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DETROIT, MICH.. SATURDAY. FEB. 3. 1912;





voL. chxvin,‘ No. '5.

Whole Number 3585.





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Building Up a Depleted Farm.





NE of the greatest problems, if

0 not the greatest problem, con-



fronting the farmers of Michigan,

and for that matter of the entire coun—

try, is the conservation of soil fertility.

Through unwise methods of management

the virgin soils of Michigan have been

rapidly depleted of their humus and avail-

able plant food and have thus gotten into

poor physical condition, which in many

cases has made their cultivation unprofit-

able. This process has been more rapid

on the lighter soils of the state because

on these soils the decomposition of veg-

etable matter is more rapid than upon

heavier soils. Also on these soils the

greatest proportion of plant food is held

in the humus which also fills the inter-

stices between the comparatively large

soil grains, and thus serves the double

purpose of holding the plant food con—

tent of the soil in an available form for

the use of the plants and making these

open soils more retentive of moisture.

which is an equally important factor in





crop production. So, while conservation





of soil fertility is an important problem-





Michigan soils, it has come

more pressing problem on

the lighter and more open soils for the

above reasons, and the problem of how

to build up and reclaim for profitable ag—

riculture the many depleted farms of this

character has become a most pressing

one in many sections of our state.



Many farmers have a wrong conception

as to how this problem can best be

solved, since they have acquired the idea

that all that is necessary is to add plant

food to the soil. But for the reasons

above noted this is not the best or surest

road to success for the reclaiming of de-

pleted soils of this character. It is equal-

ly essential that the mechanical condi-

tion be improved and that humus as well

as plant food he added to the soil in or-

der to place it in a proper condition to

again grow bountiful and profitable crops.



Thus a practical dem-





on all

to be a





tive member, purchased the farm in cen-

tral Livingston county which is now

known as “Fairlawn Stock Farm.” This

farm was originally covered with a light

growth of oak and is typical of the type

of land generally known as oak openings,

of 'which there is a very considerable

area in Michigan. It is a quite rolling

and light warm soil and was for years

a productive farm, but eventually ex-

cessive cropping without any thought of





could from the land and returned noth—

ing, until it reached the period where

humus and the fertility was practically

depleted and the farm was left a barren

waste, without sufficient productive pow-

er to make its cultivation profitable.



In this condition the present owners

purchased the farm with the idea of some

day making it again productivr. The

fact that they have succeeded in doing

this is well illustrated by the accompany-





 





 





 





 





Big Barn and Silos Built on a Depleted Farm for Future Crops.





maintaining soil fertility depleted its con-

tent of humus and available plant food

to a marked degree. But little stock was

kept upon the farm and practically its

entire product was sold, as has been the

case upon many farms of similar char-

acter and with like results. This state

of affairs was followed until the owner

moved away and began to rent the farm

when each successive renter took all he





ing cut, showing the corn grown upon

the farm last war, as well as by the

young seedings of clover which cannot

be well illustraicd. 'llow,this transfor—

mation has bccn brought about cannot:

but be interesting to thousands of farm-

cis in the state of Michigan who are

confronted with a like problem.



The first step taken by the present

owners of this farm was to build suitable





buildings which are shown in the ac—

companying cut. XVhiie the l1rge bat

with the accompanying silos was

process of construction, a farmer who

was well acquainted with the history of

this farm asked Mr. Reed if he expected

to fill such a large barn from the crops

grown upon this farm, or what he ex-

pected to use it for. Mr. Reed laugh-

ingly replied that he expcctcd to keep

cattle in the stables which occupy the

ground floor of the barn and that me

large haymows ovcrhead were. just. a.

bluff. But those barns and silos are no

longer considered a bluff by the men

who consldercd the land of little value

for agricultural purposes.

At the start about

coWs \vcrc kcpt upon this farm, but it at

present supports a stock of something

like dairy cattle, and these dairy

connection with judicious meth-

tillage, llth‘ been the principal

by which this depicted farm has

reclaimed for profitable agriculture.

The one thitig‘ which has been done in

this case, which is not within the means

of the average farmer, was the use of a

light application of feathers to the soil

on two of the fields. These feathers

were obtained from a nearby poultry

packing house and were applied with a.



manure spreader as thinly as possible.

But stable manure is entitled to

tically all of the credit of the wonderful

transformation which has l)‘.:'t'll

plishcd on this farm. The silo,

corn and the haVe been thi- 1113.111

factors in the» solution of the problem.

At first the larger kinds of silage corn

were used cxclusive’y becxuse lilt‘ScV were

the only kinds that would 1111ke sufficient

growth to be ha: venstable Oidinaiy dent;

coin would not giow over three four

feet high. Notwithstanding the small

stock of cows that. were kept at first,

some supplementary feeds were neces-

sar1ly purchased and these, of course,

helped in the making of





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onstration of how these

wasted and depleted

soils may be again

placed in a condition to

grow maximum crops

without a large expen-

diture of money and

with the least possible

expenditure of time, is

0110 of the things most

needed by a largeclass

of Michigan farmers to-

day. That this can be

successfully a c c o m -

plishcd can best be

demonstrated by citing

examples where it has

been done. One such

Example has come to

the writer’s notice,

which is particularly

adapted to the illustra—

tion of this fact at this

time, because «of the

prominence of the own-

er of the farm in the

agricultural and live

stock organizations of

thc state, for which

reason this example has

been selected for Dre-

senta‘tion to our read-

ers.



Some five years ago

the firm of Reed and

Knowles, v. of whic 11

President R. C. Reed,

of the Michigan Im-

proved L i v e Stock

Breeders’ and Feeders’

Association is the ac-





 





Corn Fifteen Feet High, Estimated to Produce Eighteen Tons of Ensiiage





Per Acre.





stable manure for grow—

ing better crops of corn

in future years. Now

the management is

mixing the silage seed

corn with some of, the

smaller growing dent

vaiieties in order to get

a smaller growth con-

taining a. higher per—

ccnltlgc of food nutri-

cnts.



Clover has

matter of course.

made a factor in the

improvcmcnt of this

1" :1, 1‘ m. Experiments

showed that the bcst

liiclllml of getting clo-

ver established on this

farm was by sowing in

August with a light.

seeding of rye to pro-

tect it from winter ex-

posures. This obtains

sullicicnt root so that in

the spring it makes a

rapid growth and is not

easily affected by a

drouth. “'hile results

have not been perfect

in every case from this

method of seeding, there

has not occurred a.

complete failure of a

clover seeding by this

method 011-this farm.

Alfalfa has been suc—

cessfully grown on a

smaller scale 1 and has

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been
adaptability to its successful growth.





Now, from this method ofvimproving a,





depleted soil what has been the result?

As above noted, only a. very small growth

of corn could be produced from the land

before its improvement. There are 'now

two silos on this farm, one 14x38 and one

14x24 feet. These tWo silos were last

year filled from the product of ten acres

of land and later were refilled, taking

about two and one-half acres more. It

was thought that this corn would yield

about 18 tons per acre. It. was a very

heavy growth and very tall, as will be

seen from the first page out, some of the

stalks being 15 feet high.



This is the simple story ofthe effective

way in which one depleted farm was

quickly and cheaply reclaimed and made

to produce profitable crops. It is not

more than any man can do by the use

of intelligence and up-to—dato methods

in connection with dairying or live stock

farming. The clean corn fields show that

tillage has been an important factor in

the solution of the problem upon this

farm and this example proves that good

cultural methods in producing feed for

the maintenance of live stock upon the

farm, the manure being returned to the

soil to build up its mechanical condition

and fertility in connection with clover,

will rehabilitate the depleted farms of

this class without a. large expenditure of

money on the part of the owner, or a

long lapse of time in its accomplishment.





 





BARNYARD MANURE.





 





Will you give your idea as to the value

of and best method of handling barn-

yard manure and oblige an old rsubscribv

er? Also would like to ask your opinion

as to what share of crops I ought to

have from my land when I furnish teams,

tools, seed and board and pay the taxes

on the land? I own 200 acres, all im-

proved exccpt 25 acrcs.



Nt-waygo Co. A. E. H.



i don‘t like the term barnyard manure.

In my opinion there ought not to be any

barnyard manure. It is an indefinite

term. Stock in Michigan ought to be fed

in the stable on a cement floor and I

would call the resultant manure stable

manure and not barnyard manure. \Vho

knows the value of barnyard manure?

What does it mean? If the cattle are.

turned out in the day time and fed in

the barnyard, coarse cornstalks, straw,

and clover hay there gradually accumu-

Eatos during the winter time quite a layer

of this coarsc roughage which is unevenly

mixed with a certain amount of the

voided feces of the animal. Now, how

much is this worth? Nobody knows. Its

plant ftod content is comparatively small.

Of course. there is a large amount of

vegetable matter that iswyorth saving,

but considered from the. standpoint of

plant food it is much less valuable than

stable manure or manure which has been

produced in the stable on cement floors,

where the liquid manure is all saved, and

where it is protccted from the. weather,

and hauled out as fast as it accumulates

and spread on the land. I would do away

with the term barnyard manure entirely

because, as I say. I believe all stock

ought to be fed in the stable on cement

floors. But, if we can’t do that then

there ought to be a distinction made be-

tween barnyard manure and stable ma-

nure.



It is not necessary to go into the chem-

ical analysis of stable manure or barn-

yard manure at the present day. Its

analysis differs very materially, depend—

ing upon the kind of food which the ani»

mal consumes and also upon the kind of

animal to which it is fed. The manure

from a fattening animal is more valuable

than the manure from a young, growing

animal, because in the first case more of

thc nitrogcn is voided. which makes the

manuremorc valuable. And so the ma-

nure from every kind of animal varies

with the age of the animal and with the

kind of food which the animal uses in its

ration.



Barnyard manure is more valuable

than its chemical analysis will indicate

because almost invariably our soils need

vegetable matter. it is rare indeed that

any farm in the state of Michigan con—

tains all the humus or vegetable matter

that is needed to have it in the best pos-

sible condition. New virgin land is full

of vegetable matter and we get good

crops. There is an accumulation there of

vegetable matter, for ages perhaps, and

the. decaying of this vegetable matter

produced organic acid which acts upon

the insoluble plant food in the soil and

renders it available. The humus itself

contains soluble plant food which has

been rendered available in years gone by

and held there or absorbed by the hu-

mus. After we'grow crops on the soil





THE. MICHIGAN FARMER.‘





.for a. considerable length of time by poor

,management we deplete the soil. of vege-

table matter. So it is safe to say that

all land, after it has been farmed for a

few years, needs added vegetable matter.

Of course, we can supply vegetable mat-

ter in the form of green manure, turn-

ing under crops like clover and cowpeas,

and the stubble and roots from other

grain crops help to furnish vegetable

matter. But when we practice live stock

husbandry the waste product of this in—

dustry is stable manure. We have got

to get rid of it, it accumulates and is in

the way, and consequently must be taken

care of. It contains soluble plant food.

It' contains a large amount of organic mat—

ter or vegetable matter and besides it is

pregnant with bacteria which. when the

manure is added to the soil, continue their

work of breaking down the vegetable

matter and making insoluble plant food

in the soil soluble. Consequently none of

us are apt to place too high a value up—

on stable manure. If we could only get

enough of it so that we could use it lib-

erally, our profits in farming could be

largely increased. The quantity of it,

however, is limited, and the man who

feeds all of the roughage grown on his

farm to live stock and saves the manure

carefully can only cover a small portion

of his farm with stable manure each

year.



Since stable manure is valuable it is a

business proposition to save it the most

economical way and with the least loss

of plant food and vegetable matter. It

used to be thought that stable manure

should be thoroughly rotted or decom-

posed bcfore it was applied to the soil,

but now, since we know that a large part

of its value consists in the vegetable mat-

ter which is added to the soil, it does

not seem so necessary to decompose the

stable manure and we can apply it in a

bulky rough state and plow it right un-

der and work it into the soil and it will

decay there, and in decaying there in the

presence of insoluble or inert mineral

food some of this will be rendered avail-

able. Consequently it is better, all'things

considered, to apply the manure soon after

it accumulates, before it rots or decays.

If it is hauled directly from the stable

and spread upon the land it can be band—

led with the least amount of labor and

since this manure is a bulky product con-

taining a large per cent of moisture the

method which will place it upon our field

where we desire it with the least ex-

penditure of labor is the most econom-

ical. Stables ought to be constructed so

that one could drive behind the cows or,

if fattening animals are fed running loose

in covered barn yards or enclosures, then

the manure truck or spreader can be

drawn directly into the stable and the

manure loaded so that it won't have to

be wheeled out and handled over again.

Remove the- manure where it is deposited

by the animal directly to the manure

truck or manure spreader and take it out

to the land at once. That is the cheap-

cst way to handle it. A certain percent-

age of the ammonia in the voided feces

of the animal is volatile and is liable to

be lost and it is a good plan to use some

absorbent in the stable which will form

a chemical combination with this volatile

ammonia and make it a stable product.

Scientists now, I believe. agree that prob-

ably the very best absorbent that can be

used would be superphosphate, as this

not only traps the volatile ammonia but

it also furnishes phosphorus to the ma-

nure. Since stable manure is deficient

in phosphorus this is a move in the right

direction.



What Share of Crops Should Labor Have?



I must confess myself as incompetent

to answer this question. I do not know

what share of the crop labor should re-

ceive in this case. if A. E. H. owns the

land, furnishes teams and tools, and

boards the help, what share of the crop

should he pay the. men? It is simply fig-

ured down to a wage proposition. A com-

mon way of renting land is where the

renter furnishes tools and teams and

does all the labor he gets two-thirds and

the land draws one-third. If a man fur-

nishes the live stock and half of the feed

and pays the taxes he gets one-half. Of

course, where labor is hired in this way

labor takes part of the risk. A poor crop

bring light wages. A good crop brings

good wages, and it would be extremely

difficult to strike an average and say

what part of the crop labor should have.



Comm C. LILLIE.





Horses are in less urgent general de-

mand than at the beginning of the month,

with too large offerings of the common

and medium grades, and in many cases

country shippers paid too high prices

to admit of fair profits when their con-

signments come to be sold in the





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FEB. 3. 1912.

HOW MUCH CORN?





I was much interested in the article by

B, F, Washburne, of VVashtenaw ,county,

on one man’s raising and harvesting 100

acres of corn, and have had it in mind

to say a word on the subject since read-

ing his statements. I should like to know

where Mr. XV. found a farm implement

dealer so benighted that he had never

seen a horse planter, only nine years ago.

The check-row planter was certainly in

common use at that time. And while I

am speaking of the check-row planter,

I want to say, right here, that no man

can do a good job of planting and row-

ing with that machine and get over 25

acres in a day. It can’t be done, and I

make the statement without any fear that

the practical farmers of the state will

contradict me.



But about one man doing the work on

100 acres of corn. It looks easy—on pa-

per—but there would be several big “ifs”

in practice, with our climate, and of

these Mr. W. appears to take no thought,

I think a man would be in luck if he got

100 acres plowed in from 20 to 25 days

from the time he began in April and

early May, and some years it would be

longer than that. And it would be the

same with harrowing. There would al—

most certainly be interruptions, and sup-

posing the 100 acres was ready for the

planter to start, and a heavy rain should

come, a condition which frequently oc-

curs, necesistating a harrowing of the

ground again, hence delay. It is my

opinion that one man even with the best

of teams and tools, will have a strenuous

time of it to prOperly fit the ground and

plant 100 acres in season, in an average

year. But suppose the corn is planted in

time, and is ready to cultivate, and

then there should come several days of

rain, and sunny days follow? Unless Mr.

XV. has killed off all the weeds on his

place, by his “intensiVe farming.” I‘ve

an idea that some of the hundred acres

would look more like a pasture than a

cultivated field before the cultivator

reached it, and there would often be

more rain to delay the work. What

would the end be? Some years four cul-

tivations might be plenty, and then again

it might need twice as many as that to

secure the maximum yield. And then

for the harvesting. A man would be

more than optimistic to count on un—

broken fine weather in September for

harvetsing and shocking a hundred acres

of corn, even in the record time Mr. TV.

gives for doing the work. I, of course,

do not know what sort of corn Mr. W.

raises, but if he can set up 14 acres of

such corn as we grow on our farms here

in Baton county, I should like to employ

him, by the day, to shock our corn next

fall. He would certainly earn his wages.

\Ve think we have some pretty good men

here, as well as good farms, but even

our best men don’t take any contract to

set up 14 acres of good corn in shocks.

Mr. W. says his troubles are over when

he has the corn in the shock, but for my

part I would feel a lot more comfortable

when the cattle and hogs were sold, and

I had the $3,000 for my season’s work in

my pocket, or in the bank,





WVhat is done with the other 400 acres?

Does he ever stop work in the corn field

to help out on some other crop? There

must be a lot of work on the big farm to

take up time, and from what was said

we are left to infer that the only help

employed is a man to pitch manure in

the spring, for covering 50 acres of the

corn ground. The most of us are after

the almighty dollar in a greater or less

degree, but it seems to me that the man

who sets out to raise a hundred acres of

corn all alone is paying too dearly for

that dollar. There are many things in

this world that are far better than dol-

lars. and the man who has a. good forty

acres, with a small balance in the bank

to which he can add a little each year

is going to get a lot more out of life than

the owner of 500 acres, whose nose is

kept to the grindstone all the year, and

who is often trying to do two men’s work.

1 am not in favor of large farms, nor in

one man's trying to do a two-man job.



I am not questioning Mr. \\'.‘s word,

but his article in The Farmer has all the

ear marks of farming on paper, and there

is a heap of difference. between that and

actual farming. The former is easy, and

all things work out smoothly, according

to program, while in actual work on the

farm one thing and another may be

counted on with practical certainty to

occur to upset the program which we

have arranged, and then we must do the

best we can under the circumstances.



Eaton Co. ~ APOLLos LONG.





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making crops of good corn





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as it is to grow ordinary crops of

small cars with inferior fertilizers.

It costs no more for sc'ed, planting

or cultivation. Farmers should

take no chances as to the fertilizers

they apply. The aim should be to

get out of the soil all that it can yield.

Every bushel raised in excessof the

usual production means that much

gained, and gives the farmer a great

advantage.





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things, says that the best farmers have a

better understanding of the value and

use of commercial fertilizers in growing

large crops of superior quality. Also

that the importance of taking into con-

sideration all the factors which influence

the use of fertilizers can hardly be over-

estimated. A plant must have all the

essential fertilizer constituents present

in available form or its growth will

be hindered in proportion to the defic-

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The above statement shows the importance

of usmg commercial fertilizers, which are one

of the chief needs of modern farming.





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who wrote that probably had a first-class

farm and lots of money given to him by

his father. Neither does he believe in

buying good brooding stock from some

reliable breeder, because that fellow he

says is gelling rich by suckers paying

him fancy prices. Likewise it don’t pay

to paint the buildings. “Oil is so high,

and anyhcw they will last as long as I

live. if they don’t burn down, and if they

do I would be the cost of the paint

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A section of the address of President

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The Michigan Live Stock Breeders’ and

Feeders‘ Association is again in session.

Another year with its joys, its sorrows,

its victories and its defeats has passed

into history. YVe cannot recall the past,

but We can recount its opportunities. We

should profit by its experience, and past

defeats should be but stepping stones to

future victories. It is not wise to at-

tempt to bury the thought of all the dc-

feats of the past, but we Should so con-

sider these past experiences as to en—

able us to avoid these difficulties and de-

feats in the future. And I feel that at

no point have we so much reason to feel

that we have made real gain. The agri-

cultural and live Stock interests of the

state and nation have taken a decided

step forward. In no one instance have

we risen from the rut into which we had

fallen as much as in regard to the esti—

mate that the agriculturist places upon

his own ability to think for himself. He

does receive an inspiration and an im-

petus from some outside source, as all

men do and should, but the agricu‘lturist

of today is recognized as a thinker, as a.

man of brains. lie is thinking for him-

»self today as never before, along social,

political and economic lines. And the

great shifting of political affiliation today

is but an indication of the determination

of the American people to do their own

thinking, and to act independently. The

(-mning new political alignment is but a

result of the determination on the part

of the pcople of this great nation to think

and act and speak for themselves. This

is a very significant fact, and we expect

that in the new era, in the new align-

ment that lies just before us, the agri-

cultural interests shall have a proper

iecognition, and a. square deal; that we

have not had this in the past is history,

and is attested by the records left of

past legislation, as we see them in

abandoned fields and farms in various

These fields, lying

as they do in close proximity to the great

centers of population, should be furnish-

ing their products to supply the needs of

the residents of those cities. These

farms should be increasing in producl

tiveness, instead of becoming barren and

unfruitful, and at last being abandoncd,

as are thousands of farms in the east,

and some in Michigan.



Our government is, and should be, ex-

ercising great care over the natural re-

sources that warm and light and furnish

power for this nation. Those mineral

resources that are to furnish the sincws

of war and the equipment for commerce

should be so protected by this govern—

ment, that the hand of the despoiler

shall be withheld, and unborn genera-

tions shall not be robbed of their birth-

right. This heritage shall be protected

and handed down to them. This is all

important for upon this shall the coming

generations depend for heat, light, power

and commercial equipment.



Our Future Food Supply.



But, friends, if it is necessary for com-

ing generations to have the products of

our mines. hon much more essential is it

that they shall have, productive soil from

which to derive the food for their exist-

ence. I believe that the first concern of

this nation should be to preserve the fer—

tility of the soil. This is of more im-

portance than deepening our waterways

and extending our commerce. The food

for the nation should be its chief con-

cern. There is really but one source of

soil fertility, and that is from the soil

itself, excepting those gases that are

drawn to the plant from the air. Then

we have this axiom: “The secret of soil

fertility is plant production; the secret

of plant production is soil fertility.”



\\'hile we have been opening up our

own lands in the west, this has not seem-

ed to be of so great moment, but today

we are feeling another problem that

caUScs us to realize that the greatest

question that confronts the American

people is the food supply for coming gen-

erations. Already there has been a great

agitation about the high cost of living.

Friends, the high cost of living to the

average American is not in the neces-

saries, but luxuries, of life. It is not in

the absolute food supply, but in the in-

dulgence of those things that are classed

as the luxuries.



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THE MICHIGAN. ,FARMER.





- actual necessities of. life at a lower level





of price, our first concern must be to

guard and protect our resources from

which these are derived. Soil fertility is

the greatest of all our natural resources,

and as this can only be maintained by

the use of animal manure, then we

should readily see that every possible

protection should be given to the live

stock industry 0f the nation. I esteem

that the live stock industry is of that

importance to this republic that every

protection that can be should be given

to it. The sheep industry in this and

other states should be given that protec-

tion that would stimulate the growth of

fiocks so that they would occupy the hill-

side lands of the New England states,

to furnish food and clothes for the near-

by city man. But the city man has cried

out against the protection to our flocks,

“The tariff on wool,” until he has been

heard, and his demand granted; but he

has continued to spend ten times as

much each week for tobacco and booze

as has been saved to him, and has by

his demand multiplied the cost of trans-

portation of the meat that he consumes.

And he has placed within the reach of

the great meat packers the control of the

price of his food, and a great area of our

country has been deprived of the only

industry that could‘be a financial success

there, and those places that were once

happy homes and prosperous farms in

New England are now growing up to

underbrush and briars, and we have been

talking of reciprocity with Canada to

supply the necessary food for our rap-

idly increasing population.



The great manufacturing interests have

studied the utility of by-products until

today in many of these plants there is

more profit in what was once t-l-e. hy-

pioduct than in that which was once the

main product of the plant. Yet this na-

tion has turned to waste that which was

once a great source of wealth and man-

hood, the inspiring landscape, the invig~

orating atmosphere, and the rugged hill-

sides of New England. The toiling

masses of the New l'lngland citics could

well afford to give a premium to every

sheep and every cow that should exist

there upon her hillsides, but: instead of

this, on account of the adverse legisla-

tion, there is only one cow to 1712;. pop—

ulation in the state of Massachusetts. the

sheep industry has been annihilated and

the New England consumer is crying out

against oppression of the (‘hicago meat

trust, and the excessive cost of transpor-

tation. Millions of sheep and hundreds

of thousands of cattle should be living

upon the hillsides of New England and

furnishing profit to the owncr, fertility to

the soil, and clothing and food to the

nearby city man. Michigan is following

in the wake of the New lingland states,

and we cry out against this: \Vc want

protective legislation, not hostile legisla—

tion to the live stock industry of this

state and nation.





Protective Legislation.



\gain T repeat that everything that

can be done should be done to encourage

the live stock industry of the nation. It

seems to me that where such vital inter-

ests are attached to any industry, where

the interests of all people of the nation

depend upon it, that thcre ought to be

given to such an industry the most lib-

eral legislation, {1 legislation that will

both stimulate and protect, not an en-

tanglcment of laws that will be a menace

to the industry. Laws are often enacted,

ostensibly in the interests of public

health, for this is the alarm cry that will

arouse the millions. \Vc heartily concur

in any law or movement that will guard

the health of the people. The grdt‘lt white

plague should be fought, but why make

the cow the scape—goat for the sins of so

many. Some of these young women who

sat on the ice—coVered bleachers at Ann

Arbor in zero weather for four hours

with pcek—a-bood waists on to see the

hticliigan-Pennsy-lvania foot ball game,

are even now wondering why they should

be compelled to go to the sanatorium a:

Howoll to be treated for tuberculosis.

and the doctor is trying to find out if

some time in her life she did not take

if she did, there

is where she, got the “bug.” Did you ev-

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sion to a public dance, where for long

and strenuous hours people mingle in

close proximity to each other? Did you

ever hear of a physician warning his

patient that it was dangerous to do‘ this?

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LOESER BROS. Box 8. ngonler, Ind.

Percheron, Belgian, Shire, Hackney





STALLIBNS anti MARES





Two to 4 years old, imported and American

bred. (‘hoice colors, weighing or maturing 1300

to 23er pounds. Three importations last few

months, others to follow soon. Prices on most

of my stallions $700 to $1200 at my burns.



LEW W. COCHRAN. .

Office 109% S. Washington St., CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND





STALLIONS





The Place to Buy





a. or. shifts & sons,





Huntington, Indiana.

Write about them.





It Will Save You Money.





A. A. PALMER G SONS.

BELDING. MICH.





The Pioneer Percheron Breeders oi Michigan.

offer for sale a. choice lot of black





Percheron Stallions and Mares





All registered and young. Fifty head to select from.





$2,000 hunt BelgianSlallion





Seven years old, weight about 2,010 lbs.. dapple bay.

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will pay you to write or phone. CLINT N _M.

DIX, ii. No. 2. “'ushington. Maooml) 00., Mich.





——2l'l three

Breeders oi Jacks and Percheron Horse: and .0“.

year old jacks, 1:3 ycurlings. Some nice Percheron

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For Sale, Pair Percheron Mares, 33w, 0,... .mp0...

ed Percheron more 8 yrs. old. weight 1700. all in foal.

One imported Percheron stallion 3 yrs. old, wt. 1&0.

it first prizc winner at Grand liiipids. One American

bred Percheron stallion 14 yrs. old, wt. 1850. All black

and all reg. First class in evcri’rcspect will be sold

right if taken soon. WM. BIB . St. Johns, Mich.





Percheron Stallions and Mares for Sale

I have black & grown" you in: and registered,with ual-

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I‘lEGlSTlIRED PERFHERON and Light Harness Horses. Short-

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JACKS.





Bi gest jack offcring ever made. 90-day sale on 65

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and must close out a lot of jacks to get money and

make room. Write for catalog, photograph. descrip-

tion and price list.





W. L. DeCLOW,

Cedar Rapids Jack Farm. Cedar Rapids, In.





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Stock guaranteed. Vl'rite

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Krekler’s Jock Farm

West Elkton. Ohio





Branch Barn—Clnton. Indians





Mich. Agrl. College, East LansingJilich.





has for sale two black PERCHERON STALLION

COLTS out of Calypso mares—one coming, two ears

old in June the other one year old in Apri .





1%‘3‘1’329. “nuances: Stallions. the Increase:

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ' '_ "





the federal authorities are called in, and





«the- most rigid scrutiny is exercised, with





laws and officers to guard this.



In regard to those menacing laws, the

cattle breeders of this state have enjoyed

a great degree of immunity, for with our

conservative and level headed Live Stock

Sanitary Commission, I believe that the

greatest care has been taken, in using

the various tests to determine the pres-

ence of disease, to be both careful and

thorough. But friends. this it not always

so. Ilndcubtcdly, sometimes an effort is

made on the part of the owners of ani-

mals to-nullify the tests, but as many

times there is an effort made on the part

of some official to show some excuse for

the existence of the office. But when we

come to consider the question of relia-

bility of the tuberculin test, this brings

into the question an element of uncer-

tainty that is indeed a serious question,

and I feel that I desire to be very careful

in my statement here. I do not want to

be misunderstood. I do not want to ad—

vocate reactionary measures. I do not

want to impede the course of any reform

movement. But I am satisfied that the

tuberculin test is not sufficiently under-

stood by the practitioners, so vhat at this

date there can be on the part of the peo-

ple confidence in it. Go out from this

room and ask the different practitioners

that you meet what reading constitutes

au‘cuction, and you will receive about as

many answers as you make inquiries.

Some claim that a raise of one per cent

constitutes a, reaction, and the variations

from this to an average of three per cent

above normal temeprature. Go out from

this room and ask the different prac-

titioners that you meet what the varia-

tions in the normal temperature of ani-

mals may be, and I am sure that the

answcrs will be as varied. Go again and

ask what. the dosage of tuberculin is,

and here again you will find a great dis-

crcpuncy. I know Where the dosage has

ranged all the way from 2 to 9 c. c., B.

A. I. tuberculin, for mature animals.

Then i know that crratic and unreliable

thermometers are uscd. I have seen the

reading vary one per cent on an animal

with two thermometers at the same time.

i have it upon the authority of one of

the most conspicuous men in the profes-

sion in the United States that not long

since an entire herd of twelve animals

were condemncd and slaughtered. Each

animal was posted, and not a. single

tuberculctr lesion was found in any of the

animals. It was afterward discovered

that the thermometer that had been used

onltbc test the second day was a. worth-

less thing. Wc are not yet ready to

advise as has been done in some in-

stances, but we do bclieve that this test

nccds a great deal of care, and should

be so jcalously guarded as to avoid the

loss so ruthlessly made. Gentlemen, this

thing today, the way it is used by some,

constitutes a peril to the live stock in-

dustry of our nation. If our dollars are

to be played with, then we ought to have

something to say about the game.



In my own cxpcrience I am sure I have

been fortunate, for I have never had but

one animal condemned, but I have had

the variations in the preliminary test so

great that they would have constituted

a rcaction on the following day, a varia-

tion of 31,1. per cent with no apparent

(iiscOmHtul'u on the part of the animal

on the day previous to the injection of

the tubcrculin, and no possible explana-

tion could be made. 1 am not advocating

the abandonment of the tuberculin test,

yct some have done this. I would not

advocate the position that I think Ger-

many" has taken. But I do believe that

animals should never be condemned on

the test ail-one. A clinical examination as

well should be relied upon to makc this

determination, upon which depends the

destruction or the usefulness of that ani-

mal. The most reliable data that I have

been able to obtain from M. D.’s causes

me to believe that not two per cent of

the human tuberculosis can be attribut-

<~d to bovine infection. There is hardly

another source of human tuberculosis

but to which you may charge a greater

degree of infection.



\i'e must safcguard the hcalth of the

public, but let us raise the alarm cry all

along the danger line and lct us cause

the people to understand that the unwise

and often sinful practices of the people

themselves is the greatest source of hu-

man tuberculosis. The above referred

to law is only one of the many laws

which we should refer to if we had the

time, which are not accomplishing the

purpose for which they are created.





Editors’ Note—Extracts from the bal-

ance of President Reed’s address will be

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by powerful hydraulic pressure instead of by hand. Asa precaution

against cracking at the ankle. we use an extra ankle reinforcement

of are gum, while others use a. strip of cloth. Cloth is cheaper.

Cen ur Soles are made trom the toughest compound known.

and WI 1 outwear the soles of the average rubber boot two to

one. Here we reiniorced ugtun by running a. strip of pure gum all the way

around the edge of the sole, making a connection so firm and lasting as to

absolutely prevent breaking. it's not easy to tell a. good rubber boot

by appearances. and even the dealer gets fooled occasionally. More

0 ten he {nerds to the temptation to make what looks like a. little "ens

money' y stocking up on a “cheaper" article on the representation 0

some smooth salesman that “it’s just as and" as the Century. Wb take

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NILES. MICH.

We have a fine lot of imported and

American bred





Percheron Stallions





on hand and we can sell them for less



money than any other importer. Write



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Our summer importation, in our estimation





the best lot of horses we have ever had at

Oaklswn, has arrived. Numerous impor-

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high average is the main thing, as every

animal would be a credit in any herd. Write us,





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FEB. 3, 1912.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.





, on spell of severely cold weather,

wgt‘hleslnog storms now and then, made

serious interruptions to the live sotck

shipments to Chicago from the surround-

ing country. Many stockmen preferred

to wait for a rise in the temperature be-

fore shipping stock to market, while. in

numerous instances the railroad officials

lrefused to accept consignments when

offered, realizing fully the extreme un—

certainty as to getting them in anywhere

near schedule time. For two consecu-

tive weeks the Monday receipts of cat-

tle, hogs and sheep were cut down to

very small numbers, and prices had good

advances for cattle and hogs, while lambs

had a ready outlet. Stock showed large

shrinkages when shipped during the

most severe weather and arrived very

late in the day frequently, so that many

consignments had to be carried over to

the following day, thereby adding to

sellers’ expenses. Many shipments of

hogs had to remain a day at country

shipping stations, and it was impossible

with the accommodations provided gen-

erally to keep them comfortable. It is

usually wisev during spells of unusually

severe winter weather to keep stock on





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Saves Manure—





deavor, a real all-purpose plow has been

invented— an implement Which does

perfect work on tame sod,heavy clayland,

sandyland,mixed land—iii anykindof soil.

Spreads each slice evenly and smootltly. ‘;

(No kinking.) Pulverz’zrs the soil so as to





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give you a perfect seed bedwith less mois- ‘

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you ever thought possible.



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your nam e,we will forward. postpaid, complete

story of the Rock Island (C.T.X.) Universal

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money—how it will greatly increase your crops.

And we will also send you letters from farmers

now using “Universal’ Plows.





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There is no other plow like it. There are plows for tame sod,





the farm.



Butter and eggs have had abig boom in

prices that carried them to the highest

figures recorded in many years. Follow-

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Trade, the Chicago Butter and Egg

Board advanced fancy creamery butter

to 40 cents a pound, and retailers there-

upon raised their price to 50 cents in

some instances. High prices have great-

‘ly checked the demand for butter and

fl! eggs, and egg prices Were lowered when



it was found that sales were slow. Fol-

lowing the butter boost, Assistant Dis-

trict Attorney A. G. \Velch declared that

he had sufficient evidence to warrant a

demand for an injunction and that he

would ask an order to restrain the pres—

ident and members of the two boards

from fixing arbitrary prices for the pro-

visions traded in on both exchanges.

Butter dealers complained that the pro-

duction of first—class butter was below

requirements, and this is doubtless true.

At any rate lots of inferior butter is

offered in '





   





Note the peculiar corkscrew, auger-like twist of the mouldboard. A slice of any 1

thickness spreads out evenly over the surface without crimping and turns clear over,

partly pulverizing the soil and burying all trash completely. No spilling over into the

furrow or slopping forward onto the land. Lightest draft and easiest on the horses of

any plow made. We control the shape of these mouldboards and they cannot be had

on any other make of plow. Has more unto-date features than any other plow,

besides the great exclusive advantage of the Universal Bottom. For full description

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Guard Agalnst Dry Weather

Save the rain that falls and thus save your crop from “burn-

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and trashy land. But the “Universal" is the only plow with and flat. without crimping. and is better pulverized. The

which any farmer in any township in your state can properly top soil will touch the subsoil without air spaces, and thus in

plow up any field on his farm. dry weather pull the water up from be-

Saves Hours and Hours low like a larnp wi‘ck pulls up kerosene.

of Narrowing Deep plowmg is often a safeguard

, , against drought. With a Rock Island

Don t overwork yourself, your hired “Universal" you can plow as deep as any

{1:33 agdtyouérlliorsress {fartrnglng yttéuié farmer would care to, and you will al-

. ea“ we a'— epow a . ,

not only turns over the soil and covers all trash, but leaves ways have flat, “”00”; furrows.

that soil in such condition as to make it a simple matter to Priced Right





prepare your seed bed. Then you won‘t need to barrow so

much. Save time. labor and expense by less harrowing. We own and control all patents on the world's only Universal

plow, but we are not taking advantage of the buyer. Our





Makes Manure Go Farther prices are right. Ask any independent implement dealer.

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or cow in one year is worth $27. “.5 certainly too valu- same money that you would pay for a (ammonplace plow. Yet

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the c1ty groceries at prices

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A prominent feeder of Colorado says

there are 700,000 sheep and lambs on feed

in that state, this being about the same

number as a year ago. A few Colorado

lambs have shown up in the Chicago

market, their quality being good, but no





 





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last year, or an average selling price of

$7 per 100 pounds on the Chicago mar-

ket, and recent lamb prices have been ‘

made well above that price, the best ‘

lambs having brought $7.40. Flocks went "

into Colorado feed lots on an average of

20 to 30 days later than last year, but

their general condition is said to be as

good as a year ago. Shipments are now

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they will gain in volume as the season

advances. Food in Colorado costs 30 to

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avoruging $1.12 to $1.25 per 100 pounds.

while hay costs $7 to $8 per ton. 1n the

North Platte country located in the ex-

treme western part of Nebraska and in

the extreme eastern part of \Vyoming

there are 1:70.000 sliccp and lambs fced~

ing, an increase of 75,000 over a year ago.



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corn fed to live stock on the farms cv—

erywhere, and this tends to strengthen

prices, although dealers have been

counting on a larger marketing of farm-

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The way corn prices have held up is a

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16 cents a bushel higher than a year ago,

and some cash lots of No. 3 white have

been made in the Chicago market as high

as 63 cents a bushel. Hay, too, is scarce

and extremely high, the best timothy

selling at wholesale in Chicago for $24

per ton, and choice prairie hay for $18.50.

The best prairie hay is brought from

I Kansas and Oklahoma, while choice Iowa,

A Nebraska and Minnesota prairie hay

brings $14.50 to $15.



Nebraska breeders of Hereford cattle

report the best demand for pure-bred

cattle, as well as the highest prices, seen

in ten years. Breeders everywhere are

reported as short on cattle. In the north—

western range country rangemen and

cattle feeders can no longer depend upon

neighbors and the country at large to

furnish feeder cattle and consequently

they are forced to raise their own cat-

tle. there once there was a demand for

40 to 50 bulls, it is now for 10 to 15, and

orders are larger in numbers, while call-

ing for fewer head. The time has come

when corn belt farmers will have to

breed and raise cattle.





John A. Eyler, live stock agent of the I





Burlington railroad, looks for a shortage

Not a Stave Trembles!





of western range cattle this year. He

says: “Our corn bolt cannot be expect~

ed to supply much beef for the next _few

months, and the numbcr of cattle on

feed is considerably less than last year.

The reasons for this include higher Let the worst storm swee the country—the solid, staunch Saginaw

prices of cattle and the difficulty of get- 8110 stands erect—unmove .unharmed. Why? The Saginaw Base Anchor

ting stock cattle at a cost that promises and the Saginaw Inner Anchoring Hoop combine to hold it so firmly that

to let feeders out even. More range cat- dynamite could hardly move it. Know about these features—the

greatest Silo improvements for 1912—before you consider buying

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tle were moved out of Montana and WY-

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than we had expected, and knowledge of

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offerings next summer and fall will be 50

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to our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a reply that

has been made to some one else. When

reply by mail is requested, it becomes

private practice, and a fee of $1. 00 must

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Leucorrhea.—Have a. mare 17 years

old, bred last June, that has had a thick

white vaginal discharge ever since. Our

local Vet. has failed to help her and I

might add she is not in foal. G. N.,

Sheridan, Mich.—Give your mare 1,42 oz.

Fowler’s solution at a dose in feed three

times a day. She should be well fed and

have good care. If you inject her use

the following lotion, which is made by

dissolving 1 dr. permanganate potash in

5 or 6 dis. of tepid water and applied

by using a small rubber tube with tin

funnel.



Stocking—I would like to have you tell

me the cause of stocking in horses. I

have a six-year-old horse that does not

seem to be sick, but his hind legs stock.

M. J. I.., Carsonville, Mich—Stocking is

not a disease, but a result of other all-

ments. Very often it results from gen-

erous feeding and for want of exercise.

Regular exercise and good care, keeping

the bowels open and the kidneys active,

with perhaps bandaging, will generally

remedy it. Give your horse 1,5 oz. fluid

extract buchu at a dose in feed three

times a day.



Chronic LaminitisfiInfiamed joints.—

Last spring I bought a young Belgian

mare that was represented to be sound,

but soon showed some foot soreness in

from and her joints Were somewhat

swollen. Our local Vet. who has treated

her for soreness and stiffness tells me

she will never fully recover. R, C. A.,

Ann Arbor, Mich.—She will travel less

sore if you apply rolling motion shoes in

front. Dissolve 1,13. lb. sugar of lead in

one gallon of cold water, adding one pint

iluid (xtiact opium and apply to sore

joints three times a day Chronic sore-

ness of this kind is seldom permanently

relieved



Warty Condition of Skin.——'I‘here are

three, sores on my cow’s udder and one

of them extends «one-half way down teat,

These patches appear as if the skin was

thickened, but there is no wound. How

should they be treated? N. H. M., Shep-

herd, Mich. ~—Apply iodine ointment ev-

ery day or two



Itchy Condition of Skin—Lice—Warts.

My yearling Holstein bull licks and

chews at himself almost continually;

mostly on hind legs, thighs and scrotum.

Two weeks ago his skin seemed to be in

a peifcctly htalthy condition. I would

like to know of a lice killing remedy that

can be used in cold weather. Would also

like to know what to apply on warty

places on cattle. F. S., Edwaidsburg,

Mich. —Apply one part sub nitrate 0f

bismuth and four pails vaseline to itchy

parts of bull evmy day 01 two. He may

need a good washing 11i1h soap and wat-

er. Dust on lcisian insect powder once

a day. Apply iodine ointment to warty

parts of calves three times a week.



lmpure Blood—Scubs an Body—“'9

have a calf that has a great many small

seabs on skin, causing him to rub as if

itchy. F. G. H., Dorr, Mich—Give your

calf a dessertspoonful fluid extiact sar-

saparilla and 20 diops Donovan’s solu-

tion at a dose in feed three times a day

and apply vaseline to sore parts of body

three times a week.



Pneumonia—I would like to know

what you think caused the death of my

small pigs last summer and autumn.

'l‘hcy refused food, panted as if short of

breath and after lingering several days

died. F. \V., I’inckney, Mich—Your young

pigs no doubt died of either pneumonia

or heart trouble. Perhaps they had both

heart and lung trouble; treatment in

such cases does little or no good. Good

care and feeding them plenty has a

tendency to prevent ailments of this

kind.



Choking—Food in Lungs.—~One of my

hogs weighing 60 pounds commenced to

(at ravenously and then quickly acted as

if choked. I lifted him up by hind legs,

shook him and this seemed to afford

some relief. Local Vet. thought it might

be Congested stomach or larynx trouble,

or it might be some of the middlings

dropped down the windpipe. “'e feed

scpa1at0r milk and middlings twicoaday

and cmn three times daily L. R.

Mulr, Mich. ~\Va1m their feed and make

it thin. Some of the food no doubt went

down windpipe, after lodging in throat.

(ausing partial (hoking. Little can be

done to relieve such a case.



Abscess in Ear. —Our three- -year- old

collie dog has a gathering in both eals

and I would like to know what can be

done for him. First noticed this ailment

one year ago. Ills hearing is much af—

fected. A I. 'l‘., Kingston, Mich.—-Drop

in one part hydrogen peroxide and eight

parts water slowly and this will clean

out pus... then apply a little boracic acid.

He should be treated once a day.





Catarrh.—Soveral of my pigs discharge

from nostrils and 'are not thriving. I am

feeding skim-milk and middlings night

and morning and corn at noon. Nearly

all of them are pot-bellied. E. E. L.,

Litchfield, 0.-«Mix together equal parts

ground gentian, ginger, bicarbonate soda

and salt and give a teaspoonful to each

full grown hog two or three times a day.

Perhaps a change of feed would help

them as much as drugs.





 





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We have some very oholoo one. a little higher.

Write for description and pedigree.





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“ Top-Notch ” Holsteins.





A fine young bull from on Advanced Registry dam.

Beauty Pietertje Korudykc thNo 78950.

Born Nov. 26. 1910.

SIBE—Willowbridge Boo. who' is a grandson5 of Beauty

Pietertje, who has an official record of 30.51le. but-

ter in 7 days and waszthe first. 30-lb. cow of theb brood



to roduce 1130-111. daughter.



DA Anna Houwtje Lenore, wh has an 011101111

record as follows: Milk, ldg 843 lbs. . milk. 7days.

5411.2 11...; butter 7 daya,20 lbs bs. She ave 14015111..

milk last year in312dnys at. 10 years old. he has given

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nmcord of 2%. 22 lbs. butter in 7 days 3174 years 311110.

old. He comes from large roducers on bot he

in a good individual, nice yc marked. with a little

more black than white. 00.

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FOR SALE





YOUNG BULL





from A. R10. dam with over 20 lbs. of butter in

7 days. Sire a grandson of DeKol Burke. Here

are bargains-I have three bulls, 7, 8. and 9

months old: sire Johanna Concordia. Champion,

whose two grandsms averaged over 34 lbs butter

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318.825 to $3500

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CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd. consisting of Trojan eEricas Blackbirds and

Prides. only. is hondedb y oTrojnn Erica.

by Blue I: Woodlswn. sire of t 9 Grand Cham ion steer

and bull at the International in Chi coco, ec. .,



Afew choicely bred young bulls for sale



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bred. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint Mich.

—3R istered Guernsey Bulls; 5mgis-

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Hill Not Sell 20 Holstein Bulls ln Nov.

I Want to Finish 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.

EREFORDs—7 11111111 from 2 111...... 2 years old 1111





.and of the very best breeding. Also big boned

Polan China hogs. ALLEN BROS Paw Paw. Mich.





 





 





' from 4 to 9 months old. Their sire is

"(“3le Bu": of the Ipresent. most popular adver-

tised breeding. ROBI CARR Fowlerville. Mich





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The Greatest Dnlry Breed

Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets.

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JERSEYS AND DUROO JERSEYS

FOR SALE.





A few high class boars from such chum ion boars as

Orion Chief. Instructor, banld King of I llnois. Also

a few bred so





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BROOKWATEB FARM, Allllb ARBOR, M.,IIGH 8ll. ef. ll. 7.





REGISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin.

mg the blood of St Louis and Chicago World’ a

Fair Champions by HERMAN HARMS. Reese. Mich.





MABSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.





T. F. MARSTON. Bay City. Michigan.

Crystal SpringR1 s-Jerseys lor Sale ‘1ng





testing c0119 STOL R No. 2, Fenton. Mi(h.

0R SALE—3 yearlixaxflolstein-n -Frieslan bulls also

bred heifers each , Bull calvesflOt 0 $60.





33 years a breeder. Photos and pe di recs 0 l

cation. W. C. Jackson. South Bend. nd., 71$Rg¥%i-





BUTTER BRED JE$EYSEE§LS





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





lillie Farmstead JERSEYS





Cows all in yearly test. Several splendid Bull

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

antee satisfaction or mono refunded.



COLON C. LILLIE. oversville. Michigan





J ERSEYS of the best breeding.

Cows officially tested.



A few bull calves fro om (-101's making splendid



records. SAMUEL ODELL. Shelby, Mich





Red Polled ”OBull Calves





6to7months old. 540 to Cows 350 to 875. Also

Percheron Stallion 31550011m,old fine style, a big

bargain at $250.13 . BRAC ET'I‘ 112 SON, Allegan. Mich.





RED pOLLE D—Choice lot Of females any

age. also some bull calves.

J. M. CHASE & SONS. lonla. Michigan.

——White Hall Master 246586, by

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Scotch Loss for sale. W. 0. Going, Hillsdale. Mi(





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Surplus stock all sold. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





-—Ei ht re istered SHROPSHIRE

For 5318}: g 8'2 and 3 years old, cheap.

JONES .11 foulitssn. Flushing. Michigan.





SHEEP.





. ——Yearli mg and ram lambs from Oh i

LCWOSlCES— flock of Thumb of Ml ch. Also selecllzm 0:1:

mascot Farm, Almont, Mich.





 





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living prim. M. T. ETC ,3. F. D Q, Lowell. Mich.





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1 hour 9 111011. 310; Aug.pigs both was!" $9 and Sll. '





All Itock regil' d. and gunronbced. I! B. Reave'y, Akron. Mich.





—Brod sows. bred ilu dbo

filergigllhdegi—fol with”? I'm: besznof 13513301“,

wen u 1v naswi anoy ends, 1: mac b

prices. 0. C. COREY New Haven. M‘ich lguim 6





FOR SALE, BERKSHIRE—2 boon a 8 gills fur-rowed 1n June

nlso a choice lot of Aug. and Sept. pigs, sired by Handsome

Prince 8d 11 Marion King. A. A. PA'I‘TULLO Deckorville. lich.





—Bu no Bar 0

Berkshires c.1583. Sill; 1.13511”31'§o

for sale. 0. 8. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich h.





o I 0 Service Bos's, Gills bred for April furrow

- IA .and Sept. pigs large.smooth and roliflo.

Glenwood took Farm. Zeelnnd. Mich. P one 94





n L c SWINE—Males weighinghfrom5 175 250

lbs. each. Also a verv 0100 10:30 ofto ilto

GEO.P.ANDREWB.Da1nsville. Inghano .. ich.





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strain both males and females. dWrite for Live and

Let. Live price on mp‘alrs and tri not skin.

A GO R.'NO. 2. rr. Michigan.





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akin, some fine bred its choice lot of xfnlmpiganoy all

ages. OTTO B. uhvillo. Michigan.





0. I. c.—m gilfts byJChnmpionhtioar, 325

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Mare Sleeps Standing—.1 have a nine—

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she is inclined to fall. asleep and tumble

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7 drs. aloes and 2 drs. ginger at a dose.

This will purge her some. AlSO give her

a teaspoonful bromide of potash and 1

oz. bicarbonate soda at a dose in feed

three times a day. Her bowels should

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roots. Try keeping her.in a box stall.





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times a week.



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Leucorrhea — Barrcnness. — Cow came

fresh last spring, was not bred until

December, since then she appears to be

continually in heat and has a thick yel-

low vaginal discharge. T. W. K., Fenn-

ville, Mich—She will not get with calf

until discharge ceases. Give her 40 drops

carbolic acid in a quart of water either

as a drench or mixed with feed once a

day and dissolve 1 dr. permanganate of

potash in 4 (its. water and inject her

once a day.



Food or \Vatcr Poison—Vile are losing

calves, sick only from six to 12 hours,

slight looseness of bOWels followed by

great emaciation, considerable pain, jerk-

ing motion of body followed by stupor

and death. Sometimes death results in

six hours and in all cases in less than

12 hours from the time they take sick.

Have given castor oil, sub-nitrate of bis—

muth, sale], but seldom have given more

than two or three doses before they died.

Have withheld all milk. gave two rice

water, one plain boiled water. Three

were from three to four weeks old, one

was six weeks old and another four days

old—the last mentioned one sucking cow.

The youngest one was only sick 31x

hours. The six—weeks-old one was cat-

ing oats with a small handful of Blatch-

ford calf meal dry on oats and what al-

falfa hay it would eat with 21/2 (115. of

separator milk twice a day. The others

had mostly whole milk and were jusbbe—

ginning to eat other food. Have sprmk-

led lime all over the stable floors and

sprayed with disinfectant and will spray

with carbolized whitewash first warm

day. Two of these calves were bought

near my place and came out of healthy

herds. The young calf had his navel

treated with bichloride of mercury so-

lution and teats of cow washed with dis-

nfcctant solution, Have removedour well

calves to other quarters and still have

several cows to freshen soon. Have nev-

er had any abortions among our cows.

M. T., Jackson 00., Mich.——Their food

and water supply should be looked into

very thoroughly becaustx their death is

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cause of death is to make a close exam-

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give indicate death caused by a tox‘c

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petent Vet., perhaps your state Vet., to

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you positively what caused death. I am

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I wish to give you the results of my

last year's work with my cows and if you

can I would be very much pleased to

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have milked seven cows for the last

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year-old and the balance seven and eight

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My creamery checks show that I have

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creamery. I have sold $40 worth of veal

calves, besides having what milk we used

and making our own butter for a family

of five, besides extra help required, of

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am feeding at present 40 pounds of

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a half pounds beet pulp, and two pounds

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shredded fodder and mixed hay they

will eat per day each. and am getting

about six pounds of butter-fat daily

from six cos, the seventh cow has just

freshened and we shall veal her calf.

Bran costs $26 per ton; beet pulp, $22

per ton: cottonseed meal, $30 per ton.



Jackson Co. C. IV. WELKER.





This is a good showing for a herd of

cows. Besides the money received from

the creamery, cows should be given

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ter—lat would make her eligible to the

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I built a concrete hollow block silo last

season with a continuous air space

through same. but the ensilage freezes

through the blocks, which are 8 inches

through, for about 6 to 8 inches into the

silage and arcoss the top. The door at

the bottom of chute was not put in,

thinking that the warmth from the cattle

going up through the chute would keep

the ensilage from freezing. Now the

question is. does the holes from the top

of the silo blocks, which are open, make

the ensilage freeze and if I mixed some

cement and filled the holes in the top of

blOcks, making a dead air space, .would

it overcome the difficulty? Is the frozen

ensilage dangerous to feed?



Ottawa Co. E. S.





Stopping up the openings of the blocks

at the top of the silo making a dead air

space would be an improvement. As

these holes are continuous from the top

of the silo to the bottom so that thevair

can circulate through them the silage is

certain to freeze in cold weather. \Vheth-

er the stopping of these openings could

completely prevent the silage from freez-

ing or not, I dopnot know, I doubt if it

would. These holes could be shut up

with old burlap sacks if it is too cold

to use cement and as long as they last—

ed would be just as effective as cement.

I think, however, that you will find it

almost impossible to build any kind of a

silo that will not. freeze when you have

several days of zero weather. A light-

ed lantern or an oil stove in the silo

will almost entirely, if not quite. prevent

any freezing. There may be too much

ventilation in the silo. The top of the

silo should be made so that in cold

weather it can be shut up tight thus pre-

venting much of the heat from the silo

and the cow barn escaping; then a lant-

ern or an oil stove would be more effect-

ive if the hot air could not escape

through openings in the roof or around

the silo. Frozen ensilage can be thawed

out and fed to the cows. Throw it down

into the feed alley where the heat of the

stable will get to it and thaw it out, or

it will drop down from the sides of the

silo wall after a few days of warmer

weather. It is better to feed it immedi-

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I desire to build a silo, 10 ft. in diam-

eter, 20 ft. high. The soil is red clay.

Would it be necessary to go below the

frost line for foundation wall, and how

much cement would it require in either

case? I intend to build the wall one foot

above surface. For frame I will erect

2x4 studs. How far should they be

apart. and what length and thickness of

lath should be used? The interior is to

be plastered. How thick should it be

spread, and would it be well to use hair?

How much cement required? What kind

of outside sheeting could I use so that

each strip would help to form a hoop?



Montmorency Co. S. C.



With a red clay soil it will be neces-

sary to go into the ground for a founda-

tion only just nicely below the frost

line. Go down into the ground so that

the frost won’t get under your wall and

it will be permanent. 'ine amount of

cement to use will depend upon the

thickness of this wall. For this kind of

work you want to mix gravel and ce-

ment in about the proportion of one to

six or seven. If this is mixed thorough-

ly when dry and then wet the mate-

rial will make a firm foundation. Use

2x4 studding and set them 16 inches

apart on a circular sill. Then wrap a

common galvanle No. 8 fence wire

twice around the outside of the bottom

and then between each door way as you

go up the silo. This will act as a hoop

and add strength to the. silo so that there

will be no trouble Whatever about its

giving away. If you use elm that is not

thoroughly cured, for lath, cut it one-

half inch thick and string this around

on the inside of the silo and nail it to

the studding; but any dry material will

not bend 'without breaking} and if you

use dry ,material the best way is to cut'

it 16 inches long and nail onto each stud-

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which is really matched lumber with

grooves to hold -the mortar it makes an

excellent silo because you have a match-

ed lumber surface and a coating of plas—

ter. The plaster on the inside is just

thick enough to nicely cover the surface.

I should say one inch thick would be

plenty thick enough and I don't know

but one-half inch would be all right, de-

pending upon tho smoothness of your

lath. You want it thick enough so you

can make a smooth surface. The plaster

on the inside of the silo should.be made

rich in cement. This should be done by

mixing clean sharp sand with cement

in the proportion of two parts of sand to

one of cement. Mix it thoroughly while

dry and thcn wet it. You need not use

any hair or any other binding material.

This cement mortar will stick to the lath

firmly, you can hardly get it off.



For the outside I would use any good

six inch pine lumber, cut one-half inch

thick. and jointed. Board the outside up

by placing these strips one on top of tho

othcr tight together. If you try to use

clapboards and have them lap oVer on

a round silo they will not fit well be,-

cause where they lap it will he a littlo

farther around. By using one-half inch

lumber jointed it will fit close enough so

that it: will be impossible for sufficient

moisture to get in to permanently in-

jure the silo. Good sound hemlock lum-

ber or any other kind of lumber would

do just as well as pine lumber for this

purpose. Simply got good sound lumber

and material that will cost the least and

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HARD-CHURNING CREAM.





 





Now that it is time for cream to churn

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of the trouble is in the cow as wcll as in

the conditions that surround her and the

(are of the crcam, such as poor feed.

lack of salt, advanced pcriod of milk-

ing, freezing of the milk, or not ripening

the cream properly. All of these things

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same conditions some cows’ crcam will





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There is a general shortage of roughage

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Clover and alfalfa are sure to form a trio

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CURRENT COMMENT.

The movement for

The Conservation of tho, consr-rvation of

Soil Fertility. our national re-

sources has. owing

to the principle involved, reccivcd gen—

ci'al commendation and support from the

people of the country as a. whole. But in

far too many cases tho conservation of

natural resources has meant too little to

the people who have been supporting it

so loyally, especially to the country poo-

plc. To them it. has too generally meant

only the conservation of those natural

resources the title to which has not yet

passed from tho government, such as

mineral lands, forests and water power:.

But, important as is the conservation of

these natural resources, thcre are other

natural resources which lie right at our

door. the title of which rests with us

rather than with the general govixrnmcnt

and the conservation of which is fair

more important to oursclvcs and to the

country at large.



One of the most important of ilicsc

naiural rcsourccs is soil fertility. which

should always be carefully ('oilSc‘l‘VCll if

not actually improved, lo illc cnd that

our farms may be more ]')l‘()(lll('llve and

profilablc and thc food supply of “)0

country made adcqunlc lo the demands

of our pcoplc for homc consumption with a

rclisonablc surplus of the. sluplcn for ex—

port when the balance of Ihc world can

usc. ihc snmc :Il rciisonnbly I'cmunl‘lrulivc

priccs. Yet this question of the conscr—

vaiion of soil fcri'illiy has not been givcn

the. attention which it merits in years

past.



it is true that our farmers are not

wholly at fault in this conncction, from

the fact that under conditions which have

prevailed they have, in yours goinx by,

been compelled to be soil robbers in or»

der to support their families and meet

their obligations. When tln-ro was an

abundance of virgin land coming undcr

cultivation at a time when lhc advent of

labor-saving machinery chcapcncd the

cost of production, as well as enabled

many lines of production to be conducted

on a large scale in the fertile prairie sec—

tions of the country, the farmcrs of Mich—

igan were compelled to compete on rather

unequal terms and c0uld not give the

thought to the conservation of soil for—

tility which they are now in a position to

do. As a. consequence, many Michigan

farms were depleted of their fertility and

gotten into a. poor mechanical condition,





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which makes their cultivation less profit-

able at the present time than would have

been the case had the virgin fertility of

these soils been properly conserved from

the start.



But the conservation of soil fertility

should not be longer neglected on any

farm, and the rehabilitation of the soils

that have become depleted from unwise.

methods of management, whether from

necessity or from a lack of an adequate

knowledge of the principles involved in

maintaining soil fertility, should not be

longer neglected. In order that these

principles may be brought home more

clearly to every Michigan Farmer reader,

We shall undertake to present them. inw

plain and concise form during the pres-

ent year, touching upon every phase of

this problem of the conservation and

building up of soil fertility, to the end

that the future prosperity, as well as the

present success, of the farmers of Mich-

igan may be aided thereby. “'e believe

that every reader who carefully follows

these discussions will find the particular

problem with which he is confronted,

elucidated in a manner which’ will be

helpful to him, and for this reason be-

Spcak the careful attention of our large

family of readers to the articles bearing

upon this subject, which will appear in

every issue of the Michigan Farmer dur-

ing coming months.





Continuing t h c



'8 Separation of Taxes discussion of the

Desirable? proposition 0 f



the separation





of state, and local taxation, which was

commented upon in our last issue, let us

briefly review some of the advantages

claimed for this scheme by its advocates

and a. few of the more prominent objec-

tions which may be advanced against it.

Chief among the benefits to be derived.

from a separation of the state and local

taxes is the climination of the necessity

of a state equalization.



Under the prescnt method of assess-

ment the valuations placed upon the

properly of the townships and cities by

the local asscssors are reviewed by the

various boards of supervisors in the sev-

eral counties of the state each year, and

the assessed valuation of these different

municipal divisions of territory is equal-

ized for the purpose of spreading the

state and county tax. By equalization is

meant the adding to or taking from the

assessed valuation as determined by the

local assessors in the various municipal-

ities in such manner as, in the judgment

of the supervisors us a whole, will make

the burden of the state and county taxes

equal in these various municipalities.

’l‘his necessity or practice is the result of

a general rccognition of the fact that the

leilcr of the law, which requires that all

property be assessed at its cash value, is

not equally complied with in all of the

various municipalities.



'l‘hcn, under the state law the assessed

valuation of the property of these var—

ious counties, as fixed by the several

boards of supervisors, is reviewed at

regular fivc-year periods by the state

board of equalization and the valuation of

all counlics is arbitrarily fixed by this

board for the purpoSc of spreading the

stale lax, equalization being made in such

Inunncr as, in the judgment of this board

of equalization, will place an equal share

of the burden of the slate taxation upon

the properly of ihc various counties in

the Slate.



lly the separation of sickle and local

taxes, this lusl process would be elim—

inulcd and the county would be the

lurgcsi unit for such equalization of the

asscsscd valuation of pi'opcrty. At each

Iivc-ycur period whcii the stale board of

equalization meets, the several different

counties are represented by counsel to

Sll()\V why the county which thcy repre-

sent should be givcn a low valuation by

the state board of equalization, and 0b—

viously it is somewhat more dlflicult- to

rcach a just conclusion where the entire

state is the unit of equalization than

thre the county is the unit. Still, this

difficulty is not as great as was the case

before the state tax commission was

created, and the data available to the

stale board of equalization from that

source is a valuable aid in simplifying

their work and insuring that the equaliza-

lion bc justly made. There are other

minor arguments in favor of a separation

of slate and local taxation, but the above

is advanced as the strongest reason for

such separation of the taxation.



On the other hand, any other scheme

of raising taxes for state purposes really

involves the indirect taxation of the peo~

ple of the state in such a. manner that

they will not know when they pay their

state taxes, or feel the burden of state





taxation more than they now feel the

burden of federal taxation._ This means

that there will be a less wide general in-

terest in the affairs of the state govern-

ment ,and would probably mean a more

marked tendency toward the increase of

state expenses, which increase is bound

to be constant in any event, du: to the





greater demands upon the state govern-





ment which are inevitable with the in-

crease in -p0pulation of the common-

wealih. In a sense it would be a step

toward the further removal of the state

government from the common people,

which is somewhat contrary to the ten-

dency of the day.



However, this plan of separating state

and local taxes is in force in a number of

states, as previously noted, and is giving

an excellent degree of satisfaction. But

in practically all of those states the con-

ditions which are fixed by precedent and

fundamental law are different from those

which obtain in Michigan, which makes

the proposition a somewhat different one

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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

. National.



Twelve persons are thought to have lost

their lives by attempting to cross the

Mississippi river at Cairo in a small boat.

it is. thought the boat was caught in an

ice Jam.



A review of the year's traffic on the

Detroit river shows that 9,204,143 persons

were handled by the steamers running

out of the Deficit harbor. One life was

lost during the season. Chicago boats for

the same period handled an aggregate of

1,687,960 passengers, while all other ports

in the district had less than 600,000.



A niaSS meeting of unemployed 'men

was held in Cleveland Sunday, where it

was voted that an attempt should be

made to gain an audience with President

Taft. during his visit at that city, to re-

quest that the federal government give

unemployed men work. Should they fail

in this, the men voted to organize a sec-

ond army to march upon Vi'ashington.



Secretary of \Var Stimson has decided,

after reviewing the carefully prepared

report of the general staff, that sixteen

and probably eighteen of the existing

army posts of the country should be

abandoned at once. He believes that

such an action would decrease the ex-

pense of the army and would secure a

higher efficiency in the organization and

disciplining of troops. Fort W'ayne, at

Detroit, is among the posts recommended

to be abandoned. '



At a conference of the scale committee

of the United Mine Vi’orkcrs of America,

held at Indianapolis, it was decided that

unless the employers grant a wage in-

crcas of 10 per cent that the men walk

out. The operators, on the other hand,

demand a decrease in the scale of a. like

per cent. It is believediby those in touch

with both sides that an agreement will

probably be reached upon the present

scale.



More than $20,000.000 worth of automo—

biles were exported from this country

during the year 1911. This is twenty

times the value of the machines exported

one decade ago.



Contracts have been let for the drain-

age of 10.000 acres of land in Houghton

and Baruga couniics in Michigan. The

land, when drained, will constitute one

of the most fertile regions of the Upper

Peninsula.



Frank I‘. Glazier, former state treas-

urer, was paroled from Jackson prison by

Governor Osborn after having served two

years of a sentence of from five to ten

years. it was believed by his physicians

that had the former official remained in

prison he would not have lived for more

than two or three months.



Eugene Schmiiz, former mayor of San

Francisco, is defendant in a trial now on

being charged with bribery. Schmitz was

associated with Abe Ruef, who is now

serving a term in the penitentiary for

bribci'y among the city officials of the

western metropolis.



Hearings are being held before the

senate committee on judiciary for the

purpose of securing information upon

which to frame a bill for preventing the

shipment of liquor into dry siatcs.



Judge Beiijnmin A. Harlan, formerly

of Grand Rapids, Mich, but for more

than twcnty years past special examiner

of the pension bureau at Washington,

died in that city from the effects of an

automobile accident a. week ago. ‘ He was

secretary of the Michigan Society at the

federal capital. .



Clarencc S. Darrow, noted socialist and

prominent attorney of Chicago, has been

indicted by a grand jury, being charged

with bribing two jurors in the McNamara

cases.



Rioting at Lawrence, Mass... where the

mill men are on strike, overtaxed the

police department of the municipality and

caused Gov. Foss of that state to order

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of cavalry to the scene at once.



A rear-end collision near Durand re-

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hurt. _



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George of England, and Duke of Fife,

died in Egypt Monday night,



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constitutes the northern portion of the

Island, are protesting against the move—

ment to give Ireland home rule.’ All the

other districts are practically unanimous

in favor of the movement, and as a. re-

suit the protests made at Ulster are

causing a. stormy political situation there.

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THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA—BY WJ-WRIGHT.





' GED and hoary, venerable monu-

ments to the patient, self-sacrific-

ing Padres who prayed and worked



and Istarved for the salvation of their



Indian brothers; now robbed of their



social significance—~many even in ruins



——the old miSSions of California still sav-

or of the romance of generations past

and gone when around them were cen-

tered the only civilized activities of the

great southwest. On their very walls

one can almost read the history of their

past, when they bloomed like flowery



oases on the arid wastes and taught a.



faith of which their melancholy cloist-



ers are the sad memorials. Then the



Padres and their hosts of dusky follow-



ers rose at the first signs of the morn-



ing dawn to chant their sunrise prayers,

and patiently toiled throughout the day,

to be met on their return at evening by

the dusky-eyed senoritas; and music,

music everywhere, the sweet, melodious

strains of the guitar or violin mingling

with the appealing, persuading mission





 





 





Ventura Mission,





 





 





last of these Founded by Serra, dating from 1782.





quarters of a century later, by a treaty

between the I'nitcd States and Mexico,

tiny came under American influence and

from that time they trace their downfall.

Many have been abandoned and fallen

into decay. ()thcrs still exist as a place

of worship, and a few. notably those at

Santa Barbara, still maintain, in a feeble

way, a trace of their former work and

organization.



The first of the California missions was

the San Diego de Alcala, founded by

Padre Jtlnipero Serra in 1769, six miles

from tlle present city of San Diego. ()th-

ers of special interest are: San Carlos

torrcomco or El Carmel, also founded

by Serra in 1770 and the resting place of

his remains; San Antonio de T’audn.

founded by Serra in 1771: San Gabriel.

the center of the little village about 12

miles from Los Angelcs which bears its

name, founded by Cambon and Sonnra

also in 1771; San Juan t‘:‘1pistr;lno, the

most magnificent of all the missions.

originally covering six acres of ground





 





 





 





 





San Luis Rey Mission—Partially Restored as a Franciscan





chimes—a happy, pastoral scene now hid—

den in the golden haze of memory. Si-

lently their influence is still working de-

spite the American conquest. Theirs is

the prevailing style of architecture, their

ruins are always points of interest, and

they have given to the locality an atmos-

phere of romance found nowhere else in

this country.



The missions were foundetfi in the lat-

ter part of the eighteenth century by

Spanish priests for the purpose of con—

verting the Indians to the catholic faith.

Tht y are massive, structures, built most—

ly of stone and brick, much of the ma-

terial having been brought “round the

Horn" from Spain. By no means identi-

cal, they nevertheleSS bear a strong re-

semblance to ea'ch other and are readily

recognized. Their locations were deter-

mined by fertile sections of the country

where water could be readily obtained

for irrigation. and around which have

grown up many of California's cities.

They were the religious and social cen-

ters of the early communities which

clustered around them. Indians were con-

verted by the hundreds, taught to work

in the fields, to spin, weave, and care

for the fields and vineyards until, little

by little. the missions became vast cen-

ters of wealth, often owning thousands

of acres of the most fertile land, large

flocks of sheep, herds of cattle and other

domestic animals. in 1820 the San Ga-

briel mission alone is said to have pos-

sessed 160,000 vines, 23,000 fruit trees,

25,000 head of cattle and 15,000 h‘ead of

sheep, and to have had 20,000 acres un—

der cultivation.



While our forefathers in the east were

struggling to throw off the yoke of Eng“-

land these missions were developing the





country to the southwest, but, three- Santa Barbara, regarded the Best Preserved and Most Prosperous of the Missions.





 





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San Antonio Mission which has been Deserted for Nearly a Decade.





but partially destroyed by an earthquake

in 1812, founded by Serra and Amurrio'

in 1776; San Bllena \‘entura, the last

work of that great man, .lunipero Serra,

founded in l782: Santa larbar’a, founded

by liallsen, l‘aterna and Ul'alnus in 'lTSt‘:

San Miguel, founded by Laule and Sit—

jar in 1707; San Freuaudo dc lepano,

within whose lands is said to have been

the (Tomulos {ant-ho made famous by

Helen Hunt Jackson as the home of Ra—

molia, founded by Lrluscn and Dametz

ill 1707; and San Luis lit-y, the eighteenth

in order of the missions, founded by

l“ttlllOr‘ l‘n'l'i in 1798. Several others

were established throughout he state.

among which may be noted those at Los

Angeles and San Francisco.



(7f the above, the Santa Barbara mis-

sion is the best known and best pre-

served. San (labrfel still sheds its in—

tlllence over 'lho little village which bears

its name but its lands are wasted and

gone. San Luis itey has been partially

restored as a Franciscan College. Most

of the otlnrs are fast falling into decay.

I'llless some successful effort is made to

restore them, a heap of ruins will be the

only testimonial to the great‘work once

done within their walls.



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enough to the modern epicure. but the

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





and shelter, were always given with a

hearty welcome. But with the coming

of the American frontiersman came a.





slowly lost their hold upon the natives;

little by little their land slipped away;

the old regime was broken up and com-

munity interest sacrificed in the com-

petitive struggle for existence among the

ambitious usurpers. Bravcly the priests

fought to retain their hold upon their

flock, but slowly they lost ground until,

reduced to absolute poverty, many were

forced to leave or become traveling mis-

sionaries.



The direct benefit of the missions is





hard to estimate.

they would probably haVe solved-the In-

dian problem as we have about decided to





change in the social life. 'The missions ~solve it, by absorbing them into the race.

Unfortunately for them,





the American

invasion came before this had been ac-

complished and, in time of adversity,

their hold upon the natives quickly waned

and the work of a generation was lost.

Whatever may be said to have been the

benefit of the missions as an organization

it must be admitted that the personal in-

fluence‘of many of the priests as they

traveled up and down the country

wrought much good among whites and

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I think Harry Rodney must have read

on my face something or what was pass-

ing in my mind; for, suddenly the smile

left his lips, and I. saw his eyes take a

quick measurement of my form, and he

threw back his head as if preparing for

a Struggle.



“Mr. Rodney,” I answered, and my

voice was low and my words came

slowly, “I have that to say to you con-

cerning this same W'idow Thorpe and

certain other matters that requires a.

place less public than this. Come,” and

I led the way toward a. small wooded

park back of Dr. Goldthorp’s house.



For an instant my rival hesitated,

then a flash of fire came into his eyes and

he drew his lips tightly across his teeth

and answered: “I really can not imagine

what there can be that you should wish

to say to me, John Delvin, that you can

not say here and now. I assure you that

I have given you all the information I

can about, \‘Vidow 'J‘lim‘pc; and I am in

something of a hurry, for Elsie. is await-

ing mo, and you know how impatient

lovers are. Jim I am at your service.

only make the. interview as short as pos—

sible,” and he followed after me. He did

not offer to walk by my side. and I was

glad that he did not, for I knew, in spite

of all of his polite words, that the hatred

in his heart for me was as deep and as

bitter as that in mine for him.



On the north side of the park is a

small thick grove, and in the center of

this grove is an opening, perhaps three

rods in diameter, well-hidden by the sur—

rounding trees, and covered with a smooth

grass—grown turf.



I led Rodney direct to this spot. As we

entered the opening I saw him glance

quickly around, and read his thought. He

was as anxious as was I that no one

should witness this interview. Not a hu—

man being was in sight.



I could feel my muscles stiffening as

I turned and faced Rodney, and yet I was

never more calm. Now that the critical

moment had come the heat had fused my

passions into the supreme determination

to know why it was that Harry Rodney

was so anxious to keep Belle Murdock

and \Vidow Thorpe from speaking to me,

and what \I’ldow Thorpe’s note mea'nt.

This I had a right to know; and before

either of us left this spot I was deter-

minted to know it. If he refused to tell

me I would force him to show his hand.

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holds the wins. I knew that Rodney had

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ing able to get him into subh a white—heat

of passion that he would unwittingly give

me the clew I was seeking. But to do

this I must retain complete mastery of

myself. Zesides, for Elsle’s sake, there

must be no vulgar fist pommeling; and to

keep my hands off the man whom I hated

so bitterly because I believed he had

wronged me so deeply, I must not relax

the controlling grip on my temper for an

instant.



I looked Rodney straight in the eyes,

and be looked back straight into mine;

and, then before I could find my first

word, he said, with cool effrontery: “John

Delvin I am here to listen to your tale

of woe; and I assure you before hand

that you have my sympathy. I, who haVe

won, know what you have lost. But.

don’t overdo the rejected love-r act, or,"

and his lips were drawn back in a smile

that showed his white teeth, “I shall lose

my temper and give you the thrashing

you appear to need so badly. During my

four years at college I held the heavy-

weight boxing championship against all

comers; and,” be measured my form

scomfully with his eyes, “I have often

wished to test my skill on that big body

of yours, so do not tempt me overmuch.”





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THE BACHELOR UNCLE





BY EVERITT McNEIL.





llaVe an enemy I go to his face, not to his

back; and I have brought you here to

demand an explanation of certain things

which have happened recently. not to test

your skill as a boxer. Read this note and

tell me what it means,” and I gave him

\Vidow Thorpe’s note._



Rodney took the note and I could see

his lips tighten as he read it. “And so

this is what has set the bee' to buzzing in

your bonnet,” he said, as he handed the

note back. “Simply because a meddling

old fool of a woman gets a notion in her

head that something mysterious and sus-

plclonsvis happening right under her nose

that she can’t ferret out you—”



“XVhat does that note mean," I broke

in sharply.



“How under heaven should I know."

he retorted. “Go ask Widow Thorpe. I

am not responsible. for the notions of

every gabbling old female idiot in the

neighborhood, nor for the jealous suspi-

cions of every discarded lover.” I could

see his eyes beginning to lighten danger-

ously, and I felt the heat coming back

into my blood.



“\Vidow Thorpe is not here and you

are," I answered. "Besides I prefer to

get my information at first hand. Why

did you discharge Widow Thorpe and

send her to New York so suddenly and

mysteriously? Why did you secure a new

nurse and a new doctor for Belle Mur-

dock? \I’hy does this doctor, your doc-

tor, keep her constantly under ,the influ-

ence of opiates? Why have you taken

this sudden and unaccountable interest

in Belle Murdock? What secret of yours

is it that she knows, and which you are.

so fearful that she will reveal or that I

shall discover? These are the things that

I demand to know, Rodney, becaiiSe I feel

that the knowing of them concerns me

most deeply, and may be the means of

preventing the marriage of a scoundrel to

as good and true a girl as ever lived."



For a moment Harry Rodney glared at

me. his eyes glowng with concentrated

hatred and wrath: and then, hoping I

am sure lo take me unawarcs, he leaped

toward me and struck a blow straight at-

my head. But I had seen the danger sig-

nal in his eyes, and sprang to one side

just in time, for his fist grazed my left

cheek and his cuff, in passing, out

through the skin.



There is no man worthy of the name

who will not defend his body from vio-

lence. But one reply can be made to a.

blow; and when to the blow is added

insults and bitter wrongs and deadly ha-

ired the man is more than mortal or the

basest of cowards who will not fight;

and, as I leaped aside from Harry Rod-

ney‘s blow, I felt every cord and muscle

tighten and the blood jump like the spring

of a. tiger through my veins, while a

fierce joy that now I could punish with

my own hands the villian who had

wronged Elsie and had robbed me of her

love, drove every thought out of my

head.



The “nigger” was off the safety-valve.



The instant Harry Rodney had struck

and missed me he had leaped back; and

we stood facing each other, the two big-

gest and strongest men in the county,

each eager to be at the other. I am sure

we both realized the desperate nature of

the coming struggle. Harry Rodney was

as large a. man as I was, and a trained

athlete. I had heard many accounts of





(his physical prowess, and knew that now





hate and wrath would steel his nerves

and muscles to do their utmost. On the

other band not a little fame had come to

me because of my feats of strength and

skill as a wrestler, while the results of

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Rodney pause, even in the madness of





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sorbing interest and furnished food for

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cending a long hill at intervals.



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THE BACHELOR UNCLE.





(Continued from page 118),

his wrath, to summon together all his

forces and to get them under control;

for he knew. as i knew, that hot-headed

wrath never would win this battle.



For a moment we stood thus. each fac—

ing the other, every nerve and muscle

tense. (yes glaring into eyes, and deadly

hatred and brutal lust for blood in each

heart: and then, just as my muscles be-

gan to harden fol the first blow, I saw

a sudden change- comc over Harry Rod-

ncy‘s face, anl, with an oath, he pointed

back of me.



“Your pestiferous kids. followed by the

whole town are coming," he said.



I turned quickly and saw Teddy and

Ellen running hand in hand down the

path which led from lioctor ioldthorp's

to the opening where we stood: and close

behind them tan the fat old doctor; and

behind him came his fatter wife, fol-

lowed by the hired girl and the doctor's

driver. Teddy and Ellen were dressed

in long white nightgowns, which they

held well up above their knces as they

ran, and both were yelling and looking

back over their shoulders as if they were

followed by some dreadful ogre. The

good doctor's face was flushed and he

was calling loudly for the children to

stop: while his wife, poor woman! was

blowing like a fat porpoise and trying to

yell but only emitting short yelps and

gasps. ’l‘he hired girl had a fryin—pan

in one hand, and the man carried an ax.



This much l saw; and then i felt the

hand of Harry 'todney on my shoulder,

and he thrust his mouth up close and

hissed in my car: “John Delvin meet me

alone tonight at six o'clock in Black

Man‘s llolllow. There will be no one to

interfere with us there. Lock up your

kids.“ and, with as evil a look as I hch

even seen on a man‘s face, he turned on

his heel and strode away.



At this moment Teddy caught sight of

mo and yelled: “l'uclc John! (ih. T'ncle

John' Help! Help! Save us!" while Ellen

screamed, confusedly: "Oh, l'nclc John!

l'ncle John! Mammal Mammal Uh l'ncle

John, my stomach! Save my stomach!"

and both rushed at me and flung them-

selves into my arms; and before i could

recover from their assault the doctor,

puffing and blowing. and his wife panting

and wheezing. and the hired girl flourish-

ing the frying—pun, and the driver swing-

ing his ax, all were upon me.



“(Vircat heth-ns!” I exclaimed, holding

the frightened children close in my arms,

“what has happened? What does this

mean? Why are you pursuing these poor

children?”



Before the puffing, panting doctor

could get sufficient breath to answer,

Teddy whirled about and faced him.

“Don't you dare touch'me, you wicked.

cruel man!” he cried, shaking his fist at

the doctor. “Don’t you dare touch me, or

Uncle John will punch your head off."

And Ellen sobbed: “Don‘t let him get

my stomach, lfnole John! Don't let him

get my stomach!" and clung, shivering

with fright, to me.



“Doctor Goldthorp what have you done

to give these poor children such a hor-

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He was going to pump them right out of

us! Don’t let him get my stomach, Uncle

Johnl, .Oh, don’t let him!” walled Ellen.





And then between the doctor and Ted-:

dy and Ellen I discovered how it was

that all this excitement came about. The-

children for some time after the doctor’s

wife had put them to bed were very ill;

and the doctor thought he discovered

symptoms of poisoning, and concluded

that they had swallowed some poisonous

substance while in the water, and that it

would be necessary for him to use his

stomach pump to get it out. According-

ly he told his wife to get the children

ready to have their stomachs pumped out

while he went after the pump. Neither

Teddy nor Ellen had ever heard of a

stomach pump before, and with a child’s

realism, they instantly jumped to the

conclusion that in some mysterious man-

ner the doctor was intending to pump

the stomach right out .of them.



“And we wouldn’t have a place to put

ice cream, or candy, or cake, or anything

good, if he pumped our stomachs out,”

was the way Ellen pictured their hor-

rihle condition if this terrible catastrophe

should happen. Of course no child could

be expected to patiently await the inflict-





.ing of such a misfortune; and the mo—





ment Mrs. Goldthorp went out of the

room, ’l‘eddy whispered excitedly, “Come,

sister, we must escape now or never,”

and sprang out of bed, followed by Ellen.

They did not stop to dress, the peril was

too imminent, but rushed out of the room

into the hall, through the hall into the

kitchen, nearly frightening the wits out

of the. hired girl as they flew by her, and

out of the kitchen into the backyard.

The screams of the hired ginl brought the

doctor and his wife and the hired man;

and all started in pursuit of the running

children, with the doctor well ahead.

Over the backyard fence scrambled Ted-

dy and Ellen, catching sight of their pur—

suers as they did so; and the sight seem-

ed to transform their flying feet into

wings. as holding up their nightgowns,

they fled for their lives down the path

which led through the woods to the open-

ing where Rodney and I stood, breaking

in upon us at the most inopportune mo-

ment and spoiling as pretty a fight as one

could wish to be in.



It was many minutes before I could

convince Teddy and Ellen that Doctor

Goldthorp did not wish to pump their

stomachs out

for the fright and excitement had cured

them) and prevaill upon them to go back

with me to the doctor's and get their

clothes. As soon as the children were

dressed we started for home,



As I drove out of the doctor's yard

Ellen heaved a decilsigh, and the look

of fear left her eyes. “Oh, I am so glad,

't‘ncle John, that you saved my stomach,

because Mary Jane is going to make

some frosted cake. and tarts, and raisin

cookies for Teddy and me to eat when

We get back and I shall need it. You can

kiss me, Uncle John,” and she held up

her sweet little mouth; but, as I stooped

to kiss her, she exclaimed in horror, “Oh,

l'ncle John, your face is all bloody!” and

with many protestations of sympathy and

terms of cndearment she took out her

little white handkerchief to wipe the

blood away.



In the excitement I had forgotten all

about the scratch that Rodney’s cuff had

made on my cheek, and I had neglected

to wash off the little blood that ran from

it out on my face: but this Ellen soon

cleaned away, and then after having

critically examined the cut, she pro-

nounccd it only a “baby scratch” and

kissed it to make it well.



During this process Teddy had been

watching me with an ever growing inter-

est, and the moment it was finished he

burst out excitedly: “Uncle John, Uncle

John. were you going to fight the big

man? I know you were because your

eyes were blazing and your face was

white. I know you can lick him, I'ncle

John, even if he is as big as you, because

you are so quick and strong and brave.

Oh, how I should like to see you pound

him, Uncle John, because he is a wicked

man, and he looks at you as if he hated

you,” and the little fellow doubled up his

fists and shook them in sympathy.



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Since the Government‘authorities have begun to "Round Up” a few of the

men who have so long brought odium upon the name of honest labor, I have been

urged by some editors to publicly define the reasons for my seven years’ news~

paper campaign on the tyrannies of many Labor Union Leaders



Some men endow colleges. Others build libraries.



Both educational.



‘I preferred to devote to newspapers my contributions toward education,

warning the people to protect themselves against the greatest, most tyrannical

and dangerous trust this country has ever seen.



Especially insidious and dangerous, because its inner plans were not under-

stood by‘ the average citizen who, seeing no immediate slavery to himself, peace-

fully followed his own purSuits and blindly allowed the self-seeking Labor Lead-

ers (?) to weave their web stronger as time went on. Not one word in my en-

tire campaign has been uttered against peaceful ,trade associations.



I have only tried to defend the several million honest and lawabiding work-

men who protest against the bullying and abuse of those in pOWer.



No One seemed to sympathize withthe .few thousand widows and orphans

of the men murdered while faithfully trying to earn a living under God’s per-

mission but against the “orders" of the "Labor Trust.” So I tried to‘present

their cause from time to time.



The healthy average common citizen is perhaps deserving of at least some

of the inconvenience and loss put on him from strikes and other labor leaders'

tyranny as a reward for his indifference. ‘



I knew years ago that the plan of this big labor trust was to ultimately

gain control over every workman, clerk and employe in the U. 8., including





farm hands and government employes,

This has been partly accomplished in some localities; then followed acts which





clearly show the intent.

First, to harvest initiation fees, somtimes up to $100.00 each to “join the





union.”



Next, monthly dues.

at 25 cents each. . "



Next, “fines” assessed for some infraction of “rules.



Then the lash of the slave driver came forth. Orders to strike; what to buy;

what not to buy; how to vote; when to ilal‘ade (to show power); and to con-

tribute from the heard-earned pay envelope for strike benefits to other men

forced into idleness pending negotiations. between crooked leaders (?) and crooked

employers who hire said leaders to call strikes on competitive jobs, thus mak-

inc the workmen tools, kept idle while the chiefs scrap for control or bribe



a,

money.



One of the hardest strokes of the lash is the money forced from members

to defend dynamiters, Sluggers and murderers when caught.



But let an honest workman, who, perchance. has been driven into “the un-

ion” dare to disobey one of these orders" and he is taught a lesson through

the slugging or dynamiting committees. . .



The slavery of the honest American Working/man is

Shop” full control is obtained by the tyrannical leaders.



Now, observe the plan of this gang to govern men and affairs.



“Organize” every trade. Insist on closed shop.‘ Then use the power of num-

bers to induce government officials to permit organizing all government em-

ploycs. Some of the oaths defining that the union rules shall “precede Church,

State and Family." ‘



Then force Congressmen to pass anti-injunction laws to prevent courts from

stopping proposed outrages.



Force merchants to hire only “union” clerks and sell only “label" goods. Use

union funds to support slugging and dynamiting crews to drive back the pro-

testing ones or “remove” them. _



Of course, in carrying out the plan for complete control by the gang, some





Say $2,500.00 a month in a town with 10,000 “members"





pitiable when "closed





were caught. “

Vt'henever openly exposed the men “higher up” immediately begin to asseSs





members to protect the criminals and always rush into print with loud cries and

much mock sentiment about “the bfiothcrhood of man" and the “defense of the

wage worker,” with such play upon the sympathy of the people they cover their

greed for fees and insane desire to read their names in the papers.

It would be hard to convince the widows of the twenty-one murdered men in

the Los Angeles tragedy, and hundreds of others, that their husbands received

much benefit from “the defense of the wage worker,” nor could they well under-

stand such working of that particular brand of the ”brotherhood of man"

scheme.



Late events have stripped the lamb’s coat from the body of the wolf and

shown most clearly the lying deceit and horrible portent underneath, which I have

tried time and again to explain to the public.



Men who preferred to work and support their families have been waylaid.

Fingers chopped off, with the comforting assurance that “now you can set type

if you will.” Crow bars and heavy weights dropped on heads. Fathers beaten

unconscious and many times crippled for life; little homes blown up and many

and many a corpse brought to the distitute family.



These are not “occasional cases." Such crimes run literally into the thou.

sands, and judges and juries haVe been threatened with death, bribed, and wit-

nesses slugged or put out of the way.



In the Government cases now pending the witnesses must be guarded from the

agents of the “Labor Tri‘Jst” with its tentacles reaching to the most remote cor-

ners of our country. '



Don’t permit yourself to be misled by the vaporings of sentimental, drooling

degenerates who assert that these murders are justified because “society” has

oppressed workingmeii.



In no other country in the world are they paid as high, and as much earnest

effort devoted to their welfare. Nor is there as abundant opportunity in any

other country in the world for workmen to gain fortunes.



0111‘ great railroads and industries are largely headed by former wage earners.



These murders are instigated by that class of men, always in evidence, who

hate SUCCESS- They COOly and cruelly plan and execute assaults and murders

Wu own hate and show their power over the slaves who dare pro-

test. The nightly talk of strikes, given in many a union meeting, develops the

hate and murderous instinct which waits only for opportunity to carry out,



Take the Los Angeles case as an illustration. The Times had withstood about

16 years of all kinds of attacks, not because its faithful employes were under-

paid. They received wages highefihan the union scale, but they refused to bow

down and place themselves under control of “the gang,” hence they were Der-

sistently assailed and finally .21 were murdered. These men‘only asked to be

let alone to support their families, but union leaders determined to rule over

them, hence the murders.



The whole set-up of the leaders of the great “Labor Trust,” the American

Federation of Labor. points toward a diabolically adroit plan to secure to those





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leaders complete control over their own members who dare not protest, and also

over all other workmen, legislators, congressmen, merchants and the balance of

citizens.



'_’l‘lTi—nk it over and you will see in part what the tyranny would be

were permitted to completely carry out their plans.



Now that the facts are known the people can protect themselves by refusing

to do any act that would add power to this aggregation.



Remember, any act. .



When theirm the throat of honest labor is broken, working men can

either select better leaders, or join some of the law—abiding trade organizations.



I was not driven to write this series of articles by reason of disagreements

with my owu thousand workmen. No troubles have arisen between us.



They have had fifty-two weeks a year steady work for many years, are a

contented, high-grade class receiving the best wages in Michigan for like service,

and protected from the frequent onslaughts of these “Labor Leaders" (?).



Mr. Gompers has repeatedly announced in public that I sought to destroy all

organizations of labor.



This is in line with his regular habit of distorting facts. I have for a long

time been a member of the National Association of Stationary Engineers and the

National Trades and Workers’ Association. TheSe are non-strike and peaceful

organizations which negotiate their trade agreements legally, with peace and hen-

or.





if they





I have given to the Trades and Workers’ Association a $400,000.00 home for

their old members in furtheranCe of an honest desire to help solve this most

important industrial question.



In addition, I have offered to contribule a quarter of a million dollars cash

to help along a workingman’s movement, as defined in a letter sent Mr. Gompers





 





Dec. 11th, 1911. Copy herewith.

December 11th, 1911.

Mr. Samuel Gompers, Pres, American Federation of Labor.

\Vashinglon, D. C.

Dear Sir:—





Press reports indicate that you are greatly depressed and

and the disrepute brought on your Federation. ,



The query has arisen whether you are big enough to sense the movement of a

great Power which guides humanity. and to conclude that the time has arrived

when “Labor" should be honestly represented instead of misrepresented.



If the thought of truthful and earnest effort has come, and you honestly desire

better conditions for the wage earners, may I tender to you an invitation to come

out to Battle Creek for a conference with the President of the Trades and \Vork-

ers' Association, Mr, J. W. Bryce?





harassed by fear





if you will permit it, your expenses will be paid from the time you leave

“'ashington until you return.



You will be put up at the Sanitarium for a week or ten days' rest and freedom

from worry, as a guest, either of the Association or of myself, as you prefer,





\Vlicn i‘estcd. let us consider the new movement for the workingmen of Am-

erica. enlisted under the banner of the National Trades and VVorkers' Associa-

linn.i free from strikes, SIUgging! Dicketing, tyranny, fines, dynamiting and

mum er



Belonging to the American Federation cf Labor are hundrcds of thousands of

self-respecting and levy-abiding workingmen who are iiiombei's under pressure.

and who deplore the tactics you and your associates have- employed and forced

upon them.



Thcy want steady employment fifly-tvm weeks in the yoar and do not relish

being forced by strikes into idleness Pending tho “negotiations” between crooked

labor leaders seeking bribes, and CF00ki‘d employers who hire said leaders to call

strikes on competive J'ObS. thus making the workirgmen tools kept idle While

the chiefs scrap for control or bribe milney,



You will perhaps reject this proposal. believing that strikes are a necessary

weapon t0 preserve the rights of WOI‘klngmcn. But the now way has been in very

successful operation over two years and found to have more powcr than the old

way.



The honorable .Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, The National Association

of Stationary Engineers and the Nathnal Trades and “'orkers’ Association pcr-

fect trade agreements WithOUt strikes, secure the highest wages and yet pre-

seer thc respect and esteem of employers and of the members themselves.



\Vorlx'lngmen are aroused to resentment from being l‘orccd to contribute from

their_ hard-earned pay envelopes to defend known Sluggers and murderers, and

to being heavily fined for not obeying thl‘ orders of leaders when they know those

leaders are Hlnlply using them to insure complete dominion over the daily lives of

the American workingman.



He seeks to maintain his position as an honest. pcaccful citizen and not to be

forced to affiliate with and support thugs and miirdcrers.



Personally, I have only sincere and open denunciation for the past methods of

you and your assomates. Nevertheless, if you are ready to join in an earnest

and truthful step forward for your members and will accept this invitation in

the spirit in which it is given, you will be most welcome. and will be treated

with the greatest consideration we are capable of. and in addition I will agree

to contribute a quarter of a million dollars in cash to the new movement.



The Trades and Workers now have a splendid $400,000.00 home to care for

their indigent members. and with the addition of the members of the American

Fedci‘aiion of Labor and its endowment we can merit the support of the public,

all working for the new day of peace with honor in the industrial field.



Yours very truly,





C. W. POST.

No reply has been received. It seems evident the present Loaders will not

accept any offer of industrial peace which takes from them the fees, control of





workmen, and curbs their trust methods,



“'hen any combination either of Capital or Labor goes outside its own busi-

ness and attempts to oppress, tyrannize, or forcibly dictate to others and thereby

“restrains trade" it becomes dangerous and should be prosecuted.



Talk about restraint of trade!



All the capital trusts in this country couldn't bring about a minus fraction

the loss, inconvenience, misery and crime set in motion by strike conspirators.



The time has come when every home-owning patriotic citizen should speak in

most unmistakable terms, if liberty is to be presnrved.



“'rite President Taft asking when he will apply the law to the Labor Trust

wonmts.



Then write your members of Congress,

expect them to protect

down the bills tlieSc

control.



One is a bill to prevent courts from issuing restraining orders

posed acts of violence in strikes. Another is to allow labor leaders

trade without being subject to the law.



You are one of a tremendous majority but you must tell your public officials

your needs. Then they can act in your defense.



Then question candidates and don't accept any equivocal answers.



Insist that trade organizations can be peacefully conducted and that no laws

be enacted giving leaders arbitrary control over the masses. .



A few of the facts are now known and have been proven true. Many more

will follow as the government investigation proceeds. \Vill you be patriotic and

painstaking enough to write, talk and vote for your own safety?



‘ My work in the way of public and expensive paid announcements

subject is done.





of





as

telling tbcm clearly that you Will

yourself and other common, everyday citizens by voting

Labor Trust leaders are pressing to give them more





 





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THE HOLIDAY AFTERMATI-I.





which you are to understand that



all the little boys and girls who

were gorged with sweets and pastries

flutmg the holidays are now undergoing

the tortures of disordered stomachs.





T HE Christmas aftermath is on. By





“Mary has been all upset since Christ-

mas I guess she had too good a time.”

".lohnnic has been having the worst vom-

Iti‘ng spells. I don't see what‘s the mat—

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White Galatea with Blue.





the holidays I new-1‘ saw him look so

peaked. I can’t imagine what ails him.”

Il'aven’l. you heard these remarks on evn

cry hand from seemingly intelligent

mothers? )Iothers who pride themselves

on being up-to-date, and who always

have a magazine or two lying around on

the table"



(me mother. wiser or more honest than

the rest, said, “I always make the rounds

with the castor oil bottle Christmas

night. i, know I‘ll have to do it some-

time before the next night. so I think the

sooner its over with the better."



Just what part of the beautiful Christ-

mas story is to be taught our children

by allowing them to over—eat at Christ—

mas time is a mystery I have never been

able to fathom. If there was one thing

more than another that (‘hrist's life

taught, it was the righteousness of tem-

perate living. Yet at the one season of

the year when we should direct our

thoughts most to llim we throw off all

self control. “'8 overdo in giving and in

working before his natal day, and when

that glad day arrives we deliberately eat

twice what we require or our bodies can

take care of, and call it celebrating

Christmas. “hat a travesty, when peo-

ple celebrate the day of days for Chris—

tians by this conduct so directly opposed

to every Christian teaching,



Self control is the prime duty of man.

and there is no day in the year when it

can be safely disregardt‘id. And the time

to learn it is in childhood. “\Vhat can

you do with children at Christmas? They

tease, so, and it. is only once a year.”

is the excuse of mothers. But that is

hardly a trttthful excuse. (‘hildren who

do not tease all the time Would not tease

at (‘l1ristmas. If they had been taught

from babyhood that they could not have

what was bad for them just because they

cried and teased, they would not choose

Christmas day as the time to whecdle

mother into letting them do anything

they chose. (‘hildren are. going to do ex—

actly what parents allow them to do, and

it’ they are not allowed to eat anything

and everything they cry for from baby--

hood up, by the time they are old enough

to understand (‘hristmas they will be

also old enough to understand that they

mustn't eat too much on that day any

more than on’any other.



'I)cp1iving children of foods they like

and forcing them to eat what they do

not like but ought to have, is one of the

hardest things for mothers to do. But

it is also one of the best things to teach

your child self-control, a thing which is

01 more vital benefit to him than any sort

of food. It happens in sickness that the

doctor orders certain foods withheld.





Then we always hear, “I don’t know

what I'll ever do. he loves it so. \Vell,

I will just have to stop cooking it. If he

knew it was in the house he would have

it in spite of me.” So the whole family

has to go without a dish they like, and

possibly need, because the mother hasn‘t

the courage to teach one small child self

control,



In one family an eight-year-old lad had

to go without meat for four or five

months. For all that time the entire

family were deprived of meat, although

there were two other growing children





.and the hardworking father who needed





it. The mother thought it would be bet-

ter to teach the others self—denial than

to cook the meat and let. the, little fellow

learn self-control by going without some-

thing he wanted very badly.



I. know these ideas are widely at vari-

ance with universal practice, If I couldn’t

see them being disregarded all the time,

the amount of stomach trouble among

the middle—aged and old people would

tell me. \\'e decry the man who can not

control his appetite for drink, and make

a deacon of his brother who never even

thinks of controlling his appetite, for any

sort of food. Yet the command, “Be

temperate in all things” surely includes

both. DEBORAH.





THE NEWEST THING IN LITTLE

GIRLS’ DRESSES.





I'SSEN 'Ix'lT'l‘lCLI'." is the unusual

name of a dainty frock for small

girls which is being shown this





swing in a large \\’ood\\'ard aVenue store

in Detroit. The frock itself is a low neck,





 





 





 





A Cord and Tassel Supplants the Belt.

short sleeved affair, either pleated or

plain and contincd with a belt. The dis-

tinguishing feature is the cross stitch

embroidery which trims it. \Ve have

seen cross stitch on everything else this

season, so it is only a step to pique and

galatea dresses, and the effect is really

pretty.



Many changes are made in the frocks

by changing the emrboidery pattern and

the color In whichit is worked. Most of

the dresses are handed or piped with a

color, red or blue being mostly used, and

the embroidery matches in color the

banding. One smart one for a five-year-

old is of tan linen with hands of red, Red

tinishes the bottom of the skirt, the

sleeves and the, neck. and bands of red

run over the shoulders from belt in the

front, to the belt in the back. These

bands are embroidered in black and yel-

low while a (It-S Sign of cross stitch in red

trims the skirt just above the applied

band. .



'\\'hite galatea is very pretty with

bands of light blue at neck, sleeves and

skirt bottom and embroidery in darker

blue. Red bands on white pique with red

embroidery exactly matching in color

would be pretty on a dark-eyed child.

There are countless variations to be

made, simply by changing the manner

of applying the colored bands, to say

nothing of the different designs in cross

stitch that may be used. A new feature

is the use of cords instead of belts, the





cords being of a color to match the trim-

ming.



Rompers are also shown with touches

of cross stitch. For semi-dress—up wear

the come in white, with bands of blue

at wrists and on the legs, and touches of

cross stitch decking the waist.



The dresses come in prices ranging

from 75 cents to $2.50. They are all made

up and stamped ready to work. Or, of

course, by paying a little more you may





 





buy them embroidered and ready to

put on.

A LOOK INTO FOOD VALUES.





No. 2.

Proteids—Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and

Nitrogen.—BuiId Tissue.

Albumen, found in white of egg, lean

meat, curd of milk in cheese, gluten of

wheat and grains, and in the legumens,

peas, beans, and lentils. Is of two kinds.

vegetable and animal. the animal being



much easier of digestion.

Carbohydrates—Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxy-

gen.—Heat Givers First. What is

Not Used for Heat is Stored in

Body 'in Form of Fat.



Starch and sugar, fats and oils, found

in the grains, vegetables. cream, butter,

fat meat, fruit, nuts. “Anything that

comes out of the ground may be classed

as a carbohydratc," says one authority.

Minerals—Form Bone, Assist in Digestion.



Phosphates of lime and soda, iron, mag-

nesia, sulphur. etc., found in water, Veg-

etables and fruit.



If the above table be cut out of The

Farmer and pasted over the housemoth-

er’s kitchen table, it will be found of

great help in preparing meals which will

not only satisfy hunger but give to the

body just the sort of food it needs. The

use of the three classes is given, and the

foods in which each sort is found most.

abundantly, and from it each woman can

prepare a meal suited to her own fatn-

ily. The needs of the. individual vary so

that no writer or teacher can plan a meal

calculated to do for every reader. The

cook who knows her brood, their needs

and peculiarities, must do this herself.



For instance, a glance at the table

shows you that proteids are tissue—build-

ing. or are most useful inbuilding up the

body, though they yield fuel, or working

power as well. Have you growing chil-

dren in your family? Then they need

plenty of proteid. A lack 0f proteid in

the dict of developing children is respon-

sible for many puny, spindling, anaemic

boys and girls we see, that and a lack of

plenty of fresh air and water both inside

and out. lrowing children need meat,

not fat salt pork. but nourishing beef,

mutton and game. They need eggs and

milk, good bread, either white or brown,

plenty of butter and olive. oil if they like.

it, a good cereal in the morning, oatmeal

or the prepared wheats, and pure sugar,

honey and pure syrup. They need the

sugar to help make heat to keep their





 





Rompers May be Decked with Cross-

stitch.





restless, active, little bodies warm and

in motion.



If you have no children, do you do a

great deal of muscular work, and do the

grown-ups of your family work with

brawn or brain? It muscular work is the

rule, the tissues are worn out rapidly

and proteid is necessary to keep them in





 





 





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not much wear and tear on the bod",

less protezd will be necessary, but do not

make the mistake of cutting it out too

much and trying to live on sweets and

starches and fats. This system is often

employed Where large numbers of men

are employed and fed by a business firm.

The men are fed on plenty of cakes, pies,

cookies and syrups, instead of meat-and

eggs which cost more. The appetite is

cloyed with the sweet and the men feel

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For 36 Inch Bust—Make a chain of 94

stitches.



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School and HOme.

In a recent issue of the Michigan





Farmer I was much interested in an

article on “Studying School Lessons at

Home.” In this article the writer has





touched upOn a vital

teacher and parents. While I do not

wish to criticise unkindly, yet I think the

writer of the above mentioned article

takes a rather one-sided view of the case

for one who admits having once been a

teacher herself. I hope she will pardon

me if I seem to disagree with some of

her arguments later on.



The thought I wish to keep before you

is the relationship of school and home,

parents and teachers. Now, this is a

broad subject and one that is discussed

under various heads by many who are

interested. During a teaching career of

seven years in both rural and graded

schools I have received some strong im-

pressions and have observed closely the

relationship, as it now exists, between

school and home life and have wondered

if that relationship could not be some-

thing different, something morc than it

is now.



First, let: us look at the attitude. of the

parents toward the school. Now there

are several classes of parents and there-

fore We will find several different atti-

tudes toward both school and tea‘clier.

Some parents think of the school only as

a place to send the little tots to be free

from caring for them a part of the day,

and as a place from which to keep the

older ones as often as possible to gain

more of their help. This is one attitude

and I find from careful observation that

it is taken by more people than one

would imagine. There are some varia-

tions of it in the indifferent, or the too

critical parents, or the ignorant ones.



Now, there is another attitude with

very few variations taken by some par-

ents. The careful, thinking parents who

wish their children to gain the best in

life and who realize somewhat the effect

of the earlier school days upon the whole





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future career of the childfi Thesepar-

ents look upon the school as the place

where the child receives many moral im-

pressions as well ,. as mental training.

They show an interest in the work and

play and the many small happenings of

school life that the average child is usu-

ally so full of on coming from school each

day. The teacher receives their heartiest

sympathy and co—operation in’hcr efforts.

This is mainly considered the proper at-

titude.



Next consider for a moment the atti-

tude of the teacher toward the school.

As we all knew, there are “teachers and

teachers." There are some who only wish

to teach long enough to earn money to

buy their trousseau; others who have to

support themselves in some way and are,

to quote a well known educator, “always

looking forward to 4 O'clock and pay

day.” Then there are still others. and

these are the vast majority, who are con—

scientious, faithful workers who realize

to a great extent the repsonsibility of

their calling. This last is usually con-

sidered the proper attitude of the teacher.





A happy combination of the proper at—

titude in the teacher and all the parents

of a district w0uld almost bring about a

perfect school, would it not? The teach-

er cannot make the school alone; the

home influences and cnvironments will

show their effects in the schoolroom. But

the teacher many times does, by a strong

personality and tactful methods, counter-

act adverse home inlluences and the ef—

fect of this school training is felt in the

home.



The parents and teacher

toward bettering a school





can do much

and bringing





school and home into closer relations.

But what teacher can go into some of

the schoolrooms scattered about the

country and do her best? And what

pupil can go into the same schoolroom

and do his best? Poorly heated, badly

ventilated and with almost no equip—

ment whatever. I know this is not so in

many districts but in too many others





it is so and often in districts that could

afford a good building, well equipped and

with modern conveniences. A proper

public spirit on the part of the people of

the. district could remedy much of this.

Sometimes the people who could help the

most in this way say. “\Ve do not have

any children to send to school. what does

it matter to us what kind of a school

our district has.” If a man or woman

is a. wideawakc, self—respecting citizen 11

will matter little to him or her if they

have children in school or not, they will

want to see a good school in their com-

munity.



Some parents

teacher is not fitted for rural school

teaching. She (or he), hates the coun-

try. and does not know a robin from an

owl or a thistle from a clover. Here

again the people of the district may

remedy this fault. The school board se-

lects the teacher. The people elect the

school board. \Vhat kind of men act in

this capacity? Occasionally men who





complain that their





cannot write their own name but have their





children or some kind neighbor do any

necessary writing that is to be done.

Also men who say, “Forty year ago

when l went to school we sat on wooden

benches and kept the schoolhouse warm

with a. box stove an‘ I don't believe in

wastin’ no money on these new fangled

improvements.” If these are the men

who select our teachers can we expect

them to use much thought in their

choice? Right here let me say, however,

that the state is demanding specially

qualified teachers for rural schools. The

Grange also is exerting an influence to-

ward obtaining rural teachers who are

interested in country life so that it will





soon be hard to err in the choice of a

teacher.

Another thing—what sort of a library





do we find in many rural schools? Classic

works of science, history and fiction or





cheap editions of cheaper authors that

would improve the mind of no pupil?

Can we not, as communities, do some-

thing to make a school library to be

proud of?



I wonder how many parents ever visit

school! Oh, yes, of course, we go the day





before Thanksgiving or to the Christmas

tree or the last day exercises.

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object to Mary and John bringing home

Work to do evenings. I think you can

find that under the sixth grade no pupil

is supposed to take work home. Above

the sixth grade and including the same.

it is almost impossible for a pupil to re~

cite in from six toeight subjects a day

and prepare all of them at school, How-

ever, all work is carefully explained for

the following day and it is not necessary

for the mother to haVe to work problems

or draw maps or write sentences for the

child. No teacher expects that or even

wishes it. A child is usually told to ask

no help at home. If careful attention is

given to explanations and class work an

hour at longest will suffice to do the

home work with no bothering of mother.

Often parents are to blame for pupils

bringing home a large amount of work.

The parents know very little of the les-

sons given out or how much home work

the child is told to do and consequently

mother is annoyed when Mary comes

home with an amount of work to do in

one evening that would necessarily take

three or four evenings to do unless some

one assists her. To illustrate, let me

give you a case that occurred in my own

experience. Mary came home one night

very much in a flutter and nearly crying.

A large map of Europe must be drawn

with the countries outlined in colored inks,

and parallels and meridians all in their

proper places. This was \Vednesday night

and Mary must: hand in that map on Fri-

day. Of course. mother must help Mary

or it would not be finished in time.

Mary’s mother was rightly indignant and

said she would call up teacher and ask

her what she meant by giving a child

such an amount of work to do. Mary

wept at this and at last confessed it was

her own fault as the work had been giv-

en out two weeks before and was to be

done a little at a time each evening.



Perhaps some parents will say, “\Ve

have a teacher, a school board, a com-

missioner and various other officers to

look after our schools. If we see that:

our children are there on time every day

that should be the extent of our obliga-

tions.” That was the popular idea for

inaiiy years and because of it We have

been a long time in waking up to the

fact that something was wrong with the

schools—or was it the parents? The

schools of large cities are taking the

lead in reforms that are expected to

bring about great changes for the better

in their institutions.



Perhaps some parents will say, “How

can we interest ourselves in our chil—

dren’s school life? We are not educated

ourselves. IVe do not know a good teach-

er from a poor one and would hardly be

able to tell whether John is advancing

or gi‘iing backward.” If parents of this

sort have the desire to do these things

they say they can't do. there is much

hope for them. Several years ago I read

of a young couple starting out to make a

home for

After a time a little one came to live

with them. Neither parent had had

more than a few months’ “schooling”

and were barely able to read and write.

They realized their responsibility, how—

ever. and determined to make themselves

Worthy parents of their child. A part of

their hard earned money was invested

each year in books, text books and the

best magazines, Science, history. mathe—

matics. and others and by the time their

child was ready for school they were

ready to take an understanding interest

in his work. They knew their school—

house was an uncomfortable, badly light-

ed, poorly ventilated building, with desks

and seats that were deforming,r the pn-

pils, and these people were able to create

a sentiment in the community that

charged their school entirely.



For those who think they are too busy

to interest themselves in these matters

let me say this. Is there anything else

more important than the educating of

our children? What else is our time for?

Let us do a little more serious thinking

on the relation of their school and home

life in our own communities and each

use our influence. no matter how small,

toward the closer union of school and

home life. ALBE‘RJ‘A.





Home Study Sometimes Necessary.





Editor of Household Department:—~I

would like to say a few words on Mrs.

Cameron’s article entitled, “Studying





.School Lessons at Home.” Now, to my





mind it all depends upon circumstances

‘whether or not a child should study les—

sons at home. I think I can view the

matter from at least three different

angles. First, as a small boy going to

country school; second, as a teacher of

sixteen years’ experience in country





themselves in the country.‘





schools, and, third, as a father sending

children to school.



If a child has the privilege of nine or

ten months’ school, as they usually do

now,» I don’t think it necessary to com-

pel a, child to study much. if any, at

home. But if a child is interested in his

studies to such an extent that he wants

to study at home, I think it proper to

encourage it to a reasonable degree, not

to over study, I don’t mean. Again, if

a child is rather backward and slow to

learn, a little personal help at home often

(Ines a deal of good. The personal help

that a teacher can give is often too lim-

ited for some children. Her time is

largely taken up. especially in large

Schools, with class Work. Some children

do not need 'much personal help but the

slow ones frequently do. In my own

case, my education would not have

amunted to much, had I not studied at

home and received help from mother. I

was slow to learn and had only four

months school in a year after I got big

enough to work. so that at 20 I had no

more education than a child may have

now at 13 or 14. In my case it was very

desirable. almost necessary. that I study

at home.



'I think Mrs. Cameron overdraws the

matter when she says most teachers re-

quire home study. I think it the excep-

tion rather than the rule. As a teacher

I never required home study although I

encouraged it. In case of children who

live in sparsely settled districts where

only a few months school is obtainable

in a year, I think it desirable for chil—

dren to bend all their energies to their

r‘clnol work during the short term they

have. They can stand harder work for

four or five months in a year than they

can for nine or ten months.



Mrs. Cameron speaks of the “arduous

('2) work” of the teacher. Yes, if she

does her duty by her school, she usually

has arduous work, without. the question

mark. I speak from oxperience. I have

tried both teaching and farming. The

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THE NEED FOR FERTILIZERS.





 





BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.

Rotation of CrOps.



The principle of rotation of crops de-

pends upon the fact that different crops

do not withdraw from the soil the same

amounts of plant nutrients. Much good

has been accomplished through the re-

tation of crops and many soils have been

reclaimed by this simple procedure. This

theory recognizes the value of maintain-

ing a more or less constant and uniform

ratio between the various agents in the

soil solution. By a rotation of crops. that

is, the planting of a different type of

crop upon a soil each successive year,

the uniformity of the ratio between the

various plant nutrients in the soil is

quite successfully maintained.



Why Rotation of Crops is Desirable.



Root crops draw upon the soil agents

in an entirely different manner than do

cereals. That is, root crops remove the

soil nutrients in different proportions

than do cereals and other crops, and the

demand of a root crop upon the soil is

likewiSc entirely different than is the

demand of a cereal crop upon the soil.

We will find by a practical experiment

hat root crops, for example, thrive bet-

ter on a soil which contains a consider-

able quantity of potash. l'pon planting

that soil subsequently to a cereal crop,

We may ~find that the ccrcal crop has

drawn particularly upon the phosphoric

acid content of the soil. This peculiarity

of different crops which we may perhaps,

for want of a better term. call their

power of selectiVe absorption, explains

why rotation of crops has been produc-

tive of so much good.



Maintaining the Uniformity,



Knowing that, these different types of

plants remove the nutrients from the soil

in different proportions we may easily

see that by planting the soil to a root

crop one year and the next year plant—

ing this same soil to a cereal crop. or

other type of crop. will tend to remove

the soil nutrients more in a uniform ra-

tio, therefore leaving the soil solution in

a more perfect balance. This has been

the principal reason advanced for ndV'lS-

ing the rotation of crops. \Vhat the san-

itary effect of a change of crops on a

soil may be is certainly difficult to esti-

mate but it is no doubt considerable.



\Varrington, in a New Jersey experi-

ment bulletin is quoted as follows re-

garding the various plant food nutrients





This condition does not hold, of course,

with all crops but generally speaking we

may safely estimate that to return to the

soil the equivalent 3f the crop removed

in the, fertilizing ingredients will demand

a much heavier use of commercial fer-

tilizers than is now resorted to.

Barnyard Manure Deficient Also.

Nor is it possible, ordinarily, to return

in Stable or barnyard manure the equiva—

lent of the plant nutrients removed in

the crop. In fact, the low concentration

of barnyard manures in theSe various

plant nutrients, especially phosphoric

acid and potash, has caused many writ-

ers, particularly the fertilizer manufac-

turers, to argue that this fact made im-

perative the use of commercial fertilizers

even at the expense of barnyard ma—

nures. “'e have emphasized heretofore

the very great desirability of carrying out

a systematic cultivation of the soil with

the conservation of all of the natural

manures, the purpose of this being to

keep the concenrtation of plant nutrients

in the 80]] solution in a more or less

uniform ratio toward each other. In this

manner, with the addition of a compar-

atively small amount of comlmercial fer—

tilizers the soil may be kept practically





at its maximum immediate productive

capacity.

Commercial Sources of Nitrogen.





Nitrt'egcn has been spoken of in fertiliz-

ing circles more under the name of





ammonia than under the name of

nitrogen. This is, no doubt, due to the

fact that quite generally in fertilizers it





does take the form of ammonia and very

frequently in stable and barnyard ma-

nurcs the nitrogen also is present in the

form of ammonia. By the term am-

monia is simply meant a union of one

part nitrogen with three parts hydrogen

gas. Symbol (N113). The principal

sources of nitrogen are the organic mat-

ter of the soil, commonly called humus,

ordinary manures, organic fertilizers such

as cottonseed meal, Peruvian guano, Chili

saltpeter (sodium nitrate), dried blood,

meat scraps, tankage and ammonia salts,

such as ammonium sulphate.



Sodium Nitrate.



Probably the most common commercial

source of nitrogen as used in commercial

fertilizers is Chili saltpeter. or nitrate of

soda. This product is a salt deposit

found in the South American state, Chili,

and has been used in very large quanti-

ties in this country in commercial fcr~

tilizers. Ordinary commercial nitrate of

soda contains about 15.8 per cent nitro-





 





 





rcmoved from some of the plant crops. gen, that is, 15.8 units of nitrogen per

Total AshNiti-o. I‘hos. Acid Potash Lime

Crop, Yield. Lbs. I .bs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs.

“'htat .............. bu. 30 172 48 21.1 28.8 9.2

larlev .............. bu. 40 1:37 :18 20.7 35.7 9.2

oats ” ................ bu. 45 191:3 19.4 46.1 11.6

Corn ................ bu. 30 121 43 18.0 36.3 . . ..

Meadow Hay ....... ton 11A; 203 49 12.3 50.9 32.1

Red Clover ........ ton 2 258 102 24.9 83.4 90.1

Potatoes ............ ton (i 127 47 21.5 76.5 3.4

Turnips ............. ton 17 364 192 33.1 148.8 74.0



The Ordinary Amounts of Fertilizers 100 lbs. It is quite like common salt in





Used do not Return the Nutrients

Removed in the Crop.



One of the main reasons advanced for

the use of commercial fertilizers has been

that it is necessary to rcplace the plant

nutrients removed in lilo crop, ntIll'I‘WiSC

ultimately the productive capacity of the

soil will be so lowered that a maximum

crop is no longer possible. If we were

to return to the Soil in fertilizers the

equivalent of the nutrients removed in

the crop we would add to the soil a very

much larger quantity of fertilizers than

we ordinarily now add. ()n the basis of

the figures given in the New Jersey bul-

letin just referred to, for the nutrients

remow-d in the various crops mentioned

we may see that figuring a yield of 30

bushels of wheat per acre it would rc-

quii‘e upwards of 300 lbs, of nitrate of

soda per acre to furnish the nitrogen

required. Now to replace the phosphoric

acid and potash would require 150 lbs.

of acid phosphate and 60 lbs. of muriate

of potash. On the basis of a yield of 50

bushels of corn they have computed that

it would require 4.30 lbs. of nitrate of

soda, 200 lbs, acid phosphate and 1:30 lbs.

muriate. of potash, and similarly regard-

ing potatoes and the other crops men-

tioned. On corn and cereal crops it is

customary to add from 1.50 to 500 lbs. of

fertilizers per acre and it may be easily

seen that with such a small addition of

commercial fertilizers of the ordinary

brand not anywhere near the amount of

nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash re-

moved by the crop would be put back

onto the soil in the form of fertilizers.





appearance and is easily soluble in water,

hence this point would teach us caution

regarding the application of this nitrate

of soda to the soil. (me of the particular

effects of nitrate of soda is the color

change which takes place in the vegeta—

tion almost immediately upon the appli-

cation of this fertilizer. if applied to

wheat in the spring the color of the

wheat blade becomes a very dark green

color. Its ready solubility insures that

it is one of the most quickly available

fertilizing products on the market.

Sulphate of Ammonia.

Sulphate of ammonia is another nitro-

gen salt very similar in its appearance

to common salt. I’ure sulphate of am-

monia contains about 21 per cent nitro—

gen which would mean in the neighbor-

hood Of 25 per cent ammonia. Sulphate

of ammonia and nitrate of soda aid verv

materially in their effect upon plants and

lhe nitrogen from the two sources is





about aqually valuable. They are con-

sidered to be about the most readily





available of all the sources of nitrogen.

Because of their great solubility they

must be applied with caution,

Over-balancing the Soil with Nitrogen.

It is not difficult to over-balance some

soils with nitrogen fertilizers and organic

matter, in so far as certain crops are

concerned. Some soils can scarcely be

reclaimed to certain crops, not because

they are exhausted soils but because

they are unbalanced in so far as the

nitrogen factor is concerned. In the

vicinity of Kalamazoo, some of the soils

cannot be used in general application,





not because they are run down’, for they

are in fact, very fertile. They are, how-

ever, over-balanced. The soil solution of

the plant nutrients lacks uniformity, and

so these soils are adapted to but a cer-

tain line of farming. Soils of this char-

acter produce an abundance of leaf and

are valuable in the growing of such crops

as celery, for which this region is fam-

ous. To attempt to grow wheat or oats

on such a soil would involve the use of

large quantities of phosphoric acid, par-

ticularly to bring the soil solution into

a favorable balance. Otherwise the crop

would grow leaf and stem at the expense

of seed.





SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT

RATIONS.





 





\Yhen it comes to feeding horses for

maintenance or other stock for growth

and development, the farmer is brought

face to face with the specific effect of

the different feeds for the purpose in-

tended. Probably no two feeds have been

so much compared in their individual

specific effects as have corn and oats.

Corn is supposed to possess certain speci—

fic properties by virtue of which it be-

comes an excellent feed for fattening

stock. It is thought cats have certain

specific properties by virtue of which it

is considered an especially excellent feed

for driving and working horses. YVheat

and rye likewise have. with some farm-

ers, a definite and specific field in certain

phases of stock feeding,



These conditions, these opinions, are





not mere hop-hazard ones. It is true

they are held by feeders without any

definite reason being forthcoming. It still





remains true, nevertheless. that corn will

not take the place of some of the other

grains. And it does seem to be true that

oats possess special energy that gives

mettle to horses. Many common feeds

are in this way abnormal in their be-

havior and consequently differ in their

respective virtues in the hands of differ-

cnt feeders. These effects are quite

largely being overcome in the feeding of

animals by making use of the balanced

ration. Certain grains, however, are still

held and undoubtedly will be held for

years to come, especially favorites in

certain finishing operations.

Corn an Abnormal Feed.



Corn is not an easy grain to feed and

feed with the best results all round. It

is decidedly unbalanced, or perhaps we

might say, abnormal, and so it is used

principally at the finishing stage of ani-

mal development. Steers are fed corn in

considerable quantities along at the last.





Hogs are finished on corn but are not"





usually successfully carried' through their

major development on large quantities of

corn.



The reason for these conditions is that

feeders have not sufficiently understood

that because of their difference in chem-

ical composition these different grains

may be of necessity far different in their

specific effects upon different animals

and chiefly because of the different pur-

poses for which the animals are being

fed. Considerable work has been done

by the experiment stations to compound

different rations and study their virtues.

These spccitic factors, however, have not

largely been inquired into. Henry, and

others, have shown the specific effects of

a ration high in protein and this showing

was followed by a period of high protein

feeding. .



Effect of the Mineral Matter.



In the feeding of concentrates, however,

not only in animals but in the diet of

man, as well, the specific effect of the

mineral matter in the food has been

largely ignored. The writer pointed out

some years ago (Michigan Academy of

Science Report, Fibre and Iron in Food of

Man), the danger of arising in the food

of man from ignoring the specific effects

of fibre and iron in the daily human die-

tary. \\'e may remember that the ten-

dency of the last several years has been

to produce for human consumption na-

tural food products of an exceptional de-

gree of purity. This purity factor has

extended in flour especially to the extent

of removing well nigh all of the fibrous

or cellulose materials and by far the

major portion of the mineral matter. The

specific effect on children particularly of

feeding a food exceedingly low in mineral

nutrients, is now quite commonly known.

Indeed, even milk, it has been found,

needs to be supplemented at times as a

food for children because of its exceed-

ingly low content of mineral matter and

because of its deficiency, particularly in

those elements which go to make up the

bony structure.



(Continued next week).





 





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One of my customers, hauled 7,260 pounds of

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, January 31, 1912.

Grains and Seeds.





Wheat—“heat has taken a stronger

position this last week. and the average

price rules one cent higher than for the

previous period. Foreign countries were

largely responsible for the bullish tone.

France reports an inferior crop and the

offerings arriving at Liverpool from Can-

ada and Argentine grade very poorly, so

that dealers are anxious to secure grain

of superior quality. At home receipts

have been heavy; however, selling and

exports cared for the accumulations and

reduced the visible supply over a million

bushels. There is a slight improvement

in the llour market and Inillers are be-

ginning to buy. They bellth‘ that the,

stock of flour of the country is low, and

ere long a healthy demand will be made

upon the. flour mills. On Tuesday there

was a slight reaction which reduced the

priCe a quarter of a cent. One year ago

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per bu. Quotations for the week are:

No. 2 N0. 1 -

Red. White. May. July.

Thursday . . 99 .97 $1.03 .9643;

Friday . . 99 .97 1.03 .96 344',

Saturday . . 99% ”97% 1.03341 .9714

Monday ....$1.001,14 .9814 1.0414 .9774

Tuesday ... 100 .98 1.04 .9714:

\Vcdnesday 99%,) 971/; 1.03% .97





Corn.—~Farmers have been marketing

this grain liberally, late receipts at Chi-

cago being among the largest in the his-

tory of the market. However, the de-

mand has absorbed the offerings. allow—

ing an increase in the visible supply of

only about three-quarters of a million

bushels. As a result of this healthy de-

mand, prices have steadily advanced so

that the figures average better than a

cent aboVe those of a week ago. One

year ago No. 3 corn was selling at 470





per bu. Quotations for the week are:

No. 3 No. 3

Corn. Yellow.

Thursday .. . . . . . ..... 65-}; 663.;

Friday .................... 66 67

Saturday .............. . 66 67

Monday ............... . 661/2 671/2

'l‘ucsday .................. 661/2 67%

\\'eduesday .............. 67 68

Oats.~()at values have gone up a





traction of a cent, in harmony with corn

and wheat, but the grain itself occupies

a very lirm position. \Vith the price

nearly 20c above that of a year ago. buy-

ers dill not hesitate to accept offerings

and purchased wherever they could. The

visible supply decreased over a million





bushels. Quotations are as follows:

» Standard. No. 3

White

Thursday ................ 53 521;2

Friday .............. . . . . 53 521/2

Saturday .............. ... 53 521/2

Monday .................. . 53 521/;

'l‘ut sday .................. 53 52%;

\\'ednesday ..... . . ....... 53 521,13





Beans.——The last figures quoted a week

ago have ruled since then until Tuesday,

when an advance of 1c was made. ' he

market is very lirm and farmers are not

disposing of their small holdings hastily.

Quotations are as follows:





Cash. Feb.

Thursday .. . ............. $2.42 $2.44

Friday ..................... 2.42 2.44

Saturday ... . . . ............. 2.42 2.44

Monday .................... 2.42 2.44

Tuesday ................... 2.43 2.45

\Vcdnesday ................ 2.40 2.42





Clover Seed—Common seed has ad-

vanced in both cash and March offerings.

Alsikc has gone up $1. since a week ago.

The whole market is firm and promises

to be higher as the. demand for spring

seed develops. Quotations are as follows:





Prime Spot. March. Alsike.



'l‘hursday ...... “3.50 $13.50 $12.20

Friday .. . ..... 13.50 13.50 12.20

Saturday ........ 13.75 13.75 12.35

Monday ......... l3.75 13.75 12.75

’l‘ucsday ......... 13.75 13.75 13.00

\Vcdnesday ...... 13.60 13.60 13.00

Timothy Seed.—vl'riine spot timothy





seed sold on the local market Tuesday at

$7.25 per bushel, which was the price of

the week before.



Rye.»~~’l‘his market is quiet and firm

with the price 2c above that of last

week, No. 2 cash now selling at 97c pcr

bushel,



Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.





Float—«Prices are unchanged. Market





steady



Straight ............................. $4.25



l’atent Michigan . ...... . ............. 4.85



Ordinary Patent .................... 4.1.0



Rye .................................. 5.20

FeedsmAll grades are unchanged and



stcady. Carlot prices on track are: Bran,





$28 per ton; coarse middlings, $28; tine

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

corn meal, $30; corn and oat chop, $27

per ton.



Hay and Straw“ hiarket is steady at

former prices. Supply small. Quotations:

No. 1 timothy. 34215041122: No. 2 timothy,

$206120.50; clovor, mixed. $19.50f1121; rye

straw, $10.50611l: wheat and oat‘straw,

$10fi11050 per ton.



Potatoes. The demand is taking the

offerings as fast as they arriVe. Markct

continues firm and steady. (‘ar lots on

track are quoted at 95cm $1 per bu.



Provisions.*Family pork, $17.50fil’20;

mess pork, $16.50; medium clear, $l:i@

17.50; picnic hams, 934203 bacon, 1234.41)

131/2c: pure lard in tierccs. 9%c; kettle

rendered lard, 1034c per lb.



Dairy and POuItry Products.



Butter.v»Butter has declined 1c. putting

the price back to where it was before the

4c advance of two weeks ago. The mar—

ket has been dull since the large advance

was made it is believed, however, that

it will recover some of its activity now

that prices have gone back to the former





 





 





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level. Quotations are: Extra creamery,

36c; first creamery, 34c; dairy, 24c; pack-

ing stock, 22c per 1b.



Eggs.—Continued cold weather has

been a bullish factor in the egg market

and values have advanced 3c the past





week, making the ruling price for the

day 330 per dozen for current receipts,





cases included.



Poultry.~Qu0tati0ns for chickens, both

live and dressed have advanced. Dress—

ed hens are also up 1c, while dressed

ducks show a decline. ()thcr grades re—

main steady. Quotations are as follows:

Live—'l‘urkeys, 10((1171‘; gecsc, 1161.12c;

ducks. 14c; young ducks. 15c; spring

chickens, llfllll/éc; No. 2 chickcns, 9c

per 11); hens, 100. Dressed—Chickens. 12





(II/13%C; hens, 11((1’l2c; ducks. 1661.170;

geese, 14fi115c; turkeys, 18fi19c.





Vea'l.— Market rules steady.

@1ch choice, 971710c per lb.



Dressed Hogs—Light, $7.50;

$6.75; heavy, $6.50 per cwt.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cabbage.——lligher, now selling at 3C

per pound.



Onions.—~Steady at $1.25611.35 per bu.



Apples.~lialdytins and (lreenings, $2.75

613.25; Spy, $3603.50; Ben Davis, $2@2.50;

Snows, $3.50@4 per bbl.





Fancy, 1 1





medium,





5+7. Eli—mix}:— 15%.





Grand Rapids.





Fresh eggs continue scarce and dealers

are offering the country trade 300. Dairy

butter is worth 2861.29c. Potatoes are not

moving freely as yet, and the market in

northern part of the state is around 800,





with Greenville prices 5(17c higher as

usual. Dressed hogs are selling around

8c. Live poultry is quoted as follows:





Fowls and chickens, 1051.0; geese, 100;

ducks, 12c; turkeys, 1561'17c. The mills

are, quoting No. 2 red wheat at 93c; rye.

860; oats, 53c; corn, 65c. \Vhite pea beans

are selling at $2.25, and rcd kidneys at

same price.





New York.

Butter.——The market has fluctuated

but prices are back to where they were

one week ago. Creamery specials are





quoted at 38c pcr lb; extras, 37c; firsts,

341/361361éc: seconds, 2ttfil32c.

nggs.——l<‘irm and 30 higher. Fresh





gathered extras, 40c; extra firsts, 3715611

38c; seconds. 361/37137c; western gathered

whites, 390142c pcr dozen.





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\chtern chickens, 13fl113léc fowls. 12@



131;.c; turkeys, 1561.160. Drcssed Easy.



\Yestcrn chickens, 12Vgfi1115c; fowls, 121/2

Qitlmgc: turkeys, 1241.210.

Chicago.



\\'lieat.—-N0. 2 red, $1@1.011/2; May,





$1.031.“ July, iltiiigc.





C01'n.~rl\'o. 3, 6331.161 64pm; May, 6533c;

July, 671/gc per bu, .

Oats »~i\'o. 2 white, 52@52%c; May,





:‘vlil/lc; .luly, 461/3c pcr bu.

Barley.---l\lalting grades,



bu: feeding, 80fi1‘950.

'lutter.vl\'1arket steadicr than last



week; prices unchanged; receipts liberal.





$1.10@1.32 per





Quotations are: Creamcries, 29(41‘36c;

dairies. 25611330. .

Eggs.—~~Miscellaneous offerings show





no change from last week, but specula—

tion and meager receipts are held re—

sponsible for a 5c advance in high-grade

stock. Quotations are: Firsts, gradlng

45 per cent fresh, 36(1L37C; ordinary tirSis,

3161733c; at mark, cases included, 191501)

281/.c per dozen.



liitatoes.—l\’[arket sufficiently strong to

take the rather liberal receipts at a slight

advance over ,last week. Michigan stock

is now quoted at $1611.05 per bu. 1571s-

consin, 95c611$1.02; Minnesota, $1601.05.



'Reans.~']‘op-grade pea beans, also'red

kidneys, are lower. Current quotations

are: I 'l‘ea beans—Choice hand—picked,

.253 per bu; prime, $2.40@2.43; Red Kid-

neys, $2.90.





Elgln. . .

Buttes—Market firm at 360, which is

a decline of 1c since a week ago. Output





for the past week amounted to 617,000

pounds, as compared with 617,500 pounds

tor the previous week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





 





Buffalo.

January 29, 1912.

(Sccial Report of llnnint-r & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo. New York).



Receipts of stock hcrc today as follows:

Cattle, 203 cars; hogs. 100 double decks;

sheep and lambs, 90 double decks; calvcs,

1.400 head.



\Vith 208 loads of cattle on our market

here today. and a steady downpour of

rain from before daylight until dark to—

night, wc haVe to report the worst mar-

ket scen lit-re for months. Cattle gener-

ally sold from 257i 50c per cwt. lower than

last week: the market very dull and

draggy from start to finish, and. in fact,

tonight there must be at least 40 loads

of cattle left over unsold. \Vc sold three

head of the. finest cattle seen here in a

long, long time, averaging 1,700 lbs, and

strictly prime in every rcsptct, at 8110

per pound. Outside of that. all other

cattle sold fully 50c per cwt, below laSt

week's prices.



\Ve quote: Best 1.400 to 1.600—lb. steers,

55725611750; good prime 1,300 to 1.400-lb.

steers, $650417: do. 1.200 to 1.300—1b. do.

$6.25fu675; best 1,100 to 1,200—lb. shipping





steers, $6616.50; medium butcher steers,

1,000 to 1.100. $5.25615.75; fight butcher

strors, $4.25m4.75: best fat cows. $450111)





5; fair to good do.. $3.75fil‘4.25;

to medium (10., $3413.50; trimmers, $2.25

((12.75; best fat heifers. $525056; good

do., $4.,75fu5.l5: fair to good do. $4034.50;

stock heifers, $3fi13.25; best feeding steers

dehorned, 3545061475; common feeding

steers, $350054; stockers, all grades, $3.50

(4174; prime export bulls, $550706; best

butcher bulls, $5,715.50; bologna

$4.25@4.75; stock bulls, $3.25fl4.25;

milkers and springers, $45@55; common

to good do.. $256330.



With western points showing liberal re-

ceipts of hogs, and reporting lower prices





common





this morning. it was impossible to hold

the hog market up to the close of last

week; prices generally showing a de-

cline. of 10c per cwt. Trading ruled fairly

active at the prices. the bulk of the

choice quality yorkcrs, mixed and me-

dium weights selling at $6.50. Pigs sold

generally at $5.75, with some of the

stronger weight pigs and light yorkers

selling up around tic per lb. Rough sows

sold mostly at $5.75fu 5.80; stags at $4.50

((15 25. Hogs are fairly well cleaned up;

closing steady at opening pnices.



The lamb market was active today;

most of the choice lambs selling from

$7.35fi17.30; few at $7.35. Look for about

steady prices the balance of the week.

With light receipts may sell shade higher,

but if the receipts continue heavy, will

sell lower. The sheep market was very

dull today. Look for about steady prices





.the balance of the week on sheep





\\'e quote: Best lambs, $7.25fil7.30; cull

to common do., 355.25.625.75; wethers, $4.25

to 4.50; bucks. $225613; yearlings, $5635.75;

handy ewes, $375604; heavy ewes, $3.50@

$3.75; cull sheep, $262.75; veals. choice

to extra. $9.756110; fair to good do, $8@





 





9.50; heavy calves, $4605.50.

Chicago.

January 29, 1912.



Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 24.000 69.000 36,000

Same day last year..27,090 30,527 21.870

ReceiVed last week..65,970 212,905 85,223

Same week last year.63,382 149,159 83,221





Cattle. offerings were swelled today by

a large number of ordinary to medium

grades carried over from last week, and

such kinds moved off slowly at weak

prices, some sales being lower, but fat

beeves were active at full prices, some

choice lots selling about a dime higher,

as they were not plentiful. Fat butcher

stock also sold a little better, with mod-

erate offerings. l'logs were in overwhel-

mingly heavy supply. late reports indi-

cating a run of around 70,000 head. Early

trade was active. with part of the Sales

not more than a nickel lower, but later

the market was about a dime lower than

on Saturday. sales being made of light

hogs at $5.45futl.20 and mixed and heavy

weights at $5.80fi16.35. while pigs brought

$4.25fi1.5.40 and stags 5304061660. Another

big run and a slump in prices for Tues-

day arc expected. 'llogs received last

week averaged in weight 213 lbs., com—

pared with 228 lbs. a year ago and 211

lbs. two years .ago. Sheep and lambs

started off slow. with a reported over—

stocked and lower Buffalo market, but

later buyers took hold better. To a large





extent priccs ruled somewhat lower,

lambs selling at $4.25fl6.75, while year-





liugs were salable at $5015.75, some 121-11).

yearlings bringing $5 \\'ethers were sal-

able at $4.2501»i.75: ewes at $2.2561»4.35 and

bucks at 32.500335. Iowa furnished a

great many lambs.



Cattle Were marketed much more freely

than usual last week. starting off with a

Monday run of 29,567 head. by far the

largest number offered on any day. Of

course, such a liberal supply made a poor

showing for sellers, and a sharp decline

in prices occurred. A partial recovery

took place on \Vedncsday on receipts of

only 13.127 head, but the week proved a.

very unsatisfactory one on the whole,

with a drop on_Thursday of 15612250 for

the greater part of the offerings. The

packers have been carrying large stocks

of dressed beef in their coolers, and ”115

made them quite independent, while un-

satisfactory eastern conditions prevented

shippers from purchasing their usual

quota of cattle. The bulk of the steers

have been selling around $5,656,117.65, be—

ing a decidedly lower range than that of

a few weeks ago, with the choicer lots

taken at $7.60018.t‘»0 and the poorer light-

weights salable at $.1.75m»5.75. A medium

class of steers sold at $6@6.75, with a

good lot going at $6.8071‘7.50, while de-

sirable ycarlings sold at $6.75@8.40, with

very few bringing anywhere near the top

figures. The choiccr cattle are still bring-

ing $1011.50 per 100 lbs. more. than a year

ago, but the commoner steers are bring-

ing much the same prices as then, and

many cattle are hurried to market pre-

maturely in order to save feeding corn

worth 60c or more on the farm. Butch-

ering cows and heifers have had an out-

let at $3.50fqti.75, cutters selling at $295617





3.45, canners at $1.75012.90 and bulls at

$3715.75. The market for stockers and





feeders had a fair outlet, stockers bring-

ing $3.50fi15.25 and feeders $4.75m6, while

one lot of 52 fancy feeders that tipped

the scales at 1.025 lbs. brought $6.35. Good

stockers and feeders look dear to coun—

try buyers, yet they are not much higher

than. a year ago. and the high price of

corn is the only thing that prevents larg—

cr purchases. Calves have been going

lower, with a lessened demand at, $3638

per 100 lbs.. while milkcrs and springers

sold moderately at $3001.65 each.



llogs have been received in greatly in-

creased numbers for a week past. start—

ing off with a Monday run of 51.193 head,

much the largest supply seen on any day

in a long period. The. shipping demand

was very variable, although much better

than during the previous week, with 11,460

hogs taken on Monday, much the largest

number for any day. I’riccs moved up

and down in accordance with the supplies

and the vigor of outside competition, yet

on the whole the undertone was usually

sliong rather than otherwise.



Sheep and lambs continued during the

past week to undergo numerous fluctua-

tions in_11rices, but advances were due to

greatly lowered receipts rather than to

any good demand. for eastern markets

were known to be well supplied. This

rendered it hard for sellers to make fav-

orable terms for themselves. and after

prime lambs had boomed to $7, they sold

off sharply. Buyers were extremely par-

ticular in making their selectiOns. and

lots of lambs. yearlings or sheep that

lacked fat sold at a large discount, with

lambs bringing their usual big premium

over everything else. ,



Horses were active early last week and

decidedly higher, some sales showing ad-

vances of $10@20 per head





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FEB. 8, ',.1912.

“THIS IS THE LAST EDITION.





In the first edition the Detroit Live

stock markets are reports of last week;

all other markets are. right up to date.

Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the last edition. The first

edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi—

tion Friday morning. The first edition is

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Thursday's Market.



February 1, 1912.

Cattle.

Market steady at last





 





Receipts, 905.

week’s prices.



W'e quote: Best steers and heifers,

$6.25@6.75; steers and heifers, 1,000 to

1,200, $5.75@6; do. 800 to 1,000, $4.75@l

5.50; do. that are fat, 500 to 700, $4@4.50;

choice fat cows, $4.75@5; good fat cows,

$3.50@4.50; common cows, $3@3.25; can-

ners, $1.50@2.75; choice heavy bulls, $4.75

((15.25; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $3.75

@425; stock bulls, $3.50@4; milkers, large

young, medium age, $40@50; common

milkers, $25@35.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

C0. 2 cows av 1,215 at $3.60, 1 do weigh—

ing 720 at $2.75, 1 do weighing 950 at

$3.10, 2 do av 1,015 at $3.10, 3 do av 890

at $3.10, 1 heifer weighing 850 at $4; to

Parker, W. & Co..23 butchers av 859 at

$4.65, 6 do av 760 at $4.85, 2 cows av 840

at $4, 1 bull weighing 1,470 at $4.75, 2

canners av 810 at $2.75, 9 butchers av 717

at $5; to Goose 2 cows av 895 at $4.15;

to Nagle P. Co. 4 steers av 1,255 at $6.75.

2 cows av 980 at $4.25, 3 bulls av 863 at

$4.25; to Kamman 17 butchers av 858 at

$5.25, 2 bulls av 1,210 at $4.50, 1 do

weighing 1,130 at $4.50, 2 cows av 920 at

$3, 11 butchers av 784 at $4.15; to Sulli-

van P. Co. 5 do av 880 at $5.50, 1 cow

weighing 1.030 at $4.50, 3 do av 957 at

$4.25, 1 do weighing 750 at $2.50; to Goose

1 bull weighing 1.270 at $4.75, 3 cows av

1.000 at $3.75, 8 butchers av 756 at $4.25;

to Parker, XV, & Co. 2 bulls av 1,450 at

$4.50, 4 cows av 782 at $2.75; to Bresna-

hall 4 canners av 887 at $3.10, 3 do av

907 at $3.10, 2 do av 900 at $3, 1 do

weighing 830 at $2.50.



Spicer &. R, sold Hammond, S. & C0.

1 cow weighing 1,000 at $2.50; to Bresna-

ban 3 butchers av 666 at $3.60, 31 do av

720 at $4.10, 1 cow weighing 600 at $2.50,

1 bull weighing 820 at $4, 2 steers av

1.010 at $6, 1 do weighing 850 at $5, 2

bulls av 1,215 at $4.35, 3 do av 693 at

$3.60, 7 cows av 721 at $3; to Fry 14

butchers av 606 at $3.75; to Thompson

Bros. 1 bull weighing 1,600 at $4.60; to

Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows av 813 at $2.60;

to Breitenbeck 27 butchers av 785 at

$4.40; to Regan 12 do av 566 at $4.



Haley sold Nagle P. Co. 7 cows av

1,053 at $4.50.



Lowenstein sold same 7 do av 1,134

at $4.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Nagle P. Co. 25

steers av 1,019 at $6.25, 6 COWS av 1,028

at $3.90; to Kamman B. Co. 1 steer

weighing 820 at $6, 8 butchers av 608 at

$4; to Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weighing 1,240

at $4.50, 1 cow weighing 950 at $4; to

Goose 4 cows av 867 at $3, 4 bulls av

457 at $3; to Mich. B, Co. 1 bull weighing

1.250 at $4.75, 10 butchers av 648 at $4.25,

3 cows av 1,150 at $4.50; to air}; 1 bull

weighing 1,180 at $4.90; to B snahun 1

canner Weighing 790 at $2.50; to Fry 2

heifers av 665 at $4.25; to Newton B. CO,

11 steers av 946 at $5.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 4,206. Market steady at VVed-

nesday’s prices; good lambs 25@300 high-

er than last Thursday; sheep steady.





Best lambs, $6.50 @ 6.75; fair to good

lambs, $56426; light to common lambs,

$3.50@4.75; fair to good sheep, $3@3.50;





culls and common, $2412.75.



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

7 sheep av 160 at $3.50, 48 lambs av 95 at

$6.50, 22 do av 78 at $6.25, 38 do av 63 at

$5. 2 sheep av 115 at $3; to Mich. B. Co.

9 do av 150 at $4, 19 do av 115 at $3.75;

to Thompson Bros. 35 do av 90 at $2.75,

35 lambs av 55 at $4.25; to Barlago 27

sheep av 85 at $2.75, 3 do av 140 at $3.50,

67 lambs av 56 at $4.75; to Nllglo P. Co.

152 do av 89 at $6.60, 170 do av 80 at

$6.50, 61 do av 75 at $6.50, 62 do av 95

at $6.05; to Sullivan P. Go. 44 do av 58

at $4.25; to Parker. W. & Co. 31 do av

55 at $4.50, 13 sheep av 35 at $3.50, 4 do

av 83 at $3, 111 lambs av 70 at $6.25; to

Fitzpatrick Bros. 70 do av 78 at $6.75, 40

sheep av 105 at $3.25, 68 do av 85 at $3.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 13

gheep av 110 at $3.50, 76 lambs av 73 at

6.50.



Spicer &. R, sold Parker, W. 81> Go. 43

lambs av 80 at $6.75, 4 sheep av 145 at

333530 Nagle P. Co. 28 lambs av 110 at





Sheep and lamb market closed dull.





. Veal Calves.

Receipts, 476. Market 50c lower than

last week. Best, 38.75609; others, $4@r8;





milch cows and springers dull,



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

9 av 115 at $8.50, 16 av 150 at $9, 2 av 100

at $5, 13 av 130 at $8.50; to McGuire 13

av 150 at $9, 5 av 155 at $9.





Hogs.





Receipts, 2,772. Nothing sold up to

noon; looks like 564100 lower than on





Wednesday or same as last Thursday.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-

$5.25@5.50; light





ers, $6.15@6.20; pigs, ‘

yorkers. $5.85@6.15; stags one-third off.

Bishop, B, & H. sold Hammond, S. &





Co. 825 av 200 at $6.20, 530 av 180 at

$6.15, 515 av 160 at $6.10. 246 av 130 at $6.



Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 210

av 200 at $6.20, 137 av 180 at $6.15, 35

av 115 at $5.65, 197 av 200 at $6.20.



Haley & ~M. sold same 170 av 180 at

$6.15, 42 av 150 at $6, 30 av 110 at $5.65.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 355

av 200 at $6.20, 125 av 150 at $5.65, 125

av 100 at $5.50.





 





 





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Successful incubation calls for good

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Eggs for incubation should be gath-

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it is imprudent and inadvisable to at"-

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turning of the eggs twice daily is very

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be none too careful in the handling f

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prove that high mortality and low vital-

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Iain. practical, helpful. ,



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HANDLING THE NEW COCKEREL.



The care of the new male member of

the flock is an important matter at this

time, and where but one is bought it is

all the more important that he receive

proper care and attention. Paying a good

price for a male and turning him loose

to make his way in a flock containing

old cocks that have held sway for years

is not uncommon but nevertheless inad-

visable and oftentimes foolliardy. A

strange member of the flock is always

made the butt of abuse and many a good

cockerel has lost his life in trying to

maintain his rights under such condi-

tions. Where the outcome is not so ser-

ious as this, the usefulness of the cock-

erel is destroyed through fear of older

and stronger males robbing him of his

courage. Like an Indian chief who has

failed to make good, many a promising

young cockerel, crushed in spirit, has

been known to slink away and, many

times, die. Again and again have I sold

choice young males to farmers, always

cautioning them to give proper protection

from older males, but reports of 'disas-

trous results, 'due to carelessness in this

direction, have come to me quite fre-

quently. I have always maintained that

if a fine male is half the flock he cer-

tainly is entitled to proper care as an in-

dividual fowl.



This is the way I manage a new cock—

erel: When he comes from the express

office I remove him to a warm coop

where he can be by himself for a day or

two. I give him extra feed and care, look

him over carefully for any signs of roup,

such as wheezing or a discharge from

nostrils. I cannot afford to fool with a

diseased male, no matter what he has

cost! me in money. If he seems well and

vigorous I put him, at night, with a doz-

en hens in a pen separate from the gen-

eral flock, giving him undisputed posses-

sion of the pen to make the acquaintance

of his mates under favorable auspices. I

like to have two cockerels and exchange

them once in ten days, giving each bird

a rest in a pen by himself, with extra

feed and care. It pays in vigorous chicks,

the one thing all poultrymen are trying

to obtain-chicks that will not be over-

come by every extreme of cold or heat or

dampness; chicks that will not stick in

the shell, or die of bowel trouble. Strong

young hens, not less than a. year old,

mated with healthy, vigorous cockerels,

well developed, not akin and given proper

feed and plenty of exercise, should pro-

duce such chicks.





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Nebraska





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Ohio won the Tycos

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Mr. W. J. B ad: of Indiana

, Winner in Successful Farm.



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Mrs. Laura J. Clark of Illi-

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Mrs. M. J. Clifton o! Okla-



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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





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, é, Hillsdale Co. PRISCILLA P . ° °

_ WM THE SCHILL BROS. CO.,Sole Mfrs., Crestlme, Ohio

i . EFFECT OF CORN 0N COLOR OF EGG

i: YOLKS. a. .. . SHOEIAKER’S

if; ,_ '1‘ 7‘) BOOK on

. You 8110 Id Have his '

‘1.) dThe Maryland station recently conclud- New John Deere Book 6; VFW?“ and Almllnnelmf‘lsll hasnlppgeswimm-ny

e exper ments to determine the effect of » “Mahmud denim the mm )- {LY 3°bi‘fifghlcl'5nss‘.’till;1232fllfifhgm‘keflf





corn on the color of the yolk of. eggs. A , mlifwfifijfmmés

flock of 120 single comb White Leghorns 3“; . under . “ conditions. It is

were divided into three lots of 40 each ‘ fixt’uhmffi Gunfigfgygf

and were housed and cared for alike ex- MthF‘mm.

cept that one pen received its whole “youhave ,0”,de received "

.. grain in the form of corn; another in the VWWY¢¥h$w3°°Kb -

1 form of wheat, and the third received a “atom“ on no ' .

mixture of corn and wheat. All pens Jofiwmfmtbfi , . ‘

were allowed free access to narrow yards '-

which furnished a. very limited amount of Davenport Roller Bearlng Steel wagons

5 - green StUfl’. A” the eggs lald. .by these mange“ known wheel construction. Every spoke in

pens were saved and, after boxlmg, were , fled and forged hot into thetire. _ .

cut in half and placed in parallel rows ngrg,‘fiefihglfllgefiggy?gfigfi;,figgh (332133"

for comparison. In every instance the

eggs from the corn-fed lot showed yolks





mm Like . W Roller Ben-ins

Entirely of steel I-Beams, Channels and. Anglos, solidly held That roller bearin 3 reduce draft is generally conceded. O!

with a deep yellow color. Every egg from

the corn-and-wheat-fed lot had a yolk of





together with large steel rivets, put. in hot under great pressure. the various styles, t e straizhl roller bean' u 3' the Si!" 19‘9“:

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a good yellow color, while, with but three





. . . . g and most succeed



construghtgdstlgerl 1:31,ng Rgfi'e‘ze: For this wagon the dstraight roller

exceptions, the eggs from those fed wheat

had yolks of a very pale yellow color.





' . bearingisespecinllya .

chache. 812335 2:43 figmble rear seat The spindle» and hubs are straight.

The three exceptions can probably be ac-

counted for by some of the hens getting





is practically one solid piece thflt‘ Consequentlyl,su this wagon Ia

green food from the yards. Another test





cannot come loose or apart. equipped wit traight roller hearing)

was made subsequently with white corn





it. is of light draft.

M W A little book we’ll be pleased 1:9

on has steel wheels that

and the yolks were a very pale yellow.

As a result of the tests it was conclud-





send free, tells of a good many more

and made with a tension, superior femur-m this wagon has. /

Bo lure to tall 1w wliaher you want your copy of “Better Farm Implement; and How to Use Them” and in order to

ed that yellow corn, when fed to hens in

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mash, gives a very deep yenOw color to





COMPANY, MOLINE. ILLINOIS

the yolk. Yellow corn, when fed to hens 2;...- .‘ _ ~.. s, .:.-‘~:1 .— é'::—:£€3Li:~£3:—i‘~-





in the proportion of 41/2 parts corn to 16V»

140 “ 0





es and remedies. All about Incubators. their

prices and their operation. All about poultry

houses and how to build them. It’s an encyclo-

is of rhirkendom. You need it. (hly 150.



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HANDLING THE SOIL TO SAVE

MOISTURE,





THE question of supplying plants

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son.



it is important 10 first note that dif-

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son about 375 tons of water, an acre of

potatoes about 450 tons, an acre of grapes

about 375 tons and an acre of clever

about 400 tons. Put in another.‘ way, it

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table matter. \l'here plants use water

so rapidly as these figures indicate it

cetrainly becomes a. handicap to them if

the supply is for a moment wholly or

partially cut off,





Conserving Water by Fall Plowing.





One of the methods of holding this

water for use when it is most needed is

to fall plow the land. By breaking up

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plowing. one helps the earth to absorb

more of the water that falls upon it dur-

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there are larger spaces in this surface

soil to take up the water, and it also

pi'cvcnts rapid evaporation because of a

greater loosencss of the land. These two

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wide-awake gardener. Ile fits his soil

so that it will absorb the moisture in the

first place, and second, he works to keep

the moisture until the plants are able to

use it. The amount of water that falls

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son is usually insufficient to provide for

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Conserving Soil Moisture on ‘Land where Small

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on the pai'liclcs of earth of which it is

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tions.



Speaking generally, the soil receives

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moisture which falls upon it during fall,

winlcr and spring be retained and held

that it may be used by the plants grown

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by growing deep-rooted plants upon thc;





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turnips and

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it up. After these roots die they form

humus and the chemical action of the

acids resulting from decomposition brings

about a condition of the soil favorable to

the growth of garden crops and provides

available plant food. Of course, for a.

small patch of ground it Would be more

feasible to use some sort of a. sub-seller

to create a reservoir for the holding of

larger quantities of water. This practice

is especially to be commended in soils

that have a hardpan. Some of our best

Michigan [lands are underlaid with an

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generally termed hai‘dpan. If one can

break this up, he will increase the water

holding capacity of the soil as well as

widen the range for the roots of the

plant to feed upon.

Under-drainage is Essential.



A third practice for the improvement

of the soil to hold a greater quantity of

water, paradoxical as it may seem, is un-

der-drainage. Some soils are naturally

under-drained and these do not require

artificial drainage, but most soils require

the use of tile, or other systems of re

leasing surplus water from the land. It

is not the water that occupies the space

between the particles of soil that does

the plants good, but it is that thin film

of water that surrounds each particle

and clings to it that is used by

the plant. Most plant roots will not

grow where the air cannot get to

them. Of course, they use this air, or

need it, in very small quantities, but

when absolutely deprived of it the roots

will stop growing and often begin to de-

cay. By removing this surplus water one

enables the roots of the plant to go much

deeper into the soil, thus enlarging their

feeding surfaces and also bringingthem

down to where the water supply is more

permanent. Under-drainage does not re-

move the little film of water about the

particles, but only the surplus. It leaves

what the plant wants and takes away

what tends to destroy the plant. It gives

the plant a larger area in which to feed

and secure moisture from. This explains,

in part at least, the splendid results se-

cured from under—drained land. Hence,

under-draining is a practice which every

gardener should follow, except, of course,

in some soils that are naturally under-

drained. However, it is being appreciat-

ed more and more by farmers and gar—

dener that many soils, that were hereto-

fore believed to not require under-drains.

are greatly benefited by their instal-

lation.



Keep Soil Well Mulched.



The fourth practice which we wish to

mention is the retention of soil moisture

through the provision of a. dust mulch

during that period of the year when

evaporation is most pronounced. This

requires that the soil be stirred as soon

as possible in the spring to retain the

moisture that has settled in the ground,

and the constant cultivation thereafter,

before and following the planting of the

crops, if possible, and until the time comes

for ripening the plants. At the New

Hampshire station careful work showed

that in the first foot of soil, on land that

had been thoroughly cultivated, there

was 3.24 per cent more moisture than on

land not cultivated. In the second foot

there was 5.51 per cent more; in the

third foot there was 3.89 per cent more,

and in the fourth foot there was 4.41 per

cent more in the cultivated soil; or in

other words, an acre of cultivated land

contained 352.64 tons more water per

acre- in the upper four feet of soil than

was found in an uncultivated area. Re-

ferring again to the figures giving the

number of tons of water required for the

growth of certain crops mentioned above,

we find that this additional quantity of

water conserved by careful cultivation

would almost mature some of these

crops, and would at least provide all the

water necessary for carrying plants over

an extended drouth, Thus we see that

in connection with fall plowing, sub-soil—

ing, under-drainage, that thorough cul-

tivation or working of the soil will aid

in conserving soil moisture for our crops.



Have Soil Supplied with Humus.



A fifth practice, and one that has al-

ready been hinted at, is the incorpora-

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of humus. Humus has the capaCitY 01'

retaining moisture; this is indicated

above by the amount of moisture held

by peat soil which contains a consider-

able quantity of vegetable matter and

mould. Gardeners can make use of this

knowledge by supplying their gardens

with manure, leaves, etc. However, be—

cause of the careful cultivation that is

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GARDEN NOVELTIES.





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As usual, the seed catalogues have an

array of novelties; some of which are in

reality what they claim to be, while oth-

ers are no longer new, though they may

not yet have become well known.





It is advisable to try a few new things

every year, but it should be done with

the understanding that such trial is an

experiment. A novelty is really a plant

which is being given an opportunity to

prove its worth. The seedsman, suppos-

ing he is conscientious, which he ought

to be, will make claims which are some—

where nearly correct to the best of his

knowledge and belief. But he should not

be held responsible for individual tastes

nor for the variations in soil or climate.

.\s a result, what may be a success with

one person may be a failure with anoth-

cr. Nevertheless, this should not. deter

anybody from trying. If something of

merit is obtained it is of itself a reward

suilicient for many failures.



Among the plants recently added to the

garden list is pe—tsai, or Chinese cab-

bage. It is a kind of cabbage, so the

hilitll’llSlS have decided though its loose

iii-ad is morellike lettuce. Pe-tsai is in

reality rather old for a novelty, having

been cultivated in France since early in

the last: century. The Chinese have also

grown it for many years in their Am-

erican gardens. Many who have tried

it speak highly of it. butrthat it is adapt-

ed to general culture is yet for the pub-

lic to find out. The leaves are used for

salads or cooked like cabbage or boiled

for greens. One of the merits of pe-tsai

is its rapid growth; another is its mild

llavor. The plants may be started in a

hotbed 0r planted in the open ground.

It is a: least worth trying.



Swiss Chard is not a novelty. It has

had a place on the seed list for many

years, but it is not nearly so well known

as it deserves to be. It is a beet which

has a large top, but: little root. It is also

known as spinach bect, which is an im-

provement over the old name, since it

suggests the nature and uses of the

plant. The leaves are cut off and used

for greens as soon as they are large

enough. Others grow out and the sup-

ply is kept up, till cold weather. The

light—green, crinkley leaves are quite an

ornament to a garden.



Another plant which is not classed

among the novelties, though it is not

yet commonly known, is Hamburg or

turnip-rooted parsley. The name de-

scribes it. Those who like parsley for

flavoring soups and stews should by all

means try this variety. The leaves are

not as pretty as those of some other va-

rieties, but there is no lack of flavor

in the root. It is as easily grown as car—

rots and in a similar manner.



'l’ok-choi is hardly known to Ameri-

cans. It is from China and is a cabbage,

but departs from the accepted ideas re-

garding that vegetable. Now a cabbage

is not noted for modesty. It is mostly

head, and that well up in the air. But

this immigrant from across the Pacific

is rather bashful and hides as much of

itself as it can in‘ the ground. It is a

turnip-rooted cabbage. Those who are

curious to know what an underground

cabbage is like should write to their seed

company for seed.



Few vegetables of recent introduction

have received more attention than Sakur—

ajima and rarely has one caused more

disappoilmcnt. The trouble seems to have

oliginuted from a misunderstanding of

its nature. If sown early it runs to

seed. It is really a winter radish and

when treated as such has given a more

satisfactory account of itself. “'inter

radishcs are sown the last of July or

during August. They then grow in the

cool autumn days and are ready for use

then or duringr the winter.



I'do may prove a valuable addition to

the American garden plants, but it is

slow in gaining recognition. The seed

companies are apparently not in a. hurry

to give it prominence. Like many an-

other, it might be given :1 place in the

garden. just to see what it will do.



This is but a meagre list.



Oakland Co. FRANK D. ‘VELLS.



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' Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P.- Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.



On Tuesday, February 6, a meeting of

the executive board of the State Asso-

ciation of Farmers’ Clubs will be held at

the Richelieu Hotel, at Durand, Mich.,

for the purpose of acting upon the report

of the committee appointed at the state

association to consider a revision of the

constitution and by-laws of that body,

and to make recommendations regarding

same. The particular feature under con-

sideration is the relation of the local

Clubs to the state body, the aim being

to place this relation upon a more solid

and permanent foundation, thus greatly

enlarging the scope and influence of the

state organization in promoting the in.-

terests not only of agriculture, but all

other matters affecting the honor, intel-

ligence and educational interests of the

citizens of our great state.



The executive board of the State Asso-

ciation of Farmers’ Clubs is composed of

officers and directors of the association,

but President Leland desires to have a

representative present from as many local

Clubs as possible. Any interested Club

member will be accepted as a representa-

tive without credentials and it is hoped

that at least one member from every

local Club in the state may be present.

This is an important meeting and it is

hoped that the local Clubs throughout the

state may send delegates to Durand, or

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CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

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Start Third Successful Year.——The Jan-

uary meeting of the Hartland Farmers’

Club was held at the pleasant home of

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Clark. After a.

bountiful repast, the meeting was called

to order by President Clark and the

members all joined in singing America.

Mr. Jerry Fahay, delegate to the State

Association, then gaVe a. very interesting

report of the meeting of the Association.

Our Club holds 11 meetings annually with

a picnic in July. The Club has 50 mem-

bers, but an average attendance of from

85 to 100. The Club has been in existence

three years. A Club fair was held in

October. This special feature of Club

work was very successful. No premiums

were awarded. Dinner is served at each

meeting and a very interesting program

is given. The Club adjourned to meet

the first Saturday in February at the

home, of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley.——Miss

Mary Openo, Cor. Sec.



New Highway Law Not Favored.—-It

takes something more than ten degrees

below zero to keep Washington Center

Farmers' Club people at home on Club

day, for on January 11 70 members and

visitors met with Mr. and Mrs. S. N.

French, at Elmwood, for the first meeting

of the new year. The secretary’s and

treasurer’s annual reports showed this

Club to be in good working order and on

a sound financial basis. Also that the

printed programs are remarkably well

carried out. These reports, with the us-

ual order of business. and the president's

annual address, concluded the morning

session. “Resolved, that in no occupation

are we so dependent as in farming,” was

the subject of a debate. Those who spoke

on the negative Side of the question had

no trouble in convincing the judges that

the pessimistic views of the affirmative

side were entirely wrong and Won an

easy victory. Resolutions to the effect

that the “Highway Law" does not give

satisfaction were passed, all present ex-

pressing themselves as being convinced

it was not a success in this township.

At 3:30 a delegation of Club children ar—

rived from school, and entertained the

audience with songs and instrumental

music. This Club believes in giving the

children a place on the program and

one meeting is entirely in the hands of

the little people. The next meeting wiil

be at "Old Homestead,” with Mr. and

Mrs. James DeMott, the second Thursday

in February. A good program has been

félg'a'flgcd.—lidrs. O. J. Carpenter, Cor.



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A Town Club Meeting.—The Lenawee-

Hillsdale Club met at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. O. J. McBride, in Dundee, Jan.

13. Theo. Josenhans was elected presi-

dent pro tem. The meeting was Opened

with music, after which a very interest-

ing report of the State Farmers’ Club

was given by E, H. Cook. A lively dis-

cussion followed the report. The morn-

ing session closed with a reading entitled,

“The Perfect Tribute," by Mrs. McBride.

After this the guests were taken to the

National Hotel for dinner, where they

were sumptuously entertained by the host

and hostess. Dinner over, the guests

were taken to various places of interest

in the city. After returning. a pleasant

social hour was spent, at which time each

guest was presented with a handsome

souvenir by the hostess. The meeting

adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs. J.

F. Koebbe near Macon, in February.





   





‘HGRANGE





Our Motto—~“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.” , ‘





THE FEBRUARY PROGRAMS.





Suggestions for SecOnd Meeting.



Roll call, responded to by each giving

a quotation from Longfellow,



What are healthful foods for break—

fast?



Book review.



Taking boys into partnership on the

farm—1. From a father’s standpoint.

2. From a boy's standpoint.



The most important question before

the public today, discussion.



“The farmer feeds them all," illustrat-

ed song, page 175, Grange Melodies.



OTTAWA POMONA'S CORN SHOW



MEETING.



Western Pomona met with Coopersville

Grange, at Coopersville, Jan. 19 and 20.

This meeting was one of the most suc-

cessful and best attended that the organ-

ization has ever held; about 175 patrons

sat down to a splendid dinner Friday.

and during the afternoon a few belated

ones increased the throng.



Program‘s full of interesting discussions

and entertaining recitations and music

were rendered Friday afternoon and

evening. Roll call at the afternoon ses-

sion was responded to by many members

naming evidences that the world is grow-

ing wiser, brighter and better. A brief

report of the National Grange meeting

was given by Melvin Smith, of Talmadge

Grange, which was supplemented by a

few details from C. S. Bartlett of Pontiac,

who was present in the capacity of state

speaker. Reports from Granges using the

state traveling libraries were called for

and these libraries haVe given quite gen-

eral satisfaction. The principal topic

discussed at this session was, “Does it

require more brains to earn a dollar than

to save it?”



At the evening session the Grange dis-

cussed the proposition to bond the county

for the purpose of building roads which

will be voted on at the spring election.

The other leading feature of this session

was an address on corn growing by Mr.

Bartlett which was well delivered and

contained many points of value, all of

which served to interest and encourage

the enthusiastic corn growers who did so

much to make this meeting a success.

Bro. Bartlett has a very entertaining way

of mixing facts with pleasantry, side-

splitting stories with a class-room lecture.



Saturday's business session brought out

the fact that there are 10 Granges in 0t-

tawa county, with a total membership of

about 600. Nunica Grange is the largest

subordinate, having a membership of 166.

The Pomona has gained 37 members

within the past year, giving it a total of

110. and its finances are in good shape.



The first annual corn contest conduct-

ed by the Pomona, which was held in

connection with this meeting, was a

splendid success both in the number of

entries and the quality of the exhibits.

C. S. Bartlett, of Pontiac, acted as judge,

using the score card system adopted by

the state corn growers’ organization.



In the yellow dent class D. M. Brown,

of Talmadge Grange, took first premium,

his exhibit scoring 73.8 points out of a

possible 80. B. R. Brown, of Talmadge

Grange. took second with a score of 72.7.



In the white dent class Ray Craven. of

Nunica Grange, was awarded first premi-

um, score 71.7. Wm. Sivers, of Herring-

ton Grange, won second, score 65.6,



B. R. Brown won first premium for the

most perfect single ear. I. M. Brown

won second.



F. C_ Hambleton, of Coopersville, ex-

hibited the largest single ear, Wm. Sivers

getting second premium.



There were a number of entries, scor—

ing from 66 to 71. which had looked like

winners. The competition was especially

keen in the yellow dent divison.



Pomona Grange showed its approval of

the work of its corn club by re-electing

the officers of the club for the coming

year and making a $10 donation. Mem-

bers of the different Granges also ex-

pressed the opinion that the local organ-

izations would more actively support this

work the coming year.—Lecturer.





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Baraga Patrons Start Investigation of

Road Commissioners.



The, Pomona Grange of Baraga county,

which is known as Seward Pomona, held

its third meeting since organization, at

Covington, on Saturday, Jan. 13. The

Grange was hospitably entertained at the

home of August Hutula, one of the prom—

inent citizens of Covington. The after-

noon session was an open one with large

delegations present from Sidnaw and

nearby towns.



Covington has several miles of good

roads and the question of road improve—

ment seemed uppermost in the minds of

members at this meeting. Some favored

the abolishment of the county road sys—

tem for the reason that there is dissat—

isfaction with the progreSS being made

in some parts of the county. After a

spirited discussion the Grange adopted

resolutions in which the county road

commissioners are charged with neglect.

wastefulness of public monies. and in—

competency to build and repair public

roads. The board of supervisors is pe-

titioned to immediately bring about a care-

ful investigation of the manner in which

the duties of the county road commis-

sioners have been performed and is re-

quested to remove from office any or all

of the commissioners in case the charges

against them are sustained by the in-

vestigation. The spring meeting of this

Pomona will be held with Baraga Grange.





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