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VOL. CXXXVIII. No. 24. l
. Whole Number 3604.

HOW TO BE S

and used than any other vegetable.

A substantial profit awaits the po—
tato- grower who will take a real inter—
est in his work. There is a big oppor-
tunity for increased yields and improved
quality on nearly every farm that pro-
duces this crop. Improved cultural meth-
ods, better marketing, and. correct stor-
age conditions are sure to place a supe—
rior product before the consumer.

The man who has never raised potatoes
to any extent should remember a number
of facts:

First—Select a soil suited for potato
production.

Second—Rotate the crops so as to de-
stroy bacterial diseases.

Third—Big yields come from heavy
feeding. Use commercial fertilizers.

Fourth—~Pay especial attention to the
selection and care of the seed.

Fifth—Plow deep and conserve the
spring moisture.

Sixth—Plant good seed. Then aid
growth by good cultural methods.

Seventh—Spray the vines several times
with Bordeaux mixture.

Eighth—After the harvest, secure prop-
er storage or market in the most profit—
able “my. 3 , 4,“.

The use of potatoes ‘haS' become'enor—
mous. They make an excellent human
food, and are steadily gaining in favor
as a stock feed, for which they may be
‘utilized when cheap. They are used in
the manufacture of starch, syrup, alcohol
and dextrin. The pomace, a by—product
of the starch factory, has been used suc—
‘cessfully in the form of ensilage for stock
feeding. When. abundant and low-priced,
potatoes can be fed with protit to every
kind of stock. Uncooked potatoes agree
with all stock excepting pigs. Fifty to
60 lbs. of potatoes per 1,000 lbs. live
weight, may be fed in the ration of the
fattening steer, 20 to 25 lbs. to the milch
cow, 40 lbs. to the fattening sheep and 12
lbs. to the horse. Salt should be fed with
them, for the palatability is increased and
the deficiency of sodium salts in the po-
tato is made smaller. Experience has
shown that cooked potatoes are relished
more by hogs than when they are fed
uncooked. The Wisconsin Experiment
Station has found that 445 lbs. of cooked
potatoes are equal to 100 lbs. of corn
meal in feeding value. -

For many years the price of potatoes
has varied widely. One time it may go
as low as 20 cents per bushel while- the
next crop may bring a dollar. The only
sure money maker is persistence. Plant
and raise the same number of acres each

THE potato is more generally grown

     

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year. Specula oes not enter into the
profitable marke‘mg of potatoes with any
degree of accuracy.

From 1820 to 1900 the potato growers
of the United States produced over $1,-
000.000,000 worth of potatoes, the value
being taken at the prices obtained on tne
farm, The average receipts per acre by
the farmer were. $34.57. The yield per
acre was less than 77 bushels. If two-
thirds of this potato land were used in
the place of the entire acreage, and were
given the proper tillage. fertilization and
seed, it would produce at least 115 bush-
els ier acre, worth $51.85. The other
one-third of the land (ould then be given
over to the production of clover or other
soil enriching crops. This system w0uld
not enlarge the total crop but would
greatly increase the net profit per acre
10 the grower. The saving in land from
potato culture would be, stating it con-
servatively, 900,000 acres. All -of this
could be used for some other crops.

The ideal soil for potatoes is a deep,
mellow. free working loam, grading from
the sandy type to the clay. Heavier soils
should be tilc draintd. Several argu—
ments for the light sandy loam are:

First—The land '2111 be prepared in the
spring for planting.

Second—31116 soil becomes warm sooner
than does the heavier land, and germi-
nation takes place earlier, insuring more
rapid growth.

Third—Potatoes grown in such soil
come out bright, clean, smooth, and of
uniform size; and

Fourth—Light soils usually produce po-
tatoes of excellent quality. They often
force early maturity by cutting off the
moisture supply.

Probably the most important reason for
rotating the crops with potatoes is to
maintain the fertility of the land, and to
give whatever fungous diseases are pres-
ent in the ground an opportunity to be-
come starved out. Clean potatoes cannot
be produced the second year upon a field
infected with scab. Two rotations, often
used, are, a four—year rotation of corn.
potatoes, wheat and clover, and a three-
year containing pctatocs,>wheat and clo—
ver. Oats is a good crop to grow right
after potatoes, and is often so placcd.

In the majority of potato states a con-
siderable amount of commercial fertiliz—
ing and manuring has become a neces-
sity. The direct application of manure
to the crop, by plowing under, has been
quite generally condemned in the past by
many growers. It was claimed that fresh
barnyard manure in the soil harbored
many discascs, especially the scab. And

this was probably true if the manure had
stood for a long time. and the crops were
the potato needs
rotted organic
nitrogen, and stable manure is the cheap-
est source of these requisites.

to be obtained
the. field as possible.

elements are phosphorus and potash. The
of phosphorus

available phosphorus
several hundred
the acrc \vculd surely be profitable.

should be carried

his conditions.
The chea’best form of potash is, muriate.
Many people believe that

They advise the.

both forms on ilu-ir own

the farmer the
If it is suitable,

experimentation
answer to this problem.
he can find no cheaper form to use.

a. certain amount of plant

of this plant food to the soil, within reach
of the growing: plants. \‘Vhen about to
quotations upon the guaran-
teed analysis. Make certain the cheapest
Many horse planters have for-
attachmc‘nts which
lilizcrs right where they belong.
way of applying is to sow it
cast, or along the
the surface of
porate with a spike-tooth drag or barrow.
The selection and use of good seed has
more inllucncc towards a. big yield of po-

place the for—

ncw varieties,

81.00 A YEAR.
32.75 5 YEARS.

CESSFUL' wrrn POTATOES.

(are, and. then note the. comparative
yields and quality of each. Ordinarily it
is safer to use home—grown seed than
that brought in from the north or south.
Do .not allow the home potato to dete-
riorate. Proper selection of seed, careful
growing and correct handling will pre-
vent this entirely.

The use of whole or cut seed depends
largely upon the value of the. secd, the
season and the culture of the crop. Me-
dium sized whole seed is prcfcrable when
sccd is cheap; since. the saving in cut-
ting will not pay for the extra cost of the
seed. The cut potato, having one or two
good eyes upon it, will produce just as
big a yield, during the normal season.

The proper amount of seed per acre
has been tested pretty thoroughly. The
results of 1:; experiment stations show
that:

First~lVithin ordinary limits. an in-
crease of seed per acre produces a mark—
ed increase in total yield and marketable
potatoes.

Second—An increase in the size of the
seed potato from our eye to half a po-
tato, produces an increase in the net
valuc of the crop. From 1:? to 20 bushels
of seed per acre makes a satisfactory
seeding.

With general farming, it is not advis-
able to grow too many varieties. The
beginner can select a variety from those
that have been thoroughly tested in his
immediate vicinity. I'urchase from a re-
liable grower, who is known to be respon-
sibh. To many people, a potato is a po-
tato and anything is used for seed, but
such methods will never bring satisfac—
tory success. The potato is a. human food
and the public taste must be considered.
Aside l’rom the good quality, a. large yield
is required.

\\'hcn selecting a new variety of pota-
toes, learn the, following facts about it:

First*}las it a good cooking quality
and flavor? This is partly influenced by
the time. of maturing. the soil, etc.

Secondwls it a large yieldcr? Late
varictics yield heavier than do thc ear-
lier ones.

’l‘lurddls it subject to diseilsc? Ability
to resist common diseases is extrevintly
ii'nportant. ’

Fourth—“hat is the color of the skin
and tuber? For most markcts, the while
fleshed and white skinned lllllt‘l‘ is pre-
ferred.

li‘it'tthature of the skin and shape.
The majority of markets desire a rough
skin and the llat, round potato.

Sixthw‘W'hen does it mature? Potatoes
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Farm of O. A. Olsen, of Leelanau Caunty, Typical of Many Northern Mlchlgan Farms Adapted to Profitable Potato Production and Fruit Culture.

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freezes to any extent. Green potatoes are
hard to handle and must be allowed to
harden up before the markets will re-
ceive them. So the time of maturing de-.
- pends upon the climatic conditions of the
locality and should come about the time
of the first frosts.

A letter to the director of your experi-
ment station, or to some prominent grow-
er, will bring information as to the pop-
ular varieties upon the market and their
adaptability to the above conditions.

As every good farmer understands how
to prepare his land for a crop, little time
need be spent on this part of the discus-
sion. The potato needs a large supply of
moisture, s0 plow deep. Put the plow
down until it gets some of the sub—soil.
And plow early in the spring. Then the
early rains and snows can be conserved,
with proper mulching, throughout the
summer. For early potatoes, the fall
plowing is the best. Care must be taken
that the soil does not weather in such
treatment. A cover crop is often sown in
the fall, and then a shallow plowing
made again in the spring. No difference
when the plowing is done, make it deep
so as to conserve the moisture and make
a good seed bed.

For the man who raises more than five
acres of potatoes. the machine planter
can be used very profitably. Some plant—
crs require one man to operate them,
others need two. A machine that plants
perfectly is the only kind to use, for loss-
cs from insufitcicnt seeding cannot be
made up in one year. The land requires
the Same amount of work during the
preparation and care of the crop and
just as much dirt has to be moved dur—
ing the digging, with a small yield as
with a large onc. The lower initial cost
of a planter cannot recompensp the grow-
cr for the loss from a poor planter when
compared with the perfect work of a
good one.

()it a small acreage. the common hand
planters are very satisfactory. A good
man can plant. an acre and one-quarter
per day and get in every hill. The
throwing up of furrows with a shovel
plow and dropping the sced into same, is
still used by many growers. The most
proiltable depth of planting for the av—
tragc soils is four inches. A shallow
planting is preferred for the heavier
lands.

Montcalm C0.

FOR BETTER CORN YIELDS.
in the good old time of the nineteenth
century, when “free land" aboundcd up—
on the western frontier, abundant har-
vests were assured front the rich, virgin
soil, and an ample supply of hand labor
was to be socurcd at a fair wage, the
farmer was most concerned in the “big-
ncss" of his acreage. \\'ith the passing
oi the, red man, tho “free land." the in-
crease in land values and good labor
harder to secure at a reasonable wage,
Icss attention was given to the large ac—
reage and more attention to a large yield
upon the once rich, fertile soil. Today
extensive farming is fast becoming a
thingr of the past. It is being drummed
into history. A new rcgimc is taking its
place. Intensive methods are being mar-
tialed on the field of action. The large-
ness of the yicld is the. burning question
confronting the would—be successful farm—
er of the twentieth century.

\Yith the wheat and other fall grains,
very little can be done by the farmer to
increase or decrease the yield after the
crop is once/isowcd. Seeds of a high ger—
minating standard placed properly in a
carefully prepared seed bed is the first
and great requisite of the spring grains.
llut with the cultivattd crops it is dif-
fcrent. The high—grade seeds and the
proper seed receptacle does not make the
abundant harvest. Seeds of an inferior
quality, planted upon poorly prepared
ground, by careful, painstaking cultiva-
tion during the growing season may out-
yicld the former, weather, fertility of the
soil and other conditions being similar.
The farmer has it in his power to in-
crease his yield materially by thorough
tillage and this is especially true of the
corn crop.

Michigan has the fertility of the soil
and the climate to produce large crops
of corn. Kansas and Iowa have been
heralded over the country as great corn
states, but the average yield of Michigan
in 1909 was greater than. Iowa and nearly
twice the yield Kansas secured. And
yet, for all that, Michigan’s 1,700,000 acres
of corn only averaged in 1911 about 32
bushels per acre. Surely, there is still

A. M. REILRIDGE.

 

 

plenty of room for an improvement. Prof.
Holden, of the Iowa Agricultural College,
who has done so much, not alone for the
corn growers of his state, but also for
the entire country, says:

“The average

yield of corn in the United States today
is about 25 bushels per acre.‘ It can be
increased to 30, then to 35 and ultimately
to 50.” Is it too high to place Michigan's
future yields at 65, just double her pres-
ent yield?

While the first and an important re-
quisite of a successful corn crop is good
seed planted in a proper seed bed, yet
after planting your highly prized corn
on your newly fertilized fields, don’t leave
it for a fortnight to the tender mercies of
mother earth, and the watchful care of
the birds of the air and the animals and
worms of the ground. You may succeed
in having a profitable yield, but the odds
are not in your favor. As soon as the
corn is planted it is well to commence
working the soil. The dragging of the
freshly planted ground will cover up all
bills imperfectly covered, while on rolling
land it will prevent washing down the
corn rows by a hard rain. Frequent drag—
gings will interfere with the work of cut-
worms while the crows and blackbirds
will fill up on worms instead of seed corn.
A. highly edible diet for the birds and a.
profitable one for the corn grower.

\thn a rain is sandwiched between.
the first tillage and the corn planting up-
on soil where the tendency is to pack,
the cultivator will break up the ground
by following the corn marks. Follow
crossways with the drag and each hill
will be loosened up? Never mind if some
foolish neighbor asks if you are rushing
the season with the corn cultivator. Your
turn to laugh at him will come a few
weeks later, when he is trying to follow
the corn rows in a neglected field where
the weed seeds show thorough'germina—
tion. Perhaps by more intensive plant-
ing and more intensive tillage, the same
amount of corn could be raised upon half
the acreage with less expense. It cer-
tainly would be worth trying.

Another saving would be the conserva—
tion of the moisture. The he)”: that is
repeatedly tilled, especially immediately
following a rain, will not dry out nearly
as much. This means a good deal in a
dry season. Many times larger yields
would have been secured if the corn crop
had not sufcred during the drouth.

By the time the corn is large enough
to cultivate it should be weed free, and
at the same- time the corn cultivating

will be well started, that is, the condi—,

tion of the corn field would indicate that
the soil had been worked several times.
Then, in addition, the frequent tillage of
the soil will not only conserve the mois-
ture but it liberates plant food. This lib—
crated food will help along in the raising
of a heavy crop. Then. by early and fre-
quent titling of his corn crop the farmer
will make a start toward better corn
yields.
Oakland Co.

FARM NOTES.

E. S. C.

 

Spraying Potatoes for Blight.

“'ill you please give the directions for
making hordeaux mixture for blight on
potatoes?

Kent 00. BEGINNER.

The strength of the bordeaux which has
generally been used for the prevention
of late blight of potatoes is six pounds of
copper sulphate to 50 gallons of water,
with four to six pounds of lime added to
neutralize the caustic effect of the chem-
ical. For convenience it is better to have
the. ingredients at hand in the form of
stock solutions. The. copper sulphate may
bc dissolvcd in water by suspending a
burlap sack containing,the sulphate in
the top of the barrel of water. About
three pounds of copper sulphate will dis-
solve in one gallon of water, which makes
what is termed a saturated solution. The
lime can be slakcd in a barrel or other
convenient vessel and will retain its caus—
tic properties so long as it is kept in a
thick paste and not permitted to dry out.
Having these stock mixtures, the proper
amount of copper sulphate solution can
be measured out for the filling of the
spray barrel or tank. This should be ad—
ded to about one-half the quantity of
water needed and the lime paste should
be diluted with the balance of the water
required and strained into the spray bar-
rel or tank'and the whole well mixed.

It is important that sufficient lime be
added to neutralize the caustic effect of
the copper sulphate, and as additional
lime does no harm, except to increase the
likelihood of clogging the spray nozzles,
it is best to use enough to be on the
safe side.

A still better way is to test each batch
of the mixture to determine the suffi-
ciency of the lime content. A cheap and
efficient test will be secured by purchas-
ing a small quantity of ferrocyanide of
potassium (yellow prussiate of potash.)
Ten cents worth will be sufficient and it

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

can be secured at almost any drug store.
This should be dissolved in water and
the bottle in which it is kept labelled
“poison.” After mixing and thoroughly
stirring a batch of the boroeaux mixture
in the spray tank, take out a small sam-
ple and add to it a few drops of the test
mixture. If it causes a. discoloration of
the spray mixture where it is dropped in
add-more lime; if no discoloratiOn occurs
the lime content is sufficient. In recent
years such experiments have indicated
that a mixture containing four pounds of
copper sulphate to 50 gallons of water is
sufficient, but the six pounds has not
caused any injurious effects in its use by
the writer. It would, however, be well to
adjust the strength of the mixture within
these. limits to the capacity of the sprayer
used and the amount of liquid Which is
applied per acre.

As a general proposition. the late blight
does not attack early planted potatoes
and it is not generally considered neces—
sary to spray for blight except the late
planted crop. Spraying should begin
when the vines are about six inches high
which, with the late planted potatoes will
be about the first of August. The effi—
ciency of the treatment will depend not
a little upon the thoroughness with which
the spraying is done and as it is a pre-
ventive rather than a curative remedy,
spraying sheiuld be frequent enough to
keep a coating of the copper compound
on the vines at all times. In ordinary
seasons the number of applications re-
quired will vary from three to six, ac-
cording to weather conditions.

CAPACITY OF DIFFERENT SIZED
TILE TO CARRY WATER.

 

Tell me if two three-inch tile, laid Side
by side, will take care of as much water
as one sininch tile for main ditch, Which
would be best to put in, as I can get the
three-inch tile for 20c per rod and the
six-inch costs 600 per rod?

Arenac CO. L. K.

Two three-inch tile laid side by side
will not carry as much water as one six-
inch tile. Tile carry water in proportion
to the square of their diameter. The
square of six is 36, and the square of
three is nine. and twice nine is 18. There—
fore, the capacity of two three-inch tile
laid side by side. compared with one six—
inch tile would be in the proportion of
18 to 36, or a six-inch file would carry
twice as much water as two three-inch
tiles, but in reality it will carry more
because there will be more friction to
overcome in the iwo—three-inch tile than
there will in the six—inch tile. There is
always greater friction in a small pipe
than in a. large one. and so it is with tile.
I would say that, taking into considera-
tion this extra amount of friction of a
thtree—inch tile that one six-inch tile
would carry three times as much water
as two three—inch tiles laid side by side.
Then, too, a three-inch tile for a main
tile, being so much smaller, is much more
liable to become filled by sedime~t. If
the tile. is not laid on a true grade line
there are little hollows in in, and when
the water gradually goes down after a
rain a sediment will collect in these lower
places which. after a time, will partially
till the tile. This. of course, would occur
in a large tile, but there is so much more
space for the water to flow through the
large one that a small amount of sedi-
ment deposited at the bottom would not
interfere- with the ilow nearly as much
as it would with the small one. By all
means use the. six-inch tile for the main
drain rather than two or more smaller
ones laid side by side.

COLON C. LILLIE.

SOME ADDITlONAL OR NEW FARM
TOOLS.

The plane roller is rather a deceitful
affair. When the lumps are- hard and
ground rough it does its work feebly and
often presses the clods down ready to be
brought up again by the harrow. The
good seed bed is one that retains moist—
ure and here is the way the dry land
farmer goes at it to pack and fine the
soil with a tool called the sub-surface
packer. The roller is always an uncer-
tain tool for a rain may come and the
smooth surface invites a crust. To meet
these objections the corrugated roller and
the double pulverizer are taking the
place, of the roller. A pulverizer smashes
the lumps, firms the soil and leaves the
surface in the same condition as if a.
garden rake had been used. For breaking
a crust when formed over corn or sugar
beets when conditions do not permit the
use of a drag. they are ideal. To firm
sod ground after plowing and before
dragging these tools are most excellent,
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when wet ground is reached they soon
clog up. JAS. _N. McBran.

 

LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

“”hlle the excessive rains and the cold
weather has retarded farm work very
much it seems to have been a good thing
fer the oat crop. Most of the oats 'in this
vicinity were sown late; If it had come off
dry and hot the chances for a crop would
have been very materially jeopardized,
but by remaining cold, with plenty of
moisture the oats have developed as they
usually do when they are sown early in
ordinary years. I have 25 acres of oats
that look as well at the present time as
any crop I ever raised. My neighbor said
the other day that they looked good for
70 bushels per acre.‘ Oats and peas sown
together are also doing well.

“'9 are now just ready to sow our sug~
ar beets this year. Today is the sixth of
June. Think of it, a month behind nor-
mal years, and the ground is not in very
good condition. Vile did not get it plowed
early and it dried out wonderfully in the
drying winds. it is lumpy in a great many
places, and unless we should have a good
distribution of moisture I do not feel that
the prospects for a good crop are very
promising. I have cut down the acreage
of sugar beets owing to the lateness of
the season, and unless We should be fav-
ored by a reasonable amount of moisture
from now on to bring the crop up and
develop it it looks as if I might better cut
out the whole acreage for this year.

“'9 have a new canning factory at
Coopersville this year. I have been per-
suaded to raise a few crops for this can-
ning factory. It is new business to me,
and while the prices are. not at all flatter-
ing yet the market is sure and there is
no speculation in it, and if you grow the
crops you get your cash, and I want to
try it out. I have, therefore, agreed to
raise green peas, also some dwarf lima
beans, and sweet corn. As these are new
crops for me entirely I shall take very
much interest in them, in the method of
growing, and in the profits derived from
them. It is something out of the ordinary
and I am in hopes that it will assist us
in getting a larger cash income out of
the farm. The canning factory expert
recommended that we sow our peas so
that they could be Cultivatvd. Their idna
is to sow in double rows with a grain
drill. Sow two rows close together ant
then leave a space that you can go
through with a cultivator and then sow
two rows more, and then another space.
sowing three double rows with one sweep
of the drill. Then the crop can be har~
vested with a common bean puller, and
while this is something of an experiment
even with the canning factory people it
appealed to me a little bit. I am confi-
dent that this inter-tillage will assist in
developing the plants and I am also con-
fident that It will be better to harvest
them with a bean puller than it would
to attempt to harvest them after thev
'had been sown broadcast with a mower
or any other tool that is yet on the
market. COLON C. LILLIE.
OAT HAY.

The prices of rough feed just now, with
the present indications for the coming
crop do not look very encouraging for
lower prices at least for several months.

Two years ago we were in the same
pickle about feed as many farmers are
now in. It so happened that we had a
field of oats at that time which were
sown perhaps one-fourth thicker than
usual. Clover was sown in the oat ground
as usual, to keep up the regular rotation
of the field. Now when the time came.
to harvest these cats we did it with tho
mowing machine. About one-half of the
heads were yellow when we cut them
down. I’Ve cut them one morning and
raked and hauled them in during the
next afternoon. Not a bit of rain was on
them.

This made the finest feed that we ever
had. The stock evidently thought the
same. The heads were just ripe enough
to furnish some nourishment in them—
selves while they were green enough to
not shell badly.

These oats were cutlwhile the regular
harvest was not rushing and so made lit-
tle extra work for us. This was July 20.
The yield was 11 leads from the two and
one-half acres. The loads weighed about
1,500 pounds each. So the yield amount-
ed to probably eight tons. There is a
saving in threshing bills and an advan-
tage in having this feed all under shel-
ter. Of course, there are good feeding
qualities in plain oat straw yet that is
seldom housed.

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Several timely matters in marketing
live stock add much 'to the profit column.
The more important are salable condition
of the stock, manner of handling in tran-
sit and selection of a favorable market
day. No stock should be shipped in an
unfinished condition. \Vell-fattened stock,
though conspicuously inferior in quality
to animals unfinished in flesh, will sell
.“all around them.”

It should be borne in mind that there
are but two tlasses of stock in the yards
for which there is an active, steady de-
mand, i. (-3., stock fat enough for the
shambles, and animals belonging to the
feeder class. l’rices in the feeder class
are always more capricious than those
in fat lots. hence stock not up to the
rigid requirements of the killer grades
land without argument in the feeder
class. The loss thus entailed is the
amount of feed used in the endeavor to
get the herd 0r flock into the fat class.

Shipping stock to market at as little
loss in weight as possible claims special
attention. Shrinkage forms a large item
in the, expense of transporting cattle to
market. (truss-fed cattle shrink badly,
especially if the. distance shipped be cvwr
100 miles.

(‘attle llittcncd on corn or hay, or both,
Will reach market in much better tillltli—
tion than grtisscis. and in ct’inscquence
present a trim, desirablc appearance in
the sale pcns. Cattle easily become c>:~
cited and heated by tllti unusual exercise.
and alarming surroundings ”incident to
the voidinns are frequent
especially in tlic gi'asscr

Shipment, and
and Watery,
gradcs.

It. is well for several days previous to
shipment to feed rations that are some»
'\\'lltt‘_ binding. (.‘orn should be discarded.
0r fed sparingly. for While it ult'iniatcly
makes tirm llcsh, it is too heating for a
tithling ration. Good timothy hay t'cd
ior three or four days previous to ship-

ment, cutting down the corn ration, is
the best check. Sut ll a ration will con—
siderably retard. the Voidings of chn

grass-fed cattle, it led in connection with
the usual pasturage for a week before
starting for market.

As the drift upon hogs and
‘much less than that of cattle,
is unnecessary beyond a brief warning
against. slopping the former or allowing
the latter to have heating food for 115‘
hours before shipment.

To arrive in the full activities of a
slump causes a very depressing feeling.
Never is it best to so in on a falling
market. It will cost but comparatively
little. to remain at home at such a time.
for the. probabilities are always more on
the side of a furthcr decline than for a
pronounced rally in prices.

The most successful live stock market—
ing. in my observation. is done by those
who manage to have their offerings ready
for the sale pens at such seasons of the
year when there is a noticeable, if not
the greatest, scarcity of fat grades. A
safe procedure is to ship wlicii the mark-
et. is decicedly on an upward tendency
and as soon as it indicates a reasonable
profit for the shipper. The shipper who
is always satisfied with a fair prolit and
who has the nerve. to “let loose" rcgai'd-
It ss of future blandishmeiits may be rank—
ed as a successful marketer, for he is
sure, to make money outqof every ship—
iiiciit.

Illinois.

sheep is
comment

W. I]. UNDERWOOD.
RECORD PRICE PAID FOR SILAGE
BEEF.

The coming of the silo is developing
some new records for high—priced beef,
and is not only making a great saving in
the production of stock, but also greatly
improving its quality.

On May 13, in the Kansas City Stock
Yards, were sold three car loads of steers
averaging 1,340 pounds each, ‘at the
record price. of $8.85 per hundred weight.
These steers were produced on the ranch
of Mr. 1‘}. F. Milnier, of Kansas, and were
fed by him during the winter and early
spring a ration of ground corn, cottonseed
meal and corn silage. This price is not
only the highest for several years, but
no doubt will be a record for the year
when number and market are considered.
Another proof along the same line comes
also from the Kansas City market on a.
bunch of steers Weighing 1,613 pOunrls
each and numbering 58 head, which sold
for $8.70 per hundred. This was also a
record for heavy steers, and for the date

which was May 6, 1912. These steers
were produced by Mr. Jess Monroe, of
Missouri, and were fed a ration of ground
corn, cottonseed meal and corn silage.

This is what may be termed Scientific
feeding, just as good results, no doubt,
could have been obtained by substituting
part of the cottonseed meal with alfalfa.
Alfalfa would make the ration somewhat
cheaper, and would do quite as well. In
considering the benefits of such a ration
we have this to remember, corn silage is
a grass-like feed, succulent, appetizing
and nutritious. It furnishes in the best
possible way carbohydrates in the cheap-
est known form. lround corn is also a
carbohydrate food, and is concentrated
in food nutrients. Ily grinding the corn,
the animals are able to obtain all the
food value of the grain. Cottonseed meal
furnishes the protein not only in a very
digestible form, but also in a very cheap
ration. Good cottonseed meal has at
least three times as inttch protein as al-
falfa hay and the, price can be judged
accordingly, that is, keeping this in mind,
the feeder can either buy cottonseed meal
or alfalfa, for feeding his stock. jloth
tould be used to good advantage, espe-
cially if he uses a. large amount of corn
cnsilagc.

It is well to remember this fact. The

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

and plow and reseed the first to some-
thing else. I have these lots on tillabie
ground, and thus save the manure, and
in fact, I want the whole farm in such
lots. and there I feed the grain in con-
nection with pasture and then plow, and
if that does not make the soil better, I
would like to know what would.

On the rought part of the farm I have
a permanent pasture, but this is used for
horses and cows, or occasionally some
brood sows are turned in. I feed the
hogs grain in lots that are on smooth soil
so I can plow and save the manure, and

get the benefit of its in any kind of a.
crop I wish to grow. 1 have heard neii
say that the hog did not make much

manure, btit. surely all he eats either goes
to pork or manure. I claim the hog is a.
great animal to build tip the. poor farm
when properly handled. And we do not
have to haul the manure. for the hog is
a great manure spreader. I would not

think of growing grain on the tillable
part of the place and feeding it all to
stock, and have the manure left where

it will do no good. As well sell the grain.

I let the hogs harvest a part of the
corn. and they can do it as well and as
profitably as a man. and then all is left
on the ground, besides what extra. you
feed. Of course, this system requires

 

 

As in Other Lines. it is Better to “Grow”

it on an

fctdcr who applies scicntillc principles to
his work, kccps posted and learns the
best and most. economic rations will cer-
tainly make. the most money.

Nebraska. A. L. HAECKER.

USING HOGS TO INCREASE SOIL
FERTILITY.

I note, several articles in the columns
of the Michigan Farmer in regard to
building up and improving wornout farms
and any article on srch a. question al—
ways interests me. The question of soil
fertility is one of the most important of
all questions that confront the farmer cf
today.

I note: many ways and plans given for
the betterment of the and many
kinds of stock named as best for adding
manure to the farm. The dairy cow has
had the front rank as a means of build-
ing up the farm and. if we do not count
labor. I expect she stands at the head.
Sheep have been ratcd as soil lltllltlt‘l'b'.”
but few have paid a just tribute to the
hog as an animal for making better
farms. I wish to {4ch the. hog a little
credit as an imprth r of poor farms when
kept in the right way.

Many say that to keep hogs means to
raise. corn,-and this is robbing the land.
“'hat is land for if not to raise, good
crops? But as generally managed, the
hogs and corn make. the farm poorer each
year. We see the tlllable part of the.
farm put in corn tach year and this is
fed to hogs in some woods or shady lot
where the mantne cannot be saved, yet.
the owner thinks he has an ideal place to
feed hogs. It is for .the first year, and
then it is usually filthy? But the eorn has
gone to the hogs and no manure return—
ed to the soil. The hogs are not always
healthy, and the farm, of course, gets
poorer.

I raise hogs, not on a very large scale,
but they are my main stock. But I would
not raise, them if I had to keep and feed
them as above described. There is a.
better plan, for I have tried it and am
trying it now. I haVe my farm well
fenced into lots, and aim to keep hogs on
some pasture crop the whole year. I sow
various crops in lots to have a. succession
of pasture and forage, and as fast as one
lot is grazed down, I turn into another

soil,

into the Hog Business than to “Go” into

Extensive Scale.

gold fences. bti‘, it means good farms.
and less labor.
Missouri Ii). .l, \\'.vrizusritirn.

FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.
Grains to Feed with Cull Beans.

IVhat tan I feed hogs for fattening to
balance the ration win-rc- beans is the
principal l'cod: something that will take
the, place of corn, as corn is too expcn-
siye a food to Luv? I'I'ow would cotton—
sccd incal, oil meal, or digestible tank—
age be? Sunscniunit.

It is doubtful if any more satisfactory
or economical feed than corn could be
used in connection with cull beans for
hog l‘ccding. lleans contain more protein
than corn and rather more than is ru—
quircd for fattening hogs. Hence, in this
corn would be used to balance up
the. tsts of protein in the bean ration
and be. protitably fed in small quantities
to aid in balancing the ration and giving
variety to the. feed. Cottonseed meal, oil
meal or tankage would not be
economic feeds to use in connection with
the beans since they carry tin excess of
protein, of which sufficient is provided in
the. beans. Their chief value, for use in
connection with corn is to balance the
deticicncy of protein in that feed.

If other starchy feeds, such as barley,
could be secured more cheaply than corn
this Would answer equally as well to
combine with cooked boans in a ration
for hogs. But if the bcans are very mucn
cheaper than any other availablc feed and
a small pasture run can llt' provided for
the. hogs so as to give a little variety to
the feed. it is not absolutely essential
that any other food he. used in combina-
tion with them, since while maximum
gains would not be secured by the feed—
ing of beans alone, gains so secured might
be more etononiical than where a. more
expensive grain is combined with the
beans to secure a ration better adapted
to fattening hogs.

t'lt"t‘

digest ('1'

Texas grass-fed cattle haVe been mov-
ing to Missouri river markets in stead-
ily increasing numbers recently, and as
the season advances they will become
sui‘eiently numerous to force prices con-
siderably lower for their native competi-
tors. Hence, stockmen having ordinary
cattle they intend to sell shortly should
lose no time in getting them marketed.

  
 

  

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Advice throué, 11 this department is free
to our subscribers. Each communication
should state 'history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writei. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probablv find
the desired information in a reply that
has been made to some one else. When
111ply by mail is requested. it becomes
piivate piactice. and a fee of S1. 00 must
accompany the letter.

Sharp Ilneven 'l‘ecthfilrritation ot‘ the

Mouth.» Whenl my mare has bit 111 her
month 111' when eating corn she is 111-

not do it so
grass. I took
lioated her

clined to slaver, but does
much when eating hay or
her to our local \et. who

tcctli, but she still slavers. l1). \\'., Hart,
l\'lic11.~b'harp uneven teeth is a com—
mon cause of slavcriiig, besides horses
that have never been properly bitted

f1-o1111cnt1y do it and it is sometimes the
rcsult of eating too much grass that con-
tains .1 laige percentage of watei or the
mouth may be iii'itated by eating alsiko

11:1)v11i Dissolve 1 oz. of alum in 3 pts.
of water and gargle mouth two or thiee
times '11 day.

Ulll oiiic. Cough—Indigestion—Incipient

llc:1V1s.~I have a mare that has been
11'11111111111 with a hacking cough for some
time and she seems to generate too much
~cas. She shows tlic symptoms of an an-
1111111 that has a milk attack of heaves.
She is much worse when well filled with
hay. 'l‘his mare is only six yuzirs (11d and

had a colt three weeks ago. '1‘. V.,
Midland. ;\li1'li.—-I am inclined to believe
your man» is taking incipient heaves.
1901111 lugi' 11.) dry fodder. but if she is
uorkiiig fccd her grain and grass; also
give. her :3 111‘s. Inuriate ammonia, 1/; dr.
111.1wdcrcd lobclia and 1 di'. salicylic. acid

at a dose in feed two or three times a
day. She slionld not be fed any clover
or dusty, musty, badly curcd fodder and
111'1Vcr allowed to 1111 hersclf too full of
11111.1. l1‘urtherniore, shc should never be

over-exerted when stomach is very full.
.l'liilarged (Ilillldr'rl havc a ten-year—
old mare whose throat glands are en-

larged and they have been in this condi-
ion for nearly wo ycars. A. I\’., Hawks,
1.111111771111111 your mare 2 111's. iodide po-
tassium 111 a dose 111 feed two or three

tinics :1 day and apply one part iodine
and tcn parts lard to swollen glands
in ico a \Vcck.

luokcn \\'ind.ml have 11ccn paying par—
ticular attcntion to the Veterinary col-
umns of your paper. but have not found
anything that fits my case. I have an
old 11111111 in good tlesli, that seems to be
having trouble to breathe. Our Vet.
tells 1111- she has heavcs and I am quite
surc she has a touch of them. For the
past: two years she has done very little
Wtil‘k after June 1. She seems to have
1111111111: in swallowing food, for a portion
of what shc chews drops out of mouth,
nostrils expand and Me jerks in flanks.

N. 11., .\llcgaii. Mich. -I am somewhat
inclincd to 1111icve 11111' to be broken—
11'111111111. '11‘111'11 11.1 111111'111‘, 111 musty, dus-
ty. 11.111115: curml f111l1l1'l'. (11': 1111 and grass
is the l1cst food for her and give her a
111-ss111‘:spwoiii‘ul of Fowler‘s solution, 1/§
111‘. 1111111 (~\ll‘£t('l lobelia and 1 dr. lluid
10111111111 opium at a dose 111 feed two or
thin-1v thin-s 11 day.

\\'1111l 11‘1111111'1cr.*S1x weeks ago I
bought a driving niarc in Detroit, had
'111-1' clipped and (II‘UVC homc facing a
strong: Wind; she was takcn sick that
night and our Yet. treated her for wind

had very little
to move her

founder. This treatment
ct't'cct and it keeps us busy

11111 of barn for she is very stiff and
sorc. .\. I.. 1)., ()wosso, Mich. ~ licr fore
1111-11 should be kcpt wet or she should
stand in wet clay scvcral hours a day.
lllistci' corciiets wit‘li ceratc of (32111—
tharidcs cycry tcn days and allow her to
run on grass. A rccovery 111 this case

doubtful.
I"(‘IIO('I(.**I have just

is somewhat
II('1‘!)illfiisplfillllt‘d

ascertained that my sCVcn—weeks-old
1-v1lt has a navcl i'upturc: had a small
bunch when foalcd, but it has increased
in size a litilc since. I also haVe a four—
y1111‘—old colt that sprained hind ankle
which is now swollcn and painful. 111.
11.. va llaven. Miclrwln some cases

11, 11111111111311, with so'nic elastic in it, and a

pad applied to rupture docs some good;
liowcrci'. if I owned your colt and the
[11"1'11l11 was not doing it any harm I
should lcavc him alone until October or

Novombcr, then if 1111 has not recovered,
have him opcratcd on. 'l'hls operation is

.siinplc and usually successful.
l1111111111:s.~~1)ur driving horse urinates
too 11111-11 11.111 occasionally he acts as it

it hurt him to pass urine. \V. MI, Lakc-
vicw, 11111-11.w»(iive 2 drs. potassium iodide
at a dose in fccd three times a day.
Sul'feit~~l’1111‘sal SW‘CIIIllg.—7I'I‘(IVIIlg re-
ceived valuable information through your

columns before, I appeal again for aid.
ilavc a valuable mare that I think was
slightly ovcr—hcatcd; pimples appeared
on skin, and I would like to know what

to give her. 1 also haVo 11 three-year—old
111111 that has a putt on cach inside of
1111111 11-11 I also have another horse that
I am afraid is 1going to take heaves and
would like to know what to do for him.
\\’ S, I‘bly, Mich.—~Givc your mare 1t
tablespoonful of bicarbonate Soda. and a
tablespoonfu‘. of powdered charcoal at a
dose in feed two or three times a day;
also salt her well. Apply equal parts of
tincture iodine and spirits camphor 10
puffs on hooks twice a week. See treat-
ment for broken wind and heaves, this
column. '

Mud Fever—Our horses on the farm
have been working in wet clay and near—
ly every one of them are troubled with
stocked legs and mud fever. I might add
it will not be possible for us to keep
these horses out of the mud for some--

(Continued on page 663).

, THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

      
 

 
 

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Herd, consisting of Trojan Eriofi Blmkblrde and
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A few choicely bred young bulls for sale.
WOODCOTE STOCK FA ARM. Ionjn. Mich.
AYRS HIRE 111:1: ‘°§21‘31°§:li.‘%‘1’1§

and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swme pure
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Am offering a yearlin May Bose Guernsey bull
for sale. ALLAN KE SEY, Lakeview Michigan.

GUERNSEYS FOR SALE’ERIJenCéiSfé‘t. 81‘}?
registered, finely bred and all right. Herd tuberculin
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E have a few good Holstein Frleelan Bull
VV Calves from (3 t08 months old. Prices and in-

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J not one more Grand son of

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Ready for service.
Write for what. you want. in Holsteins.

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HOLSTEINS

I can please any body with a service bull, bulls
from one to ten months old, sired by Johanna
Concordia Champion. Also cows and heifers bred
to 111111. Write me for anything you want.
in Holsteins.

L. E. CONNELL, -

A 24-Ib. Bull

Have B1111 Calves out of—
13, 20, 2:5. 24-lb. Cows A. R. 0
By a. 24-lb. Bull.

My herd averages 19 lbs.

If you want this kind write

BIOELOW’S HOLSTEIN FARMS,
Breedsville, Michigan.

“DI-STE." BULL calf sired by best. son of
Pontiac Butter Boy. 58
daughters in advanced Registry, out ofa grand
daughter of De K01 211d Butter Boy 3rd. over
100 daughters in advanced Regietr . A beautiful calf
of choicest. breedingI Price on 31.850
C. D. W00 DB RY. Lansing. Mlchlgun.

 

 

Fayette, Ohio.

 

 

 

11m Bulls, It. . rod. Some cons.
Also 111111 12al\e11. 34 years a breeder.
Photos and 1)(‘dlgr(‘(“l on ap Iication. VI.
0. Jackson, South Bend, In. .719 Box St.

19611111 "$1 FOR SALEZA-(i Awmilinl? Holstiein Fries-

amuse“?

 

' —dro’pped Feb. 17 1912, nearly white,
NOISIBIII BUIldcalI 37;. 111110011 H'en erveld De K01
da reco Senior 2-iear-lod 1&3? lbs. butter.
GEtiitGE E d,LAPHAM ’11. 8, 111'. Johns. Mich.

 

Purebred Registered

H OLSTE IN CATTLE
The Greatest Dairy Breed

' Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets

Holstein-Fried“, A:so.. Box I64, Brnttleboro.Vt-

3 $200 Holstein Bulls.

Any lnoeder in Michigan looking for this kind? If
so see their prcdigrcos 111 fore 11111 ing.
LONG BEACI I FARM. Augusta, Michigan.

112G ISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE—Bulls all
sold. Herd headed by Ilcnuerrcld Coin Pictertje
LOYB‘D F. JONES. It. F. D 3, Oak GroveZMich.

YI’SILANII FARMS BULL CALVES.

Ohoioest Konrdyke, Dekol and Heugerveld breed-
111g. $50.11) to 81.0000 Official Pedigrees on request.
COLE BROTHERS. Ypsilanti. Michigan.

JERSEYS AND DUROG JERSEYS
FOR SALE.

A few high cIlass boars from such chum ion boars as
Orion Chief, I,nstructor and King of I linoia. Also
a few bred sows, Jersey bulls. cows and heifers.

BRUOKWATEB FARM, All“ ARBOR. "10“., II. F. I). 7.

lillie Farmstead JERSEYS

Bulls ready for service. also bull calves and heifer
calves. Cows all in yearly test. Satisfaction guaran'
teed. COLON C. LILLIE. Cooperevllle. Mich.

MARS'I‘ON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.

T. P, MARSTON, Bay City, Michigan.

 
    

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,ewlne. poultry,

JUNE 16, 1912.

Milking Strain oi Shodhorns’fl‘i": 131'. £135
for . WARNER BROS.. Almont, Michigan.-

 

FOR SALE—10 Reg. Bhorthorn Bulls

months ld Scotch and 800393311?“ 11.131.579.513 tglgti
0 0

each. BIDWELL s'roon FARM I151.111.111.311. Mich

111111 1111111 311011110111111'1121'.15.111113?“ “61111

or good note. H,UMMEL Mason, Mich.

SHEEP.

 

Good Yearlin Field
OXford Down Shag“ Rams and ewes fit all ages
for sale. I. R. WATER .Highlnnd. Michigan.
' —Wish to close 0 tboth
Beg. HEMIIIIIIIIIGIS a eu, low rice.u Farms—EgfismiIé;
E. onice,on G.T. R. .and .U.B. J. 0. A. COOK

 

H008.

 

' ' —Y 11 M
Durocs and Victorias 13.83% 1‘21““211‘1? 1.113211%”1‘1‘111
boar. Priced to move them. tory, Lowell, 1ch.

—T 8 LB 2
BEHKsHIREs dAtivoto eEreedoal'11‘1-rmizgll 813203113112. wiiiz
Farmer Prices . AA PA ’I‘.ULLO Deckerville. Mich.

BREKSHIIIES~2 fancy gilts. bred. at $35. Bears
servioable age. 3252111111 up. Am booking orders for
E1 mhurst. Stock Farm, Almont, Mich

 

 

spring pigs.

BERKSHIRE

ferred.

“’eaned pigs either sex $1?»
two forSZ’); red gilta $313; bred
sows $50, reiistered and trans-
cExoeIIent breeding. Oice individuals.
C. C. CO OREY. New Haven. Michigan.

f h
Improved Chester Whites 1.1111131111’3‘11‘151‘1’51“ mii
f11rrow.AIso three young hours. cheap, to close them
out. W. O. W ILSON, Okemoe, Mich. Both phones.

 

 

I. C's Special Prices on spring pigs and service mnle'a.
0 also full pigs 300 to ink from. Shipped on approval.
ROLLENIMG VIEW STOCK FARM, Cass City, Michigan.

 

o. I c SWINE—Males weighing200 lbs each. Also

- a few very choioegilts, bred for June far.

row. Geo. P. Andrews, Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mich.
9 of March ad nAprll farro

O. l. C S ' pcd on a prom] orc. 0. II-

11111
OTIS GIIEENMAN. R. 4. Bellerne,I:Iat.m1 00., Mich.

 

 

o I 0 Extra choice bred gilta, service hours
I and spring pigs, not akin from State

Fair winners. Avondale Stock Farm, Wayne. Mich.

 

9 —All ages, growthy and large, sown bred.
0 . I. C S Mules ready, 100 to select from. Attractive
prices on young stock. Jump, Munith, Mich.

 

0 I C’s—I have some very fine and growthy last.
. - fall pigs, either sex, males ready for ser-
vice now, pairs not. akin. 0'1"]. B. SCHULZE,
Nashville, Mich. half mile west of 0.dopob

 

CUB Imp. Chester Whites and Tamworth swine “on
245 151'. at Fairs in 1911. Service boars, also sows bred
for spring furrow of either breed that will pleaseyou
in quality and price. Adams Bros. Litchfleld, Mich.

 

o I c swine and Bull Rock oockerela of
I I, right “pie,” bee; of breeding, price way
down for quick sale. OT’I‘, Quimby, Mich.
“Frost's

Choice spring by
0- I. C- Challenger" (Zfilfilfi' rite for price:
GLENWOOD STUCK ABM, Zeelnnd. Mich

0 | c' sof superior §ualityu Service boars, jlti,
spring pigefixl o akin pairs. Also Bull' took
eggs ‘1. '10 per rodW Monroe, Mich.

O. I. C. —0nim looked For Spring Pigs.
1mm

 

 

 

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford.

‘hf Write me for
O. I. C. 5 INE rice on Spring
Pigs, pairs and triofl. not akin. ave a number
of servxce males of good type. Write me describing
of your wants. A. J. GOBDEN, R. No. 2Dorr, Mich.

 

 

UROC-JEHSEY boars for sale from such sires as
Star Wonder and Mo‘ s 001 from Chief Col. Fal'
sowsof like breeding. Reasonable pru es and satisfm .
tion guaranteed. John MoNicoll, North Star, Mich

—Sows bred for May and

DUI‘OG Jerseys June. Spring pigs. 1
pay the express. J. H. BANGHAHT. Lansing, Mich.
~10 Fall and

DUROC JERSEY Winter Bears,

ready for service. Pricee right for 10 days. W rite or
come and see J. C. BARNEY. Goldwater. Mich.

SERVICE BOARS 1...... 1111......
(either sex) sired byfiW‘a Choice BulgaNzfiigig “£31153;
reasonable. Write VIVIAN, B. 4, Monroe, Mich.

 

 

 

 

—Service Boers, bred sows
lluroc Jursays For Sale 1.... 11.111... in... 1.1111111
sex. Pairs not akin. M. A. BBAY, Okemos, Mic.h

LARGE TYPE I) C —Largest in Michigan. Pigs
_ 0 0 from mammoth sites and
sown. Weigh 160 to 1751b1I, 111.4 months. My motto—
“Not how cheap but ho'aw 0d." Will pay or
[190388 of those“ who 00m do not find what I
advertise. .LIVINGSTUN. Puma. Mich.

0Losmc. our-”11'1”" W 1....
. POLAND CH INAS.
A bigger, better and more prolific trpc. 10 nice. 1111.:
sows, bred for June, July, ugust, Septembcr 1111.951
cat-11,1". 0,11. You had better ordcr one at. once.
J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Michigan.

PolAND CHINA ~g1ilither sex, all ages. Some.
P. D. LONG. a thing $303311; 33.111131: rié‘iii

POLAND-CHINA SWINE

Bred for Septcmbcr. R. W. MILLS, Saline, Mich.

Big Smooth l’oland China Hogs £f€1iz1la2521$"‘iie
reasonable prices. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock

‘ ~Bred from large by e.
I’OIafld Chlnas all on both sexes, 3? Farmers
prices. W. J. HAGELS A,W Augusta, Michigan.

Poland China full and Sprin
BIG TYPE bred Dain bred Shorthorng Ifii‘lglli 521?;
calves. Prices low. ROBERT NEVE, Pierson, Mich.

15 Poland China Sows 12%..“ $131333. 11“.?
priced to sell. WM. VVAFFLL, Goldwater, \lich.

 

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JERSEY CHILE 13311113352311 liugangégci‘vhgfisifii
write. 0. A. TAGGETT. _R. No. 1. Caro, Mich,

POL‘ND CHIH‘s—Young sown bred for April furrow.

Fxtra good fall pigs, either sex.
L. W. BARNES & SON, Byron Shiawassee (.‘o., Mich.

 

ERSEY Bull Calves, 2 t1; 8 mos. old, Sired by a Grand son of
Imp Inteiested Prince and from cows that produce from
401110 500 lbs. Butter in one your. A. Newman, Mnrlotte, Mich.

Big Ty‘pe P. O. Saws 'fifii‘. 131.331?

00D & SON. Saline. Mlchl‘an.

 

Jersey‘ICatfle For Sale.

Mulefoot Ho 8 139.53% 11;.‘110‘2111’1‘1118.

 

 

C A.B STOL Fenton. Michigan. Boats all ages. G. C. BEGLOW. Ada. Ohio.
BUTTER BRED JERSEY 333;“ l-‘for Sale,A Yorkshire Gills"?fi§i..1‘éef1“i:§1‘i
CRYSTAL ‘21,}an STOCK FARM, 111.311.11.150 pl 311. both sexes

Silver Creek. an County. Michigan.

 

FOR SALE OR TRADE!

A 4-YEAR-OLD BELGIAN STALLION,
We hamlbs, right: in every way! Also two young
AEKS. one coming two years old and the other
111 inever way.

th Add
coming roe VVBIGH flFrankfort Indiana.

R1
W. G. HIMM

 

 

RED POLLED—Ch'oloe lot of females any
.1. M. CHASE a. soms‘. ‘i‘g‘iiffififi‘c‘flfilgfm

11111 POLLED BULLS FOR SALE-5:11.103:

strains. JOHN BERNER it SON, Grand Ledge, Mich.

 

0WfA’I'IuItMANA Meadow Land Farm. Ann Arbor, Mich.

Lillie Farmstead YORKSHIBES.

Boats for spring service. A fewbred sows. Also
sows bred for August. and September fan-ow. Fairs
and\ tries not akin Satisfaction guaranteed

OLON C. LILLIB. Cooper-ville. Mich.

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER. <5)

 

 

 

PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

 

 

 

FUNCTIONS OF NUTRIENTS.
FY FLOYD w. nomsoN.

The respiration calorimeter and the fuel
calorimeter we might call the starting
points for the scientific valuations of the
different food nutrients. \\'e have seen that
with the fuel and respiration calorimeters
the exact value of the different food pro-
ducts in terms of heat production have
been determined and these valuations
gave a decided impetus to the study of
the principles of animal nutrition. .This
subject has been followed up by Voit.
Kellner, Armsby, Jordan, and others, and
very reliable, data is now at hand regard-
ing the real functions of these various
food nutrients. The most information in
this matter has been determined through
experiments on animals—>11 true index of
these changes being revealed through a,
careful and minute study of the liquid
and sclid excrement. particularly the
urine.

Voit’s Starvation Experiments.

Voit, working,r on dogs, established the
iossibility of two important kinds of pro-
tein in the- body which he designated tis-
sue prOtein and circulatory protein. The
tissue, or muscular. protein of the body
is the firm solid material which consti-
tutes the muscles of the body. The cir—
culatory protein was a prcduct of more
cr less indefinite character, protein in na—
ture which was made available at any
particular point in the body and which
was constantly in circulation. In starv-
ing animals the urine disclosed a rapid
waste of nitrogenous matter which kept
up for some time without any apparent
ieduction in the muscular tissues of the
body, This nitrogen waste was considered
to come from the circulatory protein of
the body and an animal could cndurc.
without; vital conseoucntes, a period of
starvation which would permit of prac—
tically the entire consumption of the cir-
culatory protein of his body. When. how-
ever, the circulatory pt‘olcin was ex—
hausted and the consumption of tissue. m-
}nuscnlar protein was begun, the decline
of the animal was very marked indeed,
and fwltwwlng rapid etnaciation death was
but a very short distance removed.

Amino Protein and Circulatory Protein.

The, protein compounds in food are di—
vided principally into a class which we
have heretofore designated as true pro~
ttins and amino bodics. '\\'e have. not
been willing to give the saute value to the
amino bodies in a ration that is given to
a, true protein lady and while we have,
not assumed tl.at these amino bodies do
Not have an important bearing in the
food_ at the same time being less com~
pletcly organized perhaps. they do not
represent the full value to the animal
that is rcprcsei.tcd by the true protein
body containing the same content of
niticgen. In a convalescint: individual as
we have. just inferred, it is the circulatory
protein of the body which has been uscd
up and it seems possible that the circu-
latory prmtin of the body may be re-
form, at hast. by these sor-
called atnino bodies in the food. The cir—
culatory proteins would conform more
nearly to the composition of the amino
bodies than would the stationary or mus-

placcd in

cnlar protein that is ahead»: an integral
part of the- animal tissue. '\\'ht’;thcr this
view be correct. as a mattr r of fact, we
do find it decidedly advantageous. in .1
ccnyalcscing individual to feed the pa,-
ticnt on these so—catled amino bodies.
The standard ntcat extracts and boul-
lions and many of the meat soups that
are so highly t‘ccotnttit‘ndwl for a con-
valescent patient are in rcality nothing.r
but concentrated amino products, To say
that they have no place in the. ration, is
to speak idly. but to claim for them
full value with the true proteins is clearly
makitn.r an assertion that is not only un—
warranted but which is not borne out by
the bulk of evidence at the
present time.
Fischer’s Synthesis of Proteins.

limilc Fischer‘s work on the synthesis
of the protein bodies has done much to
familiarize scientists with this highly
complex print’illlt". lt has been but a
short time since, the first organic com.—
pound has been synthetically prepared in
the laboratory, and this organic produc—
tion, of urea. by \Vohlcr, in 1828, was fol—
lowed by a period of very rapid progress

scientific

in the production of organic compounds.

Little attempt was made, however, and
little success has been attained in the
synthesis of protein compounds until

Emile Fischer, in the last few years. has

succeeded in producing some of the amino
bodies such as, however, exist in the cir-
culatoty proteins in the animal body.
This has resulted from an intricate study
of and taking advantage of the resultant
products as excreted in the urine, and as
stated some time ago, the excretory Work-
ings have been a most fruitful source of
scientific investigatitni on the problems of
animal nutrition.
PrOtein a Complete Food.

Protein seems to be the one principle
which by itself is capable of completely
nourishing the animal body. There are
certain carnivorous animals. which live
almost exclusively upon a crude protein
diet supplemented with an excess of min—
cral matter in bones. and such sources.
These animals as a rule are not exceed-
ingly fat, although it is known that they
do at times accumulate vatying quanti—
ties of fat. Following up \‘oit's studies
in starvation and its intlucnce upon nitro-
gen excretion, experiments were conduct-
ed on feeding an excess of protein to as—

certain it' the nitrogen would in this case.

be excreted. l’rotein cannot apparently
be stored in the body after the maximum
body l“'ttlllI‘t‘l]i(.‘lll.‘s‘ are met. A study of
the- urine indicates that as fast as an
excess of protein is stored away and
after the maximum body requirements
are met, the nitrogen of this protein is.
excreted in the urine in the form princi-
pally of urea. This would indicate that
the animal body has no provision for the
storing up of protein in the body as is
the case when an cxcessive quantity of
carbohydralcs and fats are taken in the
fcod. Nevertheless, it is a known t'ftct
that animals when fed on a ration of pro—
ltill exclusively may increase in weight.
This Weight indicates that the protein is
stort d up in the form of fat and this is
known to be, actually thc case.
Protein Contains a Carbohydrate
Molecule.

The theory of this formation is that the
protein llltllt't’lllC consists of a corbohy—
drate molecule attached to which is the
nitrogo n in the punter proportion. The
theory of the disintegration of the pro—
ltlll body is that after the maximum pro—
tein supply has been met the molecule is
then further split. the carbohydrate part.
of it going to form fat, the nitrogenous
end of the molccuic being,r eliminated as,
urea in the urine.

“'0 liaye gone into this point of the
cxact function of protein in the body bc-
canso it has a bearing,r upon the thcory
of the. use if balanccd rations which we
shall discuss probably in our next paper.

Fats and Carbohydrates not Complete

Food.

Continuing these investigations to the
fats and carbohydratcs. it has been clear—
ly shown that an animal cannot thrive
for any long period of time on an exclu-
Sin‘ diet of fats and carbohydrates.

Il<‘ollt'iwing the ingestion exclusively of

(Continued on page 66.7).
LABORATORY REPORT.

\\'c. made cider from good ripcv apples in
early fall, put it in a Vinegar barrel, left
it undisturbed on the. barn floor, expect—
ing ll to turn to yiney’ar. ’l‘his sprini.r it
Es insipid. scents to bc dead. \\'hy didn't
it turn to vincgar? Tan it be revived?

.»\ inhuman.

It is diflicult to tell from the descrip—
tion given by l-‘ttadcr just what is the,
trouble with the cider in question. \\'e
would like to ascertain first wltctht‘rr the
cider is still sweet or whcthcr it has
turned to alcohol. lf it is
still swcct, by dissolvingr a package of
compressed yeast in the same, and allow—

completcly

ing it to haVo access to the air. that is,
opening: the bung, and inserting a small
totton or straw plug. alcoholic fermenta--

tion will be encouraged and this time, of

the year should proceed with vigor. Then,
after the alcoholic fermentation is start~i

cd act-lilicdtion Will begin. If alcoholic
fcrtncl'itation has started and all of the
sugar has been fermented, ilt‘tllllt'ttlltlll
may possibly be encouraged by introduc—
ing a little. vinegar or a little mother-of—
vinrgar into the barrel.

\Ve would sugest that reader refer to a
previous number of the Michigan Farmer
where this qucstion of fermentation cf
cider and the forming of vinegar is more
cr less thoroughly explained.

if Reader is not successful in getting:
fermentation started in this vinegar, if a
small sample is sent to the Practical
Science Department we will endeavor to
ascertain what is the- trouble with the
same.

 

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DETROIT, JUNE 15, 1912.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

 

As noted in 3. re-
Progress of Parcels cent issue, the
Post Legislation. llousc Ilias moved
, a little way in the
dircclion of an adequate parcels post in
the passage of the post office appropria-
lion bill, which raises the weight limit
of puckzigcs which may be scnt by mail
from four to 11 pounds and rcduces the
postage from 16 to 12 ccnts per pound,
aside from pioviding for a rural route
purccls post with a charge of five cents
for the first pound and one cent for each
additional pound. But perhaps the most
important provision of this bill is one
which provides for a joint committee of
three members from each house to fur-
ther study the whole parcels post ques-
tion, consider all bills and report to con-
gress on the first Monday of December,
1912.

At first thought, this last mentioned
provision of the bill looks like- an attempt
to delay progress in parccls post legis-
lation, but those who are most friendly
to 1he parcels post idea do not bclieve
this to be the intent of the provision for
several reasons. First, it is stated up—
on good authority that the setting of
March 18 us purccls post letter day re-
sulted in the bringing of so many com-
municulions from farmc-r constituents to
congressmen as to convince many doubt-
i‘ul members of congress that there was
:i very gcncrai inlcrcst in this proposi-
tion, thus making them more fuvorablc
in constructive lcgislntion along this line.
Then, the more the proposition has been
studied by thinking incn, the more up-
pzircut it has bccomc that time is yet
nccdcd for study which will clear up some
of the points Iii issue and harmonize the
various views hcld upon this subject by
thOSc who are mosl desirous of securing
for this country adequate parcels post
lcgislulion.

In addition to the measure of parcels
post provided for in the general post
office appropriation bill, which will prob-
ably be passed by thc,sennte in a similar
form, ‘thcrc- are a number of Special par-
cels post bills among which the follow-
ing may be mentioned as prominent: The
Bournc Bll‘l, ,lntroduced by Senator
Bourne, chairman of the committee on
post offices, provides for a. weight limit
of 11 pounds on rural and city delivery
at low charge and divides the country
into zones with it gradually increasing
charge for each succeeding zone. Anoth-

er bill is the Gardner Postal Express bill

THE MICHIGAN FARMER;

in the Senate, similar to the Goeke bill
in the House, which are in a. class by
themselves in presenting an entirely new
idea on parcels post legislation. They
are based on the findings of Rep. Lewis,
of Maryland, who has devoted years to
the study of this subject. These bills
provide- that the government shall take
over the express companies’ business
and contracts. assuming the entire par-
cel carrying business of the country in
order that all people may receive equal
service at ‘the least possible cost, includ-
ing the people who live on rural routes.

This plan has been favorably consid—
ered by the House committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce, which com-
mittee has reported the Goeke bill with
recommendations that it pass. Many of
the most ardent friends of an adequate
parcels post have endorsed this postal
express plan, as have the National
Grange and the slate Granges in many
Slilte‘s, including Michigan.

These bills, and others now before con-
gress, will boar close study. and with the
disposition manifested on the part of
mcmbcrs to thoroughly investigate the
problem and act in accordance with their
findings at the next session of congress,
there is every reason why the friends of
adequate parcels post legislation should
be conlcnt with the situation and wait
for its best solution under our condi-
tions, rather than to urge hasty action
before the different plans can be thor—
oughly investigated and the views of the
friends of parcels post harmonized in
such a manner as to unite their slrenglh
in a comprehensive plan which will give
the best possible service to the greatest
numbcr of people at the lowest practica-
blc rate.

An innovation in
state fair manage—
ment and an added
attraction for the
Michigan State Fair for 1912 has been
planned and is now under way. T1113
new feature will consist of a number of
“modcl forms" on the fair ground to be
conducted on a competitive basis by boys
selected for the purpose. Work has al-
ready bcen stnrtcd upon this feature, a,
Space 1,000 feet by 400 feet having been
plowed and fertilizcd and during the
present week some 50 boys have made
selection of their plots. These plots are
about 50x200 feet, and on them the boys
will plant various crops in season so that
same will be harvested at the time of
the fair. Among "these crops will be In-
cludcd corn, potatoes. mungcls, beans,
sugar beets, squash, pumpkins, celery,
onions, etc. In addition to these prac-
tical crops the boys will also plunt flow-
ers to beautify their little farms and
make them attractive.

The slate fair management has hung
up liberal prizes for these boys. To the
boy whose produce. and general appear—
ance of whose little farm is the- best at
fair time. a cash prize of $100 in gold
will be given. The second prize will be
$50 and the third prize $25. In addition
to these prizes 3. number of other prizes
will be given by merchants who handle
seeds and agricultural implements, so
that the winners will be well prepared
for more extensive farming should they
decide to take up that line of work.

Among the boys who will take the
most active part in the little farms are
a number selected from among the boy
scouts of Detroit. Thus far there have
been chosen 30 of these boys who have
appeal to catch take one of these little
farms and conduct it to the finish in a.
manner to make the best possible show-
ing. These boys were choscn from five
troops of boy scouts in the city, includ-
ing the Y. M. C. A. troop and the troops
from a number of Detroit churches. The
boys will not be allowed to go into camp
as this would mean their abselnce from
School for a grcutcr part of the week.
It is certain, however, that they will
take much interest in the work und'vVill
receive an inspiration from it which will
IllC-all much for their future development.

Boys! Model'l Farms
at State Fair.

These little farms will also prove an
added attraction at the fuir and should
likewise prove an inspiration to many
country boys who see thc results attained
by their city contemporaries on these
boys’ model farms. This work will, of
course, be educational to the boys them-
selves and this educational influence will
extend to thousands of boys who do not
participate. inasmuch as it will reveal
to them the possibilities which are open
to the boys of both the city and country
in agricultural pursuits.

It is a new development of the old
school garden idea. which has proven
such a. success, especially in the cities
where the boys have little conception re-

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and the state fair'management is to be
congratulated on this move which we
predict will be productive of even more
beneficial results than they have anticl-
pated, since many a. farm boy will be in-
spired to plead for a little model farm of
his own in consequence.

Economists a r e
Keeping the Boys and everywhere view-
Girls on the Farm. ing with appre-

hension the city-
ward trend of our population and sound-
ing a warning to the effect that if this
tendency is not checked by educating the
people back to the land, the consequences
are bound to become serious in the not
distant future. In a. majority of cases,
however, they direct their educational
campaign toward the wrong subjects. It
is well nigh useless to argue this point
with mature adults who have chosen
their vocations in life, but when the pos-
sibilities of agriculture are properly pre—
sented to the boys and girls who have
not yet made this choice, the results
may be entirely different.

As an example of this fact, we would
refer to the results in Wright county,
Iowa, where the boys and girls over the
fourth grade in 34 graded schools were
asked What they intended to do when
grown up. Of 164 boys to whom this
question was put 157 replied that they
would have nothing to do with farming,
while 163 of 174 girls likewise voted
against the farm. Three years later, dur-
ing which time instruction had been giv-
en in agriculture and home economics,
the same question was put to the same
pupils in the same school. This time 162
of the 174 boys answered that they in—
tended to become farmers, while 161 of
the 178 girls were planning on remaining
on the farm. Does not this point the way
to the best method of keeping the coun-
try boys and girls on the farm?

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
National.

The republican national committee is in
Chicago prcparing for the republican nu-
tional convc-ntion to be bold in that city
June 18. The whole number of delegates
to the COIIVcntion will be 1.078. It will
thus require 540 votes to make a nomina—
tion. There are 411 votes instructed for
Col. Roosevelt and uncontested. Presi-
dent Taft has 201 instructed delegates
that are uncontested. Senator LaF‘ollette
has 36 instructed delegates that are un-
contested and Senator Cummins has 10
instructed delegates that are not con-
tested. Altogether there are 166 unin-
structed delegates. This leaves 254 that
are contested and it is the duty of the
committee in session to review the
claims of the contested delegations and
determine whether they will be seated in
the temporary organization of the con—
vention.

The federal government has just issued
advance sheets of the census showing
the condition of Michigan industries at
the. time the last census was taken. This
bulletin states that in 1909 there were
271,071 persons engaged in factories.
This is a large increase over the number
so engaged when the state census was
taken in 1904. ‘

Apprehension is felt among the mill
owners in Connecticut lest the textile
workers will walk out on strike.

The supreme court of the State Of
\Vashington lius upheld the ordinance
passed by the Tacoma common council
which provides against treating.

Traffic has bccn resumed again in Bos-
ton wherc business was disturbed by the
street car strike. The company operat-
ing the roads of Boston and vicinity are
usmg new men.

Fishing towns on 'the shore of the Shel-
ikof Strait in Alaska are believed to have
been destroyed by erupting volcanoes.
Assistance has been fished for.

A joint conference is being held at
Lansing this week to effect a perma-
nent organization of the several 3580--
ciations of the state looking toward the
conservation of our natural resources. A
program is being given with prominent
public personages to address the dele-
gates.

Arrangements are being made for
bringing 10 Detroit during the celebra-
tion of Cadillauqua, July 22-27, the fast-
est motor boats to be found. The course
in the Detroit river is held to be the
fzistcst in the world by the United States
naval authorities, which fact is attrac-
tive to those interested in racing. In the
speed trials 52 miles per hour has been
reached by one boat that is to enter the
races.

A resolution has been submitted to
congress providing for the investigation
of the weather bureau department of the
government, the reason for the move—
ment being largely based upon the with—
drawal of service from the farming com-
munitics and upon expenditures of mon-
ey for equipment of uncertain worth and
the neglect of duties and work of certain
value.

At a. recent meeting of the Michigan
State Board of Agriculture plans were
completed for the establishment of a
system of forestry extension work in this
state, and C. A. Taylor, of Branch coun-
ty, was appointed to carry into effect the
general plans of the board.

The fifth session of the Graduate
School of Agriculture will be- held under
the auspices of the Association of Am-
erican Agricultural Colleges and Experi-
ment Stations, at the M. A. 0., East Lan

True, of the United States Office of
Experiment Stations, will be dean of the
school and the faculty, as usual, will
consist of some of the leading scientific
men from the United States Department
of Agriculture, the American agricultur—
al colleges and experiment stations, oth—
er American universities and European
institutions. Two lecturers have been
secured from England, Dr. A. D. Hall.
of the Rothamsted Experiment Station,
and Prof. F. H. A. Marshall, Christ Col—
lege, Cambridge University.

.Foreign.

Two persons were killed by falling 300
feet from a monoplane at Mourmelon,
France.

Two battleships have been ordered to
sail for Cuba by the state department at
\Nashington to protect Americans and
foreigners on the island from the rebels
who are menacing the inhabitants in
many sections of the island. Property
has been destroyed in a number of places
and it seems that the revolution is gen—
eral all over the island. The issue is
forcing a contest between the whites and
blacks, thus making the war one not lie-
tween different sections but between .hc
two races.
~A heavy blow was dealt to the revolu-
110117’ in Mexico by the capture of. Gonzalo
C. Enrile at El Paso, who has been re—
spousible for finuncing the
Also Capt. Gonzales, of the rebels, was
killed at Juarez. It is further reported
that rebel forces were defeated in an en—
gagement about 50 miles east of Tor-
rcon. These, with other discouraging
features, seem certain to dishearten the
rebels in their hope to put down the
present government.

The 13 Ships comprising the German

llcet “now visiting this country are in
New York harbor where the officers and
men are being entertained by the Ameri-
can navy men.
. Out of eight contestants who started
in. the aeroplane contest from Berlin to
\Ie‘nnu under the auspices of aviation
someties, three succeeded in finishing in
lhe big contest. Five of the machines
were wrecked.

I'nless something unforeseen takes
place the big dock strike in London will
be terminated in a short time.

American tin plate is being shipped to
Japan in incrcnsing quantities. This
product is also finding a way to Liver-
pool and even to London itself. The
\Velsh producers are much exercised 0v~
or these fuels, lhcy believing that Am-
c-ricuns arc gctting their markets away
iroin them. V

An. engagement between Italian and
Turkish—Arab forces between the oasis
of Zanzur and the Mcditerranean sea re-
sulted in a victory for the Italians. A
counter attack was made by the defeated
troops without success.

 

SPECIAL INSTITUTE TRAIN.

The Agricultural College will" rhn V a.
special institute train through the cen—
tral and northern part of the state! during
the latter part of June.

The Detroit and Mackinac and parts of
the Michigan Central and Grand Trunk
and Ann Arbor roads will be covered.
stops for about 90 minutes being made at
the points and on the dates given below.
There will be three coaches and three or
four baggage cars. Lectures upon a va-,
i'iety of topics, including alfalfa, dairy-
ing, fruit growing, bee—keeping, and var-
ious phases of general farming, will be
given.

The baggage cars will be filled with ex-
hibits which will be used to illustrate the
lectures, and for demonstrating the use
of machinery of various kinds.

Fer the last six years one or more in-
stitute trains have been run annually and
the interest has increased each year.
Farmers who live within driving distance.
of stations where the train will stop
Should avail themselves of the opportu-
nity of listening to the lectures and in-
specting the exhibits.

itinerary of Farmers’ Institute Train.

Friday, June 14.—Ome-r, 8:00 a. m.;
Twining, 9:30 a. m.; “'hittemore. 12.30 p.
m.; Hale, 3:00 p. m.; Rose City, 4:30
p. m.

Saturday, June 15.—East Tawas, 8:00
a. m.; Harrisvillc, 10:30 a. m.; Black Riv-
cr. 1:00 p. m.; Ossineke, 2:50 p. m.; AI-
pemi, 4:30 p. 111.

Monday, June 17.—Calhro, 8:00 a. m.;
Bolton, 9:40 a. m.; I‘osen, 1:30 p. m.;
Mctz, 2:30 p m.; LaRocque, 4:00 p. in.

Tuesday, June 18.-Millcrsburg, 8:00 a.
my Onaway, 10:00 a. m.; Tower, 1:00 p.
m.; Aloha, 2:45 p. m.; Cheboygan, 4:15
p. in.

Wednesday. June 19.~—Indi:in River. 8:15
a. m.; \Volverinc, 10:00 a. m.; Vanderbilt.
1:00 p. m.; Gaylord, 2:30 p. m.; Frederic,
4:15 p. m.

Thursday, June 20.—Roscommon, 7:45

a. In; St. Hclcns, 9:15 a. m.; West Branch,
10:45 a. m.: Alger. 1:10 p. m.; Sterling.
2:30 p. m.; Standish, 4:00 p. m.
, Friday, June 21.—Bcntley, 7:45 a. m.;
illadwin, 10:00 a. m.; Pinconning, 1:00 p.
m.; Linwood. 2:30 p. m.; Kawkawlin, 4:00
p. on.

Saturday, June 22.——Foster3, 8:15 a. m.;
Burt, 10:00 a, m.; Montrose, 1:00 p. m.;
Flushing, 2.30 1.). m.; Lennon, 4:00 p. in.

Monday, June 24.—P0mpei, 8:00 a. m.;
Middleton, 9:30 a. m.; Carson City, 11:00
a. m.; Butternut. 1:00 p. m.; Sheridan,
2:30 p. m.; Greenville, 4:00 p. m. '

Tuesday, June 25,—Carland, 8:00 a. m.;
Elsie, 9:30 a. m.; Ashley, 10:50 a. m.;
North Star, 1:15 p. m.; Ithaca, 2:45 p. m.;
Alma, 4:15 p. m.

“'ednesday, June 26.——Forest Hill. 8:00
a. m.; Shepherd, 10:00 a. m.; Mt. Pleas-
ant, 1:00 p. m.; Rosebush, 2:45 p. m.;
Clare, 4:15 p. m.

Thursday, June. 27.——Farwell, 8:00 a,
m.; Lake George, 9:30 a. m.; Temple,
11:00 a. m.; Marion, 1:00 p. m.; McBain,
2:15 p. m.; Cadillac, 4:00 p. m.

Friday, June 28.-—Boon. 8:00 a. m.;
Harrietta, 9:30 a. m.; Mesick, 11:00 a. m.'
Pomona, 1:15 p. m.; Cepemish. 2:45 p. m:

 

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POETRY an? GIRL
HISTORY an? . ‘ ' OCC/K’ . l ‘ SCIENTIFIC ana
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This Magazine Section forms a part of our paper twice a month. Every article 18 written especrally font, and does not appear elsewhere
A POS‘ l ‘OF‘F‘ICE ON WA‘ I ‘ER.
ill!) international postal service has BY HOWARD M_ SULLIVAN. never know any of the particulars about
many novel and interesting meth— the Work.
ods of delivering mail matter to To follow a letter from the time it is
its patrons, running the range from the ' received at the marine post office until it
barrel chained to the rocks at the south- is delivered to the passing vessel is in—
ern end of bleak and deserted Terra del tcresting. ’_l‘he author has had the privi—
Fuego, Where ships may stop and the icge of watching the journeyot‘these let—
crews row over to it to get any mail ad— I . ters from beginning to end.
dressed to the ship and deposit letters for The mail is dclivered by automobile at.
delivery to all parts of the world, to the very frequent intervals, in a manner sim-
dog train of Alaska where hardy men . ‘ ilar to that employed for other stations
drive dogr teams harnessed to sledgCS 1. of a city. \s soon as it arrives the. bun—
loaded with mail. hundreds of miles I dies are untied and on the back of each
across dangerous mountains barren letter, one of the clerks writes the name
plains and treacherous ice, for distribu— of the vessel to which it is addressed, in
tion to the exiles of that desolate coun- a large plain hand so that it may be easily
try above the Arctic circle. read. 'l‘hcn the mail is ticd up into bun—
But none of these are more unique or dies again and carried aboard the tug
interesting than the method of the de- whore the 'arriet's sort it and deposit in
livery and collection of mail to passing pigeon holes the same as at a land post
boats on the riVer at Detroit, Mich. If otiice. .\ll this must be done quickly for
is (“Hut ”,0 l’nited States Marine I‘ost even while it is being done a steamer '
Office and is the only one of its kind in may be in sight and mail must be, made.-

‘i the world. It has been in operaticn for up for it until the. last possible minute.

a several years. E p » . \\‘hcn ready the lu-ttcl's and papcrs are

.. The river at this point is three—fourths ' ' ‘ again tiCd up, (“etch l’UHtHO t't‘l’ It lltlttt, and

‘t of a mile wide. Strangcrs are attracted , ,, when wanted (”‘4‘ taken aboard the row-
by the grcattst of marine spectacles in ; boat and placed in a large. waterproof

I the world formed by the endless lll‘ttt't‘nhitm ' . box in a handy position where they can
of giant freight and passenger steamers ‘ be picked up readily.

‘ that pass the ltetroit Dort. \Vhilc one I Although confusion Slllllt'tilllt'h‘ 900””
stands amazed at the great water caravan inevitable, everything is done Systemat—
he sees suddenly coming out from one of Hoisting Mail Bucket from Small Boat to the Deck of a Giant Freighter. jpany and nothing is pm] (pm-n (.xwm
the. docks a small black boat with white where it can be quickly picked up again
cabins. It darts forth to meet an on— 4 when wanted.

“‘ coining freighter. It is l'nele Sam's mail .-\ telegraphic report is received of all
boat and is named the C. F. 'ltielman. vessels leaving every port on the great
Aboard her are six men whose duty it is lakes, locking through the. canal at Sault
to see that all boats passing Detroit re— Ste. Marie. 01‘ lttlSSingthl‘ough the Straits
ceive all mail addressed to them. This of Mackinaw and a careful l'E‘t'tll‘ti is kept
duty is ““11 performed. which, aided by the knowledge of the ‘

'\\'he.n nearly in front of the oncoming Carma]- in regard to the speed and cargo

‘ steamer. a man in gray uniform runs to of each vessel, a very close calculation

; the stern of the tug where a large row- , can be made. in rerard to the time each

6 boat is being towed. (letting into the. boat will bass Detroit.

: iowboat he casts off the line and grasp- , _ .\ny scrap (,f marine information is

‘. jng the oars rows straight for the big ’ - lminstakiugly gathered and (aret'ully kept

by the. tort-(2 on duty that their knowledge
may be kept up to the minute. It is nec-
essary that all ycsscls shall be familiar
to the men connected with this work and

"i vessel until he. is directly in front of It
" and an accident seems inevitable. Nearer
i comes the freighter. never checking its
: spetd or changing its course: higher and
higher its sharp black bow lions up. oV-
ershadowing the pigmy in its path; The
marine carrier, for that is what he is
ialled, pulls suddenly on a long line.
fastened to the [Hill and' thc rowboat
drifts alongside the freighter. He then
stands up and grasps a coilcd line laying,r
in the. bottom of the rowboat. All this
“time the. largt r boat is rushing by him
at a rate of ten to tlftteu miles an hour.
Suddenly he heavcs the line toward the
deck towering alec him. The line, un- taken into t't'tllsidcratioil that upwards of
coiling as it tlys straight to the mark, is Row'boat Used in Marine serVice- The BOX Contains Ma” for the Freighters- :L humlred bouts pass 'lietmit witch day,

 

so peculiarities in the design and con-
struction of each boat are noted until the
way they can he recognized by these men
sccms almost uncanny; one vessels smoke
stack may be a tritlc longer than the av—
erage, or perhaps slant illllttirit at an an—
gle. .\ thousand and one dit‘t‘crcnt things
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caught by the willing hands of a s‘tilor to the sailors anxiously waiting for news months of every year. If trim or more that. a very large number must be re—
waiti'ng to grasp it and make it fast, As t‘rom loved ones at home who are not boats are coming at once the mail is also menibcrcd and also that there is almost a
the line tightens with a jerk, the small sccn for months at a time. dclivercd from the tub" by the other car- duplicating of many of the lmgtfis’ mumps,
boat is llttlied almost out of the: water All this must be hurriedly done as oth— rier, who uses a contrivance shaped very The, C. lt‘. ltielnian is about sixty feet
and care, must be taken by the carrier cr boats are coming and all must be much like a dip net on a long handle. in length and fourtccn i‘cct beam. it
that he is not pitched headlong into the caught in a like manner and none -an be This last feat requires great skill in was built at it‘errysburg. Michi'an, of

river. A bucket is then lowered eon— missed. _ handling the tug on tho part of its cap— steel, for the. work that it is engaged in 7
taining outgoing mail which is taken out This operation is gone through with tain and is quite cXcitiug for the novice. and is of peculiar construction that en— '
to he mailed ashore and mail for the night and day, in the hot August still or This sight is always interesting to on— :.b|cs it to be turned in a ycry small cir—

steamer is put in its place. to be delivered November‘s snow and sleet, for nine itmktl‘s. yet thousands witness it and cle. It is equipped with a fort: and aft

 

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compound engine 6%x13x8—inch stroke. of
piston and is of ample pewer to drive the
boat at the necessary speed. It is mod—
em in every respect, having electric
lights and all conveniences.

The small wooden steamer, Florence B,
was used for a number of years but the
service outgrew it and owing to the con-
gestion due to the small accommodations
the very best service could not be given,
so the smaller boat was discarded.

The crew to handle the boat is divided
into two shifts, each consisting of a cap-
tain and engineer. Each crew is on duty
twelve hours a day. Six cariers take care
of the mail. There are three crews of
two carriers each. Each pair works
eight hours of every twenty—four, having
no Sundays or holidays during navigation
season. The carriers are all picked men
selected for their knowledge of, and ex-
perience in, water and marine matters.
Each one was required to take an exam—
inatiOn conducted by the post office de-
partment to satisfy the officials that he
possesses this knowledge. Each carrier
shows his calling by the muscular de-
Velopment of his chest and arms, due- to
rowing a hcztvy boat.

To hear them talk the listener would
be almost persuaded to believe that their
chosen vocation is as prosaic and devoid
of adventure as the ordinary city or rural
letter carrier, but after spending a night
in late November or early December,
one‘s opinion undergoes a change. They
must loop at work through snow, sleet
and spray until their clothes are frozen
stiff. No matter how rough the river is
or how hard the Wind is blowing, the
mail must be delivered that no sailor be
disappointed in not receiving letters due

him. However, they consider it all a
part of the business and although the
danger is far above that of the average
man’s work, accidents are very rare and
nothing serious has ever happened. Prob-
ably the greatest accident that, in their
minds; could happen, would be the miss-
ing of a single boat.

The importance of this work is realized
when we learn that a movement in con-
gress to abolish the marine post office
some years ago, met with such sturdy
opposition that the attempt was aban—
doned.

This narrative would not be complete
without a, description of how the sailor
receives his mail. No housewife, stand—
ing on the porch of her home awaits with
more eagerness the coming of the post-
man than does the mariners of the great
lakes. Shut off from sight of family,
home and friends for a very considerable
portion of the year, and hearing only be-
lated news of the busy world, the marine
carrier is the connecting link between the
sailor and the outside world, for not only
does he bring the news from home but he
can be depended upon to hand up a scrap
of important news, even to shouting the
results of an election or the score of the
last league baseball game.

“'hen the mail is taken aboard it is
carried into the cabin, where it is sort-
cd out for the crew. Then the watchman
of the vessel plays at postman by dis-
tributing to the waiting a crew a letter
from home or perhaps the town news-
paper. The men quickly withdraw to
read them, or retire, disappointed. to wait
until the boat passes Detroit again where
they may expect another visit from the
marine letter carrier.

 

 

The Little Brown Bird.-

BY ARTHUR W. PEACH.

ist‘aetory philosophy of life held no

room for the presence of Fate. but
that one moment and the resultant oc—
currences came very near to compelling
iiilii to recognize the existence of some-
thing working in life for the good or ill
of them beyond their direction.

lie and his mother had driven up to
the small village station for an express
bundle; and instead of driving immedi—
ately away. at the suggestion of his moth—
cr he waited a moment that they might
watch the western express majestically
sweep across the flats, and stop for a few
moments, looming dark and haughtily
over the little station.

Then Stephen lost interest in every-
thing except, a slight figure, the only pas-
smiger to alight, who stood hesitatingly
on the platform. Something in her ap—
pearance hold his attention: what it was.
he could not tell then. but it cost him
much thought and anxiety later. She
was dressed very simply in broWn; pretty
she certainly was, but Stephen was at-
tracted more by the expression on her
face as she turned and looked toward
them after the express pulled out.

“Mother." he said. “that girl‘s a
stranger here, and in trouble—look!”

VN’itli a leap that caried his six feet
from the carriage. inartistieally but sol-
idly to the. platform, he ran over to where.-
tho girl had fallen, bent over and gath-
ered her in his arms: and in obedience to
his mother's directions took her into the
station waiting—room where the only man
in charge, '\\'clsh, hurried up with aglass
of water.

ITiidcr Mrs. Lane's ministration the girl
Stirred and her eyes opened, showing
luminous brown depts that were full of
a dark Soiiietliing——fear, dread—he did
not know what it was, but it pulled his
heart strings and stirred the pity within
him.

The girl started with a little cry as full
cmiscioiisiiess came.

“There, there." Mrs. Lane‘s soft, moth-
criy voice said, “Don’t be frightened: we
will look out for you. You just fainted——
that’s all. You’ll be all right in a. mo-
ment.”

The girl looked up yearningly into the
gentle face, and stirred in the arms about
her as a child nestles into the arms of
one it is sure it can trust.

“Do you want: a doctor?" \Velsh asked.

“No—~no!" the. girl said hurriedly. “I
shall be all right; I am rather tired—just
tired, that's all.”

Stephen saw her eyes were dim with
tears as her voice faltere-d on the “just
tired, that's all," and he knew by intui-
tion if nothing else, that there was some-
thing wrong deeper than mere weariness.

“Where is it you would like to go?"
Mrs Lane asked, gently. “We have a
carriage outside, and can easily take
you."

STEPHEN LANE’S simple and sat-

The. girl‘s face whitened, she started to
answer, but her lips only trembled.

The quick heart of the elder woman
seemed to gather the truth that Stephen
could not. “Stephen," Mrs. Lane said to
him, “We will take her home with us."

Coming from arranging the cushions
and robes, he found her attempting to
walk alone but wavering iii evident weak—
ness. \Vithout a word he folded her arm
under his and gently led her to the wait-
ing carriage where he tucked them coz-
ily in.

As he turned from the front seat to
see if all was well with them, he saw
that the girl's face lay on his mother's
shoulder and that her eyes were closed.
Her face in relief against the dark driv-
ing coat of his mother looked like a
white, frail flower.

lie spoke to the black span, and they
sped forward, swiftly, smoothly.

The drive to the house gave him time
for thought. He knew that the girl was
a stranger for he was familiar with ev-
ery man, woman, and child in the village,
and his mother must have decided. too,
that she was unknown. There was mys-
tery in her appearance at the little sta-
tion, mystery in her attitude. and there
appeared to be mystery in other ways
that he could not unravel. He recalled
the dread in her eyes. the weariness and
the hopelessness in her low “Just tired,
that‘s 9.11;” and he remembered that peo-
ple are often tired in more ways than the
more physical.

Through the last stretch of woods they
whirled, then up the broad driveway to
the stately house standing white and se—
rene!iit symbol of the character of the
dwellers therein.

The black pair swung gently before the
wide door, and a maid came out to whom
Mrs. Lane said, “Bess, please see that
everything is all ready in the west room."

Stephen stared; that was his mother's
choice room; but to give it up was “like
mother." He assisted them in, then, on
his mother’s orders left to take care of
the horses; and for once the favored
blacks had to be content without the
customary attention he gave them.

He found his mother busy in the kitch-
en, and the.- aroma of what smelled sus-
piciously like beef-broth hovered in the
air. “Vi"hat’s the matter with her, moth—
er?" he asked anxiously.

“You big, blunt boy,” she answered,
smiling, “that little girl is starving.”

“Starving!” he reiterated in horror.

“Yes, that is the trouble—though there
seems to be other things I do not know
about. But she is a lonely, weary, moth-
erless girl. and we must be good to her.”

“I’m with you, mother,” he said
promptly. “What can I do?”

“Nothing, laddie. just now; your fath-
er will want you out in the lot; later on
we may need you."

Donning his working garb, Stephen hur—

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ried out. On the way he sought to de-i
cide on just the method to be used in
telling his father of the afternoon’s hapw
penings. Stephen knew the rigid, stern
nature of his father, born of a cold, Pur-
itanical race and bred in their teachings,
and he realized that he would look with
no favor on this bringing into his home
of a strange, mysterious girl from the
western part of the state. It would look
to him like charity carried to an extreme
——a thing which he detested, and which
usually aroused his anger. Stephen, at
first, thought of keeping quiet about the
whole affair until his mother could ex-
plain matters to his father, for she, of
all in the family and near relatives, was
the only one before whom his father’s
iron nature bent; but, again, he reasoned
that a word now would save: his mother
just so, much explanation when the crisis
came. So he told the story of the after-
noon. '

The strong figure of the older man
straightened beside his work, and the
even eyes were hard. “What‘s that,
Stephen—give a perfectly strange girl the
guest room? No one you ever saw? or
Mother? knew no one in the village? A
piece of foolishness—that's my judgment!
the idea of doing such a thing! How do
you know who she is, what she may have
been? For all you know—well, here's
this work to be done; we'll decide this
matter later." He turned. abruptly to his
work.

Stephen watched him a moment in dis—
may before he, too, began work. He
knew what his father intended. The cold
searching of his questions would soon es-
tablish_wlio she was, where she came
from, and the thought of that searching
chilled him. In the brief time he had
seen the girl, something had been stirred
within him—the same feeling that had
actuated him long'ago when be rescued
a little brown thrush from the claws of
his mother’s favorite cat at the cost of
the cat’s life; and now as he watched the
wintry face of his father the same in-
stinct was stirred within, again, to pro—
tect and defend.

When far down the valley the village
clock chimed the hour of five, his father
dropped his tool and signalled him to do
likewise. They walked to the house
without a word, ‘his father silent and
taciturn as was his custom, but this time
the silence had a chilling and forboding
effect on Stephen.

As they entered the kitchen his mother
looked up with a smile—the one perfect
smile on earth—a mother‘s smile of love
and greeting. The light on her face was
reflected on his father’s, and the stern
face relaxed as he kissed her by way of
greeting.

His ears tuned to hear the first men-
tion of the girl, Stephen made ready for
supper. Nothing was said, however, until
at the table, where his mother said:
“Maxwell, I have a little brown bird up—
stairs that we found by the wayside—~23.
girl."

“So Stephen was saying,” his father
answered, shortly.

The crisis was approaching. Stephen
buttered a slice of bread on both sides,
but his disgust at. so doing was momen-
tary, for his mother went on, “I want to
keep her here with us—for a while;
she—” _

Mr. Lane carefully laid down his knife
and fork. “Mother, I will not counte—
nance this thing. You have altogether
too kind a heart. You have been impos—
ed upon enough because of it. These
people that come from the thickly settled
portion of the state under the circum-
stances this girl evidently did are not to
be welcomed with open arms; you have
had some experience before with them.
Now, I’ll talk with this girl; if she satis~
fies me, she stays; if not, she goes. My
home is not to be made an institution
for wandering girls. I will talk with
her.”

Stephen put the bread carefully down.
Across the table he watched his mother.
Her gentle face, crowned with the white
hair, shone Madonna-like under the mel-
low glow of the big center lamp; and she
was smiling. “No, Maxwell, you will ask
her no questions at all," she said, quietly.

Stephen had a boyish desire to slap his
mother on the back; thus did many of
her victories begin.

“Mrs. Lane!”

“Now, father, your potato is getting
cold.” He glanced down and picked up
his fork. “She has told me everything:
who she is, where she came from, what
is wrong." He picked up his knife. "I
want her to stay; she can help me, and
I need someone- besides Bess.” His father
began to mas‘h his potato.

Stephen cut the slice of tortured bread.
Only seldom did his mother oppose his
father directly at every point, but when

 

JUNE 15, 1912. '
she did the chances were in her favor;

under the heat of her firmness and gen-
tleness seldom did his father fail to

.melt.

Not another word was said aboutvthe
girl upstairs until Stephen took it upon
himself to question his mother. ‘,‘Whols
she, mother, and what’s wrong?” he
asked.

“Stephen, you will learn in all good
time," his mother answered.

Stephen turned awa‘y to see on his
father's face the nearest expression to a
smile that ever rested there. "You See,
son?” he said.

Stephen nodded.

After he had retired that night, Stephen
heard his mother go into the west room,
and their voices reached him, the girl’s
sweet and wistful, his mother‘s tender
and motherly. As she was leaving the
room and the door remained open for a
moment, he heard the girl say, “You are
so good to me; if I only had a real moth-
er like you!" He did not catch his moth-
er’s reply, but as she went by his room,
he called her in. “Mother, what's her
name?"

She smiled. “Still so curious? Avery
Dale.”

“Avery Dale,” he rep sated, learning
back; it was a new name to him, but it
seemed to fit.

At noon the next day, he entered the
kitchen to find his mother and the maid
busy in the work which his mother loved,
and there, too, was—the girl.

His mother heard him and turned with
her welcoming smile. “Stephen, this is
Avery.”

Something in his mother's simple, un-
affected introduction gave their first
meeting almost the grace of old friend«
ship. He, saw that her face was pale, and
the shadow was still in her eyes, but the.
swift, shy smile that came in answer to
his drove the shadow into utter rout.

Then his father came in, and his moth-
er introduced them. Under the gray
lancing of his eyes, the girl seemed to
shiver and cringe, and her answer to his
even greeting was low and shaken.

Someway, after it was over, Stephen
felt as if his nerves had been tightened
into knots, then suddenly cut.

“'hile at the table, Mrs. Lane said:
“Stephen, I want you and Avery to drive
to the village this afternoon for a few
things that I must have."

He eagerly agreed to accept the com-
mission, and wl‘cn he drove up to the

‘house with the black pair, she was wait-

ing for him.

The drive was an eventful one. and
Stephen’s heart was soon warmed by the
mystic influence that is born into exist—
ence when two hearts attuned meet. Un-
der the kiss of the wind her cheeks were
touched with rose, her eyes brightened,
and curls of her wavy brown hair were
blown from under the Tam O’Shanter his
mother had bade her wear.

They chatted along conventional lines
until he discovered her almost childish
interest in the sights and scenes along
the road, then he led her on with ques-
tion and answer until her sweet voice
hesitated no longer but ran happily on.

He told her of himself, of the beautiful
estate of his father which had been in
the possession of his family since colon—
ial days, of his father’s pride in the place,
in his ancestors, his beliefs. Then it was
he saw a little of the rose fade in her
cheeks.

“i am afraid of your father,” she said,
slowly.

“You mustn‘t be—yet most everybody
is—’cept mother; he loves her too much."

"His eyes—they look into your very
soul as if he read what no one else
COUif.”

“That is just his way. He does not
realize it: and at heart he is the best in
the world. But he comes of an old Puri-
tan family—a regular old line Puritan;
doesn’t believe in some kinds of music,
theatre-going, dancing; and he thinks
anybody who has anything to do with
such things is in league with Satan.”

He thought he felt her start, and look-
ing down he saw that she was indeed
startled. Quickly she mastered her emo-
tion, however, but not so swiftly that he
did not have time for a moment's swift
wonder as to what he had said that
should so affect her. “It was so—so~—
kind and good of you and your mother
to take me in the way you did. It must
seem very strange to you—the way it
happened. I told your mother every-
thing; and I would tell you but—J am
afraid 1—”

She paused in embarrassment, and he.
seeing it, hastened to save her. “Never
mind, mother is the only important one-
anyway. and I don’t care so long as she
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The rose mounted to her cheeks again.
and her eyes softened into a deeper
brOWn, but before she could reply, he
stopped the horses before a store in
which they were to make purchases.

Soon his orders were filled and she had
gone through her list. Stephen watched
her with interest; her quick eye for what
she wanted and womanly way of assert—
ing her wishes amused him and won his
admiration.

The drive home left them at the great
side door—friends, and on the verge of
something more. Stephen realized it as
he refused the help of the stableman and
busied himself in making the blacks com—
fortable. No one had ever brought into
his life the magic that makes life and
its hum—drum duties wear a new and hal—
lowed meaning as she had in the little
time he 'had known her. There was the
mystery of her coming which might hold
much; evidently it did—something she
did not wish to tell; but the surety of her
presence was more to him than the mys-
tery of her appearance.

The next day held incidents that gave
Stephen cause for amusement. wonder,
and thought.

His fathcr made it a rule to spend most
of the evenings reading from newspapers,
taking care of the voluminous mail that
came to him as a result of the positions
he held 0n town and state boards and
committees. it was his custom to change
his heavy shoes in the evening for slip—
pers, and each time he seemed to leave
them in a different place so that wnc-n
he wanted them again he could not find
them readily, and the ensuing search in-
variably aroused his ire and discomfort.
Mrs. Lane, after vainly attemptingr to
teach him to kccp them in some regular
place, had given up, vowing that she
would not aid him, and that he must
learn from cxpci‘icnccerliut he nevor did.

The second evening after Avery’s com—
ing, he! found them waiting by his chair.
Stephen caught the silent, astonislu-d
question on his father‘s face as to whom
had been so thoughtful, but who he,
thought it was Stephen could not giiosr-t,
for after the first questioning expression
the: mask of coldness covercd his father's
face.

An old dog,
of his father.
day out about the
never failing, rain, sun, or snow. One
afternoon he did not appear. Stephen
knew his father was worried about his
old friend and gradually growing restless.
Finally he called work off early, and hur-
ried to the house. Stephen following.

Hardly had the door closed when Mr.
Lane, asked: “Mother where's old
Lionel?”

She laughed.
male is fickle.
with Avery. I sent her down
the men’s homes with gruel for
baby, and the dog wt-ut with her.
they arc now."

They turned to the
walk Avery's slight tigure
lightly; by her side rolled along the old
shepherd dog. Mr. Lane saying
not a word, then turned from the window,
and Stophcn knew that his father had
food for thought: that the. old dog who
had been his boon companion for years
should dcscrt him tor a wisp of a girl he
had known only tor a few days was an
occurrence, worth pondt‘a'ing; and it hurt,

That evening they were Sitting
together and -\V‘cry was upstairs. busy
about something when a of song
came down to them. clear and sweet. llis
from his paper with a
had

Lionel, was a. great chum
following him day in and
many-acred estate,

“Maxwell, the heart Of a.
has fallen in love
to one of
a sick
There.

Lioncl

window. l‘p the
was coming

stared,

samc
ripple

father lookcd up

scowl. it was the llrst time she

sung, though Sit-phcn had wondcrcd bc—
forc if she could not. for her speaking
voice was sweet enough he rcasoucd.

The song ran on and on above them, the
notes like little elfs delirious with happi-
tuinblcd down the great hall into
Mr. Lane held his eyes stead-
paper, but Stephen watching

ncss,
the room.
ily to his

keenly saw that he did not read a line.
llis father turned. “\Vhat is that song
she is singing?” he asked quickly.

Taken by surprise, Stephen answered,
" ‘Keep a Song in Your Heart \Vhile the
Ytars Haste Away —~a popular song,
father, but a good one."

Mr. Lane grunted. “The sentiment’s
not so bad,” he said. brusquely.

The third Sunday evoning came, and as
Stephen and the, stablcman hitched up
the eager blacks, his mood of mind was
far different from the calm sereneness
that usually follows a. beautiful country
Sabbath; for his mother had prevailed
upon Avery to sing that evening in the
village church. Stephen’s nervousness
was due to fear of his father’s silent but
no less effective anger, for he knew that
his father looked upon Avery with sus—

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because of the mystery of her
coming, the Silence she had kept about
herself, her evident desire» that nothing
be said to her about the past. And to
have her sing in the church——one who
might prove to be unworthy; that would
he a lever that would release the curbed
power of his nature. But his mother had
serenely planned it, and that settled it.

So it was with mingled sensations that,
after the drive to the village, he entered
the crowded church. As he walked down
the aisle he saw her sitting in the choir
loft, looking a little nervous, but win-
smne and girlish. He sat down beside his
father in the old family pew, secure in
his belief that his father’s near—sighted-
ncss would prevent him from recognizing
her unless when she sang.

The. service drcw on. and she arose to
sing. The song was one of the old loved
hymn tunes, slightly changcd with varia-
(Continued on page 658).

picion,

A CO-OPERATIVE BEACH RESORT.
BY C. R. ROSS.

Many a community is missing a chance
of out of door relaxation through lack of
proper surroundings. The little village
of Delray, on the east coast of Florida,

THE -MICHIGAN FARMER.

was built co-operatively, the people put-
ting into a common fund, what they felt
that they cared to give for the purpose.

It was estimated that $235 would purv
chase the material for the pavillion and
a small bathhouse. Some of the heavy
timbers were picked up along the beach,
but if these had been purchased, it would
not have added more than $10 to the cost.
The, work of construction was done by
everyone, men, women and children turn-
ing out to help the good work along, and
each day ended with a supper and a so-
cial evening on the beach.

The pavillion is built square, 2-ix24 foot
in size and thoroughly braced as a pro—
tcction against the high winds. It is
celled from the lloor to a liight of three
feet, and canvasst are provided to be
hooked on tho sidc from which the wind
blows. Benches and tables are always on
hand and a nical can be served in perfect
comfort in the midst of a high wind or
a driving rain. The cost of the pavillio'n
alone was $200.

The bath house was built on the same
general plan, 12x12 feet square and at a
cost of $35. It was divided into stalls on
each side of a central aisle and will ac—
commodate cight people at a time.

These little buildings on the beach have

 

 

 

 

 

Pavillion and Bath House Built by Co-operative Effort.

has met this need in a. way that may
look good to other towns, whether near
the ocean or only some lake or river.
Delray is fortunate in being near the
cccan and in having an exceptionally good
beach. liver since the beginning of the
settlement, this fact has attracted the
attention of the people; and it soon grew
to be a neighborhood custom to spend one
or more chnings each week on the beach.

'\’\'liile this was pleasant in the main,
there were some drawbacks; sudden
storms somctiines came up and it does

 

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not tale a long rain in Florida to get one
Pretty thoroughly wet. The lunches and
picnic dinners were often ruined by hav:
ing san‘d blown into the food. This was
a common occurrence as the wind gen-
erally blows with vigor along the beach.

Altogether those of us who enjoyed the
picnics there began to feel the need of
some kind of shelter. After some discus-
sion, the bungalow syle of pavillion was
settled upon as being most suitable. This

become, the social ccutor of the town and
stimulate a Wholcsomc outdoi 1' life on the
part of its people.

ORIGIN OF COLORS lN YELLOW-

STONE PARK.

That the harmonious and brilliant tints
in the gcyscrs and hot—spring pools are
due mainly to plant life is one of the in-

teresting: statcmcuts made in a publicit-
tion entitled “The (lcclogical History of
Yellowstone National l‘ark,” just issued

 

rded by Community Pavillion and Beach.

by the department of the interior. Algae
flourish equally well in the waters of all
geyser basins and On the terraces of
Mammoth Hot Springs. XVhert-ver those
boiling waters cool to the temperature of
185 degrees algous growths appear, and
by the lowering of the temperature on
exposure to air still more highly organ-
ized forms gradually come in. It is said
that at about 140 degrees the conditions
are favorable for the rapid growth of

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of Com

there’s a period when the
kernels are plumped out with
a vegetable milk, most nutri-
tious.

‘As the corn ripens the
‘ milk” hardens, and finally
l)€C()Ill(}S almost flinty.

Post
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Are made from this hard part
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it is carefully cookcd; treat-
ed with sugar and salt; rolled
into thin bits; then toasted to
an appetizing brown? with—
out a hand touching the food.

It has been said that Post
Toastics are thc most dc-
liciously flavoured particles of
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658
several species. The development of
plant life at such excessive temperatures
and on a scale of such magnitude seems
a marvelous thing. Nowhere else can
this be seen so well as in the Yellowstone
Park.

As the water in shallow pools chills
rapidly, corresponding changes in color
follow. No life exists iii the center,
where the water is boiling. On the outer
edge certain colors prevail, and in the
cooler overflow channels still other colors
predominate. In a geyser basin, the first
evidence of vegetation in an overflow
stream consists of creamy white fila-
mentary threads passing into light fie-sh
tints and then to deep salmon. With
distance from the source of heat, the pre—
dominating colors pass from bright orange
to“ yellow, yellowish green, and emerald,
and in the still cooler waters various
shades of brown.

The marvelous colors in the Grand Can—
yon of the Yellowstone are mainly due To
mineral matter, the pigments being dc—
rived from the lavas. Along the base of
the canyon thermal and solfataric agen-
cies have bcen at work through long ages,
slowly but steadily decomposing the rhy-
olite rock that forms the walls. I‘pon the
buttressed walls and sculptured amphi-
theaters tints of green and yellow are in-
termingled with red, the colors being
blended with singularly harmonious ef-
fects. From the roaring turbulent river
at the, bottom to the somber green forests
at the top, the abrupt walls seem aglow
with color.

This publication contains an account
of the geologic forces that have caused
the wonderful natural features that have
made the. Yt-llowstone famous throughout
the world.

THE LITTLE BROWN BIRD.
(Continued from page 657).
tions adapting it ltAU solo work, just
enough to bring out still more the melody
and appeal of the,- original tulle.

I'ndt r the spell of the sweet,
Voice that rose fearlessly without effort
to the high tones and sank mellowly and
tenderly to the lower, the packed forms
grew still. The voice was that of one
singing as the birds sing, because there
is music in the heart.

As the song (ll-cw on to a close, Stepti—
en was startled to see his father reach
for his glasses an unusual thing for hip
to do there at. such a time. 'i‘ensely li-
watched him “adjust them: there was a
Slight parting of the lips as he recognized
her: but not a word. Stcphen eyed him
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honc was visible.

After the service, while Stephen was
waiting for her, he saw a portly, bald—
hczttlod man, a. stranger evidently, step
from one of the side pews and speak to
llt'l‘, at the same time holding out his
hand. Stephen's heart wciit cold. Slit-
shrank from the man as if in terror, and
refused his hand. The man steppt-d clos-
cr to llt'l‘ and said something that made
her quail before him. ller face went
white and frightened, and she slipped by
him.

Stepht'n stepped up as she came out

il‘.1t; tho hall. He took her arm. “Any~
thing wrong, Avery?”
“ti, SlC'llllcllwlllctlSC don‘t ask Inc—

please!"

Stephen drove up to the church later
ontl they startcd off for home. She sat
rigid lit-side him, answering
questions when asked, but making no
t-oninit-nts chcorily as was her wont on
tho many things that invariably interest—
ctl her along the road. Stephen knew not
what to make of what he had Set‘ll or of
licr silence, but ht- felt as if he had been
liltlllgtwl into darkness after being in the
light, as if listening to the. sweetest mus-
liccn stillctl and a
swcct \'tilt'c- silenced. \\'lio was the man'.’
What did llt‘ say? llad his father's keen
oycs seen more clearly than his own love
and his mother's gentle heart?

Arriving at the house, and stabling his
11012905, he turlicd with lagging footsteps
tip the patch. As he did so, he saw a
shadow leave the door of the big house.
ilit by the window; the light fell upon it,
and he recognized Avery.

A few swift steps and he caught her.
\\'ii.h a frightened cry she tried to slip
from him, but he crushed her tightly to
liiiII.

Avery, what does this mean?” he de—
manded hoarsely.

He felt her face bury
shoulder.

“0, Stephen! Stephen!” In her voice
was longing and regret, mingled with fear
and hopelessness.

“Avery, tell me what is wrong!" he
commanded. “Tell me!”

silent and

‘t-. suddenly it had

itself in his

 

one made no answer.

“Tell me, little girl—perhaps I can help

you.” .
Her arms crept amund his neck where
they clung close. “Stephen, I was going
away,” she said, so low he could hardly
hear it.

“\Vell, I guess—you’re—not!” he ex-
claimed. A sudden realization made him
see and know what a great vacancy would
be left in his life if she did—a place that
no other could fill. Whoever she was,
whatever she had beenth cared not a
whit! She was the girl he loved, and
that was enough. ”You’re going to stay
‘here, right here, for Avery, I love you—-
I justvlove—you!” '

“VVait—Oh! wait—Stephen, until—until
you know,” she said, breathlessly. “And
please—do listen. I'll try to make things
plain, then if you don’t want me, it will
be easier. I would have told you long
before but I was afraid. I have neither
father nor mother. and an aunt with
whom I lived in—in the, city~died. She
had given me a chance to learn to sing a
little and study. When she died sud-
denly, I didn‘t know what to do. A- man
where we. were staying offered me right
off a—what he said was a fine place in
win—a moving—picture place—I was to
sing—and-andwdancc: and he scented so
eager to help me. But it \vasn‘tvnice—
for me. I sang a week then I gave it up.
But I couldn't do other things, and I was
afraid. Men bothered me; some followed
me wherever I went. I couldn’t sing good
enough to be Well paid, and everything
began to go wrong. There were things I
wouldn't do anyway; and I got to hating
the city—one day—one day~I bought a
ticket with my last money just as far as
I. could get awaywjust as far as I could,
and it brought the—here. Listen, Stephen
—plcase do. You must! You were good
to inc, but I was fearful of your father;
and your mother was, so we agreed to
say nothing about it. even to You. And
I have been so happy here. But tonight,
one of those men happened to be in
church—he travels through here——he
Spoke to me-—[ left him—he said he
Would ‘get even.’ And a little later—
Stephen—-he went up to your father
where he was talking with some of the
church people~~and gave him a letter—
and oh, Stephen~y0u can see. It won’t
say true things, but—your father will—-
believe. I came back to get my things
and go before your father-emade me."
She was whispering at the close.

“(lo ylit. will not. Averywunless I go
with you,” Stephen said quietly. “Come
in and We’ll see what father has to say.
Come, sweetheart~be brave." ’

.\s tht-y entered the door that opened
into the sitting room, she suddenly tight-
ened her hand upon his. “Stephen, he's
rcading it now.” she said, fearfully, draw-
ing herself into his arms as if for shelter.

Stephen saw that his father was bold-
ing an etivr-lopo in one hand and begin-
ning to road a sheet of paper in the oth-
er. As if guided by one thought they
stopped and watched him. In his even,
moderate way he read down the sheet,
glanced back a number of times, then
turncd- it over, his face perfectly ex-
pressionless. Stephcn felt her tremble in
his arms, and his own heart was beating
rapidly. He knew his father well enough
to know that his decision would be shown
by some quick action at the close of his
reading.

His father finished it, and stood in
thought. Then, quickly, with short vic-
ions snaps he tore the sheet into shreds
and threw them into the open fire.

Stephen gasped. “Come, dear—it’s
now.”

She wavered with a whispered
btit he drew her into the room. Mr. Lane
turned and stared at them. His mother
appeared in the door bearing a tray of
good things for their usual Sunday even-
ing lunch. She stopped, too, surprised.

“Father and mother. too. I just caught
Avery running away from us.”

“ {uniting away?" Mr. Lane
slowly.

“And I have asked her to stay for life.”

\Vith a crash, “Mother’s" tray dropped.
Avery turned, and brushing a bit of mist
from his eyes, Stephen saw a brown head
nestle close to a white one.

His father's strong hand came forward,
his even voice said quietly, "I understand.
Stephen; I have seen light. A noble
woman is noble though she dwell in hell

said,

itself.” The stern face softened. ”Bee
sides, the old dog loves her.”
His mother’s voice echoed in. “Now I

shall have someone to help me and cheer
me, always."

“And l—I won’t have to hunt high and
low for my slippers ever again—Avery,"
his father said, smilingly, and held out
his arms.

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HE turkey article written a few

I weeks ago by E. H. McDonagh, was

undoubtedly intended by the au-
thor solely for the advice and inspiration
of women who are raising our next
Thanksgiving dinner. But without her
willing it so it contained some chunks of
wisdom for the mother of small children.
At first thought it may seem like a far
cry from poults to babies, but after all,
the youngsters of every species bear
marked resemblances, so what is sauce
for the pOult is sauce for the small hu-
man in a good many cases.

There is the doctrine of letting them
alone—just as a starter. Mrs. MeDonagh
strongly advised letting your young birds
alone as much as possible and trusting to
nature (and the mother turk), to fetch
them along. That same treatment is ex-
cellent for children, to a large extent.
Not that I would advise letting the babies
pick and choose their food, but so far as
possible I strongly urge letting them roam
around and investigate conditions as they
find them, in entire unconsciousness of
the fact that you are watching,

As I write a lonely three-year—old is
unconsciously pleading for this turkey
freedom. Behind the house on a tree-
shaded common is a perfectly wonderful
pile of clean sand left by builders. Four
small boys, whose mothers believe in
supervised freedom, are digging caves and
filling pails with sugar and burying feet
and otherwise enjoying that sand, and
freedom, in a small boy fashion. On his
porch in solitary confinement sits the
three-year-old, in full sight of the fun,
yet; not permitted to step outside the
sacred portals of his own 30-foot lot!
Imagine it, y‘ou,,§nothers of three—year-
olds )w/hofh'ave, n.whole ,farm to roam
over! l‘tnagine 'ing to keep areal boy
in a 30—foot space, and think of. the effect
on your nethis and his! If the poor
kiddie goes to the back fence to glue his
eye to a. knot hole a shrill voice from
indoors dares him “to put a foot outside
that gate." Of course. he is cross and
unhappy and saucy and disagreeable, and
who can blame him‘.’ lie wants to be
nice, and he would be it‘ he could only
have a chance to he himself. if he could
only have a bit of the freedom his
Thanksgiving turkey is now enjoying!

Of course, country mothers do not go
to this extrcnn-. Thcre are not the au—
tos, trains, trolleys and tramps to four
which town mothers so dread. .llut the
average mother is apt to bu afraid of
freedom. She restricts her children by
commands when she should be allowing
them freedom to try the things they
would like to do and lcarn by experience
why they should not do it. A. burned
child dreads the tire, and one tiny blister
on a iingcr will instill more respect for
the tire into the mind of a child than a.
whole lifetime of someone clse’s advice
could give.

If your 14-year—old boy is bent, bound
and determined to do something which
you can see is bad for him and you are
unable to make him see through your
cycs, just say quietly, “Very well, then,
go ahead and try your way.”

The minute you give him permission
he will get uneasy. He will lose half his
assurance with your consent and wish he
hadn‘t been so insistent. Of course, he
will try his own ideas, and when he finds
out you were right and be wrong, he will
have a respect for your judgment which
he could gain no other way. That one
taste of freedom will teach him more than
ten years of supervision.

With the younger children, do not let
them know you are watching them. Of
course, you want to know what they are
doing, but find it out without their know-
ing it. You do not like to feel that some-
one- is constantly spying on you, and
children have the same feeling.

It is well for us to stop and reflect that
if we do bring children into the world
they do not belong to us. soul and body.
We are all individuals and each has a
right to his own life. Our children are
coming'along over the same road we
traveled, but they have a right to choose
their own method of traveling, so long

 

as that method does not interfere with
the rights of others.

Leavo them alone as much as possible.
Keep still nine times out Of ten when
you want to advise them, and let them
grow up self-reliant and therefore haDDY.

DEBORAH.

THE LETTER BOX.

 

New Ways of Making Money at HOme.

In deciding how to earn money at home,
much depends upon the surroundings, but
more still upon the woman. If we are
wide awake and keep our eyes open to
see what there is a demand for in our
local market, we will soon learn in what
way we may succeed best.

Early spring is a good time to com-
mence, as people get tired of winter veg-
etables and long for something fresh and
\\'e have received good returns by

new.
furnishing our town friends with nice
fresh greens, some wanting cowslips,

some the thinnings from the beet bed
while others prefer the crisp, tender
loaves of the horseradish. The more
tastes vary, the better for the housewife,
as it makes different Sources of income.

Growing horseradish is perhaps the
most desirable, as it can be made to pay
not only for selling the tops for greens in
spring, but the roots also are made an
article of merchandise. \Vhen cultivated
for market it is often grown as a second
crop. \\'hen preparing the roots for win-
ter market, all the small roots are taken
off and saved for planting, leaving noth—
ing but the main root for selling. The
rootlets, which are, a fourth to a half an
inch in diameter, are cut into pieces from
four to six inches in length and tied in
bundles of about 50. The top end, the
one nearest the main root, is cut square
off. and the other end slanting, so that in
planting there will be no danger of get-
ting the root, or “set." in upside down.
\thn the sets are prepared they are
stored in enough sand to prevent heating
and kept in a cool cellar or pitted in the
open ground.

Cabbage, cauliflower and beets are good
crops among which to plant horseradish,
If cabbagcs are used as the first crop,
they are generally planted in rows about
iVVt) feet apart and a foot and a half be-
tween the plants. The horseradish is
planted between the- rows and about the
same distance apart as the cabbage, giv-
ing about 2,000 plants to the acre.

Take an old broom handle and thrust
it into the ground eight or ten inches and
drop the set in the hole thus made, hav-
ing the top two or three inches under the
surface when the earth is pressed about
the sct and the hole filled up. The rea-
son deep planting is practiced is to keep
it from coming up until the cabbages are
harvested. Horseradish makes its main
growth in the fall, so if it is kept from
growing until mid—summer no harm is
done and if it makes too much growth
before the cabbagcs are gathered, the
tops can be cut oil? without injury, as all
who have raised it know it will quickly
scnd up new leaves. it soon covers the
ground and the amount of work required
in its culture is Very small, and once es-
tablished it can be made a source of in-
come for years by any energetic woman.

Growing watercress is another source
of income.

Not far distant from our home is a.
brook of clearest water, and along its
margin the dainty and fresh watercress
abounds. It is found in many places in
our county, and is gladly purchased in
town. Being obtainable so early in the
spring it has an increased value.

VVheI‘e it does not grow naturally, it
can be easily grown by planting along
the margin of streams, where it quickly
increaseS, both by spreading of the roots
and by seeding. It is most easily CUltlr
vated where the creek runs through level
tracts of land. An old market gardener
gives us the following directions for mak-
ing the beds:

Supposing the stream is, on the aver-
age, a foot deep and from six to eight
feet wide, running through a. meadow. A

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good plan is to make excavations later-
ény, say in beds five feet wide (with al-
leys between, five feet), to a depth of
about eight inches, deep enough to be
flooded by the stream when it is of aver-
age height, or, when shallow, by dam-
ming it up so as to flood the beds. The
advantage of having the beds at right
angles to the stream rather than parallel
with it. is that in the event of freshets
the crop is less liable to be- washed away.
The length and number of beds must be
determined by circumstances.

Watercress seeds germinate freely in
earth when kept saturated, so the beds,
when properly leveled and pulverized.
should be slightly flooded enough to sat-
urate the soil only, when the seeds gor-
minate, for if the beds were tilled up with
water the seeds would be washed away.

After the seedlings have started so as
to show green, the water may be gradu.
ally let on as they develop. For this lat”-
itude the best time for sowing the seed
is about the middle of August.

W'here cress grows naturally the beds
can be made by setting the plants from
six to 12 inches apart each way. \Vhen
cultivation is once begun there is no diffi-
culty in forming new beds, as the plants
grow very rapidly wnere proper condi-
tions are supplied.

In a wild state cress is found growing
bcst in clear, shallow, slowly running
water, with a sandy or gravelly bottom.
Once established in such a place, it would
be lasting.

It is well when making our gardens, to
have a generous allowance of parsnips,
salsify, and such vegetables as will keep
in the ground over winter, for there is no
lack of markct for such things in the
spring. “'ith such vegetables and a lit-
tle planning to get established a nice bed
of asparagus and. where practical, a bed
of cress, we would have a source of in-
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of pocket money until returns could be
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“MAMMA, WILL YOU HOLD ME?”

 

BY MRS. F. NISE\VANGE‘R,.

 
 

 

it was at the dinner table that a baby
girl nearly four years old, inquired wtih
a littlc anxious smile, “Mamma, will you
hold mo prctty soon and rock-a-byc‘.”

The lll()lll(,-I‘ opened her lips to protest
or beg off, for the, dinner work was to
do up (dishwashing sisters being busy in
school), and she wanted to finish the
ironing that: had proved too much for
the spare hours of the morning, but the
words did not come, for in that same in—
stunt she had another vision.

it was a series of pictures of other
baby girls who had grown up all too fast,
and gotten beyond the rock—a-bye age,
for that is a way they have of doing be-
fore we have time to realize it. It is
only when we have to look back that we.
haVo the clearest comprehension of the
fact that those short hours and days and
years are really the happiest and most
care-free we have, regardless of tho mul—
titudinous Claims on time and patience.

So this mother sat down in the big wil—
low rocker by a softly shaded living-room
window, and cuddled the little maiden
close, rocking her and singing requested
luulabies, while both relaxed and rested.

The little one’s eyclids fluttered and
drooped but she did not really sleep, and
presently the busy little body was ready
for play again. Two plump arms slipped
round mother's neck, a laughing kiss fell
on her chcek and a happy baby girl ran
outdoors for a romp with Fido.

The dishes were not. greatly hurt by
their wait, the water was still nice and
hot, a little brightening of the fire made
the irons good and hot~and the little rest
and “loving” had put new life into moth-
er. Certainly, the thing farthest from
her mind was any feeling of regret be-
cause she had pleasantly acceded to the,
“lVon’t you hold me, mamma?”

It pays to take time to baby the babies.
No busines undertaking pays such inter-
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Household Editorz—Can you tell me
where I can obtain the directions for
crocheting one of the handbags now so
popular? Any pretty pattern, but Irish
crochet preferred-Subscriber.

One of the most popular bugs is that
shown in the. illustration, accompanying
«these directions. To make the bug you
will need one large skein of No. 5 Perle
cotton and 21 N0. 6 crochet hook.

The rose is made first.

Chain 6 and join in a ring.

Second Round—Chain 5,‘ * 1 D C in the
ring, Ch. 2 and repeat from * 4 times;
join to third chain of the chain 5 at be-
ginning of the round. with a slip stitch,
thus forming six spaces.

Third Round»~Turn, 1 S C, G D C, 1 S
C all in thc first space, repeat in each
space of round, chain 3, turn work and
catch around first spoke of second round
with a slip stitch.

Fourth Round—Chain 6, catch around
next spoke and repeat all around.

Fifth Round—1 S C, 9 D C, 1 S C, in
first space and repeat all around, chain 3
and turn.

Sixth Round—Catch around first spoke
of fourth round with a slip stitch, Ch. 8
and catch around ncxt Spoke and repeat
all around, turn work.

Seventh Round—4 S C, 13 D C, 1 S C

in each space all around, Ch. 3 and turn.

Eighth lottltllr Catch around first
spokc, Ch. 10. cntch around next spoke
and repczit all around.

Ninth lloulid~~1 S C, 15 D C, 1 S C in
each space. This completes the rose.

Tenth liound-Chain 7, catch hack in
second Ch. to form picot, Ch. 8, cutch
back in 3rd (311., (‘llilill 2, thus forming
onc set of picots, catch with slip stitch
in fifth stitch of petal. Make another set
of picois, us diicclcd, and catch in tenth
stitch of pctal. Continue in this way
making,r a set of picols and catching in
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catch in ccnlcr between the 2 picots of
prcccding round, chain 8. catch in next
ccnlcr, turn the Work and in the chain
8 just mudcu make 1t; 5 (.‘, (‘h. 3 and turn,
1:1 I» C on the 16 S C just made, Ch. 3 and
catch down before thc next picoi of pre—
ccding round. it 1. set of picols, catch in
ccntcr bclwccn next two picots, 1 set of
picots, catch in next center, Ch. 8, catch
in next ccntcr, turn 16 S C, chain 3 and.
turn, 13 l) C, Ch. 3, catch down as before
und repeat from * twice.

Twelfth Round—One set of picots, catch
in center belwecn the 2 picots of preced-
ing round and continue as tenth round
was made, excepting that the, picots are
caught in the third, middle and thirteenth
stitches of petals. (Three times).

Repeat the eleventh and twelfth rounds
until there are four petals on each cor-
ner. There will be more picots between
the, petals on each round. Fasten off.
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caught alternately in the centers of picots
of the two sides.

Border around the top.

First Round—~Make 1 S C in center of
some picot space, * Ch. 6 and catch in
center of next space with 1 S C and re—
peat from * all around. Join. The ribbon
holes are next to be made; Ch. 5, * 1 D
C, Ch. 2, skip 2 Chs. and repeat all
around.

Make another round of ribbon holes,
putting the D C in the spaces of preced-
ing round. Then u round of picots caught
down in alternate spaces. Fasten off.
Then make a round as the first round of
top was made, Working from the wrong
side. Turn: make 7 S C in chain just
made. 1 S C in center and repeat all
mound. Turn: Ch. 8 and catch down in
thc S C of previous round and repeat all
around.

’l‘urn~«* 5 S C in chain just made, Ch.
3 and catch back to form picot, 5 S C in
chain. 1 S C in center and repeat from
all around.

Hulls—Chain 4 and join in a ring. Make
8 S C in the ring. Do not join as the
bulls tll‘e Worked around and around, both
threads of stitch being taken up.

Next Round—Put 2 S C in each stitch
of preceding round. Make six more rounds
of 16 S C then two rounds skipping every
third stitch on each round. Fill with
cotton and make a final round skipping
every other stitch. .llraw up with 1 S C
chain 10 21nd fasten off. Make 15 more
bulls in same manner. Fasten two balls
t/ll each corner of bug. two in center of
lchr cdge, two in center of each rose
and one iii each bow of the ribbons that.
are used for drawing up.

HUMAN WELFARE QUERIES.

How is “Yuan Shi-lx’ni." president of
“Tho (trout licpnblic" pronounced'I—A
llcudcr.

The name, is pronounccd just as It
would be in English, “Yu—Ltn” has the
short “it,” “Sill," long “i" and in “Kai”
the “ill" is prononnccd as in “aisle.”

(fun you suggest it substitute for pota-
tocs'.’ 'l‘lxcy :ll’c‘ so high this spring and
tho old oncs are gctling pool"?—.\loth€t‘.

l’luin hoilcd rice is a welcome substi-
tute in our family. You can buy broken
ricc six pounds for a quarter and eaten
with meat gravy und meat exactly like
potatoes, it is fine. It is also easy of
digestion. ' "'

Household Editor‘1—1Vi1l you kindly let
me know how to get up a: showcr for .1
young lady friend, who is soon to be
marricd‘.’ it Will be in the CVC'llillg.—~;\li
Inquirer.

Invite your guests as for any party,
only be surc to invite only intimate
friends of the bride who will be glztd 1.0
bring a gift. In giving the invitations be
sure to say what sort of shower it is to
bc, linen, chinu or kitchen, so the girls
will know what to bring. Showcrs ill'C
oftencst held in the afternoon, only girls
being invited, and are very informal. The
refreshments are simplc, and at this
time of the year strawberrics and cream
with two kinds of cztkc, and icinonade,
would be ample.

Household Editor:—~\\'ill some reader
]tlt'a.<t‘ send, through your columns. a
recipe for tutti fruiti‘L—The Housewife.

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BREAKING UP BROODINESS.

 

Referring to a question regarding
broodiness which, appeared in these col—
umns some weeks ago, I would like to say
that I have never found anything that
will prevent hens becoming broody. Doc-
toring their foods or drinking water has
no effect. I have however, a method of
treating or handling them after they be-
come broody which has given satisfactory

results, and I will describe it as well as

I can.

First, I make a swinging crate, the ends
of which are solid and about 30 inches
square. Plan to have the crate about
four feet. long, making the bottom of laths
placed two inches apart, the sides of
poultry netting and the top of a frame, or
lid, covered with burlap, letting the bur-
lap extend over front and back like a
curtain. The hens are admitted to the
crate by means of this top or lid. Then
bore a good—sized hole in each end piece
a little above the center and pass a stout
pole through these holes, letting it ex-
tend a foot or two beyond the crate at
each end.

The crate is now ready to hang up,
which I do by dropping the ends of the
pole into two crotched supports of suffi—
cient height to let the crate swing clear
of the ground. Sometimes trees, or a
tree and a fence post. are found so lo-
cated that they can conveniently be used
for supports. Provision must be made
for feeding and watering the hens, so I
fasten an old can in one corner to hold
water and a box for feed in another
corner.

It is impossible for a hen to get into a
nesting position upon the slats which
form the .bottom of crate. When she
tries to do so the crate tips and she soon
becomes discouraged. After a tempes-
tous time she seeks the pole which passes
through the crate as a roost, as this pole
is the only steady thing about the whole
contrivance. When a hen has perched on
the pole two nights I turn her out as
cured and she soon begins to lay again.

Such a crate will accommodate six or
eighthtens without crowding and it gets
good, quick results. I have used it for
several years and it has proven so suc-
cessful that I do not think it necessary
to try any other method as I am entirely
satisfied with this device.

Wayne Co. J. P.

 

PROTECTION FOR POULTRY FROM
SUN AND RAINS.

During the summer months the hens
and the chicks must have protection from
the direct rays of the sun during the
middle of the day. Hens that are com-
pelled to live at this season without any
shade protection cannot keep healthy, or
lay many eggs while thus exposed. Many
hens that are not provided with shade
will drop their feathers or molt early be—
cause Of the influence of the sun's rays
upon them. When the feathers fall from
the neck, back and wings the flesh is left
bare to the sun and it soon becomes
scorched and blistered. More than this.
ailments such as apoplexy, blind staggers
and diarrhoea will prevailin such flocks
and the losses from these troubles may
be quite severe.

A few trees in the poultry yard are to
be desired at this season, but if the yard
is devoid of trees it is easy to arrange
for artificial shade. Straw sheds or sheds
over which vines are made to run, a
frame work covered with old boards, a.
patch of- sunflowers and such like will an-
swer all purposes very well.

Shelters separate from the ones provid—
cd for the old fowls should be construct-
cd for the use of the chicks. For shade
purposes these shelters may be erected
near the regular quarters of the chicks,
since they always come up to quench
their thirst when the sun shines hottest
and they seldom return to their foraging
grounds until near the middle of the
afternoon. ”When there are several hens
with little chicks a number of shelters
are- necessary, for the brood hens are
never inclined to associate very closely
and the boss hens with their broods will
insist on monOpolizing some of the shelt-
ers, thus compelling the weaker hens to
remain without prptection unless shelter
enough to accommodate all is provided.

When the runs used by little chicks are
practically bare, it pays to scatter plenty
of convenient shelters around the grounds
wherever the chicks are in the habit of
going. These shelters will enable the
chicks to protect themselves from hawks.
crows and from sudden showers. These

   

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THE MICHIGAN ,EARMER.

summer rains often claim a large num-
ber of chicks, for if the chicks are a dis-
tance from their coops‘they usually be-
come confused and fail to reach their
quarters in time to avoid a thorough
soaking. By providing shelters under
which they can readily get on such oc-
casions without loss of time, there will
be fewer losses from drowning. Old box-
es, barrels, etc., will serve for these shel-
ters,_ the hens and chicks will soon learn
their location and use them whenever a
shower suddenly appears, if they haven’t
time to reach their regular quarters.
Chicks of considerable size that are old
enough to take care of themselves at
most times, often lose their lives in a
hard downpour of rain because they can-
not find convenient shelter. They seem
to become confused and often a number
of them will huddle up together in a
fence corner or under a tree, and as a
result some of them are lost and those
that escape often contract colds and may
eventually die.

Indiana. W. F. Pompom.

TU'RKEYS SURVIVE RAINS.

So many people persist in thinking
turkeys—especially young turkeys—to be
puny weaklings, “hard to raise," and sus-
ceptible to cold from every wind that
blows, and to damp from every drop of
dew and every shower that falls, that the
writer feels inclined to enter a few facts
by way of protest.

The facts hereafter mentioned are net
things learned from my father or that I
read out of a book, but they are things
seen “with mv eyes." Almost all author-
ities t0 the contrary. my experience has
proven that with a good turkey mother,
turkey poults from sound, vigorous stock
can and do witnstand rains and wet
weather in Michigan. Outside of this
climate I cannot speak with authority.

I think the editor of the Michigan
Farmer must have chuckled with delight
as he placed under one heading in his
issue of June 1, the article on “Feeding
the Newly-hatched Turkeys,” by W. R.
Gilbert, of Canada. and under it my own
on the same subject. Of course, both
articles included general care and we USU
directly opposite methods. In his third
paragraph, Mr. Gilbert gives minute di-
rections for keeping the poults dry until
they “shoot the red," or approach ma-
turity. I turn them loose, as described on
page 418 in the Michigan Farmer of April
6. Any resident of Michigan during the
unprecedentedly wet spring we have just
experienced, will think my turkeys have
given the wet a fair trial and I would
like to state the result.

The first hatch during the almost con-
tinuous rains of May 22, from a woods
nest and a barn nest, owing to a combi-
nation of circumstances at hatching time,
resulted in only 15 live turkeys. Part of
these were rescued during the rains from
a knoll in a swamp, quite surrounded by
pools of water, and as they were gathered
up several were Seen to swim across the
pools in their efforts to escape. “'ev had
a three—foot board wall put up in the
hayloft around the barn hen and nest, the
chilled birds were warmed in the house,
and the 171 given the barn turkey. Ev-
erything was flooded out of doors, the
rains continued. and we expected to keep
the poults in the hay loft for a week at
least. They were fed commercial chick
starter but given no water, and busied
themselves among the chaff and grass
seeds of the hay floor.

The second day the wing feathers had
started, but showed the effect of confine-
ment, standing out from the body in a
loose, untidy manner, quite unlike the
sleek, well groomed appearance of poults
in the open.

The rain had temporarily stopped that
afternoon, the sun was shining, and pools
drying up. I resolved on desperate meas-
ures, knowing the poults required sand
and grit from the earth, and insect food
to enable them to quickly clothe them-
selves with their sheltering coat of feath-
ers. I carried the turkey hen and her ‘15
young poults out of doors, past the worst
pools and placed them on the wet but
warming ground. She led them to an
adjoining meadow. The next day it rain-
(ad constantly, and continued to rain for
much of the next ten days. When count-
ed the fourth day one was missing.

Three days later I put out another
hatch of 12, on a stretch of grass, follow-
ing severe rains earlier in the day, with
every bit of available earth wet. Al-
though it rained heavily soon afterward,
especially all the next day, the mother
kept her 12 snug and warm and dry out
in the open, with no protection but her
perfectly equipped body with its rain
resisting coat of feathers and well
thatched wings. The third day she led

them across .a watersoaked field of dying
cats, to a.- higher fence row and meadow
beyond.’ I saw her get them across a.
ditch, 'where most waded, but one, get-
ting into a deeper pool. swam like a duck.
Though still covered only with the first
down, these birds did not get wet or
drabbled either from the running water
or wet grass. She moved a short dis-
tance, hovered, warmed and rested them.
and kept them sleek and dry as young
ducks. She still has every bird, all thriv-
ing, and fast covering with sleek feathers.

When the first deck was ten days old.
I found a second poult missing, leaving
but 13. But a little farther across the
meadow I came to a second turkey mother.
the apparent duplicate of the first, leading

10 poults with wing feathers and starting

tails, seemingly of the same age. She
had brought them safely through the
swamps of the woodlot adjoining, where
the water was so deep we had made no
attempt to keep track of them.

Yesterday, another woods nest gave a
hatch of 12, making up to date, 47 sturdy,
healthy poults, three—fourths of the num-
ber already equipped with wet-resisting
feathers. Forty-nine poults put out, two
lost, means for the first three weeks of
the season, at which time all admit the
most expensive losses occur, a loss of
but four per cent.

These turks have had no umbrella car-
ried for them through almost continuous
rains. neither coops put over them, nor
coops set under sheds, nor grass cut lest
they wet their feet. In Michigan, I think
I have proven turkeys can and do resist
wet, damp, cold and rainy weather.

Saginaw Co. E. II. MCDONAGH.

 

ANATOMY OF THE BEE.

 

I wish I were able to write you a really
scientific account of the anatomy of the
bee, for I assure you that it is a very
interesting subject, but this would be im-
possible for 111e, and so I will, in this
brief article, try only to give a few points
that will be of most interest.

One of the interesting features of the
anatomy of the bee is the alimentary
canal. Most people know that a bce
swallows the honey as it is gathered from
the field and that it is regurgitated on the
return to the hive. What many of them
do not know is that they have a special
stomach for this purpose. The nectar as
it comes from the field is stored in a
little sack, or stomach which, when full.
will measure about one—seventh of an inch
in diameter, and which is connected with
the true stomach by a little valve of very
peculiar construction, This valve has the
ability to separate the grains of pollen
from the nectar. and through this the bee
takes her nourishment, in the hive
or on the wing.

In these little sacks the bees, when
swarming, can and do carry enough honey
to last them several days, which insures
them against starvation in case of a few
days of unfavorable weather.

It is here in this little honey stomach
too, that the honey. or nectar, as it is
called up to its entry into the honey
stomach, is partially digested. making
it so much easicr on the stomachs of tho
people who eat it than the other sweets.
In other words, the honey undergoes :1
chemical change converting the cane sug—
ar of the nectar into the grape sugar of
the honey.

The nervous system of the bee is com-
posed of the brain and several ganglea
or nerve centers, with the usual system
of nerves running all through the body,
the involuntary muscles are controlled
by the ganglea. Thus it happens that a
bee will sting, or claw with its feet long
after it has been decapitated.

The bee breathes, not through its
mouth, as one would
but through little mouths in the thorax
and the abdomen. For this reason a bec
may die of strangulation from being sub—
merged in water or honey even though
its head may be out all the time. If
their bodies become daubed with honey
they must be cleaned off very soon or
death will ensue.

MecOsta Co.

Cliilt‘l‘

L. C. VVHEELER.

”White Dysentery. Can you suggest
a remedy for our little chicks? First
symptoms they begin to show dullness
when about a week old, their wings
droop, a white dysentery sets in and
death comes in about 24 hours. When

first hatched we feed them boiled eggs
later cracker crumbs and bread crumbs,
also some johnny cake. Mrs. L. C..
Springport, Mich. —Fiist of all make a
saturated solution of permanganate pot—
ash: this is done by adding water to
permanganate potash crystals and put in
one teaspoonful of this solution into ten
gallons of water and let your chicks
drink it; besides. you should feed them
a good quality of food.

 

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naturally expect. '

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WELL POSTED,

A California Doctor With 40 Years Ex-
.perionce.

“In my 40 years experience as a teach-
er and practitioner along hygienic lines,”
says a Los Angeles physician, “1 have
never found a food to compare with
Grape-Nuts for the benefit of the general
health of all classes of people.

“I have recommended Grape-Nuts for a.
number of years to patients with the
greatest success and every year’s experi-
ence makes me more enthusiastic regard-
ing its use.

“I make it a rule to always recommend
Grape-Nuts, and I’ostum in place of
coffee, when giving my patients instruc-
tions as to diet for I know both Grape-
Nuts and Postum can be digested by
anyone.

“As for myself, when engaged in much
mental work my diet twice a day consists
of Grape-Nuts and rich cream. I find it
just the thing to build up gray matter
and keep tho brain in good working
order.

“In addition to its wonderful effects as
a brain and nervo food Grape-Nuts al<
ways keeps the digestive organs in per-
fect, healthy tone. I carry it with me
when I travel, otherwise I am almost

certain ,to have trouble with my stom—
ach." Name given by l’ostum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich.

Strong endorsements like the above

from physicians all over the country have
stamped Grape-Nuts the, most scientific
food in the world. “There's a reason."

Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.”

Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to
time. They are genuine. true.
and full of human interest.

"Ci anin .i
Bees on the Farm Bey: (1.1.3.91
will help you get more pleasure and more profit;
from Beekeeping. 6 months trial subscription 250.
Book on Bees and ('atalog of Supplies sent; free.
THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY. Box 240. Modlnn. Ohio

 

 

' Flock of 38, averaged 205
IndIan Runner Duck Eggs- each in 1911. Care of ducks
with order. Cut. Drl(8 $3.50 per 100; 32 per 50: 750
per 13. WM. 1’ . BOOTH. R. 3, Orland, Ind.

MUIILEII MW“ . 5:? 3353:. 3355;333:5831“
for 15 eggs WILL . F ISHER, Wutervliet Mich.

SINGLE COMB BROWN lEGIIIIRNS.

Six grand exhibition matings, two utility pens. E gs
and stock. Sand for catalogue. My motto~a satin ed
( ustomer. Charles Ruff, Box M F., St. Clair. Mich.

R. 0.3. LEGHORN EGGS

11'1 forISI; 30 for 81.50. 0. M. YORK. Millington, Mich.

—K1 1'.
R. C. B. Leghorn: ”assesses?
$4. 100. MRS. EMMA MASON. Gobleville, Mich.

HARTFORD POULTRY YIIIIIS. IIIIIIFIIIIII. MINI.

A few S. C. Minor( :1 pullots & \carling hens, both black
and white. choice and utility stock, excellent liners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

' ' l ~the great; winter layers.

cIYSIaI WhIIe owing ons Bargains in stock eggs half
lItt halanu of season. Scnil for mating list. MRS.
ILLIS HOUGH, Pint Crest Farm, Rmul ()ak, Mich.

 

[1'1 Buff & White '()rpingtnns, Bufl' & W'hite m
a: Loghorns. Barred & White Rocks It. I, CD
a: Reds and Blatk Minorcas. Circular CD
(0 ready. H. B. KING. “Hills, Michigan. I.”

FOR SALE—S. 13.5811“ Orpingion Eggs.

FINE STOCK. 582 : 0. $3 50.
H. B. TWOIOD. Lulngshurg, Mlchi5gan.

 

 

E668~LightBrahma Barred liock andWhitoW)an-
dBttc, $1 per Ht tting $1. :10 for £110 settings.
.BISH()L Route 38. Lake Odessa. Mich

' ‘ ' Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds. Manx—
Prlze WIIIIIlng moth l’ckin and I. Runner dut ks.
Stuck I'orsale. “913.1 32. $3 Di' rset. Utility $5p9r100
EM W'OOD FAR R, R. No. 11L Grand Rapids, Mich.

-—Grc.1t Lining Stralin d
Barred Buck Eggs w innt. rs. 1'1 0111.23.31. an 331‘???
1. W .Coil'man. II. 6, Benton Harbor, Mich

 

 

 

LUE BELL! BARRED ROCK. PHILO WHITE ORPING-
TON eggs no“ Tin use setting: two to Home address
$1.25. LAKI) RIDGE FARM, Levering. Michigan.

LILLIE FARHSTEAD POULTRY

B..PBoeka.R..‘IlReds...50.andSOWLh
for sale. 15 for l: for 31.50: for 63.2. 5%?!) eggs
OO LON C.L1LLIE. Ooopersville. Mich.

R. C. 88. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS‘Effsm ’1
and cookerels. BUELL BROS. Ann Arbor, Iich. h.
ARGAINS in Standard Reds. A few pens at 8:1;

\earling 119118th 71c and ’1. if taken now Egg-s
$4 25 per 30 now. I‘. FRENCH. Ludington, Mich.

 

 

 

C R. 1 Reggae. 85, S" and $1. Pentiled Indian.
0 Runner Dutk eggs. Miro white e strain 81
for 13. COY G. BR 1M Nashville, filohigan.

0. Rhode Island Reds of nalit E f
. pen headed by RedA 01011 32%!“ lfifIRSanlgamflfig-g:
;$t'1 per 100. E. J. ’l‘HEWSgN Nottawa. Mich.

' frodm Standard SI . G
lEggS hr “IICIIIIIE and W. Wymdottesl, ‘fdffl; 33:12?
Browning' s Wyandotte Farm R. 30, Portland, Mich.

HI'I‘E Orpingtons. nrtridge and “ hite W1 a n
. dotte efisg; for hatc hing. Bah) 1- hi( ks. RS, A.
E. W HITLA 1% Observatory St., Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

 

HI’I‘Ef Wyandottes—The most beautiful and use-

fAmerican breeds Send dfor 1912 circular

A. FRAlNaKLIN SMITH. B. F D. 9. Ann Arbor. Mich.
> DOGS. ,

——at. farmers' ricea. di reel

For Sale 3...... ....”vhn ...”sfi...‘

Collie Puppies. CHAS. .BEATTY, Milford. Mich.

30 Pure Bred Fox IIound Pups zefi‘liemsim {3.31335
hounds. Send stamp. W. E. Leaky, Holmesville. Ohio.

 

 

 

 

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”W7?

E MARKETS

LAAAAAHAAAAAJAAAA AAA

DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

June 12, 1012.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheat—The market, has fluctuated
during the week. Crop news has been
the chief factor in changing values, al—
though a lack of buyers on Tuesday re—
duced prices. The government report
puts the condition of winter wheat five
points below the estimate for May. in
the spring wheat belt everything appears
to be ideal and the market is now figur—
ing on a perfect crop from that quarter.
This means that whatever change there
is will be favorable to those desiring
higher prices. The decline in winter
wheat and the excellent condition of
spring wheat have. however, kept the
market about steady. The visible supply
shows a decrease of about two and a
half million bushels. One year ago the
price for No. 2 red wheat was 78c per
bu. Quotations are as follows;

N0. 2 No. 1
Red. \Vhitc. July. Sept.

 

 

Thursday . . . .1141; 1.121,; 1.131}; 114

Friday ...... 1.15.1; 1.1311; 1.1.3 1.1531.
Saturday . . . 1.151113 1.13%» 1.15 1.1514
Monday ...... 1.15 1.13 1.14%: 1.14%
’.l‘uc'sdz:y ..... 1.141;; 1.1212; 1.14 1.1433
\‘i'ednesday 1 15 1.13 1.13% 1.151,;

Corn.v~\\'hile changes have occurred
the with trade rules about steady with
a week ago. A. large percentage of the
new crop is being planted unusually late
and scarcely any was in the ground at
the tintc the corn should be planted. The
visible supply shows an increase of
three—quarttrs of a million bushels. A
year ago No. 3 corn was selling at. 5617-40
per bu. Quotations are as follows:

 

No. 3 No. 3
Corn. Yellow.
Thursday ................. 77 701,4;
Friday ................... 771;} 80
Satutday ................. 771/3 80
Monday .................. 77" 80
Tuesday ................. 77 80
\Vednesday .............. 77 701/2
Oats.—~'l‘he gtfl‘t’l'lll’nt'ili; crop report

shows a general improvement in the con-
dition cf the oat crop. However, aver-
age prices on the local market are slight—
ly l‘iigher than those of last week. The,
demand is easy. The visible supply shows
a decrease of over one and a half mil—
lion bushels. tin this date last year
standard oats were selling at 401': per bu.
Quotations are as follows:

Standard. No.3

White.
Thursday ........... ..... . 57 561/;
Friday ........... . ....... 5713, 56%
Saturday . . . . . ............ 571,4; 57
Monday . . . .. ....... . ..... 571,1. 57
Tuesday .......... . ....... .57 1/3 .57
Wednesday . . . ...... . ..... 571,4; 57

Beans.~’l‘his trade is inactive, with
practically no contracts made on the lo-

cal market. The quotations given out
which are nominal are as follows:
Cash Oct.
Thursday ................... 2.70 $2.25
Friday .......... . .......... 2.7 2.2:.
Saturday .................. 2.7 2.‘ 5
Monday .... ............... 2.70 2 2.5
Tucsday ................... 2.70 ".25
\\'e-ducsday ................ 2.70 2.25
Clover Seed.- There is absolutely no
dealing in clovcr seed. The following
prices are. merely nominal:
("ish (k t. Alsikc.
Thursday ........$l2.50 $10.00 $11.50
.i“11(iit}' .......... 12.50 10.00 11.50
Saturday ........ 12.50 10.00 11.50
Monday ......... 12.50 10.00 11.50
Tuealay .. 12.50 10.00 11.50
\Vedncsday .... .. 12.50 10.00 11.50

Rye. This trade is quiet and easy with
a decline of 1c from the, price of last
week. (‘ash No. 2 is now selling at tile
per bushel.

Timothy Seed:~i\'othing is being done
with this seed and the nominal quota—
tion remains at $6.40.

Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.

Flour.» 'l’riccs are higher and market
steady.

Straight ................... . ......... $5.50
Patent Michigan .................... 5.80
("lcar ................................ 5.00
Rye ......... . ........................ 5 40

Feed.“ \ll grades are higher except:
bran. The, carlot prices on track are:

Bran, $20 per ton: coarse middlings, $3 :
tine middlings, $32: cracked corn and
coarse corn meal, $33; corn and oat chop,
$34 per ton.

Hay and Straw.——~11ay is lower, straw
steady. Quotations: No. 1 timothy, $24.50
4125.: No. 2 timothy, 323012350; clover,
mixed, $220124; ryc straw, 811500112;
whcat and oat straw. 810.50’1111 per ton.

PotatOes. ..rphp. increased receipts of
new potatoes and the inferior quality of
the old crop is restricting the demand
for the latter. As a result prices show
a decline on the local market since a
week ago. For carlots on track the» price
is $1 per bushel in bulk, and $1.05 in
sacks.

Provisions.—~Family pork. $10.50fi12150:
moss pork. $20.50: clear, backs. $1tlfi112'1:
picnic hams, 11c: bacon, 1461161? pure
lard in tic-recs. 1 33c: kettle rendered lard
12c pcr lb.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—-~'l‘he product is moving freely,
the demand being active and supply is.
about normal for the season. (‘rcamcrics
have advanced while dairy offerings are
steady. Quotations are: Extra creatu-
ery, 2514c; first crcamcry, 241/20: dairy,
210' packing stock, 100 per lb.
.Eggsrv-Every channel of the egg mark~
et is active and offerings are being mov—
ed very freely under a strong demand
from consumers and storage people. Quo-
tations are: Firsts. 20c; secondi. 161/20:
Checks, 140 per dozen.

Poultry.—About the only activity no-

THE MICHiGAN FARMER. "

ticed in this market is for broilers which
are scarce and show an advance of from
261130 since a week ago. All other kinds
are steady and inactive. Quotations are:
Live—Broilers, 2841300; chickens, 14@
141/gc; hens, 14611141/20; turkeys, 166111811;
geese, 11(11‘12c; ducks, 14c; young ducks,
1.501.16e per lb.

Veal.—--Vcal is steady. Fancy, 10@11c;
choice, 86.11% per lb.

Cheese. Steady except Swiss and
brick cream which are lower. Blichigan
llats, 16%6117c; York state, flats, 161/201)
17c; limburger, 1701118e; domestic Swiss,
2161.22c; brick cream, 16(1117c.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Strawberries.——Michigan berries are-
coming in quite freely. The demand is
brisk. The price paid for Michigan 16-
111. cases is from $1,256,111.50.

Honey.——Choice to fancy comb, 15@16c
pcr lb; amber, 12@13c.

Apples.-;\larket slow. Baldwins are
selling at 64.500115; Steele lied, $5.50@6;
Ben ltavis, $3613.50.

 

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.
The season for home-grown strawber—

$8.25@8.65; medium butcher steers 1,000
to 1,100, dry—fed, $8@8.25; best fat cows,
dry-fed, 86.750117; best fat heifers, dry-
fed, $750618; grass steers, 1.000 to 1,100,
$6.75@7; light grass steers, 36.50017; best
giass cows, 34.50015; grassy butcher
cows, 83.75014; do. heifers, 66.25011675; do.
butcher heifers and steers mixed, $650411)
0.75; trimmers, $275013; stock heifers,
845001475; best feeding stleers, dehorned,
$‘5.50@6; common feeding steers, 8401/
4.50; stockers, inferior, 63.50014; prime
export bulls, 66.75017; best butcher bulls
$5.75Q116 25; bologna bulls, 11145041550;
best milkers and springers, $604170; fair
to good (10., $4541.50; common kind do,
$256130.

Today’s supply of hogs was liberal; 115
double decks on sale; fair supplies all
through the west, and a healthy condi-
tion of the market all ovcr the country,
strengthened our buyers here today, and
the general market ruled full steady with
Saturday’s average. We sold one fancy
load of Illinois hogs today at $8.05; ‘sev—
cral more that had weight and quality
at $8. with the bulk of the mixed hogs
selling around $7.05. Yorkers, as to
weight and quality, 87.50017415; pigs, $7
(117.25. Packers bought liberally here to-
day, and towards the close the trade

rics opened Tuesday morning, with 100.".“‘“(‘“1 ”1' some, Wiih ailtlllt l0 ”DUNE

loads offered on the city market. Prices
for good berries ranged front $1.25011.40
per 1.6-qt. crate, some small fruit selling
for $1. A few loads of old potatoes went
at $1311.25, southern grown new pota-
toes at $1.75. Hadishes are worth 5e per
doz; beet greens, 35c per bu; pieplant.
45c; lettuce, 40c; spinach, 35c; asparagus,
00c. Uld hay is still held at $2041.23.
licans are in better demand and are.
quoted on $2.30 b'tsis to farmers. Eggs
ate steady at 161/24117c.
New York.

Hutton—Rutter held lirm at last week's
iigures. Creamery extras. 271/§G_1.28c;
Iiist.:, 2611.11127c; seconds, 271113711260

J‘IggssiBt-zst nearby grades steady;
Western stock higher. Quotations: Fresh
gathered extras, 2114;012:313 do. extra.
tirsts, lflléfrillol/gc; firsts, 18%4110c; west—
cin gathered whites, 21(11»22e per dozen.

l‘oultry.—~11‘owls lower and tzurkeys are
higher. l)ressed.—Chickens, broilers. 28
(113.311 fowls, 1461101.; turkeys, 131113220
per lb. .

Chicago.

“heat—No. 2 red. 611101211215; July,
$1.08}; September, 81.00141.

(hillbinU. :1, 7.".Q’1171-‘j‘4c; July, 73%;,c;
September. 72‘..c per bu.

()ats.~ No. 2 white, 551/44156c; July,
5014c; September, 4101311 per bu.

Barley.ssl‘.’laltiiig grades, 811260110 per
bu; t‘ctding, 655118512

Buttonwil‘tip-gradc- creameries quoted
1,th higher to accord with the advance
at' lClgin. Market firm. Quotations are:
(T'reameries. 23412533; dairies, 20011240
per lb

Eggs—Values unchanged and market
steady Quotations: Firsts, 17011752m
ordinary firsts, 16c per dozen; at mark,
case; included, 151,,Qf11‘161/gt'.

l‘otatoesirlioth old and new stock in
good supply and generally lower. old po-
tatot s having declined 50 during the past
week. Michigan and Minnesota stock
now quoted at 811041.120 per bu.

l’icansxrl’riccs remain at last week’s
figures with sentiment unchanged. Quota-
tions: l’ea beans. choice hand—picked,
82021401205 per bu; prime, WSW/53012.85;
rcd kidneys, $3.25

llay and Shawn—Clover and alfalfa
lowtr: wheat and oat straw also showing
a slight decline. Quotations: Timothy,
choice, $25.500126; No, 1, $240125: No. 2
and No. '1 mixed, $224123; No. 3 and No.
2 mixed, $180121: clover, $176110; No. 2
and no grade, 81001714; alfalfa, choice.
617411750: No. 1, 016611650; No. 2, $1371)
'16. Straw—Rye, $104111; wheat, $8608.50;
oat, $0010.50.

Boston.

\Voolssliastcrn buyers now show more
inclination to buy wools than they have
shown during the past few weeks. There
is. however. a fairly wide margin be—
tween the prices offered by them and
that asked by the growers. in Michigan
the growers are asking about 241.61' for
thcir best grades, while in Ohio 25c is
being demanded. The agents and brok-
en; declare that they cannot afford to
pay thr 2211231“ for the: medium grades.
The advance in the price of foreign
crossbreds, which compete. with Ameri-
can fleeces, is an encouraging item of
news for producers. Fleeces are already
moving eastward and quotations will
soon he bcrtcr established than at the
present time.

Elqin.

Butter.—Market firm at 251/20 per 1b.,
which is 1131‘ above the price of the pre-
Viou“ Week.

 

THE LlVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.
.Tune 10, 1912.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
lCast 'Ihiffalo, New York).

1160011118 of stock here today as fol—
ows: Cattle, 138 loads: hogs. 115 double
decks: sheen and lambs, 45 double, decks;
calvcs. 2.800 head.

“"1111 138 loads of cattle on our
liltll‘l<.('1 here today, and with a light run
of 15.000 reported in Chicago, all the.
good fat cattle of all classes sold from
10011511 per cwt. higher, and in some in-
stances. the heavy dry—fed cattle sold
fully 25c per cwt. higher. The grass c.11-
tle of all kinds sold fully 25c per cwt.
lower than last Monday, and our adyise
to shippers is, to be very careful about
buying these grass cattle, as they are
bound to go lower every week for some.
time yet. especially the half-fat and
slippery kind.

Best 1.400 to 1.600—lb steers, dry-fed,
8875011025: good prime 1,300 to 1,400—lb.
steers, $8.75@9: do. 1,200 to 1,300-lb. (10.,

dec'ks going over unsold. Market appears
to be in fair share, and with anything
like moderate supply for next two (lays,
do not look for much change.

'l‘helambmarket today was very slow;
few choice lambs sold at $7.75; one or
two decks at $8. There was a wide
range today between the strictly fancy
lambs and the pretty good kind; some
vcry good lambs sold from 870117.50, and
graissy kinds at $6017, Sheep market very
dtil .

\Ve quote: Choice spring lambs, 80711
0.50; wcthers, 84.85015; handy ewes. $3.75
614; heavy ewes, 9.13.7501 ‘1; ycarling lambs
$75001 7.7.5: cull to common. $5615.75; cull
slice-p_ 61.500113; bucks. 3425061325; veals,
choice, to extra, 80.2501050; fair to good
do., 86.506119.

Chicago.
.111ne‘10, 1012.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 14,000 42,000 18,000
Same. day last year..22,400 43,384 20,810
lteccchd last week..3.’l.02ti127,634 80,064
Same. week last ycar.46.101 127,047 104,556

JUNE 15, 1912.

grade of heavy steers go‘ing at $8.80@9.40
and the poorest little yearlings bringing
8585611685. Good cattle are selling at $8
and upward and medium grade steers at
$7.50 and over, while fair killers fetch $7@
7.45. There has been a very fair call for
cows and heifers at 154250118, canners and
cutters selling at 6225(111420, bulls at
63.500117 and calves at $3.50(1119, the best;
calves selling well, with much smaller re-
ceipts. Stockers and feeders sold spar-
ingly at $4.25@7, not many going above
86.511). Milch cows sold lightly at $306975
cac .

Hogs have been marketed for a week
past in much smaller numbers than dur-
ing the previous week, and on some: days
good advances in prices Were» paid, the
receipts for Monday being unusually
small for that day. Still there was not
any great strength in prices on the whole,
and on several days the market ruled
lower, With the eastern shipping demand
much smaller than a few weeks ago. As
usual, prime heavy hogs sold at a good
premium, these being wanted by ship-
pers. The hog crop has turned out to be
larger than was at first estimated, and
aggregate receipts at eleven leading
markets for the first five months of the
year amounted to 11,766,000 head, showing
a gain of 1.208.000 over a year ago and a.
gain of 3,628,000 over two years ago. This
shows that farmers have been better pro-
vided with swine than cattle, for only
2,712.000 cattle reached half a dozen
markets for the first five, months of the
year, a. decrease of 270,000 from a year
ago. Stocks of provisions held at five
western markets decreased during May
10,256,000 lbs., compared with an increase
of 13,363,000 lbs. in May last year, indi-
tating a much larger consumption.

llogs firmed up towards the close of the
week, with light receipts and a good de—
mand, and closed with sales at $7.107!)
7.70, after the best had sold at $7.60. be—
ing not much different from prices of a,
week earlier. l‘igs went at $5.50mi7 and
stags at $750018. The best light hogs
brought $7.60.

ts‘ncep and lambs underwent large de-
clines in prices last week. with supplies
in excess of the moderate requirements
of the local and shipping trade. Natur-
ally, thin stoek suffered much the worst,
being neglected by buyers, but even the
bcst stock sold much lower after Mon-

t‘i'lllimlt‘d meager Offerings 01' (“ill-0 day, when spring lambs sold as high as

resulted in a rise of 100115c in lots that.
were. at all desirable today following last
’l‘hursday‘s advance, and sellers said
there were. numerous sales that looked
17101251' higher than sales 'made last
'\\'edncsdav. Most of the reports sent
out called the improvement 10c, live. stock
commission tirms fearing that if the re-
port “as made better than that, too
many cattle would be shipped in at once
and that this would force a quick reac-
tion. There wcre two sales at $0.30 early
in the day. Hogs were active at firm
prices, sales ranging from $7.70 down to
$7.15. Hogs received last week averaged
233 lbs., compared with 237 lbs. a year
ago and 242 lbs. two years ago. Sheep
and lambs that were fat sold at firm
prites. but otherwise trade was slow,
with buyers bidding lower prices. A sale
was made. of some fat yearlings at $6.50.
ltcccipts here of southern springs were
nearly 3.000 head, and Louisville wired
receipts there of 8.000 head.

Cattle sold badly most of last week,
firming up by Thursday on meager off-ur-
ings and selling a little higher after gen—
eral sharp declines during the first half
of the week. It has been a case of un-
usually high prices for beef everywhere.
especially throughout the cast, checking
its consumption to an extraordinary ex-
tent, tho btycott' of the Jewish kosher
butchers being one of the disturbing in—
llucnccs At any other time such small
cattle receipts as have been seen in re-
ccnt wccks would send prices up mate—
rially for all descriptions, but this. is a
time when beef prices have been raised
to figures where many families feel that
'they must abstain, at least in a measure,
from buying it. Fresh pork. eggs, fish.
cheap vegetables and strawberries are
largely substituted for beef and mutton.
and this condition of trade is likely to
continue unless bcct‘ prices arc. lowered
considerably. The available supply of
fat beef cattle is known to be unusually
small, and most of the cattle sent to
markct are light weights that have had
a short feed. the great majority offered
failing to exceed in wcight 1,200 lbs. The
marketing of the Texas cattle from pas-
tures is just now going forward. and this
is a powerful influence in lowering ruling
prices for native grassy cattle. lit-cf
steers have been selling largely at 87011
8.00. prices still being much higher than
in most former years, with the best

NATIONAL CROP REPORT.

The (“‘rop Reporting Board of the 1211-
reau of Statistics of the l‘nited States
Department of Agriculture. estimates.
from the reports of the correspondents
and agents of the Bureau, as follows:

 

Acreage, 1012.
P. (1. (if
101 1. Acres.
Spring wheat . . . . . . . . .. 041.2 10 201.000

"Winter wheat ......... 88 3 25.711000
()ats 1002 37,844,000
Harley . . . . . . . . . . ..... 00.3 7.574.000
Rye ..................
[lay ...... .........

$10 per 100 lbs. and prime fed lambs
brought $0.25. Spring lambs were mark—
eted in steadily growing numbers, and
the southern spring lambs were moving
freely. as many as 5.000 head arriving on
the Louisville market in a day. Sheep
receipts were mostly confined to ewes and
bucks, and ewes had a. phenomenal break
711 prices, being in the poorest kind of
demand. California sent in some choice
spring lambs, while some big bunches of
\\'ashington range wethers that averaged
117 to 120 lbs. brought $5015.40. The close
of the week saw prices of sheep and
lambs ruling 50e(ru‘$1.50 per 100 lbs. lower
than a week earlier, the bulk of the sales
being $1691.25 lower. Spring lambs de-
clined the least, closing at $561025,while
1‘cd lambs brought $46,118.50. Ewes sold at
$1.750r4.50.

llorses were received last week in much
smaller numbers than a few weeks agO,
when the spring trade was at its best,
but large supplies were not needed, and
there were too many common animals,
these selling at declining prices. The de-
mand has become more of a local char—
acter, while a smaller attendance of out-
side buyers, and demand now centers in
good business horses, with a poor show-
ing of prime horses. Common drivers
sold at 88501100 per head, with better ones
salable at 3412541200, and farm workers
sold at 5610001200, mares going highest.
Light drafters sold at 6175011225. and bet—
ter and heavier ones were quotable at
$230fg/‘325.

 

 

The available supply of southern cattle
for shipment to the northern ranges this
season is much below that of recent
years, and such points as Denver and
Sioux City have been reporting slim ship—
ments. Texas is known to have a short-
age of young and aged cattle, and prices
me. away up, yearlings selling at $26 per
head and over, twt s up to $35, and three
and fours at 514041148. As for Mexican
cattle imports. they are curtailed by the
revolution The grazing season in the
northWest has opened with fcwer cattle
than in a great many years. and a great:
shortage of range cattle, heth beef cattle
and finders, next fall is inevitable.

A double—deck of 77-lh. fcd western
range lambs was sold on the Chicago
market recently at $8.40 per 100 lbs. with
50 out at $6, that left that market tWO
months earlier at a cost of $7.35 in the
tit-(ice. Their Michigan buyer, 1t. Goodall,
of Vernon, secured a wool clip of eight
pounds per head from the flock before
marketing them, and they came back.
:ninus their ilc'cccs, averaging about sev-
en pounds more than when they were
taken out. to shear and fatten.

 

611131111 151T 7115371.

1012. 1011. 10-yr. kitty 1,

Av. 1912.
02.8 01.6 03.8 .. . .
71.3 80.4 80.0 70.7
01.1 85.7 88.4 .. . .
111.1 00.2 00.8 .. . .
87.7 88.6 80.7 87.5
80.8 76.8 .. .. 85.7
03.7 81.8 80.3 81.7

 

Pastures ......... . ..... . ........

 

The following gives the, indicated yield per acre and comparisons of total pro-

duction. The indicated yield for 1012 is

dit'ion on June 1. to thc linal yield in the fi '0 years, 1006—1010;

.- -.11. .__, ... 1- 1,1,. , ._____ . _ _

.Total Production in Milions of Bushels.

Yield per .-\crea Ru.

1011 1006—

1912 a. Final 1010

Av.

“’inter wheat ....14.1. 14.8 15.5
Spring wheat .....13.8 0.4 13.4
All wheat, .........14.0 12.5 14.6
()ats ‘29? 244 28.4
Barley . ...... ......25.2 21.0 24.8
Rye .. 16.0 15.6 16.3

a inte'rbiété'd'iiéin condition reports.

based upon the ratio of the average con-

 

1011 1010 1009.
. 1012 a. Final. Final. Cen-
S115.
363 430 434 418
265 101 201 265
628 621 635 683
1.100 022 1,186 1,007
192 160 174 173
. . . 33 35 30

 

 

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JUNE '22, 1912.
THIS IS THE LAST EDITION.

In the first edition the Detroit Live
stock markets are reports of last week;
all other markets are right up to date.
Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets
are given in the last edition. The first
edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.
June 13, 1912.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1,421. Good grades and bulls
steady; other grades 10@15c lower.

We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, $8; steers and heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $7.50@7.75; do. 800 to 1,000, $6.50@
7.50; grass steers and heifers that are
fat, 800 to 1,000, $6@6.75; do. that are fat
500 to 700, $4.75@5.50; choice fat cows,
$6@6.25; good fat cows, $5.25@5.50; com-
mon cows, $3.75@4.75; canners, $2.75@
3.25; choice heavy bulls, $5.50@6; fair to
good bolognas, bulls, $4.75@5.25; stock
bulls, $3.50@4.75; choice feeding steers,
800 to 1,000, $5.50@6; fair do., 800 to 1,000
$5@5.50; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $4.50
((1)5; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $3.50@4.25;
stock heifers, $3.50@4.50; milkers, large,
young, medium age, $40@55; common
inilkers, $25@35.

Spicer & R. sold Kamman 4 butchers
av 692 at $5.50, 2 steers av 1,015 at $7,
1 COW weighing 920 at $4, 1 stocker
weighing 440 at $4.50; to Strong 4 do av
605 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows
av 1,170 at $6, 1 steer weighing 700 at
$6. 1 bull weighing 1.330 at $5.50, 1 cow
weighing 830 at $3.50; to Kamman 2
butchers av 475 at $5; to Mich. B. Co.
7 do av 563 at $5; to Applebaum 3 cows
av 927 at $4.75; tlo Pake-s 1 do weighing
780 at; $3.50. 1 do weighing 790 at $3: to
LaBoe 2 bulls av 540 at $4.50. 1 do weigh—
ing 1,550 at $6, 3 do av 1,150 at $5.50, 2
do av 870 at $5.10, 2 do av 725 at $5, 1
do weighing 1,540 at $5.75, 1 do weighing
840 at $5, 1 do weighing 680 at $5; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 2 cows 21V 850 at
$3.50, 6 do av 1,000 at $5.75, to Strong
2 stockers av 525 at $5, 4 do av 460 at $5;
to Regan 5 butchers av 508 at $4.85; to
Bresnahan 12 do av 504 at $4.50, 6 do av
495 at $4.75; to LaBoe 2 steers av 735 at
$6.50, 2 do av 630 at $5.50: to Kamman
1 cow weighing 1.000 at $4; to Lalsoe 1
heifer weighing 800 at $6.50, 1 do weigh-
ing 800 at $6; to Kamman 13 butchers av
774 at: $6.25, 6 cows av 1.037 at $4.85, 4
steers av 810 at $6.50, 2 cows av 910 at
33.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 4 cows av
855 at $3.75, 2 steers av 1,150 at $7.75.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 3
bulls av. 860 at $4.75, 1 cow weighing 870
at $5.25,; to Breitenbeck 12 steers av 926
at.$6.75',,1 doiweighing 900 at $6; to Sul~
livan 9.400. 10 cows av 942 at $5; to
Newton E. Co. 23 butchers av 744 at' $6;
to Sutton 12 stockers av 465 at $3; to
Rattkowsky 7 butchers av 520 at $3.75:
to Dutton 11 stockers av 470 at $4; to
Jersey 18 do av 582 at $5; to Sullivan 1’.
C0. 10 cows av 1,010 at $5, 7 canners av
833 at $3; to Mich. B. Co. 3 bulls av 985
at $5.25, 1 do weighing 810 at $5; to
Hammond, S. & C0. 6 cows av 861 at
$3 25, 2 do av 1.640 at $4.25; to Regan 1
bull weighing 660 at $4.25; .to Marx 18
butchers av 820 at $6.10.

Haley & M. sold Breitenbeck 3 cows av
950 at $5, 4 do av 920 at $4.75, 4 butchers
av 770 at $6; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows
av 960 at $4.80, 1 do weighing 800 at $4.
6 butchers av 855 at $6.35, 11 do av 909 at
$5.60; to Kamman 8 steers av 861 at $7.
1 do weighing 850 at $5, 6 do av 595 at
$6; to Rattkowsky 13 butchers av 611 at
$5.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 cows av
1.000 at $4.10, 3 do av 907 at $5; to Mich.
B. CO. 4 do av 1,040 at $4, 1 heifer weigh-
ing 810 at $6, 2 do av 645 at $4, 4 cows
av 920 at $5; to Hammond, S. & Co. 10
butchers av 979 at $5.60, 8 steers av 990
:it $7.90, 5 cows av 1,024 at $4.10, 1 do
weighing 1,220 at $6.50, 3 do av 1.093 at
$5.35, 2 do av 1,010 at $3.50, 3 bulls av
1,073 at $5.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 4 cows
av 1,055 at $6, 2 do av 990 at $4.75, 3
steers av 723 at $6.75.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Kamman 4 cows
av 810 at $3.50, 3 do av 826 at $5, 2 heif-
ers av 860 at $6; to Mich. B. Co. 16
butchers av 1,008 at $5.50, 3 cows av 933
at $4. 1 bull weighing 850 at $4.50: to
Newton E. Co. 3 do av 780 at $4.85, 1
canner weighing 720 at $2.75, 9 cows av
872 at $5, 8 do av 935 at $5.25, 2 bulls
av 760 at $5, 2 steers av 970 at. $7.75, 1
heifer wgh 590 at $6, 7 butchers av 833 at
$6.75; to Regan 3 do av 443 at $4.25; to
Sullivan P. Co. 4 cows av 982 at $5, 2
bulls av 1.180 at $5.50. 1 cow weighing
650 at $3.25; to Sutton 16 stockers av 680
at $5.50, 2 do av 745 at $5.50, 1 do weigh-
ing 650 at $3.25; to Newton B. Co. 2
steers av 1,010 at $7.15, 6 butchers av
825 at $6; to Bresnahan 2 do av 455 at
$4; to Parker, W. & Co. 2 bulls av 880
at $5, 2 do av 1,475 at $5.60; to Ham-
mond, S. Sc Co. 1 do weighing 1.160 at
$5.50, 2 do av 855 at $5.50, 2 steers av
880 at $7.25, 6 cows av 833 at $3.85; to
FrOmm 9 butchers av 760 at $5.85, 2 do.
av 420 at $4, 3 bulls av 800 at $5, 2
steers av 665 at $6; to Hammond, S. &
Co. 2 cows av 925 at $3.35. ,

Sharp sold Bresnahan 2 cows av 1.005
at $4, 10 but'chers av 967 at $5.60, 1 bull
weighing 1.750 at $5.75. 8 steers av 975
at $7.85.

Allington sold Goose 11 butchers av
801 at 5.

VVeelfs sold Mich. B. Co. 13 cows av
883 at $5.35, 4 do av 915 at $3.80, 6 butch-
ers av 490 at $4.75, 3 do av 683 at $6. 14
do av 946 at $6.75, 10 do av 787 at $6.50,
8 cows av 900 at $5.35, 2 heifers av .575

_at $5, 9 steers av 785 at $6 50

Veal Calves.

Receipts. 1,506. Market 2563500 lower;
common dull. Best, $8.25@8.75; common
$3.75@6.75.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Goose 1 weighing

   

 

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340 at $4.50, 6 av 260 at. $5, 15 av 125 at
$7; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av 115 at $7.50.
1.8 av 135 at $8.25, 2 av 140 at $7, 8 av
150 at $8.75; to Newton B. Co. 50 av 135
at $8.50; to Thompson Bros. 11 av 140
at $8, 15 av 137 at $8; to Parker, W. &
Co. 11 av 150 at $8.25, 28 av 135 at $8, 10
av 145 at $8.50; to Newton B. Co. 14 av
155 at $8.75; to Hammond, S. & Co. 34
av 140 at $8, 7 av 160 at $9, 2 av 105 at
$7, 2 av 180 at $8.75; to Goose 6 av 115
at $6, 15 av 135 at $8.50; to McGuire 9
av 155 at $8.50. 7 av 150 at $8.50, 4 av
140 at $8; to Burnstine 6 av 170 at $8.25,
6 av 150 at $8.75, 14 av 140 at $8.25; to
Mich. B. Co. 31 av 135 at $8; [‘0 Parker,
W. & Co. 25 av 140 at $7.50, 29 av 155
at $8.25, 5 av 120 at $6.50, 19 av 150 at
$8; to Hammond, S. & C0. 41 av 145 at
$8.25.

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 12 av
150 at $8.75, 12 av 140 at $8.50, 1 weigh-
ing 310 at $5.50, 5 av 140 at $8.50, 1
weighing 210 at $5, 10 av 157 at $8.50, 2
av 1.25 at $6.50; to Patzusky 27 av 140 at
$8.50, 2 av 140 at $8.50.

Dancer & K. sold McGuire 3 av 95 at;
$6, 12 av 140 at $8.

Roe Com. Co. sold Rattkowsky 18 av
135 av $7.50; to Goose 6 av 200 at $4.50.
Sandall sold Mich. B. Co. 39 av 140 at
8.25.
$ Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 3 av 140
at $8, 6 av 150 at $8.50, 1 weighing 190
at $9, 7 av 160 at $6.50, 12 av 130 at $8.
28 av 150 at $8.25; to Hoffcnd 9 av 140
at $8.15; to Goose 16 av 150 at $5.75; to
Sullivan P. CO. 17 av 135 at $7.50; to
Applebaum 10 av 140 at $8.35; to Ratt-
kowsky 5 av 160 at $8.75, 1 weighing 160
at $8.50.

McQuillan sold Hammond, S. & Co. 9
av 150 at $9.

Allington sold same 1 weighing 220 at
$7, 17 av 155‘at $8.75.

Bergin & W. sold same 18 av 140 at $8.

“'eeks sold Parker, W. & Co. 34 av
140 at $8.55.

Sheep and Lambs. .

Receipts, 2051. Market! steady with
\Vednesday and last week’s opening;
quotations for clipped stock. Best wool
lambs, $750608; fair to good lambs, $5.50
((1)6: light to common lambs, $350694;
spring lambs, $76129; fair to good sheep,
$350614; culls and common, $175693.

Bishop, B. 8.: H. sold Mich. B. Co. 282
lambs av 68 at $8, 256 do av 65 at $7.50.
2 sheep av 11.0 at $3, 21 do av 125 at $4,
14 do av 120 at $4, 8 spring lambs av 35
at $5.50; to Thompson Bros. 12 sheep av
90 at $4. 33 lambs av 53 at $5; to Sulli—
van P. Co. 3 sheep av 105 at $3, 12 doav
95 at $3. 15 do av 100 at $3.50, 8 spring
lambs av 83 at $9, 42 common lambs av
60 at $3.50, 15 spring lambs av 55 at
$7.50, 15 do av 50 at $6, 8 do av 75 at $9;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 20 spring lambs
av 47 at $7.10; to Newton B. Co. 22 do av
67 at $8.50, 28 do av 65 at $8.75, 17 sheep
av 85 at $4; to Bray 35 sheep av 83 at
$2.25, 3 do av 80 at $2; to Fitzpatrick
Bros. 15 lambs av 55 at $6.50, 104 do av
70 at $6; to Bray 22 sheep av 108 at
$3.50; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 17 spg lambs
av 55 at $8, 1.5 do av 57 at $8.50; to Bar-
lage 62 lambs av 47 at $6.50.

Spicer & R. sold Barlage 12 sheep av
105 at $3, 5 spring lambs av 60 at $8, 10
do av 58 at $8.50, 8 sheep av 90 at $3, 8
lambs av 40 at $6. 5 sheep av 85 at $2.50.

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 5 spg
lambs av 55 at $8.50; to Protowisky 18
sheep av 70 at $4.

Allington sold Hammond, S. & C0. 5
Spring lambs av 60 at $8

Hogs.

Receipts, 5.592. None sold up to noon;
packers bidding 5@210c lower than \Ned—
nosday of last week.

Range of prices: Mixed butchers, $7.40;
pigs, $6626.75; light yorkers, $7.09@7.20;
few choice $7.45@7.50; stags one-third
off

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 236
av 1.80 at $7.45 35 av 170 at $7.40, 69 av
150 at $7.30, 20 av 190 at $7.50, 44 pigs
av 120 at $6.75.

Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
310 av 180 at $7.40, 130 av 180 at $7.30,
315 av 170 at $7.35.

Haley & M. sold same 65 av 170 at
$7.35, 37 av 150 at $7.25, 51 av 175 at
$7.30, 227 av 180 at $7.40.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
310 av 200 at $7.50, 490 av 180 at $7.40,
1,410 av 175 at $7.35. 810 av 170 at $7.45.

Friday's Market.
June 7, 1912.
’ Cattle.

Receipts this week, 701; last week, 603.
Market steady at Thursday’s prices; run
very light. Extra dry—fed steers and
heifers, $8@8.35; steers and heifers, 1.000
to 1,200, $7.50@8; do. 800 to 1,000, $6.50@
7.50; grass steers and heifers that are
fat, 800 to 1.000, $66117: db. 500 ,to 700. $5
6116: choice fat cows, $6@6.50; good fat
cows, $5696; common cows, $4615; canners
$3623.50: choice heavy bulls, $550786; fair
to good bolognas, bulls, $4.75(('r5.25; stock
bulls, $3.50@4.75; choice feeding steers,
800 to 1,000, 561.246; fair feeding steers, 800
to 1,000, $5695.50; choice stockers, 500 to
700, $4.50@5; fair stockers, 500 to 700,
$350604; stock heifers, $3.50((i)4.50; milk-
ers, large. young. medium age, $40@55;
common milkers. $20@30.

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 1,397; last week.
1,783. Market steady at Thursday’s
prices.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 1,216; last week,
3.264. Market steady: run very light;
quality common. Best lambs, $7.50@7.75;
fair to good lambs, $5.50@6.50; light to
common lambs, $3.50@4.50; spring lambs,
$9@10; fair to good sheep, $3.50@4; culls
and common, $1.50@2.50.

Hogs.

Receipts this week, 4,344; last week,
7,592. Market steady to 50 higher than
on Thursday. Light to good butchers,
$7.45@7.50; pigs, $6.60@6.75; light yorkers
$7.20@7.30; stags one—third off.

The markets of the country have been
generously supplied with fresh country
eggs recently, and their cheapness stim-
ulates consumption materially, while large

\

THE *MICHIGANv FARMER.

numbers of cases have been placed in big
cold storage warehouses, to be removed
later when prices will rule much higher.
Eggs are so much cheaper than meats
that they are largely used in place of
beef, mutton. etc. Butter, too, has been
materially lowered in price, and its use
has greatly increased, while sales of elec—
margarine have decreased accordingly.
Recent Monday sales of butter on the
Elgin Board of Trade exceeded all former
records, with prime lots of creamery
bringing 27¢ per pound, a drop of three
cents from the last sales a week earlier.

 

MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.

Wheat.—The average condition of
wheat in the state is 58, in the southern
counties 48, in the central counties 60, in
the northern counties 73 and in upper
peninsula 94.

On May 1 the condition of wheat was
reported as follows: State 63, southern
counties 53, central counties 68, northern
counties 79 and upper peninsula 92.

The per cent of wheat sown that will
be plowed up because winter-killed or
otherwise destroyed is 24 in the state, 29
in the southern counties, 24 in the cen-
tral counties, 15 in the northern counties
and 4 in the upper peninsula. A much
larger percentage of the wheat acreage
Would have been plowed up if it were not
seeded. The damage by Hessian fly is 9
per cent in the state, 12 in the southern
counties, 10 in the. central counties and 3
in the northern counties.

The tonal number of bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in May at 96 mills
is 133,754 and at 90 elevators and to grain
dealers 208,465 or a total of 342.219 bu.

Of this amount 185,112 bushels were
marketed in the southern four tiers of
counties, 47,594 in the central counties
and 9.513 in the northern counties and
upper peninsula. The estimated total
number of bushels of wheat marketed in
the ten months August—May, is 13.478.-
000. Ninety—three mills, elevators and
grain dealers report no wheat marketed
in May.

Rye—The condition of rye in the state
is 78, in the southern counties 76, in the
central counties 74. in the northern coun-
ties 85 and in the upper peninsula 94. One
year ago the condition in the State,
southern and central counties was 92, in
the northern counties 91 and in ‘tlie til)-
per peninsula 99.

Conrv’l‘lie acreage of corn planted or
to be planted as compared with last year,
in the state is 97, in the southern coun-
ties 98, in tho central counties, 89, in the
northern counties 100 and in the upper
peninsula 113. The condition of corn as
compared with an average is 76 in the
state and southern counties, 66 in the
central counties, 75 in the northern coun-
ties and 98 in the upper peninsula.

Oats—The condition of oats as com-
pared with an average, is 87 in the state,
90 in the southern counties, 79 in the cen—
tral counties, 86 in the northern counties
and 97 in the upper peninsula. The con-
dition one year ago was 88 in the state
and central counties, 84 in the southern
counties, 90 in the northern counties and
100 in the upper peninsula.

Barley—The acreage of barley sown or
that will be sown as compared with last
year is 87 in the state, 90 in the southern
counties, 81 in the central counties, 86 in
the northern counties and 95 in the up-
per peninsula.

Meadows.»'l‘he condition of meadows as
compared with an average is 89 in the
state. 85 iii the southern counties, 90 in
the central counties, 94 in the northern
counties and 101 in the upper peninsula.
The condition one year ago was 83 in the
state, 69 in the southern counties, 94 in
the central counties, 99 in the northern
counties and 104 in the upper peninsula.

Potatoes—The acreage planted or to be
planted as compared with last year is 94
in the state, 96 in the southern counties,
87 in the central counties. 93 in the
northern counties and 114 in the upper pe-
ninsula. The condition as compared with
an average is 85 in the state, 87 in the
southern counties, 74 in the central coun-
ties, 84 in the northern counties and 97
in the upper peninsula.

Colts and Calves—The number of colts
as compared with last year is 92 in the
state, 93 in the southern counties, 91 in
the central counties, 88 in the northern
counties and 104 in the upper peninsula,
The number of calves as compared with
last year is 95 in the state. 94 in the
southern counties, 96 in the central and
northern counties and 99 in the upper
peninsula.

Sugar Beets—The acreage of sugar
beets planted or to be planted as com-
pared with last year is 88 in the state, 89
in the southern counties, 87 in the cen-
tral counties, 76 in the northern counties
and 108 in the upper peninsula.

Fruit—The following table will show
the- prospect at: the present time for a
crop of tho various kinds of fruit in the
state and the different sections:

Sou. Cen. Nor. Tipper
State. Co.’s Co's Co.’s Pen.

Apples ...... 78 76 80 89 69
Pears ..... . 53 49 56 60 98
Peaches . . .. 12 11 10 18 . .
Plums ...... 55 51‘ 52 67 88

Cherries 65 58 68 87 88
Strawberries 91 92 87 94 97

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time. F. R., Belleville, Micli.—Dissolve
14 lb. sugar lead. 3 ozs. sulphate zinc. and
3 ozs. carbolic acid in a gallon of water
and apply to sore heels every evening.
Apply one part oxide of zinc and four
parts vaseline to sores every morning.
Give each horse a dessertspoonful of
Fowler's solution at a dose in feed two
or three times a day.

Garget—Obsttructed Teae—I have a
cow that came fresh last Tuesday that
I fird it almost impossible to get milk
from both fore quarters of udder, the
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Snaver, Mich—Apply one part extract
of belladonna and four parts vaseline to
lower part of quarter and teats once a.
day and use milking tubes to draw off
milk. Be sure and boil milking tube
for five minutes before it is used each
time.

Bruised Abdomen—J have a cow with
two or three bunches under belly which
may have been caused by a blow; these
bunches are as large as a man's fist and
the cow does not giVe as much milk as
usual. J. 13., Newaygo, Mich—It is pos-
sible that the bunches contain pus and
if so it should be let out, then apply one
part carbotic acid and 50 parts water or
one part coal tar disinfectant and 30
parts water twice a day. If the bunches
are hard apply tincture iodine daily.

Abortion—l have a cow that slunk her
calf last fall some six weeks before she
was due to calve. Is this likely to occur
again? J. D. H.. Burton, Mich—Give
your cow 30 drops of carbolic acid at a
dose.- in either feed or drinking water
twice a day for ten days, discontinue
giving it for ten days, then repeat.

Scptic Arthritis—l have always read
with interest your veterinary column and
have been greatly benefited by it. I
have a lamb six weeks old which, when
three weeks old, showed lameness in one
fine leg and in a day or two both knee
joints swellwl and now both of his tore
legs are affected and within a day or
tWo all four legs are swollen. This lamb
is so stiff- that he can hardly move and
when he does move seems to suffer pain.
11. it, Mount Salem, 0nt.——i have no
doubt this is a case of septic arthritis
(navel infection) and had you treated
the navol of lamb it would have doubt-
less been all right. Apply one part car-
bolic acid and live parts glycerine to
navel if it is yet sore, but avoid applying
it. to skin. Give the lamb 1/4 gr. salicy—
late of soda at a dose twice a day and
if you can conveniently give it. “hypoder-
mically" small doses of polyvalent bar:-
‘lerins. I have considerable faith in bac-
lerin treatment for this ailment; how—
ever, it is a little too late.

Loss of A].\petlte.———liave two pigs ten
weeks old that seem to have lost their
appetite and would like to know what to
give them. F. C. S, lilvart, Mich—Give
the pigs enough castor oil or epsom salts
to open Ill(‘ll‘ bowels. then give a tea-
spotmtul fluid extract gcntian ata dose
to each one three times a day.

l)lal‘l‘l10‘1'd.—*V\Vlll you please tell me
what is the matter with my goslings?
When hatched out they appear to be
lively, but when :1 week old :i diarrhoea
sets in which weakens them quickly and
they soon die. Twenty of them have
died. »’l‘hcli' .feed consists of mostly
grass and bread crumbs. Mrs. S. It.
Royal Oak, Mich.—You should ascertain
it‘ the grass they eat is infected or if the.
bread crumbs are covered with mould or
in any way sour; it may be causing them
to sicken. Toast the bread, then crush
the toast before. mixing it with boiled
water or sr-aldcd milk and be sure they
have clean water to drink. Mix a liltlo
sub-nitrate of bismuth with their feed.
Their food supply has a whole lot to do
with keeping them well or making them
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How Mr. C. L. Peck Makes Each Cow
,Pay a Net Profit of $40 a Year

This leaves a net profit of over $40
per cow above all expenses, and,asI
am keeping twenty cows, it amounts to
over $800 per year, which is not bad
for a herd of common Cows.

By using a Sharples Tubular Hand
Separator I get 18% more butte" fat
1 calf 3-00 than I averaged from the same cows

”—“—_“ before I bought it, and my skim milk

._______.__._ $108' ’0 is worth at least 25c more per hundred

poundsfor stock feeding purposes, and
1 am paid 2c per lb. more for butter fat
from the Tubular cream than before I

My income for 1911 per cow is as
follows:
260 pOunds of butter fat, at 29c. . $75.40
(3,100 pounds of separated milk, it
at30c per cwt18.30
8 tons manure, at $1.50 .. . .. . . . . 12. 00

My expenses per cow were:
Five months winter feed. . . . . . . $28. 50
Seven months pasture . . . . .. 8.00 used it. My increased income pencow,
Depreciation .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 due t0 the use 0f. “1‘? separator, 15 $11-31
Equipment and renewals. . 1.00 increased quantity in butter fat, 30.10
I t est on investment .3 00 for the better price realized and $15.25

n er . ’ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " more value in the skim . milk, owmg to
Sundries ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ’ 2'00 its being fresh and warm. Thus $31.66

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MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCTS.

One of the greatest problems in dairy—
ing today, it seems to me, is that of sell—
ing the products. Great changes have in
recent years come about in the handling
and marketing of milk and its derivatives.
It has followed the trend of every other
industry toward concentration and spe-
cialization until the manufacturing and

selling end of the business has shifted'

from the farm to the cheese factory, con-
densary, ei'eamei'y and the city milk and
cream trade. This makes it possible for
farmers in most vicinities to sell milk
or butter—fat for as much, and in many
instances more, per pound than they
would receive for the butter that miglzt
be made on the farm.

There are conditions, how'chr, that
warrant the making of butter on the
faint. In many instances the farm is not
situated close enough to a. shipping sta—
tion, eondensary, cheese factory or
ci'eamery so that the owner can obtain
the best prices for his products. True.
there may be a cream wagon passing his
farm twice, a. week that will take his
cream, haul it to town and ship it one
ci‘ two hundred miles to be made up into
as good butter as can be made from
cream gathered in this. manner, but no
firm can pay the true, value for good
cream cared for under those conditions
and the farmer loses from tivrx to ten
cents per pound on every pound of but—
ter—fut his cows produce for him.

l“:‘xl'lllt‘:l‘H located under such conditions
should make butter on the farm. The
overrun will pay. fir the extra labor of
iip<ning the cream and making the but-
tu‘, and with Vci'y little effort a market
can be found that will pay a nice profit
for the cxti'a work. As an example, sup—
Iosc tlu- farmer is selling wcckly 50 lbs.
of ‘30 per ccnt cream. or 2-! lbs. of butter—
fat at ‘3»! ccnts pci‘ pound, when the price
of buttci' on the market is 29 cents per
pound. There is an income of $3.713.
(‘hui'n into good buttci' this same fat, in—
corporating 20 per cent of iiioisttil‘e, salt
and curd as the good butter maker does,
and the result is 28.8 lbs. of butter. \\'ill
thc 4.8 lbs. of extra. buttci‘ over-run sold
at 20 cents and netting $1.30 cents for the
labor of churning? lf not. sell thr- 24
lbs. at 20 cents. or live cents more than
you would have received per poniid for
the, fat, and ihci'c is H.130 more in your
favor. making in all $2.30”th a big sum
it is ll'lll'. but at the end of the year it
will amount to $1114.08: If it had bet-n the
product of five cows, as such a yield cer-
tainly slit-nid be. for it mcans but an 21V-
ci‘ugo of »t lit lbs, of biittci'~fat pci‘ cow
wcckly, curb cow has to her credit $30.03
additional. How many cows have you in
your lu-id that yield .\ou a profit all told.
of Wow, c:|clt' year under present exist-
ing conditions’.“.‘

Farm buttcrmakiug is not (1 disagree—
able busincss if (‘tlltllli well known rub-s
are followcd. and if enough intci'ist is
taken in the. manufacture to make, CL
choice product. Holy a Very small cipiip—
Illi‘lil is iicccssuiy to make good buttc“.
but it should be used pi‘opci'ly and always
be kept sweet and sanitary. A hand
separator provides cream that is casicr
to churn than any other system of milk
skimming for it is of more uniform con-
sistincy and can always be secured and
handled in the same manner cach time.
Another important instrument is a dairy
thermometer that can be, purchased for
1.0 cents. Enough pails and cans must be
usml so it will not be nccessaiy to mix
cream of dit'fci'ent temperatures. The
churn, a butlcrworkcr and a supply of
parchment pupci‘ complete the necessary
cutiipincut.

in determining between selling his milk
to the. ci'canici‘y, cheese factory or con-
dcnsury one should be guided by the
prices paid for milk and butter—fat and
the which of the by-products returned to
his farm for feeding. Any good feeder
should be able to realize from 20 to 30
cents per 100 pounds: for skim—milk by
feeding it to calves}, pigs and poultry.
“hey (the by-pi'oduct from cheese-mak—
ing) has a. feeding value of about 10 cents
per 100 pounds. The selling of whole
milk to the condensai‘y or the city mill:
trade leaves no by-pi'oduct to feed on
the farm. ’l‘hei-cfore. in figuring a rea-
sonable scale of prices I will submit the
following relative prices which I think
are nearly correct: Creamery, $1.00;
cheese factory, $1.10; condensary, $1.25.
Fortunately the prices paid by creameries
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JUNE 15, 1912.

than from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds,
for the reason that most of the progres—
sive factory owners have the necessary
equipment to make butter in case the
market for cheese falls below that for
butter. The necessity of having ‘the
skim-milk returned to the farm to feed
young stock and poultry and increase
soil fertility is a matter that should be
given greater attention in every dairying
locality.

Many farmers have an idea. that there
in a fortune to be made in producing cer-
t'Plied milk. It is easy to write about
producing milk under surroundings that
approach the ideals of sanitary experts,
but We do not especially need a cam-
paign in urging farmers to cater to that
trade. I think I am correct when I say
that the market for this class of milk is
prctty well supplied. Milk retailing from
15 to 20 cents per quart is, after all, used
only in families where economy of ex-
penditurcs is a very minor consideration,
and sometimes by people of moderate
mcans who have a. delicate child, for
whom the best is none too good. The
business appeals very forcibly to the
dairymen who figure profits carefully and
who like to see things nicely done. But
there is no 1181‘ of arguing against the
facts, no matter how unreasonable they
may seem. There are ten farmers wait—
ing to ,make certified milk for every
market that can be developed for one. I
am not writing this to discourage any
man who desires to clean up about his
premises and undertake the work of
sanitation, sterilization. dust—free air and
incoming, along with the ne-ccssai‘y equip-
ment that goes with the making of cer—
tified milk, but what we do nccd in the
milk producing business in general ,is an
inspiration to improve the grcat mass of
market milk now being made and be able.
to put it on the market in condition and
at prices that will increase its use. among
city consumers. lt sec-ms to me that the
best interests of the dairy farmer as well
as the consumer will be attained by keep-
ing prices as low as consistent with the
(“$1 of pi'mluction.

The prices obtained by dairyntcn who
supply the city milk trade seem very at—
ti'actiVo to many farmers who patronize
lilo chccse factory or creamery. how—
ever, the city milk producer who has a
contract to supply a certain number of
gallons of milk every day in the year has
his trials and pei'plcxities. He has to
feed large quantitics of high priced grain
feeds, buy new cows and plan his dairy
management so the cows shall not fall
below his contract at any time during
the. year. Sclling milk l'elilUVL'S from the
farm approximately two dollars‘ worth of
t‘t-rtiiity with each ton of milk, bcsides it
le-avcs the farm without calves and pigs
and has at tondcncy to narrow things
down to the industrial circle of buying
food to make milk to buy more feed to
make more milk, and so on hoptlcssly to
thc end. Such farm management can not
compare, favorably with that which :if—
fords 400 or 500 pounds of skim-milk a,
day to raise a nice“ bunch of licifcr calves
along with a. few choice brood sows to
utilize the farm wastcs and lI}-]tl‘<ulll(‘iS.
'l‘he building up of choicc hcrds of dairy
cattle scldom succccds ncai'by to a milk
sl'iippii’ig station or (‘t‘ll(l(’ll.\‘:tl’_\'. Further
argument is not ncrded to show that sell—
jug whole milk is poor dairy pint-lice. If
a dairynian sells whole milk he must i‘e—
ccivc enough additional money to buy
back an equal amount of fertility if he
maintains the productivity of his farm
for :1 long series of wars.

Hue of the. most encouraging features
of our present-day dairying is the broad—
cning' outlet for markct cream. In New
York city it is estimated that the amount
of butter—fat uscd as cream is approxi—
mutcly one—half of that tiScd as milk.
Evidently if it \Ycl'c not for this demand
many duirymen would be doing business
at a loss, and yct the consumption of
cream is the, outgrowth of i'cccnt years.
The factors in producing market cream
are essentially the same as in producing
milk. (‘lean methods, refrigeration and
a uniform percentage of fat constitute
good cream.

Everything considered, the selling of
cream at i'ci'nuneiative pi‘iccs is the high—
est type, of dairy farming. It is true that
the market for high—grade cream direct
from the farm is limited. but there are
more possibilities in developing a satis-
factory markct for cream than in any
other branch of the dairy business. I
know it is no easy task to go into a large
city and contract for the sale of a certain
number of gallons of cream daily. You
may find confectione'rs, restau‘ants and
hotel proprietors who are glad to buy
cream according to their daily or weekly
needs which will mean in varying quan—
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many gallons each day.’ On the other
hand, if a market can be secured at all it
will almost always pay better to sell
cream and have the skim-milk left on the
farm for feeding. In many instances one
may arrange with the local publie.cream—
cry to take his surplus cream on a butter
basis and supply a few city customers
with cream when they need his product.

The public creamery is valuable to
many dairy farmers, but it is far from
satisfactory to the progressive dariyman.
The financial returns seldom compare
favorably with those received from the
sale of whole milk. The skim—milk is not
in as good condition for feeding as is
the case when the milk is separated on
the farm. Another serious objection to
the public creamery is the fact that by
sending the milk to a public creamery a
man takes greater chances of introducing
disease into his herd. This one fact alone
should commend the use of the farm sep-
arator and the sale of cream, to many
farmers who are raising a herd of pure-
bred dairy cattle or even a herd of grades
to replace their present herd.

When the milk is fed to pigs the re
sults are more easily noted, for the dis—
ease develops much more duickly in swine
than in other animals, and at the present
time there are certain dah'ying districts
where buyers will not buy hogs unless
they can obtain them at a figure that will
make them safe in having from five to
eight per cent condemned by the meat
inspectors. This state of affairs in many
dairy sections shows us that something
is radically wrong when these by-pro-
ducts are allowed to be returned to the
farm and fed to young animals before be-
ing properly sterilized.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

FUNCTIONS OF NUTRIENTS.

(Continued from page 653).
fats and carbohydrates, starvation con—
tinues in the animal despite the fact that
enough fat is being supplied which like-
wise is digested and which as far as
quantity is concerned, is alnplc to fulfill
the body requirements. A certain func—
tion which scientists call vital requires,
however. that nitrogen must form an in—
tegral part of the food. As neither fats
nor carbohydrates contain nitrogen and
as nitrogen continues to be eliminated in
the urine from the animal, it is- very evi-
dent that the time will speedily arrive
when the circulatory protein of the body
will be completely exhausted and mus-
cular emaciation begins, followed by
death.

We are forced, therefore. to the con-
clusion that a complete ration for an an-
imal is a ration containing not only fats
and carbohydrates but a ration contain-
ing likewise, protein and in this ration
the protein must of necessity form such
an important part as will permit of the
replenishing of the nitrogen supply.

Economic conditions require that cer-
tain more or less definite relationships
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ration of practically fat—free food and fed
a cow for about three months on this food
containing but 5.7 lbs. of fat in the total!
amount of food consumed in the threel
months. During this period she gave 62.9l

lbs. of fat in the milk, thus proving abso- l

lutely that the 57.2 lbs. of fat found in:
the milk must have been derived from:
some other source than the fat in thel
food. I
It is very clear from this experiment.
that by far the greater content of the fat!
in the milk must have been derived froml
some other source than the fat in the
fOOd. This, therefore, deals a death-bloW‘
to any supposition that by feeding a ra-
tion high in fat the. content of fat in the
milk may be correspondingly increased,
and we would think, therefore, must set—
tle, the questiOn for once and all.

PREPARE FOR AUGUST DROUGl—lT.

The excessive rains so far this spring
give aSsurance of fairly good pasture, and
with an occasional rain from now on the

MICHIGAN FARMER.

 

good pasture will probably continue later
into the summer than it did last year.
Nevertheless: one cannot depend upon the
pasture for the entire summer season.
Although it is wet now and the grass is
abundant there is apt to be a drought
the last of July and August, when cattle
will suffer for a full ration if pasture is
the sole dependence. The dairyman, es—
pecially, should be provided against this
drought. lie is indeed fortunate if he has

enough left over ensilage to bring his
cattle through until September rains
come or until new ensilagc comes. If he

hasn‘t this supply of old ensilage then he
should not neglect to plant crops which
will mature about that time to be fed as
a supplement to pasture. Evergreen
sweetcorn is a splendid thing. I know of

 

nothing better, and it will keep in good
condition to feed longer than other vari-
cties of corn. You don't want the corn
ripe to feed the cattle as a supplement.
to the pasture, and yet it should not be
too immature. It ought to be good roast—
ing corn before yOu commence to feed it,
and with good evergreen sweetcorn it will
keep palatable for a longer period than
any other variety or kind of grain. If 1t
is not planted until the weather becomes
thoroughly settled and warm one can get
a good stand and on rich land grow a
good tonnage. This can be cut when the
drought comes, fed to the cattle, and will
thereby save, in many instances, a heavy
loss.

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In selecting a dairy cow particular at-
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possible, no mattcr how the animal was
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EHORTICULTUREl

PEACH YELLOWS AND LITTLE
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For the past two or three years 'peach
yellows and little peach have been stead-
ily gaining ground in the peach orchards
of many parts of the state. In some sec-
tions the advance has been very rapid
and destructive, many orchards being so
badly diseased that they have had to be
completely destroyed and their owners
have been so discouraged that they have
entirely given up raising peaches. In
some of the more northern counties, the
discasts are still unknown or, at any rate
have never been identified there. That
these northern counties are always to be
free. is not to be thought of, for the dis—
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,Sfilllllel'll part of the westcrn Michigan

fruit belt and have gradually spread
northward and doubtless will continue to
do so, perhaps to the northermnost limits
of peach growing.

No variety if peach is immune and
Japanese varieties of plums, including
Burbank, Stitsuma. and lied .lune, are
often altar-kl d. I‘.oth diseases. are equally
contagious in old and young, healthy and
unhealthy tru-s. 'l‘hcir cause is still un-
known and the only recognized method
of conirol is destruction of [he tree—root,
fruit, and lil'llilt'llm-llfi' soon as discovered.
Roth discasts may be present in a free at
the same time- und while it seldom oc-
curs. yet they are uudoubterllj.‘ sometimes
spread by the means of nursery stock.
the oiscm'cs having gained admission lo
the nursery through eithi-r the bud or
pit. The most triticftl time. however. for
(liner (ilStJFx' to spread, from one tree to
another or from one orchard to another,
is llclll‘VHl to be at the blossoming lime
when becs and many other insects are
visiting blossoms frequently and indis-
criminalely.

Symptoms of the two diseases are
soinlwhut similar and sometimes difficult
it) identify and confusing even to the
host informed and most experienced men.
llowchr, if peach growers would thor—
oughly f'umiliarij/zc themselves with the
symptoms of the dist-use. as given below
and fifth keep close watch of their or-
chards so that. affected trees will be no—
ticed, marked and destroyed as soon as
possible, instead of depending entirely on
the, “yellows commissions-r,“
ally only able to examine an orchard two
or three times in :1 season, much more
satisfactory control would be secured and
pcaclns could be grown much more. prof—
italrly. Many orchards that are not eu—
tircly ti<21tl will not bear any crop this
season because of the severity of the past
winter and in these. orthards double vigi-
lance should be exercised because the-re.
will be only the foliage to indicate the
diseases. .

who is usu—

Peach Yellows.

l’caeh yellows may be identified by
.scveral symptoms any one or all of which
may be. present in a tree.

The first‘sympton'is in a. young,r tree.
previous to heating. are indicated by the
leaves of one or two limbs growing more
slcndcr than ordinary and turning from
a rich dark grcmi to (t yellowish green or
rmldish. rusty green color, this usually
accompanied by a rolling of the leaves
from their edges. 'l‘bcsc leaves ripen and
full earlier than normal leaves. li‘ruit
buds ut'e longer and more mature in ap-
pearance and in the spring invariably
bloom earlier than normal buds. in some
instances, the symptoms are not confined
to one or two branches but many of thg
flows in the, center of the ll("(‘ are slen~
(lcr. turn yellowish, roll slightly from
their edges and droop considerably. These
latter symptoms are often present in
cases of little peach.

l‘pon bearing, trees, there may be any
one or all of the. following symptoms: The
fruit may ripen prematurely one to three-
wceks, upon one or two b'anehcs or over
the entire ti'ce. The fruit may have
numerous red spots on the surface, the
spots sometimes extending in red streaks
partially or wholly through the flesh to
the pit. Often the flesh about the pit is
full of radiating streaks of red. The
surface of the fruit is often roughened
and Ifn- flcsh more~ or less stringy and
very insipid. The leaves may be slender
yellowish, or reddish rut-fly green in color,
usually rollingr and drooping. ln advanc-
ed stages, numerous finely branched
shoots, bearing slender, sickly appearing
leaves on the trunk or main branches
and sometimes in the extremities of the
branches.

Winter injury to‘ the bark of the trunk
or main limbs, mechanical injury by mice,

rabbits, peach borers, cultivators. e‘te.,

or a. serious lack of moisture or nitrogen

in the soil may discolor the foliage and

cause premature ripening of the fruit

and should not be mistaken for yellows.
Little Peach.

In little peach characteristic symptoms
are: The leaves of a part or the whole of
the tree have a bunched appearance, and
are shorter and broader than leaves on
healthy limbs or trees. They are usually
yellowish green in color with the veins
appearing dilated and darker than the
intervening tissue. The fruit is usually
undersized and ripens from a week to
two weeks late. The flesh is more or
less stringy, watery, and very insipid,
while the pit is most always small. One
or all symptoms may he prcsont and un—
less they can be positively attributed to
some other cause the tree should be con—
demned. pulled out and burned.

Mich. Agri. Col. 0. K. \VIIiTE.
THE ROSE CHAFER IS A HORTICUL-

TURAL PROBLEM.

 

For many years the rose chafer has
been known to be. a. pest, yet not an un-
derstood insect. Its habits have not been
studitd like those of the potato beetle
yet it is nearly if not as destruclible
during its short time of being in sight
and much more harmful while in the
ground. The difference consists in the
fact that it cuts many things, while the
potato beetle nariows his efforts to a few
things if he can.

Many years ago, with a class of young:
people who were studying the common
insects and lt-arning how to distinguish
the good from the bad that out- might
be cherished while the other could be
fought, l paid moucy. time and much
Illlille‘t" to learn what I could of insecis‘
liulrils. and among others studiml about
the lose chufe'r. so—called, I lu'llth‘, he—
causc it was first notieul on roses. _-\s a
class we not only studied by personal ob-
servation buf eorrespomlcd with st-vel‘al
will—known cntomolog‘ists. bought books
nothing about our work and for several
_\~.=l':l tried in will" way to learn of the
lilllli insect life.

(mo of our tools was an insect pen.
llozirds were sunk into the ground to
about three felt. lightly matched, pen—
ning in a space seven by 1?» feet, moi-Hy
grass land. Above ground there was at
frame about four feet high (ovcred with
the finest wire inning we could buy, a
(ll-or. and the space cut up into schral
divisions. in one division we placed our
captive rose chafcrs, the females of which
commenced laying~ eggs in the ground
from one to two inches deep during the.
second week in .luly. In no two years
(lid the limo of laying: differ by more than
three days or the hatching for about
three. wet-ks, conditions of the weather
having an llllllli"llt’(‘, but our records may
bi- imperfect as the matter was an un-
derground study. As soon as hatched
the tiny insect, or Worm, commenced to
(of. Nothing was too good for it and n0
root that We could supply was neglected;
by fall the larva was well developed and
burrowed deeper durirg the winter. By
Spring it was on hand again and at work.
\\'eeds, grasses, flowers, vegofable, shrub
and even maple. tree roots were vcry ac—
ceptable to our captives. They look much
delight in gathering under stones, chips.
bunches of rcfusc lying on the' surface,
under which they built their puputc cells.

Before leaving; the food question of the
larva let me. say they are death to all
(pg—pods of grasshoppers and several
other insects who deposit their eggs in
the ground; fhat they are destructive to
all groin roots, grass roots, and any new-
ly set plants, although grass land is a
Iu'ef'erl‘ed home.

The appearance of the common .lnne
bug is a notice to beware of the adult
rose. chaf‘er. The large number and quiet
work allows it to eat and destroy many
fine flower buds, corn and grain heads,
before the farmer realizes anything is at
work.

its rose work is but a Small part of its
destructive energy; plums, strawberries,
raspl,>erries. and even standard fruit suf—
fers. It is a great pest in the garden,
especially among vegetables going to
seed. lts wings give it much freedom and
one man in a neighborhood ‘annot do
much execution in fighting it alone. It
being a (hewmg insect poison can be
used but to be effective it must be a con—
tinuous application. I have killed the
larva on small pieces by turning the top
soil and using kerosene emulsion, but that
and hand—picking is. only adapted to
small patches. 1 have also had much
success in cleaning plants of the adult
insect by using a pan of water that was
covered with a. film of oil; this scum of
kerosene keeping them in place. 1 have

JUNE 15, 1912.

also used sheets covered with oil, placed
On the ground and the insects shaken on
to it, the dry sheets not being much bet-
ter than nothing. One of the best ways
to catch them is to provide certain plants

in among the grape vine, and fruit trees '

and gather the insects often from these
traps. I have seen the flowers of the 0x-
eyed daisy, sumaeh, spiraea, white rose,
deulzina covered with the beetles, while
not one would be on other roses, grapes
or plums. The best time to catch the
adult insect 0n oiled surfaces is in the
early morning just as the. sun is coming
up.

llcns and turkeys relish the larva. if
allowed to work on newly turned over
sod.

The potato beetle is not very numerous
or so very destructive, when in the adult
state, its destructivcuess is limited to the
potato field and tomato patch but the
rose ehaf'er is very destructive. in all con—
ditions of life and you do not realize its
work as it is not confined to any one 01'
IWo plants.

Wisconsin. OLD Ari-MCULTURIST.

 

A FEW OF' THE INSECT PESTS OF
THE GARDEN.

In this locality the chief insect pest
of the onion is the onion maggot. Like
the cabbage maggot it is the larva of a.
small fly and has many habits in com—
uion with that inscct. The eggs are laid
cu the. young plants and as soon as they
hutch out the larvae begin burrowing
into the bulb just below the surface of
the ground. Hnly a, small portion of the
plant is actually eaten, the center is
tunneled then the maggot passes to the
next onion where tho operation is it“-
pealed. In this way one larva will dc—
siroy a large. number of seedlings before
completing its growth. Later in the, sea—
sou as the onions act larger it. requires
fewer to bring,r a maggot to maturity and
in some cases where the bulbs are of
gced size they will support. two or threr.

When a maggot has completed its
growth it leaves the onion and enters the
soil where it remains while passing
flirt-ugh the pupal stage. A few days lat—
el‘ it emerges as an adult fly ready to lay
eggs Which will start a new generation
of which there are several during the
summer.

The onion maggot passes the winter .11
both the adult and pupal stages which
makes it harder to control than though
only pupae. wintercd over. if the latter
were the case fall plowing of infested
soil would be effective in destroying many
of the pupae but when some individuals
hibernate as adults in out of the way
places it is in'acfieally impossible to ex-
terminate. them. Nevertheless. fallplow—
ing is a. partial check and should be prac—
lit-(cl.

From the nature of its feeding habits
this insect cannot be poisoncd by the- use
of arscnieals, nor for that matter will a
contact spray be practical. The reme—
dies must be preventive rather than cur—
ative. Fall plowing will destroy many of
ihe pupae- :ind clean culture will furnish
less opportunity for the adults to find a.
safe harbor. For some reason many in—
sects prefer to feed upon weak or un-
healthy plants and the onion maggot be-
longs to that class so cultural methods
which promote a vigorous growth lessen
the chance of attack.

Last season one neighbor attempted to
grow onions upon land that was deficient
in plant food. .-\s a result the maggots
destroyed p‘aefieally all of the bulbs.
while another neighbor, who had onions
upon rich soil was bothered very little.
The onion is a hearty feeder and will re—
spond to liberal applications of fertilizers.
Front what I haVe observed 1 have more
faith in a high state of fertility as a
preventive of the maggots than in any
spray mixture which may be applied to
the plants.

(‘arbolie acid emulsion is a. spray which
acts as a repellaut and it is claimed that
when applied as often as once a week
that very few flies will deposit eggs upon
treated plants. To make it dissolve a
pound of soap in u gallon of hot water
and while still hotjidd it pint of crude
carbolic acid. lllmulsify this mixture
either by vigorous stirring or by pumping
it through a spray nozzle. \\'hen well
emulsified dilute to 30 gallons by adding
water and spray on the young plants
early in the, season to repel the first flies.
To be effective the spraying should be
repeated often enough to keep the, young
onions smelling of the spray.

Wayne Co. W. POSTIFF.

The roots of currant bushes grow close
to the surface of the ground, consequent-
ly all tillage subsequent to planting
should be shallow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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I ur Motto—“The farmer is of more
cogsequence than the farm, and should be
first improved."

THE JUNE PROGRAMS.
Suggestlons for Second Meeting,

Music. _
Discussion—Canning vegetables.
Importance of getting our crops well

started. How shall it be done?

Exhib't of political cartoons, collected,
arranged and explained by a member.

Talk—Making first grade hay—cutting,
curing, cost.

Recitation.

The pros and cons of making Saturday
afternoon a half holiday. 1. The advan-
tages. 2. The objections.

Songs by the Grange.

 

 

THE GRANGES OF LAKE COUNTY.

 

The story of the development of a. new
country is always interesting, and the
forces which have their part in its build-
ing are ever attractive to the individual
who is interested in human progress.

The patrons of Lake county are mainly
pioneers. Some of them were there when
the woods stood in all their grandeur, be-
fore the lumberman had laid the forest
low, taken his harvest of logs, and left
upon the ground a thick covering of brush
to invite the flames that rushed madly
on, leaving in their track a wilderness of
old charred logs and blackened stumps.
But, for the most part, the pioneers of
whom I write are engaged in redeeming
this wilderness and building in its stead
pleasant homes and productive farms.

The Grange is a wonderful organization
in that it adapts itself easily to the needs
of people who live under a variety of cir-
cumstances. It has a mission to the men
and women who live in the older portions
of the state; it brings to the people of
the upper peninsula the opportunity for
which they have waited too long already,
and to the people of the southern penin-
sula it comes with an opportunity which,
in some cases. is not being neglected. I
have said in some cases, for the fact is
that most of us are living far below our
privileges in this respect as in most
others.

Most of the Grangcs of Lake county are
doing pretty well, and some of them very
well indeed. I am telling the readers of
The Farmer about them in the hope of
encouraging some of the patrons in other
localities by the story of what the Grange
means to people who are living under the
limitations of life in a. new country like
Lake county. Luther Grange meets in the
village from which it derives its name,
and numbers among its members a good-
ly number of young people who are com-
petent to help in the programs and thus
give and receive much good. The pres-
ence of these young people gives an op-
portunity to use the Grange life insur-
ancc which should be improved.

Elsworth Grange has a small member-
ship, Among them are some old settlers
who can tell you many a good story of
“the long ago.” They meet in a school-
house, but are considering the building
of a hall. Bristol Grange meets at the
little town of lristol, and also has a
small membership. The pastor of the
Baptist church is the worthy master, and
is a great favorite among the younger
people especially. In this Grange is an
opportunity for excellent lecture work,
and here are just the people to form and
drill a degree team. The soil in this
part of Lake county is as good as the
best, and the farmers here are prospering
and contented.

Harmony Grange is the largest in the
county, having over 100 members and be-
ing located in one of the best farming
sections in Michigan. This may surprise
some who have been w0nt to look upon
Lake county as “a part of the great Am-
erican desert.” but in support of the
statement I only wish to say that on soil
in this locality five good crops of wheat
have been grown in succession. Harmony
Grange is here to stay. The membership
is large from “The Hoosier State,” and
one can but wonder, when he sees how
naturally these people take to the order
when they got to Michigan, why there
are so few Granges in Indiana. The fact
is that every farmer needs the Grange,
and most of them will unite with it when
the matter is brought to their notice in
a convincing manner.

Wisconsin has only a few Granges, but
it is not'because the people there will not
join the Grange. It is simply that they
have never been urged to do so. The

people in northern Wisconsin, who live
near the Michigan line, join Grange: in
our state as willingly as do our own cit-
izens, and if men like those who organ-

    

  
  

ized Michigan could be put into Wiscon-
sin and Indiana, the results would sur-
prise some of the older patrons who have.
gotten into a rut and find it hard to climb
out. .

Sable Grange has been lately organized,
but seems destined to become one of the
best in Lake county. Most of the mem-
bers are beginners in agriculture, clearing
farms from land upon which a stump ma-
chine is almost as necessary as a. plow.
When one considers the mass of roots
joined to one pine stump, and then pro—
ceeds to count the stumps on a single
acre, the clearing of a stump farm seems
well nigh a hopeless task. The farmer,
however, seldom counts the days spent
in clearing up his farm, and in building
his home. with intent to charge them up
against the business. He puts in his
spare time. now and then a day, and oc-
casionally a week at a time, and the
neighbors note the change. When the
stumps are out they make a substantial
if not a very sightly, fence. Vt'hen one
tires of a stump fence and feels like in-
vesting in something better, he can buy
woven wire and convert the stumps into
wood. This last item is well worth con-
sidering in a country where every tree
large enough to yield a board has been
converted into cash.

It would require long and hard search
to find a more zealous lot of patrons any—
where than the members of Elk Grange,
located in the northern part of the coun—
ty. They keep up the lccturer's hour,
they patronize 'trade contracts, they in—
sure their buildings and will soon insure
their lives. \thn they meet a new set-
tler they ask him to join their Grange,
and if he refuses they keep on asking
him until he joins. Brother Griifis has
been worthy master of this Grange for a.
long time. Elk Grange will soon build
a hall.

Lake County Pomona recently arranged
for a corn contest for the boys, and a
contest in needlework for the girls. The
girls, however, will be permitted to grow
corn under the same rules as the boys if
they wish to do so. In these and in many
other ways of which there is not space [0
tell, the Grange is opening the door of
opportunity to all who live in the country.

Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR.

Nunica Grange, No. 1329,
organized about five years ago, is still
growing, though in a steadier way. Its

influence for good has been recognized
and those who failed to join in its earlier
stage, doubtful of its stability after the-
first great wave of enthusiasm had pass-
cd, have watched its steady growth and
are now ready to give the helping hand.
The meeting of May 18 was another red-
letter day for the Grange. Deputy State
Master W. F. Taylor, of Oceano county,
was present and gave a bright, inspiring
talk to a very large number of patrons.
In his topic, “\Vhat the Grange is for,”
he expressed such thoughts as these:
That the. primary object of the Grange is
progress in agriculture and education;
that the farmer should be a better farmer
through being a Granger; that he should
be able to secure better results through
his more. efficient labor. The farmer
should bring his problems, which he may
have solved for himself, and give them
for the benefit of his neighbors, and vice
versa. Again, in the lecture hour which
should be bright with inspiring songs and
recitations, the discussions should inspire
the difiident with confidence in them-
selves and faith in their subjects to ap-
peal, and the result must lie of a bright-
er, better and more intelligent home and
the recognition of the worth and nobility
of the farmer’s occupation. Think you
that a lecturer could fail to get new life
from such food for thought? Besides his
talk he gave some of the unwritten WOI‘K
to candidates who were being obligated.
Other features of the program were a
song by the Grange; recitation, “Sweep-
ing Cobwebs from the Mind,” by Bro.
Andrew Peterson; recitation. “Rock me
to Sleep, Mother,” by Sister Ella Gordon;
song by Bro. Andrew Peterson; song by
Sister Ethel Gordon: recitation by Miss
\Vildcy and a paper on “Our Lawns," by
Sister Augusta. Easterly. Under the good
of the order, the worthy master, V. A.
Martin, again agitated the question of
hall building and secured many offers of
325 loans and there is now little question
but that sometime in the near future
there will be a hull sufficiently adequate
for our order. The ladies also had a
beautiful quilt ready to sell by tickets, the
proceeds of which will go towards the.
hall. An attendance contest is now being
started and also a singing school of the
old kind. by means of which interest is to
be kept stimulated. After the program
refreshments were served and all enjoyed
a short period of sociability. The next
meeting will be in charge of Sister Edna
Edwards, This is to be a mother’s day
program and all the mothers are to join
in 'the entertaining—Minnie Viebrock,
Lecturer.

which was

COMING EVENTS.

Pomona Meetings.

Wayne 00., with Huron Grange, Fri-
day, June 21. Miss Jennie Buell will
speak.

Ingham Co., with West Hadley Grange
of Livingston 00., Friday, June 21.

Newaygo 00., with Sitka Grange, Wed-
nesday and Thursday, June 26-27.

and we believe

THE 'MlCHi-GAN_ FARMER.

 

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Address all communications relative to
the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.
P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.

 

Ass0clational Motto.—

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,
is the farmer's most valuable asset.
Associational Sentiment.—

The farmer, he garners from the soil
the primal Wealth of nations.

 

 

SOME ADVANTAGES IN BELONGING

TO A FARMERS’ CLUB.

In a recent issue, under this heading,
we mentioned some of the purely material
advantages of a membership in a local
Farmers' Club, where that opportunity
offers itself to the reader. In that arti-
cle we sought to show that it would pay
any farmer in dollars and cents to belong
to :3. Farmers’ Club, to say nothing of the
other benefits which would accrue to him,
that practically every
reader who is a member of such an or—
ganization will concur in that assertion.
But. as was intimated in the article above
referred to, there are other and greater
advantages than those which are purely
of a material or monetary nature, and in
a brief manner We shall undertake to
enumerate a few of them here for the
benefit of the chance. reader who does not
blong to a Farmers' Club.

First among these advantages we may
possibly place the opportunity which the
Club offcrs for pleasant social intercourse
with our friends and neighbors, whom we
would not see very often if some common
interest did not call us together at stat-
ed intervals. This has a broadening in-
fluence on the mind and counteracts the
untoward effects of isolation, which we
are apt to suffcr without being conscious
of the fucl. Also, it is perhaps an even
greater benefit to the housewife, who
suffers even more from the effects of iso-
lation, and it will be a. welcome diversion
for the, young people who must be given
a degree of social advantages, than Wlll(‘ll
none could be more wholesome than those
to be derived from the Farmers“ Club.
Then, from the standpoint of recreation,
generally sadly needed by every member
of the farm family, particularly in the
busy season, a membership in the Farm-
ers’ Club will prove profitable. In no
other way could a pleasant day or after-
noon be more thm'oughly or cheaply en-
joyed by every mcmbcr of the farm fam-
ily. The pleasant drive to the place of
meeting, the diversions of the social hour
and the program and the more substan-
tial enjoyment of the ample meal partak-
en in common with friends and acquaint—
anccs are all well worth the while and
may be countcd as substantial advantages
accruing to all who are affiliated with
Farmcrs' Club.

But perhaps the greatest of all the ad-
vantages which might be enumerated in
this connection is the training in thought

El

and speech which the Club member will
unconsciously derive. 'l‘he :chrzlgo man
has not the happy faculty of thinking

quickly and reaching accurate conclu-
sions, or expressing the ideas which may
come to him fluently or in a manner
which is a. source of personal satisfaction
to him. 'l‘hcrc is no better place in which
to gct needed experience along this line
than in the monthly meetings of a Farm—
rs’ Club, and this alone will prove an
advantage to any mun which will corn-
pensato him manyfold for the time re-
quired to attend the meetings.

These advantages might be enumerated
at greatcr length, but enough has
offered to prove to any thinking
that it would be a profitable move for
him to join 3. Farmers" Club if one al—
ready exists in his ncighborhood, or to
take the initiative in the organization of
such a Club in case there should be none
available within easy reach. Practically
every Farmers” Club in the state of
Michigan today is the result of just such
an effort, and the permanence and pros-
perity of these organizations is sufficient
proof that a membership in them is con—
sidered advantageous by some thousands
of progressive Michigan farmers.

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

be 031
reader

Observe Memorial
Farmers’ Club held their monthly meeting
May 29 in the Lake schoolhouse. The
busy season and frequent showers had a
marked effect on the attendance—but
seemed to increase the interest of the
plucky men, women and children who
filled the house. President Clark called
to order and the Club, led by Miss Lydia
Brown, sang “America.” F. W. Munson

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offered prayer; secretary’s report was‘
read and-approved. President Clark made
some brief remarks. Thinks Marion the
only Club which regularly observes Me-
morial Day. The custom is a most de-
sirable one and ought to be continued in
all future time. Whoever started the
custom did a good thing. Following a
recitation by Miss Catherine Lange, F.
W. Munson reviewed causes leading up to
the Civil war—the fierce struggle betWeen
men of brains and grit—which either
cripple-d or placed under the sod thou-
sands of the nation’s worthy sons. The
Misses Esther Witty and Marguerite
Wright gave a concert recitation, “Mean-
ing of the Colors,” using flags and colors
in a very pleasing manner. H. E. Reed
read Lincoln‘s Memorial address at Get-
tysburg. Miss Norton spoke of the neo-
essity of teaching the children to appre-
ciate the blessings of this country and a.
proper observance of Memorial Day.
Mrs. Hall read a poem entitled, “His Last
Call.” A bouquet was given to Mrs. Hall,
widow of a soldier, and John Lowe, Mark
Smock, Civil war men and John Martin
of Spanish—American service. In the‘-
marching line to Lakeside cemetery the
boys carried flags and the girls flowers,
which were placed on the graves of 15
soldiers, including two Revolutionary her-
oes and one bugle boy who served in the
war of 1812. Flowers were also placed on
graves of veteran workers in the once
well known Lake Sunday school.

The Telephone Girl.—The Conway and
Handy Farmcrs’ Club met at the home of
Mr. and Mrs, \Vells Fuller, May 31. The
day was fine for work in the much belat-
ed corn fields and many men felt it a.
duty to remain at home; nevertheless a
good crowd was present and as usual, a
pleasant, meeting. President \V. M. Hort-
on called for order at 2:30. The first on
the program was singing by the Club and
prayer by Rev. \V. G. Stephens. Subject.
"Experience of a telephone girl, its good
and bad features, the remedies." Mrs. F.
Rathbun said a telephone operator comes
in contact with all classes of people, has
a chance to know more about the people
than most any other person. They have

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a great many responsibilities. thcy are
held up for their own mistakes and the
mistakes of others. Some people are

very abusive and ill—tempered to the tele-
phone girl, they believe the line is not
busy when fold it is. Many people mis—
use the telephone system and abuse the
operator by listening, causing poor scr-
vice and the blame is laid to the operator.
Telephone girls are saluted in various
ways. by cuss words and silly trash, and.
by men that are considered gentlemen.
’l‘hcy are called down oftentimes by wom-
cn who pride themselves on being called
ladies. Subscribers make mistakes in not
calling at the telephone office and learn
for themselves the many things connect—
ed with the workings of a telephone office.
The trials and tribulations of a telephone
girl. there are three things an operator
needs to remember, to control temper,
tongue and conduct. A great deal of
the success of a good telephone system
depends upon having a good manager.
One girl at the noon hour or supper time
is not sufficient help; they cannot do the
work satisfactorily. A telephone girl is
at all times a busy person: calls from
rural lines, stat) lines, collections, and
still she is expected to give each and ev—
ery one good service and at all times.
Blame the telephone girl and the world
blames with you. praise her and y0u
praise alone. Discussion was led by A.
l]. Colc. Much depends upon the operat—
or; first, they must be conscientious and
honest; trying to do their work well. The
public have less patience than they
should have. People, ordinarily gcntle-
men and ladies, will say things to her
(vcr the telephone they would not say in
her presence. From the aristocrat, who
thinks he owns the world, to the man
who has not money to pay for a tele—
phone. Girls have been criticized for
making collections, the people that do not
own a phone and will not pay a cent to
talk over one being the grumblers gener-
ally. Peculiztr measures are ,taken by
many to get around paying the ten cents.

J. B. Fuller said. the telephone girls have
my sympathy; they :lrc ladies in every
sense; as a rule they are not to blame

for a line being busy: you cannot blame

them for being saucy when the public
demands, instead of being courteous and
reasonable. F, Grant said, pay the girls

it good salary and then give them a per-

centage on all of the money collected
from the doadheads: let them collect it
and have it; people who will not pay the

necessary fee of ten cents the owners of
a telephone should be fined, as the law
requires when they refuse to charge.
Several others joined in the discussion
of this highly interesting topic.

School Books were Di5cu35ed.~”.\re free
and uniform text books desirable?" A.
H. Cole said, I am in quor of free and
uniform text books; i know of no rcasou
why I am not; years ago the student had
to pay a rate bill for his schooling, money
to go towards the teacher's salary; in
time it was done away with. Who would
return to the method? Some men were
opposed to the change. some were op—
posed to the system: they did not be—
lieve in supporting a school for young
ones to attend. \Ve met with opposition
in grading the Schools; we were opposed
when the new tuition law came into
effect not long ago. but. all these have
worked well and the book question is a
burden to many a large family. It would
advance the cause of education. Mrs. II.
\Vilkinson led the discussion. I agree
with Mr, Cole. I think we should have
them; teachers would have a better
chance. Pupils do not always have books
on time, have them there ready; would
be. better for teacher and also the pupils.
Mrs. C. Gordon said, I am in favor of
them by all means: have taught where
they were furnished; in" fact everything
used in the schoolroom, and it was very
satisfactory. Have taught where there
were four different kinds of readers, etc.
Some children have no books, the teach-
ers get along the best they can.

 

 

 


 

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We Make All Kinds of Rubber Tires, Tire Accessories and Repair Outfits

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The Best Silo for the Progressive F armer,
Stock Feeder or Dairyman.

   
    
  

      
 
   

  
       
    
   
      

 

   

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after it’s erected. Hundreds of owners Would not. think of having

any other kind. Its use is an economy from every Viewpoint.

How about, your silo? Don’t. tail to write for free catalog.
Thirty Fur/(mime throughout the l'nited States.

NATIONAL FIRE PROOFING COMPANY

Agricultural Department A,
Huntington, Indiana.

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Less than 2‘/2c per day

for a few years will not only buy an 8' Goodhue Windmill
and 30’ Tower. but will pay for all your pumping as well.
You cannot begin to pump the water for your home,
stock and mtlkhouse for that sum in any other way. The
time you lose starting and stopping an engine will amount
to more than that. You simply cannot afiord to use any
other power for pumping. The average life of the Goodhue
Windmill is 15 to 20 years. making it: the cheapest pumping
power known. If you wish.we will insure our Windmills
and towers for five years against: damage from any cause
except willful neglect. or misuse. for 500 per year.
Goodhue Windmills are strong. durable and

sale. are self-oiling, close governing and will get
GOODHUE the most power out of any wind. Writeuato-
day for our catalogue and the details of our
really remark able proposition. Delays are

WIN D M I L L S expensive. Do not delay, .
APPLE‘I'ON MFQCO" 320 Fargo St., Bnhvia. Ill

  

  

  

 

   
      
   
   
   
 
      
 
 
      
    
  

 

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Sold on merit backed by 38 years' success.
Proved strongest. most durable, smootlielt

‘ running. Cutl green or dry feed and cle-
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anytime. Perfected construction through-

- ‘ out. Mounted or unmounted. Ask

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Austin Manufacturing 60., Chicago

MOST durable fence -'
made. Heaviest wires.
Double galvanized. Stoc

strong. Chicken tight.

13 to 35¢ per rod. :3 ' ~
Sample tree. We pay freight. '. 1
The Brown Fence & Wire Co. ’v

Dept. 49 Cleveland. 0. ~

GEDAR FENCE POSTS.

GEORGE M. CHANDLER, Unaway, Michigan.

 

    
  
 
 
   
 

 

 

 

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