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VOL. cx'xxvmma. 1b.;
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land has long been well under-

stood. No crop can grow well in
a water-soaked soil. Where the ground
remains wet for any considerable length
of time it may not be possible to grow
successful crops and there may be so
much constant free moisture that it is
absolutely impossible to grow crops. Any-
one who has had experience knows full
well that it pays to drain this kind of
soil. Some of the reasons that have been
deduced from favorable results in drain-
ing may be briefly given.

Where the soil remains water soaked
many of the soluble salts in the soil be-
come dissolved and should be removed
from time to time and they cannot be
unless the water is drained off. Unless
there is a drainage through the soil to
wash it out or clean it out the soil is
liable to become alkaline. Again, if the
water stands in the soil continually it
becomes stangant. Besides, in a water-
soaked 5011 there is no chance for the
rains that fall to be absorbed and they
run of, and in many instances wash or
gully the land and do a great deal of
damage. '- '

Again,- it is necessary that air circulate
through the soil. The roots of plants
need oxygen. The bacteria of the soil or
“the yeas: of the soil” also need oxygen
in order that they may live and thrive.
In soil that is saturated with moisture
there can be no circulation of air and
consequently there is no chance for the
bacteria to live. Again, a wet or water—
soaked soil is always a cold soil. Water
is a non-conductor of heat. One can
build a bonfire on the ice and not melt
the ice to any considerable extent, and so
the heat of the sun cannot penetrate a
water-soaked soil. When the water is
removed by drainage and the warm air
and heat of the sun penetrates the soil, it
increases the temperature several de-
grees and by this increase of warmth and
the removal of water the soil bacteria.
find a. congenial home and then fulfill
their functions, which is to act upon the
organic matter in the soil and change it
into available form for plant' food.

Again, drainage increases the available
moisture. Plants cannot use the free
moisture of the soil. The soluble plant
food which the plant uses must be held
in solution by the soil moisture; that
is the film of moisture which surrounds
each particle of soil. This moisture is
Sometimes called “the sap
of the soil," and it is
from this moisture that
the plant derives its food
or sustenance. Conse-
quently, when We removw-

THE benefit derived from draining

the free moisture from
the soil we lose, to a
large extent the total

amount of moisture in the
soil, we increase the
available supply of moist-
ure for the plant.

If one is in doubt as to
whether his soil needs ar-
tificial draining or not let
him dig a hole like a post
hole. in the ground. If
water stands in‘ this hole

for- a n y considerable
length of time during the
‘year, that land is too

wet, and it will pay to
drain it. When land
needs draining, the first
requisite for profitable
farming on this land is
tile draining. It costs
money but it pays. It
should be considered just
as much of an investment
and the same kind of an
investment, as the pur-

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FARM DRAINAGE.

case of the land itself, because no one
can make a profit in farming on wet
land.

Laying Out the Drains.

In the construction of drains it is nec-
essary that one have some experience
and usually it is better to turn the job
over to an experienced man. In almost
every community a man of considerable
experience can be found, who can be
trusted with the job. The average farm-
er hasn’t the time, and has not had the

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experience to go to work and properly
drain land and do it efficiently. The
work, however, of laying out drains and
properly constructing them is not difficult.

In certain localities it may be necessary
to construct open ditches to furnish
outlets for the tile drains, but usually
this is not necessary, and main tile drains
can be laid out which will carry off all
of the water necessary to be turned into
them from laterals. It requires some in-
genuity and judgment in looking over a

 

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Satlsfactory Instrument for Determining Grades for Tlle Drains.

 

 

field to It? ‘5‘“th where main drains
ought to be ti.,__o/§qcte(l, and just how
thick or how close figethcr the laterals
ought to ge laid. and’if the farmer does
not feel himself confident to do this it
will pay him well to gr-t someone with
experience to assist- him in locating the
drains, especially the main system.

In this connection, the size of the tile
for the purpose desired must be deter—
mined. The ell-operative opinion of many
practical farmers who have had much ex—
perience in draining will warrant one in
attempting to give something of a rule
as to the size of tile which should be
used. It is generally conceded that a.
three-inch tile will drain five acres, a.
four-inch tile 12 acres. a five-inch tile
20 acres, a six-inch tile .10 acres, and a
seven-inch tile 60 acres of land, and when
the size of the main tile is determined
that is all that is necessary because cv-
erybody concedes now that laterals should
not be loss than three-inch tile. in the
early days two—inch and two and one-
half—inch tile were used for laterals, but
the expense being nearly as much as for
three-inch tile, it is hpiit‘l' to lay the
three-inch tile, because they are not
nearly so liable to be filled up with sedi-
ment if there is the least defect in the
grade line of the ditch.

Practical Construction.

0n land where the fall is very light, or
where one goes through cuts or drains
depressions, a careful survey of the land
should be taken in order to get the grade
and get it perfectly, because there is no
use in going to the expense of digging
the ditch and laying the tile and then
not having them work well afterwards.

If a. fal‘lllm‘ knows something about prac-
tical survvying, he can borrow a Y level
of a Surveyor and do this work himself,

or perchanw he has a level of his own.
or for ordinary work he can construct a
level which will answer the purpose. by
simply having a slflko with a cross-bar on

which can be placed a common spirit
level. For short ditches and where the
grade is not difficult to ascertain this

will work fairly well. Or a water level
consisting of a hollow tube with an elbow
on either end into which glass is fitted
and then filled with water. It is set
level. of course. when ilu- water rises to
the same height in each glass tube. and
one can get his grade nicely. In my own
case, in laying out most all of the main
drains on my farm I borrowed the county
surveyor's Y level and did
the surveying myself, run
all the grade lines and
figured out the cut for
every 100 feet of the main
tirain, wherever there was
any question about the
work, but in most all or-
dinary draining this is
hot necessary. and levels
can be run by simply put-
ting up a line above
where the ditch is to be
and then sighting over a
spirit lchI to be sure
that then- is plenty of
fall. Then construct the
ditch and dig the grade
line parallel to this line
above the ditch. In this
way there- is no trouble
Whatever in getting a uni-
form grade line andhave
the ditch work perfectly.

In laying out themain
ditches it is quite import-
ant to get a good outlet.
On some of my land which
was creek bottomed it
was difficult to get a good
outlet. In fact, that out-
let had to be dowu as low
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and when there is high water in the
creek this will back up into the tile and
the land will not be drained 0ft until the
creek goes down. This one cannot help,
and where one has an outlet like this
similar to the outlet shown in the picture
on succeeding page, it is necessary to go
every year, in fact, it is better to go
every spring and every fall, and see that
the outlet is properly cleaned out. Silt
will run down the ditch and accumulate
at the mouth of the tile and sometimes
cnirely cever them up, and this must be
removed or it; will seriously interfere with
the working of the ditch. On the other
hand. where there is too much fall at the
mouth of the ditch care must be taken to
pave with stone or cement just in front
of the tile so that it will not wash, be-
cause an excavation Will be made which
will gradually creep up the ditch and dc-
stroy or misplace several tile at the
mouth.

In the practical digging or construction
of a ditch I have always plowed a fur-
row as deep as possible. “'e usually put
three big heavy horses onto a big turning
plow and put it clear down to the beam.
Then we go back on the ditch and plow
out the other way, making a regular dead
furrow. In this way we can remove near—
ly a foot of the soil and it is a great start
on the ditch. The rest of this excavation
we have always done with ditching
spades. Nothing is particular until you
get near the bottom. Then one should
have the grade line stretched overhead
and measure every foot or so with a pole
from the bottom of the ditch to the line
above so as to get a uniform grade. \thn
this is done and properly cleaned out
with a tile scoop then one can lay the
tile from the ground without getting into
the ditch, properly and with llitle diffi—
culty.

Numerous ditching machines are now
on the market. One power machine is
guaranteed to dig a ditch and dig it true
to grade so that the tile can be laid im-
mediately. This, of course. is an expen—
sive machine. but if it will do the work
well it certainly does away with a lot of
labor. Of course. where one comes to a
stone in the ground the machine must be
stopped and the boulder removed. 'l‘here
are various other machines Some of
them run by steam or traction power and
some can be operated by horses. Some
are comparatively inexpensive, and it is
claimed that they are of great assistance
in the practical construction of a drain,
making the excavation at very much less
expense than can be done by hand labor.
If I had very much tile draining to do I
should certainly try some of these mod-
crn machines. As it is. the draining on
Lillie Farmstead is practically completed.
IVe have perhaps a fcw hundred rods yet
to dig in places whore we did not origi-
nally put the tiles close together, but the
great work of tile draining is done. and
of course, I am very thankful for it. Our
farm now is just in shape to begin to
realize something from the investment
because we have, drawn off this surplus
water and put the land in condition so
that we can go to work and improve its
crop producing power and make a profit.

It is hard. slow, expensive work to
thoroughly tile drain land. Ilut there is
no other remedy. It is the only thing to
be done. In fact. it is the very basis of
profitable farming upon this sort of land
and the sOoner one begins. the sooner he
will begin to realize upon his investment.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

NOT MUCH OF OPPORTUNITIES LOST
BY MICHIGAN FARMERS.

The man who travels through the coun—
try on the and makes observations
on the “lost opportunity of farmers.”
might lose, some necessary time if he ex-
amined at less speed, but his observa-
tions would be of more value to himself
and lead to more correct conclusions.

Suppose a traveler were to see the thou-
sands of tons of spoiled sugar beets left at
the various loading stations this year and
were to seize this as a text for the waste-
ful manner of manufacturing and read
the usual course of lectures on waste and
wind up by suggesting a reduction in the
tariff or sugar because of the prodigality
of manufacturers, it would be a parallel
case.

Everyone knows that one of the most
unusual conditions of seasons made it
difficult to handle the crop of sugar beets
and the tops as well. Under ordinary
conditions, very little waste of feed oc-
curs and this season. with high cost of
feed of all years, beet tops were saved
just as far as the conditions of the sea—
son would permit.

This subject is of minor importance,

were it not used as a text to preach a

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THE 'MICHIGAN' FARMER.

sermon as to how the farmers in Europe
particularly in Germany, are able to in-
crease their soii fertility by painstaking
care. Another observation made like that
of the farmers beet tops, without ade-
quate information. By turning a few
pages further in the same issue of the
Michigan Farmer is a conservative state-
ment in the advertisement of the Ameri-
can Agricultural Chemical Co.,_stating
that German farmers expend $20 per acre
in fertilizer for beets and potatoes and
find it pays. Now it naturally appeals to
the spirit of economy to use the observa-
tions made on the printed page to bolster
up our desires to get along without spend—
ing any money for plant food. '\’Vhen the
season is over and a lean crop harvested
because of adherence to some of these
inadequate or incomplete statements harm
is done to the individual farmer, the sug—
ar manufacturers and the whole com-
munity of the producing world. It is
“toil without recompense, tears without
gain,” and “what I havc read in the
farm papers does me no good and guess I
will not subscribe after my year is up.”
To maintain the soil fertility of Europe
the United States exported in 1908. 1,180.28()
tons of phosphate rock, or about one-half
of the total mined. Much of this going
to Germany to maintain soil fertility. Ger-
many. which is four-fifths as large as
Texas, raises 125 million bushels of wheat
and consumes 200 million bushels. Ger-
many imports 40 million bushels of corn,
3 billion pounds of oil cake and other
foodstuffs, and in this way aids in pre-
serving soil fertility. 1 am always scrry
when the real fundamental facts of soil
fertility are not understood and an at-
tempt made to exploit a special industry
on Superficial observations,
Shiawassee Co, JAs. N. MCBRIDE.

OATS AS A SPRING CROP.
There has been a great deal said about
raising corn, in The Farmer, but nothing
about raising oats or other spring cropS;
and we, as farmers should be as much
interested in raising oats, or other spring
crops, as corn.

In the writer's opinion, to successfully
raise oats, the ground should be plowed
in the fall before, as the frosts of the
winter has much to do with settling the
ground and forming a good foundation on
which to prepare a good seed bed.

As soon as the ground is dry enough
in the spring use a disk harrow, going
over the ground both ways; then, by us-
ing a spring-tooth barrow for leveling
and more' thoroughly pulverizing the
ground, one has the field in good condi—
tion for seeding.

However, if one cannot get the plowing
done in the fall, a good crop can be raised
by early spring plowing, as corn stubble.
Plow it as soon as the ground is dry
enough, then use a heavy roller and al—
most as good results will be obtained in
getting a solid foundation on which to
prepare the seed bed.

About April 20 or 25 is early enough to
sow oats.

Allegan Co.

HUNGARIAN GRASS.

I have had most excellent results from
lccding millet to cattle and sheep and
would like to raise it every year but have
heard it was extremely hard on the land.
would you kindly inform me concerning
the effect of raising Ilungarian millet on
sandy and gravely soils? Alsl» what is a
good crop to go before and also to fol—
low it in order to have a rotation of crops?

Jackson Co. .I. XV. W.

I don‘t think Hungarian grass is any
harder on land than timothy hay. or oats,
or barley, or any other crop like, that
which we grow. and I would not hesitate
about growing it simply because it is hard
on the land. That is what we have land
for; to grow the crops that we want to
use, and then we must use our skill as
farmers to keep up the crop-producing
crops. I do, however, question the pro-
priety of raising Hungarian grass as a
regular crop, year after year. I would
prefer to raise timothy hay in a regular
rotation to take the place of this and I
doubt if Ilungarian grass, although I
know it has a good value as stock food,
for I. have grown it myself as a catch
crop, is any better than a crop of oats
cut and made into hay, and I am quite
sure it is not as valuable as a crop of
cats and peas grown for hay. If one
wanted to grow it regularly he could put
it after corn, and if he got it in pretty
early it would come off in time so that
the land could be plowed and fitted and
put into rye or Into wheat. And, while
this millet, like all other millets, is a
valuable food, they are not considered
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because We have other crops which are
more profitable, and millet is usually only
sown as a catch crop; that is, where some
other crop fails and there is still time for
a crop of Hungarian grass which grows
in an exceedingly short time.

COLON C. LILLIE.

THAT WET FIELD AGAIN.

 

Your answer to my inquiry at hand and
notice that my description did not thor-
oughly describe the situation. I meant
that the water only stands on this land
in spots during the early spring or real
wet seasons. I had an idea that this
ground might be sour, but right in the
lowest place where water stands the long-
est the beans grew better than they did
on higher ground next to the hole and
got ripe. ’I‘he‘two seasons that the corn
and beans did not do well were both dry
seasons. I put both crops in in good
shape and gave them good cultivation.
The ground is in fine shape for oats this
spring and would like to know if cats
will do well on ground that is liable to
be sour. I am satisfied that the ground
is strong enough as it grew the largest
hay that I ever saw, and furnished good
pasture up to the time that I plowed it
up. for .corn. Do you think that tiling
this spring would do away with the acid-

ity enough to help this season's crop
fertilizer or

much? Would commercial
barnyard manure do away with the acid-
ity? I have heard of putting lime on
ground that is sour. If you think it nec-
essary can you tell me where I can get
:t and how much to put on an acre?

Saginaw Co. 0. J.

Even after reading this second letter
of O. .I.’s about the wet field, I am still
inclined to believe that what the field
really needs to permanently improve it
is thorough tile draining. If water stands
on any portion of the field for any con-
siderable length of time in the spring it
certainly needs tiling, and land that is
too wet at any time of the year will not
raise as good crops in a dry year as
though it was properly tiled. It is barely
possible that this land is acid or sour
and O. J. can determine this by going to
the drug store and getting five cents
worth of blue litmus paper and burying
a. strip of it in the soil and leaving it
there for 15 or 20 minutes and then note
carefully if the blue litmus paper has
turned to any tinge of pink. If it has,
it is sour, and if you have got sour land
the only thing to do is lime it. You can
buy lime almost anywhere at reasonable
prices. Look in the Michigan Farmer and
you will find advertisements of lime.
Probably a. ton of ground limestone per
acre would be sufficient to sweeten it

I never saw any land yet but what a
good dressing of stable manure or com-
mercial fertilizer would help the crops,
and I believe that it would help this land
wonderfully. Tile draining would assist
materially in sweetening the soil by
drawing off the surplus water but it
would act slowly and would not be of
very much benefit to an oat crop. The
oat crop will do fairly well on land that
is a little acid in reaction and probably
you could get no better crop for this soil,
but the trouble will come when you try
to grow clever, as clover will not do well
on sour land. Even clover will grow on
sour land it you furnish it nitrogen, but
the bacteria which takes nitrogen from
the atmosphere cannot live in a. sour soil
and consequently the clover crop ceases
to be a soil improving crop if it is grown
on sour land. Then. too, clover will not
do well on wet land. It you can possibly
get the time I think it would pay to drain
this field this spring. However, if you
seed it to timothy and redtop it will do
fairly well on this kind of soil.

COLON C. LILLIE.

MAKE THE SOIL YOUR BANK.

 

In your issue of Feb. 17 is an article
by Colon C. Lillie, under the heading,
“\Vhy Clover Fails, which I think is very
interesting, because it is instructive, but
to which I want to add one remark. He
says: “A farmer, to my way of think-
ing, might better invest his money in
phosphoric acid and potash if his soil
needs it, than to put it into the bank.
I-Iis soil should'be his bank.”

But the trouble is that the farmer
whose soil needs such treatment, very
often don’t have any money in the bank.
But to my way of thinking such farmers
had better borrow the money at almost

any cost, if necessarY, in order to get
these chemicals, and use them in the
way Mr. Lillie Suggests. I think that

would be one of the surest ways for such
farmers to get money to put into the
bank. But that money should not be
squandered for something else. It re~
quires a little wisdom on the part of the
farmer to use borrowed capital.

Leelanau Co. ISAAC GARTHE.

    
 
     
        
     
 
      
      
       
 
      
     
  
     

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MARCH 9. 1912.
. THEMAPLE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

One who has lived 60 years in a section
where maple trees abound has witnessed
a progress in the process of making maple
sugar, that will compare favorably with
the evolution ofIalmost any other in-
dustry.

In pioneer days, and before the advent
of cane and beet sugars, the farmers were
dependent upon tr. 3 “sugar bush” to sup-
ply them with sugar and syrup. In these
early days the process of tapping the
trees, gathering and boiling the sap, and
“sugaring off," as it was called, was nec-
essarily crude. \Vhere the land was to
be eventually cleared, the conservation
of maple trees was not a consideration
and, until such a time as the land was
to be cleared, the process of tapping was
such as to seriously injure the trees. A
notch was chopped in the tree, sloping
downward so as to form a cup. Just be-
low this cup, a hole was bored, usualfy
with a half-inch augur, to tap the lower
part of the cup, and an elder spile was
inserted. By this notching process a
much greater surface exposing the pores
was secured, and thus a, larger flow of
sap obtained than where, as is now the
case, a small hole is bored in the tree.

In those days the use of sap pails, such
as are now used, were scarcely thought
of or, if they were, the expense of obtain—
ing them would have been prohibitative.
Blocks of a suitable size and length were
cut from trees, split in halves and these
were made into troughs. Each trough
was capable of holding 10 or 12 quarts,
and was poured fromwthe troughs into
the gathering pail when collecting the
sap. A barrel was usually mounted on a
sled to which the team was attached and
driven about among the trees and the
sap collected by being poured from the
collecting pail into a funnel fitted into the
bunghole of the barrel. “hen the barrel
was full it was sledded to the sugar camp
and emptied into a large storage trough
from which it was carried in pails to the
kettles. These were hung on a pole, sup-
ported by forks driven into the ground,
of a proper height, and under the kettles
a. tire was kindled. I’sually small logs
were brought alongside of the kettles, and
as the kettles hung between these, econ-
omy was secured in the use of fuel. The
number of kettles depended upon the ex—
tent of the business or the ability of the
farmer to obtain them. At our camp we
used five, of graduated sizes.

The largest was hung at one end and
graded in size, until at the opposite end
the smallest, or syruping kettle, was
placed. After all had been filled, boiled

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

commercial sugars of good quality and at
a moderate price, and as the sugar groves
were reduced in area, maple sugar and
syrup ceased to be necessities, and were
reduced to luxuries. With these changed
conditions it became important that qual-
ity should be the leading desideratum,
and therefore the processes have advanced
until today these commodities will no
longer compare with the dark and strong
products of a few decades ago. From
the old outdoor process which I have de-
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of the kettles in an arch, and then, from
the kettles to the evaporating pan over a
brick oven in a sugar—house, quickly suc-
ceeded each other. But perfection was
not yet. The invention of tho compart-
ment evaporator,permitting of the con—
tinuous ilow of sap. and ability to draw
off the syrup at the opposite end of the
evaporator from where it entered, to—
gether with the use of sap pails with cov-
ers, thus preventing leaves and other
foreign substances from getting into the.
sap, the improved clarifying processes,
together with co—opcration of producers,
in seeking quality, have gone far to make
the indusry truly respectable.

Statistics indicate an annual produc—
tion of sugar and syrup of a value of four
niillion dollars in the l’nited States. The
iorthern states of New England, New
York, il’cnnsyivania and Ohio, embrace
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Making Maple Sugar in the Open.

and frequently refilled, we would begin
by emptying the largest into the others
and re-filling it with fresh sap. Then, as
the sap boiled away we would empty the
one next to it, passing the sap to the oth-
ers until, finally, all would be in the little
kettle at the end, and by this time it
would be boiled to sufficient density to be
taken off. This little kettle had a hook
attached to the pole on which it hung
and could be detached, without disturbing
the others, whose bales hung over the
pole. When the syrup was poured into
pails, the kettle was returned to its place
and the process repeated,

At the close of the day the syrup was
taken to the house where it was re-boiled
to the proper density to be “sugared off”
Or made into syrup. At this time it was
clarified by the use of milk and eggs,
which were added to it while boiling. This
caused a scum, containing the impurities,
to rise and was removed with a skimmer

In those days the quality was not of so
much importance as now, as the com—
modities had but little commercial value
and were used principally in the homes
of the makers. But with the advent of

Scene in a Barry County Sugar Bush.

mont, perhaps, exceeding any other state.

The maple sugar industry is dependent
largely upon locality and still more upon
the season of the year. Those sections
where there is considerable frost in win-
ter and a gradual breaking up in the
spring, with frosty nights and sunny
days, are congenial to sugar making.

From the middle of February to the
middle of April will usually cover the.
season in the sugar area. The first made
is usually of the best quality as, when
the season is advanced the sap is less
clear, more viscid in its character and
quality proportionately inferior.

There used to be a saying that when
the maple leaf was of the size of a squir-
rel's ear, it was time to pull the. spiles
and gather the troughs or pails. But
this is to continue the season beyond the
period of good quality. It is estimated
that a barrel of fifty gallons of sap
should make eight pounds of sugar. Trees
vary somewhat in their sugar content,
usually owing to location. Trees growing
in a thick grove where sunshine is ex-
cluded will contain a less per cent of sug-
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ably situated. Trees possessing a large
head and abundant foliage will give, oth—
er conditions being favorable, a greater
ilow of sap and of higher quality than
trees where there is a less leaf surface.
it is through the leaves that the manu-
facture of starch is engendered. and the
amount of sugar depends upon the
amount of starch slowed in the cells of
the tree. The price of maple sugar var-
ies, owing to quality, from eight to 20
cents per- pound and syrup from 80 cents
to $1.23 per gallon. The season of their
manufacture occuring at that time of the
year, before the regular farm work be-
gine. is advantageous to the farmer as
his time is less valuable and his profits
nearly clear gain.
New York. It. F. IVIACK.
THE GREAT VALUE OF JUNE
CLOVER.

 

My attention was called to the valuable
article of Mr. Lillie, “\Vhy Clover Fails.”
in the issue of February lit, and also to
“The Soil Fertility Problem.” from Mr.
Brady. of (“ass county. These two sub-
jects are of great importance and should
command the most earnest attention of
all progressive farmers. When I was in
("hicago last fall I had the pleasure of
hearing a short address given by Presi—
dent 'l‘aft in the interests of agriculture
at the dairy show. He gave some very
valuable data and figures on how the
farms in general were decreasing in pro-
duction and how rapid the consumption,
each year, was. increasing in comparison
»-—\\‘liich is due. of course, to increase of

population and demand for food stuffs
which depend entirely on the fertility and
management of the farms. He pointed

out that in time the situation could be—
come alarming if proper methods were
not adopted to retain a higher standard
and greater production from the farms
now under cultivation. It is a known
fact that we have been living from the
“cream" of the land, which nature has
endowed to us for our great benefit. But
the time has come when the “cream" has
mostly been utilized in our efforts to gain
Wealth, as well as an existence.

Those millions of fertile prairie lands,
which only required to bet tickled with
the plow to produce. wonderful crops. are
a matter of history. and by constant pro—
duction without proper methods of retain-
ing their fertility are producing less year
by year, and require much more faithful
‘abor and expense to produce the lesser
yields. It costs us just as much to pre-
pare the land to produce a poor, unprofit»
able crop as a valuable onefi-the only
saving is in the harvest. But even then
we have more strength and ambition to
harvest a good crop than a poor one. Of
course. when tlwre is a general failure

the price reaches a high figure, but some—
one sut‘fers for this severely and it is
much better for the farmer. as well as
the. millions who are depending on him

for tlmir existence. to harvest bountiful
crops and a surplus rather than a de-
ficiency. This condition can only be
brought about and made possible by our
earnest. careful consideration of the prob—
lem of “building up" the soil front which
we have sold the cream for year after
year.

'\\'hen I was in Illinois last fall. visiting
an uncle, I accompanied him for an auto
ride out to his farm. and many miles
through the surrounding country. which
contained thousands of acres of corn
standing in the fields and the farmers
were busy husking same from the. stalks.
I was pointed out: many fields near my
uncle's farm which he told me had been
continually planted to corn for 35 or ‘10
years, or ever since, the raw prairie was
first broken up. Now this looks almost
impossible to continually crop land so
long. especially with the, same crop and
get any profitable results whatever. Yet
these fields in question had corn on that
i should judge would yield around 35 to
50 bushels shelled corn per acre.

But light here is a point. in keeping
up soil fertility which was spoken of by
Mr. Brady. These fields of corn have had
nothing put back on the land for 30 or 40
years, except the “weeds" and cornstalks.
Of course, the stalks were pastured down
after husking, by herds of cattle and
horses, which left in the land a certain
amount of fertilizer at no expense what—
ever. I want to ask the farmers of Mich—
‘igan what would this land have produced
if it had been skinned of every vestige of
vegetation, as are the corn fields here?

Michigan has a great salvation of pro-
tection over Illinois, owing to the fact that
it is perfectly adapted to red clover,
which in my opinion is the very best
and most economic method of fertilizing

our land. For some reason clover does not
thrive in Illinois, and it is hard to get
a good catch of even timothy there in
many locations. but in the nine years I
have lived in Michigan I have not noticed
a failure in general in getting a good
stand of seeding. However, 1 do not think
quite as Mr. Lillie does regarding the dry
seasons not effecting clover seeding.
\Vhen I came. on this farm two years ago
there was 70 acres of new seeding which
was sown in wheat, the timothy being
sown in fall and red clover in March or
April the year before. This started out
for a splendid hay 'crop, but after it was
several inches in height it stopped grow-
ing for the lack of moisture. \\'e not
having any rain to speak of in April or
May, consequently this hay yielded only
three—fourths of a ton per acre and I
am positive if the moisture had been suf—
ficient it would have yielded over twice
that. Now this is enough to prove that
clover must have rain, no matter when
starting Or after it is nicely started. 01'
course, Mr. Lillie is a thorough, progres-
sive farmer and as he has owned and
managed his land for many years he no
doubt has it in the highest state of culti-
vation and production. while many 0th—
crs have recently bought. land that has
nOt been managed before as it should
have been. I think perhaps Mr. Lillie’s
land is heavier soil than my farm and is
more adapted for grass and will naturally
retain the moisture longer.

Since I came here we have, had two suc-
cessive dry spring which have made a
serious loss to all farmers. I have seeded
over 200 acres and have no stand what-
ever, which is a loss to me of at least
$1.300. This has seldom happened on this
farm or anywhere in the county, and is
caused only by the excessiVe hot, dry
springs. I am told that the former own-
er of this farm was quite successful in
seeding clover in the spring without: any
other crop. One. field here was seeded
in .\pril in the corn stubble by harrowing
well and they cut 90 big loads of hay from
around 70 acres in September. The next
year this also produced a big yield of
clover. There was no timothy in this
seeding.

Now I am going to try this same meth-
od of seeding. liven though I should not
get a. profitable crop, or even any, hay.
the first season, I believe I would have
a stand for the next season, which would
be much better than to throw time and
money away like I have done.

.\s Mr. Lillie says, “your farm is your
bank,” and that is another thought we
often do not think of. It would well pay
all of us if we would sacrifice a “whole
crop of clover” if necessary, every few
years, and plow the same under, instead
of taking off the second crop down to the
roots year after year. which will mean
ruin to the land in time. Of course, we
could husk the. corn on the hill. like Mr.
Brady states, which I always did in Illi-
nois, and plow down the stalks. But I
believe it is less work and cheaper to cut
the corn with a harvester and manage as
I have Stated than to husk it from the
hill. I have not husked a “shock" of
corn in the field, by hand, since I have
resided in Michigan. As I figure that this
is useless work and very expensive. But
I do think if one wants the corn husked
that the. shredder and husker is about the
best method employed to do the work and
Mr. Osborne, of Van Burcn county, seems
to think that the fodder can be kept all
right, which has been my only serious ob-
jection to the shredder. which I used to
employ. I think it pays well to save the
fodder, although if We haVe big yields
of clover hay, I would prefer that as
feed in preference to fodder. The stalks,
after the, corn is harvested in the field,
make a quantity of quite valuable feed
for any stock but you lose nearly one-
half its value by not harvesting same.

Of course, we have different opinions
as to some of these problems and perhaps
take. the proper method for our own sit-
uation. But, we must carefully study ev-
ery method of “improving soil fertility,"
which means the saving of time and la-
bor, as well as to keep that bank account
on the increase, and this can be easily
done by plowing down the “clover” which
dear old Michigan will produce in abun-
dance.

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combating Grain Rust.

I haVe been a reader of the Michigan
Farmer for some time and have received
much good from your columns. I would
l- dike to have a little advice on a matter .

. of soil. I have black muck ground and
. my oats get about half grown when they
‘ are attacked tby the rust. It is not in the
', seed, as I have changed seed.

| Wayne Co. E. E.

. What is popularly termed rust as re-
lating to cereal grains is the result of the
, ravages of a number of fungi or parasitic
it plants. This disease has been well known

l since the fifteenth century. There are

several species of rust attacking both
wheat and oats, bttt all belong to that

’ type of fungi which have several stages
of development separated by two or more
l! rest periods. During the life history of

these parasitic fungi several entirely dif—
ferent types of hosts are frequently util—
ized, and it is because of this complex.
life history that the rusts of cereal grains
have for so long been inadequately un-
derstood. A review of the life history
of rusts would, however. be superfluous
at this time. Suffice it to say that there
is no known remedy by which rust can be
successfully combated, except that all
conditions are helpful to that end that
tend to mature the crop before the rust
becomes abundant.
For this reason fields devoted to grain
,V crops should be properly drained, clean
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Beans?

my hobby. I have fertilized beans
for eight years, and what I know I
have learned by experience.

There are only two ways to use fertilizer on beans. Either sow

200 pounds per acre on each side of the bean row, that is, by using

a fertilizer grain drill, 11 hoe, and let six tubes sow fertilizer and five
tubes the beans, and get on 200 pounds to the acre. Don’t let the fer—
tilizer run in with the beans as there is too much danger of burning them.

I am going to sow fifty acres of beans this Spring. Some of the
ground is very poor. On the poorest I will sow 300 pounds I)f.A. A. C.
Co. High Grade Fertilizer broadcast with a drill and work the ground in
good shape, and then when I sow my beans will sow 200 pounds more per
acre on each side of the beans, making 500 pounds per acre on the poor—
( est ground.

I have used many kinds of fertilizer—different kinds and analyses.
But at the extra cost I prefer A. A. C. Co. High Grade Fertilizer with
A should be destroyed and if the trouble a high analysis, especially forlighter soil. Some authorities claim that
i cannot be controlled in this way the you don’t need any Nitrogen for beans. My experience in growing

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be sown on properly prepared ground.
\Vild grasses and weeds, barbery shrubs,
etc, growing adjacent to these fields

”St has been ”Sumtesmgf' Spmfld be Phosphoric Acid and Potash. Last season on a soil that would not grow
" *a i ars . .
abanmmid un 1. i e mu 9 “s m 0 4 ten bushels of beans per acre, by usmgSOO pounds ofA. A. C. Co. High
by growmg gram crops less frequently in 7‘ ‘ _ .
(irrade Fertilizer I grew 28 bushels per acre.

the crop rotation. On a muck soil the
“lam?“ 9f miner“ “MHZ?" may ham“ Let me say, don’t be satisfied with 10 or 11 bushels per acre. If
‘ i-Zinolllieiidniiifhiuiifp 3133:2282 “2,512,213,; your soil is not too heavy, and if you get it rich enough, you can grow
(,f phosphoric acid and potash ,0 supply 30 to 40 bushels per acre. I am Speaking of pea beans. They are the
a deficiency in the plant food ingredients kind I grow. Sow from three peeks to one bushel per acre according
to size of beans. Above all, don’t use cheap Fertilizers, for they are
too dear to buy for the plant food they contain.” (Name given on application).

in this kind of soil.

We furnish quick acting, high grade out these things are more successful than
Fertilizers of many different compositions those who have not realized the great dif-
to meet the requirements of all crops grown ference in Fertilizers. Even at the same
on various kinds of soils. We make grades price, one grade of Fertilizer under certain
where either the Nitrogen, Phosphoric conditions will produce more profitable
Acid or Potash are component parts, with results than another.
the right percentages of the other elements
of plant food to properly balance the Fertil-
izer to use on muck land, clay, light soils,
etc.

Growing Cucumbers.

Please give your opinion through the
Michigan Farmer. on growing cucumbers
on light sandy ground; land in pretty
good condition. \‘Vhat time to plant, also
would it pay to use fertilizer. if so, would
you advise putting it in the hills early in
the spring. on account of it drying out
the ground so, then keeping the ground
well dragged? Of course, I would mark
the hills.

Gratiot Co. .7. (l.

Fairly fertile. sandy land is suitable
land for the growing of cucumbers, which
need a rather warm soil for best results.
They can best be grown upon a clover
sod to which an early application of sta-
ble manure has been made and the crop
. will be improved by the use of either
composted manure or fertilizer in the hill.
; This, however, should not be applied un-
l til the crop is planted. when it should bt'
well mixed and covered with soil before
the seed is planted. The ground should
be plowed early and kept well harrowcd
until planting time. The crop is usually
planted by the middle of June. Plenty of
seed should be used to insure a good
stand and later thinned to three or four
stalks in a hill. The hills should be about
tive feet apart each way. Thorough lth-l
culture should be given until the vines
fir get too large to permit of such cultiva-
tion. Cucumbers are a fairly profitable
crop but require a good deal of labor in
harvesting and should be grown on a
small scale until experience has been ac-
quired in growing and handling the crop.

Flax Culture.
Can flax be successfully grown in Bligh-
igan? \Vhen should it be sown?

Montcalm Co. G, D,
Flax can be successfully grown upon , Latest 7 Factory Price, 30 Days Trial, No Deposit,

“‘8 hm” 8"“ 0f “mg“ a“ was “I“ P ’I No Money Down, Freight Paid Cash or Credit .

Pattern of '

merly quite extensively grown in Huron llle Original
county, but the Cm], has given place to PRINCE-TOOTH, or Solid Shovel, Pivot Axle, or Rigid Axle,
the growing of sugar beets and chickory Walking or Riding style; also wood frame Lever Drags! Which
largely, in recent years. Moist, deep. R ltonetdiblzwlii Wills)“ 1Try it at Olflfl' risk! Each one isperfed.

y ‘ . . , . . . igi up 0 ! ostli cra terms ever 0 ered and a factory price that
SU‘OHS, 103ml 5011* are IXSt f0? flax, proves how others 071'”quch or give your/leap quality.
whether for tlber or for seed production. We show here the original spring-tooth cultivator. Does everything any
(lood corn land is very satisfactory. The sprirég tocfih does, in all soils?does itbettcr. Wolf work no other cultivator
‘ , ‘ ‘ ‘ can 0. as w1t ext range 0 adjustments. 'it center section of 5 teeth
soil, hovuvei, needs to be. VGIY W811 DIG- bolted in.makes afirst-class. easy riding, spring-tooth barrow. Also a. per
pared by thorough \VOrklng before the feet Broadcast Seeder and Bean Harvester with simple attachments.
crop is sown, to make the plant food con—

tained in the soil as readily available as DCIrOit-American Guaranteed

possible. The crop is sown in the spring Forever

as soon as the weather settles and the {\Icito‘iher cultivatpis made, regardless of prices asked. compare with
ground begins 1, warm up, generally the Dem - mericans. ‘ lousandsm use in all States. Satisfaction guaran-
, e . .

latter par? of May. For seed, two 01‘ ted Wedealonly direct from factory.

for free book See tllecultivatoryoti wantat the right price. Also shows
three pecks pcl‘ acre are sown and for write! the Detroit-American Manure Spreaders, Tongueless Disc Harrows and
fiber one and one-half to two bushels.

The trouble with the flax industry in all
parts of the Ifnited States where the crop
is grown is that it is subject to a fungous
disease which makes it necessary for a
long crop rotation and makes it difficult

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In selecting Fertilizer the farmer can-
not be any too careful. He should make
sure that the goods are manufactured by a
reliable firm, so that he may depend upon

If your land is rich in Nitrogen you getting full percentages of plant food and
will save money by using Phosphoric Acid of the highest agricultural value, also in
and Potash to balance out the plant food in first-Class mechanical condition. The repu~
the soil. Progressive farmers who study tationofthe manufacturerisveryimportant.

 

Write us and we will tell you h0w to fertilize properly and economically. \K'ill also send booklet
on Fertilizers, including article by John A. \Vidtsoe, Ph. D., telling how to tight thought with
fertility and why richness of soil makes up for lack of moisture. Every farmer should read it.
There is nothing so expensive to the farmer as a poor crop. Some farmers are satisfied with ‘
fair crops and ordinary Fertilizers because they have never used the best. We want agents
for unoccupied territory.

THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL COMPANY

DETROIT SALES DEPARTMENT, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Largest manufacturers of high grade fertilizers in the world.

 

 

         
    
  

 
   

 

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cality for any number of years. Owing
to the ravages of this fungous disease
ilax seed has fallen off. in production in
recent years and has brought an ab-
normally high price.

Inoculatlng Soil for Alfalfa.

\Vill you kindly advise me if manure
from a stable where alfalfa is fed will
ltelp in any way, the inoculation, or ben-
efit a'new field where I wish to sow al-
falfa seed this summer? I really do not
expect inoculation from the, manure. but
I thought there may be some extra bene-
filt derivod from it. If there is, kindly ad—
V‘ise me in your paper.

Ohio. C. E. R.

While it would be possible to secure
inoculation of the ground intended for
alfalfa by the application of manure from
the feeding of alfalfa buy, it would hard-
ly be a safe dependent. The bacteria pe-
culiar to tlte alfalfa plant inhabits nodules
which form on the roots of plants through
its presence. The only method by which
this bacteria could easily become preva-
lent in ltay would be throttgh contact with
the soil at the time it was harvested.
Still, there is no doubt but: that, the appli-
cation of stable manure makes the soil a
more suitable home for bacteria, and in
this way would be not a little helpful.
while the occasional colonies of this bac-
teria which would be distributed from the
source of alfalfa hay would doubtless
soon spread until a complete inoculation
was secured. However, it would, in the
writer‘s opinion, be for preferable to in—
oculate tltis soil from a successful field,
or the seed with a pure culture of the
bacteria when the same is sown.

\NHV THEY GO TO THE CITY.

.\ grcttt deal has been said and written
as to the mad rush of vottng' men from
the farm to the city. A great. many things
are suggested as the cause of this exotl'ts‘.
Much of truth lots been said in regnrd to
this. 'in fact, litl'l'c is a grain of truth in
almost every article, bttt it seems to me
mat the. real fact has never been prozn-
lncittly and properly taught. To me this
desire to get to the town grows out of a
basic ptittt-ipIe, in physics, mechanics. lit-
dustr}. and all lilies of human activity, T
might wwtn suggest theology, and that
principle is the tendency to follow the
line of lea<t rcsistuncc. which, when so-
ciologicaly applied, is anothct' name for
laziness. The fact. is that farming calls
for a diversity of intellectual qualities, :t
ycrszttility of practical knowledge, that
means hard and strenuous Work of brain
and body, to bring results, and this hard
work is what, in my mind, sends the. boy
away from the farm home.

The fuimcr to be :~'ttccc:-sful must be
far ahtvad of the city chap in ability to
turn his hand to :t‘ hundred dilt‘trrcnt
things. He must be a manager of finance.
a student of llhttttul conditions, a boss of
men, a workman himself. lie lltlt‘ril be
able to do what. in dozens of ways, are in
the cil\ t'cgul‘dctl as separate and distinct
occupatlotw, with of which demands spe—
cial training He inttst be able to cat-c
ltr his slot-l6, faithfully as when the, race
Hits» lt;t-~'io1‘;tl and when cattle lllI'Jtlll cap-
tilti, :t: it once did. He must. itt order to
«to this, be a careful observer of tht- httb—
its and needs of these dumb and faithful
tricnd.. \\'ltut they should have to thrive
on and 3.5in best results, must bt- it part
of his education. He mttr-‘t be :t botanist
meaning, for this work
expert in
botanist.

toward

original
i'tttitlcl', :illtl illi‘

lll llf<
ill‘Sl means
lintliug pastures was the first

iic must be tender and pztlit-nt
them; his living chattels, which, by lllt'lf‘
Mouth and fatness, make so much for his
L-‘ltt't't‘SS. The study of Dilllll‘c, :‘Ilt'll as
littrroughs has followed, must be a plcus-
lll't‘ to him, and the various signs of
changcs of weather must spur him to :ttu-
ttvity n caring for his crops. The laws
of growth, the cltctnistry of the soils, the
creation of tlvoFc ittvol‘itb t: conditions tltétt

ntakc for (-xuht-rttnt plant life, must be
his ('iilc. 'l‘lie .itettttut't: that comes to
him in thcse, days is abundant, and should
be stttditd with intelligence, He should
not i'cci himself all—stillicicnt, bttt should
consult the experienccs of otht-rs. He
must be something of :t carpentcr. and
when the bath, the fence, or the imple-
:tl(‘l'l1s of his labor l‘ctillire repairs, he
must not delay, but should have anti use
the simpler tools to protect them. lie
may casily prepared paint,
mend the harnt-ss, and make many of the
labor saving tools for the farm.

The tree surgeon has become a fad
lately, but the farmer has practiced this
in a way for centuries. ills orchards re-
spond in dollars for his attention and
care. The various insect plagues that
bother the inert orchardist, must be

spread the,

THE MICHIGAN PARME’R. ‘

fought, and fought with intelligence. San-
itation for his family, his stock, his crops.
his trees, is an ever-present problem, and

with all these various duties, he must:

give a portion of his time and energies to
the duties of citizenship, to the economy
of organized society, to buying and sell-
ing, to the world conditions that affect
the farm and its produce.

()vcr against all this complexity of
activity and multiplicity of duties, take a
look at city life. There everything has,
by the development of industries, become
divided. Each man has sortie simple part
to act, that is, simple when compared to
the farmer's part in the economy of mod-
ern society. The young man goes to town
and gets a job in some of the great
plants. He is taught to run some ma-
chine which is almost automatic. He
feeds the thing. Perhaps it is simply a ma-
chine that cuts the thread on a bolt, and
his product goes on to another machine
for another process, and is only one of a
thousand such simple processes, but
which in the aggregate make up, when
assembled, the complete machine. He
turns on the power and the machine does
the work, he simply feeds and watches it.
'l‘urns off the power, and this, day after
day, week after week, until the very
monotony becomes fearfully oppressive.
His life becomes a routine unvarying,
and for this he receives wages measured
by his necessities, for the organization of
that great industry comprises that as a
putt of its accurate cost system. By
care and faithfulness he may get another
machine that requires greater care, and
advanced wages. lie is, so long as he
holds his job, secure itt a competence, but
this at the price of all initiative. lie is
not his own boss. lit» may enjoy the life
of the city, bttt that which is open to
him is narrow. and tinsclled, shining with
t-hcttpncss, and far removed from the
pt-tmancncy and comforts of a home
where a reasonable profit is assured by
reasonable energy, and greater rewards
are you; it) follow tllt‘. exercise of greater
industry guided by intelligence. The pros-
pects of the farm are today growing
broader and those of the city narrower.
Urganized industry is demanding more
men who can work without thinking, and
the farm is demanding cy'cry year more
who can think and Work out their
thoughts. ltlvcry year the advance of
population makes the city less attractive,

and tile country more attractive to the"

young man, and there is no field in which
tltc t'tttttrt- promises so much of reward
for active and intelligent effort, as on the
farm. .

The rush front the farm to the city is
to be dcplotcd, and when the young men
know the reality of the facts, they may
find that the more astute foreigners, the
people of l‘leI‘tlpt: who have there learned
the real value of land ownership, as a
foundation for permanent fortunes, haVc
them, and that they have
gravitated to the lower level of mth
workmen, whose Wugcs are determined
by industrial conditions over which they
have little control,

Let tts not mince matters by euphemis~
tic terms: It is today t’he. love of case.
the bt-ck of luxury, that is urging our
young tttcn along the line of least resist-
ance, another name for laziness, but the
promise of the siren will never be ful—
hlled by reward, except to the rare, and
rarer growing individual who, by reason

supplanted

of some questionable means of promotion,
nutr-ugcs to grasp the fortune that some-
cne. else has earned.

in saying these things I confess that I
am somewhat autoblographic, for when i
left the farm many ycars ago, i thought
that it was to sct-k the, broader field for
the exercise of the abilities that i thought
l possessed, bttt i now know that it was
mostly laziness, a. shrinking from the
hard work of that farm which, under my
f:ttlu-t"rr care. had been a good old home,
end an ample provider for all my reason-
able wants.

Gcncsce ()0. \VM. VERNON.

Many farmers start the garden propi—
tiously in the spring’ bttt fail to give it the
:tlll-lllitii] demanded when the rush sea—
son comes upon the farm, but it will pay
for a few hours or days of hired labor if
such is necessary.

 

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Hardy Canadian grown oats famous for
immense yields can be obtained from
Northrup. King & Co., 6H3 Bridge Sq.,
Minneapolis, or from any of their 12,000
dealers. Prices are very reasonable and
none of our readers should plant ordinauy
oats when such good sced is obtainable.

MARCH 9, 1912.

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or gravel on it to water-proof and

b You wouldn’t worry about it rotting,
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And you wouldn’t be
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Takes: the )lace of hired men. YOur boy can run it. 25-30 H. I’., weight
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where horses can go.
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8:. acts, Minn, writes: t winter 1 investigated 0rd J’i.‘
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This Illustration shows the Melroae as
a, groin tight. box bed. The do Mr is 29
inches; width either 38 or 42 inc run, out,-
Hldfl measurements; length, 9‘4}. 12. 14 or
16 feet. as you may prefer.

 

Inntond of using oxtru nidnhnnrdn no you
do with on ordinary box, into t.ln-,_Molrouo
in UllH Donitinn. t, will haul (in bushels
of our com; 115 buuhels oi' shelled corn.

    
    
 
   
   
   
 
     
     

 

The Melrooe can be chunm-d from a
groin tight. box to thin form, or any
other. in one minute. and on buy old
enough to drive u. team can ( o It. uny-
Wlll‘l‘t‘. any time, without tools or unmet.-
unce of any kind.

    
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
   
 
 
  
  
  
   
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

  

 
     
   
    
  
  
    
  
  
 

The Mulrono is built. of selected, ion
Iozii’, lutrd pine. double kiln driml. Hit-n

alllu; Him-l bracket nnd telescope hrm'i-n
thrniluliollt. It positively cannot. bulge,
warp or spring.

Not: n. null in it. lioltH nro nut-d lnutmtd.
All nit-till lurold rolled aim-l — the H rung-
(lsit. metal known. Absolutely unbreak-
uble. Not. one ounce of cunt; iron urn-d.
Brown (in ninh-u a mi ends full galvanized
to prevent rusting.

There are no rutcht-ts, springs. (‘ngu or
enmplit'attionu ol' nny kind or t‘linrnrlml‘.
You now] no wrench“ key or truilh—(Hlly
your hands. It. is simplicity itself. and
can be operated by anyone, unyuhnre,
any time.

 

. The American Wagon Co., ”:3" 112 West Adams St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

, bank, or anywhere. or without signing :iny agreeinmit of any kind.

guaranteed—it has been tried, tested and proved.

 

THE MICHIGAN FAR'MBR.

Free

Fifteen Wagon Boxes,
Racks and Beds in One.
No lifting, lugging,
Straining or Suffer-
ing Injury. A Great,
New Modern Invention.

One Wagon Bed for
Everything. No
Changing of Boxes
or Racks. Once on
the Gears, Always
on the Gears.

1113 Melrose Convertibl_
Box

 

  

  

   
 

   
 

 

Wagon

I am making you an offer on this page that as a
progressive, thinking, modern business farmer you cannot afford
to overlook. I am willing to prove, at our own expense, that the
Melrose Convertible Wagon Box will save you more money, in
the way of time, labor and inconvenience, this summer alone
than your whole outfit of old—fashioned. clumsy, back-breaking
boxes and racks would cost if made new this minute and the
Melrose is good for the same saving to you during the next
fifteen years. You can't wear it out.

 

I am not asking you to take my word for it; nor the com—
pany’s word—but take your own word for it. You ought to

be willing to do that. We agree to ship the bed to you by pre-
paid freight, so you will have nothing to pay when you get it. We agree
to let you use it for 30 days (one whole month) in order to give it a thorough
test and trial right on the gears of your own wagon in your everyday work.
Then, if you are not perfectly satisfied,‘just take the bed to your station and
tell the agent to ship it right back to us, freight to be paid by our company.
You are not asked to pay one penny down—you are not asked to pay one
penny of freight charges or any other expense. This is an offer of a FREE
TRIAL, and it means just exactly what those two words say.

' 3 ° Attached to
A F arr, quare Free Trial Offer m3 of,“ m
are no strings, no tricks, no catch, no conditions, no contract, no agreement,
no deposit, no concealment, no bait, no risk, no expense, no joker, no red tape,
no obligations, nothing left out for you to find out later—you know all there
is to this offer, and you know it NOW. It is a FREE TRIAL offer on our
part to prove the actual value of this invention to you—and we hereby openly
take all the risk. We want to send this bed to your farm and let it sell it-
self to you, which it is bound to do just the moment you realize what a won-
derful, new, practical time-saver, money-saver, labor-saver it really is.

Study these illustrations surrounding these words. Think
what it will mean to your farm to have this modern, convertible box that will
take the place of all your heavy, time—expensive, Old—lime boxes, boards and
racks—and that_auy 12-year old boy can make any change alone, out in the
field, at town, or anywhere, any time.

The Melrose Convertible Box IS guaranteed for five years——
an absolute, ODCH and above board gunrnntee-iust the some as; this Frre ’l‘rinl Oiier.
It will last three, four or five times that long—and its; first coat is but very little more
than the cost ofa good, standard mnkc, single-purpose box, th: t must be lifted on or
off every time you want to haul boy, or stock, or chickens, or -rtilizer, etc, etc. One
minute and the Melroae can be changed for any of a hundred different purposes required
of a farm wagon—the implement you use more than any other piece 0 machinery you
own. Why not make it modern—and save money, time, inconvenience, labor, and
your own peace of mind.

. . . .

"15" One Cent Send Just a postal card, givmg your
name and address todny, and receive by rt-iurn mnii
our big book ofcomplete information, iull tictnll illiiuirutlona drnwn from nctuul, daily
use on farms, together with copy of iron-clnd signed gnnruntee, mid our great, fair,
mun-to-man FREE TRIAL OFFER that will pluce this modern invention on your form
for one full months' test, without pnyintf anything down or depositing any money in the
This in it FREE
TEST offer and we take all the risk, excepting the price oi'the postul card you ore to
send before you turn this page. Send thut curd toduy. INVESTIGATI‘L. We will give
one Melrose Box a free ride on the truin to your Hinli'ill, ”you will give it n free ride
around your furrn und plenty of I’thrt‘l‘ut for n month—we furnish return ticket ifyou
get tired ofyour visitor. Send that card today.

PONY MELROSE

Inventor of tho Melroso Convertible Wagon Box

 

REMEMBER The MELROSE costs but little more than a standard make of old-fashioned, single-purpose wagon box.
some, single-purpose hay rack, regardless of the fact that it is steel bound, eilled, braced and bolted throughout—absolutely indestructible.
It IS recommended by farmers and endorsed by Government Agricultural Experimental Stations.

The width of the
bed in this meal-
tion in 6 ft... 21“..
and the drop end.
unto addntwu feet;
to the in n uth .
'I‘ he bottom in
Hand tight, thuu
Hui ing enough in
one iseamn to pay
you a big prolii;
on your invest-
ment.

Home the nlrt-nmh
lHulmnluLa-h pron-d
_. 1800 [no u n (in of
hu, i ml h n y . Yul.
with all thin
utrouqtdi the Mol-
rm-m weigh“ oven.
loom than an old~
I'unhiouod liuyrztok.
The entire bod its
prim-Lieu“)! inde-
structiblu uud will
out. n lifetime.

 

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Freight

Iinvo one box for nll iurposoH—nnt. u. lot.
of llt'llvy, lmek-hl'mt ting, Hllil.('li talking
mnlu-sliii’tu tin-i; cor-1i; you more for tho
nun-mm ol‘ sheltering und handling mwh
your ilinn their nutritil money vnluo, You
can prove the .Mcll'osc at. our expense.

  

()ur willinancnn to send the hIelroi-in to
yull!‘ i‘urin, freight prepaid, for it. tout. oi‘
one VilllilH month at. our rink (if you
bn-nk it, it, in ni. our rink und you uro not
lit-Id l'l'H|mll~lliii~) provnn our fulfill uud
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liuili; for uny nnd t-vnry purpouo on tho
fitl'lil. II. in guurnnln-ml for iivti yi-nrn :I.
In!I‘uighti'nrwnnl, nlmvu-lmnrd, lionuni}
guzrr'ui.t,t-o thut. im-nimjuui. whul. you want.
u gustrunlm‘ in iuruu. 'I'ulm ll. on your
farm and prove it. before you buy.

'l‘u'o full HlZH vows or lmllu (tun lm liunlml,
Liking only “no minute to lllillili Hit)
1'llill|;.{|l in Him Him-k lu-il_ A Int-Hi luiy
(‘ilil no i.<) toxin \\1l.li it loud nl' utruw,
‘t‘iil':l\'.tuul or pigs. and rui urn \i. iLli unfoun-
ulgn. fertilizer or unwduuii.

'i‘hiu mnkeu a big, roomy nnrinr lu-d i'or
\i‘uunn or Hli‘ll. 'l lw Mt-Irnm- i-urprim-Ai
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ul' urn-H without. lnlun‘, wnnlu [hr Mum. (ir
inl'HlIvt‘nlo-nvu. it. mu inmh-i'n invention.
for the modern farm.

 

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gurnoth ihw ,‘II‘II'UHH in llldliv-[M'nr‘iillllh
'nu «an nnrlm tho «hum/AN anywhere,
any how, in mm minute. 'l‘hlnk ol' the
tinw. labor and immnvenioneo ii; Haven
every day on the form.

It weighs less than an ordinary, cumber-
It is
Address postal to

Gontlnmonpv—I would not own a wagon line box. and (ran haul anything on ll. mo and i will show lhmn that it is all and fwd it is going to till u, long fol! want.
without a Melroso (Yonvertibh: Hm]. ii is it only taken a few minutes to (change it, rights» it. 1'}. itlwll'Ht'l, (Hidden, iowa. ii'tnri’ui wruilu-r muulitimm horn. Not oul
everYthlm-‘I you (laim it to lit-."(li'over (i. from one kind of box to another, and I Grantham-in I‘M-I to advise rot-pint of much with it. All whom I have met slop
Hinton Mt, Scott, Oklahoma would not sell it for twice its prim. if ] (Yonvertiblr: \Vagon lied. ii‘rom upneur— inn. {wrong they hardly kin-w inn, Maia-n

(lentlbmon:--‘R<é(:eiVH'l my lfglrospVVag— (-ould not get another like it. If anyone ant-us rhould judge ll all you claim for it, nu: fc-vl like :i gnnlh-niun. Thanking you
on Bed some time ago, set it up and haw: around here writes about the Melrose All who have seen it HIM-11k in good terms. for generous treatment, I remain, J. 5‘?”

been using it ever since. It sure is a

Box and is afraid to buy, send them to

Think it just tin- thing.

'i‘hink so myself

Mt'i‘olmell, lligonlvr, Ind.


280‘!”

THE DAIRY

WM
CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.

 

MICHIGAN DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIA-
TION.

The annual meeting of the Michigan
Dairymen’s Association was held in Kal-
amazoo, February 20—23, inclusive. Tak—
ing everything into consideration it was
one of the most successful meetings ever
held by the association. Considering the
weather, the attendance was good. There
were representative creamerymen and
dairymen from all over the state. The
local attendance, however, of the dairy—
men around Kalamazoo was light, owing
to the Severe blizzard which prevailed,
beginning on the 21st. The country roads
were simply impassable. Even the street
cars in the city of Kalamazoo were put
out of business, and on tht‘ railroads not
a wheel turned for the whole day of the
twei'ity-first.

Because of the fact that the trains were
so much delayed the program of the meet—
ing was much interfered with. In fact,
some of the- speakers could not get there
at all. Others were very late, and the
program had to be transposed and rc-ar-
ranged several times.

The meeting of the Creamery owners
and Managers Association which met on
Tuesday did not suffer as badly from the
regular ,l);1irymcn's
t'oliowing three days, and
more in

storm as the Asso-
(‘lfllltlll for tlzc
their program was carried out
detail.

Owing: to severe illness in his family.
l'i‘t‘Sllt'lll llarston attend at
all, but the association was very fortit-
an able presiding ollicer in
of Marv
work-

coultl not

hate in having;
Vice-I'i'csitlcn‘:
quettc. Set-litany l’chrs was ch'
ed. The lit-tissdry Work of the sccretal'y
of the Michigan ltairymcu‘s Association
is becoming \'<'l_\' strenuous, and it is al—
most impossible ior one man to do it. The
work in arranging for the details of the
prograu. and providing for the place of
nicotine. and makingr arrangements and
taking tare oi the butter and cheese ex~
hibit, and making arrangements for the
display of machinery, makes such a mul-
titude of work that one cannot possibly
attend to it as all would like. to have it.
In much of this work. however, Mr. I’ow-
crs was ably assisted by Mr. liechtel, of
Caro, Mr, Fci‘i‘y, of Lapeer, and also by
other members of the cxeeutiVe commit-
tEc. So that cyti‘ything was taken care
of in good shape.

The machinery
best ever heid. ’l‘he
this exhibit was held was filled to over—
flowing. In fuel. it was too full for the
conVenience o:' and every form
of dairy titer. . almost, was on exhibi‘
tion. This c.\.,‘11ition hall proved a Very
l't‘lltlt;€‘.‘HtiS, and everybody was

\'andcnbm.un.

exhibit was one of the
large ball in which

visitors,

 

 

popular
delighted to meet old acquaintances.

At tit-tiltlli til~ tilllt'CI‘H. l“. L. Eldridge.
of llrcckenridge. was elected president,
and W. T. ,llechtcl, of Caro, secretary for
the cnsuing year.

It was impossible to get the program in
detail as much of it was not rcndt red and
start-ety any hi it occurred in regular or«
der. The leading papers wil; be pre—
sented in The l-‘armer in fill. in future
issucs of the paper.

THE BEST WALL FOR EXCAVATION
FOR SILO.

thinking of building a silo. 12 ft.

aboye ground.

I am
inside and perhaps 30 ft.
My barn has a basement and I can go 10
it, in the ground with the silo. \\'hich
would be the best, also he cheapest. for
the part in the ground. solid concrete.
blocks. or stone? I have the stone on tho
farm, the graye‘. 1 would baVc to draw
21,1. miles. \\‘ould the wall need rein<
forcing"? If not, how would you reinforce,
tlle part in hunt where the feed room
would be? lit-w reinforce around the

door? And how make a perfectly tight
door‘.’
Livingston No. .l. 'l‘. it.
Since you have stone at hand it may

make a cheaper wall than the other ma-
terials. I don't know if it would last any
better. but, it perhaps would be cheaper.
All the, way around on this silo a stone
wall could simply be stacked by earth on
the outside and only the inside would
have to be faced. \thre the wall comes
around by the barn, of course there it
would be better to face it on both sides.
If you build a heavy solid stone wall I
don‘t think there will be any necessity of
re-inforcing it. In fact, the early silos
were built out of stone wall for a con-
siderable height above the ground and
no one thought of. re-inforcing them. The

 

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weight of the wall itself has a consider,-
abie resisting force to pressure on the in-
side. The stone wail has to be built
about 16 inches to two feet in thickness.
I have never heard of a solid stone wall
silo giving out from the pressure on the
inside. Of course, if one thought there
was any danger it could be re-inforced
with wire laid in the stone just as well as
in cement blocks of grout, and there
would be no objection, and could be none,
to using some wire in the connection.

I think lthe'best way would be to lay
the wall up about three feet from the level
of the stable floor and then put in a reg-
ular door frame three feet square. Make
the frame so that it will be larger across
the inside than across the outside; that
is, have the frame taper on every side.
Then make a door out of matched floor-
ing, double, with tar paper between, and
taper the edges just so they will fit and
come even with the inside of the door
frame. This door will only go in from
the inside of the silo and cannot go
through the opening because the opening
is smaller on the outside than it is on the
inside of the silo. Then all you will have
to do is to nail narrow cleats around as
stops for the door. Built. this way, you
will ham: :1 perfect door for a silo. Above
this door frame. if you wish. you can put
a steel bar across and lay your stone wall
on top of this again to a height of three
feet and then put in another doorway in
the same way. If you finish the silo on
top of the ground with cement blocks or
grout [ should continue the doorway in
the same way, i. 0., put doors with a
three—foot space between them.

OHIO GROWN SEED CORN FOR THE
SILO.

'\\'ill Iteid’.< Yellow Ticnt or Lcaming
corn grown in lllitrds or Uhio, mature for
the silo as far north as this and be ready
for siloing before the first of October.

Hanilac Co. S. \\’. McR.

I have, several times grown cnsilage corn
from Hhio grown secd. Last year I rais-
td some from seed grown in the southern
part ot‘ Ubio and it matured sufficiently
to make, splendid ensilage. and I think
any seed eom obtained either from Ohio
or Illinois will do the same if it is plant'-
cd fairly early in this state. The trouble
comes in when we go down as far south
as Virginia or Georgia and get the corn.
It takes a much longer season for it to
mature, but Where you only go 150 or 200
miles south that corn can almost invari-
ably be depended upon to properly in...-
‘turc for silage It doesn’t want to get
dead ripe to make good ensilage. I don’t
think that“ there is very much danger in
gettingr the seed from either of these
states.

COMPENSATION FOR TUBECULAR

CATTLE.

 

In the dairy columns of the Michigan
Farmer of February 17, I noticed an in-
ouiry in regard to tuberculous cattle and
the answer. I would state that at the
third term for me in the legislature, the
session of 190.0, the live stock sanitary
law was amended; also, three new sea-
lions were added. These were intended
to dcal with the question of partial com-
pensation. also better restriction and con-
trol of this disease. These sections can
be found in public acts of 1909, page 337.
Section 24 deals with the cmnpeusation.
(11‘ course, this section or the law does
testing, but with a maximum
pay of $23 for each animal condemned,
it has thought that a more general test-
dcsircd. “'0 had to be
“open the doors too
wide. tor even full compensation with—
out compelling. as you say. would swamp
the. state. I do not know anything about
how many are. taking advantage of this
law, or how it is working out. l\Ir. H. H.
Hinds, president of the commission, can
tell you all about it.

Barry (‘o.

not compo;

ing would be
careful and not

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\V. H. SCHANTZ.

 

I am much pleased to get this lct’t
from 'le—Represcntaiive Schantz. I had

entirely forgotten the law, though now,
when my attention is called to the matter
I remember about it at the time it passed
the leg islattue. “'hilc $2?» is not much
for some animals, yet it is bettetmthan
nothing and, taking everything into con-
sideration. perhaps it is as much as the
state should do.

 

It is the experience of good dairymen
that the greatest economy in feeding the
dairy cow results when a liberal ration
is supplied the animal, since a certain
amount of feed is always required for the
maintenance of the animal.

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MARCH 9. 1912.-

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MARCH 9. 1912.

BEET TOP. ENSILAGE.

 

ect to raise sugar bee-ts on some
ofvzgrefiinnesota farms and possibly on
some out here next year, and if the tops
make good ensilage we would like to put
them in our silo. .IAny information you
can give us along this line will certainly
be appreciated, and if you do not think
it advisable to put the tops in the silo,
what is your advice in the way of feeding
them? There is so short a time between
the harvesting of the beets here that we
do not get time to feed the tops before
freezing.

Minnesota. F. H. B.

I have always fed our beet tops to the
dairy cows. The first crop of beets I ever
raised. about seven or eight years ago, we
began feeding beet tops to the cows, haul-
ing them from the field just as fast as we
delivered the beets to the cars. The cows
love the tops. XVhen we uncovered the
piles of beets in the field we were careful
in taking the tops off to leave them in
two or three small piles so they would
not dry off so much, or freeze too hard
when cold weather came, also, in case
snow came before we got them fed out
we could easily find the piles. It was far
along in the winter before we finished
feeding the beet. tops. Snow had come
and plenty of rain, the ground was soft
and it was a difl‘icult matter to get the
tops at times, but we finally fed them all.
The next year, in order to obviate this
difficulty of bad weather, and wet, soft
fields, I conceived the idea of putting the
tops into the silo. My regular silo was
filled with corn in Sepember and by the
middle of November, when we had our
beet tops ready, quite a considerable
amount of ensilage had been fed out. I
got the man who filled the silo to run the
beet tops through his ensilage cutter and
put them in on top of the corn silage.
This was the old-fashioned elevavor carrier
used at that time but we run them through
and got them into the silo. They settled
down and made good ensilage and we fed
them without any loss, and the cows
liked them. But we began raising a
larger acreage of beets and there was not
always room in the regular silo to put
these bect tops in, and consequently I
conceived the idea of building a separate
silo for them. This was built by the
side of. the bridge approaching the barn
so that We could drive up on the bridge
and unload the beet tops from the wagon
with a fork and save hauling them and
running through the ensilage cutter. I
built the silo 18 feet high and we filled
it full to the top and then allowed it to
settle, and then refilled it. At this time
it was cold weather. The beet tops had
more or less snow adhering to them and
I was a little afraid that they would not
heat, settle down and make good silage,
but they did after awhile. In putting the
“ms in whole without cutting them there
was considerable loss on top becauSc the
air could extend down in for quite a lit-
tle distance, but after this was removed
we had a fine quality of beet top cnsilage
and the cows liked it very much.

The next year, to do away with the loss
on top of the silo, I conceived the idea
of getting a carload of wet bcct pulp from
the factory and after we had filled the
silo to run this in on top. In the mean—
time I had increased the capacity of the
silo by extending it higher, making it 36
fcct high, and then I had to rig up a car-
rier and operate this carrier with a gas-
oline engine to elevate the beet tops. The
carrier worked fairly well. '\\'e run the
wet bcct pulp up in the same way. This
worked splendidly. The boot pulp being
heavy packcddn close and cxcludcd the
air and there was no loSs whatever,

In the meantime I had read about the
German farmers mixing straw with tho
beet tops to absorb some of the surplus
moisture. The, first. year that I put the
boot tops in the silo by themselves I (lid
not use straw, and there was so much
moisture in the bcet tops that it seeped
through the silo and run all over the yard.
There was a colored stream more than
ten rods from the silo. To obviate» this I
thought it would be a good thing to fol—
low the German practice of mixing straw
with the bect tops, so we put in a layer
of oat straw and then a layer of beet
tops, and then alight layer of oats straw,
and so on clear to the top. This worked
well. The straw absorbing the tlaVOr or
juice of the bcet tops and being in a,
moist condition when taken from the silo
the cows ate all of it clean. There was
one layer where the men got the straw
too thick, that slightly moulded, getting
so much dry straw in the center of the
silo, and this the cows did not like very
well. But where it was placed in evenly
and not too thick they consumed every
particle of the oat straw;

This last year I cut up the cornstalks
on the field that we husked for feeding

THE» MEICHIGAN'P'FARMER; m, 281

purposes and mixed them in with the
beet tops instead of oat straw. We had
such bad weather last fall that the corn-
stalks were saturated with moisture and

I knew if we husked then and shredded.

them in the regular way and put the
stalks into the hay mow that we would
lose much of it by moulding. The man
who filled my silos said he believed he
could cut the stalks and the beet tops
together and blow them into the silo, and
so we kept the machine until after we
had harvested the beets. It was a late
fall and the weather was bad and we did
not begin to fill the, silo until after we
had hauled all of the beets, which was
along about Christmas, and in the mean-
time the weather had bcc ome very cold.
The beet tops were frozen hard. Being

frozen they did not feed in the ensilage -

cutter Very well, but the men were per—
sistent and by having a load of cornstalks
and a load of beet tops at the cutter at
the same time they mixed them when
they were feeding them in, and while it
took a little longer, (more from the fact
that the beet tops were frozen than any
other reason), they finally succeeded in
filling the beet-top silo full, allowing it to
settle, re—filled it, and then they moved
back to one of the regular corn silos and
put the balance in there. It filled a space
of abOut 12 feet in height in the 161/2 ft.
silo. We are feeding this ensilage now.
\Vhile the beet tops were frozen when
they were put in, yet they have thawed
out, heated up, and settled down, and made
good silage. The cows eat not only the
bcet tops but practically all of the cornv
stalks. I do not believe that these dry
coornstalks filled in this way make as
good a, feed as the corn plant when it is
cut at the right stage of maturity to make
good corn silage, but I am of the opinion
that I am getting a greater feeding value
out of these cornstalks in this than in any
other known way. It is certainly working
all right this cold weather. \Vhile the
corn silage is frozen to a considerable ex-
tent in the silo the beet top ensilage is
warm and it has scarcely got through
heating yet. It hasn‘t frozen a particle,
So that for one feed a day our cows have
had warm silage during this cold weather.
'\\'e iced bcet top silage only once
a day because where it is fed in excess it
acts as a diarrhetic and also a purgative.
One good feed a day and then a feed once
a day of regular corn silage works very
nicely.

Of course, I have made no careful ex-
periment which would enable me to de—
termine the real value of an acre of sugar
bcet tops for silage, but I have got it
into my head that they are worth at least
$10 per acre in the field, and I believe
much more, and I am convinced that they
are well worth the saving.

THE CREAM FOAMS.

My cow gives rich milk but I can't get
any butter out of it. It will fill the churn
with foam. 1 am feeding hay and corn
fodder and grain. The cow will be fresh
in May.

Barry Co. S. .\. P.

I think the difficulty can be entirely
overcome by ripening the cream before it
is cliuined and warming it so that it is
not above 60 degrees. lt evidcntly comes
from sweet and cold cream. It is a good
plan where one makes buttcr from one
cow in this way, to sterilize tho milk
before it is set in pans. Simply put it on
the stove and heat it until it gets quite
hot. Don’t cook it, but thoroughly heat
it. Then put it into pans and allow the
cream to rise. l-iut then the cream should
be ripcncd or soured bcfore churning, and
it should be, warmed to the propcr tcm-
llcraturc. '\\'lien these directions are fol-
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dili‘iculty in getting the butter to gather.

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from one point in the circumference of
the silo to another So that five would
reach around the silo; and then put in
another frame of the same matcrial cut
the. same length and placed in the same
manner, except that the joints of one
frame come just half way between the
joints of the other. \Vill put tht-sc
frames every 16 inches apart one above
the other, and then nail No. 1 yellow pine
flooring up and down.

Gratiot Co. J. S.

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two pentagons in shape, one pentagon
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of the round silo this used to be a pop-
ular shape for a silo because the corners
are not pronounced. But“ this will make
a large expense and you still have your
stave silo setting up on the outside, and
that is all that is necessary for a. silo.
Now my idea would be this. Why not
tear this stave silo down, build a new
foundation wall on the inside of the old,
just the size you want your silo, take
your hoops and cut them in two and
splice them the proper length, leave out
what slaves you want and set up your
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BALANCING A RATION WITHOUT
SILAGE.

«.1

I have been a reader of the Michigan
Farmer for three years and I have not
noticed mention of a balanced ration for
dairy cows where there was no ensilage
or beet pulp. l have milked cows and
tended cheese factory more or less for
nine years. “hat I want to ask is, what
is the best grain ration where one has
no silo? i am feeding corn in ear, oil
meal, cornstalks, wheat bran, mixed hay
and some oat straw. Can a man. at
present prices of milk, with good cows
selling at $60. and feed so high, get out
with a profit for his labor?

llillsdale Co. F. A. F.

You can make a balanced ration with.
out silage just as well as you can with
silage. Corn silage has nothing to do
with the principle of balancing a ration
In a balanced ration there is a direct
proportion of protein to the carbohydrates
of the. ration to meet the demands of the
cow, and the principal thing in determin-
ing a balanced ration is to have sutiicient
protein so that the cow can supply the
waste in her system. keep her system
properly built up, and produce a maxi—
mum llo\\‘ of milk, which requires protein
tor a izreat deal of the milk. Now. we
(an substitute almost any food for corn
silage. The principal reason why corn
silage is a valuable food in the ration is
on account of its succulency and also its
palatability. ("ows do better if the bulky
food in the ration is a. succulent food, be-
cause the succulency has a good effect
on digestion. It keeps the cow in good
condition. In the foods which you have.
compoundcd so as to make a balanced
ration you have two foods rich in protein,
the oil meal and the wheat bran, and
these, fed together with corn as the con-
centrated part of the ration, and your
cornstalks and oat straw and mixed hay,
make a Very good ration, but as i say,
you lack some succulent food in the ra—
tion. like beets or turnips. which will
tend to give you better results, not from
the fact that they contain a large amount
of digestible nutrients. but because they
Would assist in the digestion of the other
foods and keep the cow in better condi-
tion.

I would suggest, however, that instead
of feeding ear corn that you grind this
into meal and mix it with the. oil meal
and the bran, by mixing them equal parts
by weight; that is, 100 lbs, of corn mezll,
100 lbs. of oil meal. and 100 lbs. of wheat
bran. Feed once a day of your mixed
hay. once a day of corn stovcr, and once
a day of oat straw. Feed as much as the
cows will eat up clean. then feed the
grain in tin: feeds, morning and night.
and feed as many pounds per day as the
cow produces pounds of butter—fat in a
week. I don‘t believe you can get any
better rule than this for feeding. if you
are not selling the milk by the butter—fat
content then I would feed a pound of the
grain ration for each four pounds of milk
produced in a day if she produced three
per cent milk. and a pound of grain for
every three pounds of milk she produced
in a day it‘ she produced abow four per
cent butter-fat.

I do not see why one cannot make a
fair profit in the production of butter or
cheese or any dairy product at the pres—
ent time, even if the. feed is high. because
dairy products are at better prices than
they usually are. Of course, if dairy
prices were no better than they were a
number of years ago when feed was much
cheaper it would be a. different proposi-
tion. “'ith butter and cheese at the
present price you can dispose of it at an
increased price and one need not be afraid
of making money with good cows. Of
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cows, and if you have poor COWS in the
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MINERAL MATTER IN ANlMAL
NUTRITION.

 

As 'the country reaches an agricultural
maturity many of our very proper sys-
tems of rotation and stock feeding may
sometimes be found weak in the restora-
tion of the mineral elements to the soil.
This fact, together with the more general
use of various feeds of commerce from
which the manufacturers have removed
more or less of the mineral elements, re’-
quircs that we devote special study and
attention to this phase of feeding if sat-
isfactory results follow our efforts.

Men have written and talked for years
of the advantages that the limestone‘sec—
tions hold for growing high-class stoek
over some of the other parts of the coun-
in

try. Lime is an important element
animal nutrition. In England lime is

used freely on meadow and pasture land.
The same is true of France and Germany.
In a recent duck feeding experiment it
was found that the development of these
rapid growing birds was largely depend-
ent on their food containing a sufficient
supply of bone-building material. Cattle,
especially young animals and cows in
calf, may be seen chewing bones and
lumps of dirt or old plaster where lime or
phosphorus is deficient in their food. Iron
and sulphur may also be lacking. Horses
that receiVe pure spring water have been
known to fall off greatly in condition when
they had previously been supplied With
water that came through miles of iron
pipe.

The functions of these mineral elements
in animal nutrition have been scientifi-
cally considered in but few cases in this
country, and the general assumption has
been that they were in sufficient quantity.
This, however, has been too broad an
assumption, as practical results and mod—
crn investigations show that various ef-
fects of different foodstuffs are due in
part to these influences. Lime, phosphor:
us and iron are used in the formation or
the structures of the body The red blood
corpuscles, containing iron, carry oxygen
from the lungs to the tissues, where it is
liberated for energy to support life. Stil-
phur and phosphorus are present in the
proteid compounds and as the life processes
disintegrate protein these elements form
acids in the blood which must be neu—
tralized. Sodium and potassium perform
this function and so important is it, that
if the food is completely free from these
salts for a few days the animal will die.

Mineral salts assist in the movement of
the liquids through the body and tissues,
for example, from the alimentary canal
into the blood and also the reverse of this
action, and from the blood into the tis-
sues, and from the tissues into the blood
through the kidneys. In this way the
salts of foodstuffs act as laxatives and
stimulate the action of the secreting
glands; they also preserve the cells in
their normal condition by regulating their
distention by liquids. It has been re—
ce tly shown that it is the mineral con-
stituents of wheat bran which make it a
laxative feed, because if it is freed from
these salts it is quite constipating. This
seems to explain, at least in part, the
well known laxative effect of a bran mash
and discredits the idea that this action is
due only to the mechanical condition of
the food. Lime in the blOOtl is essential
to its coagulation. It is a safety precau-
tion Without which small Wounds would
l'tSlllt in death by bleeding. Mineral salts
l-;cep in solution various nitrogenous ele-
ments which are not soluble in water.

Considering the distribution and func-
tion of these minerals in animal bodies
we find that sodium salts predominate in
the blood, serum and lymph; potassium
salts in the blood corpuscleS, muscles,
brain and liver; lime salts in the bones;
iron compounds chiefly in blood corpus-
clcs, lungs and liver; magnesium in the
lungs. muscles and nervous tissues. Phos—
phorus is found in greater quantities in
the bones; sulphur is present in nearly
all proteids, but especially in the hair and
horn.

Females that are carrying young, and
young growing animals havea great crav—
ing for these mineral constituents because
nature stores up these elements in the
body of the unborn animal in anticipation
of the poverty of the milk in these es-
senial elements. During all of the suck-
li g period the little animal is drawing

on this reserve, and lowering the per
0 t of mineral nutriments in its body, so.
ifglan janirnatis kept too long on milk
alone it will become anemic.

LIVE STOCK

THE MICHIGAN“ FARMER.

ExperienCe and exact experiments show
that to properly develop the bone, the
young animal must make a rapid growth
and have plenty of feeds rich in protein
and mineral matter. Two—thirds of the
weight of the dry material of bone is
mineral matter and one-third albuminous
matter. The more solid the bone, the
richer it is in mineral matter. This shows
why protein and mineral matter must be
furnished abundantly if great bone de~
velopmcnt is produced.

The experiments made in pig feeding
are perhaps of the greatest interest be-
cause pigs make a more rapid growth
than other animals and because corn,
their principal feed on many farms, is
deficient in the mineral constituents. In
trials made at the experiment stations in
\Visconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Ala-
bama, an abundance of protein and min—
eral mattcr in the feed not only increased
the development of all the vital organs
and of the muscles, making a greater pro—
portion of lean meat in the carcass, but
it increased the, strength of the bones. In
feeding pigs corn alone, corn and wood
ashes and corn and bone meal, Professor
Henry, of \Visconsin, reported that the
pigs fed corn and bone meal developed
bone twice as strong as those fed coin
alone, and the bones of those fed corn
meal and wood ashes were 93 per cent
stronger than those fed corn alone. This
shows that in feeding corn to growing
pigs we cannot afford to overlook the im—
portance of having an abundance of pro—
tein and mineral matter in their rations.

In feeding dairy cows a ration made up
largely of corn ensilage and gluten-meal
we have had more or less trouble with
abortion and weak calves that showed no
disposition to live and thrive, but after
listening to Prof. ll. M. (‘ottrell address
the Kansas Improved Stock Brecdeis’
meeting at Topeka, Kansas, in 1903, we
practically eliminated this trouble from
our herd by following his advice and
feeding finely ground bone meal to our
cows once a day. Prof. Cottrell claimed
that the abortion and weak calves might
be caused by a. lack of minerals in the
feed and l was so much impressed with
his arguments that I began feeding bone
meal and have had very little trouble from
abortion and unthrifty calves since fol-
lowing this practice. lt‘eeds like the best
gluten-meal that have had the proportion
of their constituents changed during var—
ious processes of manufacture must be
supplemented by other feeds to restore
these elements removed by the manufac-
turer if they produce good results and
furnish sufficient mineral matter for mak—
ing milk and chcloping the unborn calf.

Lime and phosphorus are the th min—
eral elements most used in the produc—
tion of bone. Potash is of especial value

in the. making of new tissues, both bone
and flesh. To Ill‘OGUCG the full develop-
ment of bone the work must be com~

menced before the animal. is born. by the
use of these elements liberally in her ra—
tions during the time she is pregnant.
As the development of bone to the full
extent carries with it an increase in the
size and vigor of all the vital organs and
a large increase in the proportion of lean
in the carcass it can easily be seen that
we cannot afford to neglect to supply our
animals with plenty of bone-making ma-
tcrial.

This brings us down to the problem of
supplying these mineral elements in he
most healthy and economical form. Thc
legumes are particularly rich in lime. In
general, roughage contains more lime
than grains. Among the feeds of com—
merce, such as gluten—meal, etc, where
the outer hulls have been removed there
is a deficiency of lime. Phosphorus is
abundant in tankage, wheat bran, cotton—
sccd meal, malt sprouts. soy beans and
linseed oil meal. The phosphorus in these
feeds is in a readily available form. Po—
tassium, magnesium and iron are present
in sufficient quantities in any practical
ration for the stock. Sodium, the base of
common salt, is not present in adequate
amounts for the animal's needs, but this
deficiency has long been gecognized and
the salt supplied. Sulphur is usually pres-
ent in the common feeds. but sheep seem
to be especially benefited by attention to
this element. It is especially valuable in
the growth of hair and wool. Cabbage.
rape and turnips, so highly prized by
sheep feeders, are very rich in phosphor-
us. Next to common salt lime—phosphate
is the most common mineral fed to stock.
This is made from green bene by treating
it with hydrochloric acid to dissolve out
the bone 'earths and precipitation of the
same by lime. This is done. to get rid of
the mineral matter in the manufacture of
gelatine. ln this proceSs lime and phos-
phate are supplied at once. Some claim

it is superior to ordinary bone meal, but
my experience feeding bone meal has been
so satisfactory that '1' would not advise
anyone to make a change if the bone
meal gives the desired result,

The main problem to bear in mind in
making up rations containing an adequate
quantity of mineral matter is to feed
variety of foods. By feeding a variety
of foods some containing one and some
others of the necessary minerals, one is
more likely to approximate the right pro—
portions than by confining his stock to
but few kinds of food. The young ani—
mals and breeding stock need more min—
eral mattcr than the older animals. Of
all grain foods corn is especially deficient
in mineral nutriments. Legume hay and
pasture grasses are valuable sources of
these elements. Stock farmers should
raise more alfalfa and clover hay and de—
pend less upon purchascd feeds of coin-
merce if they desire to promote the
health of their breeding females and
young stock of all kinds on their farms.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

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break a colt to back, or to break a colt
to drive anyway and have him properly
educated. If a colt is inclined to be a.
little bit subborn sometimes it is an ex-
tremely difficult task to teach him to

back. It requires a great deal of patience.
The one thing to guard against is to not
lose your temper. Be patient. Don’t
expect a colt to know more than you do.
Re sure that the colt understands just
exactly what you want done before you
attempt to any force. .-\s a matter
of fact, I don‘t believe it pays to use
force anyway. A colt must first get the
idea in some way what is wanted of him
and then he will usually do it.

A neighbor of ours used to be an ex-
pert horsc trainer. In fact he. broke
nearly all the colts the neighborhood,

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one could do almost anything with them
that was wa‘nted. In other words, he
taught them, he educated them, and he
did it without being harsh. I never heard
him speak to a colt above a common con-
versational tone of voice. He never got
angry, at least. he never showed it. He
was very careful to lot the colt get an
idea of what was wanted of him, and
then usually he had no trouble. I can
remember, however, of one particular colt.
that was quito mulisli, stubborn, on
this question of backing. and he, worked
several days lit'fol'c he got it into the colt’s
head what was wanted. and even then
and afterwards the colt actcd stubborn
when one. wanted him to back, especially
if it took considerable effort to back.
Never try to get the colt to back where
the backing is hard. Be sure, and turn
where the wagon is down bill so that the
wagon will run down bill. (if course, not
sleep a hill, but where there is a,
down grade so that the wagon will run
easily. If you attempt to back a wagon
up hill on the level with the colt the first
thing, you generally discourage him. It
is like hitching him to too large a load to
get him to pull the first thing.

Don’t work with a colt long enough at
one time to get him tired and discour--
aged. If you find the colt is getting mad
you had better quit, and give it some-
thing to eat: get on the right side of it;
get it out of its mulish temper, and when,
it is rested tip try it again. Perhaps the
bit will hurt the colt‘s mouth. If it does
don’t continue to pull on the bit. Better
get him out single on a side hill, and
then when you say back, push on his
breast and fairly push him down the hill,
and keep working patiently until the colt
understands what is meant by the word
back, and when it does understand this
he will find it just as easy to step back—
ward as forward. It is probable that the
reason he does not back when one wants
him to is because he doesn't know just.
what is intended, or he expects to bo
jerked on the bit and have his mouth
hurt, or he expects to be struck with a

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the command is given. It is just exactly
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SELECTION OF BnEEDlNG STOCK.

 

Address by Prof. W. J. Kennedy, of
Iowa State College, before the Interstate
Breeders’ Association, held at Sioux City,
Iowa. This address is here reproduced.
owing to the fact that Prof. Kennedy has
been successful in picking embryonic win-
ners of International honors, and his
judgment in the matter of desirable points
has been yeritied in the show ring.

This is a day and age of agricultural
dGVelopment. People, in all vocations of
life, are manifesting an unusual interest
in the farm and its products. This is as
it should be. Every human being is more
or less dependent upon the farm. We
can never give too much attention to the
study of agriculture. From a humane.
standpoint it. is necessary. Before the
middle of the twentieth century the farm—
ers of this country will be called upon to
feed at least one hundred and fifty mil-
lions of people. This problem can only be
solved by a more intensified form of ag-
riculture.

As an American people We are a nation
of meat eaters, not vegetarians. This
being true, We must not neglect our live
stock industry. It is up to us to produce
the beef, pork and mutton products de-
manded by our people. In the past this
has not been a difficult problem. In the
future it is going to require business
methods on the part of the producer. Both
the land and feeding stuffs used are sure
to be higher in price. The linished pro-
duct cannot go much higher. This means
either more pounds of edible meat from
a given amount of food fed the animal, or
a loss to the producer. This can only be
secured through a more careful and in-
telligcnt system of breeding and selecting
domestic animals. The “scrub" animal,
whether pedigreed or not. must be ob—
literated.

There always has been and I believe
there. always will be, in our agriculture,
:1 place for each and crery class of live
stock. “'e must have horses, beef cattle,
dairy cattle, sheep and swine. The man
who breeds the right kind of animals of
any one of the above mentioned classes
will always find his work both useful to
the community and profitable from his
own standpoint. \\‘e need them all in
our farming operations. Some men will
succeed with one class of stock and make
a failure with another, and vice versa.
The. real secret of success in any line of
work depends a great deal upon the
amount of individual attention given it.
The amount of enthusiasm and interest
which any particular individual will give
to any line of work will always be gov-
erned very largely by his own likes or
dislikes for the same. This being true,
each man had best select and breed the
class of stock which appeals to him most
strongly, “here such a system is adopted
Success usually follows.

For over twenty years I have studied
carefully the. methods pursued by breed-
ers of live stock, both the successful and
the unsuccessful. The former are, com—
paratively few in number compared with
the latter. It has been my good fortune
to have had the opportunity of observing
the methods pursued on the best farms in
the I'nited States, Canada, and eleven
different European countries. I am frank
to say that in no other line of Work is a
well-defined purpose so necessary as m
the successful breeding of live stock.
Each and every one of our present day
breeds of live stock was brought up to
its very highest degree of excellence by
the sheer determination to carry out a
well~defined purpose on the part of some
two or three men. It is true that, hun—
dreds and thousands of men were breed—
ing, but only two or three in each in-
stance, really succeeded. V’l'hy did the oth-
ers fail? Simply because they were like
the man walking slowly along the public
highway and when stopped by a stranger
who asked him. “Vi"here are you going?”
and his reply was, “I don't know, but I
am on my way." It is just so with a
great many breeders of stock. they don't
know where they are. going but they are
on the way, too often 0n the road to fail-
ure. ’

No man ever has succeeded and no man
ever will succeed for any length of time
in breeding live stock who does not have
as his slogan that one word, utility. Al-
most a century ago, Amos Cruickshank,
“the herdsman of Aberdeenshire,” said
that, “the real test of value in beef cattle
is their ability to turn straw, turnips and
cake into pounds, shillings and pencg at
a profit." IVhen ridiculed by his fellow
breeders because he overlooked fashion—
able pedigrees and color markings, he re-

plied that the only question in his mind
was, "what; is best for our country, our
agriculture and our people.” It would be
a godsend to our American live stock in-
terests if We had today a thousand Amos
Cruickshanks, so that We might put one
in each of the thousand counties which
constitute our com belt states. The use-
ful animal has always been a money—
maker and will continue to be so in the
future.

No man ever has succeeded and no man
ever Will succeed for any length of time
in breeding live stoclc who attaches his
kite to “faddism.” \Ve do not need to
mention any one particular individual to
demonstrate the folly of such work. There
is hardly a county. in any live stock sec—
tion of this country or any other coun-
try, which has not anywhere from one to
twenty men, who have clearly demon-
strated that “taddism” is always a fore-
runner of failure. By “faddism” I refer
to the tendency on the part of many men
to disregard the really useful features on
an animal and go to the extreme on cer-
tain blood lines, color markings, shape of
car, head, etc. I do not wish to be un-
derstood as being opposed to beauty of
form, color or general appearance. I am
not. In fact, I always like to see the
same when combined with the utility
points. But if I had to sacrifice something
in selecting a breeding animal it would
be the fancy points and not those which
indicate utility.

The longer 1 study and handle live stock
the more I am convinced that the first
and most important point to be observed
in all meat and milk producing animals,
is a good middle. The signs of constitu-
tion and digestive capacity present their
most visible manifestations in the body
and not in the extremities. The animal
is simply a machine to convert feed into
more edible products, such as meat and
milk. Its capacity is governed almost
solely by the size of the middle. These
are. points which mean dollars and cents
to every man who handles live stock.

We. must pay more attention to the
question of size and vigor in our animals.
Size, always has and always will be a vital
point. It is usually associated with heavy
and economical gains] Vigor is absolute—
ly essential. It is associated with heavy
gains and also helps to safeguard the
animal in time of disease outbreaks. One
of the chief causes for deterioration in
both size and vigor of our animals, is the
use of immature sires and dams for
breeding purposes. While both sire and
dam exert an influence, it has been clear—
ly provcn that the immature dam is the
most detrimental to progeny. The con-
tinued use of immature sires and dams. cs-
pcciallv where corn rations are fed, will
seriously reduce both the size and vigor
of any breed or Class of live stock. Any-
thing which lessens the size and vigor of
the animal renders it less profitable on
high-priced land. Too much attention
cannot be given to the importance of se-
lecting breeding stock from mature par-
ents. In this way, and only in this way,
can we retain size and vigor in our herds
and flocks.

The man who succeeds in breeding
draft horses must ever keep in mind
size, duality. feet, legs and action. These
are all utility points. The markets de-
mand horses weighing 1,700 pounds and
upwards. that hare good body conforma-
tion, large feet of good texture, strong,
clean bone, large, sound joints, heavy,
muscular development. combined with
good, straight snappy action. Such
horses command high prices and are very
scarce. The statistics for the year 1911
show that only one horse, out of every
twenty, sold at our leading horse markets
tilled the bill, This is surely a good
line of work to pursue for many years
to come. The vast majority of our
farmers make a serious mistake when
they sell their good draft mares to go to
the cities. A good draft mare is worth
twice, as much on any farm, if she is
used for work and breeding purposes, as
she will sell for in any horse market. Only
nzarcs of good weight, body conformation
and absolutely sound should be retained
for breeding purposes. It is very import-
ant that the -stallion used should be
sound, drafty, stand well on his feet and
legs, short and straight in his back, heav-
ily muscled and Show good disposition as
indicated by width and flatness of head
between the eyes. Avoid unsound, small
footed, light boned, crooked legged or
shallow bodied stallions.

The profitable beef animal of the fu-
ture must have size, large heart girth and

middle, giving him constitution and ca—,

pacity. He must also be low set, straight
in his lines, heavy in the quarters, wide
in the back and 10in and carry a good

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covering of natural flesh over these parts.
The head must be short and wide between
the eyes, the neck short and shoulders
smooth on the sides and wide on top.
Width on the top of the shoulders goes
with good fleshing properties throughout.
The hide should be soft and pliable. These
are all utility ,points. We must ever keep
the block type in mind because the block
is the ultimate end of all beef cattle.

In selecting dairy cattle it is always
difficult to judge accurately with the
eyes. The real test must be the weigh
scales and the Babcock tcstcr. The cow
is a, machine to convert food into milk,
thus she must have a large middle and
a strong constitution to insure best re-
sults. She must also have a large udder,
large milk wells, largo, crooked milk
veins and good—sized teats. Her head
should be lean and nngulur in appearance
With the eyes standing out prominently.
The nock should be rather long and loan
in appearance, the shoulders pointed and
the backbone rather prominent. The skin
should be loose and soft to the touch.
In selecting herd bulls, either muturc ani-
mals which have already demonstrated
their worth as sires, or younger animals
from high—testing dams and sires, only
should be used. Remember that tho. best
and surest results will always follow the
use of a mature sire which has sired
heifers with good records. A good dairy
bull should be kept until he is twelve or
fifteen years old, in fact, as long us he is
a sure sire. Real good sires are, so rare
that when we do find one, he should only
the of old age. All breeders of dairy cut-
the should secure yearly tests on ouch
and every cow in the herd. Shorter ICSIS
do not roally mcrm very much. lt is the
cow that stays by her job tbut is really
\uluablo. a

New linos of work offer greater finan—
cial returns for the capital invested than
a good flock of brooding shocp. This: is
especially true when good mutton con-
formation is combined with a long, dense,
line llC('('€. The question of constitution
is Vory important in sheep. In selecting
rams, bloc-kiness, lowsctncss, wide bucks,
loins, and heavy, wcll filled hind quarters
should always be demanded. Tho head
should be broad and masculine in ap-
pearance, the IlC('l{ short and the shoulder
broad and compact. The legs should be
short and straight, especially at the hooks.
Tho skin should be pink in color and the
fleece long, (louse, line and uniform on
all parts of the body. Too much atten-
tion cannot lll’ givon the importance of
density of llt't‘t‘O. It insures a hoavicr clip
of wool, lll‘olt‘i-[S the sheep from ruin,
snow untl cold weather, and also sheds
chufl' and ohcr foreign material so detri-
mcnul to thr- wool.

lil't‘wlt‘l's of hogs will do well to pay
more utlonlion to the. utility curl of the
business and much less to the fad end as
illustrated by the pedigree craze, shape
of head, ear, nose, dish of fact, etc. The
one great need today in the hog business
is a hog with sizo, quality and prolificacy
combined wih early maturity. Such a hog
is best described as the kind that never
lies to the assessor, that is, he. is born
after the assessor is around this year and
marketed, weighing three hundrod pounds
before the assessor comes back next year,
Some such hogs may be found in almost:
any of well—known breeds. \Vith curv—
ful selection and judicious muting it is
surprising how rapidly this type can be
revived. In addition to the evil results
of “faddism,” the exclusive use. of a corn
diet and the. policy of brooding from im—
mature sires and dams, have been detri-
mental both from the standpoint of size
and prolificacy. It is sufc to say that
over seventy-five per cent of all the sires
and dams used in the state of Iowa. are
under one year of age. It has been clear—
ly proven by exporimentul work that pigs
from young sows are inferior in every
way to those from mature sows. The con-
tinued use of young sires and dams, es—
pecially when associated with corn feed—
ing, will cause marked deterioration in
any breed of swine.

In selecting breeding swine attention
must be given to size, quality, strength
of bone, evenness of fleshing, and the use
of more mature boars and sows. All pigs
intended for breeding purposes should be
selected from well developed, mature
sows. If the sires are mature animals, so
much the better. These pigs should be
fed on ration calculated to produce bone
and muscle, not fat alone. In this way
we could materially improve our swine
herds without changing breeds.

In conclusion, I wish to once more em-
phasize the importance of utility in all
classes of stock. Beware of “faddism’f in
any of its various forms. Demand mas-
culinity in the Sires and feminity in he

dams. Also remember that the best re-
sults can only be obtained where careful
selection is combined with intelligent
mating and the proper feeding and man-
agement of the animals.

 

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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. Xthn
reply by mail is requested, it becomes
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Partial Paralysistarc got down .11
Week ago; since then have helped her up
but she moves about in an uncertain man-
ner. She is now down; has no pain, has
good appetite, makes efforts to get up
but is unable to (lo so. She stands with
«lifliculty when on feet. F, .l, 1L, South
Lyons, Mich—Your mun- suffers from
functional paralysis, an affection of spinal
cord and nerves of hind quarter. A re-
covery in such cases is doubtful. (live
hcr 11,45 drs. ground nux vomicu and 2
(11‘s. iodide potassium at a dose in food
three times a day. liowcls should be kept
opon; apply mustard :lnd water to spine
three times :1 week.

Indigestion lInl'hrifty Condition. —~- My
llol'St' has been out of condition all win—
ter; is very thin, but does not: appear
sick. \\'. B. ll., Rochester, Micll.——(,livo
1 oz, ground gentiun, 1 (li'. ground uux
Vomica and 2 (11's. powdered sulphalo iron
ut a dose in feed thrco limes a (lay.
(lroom him well twice it day, kocp in a,
wurm comfortable stable and increase his
food supply.

Wormswl>iubctesr<l°ivc—ycar—old horse
is in good condition, but ()(’(‘Ll.‘<lt)llllll,\'
passes u WUl’lll or two: have been {coding
him Worm romcdy thth‘l'llHQtl in this pa-
pot'. .\ nine-ycur—oltl homo that passes
to.» much urine but is; in good condition.
.I. ll, (1., Sunllold, Micli.— (livo horsevl (lr.
suntouino :11 u «loso (lllt't' u, «luy. three.
times at week for two wveks. Give other
llHl‘Si‘H 2 Hrs, polussium iodide at a dose
throc. times :1 day for ten days.

(full llus \\'4u'ms.~~'l‘hroe—your-Ohl ('olt
has Worms; was advised to give him l0-
bur-co, which l have. (lone, but fail to see
any good l‘t‘SllllS Irom i1. Colt passes
long round worms. M. l')., Zcelund, Mich.
~VI. have novm- thought well of tobacco
(is 21 vermicille for horses; however,
have gin-u it to sheep with fairly good
results it is not. always an easy matter
to l'lil a horse of \an‘lllS. (live colt 1 (l1:
saniouine, 20 grs. calomcl and l 07., of
ground goutiun at u. (loso in food our-c u
tluy for live (luys, lhon discontinue giving
it for a week, then givo live more (loses.
ono dos!» (luily.

'l‘orpicl Liver—Almligcstion—Four—year—
()ltl~ll(lI‘S(‘. is dull :zml languid; his coat
is nearly Iwo iuobos long,r llllll rough.
food him (‘Hl‘ll and 2131 the, ('luvm' hay llC‘
will cut. l<‘. It, llHllH, Michmrtlive him
10 was. (-ulomol. l 4ll'. ground nux vomicu,
{Q (7., ground gouliuu. 1:_. oz. ground gin—
gor and '1 dr. powder-c4] Flllpllzllt‘ iron at a
dose in food twice :1 day for l5 days.

Injurotl Shoulder. Six months ago I let
:1 lurrHc—bn-ukel' (like all unruly young
man; to brouk. He was obligod to use
rum-o in controlling her, which resulted
in an injury to one fore quarter. I think
the troublo is in shoulder, but treatment
fails to help ll(‘l‘. In traveling she, stops
short with sore leg and wears toe of
shoe most. l“. M. M}, Mason, )’ii(~h.-—.\p—
ply 1 Dfll‘l' turpentine, 1 part aqua am-
monia und 3 parts raw linseed oil to
shoulder and coroncl every day or t\\'o.
\\'ulking exerciso, and perhaps: light work,
would not do her any harm.

Hut of Conditi()n,~~Black maro seven
yours old, woighing 1,500 lbs, does not
thrive: she eats well but is dull and
tlumpish; coat dry and rough. I feed her
worn and wheat bmn twice a day. T. B..
llillsdnlo, Mich.~*(}ive your mare 1 oz. of
ground gonlion, 1/; oz. powdered ciuchonu
and 1 oz. bicarbonate soda at. a dose. in
for-d three times a (lay. Increase her
grain ration, groom her twice a day and
keep her in a warm place.

llliabolcsrrvrrludigcslion‘fiAllorso is slight-
ly out of health; have had him examined
by two different Vols. who differ in thoir
t'liugnoses. Ono claims it :1 case of in-
digestion, The other says diabetos. This
lluI‘SO bus had a few bilious attacks and
occasionally coughs. S. l’., New Iludson,
MichiYour horse may suffer from both
ailments. livo him 20 gm. calomcl, and
1,1. oz. bicarbonate soda at a dose three
times a week for two weeks; also give,
him 1/3 oz, ground gonian. My, oz, powdered
rosin and 1 oz. powdered charcoal at :1
dose in feed three times a (lay. Feed him
enough well salted bran mashcs and a
few roots to keep his bowels open.

l’uncturcd Form—Pow stopped on ruuly
nail, making wound between toes of front
foot; accidont occurred six weeks ago.
Local Vol. has treated her but She is
still lame. S. ll.. Pigeon, Mich. Apply
equal parts powdered alum, oxide of zinc
and tannic acid twice a day; cover foot
with plenty of oukum and put a cloth
boot over it. This will keep foot clean
and give it a chance to local.

Barren Cow—(Tow had her last calf
two years and ten months ago; She is
still giving 7 qts. milk daily but fails to
get with calf. She has been mated, at
different times, with three different bulls,
G. V., New Em, Mich.——I believe that
your cow will remain barren; however,
you might use the yeast treatment, or
inject her when she comes in heat, with
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HEWO STOCK FARM

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BELGIANS

This announcement is for the men
who know a horse, who need a. horse,
and who are fumiliur with values
when they find something suitable.
llave you, Mr. Stallioner. spent dol-
lars lisolcssly searching for a first-
clnss Rolgiun stallion or a No. 1 Bel—
gian mziro for a price at which you
could afford to own some? Have you.
Mr. l’rospet‘livo Purchaser, decided
wlu-rc you are going to find what you
wuut‘.’ .

\Vc want to state here, and to state
most emphatically, that our twenty-
five years’ buying experience in Bol-
gium, and our selling system (all
stock sold at, the farm), places us in
a position to sell it good stallion or
:1 good mare at prices beyond com—
petition.

'\\'e are talking of good horses, not
the mediocre kind, and we are in
position to sell this good kind at lesser
figures than are demanded by Some
firms for he ordinary sort. If you are
in the market for an extra good im-
ported Belgian stallion or mare, come
to Hewo and save all those useless
side trips, secure a horse that repro-
scnts every dollar that is demanded
for same, and be a gainer of several
hundred dollars on account of “the
difference in price.”

We have a number 0! home bred colts at
extremely reasonable prices.

“Remember. Nothing but Belgians.”

Don't waittow1‘ito,visit.

H. & H. WOLF, Wabash, Indiana.

EVERY DAY IS BAR-
GAIN DAY WITH US.

We have the Prooi, the Stallions.

Peroherons,
Belgians,
Coachers.
Qualily, size, action, breeding, essential factors.

Write us or call and see us.

Geo. W. Souers 8: Sons,
60] i0 949 West Matilda St..
Huntington, Indiana.

Our Cloth Bound Servlce Book IO Cents

 

 

 

 

 

 

METZ BROS.

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
us your wants.

METZ BROS, Niles, Mich.

 

Why not buy a

DRAFT STALLION

Splendid Selection of

Peroherons & Belgians

-—AT———

Blill. BROS., Wooster, 0hio.

Write for Catalog.

 

 

PEBBHERBN, BELGIAN, SHIRE, HACKNEY
STALLIONS 8: MARES.

Two to 4 years old, imported and American
bred. Choice colors. lots of bone, weighing or
maturing 1.800 to 2,3003bs. Three'importations last
lew months, others to follow soon. Prices below
competition, I sell them low and they go fast

LEW W. COCHRAN.
Office 109% S. Wuhinrton St.. CRAWFORDSVILLE. 1ND.

PERBHERBN

Stallions and Mares of quality.
At Reduced .Price's. .

l. l. PALMER & SONS, Beldlng, loma 00.. Mloh.

Imported and pure bred Slalliont. We make a speci.

Belgian a Percheron alt of Q lit -
Bone and Weight. 6. a H. LoonER. iuncon,“3hi¢y,.

 

 

 


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of cooking soda in 3 pts. tepid water. The
yeast treatment formula has been re-
peatedly printed in this column and you
doubtless are familiar with it.

Tapping for Bloat—Abdominal Abscess.
~-—Several weeks ago one of my cows had
an attack of acute indigestion; local Yet.
found it necesasry to puncture her. This
operation no doubt saved her life but she
has not done well since. Her appetite
is poor, she urinates often and water is
thick. She had a calf three months ago
but is not now pregnant. Bowels seem
to be in fair condition and she chews her
cud; is only eight years old. M. C. \\'..
Mason, Mich—An operation of this kind,
where particles of food drop out of pauncli
into abdomen, frequently produces an ab-
dominal abscess, or one may take place
where wound is made; however, it is not
Very common in cattle. but frequently
occurs when puncturing horses. Your
Vet. should be consulted. (live her 30
grs_ quinine and 1 oz. tluid extract gen—
tiaii at a dose three times a day.

Spasm of Larynx~-Clicking—Pigs com—
mence to eat and, after taking a mouth—
I'ul or two, one or two of them will rush
back. fall on side, kick and squeal for a
minute. turn on belly. breathe heavily.
then seem to get over it. (me scems to
have lost use of hind quarters. ’l‘hese
till-IS zll‘c ten months old. It, 1%., Harris-
ville. Micli.——Your pigs suffer from spasm
of larynx. or they choke. Feeding warm
feed, placing it so that they cannot get
too much at at time, seems to prevent
this. lioss of use of hind quarters is per-
hays thc rcsult of feeding an unbalanced
ration— too much corn and not enough
oats. oil meal, roots, etc. Give the par—
alyzed pig it) drops tincture ntix vomica
and .3 grs. iodide of potassium at a dose
in feed twice a day. Apply mustard and
water to back three times a wvek: also
giV'c it 3 oz. lime water at a dose two or
threc times a day. .

Barren Soup»:- Berkshire sow comes in
hcat rcgularly; has been served by a boar
that is sure, but fails to get with pig.
She is healthy and in good condition. 1..
l:., Le lloy. Alichrrliissolvol oz. bicar-
Iltllltllo soda in a. pint of tepid water and
inicct her when she first comes in heat
and do not breed her for a few hours at-
ter giving injection.

’l‘hi‘usllrwI“th‘—_\'t‘aI‘-Olil horse has thrush
in one foot. l‘. 11., Illbbetts. Osmlxe‘ep
l'oot dry and t'It'llll. Alter applying hy-
drogcii peroxide, apply calomel and wrap
with a piece of tiitlilllll to keep ottl dirt.
The foot should be dressed twice a day.

Loosciiess of Bowels.k \Vheii my seven-
vcar~old gelding rcsts his bowel inovta-
iiicrls are normal, but when driven they
are. too loose. He has a l‘aVctious appc—
tile and is fed oats. corn, and wheat
bran. I. notice him passing whole oats
and I forgot to mention that his. lcgs
stock. Al. ll. t.‘.. Birmingham, Mlcll.——-
Ills tccth should be lloated, watered be-
fore eating grain and not too soon after.
While driving him his water .supply
should be limited, but after his Journey
let him have all he wants. .\ good qual-
ilv ol‘ oats and well cured timothy seems
to prevent purging on the road. Give
him a lillllttSlH‘l‘lll'lII of ground gtngcr. a
tcaspooiil'ul of powdcrcd catechu and a
leaspoonl‘ul of sub-nitrate of_bismuth at
a «Lose in feed before using ltiiii.

IlltIIgCSllOll.‘Olll‘ 11—year—old mare ale
too much new hay last July, which pro-
duced acute indigestion and since thchn
SIIt’ has had a few litzlit attacks. She is
lifeless and after eating certain kinds of
food or drinking niuch cold water she
points nose, to sides as if suffering a lit-
tle pain. S. Ir, \'., Coopersville, i\llt‘ll.-
L‘arcl‘ul {ceding and watering and by giv—
iiig licr cxcrcise daily, she should recov—
er. It‘ccd a good quality of food, keep
her bow’els open by feeding her oil nical
and roots. Also gch her a tablespoonful
ol‘ cooking soda aii_d tWo tablespoonfuls
powdered charcoal at a dose in feed three
times a day. Avoid letting her have. too
much very cold water to drink at a time.

()bstructud 'l‘ear Ducts—Horse, it years
old, seems healthy. but eye waters. \\.
.II. 1... Geneva, O. The blocked tcai' duct
can perhaps be opt-tied by air pressure;
it not it will rt-niain blocked.

llorses Ate. Too Much Alsike Clover.—
Have three horses which 1 have fed al-
slkt- (‘IUVt‘i‘ and grain, but they did not
thriVe. One ol‘ the three was a white
horse, that had inelanotic tumors and af—
ter eight days‘ slckilt'b‘s died. Another
horse seemed to have a sore mouth, Sick
about the same length of time, died’la
minutes later than first mic. My driVing
mare fed on same feed is seemingly all
right. What caused their death? 19.1).
.13., North Star, Michrliadly cured ttlSike
clovcr led in large quantities to horses
frequently causes sickncss and may pro-
duce death. The ilrst horse that dltKI
may have been in bad condition from hav—
ing iiiclanotit- tumors and this might have
contriliiilcd towards his death. Better
fecd remainder of alsike clover to your
cattle.

liiseasetd ’l‘ooth—«Catai'rh — Sideboiie.-——
Mare, five years old, has offensive dis-
charge from nose. Another mare has
sidebone. S. S. 13., Greenfield, 11ld-‘*I)I‘Ub-
ably first-mentioned mare has a diseased
molar .tooth; if extracted the nasal dis—
charge will cease. Apply 1 part red i0—
(lide mercury and 5 parts lard to side—
bone every week or 10 days, and when
shoeing keep her heels low.

Grease Heels—Barren Mare—I have not
taken your paper for a number of years
and things have gone to rack and ruin
with me ever since 1 discontinued it. I
renewed my subscription a few weeks
ago and now shall avail myself of your
veterinary advice. My Clyde mare has
sore heels which discharge a watery fluid
and she must itch for she is inclined to
rub them against stall. Our 'local Vet.
prescribed a remedy which failed to help
her. I have another 18-year-old mare
that formerly raised four colts, but has
failed to get in foal during the past
three years. Have had her teeth exam-

THE “M'ic'ifiiCAN FARMER.

 

Dear Sirs :

I am pleased to
say that through a.
friend of mine I
secured the oppor-
tunity of becoming
a traveling sales-
man for the Sagi-
naw Medicine Co.

I find that it is
a. money-making
proposition,as well
as pleasant work,
for it certainly
gives a man a satis-
fied feeling when
he knows that the
line of goods he is handling is securing a lot
of good. warm friends for him all over his
territory.

To a greater or less extent I believe that
the line of goods I handle are responsible for
the cordial reception I receive wherever I go.
The goods give such good satisfaction that
the people are glad to see me come again so
that they can obtain another supply. All I
had to do was to introduce the goods on the
first trip and now they sell themselves.

The S. M. CO. PLAN. I find is the only
successful plan to do business and I think it
is complete. I also wish to add that the
Saginaw Medicine Company has proved to be
both honest and reliable.

very truly yours. J. W. WRIGHT.

 

 

 

 

tTHE MICHIGAN LINE

Mr. Wright's sales amounted to $954.10
in his first 65 days on the road. and he attri-
butes some of his success to the fact that he
was supplying;r the people of Michigan with a.
reliable line of Household Remedies. Stock and Poultry
Remedies. Extracts, Spices and Toilet Micles manu-
factured right here in the State of Michigan.
We want our line represented by a hustler in
Eaton. Lenawee. Kalamazoo, Barry.1ackson
and Branch Counties, Michigan.

If interested. write for terms. Don’t miss
this opportunity. '

THE SABINAW MEDICINE COMPANY

SAG-"IAIN. MICH.
Mention this paper.

Who can II

an INDIANA SII.
on our plan and
never know you
have spent a cent!

The best proposition ever of-
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n Silo and our plan tells HOW
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' *aning sold our farm we
PUbllC sale will sell at public auction.
March 19th. 1912. our entire herd of Re Istered
Holstein lt‘rleslan Cattle. consisting of headJlQ
females and one hard bull. Catalog will be rendv
March 10th. Farm located just back of the L. s. &
M. H. dcpot. at Dlmoiidale. Mich. RIPLEY BROS.

'\ 1(‘ll [CAN AGRICULTURAL (‘HLLEGI‘I has for
i ‘ sale cheap an aged imported Clydesdale Stallion
or will exchange for a Percheron or Clydesdale
nittro. \‘Vrite II. S. llITl)SON. East Lansing, MICh.

 

 

F s I ~l’l‘lllCHEIlON S'I‘ALLION CHESLER No.
or a 3 61216, coniiiig3 in May. 1912. A good one.
Charles E. Dean til 00.. II. No. 1, Vermontvi le, Mich.

SIIETLANII PONIES.‘§3d8i‘.§§“i‘-Li'l..’°‘l‘3rm£l‘éi
My stock is high class and purebred. Write for prices.
J. M. BEDDOW. Birmingham, Mich.

BREEDERS’ DIRECTIIRY.
CATTLE.
ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd, consisting of Trojan Ericas Blackbirds and
Pridee. only. is headed by F erton . a Troian Erica,
by Black Woodlawn. sire of t. 9 Grand Chm ion steer
and bull at the International in Chicago. .. 19 .
A few choicely bred young bulls for sale.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. Mlch.
AYR S H I RE ——()no of foremost. dairy
breeds: young bulls

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

 

 

 

 

 

14 months old Rem.

Guernse BU". line individual. for sale.
F. C. Sackrider ' Son, II. No. 5. Jackson. Mich.

—3 Re latex-ed Guernsey Bulls: 5 regis-

For sale teredI large Yorkshire sows. bred.

For prices write John Ebola. B. No. 10. Holland. Mich.

GUERNSEYS FOR SALE'Cowsand

h e l f or
calves. GEORGE MORLOCK. Watervliet. Mich.

‘ d b h f-

Guernsei Bull calves mam} radiant??? if
669.891bs.. 2 yin? mo. Allanflielsey. Lakeview. Mich.
' ' ——S ,t' l ' .z .
Registered Nolsloio Callie bale“. J’Jv‘ffi‘ia “.3035?
old. FLOYD F. JONES. RED. 3. Oak Grove. Mich
HOLSIEI' BI“. calf. sired by best son of Pontiac
Butter Boy and from equally

good dun. C. D. WOODBURY. Lansing. Mich.
BULLS from 3 m9 months old A. R. 0.
stock. 3 young cows A. R. O. bred

at 5200 each. ROBIN CARR, Fowlerville. Michigan.

BULL CALVEB—De Kol. Hengerveld and Korndyke
strains. None better at the price. Pew better at
any pE-ice. Tabulated pedigrees and prices ofiefizestr
COL BROTHERS, Ypsilanti Farms. Ypsilanti. i h.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUL‘tS—HDLSTEIN-Bfltts

Two $50 Bulls
Two $60 Bulls

Also 3ready for business at. very cheap prices. consider-
ing breeding. Write for description and pedigrees.

Long Beach Farm, Augusta. “'3:.'::.":.°°) Mich.
“Top-Notch” Holsteins.

, .
A fine. young bull ,Hongorvold Winona. Do Kol.
No. 82754. Born;Jan. 4, 191 I.

Sire—King of Hengcrvelds, whose sirelhas 98‘ A. R.
0. daughters. 8 have records that average over 30 lbs.
butter in I days and 12 that. average over 100 lbs. milk
L“. one dayhand whose dam has an oflicial record of
(>332 lbs. milk and 29.27 lbs. butter in 7 days at. 4 yrs.
7 days old. and is a sister of Aggie Cornucopia Pauline.
who has an official record of .32 lbs. butter in 7 days.
which still stands as the VVorld‘osenior‘i-yr-old record.

Dam,“ inona Dc Kol 2d. who has given 11034 lbs.
milk in ten months and traces twice to (llotliiltle who
give 261M) lbs. Illllk in one year and three times to

ietertlc 2d. who gave, 30318 lbs. milk in one year.
world's largest year's record. This young bull is it fine
individual, nicely marked. with more white than
black. Price 3

l .
MoPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell, Mlchlgan.

IBM 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 btill in service whose grand
dams average 34.06 lbs.butter in 7 days. Also
yearling heifers bred to him.

L. E. CONNELL, - Fayette, Ohio.
EREFORDS—7 bulls from 2 mm). to 2 years old, all

re . and of the very best. breeding. Also big boned
Polan China hogs. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Mich.

 

 

 

 

We Have line grandsons of Pontiac Klorndyke in
our lot of Holstein bulls ready for service
now. :PTII'CS right. Gregory 8' Borden. Howell. Mich.

HOLSTEIN BULLS

FOR SALE

Young bull out of a 20-1b.A R. ().cow. Sire
Ontaiii De Kol litirke—every entry in his pedi-
gree has an Ufliflml 7060771. He is a grandson of
De Kol Burke. This is a finely bred youngster.

BIGELOW’S HOLSTEIN FARMS, Breedsvflle, Mlch.

 

 

’ MARCH 9, 1912.

" —Good Yearling Field
Oxford Down Slice Rams and ewes of all age-
for sale. I. n. WATEBB av. Highland. Mtohloan.‘

 

 

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Homes and Vlcluriasfiggfig i3“ “9 Mm”- & AP?“-

. r' t d ‘h
boar. Priced to move them. M. '1‘. tcliI‘E'. lfinielilfll llc(l1n.

' —Weaned pigs 515. two for '. B0' to
BerkShlreS ready forservice $25. Gilts giafe in gig
to Handsomefljee J r.. nMich. State Fair Prize Winner
$35. Re 'istered and transferred. Express prepaid in
lower ll ichigan. C. C. COREY. New Haven. Mich,

BERKSHIRE “182 (“Its at on; 8 at no: strted
bloodlines. Eimhufsl bfigdgfnfipkifigxfifefiifi“

 

 

F OR SALE. BERKSHIRES—2 hours a 8 giltti fol-rowed in June
also a choice lotof Aug. and Sept. pigs, sired by Handsome
Prince 3d at Marion King. A. A. PATTULLO. Deckervillo. Mich.

 

AKE the boy a stock breeder and keep him on the
farm by givmg him a Berkshire gilt bred for spring
furrow. Buy one now, cheap. C. S. Bartlett. Pontiac, Mich,

 

o | 6 Service Boa't-i. Gilta bred for April farrow
. I -Au .and Sept. pigs, large. smooth and rolifio.

Glenwood took Farm. Zeeland. Mich. P one 94

 

o | c SWINE—Males weighln from 175 to no
- - - lbs. each. Also a very c 0109 lot of ilts
GEO. P. ANDREWS. Danaville. Ingham 00.. Match.

 

' —A few choice youn sows,
IMPTOVGII IIIIBSIEI' WIIIICS bred forlate March IApriI
furrow. Also three young boars. cheap, to close them
out. W. O. VI'ILSON. Okemos, Mich. Both phones.

 

o I G! —-A few tried sows to farmw in March-
. u 5 fall i , also But! Rock cockerel
and cock birds. FRI} NlCKEL. Monroe. Mich.

~My hard is chiefl
O._ I. O. SWINE am... of .1... R0,
strain both males and females. Write for Live and
Let. Live price on film and trios. not. akin.
A. J. GORDO . B. No. 2. Dorr. Michigan.

0 I G’s—30 bred sows, headed by 3,herd boars.
- - Some flue gilts of last March and April
furrow. 300 to 300mg. each. Also last. fall igs. Stock
registered. OTTO B. HGHULZE. Nashvillle. Mich.

O.

0 I‘._C's——Servic.e males. 25 bred slits weighing 175 to
.. lat) lbs. each. 4 bred year-lingo. Choice fa 1 pigs.
Shipped c. o. d. Rolling View Stock Farm. Cass City. Mich.

 

 

 

C —Bred gilts by Champion boar. 825
o 0 each, for January shipment.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Micm‘an.

 

 

O I. C. ~Sprlng boars all sold. A few lengthy llts
. n to be bred for Wril furrow. Choice Aug. it opt.
pigs. cheap. A. NE MAN. R. No. 1. Marlene. Mich.

0. l. C. Sows bred for spring larrow.
OTIS GREENMAN. R. 4 Bellevue. Mich.

 

 

Purebred Registered

H 0 L STEIN CATT LE
The Greatest Dairy Breed

I ’ Sand for FREE Illustrated Bookleta..

Holotein-Friesian. Auo.. Box I64. Brattleboro.Vt

  

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9 -—All ages. growthyand large. sows bred.
0' I. C s Males ready. 100 to select; from. Attractive

prices on young stock. H. H. Jump. Munith. Mich.

 

o I c swine and Bufl .Rock cockerels of
I I I right loge. best of breeding. price way

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

 

' Vale Concordia De Kol Cornucopia
"0'8“"! Herd BIIII No. 42054. Pedigree and description
on application. One yearling bull, 3 bull calves and
4 good cows. bred to one of the best. bulls in the State.
'1‘. H. JACKSON. IR. No. 3, SOUTH BEND. IND.

JERSEYS AND DUROC JERSEYS
FOR SALE.

. A few high class boars from such chain ion hours as
Orion Chief, Instructor. and King of I linois. Also
v bulls. cows and

a few bred sows. Jerae. e fern.
BNOOKWITEII FARM, ANN ARBOR, MIGN., II. F. I]. 7.
DO YOU WANT A GOOD
JERSEY BULL? _
Note the Dam—iié‘i’li Qll‘l’aiéi’r‘iy ‘iiel-‘Sfi'iiler °f

MALES

i. Sire—Golden Interest, sire of 3.

i. Sil'e—Marston'e Interested Prince, sire of :3.

it. ti Sire-«Imported Interested Prince, sire of 18.
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. ti: Sire—Imported Interested Prince, sire of 18.
. G. Sirtimlliotcr's Jersey Lad, sire, of 23.

J. G. Sire—'l‘hedas‘ Duke of Portage. sire of 12.

(1. G. G. Sire—Tormento of Kawkawlin, sire of 16.
F E M A L E S

l)ani—Marston's Farm 555‘th 590 lbs. 19 ozs. I‘Ist.
Butter. (Highest. semi—official record for a cow begin-
ning her test. under 2 years old.)

‘. G. Dani—Martha Altaina, 4951bs. 1~l ozn. butter.
Dam of 2 in the ll. of M.

G. Dam—Jersey Lad's Myra. 506 lbs. 11 ozs. Est
Butter.

(1. (I. Dani—Iiiipt. Grace Darling. Dam of one in
the ll. of .\l.

T. F. MARSTON, Bay City, Mich.

OUR Iinp. Chester Whites and Tamworth swine won
245131; at Fairs in 1911. Service boars, also sows bred
for spring farrow'of either breed that. will please you
in quality and price, Adams Bret-1.. Litchfield. Mich.

JER Y
BUTTER BRED FCESRIIELS

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Mlchlgan.

Duroc Jerseys for Sale*§§'§.‘”3.§“iltiii it”?
eitliersex. Pairs not akin. M. A. BliAY.()kemos, .Iic .
Dunne JERSEY -——Both sexes. all ages. Satisfac-

‘ tion guaranteed. Express pre )ald.
Herd established 1888. J. H. Banghart. Lansing,l\ I(‘Il.

 

 

 

 

FANCYbi-ed Duroc Jersey sows due to furrow in Apl.
Special prices for March. Also fall'plgs. both sexes;
reasonable prices. John MoNicoIl. North Star, Mich.

 

—Boare and Giltn. l
Duroc Jersey: for Sale F.“ p... n.0,}. .9291?
bred from State Fair winners. Prices reasonable.
Write or call and see. It. G.Vivian. RA. Monroe.'.Mich.

‘ ready foraervic. S e ' l
30 Illfll Glass Boats prices for 30 day‘s. lecnlgy
of growth. style and finish. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Come or write. J. C. BABNEY. Goldwater, Mich

lARGE TYPE I) C —Lnrgeot in Michigan. Pigs
I I from mammoth sires and
sows. Weigh 130 to 175lbs. at 4 months. .My motto—
“Not how cheap but how od." Will pay ex-
penses of those who come nn do not. find what I
advertise. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Purina. Mich.

POLANII CHINA “Ed".ggfifi‘ :ltl 3‘3; 8333?

P. D. LONG. R. No. Grand Rapids. lich.

 

 

 

 

FIIII SALE. 17 High Grade Jersey Cows, all young,

All in good condition. All giyin and flow of milk.
All bred to a son of Majesty. I’. gli'gH. 0.. to freshen
in Sept. and October. “I It). DAY. Armada, Mich.

 

REGISTERED JERSEYS For Sale—Some combin.
mg the’ blood of St: Louis and Chicago World's
Fair Champions by HERMAN HARMS. Reese. Mich.

front a R. of M. cow.

JERSEY BULL CAL Cheap. considering

the quality. C. A. TAGGETT. R. No. l. Caro. Mich.

ERSEY BULL CALF for sale, born Feb. 11. 1911.
Q Dam -and granddani. also grandsire Register
of! Merit animals. A 'high class individual.
WATERMAN & “'ATERMAN. Ann Arbor, Mich.

Crystal Springs Jerseys lor S Eli’s?
C.A. R1 11.

testing cows. S'I‘OL. B. No. 2. Fonton, Mic

 

 

OR SALE—3 yenrli Holotein-Friesian bulls. also
bred heifers $150 to each. Bull calves 840 to $60.
3% years a breeder. Photos and pedi on appli.
cation. W. C. Jackson. South Bend. 1141.. 719 Re: St.

lillle Farmstead JERSEYS

Cows all in yearly teat. Several splendid Bull
Calves. A few Heifers and Heifer Calves. I guar-

antee satisfaction or mone refunded.

COLON C. LILLIE. porsvflle. 31101113311

J ERS EYS of the best breeding.
' f Cows offlafilplly ti’atfiilé
l cows in 1118 ep an
$05.33... bu“ .caS'KMUEIEHODELL. Shelby. Mich.
pOLLE -—Choice lot of females any
RED ago, also some bull calves.
J. M. CHASE & SONS. Ionln. Michlgnn.
' B ll kfieifere for sale. all re labor-
IICII I’Ollcll 9% BState Fair winners. 'rite
WELLS PARISH SONS. R. No. 1. Allendale, Mich.
- ' —2 b I] .8 .
Dairy Brod Shortlioriis whale. "62?...“1335
each. cash or good note. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason.Mich.

SHEEP. '

Bog. Bmhouillo “Wish f° “05.9 whom age-- All
E. orrioe, on G.T.R§ft§ngw .rlloeR. Isa-a; 3.4681611?

 

 

Registered Poland China Swine {8.1.} 8&EP'mll2
305d. NELSON J. “'YCKOFF. Summit City. Mich.

 

7 ' ' «size. bone. unlit ’.
Butler 3 Big lype Poland-Chinas w. m “Mfumei.
for everything in Poland Chlnas. If you want. a nice
boar to head your herd. a brood sow or fall pig. Pairs

akin. or a reg. Jersey bull of any we write us.
Our prices are verv low. J. 0. Butler. Portland, Mich.

dChI Bo , '
siisciii slit shrill}... it... Dismisses:
horn Bull Calves. ROB R ‘ NEVE. Pierson, Mich.

——Bred from large type. Sta k
Pflland Chlllas all a both eaten. at Farmecro
prices. W. J. HAGELSFIAW, .Augusta. Michigan.

I) d I' ' ' -

15 Poland China Saws .3... ailii’illnt.l’.i
priced to sell. VI'M. \NAFFLE. Goldwater, illcll.

Pnl‘un cH‘I‘s—Young sows bred for April fart-ow.

Extra good fall pigs. either sex.

L. W.:BAIINES:& SON. Byron. Shiawassee (10.. Mich.
—Gilts bred to a $7? ' f0

Pfllafld CIIIIIaS A ril furrow. Also clioIilcge fall

pigs. E. I). BISHOP. 1 onto 38, Luke Odessa.'Mich.
. bred to 8‘

Big Type P. C. Saws Emma?

A A. WOOD & .SON. Saline. MIchIxan.

—Mule Footed Hogs. Mr. Farmer

For Sale fat the mule footed hog and get

rid of the cholera. have a fine lot. of them. all regis-

tered stock. Write me. E. J. GROVES. Dnvlson. Mich.

M ULEFOO’I‘ HOGS FOR SALE. I am making list of
all mule foot. owners inU. S. Send our name now
and not free printed matter. G. C. Kreg ow. Ada, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oland China—Home of Michigan's Grand Champ.
. ion Boar. Bred cows & fall plan by thiszreat. sire,
They're priced right. E. J. Mathewson.Nottawa,Mich_

Lillie Farmstead YDRKSHIBES.

Bo for ring service. A few bred sows. Also
sows‘larxsod for “gust and September furrow. Pairs
and tiéos not. akin. Satisfaction guaranteed

OLON c. LlLua. Cooper-ville. Mich.

ALWAYS-anion mmrm
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MARCH 9. 1912.

Vet. found them all right. P.
iPn,edf'{.,Tlgai‘st Saginaw, Mich—Dissolvefié
lb. sugar of lead. 3.0Zs. sulphate of Zinc
and 3 025. of carbollc amd in a gallon of
water and apply to Isore heels two or
three times a day. Give her M2 oz_ Fow-
ler’s solution at a (1036 in feed three
times a day; also give her a dessertspoon-
ful of powdered saltpeter at a dose once
a day for ten days. It is needless for me
to say that her heels should be kept clean
and dry until they heal; besides, she
should be fed less grain, more well salted
bran mashes and roots. Your mare will
perhaps remain barren. Give her good
care and plenty of nourishingr food and
don‘t overwork her.

Indigestion—Colic.——Nine-year-old mare
has had four different attacks of indi-
gestion or colic during the winter. This
mare is not in foal and dislikes salt. A.
E. F.. Custer, Mich—Give her 1 oz. of
ground ginger. 1 oz. bicarbonate of soda
and 1 oz. powdered charcoal at a doseslin

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feed two or three times a day.
should be fed roots Lo keep her bowels
open and exercised every day. If her

bowels arc costive induce her to eat oil
meal.

Torpid Liven—I have a valuable black
gelding nine years old, weight 1,400 lbs,
is in good flesh, but seems dull and stu-
pid. M. 1-1., Millingtcn, Mich—Give him
eight drs. aloer. 1 dr. calomel and 2 drs.
ginger at one dose. This will act. as a
cathartic and liver stimulant. Also give
him 20 grs, calomel at a dose twice a
week for four weeks. Give him 1 dr. of
ground nux vomica, a tablespoonful cook-
ing soda and two tablespoonfuls ground
gentian at a (lOSe in feed two or three
times a day.

tingbone —- Quittor.—My six-year-old
horse went lame in front foot last fall.
Vet. fired him. burning a small. hard bunch
at top of hoof. Horse stood still all win-
ter and is yet lame. Another horse got
tangled up with barb wire fence, cutting
foot, some three years ago. The foot
breaks open every few months and I am
told that he aISo has thrush in this same
foot. H. C. H., Gills i’icr, MicltwApply
one part red iodide mercury and six parts
cerate of cantharides to bunch every eight
or ten days. Apply one part tincture
iodine, 10 parts water to quittor every
day and apply calomel to frog once a day.
Thrush is usually the result of wet and
iilth.

“Mums—Some of my horses are trou—
bled with worms and I have been advised
to give them a teacupt‘ul of molasses
night and morning for a day or two, then
give a quart of raw linset-d oil. Have
purchased different kinds of worm medi-
cinc that are advertised, but obtain poor
results from them. I“. McN., Bad Axe,
Mich—Give each horse 6 drs. aloes, 1/2 dr.
caloinel, 2 drs. santoninc and 2 drs. of
ground ginger at a dose once a week.
Pregnant mares should not be given this
medicine.

.l'tlieuinatism—Indigcstion.~—Our three-
year-old mule first went lame in fore leg,
then lameness shifted to hind leg and we
are unable to tell what ails him. I also
have a two-year-old heifer that has been
in an unthrifty condition for the past 12
months. J. L., Bangor, BIlCll.-—UIVC your
mule 1 dl'. salicylate of soda at a dose in
feed three times a day and apply spirits
of camphor to sore parts twicc a day.
Your heit‘er may have swallowed a few
nails or a. piece, of wire that has putte-
tured stomach and injured other internal
organs. She will perhaps die.

Hard Milkcr.~~llavc a valuable cow
that milks very hard and 1 would like to
know how to make hcr milk easier. \V.
A. Ii, Marcellus, AIICII.""IYSC milking
tubes or dilate opening in teats.

\Varbles.—llave a cow whose back is
filled with long white grubs. I am not
familiar with farming and stock raising;
therefore ask your advice. S. H, l’ea-
cock, NIICII.WI\’IZII{G opening in skin larger
or cut through skin and squeeze out
grub, then kill him. Apply one part car-
bolic acid and 50 parts water to sores
once a day until they heal. If thcse little
bunches were painted with iodine in fall

it might prevent grub from maturing.
Stockinen do not regard this a serious
ailment, but it does lower the price of
hide.

Uakcd 't'dder.—0ne-half of my eight-
year-old cow’s udder is caked and very

little milk comes from it. A. J. J., Alto,
Mich—Give your cow 2 drs, iodide of
potassium at a dose in feed three times
a day and apply one part iodine and ten
parts fresh lard or vaseline 011ch a day.

A 'l‘eat with Two Openings—Have a
heifer that recently fl‘cshencd that has
two holes in same teat. N. W. B., Man-
ton, Mich.~»Milk her through a milking
tube and close opcning by making tcat
opening raw and stitching it, or it might
close by tying a tape around teat.

\Vorms.—«.\. 8.. Hawks, Mich—See
treatment for worms this column.

1ndigestionwstlrl‘cit.~Have a five—year-
old Clytle.:tlalc mare that is not thriving,
coat rough, pcrspircs too freely, acts
dumpish, and has little ambition. I), 8.,
Bad Axe, Mich.——Clip her and increase
her food supply. She should be fed
enough bran mashcs and roots to keep
her bowels open. Also give her 1 oz. of
ground gcntian, 1 dr, ground nux vomica
and 1 oz. cooking soda at a dose in feed
two or three times a day,

Hide-bound—VVe have a 14—year-old
mare that is fairly wcll fed, but is hide—
bound and out of condition. G. ll, l’ros—
per, Mich—Have her teeth tloatcd, in-
crease her food supply, salt her well and
keep her bowels open. Give her 1 dr. of
ground nux vomica, 1/; oz. ground gen-
tian, 1g? oz. cinchona and 1/1“. oz. ground
ginger at a dose in feed three times a
day.

Rheumatism.—l have two young pigs
that are stiff and not thriving. H. F..
Kalamazoo, Mich—Give each pig fiv
grains of salicylate of soda at a dose in
feed twice a day. Feed lesg corn, more
oats and oil meal; also keep them dry
and warm.

  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  

 

 

 

 

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through your cows and other stock undigested.

of “ The Dr. Hess Idea " which strengthens digestion.

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p Tonic at $1.60 or 100 lbs. at $5.00. (Except in Canada and ,-;;;

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her offspring, but in her domesticated condition, she must yield milk in abundance nearly the year

  

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_ . _ Furthermore, the healthy animal
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Now, considering the tendency to impaired digestion and the natural waste of nutrition, why not avail yourself
Given in a small dose twice a day.

    

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pay you and pay you Well, get your money back. Every pound
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Free from the Isl to the 10th ol each month—Dr. Hess (M. D-, D. V- S.) will
prescribe for your ailing animals. 96 page Veterinary Book free for
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I’ll Stop Your Worm Losses
I’ll Prove It Before You Pay

Don’t let worms breed contagious diseases among your hogs this year.
Don’t let them kill off the young pigs and rob you of your season‘s profits. You can prevent it
if you will just take ”a stitch in time.” Now is the time when worms begin to get in their deadly
work. Now they are breeding, multiplying by the millions in the stomach and intestines, and if
you don’t get the best 0f thetn, they will surely get the best of you. Let me show you how. I‘ll
get rid of stomach and] free intestinal worms in your hogs, sheep, horses and cattle and prove
it to your satisfaction (not mine) before you pay me a cent. I‘ll do it with

SAL

uo.u5.ru.otf.
The Great Worm Destroyer and Conditioner

I’ve done it for thousands and in addition they write me they never had stock
thrive better. look better and bring them such profitable returns. Here is my offer to you.

Send No Money— Just the Coupon

Simply fill in the coupon, tell me how many head of hogs, sheep, horses and
cattle you have. I will then ship you enough Sal—Vet to last them 60 days. You pay the small
freight charge when it arrives—put it where all your stock can get free access to it—and they
will doctor themselves. They eat it as they do salt—just as they need it, and at the end of
the 60 days if You don‘t feel satisfied. write me and I'll cancel the charge. I take your word as
final—-I let you act as judge of its merit—I put everything up to you. How can. you risk loss—
how can you “it your stock drag along when they should be thriving. growing into profit when
SIECh 8 fair, open offer like this is put at your disposal? You have all to gain—nothing to risk.
Fill out and mail the coupon now. Don‘t put it off—lest you forget. Read the letters above.

Sldney R.l-'ell, Pres.-—The s. n. rm. oo.— Dept. n.5, Cleveland, Ohio

Prices: 40le., $2.25; 100 1b.... $5.00; 2001139.. 39.00: 300 in... $13.00; 500 lbs.. $21.12

I
Sal-Vet always comeiin original “Trade-Marked ”Packages, Never sold loose in bulk ar_ by the '0' o4
plgfixd. Lookforthe Sal-Ve " trade-mark—itisyouvprotechonagoinst imitations and substitutes ’0 \
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I have been in the hog Lusiness for
3t) years and have tried every known
remedy for hogs, but have never found
anythingr equal to your Sal-Vet. It cer-
tainly does the work and is easy to
feed. Ifeed it to little pigs, boars,preg—
nant sows and find it O. K. I wil.I
never be without Sal-Vet.

C. F. MARSHALL & SON,
Per G. F. M. Monroe, Ia.

"I had a lot of sick hogs and I lost
five of them. I began feeding them Sal-
Vet, my_losses stopped and the hogs
soon got into a fine. healthy condition.

V. l’. UNDERVVOOD.
R. D. No. 1, Roachdale, Ind.

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While I cannot say positively Sal-Vet
kept my hogs from having Cholera, I
had no such sickness while my neigh-
bors almost without exception lost hogs
from Cholera. I certainly have great
faith in Sal-Vet and it is all and more
than you claim for it.

J. C. CONOVER.
Chrisman, Ill.

 

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Ilused your Sal-Vet regularly 9" ‘9‘0
while feeding a bunch of fat- I‘ O x.
tening hogs and can say it " 05‘ 0‘
is Just the article. It made I \0 8900'
my hogs double their 4' 4" ® “A
weight in 50 days. It is 0' \° «[999
a great conditioner I' 0 $

:1 n d w o r m
stroyer.

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E. E. SHULL, ,o'
LaCynge, "
Kansas. ,
We have I

hundreds o‘
more I (0 N

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A GOOD SYSTEM FOR GROWING'
ONIONS.

 

 

 

A method of growing onions that is
winning many producers of this crop from
the old ways of planting. is what has
been described as the new—onion culture.
The method has merit and that is why it
is gaining ground, and no .doubt the time
is not far away when the plan will be
followed generally by those who make
this crop a specialty.

The method, as usually followed. con-
sists in sowing the seeds in the hotbed
or greenhouse in March, allowing them to
grow until the soil in the garden, or field,
is ready, both as to temperature and
preparation, when the little plantlets are
transplanted in rows a certain distance
apart.

Now the two chief advantages are, that
the plants have a much longer season in
which to grow, thus producing a larger
sized bulb and consequently a better and
more valuable crop, and second, that the
labor required to mature the crop is less
for the reason that weeding and thinning
are practically done away with and that
the substituted work of transplanting is
less laborious and more rapidly done.

The best plan is to sow the seeds in
flats and set these in the greenhouse. hot-
bcd, or if these places are not available,
in any location that is well supplied with
sunlight and where the temperature is
high enough to stimulate growth. The
advantage of having the plants. in flats
are that they can be changed about so
that better use is made of the sunlight,
should that be provided in limited
amounts, but more particularly for the
convenience in planting—the fiats being
carried to the field and the planting be-
ing done directly from them.

The seeds usually develop more regu—
larly when planted in the flats in rows 21
certain distance apart and of a definite
depth and when sown promiscuously. It
is Well to use, considerable sand with the
garden soil for the reason that a better
root system is developed on the plants
where they germinate in soil that requires
a. reaching out for plant food than in rich
garden loam that has all the necessary
plant food close by. This large root sys—
tem will make better plants for moving
to the field. \\'hcn the plants are the size
of an ordinary lead pencil they are ready
to bc transplanted.

“'hile the plants are attaining their
proper size, ill.“ field can be cleared of
wet-(ls pretty thoroughly by giving the
weeds 3. chance to grow and then harrow
them down, and the time also permits of
:1 more perfect preparation of the land.
Where the soil is very rich the rows can
be put close together, say two feet apart,
or they may he only 18 inches, but where
horse power is used for cultivating the
plan is to put them three feet apart. In
the rows the plants are generally set four
inches apart.

The general rules of transplanting ap-
ply here: That is. it is best to do the
Work in the evening or during cloudy or
cvcn rainy weather. The soil should be
firmed about the roots so that they will
not dry out before getting a hold in their
ncw location. The wheel hoe ought to be
run th'l‘ the rows as early as possible
aftcr planting to prevent too rapid exap—
cration of moisture, which endangers the
plants. The usual precaution of cutting
away a portion of thc top to correspond
with the breaking away of Home of the
root system in removing the plant from
its first habitat, is also a profitable prac-
tice. However. one can take out a con-
sidcrable portion of the soil with the
roots from the tint and deposit it with the
new plant in the field, and this is the best
prmticn for then thc little fibrous root-
ltts are left intact and continue to do
Work. it goes without saying that the
plants should be hardened off before, go-
ing to the field: that is, they should be.
so exposed to the weather before trans—
planting that thcy will not suffer as they
Would from being taken out of a warm
cnvironmcnt into the open field.

After the crop is established the pro-
gram is to keep the plot well worked by
means of the usual garden tools. If the
field is large horse cultivators are usually
found most economical unless the land
is valuable and one desires that every
inch must produce its maximum, when
the rows can be put close together and
the wheel hoes used for the after. culti-
vation; but many find that with certain
horses they can do this work when the
spaces between the rows are narrow, but

hand hoes are most commonly employed
under such circumstances. The cultiva-
tions should be frequent to prevent loss
of moisture since this plant demands an
abundance of water to carry it through
to maturity. After rains, as soon as the
ground can be worked safely the surface
should be stirred for the same reason.

“'here the ,cultivating is properly looked

after it is seldom that any weeding needs
to be done and when so, the task is not
an arduous one Since the onions have such
a start that weeds are kept down, mak—
ing it necessary to take out only strag-
glers. ‘

The bulbs grown by this method are
large. They are generally as large as
onions grown from sets. The resulting
crop and the aggregate of work required
for the year, as well as the better dis-
tribution of it, are sure to appeal to the
business oni0n grower as well as to him
who only produces a home supply but
wants a first-class product.

 

GROWING o~NToNs 01:1 CRE—EK FLATS.

 

I have about one acre of creek flats and
would like to know if it would grow good
onions. It was broken up one year ago
and last year it grew fine corn. Do you
think it would need any fertilizer and
how much? What kind of an onion do
1011 think would be best to grow?

Sanilac Co. H. J. M.

From 11 hat information our correspond-
ent gives. it would appear that he ought
to expect a good crop of onions from this
soil, providing the season is a normal
one. Land that will grow a big crop of
corn should make good onion soil. This
soil should have perfect surface drainage,
although onions require to be grown
where they can reach an abundant supply
of moisture throughout the growing sea-
son. You undoubtmlly would get good
returns from a liberal use, say 500 to 700
pounds, of a complete commercial fertil-
izer on this land, as this crop dcmands
a large quantity of available plant food
which the commercial fertilizer would
help to provide. The application of wood
ashes to the surface would also be help—
ful, and where available in sufficient
quantities they would be equally as valu-
able as commercial fertilizers. Do not
use fresh stable manure on the soil for
onions unless it can be, applied two or
three years previous to the growing of
the crop. .As to varieties, you perhaps
would obtain best results by growing
some standard kinds, as Yellow Danvers,
Yellow Globe, also White Globe and Red
Globe and Red W'ethersfield. '

WILL ORGANIZE FOR MARKETING
PURPOSES.

The Minnesota Horticultural Society
is now working out plans for the organi-
zation of a marketing association. The
constitution is already drafted and the
plans will be completed at a meeting to be
held in March. The work of the different
societies of the state indicate that the
only manner of properly handling the
products of the orchards and gardens is
through organization. It is the object of
the promoters of the scheme now being
launched to form a central marketing
station to which individual isolatcd grow-
ers can consign their fruit to be disposed
of with that from growers of districts
where a specialty is made of fruit produc-
tion. It is anticipated that the organiza-
tion will not only bcnctit the individuals
who patronize» it. but that it will be the
means of placing the many local and
state horticultural organizations 011 a.
much more substantial basis, increase the
support given the societics and make
them a factor to be felt in the purely
commercial side of the fruit and vegetable
business.

The Department of Agriculture has re-
ceivcd a report of some experiments eon-
(lucted by the Virginia station with a
limo—sulphur sprays as substitutes for
Bordeaux mixture in the treatment of ap—
ple diseases. Lime-sulphur solution so
diluted as to contain four pounds of sul-
phur in each :70 gallons of spray, proved
to be a good Substitute for Bordeaux mix—
ture in the control of apple scab. fruit
Spot, leaf spot, and cedar rust. Bordeaux,
however. was superior in the control of
bitter rot.

Cheapest to Plant Best Seeds.

Experience has shown that the best
seeds are the cheapest. Your best as-
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an old established house of good reputa-
tion. Northrup, King & Co., 693 Bridge
Sq., Minneapolis, have sold Sterling Seeds
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MARCH 9, 1912.

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THE MICHIGAN FA~RMER.

THE CULTURE OF STONE FRUITS.

The Best Plums, Cherries, and other Stone
Fruits for the Family Orchard, and
How to Grow Them.
In the latitude of New York, I advise
the spring planting of all fruits, and the
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Plant the stone fruits on land that is
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after the tree is started rightly, as the
leaves are the feeding organs of the tree.
and the larger the leaf surface the great-
er its growth.

If one wishes to plant a plum tree, th'it
with good care will give him fruit when
the foreign varieties are all dead, he
should plant the American or native
plums of the Wild Goose type, i. 0., if he
can get them. The quality is not high
but they make good sauce. Few nur-

sei‘ymcn catalogue the native plums be-

When planted on low ground in the al-
luvial soils that are richer in humus, the
most of the European plums live a few
years and bear fine fruit. They are worth
planting under such conditions if one can
do no better, and they should be given a
place in the family fruit garden.

Those who grow the European plums
must expect to combat the. curculio and
black knot, which infest these more than
the Japan and natives. The black knot
is controlled by cutting out and burning,
always when it first appears. Curculio
catchers are used in the large plum or—
chards. Some people plant plums in the
chicken yard or place the coops near :1
bunch of plum trees, and the chickens eat
the curculio, which fall off with little or
no jarring. For planting in New York, I
rtgard the Rhein Claude, Bradshaw,
Shropshire, Damson, and Fellenburg, as
among the best European plums.

Sour cherries I think can be safely
planted anywhere in New York, and in
most of the northern states. I know of
no fruit I would plant with more confi-
dence than the Early Richmond and
Montmorency cherries, and I think Eng-
lish Morillo generally thrives well. The
Montmoreney is the best of all the sour
cherries. \Vhen it grows naturally it
makes a very handsome tree. with little
pruning. The way to grow a cherry tree
is just to clip the ends of the branches
to aid nature a little in keeping the form
right, and occasionally thinning the
branches at little to let in sunshine, or to
separate the branches. Jrowing in mod—
erately rich soil, this is all the pruning
the cherry tree needs.

A block of sour cherries on the home-
stead farm is the. most profitable fruit
of many kinds grown. \Vhen in blossom
and fruiting they are very beautiful, and
one would want to eat the cherries be-
cause they appeal to the, aesthetic sense
—they are good to look at. These trees

 

 

cause, they have not been called for, and

because it is easier to get lilurt'ipean and
Japan trees. Most of us will make the.
best of the situation and plant these
trees. if you are in the peach belt, and

want an abundance of plums of rather
low quality, but which are. good for can»
ning, you can get them with Vt-ry little
trouble if you plant the Japan varieties.
In southeastern New York, where the
temperature sometimes fails to 20 de—
grees below zero, I know the Japan plum
can be so grown that they will not win—
ter-kill, by planting on high land and not
in very rich soil. 1 planted some. Japan
plum trees on low rich soil, and they
finally all winter-killed, while those plant—
ed on high ground in the same locality
were entirely hardy, but they have blos-
somed so early that the fruit has been
killed so they have not produced a crop
only about every third year. The Bur-
bank, Abundance, and the Red June, I
think are the best of the Japan plums.
In all parts of New York, and in lati-
tudes not colder, the European plums
can be grown fairly well, but when plant—
ing them the principles should be kept
in mind that a tree or plant is made
hardy or tender by its en ironment, and
so plant them on an elevat on, when 1’03-
sible, and in not over—rich soil. On the,
farm the best place for all fruit trees,
and especially the stone fruits, is on the
exposed hillside, or on the elevations and
knolls. and where there is natural drain-
age, and then the growth of the trees
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vw-re planted on a slope. The sol! in red
sandstone, and had grown corn and clo—

\'er, and was only iiiotlcratt-ly rich. The
trees were planted 20 feet apart each
way, and cultivated crops were grown
ln-iwm-u them for two or lhl'('(‘ years, af—
ter which it Was seeded to clth-r and
other grasses.

it is enough to say about the meet
cherries on this place that it is my C!-
Ilt-l'lt'llt’O that tlu‘y are too tender to live
many years, outside of the peach bolt,
unless special culture is given them.
lilack 'l‘artarian and \i'indsor arg good
Varieties of black cherries, and Yellow
Spanish and Napoleon yellow cherries,

if wanted. 'l‘hesc will thrive in about the
same conditions as does the peach.

The patch and apricot are the best
(It-SOl't fruits of all the stone fruits. The
general culture of the peach family, which
is only semi—hardy, is restricted to cer<
lain conditions of climate in our country
know as “l’each Belts." It may interest
many of my readers who live outside of
the peach belt to learn how
grow suiliciout pouches for family use.
(me method which is most certain to give

satisfactory results is winter protection
of trees by covering.
The trees may be headed low and

trained to the side of a building or to
trellises in a similar way 10 the grape
vines, and then in winter covered with
straw and burlap. \Vhere the tempera—
ture seldom gees lower than 20 or 25 de-
grees, I have known people to have good
success by hardening the trees by plant-

lhey can I

 

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Zvu \w.

ing them in rather poor soil, in the way I.
have described‘for plums. In’the lot of
Japan plums I planted on the low land,
were some peaches. These all died,
while those planted on the high land were
hardy. With about the same treatment
as the peach and plum. sweet cherries
can be grown out of their natural en-
vironment.

The Champion peach is about the best
peach we now have, for the family gar-
den or orchard. It is both hardy and of
high quality. Greensborough and Hill’s
Chili are good. The apricot is a little
more tender than most peaches. and is
gchn the same culture. Except under
the most favorable conditions it is not
grown in New York.

.\ knowledge of facts about stone fruits
will prevent many people from making
serious and expensive mistakes, especially
in the matter of planting foreign varie-
ties habituated to a warm climate, in
our cold climate. It would have saved
me from making one costly mistake. if I
had tokcn the advice of some experienced
and conscrvative fruit growers.

The Japan plums were recommended
for general planting in New York, in
some Ncw York nurscryman's catalogue.
i bought a lot of trees and planted them
rather low ground in rich garden soil
Iliuropcan plums were doing
The trees grew rapidly for

on
where some
fairly v.'cll,
four or live years, and the large line
trees gave me much satisfaction. then
the trccs began to gradually die, and in
two ycars cvcry

.\s coinpurt-«l with the apple and pcur
trccs, tlu- trccs of the stone. fruits are
shorter lived, and the fruit quickly pcr—
islics :ii‘tt-i ripcning, but the trees come
into blaring llititll sooner and require lcss
land on which to grow, so they :ll'e lict—
garden culture than the
and pears.

one was dead.

{or zltlfilllt‘tl to
sitiudainl upphs

.\s the culiurc is loss ltiborious and
more plctisunt, I likc to grow the most
oi my fruits on ti‘ccs. \\'liilc for tho
northern states the apple and pctir arc
the bcsi tree fruits, yct we would not
wish to do without the stonc fruits, and
it is the privilegc of most peoplc who
haVc cvcn a small plot of land, to enjoy
the luscious peach, apricot. and plum,
eaten out of the hand as a dessert fruit,
and the pleasant and refreshing acid of
the cherry, when picked fresh from the
tree and fully ripe so we gct their true
flavor.

New York.

(Editor’s Notc.~‘l‘lelawai'e county, New
York, corrt-sponds in latitude with south-
ern Michigan and conditions are similar
to those. of lower Michigan outside of the

XV. I i. .TicNKiNs.

fruit bt it proper».

GROWING CELERY~-THE OLD WAY
VS, THE NEW.

 

\\’c are eating celery now, instcad of
planting it, but the time will soon he. here
when §.Z£i!‘ll(lllilg will be in ordcr. and the
sccd should lie on hand whether the gov-
ernnieii-L seeds have come or not,

\‘.‘licii l commcnccd raising this excel—
:t-lll \'c;:ci.thlc more than thirty )'(‘;tl‘>‘:iL:H.
l ruiscd it in the old, laborious orthodox
nay ll‘. accordancc with the directions of
the cnrw't-lopulin. and highest horticultural

authorities. 'l‘liis apparcnily universal
way nas. to sr' the plants in ditch
which l|.t(l l't‘t'l': dug two i‘c-o, dccp. Then
some rich diit. or rottcn manure, was put

in the bottom and thc plants sci in it
about is inches below the siiri‘m'c. It is
quite a job to (ll): ditchcs 20 inches widc
and “to ich dcep, (as was formcrly the
l'lllt'), and partly iill thcin with manure
and rich dirt. Then comes thc hack—ach—
ing work of gclting down on your knots
to mark thC'distancc tho plants are to be
apart. and set tlicm in their places. After
this tin-y arc to be watered every day
until rain comes, when tlicy are likely to
lie drownid. and loose dirt washed on
them, and you will iind your plants buried
ocurly out of sight with mud, which must
be carefully remth-d with lllO' hands and
the plants strttiglitcned up. in filling tho
ditch as the plants grow. great care must
lie taken lest the earth gets between their
lcavcs and damage thcm. “hen the
leaves of your celery show ilie “white
plumc" perhaps you congratulate yourself
that your trouble is over. Not so. Your
hardest job is yet to come. To dig your
celery properly, another ditch must be
dug at the side of the first, and two or
three inches deeper, so as to undermine
the plants, or the leaves will be broken
in trying to pull them up.

I did not raise celery long in this man-
ner. it was “paying to.) dear for the
whistle.” I then tried setting on top of
the ground and after the plants had been
earthed up considerably ‘vrapped them up

with still: paper secured by strings. This
was an improvement on the .old ,way,but

"not quite satisfactory. and I next tried

setting on top of the ground, and after
several hoeings and “handlings” placed
boards about a foot wide on both sides of
the row, secured them in place with
stakes, then filled in around them with
dirt as fast as they made growth. It
was an improvement on the old way, as
no ditches had to be dug, and to dig the
celery all that was necessary was to pull
up the stakes, remove the boards and
most of the dirt would fall away of its
own accord, and the remainder could be
quickly removed with the grub-hoe. The
final experiment, and the one most im~
portant of all, was to place the boards as
closely to the plants as possible without
injury, and put no dirt between them.
To my surprise and gratification I found
that my celery was just as good in every
respect as when raised in the ditch sur-
rounded with earth.

I supposed for a long time that I was
the discoverer of the board system for
blanching, but afterwards learned that
others had practiced the method before.

“Handling” is done by straddling the
row, taking the leaves of the plant in
both hands, drawing them together, and
holding them with the left. while the right
is pressing the loose earth about them to
make them grow upright without: sprawl-
ing. The plants are set eight inches
apart.

(nir method of storing for winter use, is
in boxes eight inches wide and 20 inches
deep. so that it can be covered with Wire
netting in case rats should get into the
cellar. "he plants are (lug with a ball of
earth adhering to their roots. placed in
the boxes in an upright position, and the
ball of earth occasionally watered. W'e
have kept it in this manner until spring
without much rotting.

Near the city of Kalamazoo, Mich., I
saw 'l,200 acrcs of celery growing in
swamp land, much of which was boarded
with boards about, 10 inches wide, and
not a particle of earth put, between them.
(mions were also being grown in this
moist black dirt. J. W. INGHAM.

CONTROLLING ONION MAGGOTS.

 

'l have a piece of ground that has been
gardened for some years and it has got
full of onion maggots Or the little white
grub, so they nearly destroyed my crop
of onions. Is there. any way to get rid
of them. if so let me. know through your
paper, as there are: a number bothered
in the same way.

Shiawassee Co. SUBSCRIBER.

It would seem. from the description
given by the subscriber, that some ar-
raiigeincnis should be made for growing
other crops on this land for a few years.
or until the pests are starved out. The
maggots are the larvae of a little fly that
looks not unlike the common housefly.
Eggs are laid after the plants have start-
cd and from these the maggots hatch and
proceed to live upon the host crop.

A number of remedies for keeping the
posts from destroying the onions have
ln-cn suggested from time to time. The
general line of treatment, however is in
preventing the flies from laying the eggs
and lllzlS eliminating the disastrous re-
sults “’lllth follow the presence of the
little grubs. As suggestcrl above tin» r0—
tation of crops affords an cffective means
of controlling onion maggots. However,
in certain instances it is not feasible to
do this and some othcr expedient must
be found. ,l)cc:iycd organic matter at—
tittcts these iiics and givtls them a good
lircmiing—placc which makcs thcm more
Uillicult to control. 11' manure is to be
added it is best that it should be, done
whtn a prcvious crop is grown that the
vegetable matter may be well transformed
into plant food by the time the onions
are, growing. Many growers have found
that by usingr nitrate of soda. kainit and
chloride of potash as fertilizers upon the
land the work of the insects is reduced to
a minimum, and often altogether stopped.

An cffective means of keeping away the
tlics is by wetting some dry sand with
kerosene oil, using perhaps a cupful of
oil to three gallons of sand. This mix~
ture is distributed along the onion rows
close to the plants, but the! oil is' kept
from touching them. The vapor from the,
oil will drive away the flies, and it is im-
possible for the maggots to travel through
this sand and live, the oil killing them
in a short period of time. Another meth-,
od is to spray the plants with carbolic
emulsion diluted from 40 to 50 times with
water. This repellant is far keeping
away the flies and should be applied be-
fore the eggs are laid.

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”"(SD'S"'I'N”THE FARM GARDEN.

 

The importance of a good farm garden
cannot be overestimated. The value of a.
good garden is appreciated by every
housewife, and its importance is so well
conceded by every farmer that the garden
is generally started out quite propitiously
in the spring. That is, the ground is
plowed and a variety of seed is planted,
and one or two cultivations are given,
when the rush season comes on and too
often the garden is then neglected until
it becomes overrun with weeds, and past
redemption, so far as the bountiful pro-
duction of staple foods and delicacies for
the table is concerned. The housewife
and the children generally make an effort
to keep the weeds down, but the results
are not at all satisfactory.

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garden as usually practiced on the busy
farm. There is, however, a method of
extensive, rather than intensive garden-
ing, which would insure .a much more
generous and constant supply of garden
truck for the farm table which can be
followed with profit, where there is not
the time or inclination to practice inten-
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od consists in planting the garden in one
corner of a corn or potato field which is
located reasonably near to the house.
\Vlien this method is "followed the rows
should be made to correspond with the
width of rows to be planted in the field,
so that it can be cultivated at the same
time and with the. same implements. The
garden drill is a great convenience in
planting a garden in this manner, but if
it is not available one can get along
nicely with a hand corn planter and a hoe.

Vv’here this method of planting the gar-
den is used, there will be little hand work
required. The young plants will need to
be hoed when they first come up for best
results, and again when they require
thinning, where this is needed, and the
other cultivation required can be ac-
complished at the same time the crop
grown in the field is cultivated. This
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lectcd, and will minimize the work of
producing a maximum amount of garden
stuff. The weeds will not be as trouble-
some as would be the case in the small
plot which has been used as a garden
for years, and the garden plants will be
likely to do better than where grown for
years in succession on the same ground.

But this method of growing the farm
garden has its disadvantages as well as
its advantages. One of the most serious
of these is the fact. that considerable ex-
tra travel will be necessary in gathering
the garden stuff at a distance from the
house. This item will probably offset the
saving in labor in cultivating the garden
crops. Then there is the fact that the
small fruits cannot be grown in this way
to advantage in a field which is devoted
to the regular crop rotation, and every
farm should have its patch of strawber—
ries and other small fruits to supply this
appetizing and healthful item of daily
diet. But the “extensive" farm garden
is far better than a garden failure, not-
withstanding these disadvantagos‘, and the
farmer who has found from experience
that he cannot or does not give proper
attention to the garden when it is needed
would do well to try the plan.

But the intensive garden, surrounded
by a chicken-proof fence and located
conveniently to the kitchen door, in which
a good variety of fruits and vegetables
are grown in abundance for the family
table is probably the most satisfactory
solution of the garden problem. 'But
whatever the solution, it should be one
which will insure a good supply of whole-
some garden products. No work done on
the farm will yield a better return for the
time and labor expended on it than that
done in a good farm garden,

Oakland Co. A. It. FAIRMER.

THE GARDEN LEGUMES.

 

In growing our own supplies of peas
and beans we desire a product that is
tender and sweet and sufficiently produc-
tive to make the entcrprise worth the
labor required for its production. T0 at-
tain these ends there are certain princi-
plcs to be, adhered to in the. preparation
of the soil, the planting and care of the
crop. It is the purpose of this article to
bring some of these principles to the
minds of growers just now when they are
thinking of the garden.

These crops should be sown early. With
beams the practice is to sow as soon as
the probability of any further frost has
passed. Peas are not so delicate and can
be put in the ground as early as it is

possible 'to‘” work ' the soil‘. ' The latter
plant will submit nobly to the stern con-
ditions of transplanting and to gain a lap
on the season it is a satisfactory practice
to plant some seeds in sand in boxes or
flats and start indoors with the purpose
of setting in the garden rows late. ,The
most convenient manner of doing this is
to plant the seeds in little pieces of sod
which are carried with the plant to the
garden and set, sod and all, in the spot
wanted. This minimizes the disturbance
to the root system of the plant. Succes-
sive plantings of these crops can be made
every two weeks through April and May
for lengthening the harvesting season.

The soil for growing peas and beans
should be well supplied with plant food.
It is imperative where the gardener is
seeking to develop the tcndcrest and best
flavored crops to have the plants in reach
of plenty of plant food. Not only should
the soil be fertile but the fertility must
be in a quickly available form, for should
the plant haVe to wait for the acids of
decomposing vegetable matter to act up-
on the rough plant food it will suffer both
in size of crops and quality of the peas
or beans produced. So have the soil in
perfect condition by the application of
fertilizers. “'elI-decomposed stable ma~
nure added the previous year helps fit the
soil for these crops as it does for most
garden products. Of course. peas and
beans have the power of securing nitro-
gen from the air the same as clovcrs and
\ctches, but the season of the plant is so
short compared with the other plants
that it is better to have the nitrogen in
tho soil to give them a start and keep
them growing until harvested, if neces—
sary. It is a maxim among scientific
gardeners that where one keeps the plants
growing steadily from the first that the
quality is much supcrior and that there
is less danger from the attacks of insects
and fungous diseascs. This steady growth
is maintained by supplying plant food
nutrients to the crops and seeing that a
water supply is constantly on hand to dis-
solve the food for assimilating by the
root system of the plant.

Again, the soil should be well-drained.
It is impossible to haVc, peas and beans
do well where their feeding surface is
limited to the upper few inches of the
soil by a high—water level. The land
must be drained so that the air can get
down to transform the plant food and
give the nitrogen bacteria a chance to do
their work upon the roots whore they
form colonies of nodules in the surface
tissue of the plant. Many soils are nat—
urally well—drained. but: if artificial drain—
age is nemled it should be given the gar-
den at least. The additional harvest the
iirst season from the garden plot will pay
the cxpcnscs of the ircnches, providing
an outlet is not too expensive,

Correlated. with the two foregoing con-
ditions for the successful growing of these
two legumes, is another which looks to
the giving of each plant a suflicient ter—
ritory for feeding without infringement
upon the rights of its neighbor. It is
better to have a pea plant every four
inches in a row than to have three in
that; distance since better results will ac-
crue to the gardener. The one plant will
produce a line crop while the three would
live an aborted life for lack of food and
sunshine. llcncc, it is good practice and
time economically spent to go over the
rows and thin out the little plants to a
distance apart that will give them room
to do their best. This is not as tedious
a task as it is to weed some other crops,

\Vayne Co. A. H.

 

Of ll volunteer experiments on blister-
miie there were 10 reports of satisfactory
results by the use of the home—made
lime—sulphur and one report of failure. Of
seven experiments on San Jose scale there
were five reports of cflicient control and
two reports of partial success, due prob-
ably to difficulties in spraying large trces,
or to the use of mixtures of too low dcn—
slties. The results on scale- emphasizes
the necessity both of thorough spraying
and of using diluted mixtures of efficient
strengths to obtain uniform results on
this pest. There were four reports on
spraying with arseiiate of lead in a lime-
sulphur solution for the codling moth
which are inconclusive because of the
conditions of the experiments.

Specialists in Alfalfa.

For 28 years Northrup, King & C0,, 603
Bridge Sq., Minneapolis, have been seed
specialists and fields of alfalfa grown
from their seed have produced immcnse
yields. 12,000 dealers sell their Sterling
Seed. For full information and prices
write for their 28th Annual Catalogue. It
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that can be used. The additional crops produced will

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Wheel Base——
112 Inches
Wheels.—
34 inches
Demountahle
Rims
Speed——
45 Miles per
Hour
Made with 2,
4 and 5 Pas-
senger Bodies

Top and windshield not included in price.
windshield, gas tank and speedometer—all for $100 extra.

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$1.055

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We equip this car with mohair top, side curtains and slip-cover,
Sen-starter, it wanted, $20 extra.

 

How We Build It at This Record Price

By R. E. Olds. Designer

The sensational price on Reo the Fifth seems to call for explanation.
This is My Farewell Car, my finest creation. And I find that men
can’t understand how the best I know can he built for $1,055.

I hzu c spent ‘23 years in building auto~
muhih's. Reo the liifth is my 24th
lllmlt‘l.

l have run the whole gamut of auto-
mobile experience, up to U—cylinder six-
tics.

Thus I have. built up a highly—prized
reputation. [Tens of thousands of men
have bought cars largely because I de—
signed them—because of their faith in
me.

Now .l bringr out .\ly Farewell Car. I
say to all men that this car marks my
limit. It will stand as my topmost
achievement—41s the final result of my
matchlcss experience.

Stop and think. The price may be too
lmv: we may need to advance it. But,
whatever the price. can anyone think I
Would skimp on this Farewell Car?

Simple Efficiency

This $1,055 price is just the result of
efficiency. carried to the farthest limit.

In this great plant. with its model

equipment, we have been working for
years to build good cars economically.

\\'e have invented and built here scores
of machines to cut the Cost of produc«
tion. \\'ithout them. there are hundreds
of parts on which labor cost would run
from ten to fifty times as much.

Each machine cuts our labor cost.
Each, in addition, gives us marvelous ex—
actness. Now we build in this shop
every part of the car, by the most econ-
omical, most exact methods ever ‘em—
ploycd in a motor car plant.

Other Economies

Gradually every part has been stand-
ardized, so the tools and machines be—
came permanent. That saved vast ex-
pense.

Our output has grown to enormous
proportions, so overhead expense 15 re
duced to the minimum.

Selling cost. too. The cars in use sell
the cars we make, so dealers are content
with a very small profit.

We save nearly onefifth on the cost
of our cars by building only one chassis
in this whole big plant.

We are not over—capitalized—have no
bonded debt. Thus we avoid one big
factor in cost. Our profits have been
pared to the minimum.

Thus Reo the Fifth—my finest crea-
tion—is costing $197) less than the Reo
of last year. And that was a marvelous
value.

Those are the ways in which we have
economized. Now I’ll tell you where we
don’t.

our Extravagance

In Reo the Fifth, in every part, I use
the best steel alloy known for the pur—
pose. That means Nickel steel for the
axles and driving shaft. It means Vana—
dium steel for connections.

Each lot of steel is analyzed in our
laboratory, and all steel is rejected which
fails to accord with our formula.

I make the axles and driving shaft
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differential designed for 45 horsepower.
I do this to leave a big margin of safety.
One learns to do that after 25 years of
experience.

Instead of testing gears with a ham-
mer, I built a crushing machine of 50
tons’ capacity, to prove to exactness
what each gear would stand.

Reo the Fifth has more Roller Bear—
ings than any other car of its class. That
means Timken and Hyatt High Duty——
the costliest and best bearings known.
There are only three ball bearings in
this whole car, and two of them are in
the fan.

\Ve use the same clutch as $5,000 cars
-—the same grade of springs—the same
efficient type of brakes.

The carburetor is doubly heated—with
hot air and hot water—and adapted to
even low grade gasoline.

The magneto I use is submitted to a

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test, which only two makes known tome
will stand.

And never was a car more carefully
inspected than is Reo the Fifth in every
step of the making.

0hr Liberality

In the lesser essentials yOu. see the
same wondrous care.

The wheel base is long, giving unusual
room both in the front and the tonneau.
The wheels are filelj/é inches—gener—
ously large for a car of this weight.

The body finish consists of 1’? coats.
The nickel and black finish is like the
costliest cars. Even the engine is nickel
trimmed.

The upholstering is deep, made of gen-
uine leather, filled with genuine hair.
The design of the car has the last touch
of up—to—dateness. There are ventilators
which can be opened or closed. There
are demountable rims.

Inside or outside, there is nothing in

this car which I know how to better.
And I know every car that's made.

The Center Cane-Handle
Control—No Side Levers
An Exclusive Feature

Then there is this center, cane—handle
coutrol, found in no other car. The gear
shifting is done by moving this lever
only three inches in each of four direc—
tions.

There are no side levers to get in the
way. The entrance in front is as clear
as the tonneau. Note the picture.

Both brakes operate by foot pedals.
One of the pedals also operates the
clutch.

This arrangement permits the left. Side
drive, heretofore possible in electric cars
only. The driver sits, as he should sit,
close to the cars which he passes and on
the up side of the road.

These are features to which other cars
must come. but you find them today only
in Reo the Fifth.

Can This Price Be Continued?

I firmly believe that this price is too
low. It is figured too close; we can’t
hope to maintain it.

It is based on the lowest cost for ma-
terials which we have had in years. It is
based on an output which may prove im-
possible.

Ent, that will never lead to skimping
this car. It will lead to advance in price.

The price of $1,055 on this car is not
fixed. All our contracts with dealers
provide for instant advance. It is im—
possible to fix a price as close as this,
and then guarantee to continue it.

My opinion is that the value we here
offer will never be duplicated, by us or
by anyone else.

The Standard Car

Reo the Fifth, in my estimation, typi-
fies the ear of the future. The :10 to 35—
horsepower, four—cylinder car is fast be-
coming the standard typte.

That power is sufficient tor any ser—
vice, and for 45 miles per hour. Greater
power means costly waste.

Reo the Fifth combines ample room
with a lightness which saves on tires.

Experienced motorists, more and more,
are buying this type of car. It is not, too
large or too small, too light or too heavy.
It is not wasteful of gasoline, oil or tires.
It offers all that most men want, at a
minimum cost of upkeep.

 

That is why I adopted this size and
power in creating My Farewell Car.

That is Why this concern now stakes
its whole future on this single chassis—-
on this ideal car.

Ask For Catalog

Our catalog shows the various styles
of body. This car with Roadster body
costs but $1,000.

The book also gives complete specifi-
cations. It enables comparison, part by
part. with any other car. Ask us to mail
it to you.

Reo the Fifth is, by all odds, the most
interesting ear of the season. \Ve will
tell you where to see it, when we mail
the book. Address today.

 

The DemiaTonneau—$ l .055

R. M. Owen & Co.

General Sales
Agents for

Roadster—$1,000

Reo Motor Car 00., Lansing, Mich.

Canadian Factory, St. Catharines, Ontario

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DETROIT, MACH 9, 1912.

DO YOU FAVOR PARCELS POST?

 

If So Get Busy Now.

In order to bring the greatest possible
conccrfcd influence to bear upon the rep-
resentatives and senators in congress,
March 18 has bcen set apart as parcels
post lcttcr day. To thc end that this:
concerfcd influcncc may be the deciding
factor in parcels post legislation. farmers
all over thc land will be zlskcd to write
lcflcrs to their rcprcscnfzitivcs and son-
ators in congress,riskingthcir support in
sccuring the possngc of' u gcncrnl parcels
post bill which will. of lcusf as odcoualc-
ly, mcel ihc nccds of our country as the
parcels post lows of‘ ofhcr countrics mcct
tho nccds of fhcir citizens.

'J‘hcre has bocn introduccd in congress
the gcncrnl posiofiice bill, which providcs
for a limited pnrccls post such as was
advocated by Postmaster (lcncral liitch—
cock in his last report, from which cx—
frncts bearing upon the subjccf Wcrc
published in the Michigan ll‘urmcr. This
plan, as prcvii-usly cxplnincd, provides
only for parcels post on rural routes and
for an invcstigofion of tho practicability
of a general pnrccls post. That such a
limited pzirccls post will not mccf the
needs and dcmzinds of the country people
is a fact so pzilcnl as to rcquirc no argu-
mcnt. That fhc proposal for an investi-
tafion of the practicability of the parcels
post is mcrcly a movo for postponing the
cnnctmcnf of a parcels post law seems
:ippurcnf. \thn it is considcrcd that
ofhcr progressive counfrics of the world
havG. hud succcssful pnrccls post systems
in opcrniion for many yours, those sys~
icms cxlcnding lo cur own country and
available to our cilizcns for tho trans—
portation of purccls through the mails lo
the forcign countrics whcrc those ade—
quate sysfcms arc in operation, this be-
comes more appnrcnt and thc proposod
investigation appears still more in tho
lighf of a subterfuge.

\\'hy should (he grcatcst government
in tho world have thc lowest weight limit
for vparccls by mail and the highest
charge per pound of any of the enlight-
cned nations? It has been contcndcd by
those who oppose the general parccls post
in this country that it would not be prac—
tical hero, owing to the vastly greater
area of our country than the European
countries where a general parcels post is
mainiained. Yet China. with an area of
more than 1,300,000 square miles greater

THE-:- .‘ MICHIGAN FAR‘MBRi‘

than that of the United States, and with
far» more limit-ed -means ottransporta-tion
has a parcels post with a weight limit of
22 pounds and a maximumbharge of $1,
as compared with our limit of four pounds
and a flat rate of 16 cents per, pound.
Certainly there is no reason why the
United States government cannot give its
citizens as efficient service in this regard
as does China, and we believe there is no
adequate reason why our government
cannot give its citizens as good service
as any in the world.

In this respect Great Britain is in ad—
vance of all the other nations in the world
in the efficiency of its parcels post ser-
vice which has been in existence since
1883. Since its establishment in that
year, parcels post has not only proven
popular with the people, but profitable to
the government. Since the establishment
of parcels post its efficiency has been in-
creased by raising the weight limit from
sevcn to 11 pounds and by two reductions
of rate, so that at the present time the
rates are six cents for one pound; eight
cents for two pounds; 10 cents for three
pounds; 12 cents for five pounds; 14 cents
for seven pounds, and two cents for each
additional pound up to the weight limit
of 11 pounds. These rates are general so
that an 11 pound package can be sent any-
whcre in the Kingdom for 22 cents. Ger-
many has a higher weight limit with rates
ranged in zone systems. The weight
limit is 110 pounds, the unit of charging
is 11 pounds, for each unif of which the
chargi- varies from one cent for short (lis—
lunccs to a maximum of 12 cents for any
distunrc. Many other examples might, be
cited, including European Russia with an
area closely approaching flint of the Uni-
ted States, for instance. where an adc-
quute purccls posf is in operation wilh
a weight limit of 120 pounds and a gradu-
nfcd charge, which, up to two pounds is
13 cents, from tWo to seven pounds, 23
cents, from scvcn to 112 pounds, 34 cents,
and ovcr 12 pounds a grnduatcd charge,
according to distance.

But furlher rcfercncc to these systems
in force in other countries and extending
in our own country by international
ugrcement is unneccssary. Statistics have
Itccn published and commcnts and dis—
cussions have appeared in the columns of
the Michigan Farmer on fhis subject for
many ycars. Apparently fhose in au-
thority realize that the time has come
when something must be done to satisfy
this popular demand. hcnce the proposed
limited parcels post confined to rural
roulcs, which is provided for in the gon-
oral postofllce bill. Those who have bcen
at work in behalf of the people to secure
adcduutc parccls post legislation have
found that ihcrc was a well organized and
pcrsisfcnf opposition to the general par-
ccls post. This opposition is being ex—
fendcd by cvery possible means, such as
llom'ling congrcss with petitions in oppo-
sition to it and advocating penny postage
us a means of postponing the time when
:in adequate parcels post law will be
passed.

llcuders, do you want a gencral parcels
posf bill passed by the present congress?
If so, wrife the two senators from Mich—
igun and your representative in congress
to that cfi‘cct, advocating thc passage of
an adequate parcels post bill which will
afford you a mcasure of the service which
is cnjoyed by citizens of mher countrics,
and oppose in no uncertain terms the
propaganda for one cent postage until
such time as this needed oxfcnsion of
postal sorvicc has been granted. 1m this
on March 18. It will cost you but a small
cfforf and Six conls for postage. \Vrifc
fhcm at “'ushinglon, D. C., jnstcad of at
their home addrcss, and if you do not
l'now the correct names and initials us-
ccrtuin same at once. Your postmaster
(an give you the information. Put a
cross on the date on the calcndar which
hangs in your homc So you won‘t forget
it, and get the lcfters written in advance
of the date So that it will not be ncglectcd
for lack of time. Don‘t let your efforts
end hcrc, but speak to your neighbor
about the matter so as to insure that he
will act Willi you.

There is no reason why an adequate
parcels post law should not be enacted.
It is a success in other countries and a.
Source of profit rulhcr than of expense to
their postofiicc dcpariments. But re-
mcmber that there are powerful infcrests
actively opposed to” the legislation, and if
you do not take the time and trouble to
write yOur senators and representative in
congress do not blame them if they do
not lend their influence toward the pas—
sage of an adequate parcels post bill.
Remember that they are hearing from the
other side all the time, and if they do

not hear from those who are in favor of
a general parcels post, they .will very
naturally come to the conclusion that
there is no great interest in this subject
among their constituents.

CURRENT COMMENT.

TVhether the so-called
The Money Trust. money trust is an

accomplished fact, and
whether, if such a trust exists, its mach-
inations are detrimental to general busi—
ness conditions and thus to the country
at large, is now a mooted question. The
position taken on this subject seems to
depend not a little upon the viewpoint of
the one discussing it. It is however, the
opinion of a great many well informed
people that a few of the leading finan-
ciers of the country have altogether too
great an influence in the directing of the
country’s cash resources in the channels
of trade and commerce, not to say spec-
ulation. Prominent financiers, who are
apparently not in the trust, and others
who are looking on from the outside, in-
cluding members of congress and econ-
omists, declare that the moncy trust, so-
called, is a menace to the country and
that as a preliminary step to contemplat—
ed currency reform legislation, diligent
public inquiry should be made into its
methods.

In the moaniime the country districfs
far removed from the financial centers
have not greatly felt the ill effects of the
alleged opcratiors of this “trust,” except
in times of financial stringency and per-
haps indirectly through the handicap
placed on many public utilities through
their figurative use as footballs in the
playing of the financial gamc. Fortu-
natcly the country has been generally
prospcrous, and the rural districts as
well as the commercial centers have shar-
cd in that prosperity. As a result the
many small banks throughout the coun-
try, which have increascd greatly in num—
her in rcccnt years, have been able to
supply the nccdcd funds for fhe moving
of the country‘s crops and the transac-
tion of local busincss, so that country in—
dustries have been largely independent
of the resources of the great financial
centcrs in the transaction of their ordi-
nary business. liencc the matter of an
investigation of fhe workings of high
finance has not aroused the degree of
public sentiment in its favor which it
i’ierhaps merits. I‘ndoubtedly such an in—
Vf‘SllgflllUIL conducted in the opc‘n and
wifh proper publicity, would» be a good
thing for the country. It would give an
early opportunity for the correction of
existing cvils and restore public confi—
dcnce if scrious evils are not found to
cxist.

liuf flicrc is a more immediaic interest
in the financial situation for the readers
of The li‘urmcr, in which they may well
emulate the methods of tho financiers
who have found it to thcir intercst lo
coalescc their interests. It is true that
the average farmcr has betiered his
financial condition in recent years by as—
suming a closer relation with his local
bank thus adding to his financial inde—
pcndcnce fhrough his ability to call the
bank’s rcsourccs to his aid in making the
conduct of his business moro profitable.
th there is much to be desired in secur—
ing a still grculer financial independence
for tho farmers of fhc, country. In the
main-r of svcuring long-lime loans, they
arc at the mercy of a rcslricied local
rnoncy markcf and are compelled to pay
a high ratc of infcrcst compared to that
paid by industrial combinations which are
backed by the notcd financiers of the
country. This is an undesirable condi-
tion, and one which could be obviated by
the coalition of the rcsourccs of the farm-
ers of the country to that end, in which
rcspecl we would do well to take a leaf
from the history of the agricultural coun—
tries of Europe.

The EuYODean SYS-

EurOpean Systems of tems of farm fi—
Farm Finance. nance above re-
ferred to are well

. worthy of our most careful consideration

and Study, Since they exemplify one of
the most profitable and praiseworthy
forms of (so—operative organization of
farmers. There are three systems under
which co-opcrative rural credit is cx-~
tended on a large scale in Europe. These
systems were recently briefly described
in an open letter written by Hon. David
Lubin, the American delegate to the In—
ternational Institute of Agriculture, at
Rome, to the Nebraska Rural Life Com—
mission, instituted by a joint resolution
of the legislature of Nebraska. Mr. Lubin
enumerates and describes these systems

MARCH 9, 1912.

in the order of their relative importance
as -follows:..

First: the Raiffeisen system.

Second: the Schulze-Delitsche SYStem.

Third: the Landschaften and Ritter—
schaften system.

The Raiffeisen is a system of personal
credit. The farmers of a locality form
a co-operative, society, and on the
strength of their collective assets, obtain
a loan for which they become severally
and jointly liable. This is the unlimited
liability plan. This loan is then deposit-
ed in the co-operative bank of the asso-
ciation, which also acts as a deposit bank
for the savings of members, and the
money is loaned out to the members for
specified purposes connected with the
business of their farms. These little local
banks in Germany have federated into
central banks.

The Schulze-Delitsche is a somewhat
similar system, but the capital is obtain—
ed by shares, subscribed by the members
of the co—operative association, and by
the members’ deposits. In some countries
this system works on the plan of unlim-
ited liability, and in others on the plan
of limited liability.

The Landschaf‘len system is a system
of land credit. The farmers form into
co—operatiVe societies, syndicating their
individual assets, their farm-lands, into
:1 negotiable bond which they offer as se—
curity for the creditthey require. This
plan has been in operation in Germany
for 140 years. and has been able to secure
for its members sufficient credit and at
a rate of interest far lower than that paid
in countries and districts where this sys-
tem of co-operntion does not yet exist.

When it is contemplated that through
the means of these co-operative organi-
zations, the farmcrs of Germany did a
credit business on their own account ag—
gregating over one billion, six hundred
million dollars, and that without mort-
gages and at an interest rate averaging
less than five per cent per annum, some-
thing of the importance of this system of
farm financing will be graspcd by the
reader. If the farmers of the United
States were thus organized to thus control
and conduct their own finances, they
would have a less immediate interest in
the alleged machinations of the so-called
lnoney trust, so long as fhc country‘s cur—
rency remained sound. \Vould it not be
time more profitably spent for the farm-
ers’ organizations of Michigan to spcnd
their time and energy studying this ques—
tion of coalescing lhcir own finances. in-
stead of discussing the hidden mysteries
of high finance with which they have
nothing in common? By such agtion they
could materially hasten the day of the
farmer’s more complete economical inde—
pcndencc.

Enabling legislation will be necessary
before any such system can be inaugu-
rated in either state or country, but such
legislation will not come in advance of an
intelligent public opinion, hence the Wis-
dom of acting on the above suggestion.

The report of the
Co-operative Work for superintendent of
Prisoners. the Detroit House
of Correction for
1911 shows that of the profit from the
labor of prisoners aggregating $34,000,
$13,000 was paid out to prisoners for their
labor on the co—operafive plan and $5,000
was given to the needy families of the
prisoners. In presenting his report, Supt.
Mcllonell sfafcd that it was not unlikely
that the compcnsafions paid to inmates
on the (lo—operative plan would be dou-
blcd during fhc coming year.

This prison has long been unique
among institutions of this class in that
it has afforded the city a profit (luring
tho last 33 ycars which is estimated to
aggregate $1,000.000, notwithstanding fhe
fact that most of the prisoners were
short term men. Fifty—nine pcr cent of
the inmates during lIle past year Wcre
received for scnfcnccs of 30 days or loss,
and 16 per cent for ten days Or less. The
rcsourccs of the institution have, in the
past, been augmcnlcd by pay for outside
prisoners which have been accommodated
at this institution. it is stated in the re-
porf, however, that the. institution is so
crowded that if will be impossible to re—
ceive county prisoners in the future.

This report is interesting on account of
the working out of the co-opcrative earn—
ing plan for prisoners, which seems to
havo the unqualified approval of the su—
perintendent of this institution,

Tho diversion of water
Lake Levels and from Lake Michigan
Agriculture. through the Chicago
drainage canal has been
a matter of much discussion in marine
engineering circles. The hearing in
\Vashington, held for the purpose of re-
ceiving protests against the diversion of
more water through the Chicago drainage
canal has aroused anew this discussion
of a purely technical nature between not-
ed engineers, as to whether the water di-
vcrftd through this canal or the deepening
of the lake channels has caused the low‘
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The contention of the fruit growers "of
Western Michigan is that the drawing of
a large volume of water from the surface
of Lake Michigan might tend to affect
the Industry through possible changes in
climatic conditions which might result.
Their interest in the matter is entirely
foreign to that of marine interests and is
one which should be very carefully inves-
tigated before the diversion of large vol-
umes of water direct from Lake Michigan
is permitted, regardless of the relation of
this matter to marine interests.

Statistics show that the mean eleva-
tions of Lakes Michigan and Huron for
the past twenty years are 1.43 feet lower
in the entire year than the mean of the
preceding thirty years. This is entirely
a matter which affects navigation rather
than agriculture, but if it should be as-
certained that the drawing of large quan-
tities of water directly from the surface
of Lake DIichigan via. the Chicago drain-
age canal would have a deleterious effect
upon the fruit industry of Michigan, the
agricultural phase of this proposition
should not be subordinated to other in—
terests.

The State Round-Ur)
Institute, held him week
at the Michigan Agri-
cultural College was one of the best meet-
ings of the kind ever held in Michigan.
The talent secured for the several pro-
grams included a number of the best
known and most noted agricultural scien-
lists in the country, each of whom had
a message of great import for his hear—
(rs. Owing to the impossibility of giving
our readers oven the gist of these lec-
tures in a cursory report of the meeting,
no such rcport will be attempted in the
Michigan Farmer, but a synopsis of a
number of the leading talks on the more
important topics will be presented in fu—
turc issues. It is unfortunate that thou—
sands of Michigan farmers could not haVo
been present and profited by this cxcep‘
lioual «,lpportunity, but they may profit
to a large extent by carefully reading the.
reports of the best of these talks as the

The Round- Up.

same appear in future issues of the
Michigan Farmer.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

National.
The postoiiico committee of the lower
house of congrcss has included in the

appropriation bill reported to the house
a provision for a general parcels post for
the carrying of parcels through the mails
at a flat rate of 12 cents a pound, with
a limit of 11 pounds.

Five hundred employes of the Kalama-
zoo corset factory went, out on Strike on
Monday. One hundred other employes
rcmained at work.

officials announce that 18,000 coal cars
consigned to Michigan points are block-
adcd in the train yards at Toledo,

Plans are being completed for the il-
lumination of Niagara Falls at night. An
appropriation of $50,000 for the construc-
tion of a power plant will be provided in
a bill to bc submitted to the New York
State Assembly. The measure will "not
become effective, however, until Ontario
provides an equal appropriation for the
project.

in the trial at St. Louis, where A, .T.
\V'hitc, the ex—convict who claimed to be
Ucorge A. Kimmcl, the missing banker of
Arkansas, Kansas. and formerly of Niles,
l\l'icli., the jury failed to agree on a Vor-
dict, but branded the claimant as an
impostor.

l<‘orestcrs arc in session at blarquctte
this wcek considering plans for prevent-
ing the devastation of forests by tire.
Men prominent in this work from differ—
cnt. parts of the country are present to
address the assembly.

A campaign is being waged against loan
sharks in Detroit. A number of arrests
have already been made.

The lower house of congress passed a.
bill granting citizenship to the people of
Porto Rico. The measure now goes to
the senate.

Fch persons were injured in a collision
between two street cars in Detroit Mon-
day night.

llcgulations by the. war department
provide for the training of aviators for
military service by the several state
militia organizations.

Elections in Maine cities failed to give
any comfort to politicians with regard to
changes in the political sentiment, the
complexion of the results being identical
with those at the previous elections.

A bill providing for the boundaries of
federal district courts was amended so
as to allow for the holding of federal
court at the Soo twice each year.

At a session of the convention of the
Navy League of the United States held
at \Yashington last week, President Taft
declared that the country needed two
navics, one for each coast, and he be-
lieves it would be dangerous for congregs
to diminish the appropriations for this
department of the government.

Foreign.

A- new pretender to the throne of China
has been reported in the person of Mar-
quis Chu Cheng Yu, who is a lineal de-
scendant of the old Ming dyna‘sty. There
is an old prophecy that the Mings would
recover the throne in 1913.

The great coal strike in England is
causing a very large number of manufac-
turing establishments to shut down for
lack of fuel. It is estimated that in

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’South' Wales aIOne' 500,000 workers are‘

now out “employment. ' Suffering among
the poor is rapidly increasing and food
prices Continue to soar. It is officially
announced that 2,500 trains haVe discon-
tinued regular service on the several rail-
way systems of the United. Kingdom.

News~ comes to America that Queen
Amelia is laying plans in England to af-
fect the restoration of the throne of Port-
ugal to former King Manuel.

The authorities in China are experienc-
ing much difficulty with the mutinous
soldiers who are ransacking and burning
houses in Pekin and Tien Tsin. It is
reported that 5,000 people have been
killed by the soldiers. and that property
estimated to be worth $15,000,000 is de‘
stroyed. Foreign residents fear that an
attack will be: made on them, against
which fate they are protecting themselves
by barracading their homes and armed
civilians are patrolling the streets of the
foreign quarters of the city. A number
of foreign regiments are on the way
to protect the city against further loot—
:ng.

Fighting between the federal forces and
the rebels in the state of Chihuahua,~
Northern Mexico, resulted in a large
number of soldiers being killed and many
wounded. The rebels succeeded in tak-
ing the city of Chihuahua, but on Mon—
day it was reported that the federal
troops were successful in retaking a
large number of the strong positions in
the. city, but failed to entirely rout the
rebels.

London police find it difficult to control
the suffragettes who are pursuing their
Window breaking campaign. The women
believe that ultimately they will win by
this method, because insurance companies
who must stand the expense of replac-
ing the broken windows, will bring force
to bear upon Parliament that: will give
tilt; right of suffrage to the fair sex.

( French fminers are considering the
toes ion 0 going on strike in S'm) '
w1th the British miners. 3 lath"

Because deductions had been made in
the wages of miners employed in three
different mines at llochum, Germany, :1
strike which was totally unexpected~ oc-
curred. it is feared that the incident will
end _1n a general strikc.

light. lion, Edwin Blake, who was
premier of Ontario in 1871, leader of the
Iiberal party in parliament from 1878 to
1890, and home rule members of the Brit-
ish parliament from 1902 to 1907, died in
Toronto last: Friday evening. He was
70 years old.

A French aviator broke the world’s
aerodrome record last Friday by covering
111 miles, 010 yards in two hours,

CATALOG NOTICES.

he International 1:55 Horse Farm.
Home of the \Vorld Champions,” is thc
title of a handsome booklet recently pub-
lished by M. \V. Savage, l'roprietor. ot‘
aneapolis, Minn. This booklet contains
photographs, pedigrces and records of
the large number of famous horses on
this farm.

George ‘V. Souers & Sons, importers of
Percherons, Belgians and Coach horses,
601-949 \\'est Matilda Street, Huntington,
1nd., are sending out a handsome 1912
calendar. Write them for one of these
calendars, mentioning the Michigan
Farmer.

The Bowsher Combination Feed Mills,
’manufactured by the N. l’, Bowsher Co.
South Bend, Ind., are fully illustrated and
describcd in a 40—page catalog Sent by
this company. Send for same, mention-
ing this paper, and learn the details
about the many styles and sizes of feed
mills manufactured by this well known
company.

The 1912 catalog of the Peerless “'ire
Fcnce Co., 213 Michigan street, Adrian,
Mich, describes and illustrates a new
Self-raising gate manufactured by this
company, which, when unlatched lifts it—
self free of snowdrifts or other obstruc-
tions. It can also be, so adjusted as to
allow small animals to pass under, while
large animals are turned. \Vrilo the
above firm for a copy mentioning the
lVlichigan Farmer.

A new almanac for 1012 has just been
published by the Pittsburgh Steel Co” of
Pittsburgh, Pa. This is unique in many
fcatures, one of which is a serics ot' arti—
cles describing the aspect of the heavens
during the several months of the year.
Astronomical calculations are also given
of five, latitudes. This book is attractively
printed in two colors, profusely illustrated
and contains much useful information.
It also tells how to test the wire for fenc-
ing and describes the material and meth-
ods used in the manufacture of Pitts-
burgh Perfect Fcncc. This almanac is
free to Michigan Farmer readers who
Write the Pittsburgh Steel Co., mention-
ing this paper.

“l"ouliry (lrowers’ Guide for 1013." is
the title of a handsl‘iniely printed and
profusely illustrated book published by
the Cyphers Incubator Co., of Buffalo, N.
Y. This book is being mailed free to
thousands of men and womcn who are
interested in poultry and egg production
for profit. In addition to being a com—
plete catalog of the big Cyphers line of
incubators, brooders and poultry supplies,
this book contains eight chapters of great
value to poultry raisers. These are the
titles: 1. How to get twice as many
eggs from the: same number of hens. 2.
The 200—egg per year hcn~how to pro-
duce her. 3. Large sized eggs in de—
mand as well as lots of them. 4. Mating
and feeding of fowls to get fertile eggs.
5. Selection and care of eggs for success-
ful hatching. 6. Proper care of fowls
and chicks with least amount of work.
7_. How to brood chicks properly at the
lowest cost. 8. Premium-price table
poultry and how to produce it. This
big book, weighing one pound, will be sent
to interested readers of this paper free
of charge. Simply write a postal card to
the Cyphers Incubator Co., Dept. 35 But-
falo, N Y. ’

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MAINTENANCE OF FERTILITY.

BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.
(Continued from last week).
Barnyard Manure Has More Value than
ls Indicated by its Nitrogen, Phos-
phoric Acid and Potash.

It has long been known, however, that
the value of animal or barnyard manures
is out of all proportion to the value of
the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash
which they contain. In other words, a
valuation of $2.50 or $5.50 per ton, re-
spectively, as was the valuation of the
manure in the stecr feeding experiment
and in the sheep feeding experiment just
outlined does not represent the total val—
ue of the manures in question. The rea-
son for this is that these ingredients are
included in an exceedingly desirable form
of organic matter which incorporated into
the soil readily builds up the soil and
creates a supply of desirable humus
which is a decided asset in a soil, and
which humus is not contemplated when
commercial fertilizers are used. Again,
the organic matter which is present in
the animal manures, due to its decompo-
sition in the soil. is valuable in the un-
locking of the otherwise insoluble plant
food nutrients in the soil. It has been
shown that one of the great offices of
animal manures and green manures, like-
wise, such as clover, etc., is in the de-
Con'iposition within the soil, whereby the
carbon dioxide gas is liberated. which,
acting upon the insoluble phosphoric acid
of the soil renders it availablt and hence
of use to crops.

Commercial Fertilizers Should be Used
with Animal Manures.

it is With this point in mind that we
Law: laid so much stress on the point
that when commercial fertilizers are used
they should, whenever possible, be asso—
ciated with animal manures in thc soil.

 

if it is impossible to secure animal ma—
nures to apply with commercial fertiliz-
ers, it is not at all a bad idea to mix into
that fertilizer such a product as cotton—
seed mcul, linst-cd meal, tankagc, or some
such organic source of nitrogen which,
while giving the desirable amount of
nitrogen also adds to the soil the much
desired organic matter. There is no real
basis of comparison between the present
commercial fertilizers and barnyard ma-
nures and the time will pour come, in
our estimation, when the farmer can af-
ford to throw away or l'i‘jt-t'l the animal
manures and substitute therefor commer—
cial fertilizers, because commercial fcr—
tilizcrs are not a substitute for barnyard
manures. The question of the conserva—
tion of the. animal manures is an indi-
vidual problem for each farmer and if he
is to get tlic bcst results and stop the
unnecessary waste and losses which can
be easily convertcd into moncy and which
should be gchn a financial value, decid-
ed steps should be takcn for tho conser—
vation of all of the animal manures upon
tlic farm. .

.\ great deal has been written and said
in these latter days for and against the
use of barnyard manurc. Likn-wisc for and
against the use of commercial t‘ertilizcrs.
and the question of the proper sphere of
barnyard manures has lit't‘ll a question
of some considerable il'ilportuncg to farm—
ers for some timc.

Dairying Emphasizes importance of

Manures.

As the. state of Michigan becomes more
and more a dairy state the value and im-
portance of the barnyard manures be-
come more and more emphasized. .\t the
same time the spirit of intcnsivc agricul—
ture is getting such a hold upon the
farmers that the use of the so-called com-
mercial fertilizers is becoming more and
more general. Some adVocates oi the use
of commercial fcrtihzcis nave grim. to 11,9
extent of declaring that it is a waste of
time and money to spend any time what—
ever with the distribution of the barit-
yard manures upon the farm. Uthcr ad-
Vocatcs have, declared that the use of
commercial l'ertilizcrs in any degree what-
soever w'hen barnyard manure was at the
disposal of the farmer was an absolute
extravagance. it is Well, in thinking this
subject over. to bear in mind that both
barnyard manures and commercial fer-
tilizers may very properly be used for the
building of the intrinsic value of the soil
without either being considered as an
interloper in this respect.

The Origin of Manures and Fertilizers.

Barnyard manures have their origin in

the soil and so do commercial fertilizers.
Undoubtedly barnyard manures may be‘
considered a little more directly related
to the soil than are commercial fertilizers
but the ultimate source of both is the
soil. Barnyard manures repreSent directly
not only the unutilized portions of the
food derived from the soil on the farm
but also, insofar as it is conserved, the
final products of the utilized portions of
the food as well. Commercial fertilizers
represent in part the final products of the
utilized portions of food materials derived
from the farm, these utilized ‘portions
being the bones, and tankage derived
from the slaughter of animals. and other
animal products, together with, possibly,
ground rock which is simply soil which
has not been disintegrated, and possibly
potash and soda salts, which may repre—
sent the results of geological activity of
centuries ago.
Use of Fertilizers is Sanctioned by
Reason.

“'hat reason can be given that these
commercial fertilizers which once were a
part’of the soil should ,not again be re-
turned to the soil. Also, inasmuch as we
have positive knowledge that an improve-
ment in crop production is caused by the
addition of commercial fertilizers. what
better reason can be given for their use.
‘\\'hy should there exist any strong pre-
judice in the minds of farmers against
the use of commercial fertilizers.

It is our duty, without doubt, to use
every means at our command for better-
ing conditions of life, which include the
securing of greater returns from the soil
under our management. Barnyard ma-
nurcs have no greater right to use as soil
fertilizers than have commercial fertiliz—
ers. Practically untold centuries have
witnessed the use of barnyard manures,
without question, but it is only within a
short compass of years that commercial
fertilizers have come into general use.
Conservation of Manures is the Problem.

Many problems ‘have presented them-
selves to the farmer in the handling of
manures and not the least has been a
safe and sane mcthod of conserving the
valuable ingredients of barnyard ma—
nures, thereby securing to the soil the
highest pcrccntagc possible of the ele-
ments which they carry. The principal
difliculty with the conservation of the
soil excrement of animals is the condition
familiar to all farmers, known as “lt‘ire
funging.” This condition is caused by
throwing the manure generally into a
heap in such quantities that chemical ac-
tivity is set up, which causes a heating
and a dispelling of the nitrogenous con-
stituents and a loss Of Inuch of the fer-
tility that is contributed ordinarily to the
soil with the barnyard manures.

Remedies.

Various methods have been proposed
for the conservation of manures. To do
away with this possibility of fire fanging
it is generally advocated that the way to
handle manures is to spread them as
soon as possible upon the field So that,
being spread out, little heating will take
place and likewise the soluble constituents
will find their way into the soil and be
there, fixed and made ready for crop pro-
duction. Some difficulty has been experi—
enced in living up to this apparently sini-
plc system but on the whole its advan-
tages are sufficient to offset its disad-
vantages. On many farms a manure
spreader is kept ready and each morning
the manure, as it is removed from the
stable. is loaded into the manure spread-
er, and when a sufficient load has accum-
ulated. it is drawn onto the field and
spread. \\'ith the exception of a very
few days in the winter time when the
ground is frozen very hard or when an
icc sheet covers the field, this procedure
is to be generally advised. it seems to
us that it is scarcely advisable to suggest
that manure should be spread upon a field
when the. field is in a condition such
that it could not soak into the soil and
soil and would be ‘arricd off on top of the
ice. sheet in the ravines, ditches and
drains. \‘i‘ith this exception the advise to
remove manure to the field as soon as
possible after it is removed from the sta-
ble is commendable.

The Absorbent.

'lfaving decided upon this system of
handling the manures after they are pro-
duced, the next question of prime im-
portance in the conservation of farm ma—
nure is to secure a proper absorbent in
the stable. W'hen an abundance of straw
is obtainable it is the general practice

among farmers to, mix this as thoroughly
as possible with the manure, thereby ac-
complishing the double purpose of conser—
vation of the manure, and at the same
time working the straw with the manure
into soil which, under decomposition in
the soil, serves to unlock a considerable
quantity of the fertilizing ingredients al-
ready possessed in the soil. In other
words, it fulfills in the soil the office
which organic matter should fulfill.

Sawdust and shavings are sometimes
used as an absorbent and are admirably
adapted for this purpose but are less
desirable to put upon the soil because of
the tendency Which they promote to
create acidity in the soil.

Gypsum, or land plaster, has been ad-
ded in addition to the straw and bedding,
one claim being made for it that it has
the power of fixing the ammonia, or pre—
vcnting the escape of the nitrogen in the
liquid manure. It will be remembered
that one of the great problems in the
conservation of the stable manures is
the exceeding proneness which it has to
decompose. especially the liquid portion
containing the urea. whereby the nitro~
gen in the form of ammonia is readily
liberated. Nearly everyone can attest to
this, from the strong odor of ammonia
which is prevalent in many stables. Gyp-
sum docs absorb and in this respect as-
sists in the conservation of the liquid
portion of the manure. It has even been
asserted that it acts as a fixer of the
ammonia. It does not, however, seem to
prevent the production of the odor of am—
monia in the stable and it is Very certain
that it does not so fix the amonia that it
could not be leached out ordinarily by
rain.

Barnyard Manure Promotes Phosphorus
Hunger in the Soil.

From the same point of view, only to
our mind with much greater reason for its
employment, finely grcund phosphate rt ck
is being used. The chief fault found in
the use of barnyard manures, is that they
tend to promote a phosphorus hunger in
the soil. This is due to two reasons,
chiefly, the first being that barnyard ma—
nure contains very little phosphorus and
the second reason is that due to the or—
ganic matter which it contains, barnyard
manure promotes the unlocking of the
phosphoric acid already in the soil, and
consequently in the employment of barn-
yard manure, from both of the reasons
just cited, the soil soon begins to exhibit
what may be aptly termed “Phosphorus
llunger.” that is, the soil becomes read-
ily depicted in the available phosphoric
acid which it contains. The addition of
finely ground phosphate rock may then
be considered to be admirable, taking into
considtn'ution these two facts just cited.
Finely ground phosphate rock is exceed-
ingly slowly available, that is, under or—
dinary conditions it gives up its phos-
phoric acid it) crcp production very slowly
indeed. The, availability, however, is very
markedly influenced when a considerable;
content of organic matter is present and
intimately mixed with it. Therefore, the
use of finely ground phosphate rock as an
absorbent in the. stable, while it possesses
probably no power of fixing the ammonia,
it does act as an absorbent and retains
ammonia in this respect and, being thus
intimately mixed with the manure, tends
to satisfy the hunger of the soil for the
clement phosphorus.

Acid Phosphate Best Absorbent.

\thn, hchver, it is desirable to pre—
vent the escape of ammonia in the liquid
manure, the use of acid phosphate scones
admirably adapted for this purpose. Acid
phosphate contains a considerable quan-
tity of available phosphoric acid and be-
cause of its acid condition. it seems to
possess the power of fixing and holding
the nitrogen or the ammonia in the ma—
nure and this fact alone makes acid
phosphate :1 very desirable absorbent.
\Vc understand, from those who have used
acid phosphate in the stable, that it dis-
pels entirely the odor of ammonia. This
addition of a phosphate material to barn-
yard manure balanced the barnyard ma-
nure and makes it more generally adap—
table as an all round farm fertilizer.

LABORATORY REPORT.
The Plant Food Content of the Soil.

I am learning much from your valuable
paper, but there is a subject 1 would like
to see discussed in the Michigan Farmer.
1 read in the agricultural papers that
there is enough potash and phosphorus in
the soil to supply all plant needs for a
long time, but that it is not in an avail-
able form for the plants to feed upon.
Now what I wish to know is how can this
plant food he made available? \Vould not:
deep tillage and plenty of humus added
to the soil set up a. chemical action in
the soil which would releaSe this plant

\

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MARCH 9. 1912.

.food, : ,or. rather- make. it available. for. the
.USerof plants? Then, by raising larger

CI‘ODS ~0f legumes and plowing them under
to add humus and nitrogen to the soil.
could We not supply’all the fertility we

need?

Mason Co. B, F. W.

The question raised by Mr, Wheeler, as
given above .is‘ certainly a very live
question and one which has been made
the subject of many scientific discussions.

It has been asserted that practically all
soils contain sufficient nourishment to
produce a. maximum crop. Some few
years ago, in what became known as the
famous “Bulletin No. 22, Bureau of Soils,”
the United States Department of .Agricul-
ture made practically the above state-
ment. This bulletin was the cause of a.
wide discussion, scientifically, on this
point, but indirectly probably has result-
ed in more real advance along this line
than any other One thing,

It is true that an ultimate analysis of
most soils shows an amount of phosphorus
and potash and lime which, under our or-
dinary system of cropping, if it could be
made a 'uilable, would suffice to last for
sonic centuries. In spite of this fact,
howtver, it is common knowledge that
the use. of barnyard manures and com-
mercial fertilizers has resulted in a mark-
ed increase in crop production and the
inference now is drawn that because of
tins fact barnyard manures and commer-
cial fertilizers are necessary and decided-
ly advantageous to use. Now, as we have
suggested in this issue, barnyard ina-
nures and commercial fertilizers have
their origin in the soil itself and by re—
turning to the soil these materials, man
is simply assisting nature in her attempt
at the conservation of the soil, and this
idea is an admirable idea to contemplate
from the standpoint of conservation alone.
If at the same time it results also in in-
creased financial advantages to man, the
matter becomes fascinating from the or-
dinary standpoint, we may say, as well.

Deep cultivation is conducive to the
making available of the otherwise insol-
uble so-callcd plant food constituents in
the soil. If, together with thorough cul-
tivation, drainage, etc., which is implied
in thorough cultivation, a desirable
amount of humus, or organic matter is
added to the soil, this unlocking of the
insoluble nutrients which is promoted by
cultivation is encouraged.

The growing of legumino’us crops adds
nothing to the soil except the. nitrogen
which these crops have the power of fix-
ing and otherwise the same that any oth-
er crop puts into the soil, namely the
organic matter which really adds noth~
ing but does contribute to the unlocking
of the Soluble constituents of the soil
just referred to.

“’ithout doubt, by pursuing a constant
and thorough system of cultivation by
the addition of lcguminous crops, etc., the
soil may be kept in its most favorable
condition for many, many years and will
not under such a system of farming be-
come run down or exhausted soil. it to
this system we now add barnyard ma-
nures and commercial fertilizers as well,
supplementing possibly, from time to
time. with lime, the soil may be brought
to a point of maximum efficiency which
is a condition it is needless to say it is
very desirable to promote.

Let us bear just one thing in mind, and
that is, it is our duty to get just as much
out of the soil as it is possible for us to
do and still leave that soil in such a con-
dition that it; is as good, or even better,
than when we took hold of it. The addi-
tion of manures, commercial fertilizers,
the practice of systematic and thorough
cultivation, scientific rotation of crops an]
all these things, and others, lead to the
one end and prejudice should not prevent
c‘ur making use of an to further the end
in View.

EXPERIMENTS WITH STEERS.

The results of seven years of experi—
mental work by the Pennsylvania Agri-
cultural Experiment Station indicate that
an open shed, boarded up closely on three
sides and kept Well bedded at all times,
is more efficient for fattening steers than
the basement of a barn. During the win-
ter of 1903—10, cattle fed in an open shed
made, more rapid gains, attained a high-
er finish, sold for 15 cents per hundred
more, and returned 11.6 cents more for
each bushel of corn consumed than sim-
ilar stec rs fed in the barn. They also re.—
quircd less labor in feeding, and more
straw was used in bedding. It was also
found that cattle which are fed in groups
of 10 or 12 each, with ample room at
mangers and troughs, make more satis-
factory gains than similar cattle tied in
stanchions.

    

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Lreunion»BEES:

ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS WITH THE
BROODER.

The rearing of chicks in breeders, like
everything else, presents problems. One
can expect good results, however. if in-
telligent attention to details is given. It
is necessary that one be methodical and
exact in attending to brooder chicks.
Slip-shod management is not conducive to
success.

Cleanliness is one of the essential re—
quisites. To facilitate cleaning, all parts
and corners of the brooder should be eas-
ily accessible. There should be no dark
or hard-to~clean corners. Keep the in-
terior clean and well ventilated. Disin—
fect the brooder often, at least every time
a new brood is to occupy it. Scrub it out
thoroughly with hot water. A little car—
bolic acid dropped into the water will
make it more effective. Then spray thor-
oughly with a good coal tar disinfectant.
Expose the interior of brooder to the
sun as often as possible, for disease germs
cannot live where sunshine and fresh air
abound. Keep the above statements in
mind when selecting brooders. making
sure that the construction is such as to
offer no serious obstacles to thorough and
easy cleaning.

Do not overcrowd the brooder with
chicks. .\ brooder rated at fifty chicks
may be large enough for this number the
first week. but as they grow and devclop
they will be bothered for room. and con-
scouently will not be able to obtain the
exercise required. If fifty chicks arc de-
sired in one broodsethere never should be
more than this number—buy a brooder
rated at one hundred chicks. Too much
room is less dangerous than lack of room,
and unless the chicks obtain exercise they
cannot grow, and thriyc, and develop into
prot‘t-producing fowls. It is advisable,
when possible, to put not more than
twcnty—five chicks into one brooder. A
larger number than this will cause them
to crowd and the weaker ones will suffer.
Chicks found dead under the hover in the
morning are generally the result of crowd—
ing and huddling.

Preparing the Brooder.

Cover the floor of the. breeder with
black dirt. This will tend to absorb the
droppings. Over this should be scattered
chaff or sweepings from tho haymow to
the depth of half an inch. It is not ad-
visable to make the chaff any deeper
than this, else the chicks cannot get
around very well, and scratching for the
grain will be made diflicult. In this chaff
scatter the fine chick fccd. Not too much
should be given at a time; it is better to
give it often.

Before transferring chicks from the in—
cubator have the brooder well heated.
The temperature for the first few days
should be between 90 and 95 degs. F. One
can best tell when the temperature is
tight by noting how the chicks behave.
If they huddle in a corner they are not
gctting enough heat. If they spread out
and try to get as far from the sourcc of
hcat as possible the broodcr is probably
overheated. The temperature can be con—
sidered at the proper dcgrcc wltcn the
chicks stay around the edge of the hover
and seem contented. Lower the heat
gradually as the chicks gct oldcr,

llave the. brooder well ventilated but
do not create a draft. Do not allow the
slits in the curtain that incloses the hover
to remain open. They should so hang
that they will close easily when the chicks
pass through. In saying that the brooder
should be well ventilated I do not mean
that the cold: fresh air should pass di—
rectly into the brood chamber. On the
contrary, the air coming from outside
must first be warmed by coming in con-
tact with the heater and then pass into
the brood chamber.

Much Depends Upon Proper Feeding.

Overfcedjng is apt to be indulged in by
a grcat many poultry raisers. especially
the beginners. They cannot bear to think
of little chicks wanting for food, consc-
q‘ucntly supply it so liberally that it lies
around uneatcn, to become soiled and
filthy and unfit for further feeding. Chicks
fed in this manner will soon contract
bowel trouble and often more serious ail-
ments. It should be more generally real-
ized that chicks require no feed for the
first 36 to 48 hours after hatching. Nature
has provided for them for this length of
time, and to stuff them with feed before
they are ready for it is to invite trouble.
Water should be provided from the first
day.

The first allowance of food should be a

 

 

light one. I consider stale bread crumbs
soaked in milk and squeezed dry one of
the best feeds to start them on. This is
given five times a day for three or four
days, beginning as early in the morning
as possible and giving the last allowance
for the day as late. as possible. I aim to
keep them a little hungry throughout the
day and to give about all they will eat
at night. I keep dry bran before 'them
at all times and it is surprising the
amount they will consume. Bran is ex-
cellent for keeping the bowels in good
healthy condition. Fine sharp grit must
also be kept before them.

After feeding for three or four days on
the bread I start them on a chick feed
ration. Any of the commercial chick
feeds are good, providing they do not
contain weed seeds and other “fillers.”
insist on getting pure feed—the best is
none too good. A good wholesome feed to
start them on, and one that will be eaten
without waste, is steel cut oats. This is
pure and nourishing, and is a good mus-
cle and frame builder. It is somewhat
higher in price than the mixed grain
feeds and some will not feed it on this
account.

(‘1ch the chick feed sparingly. Scatter
a little new and then in the chaff to make
the chicks exercise. The grain should be
fed twice a day at first and the soft feed
three times a day. Gradually decrease
the amount of soft feed and increase the
amount of prepared chick feed. Infertile
eggs that have been tested out may be
boilcd for half an hour and fed to good
advantage. They are chopped up fine and
mixed with rolled oats or bread crumbs.
Feed on a clean board or shallow dish
and remove any that is left. Soft feed,
if allowed to lie around and be trampled
upon and fouled, will sour and ferment,
thus becoming a source of trouble.

As the chicks grow older they must
have more room and exercise. If the
brooder is placed in a brooder house they
should have the run of the house during
the day. If they occupy an outdoor
broodcr they should be allowed to run out:
whenever the weather is mild. Enclosing
a small yard about the breeder with wire
netting will prevent the chicks from
straying. See that they all are in thc
brooder and under the hover when night.
('(illlf‘S.

Indiana. 0. E. HACHMAN.
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ANOTHER TREATMENT FOR SCALY

LEG. .

 

\Yhile the appearance of scaly leg in a
flock of fowls is not really alarming, I
notice that it reduces the vitality of fowls
and, if neglected, will spread through the
entire flock. I keep a close watch of the
droppings board beneath the roosts and
if I notice small white scales among the
droppings i feel reasonably sure that
some of my fowls are suffering from scaly
leg. A close inspection of the fowls quick—
ly brings to light the ones which are af—
fccted. These are caught and treated at
once.

My treatment is to first wash the legs
thoroughly, using castile soap and an
old tooth brush to remove loose scales
and the crusty exudations which have re-
sulted from the. work of the scale mite.
ln addition I pick off scales or scabs that
(onto off readily. This somctimcs causes
the legs to bleed a little. The legs are
thcn dried with a soft~cloth and an oint—
ment is applied. This latter I make as
follows: To a tablespoonful cach of melt—
cd lard and kerosene add six drops of
carbolic acid and a. tcaspoonful of alco-
hol or whiskey. Of course, this can be
made up in larger quantities, but the pro-
portions should be the same. Rub legs
and fcet well with this and three days
later repeat the washing and another ap—
plication of the ointment. which should
end the trouble. I have used this treat-
ment for a number of years, always with
perfect success, and therefore have no
hesitancy in recommending it.

\Vayne CO. J. P.
POULTRY DESTROYERS AND HOW TO

CATCH THEM.—III.

 

It is generally unknown that the skunk
and weasel belong to the same family,
even though they are very different. The
skunk is very easily trapped. Owing to
the durability of the fur, the pelt of the
animal is always in demand. The animal
lives in some opening or hole, and some-
times as high as seventeen are found in
one den.

The skunk is best trapped by setting at
the entrance of dens. When you find a
den, set three or four traps in a circle at
the mouth of the hole. Cover traps with
leaves and dirt. Meat and pieces of chick-

T‘HE MICHIGAN FARMER.

en make good halt. The decoy should be
placed in the center of the circle of traps,
All traps should be staked in such a. man-
ner that the animal cannot enter the den
when caught.

Another good set is two logs, boards or
rocks placed parallel a few inches apart.
Set traps at both entrances, although one
(ntrance only can be used if the trapper
prefers. If two entrances are used a trap
is necessary at each opening. The traps
should be concealed. Bait, such as rabbit
or bird, is placed in the enclosure. It is
best to make a trail to the set by drag--
ging a piece of bloody meat over the
ground leading to the set.

Set traps near dead carcasses, hollow
logs, under old buildings or barns where
you find their runs. Success depends up-
on clever concealment. of the trap. Use
No. 11/2 traps of the best make.

Skunks are very plentiful in hilly sec-
tions. Another means of catching is as
follows: Find two flat rocks and support
the top one with a figure four trigger.
The trigger should be long and a rabbit's
head, or a bird, should be tied on the
end. Be sure that the upper rock is
heavy enough to kill.

Minnesota. V. P. GOKEY.

IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES.

 

Wyandottes and R. I, Reds.

Please tell me. how a full—blood TVyan-
dotte cockcrel should be marked, and
what sort of comb he should have. “’ould
also like to know what colored feathers
and what kind of comb pure-bred Rhode
Island Red hens should have.

Livingston Co. Mrs. G. N.

The markings, so far as plumage is

concerned, would all depend upon which

variety of \\'yandottes you have. There
are probably more different varieties of
the “‘yandotte breed than of any other
breed of chickens, and it Would take too
much space to describe. all. If you will
designate the variety we shall undertake
to give the plumage reouiremcnts. As to
markings which are common to all varie—
ties of the breed, we would say that the
\Vyandotte is a yellow-legged fowl, al-
though ch11 here the shade of yellow
varies somewhat in the different varic-
tics. Another distinguishing mark is the
comb. Formerly a single comb variety
of this breed was produced, but it has
been discarded and none but rose combs
are seen nowadays. The comb is low and
spreading, the top somewhat oval in
shape and corrugated, while at the rear
it ends in a slender point or spike, the.
whole curving slightly in conformity with
the. shape of the head. To the well
trained poultryman the conformation of
this breed is also a distinguishing mark,
sinco it is stockier and more closely built
than its leading rivals among general—
purpose fevvls—the Rocks and Rhode 1s-
iand Reds.

The Rhode Island Red is a compara—
tively young breed, having been admitted
to the Standard of Perfection within the
past ten years. Up to the time it was
thus recognized as an established breed,

 

 

 

Single-combed Rhode Island Red Hen.

there was marked difference of opinion
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breeders fixed upon a rich, brilliant red
with a little black in tail and wings. A
somewhat lighter shade is generally seen
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in the hackle feathers. In size and shape
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other breeds of the American class of
fowls. the hens especially resembling the
Rocks and Wyandottes in conformation.
As to comb, these fowls were for a time
bred with all three kinds of combs, the
pea-combed variety, which originated in
Ohio, being first known as the Buckeye
Red. This name Buckeye was discarded
until R. I. Red breeders, a few years ago,
decided to no longer recognize the pea-
combcd variety. The breeders of Buckeye
Reds thereupon again adopted the name
and the Buckeyes are now recognized as
:1 distinct breed, although differing lit‘le
from the R. 1. Reds except in comb. From
this it is evidcnt that your hens may
have either single or rose combs and be
pure-bred Rhoda Island Reds.
Raisina Ducks and Geese,

As I am a beginner I wish you would
publish an outlinc of how to raise ducks
and geese, giving spccial attention to
hatching, housing, feeding and brooding.
I want to handle Toulouse geese and in-
dian Runner ducks. Please state the
markings of these breeds as designated
in the Standard of Perfection.

Livingston C0. 0.

So much is included in your query that
it will hardly be possible to do it justice
at this time. Taking the last part first,
we would say that if you desire to grow
these fowls for exhibition purposes and
are therefore particular as to the qualiti-
cations enumerated in the Standard, you
should secure a copy of the latest edition
of the Standard of Perfection. The con—
tents of that volume are copyrighted.
thus making it impossible for us to
produce the exact description of
breed.

In a general way, it may be said that
the Indian Runner duck is the Leghorn
of the: duck family, being chiclly notcd
for its egg-producing quality. It is also
distinguished by its very crect carriage.
the body bcing long and narrow with
breast well developed. The standard col—
or is fawn and white in a peculiar pui-
tern, the dark color occurring in patches
on the crown of the. head, the cheeks, and
on the buck, breast and forward part of
body. The standard weights for the va~
riety are 41/2 lbs. for the drake and 4 lbs.

ro—
any

for the duck.

The hatching of ducks is now largo-
ly done with incubators where these
fowls are grown in numbers. “'hcro

only a few are raised, and an incubator
is not at hand, the eggs are bcst hatched
under chicken hens. Select about the
same sort of hens as you would for
hatching chicks. Rocks or \Vyandottos
are Wcll adapted to the purpose. About
nine eggs constitute a sitting in early
spring, but. later as many as a dozen may

be given. W'here an incubator is used
the rulcs governing its operation are
about the same as those governing the

batching of chicks, a temperature of 102
at first and increased to 103 (legs. being
about right. In the last stage a tempera-
ture of 104 will not do any harm.

The ducklings may be reared in brood-
ers or under hens. Like chicks they must
be protected from cold and wet. If
reared late they may be grown satisfac—
torily in outdoor brooders. While crowd-
ing must be avoided, it is possible to keep
more ducklings in a flock than is the
case with chicks, the reason generally
given being that they are leSS Susceptible
to the effects of filth. Notwithstanding

this, great care must be observed in
feeding and caring for the young. The

newly—hatched duckling requires soft fmul
even more than does the chick, and the
feeding of soft foods means fermentcd
and unfit food unless given in quantities
that will be well clcaed up at each feed-
ing. Many prefer to give boiled oatmeal
101' the first few weeks, or lacking this,
a mixture of cornmeal and wheat mid-
dlings, which is boiled and allowed to
cool. “'ith this is given green stuff and
table scraps, also tine grit and plenty of
pure water. Big duck raisors who grow
the ducklings very rapidly use a ration
something like the following: Cornmcal
1 part, and bran. 2 parts, to which is
added beef scrap equal to 5 per cent of
the bulk of the mixture. This is given
five times a day until the fowls are five
weeks old, and then three times a day.
An occasional feed of vegetables or green
stuff“ and proper caution against over-
feeding, will keep them thriving.

The Toulouse is a gray goose and the
breed is easily distinguished from other
breeds of that colOr by the comparatively
smooth head, this breed lacking the prom-
inent knob at the upper base of the bill
and the more or less heavy dewlap under
the throat which are found in the African
and also the Brown China goose. It is
among the largest of the breeds, very
compactly built with_broad, deep body
which carries well down to the. ground.

 

The standard weights for the breed are

THE ' MICHIGAN ~ FARMER.

20 lbs. for the gander and the same for
the goose.

Wider range is required for the raising
of geese than is the case with ducks, nor
are they so successfully grown without
water. The natural method of hatching
is generally practiced since efforts to
substitute the incubator have not proven.
very successful. It is best to set the eggs
under hens, not allowing the goose to sit
until she nears the end of her laying pe-
riod. She: should produce about 40 eggs
during the period. The hatching requires
30 days and experienced raisers claim
that success is made more certain by
dipping the eggs into watcr :1t 104 dogs.
for the space of a minute on or about the
25111 day.

The hem and goslings should remain in
the. nest until all are thoroughly dry,
then removed to a roomy coop. When
a week old the goslings can get along
without the hon and should be given
range but must be securely and snugly
cooped up at night. For feed, grass alone
is given the first day. After that they
should have several feeds daily of mash
or scalded corn. It is just as important
though that they have the run of a pas-
ture of fresh tender grass and.'in the ab-
sence of this, must I‘wchVc liberal allow—
ances of succulent green food in some other
form. \l'ith good pasture, especially along
streams. ponds or marshes, where many
forms of under vegctablc and animal life
are available, geese can be grown with
yci-y litllc groin. Goslings grown in this
until three or four months old are
tutu-111d for the big markets by feeding
luuvily with :1 mixture of equal parts
cornmeal and bran.

Wu _\'

TAKING BEES OUT OF CELLARS.

 

The winter now closing has been a
long one, with great stretches of severe
wcnthcr. and its effect upon bees is still
ll» be. determined. The condition of the
bees and the state of the weather must
govcl'n as to time of removing from cel-
but lhcy should be watched care—
fully ft‘oln this (how on. If the bees are
clustered closely, and are quiet, there is
No hurry whatever about taking them
out. But, if they are found restless, and
duubing their hives with excrement. it,
moans that they have nearly reached the
limit. of their endurance and each day ad-
dcd aggravates the trouble. I prcfcr to
which the temperature and other condi—
tions and take the bees out during the
day when they can fly at once. After they
have had a good cleansing flight I exam-
ine every comb to determine the strength
of the colony, the amount of brood and
stores, and wha thcr it is queenless or not.

if I find the colony in satisfactory con-
dition I close the hive and let them alone.
for ten days or more. according to their
condition. if T liud any colony short of
stores but otherwise in good condition, I
supply the lack by removing one or more
combs which contain little honey and no
brood and fill their places with combs
more or has full of honey that have been
saved for this purpose from the previous
year. it often happens that some col-
ouics are short of stores in the spring.
l‘zlrliculnrly is this true of colonies occu-
]1_\'illf.:‘ small hchS. However it does not
l'llltlll‘f‘. a great quantity of honey to car—
ry :1 colony through the average winter.
cspcciully if wintercd in a. collar. Five
or six pounds of honey is probably about
the amount that an average colony con-
sumes while in the cellar.

New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.

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Our common red clover, botanically
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ridge Wyandottes; llarred and Bull Rocks; Reds;

2.51) single bird: $6 trios; Toulouse (iecse, $1 each.
Catalog flee. (Geo. l“. Hartman. llox 1380, Frceportlll.

Money Making Poultry.
Semi for folder describing early nulturing heavy win-
ter lupin Reds. E 11421 for hatchingI from scored
pens, $1.;3gpor 15, $6.08 per 100. Indian unner Ducks.
white egg strain. wonderful layers. $1.25 per 13 eggs.
Montreou Poultry Farm. Blisslield. Mich. It'll. No. 4.

Standard-bred Rouen, Pckin and

 

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Indlan Runner nuckE 8' in Hill. (‘arc of. ducks with
ordcr. Also S. C. W'. eghorns. Price for ouch $1 per
111; Si per 50; $5 per-100. W'm. P. Booth, R. 3. Orland, ind.

 

—.\lolcs and females. prices right. (ircut

Barred Rocks laying strain, prizc \vinncrs‘. 151 eggs

$1.510. “U (‘. §I(,)lf‘l“.\lAN, il.No.6, Benton Harbor. .\l ich.
cockcrcls $1.50 and $2.

B‘BRED “box and $3 :1 Settin Send onions in for

baby chicks. LAKI“ llllKi E FA M. Levi-ring. )[ir-h.

FOR SALE—Bull. Black and White Orpinglons.
Score 91 to 91'), hens and Pallets, Cock and Cockerels
reasonable. bwift Winegnr, ii. 12. Grand Rapids. Mich.

' ‘ ' B; 21 ii -k.. R. I. it ls, .\l' -
Prlze Winning uphill (Pr-kl; aqud 1: [longer dugklg.

Stock for snlc. F. gs $1. 82. $3 pcrewt. l tility $3 1191-100.
EMWUUD FARMQ‘.z II. it. No. 1:l.(i1'and Rapids. Mich.

 

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IGH’l‘ liliAlfllA. Burrcd
_ W’ynndotte (‘ockere-ls from
E. I). BISHOP, Route 38,

Rock and \\'hit0
rizc-wiuuiug stock.
.ukc Udossu. Mich.

LlLLlE FARl’lSTEAD POULTRY

B. P. Rocks. R. I. Reds. and S. 0. W. Leghorn eggs
for sale. 15 for 31: 26 for 51.50,- 50 for .50.
COLON (i. LILLIE. Ooopersville. Mich.

n. C. Br Le horns Mammoth Pekin Ducks.

_ won at Detroit 1911 l‘lggs
$1 per setting. .LAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdnle. Mich.

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. “Eggmakers”

Write for pricesron day old chicks and cg s.
MAPLE CI’I ' PHI LTIH' ’LAN'I'. (lhurlottc. Mic 1.

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peril; $2 to .
S. C. White Orpin tons: unlit the best 83 for 15.
J. D. ST. J0 N. H YD N. INDIANA.

 

While Holland Turkeys, Elggggggeardm 38'3")“

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H. McDONAGH. ll. NO. I. BURT. MICHIGAN.

' S. C. White ()rpington a d I d'
Whlte ROGRy Runner Duck eggs at farmxhrs’ pxl'idgsll
Circular free. (i. N. BURT, Box B, ()akwood. Ohio.

(TFF all White Orpin us, Buff & Whit [a

Barred & White Roe s, t R. 0. Rhode fslani‘ihfix
(‘kl_s. Selects 83. Medium: 82 Utility $1.50 each
Satll’actlon guaranteed. H. H. kING, Willis. Mich

Single Comb Black Minorcas.

R. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.

SILVER. GOLDEN AND WHITE WYANDOTTEfl.
_ A fine lot of cockerels 82 and 83 each. Fine
circular tree. 0. W. BROWNING. Portland, Mich.

7H1TE Wyandottos—The most beautiful and use-
ful of American breeds. Send for 1912 circular.
A. FRANKLIN SMITH. R. F. D. 9. Ann Arbor. Mich‘

 

DOGS.

~Scotch Collie Pu 1 ics at $5 a. h. 1
For sa|e stud dog. lfemalo égrsJold, 11 firgm -
shire ewes. HARRY W. GARMAN. Parkville. Mic .

 

TRAINED running Fox Hounds, and young hounds
bred horn famous Coon hunting parents. Full blood
W. E. LECKY. Bolmoovillo. Ohio.

Jsrey heifers. and stomp.
either sex. different ages first

GOIIUO D 3 class ood ones. Five toten
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

the name indicates. It is grown mainly
on light ,sandy soils for the reason that
on heavy soils it ngs so large and
coarse. as to be of very little value as a
feed. It is perhaps the best of all the
clovers for plowing under to increase soil
fertility. As a honey plant it is very
much like the .Tune clover; only in oc-
casional years are the petals short enough
to allow the honey bee to get at the
nectar. As it blossoms later than the
other clovers, however. it becomes a very
important honey plant when it does yield,
furnishing a fine flow of honey at a time
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Peavine or Mammoth Clover.

of nectar. I believe that the honey bee
finds it possible to work on this species
more often than upon the common red
clover, for, while the plant itself is very
largo, the petals are really shorter than
those of the common rcd.
Crimson Clover.

This species of clover ('l‘rifolium incar-
naiuml is one of the most beautiful of
tho clover plants; in fact, I might say it

is the most beautiful. A hold of it in
bloom must certainly present a gorgeous
svcnc. l have chcr seen a large field in
bloom. but am told that as far north as
()hio it is sown quite largely as a. forage
plant. ’l‘lu- blossom is quite distinct from

that of the common red clover. In fact,
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..Crimson Clover Leaves and Blossom.

loaves are of a bright clean green, mak-
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is usually sown in the latter part of the
summer, July 01' August, sometimes as
late as September, and winters well. Sown
in the spring it is usually caught by the
di‘outh of summer just When it needs the
moisture. This is well nigh fatal, as it
will not stand a (ll‘Otlth until well ad-
vanccd. It makes a lot of feed when sown
at the right time, and as a. crop to turn
under it is hard to boat.

As it comes into blossom earlier than
the other clovers it would make a very
valuable addition to our bce pusturuge.
filling the gap between fruit bloom and
the other clovers. The quality of the
honey secured from this plant is fully
equal to that obtained from white clover.

Mecosta Co. ‘ L. C. WHEELER.

 

 

One of theprincipal causes of poor
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GRANGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE MOVE-
MENT.

 

Preliminary arrangements have been
made looking toward one of the most far-
reaching efforts that Michigan, State
Grange has ever undertaken. This is
nothing less than a canvass of the state
in behalf of equal suffrage.

It is a movement that will stir not
alone the “woman question,” but that of
underlying principles and practices in
public affairs generally. It has come
about very naturally and gradually. The
Grange has stood for equal suffrage with-
in iis order for forty-five years. It has
been a recognized advocate of the prin-
ciple, yet seldom has it stood for an ag-
gressive champion for it.

At the annual session in December, at
the request of many men and women long
identified with our work, State Grange
referred the matter of making a state-
wide equal suffrage canvass to the Ex—
ecutive Committee. At the first meeting
of that committee it was unanimously de-
cided to place the work of a constructive
canvass of the state under the direction
of the Legislative committee. This com-
mittee has already begun to formulate
plans for a thorough study of the sub—
ject, to be followed by a carefully plan—
ned canvass in which the Grange assumes
direction and responsibility.

The progress of this movement, its
plans and details. will all be awaited with
deep interest by all citizens without re-
gard to anyone’s present personal attitude
toward equal suffrage. JENNIE BUELL.

MEETING IN WHICH GRANGE AND
SCHOOLS CO-OPERATE.

Grange members, teachers and school
patrons of the vicinity of Shelby, Neway-
go county, recently held their big meeting
which has been patterned somewhat after
the great Hesperia meeting with which
Grange members of this state are more or
less familiar. This meeting opened a day
late owing to the fact that the worst
storm of the winter held town and coun-

try alike in its relentless grasp. The
management had provided for a genuine
revival of the “good old days” and ac—
cordingly had secured, among numerous
speakers, H. S. Earle, of Detroit, H. R
Paitemgill, of Lansing, and W. N. Ferris,
of Big Rapids. Mr. Earle was unable to
reach Shelby, and Professors Taft, of
Lansing, and McLaughlin, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and Master N. P. Hull.
of the State Grange, were also detained
because of the storm.

The first session was a brief one, but
following the arrival of a belated train
Mr. Pattengill entered the hall with his
arms full of Knapsacks which were soon
distributed. Then began one of the pleas-
antest exercises of the meeting. No one
who has not seen Mr. Pattengill lead a
chorus can form any idea of what it— is
like. The power to impart new life and
interest to many an old song is his in
marked degree, while the scraps of their
history and lessons, given in a few point-
ed words, linger long in the minds of
those who hear him.

Prof. Newcombe, of the if. of M., spoken
on the teaching of agriculture in the rural
schools. He said: “The school garden is
not practical; the teacher may plant, the
boys may water, but the birds will get
the increase. Much that is valuable may
be learned in the laboratory. Soil can be
gathered in pots, plants planted therein
and studied, and much may be gained in
that way." in the writer’s opinion he
overlooked the most important opportu-
niiy, and that is for the teacher to urge
the children to haVe gardens at home, she
arranging to inspect them at regular in-
tervals. This would bring teacher and
parent together, to the lasting benefit of
both.

Mr. Pattengill then gave his lecture,
“inspire and Expire.” .He said that the
teacher who can not inspire her school
had better expire from the business. In-
spire the boys and girls with a love of
study, with the Spirit of work, with the
desire to be true and honest and square.

Prof. Newcombe foil-owed with a highly
entertaining talk on “Sunand Soils.”

The evening opened with some very
good music, after which Prof. Ferris gave
his new lecture, “The Philosophy of Hu-
man Conduct.” .The great hall was pack-
ed, but everybody heard him and felt
that he had a message. He said in part:
”Man is ruled by inSiinct, plus reason;
93 per cent of all we do is done because
of instinct and not from reason. All ani-
mals have the instinct of self—preserva-
tion. All animals have the belligerent in—
stinct. Animals of a higher order feed on
those beneath them in the scale of life.
Man ,has the belligerent instinct which
manifests itself in the joy of the chase,
or the passion for war.” The speaker
then delivered one of the most telling ar-
guments against war that We have ever
heard.

Continuing, he said: “Man, in common
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hoarding instinct. Little reason and little
real worth are required to make money.
Then there are the prudential instincts
by which We care for ourselves, the sex
instincts, and others, all of which are
necessary and right if properly controlled.
\Ve use our reason less than our instincts,
because reason is only a few thousand
years old, while instinct is, perhaps, mil-
lions of years old. We must use our rea-
son in providing an environment that will
tend to develop the good instincts and
control those that might otherwise prove
the ruin of our boys and girls. We must
substitute the suggestive book with a
good one. \‘Ve must know where our
young people are nights. We must ban—
ish the questionable dance, the low bi!-
iiard hall, and the open saloon."

The second and last day brought a great
crowd. Every seat was filled and hun—
dreds could not get in. The morning ses-
sion opened with an address by Mr. Pat-
tengill, “America Spells Opportunity.”
Briefly. he said: “The level land along
the eastern coast gave the settlers a
chance to stop and rest and get breath
before they climbed the mountains. The
rivers furnished an easy way for the set-
tler to reach the interior; the Great Lakes
gave opportunity to push on farther West.
We have, in America, the best blood of
the best nations on earth. When our
mines shall have been exhausted there
still remains power enough in the streams
of Michigan alone, to light every house
and turn every machine in Michigan,
Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois.

"\Vhen God wanted to give to the world
a religion that was true and enduring, He
raised up a people for the purpose, and
when He wanted to give to the world the
best form of government, He gave us
America and raised up a people here to
construct that government."

Prof. Van Tyne, of the U. of M., gave
a very instructive address, showing how
Europe gained our independence for us.

lion. J. Adam Bede, of Minnesota, was
to lecture in the evening, but he was de-
tained by the storm and his place was
ably filled by Prof. Van Tyne and Mr.
Patie‘ngill.

Thus ended another “Big Meeting." The
weather was never more against us, pre~
venting the appearance of a number of
our principal speakers, yet the interest
was never keener and, all in all, the meet-
ing was a great success.W F

TAYLOR.

 

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY POMONA.

The Pomona patrons of St. Joseph Co.
held a very successful meeting with Burr
Oak Grange on Saturday, Feb. 3. More
than 250 were present, representing nine.
subordinate Granges of the county and
several of the subordinates
neighboring county of Branch. The staic
speaker was John C. Ketcham, member
of the State Grange executive Committee.
State Master Hull dropped in for a brief
call. and State Treasurer Coward also
was present.

The forenoon was devoted to a business
session. Among the things brought up
was a roll call of Granges, statements of
the strong and weak points of the sub—
ordinate Grnnges and reports of the Po-
mona delegates to State Grange by Mrs.
Harry Kelley of Sturgis Grange and Mon-
roe Anable of Fabius Grange. A noon
dinner was served by the ladies of Burr
Oak Grange to 230 patrons. It was the
opinion of the visiting patrons that for
hospitality Burr Oak Grange is easily
first in the county.

An open session was held in the after-
noon, llalph Bordener, -master of Burr
Oak Grange welcoming both patrons and
non—patrons to this meeting. An enter-
iainmenl feature much enjoyed was “The
Grange Yankee Doodle Housewives," by
the sisters of Burr Oak Grange. It con-
sisted of a number of the sisters doing
ordinary housework—washing, churning,
dusting, sweeping, etc—to the tune of
“Yankee Doodle." The relation of sub—
ordinate Granges to the Pomona was well
presented by Glenn Fry of Burr Oak
Grange, and Prof. L. E. Miller, of Stur-
gis, brought out “The Relation of Grange
and School." in a very able manner, em-
phasizing the fact that the Grange and
the school are both working for the edu—
cation and advancement of country peo-
p e.
"Some Problems of the Michigan Farm-
(r" was the subject of Bro. Ketcham's
able address which consumed a large
part of this session. He talked for bct~
tcr schools, more country churches, co~
operative buying and Selling, and better
cultivation of the soil. He plead with
the farmers' and especially with the
farmer's boys and girls, to be contented
on the farm. He said that when you take
into consideration the good living, health-
fulness, independence and profit of farm—
ing, it is a mighty good business. He
also urged the people not to be misled by
the “Lure of the Faraway.” His central
thought in this was that, if the farm and
environments are not quite satisfactory
you should do all in your power to better
the conditions rather than go off on a
wild goose chase to California or some
other part of the ”Faraway.”

In the evening the. fifth degree was con—
ferred upon a class of 12, bringing the
Pomona, membership up to 200. The de-
gree work was followed by a roll call.
responded to by each member stating, in
not more than three words, a good point
of the Grange. A question had been pro-
vided' which was ably handled by George
Hamilton, of Constantine Grange.

>————

COMING EVENTS.

 

 

Pomona Meetings.
Genesee and Shiawassee Co’s (joint
meeting) at Durand, Friday, March 15.
Newaygo 00., with Ensiay Grange,
Wednesday and Thursday, March 27-28.
Baraga 00., at Grange hall in Baraga
township, Monday, April 8. '

THE MICHIGAN l FARMER.

from the

E FARMERS’ CLUBS ‘
‘W

OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

 

President—J. D. Leland, Corunna.
Vice-President—D. M Morrison, St.
Johns.
Secretary-Treasurer—Mrs. C. 1’.
son, Metamora.
Directors—C. L. Wright, Caro; E. W.
. P

John-

\Voodruff. Blanchard; . Johnson,
Mctamora; H. W. Chamberlain, White
Lake; Wm. T. Hill, Carson City; Jerry

Spaulding, Belding.

Addrese: all communications relative to
the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C
1’. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.

 

SPECIAL FEATURE SONG.

Sang at Ingham Farmers’ Club on
Woman’s Day.
(Tune—J‘Then Let Our Songs Abound")

“We women are in it today,

We women will have our own way,

We shall say what we please

Though it raises a breeze

Right over the Farmers’ Club “nay
Chorus~

Some day you'll have your own way,

Some day you’ll have your own say;

You'll be in it then,

You Farmers‘ Club men,

You cannot be in it: today.

“’e're glad it's sad for you men,
\l’e’re glad it's bad for you men,
You'll have to keep siill,
Though against your own will,
Till you bar us women again.

'Tis said every dog has his day——
All we ask of you men is fair play;
But it seems mighty queer

That one day in the year

Looks fair to you farmers, we say.

it's few of you care much for books,
And less of you care much for looks;
But you'll get a square meal
When you give a square deal
To us bountiful Farmers’ Club cooks.

 

WHAT THE LOCAL CLUBS ARE
DOING.

 

Orleans Club, of lonia county, has been
organized two ycars. The meetings are
held in the hall owned by two local or-
ganizations. Nine meetings and a picnic
are held during the year, the average at-
tendance is between 70 and 80. Refresh-
moms are served at cach meeting. The
president appoints a program committee
and a committee of one lady for each
meeting to superintend the menu. Each
family is advised of the requirements in
this line. by telephone. The meat is pur-
chased by the Club and the rest is brought
in by the members.

Spring Arbor Club, of Jackson county.
has been organized 19 years. The method
of serving refreshments at this Club is
unique, each family inking a folding ta-
ble. and everything required for serving.
The hostess furnishes a dining table for
guests not otherwise provided for. Each
family furnishes what they choose and
the hostess provides extras. At the Club
fair each year a chicken-pie dinner is
served without charge. This Club con-
siders the social features and the associa-
tionnl meeting an influence of the greatest
good derived from the Club.

lngham County Farmers' Club was or-
gunim-d in 1872, being the oldest organi-
zation of the kind in the slate. it has al-
ways stood for the social and educaiionai
advancement of Him c0mmuniiy. ‘Elcvcn
meetings are held during the year, a va-
cation being taken in .luly. Special fea-
tures include a young people’s meeting and
a wonn'n's day in November, which is the
big day of the year. This Club has
printed yearly programs and its work is
well systemaiized. N0 viewing commit—
tee is appointed but the tidiness of the
farms of the members of this CIUD is a
matter of remark.

'l‘hc Arcadia Club, of Gratiot county,
holds 12 meetings during the year. Thcre
are about 100 members enrolled and an
average attendance at the. meetings of 50.
The dinner is furnished by contributions
of the members, ihe hostess furnishing
the meat and drink. An effort is made
10 interest the young people in the Club
work. As an illustration of these plans,
the delegate stated that a contest was
inaugurated among the young men be-
tween the ages of 12 and 17 years of age
for the growing of the best acre of corn.
a pure-bred animal being given as the
prize. The successful contestants were
required to tell how the corn had been
grown. As an example of the interest
created by this special feature and the
benefit derived from it, the delegate stat-
ed that one successful young man who
won a pure-bred pig in this manner, was
found two years later buying others of
the breed at a Chicago sale at a. good

  

 
 
   

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price, the inspiration being received from
the work done in the Club.

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

The Question Box an Important Fea-
ture.—-The Indianfields Farmers' Club met
February 15, at the beautiful farm home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Eldridge. The
rooms were gaily decorated with hearts
in honor of Saint Valentine. Sixty mem-
bers were present at the noon hour when
a most bountiful dinner was served uder
the direction of Mrs. Davis Van Buren.
After a pleasant social hour President
Park called the Club to order and the
program for the afternoon as arranged by‘
Mrs. J. L. Foul-nier was car'ried out. An
excellent paper on strawberry culture was
read by Mrs, J. M. Miller. The questions
for discussion, “Which is more beautiful,
natural or artificial beauty?" with Mrs.
Ellen Purdy and Rev, Denmau as leaders.
proved very interesting. Musical numbers
bers were givun by Miss Lucy Andrews,
Rev. Dcnman and the phonograph. Mrs.
M. H. Oakley and C. XV. Smith favored
the Club with pleasing recitations. A full
question box brought out many timely
questions and was one of the most inter-
esting features of the meeting. The Club
will meet in March with Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Pierce in their new home—M. R. 1’.

Two GOOd Meetings.——Clover Leaf Club
was entertained February 13 at the pleas-
ant home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bushroe.
A large crowd was in attendance. Mr.
Frank Ayers gave a talk on “Does the
farmcr get the full value of his dollar?"
it was discussed by other members of the
Club, and they decided in the negative,
on the grounds that the “middle—man”

received about half of his dollar. Mrs.
Brigham was asked to give a talk on
“Chickens." She said she found the

Rhode island lied to be the best farm
chickens. She claims they are stronger
than other chickens and the best layers.
VVorda Canfield and Mildred Roe favored
with a recitation. We then all joined in
singing Gospel Hymns. February 27 the
Club met with Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Hovvc.
This was the largest meeting we ever
had. Mildred Roe gave a recitation about
:‘Flowersfi’ Mrs. Brigham gave a read-
ing. Mrs. Tanner, from Otsego, favored
with a few fine recitations and a song.
An oyster supper was then served. “"8
all had a delightful time, and left at a
late hour. The next meeting will be with
Mr. and Mrs. Brigham, March 12,—Mrs.
Henry VVubckc, Cor. Sec.

. Hold Successful Institute—The Salem
Farmetrs’ Club held a Vcry successful in-
stitute at the town hall, February 3. The
morning session was tlcVotcd to the sub-
ject of “The Dairy Herd.” State Speaker
Taylor gave the address. Mr. Taylor
unites with a thorough knowledge of his
subject a pleasing delivery and a winning
and sympathetic manner. Discussion led
by Fred Bird. Excellent music was fur-
nished by the Salem Male Quartette. The
afternoon session opened with music by
the Dixboro Orchestra, followed by a solo
by Mr. Taylor, “The Ninety and Nine."
l‘hc speaker then gaVc another equullv
good address on the subject of “Soil Ecr-
illity.” Though these subjects are old,
the speaker made them seem new by his
prescnlation. A question box was-con-
ducted by Chas. Ross. Mr. Taylor an-
sWered the question, “When and how i.)
spray our trees.” Chas, lloss, “What is
the cheapest way to harvest the corn
crop?’ John Smith answered the ques-
tion, “What will be the effect of the new
mortgage tax law?” Arthur Wheclcr
blow to cool milk without ice.” Mr.
“heeler said it could not be done except
With quantities of cold water. Chas. Ross
suggested a bciicr and final way out;
sending the milk to the \Vordcn crcamerv.
A most excellent paper was given by
Robi. .ltoss, on “The New Education or
Luarnmg by Doing," co—reiating the \vork
of the hand and the brain. He. referred
to ”.hc marked success the boys linVc ob-
tained in the different corn contests and
said the conservation of our boys and
girls is the greatest question of the hour.

Farm Life." was the subjcci, of the (‘Vl'll-
‘ng scssxon and much apprecialcd bv the
large, uuditncc. .

The Wise Farmers’ Club lll(‘[ wit "‘7
and Mrs. L. \Valker. Ii‘cbruury 7 lilnhtlic
city of Clare. with a full house. ’Achr 3.
sumptous dinner had been scrvwl, tin-
(‘lub was called to order by President A.
.l, Seelcy. Following the opcning exercises
a talk on “Journalism,” by Enoch Andrus
qditor of the Clare Sentinel, was vorv in:
tcresting. John Harris, of Ifarwell Mich.
spoke on terms “Progressive” and “Stand:
patter," as applied to the republican
puriy. Nfr. Harris is a inillcr and mor-
chant, but gave the Club u very interest-
ing talk and showed he. was well versed
in the political siiuaiion. Rev. VVaIker
stood by tho slandpaiicrs. ll'omer Loom-
is thought that a man who took an oc—
casional glass should not preach temper-
ance. .l'. H. Scclcy said that Ilr- had no
use for anyone that went to \Vashington
to help enact the rt-ciprociiy bill and
thanked the Canadians for killing the bill.
A vote of thanks was extended to the
host and hostess. Sveryone had a good
time. The March meeting will be held
at Dover with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Van
Conant.

Men Serve Oyster Dinner.~~-About 100
members of the Rives and East Tompkins
.h armcrs’ Club met at. the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Styles, to partake of the ex—
cellent oyster dinner the gentlemen had
provided. The meeting was opened by
Singing America, follOch by prayer by
the chaplain. Rev. Mr. Rennells, in a
few well chosen words thanked the Club
for the donation that was given him at
the December meeting. The program
was replete with literary and musical
numbers, which were well rendered and
most entertaining—Mrs. Ina Stringham,
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I wonder in how many breasts the
verses. “\Vhat Shall we Eat?" published
in this department a couple of weeks ago,
struck a responsive chord? it pleased me
mightily, for as I have made it a point
ever since I kept house to read most re-
ligiously everything I could get hold of
on foods and cooking, I haVe certainly
come across some rather extreme ideas.
Fortunately for the family. I have man-
aged to keep my feet on earth while my
head has been among the clouds of steam
arising from lurid cookery books, and we
have always had our three old-fashioned
square meals, while the magazine heroines
subsisted on no breakfasts. nut luncheons
and vegetarian dinners. l’erhaps the fact
that, 1 am extremely fond of thick juicy
steaks banked with hot mashed potatoes,
mushrooms, onions. yellow squash and
other suitable vegetables, may have had
a great deal to do with my rejection of
the fads which many of my sisters fol-
lowed, but I like to think that reason,
common sense, and science, as well as
appetite, are on my side.

Does not nature herself show unerringly
that we need animal food? (in what does
the newborn infant live? Could we sub-
stitute bean soup or peanut broth for
milk and bring up our children on tha;?
Ilow, then. can we say that men, whose
nature does not change from infancy, can
thriVe on vegetable foods alone, “peanut
butter.“ “bean croquettes.” and “vege-
table steaks?” The digestive tract is de-
signed not alone to digest starches, but
proteids and fats as well. Of course, our
faddist friends contend that vegetable
fats and proteids supply all those ele-
ments that the human frame needs, but
as the principal vegetable protein is so

‘mueh harder of digestion than animal

protein it scarcely stands to reason that
nature intended us to subsist on legumes
instead of meat. Nature has a fashion of
doing things the easiest way, which goes
far in my mind towards controverting the
vegetarianist’s theory.

The agitation about foods of the past
feyv years has done much good. It has
called our attention to many existing
evils and made of cookery an exact
science. But there is much chaff with
the real kernels of wisdom. Americans
are nothing if not faddists, and there are

always some to be blown about by every
wind. Every new idea. can find followers
and magazine publishers usually pay well
fer new ideas. It is well to bear this
fact in mind when you read something
lurid regarding the proper feeding of the
human race. A little while ago we were
told that too much sugar was extremely
harmful, and most of us know from ex-
perience the truth of that statement. Now
within the last year magazines with rep-
utations for sanity haVe published articles
which would lead you to think it is ut-
terly impcssible for one to eat too much
sugar. So much stress is laid on its food
value that if you didn’t hold on tight you
would be substituting the sugar bowl for
the potato dish. “’hether the sugar trust
has had anything to do with the change.
of attitude might be a subject for con-
gressional investigation.

A sane, temperate diet, for all would in-
(lude vegetables a—plenty, meat at least
twice a day. fresh meat as often as pos-
sible, as it is more nutritious than salt,
eggs, plenty of milk and cream and a
simple sweet, as plain cakes, and pud-
dings, syrup, honey and cookies. I’ie,
even, ifopl‘opci'ly made is all right for
adults. Of course, fruits and nuts go
without saying, but it is well to be spar-
ing in the .number of nuts eaten as they
are. highly concentrated and contain large
quantities of vegetable oils.

People of mature years and good judg-
ment should be guided by their common
sense in deciding what they will eat.
There are many persons with sound
stomachs and perfect digestions who can
eat almost anything. But because of this
they should not throw discretion to the
winds and eat anything and everything
at all times of the day and night. Even
the most patient and well-behaved stom-
ach will rebel in time if it is misused.
Others with weaker digestion find, by sad
experience. that many things “disagree"
with them. Leave that food alone for-
ever after. as there is no trouble so hard
to get around as a disordered stomach.

\\'hen we stop to consider how much
our life and happiness depends on what
We take into our bodies is it not strange
\\ e shew so little judgment sometimes as
regards what We eat?

DEBORAH.

 

 

 

Rambler Rose Embroidery—No. 16.
By Mae Y. Mahaffy.

 

NE of the newest things in fancy
O stitchwork is very fittingly called

Rambler Rose Embroidery, be-
cause of its resemblance to those dear
little roses which charm and delight us
through the summer. This embroidery
does not require any expert knowledge
which would place it out of reach of a
majority of needleworkers; on the con—
trary. it is made up of stitches already
familiar, only a little practice in their
placing being necessary.

The designs for the most part are, on
the order of garlands, wreaths and fes-
toons. The one shown is appropriate for
a bag, but may be duplicated for uSe on
larger articles, such as pillow tops, scarf
ends, etc. The work is utilized for any
(let'orative article upon which other fancy
stitchwork may be placed appropriately.
It is lovelier, however, when used on eol-
ored linens, rather than pure white. The
colors of the natural roses, light pinks,
shading into the deeper reds. with their
green foliage, seem to appeal to one more
from a creamy background than any
other, though tans, grays and greens are
attractive. Rows of ribbon are frequently
included in the designs. this riben being
carried out in genuine ribbon of a soft,
pliable variety, caught into place with
tiny, invisible stitches; or, more often,
in solid embroidery in some contrasting
color, blue being a favorite.

The work necessitates the use of a

coarse silk floss for the richest effects,
although the many stranded, or very
heavy cotton may be substituted if ex—
pense is to be seriously considered. The
silk is so much prettier that the small
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Haw the Work is Started.

the difference in results. If the stranded
cotton is used it must not be separated,
the entire strand being threaded into the
needle.

Begin working the roses by placing a.
solid round center of light green floss. The

 

usual outline stitch is then utilized to
place the rose shades round and round
this center, heaping the stitches up to
secure the button effect until scarcely a
bit of center shows. This is where prac-
tice alone insures success. The roses
must be made quite high. and round off
at the edges. Several shades are used in
each roseythe darker ones alone in some
instances, lighter in others, and then a
mixture of light and dark, so that scarcely
two roses are alike. As a rule, the dark-
est shades used in any given rose should
be placed nearest the center, but this is
not obligatory.

The little sampler shows a rose start-
ed, the center of green being surrounded
by a few rows of outline stitch. These
first outline stitches must be taken almost
on top of each other to throw the center
up well. A completed rose, with its fol-

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this same lady is by no means peculiar
in her habit of holding on to the old idea.
of heredity. In every community it is
easy to find what seems to be proof to
support this, idea, in spite of all that
science has unfolded and taught and prov—
en by indisputable facts. \\"hole families.
have been carried off by; the disease
which, to all appearances, was transmit-
ted from mother to children. Leaving
out of the question the manner in which
the mother contracted the disease, it
would surely be easy for children, even
of other parents, living with a consump—
tive who took no precautions to prevent
giving the disease to others. to get it by
contact. It would be a marvel if they
did not.

I know of one family in which three
members died in the same room within a
few years of each other, each of them

 

A Graceful Design for Ornamenting a l-pndbag.

iagc. also appears. The leaves in this
style of embroidery are not made as they
are in most forms of embroidery. The
individual leaves are made of one bird’s-
eye stitch, as in lazy-(lazy work. The
needle is brought up at the base of the
leaf. and a stitch taken from that point
to the tip, the thread being thrown un-
der the point of the needle; a tiny stitch
is then made at the tip to hold the oval
in shape. All the stems are outlined,
with occasional outbranching stitches to
simulate them. The work is spéedy when
the shaping of the roses is once under—
stood, and is extremely fascinating. Mak—
ing use of as many needles as one has
shades or colors of tloss is a great saving
in time in any work where so many
changes are required, four or five shades
entering into most of the roses and two
or three shades of green being utilized
for foliage.-

SOME PLAIN FACTS ABOUT THE
TUBERCULOSIS PROBLEM.

 

BY CHARLOTTE A. AIKENS.

Recently I talked with a lady who wish-
ed me to write an article on her views
that tuberculosis was not a communicable
disease, or was not “catching,” as she
termed it. She based her arguments on
the fact that her first husband had died
of tuberculosis, and though she had nurs-

.ed him for over two years, she had not

contratted the disease. She declared it
was hereditary but not contagious.

“How about your niece who contracted
the disease ’3” I inquired. “Where did she
get it? None of her family, as far back
as we can trace on either side, ever had
the disease?”

She began to see the weakness of her
arguments, but persisted that her niece's
illness had come from “catching cold,”
not catching consumption.

According to this lady’s arguments, 1t
might easily be proven that no disease
was communicable, for people have nurs-
ed typhoid fever patients month in and
month out without contracting the dis-
ease, and the same is true of small pox
and other communicable diseases. Yet

sick with the disease for over a. year. No
such thing as disinfection of the room or
disinfecting 0f anything was attended to.
Even the most robust person would be
liable to contract the disease under such
circumstances.

\Ve have. then, among us the people

who lean to one extreme and refuse to
believe that tuberculosis is communicable,
and we have also the other extreme~
those who shun a consumptive as they
would a smallpox patient, fearing that
even by casual Contact they might con—
tract the disease. Now this exaggerated
fear of the disease is most unreasonable.
Nature has her own protective forces al—
ways at work, and if our resistive power
is kept up to the mark, we have little to
fear. It is when we are run down, when
we are weakened by some other disease,
that the tuberculosis germs are able to
obtain a foothold.
.The disease is not communicated by
the breath. All authorities agree that the
consumptive himself is harmless, if the
methods of caring for him are good and
his habits are what they ought to be.
The chief method of spreading the, disease
is by means of the dried sputum of con-
sumptives. If the sputum is properly
cared for and disposed of and not allowed
ever to dry, the risk is reduced to the
minimum. As a matter of fact. fewer of
the nurses in tuberculosis sanitaria con-
tract the disease than the nurses in hos-
pitals that do not receive tuberculosis
patients, for the simple reason that the
science and art of prevention is empha—
sized in tuberculosis hospitals as it is
nowhere else.

This brings me to another plain fact
about tuberculosis—the fact that there
are “unteachable consumptives”—men
and women who refuse to take the pre—
cautions they should about scattering the
germs. I call to mind the case of a child
of six or seven who was admitted to the
hospital, on application of two motherly
neighbor'women, who came by stealth
and told of the conditions under which,
they were trying to care for the little
fellow. The family lived in two rooms.
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a year before. One boy of \twelve had a.
job as errand boy; the father had a po-
sition as “switch-tender," and the seven-
year-old fared as best he could, alone all
day long. At night‘ the three occupied
one bedroom which had never been clean-
ed, so the neighbors said, since the moth-
er died in it. The father was far ad-
vanced in consumption, but still kept at
his post tending the switch. The seven-
,vear—old was in the very early stages of
the disease.

After a couple of months on the porch

and in the grounds of the hospital, the
disease was apparently arrested. He
seemed healthy and happy and well. He

could not stay at the hospital always, and
the father absolutely refused to let him
go any place else but back “home.” to
the two filthy rooms which the neighbor
women said were not fit for animals to
lIVe in. A doctor visited the father and
tried to plead for the child to be given a
chance in some home for children—told
him of the risk of the disease the child
incurred by sleeping with him, etc., but
no argument availed. The father would
neither mend his habits, try to prevent
spreading the irlsease as far as possible,
nor give up the child.

I remember another case of a young
man. intelligent, well educated, obstinate
in disposition, who till the last fought
against fate, acted as though he hated
everybody on earth, and absolutely re-
fused to take any precautions about
where he spit or how it was dispose-d of.
These are only a few illustrations of the
problems that present themselves to those
who come in contact with tuberculosis
very much.

In the public discussions regarding tu-
berculosis and in the, general provision
by means of sanitaria, for such cases, the
public has seemed to base its efforts very
largely on the education and treatment
of the incipient curable case. Most of
the hospitals refuse admittance to the
consumptive who has passed the stage
when the disease may be arrested, or a
cure may be expected. Hence there has
grown up a deplorable indifference to the
advanced or hopeless cases, so far as
public provision for their care is con-
cerned. It is all very Well to enthusias-
tically pursue the educational work, and
to give the incipient patient the best
chance possible, but the public neglect of
the advanced cases is one of the crying
evils of the present day.

V’Ve will say the consumptive is the
mother of a family of little children.
She perhaps has been in a sanitarium
and been discharged as a hopeless case.
There is no provision in the county or
locality for the care of advanced cases.
so she goes back home to her family——
thus exposing four or five children to the
risk of infection. Statistics go to show
that each advanced case infects two oth-
ers. Thus we have three cases to care
for instead of one. We may get the two
in the early stages and perhaps help them
to overcome the disease, but if we had
properly provided for the advanced case,
we would have had but one case instead
of three. If the advanced case could have
gone to a home-like sanitarium and been
properly cared for till death, no one
Would have been infected.

Thousands of these advanced cases are
today at work in shop and factory and
home, spreading infection all the time.
There is no place fer them to go. once
they have passed the curable stage. So
they work as long as they are able and
pay little attention to their duty to
others.

Education of well people, old and yOung.
is a good thing. Proper examination and
care of the suspected cases, especially in
schools, is a good thing. To have every
chance possible given them is a good
thing. None. of these ought to be neg-
lected. But we shall never succeed in
stamping out the disease till we take
some interest in the hopeless cases, who
keep up the chain of infection and each
year recruit the ranks. We ought to look
forward and try to hasten the time when
every county, or at least every two or
three counties, combine to provide a
home-like place where advanced cases
may have proper care.

When the chance comes to discuss tu-
berculosis, talk. Plead for the hopeless
cases. Work for a sanitarium which will
be open to every consumptive who has
passed into the incurable stage. By tak-
ing the very best, most intelligent care
possible of every such case we get to the
bottom of the problem and check the
spread of infection at its most fruitful
source. Even if we are not willing to
care for him for his own sake, let us care
for,..him and providefor him for ourown

. protection. ,

 

HOUSEHOLD‘ ACCIDENTS.

 

BY >HILDA RICHMONDH

Nearly all of the distressing household
accidents-one hears of among friends and
neighbors, or reads of in newspapers, are
the direct results of carelessness, and yet
human lives and property and happiness
are sacrificed every year because many
housekeepers have no system to their
tasks, or else are lax In their government.
In times of sickness when a stranger is
in charge of the home it is impossible for
the wife and mother to prevent accidents,
but even then the firm rules and the sys-
tem she has established in her own home
when she had the reins in her hands will
do much to safeguard the family and the
house.

Take the number of fires resulting from
the use of oil to hurry the fire, and from
the handling of matches by children, for
examples. The woman whose home is
ruled by system and order has her fire
kindled the night before and needs only
to apply a match to the dry wood to
start ,it off. I have seen women who
called themselves good housekeepers run
out at meal time and begin to look about
for bits of wood in the snow and rain to
kindle the fires, when just a little plan-
ning would have had the woodbox sup—
plied With good, dry materials. There
were children in the homes large enough
to look after these chores, but they never
were required to do them. In other
houses the little folks had their regular
hours for “filling mamma‘s woodhox,”
and she never had to nag at them to do
the work. They knew it was their task
and the sooner it was over the sooner
they would get back to play. so they
cheerfully did it.

And where a mother trusts her matches
within reach of children she is criminally
careless. I know there are mothers who
boast that their children may be safely
trusted anywhere and everywhere, but
even if that is true there is the small
visitor to reckon with who may in a mo-
ment destroy the work of years if the
match box is handy.

Then there are the distressing acvidents
caused by upsetting water or hot lard or
any liquid that results in days of agony
for a child or an adult. The mother
tears a hole in her apron and instead of
taking it off. immediately, as she knows
she should do. she trusts to luck to keep
her out of trouble. Not very long ago
such a housekeeper caught the handle of
a fryingpan with the hole in her apron,
upsetting a pan of hot lard in her shoe
and resulting in a most frightful sore. 1n
the weeks that followed she had ample
time to reflect on her carelessness, and
also to patch every garment in the house.
'l'lli're are women who set dowu tubs of
hot w'ater or kettles of hot lard where
the children can fall into them, and then
go mourning to the end of their days be-
cause. God took the little ones from them.
One young mother who lost a child in
this way made a resolve then and there
that never again would she correct one
of her children no matter what they did,
much to the surprise of her friends who
thought she would be doubly careful, and
she now has several graves in the ceme-
tery to mourn over instead of one. There
were broken limbs, broken arms and
minor accidents among the children who
did survive, but she never could be,
brought to see her duty in regard to gov-
erning her flock.

Many women tie small bells to bottles
containing poison to warn adults in the
dark, while others lock up the dangerous
drugs and hang the key where none of
the children can touch it. if poisons must
be kept in the house it is better to have
them in a safe place where they will not
attract the attention of children, and
even medicines that are not harmful un-
unless an ovcrdOSe is taken should not be
where children can handle them. And
the discipline of the home should be such
that articles that can not be conveniently
placed on high shelves every time the
mother must leave the room, are not
touched by the children.

If oil lamps were always cleaned and
filled in the morning there would be few-
er accidents, and if a lantern were pro-
vided for the children to carry upstairs
and down cellar the list would be de-
creased still more. The reckless way in
which people shake lamps to wet: the
wick when the oil is low, and race over
the house with a. lighted one in their
hands, is surely enough to make thought-
ful people shudder.

A disfiguring scar, or a useless hand or
limb is an affliction so dreadful that all
mothers should be on the alert to guard
against such things. If you can give
your children nothing else in the way of a

   

legacy give them sound bodies, habits of
obedience and carefulness and a whole—
some hdrror of carelessness, and they
will be rich and happy. Lack of time is
usually pleaded when a distressing acci-
dent occurs, but when it is all sifted down
the women who are “rushed to death" In
their housework are the ones who lack
system and management. Accidents will
happen in the best managed homes, but
when they do the mistress of the house
can console herself with the thought that
they are due to causes over which she
has no control, and that is much better
than to have a guilty conscience to carry
the rest of life.

A LOOK INTO FOOD VALUES.

No. 4.

 

BY CORAL n. HAVENS.

(Miss Havens is a domestic science
teacher in Detroit public schools. and a
graduate from a Boston cooking school).

Carbohydrates.

Before taking up the study of the
cookery of carbohydrates it may be well
to recall to your minds that carbohy-
drates are foods that contain starch or
sugar, and yield heat and energy.

They are very similar in their chemical
composition, both being compounds of
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Starchy
foods comprise by far the larger part of
our diet, and their cooking demands our

careful consideration.

Starch is found in all cereals, and in
roots, stems, seeds, and leaves of many
vegetables. A form of animal starch
known as glycogen, is found in some ani-
mal tissues and some forms of mush-
rooms.

Raw starch is indigestible and requires
thorough cooking to make it digestible.
It is a fine white powder composed of tiny
grains, each one of which is covered with
a thin skin. Cold water has no effect on
starch except to separate these grains;
boiling water causes the grains to swell
and burst, thus forming a paste. This
paste is converted into sugar by
the action of the saliva; and all starch
must be changed into sugar before it is
digested.

The digestion of starch begins in the
mouth, when the food is mixed with
saliva. Saliva has the power of chang~
ing starch to sugar, a process which' must
be accomplished before starch is digest-
ed. For this reason all starchy foods
should be thoroughly chewed. If any food
is to be swallowed hastily let it be the
proteins, for their digestion does not be—
gin in the mouth.

Cereals.

Cereals arc the six grains, or cultivated
grasses ,so named in honor of Ceres, the
goddess of the harvest. Nowadays we
have come to apply the name to the vari-
ous grits, flakes, etc., that are considered
so essential for breakfast in most homes.

They consist largely of starch, also con-
taining a small amount of mineral mat—
ter, fat, protein and water. Oats and
corn are richer in fats than the other
grains and should not be served frequent-
ly in warm weather.

cushy

Cereals require very thorough cooking
to make them easily digested. When
sawed in the form of mush they should

be mixed with boiling water and salt and
cooked in a double boiler or tireless cook-
er. in; not, be, afraid of over-cooking
them. Naturally sweetened fruits. as
dates, figs, and raisins, added just before
taking from the fire, give variety to any
of the cooked cereals.

Many preparations are manufactured
from cereals, as macaroni, spaghetti, ver-
micelli, noodles, cracked wheat, wheat-
ena. etc., from wheat; oatmeal and rolled
oats from oats; corn meal, cornstarch,
hominy. and samp from maize, or Indian
corn; rye flour and flakes from rye; flour
and pearl barley from barley; puffed rice
and rice flour from rice.

Macaroni in its various forms is a val-
uable food, being cheap and nourishing.
It is deficient in protein and should be
served with meat or in combination with
cream, cheese or eggs to supply the de-
ficiency. In Italy it is boiled in beef
broth but we generally boil it in a large
quantity of salted water, and then season
as desired.

For many years it was not considered
possible to make good macaroni in this
country, as it requires a very hard wheat
for its manufacture. In recent years
that difficulty has been overcome and we
are now able to produce first-class maca-
roni in clean factories.

Rice forms the staple article of diet for
nearly one-third of the human race.
Most housewives realize its value for pud-
dings, but few appreciate its usefulness
as a vegetable. Boiled rice makes a very

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“I had neuralgic headaches for 12
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good substitute for the eternal potato,
especially. with chicken and bacon. Rice,
muffins and - waffles are ’ delicious and
offer a solution of the “left. over” prob-
lem. Boiled rice mixed with cheese, as
you would macaroni, is little known but
much enjoyed by those who have once
eaten it. Turkish pilaf, or rice and to-
matoes, is another acceptable form of
rice as a vegetable.
Turkish Pilaf.

Wash carefully one cup of rice, cook
until brown in two tablespoonfuls melted
butter, then add two cups of boiling wat-
er and cook in double boiler until the
water is absorbed. Add three cups of
stewed tomatoes, season highly with salt
and pepper and steam until rice is tender.

Rice with Cheese.

\Vash one cup of rice, and boil rapidly
in two quarts of boiling water, to which
has been added one tablespoon of salt.
\Vhen rice is tender drain in a coarse
strainer, and pour over it about one quart
of cold water; then put it back on the
stove to dry. Then put a layer in a bak-
ing dish, sprinkle with grated cheese,
salt, and a few grains of cayenne; repeat
until you have used all of the rice and a
quarter of a pound of cheese. Half fill
the dish with milk, cover with buttered
crumbs and bake until the cheese is melt-
ed. Do not bake too long or the cheese
will be tough.

Rice Muffins.

Mix and sift tw0 and one-fourth cups
flour, five level teaspoonfuls baking pow-
der, two level tablespoons sugar, one-half
teaspoon salt, then add one-half cup milk,
one well-beaten egg and mix thoroughly.
Mix three—fourths cup hot cooked rice
with one-half cup milk and add to the
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‘A KID PARTY.”

BY PEARLE WHITE M’COWAN.

This is rather an unusual innovation in
the line of an evening's entertainment.
One given recently, and attended only by
middle aged married couples, was a huge
success.

The invitations read as follows:

“Come ye lets ga’n a lang
Back to the time when we wus kids.
At Mr. and Mrs, John Betts’
January 27, 7:30 1’. M.

No grown-ups allowed.”

The amusing results were enough in
themselves to furnish entertainment dur-
ing the early part of the evening. Huge
bow ties, blouse waists and knee pants
were the rule among the men. One had
cut the tail off from a frock coat and
utilized his wife’s dressing sack for a
blouse, another had trouble keeping his
stockings up (and who hasn't seen small
boys having the same difficulty?), while
a third created much amusement by the
veritable store of boys’ treasuresastrings,
old knives, a rabbit’s foot, marbles.
stones, etc., which he was continually
pulling from his pockets and trying to
trade.

The ladies, with their short dresses and
hair in curls or braided down their backs,
also occasioned much mirth and comment,
and some of them were voted even more
attractive than when attired in the regu-
lation “grown—up” garments. 'l‘hey en—
tered with zest into the spirit of the thing
and acted their parts amidst much gay-
cty. One was proud and very vain, be—
cause She “had on a new blue dress.”
Another’s source of distinction, which she
took care to call to the attention of all
the feminine members of the company,
was the fact that “her dress and petti-
coat were just alike.” One was “snippy,”
another “bossy.” One “got mad and
wouldn’t play” and had to be “coaxed
up,” and another pretended to feel very
badly because she was a “poor little girl
and didn’t have anything but an old
gingham dress to wear.”

The daughter of the house, who was
the only young person present, took
charge of affairs, and began by making
them all sit in rows and sing “Old John
Brown. He Had a Little Indian.” This
was followed by “Twenty Froggies Went
to School," and “Roll Your Hands.” all
of which were sung with much gusto and
amusement.

Games were next in order, and for two
hours everybody was kept most busily
engaged in such highly exciting and vast-
ly amusing occupations as playing “But-
ton, Button, VVhO‘S Got the Button?"
“Hide the Thimble,” “Simon Says Thumbs
Up,” “Bean Porridge Hot, Bean Porridge
Cold,” Blind Man’s Buff,” and “Pussy
Wants a Corner.” Marbles also formed
a part of the evening’s fun, cigar boxes

Fri-rm =MIchAnwFAfiMER.

with\holes cut in the covers through

,which themarbleswere dropped, being

the most popular form, at least with ,the
ladies, most of whom objected to sitting
upon the floor and rolling at each other.

Refreshments consisted of sandwiches
animal cookies, little_cakes with raisin
turtles as a part of their decoration, and
cocoa, for, of course, children couldn’t be
allowed to drink coffee.

After this squares of colored paper were
given out with instructions as to fold-
ing, cutting, etc., each person being
required to finish the task assigned in a
given time. Comparison of results called
forth much good natured criticism and
laughter.

Paper and pencils were passed around
and each given five minutes in which to
draw a picture of an elephant, a hen and
a cat. These were gathered up and pin-
ned upon the wall, where everybody had
a chance to select the best.

Finally, after singing lustily, “Good-
night Ladies,” the party broke up amidst
hilarious and hearty good-nights, and
for weeks afterward any mention of the
“Kid Party” afforded instantaneous
bursts of amusement, while the general
opinion often expressed was that busy
people should “let loose” oftener and en-
joy'these refreshing returns to “cnildom.”

HUMAN WELFARE QUERIES.

 

Editor Household Department—My
baby is four months old and has been
good until a little while ago. Now she 18
getting cross and frets a good deal. She
has always been real well and we feed
her everything. Do you think it is her
teeth makes her so fretful?—Young
Mt ther.

I should be more apt to think it is the
fact that you “feed her everything.” An
infant four months old should have noth-
ing but milk, either the breast or the bot-
tle. Her digestive glands are not su-
ciently matured to take care of anything
else. Quit feeding her at once, and give
her milk only every two hours during the
day and once between 10 o’clock at night
and 7 o’clock in the morning. You will
probably have some trouble at first but
if you stick to your colors for three or
four weeks you will be more than repaid.
No child should be fed until at least sev-
en months old, and then only well-cooked
rice, farina, barley and possibly oatmeal
with a dry cracker or bit of toast to
nibble

l3? dit or Household Department :—~My
baby will be months old in May.
Would you advise me to wean her before
hot weather or nurse her through her
second summer? The doctor says to
wean, but .one of my neighbors thinks I
should not wean her.——Mrs. ’

I should advise you to wean her by all
means. The strain of nursing her so long
is too much for you, and the milk will
not be good for the child. All doctors
now advise weaning at least at 11 months,
and some say nine months is the right
time. If you use care in feeding her
there is no reason why she should not be
perfectly well. Give her sterilized milk in
the hot months, no potatoes, and only well
cooked rice and other cereals, with toast
and crackers and a little orange juice. If
you wish any further sugegstions I would
be very glad to answer any questions.

Editor Household Department—“11y do

doctors say baked potatoes are better
than boiled?—r-Curious.

Baked potatoes are considered better
than boiled because none of the salts and
protein are lost, while, if they are boiled
with the jackets off a large per cent of
valuable matter is extracted by the action
of the water. Baked potatoes should be
served at once though, as they become
soggy through standing. If they must
stand at all prick the skins to allow the
steam to escape.

Editor Household Department—Saw a
request in your paper for a graham crack-
er recipe. Here is mine:

One-third cup of butter, one cup sugar,
white of one egg, (1 double recipe and use
whole egg), one teaspoon cream of tartar.
Beat together, then add half teaspoon of
soda dissolved in half cup warm water
and sifted graham flour to roll.-—M. D.

Editor Household Department2—I would
be much obliged to you if you could give
me a remedy, or ask if someone could,
for removing kerosene oil out of my new
ingrain carpet. My hanging lamp came
down and made an ugly spot. This was
four months ago'land it does not evap-
orate as people told me it would. Please
reply through your paper. Thanking you
for your trouble, I am yours—Mrs. W. C.
0., Hillsdale.

The spot is largely due to the dust
which settled on the spot before evapora—
tion began. Try scrubbing the spot with
hot water and ammonia, using a. good

 

 

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with several waters and if, when dry, a.
grease spot still shows cover thickly with
magnesia and leave on for 24 hours.
Brush of! and repeat if necessary.
advise putting a blotter over grease spots
and holding over it a hot iron. The grease
is supposed to be drawn into the blotter
by the heat of the iron. I have never
had any luck with‘this method. If you
do not succeed in removing the spot by
scrubbing and the use of magnesia, write
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(Note—Any questions regarding food
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INDEPENDENT PARENTS BEST IN

OLD AGE.

BY ELLA E. ROCKWOOD.

mistaken kindness it is which
A prompts a man or woman to place

their entire property in the hands
of their children. it is all very well to
aSSist them financially within reasonable
limits but sufficient means should invar-
iably be kept under the. parents' control
to assure provision for future years and a
possible old age when independence may
be of inestimable worth.

Nobody likes to be entirely dependent
on his children for financial support. The
time may arrive. and usually does, when
a separate abode is not expedient, but a
separate income. is always desirable.

The scriptures tell us how an ungrateful
child may cause sorrow in one's old age.
This has many times been sadly demon-
strated since the day it was written.
There are broken hearts without number
owing to this very cause. Gray hairs
hachrepeatedly been bowed in the. courts
of justice to regain possession of property
deeded to John, who was to take care of
his parents as long as they lived.

John failed to do as he had agreed and
in sorrow and shame the aged parents
were compelled to ask the intervention
of the law to restore to them what they
should chcr have deeded away.

Such (’flSt'S may not be common, let us
admit that they are not. Still, a stifli-
cient number of them are made public to
prove that parents are wise in holding
the power in their own hands. After
they are gone is time enough to give the
last dollars away.

I’ressue is sometimes brought to bear
which arouses the sympathy, causing an
aged man or woman to consent to a
transaction which. under other circum—
stances, would not be given. The thing
looks specious. John needs the money
or can look after the farm better if it is
in his own hands. The. parent trustingiy
yields. and deeds away his all. in nine
cases out of ten this proves a mistake.

Filial affection is not on the decline.
The world has very many who are in love
and tenderness caring for aged parents.
ilowever, this does not alter the, fact that
it is best to preserve the independence of
those fathers and mothers by allowing
them to have something of their own to
the very end of life. XVould that this
might always be the case.

FEEDING THE TWO-YEAD-OLD.

 

BY A, A. L.

The second year of a baby’s life is usu-
ally most trying to mother and child.
The last of the milk teeth are. coming,
with a train of bowel trouble, and baby 18
usually more troublesome and fretful than
during the first year of his residence on
earth. Illuch of the trouble, could be ob-
VIated if mothers fed the baby correctly.
One doctor goes so far as to say that the,
child nced never have any disturbance
while teething if the mother did her duty.
but as I followed his directions most
slavishly and still my babies’ digestive
apparatus was upset during the last
teething period, I am inclined to think
his doctrine is largely theory. However,
care. in the diet does help wonderfully.

[n the. first place, do not make the mis-
take of thinking a child can have a
“taste" of everything. Its digestive or-
gans are by no means ready for the
"strong meat designed for men,” and
while many things besides milk may be
given safely there are .Vet more which
must he, tabooed. Potatoes, for one. thing,
are often very harmful. Potato starch
is the poorest sort of starch for infantile
feeding, not equal in value to wheat, rice.
barley, etc. ““hen ripe and dry they may
be given safely in cold weather, but dur-
ing the summer it is better to leave the-m
out of the dietary of a child under three
years. Oatmeal, too, that popular food
for infants, is hard to digest and fewer
children can digest it properly than is
supposed. Rice, farina and barley are the

Some .

     

best starches for children, barley being
neither so loosening as oatmeal nor so
constipating as rice. _

The constipating properties of rice make
it a good food to use in cases of “summer
complaint.” I have kHOWn obstinate cases
to be checked by browning a handful of
rice in a frying pan, then cooking it thor-
oughly and giving to the little sufferer.

Always remember that starch should
be thoroughly cooked. The mother who
puts a handful of oatmeal, farina or oth-
er cereal in a basin of water and cooks
it three or four minutes before giving it
to baby, is laying the train for future
trouble. All starch should be boiled on
the stove for at least 30 minutes or cook-
ed in the double boiler for two hours.
while rice and barley should be cooked
even longer, some say at least two hours’
boiling, with three in the double boiler.

Eggs may be fed during the second
year, but when they are fed the child
should not have quite so much milk that
day. A half an egg is enough for the first.
feeding and the infant should be given
egg only once a day. By the time the
child is 15 months old its food should be
half starch, and some egg or broth should
be substituted for a part of the milk.
Mutton broth, chicken broth and beef
broth are all good, though they do not
contain the nutrition that: was formerly
supposed. They are valuable more from
the- fact that their flavor imparts a zest
to the appetite. The nourishment comes
from the cereals, toast or cracker that
is eaten with them.

Contrary to our usual idea about baked
and boiled starches, boiled starches are
better for infantile feeding than baked
ones. They contain much more water
and the child is not so liable to overload
his stomach as he is with the lHlkC‘ll
starches which are more concentrated.
That is, he can take a greater quantity of
boiled starch with safety as tho watcr is
at: once taken up by the system.

Extreme caution should be used in chd-
ing fruit. Orange juice. baked or scraped
apple and stewed prunes may be given,
and are better as a laxative than medi-
cines Prunes are, very good for this pur-
pose. Do not give the child apples to
eat out of hand as he is not old enough
to chcw them properly and the pieces he
swallows irritate the digestive organs.

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

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March 6, 1912.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat.—Unusual strength was shown
in the wheat market last Friday when
the bears had sold themselves short only
to find that conditions abroad were fav-
orable for an advance. Liverpool shoWed
uncommon strength due to the small
shipments from Argentine and a general
understanding that transportation in the
South American country was still suf-
ferig from labor conditions. There was
also a general belief among traders that
farmers had fewer bushels in their pos-
session than was formerly thought. On
Saturday another quarter cent was added
to the price, but this was lost Monday
and Tuesday's market experienced an-
other loss of one-half cent largely be-
cause of the liberal fall of moisture west
of the Mississippi, and also from the fact
that primary receipts were a little larger
than dealers were looking for. The av-
erage values for the week, however, are
above those of the previous period and
from now on the bears will be put on the
defense due to crop scares. Last fall
wheat did not go under the snow in the
best condition and it is more than likely
that the growing season will open with
the crop looking unfavorable for a large
yield. One year ago the price for No. 2
red wheat was 90c per bti. Quotations
for the past week are as follows:

Red. White. May. July.
N0. 2 No. 1

Thursday .3: .9731; .0533, 31.02% .97

Friday ..... 1.00 .98 1.04 .981/2
Saturday .. . .1.00 .98 1.033; .9811.
MOnday . . .. 1.00 .98 1.033.; .98 1/2
Tuesday ... .9911; .97‘g'; 1.0.31, .981;
'\Vcdncsday 1.00 .98 1.031}; .984};

Corn.—Corn prices show substantial
advances over the prices of last week,
21,131? being added to the quotations. The
wide demand for this cereal from rural
districts to feed stock is giving good stip—
port to the market. The continut-td cold
weather is demanding an extra amount
foi regular feeding purposes. It is also
asserted that corn values in Argentine
average above those in this country. The
demand from abroad is likely, therefore,
to improve. The bulge in the wheat mar—
ket is another bullish factor. ()ne year
ago the price for No. 3 corn was 46c per
bu. Quotations for the past week are
as follows:

No. 3 No. 3

Corn. Yellow.
Thursday 66 67
Friday ...... 67 68
Saturday ..... 68 69
Monday ...... . . .......... . 68 60
Tuesday .................. 68 61)
\Vednesday ........ ....... 68 69

Oats.*(,)n the local market oats are
firm and in good demand with values
ruling fully 2c 11110er the average for the
former week. The visible» supply increas-
cd only a few thousand bushels. 1n Chi—
cago on Tuesday the market was consid-
ered much stronger than that of corn
and wheat. One year ago the local price
for standard oats was 3:6 per bu. Quo-
tations for the hast wcek are as follows:

Standard. No. 3

White.
Thursday ............... . 54 53%:
Friday .................... 551/2 55
Sal iti'day ................. 56 551/3
A’londay .................. 56 55114,;
Tuesday .................. 55 571%
\Vcdncsday ............... 56 551/2

Beans.~~~llean values are steady at the
closing figures of a week ago. There is
a slight demand for the legumes and the
market is easy. Quotations are as fol—

lows:

Cash. May.
Thursday . . . . . ...... . ........ '2.35 $2.42
li‘riday ..................... 2.35 2.12
Saturday ................... 2.35 2.12
Monday‘- .................... 2.35 242
Tuesday ................... 2.35 2.42
'\\'(Idiicsday ................. 2 32 2.40

Clover Seed.—-Jl‘he prices ruling at the
close of last week have been maintained
throughout this week. There is consid-
erable activity in this market at the,
present time. Following are the leading
quotations for the week:

Prime Spot. March. Alsike.
Thursday ........ $13.25 $13.25 $13.00
Friday ........... 13.25 13.25 13.00
Saturday ....... . 13.25 13.25 1300
Monday .......... 13.25 13.25 1.3.00
’l‘ucrsday ......... 1.3.25 1.3.25 1.3.00
Wednesday ...... 13.00 13.00 13.00

Rye.w~\\'liile this market is dull. the
price shows a 1c advance since last week,
the quotation for cash No. 2 now being
951- pcr bu.

Timothy Seted.——During the past week
the price for timothy seed has declined
15c. which puts prime spot at $6.75 per
bu. On Tuesday 100 bags were sold at
this figure.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.

Noun—Market rules about steady with
trading dull.

Straight ............. . ...... . . . . ...... $5.25
Patent Michigan ....... ....... 4.85
Ordinary Patent .......... . ........ . . 4.80
Rye .................................. 5.20

Feed.~1“rices are advanced. Carlot
prices on track are: Bran, $30 per ton;
coarse middlings. $30; fine middlings, $30;
cracked corn, $.30; coarse corn meal, $30;
corn and oat chop, $28 per ton.

Hay and Straw.—Ilay has advanced,
while straw is steady. Quotations are:
No. 1 timothy, 322506123: No. 2 timothy,
321506022; clover mixed, 532150602250; rye
straw. $11.50@12; wheat and eat straw,
$10,506?“ per ton. 1

Potatoes.#Demand is active and sup-
ply running low since the continued cold
weather makes shipping risky. Prices

THE M‘iCHiGAN‘f—‘Aiéfiéfi. .

have gone up about 100. Car lots on
track are quoted at $1.05@1.10 per bu.

Provisions.—-Family pork, $17@18.50;
mess pork, $16; medium clear, $15.75@17;
picnic hams, 90; bacon, 11%60130; pure
lard in tierces, 91/20; kettle rendered lard,
101,4;c per lb.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—Following the advance made in
Elgin on Monday the local market is now
handling creamery butter on a 20 higher
basis. The market is firm at the new
figure. Dairy butter is steady. Extra
creamery is quoted at 30c; first creamery
29c; dairy, 21c; packing stock, 200 per lb.

Eggs.—The large increase in the out-
put of eggs has pushed prices down sev-
eral cents below the decreased quotations
of last week. There is a very lively de-
mand for the product due to the lower
cost to consumers. Current receipts,
cases included, are now being quoted at
220 per dozen. This is 70 below the quo-
tations of last week.

Poultry.—There has been a few fluc-
tuations in the poultry market, with hens
and chickens sellling higher. The supply
is not up to requirements. The market
continues firm for other kinds. Quota—
tions are as follows: Live turkeys, 1660
17c; geese, 1161:12c; ducks, 14c; young
ducks, 15c; spring chickens, 15c; N0. 2
chickens. 116112c; hens, 16c; No. 2 hens,
11617120. Dressed—Chickens, 1.51/2c; ducks,
1661117c; geese, 146115c; turkeys, 1860190
per lb.

Veal.——Fancy veal is steady. Fancy, 10
61130; choice, 96010c per lb.

Dressed Hogs.——Light, $7.50; medium,
$6.75; heavy, $6.50 per cwt.

Cheese.—»-All grades of cheese remain
steady. Michigan, September, 18%61519c;
Michigan, late made, 171/26018c; York
state, 196020c; limburger, 1761‘19c; domes-
tic Swiss, 2061.230; brick cream, 2060220
per lb. *

Fruits and Vegetables.

Cabbage.~—Higher; now selling at 31/26)
4c per lb.

Onions.—~Stcady; 322561250 per bu;
Spanish, $2 per crate.

Apples.~'_l‘here is not a satisfactory
movement of apples although a fair de-
mand exists. Baldwins are selling at $3
613.50; (lreouings, 8325613510; Spies, $3.50
614: Ben Davis, $2612.50 per barrel.

 

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

The egg market shows weakness, deal-
ers quoting the country trade 220 on
’1‘ucsday. liairy butter is worth 240.
Live poultry is bringing the following
prices: lt‘owls, 12c; chickens, 13c; ducks,
13c; geese, 10c; turkeys. 160. Dressed
hogs are worth around 71/2c. The bean
market is very quiet, the price paid to
farmers for both white pea and red kid-
neys being on $2.10 basis. Grain prices
at the mills are as follows: No. 2 red
wheat, 92c; oats, 55c; corn, 690; rye, 83c.
llay is worth $206122 per ton.

Rutter—mill grades léc higher; market
firm. Creamery specials are quoted at
31c per lb; extras, 301/fic; firsts, 291/2@
30c; seconds, 2861290

liggs.»~~1\1arket reasonably steady under
a decline ~of 561160 for the past week.
Fresh gathered extras, 256 26c; firsts,
24c; seconds, 2361231/20; western gathered
whites, 246126c per dozen.

l’oultry.——Livc——Steady under generally
higher range. \X'estern chickens, 130;
i‘owls, 151/26116c; turkeys, 18c. Dressed——
Steady \\'estcrn chickens, 1361115c; fowls
146116c; turketys, 1261210

 

Chicago.

“meat—No. 2 red, $1.02lr§@1.0312;May
31.03316; .luly, 073/,c.

(i‘orn.—»-l-No, 3 66%(1670; 1\Iay, 70760;
July, 710 per bu. ,

()ats.~~No. 2 white, 53-3.,(1541/1c; May,
5273c; July, 401,60

BarleyreMalting grades, 05c61$1.30 per
bu: feeding, 756180c.

Butter.—---—'l‘he week opened with a 10
advance followed by a like gain on Tues-
day. Demand brisk, keeping offerings
well cleaned up. Quotations: Creamer-
ies, 276130c; dairies, 21612811.

l‘Zggs.~rllet-cipts have increasud very
rapidly the past week and prices have
declined just as rapidly. showing a drop
of more than 7c. licmand showing im-
provement. Quotations: Firsts, grad-
ing 70 per cent fresh, 213.,c; ordinary
firsts, 21c per dozen; at mark, cases in-
cluded, 201,66121c.

1’oultry.—l\1arkct quiet to easier, the
few price changes showing tendency to—
ward lower values. liivc are quoted as
follows: Chickens, 1‘11,:_»c; fowls, 14c;
roostcrs, 10c; turkeys, 1-lc; ducks, 15c;
geese, 10c. Dressed‘L‘bickens. 150;
l‘owls, 15c; roosters, 101/éc; turkeys, 18c;
ducks. 160; geese. 13c.

Potatoeswiliespiten a steady increase in
shipments, prices are again higher. Mar—
ket very firm. Michigan stock is now
quoted at 31.12.601.14 per bu. \Visconsin,
310861113; Minnesota, $1.1261‘L14.

Beans. This market continues to see-
saw. Reported easier this week with all
quotations slightly lower. Current quo-
tations are: 1‘ea beans—Choice, hand-
picked. $2.55 per bu; prime, $2.45 per bu;
lied Kidneys, $2.60.

llay and Straw. Steady: prices un~
changed. Quotations: Timothy, choice,
322506112350 per ton; No. 1, $20.50@21.50;
No. 2 and No. 1 mixed, 319601950; No. 3
and No. 2 mixed, $14.506018; clover, $16.50
61119; No. 2 and no grade, $7.506013.50;
alfalfa, choice, 320506121; No. 1, $196020;
No. 2, $186019; straw. rye. $9.50@10.50;
oat, $9609.50; wheat, $7.50@8.50.

 

 

Boston. _
TVool.—~While the transactions in the
wool market are limited, the trading is
done on a firm basis. Fleeces are scarce
and holders are not anxious to dispose
of their stock. Dealers who' have 1,4-blood

 

and 95-blood .fleeces are asking 30c and

do not appear inclined to shade this, al-
though it is know that they have been
offered within a fraction of this figure
for the- goods. Fine delaine is held at
32c for washed and 260 f0r unwashed.
()hio XX has been sold here at 290, while
fine unwashed clothing has changed hands
at 22c per lb. Transactions are small
due to the fact that none of the dealers
have large quantities to sell, even should
manufacturers offer the price asked. It
is stated that a large part of the new
clip of the western states has already
been contracted at figures that look fairly
attractive! to the sheepmen. The latter
are. however, advancing their prices up-
on the crop and it is probable that con-
tracts will not be made so freely during
coming weeks as they have been during
the past few Weeks. Dealers appear more
anxious than usual to get hold of wool.
Elgln.

11ntter.——Market firm at 300 per 1b., an
advance of 2c from previous week. The
output for the Wt‘t‘k was 700.0th lbs.. com-
pared with 725.000 lbs. a week ago.

 

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Buffalo.
March 4, 1912.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, New York).

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 170 cars; hogs, 75 double decks;
sheep and lambs, 81 double decks; calves,
1,400 head.

With 170 cars of cattle on our market
here today, market was slow and draggy
at barely last weeks prices.

\Ve quote: Best 1,100 to 1,600-lb. steers
37.50618; good prime 1.300 to 1,400-lb. do.
$7607.25; do. 1,200 to 1.300-lb. do., 36.5060
7; best 1.100 to 1.200—lb. shipping steers,
362561650; medium butcher steers, 1,000
to 1,100, 35.256116; light butcher steers,
31.50615; llcst fat cows, $5615.60; fair to
good do., $4614.50; common to medium do.
332561375; trimmers, 82.506123; best fat
heifers, $6616.50; good do., 354.75.605.25; fair
to good do., $4.2561-4.65; stock heifers, $3.25
6113.50; best feeding steers, dchorned, $4.50
61.4.75; common feeding steers, 33.506114;
stockcrs, all grades, 63.50614; prime ex—
port bulls, 35.50606; best butcher bulls,
$5615.25; bologna bulls, $1614.50; stock
bulls, 63.25614; best milkers and springers
$456155; common to good do., $256035.

With eight double decks of hogs on
sale bore today, and moderate supplies
west, our trade was active and generally
1061150 higher on all grades; bulk of the
choice quality hogs selling at 70; pigs
and lighter weights at 365061.675; roughs,
$6616.25; stags, $4.7561.5.50. Good weight
hogs closed steady, but lights slow;
some of the latter going over unsold.

The lamb market was active today;
most of the choice lambs selling from
$7.35617.40; few fancy at $7.50. Look for
little lower prices the last of the week
unless the runs continue light. The sheep
market was active today; market strong
quartctr higher. Look for about steady
prices the balance of the week on sheep.

\\'e quote: Best lambs, $7.35@7.40; cull
to common do., $5.756106.50; wethers, $560
5.25: bucks, $3613.25; yearlings, 35.7560
6.25; handy eWes, $5605.25; heavy ewes,
61.75615; cull sheep, $3614; veials, choice
to extra, 310256111050; fair to good do.,
3861.10; heavy calves, 34.50606.

Chicago.
March 4, 1912.
Cattle. lrlogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 19.000 47,000 32,000
Same day last year..21,537 35,802 18,765
Received last week...46.781 181,932 112,166
Same week last year.45,920 137,136 60,794

Here is another Monday, a day when
ordinarily cattle are in big supply, with
but a moderate number here, although
the run is larger than last Monday. Buy-
ers are hustling to secure at least fair
quotas, and prices are 1061.15c higher as
a rule. Late snow storms in the Missi-
ssippi Valley aie reported as responsible
for light shipments from that region. Fat
bcchs of superior quality and weighing
heavily are hard to find. ilogs are a
good dime higher bucausc of the lively
local and shipping demand, selling at
36.3061665, the lZ-t'St light-weights going
at $6.60, and stockmen tee] greatly on.-
couraged. The eastern demand for hogs
here is a great factor, 62.663 hogs having
been shipped from Chicago last week,
compared with 33,204 a year ago. Hogs
received last week averaged 217 pounds,
compared with 229 pounds a year ago and
211 pounds two years ago. Lambs are
active at last week’s prices, and the
choicer lots of sheep are about 100 high-
er, prime wetliers averaging around 121
pounds fetching $5.10. Colorado lambs
form a much increased proportion of the
offerings, but \Visconsin continues to fur-
nish the choicest lambs.

Cattle had several good advances in
prices last week because of unusually
small receipts due to the big snow storms
that blocked the railroad tracks rather
than to any improvement in the general
demand, and hogs and sheep sold higher
for the, same reason. The requirements
of cattle buyers were only moderate, but
the offerings on several days were SO
small that competition to secure desirable
lots was keen, and even medium grades
moved up with better lots. No improve—
ment was seen in the average quality of
the daily offerings, and prime heavy
beeves were few and far between, sales of
such cutting but little figure. Stockmen
have not changed their views regarding
feeding high-priced corn to their cattle,
and receipts have consisted mainly of
short-fed stock that should have been
kept on feed several weeks longer to put
them in a good class. Some of the most
experienced stock feeders take quite a
different view of the matter and are go-
ing, to hold their cattle until they can put
on sufficient flesh to make them accept-

‘MARCH 9. 1912.

able to killers, believing that it will Day
them to do so. The packers are con-
stantly complaining of the dearness of
the cheaper class of cattle on the books.
stating that they make larger profits from
good beeves. There is some. quickctmng
in the demand from some quarters for
good feeders for the country around here,
but storms have lessened this trade, and
then killers are apt 'to outbid country
buyers for the best grade with consider-
able.weight. The general market for
beef steiers advanced 256050c. with sales
largely at 35.906118 by \Vednesday and the
best steers going at $8.10@8.85, while the
poorer light steers sold at $5606.25. Any
weighty cattle that were good sold at $7.50
and over, with a medium to good class
offered at $6.506j17.50, whilebutchering
cows and heifers sold at $365607. Can-
ners sold at $2.10603.10, cutters at 33.156?
3.60, bulls at 1350606 and calves at $3.25@
8.50, calves being much scarcer and high-
er. Stockers sold at 5538560555 and feed—
ers at $5616.40, these cattle reaching the
highest prices of the year. Milch cows
were up $2613 per head, being scarce and
wanted at $306165.

Hogs were on the up—grade last week
for the first three days because of greatly
reduced receipts, selling off rather sharp-
ly by 'l‘hursdi‘ty on much larger offerings.
liastern shippers were good purchasers,
securing a much grcatc'r proportion of the
hogs offered than usual, and local pack-
ers were forced to curtail their operations
materially for lack of supplies. Most of
the time the offerings barely sufficed to
supply the fresh meat trade, and receipts
at other western markets also fell much
short of other weeks. but the reduced
supplies were regarded as due mainly to
merely temporary obstacles. Pork loins
advanced with the. raw material, and so
did lard and cured meats. The spread
in prices narrowed to a marked degree,
and prime 195-lb. barrows sold almost as
high as prime heavy lots. Ilogs reached
3136.5’1‘1/2 last week and closed at 95620611655,
compared with 35.856163?) 3. week earlier.
1’igs closed at 347561625 and stags at;
3565560685.

Sheep and lambs joined the procession
last week and brought higher prices for
desirable offerings because of the mod-
crate supplies, although receipts were
larger than a week earlier most of the
time. Colorado lambs showed up in in-
creasing volumc, and clipped lambs and
sheep were rather numerous. Sheep and
lambs in the territory around here are
becoming scarcer, and prospects are
bightening for sellers. \Vooled flocks are
selling as follows: Lambs, $4.75607.15;
yearlings. 352561585; wethers, iii-1.40605;
ewes, $3.2561.~1.75; bucks, $2.50603.50. There
has been a narrowing in the spread be-
tween sheep and lamb prices, and many
more prime lambs and yearlings could
have been sold advantageously.

Horses were in larger supply last week
than might have been expected for such
stormy weather. and considerable num—
bers were carried over from the previous
week. All good animals continued to sell
well, but inferior horses wore apt to move
slowly at weak 'alues. as usual. Light
drafters sold at $175 per head and up-
ward, with heavicr and better ones bring-
mg 822560325, whilo 1.250 to 1,450-lb.
chunks went at 3150611200. Inferior ani-
mals sold at 31590611125. F.

LIVE 5%)ch NOES.

Rea Brothers, of Montana, who are
wintering 355,000 head of sheep, say they
will not sell a pound of wool for less than
20 cents, as stocks everywhere are de~
pleted and none is obtainable abroad.
They believe the tariff will have. no effect
on the wool clip of 11112 because of the
existing shortage. Most of the, southern
wool has been contracted for at 16 cents,
compared with ‘10 to 12 cents last year,
and Montana wool is always rated at two
to three cents above southern wool. The
London wool sales closed a month ago,
and American dealers secured scarcely
any.

For the last two months the southern
states have been extremely small buyers
of provisions in western markets, while
in former years February has been a.
month in which thev loaded up exten-
sively. This change is understood to be
due largely to increased activity in rais-
ing hogs down south.

Stocks of lard are accumulating at all
points in this country, as well as abroad,
mtich of the supplies in European mar-
kets having been consigned by American
packers.

in parts of Colorado the winter has
been extremely severe, with as much as
20 inches of snow, and many flocks of
sheep to be driven in from the open range
and fed. One, ranchman brought in 10,000
sheep, which are now bing ft-d. Despite
the care given, many sheep died on the
range, and feeding on the: range was un-
usually expensive.

Some of the Montana ilockmasters haVe
refused bids of 16 cents per pound for
their spring clip of wool, demanding 20
cents at least, and a number believe that
prices will rise to 22 or 23 cents. The Clip
is reported to be longer and better than
usual, due to the fact that most of the
sheep have been hay fed all winter. Ev-
crywhere the sheep are described as roll-
ing in fat.

_Colorado lambs will be marketed ear-
her than usual this spring because of the
high cost of feeding. Some flocks will be
held in large feed lots near Chicago for
30 to 40 days and shorn before being put
on the market, but with hay costing $20
per ton, and $17.50 the lowest price for
which wheat screenings can be purchased,
most of the flocks will be marketed be—
fore long.

For several weeks there have been
many complaints from killers regarding
the poor dressing qualities of cattle on
the hooks resulting from short feeding on
high—priced corn. They complain that
the medium and plain grades of light-
weight and warmed-up steers are rela-
tively high costing on the hooks.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Thursday's 'Market.
March 7, 1912.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1,318. All grades 10@15c lower
than last week.

“'e quote: Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, $6.50@6.75; steers and heifers,
1.000 to 1,200, $5.75@6.25; do. 800 to 1.000,
$5@5.75; do. that are fat, 500 to 700, $4.25
@485; choice fat cows, $4.75@5; good fat
cows, $4@4.50; common cows, $3.25@3.65;
canners, $2.75@3; choice heavy bulls, $5@
5.25; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $4.50@
4.65; stock bulls, $4@4.25; milkers, large,
young, medium age, $40@55; common
milkers, $25@35.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Kamman B. Co. 6
cows av 1,000 at $4.50, 11 butchers av 830
at $5.25, 1 heifer weighing 690 at $4.50,
9 steers av 911 at $5.75, 1 cow weighing
840 at $3.50, 3 steers av 733 at $5; 10
Hammond, S. & Co. 2 do av 1,080 at
$6.90, 8 cows av 946 at $3.55; to Mich. E.
Co. 3 do av 910 at $3, 1 do weighing 1,050
at $4.75, 1 do weighing 1,230 at $5; to
Nagle P.: CO. 10 steers av 894 at $5.75, 1
cow weighing 920 at $4, 2 do av 1,000 at
$4.50; to Parker, W. & Co, 4 cows av 860
at $3.25, 15 do av 1,025 at $4.40, 2 steers
av 770 'at $5.25, 1 do weighing 1,000 at $6,
4 bulls av 1,112 at $4.75, 1 do weighing
720 at $4.25, 3 do av 1,033 at $4.75, 1 cow
weighing 1,240 at $4.50. 3 do av 793 at
$2.75, 1 bull weighing 1,340 at $4.75, 4 cows
av 880 at $3, 1 bull weighing 930 at $4.50,
2 steers av 935 at $5.25; to Sullivan P.
Co, 11 do av 1,057 at $6.30; to Newton B.
Co. 22 do av 1,005 at $6.10, 16 do av 1,020
at $6.10, 1 cow weighing 1,060 at $3.50; to
Thompson Bros. 5 heifers av 716 at $4.75,
1 cow weighing 1,050 at $3.75; to Kamman
8 steers av 764 at $5.50, 7 cows av 981 at
$4, 1 steer weighing 1,190 at $5.25, 5 cows
av 1,012 at $4 50.

Haley & M. sold Schlischer 3 butchers
av 870 at $4.50, 27 do av 800 at $5.70; to
Hammond, S. 8; Co. 3 bulls av 1,213 at
$4.75, 2 do av 1.115 at $4.65, 3 cows av
1,113 at $3.25, 1 do weighing 870 at $3.25,
1 steer weighing 620 at $4.75; to Nagle
P. Co. 5 do av 996 at $6.20; to Goose 1
cow weighing 950 at $4, 3 do av 980 at
$3.50, 1 do weighing 1.160 at $5; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 1 heifer weighing 930 at $5.50;
to Regan 6 do av 573 at $4.60, 1 do weigh—
ing 560 at $4.50; to Applcbaum 6 butchers
av 583 at $4.50, 8 do av 1,081 at $4.50, 1
bull weighing 570 at $4; to Bresnahan 6
cows av 900 at $3.50, 1 do weighing 900
at $2.50, 3 do av 980 at $3.50, 2 do av
900 at $2.75.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 54
steers av 983 at $6.10; to Thompson Bros.
7 do av 1,036 at $5.75, 5 butchers av 986
at $5, 2 do av 620 at $4.50; to Lachalt 7
do av 771 at $5.40; to Mich. B. Co. 6 do
av 683 at $4.25.

Spicer & R. sold Newton B. CO. 9 steers
av 900 at $6.10, 1 do weighing 1.140 at

$6.50, 1 cow weighing 850 at $4.50; to
Parker, W. Co. 25 steers av 854 at
$6.15; to Mich. B. CO. 1 bull weighing

1.390 at $5, 10 cows av 922 at $4.35; to
Sullivan P. CO. 1 bull weighing 1.460 at
$5; to Hammond, S. & Co. 1 cow weigh—
ing 670 at $2.50, 1 do weighing 970 at $3;
10 Kamman B. CO. 3 stecrs av 883 at .56,
1 do weighing 660 at $5; to Breitenbeck
5 butchers av 720 at $4.50, 12 steers av
987 at $5.85, 7 do av 918 at $5.85; to Fry
8 do av 781 at $5.50, 1 heifer weighing
780 at $4; to Bresnahan 7 butchers av 670
at $4.50, 3 do av 593 at $4.65; to Goose 5
cows av 890 at $3.75; to Goodwin 6 do av
1.021 at $3.85.

Haddrell sold Bresnahan 1 bull weigh-
ing 1,210 at $4.75, 3 heifers av 813 at
$5.25.

\chks sold I‘arkcr, 1V. & Co. 2 bulls av
1.075 at $4.50, 6 cows av 925 at $4.

'Weeks sold Sullivan P. Co, 12 steers av
1.008 at $6.10.

Stephens sold same 5
$3.50.

cows av 1,020 at

Veal Calves,

Receipts, ‘986. Market very dull;
1.50 lower than last week.
$850619; others, $4@8.
springers steady.

Haley & M. sold Goose 1 weighing 210
at $7, 3 av 130 at $9; to Parker, 1V, & Co.
9 av 135 at $8, 2 av 130 at $7, 9 av 150 at
$8.75: to Goose 4 av 200 at $5; to Newton
B. Co. 18 av 155 at $8.50; to I’rabowsky
11 av 125 at $7, 1 weighing 140 at $4.

Spicer & R. sold Newton B. Co. 5 av
140 at $8.50, 3 av 110 at $7, 1 weighing
170 at $7, 3 av 160 at $9; to Applebaum 8
av 140 at $8.25; to Parker, 11'. & Co, 1
weighing 100 at $6.50; to Breitenbeck 11
av 175 at $8.50, 11 av 150 at $8, 2 av 125
at $8, 2 av 145 at $8.50, 1 weighing 180
at $8.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, Vi". & Co.
7 av 148 at $8.75, 96 av 140 at $7.85; to
Polzwisky 18 av 110 at $5.50; to Ham-
mond, S. & C0. 1 weighing 140 at $6.50,
2 av 180 at $8.50, 8 av 1.50 at $7.95, 13 av
140 at $7.50, 1 weighing 150 at $8, 5 av 150
at $7.50, 2 av 150 at $7.50; to Hammond,
S. & C0. 11 av 145 at $7.25; to Goose 18
av 115 at $4.50, 4 av 200 at $4.25. ‘

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 6,845. Markct opens 25c high-
er than Wednesday or last week. Best
lambs, $6.50@6.80; fair to good lambs,
$5.75@6.25; light to common lambs, $451).
4.50; fair to good sheep, $4@4.50; culls
and common, $2.50@3.75. ‘

Roe Com: Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
103 lambs av 80 at $6.50; to Nagle P. Co.
116 do av 65 at $5.60, 96 do av 75 at $5.85,
4 sheep av 95 at $4.

$169
Few choice,
Milch cows and

   

Stephens sold Bray 11 sheep av 110 at;

$4, 60 lambs av 85 at $6.40.

Taggart sold Nagle P, Co. 15 sheep av
90 at $1.50, 5 lambs av 70 at $6.25, 66
clip lambs av 60 at $4.75. ,

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hayes 26 lambs av
55 at $4.75, 47 yearlings av 70 at $5.50; to
Nagle P. Co. 190 sheep av 87 at $4.50, 191
lambs av 70 at $6.35, 179 do av at
$6.30, 87 do av 73 at $6.25; to Mich. B. Co.
4 sheep av 78 at $4, 19 lambs av 50 at
$5.50, 53 do av 55 at $5, 36 do av 58 at
$4.65, 9 sheep av 90 at $3.25, 13 do av 110
at $3.75; to Parker, W. & Co. 53 lambs av
79 at $6.50, 8 do av 75 at $5.60, 19 sheep
av 100 at $2.50; to Barber 45 lambs av 80
at $6.50, 55 do av 85 at $6.80, 22 do av J0
at $6.60; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 1.1 do av. 00
at $5.50, 9 do av 65 at $5, 6 sheep av 90
at $4, 11 do av 105 at $4.25; to Sullivan
P. Co. 8 do av 70 at $2.50, 38 do av 70 at
$4.25, 23 lambs av 60 at $4.25; to Parker,
W. & Co. 24 do av 85 at $5.75, 73 do av
68 at $6.25; to Nagle P. Co. 52 do av 80

at $6.40, 9 do av 60 at $5, 68 do av 85
at 6.35.
Siicelr & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 buck

weighing 170 at $3.50, 3 sheep av 90 a_t_ $2.
7 lambs av 75 at $6, 22 do av 50 at $5.25,
10 sheep av 122 at $3.15, 5 do av 60 at $2,
26 do av 85 at $3.75; to Parker, W. & Co.
6 do av 95 at $3. 38 lambs av 65 at $5.60;
to Mich. B. Co. 10 sheep av 122 at $3.75;
to Barlage 33 lambs av 60 at $5, 2 sheep
av 85 at $2, 9 do av 150 at $3.50, 4 lambs
av 50 at $6.25, 26 do av 65 at_ $5; to
Thompson Bros. 10 do av 58 at $5, 54 do
av 85 at $6.40; to Bray 77 do av 85 at
$6.40, 1 sheep weighing 110 at $4, 11.)
lambs av 87 at $6.60, 125 do av 79 at $6.60,
92 do av 85 at $6.60, 51 do av 77 at $6.50,
16 sheep av 90 at $2.50, 116 lambs av 83
at $6.40.
Haley & M.
av 75 at $5.65,

sold Breitenbeck 15_ lambs
46 do av 83 at $6.25.
ans.

Receipts, 4,568. None sold up to noon;
looks 100 lower than Vi'ednesday and last
week. Pigs 25c lower than last week.

Range of prices: Light togood butch-
ers, $6.30; pigs, $5.75@5.90; lgght yorkcrs,

6.15 6.25; stags one-third 0 . ‘
$ Bisélbiop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.

81? av 180 at $6.40. 825 av 160 at $6.35, 450
av) 150 at $6.30, 235 av 140 at $6.25, 123
av 12.— at $6.15. _

RonCom. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 240
av 210 at $6.40, 125 av 180 at $6.35, 180

av 160 at $6.30.
Spicer & R. sold Hammond, & Co.

S.

580 av 22’) at $6.40, 50 av 150 at $6.25, 86
av 210 at $6.50.

ilalcy & M. sold same
$6.40, 124 av 185 at $6.35.

Good hogs closed steady
with pigs selling 25c lower than
week’s close.

247 av 190 at

with last week
last

Friday’s Market.
March 1,
Cattle.

Receipts this week,
1.267. Market steady
prices.

We quote:
heifers, $6.50; steers - - m
1.200, $5.75le625; do, 800 to 1.000, $5615.15;
do. that are fat, 500 to 700, $450615; ch01ce
fat cows, $5; good fat cows, $4414.50; com-
mon cows, $3.5OQL3.75; canncrs, $2.50@3;
choice heavy bulls, $5105.50; fair to good
bologna bulls, $4@4.25; stock bulls, $4@
4.50; milkers, large, young, medium age,
$406160; common milkers, $254335.

Veal Calves.

Rcceipts this woek, 745; last week, 673.
Market steady at Thursday's prices. Best
$961110; others, $4628.50. Milch cows and
springers steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 7,417; last week
5,903. Market steady at Thursday's close.
Best lambs, $6.50; fair to good lambs,
$5.75@6.25; light to common-lambs, $4@
4.50; fair to good sheep, $3614; culls and
common, $2.50@3.

1912.

last week.

1,070;
Thursday's

at

Extra dry—fed steers and
and heifers, 1,000 to

Hogs.
Receipts this week, 4,292; last week,

3,604. Market steady at Thursday‘s
prices. Range of prices: Light to good
butchers, $6.40; pigs, $617,746.25; light

yorkers, $6.25@6.35; stags one-third off.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

 

It does not appear advisable for farm-
ers to market their hogs weighing much
less than 225 lbs., but when they attain
that weight it is probably well to ship
them. This has been a great winter for
liberal marketings of hogs, and it seems
really surprising that prices have not gone
off more than they have. However, the
packers are credited with the ownership
of the great bulk of the enormous stocks
of provisions stored away in packing
places, and they are interested in main-
taining prices for product, so that they
are interested also in not forcing too
much of a break in prices for live hogs.
Many people look for much smaller mar-
ketings of hogs before very long and a.
rise in prices.

Lee Serven & Son, of Illinois, marketed
recently at Chicago four car loads of
prime hogs that averaged in weight 371
pounds and topped the market at 36.42%
per 100 lbs. They were got by Berkshire
boars from sows largely of Poland-China
blood. During last summer they raised
800 hogs, and they own around 80 horses,
65 of which are pure-bred Pcrchcrons,
Serven & Son are operating about 600
acres of the best black soil in Illinois and
are great users of fertilizers. They have
found that a combination of'rock phos-
phate and clover adds materially to the
fertility of the soil. Their corn has been
running 65 bushels to the acre and their
oats 50 to 571/42 bushels.

The failure of hogs to sell at much low-
er prices this season under the enormous
marketings at leading receiving points
has furnished one of the surprises of the
market, but much credit must be given
to the liberal purchases in the Chicago
market by representatives of eastern
packing plants.

 

        
 

 

3

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

~__-

Washtenaw Co., Feb. 21.—-A raging
blizzard has succeeded the few warm
days which We have been enjoying. The
mail carrier is unable to get through and
it will be seme time before the roads are
opened again. Under the old road sys-
tem the pathmaster was always out with
.his men and the roads were at once open-
ed—under this new system it seems to be
a case of “what’s everybody’s business is
nobody’s business.” The demand for hay
and rouhgage is very great. Hay bring-
ing $18@19 in the barn. Clover mixed
brings as much as timothy. A large num-
ber of farm sales. Horses and cattle
finding rather a dull market from the
fact that farmers dislike to take on more
stock with the grain and other feeds so
very high. Fat stock bringing the usual
good prices and farmers generally cheer-
ful and happy.

Isabella and Southern Clare Co.’s, Feb
16.—Mild winter weather after six weeks
of steady cold weather, the longest and
most severe spell of weather ever known
in this part of Michigan. Lots of pota-
toes frozen in the cellars. About 12 inches
of snow on the ground. Most of the bay
has been marketed and many farmers
have sold themselves short. But little
farming being done, more than the chores
and getting up the year’s supply of wood;

auction sales quite numerous. Horse buy-
ers plentiful. Wheat, 87@89c; beans.
$2.10; hay, $18; straw, $8; cream, 28c;

butter, 270; eggs, 25c; potatoes, 85c.
Sanilac Co., March 1.——The. coal famine
and cold weather are rather interesting;
makes the farmer hunt up the old cross-
cut saw and get busy as coal is mostly
used for fuel. Our January thaw came
in February this winter. With the ex-
ception of two blizzards we have had a
line but cold winter. At present the
fields are well protected with snow, al-
though the ground is frozen very deep.
The average farmer is drawing out all the
manure he can from the fact there was
no plowing done last fall. In fact, all
field work was prohibitive except on very
high land. There will be no spare mo—
mentsdhis spring. The farmers are get-
ting rebellious about the price they are
getting for bcans. Seven cents per pound
is what the elevator man charges for
picking out the bad beans. Farmer ele-
vators are being talked of strongly. [cc
cutters have harvested their crop this
winter with clear sailing, the clearest.

cleanest and thickest crop for years. Hay
has rmchcd the $18 mark. Oats up to
50c; beans, $2.15; creamery butter, 26c;
eggs, 25c.

Emmet Co., Feb. 29.—This section of
the state has not bccn visitcd by the se-
vere storms that have prevailed over the-
mcre southern portion of this state and
other sections of the country. The snow—
fall has been moderate and has drifted
comparatively little. There were several
zero snaps but the avcrage temperature
was higher for the month than for Janu-
ary. and two warm spells settled the snow
perccptibly. Prices on farm produce re-
main as for a ‘month ago, with but little
being marketed.

Lapeer Co., Feb. 26.—-Farmers are now
busy laying plans for coming season as
they sit by a hot stove and look through
windows at the great banks of snow as
far as the eye can roach, as the county
shared the grcat blizzard of the 21st and
22nd, which followcd the coldest weather
in the memory of the. oldest inhabitant.
Zero weather nearly the time from Jan-
uary 10 to February 12. with 30 below on

the 101'h. Many collars frosted. No work
on farms cxccpt chores. Food of all kinds
scarce. Not enough in county to last.

Corn is now sold at 75c at dealers. Live
stock not looking the lwst, owing to short
rations. Cream down to 280 and eggs 27c.

Livingston Co., Fob. 26.~-\\'e have been
having one of the most severc winters in
years, having had nearly two months of
extremely cold weather, with the worst
blizzard on the 21st, in the past 26 years.
The roads wore impassable for a few
days until openml up, Many farmers have

experienced considerable difficulty with
their water supply as their pipcs are
frozen. Food of all kinds is scarce and
bringing almost prohibitive prices. Hay

selling at sales as high as $21. per ton not
delivered. It has boon a good winter for
feeding though it has taken considerable
feed on account of the extreme weather.
Farmers beginning to get ready for spring
work.

Indiana.

Laporte 00., March 4.—March is here,
cold, vigorous, with zero temperature.
The longest, coldest winter in years.
Some weeks in February averaged good
weatllcr most of tho week, 24 and 29
degrees bolow zoro the coldest and Feb—
ruary 21 a bowling blizzard for 24 hours,

Children at school wcrc sent to nearest
house by telephone for safety. Roads
blockcd full. Railroad trains stalled for

two days in drifts. Nothing certain yet
as to outcome of fruit and grain, but in-
jurcd to a large cxtcnt is expected. Stock
all protected in this section and are 0.
K. Snow this morning but warmer.

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Little songs with common themes,
IInworthy though they seem,
May hold a bit of wonder
()f a greater poet’s dream.

Blossoms of a lowly kind,
That bloom beside the way,

May comfort more than roses
1n gardens dim and gray.

Life’s greatest riches lie in these—
The plain and common things;
Contentment is their message
And peace about them clings.

THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS.

 

BY R. BRAUNSTEIN.

The man spoke truly who said that he
liked to go to a big city because every-
thing was so jolly and convivial. He ob:
served that in a city like New York, for
instance, “even the cars were elevated.”
There is much in this thought. \\'hat‘ a
man can’t find in a large city to fill his
soul with content, rasp down his angles,
round off his sharp points, and give him
the polish of attrition so that he may roll
easily in that variegated compound, called
modern society. can‘t be found anywhere.

I often fancy that what pleases the
strangtr most is the sense of bigness
that is apparent 9\’€l’}'\\'ll(ll‘€wlll0 big
houses. big parks, big charities, big jobs.
big crimes. and well+big bugs. Perhaps
it is a vein of human nature that is com-
mon to us all. Talk vulgar fractions to
a man whom you wish to put up money
on some scheme that promises millions,
and he will give you a cold shoulder. but
tire. off a row of ligures deftly arranged,
and elot'lucntly demonstrate how they may
vitalizc a pile of tin shavings, and he will
listen to you as if you were a potentate
and “come down with the dust.“

The big things of life. hmvcvcr are not
more attractive than the little ones. “Lit—
tle martin-boxes of homes" are generally
the most happy, while, cozy little villages
are nearer to being atoms of shattered
paladise than anything I know of. Littlo
fortunes bring the most content, and little
hopes the least disappointments.

Little words are the sweetest to hear;
little charities fly farthest and stay long-
est on the wing; little lakes are the still-
est: little hearts the fullest, and little
farms the best tilled. Little books are
most read, and little songs the most lov-
ed. \\'hen nature would make anything
rare and beautiful, she makes it littlcw
littlc pearls, little diamonds, little dcws.
liverybedy calls little that which they
love best on earth. I once heard a man
speak of his "little wife." and I fancied
she. must be a perfect bijou of a help-
mect. l saw her: she Weighed not quite
two hundred pounds: I was surprised.
Iiut then it was no joke: the man meant
it. He could put his wife in his heart
and have room for other things besides.
And \\ hat was she but precious. and
what was she but little?

Multnm in plerofimuch in littleris the
g1 cat beauty of all we love lost. hope for
most and remember the longest.

”.ut enough on this theme.
part of a discourse is ot’cn the doxology,
and mine shall be the narration of an in-
cidcnt that is vouched fr r by a friend.
He says that in one of his visits to a lady
he found her petting a bird. The little
orcatnrc reciprt'ncated her affection in
such a l‘t'llllll'lx’llltlt‘ manner that at his
request she told him the story.

.\ year ago. when the streets were cov-

'l‘he best

ered with snow. she noticed a tiny snow-
bird, apparently weak and hungry, sit—
ting on a sprig of grape vine near the
window. {dis-int»: tllc sash softly she
brushed the snow from the top of a flow—
er pot and sprinkled some crumbs for his
breakfast there. The bird ate and the
next day came again. (in the third day
the. lady sat at the window, and, after
waiting awhile. the bird ventured nearer.
A week later he picked his food from her
hand. Before the end of the winter the
bird would hop into the room and nestle
on the shoulder of his benefactress.

()ne day. when spring was approaching,
the lady tied a silken thread around one
of the little fellow‘s legs: soon afterward
he disappeared, taking flight northward,
perhaps, with a flock of other Snowbirds.
The lady had almost forgotten the strange
acquaintance until, on one of the cold
days of the present winter, while sitting
at her window. she heard a pecking on
the glass. Looking up she saw a snow-
bird. Remembering her little arctic pet

~ r-‘THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

of last winter, she opened .the window.
The bird at once flew into the room and
perched upon the back of her chair. Up-
on its leg, almost as bright as when it
was first tied there, was the tiny thread
of silk which her hand had placed‘ there
nearly a. year before. Who says that birds
and beasts have no memory. This is
simply one of the little commonplaces of
life that make living so interesting when
we look for the little details.

“W'ho taught the parrot to say ‘VVel—

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come?’ ” asks Bacon. .Who taught the
raven, in time of drouth, to throw pebbles
into a hollow tre'e where she espied water,
that the water might rise so that she
could reach it? Who taught the bee to
sail through a vast sea of air and to find
the way from a flower in the field to its
hive? IVho taught the ant to bite every
grain of corn that she burieth in a hill,
lest it shall take root and grow? Even
a goose flies by a chart which the Royal
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THE BACHELOR UNCLE

BY EVERITT McNEIL.

I knew that there must be a sufficient
and perfectly innocent explanation of the
presence of the locket in Belle Murdock’s
hand and of the, purchasing of the opium;
but I could not find it. Reason as I might,
I could neither excuse nor explain away
the damaging facts that had come to Doc-
tor ‘woldthorp's knowledge. \\'as it possi-
ble that my love for Elsie had blinded
me to her true character? She had been
cruel and unjust to me. Might she not
be even more cruel to another? But.
llarry Rodney‘s greatest fear evidently
was that she would discover this secret
mthat she would find out that Belle Mur-
dock had a secret concerning him. How,
then, had Elsie discovered that there was
a secret? And why, having made such
a discovery. was she so desperately anx—
ious to keep Belle Murdock from telling
what was apparently so greatly to her
interest to knowfi‘.”

l almost leaped from the buggy with
the shock of the thought that even for a
moment I had been fancying it possible
for Elsie Lamont to attempt murder! She.
was innocent! Evidence piled high as the
dome of the state capitol would not make
me believe her guilty of so vile a crime!

Service is love's fuel. At any rate the
thought that I might be of help to Elsie
in shielding her good name was like.
wood to the fire. of my love, and kindled
it into a warmer and deeper glow than
it had ever known before. Never had 1
longed as I did at this moment to take
her in my arms and tell her of my love
and how willingly I would protect her
from all harm; and never before had I
felt to the full the bitterness of the
thought that she was even to wed anoth-
erwand that other Ilarry Itodney! And
over and over, as I had done many times
before, I voWed that this unholy marriage
should never take place: and yet, if
«he Murdock failed me, how could i
stop it? lt. was maddening to feel myself
so helpless when I would be doing so
much; to have to await the slow and un—
certain rcsults of an operation on, prob-
ably, a dying woman, when all the man-
hood in me was calling out for sudden
and immediate action. I could go to Elsie.
and, if there was need, force her to hear
me; but the. thought of doing this was re-
pugnant to my pride and to my manhood:
and, after all, what proof had I to offer
her‘.‘ Nothing but my own word; and
would she, who had refused to hear me
in my own defense, believe my condem—
nation of her sweetheart?

\\'ith such thoughts as these troubling
the it is no wonder that Jed liingham had
to call twice before I pulled up my
horses. lie was on horseback and had a
look of mild excitement on his face.

“I reckon from the racket I heard as
I passed that somethin’ is doin’ at your
place. John," he said, eyeing the curious-
ly. “Soundcd as if a herd of elephants
was playing football in your parlor,
antler”

lint I waited to hear no more. \\'hat
dcvllmcnt were those two children up to
now‘.’ I lashed my horses into a gallop:
and in three minutes I was driving into
my yard. \\'ild yclls and screams were
coming from the house, intermingled with
the. banging of falling furniture: and the
hired man. with hat off and shirt sleeves
rolled up, a pitchfork in one hand and
an ax in the other, was running madly
front the barn toward the house. As I
stopped the, horses there was a great
crash of glass, and a wild—eyed animal,
that I would never have recognized as
our dignified old tom-cat. with the tat-
tered remains of various garments cling-—
ing to different parts of his anatomy,
leaped through the kitchen window, and
darted like mad under the long corn crib
near the barn. At this moment Jake
burst open the kitchen door. and was
about to enter, when a big black and
white monster sprang out, knocking him
sprawling on his back, and with a howl
vanished around Pthe corner of the house.

Jake bounded to his feet; and, in his fear
and excitement, began whirling around,
swinging his ax and yelling like a mad—.
man. "IVhere—where is he? Hi’ll kill
th’ bloomin’ white devil! Hi’ll—-” His ax
came in contact with a tub of water that
Mary Jane had placed on a chair on
the kitchen stoop, with such force that
the tub and its contents were hurled vio-
lently over the excited Englishman; and
down he went, the tub on top of him.‘
\Vhen he got on his feet again, he was
a cooler and a wetter, if not a wiser man.

By this time I had reached the kitchen
door and entered. Mary Jane stood on
a chair in a corner of the room, flourish-
ing a potato masher and yelling hysteric-
ally. Her hair had fallen down, her
upper teeth had fallen out, and she was
jumping up and down on top of the
chair. .\t sight of me she exclaimed:
“Heavens an’ 'earth. John Delvin!" and
collapsed on the chair. The kitchen table
was overturned, the stovepipe knocked
down, the stove nearly upset, and broken
dishes littered the floor.

l at once hurried to the side of Mary
Jane. “\Vhat has happened? Tell me,
quick!“ I said. catching hold of her
shoulders and shaking her.

“Bears! tigers! wolves! lions! murder!”
gasped Mary Jane, her eyes rolling.

At this moment I felt a timid pull on
my right sleeve, and a more timid pull on
my left sleeve; and a very humble voice
at. my right elbow said, “Uncle John,”
and a still humbler voice at my left el-
bow murmured, “Uncle John;” and, look-
ing down, I saw Teddy and Ellen stand—
ing one on each side of me. Both had
very white. and thoroughly frightened and
pcnitent faces. A red silk scarf was
wound picturesquely around Teddy’s
waist. a red bandana handkerchief circled
his neck, and an old wide—brimmed felt
hat covered his head, while a discarded
white ostrich plume drooped dejectedly
over the crown of the hat, and my best
l-uggy whip was in his right hand.

Ellen was even more elaborately and
picturesquely dressed. ()ver her shoulders
she had thrown a small red-figured shawl,
and her head was crowned with a white
bridal wreath of wax flowers, from
which floated a long white veil. On one
sidt- of her head she had pinned a red
rosette, and a number of pink ribbons
hung from the rosette and mingled with
her long dark hair. A skirt made by
winding around her waist several yards
of bright-figured cloth, evidently pur-
chased for upholstery purposes, complet-
ed her odd and startling costume. The
clothing of both children was torn and
dirty and disarranged. and there was a
long red scratch on Teddy’s face, and a,
large blue bump was beginning to show
on Ellen’s forehead. They looked as if
they had been in a scrap with each other,
and each had got the worst of it.

“l'ncle John, I—I’m responsible,” anal
Teddy's voice trembled. “I“I—I deserve
a terrible whipping. Ila uses a strap.
Please don’t whip Ellen. She—she just:
did what I told her, and she is a girl.
Please don’t whip her. I’m responsible.
lt’s awful.” and his eyes glanced around
the wrecked kitchen.

“Kiss me, Ilncle John! Kiss me!" sob-
bed Ellen, clinging to my hand and lift-A
ing up her face to mine. “I——1 tumbled
down stairs and hurt my head. Kiss me,
'I'ncle John. I’ll never, never, never
(lo—”

At this moment Mary Jane caught
sight of the veil and wreath hanging
from Ellen’s head. “Heaven’s eternal!"
she exclaimed, starting from her chair.
“That’s Lucinda’s bridal wreath an’ veil!
I can remember just how she looked
when these very hands took it off of her
pretty head, and laid it away, an’ she but
a week from her death—bed, poor girl!
An’ now it’s all torn an’ dirty! Where’s
my top jaw? Oh, I never had such a
fright in all my born days!” and, clap-
ping one hand to her mouth, she again

MARCH 9, 1912.

collapsed into the chair and stared around
the room. ' , .

“No," I said, looking sternly at Teddy
and Ellen, “I want to know exactly hOW
all this happened."

Teddy’s lips quivered, but he bravely
kept back the sobs. Ellen looked into my
face, her eyes swimming in tears. “You
didn’t kiss me, Uncle John,” she said-
“\Vhen I’m naughty. and cry and hurt
myself papa always kisses me.”

But I was obdurate, and again demand-
ed: “Teddy, tell me exactly how all this
happened." ‘

“We were playing circus, and Bruno
got mad at the cat, and knocked every-
thing down, and scared Mary Jane into
fits, and—Oh, Uncle John, I didn’t mean
to do it! 1—”

“Teddy," I interrupted, for the first
time beginning to get an inkling of what
had caused all the turmoil, “start at the
beginning. I must know exactly how all
this happened.” ,

“Ithn you had gone,” Teddy began,
standing directly in front of me, rand
fumbling nervously with his fingers the
end of the scarf tied around his waist.
“and left us to amuse ourselves, Mary
Jane told us to go up to the garret to
play; and the garret is so big that I
thought it. would be great fun to play
circus in it, and so we went down stairs
and got Bruno to be a tiger and the cat:
to be a leopard. Bruno is all black, and
a tiger is striped, so, of course. I had to
paint him. 1 got some paint, and while
I was puttirg a lot of white stripes on
Bruno, and a lot of white spots on the
cat to make him look like a leopard,
Ellen found a lot of funny old clothes
in some big boxes, and dressed up in
them, and after I‘d made a tiger of Bru—
no and a leopard of the cat, I dressed up,
too; and we, began playing circus. and
we had just lots of fun. Then we
thought we’d play we were lion tamers;
and Bruno was a man lion, and the cat
was a woman lion, and we dressed the
cat up; and I got the buggy whip. be-
cause a lion tamer always has a whip;
and we made a ring out of a lot of
chairs and boxes, and we put Bruno and
the cat in the ring, and I stood on a high
box in the center of the ring, and Ellen
stood by me. Bruno and the cat sat still
and looked at each other for a minute.
Then I hit Bruno a crack with the whip
and yelled, and he growled and jumped
at the cat, and the cat scratched him on
the nose; and then Bruno got terrible
mad and went for the cat and the cat
ran, and they knocked the box out from
under Ellen and me, and we tumbled on
the floor. Oh, llncle John, I just couldn’t
stop them! They tore around in the gar-
ret terrible, and scratched, and bit, and
barked, and squalled, and knocked every—
thing galley-wcst; and Ellen screamed
and ran to the door and opened it: and
the cat jumped out and leaped down
stairs, and Bruno jumped after him
and~”

“And I tumbled down stairs,” broke in
Ellen, “and bumped my head awful
hart.”

“And I heard Mary Jane screaming,"
continued Teddy, fidgeting up and down
in his excitement, “and the most terrible
racket, the breaking of dishes and a great
bang, almost as loud as thunder. I guess
that was when the stove-pipe fell. And
when 1 got down into the. kitchen Mary
Jane was standing on a chair yelling. and
Bruno was tearing around after the cat,
knocking over chairs and tables and
smashing dishes and things. ()h, it was
ttrrlble, l'ncle John! And then the cat
jumped through the window. and the door
opened, and Bruno jumped out, and you
came in. Oh, Uncle John, I couldn’t help
it! Now whip me,” and his eyes turned
bravely to where my razor strop hung
on the wall beside the looking glass.

Before I could answer .Iake gave a
yell, leaped into the kitchen, and whirl-
ing around, faced the door, holding the
pitchfork at guard. “liit’s comin’! Th’
bloomin’ google—eyed’ monster’s comin’!
Look out! Mother of men, hit‘s th' old
dog!” and the pitchfork dropped from his
hands. For a moment Bruno paused in
the doorway, and then. catching sight of
me, made a rush for my side.

I could not wonder much at the fright
of Mary Jane and Jake when I looked at
Bruno. Two large white rings encircled
his eyes, giving him a wild hobgoblin-
like appearance, a wide streak 0f white
ran from his nose along the top of his
back to the end of his tail, and a. dozen
or more stripes of white encircled his
body, like ghostly ribs.

Mary Jane stared at Bruno for avmin-
ute or two, then she gasped: “Bless my
soul, it’s the dog!” and straightway all

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. Suppose
you had time 9

to travel through I 0,000 square
miles of the richest sections
Southwest, stopping off in

every county and investigating
every farm opportunity—think
how perfectly you could locate
theone best opportunity for you.

A practical farm man made just such

a trip through Arkansas and Texas.

He first stopped at Piggott, in nor-

thern Arkansas, went out and talked
with Farmer Cray (who bought for
$57 per acre a better improved farm than his
Indiana place at $105 per acre.) He got
the views and experiences of other farmers
there, asking questions that an experienced
farmer wduld ask who was planning to
locate in that section; and took actual photo-
graphs of the stock and farms. Then he
went to the next county—and so on. clea:
down to Lufkin, Texas, where J. E. Berry
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BY CLA'RJCE DE VERE.*
A carriage drew up to the yard of a
humble country house. A young girl
stood in the midst of a flock of pure
white chickens, scattering handfuls of
grain at her feet. A smile of content
and amusement was on her pretty face,
and her large gray eyes sparkled merrily
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A young man stepped out of the car-
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The girl started, looked around, and
replied, “Yes, sir. Do you wish to speak
to her?"

“If you please,” said the stranger, his
admiring eyes still on her rosy face.

"Then follow me,” throwing down the
last handful of grain and walking swiftly
to the house.

The stranger followed as if in a dream,
and only when he found himself confront-
ing a motherly, middle—aged lady, did he
recover his senses. Rallying himself, he
bowed and explained: “Mrs. Tyrell, I
presume? My name is Dexter Loviugton.
I was told, by a person of the village be-
low, that probably you would take me as
a summer boarder, so straighiway l came

to soc.” And he smiled as he awaited
her reply.

“I will see What John says. Dolores.”
to the girl standing ill the doorway.
”ii/here is Willis?"

“Out in the gardcn, weeding. Do you
want him?"

“Tell him to ask his father about a
boarder.”

“Very well," and Dolores darted away,
followed by the flock of chickens, three,
geese, some turkeys, and Nannie. her pet
lamb.

'Willis was very tired, and his face
fairly dripped with perspiration. Dolores
offered to- go in his place. \\'illis demur-
red a1 first, but finally consented, so
Dolores bridlcd her pony, Satan. and gal-
loped to the back part Of tho farm in
search of her father who was hoeing po-
ialoes.

She asked him about the boarder and
he replied that it didn‘t matter to him.
So Dolores cantcred back to the house
where she was met at the door by her
mother and the prospective boarder.

“Why did you go, Dolores? 1 told
'V’Villis to go,” rcprovingly.

“Yes, but mother, \Villis was warm and
tired, and I wasn’t, so 1 went." ,

“You act more like a ten—ycar—old child
than a girl of sixteen.”

Dolores laughed gaily and flew to the
pump to get a cool drink for “poor tired
'\\"illis."

So Dexter Lorringlon made his home
with the Tyrell family, for the summer
at least. Before he had lived with them
a month, Dolores made a startling discov-
ery. Dexter Lorringlon was making love
to her, and she, who had before always
scoffed at her village lovers, instead of
resenting it, reciprocated. His honeyed
words and phrases were a new delight to
the unsophisticated country girl who look
everyihing in earnest.

”0110 of my worst grievances is that
my parents want me to become a nun,”
laughingly complained Dolores at twi-
light onc sultry evening in July.

“What!” exclaimed Dexter. “i knew
you were a devout member of your church
but 1 did not know your parents wanted
you to become a nun! You, with health
and beauty, many happy years of life and
enJoyment before you, give up all pleas-
ure to become a nun! Never!" vehe-
mently. “Before 1 would let you becomca
nun I would carry you off by main force
and make you princess of my woodland
castle where you would find it troublu
enough to express all your wishes. And
We would live happy ever after, wouldn’t
we. dear?"

And Dolores blushed assent with down-
cast eyes.

One all-important day he gave her a
ring, set with a glowing ruby.

“When this ruby is palc, then my love
for you has died, and not before," he said
as he put it on her finger.

He lingered until October, then went
to the city to attend to his business, after
reiterating his vows of faithfulness and
exacting similar vows from her,

After a. week she heard from him, eight
pages of impassioned lover’s phrases. She
answered it, but did not hear from him
again for nearly two months; then his

 

*The author of this well-written little
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schoolgirl. ‘

 

Themieniexo FARMER.

letter was very brief and cold. She felt
very much disappointed and wept over
the letter. And the ruby began to pale.
but she did not notice it, although Wil-
lis did.

She grew paler, and meeker, and more
sorrowful, but. the climax came when she
received a bulky envelope, perfumed 0p-
pressively.

She opened it, drew out the folded pa—
per it contained and opened it, very slow—
ly. 'l‘h'c oppressive perfume overpowered
her, and she fell back half fainting. 0n
the spur of the moment she glanced at
the ring. Then, apprehensively, she read
the folded paper. rc-rcading it several
times to get its purport.

“Mr. and Mrs. J. .chri Kingdone an—
nounce the betrothal of their daughter,
Loraine Kingdelle, to Mr, W'. Dexter Lor-
ringlon." .

\Vith :1 faint cry silo fell back as one
dead. After many hours she bccamc dim-
ly conscious of the hum of excited voices.
Opening her eyes she saw her mother
and \Villis bending over her.

“Oh, Dolly, Dolly!" sobbcd “'illis, “Are
you really alive?"

“I am a pretty live corpse, am I not?”
asked Dolores, with a pitiful attempt at;
guiety.

“My own Dolores,
(-r, sometime later.
all about your troublc‘.’
help you.”

“No, mother,” denied Dolores,
into tears.

But she
story, not
it lightly.
less ruby.

"’l‘h.» mun is a double-dyed villain, in
truth," said her mother solemnly. “All
this woe in your life already, and you only
scvvntccn. 0h, Dolores, you were rightly
named! '

"Uh, mother, may I go to the convent
light :iwuy'.’ i cannot face the world
with lho knowledge that l.’ve been jilted.
I want to live in seclusion where I can

u

whispered her moth-
“\\'ill you not tell me
Perhaps I can

bursting
“No one can help me.”

told her mother the whole
passing oV'vr her own part of
'l‘hcil she showed her the life-

spend lhc ronullllder of my sojourn on
cal'lll in DULU‘U and quiet.”

“Oh, my child, you need not go to a
convclll 1o lind peace. But go if you
wish." .

“I will go right away. But promise ml»
that no one but pupa, \Villis, and you
shall know the cause for my going."

“I promise," Silld her mother. And lll'.‘
next day she departed for a distant con—
vent.

Once, and only once,
lovcr see her again. \\"lllle his wife was
shopping, he, look a walk over, a path
which passed the ("ullVelll of the Sacred
Heart. in one of :hc windows he saw a
slim figure ill l)l.‘.l('li, slunding by the cage
of a canary, talking to it. He seemed to
l'clllclnbcr the full: dimly, and at last he
knew. ll was the lilllu country girl who
had loved him so woll. To make sure,
ll()\\'CVl‘l', he asked an :lilendant,

“Sister Mary." was the laconic answer.

“But her real name? llcr ‘llunle of the
world 2" ”

“Dolores Murcia ’l‘yl‘cll,” still more la-
conically. So he went on his way, but
he could not help thinking of her. Every
day lll' grow more rumorscful and peni-
lent, nlul'p pilylng fol the country girl
he so cruelly (lt‘SUl'lell—LLHLI his wife not
true lo him, as he lirmly believed. Often
the thought ('illlll‘i “My little country
dove low-d mo host, Lifter all.”

()llt' day, some months later, Dolores
glanced at the ruby ring which she ul-
wuys wore, and was somewhat startled to

(lid llcr failhless

find it glowing ruddily. looking ready to
spurl blood. She smiled sadly as she
illoughl, “Lme more life wasted; another

in

‘it might haw been.

ll did not surprise Dexter when, a year
lzllcr, lu-r death was announced. But the
priests and sisters were surprised when
he was found dead upon her grave.

Thus allollllrl‘ tragedy had been enacted
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her fears gave way to righteous indig-
nation. “John Delvin," she cried, wrath-
fully, “If you don’t trounce them chil-
dren good for this, I will! Look at that
set of blue china that I've washed and
dried for nigh onto forty years! Look at
that table! an’ th’ chairs! an’ that stove-
pipe on my clean kitchen floor that I’ve
nearly worn out my knee bones on! Oh,
I could—” here her wrath choked her,
and seizing a broom, she made a rush
toward where I stood.

Ellen screamed with fright and clung
tightly to me. Teddy glanced up appre-
hensively, but instinctively placed himself
in front of Ellen. For a moment I fancied
sober Mary Jane had lost her wits, and
that the whirling broom was destined to
descend on our heads. But, no; with a
resounding whack the broom came down
on Bruno’s back; and the dog, with a
howl of pain and fright, slunk out of the
kitchen, followed by the broom and Mary
Jane.

“Come,” I said, quickly seizing Teddy
and Ellen by the hands, “we’ll escape
while there is yet time," and I fled with
the children to the library, knowing well
that dear old Mary Jane‘s wrath would
evaporate as quickly as it came, and that
she would be the first one to plead for
the. forgiveness of the childrcn.

Teddy and Ellen regarded me doubt-r
fully as I scaled myself in the library.
My wrath was an unknown quantity.
They did not know what I would do,
and I could see by their faces that they
were fearful of the kind of punishment
I might mete out to them.

I glanced at my watch. “It is now five
o’clock.” I said, “and I am sure you are
very, very tired, after all this excitement
and would like to go to bed, would you
not, Teddy?”

“Yes, sir,” Teddy answered. his face
plainly showing the relief he felt at the
unexpected form his punishment was tak-
ing.

“And you, Ellen?”

“Yes. sir," she responded, a little doubt-
fully. “Rut papa always spanks me when
I've been real naughty,” she added, evi-
dently funcying I needed the information.

“Very well, then, you may both go to
bed at oncc; and remember you are not
to get up until morning. Another thing.
you have had such a fine circus today
that I am quite sure it would not do for
you to go to another tomorrow. But Joey
and I will go, because, we did not see
your circus. Now, I’ll excuse you, and
you cango directly to bed,” and I arose
and opened the door for them.

“Oh, 1"ncle .Iohn—” began Teddy and
Ellen simultaneously, their faces quiver-
ing and their eyes filling with tears.

“Not another word.” I interrupted, so
sternly that both children hurried from
the room in silence: but as they slowly
bore their Weight of unuttcrable woe up
the stairs, Ellen sobbed: “Oh, dear me,
how I do wish I‘ncle John knew how to
spank! I did so want to go to the circus!
0, dear me! Teddy, do comfort me!”
and the two mourners vanished, arms
around each other and tears interming-
ling.

Some two hours later, as I sat in my
library thinking bitterly over the events
of the day, Mary June entered. There
was a look of stern reproach on her face
as she walked up and stopped in front of
me. “John Delvin.” she said, coming to
the point at once, as was hcr wont, “how
can you, her own brother, be so cruel to
Esther‘s babies? ’Twnnt them that
knocked th’ siovcpipc down, an’ smashed
th’ dishes, an' overturned th‘ table, an’
made such a mess on my clean kitchen
floor. ’Twas that great black brute of a
dog; but, of course, man like, you put all
th’ blame an’ th’ punishment on them
two dear little babes; an’ the-y feclin’ so
bad that a sight of their heart—broken
faces is enough to melt stone. IIere, take
that an’ read it, it’s all wet with their
tears; an’ if you’ve got any heart in that
big body of yours, do somethin’ to com-
fort Esther's babies, th’ poor little dears!”
and she stiffly handed me a piece of writ~
ing paper carefully folded and tear-
stained.

I unfolded the paper and read:

Dearest uncle John:—

please whip us good and hard and not
keep us away from the sirkus bekaus if
you dont take us to the sirkus you will
break your promis and it is awful wiked
to brak your promis and we wil let you
whip terible hard bkaus we dont want
you to be wiked and we do want to go to
the sirkus. dear dearest uncle john I no
our own papa would tel us how nauty we
had ben and then he would whip us and
then he would take us to the sirkus please
be like papa. you can come right up
now and whip us and have it over with

 

only whip us on our backs bkaus we have

 

to set down lots at the sirkus. We will be
awfull good if you wil and we wil love
you next to our own dearest papa as long
as we live.
your loving and sorrowful neice and
nephew Teddy
Ellen.
For a moment, after reading this note,

I sat thinking. Yes, Mary Jane was
right. I had been needlessly harsh and
cruel. The children had no thought of
doing wrong. They did not dream that
the cat and the dog would go on such a
rampage. IVhy should I, because I was
older and stronger and, possibly. wiser,
punish them? A man is a brute who
brings a needless tear to the eyes of
childhood. I arose and went to the door.

“Hello, upstairs!" I called,

“Hello!" Hello!” came back from Ted-
dy and Ellen. There was doubt buoyed
up by hope in their voices.

“You can both go to the circus with me
tomorrow. Now, go to sleep and get a
good rest.” I heard a glad cry and the
rush of feet.

“Oh, Uncle John, I want to kiss you!"
and Ellen, followed more slowly by Ted-
dy, came flying down stairs, and, with
her arms around my neck, gave me not
one but many kisses, while she told me
how much she loved me.

“I‘ncle John.” and Teddy stood in
front of me. “I am terrible glad we can
go to the circus. Now you can whip me.
Thank you,” and he smiled up into my
face.

“I~I wouldn’t whip you for a farm!
Go to bed, you little rascals, so you can
]H‘ up bright and early in the morning,”
and i hurried the children upstairs, and
returned to the library, and to my trou-
bled thoughts.

\Vhat would Harry Rodney’s next move
be? He must know by now that we were
in control at Red Murdock’s; and that
(‘l uld mean but one thing to him—danger.
Ilis act in striking me with his riding
whip told how desperately wrathful the
sight of the doctors’ buggies at Murdock‘s
had made him, and how quickly he had
jumped to the conclusion that I. was at
the, bottom of the, matter. I could fancy
how fcnrfuily anxious he must be to know
what was going on in the sick room, and
what it was that had caused Red Mur-
dock to leave; and it pleased me not a
little to think that he was as ignorant of
what our plans were. as we were of his,
and that now we held the. vantage-point
cf Reilc’s bedside. But, alas, on what
small and uncertain points human des—
tinics sometimes turn! My whole future
appeared to hang on the flickering point
of life trembling in Belle Murdock’s worn
and bruised body; and death might yet
hold the winning hand.

Chapter XX.——Circus Day.

The next morning I was awakened
:Iliout four o’clock by Teddy. He had
hold of my ears, and was pulling vigor-
ously. “I’ncle John! Uncle John!" he
yelled. “Wake up! It’s circus day! I’ve
bccn awake for hours! If you don’t hur—
ry we'll be mo late for the big parade,”
and he gave a jerk that threatened to
pull my ears out by the roots; and then,
before I could catch him, he leaped back,
caught up his pillow and threw it at me.

 

“Score one!” he shouted, as the pillow’

struck plump against my face. “NOW.
catch me,” and he ran out of the room,
shouting: “Circus Day! Circus Day!
Hurrah! Get up, Ellen! Get up! It's
circus day!” and he began pounding on
Ellen’s door. In a moment more Ellen's
Voice joined his, and I heard the. two of
them rush down stairs, followed by Mary
Jane, expostiilating garrulously.

My anxiety to learn what had happened
at Red Murdock’s during the night made
me a willing victim to the children's im-
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until one o’clock; but as Teddy said:
“Better two hours early than two minutes
late, when going to a circus;" and then,
there was little Joey to get ready, and
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to have the carriage at the door by elev—
cn o’clock. But so strenuously did Teddy
hasten matters that it was but little after
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on earth! Come and see the elephants.
cowboys, tigers, lions and the gorgeous
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a circus? How he feasts his eyes on the
b111_boards .for days and days. before the
coming of the great event, and wonders
if he will really see all those delightful,
marvelous, and mysterious beings and
things so vividly and gorgeously pictured!
And, at last, when the great day comes,
and he sees from afar the enormous
weather-stained tents, with the flags of
all nations gaily floating from their poles,
his heart is almost ready to burst with
excitement and the mystery and the W011-
der of it all increases with every step he
takes, until he stands in its very midst,
eyes and ears and every pore of his alert
little body open to the amazing sights and
sounds around him. And the best or it
all is that his anticipations seldom equal
the marvelous aggregations of the reali-
ties, as seen through his delighted eYes.
And then, for days and weeks afterwards,
he dreams and talks of that circus, and
springs the clown's funny jokes on every
one he meets, and hangs a trapeze up in
the barn on which he practices sedulously
to the great danger of his arms and neck,
and learns to turn somersets and hand—
springs and cart-wheels; while visions of
fame and wealth won on the sawdust of
the circus ring continually till his waking
and sleeping fancies. Oh, the marvelous
alchemy of youth! Alas, alas, that its
wonderful buoyancy can not stay with us
always!

Even my despondency was not alto-
gether proof against the joyous liveliness
and enthusiasm of Teddy and Ellen, as
they pictured out the wonderful Sights
they were soon to see. Indeed, the en-
thusiasm of the children was catching.
Under its spell Mary Jane grew animated
and told of her first experience at a cir-
cus, when she was a little girl, “nigh onto
fifty years ago.” Then Jake had to tell
what a circus was like in “Hold Heng-
land.” And by the time we reached Red
Murdock's we were all little children
alike, going to see the greatest “show on
earth.

I found Doctor Anderson and Doctor
Goldthorp both with Belle Murdock.
There had been no change. She was
holding her own bravely, but that was
all; and I could see that neither .doctor
had any hopes for her ultimate recovery.

“If the operation restores her to con-
sciousness and she lives long enough to
tell all she knOWS about this terrible af-
fair, it’s the best we can hope for, Del-
Vin.” Doctor Goldthorp whispered. draw-
ing me into a corner of the room. “Andm
and—” he hesitated, “the one who gave
her the opium will be responsible for her

death. Delvin, that locket hangs like a
millstone around my heart. I~—what shall
we do?"

“Drop it, doctor.” and I gripped him
hard by the shoulders. “Not another hint
to me, nor to anybody else, about your
suspicions until the mystery of that look-
ct and the purchasing of the opium is
cleared up. I’ll stake my soul on the in-
nocence of Miss Lamont. But, if it can
be proven that she is guilty, I’ll— Good
heavens, Doctor Goldthorp, how can you
give credence to such vile‘suspicions, you
who have known her all her life?”

“That’s it, Delvin, that’s it. I can’t,”
broke in the doctor. “And yet, if it were
anybody but Elsie Lamont I’d be so sure
of her guilt that I‘d feel it my duty to
put my knowledge in the hands of the
proper authorities. And—and it may be
that I am blinded by my regard for her,
and shielding the guilty. God knows I
want to do what is right—”

“Then keep still. Do nothing. as you
promised, until after you hear Belle’s
story. It is not the guilty, but the inno-
cent, that you are shielding.”

“I hope so, I hope so. Anyway I’ll do
as you say, Delvin,” and shaking his
head doubtf'ully, as if he yet questioned
the wisdom of the course, Doctor Gold-
thorp returned to the bedside.

The moment we had stopped at Red
Murdock‘s Teddy and Ellen had leaped
from the carriage, and made a rush for
little Joey to get him ready to go to the
show; and it was good to see the delight
of the child when at last he' was made
to understand that he was going to a
“really truly” circus. His wan face
flushed and his eyes brightened until they
shone. Poor child, he had been to Plum-
ville but twice in all the ten years of his
unfortunate life; and now he was not
only going to Plumville, a. wonderful
place in his eyes, but he was going to
see “the very greatest show on earth, and
lions, and tigers, and cowboys, and eleo
phants, and things," as Teddy enthusias-
tically assured him while helping him get
ready. Truly it was a. dazzling prospect
for Joey, and the little fellow’s happiness
tinny radiated from his face and eyes.

. “Land, sakes!” Mary Jane exclaimed, as

Joey took his seat in the buggy between
her and Ellen. “You do look glad! An’
I guess th’ gladness is as catchin’ as th'
measles. Anyway I haven’t felt as young
an’ chipper for twenty years," and she
bent and gave him a motherly hug and
kiss.

“I do wish Belle could go with us,”
and a shadow passed over the boy's hap-
py face. “Belle's awful good. She never
hit me a lick. She’d be just delighted to
go.” He hesitated and the tears came
into his eyes. “I—~I‘m afraid God’ll take
Belle, too; an' God’s got my mother, an’

everythin’, an' I’ve only got Belle. Why
can’t God let me keep Belle?"
“You poor lone chicken!” and Mary

Jane hugged Joey close to her side. “God
will let you keep Belle, if He thinks it’s
for th’ best. You know there’s a great
(Elector comin’ from New York tonight on
purpose to cure Belle: an’ he'll cure her,
too, just wait an’ see if he don’t."

“Oh, if he only will!" and little Joey’s
face shone with the joy of the thought.
“God don’t need Belle, an’ I do. Belle's
been awful good to me since ma died,
an’—”

“I can see the tents! Look Ellen, Joey,
the circus tents! Oh, Uncle John, aren’t
they big? See!” and Teddy jumped to
his feet and pointed eagerly in the di-
rection where the circus tents might be
seen from the top of the hill which we
had now reached. And a pretty sight
they made, with their hundreds of flags
bravely floating in the breeze, and their
great tops and sides bulging out sugegs-
tively of the wonders within. “Oh, there‘s
an elephant, and he’s pushing a wagon
with his head! Do hurry up, Uncle John!
0h, do hurry up!” and the excited boy
caught hold of my arm.

In five minutes more we were driving
into Plumville, and in another ten min-
utes we were among those wonderful
tents;,and Teddy and Ellen and Joey
wore in Marvelland. There ,was the ele-
phant; that was pushing the heavy ani-
mal—wagons into their places with his
huge head and trunk. I could not get the
children away from him. until his work
was finished and he. had vanished into
the big tcnt. 'l‘hen Teddy caught sight of
a number of cowboys. and, with a yell of
delight, started for them. To his supreme
joy one of the men showed him how to
hold and throw a rope, and ever conde-
scended to put him on the back of one of
their horses and to let him feel of their
rifles and revolvers, while Ellen and Joey
watched him in awed silence.

“I’m going to try my rope, Uncle John,
when we get home,” he said, as we turn-
ed from the cowboys. “Bronco Bill show-
ed me just how to hold and throw it. I’ll
bet I could catch a cow, l'ncle John——-Oh,
they are getting ready for the parade!
Come on!" and off he started on the run
to where the line of the parade was
forming in front of the big menageries
tent.

And little Jocy and Ellen! Their eyes
looked as if they were about to pop out
of their heads, and their tongues were
silent only when they saw something so
stupendous and wonderful that they were
too greatly awed to speak. And Mary
Jane and Jake were almost as much ex-
cited and as full of wonder as' were the
children. Altogether that preliminary
wandering around among the tents, with
now and then a glimpse of the mysteries
within the great canvas walls, was, for
the children, like a trip to another world,
and big with the promises of wonders yet
to c0me.

The parade was all that the heart of
boy could wish, with its gorgeous band
wagon shining like gold, its beautiful men
and women, dressed in gleaming armor
and many-colored garments and riding
gaily-caparisoned steeds; its queer—look—
ing camels and huge elephants, its gal-
lant band of cowboys, and its animal—
wagons with a man actually riding in a
cage of lions. And then there was the
clown, in a funny little cart drawn by a
funnier little donkey; and a pretty gold-
cnhaired little girl, driving a beautiful
span of snow—white ponies.

(Continued next week).

Bill Nye when a young man once made
an engagement with a lady friend of his
to take her driving of a Sunday after-
noon. The appointed day came, but at
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Mr. Nye hired the nag and drove to his
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nearly an hour before she was ready, and
then on viewing the disreputable outfit
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“Why," she exclaimed, sneeringly, “that
horse may die of age and moment."

"Madam," Mr. Nye replied, “when I ar-
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steed.”

       
   
  

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