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





 





 





v01; cxxxviu. No. 3.2

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DETROIT. MICK” SATURDAY, JAN.'20. 1912.





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THE FOUNDATION of AGRICULTURAL SUCCESS.





as an enduring monument to mark the perma~



nent success of our agriculture, are clover, al-

falfa and corn. Clover has been and must remain at

the foundation of permanent success in Michigan ag-

riCult‘ure, not all-one because of its Wondrous power to

appropriate the free nitrogen of the air to'its own use

as al-plant food and to leave a valuable store of this





THE three crops which in future years will stand





costly element of soil fertility as a heritage to





succeeding crops, and by adding a large amount of

needed vegetable matter to the soil through the medi-

um of its extensive root system, which also promotes

good'soil drainage and aeration, but as well because

it provides “the most palatable and nutritious of for-

age for the live stock maintained upon the farm.



That clover is for these reasons the most valuable

of all crops grown in the rotation, so far as its influ-

ence‘upon the permanent success of our agriculture is

concerned, is now conceded by every farmer. There

is right now a great shortage of clover hay and of

clover seed, and there is not a. flattering prospect that

this shortage will be appreciably lessened during the

present year, as the fine clover seedings Which were

formerly the rule upon Michigan farms are quite the

exception over large sections of the state this year.



Of course this condition may be quite largely at-

tributed to the unusually severe drouth of last sum-

mer, yet in this cloverless desert—if that term may be

properly used in connection with this otherwise fertile

land—there is an occasional oasis where an excellent

seeding of clover was secured. notwithstanding the

unfavorable weather conditions which prevailed. Also,

notwithstanding the general shortage of clover hay

last season, due to somewhat similar conditions the

previous year, there were some brilliant exceptions to

this general rule. The accompanying cut shows a.

portion of a field of clover hay Which produced three

and one-half tons per acre.



That there was not a better crop of clover hay "in

Michigan last year and that there are not now more

good seedings of clover

which will produce simi-

lar yields next year, ev-

ery Michigan Farmer





 





 





 





 





“King Corn" on Farm of Franklyn Kent, Oakland Co.





able maintenance of live stock upon the farm, ne

thus removed.



Undoubtedly, the high price of clover seed has con-

tributed to some extent to this effect, since upon the

stronger soils which are producing good crops of tim-

othy and other grasses at a lower cost for seeding.

clover seed has not been sown as generally or as

liberally as it should be for best results. But on the

soils which need the clover seeding most there are

other contributary causes which are less easy to

recognize and more costly to correct. On many of

the lighter soils the humus or vegetable matter con-

tent of the soil has been depleted by constant crop-

ping, thus placing the soils in a poor mechanical con-

dition and making them so little retentive of moisture

that it is almost impossible to get a clover seeding

in the ordinary way on this account. On such soils

no time should be lost in finding some method which

will again cover the land with a much needed carpet

of clover. ,



Whether this be done. by sccding alone without a

nurse crop on well prepared soil; whether it is brought

about by the plowing down of some suitable crop for

green manure to supply vegetable matter to the soil;

whether it is accomplished by the purchasing of feed

stuffs from outside sources to feed live stock main—

tained upon the farm and thus provide humus and

plant food through the medium of stable manure;

whether it be attained by thorough culture and a lib~

eral use of commercial fertilizers, with the applica-

tion of lime to sweeten the soil and restore its bal-

ance of this element Where necessary. is an indi-

vidual problem in each case. But that some means

to the desired end be devised in each and every case

is essential to the pcrmancnt success of agriculture

as a profitable, industry in that case.



\V'hile clover is the base of our successful agricul-

ture, there has been. recently introduced into Mich-

igan another great leguminous forage crop. which is

destined to become, another important stone in the



foundation of future agri-





cultural success. \Yliile

it has not and probably

will not attain the im-.





 





reader will concede to be

most unfortunate. )very

thoughtful reader will al-

so conecde that every ef-

fect is traceable to one

or more primary contrib-

uting causes. It is a

safe. assertion that no

Michigan farmer could

more profitably employ

some of his spare time

than in figuring out the

causes which have led to

a shortage of clover hay

upon his farm, or the

failure of the clover

seeding which may pro-

duce it in the future. in

order that these causes

may be eliminated, and

this handicap to the

maintenance of soil fer—

tility as well} as the profit-





 





Second Cutting of Alfalfa on the Farm of Wm. Oppenlander, of Eaton Co. A Good Dry Season Yield.





portancc of clover, alfalfa

is certain to become an

important factor in the

solution of the prohlcm

of securing a dependable

supply of nitrogenous

forage for our live stock.

it is also a valuable crop

for soil improvement,l>ut

cannot take the place of

clover for this purpose,

as it, is not so Well

adapted to use for a ro~

tation of crops, which is

an important means to

the end of maintaining

soil fertility. and at the

same time get maximum

results from our land.

Alfalfa is a very deep





rooting plant and, when

well established. more

independent of climatic





 





 





Co. A Good Foundation for Future Crops.
50 (2)





conditions than any other leguminous

forage crop which can be grown upon our

farms. The small field of alfalfa shown

in the first page illustration is an ex-

ample of this fact. This four-acre field

of alfalfa was sown in the summer of

1909 without a. nurse crop. The illustra-

tion shows the second cutting in 1911,

in which season three cuttings were

made, the first yielding eight large loads,

the second five loads and the third 'two

loads, a total of fifteen loads of hay from

the four acres in a season which was

anything but favorable for a maximum

yield.



“'hile this was not an exceptional yield

and did net approach some yields from

older stands of alfalfa, which have been

reported in these columns in recent

months, yet it was a far better yield than

could have been secured from even a

good stand of clover.



A feature of this picture, which does

not .show plainly in the cut. is worthy of

special mtntion. The men in the picture

are each holding up an alfalfa plant

which was removed from the ground in-

tact and the roots of which are about

four feet long. This accounts for the fact

that a fair yield was secured at the sec-

ond cutting, notwithstanding the dry seaj

son. As the stand increases in age these

roots go deeper and deeper into the soil,

making the crop more and more inde-

pendent of moisture conditions and in-

suring a. more cerain supply of the most

nutritious and valuable roughage that can

be grown upon our farms.



Each year there are more examples of

success with alfalfa in Michigan. The

problem of its successful establishment

upon our farms has been practically

solved and in another column of this is-

sue will be found advice in regard to its

culture which is in line with the experi-

ences of many Michigan farmers who

have succeeded with alfalfa. We may

say with confidence that the experiment-

al stage in alfalfa culture in Michigan

has been passed and that good results

can be obtained with reasonable certainty

in seeding alfalfa in the greater majority

of cases where the sum of this successful

experience is taken as a guide in the

cultural methods used.



No Michigan farmer should permit an-

other season to pass without sowing at

least a small area to this vwluable forage

crop and thus take another step toward

solving the double problem of maintain—

ing the fertility of his farm and supplying





needed home grown forage for his live

stock.

Corn the National Complement of Clover





and Alfalfa.



\Vhile the crops above mentioned will

in future years become more generally

recognized as the foundation of success-

ful and profitable agriculture, the great

American cereal, corn, the natural comv

plement of these other basic crops, will

retain its legitimate place as a capstone

of the monument of crops which will

mark the permanent success of our agri-

culture. Truly, corn is our “king” crop.

1t enables us to utiliZc the available fer-

tility in our soils, which has been con-

served and stored up by the clover and

supplemented by the stable manure which

results from the feeding of clover and

alfalfa in connection with previous crops

of corn, to be turned into marketable

animal products and the residue returned

to the soil to aid in the production of fu-

ture crops of clover and corn with a.

minimum loss of the plant food ele-

ments.



As above stated, corn is the natural

complement of clover and alfalfa, grow-

ing to greater 'perfection following those

crops and furnishing in connection with

them the needed elements of animal nu-

trition in a well balanced form and at a

minimum of cost. With the recent in-

terest in corn improvement, which has

been manifested throughout the country,

the‘ possibilities of this-king of crops

have been revealed in a startling man-

ner. Marvelous yields of both grain and

forage have been demonstrated as pos—

sible in fertile and properly prepared soils

and with judicious methods of culture.

Let us briefly refer to some striking ex-

amples of the possibilities of this won-

derful crop.



The Possibilities of “King Corn."



During the last two years the United

States Department of Agriculture has

been stimulating interest in corn grow-

ing in the South by means of corn grow—

ing contests in which only boys under

eighteen years of age are eligible. The

past season there were about 60,000 boys

who entered this competition. The record

crop among the winners of prizes in this

competition was made by Bennie Ben-

son, of Mississippi, 9. little red—headed





 





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lad of eleven years. His yield for a.

measured acre selected from a field of

corn which he grew was 227 buShe’ls of

shelled corn. grown at a. cost of 14 cents

per bushel. Close to him in competition,

and more remarkable in some ways. was

the crop grown by Junius Hill, an Ala.-

bama boy, who grew 212 bus'hels of

shelled corn on an acre at the remark-

low cost of 8 3-5 cents per bushel. This

record of cost was so remarkable that a

special agent of the Department of Ag-

riculture was sent to investigate the

case, but he reported that the figures

were correct and that the local committee

vouched for the fairneSS of the competi-

tion. There were twenty-five boys

among the prize-winners from widely

scattered states, a number with yields

exceeding 200 bushels per acre and few

below 100, with the cost of production

ranging from 8 3-5 cents per bushel in

the case abovo mentioned to as high as

34 cents per bushel.





Michigan Also Produces Big Corn.



Such yields are phenomenal and so out

of range with ordinary yields in Michi-

gan that the reader will be inclined to

look upon them as possible. only in. es-

pecially favored sections. Yet the fact

remains that they were made by boys

and that their authenticity is adequately

vouched for. Quite equally wonderful

results have been secured in corn grow-

ing right here in Michigan. In compe-

tition for a prize offered by an eastern

seed firm, Mrs. H. Will Harris, 0f Len-

awee county, Mich., last year produced

a yield of 70 tons of silage corn on an

acre of land. The method of determin-

ing this yield was by the selection of

four separate Square rods in the acre,

from which the corn was cut and weigh-

ed by disinterested persons, the corn

from these four square rods weighing

3,500 pounds, and this record, which is

duly authenticated, was made by a. wom—

an right here in Michigan.



The upper of the three illustrations on

our first page shows a. field of corn

grown by Franklyn Kent, of Oakland

county, in which a phenomenal growth

was secured. As will be noted from the

picture, the man standing on the back

of a horse and reaching upward with his

hand is unable to reach to the top of

the tall stalks, while ears are borne

higher than the horse's head.



Better Average Yields Should be Secured.



The examples cited are, of course, ex-

ceptional. The corn was grown on ex-

ceptionally rich, fertile soil and such

yields cannot be attained by the average

farmer. However, these illustrations of

the possibilities of King Corn should

make the average farmer dissatisfied

with his average yield of corn and should

induce him to make every effort to im-

prove that yield in future years.



The Solution of the Problem.



In order to do this he must conserve

and improve the fertility and mechanical

condition of his soil by growing more

clover. He must supplement the natural

fertility with stable manure or artificial

fertilizers, or both. He must use the

best seed and adopt the best cultural

methods, it he would make this crop a.

monument representing the highest suc-

cess of his agricultural endeavors, first

adopting the necessary steps to restore

clover to its proper place in the crop ro~

tation. He may, profitably supplement

his supply of‘ nitrogenous forager with

alfalfa, thus making this supply of for-

age larger and more certain. Then, by

growing better crops of corn and feed-

ing it to live stock upon the farm to help

in the production of more clover and

more corn in future years, will the best

foundation for permanent success of our

agriculture be laid.



If this individual problem of more clo-

ver and better corn is successfully solved

by the reader, no matter what his other

special crop may be, that crop Will be

more remunerative. If he grows potatoes

or sugar beets he will have larger yields.

If he grows beans or grain he will have

more profitable crops. And in addition to

this the problem of a home supply of

both forage and grain will have been

solved. and the permanency of profitable

agriculture on his farm will be assured.





LAYING TILE IN QUICKSAND.



I noticed in your paper a few weeks ago

where a subscriber asked how he should

proceed to lay tile in muck land where it

had a quicksand bottom. , _



Mr. Lillie answered him, saying that

most any kind of land could be drained if

he had a good outlet, which has been our

experience. But if he tries to follow Mr.

Ilmie’s advice where he tells him he can

lay tile in quicksahd by digging his ditch





TH E ' MICHIGAN FARMER





 

 





and scooping out and grading the-bottom

for a considerable distance first and then

start in at the‘ lower end and lay. his tile.

backing‘up and laying the tile in front of

himself and walk in the ditch and not step

on the tile, he is going to have trouble,

I am afraid. ,



Now we have had several years' expe-

rience in laying tile in all kinds of ground

and where we have encountered quick-

sand We haVe found it necesary to ex-

cavate a. ditch ten or twelve feet wide.

We dig it about six inches lower than we

want our tile. Then we have a load of

gravel handy and fill‘ in to grade with

gravel, lay our tile on this gravel and

cover it carefully with more gravel, then

fill in carefully with top soil 3. foot more

and then shovel or scrape in what We had

previously shove-led out.



Quicksand heaves and runs like water.

It has no body. It won’t lay still long

enough to allow you to grade your ditch

as you would in other soil. I have seen

places where ditchers have tried to and

invariably they have to raise their tile

an inch or more above the one previously

laid and soon run too shallow and in ev-

ery instance, to my knowledge, even when

they did this the sand ran in at the joints

and soon displaced the tile. The tile

sometimes even goes right down so far

you can’t find it. I



But while this seems a. great task to

lay your tile in gravel I have never found

a quicksand pocket over two or three rods

long, sometimes only three or four feet

long. Quicksand is the worst thing a.

ditcher has to contend with. Lots of peo-

ple call water sand quicksand. Now, if

the inquirer’s trouble is water sand it can

be handled easier. \Vater sand won't

heave. It just caves in when you go into

it to deep. But by picking out a. dry

time you can dig a spade deep in it, allow

it to drain out, take out another six

inches and allow that to drain out, until





-you have gotten down to where one spad—





ing with an 18-inch tile spade will bring

you to grade. Then you can do as Mr.

Lillie says, grade a few feet and lay your

tile, being careful not to step on the tile,

cover with sods or straw for the first six

inches and be sure of a satisfactory job.

We have usually found water sand under

muck. Quicksand pockets are found in

any land, but as a. rule are not very

plentiful.





Montcalm Co. SUBSCRIBER.





 





INTENSIVE VS. EXTENSIVE FARM-

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I wish to make some comments upon

Mr. B. F. VVashburne’s articles in The

Farmer of December 23 and 30. Being a

farmer myself, in reading his letters I be—

came somewhat interested, especially in

the saving of labor.



First, I wish to refer to his first ex-

perience in raising corn in Michigan. I

will not refer to the methods used in

Illinois, as I was never there, but be

marked his first 16 acres in about two

days, which was two fair days’ work, be-

sides “busting” the marker. Then he

planted it in six days with a hand plant-

er, or stabber as they are sometimes

called, which should have been done in

three days with one man, but did not dis-

cover that his corn was not covered until

his attention was called to it. That indi-

cated that his ground Was not properly

fitted or too wet. Now, he should have

discovered that he was not doing a good

job during these six long days planting

the 16 acres, but he was "as tired as a.

government mule.”



Now, I find in The Farmer of Decem-

ber 30, how he claims he can raise 100

acres of corn in 79 days, or with 79 days’

work; but he adds that he can do two

days' work in one, which he would have

to do, for 150 days’ work is nearer the

time it will take to fit, plant, cultivate

and cut and shock 100 acres of corn. Cut-

ting the 100 acres in 12 days is reason-

able, but shocking it in seven days, or 14

acres per day is a little fishy. Now, about

hauling and feeding it out in tWO or three

hours a day. I don't know much about

that; he might get the most of it off in

time to sow cats in the spring, providing

he didn’t have to go too far to haul it and

the snow or mud didn’t get too deep.





Now, what I wish to get at is that it

is not possible for one man to do the

amount of Work that Brother W. marks

out in the 79 days. Neither is farming

on such a large scale practicable. Mich-

igan is better adapted to diversified farm-

ing. A few farmers might raise all com

and others all wheat and so on, but what

the farmer needs most is to do his work

in time and do it well, live within his

means and not get so crazy after the al-





 





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mighty dollar that he would have. to do-

two days’ work in one.



- I am a. farmer in a small way, that 18,

diversified farming. I raise wheat, oats,

corn, potatoes, hay, sheep, cows, etc; but

I would not like to tear down my fences

and make only three or four fields of 112

acres. I (am aware that fences take up





some room and cause more turning, but._





we seem to -have time enough to turn

around. It is more convenient to have

several fields that you can shift your

stock around in than it would be to have

only one or two fields.



I suppose that Mr. Washburne carries

on farming on a large scale—and that

may do for him and a few others, but the

average man has got to be content with

less acres and take better care of what he

has got, for there is not enough land for

every man to have several hundred acres.



Now, in conclusion, brother farmers,

don’t any of you try to raise 100, acres of

corn with 79 days’ work, for it will be too

much for you or your hired man.

acres, or less, but take good care of it

and do not let the weeds get the start of

your corn. The grain binder, mower, side

delivery rake, loader and corn binder are

all ‘good. The drill is fast taking the

place of a planter of any kind. The 5110

is taking well with the dairy farmer or

for feeding beef cattle. You can» feed

more stock on less acres by having it in

ensilage, and with much more comfort

than to have to go into the field every

day and haul enough to feed a. lot of cat-

tle out in the field.



Now, Brother Washburne doesn’t claim

that he raised the 100 acres with 79 days’

work, but when the time comes and he

or any other man has accomplished the

feat, please let us know about it. I wish

Brother \Vashburne and any other farmer

success in any experiments that will be

for the betterment of the common farmer.



Ingham Co. L. B. SMITH, SB,





PLANNING VS. WORKING.



I have read with considerable interest

what Mr.

with 100 acres of good corn land in 79

days. Now, Mr, VVashburne’s theory is

good, but were he able to do one-half the

amount he speaks of he must arrange his

work so that nothing but corn would take

up his time. He must work at that com

just when it needs it, no matter if his

neighbor’s barn does need raising or elec-

tion day arrives, or a hundred other

things come up to take him away. He

must be deaf and blind to everything but

corn. In this respect I believe a. good

many of us could get a. lesson.



How many farmers there are who try

to do the planning and carry on all the

business of the farm and do a. day’s work

in the field at the same time. One or the

other must suffer, usually both. Up until

two years ago I took care of the live stock

every winter. \Vhen there was nothing

to take me away I could do it better than

anyone I could hire, but every once in a

while I was compelled to leave the farm.

When I did a new man had to be told

what to do, (if one could be found on the

spot), and everything suffered and in the

end the stock did not do as well as I

thought it ought. Finally we decided we

would hire a chore boy. It seems rather

extravagant to hire your stock taken care

of when a good share of your time you

could do it yourself, but our stock is fed

now by the watch. That man hasn’t a.

thing on his mind but to look after that

.stock. No matter how badly we need him

for something else, we just get someone

else or let it go undone. That man just

does those chores and splits wood between

feedings and our'stock can’t help but

thrive. Now, the same with Washburne's

corn. By having a man for every team

and have him drive that team ten hours

a day every day and look after your hand

work just as though you didn’t have a

teamster you could call on to help, it is

surprising the amount of/team work you

can get done.



Montcalm Co.





 





SUBSCRIBER.

USES HOME-MADE BLOWER AT

TACHMENT. ‘





 





 





Having had my attention called ‘to an

item in the issue of Nov. 18, 1911, page

430, will say that I have such a machine.

I made a. blower for my cutting box two

years ago this winter, and it works to the

satisfaction of myself and others. .

'This machine, when drivenby a. m

h. p. gasoline engine, will deliver cut fod-

der 30 or more feet from the machine.

The pipe is equipped with a flexible hood

so that fodder can be delivered in any

direction. '



Hillsdale Cor





 





Try so.





\Vashhurne says he could do:





G. L. Housman}, .
JAN. 20. 1912. ' ,

KEEPING UP SOIL FERTILITY.





 





The man who farms, whether it is

ferty acres or four hundred, and allows

his soil to become depleted, and lacking

in plant food, is not making a success

of his occupation. He may make a liv-

ing for many years, but the man who

does no more than make a living on the

farm, can hardly be called a successful

farmer. It should be the aim of every

farmer to make every acre produce as

much as possible, but to so manage that

it will be in better shape to produce

larger crops each year. The farmer who

does this is on the high-road to success,

whether he is, like Mr. W'ashburne. able

to produce one hundred acres of corn,

unaided, or not.



In the issue of December 16, last, I no-

tice a question by O. C. M., of Montcalm

county, in regard to keeping up the fer—

tility of an eighty—acre farm, and the re-

ply of Mr. Lillie. I do not agree with

the latter when he says it is impossible

to keep up the fertility of the farm un-

less one buys feed for the stock that is

kept. or that the fertility cannot be kept

up by what the land can be made to pro-

duce if it is rightly managed, and I

think the-re are a good many farmers in

Michigan who will agree with me. Of

course, it will take good management,

and a proper rotation of crops to do it.

The farmer who sells his hay and grain,

instead of feeding them out on the farm,

is not going to improve his land, but

where enough stock is kept to consume

all the roughage and most of the grain

produced, and a proper rotation is fol-

lowed I hold that the soil can not only be

kept up, but improved from year to year.

Too many of our farmers are growing

hay as a cash crop, and that is certain

to deplete the fertility of the soil. Where

a. crop of timothy hay is cut year after

year, for several years, and the hay sold,

it does not take much figuring to show

that fertility is taken from the soil. On

the other hand, if red clover is sown with

all grain crops, like wheat and oats. and

the clover cut for hay the next year, and

possibly for seed later in the season, then

the next year the clover sod turned under

and corn grown on the land, then wheat

or oats, and clover again; and then, if all

manure is carefully saved, liquids as well

as solids, and returned to the soil and

catch crops to protect bare 'lands, like

rye, sdwn in the fall to'be turned under

in the spring, are grown whenever pos-

sible, to supply humus, and improve the

mechanical condition of the soil, that

land is going to improve, no matter if

not a pound of concentrated feed is pur-

chased outside. I am not saying, mind

you, that it does not pay to buy con-

centrated feed to be consumed on the

farm, or that the soil conditions could

not be improved more rapidly if feed was

purchased. Almost anyone could tell that

this would be so. But I do contend that

the fertility of our farms can be kept up,

and improved without purchasing feed

grown on some other land. “’hat

would the country come to in the end if,

as Mr. Lillie contends, the fertility can-

nt be kept up except by going outside

and purchasing feed grown on some oth-

er lands? If we must keep up the fer-

tility of our farm at the expense of one

belonging to someone else, then the other

man must rob a third, or let his land

deteriorate, and the third must rob some-

one else. and so it would go on, and what

would the end be? In time all our lands

would become exhausted.





It will take good farming to keep up

and increase soil fertility without pur-

chasing feed grown outside. Slipshod

working of twice as much land as can

properly be cared for will not do it. Few

men are properly equipped physically or

otherwise, to work one hundred acres of

land as it ought to be worked. I think

that most any man can find plenty to do

on a forty-acre farm, if the work is done

as it should be, and the less number of

acres a man tries to work the better

chance he. has to keep up and increase

the fertility, for if his acres be few he

will study to keep' up and imprOVe each

one.



We have as good soil in Michigan as

there is in any state in the Union, and

with good management and the righckind

of farming we can not only keep up the



,fertility of our lands but can improve

them from year to year and make them

still more productive without purchasing

feed grown in other states.



Of course, we might grow some crops

and profitably exchange them for what

ingrown elsewhere. We can raise the

best of beans, but it would not be econ-

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and the alfalfa is to follow a crop of corn,

then the follwing method is the one that

has given excellent results. If the soil

is quite heavy, plow in the fall to break

up the stubble and give the soil a chance

to settle in the early spring; or if the,

plowing is done in the spring, the roller

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the weeds germinating and to kill them

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alfalfa plant requires plenty of water and

the critical point in this respect seems

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of water and plant food.

crop is not used, sow the alfalfaa seed as

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(-rop after the alfalfa comes up and if

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Nothing has been said so far in regard

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There are many different methods of

feeding and fattening cattle for the mar-

ket. But the method we should be most

interested in is the method which will

produce the greatest number of pounds

at the minimum of expense. We all know

that it is quite an easy matter to fatten

a hog because he will always eat, as his

name implies. But cattle are much dif-

ferent and it requires years of experience

to successfully feed cattle to a. profit.

However, from what experience I have

had and what I have learned from suc-

cessful cattle feeders, “well bred” beef

type in cattle is one of the most import-





ant factors to start with. The best feed-’





er on earth cannot make prime beef from

an ill~formcd-, poorly bred steer, and the

only successful way to deal with such

stuff is to rough them through the winter

to the best advantage and turn them on

good pasture. They will pick up pretty

good this way and in early fall may be

disposed of with a prospect of profit, as

they have been produced cheaply. Of

course, no matter how careful one may

be in sorting and selecting their feeders

he will get some mean ones that will not

feed as good as the average, and instead

of keeping these culls around to damage

the looks of the whole herd I believe it

pays to dispose of them for what they

will bring or carry them over on grass,

as above stated. I never knew it to fail,

if there are a few undesirable steers in

a bunch when a buyer comes, that they

did not stand in plain view all the time

and hide those of lit-tier quality, and

naturally the buyer will condemn the

whole lot.



There. is nothing about a farm more. in-

teresting and fascinating than feeding a

big drove of cattle that will] tako hold

and eat and make a good daily gain. (“hi—

cago is one of the very best feeder mar—

kets. from the fact you have a good so-

lection and can get just What you want

Of course, there is always a. keen demand

for the well-bred kind and they are us-

ually high at all times of the year. I be—

lieve it pays to buy good cattle because

of thc fact that they gain faster and

command a bcttcr price, aside from the

consolation that they look well in your

yards. Beef cattle are fast approaching

a high iigurc and the time not far

ahead when a good 1.000 to 1.200-lb. steer

will sell for $100 on foot.



Corn Belt Feeding Methods.



“'c all know that corn makes beef but

the question is to know how to feed it

in order to get the. best gain at the least.





is





possible expense. The successful feeders

in Illinois seem to think the. more corn

you can put through a steer the more





you will make, and this is true, since, if

a steer will cut heartily he will always

gain. The cattle are usually fed there in

large yards, which include rough, open

sheds for shelter. rI‘hcy have large racks

built to hold scvoral loads of hayoor

straw for roughage. A successful feeder

there told me that after 30 years’ experi-

ence in feeding, he believed that good

straw was bciicr for fouling cattle than

hay, as they would not eat as much straw

and would consume more corn, while if

they liad good hay it filled them up and

would not eat as much corn, con-

would not gain as rapidly. as

not make beef like corn.

The corn is hauled into the yards and

shoveled on feed tables which will ac-

commodate 10 to 15 steers. Some have

sclf—feeders which are small cribs built

upon feed tables. They will hold several

big loads of corn and when the cattle

are on full food, or six to eight weeks

ai‘tcr they are started, they are allowed

all they can eat. This saves much time,

but I would rather feed just what they

will eat at each feed. “'hen an animal

of any kind has an appetite it will fat—

ten fastc-r. Some feeders prefer to have

snapped corn, in preference to husked

mm as they eat it slower and masticate

it better and, as a portion of the husk

is swallowed with the corn, it is raised

and chewed again and digested better.

I have seen as much as 5,000 bushels,

10,000 baskets, of snapped corn piled up

near the feeding yards. They generally

cover it with straw to keep the snow off

and haul it as required to the feed tables.

It is less expensive to snap the corn

from the stalks as it stands in the field

than to husk it, as a man can harvest

nearly twice as much in a day. I have

snapped as high as 200 bushels, or 400

baskets, in a. day and shoveled it on a,





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high pile. Of course, there are non who

have husked over 200 bushels, 400 baskets,

on a. wager. But the average husking is

80 to 100 bushels (56 lbs. shelled corn),

per day. ' '



Perhaps it looks wasteful to most.

Michigan farmers to' see a lot of steers

fed in this way, as they do waste quite

a large portion of the corn. The ears

are ‘large and hard to masticate. But

there is always a dozen hogs after those

ears that the steer can’t eat. and in this

way the feeder gets his hogs fed gratis.

The feeding yards there, especially in

the spring, are a 'sight. Some of them

look more like a lake of mud than any-

thing else, and the hogs almost have to

swim to navigate them. But the cattle

are fat, the hogs are fat, and the farmer

smiles with his rubber hip boots on. The

high price of corn has discouraged cattle

feeding in Illinois and there are many

farmers there who used to feed quite ex—

tensively that don’t keep a hog or a steer

on their farms now. They figure that

the corn pays them more and with less

expense and trouble. This is another

reason why beef and pork demands such

high prices. _



Michigan Conditions Are Different.



Conditions are much different here in

Michigan in the matter of feeding cattle

There are not many fed to start with,

and what are fed are generally fed in

the most expensive way. It is said

“when you are with the Romans do as

the Romans do,” but deliver me from

fattening with the expensive and unneces-

sary methods most farmers employ here





in feeding cattle and caring for their'





stock in general. If I did not figure out

how to save time and labor it, would

necessitate several ’extra. men here to

look after all my stock, while 'as it is I

got along nicely alone and when I have

grain to deliver to market or any extra

work

with my chores.

Stall, vs. Yard Feeding.



Do not tie your cattle up by the neck

to feed them. (live them their liberty,

as they enjoy it as much as a human be-

ing. If you have a large drove and some

or them do not do quite as well as the

others, divide them up in separate yards.

Let them have shelter and keep them

well bedded. Then, in the spring you

will have a valuable lot of manure, which

you can pitch directly into the spreader

and not have to handle over several times

for nothing. I had about 550 loads this

spring in. one of the 100 bushel machines,

and a good man and myself covered 50

acres in less than 30 days. This is where

some of the profits are derived from feed-

ing cattle. .1 am feeding a fine bunch of

Angus and Shorthorns and they are mak-

ing a good gain. My corn all stands in

the shock and is in fine shape. Some of

the farmers here put their corn in barns

and stacked it when it was not fit, conse-

quently they were toya useless expense

and their corn and fodder is damaged

badly. I have a. special rack built ex-

pressly for hauling the corn from the

field. I hitch onto this rig in the morn-

ing and feed the steers and usually haul

enough for the night feed also. It re-

quires about 40 to 60 minutes to do this

and my cattle are well fed on both grain

and forage. The fodder takes the place

of hay or roughage and the cattle do

well on it.



Shock Corn an Economical Feed.



Now after feeding many years I can

truthfully say that this is a most eco-

nomical and profitalilc method of fecding

cattle here in Michigan. I think perhaps

that cattle should have a little extra corn

the last few weeks on feed, since, if you

make them clean up the fodder Well, they

don't get quite enough corn. But to over-

come this if you have some stockers or

cows they could be let in the feeding yard

and clean up after the, fattening cattle

and in this way you could feed them all

the corn necessary and not lose and fod—

der. My feed racks are built parallel 'with

the fence. inside the yards and I drive

along outside and pitch the bundles into





the racksl One may think that the stalks

Would bother when hauling manure in

spring, but they do not, as the cattle





tramping over them all the time breaks

them up and one would think they had

been threshcd. It may look tough for

some to see 50 acres or more of corn

standing in the shock at this time of

year, but as a matter of fact, it is much

better standing there in those big sub-

stantial shocks than to have it stacked

up or put in the barn where-the rats can

feast in it. Of course, you can have

some on hand for reserve in case of a.

severe storm, but as yet I have never

seen many days that I could not haul

from the field, and would rather do it





to do I also do that in connection‘





than from a stack. Some men think-noth-

ing of it when they want a plug of to-

bacco or a. glass of beer, to drive eight

or ten miles in a. storm for it, but it. is

a. terrible exertion to go out in a near-by

field and haul up a. little corn every day.



These big shocks that are bound in

bundles will not freeze down like the

small shocks that are generally flat on

the ground early in the fall.



Some Cost Comparisons.



I had much rather cut and shock the



corn and feed this way than to go in the





field and husk or snap it as they do in.

.Illinois.





It can be done quicker, easier,

and is much less expensive all around,

besides saving a great amount of valu-

able feed, which is mostly wasted by

husking from the hill as they do in the

corn belt. I had 80 acres of corn this

season and cut and shocked the same

alone. Now this corn has cost me noth-

ing as far as labor is. concerned only my

work, with which I got along nicely. Let

us figure out what it would have cost me

to have hired the 80 acres ofVcorn har-

vested and fed to cattle as most Michi-

gan farmers do. Of course, I can not tell

how much the corn' would yield, but I

thrashed about seven acres and got over

300 bushels of shelled corn. We will say

it would yield 90 baskets per acre, which

is 7,200 baskets. It would cost $1.50 per

acre to cut and shock by hand, or $120.

The expense for husking and placing in

crib would be around five cents per bas-

ket, or $360. Hauling up stalks and

stacking, $50. Hauling to mill and grind-

ing, four cents per basket, or $288. We

have now paid out $818 to place the corn

meal in the bin ready to feed, which is

advocated by many farmers as the- most

successful method of feeding cattle and

in fact all stock on the farm; Now, I

wish to have some farmer who entertains

this idea to “show me" where the profit

comes in. I will agree to take cattle,

cows, sheep. or any animal that consumes

corn, and get better results from them

in feeding this 80 acres of corn in the

bundle and will have the $818 to my

credit besides. Of course, all farmers

can’t have 80 acres of corn, it is true, and

if they did have would not care to work

quite as hard as “’ashbume to produce

it. But any farmer ought to take care of

30 to 50 acres here in Michigan and do it

easily, by following the method I do, and

would save a nice lot of cash that is

foolishly paid out,

The Silo is Economic Storage.



I believe that the silo is a very eco-

nomic way to have a good supply of feed

and if I were in the dairy business I

would have one. But before I Would pay

the exorbitant price they demand for

husking corn I would fence off a portion

of my corn field and turn in the cattle

and hogs and let them harvest it. A dol-

lar saved is two earned and it’s mighty

easy for us to pay out all We make, This

is why some farmers are financially the

same as they were 10 years ago. It

Would pay much better to get a few lead

pencils and cypher out some of these

problems than to work year after year

for nothing.



\Vashtenaw Co. B. F. VVASHBURNE.





DOING CHORES.

What is usually called, “doing chores,"

is something that must be attended to or.

every farm. A great many boys and

hired men dislike this part of the farm

work, and in many cases there is a good

reason for this, according to some of the

observations of the writer. This is be-

cause the caring for stock, the milking,

etc., is done so late at night on many

farms, that the evenings are very much

shortened for the boy or hired man. In

many cases I am convinced this is more

a habit than a necessity. In the winter

when there is not much else to do but

chores, the feed and bedding can be got-

ten ready in the afternoon for night and

morning. So at night the feeding, etc..

can be done before dark and in the morn-

ing there will not be half as much to do

before daylight. The milking can be

done the last thing at night and before

breakfast in the morning.

Ottawa Co. JOHN JACKSON.





A short time ago the University of Illi—

nois bought in the Chicago market nine

carefully selected steers to be fed and

used this winter in the animal husbandry

classes, paying from $4@6 per 100 lbs.

Each steer was purchased separately to

represent a certain class type, and each

cost 'a different price.



The federal government meat inspectors

condemned more than a million carcasses

and portion of carcasses at Chicago dur-

ing the past year. mainly because of de-

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of-canned and cured products were con-

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B’REEDJNG HORSES ON THE FARM.





 





There seem to be but a comparatively

few who raise and handle the stock on

the farms, that realize the full be-n‘efits

of the farm animals to the human race.

It is only. in those countries where live

stock breeding, and improvement, has

reached the highest degrees of excellence,

that we find the highest types of human-

ity, and consequently the highest form

of civilization. No other farm animal has

been capable of attaining so firm a hold

on the affections of human beings, or has

had so great an influence in molding the

character of_ men, and holding them to so

high a standard of excellence, as has the

horse. The horses of a country may, in

a general way, be taken as an index to

the character of the people, especially

in the rural districts. From the earliest

dawn of civilization in Egypt, Persia,

Babylonia, and succeeding civilizations,

when the countries were at their zenith

of glory and prosperity, the horses were

held in the highest esteem and were nur-

tured with the tenderest care.



In our own country we are approach-

ing a higher degree of excellence in

horse breeding and rearing than we have

ever attained before in the history of the

country. We are profiting by the use of

what are termed pure-bred animals, that

have been brought up to a high degree of

excellence by painstaking men in the

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THE MICHIGAN EAR-MER. _ ' w) 53





mare should be larger than the stallion.

We have followed the opposite rule of

using large stallions on medium sized

mares and have made marked improve-

ments in both size and general confor-

mation. At present we realize that the

offspring from a large stallion and a. medi-

um sized mare will not attain to the size

and weight of the stallion, and conse-

quently we select a stallion about..200

pounds heavier than we expect our geld-

ings will weigh after they have matured.



Besides size in the stallion we should

have a. good bony frame, well covered

with a good set of muscles well devel-

oped by vigorous and persistent exercise.

The right kind. of bones and muscles

should make up a large percentage of the

weight of the farm horse, as well as the

heavy horses to be sold in the markets.

.-\ large amount of adipoise membrane,

(fat), may add to the weight of the ani-

mal, but not greatly to its efficiency when

at work or traveling on the road. Much

fat is a detriment in hot weather. The

stallion should have a wide, deep chest,

which goes with a large heart and in-

sures ample room for expelling the air

from the lungs. Of course, no man of

ordinary judgment would think of using

a horse unless he has a. good set of legs

and. feet. Bones, muscles, nerves, vital

organs, good wind and good limbs and

feet, are primall elements that should not

be overlooked.



On the farm the mares that are kept

for service are generally the ones used





 





 





 





A Pure-Bred Draft Sire of Quality Should be Used in Breeding Farm Mares.





of many centuries, and it would be a lack

of good business sense if we were to neg-

lect to avail ourselves of the improve-

ments already made, for the same can

be had at a very moderate cost, when

the real value is considered.



At the present time, the man who has

a just estimate of the influence of a pure-

bred draft sire, would not think of recom-

mending anything else to cross on the

mares on the farm for home USe and

market, when profits are considered.

\Vhen we hold in mind the fact that the

sire imparts to the progeny, in a great

degree, the external form, and that the

pure-bred has the ancestral backing of

many genertions of sires and dams of

recognized excellence, we may begin to

anticipate the beneficial influences that

(-an be secured if we avail ours-elves of

the use of them.



All pure-bred sires are not possessed

of equal merit. In the past some have

left a marked improvement on the stock

which they have sired, and added many

thousands of dollars to the value of the

stock in the communities where they

have been freely used, While benefits

shown by the stock from others were less

pronounced. After the breed to be used

is decided 'upon, then the conformation

and disposition of the sire selected should

be closely studied. Like the mind in

men, the influence of the mind of the

animal has much to do with making the

character of the animal good or bad. Good

life, and as high style as can be had with

a compact, closely built animal, is de—

sirable, but a high temper should be

avoided. A good shaped head, high at

the poll, wide between the eyes, an open,

mild eye, and medium sized ears, are

among the things that should be sought

after .and secured, for we want intelli-

gence and, a tractable disposition.



Our forefathers used to say that the





 





brings profit to himself, but is a benefit





as breeders. To use such is generally

considered a matter of economy. The

use of pure-bred stallions, of any of the

draft breeds, usually brings a class of

young horses that sell about as readily

as fattened steers; size and general con—

formation very often fixes the pricefl If

the breeder has been wise in his selec-

tion of both sire and dam, he not only





to the horse. interests of the country.

,There are defects in many of the

mares used on the farms that should not

be overlooked. Among the most promi-

nent defects which, in the long run, are

a great damage to the horses that go

from the farm, we will mention that of

a narrow chested mare. It is no longer

disputed that the mare wields a great in-

fluence on the internal structure of the

colt. The colt from a mare that has a

narrow chest, which means small heart.

stomach and lungs is pretty likely to in-

herit some of the weaknesses that are

concomitant with such a makeup. The

fruits from such a combination is a

horse that sweats and catches cold eas-

ily, has disordered digestion, an abnormal

appetite and broken wind. No other one

thing detracts from the usefulness and

the value of a large percentage of the

horses raised on the farms of this coun—

try, than heaves. Of course, bad man-

agement and improper feedng has much

to do in hastening the diseases mention-





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The Canadian cattle export season that

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This illustrates in a measure the con-

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cattle.in Canada cattle districts and to

a constantly lessening dependence of

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South America at lower prices than can

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steers that averaged 1,470 lbs. for $7.80

per 100 lbs., and they netted him above

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head. The cattle were purchased three

months earlier on the South Omaha mar—

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lbs. They came from the range country

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cattle could have done, gains having av-

eraged 300 lbs. per head. They were fed

snapped corn on bluegrass, corn in that

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bushel. Another stockman from the same

place marketed in the same city at about

the same time 120 head of Angus steers

that he had bought in South Omaha three

months ago after feeding them for a.

period of 60 days. They had cost him as

feeders $5.75 per 100 lbs.



Lute reports from the railroad officials

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They are fed mainly on cottonseed meal

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Boll Bros, of Wooster, Ohio, announce

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Exostosis on Shin.-—-Last summer one

of my horses was snagged on outside of

shin and it has left quite a. bunch which

1 have blistered with Spanish fly Without

reducing it any. J. H. 8., Bad Axe,

Mich—You will find it difficult and tedi-

ous to reduce a bunch of this kind very

much. Apply one part iOdine and eight

parts lard every two days,





Sweeny.——I have an old horse that is

badly sweenied in both fore shoulders;

this case is of long standing. In the fall

of 1910 be injured left shoulder and you

prescribed cerate of cantharides and in a

few days he went to Work. Last Decem-

ber he injured same shoulder and I have

applied same treatment, but he is slow

to recover. W'iill his shoulders ever fill

out ? l. 0. 8., Henderson, Mich.———It‘ yOu

will persist in applying light blisters and

exercise him some he will slowly recover.

If he is much lame exercise will do him

harm.



Lumps on Sliin—Siii‘fcit.—-Have a sev-

en-year~old mare that has quite a num-

ber of small lumps in tlank and under

belly which seem to be of an eruptive

nature, but she is not sick. Her skin

must itch for she rubs. J, A. “C, Els-

worth, Mich—Give a dessertspoonful of

Fowler‘s solution at a dose in feed three

times a day. Also salt her well, groom

her well and feed some roots.



Indigestion—\V'orms.—I have two two-

year-old colts which are in poor condi-

tion. l—Iave fed condition powders, but

without results. Have noticed a. few

worms in dung they pass and I also have

a brood mare that is in an unthrifty con-

dition; C. C., Monroe. Mich.~—Your colts

should be well groomed twice a day, kept

'warm and fed more nourishing food. Give

1 dr. ground nux vomica, 1/; oz. ground





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gentian, 1 oz. ground ginger at'a dose

in feed three times a day. This same

medicine will help your brood mare.





They should have each a dessertspoonful

of salt at a dose in ft't‘tl night and morn-

mlgdail Puncture.——One of my horses ran

a nail in hind foot a few days ago and

our local Yet. treated it, but he thinks

the bone of font may be. fractured. .

1)., Greenville, Mich.»-~It is no easy mat-

ter to tell whether bone of foot is frac-

tured or not; however, this sometimes

happens, the result of puncture.- Keep

the animal quiet and if wound IS still

open, apply one part iodoform and.10

parts boracic acid twice a day, covering

sore with oakum, ,



Feeding Brood Mare Salvage Oats.—

\\'ill you tell me if it is dangerous to feed

broml mares salvage oats? On account

of them being burnt I am told they are

apt to cause abortion. These oats are

seemingly free from any musty smell and

are dry. E, 1‘}. 'l‘., Flint, Mich.—Ergot-

ized grain or grasses fed to pregnant

mares or cows frequently produce a mis-

carriage; however, 1 do not believe you

are running any great risk in feeding the

oats you mention. if you should notice

any of your mares showing any of_ the

symptoms of approaching miscarriage,

discontinue feeding salvage oats.



Liver Disease—I would like to know

What is wrong with my ewes. First

symptom is dullness, followed by stand-

ing with head against wall and when

removed would groan as if suffering pain.

\Vhen walking the head was jerked and

each sick one is inclined to pass a whole

lot of urine. J. D. A., Saranac, Mich.—

I am inclined to believe that the liver

may be torpid and the- circulation of

blood through body sluggish. live l5

grains nux voinica. ,f, grain calomel at

a dose three times a day for two days,

then give 1 oz, of epsom sailts every 12

hours until bowels move frcely._ If the

head is much affected and much dizz1-

ness present give 5 grs. bromide of potash

at a dose every two hours. If any of

your sheep dic examine them after death;

this will give you a. better understanding

of their ailment and be sure to examine

the liver and bowels.



Heart and Kidney Disease»! make a

business of fox hunting during the win-

ter months and am now puzzled to know

why my six-year-old fox hound gives

He has been a valuable dog to hunt





out. .

until lately. Sometimes he works_ in—

dustriously all day and at other timfi:





he seems to give out and lay down.

is losing flesh and never drools at mouth,

his body gives off a very offenSive odor

and I have been wondering if his kid-

neys are not bad. He is larger than

medium size and I have not given him

any medicine. J. M., Luzerne, Mich.

——ff his bowels are costive give, him 1 oz.

castor oil and 2 ozs. olive oil at a dose

to clean out stomach and bowels. Also

'give him four drops fluid extract nux

vomica and 30 drops fluid extract of

bucliu at a dose three or four times a

day. Also give him 10 grs. bicarbonate

soda at a dose in feed three times a day.



lameness—«WW? have a horse that has

been lame for some time and has shown

trouble- in cords. knee and shoulder: he

has been swollen in all three parts. Have

applied liniment to shoulder and knee;

also blistered tendon, but he is yet lame.

Have poulticed foot with cow_ dung.

\Vheii standing still he. is inclined to

point foot out in front of body. M, S.

G., Rapid River, lVIich.——Mix together

equal parts turpentine, aqua ammonia

and olive oil and apply to sore parts

three times a Week. Give him a tea-

spoonful powdered nitrate of potash at

or twice a day.





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a dose in feed once

Indigestion.~l<‘or the past 12 months

my seven-year-old horse has been out





of condition: he could not be called sick,

but is unthrifty. Our local Vet. has pre-

scribed for him, but fails to help him

much. This horse is inclined to gnaw

inangcrs and wood whenever given an

opportunity. He eats plenty, but keeps

thin. C. H., Perrinton, Mich—(live him

1. oz. grOUnd gentian, 1 dr. ground nux

vomica, 1/2 oz. ground ginger and 1,6 oz.

salt at a dose in feedthree times a day.

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wholesale‘prlces owest ever offered; over 300 per

cent. profit. We manufacture our own f s, canI

sell the best Awl for the least money. It 56 Is on slght.‘

Send at once for catalog and setup e. Don't delays“,

(1. M. PERRY. 45 | Kilby Sit-col. ,WORCESTER. MASS.





BELLS’. utilises

’Percherons & Belgians





Al reasonable prices.





New Importation Arrived January 31!.

Write for Catalog.





BELL BR08., Wooster, 0hio.





$200 Reward!





$100 will be paid by Victor Basin: 61 and 3100 by

the Township of Hamtramick. for t 9 recovery of

TWO BLACK MARES, both about nine ears old,

weight. about 1200 lbs. each: one mare Jot hack. “Pd

actor, barb-wire scnr between front. 19 , ii little w iite

hair in the inane near the collar. her was black

with brownish shade, scar on back of right hind hock.

Any information address

VICTOR DESIMPEL. R. No. 2. North Detroit.





JACKS.





Biggest jack tailoring over made." w-day sale on 55

head of extra. big re istered Mammoth Jucka'lt 601» of

their value. Prices 250, to Shall) each. I am im rt-

ingZOOPercheron and Belgianfmares andm stal ions

and must. close out a lot of ilacks to get money and

make room. Write for cata 03, photograph. descrip-

tion and price list.





W. L. DeCLOW,

Cedar Rapids Jock Farm. Cedar Rapids, ll.





 

   

 





 





 





 

   

   

 





 

 





 





 





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attentions-2,323.33... at. mire 2‘s:





_ , ll rod. 11 re istered in Percheron Soc ety of

1.33.3... A. minimum. Onondaga, Miami





PUBLIC SALE





JANUARY 3131, at KENTON, OHIO.





J. C. BROREIN and G. H. DODDS will sell 50

Hampshire Brood Bows. Address J. C. BROREIN.

Wapakonetn. Ohio. for catalogues.





‘ ms memos... PARMER ‘





“Ton-Notcli”ll0LSTElllS





A Fine Young lull. born January 4. lllll.





Sire—Ki of the He welds, whose ILI'O has 8

dcuzhtcrggthg‘: have 382m records that:





Imported Clothildo. who gave

in one your, largest your": milk record.





comes from 1 producers on both sides, is a flood

individual. nicely marked with a little more w lte

than black. Price um. ‘





McPHERSON FARMS C0., Howell, Mir"-





 

   





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JAN. ‘20. in:





”338' fiamhcuilletgl’log cg?

Mexico. on O. imhfl'il’b. {.r?qim0(%]£





 





 





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H008.





0m: and Viciorias*.§‘.£..m“i.°€§lnt¥.fié? 235‘°'.?:a

living prices. M.. T. 8T0 Y, R.F.D.48, Lcsvellffiich.





BERKSHIRE—Special for January—Sow: bred. I!” furrow-

ing 821;} bom- 9 nice. $16; Aug. pigs both loxu. $9 and $11.

All stock regia’d. and guaranteed. B B. Bccvoy, Akron. Mich.





—Bred sows, bred its (1

”irl‘fi'l‘ifssa an? “gimme..." ”ii?

span 11 v1 new one o . at relic

prices. 0. C. COREY, New linen. Michisuaabe





 





 





Butts-HuLSTEm-Buus





One $50 Bull

One $60 Bull





one $70 Bull

One $80 Bull





We have some very cholco ones a little hllhcr.

Write for description and pedigree.





Long Beach Farm, Augusta, [Isaac] Mich.





lllld llol Sell 20 Holstein Bulls In llov.

I Want to Flnlsli the Job In December.





Send for my Dec. Announcement. Select a.

bull from it. order him QUICK. Several from

A. R. O_. dams, and sired by Johanna Concordia

Champion, the only bull in service whose grand

dams average 34.06 lbs. butter in 7 days. Also

yearling heifers bred to him.





L. E. CORNELL, Fayette, Ohio.





*HOLSTEIN BULLS





FOR SALE





Registered bulls from four to ten months old for

sale that. are closely related to Hengerveld

De Kol, De Kols 2nd Butter Boy 8rd, and Colan-

tha. 4th’s Johanna. The dams are heavy milkers

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

Send for list. Bltolow's Holstein hm. Brocdavlllmlch.





FOR SALE—THREE HOLSTEIN BULL GALVES,





no at $90. one at 985, one at 850, and one heifer

calf at 00. C oice breeding. Ad recs I“. H.

WILLIAMS, Frost. First State Bank, Allcgnn, Mich.





—3 Re istered Guernsey Bulls; 5 re is-



For sale 176103 large Yorkshire sows. bigad.

For prices write John Ebola, R. No. 10. Holland, Mich.

EREFORDS—7 bulls from 2 mos. to 2 years old, all





re . and of the very best breedin . Also big boned

Polcn China hogs. ALLEN BROS, cw Paw. Mich.





Holstein Bu": ltlngllllth to 1 year old. Their sire ' is

tised breeding.o Rofii r8?§ll.¥‘3¢lgi?vlillllc¥Mfi%hfih

HOLSTEII BULL indift‘éir'edn‘i.’ hifiamé‘mfi “Till?





good dam. C. D. WOODBU Y, Lancing. 1011.





I

Holstein Heifers for Sale.

Few thoroughbred: and. hi h grades. bred to excel-

lent. grandson of Pletertie en erveld Count De K01.

ROUGEMONT FARM , Detroit. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Purebred Registered





HOLSTE IN CATTLE





The Greatest Dairy Breed

‘ Sand jar FREE Hluctraud Booklets.

Holstein-Prion“. Auo.. Box 164. Brcfileboro.Vt.





JERSEYS AND DUROG JERSEYS

FOR SALE.





A few high class hours from such chum ion boars as

Orion Chief, Instructor, and King of lflinois. Also

a few bred cows. Jersey bulls. cows and hei





t .

BROOKWATEB FARM, Mill ARBOR. INCH" 8.8;? D. 7.





REGISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin.

' ing the. blood of St. Louis and Chicago World's

Fair Champions by HERMAN HARMS. Reece, Mich.





MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.





T. P. MARS’I‘ON. Bay City. Michigan.

from





Crystal Sgringfsl Jerseys lor Sale L. L





testing cows. BTOL. R. No.2, Fenton. Mic .





OR SALE—3 yearlin Holctcin-Frieaian bulls. also

bred heifen 0150 to c calves to .

33 years a breeder. and pedi on appli.

cation. W. C. J ackson, South Bend, nd.. 719 Rex 8t.-





BUTTER BRED ”fifi‘hfflim





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allezan County. Michigan.





lillie Farmstead JERSEYS





Cows all in yearly test. Several splendid Bull

Calves. A few Heifers and Heifer Calves. I guar-

satisfactlon or mono refunded.



COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvfllo. Michigan





 





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BROOD SOW SALE





FRIDAY. JAN. I9. I9l2,

I will sell 75 sows. 4 boars. I have big and medium

type. Don’t miss this sale. Write for catalogue.





WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater, Michigan.





BREEDERS’ DIRECTollY.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd, consisting of Trojan Ericua Blackbirdn and

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

by Black Woodlawn. sire of t a Grand Chain ion steer

and bull at the International in Chicago. 00.. 1910

A few clinicoly bred young bulls for sale.



WOODCO'I'F STOCK





. FARM. Ionla. Mich

AYRS HI RES





-—Onc of foremost dairy

breeds: yo bulls

and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swine.

bred. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint. Mich.





 





 





 





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from large





Guernsey Bull Calves 9.0....“

A. R. ancestors. ALLAN KELBEY, Lakeview. Mich.





J ER 3 BY S of the best breeding.





Cows officially tested.

A few bull calves from cows making a lendid

records. SAMUEL ODELL. Shelby. M ch.





011 SALE. BERKSHIRES—Z boars a 3 gill: fun-owed in June

also ii choice lot of Aug. and Sept. pin, sired by Handsome

Prince 8d a Min-ion King. A. A. PATTULLO. Dockcrvllle. Mich.





Berkshire vans. ”8352. 3.235.. “235





 





 





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

o I Service Bows, _Gilts bred for April furrow

- I - A . and Sept. pigs. large, smooth and prolific.





Glenwocd Zeeland. Mich. Phone 94

o | c figlglEileles weighiné‘froml 1:5 fto £0

--- .ac. soavery oicocc s

GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dunsville, lngham 00.. Mfich.





—My hard is chiefly



OI II c- SWINE .1an of the Royal



lg:%i3:%r?nlea and ifsmalgmt iWrite foxl‘flLiVB and

co on are an roe note 1:.



A. J. GORDO . R. No. 2. no... Mlchlgan.





9 S" ~Bcs$ quality, lat rcwth

all. £11186 £110ng cilttypoh infra "ixgeli‘airi' mil

8 0 0 00 O 0

ages. o'r'ro B. sorfULZE. Nnbvillc. fileh‘ig‘ns;





-—Brcd gilt: by Champion boar. :25

O. l 0 C. each, for Janna-halal ment.





0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. an.





o. I. Gls~A few tried cows to furrow in March.





. full pi .0190 B a

mdlcocklbirdc. FEES NiOKEL‘. erheEfilgfils





I. C's—Service males. 25 bred glitz wei hi 75t i

0. $0 lbs. each. fl bred yearlinga. Choige f: llpigsc.)

Shipped c. o. d Rolling View Stock Farm, Cue City, Mich.





' I. C.—-Spring boars all cold. A f

O. to be bred for $81.” furrow. ChglfieleiglityBgil)?

pigs, cheap. A. NE MAN. R. No. l, Mariette. Mich.





9 --All ages. nowthy and in a. cow 'b d

001 I. C s Males ready, 100m select. frgm. Att‘i-éclt-i’vc

pr can on young stock. . Jump, Munith. Mich.





swine and Bull Bock k l

0- II c- right tyxéc, beat of brccdlgopgilgeswgfr

down for quick sale. . D. SCOTT. Quimby, Mich.





CUR Imp. Chester Whites and Tamworth ' '



24.5 lat at Fairs in 19 So i "me “on

for spring furrow of either W ce boars, also sows bred

in quality and price.





took Farm,





 





breed that will lease '0

Adam‘s Bron" Litchflgld, M 50111?

\ --Youn breeders fM '

Imprmd Gil-slur: L... .. ems. .iii‘é.‘§.§l‘.





A few tried sows for sale when bred. Al f ‘

cattle w. 0. WILSON, Okemos. Mich. Bgihfi‘iigiigi





DUROC JERSEYS.





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hactl M101).

DIIIOC Jerseys for 8111:“?ng 3"“ Gm" a‘”





ins (both sexes)

bred from State Fair winners. P

Write or call and see. R. G.Vivian, R.r4,c 330113235? l2)? :





WI SALE—giro: GEO}; 8“" ”“21 f" March

. l .



Address 0. A. TAGGETT. R. 5°17 3:0?8iiiéh'fmsx



due to furrow





Fllll SALE—~40 Clinic. 8nd Sow: 1,, ML... 0.





April. JOHN MONICOLL. R. No. 1, North Star, Mich.





DUROC-JERSEY BOARS of the large. heavy boned

type and cod in unlity, 31 iii. -- '

for sale. M. l. mull. Okemosfagchmlllicjalhlighs.





-—DUROC-JEBSEY bred Bows,





FOR SAL i and She h rd . . -

press prepaid. J. H.33fNGHAR’1‘Iffiinsili’igngiElxi.

read f i . '

30 High Class Boar: priceys fimlffi. 8 $1135

of growth. style and finish. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Come or write. J. C. BARNEY. Goldwater, Mich

lARGE "PE l) ~Largect in Michigan. Plus

O CO fro

sows. Weigh 160 to“ 175lbs. ailn'i'ohmf’th "me

“Not how cheap but. how cod." Will pay ex-





pensescf those who come an do n l: fl

advertise. w. E. LIVINGSTON, limit? Mllcalf. I





Po‘and Chinas‘fiffn 00d spring and





L. w. BARNES a son. Byron. suifwga'iasegntici‘.’ migiii .





FOR SAL restore ,P- .e 3011:}.

‘ _ y 10 or. am y

‘ Oakwood Medler." All ri Me a '. .



Minorca cockerels. R. “g. MI‘Lihfvgiilin‘efeMiglsm





0R SALE-Poland China boars and .

F bulls, White Holland Turkeys. Bari-00:8 Pfioiiisiffiih

Rocks. Collie Pups. L. Birkenstock. Fall River, Wis.





Butler's Big lyre Poland-Chinas‘mh b°n°~ wim-





We are head 11 rt.

for everyth n Poland Chlnas. If you wan‘é : ”(13:3

boar to’head your herd. abrood sow or fall pig. Pairs

not. akin. or a reg. Jersey bull of any we write us.

Our prices are verv low. J. 0. Butler, Portland. Mich.





SPEfllAL SALE





andrni ' .

horn Bull Calves. 110315)ng





Poland China





Rock cock'ls.





on Poland China Boers, Sowaf Bred

Also Dairy bred Short-

NEVE. Pierson, Mlch.~





Gilts bred for April fax-r w. '

Brahma, White W yandotte grid Bhggtl

E. D. Bishop. R. 38. Lake Odessa, Mich.





Poland Chinasrfilef from ““89 type. Stock





9. both eexcl, t 1"

prices. W. J. HAGELS AW. Augusta,“Mic“!ililngil:i





PoiANii CiiiNAs—egggrgglfmA... M...





i a, b t.

pairs not akin. R. J. LANE. R. 7. o erg. bliss???





Big Type P. C. Roars and Sows “gig.

cion. .. . A. WOOD & SON. Saline. Michigan.



MMClUOl "0 s—gtock of 21111 ages for sale Price rl ht.

..L-.... .8... Kiliafi”.'L§LT°3§?£.LS“5%}”8§£:





 





Red Polled. Bull Calves





6to7 months old. 840 tow. Cows 860 to 875. Also

Percheron Stallion 3Kyears Old fine style. a big

bargain at 3250. E. BRAO mrasbn.uiegan, Mich.





FOR SAL E_2Bl¥fiirsnngr¥ED POLLED





g1 08 60 each

if taken now. J. M. CHASE a 130 8. Ion





a, Mich.



~Eii’lfl; re stared SHROPSHIRE



For Sale EWES. and 3 years old. cheap.

JONES & MORRISH. Flushing. Michigan.





. --a few bredh 'f 1!

Dairy Bred Slim-thorns sale. rice svgfofi’fic‘t’f

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



SHEEP.





. —Yearlin and ram lambs from Oh i

lOIcomn flock of T umb of Mich. Also selecilimBgifhIf

shire swine. Elmhurst Stock Farm, Almcnt. Mich.





 





 





 





oland Ohiiias——Home of Michigan's Gr -

P ion Boar. Bred sows & fall pigs by thilt‘inggeonléaslnrg.

'lhey re priced right. E. J. Mathewson. Nottawa,Mich.





i233? IlilnprovedGEfiglLshadeORKSHIRES. both

. , a ages. 1 ts r l ' .

320 while they last. M. 0. WIfiggfi’fMfirflgfoMrlgg.





m BK SH m E 3 m so '.‘3lli“.".‘.°.‘l§:€

int;E also Aug. pigs. both sexes.





y .

W A’lERMAN & WAT RMAN. Ann Arbor. Mich.





LARGE IMPROVED YORKSHIRES—All tiger.

either sex. Gilts bred for April and Ma ' fax-row.

Prices reasonable. W Cook. Route42. A a. Mich.





Lillie Farmsieid vonxsumts.





Boats for spring service. A few bred sows. Also

sows bred for Augustb and September furrow. Pairs

and trim; not. akin. allsfact. on guaran





COLON c. LILLIE. Cooper-vine; Mich.





 





 





GUERNSEY BULL-3.3%.; 2?..- mfififmfld’ofé‘i

months Old 035. W. W. BUBDIO Wayland, Mich.





 





Oxford Down Slice ”6°“ “W“ 1" ”’1“

for-ole. 1. B. wumngiiliifinfilé‘fixfffiwim





 





Please mention the Illclilgn Elmer when

you are writing to advertisers.
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CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.





 





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RATION LACKS PROTEIN.





I have noticed several grain rations ad-

vised, and the mixture was usually to

be fed at the rate of one pound to every

four pounds of milk or one pound to eV~

cry pound of butter-fat per week, but

this ration is always with silage. Now.

we haVe no silage and wonder if one

pound to every four pounds of milk is

enough. Please advise me as to feedipg‘

cows giving from 24 to 32 pounds of milk

per day. ‘Ve have clover hay, cornstalks,

corn and corn meal and bran.



Montcalm Co. B. R.



The trouble, I think, with this ration

is not that one pound of grain per day

for every four pounds of milk or one

pound of grain per day for every pound of

butter-fat a week is not a sufficient

amount but the fault is that this grain

ration doesn’t contain enough to make a

balanced ration. Consequently I would

not~expeot the cows to give a maximum

flow of milk unless you fed them more

grain than you could afford to. In other

words, in order to get enough protein you

would have to feed more grain than

would be necessary to supply the proper

amount of carbohydrates, and that would

be waste. Now I should say that you

discontinue the use of wheat bran and

put oil meal in the place of it and feed

the same number of pounds as you did of

bran, or if you will mix corn cob meal

with cottonseed meal, 2 to 1, 200 lbs. of

corn and cob meal with 100 lbs. of cot-

tonseed meal, I believe you will find that

the prescribed ration of grain will be

sufficient. I would prefer to substitute

oil meal in place of part of the cotton-

seed meal but the oil meal is a little more

expensive.





SILAGE FROM CORNSTALKS.





 





I would like to ask through the columns

of your paper, whether or not it would

be profitable to build a silo and husk the

corn with a power husker as soon as the

ears are hard enough to put up in a crib,

and blow the cut stalks into the silo, to-

gether with the shelled corn? This would

give me all the. hard corn to feed and if

porperly wet down I think the stalks

would make better ensilage to feed than

to blow it into a mow 1nd run the risk

of having the stover mould.



Macomb Co. .I. M. S.



You cannot make as good silage from

dry cornstalks as you can from mature

green corn. There is no arguing on that

point. And yet there is considerable food

value in cornstalks, and you get a large

per cent of this value if you feed them

dry, providing they are properly cured

and fed. Unless conditions are very fav-

orable when they are shredded at the

time of husking with a machine husker

some of them will spoil. We all know

that. Now the proposition is to husk

them and run the dry cornstalks into a

silo. Of course, a large amount of water

would have to be mixed with the corn—

stalks to get them to soften so they would

pack and exclude the air to prevent dry

mould or rot. Certainly these stalks would

be more valuable in this way than they

would any other way. \Vhevther there

would be enough extra value to pay to

put up a silo for this purpose is a ques-

tion that I am unable to answer. I am

positive that where one has a silo and

does not have it full of good ensilage

corn and has cornstalks, that it will] pay

him to finish filling it in this way, but to

build the silo on purpose for this, I don’t

believe anybody knows whether it would

be a paying investment or not. There is

another thing to consider and that is it

We were to handle the corn crop in this

way the stalks ought to be. out instead of

shredded because they would pack in the

. silo much better. They do have huskers

with knives on the head instead of shred—

ders so this could be done. Then another

proposition comes up. Is there a shredder

on the market that will blow these out

stalks into a silo? I never saw one that

I thought would. To be frank about this

matter, I have thought about this same

proposition myself, but machine men tell

me that there is no shredder made that

will blow the corn into a 40 ft. silo. They

are not built on the right principle. You

can’t run the blower stack up straight

and it has to \be run up straight in order

to blow the stuff high enough to go into

the silo. They are simply intended to

blow the corn fodder into a mow. You

have to have an especially constructed

blowing machine in order to blow the en—

silage up into a silo. Of course, this

could be accomplished. The manufactur-

er could make a machine that would do





THE ~ MICHIGAN FARMER.





the business, and if we had one I cer-

tainly would like to try it. ‘



Of course, we can get exactly the same

results by husking the corn by hand and

then running the stalks through an en-

silage cutter into the silo, but here we

have to husk by hand and we know that

in a great many instances it is almost

impossible to get help to do the hand

husking. Everything must be done by

machinery. Men like to run machinery

but they don’t like to do common hand

work. The whole thing is worth studying

and it will be tried out sometime. If J.

M. R. tries it out We should be pleased

to know with what resuult.





SOME SILO PROBLEMS.





 





I have been keeping an eye open all of

the fall to see if someone would bring up

the subject of silo building. \\'as much

interested in W. S.. of Cheboygan coun-

ty questions, as well as the answers and

I would like to ask a few. I am thinking

of building a silo in the spring. Every-

thing has to be bought, except the stone,

and water. \Vhat kind would cost the

least money, and be of good service? How

large ought one to build for a good 120-

acre farm? Can one, where everything

has to be bought, a mechanic hired to do

the work, put up a silo any cheaper than

to buy one all ready for use? Are most

silos plastered? If not how are they kept

from freezing when built outside? Our

barn has a ten-foot basement with 18~ft.

posts, making 28 ft. from basement iloor

to eaves. How would it do to build a silo

in the barn? How much more would it

save than the paint and roof? Would it

be any cheaper, and as good, to put: up

a frame on a wall, as you speak of in

answering XV. 8., put siding on outside.

having it put on around, and lath and

plaster the inside, than covering in any

other way? Are cement silos usually a

success? Yt'hat is their expense com-

pared to others?



Eaton Co. S. R.





Local conditions are of so much import-





 

 





 





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USE THE





DE LAVAL

DREAM sammn





Does it not mean a great deal to YOU, the prospective

buyer of 3. Cream Separator, that such men as





   

 

   





Andrew Carnegie, the great steel magnate



F. (i. Bourne, Pres’t Singer Sewing Machine Co.



J. Ogden Armour, head of Armour 6: Co.‘



Henry Williams, Pres’t Sherwin-Williams Paint Co.





 

 

   





 





 





ance in the cost of any particular kind of

silo that one from the outside cannot

make a very accurate estimate as to the

cost. Of course, it is understood that a

man can make his own silo, a stave silo,

by getting out the timber, if he has it





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and get it sawed in 2x6 inch strips or

staves. He can get these jointed at a

planing mill and by using iron hoops





make his own silo that is serviceable and!

practical and will last for years. But hel

can buy a better stave silo from firms

who make a business of manufacturing

these silos. Then again. a man can make

a lath and plastered sinlo and do much of

the work himself, and then comes the

cement silo. the cement block silo. and the

tile silo. and a steel formed silo, and I

don’t know how many more. I don’t.

think it will be proper for me to tell any-

one just what kind of a silo they ought

to have. They ought to use their own

judgment and take into consideration

their own conditions and then select the

one which they think will be the most

practical for them. If I were going to

build a silo on a 120 acre farm I would

built it 15 ft. in diameter and 40 or 50

ft. high. If you don’t need this amount

of ensilage the first year why you don't

have to fill it full. If you need more en-

silage in a year or two you have your

silo already built. Of course, you could

build it of less height and then in a year

or two more if you wanted to you could

put an extension on top of a lath and

plastered silo and do it very nicely. I

have done the same thing myself.



Probably the majority of silos in gen-

eral' use are the regular bought stave

silos. They are the handiest to put up,

they are good, durable silos and purchas—

ing one of these ready—made silos is the

easiest way to get one.



No one attempts to keep a silo from

freezing. in extreme cold weather the

silage will freeze around} the outside of

the silo but it doesn’t do any harm, let





it freeze. .lust as soon as the weather

warms up a little bit this silage cleaves

off from the wall and falls into main





body of silage and it will be warmed up

and you can feed it and no harm has been

done.



I would not, upon any consideration.

build a silo inside the barn. You need the

barn space for something else. You can’t

make the silo fit on the inside of the barn

and economize space. Never build any—

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another coat of mortar right over that.

If you have a cement silo it is the same

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or whether it is built of cement blocks.

You must plaster them on the inside and

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I am thinking of building a silo next

year and have been reading everything

pertaining to silos, etc.. but have a ques-

tion I would like to ask. I believe a lath

and plastered silo will be the kind I shall

build, because I can get the stuff almost

entirely from my farm. If green elm,

lath, one—half by two inches, is used is

there any danger of the cement plaster

cracking from the lath drawing and

warning as they season? If I use sheath-

ing lath can it be bent for a 12 ft. silo

or must it be cut at each stud? Would

it be practical to steam the sheathing lath

SO as to bend it?



Branch Co. J, N. H.



I don’t believe there will be any trouble

at all from the elm lath warping after

you get them onto the studding which are

only 16 inches apart and the lath nailed

to each studding. They will have mighty

little chance to warp and after you put

the plaster on I don't believe they can

warp at all. The plaster will hold them

and it will take but a short time for these

lath to season out after they have been

put onto the studding; but if you had

any doubt about it you could wait a few

days before you plastered until they had

seasoned a little and then plaster them

and there will certainly be no trouble.



You cannot bend regular sheeting lath

to fit the studding without steaming them.

They will hale to he cut so that you can

nail to each studding but it isnt so much

of a job as you think. By piling the

boards on top of each other, marking

them off and taking a cross-cut saw you

can cut these so that they can be put on

rapidly. In fact, they can be put on much

more rapidly cut short than they can

when left long. If you had a suitable

steam box fixed up and a steam boiler to

furnish steam, these laths could be easily

steamed so they would spring to fit the

walls; but I think it would cost more than

it would to put them on the other way

and after they are once on they are just

as good. Don’t forget to use wires around

the outside of the silo between the doors

to reinforce the silo. If you do this, you

will be perfectly safe.



SETTING STUDDING IN CONCRETE

FOR SILO.





 





Would like to know about lath and

plastered silo. Have got elm and soft

maple. My idea is to have sawed about

{-0 soft-maple 2x4’s, 16 ft. long, build

foundation up to within four inches of

ground surface, put 2x4’s end for end

with cleats on each side at joint, well

nailed, then set 2x4's on foundation with

couple of laps of heavy fence wire at bot-

tom and then continue foundation up to

a little above ground. putting in bottom

at same time. Will use fence wire every

three feet for hoops, and for lath will get

sawed elm strips 1,5 in. thick by 2 in.

wide. For outside covering will use cor-

rugated steel roofing and for roof will spike

rafters directly to ends of studding cov—

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ering same with steel rooting.

would like to know about it summer

shrinkage. \l'e know that staves con-





tract and expand. Would like to know

what to use for doors, what kind of hinges

to use on same. What ought to be a fair

cost for silo complete?



Macomb Co. B. E. B.



I am sure that it will be a mistake to

set the ends of the studding into this con-

crete wall and it is absolutely unneces-

sary. Water will get in around the stud—

ding and the/ends of the studding will rot.

If you build the wall up above the ground

a foot and then put on a circular sill and

then toenail your studding to this circu-

lar sill it will be cheaper and require less

labor. You could put a wire around the

bottom which would be a good thing but





the circular sill will hold against all

pressure.

The clapboards on the outside will





shrink a little in the summer time but.

this will do no harm. The plastering on

the inside will not shrink.



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doors are made to fit inside and you put

them in their place as you fill the silo and

take them out as you feed down the

contents. To have the doors on hinges

would be a‘ nuisance. Not only that, but

the iron hinges would rust out in a short

time. As I have stated many times be-

fore, it is almost impossible to figure out

the cost of a silo because one does not

know local conditions.





 





HEATING WATER TANK WITH

STEAM.





 





'e are at present using a tank heater

to heat the water in the stock tank. We





have a boiler in the creamery. Would it

pay us to pipe steam from holler in

creamery to stock tank, 150 feet, and





how could. it be done?

Kent Co. A. S. B.





It would be a simple matter to heat

the water tank with a steam pipe from

your boiler. You would want to put it

under the ground where it would not

freeze and run it‘ up into the water tank

and then have a return pipe. Simply

put in an elbow and turn the pipe back

down through the bottom of the tank and

back to your boiler again. Now the

steam would circulate through this pipe

and would warm the water in the tank.

This is exactly on the same principle as

heating a house with steam. Steam is

forced through a pipe up to the radiator

in the room to be heated and then a re-

turn pipe takes the steam back again to

the boiler. This would undoubtedly be a

good way to heat a water tank but it

would be much more expensive than it is

to heat it with your tank heater. By run-

ning the pipe so far lots of the steam

would condense and it would take a lot

of fuel to furnish the steam to heat the

water tank. XVhile just a little fire every

day in the tank heater will keep the

water warm enough so that it will be all

right for the stock. Of course, after you

got it rigged up once it would be less

bother to heat the tank with steam and

you wouldn’t forget to build a fire in the

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DAIRYING IN THE FRUIT BELT.



In the matter of land values in Mich-

igan there is certainly no attempt to vio-

late the Sherman anti-trust lhw for the

value of farms are exclusively variable.

Prices oftentimes seem to depend quite

as much on real estate agents as the in-

herent value of the soil and location.



In the fruit belt of Michigan it is not

always the land that grows the fruit but

the adjoining land which should be lower

in altitude to afford air drainage. The

prices of these lower, or valley lands,

however, do not decline with their lower

altitude. When the Winds tempered by

lake Michigan reach the fruit land there

must be some place for the cold air of the

land to go so it hikes down hill into the

valleys and hollows where it» does not in-

terfere with the fruit trees nor anything

else for that matter. These valley lands

make valuable soil for general farming

and particularly dairying. Oftentimes a

man discovers he has not the fruit grow-

ing temperament and he builds a silo.

gets a dairy herd and lives happy ever

afterward. The fruit man has more of

the speculative disposition and if living

in the city wouldlinvest in a few highly

speculative stocks} just to have his blood

tingle when the market was favorable.

The dairyman prefers the “safe and sane"

surething methods, for what he feeds to-

day he harvests and sells tomorrow. With

the fruit man one hears of lime—sulphur,

Bordeaux, baskets, the yellows. the com-

mission man, and the question of securing

help. With the dairyman it is butter—fat

percentage. balanced rations and breeding

associations and from his conversation

the dairyman feels that he has just a

trifle better hold on the industrial ladder

than the fruit growing neighbor whose

bank account often bulges with large de-

posits as compared with the dairyman’s

smaller but more numerous accretions.

That statue, the wounded lion, that was

erected in memory of the Swiss guards,

might have its duplicate in industrial life

in Michigan in honor of the work done

by our officials in establishing breeding

associations, only the lion should be a

bull, not wounded, but very much alive.

The interest and good work in these

breeding associations is manifest now and.

will become more and more so as years

go by. In Oceans. county some excellent

judgment has been used in securing not

only good individual sires but blood of

great potency. In the western range





 





country stockmen are willing to spend-





money for good bulls and this seems to

be Article “A” in the covenants and

agreements of the breeding association.



Mr. Dooley said at Newport you must

not only have the money but you must

look to. have it, likewise these bulls not

only have the pedigrees but they look to

have. it. I started to write about some

of these valley farms in and between the

fruit ranges where some good herds of

Jerseys are found. J. B. McCloud, an

old time neighbor of Joe Wing, of Cham-

paign county, Ohio, has a. well bred herd

of Jersey cows which are also good pro-

ducers under good care and management

such as daily weighing and careful test-

ing. The stable fittings are entirely home

made and ingenious to an extent beyond

most manufactured articles. Photographs

of Mr. McCloud’s cattle are taken near a

pond which imprints on the negativa not





only the original but the reflected image '





on one plate, thus making two pictures.

Some way theSe dairymen dealing with

animal life in all its phases seem to be

more sympathetic and, as musicians say,

have a more "delicate touch” than those

engaged in other occupations.



There is a portion of Oceana county

south and west from Shelby, settled large-

ly by Norwegians. From this community

many sons and daughters have gone to

the Agricultural College and other insti-

tutions of learning. When it comes to

modern farm homes and up-to-date farm

methods this section has "them. Co-op-

eratiVe cash feed buying, a breeders’ as-

sociation, cows in the advanced registry,

tuberculin testing and a co—operative

creamery, are all in evidence. G. 0.

Anderson has a barn with the King sys-

tem of ventilation, model stalls, covered

manure shed, silos, gasoline engine, run-

ning water and a fine herd of recorded

cattle kept in most excellent condition.

Mr. Anderson grows alfalfa, that marvel—

ous plant which seems to mean so much

from a feeding standpoint. Dow,

Midland, the manfacturing chemist and

eminent as a horticulturlst, says: Alfalfa

and apples will work the redemption of

the light soils in Michigan. In England

any man who achieves distinction or

confers blessings on his fellowmen by his

attainments is designated as ”Sir,” a title

of nobility. I always feel that any man

Who successfully introduces alfalfa into his

community deserves well of his fellow-

man and confers a blessing. Just what

title of nobility may be granted to

make the title fit the achievement re-

mains to be determined. “Sir" seems to

.be totally inadequate and just extraordi-

nary. Ordinary governors are alluded to

as “his excellency,” so some other title

must be chosen. In many places in

Oceana county marl is abundant and

promises to be a feature of soil improve-

ment. f‘Out there in Kansas” it was Co-

burn who co-ordinated corn, alfalfa and

meat into such wonderful possibilities and

in Michigan the men of vision see the

possibilities of wealth in the marl to

make alfalfa flourish to agglutinize the

light soil particles to hold moisture and

to act as a nitrogen fixer. It is the pro-

tein in food that costs. All children like

the albuminoid of eggs and lean meats

because their growth calls for muscle

making foods. The dairy cow, the calf,

pigs and sheep find that same element

in alfalfa and hence are so eager for it.

One of Remington’s western pictures, that

artist so much admired by Roosevelt,

depicts the prospector with faithful pack

animal and dog accompanying him,

searching the rocks and sands for gold.

Just now gold is not so important to the

world as the protein foods. It is for this

reason that the Michigan prospector sees

in the marl deposits that will make the

legumes or nitrogen gatherers flourish and

grow and who also sees in the alfalfa

the greatest possible producer of the al-

buminoids of any plant now known to us.



Shiawassee Co, JAS. N. MCBRIDE.





DAIRY NOTES.





Careful averaging has shown that a

good dairy 'cow in the course of a year

produces food equal to from 3,000 to 4,000

pounds of beef. This illustrates why beef

production. is confined to the frontier and

dairying prospers on more expensiVe land.



Calves of the better class, so plentiful

in the Chicago stock yards not long ago,

are usually seen now in only moderate

numbers, and prices haVe experienced

some good advances.





A well-informed man in the butter trade

accounts in great part for the prevailing

scarcity and high prices of butter. “There

is no shortage in the milk supply. But

the Chicago milk dealers are paying $1.56

nor can for all of the milk delivered to

them. and as farmers can do better by

shipping milk to Chicago than by furnish-

ing it to the local creamories, most of the

milkis being shipped to. the milk. trade."





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DAIRY FARMIVNGvO‘N, RUN DOWN

, LAND.





One ’way of keeping up the fertility of

a farm is to purchase fertilizers to re-

plenish the stores of the elements that

have been depleted by unwise cropping.

In localities where a farm lies in close

proximity to a city where manure can be

obtained from the stables at a reasonable

cost without any considerable sum added

for transportation, the expense of keeping

a farm up to a reasonable degree of fer-

tility may not be great. Instances where

this is practicable are the exception

rather than the rule and to make profit-

able use of commercial fertilizers requires

both cash and knowledge of just how to

apply them to particular fields and soils

so that the desired results will be ob-

tained.



All of this may be necessary under

some circumstances but where a farm is

adapted to grazing and the conducting of

a dairy, the purchase of materials for

fertilizer need not be large. Of course,

it must not be taken for granted that just

keeping cows Without using a little com-

mon sense will maintain the fertility of

a farm. Dairy farming can be so con-

ducted that the land will steadily degen-

erate until the place is on the verge of

ruin or it can be made to improve the

soil conditions year after year. Instances

may be pointed out in almost any local-

ity where dairy farmers have taken

charge of farms that were almost too

poor for any purpose and brought them

up to a point where they were of real.

worth. The men who performed this

seeming miracle were content to call the

living which they annually took from the

place and the increased value of the

property their profit.



Keeping a dairy on any farm should

mean that the fertility of that farm is

being increased. And it will be if‘the

work is carried out according to a sen-

sibly arranged program. There should

be a regular rotation of such crops as

corn, oats, clover and timothy and in

pasture one-third of the time. Every bit

of manure should be saved and freely ap-

plied, both at time of planting and as a

top-dressing. Commercial fertilizers can

be brought into good play here if the soil

has been depleted of its mineral elements.

Fertilizers that contain the required ele-

ments must be used or one will be wast-

ing their money. To rejuvenate a farm

through dairying. care must be used to

avoid over stocking the place. A farm

that will support thirty cows will not keep

fifty, and to attempt to keep more than

a farm will support means that the cows

will be starved or that feed must be pur—

chased from outside and both of these

plans are mighty poor economy. It is

better to pick out the poorer members of

the dairy herd and sell them and

keep only so many as the farm will sup-

port and leave a little as a little bit over.

It does not pay to farm up to the very

limit of the soil. Do not ‘take off all

that the soil will produce but leave a

little as a sort of a bank account.



One of the great mistakes in dairy

farming is in having too much land. It

is better to have a few acres and care

for them properly than to own a large

tract that is only half cared for. It is

better to seed part of the land to grass

and let it go until the remainder has been

gotten into proper shape. Then more of

the land can be taken in hand, more cows

secured and then additional profits can

be had. The proper carrying out of such

a program as this will work wonderful

results on many a run down dairy farm.



Ohio. SUBSCRIBER.





OLEO TAX HELPS CONSUMER.





“'e have seen customers purchase oleo-

margarine in five—pound lots and We

have yet to hear a single one of them call

for oleomargarine when buying this ma—

terial. Most of them, in fact in nearly

every instance when they go to the gro-

cer ask for that special priced butter,

and every act on the part of the dealer

seems to be directed towards keeping the

identity of the product as much as pos-

sible in the background. Uncolored oleo-

margarine is bought generally for what it

is supposed to be, is just as palatable, is

just as high in food value, in fact, is the

identical product indeed minus the few

drops of coloring matter for which the

consumer pays approximately ten cents.

To our mind the revenue tax of ten cents

a pound does not materially increase the

price on the colored article but if vigor—

ously enforced will assist in securing the

uncolored product for the consumer at a

price which is within reason and which

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‘ A Hold-Up





Before the Coffee Roasters’ Association, in ses-

sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb,

of .Chicago, char ed that there is in existence 9.

cofiee combine w 1c 18 “the mOSt monstrous im-

position in the history of human commerce." “



There is very slight exaggeration about this

statement. It comes very close to being literally

true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from

which country comes the bulk of the coffee used »

in the'United States, which is backed by the gov-

ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com-

pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to

pay famine prices for coffee when no famine

exists.” ’



The worst thing about this is that the consum-

ers of the United States have been compelled to

put up the money through which this combine,

to further cinch them, has been made effective.

There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon

all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes

were denounced as an imposition upon the people;

as taxing the poor man’s breakfast table, and the

like. The taxes were removed. Immediately

thereafter Brazil imposed an export dut upon

coffee up to the full amount of t e ormer cus oms

taxes in this country. The revenue which for-





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was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor

man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the

same old price.



But this was only the commencement. The

“valorization” plan was evolved in Brazil.

Through this plan the government, using the rev-

enues derived from the export duties for the pur-

poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of

large yields and holds it off the market, thus

keeping the supply down to the demands of the

market and permitting the planters to receive a

much higher price than they would otherwise

have done.



The United States consumes more Brazilian cof-

fee than does the rest of the world. We are the

best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little

from us. ' Now Brazil is promoting, financing and

maintaining a trust designed, and working effect-

ively for the purpose, to com el American con-

sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee ~

they use. What is the remedy?——Seattle Post-In.-

teuz'gencer—Nov. 19, 1911.





POSTUM





is a pure food-drink made of the field grains, With a pleasing flavour not unlike high-





A Big Package

About 1% lbs. Costs 25 cents

At Grocers





Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason for using Postum.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Standard statistics of the coffee trade

show a falling off in sales during the last

two years of over two hundred million

pounds. Authenticated reports from the

Postum factories in this city show a

tremendous increase in the sale of Postum

in a. like period of time.



While the sales of Postum invariably

show marked increase year over year, the

extraordinary demand for that well-

knowu breakfast beverage during 1911 is

very likely due to a public awakening to

the oppression of the coffee trust.



Such an awakening naturally dis oses

the multitude who suffer from t e ill

effects of coffee drinkin to be more re-

ceptive to knowledge 0 harm which so

often comes as a result of the use of

the drug-bevera e, coffee—Battle Creek

Evening News— ea. 19, 1911.





grade Java.





It is absolutely free from any harmful substance, such as “caffeine” (the drug in

coffee), to which so much of the nervousness, biliousness and indigestion of today are

due. Thousands of former coffee drinkers now use Postum because they know from

experience the. harm that coffee drinking causes.





Boil it according to directions (that’s easy) and it will become clear to you Why—





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That the farmers of

Michigan’s Wool Michigan have a. very

Product. considerable interest in

the contemplated re-

vision of Schedule K, is shown by the

statistics of sheep and wool production in

the state recently published by the Bu-

reau of the Census. These statistics show

Michigan to be ninth among the states

of the Union in the number of sheep

maintained.



The number of sheep in Michigan of

shearing age in 1910 was 1,545,241, as

compared with 1,625,930 in 1900. The av-

erage number of sheep kept on farms,

upon which sheep are maintained was 28

in 1910, as compared with 26 in 1900. The

number of farms upon which sheep were

maintained in 1910 was 54,865, or 26.5 per

cent of the farms in the state, as com-

pared with 63,339, or 31.2 per cent of the

farms of the state in 1000.



The weight of the 1910 wool clip was

11,965,405 lbs., as compared with 12,202,-

844 lbs., in 1910. The average weight per

fleece increased one-half pound in the

ten-ycar period, being seven and one-half

pounds in 1910, as compared with seven

pounds in 1900. The value of the clip

for 1910 was $3,428,320, or $2.15 per fleece,

as compared with $2,454,390 in 1900, or

$1.42 per ileece. This was due to the in-

crease in the farm price for wool from 20

cents pcr pound in 1000 to 20 cents in

1910.



It will be seen from these figures that

the farmers of the state found little profit

in producing wool at 20 cents per pound.

and that as a consequence the number of

sheep maintained in the state shrunk con-

siderably during the decade, while there

is a marked decrease in the percentage

of Michigan farms upon which sheep are

maintained. Of course, the revenue from

the lamb crop is a. fruitful source if

profit for the Michigan sheep owner, and

the market value of that crop has a very

considerable bearing upon the increase or

decrease of the sheep industry within the

state.



The fact that two factors enter into

the cost of maintenance and the profit

derived from keeping sheep also increases

the difficulty in determining just what

the cost of producing wool may be, but

it would appear that no more fair basis

could be fixed in determining the price

at which farmers could afford to produce

wool. than the fact that the number of

sheep in the state decreased rapidly when





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fleece wool of the aVerage Michigan gush

ity sold around 20 cents per pound. The

last state census, taken in 1904, showed

the sheep of shearing age in the state to

number 1,385,530, a big drop from the

figuresof 1910, as shown by the national

census. , ', ,



Michigan is second among the states

east of the Mississippi in its number of

sheep, being exceeded only by Ohio, for

which reason the wool growers of the

state should appeal to their representatives

in congress to exert every effort to pro-

tect this industry, by seeing that it is

given a. square deal in the contemplated

revision of ‘Schedule K.





It is not too early

Planning the SeasOn's for the farmers

Campaign. of Michigan to be

making their

plans for the ensuing year. It is essen—

tial that plenty of time- and thought be

given to the matter of planning the sea-

son’s campaign since only by this means

can the farm be made to produce a max-

imum 0f profit, giving due‘consideration

to the important matter of conserving

soil fertility.



A review of present market conditions

shows that there is a demand for a wide

range of farm products at profitable

prices. A great many farmers, however,

find themselves handicapped by the want

of home-grown feeds to maintain the

live stock kept on the farm. W'here this

condition prevails as largely as it does

this year, the feed bill makes heavy in-

roads in the what would otherwise be

profit from the sale of merchantable pro-

ducts.



In this issue we have sought to place

prominently before the reader the idea

that clover is the foundation of success-

ful agriculture, and alfalfa a. secondary

crop which should receive attention from

the farmers of Michigan, while corn is

still “king,” and with plenty of this great

forage crop and an abundance of clover

growing upon the farms of the state, the

conditions above commented upon could

not obtain.



So, whatever the_campaign which is

outlined for the coming season, provision

should be made for the re-establishment

of the clover crop in its legitimate place

in the crop rotation, thé growing of al-

falfa, at least upon an experimental scale,

and the growing of sufficient corn to

provide plenty of feed for the animals

maintained upon the farm. Present con-

ditions are an unanswerable afrgument to

the effect that it does not pay to limit

the production of these crops for the

growing of more cash crops upon our

farms. They are the first essentials and

should be first planned for in outlining

a cropping system for next year upon

every Michigan farm.



The high cost of

The High COst of“ le- living has been

ing in France. the subject of

much agitation

in France as well as in this country dur—

ing recent years.. So pronounced has

been the public unrest on this account

that the French government ordered an

official inquiry for the purpose of discov-

ering the cause of this disquieting state

of affairs. No report has yet been made

regarding the success of this inquiry,

but an important publication was recent-

ly issued by the French general statis-

tical office, which deals with the gravity

of the increase in food prices and the

causes of such increase, and also reveals

the measures taken by the government

to stop the continual rise of prices, which

has been general since 1887 and very

marked since 1904.



The bulletin of economical and social

intelligence, issued by the International

Institute of Agriculture, in its October

number has an article based on this pub-

lication which summarizes the conclusion

of experts investigating the matter with

regard to the contribulary causes of and

best remedies for this condition. The

causes to which the rise in price of food

stuffs is attributed are, some of them,

conceded to be temporary, such as the

influence of disasters which have been

affecting agriculture for two years, in-

cluding floods, poor crops of wine and

wheat, unprecedented drouths and epi-

demics raging among a large proportion

of herds of cattle in the country. Also

it has been ascertained that the price of

many commodities has increased in pro-

portion to an increased demand, such

as milk, butter and eggs, which are con-

sumed to a much greater extent than

formerly, owing to an improvement in the

condition of working classes, and also to

some degree to a new medicine and hy—

giene fad, under which many persons are

limited largely to a milk and egg diet.



Other points brought out as contribu-





terywto tho-rise 'in prices are thé falling

rapid. incred‘s'e in the wages of agriculJ

tural laborers and the reduction of their

hours of labor. Also the old reason of





the depreciation in value of precious met-





also 'due to an abundance of gold, is giv-

en as a contributing cause for the gen-

eral rise in prices. The fact is also men-

tioned that the agricultural co-operative

societies, which have centralized produc-

ing forces that were formerly scattered,

may impose a regulating influence in

commerce. The co-operatiVe creameries

are mentioned as a case in which sta-

bility of price is maintained, while at the

same time improving the quality and

quantity of production.



But the conclusions of the French gov-

ernment as to a. remedy are perhaps

more interesting in this connection. These

measures looking to relief are: first, in

facilitating the importation of cattle from

other countries, principally Argentine and

Canada, and rendering the transit of ag-

ricultural produce and fresh fish to in-

land markets easier and cheaper. Special

regulations will also be applied to the

importation of corn for feeding cattle.

The institution of rebates in the tariff on

goods brought into a. city from outside

sources, which is levied in France. and

the study of the regulation of the mar—

kets and slaughter houses. The French

government has also introduced a pro-

vision into the finance bill, authorizing

the opening of municipal or co-opera-

tive bakeries, butcher shops, etc., for the

purpose of regulating prices. in order to

prevent disaster to existing commerce in

these lines, the bill provides that only

one such co-operative institution for

each 5,000 inhabitants may be estab-

lished.



This French investigation and its rem»-

edy will be watched with interest by the

people of many other countries, where

the question of the high cost of living is

a. serious one at the present time.



A recent report states

Rural Carriers to that through the in-

Feed Birds. fluence of a sports-

men’s organization in

Vi’estern Michigan a. ruling has been

made by the postofilce department per-

mitting the rural carriers to scatter grain

for the maintenance of game birds, such

as quail and partridge, the grain to be

provided by the organization. Undoubt-

edly this measure will prove a means to

the end of preventing the rapid decima-

tion of these birds during the exceed-

ingly cold winter weather when the

ground is covered with snow, making it

doubly difficult for such birds to dig up

their own food supply.



While this beneficent move may be due

to a selfish interest of these sportsmen

in the future game supply, it is none the

less commendable. It is a, plan worthy

of emulation by the farmers of the state-

in sections where hunting is discouraged

rather than encouraged, as a means of

preserving these beneficial game birds.

Many a farmer could enable a. flock of

quail, which he may know to be “at

home” on his premises, to live through

the winter by supplying them with just

a little grain at a critical time. Such an

act would at once be good business econ-

omy, since these birds will eat many

weed seeds and insects during the sea-

son, and a humane act which would be

its own recompense.



The State Corn Show.——The eighth an-

nual meeting and ShOW of the Michigan

Corn Improvement Association will oc~

cur at Kalamazoo, Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 in-

clusive. For particulars write Sec-Trees.

L. J, Bradley, Augusta, Mich.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





National.





Postmaster Hitchcock has announced

that he will recommend to congress that

the government acquire the telegraph

systems of the- country. Mr. Hitchcock

states that a statue enacted some forty

years ago gives the government the right

to take over the telepgaph lines and that

he believes such an acquirement could

be worked to the advantage of the gov-

ernment, and also bring to the people of

the country a. superior service to that

which is now rendered. The proposal

was a surprise to the telegraph interests

as well as official Washington,



The fight in Detroit over the street

railway franchise is attracting attention

in money circles. The establishment of

at three—cent fare upon a franchise basis

is a new departure in street railway

financing and bankers are skeptical about

the outcome, knowing that other cities

will demand similar terms from their

railway companies, which will necessarily

diminish the earnings of money- invested

in this kind of property. .

There is considerabletalk and discus-'

sion of a. coal strike throughout the an-

thracite coal region.‘ The United Mine

Workers of America will meet in Indian-





apolis this week.1;0n the 31st'.’day""of





an: in the stock or French eatue, ‘tiia; March the conciliation board, Which was





inaugurated in 1903, following the strike





of 1902, and which has aided in the set-

tlement of some 200 disagreements be-

tween the‘ operators ' and miners, will

come to an end. Whether the board will

be extended will depend upon the action

or the miners at their Indianapolis meet-

ing and of the employers’ association.

The probabilities are' that should the

miners refuse to continue this arrange-

ment for the settlement of grievances

that _a strike will be called.



Thirty—four persons were injured sev-

eral of them seriously, on a. Big, Four

train south of Corey, Ohio, Sunday.‘ Two

coaches were turned over and thrown

down a slight embankment. The cause

of the wreck was the spreading of rails.



Forty men, two women and four chil-

dren on board a tug and four ice barges

are in a. perilous plight on Hudson river

of: the coast of gustings-on-the-Hudson

. e great ice ow r '

helpless. enders the boats



A review of the iron and steel trade

for the past year Shows an unusual vol-

ume of exports during the past calendar

Year, the total amounting to $285,000,000

worth. The United States ranks third in

the amount of iron and steel exported

the United Kingdom and Germany rank:

mg first and. second respectively.



In the suit brought against the Chi-

cago packers, Judge Carpenter, who is

hearing the case, has allowed the prose-

cution the privilege of examining the

books of the beef concerns. .



Robert Isham, a farmerdivlng near Gay—

llggid’ameCh'd was frozen to death last



ornn at

wlfire he livedg)'ia.lonte.-}:‘.3 door Of his home



.rs. Louisa Morey died at th h

of her daughter in ' Q ome

”1ft age of 102 yeaiéfhian last Friday at



is announced by the stat -

mission that the rate of taxgtigfiix ucifiirér

which railways, telephone and telegraph

systems, and other public service corpor-

ations, are assessed is $20.71 as compared

with $20.53 a year ago. This is the high-

est_rate since the advalorem system of

taxmg these corporations was started

The total taxes from all sources in the

state is to be $39,315,696.16, which is an

increase of $3,605,190.51 over last year



The importation of Japanese laborers to

take the place of Mexican laborers at

Hayden, Ariz., resulted in a race war at

iiloigltptgljacf, fini which the Mexicans at-



o rv

out (if the towne the Japanese laborers



A ill has been introduced ‘

appropriating $50,000 for thelrergggghesgf

a monument overlooking the Panama can-

al in commemoration of the four hun-

dredth anniversary of the discovery of

thg isthmus of Balboa, in 1513.



ecause a number of his a i

did not agree with his party 0323;121:3312};

Mayor Shock, of Lima, Ohio, a. socialist,

gags giad from7 his party at a. mass meet:

nuar , n ' ‘

his office. y a. d promises to resign



Loss estimated at $50,000 resulted from

a fire in ‘a. manufacturing plant at Pe-

toskey, Mich, January 12. Another man-

:faCtgdirig pliant at Kalamazoo was de-



roy n .e same man

of $25,000. ner with a, loss



Foreign..



The Spanish Cabinet resi ned

A difference with King Alfoiso 1118323233

to the execution of rioters who caused

disturbances last September, is the cause

for the resignation. The cabinet recom-

mended that the sentence of death

pronounced by the courts against seven

rioters be commuted, except in the case

of one, whereas the king asked that all

be commuted. The radicals had, during

the trial, attracted much public attention

to the case in order to confuse and em-

barrass the government, which they evi-

dently succeeded in doing. It is not yet

learned of whom the personnel of the

new cabinet will consist.



The thirteeth annual meeting of the

convention of Canadian Forestry Asso-

c1atlon under the patronage of the Gover-

nor-General, will be held in the Parlia-

ment buildings at Ottawa, February 7-8.



An engagement between an Italian

crulser squadron and Turkish gunboats

1n the Red Sea ended in a victory for ,the

Italian fleet, according to a. recent re‘

port. All the Turkish ships were sunk.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

_Eaton 60., Jan. 12.——Zero weather, and

lo .below; some snow, but not enough for

sleighing; badly drifted in places. Not

much 00mg on the farm, except the nec-

essary chores. Mercury has dropped to

two above or several below zero every

night for about ten days. It’s the har—

vest time for plumbers and ice dealers.

Wheat, 900; beans, $2.10; oats, 45c; rye,

90c; corn, 65c; potatoes, 85c; butter, 24@

26c; eggs, 24@28c; hogs, $5@5.25; cattle,

$3@5; calves, $5@7.50; sheep, $2.50@3;

lambs, $3.50@6. Local creamery paying

38%c for butter-fat. The severe weath-

er has cut down the supply of cream

very noticeably, few stables being warm

enough to keep cattle comfortable in

such weather.



Saginaw 00., Jan. 3.——After the worst

fall in several years we have settled win-

ter. weather, with hard roads and good

sleighing, Many crops of beans are still

in the field, while those who harvested

them got little net return after paying

expenses. Nearly all sugar beets are de-

livered. Those farmers, who still have

beets out are- taking advantage 01' the

good roads to rush them in. Poultry

prices for holidays were 800i Turkeys

scarce and high. Eggs. and butter extra

high, .Fee-d’ high. -Many farmers sold

hey at high prices in ”the fall, expecting





to use bean and corn fodder, which was ‘

. disappointing both in quantity and qual-





ity after wet fall. _ _

Sanilac ‘00:, Jan'.‘ 10.'——VVin'ter weather,

with the thermometer several degrees

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Typical Peel Fisherman.





HF Isle of Man, that thirty-by-ten-



I mie fairyland of Nature” in the



Irish Sea, is the geographical focus

of the British Isles. It is almost equally

distant from England, Scotland, Ireland

and Wales. A five-hour sail will encircle

the island, and it can be quite thoroughly

traversed in a summer holiday of a week.



Because of its charming scenery, its

popularity as an English health and pleas-

ure resort, and its equable climate, the

Isle of Man has bee-n called “a pocket

edition of Nature bound in green and

gold”——~“the play—ground of the British

Isles”—“a southern isle in a. northern.

sea." It is said to be of earthquake origin

and it would seem that old ocean has sel-

dom, in a playful volcanic mood, tossed

above its waters a more beautiful bit of

island territory.



The scenery is not of the imposing, ma-

jestic order but is charmingly picturesque

in landscape and shore, hill and waterfall,

glen and sunset. There are all kinds of

physical features, but in miniature. One

of the legends in which the] island

abounds is that the Isle of Man was first

formed as a. home for the fairies, or “lit-

tle people."



Snaefell, the highest summit is but two

thousand feet. Tiny rivers lisp in under-

breath through deep glens of fern and

yellow gorse. Little farmsteads, with

their whitewashed cottages, smile out

from the soft plush—green of the slanting

fields. 1t is for its glens that the island

is perhaps the most noted.



Among these is Groudle glen which con-

tains the Cliff Coast railuay, the smallest





MANXLAND—THE BEAUTIFUL

ISLE OF MAN.





BY ALICE JEAN CLEATOR.





“A Southern Isle in a Northern Sea.”





 





 





Glen Maya—One of the Island’s Many Charming Bits of Nature-





in the world. This glen is startlingly Adam and live flower. Its ravines look up

beautiful with its fern-embroidered can- to litather and gorse-covered heights. Up

yons, mimic waterfalls and walks thickly the glen is a long vista of two miles. It

fringed with fuchsia trees. is from this glen that Halli Caine secured

Sulby glen has been called the “Manx the “local color” for some of his most

Switzerland.” A day spent here lingers striking scenes in “The Manxman.”

in memory like an enchanted dream. In The Isle. of Man seems to possess a flora

July its “curraghs” are. pink with the peculiar to itself. English visitors are





 





 





 





 





Round Tower of Peel Castle.





much interested in its profusion of flowers

which are alien to the British Isles.

Among its plants and flowers are. the red

fairy-flower, blue sea-quill, yellow gorse,

red heather, sea—pinks, sca-campion,

sheep’s hit, wild sage and white—flowered

sea-kale.



The Isle of Man is practically independ-

ent in government, for it has its own

laws. its 'l‘ynwatld Court claims to be the

most ancient representative assembly in

all Europe. The English crown has but

a very limited control over its govern—

ment. Each fifth of July “’l‘yuwuld Day"

is held at St. Johns, and from 'l‘ynwald

Hill the laws are road to a vast assembly

of the Manx people.



Douglas, the metropolis, is a modern

little up—to-(latex city of twenty thousand.

In summer, when the tide of English

“trippcrs” is at its height, the population

often reaches one hundred thousand. At

that time the streets and promenadr-s,

with their crowds of pleasure-seeking

humanity, are said to be one of the sights

of Europe. The Palace hall-room is the

largest in the world; its floor, which is

laid in parquotry will accommodate one

thousand couples. Its audiences often

number ten thousand.



Peel, on the west coast is one of the

most pitcturcsque towns of Croat Britain.

It is the seat of tho Manx fishing trade.

I’Vith the exception of Cardiff. T’cel is the

smallest city of the British Isles. it is

given this distinction by the Cathedral

of Peel Castle. a. massive ruin of antiq-



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City of St. Johns, where Tynwald Celebration is Held.





Morning Scene In an Isle of Man ”Fish Market.
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,THE BACHELOR UNCLE





BY EVERITT McNEIL.





“There was a fire blazing at the guard--

house, and around it were crouched a

half a dozen soldiers, shivering and

cursing the cold and the rebels that made

such hardships necessary. These all

laughed loudly at the sight of grandsire,

who looked the picture of a great country

gawk half dead with fright, as he stood

trembling between the two soldiers and

stammered out his explanations to the

officer of the guard as to 'how he had

been to Boston to see his sweetheart and

wanted to get back on the farm in time

for the morning's milking, and thought

he could sneak by the guard on account

of the darkness; and how, if he would

let him go, he would bring him some

fresh butter and eggs and a bag of pota-

toes and a couple of chickens ‘as sure as

his name was—’ -



“ ‘Jonathan Delvin, the most dangerous

spy in the rebel army!’ said a sneering

voice. and Lieutenant \Vllton stepped out

into the light of the fire and confronted

grandsire, a triumphant smile on his dark

countenance.



“At sight of the hated face grandsire's

huge frame straightened up like a steel

Spring, and, with the bound of a tiger, he

seized the musket from the guard at his

right side and. swinging it around with

such tremendous force that the officer

and three of the startled guard were

hurled to the ground, sprang over the

fire, and vanished, with the speed of a

terrified stag, into the darkness beyond.

The next instant a. great splash told the

astounded soldiers that the daring man

had plunged into the waters of the

Charles River, on the banks of which

the posts were stationed. ‘



“‘Lights!’ shouted Lieutenant Wilton,

wild with rage. ‘To the boat! A hundred

pounds to the inan that will bring him

in dead or alive! He can not escape!

The man does not live who could swim

the Charles River tonight!’



“Some of the soldiers seized torches,

and, rushing to the river bank, held them

high above their heads for their comrades

to shoot by their light: others sprang into

the boat moored near at hand, and pushed

out into the turbid waters. The flaring

torch lights showed the river filled with

great cakes of ice; and even the hard-

ened soldiers shuddered as they heard the

groanings and crunchings of the ice and

thought of the. daring swimmer. Once the

soldiers on the shore caught sight of a.

dark object, like a head. bobbing up and

down between the ice cakes. and fired

Shot after shot in its direction, but the

darkness was too great to know the re—

sult of their aim. The boat was soon

forced to return to the shore, with its

sides nearly crushed in by the ice.



“After a couple of hours’ constant D3.-

trolling with lanterns and torches up and

down the banks of the river, Lieutenant

“'ilton returned to the guardhouse, confi-

dent that grandsire’s life. had gone out in

the cold waters. The sight of grandsire

coming from Boston had sent a chill

through his heart. Had grandsire seen

Mistress Betty? Did he know of the wed-

ding tomorrow night? From the first

Lieutenant \\'ilton had feared the. dare—

devil .\ln(rican, with the strength of a

giant in his great frame. He would have

preferred to have seen him hanged as a

spy, but the icy water of the Charles

River was not a bad executioner on a

night like. this! Now he had a pleasant

story, the tale of the capture of and

death of her rebel lover, to tell Mistress

Betty on her wedding day. Lieutenant

“'ilton was happy. as a man had a right

to be on the eve of his marriage, with the

woman he loved.



Chapter XI.



“At fl o'clock the guests began gather—

ing in the great house on the hill over—

looking the Charles Itiver, where, Good-

man Landys had lived with his daughter

since coming to Boston. The rain still

fell steadily, and the cold wind seized it

and hurled it in sheets of sleet against

all who ventured uinto the inky blackness

of the stormy night. ‘



“In her room sat Mistress Betty, dress-

ed in her wedding finery and attended

by her maids. It had seemed like a sac-

rilege to clothe herself in these garments.

when her heart went not with her hand.

There were hectic spots in the centers of

her white checks, and she started ner-

vously at every unusual sound from with—

out. The Wind moaned dismally and

hurled the frozen rain violently against

the window panes. In the lull of the

storm she could hear the crunchings of





the ice eakes in the river, and the sound

made her shiver, as if her own heart was

being ground between the pieces. A wail

of the wind louder than usual caused her

to call out in fear. "1‘0 her cars it had

seemed a cry from the dark river. lVX'ith

unspeakable agony she had heard the

cruel lips of her fiance tell of the cap-

ture of grandsire, and of his mad. plunge

into the Charles River; yet in spite of

all, her heart bade her hope. Had he

not promised Aunt Dorothy that he would

be at the wedding? And to keep that

promise she almost believed that Jona-

than would come from his icy grave in

the river. I



“There was a knock at her door. It.

was a message from her father. The

bridegroom had come, the wedding guests

were assembled, the minister was pres-

ent; all were awaiting the coming of the

bride.



“Mistress Betty went slowly down the

broad stairway, and into the large room

where the ceremony was to take place.

As she entered the room the great clock

in the hall began striking the hour of ten.

Her eyes went quickly from one face to

another until they had circled the room.

He was not there! She felt that she

would recognize him in any disguise.



“He was dead! Lieutenant \Vilton had

told the truth!



“For an instant her form swayed. Then

she straightened up, and walked with a

stately step to her station by the side of

the bridegroom in front of the minister.

In the hush that preceded the beginning

of the sacred ceremony she heard the cry

of the wind without, and thepounding of

the rain on the window panes, and the

far off crunchings of the ice cakes in the

river; and, at, the sounds, her heart shiv-

ercd as though a cold, wet hand lay

upon it.



“At. the first words of the minister a

chill swept through the room. All felt the

cold. and the flames of the tall candles

flared. Then the curtains of a window

parted, and the giant form of grandsire

stepped into the room. The water ran in

streams from his clothing; his face was

ghastly in its paleness; and there was a

look in his glowing eyes before which the

men fell back and the women covered

their faces and shivered. Straight to the

side of Mistress Betty strode the tall fig—

ure.



“ ‘I have come for my bridel'



“A moment the glowing eyes looked

steadfastly into the face of Mistress Bet-

ty. who stood staring, white and trem-

bling; and then the great arms caught

her up and bore her swiftly toward the

Window.



“.\ pistol shot rang out. In the death-

ly stillness the sound was like a clap of

thunder. "My God! It is Jonathan Del-

vin! Seize him! Kill him! Don't let

him escape.’ and Lieutenant Wilton, drop-

ping his smoking pistol and drawing his

sword sprang toward grandsire.



“Then women screamed and fainted.

and men drew their swords and rushed

madly toward the retreating man and

woman. Again the curtains 0f the win-

dow parted, and a pair of strong arms

seized Mistress Betty and vanished with

her; and Big Jonathan Delvin, a long

naked sword in his right hand and a dou-

ble-barrelcd pistol in his left, swung

roull and confronted the onrushing

men. 'l‘wo sharp reports, and two of the

men rccled and went to the floor with

heavy thuds; and then the swords of the

British officers clashed against the wea-

pon of the best swordsman in the Con-

tinental army. ,



“The pistol shot of Lieutenant “'ilton

had not harmed grandsire; and grandsire

had not fired at Lieutenant “'ilton. be-

cause he wished to meet the Tory lover

of Mistress Betty, face to face, sword to

sword. For the moment he was mad with

the desire to punish. the man who had

wronged Mistress Betty and himself.



”With a swift sweep of his sword

grandslre turned aside the weapons aimed.

at him, and with a quick cut and thrust

sent two of the officers staggering back-

ward, fatally wounded; and then his

sword struck against the sword of Lieu-

tenant Wilton, and the two men fought

like two demons. For the space of a.

minute their Swords Clicked and struck

fire, and then grandsire’s blade leaped

forward, and into the eyes of Lieutenant

\Vilton there shot a sudden look of mor-

tal fear, and he reeled backward, the

blood flowing from a cut in his breast.

At that moment a loud whistle warned





THH chnmAN mamas





 





' ‘.v v.





grandsire that he had held 1 the "window

long enough to give his comrades the

needed time to get Mistress Betty with-

out the danger zone of the house; and

he turned and sprang through the win-

dow, and vanished into the rain and

blackness without. .



“It seemed as if the heavens sought to

aid the lovers, for the rain now began

falling in torrents; and when they sprang

into the stout boat and pushed out into

the waters of the Charles River the dark-

ness was so intense that, although they

could hear the shouts of their pursuers

on the bank not twenty yards away, yet

they were as effectually concealed from

their eyes as if a stone wall lay between

them, while the sound of the falling rain

and the roar of the wind drowned the

noise made by their muffled oars.



“After a perilous hour. on the river

grandsire and Mistress Betty reached the

American camp in safety, where thev

were married at once amid great rejoic-

ings. General Washington himself gave

the bride away, and made her the hap-

piest little woman in all America by

placing in'her hands a captain’s com-

mission for her husband and telling her

of the heroic service he had rendered the

cause. of liberty the night before.



“And this,” I said, laying down the

manuscript, and rising and going to the

cupboard, and taking therefrom an old

sword, “this is the very weapon with

which grandsire fought at the window.

when he kept his troth on that stormy

night and won again, even in the face of

the British army, the bride he "was about

to lose; and here is a. piece of the vch

dress your great-great—grandmother were

when she wed Jonathan Delvin," and I

handed the old sword to Teddy, and gave

tne morocco case containing the faded

bit of silk into the hands of Ellen. '



Then I fell to wondering at the

strangeness of the fate that had made the

descendants of these two men again lov-

ers of one woman; for Harry Rodney’s

grandmother was the only child of Lieu—

tenant Wilton, and I was the direct de—

scendant of Jonathan Delvin; Harry Rod-

ney had robbed me of my love, even as

Lieutenant \Vilton had tried to rob grand-

sire; but there the similarity of the affair

ended, unless-m God help me! if I could

but do as grandsire did and win Elsie

even as he won Mistress Betty, and meet

Harry Rodney even as he met Lieutenant

Wilton, sword to sword, and—



“I am glad that Jonathan Delvin was

my great-great-grandfather,” interrupted

Teddy, looking up from the sword he had

been reverently examining, “for he was

good and brave. But, Uncle John, did he

really swim across the Charles River on

that dreadful night with the water full

of great cakes of ice? And how did he

and his men get through the British

lines when they carried off Mistress Bet-

ty? And who was the man in black?

And how did he know when and where

to meet grandslre? And did grandsire

really knock down four men with one

swing of the guards musket? And did

he really kill five men in the fight at the

window? And did he——”



“Teddy," I interrupted, angrily, “I' had

the story from my father, who had it

from his father, who had it direct from

the lips of Jonathan Delvin himself; and

I wrote it down as it was told to me.

Now, if you—”



“Oh, Uncle John," broke in Teddy, his

eyes shining, “I wish Teddy Roosevelt

could have known my great-great-grand-

father! My, he must have been almost

as strong as Samson! And didn't he do

any other great deeds after he got mar-

ried? I want to know all about him. Did

he really and truly swim across the

Charles River? I don’t see how he, could

when it was so cold and filled with great

chunks of ice. Uncle John," and the lit-

tle rascal looked up in my face doubt-

ingly, “I hope your father did not tell you

the Samson story, too. I——”



At that’moment, to my exceeding great

relief, ,for such questions would knock the

romance out of half the great historical

novels, there was a sharp rap on the

door and Mary Jane came in.



“Jed Bingham just stepped in, and says

you are wanted right off at Red Mur-

dock's. Belle’s took bad. and is callin'

for you all the time. She’s dyin', an’

kinder out of her head, Jed says. Poor

girl!” and the tears came in the eyes of

the kindly old soul. .



“I'll go at once,” I said. “Tell Jake to

hitch up, and while I am getting ready.

you had better put something good in a

basket fox-Ilittle Joey." ‘ . ‘



. The rain wasstill falling and. the roads

Were very muddy, but I drove rapidly to

Red Murdock’s house, for I had a. great

anxiety to know why Belle Murdock had





sent for'nie.’ Could it be that 'she knew

something that would give a clew to the

reason for Elsie’s treatment of me. At





the thought I whipped the horses into a.





gallop. She might be dying, and I might

reach her too'late. ’When I came .to the

top of the hill, from which Red Murdock’s

house is first visible, I saw a man on

horseback dash out of the yard and ride

rapidly away. The distance was too great

for me to be. certain, but I felt quite sure

that the rider was Harry Rodney.



I was met at the door by Red Murdock

himself. “I am real sorry to have put

you to this trouble. neighbor. an’ it was

right good of you to come, but Belle don't

want to see you now," he said, standing

in the doorway and regarding me sourly.

"She’s been out of her head, an' we

thought she was a goin', but she’s gone

to sleep. now, an’ the doctor says she's

not. to be. bothered for anybody. Sorry to

have troubled you, neighbor, an’ on such

a ragged day, too, but doctor's say is

law,” and Red Murdock's shifty eyes

looked everywhere but in my face. ‘



"No trouble,” I answered, wondering

why I had been sent for, "on such a day

as this, only to be told that I was not

wanted. “I was glad to come. Here is

something that Mary Jane sent to Joey,"

and I gave him the basket of food. He

took the basket and handed it to the

Widow Thorpe to empty. When Widow

Thorpe returned the basket she cautiously

slipped a folded paper into my hand. at

the same time giving me sundry warning

winks with the eye not visible to Red

Murdock.



The moment I was out of sight of the

house I stopped the horses and unfolded

the paper. The following words had been

written hastily on it with a lead pencil:



“Belle Murdock has something terrible

on her mind, and it concerns you, and

neither her father nor Mr. Harry Rodney

wants you to know it. I can’t tell what

it is. but it is making her dying a bed of

misery. I overheard Mr. Rodney tell Red

Murdock that you must not be allowed to

see nor to hear Belle when she's out of

her head. I’m not allow-ed in the room

with her when she gets to talking wild.

l'll keep my eyes and ears open.



Hastily yours, '

Mary Thorpe.”



I drove direct to the house and.went

straight to my room, telling Mary Jane

and the children that I was not feeling

well and did not wish to be disturbed.





'\V'hat did “'idow Thorpe’s note mean?

I knew that she was somewhat given to

romancing, and dearly loved a mystery,

and was Quite apt to magnify a molehill

into a mountain; and yet I felt certain

that here I had the beginning of a clew,

Alas, that the other end was held in the

uncertain hand of a dying womanl'



All the remainder of that day until

late at night I struggled alone with the

problem; and when I went to bed I could

see no end clearly.





There was not a. hint of the gloom of .





the day before in the clear skies, the

warm sunlight, the singing birds, the

crowing cocks, and the cackling hens

that greeted me in the early morning,

when I arose from a restless bed and

went out to the barn to help Jake with

the chores. The trees and the grass and

the flowers looked as if they had been

newly varnished; even the skies had been

washed, and something of the cheerful-

ness and brightness that made glad all

nature found its way into my heart; and

hope came back, and with it a renewed

determination to try my uttermost to

find out, before it was too late, who had

maligned me to Elsie Lamont and what

had convinced her of my unworthiness.



The actions of Harry Rodney and the

note of \Vidow Thorpe made me quite

certain that Belle Murdock had been in

the plot; and that now Harry Rodney

was fearful she might repent and con-

fess, or betray, in her delirium, what had

been done.



But how had it been possible for a girl

like Belle Murdock to come between Elsie

Lamont and myself?



I determined to go to Red Murdock's

that morning and haye Widow Thorpe

tell me exactly what had caused her to





write that note; and, if I could, to see'





Belle Murdock, and ask her why she had

sent for me, and to get from her the

thing concerning myself that was vexing

her mind. I have always believed that

a straight course of action is the shortest

distance between two points of difficulty;

and I like, when I know where the trou-

ble is, to go and face it at once. Then,

too, the thought that Belle Murdock

might die suddenly, without telling what

she knew, was maddening. For two years

I had racked my brain to solve this mys-

tery; and now that I was on the verge

or its solution it was terrible to think

(Continued on page 65). ’





 





 





 





 





‘W’h m’
‘JAN.~zo, 1912. ‘ _ ' a.

' A SONG 0F pnoensss.





BY ALONZO RICE.





It is true the mill ,will never grind with



_ ‘ ‘water that is past;



But the showers still are falling, forming

currents wide and vast!



And the wheels are gaily singing, in a

chorus grand and high,



And we know the mountain torrents nev-

er, never will run dry.





Only once in each man’s lifetime, op-

portunity will knock,



So be ready at the summons, quickly then

the door unlock;



Let this adage, like the other, or as

worthless chaff, pass by; .



Nightly falls the dew from heaven, daily

God lights up the sky!





For Creation, still unfinished, with each

dawn is new begun;



\Vith an honest, true endeavor let your

race each day be run! ' _



New occasions then are offered, aiding

God in his design; '



In His order of completeness, work is

needed—yours and mine!





Put aside the “circumstances over which

there’s no control;”



For there is no bondage fashioned for‘

the brave unyielding soul.



Should there be no way, then make one,

and rejoicing onward go—



Tunnel mountains, bridge the rivers,

level Alpine peaks of snow!





Weary-hearted, ceage your sighing for

the harvest that is past;



Spring returning, in deep furrows let the

seed be freely cast;



To your heart take now the lesson of the

seasons speeding by,



For they neither stop nor falter, so im-

prove them as they fly.





And what is to be will be! Hush this

theme of wild despair!



Man your vessel with true courage, and

the open ocean dare,



And to harbors of high purpose turn

across rthe stormy seas;



Leave the adage to the dreamer—you can



s sail against the breeze!





It is true the mill will never grind with

water that is past; .



But the showers still are falling, forming

currents wide and vast!



And the wheels are gaily singing, in a

chorus grand and high,



And we know the mountain torrents nev-

er, never will run dry!





DISPELLING THE SHADOWS.

BY ORIN E. cnooxnn.

My soul was possessed that day with

a nameless fear. The shadow of an im-

pending disaster rested upon me. Even





 





 





 





”She says she's never afraid to trust her

with me.” The acceptance of responsi~

bility in one so young centered my at-

tention.



”You liVe near the park somewhere?”

I ventured. ‘



“Oh, no,” he replied. “We live clear

out on the coast. We’re just visiting

here. I took sister out for a walk and

had just come this far when it began to

rain. We might be lots worse off than

we are. mightn’t we?” he said, ruefully

surveying the splashing rain drops that

were fast wetting our feet! The lad’s

acceptance with a light heart of condi-





 





A Manx Beauty.





tions that were none too favorable or

comfortable made me think of my own

burden. To be sure, it was heavy and

soul trying, but then—I had health and

strength to carry it. I might be far less

fortunate,



“I’m awfully glad we have even this

little place to stand in.” the boy spoke

up, trying to shelter more effectively the

wee child in his charge. How his words

and spirit rebuked my own pessimism!

Gnlad ought I to be for the many things

which the presence of a. mere passing

trouble had eclipsed from my sight.



“I don’t think it will last long; do

you?” he asked, the very tones of his

voice carrying confidence and hope.



“No, I don’t think it will," I replied.

“I think it is about over. in fact I see a

patch of blue sky already.”



The storm in my heart was indeed past





 





 





View of Peel, the Seat of





the brightness of the sun had no power

to dispel the gloom that filled my heart.



In this state of mind I went over into

the little park on the lake front where a

towering monument marks the last rcst-

ing place of Stephen A. Douglas, for

whom the spot is named. A glimpse of

old Lake Michigan. I thought, might re-

vive my drooping spirits.



A sudden thunder shower that seemed

to form out of the blue sky itself drove

me into tho narrow doorway of the mon—

ument for shelter. There were two 0th—

crs there before me, a boy of nine or ten

and his baby sister, a wee toddler per-

haps two years old. The three of us

huddled in the small entry and close

against the iron gate that separated us

from the resting place of the dead while

the rain drops splashed savagely about

our feet as the Wind drove the storm in

upon us. A fitting climax, I thought, to

the day’s anxiety and the doubts and

fears that Weighed me down!



But here in the shelter of the tomb of

the dead, with the thunder crashing

heavily at times about me, I found the

burden lifting from my heart. A few

moments only were necessary to reveal

the,fact that I was in the presence of one

of God’s noblemen—a mere child. to be

sure, but of lofty spirit none the less.



“I hope mamma won’t be worried about

sister,” he said, as the storm swept

around the monument with renewed fury.





 





 





 





the Manx Fishing Trade.



and the sunshine of renewed confidence

and hope was chasing away my doubts

and fears faster by far than Old Sol him-

self was sweeping the heavens of clouds

and mist. A few moments later we step»





' THE 'MICHIVGAN FARMER.





 

 





ped out of the shelter of the doorway,

and I, took a long breath of God’s good,

clear, well-washed air. Mentally I took

a firm, new grasp on life.



“Good-by,” said the boy, starting away

leading the little toddler over the wet

paths. “I hope to see you again some

day.”



“Good-by, and God bless you,” I re-

plied, watching him until he turned the

corner of a nearby street and disappear-

ed. Little did he know how his optimistic

spirit had helped me to fight and win my

battle. Somewhere, “out on the coast,”

I suppose his spirit is brightening the

path of life and unconsciously helping

others as it helped me. I hope so.

MANXLAND—THE BEAUTIFUL ISLE



OF MAN,

(Continued from page 61).

uity. In this castle the beautiful Eleanor,

Duchess of Gloucester, was imprisoned

for several years until released by death.

In the middle of the seventeenth century

numbers of quakers were





 





, <15) 63*

GETTING COAL OUT OF A RIVER.





BY E. 'I. FARRYNGTON.



Dredging coal from the bed of the Sus-

quehana river is an important industry

at Harrisburg, the capital city of Penn—

sylvania. For many years the coal has

been washing down the river and its

tributary streams from the great an—

thracite regions of the' state and has

lodged in pockets in the river bed. There

are several large islands at Harrisburg,

and the eddies created by them may be

responsible in part for the fact\ that a

large amount of this river washed coal is

deposited there.



The coal is of the sizes known as

buckwheat and mustard, both of which

are, as the names imply, very small. This

kind of coal neceSSarily sells at a low

price and is used principally in the heat—

ing and lighting plants in and around the

city of Harrisburg,



In the old days great banks of what

was considered refuse and unmarketablc

coal Were to be seen in the vicinity of





 





imprisoned here for non-

conformity. F e n e l 1 a's

Tower of Peel Castle has

been made famous by Sir

\Valter Scott’s mention in

“I‘everil of the Peak.”

Thc Round Tower, fifty

feet high, has been the

cause of much wonder.

It resembles in some re-

spects the Round Towers

of lreland. They were

gcncrally used as a ref-

uge in times of danger.



llamscy in the north is

famous for its glcns and

sea. views. .»\t Castletown

in the south is Castle



'liushcn, one of the best

prcscrvcd ancient castles

in all Europe. .\ clock

prescnied by Queen Eliz-

abclh is in this casde

and is still the “town

clock," being in excellent

order. .\t Laxey is the

Laxey \l'alcr \Vhecl, one

of the largest water

wheels in the world. It

was built for use in the

Lon-y lcad mines and

has a circumference of

227 feet.



Manghold is a most

quaint little village with

its whitewashed cottages.

North llurrulo liountain

overshadows it on the

West. The churchyard of

live acres is the largest

ancient. burying-ground

of the British lslcs. .\ line old estate in

L\langhold is still called the Staff Land

because formerly held on the tenure of

holding in safe keeping the Staff of} an

early bishop.



,The main roads of the Island are kcpt

in fine ordcr. The trial races for British

motor cars, competing in the international

race for the Gordon Bennett cup. were

hold on lll(‘ Isle of Man in 1904 and 1905.



rl‘he Manx pcople are a. blend of the





 





Colin: and Scandinavian. They are a

sturdy, lu-ullhy people, hospitable and

kind heurlul. They lack initiative, but





are quick to follow a. loader. Their op—

timistic turn of niind is reflected in some

of their provcrbs, two of which run thus:

"'l‘hcre's gold on the cushag yet.” “\Vhen

one door slicks another opens.”





 





 





Flat-bottomed Boat, with Stern Paddle Wheel, used In Dredging Coal from River,





 





 





The Gigantic Water Wheel at Laxey.





the mines. “Culm” was the name by

which it was commonly known. Many

of thcse banks of waste coal wore new

the Snsquchuna and smaller rhers and.

when the pcriodical frcsheis came. lht'y

were carried away, to be dredged from

the rivcr bed now and burned many

inilvs from the locality where the mines

arc located.



'l‘his “culm” is no longer considered a.

waste product, however, illc grout «lo--

\‘i-lopment or the industrial interests in

l’cnnsylvania having led to its prepara—

tion for market by means of planls known

as washcrics, which produce over lbrcc

million dollars worth of coal a year. The

coal pockets in the rim-r which were

formed before these. washcrics were cs-

tabhshed still continue to yicld a plenti-

ful harvest, however, and no doubt will

for sevc‘al years to come.



The coal is sucked up by means of

drcdging pumps carried on flat bottomed

beats driven by wide paddle whcels at

the stern of tho boat, the river being too

shallow at timcs to permit the use of

side-wheel boats. .Thcre is a consider-

able fleet of these boats at Harrisburg

and a row at other places in the same

county. In 1907 the amount of ‘apilal

invested in boats and machinery for the

carrying on of the business was $25,000.

Nearly 37,000 tons of coal were dredged

from the river, giving employment to

sixty-two people. Passengers on I‘cnn-

sylxania railroads often see these cur—

ious boats where the tracks run close to

the river, and no doubt often wonder

what they are for.



M_‘_





It is surprising how practical duty

enriches the fancy and the heart, and

deepens the affections. Indeed. no one

can have a true idea of right until he

does it, any genuine reverence for it

till he has done it often and with cost.

any peace ineffable in it till he does it

always and with alacrity.—Martineau.y
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TER EVENINGS.





BY DORA B. PHILLIPS. ,



The long winter evenings call for

amusement for the young folks. Do you

know the game of mimic? All go out

except two, who seat themselves on a

long bench or at one end of a row of

chairs. There is a doorkeeper 'who

brings in one at a time of those outside,

saying as he does so, “I will introduce

you to Mr. Mimic and his wife.” What-

ever gesture or word is made or spoken

by the one brought in is faithfully repro-

duced by the two seated. W'henever he

laughs. he must take a seat by their side

and assist them in the mimlcing. And

so on until all are introduced. It is real

laughable to see a whole string of peo-

ple grinning or nodding at the last ones

who come in

For a catch game “hands on the wall”

is good. You ask certain parties if they

ever played “hands on the wall." If they

answer no, tell them that you will teach

them. Have all who have not played the

game go to the wall. Place your hands

on the wall, tell them to do the same,

then say “Hands on the wall—that is

all.”

“Fruit basket"' is an old game full of

life. Someone goes around and names

each person a certain kind of fruit, low

So his neighbors can ‘not hear. Then he

calls the name of one thus. “Peach!

Peach! Peach!" if “peach” fails to call

his own name before it is spoken the

third time. he must get up and do the

calling; then if he fails to guess any of

the names or to get a seat after calling

as many times as there are players, he

calls out, “Fruit basket,” when all must

change seats. Then the “caller" gets

himself a seat in the scramble.

“if-lying angel" or “Catch the handker-

chief” is another game which all enjoy.

The players are seated in a semi-circle,

and the catcher stands facing them. A

handkerchief is started at one, end, and

whomever the catcher gets the handker-

chief from must get up. The kerc‘nief is

just pitched from one person to another

or thrown from one end of the circle to

the other, and if the catcher picks it up

while touching anyone’s clothes,‘ this per-

son must give up his seat and be catcher.



”VVhere are you, whom are you with

and what are you doing?” is a laughable

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except three are sealed in :1. row; one

goes around and tells each player where

he is, another follows and tells him whom

he is with, another comes along and tells

him what he is doing. Then they begin

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with Jenny Jones.” Some of the answers

if not all. are sure to be ludicrous, be-

cause nciiher instructor knows what the

other has said in distributing answers to

tho different people.



“Take home what you borrow," is an-

other funny game. Someone names each

player some article, as broom, bucket,

etc: another person tells each one whom

he belongs to and who has borrowed

him. The borrower must then get what

be borrowed and take it home, saying,

for instance, “1 have brought your broom

home.”



To play, “What is your occupation"

lhecrowd is evenly divided and lined up

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othrrs try it until all are out. The one

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“Shadow writing” is something like

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doorway, one or two persons enter the

room on the other side of the sheet, some

member of the party writes slowly a

word or message on the sheet with his

finger or a, long stick. the one on the op-

posite side follows the motion carefully,

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I THE BACHELOR UNCLE. ness. I determined to drive direct to

(continuedi’rmn me 62); .- ~Widow~wwhom€s home. and see her in

' the privacy other own house. _



“Well, I ,am sorry,” I answered, “I

thought Widowi Thorpe, was a good

nurse. Doctor Goldthorpe always gave

her that reputation.” '



“I don’t know about Doc. Goldthorpe,





that all might be irrevocably lost. I gave

11mg thought to the condition of Belle

Murdock. I would see her and force the’

knowledge, even from her dying lips. She

had no right to take it with her to the

grave. Life is too short-and love too neighbor. He’s home’pathy; an’ I never

dear to be over tender With the guilty did take no stock in sugar pills an’ col-

conscience even ofabdying woman. Ifelt ored water an’ I don’t think he’d cure

that a crisis had come. that herore noon Belle in a dog’s age; an’ so Harry Rod-

I would know something definite; and it ney brought a doctor with him last night,

was With more hope in my heart than who’s took right a-hold of the case like

bad dwelt ln lt for many a month that I you’d take a-hold of a, team of horses;

stepped into my buggy after breakfast, an’ I guess you can tell Doc. Goldthorpe

and started for the house of Red Mur- that he needn’t come no more. Harry

dOCk‘ Rodney’s been uncommon good to us

It was still early in the morning when since Belle was hurt; and so have you,

I drove into Red Murdock’s yard; and I Delvin uncommon good an’ uncommon

feared from the silent look about the interested in Belle,” and he drew back

house that I would find them all in bed; his lips in a smile, like a. cur before he

but, before I had tied the horses, the door bites.

opened and Red Murdock himself came I did not answer. but stepped to the

out. . . bedside, intending to ask Belle, in spite

“GOOd mornln’, Delvm,” he said, tak- of the presence of Red Murdock, why she

ing out of his mouth the short clay pipe had sent for me. As I approached the

which he was smoking. “This is 'boutlas .bed the nurse arose awkwardly from the

fine, a mornin’ as the Lord makes, ain’t chair in. which she was sitting near the

it? E bed, and stepped a little to one ‘side.

I answered in the affirmative, and in- Belle Murdock lay with her face turned

quired 'how Belle was coming on. toward me, her eyes closed, and her

“W'ell. I don’t know,” he answered. mouth partly opened. She was breathing

“She’s uncommon dumplsh an’ sleepy, 1”“ heavily; and it needed but a glance, even

Doc. says she’ll pull through. She’s tough, of my inexperienced eyes, to tell that she

Belle is. Won't you come in an’ see her, was under the influence of some strong





neighbor?" _ opiate, and as dead to the world around

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prised me; and I followed him into the ously at Red Murdock. I understood now





house. wondering greatly at what had why he had been so willing I should see

caused the sudden change in his temper, Belle.





but too anxious to see Widow Thorpe “That’s th' work of th’ new doctor.”

and Belle Murdock to make much note of he said. .uAn) “.5 th’ first real good sleep

the insolent look on his face. Afterwards Belle’s had since she was hurt. Harry

I remembered the look. I had written Rodney’s doctor knows his business, he

on a slip of paper: “Tell Red Murdock does.” Again that cur-smile.



that i“ the hurry 0‘ you” coming 5'0“ I looked Red Mundock straight in the

forgot to bring all your clothes you need, eye. “Yes, and sick people have died

or make some other plausible excuse to while under the influence of too strong a

go with me. I must see you alone.” I dose of opiates; and judges have been

intended to hand this “Ote to Widow so inconsiderate as to call their deaths

Thorpe when I shook hands with her; and murder,” I said, for a horrible suspicion

then take her with me to town and find had flashed through my mind that Harry

0‘” exactly what it was that had caused Rodney and her unnatural father wished

he” to write ‘0 me as She had? a“ When to hasten the death of Belle Murdock, or,

I returned I would not let Red Murdock at least, to keep her unconscious until

nor anyone else keep me from seeing Belle the end, in order to safeguard their se-

Murdock, if what Widow Thorpe told me cret. and I wished to let the man know

convinced me that Belle had anything to that he was treading on dangerous

do with the cause of Elsie Lamont break— ground. .



ing the engagement, or had any knowl- For an instant Red Murdock cowered,

edge of why Elsie had treated me so un- for the man at heart was a poltroon;

kindly. If necessary I would use force to then he said, speaking slowly, and rest-

reach the bedside of Belle Murdock; for ing his too bony hands on the footboard

I was desperate and did ”Ct intend to of the bed, and leaning slightly forward,

lose my chance of happiness for lack of and keeping his shifty eyes steadily on

prompt action on my part. “'th I 4311- my face: “Murder is a hard word to

tered the door I held the note closely speak, neighbor; an’ them that use it

folded in my right hand, ready for im- without good reasons had best beware.

mediate dellvery. Now, this bein' my house, an’ th’ sick



.Little Joey sat in a corner, playing with gal my daughter, an’ bein' that you have

hfs .tm soldiers. He glanced up at me said that ugly word, you’d best take that

tlnlldly, and I saw that his face was red big carcass out of our presence, an’ not

and swollen With crying. He did “Qt come pokin' that great nose of yourn into

speak; but fixed his eyes on his father’s things that don’t concern you. Nobody

countenance, with a look of terror in them asked your help, an’ nobody wants it,

that made me grind my teeth and ache John Dclvin. There’s th’ door!” and the

to cowhide the great brute who could man pointed a quivering finger toward

cause SUCh a 100k on a. crippled child's the door and drew his lips back, showing

face. his big tobacco—stained teeth. “There’s



IVldow Thorpe was not in the room. 1h, door!” be repeated. “Go; or 1—”



Red Murdock walked to the bedroom

and opened the door. “Come in, Delvin,"

he said. “There's nobody here but Belle

an' th’ nurse. Come right in. You’ll not

bother Belle,” and his shifty eyes flashed

a swift venomous glance into mine.



I walked into the bedroom, expecting

to meet the \Vidow Thorpe and deliver

the note to her; and was confronted by a.

strange woman, whose harsh features, “I’ll have th’ law on you, if you touch

small, cruel—looking eyes, and tall angu- me in my own house!” he threatened.

lar form seemed especially out of place “I’ll have th' law on you. John Delvill!

in the hush of a sick chamber. 1’11 have ”1' law on YOU!"



“You see Wider Thorpe wan’t exactly Without a word I turned on my heels

satisfactory,” explained Red Murdock. and left the room. Little JOGY'S face

flashing a quick glance into my face; was white as milk, and his thin limbs

“and so I—Iarry Rodney took her home were trembling as if he had the ague.

last night, an’ brought this one back. EVen in my wrath I noticed the boy as I

She’s uncommon good at nursln’, an’ can passed through the kitchen, and pitied

handle a. sick womafi like you can a, his helplessness, and thought how cruel

plow." fate was to thrust a feeble, crippled



For an instant the summary dismissal child in the midst of such harsh sur-

of the woman I had hired made me very roundings. As I unfastened the horses

angry, while the first shock of the disap- Red Murdock came to the door, and stood

pointment of -not meeting Widow Thorpe on the threshold, his hands resting on the

was like a blow; but a glance at Red casings and his short clay pipe gripped

Murdock warned me not to show how I lightly between his teeth, and watched

felt. He was watching my face with me with insolent bravado as I drove out

quick, furtive glances. and with a look in of the yard. .

his eyes that told me to beware of him. (To be continued).



I remembered how, some five years be- ——————-—— ——



fore, I had given him a well-deserved Little VVillie—“Say, pa, according to

thrashing for cruelly abusing a dog; and this table of English weight and measure

I knew that he remembered and hated fourteen pounds make onestone.” Pa—

me for the good deed I had done. He “Yes, that’s right. my son.” Little Willie

was one of those men who never forget —-“But, pa. what I want to know is how

an injury, and never remember a kind- many pebbles it takes to make a. po‘und?”





I took two quick steps toward Red

Murdock and my hands clinched them—

selves, before I remembered where I was.

Red Murdock’s face wcnt white, for he

had good cause to remember the weight

of my firsts, and he sprang back, his

eyes gleaming in the half-darkness of the

sick chamber, like the eyes of a. wolf.





 





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How many of us are honestly seeking.-

the solution of our ”common problem,”

as explained in the last part of the selec-

tion? Some, I know, recognize that life

consists in “making fair” existing condi-

tions, but are not the great majority

fancying what a fine place life would be

providing we could have things as we

would like them?



Most of us, I fear. are planning for our

happiness in the future. Next year when

the children are a little older and we are

not tied down so and have more time for

reading and “pleasure.” life will be fair

for us. Next year when the mortgage is

paid we can begin to be thankful, we

haven’t anything really to be' thankful for

now. If we could move out of this neigh-

borhood we might be happy; there is no

one who can understand and appreciate

us here.



If we could teach school instead of do-

ing housework: if we could have a nice

home of our own to take care of. and

our own children to train instead of hav-

ing to spend our time in a sshoolroorri

training other people‘s little ones; if we

could have finer clothes, better fare, an

education, a chance to travel, or perhaps

a chance to stay at home. in short. if we

could only have things different than they

are, then life would be fair to us. This

is the attitude of the larger portion of

the human family.



But the thing we don’t seem to realize

is that we would be we, no matter what

our conditions, and that the real heart of

us would be unchanged. even though we

could have every wish gratified tomorrow.

\\'e are creatures of habit, purely. Hap-

piness and contentment are habits, hab-

its grown into character. and our char—

acter would not change even if a fairy

godmother should drop us into any spot

We chose.



The thing for us to wish for, then, is

not a change of conditions but a change

of self. As a. rule. We can not change

conditions, even with an earnest effort.

Ilow futile, 'then. to think of changing

them by wishing. l-iut character we can

change and this should be our task.



Are we, by virtue of our office as wife

and mother, condcmned to do housework

all our life? Then make our task “fair

up to our means" by doing it cheerfully,

lovingly and well. Are We alone, with-

out the love of family and the shelter

of home, compelled to work for others?

Then let us make, life fair inside by do-

ing every task with the one thought of

doing it so well that no one could do it

better. Are we among people whom we

believe are not up to our standard? Let

us not despise them and draw within

ourselves, but recognize them as crea-

tures from the same hand which created

us, brothers and sisters with the same

loves, hates, desires and ambitions that

we possess, however crudely they may be

expressed. “'e can not help them by

standing aloof, and helpfulness is the

great duty of man.



No matter what the surroundings, life.

may he glorified by the spirit within. And

it is usually those who have the least in

worldly possessions who learn this fact.

A young man of 20 with both arms taken

off in an accident sat on the pavement

selling pencils and shoe laces a day or so

before Christmas. It was cold. drizzly,

discouraging weather. Everyone was hur-

ried and cross. Shoppers hastened~ by

the chap with only a glance. They need-

ed all their change for buying presents

for someone who didn’t need them, and

lead pencils and shoe laces wouldn’t do

for gifts. they really are useful some-

times.



I hurried by with the rest. bent on buy-

ing candy canes. Santa Clauses that

would break to pieces at the first good,

hard squeeze, and other equally “appro-

priate" things for the Christmas tree. I

was almost provoked at that young fel-

low for reminding me that I was spend-

ing money foolishly, everyone else was





going to have a tree with gew-gaws, and

why not my family? Just as I passed,

the chap began to whistle a cheery little

tune. It, was better than a thousand

sermons. Here was this mere. lad, with

nothing that I could see to make life

even bearable, and yet facing it with a.

bold front and a whistle. Condemned by

the loss (if both arms to depend for a liv-

ing on the tenderhearted few who would

drop a nickel or a dime in his hat,

obliged to sit in the street and cry his

wares no matter what the weather, day

in and day out, year in and year out,

and yet courageous enough to whistle!

And here Were the rest of us with. health,

sound limbs, livabole salaries and warm,

bright homes. all as grouchy as bears be-

cause of our exertions to celebrate the

bkth of the Christ-child.



\‘Ve didn’t have the candy cane, nor the

glass balls that break when you look at

them. nor the flying-machines and lan-

terns that decke-d the trees of our neigh-

bors, because of that whistle. But the

mother of the family had something far

more valuable, the memory of a brave

spirit, a spirit which could get above the

blackness of what seemed to others a.

sunless life.



DEBORAH.

WOMEN WHO ARE DOING THINGS.

No. 5.





Margaret Deland.





Those of us who have fallen in love

with old “Dr. Lavendar” have already

formed a pretty good opinion of his crea-

tor, Mrs. Margaret Deland. \Ve are not

a bit surprised to learn, then. that sim-

plicity, graciousness, womanly dignity





 





 





and sympathetic knowledge of life are her





most marked characteristics, nor that

she writes in a room redolent of flowers.



Mrs. Deland was born in Allegheny in

1857, which is a blow to us who have,

traced her New England ancestry in her





 





Margaret Deland.





books. She was orphaned at an early

age and was adopted by her uncle, Bake-

well Campbell, of Pittsburg. Here she

grew up in an atmosphere of love, and

books and fed upon Scott, Hawthorne,

the. “Spectator” and the “Tattler.” At

the age of nine she wrote stories. or tried

to, but as her aunt paid no attention to

her precocity she forgot about it and be-

lieves that she is all the better for it.

Indeed, Mrs. Deland does not believe at





(L % ‘3.

THE COMMON PROBLEM.





all in encouraging precociouschildren.

She thinks that youthful geniuses who

write poems and tragedies at ten and

twelve usually burn themselves out be-

fore maturity.



I—Ier education was at Pe-lham Priory, a.

school kept by English ladies. Here there

were no dreaded “exams” and the girls

studied or not as they liked. They were

taught how to enter and leave a. room

with dignity, respect for elders and bet-

ters, fear of God, disregard of men, and

deportment. in manners and religion.

After this education, which the modern

college girl would consider none at. all,

she went one year to Cooper Institute and

then taught drawing in the New York

Normal College. In 1880 she married

Lorin F. Deland, of Boston.



Her first writing was a few verses to

go with a gift to her aunt. and these de-

veloped into her poem, “Succory.” This

was published in Harper’s Magazine and

for it she received $10. After this she

began writing seriously and we have as

a result, “John \Vard, Preacher,” a book

that set everyone talking and was trans-

lated into Dutch, French and German;

“Old Chester Tales,” “Sydney,” “The

Common \Yay,” “The Awakening of Hel—

ena Ritchie” and “An Encore.” She is a

hard worker and makes it a rule to write

every day from 9 a. m. to 12:30 or 1 p.

m., whether she feels like it or not. Like

most modern writers, she believes genius

is the result of good hard work, and

not dependent upon inspiration. “John

Ward” she wrote four times and was two

years in writing the book. “The “'isdom

of Fools,” another of her books, she wrote

after an effort to reform and reinstate a

working girl.



It is a surprise to her that the public

are so fond of Dr. Lavendar.



THE CARE OF BEDDING.





BY MIPS. SELMA NEW.





 





Now that we are through houseclean-

ing, let us look after the bedding. It is

surprising to me to find that some women

are very neglectful about keeping the

quilts and bcd comforts clean.



Bedding that is in constant use should

be aired out of doors often, and that of

the guest chamber also. Although I have

my faults in other ways, clean bedding

and mattresses have been a hobby with

me ever since I began housekeeping and

I find that at least once a year there are

some quilts or comforts about the house

which should be washed.



For washing them, I always sclect a

day when I am very positin- that it will

be sunny all day. A little breeze is pre-

ferable, too. Then haw- picnty of warm,

perfectly clean suds in ‘2'»: washing ma-





chine. Put only one I, 2!. :1' a. time

and it is soon rubbt-d . .z-:; 1.; ‘fw-n put

through a warm rinsing :; tor, v i. on a,





warm weak blueing water.



Hang on the line as singly as possible

and turn the edge on the line two or

three times which makes it dry quicker

and without streaking.



If I have no one in the house to assist

me in running them through the wringer,

which requires quite a lot of strength if

a large comfort, then I arrange to wash

them on a day when my husband can

help for a little while and sometimes we

afterward wash a horse blanket or two.



Some womenlthink it spoils a comfort

to wash it with the cotton in and think

they must rip them apart, wash the covv

ers and re-tie. This I never would do,

it takes too much of a busy woman’s

time. Better wash, and when necessary

spend 'your time tieing a new one.



Now, about, the mattress or featherbed.

Some only have a sheet over these to

sleep upon. This is a mistake, for in the

night the sheet gets wrinkled and pulls

away from the edge of the mattress, and

in time the mattress is soiled.



A good way to protect it is to buy

cheap factory, make a fitted sack and

put the mattress in it. _ ' -



Others use a clean, but thin quilt. An-

other good way is to use either outing





 





TRUE ARCHITECT OF HOME.

BY. E. L. K. w.

Each mother in her busy life will find

So much requiring patience skill and“

care:

Nor is it strange that in the daily grind,

She sometimes feels ’tis more than she

can bear.

Among the trials which to her befall,

From duties which her willing hands

employ,

In strenuous peals, her infant oft will call,

While older ones may fret her and

annoy.





’Tis said that “W'oman’s work is never

done,"

Beginning in‘ the early morning gray,

Unceasingly, she toils from sun to 'sun.

And still' plods on, by lamp or candle





ray; ..

And even in the wee small hours of night,

When all, save her are wrapped in

slumber deep,

To ascertain, if all with them is right,

She often, at her darling ones, will

peep.





While following this routine, your young

life through.

Disheartened, weary mother! you may





ask

“For all my toil, will aught of good ac-

accrue? .‘ '

Or, will it prove at last, a thankless

task?”

An honored post of fame, you ne’er may

grace.

But you have made your children's





place of birth,

By Words and deeds, and mother’s fond

embrace,

The dearest spot for your beloved, on

earth.





In time, should children wander from the

place.

True fame 0r

afar.

Their mother’s counsel and her smiling

face

W'ill ever serve them as a beacon star.

\I'ise training of the youth, the man may





fortune seeking from





save,

And whether it be palace, cot or dome,

No higher title can the noblest crave,

Than this, “The architect of ‘Home,

Sweet Home.’ ”





 





flannel or cheap ticking and tie with cot—

ton just as for a quilt, except you make

this pad just large enough to cover the

top of the mattress without lapping.

Then buy cheap unbleached factory, make

a double sheet by sewing two sheets to-

gether instead of hemming. Lay this

cross ways of the bed and it will tuck in

well over cotton pad and mattress, mak—

ing an excellent protection. The double

sheet which is used under the regular

sheet may be washed as often as neces-

sary.



Now to keep your pillow ticks clean,

take a pair of pillow cases that are be—

ginning to get thin. Or if slits have al-

ready come in them, cut off about three

or four inches from the closed end, use

for patches then sew up the end again

and slip these over the pillows. Then

put the regular cases on. \Vash these

underslips often and you will see how

moch soil is saved from being on your

pillow ticks.





THE CARE OF NUTS.

BY ISAAC MOTES.



The reason nuts are so nourishing is

that they are a very dry, concentrated

food For example, cheese contains 35 per

cent water, eggs 68.2 per cent, lean beef

75 per cent, bread 39 per cent, while pe-

cans contain only 3.4 per cent.



It is when the new crop of nuts first

comes upon the market that nut recipes

and the concocting of dainty dishes con-

taining nuts seem so appropriate, but the

newness of the crop is really a. small

matter, for nuts will keep good and sweet.

a long time if managed right. Pecans

and other nuts may be kept in cold stor-

age for 12 months or longer, with but:

little deterioration in quality. They also

keep well in storm houses and cellars, or

they may be banked like sweet potatoes.

A stone or brick house is good to bulk

and keep them in. They should be

sprayed occasionally in very dry weather,

to keep the atmosphere somewhat damp.

After pecans become a. little strong or

rancid, if soaked in clean water their

freshness is restored in 24 hours.



Even .if the nuts are fresh it is best to





iffy.“ '





7.
.a





81“,}th; a'quickbath in clean hot Willis. .

er just before; cracking, for this not only '





cleanses them of dust and dirt, but kills

any germsAattached to them. However,

in thecase of softshelled nuts, like al-

mondS} paper shell pecans or English wal-

nuts, it might be best simply to wipe

them with a hot, damp cloth.



If pecans and other nuts are kept in a.

cool, dark place, in tightly closed receps

tacles, as in well made, paper lined bar-

rels or boxes, they will keep for a long

period, for the four causes of rancidity

in nuts are sunlight, air, heat and ex-

treme dryness. It is not to be understood

that the atmosphere should be moist, but

it is possible for it to be too dry. ,



The pecan is the most ideal nut, either

by itself or as a component part of dif-

ferent dishes and confections. Some nuts

are ahead of it in protein, as the peanut

and the almond, but it is sufficiently rich

in this element, while it is far ahead of

the peanut and almond in oil, and it is

a better balanced ration as regards every

element necessary to the building up of

the human body than any other nut. Pe-

cans give,3,300 heat and energy units

(calories), to the pound, and these heat

units are derived from very well propor-

tioned amounts of protein, sugar, starch,

cellulose, fat, mineral matter and a little

water, which is quite necessary as an aid

to the digestibility of such concentrated

food. Pecan kernels are almost‘ as rich

as pure butter, which contains 3,475 cal-

ories to the pound, but it is a better bal-

anced ration than butter, because all the

heat units contained in butter come from

the one element, fat. After pecans the

richest in nutritive elements are walnuts,

both black and English, almonds, cocoa—

nuts, peanuts and chestnuts in the order

given. a



Following are a few recipes for dainty

dishes with nuts:



Pistachio Cake.



The pistachio nut, now grown exten-

sively in California and on the Pacific

Coast further north, but a native of

Smyrna, Algeria, Sicily, China, Syria, and

southern France, has long been prized by

confectioners for its delicate flavor and

attractive green color. The nuts are small

and bean-like in size and shape, though

more pointed. They should always be

blanched before they are used.



To make a delicious pistachio cake, sift

one cupful of flour three times before

measuring and twice afterwards. Pour

four tablespoonfuls of boiling water over

one cupful of sugar, set over the fire until

dissolved, then cool. To the prepared

ilour add one and one-half teaspoonfuls

of salt. Blanch two ounces of the pis-

tachio nuts, pound to a paste and press

through a sieve. Mix all together, add

the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs, and

ten drops of vanilla. Beat steadily for ten

minutes. Turn into a greased pan and

bake half an hour in a moderate oven.





Nuts with Ice Cream.



The use of nuts with ice cream adds to

its relish and flavor and very greatly to

its nutritiveness. Those nuts are best

for this purpose with white or pale yellow

kernels—raw peanuts, almonds, chestnuts,

pecans. filberts, English walnuts, Brazil

nuts and beechnuts. Most of these nuts

should be blanched first and their outer

skins be removed. Nuts to be used with

ice cream should be ground as finely as

possible, and mixed with pure sweet cream

in the proportion of about one pound of

the nut flour to three pounds of cream.

Sweeten with powdered sugar and freeze

as for any other kind of ice cream. A

little vanilla or chocolate may be added

if the flavor. is liked.



‘ Nut Cookies.



Two eggs, beaten light with one cup of

brown sugar, one cup pastry flour, one

teaspoonful baking powder and one cup

walnut meats chopped fine. Mix thor-

oughly, drop by teaspoonfuls on a but-

tered tin and bake quickly. Chopped pea—

nuts may be used instead Of walnuts. If

You find the batter too stiff, add a spoon-

ful of cream or milk.



Walnut Cake with Raisins.



Beat together one cup of sugar and one-

half cup of butter. Add a half cup milk,

two cups of flour which has been sifted

with a teaspoon of baking powder, and

two eggs, whites and yolks beaten sep-

arately. At the last add one cup of seed-

ed raisins and one cup of broken nut

meats.



To Blanch Chestnuts.



To blanoh French chestnuts which are

to be used as a vegetable entree or stuff-

ing, score each shell, put the nuts into a

frying pan with a tablespoonful of but-

ter, and shake over the fire until the

butter is melted. Then heat five minutes

in the oven, and the skins will come off

with the shells.





   





_VALUE OF WATER. -





 





‘ BY CHARLOTTE Brno.



There are very few people who thor-

oughlly appreciate the value of water as

a beverage or who know how ’to use it to

the greatest advantage. The benefits

produced by the drinking of water de-

pend as much upon the manner in which

it is- drunk as upon the quantity. Cold

water should not be swallowed in large

draughts, nor should it be taken in large

quantities with too short intervals be-

tween, else certain deflnlte and less ben-

eficial results follow than if the same

quantities were taken by sipping. Sip-

ping is a powerful stimulant to the cir-

culation, which cannot be said of ordi-

nary drinking. The heart action is quick-

ened and the pressure under which the

bile is secreted is also raised by the sip-

ping of the fluid.



Tea and coffee should be used spar-

ingly and in their place water should be

taken in liberal quantities. About three

pints a day is said to be desirable to

thoroughly wash out the system. Hard

water should be avoided and in general

mineral waters also. The difficulty of

hard water can be largely obviated by

boiling and then cooling the water. Where

a tendency. to rheumatic troubles exist,

a pint of hot water should be sipped very

slov‘vly every morning before eating. This

will overcome constipation also.



When one has a cold coming on, the

drinking of cold water is one of the very

best remedies because it tends to keep

the pores Open for the escape of the pol—

sons of the body. Living on fruit and

milk for two or three days and drinking

hot or cold water freely, if taken in time

will often break up an ordinary cold. A

cold is a fever, and one suffering from

it should avoid meat and other heating

foods, for these only add fuel to the

flames.



For a sore throat one of the very best

remedies is acloth wet in cold water and

laid on the affected part. This can be

used also with a cold on the lungs,

though the rest of the body should be

protected from chill. It is said that a

cold bath over" the chest every morning,

will greatly reduce the tendency to catch

cold. ’



Cold water is excellent also in reducing

a regular fever. A-cloth wrung out of

cold water and laid on the head, will re—

lieve a severe headache by lowering the

temperature. The same. holds with re-

gard to a mere fever. In fact, a sponge

bath all over the body will relieve a gen—

eral fever.



Thus water is one of the simplest. best

remedies, undervalued because it lies at

hand and is free for everybody’s use.



SICK ROOM VISITORS.





BY IIILDA RICHMOND.





People who are ill usually havcahard-

er time getting well in winter than in

summer, and friends and relatives usu-

ally give as the reason for this that the

weather is “against sick folks.” Phy-

sicians tell a different story, however,

and often attribute the delay in getting

well to excessive visiting in the sick

room. One doctor with an extensive

country practice says he despises Mon-

days in winter for they are sure to bring

him calls from morning till night from

patients who are only suffering from the

effects ,of too much Sunday company.



In summer guests drop in for a few

minutes, and if the patient is too weak

to see them long they are easily coaxed

ow" to see the flowers or the garden or

the chickens, but in winter there is

nothing to do but keep them in the

house. It isn’t possible to suggest a short

stay, and often the invalid is located quite

close to the living room, so that a lengthy

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Talking, opening and shutting doors, ratt-

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valid. It is only thoughtlessness that

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the dearest friends the patient has and

may sincerely desire a speedy recovery,

but they should be gently told when to

leaVe if they overstay the time. The

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Often a "sick spell” will teach women

more than any amount of telling, for

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their best friends may be when they stay

too long in the sick room.



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You are not allowed to see them. Take

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them and encourage the invalid without

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DO WE ENJOY THEM ENOUGH?

BY M. F. N.



The other day I visited my three little

girls in school and experienced such a.

feeling of homesickness—or something so

much like it that I do not know what

else to call it—gthat a question has kept

rather prominently in my mind ever

since.



Twelve years ago I was a teacher my-

self, and had been for five years. I had

a real liking for the work and enjoyed

those years from the double viewpoint

of instruction of, and companionship with,

children; yet, as I looked at the young

faces that day and seemed to,see in the

teacher, myself a few years ago, I won-

dered if she were getting all the pleasurc

and profit possible from the days that

were slipping through her fingers, won-

dered if I had done so in the past.



It seemed to me, just then, that I could

ask nothing plcasantcr than to be the

teacher of that roomful, but at the same

time realized that I should not want

even that if it were to take from me the

dozen years of home life and the little

girls who were a part of the roomful, so

it was but a step to the question: “Am

I enjoying my children and my home as

much as possible, or is there a time com~

ing when I shall look back on these years

with regret, from seeing some mother

and her little folks, and wonder if I got

out of life all the sweetness and helpful

lessons that were there for me?”



It seemed as though a rough hand

gripped my heart ‘for a moment and I

think the days since then have meant

a little more to me- than did some of

those that came before.



We are called good mothers. We love

the children dearly and let them know it;

they love us and tell us so by words and

acts; we want to help them in the best

way possible and try to make them feel

that this is so; they are helpful to us in

a multitude of ways, but there is a rush

and flurry about this electrical twentieth

century that tends to impatience and

frowns and thc haste that leave too little

time for calm enjoyment and a full] ap-

preciation of what our lives together as

mothers and children should mean, may

mean, to us all.



Vain regrets are worse than useless;

I mean to give them as small a chance

as possible to trouble me 30 or 40 years

from now.





A LOOK INTO FOOD VALUES.





 





No. 1.



“Instead of studying Italian art, I think

it would be a fine thing if our women’s

clubs devoted the year to studying food

values,” remarked the mother of three.

“I‘ve graduated from a couple of private

schools and houses kept for eight years,

but I’ll be perfectly frank with you and

say I don’t know a thing about food com-

position. I don’t know a proteid from a

Greek root. and when l serve my meals

I haven’t the ghost of a notion whether or

not it is a properly balanced ration I am

giving my family. I worked six weeks

last winter preparing a paper on Titian.

This winter I shall spend my time pre-

paring menus that are really suited to my

family’s needs.”



No more fascinating study than food

values exists for the woman who realizes

that health building is the really one

very simple, if we only rid our minds of

the idea that the subject is one that re-

quires a college course to understande and

then resolve the subject into its primary

principles.



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and keeping us alive. We know, too, be-

cause we were taught it. in physiology,

that the body performs its work, much

as a steam engine does its work, the food

is, burned in the body as coal is burned

in the furnaces, and the heat liberated

to produce the energy which keeps the

human machine, the body, in motion.





If food is burned in the body, then we

see that it must be composed of some-

what the same elements as fuel, and so

it is composed of carbon and hydrogen,

oxygen and nitrogen. And it is burned

in the same way as fuel burns, by uniting

with oxygen. This process takes place

after the food has been digested and

carried by the blood to the lungs. VVith-

out this burning, or liberating of the car-

bon, heat and energy, or the power to

work, would not be produced and life

would cease. Hence the necesity for

breathing large quantities of pure air as

well as eating plenty of nourishing food.





It is this idea that food is composed of

the elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

and nitrogen, which.is so puzzling to the

beginner in the study of food values. We

have got used to the notion that oxygen

in the air is necessary for life, but we

can not accustom ourselves to the

that the food we eat is also composed of

gases. Somehow we don’t at first grasp

the thought, so we will have to simply

take it on trust as we did our first les—

sons in childhood. The food is solid when

we eat it, it is meat or cereal or fat or

water. V‘Ve can't see how it can be made

up of gases. But the chemical laboratory

of nature, our body, converts it into

simple elements during the process of as-

similation as surely as the chemist will

convert for you water into two gases,

cxygen and hydrogen.

is first lesson firmly fixed in

. t the. body requires carbon,

hydrogen, gen and-nitrogen, to keep

it alive and able to work, we can next

take up the, classifications of foods, and

see just what ofi‘lce each class periorms

in the body.»



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below zero and the snow blowing every

day‘for a week. The fields are covered

with about fourdnch‘es of snow on the

level but not any in the highway. The

principal talk of the day is the railroad

from Detroit to Bad Axe, a great thing

for the western part of Sanilac county.

Auction sales are not very well patron-

ized. Farmers’ institutes are being held.

Markets are as follows: Wheat, $86@

88c: oats, 46c; beans, $2.10 per bu; hay,

timothy, No. 1, $17 per ton; fat hogs,

$5.25; lambs, 3,5 per cwt; butter, cream—

ery, 34c; eggs, 260.



Livingston 60., Jan, 16.-——The weather

this month has been the most severe 1n

years. Cellars that the frost had never

entered before were not proof against

such weather as has prevailed the past

two weeks. Stock is being marketed

freely on account of the scarcity of feed.

Feed of an kinds is scarce and hay and

other coarse feeds are selling at almost

prohibitive prices. Hay selling for $20

per .ton, loose. There is probably not

more than half as many lambs on feed

this winter as usual and feeders must

necessarily receive a good price for stock

in order to realizea profit on account of

the high price of feeds.



O‘gemawflCoq Jan. .15.—-This county is

now‘in the grip of one of the hardest and

most protracted “cold spells" known hero

for 18 years. The mercury has been

down as low as 28 below zero and is to-

.day 10 below at 9 o’clock a. In. More or

less suffering among stock is the result

as many farmers home sold themselves

short on hay, owing to the exceptional

prices this year, and are now feeding

largely on straw. There has been thou-

sands of tons of hay shipped from the

county, the price being now from .$17@»18,

Cream brings around 34c; butter at the

stores, 26c; fresh egs 28@300. Not enough

corn was raised last year to supply the

home demand and much is being shipped

in. Pork and beef show quite an ad—

vance over last month. Any farmer who

owns a timber lot can dispose of a load

of stove wood quickly. Wheat is quite

well covered with snow and is generally

reported in good shape.



Newaygo 00., Jan. 2.—Good winter

weather and some snow, with not much

doing on the farm. Fall sowed grain is

looking good. All kinds of feed scarce

and high and not any to sell among the

farmers. Farmers making contracts for

next season’s pickle crop at the salting

station and some signing contracts for

growing truck for the canning factory.

There will be a small acreage of peas

grown for the local cannery on account

of the scarcity of seed. Potatoes, 60;

wheat, 82@84c; oats, 45c; corn, 65@7013;

rye, 80c; eggs. 25c; butter, 28c; butter-

fat, 350; spring chickens, 8c.



Northern isabella and Southern Clare

Co.’s——After three weeks of good winter

weather it warmed up in December

enough to let the farmers gather the

beets and chicory that was frozen in.

Farmers begin to get their returns for

sugar beets and realize only about $5 per

ton. net. The farmers are easy marks,

take their best land and raise beets and

sell them to the beet companies for one-

half the price they could afford to pay for

them, and I am one of them, just because

we do not organize and stand together.

Hay buyers plentiful. ,



Emmet 00., Dec. 26.—Fields have been

bare for the last half of the month, with

moderate temperature. Just what the

damage to winter grains and seeding will

be no one can tell. Wheeling has been

good and one sees loads of potatoes oc—

casionally going to market. Lumbering

operations are not being pushed. Hay

firm at $18 and many holding for $20.

Pork lower than for some years back,

selling around $7; eggs. 300 at stores; but-

ter, 30c; business generally quiet.



Indiana.





Laporte 00., Jan. 8.——Sixteen degrees

below zero yesterday morning. Mercury

ranged the lowest of any week in ten

years and below zero the last three days.

A fine blizzard of snow filled the air.

driven by a. strong wind. Ice men could

not put up ice on account of fierce cold

wind. But little snow.





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Lucas 60., Jan. 8.——We had a. very bad

fall to secure the corn crop and much

is spoiling either in the crib or in the

mow. The roads that are not stoned

have been impassable. Just as soon as

it would freeze enough to bear up a team

it would rain again. It is now colder and

farmers hope it will stay cold. Poultry

is plentiful and cheap; chickens, 9@100;

ducks, 14c; geese. 12613140; turkeys, 16@

18c, alive; hogs, 6c; hay is bringing $23

on the Toledo market; bright oat straw

is $8; potatoes are scarce at $1; apples,

$1. The country grocers are paying 360

for fresh eggs. Butter is 300 andlscarce.

Nearly all of the farmers ship their milk

to Toledo. The farmer who has a silo

seems to be in the best shape to handle

the feed question this fall, as the corn

in the shock is spoiling. Ear corn is sell-

ing for 750 per 100 lbs. Good cured ear

corn is selling at 90c per 100 lbs.



Carroll 00., Jan. 8.—It is very cold here

with a good deal of wind but not much

snow. There is still some com out in

the field, but the weather is too bad to

husk. Com, 70c: oats, 60c; rye, 95c;

wheat, $1 per bu; eggs, 300 per doz; but-

ter 32c per lb.



Hardin (20., Jan. 8.——The wet weather

through our section has come to a close

and the thermometer is registering

around the zero mark. Very hard on the

live stock. Some snow falling today.

Most farmers are through husking corn;

some fodder out yet. Wheat looking very

well, considering the weather conditions.

Fat cattle bring good money and good

hogs bring 6c; wheat. 93c; oats. 48c; hay,

baled, $18.50; eggs, 25c.





   





 

 





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There were 12 acres in the field. It was in beans last year and the ground was fall-

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the oats drilled in at 21/2 bushels to the acre.



I commenced on one side of the field by drillinglOO pounds of Fertilizer to the

acre. I increased the Fertilizer at intervals at the rate of 50 pounds each time until I

got up to 400 pounds per acre leaving a drill row at each increase unfertilized. The

parts that were fertilized with 100 pounds and 150 pounds each per acre were not as

good as that which was fertilized with 200 pounds and over. The unfertilized strips

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three times as much root as the other.



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HOW PLANTS FEED.





 





BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.

General Composition.



Moisture.-if we should take a plant

fresh from the soil and place it in a warm

dry place, in the course of a few hours it

would become dry and brittle. The cause

of this condition is, of course, the evap-

oration of the water from the tisues of

the plant. In green plants the content of

water is from 75 to 00 per cent of the

total weight. “'hen grass is cut, the cur-

ing process is principally a drying proc-

ess by which the greatest bulk of the,

water is driven off. The dried plant still

contains considerable water, however,

which it will not give up until it is finely

pulverized and subjected to prolonged

drying at the temperature of boiling

water.



Seeds and the grains contain consider-

able water even when thoroughly ripe and

matured. Roots in their natural condition

contain much water. The potato con—

tains at least 75 per cent water and the

sugar beet frequently 80 to 85 per cent.

The dried or cured bays and grains con-

tain from 10 to l?» per cent water.



Dry h’iatter.w.-\ftcr the removal of the

water or moisture: the residue is called

dry matter. and is very complex in its

makeup. It is (omposed of various or-

ganic constitutnts and some inorganic or

mineral constitucnts as well.



Ash—Alf the dry matter be burncd, the

organic constituents escape and only the

mineral matter remains. This mineral

residue is called ash. lCVcryonc is fa-

miliar in a general way with the approxi-

mate comparative amounts of matter

burned away, or the organic, and the ash,

or the inorganic which is left behind

when wood is burned. This same general

relationship exists in other vegetable mat—

ter between the organic matter and the

ash althcngh it is by no means a con-

stant factor.



The following table shows the percent-

age of water, dry matter and ash in a

few plants:



\Vatcr. DryMat‘r. Ash.





per ct. per ct. per ct.

\Vheat (seed) . . . .140 86.0 9.00

Beans (seed) .. . .14.8 85.2 5.40

Potatoes 55 24.5 0.95

Clover ............ 80.0 20.0 1.25

Beet leaves ...... 00.0 10.0 2.00

Relative importance of Dry Matter and



Ash.





It is evident from the relative amounts

of dry matter and ash in plants that na-

ture places much greater stress on the

dry mattcr than on the ash. ()f cmn'se,

strictly speaking. the fact that the ash

is present as a. minor constituent docs

not argue against its importance. It is

a fact, however, that the demand of liv-

ing matter is much greater for organic

or vegetable structure than for the ash or

the inorganic part of plants.



Generally speaking, we are not con-

cerned with the ash part of vegetable

matter although it exercises an important

function. Later on in our studies in ani-

mal nutrition we shall see that, in the

human diet enough attention has not hccn

given to securing a satisfactory supply of

the ash constituents, but for the present

we. are not particularly concerned there-

with.



Composition of Dry Matter.



From the preceding tablc we have sccn

that the dry matter, aside from the wat-

cr, occupies the major part of plants. This

dry matter is of an exceedingly varying

composition and because of this, we are

able to exercise greater control over the

life habits of the domestic animals than

would otherwise he possih-‘lc. Diy matter

is composed of two general classes of pro-

ducts: First, the nitrogenous substances,

and second, the non-nitrogenous sub—

stances.



The Nitrogenous Substances.



By the nitrogenous substances we mean

the products containing nitrogen. The

nitrogenous substances contain also car—





bon, hydrogen, oxygen and sometimes sul—f





phur, phosphorous and iron, or lime in

small quantities,



The principal nitrogenous products with

which we shall be concerned are the pro-

teins, or as they are sometimes called. the

albuminoids. At this point it will] be suf—

ficient to bear in mind that this class of

products are the products containing

nitrogen, and that the proteins are funda-

mentally concerned with plant and animal

life. \Vhy they are so important we shall

. discuss later on in our studies in ,nutri—

tion. It is to build up the proteins that





has furnished such a stimulus to the use

of artificial manures. Otherwise the

practice of intensive agriculture may

quite properly be laid to the door of the

nitrogenous constituents of dry matter.

The Non-Nitrogenous Substances.



The non-nitrogenous substances are the

constituents of the dry matter that con-

tain no nitrogen. They consist of car-

bon. hydrogen, and oxygen in a great

variety of combinations. The non—nitro-

genous matter is further divided into two

principal divisions, viz.:



.-\——'i_‘he carbohydrates.



R—The fats.



.\~—’.l'he carbohydrates, are typified by

such common products as sugar, starch

and cellulose or woody fiber.



B—The fats, are commonly understood

to be the vegetable and animal oils, such

as cottonseed oil, linseed oil, lard, butter,

etc.



Some very complex combinations of

these three simple elements, carbon, hy-

drogen and oxygen, occur in the carbo-

hydrates and the fats. It seems almost

incredible to believe that so many com—

binations can exist and be simply the

various arrangements of these three sim-

ple elements. \Vhen we realize, however,

that granulated sugar, butter-fat, starch-

tallow, etc., are nothing more nor [less

than different arrangements of carbon.

hydrogen and oxygen, we are then pre—

pared to believe other still more wonder-

ful processes of nature.



'\\’c shall discuss them again and more

fully in our discourse on animal nutrition

:1. little further on.





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The. demand for a cheap fertilizer is

not universal by aw means, but it is

quite general. It is apparent that many

farmers still pay greater attention to the

cost of a fertilizer than to its intrinsic

value.



The manufacturer of fertilizers should

not be blamed for the sale of cheap fer-

tilizeis. He has simply been supplying

a demand. Many tons of fertilizers are

sold annually because they pass muster

under the name fertilizer, rather than

because of any specific merit which they

possess.



The farmer evidently fixes in his mind

the amount of money he feels he can af—

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then proceeds to purchase that particu-

lar brand which will give him the greatest

quantity at the lowest price. It is this

demand which has been responsible for

the putting upon the market of the low

grade fertilizers.



Low grade fertilizers are quite gener—

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term “low grade" very aptly expresses

their true rclationship. Assuming that

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then. as a rule. we may safely say that

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Assuming that high grade fertilizing

ingredients are used, the only other ex-

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of a considerable amount of filler. Now

it must be. evident that the manufacturer

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For all of this the farmer must pay, of

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profit besides. Some of the best sellers

retail at about $20 per ton, and if made

from high grade ingredients may perhaps

have a value, say, of $12 per ton. l



The Missouri station (Bulletin No. 91).

illustrates a case as follows, which nicely

confirms the above statements:



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or some other inert substance as filler.

Thé’addition of this flller makes an in-

creased cost to the manufacturer which

“ The price which

the farmer pays for the fertilizer is based

on the delivery at his railroad station.

The manufacturer must, therefore, add

the extra cost of freight on this filler

which in no way increases the valueof

the plant food but must necessarily in-

crease its cost. In addition to this, the

farmer must haul the added filler from

the station to his farm when he could

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ilustration, take the low grade mixed fer-

tilizer mentioned above. This is report-

ed by, many dealers as being their best

seller at from $19 to $21 per ton. At the

values. used, this fertilizer is worth as

follows:





0.82 per cent nitrogen at $4.00 per

unit ................................ .28

7.00 per cent

acid at $1.20 per unit ............ 8.40

1.00 per cent potash at $1.20 per unit 1.20





Total value of this fertilizer ...... $12.88

The amount of plant food in the above

fertilizer can easily be obtained from





good high grade. material as follows:

Nitrogen (0.82 per cent) 16.4 pounds

per ton, can be obtained from 125





pounds of dried blood, 110 pounds of sodi—

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Seven‘ per cent available phosphoric acid,

140 pounds per ton, can be obtained from

1,000 pounds of 14 per cent acid phosphate

or from 875 pounds of 16 per cent acid

phosphate. One per cent potash, 20

pounds per ton, can be obtained from

40 pounds of good commercial sulphate

of potash. This makes a total of from

1,025 pounds to 1,240 pounds of good fer-

tilizer material. The balance of the ton,

975 to 760 pounds, is useless filler upon

which the farmer pays freight because he

demands a cheap fertilizer.”



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LABORATORY REPORT.





 





Dairy Feeding Questions.



We were taught that a cow must have

a certain amount of protein to make milk

of. Does she make the butter~fat from

the protein of the food or from the fat

and carbohydrates of the food? Should

a Jersey cow giving six per cent butter-

fat be fed the same ration as the Holstein

cow that gives three per cent butter-fat?

\Vhy? ,



The object of supplying protein in the

feed is to furnish to the body repair

material to take the place of the tissue

used up in the bodily mechanism of the

cow.‘ This tissue destroyed is of a

nitrogenous character and being nitrogen-

ous must be formed from some food con-

stituent which contains nitrogen (to wit.

protein).



In the elaboration of milk one of the

important constituents of the milk is pro-

tein, and consequently the amount of

protein consumed by the cow must be

sufficient not only to take the place of

the nitrogenous tissue used up by the

body in the- various bodily functions

performed, but as well to supply the

amount of protein removed in the milk.





The butter—fat is produced in part

from the protein but also from the car-

bohydrates and fats. It is not economy

to feed protein for the purpose of but-

ter—fat production because the carbo-

hydrates and fats are cheaper,



Unquestionably a cow giving a six per

cent butter-fat should be fed a greater

grain ration per pound of milk than a

cow giving three per cent butter-fat.





I think the best way of arriving at the

proper grain} ration to be fed should de-

pend upon the pounds of milk solids. In

this way allowance will be made for not

only the difference in quantity of milk

yield between the Jersey and the'Hol-

stein. but also for the difference in com-

position. Milk containing three per cent

butter-fat Will contain 11.5 per cent sol-

ids, whereas milk containing six per cent

butter-fat will contain 15.0 per cent

solids.



“'e may quite safely figure that one

pound of grain ration should be given for

each one—half pound of milk solids. , If a

Holstein cow gives 30 pounds of three per

cent milk she will give 30xl1.5%:3.45

pounds milk Solids per day, which should

call for 6.90 pounds of grain per day.

The Jersey may give but 15 pounds of six

per cent milk, thereby elaborating 15X

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Assuming that the roughage ration

takes care of the maintenance require-

ments of the two cows, the Holstein

should be given on the above basis, 6.90

pounds of grain per day and the Jersey

4.50 pounds per day.



Deterioration of Rubber.





Do rubber goods, such as boots and

shoes, deteriorate with age? If so, "why,

and how prevent it? .





It is generally conceded that such rub--

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very materially with ago. Just why this

is so is not apparent but it is probably

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when not in use than when in actual use,

that is, referring, of course, to the con-

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were in use than not in use. Probably

the most available preventative measure

is to keep the rubber stock in tight com-

partment which is as dark as possible.

The oxidation, or wearing out of the rub-

ber, will not be as rapid in the dark as in

the light.





WHOLE VS. GROUND CORN FOR

HOGS.





The question of the most economical

method of feeding corn to hogs has been

very carefully studied by the Iowa Ex-

periment Station. The fastest and most

profitable gains were secured by feeding

dry—ear corn until the hogs were close to

200 pounds in weight. Then, if the hogs

were to be fed longer, and the weather

permitted, the most profitable gains were

secured by changing them to soaked

shelled corn. Fall pigs and the spring

pigs carried over to be fattened the fol-

lowing spring were handled most profit-

ably by feeding dry-ear corn until the

weather became mild enough for soaking

corn in the following spring, and then

feeding soaked shelled corn until the fin-

ish. It should be borne in mind that com

soaked 12 hours gave better results than

that soaked 24 hours. It proved useless

to grind corn for hogs of any age when

the weather was warm enough to permit

soaking. in every case, where grinding

has shown a saving of corn, simple soak-

ing 12 hours in water has shown a still

greater saving.





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“The Southern. Homeseeker's and In-

vestor’s Guide” is the title of a 40-page

pamphlet, published by the Norfolk &

V‘Vestern Railroad of Roanoke, Va. This

pamphlet is issued quarterly and contains

many fine illustrations as well as descrip-

tive matter concerning the agricultural

industries of the section traversed by this

line.



The Brown Fence and Wire Co., of

Cleveland, 0., will send to interested

readers of the Michigan Farmer their an-

nual catalog of wire fencing, ornamental

fencing, gates, etc. This company is in

its thirty-second year of success in the

fence business and this 64-page illustrated

catalog tells all about the goods they

make.



The Kitsclman Fence, manufactured

by Kitselman Bros, of Muncie, Ind., is

fully described and illustrated in their

40—page catalog, No. 31. This firm was

established in 1883 and manufactures a

number of styles of farm and ornamental

fences, gates, etc, as well as machines

for making one type of fence on the

ground.



Allen’s Catalog for 1912 is a handsomely

illustrated, 50—page book, illustrating and

describing a choice variety of strawberry

plants and small fruits offered by this

grower. Address W. 1“. Allen, Salisbury,

Md, for a. catalog, mentioning the Mich-

igan Farmer,



“Rec Echo" is the title of a. booklet

published by R. M. Owen & Co., 1759

Broadway N. Y., describing and illus-

trating the various styles of Rec auto-

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matter of interest to motorists.



W. N. Scarff's Fruit and Farm Seeds for

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Book Notices.



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, MARKETS





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Dairy, and Poultry Products.

Button—On Monday the produce mar-

ket became a matter of public comment

because of the unusual advance. of 40

per lb, for creamei'y butter. The Elgin

board of trade led off in the change for

higher values and other markets quickly

followed. There is a scarcity of supplies

. and the cold weather is reducing the cur-

e Januaiy 17' 1912' rent output. The high figure, however, is

Grains and Seeds. . checking the movement of butter and

Wheat.—-‘Wheat prices ruled steady at making it difficult for dealers to dispose

the closing figures of a week ago, the of their holdings and it is also encourag-

only interruption being a decline of a mg the use of substitutes. Dairy butter

half cent on Monday, which was regained advanced two cents. Quotations are:

the following day. The chief interest Extra creamery,_ 40C; fiTSt creamery, 360;

centers in conditions in South America dairy, 230;. packing StOCk- 220-

and the activity at primary elevators in E‘QgS-j’l here are few offerings 0f eggs

Canada. lteports of damage keep coming )Nthh SW95 a firm tone to the" market.

in from Argentine and also news that The price remains at 135? weeks figure,

transportation is still interrupted by rail- current I‘CCOlDtS. cases IDCIUded, b91113

road strikes, so that little grain is arriv- (IUOted at 30? per dozen.

ing at the coast for shipment- to foreign Poultry.—~'lhis department continues

countries. The crop in that country, as a week ago, prices being unchanged

while larger than usual wi-ll grade much and trade SteQG-V- Quotations are: lee

below normal because of the excessive “'1 urkeys, ”WHO; geese, 11.617130: ,dUCRS'

wet weather. This is true also of the 1110? young ducks, 15C; spring chickens,

Canadian wheat, the offerings show the ”(”13“ NO- 2 chickens, 1°C per lb;hens,

effects of moisture, the grain being 10((011c. Dressed—Chickens, 12/2@13c.

mouldy and musty in many instances. ?§:-S’ti}:lglric;lgacilg% 17@18C' geese, 14@

This makes dealers anxious to secure dry * . ~ *7 .. '

grain and is likely to develop a wider (‘YneaL—gMarkthflil'biées eitfiidy. Fancy, 11

margin between the high and low grades. 11' “c, C orce, ‘ p '





The American visible supply decreased. $6915?sl§i:gvyH(5%.550—323ghdwt $7;





Fruits and Vegetables.

Cabbage.—Now selling at 2%@21/2c per

pound.

Onions—Steady at $1.25@1.35 per bu.





DETROIT WHOLESALE. MARKETS.





medium,





4.000.000 bushels during the week. One

year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat

was 983/10 per bu. Quotations are as





follows: A . - , r

pples.—-Baldwxns and Greenings, $2.00



N0-2 Nosl @3; Spy, $3@3.50; Ben Davis, $2@2.50;

Red. VVh‘te' May. July, Snows, $3.50@4 per bbl.



Thursday ...... 97 .95 31.01%, .9534 __ _ __



Friday ......... 97 .95 1.0114 .95'*/.,,



Saturday ....... 97 .95 1.0114 .9534 OTHER MARKETS-



Bionday ........ 961/2 .941/2 1.00% ‘95‘4 H—— .



Tuesday ........ 97 .95 1.01 .9515; Grand Rapids.





\Vednesday .....971/2 .951/2 1.01%. .96, Fresh. eggs have advanced to 32c. Dairy

Corn.——The cold weather has favored butter 15 steady at 250- H33, 15 in‘good

a stronger corn market. There appears demand and 15’ bringing $18@20 1’91 ‘ton.

to be a good foreign demand for this ”Limes are not moving, mm the Grand

grain. Offerings at country elevators Ralilds local market 15 higher, tubers rc-

have not been sufficient to ‘hold prices tailing at 35c per peck. ,L‘Ye chickens

steady and the cold wave augmented the andkfowg are ‘1‘ Oiflkgqé’nlézcc’ ga§fight10§§

influence. Many sections of the country if,“ Si, 3., atmvoats 513,0' cor-n 630' rye

that usually grow sufficient of this cereal 8t: ngnrdgbwkwhcatdfic ’ ’ ’ ’

to carry on their feeding ope-rations are c ‘ uc ‘ '

importing corn this winter. This gives a.

substantial support to the deal. The price

for No. 3 corn :1 year ago was 471/éc per





 





Chicago.

“meat—No. 2 red, 95@97c; May, 993/93;





bushel. Quotations are as follows: July, 9428C-

No.3 No.3 Corn.——No, 3, 61@611/zc May, 65?;gc; July

Corn. Yellow. 65140 per bu.

Thursday . . . . . . . . ........ 63 6 ()ats.-——NO. 2 white, 50@501/2c; May,

Friday ....... 63 64 491/20; July, 451/3c per bu.

Mimdfly - . - - - - - . ----------- 63% 64%» Barley—Multing grades, $1.10@1.35 per

Saturday ....... .. ........ 631/2 641/2 bu; feeding, 80(1900.

Tuesday .-. - . . - . - - . ------- 64 65 Butter.—Easte~rn markets are taking a

\Vedncsday -------------- 641/: 651/2 large part of the high grade butter, and





Oats—There is a very actiVe demand this. aided bydhe extreme 001d. brought

for oats on the local market and the sup~ a 20 advance In this market .on Monday.

N." is scarce. Prices are advanced'over The sensational Jump‘at Liam caused a

the high figures of last week. In the Chi— further advance on '1 uesday and. placed

cage market holders are not in a mood prices on the hlghest level known in some

to sell and appear ready to accept more yea-11‘s. cluptatlonsz U‘eamerleS. 306.0400;

of this grain, which gives to the trade dairies, ””5349- ., *

there a bullish tone. One year ago the Eggs—Despite cold Weather and con-

price for standard oats was 36c per bu. sequent llgllt receipts, this. market_ IS

Quotations are as follows; quiet and deCidedly_eas1er, prices showmg



Standard. No. 3 a decline of 1%c Since last week. Quo-

White. tatio'ns are: Firsts, grading 45 per cent





Thursday 511/2 51 fresh, 311/2C; ordinary firsts, 261/260281/20;





Friday 511/, 51 at mark. cases included. .18@271A:C_1)er doz.

Saturday ....... ...... 51% 511,; Potatoes.——Unusually light receipts and

Monday .................. 51% 511/4 reports of damage byhfreezmg from many

Tuesday ................. 7.2 511/2 sections have sent prices up about 150 in





\ v9 . . v _______________ rgig 5133/ the last ten days. Market firm. \Michigan

\ dnesda,n 0 ’L. 4 stock is now quoted at $1.08@].10 per

Beans—Jim cold weather has improved bu \Visconsin $1-056b1-10‘ MinneSUta.



the bean deal, Vit'VVG‘ti from the seller’s “4168611116 ’ ’ , ’



standpoint. Both cash and futures .aro " Beans.——.This market has an easy un-



higher. 'lhe. trade IS becominganxlous dcrtone. Current quotations are: gi’ea



for the supplies farmers have in their beans—— Choice hand-picked, 962.536.02.55



possessm‘n. There is also an improve- pei‘ bu' prime, $2.35. Red Kidneys—



ment in the condition of the legumes. Fancv 353.15. average, $3.



Quotations are as IOHOWS: Hay, and Straw—All grades steady to





. Cash Feb . . ,-



. ‘ ‘ firm. uotations: Timoth , choice, $23.50



Thursday ............. Wigs; $5.35 @24‘508N0' 1' $22o23; 0. 2 and N0. 1



1;”?‘1?’ """""""" ,‘3.’ 2'3'7 mixed, $20.50o21; No. 3 and N0. 2 mix-

*a' “may """""" " """ 5‘ ;’ 2'37 ed, $16@19.50; clover, $15.50@17.5o; No.



Monday """""""""" 03;) 2‘37 clover and no grade, 557.506.013.50; alfalfa,



“l“Sda-V """""""""""" 3”,; 2'40 choice, $19.50m20; No. 1, $1s@19; N0. 2,



\\ ednesday ................ .3 . 1661317; straw, oat, $96010; straw, wheat,





Clover Seed.~—l’rices have advanced $7‘50qp850.

since a wcck ago. \\'hile the volume of "

sales is small a firm tone features the

trade. Quotations are as follows:



Prime Spot. March. Alsike.





New York.

Biitter.— Cold weather and lighter ship-





.. , . .,~ . ,— H ments have advanced all grades. Mar-

r‘lhursda} """'$1§‘1),9 $11391) fig'g'fi; ket firm. Creamery specials are quoted

lirma’ """""" i512 ,3}? “'06 at 42c per ‘lb; extras. 401/2frt4lc; firsts, 36(g)

WWW-V """" 13'le 13713 “'00 3815c; seconds, 31m34<-.



'Monday """"" '31,? 193-: “'00 Eggs —Market irregular; prices average

liiesday """"" 1"": ”"3 1'9.— lower. Fresh gathered extras, 35((1136c;

\\ednesday """ 13'2” 13‘2" 1“" extra firsts, 331/2(m34c; seconds, 32(g/33C;





Rye.——This grain held at the advanced western gathered whites, 35((238c per doz.

price of a week ago. Offerings arc small I‘oultry.—~LiveHFirm. \Vcstern chick-

and the trade quiet. N0. 2 rye is quoted ens, 1;3i/_,g,,«.141/20; fowls, 16¢l17c; turkeys,

at 97c per bushel. 14(«160. Dressed—Dull. \Vestern chick-



Timothy Seed—«This market is dead. ens, 131,436,190; fowls, 141/2@171/2C; turk-





The nominal quotation is $7.20 per bu. eys, 12((li2ll/zc.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes. Etc. ~——~—

Flour.—-—T’riccs are unchanged. Markct 30.550”-

steadv W'ool —Thcre was a general under-

Straight ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4.25 standing among manufacturers that, from

Patent Michigan ..................... 4.85 a demand and supply viewpoint, wool

Ordinary Patent -------------------- 4-60 must advance and upon that knowledge

Rye .................................. 5.20 many large fimns huught heavily of “'00)





Feed.~~.»’\ll grades are unchanged and during the month of December, with the

steady. Carlot prices on track are: Bran, result that the market held firm and

$28 per ton: coarse middlings, $28: fine prices advanced slowly. They having

middlings, $322 cracked corn, $30: coarse supplied their wants there has been (11-

corn meal, $30: COTD and oat ChOl). $27 minished calls for wool during January

per ton. _ , and consequently less trading is being



Hay and Straw.—\Vith the exception of carried on. Many lines, however, are

We straw all grades 0f hay and straw low and the whole supply shows a short-

are higher. Market firm. Quotations are: 3g“ as compared with a. year ago. A

No. 1 timOthY. 321506022: NO- 2 timothy, large number of Americans are attending

$205190”)? 010V”, mixed, $195060”: rye the London sa‘les, showing the anxiety

straW. SSW-506?“: wheat 311d oat straw, on this side to secure foreign wools to

$10 (1.40.50 DOT ton. supply our deficit. The activity extends



potatoes—Because farmers Will not to nearly all grades, quarter—bloods, how-

chance Shipping their potatoes for fear ever, being in greatest demand among

of freezing, the SUDDIY is running low the grades of fleeces. Following are the

and I‘I‘iCGS are going up. Car lots on leading domestic quotations for fleeces:

track are QUOted at 95061751 per bushel. Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—~Delaine



PrOViS'0n8-—Fam“y pork, $17-50@20: washed, 32c; XX, 28@290; fine unmer-

mess perk. $16.50: medium clear. $16-5°@ chantable, 23¢; %-blood combing. 27c

18? picnic hams, 9%C; bacon, 1262140; pure 27150;- %-b100d combing, 26%@27C; 14_

lard in tierces, 10"; kettle rendered lard, blood combing, 26c delalne unwashed,

110 per 1b~ 25c; fine unwashed, 210. Michigan. WiS‘





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consin and New. York fleeces—Fine. un-,

washed,“ 200; delaine unwashed, 28015.13;

blood unwashed, 251/é@26c. .Kentucky,

Indiana and Missouri——-%-blood. 240; 1,4-

blood, 25c;



Elgin.



Butter—Market firm at 400, which is

an advance of 4c since a week ago. This

is the highest price level reached in this

market since 1888. Output for the past

Week amounted to 615,000 pounds, as

compared with 618,000 pounds for the

previous week;





 





 





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.





January 15, 1912.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 160 cars; hogs, 155 double decks;

sheep and lambs, 130 double decks; calves

900 head.



\Vith 160 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and 17,000 reported in Chi-

cago, everything showing fat and quality

sold at last week’s prices. In fact, the

better grades of heavy cattle that were

on sale today were very similar in quality

to the top grades last Week. The lower

grades of cattle sold slow and barely

steady, and in some instances a shade

lower than last week.



\Ve quote: Zest 1,400 to 1,600-lb. steers

$7.85@8.25; good prime 1.300 to 1,400-lb.

steers, $7.50@7.75; (10. 1,200 to 1,300-lb.

do., $1607.50; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. ship—

ping steers, $6.75@7.25; medium butcher

steers, 1,000 to 1,100, $5.75@6.50; light

do., 554.2561525; best fat cows, $4.85@5.40:

fair to good do., $4.25@4.75; common to

medium do., fii3.60@4.25_'L trimmers, $2.50

((13; best fat heifers, $5.75@6.50; good do.

$5.25@5.60: fair to good do., $4.50@5;

stock heifers, $3.25fa350; best feeding

steers, dehorned, $5615.25; common do.,

$4654.25; stockers, all grades, $350694;

prime export bulls. $5.25@5.75; best butch-

er bulls, 9545501525; bologna bulls, $4@

4.50; stock bulls, $3.25@4; best milkers

and springers, $4501.55; common to good

do., $25fi130.



\Vith a very heavy run of hogs on hand

this morning, it was impossible to get any

advance over the close of last week;

practically all of the choice quality strong

weight yoi'kers, mixed and medium

weights selling at $6.40. Pigs and lighter

weights sold around $6.15fii.6.25,,according

to weight and quality. The bulk of the

rough sows sold at $5.70, with some of

the selected bunches at $5.75. There are.

a good many hogs going over unsold that

were yarded late. Do not look for much

change in prices until the supply is

cleaned up and out of the way.



The lamb market was active today;

most of the choice lambs selling for $7.25;

few at $7.3 . Look for little higher prices

the last of the week. The sheep market

was firm today; prospects about steady on

sheep. ‘



“'e quote: Best lambs. $7@7.30; cull

to common do., 35.50606; wethers, $4.50@_

.5; bucks, 3422565350; yearlings, $5@6;

handy ewes, $4.25fiv4.50; heavy ewes, $461,)

4.25; cull sheep, $261325; veals, choice to

extra, $10.50@10.75; fair to good do., $8

@10.





 





Chicago.

January 15, 1912.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 17,000 25,000 23,000

Same day last year..39,567 35,289 30,761

Received last we-ek..62,069 211,945 142,818

Same week last year.59,770 157,406 100,470



This protracted severely cold weather,

while it has some brief let-ups, stays

with us for almost an u‘nprecedentedly

long time. and the receipts of all kinds

of live stock today are very small for a

Monday, due in part to the disposition of

many stockmen to wait for a rise in the

temperature, but more to the continued

refusal of the railroads last Saturday and

Sunday to accept consignments of stock.

Many droves of hogs are reported held

back at country shipping stations, and

stock trains are delayed hours behind time

today. Cattle, after advancing 1060150 for

most kinds last week. show the same ad-

vance today, with one sale at $8.60. Hogs

are up a dime, despite slowness upon the

part of local packers in taking hold, with

shipments of hogs and other livg stock

to eastern points hindered by lack of

cars. .l‘logs are going at $5.950i6.50,-with'

the best light hogs at $6.371/z, while pigs

are selling at $4415.75, buyers using their

efforts to depress pig prices, partly, it

is said, to discourage owners from mar-

keting them. Hogs received last Week

averageed 211 lbs, compared with 223

lbs. a year ago and 208 lbs. two years

ago. Sheep and lambs lost late last week

much of their big booms in prices and

are steady at these reductions today.

with the best lambs going at $7.15, while-

a few cars of feeder lambs averaging

around 62 lbs. were sold to Michigan buy-

ers at 353561540. Top yearlings are sal—

able now at $6, best wethers at $5.65 and

best ewes at $4.50.



Cattle prices moved back and forth last

week because of the irregular supplies,

with an exceptionally meager run Mon-

day o'n account. of the unusually severe

winter Weather. Many consignments of

cattle intended for the Monday market

were refused by the railroad officials, who

foresaw that prompt: deliveries could not

be promised, and hence there were a

good many delayed supplies later in the

week. Monday’s prices were anywhere

from 1061250 higher, there. being nowhere

near enough cattle to go around, as less

than 16,000 head arrived. Later in the

week there were declines in values, with

recoveries, and on the whole owners of

desirable lots had little cause for com-

plaint. The greater part of the week’s

sales of steers took place at a range of

$575638, with the cheaper class of light-

weight, short-fed steers going at $4.90@

5.75, theSe being cattle that should haVe





JAN. 50, 1912





been fed. considerably longer. The,,samc

may be said 'of many of the medium

grade cattle, these selling at $6606.90,

while good steers went at $7@7.70 and

choice to fancy lots at $7.75@8.50. De-

sirable yearling steers were sold on a

basis of $6.75@8.40, but at no time was

there much trading in cattle above $8.

The better class of cattle sold $1@1.50

per 100 lbs. higher than a year ago, but

there was no great difference in the poor-

er lots. Butcher stock went off extreme-

Jly well on the whole, being higher, with

cows and heifers taken at $3.60@7, while

cutter-s sold at $2.85@3.55, canners at, $2@

2.80 and bulls at $3.35@6.10. Moderate

animation characterized the stocker and

feeder trade, stockers finding buyers at

$3.40@5.25, and feeders at $4.75@6.10.

These cattle were in only moderate sup-

ply, and choice lots were‘particularly

scarce, with packers outbidding country

buyers for choice heavy feeders. Calves

Sold at $3.50@6 for the commoner lots

and at $8@9.50 for the better class of

light vcaiers, the more attractive lots

being scarce and in strong demand at

further liberal advances in prices. Milk-

ers and springers were active and higher

at $30@75 each.



Hogs were marketed last week in

greatly increased volume, with 53,439

head showing up Wednesday, the big

runs bringing about some sharp breaks

in prices, following an upturn of 10@200

Monday, when the offerings Were especi-

ally light because of the cold snap. The

hogs were all wanted, however, with es-

peciallly vigorous buying on the weak

spots, and on Wednesday 10.853 hogs

were taken out of here y eastern

shippers. The local packers lost no op—

portunity to depress prices, and the big

ones brought in fair numbers from other

markets. Rallies in prices took place af-

ter the mid-week big break in quota-

tions, with choice shipping hogs of good

weights taking the lead, as usual. The

receipts continued to run chiefly to light-

weight swine, these being marketed very

extensively by their owners in order to

avoid longer feeding of high-priced corn,

although the best authorities are agreed

that, even at the ruling advanced values

of various feeds, it will pay stock feeders

to hold their hogs to full maturity, Light

hogs are selling still at a marked dis-

count,~ and so are pigs, but the receipts

of extremely light pigs are nowhere near

so large as several weeks ago. \Vhiie

cattle averaged 10@15c .lOWer at' the close

of the. week than a week earlier, hogs

closed only about a dime lower, sales

ranging at 558560640.



Sheep and lambs sold wonderfully well

last week. with smaller receipts and a big

general demand, shippers doing their

share of the buying. The lively upward

movement in prices that was so widely

predicted several weeks ago, when the

market was glutted and extremely low in

prices, has been carried out fully, and

the rise so far has even exceeded most

expectations. Lambs, always the most

active, have led off in the advances, the

offerings of the choicer lots being much

too small to go around, but yearlings,

wethers and ewes have all had large ad-

vances. Eastern markets have been bare

of live muttons much of the time lately,

and this has made a large eastern de-

mand in this market, forcing local pack-

ers and butchers to face genuine compe-

tition. When the startling fact is re-

called that at the low level of about six

weeks ago. it took prime lambs to fetch

55.50, sheepmen who have been hesitat-

ing whether to finish off their holdings in

first-class condition, should hesitate no

longer. Lambs sold up to $7.40, the poor:

estgomg at $4.50, while yeanlings sold at

$5fit6.25; wethers at $4605.05; ewes at

i142.50tfi;]4.75 anti] bucks at $2.50@3.50. Dur-

ng e prev ous week the be

brought $6.85. St lambs





MICHIGAN FARMERS"INST|TUTES.

County Institutes.——Midland Co., Cole-

man, Jan. 22-23; Bay Co., Auburn, Jan.

23-24; Gratiot Co., St. Louis, Jan. 24-25;

Saginaw Co., Saginaw, Jan. 24—25; Jen—

csee Co., Flint, Jan, 25-26; Clinton Co.,

()vid, Jan. 263-27; Tuscola Co., Caro, Jan.

26fi/27; l-luron Co., Bad Axe, Jan. 29-30'

Sanilac Co., .Melvin, Jan. 30-31; Lapeer

Co., Almont. Jan. 31-Feb. 1; St, Clair

Co., Marine City, Feb. 1-2; Macomb Co.

Armada. Feb. 1—2; Mason Co., Ludington'

Jan. 24-25; Manistec Co., Bear Lake, Jan:

25-26; Benzie Co., Bendon,..lan, 26-27'

Leela‘nau‘ Co., Sutton’s Bay, Jan. 29-30;

Grand Traverse Co., Traverse City, Jan.

30-31; Antrim Co., Elk Rapids, Jan. 31-

Feh. 1; CharleVUix Co., East Jordan, Feb.

1-2: Kalkaska Co., Kalkaska, Feb. 2-3'

Lake Co., Luther, Feb. 5—6; Mecosta Co:

ijig Rapids, Jan. 29-30; Newaygo Co.,

I‘l‘emont, Jan. 30-31; Oceana Co., Hart.

Jan. 3l-Feb. 1. ~ *



w One-day institutes.



_ (,harlevoix Co., Norwood, Jan. 22; Mar-

ion Center, Jan. 23; Ironton, Jan. 24; Kal-

amazoo Co., Alamo, Jan. 20; Cooper, Jan.

22; Comstock, Jan. 23; Augusta, Jan. 24'

Ingham Co., Holt, Jan. 22; Allegan Co.’

Burnips Corners, Jan. 22; Hamilton, Jan:

23; Monterey, Jan. .24; Chicora, Jan. 25;

Hopkins, Jan. 26; ’Wayland, Jan. 27; St.

Clair Co., Smith‘s Creek, Jan. 23; Good-

ells, Jan. 24; Capac, Jan, 25; Emmett,

Jan. 26; China Township, Jan. 27; Avoca,

Jan 29; Yale, Jan 30; Blaine, Jan 31; Gen—

esee Co., Montrose, Jan. 22-23; Hillsdale

Co., Somerset, Jan. 29; Moscow, Jan. 30;

North Adams, Jan. 31; Jefferson, Feb. 1;

Litchfield, Feb. 2; Reading, Feb. 3; Front-

ier, Feb. 5; Allen, Feb. 6; Berrien Co.,

Benton Center, Jan. 22; Sodus, Jan. 23;

Pipestone, Jan. 24; Berrien Center, Jan.

25; Sootdale, Jan. 26; Glendora, Jan. 27.

Farmers' institutes Saginaw.



A neat six—page folder has been issued

by thelocal institute authorities of Sag-

inaw county for the sessions to be held

Jan. 24-25 at the Auditorium in Saginaw.

The folder gives a list of the officers

and speakers, a detailed program of the

several sessions and local information of

interest to institute members and friends.





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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.

January 18, 1912.

‘ Cattle.



Receipts, 726. Market steady at last

Week’s prices on all grades.



We quote: Best steers and heifers, $6

@650; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,

$5.50@6; do., 800 to 1.000, $4.75@5.50; do.

that are fat, 500 to 700, $4@4.50; choice

fat cows, $4.50@4.75; good fat cows, $3.50

@4; common cows, $3@3.25; canners, $2

@3; choice heavy bulls, $4.50@5; fair to

good bolognas, bulls, $3.50@4; stock bulls,

$3@3.50; milkers, large, young, medium

age, $40@50; common milkers, $25@35,



Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 6

cows av 1,021 at $4.25, 1 bull weighing 910

at $4.25; to Kamman 18 butchers av 856

at $5.35, 1 steer weighing 840 at $4.50; to

Co. 1 canner weighing

770 at $2.75, 5 steer av 1,008 at $5.65, 2

butchers av 975 at $4.50. 1 cow weighing

910 at $3.50, 3 heifers av 583 at $4, 1 steer

weighing 900 at $5.25, 3 cows av 973 at

$3.25, 6 canner‘s av 825 at $2.85, 2 do av

975 at $3, 7 do av 917 at $2.85; to Parker,

W. & Co. 21 butchers av 783 at $5.15,

5 do av 934 at $4, 1 steer weighing 904 at

$5, 2 do av 670 at $4.50; to Newton B.

Co. 5 cows av 1,104 at $4.50, 2 do av 1,175

at $3, 10 steers av 863 at $5.75, 3 butch-

ers ax 800 at $4.50, 10 do av 895 at $5.10,

7 do av 820 at $4.50; to Schlischer 3 steers

av 826 at $5.75, 2 do av 650 at $4.25; to

Goose 4 cows av 960 at $3.60, 4 heifers av

400 at $4, 5 cows av 962 at $4.50, 1 do

weighing 960 at $3.50; to Bresnahan I

stockers av 601 at $4; to Kamman B. Co.

4 cows av 770 at $3.50; to Regan 2 heifers

av 565 at $4.50; to Newton B. Co. 22

steers av 993 at $6; to Mich. B. Co. 22

do av 992 at $5.90, 18 do av 836 at $5.50,

5 butchers av 890 at $4, 3 canners av 783

at $3; to Newton B. Co. 4 steers av 650

at $4.25, 1. do weighing 1,080 at $6, 1 do

weighing 1,240 at $6.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Kamman B. Co. 29

butchers av 846 at $5.35, 12 do av 866 at

$5; to Regan 1.0 do av 570 at $3.90.



Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

5 butchers av 920 at $4, 1 cow weighing

840 at $3.25, 2 do av 840 at $3.25, 2 do av

950 at $3; to Nagle P. Co. 2 do av 950 at

$3.25, 3 steers av 747 at $4.75. 8 cows av

906 at $4.10.. 30 butchers av 936 at $5.10,

3 bulls av 1,003 at $4.50; to Kamman B..

Co. 8 butchers av 746 at $4.50; to Sullivan‘

P. Co. 2 steers av 850 at $5.75. 2 cows av

1,175 at $5, 1 do weighing 1,170 at $3.25;

to Thompson Bros. 2 do av 820 at $4; to

Kamman 2 do av 780 at $3.25, 5 do av 808

at $3.50, 14 butchers av 648 at $4.75.



Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co. 7 cows

av 1,211 at $4.65; to Rattkowsky 1 bull

weighing 1,430 at $4.60, 2 cows av 1,150

at $4, 1 do weighing 1,140 at $3.25; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 5 do av 964 at $3.20,

2 canners av 830 at $2.60.



Tagart sold Hammond, S. & Co. 6 steers

av 970 at $6.20.



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 392. Market steady at last

week’s prices. Best, $9@10; others, $4@

8.75; milch cows and springers steady.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W, & Co.

14 av 150 at $9.25, 8 av 125 at $9, 7 av

130 at $9.50, 2 av 140 at $9, 2 av 115 at

$9.50, 1 Weighing 150 at $9, 2 av 115 at $8:

to Nagle P. Co. 2 av 110 at $9.50, 6 av

160 at $9.50. 7 av 135 at $9.50, 2 av 160 at

$7.50, 3 av 165 at $9; to Sullivan P. Co.

3 av 160 at $9.50; to Parker, XV. & Co.

19 av 150 at $9.50, 35 av 140 at $9, 12 av

150 at $9.75; to Burnstine 13 av 145 at

$9.25, 10 av 133 at $9.



Spicer & R. sold Thompson Bros. 1

weighing 160 at $8: to Hammond, S. & Co.

6 av 150 at $9.50, 2 av 160 at $10; to Sul~

livan P. Co. 2 av 250 at $6, 7 av 145 at

$9.50; to Rattkowsky 1 weighing 250 at

$6, 3 av 155 at $9, 2 av 250 at $6, 7 av

145 at $9.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 4,858. Market steady at

\Vednesday’s prices; 15@25c lower than

last week’s opening. Best lambs, $6.75;

fair lambs, $6@6.50; light to common

lambs, $4@5.25; fair to good sheep, $3@4;

culls and common, $2612.75. .



Bishop, B. & H. Sold Swift & Co. 39

sheep av 85 at $4. 17 do av 125 at $3.75,

36 do av 125 at $3.50, 22 do av 110 at $3,

25 do av 110 at $2.50, 111 lambs av 83 at

$6.75, 142 do av 82 at $6.60, 131 do av 85





at $6.50, 76 do av 75 at $6.40; to Sullivan,





P. Co. 50 do av 73 at $6.25, 48 do av 60

at $5, 50 do av 57 at $5. 14 do av 65 at

$5.25, 46 do av 55 at $4.50, 36 do av 60 at

$4.25. 29 do av 70 at $6.50, 26 do av 50 at

$4.50, 40 do av 55 at $5, 37 do av 55 at

$4.50; to Nagle P. Co. 28 sheep av 90 at

$2.25, 129 do av 115 at $3.75, 235 lambs av

73 at $6.70, 173 do av 80 at $6.75, 211 do

av 80 at $6.80, 60 do av 75 at $6.75; to

Thompson Bros. 17 sheep av 78 at $2.50,

22 lambs av 50 at $4.50, 14 do av 65 at

$6; to Hayes 11 do av 65 at $5.50. 9 do av

60 at $5.50; to Pierson 44 do av 73 at

$6.60; to Young 39 do av 70 at $6.50; to

Hammond. S. & Co. 14 do av 80 at $6.75,

37 do av 75 at $6.25, 19 do av 55 at $5; to

Fitzpatrick Bros. 122 do av 85 at $6.75, 24

sheep av 90 at $3.50, 12 do av 78 at $4, 26

do av 90 at $4; to Parker, W. & Co. 133

lambs av 80 at $6.75.



Spicer & R. sold Nagle P. Co. 3 sheep

av 155 at $3.25, 23 lambs av 90 at $6.80.

19 do av 185 at $6.80. 124 do av 84 at

$6.75; to Rattkowsky 10 sheep av 110 at

$3.50, 1 buck weighing 160 at $3.25; to

Breitenbeck 43 lambs av 50 at $5.75; to

Parker, W. & Co. 67 do av 57 at $5.50; to





 





 





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Thompson Bros. 26 sheepav 95 at $3.75;

to Hayes, 22 lambs av 60 at $3.50, 29 do

av 50 at $4; to Hammond, S. & Co. 36

do av 75 at $6.75, 26 do av 70 at $6.50, 22

sheep av 90 at $3.50, 6 lambs av 45 at $5;

$2) {Thompson Bros. 14 sheep av 90 at

.5 .

Hogs.





Receipts, 2,941. None sold up to noon.

Bidding about steady with Wednesday of

last week.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $6.10@6.25; pigs, $5.90@5.95; light

yorkers, $6@)6.10; stage one-third off.



‘Hale-y & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 280

av 215 at $6.25, 225 av 180 at $6.20, 135 av

150 at $6.15.



Spicer & R. sold same 370 av 210 at

$225), 315 av 180 at $6.20, 150 av 145 at



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 510 av 210 at $6.25, 1,680 av 180 at

$6.20, 541 av 150 at $6.10, 315 av 160 at

$6.15, 337 av 140 at $6.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 135

av 210 at $6.25, 240 av 180 at $6.15, 24 av

200 at $6.20, 42 av 170 at $6.





Thursday's Market. '

January 12, 1912.





Cattle.





Receipts, 415. ,Market steady 'at

Thursday’s prices.



We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $6.50@6.75; steers and heifers,

1,000 to 1,200, $5.50@6; do. 800 to 1.000,

$4.75@5.50; grass steers and heifers that

are fat, 500 to 700, $4.25@4.50; good fat

cows, $3.75@4; common do, $3@3.50; can-

ners, $2@2.75; choice heavy bulls, $4.75@

5; fair to good bolognas, bulls. $4.25@4.50;

milkers, large, young, medium age, $406;l

50; common milkers, $20@30.



Veal Calves.





Receipts, 112. Market steady at

Thursday’s prices. Best, $9@10; others,

$5@8.50; milch cows and springers dull.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 2,710. Good grades steady;

common and culls 25@350 lower. Best.

lambs, $6.75@7; fair lambs, $5.75@6.50;

fair to good sheep, $3@4; culls and com-

mon, $2@3.





Hogs.

Receipts, 1,740. Market steady at

Thursday’s prices.

Range of prices: Light to good butch—

ers, $6.20@6.25; pigs, $5.90@6; light york-

ers, $6.10@6.15; stags one-third off.





 





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





A few farmers have been buying well-

bred little heifers in the Chicago market

for fattening, and it seems strange that

more stock feeders do not follow this

course, since prime heifers are usually

extremely good sellers, even at times

when the steer market is in bad shape.

in recent weeks there have been limited

sales of strictly prime heifers at the Chi-

cago stock yards at $6@7 per cwt., not

many of this class being shipped in, and

a short time ago a sale was made of two

head of fancy yearling heifers for the

Christmas holiday market at $8, which

is the highest price of the year. Heifer

sales above $6 are rare, recent sales of

corn-fed heifers having been largely at

$5@5.75 for a choice class of corn—feds,

while a pretty good killing kind off corn

sold around $4.50@4.85. Sales have been

made of ordinary to middling stalk-fed

cows at $3.15@3.85.



For the past six months one of our

two-year—old colts has had a nasty dis-

charge from nose; this colt is stooking in

all four legs and under belly. His appe-

tite is none too good, but his bowels and

kidneys act all right. Our local Vet. has

treated him for some time without doing

him much good. T. R., Van Wert, 0.—





Groom him well twice a day, keep him.





in a clean, well ventilated barn that is

warm; feed him plenty of oats, mixed hay

and roots. Give him 2 drs. powdered sul-

phate of iron, 39 oz. ground gentlan, 1

dr. ground nux vomica and 2 drs. pow-

dered buchu at a. dose in feed three times

daily.



The recent report made by the tariff

board states that practically all of the

corn land in the state of Illinois is suffi-

ciently well drained to maintain flocks of

sheep, but the land is so valuable for

grain growing that farmers are placing

most of it under cultivation. This results

in a shortage of summer feed. One farm—

er owning 860 acres of such lands was

asked whether the maintenance of farm

flocks as a regular feature of agricultural

operations IS on the increase in his com-

munity, and he replied: "It is on the

decrease because of the great profits of

grain farming, I got ovcr $50 an acre

for a field of corn last year.” This farmer

was formerly known as a large holder of

sheep, but now he owns only a. small

number. Like practically all the states

of the middle west, dogs make she-“p

raising rather precarious, while the stom—

ach worm has done serious injury in

many places. Many former sheepmen

have abandoned the industry because of

the ravages of this little pest. but others

have found the much more rugged range

sheep valuable substitutes for the more

delicate natives. The tariff board report

contains the following paragraph: “No-

where in the state is the production of

wool the primary object, but it is regard—

ed as a necessary consideration with

lamb growers to make sheep pay. Shrop-

shire and other down blood prevails in

most of the flocks. Illinois, like her sister

states, Iowa, Missouri and Indiana, has a

large percentage of flocks badly mixed in

breeding. Like these states. too, she has

dropped Memino for the British mutton

breeds, and for the same reasonsuname-

ly. that the decline in price of wool and

the rise in the price of land made the

production of wool no longer profitable."



Western packers haVe slaughtered from

the first of last November to latest ad—

vices 6,010,000 hogs, a gain of 1,515,000

hogs over the same time a year ago.





" THE P 'MicHi‘GAN FARMER. §..





 

 

 





 





ALBERTA’S 836'?





Reports from the grain fields of Alberta,

' estern Canada, show splendid

yields of wheat, oats and

barley. .



Many farmers have paid

for their land out of the pro-

ceeds of theprop of 1911.



At exhibitions throughout

the U. S. wherever the rain

from this Provmce has een

shown it has received the

highest commendation.



,, Free Homesteads of 160 acres

-and adjoininggre-emptions of

‘1 ~’ f?’ 160 acres(at per acre) are to

$5,, ‘ "m be had in the chowest districts.

. Schools convenient, climate

: "i" excellent, soil of the very best,

/ ' railways close at hand,building

lumber chea , fuel easy to get

and reasons le ln_price, water

easily procured, mixed farming

a teat success.

4 rite as to best place for settlement,

\ ‘ settlers' low railway rates, pamphlet

_ "Last Besthst." and other information,

, to Supt. of immigration. Ottawa. Cain.

"‘ or to Can. Gov. Alt.

' , w. c. McINNES. ,

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FARMS in an inn

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l D v .

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,us soon as another male approaches.





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MATING THE BREEDING STOCK.





 





 





month the poultryman

must begin actual preparations for the

selection of his breeding stock. No more

serious problem confronts the breeder or

the farmer than that of proper mating,

for his success in securing the best of

young stock will depend upon how he» se-

lected and mated his fowls. It becomes

a question of studying the fowls intended

for breeders, determining the good and

bad points in each, and then mating them

in such manner as to overcome the faults

and perpetuate the desirable qualities so

far as possible.



The selection of the breeders should

commence a month or six weeks before

hatching eggs are desired. This will allow

ample time in which to study the breed-

ers from time to time, noting how the

male behaves toward his mates, whether

too many or too few females are being

mated to him, and to make better selec-

tions should other members of the flock

develop desirable qualities.





During this





Points to Consider in Choosing Males.



The male is considered half the breed-

ing pen and is the. sire of each chick.

ll‘is good and poor qualities are likely to

appear in every chick hatched. There-

fore, in order to obtain best results he

must be first considered. lie must be

fully matured and up to standard weight.

it is advisable. whenever possible. to use

males not less than a year old. Weak,

runty stock can often be traced directly

to the use of immature cockerels. Select

a male that is healthy, vigorous, active,

that spoils for a fight and is a good

crower. not one that will cower and run

.He

should stand well on his feet. Do not use

one with legs so” close together that they

almost touch.



The shape of the head

taken into consideration. A short, broad

skull is desired. Avoid the one that pos-

sesses a long and narrow head which, in





should also be





my opinion, denotes lack of masculine

power. The eyes should be large and

bright, the comb and 'wattles blood red.





Some cockerels often develop into what

are known as “cffeminate males.” That

is, they resemble a hen in some respects





0 2' THBTT‘Mici-‘nGAN FARMER.‘ '





the hens abOut in the breeding pens. 'I

often find that some male will refuse to

mate with certain hens. When such is

the case, remove those hens and put them

in another pen. Keep changing them

about in this way until you are sure that

all hens are receiving proper attention.

I also find that some males will pick on

certain hens, driving them about the pen

and depriving them of their proper share

of feed. I remove all such hens from the

pen and have others take their place.

However, if the male is naturally vicious

he should be discarded.



Selecting the hens according to their

laying qualities is to some poultrymen a

hard proposition. If everyone had the

time and inclination to install and op—

erate trap-nests the matter would be

simplified. But we find that-a majority

of poultry raisers, especially farmers, do

not have the time to devote to trap-nest—

ing which that system requires. There-

fore, in picking out their best layers they

must resort to other means. The type of

hen is considered by some to be an in-

dex to laying quality, but. we cannot de-

pend upon type alone. V’Ve can, however,

be reasonably safe in picking 'out the

most industrious hens. Slow. inactive

hens are apt to be poor layers. Select

those that are always busy; that are first

to leave the roost in the morning and last

to go back in the» evening; those that

work for the last grain of corn, and that

possess large, bright eyes and red combs.

Such specimens possess health and vital—

ity and can usually be relied upon to fill

the, egg basket.



Indiana. 0. E. HACHMAN.





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Probably more people fail miserably

and entirely at turkey raising than in

any other branch of poultry keeping, and

there are a few specific reasons for this.

There are a few “don’ts” about turkey

raising which, unhecded, are fatal, al-

though the same heedlessuess with regard

to other fowls means poorer results usu-

ally.



The first and most important mistake

is the keeping «over of late, undeveloped

or otherwise inferior stock, and breeding

from the same. For instance. with live

turkeys bringing from 14 to 20 cents per

there is a strong temptation to

of those fine, big gobblers. and

largest hens. Three dollars





pound,

sell all

likewise the.





liveliest and largest stock,,both hens and

gobblers, and get rid of the restfdr what

they will bring; the result should be a

much smaller proportion of inferior tur-

keys next season. For farm breeding and

general utility purposes I would never

recommend even once inbreeding. It may

have its merits, but they are more than

counterbalanced by the danger of it, and

it is a. mighty safe rule to keep clear of

it entirely.



Don't try to keep too many hens—I

mean chickens——-if you intend to grow

many turkeys, and this especially where

your range is not a large one. Ifnless

turkeys have pretty free» range they do

not do well. Don’t insist on your turkeys





lodging in the usually overcrowded hen—

house. Their usual distaste for this is

caused by their instinctive knowledge





that it is suicidal. It is better by far to

let them roost on top of the house than

inside of it.



Now is the time to begin the coming

season’s campaign. Pick out your best

stock. Lacking the right kind of breed-

ers yourself. go and find them. The cost

may be. high but in the end it will pay.

There» was never a time when turkey rais-

ing paid as well as in the last five years

and, like all things that present more

than ordinary difficulties, the business

will never be overdone. So surely as the

holidays roll around, so surely will come.

the ever-increasing demand for the fes-

tive turkey.



Isabella Co. WM. J. COOPER.





TESTING INFERTILE EGGS.





 





“'hen advertising eggs for hatching

purposes live poultrymen generally state

that infertiles will be replaced. Now, it

eften happens that the novice cannot tell

a clear egg from one in which the germ

has developed a little and then died back,

and frequently such eggs are returned to

the breeder as being clear ones, with the

result that a lively correspondence is car-

ried on. to the discomfort of both parties

concerned. Before returning eggs as be-

ing clear, the buyer should fully under-

stand how to test an egg during the proc-

ess of incubation.



An infertile egg is quite clear when held

before a strong light, even after 10 days

or more of incubation, while a germ that

has died during incubation will show it-

self. more or less distinctly, according to

its development, in the form of a dark

patch adhering to the lining membranes





 





 





Thrifty Flock of White Holland Turkeys and their Owner,





and do not pay extra attention to the fe-

males. Such are, of course, not fit for

breeding purposes and should be culled

out.



It is the opinion of some poultrymen

that the female influences the size, and

the male bird the shape. color and head

points. “'hi-le this is; perhaps, true, I

wouldn’t under any condition. use a male

that is undersized. I would prefer to

have both males and females of the prop-

er size, and could the-n expect the pro-

geny to develop into full—sized specimens.

Some use extra large hens, mating them

with the expectation that the size of the.

female will overcome the lack of size in

the male. This is an unwise practice. It

often happens that the pullets derived

from such matings will equal the hen in

size and the cockerels will be undersized,

the same as their sire. Therefore, in or-

der to secure best results have large and

fully matured fowls on both sides.



Selecting and Handling the Hens.

It is sometimes necessary to change





Mrs.





each counts up much better than $1.50 to

$2.00 each. In such cases the process of

reasoning is that the smaller ones will get

larger by spring, and will do just as well

to breed from and this is the most fatal

error in turkey raising.



These inferior fowls never “make good”

in development or breeding qualities.

Their eggs bring poor hatches to begin

with, averaging low in fertility and

strength of germ, and such hatches are

but Lhe. beginning of a long line of trou~

bles which follow swiftly but surely. The

poults "droop," and lice are blamed. Some-

times this is the trouble, but with the

right amount of vitality they would in

most cases withstand the. pests’ attacks

instead of dying miserably. Even after

having arrived at full, or .nearly full,

growth they are often attacked by that

infallible sign of lacking vitality, the

“swelled head," usually fatal. .



I cannot too strongly emphasize the ne'-

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highest vitality. Choose your earliest,





 





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THE HABITS AND IJSEFULNESS OF

THE HONEY BEE.‘





 





The life of a honey bee is a very

short one, and a very busy one, too. Very

few of them live to exceed the age of

45 days, except during their time of hi-

bernation in winter; yet, in this short

period, much is accomplished.



The first two weeks of a bee’s life is

spent almost entirely inside of the hive.

nursing larvae, building comb and doing

housework in general, taking only a short

flight on sunny afternoons to strengthen

its wings and mark the location of its

home. The next three or four weeks are

spent in roaming the fields in quest of

honey, pollen and propolis and carrying

them to the hive. They are busy inces-

santly, and soon wear themselves out by

constant work. By excessive flying their

wings become shredded and they drop to

the ground while journeying to and from

the fields, where they crawl about and

perish; comparatively few bees die inside

the hive.



The honey bee has numerous habits,

some of which are good and others not

quite so good. Still, I for one am glad

that every female bee is equipped with

a good sharp sting. If it were not so how

could such small, helpless creatures pro-

tect themselves and their homes from

man and beast? The race would soon

become extinct, for the honey bee has

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Bees gather three products: Honey,

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Therefore, all the honey the bees store

above what they are able U0 consume is

useless to them, and is the bee-keeper’s

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single season. Pollen is the farina, which

is commonly called bee bread. It is mix-

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immature bees. Propolis is a resinous

substance which is gathered friom trees

or shrubs and is used in gluing tightly

all cracks and crevices in the hives. Bees

also carry considerable water to their

hives during the breeding season.





The bee as a. pollenlzer of blossoms is

one of the greatest of our natural bene-

factors. The nectar hidden in the well

of the flower is but the bait that lures the

bee unwittingly to perform a vastly more

important function than gathering and

storing honey for either itself or man.

The amount of nectar in each blossom is

so small that thebee is obliged to visit

blossom after blossom in order to secure

its load. In this way the pollen is car-

ried from blossom to blossom, from tree

to tree, and from one variety to another,

Many men have an aversion for bees,

but the fruit grower should not, for to

him bees are of great assistance.



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The grafting of plants is generally an

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and is a good use that can be made of

Ben Davis trees, they being very strong

growers. it is rather difficult to realize

that all the common tree fruits, with but

very few exceptions, are grafted so that

the root is not of the same variety, or

plant, as the top. Such, however, is the

case and in some instances the root is

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Potato-Tomato

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Plant, Grafted at Point





only two or three buds are above ground

which allows roots to be given off from

the cion beneath the ground, the small

quince root simply nourishing the ciOn

until the cion gets roots of its own and

in time it will become an own—rooted

tree. This is used in cold climates to

make sure that the tree will withstand

severe freezing for the root, coming as it

does in ordinary grafting from a seed.

is not sure of being hardy to severe cold,

but varieties which have been proven

cold resistant may thus be grafted so

that the roots are known to be hardy as

well.



The pear may be grafted upon the ap-

ple and bear fruit of much larger size,

but the graft seldom lives but a few

years.



Grafting is not of recent origin but

has been known at lcast 2,000 years, al-

though for many centuries it was kept as

a trade secret, only a limited number be-

ing :tblc to do it, the rest thinking it to

ho a magic art.



At present, however, nearly everyone

knows the fundamental principles of

grafting, that is, that it is necessary to

have the growing portion of stock and

clot]. which is called the cambium layer

situatcd just beneath the bark, in con-

tact in order to continue the growth of

the cion. There are exccptions, however,

to this universal understanding of the

fundamental principles of this work, as

shown by some grafting of apples that

was performed for a lady last year. A

man calling himself a professional graft-

(‘1‘ (and it turned out that he was), did

the grafting but none of the grafts grew

and upon inquiring she discovered that

it was not properly done as he had bored

a small hole in the very center of the

stub, stuck in a cion and covered it with

instead of splitting the’stub and

(ion at each extreme of the





wax,

placing a

split stub.



As commonly used, but very few dif-

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whip or tongue for root grafts, budding

for small trees in nursery and the cleft

graft for top grafting old trees being

those used in aocommercial way. How-

ever, Baltet, a Frenchman, whose book

upon grafting is still authority, describes

over 100 differently named grafts.



There are a few grafts that are some-

times used that are interesting, though

not of great importance, among them be-

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,is not used in the nursery to any extent,

but may be used‘upon hard wooded

plants, but more, often upon_ soft-wooded

plants, such as geranium, coleus and oth-

er house plants, and very interesting as

well as novel results can be obtained by

its use. It is found quite often as a na-

tural graft in woods and unpruned trees

where two limbs growing close to each

other have rubbed together until the

cambium layers have become exposed and

then finally grow together.



This approach graft has been used to

make novel gateways and anyone can

perform the operation. If two or four

trees of the same kind as elms or maples

are set out at the intersection of two

walks and brought together after they

have grown to a height of ten or twelve

feet, they may be easily grafted by the

approach graft. The method is as fol-

lows: Cut through the bark for six

inches on each trunk in such a way as

to have the cambium layer on each fit the

cambium of one or more of the others,

the whole being bound with bandages

and held firmly in place and covered with

grafting wax. Then gradually cut away

the tops of all but the best one so that

in a few weeks after the graft has firmly

united one top will receive the nourish-

ment from the two or four roots. If the

wounds in removing the tops are made

smooth and close to the graft they will

heal over in a few years.



This grafting by approach is used

sometimes to form an especially large

apple upon a fruit spur by grafting early

in the season a. vigorous water sprout t0

the spur, thus causing an excessive

amount of food to enter the spur for the

development: of but one fruit. A natural

brace can be formed between two limbs

on a tree that might split down under a

heavy load by twisting and tying two

water sprouts together, one from each

limb. In a short time these will grow

together and form a perfect brace. The

advantages of this graft over others are:

It can be performed during the growing

season and is more apt to succeed as the

cion is nourished by its own roots until

the union is thoroughly united.



\Vith house plants, such as geraniums,

two or more different kinds can be made

to grow upon one root.



A very interesting form (if this graft is

to graft the tomato upon a potato. This

can be done by starting a potato in a

pot and allow but one or two stems to

develop and at the same time. or previous

to this, start a tomato from seed in an-

other pot so that by the time the potato

is six or eight inches high the tomato

would be nearly the same. Then place

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Stem of Plant at Grafted Point Sh0wing



How Union is Formed.

liciglit cut a portion from the stem of

each at least two inches long and one-

quarter way through the stem so that the

cut surface on the tomato will fit the cut

surface on the potato, tying them firmly

together with raffia or cloth bandage, and

at the same time pruning away at least

one-third from the top of the potato.

After about ten days cut away the roots

of the tomato a little at a time and in a

similar way decrease he leaf surface of

the potato until at the end of four weeks

the tomatoran be entirely cut away be-

low the graft and the potato above. This

potato—tomato plant can be transplanted

to the garden and tomatoes raised on

the stem and potatoes on the roots, as

shown by the photograph. Of course,

the crop of each is diminished but the

result is interesting as well as partially

practical.



The saddle graft may also be used with

herbaceous plants such as geraniums,

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Where one desires to obtain early vege-

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ering these with strips of the roofing. The

trenches at the pit were about 16 inches

under the surface of the bed; at the up»

per end about six inches. Six-inch boards

were used for the sides of the frame which

was eight or nine feet wide, and small

poles from the nearby woods were used

as supports for the muslin which covered

the bed. This muslin was sewed in sec-

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smaller poles, upon which the cloth was

rolled when conditions were favorable for

admitting the direct rays of the sun.



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which was about three feet, square hence

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thrived well, too. On frosty mornings the

leaves would be dripping with congealed

moisture, but no injury to plants was

done, even when the plants crowded

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POSSIBILITIES OF APPLES iN HILLS-

DALE COUNTY AND MICHIGAN.

One of our correspondents in a recent

interview with Guy B. Stone, a farmer

and fruit grower of Hillsdale county,

Mich, has given us the following as Mr.

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ing in his county and Michigan:



I have every confidence in I—Iillsdalc

county, in southern Michigan, and in oth.

or parts of the state being equal to and

much better than the fruit growing sec-

tions in other statcs. The only cause in

the falling off of the apple crop in Hills»

dale and a fcw surrounding counties in

the last score of ycars is the lack of at-

tention to fruit, and interest being turned

to other lines of agriculture. As a result

orchards did not pay and were turned

into pasture, cut down, neglected or oth-

crwisc mmlc unprofitable.



I havc traveled through the state con-

siderably, and I find that every cared-for

orchard is paying its owners from $50 to

$200 an acre I have reference to the or-

chards that have been sprayed. This year

has been characterized by poor markets.

and the farmer who neglected spraying

and trimming rculized comparatively

nothing. The orchards that are thorough—

ly attended to are profit producers, this

or any oihcr year. Most of us have been

holding our apples in storage this year,

and in giving figures I speak of a year

ago. i recall one orchard of 50 trees

which with only a little careful attention

produccd 300 barrels of apples and the

fruit brought: $1,000. This is just the be-

binning of what this small orchard will

do.



Do not destroy your orchards. The

trees may be a little disfigured, they may

be surrounded by suckers. There are

great possibilities in these old trees if

they are given the proper kind of tree

surgery. Many people believe a sucker is

useless, and will not bear fruit, but the

fact is they can be made the best part

of the tree. Pick out a large healthy one,

and if a large limb has been removed

from the tree, train one of the suckers to

grow in such direction as to fill the gap.

This can be done in a single season by

using a string and weight. Use a soft

string or wrap the twig where the string

is attached. '



Deformed trees in the process of reju-

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recall a tree of yellow harvest apples, it





had not produced a. perfect apple in years,

but after trimming and spraying, as fine

apples as were produced were grown on

this tree.



My choice of an apple to eat from the

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that any apples that can be grown in .





Michigan, can be produced with profit. A

farmer near Reading is making a fine

success with Willow Twigs. There are

great possibilities in these and other stan-

dard varieties; the Ben Davis, although

we do not like it so well in Michigan, is

a. fair apple with good sale.



I am confident that nothing can be

raised in Hillsdale and other counties

that will bring as liberal returns to the

farmer as the production of good fruit,

fruit that will stand the test in the mar-

kets of the world. I know this is possible

in Michigan. In flavor, quality and the

purposes for which apples are used for

food, apples from the Violverine state are

in the lead in quality over those produced

in any other part of the world. We may

have to take ourhats off to some parts

of the west in the matter of delicate col-

oring, but we have the goods.



I am enthusiastic over the apple out-

look in Michigan. When a. farmer can go

into his orchard in the fall after he cuts

his corn, and can pick from $1,000 to sev-

eral thousand dollars’ worth of fruit. from

a. few acres, it appcars that farming is

worth while, and that apple culture is one

of the most profitable lines of farming.



Tn Hillsdaie county, nine out of every

ten families do not have the apples they

Would consume. It would be the greatest

benefit to this county if every orchard

was bearing to its fullest capacity. Take

it your after year, the market would not

be overstookcd. Of course. the local mar-

kct could not be relied on in such event,

but buyers from a distance would be at-

tracted. These buyers do not care to fig-

ure on one or a dozen car loads, but if we

could put up to them that we were pro-

ducing from 500 to 1,000 car loads, that

would make it an object. for them to in-

spect the field and quote us better prices.

There would he competition among buy-

crs and the figure our product would com-

mand would be in excess of the figure in

case only an occasional buyer came to the

field to pick up a few straggling car loads

of fruit.



Generally the soil is good in this and

other counties for apples. Of course,

judgment must be exercised in the selec-

tion of a location for the orchard. To my

notion a heavy soil, comparatively high

and dry is ideal for apples, but on grav-

elly ground they yield well. Of course.

one would not expect to set out an 01‘-

chard on low wet ground.



The matter of spraying and pruning is

important and vital in connection with

the apple growing industry. 'l‘hc reason

Thy urmers are not shipping car loads

of appics from the county now as they

did a score of year ago is that methods

of combating the ever increasing pests

have not been adopted in Ilillsdaie county

as rapidly as the enemies have developed.



During the past year I have used the

lime—sulphur solution, and have found -it

adequate to my nccds as spray. A great

deal of painstaking effort has to be taken

in the use of the Bordeaux mixture, and

the quality and appearance of the fruit

is in several ways inferior to that which

has been sprayed with lime-Sulphur.



Sprayed apples will bring a better price

than those that are. neglected. This is

evident even to the unsophisticated.

Farmers who do not make a practice of

pomology, have established a standard of

number one apple which is found to fall

considerably short of the very ordinary

apple raised by the orchardist who sprays

and trims. If in no other way than from

the improved appearance of the fruit,

Spraying will pay the farmer handsomely.



I say every farmer Should bc enthusi-

astic over the apple outlook, not only in

Hillsdule county, but in the state. If a.

man cannot have a. large orchard, he

should have a few trees at least, and then

should attend to them. careful spraying

and pruning each year will enable a. few

trees to produce fruit for the home and

some for the market.



The apple is a. healthy, wholesome fruit

and its uses as food are unlimited. Start

an orchard now. If the. apple crop is to

be your money crop, throw your whole

soul into it. Learn to love the work.

Michigan at one time lead the world in

apple production and by taking the in-

terest that the success of the fruit dew

serves, the quality and quantity of our

fruit will easily place the state again at

the phead of the list. There is no reason

why Michigan and Hillsdale county ap-

ples should not command the highest

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g FARMERS‘ CLUBS .





OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

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President—J. D. Leland, Corunna.

Vice-President—D. M. Morrison, St.





Johns.

Secretary-Treasurer—Mrs. C. P. John-





son, Metamora.



Directors—C. L. Wright, Caro; E. W.

Woodruff. Blanchard; C. P. Johnson,

Metamora; H. W. Chamberlain, White

Lake; Wm. T. Hill, Carson City; Jerry

Spaulding, Belding.



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WHAT 'THE LOCAL CLUBS ARE

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As Reported by Delegates at the Asso-

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year to the State Association, as far as

practicable. The Club has been in exist-

ence for 19 years. The delegate at this

year’s a/ssociational meeting was a chart-

er member. The Club holds no meeting

in July, but has an annual picnic in Au-

A. Club fair is held in October.

feature of Club work has

been very successful. The proceeds are

devoted to charity this year, having

been contributed to the Old Ladie-s’ Home

at Jackson. Kindergarten work has also

been aided in the same manner. A tem-

perance meeting is held annually in

March. The Club has been a great suc-

cess and, while some of the Clubs in the

surrounding teritory have gone down.

this one is still flourishing.



The Troy Club, of Oakland County,

holds twelve meetings during the year

with an annual picnic in July. The Club

has 50 members, but an average attend-

ance of from 60 to 70 persons. Refresh-





gust.

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'ments are served at every meeting. A





pleasant diversion in the program is the

varied manner in which members respond

to roll call. The question box is one of

the best features of the meeting. This

Club has an advertising feature of some

value to members, the president giving

the members a chance at the close of the

meeting to tell what they have to sell or

desire to buy'. A viewing committee of

four is appointed for each meeting. Print-

ed programs are used.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Will Have Printed Programs.—~The

Summer and Seville Farmers’ Club met

in January at the home of Mrs, R. A.

Gee, at “Pioneer Farm.” After dinner

the meeting was called to order by Presi—

dent James Gargett. Song by the Club

and invocation. Reading of minutes of

last meeting, followed by roll call, re-

Sponded to by quotations. As a number

who were on the program were. not pres-

ent, G. M. iVilson entertained those pres-

ent by several very pleasing selections.

The Club gave him a. vote of thanks for

the same. The idea of a. yearly program

was discussed and accepted, they are in

booklet form. An interesting subject will

be discussed at every meeting.



Higher Prices for Beets.—The subjects,



and “what





“Hig er prices for beets,”

L co one afford to pay a hired man the





aoming season.” were warmly discussed.

A. very pleasant time was enjoyed by all,

with only one sad feature. Mrs. Gee has

sold her farm and will move to Ithaca

in the spring. All were sad to think that

they were enjoying their last meeting at

Pioneer Farm, with Mrs. Gee as hostess.

——Mrs. E. C. Ferris. Cor. Sec.



An Institute Meeting—The December

meeting of the Wise Farmers' Club was

held at the home of Milo Lamphefe, and

in connection with the farmers’ institute.

Mr. Potts, the conductor of the institute.

spoke on building up and maintaining the

fertility of the soil. The ladies’ topic,

“VVoman‘ Suffrage,” was opened by a.

reading by Mrs. J. H. Lansing, entitled,

"\Vhy I want the ballot," and a. poem

entitled, “The mother of the man.” Many

others spoke on the subject. followed by

a select reading by Mrs. Chas. Church,

entitled, “The great day Matilda voted."

The Club then listened to a song by Mr.

and Mrs, Arthur Badgley, “Down by the

Old Mill Stream,” and an address by

Hon. Dennis A-lward, on “The reason why

men and women should think." The

Club history was given by one of the

Club’s ex-presidents. The Club then ad-

journed after giving Mr. and Mrs. Lam-

phere a vote of thanks. Next meeting

will be- held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Martin, of Clare—A. J._ See‘ley, Sec.



Fruit Culture Discussed.—Nearly 100

persons braved a severe January storm

to attend the meeting of the Thornapple

Farmer-3’ Club at the home of Mr. and

Mrs. W. R.‘ Harper. ”The meeting was





 

 





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called to order at 11 o’clock a. m. After

the usual routine of business, the dele-

gates. to the state convention 0f Farm-

ers’ Clubs, held at Lansing, Dec. 5-6, gaVe

a very complete and interesting report,

following this came dinner. At 1:30 p.

m. the Club was again called to order

and several members gaVe- short talks on

their experience in raising fruit. Presi-

dent Russell‘ then introduced George E.

Rowe, of Grand Rapids, who spoke at

some length on the possibilities in fruit

raising, the care of orchards, the need of

understanding the requirements of dif-

fercnt soils and the food necessary for

the successful growing of an orchard. A

short literary program and a song con-

cluded the day's exercises. The Febru-

ary meeting will be held at the home of

lva Adams of northwest Thornapple.



The Health of the Family.—The De—

cember meeting of the North Owosso

Farmers’ Club was held December 30, at

“'ay—Side, the pleasant farm home of

Mr. and Mrs. F. \V. Stiles. After the

serving of a bountiful dinner the dele-

gates to the state association gayea good

report of that meeting and a good liter-

ary and musical program was rendered.

W. S. Carson responded to the question,

“What contributes most to the health of

the family.” by saying that good healthy

heritage was of great importance. The

laws of hygiene should be respected, and

sanitation enforced. The location of the

home was another important factor,

whether on low, damp ground or on a

high, dry location. The construction of

houses was another item, and that all

Hours of the same story should be on the

same level to prevent the necessity of

stepping up or down in going from one

room to another. The selection of good,

wholesome food and have it properly

cooked, also the water supply was of

great importance. But he thought that

cheerfulness contributed most to the wel-

fare of the family and gave a prescription

as follows: Equal parts of cheerfulness,

kind words and good deeds: when shaken

together add a good portion of kind-

hearted smiles, and an occasional good,

hearty laugh; to be taken at frequent in-

tervals, and in sufiicient doses to keep

one sweet. In preparing this magical

alchemy do not forget to laugh and to

smile for, it is said, “Laugh and the

world laughs with you.” The next meet-

ing will be held at the home of Mr. and

Mrs. Z. D. Hurrell on Friday, Jan. 26.-~

Reporter.



Discuss Consumer’s Dalian—The How-

ell Farmers’ Club met in January at the

beautiful home of Mr, and Mrs. Britten

Gilkes and was called to order by Pres-

ident Munsell, the members all joining in

singing America. Mrs. R. R. Smith, del-

egate to the state asociation then gave

a very able report of the meetings of the

association. R. R. Smith gave some time

to the discussion of “What is the matter

with our present school system?” and

had only praise for the system. Would

not discard it although there are defects.

S. M. Yerkes thought even a. smattering of

Latin and Greek worth having. “Is the

farmer getting his share of the Consum-

er’s dollar?” Mr. Wells opened the dis-

cussion on this topic and thought that

the farmer should get more than he does

if the consumer pays what he does. S.

M. Yerkes thought the farmers should or-

ganize to get better prices. The Club

adjourned to meet the first Thursday in

gebruary with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cran-

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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





 





THE JANUARY PROGRAMS.





 





Suggestions for Second Meeting.



Song.



“Relation of Middlemen to our pros-

perity," led by a man and woman.



“A Message to Garcia," declamation.



“Telling Stories to Children,” by a.

mother or teacher.



Solo.



“How can we hasten a general parcels

post law?”



Surprise

Housewives."



Good ginger bread, recipes given by five

women, who serve samples of the same.





A TIMELY BLOW FOR PARCELS

POST.





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Does the Grange really want a law enact-

ed providing for a general parcels post?

It has gone on record repeatedly as de—

siring such a. law. Has it not “resolved”

and “resolved” to that effect for the

past decade? Were it not in so just and

grave a cause, its parrot-like reiteration

of “we demand a parcels post” would be

monotonous and tedious.



The time for more energetic action

than simply creating sentiment in public

meetings is here. This is a vital mat-

ter just now. It is a good subject to put

upon Grange programs now, but some-

thing more than discussing must be done.

The Grange and all other forces and indi-

viduals desiring parcels post must get

into action now! The old saying that

“actions speak louder than words" was

never truer than regarding this issue.



The most effective blow for parcels post

is a letter to your representative at

Washington. It need not be a. hard thing

to get one from almost every member.





' attended and





HoweVer briefly or crudely the message

is worded, if its meaning is unmistakable,

it will do its work.



A “postage stamp campaign" needs en-

thusiasm to fire it. A plan to send your

congressman a post-card shower should

be no more difficult to manage than a.

post—card shower for a. personal friend

Do it at one meeting and have the mes-

sages read for roll call. (me (hangs in

the state gave its general deputy a post-

<-ard shower which he declares to be “the

best Christmas present he ever had.”

\V'hat we need just now is that every

Michigan senator and congressman be

made to feel that he, too, has had a

postal shower which he cannot forget—

nor evade!



JENNIE BUELL.





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





 





R03e City’s New Officers-«Rose City

Grange, of Ogemaw county, has installed

the following oificers: Master, Silas

Snook; overseer, Chas. Antill; lecturer,

Eugene Parker; steward, Howard Thomp—

son; assistant steward, Herman Bailcr;

chaplain, Mrs. Anna Benjamin; treas‘

urer, L F. Smith; secretary, D. L. Hoyt;

gate keeper, Chas. Bartcls; Ceres, Josie

Blair; Pomona, Bella Bierce; Flora, Mrs.

Myron Rex; lady assistant steward, Ad-

die Blair.



DeWItt Grange, of Clinton 00., elected



the following officers at its last regular

meeting in December: Master, “'ill Ell-

wanger; overseer, \Vill Seegcr: lecturer,

Mrs. C. L. Pearce; steward, Daniel Ell-

wanger; assistant steward, Arthur Dag-

get: chaplain, Mrs, Gertrude Pearce;

treasurer, O. R, Dills; gate keeper, Paul

Cuolahan; Ceres, iiazel Farrier; Pomona,

Ethel Scott; Flora, Ruth Gilbert; lady

assxstant steward, Dorris Stamiiy; instal-

ling officer, Mrs. Estella Dills.

. Debate Arouses Interest.—-ln an excit-

ing debate, covering two meetings. Crystal

Valley Grange, 0f Montcalm county. has

recently been discussing whether tobacco

or liquor has caused the more evil in the

past 25 years. Both sides collected facts

and statistics and presented them, Judges

Van Buren, McConkey and Linter de-

cided that the liquor arguments were the

stronger by several points.



Otsego Grange, of Allegan county. held

a short business meeting Jan. 10, followed





by an m‘ster supper and a line social

time. About 40 members present. New

officers were installed as follows: Mas-

ter, F. Webster; overseer, F. Palmer; lec-

turer. May \Vebster; steward, .l. XV.

Winters, assistant steward, lilimer Hare;

chaplain, Mrs. Finger; treasurer, Lee





Smith; secretary, Mae Carroll; gate keep-

er, W‘. Staley; ladies in court, Velma

W'yatt, Fay Cherrington and Leeta \‘i'il-

liams; lady assistant, Mrs. Ida Hare.



A New One for Shiawassee.-A new

subordinate, to be known as Venice

Grange, was recently organized by Coun-

ty Deputy Stone. The following officers

have been chosen: Master, Fred Miller;

overseer, C. A. Owen: lecturer, Ambert

W'eller; steward, Lucian Hart; assistant

steward, “"111. Hudson; chaplain, Annie

Stewart; treasurer, Ray Ellis; secretary,

Edna Hudson; gate keeper, Jerry Craig;

Ceres, Edna. Saxton; Pomona, Millie

Craig; Flora, Cora Reed; lady assistant

steward, Flora Hudson; chairman of

finance committee, Finley Reed.



Richland Grange, of Kalamazoo coun-

ty, held its first meeting of the new

year on January 3. It proved a well

profitable meeting. New

officers for the ensuing year were installed

as follows: Master, C. E. Jones; lecturer,

Mrs. Fannie Jackson; steward, D. C. Jew-

ett; assistant steward, Chas. Dooley;

chaplain, Mrs. M. E. Jewett; secretary,

W. C. Whitney; gate-keeper, C. F. Bis-

sell; lady assistant steward, Mrs. C. E.

Jones.



Installation of Officers by Galesburg

Grange. of Kalamazoo county, was fol—

lowed by an oyster supper, the meeting

proving a. most enjoyable one. The offi-

cers of this Grange for the coming year

are: Master, J, J. Campbell; overseer,

.l. \V. Vosburg; lecturer, Mrs. C. De-

Long: steward, W'illiam Cook: assistant

steward, I‘orr Backus; chaplain, Mrs.

George Ruroughs; secretary, George Tel-

fer; treasurer, Seymour Olin; gate keep-

er, \Vi'liam Joy; Ceres, Miss Bernice

’l‘elfrr: i‘omona, Mrs. J. \V. Vosburg;

Flora, Mrs. \Villiam Cook; lady assistant

steward, Mrs. Dorr Backus.



Clinton Pomona Officers.——The last P0-

mnna meeting of the old year was held

with Olive Grange early in December.

The election of officers marked the re-

tirement of Mrs. Abbie E. Dills who has

served the Pomona as secretary for ll

successive years, and Mrs. C. L. Pearce,

who has filled the office of Pomona lec-

turer in an able manner for 17 years. The

new officers are: Master, L. N. Carpen-

ter, of Olive Grange; overseer, Vi’. F.

Plowman, Bengal Grange; lecturer, Mrs.

Allie Veeney, Bingham Grange; steward,

Byron Sowie, Essex Grange; assistant

stewards, Mr. and Mrs. Rey Smith, Ovid

Grange; chaplain, Mrs. C. L. Perce, De-

Witt Grange: treasurer, C. Jones, Bengal

Grange; secretary, Mrs. Cora Sowie, Es-

sex Grange; gate keeper. Ross Brooks.

Bingham Grange: Ceres, Mrs. Daisy Ott-

mar, South Riley Grange; Pomona, Chil-

lie Carpenter, Olive Grange; Flora, Mrs.

Viola. Pike, South Riley Grange.





COMING EVENTS.





Pamona Meetings. . '

Ingiiam (30., with Stockbridge Grange

Friday, Jan. 26.





Western (Ottawa Co.) Pomona with

Coopersville Grange. Friday and Satur-

day. Jan. 19 and 20. County corn con-





tent in connection with this meeting.





   

 

 

 

 





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