo, but
with shredded corn stover in the mow,
may practice indoor feeding without the
tiresome work of carrying out cornstalk
butts, or the expense of heavy hay feed-
ing. All in all, the farmer’s winter
chores will be lighter and pleasanter,
while his stock will thrive better and his
pocketbook be fuller.

Oakland Co. E. S. C.

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The soil on my farm is what is known
as clay loam. In spots the clay crops out
on top, but as a general thing the loam is
from six to 12 inches thick above the
clay sub-soil. It has been my custom to
fall-plow my corn ground which is to be
sown to oats in the spring, and to plow
to a good depth, so the frosts of winter
could pulverize and mix the sub-soil that
was turned up. This process of deep
plowing in the fall seemed to renew, and
to a certain extent, maintain the fertility
of the soil, so that in most seasons when
the weather was at all favorable, I have
been able to raise a good paying crop of
oats without the use of commercial fer-
tilizers. As my fields are a little higher
in the center than at the sides, when
fall-plowed they quickly drain off in the
spring, so I am able to work the ground
and sew oats quite early.

Last spring when oats were sown in
this vicinity, the ground was in excellent
shape, and like my neighbors, I looked
forward to a bumper crop. But our hopes
were soon blasted; because, in a couple
of days a flood came which washed and
so saturated the soil that a large quan-
tity of the oats never came up. And
where oats did not grow, weeds grew and
flourished.

There will be no fall plowing here this
season, unleSS the weather conditions
change soon. For the past two months it
has rained more or less every week and
at this writing (Nov. 6.), a heavy rain is
falling, making the corn fields again very
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VSHALL WE PRUNE THE ORCHARDS

NOW?

n

Why not? Practically the only objec-
tion offered is that the wound may not
heal as readily. This may be true to
some extent, but experiments have shown
that wounds made at all seasons of the
year were as variable in healing, some
healing well, others poorly, but that the
manner of making the cut was more re—
sponsible for poor healing than the sea-
son in which it was made. If the branch
is cut close to the parent branch or trunk
and nearly parallel to it and the cut is
made with a sharp saw or shears, it is
quite likely to heal well no matter when
made. If it is large it is well to put
white lead on the wound after the sap
has dried down. yThis will fill up the
checks and assist in preventing the en-
trance of moisture and fungi which cause
rot. On young trees which require little
pruning, and, on tender trees like peach
and plum, I would prefer to do the prun-
ing in the Spring as it will not take long
anyway, and can be done after the buds
swell so one can tell what branches are
killed back.

But: on old neglected apple trees I do
not believe it is at all necessary to fol-
low this rule in pruning, but to prune at
any time between the falling and start-
ing of the leaves, at least at any time
when the wood is not frozen. We like
to get considerable pruning done in the
fall so it will not interfere too much with
the spraying and planting in the spring.
This reasoning is true. of the general
farmer also, for there is sometimes a
little slack between the time the fall
work is cleaned up and the winter when
one can do pruning. If this time is util—
ized in trimming and thinning out the
old orchard it will be well spent.

Without going too much into the de-
tails of pruning I will say that our meth-
od of treating old, high, and thick trees
is brictly, this: We use a short ladder
or step ladder to get into the tree and
prune about overhanging branches which
can not be well reached from the ground
or the tree. life get into the center of
the tree first and cut upwards and out—
wards, getting the dead branches and
those which do not seem to be needed
because others will take all the room they
There is considerable to think

occupy.
of in pruning a tree. “'e should be able
to see how the tree will look with the

limb out before we make the cut, also
whether it would not be belter to leave

. this limb and cut another instead. The

vitality of the limb is a factor, also its
direction of growth if it is near the top,
as there we like to leave the more hori-
zontal branches so the tree will not con—
tinue to grow taller. If the tree is taller
than it is prolilable to have it the more
vertical limbs are cut off, taking care to
make the cut just above a horizontal
limb so this will take the growth and
help to heal over the wound, otherwise
there will be stubs to die back. If the
tree can be cut back to the new growth
some of the top, cutting it back some-
what, until new growth can start beneath
the high top. After a few years more of
the top can be removed. and in time the
tree can be cut back to the now growth
which started beneath the high top. Of
course. we can not expect much fruit on
a tree of this kind for a few years until
the new growth begins to bear, but we
will get some from the top which is left.

iul to return to the thick trcc, we
cut out the dead and surplus branches
from the lower part of the tree first so
it will be easier to get thc branches down
from the top. The branches are gener—
ally dropped down as cut or pushed to
the outside of the tree. from where they
are pulled down with a pole, and hook.
On thick trees it is sometimes necessary
to get down several times and pull down
the branches to enable one to see where
to cut to advantage. We seldom out
large branches unless they are too high,
but rather go out farther on the limb and
cut smalled branches. In this way few
large wounds are made and few large
gaps opened in the tree. Our aim is to
leave no large “holes” in the tree and no
places where the branches are too thick
to let in the light and air, but to get an
even distribution throughout the tree and
give as large a bearing surface as the
tree will permit and still let in sufficient
light and air. Crossed limbs are avoided
whenever possible. the aim being to keep
the main branches radiating from the
trunk to the circumference in as straight
at line as possible.

As to the manner of making the cut,

THE‘MICHIGAN’?FARMER.‘

we try to get quite near the parent
branch and nearly parallel to it. It is
allowable to cut ahalf inch to an inch

.back on the lowervnside on large branches

to escape part of the bulge which is quite
common on the under side of many
branches, especially with certain varie~
ties. However, I would rather have a.
wound a little large than to go to far
from the crotch. If the branch is dead
it will saw better at its base where the
green wood surrounds it.

We use the Paragon saw almost exclu-
sively for the main part of the pruning
of old trees. This has a slightly curved
blade with teeth on both sides, set to cut
with a push out on the convex side and a.
draw cut on the concave one. This en-
ables one to cut branches which could
not be out easily with the push out alone.
For small trees or taking out water
sprouts and thinning out the lower
branches at the outside we use pruning
shears with handles two to three feet
long. and usually have a long handled
(pole) shears to get at outside branches
too high to reach from the ground. This
pruning is done after the center and tops.
are thinned out, otherwise one might trim
up branches which would be removed
later upon getting into the tree.

From three to six old neglected trees
can be pruned in a day, depending upon
their thickness and size. I have worked
a half day on one, but this is not com-
mon. Some trees will prune quite easily,
others are more difficult. Much depends
upon whether the branches grow hori-
zontally or upright, and whether they
are finely divided at the outside like the
Spy, or more coarsely, like the Greening.
The trees with many small limbs to be
removed and those with much dead
Wood require more time to put them into
shape than others.

Finally the brush should be taken to
a safe distance from the trees and burn-
ed, and should not be left all next sum-
mer to harbor insects and be in the way
of orchard operations.

Calhoun CO. S. B. HA’B,TMAN.
CHANGE IN METHODS OF HARVEST-

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“'e do things differently from what we
did in the old days. I can recall that.
when a boy, we piled the apples in the
wagon box and hauled them to town,
where the buyer sorted them and bar-
relled them in his rooms, and we brought
back the culls. and his check for those
he took. This practice continued for many
years, even after my boyhood was a thing
of the past. Next We picked the apples
and put them in piles in the orchard, and
if it was a good fruit year the piles were
apt to be large and the apples would
sweat and ripen rapidly, so that it often
happened that the fruit was damaged to
quite an extent before it was taken from
the piles. Big loads of empty barrels
wore hauled out to the farm, and then
along came several men to pack the fruit
and they had to be fed until the job was
completed, after which we, had to load
the full barrels on the wagon and haul
them to town. all together it was quite
a job, with the three to five hundred
trees.

Now days we do thing differently. The
wagon, with the adjustable rack on, is
loaded with crates and driven into the
orchard where the fruit is placed in the
crates and loaded on the wagon. Vt'hen
a load is ready it is hauled to the buyer's
rooms in the city, where his men look
it over and pack right from the crates,
and the culls are purchased for drying
or cider, and the farmer brings back his
check only, or puts it in the bank and
comes homes with a light load. This year
another change has come. The finest
fruit is packed in barrels in the usual
way, and paid for by the barrel. and the
best prices received for large, fine, nicely
colored Spy and Baldwin has been only
$1.50 per barrel, fruit that would grade
as “fancy,” 'and bring fancy prices in the
cities of the east. Of a few other kinds
the best were put in barrels and brought
the grower $1.25, and all 'others, even nice
Roxbury Russets, were piled right in
the car and the farmer had to be con-
tent with 75, 60 and 40 cents per 100 lbs..
according to quality, and they had to be
hand-picked, too, otherwise they graded
as “cider” and brought the grower 25
cents per 100 lbs. I should like very

much to know what this hand-picked

fruit which was shipped to the big cities
in bulk, cost the ultimate consumer, I
think it would make interesting reading,
and cause-the grower to try to think up
some plan to gather in a larger share
of the consumer's dollar.

Of course, the new way of marketing
the fruit is better than the old, better

for the seller as well as the buyer. Where
fruit was piled in the wagon box and
haulied to town over the rough roads,
much of it was bruised; and so 'to a great
extent damaged as to keeping qualities.
Now, being placed in crates, with only a

bushel in each compartment there is lit-~

tle pressure, and little chance to be rub-
bed and damaged, the farmer is not both-
ered with the men who pack, and the
buyer has his business all under his eye.
Eaton Co. APOLLOS LONG.

 

 

THE AUTO TRUCK ON THE FARM.

(Continued from first page).
the distance one way every day. Figur.
ing on this basis. we deduce the follow-
ing table, which we believe to be very
near the exact cost, both as to original

investment and the upkeep of the .two
different systems.

 

Cost.

Original investment with horse system:
Six horses at $150‘ ............... $ 900.00
Two wagons, complete at $125.... 250.00
Two sets harness at $40 .......... 80.00

Total . . . . . .................. .. . . .$1,230.00

Operating expenses, depreciation and
up-keep required to a. single day:
Two drivers at $1.50 ................ {3.00
Tvsvlowteams to stable and hay at

Grain for three teams .............. 1:50
Shoeing bills ....................... . .43
Repair bills ......................... .30
Depreciation ....... . .............. . . . .40

Total .............................. $792.3

Original investment with Auto Truck:
One Auto Truck, one ton .......... $1,300

Operating expenses, depreciation and
up-keep reduced to a single day:

One man ........................... 1.
Repair bills, (average) .............. $ 53
Depreciation ......................... 1.25
Oil gasoline, 8 gals, at 91/2c ........ .76
Cylinder oil, 1 qt. at 44c gal ......... . .11
Total ....... ............ .....$3.92

These figures show that the initial cost
of equipment is a little more for the auto
truck, providing the patent tires are USed
but a little less fitted with the solid rub-
ber or pneumatic tires. The operating
and upkeep expense show a. daily advan~
tage of $3.99 in favor of the auto truck.

Some of the items in the above table
should be explained. A wagon fitted for
transporting fruit costs more than an or-
dinary farm wagon with a single box; the
above price is what fruit growers actually
have to pay. The grain item for the
teams may be questioned by some. The
teams used for transporting fruit are
fed four times per day with a feed con-
sisting of from five to six quarts of good
oats. The shoeing bill may seem large
to an ordinary person, but the man who
has driven teams on the road day after
day will appreciate its reasonableness:
the figures were taken from the books of
a farmer drawing fruit to the Detroit
Eastern Market and are the results of
actual experience. The repair bills for
the wagon are also from actual accounts;
tires and spindles need to be repaired
quite frequently and make up the largest
part of the repair bills. The depreciation
is figured on the basis of a rig lasting
ten years, which appears to be about the
average for this kind of work.

“'0 have had our attention brought to
the fact that the auto, when not work-
ing, is of no expense to the owner, except
the interest of the money which is invest-
ed, whereas horses require to be fed
whether they are working or not: This
is a matter which cannot be shown on the
table, but nevertheless is a real one and
one that would work out in favor of the
machine.

The repair bills for the auto truck was
an average of the expense of the truck
on the market during last summer. The
depreciation was calculated on the basis
of the truck lasting five years. The
amount of gasoline used, and also of
cylinder oil. was an average struck from
30 trips made to the market. It is found
that a one—ton truck requires but one gal-
lon of oil for eight miles of travel.

The writer was somewhat skeptical re-
garding the utility of an auto truck for
this service when he had his attention
first introduced to the subject. But his
observations on the Eastern Market and
the trip mentioned above, supplemented
by the experience of those in whom he
has the utmost confidence, has convinced
him that these machines offer a, chance
for reducing the cost of placing produce
on the market, especially where it must
be brought from a distance. Compara-
tively speaking. the longer the haul the
greater will be the margin between the
cost of delivering with the auto truck
and with horses. It is estimated that an-
other se‘ason from 30 to 40 machines will
be in service drawing produce for farm-
ers who patronize the Eastern Market.

 

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Being in the apple business myself, I
believeIcan addalittlo to Brother Hart-
.man’s article in The, Farmer of Novem-
ber 4. He says his success in controlling
worms was variable, so, also, was mine.
He did not give the July—August spray
and laid his trouble to that, or rather
inferred that the trouble might have been
there. Now I did give the late summer
spray and thoroughly, too. And I had
worms that I could not account for, es-
pecially in the Kings, Baldwins, Rus-
sets and Rambo. The Spy, Greening,
Wagener, Maiden’s Blush, Hubbardston,
St. Lawrence, Stark, and Winter Sweets
were exceptionally free from worms, not
more than one per cent were affected.
All varieties were given exactly the same
treatment and the results differed widely,
the first mentioned varieties were at
least 50 per cent wormy.

I may be wrong but my theory is this:
Last spring it warmed up very suddenly
just as the petals were falling, and, if
growers will put on their thinking caps
and go back to that time they will re-
member that the time between the fall-
ing of the petals and the closing of the
calyx was limited to but a few days.
And I, for one, realized that the apples
were pretty far along, for effective work
with the codlin moth, before that spray
was completed. It seems to me that the
apples which developed the fastest dur—
ing that warm spell were the wormiest.

Berrien Co. B. G. THOMAS.
STRAWBERRIES FAILED FOR LACK

OF WATER.

 

 

At the present time I am considering
quite strongly of discarding the straw—
berry crop if I cannot get some better
way of growing them. This makes the
third season that my berries have only
been about one—third of a crop. Failure
has been due principally to lack of rain.
My farm is quite rolling. I have one
field which is 11 to 20 rods wide and con-
tains nearly seven acres.which I have
been using for strawberries. I have used
most all the manure made from six head
of stock on my strawberry beds. Last
year I applied the manure at the rate of
50 loads per acre, and that part of the
field yielded the poorest. I have had in
ten years not exceeding 15 bushels per
acre. The soil is .quite sandy, and the
manure was all fine. It was applied as
top-dressing and thoroughly dragged in.
\Vhere there was no manure they did
much better. The berries were set three
rows of \Varfields, one Pocko, and one
Dunlap mostly. Where I fertilized with
Bederwood and Early Mitchell the crop
was very poor. The bulk of what I set
this year (3% acres) I set two Dunlap
and two \Varfield. I have had one good
crop of late berries in five years. They
were Candy and Sample. This year I
set Aroma and Sample but there is about
one plant growing where I set six. Will
take them all up for plants and try them
one‘more year. Now I would like to
know if any of the readers of the Mich-
igan Farmer have had any experience in
watering their strawberries. I tried one
year to draw water in a tank but found
by putting it on the vines it did more
damage than good. I have had the idea
in mind of trying a sort of irrigation
plant. I think a rock well will water
one acre. It is about 30 ft. to rock here,
which is about 30 ft. thick. By placing
a windmill on each well and letting the
water run down each row I believe the
ground would warm the water before it
got to the roots of plants. I set the
plants four feet by 28 inches. A large
tooth on cultivator would make a small
ditch in the center of the row for the
Water to follow. The cost of windmills
is about $35 apiece, or perhaps more.
The pipe and pump are all the other ex-
pense necessary. I could drill the wells
myself. The expression of readers as to
their experience and ideas along the
above line would be interesting at this
time and SO many are considering the
advisability of installing irrigating plants.
I have arrived at the conclusion that
water is more essential to strawberries
than any other condition I can bring
about. J. L. R.

 

Michigan Horticulturists hold their 41st.
annual meeting at Ludington, December
5-7. A practical and timely program by
growers and marketers of note is being
arranged, and displays of fruit, tools,
power sprayers, appliances, etc., will fur-
nish a feature of rare educational value.
The annual banquet will be held on the
first evening. '

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER. a» 433.

 

get more money from the people.

asperated’ ’ ones.

trade. ’ ’

Then the article proceeds to de-
nounce Postum and works into a fine
frenzy, because we have published
facts regarding the effect of coffee on
some people.

The harrowing tale goes on.

“Where a few years ago everybody
drank coffee, several cups a day, now
we find in every walk in life people
who imagine they cannot drink it.

(The underscoring is ours.) Burly
'blacksmiths, carpenters, laborers and
athletes have discontinued or cut
down the use of coffee; as there is not
a person who reads this and will not
be able to find the same conditions
existing among his own circle of ac-
quaintances, is it not well for the
Brazilians to sit up and take notice?”

Isn’t it curious these ”bur-
ly" strong men should pick out coffee
to “imagine" about? Why not “imag-
ine" that regular doses of whiskey
are harmful, or daily slugs of mor—
phine?

If “imagination" makes the caffeine
in coffee clog the liver, depress the
heart and steadily tear down the ner-
vous system, bringing on one or more
of the dozens of types of diseases
Which follow broken-down nervous
systems, many people don’t know it.

But it remained for the man who
has coffee, morphine or whiskey to
sell, to have the supreme nerve to say:
“You only imagine your disorders.

 

Keep on buying from me.”

 

Always the man who is trying to dig extra
money out of the public pocket, on a combination,
hates the man who blocks the game.

Now COmes a plaintive bleat from the Hex-

The Journal of Commerce lately said “A
stirring circular has just been issued to the coffee
Then the circular proceeds:

“The coffee world is discussing what is to be
the future of coffee as a result of the campaign of
miseducation carried on by the cereal coffee people.
We have before us a letter from one of the largest
roasters in the South asking what can be donc to
counteract the work of the enemies of coffee

“The matter should have been taken up by
the Brazilian (lov’t when they were completing
their beautiful valorization scheme.”

 

 

 

 

We Get a 8130

The big coffee trust, made up of Brazilian ?'
growers and American importers, has been trying
various tactics to boost the price of coffee and

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Brazilian
Coffee
Grower

  

tisiics, recognized as the most re-

Let us continue to quote from his

article. liable.”
at is * Ii
“Notwithstanding the enormous in- This is 0m“ “f ”10 highest compli-
lncnts ever paid to the level—headed,

crcase in population during the past

three years, coffee shows an appalling common sense of Americans who cut

off about two hundred million pounds
of coffee when they found by actual
experiment (in the majority of cases)
that the subtle drug caffeine, in cof-
Then follows a tiresome lot of sta- foo, worked diSCOmeFt and varying
tistics which wind up by showing a forms Of disease.
decrease of consumption in two years
of, in round figures, two hundred mil-

decrease in consumption.”

 

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Some people haven’t the character
to stop a habit when they know it is
killing them, but it is easy to shift
from coffee to Postum, for, when made
according to directions, it comes to
table a cup of beverage, seal brown
color, which turns to rich golden
brown when cream is added, and the
taste is vcry like the milder grades of
Old Gov't Java.

lion pounds.

Here we see the cause for the at—
tacks on us and the Brazilian snecrs
at Americans who prefer to use a.
healthful. home-made breakfast drink
and incidcnially keep the money in
America, ruthcr than send the millions
to Brazil and pay for an articlc that,
chemists class among the drugs and

 

Postum is a veritable food—drink
and highly nourishing, containing all
the parts of wheat carefully prepared
to which is added about 10 per cent
of New Orleans molasses, and that is
absolutely all that Postum is made of.

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\\'ill the reader please remember,
we never announce that coffee “hurts
all pcople.”

Thousands of visitors to the pure
food factories see the ingredients and
how prepared. Every nook and corner
is open for every visitor to carefully
inspect. Crowds come daily and seem
to enjoy it.

Some persons seem to have excess
vitality enough to use coffee, tobacco
and whiskey for years and apparent-
ly be none the worse, but the number
is small, and when a sensible man or
woman finds an article acts harmfully
they exercise some degree of intelli-

gence by dropping it. “There’s a Reason”

 

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Postum Cereal Company, Limited

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. LIVE Stock 3

.THE SOWS AT BREEDING TIME.
.\ final culling of sows ought to be
made before any breeding is done in the
fall. All sows which have remained in
the herd and which are in any way un—
suitable should be- rigidly discarded.
Brood sows need to be culled just; as
much as do dairy cows. If the ones that
would likely be unprofitable if bred are
gottcn rid of, better care can be bestowed
upon the superior ones which are re-
tained and far more profit secured.

The sows should be in a. healthy, and
if possible, a gaining or growing condi-
tion at breeding time. While experi-
mental work done by the writer and oth-
ers does not show it to be a fact, yet it
is agreed by practically all practical hog
men that a. sow that is gaining is far
more apt to catch at the first service. It
is at mistake to change the sows from
pasture to dry lot at this time. They
should have succulent feed with plenty
of protein and with abundance of exer-
cise to keep up their vigor.

The boar needs careful looking after.
If he is a boar that was used last year
and whose work as a sire has been en-
tirely satisfactory, he usually can be de-
pended upon if he has had sensible care
during his idle season. A young boar
will need very close watching.

It is not good practice to allow the
boar to run with the sows at breeding
time. In the first place it is injurious
to the boar. It allows him to reduce his
vitality by excessive service and thereby
lcsscns his breeding powers, making him
lcss satisfactory as a sire. Many boars
have become unable to get sows with pig
through such excessive service at the
beginning of the season. To keep the
hour in a pen separate from the sows
and allow him just one service conserves
his vitality and pigs resulting from ser-
vice at the end of the season will be just
as good as the early ones.

'l‘o liccp the 1031‘ away from the sows
enables a careful record to be kept of
the bi-ccding date. One hundred and
twelve days is about the length of time
sows usually carry their pigs. By figur-
ing that number of days ahead from the
breeding date, the probable day of far-
rowing can be determined. The date of
service should be carefully recorded for
that reason. If that is done there need
be no guesswork about the time the
sows are to farrow. No loss of pigs need
occur on account of the pigs coming
sooner than had been expected.

If the herd is pure-bred and pedigree
records are to be kept of pigs produced,
all the more care should be exercised in
recording the breeding date. The sow’s
number should be recorded and that of
the boar if there is more than one boar
in service. Each day all breeding en-
tries in the small herd book should be
copied into a larger registeror journal
as an extra precaution. The day-book
might be lost, as is often the case. When
that happens the records will be safe
and secure in the large register if they
have been transferred to it, as they
should be. The loss of a note book in
which entries had been made and from
which they had not been copied has
caused many a. breeder grief and, in case
the book was not found, often it has
caused the loss of money.

A strong, vigorous boar can serve quite
a number of sows if handled rationally.
Last year in the writer's work a. sixteen-
monihs’ hour was used on 43 sows and
all horc pigs although some of the sows
were bred for three successive heat pe—
riods before they conceived. The num-
ber of sows allowed the boar was entirely
too large, yet circumstances made it
necessary to use the same boar on all
thcsc sows. The breeding season was
made unnecessarily long and the boar
was very badly reduced in weight al.-
though he recovered very nicely after-
ward. This year on the same term two
boars will be provided for 50 sows. Prob-
ably that is nearer the number that
should be allowed.

Two services per day with complete
rest on \Sunday are as many as should
ordinarily be allowed. In the case men-
tioned above a. third service was some-.
times permitted but that is not advis-
able. The boar needs good feed and
plenty of it during the season. Protein
is needed as much as ever an animal
needs protein. Some shorts with tank-
age or oil meal should be fed liberally
to insure that he gets plenty of protein.

 

He needs some exercise to keep up his

tone and vigor and to make him active
in service. ‘

A breeding crate' should be provided.
It will enable a. big sow to be served by
a small boar satisfactorily. A heavy
boar may be used on a. small sow and
no ill results occur: A breeding crate,

if properly constructed, will support the

greater part of the weight of the boar
during the act of service and the danger
of injury to the sow and of poor service
resulting are minimized.

The time to begin breeding can be de-
termined by first deciding the time of
year it will be most desirable to have
the pig crop put in its appearance. Then
if approximately 112 days are counted
back from that date, the time. to begin
using the boar will be secured. For in-
stance, if it is desired to have the pigs
begin coming late in March, the breeding
should be commenced in late November
or early December.

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SHIPMENT OF PURE-BRED
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At 'a meeting of the executive commit-
tee of the National Society of Record
Associations, held at the Great Northern
Hotel, Chicago, 111., September 30. 1911,
the chief work transacted was the con-
sideration of the present rates on ship-
ment of pure-bred live stock, in less
than 'carload lots, and the varying rail-

road requirements in connection with

same.

A large number of specific cases were
submitted, wherein shippers of pure-bred
live stock had been required to furnish
an attendant to personally accompany
such pure-bred live stock and to pay full
passenger fare for said attendant, both
going and returning.

As an illustration, it was shown that
the freight rate on shipment of one pure-
bred bull, from the vicinity of Chicago to
Knoxville, Tenn., would be $22.50, while
the expense of passenger fare for the at-
tendant and the cost of his employment
for the time required, together with cost
of meals and incidentals enroute, would
amount to more than $50, making the
total charges in excess of $70, which
breeders will readily recognize is prac—
tically prohibitive.

It was brought out that the roads 0p-
crating north and west of Chicago: have
no such burdensome restrictions, and
that they accept and handle pure-bred
live stock in less than car load lots with-
out qeustion. The southwestern roads
and thc roads in the southern classifica-
tion, appear to be the ones which are the
most serious offenders.

President B. 0. Cowan stated that the
matter had rccently been brought to the
attention of the live stock agents in Mis—
souri. with the result that the railroad
regulations on roads operating in that
state had becn amended so that they no
longcr require an attendant with such
shipments.

Director (Turtles called attention to the
fact that the railroads which were im-
posing these requirements were pursuing
a very inconsistent course, in that many
of them were at the same time. furnish-
ing, free of chargc, trains for the dis-
semination of agricultural information,
with a View to improving the agricultural
methods in the districts tributary to their
line; and it was pointed out that to bur-
den live stock breeders with the necessity
of providing an attendant in charge with
shipments of pure-bred live stock, in less
than carload lots. practically amounted
to an attempt on the part of the railroads
to secure ihcir profits by taxing pure-
bred seed, which the brccdcrs were at-
tempting to distribute in the localities
tributary to the lines of the railroads.
In other words, instead of doing all pos-
sible to encourage and facilitate the dis-
tribution of pure—bred seed among the
farmers contributing traffic to the lines,
and securing their rciurns in they in-
creased traffic, duc to the production of
more and bcttcr live stock, the railroads
were attempting to secure their profits
from charges incident to the distribution
of the better sccd.

A committee was appointed to collect
all possible specific dam and to prepare
the same for presentation to railroad
authorities, and if net-cssury, to the In-
ter-State Commerce Commission.

Breeders throughout the United States
will confer it special favor upon the
National Society of Record Associations,
if they will report specific cases where
they have been obliged to provide an at-
tendant and pay charges incident there-
to. to Sec-Treas. Wayne Dinsmore. Chi-
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This item of news from Colorado fur-
nishes a fair illustration of «the great
shrinkage that has been going on in the
range stock growing states in recent
years. The assessor of Logan Co., COL,
found only 846 sheep in the county this
year, while ten years ago there were 18,-
000, and he returned the number of cat—
tle as 15,000, compared with 40,000 in
1901. The grazing land in Logan county
ten years ago was recorded as 406,000
acres, and the 1911 record shows only
185,000 acres. Now there are 75,000 acres
of irrigated land, besides about 250,000
acres of “dry farm” land, while ten years
ago the agricultural land amounted to

only 27,000 acres.

For several weeks the leading Chicago
commission firms engaged in selling
milch cows have been advising country
shippers to hold back all backward cows
and to keep them on pasture at least
until they come within a week or ten
days of their time for calving. For quite
a number of weeks the demand for back-
ward springers has been extremely poor
and in nearly every instance sellers have
had to rely on killers to take them off
their hands, prices paid being extremely
low, as is always the case when they go
for slaughter. Dairyrnen naturally are
unwilling to buy cows that have to be
carried along for several weeks or
months, as the cost of feed meanwhile
amounts to a considerable item, and they
want cows that will produce milk from
the date of purchase. The demand all
along has been for good fresh cows and
.springers with full bugs, and the call for
prime l—Iolstcins at fancy prices usually
exceeds the supply. Extra choice cows
sell for $70 to $75 and even higher, now
and then, owners usually refusing to part
with high-grade milkcrs at any price.
(‘ountrymen with good autumn puslurnge

.havc had a good opportunity to purchase

curloads of good milch cows in the Chi-
recent weeks and some
have done so.

Hundreds of farmers scattered all ovcr
the corn belt states are in a quandary
as to whether corn at ruling high prices
is too dear to feed to stock on the farms.
and many are inclined to think the best
course will be to market the- corn and
stay out of cattle feeding, regardless of
losing the manure and the splendid out-
look for prime corn-fed hooves, which
are sure to be scarce and extremely dear
during the winter and spring months. It
is, of course, a peculiar state of things
when as high as seventy-live cents a
bushel is paid for corn at the end of the
crop year of the largest crop of corn on
record, yet the best authorities agree that
it will pay to fatten cattle of the better
class, having hogs to follow the cattle.

A. N. Grady, 'VVashington Co., 1a., says
the high price of corn stands in the way
of cattle feeding in that region, sales be-
ing made around 60c per bu., and farm—
ers are not going to do much fceding this
winter, notwithstanding frequent chances
to pick up rare bargains in stockers and
feeders after dcclmes in prices in west-

crn markets, folloW‘ing liberal receipts.
He reports matured hogs well shipped

out and a small crop of fall pigs, most
of the pigs being born in the spring
months. Young hogs are generally heal--
thy and putting on flesh rapidly, feed bo—
ing abundant.

The dearness of hay is influencing
farmers‘n many localities to sell off. their
thin horses at low prices rather than
carry them through the winter. They
take the ground that hay is. too high to
feed on the farm.

At a recent sale of colts and yearlings
at Bloomington, 111., none of the sucking
colts went below $50, and yearlings sold
as high as $110.

A writer for the Manitoba Free Press
says: “Murdo McKenzie, manager of the
Matador Cattle Company, is well known
in western Canada, where he matures
many Texas-bred cattle. He has just
been made manager of the San Paulo
Cattle Company, of Brazil, an enterprise
backed by English and United States
capitalists. McKenzie asserts that if
Brazilian cattle'can be dressed tosnet $4
per ”out on the hoof at San Paulo his
company will have a good margin of
profit, and dressed beef can be carried
by water from Brazil to New York for
less money than by rail over the 1,000
miles separating the Atlantic seaboard
from Chicago. McKenzie says they arc

equal in quality to the best Ontario
grassers.”
ll'estcrn packers are slaughtering at

the rate of 575,000 hogs a week, compared
with 385,000 and 475,000 respectively one
and two years ago. During the summer
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Stockmen are warned as to the danger
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to our subscribers. Each communication
W1‘l( 1r Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
case in full; also name and addre- at
should state history and symptom: of the
the same ailments. If this column
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Scirrhus Cord—Abscess on Knee —I am
puzzled to know what ails a horse that I
recently purchased. His scrotum is swol-
len and pus discharges from each side of
sheath; the openings are well back He
also has a suppurating bunch on knee.
much like a boil. These sores do not
seem to cause much pain. M. S. 8.,
Rapid River, Mich. —When horse was
castrated the end of each cord adhered
to skin of scrotum and a tumor has
grown on end of cord which will have
to be cut out. This is a simple opera-
tion, but of course it should be done by
a veterinarian who has had experience.
The abscess on knee should be opened
up freely; when drainage is allowed it
will soon heal». Apply equal parts pow-
dered alum, oxide of zinc, boric acid and
iodoform twice a day.

B1uised l-lip. —My horse backed against
hay -rack and scraped a large patch of
Skin off hip; since then he has been quite
lame, and soie does not heal as rapidly
as i would like to have it. He also lifts
opposite leg too high when backing, but
shows it very little when going forward.
A. C. N., Spring Lake, Mich. —Apply
peroxide of hydrogen to wound twice a
day: ten minutes after each application
apply one part iodoform and ten parts
boracic acid Lameness will subside as
soon as wound heals. 'l‘he jerking of
leg indicates stringhalt, an ailment which
can often be helped by a. surgical opera-
tion.

Hidebound ——Three— y-ear -old filly has
been out .of condition for several months.
showed symptoms of distemper duiing
hot weather but now has good appetite;
local vetelinarian has failed to do her
much good. C. V. H., Lucas, Mich.—
lf filly is running on pastule she should
he grained twice a day and salted well.
Oats is the best food for her. In addition
to this increased food supply she should
be stabled at night and well groomed
twice a day.

Quittor.—Your advice through Michigan
Farmer has been helpful to me many
times. but I am puzzled to know what
ails my horse’ 3 foot. A discharge of pus
ions from upper part of quarter and I
am unable to heal it. I mig say this
home is right in every other way.
\V., Portland, Mich.—Quittor is not easily
cured. Fairly good results follow a few
applications of tincture iodine; then ap-
ply one part bithloride mercury in 100
parts water. If opening is large enough
fill it with one part iodoform and six
parts boracic acid. The wound should be
(overed with oakum and a tar bandage
applied. It is neulloss for me to say
that diseased quarter should be relieved
of pressure rom shoe

Surfeit. —<Stallion has a few pimples on
him; “ould like to know if it would be
safe to give him Fowler’s Solution, and
if so, how long it should be kept up; also
would it be just: as well to give it with
a syringe or diluted and mixed with
feed? .\notl1e1 horse is out of condition;
would you 1e(ommend same treatment
for him? B. D. B., Woodland. Mich-r—
tlive each a dessertspoonful of Fowler's
solution twice a day. I prefer to put it
in water and mix with feed; however, it
will do no harm to give it alone, but it
does irritate the mouth a little. Keep
up this t1catment for 30 days.

Old Home Slavers. Mllorse 24- years— old
does not eat well. I suspected bad teeth
and had them filed. This horse Slayers
Sunlt‘ but I suppose it comes from foul
pasture. lle eats grain ravenously but
dislikes hay. A neighbor, who is a horse—
man says he needs a good stiiT tonic.
Ho has been fed stock food for some
time W. F. 3., .Mayfield. Mich—His
teeth are doubtless worn short and per-
11.1115 some of them have dropped out,
making it impossible for him to properly
masticate food. Feed ground grain and
cut hay: also give him 1 oz. ground gen-
tian at a dose in feed three times a day.
I suggest a change of pasture.

Bunch on Stifie. *Colt six months old‘

has bunch on fore part of stifle joint; he
travels Somewhat stifl’ and is inclined to
drag toe. F). R. M., Elkton. Mich.~1\pply
one part red iodide of mercury and ten
parts cerate of cantharides to hunch once
a week.

Indigestion—{hit of Condition—Five—
year-old horse has been gradually failing
for past three months and is now quite
thin. J, ll. (1.. Sunfield, Mich—Mix equal
parts powdered sulphate iron, gentian,
ginger, cinchona, fenug1eek and rosin and
give ho1sc tablespoonful at a dose in feed
three times a day. Are you sure he is
fed enough grain? Besides, salt him
well.

Cow Has
has what I call spavin;
diseased. She seems stiff in both hooks
and is bothered in getting up. J. A., Bad
Axe, Mich—She will perhaps always be

Spawn—Ten —year—old cow

stiff, but much benefit will be derived'

from applying one part red iodide of
mercury in four parts lard to hooks once
a week.

Nasal Catarrh.——-Eighteen-months-old
calf has what we believe to be a case of
distemper which causes him to sneeze
and cough. A. P., Addison, M'ich. —Mix
equal parts ginger, gentian, licorice and
rosin and give calf two tablespoonmb at

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26 li‘i'fliiié’ 26,

The undersigned will sell at

Public Auction

01 Tuesday.Nnv.28,1911

At I0 o'clock.

Al the 0. 11m Earn, 01110 City, 0.

26 head of Registered Gu rnseya of both sexes and.
all ages (15 females and 1 males) from the Sires
Prince Rosendaie 429]. Sir BonnyfiOB-I. Cloettes Echo
92171. llosamonds Lad 8474. Glen Rose of Beech
12772 and Prince Fern of Maplehurst 16203.

All stock No. land Thborculin Tested.

AddreseKTHAS. L. KOOGLE, for Sale List.

Signed, Estate of O. Koogle—Bobert Chambers. J. C.
George and Oscar Waltz.

BIIEEDEIS’ DIRECTIIIIY.
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd. consisting omejn Mona Blackbirds and
Prides, only. is headed by a Trojan Enca,
by Black W oodlawn. sire oft 8 Grand Chamgon steer
and bull at tthe International in Chicm, 19 .
He is assisted by Undulata Blackgrird Ito.

W0 OEDCO’!‘ STOCKI‘ .lomla. Mich.

 

 

 

AYnsmaEs this. “on“ 13.1:

and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swine. Pou tri. All
pure bred. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint Mich.

GUERNSEYS—Imported cow 5 heifer 1 111111 calves.
of extra Ii'lbreedingvfor sale. Come
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—'1‘wo rh\oung polled Durham Bulls and five
F“ saleDu Heifers and Co own. 5510 oath
if taken quick. «CLARK Milford Mir-.11

"Top-Notch" HOLSTEINS.

A fine young bull from an Advanced Registry dam.

Beam Pietertle Kornd'yke King rn Nov.

’bl91(l Sire Willowbrldcejlos Dun. Anna Howntje
Lenore who has an official record of milk 1 day, 84. 3
lbs; milk 7 dummfl lbs.; butter? da swans lbs.
She .1ve 13.912 lbs. milk in and." an has given

ӣ2 lbs mil 11k in her nine milking periods
1111'lcrnging 32') days each. including the one at. 2 years
old. She has two 'A .0 do ughtmone onehas an
official record of 2112111... butter in 7 day! at 4 11%.
months old. Her dam gave .753 lbs. milk in 34!
days and has three A. 11.0 dau hters. The sire of
this voung bull is myrandson51 all eauty Pietprtje. 11 he
has an oflloial record of 3151 butter in 7 days
and was the first 30-11). cow of tlheb breed to produce a
30- lb. daughter. He comes of large producers on hot th
sides, is a fine individual, nice eyl marked with a little
more black than white. Weight about 700 lbs. Price

MPH!

I80! 111mm.

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Fayette. Ollie.

HOLSTEIN BULLS

FOR SALE

Registered b Is from four to ten months old for
sale that are lonely related to Hengerv eld
De Kol De Kola 2nd Butter Boy 3rd. and Colan-
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and mostly in the A. ..0 Prices reasonable.
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Sire, Marston’s interested Prince

Has three daughters in Register of Merit with

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He is neon o! Imported Interested Prince. 18

. daughters in Register of Merit.

Dam is No. 773 Register of Merit 11, 115
lbs. Milk, 511 lbs. Butter Fat. equal
to 602 lbs. Butter in one year. 56 lbs.
milk in one day.

Winner in Show Ring, also Competitive Dairy
Test. Michigan State Fair. For price address

T. F. MARSTON,
Box 1., Bay City. Michigan.

For Sale, Jersey!“m Bull . ”€3.F°§.213‘.
Merit cow.

of Gra re ARegister of Merit bull.
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. Cows all in yearly test. Four Bulls old em) h for
service. Several lendid Bull Calves. few
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EGISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin.
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Fair Champion by HERMAN BAR M.S Bee-e. Mich.

mm m from 2 to 12 months. grand eons of

Hengerveld De K.ol King Begin.

ling-om Veeman De K01. and King of the Haunt-voids—
old dam. Prices very low, .

consideced. Long Beach Holstein Par-1. Augusta Inch.

OB. SALE—3 \earlin Holstein-Friesian bulls. also
bred heifers Hail) Bull ca lvea ii) to m
Ell years a breeder. Photos andped pedigrees an appli.
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CRYSTAL SPRING srocx FOFAB
Sher Creek. legal County. Michigan.

Dairy Bred Sho “hams—.25" 333 313132151?

(labor good note. J. B. HUM . Mason. Mich.

JERSEY BULLS FOR SALE

Sired by 'l‘emisia’ 5 Interested Prince 71548 w hose

 

 

made 733 lbs. butter in one year. authenticated test.
' In. Prlce

01101 on lndlvldua s Reasonable.
BHMVMTER FARE, Ill MOON, MIMI, II. F. I). 7.

Red Polled Bull Calves

61:07 months old. $4!) 1:03:30 Cows $0 to 871'). Also
Percheron Stallion Elfloars old fine 1-1tv,le a big
bargain mm. E. BRAC ETTJSCN Allegan, Mich.

FOR SALE—2 Yearling RED POLLED
BULLS ce $60 each
if taken now. J. M. CHASE & SO S. Ionia. Mich,
—Shorthoru Cattle Shro -
oak“ Stun Fm shire Sheep. A few young!
bulls for sale. W. J. LESSITEB Bolde Much.

 

 

 

 

 

SHEEP.

OTSWOLD. HAMPSHIREDOWN, and» SOUTH-
; DOWN RAMS for sale cheap for ten days.
The CLOVER BLOSSOM. FARM, Port Austin. Mich.

Choice. young. large. hear) fieeced Chi“.
2- One-t bird off to quick bu a an:
Write wants to S III. S.ANDEBS yAshtabula. Ohio.
' —-A ll b1 '
Found anon Flock .0.f;§:.,.,.‘.’5‘5,..‘" if:
Hampshire Down Sheep—bu st general purpose sheep
on earth. Four registered awash and ram form.

few young rams .1t $10 to $15 each
C. D. “ OODBUBY. Liming. Mlchlgan.

Oxford-Down Sheep “95.9%?
cattle for sale. .13]?! GABMO. Muir. Mich.
—-Good Y ' '
Oxford Down Slice 11...... “33333.1 311' gale:
for sale. I. R. WATEHB Y. Highland, Michigan.

OXFURD RIMS and “£81m"? by mfinngJfi‘h“?

Write B. F. Miller or G. L. ”Spillane. Flint Mich.
0XFORD DOWN RAMS FOR SALE~yearlinza

and lambs. VV'ill sell a few aged mo
tractivelpriees. S. E. GILLETT. Bavexna. 0m

Special Prices Afiinfiufi’gnfiammmfifix
gistered .BALDWIN Hastings. Mich.

——Good ones at Iamen’
Rambouillel Rams ,.....,_ ”0...... a... e...
lambs. A. E. GREEN. Orchard Lake, Mich. Bell phone.

Reg. Ramhouillets‘w‘hghm ‘°

both 39"" All 3883 I 1w F __2
Mon-111e, 0n (1. T. B. ll. (an weL Rude. 5‘3 Ancioleosogf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oak Hill Stock Farm“

1 lvro': IIOMIYIIRtEAMIgOUILLET RAMS
a a n r ‘
heavy rams was or a next ondays. Lane. 811:.

Nov. ‘13, 1911.

MEX“ Elude. Rm
"003;
Bear- at special price-m for :1 days.
luster rams.
winning-took Elmhnlfi Stock Far-n. Alma-t. MEL-.11.
011 SALE. BERKSHIRE—2 boat: a S gilt: taut-media June

alsoaehoicabtof‘nt and Sept. pin. sired by Handsome
Princeldi Hallo-King. A. A. PAT'IUHO, Dock-rifle. lich.

 

 

 

 

 

—Bows bred for fall lax-r . Boa. i f
firm“ all service. unlity a2: bros; p ”115°;
Glass. Phoenix-ensemble. C. . Corny. New Haven. lch.

—-Buy a wrvlce Boar now.
BerKShireS cheap. Other stock also
for ale. 0. 8. BARTLETT Pontiac. M11311.

PURE C. I. C’s‘mium“ m‘éfi’fil‘mun‘l’y 2:3

lax-fie type Both sexes not. akin. ring far-row.
or write. FA. 0. Schweltemn. ontezuma. 0.

0. I. G. SHIN E‘filcaifi'“... 3.3%?le

strain both males a_nd i.females Write for Live and

 

 

 

Let Live Jbrlee oin' rstriosand tries. not akin.
Gonna .B. No. 2.110", Michigan.

0 I ' s—either sex. furrow—the large.
owthy kind. B t ty

prices. A. NrHWNANJ New“ lzfiflflfgifiirg.

 

.. I clbe SWINE—Males weighingfrom 1‘15 to 250
(1,110.1) AFDBIEWS “'BafiJfiiI. °hgi1°ful°3af£c 11...

.0 la C’s FOP sm_m‘ (15223.net. lax-33 “by

akin. some fine bred ll Whoice lot 0:1? I all
ages. OTTO B. S L Nashville Midge-=11.

iIn C.s—Bc}1srl6€g 9013. 8 Choice your; news weigh-
. s so u e 1 e or so , a
makin. Order early. 1:9leng gleam Mix p “-5

DUB. Imp. Chester Whites and Tamworth swine won.
245131; at Fairs 111 1911. Sci-11cc boars. also sows bred
for spring famw oleither breed that will pleau. you

in quality and price, Adams Bros. Litcllfield. Mich.
breeders of March, April

—-Y
[awed ”fish's all): hay furrow, either sex.

triedo sows for sale when b Also Holstein.
WILSON. Chemo. Mich. Both phones.

D UROG JERSEYS—$3"? 1.11::

out. CAREY U. EDMONDS. Has“
PORSALE—A ilbw spring boars
Iuroc Wilma-19.11% m... r...
Stochbr dye, Michigan.
UROC-JERSEY BOA RS of the large. heav boned

t1pe and good in uality, also lite and all 1
for sale. A.“ Ohm (1531111111 00. ) Mighgs

' ready for servic S ' l
30 "lgh Class Boats prices for 30 (11.55.121.135:
of growth style and. finish. Sat' “action guaranteed.
Oomeor write. J'. C. BARNEY. Goldwater. Mich.

FOR SAL. —DUBOC-JERSEY bred sows,
We“ Prepaid EfNfigfi’hfifli‘? 111211?

 

 

 

 

DUBM—JFXSEYS—flfi fine spring gilts. popular blood lines.
Good Individuals; 10 fine hours, 5 bred sows due to
JOHN McNICOL. R. No. 1, North Star, Mich.

BIG POLAND GIIIIIAS.

We have several spring boars that are ready for ear
vi(- 9 now from our

large Boar. 3309 Tom and Big Wonder.

The dams ol’thew beaten to are o‘ering were from

Happy Wilkes, a IMO-lb hog and
Jim Parlection an soc-1b. hog.

farrcw soon.

 

: We also have several females. Write us your wants;

we will sell thenatf m
ALLEN 8208.. Paw Paw. Mich.

 

EAR“ TYPE P. C._mli‘ M‘clhlaal Piss

res and
sows. Weigh 160 to 175 lbs. at 4 th -
"Not hot“: cheaph but how 3311’ sW1 My mottox
penseeo “grommet: donotfld
advertise. .E. LIVINGSTON, Pal-1:11. Kigali. XI

IIITLER'S BIG TYPE P01IID-GHINI8’3‘321113.‘”“1’6

bigfallhousatfi, m mmgmmm 50b“ 1
beach 50 nedduedfilnpbuekaatflfitoufi: 639g:
Jere‘ey bulls at $15 to 825; 50 re Shr ewes at $19.
aret farmer's hiend. J. 0-. tier. rtland. Mich.

GLAND CHINA SPRING PIG-8 from 1
stock. Also- dairy bled. Short]: “1’ fig;
all ages. prices low. ROBERT NM Flam-.Mi

' ~8pring and fall pi of l
”land Chlllas medium style at riggllt ricggggitllg‘:
r was. malice-1; Mich

r v

NDCIINASr—h at Miehigaf a Grand Champion

bar; large.powthys spoilt bears and climb! this grant
sin; they' re priced halt. E. HIATEIWSON Nada“ Mich.
Wm“ 3|"

Poland China—km
L. w. unans- son. Bymnf‘élgwunfbt' 11':

B SALE— Poland China boarsa d , Hal
balls, White Holland Turkeys. 1131”:ng Plymflifgiifil
Rocks. Collie Pups. L. Birkenstock. Pall vet. W'm

 

C WARS ready for mice. has. ban
P. ruse. Prices right. I]. H. '! sung-:1: :3
L800. B. No 4. Lansing. Michigan.

I‘. 6. Bears and Fall ”gall... “3.19.13“?

mace. (owls. Korthrnfi
tion guaranteed. “REILLS, Salim Mich.

 

 

APLE'RIDGE SHROPSBIRES-Fornlo the imp.
nun. l‘hc Manager and \earling mmsand ewes
sired by this notcd ram. H.,Stewart Lennon. Mich.

hhnd emu—Bred. he. large type. Stock
mag“. both sexes. at Far-an
prions. W. J. BAG W Augusta, Mic-him

 

Wheaders—‘Cholce el'ea’relén-g Shropshire rams

ewes 10111.81 uofi'msn “mulliff‘fiilad

t. a ram
SIIIOI‘SIIIIE ’ff‘” 31:2... 0 10%.?120333133“
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_ Shropshires Hall Stock Farm has 8 Mom

ewes and rms

for . DUNHAM it SONS. Concord Mich.

The Maple Shogsllirerwgmg ‘23:“:

yearling rams. and our - am
Davieon and sired by Brnyegrlpggmsfiocx r bred. by
l FL we

SON Route No. 9 AnnArbor. Mich.

Shropshire Bargains:
EWES and RAMS—Forty b strong well covered
yearlin‘ raJmir fromi 111 reads res. Satisfaction guar-
antes E. UTTA AYC ”Flushing, Mich.

Shropshire Rama for Sale.

DAN HOOKER. R. No. l. Marlon. Mich.

Hnggnslofizlo yearling Rla-IBO and 0 I. C. in.
or Bhro
1....» 1...... a z. Oberon on "Brightolmfiffi'e

shy at far-amnion. love a a... bunch. at

 

ram lamb alao I
in ewes. ”mm E‘R‘Davaogw 1311.1.

 

POIand Chl‘1’ll'as4nec boar “fifofilifig'

bothsens.
P. C. BoarsndSows“’°‘§,‘;{

slon. A. WOOD a SUN. Saline.

Three Extraaoedlalll' 6. Bears

By Next In “no. male Db ready to dii
I ship 0.0. D. and32 fun unis pedigree pro-pill :1 If
you want good as chest. write me for m

WI. NIPPLE, Goldwater. "W1.

 

 

—Stock of all a as forsake 1‘ right.
MUMWG Best and g 8:130 81191. I.
at. Lima. .0. K33 L0 .mllardirn 00.. Ohio.

 

all ages. both sexes. Gut.
alarm days e-hoan
K. Morley. Mich

lillle Farmstead Yorkshire‘s”.

Mold-51v.” Afaw
flag”. pialrs tract-ac: akin. living-align fall
pr can that me you otion
III-med. 001.0 cramp... em .1110. mm.

rplmmd bruins” ““53: 3‘33" p35,”;
reasonable. Adda-em". I! Peri-r. Grand Blane. Mich.

PUIE IIEI WEE.

old m fermion. I. O.

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M
CRATE FEEDING OF CHICKENS FOR
MARKET.

I have been fattening chickens for
market for some considerable time. Find-
ing it both difficult and expensive to
bring them up to my ideal of what a
No. 1 market fowl should be, I finally de—
cided to try crate feeding. It has proved
a success with me and I have satisfied
myself that the selling of lean chickens
is a. wasteful practice, to say the least.

I had some fattening crates made
which are 36 in. square and 18 in. high.
Each crate is divided into four compart-
ments, each compartment holding five
fowls. The crates are made. of slats, ex-
cept that the partitions between the com-
partments are of thin hoards placed
tightly together so that the fowls cannot
see each other. The slats on top and
bottom run lengthwise of the coop, while
those on sides and ends run up and
down. I used common laths for slats,
placing them two inches apart to allow
the chickens to put their heads through
for securing food and drink. The slats
on the bottom are placed one inch apart.
’lnere is a small door in the top, fastened
with a button. through which the fowls
are put into and taken out of the crate.
There is a small V-shaped trough ex-
tending the full length of each of the
four sides of the crate; two of these are

used for water and the other two for
feed.

I keep fresh water constantly before
the fowls. The first week I feed cooked
food, boiling small potatoes, manglez,
etc., and mashing them with finely
ground cornmeal and oatmeal ‘Ii equal
parts. This makes a thick mash. 'VVhen

it has cooled a little I thin it with skim—
milk until it pours out like a batter. This
I feed twite a day. never more at a time
than the'fowls Will chan up in ten min-
utes. I give, three times a day, equal
parts of oatmeal and white cornmeal
finely ground and mixed with skim-milk.
Add to this a pound of clean melted tal—
low for ’every 50 fowls. i make the noon
meal quite sloppy but have .the mash a.
little stiffer for morning and evening
feeding. I givethem all they will eat tip
clean; if any remains I take it away, as
care must be exercised about overfeed—
ing. I find that if I get them off their
feed it is difficult to get them started
right again.

The fowls are given gravel every four
days, also all the prepared charcoal they
will eat. Chickens weighing from 2 to
21/2 lbs. when put into the crate have
made the most profitable gains for me,
making gains of from 30 to 35 per cent in
12 days. All fowls should he dusted with
sulphur before placing them in the crate.
Also locate the crates where they will
not encounter drafts.

I feel that I owe. my succeSS to careful
feeding, rather than to hard work. I
have not lost: a single fowl in a feeding
crate. I trust that, this general idea of
my methods and experience will be of
some benefit to others.

\Vayne Co. MRS. A. D. Pi'rcunn.
ONE MAN’S SUCCESS lN TREATING

ROUPY FOWLS.

 

 

 

Colds and roups are prevalent at this
time of year and extra precautions must
be taken lest the entire fiock become in—
fected. By pouitry owners who have had
experience in the treating of fowls in-
feeted with roup the disease is readily
diagnosed, as there is no mistaking the
“roupy smell,” the. swollen head and
eyes and the sticky discharge from eyes
and nostrils. There are, however, dis—
eases somewhat similar to roup which
in reality are, not roup, such as catarrh,
diphtheretic roup and ordinary colds, all

of which are sometimes mistaken for
genuine roup, but can easily be dis-
tinguished by the smell. Colds, if taken

in time, can easily be checked by the use
of simple remedies. If the fowls sneeze
and Shuffle while on the roost at.night,
put about a tablespoonfui of coal oil in
the drinking water. The oil will remain
on top and they will treat themselves
when drinking. Spirits of camphor ad-
ded to the drinking water is also bene-
ficial.

Roup can usually be traced to damp
quarters, drafts in the poultry house and
overcrowding. The last named is, in my
opinion, one of the principal causes. In
the fall one usually has more stock on
hand than can be properly housed. The
fowls crowd together on the roost until

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

they becomeoverheated; on leaving the
roasts in ”theumornjnfigthey rush out into
the cold “and become chilled. Therefore

have sufficient roosting room so they'
"won‘t be crowded on the perches.
I haVe successfully treated some very

severe cases of roup and as yet have not
lost a fowl. ‘A few of the hens had
swollen heads, both eyes swollen shut
and feverish], sticky discharge from nos—
trils and eyes, and a cheesy growth or
“false membrane” in the mouth. On
opening the eyes, morning and night, the
sticky discharge was pressed out. At
times cheesy matter was removed from
the eyes with a straw. After getting out
all the matter possible I injected into the
eyes,.nostrils and throat a solution made
from one of the well known coal tar
preparations, using one part to two parts
water. A small oil can was used for in-
jecting it. I found that the fowls would
not drink water to which the coal tar
preparation had been added, therefore I
injected it and put permanganate of pot-
ash into the drinking water; just enough
is dropped into the water to give it a
good pink color. Permanganate of pot-
ash is a strong disinfectant but is not
poisonous; as there is no smell t'o it the
fowls will readily take it with the water.
'ine coal tar solution is excellent to in-
ject as it dries tip the discharge.

One must exercise patience in treating
roupy fowls as l"hey cannot be completely
cured in a few nays’ time. \Vhile some
improvement ."H' usually be noticed after
a few oar... i'eatment a complete cure
cannot be .r'er-tcd in less than ten days
or, two .2eks. The principal thing in
treati._g roup is to keep the eyes and
nostrils open so that the discharge can
he. removed and dried up.

Fowls cured of roup must not be used
as breeders, however well they look. They
will do for market, or for market eggs,
but never breed from them as they will
transmit the disease to their offspring.
’l‘he cured fowls should be marked so
that they can be easily distinguished
when selecting the breeding stock.

Indiana. 0. E. IIACIIMAN.

(The attention of Macomb County Sub-
scriber, and of others who have recently
Sent inquiries which indicate that they
have roup in their flocks, is directed to
the suggestions and experience given in
the abOVc article.—l:‘.d.)

 

 

MARKETING EXTRACTED HONEY.

I have always rather favored the idea
of the producer putting his name and
address upon each section of honey that
he placed upon the market. It will ad—
vertise his honey= and some consumers
will send to him direct for their supply,
thus enabling him to make many more
sales.

\Vhen commencing to put. extracted
honey on the market the best style or
kind of package was with me a. matter
of much perplexity. After trying many
and various kinds I finally decided that
glass fruit jars, in their various sizes,
were, all things considered, about the
most satisfactory packages that could be
obtained here for the retail trade. The
glass itself, barring accidents, lasts an
indefinite length of time. As the caps
or covers are made. of zinc they do not
rust and if they become discolored or
old—looking there are a number of prep-
(nations with which they can be very
quickly and easily cleaned so that they
look as bright as when new. On this
account these jars, after being emptied,
represent, or are worth, about as much
money as when new, something that. can
hardly be said in favor of any other re-
tail package with which I am acquaint-
ed. I"sually even
housewives will hardly object to the cost
of the jars, owing to the almost universal

 

use that is made of them by all classes

for canning fruit.

Extracted honey will granulate or be-
come white and hard in cold weather.
\\'hile

to its liquid form again by simply heat-
ing it.
the honey you
water.

wish' liquefied

long time.

does not get too hot~—not

ens it.

it in its candied or granulated form.
Honey should be kept in a warm, dry
place; dampness often causes it to sour.

New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.

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the most thrifty of

at first this may seem to he a
detriment, it is not, for it can be reduced

Place the can or dish containing
in warm
In a short time the honey will all
melt and will not granulate again for a
But be sure that the water
hotter than
you can bear your hand in—as overheat-
ing the honey spoils the flavor and dark—
I try to have all my honey in the
liquid form when sold, but it; may gran-
ulate in time, and this is good, in fact
the best, proof of its purity. Some prefer

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§ HINK of a new high-

§ powered Chalmers car

§ with a Self-starter as

s regular equipment—for \
$1800! No more cranking,

no more bother. Just push abut-
ton on the dash with your foot, and
away goes your motor.

That isn’t all. This car has a
long stroke motor (4)1“ x 5% ", de-
veloping 36 to 40 h. p.); four for-
ward speed transmission; Bosch
dual ignition; 36" x 4" tires; Conti-
nental Demountable rims; Mer-
cedes type honeycomb radiator;
dash adjustment for carburetor.

Furthermore, this car has bigness,
strength, proved durability, beauty,
fine finish, comfort.

And the price, including all these
unusual features of value is $1800.

A man at the circus for the first'time,
viewed in amazement the girafi'e.
Afterlookingtheanimal over
for some time and inquiring if
it hada name he turned away
saying, “There ain’t no
such animal.”

Many motorists, hearing
of the Chalmers “Thirty-
six” for the first time, then

 

"Thirty-six” Touring Car
5-pauenger,-$I800
Longstrolemotor,
four forwird speeds. Bosch dual igni-
tion. Solar gas lamps and Prest-O-Lite
tank, ventilated fore-doors, 36x4-inch
tires, Continental demountable rims.

This New, Big, Self-starting Chalmers
“Thirty-six” —$1800

  

 

75/3 man ogjranx on Me
ma’zafor smug/5 fir u/I
you can 11.1.6 m a 112ch car

Chalmers Motor Company. Detroit.'Mich.

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learning the price, have felt much
the same way.

But they are wrong. There really
is such a car as the “Thirty-six,” with
the features named above—for $1800.

You can see this car now at our
dealer’s store near you. It will
look better to you there than in this
advertisement. See it. Ride in it.

No car can be more serviceable
to the farmer than the new Chal—
mers “Thirty-six.” It is a car that
will compare, point by point, with
the most. expensive car made, and
yet is sold at such a price that it
will pay its way in the every day
work on any good sized farm.

The famous Chalmers “30” and
Chalmers “Forty” also offer unusual
values. The “30” sells at $1500 and
the “Forty” at $2750. Both fully
equipped at these prices.

The Chalmers Company realizes
that there is no better field for
the sale of cars of the
Chalmers class, than right
on the farm.

We want your patronage
Let us get acquainted. A
postal will bring you our
catalog and an introduction
to our dealer nearest you.

 

 

 

  

to the H. I’. needed.

engine in the world.

 

Other Prices
in Proportion

 

“EVERYBODY”

can Afford a Gasoline Engine -~
jh‘tRWith Galloway’s New Low Prices

You’ve never before heard of such startling values—I’ve never offered
anything like them and you know full well that no one else has ever
come anywhere near my regular prices. But this time I've ti startling
reason 71 want 11/ men in every township in, the county to own andoper—
ate a Galloway Engine—I’ve decided to double my factory capacity
by increasing the sales twice and sell two where l formerly sold one
—this calls for unusual values—hence, the greatest oil'crl have ever
made. I can save you from 82:") to $300 on an engine according
Ifdoesn‘t matter what sized engine
you want I‘ve got the one to fit your wants and do more
work and better work at less actual cost than any other
Write atonce for full information
of the Greatest Offer Ever Made To American Farmers—-
don‘t delay but send me your name and address now, be-
fore you do another thing. Let me prove to you in cold
facts Why I can put 025 to $300 in your pocket.
WM. GALLOWAYCOMPANY
Wm. Galloway, Pros.
645 Galloway 5th., Waterloo, ll.

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
  
      
   
     
 

 

 
 
 

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SCIENTIFIC SWEEP MILL

This No. 6 triple geared, double act-
., ing sweep mill has more capacity and
will do better work than any. other
two-horse mill; it;

TU R N 5 CO H N
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Avoid waste, and make
big profits by grind-
“. ing your feed with
» one of our mills. We
' make power mills also
3, for engines of any size.

Send for free catalog.

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Good Money in Poultry and Eggs.

Send 10 Cents for3 issues of POULTRY BllEE'DER; 2)

cents a year For 21 years the BREEDER editor has

made afflock‘of 150 my him $600 to $900 or year.
GEO. S. BA NICS. BATTLE C tEEK. MICE.

WE B yv tannin! “ll?te.°"tltt"
ny quan ity. rt 9 or prices

R. H- SCHIRMER 8- 00., Saolnaw. Mich.

 
   
 

AMMO’J‘H Bronze Turkeys~Large vigorous birds,
.1 Ma hatch. Toms. $5: hens, $4. Silver‘nyandottes.
cock‘ls £1.50. EJH. & J. A. Collar, Coopersville,Mich,

F0 SALE —Fancy R. 0. Rhode In.-
R land Red Cockerels from
good laying breed. E. S. HIGBEE, Wayland. Mich.
FISHEL STRAIN White Plymouth Rock cockerels

S e i 1 sale during Nov. Price $1 & $2. Guaranteed
to ple‘hs‘bleruce W. Brown. R. No. 3, Mayville, Mich,

No Such Quallty in any engine
-—no matter what price you pay—
the Galloway price saves you $25

'Satifaction guaranteed.

 
    
      
    
     
 

Y entire. stock of thoroughbred S. C. Brown
Leghorns and business for sale. “'rite or call
LEWIS ’I‘. OPPENLANDER. R. No. 4. Lansing Mich.

 

HEN you buy Blue Belle Bat red Rocks, you buytho
best, in barring. sturdiness, and egg-production.
Cookerels $1. to $5. Lake Ridge Farm, Levering.Mieh.

 

UFF & White ()rningtons, Buff dz White Leghorns
Barred & White Rocks, 6'1. R. (l. Ithodo Island Reds
Okls. Selects $3, Mediums $2, Utility $1.50 each
H. H. KING, Willis Mich.

 

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ADIES AND GENTLEMEN:—This
L dairy show and convention is only

a part of a movement in this coun-
try that has been brought about by a,
consciousness that the food problem in
the United States may, in the somewhat
near future, become a serious one.

We have been in the habit of thinking
that we had so much land and such good
land that there never could come a time
when we would have more people to feed
than we could feed. But the last census
statistics indicate otherwise. ”The farm-
ing lands, the total acreage in the last
ten years has increased only four per
cent; the improved acreage only 15 per
cent: while the population has'increascd
21 per cent. ‘

In the last decade, the productivity of
the acre has increased one per cent a,
year. And thus far we are keeping up,
the productivity of an acre is a hard
thing to continue to increase at the same
rate.

“”9. are near the limit of our acreage.
Perhaps not more than 150,000,000 acres
more are capable of tillage in this coun-
try either by 'irrigation, reclamation or
drainage.

The consequence is that in order to
increase our food supply to meet the
growth of the population, which in fifty
years is likely to be two hundred mil-
lions, we are obliged to resort to those
methods that. involve greater attention,
greater industry, and greater scientific
knowledge than are used in the opening
of :1 connlry that seems so rich that all
you huvc to do is to tickle it with a hoe
to mukc il smile.

As the question of food products and
their movcmcnl becomes more important,
ihosc hrunchcs of the agricultural in-
dustry ihut depend for their success on
constant manual attention and close
scientific sludy become more. important.
And that, i think, is the reason for the
development of the dairy interests.

That is the reason why it is so im—
portant to study the question of breed—
ing, and the methods of feeding and the
mechanical appliances for the purpose of
making easier and more certain the
cleanliness of the production of the milk
and the manufacture of butter and
cheese.

The federal government has no direct
authority in this matter, except through
interstate commerce and the pure food
law. But it has that general interest
which justifies it in expending the peo-
ple’s money under the welfare clause
for the purpose of promoting all branches
of agriculture. And through the Depart-
ment 0 Agriculture it is doing so. And
under t e bureau of animal industry, it
is promoting, as far as it may, the knowl-
edge of the dairy farmers with reference
to how cattle ought to be treated and
how the dairy business ought to be car-
ried on.

I believe that in Massachusetts as far
back as 1816 there was a cow that pro-
duced 476 p0unds of butter in one year.
And now there are COWS that can produce
more than a thousand pounds of butter
—-pcrhaps eleven hundred.

Since I acquired one of the noted cows,
I am looking into the statistics, and I
want to apologize for the failure of her
royal highncss to be present this morn-
ing: she ought to be here.

But in spite of those high figures, I
understand the average production of a
milk cow is something less than 150
pounds.

Now certainly there is great room for
improvement in that regard, when the
difference between the average and the
extreme is so great. There is room for
an improvement in breeding and an im-
provement in feeding and an improve—
ment in all the methods properly usable
to increase the supply of milk and but-
ter. I am glad to be here to give, so

,far as I may, while the titular head of

the government, the approval of the ad-
ministration to any enterprise like this
of a national character, that tends to
promote in the spirit of competition and
a proper emulation, the importance of
this great branch of agriculture, and the
helping along of the people by the in-
crease in the supply of healthy milk, but-
ter and cheese.

I do not suppose that it has any par-
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until I went to the tropics that one of
the r‘casgns why the'dreadf-ul destruction!
of infants that occurs in~ those' regions
is so great, is the fact that they have
not any milk with which to feed the in-
fants—any cow’s milk. It is not impos-
sible that they should have because after
I went to the Philippines I imported a
cow and kept it all the time I was there,
and I do not see any reason why they‘
might not have in the tropics that source
of milk to promote the cause of health.
Perhaps this is reaching a little toward
an ideal more ambitious than this na-
tional dairy show need be. But the im-
portance of the production of healthy
milk, and its generous supply impressed
itself more on me when I had some-ex-
perience in its absence, than it Would if
I had always had the benefit of drinking
good milk and eating good butter.

I hope for this association and enter-
prise ihe greatest good fortune. I hope
for the prizes that are offered here a
stirring up among the professional men
engaged in this work, that spirit of in-
vestigation and education 'which will pro-
mote the cause of this branch of agricul-
ture everywhere. And I look forward
with confidence to a development in this
work which we may expect, a branch
which by education, industry, enterprise
and science can be made more profitable
and at the same time most useful to the
general public. I thank you for your
kind attention.

A BALANCED RATION WITH CORN-

MEAL, WHEAT BRAN, MIDDLINGS

AND ENSILAGE.

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(“an I make a balanced ration of bran.
middlings and corn meal, and how many
pounds of each would you feed a cow
giving 12 pounds of milk at a milking?
Also. have carrots, mangels and ensilage
to feed her, or would I get better results
by substituting seed meal in place of the
middlings.

Schoolcraft CO. C. XV. J.

In order to make a balanced ration with
these foods you would have to use so
much wheat bran that it would make the
ration cost too much and you would also
food too much grain in proportion to the
bulky part of the ration. l Would sug-
gesi‘ that you leave out wheat middlings
entirely, they add nothing particularly 10
the balancing of ihe ration because they
arc no richer in protein than bran and
they are now as good a cow feed, and I
would substitute in the place of the mid-
dlings, cottonseed meal. Then if you
will mix bran, corn meal and cottonseed
meal equal parts by weight you will have
a grain ration which will balance up the
corn silage very nicely. A cow giving
12 pounds of milk needs in the neighbor-
hood of 13/1 to 2 pounds of protein per
day. Now, two pounds of cottonseed
meal. two pounds of wheat bran and
two pounds of corn mcal will furnish 1.24
pounds, and 10 pounds of corn silage 'will
furnish .36 pounds, making a total of 1.60
pounds of digcsiible protein in the ra—
tion and I think this will be all that You
can afford to feed a cow that gives only
12 pounds of milk at a milking or 24
pounds of milk per day. Of course, it
will depend considcrably upon the quality
of the milk which the cow gives. If she
gives live pcr ccnt milk it would be dif-
fercnt than if she gave three per cent,
and i would suggest that you quit figur-
ing on the. number of pounds of milk
which the cow gives but figure on the
pounds of huttcr-fat which she produces.
Rich milk produces more butter—fat and
it takes more food to produce rich milk
than it does to produce ordinary milk. I
would also suggest that you feed some
form of dry'roughugc food in connection
with the corn silage. I don't like to have
all of the. roughage a succulcnt food. You
ought to have some kind of hay. and
clover hay would be best. Corn stover
Would be bctler than nothing, and even
oat straw fed in connection to furnish
a dry food in the ration would be better
than to feed none at all. It would also
be a splendid thing to feed her some of
the carrots and mangcls.

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The government is active in a cam-
paign looking toward the detection of
dealers who are selling butter with an
exccss of moisturc. Much of it has been
found and many men are being asked to
pay the annual tax for handling butter
having more than 16 per cent of water.

There is every promise that butter
prices will rule high this winter. The
average receipts are about on a par with
those of former years, considering the
natural increase in the number of dairy
cows kept There is a lively demand es-
pecially for the better grades of cream-
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other grades are not without attention,

Prominent and successful dairymen
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Why? Read Users’ Reasons.

Bluiiton, Indiana, October 14, 1911.
I purchased a Tubular. Many of other

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they see it.

People know a good thing when
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Clearwater, Minn. Oct. 14, 1911.
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tum no harder thou shim-
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Hay $24 per ton.
Dried Beet Pulp $24 per ion .3.

Feed one pound Beet Pulp in place of two
pounds of hay. That is cut down the hay two
pounds and increase the pulp one pound.

Save over one cent per day on each animal.

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A METHOD OF IMPROVING THE
DAIRY.
Through the medium of publicity of
dairy conditions and payment for milk
on a basis of quality, it was possible in

the course of four years to completely

change the character of the dairies sup-
plying milk for the 'city of Geneva, N
Y. Consumers are being instructed by
physicians, boards of health, the press
and otherwise, of the value of sanitary
milk and the danger of that which is un-
sanitary. Knowing this, the factor of
publicity becomes a key that opens the
door for the correction of many of the
evils connected with the supplying of
pure milk. However, the correction is
limited by the amount which the con-
sumer stands ready to pay for the pro-
duct.

In the above case quarterly inspections
were made of each of the dairies spply-
ing milk to the city. At each inspection
a score was made of the sanitary condi-
tions under which the milk was being
produced and a copy of this score was
furnished to the producer and to the

dealers who made it a basis of payment

under their contract. The scores of the
different producers were also published,
with the names of the retailers to whom
they sold their products, that the public
might know exactly from whom they
were purchasing their milk and under
what conditions it was produced.

It became necessary to reduce these
scores to a numerical basis that com-
parisons might be made between the dif—
ferent dairies as well as between the dif-
ferent scorings of the same dairies. The
dairies were classified as follows: A
“poor” dairy was one where filthy con-
ditions were present; a “medium” dairy
where conditions were merely dirty; a
“good" dairy was one where the condi-
tions were fairly clean; and an “excel-
lent” dairy, was a dairy where condi—
tions were both clean and sanitary. At
the beginning of the work it was be-
lieved, and there is every reason for that
belief, that the dairies supplying the milk
to this city was as good as the average
dairies supplying milk to other cities.

The first inspection, which was very
carefully made, showed 3’71/2 per cent of
the dairies to be classified as “poor,”
571/: per cent in the “medium” class,
while only five per cent could be called
“good.”

At the end of one year the score cards
ranked the different dairies as follows:
2:9 per cent was “excellent;” 82.8 per
cent as “good;” and 8.1 per cent of the
“medium” class.

At the end of the second year the score
card showed 8.6 per cent of the dairy
grading as "excellent;" 82.8 per cent as
“good;" and 8.1 per cent of the “medi-
um" class.

At the end of the third year the score
cards showed 12.8 per cent of the dairies
to be “excellent;" 74.4 per cent to be
“good;” and 12.8 per cent to be of the
“medium" class.

Fifteen months later, or at the end of
the first quarter of the fourth year the
same method classified 12.8 per cent of
dairies as “excellent,” and 87.2 per cent
as “good.” None of the farms producing
milk at. this time were found to grade in
the “medium” or “poor” class.

It will be seen from these figures that
the policy of inspection, the results of
which were made known to the consum-
ers, provided a valuable means of secur-
ing a desirable quality of milk. Hov-
cver, it was observed that when there
appeared a disinclination 0n the part of
the consumer to pay a reasonable
amount for the attending expense of

,producing the better milk, there the im-’

provement stopped, since the dairymen
could not be persuaded to go to a greater
expense than their receipts will allow,
which, of course, is a rational attitude.

DAIRY NOTES.

 

W. XV. Marsh pointed out that a wagon
load of grain that sells for $16 to $20 will
take as much nutriment from the soil as
a car load of butter, and the butter is
worth $6,000.

Dairy products are now bringing un-
usually high prices, being above the val-
ues usually seen at this time of the year.
The production is scarcely keeping pace
with the requirements of the market,
the rapidly growing population of the
United States calling for increased sup—
plies, and stocks in cold storage are
much smaller than a year ago. Butter
is going to be dear the coming winter.
The best creamery butter is wholesaling
for 31 cents a pound in the Chicago mar-
ket, and cheese is also up in.price, “Am-
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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

The present estimate
Michigan’s Sugar on the increased
Crop. acreage of sugar beets
in Michigan as com-
pared With last year gives us an area. of
about 20 per cent more than one year
ago. The unfavorable weather of the late
fall is likely to decrease the percentage
of sugar in the beets and may interfere
with harvesting a portion of the crop.
However, the late rains increased the
tonnage to some extent, possibly enough
to counterbalance the other factors
noted.

Vi'ith this increased acreage in beets,
Michigan will make a close race for first
place as a beet-producing state this year.
Three years ago it took third rank in the
United States, Colorado and California.
being ahead in tonnage. Last year it
was next to California. Colorado dropping
behind in the race. Most dependable es—
timates indicate that Michigan will pro-
duce close to 135,000 tons of sugar this
year. The high price of sugar will make
it a profitable season indeed for the sugar
factories, which have been uniformly
prosperous during recent years, and, al—
though the crop has proven a profitable
one to Michigan farmers undcr present
price conditions, the season may be a
faVorable one for securing the price ad-
vance which was demanded before the
business reaction of last year and which,
it would appear, sugar factories could
well afford to pay, as indeed one of them
is now paying practically the price (le—
mandcd by the farmers who inaugurated
the movement last year which was not
carried to :1 final issue.

At a meeting

implement Dealers Op- held in Lansing
pose Parcels Post. last week, the
Michigan Retail

Implement and Vehicle Dealers’ Associa-
tion adopted resolutions advocating the
appointment by congress of a non-par—
tisan commission to investigate the ques-
tion of parcels post, legislation to be de—
ferred until such commission shall have
had ample time to act and report. It is
difficult to see why an association of this
kind should takesuch an active interest
in the possibility of inaugurating a par-
cels post, since farm implements and
vehicles would hardly be transported
through the mails under any parcels post
law that has yet been proposed.

It is, however, perhaps fortunate rather

a

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11,113 * MICHIGAN FARMER.

than otherwise, that this action was tak-
en, since it will help to awaken the farm-
ers of the state who are in favor of an
adequate parcels post law, to the neces-
sity of taking some personal action in the
matter if they would influence the Mich-
igan delegation in congress to favor such
a law. If every reader of the Michigan
Farmer who is in favor of the enactment
of a parcels post law, would take the
time and trouble to write his member of
congress and the United States senators
from Michigan, touching his views upon
this question, there is little doubt that
the Michigan delegation would favor the
enactment of a liberal parcels post law.
However, if a representatiVe contingent
of business men oppose the measure and
the people themselves do not voice their
interest in it, they will have none to
blame but themselves if the Michigan
delegation is not active in the support of
such a measure at the coming session of
congress. A word to the wise is suffi-
cient.
A recent dispatch
Would Apply Favored from Washington
Nation Clause. states that Nor-
way and Sweden,
through their diplomatic representatives,
have requested the United States to grant
to them, under the favored nation clause
of their treaty with this country, the
same privileges given to Canada by Sec-
tion 2 of the reciprocity agreement, by
which wood pulp and print paper are
admitted free of duty from that country
into the United States. It is also said
that several other countries, including
Germany, are believed to have asked the
same privilege of the United States.

This little echo from the reciprocity
campaign brings up a point which was
advanced by some opponents of the Can-
adian pact, that it would open up a pos-
sible uvvnue of difficulty with other na-
tions due to the favored nation clause,
so-callcd. which is written into practically
all of the commercial treaties of the
l'uited States with other countries. But
the most interesting point about this
latest c('ho regarding the reciprocity bill,
is the fact that the newspaper interests
behind it, sccking free pulp and free pa—
per, were not obliged to take any chances
on the final ratification of the pact by
both countries.

It will be remembered that the portion
of the bill referring to the paper schedule,
as it was passed by our congress and
signed by our President, was incorporated
by itself in Section 2 and did not depend
upon the reciprocal action of Canada to
make it effective. Hence, when the bill
was passed by congress and signed by
the President, the paper schedule, so far
as Canada was concerned, was revised
and print paper and pulp have been com-
ing into the country from Canada under
its provisions, although little has been
said about this phase of the proposition
in the public press.

it may be in line with good policy to
conserve our supply of pulp wood by
such means, although it would not appear
Ihat it was wholly necessary to provide
for it by this cleverly manipulated meth-
od, which is brought forcefully to public
attcntion for the first time by the at-
tempt of other nations to profit by the
favored nation clause of their treaties in
a. similar manner.

It is not uncom-

Teaching Agriculture mon for speakers
in the Schools. and ‘ writers of
some note in the

business world to advocate the teaching
of agriculture in the common schools and
to rcfcr to what is being done in other
states or countries along this line. As a
matter of fact, however, there is prob-
ably no state in the Union which has
made a better start in the teaching of
agriculture in the public schools, than
has Michigan. For several years a de-
partment of agricultural education has
been maintained in our agricultural col-
lege in charge of an ex-deputy superin—
tendent of public instruction, who has
had a wide experience in school work
in the state and who has a. deep
knowledge of our public schools, as
well as a. good working knowledge of
the kind of agricultural instruction which
can best be inaugurated in those schools.
Michigan has begun at the bottom in
this work, the first move being the plac-
ing of agricultural courses in a number
of high schools of the state with a view
of affording an opportunity for agricul-
tural education to the patrons of those
schools—a large proportion of whom are
farm boys and, girls—and at the same
time provide teachers who will be equip-
ped with the necessary knowledge for
the teaching of agriculture in the pri-

mary'schools of the state at such time
as that may be considered expedient or
desirable. I

There is no line of work which would
seem to promise more for the future of
our agriculture than the betterment of
our common schools in this manner, and
the greater the improvement in our com-
mon schools, the higher will be the class
of citizenship which they will produce in
the future generations of our people. But
there are peculiar advantages in the
teaching of the elements of scientific ag-
riculture in the common schools which
will amply repay the cost of inaugurat-
ing such instruction in them.

With the view of bringing this point
out more strongly than would otherwise
be possible, the publishers of the Mich-
igan Farmer aim to give the opinions of
practical farmers, located in the several
sections of the state where agricultural
courses are now maintained in high
schools, regarding the benefits derived
by the communities, as well as by the
boys and girls themselves, from this in-
novation. The first of these letters ap-
pears in this issue, being the opinion of
a practical Otsego county farmer upon
the advantages to be derived from the
teaching of agriculture in the schools.
Other similar letters will follow, giving
the opinions of other farmers who live
in close proximity to these schools in
which agricultural courses have been
started, to the end that the true senti-
ment regarding such schools held by the
farmer taxpayers who are helping to
Support them may be presented to our
readers. thereby bringing this proposi-
tion of school improvement squarely to
their attention at a time when the
knowledge and opinions gained may be of
some value in solving this impending
question in the reader’s locality.

During the
The First Secretary days of November
of Agriculture. the announcement
of- the death of the
Hon. NO‘ ‘1 J. Colman was flashed over
the land. .‘r. Colman’s demise removed
from the field of action a man who 'has
been influential in the upbuildlng of
American agriculture. Mr. Colman was
born in Otsego COunty, New York, in
1827. A lawyer by profession, be practiced
in Albany, 1nd,. from 1850 to 1852 inclu-
sive, during which latter year he removed
to Missouri. Soon after locating in St.
Louis, Mo., he established an agricul-
tural journal which is still in existence,
which entitles him to be classed as the
dean of agricultural editors in his state,
if not in the country.

early

He was the recipient of many local
honors in his own state and was ap-
pointed in 1885 by President Cleveland as
united States Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, which position, under that admin-
istration, was elevated to the dignity of
a cabinet position, and in 1889 he was ap-
pointed by President Cleveland to be the
first United States Secretary of Agricul-
ture. Mr. Colman had ever retained a
direct interest in agriculture and for sev-
eral years conducted a model and experi-
mental farm in Missouri. During his ser-
vice as Secretary of Agriculture—although
comparatively few people are aware of
the facthr. Colman drafted the laW
providing for the establishment of experi-
ment stations under government ‘aid,
which is commonly known as the Hatch
Act. This bill represented the results
of several years' study by Mr. Colman
and was introduced for him by Congress—
man Hatch. of Missouri, whose name it
bore after becoming a law. It is said
that the original draft of the bill. in Mr.
Colmnn'u well—known handwriting, is
among the nrchivcs of the Department of
Agriculture at \Vushingion.

Mr. Colman rcceived many honorary
degrecs and dccorations from foreign
countries, as well as by collcgcs and ag—
ricultural associations. He retained his
interest in agricultural affairs until the
last, being en route on a railway train
to a distant point whcrc he expected to
purchase a horse for his farm at the
time of his death. lie had an extended
experience as a horse breeder, which
caused his selection as one of the com-
missioners to head the government horse
brccding farm at Fort Collins, 001., for
the establishment of a breed of Amcrican
trotting carriage horses. The develop-
ment of a national department of agri-
culture, the founding of which was the
culmination of Mr. Colman’s personal am-
bition, has been such as to clearly dem-
onstrate the foresight of this pioneer in
agricultural educational work, while the
invaluable accomplishments of the many
experimcnt stations which have been es-
tablished under the Hatch law, constitute

NOV. 18, 1911:. f

an imperishable monument to the

achievements. of Mr. Colman, of which

his "numerous friends, and, indeed, the

country at large, may be justly proud.

TEACHING AGRICULTURE iN OUR
SCHOOLS.

 

 

 

Its Effect Upon the Community, the
Farmer and the Farm Boy.

I think farming one of the noblest cali—
ings of man, and believe‘ that all who
come in contact with it cannot but feel
they have something to live for that is
worth while. My experience as a. boy,
over forty years ago, was that the farmer
boy was jeered at and made‘ fun ofby
the town boys. But in this regard things
have changed. Our boys can now go to
town and talk base ball, foot ball and
farming with the town boys on equal
terms, and all seem to take an interest
in farming as well as in sports and
games.

I think the general interest taken in
the teaching of agriculture in our schools
has brought about the change, and am
certain that these modern influences have
been and are of untold benefits to our
community. The boys so taught can go
forth into the world and set examples
that others may follow, and that will be
a credit to themselves and all mankind.
The boy who has a. chance to learn the
scientific principles of up-to-date farm-
ing, how to maintain fertility of the soil
and make a success, will be a guiding
star to many others through the whole—
some power of example.

I could enumerate many benefits to be
derived from the teaching of agriculture
in our schools, but the all important one
is, we are in need of better farmers——
men who have the up-to-date knowledge
as well as practical experience to get
more out of the soil. and still build up
the depleted fertility of our farms, thus
making provision for future generations
which they will surely need.

We have a farm one mile from a. hust-
ling town and have six boys from eleven
to twenty-three years old, all at home
and well contented. We also have four
girls that can give us help at many
things on the farm and take pleasure in
seeing the work pushed along. I think
money is well spent in teaching agricul-
ture, in or out of school, and say, push
the good work along.

Otsego Co. J. H. BARTON.

 

 

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

National.

Farm buildings in the United States
were valued in 1900 at $3,555,640,000,
whereas in 1910 the value had increased
agoper cent; and amounted to $6,294,737.-

The north central states were hit by a.
cold wave and high winds on Sunday last.
Unusual temperatural changes accom-
panied the storm, the thermometer hav~
mg dropped in different places from 50 to
70 degrees. Much damage was done by
the wind. The storm struck heavily at
Owosso, Mich, where two persons were
killed, many hurt and property to the
amount of $500,000 destroyed. Eight per-
sons are dead at Janesville, Wis, and
VIcmitv, two fatally injured and scores
of others hurt and property estimated to
be worth $1,000,000 is destroyed. In Chi—
cago two men were frozen to death, sev-
en fishermen are reported missing on
Lake Michigan, while many persons were
hurt on icy pavements. The shipping in-
terests of the western metropolis were
severely shaken and considerable damage
done. A man was frozen to death at
Grand Forks, N. Dakota, while another
one died from the same cause at Omaha,
Neb. The whole state of Indiana was
swept by a blizzard and it is estimated
that a million dollars worth of damage
has been done to property. Ohio suf—
fered similarly from the effects of cold,
Wlllds and snow. Kentucky was also in-
cluded among the states which suffered
from this storm and Alabama and the
Gulf Coast were effected to an unusual
degree.

The damage done the shipping inter-

ests on the great lakes by the storm of
Sunday will amount to millions of dollars.
Many boats are ashore and several ex—
citing experiences of seamen are report—
ed. At Cleveland it is stated that the
storm is the worst that has appeared for
20 years. Seven men were driven across
Lake Michigan from Milwaukee in an
open boat. They suffered severely from
exposure. Seven men are also missing
In a gasoline launch out from Chicago.
Two steamers are aground in St. Mary's
river where the storm lowered the water
and made navigation hazard-‘3.
. President Taft has returmu to Wash-
Ington from an extended trip through the
country, having made 15,000 miles in his
Journey to the north, west, southwest
and south. He is most sanguine regard-
ing the outlook of the country, and for
his political party. He points toward the
recent elections as indicating that a halt
had been made in the drift toward de-
mocracy.

An organization has been consumated
for the purpose of promoting the adoption
of the proposed arbitrary treaties between
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NOVs 18. 1911s

FARMS Mill Hill uini
run SALE IIII EXlIlilllliE

RM —Before on buy send for my list of
FA over I!) uthern Michigan Farms.
nyater. no Psi-in Ian, 00‘! Mastic 31113., Detroit. lion.

 

 

FOR SALE-Fine Bil-acre farm in fine condition, all improved, '

tiled. with good buildings. in line neighborhood. Price
8100 per acre if taken now. [galls G. Brown. St. Johns. Mich_

—100 ACRES in Oakland Count .
For sale Good soil. acne”. 2 barns. silcyi.
845.00 {or acre. 83 (11).“) cash. Balance time. Ad-
dress t 0 owner. (5. N. KING. Ortonville. Mich.
HQMEBEEKERS—Virginia 08ers vast opportuni-
ties. Best marketsfinen climate cheap dlands.
schools, society. fruit section. Write or catalog.
Desk 3, Internet anal Farm Agency. Lynchburg, Va,

 

F f 3.. —0ne Farm of 260 Acres or two small-
0 3 or ones of 120 and 140 Acres. Splen-
did brick house and g farm buildings—two
miles from cit Strong soil for all crops.

A. L. SMITH, oldwater, Michigan. Bell ghon.

cums MltH.T§2.%§il§i€Ei§§£3£“§l§l‘§
. . . . in o In
FARMS users. summer

when you can buy
the Best Land in
Mich! an at from
S7 to an acre

near Saginaw and Bay City. Write for ma and par-
ticulars. Clear title and easy terms. Sta eld Bros.
(owners) 15 Merrill Bldg , Saginaw. W. S. Michigan.

L ar ge Farm
For Sale by Owners!

900 Acres. near coast in Eastern North Carolina.
As 9 liable and healthful climate as can be found in
Nort America. Will Grow profitably every‘farm and
truck crop of either the North or South. Soil excep-
tipnailyiertile. 350 Acres newly fenced and 2(1) acres in
high state of cultivation. 125 of which is black learn 3

 

_ to 5 feet deep on clay sub-soil. Lands level. well

drained and no rocks or stumps, Lar e demand and
high-priced market for ever thing rs sed. Will sell
all or part at a bargain an on satisfactory terms.
Excursion rates tWice a month. Full particulars by
addressing the owner.

-R. C. COOL. Southport, N. C.

FOB SALE-A Good Farm 145 Acres

only 56 mile from Wayne County line. Soil dark
clay loam, nearly level. 20 acres good timber and sugar
bush. Good buildings and fences. A better farm
than many that have recently sold at $80 to $100 per A.
If sold soon $11,000 takes it. (less than'$76 per A.) Buy
direct of honor, and save commission. Address
fiSUPERIOR FARM. R. No. 1., Plymouth, Mich.
FBE terested in the wonderful Sacra-
mento Valley, the richest valley in
the world. Unlimited opportunities. Thousands
of acres available at right prices. The place for
the man wanting a home in the finest climate on
earth. N o lands for sale; organized to five reliable

information. Sacramento ' '

scissibsissrsnss “all Offlla
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Homeseekers-Allenhon

The territory traversed by the Nashville, Chat-
tanooga & St. Louis Railway is rich in natural
resources. and its climatic conditions and the
fertility of its soil ofler unexcelled opportunities
for the profitable production of grains, grasses,
live stock and truck crops. Fertile and attract-
ive farm lands may be had at very low prices.
Write me at once for [no descriptive literature.
II. F. Smith. Tramc Manager. Dept. P, Nashville. Tenn.

New Way

Cannot guarantee sale, but someone may want
to buy in your section at any time.

V ery Sim pie

My charge of one dollar with a good description
of your property covers all expense toyou, and
PH send the buyers your name and address with
description of property. Stocks of Mdse., Farms,
Elevators, Hotels. Machine Shops, anything that
has value is wanted by someone somewhere.

Let me try to put you in touch with real
owners. either sale or trade.

“FARMER” BOWLES

7 Baldwin Block
INDIANAPOLIS - - INDIANA

Money-Making Farm
With Live Stock and Tools.

The Secretary of the United States Department of
Agriculture. James Wilson,after personally inspecting
New York State farms. said: “Hereafter when a young
man with a few‘hundx'ed dollars asks where he can
engage in farming to the best advantage. I shall ask
that he be directed to the ossibillties existing
throughout New York State." ‘his splendid 250~aore
New York State farm is better than the average:
machine worked iields cut 50 tons hay. spring-watered
pasture. 300 cords wood. large quantity timber. apple
orchard reducing 300 barrels. other fruits; 2—story
iii-room ouse, running water. big barn. other out-
buildings: beautiful shade, pleasant view: lM miles
to railroad. electric cars. stores, etc; school and neigh-
bors near. To settle estate quickly two horses. two
cows. five hogs all wagons. farming machinery and
small tools inc uded, $50“) takes all, half cash, balance
at 5 per cent; full details and traveling directions to
see this and other profit-pa ing dairy. corn and fruit
forms. no . "Btrout's arm Catalogue 34" illus-
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climate. railroads. markets, schools. crops raised,
etc.. in all the best farminfidistricts in the east; copy
free. Station 101. E. A. ST OUT. Union Bank Bidg..
Pittsburg, Pa.

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THE .MICHIGAN FARMER.

France. The personnel of the. organiza-
tion, which has its headquarters in New
York city, consists of men of prominence
from all parts of the countries. Michigan
is represented among others, by Dr. J. B.
Angeli of the state university.

John T. Shaw. president of the First
National Bank of Detroit, was fatally in-
jured in an‘auto crash Sunday while
journeying in Ohio from Cleveland to
Willoughby.

The railroad traffic in the north central
states appears to be improved over last
year. It is generally estimated by traffic
men to be 20 per cent higher.

It is reported that the administration
is drafting a bill to supplement the Sher-
man anti-trust law. The nature of the
proposed measure is not divulged.

Two thousand visitors are expected at
Columbus, Ohio, this week to attend the
eight agricultural conventions to be held
there. The different organizations hold-
ing their sessions are: The American
School of Agronomy, The American As-
sociation of Agricultural Institute VVork-
era, The Ohio State Grange, The Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Agricultural Teaching, The Society for
the Promotion of Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment Stations, The Associa-
tion of American Seed Analyists and the
National Grange. Prominent men from
all over the country will be present and
address the different organizations.

The constitutionality of Oregon's ini-
tiative and referendum law is being test-
ed by the supreme court of the United
States in two cases brought by the Pa-
cific States Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
and the taxpayers of Oregon.

A special train carrying a number of
governors of western states will visit
Michigan the latter part of November.
The purpose of their visit is to awaken
interest in the possibilities of the west,
as well as to become more intimately ac-
quainted with the eastern states.

Because they were compelled to eat
food which they deemed unfit, waiters
at Sage Dormitory, Cornell University,
are out on strike.

Foreign.

A by-election held in the city of Lon-
don for selecting members to the British
House of Commons resulted in a gain of
one” member for the unionist party.

Twenty-six persons are believed to
have been drowned in the steamer Car-
rara which 'left Barcelona for Berlin.
Nothing has been heard from the craft;
or its crew.

The recent storm caught much grain in
the Canadian Northwest in the shock,
the snow covering the wheat 21 foot or
more. The grain will suffer considerably
from this cause.

The ltalian-Turko war has offered no
exciting news during the past week. The
ltalian fleet is being assembled for an
attack on coast cities in the Eegan Sea.
Should an attack be made on these cit-
ies as planned, Turkey has notified the
powers that she will be compelled to ex-
pel the liaiians from the territory about.

It is becoming evident that the present
revolution in China. is quite different
from the Boxer uprising of ten years
ago. since foreigners were not being mo-
lested in the recent massacre. Care has
evidently been taken by both the revolu-
tionists and the Manchus to protect the
persons and property of foreign residents.
\Vithin the past few days communication
between the throne and Yuan Shi Kai—
to whom had been offered the premier-
ship of the empire but who has refused
to accept the office—has brought a feel-
ing of relief that is particularly notice-
able in Pekin. It is hoped that a confer-
ence between this great statesman and
the administration will result in a plan
to end present warfare. Reports of en-
gagements have been favorable to the
rebels, showing that several cities have
fallen into their hands during the past
week. The situation 'is becoming acute
and it is feared that much suffering will
soon result from famine should hostilities
be permitted to continue much longer.
An appeal has been made by Wu Tung
Fang to Prince Regent Chung to resign
his position, join the republican party
and thereby put an end to the struggle.
Many reports testify that large numbers
of the imperialist troops are going over
to the rebels and making the situation
more threatening to the government.

 

 

MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.
VVheat.—The condition of wheat as
compared with an average per cent is, in
the state and upper peninsula 90, in the
southern counties 87, in the central coun-
ties 93, and in the northern counties 94.
The total number of bushels of Wheat
marketed by farmers in October at 129
flouring mills is 251,052 and at 143 ele-
vators and to grain dealers 320,944, or a.
total of 571,996 bushels. Of this amount
392,774 were marketed in the southern
four tiers of counties, 145,465 in the cen-
tral counties and 33,757 in the northern
counties and upper peninsula. The esti-
mated total number of bushels of wheat
marketed in the three months, August-
October, is 5,000,000. Seventy—seven mills.
elevators and grain dealers report no
wheat marketed in October.

Corn—The estimated average yield of
corn in bushels is 32 in the state, 33 in
the southern counties, 31 in the central
counties, 30 in the northern counties and
37 in the upper peninsula.

Clover Seed.—-The per cent of acreage
of clover seed. harvested as compared
with average years, is 64 in the state and
northern counties, 61 in the southern
counties, 69 in the central counties and
81 in the upper peninsula. The average
yield per acre in bushels is 1.49 in the
state, 1.39 in the southern counties, 1.68
in the central counties, 1.64 in the north-
ern counties and 2.00 in the upper penin-
su a. -

Potatoes—The estimated average yield
per acre, in bushels, is 92 in the state. 84
in the southern counties, 87 in the central

 

 

counties, 105 in the northern counties and
128 in the upper peninsula.

Commercial Fertilizers.——The per cent
of farmers who have used commercial
fertilizers on their wheat this fall, is 19
in the state, 27 in the southern counties,
20 in the central counties, 4 in the north-
ern counties and 1 in the upper peninsula.

Live Stock—The average condition in
the slate of horses, cattle and swine is 96
and sheep 95.

Table showing for the state the esti-
mated acreage and yield per acre of the
following farm products for 1911:

 

Yield
Farm Products. Estimated- per acre.
acreage. bushels.
Wheat .. 834,000 17.
Corn ..................1,684,972 32.
Oats .................1,471,948 27.
Barley . . . . . . . ..... 94,050 22.
Rye ..... ............. 428,129 14.
Buckwheat . .. 75,909 14.
Potatoes ............. 354,734 92.
Beans 438,858 12.
Peas 73,500 12.
Clover Seed 144,412 1.49
Apples 269.449 41.08
Peaches . 30,000 51.75.
Pears 9,398 69.15
Plums ...... . ......... 7,063 44.67
Cherries 5,097 37.81
Strawberries . . . . . . . . . 10,217 61.42
Raspberries . . . . . . . . . .. 6,300 32.54
Tons.
Sugar beets . . . . . . . . . . 111,000 10.
Timothy hay . . . . . . . . .1,201,500 1.19
Clover hay . . . . . . . . . . .1,016,750 1.24

 

 

 

NATIONAL CROP REPORT.-

The Crop Reporting Board of the Bu-
reau of Statistics of the Department of
Agriculture estimates, from the reports
of correspondents and agents of the B11-
reau, as follows:

Corn—Total production for the year,
2,776,301,000 bu., compared with 3,125,-
713,000 bu. in 1910. Average yield per
acre, 23.9 bu., compared with 27.4 bu. in
191.0 and 26 bu, the average for the past
10 years. Percentage of 1910 crop on
farms Nov. 1, 1911, is estimated at 4.2
per cent (132,063,000 bu.), against 4.3 per
cent (119,056,000 bu.) of the 1909 crop on
farms Nov. 1, 1910, and 3.3 per cent, the
average of similar estimates of the past
10 years.

“heat—Total production, 655,316,000
bu., compared with 695,443,000 bu. in 1910
and a. iivc-year average of 692,825,000 bu.
The average weight per measured bushel
of this year‘s crop is 57.8 lbs, against
58.5 lbs. in 1910, and 57.6 lbs. the 10-year
average. The price per bu. on Nov. 1,
1911, was 911,120, compzu'cd with 901/20 for
same date of 1910.

Uats.~—Toia1 production, 873,641,000 bu.,
compared with 1,126,765,000 bu. in 1910, and
a five—year average of 897,415,000 bu. The
average weight per measured bushel of
this year‘s crop is 31.1 lbs, against 32.7
lbs. in 1910, and 31.2 lbs. the 10-year av—
erage. The pricc per bu, on Nov. 1,
191.1, was 43.80 and 34.90 on Nov. 1, 1910.

Barley—l’l'oduclion, 145,951,000 bu.,
compared with 162,227,000 bu. in 1910 and
a fivegvcar average of 161,241,000 bu.
The average weight per measured bushcl
of this year’s crop is 46.0 lbs, againsl
46.9 lbs. in 1910. The price pcr bu. on
Nov. 1, 1911, was 84.90, compared With
55.30 on Nov. 1, 1910.

Rye—T’roduclion, 30,677,000 bu., com-
pared with 33,039,000 bu. in 1910 and a
five-year average of 31,503,000 bu. The

price per bu. Nov. 1, 1911, was 83.1c
and 71.60 Nov. '1, 1910.
Buckwheat.r~l"roduction, 17,051,000 bu.
Comparwl with 17,239,000 bu in 1910 and
a live-your zivel‘nge of 15,366,000 bu. Av-
erage yii-lil pcr acre is 21.3 bu., com-

pared with 20.9 bu. in 1910 and a 10-year
avera e of 19.1. bu. The price per bu.
Nov. , 1911, was 730 and 65.9c Nov. 1,
1910.

P0tatoes.~l‘roduction, 281,735,000 bu.,
compared with 338,811,000 bu. in 1910 and
a five-year average of 301,513,000 bu. Av-
erage yield pr-r acre is given at 80.6 bu.,
compared with 91.4 bu. for 1910 and a.
10-year average of 922.8 bu. Quality is
placed at 833 per con-l. compared with a
10-year average of 87.7 per cent. The
price per bu. Nov. 1, 1911, was 76.3c and
55.70 Nov. 1. 1910.

Hay—Production, 46,969,000 tons, com-
pared with 60,978.000 tons in 1910 and
five—year average of 63,418,000 tons. The
average price per ton on Nov. 1 1911,
was $11.62, compared with $11.96 on Nov.
1, 1910.

Applcs.—Avcrage production of 1911
crop, 62.4 per cent of full crop against
43.5 per cent of a full crop in 1910, and
49.4 the ten-year average percentage of
a full production. The quality is 78.2 per
cent. ‘

 

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Newaygo 00.. Nov. 1.~—-'l‘oo much rain
for everything. Vi'hcat is looking yellow;
corn fodder getting very block: not
much of the corn liuskcd out yet. Beans
are a poor quality with a yield of about
10 bushels per acre and selling at $2 per
bushel in our market. Potatoes are poor
in quality and will hardly keep until
spring: they are selling at a good price
and still going up. Only one light freeze,
followed by a light skiff of snow, which
frosted lots of undui.r potatoes. \Vheat,
84c; oats, 450; com, shelled, 700: rye, 800;
potatoes, 55c; eggs. 260 per doz; butter,
26c 1b.; hay, $20 per ton. Lots of auc-
tion sales this fall and a. good many
farms changing hands, going to outside
buyers.

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PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

THE ’ M I C H I’GiAN .: FARMER.

 

ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL—Ill.

BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.

We have observed the possibility of
considerable difference existing between
immediate productive capacity of a soil
and the permanent productive capacity.
We have likewise observed that one may
be very much deceived by judging a soil
upon the results of its immediate produc-
tive capacity, likewise, on the other
hand, a soil of much promise may be
passed by as undesirable because of its
lack of sufficient immediate productive
capacity, where if it were properly hand-
led so that its immediate productive ca-
pacity were improved it might, because
of a very desirable permanent productive
capacity, prove to be a very desirable
soil. A careful chemical analysis, coupled
with a quite thorough mechanical analy-
sis, will give one clue to the permanent
producing capacity of a soil. If to this
analysis we add a chemical analysis of
the capillary water of that soil, or What
may perhaps be considered closely sim-
ilar, an analysis of the watery solution
of that soil. we will have a very fair idea
of its immediate productive capacity as
well.

Perhaps one of the most desirable
methods of determining the productive
capacity of a soil is by means of what
we may call tllc physiological analysis
of the soil. By a physiological analysis
of the soil we mean here an analysis
through the medium of the crop. This
style of analysis requires, as will be
seen, practically a season for its comple-
tion. Incidentally, the physiological an-
alysis of the soil may be used as a basis
for the ascertaining of the fertilizing
requirements of a certain soil. To the
farmer who is capable of observing re—
sults closely, and who can exercise good
judgment, it is quite desirable that his
farm be so arranged as to different fields,
etc, that it is possible for him to carry
out from time to time a series of ex-
periments on the different fields to as—
certain the condition of fertility and like-
wise ascertain at the same time what
fertilizing materials may be added ad—
vantageously to the soil.

Most farms are laid out without any
apparent regard to the classes of soils
which go to make up that farm. One
large field, for example, may contain a
great variety of soils. It is very difficult
to crop such a field advantageously and
economically. It is likewise very difficult
to fertilize intelligently such a field. If
the high portions of the farm were re-
served by thcn.sclvcs and the low por—
tions were likewise segregated or ar-
ranged in fields by themselves, then it
would be comparatively
out a systematic cropping of the soils
and likewise a systematic fertilizing of
that soil. There is no doubt that certain
soils, because of their different physical
and chemical composition are differently
adapted toward crops. Not all soils will
produce a crop of corn equally well with
equal economy. Nor are all soils simi-
larly adapted to wheat growing or to
various truck gardening propositions.
This condition is recognized generally
when we know that in certain sections
of the state and country wherein the soil
is uniform and of particular character,
certain definite farming operations thrive
wcll. “'9, know, for (ixample, that the
vicinity of Kalamazoo has become world-
famed for its production of cclery. \Vc
may likewise know that down in this
same section is grown the greater portion
of the peppermint of the world. A great
many farmers have in their fields a soil
that is well adapted to the growing of
corn. In other portions is a soil that is
Well adapted to the growing of wheat;
in still another portion is a soil that is
well adapted to the growing of celery, or
mint, or other crops. ’I‘o so lay out the
farm that one field has in it all classes
of crops just mentioned above is to make
sure that the farmer is operating much
below his possibilities on this farm. One
would not think of planting wheat on the
Soils which are especially adapted to the
growing of mint; nor would one expect to
get desirable results by planting to mint
a soil that has been shown to be especi-
ally adapted to the growing of corn, but
when the farmer divides his farm me—
chanically and regularly into different
fields without regard to the kinds and
condition of the soil in those different
fields, then he is compelling the soil
which may be adapted especially, we will
say, to mint growing, to respond for the

easy to carry'

sake of harmony to the growing of a
crop of corn which he may have decided
to plant upOn this field because perhaps
the major portion of that field may be
best adapted to corn growing. This diffi-
culty is, of course, not encountered when
the farm is level and uniform. I

On a soil that is level and uniform, the
variety of agricultural possibilities is per-
haps not so great as on a soil that is
varying in its physical and chemical
characteristics. On a uniform soil, how-
ever, it is possible to know its possibili-
ties and its fertilizing requirements with
a great deal more exactness than is pos-
sible on the other soil. On such a soil
the physiological analysis is a decidedly
feasible and, in fact, desirable analysis
to make.

Hilgard's system of determining the
fertilizing requirements of a soil is, in
our judgment, an excellent system to
follow, not only in determining the fer-
tilizing requirements of the soil but also
in determining the adaptability of that
soil to different crops. This will require
a full growing year but can be carried
on at the same time as other farming
operations and if done carefully need not
interfere with the ordinary farm ope-ra-
tions, nor utilize a large portion of the
farm. We give below a diagramatic
sketch for making this so-called plot, or
physiological analysis.

On a field which is uniform in physical
respects and is so arranged that one por-
tion of the field is of practically the same
quality and class of soil as the other
portion of the field, perhaps in the center
may be laid out a series of plots of say,
one-fortieth acre each, separated from
each other by a path from two to three
or four feet wide. On these different

 

 

 

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Scheme for making Physiological Analysis
of the Soil.

plots different crops may be planted; for
example, corn may be planted on one;
wheat on another, perhaps buckwheat
may be grown on another; potatoes on
another; beans on another; clover on an-
other, etc., taking care that the plants
do not run into each other nor the seeds
become distributed from one plot to the
other. The results of these various tests,
all things being equal, will determine to
a high degree of satisfaction to which
one, or to which ones of the crops plant-
ed that soil seems best adapted. This
is not a simple experiment by any means,
but will require the keen judgment and
discretion of a man who is in the habit
of observing closely. It should also be
borne in mind in this respect that his
judgment is again called into play in as—
certaining the effect upon these different
crops, of the particular season. One year
may not be a favorable year for the
growing of potatoes, because it may be
too wet or too dry. The year may be too
wet for corn, and to decide this calls for
the exercise of keen judgment on the
part of the farmer. But we know of no
plan which will give a greater degree of
satisfaction than this same plan of ex—
perimentation, and we think it will well
repay the farmer to dedicate a small por-
tion of his farm, which portion is fairly
representative of that farm, to the pur-
poses of experimentation as herein de-
scribed.

After having determined the adaptabil-
ity of the soil through one season, per-
haps, to this or that particular crop, the
same. system may be resorted to to de-
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production of this or that particular crop.
Suppose that there are twelvn different
fortieth- -a'cre plots reserved for experi-
mentation. To six of these we mQYap-
ply different kinds of fertilizers and the
second six may be reserved as a dupli-
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NITROGEN
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Plans for ascertaining most favorable

treatment for a soil planted to corn..

haps determine the effect of these differ-
ent fertilizers on this soil, upon the
growth of the crop of potatoes, we will
say, or if we have decided to use wheat
upon this soil, let us plant these differ-
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which system of fertilizing the wheat
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The development of the idea of the bal-
anced ration for feeding dairy cows has
resulted in the compiling of definite and
desirable data on the cost of milk pro—
duction and on the nature of the feed to
be used for the economical production of
milk. When the balanced ration was
first proposed the “’0le Feeding Stan-
dard was quite religiously adhered to by
feeding experts The basis upon which
this standard was based was the weight
of the animal. For a 1,000- pound dai1y
cow it was assumed that she should re-
quire in the ration, daily, about two and
one- half pounds of digestible protein and
that this protein should bear a certain
more or less definite ratio to the other
constituents of the feed, 1. e., nitrogen-
free extract and the fat. The idea of the
balanced ration is right but the ratio
must not be too iron clad. The food re-
quirements of an animal do not depend
directly upon the body weight but more
directly upon the body surface of the
animal. .

Armsby, in his work on cattle feeding
and the maintenance requirements for
dairy cows used a factor compiled ac-
cording to the body surface of the ani-
mal rather than according to the weight.
Even then, however, on dairy cows the
results do not bear out tying too religi-
ously to an exact ratio. Two cows of
approximately the same weight and ap-
proximately the same body surface will
vary considerably in the yield of milk
and because of this variation their feed
1equirements are essentially different. A
cow giving a laige flow of milk will be
inclined to be underfed by the feeder
whereas a cow giving a light flow of milk
will be apt to be overfed.

Eckles, of the Missouri station,
out an experiment on the feeding for
milk production in which this point was
very nicely developed. He states very
emphatically that the cow of high milk
productive capacity is exceedingly liable
to be underfed because the feeder does
not take into sufficient consideration the
items drawn upon in the system of the
animal in the production of the larger
quantity of milk which she is daily gen-
erating. Ordinarily we say that the first
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the mind of the feeder eVen though. per-
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tire truth of the matter.’ l
Some cows will produce milk at the
expense of the body weight while others
will make body weight at the decided ex-
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we must give greater and greater atten-
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that in. cows of high productive capacity
the maintenance requirement of thl1 ani—
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order to make proper allowance for the
food material which the animal is manu-
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food material is manufactured by the
animal she is not manufacturing it at
the expense of the body weight.
' On the other hand, for economical feed-
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be then governed largely by the results
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evidence of overfeeding.

FLOYD Vii ROBISON.

LABORATORY REPORT.
Humbug Oil.

It seems almost impossible that a pro-
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On April 4, 1911, the I'nitcd States

Attorney for the District of Minnesota,
acting upon the report by the Secretary
of Agriculture, filed information in the
District Court of the l'nitcd States,
against Mrs. J. F. Marshall Smith, alleg—
in violation of the

1910,‘ from the state of Minnesota into
the state of litah, of six boxes of a drug
denominated “Humbug Oil," which was
misbrandcd. The labels on these boxes
contained the statement: "Humbug Oil
relieves diphtheria of the most malignant
type.”

Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry
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volume, half volatile (oil of turpentine),
and half non— —volaiile (appaiently linseed
oil); the other 60 pe1 cent by volume,
consisting of thro— alcoholic solution of
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volatile alkaloid, probably conin. Mis-
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these ingredients do not possess proper-
ties to relieve diphtheria of the most
malignant type, and the statement on
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false and misleading

On Ap1il l3, 191l, the defendant plead-
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M isbrandlng of Butter.

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On April 11. 1911, the United States
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Iowa, acting upon the report by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, filed information in
the District Court of the United States
against S. P. Pond Co (Inc. ), Keokuk,
IovVa, charging shipment bv that com-
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs
Act on or about Oct 9-14, 1910, from the
state of Iowa into the state of I’ennSVl-
vania of a quantity of butter which was
misbranded. The product was labeled
(on the top of the packages) “Gold Seal
'Vi'arranted Pure, Fine. Fresh Butter.’
and on‘ the sides of the packages were
the words “Process Butter.”

Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry
showed the product to be renovated but-
ter. Mishranding was therefore charged
for the reason that the label on the top
of the packages of the product was false
and misleading and calculated to deceive
the purchaser and because the words
“Process Butter" which appeared upon
the sides of the packages did not lessen
the deceit created by the top label, for
when exposed for sale, the packages were
so arranged that the words “Process
Butter” were entirely hidden from View
of the public.

At the same term of court the defend-
ant pleaded gullty, and was fined $200 and
costs. On June 7, 1911, the court reduced
said fine to $75.

LOWING has always
been hard and the most
monotonous work of farming.
But now it is different. The

Traction Engine has not only made
plowing easy but it has greatly re-
duced the cost—~has enabled men to
do more, in less time.

You ought to know the facts and
figures—what traction- p-ower plowing
means to you—how it adds to your
profits. Why not investigate? We
will gladly send you our catalogue
and any special information you may
desire.

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their value and superiority.

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They have proved their reliability, strength, and economy
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Not alone in plowing, but in seeding, disking, harrowing and hauling,
in belt- —power and draw- bar work of all kinds, 1 H C tractors have proved

The I H C local dealer will tell you about I H C tractor victories in

He will point out the many I H C tractor features
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about the complete I H C line, which includes gasoline and kerosene tractors,
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THE NEW PAPER BAG COOKERY.

 

WOULDN'T mind washing dishes if
Iit wasn’t for the pots and pans.”

Lives there a girl or a woman who
has not said that scores of times?

Now comes a new system of cookery
whereby the dreaded pots and pans may
be. done away with, a method which is to
revolutionize the whole scheme of do—
mestic science, if we can take the word
of its discoverer and advocates.

Paper bag cookery, the new method,
has been attracting the attention of Am-
erican cooks for a few months back. The
idea came over from England where it
originated with Soyer, chef of a famous
London club, who in turn got the idea
from France where chefs have for years
cooked certain foods in paper, or “en
papillotte." The idea, declares Soyer,
came from prehistoric times when foods
were cooked wrapped in leaves, or per-
haps from the gypsies who encase their
game or meat in clay and produce results
undreamed of by civilized housewives
who depend on roasters and kettles.

Even American housekeepers who have
never heard of paper bag cookery have.
used the idea occasionally, for practically
every housekeeper has at some time or
other wrapped something she was bak-
ing in a sheet of paper to prevent its
burning. In paper bag cooktiry
simply carry the idea a step farther and
the food directly into a well greased
then lay it either in a broiler
or on the oven grate. if you useacoal or
wood range with a solid iron oven shelf
a broiler is necessary since you need a
circulation of air around the food. If you
have a gas, oil or gasolene oven with
grated shelves the bag may be laid di-
rectly on the shelf.

Like every new idea great things
claimed for this system of cookery. Its
devotees claim that it saves time in
cooking, since paper is a good non-con-
dctor of heat and preserves an even
temperature, thus facilitating the cook—
ing. Then it saves waste, by keeping the
juices and flavors eontined in the bag to

you

put
paper bag,

are

be served With the food and not thrown
into the sink with the water the food
was cooked in. It prerents meats from
shrinking, say they. and if you put four

pounds of meat in the oven four pounds

come out. Last, but not least, it saves
times afterwards as you tear off your
bag and burn it up when the food is

cooked and have no greasy cooking dish
to wash afterwards.

llowevm‘, not every paper bag can be
used in this sort of cookery, for obvious
reasons. If your food is to be absolutely
pure you must have clean, pure bags to
cook with.

Among the things one can cook in pa—
per bags are roasts, steaks, chops, stews,
eggs, fish, poultry, entrees of many
sorts, vegetables. pastry, cakes, beef tea,
and other invalid dishes. Soup could
scarcely be made in this way, and there
are other things which call for the good
old—fashioned way of cooking. It is
claimed that: puff paste and cakes are
lighter and better if cooked in paper
bags, as the heat is more evenly dis—
tributed and no direct draught strikes
them when the oven door is opened.

in cooking a roast it should be greased

but not tlavorcd, slipped inside a greased

bag and cooked in a moderate oven, al-
lowingr 1:? minutes to the pound. Turkey

and other fowls may be cooked the same
way. If you wish to stew the fowl put a
cup and a half of water in the bag with
the bird, of course, putting in seasoning
and vegetables if you desire.

Green peas, beans, and spinach may be

cooked in bags, allowing only a small
quantity of water to the vegetables. Po—
tatoes may be baked, or. peeled and

cooked in water, allowing a tablespoonful
of water to a good-sized potato.

Those who have par-taken of dishes
cooked in bags are most enthusiastic in
their praise. Their comments remind
one of the ecstasies of admirers of fire-
less cookers, until after they have dis-
covered that there are many things which
are not nearly so good cooked in the
“caloric” cooker as when cooked on the

stove and ventilated thoroughly during
the process of cooking. The housekeeper
who is fond of trying out new ideas will
find much in paper bag cookery to inter-
est her and after experimenting may be-
come an ardent devotee.
WOMEN WHO ARE DOING THINGS.
No. 4.

 

Margaret E. Sangster.

Those young people ’who think that at
sixty years father and mother should sit
down with folded hands and leave all
work to more youthful minds and hands
would do well to take a lesson from the
list of American writers, some of the
best known of whom are still busily writ’
ing though past the age of three score
and ten.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, who was
73 years of age last February, is still hard
at work contributing articles for several
of the leading periodicals, and her writ-

    
 

  

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ings hold just as much
a nd gt iod cheer, are just as carefully
handled, as when she was in what is

popularly called “her prime.”

According to the laws of psychologists
Mrs. Sangster should have been worn out
long ago, for she could read at thrce
years of age, and such precocity should
prestige early waning powers. She wrote
her first accepted stery at sixteen, and
still exhibits with pride some pieces of
silver which she bought with the money.
For the benefit of struggling young au-
thors, let it be said that she received $40
for her maiden effort, the story being
published by the Presbyterian Board of
Publications of Philadelphia.

Ro—

l\llrs. Sangster was born at New
chclle, N. Y., on 'W’ashington’s birthday,
and was educated privately. She was
married to George Sangster in 1858.

Shortly after she became a regular con—
tributor to leading magazines and has
since been associate editor of Hearth and
Home, the Christian at \Vork, Christian
lntelligencer, editor of Harper's Bazaar
from 1889 to 1899, and staff contributor
to the Christian Herald and other leading
magazines since 1894. _

Her work has not been confined to
magazine articles, however. She has
written stories and verse as well. Among
the products of her pen are “Easter
Bells,” “Poems of Household,” “Home
Fairies and Heart Flowers,” “Hours with
Girls,” “May Stanhope and Her Friends,”
“Good Manners for All Occasions," “Life
on High Levels,” “The Little Kingdom
of Home,” “Radiant Motherhood,” “The
Story Bible,” “\Vhat Shall a Young Girl
Read," “(in the Road Home,” “Our Own”
and “The Help that Comes Too Late."
The last three are among the best knowu
of her poems.

Great power of concentration is one of
Mrs. Sangster’s valuable assets. She
writes through noise and conversation, if
it is necessary, and if interrupted can
resume her thread of thought with little
difficulty. She is a. perfect housekeeper,
thus again upsetting the tradition that
women writers neglect their homes. She
has a gracious, charming personality and

instantly makes a good impression on
strangers. Her voice is low and soft, her
hands small and her eyes are blue-gray
in color. She is a prolific reader of all
good books, loves books of biography but
cares nothing at all for books of travel
Her favorite flower is the mignonette.

A GIRL’S CHANGE IN THE CITY.

 

The best place for girls is the home.
\Vith that fact firmly in mind, there
should be no danger that anyone who
reads these lines will interpret the article
as a plea for girls to leave home for the
dazzling, but unsatisfying prospect of a
career in the business or professional
world, for such a life is not a desirable
one for women. While it may bring
financial 'returns and the consciousness
of being regarded as a success, it all too
frequently robs woman of her domestic-
ity. rubs off a goodly share of the sensi-
tive reserve which is one of her chief
charms, hardens a heart which should be,
all gentleness and sympathy and often
dulls her moral sense as well.

'lhtt in spite of these facts there are
many women who are forced to enter the
business world whether or no. That
world—old principle that “he who will not
work shall not eat" hits many of us
hard, for not all are fortunate enough to
have someone else to provide for us.
Many a woman who much prefers a
quiet home life finds herself forced to be—
come the breadwinner for herself and
two or three dependents, father and
mother, an invalid sister, or perhaps her
own little ones. The country has little
to offer such women in the way of em-
ployment. There is domestic service, of
course, but this does not promise enough
to furnish support for three or four peo-
ple; there is school teaching, for which
very few women are fitted and fewer still
have any great taste; there is clerking
in some country store, but such chances
are few and there are more people wait—
ing for them than there are positions to

offer. Sewing, for the woman who is
handy with her needle, offers another
chance of work, and there you have

about all that may be done by women.
No wonder that for the women who
are forced to work, the city looks so
alluring. They mcet someone who has
gone to the city and made good, and
hear fabulous tales of the opportunities
which lie around just waiting for some-
one to take them. Kitchen girls are re-

puted to get just about three times what
they could get in the country, while

nursemaids live like ladies and have noth-
ing to do. ’I‘here is practical nursing for
the woman who is handy in a sick room;
countless big department stores to offer
work for salesladies, work for book-keep-
ers, stenographcrs, copyists and office
girls, not to mention scores of other sorts

of work that a capable girl or woman
may do.
These women hear these stories, of

course. without any mention being made
of the fact that there are already hun-
dreds of women already in the city look-
ing for work, or even the slightest allu-
sion to the steps to he climbed and the
hard knocks to be endured before they

'can hope to get to the top ‘in any pro—

fession. ’l‘hey determine to come to the
city in search of work and are encour—
aged by their acquaintance from the

metropolis. But when they make the
suggestion to their own family, trouble
begins.

“Don’t go down into that Sodom,”
moans mother. “The city is a wicked
place, my dear,” quavers father. “You
won’t know a soul and you'll die of lone-
somencss,” prophecies sister. All the
friends get together and ask what she
intends to do when she gets there; recall
all the stories they have heard of girls
who have failed in the city; point out all
the pitfalls that lurk for the unwary, and
gloomily talk over all the murders which
have occurred in the metropolis for the
past fiVe years. To hear the conclave,
one would think the girl was about to
leave all that is good and pure and beau-
tiful to enter a realm of such vice and
wickedness that she would be the one
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NOV. 18, 1911.

cnsn [or “runs!

You get the highest prices and the

nick returns when you ship you

urs to nsten. We receive and sel

.. , more fundirect from trap ing sections

TRAPPER S, than any house in the wor d. The big-

,/ m HEW“ * gest American and foreign buyers are

g _" ‘ ~represen at our regular sales. The

. . FRE E . fierce competition among bu ers en-

‘ ables us to t higher prices t an any-

one else. hat's why we can send you

. , the most money for your rs. and

send it quicker. Trappers' outfits fur-
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Big Money In Trapping

While work is slack. do some trapping. t pays big.
Use Funsten Animal Baits. $1.00 per'can. uaran
to increase your catch. or your money refunded.

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LET US TAN ,
YOUR HIDE. 3

Cattle or Horse hide, Calf. Dog, Deer.
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on.
We make them soft. light. odorless.
wind, moth and water proof, and make
them into coats (for men or women),
robes. rugs or gloves when so ordered.

Your for goods will cost you less than
to buy them, and be worth more. It
will certainly pay you to look into it.

Our illustrated catalog gives a lot of
information. Tells how to take oil! and
care for hides: how we pay the freight
both ways t about our marvelous brush
(1 eing process which is a tremendous

vantage to the customer. especially ,.
on horse hides and calf skins; about
the goods we sell. taxidermy. etc. but
we never send out this valuable book
except u n request. If you want a
copy son in your cormt address.

The Crosby Frisian Fur Company.
571 Lyell Ave” Rochester, N. Y.

Big Money ForFurs

Get more tor your turs. no matter where you are. We
pay twice as much as home buyers and from 1 0 to 30%
more than any other dealer anywhere. Our big. free,
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shippers in every State. Send for it today—now—be
tore you forget. We’ll send with it also our free Trap.
Bers’ Guide. tells how to trapand care for furs. Also our

1 free pricel 1st and market report. All sent tree for
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CORR? HIDE 8- FUR 60.. 345 Main St.- Corry, PI.

SEND US YOUR "IDES
COW AND HORSE

To be tanned and manufactured into
coats, robes. gloves and mittens.
We are dressers of all kinds of furs.
Write for free catalogue and samples
telling all about our business.

run cons and 30885 ms SALE
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Hides Tanned for Robes,
. Coats and Rugs ‘

Send us your Cattle or Horse Hides or any skins
that you may have, and we will tan these for you
as they ought to be tanned. We have the larges
and best plant in the country for doing thi
work. We are coatsnd robe makers. Our price
are right, work Guaranteed. Low prices.

Send [or circular. also catalog.

HUGH WALLACE COMPANY,
DETROiT, MICHIGAN.

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the country.
people are
makes the crime seem greater.
man nature is the same wherever it is

and if she possesses the characteristics

home.

THE MchiGAN FA‘RMER. <17)

Like many other views of life, there is
just enough truth in this to make it dan-
gerous. The city ”is wicked. of course.
But there is no more wickedness in cities
in proportion to the population than in

'1 lie fact that so many
congregated in one place,
But hu-

fOund, and the girl who would be a good
woman in the country and make a suc-
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successful woman in the city. It is the
life within that makes her what she is,

which go to make goodness and success,
these characteristics are not going to be
changed simply because she changes her

There are two classes of girls who
should be kept from the city. These are
the densely ignorant and the irresponsi-
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former should stay away. Walking up
the street towards the Union depot, a
man was accosted by a girl of twenty,
just arrived from the country.

“Say, mister, can you tell me where I
can get work?” was her salutation.
Less than a half block away was the
free employment bureau, and the man
led her there and left her, after first in-
structing her as to what to do there,
and urging upfin her the imperative ncc-
essity of speaking only to men who wore
suits with brass buttons, and carried a
club. The Providence which watches
over sparrows directed this girl to the
right man, but suppose she had met the
wrong one?

As to the irresponsible girl, she should
never be allowed anywhere without a
guardian. Nothing has any weight with
her but the impulse of the moment, and
to turn her loose alone in a big city
would be nothing short of a crime. But
Ihe inlelligcnt girl, even if uneducatch
who is governed solely by a strict sense
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she is on a farm. Her own womanlincss
and common sense will tell her the sort
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to shun, while her willingness to work
and her conscientious performance of
duty will bring her advancement.

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MY UNCLE’S EXPERIENCE.

 

 

 

 

BY EMILY L. WOOD.

One evening, knowing my uncle was in
his library, I rapped at the door. In his
usualy pleasant voice he bade me. enter.
I found him sitting with no light save a
soft glow from the grate.

I seated myself and for a time, not a
word was spoken by either of us. Finally
he thus broke the silence: “Well, Jam—
ie! is it fully decided that you are to go
to Boston to take up the study of law
with Judge Marx?” I replied in the
affirmative.

"You will find the Judge a man of in—
tegrity and true sterling worth, one thor-
oughly fitted to fill his honorable posi-
tion. But city life affords many alluring
temptations, many snares and devices to
mislead the unitiated youth.”

To this I replied: “lt Would indeed
seem strange were 1 to prove recreant
to all your wise teachings, both in pre—
cept and example.”

“llavc a care,” said he; “do not be too
sure you will be proof against allure-
ments. Seldom do l refer to the past,
but, that it may possibly be a benefit to
you. l will relate some of my youthful
experience if you care to listen."

Eagerly l expressed a wish for this,
for, although socially inclined. on the
subject of his past life he had been very
reticent.

1\Iy uncle proceeded at (Ill('c with his
story, which I will give in his own words.

IWy parents, in moderate though com—
fortable circumstances, dwelt with their
three children upon a farm. My sisters
and I attended the country school and,
later, that I might be qualified to engage
in business, l was sent to a higher in—
stitution of learning, in the village not
far distant, still spending Saturdays and
Sundays at home.

(in a farm adjoining my father's lived
a Mr. Holmes. The families had always
beer. on the most friendly terms, and
between Mr. llolmes's oldest son/and
myself there developed an intimacy that
is seldom paralleled. 'In fact, we were
almost inseparable: wherever Charlie
llolmes was, there would be found Hiram
Levingworth.

Charlie, being a bright youth and one
year my senior, finished the business
course at the village school before me
and went to the. city in search of em-
ployment. Being pleasant and attractive,
he quickly succeeded in gaining a desir-
able position in a large boot and shoe
establishment and soon began writing
glowlng descriptions of city life, berating
a humdrum life on the farm. Fascinated
by his flowery letters, l was impatient
to finish my course at school, that I, too,
might try my fortune in the wide world,
and I even requested him to look for a
place for me.

My schooling nearly finished. i received
a letter from Charlie stating that ,there
was a vacancy in a store of general mer-
chandise, where he had recommended
me. He was sure I was fully qualified
to fill the position and would be pleased
with it: also that it was near the place
where. he, was employed. I could scarcely
restrain myself from shouting, so elated
was I at my brilliant prospect.

At the close of the school year I re-
ceived my diploma and considered myself
fully equipped for business. Charlie
came home for a short vacation, and so
enthusiastic was he in describing the ad-
vantages of the city for a young man
that I was thoroughly captivated. My
parents, wiser than i, did not enter into
the spirit of this as I would have liked;
they even intimated that Charlie had
not the frank, wholesouled manner that
was his a year ago. However, by much
persuasion from both Charlie and myself,
after giving me much wholesome advice,
they gave a reluctant consent for me to
accompany t‘harlic. on his return to the
city.

1 obtained the position of which my
friend had written and, in due time, be-
came thoroughly acquainted with the
various duties assigned me.

My chum took great pains to bring me
into notice among the young people with
whom he had already become acquainted,
which was very kind of him. Still, I
observed that many of them were not
such as we would have chosen at our own
homes, and I mentioned the fact to
Charlie. He replied, “Oh, of course,
society in the city is different; but they
are all right in their way."

Evening parties and balls were given

which, at Charlie’s urgent request, I at-
tended, but confess that I saw and heard
much which at home would not Have been
tolerated. Against my better judgment
I was persuaded to join the young men’s
club, where games were played, and
candies and’ fruits were in demand, be-
sides cigars and soft drinks as they
were called. I sometimes remonstrated
with my friend when urged to attend
these meetings, when he would say:
“Oh, what‘s the harm? “’e can be young
but once; we will be old soon enough;
then we will settle down, but not_just
yet.”

It was my aim to please my employer
and to work for his interest, and I can
say that I tried to do so, partly, perhaps,
with a view to promotion, but mainly
from a sense of duty. But at times, after
one of our club meetings of unusual
length, I would be languid at my work
and would detect the sharp gaze of my
employer fixed upon me. Then I would
have a confidential talk with Charlie,
tell him that we were not spending our
hours for rest and recreation as we
should, that there was nothing elevating

THE MICHIGAN .. FARMER.

 

in our gatherings; that, instead, they
had a demoralizing tendency. Still, I did

not act the manly part and break en-'

tirely away from such associations as I
should.

Entertainments were given to which
neither Charlie nor I would have allowed
our sisters to go; games which were at
first played for pastime gave place to
those of chance; soft drinks were sup-
planted by wines and other genteel bev—
erages, and still we went on degrading
ourselves to the level of those deep dyed
in 'sin, while our prospects for breaking
away seemed daily growing more doubt—
ful. My dear, genial friend, whom I
loved as a brother, not unfrequently went
to his lodgings bewildered by drink, nor
was I a step behind him.

The time was drawing near when we
wcrc to have a vacation, which was to
be spent at our homes. l'pon arriving
there we \vcre met with outstretched
til'illS.

Uh. the. remorse that then possessed me!
I felt like a culprit who had betrayed the
trust of his dearest friends. \Vhether
they suspicioned the true state of affairs
I was unable to determine, but to their
searching questions it was difficult to
find answers without bringing myself to
shame or breaking the hearts of my
parents and sisters, but the truth 1 would
tell, so far as I revealed anything, for
l had not yet fallen so low as to tell a
falsehood.

I sought an interview with Charlie as
soon as practicable and frankly told him
I could no longer deceive those who
were so dear and who had done so much
for me; that I scorned to play the part
of a hypocrite, or to live a two-faced
life; that, for me, l was fully resolved to
break all connections with our new asso-
ciates and start anew a straightforward
and honorable course.

He admitted that we had been a little
reckless sometimes and that we must be
a little. more careful, but said: “We
must not break from the boys altogether,
for they are good fellows at heart and
are all right.”

Our friends made our stay at home as
enjoyable as possible, but the time soon
came when we must return to the city.
Bidding my parents and sisters an af—
fectionate farewell, I left them again,
fully determined that I would no longer
act a cowardly part, but take a bold
stand for what I knew to be right, even
though I exposed myself to the jeers and
taunts of my depraved associates. Alas!
how often are good resolutions proven
too trail to withstand the force brought
to bear upon them.

Arriving in the city we were informed
that a tally-ho had been engaged by the
club for a ride to the park a few miles
from the city on the, following day, which
was bunday; that this had been arranged
in honor of our return. To this plan I
most seriously objected, as in my home
training I had been given to understand
that the Sabbath was a day for rest and
worship, a day that should be held
sacred. llut, as usual, there was such
pressure against my objections that they
gave way, I not having the stamina to]
say no.

Sunday morning found us, with our
four-in-hand, gliding along over the
smoothly paved streets toward the park,
seemingly all in the best of spirits. The
drive was a delightful one, and the park
was most enchanting with its groves,
lakes and cozy nooks, walks and drives
bordered on either side with the most
beautiful flowers; still, it had little charm

   
     
  
    
  
   
   
   
   
    
   
  
   
  
  
   
    

    

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THE MICHIGAN “ PAIZMER.

smote me, telling me I was committing

,8 sin. ,None. knew of this, however, for,

false pride bearing me’out, my appear—
ance was very deceiving.

The day was spent in playing games,
boat riding, singing, dancing and other
trifling amusements. A lunch was served,
to which Were added wine, beer and
other liquors of which each and all par-
took. Toward night our driver informed
us that it was time to return to the city
and soon we were whirling away, a.
noisy, hilarious crew. All went well un-‘
til we neared the city limits, when, ahead
and a. little to our left, we saw a long
train of cars approaching. One of the
most reckless of our load called to the
driver: “Don’t stop, you can easily make
the crossing," and the driver, who had
also imbibed too freely, rashly attempted
to cross. Our ears were filled with a ter—
rific Screech from the engine.

When I regained consciousness and
looked about I was upon a. cot in a
strange place. Not a familiar object met
my gaze. In an instant my mother, and
another in the garb of a nurse, ap-
proached my bed. These I plied with
questions. “Where am I? W'hat has
happened?" Soon my mother was weep-
ing, but her tears seemed more from joy
that grief. I was told that I was very
ill; that I must. be quiet and not talk
until I was stronger. Then my father
came and stood beside me, looking very
happy, as I thought. Again I succumbed
to weakness and fell asleep.

It took weeks, as I have been told, for
me to gather strength sufficient to
talk. Finally I insisted upon an ex-
planation of the mystery that surround-
ed me. I was told that while riding, I,
with others, had collided with a train
and received serious injuries.

By degrees the past came to me. At
last I thought of Charlie. Asking about
him I was told that he, too, was injured.
This did not satisfy mc for I felt that if
it were possible he would visit me. \thn
it became evident that the facts could no
longer be withheld I was informed that
poor Charlie had been instantly killed in

the collision; that his body had been
taken to his heartbroken parcnls and
buried near his old home. The shock to
me was so great that a. relapse seemed
imminent, but realizing that for my
friends’ sake I must rally, by will force,
I succeeded. I felt that, if possible, I

must in a. manner retrieve the great
wrong I had helped to perpctrate. As
soon as advisable I was taken from the
hospital to my home, where I was nursed

by loving hands and at length regained
my full vigor. .

l
On my first meeting with Charlie’s

parents I was overwhelmed with grief
and remorse. I reasoned that, dearly as
he loved me, had I taken a decided stand
and withdrawn from our associations 1
might have persuaded Charlie to have
gone with me and his terrible fate would
have been averted. I felt that, to a great
degree, I was responsible for his death,
and this fact has been, and ever will be,
a cloud overshadowing my life.

In time I returned to the city. The
merchant again took me into his employ,
but, I assure you, all connection with the
club was severed. I was resolved to
break from all contaminating influences
and to be a man. Some members of
that club came to a disgraceful end and
several of them I have lost trace of alto-
gether. My letters home were frequent,
frank and honest; nor was there to be
read between the lines anything to make
my poor old parents anxious.

Staying for several years with the
merchant, I was promoted from time to
time as my qualifications would justify.
After accumulating a modest fund I came
to this quiet town, where Charlie and
I had last attended school, and estab-
lished a mercantile business of my own
on a small scale. Trade slowly but
steadily increased until now I have an
income more than sufficient to supply our
needs. At the age of twenty-seven I
married Charlie’s youngest sister, who
has ever been a helpmeet to me, and has
faithfully filled the place of mother to
you, my sister’s son.

Fortune has favored my efforts, but,
glancing retrospectively, I dare not think
what might have been my fate had not
the scvcrest interposition of Providence
arrcstcd me in my downward career.

And now, my dear Jamie, let me ad-
monish you to resist the first temptation
to do wrong, for in this lies your safety.
Shun all appearances of evil and. before
participating in any questionable amuse-
ment, first ask yourself, “\Vhat would
the friends at home think of it?”

My unclc ceased speaking and, with
miostcncd eycs, while warmly grasping
his hand, I replied: “God helping me,
I will!"

Time tiles. My uncle, now an old man,
has retired from business. I have suc—
cessfully practiced law as a profession
and have cause to be thankful for his
advice, his experience, as related to me,
having proven a bulwark impervious to
the most alluring temptation.

 

AUTUMN.

BY MILDRED M. NORTH.
The morning light comes later now each

day,

And over each low pool a mist hangs
gray

That scarcely melts away until the sun

Has half his journey to the zenith run.
The spider'webs hang dew-gcmmed ev—

erywhere,

Like silver nets and diamonds, and the
air

Is crisp and sweet with odors Autumn
yields:

Scent of the corn leaves browning in the
fields,

Of spicy wild grapes growing black and
sweet,

And falling leaves that rustle 'ncath the
feet

Of squirrel or chipmunk, or of shy wood
mouse,

In search of food to store thcir winter
house

Against the time of cold; for well they
know ,

That soon will come the winter and the
snow.

The yellow sunbeams of the noonday
~ rcst: "'

On countless leaves in sunrise colors
drest;

On fields gray-brown, where waved the
golden grain,

01‘ bright with grass fresh started by the
rum

’l‘o vivid green. The sky is clear and

blue,

And through the orchard trees tho ruddy

hue.

Of heaped-up apples shines. A butterfly,

Roused by the June—like warmth, flits
slowly by. .

Milkweed and thistledown, their work all
done,

On airy wings sail idly in the sun,
While floating cobwebs till the clear dry

all‘

With shining silken threads. And every-
where

The hills are veiled in sunlit purple haze

That adds a beauty to these Autumn
days.

Now is the season when the sunset skies

Spread their most gorgeous colors for our
e es.

Broad )bands of gold and rose, like fire—
light‘s gleam,

Shine like another sunset on the stream.

But through the air, grown warm ’neath
midday sun,

There steals a chill of frost when day is

 

. done. .
The low-voiced katydids' accusmg cry,

/ it was so much

The crickets' quick indignant sharp reply,

The birds’ sof" twitter, and the insects'
hum.

Are silcnt now the Autumn nights have
come.

An owl’s shrill cry sounds sharp into the
night;

High in a cloudless sky the moon shines
bright,

\Vatchiug the silent shadows sweep
around

From west to oust upon the dewy ground.

These are the glories that the Autumn
lends, .

These are the blessings which Our Father
sends,

That we in thought their shining gold
may keep

“'hen under ice and snow the grasses
Sleep.

AN EXPRESSED THANKSGIVING.

 

BY LALIA MITCHELL.

“'hcn Broihcr l'limm fell off the hay
mow a week before Thanksgiving and
they picked him up unconscious, I was

Two of the Davi-
a violent dczith and

dreadfully frightened.
sons have mot with

who knows but it might run in the fam-
ily. When the doctor said he was all
right, except for the nervous shock, I
felt greatly rclicvcd, but that did not hclp
out the qucstion of what wu, and in fact
cach of the scvcn living mcmbers of our
family, would do for 'l‘hanksgiving.

Hiram and I lived on the homestead
farm and wc always had our thrce broth-
ers and two sisters and a bz‘other-in-law
and sistcr-in-law homo for Thanksgiving.
the. custom that we did
not have to invite lhcznrmthcy just came
because they knew we were expecting
them and would bc right glad to see
them. Hiram's full upset everything,
though. The doctor jabbered off some
long Latin name and talked about ner-
vous shock and said we were to keep him
absolute-1y quiet for at least two weeks
and, under no condition, must we have
any company to tire 0r irritate him.
That may not have been his exact words
but it's as near as I could understand
him, and after he had gone I just sat
down and cried, partly over poor Hiram

shut up in the best parlor bedroom for.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

two whole weeks, and partly because I
knew just how disappointed the rest
would be, and just a little because I did

.not know exactly how to write and tell

them that we couldn’t have them, when
we hadn’t even heard they we‘re coming.

Hiram couldn’t advise me. The doctor
had said he must not be worried, and
none of the neighbors could he depended
upon. I just had to think out some way
myself, and that without delay, for
Thanksgivipg was already so near that
I had my mince meat all chopped and
ready for the pies. Thinking of pies gave
me an idea, and when once it was started
that idea grew like a young gourd vine.

If I could not have the boys and girls
home for Thanksgiving there was noth—
ing to hinder my sending Thanksgiving
to them, and when once I had made up
my mind it was surprising how many
things I thought of. First, I wrote to
the editor of the Fayville Daily News
sending him an account of Hiram's acci-
dent, with the doctor’s caution that he
must be kept quiet and not see any com-
pany. W’ith my letter I enclosed twenty
one-cent stamps to pay for mailing cop-
ies of the paper in which the accident
news appeared to the five brothers and
sisters. Having done that I felt that I
had time to attend to the other part of
my plan.

Out in the granary were five good-
sized boxes, clean and sweet, ‘and these
I put in the kitchen, side by side, with a
sheet of nice white paper in the bottom.
Then I got five sacks and filled each of
them with butternuts, hickory nuts and
walnuts, just the kind we always have
after dinner on Thanksgiving day.

That was all I could do then, and for
the next two or three days I devoted
myself to Hiram and thinking about my
plan.

IVhen the time came I went on with
my cooking just as though we were going
to have our customary big dinner, only
instead of baking a big turkey I picked
out five nice young chickens. On the
Stit'lind day before Thanksgiving they
went into the oven as plump and pretty
as pariridges.

\Yell, on Tuesday night I had every-
thing rcady, mince pies and pumpkin
pies, and fruit cake and salt rising bread,
and everything, even to the little red and
yellow Chrysanthemums that I've put in
the middle of the table for ten years
back. After Hiram was asleep, so that
he wouldn’t be likely to want me for any-
thing, I began my packing. Each box
was exactly like the other four and when
I had finished them there wasn’t three
ounces of difference in the weight of
them.

But I forgot to tell you what went into
them. You see my idea was that if I
couldn’t have the folks home for Thanks—
giving I’d send Thanksgiving to them,
and when those boxes were ready to nail
up there was a good big Thanksgiving
dinner in every one of them. The tur-
nips weren’t cooked, nor the carrots and
parsnips, but everything else was, and
then there was a little jar of marmalade,
and a pint can of pickles, and apples,
and doughnuts, and cranberry jelly. I
knew right well just how- pleased each
of them would be when the expressman
walked in on the day before Thanksgiv—
ing, or may be on the very morning of
the big day, with a package that they’d
recognize by my handwriting.

It wasn’t long until the letters began
to come to me, and you may not believe
it but from the way they wrote you'd
think a boxed up Thanksgiving was bet—
ter than the old—fashioned kind. Of
course, I knew it wasn’t, and that they
missed the visiting and story telling, for
I couldn't put that in a. box, but so long
as lliram was sick and we couldn’t all he
at home, I was right glad I had happened
to have that idea, and I guess there were
seven of us who felt that way, for when
I told Hiram about my boxes, on Thanks-
giving morning, he smiled thc cheerful—
lest smile I had seen since he was hurt,
and said, ”\Vell, well, this isn’t such a
dreadful bad Thanksgiving after all, if I
did do the best I could to spoil it.”

 

 

 

A 24—page, neatly printed catalog, is—
sued by the American \Vagon C0,, 112
\Vest Adams St., Chicago, .Ill., has been
received, at this office. This booklet, by
word and picture, gives a very clear and
comprehensive idea of the Melrose .Con—
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to accommodate itself to the multitude
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*9 urea; peisnfpe Alissa st uoiqm

gate, a marketing bed, etc., can be read-
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Size, and power, and ease of
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Incorporated in the 1912 Jack-
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middle prices.

What size ;. what power; what
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For example, $1500 for the Jackson
Model 42 (shown below) commands
full 40 horsepower, wheelbase of 118
inches, 34x4 inch tires and full ellip-
tic springs.

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Size; and

NOV. 18, i 1911.

  
  
   
 

 

Size, and power, and ease of riding

Size, and power, and ease of riding

A big, powerful, comfortable car—with
complete equipment of top, wind-
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In Model 32, $1100 buys more than ever
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wheelbase of the extreme length of
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catalog and name of nearest dealer.

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NOV. .18, 1911.

"FARMERS” CLUBS"
LAM‘M '
Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C
P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.

 

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

 

'CLUB SECRETARIES ATTENTION.

A copy of the program for the annual
‘meeting of the State Association of
Farmers’ Clubs has been mailed to the
president of each of the local Clubs in
the state. A copy of the program has
also been mailed to the secretary of each
local Club, together with credential
blanks, report blanks, etc. If these blanks
are not received promptly by the secre-
tary of every local Farmers’ Club, those
who do not receive them should notify
the associational secretary at once. It is
important that these blanks be in the
hands of every secretary at an early date
as the credential blanks will be needed
by the delegates to the associational
meeting who will be elected this month,
and the report blanks should be filled
out and returned to the secretary at once,
in order that she may have as complete
data as possible for the preparation of
her annual report to be submitted at the
associational meeting. Send these re—
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them, addressed to Associational Secre-
tary, Mrs. C. P. Johnson, Metamora,
Mich.

 

F...

THE YEARLY PROGRAM.

 

The latest of the yearly programs of
the local Farmers' Clubs to come to the
editor’s desk is that of the Essex Farm-
ers’ Club, of Clinton county, the same
being the program of the fiscal years of
1911—12, which begins with the October
meeting of the year.
most elaborate programs which we have
seen gotten out in any local Club. It is
neatly bound‘in a colored paper cover,
the cover page bearing the name and lo-
cation of the Club, the year for which
the program serves, the dates of the
meetings? which are held on the second
VVednesd-ay of each month, and the hour
of mgetii’g, which is 10:30 a. m. The
title page of the booklet is a duplicate of
the cOver and the page following it con-
tains simply the motto and sentiment of
the State Association which were adopted
at the suggestion of the Ex-Associational
President, J. T. Daniells, who is a mem-
ber and also an ex-president of the Essex
Club. This motto and sentiment is fa-
miliar to every reader of this department
and will be found at the head of our
rarmers' Club column in each issue,
when space will permit.

The next page of the booklet contains
a list of the ex-presidents of the Club,
which number twelve, and the years for
which each has served. The next page
is devoted to the list of present officials
of the Club, including the members of
the standing committees. The several
meetings of the Club are given each a
page in the booklet, the assignments be-
ing complete in each case except for the
musical numbers. The farms of the
members are named and name of the
farm is given in connection with that of
the host and hostess, at the head of each
program. The order of business which
is followed at the meetings is repeated
on each page so that each program is
complete for the meeting for which it
serves.

Two questions are discussed at prac-
tically every meeting and these are ap-
parently chosen with more than ordinary
care. Some are practical and some are
of .a more ethical nature, thus lending
variety to the discussions. The routine
business is gotten through and one ques-
tion is usually discussed before the din-
ner hour. Another feature of the meet-
ing, which is apparently original with
this Club and exceptional to the general
practice of such organizations, is a re-
cess which occurs in each case just prior
to the discussion of the last question,
which occurs at or near the end of the
program. Roll call is responded to in a
variety of ways which makes this an in-
structive and entertaining feature of the
meeting. Each program is pleasantly
interspersed with literary and musical
numbers, an arrangement to make the
‘meeting more entertaining. At the bot-
tom of each page is a sentiment appropri-
ate to the season of the Club meeting,
being in every case a quotation from
some well known author. The programs

This is one Of 319,, bers by theiwsses

I THE“ MiCHmAN' “FARMER’.

'are arranged with a. view:of expressing
appropriate sentiments. ,throughout, the
)Nove'mber program having special refer-
ence to the Thanksgiving occasion and
the March program being of a. strong
temperance character. The practical top—
ics are timely in every case and the pro-
gram as a whole, would be hard to im-
prove upon. A question box is made a
feature of some of the meetings but does
not appear in every program. .
The year’s work cloées with the June
meeting, the Club apparently taking a
vacation from June until October, dur-
ing which period no meetings are sched-
uled. A feature of the booklet worthy
of special mentiOn is a page headed “In
memoriam,” the head being followed by
an expressive verse and the names of
former members who have passed to “the
bourne from which no traveler returns.”
Lastly appears the constitution of the
Club, making this booklet one of the
most complete and useful programs
which could be devised. For it we are
indebted to the courtesy of Ex-Associa-
tional President Danielle, than whom no
other member of this or any other local
Farmers’ Club has been more constantly
devoted to the work of the state organi-
zation.

 

CLUB FAIRS.

Rives and East Tompkins Club.

The Rives and East Tompkins Farm—
ers’ Club met at the Maccabee hall in
Rives, Wednesday, Oct. 25, to hold its
annual fair. There was a good attend—
ance, about 150 being present. After
dinner had been served an excellent
Club program was rendered in the hall

upstairs. It was opened by singing the
Club’s favorite song, “America,” fol-
lowed by prayer by Rev. Reynolds. Mr.

Arthur Perrine gave an interesting talk
on cows and the method of testing them.
The school children favored us with a
song of the country fair. A recitation by
Miss Alice Boon, and a duet by the
Misses Alice and Lois Severence were
much enjoyed. Mrs. James Wood, Mrs.
Barber and Mrs. Ina Stringham gave in-

teresting readings. and throughout the
program was interspersed musical num-
Anna” Davey, Rosa

Foster and Netta Styles, and songs by
Mrs. Susie Smith and Miss Margie Mann.
The display of produce from garden and
field was splendid, considering the year
we have had. \Ve were pleased to see
so many ladies from Jackson present and
we hope their words of commendation
Will inspire the Club to greater efforts
next year.-—Ina Stringham, Cor. Sec.
China Farmers’ Club.

The annual fair of the China Farmers’
Club, of St. Clair county, was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schrocppel,
on October 18. There was a large exhibit
of fruit and vegetables, including many
varieties of apples, peaches, pears, pota-
toes. beets, watermelons, cabbage, pars-
nips, carrots, etc. There was also a good
exhibit of different varieties of corn and
other farm products, while beans, hick-
ory nuts, sunflowers, etc., were in evi-
dence. There was a poultry exhibit as
well, while the ladies had a varied ex—
hibit of jellies, pickles, etc., and the fancy
Work department was not neglected.

In the line of curios there were on ex-

lbit a home-made linen coat and vest
which were worn by one of the members
4n years ago in his boyhood days; a.
baby’s christening robe 32 years old, a
Silver spoon brought from Germany 75
years ago and samplers made over 100
years ago. Altogether the fair was a
most successful event and will doubtless
(be continued as a special feature by this
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HOW THE “CONSUMER’S DOLLAR”
GOT INTO A WOMAN’S MEETING.

It was my good fortune last month to
sit as a delegate from the Grange in the
First International Congress of Farm
\l’omen, assembled in Colorado Springs,
Col. This body of 222 women, represent-
ing 25 states and Canada, was auxiliary
to the Sixth International Dry—Farming
Congress. It considered a wide range of
topics~from the domestic fly to the coun-
try church. Its aim was to help the farm
woman to find herself among women 3.3
an active, real part of the women’s world
that is seeking whatever will better the
conditions and spirit of the home,

This is not the time or place to even
outline the results of this significant
gathering of women. One incident only
shall be mentioned here. It was an inci-
dent of the third days’ meeting and one
that, to many people, gave the pith of the
farm problem. We had listened to many
carefully prepared papers upon devices
for lightening work, upon better educa-
tional facilities for rural communities,
and upon methods of making the farm
home more attractive. These had been
followed by a brilliant discussion which

involved the question as to whether the
barn or the house should first be consid-
ered in the economies of the farm. A
good many women had not yet said any-
thing—in public. Suddenly an unpreten—
tious small'woman in the rear of the room
arose and, in quick, impassioned words,
said:

“I have been a teacher and domestic
science teacher in Missouri and came out
to a Colorado ranch where I am studying
farm conditions. I'm sure the trouble is
not lack of education or knowledge. for
the ranch woman is a cosmopolitan, often
a town product, and well cultured. But
the trouble is money, money. XVhen we
poor ranchers who have worked on the
ranch since May. in wet and cold weath—
cr, early and late, 14 hours a day, every
day, fearing all the time lest the hail will
take away all the hard—earned fruits of
our toil, when we finally take our crops
to market, rising often at midnight—nay.
sometimes starting the night before—
we are offered a pittance for our pro-
ducts. I have been offered five cents a
dozen for corn and six cents a gallon for
the beans we have wecded and watered
and cultivated for three months. Now
the farmer loves his wife and home, and
if he had the money he would gladly fur-
nish her a maid and good appliances; but
he hasn't got it, and he never will have
it until the commission man-”the middle—
man—e gets less than the lion's share. As
long as such conditions exist the farmer
can't make it any easier for his wife,
and she has no right to expect any ear-
ier lot."

As the. woman ceased speaking the
president chanced to declare a brief re—
cess and immediately the little woman
was surrounded. her hand shaken in
eager approval by women whose feelings
she had so evidently voiced and by other
women to whom she had given a deeper
insight into a “real farm woman’s” life.
\thn I could get near enough to ask her
to write out her statement for me I dis-
covered that she is a member of a C01-
orado Grange.

This is how, in the minds of some of
us, the conviction was driven deeper
than ever before that farmers need or-
ganizutions that will take up vital, pres-
ent-day difficulties and follow them to
a finish. This Colorado Grange—ranch
woman had touched a vital, present-day
difficulty. JENNIE BUELL.

 

CHARLEVOIX POMONA’S LAST MEET-
ING OF THE YEAR.

Despite extremely bad weather, mem-
bers of six subordinate Granges, of Char-
levoix Co., met in Pomona session with
l’eninsula Grange, Nov. 2. The biennial
election of officers resulted as follows:
Master, VVilllam Mears, Boyne Falls; ov-
erseer, .Iohn Knudsen, East Jordan; lec-
turer, \Valter Black, Charlevoix; steward,
assist—

\‘Villiam Steenberg, East Jordan;

ant steward. Arthur Gaunt. East Jordan;
chaplain, Viola Heller, East Jordan:
treasurer, Henry Black, Sr, Charlevoix:
secretary, Lcu I). \\'illson, Boyne City;
gate keeper, Fi'cd Heller, East Jordan:
Ceres, l'rsula i‘rawt‘ord, East Jordan:
Pomona, Blanche \\'allace, Bay Shore;
Flora, l‘immn Tom], East Jordan; lady
assistant steward, Fannie Knudsen: East
Jordan; member exccutive committee,

Nat Burns, Charlcvoix; Pomona delegates
to Michigan State Grange, Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Ruhllng, East Jordan.

, In the evening all ofiiccrs elect were
installed, R. A. Brininali acting as in—
stalling officer. It was decided to place
the building fund ill interest until time
to commence work on tho hall next your.
The committees appointed returned fav-
orable reports regarding the gencral con—
dition of the Grange in the county. Har-
mony was declared the banner Grange
for the third (luarter. Two applicants

for the fifth dcgrcc were, duly obligated
and instructed. llztving declined rc—elec—
tion, the retiring secretary, It. A. Brint—
a unanimous vote of

nail, was accorded

thanks for the manner in which his past
service had been rcndcrcd. The next
meeting will be held with Rock Elm

Grange, in Februarye-it. .\.

 

Clinton Pomona held a successful meet—
ing with South Riley Grange Nov. 8. The
annual fifth degree meeting will be held
during the winter for the bcnclit of those
who desire to become fifth degree mem-
bers. G. F. Oltmar and wife, of South
Riley Grange. were chosen to represent
the Pomona at the coming State Grange

meeting.

 

COMING EVENTS.

Michigan State Grange, Thirty-ninth
annual session, at Kalamazoo, Dec. 11-15.
Pomona Meetings.

Arenac Co., with Wickham Grange, at

Twining, Friday, Nov. 17.
Genesee Co., with Vienna Grange, at
Clio, Tuesday, Nov. 28. State Master

Hull, speaker.

Clinton Co., with Olive Grange, VVed-
nesday, Dec. 6. Election of officers.

Lenawee Co., at Adrian, Thursday,
Dec. 7. Annual meeting and election of
officers.

Kent Co., in Court House, Grand Rap—
ids, Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 1:00 p. m.
Fifth degree session and election of offi-

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

November 15, 1911.‘
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—The wheat deal remains about
steady with the closing figures of a week
ago There are a few strong features in
the market at home, but the crop of Ar-
gentine which is estimated to be 50,000,-
000 bushels more than the bumper yield
of 1907, has overcome the bullish feature
at home and held the market steady. 1n
the Canadian northwest conditions are
discouraging to the bears since frost
damaged much of the crop, and now
fields that would have yielded millions
of bushels are completely covered with
snow. The milling demand has quieted,
which has slightly Weakened cash deals.
Receipts in the southwest have been very
small. All things considered, it seems
that the market is on a basis that might
send prices in either direction. One year
ago the price for N0. 2 red wheat was
Utééc per bu. Quotations for the past

 

week are:
No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec. May.
Thursday .. . .961/é .931/2 .98 $10253;
Friday . . . . . . .0614 .1131, .9734 1.021/2
Saturday ..... 1151..., .92 14 .963; 1.011;,
Monday ...... 1151/2 021,-; .97 1.01%
Tuesday ,.....1151A3 .0211“; .97 1.01%
Wednesday . .116 .03 .971/2 1-0214

Corn.—~\\'hile corn values have fluctu-
atcd the past two weeks, it now rests
on practically the same basis as two
weeks ago, with the undertone slightly
weaker However, there is promise of
strength in the fact that small receipts
are coming to the large markets and
country offerings arc very light, also the
stocks in Chit-ago and other places are
small. One year ago the price for No.
3 corn was 5212c pcr bu. Quotations for
the past week are as follows;

No. 3 N0. 3

Corn. Yellow.
Thursday ................. 7.3 751,:
Friday ................... 741/2 75
Saturday ................. 741,»: 75
l\ioi‘lday .................. 74% 75
'l‘uesday ................. 751/2 76
'\\'ednesday .............. 751/; 76

Oats. ~’i‘his grain has advanced a half
cent and the market is iirm at the new
iigurc. There has been a sEight lili~
proycment in the shipping demand and
the, usual outlets are opt-n and furnish a.
demand suilleit-nt to keep the market
steady. l’rimary elevators are selling some

of this grain but the amounts are not
largo One year ago the price for stan-
dard oats was Bill/go per bu. Quotations
for the week are:
Standard No. 3
White.
Thursday ................. 49 481/2
Friday ................... 401/2 49
Saturday ................. 401A; 49
Monday .................. 401/3: 40
Tuesday ................. 50 493,52
\\'cdncsday ............... 50 49%,

Beans.i¥l)ecember beans have advanced
while cash and November are a. cent
lower. Complaints of moisture in the
offerings still prevail: however, the far-
ther away the market gets from thresh—
ing season the greater will be the im-
provement oI‘ the offerings so far as
lnoisture, is concerned. {eports continue
to verify the. extent of damage done to
the crop. tgttotations are as follows:

Oct Dec

Thlll‘h‘tlzl)’ .................. $2.27 $2.27
Friday ..................... 2.27 2.27
Saturday .................. 2.2. 2.25
Monday .................... 2.27 228
Tuesday 2.27 2.28
\\'edncsday ................ 2 28 2.30
Clover Seed.-~—March seed and prime

spot are off 50. The market is firm and
active at the quotations given below:

Prime Spot. March. Alsike.
Thursday ....... $12.40 $12.50 $10.50
lt‘riday ........... 12.35 12.45 10.50
Saturday ........ 12.35 12.15 10.50
Monday ......... 12.35 12.43 10.50
.l‘uesday ......... 12.. 5 2.45 10.50
\Vcdnesday ...... 12.35 12.15 10.50

Timothy Seed—There is no change in
the nominal price for this seed, which is
$7.20 per bu.

Rye.—~ The rye market is dull and quo-
tations are. 4c below those of last week,
cash No 2 now ruling at Stfic. per bu.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.

Flou'r.v’l‘here is a fair demand for

flour, with prices unchanged.

Straight .............................. 4.10

J’atent Michigan .................... 4.7

Ordinary Patent ..................... 4.40
Feed. »—All grades steady with last week

Carlot prices on track are: Bran, $27 per
ton; coarse middlings, $29; fine middlings
$32; cracked corn, $30; coarse corn meal,
$30; corn and oat chop, $28 per ton.
Hay and Straw.——l<ye straw is firmer
and mixed hay is higher. Other grades

firm. Quotations are: No. 1 timothy,
$206121: No. 2 timothy, $10612 clover.
mixed, $186120; rye straw. 399.5061‘10;

Wheat and not straw. 39' per ton,

Potatoesru-Thc national crop report in-
dicates the yield for this year to be 281,-
735,000 bu., as compared with a yield in
1010 of 338,811.000 bu., and a five—year
average of 301,513,000 bu. The quality of
the crop is estimated to be below that of
1910. Prices have improved this past
week while offerings are light. Car lots
on track are quoted at 65fl70c per bu. in
bulk, and 75611800 in sacks.

Provisions—«Family pork, $19@19.50;
mess pork, $16.50: medium clear, $1661?
18: hams, 141/20; bacon, 12617121110; pure
lard in tierces, 934C; kettle rendered lard.
101,430 per lb.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Button—There is a moderate supply of

butter and since the trade is not having

THE MlCHIGA-N FARMER.’-

the support of large stocks .of storage
goods the market is firm at last week's
figures with a. strong undertone. Quo-
tations are: Extra creamery, 32c; firsts,
do., 310; dairy, 210; packing stock, 20c
per lb.

Eggs—Another advance resulted from
the continued broad demand and the con-

stantly narrowing supply of eggs with
every prospect that further upward
changes in price will follow. Fresh re-

ceipts, case count, cases included, are
now quoted at 270 per dozen.

Poultry—All grades and kinds of poul-
try are steady except chickens which,
because of the heavy offerings have suf-
fered a dcqline. Dealers will be able to
stock up for the holiday at low prices.
Prices are: Live—Turkeys, 14@115c; geese
1061111c; ducks, 12611130; young ducks, 140;
spring chickens, 961100; No. 2 chickens,
8c per lb; hens, 96119140. ’

Cheese.~—Michigan old, 15@17%c;Mich-
igan, late, 151/26017c; York state, new,
1661717c; Swiss, domestic block, 17@200;
cream brick, 156016c; limburger, 14@15c.

Veal.—Market steady. Fancy, 10@11c;
choice, 86190 per lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.

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

Onions.~Steady; 806L90c per bu.

Pears.—75c611 per bu for average of-
ferings.

Apples—There is an improvement in
the apple deal and prices rule higher for
the more popular varieties. Average of-
ferings are going at 50c6r$1 per bushel;
Snows are selling at $350614 per barrel.

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OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

The bean market continues quiet, with
white beans worth $2.05@2.25 and red
kidneys $2.50. Dealers estimate that 25
to 50 per cent of the crop this year has
suffered damage from rains. Potatoes
are worth 556160c at up-state loading
points and buyers say that this price is
too high. The moyement out of the
state'has been heavy but this has been
checked now by the colder weather. Not
all the potatoes are out of the ground
yet, owing to the sudden cold snap. Grain
piit't'S are as follows: No. 2 red wheat,
5901-: new corn, 58c: old corn, 79c; rye,
Me; oats, 50c; buckwheat, 75c.

Chicago.
\\'heat.-No. 2 red, .4346P9534c; Dec.,

ftttlw: May. lift-"nee per bu.

t‘lsrn,» .\‘o. 2, 711,56173142c; Dec., 637m;
May, 1:51» per bu.

Hats. No. 2 white, 4934@49%c; Dec,
1754': May. F.01jqc.

Harley. Matting grades, $100,601.26 per
hit: feuding, 7567050.

liutter. in anticipation of an advance
at I‘llgin. this market began the week
.with :1 2c gain over last week‘s figures,
for best crcamery stock. This grade is
still quoted 1c above lClgin, but the mar-
ket is easier with all other grades the
same as last week. Crcameries, 241/361l
32c; dairies, 226128c per lb.

Eggs._(‘oldcr weather has lessened re-
ccipts and this market is very firm un-
a general advance of lc. Quotations-
l‘rime firsts, 2661'28c; firsts, 23@25c; at
mark. cases included, 186021c per dozen.

l"otatoes.~-Jl‘he cold snap is regarded
as a strengthening influence and prices
have been advanced on all kinds. Mich-
igan stock is now quoted at 8061830 per
but \Yisconsin, 7861800; Minnesota, 80
(1183c.

Reans.~0fferings of pea beans are
heavy and prices show a sharp decline.
lied kidneys are slightly higher but the
market generally has a weak undertone.
("hoicc hand-picked pea beans quoted at
$2.33 per bu; prime, $2.26; red kidneys,
$3.40 per bu.

Hay and Stra\v.~——Hay firm; timothy
idle to $1 higher. Straw unchanged.
Quotatjons: Choice timothy, $236124 per

ton: do., No. 1 $216122; do., No. 2 and

No. 1 mixed, $19.506F20; do., No. 3 and
No. 2 mixed, 3514506171850; clover, $15611

17: do., No. 2 and no grade, $86113; rye
straw, $9.506110.50; oat straw, $9659.50
per ton; wheat straw, $7@8 per ton.

New York.

Rutter—Higher and steady at the ad-
Crcamery specials are quoted at

vance.
2419c per lb: extras. 331/20; firsts, 31611
321,3-1': seconds, 2869300; thirds, 2561270
per lb.

nggs.~~.-\bout steady at a general ad—
vance of 1612c. Fresh gathered extras,
37613.9c: extra, firsts, 34@36c; seconds,
286120c: western gathered whites, 3361)
40c per dozen.

l’oultry. Live—Prices rule slightly
lowm'. \Vestern chickens, 101/2617111/Jc;
fowls, 10611114c; turkeys, 1462116c. Dressed
»~~.\hout steady. Turkeys, 1061\21c; fowls,
765161.43c; western chickens, 7617160 per lb.

Boston.

lVooL—The amount of business was
smaller last week than in the preceding
week. However. the market continues
strong with prices favorable to the sell-
ers. The fleece trade continues to be the
strong feature of the market, although
territory stock is receiving considerable
attention. Michigan fleeces are in mod—
erate demand. Following are the leading
quotations for domestic fleeces: Ohio
and Pennsylvania fieeces-«Delaine wash-
ed. 30fl31c; XX, 28c; 1Avg-blood combing,
2514.61126c; Pat-blood combing, 2561725‘/20;
1i-blood combing, 2460250: delaine un-
washcd, 250, fine unfinished, 20fi‘121c.
Michigan, Wisconsin and New York
fleeces—Fine unwashed, 196D20c; delaine
unwashed, 23@231/2C; 1é-blood unwashed,
241/30. Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri
amid—blood, 24c; 14-blood, 240.

Elgin.

Button—Market firm at 32¢ per 1b.,
which is last week’s quotation. Output
for the week, 659,300 lbs, as compared
with 667,500 lbs. for the previous week.

 

 

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

._.___

Buffalo.

. . November 13, 1911.
(Spemal Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 6,000 head; hogs, 17,600 head;
sheep and lambs, 20,000 head; calves,
1,000 head.

\Vith 230 loads of cattle on our market
today, and 25,000 reported in Chicago,
the good and prime cattle sold at about
last week's prices; all others sold from
1561250 lower, and for anything below
the good quality, the market was slow
and draggy from start to finish, with at
least 15 cars unsold at the finish.

We quote: Best 1,400 to 1,600-lb. steers
$7.75@8; good prime 1,300 to 1,400-lb. do.
$7.25@7.50; do. 1,200 to 1,300 lb. steers,
$6.50@6.75; best 1,100 to 1,200—lb. shipping
steers, $575626; medium butchers steers,
1,000 to 1,100, $5605.50; light butcher
steers. 345060485; best fat cows, $4.50@5;
fair to good do., $3.25@3.50; common to
medium do., 3225613275; trimmers, $1.75
602.25; best fat heifers, $5.25@5.75; fair
to good do., $3.75@4.25; good fat heifers.
$450655; stock heifers, $3633.50; best
feeding steers, dehorned, $4.110@4.60; com-
mon do., $3.25@3.50; stockers, all grades,
$36,113.25; prime export bulls, $5605.25;
best butcher bulls, $4.256}'4.65; bologna.
bulls, $3.256r4; stock bulls, $3603.75; best
milkers and springers, $506060; common
to good do., 32561135.

The hog market ruled fairly active
after the opening; the bulk of the choice
quality strong weight yorkers, mixed and
medium weights selling at $6.65, with
ouite a number of selected decks, run—
ning to the heavier weights at $6.70, with
a few decks of heavy hogs up to $6.75.

100d many very good kind of yorkers
sold at $6.60, and a few around $650611
6.55. Pigs and lighter weights sold gen—

erally at 6c per pound; with some of the
light yorkers rangingon up to $6.25. The
good kind of rough sows sold mostly at
tic per pound, and stags around $5615.50.
Hogs are well cleaned up tonight, except
a few late arrivals. Market closing
steady.

The sheep and lamb market was slow
today; most of the choice lambs sold at
$6.25@6.35; wethers at 11135061375. There
is a good many unsold; market closing
dull. Look fer lower prices the balance
of the week unless the runs are light.

\\‘e quote: Best spring lambs, $625617
6.35: cull to common do., 5144.50611550;
wethcrs, $3.50@3.75: bucks, $2.50612.75;
yearlings, $4614.50; handy ewes, $3.256!)
3.50; heavy ewes, $3613.25: cull sheep,
31.50612; veals. choice to extra, $92560

€1.50; fair to good do., $8609; heavy calves
$4615. -

 

Chicago.
November 13, 1911.

Cattle. ll’ogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 25,000 30,000 28,000
Same day last year..27,028 26,485 58,094

l‘teceivcd last Week..73,286 151,492 166.776
Same week last year.87,711 108,516 158,200
The sheep and lamb market was un-
usually excited and 256150c higher today,
the receipts being unusually light, var—
iously estimated at 25,000 to 28.000 head.
’l‘op prices were: Lambs, $6.25; yearlings
$5.15: wcthers, $4; ewes, $3.50; feeding
lambs, $5.10. This remarkable boom will
doubtless bring in greatly increased re—
ceipts the next few days, although the
range shipping season is closing, and re-
actions in prices may be expected.

Today’s moderate Monday receipts of
cattle, including about 2,500 from western
rangcs, made a better outlet for most
offerings, and prices averaged 10.611150
higher. Strictly prime becves 0f the
30401111127. class were scarce and un-
changed.

Hogs had a quick rise of 56D10e this
morning, selling largely a dime higher.
with a strong demand. Few went lower
than $5.70, and the top stood at $6.65.
Hogs marketed last week averaged 203
pounds.

Butcher lots of cattle sold extremely
wcll, and late today fat cows and heifers
sold as much as 15@250 higher. A prime
heifer brought $7.

(Tattle prices had quite a widening out
last week because of the extremely large
supplies of common and medium kinds
and the marked decrease in the receipts
of prime heavy becves. The best cattle
in the hands of stock feeders have been
largely marketed, and most of the re—
ccipts from western ranges are ordinary
in quality, as is usual near the close of
the shipping season. Recent weeks have
seen unusual variations in the marketing
of cattle, the receipts running extremely
large and extremely light in volume ac-
cording to how prices are ruling, and
last week’s big runs were due largely to
the substantial rally in prices the pre-
ceding week, when receipts were very
limited. The most important event was
the new high record made in fancy
beeves, sevcral car loads of prime Here-
ford and Shorthorn steers averaging 1,620
to 1,608 lbs. selling at $9.25 on VVednes-
day. On the other hand, the general run
of cattle had to go lower, and the poorer
lots of grassy steers sold at 51142560475.
.4: _large share of the fed steers went at
$.>.:10618.25, with less trading above $8.25
than of late, and very good steers sold
between $7 and $8, although in the ab-
scnce of any official grading different live
stock commission firms naturally differ in
their definition of what constitutes
“good" cattle. Cows and heifers were
bought for butchering at $3.256116.90, only
a few fancy heifers selling above $5.50,
while cutters sold at 55260617320, canners
at $1.75602.55, bulls at $2.75@5.75 and
calves at 1525060850. There was the
largest traffic in stockers and feeders
seen at any time this season, the former
selling at $3605.10 and the latter at $4.256?)
5.80, but not much was done above $4.50
for stockers or abOVe $5.50 for feeders.
\Vestern range steers sold at $4.50@7.40,

 

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and milch cows sold moderately at $30@
70 each, being lower in price. The close
of last week showed an advance of a.
dime for the best beef steers of heavy
weights and a decline of 15@50c in oth-
ers. * 1 - ‘

Hogs are moving to this and other
western markets freely most of the time,
and supplies show substantial gains over
corresponding periods for the last two
years, when the hog supplies in the corn
belt were unusually light. The number
of hogs slaughtered in the country for
1911 shows a big gain over either of the
last two years, but trade requirements
are on a large scale, and there is no
surplus above consumptive wants. The
eastern shipping demand last week was
much smaller than of late, and this re—
sulted in some weakness in prices, but
the best hogs had a good outlet, and had
quick recoveries after declines, as they
comprised a. comparatively small part of
the daily runs. With such an unusually
large marketing week after week of lit-
tle pigs shipped from districts where
swine plague prevails, the future supply
of matured hogs is being cut into ser-
iously, and even at the present time there
are more buying orders for prime hogs
weighing from 210 to 312 pounds than can
be filled readily. the result being that
these are the best sellers, going at a.
good premium over the best light bacon
grades. The pigs are extremely bad sell-
ers, the lighter ones selling absurdly low.
Looking ahead, it may be said that pros-
pects appear to be extremely favorable’
for owners of hogs, cattle and sheep.
\Vhen the week closed hogs sold a little
higher than a week ago, the extreme
range being $5.50@6.60, stags going at
3640611665; mixed pigs at $4.15@5; se-

lected pigs at 1551063550 and boars at
9.3563325. Light hogs brought $5.50@
6.4 .

lambs have been marketed
with extremely large
freedom, feeders in the country around
Chicago shipping liberally, while the
ranges were crowding in their last ship-
ments, these being much poorer in qual-
ity than a few weeks ago. “'hile there
was a fairly active local and shipping de—
mand prices‘ declined under the large
offerings, prices for feeders showing, as
usual, the least weakness, for the de—
mand was very large. The outlook for
sheepmcn who produce prime live mut-
tons the coming winter is singularly fav-
orable, as feeding lambs and sheep have
been purchased at much lower prices than
last year, while much less feeding will be
carried on than a year ago. Fat lambs
declined last week 5061775c, while sheep
dropped 10©25c, but prime yearltngs had
a good advance. Lambs closed at $3617
5.75; ewes at $1.756i3.25; wcthers at $3.35
613.75 and yearlings at 3138560475. Breed-
ing ewes sold for 5113.15611425, and feeders
paid $4.356i5 for range lambs.

Horses have been in the poorest de—
mand recently that has been reported in
a long time, and all that saved the bet-
ter class of horses from selling at lower
prices was their scarcity. The common
and medium grades have sold around $25
per head lower than a few weeks ago in
numerous instances, inferior to medium
animals going at $656i‘150 and the better
class of drafters at $20061 250, with extra
fine heavy ones quotable at 3527561325 and
few offered. \\'agon horses were bought
at $150@200. F.

Sheep and
for another week

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Hogs have their ups and downs in the
market, with strong weights of good bar-
rows selling the highest and choice light
bacon grades going at quite a discount,
and rough, heavy sows especially low and
the first to develop weakness. Of course,
the liberal supplies of little pigs are in
a class by themselves and can be sold
only by submitting to absurdly low
prices. The prevalence of swine plague
this year has been unusually serious, es-
pecially in Illinois, and many farmers
have lost all their pigs and sows, while
many others have sold their holdings at
big losses because the malady had ap-
peared in their neighborhood. Obviously.
the marketing of such large numbers of
mere pigs is going to make a corres-
pondingly smaller supply of matured hogs
later on, and good prices for hogs for
months to come are expected by the best
judges of the situation.

\Vith the exceptions of the last two
years, hogs started off for the winter
packing season November 1 at around
the highest prices seen since 1902. Some
months ago there were predictions by the
packers that there would be $5 hogs in
the Chicago market around the first of
November, but, as usual, their predic-
tions were absurdly wide of the -mark. It
is believed that hogs will pay well for
their board all the winter season, as the
dcarness of beef and mutton resulting
from the short supplies of both beef cat-
tle and sheep and lambs will naturally
create an unusually large consumption of
fresh pork and cured hog meats.

The demand in the Chicago market for
feeding lambs has undergone an im-
provement, owing to the fact that the
federal government authorities no longer
insist upon such stock being dipped be-
fore shipping to feeding districts. A great
many shcepmen always raise strong 0b-
Jections tc dipping at this season of the
year.

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NOV. 18, 1911. ,
THIS IS THE LAST EDITION.

In the first edition the Detroit Live
stock markets are reports of last week;
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Thursday's Market.
November 16,’ 1911.
Cattle.
Market strong at last

 

Receipts, 1,250.
week’s prices.

We quote: Best steers and heifers,
$5.50@5.75; steers and heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $4.50@5.25; do., 800 to 1,000, $3.75@
5; steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to
700, $3.50@4.50; choice fat cows, $4@4.50:
good fat cows, $3.506v3.75; common cows.
$2.75Qli3; canners, $1.50@2.50; choice
heavy bulls, $4004.25; fair to good bo-
lognas, bulls. 5535063375; stock bulls, $2.50
@350; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000,
$4.25@4.50; fair feeding steers, 800 to
1,000, $3506.14; choice stockers, 500 to 700,
$3.50Wfi4; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $2.50@
3; stock heifers, $2.50@3; milkers, large.
young, medium age, $40@55; common
milkers, $20(a)35.

Bishop, R. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 14
butchers av 675 at $3.50; to Schlischer 16
do av 57] at $3, 7 do av 736 at $3.15; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 7 do av 820 at $3.50,
7 canners av 800 at $2.50, 1 heifer weigh-
ing .960 at $5: to Parker, W. & Co. 4 cows
av 1.035 at $3, 3 do av 960 at $2.50, 5 do
av 1.010 at $3, 5 do av 830 at $3.10, 10 do
av 868 at $3, 1.1 do av 884 at $3; to Bres-
nahan 9 cafiners av 916 at $2.50, 12 do av
860 at $2.35, 19 stockers av 630 at $3.35, 3
cows av 950 at $2.50, 2 do av 870 at $2.50;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 bulls av 1,255 at
$3.75: to Newton B. Co. 13 butchers av
903 at $3.75, 32 do av 653 at $3. 1 steer
weighing 1,080 at $5.50, 15 do av 758 at
$4.25, 5 cows av 932 at $3.50; to Thomp-
son Bros. 5 butchers av 916 at $3.45, 2
cows av 1,140 at $2.50, 1 bull weighing
980 at $3.-45, 1 do weighing 1,300 at $4, 5
butchers av 930 at $4. 2 steers av 880 at
$5.25; to Sullivan l’. Co, 16 cows av 812
at $2.85, 3 canners av 870 at $2.25; to
Chapman 16 feeders av 800 at $4.25; to
Hirchleman 10 steers av 840 at $4.80; to
Mich. B. Co. 2 cows av .950 at $2.75; to
Bresnahan 5 canners av 1,036 at $3; to
Parker. W. & Co. 20 steers av 1,045 at
$5.25; to Erban Bros. 11 butchers av 584
at $3.50; to Mich. B. Co. 11 do av 644
at $3.

Spicer & R. sold Newton R. Co. 5 steers
av 822 at $4.75. 16 do av 908 at $5.50, 1
cow weighing 870 at $2.75; to Bresnahan
5 canners av 880 at $2.65, 2 do av 1,010 at
$2.65: to Thompson Bros. 5 butchers av
666 at $4.25, 1 heifer weighing 820 at
$4.25, 1 cow weighing 1,080 at $3.75: to
Sullivan P. CO. 5 do av 962 at $2.75,
steers av 1,100 at $5.35, 1
1,390 at $4, 1 heifer weighing 720 at
$4.25; to Breitenbeck 28 butchers av 906
at $4.30; to Itattkowsky 2 bulls weighing
690 at $3.25, 1 cow weighing 970 at $3.40,
3 heifers av 640 at $3.40; to Hammond, S.
& Co. 1 bull weighing 1,350 at $3.75; to
Smith 1 steer weighing 950 at $4.

Haley &, M. sold Thompson Bros. 4
cows av 867 at $3.50, 2 heifers av 590 at
$4; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow weighing 930
at $2.50, 14 butchers av 743 at $3.80, 1
cow weighing 860 at $3, 2 steers av 1,110
at $5.25; to Mich. B. Co. 4 cows av 1,037
at $3.25: to Hammond. S. & Co. 1 heifer
weighing 540 at $4.50, 1 do weighing 550
at $3, 2 canners av 770 at $2.25, 2 do av
855 at $2.50: to (loose 3 cows av 873 at
$3.10, 3 do av 970 at $2.75; to Bresnahan
2 cows av 830 at $2.50; to Sullivan 1". Co.
7 butchers av 700 at $3.75,1 cow weighing
1,020 at $2.50, 9 butchers av 750 at $4.10;
to I’etrosky 1.6 do av 632 at $3.50, to
Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weighing 1,130 at
$3.75, 2 steers av 820 at $3.70, 6 do av
716 at $4.10; to Hammond, S. & Co. 3
heifers av 790 at $4.50, 7 cows av 980 at
$2.75, 1 do weighing 1.160 at $4.25, 4 cows
and bulls av 1,012 at $3, 7 butchers av
654 at $3.50; to Newton B .Co. 21 do av
751 at $3.90.

Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
5 heifers av 610 at $3.25, 1 canner weigh-
ing 1,180 at $2.50, 8 do av 841 at $2.75,
1 bull weighing 930 at $3.50; to Smith
5 stockers av 528 at $3.50, 1 do weighing
630 at $3.75; to Bresnahan 14 do av 537
at $3.25; to Thompson Bros. 11 butch-
ers av 652 at $3.75; to Breitenbeck 2 do
av 620 at $4.10, 6 do av 740 at $4.10, 11
cows av 1,000 at $3.10: to Kamman 17
butchers av 572 at $3.30; to Goose 7 do
av 386 at $2.50; to Regan 16 do av 593
at $3.10; to Kamman 15 cows av 761 at
$3.25: to Kamman B. Co. 10 butchers av
634 at $3.25; to Newton B. Co. 3 cows av
1,263 at $3.75; to Hammond, S. & C0. 1
heifer weighing 650 at $4, 1 cow weighing
830 at $2.50, 1 do weighing 1,080 at $3, 1
canner weighing 700 at $1.50; to Sullivan
P. Co. 3 cows av 870 at $2.75; to Thomp—
son Bros. 2 bulls av 1,150 at $3.75, 12
butchers av 515 at $3; to Sullivan P. Co.
13 do av 494 at $3. .

Johnson sold Thompson Bros. 6 butch-
ers av 746 at $3.75.

Lowenstein sold Mich. B. Co. 6 cows av
1,080 at $4, 2 do av 1,030 at $3.50.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 385. Market steady at last
week's opening prices. Best, $8658.75;
others, $4@7.50; mi'lch cows and springers
steady.

Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 5 av 125
at $8.25, 1 weighing 100 at $6.50, 18 av
125 at $7.75, 19 av 135 at $7.75.

Duelle so‘ld Burnstine 21 av 140 at $8.25,
1 weighing 220 at $6.50.

Jedele sold same 7 av 150 at $8.25.

Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1
weighing 200 at $3.50, 4 av 140 at $8, 1

31

do weighing

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

weighing 170 at $6, 3 av 150 at $8, 2 av
170 at $8.

Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
1 weighing 150 at $6.50, 4 av 140 at $8.25;
to Sullivan P. Co. 2 av 145 at $6.75; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 3 av 150 at $8.25, 5
av 160 at $8.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 13
av 135 at $8. -

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
2 av 165 at $8.50, 1 weighing 290 at $6, 9
av 150 at $8, 10 av 127 at $8, 1 weighing
130 at $5, 6 av 130 at $7.50, 7 av 135 at
$8.50; to Mich. B. Co._11 av 155 at $8.25,
3 av 130 at $8, 3 av 135 at $8; to Newton
B. CO. 4 av 140 at $6.50; to Rattkowsky
3 av 275 at $3; to Hammond, S. & Co.
3 av 155 at $8.75, 2 av 280 at $5; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 2 av 105 at $6.50, 5 av 150 at
$8.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 7,210. Market steady with
Wednesday’s close; 10@15c lower than
last week. Best lambs, $5(w5.15; fair do.,
$4@4.75; light to common lambs, $3@
3.85; fair to good sheep, $2.50Cdi3; culls
and common, $1.50@2.25.

Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 69 lambs
av 74 at $5.30, 23 do av 65 at $5.15, 33
sheep av 85 at $3.

.Iedele sold Newton B. Co. 31 lambs av
70 at $5.10.

Roe'Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
45 lambs av 40 at $3.75, 66 do av 67 at
$5.25, 6 sheep av 90 at $2, 14 do av 120
at $2.75, 37 do av 90 at $2.75, 89 do av
65 at $4.50, 10 sheep av 70 at $1.50.

Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co. 4.]ambs
av 58 at $5, 11 do av 11.0 at $3; to Newton
B. Co. 76 do av 73 at $4.75, 20 do av 50
at $3.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Youngs 22 sheep
av 90 at $3, 34 do av 95 at $2.50, 27 do av
88 at $1.50, 76 do av 90 at $2.75, 8 do‘av
125 at $3, 288 lambs av 70 at $5, 50 do
av 68 at $5.20, 15 do av 65 at $5, 13 do av
60 at $4.75, 51 sheep av 83 at $2.25, 48
lambs av 65 at $5.10: to Hammond, S. &
Co. 102 do av 52 at $3.50: to Sullivan 1’.
Co. 3 do av 120 at $3, 10 do av 86 at $1.50,
50 lambs av 50 at $3, 46 do av 50 at $3,
65 do av 55 at $3.50, 22 do av 47 at $3, 42
sheep av 110 at $3; to It. Hammond 128
sheep av 90 at $1.60, 20 do av 90 at $1.25,
32 do av 95 at $2.50, 11 do av 80 at $1.50,
6 do av 88 at $1.25, 15 do av 90 at $2.50;
to Nagle P. Co. 579 lambs av 70 at $5,
186 do av 60 at $4.50, 76 do av 55 at
$3.50, 65 do av 60 at $4, 53 do av 55 at
$4.25, 57 sheep av 100 at $2.25; to l’ark-
er, TV. & Co. 73 do av 85 at $2.50; to
Youngs 13 do av 110 at $2.25: to Fitz-
patrick Bros. 43 do av 110 at $2.60. 16 do
av 85 at $1.50, 17 do av 115 at $2.60.

Hogs.

Receipts, 7,030. None sold at noon;
packers bidding as follows:

Range of prices: Light to good butch—
ers, 3363061640; pigs, $5.50m5.60; light
yorkers, 361541625.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker. \\'. & Co.
4,885 av 180 at $6.35, 1,130 av 180 at $6.30,
850 av 170 at $6.25, 515 av 150 at $6.15.

lioe Com. Co. sold Sullivan 1". Co. 225
av 205 at $6.40, 430 av 190 at $6.35, 320
av 180 at $6.30, 255 av 180 at $6.25.

Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
520 av 200 at $6.35, 250 av 160 at $6.30.

Spicer &. R. sold same 1,115 av 200 at
$6.35, 220 av 150 at $6.25.

 

Friday’s Market.
November 10, 1911.
Cattle.

Receipts this week, 2,124; last week,

1,756. iarket for stockers very (lull;
other grades steady; no demand from
country. Best steers and heifers, $5.50;

steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $56!)
5.25; do. 800 to 1,000, $450615; do. that are
fat, 500 to 700. $3.50@4; choice fat cows,
$4; good do., $.3fn3.50; common cows, $2.50
(13; canners, 16172.25; choice heavy bulls,
$4; fair to good bologna bulls, $3.50@3.75;
stock bulls, $27561 3.25; choice feeding
steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@4.75; fair feed—
ing steers, 800 to 1,000, $4604.50: choice
siockers, 500 to 700, $3.50@3.75; fair
stockers, 500 to 700, $3@3.50; stock heif—

ers, $2.50@3.25; milkers, large, young,
medium age, $400760; common milkers,

$20@30. .
Hogs.

Receipts this week, 14,709; last week,
12.8.32. Market steady at Thursday’s
prices. Few choice a trifle higher. Light
to good butchers, $6.156il6.25: pigs, $5.25
((175.40; light yorkers, $5.80@6.10.

ADDITIONAL VETERINARY.

 

 

 

VVarbles.——Two of my cows have
bunches under skin, situated mostly on
back and between ribs. C. K., Shelby—
ville, Mich—I am inclined to believe that
your cows suffer from warbles. The only
satisfactory treatment is to open skin
with a sharp penknife or lancet, squeeze
out grub, then apply one part carbolic
acid in 30 parts water to wound twice a
day, or dust on boracic acid. Painting
bunches with tincture of iodine once a
day might reduce and Scatter them.

Spinal Paralysis—Lamb is sick and
when down on side is unable to roll over
or get up without help. When down the
legs move fairly well, and when up it
can walk and seems to have fairly good
appetite. I thought sheep ticks might be
causing weakness, but killed them with
dip, and lamb is no better. G. 11., Fair
Grove, Mich ~Lamb suffers from spinal
congestion, producing partial loss of pow-
er, and may never fully recover. Fairly
good results follow keeping the animal
warm, bowels open, kidneys active and
givmg 8 grs. powdered nux vomica at a
a dose in soft feed three times a day.
This is not a large dose of powdered nux
vomlea, but it may be too much for your
lamb unless it is fairly good size for its
age. A dose of ground nux vomica for
a sheep is from 10 to 40 grains.

Indigestion——Piles.—Spring pig suffered
from piles during summer and some two

, months ago seemed to bloat considerably,

then have diarrhoea. This pig has been
somewhat out of health for past 60 days.
0. A. M., Green Spring, O.—Perhaps a

 

change of feed would have a good effect;
also give a teaspoonful cooking soda and
1.5 grs. salol at a dose in feed three times
a day. Good results follow feeding ginger
and charcoal to such an animal.

Impure Blood—One year ago I bought
a 12-year-old horse that had had an at—
tack of farcy. He has remained in good
condition since I have owned him until
six weeks ago. He now has several
blotches that lluid oozes from. C. H. F.,
Bellaire, Mich.—'—eYour horse suffers from
blood impurities, not farcy or glanders.
Apply equal parts oxide of zinc, pow-
dered alum, boracic acid and flower of
sulphur to sore parts twice daily. Give
him a dessertspoonful of Donovan's solu-
tion at a dose in feed three times a day
for not less than 30 days.

Preventing Milk Fever.——W'hat can be
done to prevent cow having milk fever?
I have a good cow that comes fresh next
month. R. \V. R., Rose City, Mich.—
No deep—milking cow can beOimmunized
against milk fever; however, by feeding
her lightly, keeping her bowels open a
few days before she calves, and drawing
only a portion of milk from udder for a
few days after she calves, she will run
little risk- of having parturient .appolcxy.
You should purchase one of our milk
fever outfits for giving the air treatment
which is the only known remedy for
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and with it you can give the treatment
yourself.

\Vound.—.\bout three weeks ago my
horse ran against a barb wire, wounding
himself: he is not recovering as rapidly
as I think he should. Ilave applied hy-
drogen peroxide, also equal parts boric
acid and air—slaked lime. W. F. P., De-
lano, Calf—After using hydrogen perox-
ide. apply one part iodoform, one part
powdered alum and six parts boric acid.
.\ wound never heals well if the animal

is kept in an unclean. badly ventilated
stable.

Chronic Poll Evil.eeFour-year-old mare
has poll evil: she has been treated by

local Vet. for past four months and his
charges for services are $50 This is
about all I care to spend for treatment
unless she can be cured. I cannot tell
what he did for her, but part of treat-
ment was given with hypodermic syringe.
The wound almost healed, but soon broke
out again. (i. (1., Orion, Mich—obstinate
and severe cascs of poll evil are often
brought to my hospital and i can safely
say that l have bad about as much ex—

perience with such cases as any veteri—

narian. I am free to admit that they are
usually unsatisfactory cases to treat. I
often find it necessary to remove some
diseased bone before a cure can be ef-
fected. If the bone is diseased the dis—
charge will give off a very offensive odor.
Strange to say, if very little is done for
poll evil, most cases seem to get well in
a year or two. The bacterln treatment,
which has been practiced successfully in
the treatment of such cases for “3 past
year or two, usually gives fairly good re—
sults. This I presume your V'et. applied.
If your mare does not suffer much pain,
and the, discharge is not offensive, she
will perhaps recover slowly if you will
inject fistula with hydrogen peroxide once
a day. Your syringe should be clean and
go to bottom of tumor. The peroxide
should be dropped slowly into cavity, for
it makes gas which must have vent. Ten

minutes later apply one part tincture
iodine in eight parts water. For a few
applications I often use tincture iodine,

or a strong bit-bloride of mercury solu-
tion; however, you had better try iodine.

Opacity of ("ornea.~—I“or past 18 months
my mare has had a thin scum over eye-
ball, which l think was caused by injury.
She seems near—sighted. \Vhen a lan-
tern is held llctll‘ her she can see the
light. ’I‘. \\’., Carsonville. Mich.—Give
mare 1 dr. lmlldl- potassium and Q Cea—
spoonful Donovan‘s solution at a dose in
feed two or three times a. day; leave the
eye alone. The absorbent effect of medi-
cine will have a tendency to removea
portion of film. This treatment should
be kept up for a month or two.

Chronic Stiffnt-ss.~wI‘larly last summer
I bought a mare, 11 or 12 years old. that
appears to be stiff in all parts of body.
Exercise gives her some. relief. C. (1. S.,
H‘olton, Micli.v~i'oiii‘ mare has either been
foundercd, has navicular disease, or else
suffers from rheumatism affecting the
joints. If she, has either of the foot ail—
merits, standing her in wet clay an hour
or two a day. or applying wet swabs
whenever she is in stable, will give some
relief. For rheumatic ailment give 2 drs.
salicylato of soda, 1 dr. colchicum seed
and 1 dr. nitrate of potash at a dose in
feed three times a day.

liarrcnnesswStricturexerf‘ow that. came
fresh last March has not been in heat
since. Have another cow the milk stream
from one of whose teats scatters. C. L.
L., Delta. Michxetliving medicine to cows
with a view of stimulating the ovaries
into action is not attended with satisfac-
tory results: however. you may gch her
15 grs. powdered cantharidcs and a table-
spoonful of cayenne pepper at a dose in
feed twice a day. A liberal grain allow-
ance will also help to bring her in heat.
Dilatc teat opening, or use a milking
tube.

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