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Treating Seed Potatoes for Scab.





East year I read in the Michigan

Farmer that you intended to use the gas

méthod-- in treating your seed potatoes

for; s'c‘ab.‘ .the past . two years I have

soaked potatoes in formaldehyde with



odd results, but as I will plant about 80

g ,thisyear I would rather use the dry

18 hod. Last spring I cut some before

It ' had them and found that they would

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ndgiheal.‘ The solution seems to burn

h" flesh of the potato and it does not

3 ' ’jand continues to rot.

' ‘,r from getting the gas too strong?

‘:. ’ cellar under a house be all right?

4.1”; You give me the amount of the

ohmicals to be used per 100 cu. ft? Will

the odor last in the cellar so as to be

a;nuisance for any length of time? What

variety of potatoes is best for the early

fidrket? I am trying Early Ohio and

‘ 1y Hamilton this year.



‘St, Joseph Co. JOSEPH OLNEY.





‘As was mentioned in this department

of, The Farmer, the writer tried the gas

method of treating seed potatoes for scab

last year. This method consists in the

usel of formaldehyde gas in the same

manner that it is used for the disinfection

of 'houses in which patients having con-

tagious diseases have been confined. The

ga‘siislgenerated by combining three parts

by} weight of potassium permanganate

with eight parts of formaldehyde in the

following manner: Place the permanga-

nate in the bottom of an earthen crock

or jar having a capacity of at least one

gallon for each pint of formaldehyde to

befused; then pour the formaldehyde into

the- jar and retire quickly from the cellar,

ushfltting it up as tightly as possible. The

formaldehyde will at once be converted

into a. gas which has been found to be

deadly towthe spores of the fungi. At

sélyeral experiment stations where this

treatment has been tried it has been

found equally as effective as soaking the

tubers in a solution of formaldehyde or

of Corrosive sublimate. In our experi-

ment one pound of the formaldehyde was





 

 

   

 





used for each 1,000 cubic feet of space





in. the cellar. Whether this was a suf-

fl lent amount or not -We are not quite

c‘e tain. The results were fairly satisfac-

toEry, the proportion of scabby tubers be-

ing comparatively small, but as the seed

rw’as not badly infected we did not con-

sider a single trial as sufficient to fully

determine the efficacy of this treatment.

It-is probable that the use of more ma.-

terial would not injure the seed in any

way, as no ill effects whatever were noted

frbm this application.



Where the potatoes are stored in a

house cellar the gas Would doubtless be

something of a nuisance. In our case the

seed potatoes were stored in a cellar

under an outbuilding, where the odor

from the escaping gas was not a factor

to be considered. \\itl] a little care in

calking up the door leading into the

cellar it would, however, probably be

possible to treat them in a house cellar

without serious inconvenience, as a thoro

airing would soon dissipate the odor.

the ordinary grower, however, it would

probably be more satisfactory to treat

them in a (solution, using one pound of

formaldehyde to 30 gals. of water and

soaking the tubers from an hour' to an

h ur to an hour and a half, depending

uimn how badly the seed is infected.

With barrels arranged so that the liquid

can be. conveniently drawn off at the

bottom, the seed can be treated in this

way without a great amount of labor

ad the writer has never noted any ill

éltects from such treatment, but has

always soaked them before cutting.



,Some‘ growers still adhere to the cor-

rosive sublimate treatment, using-41,11

0, rice of corrosive sublimate dissolved

%9,gals.rof water‘and soaking the

pat its this solution for the time

abo'Ve noted for the formaldehyde‘solu-





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Tile Drainage.—A commentary on the benefits to be derived from properly

‘ laid tile drains and the profit in this kind of improvement .......... 439

Sheep and Tlcks.—-A timely reminder of the discomfort of the sheep and

the loss to their owner which is caused by these easily controlled pests.441

The Guinea Fowl—its Care and Breeding.——Timely information on handling

the parent stock and rearing the young ............ ..

Magazine Section.—In Protest (illustrated poem).

Theodora (serial story).

The Early American Authors (Henry David Thoreau).





Garden Work for Late April.——A list of things to be done, and table giving

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Dairying Versus Feeding.——VVhy dairying

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tion. The objection to this method is

the poisonous nature of the solution, on

which account the writer has discarded

it for the formaldehyde treatment above

described. XVhile the latter has appar-

ently given us just as good results, some

growers contend that the corrosive sub-

limate has given them better results.

Where this method is used the better

way of preparing the solution is to first

dissolve the corrosive sublimate in a.

small quantity of warm water in an

earthen vessel, diluting it as needed and

using only earthen or wooden vessels to

contain it on account of its corrosive

effect upon metal.



Whether it will pay to treat the seed

each year is a question which the grower

will settle from experience. Probably it

would pay in practically every case, but

a fair degree of immunity from scab can

be secured by the treatment of seed each





alternate year, provided there is no ap—

pearance of scab in the seed used. But

when scab is present to any noticable

extent the seed should always be treated,

as the expense is small and the benefits

generally very noticable. i



The variety of early potatoes which it

is most profitable to grow for market

purposes ‘will depend largely upon the

season and the market. In some seasons

the very early varieties will give the best

profit, because they can be placed on the

market when the demand is at its best,

but in other years a medium early var—

iety will give a better profit, for the reason

that such varieties are generally better

yielders than the extremely early sorts.

Personally the writer would prefer to

rely upon the medium variety that proves

a. reliable cropper under his local condi-

(ions than upon the earlier sort that is

a shy yielder, as many of them are.





 





 





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Eradicatlng Buckhorn.

I have a six-acre field, "light clay soil,





somewhat run, that was planted to

beans in 1907, and last spring was sown

to oats and seeded to timothy and clover.

The seeding came good and looked prom-

ising, but later on was nearly used up by

the drouth. I got my grass seed at the





elevator and find now some plants of

buckhorn. I want to get rid of that.

I have been thinking of planting the





field to beans again and then sowing to

rye and seeding it this fall. 01' would

you advise to lit the ground this spring

and seed it to timothy and clover without





a cover crop. i. forgot to state that fer-—

fertilizer was sown with the oats. If I

had manure to cover the field I would





plant it to corn.

Ingham (To. J. T. HOLLEY.





If it is desired to eradicate the buck-

horn and at the same time utilize the

field for- sheep or hog pasture, or even

for pasturing young cattle and get it

rescedcd to clover, it would be an excel-

lent plan to plow and fit for a good seed-

bed and sow Dwarf Essex rape broad-

cast at the rate of 4 or 5 lbs. per acre

and seed to clever as early as the work

can be done. If the pasture is intended

for young cattle it would be a good plan

to sow a few oats and possibly a little





millet with the rape. This would ac-

complish the desired end of getting rid

of the buckhorn and getting the field





reseede-d without the loss of its use for

the entire season as would be the case if

timothy and clover were sown without a

nurse crop as is suggested in the inquiry,

and the condition of the soil would also

be somewhat improved by the process.

Our own experience with this weed

has, however, not been of so serious a.

nature as to make this course seem nec-

essary. While we would not sow grass

seed that contained it, yet we have

found that the stock, particularly sheep,

will eat it, and that it has not survived

thru the crop rotation in the cultivated

fields on our farm. On the clay soil de-

scribed it would be more tenacious, how-

ever, and it might pay to exterminate it,

even at the cost of plowing up the seed-

ing as suggested. ‘

Fertilizing Potatoes.





Last year I manurcd heavily a tract

of sandy soil sod, such as it was, for

potatoes. Owing to lateness of applica—

tion of manure and dry season, I don’t

suppose the crop got much benefit from'

the manure. I should like to plant it to

potatoes again this year. I can fertilizo

it with comnn-rcial fertilizer or i can

put about :70 bushels of hen manure

broadcast to the acre. It is sandy snil.

I'ndcr the conditions, what would be the

chances for getting :1 crop, and which

method of fertilization would you suggest?



’l‘llscolzt (‘o. Jul).



The best results

the soil are

fertilizers are

stable manure.





in the fertilization of

secured where commercial

used in connection with

Stable manure is not in

itself a ‘Vi‘ll balanced fertilizer, and by

adding the mineral elements of fertility

in the form of a commercial fertilizcr bet-

ter results are secured, as from the feeding

of a balanced ration to live stock in com-

parison with a ration which is deficient

in an essential nutrient. Stable manure

contains a relatively large proportion of

nitrogen, and can be profitably supple-

mented with a commercial fertilizer con-





taining relatively large proportions of

the mineral elements of plant food. For

this reason it would be better, in the





Writer's opinion, to fertilize this land with

commercial fertilizer, since it was cov—

ered with stable manure last year, much

of the plant nutrients in which did not

become available for last year’s crop. In

this way the fertility of this soil can be

fairly well balanced, and the stable ma.-

nure hscd on sod ground for corn, where

it will give the greatest profit during the

first season of any place in which it

could be used on the farm. ‘



Of course, if the same field is to be

used for successive seasons for the same
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Treating Seed Potatoes for Scab.

East year I read in the Michigan





Farmer that you intended to use the gas





method- in“ treating your seed potatoes

for; scam. The past two years I have

soaked potatoes in formaldehyde with

00d results, but as I will plant about 80

g this year I would rather use the dry

hod. Last spring I cut some before



I ked them and found that they would

2 heal. The solution seems to burn

the flesh of the potato and it does not

and continues to rot.

or from getting the gas too strong?

«- . . cellar under a house be all right?

V you give me the amount ofvtfliifi





 

 





c -micals to be used per 100 cu. ft?

the odor last in the cellar so as to be





a. nuisance for any length of time? What

va iety of potatoes is best for the early

ni rket? I am trying Early Ohio and

Early Hamilton this year.



St. Joseph Co. JOSEPH OLNEY.





'As was mentioned in this department

of" The Farmer, the writer tried the gas

method of treating seed potatoes for scab

last year. This method consists in the

use‘ of formaldehyde gas in the same

manner that it is used for the disinfection

of houses in which patients having con-

tagious diseases have been confined. The

gas is generated by combining th1ce parts

by weight of potassium permanganate

with eight paits of formaldehyde in the

following manner: Place the permanga-

nate in the bottom of an earthen crock

or jar having a capacity of at least one

gallon for each pint of formaldehyde to

bejused; then pour the formaldehyde into

the jar and retire quickly from the cellar,

emitting it up as tightly as possible. The

formaldehyde will at once be converted

into a gas which has been found to be

deadly to the spores of the fungi. At

seVeral experiment stations where this

treatment has been tried it has been

found equally as effective as soaking the

tubers in a solution of formaldehyde or

of Corrosive sublimate. In our experi-

ment one pound of the formaldehyde was

used for each 1,000 cubic feet of space

in. the cellar. Whether this was a suf-

fl ient amount or not We are not quite

c‘e tain. The results were fairly satisfac-

tojry, the proportion of scabby tubers be-

ing comparatively small, but as the seed

rw’as not badly infected we did not con-

sider a single trial as sufficient to fully

determine the efficacy of this treatment.

It is probable that the use of more ma-

terial would not injuie the seed in any

way, as no ill effects whatever were noted

frbm this application.



Where the potatoes are stored in a

house cellar the gas would doubtless be

something of a nuisance. In our case the

seed potatoes weie stelcd in a cellar

under an outbuilding, where the odor

from the escaping gas was not a factor

to be considered. \vith a little care in





calking up the door leading into the

cellar it would, however, probably be





possible to treat them in a house cellar

without serious inconvenience, as a thoro

airing would soon dissipate the odor.

the ordinary grower, however, it would

probably be more satisfactory to treat

them in a solution, using one pound of

formaldehyde to 30 gals. of water and

soaking the tubers from an hour to an

hOur to an hour and a half, depending

upon how badly the seed is infected.

With barrels arranged so that the liquid

can be, convenientlydrawn off at the

bottom, the seed can be treated in this

way without a great amount of labor

a d the writer has never noted any ill

fleets from such treatment, but has

always soaked them befme cutting

Some‘ growers still adhere to the cor-

rosive sublimate treatment, using an

nce of corrosive sublimate dissolved

%9 gals. of water and soaking the

pot in this solution for the time

above noted for the formaldehyde 80111-





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Tile Drainage.——A commentary on the benefits to be derived from properly

laid tile drains and the profit in this kind of improvement .......... 439

Sheep and Tlcks.——A timely reminder of the discomfort of the sheep and

the loss to their owner which is caused by these easily controlled pests. 441

The Guinea Fowl—its Care and Breeding.——Timely information on handling

the parent stock and rearing the young .................. . ............ 444

Magazine Section.—In Protest (illustrated poem).

Theodora (serial story).

The Early American Authors (Henry





Garden Work for Late April.—A list of things to be done,

time to plant and period. required for growing important

Dairying Versus Feeding.—Why dairying

business than the feeding of steers or lambs for market

Business Principles Applied to Dalrylng.—The

consider carefully the cost of his raw material,

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tion. The objection to this method is

the poisonous nature of the solution, on

which account the writer has discarded

it for the formaldehyde treatment above

described. \Vhile the latter has appar-

ently given us just as good results, some

growers contend that the corrosive sub-

limate has given them better results.

Where this method is used the better

way of preparing the solution is to first

dissolve the corrosive sublimate in a

small quantity of warm water in an

earthen vessel, diluting it as needed and

using only earthen or wooden vessels to

contain it on account of its corrosive

effect upon metal.



Whether it will pay to treat the seed

each year is a question which the grower

will settle from experience. Probably it

would pay in practically every case, but

a fair degree of immunity from scab can

be secured by the treatment of seed each





alternate year, provided there is no ap-

pearance of scab in the seed used. But

when scab is present to any noticable

extent the seed should always be treated,

as the expense is small and the benefits

generally very noticable.



The variety of early potatoes which it

is most profitable to grow for market

purposes ‘will depend largely upon the

season and the market. In some seasons

the very early varieties will give the best

profit, because they can be placed on the

market when the demand is at its best,

but in other years a. medium early var-

iety will give a better profit, for the reason

that such varieties are generally better

yielders than the extremely early Sorts.

Personally the writer would prefer to

rely upon the medium variety that proves

1 reliable cropper under his local condi-

(ions than upon the earlier sort that is

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SCENTS A YEA

”.50 THREE YEAR





Eradicatlng Buckhorn.



I have a six—acre field, light clay soil,

somewhat run, that was planted to

beans in 1907, and last spring was sown

to oats and seeded to timothy and clover.

The seeding came good and looked prom—

ising, but later on was nearly used up by

the drouth. I got my grass seed at the





elevator and find now some plants of

buckhorn. I want to get rid of that.

I have been thinking of planting the





field to beans again and then sowing to

rye and seeding it this full. 01‘ would

you advise to fit the ground this spring

and seed it to timothy and clover without

2‘1 cover crop. i forgot to state that fer-~

fertilizer was sown with the oats. If I

had manure to cover the field I would

plant it to corn.



Ingham Co. J. T. HOLLEY.



If it is desired to eradicate the buck-

horn and at the same time utilize the

field for sheep or hog pasture, or even

for pasturing young cattle and get it

reseeded to clover, it would be an excel-

lent plan to plow and fit for a good seed-

bed and sow Dwarf Essex rape broad-

cast at the rate of 4 or 5 lbs. per acre

and seed to clover as early as the work

can be done. If the pasture is intended

for young cattle it would be a good plan

to sow a few oats and possibly a little

millet with the rape. This would ac-

(‘O‘lIlDIiSh the desired end of getting rid

of the buckhorn and getting the field

reseedc-d without the less of its use for

the entire season as would be the case if

timothy and clover were sown without a

nurse crop as is suggested in the inquiry,

and the condition of the soil would also

be somewhat improved by the process.



Our own experience with this weed

has, however, not been of so serious a

nature as to make this course seem nec-

essary. While we Would not sow grass

seed that contained it, yet we have

found that the stock, particularly sheep,

will eat it, and that it has not survived

thru the crop rotation in the cultivated

fields on our farm. On the clay soil de-

scribed it would be more tenacious, how~

ever, and it might pay to exterminate it,

even at the cost of plowing up the seed-

ing as suggested.



Fertilizing Potatoes.





Last year I manurcd heavily a tract

of sandy soil sod, such as it was, for

potatoes. Owing to lateness of applica—

tion of manure and dry season, I don’t

suppose the crop got much benefit from

the manure. I should like to plant it to

potatoes again this year. I can fertilize

it with





(‘1)llllll(‘l‘('l211 fertilizer or I can

put about :10 bushels of hen manure

broadcast to the acre. It is sandy soil.





Under the conditions, what would be the



ch incos f01 “‘f‘lill‘l,“ :1 mop and whith



method of fmtilization would you suggest?

l11s<-;,ol1 (‘11 J. I .





The best results

the soil are

fertilizers are

stable manure.





in the fcitilization of

secured where cmnmcrciul

use-d in connection with

Stable manure is nOt in

itself a “’1‘“ balanced fertilizm‘, and by

adding the 111incrul elements of fertility

in the fnl‘ln of a commercial fertilizer bet-

ter results are secured, as from the feeding

of a balanced ration to live stock in com-

parison with a ration which is deficient

in an essential nutrient. Stable 111anure

contains a relatively large proportion of

nitrogen, and can be profitably supple-

mented with a commercial fertilizer c011-





taining relatively large proportions of

. the mineral elements of plant food. For

this reason it Would be better, in the





Writer’s opinion, to fertilize this land with

commercial fertilizer, since it was cov-

ered with stable manure last year, much

of the plant nutrients in which did not

become available for last year’s crop. In

this way the fertility of this soil can be

fairly well balanced, and the stable ma-

nure Used on sod ground for corn, where

it will give the greatest profit during the

first season of any place in which it

could be used on the farm. ‘

Of course, if the same field is to be

used for successive seasons for the same
438' e)





crop in the rotation, the humus will be

rapidly exhausted, and the stable manure

will prove beneficial in restoring it and

improving the mechanical condition of the

soil. But the vegetable matter contained

in the sod and the manure plowed down

last year :was not converted into humus





on account of the dry weather, and could.





not have been exhausted by the crop of

last year. Hence the wisdom of applying

commercial fertilizer which contains

readily available plant food and putting

the manure on the corn ground or other

grass land to be plowed this spring.

Vi'here any kind of stable manure is to

be used on potatoes it should be applied

during the winter or early spring for

best results, which is another good reason

for the advice given.



While it is probable that a better crop

of potatoes can be grown upon this land

the present year than was secured last

season, yet it is a practice of questionable

wisdom to grow the same crop for two

years in succession in the crop rotation.

As a means of guarding against the re-

sults secured in this instance, it is a

good plan to plow the potato ground as

early in the spring as possible and work

it. over frequently to conserve the soil

moisture for the use of the crop, rather

than take the chance which may mean

failure in the crop by delaying the plowing

1111th the ground may be dried out and

a summer drouth beginning.



Land Not Producing Well.





I have a field that was planted to corn

last year which I intend to sow to barley.

About an acre of it was covered with

water all the spring until planting time

when I put in :1 tile drain. This ground

produced scarcely any corn and seemed

to be sour. Please advise me the best

mcans of getting it into condition for :1

crop of barley. The soil is black and

rich and has foimeily produced the best

of any pail of the field.



quham (‘0 Sunscmnmi.





It 0111 11 takes some time for :1 tile drain

to get into good working order on :1.

l1ca3'y clay soil, cspccially where the same

is undorlaid with a hard—pan formation.

in some cases it has been found to take

two or three years for thc soil to gct

in condition so that the water percolatos

thru it freely to thc tilc, so that the first

year‘s results on this kind of land are

not always satisfactory. (‘lcncrally tho

condition of such land will improve after

it has bccn draincdyhut of course there

is a chancc that this Soil is sour and





needs liming. The application of lime

would tcnd to brcak up lhc hard soil and

would hastcn ihc time when port‘cot





drainage would bc secured by this means.

it would also 11c11t1'alizo thc acidity of

the soil if it is found to bc sour. The

application of lime to thc soil has been

so freely discussed in rcccnt issues of

The Farmer that it is unnecessary to

comment upon it at length at this time.

Probably the application of say 1,000 lbs.

per acre of lime upon this small area

would prove a profitable investment for

the reasons above given. The soil may

be tested for acidity if desired, by the

use of litmus paper, but on account of

the physical betterment of the soil which

would be secured thru its application, it

would probably be a profitable investment

to apply it to this small area wlicthe'r

there is an acid rzeiction or not.



Rape for Early Pasture.



I' would like a little advice thru the col—

umns of the Michigan l<‘;1r111cr in refund

to rape. l havc :1 quantity of set d two

or three ycars old. \Vould it b1- safc to

sow this for :1 crop or would you advise

fresh sccd. Also, what time should it. be

sown for early pasture? l have always

sown in May. \Vould it bc sr1fc to sow

in April‘.’



Mecosta CO. F. ii. COOK.



if the rape sccd has been gitil't't] in a

dry place it is probablc that it will grow

all right. \\'c have frequently kept it

over one scasoll without any apparent

deterioration. However, with seed of un—

certain age it would pay to lost it for

germination so as to be certain that it

will grow undcr average conditions. This

will require littlc time or trouble and is

much bcttcr than planting sccd that one

has any doubt about. A good way to test

s'nall seeds of this kind is to take a

small box such as :1 cigar boy and but

sovcral shoots of well moistcncd paper

in the bottom, thcn sprinkle on :1 little

seed and put more moistcncd paper on

top of thc socd, shut thc box and kccp it

at the ordinary temperature of the living

room for a few days. In four or five

days the seed should be. sufficiently gcr-

minated so that you can tell whether it

will produce plants of good vitality or

not. ‘



Rape may be safely sown in April for

early pasture. The writer has often

sowed it in oats in April with good re-

sults. “’0 shall sow a liberal acreage in

April this year for early pasture, sowing

a few oats at the same time. This will





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





add a little variety to the pasture and

will make a little better early feed. An-

other field will be sewn to rape alone

early in May so as to make a succession

of forage for the sheep, but as this field‘

is adjacent to another pasture which

will give the needed variety to the fir-

age, the rape will soon be sown alone.

Both fields will be seeded to clover and

neither will be so severely pastured as

to injure the prospects for a good clover

seeding. \Vhere properly handled we

have had very good success in seeding

with rape to be used as a forage crop.

A light application of commercial fer-

tilizer helps to get the small plants of

both rape and clover started in a vigor—

ous manner and is generally a profitable

investment. For this purpose we shall

use a complete fertilizer, applying it at.

the rate of 200 to 300 lbs. per acre, put-

ting it on broadcast and working it into

too soil before the seed is sown.



Spreading Straw and Chaff on Crops.



I would like to ask if straw could be

spread on the oat ground immediately

after the oats is sown, with good results;

also would it do to spread clover chaft

on the wheat in the spring when the

ground is settled and the wheat has

started to grow?



Eaton Co. A. (I. SACKETT.



The writer has never seen an experi-

ment of this kind tried but is of the

opinion that it would be impracticable to

spread straw thinly enough so that the

oats could come up thru it without any

damage to the prospective crop. Of

course, if the straw were in the form of

coarse manure, it could be spread with

:1 manure spreader :1s thinly as might

be. desired. but in spreading it by hand,l

it would take a great. deal of time to get:

it sufficiently thin and even so that there

would be no bunches of straw thru which

the oats could not grow. The same. might

bc said with equal force in regard to the

clover chaff, nor does it appear that any

particular advantage would be gained by

tho dispositon of the straw and chaff in

this way. They had better be used as

absorbcnts in the stable or yard and

drawn to the field with the manure made

next winter.





 





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SUCCESS WITH RAPE SOWN IN

WHEAT AND RYE.



I noticed Mr. Sager‘s inquiry in The

Farmer about sowing.r rape in wheat and

rye.



For the past two years we have sown

rape on all of our whcat, rye and oat

ground and have had fairly good results.

liast ycar \vc sowod thirteen acres of

whoa‘ and ten acres of rye to rape and

cl11\'cl‘,.'ll1(i altho it was very dry we got

:1 yood catth of clover and quite a good.

stand of rape. (if course, if the whee

or rye is very thick on the ground the

rape will not make much growth until

the grain is cut. Two years ago “'t-

sowed ten acres of whcat to rape and





 





 

 

 





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clovcr. 'l‘he wheat was winter—killed in

spots and on thcso spots the rape grew

1 1 :1 good size before the wheat was ripe

enough to cut. This ten acres threshed

out 172 bushels of wheat and the rape

lmltlc a splendid fall pasture for sheep.

\Vo did not think the sheep injured the

clover.





(id. Traverse Co. G. L. CHAMPNEY.





 





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\Vh-at: soils are best adapted to the

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pcr acre and whcn’.‘ “"hat Would be a

fair yield per acre of oats and peas on a

ginvclly soil in good state of oultivation'.’

(‘an they be successfully harvested with

:1 grain bindor‘.’



Livingston t‘o. Runscmmzn.



Peas and oats will do fairly well on any

good soil but the best soil is a rich clay

loam. if sown on gravcllv soil, the peas

ought to be sown :1 pretty good depth

so that thcy will not dry out when dry

\vcathcr comcs.



\\'hen you wish to grow the peas and

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' oood‘iynesuLTs WITH LATE sow





ALFALFA. ‘





 





The inquiry Of‘A. C. Freeman in re-

gard to fall seeding of alfalfa; and your

reply was very in eresting tome because

I have tried that very thing on a small

scale, seeding after early potatoes. In

1907 I planted a, quarter of an acre to

early potatoes, dug them as early as

they were fit to market. I got 25 bush—

els, and sold what we did no need at

home for $1 per bushel. I then spread

six loads of, manure on the plot, plowed

and thoroly harrowed the ground and

sowed to alfalfa. In 1908 I out three

crops of alfalfa hay, after which I turned

a sow and eleven shouts into it and kept

them there about six weeks. The shoats

grew like weeds and the sow did re-

markably well.



In 1908 I sowed eight acres to oats and

peas. ,This was corn stubble that had

been well manured for corn. I cut the

oats and peas for hay, plowed the ground

and prepared a good seed bed and sowed

15 lbs. of alfalfa seed per acre. Today it

is all alive and I am looking for hay this

season. I have some seed left and I in.—

tend sowing about three acres with

either oats or barley, cutting same for

hay. I expect the nurse crop will keep

back the weeds, and by cutting it green

for hay will not damage the alfalfa much.





I sow the best seed I can get. What

I have cost me $12 per bushel. My first

experience was with cheap seed, and I





got so many new kinds of weeds that I

would not again sow anything but the

best and cleanest seed.



Keep the alfalfa question going. I am

only in the infant class, but I am willing

to exchange ideas.





Oakland Co. C. Ra COOK.





REQUISITES FOR SUCCESS WITH

ALFALFA.



I have been a constant reader of the

articles written by Mr. C. C. Lillie since

he began writing for the Michigan

Farmer, and have always maiinthined

that he was a man of very good judgment

and a practical writer, but in his last

article upon the subject of alfalfa, writ-

ten under “Lillie Farmstead Notes" on

page 351, he will make a grievous mistake

if he tries any such plan as he has ex-

plained being advocated by Dr. Bea], of

M. A. C.



There will be no question as to the

report he will be able to give the readers

of the Michigan Farmer regarding such

a method of seeding alfalfa.



In the first place, he speaks of using

five pounds of alfalfa Seed, one peck or-





 





chard grass, one peck meadow fescue,

one peck tall meadow oats grass and

two and one-half p-ltllldS timothy seed

per acre.





I never have known of a person using

less than twenty pounds prime alfalfa

seed per acre who could report anything

short of failure regarding a perfect stand

of alfalfa. Alfalfa, being such a frail

plant to get a start, it does not need the

above named seeds to help crowd it out.



Ex-Governor IV. D. Hoard, of Wiscon-

sin, sows three peeks barley per acre,

twenty to twenty—five pounds prime al-

falfa. seed per acre, together with a lib-

eral amount of commercial fertilizer, He

is growing alfalfa year after year with

success. Several Of our neighbors in this

vicinity have been successful in securing

Very good stands of alfalfa of from three

to fourteen acres by this method.



Another very successful method prac-

ticed here is to very thoroly prepare a

fine seed-bed. Apply from 200 to 300 lbs.

complete commercial fertilizer and from

20 to 25 lbs. prime seed. The commercial

fertilizer is very essential as it places

available plant food within easy reach

of the tender plants.



Now, Mr. Lillie, as you propose ex-

perimenting on your own farm for the

benefit of yourself and the readers of the

Michigan Farmer with this subject of

securing a perfect stand of alfalfa, would

it not be far more beneficial to yourself

and others to divide the intended four

acres into at least four divisions, allotting

one portion to Dr. Beal‘s method, one to

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three peeks of barley, fertilizer and al~

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July 15th and August 15th, whenever the

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unless they work out the real object of

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farms.



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the crop was partly drowned out, and

there is no doubt in my mind but that, if

this land had been properly drained, the

difference in the crops produced would

more than have paid our excessive ditch

tax. If we have to wait for the surface

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locality that are using the open drain

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FEEDERS' PROBLEMS.





 





 





 





 





Turnlng the Stock to Pasture.



As the pasturing season approaches a.

word of advice and caution regarding this

important change in the diet of the ani—

mals will not be amiss. In a drive thru

the country early this week the writer

noticed several flocks of sheep that had

already been turned on the pasture fields,

alt'ho the new grass has not yet started

and little forage was available except the

frostbitten grass that remained from last

year. The only apparent object in this

seems to have been the saving of a little

hay at the close of the stabling season,

but from observation as well as expe-

rience we believe that the apparent sav-

ing will result in an actual loss. XVith

hay as cheap as at present there would

seem little excuse for turning the stock

out until the pastures are in good con-

dition, and to do so is bad for both the

stock and the pastures. A great many

farmers turn the stock out as soon as

there is a bite of grass, leaving them out

in all kinds of weather and without sup-

plementing the grass with any other

feed. This is a very violent change, and

in every case will result in a loss of con-

dition. But if the stock is kept at the

barn on good dry feed until the grass

gets some little start and contains a lib-

eral amount of nutrimcnt as well as suc-

culence, and the change is then made

gradually by turning out a short time at

first then bringing the stock to the barn

and giving a feed of good hay in the

morning, as well as a Slightly reduced

grain ration until the stock becomes ac—

customed to the. change. much better

results will be secured, and the addi—

tional yield of forage which will be se-

cured from the pastures by przu-ticing

this plan will more than repay the cost

of the few loads of hay which will be

necessary to carry them on dry food

until such time as the. pastures have,

made a good growth. This is a point

which is as essential as the welfare of

the stock. Grass cannot make a vigorous

and healthy root development without it

is allowed to make a similar leaf devel—

opment, and if kept closely cropped from

the time it starts in the spring the yield

of forage will be scanty thruout the sea—

son and the pastures will begin to fail

at the time [when they should be in their

prime. Some farmers appear to think

that it is wasteful to let the pastures

get a good start, especially for sheep, but

if they would try it out for one season

they would generally hold a. different

opinion. By providing two pasture. fields

and turning the stock from one to the

other as the grass is pastured down,

thus letting it get a fresh start it will be

found that a much better yield will be.

secured and the stock will be summered

more economically and in much better

condition. Too early or too close grazing

0f the pastures is not profitable from any

standpoint.



A Ration for Breeding Ewes.



I would like sumo advice on what to

feed breeding ewes directly before and

after lambing. I‘p to the present time

my forty-five coarse—wooled ewes have

had corn, with clovcr hay and cornstalks

for roughage.



Gent-See Co. J. I). SCOTT.



The proper feeding of bra-ding ewes

for a good lamb crop is not a question

involving only a few weeks before and

after the lambing season, but it is a

question which the flock owner should

consider the. year around, as the feed

and care received by the breeding ewes

thruout the year has a more or less di—

rect influence upon the final success with

the lamb crop. The writer has been feed—

ing a grain ration composed of about 5)

parts corn, 2 parts bran and 1 part old

process oil meal by weight, together with

Clover hay, to the breeding ewes just be-

fore and after the lambing period. This

makes a fairly well balanced grain ration

and with the addition of a few roots and

What clover hay the ewes will cat, will

prove a very SillISftlclt'n‘y feed. The bran

was added to this ration about three or

four weeks before the lambing season

arrived; previous to that the grain feed

had been corn and Outs with about the

same proportion of oil meal as is now

fed, while cornstalks were fed once each

day with clover buy. About 1/2 lb. per

day of grain was fed during the early

part of the winter with :1 slight increase

before the lambs were dropper], increas-

ing the ration to 1 lb. as soon as the

lambs were two or three weeks old,

which has Since been increased to 11,4





   





'{rHE - MICHIGAN FARMER.





lbs. per day and will be further increased

up to the time the sheep go to pasture,

when it will be gradually diminished but

not entirely omitted except during the

season when the pasture is at its best.

A little grain fed to the ewes will show

in the size and condition of the lambs,

especially when first turned to pasture

and again when the pasture begins -to

fail, before the lambs are weaned. An

additional advantage lies in the fact that

the lambs will become accustomed to

eating the grain with their dams and can

be kept growing right along after being

weaned by feeding a small grain ration

on the pasture.



After the lambs are weaned the ewes

should run on a scant pasture for a few

weeks, after which we have found it

profitable to have a field of rape or some

other good succulent pasture to turn

them into so as to get them in good con-

dition before the breeding season arrives.

They will then go into winter quarters

in fine condition and with good care will

be in the best shape to grow a good crop

of lambs the following season. It is a

mistake made by too many breeders in

thinking that the ewes should be kept in

rather low condition to produce the most

thrifty lambs. As a matter of fact, the

ewes cannot be in too good condition,

provided their flesh is put on in the pas—

ture lot upon nutritious, succulent forage,

rather than by the use of a carbonaceous

grain ration.



A Ration for Horses.





Have to buy all grain for my work

horses. Would equal parts by weight of

bran, corn meal and Oil meal be all right,

or would you suggest something better?

How many pounds would you feed to

1,300-lb. horses with hay?



Ottawa Co. D. H. P.





I would hardly want to have one—third

of the grain ration for horses composed

of oil meal. Tthat bran and corn meal,

mixed equal parts by weight, makes a

very good ration in itself. but I think an

addition of a pound of oil meal a day

would be a splendid thing. Oil meal is

very rich in protein and when horses are





working very hard protein is what they.

Oil meal is readily digestible anti





need.

is palatable and helps make a splendid

ration, but I don’t think I would want to

feed much over a pound a. day of this

when you feed bran also. Of course. it

depends something upon the kind of hay

you are feeding. If you are feeding clear

timothy hay, perhaps you would not get

any too much protein, depending some-

thing on the amount of grain you fed.



Now, with regard to the amount of

grain that you should feed a horse weigh-

ing 1,300 lbs. The ration for a horse ought

to vary with the amount of labor that he

does. A horse standing in the barn wants

only a maintenance ration. When he is

put to light work he needs to have the

ration increased and the protein in the

ration increased correspondingly. When

he is put at heavy work the ration should

be largely increased and a larger per cent

of protein added to it. Consequently, no

one can advise just how much grain a

horse ought to be fed without knowing

the conditions under which he is fed. A

horse at light work ought to have. 11/;

lbs. of protein, at medium work, 2 lbs.

per day, and at heavy work, 21/2 lbs. of

protein per day per 1,000 lbs. live weight.

lience if your horse weighs 1,300 lbs. he

ought to have about one—third more.

\\'lu~n a horse is at heavy work his ra—

tion ought to be in the proportion of 1





 





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while,





It is a safe rule to feed, when the horse

is doing heavy work, all the ration that

he will eat up clean every day. One must

be governed by the. condition of the horse

and the amount of work he is doing; but

when he works hard he must be fed lib-





erally, just as a cow must be fed liberally.





when she is yielding a large flow of milk.





 





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this morning and am very much pleased

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'l'he lair-st reports from the cattle-feed-

ing districts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,

Kansas and Nebraska are, to the effect

that there is bound to be a great short~

age of cattle for the western markets

from each of these important cattle feed—

ing states during the next three months.

lt should not be forgotten, 'however, that

there is a great falling off in the demand

for beef, many men being out of work

all over the country. east and west. Kan-

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(‘illiicago market with a large share of the

best long-fed heavy beeves, but stock«

men generally agree that on the whole

the largest profits are made from short

fed handy little fat yearlings. Many

stockmen are. replacing their heavy cat—

tle with well—bred feeding cattle weigh-

ing around 900 to 1,100 pounds, and it is

believed that these will make good selling

cattle for the summer months.





when he is doing light work, it‘

can be in the proportion of one to seven.





 





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‘9 'APRIL 17. 1909.





SH EEP AND TICKS-





 





A sheep shearer was at dinner with us

yesterday. During the meal he put his

fingers under his collar at the back of

his neck and jumping up started for the

kitchen, where I saw him drop something

on the top of the range, then he returned

to his unfinished dinner with a smile of

satisfaction that most people wear when

they have been successful. “Ticks,” I

remarked, and he nodded, then said there

were a few, but at the last place where

he had sheared there were a hundred

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to find lodgement on half a hundred

sheep. There were probably a large

number, too, to cause him to make such

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the ticks crawl over his body and bite

at Will for an hour.

be the maddest kind of a man by that

time, yet he lets the poor helpless brutes

suffer all their lives. If the flock owner

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discomfort to the sheep, but the actual

money loss the presence of the ticks are

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especially, ought never to be called upon

to support such a drain on the vital pow-

ers, no stock ought to for that matter,

when by dipping, the nuisance can be

gotten rid of. It would be good dollars

in the pocket of every flock owner if he

dipped his sheep twice a year. They

should be dipped in the spring after

shearing, so that the young lambs will

not be. overrun, and again in the fall so

that they can go into winter quarters

free from the pest, and in condition to

turn all feed to the best account.



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ENSILAGE FOR BREEDING EWES.

In The Farmer of February 20, you

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practiced feeding ensilage to breeding

ewes. For ten years previous to 1908

I used ensilage freely in the ration for

breeding ewes and fattening lambs in

Michigan and would not do without it in

that country.



F. XV. K., of Kent county, Should build

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Lame (‘ow.—-I have a valuable cow

seven years old that wont suddenly lame

in one hind foot. XV. C. L.. Pinconning,

Mich—First of all you should make a

close examination of her and ascertain

if she has any tender spots: you will

perhaps find the soreness in foot or hip,

most likely in food and if so fomcnt it.

with salt and water, 1,4 lb. salt to 8 (its.

warm water. If you find a wound apply

equal parts calomel, oxido of zinc and

borac acid; Cover foot with oakum and

a bandage to keep it clean.





Thrush—“Wat treatment do you rec-

ommend for thrush in horses? J. C.,

iclleville, Mich.~~'l‘hrush is usually the

result of too much wet and filth, there-

fore your first step should be to remove

the cause which perhaps brot it on. Ca1-

omel has given me the best results of any

drug. However, peroxide hydrogen, car-

bolic acid, creosote, iodoform, boric acid

and the coal-tar disinfectants are all use-

ful in the treatment of thrush. Keep the

foot cit-an and dry.





Bruised Heck—My horse got kicked

last fall, injuring his hock joint; it has

caused considerable lameness but lately

he is less lame than any time since he

got hurt, but the joint is quite swollen

and I should like to rcduce it, if it can

he done. J. E. J., \Valkerville, Mich.—

The fact that your horse is growing less

lame leads me to conclude that you should

be contented and apply a. small quantity

of iodine ointment daily, and nothing

else. His book will always remain a

little enlarged.



Blind Quartor.~1 would like a little in-

formation regarding a cow that came

fresh two weeks ago. She is only three

years old, but it is impossible to get milk

out of one quarter. find a small hole in

tl’ilt, but the quarter of bag is small and

fccls as tho it contained no milk. She

is an extra line heifer giving five gallons

of milk a day from the three teats. Any

advice you may see fit to give will be ap-

prcciatcd. .l. M. 0., McFarland, Cal.——l

regret to say that it is very doubtful

whether you can restore the quarter or

not. By gentle hand rubbing twice daily

and the use of a long milking tubo, not

lcss than four inches you may be able to

draw milk of an inferior quality from this

blocked quarter, also rub the quarter with

iodine ointment three times a \Vcck.



Bog Siiavin—lVire ("uh—«I have a horse

which I rcccntly purchased that has a

bunch on lllh'ltlt' upper part of llH(‘l\' joint;

former owner tells me that it was the

result of a sprain; have itI)I)lll‘(l linimcnt

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old mare that kicked over a smooth wire

fence, making a wound on fore" part of

hock joint. I blistered this bunch once

which appeared to reduce ,the swelling

somewhat. M. C., Lakeview, Mich.—-You

can safely apply any of the blisters that

are regularly advertised in this paper,

for they will answer in the treatment or

both cases; however, I am a believer in

the application of light blisters, therefore

I would suggest that you do not apply

too much at a time.



Serous Abscess in Throat—One of my

sheep has a soft flabby swelling in throat,

but it is not painful and does not seem

to affect the appetite or general health

any. What shall I do for this bunch?

R. A. 13., Coleman, Mich—Apply tr. iodine

to bunch once a. day and if these applica-

tions do not absorb it open sack and

allow the effusion to escape. Give 10

drops syrup iodide iron at a dose twice

daily until swelling reduces.





Strangle: (distemper).—My 6-year-old

horse took distemper two weeks ago; did

not swell much on outside, but seemingly

broke in throat. When she drinks water

runs out of nose; she breathes with some

difficulty. I am afraid after she recovers

hcr wind may be affected. W. M., Glad-

win, Mich—Apply equal parts tincture

iodine, spirits of campuor to throat once

a day. Put lé oz. creosote in 1/2 gallon

boiling water and direct the steam into

nose for a few minutes twice a day.

Also give 14 oz. tincture gentian, 14 oz

tincture cinchona at a dose four times a

day. Feed him some vegetables and keep

the nostrils washed out with warm water.





Rickets.——VVill you kindly tell me what

is the matter with my pigs? They eat

well, are in good condition, fat enough

to kill, but appear to be weak in back and

hind legs and for the past six weeks have

been unable to get up behind, but are

able to sit up in front. What had I bet-

ter do for them? F. 1)., Goldwater, Mich.

—Your hogs have. been fed an unbalanced

ration, too much corn and not enough

of bone and muscle-making food. If they

were mine I should slaughter them, for

their flesh is all right for food. Had you

fed them some middlings, peas, beans,

vegetables and skimmed-milk with their





.corn, also allowed them to exercise more





they would not have shown this Weak

and rickety condition.



Chronic Leucorrhoea.—I have a mare

that has had a vaginal discharge for a

long time and would like to know what

to do for it‘.’ I bred her last spring but

she failcd to get with foal and appearcd

to be in heat most of the season. She is

growing thin and 'weak and if she can be

helped I want her trcated. N. W., Bay

City, Mich—Your mare suffers from an

inflammation of the mucus membrane of

utcrus and perhaps of the vagina also.

It may be the result of a part of the

placenta, not coming away when she

foaled. It is well to keep in mind that

an animal suffering from leucorrhoea

should be. fed plenty of nutritious laxa-

tive. food that is easily digested. (live

1,_ oz. powdered sulfate. iron at a dose in

feed three times a day, also give 1 dr.

iodide potassium daily for 20 days. If

the discharge is offensive put 1 oz. car-

bolic acid in 3 pints of rain water and

in mixing this lotion you may add 1 oz.

of glycorino with the acid and wash out

utcrus daily. Alum and sulfate zinc. are

also useful rcmcdies, 1 oz. to 3 pints of

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Cramps and Indigestion—Horse. seems

to be troubled with a kidney ailment:

after drinking much cold' water or work-

ing hard a day or two he is very apt to

have collcy pains. W. H. A., Wayne,

Mich.—-He should not be allowed to drink

water after eating grain; better water

him before he is fed. Give V2 oz. ground

ginger, 1/2 oz. bicarbonate soda. and 1 oz.

powdered charcoal at a dose in feed three

times a day.



Acidity of Stomach in Sheep—My sheep

are inclined to eat the wool off other

sheep of flock. None of them have died

on account of doing so but I have thot

they might. N. E. H., Scotts, Mich—It

you will give the sheep qual parts gin-

ger, gentian, baking so a, charcoal and

salt they will stop eating wool. One-half

a teaspoonful is the right dose for sheep

and it should be mixed with feed and fed

twice daily.



Navicular Disease—I have a 6-year—old

mare that has been lame for the past 15

months. She has been treated by two

different Vets.

the other coffin joint lameneSs; neither

of them succeeded in effecting a cure.

\Vhat had I better do for her? J. E. VV.,

Kent City., Mich—Your mare suffers

from either coffin joint lameness or low

dewn ringbone and it is doubtful if She

gets we'll. Apply repeated blisters and

give her rest.



Bruised widen—Heifer came fresh last

September; lately she has been givingr

bloody milk from one teat; the first milk

taken from quarter is quite white but

the strippings are mixed with blood. 1

got some medicine and liniment from our

Vet. which he thot would help her, but

I fail to notice any improvement. She

appears to be losing flesh. C. A. \V.,

Fennville, Mich—I am inclined to believe

that you reopen the small blood vessel

that broke in udder when you finish milk-

ing hcr; therefore, I would suggest that

you use a milking lube; if you have none

send 35c and The Lawrence Publishing

Co., Detroit, Mich, will deliver you a

nice one measuring 31/; inches long.



Kicker—Nervousness. — Four-year-old

mare was broke to drive and has worked

for nearly a year. I brcd her last spring

and since then stie manifests a disposition

to kick rwhen in harness or every time

I meet a. horse on the road or one passes

her. She has badly disfigured most of my

vehicles. I lind it possible to control her

in shafts with a good kicking strap, but

know of no way to control her in drmble

harness. She never causes any trouble

when worked on the farm in wagon,

plow or otherwise. She is due to foal in

about two months. H. M. 13., Clllicn,

OIL—Being pregnant may have changed

her disposition somewhat and, on ac—

count of her being so near foaling time,

an injury might cause abortion; therefore,

you had better get along with her as

quietly as possible. If head is Checked

high she cannot kick so readily. When

such animals do kick sevcrc punishment:

sometimes induces them to quit the habit;

ho-wcvcr, kindness and iirmness is rVVlltU;

most of them need.



Melanosis.—I recently purchased a mare

that has Iwhat is called mclanosis. I

noticed a few small bunches . round anus

but thot nothing more abou‘ it until

lately, when I looked her over more.

closely and find many «smal bunches on

lower side (.f tail. She is white t'wlOl‘.

‘xV-ould you consider this mare :mnd?

L. J. D., Pentwater, 1\licll.—i\lclanotic de-

posits are quite common in old white

horses and are always col. idercd an

unsoundncss, but if there are only a few

on a horse and in a part of body whero

they do no harm and grow slowly it

should not greatly depreciate their value.

The. cause of this ailment is unknown.

The bunches shouLl be cut out if they

are doing any harm, if not leave, them

alone.



Mare. Injured “’hile Foaling.——V\"hat is

the actual or possible cause of my brood

mare’s death? She was due to foal the

21st tilt. and showrd pain for one hour

that evening between H and .0 o’clock,

then stood up until 4 a. in. next morning

when straining commenced and with the.

assistance of two men we took colt away

from her. It was dead and colt camo

a'ight. J. ll. 1%., llersey, 1\lich.—You

failed to say when mare died. Ilowevcr,

I imagine she died the result of injury

either before or after fouling.



Itcrnia.—~I have a yearling colt that has

a small rupture situated a little back of

navel which came on when he was four

months old. This bunch has not in-

creased in size since it came but I should

like to know how to remove it? E. E. (7.,

Paw Paw, Mich—This small hernia, may

never do any harm, grow any larger, but

a surgical operation is the only remedy.



lt‘ctlock Joint ’\\’eakncss.——I have a horse

that is in good health every way but

soc-ms to have a weakness in ankle joint.

\thn going up hill he shows it most; the

joint knuckles over when he travels on

rough roads or goes up hill. t}. S. B.

'lloyne Falls, Mich.—’l‘his trouble is a

weakness or luxation of fctlock joint,

both ligaments and tendons are weak.

A high heeled shoe will give some relief,

also light blister-s of cerate of canthar-

ides or any one of the blisters that are

advertised regularly in this paper will

strengthen the ligaments of joint. I have

obtained the best results from light blis-

ters.





\Vith the exception of the, Kansas and

Nebraska cattle marketed at Chicago. tho

average duality of the greater part of the

cattle received from Week to Week is

nothing to boast of. many of the steers

weighing less than 1.200 pounds and being

no more than mere “feeders.” Great

numbers of short—fed steers sell below

$6 per 100 pounds, and in many instances

it would pay feeders to hold their cattle

at least a month longer. Fat little yearl—

ings are making the most money for stock

feeders as a rule. It is generally con-

ceded that t‘he marketings of good cattle

for the next three months will not be

excessive, and there appears to be no

good reason for such great haste in send.

ing in half—fat cattle.





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How about the harvest?



That’s when the reward comes. That’s

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and labor and watchfulness into gold.



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In all walks of life we are guided best if

guided by known truths.



It took-years of expense, years of vexa-

tions and worries, for the farmers of the

world to learn that they could always de-

pend on the





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_ Need we suggest that you let this known

It WI truth guide you? You don’t want to experi-

ment. You want a machine you know

will give you a full-value harvest—this year

and next year and through years to come.

9 These six dependable harvesting ma-

\ chines are manufactured under conditions

that insure superior quality in every ma-

chine. This accounts in a large measure

for their world-wide popularity.



Buying a machine is not as simple a

matter as it may seem—a number of things

must be taken into consideration. You

should know something about the mechan-

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You should know something about the

materials entering into the construction-

something about the degree of skill in the

workmanship—sonlething about the respon-

sibility of the company behind the machine.

The Champion, Deering, McCormick,

Milwaukee, Osborne and Plano machines

are equipped with every known improve-

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field. The workmanship and materials are

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machines that represent the highest attain-

ment in both design and construction.





In other words, when a Champion, Deer-





ing, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne or

Plano machine is in operation on your

farm, you can feel assured that it is going

to do the work as it should be done. The

designers work year after year in the field

studying conditions, and the improvements

that are being made from time to time

place these machines in a class by them-

selves.





After working a whole year to grow a





crop, you cannot afford to place your har~

vest in Jeopardy—you cannot afford to put

yourself in danger of unnecessary delays in

the harvest field.

should have a machine that can be repaired

quickly if anything should go wrong.





In other words, you





If you have one of these binders, there





will be no occasion for worry, because every

dealer handling one of these lines carries a

full stock of repair parts. Under ordinary

conditions, the machine will not break or ,

get out of order—for each machine is

tested and retested under far more trying

conditions than will ever be encountered in

the harvest field.





In the manufacture of. these machines,





the principle of construction is right—the

materials are right—the workmanship is

right—but, of course, all these things could

not be done without an adequate organiza-

tion—facilities to secure the proper raw

materials and to employ skilled workmen

and equip the manufacturing plants with

the most: modern facilities for turning out

the machines. It is the thorough work in

the selection of the raw materials and de-

srgning machines and the careful construc-

tion that lessens your responsibility when

you go into the harvest field.

it behooves you not to make a mistake

when you buy your binder.





Therefore,





Now, while you have the time, get ready





for a full-value harvest. Call on the dealer.

Ask him for catalogue of whatever of these

six tested and proven dependable harvest-

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If you do not know a dealer near you,





write to our Chicago otlice, or any of our

branch offices, and a dealer’s name and

address will be sent you promptly.



. r Second in importance only to a perfect

machine is perfect binder twine. No better

twine can be made than Champion, McCor-

mick, Deering, Osborne, Milwaukee, Piano

and International in sisal, standard, manila

and pure manila brands. These twines—

and repairs that fit for all machines of the

International line—sold by dealers every-

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,‘ Are you one of the many. who can ~

hatch chicks but cannot raise them?

More chicks die from Bowel Complaint

and Cholera than from all other diseases

combined, and yet these diseases can

prevented and cured by proper use of





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the biggest seller in poultry medicine ever

place on the market.



Germozone is a tonic: a bowel re la-

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Roup, Cholera and other poultry diseases.

Most of thesetroubles' originate from

colds or some internal disorder. which, if

taken in time can be quickly cured, but -

if neglected Will frequently result in loss

7 of the entire flock.



Germozone goes to the seat of the

trouble and. unless the disease is in its

‘last stages, usually effects a speedy cure

and With absolutely .no injurious after ,

reflects“ Germozone is not the product

of a minute but the result of years of

labor in preparing a medicine for. a spe-

cific purpose. Its great reputation—its

general use among poultry-raisers the

world over—proves_its value. Buy .on

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GENERAL AGENTS

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Tampa, Fla.—Crenshaw Bros. Seed Co.

Salt Lake City, Utali—Poner-Walton Co.

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and take advantage of our special April dis-

count prices on our entire line of Queen

Incubators and Brooders. Reductions are

from one-fourth to_ one-third off regular

prices. These machines all have our latest

improvements, and are sold With the Queen

5 year guaranty, 90 day free trial, and

we pay the freight.





‘Building thousands of incubators and

brooders in advance as We do. it IS 1mpossx-





 





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lts Care and Breeding.

People who mistrust the wandering

habits of the guinea frequently obtain

eggs and let the domestic hen raise a

brood, thus insuring a home~loving habit

in the young. But we have found older

birds readily accustoming themselves to

a change of habitation, altho, like the

turkey, the guinea is best moved in the

fall or winter. -,



If only a pair or trio are kept they

may occupy the house provided for the

regular poultry, and they will share the

general quarters with little disturbance.

Where sever-.11 are kept an ordinary col-

ony house may be put at their disposal.

They will like it if the perches are placed

extra high, and, if a convenient tree or

outside perch is near they will avail

themselves of the shelter provided only

during extreme weather. Owing to their

talent for sentinel duty, their quarters

may profitably be placed near those of

the other poultry. Their pugnacious dis-

position, also, makes them good protec-

tors, as they will attack and drive Off

marauders which the other fowls flee

from. It must be confcsscd that if kept

in large numbers this fighting quality be-

comes troublesome, as they then become

self assertive and require the other

fcathercd brothcrs to clear the walk.

Still, a. half dozcn may be kept with the

other flocks with littlc inconvenience.



The'scxes are hard to distinguish, and,

While the inale's wattles are slightly

larger than those of his mate, he is most

easily recognized by his general appear—

ance, his important air, and his shrillcr

voicc. In the wild state the guinea fowl

is strictly monogamous, but has degen-

eratcd tliru civilization so that two fe-

malcs to one male is the custom, and

even three are sometimes owned.



The guinea licu starts to lay the lust

of all her tribc. On thc Michigan farm

the laying lion we have with us always—-

or ought to, with modcrn fucding meth—

ods. During the lzitlcr pzirt of March

the ducks and gccsc (‘lilllll our special

nllcntion: thin, as tho snow gocs off. lust

scuson's dricd s‘i'usscs :ind lcu\'cs are in

cvidcncc. :ind llic lurkcy (-ggs must be

watched for and prolccicd.

thc strcnuous hatchingr scuson for ull thc

rcsl is oycr, conic tlic guincns. Some





 





ble to estimate exactly the number of ma-

chines of each style that Will be demanded

b Queen users. We have more machines

ozsome sizes than of others. but we have

included all at these clearing prices. They

must be sold now. We do not carry over

any machines.





Queens are the incubators of heavy

hatches—the machines that are the quickest

money-makers. Write us today asking for

our large ueen book and Special April Sale

Prices. e can guarantee to send you the

incubator you want if you don’t delay.





Address: Wiekstrum, P. 0. Box 229

QUEEN INGUBATOR COMPANY,

Lincoln, Nebraska.





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tract ivc chromos;

sixty promincnt varieties. 10c. posipnid.

l"iiic, purebred stock and cggs at low

prices. (l :iillll'llt‘s (LlfiiiMH‘lllE—a.

sure preycuuve and an cxucllcni disin—

fectant. 8. H. GREIDER. Rheeme. Pn.





   

 





 

 

 

 





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send both for $10

and p a. y i‘rciuht. Well

made, hot water, cup )cr tanks, , ,

double walls, double glass doors. ’ ' ’ '

Free catalog describes them. ,' ."In'

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Can You Sell





This handy tool to your neighbors? “’ire icnre

, stretcher, cutter and splicer;prcss; liiiing jack;

ti post puller, etc ;—useiul in a hundred wziys the en-

17' tire year. Not an experiment—a finely finished tool.





Leader Combination Tool





Sells on sight to every man. Thousands in daily use.

Write today for special otler to agents.





THE LEADER JACK CO. _

31 Main street, Bloomfield, Indiana





 

 

 

 

 

 





   

 





 





 





 





   

 





 





 





 





 

 

 





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Stretches all kinds of wire to the last post. The

harder you pull the tighter it grips. Smooth jaWI,

cannot cut or injure the wire. ()n and off like a

pair of tongs. By express prepaid, $1.00.





 

 





   

   





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STAPLE PU

der staple, lift lizhtly and out it comes. Ry

mail, 25c. Both tools by expr. prepaid, $1.25.





lever Slip Wire Stretcher (20.. West Farminoton. Ollie





LLER on earth. Drive hook iin-V tiny, beautiful





(lily, lzl‘ic in spring, lhc first bountiful

brown spocklcd cgg :ippcurs. l‘i'nducntly

in thc ncst proyidcd for thc othcr poul—

try. it is somewhat smollcr than :1 com—

mon hcn's cgg, more convex zit the large

cnd and more pointcd .‘ll. tho othcr. It

rcscmldcs :i niinizilui'c lurkcy cgg in

shzipc and color und in its bcing ficckcd

with small brown spots.



’J‘hc cggs how» u pcculiorly rich flavor,

in sonic ports of .l‘lln'opc comnmnding

high priccs from cpicurcs. in our own

country lhcy are highly prizcd by south—

ern cooks, who claim the Wliil:cs whip

slii‘l‘cr thun hcns' cgg: and so mukc lincr

coke.



Securing Eggs and incubating.



’l‘lic numbcr of cggs laid by Him guincu



hcn bus bocn sonn-wlmt incrwnscd by do-





mcsliculion until now :70 or iii) may be

cxpcclcd of lH-l', nbout Si” in i‘:li'll ol‘ two

lots. l<‘r<»uuciiily slic will lay lhc first

30 in thc ncsts providcd. ond ihcn. us the

Old instincts lwcomu slrongcr. shc will

mukc :l. l'lltli' ncst .‘ll sonic disinncc from

the buildings (illil Jay 27» or 3:” morc c’gs

liwl'oy'c silliiitr. l’ui‘l (If tlu-sc should bi)





l‘i'lllIiVHl, for. :iltho sitting ncur midsum.

incr, shc will be tumble to inculmic so

innny, tho sbc mny cow-r lhcm, for the





inst is up! to 1,4. dcr-p :inil litci‘nlly iillcd,

‘liko- n pnil, will: cggs,



l"ii‘lt+n is sulllcicnl, and to rcmovc tho

oiln-i‘s without u-ui'ing hcr from lhc ncst

cnl’lrcly rwguiri-s (‘111'(‘. The ncst should





not bc npprouchcd unlil thc guincu hcn

lcziycs it; then, with a long-hundlcd-

spoon part of the eggs may be removed,

disturbing the surroundings us littlc as

possiblc. So :icuic urc they that if a

humun hand touchcs the nest thcy are

suid to nbzmdon it Thcy arc also sup—

poscd to be ublc to count up to iivc, and

at least that many 0 'gs should always

be lcfi in thc ncst. The extra eggs may

be hatched and the young reared by

,lchicken ‘hcns, but nothing quite equals

the natural mothcr.



Four WeOkS are required for incuba-

tion, and usually cvcry egg is. fcrtilc.

The young kects, when they appear, are

creatures, resembling

quail. They are incredibly active, quite

wild, and soon after leaving the shell

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’l‘licn, after





will dart into the grasses and hide at the

least alarm. They are much too active

to stay very long in the nest, and the

first hatched will be out and foraging

about for themselves before the later

hatched are out of the shell. In fact,

herein lies the one objection to the

mother guinea. She may. follow her

oldest offspring from the nest, leaving

her work unfinished. Yet she sometimes

returns, after introducing her enterpris-

ing young to their surroundings, fre-

quently returning to her nest at night

and then finishing the hatching of her

hardy family.



Rearing the Young Naturally and “by



Hand.”



If hatch-ed by the guinea. mother the

young keets require no feeding. She is

a good forager and her mate a first-class

helper. He comes to her assistance as

soon as the young arc out of the shell.





In fact, he has loyally stood by all thruI

the tedious four wcrks, and without his:





shrill note of warn'ng the nest would

have been hard to find. Now the two go

to work industriously for the brood, rang-

ing with them far and wide. A dozen or





fifteen midgets dart here and there until





somcone appears, when they seem to

make themselves earth, into which they,

apparently, vanish. So skillfully are they

hidden that the writcr has more than

once given up a whole brood as lost, only

to have the mother cxhibit them at her

pleasure, some time later.



Guinea fowls prefer to rear their young,

as they make their nest, at some dis-

tance from the farm buildings. At the

buck of the fields or on the edge of the

woodlot they contentcdly forage, occas-

ionnlly bringing their family for a glimpse

at civilization, then retreating to the

more distant fields.



“'hen the young have reached the

broiler age, reared and plumpcd by the

insccts and seeds thcy have rid the farm

of, they are usually brot to the farmyard

and introduccd t0 the feeding DlthO. Fre-

qucnlly thcy 211'0 lhcn ready for market.



If rcurcd by chicken hens, or brot up

“by lmnd," the young keets are trn'iicd

much like young chickcns. But it should

be, i‘cmcmlwrcd that they grow very fast

and :irc more ththC than young chickcns.

They thcrcforc require more concen—

ll'nlwl food und u grcutcr proportion of

protcin in the ration. This may be fur-

nishcd by choppcd cooked meat, sour

milk curd, or the insccts they obtain if

allowed plcnly of range. They should

luiyc {L variety of grains, such as fur—

nishcd by good commercial chick fccd.

Lulcl', whcut, buckwln'ut, c0111 und "o-its

muy be fcd, ’us to tho gcnrral poultry

flock.



Suginzrw Co. E. H. llchONAGH.





SOM E figgangAB-AEETXYERS.





 





I have a mixcd flock of 17 lnyci‘sgfour

old hcns and 1.3 pullcts. The first of tho

pullcis were linichcd Juno 8, 1908, and

thcy commcnccd layingr the lust of ()c—

iobcr. 1 paid no attention to the number

of cggs until the opcning of the present

ycur. llclwccn Jun. 1 and hlzirch 8. (66

iigiys), thc ilock produccd 525 cggs. “'ith

cgys wori‘h what ihcy have bcon the post

winlcr I think poultry pays. 1 i'ccrl

mostly corn and whcut screenings, with

scraps from tho lublc.



Buy Co. MINE. E. XV. VAN DYNE.



Quality Counts.



Quality of goods and workmanship is

:i grout factor in satisfaction with any

kind of goods, but in no line is this morn

lrnc than with lightning rods. l'prt--

ricncc :ind siniisclics prove Con«'-lusivcly

{but good lightning rods, propcrly in—

slnllcd, nffoi'd nbsolulc protection :iguinsl

loss or scrious iinmngc to buildings by

lightning. lint if cilhci' lll2Ll(’l'llil or Work-

mnnship is poor or installation faulty this

may not bu ihc misc. ll is Very {lilf'li'ult

if not impossiblc, to dclcrminc. from tho

nppmrziiicc of thc complcicd job whotlicr

ciihcr tin» mutcrinl uscd or thc workman—

ship ol‘ tlic inslnllnlion is of :1 clnii‘uctcr

to giyc that proi‘cction which alone imikcs

llic invcslmcnt cilhci‘ {i profitable or sut—

isl'nclory onc. 'I‘his sccurity cun only be

cnjoycd by purchasing of 21 rclinblc firm

111111 bus dcinonslrnlcd llic liigli chur-

ncl‘ci‘ 21nd rclinbility of its goods by ycm‘s

of success not only in Selling lightning

rods but in protecting the building‘s upon

which lhcy lnivc plnccd ilicm, from loss

or dumugc by ligl’itning. llodd & Slrulh-

ms, of Dcs Moincs, lowzi, whoso ;1(l\'(\1‘_

iiscmcnt will be found in another column

of this paper, is it firm of ihis character.

Their goods are mudc of tho llt‘St mn-

tcriuls and arc scicniiiically instzillcd, :ind

thcy arc u pcrfcctly rcsponsible firm that

has made good in :i, hold whcrc fruud and

dcccption have. bccn too commonly prac-

ticed. The farmer who putronizes this

firm will be sure of a “square decal." and

cvcry prospective purchaser of lightning

rods would do well to write them for lit-

cruturc and prices instead of closing a

contract with some irresponsible agent

who offers “something just as good for

half the price.” The best is none too

good in any line, but this is particularly

true with lightning rods. ~





APRIL 17, 1909.





Protect Your elicit ,





l‘llTl ll warm dry uartere in

‘leflll this "sanitary qllrood



" ' ’ . ‘ that keeps off the dreade

roup and makes them





Safe from Rats,

Mink,- Weasel, Lice

and Mites





All galvanized iron and steel. No other brooder

anyth ng like it. Exclusive pattern made and sold

3n y by 1tins. dAdds 100 per cent to profltghlreep:



own cos an expense poul raisin . ppe

knock-down. Easl stored. try 8



Write for free boo let today fully describing this

coop; also our M ta. Feed Coops Combination

Tra Layingand Sitting Nests,Non-ll‘reezln Drink-

ing ountain, Egg Carrier and Medicatedc meal.





Dee Moineo Incubator Co.. 255 Third St., De: Man. In.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Double cases all over- best

copper tank: nurse ,selfP-regu-

latlng. Best Ito-chic hot-water

Brooder, 04.50. Ordered together £11.50. 'smleinetlon

uarnntood. No machines at any price are better.

rite for book today or send price and save waiting.

Belle cu Incubator 0. 80x14 Racine Io.





‘Bee Hives, Sections, Foundailh; Smokers,





Etc. We keep everything the bees need, and all Root’s

goods. Send for our 1909 catalog. Cash paid for

beeswax. Prompt attention given to your order.

M. H. Bulimia Son, Condlt St" Lansing. Mich.





RED romaine-We m... n...

baby chicks only 150



each. 015 f" 100 and up. Prize winners Cincinnati,

Chicago, ndianapoils, Kansas City, Milwaukee. De-

troit, Toledo. Eggs :2 to $20 per 15. Owner CHICA-

GO KING. world's greatest Red male. High grade

gs and chicks to a few parties on ashore basis. hall

rice. EDWIN B. CORNISH. Edwardsburg, Mich.





"MONEY IN EGGS”





S 0. BROWN Leghorn—My method and farm

. range has developed layers with vigor. My

eggs produce layers. One-third fancier’s price

and better layers. $1 per 30, $2 per 60. $3 per 100, $5

per 200, $7 per 300. J. E. McARTHY. R3, Enfleld. 111.





in Mlch. best White. Sliver

STOCK and EGGS Golden and Bull” Wynn:

dottes. Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Pat.,Coch-

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9 BARRE ROCKS, Di N

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Gray African Geese world's best eggs, 40 cents each.

W. T. FRENCH. Ludlngton, Mich.





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per 30 eggs. A. Franklin Smith, Ann Arbor, Mich.





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E G G —M. B. TURKEY. PEKIN

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Call Ducks. Toulouse. Embden, Africa-n, Bronze &.
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may. 1909.

. LlCE ON THE SITTING HEN.





 





Lice running around over the ,body of

a hen causes intense itching and, in try-

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hen forgets all about her desire to sit

and deserts the nest. If strongly in;

ciined to sit she may desert one nest and

move to another, tryng to escape her

enemies. If a hen shows any sign of

uneasiness be careful to inspect her body

for lice and also the cracks and crevices

about the nest for mites.



If either is found, thoroly dust her.

Once more sponge off the eggs with a

damp cloth and move to a clean place.

Burn everything about the old nest and

either disinfect or burn it.



Wage constant warfare against lice and

mites during the period of incubation

and the results will be a clean lot of

chicks. It has been said that three lice

will break up a. sitting hen or kill a.

brood of chicks. This probably is not

always true, but it is certain that a hen

that starts to incubate with three lice

on her body will undoubtedly have enough

by the end of the hatch, unless properly

cared for, to infest all the chicks and

render the whole brood either very un-

satisfactory or worthless. An ounce of

lice powder at the beginning of the hatch

is worth a good many pounds after the

chicks are a few days old.





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Fastening Full Sheets of Foundation.





Early in the year Mr. Huffman, of

Jackson 00., wrote an article about

home-made bee hives. I have been mak—

ing some according to -his directions.

Now I would like to know of him whether

he puts foundation starters in the breed

frames or not, and how he fastens same.

Also would like to know when is the

best time to examine for queen bee and

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I, myself, use full sheets of foundation

everywhere, in both brood frames and

sections, and I honestly believe it would

pay to do so even tho the foundation

cost $1 per lb.



There are several ways of fastening

foundation in brood frames which do not

contain a groove and wedge. I used to

use a wax tube, which can be purchased

from any bee supply house for 15c or '200

and which, if used just right, will, by

allowing a fine stream of melted wax

to flow along just where the foundation

joins the wood frame, cement it quite

firmly. But somehow I tired of this

after the tube had become plugged with

cold wax several times. Then I tried

using a preparation similar to grafting

wax, composed of rosin, beeswax, and

lard in the right proportions to make it

just right to handle. I would have a.

dish of this hot and, with a small brush,

after being sure that the top of the brood

frame was perfectly dry, simply paint a

narrow streak, about n43-inch wide, down

the center of top bar where I was to

fasten the foundation. Then, after laying

the foundation down flat on the inside of

the top bar I would pass a hot, heavy

knife blade along, pressing down quite

hard and smoothing the foundation down,

melting it just enough to cause it to

unite with the coating of resin wax prev-

iously put on. This is as good a way

as any I have ever used but sometimes,

if in a hurry, I simply grab that old

broken case knife having a square end,





[stick it into the flame of a lighted lamp,





lay the foundation down flat against

the top of the brood frame and pass the

hot knife along the edge, slightly melting

it and causing it to enter the grain of

the wood. Then, after heating the knife

quite hot again, I take a piece of bees-

wax or old light-colored comb and press

it against the hot knife, holding the point

downward and passing it along, where

the foundation joins the top bar, thus

allowing the wax, as it melts, to drip oft

the knife and solder the joint. Lastly,

I go over it once more with the knife,

pressing down real hard this time.

Determining Whether Queen ls Present.

Now about examining for queen. It

gets to be second nature, to a man work-

with bees for years, to tell when a colony

is queenless without having to look for

the queen. Any good farmer could pass

along a row of horses or cattle and tell

the sick from the Well ones at a glance,

and that is the way with a row of col-

onies in the apiary. One in good prac-

tice has simply to have a glance, when

the bees are flying good, to tell which

colony is in perfect, condition and which

is not. When you look at a hive en-

trance, at a time when the bees are car-

rying in pollen, and see very few bees

entering the hive with pollen on their





 





 





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legs, or if they have only small particles

while those entering'some other hive

are simply loaded down with it, you niay

be sure that that colony hasn’t a good

queen, if it has any at all. If the queen

is active the bees will always be seen

carrying in pollen, if it is to be had, for

they need it to fee-d the young brood.

The old bees, you know, are not fond of

it at all. Then, someway, when the col—

ony loses its queen it also loses its

energy, and you will really see workers

which, instead of passing quickly in and

out of the hive, lazily alight on the board

in front, go towards each other and act

as tho they were shaking hands and talk-

ing it over to see whether they had better

go to work or not.



However, from now on there should be

no difficulty in locating the queen and

in making sure she is there. Until real

warm weather appears she may usually

be found on the center combs, but after

the weather gets hot she is apt to be

there only during morning and evening.

During the heat of the day she may

be found on the outside combs.





If there is uncapped worker brood in

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good evidence that a. queen is not far

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and some brood, (the brood is apt to be

drone breed in worker cells), and yet

there is no queen in the hive. This state

of affairs is caused by a colony becoming

hopelessly quecnless and still having lay-

ing workers, and is a very hard problem

to contend with. A queen, upon being.

introduced to such a colony, is, nine!

times out of ten, killed on sight. About'

the only way to do is to divide the

colony and unite the parts with several

good strong colonies. I never knew of

a queen placing more than one egg in a

cell, but I have found cells, when laying

workers were present, which contained

as high as ten eggs. If there was any

way of catching these fertile workers

and killing them we might successfully}

introduce a queen but, altho you may,i

find one in the act of depositing eggs and 1

kill that, there are usually several others

in the colony and it 'would be next to im- ‘

possible to find and kill them all. The

eggs laid by fertile workers will most or:

them hatch but will only produce drones, ‘

thus, as no young workers are furnished,

the old ones gradually die off and our

colony is gone.

Trouble with Foundation In Hot

Weather. .

Now just a little more about the use;

of foundation. During extremely hot;

weather I have had considerable troublej

when I tried hiving large swarms of bees‘

on full sheets of formulation. The boos

would slightly gnaw the foundation near

the top of the wood frame and the heat

would render the wax so soft that the

foundation would break down out of lllcl

frame. Sometimes the bees would get

so disgusted at it that they would swarm

out and start for the woods again. The

foundation, upon opening the hive, would

be found in a crumpled mess on the bot-

tom-board. In such times as these it is

better to use starters about one inch

wide, placing four frames of same in

center of the hive when the swarm is;

first put in, and then, the next evening,

after the bees have coolcd down, quietly

spread the frames containing starters

and place between them frames contain-

ing full sheets. However, of late, years

I most always manage to have at least

two ready—built brood combs that I can





 





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DETROIT, APRIL 17. 1909.





 





CURRENT COMMENT.



The farmcrs in conturios



A Modern gonc by 'sul't'crcd not a little

Invasion. from tho invasions of hostile

armics that trampltd d iwn



their growing- crops and coniiscaiod thcir

stores. The carly pioncors of our own

country suffcrcd similar lossos from the

raids of hostilo lndians. and own the

oldcr gcncration of southorn plantors

have a vivid rcmombrmwc of similar los-

scs and privations which thcy sufforcd

when our country was in tho throes of

civil war. The farmcrs of today arc for—

tunate in that thoy arc not thus handi-

capped, nor yct likcly to bc. llut thoy

arc nevertheless sufi‘crin: t'rr'i ;:ll in-

yasion of a gravc charactcr. which many





Of tllctrl fail to tvv‘ognizi t 1 .~

llll‘lllllL’ of .‘jljll‘l‘l'litllllL' 1.1 . 1-. :2 r‘ n-

scqucnccs to hcnlsi ‘vn s or talunp ct. pe

to chock tlm jli‘ciglt'h-k ol [1.5 inn: :- :-





ln :1 rcccntly publli so

llcal. of M. A. (I. who i~ (on

in; authoriti-rs. of Ann-riot. ov 1.. ;.-.,

says that ihcrt arc now :10 \;»-:w.:-.~ «.

woods in this statc. a: ('(tllilriztltl vi‘v '

yarictics in its oarlior days. ::|; o‘ w o h

arc inlligcnouzs. in, lioal puma-r that

unloss somctldnu is donr slow to llll'\l‘lll

this goncral invasion of noymu.» curb,

tho numbor of varictiws with whit? tw-

l'armois of tho slato will Izavc to c 'll“ ml

will doublo in ton yoars. Suioy lillE is-

an invasion of which LU'lH-l'nl cognizsnco

should bc takcn by tho farmcrs of Mich—

igan. 'l‘ho most common routc for the

invatlors to ontor is: with tho sot-(ls pur—

chasod for sowinf: upon thc farm, par—

ticularlv grass scclls. lf cvcry farmor

would (l-xcrciso ;_‘,l'(';ilci‘ carc with roc‘ard

In tho purity of tho soods which he pur-

('ll'lSi‘s (mo of thc most common ayonuos

[w the sprcad of noxious wccds would

bc at lcast partially closod. If ho is

in doubt as to tho quality of tho socd

ol'l‘urod, tho purchascr should solid .1

samplc of tho scod to lir. Boal for ox-

amination as to its frcodom from undo-t

sirablo wccd seeds. In addition to this

Michigan should hayc somo kind of a

sood inspection law to protect our markot

from the seeds that cannot with safety

bo sold in other statos and countries hav-

iw: such a law.



Another common means of spreading

lioyiolls weeds is tho comparative indif-

foronco with which many faru‘icrs allow

thom to sccd on their farms. to bc scat—





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THE MICHIGAN FARME’R. "





tercd. by the winds andc’arried from their

farmsin the grain and forage sold. The

average peaceful citizen of any commu-

nity dislikes to gain a reputation for

meanness by making a public issue of

such matters, but the sooner the public

spirited citizens of any community- take

upon themselves to do all in their power

to prevent the wholosale spread of nox-

ious weeds from this cause the hotter it

will be for the noxt goneration of farm-

crs. More attcntion should also be

giycn to the roadsidos and the railroad

rights of way, \Vocds are often allowed

to sccd indiscriminately in thcsc places

whcn a word from an intcrcstcd citizen

would provcnt it. It is the duty of the

highway commissioner in each township

t0 soc that the weeds are out within

spocitiod times along;r the highways under

his jurisdiction. and the law appliod with

equal force to the railroads. ’l‘ho weeds

are often nogloctod in both p‘laoos whom

a pleasant suggestion on tho part of tho

adjacent property would bring

immodiato rosults in having thom cut.

'l‘hc wood nuisance is oyon moro pro«

nouncod in cities and villagos than in

the country. Noxious woods aro com-

monly allowed to seed on vacant lots and

arc spread in various 'ays to tho adja-

cont country. Generally there are ordi—

nancos in existence providing that they

be cut, but thoy are more ofton lztxly cn—

forced than othorwisc. If thcro is no

other way to have this nuisanco chockod

the state should provido a moons of in-

spoction and supervision that would in—

suro an abatomout of tho nu’sancc. This

modcrn invasion is one which mcrit‘s far

moro attcntion than it is roooivintr at the

hands of tho farmors of Michigan. The

wood nuisanco is sorious enough now, but

unlcss stops aro takon to chock it it will

surcly prove a far more Scrious handicap

to the farmers of the ncxt gone-ration.





("l\\'llt‘l‘.<





Just a fcw yozirs ago,

when tho pricc of labor

adyancctl in common

with all othor Commodi-

tics. thoro was no littlo complaint among

farmcrs that it was impossiblo to pay

tho advancod wagos which wcrc dcmand-

od and tuako a living: profit from the

farm. But with tho iucroascd ability of

all classos of wagc carllcrs to buy thcir

products, tho farmors of tho country

found that pri~os of farm commodities

advanccd ,u‘. portionatoly with \vatt‘cs and,

with a iroro g ‘noral use of modcrn labor-

s-tving machincry, this grout class of pro-

duccrs have boon ablc to mako a largcr

not profit from tho conduct of thoir farms

than ever boforo in tho history of the

country. Sinco tho timo rol‘orrod to it

has not been tho pricc of farm labor that

has been complainod of so much as the

supply. But as all thing's adjust (hom-

solvos to conditions which long obtain,

tho farm labor problom has in a grcat

nonsurc solvcd itself and thoro aro few

farmors who would care to soc a vcturn

of chcap and plontiful farm labor with

tho attonding condition of low pricos for

farm products and a g‘oncral stagnation

of business which characterized tho pe-

riod whon tho farm lt’tbor problom was

a common subjcct of convcrsation and

complaint.





The Farm

Labor Problem.





That tho scrub animal

Live Stock is gradually giving: place

Improvement. to uni: of bottor brooding

on tho farms of tho coun-

lor silo-mo conuiatulation.





“4 is-vzniw Hi How- slot-l: is also





‘6‘ ill; ‘11":





:tuxlry a \iholosoim» lntluonm in tho bottoy-

" . "5 and "z ’1 l'stl'l‘ ordinal; lay"); run-l: is

:\ llizl'lli‘l lt-.\ a. and pgunavcolly on: which

obtains iii " l.‘ "Urn 'l‘ill- April lllll'lljll‘

of tho l,', S ("op licpwr'tw :.';:\r-> :1 stint»

roar} of an inycsl'yalru: of ill condition

Hi farm aliiiiialr" ill liu (oumry on April

l, :tlltl 1m l’lSFI‘S r‘lll‘l'tii-v‘l Mb 'Itilllll of

Ill*<‘l';151‘ and cxposurc. ’l‘bz-st- liguH-H show

that. the losses from tliscaso and oxpo-

r'urc during tho past your wt rc in ncarly

cvory cusp below thc lcn your avorag'o

whilo in tho casc of cvcry kind of livo

stock tho condition on April 1 was unlic—

;bl_'.' abovo tllc li,L:‘uros for tha- tcn ycar

avorag'o. This is good cyidcncc that tho

l'armors of the country arc focdinc; thoir

animals bcticr during: a season of high

priccd foods than thcy havo fod them for

a pcriod of tcn yours in which tho aVor-

ago price of grain has boon far bolow tho

proscnt price, and during which poriod

proscut priccs for grain foods have novor

boon maintained for so long a timc. if,

indcod, they have ever bccn cqualled on

tho average.



Those figurcs moan something to the

livo stock industry of the country. They

moan that the average farmor is loarning

that one animal well fed and carod for

will roturn a larger profit than two ani—

mals that are fed upon a malntcnance





ration alone‘or that are given 'poor care

even tho fairly well fed. They also mean‘

that the average farmer has learned Some-

thing of the ebonomy of good stock, for

it is only under favorable conditions that

the superiority of well bred stock is

prominently demonstrated. The pure-

bred scrub is little better than the ordi-

nary scrub, if as good, because the “rust-

ling” characteristic has not been bred

into him thru the application of the law

of the survival of the fittest for genera-

tions. But the well fed animal of good

brooding is so much superior to even the

pampered scrub as to make a comparison

between them an objoct lesson of value

in any community.



TVith wheat froqucnlly



Crop Prices making,r a new high

and Prospects. mark at the loading



markets, due to a very

apparent shortage in the available sup—

ply, those who have a harvest of this

siaplo cereal in prospoct are to be con-

gratulatcd. The national crop report

which appoars in anothcr column indi—

cates that tho condition of the wheat

crop of thc country was more than nine

points bolow the average condition on the

same date last year and nearly 41/: points

bolow thc ton ycar average. Observation

cxtcndcd over a considerable portion of

tho lowcr counties of the state would

soom to indicate, that the present condi-

tion of this grain in Michigan is rather

higher than is indicatod in the national

roport. in which the figurcs for Michigan

aro givcn as 75, comparcd with 83.2 for

the Country. Of course, the production

of spring wheat may be materially aug—

mcntcd by provailing‘ market conditions,

yct it is a difficult matter for farmcrs

in the spring wheat scction to incroasc

thcir acrcage matcrially at this season of

tho year. But it is practically Curtain

that the grain will brim,r a good prico,

not alone bccausc thc harvcst scason will

find the markot more than ordinarily

baro, but: as wcll bocauso of tho high

pricc of othor foods which might bc in

a moasuro substitutcd for wheat, partic—

ularly in the forcign countries where the

shortagc is felt most kocnly.



Potato prices havc roachod an ox-

trcmcly satisfactory point: for those who

yet have 'thc tubcrs to 8011. This markct

has vcrilicd tho l‘orccasts mado in tho.

occasional commcnts which have boon

dcvotcd to it in thosc columns. 'l‘ho ex-

tromo high range of prices will doubtless

stimulating tho planting of largo arcas of

potatocs this yours; but as beans are also

soiling high, this grout Michigan staple

should not be nogloctod during the com-

ing _Vt'<'ll‘; and tho gonorally high price

of all grains will mako it ncccssary for

tho providcnt farmcr to grow a libcral

acroago to maintain his livo stock for

thc coming,r ycar, so tho profitable balance

boiwcon tho staplo crops will naturally

bc prcliy woll maintaincd so as to insure

an own and prolitablo inarkot for tho

product of Michigan farms for the ensu—

ing ycar.





 





HAPPENINGS OF' THE WEEK.





Foreign.



Marion Crawford, tho novclisi’. diod at

Sorrcnto, Italy, April 0, from fovors, at-

tondctl with bronchial and pleurctic com—

plications.



'l‘hc uuayulo rubbor industry of l\loxico

has como undor tho control of tho rubbor

trust by tho purchaso of 4,000,000 acvos

of land dovotod to thc raising of tho rub-

b-‘i plant.



Santos: llumont, of T’ranr-o, coruluctcd

a sucw-ssl'ul cxporimont with a now mon-

oplanc last wcok by covcring a dislallcc

hi .1 who and a half at a licfght of from)

[MI to ill” l't-cl



"Hli‘~’i<lci'ablc (laiuauc is said it) have

bu-n «iono by an carlbouakc shock which

lasttzl about a minuln- at Sundsvail,

Snub yr last Saturday morning.



l’ic illcnt ton:<c\’cll loi'i Sucz on tho

s‘iauwr Admiral last Saturday. 'l‘ho

boat will :ztop at Allin and Mogutlit-‘cono

lpjugo poaching," llll‘ l'lltl Ill. tllt' Willi'l‘

journcy at Moml‘iasa, tho tcrminus of tho

l'uanda railway. ’l‘bc «listancc from Sucz

to Mombasa is ~l,l|l\‘ inilos.



A nowly invcntcd wircloss lclophono

was triml out in l“l'.’lll('(' last chk. It

was possiblo to convorsc with tho groatcst

cloarnoss ovor a distanci- of thirty milcs.



l‘IxJ’rt-sithni Castro, of \W-uozuola, who

rcccnlly sailcd from Franco to thc Danish

\Vcst lndir-s whcrc ho purposcd to romain

ii” hc got in touch with :Il'l'uirs ill his

nativo land, has l'ailsvtl in his program as

tho Danish govt-rnmwnl uavo ordors not,

to allow him to land on tho islands. llo

vas thoroforo put aboard anothcr VoHscl

and shippcd back to Francc.



'l‘ho Amcrican cruiw'r North Carolina,

which was to go to thc (.‘arribcan 'VVillt‘l'B

to look aflcr tho AniI-rlcan lntcrcsts on

and around Vow-zucla, b; rclurninu lo

llavana with fricntl': of l‘Ix-l’rosidcni.

(,‘aslro on board.



’l‘ho dcprcaulon in tho Atlantic uhlpplnc:

tradc has I)I"'t'iflll“ll I'llbcr tho (‘unard

or tho Cormau Htonnoshlp llflt'l-l from pay-

ing dividends (luring, ilo- [nu-d your.



A school has lu-on l'tflnlillHlH'll in flor-

many for thc trniulux of mom for handling:

dlrigiblc air ships. The course will covcr





 





APRIL .17, 1909.





a period '01: three years and the sch00l





opens this coming. October. .



. The Pope‘continues firmly in his former

attitude towards France, not recognizing

the -' separation of the churCh from the

state which was consummated thru leg—

islation some two years ago.





National.



Unofficial reports are current that

Crazy Snake, the Indian chief who has

been giving trouble in Oklahoma, is dead.



The 80th anniversary of General \Vm.

Booth, of the Salvation Army, was celo-

bratcd in America and England last

Monday.



The New York Assembly is considering

a new insurance bill which modiiios the

recent stringent legislation that was passed

in that state, the concessions being fav-

orable to the domestic companies only.



Last week the house of representa-

tivcs passed the Payne Tariff Bill by a

vote of 217 to 161. ‘On Monday the meas-

urc was presentod to the senate for the

consideration of that body. The sonate

committee on tariff changed the bill so

as to place the burdcn of indirect lava-

tion upon luxuries and reduced the duties

on necessities.



The largest ice jam in the history of

any man living along the Niagara River,

has bccn witnessed thcro during the past.

two weeks. Both above and below the

cataract the ice is pilod many feet higher

than it has over boon known before.

Many of the bridges across the river, and

the electric lines along the Gorge Route

have suffered damage to the extent of

ovor a million dollars.



The operators of the anthracite coal

mincs are preparing to make a cut of

onc-tonlh in the wages of the workmen.



Nearly two hundred printers, represent—

ing the local union of the north central

statos, are in session this week at their

somi-annual meeting.



.-\rr;.lnp;c.monts havc bccn made for a.

twonty-four hour raoo between the scout

cruisors (ifhcstor. Salom and Birmingham.

The race will begin at Nowport, R.



Frosh outrages havc bcgun in the to-

bacco districts along the border of Ten-

nosscc and Kentucky. Gov. Patterson, of

’l‘onncsscc, has boon called upon for state

troops to protect the growers in several

of those district's.



Fruit growers around Roanoke, Vir-

ginia, state that their crops were ruined

by tho rocont cold weather prevailing in

that section.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Eaton Co., April 10.——Elcction day, and

tho day following wcro warm and spring-

likc, and one could almost see things

grow, thou canto a thunder-storm, and

noxt day a high wind, and a drop in

tompcraturc. Tho llth it snowed all day,

but mcltod as fast as it came, until to-

wards night, thcn it turned coldcr, and

by dark thorc, was throo inches of snow

and we had a cold night. It is warmer

this morning, but has a wintry look.

Sonic plowing" has alroa'dy boon donc, but

not much, and this spell will delay work.

’l‘hcrc was an unusually long run of sap

this your, and a large amount of line

sugar and syrup was made. VVc. nccd

rain badly, as tho soil is too dry for

urasscs and grain to start off vigorously.

The wool markot has oponod, and buycrs

are going out among the farmcrs trying

to buy. Somo had to soil for 1.70 last

your, and think they can even up on the

mattor a little now, s0 thcy are holding

for bottcr prices. lluycrs are offeringr

from 23301270 Vthat is back to $1.20?!)

1.25; bcans, 3521544120; hay, $150619; po-

tatocs, 70c: hogs, $5.750v6.50; calves,

6017c; butler, 20c; ogg's, ”@190.



Lapeer Co., April 12.—(}round is being

workcd this wook for cats and barley,

none sown yot‘. Spring is somcwhat

backward. Surface of land was frozen

ncarly all last wcck. Moro potatoes will

be planted this scason than evor bcforc.

All livc stock wintcrcd woll. Some are

shearing shoop now. Milch cows are in

good domand, sollinur at from iii-UNITS at

auction salos. Horsos arc. very sourco

and high in prico; tcams hayc boon sold

for $500. flood limo to sow clovcr scwl

prico, til-1.50013 for rod; othcr produco in

good domand at following pricos: \Vhoat,

$1.30: oats, 51c: ryc, 77c; barley, $1.25;

bcans, $3.20; corn, 75c; potaiocs, 70c;

hay, $6018 por ton; cggs, 16c; dairy but—

ior, 22c; croamory, 30c. Above pricos are

from farmors to spcculators.



Kent Co., April T.~r(‘lrass is alroady

grocning up. (lld pasturos and timothy

moadows ha \ro grccncd considerably during

tho past l‘orty-oight hours undcr tho inv

llucnco of warm rains. VV'ith potatoos

at, 90c por bu. in tho local markot, late

inquiry by l'nclo Sam, “\Vhat is tho mat—

tor with the farmer?” sccms to be re-

yorsod. “’ho stayed tho grout financial

polill' a your ago and sustained tho st’a

bility of tho country, but tho farmer?

Milt-l1 cows oonstituto tho bulk of tho,

tradc in cattlc those days. Spring pig‘s

aro fully a month latc this year. 7



Northern lsabella and Southern Clare

Co.’s——}4‘ino winter wcathor, with scarcclv

any frost in the ground. li‘armcrs at—

tondint.r tho Statc Round-Up at Mi.

I’loasant by the scoro. Farmcrs {.rctlin‘r

ihoir foncim: roady for spring. Good do:

mand for cows and young,r stock. 'Vthat:

$1.12 in Clare markct.





NATIONALWIE‘EWOPTREl—DORT.





'l‘ho, crop roportinu’ board of the Bureau

of Statistics of tho ['nitod Statcs Depart-

nu-nt of .r\griculiuro osiimatcs, from the

roports of corrospont’lotlts and agonts of

tho. lluroau, that the average condition of

wanlor whcat on April 1 was 82.2 per cent

of a normal, against 91.3 on April 1,

lama 819.!) on April 1, 1907, and 86.6 the

ayorauo condition for the past ton yours

on April 1. The doclino in condition from

ln-combcr 1, 1008 to April 1, 1909, was

3.1 points as compared with an average

(lcclinc in the past ten years of 6.0 points.



'l‘hc average condition of rye on April

1 was 87.2 per cent of a normal, against

89.1 on April 1, 1908, and 89.2 the average

condition for the past ten years on

April lst.
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AN ARBOR DAY WITH UNCLE BEN.





Warm spring showers and sunshine

had warmed the ground and vegetation

had started into new life. Brother James

and I were spending a few days at Uncle

Ben’s. , .



We had been reared among the pines

and cedars, where yellow sand in the up-

lands and black muck about the creeks

and swamps constituted the soils with

which we were acquainted. Our knowl-

edge of deciduous trees was limited.

During former visits we had learned to

know the beautiful and valuable sugar

maples, and to enjoy the fine sugar and

delicious syrup which Uncle Ben made

every spring.



Uncle Ben, whose fine large farm with

good buildings and equipment attested

to his prosperity, was more than ordi—

narily well endowed with keenness of

mind and perceptive faculties. The farm

and home site were particularly attractive

in summer. VVell—selected and judicious-

ly-located native trees, with wide-spread~

ing tops gave the farm and buildings

a charming setting and afforded a com-

forting shade for the stock in summer‘s

hottest days.



The surface of the farm and vicinity

was gently undulating, with but few

swampy or untillablc spots. A dark,

heavy loam covered a dense clay sub—

soil. Uncle Ben bot the farm years ago.

A considerable portion of it was covered

with a dense growth of natural unbroken

forest. The trees of this native forest

were all deciduous and embraced a wide

variety of our best known hard—woods—

such as maple, beech, oak, ash, walnut,

hickory, etc—with several valuable soft-

woods—such as basswood, elm and yel-

low—poplar.



As he cleared the land Uncle Ben had

carefully observed these various kinds

of trees. He knew their abOVo-ground

characteristics and their peculiarities

of root growth. He was thus able to

select trees adapted to low, wet ground,

to knolls and dryer places, and to give

each kind its proper setting.



We received a warm welcome upon our

arrival. After seeing the barns and stock,

we were called to the house to partake

of supper, which Aunt Susan had pre—

pared for us—of which hot biscuits and

warm maple sugar formed a very scason~

able and appetizing part.



Uncle Ben had saved enough thrifty

hard maples in his wood tract to enable

him to make enough syrup each spring

to supply their family plentifully for the

year, and in good seasons he sold enough

to maintain the equipment in good con-

dition from ycir to \cai, pay the taxes

on the land and timber values, and to

pay a fair compensation for the labor

involved. The season comes at a time

when there is little else to do.



After supper we retired to the living

room when Uncle Don asked Cousin

Henry to crack some nuts. thile Cousin

illcnry was abscnt cracking the, nuts,

'l’ncle Ben, who seemed to be cnthusias~

tic upon the forestry question, remarked:

“Tomorrow will be Arbor Day, and we

will endeavor to observe it in a fitting

manner. Arbor Day has long been es-

tablished in many of the older—settled

countries, but it has not been generally

or widely observed in this country until

recent years. In most European coun—

tries the native forests are practically

gone and their people have long been

accustomed to planting and caring for

trees fox" their timber value as well as

for ornamental purposes.



“0n the other hand, our "country had

such vast tracts of native forests, and

timber values were so low, as to cause

the early settlers to look upon these fine

forests as of little worth or even as an

encumbrance upon valuable ground upon

which they wished to raise CI‘ODS- AC‘

cordingly vast quantities of our most val-

uable native forest timber have been

'wantonly burned up to clear the land for





BY DWIGHT S. COLE.





farms. We now see the folly of this “No other thing can so cheaply and

wastefulness. Movements have been in— effectively produce these attractive sur.

augurated to start the work of planting roundings as well—chosen trees harmon—

trees and growing them for timber for iously arranged. Our people have au-

the use of coming generations. Tree plant- thorized the governor to designate a day

ing and growing is important business. in spring for planting trees and shrubs;





 





IN PROTEST—BY JOHN E. DOLSON.





ln life’s glad flower time I have wandered here

Thru primal forests, reaching to the verge

.Of the horizon; forests green or sere,

Somber and grand, vibrating to the surge

Of Nature’s pulse; the majesty and might

Enthroned within the gnarled boles’ massive girth,

The deep long vistas, darkening into night,

Seemed coexistent with the life of earth.





 





Here i have passed the summer hours away

’Neath great green Gothic roofs toward heaven flung,

With the Primordial satisfied to stay

While to my heart Creation’s hymn was sung.

in a: t c

Few years have passed since then; but n0w i stand

And look upon a scarred and desolate waste

Of worthless, wind-swept, brier-infested land

By Mammon worshippers and human Ghouls defaced.





Once grew God’s garden in this nightmare place;

Torn tops and blackened stumps alone remain,

Work of a gold-enamored grasping race

That knows no larger way of life than gain.





Oh, why destroy within a single day



That which at History’s dawn was more than old?

Shall not the curse of outraged Nature stay .



With him who loots her palaces of gold?





 





 





 





 





it is called Arbor Day—meaning tree

day. Some weeks previous to the day

scloctod a proclamation is issued urging

the people to observe the day. properly

by setting out and caring for trees and

shrubs for ornamental purposes.



“If the day were properly observed a

marked improvement in the beauty and

attractiveness of our landscapes, and par-

ticularly of our homes, would be effected.

The more setting out of trees and shrubs

in a careless, indii‘fcront manner, after

wh'ch no further attontion is giVon, does

not bring tho desired results. On each

Arbor Day, now trcos and shrubs are set

and thoso set in previous yoars should

bo oarotully trimmed and looked after.



“The rural homes in this vicinity are

quito destitute of attractive surround-

ings. The early settlers almost hated

trees. They cloared away every vestige

of the native forests about the homes.

Their childron failed to appreciate the

value of improved surroundings and so

the homcstcads stand as you see them.



“Hiir homo silo here was stripped of

all its original forest trees. The beau-

tiful trocs you now soo about: the homo

silo, along thc roadside, bordering the

farm lano, and elscwhoro, have nearly all

bot-n planted and cared for by monox-

(‘cpt that, since, my boys licro have, been

largo t-nough, they haVo onjoycd assist-

ing mo in this ploasant Work.



“1' sco llcnry is coming with the

cracked nuts. ’l‘hoso nuts cost us- noth-

ing but tho grain-ring. 'l‘hc trocs were

plantod years ago and are now rmvarding

us. In most soasons tho yield is so large

that we gather and soil a considerable

quantity at fancy pricos. ’l‘hoy are sure

of a 111arkct for all wc can grow at prices

which make the childron happy, as they

have tho money.



"The tiinbcr value of those, trees may

surprise you. "he wood of tho black

walnut troo is vory highly prized for

cabinet work, picture frames, ctc., while

the timber of tho hickory trees is the

best kind of material for the handlos of

axes, hammers, and like tools, and for

whools for carriages, automobiles, etc.



“About 50 years ago, a farmer of more

than common fort-sight who lived a little

distance from here, gathored a quantity

of black walnuts from a largo, thrifty

trcc of good shapo, Ilo plantrd thom

with outor shucks on along the roadside

that. fall. Half a dchn or Inol'o were

plantod in each altornatc corner of the

old iail i‘onco which then stood there.

’l‘hoy \voro (-ovorod with two to three

im-hos oi‘ oarth and loft. It was an easy

inaitor to plant tho row along the end

and ono sido of tho farm«three—fourths

of a 111ilc~~ in loss than half a day.



“My planting sovcral nuts close to—

gothor, tho young shoots which thoy pro-

ducrd proloclod t'ilt'll othcr. ’l‘lny grew

straight and tall. Sido branches do not

dt-VoIop roadily 'whoro tho young shoots

are closo togt-thor. For some yours after

planting, tho ground about the lilllo trocs

was t'lt‘lll'td 1'th‘ll spring. All s‘do limbs

"were cai'ol'ully out off for si-voral seasons,

to cause the growth to bo conoontratcd

in the top of tho shoot. From time to

time some of tho \vcakor oi" the little

trees in tho thick-or clumps wcro cut off

at the ground and killed so they would

not hindor tho growth of the stronger

trees. Thinning was continued until the

strongest and host shapod tree in each

clump attainod a diamctor of about two

inches at the baso. ’l‘he othors wore

out off at the surface of the, ground and

killed.



“For ten years the trees had to be pro-

tected from tho stock, and receive a little

care each season. Since then they have

been given no attention worth mention—

ing. Walnut trees are deep rooted. The

tops are open Most farm crops will

grow under them~gr2 1ss doing nearly as

well as in the open.



(Continued on page 452 ).
448 (12)





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





' THEODORA=BYJRMA B. MATTHEWS.





 





 





Chapter l.—The Beginning of Trouble.



“I do not know just how to explain it

to you; it is a bad business.



The speaker, a grayhaircd man of

years, fumbled among his papers for a.

minute withcut meeting the eyes of the

two young people before him. Then his

gaze wandered around the spacious

library furnished with everything that

money could purchase that would make

for comfort. Bookcases lined the walls,

filled with many a choice volume, and

above hung costly paintings. It was the

room of a man who had denied himself

nothing.



The silence became.unbcarable at last,

and a youth sitting in an easy chair at

the end of the room moved impatient\iy.



:“I fall to see what there was about my

father's affairs that you should hesitate

to tell his childrcn " he said at lcng‘th.

“only his dcath was so sudden. so unex-

pecttd to us all that—do you mean that

he was not prepared, that his .ii’fa1rs were

not in shun: I do not St‘(' 4.: innit would

matter so math {or there an only us

two, but I was under the if

father made a new wii'. _\'

after mother died."

’The lawyer, for sin-2: 22':-

his gaze to meet that of tit»:

was good to look upon. tlzis youtl: who

had but barely reached man's estate

altho the lawyer as he lookcd fclt. rather

than saw, that 'his dark eyes made his

face look a little too pale and once or

twice while speaking he gave a short

hacking cough that caused him to [0)]{

at him more sharply. (in a stool at his

feet, leaning eagerly forward to catch

every word from the legal gcntlcrnan,

was a girl of cightccn. The black drcss

that she wore made hcr complcxion look

more pink and her cycs niorc bluc. A

greater contrast than she presented to

her brother Could hardly bc found and

many had commcnicd on it.



“Your fathcr‘s will was made as you

think btttw"



“Then why not make Us acquainted

with its Contents at once?"



“Becausc it is no use.

died bankrupt."



“Impossiblc!” the young man cxclaiincd

in astonishment; “My fathcr, the ownci

of millions, died awpaupcr! Is that what

you mean?“



“It is about what I mcan and no ono

could have been more surprised than 1

was when the blow canic. it was that

that caused your fathcr's dcath. He

made a bad investmcnt and staked his

whole Wcalth on it, he who had always

been so careful heroic, and it sunk him,

that's all. It is a common cnough story.

I shall never forgct that day hc came into

my officc, broken and auid, and said:

‘I am a ruincd man.‘ The strokc l'ol—

lowcd that night and I nevcr saw him

again alive.”



The girl leaned forward. ”(‘1‘ face was

drawn and she spoke in a low tcnsr- voice

that startlcd her hearcrs, altho it was

scarcely lil)l\’(‘. 3. whisper: “Ills namv,

his good name! Tell inc, did our father's

name suffer?"



“No, He :,armed no one but himself

and you.”



"Thank Hm]. Uh, than}: Gm), ll»! 1'





 





 





Your father





wc stiil have our good name \‘t’fuat mal—





 





tcrs the rust?” and s'a- Trio; :11." mead

with a sob against iwl bJo’: « inner;

llc snioothcd hci' hair unit". :» 'z: ..: ‘.""1'.

li'l"'lll.“(l i-S lie :tlrF‘Jt'CI’tlZ hI do HUI.

quitc sccm to und -l'-‘-;i!;f1 What it all





nitans _\ct, lmr'i, but there would be no

disgrace attached to father.”





illi‘. liingingliain fcli his own (vi-g

grow moist as lic walchml tlo- two. "I





most made a blamcd fool of myself,” he

said savugcly ai'tcrwurd; “Mc, with my

cxpcricncc, a man of my ycars who thot

lic was proof against anything."



At lcngth the youth spoke again: “It

will be bzst for you to tell us just how

things arc. \\'ill thcre be nothing at

all?" .



“Nothing of any importance. We may

bc able to act a fcw hundrcd dollars out

of thc furniture hcrc: cvcryihing clsc is

your." llc wondcrcd what a fcw hun-

drcd would mean to thcsc two whose

cvcry whim had bccn gratiticd by an in-

dulgent fathcr.



The girl spoke aga‘n: “Never mind,

Don, we have each other and wc can

work."



“Dear little sister, you were rightly

named. I am sure you have always been

God's best gift to us, but I am afraid you

hardly realize yet what it means to have

no home and to work for a living,” he

said sadly: “How can you count your





 





pennies, Dora, when you hauVe never

even counted the dellars?”



“I can learn,” .she answered (bravely;

“but you! Oh, Don, you can not even go

back to college, can you?"



“No, that dream is over,” he said

quictly. .



“I have also foand," said the lawyer,

who was fumbling among the papers he

held, “that there is a small piece of land

in California deeded to Miss Theodora.

I dare say it is not worth much, but I

will write about it at once. I well re-

member the day your father bot it! It

was like many of his investments, showed

more hcart than brains.”



The young people both looked up with

interest and, seeing this, he continued:

“A young woman in deep black came into

his OmCY‘ one day when I was there and

begged him to btrv it. She said it was a

maxi plat-c but she told a pitiful story

about losing ln’r husband and how she

had cxl'iaosicd all of htr lllctins bringing

him home. and this place was all that

new stood lutwt-eu her child and herself

and starvation. Y‘nur father hot it, altho



“ ..::n it. was probably 0d for



‘.\'c:\c:' mini." he said: '1 will

. :1 Dora. and perhaps it will be

the mains of bringing a blessing to her

wan-day. \\'iio kn \\'s‘." “'cll, if it is

worth anything at all it may help you

a little now."



"lhar father," the girl murmured with

shining eycs; “it was like him.”



“It was." the lawyer acknowledged;

but he was looking at it with different

cycs than what the girl was.



“It would not matter if it was not for

Dota,” the young man mused; “but it

seems as if I cannot bear to see her

poor. 'I shall work as soon as I can find

soincihing to do, but I do not know what

it will be!"



Aga’n he gave that short cough that

drew a look of sharpness from the lawyer

cre he answu'ed: “There will surely be

Some way. llive y.ui no relatives?"



“I bclit‘ve we had a fcw that claimed

relationship when we were rich, but I

hardly expect them to remember the re-

lationship now. No, we have no near

rclativcs. \\'e are alone, the little sister

and I.”



The man of law began to gather up his

])5l])i‘l'.\‘. “\‘Vcll, you (“ill stay here a little

whilc, until things: are scttlcd, and there

will be time to make up your mind. Then

we will go over the house and you can

pick out what you want to keep and the

rest can be sold. Meantime, Donald, if

you will just go ovcr thcsc papers with

me. I want you to see just how every—

ih’ng is."



lit» moved toward the table and seating

himsclf began to spread thcm out before

him. Donald followed, and Dora, thus

Icft t0 hcrself, stole quietly out Of the

They did not miss her until the

lawyer came to takc his lcavc, and when

Donald went to look for her he found her

scaled bcforc tlicir itiotlici"s picturc.



Shc lonkcd up at him. "i am glad that

Inollicr cannot know, lmn,





 





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lli‘l' brotlwi' liit‘l



“i am glad that iuotlicr \‘l.'.'i< so prac-

tical that she would liuvc mc taught to

cook and scw. 1 can at lcast cook your

locals and Scw on your buttons, Don. I

l‘(‘ll'lt“llll)(‘l‘ what mother said when I did

not want to learn thosc things: ‘It will

lakc but a short part of your life, Dora,

and if your knowlcdgc does you no good

it will not harm you, but nothing could

recompense you for it if you necdcd iii

and did not have it.‘ How truc it is. \\'e

will make us a nice little home some-

where, Don. we will not need a big one,

just you and I.”



“it will have to be a very small one,

hora, for there will be but little to live

on until I can get to work, and then I

dare say I shall not get as much a month

as you usually spent on one gown.”



“I shall not need many gowns now,”

she answered bravely, “for I Shall not

go out any.”



Don listened and thot that he should





hate the w"orld in general when he re-

membered that she would probably not

be asked to go out, for he knew more of

the ways of the world than she and he

remembered how quickly the families of

other men who had failed dropped out of

the society that had known them so well

He saw that she did not realize this, and

he would not dampen her spirits by tell-

ing her. Besides, there was something

that was troubling him far more at the

present time and he Wondered what it

ftu'cbodcd. That morning their old fam-

ily physician has said to him lightly, but

with a lightness that did not conceal the

anxiety in his tone: “I am coming up to

look you over in the morning, lad. You

don’t look quite rugged enough; I am

afraid you have been studying too hard.”



He knew that he felt weak and listless

and, come to think of it, he had felt so

for some time, but it had not alarmed

him. But what did Dr. Allen mean? He

was thinking of this and wondering what

would become of Dora if anything was to

happen to him. She knew nothing of

this, however. She thot his t‘hotfulnes3

was wholly owing to the lossof their

nioncy and strove to cheer him.





Poor Don, she thot, it is hard for him

to give tip all of his ambitions and have

to settle down and Work in some pokey

office. She little knew how hard the

work in some office would be to get. I

wish I could earn money, but I do not

know anything well enough, I can pity

and sing. but I could not teach music;

I can paint a little, but no one would buy

my pictures; and so there is nothing 1

can do but be brave and Cheerful, and 1

will do that and trust God with the rest,

just as mother always taught me, and

she leaned against Don as tho seeking

support there.



How little we know our own natures

until 'they are tried. A few hours later

the nature of Theodora Hampton awak—

encd and she emerged from the re::tlm'ol

girlhood into that of womanhood, and,

instead of being led, she really became

for the time the leader.



Just now, howcvcr, as each Were busy-

with thots of their own, she lcancd

against Don like the. tired child that she

was and, when at length he aroused him-

sclf, he found that she had fallen aslccp.

lie laid her down carefully and, cover—

ing her, left 'her to rest.



“It will do her good, poor Sis! It has

been a hard day for her." Then he wcnt

to his own room to walk up and down

until he Wth quite exhausted.





 





Chapter IL—New Plans.





Theodora slept. late the morning fol—

lowing thc interview with her father's

lawyer. Perhaps it was because it had

been late before she retired and still

later bcforc hcr confused brain had again

allowed her to sleep. lot after a timc

she forgot the problems she was trying

to solve, or rather lost them for a time

in a troubled unconsciousness.



She thot of it the first thing when she

awoke. It seemed more like a nightmare

to hcr now than anything else. She had

ncvcr a <inglc care or Sorrow until her

iootiicr rlicd four ytars bci‘orc and tlnn

lmr fallicr and lion had donc cycryihiiig

'n tht-ir i'owcr to liliilx’t' up the loss to

3.1»): 'l‘lxcy Elm] always bccn ll \'cry dc-



viwl iilmilj.‘ and it was a tt-rriblc shock



‘ ‘ I. lll‘:





follici' had bcv-n suddcnlv





w . ‘c: Hi from them. llc had conic in :ii





153"» “implanting oi hot i'ccling vcry wcll

:1: .; :,.-—ri your at uncc to his: room. ’l‘lic





.vlrrzt morning Ihcy found hint unconscious

:,:.Ii §,.. nex'vr :Ipol-zt: to ihcm again. Don

./.:;'- :«wimnmiev-il but his fathcr did not

know him, and now :inolbcr blow li-id

izilicn. They must face the World 3.3

bc'rct'urs.



“lint Wc bayc cuch othcr yct; it, might,

lo- worsc,” st‘ll insfslcd the girl stoully

as she slippcd from the bed and began

to drcss.



Yes, they had cach other yet.



Breakfast was over and Dora was in

the library whcn the physician arrived.



“\I'hcre is Don?" he asked. “I have

come to see him.”



Dom. looked up with startled eyes.

“Don!" she gaspcd. "Tcll me, Dr. Allen,

is there anything the trouble with Don?"



“I hope not, at least nothing serious.”

he answered soothingly; “but I want to

look him over.”



\Vith a sinking heart Dora went to call

her brother. She scanned his face eag-

erly and wondered why she had not no—

ticed how pale he looked before. After

she had seen him enter the library she

went out on the piazza and paced up and

down. I must see Dr. Allen, she thot,

and I will surely not miss him here.



“0, God,” she prayed, as she walked





 





APRIL 17, 1909.





up and down with clasped, hands he-

seeching in agony; “O, God, do not take

Don from me!" Over and over she re-

peated it. In times 'of great agony the

most simple words are the only ones we

can think of, and really they voiced her

whole desire.



Meanwhile behind the closed doors or

the library Dr. Allen was pursuing his

investigations. He asked but few ques-

tions and the examination was soon over.



“\Vcll," Donald questioned as he looked

bravely into the face of the physician.



"It is not so bad as I feared and can,

I believe, be easily remedied. No more

college or indoor studies, however. You

must take that little sister of yours and

lhie yourself to California and live in the

open air. If you follow my instructions

you will probably die of old age."



“And if I refuse?”



“Your life will be numbered by months

instead of years, but why should you re-

i'usc? There are only you two left and

I think I know Miss Dora well enough to

be sure that she will willingly go with

you to the ends of the earth. One thing





more," and he paused with his hand .on,





the door, “the sooner you can go the

better.” Then he went out without an-

other look at the face that had grown so

while and still.



And this was to be the end? It did

not matter so much, only What was to

bccomc of Dora? The thot wrung a

groan of agony from the closed lips that

had not been there for himself. HOW

L'tillld he provide for licr?



“\Vcll, wcll." said the doctor, as lie

saw Dora’s pale face; “Are you sick,

too?”



“No," she answered,

arm; “but lion!"



“’l‘ut! 'l‘ut.’ child. don‘t look like that.

Don will be all right when he gcts away

from this climaic. I havc ordcrcd him

to California and I shall ordcr a certain

young lady to go along and look aftcr

him."



“Must he go?”



“if hc liycs, ycs,"





clutching his





answered the phy-

sician, puzzled that her first question so

closcly rcscmblcd Don's. “\Vill that be

such a hardship for you?”



“Dr. Allen. is it possible that you have

not hcard about father?”



"lloiid what?”



“That he failed.

Willi nothing."



"It cannot be true.”



“It is. Mr. Dingingham told us yes-

terday.”



“My poor child! My poor child! I Will

scc you again." and thcn the doctor hur—

ried away, for he could no longt-‘r beat

the look in Dora's eyes. '



Shc turm-d and went slowly into the

houso Shc could not see lion yet. She

must have time to think first. It was

some timc bcfore she could calm herself

cnough to look dirEctly at this thing that

had come to her. One thing stood out in

lit-r mind distinctly: Don must go in

California. l'ut how? A fcw hours bo-

fore shc would litivc said it was the sim-

plest thing in the world just to pack some

clothcs and go, but now cvcrythini,r was

changcd for thcm.



At lcngth shc took her burden to the

place she had always bccn taught was a





That he has left us





sure refugc, and as she praycd for gold-

ance a singlc sentence uttered by the.

lawyer the day bcforc ilashcd thru hcr

mind with startling distinctness.



“1 will give it to Dora and perhaps it

may bc tho incans of bringing a blcssing

to her some day, who knows?"



She sat straight up and thoi for a few

minutes. Yes, the place was llcrs. llad

not Mr. Dingingham said so? And what

was to hinder Don and she from going

there to livc? As soon as thc idca had

flashed thru her mind shc bccame activc,

and from that niomcni hcr

a-wokc and shc bccamc a ncw llora. Has—

tily donning" a strcct dross shc loft the

house without disturbing Don and went

straight to the office of Mr. Dingingham.

lie looked at her in surprise.



“\’\'liztt can I do for you?" he askcd.



“You told inc yesterday there was a

piece of land in California deeded to me,

did you not?"



“Yes, and I have written to find out

what I can about the land and its sal-

ability. I will do my best for you, but I

durc say it will bring but a small sum.”



“But I do not wish to sell it?"



“What is that?” the lawyer asked in

surprise.



“I do not wish to sell it. We must go

there to live, Don and I,” she said with

trembling lips.



“What is the meaning of this, Miss

Dora?”



Dora told him what Dr. Allen had said.



(Continued on page 450). '





 





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. THE ,MICHIGAN FARMERa

same of Our -Wild F lowers—2.





By Eva RymanaGaillard.





Jack-ln-the-Pulplt—lndlan Turnip.

(Arlsaema trlphyllum).



Few people, old or young, need an in—

troduction to Jack-in-the—pulpit, for he

takes possession of our moist woodlands

during March and April and stands up

so bravely in his odd little green, or

green-and—brown-striped pulpit that he

is one of the first of the “flower-people"

a child learns to recognize.





An odd flower this, for the spavdix inside.





the hooded «spathe has the tiny, true flow-

ers clustered around the very base, mak-

ing it look as tho the preacher had

tumbled into his pulpit head first.



One glance at the flower shows the rea-

son for its being called .lack-in-thc-pul-

pit, but one must see the round, tuberous

corm from which it springs to understand

why it is called Indian turnip. The root





 





 





 





 





.Jack-in-the-Pulpit, or lndian Turnip—A

Garden-grown Specimen.





is so acrid that one who bites it will be

long in overcoming the blistering, burn—

ing sensation produced, but the Indians

knew that cooking destroyed the aerid

properties and they used the roots as

food.



This is one of the hardiest and most

easily transplanted of our wild flowers

and, if removed to a semi—shady place in

the garden, will appear each spring. The

little preacher will bring us his sermon

of cheer and pass on, leaving two tall,

three—part leaves and a stalk of seed

berries (which turn to brilliant red in tho

fall), to us of his Visit. The

plants may be easily located by these

berries and if corms are taken up and

potted they will bloom in mid-winter, as

easily as hyacinths, and make very strik-

ing Objects in the window—garden.



Trillium—Wake-Robin.—(Trillium

grandiflorum).



\Vhere the .lat-k-in—lhe~pulpit is found

the trillium is apt to be nearby, and the

spreading three—part loaf, coupled with

the wide—open three-part flower of snowy

whiteness, form a combination not easily

0v erl ookcd .



The botanical name comes from trilix,

triple, and few plants show the reason

for their name as plainly as does this

one with its three—part leaf, three-part

flou‘er and three—part seed-podvin fact,

the word three, is needed in describing

every part except the root.



IVake—Iiobin; three—lmvcd night—shade;

American wood—lily, and other names,

are applied to the plant but the beauty

of the flower does not change.



There is a pinkish variety called

“painted” trillium which some people

claim to be the old ilowcrs of the white

variety the good botanists class it as a

distinct variety.



Violet—(Viola ———).



The specific name is left blank because

of the great number of varieties known,

tho the one (in our part of the world),

who speaks of “violets” with no distin—

guishing term refers to the common blue

viola cucullata, or the fragrant viola

odorata.



No nation can claim the violet as pe—

culiarly theirs for it is one of those that

are “known of all men” because of its

loveliness. Americans wear it because

of its sweetness and beauty and no po-

litical or religious significance attaches

to the act, but in Paris, during many

years, persons wearing them proclaimed

themselves in sympathy With the im-

periali'stic party, while to those who sym—

pathised with the legitimists they were





remind





as obnoxious as the red flag of the anar:

chist is to the loyal American.



Physicians of early days valued the

violet as one of the “cordial” flowers and

considered it a cure for diseases of the

lungs, while Chas. II. and his friends

considered “violet conserves” as one of

their chiefcst dainties.



In the southernmost states the violet

is abundant at Christmas time, while in

the north it blooms three and four months

later, but the flower lover of each section





knows when and where they may be

found.

Marsh Marigold—Cowslip.—(Caltha





palustris).





This plant, which blooms in April and

May, is commonly called cowslip and fur-

nishes the people of many countries their

early-spring “greens," but it is as a

flower, rather than a vegetable, we are

considering it.



The. marsh marigold, with its rounded

(slightly kidney—shaped) leaves and gol—

den-yellow flowers, having from five to

nine petal-like sepals, is described in old

English botanical works as “Mary

Gowlcs,” the name Mary being a corrup-

tion of mere, meaning marsh, and Gowlcs

an old form of “gold.” This makes the

name, when modernized, take the form

of marsh gold, and one who has seen (as

has the writer), acres and acres of

swampy land so cchred with the {lowers

that it was impossible to step without

crushing them, and water-Soaked logs

supporting thousands of them, will admit

that “marsh gok” is a titling name.



The rounded, entire leaf of the plant

is very unlike the cut leaf of our common

buttercup, yet it is of the same family.

In Old England it was commonly called

the liorse-buttercup and was, by many

people, called the “insane tlowcr” from

the belief that smelling it would produce

madness.



The name “cowslip” is a misnomer,

for that tame belongs to a European

primrose (Primula vcris). In the south

they have a flower called the Virginia

cowslip, growing in swampy places, that

is much more like a true cowslip, the

leaves being oblong and heavily yeincd

while the blue flowers are borne in ra-

ceme~like clusters at the end of the stalk.

(Sec illustration of true English cowslip).





Alpine Phlox—Moss PInk.—(Phlox



. ' subulata).



Phlox is indigenous to ‘every part of

the United States, ranging in size from

the creeping forms to those that grow

a foot or more in height, and every mem-

ber of the family has both beauty and

desirable habits of growth to recommend

it. However, as we have space to treat

of but one variety we will let that one

be the. “moss-pink,” common in the part

of country we are considering.



The extreme hardiness of the plant

gave rise to the name “Alpine phlox,"





as) 449





this brave little plant can not live in a.

wet soil but thrives in sandy and barren

places where grass can not ‘grow. This

fact makes it an ideal plant for use under

trees and in other places where a “car-

peting” or covering plant is needed to

take the place of a grass sod.



One blossom alone is a little thing, but

in masses, as they are commonly found,

they make a brilliant showing.



Mandrake—May Apple.—(Podophy|lum



peltatum). ‘il



The mandrake has a thick, creeping



rootstock that sends up plants,’at inter-





 





Alpine Phlox, or M055 Pink, a Hardy Plrmt. Partial to Sandy and Barren Places.





while its habit of growing close to the

earth in a. close, mass accounts for the,

name “moss—pink.” One may pass a Hold

carpeted with the plants and not notice

them because there will not be an open

[lower to attract atttntion, yet on the

very next day the same iield will be lit-

crally Covered with flowers, and this habit

of simultaneous opening of many blos—

soms is one of the marked characteristics

and chief charms of the plant.



Resisting any amount of cold and,

seemingly, caring not at all for frosts,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





The True Cowslip, as Distinguished from the Marsh Marigold, which is Com-

monly, tho Erroneously Called a Cowslip.





\’:ll.<, along its entire length. Not every

one. howo't‘cr, is a flowering plant, and

the iloworlcss ones may be known by the

tact that they produce but one large,

rounded lwal‘, having from five to nine

lobes, while the, flowering ones produce

two, (mo—sided loaves, also deeply lobed.

The [lowering plant sends up a single

stem, that divides near thi- top, to form

the leat‘-.<talk<. At the point where the

main stalk divides a single, creamy-white

tlower appears, but its habit of drooping

under the shatlt‘ of the. large vivid~grcen

leaves makes it Very inconspicuous. The

leaves have a drOoping habit, too, which

causes children to call lhr-m umbrellas.

The flower has a decidedly unpleasant

odor and is followed by a lemon—shaped,

yellow fruit which is solnitimos called

“wild lemon” instead of May apple. The

fruit is not poisonous and not injurious

unless too many aro eaten; leaves and

roots may be, handled with impunity but

are rankly poi<onous it taken internally——

a fart which should be impressed on the

minds of children who always seem be—

V\'ll('llld by llll‘ largo leaves, and often

*at the fruit.

The term podophyllum is an abridged

form ol‘ whit-h moans

duck's foot, and is the name by which

the English designate the plant~a name

that sit-ms woll chosen after carefully

spreading a hat and noting its form.

Spring Beauty—(Claytonia Virginica).

This is one ot' the llowvrs that seem

to have been ('tl‘llttl for beauty, solely,





anapotlophylluni,





noithrr hawnd our tradition

connected with it, and mu put forth no

claim to nndicinal or otlur useful quali—

ties.



Its dainty beauty is so much like that

of the anemone that it is to quontly mis-

taken for that llHWt'l‘, lut two points

mark the ilifl'eronci’i \‘t-ry I’llainlye—the

rose—colored veins in the ln-Ials and the,

two, linear (strap-like) loaves.



Beginning to bloom in April. it is often

found in bloom as: late as June, for the

tuberous root sends up sprout after

sprout (sometinn-s eight or nine), each

bearing a loose raecme of flowers.



\thrc found at all they are usually

found invprol'usioiL but a bright day

should be chow-n for a visit to their

haunts as the blossoms close on cloudy

days:



Dutchman’s Breeches—White Hearts.—



(Dicentra cucullaria).



"hose pretty flowers with the unpoetic

name should be found growing as near

neighbors of the spring beauty and the

iirrtt glance at them will show how much

more appropriate the name “white

hearts" really is. The generic name Di-

cenlra means two spurred and that, too,

is appropriate, but by whatever name it

is called the flower is a remarkably beau-



(Continued on page 4791).





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SDI-IE MICHIGAN FARMER.

best only—” he hesitated; “well, I can PROVE WHAT SWAMILROOT





THEODORA.





(Continued from page 448)-



“But what are you going to live on,

child?”



She shook her head. “I don‘t know

yet. There will be some money I think

you said—enough for a little while—and

when that is gone we must earn more.

I fecl suro ‘iod will provide some way.

He has providcd the place and He will

take care of the rest.”



He looked at her strangely.

think a great deal of Don."



“Yes, I suppose perhaps because there

were only us two that we love ouch other

more than the childrcn in large families

do. Mr. Dingingham. it does not seem

to me that I could live if Don was taken

away from inc, and I fill] willing to risk

anything that he may get well. I could

beg for Don."



The lawyer was silcnccd if not con—

vinced, and Dora 1089 to go, saying:

“Let me know as soon as you hear about

the place, please,” and went slowly out

again, back to Don who was still in the

library where the physician had lcft him

fighting his bitter fight.



He Iookcd up and tricd to smile as

Dora entered, but his boyish lips quivered

at the effort. She came and sat beside

him.



“Vi'liere have you been,

asked.



“To see Mr. Dingingham.”



“Alone, Dora?”



“IYhy ycs, Don. If we are to be poor

I shall often have to go alone when you

are not by to go with inc, and I wanted

to see him particularly at once."



"May I know what about?"



“01‘ course you may. I wanted to tell

him that I did not wish to scll the piece

of land he said I owncd in California be-

cause we were going there to live.”



Don looked at her in astonishment.



“'l‘o liycl \i'hy, Dora, we have, nothing

to live on!"



“Well, we lizivc nothing hcrc either,

and 1 am sure lhci'e must be some way

to make a living as well lhci‘c as here,

and you could not make it hcrc you know,

and we must go. (ind will provide some

way, of that I am surc."



Don caught lit 1101‘ words. It was the

first tlinc that hope had cntcrcd his

heart. IIo lizid tzikcn death :15 a cor-

tainly, and she secmcd to open to him

thc gzitcs of life. “’liy not? They must

live somewhere but-—



“It is not likely there is a housc—” he

bcgun. ,



“Wt-ll, thin, it is warm thcrc and we

will livc in {l tout. \I'c still huvc the one





“You





Dora ?” he





 





 





vc uswl \vhcu \vc wcut camping.”



“Capital." Ilt‘ luughcd, with boyish cn-

lhusinsm; “lh:it would bc gi'crit sport!”



Thcy would not linvc to I‘OSHl‘l to that,

llOIVl‘Vi‘I‘, for two wccks lzilci‘ Mr. Ding-

inghzim Et‘_’£llll wullvd l'Il lhcui with a

lcttcr in his hand.



“I huve nu ofl'ci- of two thousand dol-

lars for that little place of yours,” he

Suid; “but if you urc still bcul. on i‘ctaiu-

ing it, this inl'nrmzition may bc of inter-

cst to you. 'l‘hc plucc was iuicndcd for

:i fruit and ch‘ckcn much and was partly

sci out to pruncs. 'I‘hwy lmw- lH'I‘II ucg~

Icr-tcd, llowcvci', :md 11 would lgilcl- :1 )‘4'211‘





or so in put it on :1 paying: basis. ’l‘hci'r-





is :1 smoll lmuw of four rooms. good but

iii-piling rcpnii's, :luil SHIIII' ('llll‘lU u lmusl-u





ill lhv Sillllw chudllirlu. All clwctriC can

liilw runs by 1hr pinch, :iiid ii is :ilmut

lluww mills from 1hr county scat, :i prclty

unli- city.”



INlI'll. rluppcrl hci- hzlnds us hc claw-d.

“ll \yiil lu- just lhc thing, lion: yull (:un

l'lllFf' fruit and I'llll'lit'lls uuil bl- out of

dmuw all of th-i llllll', and I will Ilclp. I.

knmv il \\'Hlll(l sill l‘illlli‘ right."



'l‘lw luwycr could not rcsisl {ISIIIIIKI

“\Vllul «In you know about raising fruit

:illd chivklliH‘.”



“Nut :1 thin-.3“ nusvn-i'cd Dom, promptly;

“but Wc ('.lll ll‘lll'll. \Vc Hill and hooks

ilIllI pnpci‘s ;lllll, I durc say, 1110 pcuplc

:llbllll will lioL :lll bl- Iu-nlhcu, and will

lw \yilliug In unswcl' qucsliuus."



“ Zul," hc still iu'gcll, “you will bc so

1hr away from all you know.”



“So lllllt'll thu ln-lln-l'.” nuswci'cd Don,





,quickly: “I :uu surc it will bc much cus-





lt‘l‘ :lllmug culil'c sll'uugl-rs, hull-(id, I

should do that anyhow. I find wc have

but l'cw li'uc fi'iwmls, and Wu Wish no

pulronugc from nuyouc."





llc spoke, :i trillc billcrly, but no won-





luind. with tho cxccption of this lawyer





‘nnd good I)I'. Allcn.





’l‘hc man of law straightened himself.

“If your minds are made up I presume

that nothing I can say will make any dif-

fcrcnce. I don’t know but what it is





say nothing morenow.” His manner

was peculiar but neither noticed it. y



“We surely appreciate your interest,”

Donald said earnestly; “biit we must-go

our own way now, the little sister and I.”



“Wait until some other man steals the

sister away from you, then what?” asked

the lawyer.



“He nccd not worry,” laughed Dora;

“I shall never go away with any other

man until I find a better one than Don,

and I do not expect to find him right

away.”



“I do not know,” muttered the lawyer

to himself as he went down thc. strcet.

“It does not seem exactly right to me

and yet—~wcll, my lips are scaled anyhow,

but I cannot think that Mr. Hampton

cvcr foresaw this. Well, all I can do

is to hope that the God they trust will

straighten this tangle out right some-

how.” .



(Continued next week).





' KINKS.





Kink I.—Planting Riddle.

The last wcck in April wc put in our .

The first wcck in May wc'll lit ground

for ~~.

During winter we harvested a good crop





 





 





0 a

At the polls that has made the town bar—

kceps ,





 





In our garden we’ll plant some early

string ,

And in straightest of rows the Marrow-





 





 





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Of early potatoes, a good kind, which





By common opinion, the Early ———.





The Prolific Rose for medium —,

For latc ones, the Carmans, both —





 





and ———~. .

And smooth Ponderosa, the best of ——-;

Gold Queen for yellow; and Early ——-—.

(lf swect com, the Malakoff or Peep ,

And Golden ———~, the sweetest corn grown;





And turnips and beets, that all of us may

Have vegetables enough when summer

has ——.





Green peppers, egg plant and squaslics

with crooks;



Parsnips, and pumpkins,

gnui'ds;



Knle and kohl—mbi, then Vl’hite Spine for





carrots and





 





Muskmcloiis, watermelons, the last





Szilsify, watcr cross, spinach and radishcs.

Limfix, and mangcls, and then Brussels

,

0km. and onions, cauliflowcr, ———,

Around 2111 a fence makes the biddies

“shut- —~—.

Kink lI.—Ifs.



1. If a small boy should hit a man 0n

the ear with a potato, how should the

mun fccl‘.’



2. If a, l‘OlII‘Od typc-scttcr should lose

:lll his moncy :ind rcturn to his old job,

what should thc cllangc bc callcd?



Kink lll.——-Word Square.



This squai'c consists of iivc words or

five letters ouch. Reading across and

down, lhc square Spells thc snmc words

in succcssinn. \Vm‘d N0. 1 is :1 portion of

u pocm; No. 2 means “bunisln” No. f:

llll"2llls “clcvzilcd;” No. 4‘ is frozcn ruin;

No. :3 it kind of shelter. ’ »



Prizes for Straightening Kinks.



To the first 25 who send us cm‘rcct

:iuswcrs to ALL of the above Kinks,

\yc will give choice of a package of 50

post-cardsrcprcsmiling I). trip around ihc.

world, a copy of “Concrctc Construction

on the Farm,” or ii bread and cnkc knil'n

or a pair of shcars. Where contestant

or some mcmbcr of his family is not (i

i-cgulni‘ subscriber a year’s subscription





 





(73c) must, :iccompuny {HIS\\'<‘!‘.\‘, Ali-

SWOTS must rcnch us not lnlci' than

May N, as ('(ll‘l'l‘t‘li solutions will b".





Addrcss

Michigan





publishwl in issuc of May 15.

:I.IIS\‘.'4’I'S to l’uzzlo Dept.

I'h‘ll'lllt‘l'.



Answers to March 20 Kinks.



Kinak I.. Hidden Picture.»—’I‘wu of tlic

iuvu (howls only) who pi'olcstcd against

’I‘uuuuy llrnwli's inking ihc bird’s l'll"Sl

:m- lm-nlcd iu ihc zinglc of llic top right ‘

lmlul lu'uiich of lllc li'cc; third luzin’s licmi

is upsidc down Ill'lW‘I‘Oll ’I‘oxmny's lch‘.

’l‘lu- wmunu is the i'ncc mudc by llic knot

in tho ti'cc trunk ncur ’I‘omiuy’s hcud.

'I‘hc goblin (\vliolc ligul'cl is upsidc down

iu tho lowcr Icfl cornci‘ of thc pictiil'c.





Kink II. Agricultural Chemical Prob«

Iem.v~»'l‘hc “important Constituent of

bum-s" is phosphorus. whose Icll‘crs cou—





Hillllll‘. thc atomic. clcmcnls rcfcrrcd in

by tho formulzis in thc Kink. “Six—tcnths

of thc atoms” arc the lcttcré P. P. H. O.

R. U. Thu .‘2 IIO is “boss,” vernacular

for tho common form animal.



Kink III. Who Wrote It?—.Tamcs Rus-

Swll Imwcll is lhc author, and the poem

Is “In tlic Half-“lay lrlousc.”



No Prizes Awarded.



In cvci‘y czisc solvcrs of Kinks of IVIarch

20 l‘ziilcd to scnd nuswci's to :lll tln'cc

Kinks, consequently no prizes arc >

tt\\’£tl‘d(’d.





 





 





 





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APRIL 17, 1909.

some, on cue WILD. FLOWER8.-'-ll.





(Continued from page 449)‘.



tiful one and well worth keeping a sharp

lookout for, while the thrice compound

foliage gives the plant a. double claim t

favor. ‘



Both these plants (spring beauty and

Dutchman’s breeches) have bulbous roots

that bear transplanting well, even while

in bloom.





The flowers already named, with myr-

iads of others, grow in swampy places;

in shaded woodlands; in open fields; on

barren lands, and by every country road-

side, but not all the wild flowers are

found by looking earthward. The choke--

cherry tree will flaunt its branches load-

ed with closely-packed racemes of white





«





Dutchman’s Breeches, or White Hearts,





   





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r‘rHE MICHIGAN FARMER.





never experimented along this line. Open

the infant eyes to the beautiful blend-

ings so much more pleasant and ele-

vating.





 





THE EARLY AMERICAN AUTHORS.





 





BY CARL S. LOWDEN.





Henry David Thoreau.

This famous author, naturalist, and

essayist was born in Concord, Mass...

July 18, 1817. His parents were cultured;





and in 1833 he entered Harvard, graduat-

ing four years later.

student,

a great scholar,

delved

composition.





Here he was a fair

but not brilliant. He became

and at a later time

in the perilous fields of creative

Ppetry fascinated him—a





 





a Wild Plant which does well when





Transferred to Lawns or Flower Gardens.





flowers above our heads during April and

May, while the sour-wood (sorrel) tree

will show as many sprays of flowers re—

sembling the lily-of—the—valley in both

form and fragrance, and the powerfully

penetrating fragrance of the locust tree

blooms will call our attention to them at

a great distance.



Perhaps no flowers are so little known

as those produced by our shade and tim-

ber trees, yet few are more really wonder-

ful. Both the red and white maples blos-

som before the foliage appears, while the

oaks, poplars, birches, aspens, lindens,

alders and many other tall growing shrubs

and trees, carry loads of exquisite bloom

in the springtime.



These all have a charm even tho seen

with the naked eye, but the realization of

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TEACHING COLOR.





 





 





BY BESSIE L. PUTNAM.



While, there are rare physiological de-

fects, as in the ease of the poet. \V'hittier,

who could not distinguish between red

and green—a most inconyenicnt situation

during the strawberry season of barefoot

days—much of the so—called color blind-

ness is due to lack of training rather

than to optical eccentricitics. The men

who “cannot tell blue from green” greatly

outnumber the women. The reason is

obvious. In early life they never wrestled

with the problems 'of matching doll fab-

rics, and the color schemes of later life

are quite out of the line with the ma—

jority of business occupations. But

where called into practical use, masculine





taste is as accurate as feminine.



Teach the child color as one of the

very first lessons in education. It na-

turally likes red. We hulmor this fancy

with red shoes; and there. the work

stops. Add to these a red cap and belt.

Teach it to distinguish the color in

flower, feather and fabric, and to know





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the poetry of the previous centuries—and

he wrote some verses which attained

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last November. I was walking in a mea-

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the sun at last, just before setting after

a cold gray day, reached a clear stratum

in the horizon; and the softest, brightest

morning sunlight fell on the dry grass,

and on the stems of the trees in the op-

posite horizon, and on the leaves of the

shrub oaks on the hillside, while our

shadows stretched along over the mea-

dows eastward, as if we were the onlv

motes in its beams. It was such a light

as we could not have imagined a mo-

ment before, and the air also was so

warm and serene that nothing was want-

ing to make a paradise of that meadow.

When we reflected that this was not a

solitary phenomenon, never to happen

again, but that it would happen forever

and ever an infinite number of evenings,

and cheer and reassure the latest child

that walked there, it was more glorious

still."



“This is a delicious evening, when the

whole body is one sense, and imbibes

delight thru every pore. I go and come

with a strange liberty in nature, a part

of herself. As I walk along-the stony

shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves,

tho it is cool as well as cloudy and windy,

and I see nothing special to attract me,

all the elements are unusually congenial

to me. The bulll'rogs trump to usher in

the night, and the note of the Whippoor-

will is borne on the rippling wind from

over the water. Sympathy with the





fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost,

takes away by breath; yet like the lako‘





my serenity is rippled but not ruflled.

These small waves, raised by the evening

.wind, are as remote from storm as the

smooth reflecting surface. Tho it is new

dark, the wind still blows and roars in

the woods, the waves still dash, and some

creatures lull the rest with their soft.

notes. The repose is never complete.

The wildest animals do not repose, but

seek their prey now; the fox and skunk

and rabbit now roam the fields and woods

without fear. They are nature's watch—

men—links which Connect the days of

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JESSE L. BARRETT. Mlascukee. Mich.
4552 (.16)



AN ARBOR DAY WITH UNCLE BEN.

(Continued from page 447). _



' “For 30 years the average annual value



of the crops from this row of trees has



been in excess of onehundred dollars per





year. The crop is produced without

labor, other than that of gathering the





nuts. The trees pay a good profit upon.





the strip of land they occupy, and an

annual excess of profit sufiicient to pay

the taxes on the valuable 80 acre far

Which they adorn. -



“Nuts make good fuel. Their fiinty-

hard shucks burn as long, and throw out

as much heat. as a like weight of anthra-

cite coal. There is no difficulty in burn-

ing them readily in any coal stove.



“The present timber value is also well

worth our notice. These trees are now

from eighteen to twenty-four inches in

diameter and they will average one good

log twelve feet long pcr.tree. Such logs

will cut an average of two hundred feet

(board measure) of lumber each. This

lumber is worth not le5s than seventy~

five dollars per thousand feet, all grades

included. On this basis the lumber value

is seen to be not less than fifteen dollars





per tree. Veneer factories pay well for

all sound, large. knotty pieces of tops.

They cut into thin sheets which have





great value because of the beautiful ef-

fects of the irregular graining. The aver-

age value of the crotch sections of the

trees is probably not less than three dol-

lars per tree. Gun makers pay good

prices for black walnut stumps and large

roots, from which they make high priced

gun stoeks. The average stump from

these trees should produce material for

ten or more modern short gun stocks,

worth at least fifty cents each in the

rough blocks. These stumps should be

worth at least five dollars each when

marketed. The small limbs can be cut

into wood for the kitchcn stove. Each

of the lai‘g’c tops will provide at least one





cord of wood worth not 'less than two

dollars. “'c now ha vc, bodics $l 3.00,

crotchcs $3.00, stumps $5.00 and tops





$2.00, an average of about $25.00 per trce.

From this estimate you can readily see

that not only has this row of walnut

trccs produced a, good profit ycar by

your upon the strip of land it occupies,

but it has a present timbcr valuc, cup—

ablo of being realized upon at any time

at no great expense, at least one—half us

great as that of the fine 80 acre farm

which it adorns.



“James, your pile of shucks would in-

dicate a preference for butternuts."



“Yes, I have, I'nclc Don. I am curious

to scc the lrccs such ,u‘ood nuts grow on."



“l'll show you thcm tomorrow. ’i‘lic

butternut tree bciong‘s to the same family

of trccs as the black walnut. It is not

so hardy and rurcly grows as lurgc. Its

wood is softer and lighter colorcd than

the walnut, but it has a closer grain and

a line satiny lusirc that mukcs it quito

pretty. Butternut lumbcr is among the

rarcr woods and is in small demand,’

rcplicd Unclc lion.



“It is gr-Hing quitc into.

had better retirc."





I think we





Arbor Day duwncd bright and mill,

and we \‘Jclc out curly. Aftcr a .L'vd

brcukfast brick‘A'LrHI pancakes and

maplc syiup. um: writ :t-tldy fir ll.» dn.‘ \

spcciul work.



Aftcr i'm inorufmz clx’irc; wcrc Cox-p

Cousins Think and ll: : if g :1 i' . fr ~-

eis and Ml;~‘l.~~l in.- pi‘: 1!.

were to sit ti‘ccs l.t‘ l' in 13,-" d2;

also pi'cpaiwi :4 f7; o'l»: pfts v.1»:-

trccs We“: to In: set n-—,\'i Azb yr lmt.



Th Soil in the vicinity of thc pits we:

not vcry d-I-p Lor rich. lwu ii... a...

bcing shOVchd from 1hr pits was dark,

loose, rich and dccp. “W. soon l""lir*4l

ll()\V lllls‘ ('Jlllil' in In“, for (‘nug l] l“.“r7l:ii





was preparingr swvcrul pits for i.--"t yum";

trec planting. llc rippml oft" 1hr- tough

sod from on oblongr about 11,”...

by six fcet in arch, and put it in a pilc.

Next he dug up the good soil over the

whole arcn down to the clay subsoil to

thc dcpth of nearly a foot in (inc—half of

tho oblong pit and depositcd this clay

in the othcr end. Half of thc pilc of good

soil was then shovclcd into the deep hole

upon which the sod was sprcad, after

which the balance of the pile of good

soil was evenly distributed ovcr thc ex-

cavation. A small stake was sr-t to mark

the center of the deep pit, so that it

could be readily opened in the right place

next year.



Uncle Ben had hitched a team to his

farm wagon, and when the boys had

finished their work on the pits, we all

went to the woods for the trees. We

took the shovels, a long—bladed sharp

spade, a. crowbar, a pruning shear, sev—

eral old pieces of blankets and .burlaps,





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THE' MICHIGAN ‘FARMER.’





pieces of smell rope, and a. small tarot,

red paint. .



At the woods we had to- open a gate.

Nearly every kind of native tree was to

be found in all sizes, from large, mature

timber trees to tiny seedlings, and all

were vigorous and healthy. .The growth

of young trees, saplings and seedlings

was quite heavy and general thruout.

the tract, and there was no grass. ex-

cept along the fences. Adjoining timber

tracts were thin and in poor condition.

They contained no saplings nor seedlings,

while much grass and sod appeared all

thru the tracts.



Noticing this contrast I was at a loss

to account for the (inference, so I asked

Uncle Bcn for an explanation.



“Stupidity and greed have ruined these

neighboring tracts," replied Uncle Ben—

“stupidity in not seeing that a timber

tract must be kept as nearly as possible

in its original or natural condition; and

greed which, for a bit of extra pasturage

for stock, has caused the past and pres-

ent owners to rob future generations of

timber which should now be growing.

Cattle. sheep and horses are fond of the

tender leaves and twigs of almost all our

native trees. They will eat every green

leaf within their reach. Coming genera-

tions should feel indignant toward their

ancestors for permitting stock to eat up

the young trees which an allswise Creator

has provided for the needs and use of

all generations. My timber tract here is

being preserved for my children and fu-

ture gent-rations. and I will not permit

my stock to rob them of their rightful

heritage. Hogs do no harm, but much

good, so I let mine have free run of these

woods all summer, and in seasons when

nuts are plcntiful the hogs need little

other food than the nuts to fatten them."



A winding roadway led us to tho sugar





camp. Around it was a fine lot of young

trcos. I‘uclc Bcn took the buudlc of old





blankets and ropes, and the boys their

shovels, and Wo proceeded to take up the

trecs. ['ncle Ben knew whore most of

the prepared trecs were located. and

when hc found one. that suited him, he

hung a blanket on it as a marker. After

thc trccs wcrc located, T'ncle Ben helped





 





 





thc boys to dig them up curcfully. After

cutting dccply around thc trce, about

iii‘tm-u llll'lH-S from tho body. with the





sharp spudo, to cut off any possiblc lonu‘





riots, a pit was due. at onc side and the





block of worth

undor—cut from

shnrp spudv.





containing the trco was

(hot sidc with tho long

'l‘hc ciwwl'uir was thou

rummcd tin-u from thc other side and the

flaw was filmed p'irtly ovcr toward thc

pit, in which position much of illc sur—

plus lill‘lli about llw roots was curcfully





brokcn away by hand. The Il't'O was

thou curct‘u ly lil‘t‘ d and plum-d upon

onc of tho blunkcts, which was thcn





wzuppt-d about tllc roots and licll in placc

with .1 piocw of ropo, so as to protect tho

root< from iniury and drying? until nguin

sct out in th‘ir ncw locations. Vi'hcn the

dcsircd. numlwr of irccs hod ht‘t‘ll dug

:end wrapped up, they wore logidot‘l on tip-

vt'ugon and ticd to prchnt rubbing and

irriich' \‘.‘l;iic living; hauled to their dusti-





nwiiv'viis.





1‘ ~:~' wczl- lri:il')lr*~; antl’ rims, and

-" ,. .‘w. H ‘5'." ‘, 2rw~imcns from

cry- to er- :s‘d w“ ~? .5." :3"‘i:"f€ in diu—

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i- a r.';"f’r".' Berna: stripe and a

n r" ‘7fpt- 3‘ r-Wi pawn. thi-

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snivl. “Gr-t your tools. boy-1, and we, will

jib-pure some more trecs for rcmoval next

‘«:il‘ if we want them tin-n."



l'pon finding a suitable tree, Uncle Ben

put a narrow stripe of the, rod paint up

and down. on its north side and another

aimilur stripe crosswise about three inches

above the ground; (‘ousin Frank out a

completc circle about two feet in diam-

otcr around it with tho sharp spade, forc-

ing the spade down deeply so as to leave

no root more than one foot long: and

(‘ousin Henry trimmed the top back

severely with the pruning shears, leaving

the body about eight feet tall with just

l‘nflllgl'l small branches near its top to

afford it a few leaves.



Uncle Ben explained why he prepared

trees in this way: “Trees thus trimmed

at top and roots and left in position, will

immediately endeavor to regain the losses

they have suffered by throwing out a

large number of fine new roots and

branches, which puts them in the best

possible condition for successful trans-

planting a year or two later. The verti-





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one to set _the tree with the same side

exposed to the sun as it'had before re-

moval. The bark on a tree trunk is not

of the same thickness on all sides. Many

fine young trees are ruined by being set

with the wrong'side to the sun when





being transplanted. It seems that the;





fierce heat of the midsummer sun scald-s

the bark cells when wrongly set, and the

bark dies and dries to the wood for a

time, after which it peels off and leaves

a badly scarred and one—sided tree, if it

does not kill the tree entirely. The hori-

zontal stripe of red paint near the ground

is to show how deep to set the tree in its

new location, which should generally be

but a little deeper than it originally

grew.



“All aboard. We will new drive to-the

house with our trees, as it is nearly noon,

and after dinner we will set them out.”



The trees having been delivered at the

pits before the team was unhitched. we

were ready immediately after dinner to

proceed with their planting.



When all was in readiness. we pro-

ceeded to unwrap the blanket from about

the roots of the tree, and carefully set

it upright in the pit with the. marked

side toward the north and the depth indi-

cated by the mark provided for that pur-

pose. The roots were then spread out,

and some of the fine, _rich earth which

had been produced by' the. rotting sod,

was carefully worked in under and

around the fine roots with the hands,

until they were all well buried, without

being greatly distorted; then a little more

of this rich earth was shoveled in, and

Uncle Ben got into the pit and pressed

the earth firmly and compactly about

the roots with his feet, more earth beingr

added and the packing continued until

the pit was within two or three inches

of full. The remaining: rich earth was

loosely and evenly spread over the, top of

the pit, and a ridge of coarse earth was

thrown up in a circle about the outside

of the pit for the purpose of forming

a water basin to aid in supplying the

newly set tree with plenty of moisture.

A thick mulch of old straw was then

placed about the tree to prevent the sun's

rays from reaching the soil about the

tree and absorbing,r the moisture from it.



in answer to my inIIu‘ry us to why the

pit was dugr so deep in the first place

and then partly re—fllled with the loose,

rich earth, and as to why the sods wore

put in the, pits when they were prepared

the year before, L'ncle lien replied: “You

will understand that our dense clay sub—

soil, here, is almost impervious to water.

It. then, a pit is due; in this (it-use clay,

and the pit is tilled with a loose, porous

soil. as you have seen, a reservoir cap-

able of holdingr several pulls of water

will be formed, and the porous soil will

feed this water upward to the roots oi

the tree as they may need it. This

reservoir, together with the mulch over

the iop, has generally proven adequate

to supply the newly set tree with plenty

of moisture for its requirements, without

any :Iriilicial watering whatever. The

tree in its new setting should have a

large supply ot‘ decaying vegetable mat-

ter for food during~ the first few years,

so it may rapidly rocoxer from the shock

of its removal and start a vigorous

growth in its new location. The, rotting

sods provide this food for the tree more

easily and in ilt‘tii'l' form than anythingr

else available. l have always considered

that these extra provisions have been

worth a great deal in causing; the trees

I have planted to do so Well.”



Alter watt-hingr tin-m plant the remain—

in}; ire-es, and being shown around and

made :Icmiuintml with the various kinds

of trees, we concluded that there, was

more in a properly observed Arbor Day

than most people imagine. At some fu-

ture time perhaps 1 may tell you some

more about 'l'ncle lion‘s knowledge of

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BY ELLA E.





The Door Yard.



Along with the advancement in other

lines which has come to our farm homes

is a most decided improvement in condi-

tions directly surrounding them, that is,

in the door yards. Ten years have shown

marked progress in this respect and while

this fact is something in which we may

feel a pardonable pride there is every

reason to believe that there are still

better in store. Indeed, the time is not

far distant when every country commu-

nity may have its improvement league

whose members will be active in promot—

ing the beauty of the rural landscape

the same as cities and villages already

have theirs.



“'hat might not be accomplished were

all families suddenly to develop an in-

tense and lively interest in beautifying

the surroundings of their own homes?

As it is, everyone who does this sets an

object lesson before the eyes of his neigh-

bors and the example will not go unre-

warded. One lawn mower in a neighbor-

hood has been known to become the

means of improving every lawn in the

neighborhood.



Some people seem to have the impres-

sion that before a hand mower can be

operated the lawn must be plowed up,

leveled and reseeded, but such is not the

case unless in quite exceptional cases.

The machine will run freely over any

ordinary ground, if only the grass is not

allowed to get too high. It ‘lllUSt be

started early in the Season and the entire

surface covered at least once a week dur-

ing the spring and fore part of summer,

or as long as the grass grows rapidly.



No one thing adds so much to the at-

tractiveness of ‘the home surroundings

as does keeping the grass closely clipped.

It is like a clean shavc to a man‘s face,

makes it look ever so much better in

the eyes of all lit-holders.



There are a few homes in the country

where spring finds nothing to pick up

around the house and barn. 1 class the

men who own these with the immaculate

housewife in whose domain nothing is

ever out of place. lut these cases are

rare, altogether too rare. A glimpse of

most door yards at this time of the year

discloses at least some improvements to

be made by way of cleaning up.



There is sometimes a disposition to

neglect the back yard while the front,

the side most exposed to view is as tidy

as can be. This is a clear case of put-

ting the best on the outside. There

should be no spot that will not bear in~

vestigation. \Ve should have all sides

neat and clean, and now is the time to

see that this is done. if not so already.



“'0 know something of hygiene, and

that (lire results frequently follow dis-

regard of\ the la\vs. Some might quite

agree with the physician called in a bad

case of diphtheria who, in searching out

the cause pointed to a inildt-wed board

at the side of the house, yet we all know

that the, family health depends in a large

dcgrt-t- upon sanitary surroundings. A

cesspool at the back door is no longer

to be tolerated. \‘Cht‘re there is no drain-

age connection all house slops should be

carried in pails several rods from the

house. lly emptying them each time in

a different spot tlu-rc will be no odor,

since fresh soil is an absorbent and deo-

dorizer. “'hcn it becomes clogged by

repeated applications this power to ab-

sorb and dcodorizc is lost, and a bad

smellingr place is the result.



This spring is a good time to set about

installing a good permanent drain lead-

ing several rods away from the house.

It will be the greatest convenience in

doing the work about the kitchen. “here

the work can be done by home labor the

cost is only that for the tile and the

necessary traps to prevent the gases

from backing up and entering the house.



“'hat disposal shall be made of the

unburnable refuse, such as tin cans,

broken glass and crockery which will

collect? These articles unust not be

dumped down anywhere and allowed to

become an unsightly spot near the house.

Rather let them be hunted decently and

in order, thus disposing of them once and

forever. A barrel in some outbuilding,





placed for this particular purpose will

receive them, piece by piece, then when

it becomes filled it can be loaded upon

a stoneboat- or wheelbarrow and carried





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ROCKWOOD.



away. Tin cans are the hardest of all

to dispose of and are most unsightly

objects if left Where the eye can rest

upon them.



The purifying influence of the flames

should beused ruthlessly upon any and

all rubbish about the house. It pays to

gather together from garret and cellar,

from woodshed and dooryard such arti-

cles as are altogether useless, and reduce

them to ashes. \Vhy anybody should

hoard dozens of pairs of old shoes passes

my understanding. \Vhy cumber the

attic with chairs or tables broken past

all repair? Why permit old garments

tattered and torn to hang, year in and

year out, in any part of the house? Get

rid of them. Sort out the best for carpet

rags, rugs, or for the ever useful patch,

then turn the balance over to the rag-

man, if you prefer to do that, but the

cheap tinware and poor quality of the

goods now carried by the pcddler, hardly

compensates one for the trouble of mak-

ing the exchange.



\Vhat woman does not thoroly enjoy the

change which takes her out into the open

air during the first balmy days of spring?

There is a charm in the prosaic garden

rake and seeds have an attraction irre-

sistable in themselves.



It may be not an altogether righteous

way of judging, yet we are prone to base





will, I am sure, not fail to remedy that





matter this spring. Why should there

be one schoolhouse in all the land left

without its setting of green? Flowers,

beautiful as they are, cannot take the

place of trees.



We are proud of our farm homes,

proud with an honest pride which comes

from achievement hardly wrot, for few

of them have been easy- conquest. No

effort should be considered too great to

improve them until all are made what

many already are, beauty spots upon the

landscape, and a joy to all beholders.



All together now, for a country im-

provement league which shall take up

this work in every rural community.



Here is a suggestion for each individual

householder. Pause just a moment at

your front gate and take a good look

at the yard. Note every detail of 'house,

outbuildings and yard. If there is any

little thing, or greater one, which might

be done to improve the appearance of the

home this critical survey will reveal it

far more surely than a hundred casual

glances given in passing to and fro about

the place.





 





SO-CALLED ECONOMY.





 





BY MARGARET WHITNEY.





Economy and economize are two much-

used words but sometimes we fear they

are falsely applied. Economy as prac-

ticed by some persons is nothing but

extravagance, altho one might have much

trouble in convincing the person of the

truth of this statement.



If one wastes time doing work which

might be employed in doing something of

more importance—even tho the work be.

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the status of the family on a plane with

its environments. Neatly clipped lawns,

yards free. from litter, fences clear of

weeds and briars, these cost little, yet

they carry considerable weight in the

eyes of those who pass that way.



One of the most glaring offenses

against the sense of vision is the huge

advertisement painted upon the sides of

buildings, upon bridges, rocks or trees.

it is to be hoped that this particular

phase of modern commercialism will be

taken up by our prospective country im-

provement leagues and put out of exist-

ence. A wave of reform along this line

is now sweeping over the land and cre

many years these disfiguring signs will

be seen no more.



April and May are busy months on the

farm and idle hands are busily employed.

Yet there are ways of accomplishing the

odd jobs in spite of that. Sometimes it:

is left for the housewife to see that the

dooryard is put in good condition and a

capital general she makes. With the

help of one or two assistants she can

accomplish the work most effectively.



Tree planting time is again with us,





and there are plenty of places where

these may be set to advantage. A bare

and desolate looking place is a home





without these beautifyers surrounding it.

How cool and restful the one with its

setting of green on a hot summer day.

It costs but a little effort to get trees

from the woods, or what is better, from

the open, and set them about the yard

and nothing adds so greatly to the gen-

eral appearance. There is absolutely no

excuse for a treeless dooryard.



And why not appoint a tree—planting

day for the school yard? So many of

these are bare of shade. That feature

marked the otherwise attractive school

grounds shown in The Farmer of April

3. So apparently enterprising and faith-

ful a teacher as the one at the head of it





nomy. lie might better hire the work

clone and employ his own time at the

thing for which he, is fitted.



A housekeeper who insists on washing,

sewing and doing other things for which

she is not physically able may think she

is very economical but if she gets sick

one visit from the doctor would more

than pay for several washings or hire

several dresses made by a dressmaker

and save her the suffering beside.



“hat is the use of buying a cheap pair





of shoes that cost possibly half as muclr





as a good pair, and have the soles drop

off the first time they get wet? Then it

this is not suilicient experience buy a

second pair of the same kind and both

pairs will not last nearly as long as one

good‘pair that would not cost any more

than the two cheap pairs.



It is much more convenient to have

one. good dress well made than three or

four dresses poorly made. The cheap

dresses are cheap and look cheap from

the first to the last, besides giving one

an uncomfortable feeling every time they

are put on. They do not have weight

enough to make them hang well even

when new and in a short time are limp

and shabby looking.



luying something one does not want

and possibly will never use just because

it is cheap, is another form of economy

in which some people indulge. A lady

who scarcely ever read a newspaper and

never dreamed of reading a book had a

son who resembled her very much in

this respect. One day, seeing some books

which the storekeeper was anxious to

dispose of, offered for sale, she bot a few

of them because they were only five cents

apiece. The books were not worth read-

ing and were dear at any price and it is

needless to say that neither the mother

or son ever read one of them.



This is true of cheap furniture that

soon falls to pieces, cheap tools that an-





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noy the one who uses. them because he

Cannot do good work, and cheap ma-

chinery that is continually out of repair

and costs as much in the end as good

machines. Cheap things are always

cheap and one would do better with fewer

things or by doing without until he can

buy good articles of whatever he desires.





FOOD AND HEALTH.





BY CHARLOTTE A. AIKENS.



'An eminent English physician in writ-

ing on the subject of diet has stated that

“More than one—half of the disease which

embitters the middle and latter part of

life among the middle and upper classes

of the population, is due to avoidable

errors in diet.” The child between the

ages of ten and eighteen is in a condition

of active growth both of mind and body.

Then, if ever, he needs to be adequately

and wisely fed. He has all his life be-

fore him during which the education of

the mind may go on. Education should

be a life-long process and there is no

real need of hurrying or driving a child

in his studies. But the development of

the body is limited to a certain period of

life, after which it becomes'finally and

irrevocably arrested.



A careful and intelligent study of the

food question is therefore a matter of

exceeding great importance. The diet at

that period should be abundant and it

should be well balanced, to provide for

growth and the repair of waste tissue,

the body needs certain of the elements

contained in lean meat, eggs, milk, and

wheat flour. Peas and beans also con-

tain the elements needed for tissue build-

ing. For the development of the neces—

sary heat in the body and muscular en‘

orgy, the food should contain a certain

preportion of fats and starches. There

must also be a certain amount of the

mineral element for the hardening of the

bones and teeth. '



Whether it has happened as the result

of: instinct or otherwise it is a fact that

in the average meal one food very often

supplements what the other lacks, and

without much planning we have a fairly

well-balanced meal. For instance, cus-

t-Om has decreed that oatmeal porridge,

which is rich in starch, shall be eaten

with milk; bread contains 'the starch and

some of the elements needed for tissue

building, but contains no fat.. Therefore

butter is added to it: to help maintain

the balance. Rice, which is starchy, is

cooked with milk, and the combination

makes a substantial food.



When the period of growth and de-

velopment of the body have passed, it

is easily seen that the actual food re-

quirements must differ somewhat from

the requirements during the years when

active growth was going on. No hard

and fast rules are possible about either

the kind or quantity of food required in

adult life. The conditions and circum-

stances of each individual, his occupa-

tion, habits, etc. must decide such ques-

tions to some extent. The man who sits

at his desk all day working his brain,

needs a diet somewhat different both in

quality and quantity from the man who

is engaged all day in active muscular ex-

ercise. The season, loo, will influence

the question of diet.



The capacity for storage of food differs

also in different people. \\'hen too much

food is eaten, the surplus must be stored

1111 in some form. Thus it follows that

after forty years have passed some indi~

viduals begin to lay up fat. They are

using more iissue building food than the

body demands, and the surplus ’has to be

disposed of somehow. ll' 'll1o constitution

has not the power of storing fat, the sur-

plus gocs somewhere else, often to pro-

duce disease in some form, usually of the

liver, kidneys, or digestive organs. It is

often very hard to make people believe

that they require less food in middle. life

than when they were growing, or to

persuade the-m to restrict themselves in

their habits of feeding.



Sir Henry Thompson has said that

“The typical man of eighty or ninety

years still retaining a respectable amount

of energy of body and mind, is lean and

spare and livvs on slender rations." In

fact, it has frequently been noted that

individuals who reach the century mark

in age, liavc been extremely 111oi'lerz1le in

their habits of diet and have been so for

long years. As old age approaches the

activity of all the organs of the body

lessons. The ability to indulge in mus-

cular xercise'lesslxns, and the digestive

organs Sharing in the general decline. are

less liable to digest large quantities of

feed. All these changes necessitate cor-

responding changes in the quantity and

quality of food.



Three general rules for feeding old peo-





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pie should be borne in mind. First, en-

courage them to eat less. Second, give

food in smaller quantities and at more

frequent intervals. Third, give only foods

that are easily digested. Large 'heavy

meals should be avoided. Milk, if it

agrees, may wisely form an important

part of the diet of the aged as well as the

young. starchy foods should be well

cooked. If the teeth are poor, as they

often are, special care needs to be used.

The use of a chopping machine when

meat is at all tough, will help to prevent

digestive disturbances from that source.

The important thing is to get the indi-

vidual to recognize that physical changes

in his organs require changes in his hab-

its. “As we increase in age,” says the

authority previously quoted, “less energy

and activity remain, and less expenditure

can be made: less power to eliminate is

possible at fifty than at thirty. Still less

at sixty and upwards. Less nutrimcnt

must, therefore, be taken in proportion

as age advances, or rather as activity

diminishes or the individual will suffer.

If he continues to consume the same

abundant breakfasts, heavy dinners and

substantial suppers which at the summit

of his power he could dispose of with

impunity, he will in time certainly either

accumulate fat or become acquainted

with gout or rheumatism, or show signs

of unhealthy deposits in some part of

the body. He must reduce his ‘intake‘

because a smaller expenditure is an en-

forced condition of existence. At sev-

enty, the man’s power has further dimin—

ished, and the nourishment consumed

must correspond thereto, if he desires

still another term of comfortable life.”

It will usually be found that there are

some articles of food which do not agree

with everybody. The whole range of food

is not for any one at any period of life.

The man who boasts that he has a

stomach that will digest stewed marbles

or horseshoe nails will sooner or later

find some food which causes distress.

With one it may be cheese, with another

hot biscuits, with another fresh pork.

with another coffee. It would seem to

be hardly necessary to say, “Avoid foods

that are known to disagree, if you wish

to keep at the maximum of health and

comfort,” but experience has shown that

a reminder of that kind is often needed.





 





VINES.





 





BY GLADYS HYATT SINCLAIR. [





\Vhen riding thru the country, past our

prosperous American farms, one can not

'help comparing their neatness and QVl-j

dent thrift with the slack, untidy, “good-‘

enough-for-poor—folks” style displayed inl

so many foreign countries. But with all

our thrift and comfort. there is a bald,

naked look about most of our farm homes"

in northern and eastern America; a so—l

verity; a need of the, gracious, softened

lines that add so much of beauty and

hominess to the dwelling places of 16114

rope and of our own smxtlumn and far

western states. 1



What makes the difference? What d>i

we lack? “'e lack the vines that ourl

more discerning neighbors use to drape:

and beautify cottage and palace, wall,‘

fence, out-building and stone—heap l



Vines need not cling to the boards of

a. house, and be ilL‘t‘LlSULl of harln.n~i11:.v,l

dan’ipncss. Vl'hen trained on chicken

wire, l,:l('li0(l t0 the eaves. they are a pro~

teclion to the house rather than a detri—

ment; and, thus trained, they can be laid

down when painting.



You who live in

have more

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the country should

vines, and more beautiful

than city dwellers. You have

plenty of old manure to use, and VinesL

are hearty feeders; you can reach the

woods where native vines are to be had

for the digging and native vines are the

very best to plant. They are sure to like,1

the, climate and soil or they would noti





be native, therefore, they need little’

coddling and give good results. So, if,





the wild white Clematis ((‘lemaiis Vir-j

giuiana) grows in the woods near you,

dig the young plants very early in the,

spring and give them rich earth. “llieh”

for vines means that the dirt has been

dug out for two foot down and tho place

filled with old manure, mixed with leaf

mould or garden dirt. \Vlu-u settiur.

puddle the roots well, spread ihom Ilat,

and slump the earth over them, leaving

a little hollow around the vine, except in‘

very heavy clay. These directions ath’

to all common vines. Give them the wash J

water thru the summer and a bushel each i

of rough manure around the roots in

November.



Virginia Creeper, American Ivy, or

“Woodbine,” as some call it, is not to be

excelled and it grows wild over all the





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'Paroid Roofing Facts.---It has stood the test of

years on U. S. Gov’t buildings, mills, farm and

- poultry buildings. Easiest to lay--moét attractive.





Panel!)

ROOFING





1' is notra low priced roofing. but the slight difference

, in cost over cheap roofmgs is made up by a bu; dif-

ference in quality.



" OUR GUARANTEE : Buy,nne roll of PAROID, apply

it to your roof. If you are not satisfied that you have the best,

we will send you u check for the. amount you paid for the roofing

and the cost of applying it.



. Write for more facts and sample of l’AROl D. also free booklet

, of plans entitled “Practical Farm Buildings" ifabout to build.



V F. W. BIRD & SON. Established 1817.



[23 MILL STREET, EAST WALPOLE, MASS.





 





 





 





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Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 





 

 

   

   

 





 





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We will ship you a

“RANGER" BICYCLE

prepaid to any place in the United States 7Ufl120714 a cent drposif In advance, and allow

ten days free trial from the day you receive it. If it does not suit you in every way and

' regardless of price, or if for any reason whatever you do not wish to keepit, ship it back

to us at our expense for freight and you will not 56 out one cent.

save you $10 to $25 nuddlemcn’s profit on every bicycle-:highest. grade models with

Puncture-Prooftires, Imported Roller chains, pedals, etc., at prices no higher than cneap mail

IDEH WANTED in each town and district to ride and exhibit a_sample

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and learn our low prices and liberal terms. BICYCLE DEALERS: you can sell our bicycles under

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makc it easy for respons1ble people to own the best stove or range in the world.

'0 DAYS I REE “ I BIA on approval. freight

is not all or more than we claim for it and a better bicycle than you can get anywhere else

Low FAcTonY PnlcEs We sell the highest grade bicycles direct from factory

to rider at lower prices than any other house. We

- order bicycles; also reliable medium grade models at unheard of low prices.

give on the first mug sample giving to your town. Write at once for our Maia! of”.

your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the day received.

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When writing to advertisers mention The Michigan Farmer.
456 (20)

OUR PATTERNS.





Price,,10 cents each. Waist and skirt

patterns are usually separate, therefore

be sure to send 20 cents for a two-piece

suit pattern which hastwo numbers, e.

e., a waist number and a skirt number;

if such a pattern has but one number,

send only 10 cents. Order by number and

title of pattern. If for children, give age;

for adults, give bust measure for waists,

and waist measure for skirts. Be sure to

give size when you order. Address orders

to Pattern Department, The Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





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ttiiVe Number and Size),



No. 5919——Child's Undergarment.

for It, 5, T, and 9 years.



No. 8433—Creeper or Romper

Baby. ’l‘hree sizes for ti

year and 2 year old.



No. 5976—Girls Frock.

and '12 years.



No. 8386—Boy’s Double Breasted Blouse.

Sizes for Ii, ti, 8, ill and 13 .Veurs.

No. 8323—Tucked Shirtwaist. Sizes

2, 2-H, 38, it) and -l‘_‘ ill('ilt'S



measure.



No. 8402~—-Top Coat for Young

Sizes for S, 10, l'.’ and ii years.





Sizes





Dress for

months, 1

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No. 5916—-—Dressing Sacque and Slumber

Shoes. Sizes for 1:2. .‘il, .‘lfi, 5:8, tit) and

42 inehes bust measure.



No. 8400—Practical Apron. Small, med-

ium and large sizes.



No. 8364—Dainty Blouse. Sizes for 32,





Ill. 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust meas-

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We have given the. machine a good trial

and are well pleased with results. It

runs easier and does as good work as a

$40.00 machine we -had here on trial be—

fore, purchasing your machine. I see no

reason why your maehine should not last

as long as the higher priced one—Wm.

E. IIill, Davison, Mich.





northern and eastern states.





 





THE MICHIGAN "FARMER.





It has five

“fingers” to each leaf, so do not confuse

it with the three “flingered” poison ivy.

Virginia Creeper is very hardy, grows

swiftly; makes fine shade and glows with

10ver bright colors in the fall.



Hop vines, can be had for nothing in

most country places nor are they to be

despised for shade. The roots live over

winter but the vines die back, needing

to be trained every spring. Give them

straight wires as they will do nothing but

twist round and round. They grow like

Jack’s bean stalk; and if they get jousy

a dose or two of strong suds with a table-

spoenful of kerosene to the pailful, ap-





plied with a whisk broom, will cl3an

them.

So much for the easily-to-be-had.





They will transform nakedness to beauty

in three years and so much success will

give you a desire for flowering climbers.

These are legion, but alas! so many are

tender. A few, however, will grow and

blossom with the treatment given above,

if you feed them each spring with rotted

manure. '



First and loveliest are climbing roses.

There is no reason why you should not

have your poreh covered witn Crimson

tumblers, as well as the city porches a.

few miles away. Your wash and dish

water, faithfully applied, will do them

more good than constant drenching with

a hose. 1f near a large city, you can

buy Ramblers for ten cents each in the

spring. They may not grow, being

shipped from Holland, but they are well





worth trying. I set out two as an ex-

periment last April. They bloomed in

July and look as if they meant, next

summer, “to scale the lattice windows





e’er they blow.” Any reliable seedsman

will send you big, healthy Ramblers, sure

to grow, with decent treatment, for

twenty-five to fifty cents each. If you

can buy but one each season, buy that

one. You will scon have all you want;

and a few well treated, well loved vines

are better than a hundred neglected,

starved ones. In the spring, eut ltaii'ililers

bat-k one—third of the previous season’s

growth and take out all dead wood.

‘There is another class of climbing

roses, \Viehuruianu, 01' Memorial loses,

which are very good. They will climb

or trail anywhere, bloom in June and

July and their foliage remains green

half the winter.

I think any one who has ever seen the





 





old fashioned (‘hinese \l'isteria in bloom

will plaee it next the on her list.

(live the \l'isteria that sunny side Of the.

house, heaps of old manure, and every

spring it will be to you a wonder with

its long, swaying prinieles of flowers,

shaped like a pea blossom, delicate violet?

in color and giving forth the sweetest

fi'ag'ranee in the world.



(if lloiioysueklt‘s the Chinese, (trueF

\Yoodliine), llalliana with white flowers.

and the. Yarigated TieaVed Honeysuckle

are the best. They are slendcrly growing

vines and give little shade but great

grace, and fragrance.



For a southern porch or window, where

dense shade is wanted, Dutchman's Pipe





l‘list's





(Aristoleliia Sipho) is splendid. I do not

see why this vine is not better known.

It is pei'feetly hardy, grows very fast,





and its immense heart shaped leaves are

as effyetual against the inquisitive sun—

shine as so many tiny umbrellas.

llisnonia, or 'l‘rumpet Creeper, costs but

twenty-lire cents a root. It has clusters

of large, showy orange—red “trumpets"

and these flowers last a long time. liut

struggling. go—as—you

it more de—

out—buildings





it snow in :I Flillil,

please fashion whit-h

sirable, for fences, wills

than for house er port-h.



No blossoming vine that gi‘OWs can ex-

eel the iloweiing Clematis for show, but.

many people are afraid to try them, hayu





makes





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ingr set-n many failures. It is true that

the Clematis must have speeial treat-

ment. Ilut give [lit-in good drainage.

plenty of water, very rieh dirt. and set





the erowns eiuht inehes Imlow the surface

of the and they will not fail.

The {lower‘ng t‘lematis will not grow in

shade, nor does it do its best in full sun-

shine, tho I know one, (‘lematis Panieul-

ata, havingr tiny white flowers, that grows

on a south—west poreli and is like a bank

of snow every August. perfuming the air

all around it. (“lei'natis .laek-mani is the

large flt)\\“-l'('tl, purple kind whose flowers

last so long, (‘lemalis lienryi is like it

only a low-1y, creamy white, winning the





ground,





 





 





admiration of all. Any of these cost

forty cents each. The large flowering

kinds do not grow especially fast and





should not be depended upon for shade.

But care and money can not be better

spent than on Clematis to display its

beauty beside the sturdier, shadier native

vines.





 

 





 





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These splendid men’s shoes represent the best

.- there is in shoe leather. Every piece of material is of the

,. choicest tannage. The workmanship is perfect; the styles

are up-to-date. When it comes to service, there is nothing

that equals them in lasting qualities.





“HONORBILT” SHOES





are everything the name implies. They are “built onhonor. "





No matter where you look, or





find anything that will outclass them in wear, style





or comfort.

If your dealer will not su





- Look for the Mayer Trade Mark on the sole.





FREE—Send us the name of a dealer who does not





handle Mayer Honorbilt Shoes,





‘ free, postpaid. a beautiful picture of George Washing- . .





ton. size 15x20.





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Washington Comfort Shoes.





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Shoes and Special Merit School Shoes.





Mayer Boot {'9‘ Shoe Co.





MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN





what you pay, you will never

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is the only tinware made and sold under a





trademark label. That label is your guarantee ..

If your dealer hasn’t it send ‘





of good quality.





us his name and we’ll see that you are supplied.





Send for Free Recipe Book





1’: coated wit/z an extra heavy coat ofpure the—that’s why





When you buy unware, buy by the name Armor

Brand and prove its superiority to yourself—then





get good tinware.

. \_ label is on every piece you buy.





“Wholesome Cooking l/Vz't/zout Waste”





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firsts' 'were the best that





with flaws in them. Nowadays. “firsts" only mean, best workmanship“

ru bet. Price competition started the use oi remelted‘ ‘old





RAND”





but not best b

rubber. “BUFFALO B

Para rubber—that's whythey wear better and longer than others. Thereiore,the ‘





best workmanshig

as “Better than

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could be made, and “seconds”were ”firsts"

junk\ I" /

rubber boots are made only of lively pure \\'





with the best (Para) rubber has made Buflalo Brand known

Look for yellow label.





Insist on your dealer

these rubber boots— INSIBT-

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Good Machines





For $7 extra will send the $19 machine with automatic lift in a. hand-





some cabinet frame.





We prepay freight to any freight station east of the Mississippi River, or

You cannot afford to buy a machine until. you have

Sent for our handsome illustrated free catalog, printed in colors.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Mich‘.





south to Tennesse.





' A $50 MACHINE





New Model with Ball Bearing Head and Stand:-

Tension ReleaseuAutomatic Lift

Drop Heads-High ArmnOaK or Walnut Table.





 





only





We Pay the Freight

miow90 Days’ Trial





Our new model, im-

proved Mich. Farmer sew-





ing machine has cam

thread take up, giving

better control of ‘ the





thread and making a. bet-

ter stitch than any other

arrangement. Running it

backwards will not break

the thread. It has high-

est arm, disc tension, au~

tomatic bobbin winder

with loose band wheel, .

high lift for heavy work.





Guaranteed for





20 YEARS.





and money refunded if not satis-

factory after 90 days’ trial. Com-

plete attachments, accessories

and illustrated book free. We

guarantee this machine to be

first-class in every particular. ‘





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





handsome in appearance and

equal to any machine made.

Same machine without the au- l

tomatlc Lift for only $18. f

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as low as $12. .2

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I want to say that my sewing machine came all right and I have given it a





is just as

Calling, Oblong, Ill.





al and find it perfectly satisfactory in every way.

good as the high priced machines and runs just as easy—Mrs. W.





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AERMOTOR PUMPING DVlCES‘





Are known and used the world over. .Hundreds Of thousands of

AERMOTORS in use. Thousands of GASOLINE PUMPS in~_use.





rat? ‘





galvarized- after-





tionized “‘8 wind- ' i: desire.





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are almost





THE BASE OF THIS





-~,' " im orcvem n‘. ‘_ We

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be desir- , ‘ well built, but we are





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NOTE THE ROOM IN





Buys 1 30-“.

Trussec Tripod





Tower with unobstructed base.





to. acoucies very little room, requrres little atten-

:ion, and givesa large amount of service. The

supporting frame is clamped to the pump stand~



ard, making a rery solid and compact arrangement.





mill business. It .. ‘

contains every '3??? N O 0 t h e T‘

i p u m oi n 9 de-





perience ha‘ i DOCS ‘30 an engine 5° V I C e e V e T‘ $ 3 2





shown to g. well designed and so 9 a i n e d SUCh





I], 25 The Aermotor Gasoline Pump is easily attached to “any .

K 2:: u - - 5 ' - _‘ . . .

old pump in 30 minutes. The engine and pumping gears We make so





"21%;; Buys “8‘“- A“ , are assembled in one simple, compact and durable many of these

m°t°r "“5 's ""1 5'3 machine which is complete in every detail and ready to set . éngmes that we

{completion steel Aer- up and go to work. it will pump as much water as an Fifihave put 1., the

motorwhich revow- , 8-ft. yvfndmi ii and will run as many hours a day as you





3 facilities for

building them

.. ,p i perfectly.

PRICL _ ' i





For engine complete





proud of the engine. great pOpUIa r- with walking-bean?

ity or reached

such g r e a t

s a l e s in so

short a time





and supporting





. These attachments have been de-

vised to providefthe easiest, quickesthand

most substantial way for connecting to any.

style of. pump which is already in the well. Everything is

supplied-for setting up complete as shown, except-the

stakes.





have' one of these





You can afford to

lon'every well.





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5 Acres in Oregon

Will Do '





A fruit farm of 5- acres in any of the great

Oregon apple, peach and pear districts, puts

money in the bank for you, and gives you your

living besides.





You can care for five acres of trees yourself,

without help.





Orchards each year yield $500 an acre.and

upwards. Prove this by sending for our free

book on the. Pacific Northwest, or, better still,





Come West and See





All the land there ever was—or will be—was

created ages. ago. But population keeps increas-

ing—a baby is born every minute.





All the free land worth having has been taken

up. All the good land, at'low prices,'that’s left,

is going fast. Soon land chances, like those in

the west today, will be gone forever.



If you want a fine farm or fruit ranch any-

where in the Northwest, get one now before the

price gets too high—write to us for our free book.

It is costing you money to wait—write today.





E. L. LOMAX, G. P. A.

Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Omaha, Neb.





 





 





 





 





' A COMBINATION PRICE ON THEM





Tho Razor—Tho Razor Sharpener—Tho Safely Guard





ALL FOR ONLY $3.75,





or with the Michigan Farmer 11 year only $4. 00. All sent postage or express

charges paid. Address THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit Mich.





 





 





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Thcy arc made of thc finest steel that

can he put in a razor, and are all ready

to begin action. Don’t lot the low price

srurc you. Dcolers would charge you

2.5!) for a rzozor no better than what we

ask 75 cents for Eich razor fully guaruntccd. There can be nothing better in

a 1.12m regardless of price. Order :1t onto, 75 cents, postage paid. 8 cents extra.

if registered You will not have to saw your beard off. Once over will make your

f.1cc smooth as a baby's. We use one and know whereof we speak. With The

Farmer a year $1. 25, 2 years. $1. 65; 3 years $2.00





The Eight Great Wonder of the World





Bul More Useful Io you lhan any of The olhors.





AN AUTOMATIC





'oozoo SHARPENER





ll Benders Honing Forever Needless.





It will take :1 dull razor :1nd 111:1ko it cven better than when new. Two of 11m

cdilors of this pupr‘r arc using onc 11nd they each paid $3.50 for theirs. 'l‘hcy [hot

that our rcndcrs ought, lo know about ihcm, so wc arrangcd to buy thorn in

quantities and offcr thorn to those of our suhscrilwrs who want thcm. We are

not allowed to soil thcni for less than tho rcgulur prion, $31.50, but we are zillowcd

to throw in a Year's subscription to the 11211111 with every sharpener and will pily

(lclivcry chnrg‘cs.



Full directions with cnch. The price may sccm high, but rcmmnbcr you

hziyc 1111 article that will honc :1 dull razor 11nd kccp it in pcl'fcct shaving ordcr





for lifo. There is no possibility of cutting tho slrop. 1-\ child (1:111 opi-rulo it.

l’rcscnt subscrlhcrs may INLVO thcir 11-1'111 :1d\':1ncod ono your or iho pupr-r

may hc scnt to {mothcr address, or if you prcfcr, We will, in plucc of the pupcr.





scnd FREE ONE OF OUR 75 CENT GERMAN IMPORTED RAZORS—nono lwl—

tcr. You may never know VVIlllt :1 good shrivc is until you use one of these mar-

1‘11! shriipr 1101s They me in no 11 {Ly complicated You simply slip the razor in,

giro 1hr Sllnl) 10 to 20 pulls, and your 151201 is in piifrct condition





LOOK AT THE CUT!





You see what will make a Safety Razor out of your own unsafe razor:

with the little de

vice you cannot





 





r "/ 'I cut yourself while

E No] shaving.

SAFSHAV and “21:35 30c.





 





There are other kinds similar but not us good. This snl’cty appliance {its any





kind or size razor. It is made on :1 scicniilic 1112111. it is all right for what it is

for, :1 safety guard, casily put on and oil" and clonnod, and we scll it for only 30

cents, (regular price 5'10 cents.) postage paid, or will sr-nd one with one of our

imported German razors both for $1.00, postage paid. Ordcr one now. Address





THE MICHIGAN FARMER, Detroit, Mich.
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overtax' the digestion, get EHORTICULTUREi





 





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thin, weak, languid, stop

growing—that’s malnutrition

or non-digestion of food.





Scott’s Emulsion





has helped countless thous-

ands in this condition. It is

both nourishment and

medicine—a most powerful

aid to digestion.





A small dose three times a

day will work wonders,

but be sure to get Scott’s.





 





Send this advertisement. together with name of

paper in which it appears. your address and four

cents to cover postage. and we will send you a

"Complete Handy Atlas of the World" :: ::

SCOTT & BOWNE. 409 Pearl Street. New York





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





so EASY—SEEMS LIKE PLAY

Your Bop can work

all Day without

‘Fatigue





4 if on have a

, KRAUSyPivot-Axle

it. a Mr Sulky CULTIVATOR





A delightto the farmer. Works so easily, operator I;

always In a good humor. The horses furnish

the power. Wheels and. shovels act together. The

driver merely guides. A slight foot pressure, with no lost

motion. moves the wheels and shovels simultaneously to

the right or left. Responds to pressure as easily as piano

keys. Width between gangs. and depth of shovels

instantly and easily adjusted while machine is in motion.





No Tired Peeling it You Use the KRAUS all Day





Hillsides, Uneven Land and

Crooked Rows Cultivated as

Easuly as Level Ground.

SimpleSt in construction—least

number of parts—nothing to get out

of order. Steel frame. All castings

malleableiron.Every part accessible.

Built for wear and work. Light draft

and perfect balance. Made in high

and low wheel and Kraus Pivot Gang. ‘

Accept no substitute. I f your dealer

does not handle the KRAUS write us

for our free descriptive catalogue,





AKRON CULTIVATOR C0.





oer-r. 12 AKRON. OHIO





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





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or feed. or both. change to thick or thin

Spreading. Without stopping. The





liniylow llown Spreadof.





   

   





Right width to straddle corn rows. No

waste or scattering in yard or on ro ad. no

freezing manure on box. Solid bottom.

scraped clean every load. Automatic drag





 

 

   

   

   

   

 





Sand for Free Cot-Ion B ' It describes the

modern spreader thathas proven itself right.

The Now-fl! Machine 00., Newark, 0. O





 

   

 





 





Mishawaka Side Jumper





iron Standard, Solid Steel, Double

Edged, Reversible Coultor.





Made right hand as well as left

,Patented December 3. 1889.





 

 

 

 





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rhi‘ CJ _ ~i~;~uno..

Represents '

our #2 ,





improved SiedNew Ground Plow.





Address for descriptive circular





iIISIIAWAKA PLOW COMPANY, Mishawaka, Indiana.





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all have lhcir spccini

21nd

starlcd outsidc of that limit, results will





GARDEN WOR.K FOR "LATE APRIL.





 





With the usually frisky weather of





April which must always be considered

as a. factor in deciding what may, and

what may not be timely for the early

spring work, it is not easy to formulate

dependable rules as to planting and sow-

ing time.

easily settled, viz., that under almost any

conditions the

be plowed and cultivation started at the

latest by April 20th.

is to be used at once or not,





One point, however, is pretty

garden ground should all





\thther the ground

cuts but





small figure. The important point is,





the storage of moisture for future needs;

and the early plowing and frequent cul-





ture are the only means of conservation.

The April winds and frequent hot sun-

shine jump up the moisture with incred-

ible rapidity and later on we are almost

certain to suffer for what has thus gone

up in smoke. Another decided advantage

is the wholesale destruction of weed

seed. So early plowing and frequent

working up to planting time will largely

solve both the moisture and weed prob-

lems. As to varieties for the earlier

plantings, that depends much upon hard—

iness and habit of growth. Some kinds

of vegetables will withstand the risk of

early planting and for best yields require

all of the growing season; while with

other sorts it is an utter waste of time

to start until soil and weather have be-

come warm and settled. The folio-wing

table of average time of planting the

main varieties of vegetables as well as

thcir period of growth for this latitude

may be of service to many and will be

worth preserving:

Asparagus, April

from roots.

Beans, curly May to July, 7 to 9 weeks.

Beets, April to July, 8 to 9 weeks.

Cribbage, April to July, 75 to 120 days.

Carrots, April to June, 85 to 150 days.

(‘clci-y, April to July, 3 to 4 months.

Corn‘(swcei), early May to July, 65 to

80 days.

Cucumbers, May 15 to June 15, 75 to

90 days.

Egg Plant,

150 days.

Lottucc, in open ground,

July, 60 to 70 duyS.





and May, 2 years





start soul in April, 130 to

April lst to





Mclon (\v'utcr), May 15 to June 15, 115

to 140 duys.

Melon (musk) May 15 to June 15, 115





to 1le days.



Onions, April lst to early May, 125 to

110 days.



I’ursicy, to 140

days.



l’ursnip, April to early May, 120 to 150





March and April, 125





days.

I’cus, April to curly August, 65 to 85

Makes fineand Spreads evenly. Every- (I‘d-"5' ,

thingcontroiled from seat; start beater Pcppcr, trunsplunt curly to late May,





135 to 150 days.





Potatoes, early May to late June, 60 to





120 days.





Pumpkin, May 15 to June 15, 100 to 130





days.

Just right for use in cow barns and for Radish, curly April to July, 35 to 50

driving under low sheds—easy to load. (luvs.





Rhubarb, April to May 15, 2 years from





roots.





Spinach, April 21nd Scpi., 30 to 40 days.

Squash, May list to Junc 15, 110 to 140





returgiihlzouig e gltigel ddvlg’dgileity end- ate, davs

stren o s an a ran v n on the .'.“ .

operating of machine, 3 g l, omutocs, March or April, from seed,





etc. 4 to 5 months.





Turnlps, curly April to August 15, 60

to 75 days.

The above dates are, of course, only





approxinlnic, but arc lhot to be as nearly

Conscl'vulch (is

crul way are useful.

bcrcd,

calculations



ofh-nlimcs ill

slzlncc, lllc



planted whcn

cold and

longer

ground has bccomc liloroiy worm and the

weather

There are many (‘Ililllcvs lo

and often a bciutcd visit from Jack Frost

entirely upsets many :l

So :11] we can do is to act upon our host

judgmcnt and lcnvc results in the hands

Of One





possible, and in u gen-

It must be rcmem-

even tho cioscst

will vary Widciy

]')l';1('ilcc_ For in-

chctzlhle

still

much

whcn the





that

possible

:lcluul

sumo vuri<-ly of

Wczlthcr

unfuvomblc will

linlc to lnulurc





h ow cvcr,





gilld soil :lrc

l'cuuil'c



thou

St-lIIHl :lnd stcady.

run at hcst





lids bccomc





rosy cuiculution.





\visr-r than we.





Thcrc urc sonic points in thc nature





and habit of growth of various vcgctables





that bc studied with profit. They

scuson for highest





dcvclopmcnl; and piunicd or





may





bcst





. be morc or loss disappointin". Some



. With Double ’“

Cultivator Row Corn kinds oflcn called cool Wczithcr plants,

Planter and Fertilizer are at their best during the cooicr





weather of early spring or late autumn,

whilc othcrs are directly the reverse and

make thcir

months of mid-summer.

along those lines is profitable.

former class,

tucc, peas, radishes, onions, etc, are not-

able examples,

neariy all the

plant, sweet corn and many others belong





in the warmer

So ‘much study

As to the

let—





bcst growth





cabbage, cauliflower,





while many others, as

vine crops, peppers, egg





to the latter class. Nearly all the root

crops belong in the former list while the

entire bean family are tender plants, un~

fitted by nature to withstand the cold

weather either of the early or late season.

From the foregoing it is plain that we'

may not, with certainty, determine the

special work of next week or the week

following. Wit'h reasonable knowledge

of our soil, surroundings and growth

habit of the various vegetable crops it

is not difficult to determine what must

take preference as to early planting. So

for best results, we should aim to start

88011 kind just at its proper season and

as early as right conditions will admit.

One point should always be borne in

mind: the first early crops are the money

makers, and the plowing and fitting of

the ground should be ready and waiting





for the earliest possible sowing and

planting.

Wayne Co. J. E. MORSE.





 





COLORING FRUIT BY FERTILIZA-

TION.





 





It is often stated that certain fertilizers

will produce certain colors in fruit. Af—

ter a 12 years’ test in fertilizing an apple

orchard of Baldwins, Pippins, Greenings,

Roxburys and Northern Spies, Prof. U.

P, Hedrick, of the New York station,

says that the results were not decided

enough in a sufficient number of the 12

seasons to enable us to state that the

fertilizers applied improved the color of

the apples. Professor Hedrick further

says that fruit growers should not apply

imanures in quantity until good evidence

has been obtained as to what food ele-

ments, if any, are wanted by the soil.

This should be ascertained by fertilizer

tests conducted directly in the orchard

in question.





THE COMMERCIAL APPLE ORCHARD.





 





First among the essentials of success

in commercial apple growing is that the

soil must be adapted to the business and

that very gdod and very poor locations

may lie side by side. Nearly every

farm contains some land that is adapted

to apple growing, altho very few farms

as a whole, would prove adapted to the

industry. Soil and location are fully as

important factors as the climate.



A careful study of the conditions sur-

rounding tho orchards that were planted

in the early times has proved to us that

in sciccting :ln orchard site the most

important things to considcr are the char-

acicr of the soil, exposure, and shelter.

Good dccp soil, composcd largely of vege-

luble matter, with sand and gravel or

clay, is ideal. The scarcity of timber

that formerly afforded wind-breaks make

it csscniial that we select northeastern,

northcrn or eastern exposures or slopes

for an orchard. On land that affords a.

natural wind—break, or Where there is no

protection from timberland or groves,

a. double row of evergreens may be used

to advantage as n wind—break.





After determining on the site of the ,





proposed orchard, the next important stop

is that of properly preparing the soil.

’l‘hc old saying that the “hole should be

thc same size as the orchard,” is a safe

ruic to follow and means literally that

wc should carefully fit the ficld at least

one your bcforc the trccs are to be plant-

cd. It is a loss of timc and lllonoy to

piunt irccs on wet and undruincd soil.



“'0 have also lcarncd that the selection

of thc vzlrictics best aduptcd to our con-

ditiolls in a grcnt mcnsuro mmns succcss

or foilurc. The desire to plant too many

vurictics of apples has rcsuilcd in flood~

int,r our orchards with undcsirubic fruit,

in runny insinnccs without rcgurd to

market dcmzlnds, quality or profit. The

most profitable commcrciu] orchards in

the slate arc those containing from one

to thrcc vm'ictics. Planting a fcw Vari-

ctics for home consumption or for home

markcts is a diffcrent proposition from

commcrcinl uppic growing.



For a, commercial orchard in this lati-

tudc thcrc, arc thrce murkct apples that

stand in a class by themselves, the Bald-

win, Northern Spy, and Greening—all

grcat markct fm'or'itcs that posscss good

kccping qualities. The Twenty Ounce

Pippin and the Tompkins County Kings

arc cxccilcnt fall and curly wintcr apples,

but thcy must bc murkcicd in thcir sca—

son rcgnrdicss of the market conditions.

Hardy varieties must be selected regard—

lcss of their beauty or form or (nullity.

Select the best trees that can be found,

and above all, select them from the stock

of some first-class nurseryman, who sells

good trees instead of making panic prices

to get rid of a lot of old stock that has

accumulated on his hands.





 





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





of room. ’I would set apple trees forty

feet each way at least. If you feel that

you “cannot afford to use .so much land,

plan «to grow‘ some small fruit between

the apple. trees, and by the time the ap-

ples are ready to occupy the interspaces

the small fruit trees may be removed

and give them the whole of the field. 'We

may be able to grow cornstalks and trees

by close planting, but when it comes to

growing first—class crops of corn and ap-

ples we shall find it essential that the

stalks and trees have plenty of light, air

and space for their roots.



I believe that there is but one way

for the trees to grow to insure the great—

est hardiness. The practice of low head—

ing may be adapted to some sections of

the west where the climatic conditions

are not the same as in this state. The

remarkable results secured by some west-

ern apple growers may be due in some

measure to low heading; but in my opin—

ion the different soil

more important factors than pruning. It

is useless of us to expect similar results

in this climate. From my experience

and observation among the commercial

orchards of the west and ‘southWest, the

low-headed trees are, as a rule, short

lived and unsightly. As they 'grow larger

and branches grow longer there is a

tendency to split apart at the trunks and

break down.



While advocating pruning trees higher

than is the practice of many, I am by no

means in favor of high training. The

branches should afford protection to the

trunks during the hot summer after the

trees come into bearing. My ideal tree.

is trained high enough to secure the

growth of the branches at right angles

with the trunk, otherwise they will form

what has been :lplly termed ll’lalforillcd

crotches by the leniency of the lower

brallcllis to form an upward growth.

Every ll'»t‘ Ell u‘d have a cclllcl' shaft

on wizhll 'he branches should be regu-

lally dis‘tr'bulcd, Ilt'Vl‘I‘ allowing,r a num-

ber of brzlrcilcs to cluster together on any

one SldO to overbalancc. the top of the

tree. Pruning is a necessary evil and

more of it should be done. Summer

pruning; has a tclldcllcy to check the

growth of the word, and ill some ill-

stances is injurious to the tree.



Splay, by all IlllilllS, and spray often.

It has been the uuans of saving the in-

dustry from ruin. Nothing will pay bet-

ter returns for the work expended in

cultivati-n than the apple orchard, and





 





l‘oillir-g,r will suffer ll‘ol'c from neglect.

,T'he first few years some liocd crop will





prove :ulap‘t‘d to young cl'cflal‘d soils.

Do not expt ct to get a full farm crop

f'tilll t'llc ll(‘ll.‘ll'(l so‘ls. \thn we set





,<ut to care for our orchards as we do for

[our other farm crops, there will be less

cry about the, climate and we shall get

as Certain returns as we do from other

agricultural products.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





NUT TREES FOR CLARE COUNTY.





 





What nut trees are adapted to Clare

county? “'hat soil will best suit them?

How far apart should the trees be Dlltlll~

ed? Should they be cultivalcd'.’ \Ylli-ll

will they begin to bear“!





Clare Co. SUBSCRIBER.

1. Black walnut, sllzlgbark hickory,

chestnut.





2. W'alnut, shagbark hickory Oil a well

drained loam. Chestnut on a sutuly loam.



3. The nuts should be planted L‘v’lx‘Jl)

feet apart each way if for orchard ]llll'~-

poses; for timber llx‘c plant 4x4 feet apart

each way and tllili out after the iil‘st ltll

years to eight feet.



'1. Cultivate the same as for col-n,



5. I know of (lllc black walnut tree at

the age of eighteen years which produced

seven and one—half l.llshcls of nuts, worth

Ill the

per bushel. This was during the season of

1mm. Chestnuts have bornc nuts at the end

of the third year here ill the (Kalb-cu when





llllt‘li lll'lrkcl, twenty—live cents





planted ill lnursery rows. and have borne

profusely at live years of

have borne at ten years





llllllt‘

lllllck walnuts





2121‘.





from sccrl.





Aglil. (‘nllcg'c. .l. F. BAKER.





BARK BEETLES OR BARK





BORERS

'l‘wo species if bark bet-tics caused

glczlt thunderx lust yczli‘ to ])i‘ll<’ll and





cherry trees ill various quarters of north-

ern Ohio on the Mal'blcllead peninsula.

One Seolyius coma

'll.-Olll_\‘ known as the shot hole borer, is

all old offender and attacks nearly all

varieties of fruit tlecs and some forest

trees. The second I’illoootribus

liminaris, which has been called the peach

bark beetle is a comparatively new pest





spccics, l'ugulosus,





species.





 





and largely confines its injuries to cherry

i





and climate are,





and peach. The work of the two species

is very similar. The adult beetles bore

thru rough places in the bark of living or

dead trees, into dead peach or cherry

wood piled up for stovewood, into the

twigs of brush heaps or into any suit-

able wood upon which they c:ln feed and

ill which they make brood chambers.



They make galleries thru the living

sapwood of peach and cherry and their

presence is nearly always indicated by

excessive exudation of gum from the

infested ~trunks and limbs. \Vcakcncd

trees are preferred by the booties but

perfect health may be, so re.

peatedly attacked that they finally offer

the right conditions for breeding, and

the insects illcll mass their attack on

the exhausted trees, making); short work

cf their final destruction. Trees are of-

ten practically before their

owners become aware there is anything

wrong.



The following measures are i‘O("llll-

mended ill infested districts this season:



For trees seriously injured: ("ut the

lice back to stubs of the main limbs and

“Dilly Ilul‘nyurd commercial





manure, or

fertilizer, 7 to 8 pounds per tree, in





those ill





(Icfslt‘tiycll





 





spring. The followingr formula is su£5~i

nested for commercial fertilizer: phos—





phoric acid, 8 per cent: nitrogen, 5 per

cent; potash. 2 per cent. Give a second

application of .‘l or 4 pounds per tree

about the first of June. Apply ill a circle

equal to the spread of the limbs and rake,

hoe, or disk into the soil. Apply a. tllick

coat of whitewash by means of a broom

the last \\'ccl( ill March or duringr the

first two weeks ill April. (live a sccolldl

application the second wcck ill .iuly: ’lllfll





l





:1 third about the first of October. Add

one-fourth pound of table salt to cuclll

pull of whitewash to make it <tick -

longer. l





For trees seolnlngly healthy and sl'u‘lltly

attacked or liable to attack: ldt‘rtilize,

cultivate and whitewash.



lll all caves burn all trim-

mings and dead wood and lu‘l'ub out dead

trees and burn so as to limit breeding,

grounds.



Ohio Exp. Sta.





curl-fully





H. A. Gossanp.





WINTER-KILLING OF FRUIT TREES.





— l

l





Investigations made at the Ohio Ex-





 





periment Station show that while a.



i

severe and lollg—cmltlllucd cold spell 18‘}

a general or direct cause of injury toi





fruit trees, generally speaking, it was

ascertained that where the vitality of the

orchard had Ill‘t‘ll

any cause whalcvcr duriut,r its previous

history the chances of injury to the tree

by the cold were by so much increased;

obscl'vid Ill different orchards

wh'cll contributed to low vitality ill thc'

ll'ccs Were an insufficient degree of fer



tility, .1 low physical condition of the

soils, prcvalcllcc of San Jose scale, lcat'

peach-tree extl‘clllcly dry:

of the ground ill sandy





1n





“water—logged





ll'ccs or lowered by1





I’llctol's





("till lirll‘i‘l's,

collilitioil

and g‘raVelly

soils, etc.



The cxperilllenis also showed the value





SOIIIU





l‘liltz'cs,





of an annual cover crop as compared with

clean cultivation. In one section under

observation a grower stated that “not





a single orchard or section of an orchard

of which he knew, that had rcccivcd even





a light dressing of barnyard lllalllll‘c

within a year or two, suffered from

cold,“ G. I?) hll'ri'illznn

The garden should bc located or





drained so work can bc lit-gull there be-

forc the ticlds zll‘c l'clidy. It then lllzlkcs

a good place to act the plows and har—

l’()\\'s properly adjusted, the corn planter

ill working shape and to do many other

little tasks which will result ill its being

prepared early, and lil saving tllilllc when

the tools are put to their regular work.

I’lNlu‘b'T FRUIT IN THE NEIGHBOR-

IIUUI),





1\Ir. “'illlalll 10.

Ohio, must say





(‘lra ves, hinderia,





writes: “I that I am





(23) 459





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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.



April 14, 1909.

Grain and Seeds.



Wheat—During the past two weeks





prices for cash wheat have advanced ten

cents per bushel. From every quarter





 





 





of the world comes reports of the short--





age in the wheat supply. Argentine sent

out fully 20,000,000 bushels less this sea-

son than a year ago. The European mar-

kets are all calling for larger amounts

than normal and the. crop conditions in

this country are anything but encourag-

ing to those who desire lower prices.

The government report issued last Satur-

day pla-ces the prospects for the coming

crop three points below the estimates

made for December. In the spring wheat

sections however, plans are being made

for a large acreage this season. The de-

crease in the visible supply is large. The

call from millers is keeping the cash deal

active so far as grain-can be found to

supply their wants. A year ago the

price for No. 2 red wheat was 939.10 per

bu. Quotations for the past week are:





No. 2 No. 1 No. 3



Red. White. Red. May. July.

Thurs. . . . .1.35 1.35 1.32 1.33 1.13

Fri. ..........

Sat. ...... 1.37% 1.37% 1.34% 1.36% 1.15%

Mon. ..... 1.39 1.39 1.36 1.38 1.18%

Tues. . . . .1.40 1.40 1.37 1.39% 1.18

Wed. ..... 1.40 1.40 1.37 1.39% 1.17%,





Corn.-—The chief strength in this de-

partment has been the bullishness of the

wheat deal. But for that support it is

possible that declines would have taken

place. The receipts generally are larger

than estimated and the weather in the

southern states where preparation of

ground for the new crop has begun was

encouraging the past week. In the local

market there are more sellers than buy-

ers. The movement is small. A year

ago the price for No. 3 corn was 67c per

bu. Quotations are:





No. 3



No. 3 Yellow.

Thursday ................ . 68% 69

Friday .................... . . . .

Saturday ................. 68 69

Monday .................. 68 69

Tuesday .................. 68% 69%

\Vednesday ............... 69% 70%.;





Oats—Prices are ruling on the same

basis as last week. The bulge in the

wheat trade supported the market, and,

but for which there is probability that a

decline would have followed the receipt

at New York of large quantities of the

grain from Argentine. Weather condi-

tions are favorable for the sowing of the

new crop. One year ago the price for

N0. 3 oats was 561/2c. Quotations are:



No. 3 \Vhite.





Thursday ........................ 57%

Friday ........................... . .

Saturday ......................... 57%

Monday .......................... 57 %

Tuesday .......................... 57% '

“'ednesday ....................... 57%





Beans-«There is a demand for the le-

gumes at present quotations but sellers

do not show up, the figures having no

charm. On Saturday the board agreed

to mark up prices, but the change was

'without result in moving holders to loos-





en up. Nominal quotations are:



(lash. May.

Thursday $236 $2.42

Fl'idzly .......................... . . . .

Saturday .................... 2.40 2.45

lMonday ..................... 2.40 2.4.3

'l‘ucsduy .................... 2.40 2.45

\Vcdncsday ................. 2.40 2.45





Cloverseed.—'l‘he new seeding is not

looking real good and there is some de—

spair that the coming crop will be small

as a result. This condition has worked

prices to a higher level for future goods.

Cash seed has gone higher on account of

the demand for sowing with spring crops.

The following are the quotations for the

past week:





Prime Spot. Oct. Alsike.

Thursday ......... $5.60 $6.50 83.00

Friday ............... _ ....

Saturday ......... 5.75 6.55 8.00

Mondaw .......... 6.00 6.80 8.00

Tuesday .......... 5.95 6.65 .. . .

“'cdncsday ....... 5.85 6.60 . .





Rye.—«Market is firm and trading light.

Offerings are small. The price is 85c for

cash No. 2, the same as last week.



Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.

Wheat ............... 34,874,000 36,142,000

(‘orn ................. 6,311,000 6,923,000

Oats ................. 9,403,000 9,062,000

Flour, Feed, Provisions, Etc.



Fiour.——Prices were again advanced 250



on all grades. Quotations are as follows:





Clear ................................ $6.00

Straight ............................. 6.15

Patent Michigan .................... 6.50

Ordinary Patent ..................... 6.2:»



Hay and StrawfiePi-iccs unchanged.





Carlot prices on track are: No. 1 timothy,

new, $10.50fl11: No. 2 timothy, $050010;

clover, mixed, $94710; rye straw, $8fi0850;

wheat and oat straw, $7417.50 per ton.



Feed.r»»rl'nelmngod. llrun, $28 per ton;

course middlings. $20; fine middlings, $30;

cracked corn and coarse corn meal, $29;

corn and out chop, $27.



Potatoes. Ji‘he old potato market show-

cd unusual strength last week all over

the country ~und the local market ad-

vanced the price to the dollar mark.

flood stock is quoted at $1 per bu. New

Bermudas, 825067275 per bu. A



Provisions—Family pork. 818.5011‘19;

mess pork, $18: light short clear. $18.50;

heavy short clear, $19.50: pure lard, 111,30;

kettle rendered lard, 12140; bacon, 13%c;

shoulders, 8%c; smoked hams, 12c; picnic

hams, 81/30.



Dairy and Food Products.



Butter.»—No change of any consequence

has occurred in this trade the past week

and a fair amount of business is being

done on the basis ruling a week ago.

Quotations: Extra creamery, 28c; firsts,





26c; packing stock, 15c; dairy, 18c.





 





Eggs.—,A1tho theEaster demand is past





the market has so many strong points





that trade is going on with prices slightly

improved since last week. The storage

people are not getting their usual supply.

Fresh stock is being quoted at 1964c per

dozen.



Poultry.——The trade in live and dressed

poultry is firm but the offerings are-so

short that a large movement is impos«

sible, Quotations: Dressed chickens,

15@15%c; fowls, 14%@150; ducks, 16@17c;

geese, 11((y12c; turkeys, 20@22c. Live—

Spring chickens, 14%@15c; fowls. 14c:

ducks, 15@16c; geese, 10@11c; turkeys,-

18@20c per lb.





 





Cheese. Michigan, 16@16%c; brick,

cream, 17%@18c; schweitzer, 19@200;





limburger, June, 150; Oct., 17c per lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.





Apples.-—Market firm. Best grades are

quoted at $5.50@6.50 per bbl. Western

apples in bushel boxes, $3@3.75.



Onions.—Spanish, $1.80 per bu; home-

grown at 70@‘75c per bu; Bermudas, $2.75

per crate.



Vegetables.——Green onions, 15c per doz;

radishes, 25c per doz; cucumbers, $1.25@

1.50 per doz; lettuce, 12c per 1b; head

lettuce. $3 per hamper; watercress, 40c

per doz; spinach, $1 per hamper; pars-

nips, $1 per bu; oyster plant, 40c per doz.

asparagus, $1.50@1.75 per doz.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.



Egg dealers looked for a drop the day

after Easter but were disappointed, the

market remaining firm. They are paying

the country merchants 18c case count.

The dairy butter market is also firm.

tho quotations are unchanged. Dressed

hogs are scarce and higher. being quoted

at 8%c, and in some cases 9c has been

paid farmers. Potatoes are higher. The

sale of 8,000 bu. at Traverse City this

.week for $1 per bu. is causing a stir in

other markets thrliout the state. \Vheat

continues to soar, the price this week

reaching $1.35.



Quotations follow:



Grains—\Vheat, $1.35; corn, 68c; oats,

55c; buckwheat, 60c per bu; rye, 750.



Beans—Handpicked, $2.25 per bu.



Butter.—Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.

21c; N0. 2, 160; crea-mcry in tubs, 26%0;

prints, 270.



Cheese—Michigan full cream is selling

at 16@16%c per lb; brick, 17c; Swiss, 17c;

limburger, 17c.



Eggs—Case count, 18c.



Apples—New York, $5@6 per bbl.



Potatoes.~$1 per bu.



Cattle.——Cows, $2.50fi04 per cwt; steers

and heifers, best quality, $3@5; dressed

mutton, 8@9c: dressed veal, 6609c;

dressed beef, cows, 561270; steers and

heifers, 6%m‘9c.



Hogs—Dressed, 8340.



Live Poultry. _ Fowls, 121/2@13%c;

chickens, 13fi'14c; roosters, 96010c; tur—

keys, 18@19c; ducks, 13fiiil4c; capons,

2060210; broilers, 11,; t0 2 lbs., 28@300

per lb. '





 





Chlcago.



\Vheat.—-No. 2 red, $1.39@1.40; May,

$127145; July, 81.16%.



Corn.-No. 3, 66%@66%c; May, 6635’;

July, 6534c.



Oats—No. 3 white, 526‘54%c; May, 54;

July, 47%.



Beans.~Pca beans, handpicked, $2.44

(02.47 per bu. for choice; good, .2256!)

2.30: red kidney. $2012.10.



Button—Steady. Creamerics, 2260280;

dairies, 1041250.



Eggs—Steady,

firsts, 20%‘c.



Potatoes—~Steady. Car lots in bulk,

Fancy, $1601.02 per bu; ordinary, 98(0990.





Firsts, 19%c; prime





Pittsburg.

Potatoes.—~l\’lichigan. 95cfii$1.05 per bu.

Apples—Steady. King, $6.25 per bbl;



Spy, $5605.50; Spitzenburg, $5@5.50.

1ngs.—»Frcsh candied, 1$l@19%c per

doz; current receipts, 1867190.

Button—Creamery, 29%e; prints, 30%c

per 1b.





 





Elgin.



Button—Market continues firm at 280

per 1b., which is last week’s price.

Sales for the week amounted to 458,000

lbs. as compared with 445,200 for the

previous Week.





 





Other Potato Markets.



New York.—-Per 180 lbs.. 8262417287,

which is an advance of 120 over last

week's quotations.



St. L0uis.»~Northern stock quoted at

$1411.05 per hit.



Philadelphia.—For good offerings, 93@

95c per bu.





 





Boston.



‘VOOl.—AT11(‘1‘G is little to be said about

the wool situation. This is the “be-

tween” seaSon where the old clip has

passed into the hands of the manufac-

turers and the new clip is not, actively

upon the, market. Tlchvcr, agents are

in the west and central states doing some

contract 'work at prices that look good

to the growers. The new clip is surely

to meet a good demand and the prospects

for the trade were never better than at

the present time. (‘imtracting in Ohio

and Michigan is being pursued, with

prices around 25 cents.





THE I:lVE srocK MAEKETS.





 





Buffalo.

April 12, 1909.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards, ‘

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of sale stOck here today as

follows: Cattle, 130 loads: hogs, 13,600

head; sheep and lambs, 15,800; calves,

2,400.



The cattle market opened slow and

during the first two hours Very little

business was transacted. After that time

however. the trade improved and sales

were made at an advance of from 10 to

15c per hundred over last week. At the

close the yards are fairly well cleaned

and we look for some improvement on the





good weight cattle from this .time on. ‘A

few ‘odd cattle sold today as high as

$6.60, no loads Over $6.50. ' '



We quote: Best export steers, $6@

6.50; best 1,200 to 1,300 lb. shipping steers,

$5.75@6.‘25; best 1,000 to 1,100 lb. (10.,

$5.50@6; best fat cows, $4.50@5; fair to

good, $3.75@4; trimmers, $2.50@2.75,; best

fat heifers, $5.50@5.75;light fat heifers,

$4@4.25; best bulls, $4.75@5; bologna

bulls, $3.75@4; best feeding steers, 800

to 900 lb. dehorned, $4.50@4.75; 700 to 750

lb. dehorned stockers, $4.25@4.50; com-

mon stockers, $3.50@3.75.



The good cows today sold higher but

the common kinds were very dull and

hard to sell.



We quote:' Best cows, $45@55; com-

mon, $306035.



’ _The hog market today was fairly ac-

tive and prices about steady with Sat-





urfilay. At the close about everything is

so . ‘

We quote: Medium and heavy, $7.70@





7.75, two or three decks choice $7.80;

mixed, $7.65@7.70; best yorkers, $7.65@

7.70; light yorkers, $7.25@7.40; pigs, $7@

7.10; roughs, $6.70@6.75; stags, $5@5.25.



The lamb market today was a little

better than Saturday. We look for steady

prices on handy lambs but lambs weigh-

‘mg around 90 to 95 lbs. are in very little

demand and are very hard sellers. Willat

few are selling sold from $8@8.15. There

will be about 15 loads of heavy lambs

left over tonight. Two or three loads of

choice handy lambs sold at $8.50.



We quote: Top lambs, $8.35@8.40; fair

to good, $8608.25; culls, $7@7.75; skin

culls, $5.50 (116.25; yearlings, $7@7.25;

wethers, $6. 5@6.50; ewes, ~$5.75@6; cull

sheep, $4@5; best veals, $8608.25; medium

to good, $7@7.75; heavy, $4@5. _





 





Chicago.

April 12, 1909.



Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 18,000 34,000 18,000

Same day last year .21,328 37,928 14,747

Received last week ..40,296 115,884 68,345

Same week last year.44,606 115,132 59,433

l'nusually small as were last week’s

receipts of cattle, they were sufficient to

meet the extremely limited requirements

of buyers at a time when the consumption

of beef was materially lessened by its

great dearness and a fast observed by a.

large part of the population of the coun-

try. As usual, the receipts were dis-

tributed over the week extremely un-

evenly, the only large arrivals being those

of Monday, when prices were largely

1(ifl15c lower. Later in the week the

small offerings resulted in this decline

being recovered, despite the small de-

mand. Beef steers have sold chiefly at

85.5041‘660, with the commoner kind of

light—weight steers going at $4.75@5.25 and

choice heavy shipping cattle at $6.50@

7.10. A good class sold around $6.10@6.45,

with medium steers bringing $5.50@6.

Buyers have ceased to pay the former

good premium for longfed heavy beeves,

and the fat little steers and heifers have

come into general favor, the export trade

being so small that an important outlet

for heavy steers is largely removed.

Butcher stock has shown activity and

firmness, cows and heifers selling at $3.30

(116.10, with sales of canners and cutters

at $1.90@3.25, 'while bulls sold at 836175.35.

There has been a marked increase in the

marketing of calves, and prices have

weakened, with sales at 827560750 per

100 lbs. The stocker and feeder trade

has been checked by smaller offerings

and advancing prices, sales ranging at

$3705.60. Cattle weighing 600 to 900 lbs.

at $4.40@5 were the most popular With

buyers. and fancy stockers went at $5.

Milkers and springers had a fair outlet

at $256065 per head. Cattle receipts

must be held down if prices are to be



maintained.



The receipts today were unusually

small for Monday, and prices were firm

to 100 higher, with a $7.15 top. There

was a better export demand.



Hogs are irrepressible and refuse to

be held down, every week scoring fresh

high records. It is a case of large local

and shipping demands, eastern buyers

wanting a big share of the offerings, and

competition buyers gives sellers a fine

opportunity to make their power felt.

The average quality of the receipts has

undergone marked improvement recently.

and the average weight has increased

some, but it is still below the level of

recent years, being 208 lbs, compared

with 212 lbs a year ago, 229 lbs. two

years ago and 219 lbs. three years ago.

I’rovisitms have advanced with hogs, de-

spite thc fact that they were already

extremely high. Fresh pork has been

having a large sale, but its consumption

is expected to fall off some. as the weather

becomes warmer. That has been the ex-

perience of former years. Hogs are ex—

pected to go still higher, as the supply

back in the country is under-stood to be

short. The market today 'was active at

further advances of Mlltic, the receipts

being much smaller than usual for Mon-

day. Hogs sold at 86.97.617.55, a new high

record, and among the sales may be men-

tioncd 41 barrows that averaged 454 lbs.

at, $7.55 and 40 stags that averaged 520

lbs. at the same price. The best light

hogs sold at 347.47%.



Shecp and lambs sold much better early

last week than they did later, and buy-

ers filled their late orders on more fav-

orable terms. linshorn consignments

were greatly preferred by buyers, and

shorn flocks had to be closed out at a dis-

count of about $1.25 per 100 lbs. Colorado

lambs made up a big share of the offer—

ings and were much better in quality as

a rule, than the native, lambs. A few

spring lambs of ordinary quality were

sold at $86012 per 100 lbs. and a few

western wooled feeding lambs went at‘

$7.50. The future promises well for

shcepmcn who market fat stock. and in

all probability it will pay well to make.

your holdings prime in quality. The

lighter receipts today than are usually

seen on Monday resulted in better prices,

wooled lambs selling at $7608.30. and

clipped lambs selling at $6427.15. Wooled

ewes sold at $3.50@6.50, wethers at $6.15

(06.75, yearlings at $6.50@7.50 and rams





 

 

   





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





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.6 to 10 all can





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Nothing better.‘ 014,000. .

BOURNE dc FISK. ‘



601-2 Chamber of Commerce. DetroIt. Mich.





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FINEST DAIRY FARM In the UNITED STATES.

320 acres—Gravel loam; 20 acres A-l timber; on

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nll necesnry outbuildings: milk house which cost

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It 26c 3 gallon. This farm shows an Income of be-

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APRIL 17, 1909.

THIS Is THE LAST EDITION.





In the first edition, the Detroit Live

Stock markets are reports of last week;

all other markets are right up to date;

Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the last edition. The first

edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-

tion Friday morning. The first edition is

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-

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





Thursday’s Market.

April 15, 1909.



Cattle.



Market steady at





Receipts, 095. last





'week‘s prices.





We quote: Extra dry—fed steers and

heifers, $5.50@6; steers and heifers, 1,000





steers and heifers,





to 1,200, $5.25@5.40;

steers and heifers





800 to 1.000, $5605.25;





that are fat, 500 to 700, $425405; choice

fat cows, $4.50; good fat cows, $4604.25:

common cows, $3@3.50; canners, $1.50@





2; choice heavy bulls, $4.50; fair to good

bolognas, bulls, $375094; stock bulls, $3.50

@3.75; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000,

$4@4.25; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $3.75

@425; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $3.50@4;





stoek heifers, $3 ((93.25; milkers, large,

young, medium age, $40@53; common

milkers, $30@35.





Roe Com. C0. sold Rattkowsky 2 bulls

av 1,070 at $4.25; to Mich. B. Co. 1 cow

weighing 1,020 at $3.75, 2 heifers av 435

at $3.35, 2 cows av 1,100 at $4.25, 1 do

weighing 780 at $2.50, 2 do av 790 at $3,

2 do av 1,020 at $4.25; to Newton B. CO.

20 steers av 804 at $5.10; to Hammond,

Standish & Co. 3 cows av $03 at $3, 1

bull weighing 1.380 at $4, 4 do av 967 at

$4, 1 heifer weighing 700 at $3, 29 steers

av 901 at $5.10, 2 do av 010 at $5.15, 4

do av 845 at $5.15; to Cooke S butchers

av 655 at $4.50, 1 cow weighing 930 at

$3.50, 5 butchers av 770 at $5, 1 bull

weighing 600 at $3.50; to Caplis 16 butch-

ers av 54:: at $4.25, 1 heifer weighing 730

at $4.50; to liamman B. CO. 10 cows av

1.157 at $4.50; to Newton 13. C0. s steers

av $01 at $5.25, 1 heifer Weighing 7210 at

$4.50, 17 steers av 080 at $5.25; to Sulli-

van 1’. Co, 4 butchers av 1.025 at $4, 4

do av 750 at $4.75, 16 steels av 1.022 at

$5.30, 20 do av 1.027 at $5.75; to Show 1

cow weighing 830 at $2.50, 2 do av $35 at





v





$3, 1 do weighing 1,000 at $4, .‘1 do av

066 at $3.25.



Bishop, B. & H. sold \V. Kamman 7

steers av 883 at $5.60, 1 bull weighing

1.000 at $4; to Kamman B. Co. 1 bull

weighing 860 at $1.25, 7 steers av 990 at

$5.25; to Bresnahan 3 do av 1.020 at





$5.50, 1 cow weighing 1.100 at $4.25, 1





bull Weighing 1,030 at $4; to Greene 1

cow weighing 850 at $2.50; to (‘aplis 1





do weighing 750 at $2, 5 do av 980 at

$3.50, 5 do av 1,050 at $31.00, butchers

av 700 at $4.25; to lricinrich 11 steers av

050 at $5.40; to ltehfuss 2 Cows av 1,075

at $4, 1 do weighing 820 at $3; to Kuli

18 steers av 1,008 at $5.25.



Spiccr, M. & R. sold l)ombetky 4 cows

av 800 at $3.25; to Cooper 3 canners av

$80 at $2.75, 5 stOckci's av 408 at $3.710, 6

do av .163 at $3.75; to liresnahan 5 heifers

av 4212 at $3.40, 1 steer av $50 at $5, D

cows av 1,200 at $4, 4 do av 062 at $3.50,

.‘1 do av 60:} at $11.75. 1 bull wcighing 1,2.‘30

at $3.25; to Fry 17 butchers av 583 at $3.80;

to i\iorgan l stockcr “Wig-hing 1370 at,

$3.80; to Rt-ht'uss ~t feeders av 575 at

$3.10; to Brcsnzthan 1 steer weighing

1.170 at $0, 2 cow and bull av 1.205 at $4,

4 (-o\\' and hulls av 1,200 at $4, 1 cow

weighing 850 at $3, 2 do av 010 at $3.50;

to Hammond. S. & (‘0. 21 steers av 1,005!

at $5.00, 2 cows av 1.375 at $4.75, 2 do

av 1.000 at $1.50, 11 steers av 1.000 at

$5.65; to Mil-h. B. (‘0. 14 do av 830 at $5,

1 c 1w weighing .‘1210 at $1.50,



llalcy sold ltattkowsky 1 bull weighing

1.100 at $4.23.



11. N. Johnson

3111 at $3.75.



lialcy sold Schlischcr 10

7:10 at $3.00.



Same sold Sullivan P. (So. 1

Weighing 800 at $4.00.



Veal Calves.





sold S‘llilC :1 cows av

butchers av





llt‘il't‘l‘





Roccipts, 1,211. l\l:ttkct $1611.50 lower

than last Thursday and c'osctl weak,-

many left otcr. lit st, $7017.50; oin-





crs. Visa/110.73; milch c >~.\',< and springcrs.

liishop, l}. & ll. sold Rho-(ton 1:. (To,

4 av N5 at $5, 25:1V 125 at $7.75, 21 av 11!:

at $7.75, 4 av 115 at $7.50; to Hammond,

S. & CO. 2 av 120 at $7.25; to Parkcr, \V.

& Co. 71 av 125 at $7, 18 av 120 at $6.50.

Spicer, M. & R. sold Mich. 13. Co. 28

av 133 at $7.25; 00 Sullivan P. (,‘o. 7 av

140 at $6.50, 1 av 110 at $6, 13 av 125 at

$7.25; to Mich. B. CO. 7 av 135 at $7; to

Burnstine 7 av 125 at $7, 1 weighing 130

at .‘5.

Stliidell & '1‘. sold Brcsnalian 24 av 125

l





S.&





at . .

ll. N. Johnson sold

Co. 17 av 130 at $7.27.

Roe Com. Co. sold (loose 37 av 120 at

$6.50, 3 av 155 at $4: to Hammond, Stand-

ish Sr (‘0. 44 av 130 at $7, 3 av 140 at $5.

Haley sold Mich. R. (‘0. 2 av 115 at

$6.25, 3 av 160 at $7.25, 21 av 150 at $6.85.

'l‘aggart sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 2 av

110 at $5, 9 av 110 at $7.50. ‘

Stephens sold Thompson Bros. 1 wmgh-

ing :00 at $1 .‘1 av 125 at $6.50. _

\Vecks sold l\Ic(}uirc 16 av 12:» at $7.

McKenzie, & C. sold P‘ricdman 1?. av

127 at $7.25. _

Waterman sold Nagle 6 av 160 at $1.

5' av 115 at $6.

) Haley solddtattkowsky 2 av 300 at. $4,

9 av 145 at $6.55. . on - _

Downing sold same 3 av _..0 at $5, 5

av 120 at $7. 0 _

Torrey sold same 10 av 1.12 at $0.25, 1

vvei'rhin 100 at $5. . _

Dawngy sold Burnstine 11 av 111 at





Ilan’lmond,





27.,





Grot’f sold’ Sullivan ..P' CO. 7 av 110

at $6.50.





/'





Kendall sold, same 8 av 110 at $6, 27. av

130 at $7.



Bergen sold Parker, W. & Co. 13 av

145 at $7.25.



Sheep‘ and Larnbs.



Receipts, 2,433. Best wools steady,

clips 10c lower; common sheep not want-

ed; quotations are for clips.





Best lambs, $6.75; fair to good lambs,

$6616.50; light to common lambs, $4@5;





wool lambs, $761‘R; fair to good sheep,

$4074.50; culls and common, $25003.



Bishop, B. & ll. sold Sullivan P. Co.

8 lambs av 70 at $7; to Nagle 13 do av 75

at $7.50, 27 clip lambs av 85 at $6.50,

5 sheep av 70 at $4, 212 lambs av 78 at

$8; to Harland 35 clip lambs av 68 at

$6.25, 21 clip sheep av 90 at $3; to Fitz-

patrick Bros. 5 do av 125 at $4.30, 56

lambs av 72 at $6.30; to \V. Young 56 do

av 68 at $7.60; to Nagle 81' do :tv 86 at:

$8, 12 clip lambs av 77 at $6.30; to Fitz—

putrick Bros. 5 sheep av 110 at $5.50, 11

lambs av 67 at $7, 25 clip sheep av 95

at $4.50, 2 do av 130 at $3.50.



Bergin sold Nagle 33 clip lambs av 75

at $6.50.



G. J. Smith sold Sullivan P. Co. 115

lambs av 85 at $8.



Tubbs & Son sold Newton B. Co. 3

sheep av 95 at $4, 4 lambs av 77 at $7.



Jedele sold same 40 clip lambs av 80

at $6.50.



Downing sold W. Young 3 sheep av

100 at $4.25, 32 clip lambs av 67 at $6.75.



Stephens sold Thompson Bros. 27. clip

sheep av 80 at $4.60.



Gr-off sold same 1 do weighing 110 at $5.

8 lambs av 88 at $7.



Torrey sold Mich. B. Co. 14 clip lambs

av 100 at $6.40.



Roe Com. Co. sold Harland 4 clip Sheep

av 125 at $3.50; to Esehrich 2 do av 140

at $4.50, 37 lambs av 57 at $6.50.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Eschrich 1?. lambs

av 50 at $5.50, 6 sheep av 120 at $5.25;

to Mich. B. Co. 14 lambs av 67 at $7.85,

4 sheep av 150 at $4.50; to Fitzpatrick





Bros. 10 clip lambs av 77 at $5.30.

Hogs.





Receipts, 5,303. Market 10@150 lower

than last Thursday.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $7607.15; pigs, $6.25m>6.50; light york—

ers, $050577: stags, 1;} off.



Market 1060150 lower than last week.



Spicer, M. & . sold Sullivan -P. C».

18 av 170 at $6.00, 52 av 150 at $6.75.



Roe. (‘onr (.‘o. sold same 00 av 180 at.

$7.15, 102 av 210 at $7.25, 46 av 160 at

$0.10, 100 av 185 at $7.20, 74 av 180 at.

$7.05, 180 av 200 at $7.10, 34 av 150 at

$6.80, 3.0 av 175 at $7.20.



Sundry shippers sold same 100 av 100

at $7.20 60 av 180 at $7.05, 188 av 185

at $7.10.



Bishop, B. & II. sold Hammond. Stand—

ish & Co. 365 av 1.60 at $7.10, 101; av 150

at $7.05, 120 av 100 at $7.20, 410 av 150





at $7, 354 av 170 at $7.15, 93 av 135 at

$6.00.



Sundry shippers sold same 98 av 146

at $7.05, 117 av 154 at $7, 51 av 190





at $7.10.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Parker, 1V. & Co.

96 av 121 at $7.10, 31) av 140 at $6.90, 78

av 200 at $7.25, 101 av 1.00 at $7.20, 111

av 180 at $7.15, 155 av 170 at $7, 46 av

160 at $7.10.



Sundry shippers so'd same 312 av 114





at $7, 205 av 200 at $7.10, 140 av 16!)

at $7.15.

Friday's Market.

April .0, 1.00.0.





Cattle.



Receipts. ‘17. Market steady at Thurs-



tl;l‘."s iti'lccs.

\Vc ouotc: Extra dry—fed stccrs and



hcii’crs, $5.50m‘0: steers and hcit‘t-rs. 1.000





In 1,200, $5.25fil540; stccrs and heifers

$00 to 1,000, $5415.35; stccrs and licifcrs

that arc fat, 500 to 700, $125015: choice

fat cows, $4.50; good fat cows, $4074.25;





common cows, $341,121.50: canncrs, $150012;

choicc heavy hulls. $1.50; fair to good

bolognas, bulls, $11.75fir-1; stock bulls,

.‘jfl’..50(tl.‘l.75; clioicc 1'ccding‘ stccrs, 5’00 to

1_t)00_ $150075; fair t'cctling stccrs, $00 to

1000, $7101 1.25; choice stockcrs, 500 to 700,

54704.50; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $25000





3.75; stock hcil‘crs, $314]\3.50; milkers,

large, young, mcdium ago, $104553; Com—

mon tmlkcrs, $256135.





Spiccr. l\'l. & R. sold Mich. B. (‘0. 4

hcil'crs av 500 at $4.20, 1 steer weighing

710 at. $1.75.



llishop, R. 8: ll. sold same 4 steers av

1.153 at $5.75, 6 do av 016 at $5.25, 2 bulls

av 1,400 at $4, 2 do av 810 at $1.25.



ROe Pom. (*o. sold Hammond, S. & (‘0.

20 steers av 1,185 at $6.



Bishop, 1:. & H. sold Greese 4 cows av

920 at $2.25.



iishop, 13. &. H. sold Sullivan P. Co.

7 butchers av 96?) at $4.50, 13 cows av

{:00 at $31.50, 1 bull av 1,550 at $4, 2 do av

$75 at $1.50, 2 stccrs av 975 at. $5.50, 2

bulls av 1,210 at $3.75, 1 d0 Weighing 1.500

at $4, 8 butchers av 815 at $3.75, 5 cows

av 1,050 at $3.



Veal Calves.



Market dull 5040750





Receipts, 3i. and





Imvcr than on 'l‘hursday. Best, $7.500)»

7.75; others, $1607. Milch cows and

springcrs, steady.



Bishop, B. & ll. sold Newton R. (‘o.





11 av 130 at $7.50.



Same sold Sullivan P. (‘0. 8 av 125 at

$7.50, 5 av 125 at $7.50, 5 av 115 at $7.50,

5 av 120 at $7.50.



Same sold Parker, \V.

130 at $7.75.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 26. l\’l:1rl<ct steady at Thurs-

day's prices. Best limbs, $775699; fair

to good lambs, $7617.50; light to cnnmou

lambs, $650407; yearlings, $6@6.75; fair

to good sheep, $50171; culls and common,

$350,604; clip lambs, $6.50@6.80.



Hogs.

Good grades





& C0. 23 av





Receipts, 508.

others strong.

Range of prices:





50 higher;





Light to good butch—

ers, $7.25@7.35: pigs. $6.25@6.50; light

yorkers, $6.906177.10; stags. 1/3 off.



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

(‘o. 227 av 180 at $7.30, 80 av 190 at

$7.35, 114 av 150 at $7.25.





THE. Mici—IIGAN"





 





 





FARMER.





ADDITIONAL VETERINARY.





 





Cow Leaks Milk—Have cow that seems

to be all right every way, except she

leaks milk. How can this be prevented?

.1. W., Deford, Mich.——I know of no better

plan than to milk her three times a day.

Cows. that leak milk are usually good

ones; therefore. all things considered,

you would be making a mistake in reduc—

ing her food supply with. a view towards

lessening her milk.



Luxuation of Stine—I noticed in the

veterinary column a statement regarding

luxuation of stifle. Now, I have a 3—year-

old colt that has had stifle trouble for

more than two years. XVhen walking the

joint snaps, but he suffers no pain and

it bothers him very little, if any, when

traveling on smooth ground; however, he

steps over things with difficulty. There

appears to be a weakness or inability to

raise the foot high off the ground. Do

you think this colt will ever be fit for

work? I am told that this colt was stifled

when he was a year old. My veterinary

book states that such an ailment is in-

curable. C. O. 8., Boardman, Mich.—

A chronic ailment of this kind should be

regarded as SOFiOUS. IIO‘VVQVCI‘, it is pos-

sible for your colt to recover. The groove

on end of bones has perhaps partially

filled with tissue, thereby preventing the

patella (cap) from remaining in its nor-

mal position. Besides. the ligaments that

hold this bone. in position are perhaps

weak. You will obtain the best results

by blistering with one part red iodide

mercury, one part powdered cantharides

and eight parts lard every ten days and

if you are going to break him and use

him for light work, then apply very light

applications of this remedy every few

days, just enough to counter-irritate the

parts, instead of producing an active

blistering effect.





Grubs in the Head of Sheep—My sheep

are, atfected with grub in the head and

tight of them have died from this cause.

llow can I prevent others gong the same

way? '1‘. P., Port Hope, Miclr—What is

known as “grub" is the larvae lly of the

sheep, the gatliiy. 'l'hesc flies deposit

their eggs about the noses of sheep dur-

ing the hot summer months, meeting the

heat and moisture of the nose they grow

and make their way up nose into the

nasal cavities and climb higher up into

the sinuses. lodging just below the eyes.

They are not always easily dislodged: it

often becomes necessary to trephine thru

bone of face before they can be washed

out. l-lowever, you may bc able to dis—

place them by blowing some scotch snuff

up into nostrils once or twice a day. A

decoction of snuff and ‘hot water or weak





tobacco water may give you about as

good results as the snuff. However, I





have obtained the best results from snuff.



Catarrhal lntluenza.—l have a black

mare 12 years old that has been sick for

the past two wecks; there is considerable

dis-charge from her eyes and some from

nose. \\'hat had I bctter give her‘.‘ F.

11., Saginaw, l\l‘ich.~—Yom' mare suffers

from a light attack of catarrhal influenza.

This is not a scrious ailment. l'lOWt‘Vt‘l‘,

you should avoid getting her wet. or

exposing her to Severe. atnmsphorlc

changt-s, from hot to cold. (live, 1;; oz.

powdered sulfate iron, 1,4 oz. haltingr soda

and ,1 oz. ginger at a dose in food three

times a day until she rcCovers. Put 1,1)





dr. sulfate zinc in a pint of boilcd \\'.‘tlt‘l'

and apply “to eyes night and morning

until the discharge ceases. She should





he fcd some well saltcd bran mashcs or

vcgctablcs to keep hcr bowels open.





Turkeys are ’l‘rouhlol with Abscess.—

\\111 sonic one tcll tuc 1hru those ("ol-

umns what will cure my turkeys. Thev





arc trouhlcd \\'.1il :1 bunch or swclling‘

under the eye which. it' lauccd. discharges

pus: after awhile the swelling acts so

large it troublcs lilv‘i'l about eating, then

tltcy :vppcar to dit- cithct' from starvation

or other causes. (No name or address,

but siirncd a sltlist‘t'ilrct'i.—-»You are 111-1‘-

ltaps :1 subscrihcr of the M. F” but how

arc wit to know. unhss you givc your

panic and :oldrcss. Your turkeys become

rut'cctrd .in sonic way. or clsc bruisi- their

lace witch rcsults in absccss. (1pcn up

abscess t'rcclv with a sharp pcn—kuife,

appq' pcroxido-hvdroccn once a dav. ion

uunutcs latcr apply eduai parts iodot'orttt.

barac acid and t'tunic acid. lie sure that"

your turkcys are kept in a clean place

and are not roosting in a draft or whcrc

11 :5 too damp.





United States Rubber Company





«'12 Broadway, New York, April 1, 1000.



The Board of Directors of the. T’nv’ted

States Rubber Company has this day do-

clarcd from its not protitsa quarterly div—

idcnd of Two Percent on the First T’re-

t'crrcd Stock (including all outstanding old

“T’rcferrml” Stock), and a quarterly div-

idcr...’ of Ono and tine—half T’crccnt on the

Second l’t't‘ft‘rrt‘d titot'li of this (‘otnpanv

to Stockholders of record at :: P, M. 511

Thursday, April 15th, 1000, payable, with-

out closing of Transfer Books, April .‘ttlth,

1001). JOHN J. \VA’l.‘St.)N, .ll‘.., Treasurer.





 





 





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DAlRYING VS. FEEDING.





 





I am asked by a subscriber of the

Michigan Farmer to discuss the question

of dairying compared with the feeding

of steers or lambsf He wishes to know

the merits of the two branches of live

stock husbandry; that is, of course, my

opinion on them, and this I am glad to

give briefly. In the first place, dairying

is a cash business, differing in this re-

spect from any other branch of farming

that I know of. Of course, we might

say that any kind of farming is a cash

business, or in other words, that it mat-

ters little What we raise on the farm,

we can find a market for it and get

cash for the product, and this is true. I

can remember hearing my father tell of

a time when you could not sell wheat in

the city of Grand Rapids for cash, and

the same was true in other markets; but

those times have passed. There is a

cash market for all agricultural products,

for they are all needed at the present

time.



And yet, when we say dairying is a

cash business, it has a different meaning

from this. If you grow your own steers,





THE MICHIGAN FARMERS





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tent in a financial way to feed steers 9r

lambs, because these kinds of business

take quite a large working capital. But

dairying, being a business in which the

products are turned into cash every

week, enables a man to start with little

capital. It is a short investment and the

ordinary man can keep a good commer-

cial herd 'of dairy cows upon his farm

when it would be impossible for ‘him to

go into the business of feeding steers or

lambs.

The Element of Speculation.



Dairying is a business in which the

idea of speculation is practically elimi-

nated. There is no risk to run. You

can tell every week whether you are

making money or not. If you are not

making money, you can adjust your busi-

ness so that you will be, while in feeding

lambs, or steers, or hogs, you cannot

tell how much money you are making, or

whether you are going to make any at

all or not, until the product is finished





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and put upon the market, and this often ‘





occurs several months, sometimes a. year,

and, where you raise the product, even

more time than that may elapse before

you know anything about how much

you are going to make. Now, this kind

of business is a speculation. A year ago

this last winter how many men would

have fed high—priced corn to hogs if they

had known what hogs were going to bring

when they got them fattened. They





 





 





 





 





 





 





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or your own lambs, it takes considerable

time to grow them. Then you have to

fatten them and you don’t get one single

dollar out of the investment until your

lambs, or your steers, are ready for mar-

ket. And so this is not a cash business

in the sense that dairying is a cash busi-

ness. Again, if you purchase your steers

or your lambs you have to invest your

money in them. Then you have invested

money in the feed which you have grown

for them, and you probably have to bor-

row money to buy more fccd before you

«an atten them. You don‘t get a cent

out of your investment until you put the

SIN-1‘s or lambs upon the market.



Now, dairying is a cash business in a

different sense. You feed the dairy cows

today and tomorrow you get your cash.

You can figure up every week or every

day, if you wish to, and know just ex-

actly where you stand in dairying. The

dairy products sell for cash at frequent

intervals and one does not haVc to wait

until he has put considerable money into

the feeding of an animal before he gets

his money back. You have the money

every week or every two weeks to take

care of current expenses, to run your

business with, to buy more feed with, in

fact, to do anything that you wish to do,

while with other forms of live stock

husbandry you have to wait for a con—

siderable time and get your money in a

bunch. Now, the business that brings

in the cash at stated intervals makes

the farmer independent, because the





.cash to meet current expenses makes him





independent. lle can pay cash for the

necessities of life, for the luxuries of life;





he can pay his hired man every Saturday





night, as hired men should be paid, while

if the steer feeder, or lamb feeder, does

this he must borrow the money and wait

until he sells his stock.



Again, dairying being a cash business

makes it possible for the ordinary farmer

with a little capital to do a good busi-





couldn't tell. They had no means of

telling. find their money, however, been

invested in cows, they could have told

every week whether they were making

any money or ,not. If they were not

making money they could have adjusted

their business accordingly. And it is the

same way in feeding steers or lambs.

You do not know until you sell them.

There is a great deal of luck in steer

feeding and lamb fl‘i‘dlng. If you buy

on the right kind of a market and sell

on the right kind of a market you will

make some money, but, on the other

hand, if you buy on the wrong kind of

a market, and you have no control over

this market, or sell on the wrong kind





of a market, over which you have no ‘





control whatever, you may be unlucky

and lose. It is a speculation, while dairy-

ing is not a. speculation.



Very few men can practice feeding

without going heavily in debt. I ven-

ture. to say that 75 per cent of the men

who feed lambs and steers in a commer-

cial way have to borrow money when

they buy their steers, or lambs, or else

borrow to buy feed with before, they get

them fattcned, 0n general principles I

do not object to going into debt where

the investment is safe and sane, but the

ordinary farmer cannot afford to go very

heayily in debt on this sort of a propo—

sition, because it is a speculation from

beginning to end. If he loses he is prac-

tically ruined. In the dairy business

he does not need to go in debt because

he has the money at frequent intervals

to pay cash for the feed which he gives

‘his cows, and to buy new ones if nec-

essary. Consequently he is relieved from

the worry and the risk borne by the man

who invests large sums in feeding steers

or lambs.



Better- Returns and Less Depletion of

Fertility.



Then again, there is more profit in



dairying than there is in feeding either,





 





 





KEEN SPORTSMEN

Never Waste Ammunition on

“nun nuus"





The DeLaval Separator Company in their advertisements beg to be excused

for devoting so much space to the United States Separator, which they consider





the United States Separator is not dead but is the most vigorous duck in the

whole flock.





Keen sportsmen never waste ammunition on “dead ducks."

The facts showing who was the original Inventor of the first practical con-

tinuous flow Centrifugal Cream Separator, as disclosed by the records in the





inal inventor.



These records show that DeLaval, beaten in his claim of priority by other

applicants, bought up the Houston & Thomson application (which ante—dated his

own), in which he filed a substitute application and added the identical claims

that he was beaten on, in_the interference with the other applicants.





. The Patent Ofiice then allowed these claims to Houston & Thomson and

the Patent went to issue.



The United States Circuit Court of Appeals afterwards decided in effect that

Houston &. Thomson were not entitled to the broad claims, and Dr. DeLaval “was

not in it.”



DeLav-al bought the Houston & Thomson application to deprive ythe rightful

Inventors of their invention and then Deliaval got beaten at his own game in

the Courts.



The Deliaval in their advertisements accuse the United States of utilizing in

their Separator an invention which they purchased.



This is not true, as an examination of the DeLaval patent referred to and

the United States Separator patents will readily disclose the falsity of the De-

Laval claim. This is another “word claim” of theirs.



The 1009 Model i'nlted States Separator is covered .ly patents (720,154;

726,438; 732,750; 806,346, and 859,185) owned by the U. S. and which cover its

scientific features which make the United States Separator so much superior to

the DeLavul and every other Separator on the market. These are but a few of

the nearly ‘10 patents owned by the United States.



Another thing, they accuse the United States of being responsible for the

nulliilcation by the Courts of a patent purchased by the DeLaval in their efforts

to “squelch" the United States Separator, which patent they admit they never

used but which they bought and paid $30,000.00 for, according to the Court rec-

ords, in the hope that it would “squelch” the United States Separator that was

beating them so vigorously in the market. .



It is true the Court decided that they had spent their $20,000.00 in vain. The

United States Separator accomplished better results with a bowl of half the

diameter and with less than one-third as many parts as the DeLaval had.



The DcLaval whine bccausc the United States holds the TVorld‘s record in

a test with the Del.aval of 50 consecutive runs on 10 different breeds of cows.



If this record is so ancient and so non-progressive, what is the reason they

have not been able to beat it in all these eight years they have been attempting

to do so. Let them show a more progressive record in this Country or any other,

if they can do so.



The U. S. is still eight years ahead of the DeLaval.



The Deliaval Company claim that the LaGrange Creamery is a little Creamery

and admit that it is near Poughkeepsie.



If it is so small and of so little consequence, why did they spend so much

money at the llutehcss County Fair, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the Fall of 1899

and get the President of that Fair to offer a money premium for a test at the

Fair between the DeLaval and the United States Separators? Why, if it was

so inconsequential, did they stop their Factory and turnvout all their men without

loss of pay to “whoop it up” on the day of this great test?



It was apparent to the public that the DcLaval Company felt satisfied they

had things fixed to win the contest, but the test of the cream showed that the

United States had secured more butter fat from the quantity of milk than had

the DeLaval.



Again, if it is so inconsequential why did they have eight of their best can-

vassers immediately thereafter in that one locality to solicit orders and to pre-

vent, if possible, the farmers from buying the United States Separator?

Yet when the canvass was closed there were three times as many farmers who

had taken the linited States, as there Were who had taken the DeLaval.



The DoLuval accuse us of changing from year to year the date of President

Hoyt’s letter. This is a falsehood. \Ve do not find it necessary to falsify records

and thus deceive the people. The facts remain true as Mr. Hoyt states them,

that there are three United States Separators to every one of the DeLavai.



The DeLaval Company advertise that they make more trade allowances for

old United States Separators than for any other make of Separator.





\Ve guess that is true, for there are more United States Separators in use

and we have been repeatedly informed by users of United States Separatnys that

the Delmval agents have bored them to death to ex'change and before giving

up their persistence, have offered to give a new DcLavai in even exchange for

an old United States.



Quite a number of former traveling salesmen of the DeLaval Company haVQ

informed us that they have been instructed from Headquarters to give a new

DeLaval Separator for an old l'nited States Separator, if they Could not make

any better trade and that their instructions have been from the l)eLaval Head-

quarters, that the repairs on the DcLaval in a short time would make a good

handsome profit on this kind of an exehang .



The DeLaval Company refer to their farm sizes of Separators as the “Baby”

type.



The 'United States spanked the “Baby” so hard in days gone by that they

seemed for a while to try to tell the truth and not make such extravagant claims,

but they have got into their old tricks again, making extravagant, false state-

ments and “word claims."



The above, we think is sufiicient for this time; to be continued later on, but

in the meantime send for Catalogue No. 111.





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lambs or steers, on the average.- It has

been proved conclusively at several ex-

periment stations that the food necessary

to make a pound of dressed beef, if fed

to a. dairy cow, will make a. pound of but-

ter. Now dressed beef usually sells for

from 6 to 71/2 or Sc per 1b., while a pound

of butter will sell from 20c to 300. To be

sure, it requires more labor in the mak‘

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dairy cow than it does in caring for the

steer, but the extra expense of labor is

not nearly enough to offset the difference

in profit which one makes in dairying

over and above steer feeding. It takes

a good steer to make a gain of 2 lbs. :1

day for any considerable length of time.

dressed beef. We are getting hundreds

of cows nowadays that will make 2 lbs.

of butter per day on the same feed, and

even on less feed than it takes to make

the 2 lbs. of beef on the steer. Besides

that, when you sell the steer your entire

product is gone and you have to begin

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.t'his year, and next your she will repeat





the process. You have your investment

and it is capable of producing the same

profit year after year.



When we come to the question of soil

fertility, dairying wins again. Where

you grow an animal upon the farm, fat—

ten it and sell the carcass off the la‘nd,

you are selling much more fertility than

when you sell dairy products, especially

if you sell butter. You keep the cow

year after year on the farm and sell

nothing but the butter from this cow.

By so doing you are reducing the ex—

haustion of the soil to a minimum, while

if you raise the calf, grow it upon the

farm, or even if you buy it and fatten it,

it removes from the farm all the nitro-

gen, phosphoric acid and potash that its

carcass contains. “’hcn the, dairy cow

dies of old age you c1111 dissect her and

compost her and thus lose practically

nothing in the way of plant food f111m the

farm. Many other things can be said

in favor of dairying as compared with

feeding, but this article is already too

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A GRAIN RATION FOR COWS ON

PASTURE.





“'hat would be a good grain ration for

milch cows when they are pastured?



In order to take better care of the

manure pile, which of these two things

would you choose to do—build :1 concrete

wall around the yard and a. roof over it,

or would you build a concrete. floor, and

eaves-trofs on the barn, without a roof

over it?



Ottawa Co. D. H. I}.



I think the best grain ration I ever

fed to dairy cows on pasture was com-

posed of dried b11111 pulp and colionsecd

men]. The boot pulp was moistened 11

]111]f :1 d:1y before it was fed and then the

cottonseed 1111111] was sm'inklcd on ihc

moistened beet pulp. it is diilicult to say

how lunch grain you ought to feed {1 cow

on pasture because, it 11]] depends upon

the condition of the pasture. If it is good

pasture, you need only :1 little, perhaps

none; then you n1-1-d to increase the grain

ration 11s the. pasture becomes poor. l

would feed the. dried b11111 pulp 11nd ('11l«

ionsccd 1111111] in the, proportion 11f 4 lbs.

of tho bcct pulp to one of the coilonseed

meal. if you haven't dried beet pulp

and cottonseed 1111-11], 1‘ '1 l would feed

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tion of pasture, or pasture and grain

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'A Manure Shed or Pit.



I think the covm‘cd manure shed would

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If you had 21 cement floor in your barn-

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amount of rain during the season, the

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it out on the land as fast 11s made when

you have time to do it, and thus spread

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labor and the least loss of the manure.



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BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APl’LIED TO

DAIRYING. -





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When a. trained business man desires

to engage in manufacturing of any kind

he first makes a careful investigation of

every phase of the situation. Not alone

the source and cost of the raw material

to be used and the general methods to be

adopted, but among the more important





questions is that of the most efficient

and latest improved machinery. The

farmer who grows grasses, hay, grain





and other crops on his farm and con~

denses them into dairy products becomes

not only a dairyman but a manufacturer.

The dividends from his plant depend

largely upon three things: The cost of

raw material used in manufacturing, the

economy of production and the quality

of the finished product.



In applying business principles to the

management of the dairy farm let us

consider the question from a purely busi-

ness, or money-making standpoint. First

we will discuss the supply of raw mate-





rial. We can get cheaper grass, hay

and grain for the production of dairy

products by growing larger crops per

acre with the same labor and expcnso





now expended upon smaller crops, or we

can grow the same amount of grass,

hay and grain upon a 105s number of

acres with less labor and expense. It

costs but little more to grow a crop of

three tons of hay to an acre than to

grow a crop of one ton which barely

pays the cost of cutting and harvesting.





The increase above the one ton is a

cheaper raw material for the manufac-

turer of dairy products. It is plain to





see that the farmer who grows large

crops on each acre, at a reasonable ex-

pense, has cheaper raw material for his

manufacturing plant than the one who

grows small crops.



The cost of raw material used in the

process of converting farm crops into a

more condensed commodity is an import-

ant factor, and one that a trained busi-





ncss man would carefully consider. The

successful feeding of dairy cattle begins

with the growing of the feed, the same





as the successful management of a man-

ufacturing plant: begins with the cost of

material. The successful manufac-

employs the best methods known

by science to decrease the cost of pro—

ducing his raw materials. The farther

should use the same business sagacity

and employ the best methods known by





ra w

t u r c r





science to reduce the cost of producing

his g“ass, hay and grain. -





The Milk-Producing Machine.





After raw material is at hand it be-

conics a. question of Dl‘tlt'uqs, and what

machine or machines shall be utilized,

in convtrsion of the various raw mate—

rials into the finished product. The ma,-





chincs used in modern manufacturing

plants have passed tlu‘u years of rhythm-

ment and improvement before reaching

their present state of perfection. and suc-

cessful manufacturers will use none but

the most improved and latest models. It

is, only applying sound business princi-

ples for the dairy farmer to use the same

and testing the

manufac~





selecting

he lists in his





precaution in

machines that





luring plant. Shall it be the latest im-

proyed—vtht- spccial—purposc milk—produc—

ing llluclllnc—sol‘ shall it be a machine

that wast» s a large proportion of the raw

mattrial in tilr- I'lllit‘eSs of manufacturing

the finished product. '1‘? .. one gzwat dif—

ft-l‘clicc in these inacbiins is that some

:lH- lili])l‘<l‘.‘(tl \‘.‘l.iir trl:.t:< :.*r not, lt'll.

in‘.‘a1'iai.lj~.' it is th- impvox'. d mochln!——

the cow ital. 12's ltrrn lord and It-‘u'f-l-

oped for a .slwl-ia‘. Turin-w that :1..’~l{~'33

the bcst txsc of tlm raw lnattliais plo-

duc-‘d on th- f. rm.



'l‘he swim-tun of the-r machines, like

the selection of thr- machine used by the

large manufar-turing plants, nit-d not

ncctssarily be a matter of chance as





many seem to think. lirecding, selection

and testing cnable farmers to select their

milk-producing machines with the same

business precaution as the manufac-

turer employs in selecting his machinery.

“'0 want the very best machines that

we can get. An application of sound

business prillciplOs will quickly weed out

the non-paying cows. Anyone with a re-

liable pair of scales and a Babcock tester

can quickly tcll the standing of every

cow in the stable.



After we have opened our factory for

business and have secured our improved

milk-producing machines we must again

apply business principles to its manage-

ment if we develop our plant to its fullest

and most profitable capacity. Each

milk-producing machine must be placed

it will require the least food to

up the required amount of heat.





where

keep





THE MICHIGAN , FARMER; 4





It requires more fuel to keep the re-

quired amount of heat in'a. boiler that

is exposed to cold stormy weather than

when the boiler is properly housed. Ex—

actly the samehprinciples apply in the

use of fuel in the manufacture of dairy

products.

of hay fed to a cow that is kept in a

warm stable will produce the same

amount of heat as 24 lbs. fed to a cow

exposed to cold weather. If the cows

are allowed to run outside, put good

warm blankets on them, the same as the

business man would on the boiler of his

engine, if obliged to have it exposed.

Another business principle is to'keep

the machine running to its proper ca-

pacity and not keep twenty machines

running half time to do the work that

could be accomplished by ten when run





to their full capacity. Sound business

policy dictates that every now be fed

all she can eat, digest and assimilate.





The successful manufacturer wants water

in his boiler and fuel under it. The milk—

producing machine must have the same

care exercised in proportioning its food

for heat and protection as the manufac-

turer would exercise in supplying his

engine with fuel and water. Sound busi-

ness policy dictates that the manufac-

turer plan to make every man‘s labor

count for as much as possible. The

dairyman should strive to accomplish the

same results by having his plant con-

venient and using the best producing

cows.



Another sound business principle is to

save everything. If dairymen would look

more closely to their business, thousands

of pounds more butter would be made

annually. A test of the skim-milk by the

Babcock tester would be a revelation to

many danrymen and cause them to

change their methods.



It is also good business

utilize every by-product. In these days

of close business competition much of

the success, and in many instances the

whole of the profits, of a business de-

pend upon the economical use of the odds

and ends, or by—products. 'l‘he skim—

milk from a fair-sized dairy herd, if used

in a judicious manner, will itself consti-

tute a fair profit on the business.



Now, as to the other by-produet—

manure. It is a well established fact

that in order to secure and maintain an

increased yield the crops must be fed on





to save and





the farm where grown and the fertility,

as far as possible, returned to the land.

Sound business policy dictates that we





make the most profitable use of this ma-

nurial fertility.



The Quality of the Finished Product.



Another important business principle

is that first-class goods must be put up

in an attractive shape and be placed in

a market where a good article is appre-

ciated. Dairymcn cannot afford to oper—

ate a first-class manufacturing plant and

use highly improVed special machinery

to make an inferior product. Tilt-edged

butter that will top the market is easily

made and costs but little more to manu~

facturc than a cheap inferior article. It

doesn’t take any more milk to the pound,

it doesn’t take any longer to churn, it

doesn’t take any more Salt. All that it

docs require is a little more skill. High-

quality goods are the result of skill and

intelligence. EVcry detail must be looked

after if we succeed in making the finest

pl‘mlllt‘t.



Good butter,

not itself.

(-r-zrr-llr-m, butter

at the ("wintry store and go into :1 mm-

glomcratimn tl.::t is sold for small

(Emmi butter, like “pot 3' dog Tray,”

lv‘.’ bring in lultl



Nothfng help:-

much as, a mat tidy

tomcl' thinks, and justly so. that the

dairynlan who makes his butter look

nice, and puts it in nice clean packages,

i< quite certain to be cleanly, and fancy

has much to do with selling an

at an advanced price.

principle is to get and

trade. Nothing is more

induce a customer to change

of butter and milk when he

found a dairyman who can

article that pleases his palate.

dairyman, like the nranufacturer.





no matter how good, “'ill

Thousands of pounds of

ll‘utlcrl Hlll





srvll

are annually

price.

suffers

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strive to keep his product as uniform as;





possible. A distinct and uniform pack-

age will help to obtain and retain cus-

tomers. The dairyman who is manufac—





turing a first-class article should be

proud to see his name and the name of

his farm on every package.



In no line of manufacturing will good

business sagacity pay better than in the

management of the dairy.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





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We guarantee that you will find

every Omega Separator just as rcp-

resentod or you an send it back.





Our guarantee to you would be

inst as good. just as readily kept

to the letter if you were 2.000:

miles away.





for all these things.

His price. his terms. will suit and he is there to make things

right should you be disappointed.





But there is an added satisfaction

in having a good dealer on the

spot who will see that you are

taken care of just as we would if



‘you were in Lansing.





before you buy.





Besides. Omegas are not bought

on faith. Before you pay a penny

you know what you are getting

for your money.





 

 





10 per cent of the cow owners

buy by mail.





90 per cent wan! to know.





   

 

 





653 Q. Get the ser-

untonhat willstand your

personal examination. your

test. your judgment.



Isn’t that better business than

signing up blindly on somebody‘s fly

so In a catalog?





’ \‘t asks for your Personal





. —and it will take only a little of your time to Die



why it will pay for itself sooner and make more

money for on than any other separator—regardless

of all the ‘catalog claims” ever written and of price.

Call at your dealers. just to satisfy yourself. There 9'



is much at stake.





CREAM SEPARATOR’:





Skims to a trace. that it is by far the easiest to clean and the only .

one that can be kept perfectly sweet without great effort. Make ,

him prove that it is the simplest separator made. easiest to are ‘

for and built so that it can’t help but give perfect service for more

years than any other.



And you'll find the Omega the easiest separator to turn. .

a point you will appreciate twice every day. 365 days in the year. “ff





Make Your Dealer Responsible





Write us today for the book offered below.

full of money-making hints.





The Omega

Separator Company





Lansing,

Michigan





   





APRIL 17, 1909.





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SKlMS THE CLOSEST.

Because the patented ¢_i_ou_b_lg

opposed disc bowl is twice as

effective as any single series

disc bowl.





TURNS THE EASIEST.



Because it has only three gear

wh eels — finest anti-friction

bearings—lightest all solid steel

Ml made.



CLEANS THE QUICKEST.

Because it has the only s_el_fl

emptying and self cleaning 5

bowl- W and

a minute or two of your time

aha-Lit



LASTS THE LONGEST.



Because the bearings are phos-





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——that means doublewwga‘r:

finest ¢_:_u_t gearing—every part

twice as strong as necessary.

WORTH THE MOST.

Because it gets the most cream

in' the b_es_t condition and does

it easier.

PRICE THE LEAST.





Because sold by Sears,'Roebuck

& Co., the w o r l d ’s greatest





Brice makers who make each of

your dollars do the work of two.





PAYS THE BEST.

Because it getsalittle more

cream each day, runs a little

easier and lasts a little longer

than any other separator that

money can buy.





60 days. trial. 20 years' guarantee.

Money and freight charges back if not

satisfied. Write today for free copy of

the Economy Chief Dairy Guide

that. tells you all.





SEARS. ROEBUCK alight}





 





 





 





THE





. ,. This is the wonderful New But-

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has been creating a sensation at.

Dairy Shows and Experiment

" Stations. Closest skimmingse -

orator of today—on] one-ha f

of 1-100 of .1 per cent 0 butter fat

in the skinnied milk. and it

ives cream with a density of .67.

Vhat. ae arator can touch It?

The $150. machines can’t. equal

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manufacturing cost. With one

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ylou agent's profits. dealer’s profits, Jobber s profits.

on are simply throwing mone ' away if you pay 3.

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on't. buy a. separator from anyone at. any prlce until

vou have first written a postal card asking for our

ree Cream Separator Booklet. containing our Free

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t y Has alumi-

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milk reservoir. Has the greatest skimming effici-

ency of any separator. It is simple in construction,

and has very few parts to handle. All bearings are

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he hardened bearings, and few parts.

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THE 'MICHr-GAN FARMER.





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We have often called attention to the fact that Tubular

Cream Separators are entirely different from other cream

separators, are in a different class, built on scientific principles;

built to wear; built to skim clean; built to give general satisfaction;

which means built without discs, and without the wabbling disc

bowl, the difficulties in keeping the bowl in balance and the

-unc1eanable, cream tainting features of the common disc bowl.





The Universal Prestige of

Tubular Separators





is Iaréely due to the entire absence of the objection-

able features common to all disc separators, and this

in connection with perfeCt mechanical construction,

and exclusive conveniences found only in Tubular





 





 





Separators, is sufficient reason for the sale of Tubu-

lars so far exceediné those of any two competitors.

IT’S THE NATURAL RESULT.





We Have Made This Statement Often





All “bucket bowl” or "disc” separators built by our numer-

ous competitors, old and new, are in the same class; have the

same characteristics, whether good or bad, and one is just about

as bad as another. Now comes our old Hdisky” competitor and

advertises a patent infringement suit against a catalogue house

separator which has been built and sold for a number of years.

Our old friend seems to have just discovered that we were right

When we said the catalogue house disc separators were just the

same as his disc separator. He now .admits that the catalogue





A LITTLE TALK on DISCS





 





we“





house separator is identical with his disky construction and asks _

the United States Circuit Court to make the other fellow stop

building them and his agents 'stop selling them. Our old friend

is in bad straits; he has worked every scheme imaginable to bol-

ster up the reputation of his very common “disc” machine, he

has gone the limit in questionable advertising, he has employed a

small army of salesmen to bluff the game through, and now he

has had to ask the Court to help him out of his trouble. The

real trouble is that the farmer has found out what our disky friend

now admits; the catalogue house separator is as good as the

old disc separator and the farmer is wise enough to buy the one

that he can buy the cheapest. Anybody can build a disc separator

cheap, and if the farmer or dairyman is willing to endure the in-

conveniences of a disc separator he should buy one that is sold

cheap. Several of the new disc Separators are more modern,

more convenient, and more satisfactory than the much advertised

“old original” and sell for half the price. N o wonder our old

friend needs help.



If a farmer or dairyman appreciates convenience, safety,

economy, durability, perfect skimming, easy running and freedom

from repair bills he should buy a Tubular, and that is what

most farmers are doing. For full information write for

catalogue N o. 152.





The Sharples Separator Co.





Toronto, Can. weSt Chester, Penna. Portland, Ore.





Winnipeg, Can. Chicago, Ills. San Francisco, Cal.





 





 





 





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' Richest cattl t ed on

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' —-Imp. Lordly Archer roan cannot

i HERD BULL use him longer. bestin the state. sure

‘ and gentle. SHINEVALE FARM. Pt. Austin, Mich.





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.





Do Your Own Grinding





Quick and easy with Ideal Feed MIII'



saves loss of time-and no cost—grinds

Ear Corn. Shell Corn.Oats. Katfir Corn,

and all small grains—grinds fine, medium

or coarse feed for Cattle. Hogs, Poultry

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Meal. Rye. Graham or Buckwheat Flour A

Ideal Feed Mills are used by thou- C "LE.

sands of farmers. stockmen and dairy-

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mill” for every little ”job”-you can do

it yourself right on your farm now with _





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Pays for Itself





Herd headed by UNDULA'I‘A BLACKBIRD ,

l'l‘O 83836. one of the best sons of PRINCE I'I‘O ‘

50006, and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit‘

and Grand Rapids Fairs of 1907 and 1908. Herd con- i

sists of Ericas. Blackbirds. Prides. etc. .



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herd bull closely related to World’s Champion. and

one yearling bull left. Freight and car fare to buyers.





 

   

 





 





 

 





- in a short while—and besides savesa big

. loss of time between farm and mil .





 





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1 ABERDEEN ANGUS bull. i Polled Durhami





CLOVER BLOSSOM FARM. Port Austin. Mlch.i





 





from 6 to 15 months old.





RED POLLED BULLS. bred from good milking





cows. John Berner dz Son. Grand Ledge. Michigan.





MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.

'r. F. MARS'I‘ON. Bay City. Michigan.



CHOICE JERSEYS- 332i."51".ili'iib;§§"i5‘iii’£



CLARENCE BRISTOL, a. No. 2. Fenton. Mich.





Pure Bates Shorthorns.





Polled Durhams. A. D. DeGarmo. Highland, Mich.





 





 





1 BE RKSHIREs—Bows b... ..

Longfellow’s



Duke, and our new herd boar Prime Bacon

8611. a great son of the noted Lord Bacon. and



of intense Masterpiece breeding. Guernseys.

M. B. 'I‘ukeys. B. Ply. Rocks, Pekin Ducks.

Hupp Farms. Birmingham, Mich. G. C. Hupp, Mgr





NORTHERN GROWN BERKSHIRES.





ICOYUICUFT EARL". Sidnnw, IVlchr.





 





UROC JERSEYS—Bears ready for service. sows

for Spring farrow. Pigs at weaning shipped c. 0.

d. if desired. L. R. Kuney, Adrian. Mich. Phone 131.





 





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heifers at $50 to $75. E.Brackett, Allegan. Michigan.





WOODLAND SHORTHORNS





Apricot. Airdric Duchess, Hudson Duchess.

and Roan Duchess families.

Priced to sell





 





Both sexes and all ages for sale.

and sell quick.

MEYER BROS.. R. 7,Howell. I'Ilchlgan.





 





Francisco Farm Shorihorns





Our foundation stock comes from several of the





‘ best herds in the country. Nothing for sale at





present.





 





 

 

 





     

   

   

 





grind grains.

to.





B. 1. Oak Grove. Iaiv. 00.. Michigan.





HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN81fi.’°C‘:.“.“.§.$2,321.35:





Royal King. W. B. J ONES.0ak Graven. No.3.Mich.





Bill phone





 

 

 

 





 





 





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.





"Top Notch” registered young Holstein Bulls,

combining in themselves. In excellent proportion,

the blood of cows who now hold, and In the past have

held Worlds Records for milk and butter-fat at fair

prices. McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.





HOLSTEINS‘I-w'“ sell “Aggie Cornuco-



pla Pietertje Dekol" No.

57254. Born Mar. 20, 1908. Unquestionably the best

bred yearling bull in the state. 3 Bull calves 2 to 4 mo.

old. A. 11.0. dams. Write at once if in need of some-

thing good. L. E. CORNELL. Fayette. Ohio.





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China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mich.





JERSEY BULLS READY FOR SERVICE.





Three young bulls ready for spring service, out of

good cows with records of 400 to 500 uncle of butter

In a year with only ordinary care.





 





 





 





50 Buys the .. ‘

$29: Best . it

Improved llllnols Low I K,





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direct from the maker to you. We are

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to the consumer. We ship on 3 days ..

free trill. Write for free catalogue. . 1





 





 





so a fine lot of





Write for description and prices.

N C. LILLIII. Cooperlville, Mich.





Jack and J enneits For Sale .0... cm

° COLO

' If you want a first class Jack

or Jennett at the very lowest,

prices. visit our barns. for they

are full of high class stock. and

can sell them to you right. and

save you the middleman's prof-

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for my 25 reasons why it pays



to raise mules. Address





Bargains JACK FARM. Lawrence. Ind:

Brigham’s Latest Improved Shoe





for working horses on swamp

land. Only one bolt required

for each shoe.



Patented and manufactured 2 18 months, 2 1 year





by L. Brigham, Decatur. SI: l-alllbarl Jerseys bulls. some cows and

Mich. Send for circular. i heifers. L. B. KUNEY, Ad an. Mlch.. Bell Phone.





 





 





 





Northern Grown Jerseys.

ROYCROFT FARM, Sidnaw. Mic .





 





ERSEY BULL CALF. born March 10.’08. Darn"

average yearly milk record is years 8528 lbs.: teet



5 4-10 5. Bire's Dams rec. 10062 lbs. as 2-year-old test 5

2-104. Murray-Waterman 00.. Ann Arbor. Mich. 3.6.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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‘ Write for “Book of Feed Mills”

, 1”,”. everything you . 1 —» old for $100. I. M. SHORMAN, Fowlerville, Mich. P. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant. Michigan.

i flaiiilitfiokgowwfibout ,,. " .

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‘ow to mixana - Just write Holslam-mens. slgggmrszgogaggg J. B. CROUSE STOCK FARM,





HARTLAND MIcrl.. breeder of srrort'r-

N CAT’I‘





 





 





HOR LE. Have all ages, both sexes.

Color—reds and roans. Quality and prices right.

SHEEP.





 





ERDENHEIM FARM





SHROPSHIRES





EDWIN s. GEORGE, Owner.

Rams and Ewes for Sale.





WRITE FOR PRICES T0





ROBERT GROVES, Shepherd,

R. I". D. No. 3. Pontiac. Mich.





‘ Stock all ages for sale





DAMS BROS. IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES,Litchfield.Mich.,

won more premiums in '08 than any otherherd in Michigan.

Prize winning W.'0rplngton, W. Leg-





horn and Bud” Rock eggs, $1 per 15. Shortllorn bulls & heifers





CHESTER VIIIITES‘néfiwi‘饰‘§%¥8“?§3%‘3

Also fall pigs either sex. Orders booked for June

delivery. W. 0. WILSON. Okcmos. Mich.





i CHESTER wmus. as: arias ass

{ furrow $20.00; Spring pigs either sex. Satisfaction

I guaranteed. COLON C. LILLIE.Coopersvillc. Mich.





nunoc JERSEY SWINE. sears 2:21: i.-





l for 15. J. H. BANGHAR’I‘. Lansing. Mich.





—Nothing for

DurOC Jerseys sale at present

CAREY If. EDMONDS, Hosting-s, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





UROC Jersey of size and quality. 40 Boers ready

for service. 50 sows at Farmers Prices. Satis-

faction Guaranteed. J. C. Barney. Goldwater. Mich





 





0 I. C 50-lh, spring pigs. express prepaid. $10.

. Buy one and you'll want another. We guaran-

tee to please. Mallory & Burlingame, Lacota. Mich.





 





O I. C.'s Boars dzisows all sold. I have a fine lot of

. young pigs that will soon be ready to ship.

‘ A. NEWMAN. Route No. 1. Mariette, Mich.





O I C’s—A LL AGES. hirty sows bred

o o for spring f row. Shipped

on approval. H. H. JUMP. Munlth. Mich.





 





 





‘ 0 l C Boars ready for service. Spring pigs by

l 0 - 0 grandson of World’s Grand Champion.

Glenwood Stock Farm, Zoeland, Michigan, B. 6. Phone 94.





 





SHROPSHIRE HALL STOGK FARM.





Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes

from 1 to 3 years old, all bred to Imported Cooper,

and Mansell rams to lamb in March and April. also

on very choice ewe lambs. this is to make room for an

importation that Is going to arrive this spring.



L. S. DURHAM do SONS. Concord. Michigan.





00 INTO SHEEP RAISING





Buy of Michigan's Largest Breeder of good sheep.

Romeyn C. Parsons. Grand Ledge, Mich.





 





AMBOUILLET—Flock founded 1892 with 40 ewes

selected from one hundred registered ewes of the

best breeding possible. J. Q. A. COOK,Morrice,Mich.





HOGS.





CHOICE FALL GIL’I‘B and boar pigs. Bight breed-

ing and prices right. Also a few aged sows bred

for spring furrow. A. A. Pattullo. Deckerville, Mich.





 





 





0 I C swine very prolific. My herd is

o - O headed with a grand son of Jackson

Chief, the world’s Champion and Grand Champion.

the greatest O. i. C. boar in the world, also a Grand

son of ’I‘utesy second. the world champion sow.



i Place your order now for spring pigs.

A. J. GORDEN. R. No. 2, Dorr. Mich.





P. C. B , .

EXTRA CHOICE Breeding (Iblditrfdnuealfaeiil; pgllge





right. WOOD (Sc SONS. Saline. Michigan.





 





 





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HEAVY BONED 1.3.2" bunsnlfi°l§$22ini°u§egn§ iii.





snap-shot photos. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.





FRANCISCO FARM POLAND-CHINAS.





Bears and sows all cleaned up. Am booking orders

for spring pigs. P. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





LARGE ENGLISH YORKSHIRES.





Boers ready for service $15.00: Gills bred for fall far-

row $20.00; spring pigs either sex. Satisfaction guar-

anteed. COLON C. LILLIE, Coopersville. Mich.





 





 





 





BERKSHIRES—SPR‘NG ”at“

sired by sons of

Premier Longfellow and Masterpiece. the world's

champions. C. D. WOODBURY Lansing, Mich.





 





lways mention the Michigan Farmer

when writing to advertisers.
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GETTING A FRESH GRIP ON ONE’S

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'When Miss Ida M. Tarbell spoke be-

fore thousands of students and patriotic

citizens at Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti on

the occasion of the Lincoln celebrations

in February, she laid much stress upon

what she called Mr. Lincoln’s “habit of

every now‘ and then getting a fresh grip

on his profession." '



For six weeks almost day and night

he studied surveying before he began

the work in the field that resulted in a.

remarkable Series of maps,_not one of

which has ever been diseredited. At

forty years of age he mastered grammar

and at forty-five he enthusiastically be—

gan a study of law over again, “hanging

like a dog to a root.” as he was himself

fond of saying. “He set 'his teeth to-

gether upon a problem, he tore it; and

shook it till it gave way." '



In one’s ability to revive original vigor

and put a new impetus into his work

when in the midst of it lies much of the

element of mastery in any undertaking.

“’e are not surprised to see the new

Grange Master or other official starting

out with zeal and'animation in a new

term of work. Neither are we surprised

after a little to see his enthusiasm ooz-

ing out and his plans melting like hoar

frost in the sunshine. Unfortunately the

old adage about the cleanly sweeping

of the broom that is new is too true.



But when in the thick of the fight,

after years of faithful endeavor in the

interests of neighbors and fellow work—

people, one can renew his grip on enthus—

iasm and enter into fresh plans as if it

'Were for the first time, there is your

patron who will win success from seem-

ing disaster and fling fortune in the teeth

of failure.



JENNIE BUELL.





 





MICHIGAN LEADS DURING FIRST

QUARTER OF 1909.





National Secretary Freeman has just

issued his quarterly statement, showing

the number of Granges organized and re-

organized from Jan. 1 to March :11, 1909,

both inclusive, to be as follows:





‘ Organized.



California . ...... 1 Missouri ......... 1

Connecticut . . . . . 2 New Hampshire . 2

Delaware . . . . . . . . 4 New Jersey ..... 3

Idaho . . ........ . 6 New York ...... 25

Illinois . ........ . 4 Ohio . . ........ 20

Indiana . . . . ..... 1 01'0an .......... 5

Iowa . . . ...... . . . 1 Pennsylvania .... 1 2

Kansas .......... 7 Rhode Island .... 2

Kentucky . . . . . . . 1 South Dakota .



Maine ........... 2 Vermont ........ In

Maryland ...... . 5 W'ashington ..... 28

Massachusetts ——--

Michigan ........32 'l‘ota1 ....,....189





Re-Organlzed.

Connecticut 1 Ohio 6





Kansas .......... 1 West Virginia... 1

Massachusetts 1 a

Michigan 6 Total ..........17





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THE GRANGE IN OTHER STATES.





 





Rhode Island is a small Grange state,

but it has a very active State Grange

organization under the leadership of

State Master Marchant, who at the last

meeting of State Grange was elected for

the fourth term. The order has become

quite a decided influence with the farm—

ers and with state legislation. The score--

tary reported a total Grange membership

in the state of 3,000 in 32 Granges. Prin-

cipal matters discussed were the protec-

tion laws against deer. forest fire protec—

tion, Grange first insurance, parcels post

and rural free delivery of mail.





One of the most active Grange states

in the Union is the old Pine Tree. State,

which has a membership of 55,000 and is-

active in everything that pertains to the

interest of the Order. At the last meeting

of Maine State Grange advanced ground

was taken on several important matters.

Dr. Leon S. Merrill, for the dairy com—

mittee, said that new laws were needed

covering the dairy interests and demanded

that the Grange present the subject to

the incoming legislature. Dairy herds

must be improved and sanitary rules en--

forced. He believed that the. sweet cream

industry should be encouraged and that

farmers should co-opcrate with the na—

tional immigration commissioner in se-

curing good farm help. B. \Valker Mc-

Keen, for the committee on education,

said. “There is an unbridged chasm be-

tween the schools and the college, and

we should try to discover some way to

bridge it." He believed that normal school

institutes would be a great aid, but they

should be an auxiliary to the farmers’

institute. Agriculture should be taught

in rural schools. Sanitary inspection of

the schools was advocated. and the com-

mittee urged that the legislative com-

mittee use its influence in this matter.

The Grange placed itself on record as





opposed to any change in the present

arbitration clause of, the insurance law.

The committee on co-operation empha-

sized the importance of getting together

-to buy and sell and urged that this sub—

ject be given its proper place‘in'the lec-

turer’s hour in each subordinate Grange.

A class of about 600 took the sixth de-

g ee.





 





New Hampshire’s State Lecturer, at

each annual meeting, submits a report on

the literary-work done in the subordinate

Granges during the year. At the last

State Grange, held some months ago, this

part of the lecturer's report showed that

during the past year there had been de—

livered in the subordinate Granges of New

Hampshire 4,891 vocal and 4,117 instru—

mental selections of music, 9,024 readings

and recitations, 1,371 essays, 823 ad-

dresses, 87 dramas, 286 farces, 563 tab-

leaux; there have been 2.629 discussions

participated in by 14,691 disputants, and

the total attendance at these exercises

was 169,716; 203 Granges had 962 dis-

putants discuss the articles of business

in the town warrants; they were heard

by 7,000 people. The 172 essays on

“Practical Forestry” in April were given

before 4,011 persons; 187 discussions on

“Advertising Natural Attractions," par-

ticipated in by 623 speakers, were listen-

ed to by 3,779. and 191 Granges considered

the advisability of a permanent home for

the State Grange, with an adverse senti-

ment. Fifty-seven Granges have prop-

erty valued at upward of $1,000, and 56

own Grange halls. The total value of

subordinate Grange property in the state

is $159,925.





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





The Latest U. P.

John Wilde has returned to Mackinac

Co., and Saturday evening, April 3, he.

organized Newton Grange, at Gould City,

with the following officers: Master. E.

S. Kctcheson; overseer, John McNeil;;

lecturer, J. V. Bartlett; steward, .1. Mc-

Groth; ass‘t steward, Angelo (“a<sidy;

lady ass't steward. Anna McGroth; chap-

lain, Anna W’elch; treasurer, \Vilson

Newton; secretary, Joseph Powten; gate-

keeper, Clement Rose; Ceres. Mary

Ketcheson; Pomona. Elizabeth Mt‘GI‘flth;

Flora, Mrs. W. Newton. The next meet-

ing of Newton Grange will he held “'cd—

nosday evening, April :31, at the Highland

Noble hall.



East Bay Passes lnspection.—At the

last meeting if [Gas-t llny Grange, of

Grand 'l‘raverse (‘0., District Deputy E.

O. Ladd was present to inspect the.

Grange. Twelve candidates were put

thru the Work of the third and fourth

degrees. Fourteen applications for mem-

bership are now in the hands of the

Grange for consideration. Grand Tra-

verse Grange was represented at this

successful meeting by George A. Hubert-

son and wife, Louis E. Ainslie and wife

and Mrs. Aivi'la Gardner. This Grange

is accumulating a fund for the erection

of a Grange hall, which hall it is hopcd

will be built the coming season.



Long Rapids Patrons have been for-

tunate in choosing a live young member

for lecturer and the Grange is doing good

work. The meeting on Tuesday night,

March 30, was especially interesting. The

program for the “lecture hour," was a

joint dcbatc~five on a side—on the ques-

ti‘on: “Resolved, that 1')o\'ci'i}.'. rather

than riches, tends. to develop character.”

The affirmative was handled by Andrew

Sanborn, Dr. J. \\'. Purdy, Miss Kate

Morrison, Samuel Martindale and .los.

Kelley. The negative was taken by Mrs.

McLennon, 0. Van \Vagoncr. Miss

Ethel Burdette, Miss licssic liurns, and

Miss Alice Richardson. The decision fav-

ored the negative side.





Grand Traverse Patrons Sustain Their

Local Board of Trade.



At a recent meeting of Grand Traverse



Grange the following resolution was





GrangeMDeputy





passed by unanimous vote:



“\\'hereas it is stated upon the au-

thority of the, Traverse City Board of

Trade that the shippers of farm pro—





duce from the Grand Traverse region

are being charged 1:3 per cent higher

freight rates than our agricultural comm

pctitors, be it



“Resolved by Grand Traverse. }range

No. 379, P. of H., located at Traverse

City, Mich., that this subject of unfair

freight rates be aggressively agitated

with the hope that our injustice will soon

be taken into consideration by the. proper

corporate and public officials and we be

given a square deal.”



In an excellent report of this meeting

the Traverse Bay Eagle statcs that the

subject of freight rates was thorolv dis-

cussed from many different angles. It

was pointed out that :i decrease in rates

might affect the incomes of those de—

pendent upon the steel highways to a

material extent. It was practically con—

ceded that. any large decrease in freight,

rates would prevent many of those in the

railway industry from adopting a higher

standard of living.



tine speaker made it clear that Tra—

verse City 'was more than 100 miles to

the north of the thru routes of trans—

portation bethen the west and the east

and therefore had no reason to expect

as good rates as cities on the lines of

the great trans-continental railways.



Another speaker took up the. question

of quantity rates and made he point

that those regions which made large

shipments were entitled to the best rates.



Several of the Speakers took the side

of the people and maintained the propo—

sition that the farmers of this region

cannot successfully compete with the

farmers of other regions in the produc—

tion of farm products, if the other fel—

lows have a 15 per cent advantage in the

Imatter of transportation expense.



It was finally decided to adopt the

resolution and thus give the moral sup—

port of the local Grange to the trans-

portation committee of the Traverse City

Board of Trade in its fight for more

equitable rates.





THE MICHIGAN FASRMER.‘





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I FARMERS’ CLUBS 13

OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-





. TION OF FARMERS CLUBS.



President—~A. L. Chandler, Owosso.



Vice—President-—Mrs. Clara L. French,

Pompeii. ,



Secretary—Mrs. W. L. Cheney, Mason.



Treasurer—D. K. Hanna, Caro.



Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,

Owosso.



Directors—D. M. Beckwlth, Howell; D.

M. Garner, Davisburg; T. B. Halladay,

Norvell; E. C. Hallock, Almont; B. A.

Holden, VVixom; Wm. H. Marks, Fair

Haven.



Address all correspondence relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.

L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.





 





 





Associational Motto.—

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.





 





ASsoclatlonal Sentiment.—

The farmer; he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





 





ORGANIZE COUNTY ASSOCIATION.





 





A joint meeting of Indianfields, Elling—

ton-Almer and Hickory Farmers’ Clubs

was held in Music Hall, at Caro, on

March 4th. The meeting was announced

for ten o‘clock and from that hour till

noon members were still arriving until

it seemed doubtful if the hall Would'ac-

commodate them all. The time previous

to the serving of dinner was pleasantly

spent in social chit—chat and visiting.



Mrs. Charles Smith, of lndianfields

Club, had general supervision of the din-

ner. which was announced at 12:30. The

guests were seated by ushers, the names

being called by Charles Smith, prcsnlent

of the day. Immediately deft waitresses

became busy ‘atcring to the wishes of

each one until all were satisfied, then the

tables were again relaid and all remain—

ing guests were hidden to feast unstinted.

The dinner was unsurpassed for dainti-

ness, yet substantial lavishncss and var-

iety, and tho 133 persons Were fed. the

scriptural overflow was there and music

was not wanting at the feast.



Prior to the presentation of the pro—

gram a short businesg session was held

and the question of making this initial

meeting an annual event came up for

discussion and was carried. Charles

Smith. of Indianficlds Club, was chosen

president of the County Associiation of

Farmers’ Clubs, with Mrs. C. L. \Vright,

of the El‘lington-Almcr Club as secre-

tary. A soliciting committee and program

committee. were appointed, *‘wiih one

member'on each from the three clubs

represented. The date set for the meet-

ing is the tlrst Thursday in March. Sev-

eral introductory musical selections were,

given and President Smith thanked his

friends for the honor conferred in select-

ing him to preside. The first paper was

presented by Mrs. Ellen Purdy, “The,

Road to Yesterday.” The rapid strides

of the 19th Century were marked as the,

most progressive, the transition from the

old to the newer improvcn'icnts was cun-

ningly linked with golden nuggets fresh

diggcd fl‘nlii llli‘ Intellectual letlgt’i‘.



A reading by Miss Margaret Parks oc-

cupied forty—live minutes in delivery and

was very excellent, lici“sul.iject being





“ltuggles’ Idinncr l'urty." by Kate \Vig-

gins. J. England being on the. sick





list, his place was taken by A. Bush, who

selected “t‘rop Rotation to keep up for-

tility of the soil." Mr. Bush is a pleasant

speaker and lamented the fact that he

knew so little about this important topic

but that if we maintained our rate of pro—

gression we must study how to keep in-

tact our inheritance, lest the finger of

scorn marks us as slothfnl and negligent.

Nature’s plan to feed the animal and the

animal to feed the soil and the farmer

who works in harmony with nature is

the prosperous one. A soil in good filth

will be responsive to good care and its

productivity will steadily advance. Hy

husbanding all farm supplies of manure

the humus of the soil may be kept intact.

and better conditions will result. Hur

stores of nitrogen may be increased by

the growing of lcguniinons plants and

react accordingly upon muscles of the

animal kingdom. Shipping of hay and

grain robs the farm of a large percent of

nitrogen which must. be replaced by com-

mercial fertilizer, therefore We should

appreciate the home supply of manure,

that thc“(-ry of :L robbed soil may not, pop-

thin to us, and adhere to nature's plan

to return to the soil the remains of all

that grows upon it. to a large extent.

Barnyard manure not only adds fertility,

but loosens up the stored fertility. im—

proves its mechanical condition and lets

in the air, and it is better to manure a.

field often and lightly than seldom and

freely. A clover sod followed by corn

and beans, then beets. oats. and seed to

clover, makes a good rotation. l‘lvcrv

farmer should aim to leave to posterity

a farm richer in fertility than when he

came into possession of it.



“3cautifying the farm home" was the

subject of a paper by Mrs. John Frieze,

of Hickory Club. Mrs. Frieze thot the

farm was not simply a place for making

money, that opportunities are cvlr sue;—

gesting how we. may transpose our crud-

est surroundings into bowers of the. most

beautiful. Art offers many inducements

to her disciplesoflimitcd means, so many

treasures to select from that it is an

easy matter to have our homes bright-

ened with a few choice pictures. Music

and literature are within easy reach of

all. Flowers would act as a stimulus and

encourage the enthusiasm of'youth and

every home should have its flower gar—

den. Water holes are unsightly and are

an improvement if filled up. Refuse





should be taken care of and not be per-

mitted to disfigure the lawn, and promis-





 

   





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cuous advertisements should not adorn

any of our‘ buildings.



“Feeding and Care of Fattening Cat-

tle,” was the subject of a paper by F. A.

Turner, who thot if more cattle were fed.

better care could be taken of the soil

and less commercial fertilizer would be

used, that the success or failure of feed-

ing fattening cattle depends largely upon

the feeder. The Chicago market offers

the best facilities for buying feeding

steers in carload lots, as a better bred

and more even type of cattle can thus be

obtained. Cattle averaging 1,000 lbs.,

with good antecedents and of the beef

strains, are the most desirable. He be-

lieves in feeding light at first with clover

hay and silage twice a day, then silage in

connection with cottonseed meal once a.

day, until a full feed of 35 lbs. of silage,

21/2 lbs. cottonseed meal, 4 lbs. corn meal

will bring an animal to finish, so that a

1,000 lb. animal on November 1st will re-

sult in a 1,300 lb. animal May 1st, show-

ing a gain of $2.46 per head for every

hundred pounds.



The next paper was “F eding the Dairy.

Cow.” M. H. VVilsie, of ti o, Almer Dairy

Farm, thot a succulent food would pro-'

duee milk equally as well as proteins

and that pulp, clover, and mixed meal

made a balanced ration costing about lic

per animal per day, while silage, pulp,

and grain gave equally good results. He

found one ton of silage equivalent to one

and one-half of pulp, and mangles and

dry grain was equal to any silage, while

dry pulp with a little wetting was as

good as the green commodity. It was

essential to have a well ventilated stable

as a preventive of disease. Cows should

be kept quiet at milking time, care being

taken not to excite them.



I). ’ Hanna discussed some points in

Mr. VVilsie's paper, taking the stand that

clover hay and silage made an ideal

ration for dairy cows, altho much dc-

pended on the animal, and thinks that

from 12 to H per cent of Michigan cows

are not paying expenses, as the ayerage

yield of butter is from 110 to 150 lbs. per

(:ow for the state, while labor and feed

were factors which should be considered

in this question and skim—milk and ma-

nure offset the labor of caring for an

animal.



A question box of deserving merit oc-

cupied a few moments of time.



Musical and literary numbers inter-

spersed in a pleasant manner, members

of the several clubs doing themselves

credit in a manner to merit special men-

tion if space did but pcrmit.——Cor. Sec.

Ellington-Aliner Club.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Good and Bad Birds.*The Spring Ar-

bor Farmers‘ ("lub met in March at. the

pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry

hlcf‘ullum, with an attcndanCc of 5?). All

partook of a fine dinner. Question:

"Good and bad birds." Mr. Forsylh read

a paper telling many bad things about the

English sparrow. The English sparrow

costs millions of dollars a year. It is the

most expensive pest the nation has had

and the hardest to gct‘ rid of. Thcro

is little to be said in its favor. Other

birds destroy noxious insects and weed

seeds, while insects form a very small

part of the sparrow's bill of fare. Other

birds cat weed seeds in such quantities,

that they save millions of dollars to the

farmer. The sparrow does not care for





weed seeds, preferring good grain and

grass seeds. It cuts \vccd seeds only





when othrs are not obtainable. The spar~

row has proved to be the most prolific

breeder among the members of the bird

world, the annual product of a pair

averages about L’l nestlings and, assuming

that all these and their offspring should

live, in lo years the progeny of a single

pair would be 273 million. On the recent

bird survey of Illinois it was found that

this post formed 18 per cent of the bird





population of that state. Many other

destructive habits of the sparrow WON:

mentioned, demonstrating the necessity





of making war on lhcin to get, rid of

them as quickly as po:<.s'ble. Miss Gildci‘-

sleeve, read a paper about good birds. The

little er-n is one of the best. It will

live among the grape vines and shrub-

bury and search for all of the worms

and bugs.—-l\lrs. A. Carter. teporter.



The Township Unit School System was

:1 subject of gcncl'ul discussion :it’ a 1‘0—

cent meeting of the lnghuin (‘ounly

ltliii‘lill'i's’ t‘lub. Mr. 1.; A. Holden,

in discussing. it, said it had been

tried in the upper peninsula and he,

gave some startling figures in regard

to cost and results. taking an equal num

her every time and having.r surroundings

as nearly alikc as possible, \\'h;if ('(ISL

$111.00” under the unit system cost, $133,001.

with the present sysicni. Take it in an—

nilli‘l‘ Why: What it cost for ouch pupil

under the unit system was $20.00 and

undcr the district only $11.00. lle Inn-l

“nillllf‘i‘ set of figures, comparing the

northern counties of lndiana with the

southern counties of Michigan. '\\'hei

the conditions were much the same and

with less number days of school. it cost

70 per ccnt more, to run the M's of

Indiana under the unit system th..i 'i.

did in hilt-higan under the district sys-

tem, and Indiana has had the unit sys—

tem for it) years. This unit system has

a tendency to plunge our school districts

into politics, which we want to avoid.

and wherever tried has been more ex-

pensivc, with no better results. I\'Iany

(lucstions were asked. all of which were,

answered good naturcdly. A vote of the,

club seemed to show a majority of those

voting to be opposed to the unit system,

many not venturing an opinion.



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Etond’t pay a penny until you are bene—



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Had Stomach Trouble

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Gnmnncssrnn, Mo.—I have been troubled with m Stomach

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