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The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.





 





 





VOL. CXXXVIII. No. 26. E





Whole Number 3606.

TREMENDOUS amount of con—

A crete is yearly being placed in



contact with the ground or sub-

jected to any chemical reaction which

may take place due to ground water.

With the indication of permanency which

such work gives there is little reason to

believe that cementl drain tile properly

made and cured will not last for an in—

definite period ot‘ time. I am assured by

men acquainted with the Composition of

soil and ground water that for the most

part water found in Michigan soil con-

tains very little matter which will react

chemically upon cement, or which is

found in such small quantities as to be

harmless.



In some sections of the country where

the ground water contains it great deal

of mineral matter, for example, as the

alkali regions of the west, there may be

some question as to the permanency of

cement and concrete. Swamp or peat

land in our own state may also contain

acids from the organic or decaying veg-

etable matter in amounts sufficient: 'to

cause a deletory effect upon cement, al-

though we would expect it to be slight.

Upon other kinds of soils, however, little

apprehension need to be felt from these

sources.



Other causes of disintegration besides

the ones above may be named as frost

and faults in the tile themselves. To

note the effect of the former a number of

four-inch tile were frozen solid in a tank

of water and a similar number buried to

a‘depth of six inches in a. wet exposed

place during the previous winter. Of the

‘ten frozen solid in the tank two were un'

injured and the remainder were cracked

or broken, as might be expected; but of

the ten subject to the action of frost

in the ground not one showed any signs

of cracking or disintegration. The tile

were. taken at random from a pile made

for actual use. Of some 500 piled upon a

cinder bed out of doors none were brok-

en -from the action of frost.



The trouble from cement tile is more

likely to come from faults in manufac—

ture. If poor materials are used, such

as dirty sand or poor cement, or worse.

perhaps, if these are insufficiently mixed

or neglected in curing, it is not to be

expected that a. tile will be obtained

which will withstand all conditions.



Sand for cement tile should be clean,

which means that it should be free from

clay in amounts of more than five per

cent and organic matter. Cement should

be of reasonably good quality and not

too old. Some indication of freshness

may be shown in its fluffy velvety feel—

ing as well as the absence of hard

lumps. The cement and sand should be

mixed in a proportion of one to four of

cement and sand or with good clean

sand, properly graded in size of gfiains—

a. proportion of one to five may be used.

By properly graded sand is meant that

varying in size of grains from fine to

that which will just pass through a half-

inch screen. A preponderance of coarse

material is desirable. The sand and

gravel should be thoroughly dry mixed

and water added, and the material mix—

ed until it appears uniform—say, shov-

eled over two or three times. The tile

should be made as wet as the molds will

stand. Keeping in mind that cement re—

quires water to complete the physical

and chemical change which takes place

in setting, and that this process contin-

ues indefinitely, it is obvious that some

means of supplying that water by keel)-

ing’lthe tile wet or damp must be pro-

vided. The setting process continues

most rapidly for the first month and the

tile‘sliould not be used for that length of

unis: Ten [days is the time usually rec-

omlinend‘ed for keeping cement work wet

and may be' taken as a. good time for

tile.



In places where sand is difficult to ob-





DETROIT, MICH” SATURDAY, JUNE 29. I912.





The Permanence and Cost of Cement Drain Tile.





CEMNT mar .

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A Well Preserved Cement Tile, for Many Years Exposed to the Acids of Sewage.





lain and where clay tile is extensively

manufactured the home manufacture of

cement tile may not be advisable,.but in

sections where clay tile are not easily

obtained and where sand is convenient,

their cost will usually be found less. than

for the clay product.



The cost of cement tile of course var-

ies in different localities, depending

largely upon the cheapness and acces—

sibility of the sand, the cost of labor, the

kind of equipment used, and the skill





showu in the arrangement and handling

of the manufacturing plant.



The following figures are based on some

rather short tests made by the Farm

Mechanics Department; of the~Michigan

Agricultural College. These tile were

made on a machine adaptable to bOlh

hand and power operating, the mixing

being done by hand. Two men were re—

quired to operate the machine to the

best advantage. On this machine from

400 to 500 tile could be made per day of





 





 





 





 





 





Lepidium campestre, (Field Pepper Gran). See “The Increasing Weed Pest."





 





81.00 A YEAR.

82.75 5 YEARS.





ten hours, by hand power, and from 500

to 750 per day, using small gasoline en-

gine for power. Not more than one-half

to one horse power was required to run

the machine. In any case it would be

of decided advantage to use power, and

if a large number are to be made a mix-

er could be devxsed which could be op-

erated by power and thereby materially

reduce the work connected with their

manufacture. Making at the rate given

above the cement and sand has to be

mixed in comparatively small batches

since no more shOuld be mixed than can

be used in a half hour.



All the figures given are for a four-inch

tile having a niiie-sixt‘centh-inch wall. No

data was obtained on other sizes. The

cost of the size given should give a fair

notion of the cost of the other common

sizes and furnish a basis of comparison

with other kinds of tile. The propor—

tions used were one to four of cement

and sand, scieencd through a three-

eighth—inch screen.



Cost of Material and Labor per Thou-

sand by Handl Power.

4.3 bbl. cement at $1.50..............$6.45





2.43 yds. sand at $1.25 ................ 3.04

4.44 days labor at $1.50 ............. 6.60





Total ............................. $16.09

Cost of Material and Labor per Thou-

sand by Engine Powen.



4.2 bbl. cement at $1.50.”...........$6.30

2.34 yds. sand at $1.25 ............... 2.93

3.3 days labor at $1.50 ............... 5.00

1 gal gasoline at 150 .15





Total ............................. $14.38



The rate of making in the above fig-

ures is computed at 450 per day by hand

power and at 600 per day using an en-

gine f0r power. It will be seen that the

cost of making by engine power will run

from one dollar and a half to two dol—

lars less per thousand than by hand. It

will also be noted that the items of ce-

ment and sand might each be. much low—

er in some localities. In figures given

by Hanson in “Cement Pipe and Tile,”

the cost of four-inch, proportioned one

to' four. is estimated at from $12 to $15

per thousand. In most cases, however.

machines having a much larger capacity

than the one for which figures are given

above were used.



Mich. Ag. Col.





FARM NEE—





H. H. MUSSELMAN.





The Increasing Weedi Pest.



If weeds are a blessing in disguise,

then the farmers of Michigan should

consider themselves doubly blest in View

of the increase of noxious weeds in our

state. Each year the list; of weeds is

enlarged. largely through the purchase

of impure clover and grass seeds, but to

no small extent through the carelessness

of the average farmer regarding them.



The accompanying illustration is made

from a weed recently sent for identifi-

cation by a Shiawassee county farmer.

The specimen was submitted to Dr. Bes-

sey, of M. A. 0.. who identified it as

Lepidium campcstre, (Field Peppergrass),

a native of Europe that is becoming es—

tablished in this state, as is already the

case in parts of the east. As this weed

is new to many sections of the state at

least, hence this specimen, which is ap-

parently an unusually healthy one, has

been photographed for illustration. Other

specimens have not the strong healthy

branching characteristic of this plant.

the plant‘ varying from a single stalk to

many branched specimens, like the one

illustrated.



One characteristic of this plant is that

the seeds usually germinate the latter

part of the summer so that the plant is

a fair size, often at the point of flower-

ing, when winter comes on. It then lies

dormant without being killed until

spring, when it resumes its growth. On

the other hand, many of the seeds do

not germinate until spring they being

later in coming into flower.
686 (2)





Like many of our most troublesome

weed pests, the seeds of this plant com-

mence to ripen and fall before the ob-

server is aware of the fact, and the fields

containing a few specimens may thus

become liberally seeded, requiring clean,

cultural methods, involving a. consider-

able outlay of labor, in their eradication.

Digging or thorough cultivation to pre-

vent the plants growing is recommended

where this weed is found, and this is

but one of the many weeds which should

not be allowed to gain a foothold upon

our farms.



There should be a more general awak-

ening among Michigan farmers with re-

gard to the encroachment of weed pests

upon their lands. It is much easier to

keep the fields free of’new species of

noxious weeds than to eradicate them

once they have been introduced.





 





FARM NOTES.





 





Seeding Alfalfa in Beans.



Flow would it do to sow alfalfa right in

with beans about the first of August, the

beans plantcd in May and ground well

manured? Beans will be pulled by hand.



Antrim Co. G. T. G.



This plan of seeding alfalfa in beans

may be successful under exceptionally

favorable conditions just as the seeding

of alfalfa or clover in corn may be suc-

cessful in an occasional year. -But it

would not be a safe dependence since the

success of the plan would depend very

largely upon moisture conditions at the

time and after the send was sown. Any

crop when ripening, draws heavily on the

soil moisture and it would be useless to

sow alfalfa or other small seeds so late

in the season unless conditions were fav-

orable for quick germination and rapid

growth of the young plant. Even if no

check occurred in their growth they would

not get any too good a start before win-

tcr and 1*he necessary traveling over the

ficld in harvesting and drawing the bean

crop would be an additional handicap to

the young seeding. It would, in the writ-

cr’s opirion, be a better way to seed the

alfalfa with a spring grain crop of cats

or barley, or sow with a nurse crop in

spring or midsummer, although a trial of

ills method would add something to the

sum of our knowledge- regarding the

growing of alfalfa in Michigan.

Lime-Sulphur Solution not Suitable as a



Fungicide for Potatoes.



Since the comparatively recent intro-

duction of the use of lime-sulphur spray

as a substitute for Bordeaux mixture in

orchards, many farmers have inquired

about the practicability of substituting

lime-sulphur for Bordeaux mixture in the

spraying of potatoes as a preventive of

blight. l'p to this time there has been

no authentic experimental data upon

which an intelligent reply to the question

tnulrl be haswl. Fortunately, however, a

careful test of lime-sulphur solution for

l'llS purposo was made at the Geneva

ltlxpcriment Station last year, which test

proved the lime—sulphur solution to be

harmful rather than beneficial to potatoes.



The plants in rows sprayed with the

lime-sulphur were dwarfed by the flingi-

cidc, died early and yicldcd about 40

bushels less per acrc than those planted

in check rows which were not sprayed,

while roWs sprayed with Bordcnux mix-

ture produced 100 bushels per acre more

than the unsprayed plots. in this (Ax-

poriment the first row of each of live ser-

ies was left as a check, the sccond row

received Bordeaux mixture (6:6:50), the

1hird row lime-sulphur solution (1:40) and

the fourth lead benzoatc. (1 1b. to 50

gals.) Each treatment was repeated six

times as the season was a long one, and

all rows were kept free from beetles by

two applications of arsenate of lead. The

dwarfing effect of the lime-sulphur was

plainly evident by the middle of Septem-

lwr and became vory noticeable in Oc-

tober. The plants were smaller than

those in the chi-ck rows, not only on ac-

count of tho lack of foliage, but in height

and diameter of stems. The plants

sprayed with load bcnzoate were not

dwarfed, but their conditions was no bet-

ter than that of the checks. No apparent

burning of foliage appeared on any of

the rows.



There was little in the way of fungous

diseases to combat on the potatoes on

which the experiment was conducted, as

there was no late blight and only a very

little early blight, but tip-burn seriously

affected the plants of all rows except

those sprayed with Bordeaux, and even

these were injured to some extent. The

Bordeaux sprayed rows were still partly

green when frost first came. October 27,

while most of the plants in the other rows

had been dead a week or more at the

time. "



This was a remarkable test of the effi-

ciency of spraying with Bordeaux mixture





THE MICHIGAN FARMBR. »

covered, but the question of re-fomta-

.‘tion is foreign to this discussion.



There are many thousands of acres of

stump lands in Michigan nearly 'or quite

as good as the best that await the com—

Jug; of the industrious man in search of





in increasing the yields 'when fungous

diseases were. not especially prevalent,

the long season giving the Bordeaux the

best possible opportunity to exert its

stimulating influence; In like manner the

unusual number of applications may have

intensified the injury from the use of

lime-sulphur spray. However, the ex-

periment would seem to show conclusively

that lime-sulphur is not a. satisfactory

substitute for Bordeaux mixture in the

spraying of potatoes for the prevention of

blight, and also affords most conclusive

proof that it is profitable to spray with

Bordeaux, even in a season when there

is n0“ blight, to say nothing of the insur-

ance value of such treatment in seasons

when blight is prevalent and 'when the

crop may be saved by such treatment.

Sand Vetch for Michigan.



Several inquiries have been recently

received asking for information about

sand vetch; whether it is a good pasture

cmp for different kinds of stock; whether

it will make good bay for all kinds of

stock and whether it is the equal of clo-

ver as a soil improver. The- space re-

quired to answer all these queries in de-

tail can be largely saved without de-

tracting from the value of the informa-

tion given by summing up the facts re-

garding this crop in a few words.



First, it is an annual, much like our

fall sown grains in its habit of growth.

Sown with rye in August it comes on

and affords some good pasture in the

fall, and makes a vigorous growth in the

spring which may be again pastured, cut

f0r hay or harvested after ripening and

threshed as may be desired, or it may

be plowed down as a crop for green ma-

nure, which is undoubtedly its best use

in Michigan. As a pasture crop it has

the disadvantage of furnishing only late

fall and early spring pasture; as a hay

crop it is mOre expensive to grow and

probably would serve a less satisfactory

purpose than our common grasses and

forage crops; but as a legume to be used

for soil enrichment on poor lands it

seems well worth a careful trial, and per-

haps it would be profitable to experi-

ment with it for other purposes. But as

a main dependence for hay or forage it

is better to rely on the more common

and better known crops, with the culture

of which We are all familiar.



MlCHlGAN’S CUT-OVER LANDS.



These lands are located here and there

in practically every county in northern

Michigan, including the upper peninsula.



They differ widely in agricultural val-

ue, large areas being of no practical

worth f0r farming purposes; others are

fairly good and if rightly handled will

yield remunerative crops, while among

these cut-over lands may be found some

of the best soil in all our great state.

Nor is good soil confined to any one

county or district, but may be found in

every county where any considerable

amount of stump land remains.



The selection of a site for a future farm

should not be made without some knowl-

edge of different soils, either on the part

of the prospective buyer or some trust.-

worthy person upon whose advice he

may depend.



Development bureaus have done much

to advertise the cut-over lands of Mich-

igan. They have accomplished great

good, but unscrupulous men in the real

estate business have taken advantage of

conditions created by these bureaus and

grievously wronged many an unsuspect-

ing purchaser.



When the young man desiring to spend

his life upon a farm is lured from an—

other state, with little knowledge of

farming and less of the locality in which

he decides to settle, and located by the

wily agent upon a. poor sandy forty, or

if he haVe considerable money, is induced

to part with it for a much larger area

that is no better in quality, he becomes

an object of sympathy. But when the

man past middle life, with a family de-

pendent upon him for support, is per-

suaded to leave a good job in the city

and invest the scanty earnings of years

of toll in land like this, only to starve

out after a little time and retreat to the

city, older and wiser but pennile-ss, I

know of no printable language that will

fully interpret the character of the-real

estate agent who perpetrated the fraud

upon him. It should be understood at

the outset that according to the best

of our knowledge at present there are

considerable areas of cut-over land that

the good Lord did not create for agri-

cultural purposes. Just what they ,were

created for is an unsolved mystery.



Personally, I believe they should be re-

forested, providing a practical method,

for accomplishing this work. can be dis-





 





 





‘a home.





It is ~to be regretted that in

many cases. these lands have passed into

the hands of real estate companies, who

have put prices on them that make it

hard for the prospective settler to get a

foot-hold. But there are still plenty of

places, where good lands can be bought

at a reasonable rate. The cost of clear-

ing will run all the way from $5 to $25

per acre, according to conditions. It often

happens that the first crop of potatoes

will furnish the money to pay for the

clearing and the original cost of the land

as well. There is a. strong and increas-

ing sentiment urging people back to the





land. This is well but along with it must.





go agricultural instruction that will en-

able these home makers to care for the

soil.



The men and women pioneering upon

the cut-over lands of Michigan are per-

forming a public service for they are en-

riching the state and enlarging the ag-

gregate of its taxable property. While

the means of moral and intellectual

growth that are sure to follow in these

newly organized communities tend to in-

crease the influence for good in our com-

monwealth, but if these advantages con-

tinue the right methods of agriculture

must obtain to the end that the produc-

tive power of the soil shall be conserved.

I have traveled over thousands of acres

of these lands and have often wished

that I might tell the story of the advan-

tages they offer in a way that our young

men might hear and understand. As our

systems become more and more complex

we are multiplying hired men at a very

rapid rate.



The hired man is essentially a depend-

ent man. In the ideal citizen we find the

largest measure of independence consist-

ent with the spirit of co-operation. The

farmer who tills his own farm is an in-

dependent man, true, workjng by him-

self without a Sufficient sense of public

obligation, he may be too independent,

but the farmer who owns a. farm large

enough to support his family Well and 'to

educate his children, if he unite with his

neighbors in the building of a good rural

neighborhood, is a. most desirable citizen,

and last, but not least, his living is se-

cure. The time will come within the

lives of most of those who read this,

when the young man who has a clear

'title to even 40 acres of good land in

Michigan will be considered fortunate.





There can be no great general decline

in the prices of agricultural products.

The world must be fed from the soil and

as our industries diversify, and as our

population increases, the ratio of farm-

ers to people in other callings grows 'wid-

er and wider, consumers increase and the

cost of living gets higher. The good cut-

over lands of Michigan furnish an op-





portunity which the man without a home





cannot afford to ignore.

Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR.





SEEDING TO CLOVER AFTER OATS

AND PEAS.





 





I have a plot sown to cats and peas.

After cutting this I intend to sow the

field to clover. Which is the best way

to obtain a good result. The soil is a

sandy loam.



Calhoun CO. E. P. D.



My plan would be to prepare this

ground just as soon as the oats and peas

are harvested, and probably it you get

right at it as soon as the oats and peas

are removed you can disk the ground up

and by repeated disking make a good

seed bed. The stubble would not bother

very much. 0n the whole it perhaps

would be better to plow and roll it and

then harrow it a good many times to get

a firm, fine seed bed. As soon, then, as

the fall rains come or any time when the

moisture condition will warrant, sow the

clover. You can sow the clover seed with

a wheelbarrow or seeder, or you can use

a grain drill with a. seeder attachment,

and I would set the tubes for the dis-

tribution of the clover seed so that the

seed would fall in front of the drill to

prevent its being covered too deeply.

Under ordinary conditions of moisture I

Would roll the ground after seeding. If

the ground is not in first-class condition

with regard to fertility I would advise

top-dressing with good well rotted ma.-

nure and work into the soil. If you have

no stable manure then a good liberal ap-

plication of commercial fertilizer w0uld

assist very much in getting a good

growth of clover.



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"08" You know what it would

cred tinware twice I day the

inside the bowl can't possibly be “easy clean.

“blades“, “cores" or something else—they are

crud cry for the women on the farm. There

that reall can be cleaned easily and “egg:

protected bag]. 8. patents which prevent my

"I! alumina bd “in!!! (Indie hot

and cleanod wall. Out-oldupanwrwuadink





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mean to wash a dish in!

1".“ of sticky, greasy, mil ocov-

year around. You know that

cream separators which have “cmtmptions”

ing". You know that-no matter whethera

manufacturer calls these “discs", “wings",

the some trouble smoking. work-product

contrivances and that they mean dirt I

is o y one cream separator made without con-

tnptions inside the bowl—only one machine

It‘s the s PLES TUBULAR SE? '1‘

and the smooth. easy-cleaning Tubular bowl is

other mum furor from using it. w

Mu. Chester D. Long. Lockwood, Mich. , writes:

Wham in good butter making). an

Tubular mud: flrlt. I“: ”unmanned,

and I van vcy glad to mks the

m to tho any-eludes New."





Call on our nearest agent and he will tell

you that the oldest and largest separator fac-

tory in the world offers to let you try a Tubu-

lar at their risk on your own farm. Tell

him how many cows you keep. He will

bring the machine to your piece. set.

it up and show you how to opeerate it, without

obligation on your part, and t you decide for

yourself which is the simpkst, mica cleaned

and closest skimming of all cream separators.

If you don't ha pen to know the name of our

nearest agent, ust drop us a. postcard toda





and also ask for free Oats. 501. TH

SHABPLES BEPABATOR 00 PANY. West

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FOUNDATION FOR SILO.





 





I want to know how to build my silo

wall. In order to get doWn on a level

with my stable floor I will have to build

on a ten-foot foundation. On that I will

put 12x24—ft. stave silo. My Wall will be

built of stone as I have plenty of them.

Tell me how thick to build it. Will it

haVe to be reinforced? I am advised that

an 18-inch wall is strong enough and

that I should put my silo on the center

of the inside 12 inches of the wall and

plaster ‘the silo from the shelf up, mak-

ing it smooth, which will make the

stone part smaller on the inside than

the stave part, and also that I want a

door frame set in the wall from the top

down, and that an iron rod running

from the door frame back in the. wall a

couple of feet will hold it. Do you think

so? I thought. one door in the wall in

the center would make- it stronger and

would be enough. The wall will not be

in the bank only about half way around.

How thick should I have the cement on

the bottom?



Chcboygan C0. W. S.



These are exactly the same conditions

which I had when I built my first silo.

We had made an embankment so close to

the barn, that when I built the silo I put

it in a part of this embankment so that

on all ‘but one side We had a bank of

earth, but on the west there was no such

support. I simply excavated a place

large enough for the silo;‘then we built

a circular stone wall by digging a trench

below the basement floor as a foundation

for this wall. The wall needed no rein-

forcement or support where it went

against the bank of earth, this being a

splendid support, an dwe did not have

to take very much pains in shaping the

wall on the outside, but simply on the

inside. On the side where there was no

bank we made the wall a little heavier,

18 inches at the bottom and gradually

drew it in until it was about 12 inches

thick at the top. Since the-n I have re-v

moved the dirt from another portion of

the silo, leaving no Support to the stone

wall which we built against the bank.

I was afraid that it' would not be strong

enough to stand the pressure and so I

put all iron hoop around the top of the

wall, but for yeagis this wall stood with

a 28-foot silo above it and resisted all

preSsure. Perfinpksfi it would stand but I

did not want to risk it. I think it would

be a good plan for Mr. S. to reinforce

this stone wall. He can do so by using

any old scrap iron that he has, or wire,

or he can get new wire and simply lay

this into the wall as he builds it up.

Make the wall fairly level at intervals

and then on top of the. walls lay the

wire or old scrap iron and then put. on

another layer of stone. This will rein-

force it so that there will be no danger

whatever.



In some ways the continuous doorway

is very handy. You don’t have to pitch

the ensilage up at all. But you can

make a stronger silo at less expense by

having doors at: frequent intervals, say

every three feet. and then build across

the silo between these doors. However,

if you want a continuous doorway you

can set up your studding for the doorway

and then if you reinforce the wall with

wire you can have the Wire wrap around

the timbers used for the, door frame

which will hold it, even better than the

iron rods suggested, though if the iron

rods go back into the stone wall and are

bent up at the ends, there would be no

danger, I think. A floor in the bottom

of the silo two inches thick, of good

grout, will be sufficient. You might get

along with a thinner cement than this, if

the bottom is good firm clay, but while

you are about it you might just as well

put in One two inches thick and then

there will be no question as to its suffi-

ciency. '





WINTER RYE FOR SILAGE.





 





I would like to know the value of

winter rye as compared with corn for

silage and just when to cut it for best





results.



VVexford Co. E. J. F.



Winter rye is not to be compared with

corn for silage. Corn is in an entirely

different class. In the first place you

can raise a good deal more food to the

acre. with corn, and it makes better en-

silage. Rye is not a first-class food any-

way. Cattle do not like it very well. It

has a rank flavor. Of course, if you have

the rye and want to save it in this way

it can be. dmic. Hut, rye is a hollow

stemmed plant and you have got to take

considerable pains Iu packing it. and

weighting the top or It will not settle





 





THE. MICHIGAN EARMER. ' (3) 687





down sufficiently to exclude the air to

preserve it. That is all the precaution

that needs be taken, but do not think

that a ton of rye Silage is as good as a

ton of corn silage, for it is nott The rye

should be cut when it is in the milk be-

fore the kernels get hard. That is the

stage of development of the plant when





.it contains the largest per cent‘ of di-





gestible nutrients.





SICK COWS ON PASTURE.





 





Have been pasturing cows on low land.

Every few days a cow will fail ‘to pro-

duce her usual amount of milk and will

dry up almost completely. Will not eat

much for several days, and seem con-

stipated. First one took sick nearly

three weeks ago but is much better now.

However, she has not come back to her

milk. Can you tell me what is wrong

and what. to do for ‘them? They are

not getting any grain at present,



Oakland Co. E. A. II.



This is a case that requires the ser-

vices of a veterinarian. It is one that

cannot be answered at a distance, with-

out knowing more about it, and therefore

I cannot give any information that would

be of any particular value. I Should have

a local veterinarian come and make an

investigation. He could discover What

is the matter with the cows or give you

an idea as to what might cause it. The

probability is that the cows have eaten

something that does not agree with

them. Perhaps wild turnips or some

other weeds are in the pasture lot. Or

it is barely possible that the sudden

change- t'rom the winter feed to an en-

tirely grass diet and taking away the

grain has put Ih('lli out- of condition. I

am very careful in changing the cows

from a winter ration to a grass ration

and we do it gradually. At first we nevor

leaVe them in the pasture only a short

time and we try to get them to eat hay

as long as they will without wasting it.

“’0 do not take the grain away from

them entirely during any season of the

year. Certainly if I had any more trou—

bles I would call in the local veterinarian

and have him make a careful diagnosis.





 





WASHING CREAM BOTTLES.





 





Do you know of any good device that

will remove all the cream from milk

bottles?



“’ashte'naw Co. B. A. B.





There is only one way to wash milk

bottles and cream bottles and do it suc-

cessfully. In the first place, rinse the

bottles as soon as possible after the

milk or cream is removed. with water SO

as to remove the cream or milk before it

hardens on the bottle. Next wash the.

bottle in good tepid water containing

some kind of washing powder alkali

which will cut any grease remaining.

Then rinse again and sterilize. If you

haven’t a special sterilizer rinse them 111





boiling hot water. let them hot enouglL





so that they will dry without Wiping.

You may say everybody knows this, and

that is so, but it is the only way to do.

This work can be done by hand or it can

be done by modern machinery. You can

get a bottle washer that will assist very

much, and this bottle washer can be

purchased of any of the leading (pm-y

supply companies. You can get a ster-

ilizer of any of these houses and if you

are in the business on a large enough

scale it will pay to do this. Of course,

with only a small number of bottles to

wash it would hardly pay to make the

necessary investment.





SALT FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS.





 





Some farmers do not realize the im-

portance of providing plenty of salt for

all the different animals kept on the

farm. Experiments have been conducted

at some of the stations, by depriving a

certain number of cows of salt for a short

time, and they Showed a marked falling

off in milk, and when the same cows

were given a regular supply of salt, the

milk was soon increased to normal. If

salt is kept where each animal can have

daily access to it they will only eat what

they need to keep them in good health;

but if deprived for any length of time,

some Will eat so much at once as to be

injurious. This is very apt to be the.

case where salt is supplied at intervals.

It is a fact that some animals eat

and seem to require double the

amount of salt that others do. I have

one horse that eats over one quart of

salt every week, which is double the

amount the other two eat. It is a very

good plan to make a box in one corner

of the grain manger and keep this filled

with salt so the horse can eat just what

he needs every day. It is the. same with

cows, there should be some way provid—

ed so they can have daily access to salt





 





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in the stable. Where it! is the practice

of giving the cows salt perhaps once a

week, and throwing it out somewhere on

‘the ground, they will not do near as well,

and then, too, where salt is given to

cows in this way it is very apt to be

forgotten and cause suffering as well as

loss. It will do very well to salt sheep

in this way, when running in pasture,

but it is not a good way to manage with

COWS and horses.





SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMER FORAGE.





 





Many dairynien are already a little

worried as to their roughage supply for

the coming year. The hay crop is fairly

pl‘Omising, judging from the federal crop

ieport, but the shortage this past year

and the natural increase in the demand

will in all probabiliq' make prices high

for the scason of 1012 and 1913. An un-

usual number of Silas are being erected

but a vcry largo pcrccntage of dairymen

have not yt-t provided themselves with

this cost—rcducing institution, also

scarcely none of those having silos have

any silage left in them. Pastures were

turned into before they were well start-

ed for the reason that hay was high and

Scarce, and the winter feeding season

much longer than in normal years. These

facts combine in many instances to cause

dairynicn concern.



Thorc is yet time to provide against

a shortay'o for this season by growing

some annual to supplement the pastures.

But tht-rc is no time to waste if ground

is to be prepared. Many have already

sown crops for this purpose and others

will utilize crops sown to be used in some

other manner. Corn, especially some of

the ilint varieties, is a valuable plant to

sow at this season and later as are also

barlcy and rye. Oats and Canadian peas

make an excellent 'Sllll]ilt‘lllt‘lllfll‘y crop

but should go in the ground early to give

satisfactory results. Millets can be Sown

any time from May to August, grow

quickly and yield heavily.



While immediate needs should receive

the major part of our attention, it is

right and proper that we should look for-

Ward to other years and establish a sys—

tem of cropping that will prevent the re-

currence of a situation like that con—

, fronting many of us, this summer. The



' equipment and crops best adapted to

such a system cannot be provided when

a shortage of feed is upon us. They

must be planned for in advance.



Tht eicmcnts of such a system include

a silo, the production of corn to convert





into Sllilgv, and clover or alfalfa, with a





prefercnco for the latter crop where it

can be successiully grown. Being pro-

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is immune to the dangers accompanying





a shortage of pasture. Silage well put

up will ltcep almost indctinitcly and has

all the mcrits of good pasture as a feed.

Clover and alfalfa supply the roughage

with an additional percentage of protein,

reducing,r the quantity of protein

in the concentrates. “'ith those

provided one has established a system

il‘Hi will do away with worry over the

summer pasture problem. A. it.





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An unexpected condition has been un—

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of an ordinance by the common council

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whose milk is sold in the city. It has

bccn learned by the lucal milk and dairy

inspector in his work among the herds

supplying the city that an unusual num-

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shows that a Very large per cent came

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the shipnu-nt of tuberculin animals from

one part of the state to another. Mar-

~ quctte being so handy by makes that

point an excellent one to consign sus-

picious animals to. Hence the farms

along the border are over-run with tu-

bercular cows





Speculators are. not taking hold of the

butter trade as is their manner at this

‘season The general complaint is that

_prices rule too high and this in the face

"-‘cf an abundance of forage for the dairy

“animals. The output of creameries is

‘ heavy and receipts at large butter mark-

ets are approaching and even exceeding

,in occasional instances, former records.

’Of the better grades of butter there

appears to be a shortage which stimu-

lates a. firm demand for such kinds, but

this feeling is not general to the trade. ~





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





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minute and can say none too much in





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washing and care of the U. S.





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it is easier to turn and easier to clean.





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The No. 15 U. S. turns but very little

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For sale and dogs nearly al breeds. Sires

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this! “WINE

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CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd. consisting of Trojan Briana Blackbirda and

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b B ac own. a too a ran

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R s H I RES-One of foremost. dairy

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. ll 1 f r a 9. er s ire sw ne. pure

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' E—Registered Guernsey Bull.

FOR SAL 9 months old. Choice indi-

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f nod Holstein Friesinn Bull

“7190:1133 (Ii-only? t: 8 months old. Prices and in-





dividuals right. Gregory & Borden. Howell. Mich.





"35““ Holstein Bull Call





1 a. . near] white. his dam a daughter

‘olgrfiillixlfi: 1;):ulflfe Do 01 Count, his sire neon l’d

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Have Bull Calves out of-



13. 20, 23, 24-lb. Cows A. R. 0.

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My herd averages 19 lbs.



It you want this kind write





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I can please any body with a service bull, bulls

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to him. Write me for anything you want

in Holsteins.



L. E. CORNELL. - Fayette, Ohio.





3 $200 Holstein Bulls.





Any breeder in Michigan looking for this kind? If

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mm 29. 1912.





nun-an 351ng “mantra.“





' él'QSBYETALgB m an.

RED POLLED—ggf’ 3301333.: if"? $335

J. M. CHASE a: sans. lonlu. Militia-an.





an) PDLLEDBULLS FOR SALE—“m sow





strains. Joan BERNER]: son. Grand Loggia} E11153?





IIlIIlI BIIEII SIIIIIl'IIIBIIIIS‘Milk main. beef is no.

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County.





 





SHEEP.

—Good Yearling Field





Oxford Down 5'] Rama and owe: of all





for sale. I. R. WATEBB RY. Highland. Michigan.





gag. Bamhoumds—Wish {aslolsiecg'utgoth eex’e‘o. All





orrioe, on G.T.R. . and . U. R. JErQnE—A (.‘(l;l(i)lfit.i





 





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' ' —Young sows due Mar. At A ril.

Dunes and VIOlonaS Bred to let rise and champion

boar. Priced to move them. M. T. bory. Lowell, ich.





—-'l‘ S t. B . . '

nenlsumzs .n.darts-satgazette:

Farmer Prices. A. A. PATTULLO. Deckerville. Mich.





' REKSHIREB—Z tyne gills. bred. at 836. Boats

servtcnble . $25.31: up. Am booking orders for

Iprinn pigs. E mhumt. Stock Farm. Almont, Mich





Brod Berkshire Sow: an ' -—.Bex.st breed-

Magnificent s ecimonsd senlce goal; in: in State.





_ . Very rolifl . B l

prices. ROUG MONT FARMS, stroll;3 Michlgg:





Weaned igs either sex $15



gm {Ego ): bred gdilts $35: bred



ws , re is or -



ferred. Excellent breeding. C oice inllilivifiluadlz.





C. C. COREY. New Haven. Michigan.

Improved Chesters—gaginsfiggs.heithe.





. ave a

chmce young boar and a few sows bred for early fall 9





fax-row. W. 0. WILSON. Okemos, Mich. Both phononi





0 1. 0'8 Special Prices on Ipring pigs and service male's.

0 also fall pigs 300 to pick from. Shipped on approval.

ROLLENIMG VIEW STOCK FARM. Cass City. Michigan.





0 I c SWINE—Males weighing 200 lbs. each. Also

. - - a few very choice gills, bred for June far-

row. Geo. P. Andrews. Dnnsville. lnghnm 00.. Mich.





Extra choice bred gilts, service boars

OI '- c- and spri‘ng pigs. not akin from State

Fair winners. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne, Mich.





’ —All ages. growthy and large. sows bred“

00 l- c s Males ready, 100 to select from. Attractive

prices on young stock. Ii. II. Jump. Munith. MichI'





! —I have some very fine and growth last

0.' I. C 8 fall pigs. either sex. males read fol' set-1

Vice now, airs not akin. OTTO B. 80 ULZE.

Nashville. ich.. half mile west; of depot. 4





OUR Imp. Cheater Whites and Tamworth swine won

24513t. at. Fairs in 1911. Service boars. also sows bred

for spring furrow of either breed that. will please you

in quality and price. Adaml Bron. thohfleld, Mich.





 





o I c swine and Buff Rook oockerels of

I I I right tyge. best of breeding. price way

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





Choice spri s, by “Frost's



o o o Challenger”?‘g31r.lM1-ite for rices.

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. Zeeland. Mich.



’ of superior uality. ’Service ‘bOhrs. 'lta.



0- I. c 3 spring pi . E0 akin pairs. flock





AlaoB -

eggs $1.50 per 15. llred Nickel. ll. _1. Monroe, Mich.





O. l. C.—Ilrders Booked For Spring Pigs.





C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Micki: .

of March ad nApril furrow-





9

O. I. C s shifiped on a royal or c. o. d

OTIS GREENMAN. R. 4. ellevue, ton 00., Mich.





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Pigs, airs and tries. not akin. ave a number

of. servtce males of g tyfi. Write me describing

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Write me for

two on Spring





 





LONG BEACH FARM. Augusta.



“OLSTEIH BULL calf sired by best son of

Pontiac Butter Boy. 58



daughters in advanced Registry. out ofa grand



daughter of De Kol 2nd Butter Boy 3rd. over



100 daughters in advanced Registry. A beautiful call



of choicest breedingj Price on y 350.



C D. VVOODB RY. Lansing. Michigan.





“Top-Notch" Holsteins.





Choice bull calves from 3 to 6 mos. old. of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with . . 0. records,

at; reasonable prices. Also one 2-year-old bull, tit. to

head a good herd.



McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlchlgnn.





 





 





N M] FOR SALE—6 yearling Holsticin Fries-



9‘ Ian Bulls, 2A. ll. 0. bred. Some cows.



. ‘5 [Eliot bulldealxi'es. 34 years-51a lireedtva‘ll‘.

,_,__ . 0 as an pet 13mm on ap ication. .

MMMW C. Jackson. South Bend, lug" 719 Rex BIZ.





' *dropped Feb. 17. 1912, near] white.

IIoISIElll 3“" ca" 3756 1: blood Hen erveld $0 K01

dams: reoor Senior 2-year-old. 1 .37 lbs. butter.

GEORGE E. LAPHAM. 1i. 8. St. Johns. Mich.





 





 





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Ohoicest Konrdfike. Dekol and Hengerveld breed-

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FOR SALE.





A few high class boars from such ohnm ion boars as

Orion Chief. Instructor, and King of I linois. Also

cows and heifers.





a few bred sows. Jersey bulls.

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Bulls ready for service, also bull calves and heifer

calves. Cows all in yearly teat. Satisfaction guaran-

teed. COLON C. LILLIE. Coopeuvllle. Mich.





MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.





1‘. F. MARSTON. Buy CItY. Michigan.



I ofl'erfor sales fl th . .

NGTICE—oow. Also two roll: hillygglvgladagem):

gain prices. 0. A. TAGGETT. E. No. 1. Caro, Mich,



Jon-9% Cattle For Sale.

~ C. A. ISTOL Fonton. Michigan.





 





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DUI'OG JOI’SB 5 Jung. Sprifiirg puiIgsénE

pay the express. J. H. ANGHAHT, Lansing, Mich.





DUROC-JERSEY SOWS bred for July and August.

furrow. Ulioicel bred spring pigs. Prices

JOHN eNlCULL. North Star, Mich. .





DUROC JERSEY disease“!

ready tor servtoe. Prices ri ht for 10 days. Write or

come and see J. C. BAREEY. Goldwater. Mich.





5: vaca BOARS fliéiia’iifiit’iai‘:

(either sex) sired by W's Choice Rule No. 30795. Prices

reasonable. Write R. G. VIVIAN, R. 4. Monroe, Mich.





 





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A bigger. better and more prolific tgpe. 10 nice, big

sows. bred for June, July, August. eptcmbcr at. $2":

each, i. o,b. You had better order one at once.

J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mfehigan.





POLAND-CHINA SWINE





Bred for September. R. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.





Big Smooth Poland China Hogs {,ii’i‘iéfiaig‘ieii.“§l

reasonable prices. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw, Mich.





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P0131“! Chinas all ea. both sexes. a: Farmers

prices. W. J. HAGELS AW. Augusta. Michigan.

ARGE TYPE P. C.-—Largest in Mich. Come and

see greatest herd of big. prolific P.C in state. Bows

avg. 10 (illgn to litter. Free livery. ex enses paid it' not.

satisfie. . order early and get choice. rices reasonable,

quality considered. W. E. Livingston. l’arma, Mich.





Poland China fall and S ri '

BIG TYPE bred. Dairy bred Shortlfonlig 15):; IB' 82::

calves. Prices low. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson, Mich.





15 Poland China Scws 2:5: barging “i-





priced to sell. WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, tcéilld'





Pol‘un cHIH‘S—Yonng sows bred for April fan-ow.





Extra good fa l i . either sex.

L. w. BARNES & sou. Byron, Shiaiiagslee Co.. Mich.





Big Type F. C. Saws £233. $3.33.?

A A. 001) E SUN. Saline. Michixnn.

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Mlllefoot HO 8 bredBCAvlvsts) pig‘s not ak'irns.

Boats all ages. G. C. BEGLOW. Ada. Ohio.





flog Sale Yorkshire Gills—Eggammw





, tter plan

0 unust. Also pigs, both sexe WATERMA &

WATERMAN. Meadow Land Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.





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SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF

THE BREEDING BOAR.





 





 





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The selection of a suitable breeding

boar is a different problem because he

represents so much of the breeding pow-

er of the herd. His pedigree is more

carefully studied and his results more

closely noted than that of the sows with

which he is mated. A mistake made by

many inexperienced breeders is that of

buying a high-priced breeding boar and

depending .upon his blood lines and in-

dividual qualities to sell ‘their pigs for a

long prices. Unless a man has a lot of

high-class, well-bred sows to breed he

should not pay a long price for a breed-

ing boar.



If possible select a breeding boar that

has been tried and proven a good sire.

It is safer to select him at his home, in

hislnormal condition and with his work-

ing clothes on. It is much easier to de-

termine the value of a breeding animal

when he is in his normal condition than

when his defects are covered with a

blanket of fat. Then again, there are

many buyers looking for show-yard win-

ners and you will often be compelled to

pay more money for a prize. winner, than

an equally good animal will cost if pur-

chased in his normal condition. Show-

yard honors have value but there are

many prize winners that- never prove

valuablewhen put to the test in the herd.



Now and then some unknown breeder

may breed and develop a. prize—winning

animal, a phenomenal individual, but not

what we would call a well-bred animal

from the brceder’s standpoint, although

when fitted by an expert he is a living

picture of harmony and beauty. Such a

sire is only deserving of limited honors

and occupies about the same place in the

history of the breed as a prize barrow

and would soon be cast aside. If we

used such a sire in our herds we would

introduce an inharmonious force of affin-

ities which would ruin the results of

years of systematic breeding which we

have practiced to control the type of the

animals in our herds.



In some rare cases a boar that is him-

self faulty as an individual may prove

. nearefflpcrfection as a sire and produce

more "uniform— pigs than some of the more

perfect individuals of the breed, even

though bred to inferior sows. This shows

that we should not always strive at out-

side appearances at the expense of

transmitting the inherent qualities of the

breed to the progeny. The sire that is

prepontent, that has the ability to stamp





his individuality upon his progeny, is

what We are all striving for. He is a

link in the chain of creation which is





transplanting and perpetuating type and

reforming some of the warring affinities

that are battling for supremacy. He is

sending out into the world progeny that

are emblems of beauty and uniformity.

nature’s choicest gift to the breeder of

pure-bred swine.



The boar should be an ounstanding in-

dividual, possessing all the markings

characteristic of the breed.

be of good size, neat form and stylish

appearance and have plenty of constitu-

tion and vigor. If he will not bear a

square look from in front, pass him on.

His head should be short and fine, eyes

intelligent and kind. His hair should

be fine and silky; neck broad and full on

top. He should be compact, smooth and

well fleshed down on forelegs, with

strong, slightly arched back, broad and

even. His loins should be full and

smooth and he should have well-sprung

ribs and large, roomy chest; a well-

rounded rump with tail set well up on

the top; long, deep, well-rounded hams

from points down to hooks; long Straight

and deep sides without wrinkles; straight

and well proportioned bottom line; strong,

short legs set well apart, one at each

corner; short and neat pastern and good

tough hoofs.



He should be able to beget good sow

and male pigs. Some 'think it: necessary

to keep two boars, one to get good sow

pigs and one to get good ”boar pigs. The

right kind of a sire. should get both sow

and boar DigS. He Should be well fed

and treated kindly but firmly at all

times, The appearance of the ill-favor-

ed, ’poorly fed breeding boars has been a

curse to the hog business and has kept

many men from investing in pure-bred

stock. When we are fortunate enough‘to

secure a good sire that has come down

to us through a number of generations

of creditable ancestors his value is far

beyond compu'taniOn in money.



Many excellent breeding boars are sold





 





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by well-known breeders to some mis-

guided victim of his teachings and for

lack of nourishing food and proper care

pass into oblivion. They are placed in

some old, poorly-ventilated, damp pen

and kept there the year round with no

yard or pasture to exercise in and by

the time they should be in the prime of

life they are ruined by excessive service,

lack of good food and exercise. Give the

breeding boar the run of a large yard

with a good strong fence around. it and

away from/ the rest of the hogs. Teach

him that he is of some importance and

do not salute him with a kick or a club

every time you go near him, or he will

suspect you every time he sees you com-

ing, and be waiting for a chance to get

even.



His disposition will be in a large meas-

ure, just what you make it and you may

rest assured that he will not show fight

every time you go near him unless he

thinks he has a cause. It is not best to

get too familiar with him or give him

a chance to get you in a corner or tight

place. The average boar is not such an

ugly animal as many appear to think.

Do not deny him his feed, but give him

encugh to keep him in good breeding

condition; for skin and bones with the

best of individuality and pedigree cannot

beget good, vigorous pigs. then ’the

herd is reaching perfection the greatest

care must be exercised in the selection

and care of breeding animals to keep

them from going back.



The further removed the animals are

from their natural habits and conditions

the harder it is to prevent them from

retrograding toward their natural con-

ditions. Thus pure-bred animals will re-

quire better care and more liberal feed-

ing than scrub animals. They have been

reared under artificial conditions and

have become accustomed to artificial en-

vironments and feeds. Do not allow the

breeding boar to become fat while not in

service. Succulent feeds and pasture

during the warm months, and roots in

winter, will prove better than grain to

keep him in geod breeding form. As the

breeding season approaches his rations

may be increased and some nitrogenous

feed supplemented with his regular ra~

tion until he is getting all that he will

eat with a relish. Middlings, bran, oil

meal, ground packers" tankage are all

good feeds for a boar during the breed-

ing season. Ground oats are the best

grain feed and will stimulate t'he breed-

ing qualities of all animals when they

are mixed with their rations.



Manage his food so that he will not.

lose flesh during the breeding season.

The drain on a boar during the season

of breeding 50 or 60 sows is severe and

it will require plenty of good feed and

careful management to get the best re-

sults. When not in service, plenty of

exercise is essential even if against his

inclinations. If he does not exercise it

is impossible to keep up well-developed

muscles and general thrift and vigor. The

man who gives'rhis breeding boars good

care has solved one of the most import-

ant single factors in the business of

breeding high—class swine.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





 





Rye as a Ration for Growing Pigs.

lViII you tell me whether rye makes a

good winter ration for growing pigs? Or





would it be. better to sell my rye and

invest in other feed '?

Clare Co. J. B.





Under certain market conditions rye is

a profitable feed to use for growing and

fattening hogs, but under present con-

ditions this would hardly be the case. At

present values, rye is about as costly a

feed as fine middlings and the latter is

a much more economical grain for grow-

ing pigs than rye meal fed alone. When

the pigs get older so that a ration with

the nutritive ratio of rye would be more

suitable for them corn would be a much

cheaper feed to use at present prices,

and corn contains about the same ratio

of nutrients as rye, and in addition is a

more palatable feed for pigs. It would

thus be mOre. profitable to sell the rye

crop and depend upon other feeds for

a winter rati0n for the growing pigs.



Raising Pigs Without Milk.



Kindly advise me how to raise pigs

without milk.



Wayne Co. P. A. R.





There is no doubt but that one can

raise pigs more profitably with skim-

milk as part of the ration than without

it, although it is entirely practicable to

'raise pigs without, skim—milk with a

proper combination of feeds. There is

no grain more suitable as a pig feed

than fine wheat middlings. This con-

tains the needed nutrients in just about





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the right proportion for the pigs, and a

slop made from middlings will be better

adapted to the young pigs’ needs than

any other one grain feed that could be

given. Of course, green forage should

be available at this season of the year

and if a run of grass is not to be had

some clover or other green feed should

be cut each day and fed as a part, of

the ration. Some ground oats from

which the hulls haVe been sifted will add

variety to the ration for the young pigs,

and later a little corn can be given, and

if it: can be secured a small amount of

tankage may be profitably fed with the

corn. Otherwise, a little oil meal will

serve an excellent purpose. Cleanliness

in feeding young pigs is an important

factor in their growth, and variety in the

ration is essential to rapid growth. A

little judgment used in feeding them will

add to the profit of the feeder.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





E. G. Tiller, prominent in farming and

feeding affairs in Freemont county, Iowa,

and a neighbor farmer and feeder. have

cohtracted the refuse of a big canning

factory in his town and will build silos.

He believes it will make a. fine and cheap

feed for cattle. Speaking of silos, Mr.

Tiller says: "The long drought of last

summer and the severe winter following

have operated to awaken wide interest

in the silo, and if farmers will build silos

this summer and fill them in the fall they

will be independent of drought, hard win-

ter weather and feed scarcity. The men

who had silos last winter were not com-

pelled to dig feed out of snowdrifts and

haul roughage long distances over rough

roads. They had their corn stored in a

handy place in the shape of silage, which

could be easily fed in the womt of weath-

er. Thc sdo owner had a cheap feed

that can be used with good results at any

time of the year.”



Alaska farmer—stockmen are finding the

hardy breed of Galloway cattle splendidly

adapted for that far northern cold coup-

try, and these breeders are being import-

ed therc. The prohibitive cost of trans-

porting dressed beef there renders it ab-

solutely necessary that animals that will

thrive should be raised for beef.



Official figures published by the national

bureau of statistics show that exports of

provisions from the United States for the

ten months ending April 30 last under-

went gains of 81,000.000 lbs. of lard, 61,-

000,000 lbs. of bacon, 47,000,000 lbs. of

hams and shoulders and 6.000.000 lbs. of

pork over the exports for the correspond-

ing period a year ago. During the same

period exports of fresh beef fell off 20,-

000,000 lbs., and decreased exports of cur-

ed and canned beef took place.



A prominent sheepman of Montana es-

timates that not over 3,500,000 head of

sheep will be sheared this spring in that

state, as compared with 7,000,000 in the

palmy (lays of the sheep industry, He says

the “’yoming clip will not be more than

50 per cent Of that of a year ago. When

it is considered that Montana and Wy-

oming are the tWo largest woo] growing

states in the Union. the importance of

these facts will be appreciated. Prom-

inent Montana sheepmen are holding out

for 200 per pound for their clips.



Advices from various quarters speak of

the increasing popularity of silos. and

large numbers are being erected by farm-

ers. It is the most economical way of

fattening live stock, and by use of en-

silage farmers are finding that it does pay

to raise well—bred steer calves after all.

The silo is a means of materially lower—

Ing the cost of beef production, and it

has been demonstrated that dry cows or

steers may be wintered on rations of sil-

age and straw or else silage and small

quantities of cottonseed meal and make

satisfactory gains in flesh without being

fed any corn or hay.



Bernard H. Heide, general superintend—

ent of the International Live Stock Expo-

sition at Chicago, who has made a careful

personal investigation of the existing cat-

tle conditions in Kansas, reports that he

found the pastures in the Flinthill

regions of that state as good as he ever

saw them, and pastures .are well stocked





with cattle. He found that the cattle

feeding industry is now being carried on

mainly by large interests. and he Ob-





served that nearly everywhere he went

many of the smaller feeders who in form-

er years had a few car loads of cattle on

grass are now practically out of the bus-

iness. Mr. l'leide- says: “In the feed lots

of Kansas the situation is different from

that affecting the pastures. There is a

small number of cattle on full feed now.

and the prospects favor a continued

small crop through the summer, though

the cattle on feed are doing well, the

weather having been favorable.”



About 15,000 head of two and three»

year-old Texas cattle have been shipped

into lVyOming recently, the range being

reported in fine shape. Two years ago

the lVyoming ranges were credited with

rarrying 5,500.000 sheep and nearly 900,-

000 cattle. Recently it was stated that

there were less than 3,000,000 sheep in

the state and fewer than 600,000 cattle.



Extra choice milch cows always com-

mand high prices, even at: such times as

the general market is in the dumps, as

has been the case recently. The other

day a big, fancy Durham cow was sold

in the Chicago stock yards for $90, but

she was a rare exception to the regula-





tion market cow of extra grade, this

class selling around $70€075, with not

many late transactions higher than $65.





Sales have been mainly around $40@60.

Backward springers are wanted now, and

forward ones are meeting with slower

sales.



Iowa stockmen have imported a good

many high-grade Belgian draft stallions

and mares this year, one importation em-

bracing 40 stallions and mares.





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There isn't the shadow of a doubt that

chicks will do well in the garden, but

how about the garden? Aside from some

of the smaller vegetables, like lettuce,

radishes, etc, which even quite small

chicks would doubtless destroy at once,

the chicks would be a decided benefit to

most garden crops. They destroy many

insects, furnish some fertilizer, and the

little scratching they do about large

plants is no detriment. The chicks in

turn are benefited by the insects ob-

tained, by the young and tender weeds

and grass blades which they help to de-

stroy, and, in hot weather, by the par-

tial shade of the growing plants. If it

is possible, the best plan is to place tne

outdoor brooder, or the coop containing

* the mother hen, in the shade of a tree

in that part of the garden which his

desired tlo have the chicks frequent.

Vthn otte- brood reaches such size that

they begin to damage growing plants. or

to do too much scratching. they are re-

lnoved to antither range and others are

substituted. Of course, among some of

the larger plants, like corn. potatoes

beans. etc. the chicks could be allowed

to Hill until well grown without diing

damage.



Upon many large poultry farms the

ground upon which chicks are raised one

season is plowed and planted to some

crop the next spring, that season's chicks

being raised or. fresh ground. This past

winter 1 Vislicd a 5,000—hcn plant where

a large lielt; \\'illt'll was well seeded ti)

clOVcr was pointed out as the place for

growing the next crop of chicks, while

another large field, well covered with

colony houses and broodcrs in which the

chicks had been raised the previous year.

was to ho cropped the coming season,

This garden method of growing chicks

furnishes a similar plan to the man with

little ground.



New York. T. A. TEFFT.

EXPERIENCE WITH POULTRY AIL-



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My experience has been that the ail-

ments most comonly encountered in large

fiOcks are indigestion and bowel trouble.

The former, if not taken in time, develops

into the latter. \l’lten I see signs of ill-

ness in my iiock I know it is not caused

by lice, as I have always managed to

keep my fowls free from them, and I look

for other symptoms. A sure sign of indi—

gestion is the appearance of a purplish

tinge in the comb. “'hen I discover this

symptom I give epsom salts immediately,

a teaspoonful in three teaspoonfnls of

boiling water being a dose for a full-

grown fowl. I then prepare a gallon of

drinking water by adding sutiicicnt per-

manganate of potash to give it a strong

pink color. I generally give this treated

water in the morning for three or four

mornings, and pure water at noon.



The noxt most serious poultry ailment,

in my opinion, is roup. For this the

hatchet is generally recommended as the

only sure cure, but I have always believed

in trying to find a more profitable remedy.



Last fall I had a flock of GO pullets that

I wanted to keep over but did not have

comfortable quarters for thctn. I put

them in an old house that was somewhat

draughty on windy days. They did very

well. laying as many as 44 eggs in one

day through the coldest weather. How—

ever, about the middle of February I no—

ticed one or two with heads swelled and

cycs and nose running. Other cases de-

ycloped, some getting so bad they could

scarcely eat or breathe. I tried nearly

every treatment for the trouble that I had

t-yer heard of but they continued to grow

worse.



In a week from the appearance of the

first symptoms I had lost one and nearly

a dozen more were. sick. They were thor-

oughbrcds and I had two other pens of

the same stock. Although the coops were

not connected in any way, it seemed cer-

tain that I must do something or lose a

lot'of valu.~.ble fowls, so I cleaned the

coop containing the sick fowls thoroughly

and soaked the roosts and floor with ker-

osenc. Then I dipped some squares of

flannel into one of the well known coa‘.

tar? disinfectants until they were well

soaked, then tied them to the roosts. Ev-

erytltwo days I soaked these cloths afresh

until they had been dipped three or four

titties. Then I covered my mouth and

nose with a kerchief and sprinkled abOut

a third of a. bushel of air-slaked lime

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applying the lime, getting down close to

the floor and throwing it in such a way

as to cover the surface well and cause

the fine particles to rise in a cloud from

the floor. It proved so strong that I had

to seek the open air two or three times.

'When I had finished the fowls were all

sneezing and choking but none were at-

fectcd seriously. A week later I repeated

the lime application and inside of three

weeks from time of first cleaning there

were no indications of roup nor have

there been any since.



I keep a barrel of lime- on hand all the

time. I think it one of the most neces-

sary things about a poultry yard. It acts

on fowls as does snuff on persons having

cold in the head, causing them to sneeze

and dislodge accumulations of mucus,

thus relieving the congestion.



I did not separate the sick fowls from

the well ones. nor did I treat any of them

separately. All were shut in the coop

for 24 hours after applying the lime. Then

lllt')’ were given plenty of soft food and

green stuff but no corn or other heating

food. For drink they had warm water or

warm separator milk. As I do not believe

in breeding from fowls that have even

'had a touch of roup, none of these hens

will be used as breeders, and I was for-

tunate in having no cockerels in the pen.



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been hatched. or are about to hatch. The

second, if large, usually leaves the hive

in a depopuiated condition, and the fever

ubates at once. The remaining bees

either destroy, or allow to be destroyed,

by personal combat all the young queens

that might cause another issue. If the.

swarm is returned in about 48 hours, the

young queen that comes with it, strong

and vigorous as she is, being the oldest

of the new queens, readily overpowers

the remaining one and at once begins her

regular duties. This throws the condi-

tion of the colony back into its normal

state and honey gathering is no longer

interrupted unless a protracted honey

crop of great proportions, or the neglect

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another Spell of feverish excitement later.



Vl'hen hiving a. second swarm with the

purpose. of returning it to the hive, it

may be temporarily put into any kind of

a box. a nail-keg, or in fact any vessel

that will hold them for the short time

they are expected to remain. As a mat-

ter of course it is well to look to the

comfort of the bees otherwise, to give

them plenty of room and plenty of air

and shade. A very great trouble with

after-swarms is their unstability. Some-

times they contain several queens and

will alight in two or three clusters. Af—

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congratulated yourself upon having se-

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for the woods. Sometimes they will not

even settle when first issuing. In the

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a swarm in a hive standing in a shady

plat-e, with the hive well ventilated, You

stand a good chance of having the swarm

stay.



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from its stand at the issue of the first

swarm, placing the swarm in its stead.

This removes all the old bees and throws

the entire working force on the first

swarm, which then becomes the main

colony and may be looked to for the

largcst yield of honey.



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PRACTICAL SCIENCE.





 





NUTRITION STUDIES.





BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.





 





(Continued).

Balanced Ration.



Under our definition of balanced ration

it will be seen that no feed stuff can

comprise a balanced ration except it con-

tains all of the three proximate princi-

ples, namely protein, carbohydrates and

fats, in sufficient quantities to satisfy

fully the requirements of the animal.

This would necessitate a sufficient





The Ration Compared to the Human

Dietary.





In the second place we may see that

a balanced ration will mean the use of

the expensivee constituents of a. feed

stuff only so far as their addition be-

comes a nutritive necessity to the ani-

mal body. We might make a. comparison

to a condition well known in the human

dietary. One of the most expensive food

stuffs in the human dietary is the var-

ious meat products, such as sirloin

steak. It is possible to make an entire

meal of sirloin steak but in so doing the

cost of that meal is exceedingly high.

On the other hand, it is not possible to

make, for any great period of time, a

meal exclusively of the cheapest articles

of diet, such as starch, and even pos—

sibly potatoes. A balanced human die-

tary would mean just. enough meat in

the ration, or its equivalent, to meet the-

re-quirements of the body for protein, and

from that point to add enough of the

cheaper ford constituents, such as pota—

toes. starches, etc., to fully satisfy the

body demands



Balanced Ration Dates Back to 1859.





The balanced ration is about as oldas

is our oldest agricultural college, the

Michigan Agricultural Colle'e’. The first





 

 

 





public conception of the licory of the





balanced ration was publi lied in 185.0,

by Grouve‘n, who propose( the first bal-

anced ration from t e tandpoint of the

protein, carbohydrates and fats contain-

ed in the feeding stuff. This pronounce-

mentfgained little support until it was

rerodblled in 1864 by Dr. Emil von

VViiff.". lrouveii based his standards up-

on ‘the total amount of protein, carbohy-

drates and fats found upon chemical an—

alysis in the various feeds. }10 failed

to take into consideration the later well-

known fact that feeds could not be val-

ued or compared solely from the stand—

point of the crude protein, carbohydrates

and fat content. He failed to recognize

likewise that the various factors inihi-

easing the digestibility of that feed l’llZUlt‘

entirely unreliable the comparison of

feeds from the solely chemical and an—

alytical standpoint.





Wolff Gets the Credit for the Balanced

Ration.





Wolff evidently perceived at once the

disadvantage of Grouven’s position and

appreciated at the same time the. idea.

therein conveyed because, when his

standards (Wolff’s) were published in

1864 he took into consideration this ques—

tion of digestibility. Just how firmly

anchored this idea of VVolff’s was may

be gleaned by knowing that from that

time to this feeders universally have

computed rations for domestic animals

based upOn these principles then worked

out by \Volff. It is true that within the

last few ycars Kellner, in Germany, and

Armsby, in this cunlry, have computed

rations on the basis of their starch val-

ues, as we shall discuss later, and while

these values simplify the balanced ra-

tion from certain points of view, they

detract not one particle from the cor-

rectness as well as the usefulness of the

\Volff feeding standard.



Henry, in his "Feeds and Feeding,”

(Chapter VIII), goes very thoroughly in-

to the question of feeding standards and

the methods of the computing of rations.

It would aid the student materially in

the understanding of this matter if

he would consult this excellent work

in the chapter mentioned above. In

Table 1, page 106, Henry gives the

total nutrients in 100 lbs. of the most

common feeding stuffs, including among

the roughages, corn stover, clover hay,

timothy hay, and oat straw, and among





the concentrates, corngoats, bran and oli

process linseed meal.



Roughages.



Corn Stover. Pounds.

Crude protein ...................... 3.8

Carbohydrates ...................... 51.2

Fat ..... ~ ............................ 1.1





Red Clover H ay’.





Crude protein ...................... 12.3

Carbohydrates ..................... 629

Fat ................................. 3 3

Timothy Hay.

Crude protein ...................... 5.0

Carbohydrates ...................... 74.0

Fat ................................ 2.5

Oat Straw.

Crude protEin . ..................... 4.0

Carbohydrates ..................... 70.4

Fat . ................................ 2.3

Concentrates.

Corn. Pounds.

Crude protein ...................... 10.3

Carbohydrates ...................... 72.6

Fat . ................................ 5.0

Oats '

Crude protein ...................... 11.4

Carbohydrati s ...................... 70.2

Fat . ................................ 4.8

Bran

Crude protein ..................... 15.4

Carbohydrates ...................... 02.!)

Fat ................................. 4.0

Linseed Meal.

Crude protein '3‘!"

Carbohydrates ...................... 4 3.0

Fat ................................. 7.8





In Table II, the por'i-i'iitago of digesti-





 





ble matter of these various feed stuffs is‘





shown.

Roughages.

Corn Stover. l’cr Ct. .

Crude protein, digestible ............:-:0

*Carbohydrates, digestible .......... 00

Fat, digestible ....................... ()7

Red Clover Hay.

Crude protein, digestible ............ 38

"Carbohydrates, digestible .......... ‘35)

Fat, digestible 1‘)

. Timothy Hay.

Crude protein, digestible ............ ~18

*Carhchydratcs, digestible ........... 53

Fat, digestible >0

Oat Straw.

Crude protein, digestible . . . . . . . . . . . .33

*Cat‘bohydmies, digestible ...........:'»0

Fat. digestible it)

*Computed by writer. V

Concentrates.

Corn. T’cr Ct.

Crude prottin, digestible ........ ...70

*Carbohyilratcs, digestible .......... 31

Fat, digestible . ........ . ............. St}

Oats. '

Crude protein, digestible ........... 77

*Carbohydrates, digestible .......... ti?»

Fat, digestible \‘l

Bran.

Crude protein, digestible ............ 77

*Carbohydrates, digestible ........... 07

Fat, digestible ..................... (53

Linseed“ Meal.

Crude protein, digestible ............ 80

*Carbohydrates, digestible ........... 72

Fat, digestible ....................... 80





*Compvted by writer.



Figuring the amount of digestibfc nu-

tlionts by multiplying the "ligiii‘t-s iii 'l‘a-

bio I by the percentages shown in Table

ii, the total amount of digestible nutri—

ents which may be. obtaini-il from these

various feeds are given, (Table III). For

example, we figure corn stover contains

3.8 lbs. crude protein per 100 lbs. Con—

sulting Table II, we find that 30 per cont

of this crude protein is digestible. There-





fore 3.8 multiplied by .20 equals 1.4 which

is the amount of digcsiiblc protein in 100

lbs. corn stover. In the same way the





total amount of carbohydrates in corn

stovcr is 51.2 lbs., of which we find about

00 per cent is digestible. Multiplying.

therefore, 51.2 by .60 gives 30.7 lbs. of

carbohydrates to be digestible from 100

lbs. of corn stovcr. In a similar way we

find .7 lbs. of digestible fat in 100 lbs of

the stover. The difference, therefore, bv-

tween the 3.8 lbs. of crude protein found

upon chemical analysis in the corn stovcr

and the 1.4 lbs. shown to be digestible. is

the amount {if protetin in the stovcr

which is unattached by the digestive

juices in the body. Similar with regard

to the carbohydrates and thc fats.





Roughages.

Corn Stover. Pounds.

Crude protein ...................... 1.4

*Cai‘bohydratcs .............. . . . . . . .307

Fat ................................. 0.7

Red Clover Hay.

Crude protein ...................... 7.1

"‘Carbohydrates ..................... 37.1

Fat ................................. 1.8

Timothy Hay.

Crude protein ....................... 213

’lCaI'bohydi'atCs .................... 40.7

Fat ................................. 1.2

Oat Straw.

Crude protcin ....................... 1.3

*Carbi.>liy(li'a.itis .................... 30.7

Fat ................................ .08

*Computed by writer.

Concentrates.

Corn.

Crude protein ...................... 7.8

*Carbohydratts ..................... 65.3

Fat ................................. 4.3

Oats

Crude protein ...................... 8.7

“‘Carbohydratcs ..................... 45.0

Fat ................................ 4.2

Bran

Crude protein ...................... 11.8

*Carbohydrates ..................... 42.1

Fati . ................................ 2.5

Linseed Meal.

Crude protein ...................... 30.1

*Carbohydrates ..................... 30.0

Fat ................................. 6.9





*Computed by writer.

(Continued next week).





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CURRENT COMMENT.





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.The republican na-,





The Chicago Con- tional convention for

vention. 1912 is now a matter

of history, but the

effects of its deliberations are likely to

be more far rcaching in the future his-

tory of the country than those of any

other similar gathering ever held. Our

readers are familiar with the trend of

political cvcnts which preceded the ,con-

vention and which led up to the bitterly

fought (-Ontcsi at Chicago. They are. no

doubt, likewise familiar with the more

or less partisan reports appearing in the

daily press during the progress of the

convention.



As our readers know, the Michigan

Farmer is not in any sense of the word

a partisan advocate and it is the policy

of its publishers to devote no space to

political topics, except in cases where the

interests of readers are at stake. But in

view of the unusual interest taken by

country people in the present political

situation, we have deemed it advisable

to commcut in an unbiased manner upon

the Chicago convention and the princi-

ples involvcd in the contest which took

place ihcre and which will become an is-

sue in the campaign following it.



This convcntinn was one in which the

sharp political practices which have play-

ed too prominent a part in political his-

tory were made an issue and caused a

split in the republican party, which

George Ade humorously described as an

absolute divorce. Previous to the con-

vention the leading candidaics for nomi-

natiOn each claimed a majority of the

duly elected delegates to the convcntion.

For many days previous to the conven-

tion the national republican committee

held hearings in Chicago, at which the

claims of each side were heard and a

temporary roll of the convention was

m e up in which practically all of the

Contested delegates favorable to the re—

nomination of President Taft were seat-

ed, by what C01. Roosevelt‘s adherents

termed “steam roller" methods.



This resulted in an effort by the Roose-

velt adherents to eliminate the voting

strength of the contesting delegates in

the temporary organization of the con-

vention, in which effort they failed, ow-

ing to the fact that the parliamentary

situation was in the control of their op-

ponents. As a result, the contest in the

seating of contesting delegates was con-

tinued before the credentials committee

appointed by the temporary chairman af-





   





ter the organization of the convention.

It was alleged by the so-oslled Wes-

sive element of the party, the mom of

which were favorable to the candidacy of

Col. Roosevelt, that “Steam roller” meth-

ods were again used,to seat the Taft del-

egates, the strained relations reaching

the breaking point when ’two Taft dele-

gates were given seats in the California

delegation, notwithstanding the fact that

Roosevelt had received an overwhelming

majority of the popular vote, the dele-

gates being seated on a technicality

which the Roosevelt adherents deemed

most unfair. _



At this point the fight to “purge the

roll” of delegates was dropped and the

credentials committee reported a partial

list of delegates, which was later supple-

mented by more names. for the purpose,

as alleged by Roosevelt adherents, of

making certain of seating Taft delegates,

since those wnose right to sit in the con-

vention was being voted upon were dis-

qualified from voting on their own cases.



There was a. good deal of talk with re-

gard to the possibility of a compromise

candidate, but the Roosevelt leaders re-

fused a compromise selected by “tainted

delegates” and would recognize no action

of the convention not joined in by 540

uncontested delegates, as a majority of

the convention. As a result the greater

part of the Roosevelt delegates sat mute

in the convention when the nominations

were made. tnus serving notice that they

would not be bound by the action of the

convention.



On the other hand, the Taft adherents

claimed that the evidence submitted in

favor of the contesting delegates did not

justify them in seating them, and after

much delay, with the strength which was

available to them after the final roll of

delegates was made up. a majority nom-

inated Taft and Sherman to- head the

national republican ticket, named a new

national committee- to act four years

hence, and adjourned.



Immediately upon the adjournment of

the convention the delegates who did not

participate in the nominations, and a

host of other Roosevelt supporters gath-

ercd in mother hall and placed him in

nomination as a progressive candidate.

Steps were also taken to at once organize

a new party. Col. Roosevelt accepted

the nomination subject to the action of

the, later convention and declared him-

solf willing to support any man other

than himself whom the bonvention mlgh‘a

prefer to select as a candidate for the

presidency.



Regardless of the merits of the claims

of the contending factions, a contest con-

ducted in this manner is, to say the

least. distasteful to a large percentage of

thinking people. What the result will be

none can, of course, tell, but one thing

would appcar certain and that is that the

several states will enact laws before an-

other campaign occurs which will provide

for the election of delegates to national

conventions by a general primary so con-

ducted as to make impractical, if not im-

possible, the seating of delegates whose

claims to the right to participate in the

deliberations of national conventions are

derived in any other manner than

through the expressed will of the ma-

jority of their party in the state or dis-

trict who are suflicicntly interested to

exercise their right of franchise at the

primaries. In the meantime the country

must suffer a bittcriy contested campaign

in which personalities and recriminations

are likely to become as prominent as are

issues and principles.





There is opportu-



Building New Com- nity in Michigan

munities. for the building of

thousands of new



and prosperous farming communities on

the unimproved agricultural lands of the

state. The opportunities presented for

home building on these unimproved lands

are set forth in an article from an Oce-

ana county farmer in another column of

this, issue. and a word of warning to the

prospective purchaser is also interjected.

as viewed from the standpoint of one

who is interested in the development of

our northern counties along economically

correct and permanent lines. In the ar-

ticle abovc referred to the- work of the

several development bureaus of the state

is justly commended, while the avarice

of unscrupulous dealers and speculators

is as strongly condemned. It is but a

natural result that those who are deal-

ing and speculating in these unimproved

lands should seek to make as large a

profit from them as is possible, and quite

as natural that in this effort they should

seek customers for the poorer lands who

are not well informed as to the compar-

ative value of soils for agricultural pur-





poses and who are not expert judges of

the “raw material" from which prosper—

one and profitable farms may believe]-

sped. It is also an unfortunate fact-that

this class of investors are not well in-

formed as to the proper methods of hand-

ling these soils to get the best results

from them, and a comparatively large

proportion of failures is thus bound to

result from their ventures, which, in turn

are certain to react to the detriment of

the rapid development of the country.

Thus it is to the advantage of the new

country and those who are interested in

its permanent upbuilding that the better

lands be first settled, as it is undoubted-

ly to the advantage of the settlers them-

selves, hence the pertinence of the lid-

vice given in the article above referred

to that the prospective buyer make a

careful personal investigation of agricul-

tural conditions and prospects or, if he is

not competent to judge of these condi-

tions for himself to seek disinterested

advice from competent persons on these

points.





Then, having invested in new, unim-

proved laud, of which there is such an

abundance of good quality awaiting the

home maker in Michigan, it is equally

important that the management of the

land be right from the start. The de-

pletion of the fertility of much of our

older agricultural land through poor man-

agement should not be repeated on the

virgin soils of the state yet to be im-

proved. It is far easier and vastly more

profitable to maintain their fertility from

the start than it is to rehabilitate- them

once they have been depleted of their

virgin fertility and gotten into a poor

mechanical condition. The writer of the

article above referred to has well said

that ”right methods of agriculture must

obtain to the end that the productive

power of the soil shall be conserved.”

Fortunately for the future of the agri-

culture of that portion of our state which

remains to be developed along agricul-

tural lines, the sum of human knowledge

regarding correct farm management on

different types of soil is greater today

than ever before, and that knowledge is

being disseminated with a more liberal

hand each year. The agricultural press,

the- colleges and experiment stations, the

institutes, the county schools of agricul-

ture and in many localities the high

schools are doing a work of inestimabie

and far-reaching value along these lines.

In addition to all these, Michigan is to

be benefited in an efficient and timely

manner through a state bureau of farm

management, experts soon to be placed

in the field through a co-operative ar—

rangement between the Bureau of Farm

Management of the United States De-

partment of Agriculture and the State

Board of Agriculture. This scheme con-

templates :1 state director to be placed in

charge of the work, a district supervisor

for each congresionai district and county

agents in the several counties, the latter

to be placed at first where the need is

most apparent and the system to be

gradually enlarged as is found practical.

Thus the scientific details of farm and

soil management as revealed by experi-

mental and research work will be given

a more practiccl application in the up-

building of our agriculture through ex-

pert study of local conditions on the

ground, linking the scientific to the prac-

tical in application to agricultural prob-

lems in a manner never before undertak-

en through the co-operation of the na-

tional and state governments with the

several county municipalities or the peo—

ple of the farming communities of the

state.



Should this experiment in the more

rapid dissemination of scientific agricul-

tural knowledge prove as successful as it

would seem to promise, it will not only

be a valuable aid in the building of new

and prosperous agricultural communities

on the good agricultural lands of Mich—

igan which are as yet undeveloped, but

should, as well, prove instrumental in

solving the problem of the profitable de—

velopment of even the poorest of our

cut-over lands. That all of these lands

may yet prove valuable for agricultural

purposes is far from an impossibility,

notwithstanding the pessimistic views of

our Occana correspondent. It has been

demonstrated that with the application

of proper methods soil-enriching legumes

can be grown on them and it has been

pretty clearly established that where le-

gumes can be successfully grown the

fertility of the soil can be increased to

and maintained at a point which will

make the tiiiing of that soil a profitable

industry.



But while this problem is being solved

there are large areas of naturally fertile





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Which offer the best of opportunities for





home building to the young-men of our





own and other states who are seeking

an independent, honorable and profitable

calling. and there was never a. more

propitious time or place for such to es-

tablish themselves to their future satis-

faction.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





National.





A. S. Seligman, a noted banker, was

shed in an auto accident in New York

city Monday.



The democratic national convention is

in session at Baltimore this week. Early

news indicates a conflict between the

progressives and conservatives of the

party. A majority of the national cem-

mitiee are favorable to the selection of

Judge Alton B. Parker, former nominee

of the organization for president, as

temporary chairman of the convention.

The progressives, under the leadership

of Col. Bryan, are opposing this selec-

tion.



The park commissioners of New York

city have grave apprehensions as to the

permanency of the parks lest some con-

trol over buildings in the immediate

neighborhood be secured. A committee

has been selected to investigate the sit-





uation as presented by landscape archi-





tects.



A failure of Congress to pass appropri~

ation bills for the payment of running

expenses is causing much trouble in the

different departments of the government.

Secretary Wilson has ordered that his

men in the field incur no expenses after

June 30, while the soldiers and sailors in

the army and navy department are to be

paid with I. O. U. paper.





The case of Harry K. Thaw is again

being brought to light by the attempt of

his attorneys to free him from coufine-

ment in the White Plains insane asylum

upon the ground .that he has recovered

sanity. ,



By the collapse of an old wooden dock

on Eagle I‘ark. Grand Island, in the Ni-

agara River, last Saturday night, 32

persons are known to have been lost in

the river. Seventeen of the bodies have

been recovered and identified. Owing to

a lack of jurisdiction on the part of the

federal authorities it seems that no in-

vestigation into the cause of the great

disaster will be made.





Prof. Parker, of Columbian University,

reports that he and his party have been

successful in reaching the top of Mt.

McKinley in Alaska, which is the highest

peak in America.



A stove company of Detroit has adopt-

ed the unique scheme of insuring its em-

ployes. The insurance premiums are

paid by the company and the blanket

policy covers both old and new employee.



The common council of Lansing have

attempted to force a sane celebrmlon by

enacting an ordinance making it illegal

to sell or, use fire crackers more than

two inches long.



Arrangements are being made for the

first international convention of automo—

bile experts of the world to meet in Des-

i331; sometime during the summer of



The water used by Wyandotte has

been condemned by the state board of

health because of the danger from De-

troit sewage which is dumped into the

river above the former municipality.



In a rear end collision between two

freight trains at Crayton, Pa., two per-

sons were killed and four injured last

Saturday morning.



An explosion in a coal mine at Hast-

ings, Col., resulted in 12 men being kill-

ed. It is believed that the accident was

caused by the ignition of gas by what

miners call a “windy shot."



The plan of establishing a federal uni-

versity will occupy the attention of the

National Educational Association at the

meeting of the organization in Chicago

next month.



President Taft vetoed the army ap-

propriation bill which had attached 9.

provision for legislating Majol‘ General

Wood out of his position.



The prosecuting attorney of Midland

county has asked Governor Osborn to re-

move twu township officers of that coun-

ty for misconduct in office.



Foreign.





The Canadian government is com-

mending ihe abolition or reduction of

duties on certain articles not produced in

Canada, but which are shipped into the

country to be manufactured into finished

products.



Statistics show that the export of pulp

wood from Canada is decreasing owing

to the growing tendency to manufacture

same into paper at home. The amounts

sent to the United States shows an in-

crease while exports to Great Britain

have practically disappeared.



A successful flight of the largest dirigi-

ble balloon ever built was made near

Rome, Italy, last week. The air craft

has a. displacement of 12,000 cubic meters

and is equipped with two 120 horsepower

motors.



An Italian expeditiOn has made a suc-





cessful landing at Bu Sheifa, an island'





in the Gulf of Sidra.



It is announced that King George of

Greece will abdicate his throne when he

has completed a half century’s reign, in

favor of the Crown Prince. The abdica—

tion will take place in 1913 if the desire

of the King is carried out. .



There have been no developments in the

Cuban situation this past week save the

charges made against President Gomez,

to the effect that the rebellion was start—

ed under his direction for the purpose of

establishing his power by. putting it

down. The charges are made by a. Cuban

publication.





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THE JULY PROGRAMS.





State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First

Meeting. 0





(A Patriotic Program).



Patriotic songs.



Prayer: “For all public officers,"- by

chaplain.



Reading, “Who are the people?" from

Ray S. Baker’s article in American Mag-

azine.



SOHR‘,



Who are “The People?" discussion.



A playlet, "Birth of the National Flag,”

in charge of Equal Suffrage Committee.



Reading, “Alfalfa.”



Discussion, “How shall. we insure best

crops of alfalfa?”



Patriotic songs.





 





 





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.



Agriculture in High Schoois is favored

by the members of Howell Grange and

at its last meeting a committee was ap-

pointed to confer with the Howell board

'of education with a view to having the

teaching of agriculture introduced in the

local. high school. This Grange is wide

awake and has well attended meetings.



Benzie Pomona held its summer meet-

ing with Almira Grange at the latter's

hail overlooking Lake Ann, May 31 and

June 1. Six of the county's eight subor-

dinates were represented, and visitors

were present from Leelanau and Grand

Traverse Pomonas. Bro. N. I. Moore. of

Jackson county, was present in the ca-

pacity of state deputy and gang several

excellent Grange talks. Nineteen candi-

dates were given the degree of Pomona.



Encouraging the Boys and Girls.-—At a

recent meeting of Calhoun Pomona the

duties of parents to their boys and girls

were brought squarely to the attention

of patrons by Secretary Ashley, of the

Y. M. C. A., who explained the workings

of the county system. He said it was

up to the parents to work with their

children and give- them encouragement.

He declared that the desires and inclina-

tions of the young people are not always

given proper consideration. School Com—

missioner Miller talked along the same

line and told how a little encouragement

developed a young lady of the vicinity

into an artist of considerable ability for

one of her age. He told of the corn Con-

teSt and said 31 boys and one girl had

entered and each would raise a quarter

of an acre in the contest this year. In

the contest for delegate to the state

fair 33 boys and seven girls have entered.



Kent electurer's' Second Conference.—

The s'ec'émd lecturers’ conference of the

year in Kent county was held in the

Farmers’ Club room, Grand Rapids, June

12. It proved a very profitable session

to those presznt, Sister Curtiss, Pomona

lecturer, having provided a full program

of helpful subjects designed to bring out

not only individual successes in the lee-

turer’s work but also the failures. She

encouraged each one to “give and get"

help from the suggestions made. As a.

further help in becoming better ac—

quainted and gaining assistance from

each other, the plan of the “Round Robin

Letter,” which was first suggested at the

Rockford meeting of Pomona. in January

of this year, was more fully explained.

The plan is to begin with a page by Po-

mona lecturer of some progiam, or sug-

gestions for one, this being sent in turn

to all lecturers according to the alpha—

betical list of Granges, each one adding

a help and sending the whole promptly

to the next one. When the letter has

been the rounds, ‘No. 1 will replace her

first with a second, if it is found desir-

able to continue it. The letter was start—

ed in April. On this especial day there

were many outside attractions, yet the

attendance was good, one lecturer com~

ing 25 miles to be present. A vote de-

cided in favor of another conference

early in October.—M. C. S.



Grand Traverse Pomona held its sum-

mer meeting in Grant township hall on

.iune 5 with representatives of VVilliams-

burg, Summit, Silver Lake, Peninsula and

(lrand Traverse Granges in attendance.

Every subordinate in the county submit-

ted a report, all of which were encourag-

ing. After a big dinner, served in tents

on the lawn, a shOrt business session was

held, followed by an excellent program.

“The co-operative marketing of farm

products” was discussed at length, the

consensus of opinion being that the time

is ripe for the adoption of a pracrical

system of co-operative marketing and

that the farmer's income will be increas-

ed thereby. “Potato culture” was the

Filbjt‘c‘l of another profitable discussion,

The greatest interest, however, was de-

veloped by the debate on the question of

granting suffrage to women. Affirmative

arguments were presented by Silver Lake

Grange, while members of Grand Tra-

verse Grange presented the negative side.

A great many of those present took ad-

vantage of the opportunity given to par-

Tlcipafe in the general discussion and at

its conclusion a vote was taken which

gave the decision to the affirmative side

by a large majority. Fred C. VVnrner, of

Peninsula Grange, in presenting the topic,

“Important points in the school law.”

called attention to some of the changes

that had been made by the present legis-

lature, and to some of the laws that are

often overlooked. The evening program

was furnished mainly by the younger

members, a drill participated in by 24

children forming a. prominent and pleas-

mg feature. The next ”meeting of this

Pomona will be held with Silver Lake

Grange, at Monroe Center, Sept. 4 and 5.





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Aneciatlonai Motto.—

The skillful hand, with cultured mind.

is the farmer‘s most valuable asset.





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AuOciational Sentiment.—

The farmer, he garners from the 801]

the primal wealth of nations.





ANNUAL PICNICS.





 





With the arrival of the season for Club

picnics, an occasional notice of such an

event is found in the reports from local

Clubs, published under the head of Club

Discussions in this department. It is

desirable that'publicity be given to each

and every such special feature meeting,

to the end that the public may be ad-

vised as to when and where they are to

be held, and many new people thus be-

come interested in the Club as an or-

ganlzatlon. It will be helpful to the Club

as well, to have publicity given to these

special feature meetings, hence each cor-

responding secretary of a local Club ls

urged to send a notice of such meetings

to the Michigan Farmer at the earliest

possible date after arrangements have

been made for holding them.





 





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





 





The Automobile for the Farmer.——In

spite of rain and mud the Hadley and

lilba Farmers' Club held an enthusiastic

meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Wesley Himes. The roll call response,

“'l‘he most interesting book I’ve read

and why I liked it,” was heartily given.

“Is the automobile a practical invest-

ment for the former?" was well handled

by Charles ltilvy, who is a strong advo-

cate of the automobile. Mrs. Wm. Bar—

tenfeld'rr led in the general discussion of

“Waste in the home." Committees were

appointed to arrange the “Children’s

Day" meeting to be held in June at The

Oaks, with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brown.

After a genemus supper the plucky mem-

bers drove home through the rain, feel-

ing well repaid for their efforts—Mrs. C.

1). Johnson, Cor. Sec.



Discuss Woman Suffrage and Social-

lsm.—'l‘he \Vixom Farmers” Club held its

June meeting at the pleasant farm home

of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Burch. A good

number were in attendance and the day

was much enjoyed. After the bountiful

dinner the meeting was called to order





by President D. Gage, and a lengthy and





interesting program was rendered, con-

sisting of recitations. vocal and instru-

mental music, and question box, which

contained several good questions which

brought out quite lively discussions. This

was especilly true of the ones on wom-

an suffruge and socialism, the trend of

opinion being in favor of suffrage. Dr.

Banks, of Detroit, was with us and gave

us a very valuable and interesting talk

along that line. There was a difference

of opinion as to what socialism is; and

this subject will be taken up again in

the near future—Mrs. R. D. Stephens.

Cor. Sec.



To organize Junior Club at Annual

Picnic.—The Charleston Farmers’ Club,

of Kalamazoo county, will hold a picnic

at Hageishaw’s grove, Thursday. July 4.

Plans are being made to organize 3. Jun-

ini‘ Farmers’ Club for the boys and girls.

This Club will try to stimulate a healthy

interest among the children in all that is

worth while in country life. Rev. A. W.

Nagler, who is a great lover of children,

has consented to give a talk. Parents

are urged to bring their boys and girls.

Every child in Charleston township is

especially invited. If your folks can't

come, come anyway, and no child shall

go away hungry.



Question Box the Feature of Club

Meeting—The Riverside Farmers' Club

Iict June 6, at the- pleasant home of

Lewis Lyons, south of Corunna, The day

was bright and fair and a large number

or members, with invited guests. were

present. The meeting was called to order

by Vice—President Mrs. Kent'field. Roll

call showed 14 families were represented.

Chaplain George Detwiler read the 24th

psalm A song. “My Old Kentucky

Home.” was sung by the Club. The- name

of Frank Cary, {{S a candidate for mem-

bership, was voted upon and he WLlS

elected. The question box was in charge

(if Mr. Deiwlier and it brought out some

good subjects. Mr. Mattoon: “Which

would you prefer, the revenue on liquor

or local option and taxes to raise money

for the county’s nccd?” Mr. Mattoon

thought that all that was gotten in the

way of revenue was used to prosecute

criminal cases arising from the use of

liquor. Mrs. J. Bilhimer: “Should wom-

an suffrago carry. and why?” She de-

clared that it is the duty of men to see

that women vote. Vthn this is accom~

pli‘shed, she said. there will be no more

saloons. The failure of the local option

law in Shiawassec county, she declared,

18 due to the failure of the officers TO

do their duty. Mr. Lyons: “Which

would be the more profitable, one mile

of state road, or the money spread over

roads in general?” The reward road is

all right, Mr. Lyons said, but other roads

need repairs. This closed the topics and

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Grains and Seeds.





Wheat—Except for a few minor fluc-

tuations the wheat market remains upon

the basis of a week ago, with a tendency

upward at the opening of the trade this

week. Those who desire higher prices

are encouraged by the hot weather pre-

vailing throughout the northwest on both

the American and Canadian sides of the

line. The lack of stocks in the import-

ing countries of Europe has also given

encouragement to the bulls. This condi—

tion is further augmented by the short

crops in the producing countries abroad.

On the other hand, reports are reaching

the trade centers from the southwest to

the effect that many fields which were

earlier pronounced a total loss are yield—

ing as high as ten bushels per acre. in

Nebraska and Kansas the situation is re-

ported more promising than earlier. The

cash trade is slow, millers are having a.

small call for flour and they are refusing

to stock up with old wheat because the

outlook of the spring wheat crop is so

promising that they believe lower prices

will prevail. Tie visible supply shows an

increase of about one and three—quarter

million bushels. One year ago the price

for No. 2 red wheat was 88c per bushel

on the local market. Quotations are as

follows:





No. 2 N0. 1



Red. White. July. Sept.

Thursday . . . 1.12%, 1.1014 1.12%, 1.1414

Friday ....... 1.1114 1091/, 1.111,; 1.1314;

Saturday .. . . -1-11% 1.09% 1.11% 1.13%

Monday ..............................

Tuesday ..... 1.121/2 1.101/2 1.12% 1.14%





Wednesday “1.1214 1.105; 1.1414 1.15:};



Corkahe dccline of last week has

been folowed by a small reaction in val-

ues. The slight improvement in wheat

has no doubt aided, but the delay in

corn planting and the slow growth of the

plant, due to cool weather has impaired

the outlook for a. big crop. Feed manu-

facturers are not taking corn as ple-nti-

i'ully as is tlicir custom, but are using

substitutes. The trade is quiet. The

visible supply shows a decrease of 619,000

bu. One year ago No. 3 corn was quoted

at 58c per bu. Prices for the past week

are as follows:





No. 3 N0. 3



Corn Yellow

Thursday ................ 751A; 77%;

Friday ................... 76 78

Saturday ................. 76 78%

Monday ................... .. ....

Tuesday .................. 76 781,5

Wednesday .............. 76 781A,





Oats—While all easy tone ruled at the

close of the oat market on Tuesday,

prices held steady throughout the past

week. The-re is little change in crop con-

ditions, most. sections reporting the crop

as equally promising with a chk ago.

The visible supply shows a decrease of

655.000 bushels. One year ago standard

cats were quoted at 45c per bu. Quota-





tions are as follows;

Standard. WN0.3





hite.

T h ur’sda y ................ 5 5 9/, 551,],

Friday ................... 55%. 551,»;

Saturday ................. 55% 55

Monday .................. .... . ..

Tuesday .................. 553-; 55

\Vednesday .............. 55-7., 55





Beans—This department of the market

is lifeless, no transactions being reported.

Quotations which are nominal remain

the same as last week. Thcy are:





Cash Oct.

Thursday . . . . ............ $2 70 $2.30

Friday ..................... 2.70 2.30

Saturday .................. 2.70 2.30

Monday .................. . .. .. .. ..

Tuesda y .................... 2.70 2.30

\Vetlllesdlly ................ 2.70 2,30





Clover Seed ”The-1c is nothing doing in

thc clover sctd iielil. Octobci' is nomi-

nally quotcd at the same Iiguic. as a.

Week ago. _



I’riinc Oct.





Thuisday $1000

Friday ............................ 10.00

Saturday ......................... l0.00

Monday ........................... 10.00

'l‘uesday .......................... 10.00

\Vediicsda y ....................... 10.00





Rye.~’l‘lie i‘yo trade is inactive, with

the quotations of last weck still ruling,

the price bciiig 89c for cash No. 2,



Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.



Flour.~—l‘i‘iccs are steady with the



trade slow.





Straight ............................. $5.60

Potent Michigan .................... 5.80

Clcar ................................ 5.00

Rye .................................. 5.40





Feed.—]’riccs show a decline of from

$1003. The carlot prices on track are:

‘liran, $25 per ton: coarse middlings, $27:

fine middlings. $30: cracked corn and

coarse corn meal, $311; corn and oat chop,

$32 per ton.



Hay and, Straw.—Hay .and rye straw

are lower. Quotations: No. l, timothy,

$22.500023; No. 2 timothy. $2001.21; clovcr,

mixed, $190112l.50: rye straw. $110,111.50;

wlicat and out straw, $10.5001111 per ton,



Potatoes.~ There is scarcely any trud—

ing in old potatoes, the stocks being

practically depleted. New potatoes from

“the south the quoted at $375004 per bbl.



Provisions—Family pork, 3119500112150;

mess pork. $20.50; clear, backs, $195003

21.50; hams, 1414.017151/20; briskets, 111/661)

12c: shoulders. 12c; picnic hams. 101/200

11c; bacon, 14011160: pure lard in tierces,

13c; kettle rendered lard, 13c per lb.



Dairy and Poultry Products.



Button—Butter prices are unchanged

from last week. While the output over

the country is large storage people are

not taking hold of the market as usual

because 'they believe prices are too high





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to warrant packing. The demand for

imediate consumption is strong and gives

the trade good support, although it is

prophesied by big dealers that prices

must decline within a short time. Quo-

tations are: Extra creamery, 26%0; first

creamery, 251/2c; dairy, 21c; packing

stock, 190 per 1b.



Eggs—A strong demand from consum-

ers and storage people gives the egg

trade an active support and enables the

dealers to handle rapidly the very large

volume of business forced upon them.

Current receipts, candied, are quoted at

200; seconds, 1715c; check, 16c per dozen.



P0uitry.—Trade is about steady with a.

week ago. Offerings are small. Quota—

tions: Live—«Broilers, 25011280; chickens,

110012c; hens, 12011130; turkeys, 16@1‘8c;,

geese, 1101112c; ducks, 140; young ducks,

15@160 per lb.



Veall.—Steady; fancy, 10073110 per 1b;

choice, 8009c per lb.



Cheese—All grades except Michigan

flats and limburger rule higher. Michi—

gan flats. 16011170; York state, flats, 17@

18c; limburger, 1701118c; domestic Swiss,

24@»25c; brick cream, 16071180.



Fruits and Vegetables.





Cherries—Sour are quoted at $1.25 per

lG-qt. case.



Raspberries.——In small supply, and red

are selling at $4.50 per 24-pt. case.



strawberrie5.——Michigan berries are

offered freely but the wide demand is

keeping the trade firm at; quotations

slightly higher than those of last week.

The price paid for Michigan 16-qt. cases

is from $1011.25.



Honey.—Choice to fancy comb, 15@16c

per lb; amber, 12@13c.



Apples—Market slow. Baldwins are

selling at $450015; Steele Red, $5.50@6;

Ben Davis, $3013.50.





OTHER MARKETS.





 





Grand Rapids.



There were 500 teams of sellers on the

city market Tuesday morning. Straw—

berries sold at 600J85c. Dry weather is

shortening the berry season. \\’hite cher-

ries sold at $3 per bu.. red cherries at

$2.50. Vegetables are selling as follows:

Old potatoes, $1; new potatoes, $1.50; car-

rots, 15c; radishes, 5c; onions, 10c; beets,

2501.350; lettuce, 25c; cabbage, $1.25; pie-

plant, 25c; peas, $1.75. Old hay is bring-

ing $150018. Dressed hogs are worth $9

009.50.



Chicago.



\Vlieat.——No. 2 red, $1.071/g@1.091/1; July,

$10714; Scptcnibei', 351.04%.



Corn.——-No. 3, 721/20073c; July, 731/2c;

September, The per bu.



Oats—No, 2 white, 53%;Q054yéc; July,

487%; September, 4014c per bu.



Barley—Malling grades, 80c@$1.05 per

bu; feeding, 65011700



Button—Last week’s prices rule. Vol-

ume of business moderately good. Quo-

tations: Creameries, 23011250; dairies, 21

01124c per lb.



Eggs.—l\larkct active and firm with 'top

grades showing a. gain of 10; miscellan-

eous offerings unchanged. Quotations

are: Firsts, 181/gc; ordinary firsts, 17c

pcr doz; at mark, cases included, 151/204)

161/:(2 .



l’olatOcs.———\Vith the close of the season

for old stock near at hand and offerings

fairly liberal, prices are declining rapidly.

tild potatoes now quoted at 600170c per

bu; new stock, $1.200111.30 per bu.



Bonus—Prices remain at last week's

figures with business slow. Quota-

tions: l’eu beans, choice hand—picked,

$2.020112.95 per bu; prime, $2.821/g01‘2.85;

red kidneys, $3.25.



Hay and Straw.-—'l‘imothy has suffered

another sharp decline, while clover and

alfalfa are also slightly lower. Straw

unchanged. Quotations: Timothy, choice,

$200122; No, 1, $180119; No. 2 and No. 1

mixed. $150117; clover, $120014; No. 2 and

no grade, $60110; alfalfa, choice, 35156)

15.50; No. 1. $140115; No. 2, $100312.

Straw—Rye, $100111; wheat, $8018.50; oat

$9019.50.





New York.



Button—Top grades are up while- oth-

ers remain steady. Ci'cainery extras,

2701.27ltc; firsts, 25'}.,0_1»261,gc; seconds, 25

(11271350



1.‘}HgS-—1)Glll{llld is large. l‘rices high-

er. Quotations: Frcsh gathcred extras,

2201123c: do. cxti'a firsts, 20012lc; firsts,

1901lfll.._.t"; wtstern gathered whites, 2201)

23c per dozcn.



l’oultry.——l'rices for chickens a little

improvicd. 1,)ress‘e1lssCliickens, broilers,

26012711; fowls, 133201151230; turkeys, 1301)

230 per lb.





Boston.





“bot—An improvement in the textile

industry has forced manufacturers to buy

wool which. in turn, has made it neces-

sary for wool mcrchants to go into the

field and purchase wool at the high prices

beingr :iskcd by growers. This they are

able to do and still make a nice margin

of profit. In the tleecc states prices are

ruling from 4015c above the parity of

thc seaboard market for old wools. Me—

dium wools are being contracted for in

Ohio for 2501126c and unwashed wools at

2110125c. Fine unwashed rules at 270,1?28c.

Michigan prices are ruling on about the

same comparative basis. Throughout the

tlcecc states the quality of the offerings

is cxcclent. This accounts in part for

thc bcttcr prices that growers are able

to command. in all, however, the strong

demand from the manufacturers appears

to be the basis for the present upturn in

wool values.





 





Elgin.





Butter.——Market is firm at 250 per lb.,

which is the price of 'the previous week.





 





An Iowa farmer says: “The pig crop

is small, and every farmer is selling calves

for veal. There are no cattle for mark-

eting hereabouts, and very few are being

raised.” '





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

June 24, 1912.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, New York).





Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 140 cars; hogs, 100 double decks;

sheep and lambs, 32 double decks; calves

2,600 head.



With 140 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and with 17,000 reported in

Chicago, our market was 10@15c per cwt.

higher on all good grades. The commOn

low grades and slippery kinds only sell-

ing about steady with last week. How-

ever, we had an active market, and by

one o’clock everything had gone over the

scales, and the market closed steady.

Common stockcrs sold very badly; 1509250

lower than last week.



We quote: Best 1,400 to 1,600-lb. steers

dry-fed, $9009.40; good prime 1,300 to

1,400-lb. do., $885,009.25; do. 1,200 to 1.300-

lb. do., $8.50@8.75; medium butcher

steers, 1,000 to 1,100, dry—fed, $7.85@8.40;

best fat cows, dry-fed, $6.25@6.50; best

fat heifers, dtry-fed, $7.75@‘8.25; grass

steers, 1,000 to 1,100, $7007.50; light grass

steers, $6@6.50; best grass cows, $4@4.50;

grassy butcher cows, $3.50@4; grassy fat

heifers, $6036.50; grassy butcher heifers

and steers mixed, $6.25@6.50; trimmers,

$275013; stock heifers, $4.25@4.30; best

feeding steers, dehorned, extra good,

$550006; common feeding steers. $4.50@

5; stockers, inferior, $3.50@4; prime ex—

port bulls, $6.75@7; best butcher bulls,

$550006; bologna bulls, $4.250115.25; best

milkers and springers, $500060; fair to

goghd do., $400145; common kind do., $25

LU .



We had a very good market here to-

day on all grades of hogs. With 100

loads on sale and an equal demand, the

trade was full strong 'with the close of

last week; pigs and lights sold some

higher. One or two loads of fancy hogs

sold at $8.05018.10, with the bulk of the

best at $8. Ordinary yorkers, $7.750117.90;

pigs and lights. $7.500117.65; roughs, $6.50

(11.7; stags, $50136. Market closed full

steady, and with a good clearance. we

should have a good trade here tomorrow,

and a fairly good market the balance of

this week.



The lamb market today was active;

most of the choice spring lambs sold at

55925012950. There was no dry—fed year-

lings on the market today; the best that





.was here sold mostly at $7.50; one or two





small bunches at $8. The sheep market

was also active; prices strong 500 higher

than last week. Look for about steady

prices on both sheep and lambs the bal-

ance of the week.



\\'c quote: Choice spring lambs, $9.25

01950; cull to fair do., $50118; ycarlings

lambs, $7.50@8; bucks, $2.500113; wetliers,

“250115.50; handy ewes, $4.5001.4.75;

heavy ewes, $4014.50; cull sheep, $250011

3; veals, choice to extra, $9.25@9.50;

fair to good do., $650028.



Chicago.

June 24, 1912.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 18.000 12.000 18,000

Same day last year..29.865 41.393 23.060

Rcccived last wcck..52.865 ll7.858 87.423

Sarie wrxek last yetir.56.344 ”8.738 100,688



The restricted demand for cattle is il-

lustrated today by the fact that only fat

lots had much demand, while the others

were slow and barely steady, despite the

exticmcly light Monday run. Last week

the reccipts were so much larger than in

other recent weeks that packrrs got well

stocked up with bcef to meet present

inotlcratc requirements. However, the

i'cw strirtly prime bceves averaged a

dime higher this morning, with a sale

of 331 fancy Iowa fed branded Hereford

steers that averaged 1,495 lbs. at $9.60,

another high record.



Hogs were a good nickel higher this

morning, with sales at $7.300177.80 for an

cxtrcmc range. Hogs received last Week

averaged 236 lbs, the same as a Week

earlier. comparing with 234 lbs. a year

ago and 212 lbs, two years ago.



Silecli and ycai'lings are steady today,

and several cars of range wcthers and

yearlings arrivcd from \\'asliiiigton and

Oregon. .Spring lambs were off about

2'1c under the load of large numbers re-

ceivcd by packers direct from Louisville,

i‘ollowintr about 8.000 rcceivcd the same-

way last Saturday. The best spring

lambs cffercd Oil the open market

brought $0.



Cattle had such a big advance in prices

on meager offerings during the previous

week that receipts were greatly increas-

ed during the first half of last week, and

thc result was a reaction in prices for

pretty nearly everything except the best

class of heavy, long-fed beeves. The

top prices were higher than ever. steers

of choice to fancy grading going at $9.10

0119.50. while good heavy cattle brought

$870010, medium lots selling at $7.75@

8.65, fair steers at $7 and upward and

the commonest little yearlings at $6.15

and over. The greater part of the steers

crossed the scales at 55750017910, and

numcrous sales were made of distillery

fed steers at $8019.50. Cows and heifers

found buyers at 5114.30017850, with :1 Mon-

day sale of 38 head of fancy Hereford

heifers that averaged 639 lbs. at $8.65.

Extra hcifers always sell at outside fig-

ures, as do prime heavy steers, but the

gcneral ma‘rkct for female cattle broke

last week more on an average than

steers. medium lots selling very badly.

Cutters sold at $3.400D425, canners at

$2,507D335 and bulls at $3.750117.50, few

bulls going anywhere near the top fig—

ure. By Thursday there was a reaction

in the market due to small offerings,

with fat cattle ruling largely 100015c

higher, but inferior light cattle were dull

and no better in price. The stocker and

feeder trade was rather larger than a

week earlier on somewhat larger offer-

ings of medium and common kinds, and

prices averaged 15@25c lower. but choice

lots were as scarce as ever and as firm

as a rule. Stockers brought $4.25@6.50





 





JUNE .29. me.





far inferior to fancy grades, and feeders ,





of fair to extra. weights sold usually at

“(£07. Calves were lower, selling at $3.25

@835 for inferior heavy to prime light

vealers. Milkers and springers sold at

$35_@75 per head, only choice ones ruling

active or firm. At the, close of the week

steers not choice averaged 250 lower than

a week earlier, while grass-fed cows

were off 50@75c.



Hogs started off the past week in the

usual recent bearish fashion, with Mon-

day receipts of 45,375 head and only

4,878_taken by eastern shippers, prices

showmg a drop for the day of about a.

dime. With the best heavy shipping bar-

rows selling for $7.35 and the market‘ the

lowest seen in three months, stockmen

suddenly shut off supplies, and several

good advances took place on subsequent

days. Still the shipping demand con—

tinued small, and the improvement in

prices was altogether due to the decreas-

cd offerings. The decreased runs were

by no means confined to Chicago, but

extended to all the other western mark-

ets. For the year to date, however, the

hog receipts at all western markets have

ran far ahead of corresponding period's

one and two years ago.





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Mecosta 00., June 14,—June has been

a_ cold month to date. Farmers are be-

ginning to get caught up with their

spring work. Many were obliged to plant

their corn from two to three times, ow-

ing to poor seed. The old potatoes prac-

tically all sold and those who held their

crop after being offered $1.30 have learn-

ed their lesson dearly. There is prac—

tically no wheat here this year. Rye in

places is very good. Oats look well, as

well as the bay. The outlook never was

better for apples than this year. A large

acreage of beans being planted. No

horses around here for sale at any price.

Cows (fresh) are selling at from $300050.

Hogs, 7c; fat cattle, 31/120050; eggs, 15c;

butter, 18c; butter-fat, 23c.



Sanilac 00., June 14.—-VVe have not. had

murh hot weather but the ground has

became very hard and dry since the rain.

No easy task to plow it, but still harder

to work down in shape for a good seed

bed. The planting of beans and pota-

toes is the main occupatibn at the pres-

ent time. Corn about all planted. Oats

are not doing very Well; the ground is

settled so firm after the filing that they

are badly in need of‘moisture. Apples

are forming in abundance, especially or-

chards that were taken care of. Che-r—

.ies do not promise very well; frost dam-

aged them in the spring. Horses seem

to be higher this summer than usual.

Dairymen are looking sober over the

price of butter—fat—24c per lb. Wool is

some better in price, 23c now being paid.

Old poratoes will have to last s long as

possible: not much prospect for new

O‘ncs, they are worth around the dollar

mark. Beef and pork are selling well on

foot. Eggs, 16c.



Gratiot Co., June 21.—-Thls Me,Md3

planting in all stages of“tflo"pro'ces§.

Some are cultivating, some planting corn

or i-c-piantiiig, some drilling beans, some

are up nearly large enough to cultivate,

while many have their ground yet to

plow. either in whole or in part. Seed

corn has been a hard proposition in all

sections. Only a few that were not

caught. It appears that quite a large

acreage of potatoes is being planted,

even though the seed is scarce and price

high. \Vheat is heading and it appears

that 50 to 75 per cent of a good crop will

be harvested. A heavy shower Wednes-

day and another Thursday were timely

for some on clay soils, which were too

dry to germinate beans. Grass has made

rapid growth.



Washtenaw 00., June 15.—The weather

up to date has been something of a dis-

appointment to the farmer, an unusually

cold, wet time early in the season gave

way to cold nights and dry days :it the

coin planting season which, together

with semi corn of low vitality has been

suffictcnt to place the average Corn field

111 Very poor condition indccd. But just.

atprcsent a nice little shower and sunny

skies are combining to give a brighter

outlook. Possibly the old adage of “a.

poor beginning makes a gcod ending.”

may prove ti'tic. Oats and grass are

making a good growth. llayiiig has al-

ready coininenccd for those raising al—

falfa. llay probably 75 pcr cent of a

normal crop, and wheat 25 pcr cent of a.

crop.



Ohio.



Carroll 00., June 10.~—\Vc had a pretty



heavy frost hc're the eighth of this

month. \\'e are needing rain now. The

grass isn’t growing very much. Most Of

the corn lSlZ't growing well and some of

it was killed by the recent frost. The

frost did much damage to the gardcns

and truck patches. Farmers think the

wheat crop is killed also. Farmers busy

replanting corn. Seed corn has been

very scarce this spring. Farmers are

done shearing sheep but only a little wool

sold yct.

_ Wayne 00., June 24.—-The weather has

necn very uncertain, bcing very cold and

wet, with a, hard frost on the 8th, the

mercury within one degree of freezing,

doing lots of damage to crops, especially

on low lands. Then the weather warmed

:ip. with a heavy rain on the 15th and

ltith, about five. inches of water having

fallen in the one and a half days, flood—

ing the low lands and doing a great deal

of damage to crops and pasture. Corn

planting was delayed by the wet, cold

weather, some having just been planted

before the heavy rain, and what was up

is growing very slow. Hay prospects are

not improving and will be a short crop

in this part. Oats fair, being of medium

length and having prospects of a fair

crop. What little wheat there is is fill—

ing nicely, but will not be one-quarter of

a crop. Acreage of late potatoes is con-

siderable less this year than usual, 0W-

ing to scarcity of seed and the high

price. Butter, 20c; eggs, 17c.





 





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Thursday’s Market.

June 27, 1912.

Cattle.



Receipts, 1,409. Good dry-fed steady;

all other grades dull, 25@50c lower at

opening; will close even lower.



We duote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $7@7.50; steers and heifers, 1,000

to 1,200, $6.25@6.50; do. 800 to 1.000, $5.25

@6; grass steers and heifers that are fat,

800 to 1,000, $5.25@6; do. 500 to 700, $4@

4.75; choice fat cows, $5@5.25; good fat

cows, $3.75@4.25; common cows, $3603.15;

canners, $2@2.50; choice heavy bulls, $5.25

@550; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $4 50

$4.75; stock bulls, $3.75@4; choice feed-

ing steers, 800 to 1.000, $5@5.50; fair feed-

ing steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.25@4.75;

choice stockers, 500 to 700, $4@5; fair

stockers, 500 to 700, $3.75@4; stock heif-

ers, $4@4.25; milkers, large, young, me-

dium age, $40@60; common milkers, $25

@35. ..

Spicer & R. sold Regan 6 heifers av 433

at $3.50; to Mich. B. Co. 4 cows av 1,100

at $4.25, 3 steers av 937 at $6.30, 2 bulls

av 715 at $4, 1 cow weighing 78,0 at $4,

3 heifers av 737 at $5; to Bresnahan 2

canners av 885 at $3; to Newton B. CO.

10 steers av 943 at $5.25, 2 do av 805 at

$4.25, 1 bull Weighing 960 at $5.50, 6

steers av 925 at $6.50, 2 heifers av 690

at $4.25, 25 steers av 1,012 at $7; to

Kamman 16 do av 876 at $5.60; to Kam-

man B. Co. 30 butchers av 837 at $5.75;

to Laboe 10 do av 740 at $5.10; to Dancer

& Kendall 4 stockers av 620 at $4.50; To

Bresnahon 2 cows av 1.150 at $4.50, 1 do

weighing 720 at $2.60; to Regan 5 butch-

ers av 540 at $4.25, 8 do av 447 at $4; to

Sullivan P.‘Co. 22 do av 842 at $4.50; to

Kamman B. CO. 1 bull weighing 1,420 at

$5.25, 1 do Weighing 1,130 at $5.25; to

Sullivan P. Co. 2 do av 725 at $4, 4 steers

av 790 at $5.25, 3 cows av 887 at $2.75.



Roe Com. Co. sold Rattkowsky 2 cows

av 835 at $3.50; to Mich. B. CO. 3 butch—

ers av 700 at $5, 2 cows av 915 at $3.25;

to Newton B. Co. 1 do weighing 740 at

$3, 1 bull weighing 1.200 at $4.75, 1 do

weighing 1,290 at $5.75, 22 butchers av

840 at $6.25, 4 cows av 1,082 at $5, 1 do

weighing 740 at $3, 1 do weighing 1,080

at $4, 4. do av 1,090 at $5, 6 do av 833 at

$3, ,2 do av 820 at $3; to Austin 18 stock-

ers av 502 at $5; to Sullivan P. Co. 10

butchers a; 566 at..$4.25; to Rattkowsky

& CO. 2 bulls av 1,185 at $5; to Mich. B.

5 cows av 944 at $4; to Mich. B. Co. 13

butchers av 783 at $5.40; to Parker, W.

Co. 1 do weighing 760 at $4, 12 cows av

1,013 at $5; to Thompson Bros. 8 butch-

ers av 612 at $5; to David 5 stockers av

430 at $4.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 12 butch-

ers av 882 at $6.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Schlischer 8

butchers av 541 at $4.15; to Austin 2

stockers av 505 at $4.50; to Bresnahan i.

steer weighing 1,400 at $7.50, 1 cow wgh

1,300 at $6, 1 do weighing 1,140 at $4.25;

to Newton B. Co. 1 cow weighing 1,160

at $6; to Parker, W. & Co. 29 butchers

av 8'80 at $6.50, 1 bull weighing 800 at

$4.50, 2 do av 1,140 at $5; to Austin 3

stockers av 523 at $4.75; to Newton B.

Co. 4 butchers av 795 at $5, 4 do av 732





at $5.25, 2 do av 620 at $4.25; to Regan _





3 do av 497 at $4; to Bresnahan 10 cows

av 886 at $4.10, 5 do av 832 at $3.10: to

Regan 7 heifers av 583 at $4.50; to New-

ton B. Co. 4 steers av 842 at $5.25, 19

butchers av 904 at $5.50; to Sullivan 1’.

Co. 5 do av 890 at $5, 1 canner weighing

1.000 at $3, 1 steer weighing 900 at $7, 1

bull weighing 2,060 at $5.50, 1 do weigh-

ing 1,020 at $4.50; to Bresnahan 23 stock-

ers av 500 at $4; to Simmons 8 do av 705

at $5; to Dancer & K. 6 do av 543 at

$4 75; to Thompson Bros. 13 butchers av

766 at $4.



Haley & M. sold Breitenbeck 3 cows av

973 at $4.25; to Bresnahan 10 butchers av

555 at $4.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 heifer

weighing 640 at $4.50, 3 do av 790 at

$4 50, 2 cows av 915 at $4.25, 2 steers av

980 at $7.25, 2 do av 1,035 at $6; 'to Apple-

baum 1 cow weighing 1,000 at $3.75, 2

heifers av 700 at $4.40; to Parker, W. &

(‘0. 2 bulls av 1,100 at $5; to Kamman,

10 cows av 932 at $3.90, 4 do av 1,050 at

$4.50, 7 butchers av 817 at $5.25; to Mich.

B. Co. 9 do av 744 at $5.10, 1 cow weigh-

ing 1,090 .at $3.50, 1 heifer weighing 900

at $5, 6'butchers av 900 at $5.25; to

Goose 9 do av 394 at $4; to Sullivan P.

Co. 1 cow weighing 890 at $3. 1 bull

weighing 1.250 at $5, 5 cows av 920 at

$4. 1 do weighing 740 at $3.25, 5 do av

834 at $4; to Rattkowsky 2 bulls av 1,070

at $5; to Newton B. Co. 2 oxen av 1,920

at $5.25, 3 bulls av 816 at $4.25, 2 cows av

1,170 at $5.25; to Dancer & K. 3 stockers

av 570 at $4.25, 4 do av 632 at $4, 4 do

av 667 at $4.50-



Weeks sold Bresnahan 14 butchers av

573 at $4.75.



Sandall sold Newton B. Co. 2 bulls av

875 at $4.25, 2 do av 655 at $4, 2 cows av

1.240 at $5.25, 2 steers av 865 at $6, 13

butchers av 675 at $4.90. 2 cows av 730

at $3.25, 1 do weighing 1,000 at $2.75.



Weeks sold Elk 4 cows and bulls av

1,045 at $4.25.



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 1,056. Market. 25c higher than

last week. Best; $8@9; others, $4@7.50.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 10 av

165 at $8.75, '8 av 155 at $8.50; to Sulli-

van P. Co. 5 av 125 at $6.50, 5 av 150 at

$8.50, 14 av 180 at $5, 4 av 155 at $8.75,

8 av 130 at $7.50; to Burnstine 10 av 133





   





 





 





at $8.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 14 av 145

at. $8 25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 18

av 155 at $8.25, 7 av 150 at $7, 29 av 150

at $8.25; to Applebaum 16 av 155 at $6;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 1 weighing 180

at $7, 19 av 160 at $8.60, 18 av 155 at

$8.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 7 av 135 at' $8.25;

to Rattkowsky 29 av 150 at $7.85, 14 av

135 at $8.10.



Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 21 av 155

at $8.50, 6 av 135 at $8; to Newton B. Co.

2 av 150 at $6, 11 av 150 at $8, 10 av 155

at $8.50; to Goose 13 av 140 at $7.50, 8 av

200 at $7, 20 av 130 at 7; to Newton B.

Co. 18 av 160 at $8.50; to Elk 1 weighing

120 at $7.50, 9 av 150 at $8.50, 5 av 120

at $7.50.



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

3 av 140. at $7, 8 av 155 at $8.75, 4 av 125

at $7.45, 17 av 160 at $9, 5 av 125 at $7,

3 av 185 at $8.75, 10 av 148 at $8, 15 av

155 at $6.50, 8 av 145 at $8, '8 av 140 at

7.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 6 av 175 at

$8.75; to Goose 3 av 125 at $7.75, 11 av

140 at $8.10: to Hammond, S. & Co. 5 av

120 at $7, 12 av 150 at $8.75, 4 av 155 at

$9; to Goose 5 av 140 at $8.50; to Nagle

P. Co. 2 av 130 at $7, 21 av 155 at $8.75,

2 av 120 at $7, 15 av 150 at 8.75, 10 av

129 at $6, 18 av 135 at $8; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 20 av 125 at $8.15, 9 av 150 at

$8.75, 14 av 175 at $9, 2 av 130 at $6.50, 9

av 150 at $8.75, 5 av 150 at $6.50, 15 av

160 at $8.75; to Nagle P. Co. .2 av 130 at

$6, 11 av 160 at $8.50, 32 av 165 at $8.75,

3 av 150 at $6.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 1,712. Market steady with

last week; lambs 25c lower than on Wed-

nesday. Best lambs, $753011 8; fair to

good lambs. $6.50@7; light to common

lambs, $4@6; yearlings, $4@7; fair to

good sheep, $3@3.50; culls and common,

$1.50@2.50.



Spit-er & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 25

lambs av 65 at $5.75, 4 do av 70 at $8.50:

to Young 40 do av 65 at $8.35. 8 do av

75 at $5.50; to Thompson Bros. 9 sheep

av 73 at $2.50; to Youngs 12 do av 110

at $3.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 lambs av

70 at $8.50, 4 sheep av 105 at $3.



Sandall sold Mich. B. Co. 10 lambs av

60 at $7.50, 5 sheep av 90 at $2.



Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 44

lambs av 60 at $7.75, 9 do av 65 at $6, 12

sheep av 100 at $3.50, 3 do av 130 at $3.25,

6 lambs av 70 at $5.50, 30 do av 80 at

$7.50, 7 do av 80 at $8.50, 17 sheep av

125 at $3; to Thompson Bros. 5 do av 80

at $2, 17 do av' 120 at $3, 7 lambs av 85

at $6; to Bray 21 sheep av 105 at $3.



Bishop, B. H. sold Sullivan 1’. Co. 22

lambs av 80 at $6, 13 do av 75 at $6, 12

do av 70 at $8: to Thompson Bros. 17

sheep av 85 at $3.50: to Hammond, S. &

Co. 4 yearlings av 95 at $6.50; to Mich.

B. Co. 21 sheep av 85 at $3, 18 do av 125

at $3, 30 lambs av 70 at $8, 10 do av 68

at $8.50, 9 do av 65 at $6; to Fitzpatrick

Bros. 59 do av 65 at $7.50, 14 do av 67

at $7.50, 13 do av 45 at $5, 6 do av 63 at

$7.50, 74 sheep av ‘80 at $3; to Sullivan

P. Co. 13 lambs av 57 at $7; ‘to Fitzpat-

rick Bros. 18 sheep av 110 at $3.25.





Hogs.



Receipts, 2,962. Market 100 lower than

on Vt'edne’sday and last Thursday; none

sold up to noon.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, .$7.35@7.40; pigs, $6.50@6.75; light

yorkers, $7607.25; stags one-third off.



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

1.200 av 200 at $7.40, 1.000 av 170 at $7.35,

710 av 160 at $7.30, 300 av 140 at $7.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 225

av 200 at $7.40, 1.40 av 190 at $7.35, 215 av

180 at $7.30, 38 av 170 at $7.10.



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

150 av 200 at $7.40, 300 av 173 at $7.35,

125 av 170 at $7.25.



Haley & M. sold same 320 av 190 at

$7.40, 110 av 175 at $7.35.





Friday's Market.

June 21, 1912.

Cattle.



Receipts this week, 1,602; last week,

1,587. Market dull at Thursday’s prices.



'We quote. Best steers and heifers. $7

((777.25; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,

“3.5060675; do. 800 to 1.000, $5.50@6.25;

do. that are fat, 800 to 1.000, $5.50@6.25;

do. 500 to 700, $4615; choice fat. cows, $5

(705.50; good fat cows, $4@4.50; common

cows, $3.25@3.50; canners, $2.25@3; choice

heavy bulls, $5.50; fair to good bologna

bulls, $4.75((il5.25; stock bulls, $4@4.50;

choice- feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@

5; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4@

4.75; choice stockers. 500 to 700, $4675;

fair stockers, 500 to 700, $4.25@4.75; stock

heifers, $4614.50; milkers, large, young,

medium age, $406r60; common milkers,

$256035.



Veal Calves.



Receipts this week, 1,477; last week,

1,731. Market steady at Thursday’s

prices. Best, $8fil8.75; others, $4@7.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts this week. 1,413; last week,

2,342. Market steady at Thursday’s

prices. Best lambs, $6096.50; fair to good

lambs. $46115; light to common lambs,

$350694; spring lambs, $7@8.50; fair to

good sheep, $3@3.50; culls and common,

$2@2.50.





Hogs.



Receipts this week, 4.390; last week.

7,001. All grades 10 higher than on

Thursday. Range of prices: Light to

200d butchers, $7.50@7.60; pigs, $6.606?)

6.85; light yorkers, $7.25@7.35; stags one-

third off.





 





Edward Fulrbury, of Fond du Lac 00..

Wisconsin, who is a prominent cattle

feeder, says his cattle, market at Chi-

cago recently, would have done consider-

ably better if he had had a silo last sum-

mer, when the pastures were poor most

of the season. He intends to build one

soon, as he considers it absolutely neces—

sary for those who Wish to be independ-

ent of drought and rough feed scarcity

and who desire to adopt the most eco-

nomical methods of growing beef cattle.



It has been rumored that the United

States government will shortly be in the

open market to buy cavalry, artillery and

mounted infantry horses.





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should state *history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

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VVindgalls.—HaVe a two-year-Iold colt,

weight 1,600 lbs., which has wmd_p:vffs

on both hind legs. Have applied iodine

ointment with no results; bcsides, ‘ie

has been treated by local Vet, also with

no results. J. T., Breckenridge, Mich.—

The treatment of oursal troubles are

seldom satisfactory no matter “not you

apply. Apply one part red iodide incr-

cury and ten par-s aerate of camber-ides

every ten days and you will obtain fair-

ly good results. In my practice I have

frequently fired and obtained good re-

sults.



Irritation of Mouth—Can you tell me

what causes my cow to slaver when

eating? She also has some discharge

from nose and drools some from mouth

continually. She took sick one week ago,

was treated by our local Vet. for cold in

head, has a good appetite and her breath

has a bad odor. Would you consider her

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eign body in back part of mouth, caus-

ing most of trouble. Have your Vet.

make a careful examination of her

mouth. The mouth should be washed

out with a lotion made by dissolvmg

cooking soda in water. Give 1 oz. hyDO-

sulphite soda at a dose three times a

day.



Enlarged Knee—Impure Blood—About

four weeks ago one of my cows bruised

knee, causing a soft bunch that seems to

contain fluid. I have been tempted to

open it, but before doing so would like

to have your opinion. I have a nine-

year-old horse that has several small

bunches on hips and ilank, but do not

seem to bother him. \l'hat had I better

give him or apply? H. A. T., Nunica,

Mich.——1t is not always good practice to

open a sack of this kind, unless the

wound has proper care and attention af-

terwards. Apply equal parts tincture

iodine and spirits camphor to bunch once

a day. If this fails to reduce the swell-

ing, then it might be well to open suck

carefully, then keep the wound bandaged

and covered with oakum. The wound

should be kept open and wet. with one

part bichloride mercury to 500 parts of

water; also sprinkle one part iodoform

and 10 parts boracic acid on oakum. Give

your horse a dessertspoonful of Dono-

van's solution at a dose in feed three

times a day and apply iodine ointment

to bunches once a day.



Vl'eak Heart—Indigestion—We have a

ten-year-old mare with fairly good ap—

petite, but tires easily, perspires far 100

freely, but seems to rest out of her weak

spells; kidneys and bowels appear to act

in a normal manner, but she is losing

flesh and I would like to know what can

be done for her. G. T., Adrian, Mich.—

Your mare suffers from a weak heart,

perhaps the result of indigestion and im-

proper assimilation of food. Give her

1 dr. ground nux vomica, 1 oz. ground

gentian and 1 oz. bicarbonate soda at a

dose in feed three times a, day. Grain

and grass is the best food you can feed

her.



Mare Does Not Come in Heat.-I have

a six-year-old mare that I am anxious

to use for breeding purposes, but she

has failed to come in heat for the past

12 months. Can I give her anything that

will produce heat? C. L. F., Cedar

Springs, Mich.——I have known a forced

service to produce heat and the mare get

in foal from a future service. Opening

neck of womb might stimulate her gen-

erative organs into action. Also give her

1 dr. ground nux vomica and 20 grs. of

powdered caniharides at a. dose in feed

once or twice a day.



“'eakness.—-Will you tell me what ails

my three-year-old filly? She worked

well every day up to tWo weeks ago.

Now she seems to play Out after work—

ing two hours and refuses to do any

more. Coaxing fails to make her work.

She has good appetite, looks well, but

when she sweats the perspiration is cold

and clammy. I have derived a great

deal of benefit from your veterinary col-

umn in the, past and I am sure you can

prescribe a remedy that will help her. J.

B., Temple, Mich—(live your mare 11/2

drs. ground nnx vomica, 1/_. oz, ground

gentian, 1/._. oz. of ground cinchona,

and a dessertspoonful of salt at a

dose in feed three times a day. In my

practice when treating cases of this kind

1 have derived benefit by giving a table-

spoonful of tincture arnica at a dose

three, times a day. This seems to in-

crease perspiration by stimulating the

small blood vessels and glands of skin.



Fracture—Bruised Shoulder—Some ten

weeks ago my eight—year-old horse go.

kicked, injuring shoulder. He was not

very lame the first ten days, but soreness

increased; our local Vet. thought his

shoulder had been fractured and applied

a light blister, Which we repeated ten

days later. ‘No improvement could be

noticed and local Vet. opened shoulder,

found no splinters of bone, but thought

bone injured. His shoulder is now slight-

ly suppurated in three or four places.

E. B. W., Prescott, Mich.~—Dissolve 14 lb.

acetate- of lead and 3 ozs. carbolic acid

in a gallon of water and apply to shOul-

der five times a day. Also give him a

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at a dose in feed two or three times a

day. You should not apply any strong

liniment or blister, for these do a case of

this kind no good, but usually hinder a

recovery.~ ,



Thoroughpin.——Have colt one year old

sired by Shire horse out of grade Clydes-

dale mare that has a puff extending

through hock between ham-string and

joint. F. W C., Caro, Mich—Your colt

is perhaps in pasture and will not grow

any worse if not treated before stabling

him next fall. Fairly good results will

be obtained by applying equal parts of

tincture iodine. and spirits of camphor or

iodine ointment twice a. week.





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IS FAMILY DISLOYALTY RESPONSIBLE

FOR POLITICAL GRAFTP





llE American people are popularly

I supposed to be the most patriotic

on carth. A sight of the old red,

white and blue is always good for a

round of cheers; talk of war with a. for—

eign country brings to light hundreds of

embryo coloncls, and public holidays are

always the occasion for spurts of elo—

quence and big allusions to Our Coun-

trry’s Greatness which would make a

Ma1tian t'ecl that hue was patriotism at

its highest notch.



But the1e is one little attribute which

alone makes for true patriotism, and

which is so sadly deficient in the average

Aincrican that I often wonder if it is not

something other than patriotism with

which our speakers are tilled on Fourth

of .luly. I refer to loyalty.



Now I suppose my readers will rise

light up and vow that they {ilt‘ filled

to the brim with loyalty, and no doubt

they think they are. Jiiit just the ordi-

nary round of conversation convinces a.

thoughtful person that most of us are

short of that commodity. The lack 'of

loyalty in family life. not to mention the

lack in political and commercial life, is

enough to close all mouths.



\Vomen who complain of their husbands

are so common as to eXcite scarcely any

remark. liven the best of wives, the

ones who would fight to a finish if any-

one else criticised “John,” will complain

bitterly of his shortcomings and take

pxide in their wifely devotion while so

doing. John is slow and always was,

even when Mary took him for better or

for worse. Mary knew it before she said

the fatal words, but she can't keep still

about it now that she is his dutiful wife.

She nags him-continually and means

over. it to all her friends. Some other

ll'lary’s John is “near,” that word being

more polite than stingy; another man is

Sillfl‘leSS, another is slack about the farm

and another dresses too well. A proper

sense of loyalty would prompt these

women to cover the faults of thcir hus-

bands, but as a usual thing their griev—

ance against John is the burden of their

talk.



Perhaps it is not John but his mother

who is the thorn in the llcsh, or perhaps

John’s mother considers Mary the thorii.

Either way a lack of loyalty to family

permits the women to talk about one an-

other to all comers. Children, aping

their elders, babble about family affairs

which should be kept sacredly private,

and then the parents wondcr how family

societs become the property of everyone.



The queer part of it is that strangers

are told these things. “'0 might forgive

'the woman, who, after years of repres—

sion. unburdcns her heart to a friend.

but what can we think of the woman

who tcn minutes after an llil‘l‘titlllt‘iltill is

pouring out to the new acquaintance all

her family t1“ouhlcs‘? Not only does such

a Woman lack loyalty, but there i'. a sur-

prising deficiency in common sense. not

to 111cntion tine manners and innate deli-

cacy.



in commercial life it is the same story.

.lCmploycs are. always complaining of the

t1‘1‘-t111nc11t they get from ciiiployers. From}

the hired man on the farm to the eight—

dollar—a—weck clerk in town. it is the

same story, The cmploye is always over-

woikcd and underpaid. He may waste

a good quarter of the time he is paid for

working and half do his Work while he

is at it, but to hear him talk he is al-

ways abused. And this is the smallest

part of his disloyalty. Coming in close

contact with his employer he can not

but learn things which he should know

must ntver be repeated. But he. never

has a scruple about telling all he know:

and (cuntlcss are the instantes W'heic the

employo is paid well by other men for

such disloyalty.



Loyalty to country in politics is a joke.

The country is usually the farthest thing

from thc thoughts of your patriotic poli-

tician, even when he is making the eagle

scream its loudest in his fervid Speeches.

It is the, individual first, last and always

who claims his loyalty.





Am I wrong in saying that it is the

lack of loyalty in family relations which

1s responsible for its absence in commer-

cial and political life? Anti-suffragists

tell us that women really rule the coun-

try through the cradle. By our lack of

family loyalty are we really reSponsible

for the commercial and political dishon—

esty with which we are today struggling?

it seems a far cry from grumbling about

our husbands to boodling, but if all sin

can be traced back to one of seven roots

are not these two sins products of the

one stalk, disloyalty?



DEBORAH.





HUMAN WELFARE QUERIES.





llouschold Editor:-’\V0uld you advise

lt‘dtiiig a child lunch between meals?—

Hig Sister.



if the child is hungry enough to eat

lcoed substantial food, and the. lunch does

not make him ‘slight his next meal. 1

should not, however, let him lunch, it‘ he

only wanted fruit, candy, cookies or oth-

(l‘ sweets. if he is hungry enough to ea"

plain bread and butter or bread and milk

he probably needs the food.



Household Editorz—My little girl is

very nervous. She is constantly biting

Ilt‘l' nails and twitching around and al-

ways sits with her mouth open. I have

bet-n careful to have her play outdoors

and put her to bed early. Can you sug—

gest what tho trouble is? She is five

years old—Mother.



llave you been careful of her diet?

Nervous children Should be given plenty

of good pure milk, fresh eggs, well-cook-

cd cereals. (this does not mean cereals

cooked ten minutes, but at least a half-





hour), custards, a little fruit and less,





candy. It is possible that she has ade-

noids. The fact that she keeps her mouth

open constantly seems to sugest that. I

should have a good doctor examine her

throat and nose, as the removal of ade-

noids is a great help in toning up the

nervous system.



Household lCditorrA-My husband is. just.

rccchi-ing from typhoid fever and is

simply ravenous. \\'hat can he safely

cat'fihli'S. B. .



It depends mtich on how in he was

during the fever, as patients who have

had a mild case of fever can safely eat

things which one who has been very ill

must forego for some time. The patient

should be kept on a milk diet for at least

two days after the disappcarance of fev—

er, when chicken broth and a little milk

toast may be added. Follow this the

next day wih mutton broth, junket, more

milk toast and perhaps by soft cooked

eggs, custards, boiled rice, a little ten-

dciloin stt-ak, scraped beef, broiled or

bakcd fish, gelatinc, ctc.



Household Itjtllt()l‘I‘--\Vllflt are “ris—

solc.s';"'—~Cook.



A croquette mixture enclosed in a pas-

try crust and fried in deep fat. To make

illt‘lll, roll the: crust thin, lay the mix-

ture which. with the crust must be

cold. in teaspoons in a. line near

one. edge of tho crust. Fold the other

edge of the crust over and cut out the.

i'issolc» wih a cutter. 'l‘hen lift the, edge

of the paste, brush with cold water and

press in position, brush the whole with

beaten egg and fry in deep fat as cro-

quettes, or bake.



Household lCditor:——-I enjoy reading the

Household licpai‘tmcnt very much and

have never sv-nt in any question before,

but would be glad if you would answer

this for me. I wish to give a shower

for a prospective bride, either miscellan—

eous or kitchen, and would like to know

what form (11‘ invitation to scnd, what to

have for entertainmcnt and what to

serve. i do not care to have cards for

entertainment, and cotild have it either 111

the afternoon or evening, with 15 or 20

gucsts.‘lnquirer.



Showers are informal and I should sim—

ply ask the bride's girl friends over the

’phone or when I saw them. If neces-

sary to write, send an informal note ask-

ing them to meet the bride with you on

a certain date and state the sort of

shower you are to give. If you wish





‘special entertainment have guessing con-





tests, music, or progressive flinch. Usu—

ally a small party of girls furnish enough





entertainment themselves for a. couple

of hours of fun. If it is a miscellaneous

shower the girls might make their gift,

as hemming a towel, etc., during the at-

ternoon. Serve lemonade or strawberry

shrub, thin bread-and-butter sandwiches,

strawberries and cream or ice cream and

cake.

Recipe for Sweet Corn Salad'.



Household Editor2—I saw a request for

sweet corn salad in The Farmer of MaV

11, and will inclose mine, which I think

is fine.



Twenty ears of sweet corn, three green

peppers, four or five onions, one head of

cabbage, all chopped; two cups sugar,

three pints vinegar. Mix all and cook

until tender. Prepare the following and

cook separate from the above:



Quarter pound of ground mustard, one

cup of flour. one teaspoon tumeric pow-

der, one quart vinegar. Cook. and then

mix thoroughly with the first and can

hot—I. R.



Ten cups of sweet corn. ten cups of

cabbage, three red peppers, three cups

of sugar, three tablespoonfuls mustard,

thrce tablcspoonfuls celery seed, one-

l1alt‘ cup cf salt, one quart of vinegar.

Cook one hour. This is good put up in

glass jars.»llazcl McK.



Besides the two recipes given above

thanks are due the following for c011—

tributions: Mrs. M. S. Mrs. B. C., Ot-

sego, C, C, “K, Mrs. M. if, \Vaterrvliet.





LETTER BOX.



Sympathy for the Adopted Mother.



lltuschold Edito1 —ln reply to Mis M.

C. M. 3 query, I fell that you have a hard

problem to solve. If you (lid not have

nieddlesome neighbors it would not be

half so hard. We are in the same boat

with you. The child knows that yOu are

not its mother. Children will talk and

mischief-makers are ready to take it up.

The child sees it has sympathy, and so

you are up against a stump—F. M. W.





 





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BY L. M. THORNTON.





0h day we keep with noise and din,

on day our sires gave life to win;

A nation proud, a natiOn free,



We boast ,-of them, we boast; of thee.





Oh day we hold in fondest pride,



Since We w0uld live as heroes died.

Our country first, we kneeling pray

That worthy we may keep this day.





Oh day we laud, with voice and hand,

A. birthright ours in freedom’s land.

‘We praise thee, as the years go by,

This Fourth Day of the month July.





 





THE OLD LIBERTY BELL.





 





BY WM. F. PURDUE.





There are many famous and historic

bells, some of them much older than the

Liberty Bell, in existence in various

countries, but it is safe to say that none

of them is held in more reverence by

their possessors than is the Liberty Bell

by the American people. There is no

American citizen, school boy or school

girl, grown man or woman, who does not

feel a personal interest in this famous

old bell. Thousands and thousands of

Americans have stood in its presence

with bowed heads, and even those who

have not had that privilege hold it in

lasting veneration.



On July 8, 1776, this bell proclaimed

the signing of the Declaration of Inde-

pendence, and from that day until this

it has always been known as the “Lib-

erty Bell." Like many other historic

relics, numerous fanciful stories have

been woven around its history, but his-

torians, after delving for the facts, have

disproved many of the old legends con-

nected with it'.



Although the Declaration of Independ-

ence was adopted by vote of the Conti-

nental Congress on July 4, 1776, it was

not until four days later, between the

hours of eleven and twelve, that the

Liberty Bell rang out the proclamation.

On this latter date the people Were sum-

moned by the" peals of the bell to the

spacious lawn south of Independence

Hall. Her "aplatforrn had been built in

the ope-Y? ’ _-" adaitiund it ,gathered a

large assemblage-pus. resolute men and

women, summoned to hear the story of

their independence. John Nixon had

been chosen by the Continental Congress

to read the declaration, as he was a

man of strong ’voice. It is recorded that

John Hancock signed his‘name t0 the

famOus paper in characters so big that

“the King of England might read it

without putting on hisspectacles.” And

John Nixon read the declaration in tones

so loud that the king might have heard

every word of it if he had been anyways

near. Throughout the whole reading

there was thunderous applause. That

night a. band of regulators took down

their late king's coat of arms from its

place in the statehouse, which the por—

tentous events of that day had re-

christened “Independence Hall,” and car'

ried them to the common, south of the

building. Casks were piled high, the

king's arms were thrown on top of them,

and the heap was set on fire and burned

to ashes amid the acclamation 0f\a.

great crowd.



In the cast wing of Independence Hall,

just above the glass case in which the

famous bell now reposes, is a time-stain-

ed placard, handsomely framed, which

sets“ forth in chronological order the

events in ‘the bell's history. One of the

paragraphs reads as follows: “It rang

on the 8th of July, 1776, to call the cit—

izens together to hear the proclamation

of the adoptiOn of the Declaration of Iii-

dependence, "in the adjoining yard.”



The Liberty Bell was originally cast in

London in 1752. In 1751, when the state-

house being built in Philadelphia was

nearing completion, the representatives

of the Province of Pennsylvania met and

appointed a committee to secure a bell

for the building. This committee then

authorized the, colony’s agent in London

to have a, good bell made of about two

thousand pounds weight and costing

about one hundred pounds sterling. Di-

rections were also sent that the bell

should bear on one side the following

words, well shaped in large letters, viz.:

“By order, of the Assembly of the Prov-

ince of Pennsylvania. for the statehouse

in the city of Philadelphia, 1752,” and on

the other side of- the bell was to be this

passage er‘ the Bible: “Proclaim Lib-

erty throughout all the Land, unto all

the inhabitants thereof. Lev. XXV, vs.

XII!



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gust, 1752, but, on being hung up to test-

its tone, it cracked with the first stroke

of the clapper. An effort was made to

send it back to London to be recast but

there was no available boat large enough

to carry it, so a Philadelphia firm, Pass

& Stow, was finally awarded the con—

tract. The first recasting resulted in

failure, but the second was successful,

and in June, 1773, the bell, a. decided im-

provement over the original one sent





- from England, was finally raised and fix--





ed in the statehouse steeple. The bell

was three feet high and twelve feet in

circumference at) the brim, and weighed

2,080 pounds.



This bell was originally intended only

to call the assembly together, but the

approaching events in the history of our

country destined it to fill an important

place among other bells. The passage

taken from the Bible which was inscrib-

ed on the bell, “Proclaim Liberty

throughout all the Land, unto all the in-

habitants thereof,” has since been look-

ed upon as a prophetic inspiration.



Some- of the noteworthy instances of

the ringing of the Liberty Bell are as

follows: September 12, 1764, to call the

assembly together when the Massachu-

setts Bay Colony votes were received,

acquainting the assembly with the in-

structions sent by the colony to its agent

in London asking him to use his endeav-

Ors to have the sugar act repealed, and

to prevent a. stamp act or any other im—

position of taxes upon them or the other

American provinces. Ten days later it

rang again to call the assembly togeth-

er, at which time that body wrote its

London agent in similar terms. Septem-

ber 9, 1765, the bell called the assembly

together to consider a resolution to ac-

cept; a plan for a congress of the col-

onies. This congress convened October

7, 1765, in New York. On September 21,

1765, the bell convened the assembly to

consider the act of Parliament imposing

stamp duties and other duties upon all

British subjects in America. On Octo-

ber 5, 1765, as the British ship, Royal

Charlotte, bearing the stamps for Penn-

sylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, un-

der convoy of a man—of-war, came up

the Delaware River the bell was muf-

fled. When the Stamp Act went into

effect, on October 31, 1765, the bell was

again muffled and tolled. On February

4, 1771, the bell called a town meeting in

the statehouse square, when it was re—

solved that the claim of Parliament to

tax the colonies was subversive to the

constitutional rights of the colonies, and

that the union of the colonies ought to

be maintained. A little later the bell

called the assembly together when a pe-

tition was sent to the king for the re-

peal of the duty on tea, and again on

October 18, 1775, the bell called a town

meeting and resolutions were passed de-

nouncing the buyers and vendors of tea.

as enemies of the country, .



On September 26. 1776, the bell, then

truly the Liberty Bell, called together

for the last time the members of the

assembly, and the body dissolved. On

April 16, 1783, the proclamation of peace

was rung out by the bell. And from that

date until its tones were finally silenced,

in 1835, it proclaimed the yearly anni-

versary of the nation's independence

day, ushered in the new year, welcomed

distinguished visitors, and tolled for the





noble dead. On July 4, 1826, it tolled

for the death of two ex~Presidents,

Thmnas Jefferson and John Adams,





which occurred on the nation’s birthday.



This historic old bell was heard for the

last time on July 8, 1835, when it was

tolled during the funeral services over

the bOdy of Chief Justice John Marshall,

a survivor of the Revolutionary period

who had been associated with Washing-

ton and the signers of the Declaration of

Independence. Suddenly, during the toll-

ing, the bell cracked, and its tones were

silenced forever.



It was then taken down, and after a.

time the clapper was removed and the

bell mounted on the original framework

and placed in Independence Hall, where

it now stands, enclosed in a glass case

to protect it from curio seekers.



The bell which was substituted for the

Liberty Bell was removed in 1876 to the

tower of the town hall in Germantown,

a suburb of Philadelphia, where it is still

in active use. In the latter year what

is known as the Henry Seybert bell was

lilaced in Independence Hall. It was cast

in New York and weighs 13,000 pounds.

is observed of

ringing the bell in Independence Hall

whenever anything of extraordinary mo-

ment happens in the old Quaker City.



The Liberty Bell has been a. great

traveler, having made in all eight jour-

neys to various parts of the country. The

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variably it is received with the wildest

manifestations of enthusiasm. Every-

where it is greeted with booming can—

non, tooting whistles, the din of fire-

crackers, the songs of school children and

the shouts of patriotic people. The bell’s

first journey was from Philadelphia to

Allentown, Pa., in September, 1777, and

of all its travels that was the only one

that was not a procession of triumph. In

1777 the British army took possession of

Philadelphia, and the bell was conveyed

out of the city just in time to prevent its

falling into the hands of the British.

Other bells of the city were also carried

to Allentown. The Liberty Bell was hid-

den in the basement of Zion’s reformed

church, and upon the evacuation of Phil-

adelphia. by Lord Howe’s forces it was

taken back and hung in its place. For

108 years the bell remained in Independ-

ence Hall after it was returned from Al-

lentown. Then in- 1885 it was taken to

New Orleans. At that time many peo-

ple insisted that during the trip to the

southern city the old bell was the silent

instrumentality that did more to restore

ainity between the north and south than

anything else that had happened since

the soldiers of the blue and gray laid

down their arms. This was largely due

to an interesting incident that happened

at Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis.

Mr. Davis left a sick bed and dl‘OVOi in a

buggy to the station to greet the bell.

There he made a short speech, declaring

that the time had come “when reason

should be substituted for passion and

when We should be able to do justice to

each other.” Then, bending his uncov-

ered head before the bell, he said:

“Glorious ols'l bell! The s0n of a revolu-

tionary soldier bows in reverence before

you.”



The bell's next jOurney was eight

years later, in 1893, when it was_taken

to Chicago for exhibition at the World’s

Fair. On this trip the most notable

event was a speech by another ex-Prcs-

idem, but an ex-I’residcnt of the United

States this time. Pix-President Harrison

spoke in the presence of an immense

throng at Indianapolis. .



“This old bcll," said he, “was cast in

England but it was recast in America.

lt was when this was done that: it clear-

ly and to all the world proclaimed the

right of self—government and the equal

rights of men, and therein it is a type of

what our institutions are doing for the

immigration of all nations who heard its

tones over the water a century ago and

who come here to be recast, as it were,

into the citizenship of the nation."



The great bell was taken to Atlanta in





1895, to Charleston in 1902. to Boston,

where it represented Philadelphia at the

anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill,

in 1903, to St. Louis in 1904, and to

Jamestown, Va, in 1007. Public opinion

is now against the exhibition of this





sacred relic at any future exposition, and

in all probability it will never again be

taken out of the building which has for

so long a time been its safe and legiti-

mate repository.



Although the state of Pennsylvania ac—

quired title to the Liberty Bell in 1816

with Independence Hall, together with

its grounds, buildings, furniture and all

its other property, evcry patriotic Ameri-

can citizen thinks of the old bell as be-

longing to the nation and its people, as

it does in a sense, with the state of

Pennsylvania acting as guardian.





THE HARVEST.





DY ANNA STE RNS.





I planted a tiny seed of doubt one day

In the, heart of a friend, and went my





way,

Not thinking of the harvest it might hear:

But, returning when the rapid years had





flown.



I saw with tears the fruitage it had

grown,



Of sin and sorrow, crime, and want, and

care.





In another heart, upon another day,



I planted deep a grain of faith; then went

my way



With little tho't that it would multiply;



But as the years sped on it grew apace,



And bore bright flowers of truth, and love

and grace,



And countless blessings that will never

1e.





How lavishly, how recklessly, we sow



The seeds of good and ill, of weal or woe,



Unmindful that the harvest will be sure;



Heedless that soon our sowing will be

done,



The Lord of Harvests to His vineyard

come, .



And through eternity our work endure.





Genial manners are good, and power

of accommodation to any circumstance;

but the high prize of life, the‘ crowning

fortune of a man, is to be born with a

bias to some pursuit, which finds him in

employment and happiness, whether it

be to make baskets, or broadswords, or

canals, or statutes, or songs—Emerson.





 





 





 





 





 





as) 697

DOCTOR’S SHIFT





Now (lets jAIong Without It.





A physician says: "Until last fall I

used to eat meat for my breakfast and

suffered with indigestion until the meat

had passed from the stomach.



“Last fall I began the use. of Grape—

Nuts for breakfast and very soon found

I could do without meat, for my body got

all the nourishment necessary from the

Grape—Nuts and since then I have not

had any indigestion and am feeling better

and have increased in weight.



"Since finding the benefit I derived

from Grape-Nuts I have prescribed the

food for all my patients suffering from

indigestion or over-feeding and also for

those recovering from disease where I

want a food easy to take and certain to

digest and which will not overtax the

stomach.



“I always find the results I look for

when I prescribe Grape-Nuts. For ethical





reasons please omit my name.” Name

given by mail by Postum 00., Battle

Creek, Mich.





The reason for the wonderful amount

of nutriment, and the easy digestion of

Grape—Nuts is not hard to find.



In the first place, the starchy part of

the wheat and barley goes through vari-

ous processes of cooking, to perfectly

change the starch into dextrose or gruptu

sugar, in which state it is ready to be

easily absorbed by the blood.



The parts in the wheat and barley

which Nature can make use of for re-

building brain and nerve centres are re«

tained in this remarkable food, and thus

the human body is supplied with the povw

crful strength producers, so easily noticed

after one has eaten Grape—Nuts each day

for a week or ten days.



"There’s a reason," and it is explained

in the ltitle book, “The Road to Well-

ville,” in pkgs.





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new one appears from time to

time. They are genuine, true.

and full of human interest.





 





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LOSS OF PEACH TREES BY FREEZ-

ING.





 





 





 





 





 





Just the other day I heard a young

man make the remark that he had

planted his last peach tree. He had just

dug up about 300 trees three years from

planting.



Now if he would just go back over the

preach industry for the past 2.1 years in

this COmmunity he would see that his-

tory is just repeating itself. Many times

have peach trees been killed in this state

by severe freezing and many times have

people wished that they had set out

young orchards immediately after the

others were removed for in nearly every

case where orchards were renewed they

proved vcr y profitable.



I’Vhile not all orchards are badly dam-

aged 11 great many will suffer severely.

In my own case I believe that not more

than 25 per cent are so badly killed that

they w1ll have to be removed. Next year

I shall fill all vacancies and proceed as

before. ‘



I am quite puzzled over the results

of the heavy freezes of last winter. Or—

chards that I thought would surely sur-

vive were badly killed and orchards that

I thought poorly prcpared for the winter

carpe through very nicely. I am at a

loss to know wiry trees on perfectly

drained fertile soil with apparently well

ripened wood were killed, and, trees on

poorly drained land came through in very

good condition.



The peach tree is short lived as a rule,

hence nratuit-s early so those who have

ymrrrg orchards killcd by the hard win-

ter would do well to reset, as the chances





THE" 'M'I’CHIGAN FARMER





are that another hard winter will not

come soon. \Vhile we cannot state with

certainty that orchards planted will ma-

ture and prove profitable we do knew

that we can grow peaches at a profit,

and just because our orchards suffer from

severe freezing occasionally is no logical

reason for discontinuing planting of

peach orchards. I know of farmers who

lost several hundred in the freeze of

October, 1906, that would have made con-

siderably more than they have made

from their lands had they the following

spring replanted their orchards to peach

trees.



I have seen many orchards where the

trees were killed and left standing for

many years. Anyone can remove these

unsightly trees quite easily by using a

good strong team of horses and grub hoe.



\Vhile I earnestly advocate the replant-

ing of peach orchards I would suggest,

for the benefit of each peach growing

community, that all trees be removed as

soon as they are known to be past re-

covery, even if the orchards are not to

be replanted. Nothing is more demor-

alizing 10 a peach growing community

that to haVc old dead trees left standing

for years to mar the landscape.



Berrien Co. R. G. THOMAS.

WHAT ARE APPLE TREES GROWN



FOR?





 





A great number of farmers have large

orchards of apple trees which are a con-

stant source of worry to them—watching

ire-re and there for the. first sign of dis—

ease and applying the remedy; others

plant the trees and then pay no further

attention to them than to visit the or-

chard maybe once or twice a year to

chop down a 'tree that has died and use

it for firewood, all because disease has

gotten in as a result of his carelessness.





Along this line: the Ohio Experiment

Station recently called attention to the-

fact that orchard sanitation is as neces-

sary as, city sanitation. The general

health of the apple trees will depend up-

on the sanitary precautions taken in the

early season—in the later season the dis-





ease will rurr riot if not avoided. These

measures of prevention are to remove

and burn~ all parts diseased by aD‘Dle





blister canker. These parts may consist

of dead branches with cankers upon

them, or of the external bark attacked

by canker where found on a very large

branch. All these should be cut off and

burned since the spores produced by this

material spread the disease.





In an inspection of orchards officials of

the station fr) 1nd that stubs left in prun-

ing and wounded and broken branches

are the most general sour e of infection.

Orchard owners cannot have healthy tops

on the trees when these dead, disease-in-

viting stubs are left below. Even though

the stubs are green when out off, the

same facts apply. Not only should all

pruning be done close to the branch and

parallel with the direction of trlre part

left, by means of a smooth saw or chisel

cut, but the larger wounds must be cov—

ered with a suitable» dressing. Dressings

of paint, white lead or linseed oil and

Venetian Red readily crack open. The

best dressings have proved to be gas

tar, or some form of asplraltum.





 





 





THE WEEDER IN THE STRAWBERRY

BED.





 





Taken in proper time, the weeder may

be used to good advantage in the. straw-

berry bed. It simplifies and renders more

efficient, the work of, maintaining clean

culture and conserving soil moisture. To

secure. good results with this tool, prep—

aration tillage must be thorough. The





JUNE 29, 1912.





weede-r is not acultivator, nor will it ful-

fill the ordinary purposes of that “tool.

However, if the soil is mellow the weeder

will maintain an ideal earth mulch in a

way that no other tool can do, for the

reason that its teeth work close to the

base of the plants. We like to go over

the field with this tool as soon as the

rlants are set. To permit this the plants

must be firmly fixed in the soil ,as they

should be to do well. A few leaves may

be pulled off, but this does no great

amount of damage for the plants will

soon grow other leaves. Then, too. the

plants nray look mussed up after the

weeder- has been used, but they straight-

en up soon and are apparently none the

worse for the treatment.



My only regret is that this tool can not:

be, used throughout the entire, growing

season, brrt the nature of the plant pre-

vents us from doing this. As soon as

the plants begin to form runners the use

of the weeder must be dimontinued. Af-

ter the rows are filled in with plants.

and these new plants are well rooted the

weeder may be used again. This can be

done with the hedge row form of culture

only. Sometimes we find it best to se-

cure or raise the wecder tooth that comes

directly over the row of plants. In this

way we can Often use the tool when

otherwise it would not be advisable to

do so. The- weeder will not destroy

weeds that are more tharra few days old,

except. as in cross cultivation, there is

a large amount of loose earth with which

the weeds may be smothered. Because

of its peculiar construction the weeder

can be used under special conditions only.

To be of much service it must be used

in the “nick of time," so to speak. For

this reason the tool will not become a

general favorite. Nevertheless, there are

occasions when its timely use will save

both time and labor.





Emmett Co. M. N. EDGERTON.





 





 





 





INDEX





FOR VOL.

From‘Jan. lst, 1912, to July lst, l912.





CXXXVIII.





 





 





Farm. Farm advertising, means tatoes. 570: bean cul-



A catch crop for hay af— of. ................... turc. disking, vs. plow-

ter clover ........... 314 drainage .............. 273 ing for corn. building a

Advocates King drag for economy ......... 613 corncrib~ teosinte as a

roads ............... 468 labor',_ 1110113351111; 1110 forage CI‘Ul). steel roofs

Alfalfa aft'er early pota- tffllt‘lfrncy of ...... 613 and lightning. 594;

lots ................. 570 Farm N‘ltt‘F-wset‘dmg of seeding clover in late

(Arabic) the best 3 timothy 1n. ”10 spring, Summer, weevil in

discing ............... 313 does _tl11s silo nocd llrnc? seed peas, seeding al-

growing in Mecosta fel‘tlllz’llg fUI‘ 11. erta- i‘alfa with, vs: after

county ............. 346 to crop, 3; 617101“ng rape, fertilizing cucum-

experience ............ 437 toad. flax. (butter-and- bers, . 614; planting

questions ............. 313 eggs), cloVer 1“ CI‘OD beans 1n drills Vs. hills.





rotation,





. . . I . F

the p1 011(1 way to seed :1 falfz





pasturing al-

physical





plant lice on ruta-





effects bagas, treatment of





“”1”“,l”“ylec;t‘.‘)“1v{€”‘]'l'13} of fertilizer, fertilizer Canada thistles in oats

$69!}. growrrrg “b‘ H'lt for beans, 170; seeding cement floor for gran:

A load“ that ”"151 350 alfalfa in wheat, rape ary, 634; spraying p0-

mfméyo ----- ------ 670 and spurry as crops tatoes for blight 650'

An expellslVe 1955““ .408 for green manure. seed- installing the ’King"

Applying lime ------- bl " ing pasture grasses 011 system of venttilation,

Barley as a protrta ‘3 P8 light soil, secdings fail- seeding a sandy field

crop -------- 106 ed, 210; alfalfa on hea- to alfalfa, inoculating

Barnyard manure vy land. potato scab, for alfalfa vvetch as a

Beans bi ttfl‘ seed “’1“ the ferl’ilizing value Of forage Cl‘Op and g0“





pr odtlc e an inc r cased





wood ashes,





fertilizing renovator, "





yield 594 vrlm of r 1 h F 1 cutworms, 6‘0

""""""" ,' '; 4 3 C111 as (‘8, erti izer r1nd cro -

Blower attacllnnent, uses r0 plowmg under refuse IiOmics‘ p eco

rome—mat e ......... 0 beets 243' combating for corn """"""""



. ' . , , , ~ , and beans....570

Budding up a depletedlor grain rust, growrng cu- for oats .. . 466

"arm ................ d cumbers ”ax Culture, {07‘ qpring q’ ’ ' .‘ ' - ~ - :1 -



. . .' . » ..eedrn With-

Buzz saw, thr- .......... 138 inoculating soil for 111- out nurse. cropg ..... 378

Cement, storage for us- ialfa, 277; growing big how to HDI’IIV for peta—



ers “f. -------------- 34 STOPS of corn. crops toes ..... :......594 614

Clover fnns because of for green manure, 315; Fertilizing corn ground‘..594



drought """"""" 348 preparing the 11015110 Fodder. one method of



gl‘OWIHg on sandy 18-11040 ground for alfalfa, keeping shredded ...242





........................ 4 the kind

seeding with Hungar-

ian grass ........... 378

seeding without nurse beets, 3411;

crop ................ 348 hay crop,

the great~ value of

June ................ 276

Concrete cellar. a dou-

ble wall built above

13‘)





light soil





soil for potatoes,

111g oats 011 sandy land,





sand vetch as a forage





of. corn to For better corn yiclds..650

grow for ensrlagc, fer-

trhzrrrg value of sugar





Grain, the cause of wavy





‘ growrrrg ............. O4

m1llctt as a Grass experiments ...... 244

fertilizing investigations ......... 212





grow— Handling the hay crop

on time ............. 633

Hay caps





Hide and leather trade,





for peas,





the ground ......... crop, 350: applying interesting facts con—

granary, the .......... 670 lime to soil, salt as a. cerning ,,,,,,,,,,, 36

Corn, amount of to plant fertilizer, what caused How to apply fertilizers

........................ 405 the seeding to fail, to the corn crop....522

cultivation. the prin- treating oats for smut, Hungarian grass ........274

ciples of............521 fall vs 51111111: plow- Inoculating pure cul—

crop, cultivating the..669 ing for beans, 402, ad— a success for ...... 522

crop, harvesting the...l71 ding vegetable matter Intensive vs. extensive

growing a large acre— to the soil for alfalfa, farming ............. 5

age of .............. 174 seedmg alfalfa in, vs. Interesting wheatt experi—

how much ............ 107 after oats, soy beans ments» .............. 346

how much should a as a hay crop, fertiliz- Is farming a lotterv? 546

man plant? ......... 27 mg the soil for 130- 594. ‘ '

is it desirable to grade tatoes. 435: llOlrcor‘rr as the average farmer

seed? ............... 108 a cash crop, treating successful? ......... 108

look after the seed. .108 seed-potatoes for scab, Labor the conservation

more about that 100 ‘DIOWIUE down rye for of .....................

acres of ............ 17 72 alfalfa, 436; eradicat- Large or small disks ..... 523

rate of seeding ....... 614 ing weevil. cross polen- Lawn caring for the. .569

the culture of in Mich.521 ization of 00m. HDDIY- Lillie Farmstead Notes, 140,

Cucumber culture ...... 467 111g lime on the potato 213, 634, 6" )0.



Deep or shallow plowing, ground,. 522; buck- Lime. air- slaked ........ 173

which ................ 522 wheat for hay and applying on wheat for

Destroying woodchucks.614 green manure, seeding clover ............... 314

Does fertilizer lose its worn land to alfalfa, for clover ............. 27

strength by being the brick silo, 546; size Liming wheat and rye



held over? .......... 614 of seed potatoes. 569: for clover ........... 437

Dr. 'Hopkins on 5011 fer— cowpeas on worn land. Make the soil vour bank



tility ................ 347 the cellar problem on ........................ 27'

Economic material for Wet Soil. applying fer- Maple sugar industry,



soil improvement ...403 tilizer to corn and po- th





Not much of opportunity spring plowing ....... 522 for horses, rape pas-

lost by Michigan \\'cxford County Boys' turc for hogs, the life

farmer‘s .............274 Agricultural Club ..169 (If the clover plant,



(rat and pea hay ......... 83 Thinks we are not up- 440; molasses as a feed



Oats and peas, two crops to—dato ............. 2 for horses, cottonseed

of in one season “-466 Those roads ............ 469 meal as a horse feed,



as a spring crop ...... 274 Tile capacity of differ- 500; getting stock on

sowing without plow- ent sized for carry- grass. pasture crops

mg ------------------ 4‘8 ing water .......... 650 fOr the hogs. rid the



Oat (rop preparing for laying in quicl<sand.. [.0 live st'ock of parasite,

the ................. 378 Size of for ten-acre buckwheat straw for



hay ................... 050 Sr‘vamp .............. 43 bedding, 524, seeding



Observat1ons 0Y1 MiChi' Tools, some new farrn..650 alfalfa With Tape in

.gan methods 0f farm- Top—dressing the meadow the 1101‘; pasture, 572;

mg ....... . ........... 466 With COdY‘SO 1118.111118402 Villlle of pea vine en-



Oner "t the: 17‘3”].1‘9350115 meadows with commer- silage, 113811111113 hogs

for clover failure....46§ cial fertilizers ...... 469 in the orchard, a 1'3”



Orchard grass ....1._.:'.....12 new seeding .......... 670 U011 for idle horses,



Jasture ‘ and fertrhzer wheat in spring with 600; grain to feed with

‘lue‘smms ---------- , fertilizer ........... 50 cull beans, 651.



leas and beans ......... 13.) “ragonh economy of the Feeding cattle at a profit





1 eas variety of Canada 211 low—down





1 r \ 1. . . . .

1“”‘5fi‘é‘ipfiigg \ifiifiuting401 Wet land for corn and Pillles, is 111 profibable

to save tlirne .. ' ‘438 beans ............... 172 to breed 1’ ........... 441

we working :1::..:::: 50 \\ Irich class is 1iglrt?....212 Flock strung care of the

l’ctaslr for muck soils. _ .212 Why clover fails ....... 171 ‘ . ................. 470

,l’otato crop, the ,,,,,,,, 345 more \\ ester 11 farmers It 9:“, rear ing a ....... . .971

experiments .......... 210 ‘1‘? ,“01 10"319 in (llve “.18 brood sows ex-

1mm”, s. how to be suc- Michigan ..... ...... 3 ‘ ercrse ............... 44

cesst‘ul with ........ 6411 ”WY s0 to the City....278 (II‘OWU‘KE healthy lambs.215





late planted early ....434 Winter,





a pleasant di-





Hog business, the safe





small for seed ........ 346 version for ......... 138 Side cf ............. 671

l’roviding leaf mold ....436 VVoodlot, another view HOggmg down corn ....615

Raw phosphate rock as of 'the .............. 523 H025. producing Cheaply 5



a source of phos— that farm ........... 83 usrng to increase soil

phorus .............. 498 the ................... 314 fertility --. . . . . .651





Relation of soil fertility

and continued pros-

pe r itv 3



Reminisc ences of a DO-





tlre profit from that...547 Horse. breeding, possibil-





Live Stock.

Alfalfa for horses . .

A remarkable record ...599 Horses, best ”“10“ f‘)1""’24





ities of for the- farm-





______ 35] er 463





ram grower ........ 466 . , temperament in ...... 571

Road districts, subdivid- At 1:11.223] Sf]? “7:32:19 “/9280 Indiana cattle feoders’

mg the township into Breaking a. colt 1055611583 meeting ....... 48

q ...... . .................. 350 Breeders' meetings '14:} Ir. sect pests of farm an—

Road amprovement, the Breeding horses on the imals ................ 175

King drag for ..... farm " ‘ 5 It! pays to count the. Cost

Road. (1116811011, another But‘kwhe'tt-”tray.'icristili: ....................... 247

R vrew of1 ......... guifi: 0“,; ‘ r I .. 572 Lambs, barley and rape

oar s, gum ,,,,,,,, 2, , . “r )y for fatteninr ....... 9

for Genesee county ...211 §,:ll¥mfé 21:61:11,171 S“"fi‘;177 feeding cheaplé‘y ...... 5

how can we best se— 26 4‘ cowp {3 r m 1‘ 440 Live stock, keeping with-

cure good ,,,,,,,,,, ‘ ‘1 ' """"" if" out pasture ......... .

the problem of good vs. (Coltmsliofsgtldngrgiggling-je-11247 _meeting, the ,,,,,, 84, 109

had ................. 25 ‘ ‘ 6 lee S112]; Notes.~54,

Scientific potato culture.546 """""""""" ,- . , 178, 216, 2347.

Seed corn breeding .....347 :figcgghg the """"" g1}; 2,19» 331. 406, 441. 501.

testing ................ 467 CO """"" . """ "35’ 549: 572, 601. 615.

f rnmercial pork produc- 67]..

what about the ...... 498 tiorr ................. -5 MIDti rl 1 it . .

31'9”," selectrng 0” the Do horses require oats in ntrztrifilgn CI 111 animal

. fax 111 """""""" 24 ”1011‘ diet? .......... 600 021,13 for Catfienfodd ..... :71

improvement 0f by 9 Doing chores ........... 52 Our 111912311 Il‘ilde “1th

., .plant breeders. """ 24“ Ewes, wintering the....176 England 215

soil tertrlrty, kecprng UP 51 Fads and fancies in Pig management;'es'ge'li;

borls what makes 1010- breeding ........... 470 tial factors in

‘ (-‘UCUVG ~-~-; ------ 211 .lr‘eeders’ Problems.~’-l‘he I’igs feeding and \b‘e'a‘li.‘

S‘ome alfalfa (107115...”3‘16 grinding of grain for ing ....... '__. f 440

Some alfalfa obser‘Vfl- horses, feeding value success with spring-”245

‘ trons ------------- ;--437 of beans. vs. corn, 4; Plants for forage . ”176

Special crops for 81190111] the feeding value of Pork pr-oduction factors

‘ purposes ............ 466 roots, the feeding val- 1n profitable ......

Sugar beets as a cash no of skim-milk, 28; Preventing accidents “352

crop ..... 1.377 feeding rye to horses. disease ................

lost opportunrtles 111 142; the. feeding value Raise beets for your

growmg ............. 211 of buttermilk to hogS, stock ............... 500

On muck land ....... 467 rape for hog pasture, Rambouillets, breed type

why I grow .......... 377 cull beans as a horse 1n ------------------- 25

Supplementary forage and feed, 177; silage for Record price paid for

catch crops ......... 497 beef cattle, feeding Silage beef ......... 651





Tax discussions. 141, 214,





frozen carrots, 215: .a





Saving the lamb crop...318





. permanent hog pas- Selection of breeding



That wet field again...274 ture, rape as a forage stock ...............



The Canada thistle prob- crop, buckwheat vs. Sheen, early experience

le'm ................. 523 wheat. middlings, 352; in raising ........... 245



cornerib floor ......... 634 raising pigs withoub more farmers should

credit system ....... .214 milk, soy beans as a raise ................ 599

easier way ........... 434 pasture crop, spring on the farm ......... 380



farm labor problem ...405 sown forage, cooked Silage as a feed for cat—



uncooked corn for “£19 ...................





foundation of agricul- vs.



trrral success ....... 49

high cost of living .438

$011 fertility problem..173





hogs, the feeding value

of corncobs,

tonseed meal and corn





kept from freezing with

stable heat 5

for sheep





416: cot-





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Stable ventilation . . . .. .381

Steers, ration for fatt en-





........... ...-





Succegsful live 'stock



markeiiing ..........6



Summer management of

the farm flock . . . . . . 7

The cattle situation .. .407

farm team 615

labor problem ........ 142

stable medicine chest 471

work horses in spring 351

Warding off winter sheep85





ailments .. ..........

Water, the summer’ 5 sup-

ply of .............. 471

Winter management of

farm work horses. 2

With the SOWS and pigs. 599

Veterinary.

Abortion ..... 147, 443, 663

Abnormol abscess .....286

Abscess in ear . ....... 112

on fetlock joint ...... 146

on side ............. 353

Acidity of stomach ..... 442

Acute indigestion .265, 408

Aenemic .......... 6, 218

Alsike poisoning ...... 442

Azoturia ..... 353, 409, 502





Barbed wire cut ......354

Barrennoss, 86,113, 320,





354,601, 636.

Barren cow, 55, 146, 180,

285, 51 .

mare ......... ...286, 442

sow ....... LL”... .268

Billtousmess ............ 4%?)

Blackleg .. .......... 1

Black teeth. .217, 320, 443

Blind staggers .......... 672

Blocked udder . .502, 519

Bone spavin ..... _.4 472, 621

Bowel looseness ........ 443

B1oken wind ...... 443652





Brood mare has worms. 354

in poor condition .409





stocks .............. _..643

Bruised abdomen . ..... 663

elbow ................ 643

shin .......... . ....... 353

thigh and hip ......... 218

Bunch on hock ......... 616

stille- ........-_._. ..... 113

hind leg .............. 146

Bursal swelling, 442, 627,

652.

Calf scours ............ 488

Caked bag, 87, 287, 443, 574

Calked ................. 86

Canine distemper. .55, 616

Canker . . . . . ............ 265

Care of new born colt. .353

Catarrh ........... 112, 286





Choking, 55, 112, 1179, 286,

320.

Chronic cough, 443, 472,





519 606,652.

heaves ...... . . .218, 554

hip lameness ........ .550

gm get. ,, ..... 146, 472 627

grease heel, 180, 320, 616‘

laminitis .. ...... 112, 353

looseness of bowels. . .203

sore shoulder ........ 472

Coliin. joint» lameness, 47,

180, 44-3.~/

Cold abs<ess ........... 472

Colic . .,287 408,526,174

Collar gull ............. 62?

Congestion of lungs ..... 217

of b1ain ............. 643

Corns ............. 443,616

Constipation ........ 87, 179

Contagious abortion, 147,

353.

catarrh ............... 55

Contxaction ............354

Cough .218 265, 320, 591

Cow eats wood .......... 442

leaks mi‘k ...... 147,627

fails to come in heat. .472

gives bloody milk ..... 601

sucks other cows ..... 472

with five teats ....... 502

Cow-pox ........... '. . . .672





Cracked heels, 87, 113, 203,

265, 354, 574. 643.

Cramps of museles, 354





502.

Crib biting ........ 472, 502

Crippled pigs ..........

Dead lambs ............ 472

Dehorning cow? ........ 113

Destroying horns ...... 567

Difficult parturiiliOn. . . .354

Diabetes ....... 218, 285, 652

672.

Diarrhoea .......... . . . .663

Diseased kidney ......... 48.}

mil ........... ..591

tooth ........ . . . .286, 354

Distemper ........... 6, 591

Dropsical swelling ...... 354

Dropsy, 180, 218,353, 408

Eating feathers ........ 409

Elbow abscess ......... 502

Enlarged fetlock joint. .616

gland ................ 652

hock ................. 179

Epilepsy ............... 643

Eversion of vagina ......

uterus .. ........... 353

E xzema. .203 443, 601 616

E xostosis .......... 526, 636

on shin ............... 5

Farcy ................ 146

Feeding brood mare sahagc

oats ................

Feeding unbalanced ra-

tion ................. 167

Fibrous tumor on teat. .217

Fistula ................. 57

Fits ............. 55, 265, 320

Food infection fatal to

ogs ................ 502 '

Food in lungs .......... 112

, or water poison ...... 113

Foot soreness ...... 218, 353

Foreign body in the

stomach ............ 179





Fractured bone in face. 574

leg . .............. 354

Garget . ..86 354, 543, 663





Gastritis . .......... 147, 218

Goitre ....... 443

Grease heel ..... . . ..2'86





Green feed for hogs. .353

Grub in“ head, 502, 567, 574

tongue ................ 490

Hard mil‘ker ....... 287, 408

Heart and kidney dis-





 





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.-





beginner’s outfit for . .411

handling and quieting. 505





Spinal paralysis ...147, 627 Asparagus grdwing,





Sprained ankle . . . .





.............443

with silage and wheat - - -

straw for roughage.. spring feeding 0f





Beans as a garden veg-

trying conditions for 6





..............





Hide- bound. . .° ...... 287 472





Horses ate too much 8.1-28 ............. 433





should keep a few. .201 _ .

Blueberry, domesticatlon





Hay for dairy cows ..... 638

‘ Blood poison, remedyingfi74





handling the . .

Holstein-Friesian





m”......'..21'7,472

Stifle or hock lameness. 218





scours when driven.





Borers andyellows

Breaking sod in old or-

Bush fruits,Hp.r-11ning the. 364

as a garden





................





2 Breeding stock, mating. 74

Broilers, converting early0_





................... 601 . ,

St003k111g,5 4,112 146,147, records in Michigan.“

How to churn the winter



in five min-

................ 251

milk may be improved. .27;





Stricture5 of teat ..



success with the

Broodiness, blreaking 'up.661

Canker, success in treat—4





Imperfect vision ........ 543



Impure blood



Incipient heaves,

_56 2.





........... 112

Sweeney ........ 56

Swollen glands

knee- .............. 86,

................ 320

Tapping for bloat

Teat with two openings





Human food prepared in

49





taking bees out29 Canning and preserving

9





..................





Intensive dairylng ...... 384 Chicks feed and care of 9





Is frozen silage poison-





..............





for disinfecting





Kindness, in dairy

Location of silo

Manure, saving the liquid



49





rearing early

Clovers as honey produc—

ers....227, 267, 299, 339

, handling 'the

................ 131

treating weak

and queenless

Constitutional





i‘hree— quarter shOe ...... 519

............ 179,

Tongue loller _

Tonic powder ........... 265

little kidney action32





growing. . with . tertiliz-

‘ 493





Infectious abortion, 180

218.





................ 636

ophthalmia ....... 354,

Inflamed joints ..... 112,637

fetlock joints 636

Influenza ........... 526, 601





Marketing dairy the new..290





Michigan dairyman fined 89

182





a:

,p.





.......................





much appetite.

Too much uric acid





stead of working





6 Community organization,





..............





Milk, cost of producing. 89





9 Day-old chicken tlade.





Ducklings hatching and 474





due poultrymanzz Co-opcration among the





T eating barren mares rg:

Irritation of mouth ...... 652

of stomach and bowels 8



1 0





1 mor on cord

Tlp fever, preventive treat—





............ 5o

Oat and pea hay,

f





needed .more

in garden than corn-_





U‘mea'thy Ski“ ................ .188





Unthrifty colt

' ‘ ............. 285

......... ,.........472





..............





condition ct: shin ......

Joint disease

Kicking horse





0

, can we afford to

f ed 181





Egg eating, a, tried rem—.33 604

expensive cow Farm garden,

Oieo and dairy interests.148





yolks. effect of corn 011131

‘. \Viley’ls opinion of.l48





suggestion for starting:4 )





, 179, 218,‘ 320, 408,

643.





........... 287, 472

............. 112, “

on teats, 443, 519, 627, 643

\Varty condition of skin.112

Watery bowel movement





Knuckling .......... 265.





Eggs, feeding for fertile. 1714

impmtancc of testing. 154

improving quality of. .644 Fertilizers used





in garden ...........





tax helps consumer. . . ..





..............





.............. Flock good retuins from





I‘eas for dairy cows ..... 221





............528

Plastering an old sheat—

. 3,.





trees, the impractical





11113681115111; ' iéés'eé

............... 112, 6 q_

Light milker ................. ..011





. A. C ....... 204





Green feed for





Liver abnormal

- _______________ Preventing mold in but-



-‘ ................. 638

Raising dairy ‘

Ration, a good



balancing without sil-

............ 490

lacks protein





Looseness of bowels, 87, 113,

7- Wind broken





my way of set-

inseet pests of ........ 682

Vision ........ 353,408,

................. ‘ >02





Lymphangitis





h

31031 146. 147. 2851 stealing their nests_...





\Vound ............. 408,





seeds, securing good ..15

', how to make rich 77

' ........... 159

................. 366

Grafting wax,





Grafts, how to make- in-





Lumps 011 skin

Malignant wart

' ' .............. 117

............ 203.

Mare does not come





usefulness of the. . ..





.’ ............ 1215



In Answer to inquiries——

Black turkeys,



' ridding hens





Aeration a curse to the

dairy business





Salt) for cows

Seed corn for .

Selling milk vs. cream.. 7.





. . ......... 446

tops for feed 32 ‘

Brown Swiss cattle ..... 148 1



Building a co-operative

597





................





sleeps standing ....... 112





Grape for the north ..... 495

pests controlled "

Home-made sprays,





Melanotie tumors

Milking cows before cal-





constructed of 2x4’s...

.cows and 20

9





freezing not prevented.114

‘ 2





geese, 298; White “'3'-





what to do with

................. o9





Milk shrinkage ......... 472

............. 6o2





chicks smother in the preparation and





............. 2 68

lath and plastered, ma—





............... 1.:





Nail puncture





....r ,

Nasal catarrh, """ 07' 114' 383





, Insect ests of th ar-4

reducmg size of ...... 281 p e g





den ......... (130, 637, 666

‘ 'I'

........... .- ..365





securing good prices

f ........... . ..... 576 . . .

Reds, standald of her—





Naval infection, 87, 472,



Naviculur disease



Nervousness, 6, 87, 147, 409,

1'





Chemistry of the: cows..

methods in the farm





Late spraying for -





, .............. 280



would certainly



Some phases of dairying,

91.





Conditions affecting the

' die of apopiexy. . . . . . . .587

, securing eggs



1





Nodular disease Iand soy beans for

2





beans for cows..

Sprlng feeding of dairy





................





............ 209

Lettuce disease,

' ., ................ 230

Lime—sulphur, us a fun-

' ' ............... 588

is it injured by freez-



' 38





Obstructed itear duct





Occult spavin





C)

W





remove the ...... 674

breaking to stand

while being milked..638





Out of condition, , .

2. feeding experiments. . .





annual convention of

heated from boil- ..................... ",0





an easy opera—





Paralysis ............... 32.0., I 442, . 643

643





' accounting, slm-n not a remedy





imirovemen 111::222 ,. .

1 t lhe (in-operative breed—





........... 281





cream] foanls advantages in .................





hard churning

what it should test...





I’arasitic bronchitis





............... 601 Th“ f‘fMingflnd care of





destroyers and how to . .. , _

l\cw lork frtut growers

i





grading of cream





""""""""" 3"’7 man’ s butter. . . . .385





of hind quarters

Cow population must in-





compensation using ashes 111.451

Pigs have piles .



e. ........... 526 601

........ 1,12 643





.................. 149

records ...... 4..

Udder of dairy





growing on creek 112115.288

liiaggots, controlling ..2





providing green





Poisonous drugs , plans for ...... 492





.................. 643

Pulling feathers

Punctured foot





.................





lnoducts are improved Value of cons learned. .................. 36:"





o

requisites, a. few I‘each buds and low tent-





in fruit belt dependent upon food ' treatment for. 2.98

-. 1 draining land for





Rearing orphan colt renewing trees





98‘}

287, 354, 443, 5151, \ent’ilation and (xelriselRL’

calf nurse five 50.





or six weeks? ....... 44





................. i.)





{ingbone ............ 287, 320,.





................. 472





l’cnrs, growing the ......

l’cppcrs. we should grow

- ‘. Fraser‘s lecture crit-





'l‘nrkey hens as mothers.538

raisers, helps for, 51‘





i'lant incubator, a

Planting currants

Plums, growing





“'hnt a creamery should

Sclrrhus cord should cream





Seoul's in calves ......... 567





........... 408 ing mistakes in





getting a start

............... 148

from cornstaiks

how to care for





should a cow have a

long slip taii" ........ 150





feeding little





, goosebcrries a1 1

Septic arthritis K





............ 452





suggestions for feeding 33

Farmers' creamery the”





survive rains

\Vhen bees sting ....... 625





Serous abscess on knee. .

Sharp uneven teeth ..... .

Shoulder lameness, 146.

' ..............502





the bearing apple trees





silage keep in pit?...." 364





“inter feeding of dairy

Would the pit

a silo for small dairy-



. 596

.................. 385



Poultry and Bees.

Apiary conveniences

jottings for May

Ashes in poultry house 451

Bee, anatomy of 'the....

labor saving-

devices in the ...... 625

Bees and fruit 5





Feeds and their econim-42 Apple gathering, lessons Raw ““5996 oil for graft:

. f "q





Solidified bursal



"'"""::;:::::::::e:412

................... 353

............. 55,147





. . ................ 365

Felmented milk a health;529 Remove the dead wood.270





trees, handling the old.340

' 34o





Forage, producing cheap-

1 Rose chafer is a horticul-

6





..................





Gasgline engine, size to32 Apples, good profits from





................

.................





San Jose scale, the

Seullion onions 2

Seeds to start in March.





possibilities of in Hills-

‘ Shaping the newly plant-

4?





dale county and

........... 78





.............229





Y

Good cows and a good

11





Government whitewash.

formula for making..596

Grain- ration





Spa’sm of larynx, 179,203

86 616. .198

April among the .....451





IIII-Iu-oa-oooto 87
700





Spray, proper time to.

Spraying apples

for canker worm. . . ”.4431

notes on .............. 159

progress in ........... 157

suggesttions on ....... 430

why it may fail ....... 269

Stone fruits, the culture

of

Storing fruit in Russia. 2.07

Strawberries, system of

planting 4

Strawberry, harvest thc.637

season, moisture prob-

lem (luring .......... 637

Tools needed in garden. 366

Tramp snow about young

trees 230

Vegetables, nature s

storehouse for

some experiences

forcing

\Varning to farmers. .‘

VVe-stern New York Hor—

ticultural Society

Will organize for market

purposes

Winesaps, thinning

VVinter-killed trees,

treatment for

Wounds, cure the ...... 364

Practical Science.

Animal nutrition, prin-

ciples of ..444, 486,

Carbohydrate digestion.

Composition of plants..

Compounds concerned in

animal nutrition, 507,

529.

Digestion of fats ....... 586

....................... 296

Functions of nutrients. .653

llow plants feed

plants grow ........ 1,

to select commercirl

fertilizers 22

Is Ollt' man‘s meat anoth-

er man‘s poison ‘.’. . . .1

Laboratory reports,

296, 356, 444, 486,

653.

Lime is not a fertilizcr.675

Low grade. vs. high grade

t‘t‘rtillzcr 70

Nature kills the

Nutrition studies..

675.

Sources of

fertilizers





(16)

..558





595

.555





91





wcak. .595

.617, 648





nitrogen

........... 166

phosphoric acid and

potash in 198, 220

Specific effects of differ—

ent kinds of fertiliz—

ers ............. 126, 166

Tomato yield increasing

the 675

The (ligtstlon of food. ..

The liming of soils, 356, 387

423, 444.

The rrraint‘ename of fer—

tility .......... 262, 296

The nerd ot tirtilizers. .126

Tuberculin test accurate

4‘)





TVaste of farm manures.334

\Vhole vs. ground corn

for pigs

Editorial.

case for suspended

judgment ‘

A farmers'

mission

A loss to agriculture

A marvelous develop-

ment 32

A sacrifice to speed ......

Advertising and

farmer .............. 476

Agricultural co-operation

in Ireland 6.1

extension work

Agriculture in congress.

252, 324

in high schools ....... 602

Are we profiting by

institutes?

Are. you enrolled?

As good as a.

bond

Bankers would

culture

Banking laws, needed

amendments to . .1r

ltean and pea growers, a

suggestion to "

Bean growers should

heed warnings ..... 618

Beet sugar industry

Michigan "

Boys’ model

State Fair

Business asset. a good..556

men and agriculture..556

Clean-up day in Mich—

igan ................ 530

Coal shortage, the ..412

Cold storage and cost of

living

Community

for

Conservation of soil for—

tility 1

CO-operation vs.

tion

Co-operative rural

the south for ........ 508

work for prisoners ..294

Danger in foreign seed

potatoes 4

you fav0r

post?

Farm finance.

systems of

Farmer’s fiscal year

greatest need ,........556

Itarmers’ institute dates. 125

Field for investigation.

a profitable 602

Fly nuisance ’08

Foreign labor for Michi-

gan farms 388

welfare





A





credit com-

44





surety





aid agri—

2-





corpora-

6





Do





European

29





General

tion

Good roads demonstra-

tion at State Fair...556

how can We best se—

cure

Ground water level and

agriculture 252

Hartman, S. B, obituaryo

of .2.





legisla-

448





70 l’otato





High cost of living ...... 412

in France 60

Highway question, the..360

Honesty is the best pol-

icy 22

How much money have

you made? ......... 530

Imported seed, quality of

61

Increase in

wealth

initiative in

Is





agriculture.508

separation of taxes

desirable?

Keep out fungous dis-

eases

Keeping boys and girls

on the farm 6’4

Lake levels and agricul-

ture

Live stock meeting,

for

the

Looking on

side

Markets. study the

Meat supply, the coun-

try‘s

Michigan's taxation prob-

lern

Money t1ust, the

New business in our for—

eign trade ........... ’1

Oleomargarine legislation

postponed 4

Parcels post legislation, 476,

618.

progress of

letter day

People and the schools.

Planning the season 's

campaign

industry,

phase of the

situation, the.

Presidential preference

primaries

Prizes for junior

growers

Production cost of wool 10

Profitable agriculture

means prosperity

organization, a

Itoad improvement in the

United States 25

the 1eader’ s duty in.

question again, the... 92

Roads, the problem ol'...448

Round—up institute dates

1





l

................. u





dates

3





.676





.618





.224





Rural carriers to feed

birds

Saving time and labor on

the farm

School pointers,

pertinent

Scope of farmers’

tute work

Seed, good vs. poor ...... 360

Separation of state and

local taxes

Shoddy questoin, the

Solving the road prob-

lem '3

Special institute train..654

sessions, net results of

412





insti—

22





Stapler crops, increase in

production of 6

State corn show

Study factors

economy

Tax investigation, a re-

sult of the

Taxation and

name

Township highway prob-

lems 3

unit system, the, 530. 603

adopted after thorough

study (’40

more about the

llpptr peninsula boosters

meet 19‘

\Vhat they say ..........





in farm

,,





farm fi-

22





'2 “’13 should co—operate for





a greater Michigan..578





\Vool product, Michigan’s

60





tariff,

twine

\ ear book, the 1911





Magazine Section and

Home and Youth.

A bird’s nest party ....535

A daughter of the gulf, 478,

514. 534.

A postotiice on water...655

A winter’s experience. . .2373

Among the lilies .‘. ...... 413

An April fool’s joke.....f..i

Animal tracks 1 ‘

Arr clectlric alarm bell..

At the sources of ‘the

Amazon ............ 18.

Aunt Betty, sunshine

maker 41'

Bachelor uncle,

62, 100, 118,

236, 254, 308,

395, 414, 462,

Bascom county’s

fox

Beach resort, at co—opera-

tive 657

Box kite, how to make.479

Cats and. birds ......... 561

China, stray glimpses of.325

Converting a toy sail—

boat: into a

wheeler

Decoration day story

Dreams achieve-

ment ............... 532

Dispelling the shadows.

Games for winter even-

ings, old-fashioned.

Getting coal out of a

river

Getting them interested.621

Gold mine at home, the.461

Greatness of lititle things308





479.

black

23





farm





3.. Hitting the bull’s-eye...





How Aunt Betty man-

aged the insurgents. 14



How the pets became

reconciled 187





2 How to hear flies walk. .582





4 The haven





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





In the days of the stage

coach .1

Influences at work on‘

country boys 5

Jane’s May-basket ....... 532

Lincoln, .the tomb of. . . .164

Little farm fables, 479, 561

Longfellow, Henry Wads-

worth 23

Making pictures without

a camera ........... 5

Manxlandmbeautiful Isle

of Man 61





6 May- time festival—pres—





ent and past ....... 533

Meadow lark, the ...... 531

Memorial day and



Huxtables .......... 579

Mission of the fresh air



kiddies 620

Naughty Peter Rabbit‘..5

Old missions of Califor-



nia 1

Oldest



nity in ,



Only a broken heart....

Origin of colors in Yel-



lowstone park ....... 657

Outwitted 6

Peasant



donia.

Peons of Mexico, among



the 41”

Pettibone Webster prize,



t(h‘





farming commu—





life in Mace-6





Preservation of trees

Southern Lexington—last

home of Gen. Lee...2

Spelling match, a state-

wide 2

Starkey’s priZo story. . ..

Teacher of Louisa May

Alcott 19

The game John found..

The little brown bird...656

The valentine that grew.165

Two strong—willed men. 11

\Vater music 62

POETRY.

A bit of worldly wisdom.395

A daughter of Mars... ..610

A song of progress ...... 63

A vernal Thanksgiving.414

Common things 308

Cookies for me 479

(lifts of June 683

If I were rich 257

Into the light ........... 309

Like herself 680

Littlencss

March 317

Memorial 610

Our children 415

St. Valentine’s 165

Sleepy time 624

Talkin’ 532

The. best. memorial . ..621

The fir tree’s new gown.187

461

The miracle of leaves..534

The pessimist and the

optimist ...........531

The singing heart 14

True architect of home. 66

What shall we eat? 235, 372

\Vhistle along 61

Why? .................. 582





Household.





About having one’s own

way

A dozen cakes from one

recipe 3

“A kid party”

An interesting study

Be not the first by whom

the new is tried ..... 234

Birthday parties for the

February child ..... 162

Blouse, the “tie-on” 43

Bread and bread mak-

ing

California rose beads. . ..

Candlestick, home-made371

Jar‘bohydrates 392

Care of bedding, the....

of nuts, the

(“crnenting linoleum

Children, like poults,

may be over-tended.659

Clay modeling for small

children

Comfort, a down

(look book .............. 660

(‘o-operativc trouble .512

Coronation braid inser-

tion

Country girls

cities

mother’s discovery

Cross—stitch, a revival

of

patterns

Danger of fads

Darning, about

Don’t interfere with

your neighbor's child

4 0





in





say I can’t

Do we enjoy

enough?

Dust, how to

Embroidery,

rose

the new ponchello. . ..

Eternal sunshine is too

advanced

generation

mother

Feeding the

olds

First

Floral work for each

month, 16, 162, 258, 420,

436 646.

Food values, a look into, 68,

122,193,303.

Gasoline stove explosion.

what to do

uses flour for

Girls’ dreSses,

things in

Give the child a garden.584

Glad rto hear from read-

.................. 459

Gold rand other laid workz 4





children





two-year-





Growing sweet peas. . . .

Hand—bag of Irish cro-

chet 66





62

Harmony in the home. .564





2 Planning the work





6 Things





Herring~bone stitches 42

Hired man on the farm. 483

Hobbies 483

Home queries »

.makers, helps for

Housecleaning in coun-

try homes

Household accidents

Human welfare - queries,

304, 330, 371, 393, 419,

459, 484, 513, 537, 563,

584, 609, 623, 660, 681.

I can’t vs. I won’t ..... 536

Ice box, a spring ....... 331

If you can cook potatoes

and eggs you can

cook anything ...... 16

Independent parents best

in old age 305

Jacket, three pointed

Kitchen boiler in cold

weather

Knitted shirt for

Know thyself

Left-overs .............. 163

Letter box, 123, 194, 332,

460, 563, 584, 659.

Locating beds with refer-

ence to sunlight

Mamma will you

me?

Meat curing

Michigan Farmer

17, 43, 124, 196, 235,

305, 372, 394, 459.

513, 564, 609, 624.

Native ingenuity ....... 2.19

Nerves is no excuse for

temper

Novel table “linen”

Old furs and their uses.

Ounce of prevention, the

513, 562

Outdoor cleaning ....... 608

Pasteurize the milk ..681

Pay back your last sum-

met :5 visit now





baby. .5

41





patterns,

260,

484,





42





Plea for air in home.

Potatoes in various ways

19





Query

Recipes.

hickory





Fruit cake,

nut cake, but-

termilk pie, banana

custard, buns, carrot

pudding, waldorf salad,

17; coffee cake without

eggs, soft gingerbread,

small spice. cake, white

cake without eggs, 371;

spice cakes, chocolate

pudding, 483.

Return to low prices—

who would want it?.192

Saving heat and fuel..623

Sheer effects and border-

ed materials rule. . . .482

Short cuts to housekeep—

ing, 17,68 99,163, 193,

196,332, 460,484, 564,

2,4 646.

Showers ................ 235

Sickroom visitors 67

Silks, early showing of. 260

Sleepy time 624

Some appropriate gifts. 370

Spring sewing 194

washing and cleaning

days are coming

Stairs and how to as-

cend them ......... 330

Sugar, What kind shall

we buy? 259

Summer goods brought

out while mercury





Sweet

sort

The holiday aftermatsh. .122

children’s money ..... 330

common problem ()6

joy of saving ......... 459

little old shoes ....... 608

spring harvest ........ 537

really worth





potatoes





while

Too much “living in the

moment”





Turkey raising for wom-

en

Uncle Sam’s cook book

on cheese ........... 563

work for American

housewife

Using carpets

Value of water

\Vhat kind of old lady

will you be? ........ 258

shall I eat? ......... 235

we eat (continued)? ..372

\Vhen daughters criti-

cize 623

White of an egg,

Wild flowers for

shutins

\Voman’s happiness

farm

management of house-

hold duties and ef-

fect 0n credit

\Vomen who are doing

things, Margaret De—

land. 66; Maud Gil—

christ, 392; Jennie

Buell '7

Young mother’s experi-19





the. .483

the





011





Farme‘rs’ Clubs.





21. 40, 79,

199, 231 ,

390, 429,

541, 565,

645, 667,





Club Discussions,

9





, 167,

301,



487,

605,





271,

455,

5'89,

677.

Executive committee

meeting 97, 135

Farmers’ Clubs as unit

for co- operative en-

terprises

Clubs in Minnesota

in Wisconsin

other states

School

. club

meeting, getting vot-

ers out to 67





506,

631,





506





Some advantages of be-

longing to Farmers’

Club bs .,631 667



..301



work 455



The motto card and the

boys and girls ...... 199



What benefit is.derived

from Farmers’ Club?



........................ 645



the local Clubs are do-

ing, 40, 79, 167, 231, 271,

301, 429, 455.



Yearly programs, 167, 390,

429, 455.



Grange.



A Grange fly campaign.506



Activity, the secret of

Grange growth . ..271



Among the live Granges.

79, 167, 231, 367, 429,

455, 487, 541, 58), 631,

667, 677.



Avoiding “breakers” in



v Grange cont‘ests ..541



Baraga patrons investi-

gate road commis-

sioners





9 Bronson Grange and its

63





contest

Building of a. rural com-

munity

Civic righteousness, 199, 231

Corn contest for Living-

ston county Grange

boys ................ 565

Corn show meeting,

tawa. Pomona’s ..... 135

Crop contests, Grange as

promoter of

Dedication of

I’omona 5 ball

Effective Grange report—

ing ................. 455





r Farmer’s bigegst problem,

t 6 7





he

Grange equal

movement

gleanings in

fields

growth during last

quarter of 1911 ...... 199

Home program, the.....565

How to spray fruit trees 2

4





institute

167





Lake county Granges. ..'

Lecturer’s report

State Grange

Madison rally, the ...... 677

Meeting in which Grange

and schools co-op—

crate ................ 301

New Granges for

quarter ............. 477

Newaygo P0mona’s an-

nual meeting

Ottawa's second “big

meeting” ........... 455

Paicels post, a timely

blow for 79

Pomona Meetings. —-Clin-

ion 79; Newaygo

Co., 97; Ottawa Co.,

Baraga Co., 135;,

Newaygo Co., 231;

St. Joseph Co., 301;

Gratiot Co., 367;

Lenawee Co., 455;

Manistee Co., 487;

Calhoun Co., 506;

Oceana Co., 589;

Ingham Co., 645;

Oceana Co., Ottawa

Co., 677.

Raisinville Grange,

poem) ............... 605

State Grange, lecturer’s

program at

Successful spraying op-

eratlons

The good neighbor ..... 367

Grange in other states,

J7, 589.

_ great rural need ..... 487

What is a. subordinate

Grange?





Illustrations.





Alfalfa crowns ......... 313

Alfalfa, Eaton county... 49

Amazon, scenes at the

sources of the ...... 185

Animal tracks ......... 187

Apiary conveniences ..644

Apple trees affected by

wind 43

a well handled young. .364

pruned too severely. . .340

Aster crop, harvesting

them 38"

Banquet scene, Plymouth

Tomato Growers’ As-

sociation

Barn and silos on farm

of R. C. Reed ....... 10

Bath house and pavil—

liorr, co-ope-rative..657

hive. sand equip-

ment

Belgian stallion,

Bros. ............... 175

H. & H. Wolf ......... 215

Berkshire, champion at

Smithfielld Show ..317

Boys’ corn meeting—

XVexford county ..169

Bronson Grange hall. . . .631

Buell, Miss Jennie.

scenes of home, 433, 458

Candlesticks, pattern for

........................ 371

Cherry trees by roadside

....................... 5

Chicks incubator hatch-

.................. 5

Child’s dress and romp-

ers

China, scenes in

Clover, crimson

-hay, Oceana county...

mammoth

Colony house, cheap but

serviceable

Comfort, a down

Container for

honey

Cookies f0r me





Bee





7 Corn 15 feet high, farm





of R. C. Reed ....... 10

Michigan’s best ear...‘





Four—horse





0 Root





JUNE 29,. 1912‘.





planting scenes ...... 521

Show, Wexford Boys’

Agricultural Club

Coronation braid ‘





Cross: stitch patterns, 420,

81 .





Cultivating the corn crop56





Dairy chart showing the

profit in cows 149

cow, a good type ...... 137

Deland, Margaret

Draft mares and colts—

I’lank & Newsome..465

Draft sire of quality... 53

Drinking fountain, a

home made ......... 20

Dust bath, the 1

Eggs to be rejected for

hatching 154

Electric alarm bell ...... 15

EWe and four lambs.....599

Farmhouse of T. E. Has—

sen

Farm





Flies, how to hear walk.582

team and

gang plow of E. F.

Chapin ........... . . .613

of P. J. Spalding ...... 401

on disk horrow 401

Fruit show at M.

General Lees ofiice and

horse

Gifts, last minute ....... 370

Gown, bordered ........ 482

Grandma’s Easter 1ilies.413

Hampshire lambs, wiri—

ners at Smithfield

show 3"

Hand-bag of Irish

chet

Hartman, Simon B ...... 252

Herring—bone stitches . 42

Hog business, growing

into 6’1

Holstein cow, Daisy

Grace De K01 ....... 551

Pontiac De Nijlande-r.426

Horses, temperamental

types 57

Hotbed ............ 268, 269

Isle of Man, views 011, 61 63

It pays to do right ...... 199

“King Corn,” farm of

Franklin Kent ......

King road drag ........ 434

Kite plans for box ...... 479

Labor saving devices for

bee yard ............ 625

Laidwork ............... 234

Leghorns, pen S. C

Brown .............. 538

Like herself ........... 680

Lincoln monument, at

Springfield, Ill ...... 164

Macedonia, scenes in ..619

Maple sugar, making in

the open ........ ~ ...275

Massengale, John

Meadow larks, nest and

young 5

Mexican peon habitat/ion. . -





CI‘O-





Northern Spy orchard of

N. . Hayes . 209

Oats, graded as to qual-

ity

Old missions of Califor-

nia, views of ...117, 119

Olsen, 0. A., farm of...649

Orchard, cultivation of..593

of Frank Edgcomb....540

Peppers, Mr. Smith’s

garden .............. ‘38

Post office 011 water.....

Potatoes, big load of...

seed for picking ...... 346

Potato-tomato plant 76

Poultry houses in or-

chard

Prints





Punched





Rambler

ery

Rape on barley stubble.

Rhode Island Red hen.

Rice, Elijah E ........... 11

Roads, Wayne county... 25

Roller, 21 home-made. . . .132

system of corn

plant

Seed corn rack and test-

ing box 4

Shorthorn heifer, winner

at Smithfield show..525

steer, winner at Smith-

field show

Silo for fattening cattler.545

Spelling match, partici—

pants in 5

Six mule team, Chaffee

633





rosev embroid-





Bros.

Southdown wethers, win-

at Smithfield





of

Strawberries,

planting

Sugar beets,

of

The farmer of the future,

tableau

The fir tree’s new gown.187

Tile levelling and laying,

273, 275.

Tomatoes, atypical load

of

Toy boat

Tree—lined street

Trees, preservation 0f..477

Turkey, Bourbon Red. . .200

White Holland ....74, 418

Upper peninsula cabbage

patch 1

Vines planted about the

porch ............... 569

Where interest originates





White clover plant ...... 227





6 Women’s Building, M. A.





0., shop and kitchens

of 392