VOL. CXXXVIII. No. [4. i Whole Number 3594. PLANNING AND EXECUTING THE SPRING WORK. The spring campaign will be more strenuous than is usually the case upon the average Michigan farm this year. This will be true for the reason that weather conditions last fall did not permit of the usual amount of fall plowing, and the lateness of the spring. together with the deep freezing of the ground during an especially cold winter, is likely to delay the active work in the fields until a later date than is usual in our state. It will thus be more important than ever that the spring work be wisely planned and effectively executed to the end that the crops may be gotten in on time and in such a manner as to not impose a handi- cap upon the success of the season‘s ef- forts at the very outset. Saving Time and Labor. Under these conditions, and with the prevailing shortage and high price of farm labor, it is particularly important that a. maximum of results be accomplished with the expenditure of a minimum amount of time and labor from the very start in the spring campign of work. These results can only be accomplished by careful plan- ning and the judicious execution of plans which must be sufficiently flexible to adapt themselves to the uncertain weath- er conditions of the spring season. \Vhen the fields get into condition to work, nothing short of absolute necessity should keep the teams out of those fields, and the" teams should be efficient so that gnod, big day's work may be accom- plished. 'l‘he'modern tendency is toward the use of at least four horses on large implements, and even on smaller farms thcrc is no economy in permitting one man to spend his time with less than a thrce-horse team during thc heavy work of preparing the land for spring crops. \Vith an efficient team and eillcient im- plements one man can accomplish a great deal in disking and fitting ground for oats, or plowing and fitting ground for corn, potatoes, beans, sugar beets, etc., provided he keeps evcrlastingly at it ev— ery day and all day during suitable weather. The accomplishment of a rea— sonably good day’s work every day is far more effective than spasmodic efforts which result in the alternate over—crowd— ing and idleness ot’ the team. Very much of this factor of success with the spring tampaign depends upon proper planning and the use of proper judgment in the ex— ecution of plans. The Effectiveness of Time and Labor Expended. The saving of time and labor. however, in the accomplislunent of the spring work is not more important so far as results are concerned, than that the time and labor required in preparing the land and planting the crops be effectchIy expended to t‘he end that we may secure a maxi~ mum of results at a minimum of cost. This factor of success depends not Only Imon‘wisely laid plans, but some variation in their execution as climatic conditions may indicate. Since one can never tell what the weather conditions may be later in the season, it is the part of wise econ- omy to be prepared for unfavorable con— ditions as far as possible. To this end the land should be fitted or plowed for spring cropsweven late planted crops like potatoes and beans-sufi’lciently early in the spring so that a desirable degree of moisture can be conserved by proper cul- tural methods until the planting season arrives. The Michigan potato crop was not a little shortened last season because of the late plowing, and this is not an un- common experien‘ce in Michigan. But it is not alone in the plowing and preparation of the soil for the late plant- ed (310133111841: We need to make prepara- (I. .The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Jour DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY. APRIL 6. [912. tion for a proper conservation of soil moisture. As the land for the earlier planted crops is ordinarily plowed and fitted upon many farms, a sufficiently good seed bed is not provided for best re- sults. Often there are spaces between the furrow slices and the bottom which breaks the capillarity of the! soil and pro- vents the crop from drawing upon the water stored in the lower strata of the soil, thus mking it easily susceptible to the drouth during the early summer. Again, the surface of the soil is permit— ted to crust over after it is plowed, or perhaps it is partially fitted and there is practiced, the timely working of the land after it is plowed has much to do with the conservation of its moisture and the proper fitting of a Seed bed for the crops to be planted. It requires about so much labor to fit the land for spring crops and it costs no more to do this labor when it will prove most effective as a factor which will make for the production of maximum yields. The Necessity of Carefully Considered Plans. ._ There is no new principle involved in the above discussion. It is something which every reader knew as Well before Saving Time and Labor on the Farm an unnecesasry escape of moisture which may be needed later by the crop. The judicious use of harrow and roller after the ground is plowed, dcpcnding up— on its moisture content, will be most bcn- eticial in securinga suitable seed bed and a consequent good start for the crops when same are planted. Some of our best farmers are also practicing the disking of fit-ids before plowing, not alone stubble fields, but sod fields, to break up the sod and conserve soil moisture, as well as to insure a better job of plowing and later fitting for the preparation of a good seed bed and establishing *apillarity between the surface soil which is moved and the sttbsoil below. But whether or not this systcm is of P. J, Spaldinc, of Lapeer County. as after reading, yet it is a fact that very many who may recogniZo a fundamental truth will not :Lt‘l upon its obvious sug— gestion unless the matter is brought spe- (itically to thcir attention at a timely scason. 'J‘hcrc aro some, however, who may not have appreciated thc importance of having a troll dctincd plan for the de- tailed accomplisnmcnt of the work of pre- paring for the planting of the spring crops Although these may have a general idea of the tasks in hand, the time it will take to accomplish same, ct()., yet unless the plans are figured out to the smallest prac— tical detail, they are likely to find the season t'ar advanced and the work far be— hind, while if the plans are made in detail there will certainly be less intcrfercncc A Method of Saving Time and Labor Used on Many Michigan Farms. g 81.00 A YEAR. $2.75 5 YEARS. with them, and additional labor will be secured, if necessary, to carry them out, so that a.handicap to the success of the season’s campaign will be far less likely than if a less comprehensive plan is made. Of course, these plans will be more or less lnterefered with by weather condi- tions, but in their adaptation to these conditions the executive ability of the farmer will be put to a test and much of his success will denepd upon his ability in management in the overcoming of un— favorable conditions. Both the saving of time and labor, and the effectiveness of the time and labor cxpendcd in the spring campaign upon the farm are important factors in farm mancgemcnt, in which headwork is as important as handwork, and should be employed to the best pos- sible advantage. GROWING ALFALFA SEED IN MICH- IGAN. Not long ago it was thought by many that alfalfa seed could not be grown suc— cessfully undcr Michigan conditions. lax- pericncc has shown, however, that this opinion was not corrcct. 'l‘oday, alfalfa seed is grown with considerable success in many parts of the state and on many classes of soils. The only objection l0 the production of alfalfa seed in Michigan at the present time is that were is not enough produced to supply the ever in- creasing demand. (inc of the most important considcra- tions in connection with growing a good crop of alfalfa is the getting of a good stand, and to this end good seed is desir— ablo. it is well known that the host plants of alfalfa. grow from seeds that have been produced locally, or from sccds of plants that have bccn acclimated to local conditions. Most of the alfalfa seed now used in this state comes from foreign countries and from the wcstcrn part of the United Statcs. It is not acclimated to BIicliigan conditions, and hence loses value in that respect. A test of alfalfa seed carried on at the Michigan Experi— ment Station, in which sccd from sevm‘al localities was uscd, showcd that although the germinating vitality was good in each case and an almost pcrfcct stand was secured, the seed which came from locali— tics having a similar climate to Michigan stood the winter bcttcr than sccd which came from localities having a different climate. Michigan—grown seed, and seed which came from Germany gave a stand ncar 9:3 pcr (-cnt in thc spring: while the stand was low in the othcr cases, and in some instances the plants were nearly 111 killed by the severe winttr. To secure a good crop the seed should have a good germinating vitality and be adapted to our climatic conditions. Another objec- tion to forcign-grown seed is that it often (ontains \\'ccd seeds that arc not at pres- ent found here, but may ln- introduced if infected sccd is used. Many Michigan farmcrs grow their own clover sccd. \\'hy can not the same be said of alfalfa, sud? The outlook for the growing of this valuable crop is good, and there will be not a few acres sown to al- falfa this coming spring and summer as well as in tho futurc. ’i‘his wiil create a demand for good seed, and home—grown seed ought to haVc the preference over seed grown in the west or in foreign countries. 'Vt’here stray plants are found under conditions where they can develop prop- erly by receiving a plentiful supply of water, food, air, and sunshine, they are usually found to be producing seed in abundance. If one wishes to grow the seed he must see that the plants are put under the proper conditions, and the. plants will do the rest. If the soil is properly prepared and the it 402 (2) alfalfa seed drilled in rows far enough apart to permit of cultivation, and then cultivated so as to keep down the weeds and conserve the water, the alfalfa will produce seed of a good quality providing good seed has been used in the begin- ning/Q ()r, if a farmer has an old field of alfalfa in which the stand is thin and where June grass is creeping in. he could go on this field and plow a back furrow by throwing two furrows together, then leave a slice a furrow wide and plow an- other back furrow; leave another slice :1 furrow wide and plow another back fur- row. and so on across the field. These back furrows could be cultivated and smoothed down in the same manner as cultivating a potato or corn crop. The plants growing on the unturned furrow slice will then have an ideal condition in which to branch out and let in the air and sunshine which are necessary for the development of good seed. 'Water would be saved to the plants by the cultivation. Seed grown on plants which have with- stood conditions that have killed their neighbors should produce plants that are better adapted to the locality in which they are grown. In growing alfalfa seed one cutting is taken off for hay and then the plants are allowed to go to seed. (,lrowing seed does not kill the plants. Alfalfa seed has been grown at the Michigan Experiment Station. Certain strains have produced at the rate of over ich bushels of seed per acre in one sea- son when the plants were set two feet apart each way and cultivated like p0— tatocs. Ingham Co. C. ll. SPURWAY. FARM NOTES. Applying Lime to the Soil. \\'iil you kindly advise me. through your paper the best way to apply ground lime— stone or lime, and about thp amount? Soil is gravelly loam and rolling. About l3 or 15 years ago it produced title crops of buy and grain but having been cropped continuously since has become depleted or run down. ’Will appreciate advice as to best. means of applying, tilting the ground to apply, and lilne to apply. llnve. stable manure to apply. Should manure be plowed under and lime on top and worked in or should both be turned under? Jackson Co. SUBSCRIBER. 'l‘ndoubtedly the best way to apply gr’ound limestone or ground quicklime or hydrnled lime, or. in fact, any form of lim.» which may be used, is with a lime distributor made for the purpose which will distribute it as t-vonly HS possible. In the practical science department of a re- cent issue of the Michigan Farmer will be found a discussion of the proposition of applying lime to the soil from a scler- titic standpoint. in this discussion em— phasis was platccd upon the importance of using a finely ground product, whatever form of lime may be applied. As to the form of lime it is best to use, the best: authorities practically all favor a finely ground limestone in which the lime is in the form of a carbonate and recommend the application of at least one ton per acre, and some as high as eight tons per acre in preparing the soil for alfalfa. .[n the discussion above referred to, the success with which clever or ttli'ull'a is grown upon any soil is mentioned as a certain and sttfc indication as to its need of lime. For several years the writer tried ttnsut-cc'ssi‘ully to get a stand of alfalfa upon his farm and linully deter- mined to try the application of lline as a last resort. Consequently a (.‘Lll‘lU'dtl of lime was purchased, mostly linely ground make the experiment more valuable some ground stone lime and some hydrated lime was included in the shipment for thc ptliposo of testing comparative The ground little- stone was applied at varying rates from one to three tons per acre, and the ground stone. lime and hydrated lime in varying amounts from 300 to 1.000 pounds per acre. The “MIC was applied a year pro-- \‘lous to seeding the land to alfalfa last year. A good stand was secured upon all this land, and apparently a thorough inoculation of the soil was secured, which was not the case in previous seedings of alfalfa on the same ground. Little, if any difference, could be seen from the lighter or heavier applications of lime last fall, but the. ultimate results may vary con- siderably and will be watched with con- siderable interest. The result. so far as apparent, has con- vinced the writer that for success with alfalfa, lime is necessary upon his soil, and where difiilficulty is experienced in getting a good stand of clever it uh- doubtedly pays to make an application of lime upon the soil. In this case it would limestone, but to results. probably be more profitable to apply it the previous year, although this may not be important.‘ In any eve‘nt it should not be applied together with stable manure, as in that case it wouldtend to liberate the nitrogen and result in a loss of this valuable plant food as ammonia gas. it could properly be- appiied on the surface Of the land after plowing and thoroughly worked into the soil, and in case caustic lime is applied it should be worked in at once for best results. Lime, however, should not be applied for some crops, as for instance potatoes, since it will in— crease the activity of the scab fungus the. same as it does the bacteria which are peculiar to the alfalfa plant. So far as experience new indicates, lime can be profitably applied to our soils only as an administrative agent to aid in the grow- ing of these legumes which will add to the productive capacity of the soil, and in case they can be grown with a desirable degree of success without applying lime, it will probably not pay to use it upon Michigan soils. Wherever lime is used a check plot should be left in order that comparative results in its application may be determined and used as a guide in future years. Salt as a Fertilizer. I have a field of wheat and have heard of putting salt on crops for fertilizer. Would you advise such a course? If so. when, how, and how much would you apply? Would packing salt do as well? lieelenau Co. J. Salt cannot properly be called ’a fer- tilizer, and is not a direct fertilizer, in any sense of the word. although it has been in more or less common use as an application to the soil for many years. In England it was a common practice during the early ’80’s to sow salt in the early spring on wheat land that was especially rich in plant food, the idea being that a Ialgcr deposit of silica in the stalk Would result, enabling the wheat to stand better than would otherwise be the case. There is however, no data to show that salt is of value as a fertilizer or admin— istrative agent when applied on wheat. Salt has, however, been found to be a valuable agent in increasing the yield of barley upon some soils. In fertilizing ex- periments extending over a period of thlve years, at the Canada Experiment- ai Farms, the use of 300 pounds of salt per acre per year gave better average yields than were secured by the applica- tion of any Of a number of combinations of fertilizers. This result may be consid— ered as rather remarkable inasmuch as salt is not, as above noted, a direct fer— tiiizer. It does ‘not necessarily follow, however, that the same results would obtain on other soils. There are certain crops on which salt is generally applied, one not- able example in a garden crop being as- paragus. Experimenters declare, however, that it is of doubtful value from a for- tilizing standpoint, but that salt does not seem to harm the asparagus and may be applied in such quantity “as to keep down weeds in the row without injuring the plant. There are many practical farmers who believe salt to be a valuable agent in the controlling of cutworms, wirewornls and other larvae which infest the soil, and a few who believe that the applica- tion of salt to wheat or other grain, ill the spring, aids in securing a stand of cIchr in a dry season. \\'here salt is applied. the cheapest grade obtainable should be used, and a who has to bcvlieve in it should conduct a careful experiment on his own account to determine whether it is. of any value under his conditions or not. There is not enough experimental data to supporl to apply still to the soil. and from his own txpcricnce, the writer believes that it does not. There are, however, some cases nhcre experience has pointed in the other direction, hence the advice above given. What Caused the Seeding to Fail? Last spring hundreds of acres that were sowed to clever in April while ground was cracked with frost, and also what was sowed in spring grain, came up all right, but was eaten off by some insect life. in a week after it came up, one couldn‘t find a clover plant; all gOne long before drouth set in. Could you tell us what destroyed it. and how to avoid the same thing this spring? Mecosta CO. J. G. C. It is difficult to tell just what the cause of the failure was in the case mentioned above, without knowing all the condi- tions. It is the writer's Opinion, however, that the loss of this seeding was due to some other cause than its being eaten off by insects, as suggested in this in- quiry. On sandy land, after the young clover plants first come up, they are very easily injured, by the blowing of sharp grains of sand against them, and many times seedings are injured in this man- ner. However, if the surface of the farmer come the theory that it pays‘ ' THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ground becomes quite dry just after the plants get up, they may die from lack of moisture on sandy land, when there is plenty of moisture further down into the soil, but where the plants cannot reach with their tiny roots whch are not sup- plied with sufficient moisture through capillary attraction in a coarse grained soil to keep them alive under such unfav- orable conditions. On land such as above described it is a better plan to sow the clover seed with a disk drill, or to narrow it into the surface soil at a time during the spring when the soil and weather conditions are favorable for its germina- tion and rapid development of the young plnnts so as to avoid possible damage to, or loss of seeding through conditions such as are above mentioned. Treating Oats for Smut. Kindly advise me through the Michigan Farmer how to treat oats for smut with formaldehyde. Saginaw C0. R. F. The formaldehyde treatment for smut is best applied by spreading the seed out thinly »on a tight floor and sprinkling or spraying the mixture on and stirring thor- oughly, then shoveling into a compact pile and covering with canvas 0r blankets for two hours, then spreading the seed thinly to dry. The mixture should be used at the rate of one pound of formaldehyde to 50 gallons of water, using about one gal- lon of this mixture to each bushelof grain. or enough to wet each kernel of grain thoroughly. Fall vs. Spring Plowing for Beans. ls fall plowing better than spring plow- ing for beans? \Vhat kinds of beans yield best, what kind of fertilizer is best to use, and how to be sowed? What is the best and easiest way of taking care of beans? Saginaw Co. SUBSCRIBER. There is little data obtainable on the spring since most for earlier planted However, plowing for the bean crop should be done comparative effects of fall and plowing for the bean crop, farmers fall plow crops, such as corn and oats. as early in the spring as possible in or- der to conserve moisture and kill the Beans are mostly sown in drills at the rate of weeds before the crop is planted. three-quarters of a bushel of seed per acre, the pea beans, or other small va- rieties being the most generally used. Two or three hundred pounds of fertilizer may be used per acre, but should not all bel put in the drill with the beans, if any is sown therein as the bean seed is very easily injured by the action of potash in the fertilizer. Most growers practice of sowing in the drill tubes on each side of the row in which the beans are sown, using three tubes for fertilizer, putting a little in with the beans and some on each side. They should be given level, shallow cultivation during the early part of the growing season and harvested with a two—row harvester such as is in common use. Great care should be taken to get seed free from anthracnose and other fungous diseases, if possible, as this disease, 1com- monly called blight or rust, is getting altogether too prevalent in Michigan bean fields. it would be a profitable investment for every commercial bean grower to se- cure secd from a clean field for next year’s planting. TOP-DRESSING THE MEADOW WITH COARSE MANURE. Will you let me know through your col— umns what you think about top-dressing a meadow that 1 am going to mow this year? Will the rough stuff from bedding such as straw and bean pods, be raked into the hay? Is there any fertilizer that would be better? It was number one tim- othy last year and I am anxious to get a good crop this year. Mneonib Co. SUBSCRIBER. Some of the coarser material of the ma- nure will undoubtedly be raked up with the hay and this cannot be helped. I don’t think enough of it will be raked up so that it will materially injure the hay unless you want to sell the hay. If. you want to sell the hay on the market it may cause you some trouble, but if you want to feed it I don’t think it will injure it enough so that you need to worry about it.v Yes, there is another fertilizer that you could use to top-dress the meadow that would obviate this trouble, and that is commercial fertilizer. Take a good com- mercial fertilizer like a 228:4, use 300 or 400 pounds per acre early in the spring and you can certainly get results, and there won’t be any litter to rake up with the hay. Of course, you will have to spend some money for this fertilizer, but you can use the stable manure on other crops and undoubtedly to good advantage; COLON C. LILLIE. make a ‘}27/\i‘eré:§-"a [OJ/earl Guarantee/112 ‘ every {fa/[0191” CONGO ROOFING. And the guarantee is in the form of an In- surance Policy issued by the National Surety Company. This Policy insures your Congo 2 and 3-ply Roofing for ten years at the maniac- turers’ ,expense. You sim— ply fill in the blanks telling the date you lay the roof and the buildings you put it on. If Congo should fail to last ten years,you get a new roof. It. is simply a device of the manufacturers to break through all the unfounded claims that are made for other roofings, {with some- thing specific and definite. 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Mliohigan Regenerated Swedish Select Oats’ifll‘fi recleaned seed at cents: sacks 10 cents extra under 5 bush. '1‘. V. HICKS, R. No. 11, Battle Creek, Mich. —1 ed P lde f th Seed Corn 101' 8810 NE,“ {wam-eflully sglecoeci and guaranteed to grow. H. L. COLE. Palmyra. Mich. ( oA'lS—Reg. Swedish Select Sensation and Bi Four. Samples free. laoSeed Corn. Ben 01' catalogue. Theo. Burtd: Sons. Melrose. Ohio. T —-Free from smut rust. and everythl CA but ure Reg. Sweedish Select. 03:}: S 1 free. At the unmeentmshi pod. 10bushe 031332: 75 cents. 0.8M. YORK. Miningwn. Mich. DOUBLE THE YIELD of your potatoes by planting northern Wn seed, bred up by bill selection. Prices reasons le: Circular free. 3. Fallen. Halo, Ina. —Early Marrow (Whl N SEED BEANS Poo) variety. Flared .l pods from one stalk. E. YOUNG, Farmington, Mich. ,‘z-__jh_._ “ML... o__—— __L._ .....wj... flMLA .....- 4 .,_;_,.._a-$~-.a. .1... ' l I APRIL 6, 1912. ECONOMIC MATERIAL FOR SOIL IM- PROVEMENT. This was the title of the third and last address by Dr. C. G. Hopkins, of the Uni— ' versity of Illinois, before the last session of the Round-Up Institute held at the M. A. C. _ While there are methods whereby soil can be prepared for the production of special crops under an intensive method of culture, yet the great question is what to do with the great mass of the normal soils of our principal farming districts. in. Hopkins stated that three things are generally needed: First, nitrogenous veg- etable matter; second, phosphorus; third, limestone. Dr, liopkins first considered the nitro- gen supply. He stated that, compara- tively speaking, there was not much nitrogen in the soil, the great source of supply is in the air. In view of the fact that we can put the nitrogen of the air into the soil through the growing of legu- ininous crops, the Doctor discouraged the idea of buying this element, except where one is doing intensive farming. The ‘ele- ment is the most abundant of all the ten. elements concerned in the production of plants. But, in spite of this fact, nitro- gen costs more than any of the other ele- ments. It is an economic matter, then, to follow such a rotation of crops and inethod of handling those crops that this element may be produced in sufficient quantities to supply the growing plants. A suggestive rotation for one who keeps live. stock is to put the land into corn two years, following this with oats and clo- ver. A, fifth field should be sown to al- falfa, which can be broken up in five years, when another field is seeded to this crop. .\ suggestive rotation for the grain farmer is wheat, corn, oats and clover. All straw should go back onto the farm where one docs not keep stock, especially. The Doctor then suggested five nitrogen facts: First, to produce one bushel of oats requires one pound of nitrogen. Sec— ond. to produce one bushel of corn re— quires one and one—half pounds of nitro- gcn. Third, to produce one bushel of wheat requires two pounds of nitrogen. Fourth, an average ton of farm manure contains ten pounds of nitrogen. Fifth, an average crop of clover, contains 40 pounds of nitrogen per ton. From these facts it will be seen that two and one-half tons of clover, or the amount that usually grows on an acre will supply to the soil as much nitrogen as 10 tons of farm ma,- nure. From his observations, the Doctor was of the opinion that, following proper methods, .the grain farmer was in a po- (51110)] to keep up the nitrogen and humus in the soil easier and more cheaply than is the live. stock farmer. An animal rc- tains about one-fourth of the nitrogen contained in the food which it eats. In this country statistics indicate that there is about one domestic animal for each 10 acres of tillable land. This fact ii‘idicates at once the impossibility of maintaining the soil fertility of the whole country through a system of live stock farming. Some other means must be employed or our land must ultimately become incapa- ble of plant production sufficiently large to make farming profitable. The element of phosphorus was next considered. The Doctor favors the use of raw rock phosphate. To be. valuable such raw phosphate must contain a good per- centage of phosphorus and should also be ground very finely, so fine that 90 per (Cllt should pass through a sieve of ten thousand meshes per inch. If the raw rock phosphate is placed upon soil in which there is no vegetable matter, little good will accrue from it. One must sup- ply the land with this vegetable matter that the acids resulting from decomposi— tion may act upon the phosphorus in the rock and make it available for the use of the- plants. _'l‘he Doctor recommended the use of one tOn of raw rock phosphate per acre to begin with, and thereafter the use of one~half ton, once in every four years. llis experience indicated that one was paid for the fertilizer during the first four years, but at the end of that time. two~ thirds of the value of the rock will re- main in the soil and would afterwards be made available for the crops. Limestone was next considered. He de- clared that many soils did not need the addition of limestone. they being well Squlied by nature. The element not only aids in the correcting of the acidity, bUt also supplies calcium, which he declares to be quite, if not more, important on many lands than is the element potassium. 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You can make the changes anywhere, any time. in one minute. Think of the time, labor and inconvenience it saves every day on the farm. The width of the bed in this position is 6 ft. 2 in., and the drop end-gate adds 2 feet to the length. The bottom is seed tight. thus saving enough in one season to pay you a big profit on your investment. The American .W 30 Days Free Tria Not One Penny Down u. Contract really is. The Melrose convertible £21! Fifteen wagon boxes, racks and beds in one. Nolchanging of boxes—no lifting, tugging, straining or suffering injury. In one minute the Melrose can be changed for any of a hundred different purposes required of a farm wagon—the implement you use more than any other piece of machinery you own. Make it modern—and save money, time, inconvenience, labor, and your own peace of mind. I am not asking you to take my word for it -— nor the Company’s word — but take your own word for it. You ought to be willing to do that. 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Steel sills: steel bracket and telescope braces throughout. It; positively cannot bulge, warp or spring. 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 ofyour own wagon in your every day work. Then ifyou are not per- fectly satisfied, just take the box to the station and tell the agent to ship it 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 offreight charges, or any other expense. This is an offer of a FREE TRIAL and it means just ex- actly what those two words say. Guaranteed For Five Years Built for any and every purpose on the farm. It is guaranteed for five yearsV—a straight- forward, al)ove board, honest guarantee that means just what you want a guarantee. to mean. Take it on your farm and prove it before you buy. An absolute, open and above board guarantee—just the same as this Free Trial Offer. It will last three, four or five times that long—and its first cost is but very little more than the cost of a good, standard make, single purpose box, that must be lifted on or off every time you want to haul hay, or stock, or chickens, or fertilizer, etc. Risk One Gent Send just a pos- tal card, giving your name and address today, and receive by return mail our big book ofcomplcte information; full de- tail illustrations drawn from actual, daily use on farms, together with copy of iron-clad signed guar- our great, fair, man-to-man FREE TRIAL OFFER that will place this modern inven- tion on your farm for one full month's test, without paying anything down or depositing any money in the bank, or anywhere, or without signing any TEST offer and we take all the risk, excepting the price of the postal card you are to send before you turn this page. Send that card today. INVEST/CA TE. We twill give one Melrose Box a free ride on the train to your statiOn, ifyou will give it a free ride around your farm and plenty of exercise for a month—we furnish return ticket if you get tired antec, and agreement of any kind. This is a FREE ofyour visitor. Send that card today. Remember The Melrose costs . but little more than a stand- ard make of old-fashioned, single-purpose wagon box. It weighs less than an ordinary, cumbersome, single-purpose hay rack, regardless of the fact. that it in stool bound, sillod. braced and bolted throughout— absolutoly indestructible. It is guaranteed—its has been tried. tested and proved. It. is recommended by farmers and by the U. S. Government, Agricultural Experiment Stations. Mclrose \Vngon beds are, on exhibition at both the Chicago and Kansas City Stockyards. PONY MELROSE Inventor of the Melrose Convertible Wagon Box ’I‘wo full size cows or bulls can be hauled, taking only one minute to make, the change to the stock bed. A mere boy can go to town with aload of straw, C(‘II‘dVVUOtI or pigs, and return With screenings, fertilizer or sawdust. Here the strength is absolutely proved~4800 pounds of baled hay. Yet with all this strength the Melrose weighs even less than an old- fashioned hayrack. The. entire bed is prac- tically indestructible and will last a lifetime. 50—Light, 30-VoIt Outfit Complete including Mazda A . DYNA o SWITCHBOARD 570““ Light for all your buildings at any hour of the day or night. No danger of fires or explosions from lamps or lanterns. No lamps to clean and fill. And with all its advantages 1 Electric Light Is Not Expensive Burning all 50 lights of this system for 5 hours would Fairbanks,Morse&Co. GASOLINE aAT‘I’EFIV ENGINE’ “ Chicago only cost about l 0 cents for fuel oils. You would seldom burn all lights at once hence this low cost would be much reduced. Let us give you full partic- ulars.Write for Catalog No.C D 601 Detroit agon Co. ”6°.”‘flllz W. Adams St, Chicago, Ill The FARMER’S SDN’S GREAT ‘ OPPORTUNITY Why wait for the old farm to become your in- heritance? lies in now to prepare for your future prosperity and inde— pendence. A great opportunity awaits you In Manitoba, Sufi» kntchcwaii or Alberta, where, you can secure a. Free Homestead or buy land at reasonable prices. NOW’S THE TIME ——not a. year from now,whcn land will be higher. The protlts so. . 7- . ctired {Eta/"l thet 8') u n d n n t _ cropso ica . "(H and Bar v ‘ leyma well as cattle raising are causing a - steady advance in price. Government re~ tu rns show that the number of settlers in Western Canada from the U. S. during the last year was upwards of 125.000 and imlgrutlon is con- stantly Increasing. Many farmers have paid for their land 0 it of proceedriol’ one crop. Free omesteadn of l 60 acres and pre—emptlon of 160 acres at $3.00 an acre. Splendid climate. good schools. excellent railway facilities. low freight rates: wood. water and m , lumber easily obtained. / ~ For pamvhlet“LastBestWest.”particulars as to locations & settlers‘ rate apply Supt. lmmig., Ottawa. Cam, or Can. Gov. Agt. _ W- C. McINNES, 116 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. C. A. lAURlER, Marquette. Mich- 404 to gard to the amount of lime to use, the Doctor stated that he would recommend from two to five tons per acre for the first application and two tons per acre every four or five years thereafter. Following the consideration of these dif- ferent elements, the Doctor then re- hearsed the conclusion of a number of experiments, all of the figures for which we were unable to secure, but which pur- ported to prove that phosphorus was the element which the general farmer should provide from outside sources. For exam- ple, the addition of $11.40 worth of nitro- gen in the form of a commercial fertilizer once, in five years resulted in a net loss of $4.67. \Vhen the same value in nitro- gen and phosphorus was both added there was a net gain of 25 cents. By adding $11.40 worth of potassium, a loss of $8.00 was shown. \Vhen potassium and phos- phorus was added, at the same cost, a net return of 29 cents resulted. This indicat- ed that phosphorus was needed and when added made money, but barely sufficient to overcomethe loss resulting from the expense in adding the other elements. A similar result was obtained from a long series of experiments conducted in Penn- sylvania. In each instance in the latter state, by the addition of $7.20 worth of nitrogen every four years, losses accrued ranging front $1.70 to $4.62. \thre pot- ash alone was added at the rate of $9.96 worth every four years, losses occurred in every instance except one. where a proiit of 4.7 cents resulted, the greatest loss be- ing $8.81. '\\'here phosphorus was added alone the net gain amounted to $5.04, $4.321, 335.62, $4.46, $7.82, in live different plots. In Illinois, following a live-year rotation of clover, corn, oats, corn and wheat, the addition of $12.50 worth of phosphorus gave a net return of $25.50. The Doctor also referred to experiments conducted at ltothmstedt. England, to support his contentions. He again referred to the necessity of having in the soil decaying vegetable mat- ter, and made a distinction between de- caying vegetable matter and humus. The nitrogen of the plants combines in the de— composition and forms acid which dissolves the phosphate rock. The acids are fortn- ed from this material similarly to the manner in which acids are formed in cid— er. ensilagc and sauer kraut. in closing, he again referred to Ohio experiments, showing that where 15 suc— ccsst'ul crops had been grown without fer- tilixcr the average yield was now 15 bush— e-ls per acre. On the same kind of land where. farm manure had been added the average yield was 50.6 bushels per acre. whereas on land where both l'arm manure and raw phosphoric rock we're used the average yield was 02.4 bushels per acre GROWlNG CLOVER ON SANDY LAND. My farm is in lienzie county and I am writing for advice in regard to seeding a tire-acre Iicld on which I have so far tailed to get the seeding to grow. Can get the seed to start all right but it dries out. i know the field is in poor condi- lion and there is some (tuack grass in one part of it. 1 am thinking of plowing the iicld early this spring and then disking or dragging till July and then sowing clover, with perhaps buckwheat. and on a part of the tield 1 wish to try some alfalfa. This. howewr, i would sow with— out a nurse crop. \\'ill good hardwood ashes be any good to me to sow on the Held, and how much could I afford to pay ior them, providing the- freight did not cost me more than 25 or 50c per cwt.? Also, how much would i need to ptlt to the acre? The soil is sandy loam and has had corn and beans planted on it for scytral seasons. (in part of the field one year ago last season I sowed peas and oats and sowed clover with them, but the dry weather did them all up. . .l‘lenzie Co. C. N. B. The sandy soils of Benzie county, if they are handled right from the very be- ginning. will produce profitable crops. but they won’t stand poor farming. 'l‘hey ought to be handled by men who under— stand the basic principles of soil fertility. .\ few successive crops like corn and beans without any clover in the rotation will get them into such shape in a short time that profitable crops cannot be. grown. These soils were naturally de- ticient in vegetable matter, and so, too, they were nOt seemingly strong in avail- able soil fertilty. Now you have got to handle such lands as that from the very beginning with care, with intelligence, or else you will reduce their crop producing power-fin a short time. This evidently has been the case with C, N. 3’s farm or else there would be no trouble in growing clover in that locality. Northern Michi- gan is the natural home of common red clover, if it is given a Chance, and with common red clover in the rotation if the land is properly handled those soils can be built up so that they are as productive as almost any soil. Now this land has been robbed of its vegetable- matter, and of its available plant food and the only thing to do if you want to make some money off from it farming, is to go to work and build it up again. It lacks, first, vegetable matter; second, probably lime, and third, avail- able plant food, and these must all be Supplied before you can hope to make very much profit in farming. My plan Would be, if you can get hardwood ashes at not to exceed $7 or $8 per ton, deliv- ered at your station, to put on about a ton of hardwood ashes after this land is plowed in the spring and harrow it in. Hardwood ashes contain over 30 per cent of lime, about two per cent of phosphoric acid, and live per cent of potash. Those are just the things you want. Now in- stead of sowing this to clever this spring I would sow it to field peas and when they got nearly mature I would plow them under, put on another dressing of hardwood ashes, a ton to the acre, and then seed to clover or alfalfa in August. 1 believe you will get a geod stand of clover and also alfalfa, and if you do get these plants started, then . by careful handling, turning under crops of clover, you can keep up the vegetable content of the soil and put it into good physical con- dition and can raise profitable crops of corn and bcans or potatoes. 11‘ you can’t get hardwood ashes. and it certainly will not pay to buy, hardwood ashes and then pay 25 to 50 cents a. hun- dred freight on it, this would be- excessive freight, for 25 cents a cwt. would be $5 a ton freight, and 50 cents a hundred would be $10 a ton freight. Nobody could stand any such freight as tllis. I say if you can't get hardwood ashes at a reasonable tlgure then you can buy lime and phos- phoric acid and potash. You can get ground lmestonct delivered to you, cer- tainly for $4 or $5 per ton. You can get .1 phosphate and potash fertlizer contain- ing 10 per cent of phosphoric acid and four per cent of potash delivered to you for $16 or $17 per ton, and this will be Cheaper than hardwood ashes, if the freight amounts to as much as you say, any they will take the place of hardw0od ashes. Of course, in this way it takes some little money and time“_..; build up a soil, but it will pay in the end. but. if you think you cannot afford to get along with— out a crop this season, if you will fertilize the land well and sow it to field peas you can harvest these field peas. They are valuable and are in great demand. You can get over $3 a bushel for them. Then plow down the Stubble and fertilize again and seed it, but, of course, you won‘t incorporate anywhere near as much vegetable matter as you would if you plowed down the whole pea vines. These vints, however, after they were thrashed, tould be taken back and spread on the land and plowed down, or they could be fttl to stock and the manure put on the land. if you desire to grow peas this year and peas have never been grown on that land before, I believe it Would pay you to inoculate the soil. Probably it would not be necesary to inoculate the soil for common red clover but it certainly would pay you to inoculate for alfalfa. COLON C. LILLIE. rHE CAUSE OF WAVQEROWING GRAIN. When looking crosswise of the rows of drilled grain some fields have the appear- ance of water waves and many observers crruneously attribute- the cause to the grain drill feeds. The feeds have just as much to do with the cause as does the color of the paint on the drill and no more. No modern grain drill feed of any make bunches the seed. Cylinder feeds have nine to twelve corrugations and make one revolutiOn to each revolution of the main drill wheels. The main wheels are four feet and cover twelve feet of ground each turn. One ninth of twelve feet is sixteen inches, so it is apparent that if the feeds were the cause the waves would be six— teen or less inches apart, but a measure- ment will show them to be about twenty- eight inchesmjust the stride of an aver- age horse. The. real cause is a jerking motion of the drill when at each pause the seed on the way through the tube and boot bunches. Tile agitator feed drills of forty years ago and the double run feed drills of today produce exactly the same result, when used in the same way, and the waves are always about twenty-eight inches apart regardless of what kind of drill or what kind of feeds distributed the seed. . The remedy is to use a team which does 'not keep pace or step together. Blue. Roadster, 5900. H We refer to the two leading Hupmobiles—the Long-Stroke “32" Touring Car, and the Standard 20 H. P. Runabout. Both the product of the same engineering skill and the same shop organization that originated the Hupmobile. Both incorporating elements of value not found elsewhere at the price or near it. Each the sign and symbol of the highest and best construction of its particular type. it The Long-Stroke "32," with its cylinders cast in one piece. its three bearing crank shaft. its enclosed valves—a motor of extraordinary pulling power and sturdi- ness and absolute silence. perfectly dust-and oil- tl‘ht. Multiple disc clutcb,13iucb- I es in diameter. Three-speed transmis'sion. latte enough for a 40 H.P. car. on rear deck. $850. Hupmobile Ldng-Stroke “32" Touring Car. $900 1’. O. 8. Detroit, including equipment of windshield, gas lamps and generator. oil lamps, tools and l. horn. Three speeds forward and reverse: sliding gears. Four cylinder motor. ”4-inch bore and 54.- luch stroke. Bosch magneto. 106-inch wheel base. 32 xax-inch tires. Color. Standard Hupmobile Two cars whose name is your guarantee Standard 20 H. P. Runabout, 8750 F. O. 13. Detroit. with same power plant that took the world touring car around the world—four cylin- ders, 20 H. P., sliding gears Bosch magneto. Equipped with top, oil lamps. tools and horn. ’ Routine: with “0-inch wheel base and highly finished steel box mounted Hupp Motor Car Co., 1258 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. .. pg «m KW. “8.. Each a feature for the equal of which you must a to beyond Hupmobile price. And a full floating rear axle of especially stron¢ construction. Fifteen thousand owners. the world over, testi- fy to the worth and serviceability, ch 0 stauucbness and durability. of the Runabout. It, too, has a unit power plantamultiple disc clutch; and sliding gear transmission. All the power you will ever need or want and to spare. If you are in the market for a touring car ' around $900, or a two pas- senger car, around $750, get in touch with the Hup- mobile dealer. He will show you the actual value in these cars; the value that sets them above other cars of their prices. Write for complete cata- ‘l log. windshield, gas lamps and generator, 4k :E are made Many Different Styles and Combinations GROW 100% POTATO CROPS It is the 100% crops that make the big profits. OSSible only by right cultivation. weeds, hol ing the moisture and making plenty of plant food available, you can grow 100% crops. RUN/162' ‘ CULTIVATORS And 100% crops By killing the will do it. _They make fields of average fertility outyield onesnaturally much more fernle. Their accurate adjustment for shal- low or deep cultivation, their separate tooth adjustment their quick and easy regulation for different width rows,their double row extension, their easy pivot- wheel control on hillsides and rolling land, and their specxal fixed wheel cultivator for flat country combine to make IRON AGL CULTI'VATORS best for potato cultivation. When a cultivator does per- fect potato Work under all conditions, it is right for other crops. Ask {our dealer to Show you IRON AGE C lL’ IVATORS—the kinds that are male to work and last. Backed by 76 years’ experience and modern in every detail. Write to av for specialcultivator booklet. BATEMAN M’F’G co., Box 104 C. Grenloch, N. J. Makers of complete line farm, garden and. orchard tooll. I ANYBODY - - ... ., , _. CAN LAY IT. , Rubber llltootig Wamntod For Twenty-Flu Yours. {REIGH PAID "mm“ “M“ "" hilt. except Texas, Okla" 010.. N.D .. La.. Ga... Ala" Miss. and Fla., on all orders of three rolls or more. Special Prices to these States on request. ONE-FLY - - - - Weigh- 35 lbs” 103 Square Feet, 31.10 per roll TWO-FLY - - - Weighs 45 “39., 108 Square Feet. 01.30 per THREE-PL! - Weighs 55 1b... 108 Square Feet, $1.50 per 10“- mus CASH: We save you the wholesalers’ and retailers’ Pmflt' m spech prices only hold good for immediate shipment- ggostrucgiblo b! neat. “cold. Sup 0: gain. erte for F R E E SAMPLES or order direct from this advertisement Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. We refer you to Southern Illinois National Bank. csurunv uauuucrunme count". popt. 297 , East St. Louis. Ills. .. S. D.. Wyo.. Mont. N M ‘ APRIL 6, 1912. THE FARM LABOR PROBLEM. It has taken us a longtime to realize that the gross income of a farm is, not all profit. It has taken us nearly as long to come to the opinion that the largest yields and the greatest gains made with feeding stock are not always the gains or the yields that are produced the most profitably. It is not the gain per day which counts so much as the gain per unit of cost. In most of the operations upon a diversified farm, the margin of profit is so ClOSC that profit or loss oftimes depends to a large extent upon the amount of labor expended in a certain operation. Greater gains can be made upOn a lot of fattening cattle by feeding them grain in some form other than shocked corn. \Ve feed shocked corn to our cattle be— cause we save an initial expense of $3 to $4 per acre in the husking. That is not all, for all the expense of grinding, mix, ing, and the hand-feeding of other ra- tions is saved. W‘hat is more, the single man that we keep during the winter sea- son is kept busy all the time and he is able to care for as high as eighty steers. \Ve hog down corn because we are able to save from $7 to $10 per acre on the cutting, husking, cribbing and shocking. This saving has always just so much clear profit to us. Such are but tw0 typi- cal examples of handling problems which may well be termed labor troubles. Hav- ing the men work three and four horses at one time are others. There is no use in paying a man $2 to work 75 cents worth, (the value of a day’s work of the horse), when he can work $2.25 or $3 worth as well. By the use of such methods we are able to handle 160 acres in Ohio, 145 of which is under the plow, with the aid of one man. At haying time and when setting up the corn we are able to trade work with our neighbors. In winter the one hand does all the work. Everything ex- cept the wheat and potatoes are fed to stock and the proceeds from these two crops are used in buying additional feed. \Ve have a tenant house, purchased off another farm for $400, and moved to our own place at a cost of $50. \Ve always get a man with a family. Such men are stoadier and far more, reliable than the, average single man. They are not away over Sunday, leaving the chores for some— one else. They get interested in the farm work, and it is not getting uncommon for a man to stay with us two and three years. They board themselves and it is not necessary for us to convert our own home into a boarding house. Having hired men about the home has ever been one of the bvugbears of farm life and has driven hundreds of farmers to city work. By arranging our farm methods and op— erations as we do, we do not suffer any financial loss, indeed, we think we are making more money by keeping down labor expense, We are getting more elli- cient help, the housewife does not become a cook for the men and our home life is not disturbed. Ohio. CLYDE A. WAUGH. AMOUNT OF CORN TO PLANT. In planting corn on ordinary land in checks 3 ft. 8 in. apart, will one raise more good, sound corn by planting three or four kernels in a hill? I will admit that one will get more fodder, but Will one, raise as much or more sound corn by planting four rather than three kernels in a hill? If one wants to plant for yield, would it not be better to plant in hills .7; it. 6 1n. apart each way and three ker- nels in a hill? Ilillsdale Co. W. H. The amount of corn which should be planted per acre depends altogether upon the condition and fertility of the soil. On ordinary Michigan soil probably more good sound corn would be grown where plant- ed three feet eight inches apart each way and three kernels in a hill. However, where the land is made very fertile, as is the case in many of the corn growing contests where phenomenal yields are se- cured, thc corn is planted much more thickly than this. In one case, the data for which I have before me, a boy who grew 1321/3 bushels of shelled corn per acre, planted it in rows four feet apart, with hills about 18 inches apart in the drill, and two to four kernels in each hill. It is entirely a matter for individual judg- ment how many kernels are planted in a hill, the purpose for which the corn is to be used, and the nature and fertility of the soil being important factors in the decision. Thus individual experience of success with three or four kernels to the ill] is not a very valuable guide as to how the corn should be planted by the average reader. ‘2 j. .’ ,2, r.» .v..' . ‘.. ”"1! \ THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ' <5» 405 ....O........O..k................ ' f 7 D0 YO - Gl‘l Beans . M ‘ An Up-to—Date Farmer Tells . / , How to Make the Bean Crop Profitable. / r ‘ Grow beans asa cash crop and that is my hobby. I have fertilized beans for eight years, and what Iknow 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 hoc, and lot six tubes sow fertilizer and five tubes the beans, and get on 200 pounds to the acrc. 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 of 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 high analysis, especially for lighter soil. Some authorities claim that you don’t need any Nitrogen for beans. My experience in growing beans is to use a quick acting fertilizer with high percentages of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash. Last season on a soil that would not grow ten bushels of beans per acre, by using 500 pounds of A. A. C. Co. High Grade Fertilizer I grew 28 bushels per acre. Let me say, don’t be satisfied with 10 or 11 bushels per acre. If your soil is not too heavy, and if you got it rich enough, you can grow 30 to 40 bushels per acre. I am speaking of pca beans. They are the kind I grow. ,Sow from three pccks 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). a out these things are more successful than those who have not r >alizcd the gr ‘at dif~ fcrcncc in Fertilizers. Even at the same price, one grade of Fertilizer under certain conditions will produce more profitable results than another. We furnish quick acting, high grade Fertilizers of many different compositions to meet the requirements of all crops grown on various kinds of soils. We make grades where either the. Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid or Potash are component parts, with the right no rcentages of the other elements of plant food to properly balance the Fertil- izer to use on muck land, clay, light soils,- etc. In sclecting 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 getting full percentages of plant food and of the highest agricultural value, also in first—class mechanical condition. The repti— tation of the manufacturer is very important. If your land is rich. in Nitrogen you will save money by using Phosphoric Acid and Potash to balance out the plant food in the soil. Progressive farmers who study Write us and we will tell you how to fertilize properly and economically. \Yill also send booklet on Fertilizers, including articleby john A. \Vidtsoe, 1’11. 1)., telling how to fight drought with fertility and why richness of soil makes up for lack of moisture. livery 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. \Ve want agents for unoccupied territory. 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EFFECTUAL The most effectual remedy in use for the cure of ailments of horses and cattle in GOMBAULT’S CAUSTIC BALSAM Used as a Blister or Lotion. This preferred remedy is pre ared ex- clusively by j. E. Gombault, ex- cterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheu- matism. Sprulna, Sore Throat, etc., it is invaluable. Every bottle .of (tau-tic Bulaam sold in Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by dru gists. or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with uil directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials. etc. Address m LAWRENCE-WILLIAIB COIPANY, Cleveland, Ohio. I WELL MAKE YOU PROSPEROUS If you are honest. and ambitious write me day. No matter where you live or who! your occupation. I will tench you the Real Estate businela by mail; appoint. you Special Representative of my Company in your town: ltart you in a profitable businesu of your own. and help you make big money at once. Unuauai opportunity for man withoufl ,“' toL ‘, " ‘orliio. Valuable Book and hill particular. FREE. Write today. IATIOIAI. iiO-OPERATIVE REALTY 00. 62 Moi-den Building Wuhington. D. 0. I. B. HARDER President :- V) THE MICHIGAN FARMER. WW F" LLIVE STOCK : “#WMM FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS. Raising Pigs Without Milk. I sell my milk to a retailer in the city and at most times of the year it is im- possible to get any skim-milk except in very limited quantities, and then only occasionally. 1 have not been very suc- cessful with pigs under these circum- stances. \\'ould you advise me to dis- continue to attempt to grow pigs or can you suggest something that will take the place of skim-milk. both for the sow and for the pigs at weaning time? Calhoun Co. C. A. R. It is, of course, a more difficult propo- sition to raise pigs successfully and eco- nomically without skim-milk than where this excellent feed is available in com— pounding the ration. It is not, however, an insurmountable obstacle’to pig grow- ing where this feed is not available, and it is not advisable to abandon this factor of farm production cntircly, even under these circumstances. By using plenty of middlihgs, a little oil meal and tankagc, and possibly some, molasses to increase the palatability of the feed, one can grow pigs very successfully without skim—milk. Of course, the pigs should not be weaned at too early an age under these circum- stance-s, and if possible should be given clover or alfalfa pasture. or in the win- ter some cooked potatoes or roots to pro- vide needed Suraculcncy and bulk in the ration. It is difficult to lay down any set rule for the m-inagemcnt of pigs under these conditions, but with a variety of feeds judiciously compounded to give a. proper balance and palatubility to the ration. it is entirely possible to grow pigs profitably without any skim—milk, al— though not with quite the, success that (‘till bc attained where this excellent feed is available. Soy Beans as a Pasture Crop. l have a field which 1 had corn on last year which i wish to put into wheat this 1:111. instead of putting outs on this hold this spring, as is the usual custom in my locality, i wish to put‘ some crop on it that i can pasture this summer and turn the remainder under this fall for fer— tilizer. \Vlnit would you recommend? I read an article in your paper not long ago in regard to soy beans. Vi'ill they make good pasture for hogs and are they a good fertilizer? \Vhat time do you sow them and in what way? \Vhat time are they ready to plow under? '\\'ould you recommend disking the field or plowing it? The field is a sandy clay loam. Cass (‘0. C, II. It. Soy beans make very good pasture for hogs and sheep and may also be used as :1 soiling crop for cattle to be cut and fed in August and early September. They would not be available for use, however, as curly as common Canada field peas, or pcas and oats sown for the same pur- pose, which would perhaps yield as valu- able at iced and prove as valuable for the improvement of the soil as would the soy beans. if the soy beans are grown, they should be planted about two weeks after ttll‘ll planting, in rows 28 to 32 inches apart, using from two to three peeks pcr acrc of the seed. They should be planted shaifou. not more than one inch deep and be given two or three surface cultiva- tions. Spring Sown Forage Crops. Many around here had their clover seeding killed last season, and intend sowing oats and rye. or oats and Can- adian licvld peas, or cowpcas for hay. By demonstration it has been proven that mixtures of grasses will produce more per ucrc than different kinds alone. I Would like to know whether a mixture of ours. rye, and peas would be a reasonable mixture for hay and if there Would be any more returns per acre than oats and rye, or oats and peas. .\llcgan (hi. ’ .T. E. B. It is better not to experiment on too large a scale with new and untried crops or combinations of crops. Oh good, strong Soil oats and pens make the best substi- tute for clover hay that can be sown in Michigan. The oats are in this case sown to hold up the peas, and this combination will make a better forage than if spring rye were sown with them. COWpeas or soy beans may be used with success where it has been demonstrated that they are adapted to local soil conditions, but should be cxperimcnled with on a small scale before a large area is planted. Cooked Vs. Uncooked Corn for Hogs. I would like to ask through the col- umns of the Michigan Farmer the value of cooked and uncooked shelled corn as a fattening ration for hogs. lngham Co. F. R. There is an abundance of experimental data on this subject. It has been made the- subject of experiments in Kansas, lowa, Ohio, Wisconsin and Canada, and in every case except one a larger amount of cooked corn was required to produce 100 pounds of gain, and in this case an average of five trialsoshowed slightly bet— ter results from cooked feed, but the dif- ferenee was too small to make the cook- ing profitable. In an average of ten trials, 505 pounds of cooked grain were required to produce 100 pounds of gain, as against 476 pounds of uncooked grain. In the case of some feeds, such as eull beans and some kinds of roots cooking is doubtlesg profitable, however, in which case it is sometimes an advantage to cook other grain with them. The Feeding Value of Corn Cobs. Please give your opinion on the food value of corncobs ground up with the corn, as a feed for cattle. Barry Co. F. F. W. There is very little digestible nutrients in corn cobs. They contain, also, an ex— cess of fiber. Practically the only benefit gained from grinding corn, cob and all, as a stock feed is that it adds bulk to the meal and makes it a little lighter feed. HOW TO HALTER BREAK A COLT. “'hen a boy I learned a quick and easy method of halter breaking a colt, which 1 have, since used many times without a single failure. First, purchase a zit-inch rope about 10 feet long. Make a. small loop in one end, just large enough so it will easily slip into the colt’s mouth over the. lower jaw: then pass the other end of the rope over the cell’s neck and down through the loop in his mouth, and draw the rope up tight enough So he cannot get thc loop, or rope. out of his mouth. Next step to one, sidc four or five feet and a. little in from, and command the colt to “come here,” at the same time give the rope a sudden jcrk, but not too hard at first. Jerk the rope first from one side and then the other, and every time you jcrk the rope. sicp up to the coil and gently pat him on the neck. It is best to choose a. place in the barnyard where the ground is comparatively soft, and away from any fence, as most colts will at first rear up and sometimes throw them- selves, but they will soon get sick of this and not try it many times. In halter breaking a colt with a rope as described, do not try to learn him to lead by pulling straight forward, but al- ways give the rope a sudden side jerk, and never forget to pat him on the neck every time. By treating :1 colt in this manner, and keeping perfectly cool, it does not take much over an hour to learn the most stubborn colt to follow you any— where. Of course, it is a good plan to spend an hour or so for several days in training the colt as described above, be— fore trying to hitch or lead him with a common halter, and then he will not learn the habit of trying to pull on the halter, which is a habit very hard to break. It is best to commence to teach a colt to lead at the age of five or six months. Ottawa Co. JOHN JACKSON. LlVE STOCK NOTES. The best judges believe that it will pay farmers who have sufficient feed on hand to make careful purchases at this time of a good grade of fleshy 900 to 1,200-1b. feeder steers, or such as can be turned back on the market within 60 to 70 days. ‘ l‘ndoublcdly, such purchases will cost in; the Chicago markct relatively less nowi than by the time that grass starts up. Stockers and feeders are relatively cheap as compared with ruling prices for primer beef cattle, the latter selling far in ad- vance of other years. Recent prices for lhe best cattle. offered on the market were higher than ever before in March. and a year ago the best cattle were dis- posed of between $6.50 and $7.35 per 100 pounds. .. Sheep and lambs have had enormous advances since the winter’s low time, lambs selling in the Chicago market at the highest prices recently recorded Since .lunc, 1910. The situation has become unusually strong, and owners of fat live muttons are obtaining substantial profits, despite the dearncss of corn, alfalfa hay and other feeds. The country has no large supplies of sheep or lambs left for marketing, the great bulk of the flocks fed in the middle wevst having been ship- ped out some time ago. so that mutton eaters are now dependent very largely upon Colorado-fed lambs. Neither feeders nor breeders are making any decided ef— forts to replace their flocks, and it looks like a growing scarcity of mutton from now on. This seems a great pity, for the people of this country are really becom- ing great mutton eaters. V‘Vord comes from Montana. that there will be a shortage of fully one million pounds in the wool clip as a result of two bad seasons and large sales of sheep last autumn. Fortunately for sheepmen of that region, the winter was not hard on their flocks, and losses are reported as small. Hay is abundant, and owners have a fair surplus to sell. In Wyoming winter conditions were much less favor- able, and a. considerable’movement has taken place of flocks from Wyoming to Montana. APRIL 6. 19-72.": , . Get MoreWool Get Longer Wool ,Get More Money for your wool by shearing with 3 Stewart machine because such wool has a longer fibre. Wool buyers pay more for long ample-and you get the longest by shearing with a Stewart No. 9 Ball Bearing Q. Shearing Machine This is. without question. the most perfect hand operated shearing machine ever devised. 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Insist on Harvey s. ‘ 40 sizes—fit any wagon—sustain any load to 10,000 lbs. Catalog and fisttui of proofs free. HARVEY SPHIIO 80.. 75317“: Sin RIM Wit. ":.b ._~ . “of... .—.x reel N91 CURES SCAB IA DIP THAT DOES THE WORK WITHOUT INJURY To THE ANIMAL on FLEECE _ No BURNING or THE FIBRES: {No STAINING; No POISONING; ( No SICKENING. WHY USE DIPS THAT HAVE THESE DESTRUCTIVE AND DANGEROUS QUALITIES? WHY EXPERIMENT WITH UNKNOWN PREPARATIONS? KRESO DIP N9] STANDARDIZED INEXPENSIVE,EASY TO USE PERMITTED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE OFFICIAL DIPPING or SHEEP ron SCAB K FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS WE HAVE BOOKLETS GIVING YULL DIRECTIONS FOR USE ALSO MANY VALUABLE HINTS ON HANDLING SHEEP. WRITE FOR FREE COPIES. PARKE, DAVIS &Co. DEPARTMENT or NIMAL INDUSTRY DETRO T. MICH. MANY II coon rhnII‘ HORSE Is ITUIIIEII By standinginawet.sticky ‘3- _ coat of hair. Experience , ; proves that the coughs, ' colds and other troubles that affect horses in the Mac i s 5... spring, can be avoided u (/3 o>¢ by chppmg off the wmter g lg, C...) coat before the spring work -a c» 32 begins. Clipping improves .9 p' :0 the appearance of horses, 53 g . they bring more if offered . c '5 ”it: for sale. they do better :3; 38 work too. because they dry : 03;: out quick. rest well and get 38 an, more good from their feed. a 5,1}: The easiest. quwkest way ,, i. =3 as to clip is With a "‘ “‘ 8-3 i5 3:: u. STEWART BallBaarlngMachlnc It clips horses,mules and COWS Without any change whatever. ‘ About the udders and flanks of all cows should be clipped every three or four weeks so the parts can be kept clean when milking. Complete $72 Get one from your dealer or send $2 and we will ship C.O.D. for balance. Write for complete mm [02m Chicago Flexible Shaft Go. I 15 La Salle Ave., GHIGABO g No More Sore Shoulders on Horses If You Use This Collar Save time and money by buying an Adjustable . Hamelcss Metal Horse Collar; can’t Wear «‘3 out and will always keep its shnpe;essy to Bi V put on and take ofl‘; better and cheaper. Will positively prevent and cure sore shoulders. Grentestim- ' provcment in horse collarsin lasthO years. Ask ’ your dcnlcr for them. Write today for Free Catalog. Johnston-Slocum Co.. 852 State St. Caro. Mich. JACKS and MULES Raise mules and get rich. 18 jack and mule farms under one mana ement, where can be seen 4 head fine largo jacks, jennets and mules, 14 to 17 hands high. Good ones. Stock guaranteed. Write for prices today. Address Krekler’s Jack Farm West Elkton. Ohio Branch Barn—Clutch. Indiana JACKS. Bl estjack offerin ever made. 90-day sale on 55 headggof extra big re Tstercd Mammoth Jacks at 60% of their value. Prices $250, to $1.200 each. I am Im _ort.- i113200Percheron and Bel ian mares and80 stal Ions and must. close out a. lot 0 ‘acks to get money and make room. Write for oata 03. photograph. descrip- tion and price list. W. L. DeCLOW, Cedar Rapids Jack Farm, Cedar Rapids, la- I'lense mention the Michigan Farmer when you are writing to advertisers. THE MICHIGAN FARMER. .SUMMER MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM FLOCK. As a general proposition early shearing is preferable. After shearing both ewes and lambs should be carefully dipped to destroy ticks. This pest is very injurious to the health and vigOr of the lambs. Some flock owners prefer hand shears but I think it is only a. question of time when shearing machines will be used in all localities where sheep are raised. Sheep need attention while they are out to pasture. The carcful flock master will see his sheep every day. Thcre are so many little problems constantly present- ing themselves that are easily taken care of if noticed in time that it pays to kecp close watch of the flock. A lamb may be affected with maggots. Another may be beginning to scour, (which is a sure in- dication of stomach worms), or a sheep may go lame, (a sign of trouble that needs imedinle attention). Some of the ewes may have too much milk in their udders, and i1 is well to count the flock and see that none are missing. All of this attention to little details goes to build up a healthy and profitable farm flock. Sheep nccd plenty of salt during the summer. If the flock is being pasturcd on green forage crops or on clover and alfalfa it is an excellent precaution to mix salt with air-slakcd lime. Two-fifths salt and three-fifths lime makes a good mixture. They will cut it and the- lime has a tendency to neutralize the acid condition of the stomach caused by the fomentation of the green feed, thereby preventing bloat. Internal Parasites. In the majority of cascs where a cure— ful investigation of the causes of death “in the flock has been made it has been found that the losscs were due to para— sites. These parasites have provcn a. barrier to more than one flock owner's path of success. The rapid growth of lambs in the spring and early summer beguiles many iI‘chpco‘icnccd flock own- crs into thinking this hcalthy vigor must continue as the lambs add grass to their diet. These hopes ilri" ruddy blasted as the lambs begin to dccline in thrift and condition as the summer advances. 01d Shepherds know what this moans, yct few of them succeed in escaping the losses from stomach worms and other less com- mon parasites that prey upon their flocks. Lambs that are affected by those para- sites must be well fed on grain to carry them through the wintcr to an age when they can offer a strong rcsistancc to stomach worms. I‘rcvcnfativo- measures are too long dclaycd and oflcn neglected by flock owncrs who know the dangers that confront thcir lambs. A thrifty and vigorous lamb can quickly dcgcncrale in- to a. lifeless, skin and bones apparition by following in the trail of worm-in- fested ewes. \Vhilc stomach worms and intestinal worms may be removed by gasoline, coal tar creosote and other vermifugcs, the dosing involves some risk and expense and is seldom cffcctive in eradicating the pests. Bronchical parasites can scarcely be reachcd by mcdicincs llflll no remedy can prevent a lamb that is worm infest— ed from becoming stunted. Successful flock owners are beginning to realize that they must adopt the English system of changing pasturcs with their ewcs and lambs if they obtain approximate im- munity from the injury of tthcI para— sitcsfi The more I sludy the sheep busincss and the more carefully I note the rcsulls of my own expcricncc and observation, the more 1 am coming to appreciate the necessity of a frequent change of pasturc for the ewes :Ind lambs. it costs money to changc our system of posturing show; and to divide our pastures into small lots but we must practicc this method if we succeed in keeping our lambs free from stomach worms. “'c know that these worms come from the Sheep to the lambs through the wet grass that is calcn. \Vc know that it takes a certain time for the pests that 'have dropped on the grass to dcvclop enough to get into the lambs. That, lime is estimated to be from eight to twelve days. \Vc know that the lambs are born f.rec from parasites. \Ve know that it is quite possible to keep the mothers free from parasites before the lambs are born. By putting these facts together we can readily see that if we change our pas- tures frequently‘we will lessen the danger of the lambs becoming infested with these worms through the grass they eat. There is no branch of stock handling that af— fords as interesting and profitable field for study as sheep husbandry. At this season of the year every flock owner should plan on sowing special for- age crops to supplement failing pastures and provide a change of feed for his flock. Each year adds convincing proof that it is unsafe to rely upon pastures alone to sustain the flock during early summer and autumn. The time when sheep can be turned out early in the spring has passed not because pastures have less sustaining power than formerly, but experience has proved that it is un- wise to allow the flock to fall away in conditicn at this period. Evcn under the most favorable conditions the quantity of pasture grass diminishes and the quality deteriorates as the advance of the season checks its growth. If the season happens to be favorable for the growth of pas- lure grass no loss is encountered as the forage affords a change of feed and all that is not needed by the sheep at this season can be cut and cured for winter feeding. Supplementary Forage Crops. Oats and field peas make an excellent combination crop to assist in carrying Ihc flock ovcr the hot summer months and when the wcathcr and other conditions are favorable yield a large supply of pal— atable forage. When the pea seed is cheap it will be best to mix the cat and you secd half and half, but when pens are bringing a high price- good results will come by mixing Iwo bushels of oats and one of peas. ()als and peas come at a time when most nccdcd and are one of the bust crops to stimulate the milk flow in {he owes and promote a rapid growth of 1110 lambs for market. For early pasture rye is the best crop within the reach of every flock owner. Shccp ore very fond of rye and when cnough shccp arc kcpt on a rye field to kccp down the woody growth it will pro— vide good grazing for :1 nurnbcr of VVef'kS. liupc. is pro—omincnlly the forage crop for shccp 21nd undcr the most favorable conditions it will produce an immense amount of highly nIuI-iiious forage. Thc floik owner who ncglccls to provide in abundant supply of rape is allowing dol— lnrs of profit to slip through his hands. llupe will thrive on all wcll-draincd soils: and can be sown alone or us a catch (rop with other crops such as oats, bar- lcy and (orn and affcr thcse crops are lu’Irvc-stcd it will take posscssion of the soil. From four to eight pounds of the Dwarf l'lssex varicly sown in the field broadcast at the last culti'afion of the (cm crop will give a good stand if moist- ure conditions are right. As a feeding proposilon 1 know of nonc better than fattening shecp and lambs upon rape. Try it, on your own f'urm Ibis full and be con— vinced of its advantages. Shel-p relish rape and the :uldilionnl :Imount of feed obtained from me col-n field makes a very sniisl‘nclcry ''>~TROY CHEMICAL 00., 20 Commercial Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. "if” 11% CENTS“ ROD UP- Drugglsts everywhere sell Save— The-Horse “lth contract 01' sent by us Exp. prepaid. 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Aold-ProoI. Loot Lon or Then the Bulld- Ing. Any man who can drive not s can put them on. $10,000 Ironclad Bond lightning Insurance We agree to refund the amount paid in every case where a roof covered with Edwards Interlocking "Reo" Steel Shingles is destroyed by lightning. This guaranty is backed b our $10000 ronclad Bond and stands forever. As for Big Free Roofing Catalog No. 467. with special low prices.Remember the special money-making roposition puts you under no obligation to _us. end dimensions of your buildings and we Will quote you cost. Freight prepaid. Write today. ('12) THE EDWARDS MFG. 00. 411.457 Lock Street cmcmunn, OIIIO THE MICHIGAN PARMER. LP OULTRYMBEESI M HOW I FEED CHICKS FOR BEST I RESULTS. I do not feed chicks for 48 hours after they come from the shells. Then for the first week, besides having wheat bran, GolllEN BRONZE TURKEYS Fill! SALE. MRS. THOS. WYOKOFF. Orchard Lake, Mich. ' Flock of 38, zii'erzigc Iltlfwach IndIan Runner DuckE 33- in 1911. Care of ducks wit 11 order. Also 8. C. W. eghorns. Price for each $1 per 13: $3 pcrfiil; $5 per 100. \an. l’. Booth, It. 3. ()rlluitl, Ind. ‘ (‘ .t INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—gi‘i‘éigfaisfifii‘l‘x‘fgc.2293}- dcrs now. J. GORDON DRAK Port Huron. Mich. BLUE BELLE EARNED ROCK pulletfi and hens $1. $1.50 and $2. Eggs $1.50. $2 & Si u. setting. Send 'orders'i’or baby chicks. LAKE RIDGE FARR . Levering, Mich. —~Mules and females. prices right. Grunt Barred Rocks layin strain, prize winners, 5 eg $1.50. W. C. OOFFMA , R.No.6, Benton Harbor, Mic . EGGS—Prize Winner Stock—SAC. Buff it White ()rpingtons, 14') for $3; Pekin Ducks and Pearl (,iiiinous 11 for 81. J. E. BACON, Boyne City, Mich. ——S. C. Bud Or in ton Eggs. Fine For sale Stock. 15. 82; III), $.50; 50,35. Afew last fall cookerels. not full grown. Wei ht. about 6 lbs. H. B. ATWOUD, Laingsburg M chigan. I — ' dI d't lt - LIVING EIiIi MACHINES Eeg'ii‘uiiied‘seinf{2,3313% J" ' ‘ ‘ ' ' an s min. iiifiit‘r’t‘ii‘iffi‘fiiflfiufiififiiiei‘iv.it”? ‘4’.’ fiiilifie‘i . Mich. ' ' ' Barred Rocks. it. I. Reds, Mum- Prlze WInnlng moth igckin undII't‘lI'lyngr duclkfi. St -k I' .1 l a. E s $1.$2 ‘ pcrsct. i l y. 'i per. _ . IGNI‘V’HNIII; xIt‘IAlllli‘ing. it. No. 13. G rand Rapids, Mich. was» 8.6- intuition- SAFE? [dirCIhllEZShl‘tIing()N‘¥/rfl. é7. finchi’ord. Mich: l'l'1 Buil' it “'hitc,()1'pingtons. Buff dc W’hite g L i 1h s. B; rred d: White Rocks, R. I. g liliI-isnrzliliid 1 lack Minorcns. Circular CD (/3 ready. II. Ii. IiING. Willis, Michigan. LI-l R. c. a 3.0. RHODE ISLAND REDS‘ifFiEI and cockorels. BUELL BROS, Ann Arbor, Mich. NIIEAPEST PLACE ON EARTH TO BUYVS'TOCK : and EGGS. 35 land and water fowls. _Write_ for it price list. DAVID YOUNG. R. 6, Bay City, Mich. Rock and White rizc-winiiing stock. ake Odessa, Mich. IGIIT BliAHMA, Barred Wyundottc Cockcrels from E. I). BISHOP, lioute 38, LILLIE FARHSTEAD POULTRY B. P. R ks. R. I. Reds, and S. C. W. Le hprn eggs for ”15015 for $1; % for $1.50: 50 fol-£2.00. . COLON C. LILLIE. Cooper-smile. Mich. HOROUGH BRED B. Plymouth Rock Eggs for set- ting, also da old chicks, E B. Thomfiison. [itnglets Mrs. Grace L. angborn. Route No. 6. ad Axe, Mich S. C. WHITE LEG“0RES:§¥?§§‘8E§3 if i‘iiiii: giiiii‘gl‘i’tngi? Ito i1 piliflrr. ‘cn‘iri’oi‘tl-‘f iiiif’ii: Mammoth Pekin Ducks, R. Co Bl‘ Le 1101115 won at. Detroit 1911. Eggs $1 per setting. VLAUDIA BETTE. Hillsdale, Mich. S. C. Whlie leghorn quckerels no... a my.” I" . G (1, strong, vigorous fowls. 81.50-82.50. iiiiiiiicnaof’LAPHAM. Rt. No. 3. 8t..Johns, Mich. WHITE WYANIWTTE Eitiiigxfl‘égt‘igziyié? b“C‘.IIIii'Iesi).”.ib’ Wald/‘6' N. iNSIAN'A.” ' It‘ino utility fowl. ' S. C. White ()rpington and Indian Whlte ROCk, Runner Duck eggs at farmers' prices. Circular free. G. N. BURT, Box B. ()akwood, Ohio. C». R. I. It. eggs, $5. $2 and $1. ' R. ltunncr Duck eggs. glurc white egg strain, for 13. (‘OY G. Blil'M. , Nashville, Michigan. Pcnciled Indian Sing‘le Comb Black Minorcets. R. W. MILLS. Saline, Mich. SINGLE COMB BROWN lEGllORNS. Six grand exhibition matings, two utility pens. 'E gs and stock. Send for catalogue. y motto—a satls' ed customer. Charles Rufi', Box M. F.. St. Clair, Mich. SILVER. GOLDEN AND WHITE WYANDOTTES. A fine lot of oookersls S2 and $3 each. Fine 0 W. BROWNING. Portland. Mich. circular free. . HITE Wyandottes—The most beautiful and use- ful of American breeds. Send for 12 circular. A. FRANKLIN SMITH. R. F. D. 9. Ann Arbor. Mich‘ \ DOGS. BAIN’ED running Fox Hounds, and young hounds T bred from lemons Coon hunting poi-onto. Full blood Jersey heifers, lend lump. W. E. LECKY. Holmesvdlo, Ohio Loreen Miro. of Steel Roofing Moierlol In the World tcommercial chick food and charcoal be- tfore them in hoppers, I feed Hungarian [grass seed sprinkled in about two inches lof chaff from the hay loft, allowing them Ito eat all of it they want. The second week I feed, three times a. day, all they will eat of hard—boiled eggs lground up, shell and all, with bread that Ilias been toasted rather brown. The Itoasted bread prevents bowel trouble, 3. Itrouble which it is easier to prevent than Ito cure. “hen the chicks have passed Ithe second week I begin giving a wet Imash. Wet mashes, if properly made and ,‘fed, are, in my opinion, more conducive to Ibest results than dry mash feeding. I I find the chicks grow well on the mash Land become very vigorous. 1 dampen the .mash with milk or water, making it just Ldamp enough so that when thoroughly 'mixed it will turn out in a crumbly state but is not sticky or sloppy. Thorough Imixing must he insisted upon, as this is lthe secret of feeding wct mashes with lbest results. My mash consists of equal .parts by measure of wheat bran, wheat Imiddlings and ground corn, with a little {linseed or soy bean mcal added. I never l I give more of the mash at a time than the This damp mash just before the chicks will cut up clean. I feed in the evening chicks go to roost. If I am growing a flock of broilers I bcgin feeding the Wet mash twice a day after they are four weeks old, giving the cxtra feeding about 10 a. m. I also keep the dry mash, commercial chick feed, grit, beef scraps and fresh water always be— fore them. The dry mash is fed in hop— pers, thus saving‘time and labor. Sweet or sour skim-milk supplies a well bal— anced ration and makes the chicks grow faster than any other food that I have used. Some people think that you can over- l'ccd chicks and chickens, but I believe that is a mistake. If you want to grow :l-lb. broilers in twelve weeks you must not only feed them all they will eat but you must also tempt them to eat more by putting before them a change of food that they will relish whenever they show signs of losing their appetites. Wayne Co. J. P. ADVANTAGES IN GROWING PURE- BRED POULTRY. \Vhile there are many ways in which farm women can earn their own spending money, I think poultry raising one of the pleasantcst. 1t furnishes the outdoor ex‘ crcise and change so necessary to keeping up one's strength and spirits through the busy scasmi on the farm. or course, there is. much poultry grown in towns and villages; but the farm offers conditions and advantages which should not be ov- crlooked. llowever, the farmer’s wife, as a rule, is too busy to think of pure- bred Varieties and what they might do for her, but goes on trying to make the niongrels Ilil)’. Now we all know that it is hard to SI‘IOW’ and feel pride in a mon- grcl of any kind that one does in a pure- bred, this applying even to the family dog or cat. So, why not give some attention to pure-bred poultry, for who will not take pride in a nice even flock of fowls all of a color. Statistics show that there is more mon- (y in pure—bred poultry. There is more than om: reason for this, for, besides feel— ing grcatcr pride in them, and therefore giving them better careeone can sell eggs for setting and fowls for breeding pur— poses. Then, too, an even lot of pure- bred fowls, whcn sold on the regular market, will bring a better price than a mixed lot of mongrcls. I have proven this to my own satisfaction. I have had no other than pure—bred fowls on the place in the last ten years, and last fall I wrote a man in Detroit for quotations on poul- try. Old hens were selling at 13 cents a pound. I sent him ‘two large crates of hens. When my returns came I learned that they had graded N0. 1 and that I had received a premium of 11/2 cents a pound over the current quotation, or 14% cents. I feel thoroughly satisfied that it pays to keep nothing but well bred poul- try. As a rule, upon most farms the women are too busy with other things to bother with the fowls. Therefore I think we women ought to see what we can do in the direction of producing more and bet- ter eggs and market fowls. I have a fam- ily of six children to work for, do all my own work and still find it pleasant as well as profitable to take care of my poul- try. My gross receipts for 1911 were $450, and my feed bill did not run very high. I fattened all my poultry last year on cull beans, of which I secured a ton on June 15, and they lasted until the fore part of the past winter. The ton cost me $15 and I found them splendid feed, both for laying hensand for fatten- ing fowls, but they must be thoroughly cooked and fed carefully, until fowls be- come accustomed to them. But will give my methods of feeding at some other time. In this I simply wanted to bring to the attention of enterprising farm women the advantages in growing pure- bred poultry. Huron Co. G. L. P. FACTS BEARING ON THE WORK OF THE SITTING HEN.‘ The feed of a hen during incubation .s‘nould be of such a, nature as to tend to- ward a. costive habit, thus keeping her clean on the nest and also intensifying, rather than hindering, the enhanced heat peculiar to that period. In all cases we speak of temperature- as usually taken by a clinical thermometer, although the highest temperature—that of the blood at the heart—is probably two degrees, or even more, higher. In domesticated main- mals it varies from about 93 to 103 de- grees, but in birds is higher, running from 100 degrees in some sea fowl to the swallow at 111 degrees. A hen when broody shows a. rectum temperature of about 110 degrees. By the end of the first week it is about 109, at the end of the second 108, and at the end of the third sometimes as low as 106 degrees, which is also the temperature of a chick a week old. This does not mean that the eggs suf- fer a change of heat from 110 degrees to 106 degrees, partly because the chicks give off heat from themselves during the last week and so require less from the hem, and partly because when a hen be- comes broody an arterial plexus is de— veloped (a network of blood vessels) so as to raise the heat of that part of the body covering the eggs. As incubation proceeds the feathers fall off from the breast. so that with the warm body actu-- ally touching the eggs less heat is re- quired. Owing to the movements of the hcn‘s body the eggs mostly arrange them- selves in a circle with the broad end out— wards. In the last week the eggs incline a little. so that the broad end is higher, duo chiefly to the more solid contents be- ing at the narrow end, and the large air space at the wide end. It is a curious instinct that makes a hen return to her nest promptly in cold weather. Possibly on a cold day she feels chilly and is glad to get back to the warmer squatting position on the eggs, while on a warm day she enjoys her stroll, and so extends it. Hens are very irregular in the length of time they are absent from the nest. In hot weather they often rise in the nest, opening their feathers to cool themselves, and so cool the eggs, but even then we may have more chicks dead in the shell than in cooler weather. Many think that the washing of eggs: ,. _;- spoils them for setting but that is a. fal- 1. w All dirty eggs are better washed. 1 ' lacy. I once found a nest in a very low place. and let i[ alone to watch the proceed- ings. It came very wet for some days. and those eggs were sometimes under water. yet they hatched all right. Perhaps the most important thing the lien teaches us when managing her own affairs in her own way is that chickens require nothing but warmth for some time after hatching. She rarely leaves the nest after the chicks first begin to chirp until all are strong enough to go off with her. Thus they get next to nothing to cat for the first two days, and very little for a week. A hen must eat. very little when she has to do her own foraging, and I have had some that ate very little when fed. They seem to drowse in a sitting house, in a state akin to torpidity. For feeding, a mixture of equal parts wheat, barley, and corn is as good as any. A handful of grit and a very little green food twice a week, a cabbage leaf cut up, will be enough for a dozen. No soft or sloppy food should be used. If we give only barley and- corn, with no relaxing food at all, they become too costive, and the reaction from it causes scours. Canada. W. R. GILBERT. APRIL 6, 1912. SHE QUIT COFFEE And I'luch Good Come From It. It is hard to believe that coffee wili put a person in such a condition as it did a woman of Apple Creek, 0. She tells her own story: ‘ “I did not believe coffee caused my trouble, and frequently said I liked it so well I would not quit drinking it, even if it took my life, but I was a miserable sufferer from heart trouble and nervous prostration for four years. “I was scarcely able to be around at all. Had no energy and did not care for anything. Was emaciated and had a con- stant pain around my heart until i thought I could not endure it. I felt as though I was liable to die any time. ”Frequently I had nervous Chills and the least excitement would drive sleep away, and any little noise would upset me terribly. I was gradually getting worse until finally, one day, it came ovvr me and I asked myself what is the use of being sick all the time and buying medi- cine so that I could indulge myself in coffee? ‘ “So I thought I would see if. I could quit drinking coffee, and got some Post- um to help me quit. I made it strictly according to directions and I want to tell you that change was the greatest step in my life. It was easy to quite coffee because I had the Postum which I like better than I liked the old coffee. One by one the ol, troubles left, until now i am in splen d health, nerves steady. heart all right and the Never have any more nervous chills, don’t take any medicine, can do all my housework and have done a great deal besides. . “My sister-in—law, who visited me thEs summer, had been an invalid for some time, much as I was. I got her to quite coffee and drink Postum. She gained five pounds in three weeks, and I never saw such a change in anyone’s health." “There‘s a reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine. true, and full of human interest. This Month Jim Rohan’s POULTRY BULLETIN tells the latest facts of the year on how you can make the moot money raising chickont. Got it. Send your name on a postal. Got the real World’s Champion- olu'p Fact: from Jim Rohan, Pros" Belle City Incubator Co. $7.55 Buy. Beef " Mil-Egg Incubator . goublecssesailovelipbesteopper se — u at ’ ”gum‘té nk: nursery Best lio-chlck hot-water 85. Both ordered together pad (I. of ore better. Satisfaction r- anted. Write for book 50'3” or send price now and save time. BelleCiUllalluhtCom.Box14 . Wm HENS LAY AND PAY BY THE PHILO SYSTEM FREE Booklet by E. W. Phiio, entitled “A Little Poultry and a Living." 0. New 96-page book, ”Making Poultry Pay,” 10c. Both books end the new enlarged edition of the Phiio System text-book, $1.00, or all three books with our monthly inns, uine. Poultry Review. one year, 81.50. . E. R. Plillil.‘ 67 North Ave, Elmira, N. Y. 125 Egg Incubatorglo earn and Broader m. ll ordered together. ,. _ ' Freight paid east or 55; av“ ' .-~- ‘ describes .7 Wleconeln Incubator 00.. Box 126 Racine, Win. with Poultry and Farmers '0',“ "EMS The Story of 25 Years — — — — — Y o u R FA n n and Fanciers will help many better prices; make more and save more money ; tells things few folks know on maid about America’s Lama! Lino oi Incubators and Breeders, and get’six poultry chapters written by Robert Essex him- self—It s all in our Free Catalog—Write today. Address Farmers get more 8283” you“ MONEY money with hens. Find on Robert Essex lncubaioi Co., 113 Henry St, Buffalo, N- Y- ” leanin sin Bees on the Farm ,2, 0,13,...” will help you get more pleasure and more profit from Bee keeping. 6 months trial subscription 25c. Book on Bees and Catalog of Supplies sent free. THE A. I. I001 COMPANY. Box 240. Modlne. Ohio ' Standard-bred Rouen. Pekin and [10166 Indian Runner DucksgBufi. White, Golden. Silver. Columbian and Part- ridge Wyandottes; Barred and Bud Rocks: Reds; $2.50 single bird ; $6 tries; Toulouse Geese. $4 each catalog Ins. Geo. F. Hartman. Box 280, F‘reeportJll. Don’t Fail to mentiOn the Mich- gan Farmer when you re writing to advertisers.- pain all gone.‘ APRIL 6, 1912. A BEGINNER’S OUTFIT FOR BEES. The question is often asked, what would be a good outfit to begin with for one who has never kept any bees? I’ll try to answer this question. First of all, of course, you must have the bees. tight here is a chance for nice discrimination. To the average man, or woman, a bee is a bee, and a colony of bees is a colony of bees, and that is all you can make of it. Now this is just about as near the truth as it would be to say that a cow is a cow, etc. There is just as much difference be- tween a good ‘and a poor colony of bees as there is between a thoroughbred cow and a scrub. As the beginner is not very well qualified to judge bees it is best for THE MICHIGAN FAR.MER.‘ hive. A colony, to do good work, should have their hive well filled with bees by the first of June. And, last but not least, don’t buy a colony of bees in any old kind of a box, one having frames filled with a lot of crooked combs or with drone comb. There is one more item and, considering present conditions, it is a very important one; that is be sure there is no trace of foul brood in the hive. In the meantime you should have had your outfit ordered so as to have it ready. For the first year this should consist of about the following: Three comb—honey supers, complete with sections and comb starters; one extra hive, complete with frames filled with full sheets of founda- Of First Importance is a GOOd Colony in a Modern Hive. him to get some good bee-keeper to do the judging for him. Here. are a few of the points to look for: First, they must be quiet in dispo- sition. if you opcn a hive when honey is coming in a little, as, for instance, in the dandelion flow, or any time from that on until the clover Ilew is over, and thc bet-s come diving out at you, stinging right and left, you might just as well close that hive up right away, for if you buy them you’ll soon decide that bee—keeping is not in your line, anyway. Find a colony in which, when you open the hive, the bees \\ Frame Containing Full-sheet Foundation, Wired. crawl quietly over the combs and ap- parently pay little attention to you. Then as the queen is the main factor in, a good swarm, look her up next and see that she is liliniCfllly all right. ’l‘hcn look to see what kind of work she is do— ing. If it is along about the first of June, and she. has plenty of stores to woi k on, you should iind all the brood in th ‘ hive that the bees can cover. You hit. rcmcmber not to judge by comparing combs of brood without considering number of bees in the hivc; also rcmc her that because the colony is weak is n sign that the queen is not a good 0 c. There are many reasons for a weak ' tion; one nee veil; one smoker; one good book on bees, and a year’s subscription to some good bee journal. If you are very timid you might include a pair of bee gloves. Don’t buy anything but standard iichs. \\'hcther they are new or old doesn‘t make so much difference, but you want something that, as you increase, you can buy supplies to fit. Mccosta Co. L. t). \VHEELER. A CRACKER JACK TO SELL STOCK. Mr. Swift “'incgar, of Grand Rapids, lVIich., who has been advertising poultry in our paper, writes undcr date of March 16' “Your paper is a crackcr jack to sell stock. if I have good luck this year I will run an ad from September to spring. Just now 1 am putting up a 32-foot poul- try house.” BOOK NOTICES. Complete Business Arithmetic. By Geo. H. Van 'l‘uyl. Teacher of Business Arith- metic, High School of Commerce, New York City: formerly Teacher of Arithmetic in the Albany Busincss College, Albany, N. Y., and in the 'l‘ackard Commercial School, New York City. This is an ideal textbook for commercial schools and classes, or Would be of constant service as a reference book to any business man. Half leather, 8vo., 432 pages. Price, $1. American Book Company, Chicago. Cicero (Morris and Morgan’s Latin Ser- ies). 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The Lawrence Publlshing 00., Detroit, Mich. _ _ ,_._4_____.———————-——————-—-— DETROIT, APRIL 6, 1912. ___________._._._._#—___ CURRENT COMMENT. There has bccn a The Coal Shortage. marked shortage of bituminous coal, not alone in the large manufacturing ccntcrs but at inferior points as well, during I‘e- ccinl months, owing to the traffic condi- tions which have oblaincd upon Michigan rnilronds. Tho railrouds haVc ailributcd lhcsc conditions to the unusually severe winlcr which hnndicuppcd thcin not a lit— Ilc in tho Inovmucnl of freight. The man— ufzicfurcrs and others affected IIch di" ciurcd Ihat the trouble lies with the rail- roads which have not tho tcrminai facili— lics or cquipmenf necessary to the hand— ling ol‘ the incrcascd business incident to the large growth of the population and conlnicrclzll activities in I)cIroiI‘ and (Jill- (-r manufacturing ccntcrs of thc stale. 'i‘iicro has also been a noticeable shortage of? cars and difficulty in moving agricul- furul products 21nd a gcncrul inability on lhc part of Michigan railroads to meet prevailing traffic conditions in an tide— quatc manner. In the meantime ihcrc has bccn lroublo brcwing bc-Iwccn minc owncrs and the labor oiganizufions rcprcscniing thcir cm- ploycs and at the present limc flicrc are something likc 400,000 con] minors of tin anthracite fields of Pennsylvania and in tho ccnlral aw'impefifiw: ficlds comprising I’cnnsylvnnin, Ohio, Indianu and Illinois of tho bituminous portion of thc, indus— try. ()llicially lhis IllOVl'IIlCIII is known as :I “suspcnsion of work.” rather than a :lriko, pcnding ncgotiufions for an in— (I'f'i’lSC‘ of wages and other terms of agrcc~ Incnt. l‘ndcr the most faVorablc condi- tions it is thought that it will be at lcusf thirty days bcforc nil. ihc mines will re— sumo operations, while in the anthracite industry Ihcre is some ouesfion as Io tho ulIimriic oufcomc of this movement. In— \‘rIchd in the controvcrsy is the qucstion of thc businoss relations of railroads with the smaller indcm-ndcnf coal producers, and in any cvcni the present conditions are such as to at least aggravate the present scarcity of coal if nothing more serious. A situation of this kind is of more than passing interest to Michigan Farmcr read- ers on account of the- large incrcased use of coal as a fuel upon Michigan farms, In view of the uncertainty of the situation and possible repetition of traffic difficulties above noted, it would certainly be the part of wisdom for farmers who use coal as a fuel to secure their next winter's THE MICHIGAN FARMER. supply during the summer season when it can generally be secured at a some- what IOWeI‘ cost, as well as with greater“ certainty. Such action will fortify them against a possible repetition of the pres- ent traffic conditions or labor difficulties, which might at any time become serious as has been the case in England during the past month when practically all the coal mines haVe been closed. There the situation assumed such a serious charac- ter that a minimum wage bill was passed by the government after negotiations for the settlement of the strike through ofi'i— cial intervention had failed. It is not thought that conditions In this country will be anywhere near so serious, yet the outcome of a controversy of this kind is always uncertain until a definite agree— ment is reached. Perhaps one fortu- Danger in Foreign nate effect of the Seed Potatoes. British coal strike Is the present falling off in importations of potatoes due to tho tying up of traffic in England. These potatoes which were coming in in large quantities might easily be distributed for planting purposes, and this fact has led to the issuing of a circular by the Bu- reau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, warn- ing American potato growers against the use of this foreign seed. The great dangcr in the use of foreign seed potatoes lies in the fact that several potato diseases are prevalent in European countries which have not yet appeared in this country. One of the mosf dangerous of fhese is known as potato wart or black scab. This danger is imminent because the badly infected districts of England lic near Liverpool, from which many ship- mcnts are made to this country. There are other dangerous diseases of a fungous and bacterial naturc which are likely to be introduced, not only from England but from Germany as well. The danger from these diseases lies in the fact that soils once infested remain unfit for potato culture for many years. Another very good reason why foreign potatoes should not be usod for seed lies in the fact that they are not generally Well adapted to our conditions until they have been acclimated by several years' planting. Of more than 100 varietics tcsfcd by the Department of Agriculture none yielded as well as our best Ameri- can Sorts the first year. and the few ulti- mately satisfactory variciies required two or three‘years to become acclimated. This warning is perhaps less important in Michigan than elsewhere. yet there is ever a tendency among potato growers to cxperimcnt with new varieties and liltimes with those of a forcign origin. This tendency, however, should be curbed under existing conditions for the very good reasons above noted. The net results of Net Results of the the two special leg- Special Sessions. islative sessions call- ed by Governor Os- born. so far as important legislative cnacfmcnls are concerned, are embraced in the passage of the Workingman's com- pensation act and the submission of a constitutional umcndnrcnt providing for equal suffrage in Michigan. The work- ingman’s componsafon act, which was passed during the first special session, is the bill drafted by the special commis- sion of inquiry on this subject, and pro— vides a definite compensation for various injurics which may bc suffered by an em— pioye against which the common lnw dc- f‘i-nse of contributory negligence of follow cmploycs is barrcd. This law is in line wilh similar steps taken by the fcdcl'a‘ government in connection wiih interstate commerce and by many slates as Wcll as progrcssive forcign countries. This bill was passed without any scrious opposi— tion, either on the part of employers or laborers, with tho exception of certain licfroii labor interests. ’l‘hc othcr most imporlant action taken by the lcgislafure at its second special sossion, was the submission of tho constl lutionai flmcndmcnt, providing for equal suffrago. which will be voted upon at the regular Novcmbcr election this year. The movement for the submission of such amendment was started by the ladies of the state who engaged in an organized effort to this end, who have acknowledged that their success was largely due to the aid of the representatives of the labor or- ganizations. the State Grange and the State AssociaiOn of Farmers' Clubs. Both of the farmers’ organizations above men— tioned have repeatedly expressed them- selves In favor of equal suffrage, and their members will doubtless be pleased to have an opportunity to vote upon this question at the coming November elec- tion. ' , The fate of the presidential preference primary bill in the second session was the same as that in the first, which was com- mented upon in a. recent issue, the im— portant legislative action noted above be— ing practically the sole net result of the special sessions, except -the expenditure occasioned by them. This is quite as much, however, as is usually accomplished at the special legislative sessions which have been held in Michigan. An example of what might be accomplished at a. special session, provided the matter were approached in the right way, was afford- ed by the recent action of the Illinois legis- lation which was called by Governor De- neen for the purpose of acting upon the presidential primary bill in that state. Before calling the session, however, the Governor communicated with the- mem- bers of the legislature, to determine whether the necessary two-thirds would support such a bill, and having ascer- tained that they would, they were called together on Tuesday and had an official copy of the bill before the Governor on Saturday of the same week. Apparently a little co-operatlon between» the execu- Iive and legislative deparments of the state produced better results than the method usually employed in controversies of this kind. The discussion of the The High Cost of cause of the high cost Living. of living, which has received so much al— tention from so many sources in I‘eccnt months, has bcen beneficial in disabusing the public mind, to some degree at least, of the imprcssion that the farmers of the coumry are getting more than their legit— imate profit in the production of staple food-stuffs. IL is truc that in some quar- icrs this fact is not so well appreciated as it should be, and there are not a fcw among chn the substantial business men of our cities who have not recognized this fact. The better prices which farmers have been receiving for their produce in recent years has made the agricultural industry a more attractive one and is accomplish— ng what no sentimental “back to the land" movement could accomplish through its influence. In order to stop the ten- dency which has been manifested in re- cent years by country people to go to the cities in Increasing numbcrs, and to turn the tide In the other direction. agricul- ture must become generally recognized to be as profitable as other industries with the cxpenditure of the some energy and ability. \\'hile it may not yet have reach- cd that plane in comparison with somc industries, yet it has in comparison with many, and there are notable examples of men who have bccn successful in other lines who are now turning to agriculture as a more congenial occupation and a more comfortable settlement for their old agc. Most of these haw rccognizcd the fact that as good opportunities exist in Mich- igan as in any section of the country, or of the world A gentleman who has rc- ccntly traveled around the world, travers- ing its best agricultural sections, rccently stated um Michigan still looked good to him and that he intended to locate in the stale permanently. There are a few among our substantial Michgun farmers who Icavc the stale scc'kng a more con- genial climate or larger oportunities, quite a proportion of whom return disappointed in their search. Tho high cost of living affects the Michigan farmer as little as any man in Ihc world for the reason that our diver- silicd agriculture enables him to produce an abundance for his table, and at the same time gives him a wide range of choico in the products which he may grow, thus enabling him to follow the bent of his own inclinations to a greater degree than almost any other man. Let us appreciate the possibilities of Michigan agriculture more, put a larger amount of cncrgy info our business and give our state the name which it mcriis, of being the best agricultural state in the Union. nDouthess many peo- The Country’s Meat pic among city con- Supply. sumers will attribute the increased cost of meat and meat products to the failure of the government to convict the packers of conspiracy to rase prices. There is no doubt, however. but that the present scarcity of both grain and forage throughout the country will further re- duce an already depleted supply of meat animals in this country. The census for 1910 shows that we have about ten per cent less cattle .than in 1900, while the , APRIL 6.. 1912. ' populationhas in the meantime increased .about 20 per cent. The economic conditons surrounding the sheep industry have tended to decrease the number of sheep upon American farms and the scarcity and high price of corn Will without question greatly reduce the number of hogs maintained upon Ameri- can farms during the coming year. This scarcity is beginning to be felt keenly all along the line, and there is no prospect of relief in the near future. Repealed failures of clover seedings throughout wide sections of the country. due to untimely drouths, makes it com- paratively certain that we cannot hays a normal hay crop in the country the com— ing year. This will, of course, be largely offset by an increased production of corn and small grain in many sections, and the efforts of farmers throughout the country to avoid a similar shortage in home-grown feeds next winter will tend to make both grain and forage cheaper. But this will not relieve the shortage of marketable meat animals since feeders of all classes of stock will be scarce through- out the coming year, owing to the neces— sity of marketing them prematurely, which has been felt by farmers over so wide a. range of territory. Heren lies an opportunity which should not be neglect» ed by Michigan farmers who grow live stock as a. side issue. No animal pays its producer so well as one which is well fed and cared for from the beginning of its life until it reaches a marketable matu— rity, and every young animzil produccd upon the farm, whether It be a calf. ll pig or a lamb, should be fed and cared for s.) that it will make a maximum growth from the start, since those animals arc bound to bring a. better price during the coming year than has prevailed for many seasons, and if grown mainly upon hornc- grown feeds will make this dcparimcnt of the farm production more profitable than has heretofore been the case, \Vhilc a scrub animal never pays for Ihe food it consumes, a. good animal new-r pays so well for the feed and cure ex— pended upon it as it does undcr just SUL‘II conditions as now prevail, and the farm— (rs of Michigan and contiguous states can do themsclves a good turn by giving in- creased attention to this branch of pro- duction, and at the same time to.somck cxtent aid in overcoming the shortage of meat animals which seems certain to ob- tain even under the best of conditions during the coming year, if not for sev- eral years. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. National. , A gasoline explosion caused a fire at Brown City, Mich, which resulted in one person being killed and the injury of three others. An attempt was made to fill the tank of a. coffee urn in a restau- rant while the first was lighted. the ex- plosion following. Former Congressman \Villiam Vl'atson, of Maryland, died of apoplexy Sunday. He was 62 years old. Because of alleged insubordination, two piivates were Shot by a sergeant who is in charge of Yellowstone Park. They were located at a point 70 miles from Cody, \Vyo., which is cut off from the oulsidc world from November till June each year. The action of the government against the sugar trust who was chargcd with the violation of the Sherman anti-trust law In restraining trade, resulted in a disagreement by the jury after 13 hours of deliberation. One man held out for the guilt of the defendants. A tentative agreement has bcen reach- ed by the miners and operators of the bituminous mines of the country which gives to the miners a five cent advance per ton. The anthracite miners and own- ers have failed to gci togethcr, although the representatives have agreed to hold another conference at which time it is anlicipaled that a settlement will be made, due largely to the moral influence of the adjuslmcnt of the bituminous dis— pute. The anthracite miners quit Monday and will suspend work until the repre- sentatives to the controversy agree. The Sufi. coal workers may suspend work for a few days also. Mayor Hinton, of Paris, Tennessee, has been Indicted by a grand jury of rcceiv~ ing a bribe to influence on election. A bench warrant has been issued and served on the mayor. Robert Taylor, senior United States sen- ator from Tcnnesscc, and known all over the south as “Fiddling Bob,” died from the Shock of an operation performed last Thursday. He was 62 years old. livers all over Michigan are rising to unusual heights from the melting of the heavy snows. Much trouble Is anticipated in cities and towns along the streams where proper protection is not provided. The federal supreme court is now con— sidering the state railroad rate cases. Should the court find the state statutes conflicting with the jurisdiction of the federal constitution the rate laws of many of the states will become void. Last week primaries were held in New York state for selecting delegates to the republican national convention. The pri— maries, however. do not authorize the- in- (Continued on page 421), .. _W,_,.._,.*,___ uni W... “.4 ... - -f.. ”Mac... A LITERATURE POETRY HISTORY an? INFORMATION DwEEKLY. 77w FARM BOY an? GIRL SCIENTIFIC an? MECHANICAL This Magazine Section forms a part of our paper twice a month. Every article is written especially for it, and does not appear elsewhere AN EASTER STORY “He hath burst Death s bonds asunder, He hath triumphed 0 er the grave!” The jubilant young voice rang out in the gladness of the Resurrection, and the hallowed atmosphere of the time-stained old church seetmed thrilled through and through with the glorious, vibrant mel— ody. The beautiful young singer stood before the congregation, a calm, holy light in her great, gray eyes, a shaft of golden sunlight falling upon the bright tendrils of hair curling gracefully against the creamy, sweeping plume of her big white hat. Against the background of snowy Easter lilies and rich foliage, in her white serg e gown, she seemed more. like an angel destended to earth for the occasion, than one of the inhabitants of this sordid world. If a white-robed ghost had emerged from one of the vaults in the old burying ground, or risen from under the well— worn floor of the church and volunteered to sing that beautiful Easter morning, no greater amazement or consternation could have been depicted upon the faces of the elder members of the congregation. Deacon l‘otts looked aghast at Deacon Primmer; little Miss Truitt half rose in her seat, with an audible exclamation, and fell back pale and gasping, while ev- erybody in the church glanced toward the high-backed pew where little old Dr. Darley was trembling excitedly. The Doc- tor’s face became as white as his im— inaculate shirt~front. and the hymn—book he had been glancing through aimlessly, according to his custom, fell at his feet. ile tried to look away out of the window, but, as if fascinated. like everyone else, by the apparition that had appeared this day before the eyes, his glance would re— turn repeatedly to the slim, white figure among the lilies. “it is Tempest—it must be!" he kept inurmuring, while he trembled like an aspen leaf. “No——non—'tisn’t, of course. How could I forget? llasn't it, been twen— ty years since she stood there. like that one. her clear, pure voice rising in that same song, that very expression on her rapt face? And isn’t she sleeping the long sleep of the dead and the repentan‘t, in the church-yard out yonder? I am an old fool; \Vhy, how everybody’s star- ing, first at this young stranger, then at mc! Can it beAdo they tl1ink~0, my (ind, if it should bowlicr child?” At this thought, fraught both with bliss and anguish, the old man leaned forward upon the pew in front of him and re- mained there throughout the remainder of the service, which passed like a dream to those of the congregation who were old enough to remember clearly the trag- cd’\' of twcinty years ago and which had left the old Doctor so utterly alone in the world. \\'hen the strange young girl who had sung the Easter solo arose to go, dozens of pairs of eyes follow ed her curi- ously. No one took any heed of the heav— ily veiled, black-robed woman, who passed tut with her. The moment the pair were out of hearing, a subdued murmur filled the sacred edifice. “Did you ever?” gasped Sister Trollop, hanging frantically to Trollop's Coattails, as he edged his way to the center of the crowd. “If Tempest Darley herself had rose right out of the church—yard and walked in and sung that song, I couldn‘t a—bcen any nearer faintin’l’l, “.r\n’ ’twasn‘t jest the looks,” Deacon Primmer put in, at her side. “No human voice ever sounded so much like another. You could a—knocked me senseless with a feather.” “I nearly screamed out ‘Tempest,’ it was so much like her.” little Miss Truitt supplemented. “I’m all of a—treinble yet.” “\Vonder what the Doctor himself did think?” slyly muttered Mrs. Callam, peer- ing over the heads of the rest to watch the old man make his tottering way to- ward the door, oblivious to his surround— ings. She was a lean, raw-boned, hun- gry-for-gossip looking woman, and her looks did not belie her unpleasant nature. “He's white as a sheet, and he's skippin' out. No wonder. He drove the poor young thing to her death. Naterally, he don’t like the idee o’ bein‘ hanted, an’ in public, too. If that is her child, come back to shame him, it’s no more’n poetic justice—just retribution." There are al— ways those who find some reason to re,- joice in the sorrow and downfall of oth— ers, people with a lust for scandal, ghouls who feast upon those who have fallen by the wayside. . The Doctor, still with that far-away, uncomprehending look in his faded eyes, made his way home to the little, shabby cottage which was all that was, left to him, where he lived alone in his old age. Inside, he dropped into a. rockingchair before his worn hearth and rocked to and fro violently as if his body were keep— ing Face with his: thoughts as they trav- hc so willed? Instead of that, he had al— lowed her to fall to the lOWest depths. Her pitiful death, her repentance, had wiped the stains from her soul! \\'ould that they could wipe out the blots of his own past, the memories that haunted him like frightful spectres! She, had fallen in love with a young teacher of vocal music, who had come into the village, and who had been em- ployed to train her voice, which gave wonderful promise. But the Doctor had little. use for musicians and artists, “wan- dering Bohemians," he called them, scornfully, and had picked out a. thrifty practical, well-to—do young man of the neighborhood for his future son—in-law. \thn the youngr man of her choice at)- proached him and asked him for his daughter‘s shand in martiage, he had will- fully insulted him, and bade him be.- gone, and never even speak to Tempest agatn, Grandma’s “Easter Lilies.” eled the old familiar road back to the day when Tempest, his beautiful, angelic. only daughter, had sung the Easter solo, standing just where she had stood today —the young stranger who had volunteer— ed to sirlg in the place of Miss llynes, who had been suddenly taken ill, just be- fore the service, too late to obtain a sub« stitute. That was the last time her won- derful voice had ever been heard in the old church, the voice that attracted strangers for miles around, and even from the nearby city. That night Tempest Darley had disappeared with her lover. The Doctor knew that he alone had been to blame for his daughter’s flight, and therefore, for the whole train of ills that had no doubt befallen her after- wards—even for the loss of her immortal soul; for might he not have prevented it all by a single word. Might he not have seen her a contented village wife and mother, the comfort of his old age, had bride of another-a man not a dreamer, a (lawdler, as the Worthy doctor chose, to fancy one whose interests lay in a differ- ent direction front his own‘ Tempest had added her pleadtngs to those of her lover. In the stormy scene that followed, she had turned from her father, white with indignation and determination 77777 for every Darlcy boasted of an unconouerable will “and that had been their last meeting. The young girl sang her part in church the next day, and then dropped from sight. accompanied by the man who had meant to make her his wife, before God and man. For more than the proverbial nine day's, people wondered and gossiped, gossiped, and wondered. N0 notice of their main riage ever reached the anxious and now- repentant father. He would have given all he possessed to know that all was well with his child, that he would again be permitted to look upon her dear face; for the latter would soon be the AMONG THE LILIES DAISYEé’c/l. FIELD but this assurance was denied him. llc spent much time and money in a search for the runaways, after his anger had vanished, but to no avail. He finally fcli himself forced to the cruel conclusion of the rest of the villagers, that the musi— cian had been like other men of the world, who set their hearts upon some Village maiden, no better and no worse. and that, having coaxed her to flee with him, had subsequently deserted her. And so she had been ashamed to send any word home, preferring to suffer in silence, her innocence wrecked, her Darley pride broken and trailed in the dust. In this belief. his frail little wife had at last been forced to acquiesce. much against her will; and the doubt of her daughter’s fate, coupled with the. sepcaration from her only child. drove her to the grave! Doctor Darley lived on alone, bttt for a few trusty old servants, in his loneo.’ mansion, the Elms. ’l‘hus ten years passed. Then the Doc— tor visitcd a distant watering place, for his health was slowly failing. and llt' had been advised to recuperate in some dif— ferent climate. \thn he returned, months later, he brought body of a woman, Sillil‘.‘ with him the in a costly casket. and had her laid away in the family vault, with appropriate, but very quiet. cere— monies. lle had heard, as he was about to leave the place, that a woman was dying in the room above the one which he had occupied in the hotel. Moved by pity, he had answered the hasty sum— mons to her death-bod. little dreaming of the revelatitm that, was in store for him. During her wild and fevcred she mentioned, (ART and over again, a father whom she had disobeyttl, bogging his forgiveiit'~ss, and assuring him that she ‘had suffered for her sin~«~na,\', that she was dying to expiate it. llt‘i' longr golden hair. floating over her pillow and veiling her wasted form, reminded the doctor constantly of the sunny head that once made his home happy and her eyes were of the saint- ravings, dark shade of gray. But there was; little resemblance in those drawn and colorless checks and sorrow- ful, drooping lips, to those of bright, blooming 'l‘ctnpest Darlcy. So it fell with all the force of a physical blow upon the old man, when an empty envelope- was found among her scant possessions, after her death, addrcssed to “Dr. David Dar— ley, The lilhns. \'\'aync, N. ll.“ There was no enclosure in the envel- ope. If there, had been it had been taken out, and thcrc were no other marks upon her possessions or her clothing, to add further proof of llOl‘ identty. lint the Doctor never doubted that he had found his child~~»»too late to do aught but lav her by her mother’s side. And the only-con- solation he haikwas the mournful one of visiting her last resting place, and believ- ing that at last the mother was reunited With her child. lleavy upon his con- science lay the awful burden of two deathsivthe deaths of the. two who had loved him, and whom he had loved! i'ndcr this fearful thought, his health grew steadily worse, and as misfortunes rarely come singly, he met with business. reverses that swept away his once com- fortable fortune. Little by little his broad acres were disposed of, and at last his stately home, the Elms, was sold to satis— fy his clamoring creditors. A younger doctor came into the village, fitted tip an elegant office across the street from Doctor Darley’s shabby rooms, and slowly but surely the latter saw his once lucrative practice passing over to the stranger. For a year or two past, he had been living upon a more pittance, scarcely able to pay the rent of his shabby cottage, keep food in the cupboard, and fire upon the‘ hearth. Suddenly, the Doctor, who had been lost in this sad retrospection. started from his chair with a wild cry—half horror, 412 <12) ‘ The Michigan Farmer ESTABLISHED 1843. THE LAWR ENCEPUBLISHING C0. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. 39 to 45 Congress St. West, Detroit. Michigan. TnLnrHoxs MAIN 4525. NEW YORK OFFICE—'41 Park Row. ' _ CHICAGO OFFICE—600 First Nat'l. Bank Building. CLEVELAND OFFICE—lon-mli’) Oregon Ave. . E. ' GRAND Bums Orrlcn—o a 6 New Hawkins Building. M. J. LAWRENCE .................... ........President. M. L. LAWRENCE .......... ............Vice-President E. H. 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There has marked bituminous coal, not alone in the large manufacturing centers but, at interior points as well, during re- cent months, owing to the traffic condi- tions which have oblaincd upon Michigan railroads. The railroads have attributed thcsc conditions to the unusually severe wintcr which handicappcd thcm not a lil- tlc, in the movement of freight. The man— ut'nclnrcrs and others affected haVc dc- cinrcd that the trouble lies with the rail— roads which have not the tcrminal facili— tic's or cquipment necessary to the hand— ling of the incrcascd business incident to the large growth of the population and commercial activities in Detroit and oth- cr manufacturing centers of the state. There has also been a noticeable shortage of cars and difficulty in moving agricul— tural products and a gcncrai inability on the part of Michigan railroads to meet prevailing traffic conditions in an ade- «'luatc manner. In the meantime thcre has bccn troublc brotving bwtwcen mine owners and the labor organizations representing thcir cm- ploycs 11nd at the- present time thcrc arc, somcthing likc 400,000 cpal mincrs of tin anthracite fields of Pennsylvania and in tlh- ccntrul competitive flclds comprising I’cnnsylvzmia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois of thc bituminous portion of the indus- try. ()lh‘cially this movement is known as :1 “suspension of work," rather than a :‘il‘iix’U, pcnding ncgotiations for an in— trchsc of wages :Ind other terms of agree- tncnt. I'ndcr the most quorablc condi— tions it is thought that it will be. at lcast thirty days IIt'ftIl‘C all thc mines will re— snmo operations, whilc- in the anthracite industry there is some question as to thc ultimate outcome of this movement. In- volvcd in the controvcrsy is thc oucstion of thc business relations of railroads with' the smaller independcnt coal producers, and in any event the present conditions are such as to at least aggravate the present scarcity of coal if nothing more serious. A situation of this kind is of more than passing interest to Michigan Farmcr read- ers on account of the large increased use of coal as a fuel upon Michigan farms. In View of the uncertainty of the situation and possible repetition of traffic difficulties above noted, it would certainly be the part of wisdom for farmers who use coal :IS a fuel to secure their next winter‘s becn a The Coal Shortage- shortage of supply during the summer season when it can generally be secured at a some- what lower cost, as well as with greater certainty. Such action will fortify them against a possible repetition of the pres- ent traffic conditions or labor difficulties. which might at any time become serious as has been the case in England during the past month when practically all the coal mines have been closed. There the situation assumed such a serious charac- ter that a minimum wage bill was passed by the government after negotiations for the settlement of the strike through offi- cial intervention had failed. It is not thought that conditions in this country will be anywhere near so serious, yet. the outcome of a controversy of this kind is always uncertain until a definite agree- ment is reached. Perhaps one fortu- nate effect of the British coal strike is the present falling off in importations of potatoes due to the tying up of traffic in England. These potatoes which were coming in in large quantities might easily be distributed for planting purposes, and this fact has led to the issuing of a circular by the Bu- reau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, warn- ing American potato growers against the use of this foreign seed. The great danger in the use of foreign sced potatoes lies In the fact that several potato diseases are prevalent in European countries which have not yet appeared in this country. One of the most dangerous of these is known as potato wart or black scab. This danger is imminent becausc the badly infected districts of England lie near Liverpool, from which many ship— ments are made to this country. There are other dangerous diseases of a fungous and bacterial nature which are likely to be introduced, not only from England but from Germany as well. The danger from these diseases lies in he fact that soils once infested remain unfit for potato culture for many years. Another very good reason why foreign potatoes should not be- used for seed lies in the fact that they are not generally well adapted to our conditions until they have been acclimated by several years‘ planting. Of more than 100 varietics testcd by the Department of Agriculture none yielded as well as our best Ameri- can sorts the first Year, and the few ulti- mately satisfactory varieties required two or three years to become acclimated. This warning is perhaps less important in Michigan than elsewhere, yet there is ever a tendency among potato growers to cxperimcnt with new varieties and t-t‘ttimes with those of a forcign origin. This tendency, however, should be curbed under existing conditions for the very good reasons above noted. The not results of Net Results of the the two special leg- Speciai Sesaions. islative sessions call- ed by Governor Os- born, so far as important legislative enactments are concerned, are embraced in the passage of the workingman’s com- pensation act and the submission of a constitutional umcndrrcnt providing for cuual suffrage in Michigan. The work- ingman’s compensaton tht, which. was passed during the first special session, is the bill drafted by the special Commis— sion of inquiry on this subject, and pro- vides a definite compensation for various injnrics which may he suffered by an em- ploye against which the common i;l\\' dc- fcnse of contributory ncgligencc of fcllow cmploycs is barrcd. This law is in line with similar steps taken by the fedora' government in connection with interstate commerce and by many states as wcll as progrcssive forcign countries. This bit: was passed without any scrions opposi— tion, either on the part of employers or laborers, with the exception of certain Detroit labor interests. ’I‘hc othcr most important action taken by the lcgislature at its second special session, was the submission of tho consti tulional amcndmcnt, providing for equal suffrage. which will be voted upon at the regular Novombcr election this year. The movement for the submission of such amendment was started by the ladies of the state who cngugcvd in an organized effort to this end, who have acknowledged that their success was largely due to the aid of the representatives of the labor or- ganizations, the State Grange and the State Associaion of Farmers’ Clubs. Both of the farmers’ organizations above men— tioned have repeatedly expressed them- selves in favor of equal suffrage, and their members will doubtless be pleased to have an opportunity to vote upon this Danger in Foreign Seed Potatoes. THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘ question at the coming November elec- tion. , The fate of the presidential preference primary bill in the second session was the same as that in the first, which was com- mented upon in a recent issue, the im- portant legislative action noted above be- ing practically the sole net result of the special sessions, except -the expenditure occasioned by them. This is quite as much, however, as is usually accomplished at the special legislative sessions which have been held in Michigan. An example of what: might be accomplished at a Special session, provided the matter were approached in the right way, was afford- ed by the recent action of the Illinois legis- lation which was called by Governor De- neen for the purpose of acting upon the presidential primary bill in that state. Before calling the session, however, the Governor communicated with the- mem- bers of the legislature, to determine whether the necessary two-thirds would support such a bill, and having ascer- tained that they would, they were called together on Tuesday and had an official copy of the bill before the Governor on Saturday of the same week. Apparently a little co-operation between the execu- tive and legislative deparments of the state produced better results than the method usually employed in controversies of this kind. The discussion of the cause of the high cost of living, which has received so much at- tention from so many sources in recent months, has been beneficial in disabusing the public mind, to some degree at least, of the impression that the farmers of the country are getting more than their legit— imate profit in the production of staple food-stuffs. It is true that in some quar— ters this fact is not so well appreciated as it should be, and there are- not a. fcw among chn the substantial business men of our cities who have not recognized this fact. The better prices which farmers have been receiving for their produce in recent years has made the agricultural industry a more attractive one and is accomplish— ng what no sentimental “back to the land" movement could accomplish through its influence. In order to stop the ten- dency which has been manifested in re- cent years by country people to go to the cities in increasing numbers, and to turn the tide in the other direction. agricul- ture must become generally recognized to be as profitable as other industries with the cxpenditure of the same energy and ability. \Vhile it may not yet have reach— cd that plane in comparison with some industries, yet it has in comparison with many, and there are notable examples of men who have been successful in other lines who are now turning to agriculture as a more congenial occupation and a more comfortable settlement for their old ago. Most of these. htha recognized the fact that as good opportunities exist in Mich- igan as in any section of the country, or of the world. A gentleman who has rc- cently traveled around the world, travers- ing its best agricultural sections, recently stated that Michigan still looked good to him and that he intended to locate in the state permanently. There are a few among our substantial Michgan farmers who leave the state seekng a more con- genial climate or larger oportunities, quite a proportion of whom return disappointed in their search. Tho high cost of living affects the hilchigan farmer as little as any man in the world for the reason that our diver- sified agriculture enables him to produce an abundance for his table, and at the same time gives him a wide range of choicc in the products which he may grow, thus enabling him to follow the. bent of his own inclinations to a greater degree than almost any other man. Let us appreciate the possibilities of Michigan agriculture more, put a larger amount of cncrgy into our business and give our state the name which it merits, of being the best agricultural state in the Union. The High Cost of Living. Doubtless many peo- ple among city con- sumers will attribute the increased cost of meat and meat products to the failure of the government to convict the packers of conspiracy to rase prices. There is no The COuntry’s Meat Supply. doubt, however. but that the present scarcity of both grain and forage throughout the country will further re- duce an already depleted supply of meat animals in this country. The census for 1910 shows that we have about ten per cent less ‘catne than in 1900, while the i M APRIL 6,; 1912. \ populationhas in the meantime increased ,about 20 per cent. The economic conditons surrounding the sheep industry have tended to decrease the number of sheep upon American farms and the scarcity and high price of corn will withOut question greatly reduce the number of hogs maintained upon Ameri- can farms during the coming year. This scarcity is beginning to be felt keenly all along the line, and there is no prospect of relief in the near future. Repeated failures of clover seedings throughout. wide sections of the country. due to untimely drouths, makes it com- paratively certain that we cannot have a normal hay crop in the country the com- ing year. This will, of course, be largeflf offset by an increased production of corn and small grain in many sections, and the efforts of farmers throughout the country to avoid a similar shortage in home-grown feeds next winter will tend to make both grain and forage cheaper. But this will not relieve the shortage of marketable meat animals since feeders of all classes of stock will be scarce through- out the coming year, owing to the neces- sity of marketing them prematurely, which has been felt by farmers over so wide a. range of territory. Heren lies an opportunity which should not be neglect ed by Michigan farmers who grow live stock as a side issue. No animal pays its producer so well as one which is well fed and cared for from the beginning of its life until it reaches a marketable matu— rity, and every young animal produtwl upon the farm, whether it be a calf. 2i pig or a lamb, should be fed and cared for s.) that it will make a maximum growth from the start, since thcse animals arc bound to bring a better price during tlic, coming year than has prevailed for many seasons and if grown mainly upon home- grown feeds will make this dcpartmcnt of the farm production more profitable than has heretofore been the case. W'iiilc a scrub animal never pays for the feed it consumes, a good animal new-r pays so well for the feed and care ex- pended upon it as it does under just such conditions as now prevail, and the farm- trs of Michigan and contiguous states car do themselves a good turn by giving in- creased attention to this branch of pro- duction, and at the, same time to..some_\ cxtent aid in overcoming the shortage of meat animals which seems certain to ob- tain even under the best of conditions during the coming year, if not for sev- eral years. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. National. A gasoline explosion caused a fire at Brown City, Mich, which resulted in one person being killed and the injury of three others. An attempt was made to fill the tank of a coffee urn in a restaus rant while the first was lighted. the ex- plosion following. Former Congressman \Villiam \Vatson, of Maryland, died of apoplexy Sunday. He was 62 years old. Because of alleged insubordination, two piivates were shot by a sergeant who is in charge of Yellowstone Park. They were looated at a point 70 miles from Cody, W'yo., which is cut off from the outside world from November till June each year. The action of the government against the sugar trust who was charged with the violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in restraining trade, resulted in a dlsagreement by the jury after 13 hours of deliberation. One man held out for the guilt of the defendants. A tentative agreement has been reach- ed by the miners and operators of the bituminous mines of the country which gives to the miners a five cent advance per ton. The anthracite miners and own— ers have failed to gct together, although the representatives have agreed to hold another conference at which time it is anticipated that a settlement will be made, due largely to the moral influence of the adjustment of the bituminous dis- pute. The anthracite miners quit Monday and will suspend work until the repro- sentatives to the controversy agree. The soft, coal workers may suspend work for a. few days also. Mayor Hinton, of Paris, Tennessee, has been indicteA‘by a grand jury of receiv- ing a bribe to influence an election. A bench warrant has been issued and served on the mayor. Robert Taylor, senior United States sen- ator from Tennessee, and known all over the south as “Fiddling Bob,” died from the shock of an operation performed last Thursday. He was 62 years old. livers all over Michigan are rising to unusual heights from the melting of the heavy snows. Much trouble is anticipated in cities and towns along the streams where proper protection is not provided. The federal supreme court is now con— sidering the state railroad rate cases. Should the court find the state statutes conflicting with the jurisdiction of the federal constitution the rate laws of many of the states will become void. Last week primaries were held in New York state for selecting delegates to the republican national convention. The pm- maries, however, do not authorize the In— (Continued on page 421). “it 4.....- l I I .‘ «m— / 1"" “it 4.....- LITERATURE POETRY HISTORY an? INFORMATION 77w FARM BOY an? GIRL SCIENTIFIC an? MECHANICAL This Magazine Section forms a part of our paper twice a month. Every article is written especially for it, and does not appear elsewhere AN EASTER STORY “He hath burst Death’s bonds asunder, He hath triumphed o’er the gravel" The jubilant young voice rang out in the gladness of the Resurrection, and the hallowed atmosphere of the time—stained old church seemed thrilled through and through with the glorious, vibrant mel— ody. The beautiful young singer stood before the congregation, a calm, holy light in her great, gray eyes, a shaft of golden sunlight falling upon the bright tendrils of hair curling gracefully against the creamy, sweeping plume of her big white hat. Against the background of snowy Easter lilies and rich foliage, in her white serge gown, she seemed more. like an angel descended to earth for the occasion, than one of the inhabitants of this sordid world. If a white—robed ghost had emerged from one of the vaults in the old burying ground, or risen from under the well- worn tloor of the church and volunteered to sing that beautiful Easter morning, no greater amazement or consternation could have been depicted upon the faces of the older members of the congregation. Deacon l‘otts looked aghast at Deacon Primmer; little Miss Truitt half rose in her seat, with an audible exclamation, and fell back pale and gasping, while ev- erybody in the church glanced toward the high-backed pew where little old Dr. Darley was trembling excitedly. The Doc- tor’s face became as white as his im— maculate shirt-front, and the hymn—book he had been glancing through aimlessly, according to his custom, fell at his feet. Ile tried to look away out of the window, but, as if fascinated. like everyone else, by the apparition that had appeared this day before the eyes, his glance would re- turn repeatedly to the slim, white figure among the lilies. “it is Tempest—it must be!" he kept mtirmuring, while he trembled like an aspen leaf. “Nth-nov’tisn’t, of course. Ilow could I forget? llasn’t it been twen— ty years since she stood there. like that one. her clear. pure voice rising in that same song, that very expression on her rapt face? And isn’t she sleeping the long sleep of the dead and the repentant, in the church-yard out yonder? I am an old fool— \Vhy, how everybody's star- ing, first at this young stranger, then at me! Can it be—do they think—O, my God, if it should beuher child?” At this thought, fraught both with bliss and anguish, the old man leaned forward upon the pew in front of him and re- niained there throughout the remainder of the service, which passed like a dream to those of the congregation who were old enough to remember clearly the trag- cdv of twcinty years ago and which had left the old Doctor so utterly alone in the world. \\'lien the strange young girl who had sting the Easter solo arose to go, dozens of pairs of eyes followed her curi— ously. No one took any heed of the heav— ily veiled, black-robed woman, who passed (ut with her. The moment the pair were cut of hearing, a subdued murmur filled the sacred edifice. “Did you ever?” gasped Sister Trollop, hanging frantically to ’l‘rollop's coattails, as he edged his way to the center of the crowd. “If Tempest Darley herself had rose right out of the church—yard and walked in and sung that song, I couldn’t a-been any nearer faintin’!’-’ “An’ ’twasn’t jest the looks,” Deacon Primmcr put in, at her side. “No human voice ever sounded so much like another. You could a-knocked me senseless with a feather.” “I nearly screamed out ‘Tempest,’ it was so much like her.” little Miss Trtiitt supplemented. “I’m all of a—tremble yet.” “Wonder what the Doctor himself did think?” slyly muttered Mrs. Callam. peer— ing over the heads of‘vthe rest to watch the old man .nriake his-itottering way to— ward the door, oblivio s to his surround- ings. She was a legit, raw-boned, hun- gry—for—gossip looking woman, and her looks did not belie her unpleasant nature. “He's white as a sheet, and he’s skippin’ out. No wonder. He drove the poor young thing to her death. Naterally, he don’t like the idea 0' bein’ hant’ed, an’ in public, too. If that is her child, come back to shame him. it's no more’n poetic justice—~jtist retribution.” There are al- ways those who find some reason to re- joice in the sorrow and downfall of oth- ers, people with a lust for scandal, ghouls who feast upon those who have fallen by the wayside. The Doctor, still with that far—away, tmcomprehending look in his faded eyes, made his way home to the little, shabby cottage which was all that was, left, to him, where he lived alone in his old age. Inside, he dropped into a. rockingchair before his worn hearth and rocked to and fro violently as if his body were keel)- ing pacc with his thoughts as they trav- he so willed? Instead of that, he had al- lowed her to fall to the lowest depths. Her pitiful death, hcr repentance, had wiped the stains from her soul! \\'0uld that they could wipe out the blots of his own past, the memories that haunted him like frightful spectres! She had fallen in love with a young teacher of vocal music, who had come into the village, and who had been em- ployed to train her voice. which gave wonderful promise. Btit the Doctor had little use for musicians and artists, “wan- dering Bohemians," he called them, scornfully, and had picked out a. thrifty practical. well—to—do young man of the neighborhood for his future son—in-law. Xthn the young man of her choice ap- proached him and asked hint for his daughter's hand in marriage, he had will- fully insultcd him, and bade him be— gonc, and never even speak to Tempest again, for the latter Grandma’s “Easter Lilies.” eled the old familiar road back to the day when Tempest, his beautiful, angelic. only daughter, had sung the lilaslei‘ solo, standing just where she had stood today the young strangcr who had volunteer- ed to sing in the place of Miss Hynes, who had been suddenly taken ill, just be- fore the service, too late to obtain a sub- stitute. That was the last time her won- derful voice had ever been heard in the old church, the voice that attracted strangers for miles around. and even from the nearby city. That night Tempest Darley had disappeared with her lover. The Doctor knew that he alone had been to blame for his daughter’s flight, and therefore, for the whole train of ills that had no doubt befallen her after- wards—even for the loss of her immortal soul; for might he not have prevented it all by a single word. Might be not have seen her a contented village wife and mother, the comfort of his old age, had bride of anotherva manwnot a dreamer, a dawdler. as the worthy doctor chose to fancy one whose interests lay in a differ— cnt direction from his own. Tempest had added hei- pleadings to those of her lover. In the stormy sccvnc that follchd, she had turned from her father, white with indignation and determination~fo1- every Darley boasted of an unconqueiable will —and that had been their last meeting. The young girl sang her part in church the next day, and then dropped from sight. accompanied by the man who had meant to make her his wife, before God and man. For more than the proverbial nine days, people wondered and gossiped, gossiped, and wondered. N0 notice of their mar-- riage ever reached the anxious and now— repentant father. He would have given all he possessed to know that all was well with his child, that he would again be permitted to look upon her dear face; would soon be the AMONG THE LILIES DAISYEQ FIELD but this assurance was denied him. He spent much time and money in a search for the runaways, after his anger had vanished, but to no avail. lie finally fcla himself forced to the cruel conclusion oi the rest of the villagers, that the musi— cian had been like othcr men of the world, who set their hearts upon some village maiden, no better and no worse. and that, having coaxed her to flee with him, had subsequently deserted her. And so she had been ashamed to send any word home, preferring to suffer in silence, her innocence wrecked, hcr Darley pride broken and trailed in the dust. In this belief. his frail little wife had at last bccn forced to acquiesce. much against her will; and the doubt of her daughter's fate, coupled with tho, scpcaration from her only child, drove her to the grave! Doctor Darley lived on alone, btit for a few trusty old servants, in his lonely mansion, the lllms. ’l‘hus tcn ,\cais passed. Then the Doc- tor visited a distant watering place, for his health was slowly failing, and be had been advised to recuperate in some dif— ferent climate. \Vhen he returned, somc months later, he brought with him the body of a woman. in a costly casket. and had her laid away in the family vault, with appropriate, but. very quiet. cere— monies. He had heard, as he was about to leave the place, that a woman was dying in the room above the one which he had occupied in the hotel. Moved luv pity, he had answered the hasty suin— mons to her dcath—bcd. little dreaming of the revelation ll‘fll was in store for him. During her wild and fevercd ravings, she mentioned, ovcr and over again, a father whom she had disobeyt‘d. bcgginl,r his forgiveness, and assuring him that she had suffered for her sine nay, that she. was dying to cxpiatc it. llcr long golden hair. floating over hcr pillow and veiling licr wasted form, reminded the doctor constantly cf the sunny hcad that once made his home happy and her eye‘ Wt‘i‘c Hi‘ lllt stint (llll‘k shade of gray. But there was little. ic-stniblztntc in those drawn and c=olo. liss (het‘le and sorrow- ful. drooping lips, to those of l."" blooming Tempest l'iai‘lcy. So it fell“;ilttli all the force of a physical blow upon the old man, when an empty envelope was found among her scant possessions, after her death, addiisscd to “in. David liai— ley, The lilins. ‘\\'aync, N, ll." There. was no enclosure in the ch91- ope. if there had bccn it had both taki n otit, and there wcte no other marks upon hci posstssions or lltl‘ clothing, to add further proof of her identty. lint the Doctor ncver doubted that he had found his child-4m) late to do alight but la\ her by her mother's side \nd the only con— solation he had was the mournful one of visiting htr last resting place. and believ— ing that at last the mother was reunited with her child. llcavy upon his con- science lay the awful burdc'n of two dcatlisnsthc deaths of the two who had loved him, and whom he had loved! l'ndcr this fearful thought. his health grew steadily worse, and as misfortune:s rarely conic. singly, he met with business reverses that swept away his once com— fortable fortune. Little by little his broad acres were disposed of, aud’at last iis stately home. the Films, was sold to satis- fy his (ltimoring creditors. A younger doctor came into the village. fitted up an elegant office across the street from Dottor Darlcy’s shabby rooms, and slowly b'li. surely the latter saw his once lucrative practice passing over to the stranger. For a year or tw0 past. he had been living upon a mere pittance, scarcely able to pay the rent of his shabby cottage, keep food in the cupboard, and fire upon the’ hearth. Suddenly, the Doctor, who had been lost in this sad retrospection. started from his chair with a wild cry—half horror, l v t 414 (14) half ecstasy. For Tempest Darley’s face had been pressed against the window pane at his elbow—not the pale face of the dying Magdalen, but the fresh, sweet countenance of the innocent girl whom he had driven from her rightful home, twenty years before! The next moment, the door opened gently, and the vision stood there, framed by the warm spring sunshine, as in a flood of gold. “Tempest!” moaned the old man, trembling, hesitating. ”Tempest, my child!” “No, not Tempest—but her daughter!” anSwered a clear, musical voice, the voice of the young singer, as the vision stepped close to his side. “Grandfather, have you no welcome .for me?” He staggered as if he would fall, but the next moment her warm, young hands were clasped in his own, and his tears rained upon her sweet face. “God has forgiven me!” ht- whispered. “God has forgiven me, or he would never have per- mitted me this bliss!” Then an awful fear, a Wild suspicion, nurtured through all these years, crept into his heart. ile could not forbear the question: “Your father?” “Is dead,” answered the young girl, gently. “Died last year, and then my mother decided to carry out her long- cherished ambition to seek her old home and father again.” “What! Is she alive—my child. my Tempest? Impossible," he added, shaking his head, "she is dead—buried beside her poor mother.” “No grandfather, I have learned about the strange mistake you made. It was not your Tempest whom you buried, but a stranger. She had been a friend of my mother’s, and to her had been entrusted a letter from mother to you. But she had failed to send it, for reasons of her own, and the empty envelope was found with her. “My mother had desired to write to you, when her indignation died away, but father would not permit it. He declared himself as proud as any Darley, and since you had insulted him, he would not allow his wife to humiliate herself be- fOI‘e you. I know, grandfather, how very wrong he was in this matter, because you were her father, and one should never hesitate to ask the forgiveness of a par.- ent. But my father was a. proud man, and he never gave in. Once mother Wrote to grandmother, but the letter must have been lost, for there was no answer. Then growing hungry for your love again, she entrusted a message to her whom you buried in mistake for your lost child. But the latter, who had posed as a friend of mother's, proved in reality to have been an enemy, and failed in her mission. I do not lay the blame on her willingly, because she is dead and can not defend herself, but I must explain away all that I can to you, else you will scarcely be- lieve that your own child lives, and longs for you. Come grandfather,” and taking him by the hand, she led him out into the sunshine, that he for the first time noticed was so bright and warm and in- viting. ' Down the street she led him, and turned a corner, in a directon which his feet had not trodden for many weary months. Presently they stood before a great gate that swung open to admit them to the beautiful grounds of a stately mansion, whose blinds were up, whose doors stood open, whose walks were swept and bor- ders trimmed, as if the lonely rooms within again boasted occupants who loved the old place, even as the old man had loved it in days gone by. “\Vhere—where are you taking me, child?” murmured the old man, pausing for a moment on the loved and well—re- membered path, as his dim eyes sought the clear gray ones that were like wells of truth. “Home, grandfather,” she answered, “to the Elms, henceforth again your home, with me and the other Tempest, who is waiting for you with outstretched arms. Look, do you not see her yonder, in the open door?” Ah, were his old eyes deceiving him, or was it indeed one who had miraculously riscn from the dead, on this beautiful Ellslcl‘ day? “Father!” There was no longer any doubt. It was her voice. 'VVith a cry of rapture, the old man rushed forward. \Vhile coming more slowly up the walk behind him, a young girl, with eyes like holy wells of truth, sang softly to her— sclf— “He hath burst Death’s bonds asunder, Ile hath triumped o'er the grave!" THE BACHELOR UNCLE BY EVERITT McNEIL. I held my whip in my right hand. It had a heavy handle loaded with a rod of iron some three fcct long. nipping this handle tightly I slipped swiftly over the dashboard of the buggy, and, with my feet on the buggy tongue and my left hand on the back of one of the horses, I crept silently toward the man shouting at the horse’s head. I could not see him, but I could hear him calling hoarsely somewhere near the head of the horse on my right. Quickly bracing myself against the body of the horse as best I could, I leaned forward, raised the heavy whip-stock, and then, pausing an instant to get the right direction. I struck with all my strength straight down through the darkness at the voice. i felt tho heavy butt strike the man’s head: the hoarse voice broke in the midst of a half—uttered word; and, by a momentary flash of light— ning, 1 saw a white face falling backward. The moment i was again back on the buggy seat, I bent forward and. gripping the lines tightly, urged the horses on. I heard two or three answering shouts from the darkness back of me; and then all was still, except the sounds of the storm and the chug—chug of my horses’ feet in the thick mud of the road. nor did i again see or hear anything more of my assailants that night. I do not understand how in the dark- ness and storm the horses managed to keep the right road. I know that i. before half an hour had gone, 'had lost all sense of direction, and was beginning to worry desperatcly over the fear that we were going the wrong way, when, to my great satisfaction, a flash of lightning, the first since i had struck the man at the horse’s hoad, showed me the familiar outlines of an old stone barn that I knew was not more than two miles from home. I felt like shouting out my joy at this discovery. [ would yet be in time to demand an ac- counting from Harry Rodney. I whipped up the horses and drove on as rapidly as possible, anxious to get quickly home Where I could give a quiet hour or so to the consideration of the startling happen- ings of the day and to the planning of how I could best defeat Rodney without making a public scandal of the affair. I did not wish to have the name of Elsie Lamont mixed up in a matter which, if made public, would keep the tongues of all the scandal mongers in the neighbor- hood busily wagging for many days. Chapter XXV.-—A Cry Out of the Darkness. A little over half a mile from my home the road crosses a wooden bridge above a small stream of water. Perhaps it was five minutes after I had heard the wheels of the.buggy passing over the planks of this bridge, when, from the darkness directly in front of the horses. came a child‘s cry of fear and pain, pitiful in its helpless agony; and then, before I could pull up the team, one of the horses shied, and again I heard the cry, coming from under the feet of the off horse and end- ing with an omnious suddenness. Both horses now stood perfectly still, as if they feared to raise a hoof in the darkness lest they should tread on what lay underneath them. I do not think that anything ever gave me so dreadful a thrill of horror as did the cry of that little child, coming sud- denly out of the darkness of the night, coming from under the very hoofs of my horses. For an instant I sat fairly gasp- ing with astonishment and dread: and then, as I realized all that that cry meant, I jumped from the. buggy in a frenzy of haste. and springing to the side of the horse, felt, while my heart almost stopped heating with the dread of what i should find, over the muddy ground. In a moment my hands came in contact with a wet little- form, lying still and silent midway between the front and hind feet of one of the horses. As gently as pos- sible I raised the child in my arms and laid the limp little body down on blankets in the bottom of the buggy. Then I seized the whip, and, regardless of the darkness, struck the horses a couple of sharp blows, only anxious to get home as quickly as possible. , Fortunately we were 'now within a short distance of the house, and I soon 1 WWI-lemmings , , , A VERNAL THANKSGIVING, Arch. -6, 1912. BY VAN R. w. HORTON. Lo, Nature, laughing, breaks away From VVinter’s icy grip! Let’s celebrate the longed-for day With happy heart and lip! Thanksgiving for the birds‘ return! The rainbow and the showers! And vernal suns that glow and burn With life-restoring powers! For song. and bloom, and breath of spring, And tokens manifold Of favor from the Gracious King By whom the earth was bowled! Propitious heaven is smiling near; Below the ether blue, The Hand that made the world is here, Creating it anew. And sod, and tree, and plant, are rif. \Vith resurrection power That intimates immortal life For every human flower. Under the snow, safe-coffined, lies A humble creeping form, And, lo! Its Maker bids it rise—- ’Tis winged and not a worm! Shall dormant chrysalids disclose A wondrous care and plan To keep them safe through winter’s snows, But no one care for man? And trees resume their leaves and bloom, After the winter’s frost, ~ But never spring return to bring What withered man has lost? Enrapt we hear the melodies ‘ That thrill the robins’ throats, l, The blackbirds’ trilling in the trees, The bluebirds' mellow notes; . Our blood leaps with unwonted force Through artery and vein, Scatters new life along its course, And we are young again! -‘V‘V- Our snows are melting, and we feel The coming of a spring, Age‘s infirmities to heal, Aud youth immortal bring, While Nature swells her joyful noise, Let mortals shout.and sing— Thanksgiving for our present joys, And for the coming Spring! felt the horses turning into the gateway, and the next moment I saw the Welcome light, always left burning, shining bright— ly through the uncurtained kitchen win- dows. Without. stopping to fasten the horses, I caught the child up in my arms, ran into the kitchen, and laid the body down on the lounge. As I did this I caught sight of the child’s face. It was little Joey, Belle Murdock’s crip- pled brother! . \l'hat did it mean? How came he, an almost helpless cripple, alone some two miles from his home on this stormy night? What dcvilment had been going on at lied Murdock‘s? I glanced at the chick. t was fifteen minutes after two—- Sunday morning! Joey was not dead. I could see him breathing. Ilis left arm hung limply over the side of the lounge. I caught hold of it. It was broken. Doubtless the horse had stepped on it, and the poor little fel- low had fainted from pain and fright. He must have help at once; and I rushed from the kitchen to summon Mary Jade and Jake. . A. few minutes later Mary Jane, half- dressed, her nightcap still on her head, and her form all a-tremble with excite- ment, hurried into the kitchen. The mo- ment she caught sight of me bending over the little body on the lounge, she threw up both her hands. “Heavens an’ earth! John Delvin what has happened?” she exclaimed. “You ain't got a whole piece of cloth on you!~- Mercy on us! You are all bloody as a butchered hog!” and she made a dive for me across the room and seized hold of my arm. “John Delvin 1—” Here she caught sight of the form on the lounge. “Heavens an’ earth! I’ts little Joey: Mercy on us! \Vhat has happened?” and straightway the kindly old soul was bend- ing OVcr the child, her amazement and fear all swallowed up in her sympathy and anxiety for the little sufferer. Jake now entered the kitchen and stood blinking and staring at my torn clothes and bloody face, mute but vivid reminders of that desperate struggle in the lonely old'negro cabin. Mary Jane caught sight of him. “Land of goodness! Can’t you see that the child is most dead? Quick, a pail of fresh water. Quick! Don’t; stand there a blinkin’ like a demented lunatic,” she called to him. Jake glanced at the white face on the lounge and made a rush for the Well. “Th’ poor little dear, he ain’t got a dry dud on! Just help me get these clothes off an’ somethin' dry on. Her-- mercy, his arm is broken!” and Mary Jane glared at me indignantly, as if I were to blame for the broken arm. “John Delvin, I knowed sometin’ dreadful was a—goin’ to happen when I dropped th’ salt— ce-llar this mornin’, an’ th' salt went all over my .left foot—murder, or sudden death, or—what’s he clutchin’ in his hand?” and she held up Joey’s right hand. The little fingers were closed tightly over a crumpled piece of white paper. I quickly caught hold of the hand, and, gently forcing the fingers open, seized the paper. It was soaked with rain and covered with mud. Very carefully I spread out. the paper on the kitchen table, smoothed out the folds, and read, scrawled with a lead pencil, this mes- sage: Elsic Lamont: Come to me the moment you get this. I’ve something dreadful to tell you before I die, something that concerns your hap- piness for life. Belle Murdock. How the blood jumped through my veins when I read those words! And hope again sang joyously in my heart; for I saw in them the acquittal of my wrong- ly-condemned love, the stopping of that unholy marriage, and—and over and above and beyond all the vision of Elsie's face and Elsie‘s eyes once again looking love into mine—But, Belle Murdock might be (lying! might be dead! God alone knew how long little Joey had lain out there in the storm! I sprang from the ta- ble in a frenzy of excitement. The note must go to Elsie Lamont at once. At that moment the hired man came into the kitchen with the fresh pail of water. “Jake! Jake!” I shouted, springing toward him as if I had suddenly gone insane. “Jake, take this note to Elsie Lamont as quickly as horses will take you! Tell her that I found little Joey in- sensible in the middle of the road with it tightly clutched in his hand. Tell her that time is very precious, that Belle Murdock might die at any moment— For God’s sake get her there as quickly as you can, Jake! Tell her that you will take her at once to Belle Murdock. Go! Go!" and I caught the astonished man by the shoulders and fairly forced him outdoors. “The team is already hitched to the bug— gy. Go! Tell the doctor to come here at once. Little Joey is hurt. Go! For heaven’s sake don’t lose or tear it!" and I placed the wet note in his hand. “Go! Hurry!” and I gave him a final shove. “Yes, sir! Yes, sir! I understand,” and Jake, catching the fever of my desperate haste, ran to the barn, where the horses had stopped, jumped into the buggy and vanished, in a whirl of wheels and mud, into the darkness, now growing less every minute, for the storm had spent its ’fury and the sky was rapidly clearing. I hurried back to the lounge. Mary Jane was cutting the shirt off Joey; and in a few minutes more he lay white and still, dressed in one of Teddy’s night- gowns. How thin and pinched the little face looked! What a desperate battle his poor, weak. crippled frame must have fought alone with the darkness and the storm! Why had Belle Murdock chosen so helpless a messenger? How came she to get the opportunity to write the note and to dispatch Joey with it, without the doctor or the nurse knowing? What did the note mean? Could it be that at last Elsie was to know how greatly she had wronged me? What would she do? ‘Would she—” I had forgotten little Joey, and was staring straight in front of me, when Mary Jane caught hold of my arm. “Look!” she cried joyfully. “He’s comin' to!" As I glanced down there came a wave of color into the white cheeks; and then the eyes opened suddenly and looked up wonderingly into the kindly old face of Mary Jane, who was bending over them. “Belle!—~I—Oh—Th’ letter!" and he tried to jump to ‘his feet. “Th’ letter, Belle's letter——I’ve got to take it to Elsie Lamont —Belle said _I must take the letter to Elsie Lamont if it killed me. I’ve got to get it to Elsie Lamont!——Oh!” He sud- denly raised his right hand and unclench- ed it. “I‘ve lost th’ letter. I’ve lost th' letter! an’ Belle said she couldn’t die happy if I didn’t take it to Elsie Lamont! An" I tried, I did try to take it; but it got terribly dark, an’ it rained an’ thun- dered awful, an’ I couldn’t walk, an’ I crawled, an’ then my legs hurt, an' I , couldn't move them, an’—an’—-Oh, wher A is th’ letter? I’ve lost it, an’ Belle eat I was th' only one in all th’ world she (Continued on page 2117). l l A. 3., APRIL 6, 1912.’ AUNT BETTY, SUNSHINE MAKER. BY GENEVA M. SEWELL. “Day before Easter an’ all of us knock- ed out with measles,” groaned Tom Min- er; “much use it'll be for Mother to cook anything for us; with this taste in my mouth I couldn’t eat canary birds‘ tongues and taste ’em. \Vow!” “It’s so dark in here you couldn‘t find your mouth if you wanted to eat,” com— plained Timothy from his bed across the room, "I just know I could get up if they'd let me, an’ it wouldn’t hurt me neither.” “()li, cut it out,” growled Tom. Just then "Ting—a—ling-a-ling,” went a little bell across the hall. “Hello,” called Timothy, “Hello!” was the answer, “Do you want. some company?" “You bet we do!" responded Timothy; “we’re so cross if we touched we'd set fire to each other, or rather Tom is; I’m justhahcmwfussy.” “Forget it,” snapped Tom. “All right, we've got the remedy for both of you. Good-by." There was a fussing and bustling across the hall in the girl’s room and pretty soon the door opened and two shadowy figures appeared in the doorway “llello, there, measles!” called Timothy. “Measles yourself, and how do you like em,” retorted Ruth, while Aunt Betty Moore, who was helping Mrs. Mine-r with the children through this ineasle time, deposited Daisy, whom she had carried in the big Morris chair and tucked her iii carefully, then did the same for Ruth in the rocking chair. “\Ve don't want any relapses," said she, “and if the measles are pretty well gone from the outside thcy are. thick on the inside yet.” “if a bad taste is any sign, I’m one big measle inside," declared Tom. “if it wasn’t so bloomiii" dark in here we might play one of our new games an’ make a fellow forget about measles for a while,” complained Timothy, “()h, quit being a piker,” growled Tom. You see he was pretty cross. “Well, Timmy, suppose we play a game that we only need a light on the inside of our heads to play,” interposed Aunt Betty. “All right, fire away!” “Ilow’s it played, Aunt Betty?” asked Ruth. “By guessing things you have learned in your histories, readers and geogra— phies. It is called ‘The Thinking Game.’ THE MICHJGAN FA’RME‘R.‘ I‘ll give the first to show you how, and the one who guesses it may then give one.” “Sounds good," said Tom. “I went into the yard, looked up and saw an Indian war; now guess.” “Looked up and saw an Indian war— Now what’d you see if you looked up—- ’um-oh, yes—a hawk—oh, I know—— Black 'llawk’s \\'ar.” declared Tom. “Right; now you make one.” “All right, I went into a butcher shop and bought a New York bay.” “Oyster,” laughed liuth. “Now I ate a plum and found a great English states- man.” “Huh a plum—a plumroh, I knowm it’s Pitt,” guessed Timothy. “I went into a bookstore and bought a famous Quak- er." “I can guess that,” said Daisy. “It’s Penn. Now it’s my turn, so I went into a grocery store and bought a cape." “Gee. there’s so many things in a gro— cery; let's see, coffee, tea, spice, sugar, huhwcape—scapc,“ hesitated Tom. “Cape Cod,” guessed Ruth; “Is that right?” “Yes.” . “lluh, you beat me to it,” said Tom. “\Vell,” began Ruth, “I went into a drugstore and bought a battle of the lievolutionarr var.” “That's dead easy, Brandywine.” said Tom, promptly. “Now as you have open- ed the battles, so to speak, 1'll give you a corker. I Went into the barnyard and saw a battle of the. Revolution.” “Wish I‘d studied my bottles better,” lamented Timothy; “let's secmis it Bull- run?” “That’s in the Civil \\'ar, silly.” said lluth; “let's see, in the barnyardfioh, I know! Cowpcns. That is a clever one Tommy. Now I went into the woods and found an ex~vice president who was tried for treason." “Did you carry him dress?" asked liaisy. “Yes.” “llurr,’ shouted all three together. “Let Daisy give one, she, really guessed it first," said Aunt Betty. “I've thought of a hard one. I went: into the Bank of England and they gave me a country.” “Guinea,” guessed Timothy, promptly. “\Vcll, i went into a hardware store and bought a battle of the Civil war.” “Oh, dear." sighed ltuth at last, “I give' up; what is it?” “Ilere, here, hold on.” home on your cried Tom. OUR CHILDREN- BY EFFIE IIEBENDEEN. Out from the hearthstone the children go, Fair as the sunshine, pure as the snow. They go with our blessing and prayer—— The Lord should be with them every— where. They so soon leave our brooding care, So s00n mount Youth’s topmost stair. Out from the hearthstone the children go, The manly youths, and the maidens fair. Some prove to us blessings rare, Seine fall into the. temptcr’s snare. Our love goes with them everywhere— They iannot get beyond our prayer. Out from the hearthstone the children go, Our children, Whom the Lord hath given, I’urc as the dew that falls from heaven, Just in the springtime of life's joys. Uh, if they only come back as they go—— Fair as the sunshine, pure as the snow. “Don't be in such a rush; I'll have it in a minute—a hardware store—"let's see, what do they sell there——sttIvcsr—nailsu— tools—knives—oh, I have it~forks—~the battle of Five Forks. Say, I call that pretty clever, Tim, and I’ll go into the woods and find an American writer.” “Hawthorne." guessed l'tuth. “\Vell, [ went onto a long elevation in the garden and picked a battle of the Civil war for dinner. It's not very plain, but it’s all I can think of.” “An elevation in the gai-deirvis it a mountain or a hill?” asked Timothy. “Neither, it's a ridge.” “l‘ca ltidgc,” exclaimed both boys. “Yes.” “You have it, Tim, you began first,” said Tom, generously. “\\'cll," bcgan Timothy, we, played a game and finally we all got a country 11‘ .l‘illl‘ollf‘.” “That surely is Hungary,” laughed Aunt lictty. “I‘ll see if I can find a game to feed you with,” and she went into the kitchcn to bring up the chil— dren's lunchccn. “i think this game is a dandy." said Tom. "l'll catch some of the boys on ii when I go back to school. I can think of a lot of names that could be worked in." “So can I." asscntcd Timothy. “1 w-Im dcr what Mother will send up for dinner." “Oh, don't talk of eating. I couldn't if I had to." grumbled Tom. “.l'm hungry and 1 know Mother will fix up something line.” said l‘tuth. “Here, they come,” announced Daisy. as Mrs. Miner and Aunt Betty came inIo the room. Aunt Betty carried a little ta- ble which she set between the girls and H AMONG THE PEONS OF MEXICO. Only a few years ago, one had but to visit the larger cities of Mexico to come in contact with its queer customs and peculiarities; but thesi- have become so Americanized that today, to enjoy fully its charming characteristics the small towns and villages must be sought out and explored. it is quite true that quite a number of the inhabitants live in niod- crnized homes, somewhat similar to those in the states, but the majority, those be- longing to the peon class, live very much as their ancestors did a century ago. Some of the homes of the peons are of adobe, but more are thatched cottages of bamboo, with dirt floors. These are almost devoid of furniture, with the ex— ception of sewing machines, which are found in many of the humblcst homes. The inhabitants generally are small of stature and one ptculiarity is that there are very few middle—aged pcople. They appear to be either children or are quite old; this is more noticeable among the women. A bright attractch young wom- an is a novelty. Presumably there is something about the climate which causes them to age rapidly. A great many are blind and crippled, consequently there are a large number of miserable beggars. The women dress similarly to the poorer class of Americans, except that they do not wear hats, or bonnets, while invar— iably they have a rehosa, or scarf, wrap— ped around them regardless of the tem— perature. The Deon men wear white muslin suits—just trousers, short coat, high but and sandals. It is not an unus- ual sight to see 3 1171.111 with two, or even three hats on, one on top of the other. In the more prosperous homes the cook- ing is done largely on braziers, built of brick and the- fuel is charcoal: but those who live in thatched huts cook out of doors on a campfire. Their food consists largely of tortillas (corn cakes) and fri- joles (native beans). \Vhen a peon has work away from home, his wife carries his food to him, and she, with their chil— dren, share it. Quite often, when the husband works upon a railroad, his fam- ily leave their little lint and go with him from place to place. All the cities and towns. even the vil- lages, have at least one plaza, and some have three or four, all laid out beautifully in walks bordered with flowers of every variety. Thcse plazas are used for var— ious purposes. In some towns the market is found upon their outskirts; in others Early in ‘the morning they attend mass. as if to relieve thcniseIVt-s from all rc- ligious restraint: the remainder of the day is spent in gaietyn The numerous gambling rooms are full and often the games are taken out upon the streets. The, avorite game is keno and it is pat— ronized my lllc old and young of both sexes. It is one ccntavo a card for each Thatched Cottage Typical of Mexican Peon Habitations. are large fountains where the natives go for their drinking water. This they carry in jars upon thcir heads. The plazas are used also in celebrating their feast days, at which time booths are erected and the peons come for many miles to exhibit and sell their wares, such as pottery, bead~ work, baskets and fine drawnwork. Feast days occur frequently in this care-free country, and during that time all work ceases. Almost invariably, in the center of each plaza is a band stand, for the Mexicans are passionately fond of music. These bands are composed largely of peons and are supported by the govern— ment. Sunday is a gala day with them. game and the players use grains of corn for counting. The Sunday markets are the best of the week and the stores are thronged With ready buyers. 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Daisy took the “fairy wand,” shut her eyes and touched a. red egg. “Uh, oh, what must I do now?” “Just wait till the rest find theirs," answered Aunt Betty, giving Ruth the wand. Ruth touched a green one, and Timothy a. blue one, and Tom got the white one. “Oh, well, this is a big one an’ I’m willing to give the rest of you a bite,” said Tom cheerfully. Then Mrs. Miner and Aunt Betty helped the children to unwrap their eggs and open them onto a nice slice of hot toast. \thu Tom’s turn came they gave him just an ordinary egg. “You must wait a bit for your bite- of the white one,” said Aunt Betty, and the first thing he knew he had eaten every last crumb of his egg and toast. “Now I’m ready for my bite of Tom’s egg,” laughed Timothy when he had fin- ished his egg. “All right, you can have the shell for yours," retorted Tom, but when it was unwrapped there was no shell; it was just a big egg of blanc mange, done up in white paper. Each child was given a portion, with cream and sugar. “Now you may have one more try for ‘the golden egg, bill each one must close llle eyes now and keep them closed until all have touched their egg.” “Ready." called the children, and Aunt Betty quickly changed the pans, substi- luliug one with all gold eggs. “You first, Daisy,” said she. ”Uh, oh," gasped Daisy in delight at her golden egg, and “Oh-h—b" said the others when they found that they had golden eggs. “Now, that is just for a sweet taste," declared Aunt L’ctly. “Peel the shell off." The children did SO and found a lovely maple sugar egg. An egg had been pierced at one end and the contents shaken out, then the shell well rinsed and filled with warm maple syrup that had burn stirred until it began to grain. \\'licn it hardened it was the shape of the egg. “\Vell say, Mother. I call this a pretty flossy lunch for sick folks,” complimented Tom. “i forgot 1 had a. bad taste, and everything was fine.” “Aunt Betty is the. one to thank," said his mother. “She thought of it.” "Aunt Betty always thinks of the dear- est things.” declared Ruth. “How did you ever think of that cute little verse?" “Why, that verse is from a truly Easter game, only i changed it a little. We used in play it at home and only the other day Mary Neely ran acrose about the same thing in a magazine and they are going to play it at her party this evening." “And we can't go!" walled Daisy. “Don't you mind that. i know lots of grilles, and after you'Vc all had a rest and a nap we‘ll bring you back in here and play them,” comforted Aunt Betty. “I guess we’ll have to call you the top- notch sunshine maker,” declared Tom. That evening. after supper, the girls came into the room again. 3 “Got your games along?” asked Tom eagerly. ".\\v, we can’t see to play anything \Vllll only the hall light.” complaimd Timothy. “This is another game that only needs light on the inside of the bead," laughed Aunt Belly. “It is called ‘crxpeditions’ and is played by having the name of the place, 1he action and the object all begin with the same letter, like, ‘i am going to Sahara to snare snakes.’ " “I catch on.” said Tom. “Well, then, you begin. We will begin by the first one taking the first letter of the alphabet and the next one the sec- ond, etc.” “And can we mention any place and any thing?” asked Ruth. “Yes, no matter ‘how ricidulous.” "Well, here goes,” said Tom. “I am in . , going to Arizona to annex amphibians.” "Ruth take, the next and then on' around'the' circle," said Aunt Betty, when the children had stopped laughing. . “I am going to Boston to buy baked beans and brown bread." “That sounds good to eat," said Timo- thy: “now I am going to Calcutta to cap- ture creatures.” “I am going to Denmark to dig ditches.” “That’s pretty good, Daisy,” said Tom. “I am going to England to—«to—to—huh —-I can't think of a verb.” “We’ll have to have a forfeit, then,” said Aunt Betty. “Vl'ait a minute; will any old thing do?" “Yes." “Vt'ell; then, l'm going to England to eat eagles—there,” said Tom triumph— antly. i “I am going to Florida to fight flatter- ers,” said Ruth, and so the game went on through the alphabet several times, each one trying to think of clever or funny things to say. The first thing they knew father and mother were there laughing and saying it was bed time for "measley” folks. THE BACHELOR UNCLE. (Continued from page 414). dared trust with it, an’ I’ve lost it!” and again he struggled to rise, thinking only of the duty he had failed 10 do, and not of his broken arm and the utterly ex— hausted condition of his crippled body. “Joey, Joey,” I said, bending quickly over him, “I found the letter in your right hand, saw that it was meant to go to Elsie Lamont, and sent Jake with it at once. Elsie will get it as soon. as horses can take Jake to her; and I will tell Belle how bravely you iried to deliver it; and it will make her very happy to know that her little brother proved himself such a hero, for you have shown yourself a hero this night, .locy, an unconscious hero, the best and the noblest kind. Now you have hurt your arm, and you must lay perfectly quiet and not talk until the doc» tor comes. Belle will know, and every- thing is all right, so just close your eyes and go to sleep, and Mary Jane and I will take care of you.” “Au’ Elsie Lamont will get Belle’s let- ter!” he cried, his wan face lighting up joyously. “I’m glad, ’cause it will make Belle happy, an’ maybe it will help her to get well. I’m awful tired. an’—-an' I guess I’ll go to sleep. An un—con- scious—h-ero. Au un-con—scious h-h-ero," he murmured again; and then, despite his pain—racked body, little Joey slept the sleep of utter exhaustion. i left Mary Jane “mothering" him and hurried to my room. I wanted to be alone. My brain was in a fever of excited expectations. If Elsie, Lamont should reach Hello Murdock DCIOl‘e sne died, and Belle Murdock should tell Elsie Lamont how Harry Rodney had deceived her and wronged me, what would Elsie Lamont do, she who had scorned me so long and cruelly? How Would it affect my rela- tions with her? Did she still love me? How sweetly hope sang: “Yes, yes, she loves you, has loved you all the time!” Her eyes had seemed to tell me that dear truth when I rescued her from the runa- way horses; and now, if—if—my heart and brain were on fire. I walked back and forth across the room, seeing nothing but Elsic’s dear face, hearing nothing but Elsie’s sweet voice, thinking, dreaming only of Elsie—all a-lremble with love’s delightful intoxicunl vvvvv “Uncle John! l'ncle John!” It was Teddy’s voice that called me to my senses. He was sitting up in his bed. staring at me out of great, round, won- dering, astonished, frightened eyes. “Un- cle John, you—you aren’t going crazy, are you?" I could hear his teeth beginning to chatter. and he had the bed clothes pulled up close around his neck. “You look awfully queer and wild, and act fun- ny, and your clolhes are all torn and bloody—Oh, l'ncle John, I know what has happemrl! You’ve had a fight with that big man! Did you lick him, Uncle John? Did you lick him?” And he jumped out of bed. “Oh, did you lick him, Uncle John?” and he stood regarding me with that wrapt look of awe with which the small boy ever views a man who has just come from a fight. YVben I looked in the mirror I did not wonder at Mary Jane’s and Teddy’s fright at sight of me, nor at the boy’s quick conclusion that I had had a fight with Harry Rodney. 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I made a hasty end of my washing and dressing, giving not the slightest heed—— hardly hearing—Teddy’s reiterated: “Do tell me about the fight! Please, please, do, Uncle John!” I found Doctor Anderson bending over little Joey. “Poor little fellow,” he said, looking up, “it would be cruel to awak— en him. I will give him a hypodermic injection while he sleeps that will make him insensible to all pain, and he will never know when I set his arm. \Vill you help me, Mr, Delvin?" “Yestow is Belle?——\\‘as she sensi— ble when Elsie Lamont got there? Could she talk?——‘\Vere you in the room when Elsie came?-VVhat did Belle do?—~\Vhat did Elsie do?” and I stopped, breathless- ly awaiting his answers. “Yes, Mr. Delvin, Belle Murdock was conscious when Miss Lamont reached her. and surprisingly strong. She insisted on seeing Miss Lamont alone,” and Doctor Anderson looked at me wonderingly. Doubtless his curiosity had been greatly excited by the remarkable and conflicting interests that had centered themselves around Belle Murtlock's sick bed; but his professional courtesy quickly caused him to conceal all signs of inquisitiveness, illlil he continued quietly, with official selt‘~ composure and brevity: “Your hired mat informed me that I was wanted here; and I came at once, leaving Miss Lamont alone in the room with Belle» Murdock. Pardon me, Mr. Delvin, but I must give my attention to this poor little fellow im- mediately, and hasten back. I very much fear that the interview with Miss Lamont will not be helpful to my patient,” and Doctor Anderson turned to little Joey. I gave him what aid I could; but my brain was in such a wild turmoil with thinking of Elsie Lamont and Belle Mur- dock alone in that little room, and of what that meeting might portend, that I fear I was of little help to the good doctor. 'Howevor, at last we had the arm set and everything done for little Joey that the skill of the doctor could suggest. “I heard Elsie Lamont cry out your name, ‘John Dclvin,’ so loudly that it reached my ears in the next room, where I was putting on my rain—coat to come here," Doctor Anderson said, as he but— toned up his coat to go. I jumped to my feet and stammered out something, while I am sure my face flushed like a young girl‘s. Doctor Anderson smiled enigmatically and continued, the smile lingering on his face while he spoke: “Pardon me, Mr Delvin, but if I were your physician, I would insist on your going to bed at once, and getting a few hours' sleep. You have been driving mind and body at high- pressure for the past few days, and your nerve-s are all unstrung. You need rest; sadly. Better take my advice. A few hours’ sleep will rest your nerves won- derfully. And—ant," he looked at me hesitatingly, as if he doubted if it were wise for him to speak the next words. “there may be strenuous work for you to do before the day is through. Now, I must hurry back to my patient. Good- night." and he was out of the door before my slow Wits were ready with any words. Little Joey had been placed in the “company" bedroom, which opened out of the sitting room, and was now sound asleep, while Mary Jane sat by the bed watching anxiously over him. “'ith a whispered injunction to Mary Jane to call me at once, should there be any need, I went into the library and shut the door behind me. (To be continued). “Grandma’s Easter Lilies."—The pleas- ing picture upon our first magazine page is a post-card photo received from Doris and Alice Jacobs. The card bore the fol- lowing: “Dear Editor:———Please accept. our pictures for The Farmer. We are Grand- ma’s Easter Lilies, at our Grandpa’s farm in Cooper township, Kalamazoo county.” ’ THE 'Micrii‘GAisi ' FARMER. 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THE MicthAN ~ FARM-ER. “bitten ant) Her A? '/-, At Home anb Eleew ere Turkey By Elenore Illi] ideal occupation for the farm I woman, it seems to me, should have chrtain characteristics. Assuming that she is already a busy woman, her money-making occupation should afford her change and pleasure, and must usu— ally fit in with her regular farm program. Fortunate is that mother whose pin—mon— ey work brings added interest and pleas- ure to her household, and can be used to teach her children the great lessons of useful labor. No one could have known less about turkeys than the writer, when, in her first year of farm life. she invested five dollars in a trio of these most interesting of farm fowls. They were of the ordi- nary grade Bronze variety, and. to be exact, the auctioneer knocked them down at $4.93. The first egg of the season was taken from the crate in which they traveled home. The hitherto prized chickens straight- way took second place, and the turkeys became of absorbing interest. And Well they might. for we had drawn a prize package in our trio. The two turkey hens in that first summer laid 110.9 eggs, the younger one laying almost constantly, the older proving herself alt ideal moth- er, and the fine big Tom a wonderful liclpmet-t and caretaker. lie was ready, as Soon as the young were fairly started, to take them under his ample wings and protecting care, letting the old hen bring off another brood. -\s a cool business proposition we now know this: trio of ma~ ture, hardy, prolific birds to haVe- been Worth to us nearer $25 than $5, for per- manent breeding stock. The Department of Agriculture experts tell us that it costs no more to grew :1 pound of turkey meat than a pound of pork~ six cents at a rough estimate. Yet pork is plentiful, raised with much hard labor and little profit, while in our own Michigan this season more than one city was caught short, and could not obtain, at any price on the day before Christmas, turkeys to supply the demand. People who stood ready to pay three times and four times the price of pork, had to let invited guests go turkey hungry. After securing our trio we promptly consulted every turkey raiser among our neighbors, friends and relatives, and all others reported skilled in the art of tur— key raising. \Ve sifted all these ideas with one season‘s experience with chick- ens, and so accumulated enough knowl— edge to kill every turk that dared leave its shell. In fact. we did this literally, except for those, few that the harassed turkey hens were at last able to batch and escape with from our too watchful care. \\'e carefully gathered every egg, care— fully set them under chicken hens. com- pelling the turkeys to offend nature‘s law, and lay again and again. '\\'0 used chick- en mothers for the poults, fastened them in coops and yards away from their need— ful grit and green and insects, and tend— ed thr-m with deadly care. We fed foods wet and pasty and crumbly, that soured in the sun and patked and baked in the digestive tract. Each successive brood Would seem so promising for a few short weeks, then the. discouraging change. Just when they seemed about to feather out and really get to be some size, the wings would begin their gentle droop, and the downy. fluffy bodies lose their pretty roundncss. Tlcprived of nature‘s feather forcing insect food, of proper exercise and grit and green food, beset by the vermin of the, chickens about them, without the dustbath of freedom, they wearily droop— cd and died. Then I studied remedies, applied grease and powders according to rule, and gave medicines externally, internally and eter- nally. And still they died. [r - cede Raising. H. Donagh. In spite of my literally killing attention, the one old turkey who could stop laying long enough to hatch the eggs, brought off a brood, escaped with them beyond my range, brought them—or most of them hsafely through the- feathering out stage, turned them over to her feathered lord, and proceeded to raise a second nestful which were safely feathered before cold weather. So, in spite of all, We sold our product that fall for $40.60, receiving the highest price then known in the neighborhood, 18 cents, live Weight. Apparently we had done well, for we still had six birds on hand to begin the next season. It looked like big returns on the investment, if we laid had disappointments. llut we had, unknowing. killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Attractcd by the price, thinking more pounds meant more profit, I sold the parent trio. keep- ing for the foundation of our future flock the six late immature poults, two small to sell profitably. Like the farmer who sells the best milkers, and keeps the de- fective cows for the foundation of his 3’46 a Money Making Occupations for Women. selecting a breed which, though not the heaviest, is quick growing,_~“and holds the record for greatest percentage brought to maturity, out of number of poults hatch- ed. We were most fortunate in securing, from a prominent breeder in Wisconsin, the three remarkably fine hens that were the foundation of his flock. \Vhy he sold them has always been a mystery to us. Each has proven herself invaluable, and no money could buy them. W'e secured a fine Tom, and started in. The first year we did not realize the money value of the pure—bred crop, but did appreciate the comfort of distinguish- ing our own birds at the farthest end cf the farthest field, and the pleasure and satisfaction in their beauty. The next year, when New Year‘s found the turkey market short, and a prominent merchant offered 25 cents a pound live weight for our entire crop, we sold. Back came the cost of all our high—priced breeding stock. and a generous profit besides. Nor did we sacrifice our breeding stock. That lesson is. learned. A turkey hen once proven fit for the breeding pen is guarded like fine, gold, and can only be removed for cause. No offer of money could tempt us. A Tom may serve, a couple of years and go, but old hens are. too valuable to be care— lessly parted with. These turkeys never lay in the chicken Coops, but choose their nests like wild Pair White Holland Turkeys, Owned by the Writer. dairy herd, we started the next season with the whole half dozen late, stunted left-overs. \\'e- had double the number, but not half the foundation for success. Like the old-fashioned novel writers, we draw a veil over the next few years. Enough to say that where. the first sea- son the baby poults died by dozens, the seeond year they died by regiments and by platoons. But for us they were years of careful study. and it has been my ex— perience that, no matter how near failure 1 may have seemed in those first faulty years, the accounts always show that the turkeys have returned a profit on the in— vestment. Careful study of the turkey in the woods and fields as she made her nest, hatched and reared her young, of her habits summer and winter, as well as the best literature on the subject, gradually brought results. Our system eliminates the fussing and leaves the turkey raising a matter of pleasure- as well as profit. “’9 found that young turkeys. like young children, could be kept well if their good health began several generations back. They had then. at least, a start with a tolerable, fighting chance. and we let the old turkeys rear them as nature intend- ed, in perfect freedom. This method has brought success. One season, after our turkey troubles seemed over. a neighborhood mix—up of flocks showed the error of having no pos- itive method of identifying one's own. Once more a course of study on the sub- ject was undertaken, and this time the object was to discover, if possible, a breed as good, or better, than the cus- tomary Bronze and Black, which could be readily distinguished on account of a characteristic color. We went to the De— partment of Agriculture for information, creatures, in all sorts of secret places. Except to protect their nests from crows, I pay little attention to them. But crows with us causevserious loss unless this is done. Very early in spring, they usually go to the barn, finding in the hayloft a. safe and sheltered spot for the precious eggs. The breed is so domesticated, that the turkeys on these nests may be band— led almost; as freely, when necessary, as sitting hens. I protect one hand with a gauntlet glove, but carry old and young, when necessary for their safety. '\\'e turn the young out into the fields, or rather let the wise old turkeys take their young away, as their instinct teaches them. Usually they prefer the big weodlot for the first weeks, later glcaning the grain fields and meadows, thriving wonderfully when the grasshop- pers arrive. The. pleasantest part of the summer day is the trip of inspection to woods and fields, to cotmt the young and keep them tame. I teach them to' come. at the turkey call and many a brood is found by the mother answering from her distant hiding place. A toy whistle may be used. or any call different from that used to call chickens. Each flock is fed finely cut grains and seeds, but in smallest possible, quantities. The object is to keep them tame. if the young appear I count and leave them, if too shy. I feed the mother and wait as quietly as possible until gradually, here and there. one pair of bright eyes after another appears and the poults shyly taste the scattered grain. After they all come from their hiding places I stop feed- ing. Except in prolonged wet weather. turkeys on free range require no artificial food, Like the “beggar who wanders in search of his bread,” they find all they need. Nature furnishes to the poult on books a re free range‘ grit, water, (usually as drops of dew), green food and the most con- centrated food known in all her realm, in the abundant insect life about them. She even teaches them to look up. not down, for their food. Your day-old hungry tur- key will not notice the mixtures you place before it, but will eagerly snatch at the moving insect on a grassblade. And that is fortunate, for no other diet will force the growth of feathers fast enough to cov- er the sleek body and keep it trim and firm and shipshape. No Wonder the books so often tell us to protect young turkeys from dew and wet grass and from rain. Raised “by hand,” the babies keep downy so long, and are so poorly protected by the slow growing, loosely folding feathers when they do grow, that they are unable to resist damp or shower. I find a good turkey mother on free range will spread her wings umbrella-wise, and protect her young perfectly in even severe storms. Nor is it many days before their sleek, closely feathered bodies can move about in, or rather between, wet grasses, shed- ding water perfectly. Given freedom, and that mans freedom from lice, the great- est danger is eliminated. \\'ith no forced feeding, no coddling, plenty of fresh air and exercise, our flock remains healthv and hardy. ‘ As we now raise only pure—bred poultry we fatten no birds for market and have 1.0 turkeys with digestion troubles in fall and winter. “'e have carried a large flock through this winter, and, selling by single birds, pairs and tries, will not fin— ish marketing our last season’s flock till near the end of March. But we have not had a sick blrd about during the year. if people would learn to segregate their breeding birds when fattening the mark- et turkcys in the early winter, much un— necessary loss would be avoided, and the young of the following season would be stronger. I do not mean to say that we, raise every turkey hatched. Many fail by the wayside. But we do not lose any birds after they are grown, and the young go as the young quail or other wild fowl go, from natural causes. Those that (lie are the weak, the unfit, and those that; meet with accident. \Vhat we keep il- lustrates the survival of the fittest. Now, as to the money—making end of the work. Hitherto I have emphasized the method used, but the purpose of this article is to show one of the pleasant ways by which farmers’ wives may in- crease their supply of pin-money. I have found the pecuniary returns very satisfactory. Taking one year after an- other, there has never been a time when the turkeys did not return a big per- centage on the investmnt of capital and labor. \Vhen natural methods are used, and both old and young fed on dry grains and seeds, the work becomes a pleasure. To those who will remember that it costs no more to keep a turkey hen a. year than a chicken, it will not seem unreasonable to keep a half—dozen turkeys instead of a trio and let the turkey mothers do the real work of raising the young. The writer keeps a dozen for the ordi— nary bret‘wling flock, and would sooner cut down the number of chickens than the number of turkeys, For chickens mean more work and smaller profits. There is no doubt that if half as much intelligent effort were to be expended on turkeys as is expended on chickens, more farmers’ wives would have pin-money to spare, and wise men would not warn us that the turkey threatens to become as extinct as the far—famed Dodo. The returns for this year cannot be known until later. But for last year the balanced. They brought in round numbers, just $200 for the season, and were a pleasure from the moment :be creamy balls left the shell to the time they spread out their beautiful white wings and sailed home to rest in the ap- ple trees outside my window. Expense? I cannot tell you. My part- ner says they fully repay the farm during summer and fall for the grain they eat, t". .ww-‘ .,.,,., -. '50,, em; ~ . «Wm—m.» . APRIL 6,:1912. / by the amount they save by eating weed seeds and devouring noxious insects in_ the fields they wander over. For those who raise market fowls, the expense of fattening is easily reckoned. And many every year go to market with no fatten- ing f-ood except what they glean from the harvest fields. For wintering a flock one may reckon, roughly, on a dollar apiece. For the busy woman who wants $50 or $100 extra to spend in the fall, I know c-f no way she may SO easily earn it as by keeping a few turkeys, and letting them raise their young, and the money for her. KNOWl THYSELF. “It is a good thing to know one’s limi- tations.” So spake a wise young man who had been successful to a certain de- gree, and whose friends urged him to try for greater hights. “I am doing all I am capable of doing. I have not the educa- tion, business ability, tact nor physical strength to try for anything else. I am a. success right here. I have enough to live on comfortably and lay by a bit. Why give up something I know I can do well to try to do something I am utterly un- fitted to do? I’ve reached my limit, and I know it.” .To the person whose motto is, ”All things are possible,” the young man’s at- titude would seem foolish. His refusal to try for anything higher would be Set down as lack of ambition. But on sober second thought, was it not based on sound common sense? The young fellow was not a genius; he had no education beyond the eighth grade; he had no social graces; no flashes of brilliancy, and last. but not least, no powerful friends. lie was merely an ordinary young fellow who, by dint of hard work, had got a modest success in a small town. Friends urged him to try for bigger victories in a large city, but he, with greater wisdom, stuck to his first field. And by so doing he retained his succesg and added largely to his happiness. He knew his limitations, than which there is no better knowledge for any of us to acquire. A large part of the un~ happiness of this world is caused by the fact that most of us dO'not know when we are living up to all that is in us. \Ve see someone else doing big things and it seems so easy we feel that we could do the same. We start out to try, only to find, after months of heartache, that our limitation was the washboard or the mixing bowl, or the typewriter, or per- haps the district school, and teaching music to the children of our native vil- lage. A series of pictures running in a. daily paper illustrates pathetically the- lot of the girl who didn’t know her limitation. She had a sweet voice, nothing big nor great nor powerful, just a sweet girl’s voice that could please father and mother and the home friends. But an unscrupu- lous teacher persuades the family that the girl has a great future before her. so she leaves the home where she might have been happy doing the simple things she could do, to go to a great city and be unhappy trying to do something she never can do. Every big city is full of its Tillie Clap- saddlos, girls who ought to be back home singing in the village choir and helping mother with the housework, but who are lured to the metropolis by a hope of climbing to a hight from which their lim- itations will forever keep them. And it is not alone the singers who are bound to awake to the sickening realization some day that they are drab failures; there are the girl who can draw a little, the girl who can write a little, the girl who can recite a little, or act a little. All are bound some day to find out that What is good enough to make her own little friendly circle applaud is not nearly good enough to meet all the competition that is coming from all those other girls from the other small towns who will meet to— gether in that swirl called a, metropolis to parade their tiny accomplishments. And oh, the tawdriness of'all of it when the work of the real successes towers above. Yes, it is a. fine thing to know one’s limitations. It spares us a lot of useless striving and a bitter load of heartaches and regrets. DEBORAH. If your milliner charges you a higher price than usual for your spring hat this season do not blame her. Milliners‘ sup- plies show a marked advance, ribbons es- pecially being higher in price than last season. ‘ HUMAN WELFARE QUERIES. Editor Household Department—What colors will be worn this summer?—J. L. D. Tans and blues are both good. Editor Household Department:——To what class of foods do beans belong?— Miriam. Beans, proteids. Editor Household Department—What vegetables are suitable to serve With fish?—Cook. A. salad vegetable is usually served With fish, as cucumbers or tomatoes. The to- matoes may be served either cooked or uncooked. Creamed onions may also be served and rice balls are nice. Editor Household Department—How do you carmelize sugar?—Mrs. X, Melt the granulated sugar in a sauce— pan without the addition of water. Stir it constantly until all has melted to a liquid without grains or lumps, which usl ually form in melting. Pour at once into whatever it is to flavor. Editor Household Department:——l\‘ly baby is 18 months old and does not walk. would you do anything to encourage him to'PV—r-Young Mother. I should let the baby take his time. Nature is wiser than mothers in most cases and when the baby is strong enough to walk he will start without being urged. You might rub his limbs night and morn- ing Wllh a little olive oil. This is said to be strengthening. Editor Household Department:—W’hat is the right proportion of baking-powder and flour for biscuits?»M. N. TWO evcn teaspoons of baking powder to one cup of sifted flour. peas and lentils are vegetable Editor Ht'iuschold Department—“bum like to have someone, through the col- umns of tho h’lichig‘an Farmer, tell me how I can wash or clean white elder- down wool aviation caps, without spoil- ing thcm.——-l\'1. l5. 1'}. ' Editor Household Departmentz—V’Vill some of the farmers" wives kindly suggest the proper care for a butter-bowl so it: will not crack? Should a new one be soaked in water for a few days before using?—.l\lar1ta. VVOMAN’S MANAGEMENT OF HOUSE- HOLD DUTIES AND THE EFFECT ON CREDIT. BY WALTER JACK. Neatness in the home can be coined in dollars and cents. This is a fact that came to my atten- tion several days ago, and in this case it proved true, much to the sorrow of a cer- tain housekeeper. -A. woman, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, married a half dozen years ago, and having plenty of money to carry on the farm, sought a loan. The woman was slack about the home, the man spent some time in the house trying to keep it. in such condition as the good reputation of the family had demanded. In his ef- forts the farm appeared neglected. A loan was in the process of negotia- tion. The real estate was of sufficient value to protect the lender to twice the value. The matter of reverses and loss of financial footing under the conditions was no cause of hesitancy. The matter that did block the way was a. natural one. It was 5 o'clock .in the afternoon. The noon work had not been touched when the place was visited. The housewife was sitting down lazily washing dishes. A half—open door showed an unmade bed, a begrimmed oil stove at the edge of the table and the unwholesomely prepared food appearing on the table caused thought. Not a promise was made about the loan when pressed. However, con— siderable inquiry was made. The- lady apologized in view of her health. That led to a question as to the attitude of other members of the. family relative to the financial condition of the daughter and her husband. One little matter after another was brought up, all being of so little importance that the banker, know— ing the family as I do, but not seeing con—‘ (litions in the home. would have no hesi~ fancy in noncring the request. In View of conditions in the home I was pressed for an opinion. The woman's housekeeping was a liability as much as that of first mortgage. It was necessary to advise the parties to shape matters as best they could until spring, and then the matter would 'be gone over, and at that time the loan might not be required. Here is an instance where appearances etnhance credit. .___.. Favors are equally divided between rough and smooth straws. The mixed, rough_ straw turbans are very good, and are showu in browns, greens and blues. Skirts are as narrow as over, some of them more so. The dressy skirt is long and trains are shown on the party gowns. x iTHB MICH'IGAN‘ 'FARMER. (191 419 I Acme Quality Porch Furniture Enamel Gives a bright enamel finish that defies wear and weather. Acme Quality'Paints Ward Off Decay Good for both wood and metal. 1,, ‘(((‘C Parafhne gives a hard, shiny ‘- ‘ coating that keeps out a certain amount of cold and ~'- \ - moisture. You can even ' demonstrate this by melting a common tallow candle. But What happens when the summer sun gets at a surface like that? It dribbles away, of course, just as inferior paint blisters, cracks and peels under the same circum— stances. You know the rest. ACME QUALITY Paints, Enamels, Stains and Varnishes (if (i I ’/ give a substantial surface in all 1 \ l weathers and climates. They last. \/ \ ‘ They last a long time. They give \ you your money’s worth-and more, because they don’t blister, crack, peel or fade. They’ve got the right stuff {‘1‘ . ' in them—are easy to apply—look the best—represent real economy. Get Our Painting Guide Book Costs you nothing. Tells you all you should know about any kind of painting. Send postcard this minute. Tell your dealer you are delermined to have none but Acme Quality reliable paints. If he can't furnish them, state your wants to % ”(I 7/— ,,.¢AIN73\\ [nuns Acme Quality No-Lustre Finish Hard, washable. For walls, ACME WHITE LEAD ceilings, woodwork. Easily AND COLOR WORKS cleaned. Does not show laps. Dept AA. Detroit. Mich. 74% of All Carriage Builders No Use (locum Rubber Tires k.” _.. _ So many carriage users have now asked for Goodyear "Wing” Tires that 74 out of\ every 100 makers of carriages are putting Goodyear "Wing" Tires on their carriages. Thus the demand for Goodyear uWing" Tires in the past season has increased 24 per cent. And the present season indicates an in- crease. we estimate, of81% over the one just passed. More carriage dealers now sell Goodyear "Wing”Tlres than any other kind. In 13 years we '°Winx"'l'irc have made and sold 3,000,000 “Wing" Tires. Our fi" . H" ‘T‘ The Good ear "Win " Tire In its field is u . u “ . ‘ . l“ quite as sensyationala siccess as the Good- ECCCDh‘lC" ' N -R' -C tTi i ' th ‘ - ' 3.3%. 0 up u re s in e automobile Cushion Tll'e The Goodyear“Wing" is far the most pop- is especially de- ular tire in existence. And only shrer superi- ority could have made it so. You‘ll get the utmost in service and satisfaction if you put "Wing” Tires on your carriage. The Goodyear "Wing" Tire Note this patented wing. How it presses against the obnnne . thus preventing mud, dirt. grit or water from getting in and uickly rusting the rim and destroiing the tire use. This tire re- mains sound. n on t creep or get, loose. Gives ut- most wear, Will protectyourcarriage and greatly w 't u postul now for our latest Carriage lengthen ltfl life. Being oftough,springyrubber, 1" e Tire Booklet, and name of dealer in it is exceptionally easy-riding. your town who sells Goodyear Carriage Tires. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Akron, Ohio signed for light- ervehicles—runa- bouts, etc. Note the wire hole Is below the center. ”Eccentric" 'I'Ire This increases the wearing depth of the tire over half nnd the life of tire by same proportion. This tire stays firm in the channel. The liigh;gratle. resilient rubber used in the “Eccentric Cushion Tire makes it remarkably cosy-riding. Always gin-s sntlsfaction. (538) Branches in 103 Principal Cities We will ship you a “RANGER" BICYCLE lull“ FREE TIlIA .. 11 ace in the United States without a cent deposzt in advance, and _ - ow ten days free trial from the day you receive it. If it does not suit you in every way and is not, all or more than we claim for it; and a better bicycle than you can get anywhere else regardless of price. or if for any reason whatever you do not wish to keep it. ship it back to us at. our expense for freight and you will not be out one cent. We sell the highest grade bicycles direct from factory to rider at louver prices than any other lo-men's profit on every bicycle. Highest rude modem f tires. Imported Roller chains. pedals, etc. at rlces no igher than _ , -. cheap mail order bicycles: also reliable medium grade models at un card of low prices. ‘ I nlnEn ‘GEHTS W‘NTE in each town and district to ride and exhibit a Y sample 1012 “Ranger" Bicycle furnished by us. g on will be astonished at the wondm'fullu low Prices and the liberal pro osltlons and Special offer we will give on the first 1912 sample going to your town. rite at once for our slpeczal ofer. DO NOT BUY 9. bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at on receive our catalogue and learn our low prices and liberal terms. ,; II YCLE DEA Eflga you can sell our bicgolea under'your own name plate at double be: taken in e by ggzdayirceacelvedéaus gono'mnben IIOYOLIS—o limited gum- trad 30 re s res w I ma: fillii'it'imii‘iiim'imi"“‘9' W ....... M 3 .0 rear w eels. inner tubes. lamps. olometers ports lrs 811d ' everything in the bicycle line at an I . . NOT WAIT. bull. write coda for our Large Catalogue beautifully illustrated and cogtsa‘lgilngrgceraeot and 0! tore-ting matter mil useful information. I only costs a. postal to get everithiifi WRI I IT NOW. I MEAi‘) cchE co Dept. A-77, CH co, ILL. ouse. esave you 10 to | ml with Punctuum A, When writing to advertisers mention The Michigan Farmer. -.....-.. 420 (20) JAP"i"io SE SOAP . Bubbles Benefit Men “‘7” Copyright 1912 James S. Kirk & Go. It is unnecessary to have rough and blem- ished skin from im- pure soap or hard water. JAP ROSE is a transparent,pure, vegetable oil soap—- soap made to soften and cleanse the pores and remove the cause of unattractive skin. It is fine for shaving, mak— ing a very abundant lath- er instantly and easily in any water, hard or soft, hot or cold. It is perfectly aseptic. Take a “bubble bath” tonight and you will use JAP ROSE SOAP always. All D I . A L T - 5.177;" m: ”wagers. Special Trial Offer: Send a 2° “am" and your dealer's name THE MICHIGAN FARMER. FLORAL WORK FOR HERE is so much variety in the I work that may be done this month that the question of what to do first is hard to decide, though the weather conditions will have much to do with de- ciding what may or may not be done outside. Unless the soil is unusually wet there will be days in the latter part of the month when the beds can be made ready for seed sowing to the extent of spading under the fertilizers needed and giving them a good raking, leaving only the final smoothing and marking when ready to risk the seeds in the open beds. If the season is an early one some of the hardiest varieties. or those needing considerable time to germinate, may be sown before the month ends but it will be wiser to wait until sure that frosts or long, cold rains will not undo all that has been done. At any rate, preserve a part of the seed stock for later planting in order to be safe. If the first sowing comes through safely early flowers are assured and a later sowing will insure a longer season of bloom, one following the other. The work inside will include the duties that belong to every month with the ac- ded work of seed-sowing, transplanting and hardening of seedlings. Most farm homes have, or may have. spacious grounds surrounding the dwell- ing and can make use of trees, large shrubs, and heavy vines to an extent im- possible to the town dweller with but lit- tle land, and as this is a good month for planning and planting along these bolder lines a few hints will be given. for a Free trial cake oflJAP ROSE SOAP. ., ’JAMES' s. KIRK & cowANY f 213 Michigan Street, Chicago w 'c Earns Its Cost In a Month— Lasts a Lifetime l Real household economy is possible > only when you have in the kitchen an I ENTERPRISE Meat and Food Chopper Makes possible tempting dishes at low cost—saves left-overs. The one ri ht cutting princi le— four-bladeg steel knife revo ving against the inner surface of a perforated steel plate. Does not mangle—cuts like shears. Parts interchangeable—tinned, cannot rust. Also indispensable at farm killing time— to grind sausage meat. etc. Price. $1.75 and upward. , A All Enterprise articles "E — Fruit Presses. Cherry Stoners, Sausage Stuf— fers. Sad Irons. etc.—made to {W / y for on. economy /6/ 9/ j y Enterprising MFG. CO. 0F PA. . ' — Wash and Z ./- 2.. last. . 1/9/422/ Scull 4cm stamps /fl recipclllmok, gag/2R] I'm ""10 ;:7’.,. llousckceper. THE ENTERPRISE Dept 48. r Philadelphia M “A D E E A S .y ‘. Roanoke Wring by Power Power Washer and ernger \~.\ my Save Health, Strength _a_nd Nerves Will do your washing easier, quicker. more thoroughl and economically on any other washer. tclenna more carefully than by hand It is the only practical, efficient washer With movable power wringer which slides along wash stand and wrings from either wash tub or rinse tub. It in the- only two tub power washer made. The friction drives save clothes and machinery. No cogs, chains or sprockets to get caught in. Runs by gasoline engine or elec- tric motor. Recognized no best washer made. Write for FREE interesting booklet "Washing Made Easy" and name of our nearest dealer. ‘ALTORFER BROS. C0. Dept. I74 Roanoke. lll lonilon the lllchlgan Farmer when wrlllng advertisers the, following: ;produccs thousands of upstanding racemes The first one is this: \l'hen ready [0 plant a tree consider its size when fully grown and think what its effect will be when seen from the house or street; Whether it will darken a none too light room, or obstruct the view from the up- An Original Cross-stitch Pattern per windows. Consider, too, whether its foliage opens early or late; whether it takes on beautiful colors in the fall; whcther the bark is beautiful during the winter, or not, and any other character- istics each variety may have. Large trccs arc rarely planted solely for floral effect because their majestic proportions and beauty of form and fol- iage give them a decorative value at all seasons, yet lncrc'ai'o many that produCc- gL profusion of gloriously bcautiful flow- ers and the flowering season is as long as that of many shrubs. As examples take The horse chestnut which of pink or white flowers (each raceme six or eight inches long); the hardy catalprt with equally showy flowers borne in loose panicles; the honey locust with its droop- ing racemes of creamy white, Wondrouefly fragrant flowers; the tulip tree (yellow poplar), with yellowish-green tulip-shaped flowers; the mountain ash with large flat- topped corymbs of fine white flowers sim- ilar to an elder' blossom: the dog—wood that in early spring is literally covered with white make—believe flowers; the thornapplcs and many others. \\'hile this plea for the use of such trees around the home is made because of their beautiful and showy flowers no per— son seeking for truly decorative plants will overlook the fact that the varieties named provide a wide range of beautiful and strikingly effective foliage throughout the spring and summer as well as showy fruits that give character to the trees, and a touch of color in the dreary land- scape view of late fall. Trees provide for beauty of a stately kind but vines provide for the beauty se- cured by graceful ,twining growths that make homely things beautiful in a short time. Old trees that are dying will take on an appearance of new life and become ornamental again if covered with vines, and for this purpose, or for covering old half-dead hedges, nothing is finer than APRIL-By Eva quan—Gaillard. the wild grape or the woodbine. As eith- er of these can be found growing wild in many places this is a good time in which to get it. Any of the native, strong—growing vines are fine for the uses suggested or for covering old fences and buildings but they are not desirable for use on good build— ings of any sort because of their habit of working under siding and shingles, or working into bricks and ruining chim— neys. For use on the- house, or on trel- lises not strong enough to support a great weight the lighter vines that need some help in their upward climb are more suit~ able and, fortunately, many of the most bcautiful flowering vines belong to the latter class. The habit of growth must be considered when selecting vines for a given place if the best possible effects are to be se— cured and, sometimes, the color of flow— ers and time of blooming will bear strong- ly on the decision. The flowering season is short and if a mass of all—green foliage is not liked a touch of color, as effective as flowers. can be secured by the use of vines having variegated foliage. Among these, the golden leaved Japanese honey- suckle or the golden hop will give a touch of yellow; the showy Japanese hop with white markings or, best of all, the ampe- lopsis tricolor showing white and pink markings on the. green leaves, followed by grape—like clusters of berries showing ev- ery shade of blue will prove very satis- factory. . Shrubs furnish a third class of plants with which it is possible to secure bold effects, but the list of desirable kinds is so long that mentioning varieties is im- possible and a few general suggestions must be the limit of this article. The (atalog of any firm will describe varieties! suited to every need, from the glowing Submitted by Mrs. l. C. Lindley. scarlet-flowered Japan quince and the golden forsythia that Open in the spring before the leaves expand, to the hardv hydrangea whose white flowers turn to pink and then to green in the late fall. All the shrubs are free bloomers and many of them grow in symmetrical shape, making single specimens objects of rare beauty when standing alone on the lawn, while in bloom but not afterward. l'nless needed in a certain place to serve as a. screen or windbreak any shrub is more effective if massed for borders, and so placed as to leave as broad an ex- panse of unbroken lawn as possible. Even then the best effects are only secured by careful planning to avoid having seine shrub of drooping habit hidden by one of upright growth. In planning the shrub border it is of the utmost importance to place those that bloom at a givcn time where they will break the monotony of the all-green mass. Never get all the early blooomers in one spot and all the late ones in an— other. Next in importance to the color and season of the flowm‘s is that of fol— iage. A few golden elders scattered along the row will brighten it when no flowers are open and the cut-leaf elder will give an effect of lightness that is very pleas- ing. A little study of shrubs will lead to those that have. bright fruits and hold the-m nearly all winter, as the barberries do, or to those that have bark SO bright in color that it is very attractive when seen against a snow-covered background. One of the most desirable things about shrubs is that one need not hesitate about cutting them freely, and on long stems, as the wood must be cut back ev- ery seas0n in order to keep the bushes in good form and force new WOOd for an- other season of bloom. Remember, al- ways, that the cutting back of the end of a branch means forcing lateral branches to start and getting several flowering branches in place of the; one cut off. 4L v 3 r 7r\\ Where the Well Dressed Women, Who Wish to Save Money, Come From At your disposal madam, in this book, is the pick of the new spring clothing. These suits, dresses and waists are the same pleasing- designs and fabrics shown in all the first class fashion magazines and displayed in the most exclusive stores. But here is the difference-our prices are 20 to 50 per cent below what others charge. This is because we sell direct to you without your havmg to pa unneCessary profits to agents and dealers. Wndergurments. hats, shoes. gloves. parasols, dry goods—a full line of new, attractive, ser- viceable dress accessories—lure also shown in this book at. worth while money snvmg rices. Your spring and summer outfit, if you uy it from this book, will be prettier. more complete than ever. Besides, think of the money you’ll save. Put your name and address on these tvvo lines. Cut this can on and send it by the next mall If possi- ble. We will send you your copy of this money sav- ing buying guide at once. MONTGOMERY WARD 8: CO. Chicago Ave. Bridge 19th and Campbell Sis. CHICAGO KANSAS CITY NAME P. 0. STATE Rom Will "1111’; 5" _. Full Spring 85 Seat and = ‘ Back— Covered in Best , Royal Leather U Look at the picture; doesn‘t this Rockerlook inviting with _ its high, hrond, , shapely back and deep roomy .. spring sent‘llt‘s (4 made to last forever, and its ’ widonriiis,sup— ported by six neatly turned , smooth spin- _‘ tiles, and mass- ' ive frontcarved posts, give it . t he exclusive- . ness and style . that cannot be had in any other rocker. Frame thoroughly seasoned oak, high golden and gloss finish. Best; quality Black Royal Leather; workmanship first-class. Price but $3.85 makes it the biggest bargain ever offered. We can afford such values because we own our IG A 6000 Other Bargain own timber lands, sawmills, factories B and salcsrooms. Money back if it. is not CAT LOG Worth double. Semi for our large FREE cash FREE catalogue of Furniture, Rugs. Curtains, etc. -————— Learn at once how much cheaper and better you can buy for cash direct from the manufacturers. We save you all extra profits. Write NOW: better still. enclose $3.85 for this comfortr able rocker. Order by number 670, Address Dept. 3864. (112) Lincoln-Leonard & 60.. 1112 W. 37th Street, Chicago_ One application soothes and heals a rough, plmplyskln.and,when re eated,quicklreifects cure. Eczema, Erysipe as, Tetter, U cers and a all skin diseases yield to its curative properties. 50¢ a box. At all Drugs/into. Send for free sample and book, " Health and Beauty." JOHNSTON. HOLLOWAY . 00.. 58! Commerce Street. Philadelphia. Pa. ' 8h b b h . E I 9 Ct P] C 'i‘u‘r’ii (it 331501 find (Eggd {our premises with bril- . . iant electric .li ht. Com~ L I g ht I n g 0 O utfl 1: s , '7 \ . plate outfits. inc uding en- gine. dynamo. switchboard, storage batteries, etc., 3250 up. according to the number 0 lights desired. Cheaper to operate. handier, clean- er and' safer than any other light. Write for particulars. THE DAYTON ELECTRICAL . MFG. C0.. ' 987 St. Clair Bt..Duyton. Ohio. rgeat Mfrs. of Ignition and Lighting Apparatus Exclusively in the U. S. HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “ Improved." no tacks required. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers 12 YOUR NAME IN» GOLD 100 or town greetings on 12 Fine Post. (lard 93088 00., 2147 Arthur Ave" New York:3 Lumen Rocxrn l v m t . ,,__... .__._..——~ .M“‘_, __-_.__._ ......” A—~ .. “#4, APRIL 6, 1912. (Continued from page 412). struction of delegates for any particular candidate. The compilation of the total enrollment made in Michigan on January 27 by the secretary of state, shows a total of 194,- 823, divided between the different parties as follows: Republican, 142,058; demo- crats, 38,340; prohibition, 3,086; socialist, 8,855; socialist labor, 65; miscellaneous. 2,418. The officials having under consideration the evidence in the Maine disaster have confirmed the published story that the vessel was destroyed by an external ex- plosion. The operation of the Burton law regu- lating the use of the waters of Niagara Falls has been extended until March 4, 1913, under a compromise agreement be- tween the house and senate. At the local option election held in Michigan the “drys” won out in 14 coun— ties and the “wets” in 11 counties, ac- cording to the preliminary counts. Floods along the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers are raising those streams higher than they have yet been known to be. At Cairo the waters raised one foot per hour, reaching the 53—foot level Monday night, the highest level on record. Fully 200 families were rendered homeless in Des Moines, the lower por- tion of the city being inundated. In Mis- souri property'loss has already run into millions. Aid is being asked of congress to strengthen retaining walls where the breaks would result in greatest damage. The federal house of representatives passed the wool bill Monday by a vote of 189 to 92. In order to anticipate the influence of a parcels post the large express companies are planning a zone system of charges that will approximate those of a parcels post under the bills now before the con— gressional committee. The Atlantic lleet are at target prac- tice off the Virginia coast. .. Foreign. Mexican rebels attacked a passenger train and killed eight passengers, nearly 50 soldiers and the engineer, while the train was enroute from Mexico City to Cuernavaca. President Madero is firm in his position and insists that he will con- tinue to light. It appears to be the sentiment of the Russian press that that country will stand iirm against any change of her laws with regards to American or English Jews traveling within her territory, and will in this position directly oppose the demand of the United States. The attitude. if supported by the duma and executive de— partment of the Russian government, will likely bring about strained relations be- tween lhe two countries. The ship in which Captain Scott, of England. sailed into the southern seas and which enabled him, according to early reports, to reach the South Pole, has ar- rived at Akaros, New Zealand. Captain Scott and his expedition did not return with the ship, however, but chose to spend the winter in the polar region. He hopes to cross the ice continent and emerge from the opposite side in the vicinity of Cape Horn. The wage bill of England has, by the sanction of the King, become a law, and the miners are now voting to determine whether they will go back to work under the conditions as affected by the statute. The recent elections in British Columbia resulted in the conservatives electing 40 of the 42 members of the provincial par— liament. The other two members are socialists. The liberals had one member in the last parliament, now they have none. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, provisional president of the Republic of China, has resigned to inake room for his successor, Yuan Shi xai. Prince Edward of Wales is now pur- suing his studies in Paris. CATA LOG NOTICES. An illustrated catalog, published by Farmers‘ Cement Tile Machine Co., of St. Johns, Mich, in addition to listing the numerous styles of cement tile machines for manufacturing cement tile on the farm, contains valuable information on under-drainage and its effect upon the crop producing power of the soil. Send for a copy today, mentioning the Michi- gan Farmer. “Fall Bearing Strawberies and Other Fruit Plants,” is the title of a 40-page illustrated catalog sent on application by L. J. Farmer, of Pulaski, N. Y. This 1912 catalog is free for the asking. The 1912 catalog of The National Incu- bator Company, of Racine, Wis, contains some interesting poultry hints, in addition to information concerning the National Incubator and other poultry goods. The Naylor Mfg. C0., of Plano, 111., will send upon application to readers of this paper, literature illustrating and describ- ing the Naylor Spring and Combination Spike-Tooth Harrow and the Naylor Pul- verator, a combination disk and spike- tooih harrow which is made in various styles and sizes, including a giant size for use when farm tractors are the mo- tive power. This line of goods is designed to economize time and labor by fitting the ground thoroughly at a single operaton. 'l‘lic Allmetal Mfg. Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich, send a 32—page. illustrated catalog of their oat sprouters, colony houses, brooders and other Allmetal poultry equipment, of which they manufacture a variety of kinds and types. The 1912 catalog of the Robert Essex Incubator Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., and New York City, in addition to being a catalog of the manufactures of this well—known company, contains five chapters on the different phases of poultry production, as follows: 1. A woman fancier’s poultry house. 2. When you start. start right. 3. How money is made from standard bred show birds. 4. A low cost farm poultry house. 5. How to get more profit from farm hens. C1 A V THE MICHIGAN ‘FARMER. 21) 421 from a responsible house. . Buy a Used Car on Time Payments Special Discount of 333% for 30 Days Last week we made public those reasons why this company is able to buy the best used cars on the market at our own figures and sell at prices which only the dealers have been allowed in the past. The public evidently had been waiting for just such an announcement The response has been surprising. But see what happened. The announcement not only brought imme- diate sales but produced an opportunity for us to buy at astoundingly low prices a round dozen standard cars in good running order and equipped. We bought them from people who agreed to sell at a tremendous sac- rifice on condition that we pay cash. We paid cash and we can now sell at prices that are so remarkable that no further comment is necessary. We challenge you to find any new car selling within $500 of these prices that will compare with these in value. Here They Are—Not One Over $500 BARGAIN No. 10 Firestone, ColunibusJQio, 5 pass. touring. Original Price This car is one of best equipped on market. as Equlpped green with cream gear $ recently painted. i7sct only one season. This is our best bargain. Special price... .. ..... , Mohair top, glass front, lamps, horn, good tires and tools. Brewster Original Price as Equipped $2200 BARGAIN No. 18 Mitch/'11, 4 cylinder, 30 h. p., S passen- ger, with top, glass front. speedo- meter, lamps, fair tires, good mcchanicai$ condition and good appearance. Special price”... .... .. BAR GAIN No. 11 Original Price International, high wheels. solid tlFCS' as Equipped livery wagon. inquip— s ped with top, lamps,$ speedometer,hornand tools. chainted and overhauled. Specprice 4-pass. Would make an excellent de‘ Original Price as Equipped $2500 BARGAIN No. 17 Alf/r1214], 1908, five passenger. four cylinder. with magneto. Full equip- ment. lx’cpaintcd and overhauled. $ Spot‘iztl price ......... BARGAIN No. 12 Orlginal- Price American Mars, 7 passenger touring; as Equipped hauled and painted;$ $ good tires all around. Special price ......... fully equipped, over- Original Price as Equipped $1750 BARGAIN No. 18 Crawford. 1908, 5 pass, 4 cylinderv with magneto. Equipped with mohair top. glass front. speed- omctcr, lamps, horn$ and tools. Fair tires, good mcch. condition. Special price. BARGAIN No. 13 Orlglnal Prlce Stearns, 1907, 50 h. p. 4 cylinder with as Equipped for truck purposes. s good mechanical con—$ 45 dition: good tires. Special price.... . . . . .. magneto, double chain drive, idcal Original Price as Equipped $2350 BARGAIN No. 19 Corbin, 4 cylinder, air cooled run' about, excellent appearance and good mechanical condition, good tircs, top, glass$ front, lamps, horn and tools. Special price .......... BARGAIN No. 14 Original Price Studebaker, Electric Victoria, bar as Equipped Good appearance. $ Tires in excellent con-$ 75 dition. Special price ......... teries and motor in good order. Orlginal Price as Equipped $3500 BARGAIN No. 20 Packard, 5 pass. combination run- about. 4 cylinder, top glass front, lamps. bumper, horn, tools, good mcohani-$ cal condition. fair tircs Repaintcx'l. Spccial price .......... BARGAIN No. 15 Great Smith, 1909, 5-pasa. touring, 4 cyl. Original Price with magneto; completely rclmilt and rc- as Equipped meter, horn, lamps and s tools. 34x4 Q. 1). Tircs, Good condition. Color, dark blue. Special price............,. painted; equipped with now top and dust cover,wind shield,speedo- Original Price as Equipped $1550 BARGAIN No. 2 l A 1500 pound delivery car. 190*} model standard make; panel top body. Ideal Grocery or Contcc tionery. Very good mechanical order. Just repainted. Spec. price SPECIAL OFFER to buy a used car from a responsible house at a BIG SAVING we will 0 for the next thirty days sell any car in our stock at 33,33 per cent off the 46‘} Michigan “"9““- r‘ (INCORPORATED) 1462-64 Michigan Avenue, Telephone, Calumet 3000 Therm. _ E. Dalton Company REFERENCE—The Corn Exchange National Bank Tear off the Bargain Coupon now —~ place it in an ’ envelope and address it to us. You must act: quickly. 0 These prices are made to bring quick sales. for Laundry, Bakery, 375 4— I Mail the Bargain Coupon to Us Today ’° To prove to you our ability to sub- "o The stantiate the above facts and to give you an opportunity at once 4‘“ .3," M. E. Dalton 00., Inc., «3" 1462-64 . , Chica 0 price you would have to pay for a car of the same type in the 9° g . . . ‘ o Iaminterested in Special same condition elsewhere. 99 Bargain No.—~ and want 0° full description of this car at ,‘ once. If this car is already .6» sold send me full particulars about the next best bargain below Chicago, "I. ‘«g" the following price, $ ............... 0&0 Name.. ........................ . ......... .. Town . . State.................................... ........ D is. _._._._._.....‘L.l H Mail-res'and burns its own gas and Me, 100 candle power 1 wick, smoke, dirt, grease or odor. ‘-. _.r_.. reduces a. pure white; 5323?, g o 100 THE'BEST'UGHT Lightedinstann .Ovormmlu. Agent-wanted. ritotoroomog ii CANDLE .2-: power: THE BEST LIGHT CO._ - 280 E. 6th St" Canton. 0. W E S E L L Y 0 U AT W H 0L ESA L E Agento’ Price One ,. AMERIGA Motorcycle or Bicycle ' . / 3°”°“““v9;i’2:"35‘3.“i‘33"c2§i§§°” w“ .. .» .‘l39'=‘ trims; this: ‘l8"-—§ 0M6! 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It quotes Vehicle Book are devoted to a fun the lowest prices ever made on strictly high grade description of this great buggy and vehicles. Positively the most startling price making the Story Of its manufacture. ‘ ’ - . ' in the history of the vehicle business. We have READ IT BY ALL MEANS. !II|u|Mllllllmmmei always led the world in low prices on strictly high "MW 1"] ' grade buggies, road carts, surreys, farm wagons, etc., " {Mi iiiiiiii but never before have even we been able to offer you such unheard of ." ‘l . bargains as are shown in this great 1912 Price Reduction Vehicle Book. ~ l‘ Direct From Factory to You That is the SCCI‘Ct Of our remarkable low prices. No agents’ com— ? ”u missions for you to pay; no jobbers’ profits; no extra dealers’ profits; no """""""" so called factory distributers’ profits. You pay only the rock bottom price based on scientific management and direct selling. You actually pay less than the dealers, less even than the jobber, and we ship from one dozen distributed warehouses, cutting freight charges way down. If you want a buggy, runabout, surrey, phaeton or a farm wagon, no matter what kind of vehicle you want, we can actually save you all the way from $20.00 to $50.00 in cash money and at the same time give you a vehicle of the highest grade ever placed upon the market,built in the largest and finest equipped vehicle factory in the world and backed up by SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.’S IRONCLAD GUARANTEE. Thirty Days’ Trial and Long Time Guarantee We will positively ship you any vehicle in our immense stock on Thirty Days’ Trial. Give it a good hard test on your own roads. Compare it with any and all of the overpriced makes you can find around, and then if you are not convinced that it is the greatest bargain you ever heard of, ship it right back to us and it won’t cost you a cent. We will even pay the freight charges both ways. If you decide to keep it, we also absolutely guarantee your continued satisfaction. We guarantee that it will outlast any similar vehicle of any other make around your neighborhood. If it does not, send it back and we will return your money. We make this broad, sweeping guarantee because we know We are selling the finest grade of vehicles ever produced. SEND COUPON AT ONCE FOR GREAT VEHICLE BOOK Fill in this coupon and send it to us AT ONCE. Don’t delay for a moment in- getting this big special edition of the Vehicle Book. It tells all about each and every one of our big bargains, splendidly illustrated and described in the fullest detail. It gives the full account of our wonderful manufacturing facilities, explaining how we buy the choicest materials in immense quantities and make each and every part of every vehicle with the most perfected scientific management and expert workmanship. This book shows illustrations of the operations in this immense vehicle factory, fully describing and explaining how the most superb quality of vehicles can be produced at the least expense. So send the coupon at once or write and we will promptly forward you this book, postpaid, including the full details of our liberal thirty days’ trial and long time iron- clad guarantee. Use either the coupon or send your name and address on postal card or in letter. ‘ - VEHICLE BOOK COUPON. Sears. Roebuck and C0,, Chicago, Ill. Gi'nill'llli‘nE—Pll‘ast‘. Send me. free and postnaid. a copy of your big 1912 l’nce Reduction Vehicle Book No.75M91, together with Special l’l'lCes. Name Postoffice ‘ W 3Sears,Roebuck and Co.,lC1iicag‘o ,' P. O. Box No.___5treet and No ~¢Aflu . e .. ”We A»? WY 12......“ APRIL 6, 1912. PRACTICAL SCIENCE. ably because, being upland soils, they do ~—————— not contain free bases which will permit BY FLOYD W. ROBISON. of the neutralization of the acid condi- ._.__ tion. (Continued). Lime Unlocks Potash in the so“. The Virginia Agricultural Experiment On heavy clay soils where perhaps the Station published, in 1910, a very compre- beneficial effect of lime is more especially hensive bulletin on the use Of “The for noticeable and which beneficial effect we Virginia soils. From this bulletin we quote have attributed in a large degree to the the following as endorsing the position we improving of the texture of that soil, we have taken regarding the conservative do find a considerable quantity of potash use Of lime. locked in such a combination that it “A study Of the theory 0f the practice seems almost entirely unavailable to of liming in England and the United plants. Undoubtedly, caustic lime or States shows that there have been perm-13 s-laked lime would act quicker in this par- when the practice became quite common, ticular case but we have outlined the owing to the fact that once the benefits dangers incident to the use of quickliine from liming are noticed in a given local- or caustic lime, and on the whole, we are ity it becomes general; and the tendency inclined to believe that the use of quickv is to carry it to excess and in consequenz3e lime or caustic lime is provocative of of its beneficial influence, lasting from 10 more harm than real benefit. to 20 years, a slucceeding period of dis~ Lime Unlocks Phosphoric Acid. ugliglagililfnzlllztifnog 0?:rther, the following Lime assists again in .th? unlockingof statement is made, which quotations we the phosphoric amd that 15 m combmeu‘?“ are making because we believe that they W‘th‘ aluminum and .iron.and which Is m aptly express the advice which we would an insoluble . condition in the son and give to the farmrs in Michigan. would otlici'wise be unavailable to plants. Lime Promotes Nitrification. “Lime is not * * * nature’s greatest and most uniformenricher of the soil. We have intimated what the effect 01’ The maintenance of fertility * *4 2‘ lime- rnay be in promoting nitrifkation in depends primarily upon the making, care— the soil. This condition seems to be pro- ful saving and intelligent application of moted by the presence Of a considerable barnyard manure; the maintenance of the quantity 0f lime in the SO“, in much the supply of humus in the soil by a proper same way that the growth of the little rotation of crops and especially by the nodules on the alfalfa and clover plants use of grasses and leguminous crops; and is encouraged by the presenCe of lime. upon thorough and judicious tillage. Summary. These three practices, not liming, are the Briefly, to recapitulate, we will say that main props of soil fertility. In addition the chief effects of lime are three—fold. to these three, not instead of them, lim- First, the physical or mechanical effect ing is often a benefit. The use of lime of lime. l'nder this condition the heavy is on exactly the same plane as the use clay soils are iloculated and rendered of commercial fertilizers. These are prof- more porous, less likcly to puddle. easier itable in some cases and not profitable in to work, and more accessible at various others, depending upon the kind of soil times of the year. Ordinary sandy soils. and the kind of crop. Lime is not a uni- by a similar action securing the opposite versally applicable enricher of the soil but effect, that is. by cementing the particles is to be used like commercial fertilizers— together and thereby increasing the ca— with discrimination.” pacify of that soil for holding moisture. Lime Acts Differently than Commercial In this respect lime apears to be a sort Fertilizers. of governor which preserves the optimum “re do not quite subscribe to the doc- balance in the physical condition" of the trine that lime is to be used on exactly 50“- the same plane as commercial fertilizers. Second, ’the biological effect 0f lime. In the first place, because we see the Lime promotes an alkaline condition of chief function probably in lime is in im- the 50“, WhiCh condition is beneficial, yea, proving or ameliorating the texture of necesasry for the growth of many soil the soil. \\'e do not believe that commer- bacteria, espccially those which affix cial fertilizers are used, or should h; themselves to the roots of the leguminous used mainly for their influence in ameli- plants and in this way become foragers crating the texture of the soil. That for tho bcncfit of the plant. Nitrification commercial fertitzers do affect the texture i-‘i promoted and the nitrogen in This WHY of the soil, there is no doubt, but their made available. The biological importance chief function and the function for which of lime. therefore. should not be neg- thcy are generally prescribed is for the lected. purpose of increasing the soluble and Third. lime apparently has a W811- available administrative food agents in known effect upon plant diseases. The the soil. presence of a considerable quantity of Lime is rarely used for this sole puf— lime is believed to be instrumental in As we have stated before, there- prevciiting the spread of many plant dis- .LIMING OF SOILS. pose. are some Michigan soils Oil which lime (ta-“GS in the 8011- Here again, caution could wcll filltill this purpose but ill the should be USGG in the application 01’ lime lilajorit’y of cases its application results. because certain I‘O‘Jt (‘I‘UIN U11 Whit‘h fun— \\'ll(‘ll levorablc, in improving the texture £20119 diseases are lll‘Ohe to act “1'0 “0‘6 and the physical condition of the soil. benefited by the direct alllllimlmn of Decay of Organic Matter Promotes Acid- lime. It is quite well known, for exam— ity in the Soil, pic, that lime does not check the growth One of the chief reasons for assuming 0f SCflh On potatoes by applying it the that the soil nnllcr int‘lnsive agricultural same year that the potato crop is planted. practict- hecomcs acid is because it is ———————”— known that in the natural decay of vegc- TUBERCULlN TEST ACCURATE. table and other organic matter in the soil h¥ga organic soil acids arc produced. A com— Some opponents of the tuberculin test pound of indefinite composition and called bring out an argument in defense of their humic acid is supposcd to result from the contention that frequently animals which decomposition of humus in the soil. The- react to tuberculin fail to show any lc— oretically, the addition of limo iii mod- sions of tuberculosis when disscctcd. An crate quantities 1” SUCh a soil docs im- official of the Bureau of Animal Industry prove the condition and promote a more of the Department of Agriculturo, in dis- Vvigorous plant ngth- It has been 35‘ cussing this phase. said: “In a number sumed that this is because the lime he‘l' of cases lymph glands from cattle of this tralizes the 30“] and ”“5 may be the rea~ character have been forwarded to our 1711* 3”” although It has never been demon- reau for bacteriological examination, and strated that this is exactly the reason. in many instances it is found that the The Most Acid Soils Are Not the Low tuberculin reaction was correct. although Lands. the tuberculous lesions were not well ad- Under the above assumption we should vanced. In this class of cases the demon- expect that the soils which are most acid stration of living tubercle bacilli within would be- the low lands, the mucky soils, the tissues affords sufficient justification and those on which an abundant growth 01’ t e tuberculin reaction.” of vegetation has been allowed to decay for several years. Strange as it may he attempt to make the production of seem. this is not necessarily the case denatured alcohol a self-sustaining fea- Many, if not most, of the soils which ture of American agriculture has thus far have been construed as acid in this coun- not succeeded. In Germany, where the tI‘Y. are the uplands, and while the acid greatest success has been achieved, alco- condition may be primarily caused by the ho] production forms rather one feature in decay of organic matter on these soils, a system of diversified agriculture and is the fact that they remain acid is prob- not attempted as a separate enterprise. ., . . , «we .~,,1.~ 'vi-> a. 3,». W a. ' g ‘ , ~ "“5. .. W»- .. .» ,;.. . , , __ _ ._ ., M THE MICHIGAN FARMER. <23) 423 How] Your Peculiaritiesr & ,Affect Your Watch . 0U ought to write us for the regulation and you must have it FREE book. "How Good regulated by an expert retail jew- WatchesAre Made.”lt tells eler. The South Bend Watch is such i a lot of interesting things a watch and it is sold only by expert, about watches. Did you jewelers. If your jeweler hasn't a j know. if you bend over a South Bend we’ll name one near you great deal in your work, or who has. A South Bend Watch is often ride in ajolting farm wagon a full year in the factory before it is more than other people. or ready to stand its final inspection. in an auto, or walk faster It gets 411 inspections. and must run or take life easier—all those things— right in a 700-}zourtest for accuracy. that it makes your watch run differ- Regulate such a watch to your per- ently than the w at che s of your sonality and it will keep perfect time friends. who do things differently? i for you for alifetime: you'll be proud And do'you know the reason poor to wear and show it. watches andmost mailorder watches It’s because we know how imporr don’t keep time for many people is taut thisjeweler regulationis that we , that these watches are not sensitive don't sell through mail order houses: i enough to be perfectly regulated to mail order houses can’t get good . your personality by an expert retail regulation for their watches. i jeweler in your town? You shouldn’t buyawatch untilyou l It's true. You must get a watch so know all about this. Write us for the ‘ Well made that it is sensitive togood free book. We'll tell you all about it. The South Bend Watch, you know, is the famous watch that keeps perfect time even when frozen tight in a cake of ice. You can get one at $7.50 or up to $75 (in solid gold case). THE SOUTH BEND WATCH COMPANY . 4 Market Street, sourn BEND, IND. (89, 2 Machines for the Price of 1 FRE LARGE FOUR - COLOR PICTURE - Write for it. Cash F. O. B. ‘ Stoughton, Wisconsin A High Grade SEreader and a Splendid Farm Gear. Can be used in combination or separately. Every farmer needs both. Why pay as much for one alone? Why pay more for a combination not nearly so good ? The Moline Wagon Box Spreader and Special Steel Wheel Farm Gear should not be confused with the ordinary implements offered at about the same price. They are in a class by themselves—Flying Dutchman quality and backed by that same strong guarantee. Note carefully the following features: Heavy Steel Wheels Hickory Axles Long Reach and Rear Hounds Mud Lugs Full Circle Steel Front Hound Spreader Driven from Both Wheels Standards lroned same as Farm Wagon Roller Bearings on Beater Unquestioned quality and attractive design at exceptional prices. Send us your order today. We will ship the outfit immediately—in time for use this spring. MOLINE PLOW COMPANY Dept. 26. MOLINE. ILLINOIS Plea be. mention the Michigan Farmer when you are writing to advertisers and you will do us a favor. . .J.<- 424 (24.1 'TV-T'VTW“ V'W MARKETS W.MMM DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS- April 3, 1912. Grains and Seeds. Wheat—This market has been a little irregular the past week, at times show— ing strength and then again developing weaknesses. The general trend of the market on Monday was for a. reduction of values: Deliveries continued to appear in larger volume than expected, the mill- ers are not finding the usual call for flour, the visible supply is large and the delay in the season is putting off deliv— eries of American wheat in Europe to the advantage of Argentine. Liverpool, how— ever, is firm, as are also markets in South America. There are many reports of damage to the new crop in this country and the large amount of moisture now on the ground is apt to prove detrimental in many instances. The visible supp‘y shows a decrease of over two million bushels making the amount of wheat now in sight aggregate a little over fifty mil— lion bushels. One year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat was 831/111: per bu. Quo- tations are as follows: No. 2 No. 1 Red. White. May. July. Thursday . $1.001; .981; $1.02 .991;Z Friday . . . 1.00 .98 1.01 13.1 .991/4 Saturday . . . .9933 .973}; 1.01% .99 Monday .... .99 1,11 .9711? 1.01151. .9814 Tuesday .t... ...... \\'edncvsday .99 .97 1.00-3.1 .9711; CornfiJl‘he tone of this market keeps growing firmer and every additional day that the opening of spring is delayed the condition of the. market will be in a more strongly fortified position. l’riccs‘ show a general advance of about 31/21- since a week ago. This grain is lending consider— ah‘e strength to the wheat market. Feed- ing has had to be continued longer than in ordinary seasons and is taking corn on the farms that would otherwise have gone into circulation. The visible supply amounts ‘11 abatost 10.000.000 bushels with a decrease of 2.87.000 bushels for the week, ()nc year ago No. 3 corn was selling at -tfil,:_’.c per bu. Quotations for the week are: No 3 No 3 Corn Yellow Thursday ................ 717.1 rail/3g Friday 72 F1} Saturday 73 1:31 Monday ........ 731/2 7111/2 ’l‘ucsday ;_.. \\'cdncsday 731/2 101,42 Oats.-~This cereal shows a general ad- vance. of 1c in quotations. The influence of corn seems to he the chief factor _1n the advance, although the oat market It- self occupies a firm position. The visible supply is over 13,000,000 bushels. One year ago the price for standard oats was I): : ‘1 ..1. bu. notations are: )N H Q Standard. No.3 White. Thursday 571/3 57 Friday ...... ...... . 571/5; 57 Saturday 58 571/; Monday 58 01/3 'l‘uesday ...... . . .......... .. . . . . \\'edncsday ............... 581/2 58 Beans.~~l’rices are unchanged from a week ago. The trade is firm and there is the ordinary amount of contracting for the season. Quotations are as follows: Cash); M22117 Thursday “124 Friday 2.42 247 Saturday ...... 2.42 2.47 Monday 2.42 2.47 Tuesday 2.42 2.47 \\'cdnesday ........ 2.42 2.41 Clover Seed.—’l‘here is a fairly good demand for clover seed to supply the later seeding wants of the farmers, but prices have sagged from the high position occupied last week. Alsike has followed the course of the common clover seeds. Quotations are as follows: Cash. April. Alsike. 'l‘hnrsday ...... “$12.75 $12.10 $12.75 li‘ritlay 12.05 12.00 12.65 Saturday ...... 12.50 11.75 12.50 Monday .......... 12.50 11.75 12.50 'l‘llf'StiHy ......... ..... \\'cdncsday . . .... 12.50 11.75 12.50 Rye.» t‘ash .\'o. 2 rye is quoted at 930 per bushel, which was the price Of a wet-k ago. The market is dull. Timothy Seedc There is mttch activity in this deal at present with the price for prime spot ruling at $0.90 per bushel, which is the figure quoted a week ago. Flour. Feed, Potatoes. Etc. Fleurrrrixlarket rules steady with trad- ing dull. Straight .......... $525 l‘atcnt Michigan 4.85 Ordinary l’atcnt ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.80 {\'1‘ .................................. 5.20 .Feed. ("orn and oat chop is higher other grades rule steady. The carlot prices on track are: Bran. $30 per ton; coarse middlings. $30: fine middlings, $30: cracked corn, $30; coarse corn meal, $30; corn and out chop. $30 per ton. Hay and Straw. All kinds of rough- age steady and scarce. and the quota— tions are: No. 1 timothy, $22.5061‘123; No, 2 timothy, $21.506i22: clover, mixed, $20.50 61,122.50: rye straw. $11.506012; wheat and at straw. $1161‘11.50 per ton. Potatoes.”l‘nnsttal strength is shown in this deal and values are. marked up 200 since a week ago with a feeling that the position will be. maintained for some time. Michigan stock is largely going to the south and not to eastern points where receipts from abroad are holding values down. Many dealers believe that tubers 'will advance above present high figures. Car lots on track are quoted at 151.2561) 1.30 per bu; new potatoes, $3 per bu. Provisions—Family pork, $196020; mess pork, $18; clear, backs, 31850601950; pic- nic hams, 101/2c; bacon, 1460150; pure lard i THE: MicmGAN AFARMER. ' in tierces, 10%0; kettle rendered lard, llaéc per 1 . , Dairy arrd Poultry PrOducts. Button—«Prices remain steady with last week. The demand and supply'continue about normal. Quotations are: Extra creamery, 30c; first creamery. 29c; dairy, 220: packing stock, 21c per lb. Eggs. This trade has been character~ ized by fluctuations in values the past week, the price on Tuesday being slightly advanced over the price of the preceding days, but being 11,10 below the quotation given one week ago. The price for fresh receipts, cases included, is now 201/2c per dozen. Poultry.—There is some improvement in the demand for poultry. Hens show an advance 0f 10 per lb. Other grades and kinds are steady. Quotations are as fol- lows: Spring chickens, 1461715c; No. 2 chickens, 116112c; hens. 1560160; No. 2 hens, 116i112c; turkeys, 1660170; geese, 11 6112c: ducks. 14c; young ducks, 150 per Veal.—\"cal is higher. Fancy, 1060101420; choice, 861190 per lb. Cheese.~-.\ll grades of cheese remain steady; Michigan, September, 181460190; Michigan, late made, 171/3@18c; York state, 19612200; limburger, 17611190; domes- tic Swiss, 20612230; brick cream, 2063220 per 83 Fruits and Vegetables. Cabbage—Steady; now selling at 31/261) 4c per lb. OniOns.—Steady; $2612.15 per bu; Span- ish, $2.25 per small crate. Apples.~v—’,l‘he apple deal is firmer and a tendency toward better values is ap— parent. Baldwins aro selling at $3,231.60 3.75; Greenings, $3.25613.50: Spies, $3.506!) 604; Ben Davis, $2612.50 per barrel. OTHER MARKETS. Grand Rapids. The egg market remains steady at 191: for Tuesday, and dairy butter is un- changed at 24c. Bean dealers report a quiet market, with $2.10 as basis for both white and red. The potato market is higher, the price paid at loading stations ranging fron: $105 to $1.25 per bu. The higher price prevails in Montcalm county, but $1.20 has bctn paid at Manton and it is rather expected that good stock will soon reach close to $1.50. Shippers are reporting that cars are still scarce. Live poultry is quoted as follows: Chickens, 1211.0; geese, 10c: ducks, 14c; turkeys, 18c; cat-tins, 18r‘1120c. Grain prices at the mills are as follows: Wheat, 95c; corn, 740; oats, 57c; rye. 830. Chicago. “beat—No. 2 red, $1.01V2@1.03; May, 31.0275; July, 97%(2 Corn.—~1\‘o. ‘ 731,50; May, 751/60; July, 751cc per bu. Oats—No, 2 white, 55146256140; May, 531,,\(‘: July, SUI/QC per bu. Barley—Malting grades, $1.10@1.38 per bu; feeding, 7561800 Butter.——This market remains steady, with quotations unchanged, although re- ceipts show a considerable increase and the demand on shipping account is light. CI‘elel’it‘l‘iUS, 2761300; dairies, 23612Tc. 111ggs.—The week’s opening 'Ts‘aw the heaviest receipts of the season and prices declined .21 full cent. An excellent local demand, however. is maintaining a firm undertone. Quotations: Firsts. 19154c; ordinary firsts, 1961.191/20 per dozen; at mark. cases included, 19c. l‘citatoes.w.\ strong demand both locally and at outside points, together with in- ability to secure cars, are said to ex— plain thc. big advance since last week. Market has a strong undertone. Michi- gan and Minnesota stock now quoted at 13512469145 per bu; \\'isconsin, MAO/111.43. Beans—Firm without material change in values. Quotations are: l’ea beans, choice hand-picked, $2.65 per bu; prime, $2.50; red kidneys, 2:10. Hay and Straw—Steady with quota- tions Well maintained. Timothy, choice. 312450612550; No. 1, $22.506r2350; N0. 2 and No, 1 mixed, $2161.22; No. 3 and NO. 2 mixed, $10.506120: clover, $19.506121.50; alfalfa, choice. $22.506123; No. 1, $2161.22; No. 2, 3519612050. Strawhltyc, $8.501Q) 9.50; oat, $9611l0; wheat, $7.50618.50. New York. Button—Values are generally a shade lower with receipts normal and demand ordinary. Creamery special, 3115617320; extras, 310; firsts, 30613011142; packing stock current make, 23c per lb. ltlggs.—rl\larkct is fidgety with prices on Tuesday below the quotations one week earlier. Quotations are: Fresh gathered extras. 22/11 2211511 firsts do., 2061/211/213: sec- onds do.. 2061201.;c; western gathered whites. 32611331411 per dozen. l‘ottltry.~-~.»\liverMarket is easy. VVest- etrn chickens. inc: fowls. 14611‘llgc: tur- keys, 156120e per lb. Dressed~trade is qttict. li‘rcsh killed fowls, 14611161/2c; tur- keys, 146122c per lb. Boston. “'ool.—~Nothing new occurred in the wool market the past week. Buying in the producing states is continuing and the, local market remains dull. except for a slight revival in some of the lower grades of fleeces. Prices. however, are steady with those of former weeks. The leading domestic quotations for fleeces range as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania fleecesishelainc washed. 3161321): XX, 28c: fine unmerchantable, 23c: tag-blood comb- ings, 261,461.127c: ”fi-hlttfid combings. 280: 1’,—blood combings, 2761.28c: delaine un- washed. 2561>20c; fine unwashed, 20143672111 Michigan. \Visconsin and New York fleecess—l’inc unwashed. 19c; delaine un- washed, 23c: l/J-blood unwashed, 26c. Ken- tucky, Indiana and Missouri—fitt-blood 27717280. ' Elgln. Rutter—Market firm at 300 per 1b., the price of the previous week. The output for the week was 775,000 lbs, compared with 775,000 lbs. a week ago. THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Buffalo. 11 April 1, 1912. (Special Report of Dunning & Stevens, New York Central Stock Yards, East Buffalo, New York). Receipts of stock here today as follows: Cattle, 185 cars; hogs, 75 double decks; sheep and lambs, 95 double decks; calves, 2.000 head. With 185 cars of cattle on our market here today, and this being the last week in Lent, and also a week of Jewish holi- days, our market was slow and from 15 61.25c per cwt, lower on all classes of cat— tle, and in many instances cattle weigh— ing from 1,150 lbs. up sold fully 350 per cwt. lower than last week; however, at the close about everything was sold, with prospects only fair for the remainder of the week. We. quote: Best 1,400 to 1.600-lb. steers $750618; good prime 1.300 to 1,400—lb do., $7.256117.65; do. 1.200 to 1.300-lb. do., $6.50 617.25; best 1,100 to 1,200—lb. shipping steers, $6.506116.75: medium butcher steers 1,000 to 1.100, $5.50610.10; light butcher steers, 6525611560; best fat cows, $5605.50; fair to good do., $4614.25; common to me- dium do.. $3.25613.75; trimmers, $2.256?) 2.75; best fat heifers, 55575611625; good do. $4.756r5.25; fair to good do., 5545060485; stock heifers, $3.7561.4.25; best feeding steers, dchorned, $5615.25; common feed- ing steers, $461425; stockers, all grades, $350604; prime export bulls, $5.5061‘16; best butcher bulls. $4.75615.25; bologna bulls, $4614.50; stock bulls, $325614; best milk- ers and springcrs, $406150; common to good (l0., $257130. The milker and springer trade was from $3615 lower than last Week and the com— mon kind very hard sellers. The supply of hogs today was moder- ate, and with light runs all over the east, ottr market opened 561110c higher on all grades, but closed weak and late sales were at the low point of the day. The general sales of the yorkcrs and mixed was from $8.306/8.35; few fancy good weight hogs at $8.40; lights, 1117110671810; pigs, 5375061775: roughs. $7617.40; stags, $5616. Prices are plenty high here today, and being the last week of Lent. will no doubt have some effect on the trade, and do not look for any red hot market this week. The lamb market was slow today: most of the choice lambs selling from 958.206!) 8.25. “'0 sold two loads of choice at $8.40. Look for steady to shade higher prices the balance of the, week with mod— erate receipts. The sheep market was active: prices about a quarter higher than last week. l’rospccts steady. \t'c ttuotc: Best lambs, $8.2061‘8.25; cull to common do.. 3105061750; wothm‘s, $6.25 6111.40: bucks, $3.25614.50: yearlings, $6.75 617.25: handy eWes, $66,116.15: heavv ewes, $5.856’10.10: cull sheep, 49350614503 veals, choice to extra, $9619.25; fair to good do. $8618.50; heavy calves, $11.50111.5.50. ’ Chicago. April 1, 1912. . Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Received'today ...... 17.000 30.000 27,000 Same day last year..21,705 44,159 19.368 i-icceivcd last week...48.588 141,006 110,616 Same week last year.46,5$t5 153,628 73,263 Holy Week begins today, and this doubtless accounts for the limited call for cattle Fortunately for sellers, the receipts are unusually small for a lvlon— day. and prices are well maintained, with some of the better class of cattle bring— ing advances of 561101', a sale at $8.70 be- ing reported. llogs are in lively demand at further advances of 561‘10c the run be— ing uncommonly small to begin a week with. Sales are made at $750618, and early there were rumors that $8.05 had been paid. Hogs received last week aV- eragcd 218 lbs, compared with 240 lbs. :1 year ago and 227 lbs. two years ago. Sheep and yearlings are so few that. prices are generally maintained, and fat lambs are going at former figures, with no excessiVe offerings, but buyers are bidding lower for other kinds. A strength— ening factor is found in the meagerrrc— ceipts at Missouri river markets owing to 1116‘ “Hulls. ("attic supplies last week could not he. termed especially large. yet the market developed weakness by \\'edne~sday so far as the medium and plain grades were concerned. foibwcd by a further decline the following day in most beef cattle. de— spite a small Thursday run. The Monday market was do best of the week. with receipts of 20.218 head and a rise, of a dime in attractive stccrs. cows and heif- ctrs. but later in the week buyers did not need many cattle, as ”my had secured nearly enough at the start 111 meet the wants of their customers. The nearncss of Holy \‘Vcck was unfaVorable for a nor- mal consumption of beef and other meats, and furthermore, the abundance and cheapness of eggs caused their large sub- stitution for meats. There, was the cus- tomary scarcity of prime bocvcs of heavy weight. these selling at $8618.65, with the bulk of the beef steers finding buyers at a range of 80.2561810. and the poorer light-weight steers going at $5.2561‘6."10. Fair to medium steers were purchased around $6.6t)616.75. and medium to good lots went for 5568061745. a good class bringing 57.5061795. Yearling steers of a desirable kind were obtained at $075617 8.10. and cows and heifers had a very good outlet on the whole at $4.256117.40, a. car load of 28 head of Hereford yearling heifers and steers that averaged 711 lbs, largely heifers, selling at $7.60. A few prime cows were picked up for $640607, and sales were made of cutters at $36061) 4.20. canners at 55225603355 and bulls at $3.051116.40. It will be seem from these sales of various descriptions of cattle that values were much higher than in most former years. The stocker and feeder market also ruled extremely high, al- though sales were relatively low when' compared with finished beef cattle. Stock- ers found buyers at $4.25@6.25, feeders at $5.50606.60 and stock and feeder heifers at $3.85@4.60. Calves were in improved ’ APRIL 6, 1912. demand at higher prices, sales being at $3,506z'>9. Milch cows were active and ad- vancing, with sales at $356170 each. The market closed Saturday largely 10@150 lower for ,beef cattle than a week earlier, choice lots excepted. ..ogs made. further high records in prices last Week, going at much the high- est valucs of the year, with prim'e bar— rows fetching the highest prices since last August. Local packers were evident- ly hungry for hogs, and so were eastern shippers, a liberal share of the daily 0f— ferings. being shipped cast, as eastern hogs were, mostly marketed weeks ago. The choicest droves were sold chiefly to shippers, with heavy and medium weights largely taken, but prime light hogs that averaged somewhat under 200 lbs. sold nearly as high as the heavier lots of prime grade. The packers own, it is generally understood, the great bulk of the unusually heavy accumulations of pro— visions stored here and in other western packing points and are willing to keep hogs at high prices in order to make high prices for cured products. Hogs are com— ing to market good in average quality and are selling largely near highest quo- tations daily. The combined hog receipts at all western markets so far this year are greatly in excess of those for the like period last year. The market late. in the week ruled firm at 95750611795, compared with $7.206il7.621,1_. a week earlier, with pigs bringing $5.306117.45 and stags $78061) 8.15, while boars sold at $350614 and gov- ernment throwouts at $2.2561}6.20. Sheep ,and lambs made further sensa- tional advances last week. prime lambs leading off, as usual, and bringing the highest prices recorded in a year and a half, The upward movement was brought about by an urgent demand for high- class Colorado lambs and utterly inade- quate offerings. Sheep and yearlings Were. extremely scarce and active at fur— ther advances. receipts running chiefly to lambs. The week started off with an un- usually large Monday supply, but smaller runs took place on subsequent days. A very large share of the receipts consisted of Colorado and Nebraska—fed lambs, with Mexican stock predominating. Although the aggregate receipts for the week show- ed iarge gains, prices for the better class of live muttons wcrc advanced 106E250, the poorer lots remaining about steady. \Vooled stock sold as follows: Lambs, $7 6118.25; feeding and shearing lambs, $5.50 6117.15; yearlings, 3804061725: wethers, $5.30 (116.50; ewes. 35325617650; bucks, $4615.25. Clipped flocks sold at a discount Of about $1. , litil'StS were active last week, but buy- ers were particular and discriminated se- verely against all inferior animals, these ruling slow and weak, some, horses going around $85 per head. Farm workers weigh- ing 1,100 to 1.450 lbs. are in large demand at 33100617200, with much the best demand for breeding mares. Chunks weighing 1.250 to 1.450 lbs. are. taken at $15061‘1200, and light draftetrs sell for $17560225, with a high—class heavy description in big de- mand for eastern shipment at 5250613325 and not many offered. \Vagon horses sell on a basis of 55160612250, not very many selling above $200. F. LIVE STOCK NOTES. The wool situation is very strong at the present time, and sheepmcn are not (lis— posed to sell as a general rule exeept at considerably better prices than were paid a year ago. Sales at the large fccd lots near Chicago have been madc- within a short time at 2061121c per pound for lamb wool and at 171é61191- for wcther wool, while as far west as Montana buyers who me offering from 176118c find few owners who will accept less than 20c or higher. Oregon and \Vashington shearing began sometime ago, and an advance of two cents ever last spring’s prices is asked. Eighteen cents has been paid in Utah, and some clips were sold recently at 17c in Idaho. Manufacturers are known to have less wool than usual, and the mills of Lawrence. Mass, have been reopened, with supplies much below their necessi- tics. Immediately after the acquittal by the federal jury, of the Cliictgo packers chatgcd with violating the Sherman law, shares of Swift & Company st wk jumped from $103 to $109. The stock has been a regular dividend payer at the rate of seven per cent per annum for years, and there are 18.000 stockholders in the com- pany, The recent buying of the stock came from miscellaneous sources, though a good part of the, orders were credited to the New lCngland states, where the. holdings of the stock of the, corporation are Very large. Many stockntcn who make it part of their busincss to prepare beef cattle for the markel are shy about finishin off their holdings, and as this has been he prevailing l‘llll- all the past winter season, the last fall‘s purchases of feeders have been sent back 11. fnarket unusually de- ficient in both weight and qttality. In var- ious plat-1s :1 scarcity of rough feed has hurried cattle to market prematurely, and of latt~ lock of help on many farms and [ht- ncarncss of the mttddy period of the year haVe combined to hasten sales of tattle. that should have been kept back several months longer to place them in the class of fat stock, such as buyers are clamoring for. it is true that the market requirements do not: call for liberal sup- plies of such cattle, but the. unusual lack of them makes a good outlet. Never be- fore at this season of the year has there been such a marked deficiency of choice beevcs and such a large marketing of common and medium grades of light- weight stcers, and, many well-informed men believe that supplies for May, June and July will: prove to be the smallest volume ever ‘known since the establish- ment of the packing industry in the west. The conditions above enumerated are general and extend to such states as Illi- nois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Vi’isconsin, Min- nesota, the Dakotas, Missouri, NebraSka. and Kansas. - ~""‘M"Ufl_“ ' a“? ".V m'wsu-nn—rfsa-ngnmv" l f —a -1, ”—11 . -.__,1 v l ~aa,._. _ -.‘._7. .7 ’3‘”? 7' q. *H‘HV‘I Q»-- 4 .4,“ APRII; 6, 1912. ‘ THIS 18 THE LAST EDITION... In the first edition. the Detrgit Live stock markets are reports of last week; all other markets are right up to date. Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets given in the last edition. The first edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi- tion Friday morning. The first edition is mailed to those who care more to get the paper early than they do for Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock market report. You may have any edition desired. Subscrib— ers may change from one edition to an- other by dropping us a card to that eflect DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Thursday’s Market. April 4, 1912. Cattle. Receipts. 1,260. Bulls 25c lower; all oth-' er grades steady. \\'c quote: Extra dry—fed steers and heifers, $7@7.25; steers, and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $6Q116.75; do. 800 to 1.000, $525411) 6; do. that are fat, 500 to 700, $4615; choice fat cows, $5@5.25; good do.. $4.25614.75; common cows, $3.25@3.50; canners, $2@3; choice heavy bulls, $5; fair to good bo- lognus, bulls, $461475; stock bulls, $3.50@ 4.25; milkcrs, large, young, medium ago, $406150; common milkers, $200030. Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. CO. 18 steers av 1,204 at $7, 3 do av 1,087 at $7, 2 do av 1,045 at $6.50, 1 cow weighing 740 at $2.25, 1 do weighing 1.210 at $4.50. 15 steers av 987 at $6.25, 15 do av 1.020 at $6.25, 3 do av 1,150 at $6.75, 10 do av 720 at $5.50, 11 butchers av 815 at $5.50, 2 cows av 810 at $4; 10 Sullivan P. Co. 1 canner weighing 780 at $3; to Thompson Bros. 3 butchers av "5 at $4.50. Bishop, B. & Hikéild Bresnahan 3 butchers av 666 at $5. 5, 3 do av 647 at; $4.25, 2 do av 635 at $4.50; to Hammond. S. & C0. 5 cows av 776 at $3.25, 1 do weighing 830 at $4.50, 1 bull weighing 890 at $4.50, 1 cow weighing 740 at $3, 5 do av 1,044 at $54.60, 2 steers av 690 at $3.50, 3 bucks av 900 at $4.80, 3 cows av 1,110 at $4.20, 10 butchers av 906 at $4.50, 3 cows av 920 at $3.50; to Newton R, Co. 19 steers av 813 at $6.25, 2 do av 1.210 at $7. 4 do av 1,265 at $8, 4 do av 970 at $6.25, 14 (10 av 980 at $6.25, 12 do av 903 at $6.20, 5 canners av 926 at $3, 1 cow weigh- ing 1,060 at $4.50, 1 do weighing 1,000 at -$5. 1 bull weighing 1,320 at $5.50. 2 cows av 1,010 at $3, 2 do av 970 at $4.25, 5 can— ucrs av 840 at $3; to Parker, \V. & Co. 2 canncrs av 975 at $3.25, 3 cows av 1.083 at $4 25, 2 bulls av 1.325 at $4.75, 4 cows av 735 at $3.25, 11 do av 958 at $4.50, 20 steers av 1,057 at $7.15, 1 bull Weighing 1,300 at $5, 1 do weighing 1.190 at $4.75. 5 cows av 948 at $4, 3 bulls av 1,320 at $4.75, 10 steers av 628 at $5, 3 butchers av 883 at $4. Spit-er 8; R. sold Kamman 2 cows av 1,210 at $4.75, 1 steer weighing 880 .11: $5.75, 1 cow weighing 1,110 at $4, 7 steers av 8?.1 at $5.75, 8 butchers av 820 at $4.75, 1 bull weighing 930 at $4.75, 4 cows av 1,042 at $3.65; to Hammond,‘S. 8; Co. 1 cow Weighing 740 at $3.10, 4 do av 1.050 at $4.10. 1 do weighing 790 at $3.10, 8 do av 1,020 at $4.10, 6 Steers av 986 at $6.15; to Patterson 1 cow Weighing 770 at $3.60, 1 do weighing 700 at $3.35, 2 do av 725 :11 $3.50; 10 Fry 2 butchers av 830 at $5.50. 2 cows av 965 at $4.25; to l’arkcr, \V. & Co, 21 butchers av 856 at $5.50; to Kull 9 do av 800 at $5; to Naglc, 1’. Co. 22 steers av 1,160 at $6.55; to Fry 1 cow weighing 1.060 at $1.50, 3 heifers av 573 at $5; to Kull 7 butchers av 664 at $4; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow weighing 1,060 at $3.25; to Mich. B. Co. 10 butchers av 818 at $4.75; to llew~ ion 15. (,‘o, 5 do av 840 at $5.65. 1 Cow weighing 900 at $4.50. llalcy &. M. sold l’arkcr. \Y. & Co. 5 butchers av 628 at $5; to llrcitenbcck 17 do ;1\' 825 at $5.50, 2 cow and bull av 1.083 at $4.50; to Kamman l'l stccrs av 870 at $6.25, 6 do av 753 at $5.25; to NIIgle 1’. CO. 4 do av 1,097 at $6.15; to Mich, B. Co, 2 cows av 1,000 at $4.50, 4 do av 952 at $3.50, 1 do weighing 1,330 at $5.1 hcifcr wei‘figlhing 710 at $5, 1 do wcighing 600 at . . Adams sold Mich. B. Co. 15 butchers av 756 at $5.25. Mcri'iii sold Parkcr, W. & (“‘11, 2 cows av 900 at $3.50, 2 bulls av 1.245 at $4.75, 4 cows av 822 at $3.75, 1,090 at $6.50. \\'1-cks sold Sullivan R. Co, 4 butchers av 882 at $5.80, 1 cow \vcighing 830 at $3. 1 steer weighing Veal Calves. Rcccipls, 881. Markct active at last week's prices. Best. $8.75m950: others, $4618; milch cow's and springcrs, common grades. very dull. Bishop, ll. &. ll. sold Goose: 5 av 125 at $6, 11 av 120 at $6: to Hammond S. &. Co. 10 av 146 at $9, 20 av 1:20 at $8.75, 3 :IV 100 at $6, 9 av 140 at $9, 1 weighing 130 at $9.50; to l’arkcr, 1V. & Co. 13 av 135 at $9, 2 av 145 at $6. 14 av 135 at $7.75, 5 av 125 at $9.50, 13 av 130 at $9, 20 av 145 at $9, 9 av 150 at $9; Io Sullivan l‘. Co, 7 av 110 at $6, 9 av 150 at $9, 14 av 155 at $9; to Ncwton Ii. (30. 9 av .140 at $9: to Goose 5 av 125 at $8.50: to Goose 13 av 140 at $7; to ’l‘hompson Bros. 26 av 120 at $6.75: to Burnsiinc 24 av 135 at $9; to Hammond, S. & Co. 10 av 133 at $9. 2 11v 140 at $9; to l’arkcr, \V. & Co. 31 av 145 at $7, 3 av 165 at $4. Spiccr & R. sold Newton R. Co, 3 av 27-3 at $5, 14 av 120 at $6.50; to Mich. B, (To. 3 av 110 at $8.25. 3 av 110 at $7, 13 av 140 at $9, 2 av 105 at $7, 23 av 130 at $8.75 7 av 145 at $9; to Thompson Bros. 1 Wcighing 170 at $6.50, 6 av 155 at $8.50. Chase sold l‘arker, W. & C0. '9 av 138 at $9.25. Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 7 av 180 at $7.50, 11 av 130 at $8.75. Sandell & T. sold Mich. B. Co. 23 av 140 at $7.75. Loveweli sold Burnstine 8 av 200 at $6, 18 av 140 at $8. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts, 3,316. Market slow at VVed- ne-sday’s prices; about 10c lower than last week. Best lambs, $8; fair to good lambs $6.50@7.25;. light to common lambs, $5.50 @6; yearlmgs, $6.50@6.75; fair to good sheep, $5@5.50; culls and common, $3@4. Spicer & R. sold Thompson Bros. 2 sheep av 105 at $5; to Kull 30 lambs av 55 at $6.50; to Newton B. Co. 12 do av 70 at $7.50, 124 do av 70 at $7.50. Kaiaher sold Mich. B. Co. lambs av 62 at $12.50. Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co. 69 lambs av 75 at $7.75: to Thompson Bros. 12 sheep av 85 at $5, 3 do av 80 at $3; to Sullivan P. Co. 15 lambs av 55 at $5.75, 18 do av 50 at $5.75; to Gauss 438 do av 88 at $8; to Breiienbeck 76 do av 65 at $7.50; to Barlage 1.0 do av 74 at $7.50. 19 do av 58 at $7, 8 do av 55 at $6, 20 do av 60 at $7, 17 do av 60 at $6; to Young 25 do av 80 at $7.75,, 67 do av 80 at $7.75, 30 do av 85 at $7.75; to Mich. 13. Co. 23 do av 75 at $7.50, 23 do av 77 at $7.40, 48 sheep av 100 at $3.50, 42 spring inond, S. Fitzpatrick Bros. 16 sheep av 105 at $5.25, 21 do av 100 at $5.40. ans. Receipts, 3,672. Nonc- sold up to nOOn; look 10c lower than \Vcdnesday, or about steady with last week‘s close. Range of pricts: Light to good butch- ers. 5578060785; pigs, $675617; light york- I-rs, 1576041775; stags one-third off. Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, \\'. & Co. 210 av 180 at $7.85, 35 av 165 at $7.55, 540 av 170 at $7.80, 215 av 130 at $7.50. Spiccr & ll. sold Hammond. S. 181:,_C0. 245 av 195 at $7.85, 210 av 150 at $7.80, 140 av 165 at $7.55. Haley 6'; M. sold same 250 av 190 at $7.85, 254 av 175 at $7.80, 165 av 160 at $7.75. 1100 Com. Co. av 190 at $7.85, 160 av 160 at $7.75. sold Sullivan P. CO. 155 av 175 at $7.80, 85 Friday’s Market. March 29, 1912. Cattle. ‘Receipts this week, 1,522; last week. 1.621. Market strong at Thursday's prices. \\'e quote: Extra dry-fed steers and heifers, $675657; steers :Ind heifers, 1,000 to 1.200. $6606.75; do. 800 to 1.000, $525417 6; do. that are. fat, 500 to 700, $4.50(11;5.25; choice fat cows, $5@5.‘5; good (10., $4.25 @475; common cows, 511325612375; canners, $26113; choice heavy bulls, $5655.25; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $4614.75; stock bulls, 21535060425; milkcrs, largo. young, medium age, $406150; common milkcrs, $200130. Veal Calves. Receipts this wcck, 1,268; last week, . 1.225. Market steady at Thursday’sI - prices. Best, $8.75fi1950; others, $4618: milch cows and sprlngcrs, common very dull. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts this week, 5,758; last week. 6,417. Market 15(112Oc lower; quality not so good. Best lambs, $7.75@7.85; fair to good lambs, $6.75G1I7.50; light to common lambs, $5@5.75; yearlings, $6.50@6.75; fair to good sheep, $4.75@5.35; culls and com- mon, $2.50((113.2,5. Hogs. Receipts this week. 5,825; last week, 5.989. Market 561/100 higher than Thurs— day. Range of prices: Light to butchers, $7.756117.85; pigs, $675617; light yorkers, $7.40fl17.60; stags one-third off. As the season advances the receipts of. prime heavy beef cattle at western mar- kets continue to form a meager propor- tion of the :Igng'Igaie offerings, and the percentage is now smallcr than at prcvious lime iluis year. Consequently cxtrcnlcly liberal prcmiums are paid read— ily for the few fancy consignments of siccrs of good weights, and the same is true of prime hcifI-rs and cows, fancy spayed heifers having sold within :1 short time as high as $7 per 100 pounds in the Chicago market. Clay, Robinson & Co., of Chicago. re- port constantly increasing evidence of the scarcity of stock cattle everywhere. and an inquiry even came from as far off as Maine not long ago, While several days ago an order was filled for feeder heifers for shipment to South Carolina. “ch- cral loads of stcers have been Scnt to West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A load of i’ccders was bought for a Missouri man who lived in Kansas City territory. lle did not get them cheaper here, but he could not find what he wanted at that point. Urgent request for both she and steer stuff was made by \\'ichita, Kan, siocknien. If thcre is an acute scarcity of young cattle now, what will it mean to prices when grass shows up and the dc.— inand from all quarters becomes insist- cnt‘.’ ’l‘hosc who have the fccd are filling their orders now and intend to avoid the crowd in laicr weeks and the resultant highcr prices.” . R. F Bickncll, of the prominent firm of Ricknell & (lcmmcll, with headquartcrs at Idaho, says: “As compared with re- ccnt years. all of the range states have 11 Ihorlagc of sheep and it will be cspccially noticed in the 1912 crop of wool. if spring Weather conditions are favorable and drought does not hit the range states again next summer and fall, I look for liberal supplies of range sheep and lambs to be sent to market next season. as forced liquidation will not have ceased by that time. There is a marked short- age of young breeder ewes in most of the northwestern range states and prices are ruling 25 to 50 cents per head higher than a year ago, with the demand in- creasing as the news of this shortage Spreads.” We Want HAY& STRAW We get the top price on consignments, make liberal advancements and prompt remittances. Daniel McCaiirey’s Sons Co. PITTSBURG. PA Reference. 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Atty. 864 F 8%., Wash. D. C. "THE 'Mi-bHIGAN FARMER. CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE. FEEDS AND THEIR ECONOMIC USE. Address by Colon C. Lillie before the last meeting of the Michigan State Dairy- men’s Association. Mr. President, Members of the Michi- gan Dairymcn‘s Association, Ladies and Gentlemenz—i wish I had something new to tell you about feeds; but this subject has been studied pretty thoroughly for the last number of years, and if anything along this line has developed that is ab— solutely new it has not been brought to my notice. So 1 can simply tell you, per- haps in a little different way, some of the old things about feeds and their economic use. The more, experience I have with feeds and feeding, especially in feeding the dairy cow, the more I believe that the most important factor, if I may be per- mitted to say that one factor is more im— portant than anolhcr, is palntability. You cannot get animals to do their best unless the food is palatable; that is, unless they like it. IVe can reason this out with our- selves. It matters not whether someone tells us that this product or that product is an excellent food~if it is not satisfac— tory to our individual palates we don't consume very much of it; and that is the way it is Willi the dairy cow. You may Two Views of Pontiac DeNijlander, prepare a ration, either a single food ra- tion or a combination of foods, and unlcss the cow likes it she will not consume cnough of it so that she will do her bcst’. Some people sometimes have an eco— nomical streak in the purchase of foods" they buy feed a little bit off in flavor, sol— vngc groin for instance. I have done this myself but I don't think, my friends, that it is the best thing to do. I doubt if it, pays for even fccding to hogs, for if you want to make a gain with hogs this Very same thing enters into the proposition“ palatnbility. A hog responds to palatable food as wcll us a dairy cow. I realize that sometimcs we have foods that are u littlo bit off in flavor from some cause or other. I do not say that we should destroy these foods, but I do say that if you want your hcrd of cows to do their very best, such foods are. not the ones to use. You should study to see that your animals relish what you are offering them. Again, we want a succulent food in the ration. You cannot get the host results in feeding animals unless the food has succulency. I think there is u distinction between palatability and succulcncy. Some people think that it makes no difference if it is only palatable. You can have :i palatable food from dry foods, but it will not give the results that a succulent food will. \thn you come to feed your ani- mals for a long period of time and com- pare, the results obtained from feeding dry feed with those whcre the ration con- tains succulency you will quickly and pos- itively conclude that succulcncy has a beneficial effect on digestion. It stimu- lates the flow of the digestive fluids, and the animals can eat more of the dry foods in the ration and get better assimilation from them when one food in the ration is of a succulent nature. Of course, the. practical man has known this for a long time. The old Scotch farm— er raised turnips to feed his animals, be- cause he could not give them the finish that he wanted if he did not have succu- lent foods. The English farmer used ruta- bagas, and the New England farmer used mange] wurzels. For some time I hesi- tated to give up the growing of beets for a succulent food and substitute silage, but when Professor‘Henry, down at the Wisconsin Experiment Station, secured such satisfactory and almost remarkable results from corn silage we planted our beet patch to corn, and we have not grown any beets for this purpose since. ()ne of the great arguments for the silo is that it furnishes a succulent food in the ration which has a value over and above its chemical analysis, and it aids the cow in getting more economic diges- tion and assimilation of the dry food in the ration. Now we want a food that is digestible, too. I was told once, by a very prominent man, that the reason why the cow got more good out of corn silage than she did out of the dry corn plant was because it was more palatable. He disregarded the fact that the corn silage at a certain Stage of the growth of the corn plant is more digestible than when dead ripe. I am satisfied that he is wrong in this the- ory. My argument is that you get more out of silage, first, because it is palatable, and second, because of its digestibility. You put the corn into the silo when it contains the largest percentage of digesti- ble nutrients. . “'0 have filled a silo with beet-tops and dry cornslalks. \Ve husked the corn this APRIL 6, 1912. corn plant is a very digestible food. The co-efficient of digestibility is large in the by-products from the corn plant which we purchase, like gluten feed, gluten meal, etc., after the part needed in the manufacture of alcohol and human food is removed. a large co-efficient of digestibility and are used with great profit in the feeding of live stock. I would not, however, choose a food of high digestibility if it lacks in palatability, and that might be the case. There are other things to consider in compounding a ration for the dairy cow. One of the most important is the one that Dr, Robison spoke about—the balancing of the ingredients of the food so that the animal will have about the right propor- tio'h of protein to the carbohydrates. This is the whole meal; of the question, and lots of us haven’t got hold of this side of the question as we should. As the cost of foods increase we will more and more use our lead pencils in figuring out the money side of this question. Even if carbohydrates are cheap we cannot afford to waste them in the ration. and when we determine what proportion of carbohydrates are required, and tak- ing that into account. feed only that amount, and do not feed either too much or too little of that which is required to who Holds Michigan’s Three—year-Old Milk full by hand because it was such an un-‘ favorable full. The weather conditions \rcrc so bad, and the cornstalks were. so saturated with moisture that if we shrcd- dcd them and put them into the mow they \rould mold, and we would lose a large lltll'l of thcm. I conceived the idea of husking the corn by hand and running it through the cutter together with the beet tops, so now we have. a silo of sugar beet tops and (Il)' cornslzilks. \\'e mixcd‘ them togclhcr and they were, cut up by the en- silage cutter and blown into the silo. The boot tops contained a large amount of moisture, not only' in themselves. but there was a lot of external moisture. Some of the tops were frozen solid when run through the cutter. The cornstalks contained more than the usual amount of moisture. owing to \A’i'allitfl' conditions, and if we had put thcm into the mow in that condition dry mold Would have, de— veloped, and we would certainly have lost them. \Ve know that the boot tops con- tained an excess of moisture and that, the cornsalks would absorb some of this and thus enable the whole mass to pack close togethcr, with heat enough to drive off the oxygen between the pzlrticlcs of corn— stiilks and boot tops, and thus make a fine succulent food. I am not foolish enough to bclicve that the cows are going to gct us much food out, of this as if I had put the corn plant into the silo when it was just right, bo- cause a part of it has turned to (-cllulosc and woody fibre and has become less digestible: and yet I do bcli"Vc that 1 :Im going to get a, larger feeding value out. of them than if fed without mixing them with beet tops. A lot of_it, howcvor, will be a filler, it will bc indigcsiible crude ill-re and it will not produce a good flow of milk. So we have these three essentials in a food or ration: palatabllity, succulency, digestibility. “'e must figure on these when we figure on a ration for the dairy cow. “'9. know from our experience that when we get results from feeding a cow it is because a large part of that food is di- gestible, and the cows. mnufaciure milk out of it, but if it was not digestible they could not manufacture it into milk. The and Butter Record. (See page 428). cnublc the animal to perform her func- tions to the highest degree of efficiency, lhcn you will have solved one of the cost problems in this proposition. There must be present in the ration all that she ctin utilize of these ingredients, but any more will be wasted. \\'hen the cow is dry. is not giving milk, ii is not economical to feed her the same ration that she would have on a full flow of milk. The same rule applies to horses. A great many farmers feed their horses the same ration when idle in the winter as in the summer when they are working hard. That is not an economical thing to do because when the horse is performing labor he is breaking down the muscular tissues which are composcd largely of nitrogen, and it takes protein to build these muscular tissues up. So, whcn you are. working the horses at severe labor IIit'l'e should be more protein in their ration than when they arc standing in the barn, idle. You can feed more com and hay and less oats and other feeds rich in prolcin in thc winlcr than you do in tho summer. and if you do it both you and your horscs will be much better off. So, when the dairy cow is dry she need not consume as much of the protein as sho needs win-n producing a flow of milk, bccuusc in order to produce casein in the milk she must have nitrogen or protein in her food. You cannot manufacture cow-in out of starch or sugar. It is said llml it is a poor rule that won’t work both ways, but here is one that does not Work both ways. An animal may live on protein alone. The animal economy seems to have the power of taking protein to build up the muscular tissues and also can burn it in the body to keep up the temperature and produce, energy. But, on the. other hand, it cannot take starch and. sugar and build up the muscular tissue. It is a foolish thing from a busmess standpoint to feed a. dairy COW an unbal- anced ration. She wants enough protein to build up the vital parts of her body and supply the nervous energy and pro- duce the nitrogenous part of the dairy product, and she wants enough of carbo— hydrates to keep her warm and to furnish I say these by-products have _ I 1‘». -—~ ‘ ‘ ..- .~ _ @‘I¢W.*rfi : _. .J‘.’ ' -. 1......— ....u ‘. g... 9,.» w ‘1” ”W ' L’s: he. APRIL 6, 1912. the energy necessary to enable her to do her work. And, when you give an excess of any of these you are feeding an ex- travagant ration, you are wasting food. I take it that those cows of the upper peninsula, referred to by the chairman, would consume a large amount of carbo- hydrates if they were kept out in the cold zero weather. You must burn fuel some- where to keep the temperature of the body up to where it should be. On the other hand, in a warm dairy barn the cow does not need so much fuel to keep up this body heat to its normal temperature. All these things must be considered in compounding an economical ration. Another principle should be considered. We must not attempt to get the most economical results out of an entirely bulky ration. At the Nebraska Experi- ment Station, I think it was, cows were fed entirely on alfalfa hay and corn silage. They did very well for a time but gradually lost flesh and it became neces- sary to give them grain in connection with the bulky food. We all know that common clover hay contains carbohy- drates and protein in about the right pro- portion for feeding as a balanced ration, so far as it goes, for a milch cow. But, you cannot get results from feeding en- tirely on clover hay because it is too bulky, there is too much fiber, and the cow has not the capacity to get enough nutriment out of it to produce a maximum flow of milk. So, you must have some concentrated food in the ration if you want the cow to do her best. I think that every farmer in the state of Michigan who keeps dairy cows should nake provision to have all the alfalfa or clover hay and corn silage that the cow will eat up clean 365 days of the year. Those foods are the basis of the econom- ical ration. We want clover hay because we want to grow the clover plant. We cannot maintain a permanent agriculture in this country unless we. grow clover or alfalfa. And, right here I want to put an intcrrogation mark aftcr alfalfa. We don’t know enough about alfalfa to talk of it as we do red clover. He cannot maintain a permanent agriculture in this country without the use of red clover, hence we must grow it on the farm. It is not necessary to turn under the first crop. \Ve can cut that for hay if we put the manure back on the farm. We also want the clover plant because it is a splendid dairy food. we need.corn silage because we can grow the greater number of tons of cow feed from this plant than any other plant that grows in this latitude. “re cannot make as great a success without it as with it. And, right here I want to ask, who knows the limit of production of In- dian corn? The average yield is between 30 and 40 bushels to the acre. Lots of people do not raise 20 bushels of shelled corn, and yet a boy down in South Caro- lina raised more than 200 bushels on an acre, and a man on the barren soil of a New England farm raised 126 bushels to the acre, containing only ten per cent of moisture. But about corn silage. What is a good crop of corn silage? How much can we raise to the acre? They will tell you that ten tons is a fair crop. I have on my farm filled a silo 161/1J feet in diameter and 40 feet deep, from 12 acres, and that is a good deal more than ten tons to the acre—it is nearly 20 tons. I hope to be able to make my entire area lll the future average 20 tons to the acrc. But, friends, that is not the limit. We had an example set for us by a woman down in Lenawee county. A seed com- pany down east offered a prize of $50 for the greatest number of tons of silage rais- ed to the acre with their seed, and Mrs. liarris competed for this prize. The corn is a large variety raised in Virginia. Out of the four acres planted she selected one acre to compete for the prize. The seed firm had the officials of Adrian, sealers of weights’ and measures, determine the yield of this acre of ground. It was too far to haul all of it: to Adrian, so four square rods were selected and the corn cut and drawn and weighed, and it was found that there were 3,500 pounds on that four square rods. Forty of these to the acre would make 70 tons of green for- age on the acre. Mrs. Harris got the prize. Now the corn plant, the giant of the grass family, a plant that will take enough food from the soil and atmos- Dhere to produce 70 tons to the acre, is certainly a wonderful plant if you will feed it and give it a chance. I think I ought to make a little ex- planation about this crop and the acre on which it was grown. Part of the land was an old hog pasture, and another por- tion of it had previously been used as a (27) 427 from a letter to one of them: cows. separators.” “Scrub” Cream Separators as Unproiitable as “Scrub”Cows 1.. .- . 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Mrs. Harris is a, wise farmer. She knows something of the nature of the Indian corn plant, and while this land naturally under these conditions would be quite rich. she had it all cow ered over with good stable manure and plowed down. Besides, she used 350 pounds of commercial fertilizer to the acre. She knew how to cultivate and take care of it. And there must have been a fairly good distribution of moist- ure to have ever got the yield of ensilage corn that she did. Yes, we must have this wonderful corn plant to feed the dairy cow so that we can make the greatest profit from her. 'We want it because we can get succu- lency with it, and because we can get so much feed to the acre. The lndian corn plant, however, is far from being a bal— anced food. \Vhile red clover contains one pound of protein to five and one—half to six pounds of carbohydrates, Indian corn contains only one pound of protein to 14 pounds of carbohydrates, which makes what we call a wide ration—too much carbohydrates to the protein. The cow could hardly eat enough of the entire corn plant to live on, let alone supplying the demand for milk production; so if you feed corn silage or ensilage you must have a concentrated food with it, because there must be a balancing up of the food nutrients and also less bulk. And now comes the question, what feed will be used to balance these» carbohy- drates? The American farmer is wonder- fully favored with feeding stuffs for bal- ancing up the food which he produces on his OWn farm. In the manufacture of human food products and products for use in the industrial world from agricultural products the manufacturer has by—pro- ducts which are useless to him but which contain a high per cent of protein. For instance, when We make flour out of wheat the by—product is wheat bran, and it is rich in protein. Ithn alcohol is made out of corn, only the starch in the corn, the carbohydrates, are used, and the chit of the corn, which is rich in pro— tein, is only a by-product, and this is manufactured into a food rich in protein. When you make glucose sugar out of corn, you take the starch and by a chem— ical process change it into sugar. and the by—product is rich in protein, and that is called gluten feed. Ithn we crush flax— sccd and extract the oil for commercial purposes to paint our houses, the residue is known as oil cake—oil mcul when ground. “'hen crushed, the cottonseed yields cottonseed oil, which is a com— mercial product used in various forms for culinary and other purposes, and some of it I have heard is bottled up and sold as olive oil. The residues, which are known as cottonsccd meal, oil cake, etc, is very rich in protein and we can purchase it at an economical pricc 1o fccd in connection with clover hay and corn silage to balance up the ration and to also furnish a con- centrated food in the ration. If the farmci‘ does not wish to go out- side of his own farm to get concentrated food rich in protein, which he needs, he can get it here in Michigan by raising Canada, pcas. l’cas are almost as rich in protein as gluten l‘ccd, and it is a most elegant grain i-alion for dairy cows. It complies with all the requirements. It is palatable, digestible, and rich enough in protciii to balance up the corn silage in your ration. The old Scotchman who took care of hiai'y Ann of Si. Lambert, when she produced 36 pounds of buttcr in a week, when someone said something to him in regard to this wonderful yil-ld, said: “The wonder is not that her yicld is so large, but that the cow could eat so much pca meal.” You can hardly coax cows to eat bean meal but you don’t have to coax them to eat pea meal. If the Michigan farmer wi‘l raise Canada field peas and grind them into meal and mix them with corn silage and clover hay, he can produce a balanced dairy ration on his own farm. \Ve usu- ally talk about raising pens with oats. The peas have a rcclining stem, but when mixed with oats which have quite a stiff straw, hold them up so that they can be harvested with the ordinary modci‘n har— vesting machinery. If you cut them be— fore thcy get dead ripe. the pea and oat straw makes a very good forage. IVo have many by-products on the farm, like corn stovcr, straw, etc, but I would not advise you to feed too much of these by—products if you are thinking of try- ing to place your cows in the Mary Ann class. You must adhere to the principles which I have expressed here if you want your cows to make records. If she makes a record she has got. to be. not only a good cow but she must be well cared for, and well fed. She must have food that is APRIL 6, 1912. palatable and digestible and succulent. and there must be concentrates as well as bulky foods in the ration. Every man who has attempted to develop his dairy cows to the limit knows this. Don’t make up your mind that you can feed the dairy cow straw, timothy hay, and other bulky indigestible foods, and get her to produce a maximum yield, for she cannot do it. From a practical standpoint we must not waste those by—products on the farm. 1 think that all the straw should go through the manger and allow the ani- mals to pick out the best part of it. Vt’lien fed on a balanced ration they can con- sume part of this to good advantage. That, however, should be only a secondary consideration. The by—products or coars~ er parts of the food can be fed to your growing animals to develop their digestive apparatus. The mature dairy cow you -want to feed to the limit and get the greatest production. HE LEARNED THE VALUE OF HIS COWS. I read with interest the criticism of Professor Fraser, by F. M. Ellsworth. I agree with Mr. Ellsworth that there are not many cows, (in Michigan), which give on an average, of not more. than two or three quarts a day. But I think there are a good many that do not give over eight quarts for the simple reason that their owners are like Mr. Ellsworth: they meas- urc their milk in a, ll-quai't pail, (often holding not over 13 quarts), and four quarts looks (with the foam on), like about seven. I believe that if he will weigh that 14-(1uart pail of milk, he will find that he has about 21 lbs., or 101,43 quarts of milk. At least that was my ex- pcriencc. ’l‘Wo years ago after reading and hear- ing so much about “robber cows," I de- cidcd to test mine and see what they were actually doing. I did so and lcai'ncd a great many things. In the first place, i had no “robber cows;” my poorest gave 6,341 lbs, of milk in ~14 weeks, and my best (a Shortcorn cow 12 years old), gave 3.460 lbs. in 43 weeks. Now I knew this cow gave a large mess, as I often had to empty that 14— quart pail before finishing milking her, but had thought that some of the other cows, which were part Jersey and gave Very yellow milk, were really better. I was surprised at the slight difference ihcre was in the average test for the year, and it gave me a better appreciation of my old Sliortliorn. Naturally I will give her better care. She is now 14 years of age. and is giving (on dry feed), 40 lbs. a day. if I had up- preciated her worth when she was young, bct‘ore her constitution was weakened by milk fever, by giving her succulent food and a balanced ration. I could easily have made her produce 12,000 lbs. of milk a year. Ionia Co. ROY NORMINGTON. TWO MICHIGAN RECORDS. The- following records (official) made this winter at Ypsilanti Farms, of \Vush- tcnaw county are, according to our in- formation, the highest in their class ever made in Michigan. Pontiac llch'jlélllllCl‘ at 3 years, 8 mos. and 14 days, made: Hotter in 7 days, lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3010 Milk, in 7 days, lbs ................ 588.6 .\vcragc~ fat. per cent .............. 4.09 Ruler in 30 days, lbs ............... 123.88 Milk in 30 days. lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2522.2 .\ vci'agc fat, per cent .............. 3.93 She gave 000 lbs. mjlk her best day and avr-ragcd over 34 lbsfmilk daily for the 2:0 consccutivc days. This is the largest 2’.0~10 cents a hundred weight instead of twtl dollars a bushel. it may not always be best to do the "topping: off" the first year of the reno— vation of a neglected apple orchard, be- cause the trees will be given too bad a “shock" and an unnecessary number of water sprouts stimulated. There is no ob- jection to doing it the second year how- ever. It ought not to be necessary to caution prunersabout “making cuts” properly but there is so much carelessness and thoughtlessness evident in so many Mich— igan orchards that the writer cannot re- frain. All cuts should be made short and Smooth. l’runing saws and shears should always be kept sharp. If cuts are made short, even though the w0und is slightly larger, it will heal much more quickly Lean Trees in Direction of Winds. spots in the trees or the lower limbs have been cut off. Such water sprouts should be cut back so they will branch out and not grow straight up through the tree. If they are- bent over by a weight of some kind they will make the tree have a low— cr top and they will also bear fruit sooner, Some. thinning out of the tops can be done in the late spring or early summer months if necessary, and if done in late June. or before the middle of July. on trees which have come to bearing age and refuse 1o bear because they are growing too vigorously it may cause them to set i‘ruit buds for next year‘s crop. Summer pruning is more ditiicult, however, and is not to be encouraged unless there is spe- cial need for it. Fire—blighted or cankered limbs should always be cut out or cleaned out when— tver found, the diseased parts burned and the. wounds disinfected with a 50 per cent carbolic acid solution or some other equally good material. Mich. Agri. (‘ol. SUGGESTIONS ON SPRAY! NG. O. K. \VHITE. Be ready to spray when the weather is ready, if you are not you are certain to waste much valuable time later. Re sure to have plenty of material so you will neither run short, nor be compelled to economize. This caution may seem needless, but I have seen so many cases where. men intended spraying and when it came to buying material they pur- chased scarcely enough, then “made it do." The results were just what might have been QXIH‘t'lt‘tl, a largo per cent of poor fruit. “'hcreas, if they had spent a few more dollars in the. beginning they would have saVcd the larger portion of fruit to the best grades. ‘ This spring there will be more power outtits started for. the first time than ever before and perhaps a few words in the way of what the writer has learned in the last few years may be of advantage to some beginners with power outfits. There are at least three kinds of power sprayers that have been tried out more or less successfully, viz: Gas pressure, trac- tion power, and gas engine, and perhaps to these may be added the steam engine and boiler. To those starting gas engine sprayers this spring for the first time, I will ad— vise them to disconnect the engine from the pump and practice starting the en- 'gine, getting just as familiar with it as you possibly can so you will not need the services of an expert after you begin spraying. If you do not, much valuable time will be lost gaining experience. A word in the way of placing the outfit on wheels, when purchased unmounted, may be helpful to many. In the first place do not make the mistake of mount- ing on too low wheels. Much spraying has to be done on soft ground, especially early in the spring when the frost is coming out and low wheels at that time causes an almost endless amount of trou— ble. My experience has taught me that a farm wagon with 40 and 44—in. wheels, with a 3-in. tire is best- Of course, this makes the outfit pretty high and top heavy for uneven ground; but if the tank is set just as near the bolster of the wagon as possible it will not be found inctmvenicnt. Also have the engine and pump mounted as low as possible. This may be accom- plished by having a skeleton rack on the wagon (without a bottom). The sills of this rack should come in toward each other in front so as to allow the wagon to turn in as small a space as it could before the rack was on. The sills can be fastened in front by a false bolster bolted to the bottom of the sills and notched to fit the bolster stakes—a good strong piece of 2x4 will serve for this. The tank can be fastened to these sills by iron rods threaded at each end for a nut and pass- ing from a strip across the top of the tank to a strip beneath the sills. The tank should be about balanced over the front axle. Now the engine can be slip- ped on to the rack behind, as close to the tank as possible. On the outsides of the sills of the rack may be bolted stake irons for the canopy. This canopy should be as light as practicable and yet strong enough to bear a heavy man. The frame- work built of white pine 2x4 scantling with cross rods between the rear stakes and a flooring 0f matched lumber com— pletes the canopy, with the- exception of the side curtains. which can be made of any heavy cloth; canvasses from a worn— out grain binder are excellent. The out- let from the pump should be extended to the top of the canopy by a pipe cut and threaded to fit. The canopy should be a step higher than the tank so as to make more convenient the reaching of different levels. because of so many styles of engines, pumps, and tanks. T be well looked after as this is of vital im- 3 portance. Examine it every few hours . . . l when working to see. that it is not brok- en. The tank should be washed out every few days during the spraying season. This can be done by having a plug near the bottom in one end or side and driv- ing the wagon on an incline, permitting the tank to slush out. 1 use. a strainer to work up the lead in and as l llle'o never seen another like mine ] will describe it. I had it made by a tinner. It is about 12 inches in diam- eter and about 24 inches deep with the lower end funnel shaped, with a 3—in. opening. The screen is set near the lower opening at a slant. The sides of the. strainer are parallel for about 16 inches.5 \\'ith a large basting spoon the \rorking‘ 1‘!) of the lead is made comparativelyv easy, providing, of course, that water is flowing through the strainer during the operation. Berrien Co. it. (i. ’l‘noMAs. ODD PARAGRAPHS. Among the desirable qualities of a shade tree are a dense foliage which remains on till late in the season and the immunity from the depredation of insect pests. Shade trees should also be clean, that is, any waste resulting from the shedding of temporary growth should not cover the ground with litter. Because the currant is a hardy plant it has been subjected to much hardship and given so little care that the average plant produces little good fruit. The plant does well where it is a little shaded and re- sponds quickly to cultivation and im- provement in soil conditions. Spray with Paris green when the first brood of worms begin to eat holes through the leaves. For the second brood of worms spray with white hellebore. Cut out canes affected with borers and burn. Plant the gooseberires in rows from five to seven feet apart and place the plants about four feet apart in the rows. This fruit does well in a soil that is rich in plant food and it likes moist land bet— ter than some of the other bush fruits. For the control of the powdery mildew on gooseberries use a spray made by the mixture of one ounce of potassium sul- APRIL 6, 1912. I DEVOE 8: Raynolds Paris Green is made to destroy potato bugs and other insect pests; it docs. ;. Put a little money and labor into protecting your crops; you’ll have fewer bugs, but more potatoes. For spraying fruit trees and foliage plants there’s nothing better than Dcvoe Arsenate of Lead and Dcvoe Lime and Sulphur Solution. If your dealer is not a “Devoc,” better write us. These directions are only general‘: be strainer on the intake hose must‘ 1; Dcvoc 8C Raynolds Co Chicago New York Kansas City Denver It is the work your sprayer does after the “new” wears ofi that counts. You can always de- pend on the work you get out of a SPRAY PUMR . because it is built for the extra strain, rather than for ordinary, everyday work. When time is short and you must get‘ ‘. the work done, then you realize that the few extra dollars you put nt- “Deming” were a ' ' good investment. All . working parts brass; l well - built; water- tight valves to make 1 high pressure easy; .t these things you , get in a “Deming.” See . your dealer or write us. In: [HIKING COMPANY .255 Success Bldu.. Salem. Ohio The largest, best. keeping, handsome-t Onion. no / ’l T\ produced from Northern Grown Seeds. Snlzer’u I Seed. are grown in the extreme North, are pedigree stocks, and for urity, vitality and yield are unsurpassed. atalog tells. s MARKET son'rs, 12°. The following are the three most. opulur sorts: One large package each bite Portugal.Yeflow Globe Denver: and Red “tether-held, to test, 12o. FOR 168. l0,000 Kernels ofaplendid Lettuce, Radish, Tomato, Cabbage, Turnip,0nion, Celery, Par-icy, Carrot, Melon and Flower Seeds producing bushels ofvegetablea and flowers for 16c poutpnld. Our great. Plum. and Seed Catalog free for the uking.Write to—dny. John A.Salzar$uad to. 135 8.8018“: CrossaMls. SPRAY FRUITS AND FIELD CROPS Ind do whiter-shim; ln moat effectual, economical, . npld way. Sutilfwtlou guuomoed. BROWN'S "AND 0" Few... Auto-Sprays No.1, shown here, is tilted with Auttrl’np Nozzle. . doel work ofii ordinary apnyers. Endorsed by Ex- periment Stations and 3oo'ot)l) otbeu. 4') style! and 0 . alias of band and power Sprayers—also price! . ‘ ' and valuable spraying guide in our Free Book. Write postal now. THE E. 0332850“!!! COMPANY 3] at, Rochester, N. Y. FARM s E El) CARFF, BARGAINS Special Prices for March and April Sales 100 bus. Soy Beans—200 bus. Cow Peas—75 bus. Fancy Timothy—aw bus. Med Red clover—200 bus. :Alfulfa (Bargain Price)— 2000 bus. Regeneratcd Swedish Select. Oats —2UOO bus. Seed Corn (10 varieties) High Germination~2000 bus Seed Potatoes Full line of other stock—everything guaranteed. Catalog. Free Will mail smnnles if wanted. W. N SCARFF, R. I“ I). 5. New Curllsle, 0, PLANT HARDY TREES Healthy, acclimated, high grade, true to label fruit tree. and plants for Northern States at wholesale prices, direct from nursery to planter. Send for catalogue. BELERY CITY NURSERIES DESK E Knuumn, Mica. BEST STDCK and BEST FRUITS! Buy Direct and Save Money at: our low ricesl Peach trees, fine at 40 and up. Apgle and berry, 80 and up. All kinds of fruit. an shade trees. Berry plants. etc. Ca logue Free. ERNST NURSERIES. Box 2. Moscow. Ohio (true 9 eel ) $3.50 1(I)0 . All Bl. Locu3l & calalpa forest..p friiiili and .eve‘i-preen trees cheap. Catalog. T. G. BROSIUS, Timn, hi0 ~\ m} W‘V APRIL 6, 1912. Spraying for Profit Spraying, to be profitable, muss be done at the proper time, with the proper solution and with a practical machine. LeROY SPRAYERS have been used for years spraying for profit. Their users claim they have paid ,for themselves many times. A LeROY SPRAYER is a safe investment, they are long lived machines. If interested in spraying machinery of any kind, write us for particulars. John Deere Plow Co Indianapolis, Ind. Nature’s Last Call to You Has Come Unless you supply the needed Phos— phoric Acid for this year’s crops you cannot expect a fair yield. Send us your order at once for the finest ground phosphate on the market. 95% through 100 mesh. 80/ through 200 mesh. FEDERAL CHEMICAL (10., Ground MRock “Dept, Colu_mbia, Tenn. CALL’S NURSERIES, PERRY, OHIO. Have a. large stock of the finest Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, Spray Pum s, Spraying Solutions and Gaso- line ngines. Deal Direct. Prices low. Send for price list. Don’t Plant An Apple Orchard this season without first getting prices on my clean, healthy Ohio grown 1 and 2 year old trees. Have specialized in growing fine nursery stock for 30 years. Catalog free. W. E. Heiiner, Drawer ll, Troy, Dhio, CIDER Proved Capao- A] s 0 Gasoline iiién‘fuf e a ‘ and Steam En- all sizes. “ \ glnes.Thresh- Write for . ers. saw FREE c“ Mills.“ Get “03 mday' ' our prices. INE Well drained land produces big crops. Invest in high grade clay tile and you will have a permanent drainage system. he have been manufacturing indestruc- tible drain tile for several years. Thou- sands of satisfied customers. We satisfy you. erte Now for our prlooo. SUMMITVILLE DRAIN TILE C0. SUMMITVILLE, INDIANA.“ CATALPA—Tnu. True to Name. Ten times your money back for all trees that prove not true speciosa. Also Oatalpa seed. I have gpressn Trees. the most beautiful tree in the world. . C. OGERS. Box LMechanicsbuI-g‘. 01110. From Grower to Planter. Full assortment of Fruit Trees, Small Fruits. Ornamental and Shade Trees Roses. Shrubs. etc. Semi for catalog. Stock extra line Fresh dug. Low prices on Burp us Lie 'l‘ll! ONTARIO hunssms. Rochester. N. Y. THE ‘MICHIGAN phide to two gallons of water. The first spray is made when the buds are breaklng and is followed by successive sprays ev— ery week or ten days thereafter till the fruit is ready to gather. FRUIT TREES SHOULD BE KEPT FROM THE GARDEN. In my garden of half an acre, I had on the north and east sides, 14 peach trees; on the south side three cherry trees, and two plum trees; on the west side, one quince, one plum, and two dwarf pear trees, and through the middle of the gar- den a row of grape vines on a trellis. The consequence was that when the trees grew large I had to cut down the peach trees or mOVe my vegetable garden to some other place—mot only did the trees shade my vegetables, but their roots extending far out under them, robbed them of moisture and fertility. In a dry time the trees would seize upon the moisture and the vegetables suffered. It has been stat- cd that the roots of trees extend from the trunk about as far out in the ground as the limbs exten over it. The fact is, they extend much farther than that. I have seen many trees along the riVer and creek that were washed out by floods, and some of their roots looked like ropes and were four times longer than any of their limbs. it is said that nature abhors a vacuum, and has provided weeds and gr Sses that will grow well in a shade. I have seen celandine growing in moist situations where it never saw the light the sun; but I never saw~any garden vegetables that would come to perfection in a shade. Some things will bear a permanent eclipse of the sun better than others, and some will stand (ll'Oulll better than others, but none will do their best when robbcd of the sunlight and their share of the moist- ure in the soil. l‘lven apples and other fruits will not color well and haVc thci1 luscious taste when loo much shaded by the limbs and leaves of the tree. I have found that polaioes will bear a partial shade better than corn, and is therefore a more appropriate crop than corn to be grown in an orchard. Pennsylvania. J. \V. INGHAM. HANDLING THE HYACINTH BULBS AFTER FLOWERING. Vl'ill you kindly tell me how to care for my hyacinth bulbs now that they have finished blooming, and whether they wl‘l ever blossom again? Munistee Co. Mrs. ll. \K'. P. Hyacinth bulbs that have been forced to flower during the winter are not Valu— able for forcing again. but they can be used for planting in the border of the flower garden or lawn. To prepare them for this change in life, gradually with- hold water from them after they have finished Ilowvring until the lanes die, when they may be planted in the border where they will [lower annually for sev- eral seasons. The purpose of withholding the water from the bulbs is to give them 21 resting period 21f11'1' which they will take on a new lease of life. SPRAY FOR CAN KER- WORMS. WHEN TO Vthn should Ono spray as I understand it is against the law in count of killing,r honey bees? Clinton (lo. 1'). M. X’l'hcrc ibis pest troubles. spray with :11 solution containing one pound of laiis Green to each 100 gallons of liquid, or four pou11ds_of arsenate of lead to the same amount of liquid. just before the blossoms open and again after 1he blos- some have fallen Sometimes the second application is not rcquired but to insure the best results it should be given. it is precaution to band the trees material lo prevent the Wingless females from ascending the trees for the purpose of laying their eggs. 'l‘hese- applications of poison effective in keeping the bud—moth under control, although to more thoroughly dis— courage the latter insect spraying wiih the same poisons should be made just as the tips of the. begin to show. These sprayings are re— quired for these pests even though an application of strong lime—sulphur has been made for controlling the San Jose scale. When the sprayings are made as indicated above then there is no conflict with the statutes requiring that no spray- ing be done while the trees are in bloom. am» a wise with some, sticky Pyrex fills the barrel with apples that used to go on top. Write Bowker Insec- ticide 00., Boston, for book. spray when lrc1-s are in full bloom. on ac- 3 for cankerworm ‘ I will also be, a previous . leaves ' \Dunamilcd hole Plantzdift 91.01 h a Improves Quantity, sfade-due h°l¢ 5,335; ‘ Color and Quality of Fruit. ”4"?"‘33'6 : (31! 431 PLANT TREES WITH DUPONT Red Cross Dynamite ' Stops First Year Losses. ' Speeds Up Development ‘ ' One to Two Years. The illustrations herewith ?u/ are correct reproductions of 'l/Lz‘ ,9 photos of two-year old Bing - Cherry trees planted same ‘ ‘ ' day out of same shipment. Simi- " ’$&l‘. 131' results have been obtained all f afi'ord to plant trees in spaded holes. Write for Free Booklet To learn how progressive farmers are using dynamite for removing stumps and boulders. planting and cultivating fruit trees. regenerating over the country. The root dia- grams show the reason. You can't barren soil. ditching, draining. excavating and road-making. ask for "Tree Planting Booklet. No. 100" DU PONT POWDER C0. Pioneer Powder Makers of America WILMINGTON, DEL. The SPRAMOTOR is made for l or 2 horses or to be operated by hand. Equally eiiicient for field or orchard. Se HEARD SPRAMOTOR (30., 1305 Erie Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. POTATO PROTE CTIO N '_ . is best given by the Horse - Power SPRAMOTOR, as the illustration shows. The work is thor1’1ughly done . at 1:3 minutes to an acre. Four rows. three nozzles to‘ a row. adjustable in height, width and direction. Noz- 2195 will not clog. Air-tank, l'.’ gals. gives guaranteed 12.3 pounds pressure with all 12 nozzles working. Automatic and hand-con- " trolled. Agitator clean-out; _ pressure relief into tank, ; and nozzle protector under driver‘s seat. Saves crops, too! AGENTS WANTED. Saves lime and labor. nd for free treatise on crop diseases. SWIFT’S ARSENATE 0F LEAD HIGHEST QUALITY Insect Pest Destroyer! Easy to mix —- sure to kill. trees, fruits and vegetables. Death to. all leaf-eating insects. Save your Put up in paste or dry form. ' (Conforms to the National Insecticide Act of 1910.) Be Sure and Ask for S WIFT’S Send for Circular. and thus always secure GUARANTEED HIGHEST QUALITY. § FOR SALE BY LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE ‘ MERRIMAC CHEMICAL CO. 36 Broad Street. Boston, Mass. way least THE VIM. GALLON" CO 645‘ J Galloway Siailon.WATE|lL00.lA. . and I 0100. 00 Write quick for Big Engine Catalog and special prices. I'll also send my tine new General Line Catalog in live colors. Write Now to Galloway You‘ ll soon see the reason for the really funny things that dealers say of Galloway i— Galloway hashno factory" — “gjalloway’ 5 pretty near broke ’-—Galloway' 5 stuff s poor uality’ ’—t ose are a ewo the rstories. But- I’ in going 0 call their bluff and make such prices to 10 or more ' Get My Prices NOW men in every township that will bring the orders and Show up the dealers’ “{okes" in their true light. In the meantime l’m ettlng 1undreds of letters like this. A. L. Westphal 8t. ra11cls,Mlnn., wrltes: Last winter I investigated 5 or 6 different engines on the market, but I bought the Gallo- am itvery well satisfied with it. I have saved at .1: 1 . oni WM. GALLOWAV. Pro-Idol“ /1 Send for special Berry Basket catalog. BEE SUPPLIES 111 BERRY BASKETS / Bee hives Sections. Foundation, Smokers etc. Send for 54- page >1; s-catalog of bee supplies, BERRY BASKETS and (RATES. M. H. HUNT 8: SON. 400 Gondlt Sh, LANSING, MICH. —-Best varieties of says for rain. en- year No.1 Cone rd G i 1 Soy Beans silage and hav for sale. Wi furnish berry Plants 33 Opel-1 rBPBPZagh“ $115.3: afiznsiirfxih our customers instructions Apple. lum Cherry and Pear. Catalo free of soys. Wm. M or growing a bisocrop up: cD. Stone. Atwater. Poi-taco W. .MLEN &SON5 Geneva. '5,....:~, 332 " (32) N o-Rim-Cut Tire 10% Oversize This is the Goodyear _N0‘-Rim- Cut tire——-the hookless tire— the oversize tire. The tire that cuts tire bills in two. More than one million have slipped to the opposite sides. They curve outward then, not in- ward. Should the tire become wholly or partly deflated it rests on a rounded edge. Rim-cutting is Air Capacity. '4'Cu. In. The Passing Type . ' No Oversize This is the old type—the hooked- base tire—which No-Rim-Cut tires are displacing. It is on the same rim as the No-Rim-Cut tire, but the flanges must be set to curve inward. Save 48 Per Cent No-Rim-Cut tire snare 10 per cent larger than these old~type tires. And that 10 per cent over- size, under average conditions, thus made impossible. We control by patents the only way to make a practical tire of this type. That is why the de- mand for tires that can’t rim-cut centers on the Goodyear tire. been tested out, on some 200,000 cars. As a result, this tire out- sells any other tire that's made. Our Patent Type In the base of this tire run six 23 per cent of these tires become rim-cut by these curved-in flanges. Yet these tires—wasteful and worrisome, and of lesser capacity —cost the same as Goodyear No- Rim—Cut tires. adds 25 per cent to the tire mile- age. They save in addition the ruin of rim-cutting, which is 23 per cent. Tens of thousands of motorists flat bands of 126 braided wires. These make the tire base un~ stretchable. The tire can’t come off, because nothing can force it over the rim flange. Yet it removes, by re- moving a rim flange, like any quick-detachable tire. This tire doesn’t hook to the rim flanges. So your removable flanges are simply reversed— Go OD I“ No-Rim-Cut Tires With or Without Non-Skid Treads have proved that these tires cut their tire bills right in two. And the demand for these tires, in the past 24 months, has increased by 500 per cent. Our 1912 Tire Book—based on 13 years of tire making—is filled with facts you should know. Ask us to mail it to you. Branches and Agencies in 103 Principal Cities EARN$50 When You Buya Manure Spread er Fred Hansen of Tremonton Utah, writes- My neighbor borrowed my Gallowag spreader to try against his neighbor" s new spreader which cost $110 n1ore.but he sent you is order. Get your spreader direct from Galloway 3 Great factory at factory price and make the middlemen s commission ourself. No easier \1 av to make money—no such sure way 0‘ getting quality. I ll quoc on price 820 to 1.50 below the dealer of equal quality, style and capa1ity. lg1vc you a free trial, a binding1 personally signed guarantee, longer and stronger than anybody Prices From $39 50 Up, _ GALLOWAY is saving hundreds of thousands of. .- dollars for his customers every year —the proof is yours tor the asking. , Why not save your share now on one x of tiny se Great Galloway Spreaders No.5 with Mandt' s “11 w Gear No spreader at any price any where can touch it. Write for big in e catalog at once and the prices that make dealers tell foolish tales ’ about Galloway. You’ llalso get Gallo- May is new book—“ A Streak cf Gold”—most valuable book on manure published wm Galloway, Pres. THE WM. GALLOWAY COMPANY 649!“ Galloway Station aterloo, Iowa c m . , , (7,132.1; .muav‘aa‘u_1_,fll ’l‘ i; l l- , ”1'91. l 1‘11 ’ We Make a Full Line of Hay Presses— . Motor presses— orse- power pr11 secs—— '1‘ steel frame or wood frame presses—big Balers make $10 A great combination solid steel Hay Press and hoppor- cooled Gus anlne mounted on same truck— complete. compact 11nd (‘un furnish outfits with 4. 5. 7 and 9 P Enginis. Always ready for business. Easy . to move. ho setting up engine. . Siripio Self— Feeder. Feeds from 1 inst- working low Price and small presses. n53 GR BEAT [10R WINDROW BILLING. Handles 21/ to 3% tons per hour. Ste 1111 roll1 r ( hnin drive—no belts to slip. Friv lion clut1h sprocket on presses and “118 hOW biggest , press. Can start or stop press instantly. profits are made beling buy. It s free. ' ' SANDWICH MANUFACTURING CO., I90Maln Sh, Sandwich, lll. ensuours- 53:: 33:05:23; 3.13m”: by buying Direct from SAVE MONEY the MANUFACTURER STANDARD...... 1c Per Pound. SlSAL 5 FLO. B. Michigan City AVERAGE 500 Ft. to Lb. Quallty Guaranteed. Special "Club Order” Proposition. Accompany all orders by Cash, Draft, or Money Order payable to E. J. FOGARTY. Michigan City. Ind. JOur Book. “Tons Tell.” pio- turns and describes all our THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON,'OHIO We Make All Kinds of Rubber Tires, Tire Accessories and Repair Outfits I -; Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s SPECIAL HARNESS BARGAINS Great Spring Introductory Sale of Williams’ Guaranteed Quality Harness Act quickly! For a short time only we are 0H1 ring tb1 most amazingly low prices our qu0t1d on Willi 11115 Guaraiiticd Quality Harness n1ad1 f1111n bark i;11nn1d l1.1ili1-.r so \\ rit1 for full particulars at once. W c have always giw 11 tin gr1at11st 11.11111 ss bargains of any concern in the \pvorld but 111,111: r in (on liaVL- We quot1d such low prices astl111-.s1 R111:,1ntmb1r lll1S1' SD1Cl.ll prices are not quot1d in our catalogs. V\ 1 simply couldn t afford to make such prim-5 r1 1:11} 1rly \Vc 11.11'11pr1p'1r1d $01111 sptcial circulars d11s11'ibing tlnsc amazingr bargains in compl1 t1 d1-zt1il. Rush your request for these particulars at once or order direct from this advertisement if you wish. Now look at this bargain \Vc show just this one to prox (1 what 1,111 actually are doing. And bear 111 mind this is Williams’ Quality Harness, protected by Sears, Roebuck and o. ’s guarantee. axi-inch bridles; l-inch by 1&foot lines: oiled Concord bolt hames; flat harness leather pods; ll/g-inch breast straps and martingales; 11/2 or l‘V4-inch traces andh ame tugs; folded breaching body with layerzl l-inch side straps; 1- inch double back straps;1-inch double hip straps. XC buckles, nickel spots. No. 10X] 146 With 1 12-inch traces. without collars. Will be listed in our Fall Catalog at $29.85. SPECIAL MARCH AND APRIL SALE PRICE TO YOU. .. .. . No. 10X] 147 With Ill/pinch traces, without collars. Will be PCEIAL MARCH AND APRlL SALE PRICE TO YOU. 28'62 Write a le1tt1r or simply send postal card saying you want full particulars of all of these bargains and we will 511 1nd tl11 m to you. free and postpaid. by return mail \Vc will also include our big \pl c1al Harm- 55 Catalog Write today. Weight, boxed for shipment. about 75 pounds. $2 7.47 Iisteglp' in our Fall Catalog at $31.13 SEARS, ROEBUCK ‘AND CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Elkhart Vehicles and Harness have a world-wide reputation for high quality and our prices have made them famous. THIRTY-NINE YEARS’ experience selling to the consumer means success. We ship for examination, guaranteeing safe delivery, satisfaction and to save you money. Catalog shows all styles of pleasure vehi- cles and harness, pony vehicles and har- .’ ness, spring wagons, delivery wagons and harness. May we send you large catalog? We also maize the “Prall- Forty” Automobile. Elkhart Carriage & Harness Mfg. Company Elkhart, Indiana