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Whole Number 3608.





The Only Weekly Agricultural,





osmoniimcn. SATURDAY. JULY :3. 1912.





 

 

 





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S the activities of the farm focus

A about the harvest, all eyes are

turned toward the farmer. Crop

reports are a barometer for the world’s

greatest commercial enterprises. Large

crops make good times, empty granaries

and storehouses are a. signal for hard

times and busines depression. The farm-

er’s smile of prosperity quickens the

pulse of commerce and radiates hope to

all other industries; the products of his

fields are the basis of the world's wealth.

The fortunate possessors of luxuriant

fields of small grain will feel a satisfac-

tion when these crops are secure from

the weather. A few days' delay may re-

sult in damage from shattering and 0v-

er—ripe grain and destruction from

storms. An anxious time is this harvest;

it is a. time when one .mu'st weigh the

risk of a few days against the risk of

months and sccut‘c his crops as quickly

as he can. Abundant preparations should

be made to push the work along as rap—

'idly as possible.



First tbtiught should be directed to the

question of the proper time of cutting.

“'heat: may be cut when the straw bc—

gins to yellow and the kernels are in the

dough stage. 'l‘hey should be firm enough

not to be easily crushed. Barley may be

allowed to become nearly ripe before

cutting. Oats may be cut when in the

soft dough stage, and when about one-





half of the lea—mes chow greem The mien.





plan is‘to'b‘egln cutting

so that the crop may be

harvested with as little

Waste as possible from





shattering. The field,

as a whole. may show

a slight greenish tinge.

Oats cut at this time

cure. and ripen to the

best advantage. Per-

haps one side of the

field may be a day or

two ahead of thc rest.

.-‘t start as soon as a few

acres are ready mcans

a gain of valuable time

in harvesting a large

acreage. The same

thing applies to other





small grains. lint it, is

safe to cut wheat with

more sap in the straw

be allowed in

outs without danger of

the. grain being damag-

cd in the mow or stuck.



(letting tht- binder in

shape to bcgin the sea-

son's cutting should rev-





1han can





ccive more attention

than it usually gets on





the ayeragc farm. it is

the most complicated

delicately adjusted

machine used on the

farm. The man who

neglects to provide

shelter for his binder

will be compellcd to pay

heavy blls for repairs

before he finishes cutting

matter how a bittder has

it needs a good overhauling and clean-

ing before going to the field. Every part

needs adjusting, every loose b.n-r should





and





his grain. N0

been sheltered





be tightened and anything sprung out

of line should be straightened. A few

hours spent in overhauling and cleaning





a. binder reduces breakage and delays to

a. minimum. Any part that shows se-

vere wear or imperfectly does its work

should be'replaced before related parts

are affected. It is poor policy to run

any machine until it breaks.

Wh‘éfi‘iaiaiing used in the field the bind-

er should be kept well-oiled. The life of





a machine depends much upon the oil-

ing. Oil frequently and plentifully, but

always hear in mind that the oil which





IN THE HARVEST FIELDS.





 





rttns out of the boxings does no good.

It is better to stop the machine every 30

or 40 minutes than to allow some of the

boxings to run dry. Every bearing that

1s allowed to run dry occasionally soon

gets Mose and runs dry quicker. This

increases the draft and the liability of

breakage. ‘Straw and dirt should be

promptly removed from parts with whose

functions such accumulations may inter-

fere. It does not. pay to take chances

with bindt-rs. Many drivers seeing weed

patches and wet spots in the tield whip





up the horses in an attempt to cut

through instead of taking time to drive





around. Sections are frequently broken

and pttman rods smashed by such care-

less driving. Binders were. not made to

stand driving ovrr stumps. stones and

steep washes or to cut willow sprouts

and huge wccds. Any man with common

stnse can determine in a few seconds

whether or not his machine will cut

through such places. ‘ly careful driving,

frequent oiling and not monkeying with

the various parts of the machine unless

one knows just what needs adjusting

there is little danger of serious break-





age in operating a grain binder.

One of the prime factors in operateing

.a binder successfully is that of having





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sufficient horsepower. Business farming

requires that such important work as

harvesting small grain should be done





at'the right time. That; time is brief. In

the light of these facts there should be

lal‘ge'horses that are capable of hand—

ling' the machine without wiggling and

tugging in the collar every time there is

a slight increase in the draft of the hind-

er.’ A shortage of horsepower during the





harvest is a serious handicap and should





be avoided.‘ The driver who is compelled

t‘o‘spend his time whipping up three or





:fot'ir‘.h'01'se's cannot properly look after





his .maéhihe and attain a high degree of

excellence in his work. Three large

drafters are needed on a six-foot binder

in heaVy grain. if the ground is rough

or s'oft it would 'pay to put. on an extra





team for leaders. one of which may be

ridden by a boy. It pays to avoid over-

loading horses during the extremely hot

weather in the harvest tield. \\'here six

horses are availablc two three—horse

teams can be worked alternately to ad-

vantage.



Careless shocking is many

sponsible for damaged groin. Good

Shockers are scarce in these days. Old—

time careful shockers set the bundles

down firmly in the. stubble, set the heads

together tightly and broke the caps so

that they would turn an immense

amount of water and withstand strong

winds. A poorly ('(lllStl‘lK‘tf‘d shock is

easily blown over and permits the rain

to give the bundles a thorough soaking.

If the bundles. are green or the butts full

of grass and weeds, long, narrow shocks

are to be preferred. A 10 or 12 bundle

shock is better than a larger one. If

plenty of air space is allowed at the

bases of the and the heads are

close together, the grain can cttre rapidly

and at the same time be protected.

Careless laborers should be closely

watched and given instructions regarding

the proper methods of shocking to avoid

loss from this cause.



.W‘hether to thresh from the shock or





times re-





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from the stack is a dcbutablc question.

if one can secure a.m:tchine and plenty

of help at just the right time, and if he

has plenty of floor space to properly

spread the grain to prevent it from be-

ing damaged by heating, he is justified

in threshing his grain from the shock.

On the other hand, if he has a large

burn it is perhaps better to allow the

grain to go through the sweating process

and do the threshing after themrush of

other farm work is over. 'Threshing

from the mow or shock usually gives a

better quality of grain. If grain is al—

lowed tO‘stand. in the shock after it is

properly cured many of the kernels are

likely to be bleached or discolored. If

the wet weather is of long duration the

grain may start to sprout or mold. Grain





 





(See Page 25).





that has been cut a trifle. green should

be left in the field a few days, else. it





may heat in the mow or stack. in case

a heavy rain comes before hauling it to

lhe mow or stack it will bc well to open

the shocks and scatter the. bundles from

the shock. taking pains to loost-n up the

butts of the, bundles so that the air and





sun may dry them, before hauling from

the field.



Stacking, too. seems to be almost rt

lost art. livery farmer should know how





to build a good stock. .-\ few simple,

rult-s about starting, laying out the bulge,

kceping the middle well tilled, drawing in

and putting on the cap govcrn the Work.

ltound stacks gcnerally give good satis—

faction because thcy are easier to

struct. Stacks should not be too

as pitching to the

cult and the, stack must bt- nuttlo high.

The high stack makes pitching ditlicull,

and has a tendency to cause tbt- builder H)

draw in too fast. l’itching the grain all

on one side of a large stack causes it to

settle unevenly. ‘



The one great secret of building a.

good stock is to kecp the middle full and

compact. A stack is sttre to settle, and

it is very important that the middle sol~

tltx the least. Provide a foundation of

poles or trails. Start the same as an or-

dinary shock with the outside bundles

practically flat. Keep the middle full and

compact. Put the bundles in place with

a fork. Make 'th‘é’”‘b'ttlge

about four feet above

the ground. The bulge

makes it easy to slant

bundles down and pro-

Vidcs a droop when the

stack settles. Make :1

good top. l’lacc bun-

dlcs carefully. Some. use

HVVIIIDID 3-5”:th 10 10]) 0”:

tho stack. \Vires and

weights will help pre—

vent the 10p from blow-

ing off. take down the

sidcs so that thc butts,

will 5'}an «lonnward.





l‘tlli’

largo,

center becomes tlitl'l-





Hazvcst time is 13m.

fuizilltucm of :lo- year's

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llj‘ :15 l/xt’ll’ .n it lr'-"

lll'.t l‘ ilzt‘ ittllll txw

St: titlltl'til’lt-li ltlll‘t 1"."

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biutlt‘a. too. Ilic llli.“

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tlrtttltts and Hip ti‘c

bundlt- curiit’r \xhtlo

cutting l2 or l3 mics

of heavy grain a. day

affords a more joyous

thrill than to sit upon

tbc throne of a king.

“or bountcous field.-

hnve luughctl with m.—

otltcr burvr-sl to stand





bctwccu us and starva—

lion





until harvest limo

shall come again. Away

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pcndonce. Hack again

to the old time simple independcnccrr~-

hack to nature. \Vc pray in the line. of

the harvest covenant when we say,

"(live tts this day ottr daily bread.”



New York. ' W. MILTON KELLY.



SEED SELECTION AT HARVEST

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We all know that the American farmer

is a. wonderfully easy mark, especially in

farm seeds. We know that of the staple

crops sttch as wheat. oats, barley, beans,

etc., the average farmer is everlastingly

changing seed, trying new varieties. and

growing one variety only a few years.

The wheats we grew 15 years ago are no

longer extensively grown today. having

been supplanted by other and later vario—
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ties, although the new varieties are no

better yielding or milling wheats than

were the varieties of 15 years ago. The

varieties grown 30 years ago, were prac-

tically all replaced by the varieties of 15

years ago and yet those wheats we grew

30 years ago were as good or better

yielders as were those of 15 years ago or

even of the present time. The same has

been true of the oat, as we well know

when we stop and think about it, and so

on through the whole list of grains, with

the exception of corn, including also

such crops as potatoes, etc.



Why have these varieties been changed

so often, especially when We have not

been getting any better yiclds or quality

by so doing? Fal'lllt'l‘s who have grown

the same variety of corn for 10, 20, 30 or

more years on the same farm continuous-

ly with increasing yields and higher

Standards of excellencc each year do not

seem to stop to reason by analogy the

Same system of seed selection in other

grains as that pursued in selecting corn,

\yould eliminate this fancied nced of con-

tinually changing secd for these other

grains and would in that way prevent

the deterioration and “running out” of

them. The fact is, the farmer with his

tanning mill selecting the largest, heav—

icst grains for seed without any regard

as to what kind of a had or pod or plant

tluy grew in or on has been uniformly

and gloriously successful in degenerating

and actually destroying practically every

promising variety of grain he has been

able to get his hands on and manipulate

for 3 fcw yczlrs. if it was not so much

easier to save secd corn in the right and

natural way. we would be. doing the same

thing in corn that we have with the

othcr grains. If \\'( were after the larg-

est grain for seed we would have shelled

our corn without any grading of the cars





bcforc so doing and then selected the

largest. finest grains, the most of which

would havl- grown on the nubbins or

llllll‘t' undesirable cars. ’l‘hercfore, when





we swlcct only the best kernels of grain,

only cxpcct just such results as

t'armcr has been getting all the way

the past,

\‘l'hile we will grant all

for the bcnelit in





\\'t' t'llll

Illi-

along through

that is claimed

cleaning and grading

soc-d. because we am satisfied that the

plumper grains will produce Lt.

more thrifty growth and consequently a

larger yicid, than will the smaller or in-

ferior sced, simply because of the’ greater

food supply in the grain to give the plant





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a good start atte-r germination, yet we

art: also fully convinced that this very

system dct‘cals the very end we think we

are trying to reach. that of incrcasiug

tho yield of our variety and fixing that

‘tcndcncy to increase of yicld so that it

bccrmcs a lixcd habit, and thus perma-





nt-ntly improving the variety. We know

wo would do that in corn if we followed

it any length of time. and why is it not

lruo in the case of other grains.



l’ermit me to give a short history of

op! rations along this line conducted by

mysclf and reported to your journal last



Several years ago we began select-

sct-d cats by the head. The first

your we spent about five hours time in

the field and selected the largest heads to

be found in the field. That was the year

lllt' were so bad ncarly all over

the state. and the largest heads we could

find carried not over 70 or 80 grains to

the head. This pccl; of sced so gathered

was sown in a plot by itself the follow-

ing and :gain we spent another

live hours selecting the largest heads.

That your the heads ran around 1:30

grains to tile head and were quite tini-

lol‘inly large. This second peck of Sued

was sown again by itself with a still

greater increase of the number of grains

in the head, and instcad of saving only

a peck of seed that year we selected

enough to make a bushel. spending about

15 hours in so doing. The following sea-

son we sowed the bushel of seed on an

acre of land and harvcstcd a trifle over

a hundrcd bushcls of grain, liftect‘ select-

ing enough by hand for another bushel of

seed. That season many of the heads

bore from 200 to 230 grains each. an in-

crease of more than 100 per cent in the

yield per head brought about by selec-

tion for a period of only three gent-ra-

lions.



Now let us figure a little. By re-rcad-

ing the paragraph above we Will see that

a. matter of about 25 hours was consumed

in this special work of selecting seed by

the head during these three years. The

increase in the yield of that last bushel

of seed of considerably over 100 per cent

was solely due to this 25 hours’ extra la-

bor. Say nothing about the value of that

100 bushels for seed purposes to sell to

other farmers or to use myself. that in-

crease of over 50 bushels was mighty good





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THE MICHIGAN FARME‘R.





pay for'that extra 25 hours'

much for the fellow who wants to see im-_

mediate results for the labor expended in

such extra stunts. But let us look at the

larger and more important results. By

this system we have largely increased the

producing capacity of our variety of oats

and after five years of such practice have

increased the yield of our general crop

something better than 25 bushels per

acre. “’0 no more think of starting cut-

ting our oats without first going into the

plot sown with the hand—gathered seed

and making a selection of seed by the

head for next year’s sowing, than we

Would think of not cutting them at all.

1 now have a variety of oats that never

yielded so well as they do now and l sce

no reason why I should have any reason

to change my variety of cats for the

next 20 years than I had for changing

seed corn for the last 20 years, which I

have not done. There is no possible

doubt but that this system, followed up

'arefully each year on every farm in all

grains grown on the farm, would prac-





tically double the production in these

grains without making any change in

tillage, soil fertility or any other condi-





tion for better or for worse.



This is why we are so afraid of the

farmer and his fanning mill. When

grading seed according to the universally

accepted custom, we almost inevitably

tend to destroy the producing capacity

of the variety. It is only reasonable to

expect to find many of the larger and

plumper grains of wheat or oats or what

not in the smaller head just as we find

our larger grains of corn on the smaller

or more undesirable ears. It is not rea-

sonable to expect that the grains of an

out head bearing 230 grains to be as

large as those in a head bearing only 30

or 40. when other conditions for growth

and development are equal.



\Vhile cleaning and grading the

may be the best thing for

this year's crop, yet we should empha-

with all our might the fact that

procct'lurcs do not in any way in—

sure a fixed tendency for increase of

yiwld in any given variety, but rather

sccms to hasten the coming of the time

whcn tho yaricty so handled becomes so

degenerate as to be no longer profitable

to grow. This has bcen the universal

history of the past in grain growing, and

such facts should be noted with all pos-

sible emphasis.



Oakland Co. E.





LILLIE F'ARMSTEAD





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M. MOORE.

NOTES.





Things are not working out on the

farm this year as I had them planned. I

am not doing the best [ know how, simo

ply doing the best I can under the cir-

cumstances. The prospects on hoed crops

are not \‘cry good, yet the crops them—

selves are doing better than one would

think they could do under the circum-

stances. ‘When I got ready to plant en-

silage corn, for instance, it didn’t seem

that there was enough moisture in the

ground so that the corn would ever ger-

minate but, strange to say, by packing

the ground down firmly, even after hav-

ing plowcd down a heavy crop of grass,

We had formcd the capillary connection

between the sub-soil and the furrow slice

and moisture has come up from the sub-

soil by capillary attraction, sufficient to

bring up a large per cent of the corn. I

never would have believed this fact had

I not noted it this year. I thought my

only salvation was that we would have

a good soaking rain after the ground .was

plowed. The ground was dry, under—

stand, when it was plowed. In some

places there wasn’t a particle of moisture

in it, and added to that we turned under

grass that would cut a ton and one—half

per acre. In spite of all of that sub-soil

moisture has caused a large per cent of

the corn, especially in places to germi-

nate, and it isgrowing. There hasn‘t

been a particle of rain since the ground

was plowed, and yet we are ablt- to cul-

tivate the corn. Some places it hasn‘t

come up. These are small clay places.

the rows are straight. and the man is

enabled to straddle the row by looking

ahead where there was moisture enough

so that the corn could germinate. It is

certainly a valuable 1053011 in this ques-

tion of sub—soil moisture, and it con-

vin‘ces me the very first seas0n that on

late plowed ground you cannot pack it

too firmly. This ground was packed by

running over it with a heavy disk and

a ten-ton traction engine. Some people

said that it would pack the ground so

that no crops would grow, but I think it

has been the salvation of the ensilage

corn this year. Had the, weather been

wet, excessive rains instead of a drought,

the case might have been different; I





Work. 80’





us to do for_





cannot speak intelligently upon' this past

at the present time, but I am convinced

that the thorough packing of the ground

is what brought up the corn that had

germinated.



A 20-acre field planted earlier for husk-

ing we began plowing on Decoration Day,

and plowed the 20 aeres in two days.

Then we disked it and planted along the

10th and 12th of June. In the meantime

there came a fairly good rain but the

under side of clay lumps were dry even

after Jhat rain and we haven’t had a

particle of rain since. I never expected

that half of that corn would come up

but I am happy to say that I had my

”crying spell” a little bit too'soon, and

with the exception of a few clay spots

there is a fairly good stand of corn.

\Vhe-re there was any chance at all for

the corn to germinate it is too thick.

Every kernel seemed to grow and there

is too much in the hill. This. I under-

stand from what I read, is not a com-

mon occurrence this year owing to 'poor

seed corn, but I am happy to say that

my seed corn that I saved myself and

fire-dried was prime, every kernel seem-

ed to grow. Notwithstanding the fact.

that we are so late with our crops and

such a backward season, yet we have

our field potatoes planted a little earlier

this yt‘ar than we had before in several

years. The finish of the crop came ear-

licr because We were able to do the work

more rapidly, and had we had a proper

distribution of moisture I think I would'

have been fairly well satisfied with the

outlook. These potatoes were planted in.

dry ground and I don't know how they»

will come out. I didn’t expect much of

a stand but if it works with the potatoes

as it did with the, ensilage com I may

have a fair stand yet. \Ve planted po-

tatoes this year with a potato planter.

Two men and a team with this potato

planter can put in more potatoes in a.

da_' and put them in better on well pre-

pared ground than six or eight men. I

am positive that it didn't cost me one-

quarter as much this year to put in the

late potatoes as it did last, and I believe

that any man who raises even three or

four acres of potatoes, it would pay him

to have a potato planter. It saves a lot

of hard work, and it does its work nice-

ly. It not only plants and drops and.

covers the potatoes at the same time but

it will distribute the fertilizer.“ at the

same time and work it well into the soil



Owing to the fact; that I was to have

the assistance of a traction engine this

spring I figured on putting in more crops

than usual; and added to my working

farm by renting 100 acres of land, and

my plan was to put 30 acres in beans,

but it got too dry befOre we got the

ground plowed and is still so dry and so

late that l have abandoned this idea and'

given it up. I would rather not risk the

seed, and my intention now is to Put

this 30 acres into wheat this fall. It will

be something on the sort of an old-

fashioned summer fallow. Although I

am not prepared to say just how much

tillage it will get during haying and har-

vesting. But the ground is plowed and

well plowed, too, and we can certainly

fit it later on in the season.



Sugar Beets.



Sugar beets have not come up as well

as the ensilage corn. There are places

in the field large enough to cultivate and

large enough to thin and on other places

they haven‘t come up at all, and it is a.

question whether they ever will. If we

could get a min before the middle of

July I still think probably I would have

a stand that might pay expenses, and‘

perhaps more. We are cultivating them,

as best we can.

field we have to go by guess but the land.'

needs stirring. Bush lima beans that

wcre- planted in the same field by the

side of the beets have come up better

than the beets, and they were planted at

the same. time. It doesn’t seem to take-

as much moisture to bring up lima beans,

as it does: sugar beets. These beans are

coming up so that now there is a fair

stand where at first it looked as if they

would be too thin to be profitable. This

is a new crop raised for the canning fac-.





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





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THE HOG AND HIS PEDIGREE.





 





The man'who thinks pedigree is of 111-

tle value willnnever get anywhere in ani-

mal breeding, yet the sight of a pedigree

is. of little value to a buyer of breeding

animals unless he knows something of

the individuals found among the ancestry

named. There is no use in examining

pedigrees unless the names found in them

suggest something intelligible to the

reader. The beginner can soon learn the

names of some of the most famous ani-

mals of the breed and look for them in

the pedigrees of the animals he pur-

chases. But there is much to be known

about pedigrees in addition to the knowl—





edge that they contain the names of

great animals. Even good breeders of

live stock have their own notions and





hobbies as to the value of good names in

given places in a pedigree.

into which





One mistake young breed-





ers are prone to fall is thinking that a.

great sire or a gieat. dam necessarily





means being a great individual. The son

of a famous sire may be a very mediocre

animal; and this is particularly true of



Every experienced hog breeder





hogs.

knows the extreme variations which oc-





cur between pigs of the,same litter, to

say nothing of the difference between

pigs from different litters by the same





sire, A good boar used on a large herd

during six years of activity may produce

a thousand sons. Is it within reason to

expect that all or anywhere nearly all of

these sons will be good individuals, and

also good breeders?



Of far greater

of outstanding merit close up in pedigree

is high average of excellence and 1111i—

forniity in all ancestors for two or three

generations back. 111 picking a boar “out.

of sight and unscen,“ I Would far rather

buy an individual whose sire and dam

and grandsires and granddams had all

taken first and second premiums at the

fairs, than buy a son of the boar takin:r

grand championship at the same fairs,

if the other ancestors close up in the

pedigree “were comparatively unknown.

A high average of excellence in all an-

cestors_""as“ compared with phenomenal

merit in one, involves a difference sim-

ilarto that between investment and spec-

ulation. “'ith a pedigree of the former

character one is reasonably certain of

offspring measuring up to the- normally

high level of their ancestry, while with

the latter kind one may get offspring

equal to the one great ancestor or to the

comparatively unknown dam, or to the

mediocre ancestors of either the sire or

dam. If one desires to gamble there is

no better nor more certain way of

doing it than by buying a pig because it

has one good parent.





value than an ancestor





It is well known in the human family

that children frequently resemble 'their

uncles and aunts more than their father

and mother. And the same phenomena





extend through animal life. One of the

most impressive features of heredity is

the fact that inheritance is a handing





down of racial or family characters rath—

1r than the bestowing of an individuality

which is a composite of father and moth—

er. Scientific men use a term called “the

pull of the. race” to describe the known

fact that there is a tendency for the off-

spring of animals above the average of

the race to return to that average. In

other words, an exceptional animal is a

variation and in begetting offspring the

variation is not perpetuated, but rather

the offspring tend to,be like the normal

type.



It is true that the exceptional animal

may beget some offspring even more ex—

ceptional than himself, but these will be

few in number, while the bulk of his pro-

geny will be less meritorious than he

himself. And it is especially true that

the selection and breeding of these ex-

ceptional animals is what keeps up the

vanguard of advance in animal breeding,





but it is only the man with many fe-

males in his herd and a long purse to

carry him through who can afford to





breed an exceptional animal for the sake

of the few progeny he will beget that

prove to be better than himself. The only

safe method for the large majority of

breeders to pursue is to secure a sire 1.11

of whose near ancestors are of uniformly

high excellence and are better than the

females in his own herd. He can thus

raise the average of his herd with rea—

sonable rapidity and have a un.form lot

of animals from each crop.

Illinois. W. H. UNDERWOOD.





 





THE. MICHIGAN FARMER.





THE FUTURE OF OUR BEEF PFl0~

' DUCTION.





 





It is a well known fact that supply and

demand is what stimulates our marketcs

and causes the fluctuation of prices. But

not until recently did I know why our

“butcher wagon” did not make its regu-

lar trips through this locality as it has

been accustomed to do in years past. I

was somewhat surprised, on making an

inquiry at one of our trading points as to





why this condition prevailed. by being

told that the price of meat had reached

such an extreme limit that it (lid not





the markets to run their wagons at

farmers could not “afford





pay

present as the





 





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Percheron Stallion





to eat beef" and the prices ranged from

‘10 to 20 cents per pound.





l have been wondering just what the

crisis will come to in a few years if we

do not produce better beef and more of





it. I was in Chicago on the 13th of May

and bought 37 head of stockers averag-

ing 690 lbs., which cost, delivered, over

$1,500. They had the gall to ask me $6.25

for these cagtle, which were far from

being the best beef type; but I managed

to get them down to $71.75, which was a





dollar more than they should have cost.

The best kinds were going that day at

around seven cents, which was mucu





more than I cared to Pay. Of course, all

the buyers were putting up a vigorous

kit-k about. such high prices but the deal—

ers said that this class of cattle were no

higher than they ever were in proportion

to finished stuff. which was selling at

that time for ‘11. (1.30 and at present for

$9.60. Of course, this is true in a, meas-

ure but at that time, several years agO,

you could buy all the corn you cared for

at 20 to 30 cents per bushel, while now

it is twice to three times as high. For

this reason it makes a fellow wonder just

where he is going to land in paying such

l‘igh prices for cattle and feeding a small

fortune to them in grain and hay. Tak-

ing these facts in consideration what are

we going to do?



Michigan has the name of producing

the largest quantity of beans of any state

in the union. In my opinion it ought to

have the credit. of producing at least

and most inferior class of beef type cat-





tle. l have often wondered why the

dairymen do not keep a class of cows

that Would produce beef as well as milk.





farmers in Illinois who have

seem to realize as much

as those who cater

which we all

beef pro-





1 know of

such holds and

profit from their milk

to the Jerseys 0r Holsteins,

are no earthly good for

Of course, many years ago when

plentiful and low in price

material difference, what a.

calf looked like. just so you had a fresh

cow. But the time has come when it

does make a great difference, and a good,

well—bred calf is nearly as valuable as a

nugget of gold and should be cared for

by every farmer to sustain the great de-

crease in our beef supply, which we

must keep up.



If MTichigan would produce more well-

bred stock and less beans some of us

fellows who appreciate feeding would not

have to pay our cash to the western

farmers but: could drive through our rural

districts and find what we ought to at





know

duction.

cattle were

it made no





home, and incidentally leave the cash

here. Our local merchants always put

in a desperate kick about our ordering





goods from 'Chicago and sending our





 





money away from home—-but like the

cattle business, if we can't find the goods

at home which we want, at a moderate

price, we are compelled to go outside.

Of course, our views differ greatly when

it comes to managing our farms and we

generally qualify for our own special in-

terests, yet I believe there is a chance

for any of us to make mistakes. But

from what experience I have had and

have noted from the most successful

farms from a financial standpoint, I be-

lieve that those who encourage and fol-

low along the lines of well-bred live stock

and make it a point to feed out most of

their products will have less hard work

to do and retain the soil fertility at a





 





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LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





“Marketing of the Tennessee and Ken-





tucky lamb ciop will extend through a

longer period this year than last," said

Clark Estes, who returned to Chicago the

other day from a visit to his old home in

Louisville. “\\'l1ile the r1111 from the two

states will be 1ully :5 per cent



of last year, and the Tennessee

is probably 40 per cent short,

supply will be a right generous on.-

at that. as last y1-ai"s’supply in those

states was the largest on record. Quality

has begun to show improvement, bu. 11

has been comparatively poor

this season. Not as much cntracting for

future delivery is heard of as usual, as

breeders, pleased with current prices, are

holding their offerings at pretty stiff

rates. 1 know of some Tennessee lambs

ccntractcd for August 1 delivery, how-

ever, at $7.271 per 100 lbs. Kentucky and

Tennessee. breeders are picking up a

number of natch ewes on the Louisville

market to send back to the country as

oiccdei's, something they have not done

to any appreciable extent heretofore in

that market, and 11 load or two is leav-

ing Louisville daily. .-\ raft of ewes that

lost their lambs are being sent to that

market now. mostly, I think, by breeders





short,





the





who have become discouraged because of.

with 3

and government attempts at reg» "



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the troubles they have experienced

scabies

ulation of the disease during the past

year. ’]he high lamb market is acting as

1111 offset in a measur,c to this liquidat—

ing of breeding stock, and if lambs con-

tinue to sell high, it is more than likely

that many who are now selling out will

get back in the game later on, in which





evente Chicago should have a pretty good .‘

that coun- 5





demand after harvest time in

11y for breeding ewes,

lll'tiltlLll of

uncertain.”



ll. J. McMahon, of Phillips, South Da-

kota. who marketed in Chicago recently

three decks of 96-lb. two—year—old weth-

ers at 955.15, remarked that he had been

in that country for the past 28 years and

ncver knew before live stock to be In

such limited supply. The drouth last

summer was the worst he ever knew, and

with the gradual encroachment on former

ranch lands of the dry farmer, the high

price, of hay and other feed during the

past winter, the throwing open of rest-r-





. _ but the

tins demand is at





probable

this time





vations to settlers and the difficulty

ranchmcn encounter in leasing lands for

any great length of time, has all but





1‘ iped out the ranching ploposition in the

Dakotas Grass is as good as it has been

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vear but unfortunately, few gr.1zing

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condition A few of the la1ger cattle out-

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in some stock cattle the past spring from

the southwest the “Diamond A” people

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Sore Throat—Jihad: Heart—4 have a

horse that must have some throat trou-

ble for it bothers him to swallow water;

besides he breathes hard. This horse is

18 years old and appears to be much

worse one day than anoiher. G. G., New—

port, MiclL—Apply iodine ointment t0

throat every day or two. Give him 1 dr.

ground nux vomica and 2 drs. muriate

ammonia at a dose in feed two or three

times a day.



Indigestion—Lump Jaw—I have a

mare tive years old that I bought about

two years ago and she has never been

in very good candiiion since I have owned

her. She is inclined to gnaw Wood and

I had her teeth floated, but it made no

difference. I am told that some horses

do not thrive on account of their lower

grinders being narrower than upper. She

is troubled with wind galls on both hind

legs, but not lamc. I have a. two-year-

oid heifer that has lump jaw. Can any-

thing be done for it? J. K., Carsonvnle,

l\'ll(fl‘..———Yl)ul‘ mare may have liver trouble

affecting her digestion. Give 1 oz. phos-

pliale of soda at a dose twice a day; also

give a tablespoonful of fluid extract of

genetian and a tablespoont‘ul of fluid ex-

tract cinchoua at a dose three times a

day. Apply one part red iodide mercury

and four parts lard on jaw once every

ten days.



Septic Arthritis.-l have a six weeks

old colt that was real healthy and lively

when it came and remained so until it

was four Weeks old. It then showed

lameness in right hip, then lameness

moved to right shoulder, when it laid

down, it was unable to get up. I gave

it an aenema of soap and water and salt

baths. following this with liniment. I

called in our local Yet. and he pronounC-

ed the case hopeless; the colt died a day

or two later. N. R., Groose 119, Mich.—

Had you treated navel of colt right away

after birth, he would not have died. The

navel cord of every colt should be t1ed

with a silk cord one inch from body} also

apply a, good healing remedy tWice a

day.



Scirrhus Cord—Fibrous Tuinor.—-Have

a yearling colt that was castrated some-

time ago; one of the wounds healed, the





f-oiher remaining raw for a. time and a

bunch forming in scrotum. i also have

another colt with a bunch on shoulder

near where trace runs, which is about

the size of a hen egg, very hard and

moveable. Ii. H., Bradley, Mich.———A tu-

mor has grown on end of cord on ac-





count of cord uniting with skin of scro-

tum. \thn the colt was castrated cord

was left too long. The bunch should be

cut and cord shortened. Also cut bunch

out of shoulder and apply one part iodo-

i‘orm and ten parts boracic aCid to the

wound twice a day.



Horse Rolés in Stable—“Torms.——I have

a six—year-old horse that I bought _four

months ago which has a nasty habit of

iolling in stable. HaVe attempted to cor-

rect this habit but failed. This same

horse must have some worms, for he oc—

<asionally passes them. He also seems

stupid and lazy, urinates too often and is

inclined to have colic. He seems to be

well, but has a ravenous appetite. _J. J;

(L, Grand Rapids, lVIicli.—Give him i

(lrs. aloes. 30 grains calomel, 1 dr. san-

lonine and 2 drs. ginger at _a dose and

one dose only. Also give him 1 dr. of

around nux vomica, 2 (lrs. powdered sul-

phate iron, 1 oz. ground gentian at a

dose in feed two or-three times a day.

\‘t'orms may cause his rolling in stable.



Bleeding Vt'art on Hind Leg.——.My four-

veir-old mare has a soft, bleeding wart.

situated a little below hock on right hind

li'g, and she also has swollen bag. A.

N... Elk Rapids, Mich—Cut off wart and

apply one part iodoform and ten parts

boracic acid to wound once a day. Ap-

ply hot raw linseed oil [0 bag once a

day. Give a teaspoonful of powdered

nitrate potash at a dose in feed night and

morning for thrce days.



Raising Orphan Colts —-1 would like a

little information regarding the care and

management of a colt one day old, which

we shall have to raise on cows‘ milk. A.

l“. B.. New Buffalo, Mich.#b‘clect a heal-

thy cow that recently freshened and add

a little sugar, also one-quarter water to

lu-r milk before feeding it to colt. Young

colts should be fed every two or three

hours up to bed time, then fed the first

thing in the morning.



Colt Got Hoolt'ed.~-—\Ve have a four-

year-old colt that got hooked by a cow,

makingr wound back of shoulder blade.

The ilesh on shoulder is badly swollen

and feels much like a sponge. W. L.,

Pinconning, Mich—Apply equal parts of

oxide of zinc and boracic acid to wound

twice a day. Air has gotten in between

skin and muscles and it will gradually

leak out. Hand rubbing is perhaps the

best remedy you could apply,





Diarrhoea-Indigestion.—‘We have a

three—year-old heifer that came fresh

last October which suddenly dropped on

milk flow and has purged badly ever

since. A. . D., Prescott, Mich—Give

her 1 oz. fluid extract opium and 1 dr.

of sa 0] at a dose three times a day. It

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THE ' MICHIGAN jFARMER.





of linseed- oil and if her bowels are not

too loose, better give her a pint or two.



Rheumatism.—I have two three-year-

old cows that have been sore and lame

in shoulder for sometime. Have applied

blisters, but they fail to help. Exercise

seems to lessen lameness. F. S. B., Al-

gonac, Mich—Give your cows 1/2 oz. pow-

dered nitrate of potash at a dose in feed

or water three times a day, and apply





equal parts turpentine, aqua ammonia.

and oliVe oil to shoulder joints three

times a week.





Umbilical Hernia—I would like to know

what can be done for shoats weighing

100 lbs. which have rupture in navel.

What is the cause of this trouble? So

far as I know they were sound a short

time ago. G. R., Adrian, Mich—Hernia.

is usually the result of sprain or it may

occur when animal coughs, or over exer-

tion is a common cause. If the- rupture

is small it will not be necessary to op-

erate, for it will perhaps never do the

hogs any harm. It is possible that your

hogs had a small rupture at birth and it

has recently enlarged.





Leucorrhea—Debility—My dow came

fresh two months ago, giving birth 'to

twin calves, began to run down in flesh

and is now very thin. She has a white

colored vaginal discharge, but her appe-

tite is good. . 0., South Rockwood,

Mich.—Give her 2 drs. powdered sulphate

iron, 1 oz. ground gentian and 1 oz. bl-

carbonate soda at a dose in feed two or

three times a day. Dissolve 1 dr. per-

manganate potash in six quarts of tepid

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F0 l' sale—Horses. cattle. shezfi. swine. poultry





and dogs nearly breeds. Sires



exchan South West Michigan Pedi eed Stock

Ass'n.. avidWoodman. Beo'y.-Treas..Paw aw. Mich.

4-





 





 





 





BREEBEIS’ DRECTORY. '

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd, consisting of Trojan Eri Blackbirdl and

Pridec. only. is headed by rton . a Train Erica.

by Black Woodlcwn. sire of t e Grand Chum ion steer

and bull at. the International in Chicago, 00.. .

A few choicely bred youn bulls for sale.



WOODCOTE FARM. Ionla. Mich.





 





 





 





AYRS BIKES—0” .. mm“ ....,

breeds: young bulls



and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swine. ll pure



bro . Michigan School for Deaf. Flint. Mich.





 





Am offering a yearling May Hose Guernsey bull

for sale. ALLAN KE SEY. Lakeview Michigan.





GUERNSEY Etufitcgflfingfili‘flfi





30.981. (Reg) W. W. BURD CK, Wayland. Mich.





71?..m'“ Holstein Bull Calf





ver lar for age, near] ' white, his dam a daughter

of illit Pauline De 01 Count, his sire seen of

gt: King of the Pontiacs from one of Hengerveld

Kola 00d dau htei-s. Have others.

I). S. L WIS. Marshall, Michigan.





A 24-Ib. Bull





Have Bull Calves out of—



13. 20, 23, ‘24-lb. Cows A. R. 0.

By a. 24—1b. Bull.



My herd averages 19 lbs. .



If you want. this kind write





BIOELOW’S HOLSTEIN FARMS.

Breedsvllle, Michigan.





HOLSTEI NS





I can please any body with a service bull, bulls

from one to ten months old, sired by Johanna

Concordia Champion. Also cows and heifers bred

to him. Write me for anything you want

in Holsteins.





L. E. CORNELL, -

HOLSTEIII BULL fifllt‘il'gdil’étl’finfii‘. ‘55





daughters in advanced Registry, out ofa grand

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

100 daughters in advanced Registry. A beautiful calf

of choicest breeding}. Price only 350.



C. D. WOODB RY. Lansing, Michigan.





 





 





 





Fayette, Ohio.





 





 





“Top-Notch” Holsteins.





Choice b‘ull calves from 3 to 6 mos. old, of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with A. R. 0. records.

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

head a 300





d herd.

McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Nowell. Mlohlgan.





3 $200 Holstein Bulls.





Any breeder in Michigan looking for this kind? If

so see their predigrees before buying.

LONG BEACH FARM. Augusta. Michigan.





 





 





65“)" M] FOR SALE-6 yearling Holstiein Fries-

: , Q. ian Bulls, 2 A. It. 0. bred. Some cows.

. - Also bull calves. 34 years a breeder.

Kb hull} .§ Photos and pedigrees on upglication. W.



.Vlmnuw“ C. Jackson, South Bend. In ., 719 Rex St.





 





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

“OISlem BU" ca" 37% fiblood Henverveld Le Roi

dams: record Senior 2-year-old. 12:37 lbs. butter.

GEORGE E. LAPHAM, It. 8, St. Johns, Mich.





Holstein-Friesian Cattle‘T'w “Dd that

. GREGORY & BORDEN. Howefiagi‘lch‘fgfii.





 





Purebred Registered





H 0 L STE IN CATT LE

The Greatest Dairy Breed



_ Sand for FREE Illustrated BOOM



Holstein-Friuinn. Asso.. Box I64. Brattleboro.Vt-





 





EGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE—Bulls all

sold. Herd headed by Heugerveld Coin Pietertje

LOYI'D F. JONES, R. F. D. 3. Oak GroveZMich,





Big Bull Bargain—ilhilcfi‘éei‘aéei°§





ready for service. Hat Herd, Ypsilanti, Mich.





YPSILAND FARMS BULL CALVES.





Choicest Konrdyke, Dekol and Hen erveld b -

ins. $50.00 to $100.00 ()fiicial Pedigree;g on millage:

COLE BROTHERS. Ypsilanti. hilchlzfln.





JERSEYS AND DUROO JERSEYS

FOR SALE.





A few high class boats from such eh i b

()rion Chief, Instructor, and King ofnl li‘iilbisémzl:

ulls. cows and heifers.





a few bred sows, Jersey b

BROOKVIATER FAB", Mill ARBOR, MICK, ll. F. ll. 1.





Lillie Farmstead JERSEYS





Bulls ready for service, also bull calves and heifer

calves. Cows all in yearly test. Satisfaction guaran'

teed. COLON C. LILLIE. Cooper-ville. Mich.





MARSToN FARM-JERSEY CATTLE.





T. F. MARSTON. Bl)! City. Michllln.

NoTlCE—I offer for sale a fine three-yenr-old Jersey





. . cow. Also two younfi bull calves at bar-

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





Jerse Cattle For Sale.

C. A. B ISTOL Fenton. Michigan.

' 4

FOR SAL ffé‘folgfiifii’.” fill?" 333%:





good one. D. WHITE. R. B No. 2. Evart, Mich.





JERS

BUTTER BRED meager-9





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver (hook. Allegan County. Michigan.





RED POLLED—Chokie lot of females any

J. M. CHASE a sofig'flfifgfmggéflea.

from ood





RED POLLED BULLS FOR SAL milk as





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





-m- -

Dlllil BBED suonmnnus eastwards" as;





or good note. J. B. HUMMEL. Macon. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





mm 18. mg

SHEEP.

Ham'pshlres’xl‘ii’ati‘li dogma?





imported ram for 82%. Also have lIgood ram lambs

for sale. All registered. E. A. Hardy. oohester, Mich.





Oxford Down Sliceg‘fim..$°25.‘é§%r ill 39%





R

fol-sale. I. B. WATERB RY. ighland. Michigan.





 





gag. nmboumds-th It: close out both sexes. All ‘





w rice. Farm—2% miles

M? U. R.





orrioe. on 6.13.11. . and





 





HOGS.





 





J. o. A. 000K. ;





Dunc: and Vlclonas‘fg‘figgfig $2." due M“ d Apr“-





boar. Priced to move them. M. T. mm and chum km





BREKSHIRES—Z fpnc ' gilts, bred. at $35. Boats

permeable ,326.an up. Am booking orders for

spring pigs. mhurst. Stock Farm, Almont, Mich





tory.Lowell, ich. »





BERKSHIRES for Sale—March fax-rowed boars and ,





gilts. sired by Handsome Prince 3d, out. Weyeneth

Lady Francis.





 





Weaned pigs either sex $15





BERKSHIRE





sows $50, re istered and trans-

ferred. ' '





Excellent breeding. once individual.

C. C. COREY. New Haven. Mlchizan.s





 





Improved Chester's—33ml éfis'hefll‘ei ;





choice youn boar and a few sows bred for ear] ' f l ‘

(g WI 3 al





furrow. W. LSON, Okemos, Mich. Both phones.





A. A. PA’I‘TULLO. Decker-ville. Mich. ‘





two for $20: bred gilts $35; hred .





O I. C's Special Prices on spring p.33 and service mule's. ‘





0 also fall pigs 300 to pick from Shipped on a rovnl.

ROLLENIMG VIEW STOCK FARM, Cass City. Micli’ipgan.





o I c SWINE-Males weighing 200 lbs. each. Also

I I I a few very choice slits, bred for June far-

row. Geo. P. Andrews. Dansville. Ingham 00., Mich.





o I c Extra choice bred slits. service hours

I I I and spring pigs. not akin from State

Fair winners. Avoudale Stock Farm, Wayne. Mich





 





9 —All ages, growthy and large. Bows bred.

0- II C s Males ready, 100 to select from. Attractive





prices on young stock. Jump, Munith. Mich.





 





9 —I have some very fine and growth ' last

0.. I. C 8 fall pigs, either sex. males read fol ser-

Vice now, pairs not. akin. 1"],‘0 . ULZE,

Nashvule. Mioh.. half mile west. of depot.





 





CUB Imp. Chester Whites and Tamworth swine won

Mist. at. Fairs in 1911. Barnes boars. also sows bred

for spring farrowoof either breed that. will please you

in quality and price, Adams Bros. Litchfield, Mich.





 





o I c swine and Bull Rook cockereis of

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

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





O l Choice spring lfifi by “Frost's

0 - 0 Challenger"(2>3 .) 'rite for rices.

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM, Zeeiand, 1011.

o , of March ad nApril fan-ow,



O I. C s shifiped on approval or c. o. d.

OTIS GREENMAN, B. 4. ellevuo, Eaton 00., Mich.

0 I c's of superior uality. Service boars, filts.



' I spring pi s. o akin pairs. Also Bull ock

8838 £1.50 per 15. red Nickel. B. ,1, Monroe, Mich.





 





 





 





 





o l c’s with size dz quality. the kind I can positively

I I guarantee to give satisfaction or Will refund

money. Newman's Stock Farm.R.No. 1.Marlette.Micb.





O. I. C.——0rders Booked For Spring Pigs.

cm





C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. M1





0. I. C. SWIN





Pigs. pairs and trios. not akin. ave a number

of servwe males of good, ”35' Write me describing

of your wants. A. J. GORD N. B. No. 2 Don, Mich.





—S b f '

Duroc Jerse S .1333. rgirizrgnlliésim‘i

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





DUROC JERSEY SWINE—lyanille.“ If???





wants. I". A. LAMB & SUN. Cassopolis, Mich.





UROC-JERSEY SOVVS bred for July and August

furrow. Choxceli' 'bred spring pigs. Prices

reasonable” JOHN ll clVlCULL, North Star, Mich.





—10 Fall and

3.35.2.9... {5.5.5.5110 disease

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





Duroc .lurseys For 8a!o‘§§§“§°,?:"m mm“





P' .

sex. Pairs not. akin. M. A. BRA , O (mfg; (Mtg)?





 





 





Write me for

rice on Spring





 





 





 





 





CLOSING 0U ”$323313? 1%?

A big or. better and more prolific t 'pe. 10 nice, bi





sows. red





for June, July, August, eptember at S")

each, f. o,





. You had better order c ..

J. o. BUTLER, Portland. OMn‘l’cl‘llgglflfit‘





POLAN D-CHINA SWINE





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





Big Smooth Poland China Ho s





reasonable prices. ALLEN BR 8.





 





from large sires.

either sexes, at.

Paw Paw, Mich.





—Bred from lu- t' .

Poland Chinas 311%“. both mi; l5°m§§£i§

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

OLAND CHINAS~Gilts and yearling sows bred





for first 0 Be t. furrow, a (9' b '

w, E. D. BISHOP, onto 38. Lake odlssafgiiitc’ifies





POLAND CIINAS—Either sex. all ages. Some-

thing good at a low rice.

P. D. LONG, R. No. 8, Grand Rapids, ich.



ARGE TYPE P. C.—Largest in Mi -h_ «

see greatest herd of big. prolific P.C Lin 5323.13.33

avg. 10 gigs to litter. Free livery. ex euses paid if not

autistic , order early and get choice. {ii-ices reasonable

quality considered. . E. Livingston. Parma, Mich:



Poland China fall and Sprin '



lllll TYPE. bred. Dairy bred Shorthorng ill; 1.; 9:33

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





15 Poland China Saws 1...... “f- amine “‘-

priced to sell. WM. WAFFLIiferdbid‘cvlffell.‘fifegld'





—Y

POUND cmm Essex: assimilate:





L. W. BARNES & SON. Byron, Shiawassee 00., Mich.





Big T e P. c. Saws seen?“

A A. 00D 3. son. Saline. Michigan. 0"

—30 w

Muleloot Ho 3 bmdi’cidpié‘fno‘iltff

Boers all ages. G. C. REGLOW. Ada, Ohio.

' —B d t

For Sale, Yorkshlre Bills .fi§..l‘.’.§"§.‘l

of Au st. Also pigs, both sexes. WATERMAgl &

WAT RMAN, Meadow Land Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.





Lillie Farmstead YDHKSHIHES.





A few choice Gilts bred for September furrow, good

ones. 81”}ng pigs, either sex, pairs and tries not.

akin. Suti action annteed.



COLON C. ILLIE. Coopersvillc. Mich.





MENTloN the Michigan Farmer when writ. ‘





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SOME INDIRECT BENEFITS OF THE

BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION.

A Herd of Splendid Jerseys.



In a recent number of this paper, it

was my privilege to tell of the organiza—

tion of a Co-operative Breeders’ Associa-

tion, and to say in that connection, that

already three of our number were testing

cows for “The Register of Merit Class."



Hon, Samuel Odell, our representative

in the legislature. and secretary of the





.association, is one of those referred to





in the article mentioned above. and I

wish in this letter to speak of his herd.

He is testing ten Jerseys for “The Regis-





THE MICHIGAN FARMER._ (5) 25





previous to her first freshening. She pos-

sesses a'. wonderful Constitution.

never lost a single feed since the test

began, and seems to enjoy it all as well

as do her master and his many friends.





And now, having given Suzie such a

long intrcdtiction, let me speak of some.

of the otiteis in the herd. Julia’s Girl

has been in the test for five months, and

in that time has produced 4,097 pounds

of milk, equal to 270 pounds of fat, or an

average of 54 pounds per month. .-\t-

lantzt's Jeannie, four months in test, has

produced 3,;75 pounds of milk testing 173

pounds fat. lna liostelle- is the smallest

producer in the bunch of ten. She fresh-

cned at. 23 months, and has been in test

only one mouth. During that time she

has given 674 pounds of milk, containing

thirty and six-tenths pounds of fat.





Without doubt this heifer will i prove-

as the period of lactation advances, but





 





 





Four Choice Matrons in the Herd





ter of Merit Class.” and they will all go

in without a doubt.



A few days ago, the writer went to

Mr. Odell’s home in company with a pho-

tographer, and secured some pictures of

these Cows which it is a pleasure for

him to submit to the readers of the Mich—

igan Farmer, First, w.- drove the ten

into a corner of the barnyard, and took

a Shot at the bunch. Next, we chose four

frdm.‘i.he« herd, and got a picture of them,

and then we led out Suzanne, “the pride

of the’hert," and the man with the cam—





'era'did' his best And well he might, for





here is one of the world’s great cows.



I told The Farmer readers something

of the kind of cattle that one might have

found here 10 or 15 years ago, in a former

letter to this paper. \X‘hat would our

people have said then, if someone had





of Sam ueil Odell, of Oceana County.





she is dting well now. The two—year—Old

heifer that will produce a pound of fat

pt r day. and kct-p it up, is entitled to a.

good deal ol' rcspect.

These Tests Stimulate Dairying.



Later on I shall give the further re-

sults of this test, and also the findings in

the two other lf'SlS spoken of in this let-

tcr. These tests are doing more than we

can tell to increase the intercst in dairV-

ing in this section. There will he more

cows tested next year. and while we do

not expect to find the equal of Suzie in

many cases, we shall discover our good

—ccws. and each discovery of this kind

will encourage us to greater efforts in

this good work.



I am not reporting these facts to pa-

rade our cmmty, as a great dairy sec-

tion, for it is only recently that much





 





 





 





 





Suzanne, the Pick of the Herd, Produced 414 lbs. of Butter-fat in Six Months.

predicted that in the year 1912, right

here in Oceona countY, we. should have

a cow that would produce 414 pounds of





butter—fat in six months. Reader, this

is what Suzie has done, and that beyond

any question. Moreover, she has about

completed her seventh month. in which

she Will produce between 68 and 70

pounds of fat, and she still keeps on

without any sign of falling off in her

flow of milk. It is practically certain

that she will make from 6:30 to 675

pounds of fat ,during the year. Six hun-

dred and seventy-five pounds of fat equal

843 pounds of 80 per cent butter, or near-

ly 800 pounds of 85 per cent butter.



This wonderful cow is but six years

old and so‘has time to- do still better work

in the years that are to come. She is

an economical producer, and will return

her owner more money above the cost of

the feed she consumes this year, than

she could have been sold for at any 'time





interest has been taken in live stock hus-

bandry of any kind in this county. Here-

tot‘orc, we haVc been concerned mainly

in growing peaches and potatoes, and

like many another northern county, we

have seen the vegctahle matter growing

scarcer in our soil, and the fruit and p0-

tatot-s getting smaller and smaller in

consequence. \Vc have. led the “old cow”

into the ring to bring up the soil, and

are beginning to see results in this re-

gard.



I have not written this letter to ad-

vertise our stock, for we have no stock

to sell, but i have told this story to en-

courage every man everywhere, who is

trying to improve his herd, and in the

hope that some reader of this paper who

as yet has lacked the courage to begin to

breed better stook, might see the ad-

vantage in so doing, and thus receive a.

share of the reward that is for everyone

who “looks forward and not back.”





She has ,





 





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.I‘ 4/ . _‘. " ol animals—in barn or pas-

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prevents infection. Nothing better for galls. Kills lice

and mites in poultry houses.



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' , THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





 





Mr. Odell came back to a. farm that

had been rented for many years. He

was scarce more than a boy, and when

he took charge of the farm', he found the

fields full of quack grass, and the soil

badly run. But he had an ideal, and he

had what is better if possible, the cour-

age to press forward to its realization.

He built a cement silo, bought a few

good grade cows, and a. very few pure-

bred cows from a responsible breeder in

our OWn state. He. has kept his ideal in

sight all the t.me, and now is beginning

to receiie his reward. Others in this

vicinity are going in the same way, and

it will be my pleasure to tell of some of

them later.



Just one thought more and I am

through, for my story is already 'too long.

Progress of any sort, which culminates

in results as gratifying as this splendid

dairy demonstration, is always interest-

ing. and we turn from the fact itself to

examine into some of the causes of this

kind of development. The farmer’s in-

stitute has done- its work and some good

has come from that source.



Here, as elsewhere, the Grange has

proven the farmer's opportunity, and

twice each month this “school out of

school” has been in session, but every

week the farm paper has made its visit

to the home of the farmer, and it's mes-

sage has been “Seed sown upon good

ground." Not another in all the long

list of farm papers has such a. good dairy

department as the Michigan Farmer. No

man in the country SO far as our knowl-

edge goes, has given more practical help

to the man, young or old, who was in-

terested in the dairy, than the dairy edi-

tor of this paper, and I have taken a

great deal of pleasure in sending in this

report, and in acknowledging our obli~

gallon to this paper for a large part of

the progress made here in dairying in

the past few years.





Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR.





A BARN CELLAR FOR SILO.





 





I have a barn cellar 18x42x7 ft. deep

that does not freeze. Would it be pos-

sible for me to use it as a. silo if I put

a cement floor in?



READER.





All I can say to 'this proposition is,

don’t; and still you can make eusilage in

a barn cellar. That was the original kind

of silo, but We- have got something a

good deal better now. Your loss would

be exceedingly heavy. With a pit 18 feet

wide and 42 feet long and only seven feet

deep I would figure that you would lose

probably one-third of your silage, per-

haps not quite so much, but I think you

would. In the first place, it is not deep

enough so that there is weight sufficient-

ly from the silage itself to pack down

properly and consequently there will be

a great loss from excessive fermentation.

In the early silos, which were shallow

pits, in this way they weighted them

down with stone and earth. Plank were

put over- the- top and earth piled on them

and sometimes stone on top of that to

weight it down so as to exclude the air.

The first silo I ever saw was out at the

Agricultural College when Prof. Johnson

was Professor of Agriculture there, and

it was built in this way. It was simply

a pit in the ground walled up with stone

and filled with corn silage. Boards were

put on top of the corn silage, earth put

on this and then stone put on top of

that. But in spite of all this care there

was a heavy loss of silage. If you simply

fill this pit full of silage and don’t take

any pains to weight it dOWn you will

lose the larger portion of it. It will be

unfit for food. Where one takes into

consideration this loss he will readily

conclude to build a modern silo to store

the corn crop in.





DAIRY ITEMS.





 





The feed situation leads to a belief that

cheaper butter will be available, hence

the speculators are in waiting, but should

their prediction fail to materialize the

scramble for stock should work quota-

tions higher instead of downward.



VValci' should be supplied in the pas—

ture these hot days. It is too much to

ask the cows to stand it from morning

to evening without quenching their

thirst. Better results will follow Where

pure water is liberally supplied at all

hours of the day.





Sellers of milkers and springers in the

Chicago stock yards report that a new

demand has been developing of late, the

irrigation districts of the northwest hav-

ing invaded the “’isconsin dairy dis-

tricts, looking for choice cows. There is

seldom or never a surplus of prime milch

cows in the markets of the country, but

buyers are more discriminativee than

ever before, and owing’ to the growing

scarcity of beef cattle, most of the back-

ward springers are bought by killers.





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JULY ‘18. 1912.





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CONTROLLING LICE AND MITES IN

HOT WEATHER.





 





There is probably nothing that di’S-

comforts the fowl, discredits the keeper,

and discounts the returns from poultry on

the farm as those two little insignificant

pests, the poultry louse and the mile. In

many cases, where the hen has at last

an opportunity to balance her own diet

in the spring and summer, she is~pre-

vented from shelling out eggs by these

bothersome things.



The common lice are probably not as

bothersome to the hen as the mites are.

When allowed to run at will the lien

finds means for dusting herself, Which

she Will always (10 if given half a chance.

The lice are- upon her body day and

night, feeding on the feathers and loose

pieces of skin. They breathe through

holes in the sides of their bodies and

the thorough dusting process that the

hen goes through causes these holes to

become clogged and the lice die of suffo-

cation. Dusting powders, and appliances

advertised and recommended for using

them, are more or less,

and the procedure generally is not only

a laborious one but one that scares the

wits out of the hen. Give biddy enough

dry earth or dust of any kind and she

will do the rest and enjoy doing it.



The mite is not so easily controlled by

the hen. She has no means of her own

to get rid of it, and therefore man should

help her. The mite is a small red insect

which spends the day in the cracks and

crevices of the roosts and nests that the

hen frequents, and at night gets upon

her body and secures its meal of blood.

Our feathered friend sits and takes it

because she is so attached to her home,

no matter how humble it may be. The

mite breathes through nostrils and, even

though it is upon the hen when she

dusts, it Would not be affected by the

dust. Spraying the coop with lime, lime

and sulphur or other materials, or fum-

igating it with sulphur, and frequently

soaking the roosts and nests with kero-

sene, hot water or carbolic acid and

cresol preparations are recommended. All

of these involve considerable time and

bother, and are often not used 031 that

account. For the hen’s sake we should

seek and encourage the use of simple but

effective remedies, as such will naturally

be used by a. larger number of poultry

keepers than would be the case with

remedies which are hard to prepare and

inconvenient to apply.



For several years the writer has used

a preparation originally made for wood

preserving purposes, known as avenarius

carbolineum. It is a dark brownish liq-

uid that can be applied with a brush or

by spraying. The most economical way

to use it is to paint the roosts and nests

with it. It is rather slow in drying and

should be applied early in the morning

after the chickens have been excluded

from the coop. Even at night when the

chickens want to roost it may not be

thoroughly dry, but it will not injure

them in any way although it may dis-

color their feathers to some extent. One

application has been effective for two

years in the writer’s coops. An applica-

tion of this preparation and a place for

the hen to dust in, will in my opinion

take care of the lice and mite question

easily and effectively.



Van Buren Co. F. A. WILKEN.



(The above reminders are timely inas-

much as drooping and inactivity in fowls

at this season are often thought ‘to be

natural effects of the heat. Attention to

these .pests, however, has frequently

brought increased egg production and

general improvement 11 the flock—Eds.)





 





FOSTER MOTHERS FOR CHICKS.





 





No less an authority than Prof. Lippiu-

coil, of the Kansas Agricultural College,

vouches for the ability with which the

capon takes care of little chicks. “Sub-

stituting capons for hens is very success-

ful,” he says. “The capons will take

care of chicks and they are being used

mare for that kind of work. One Kansas

poultryman hatched 635 chicks this spring

and gave- them to capons, and 600 of

Them were brought through safely. Bet~

ter results than this could not be expect-

ed from a hen or a broader."



A prominent southern member of con-

gress has a large dairy farm and in con-

junction with this has quite a number

of chickens. He states that quite fre-

quently capons mother the young chicks

on his place and do it just as well as the





expensive. '
JULY 13, 1912.





hen. In the suburbs of \Vashington an

amateur poultryman had a couple of

capons and they were outcasts of poultry

society—neither hens nor roosters asso-

ciating, In their lonesomeness for friends

the canons turned to' the. .little chicks,

which became very grateful for the

friendship of their feathered allies which

not only protected them but also hunted

and scratched food for them.



In the canon, DOUltrymen have discov-

ered the first male animal that will take

good care of the young. In some cases

they are even better than hens for thi:

purpose.

loose feathers, and can care for

chicks than can hens.

off crows, hawks, and other mataudtrs

that prey on little Chickclls. In cold

weather 20 chicks are as many as can bc





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protected by a capon. but in warm

weather one can care for 30,

The canon should be put in a coop





with a cove-red run before giving,r him any

chicks, says Prof. Lippincott. There he

should be left for tl.ree or four days to

{let acquainted with his quarters. There

should not be any roost in the coop; the





capOn must remain on the floor. After he?

surroundings. l





gets acquainted with his





 





Canons are larger, llaVc more‘





They will tight-





put the little chicks under him at nightj

and he Will usually take care of the-rm,





after that, but if he does not, the chicks

should be taken away and the capon

confined in the coop for a few days long—

er, keeping him in the dark as much as

possible. It very seldom happens that a

«open will refuse the chickens on the

second night.





HOW HONEY COMB





IS BUILT.





 





Probably many have noticcd the little

six—sided cells of thehoncy comb. but not

many know the intricato problem the lit-

tle creaturcs solved when thcy figured

out just how to make the

that it will fit into the bottoms of the

cclls on the other side, he, of just the,

right degree of pointcdness, and at the

same time have all the walls of that

delicate thinness characteristic of the

honey comb. You must remember that

bees, in a. state of nature. have as thcir

prime object in comb building the prep-

aration of a comfortable place to rear

their brood. As“ it takes eight to ten

pounds of honey to make one pound of

\vaxgl'tlie latter article is very precious

in their sight, so they must be saving

cf it. That they have. accomplished this

to a. wonderful degree anybody will ad?

mit who has ever noticcd the delicate

texture of the honey comb. The bottom





of each cell is formed of three lozenge—

shaped pieces. each of which forms one.

side of the bottom of a cell on the other

The completed article





side of the comb.





 





Showing Formation of the Bottom of

Cells in Honey Comb.





makes available every atom of space,





bottom so .





 





and yct eycry cell wall is built of that.





same wafer—like thickness.

the bees have made a very comfortable

resting place for tlicir young bees to

hatch out in.

The. most \\'till(l(-l'flll part of it all is

that this comb is built by thousands of

the little insccts, each one working in—

dcpcndent of the others. and notw fur a.

Imss. The idea that the uucen controls:

the bees in such things is as erroneous

“g many othez ideas people have about

3,095, ’l‘hcy st-Clll to be happiest when

the greatest rush is on and then comb

building goes on apacc. All are in a

quiver of (=Xt;llt‘lll€‘nl. and one will come

dancing up to a cell and beat and pat

and pull it with his mandiblcs and race

away to some other part of the hive, to

be followed up perhaps by another who

will give. it a little pull this way or that,

and so on, skipping about the hive, pull-

mg a little here, patting a little there.

with no apparent aim in view and Vet

how the work all fits in together to make

that wonderful creation, the honey como!

Mecosta Co. L. C. WHEELER.





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Wheels—-

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Top and windshield not included in price. We equip this car with mohair top. side curtain. and slip~cover.





windshield. gas tank and speedometer-all for $100 extra.





Sell-starter. it wanted. $20 extra.





 





 





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Fifth is my 24th model.





oped for Reo the Fifth this year.





sheaf of my career.

25 years of car building.





This car marked my limit.

the best I knew.





until we got utter exactness.

got a. thousand inspections.





utterly perfect.





 





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I have built automobiles for 25 years.





I have watched all the ups and downs of Motordom—

all the comings and goings, the successes and failures.





But I never saw a demand like that which devel.

In April and May

we could easily have sold five times our factory output.





My Final Car





Month after month I have told you the story, so

you know why this call has come.





I built this car as my final creation, as the cap-

In this car I embodied the best I had learned from

Every detail showed





I analyzed all steel that went into it.

gears in a crushing machine with 50 tons’ capacity.





I used Nickel Steel axles—Vanadium Steel con-

nections. I equipped the car with 13 Timken bearings.





To every part I gave big margins of safety. The

carburetor I doubly heated for low-grade gasoline.





I Watched lt





Then I took personal charge of the building, for I

pledged my good faith on this car.





I saw that the parts were ground over and ovcr,

1 saw that each car





The engines were tested for 48 hours.

ished car was tested over and over, until it proved





The 1912 Sensation





By R. E. Olds, Designer





Five Times Oversold in May





Reo the

April rush.





control.





round lever between the two front. seats. _

by moving this lever only three Inches :11 each of





four directions.





clear.





time levers.

I tested the

for $1,055.





sell twenty.





Each fin-





R. M. OWEN & CO., General Sales Agents for REO MOTOR CAR CO., Lansing, Mich.





Canadian Factory, St. Catharines, Ont.





 





We did all this with every car, in the midst of the

We do it today, and shall always do it

so long as I build this car.





The Center Control





Then we equipped this car with my new center

All the gear shifting is done by a small,





I got rid of all side levers, so the front doors were

Both brakes are operated by foot pedals.





In these ways I made possible the left-side drive.





Now nearly all makers announce for next season

the center control and the left-side drive.

can use my center control.





The Amazing Price





Then we offered this car—the best I can build—

And nothing on the market could begin

to compete with it.



The car is long, roomy and powerful.

big. The body is finished in 17 coats. The upholstering

is the height of luxury.



The demand for this car will grow and grow as the

facts become better known.





But the price of $1,055 can't last long. The price is

too low for profit, and materials are advancing. Before

very long advancing costs will compel us to ask some-

thing more for this car.





1 ,000 Dealers





Reo the Fifth is shown by dealers in a "thousand towns.

If you will write for our catalog, showing the various styles

of body. we will tell you where to see the car.





It is done





But none

They still use the old





The wheels are





I believe that each car will





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' from Standard Silver, Golden

Eggs ll" Halchmg and “'. “'yandottes, lz't, $2,210. $3.

Browning's “’yundotte Farm, ll. 30, Portland, Mich.





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Great. laying strain. Prices reasonable. Also eggs.

EWM P. BOOTH. R. 3, Orland. Indiana.





 





 





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RITE Wyandottes—The most. benuufnl and use-

ful of American breeds. Send for 1912 circular

A FRANKLIN SMITH. R. F. D. 9, Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





 





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1.3 for $1; 30 for $1.50. I). M. YORK. Millington, Mich.





HABIFDBD POULTRY YARDS, HARTFORD, MIDH.





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clySIal Whlle orpmglons Bargains ”151:an and trios

if taken now. Young stock for salc. MRS.

\VIIJJS Htll'till. l'inc (‘rcst Farm, It‘c_\al Oak, Mich.





 





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‘ ' ‘ ’ Barred Rocks. It I. ltetls, Mam-

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Stock Iorsalc. Eggs $1. $L. hiipcr sct. l'tility $5 pcr 100,

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Eggs 81 per 15. BUELL BROS, Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





S 0. Rhode Island Reds of quality. Eggs from first.

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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





The national cmivention

of the democratic party

completed its work at

Baltimore last week in

apparent harmony, notwithstanding the

fact that its sessions were strenuous and

prolonged and the deadlock which pro-

ceded the nomination of the ticket broke

all previous records. Here. as at the

Chicago convention, the, lines were rath-

er sharply drawn between the progres-

sive and conservative wings of the party

and, as at Chicago, the conservative

elemcnt won out in the preliminary

contest which started with the election

of a temporary chairman and the organ-

ization of the convention. Judge Alton

B. l'arker. of New York, one time can—

didate of the demorcratic party for the

presidency, was elected chairman with

votes to spare and at the outset it ap-

peared that with the machinery of the

convention in their hands the conSt-rva-

live or reactionary element of the party

would control the situation. But the

fact that the strength of the two ele-

ments in the convention was pretty ev-

enly divided became apparent when the

so-called progressives, under the lead-

ership of Col. Bryan, forced through a

proposition to depart from the establish—

ed precedent, and defer the adoption of

a platform until the nominations were

made, which action in all probability had

an indirect bearing on the final result of

the convontion, if. indeed, it did not

forestall an irreparable breach in the

party.



As noted in the last issue, Speaker

Champ Clark, of Missouri, led in the

number of votes during the first week of

the convention, receiving a. majority of

the, votes of all the delegates at times,

but falling short of enough to nominate

under the rule which prevails in demo-

cratic conventions requiring a two-

thirds vote of the delegates to nominate

a candidate. Gov. \l'oodrow V’Vilson, of

New Jersey, the candidate favored by

the SO—(‘iillcd progressive element of the

convention. held little more than the

balance of power, or one-third of lile (lel-

egatcs at the start, including the. votes

cast for him and those which it was lig—

urcd “'(Hild ultimately come to him, but

gained steadily up to the close of the

week, when the contest reached its most

strenuous stage and ugly words were

used by the orators who took the floor in

bclmlf of the (rmtending candidates or in

personal attacks upon the leaders of the

contending factions of the party. But

during the week—end adjournment of the

convention, while no agreement was

reached and while neither of the leading

candidates gaincd the necessary number

of votes to nominate. the other candi-

dates in the field lost ground, until the

final break came On Tuesday, the dele-

gates favorable to the candidacy of Con-

gressman Underwood, of Alabama, were

released, and Gov.’ “'ilson was nominated

on the forty-sixth ballot. Thus the pro-

gressive element of the party won out

by a narrow margin in the end and die-

tated the nature of the platform, win-

ning a record victory in that it was the

first democratic convention in which a

candidate controlling a majority of the

delegates did not ultimately receive the

nomination, notwithstanding the two-

thirds rule. After the nomination of

Gov, Marshall, of Indiana, as the run-

ning mate of Gov. lVilson and the adop-

tion of a platform. the conventicm ad-

journed in apparent harmony, with the

“conservative” delegates running for

cover. thus avoiding an open break such

as occurred at the Chicago convention.





The Baltimore

Convention.





Thus rule, which was





element of the convention talked of

abandoning during the early days of its

deliberations, served the rank and file

of the democratic party a good turn in

this case in that it probably made the

action of the convention conform to the

will of the majority in the party when

it would not have done so under a ma—

jority rule. Yet the margin of safety

was small in this direction; much small-

er than would be the case under an ef-

fective legal primary in the several states

for the election of delegates to national

conventions and the expression of the

popular preference for party nominees

for the presidency.





Reports were submit-





The Rural School 'ted to the Nationil

Problem. Educational Associa-

tion, which opened its



fiftieth annual convention in Chicago





this week, indicating that of the 20,000.-

000 public school children in the United

States, 12,000,000 were being educated in

the rural schools and that-only one—third

of the country boys and girls were- mak—

ing a good showing. A more or less di-

rect result of the subject matter of thesz

reports was the open advocacy of na-

tional supervision of country schools, in

which Thomas H. Harris, State Super—

intendc-nt of Schools for Louisiana, took

the lead. In addressing the convention

Mr. llarris declared that the condition of

the rural schools was becoming so de-

plol‘z-‘lblo that it was time for the federal

government to provide both money and

methods to remedy this situation. (in

this point he is reported to have said,

“Fedcral interference in the state con-

trol of schools should be set aside in the

interest of the rising generation. Na-

tional supervision of country schools is

an absolute necessity. Our country needs

a better educated rural citizenship.”





It will, of course, remain for the con-

vcnleion to decide whether it favors this

policy and what steps, if any, shall be

take—n to induce the federal government

to lend aid in the solution of the rural

school problem. It is likely, however.

that the rural school problem will be

made one of the most important subjects

in the deliberations of the convention. It

is stated upon good authority that a

special committee appointed to investi-

gate this subject, will urge the appoint—

ment of field workers to travel over the

country in the interest of better country

schools in a report to be submitted later.





It is, of course, a far cry from the ac-

tion of an association of this kind to a

realization of the sentiment expressed in

favor of the farther removal of the con-

tl'ol of the public schools from the peo-

llle who are their patrons and supporters.

Yet the fact that such sentiment exists

should not be overlooked. as it is further

evidence of the fact that the- rural school

problem, so—called, is a condition and not

a theory. And it is a condition which

must be met with an adequate remedy

if sentiment of this kind is to be pre—

vented from developing in other quarters

as well as among professional educators.

It will be generally conceded that our

rural schools are not as efficient as they

should be, largely because many of them

are 10o small to make efficiency possible,

especially under the administration of

the poorly trained teachers which are the

only available material for our smaller

and weaker schools. -Another cause of

inefficiency is the fact that the courses

of study are not designed to interest the

pupils and equip them for life’s active

duties as thoroughly as they ought, but

rather as preparatory to advanced

courses which the great majority of pu—

pils never take. In the first; instance, the

school patrons and taxpayers are at fault,

while for the second cause the educators

must shoulder the blame.





But what (if the remedy? Like char-

ity, it “should begin at home." There

should be a broadening of the views held

by the average school patron and “tax-

payer, coupled 'With an intelligent and

painstaking study of the question in all

its phases, rather than from the view-

point of cost alone. Likewise there

should be a modification of the one—sided

views of our educators who have sought

to make our common schools preparatory

schools for institutions of higher learn-

ing, rather than for the strenuous duties

of active life. There is evidence of such

getting togc'teher on common ground in

the introduction of agricultural courses

into the high schools of our own state,

and in the advance which has occurred

in vocational schools and part' vocational

training in the common schools of some

sections in recent years. There is fur-





THE ‘MICHIGAN FARMER-

the two—thirds





really effectiVe for the first time at this

convention and which the conservative





ther encouraging evidence in the in-

creased interest which is noted in this

problem on the part of the average school

patron. There is every reason to hope

and believe that this impertant problem

will be rightly solved by the people them~

selves, rather than for them by any out-

side interference or direction. But to

this end it is important that conditions

should not be mistaken for theories and

that as patriotic citizens we discard our

prejudices and study this important prob-

lem from the standpoint of the greatest

good to the greatest number, rather than

from a. narrow personal or selfish view-

point.





In the last issue a.



Passing of Vehicles comment was pub-

on Highways. lished under this

head in which an



erroneous quotation of the present Mich-

igan law on this subject was included.

The section quoted was Section 17 of

Act No. 304, Public Acts of 1907, which

section however was superseded by Sub.

5 of SectiOn 6 of Act No. 318, Public

Acts of 1909, which is identical with the

section quoted last week, except that the

Words “or to the left” are omitted. The

crror in the quotation was due to the

difference in the index reference to the

two acts, which was discovered after

last week’s issue had gone to press, in

looking up other provisions of the motor

vehicle law, although we are indebted

to several readers for their kindness in

l.ll(‘.l' calling our attention to same. The

scction of the law last mentioned, and

which is now in force, reads as follows:



Sub. 5. If a vehicle drawn by a horse

or horses or other draft animals, or a

motor vehicle, be overtaken by any motor

vehicle, and the person in charge of such

1no.or vehicle expresses a desire to pass,

it shall be the duty of the driver of any

such vehicle or motor vehicle so over-

taken as aforesaid, to turn to the right

of the center of the wrought or traveled

portion of the highway, and give the

person so making the request an oppor—

tunity to pass, but in passing, the per—

son in charge of such motor vehicle and

the othcr male occupants thereof over

the age of fifteen years shall give such

assistance as they are able to the occu-

pant' or occupants of the vehicle they are

passing, if aSsistance is asked, and in

thus passing the chauffeur shall use all

due care to avoid accident.



It will thus be seen that the state law

as well as the custom of the road, as

was indicated in the comment of last

week, requires the driver of any vehicle

overtaken by any motor vehicle, the driv-

er of which signifies a desire to pass, to

turn out to the right side of the center

of the road to give said vehicle an op-

pirtunity to pass on the left.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





National.





A call to the people of the United

States who are in sympathy with the

“national progressive movement” to send

delegates to a. national convention to

open in Chicago on August 5, was given

out late last week by United States Sen—

ator Dixon, Col. Roosevelt's campaign

manager. The 'call was signed by mem—

bers of the committee chosen at the

meeting held in Chicago just after the

adjournment of the republican national

convention for the purpose of taking

steps to organize a new party, and also

includes the signatures of Roosevelt sup—

porters in 40 states. In commenting upon

the action Senator Dixon said: “The call

lays dowu no rules as to the methods of

choosing delegates, since each state will

be expected to select its delegates by its

own paraphernalia. The representation

will be cut down to just one-half that of

the previous conventions. This was con-

sidered advisable since this convention

is to be notably a deliberative body and

will certainly be composed of a class of

men altogeteher different from those who





usually attend conventions. In all prob-

ability the convention will adopt the

name “National Progressive" for the





new party, but I cannot say definitely

what will be done. Thus far no issues

have been authoritively stated and. of

course, the platform itself will have to

be decided upon by the delegates."



J. L. Hudson, the noted Detroit mer-

chant, died in a suburb of London, Eng,

on Friday, July 7. Mr. Hudson had been

in ill health for some time and had been

in Europe under the personal care of his

physician for several weeks. In addition

to being one of Detroit's leading business

men, Mr. Hudson was a generous philan-

thropist who will be sorely missed by the

city and its people, as well as in the

business circles in which he moved. His

remains are expected to reach Detroit

on July 17.



The total volume of American money

at the beginning of the fiscal year on

July 1, was 33.640.407.621, of which $363,-

621,008 is'held in the treasury vaults and

the balance is in active circulation. This

is said to be a new high mark for the

volume of currency, beating a year ago

by $84,500,900. The treasury officials es-

timate that the population at the«open-

ing of the new fiscal year had grown to

95,656,000, and that the total of the coun-

try's currency is equal to $34.28 per cap-





JULY 13. 1912.”





lie, or six cents more than a year ago. _



An electric storm which occurred in 1

Chicago on the afternoon of July- 7 is

estimated to have caused $150,000 in .,

property loss. Five inches of water fell!é

during the afternoon flooding many l

basements and damaging their contents.

Twelve houses were struck by lightning

and 42 alarms were received by the fire _

department, but no lives were lost. 5



The city of Chicago is about to estab— l

llsh a. farm for the employment of city -

men who have been rendered unfit for

city work by their own vices or misfor-

tunes.



American representatives at the great

athletic meet at Stockholm, Sweden, are

giving a good account of themselves. Al-

though the contests are not completed

the points already won place the defed-

crs of the stars and stripes out of danger

from the contestants of other countries.

A-meriea had a total of 25 points on Mon-

day evening, Finland was second with

six points, Sweden and Greece each had

three, Germany and Norway each two

and Hungary one point.



Delegates of a school fraternity in ses-

sion at Flint, voted to bring test cases

before the courts to determine the con—





. stltutionality of the Michigan and Indiana





laws which prohibit the existence of





fraternities in high schools.

Foreign.





The trial of the Camorrists at Viterbo,

Italy, was completed Monday when the

jury returned a verdict of guilty against

nine of the defendants. The band was

charged with the murder of Gennaro

Cuccolo and his wife, but the trial

brought out many other crimes c0mmit~

ted by the men, showing them to be

dangerous persons to the public peace

and welfare. The guilty parties were.

sentenced to long terms in prison. The

trial has been in session for over a year.



A decisive French victory resulted from

an engagement between the victors and

l\loroccans at Maulay Bouchta, Morocco,

Monday. Sixty of the natives and three

of the French soldiers were killed.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





Lapeer 60., July 6.-—The heaviest rain

fall today known for years. Many po-

tato, corn and bean fields all or partly

under big ponds of water, thus breaking

the long drought and, as it happened,

finding a large amount of hay out in

cock and windrow. About five inches of

water said to have fallen. Ground had

been so dry crops that had been planted

a long time had not come up very well

and were uneven. June clover is being

delayed in cutting and by the time that

hay weather is here again will be pretty

ripe. The long period of dry weather

shortened the hay crop some, Corn small

for this date of the season. \Ve think

that oats will be a pretty good crop only

an occasional field of good wheat in this





country. An unusual acreage of potatoes

planted. New clover seeding is quite

good. Lots of June grass this season in





the old meadows. Pastures are good.

Feed still holds at high prices and farm-

ers selling their sheep, calves and young

cattle. Old potatoes still hold good at

fair prices Eggs, 17c; butter, 23c; ber~

ries, cherries and plums short crop.



Eaton 00., July 1.*First half of June

cold and wet, with hard hail storm, the

15th, stones half-inch in diameter. The

last week of the month was the first

corn weather so far. Much corn not

planted till after June 1, so it, is small,

but growing fast now. Haying is in pro—

gress. Hay will be a light crop. Beans

planted late and quite a lot failed to

germinate. hence will make a short crop.

Strawberries good. other fruit will be

scarce. Beans, $2.50; wheat, $1.04fiir1.06;

rye, 740; com; SOC; oats, 500; wool, 2061!

23c; eggs, 16@190; butter, 19@200: pota-

toes, $1@1.25; hogs, $6.50@7; calves, $5@

7; lambs, 5@60; hay, $12@15.



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Carroll 00., July 1.—\"Ve have had a.

few nice showers lately and it has been

great weather for making corn grow.

The hay crop won’t amount to much this

year, on account of the dry weather we

had this Spring. Farmers beginning to

make hay. The boys are kept busy

Working corn. Corn. $1; oats, 60c; pota-

toes, $1.20; cherries about all gone and

not a very good crop this year.



Wayne 00., July 8.—\Veather very nice

and warm with plenty of rain. Corn,

where the grub worms are not working.

is doing nicely, but they are taking near-

ly all of some pieces. some corn being

just replante-d after the flood for fodder.

Potatoes are looking fine. \Vheat har~

vst here, some wheat ready to cut. Quite

a bit of clover hay being made turning

off a pretty fair crop. Very poor hay

weather, there being not enough sun—

shine for curing. Oats looking good;

prospects for a fair crop. Butter, 200;

eggs, 17c.





 





A CORRECTION.



“'ill you kindly permit- me to correct

the eleventh paragraph of my township

school article in your issue of June 22.

It should read:



“His (the Grange delegate's) report,

with other matter, was sent to the sub— ,

Granges, also inserted in the 1901 official

report of the State Superintendent of,

Public Instruction of Michigan as though 1

it were ‘1901 history’ when their trip was

not made until April. 1902. Read theirI

combined reports between pages 12 and”

30 of book named to verify this state-

ment.” ,



The “other matter" was the report of ,

Michigan State Superintendent of 1902

who accompanied the Grange delegate to ,

Ohio.



In another place I wrote of “inaccurate ‘3

statistics" influencing the National ,

Grange of 1902. but a printer’s errer:

changes the words to "accurate stalls—j

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THE BALANCED RATION

(Continued).

BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.

The Determination of the Ration.



In chapter VIII of Henry’s Feeds and

Feeding. a somewhat extended treatment

of feeding standards and the method of

calculating balanced rations is discussed.

For the sake of clearness we shall dis-

cuss here the identical rations given un-

der this heading in Henry’s Feeds and

Feeding and the reader is expected to

refer to the above text for further amp—

lification.



The “’0le standard provides that an

ox at rest should have 18 lbs. of digesti—

ble dry matter containing .7 lbs. of di—

gestible crude protein, 8 lbs. of digest—

lble carbohydrates and .1 lb. digestible

fat, this ration constituting therefore a

nutritive ratio of 1:11.8. n cow yielding

22 lbs. of milk daily is allowed a ration

of 29 lbs. of dry matter with 2.5 lbs. of

digestible protein, 3 lbs. of digestible

carbohydrates and .5 lb. digestible fat,

the nutritive ratio being 125.7.



The Maintenance Ration.



The ox at rest furnished a nutritive

ratio of 1211.8 is thus given a mere main-

tenance ration, that is, and animal is

given enough feed to provide for the

mere maintenance of the animal without

either a gain or loss in weight. A main-

tenance ration such as mentioned above

could be obtained by the use of 10 lbs. of

corn stover, 1.0 lbs. of oat straw for the

roughage. together with 1 lb. of oil meal

and 1 lb. of ground oats. The roughage

ration alone, that is, 10 lbs. of corn sto—

ver and 10 lbs. oat straw, would have a

nutritive ratio of 1:27 which would evi-

dently require the consumption of a great

deal more than the standard amount of

roughage to furnish a sufficient amount of

nutritive matter to satisfy the mainte-

nance requirements of the 0x at rest. By

the addition to this roughage ration of

1 1b. of oil meal and 1 lb. of ground oats

the nutritive ratio is changed to 1:128

which very closely approximates the

Wolff standard of 1:11.8. In fact, this

ratio is sufficiently close for all prac-

tical purposes provided the animal has a.

sufficient amount of protein and a sum—

cient, amount of digestible carbohydrates

as well. In this instance the animal

would be given 16.8 lbs. of dry matter

whereas the “'0”? standard calls for 18

lbs. of dry matter, but dry matter is in—

dicative merely of the bulk of the ration

and falling below or exceeding the stan-

dard by one or two pounds is a matter





- of little consequence.





The Work or Dairy Ration.



In formulating a. ration for the dairy

cow yielding 22 lbs. of milk daily, ac-

cording to Henry, he uses as a basis of

this ration, that is the roughage, red clo-

ver hay, corn stover and oat straw. It

is evident at the beginning that a cow

at heavy work, that is. producing a, good

flow of milk, must have in her feed a

considerable increase in the protein con—

tent. Consequently in order to provide

proper bulk in the ratirin it is quite de-

sirable to introduce among the roughagcs

a feed high in protein. . Consequently red

clover hay is selected in this instance and

with perfect propriety other legumes

could be substituted, such as alfalfa for

example. Allowing 8 lbs. of clover hay,

10 lbs. corn stover and 3 lbs. of oat straw

would furnish about 15.2 lbs. of dry nutt-

ter which is only about one-half the to—

tal amount of dry matter prescribed by

the VVOlfi’. standard. Henry adds 5 lbs.

of corn meal and 5 lbs. of bran to this

roughage ration, all of which togeether

contributes 24.3 lbs. of dry matter, 1.7

lbs. of digestible protein. 12.7 lbs. of car—

bohydrat'c-s and .5 lbs. digestible fat. This

ration would fall considerably short of

the standard in protein and have a nu—

tritive ratio of about 1:8. The \Volf‘f

standard provides a nutritive ratio of

1:5.7 and it is clear that to bring up the

percentage of protein in this ration and

likewise narrow the nutritive ration it

is necessary to add a concentrate con—

taining a high percentage of protein. Oil

meal is consequently selected as before

and 3 lbs. added, which gives a total of

27 lbs. of dry matter. 2.6 lbs. of protein,

13.7 lbs. of carbohydrates and .8 lbs,

practically, of fat, with a nutritive ratio

of 1:5.9. The standard provides a ratio

of 1:5.7 and it is conceded that this final

ration of 8 lbs. of clover hay, 10 lbs. of

corn stover, 3 lbs. of oat straw, 5 lbs. of

corn meal, 5 lbs. of bran and 3 lbs. of oil

meal meets the conditions sufficiently

close for all practical purposes.





Roughage Should Constitute Half.



In formulating a balanced ration the

first thing to be considered, of course, is

the roughage to be used and when an

animal at heavy work, such as the dairy

cow on a full flow of milk, is concerned,

the roughage should provide for about

one-half of the total dry matter needed

in the ration, and for about one-fourth

if possible. of the total digestible crude

protein needed. Under these conditions

it becomes possible without 'the use Of

too large a quantity of highly concen—

trated feeds to properly balance the ra~

lion, giving at the same time a fair and

practical quantity of dry matter.



To attempt to simulate conditions in

the standard ration exactly is a waste of

time for rarely, except by accident, will

it be possible to arrange a ration with

the many factors congenial which it is

necessary to take into consideration in

prescribing a ration. For instance, the

bulkiness, the palatability, and the many

other factors that we have discussed

heretofore in these articles must be con-

sidered at first hand in preparing a ra-

tion and if the standard be then ap-

proximated with these other conditions

fulfilled there will be no need to figure

closer on the ration.



Real Skill Consists in Balancing the



Ration Economically.



The real skill in preparing a ration,

therefore, resolves isclf into the question

of selecting those roughagcs, and con-

centrates as well, which furnish the nu-

trie-nts desired with the least expendi-

ture of money. To this end it frequently

becomes desirable to sell many of the

products grown on tho farm and pur-

chase on the market feeds which are less

(rxpensch, and more adaptable for the

purposes in hand. It is this idea which

has caused such an influx of commercial

feeding stuffs into the state and has

caused the enactment of the feeding stut'f

inspection law which was passed in

Michigan by the- legislature of 1905.



As we stated in our previous discus-

sion, later experimentation has Sl1()\\’{l

that while it is not advisable to reduce

the percentage of protein below a certain

minimum, at the same time it frequent-

ly becomes advantageous for the feeder

to go considerably beyond the maximum

amount of protein prescribed by the

standard and the full scope of our defi-

nition of the balanced ration permits of

this elasticity. \Ve frequently have a

year when the commercial rating of clo-

vcr, alfalfa, and other legumes would

permit of their being given, almost to

the exclusion of other roughages, and

the mere fact that they contain a high

percentage of protein would to our mind

in no wise mitigate against their use. On

the other hand, when the conditions may

be reversed so that clover, alfalfa and

the other leguminous constituents of a

ration are exceedingly expensive, it does

not become possible to' substitute for

them some of the non—nitrogenous rough-

:igcs.





 





LABORATORY REPORT.





 





That Cider Vinegar.



The following letter is submitted for

cdification of Reader who made the in—

quiry regarding cider vinegar in a re—

cent copy of the Michigan Farmer. \\'c

think comment on this is entirely un-

necessary.



In last week's Michigan Farmer, Reader

asks why his cider did not make vinegar.

1 think he is from the city or is in school

years. but then, it is not so strange that

he should ask the question as is the

cditor’s answer to it. if that lad. or

anyone else, expects to make good cider

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July 10, 1912.

Grains and Seeds.



Wheat.——There has been a steady but

decided decline in wheat values all the

past week. Cash wheat has suffered

most at the hands of the bears but in—

tures show a loss of two cents in four

days’ trading. The approach of the

threshing season and the improvement

in crop conditions are largely responsible

for the poorer prices. In the southwest-

ern states where harvesting and thresh-

ing is on reports are to the effect that

yields are- much higher than early esti-

mates. Farther to the north seasonable

rains have supplied the plans with need—

ed moisture, bttt iii some parts, especial-

ly Michigan and the other northern

states east of the Mississippi, rust is

showing up strong and it is generally

predicted tl at where that is the case the

recent gain made in the crop will be

lost. In the, spring wheat section these

rains have done the grain much good

and the crop on both sides of the line

is in excellent condition. Cash wheat is

weaker than futures, due to the light

demand from millcrs who are having .t

difiicult time disposing of floor. The lo-

cal price for No. 2 red wheat a year ago

was 87th per bu. Quotations are:



' No. 2 .\o. 1





lied. White. Sept. Dec.





Thursday ....... . . . . . . . .

Friday .......1.0‘.l1,:’_. 1.0812 1.10174 1.12331.

Saturday ..... 1.08 1.07 1.091,, 1.141,,

Blonday ..... 1.071,: 1.063;) 1.081}, 1.10%.,

Tuesday ..... 1.001,: 1.051,: 1.084;}, 1.10134

Wednesday . .1,.071,/.g 1.061/2 1.091;.1 1.12

Corn—Cm n values are ruling lower





than seven days- ago. The estimated to~

tal production for the countiy by the

government experts is 2,811,000.000 bu.,

as compared with a yield of 2.531,488,000

bu. in 1911. This large estimate was a

little unexpected because of the back—

ward condition of the crop, but the past

week has done much to bring the crop

up to standard which, with the addition—

al acreage planted this season largely ac-

counts for the estimate. In the central

states corn made splendid imprtwement

since warm weather appeared. One year

ago the price for No. 3 corn was 66c per

bu. Quotations for the Week are:





No. 3 No.8

Corn. Yellow.

Thursday .. ..

b‘riday 75 77

Saturday 74 76%;

Monday 2 741/2

Tuesday ........ . . . . . . . . . 721/; 75

Wednesday 731/3; 751/2

Oats.—’i‘hc oat trade followed the





trend of the wheat market until Tuesday

when there was a reaction and cash oats

advanced a cent, which left prices 'two

and one—half cents below the quotations

for last Friday. The goVei'nment figures

puts the estimate for the coming crop

at 1,139,000,000 bu., as compared with a.

yield of ‘22,298,000 bu. in 1911 and 1,-

186,341,000 bu. in 1910. The trade was

firm Tuesday after the advance. The

present shortage and the promise of only

an average crop will probably hold prices

fairly high for the season. One year ago

the price for standard oats was 48c per

bu. Quotations for the past week are;

standard. No.3

White.

Thursday





Friday .1512 55



Saturday 54 531/2

Monday 52 511';

Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . ....... 53 521,33

\Vednesday . . . . . .. . 53 52%),





Beans.~ln this part of the market

prices were marked down 5c. ’l‘hcrc is

no business and the tigurcs are only

nominal. The new crop is promising ov-

er a greater pan. of Michigan, and the

acreage is large. Nominal quotations arc:





Cash Oct.



Thursday ........ . ............. . .. . .

.lt‘riday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.70 $2.25

Saturday .................. 2.65 2.20

Monday ........... . ........ 2.65 2.20

’i‘utsday ............. . ..... 2.65 2.20

\\'cdnesday . . . . . ............ 2.05 2.25

Clover Seed.~ There is a possibility





that a fair crop of seed will be gathered

in this state this fall, but many things

can reduce the chances. The removal of

hay is being delayed by local showers

and this will discourage the second crop

of clover which is used for seed. ’\\'lierc

hay has been taklcn off the aftermath is

growng fast. Alsikc clover is heading up

excellently and in many sections the

heads appear to be well filled. Nominal

quotations, are:



Prime Oct.

Thursday .....

Friday $990





Saturday .......... 9.75

Monday ........ . 97'

Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . ............... 9.75

\\'ednesday . ..... . ................ 9.75





Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.



Flown—Prices are steady with the

trade slow.

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

I’atent Michigan 5.80

t‘lcar . 5.00

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



Feed. Market continues steady at last

week's range of values. Carlot prices on

track are: Bran, $25 per ton; coarse

middlings,, $27: fine middlings, $30;

cracked corn and coarse corn meal, $34;

corn and oat chop, $32 per ton.



Hay and Straw.-«All grades steady.

Quotations: No. 1 timothy, 3121506022;





 





N0. 2 timothy. $190120; clover, mixed, $18

@2050; rye straw, 3111601150; wheat and

cat straw, $1'0((_1710.50 per ton.

Potatoes.—-The increased offerings have

pulled prices for new potatoes down to





THE MICHIGAN PARMER.”





$3 per bbl. The fields of late potatoes in

Michigan are quite promising in many

sections, the stand being almost perfect.

Old potatoes are gone so far as the

market is concerned. ,

Provisions.—Family pork, $19.50@21.50;

meSs pork, $20.50; clear, backs, $19.50@

21.50; hams, 141/2@15c; bri‘skets, 111/2@

12c: shoulders. 12c; picnic hams, 101/2617

110; bacon, 14((1116c; pure lard in tierces,

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





Dairy and Poultry Products.



Bunch—There was no change in the

prite of creamery and dairy butter the

past week. in the cattle markets it is

noted that dairymen are disposing of a

large number of cows, and the quality

of these offerings leads to the general

belief that they are the poorer animals

of herds. \\'hile this will bring to the

daii‘ymen increased profits it is cutting

down the supply of milk and butter and

keeping the price tip. Storage men are

not taking hold of the market vigorously





because of the high prices ruling. Quo-

tations are: Extra creamery, 26%0;

firsts, do., 2515c; dairy, 21c; packing





‘sttick. 19c per lb.



Eggs—Market is steady with the vol-

ume of business large. Current receipts

case count. cases included, are quoted

at 20c per dozen.



Poultry—So little is being done in this

deal that it is difficult to place quota—





tions. Those reported are as follows:

Live Broilers, 256:2Sc; chickens, 12((1)





 





121/1“; turkeys, ItMrISc; geese, 11017120;

ducks. 14c; young ducks, 15((1;16c per lb.



Vealt—~Steady; fancy, 1067110 per lb;

choice. Sfiflc per lb.



Cheese.-~.\ll grades are steady at last

week's values. Michigan flats, 16@17c;

York state, flats, 1761,18c: limburger. 17@

18c; domestic Swiss, 2471.25c; brick cream

17G118c.



Fruits and Vegetables.



Cherries—Sour are quoted at $150.69

1.75 per 16—qt. case.



Raspberries—Prices falling from last

Week's high figures as the. supply in-

creases. Reds now selling at' $2@2.25

per 24-pt. case. '_



BIackberries.—~Offerings increased and

quotations down to $1.25 per 16-qt. case.



Huckleberries.—More plentiful and

lowlr. now selling at 51132571350 per 24-

(1t, case.



Gcoseberries.——Firm at $26,132.50 per bu.



Honey.—Choice to fancy comb, 15@16c

per lb; amber, 1261130



Apples-Scarce and firm. Willow

Twig, $7@7.50 per bbl; Steele Red, $5.50

«16.



OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.



Recent rains have prolonged the straw-

berry crop and this fruit sold on the city

market Tuesday morning at $1601.50 per

crate. Goo‘seberries brought $1.25; red

raspberries, $2; blick raspberries. $1.75;

red currants, $1.25; sweet and sour cher-

ries, $2 per crate. New home-grown po-

tatoes are still scarce. Peas are worth

$1: onions, 100; spinach, 25c; carrots,

10c; radishes, 6c; beets, 15c; butterbeans,

$1; lettuce, 30c. llay is lower, the new

crop selling at $124114; old at $140316.



Chicago.



Butters—Last week’s prices rule de-

spite a fractional decline at Elgin. Trade

quiet. Quotations: Creameries, 23(y25c;

dairies, 21012~lc per lb.



Eggs.~.\ll grades 1/_.c lower; volume of

business moderate. Quotations: Firsts,

171%; ordinary firsts, 16c per doz; at

mark. cases included. 1501‘160



Potatoes—Prices continue to decline

as receipts increase. A drop of 20c in

the past week has restored potatoes to

the bill of fare of most consumers and

consequent increase in demand promises

to steady the market. Triumphs, 706:1)

75c per bu; Kansas .lCarly Ohios, 7071x800;

Virginia, 32.6061275 per bbl.



Beans—Prices remain at last week's

figures with business fairly good. Quota-

tions: llea beans, choice hand—picked,

$2.92’rt2.95 per bu; prime, $2.821,§@2.85;

red kidneys, $3.25.



Hay and Shawn—The outlook for the

new crop of timothy did not warrant the

sharp reductions of the past few weeks

and the reaction has sent prices tip $2

an; during past week. Clover, alfalfa and

straw unchanged. Quotations are: Tim-

otli\', choice, $22fo23; No. 1, $20fu21: No.

2 and No. 1 mixed, $17011850: clover,

$90112; No. 2 and no grade, $5019; alfalfa,

choice, $13.50fu14; No. 1, $11f7113; No. 2.

$90111. Straw—Rye. $100111; wheat,

5157-5001850; oat, $7.50m.8.50.



Elgin.



Butter—Market is firm at 25c per lb.,

which is Inge below the quotation of one

week ago.



Boston.



\Vool.~'l‘here is a tone of satisfaction

hovering chl‘ the wool market. Early in

the season trading was practically

brought to a standstill by the demands

from growers for ptices above what the

dealers thought they could well afford to

pay. The growers were persistent. how—

ever, and now they are getting their

price. This came about by manufactur-

ci‘s receiving new and duplicate orders

for longr lines of goods and to meet these

orders they had to have “'001. and to

£581 the wool they had to give the price

that will cover the dealer who is now

assured and is ready in, most states to

pay the farmer what he asks. All kinds

of wools are firmer and most are quoted

higher. Michigan wools are moving

slower than those from other states and

as yet it is not possible to fix prices, but

based on Ohio sales prices here should

be around 3400350 for fine washed and

delaine, fine unwashed, 276228c; XX and

better grades promise to open at 31@320.

Local buyers in Michigan have gotten‘

about all the wool they can find for 24

((1250 They realize that there is much

more to secure but are hesitating about

taking hold, which is causing a cessa-





tion in the local wool business. It is

generally believed that Michigan buyers

will have to come over to the farmers’

way of thinking and give prices asked.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

July 8, 1912.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, New York).



Receipts of stock here today as fol-

lows: Cattle, 155 cars; hogs. 70 double

decks; sheep and lambs, 50 double decks;

calves, 1,800 head.



With 155 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and weather extremely warm,

our butchers were slow buyers from start

to finish. The best grades of strictly

dry-fed cattle, only a few loads of which





were here, sold full strong with last

Monday's market; the handy weight





butcher cattle of good quality and fin-

ish, weighing from 900 to 1.100 lbs., sold

full strong with last Monday. All other

grassy grades and in between kinds, in-

cluding stockers of all descriptions. sold

considerably lower than last Monday.

The grassy beef grades of heifers, cows

and steers were fully 10@15c lower than

last Monday; the market close-d extreme-

ly dull on this class. Milkers and spring—

ers fully $5 per head lower.



“'9 quote: Best 1.400 to 1,600-lb. steers

di'y»fed. $8.85fil925; good prime 1,300 to

1.400-lb. do, $8.60((l.8.85; do. 1,200 to 1,300-

lb. do., $8.25@8.50; medium butcher

steers. 1,000 to 1,100 lbs, dry-fed, $7.50

(as, grass steers, 1,150 to 1.250, $7.75@

8.25: (10. 1,000 to 1.100, $6.50@7; light

grass steers, $5.50fi16; best fat cows, $5.50

((1.6; common to fair kind, $3.25gi3.75;

best heifers, $650617; fair to good do.,

$5.25fi‘550; light butcher heifers, $45051)

5; stock heifers, $3.50fit4; trimmers, $2.50

(71.3; best feeding steers, dehorned, $4.50

W5; common feeding steers, $350014;

stockers, inferior, $3613.25; prime export

bulls, $6616.25; best butcher bulls, $571)

5.50; bologna bulls, $1M; 4.75; best milkers

and springers. $45@.55; common kind do.

$25fit30.



leceipts of hogs today was some light—

er than for some time past; 70 double

decks on sale. The demand was just

limited here today for the good weights.

but anything from light yorkers down to

pig weights was in strong demand and

sold considerablv higher; best hogs sell-

ing gentrally 1061mm higher: a few loads

if fancy selected sold at $8.10, with the

bulk a; $841805: pigs and lights. $7.750:

7.85; choice roughs, $ti.50foti.85; thin sows

$3614; stags. $5616.75. Trade closed

strong, and with a good clearance, we





should have a fair market for the next





few days.



The lamb market was active today;

1110s! of the choice spring lambs selling

at $7.756L8, which was about steady with

last week’s prices, and the same with

yearlings; most of the best selling from

56436.5. Sheep market was also active

and prices about the same as last week.

Look for about steady prices on both

sheep and lambs balance of the week.



\Ve quote: Choice spring lambs, $7.75

((138. cull to fair (10.. $5697; yearling

lambs, $661650; bucks. $2.50@3; wethers.

$501525; handy ewes, $375654; heavy

ewes, $3.50m3.75; cull sheep, $2633; veals,

choice to extra, $8.75@9; fair to good do.

$6.50fg850.





Chicago. ‘

July 8, 1912.

Cattle. llogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 19,000 30.000 18.000

Same day last ycar..28,705 34.853 19,316

ltcccchd last week..35,057 109,144 66,195

Same week last ycar.42,359 96,614 94,325



A blistering hot day makes a bad Mon-

day market for the numerous consign-

ments of big, heavy hogs, with old sows

plentiful and moving off slowly at weak

prices. The early market this morning

was actiVe for tho bcst light butcher

togs at firmer to 5c higher prices, but

long before noon trade became (lull, the

local packers refusing to pay the rise,

and it was all lost. The day‘s sales took

place at $6.90?t7.65. llogs received last

week averaged 237 lbs, compared with

229 lbs. 3 year ago and 244 lbs. two years

ago. This hot weather is hard on heavy

hogs, and dead ones are taken from stock

trains in large numbers.



Cattle are active today So far as the

better classes are concerned, and these

are firm, but other kinds are slow and

barely steady. Small receipts alone stand

in the way of lower prices.



Sheep and lambs are firmer today on

account of the moderate offerings. The

packets received only about 2,700 south-

ern lambs direct, while about 5.000 range

lambs arrival from Washington and Ida-

ho. The best rangc lambs sold at $8, and

range yearlings brought $575016.



Cattle and all other kinds of live stock

were affected to a marked degree last

week by the observance of the Fourth of

July holiday, no business being transact-

ed at the stock yards on that day. A

Monday run of 20,661 head started a.

weak feeling in cattle not of the better

class, and before the day closed prices

were 10/(1215c lower, except for the best,

which were higher than ever at $9.65. A

further decline took place on Tuesday,

despite small receipts, but cattle with

quality went higher on \V'cdnesday on

moderate receipts and a better demand.

On that day another high record was

made by the sale of 57 fancy branded

1,395-lb. Hereford steers at $9.70. The

bulk of the steer sales for the week took

place at $7.30@9.25, with grass-fed cattle

Selling at the lowest prices reached this

season, the poorer lots going at $57061}

6.75. Cattle classed as choice heavy

brought $9.3M! 9.70. with good heavy

beeves going at $8.70 and upward, while

some prime little yearlings sold tip to

$9.35, a bunch of 74 head that averaged

1.164 lbs. fetching that price. Medium

class steers sold at $8 and over. with

fair killers selling at $7 and over. Butch-

er cattle had a very fair outlet on the





JULY 13, 1912.





whole with cows and heifers selling at

$4.30@8.35, and anything “fancy would

have sold around $8.50@8.75, as 'suoh

heifers did a week _earlier. Cutters

brought $3.30@4.25, canners $2.25@3.25

and bulls $3.75@7.25. Little interest was





.shown in the stocker and feeder branch





of the market, notwithstanding further

sharp reductions in prices, the former

selling at $4@6 and the latter at $5.250!)

6.10. Country buyers were in small at-

tendance, and those who showed up Were

able to pick up some good bargains.

tjalves sold very well usually, sales be—

ing on the basis of $350649 for inferior

heavy to prime light vealers. Milkers

and springers had a. moderate demand at

$35fur75 per head, the call being mostly

for the better class of cows. The close

of the Week saw calves much higher than

a week earlier. while grassy and medium

steers Were 20((1‘1300 lower, grassy cows

sharing in the break. Stockers and feed—

ers broke 156125c.



llogs sold as well on the whole as

could have been expected ina week brok—

cn into by a national holiday, with some

extremely sharp breaks in prices, follow-

ed by rallies. The big run of the week

was on Monday, 42,429 hogs showing tip,

but by '\\'ednesday there was such a.

small supply marketed that prices ruled

somewhat better. Eastern shippers took

7.104_ hogs on Monday, but during most

of the week their operations were hardly

large enough to give much support to the

market, and the undertone was weak as

a rule. Extremely hot weather has been

hard on big, heavy hogs in transit, many

dead hogs being removed from arriving

stock trains, and the heat has caused

buyers to show at last a marked prefer-

ence for hogs not over heavy. This is,:t

matter of yearly occurrence, and as the

season advances heavy hogs may be ex—

pcctcd to scll at steadily increasing dis—

counts, while the choice class of light

hogs will bring good premiums. Hogs

have made a very good showing in

weights of late, the recent average being

the heaviest in about nine months, and

the average for June was 235 lbs. The.

week's receipts fell off so much that a.

late rally took place, with sales at the

close at $6.90((Ii7.621,§, compared with $7.15

617.65 a week earlier. Hogs weighing

from 200 to 300 lbs. were among the

highest sellers, witlra widening out of

prices. l’igs sold at $5.50fu,7.05 and sings

at 37.7041810, While boars brought $3.25

@4.



Sheep and lambs have been marketed

too generously in recent weeks, lambs

especially, and prices have undergone

cxn'entoly large reductions. .-\t times

sheep and yearlings have ruled steady.

with small offerings on days when the

market was glutted with spring lambs,

and this was the case on Monday last

wcek. when out of receipts of 21,310 head

the. hercentage of everything but lambs

was small. On that day the first range

lambs from \\'ashington and Idaho air-

rived, and the bulk of the good lambs

took a fall of 25c, with some lots off 3561)

50c. Many native lambs have also shown

up. while the packers continued to re-

ceive many consignments of Tennessee

and Kentucky spring lambs shipped to

them direct from Louisville. Prices had

such a hard blow on Monday that the

receipts were checked, while many

slicepmen held back stock because of the

approaching holiday, and the result was

that rallies took place in values, early

sales of choice spring lambs at $7.75. a

late rally of 25c occurred in sheep and

lambs, tho latter selling at $4608, while.

ewes went at $2614.60, breeding eWcs at

$4.25fir5 and bucks at $2013.25. Native

ycarlings brought $»l((16.25 and Oregon

range wethcrs $4.75fu5.



Horses were marketed sparingly last

week, and all that saved prices from a

bad slump was the small supply. for the





general demand was extremely light. As '





it was, the poorer animals had to go in

some instances at concessions from





former prices, but good horses sold no.





lower. Farm workers of 1.100 to 1.450

lbs. were slow at $10061200 per head,

while wagon horses that weighed 1,250 to

1.350 lbs. were salable a $160frl=200, with

highh-class delivery wagon horses mum-.1

at $21.0m250. lnferior~animals went as

low as $85, wilh nothing doing in drin-rs

worth mentioning. Light draftcrs were.

salable at 3317501225, and better and heav-

ier ones were mostly nominal around

5524001325. '





 





NATIONAL CROP REPORT.



\Vinter \Vheat.—-~Condition. 73.3 of a.

normal; indicated acre yield, 13.8 bu;

estimated total production, 13.58.000.000 bu.



Spring \Vheat.—Condition, 89.3; acre

yield. 14.1; total production. 271,000,000:

wheat remaining on farms. 23,876,000.



Corn—Acreage. 108.110.000; condition,

81.5; acre yield, 26.0; total production,

2.811.000.000. .



Oats.-Condition, 892: acre. yield, 30.1;

totz-l procluction, 1.139.000.000.



Barley.—Condition. 883; acre

25.6; total production. 194.000.000.



Rye—Condition. 88.2: acre yield. 16.0;

total production, not given.



White l’otatoes.——.\creagc. 3.689.000;

condition, 88.9: acre yield, 95.5; to‘tal pro—

duction, 352,000,000.



'l‘obacco.—.r\creage, 1,194,200; condition,

87.7; acre. yield, 844.9 lbs.; total produc-

tion, 1.009.000.000.



Flax—Acreage, 2.992.000: condition,

88.9; acre yield, 9.4; total production, 2H.—

000.000.



Rice—Acreage, 710.100; condition, 86.3;

acre yield, 11.7; total production, 23.000,-

000.



l‘lay.-—Condition, 85.2: acre yield, 1.4;

total production, not given.



Apples—Condition. 67.9.





yield,





Many stock farmers of the, east and

middle west who have good pasture land

and find stocker and feeder cattle alto-

gether too high—priced to suit their views,

are. expecting to invest in feeder lambs

and sheep instead.





 





 





 





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JULY 13, 1912.

THIS' IS THE LAST EDITION.





 





In‘ the first editiOn- the Detroit Live.

stock markets are reports of last week;

all other markets. are right up to date.

Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the last edition. The first

edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-

tlon Friday morning. The first edition is

mailed to those who care more to get the

paper early than they do for Thursday's

Detroit Live Stock market report. You

may have any edition desired. Subscrib-

ers may change from one edition to an-

other by dropping us a card to that effect.





DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETO.





Thursday's Market.

July 11, 1912.

Cattle.





Receipts, 1.053. Prime grades and good

butchers steady; common and little light

grades and bulls 25c lower and very dull.



We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $8@8.25; steers and heifers. 1.000

to 1.200, $6.50@7.50; grass steers and

heifers that are fat, 800 to 1,000, $5@6;

do. 500 to 700, $3.50@4.50; choice fat cows

$5605.25; good fat cows, $4@4.50; common

cows. $3@3.50; canners, $2@3; choice

heavy bulls, $4.50; fair to good bolognas.

bulls, $3.75@4; stock bulls, $3.25@3.50;

choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.507!)

5; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1,000. $460

4.50; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $4.25@

4.75; fair 'stockers, 500 to 700, $3.75@4;

stock heifers. $3.75@4.25; milkers. large.

young, medium age. $45@50; common

milkers not wanted at any price; fair to

good. $30@35.



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

6 steers av 905 at $6.50; to Schlischer 7

butchers av 641 at $3.75; to Elk 7 cows

av 850 at $3.80; to Sullivan P. Co. 11

butchers av 743 at $4.25, 3 do av 593 at

$3, 14 do av 987 at $4.40, 1 cow weighing

1,150 at $3, 1 bull weighing 1,030 at $4.40,

6 COWS av 880 at $3.50, 2 do av 985 at

$4.50. 4 butchers av 892 at $6; to Ham-

mond, S, & Co. 10 do av 785 at $4.10, 6

steers av 816 at $5.50, 3 bulls av 900 at

$4.10. 2 do av 910 at $3.75, 1 heifer

weighing 680 at $4.60, 2 bulls av 965 at

$4.25, 1 do weighing 720 at $3.75, 2 do av

1.085 at $4.25, 2 do av 1,120 at $4.10, 1

cow weighing 850 at $3.50, 2 do av 1,250

at $5.25, 4 do av 1,010 at at $5.25, 1 steer

weighing 1,010 at $6.50; to Rattkowsky 3

cows av $8.50 at $3.40, 3 do av 950 at $4;

to Sullivan P. CO. 14 butchers av 987 at

$4.40; to Kamman 20 do av 925 at $6.25;

to Newton B. Co. 2 canners av 875 at $3.

3 do av 893 at $3; to Fry 11 butchers av

750 at $4.40; to Schlischer 5 do av 678 at

$3.50; to Sullivan P. CO. 2 cows av 935 at

$4, 2 do av 1,110 at $4.75; to Goose 7

butchers av 534 at $3.55; to'Austin 4

stockers av 415 at $3.



Roe Co'm Co. sold Kamman B. Co. 1

cow weighing 1,120 at $4, ‘8 do av 811 at

$5.25; to Breitenbeck 26 steers av 877 at

$5.35; to Parker, W. & Co. 3 cows av

940 at $3; to Sullivan P. Co. 20 do av 9‘12

at $3.75,,‘1'd0 weighing 1,000 at $3; to

Hammon , s. .& Co. 3 bulls av 1,033 at

$4 35,: o" av”1,1504_ at $3.75, 1 cow weigh-

ing 1.030 at $4.25; to Fry 8 butchers nv

621 at $4; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows av

970 at $3.25. 5 bulls av 1,044 at $4.25; to

Parker, W. & Co. 1 cow weighing 1,030

at $3, 2 do av 815 at $2.50, 5 steers av

1.136 at $6.25; to Mich. B. Co. 23 butch—

ers av 886 at $4.40, 26 do av 750 at $4.75;

to Regan 6 do av 431 at $2.50; to Bockner

R. & K. 5 stockcrs av 750 at $4 50, 18

do av 500 at $4, 14 do av 550 at $3.50.



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 909. Market 250 higher than

Wednesday; 500 higher than last week.

L‘est, $8@8.75; others, $4@7.



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

11 av 135 at $8, 9 av 150 at $8.50, 3 av

140 at $6.50, 24 av 160 at $8.75, 2 av 150

at $6.50. 19 av 145 at $8.50, 11 av 140 at

$8. 2 av 150 at $8, 8 av 135 at $7.75, 4 av

155 at $6 50. 9 av 150 at $8.50; to Parker.

'W. & Co. 31 av 140 at $8, 11 av 150 at

$8.25, 4 av 155 at $8.50; to Bray 11 av

185 at $5.50, 32 av 155 at $7.50. 8 av 150

at $8.50; to Geese 20 av 125 at $7; to

Mich. B. Co. 24 av 145 at $7, 2 av 170 at

$5. 7 av 150 at $7.75; to Hammond, S. 6';

Co. 10 av 155 at $8.75. 3 av 150 at $6.50,

10 av 173 at $8.75, 10 av 165 at $8.75, 3

av 120 at $6.50, 9 av 150 at $8.50



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 1.391. Market 25c higher than

last week; steady with Wednesday. Best

iambS. $7.50@8; fair to good lambs, $6.50

((07; light to common lambs. $3.25@5:

yearlings, $4@6; fair to good sheep, $2.75

@325; culls and common. $1.50@2.50.



Bishop. B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 36

lambs av 70 at $7.50, 11 do av 58 at $6,

1 buck weighing 160 at $3.50; to Sullivan

P. CO. 16 lambs av 75 at $7.25, 2 do av

75 at $8 7 do av 77 at $7.75, 1 sheep

weighing 100 at $3.50, 16 lambs av 63 at

$5.25, 19 lambs av 65 at $7.25, 11 sheep

av 87 at $3.25, 3 do av 150 at $3.25, 5

lambs av 70 at $6; to Thompson Bros. 15

do av 7 at $6, 13 do av 68 at $7.50, 1.)

sheep av 100 at $3.25; to Fitzpatrick

Bros. 19 do av 110 at $3.25; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 6 do av 95 at $3.25; to Fitzpat-

rick Bros. 12 d0 av 110 at $3.25, 13 do av

.10 at $2.75, 22 lambs av 65 at $7; to

Thompson Bros. 20 do av 60 at $6.50; to

I'Jschrich 22 do av 40 at $5; to Fitzpat-

rick Bros. 12 sheep av 130 at $3.40. 20 do

av 110 at $3.40, 17 lambs av 60 at $5.25,

5 sheep av 110 at $3.



Hogs.



Receipts. 2,515. Market steady at Wed-

nesday’s prices; 10@150 higher than last

week.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers. $7.55@7.60: pigs. $7.25@7.40; light

yorkers, $7.40Qv7.50; stags one—third off.

off. >

Spicer & R. sold Hammond. S. & Co.

100 av 210 .at $7.60, 607 av 190 at $7.55

75 av 170 at $7.50.



Haley & M. sold same 125 av 200 at

$7.60. 460 av 190 at $7.55.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 325





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av 195 at $7.60. 140 av 190 at $7.55. 85-





av 180 at $7.50, 15 pigs av 150 at $7.25.

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



405 av 200 at $7.60, 410 av 190 at $7 55



525 av 160 at- $7.50, 156 av 170 at $7.40.





 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





‘ THE MICHIGAN ,FARMBR.





In the first decade of this 20th

century came a race for suprem-

acy in pneumatic tires.





All the great makers were

in it.

And all of us knew that the





tire which won must excel all

others.





Now motor car owners have





' 200,000 Users





1.250.000 Goodyear tires have now

gone into use. They have been

tested out on some 200,000 cars.





By this metered mileage, in the

course of years, we learned how to

build an almost perfect tire.





Rim-Cutting Ended





Then we got rid of rim-cutting

forever by inventing this patent tire.





With the old—type tires, 23 per

cent of all ruined tires were rim-

cut. And rim-cut damage is beyond

repair.





So the present demand tells the

final decisi0n of 200,000 users.





And the increasing demand—sales

doubling every few months—shows

how these users endorse these tires

to others.





No-Rim-Cut tires make this ruin





How Goodyear Won , . ,

impossmle, so they save this 23 per





We won this race to the topmost cent.

10% Oversize





place by cutting tire bills in two.

Then'we made these tires—No-





First we built a tire more wear-

To do this we built a testing ma- Rim-Cut tires—10 per cent over the





chine. where four tires





o-Rim- Cut Tires

10% Oversize





Winners of the Ten -Year Race





rendered their final verdict, and

the result is this:





No-Rim-

sell every other tire.





The demand I today is twelve

times larger than three years ago.





And our monthly output of

nearly 100,000 tires fails to keep

pace with the call.





 





 





 

 

 





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Cut tires by far out-





rated size. We did that to carry

the extras added to a car. To

save the blow-outs due to over—

loading.





This 10 per cent oversize, under

average conditions. adds 25 per

cent to the tire mileage. Tens of

thousands of u'sers have proved that.





Save 48%





So No-Rim-Cut tires, under aver-

age conditions, save 48 per cent.





Men began to find this out about

three years ago. Since then the

demand for these patent tires has

doubled six times over.





No-Rim-Cut tires have now be-

come the most popular tires in the

world.





 





at a time are constant-

ly worn out under all

sorts of road condi-

tions.



Thus we compared

240 formulas and tab-

rics. Thus we com-

pared every material

and method. And thus

we compared rival

tires with our own.





 





resisting than any other tire.





No-Rim-Cut Tires





 





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AKRON, OHIO





With or Without Non-Skid Treads





You will never buy

a lesser tire when you

learn what these tires

mean.





 





Our 1912 Tire Book

—-baeed on 13 years of

tire making—i; filled

with facts you should

know. Ask us to mail

it to you.





 





 





THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO





More Service Stations Than Any Other Tire

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





Branches and Agencies in 103 Principal Cities





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





A RUMELY HULLER. WHY ?

If you are interested in Clover Hullers 0r Alfalfa

Hullers, here are seven good reasons why you

had better buy a Rumely.





One —It rubs. not threshes.



Two —It has no equal as a seed-saver.



Three—It. has ample reinforcement 01' concave endll.



l‘our -—It has chain and blocks. nor rubber belts.



rive -It has extra attachments for cleaning.



Six -It is the only one with the “Drop Concave."



Seven—It is the only Resp Huller that has a wider roar than cylinder.

Write today for our new Fact Book on .Hullers.





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the 905(329 . PREL‘PS', shows you more styles thisycar

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and what made of. Phelps known. They’re all highest grade—over 1‘15 at lee-every kind— -

auto 59‘“ Buggies, Sun-en, Runabouts, etc..—all sold dlrrct to user on 30 Days' Free Read veh'cles

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. We get the top price on consignments. make

liberal advancements and prompt remittances.





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Reference. Washington Trust Company. or any bank in city





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The frame is made of pressed steel.

Ormola gold finish, baked on. French

chip edge. mirror in center. Six re-

movable hooks. Two hangers. Extra

well made. Worth $2.50.





OurPrice Only 85 ots.





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Send all Orders to

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A ‘FEW OF THE INSECT PESTS OF

THE GARDEN.





Business





is Good





The shipments Of “ Sta r

Brand ” shoes during the month





 





 





 





 





'l‘he squash vine is ttl‘i‘ectcd principally

by two species of insects, the squash—bug





of May at wholesale prices and the squash-vine borer.

amounted to The Squash Bug.

The iirst is it true “hug" and obtains





$1 ,678,99 7.62

This is a gain of $122,482.36 over

bitty of last year and is the largest

shipment of shoes ever made iii one

month by any St. Louis shoe intuiti-





its lood by piercing the stalks and leaves

witlt its long bcnk and sucking their

'l'he itdttlt bugs are black iii col-

givc off an offensive or sickening





juices.

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. ~ . odor when crushed. The young hugs



tin turer. l .

O 1 . L i ll lllllt‘ll iesctnblc the adults iii trtppcttranco

ur “‘“l‘ ‘ “0“ no ‘ “ “““m‘ but oI cotn'st lll‘c smaller in size and





-—~no "oil years" This year, as iii

all former years. new high records in

the stile oi “Star Brand" shoes are





iittvc only partially developed wings. The."





batch from tho i‘cddish—lfiirown uses which





 





“Star Brand Shoes Are Better”





I. . .

ltn on llllllt‘nl‘llllt‘t‘. 'l‘ltts Is the only time

s ‘I . l

“blur liruntl shoes are made tn ‘Iltttt it is practical to kill them. Early in





over 700 styles-«tor metnw'omen and .‘m, morning they :ll‘O mort- or less shit;-

t‘hiltiren. Look for the star trade- gm] and i“ Pimps “f bozirds huh. 1”...“

mark on “‘9 INTI—it means you‘re tilltl down netti‘ the vines bugs will be

ENImS pure leathershoes. lonnd hettcuih tltetu it~ the night has



it your regular dealer does not sell been slightly t-ool. IIt‘l‘t‘ they may be





them it will pay you to change collmtcti and destroyed by dropping into



tlt‘dlt‘l‘s. :t I»ti:‘ltct of water with it film of kero—

Style I‘ve-til; ot men's. women'sor M‘Ilt‘ upon the surface.



children's shoes sent oti request-say I In lllt‘ t'ttil alter the crop is gttlllt‘t'CIl.





“'lllk‘lb tilt» hints continue to l't‘ed upon the vines;





 





 





 





 





Address Dept.I'- I by plow-in: tht-se under the bugs all't‘



~ forced to go ,‘tlito hibtu'untion cttl'lit-r



Roenars.J0HN30N o RAND _ , _ . _ 7 ,



Mun-us.“ t'm."¢'4"1<rl‘et-enal shoe co 5H0“, than is I it Il cnstotn ttnd tcwcr tl‘t‘ all e



l 51o survive lllt‘ winter. l‘Iowing also dcs

l . .



istl'tws large numbers ol Illl‘ lttiipttltti‘c





 





ilinc» by burying them. If it is Illllllllt‘-

luliilc to plow tltc Mtll:l>ll ground Ill“





old \im»; should be destroyed lll sonic





New Idea





otittr \\.:_\’.

The Squash-vine Borer.





'l‘i’m





sowttsltwinc borer lttts given us

'tss ll'v'llllil Until the tn't-ct‘dillg‘ inst-ct.





Never Clogs





Don’t be pestered and made out

of sorts by having a spreader that

clogs. You don‘thave to. Get one

that spreads wider, evener, car—

ries a bigger load and has a score of





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





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'l"-c “En; ‘lll‘lll l;i_\s Itt‘t‘ Wit-2N upon stalks

lillitl li‘t‘ _\t'1lllj_‘.' l;ti'\‘;tc Iiurrow into them

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lt-xlt lids dowai into roots and at

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c\:t't llllllLS ol





limes "worm" towttl‘ds





lllt‘ \‘iuc.





It~ the ~1I11H‘t\ll vines have commenced to





other advantages—the New Idea. rim Iii-tore the borer-s uiiiwur llli')’ may



1. t“ i‘ill.‘ illil“ In“ ~i c;



Senator Book and Special Circulars “ “ ”“ ”l “L‘ N ‘ 51‘ . ‘. ”MIX":



telling 'lll 'ibouttlie"4 Dointsof superior Hm” “J 511”“ “ML" ill ”'0” Joint-*1 III'S‘



it)‘.andtinaccountoftliegreatspreader i“ 'lt‘l‘t‘ 1‘)" W'th‘illl-Y 1110 .itlillls Willi ‘d



Crookes! (iii the Hartman farm. where t-oupiti oi int-lies- of moist t‘:t“lll. This is

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t e 6 Lea‘lIOIher spreaderson the tl l‘l‘t t'illli‘tllllill')‘ lIlL‘ilSIII't‘ illltl lltil il t‘lil't).





scrap heap. Don‘t think of buying until

you know about. the spreader that is

always ready to give atest of its merits.





If the borers injured your viliis lust sea-





son give this method of combating.r them





a trio".

I‘sltt; curly





illis 3'0111‘.



ittittsbcs it's a trap crop .IS

ten days before

lpiantir-g the crop plttnt a row o1

:stunmex' the middle of the

iticld. These early hills attract the moths

to itty tipon them and later

they may be destroyed. .but see that they

are destroyed early in the, season for

when the borer or lttrvu becomes full

grown it goes into the. ground to pupate

out of l‘CilL‘ll.

Co. \V.

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COLLEGE STUDENT HELP ON FRUIT

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lirttctit-ttl. .\ week or

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and get the facts.





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iii Sycamore St.. Coldwrter. Ohio





titttl, of t'oitl'sc. is





\VilelL‘ POSTIFF.





 





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2‘“: H.P.Staiionary

Engine —- Complete





.\ larger'nunil‘er of young men are be—





ill}: educated in the agricultural colleges





 





 





 

 





‘ today than ever before in the history of

C' l i ll f t‘tltlcti‘iozi, who only reason for this con—

ivcs omve ower orn arm .. . , ‘ .

til-cs. UulrytliIi-ee moting pairts— «font. n is that there is a great demand

110 cams, no gt‘dfi, no VII \‘es- 1 ‘ ”- \v HILL" 1- . ~ 10 18 w t .. i i. ,A . ('1

can't get: out. of order. Perfect I It ‘ i I“ n: It “I _i ‘9 q “d 1 mg a.“

S‘l-‘t‘l'ni‘r—liit‘tll cooltn system. knottlctlg» tit the things that ttl'e studied

scs kerosene (coal ml . gnso~ . . . ‘. 7 l ‘ l 1 ll

line. nicolisi. distfilfitg‘tglgaa. . in on .151 lcu t-ma t o egt‘. .

Soldonlé ya! a. ' l WK. .,-. . ‘.-_

ONEY BACK If 1.0 ‘ In the bi t It. on .tglK ultttte and httti

ARE NOT aATIbFlLD- Eculture published two decades ago may

5-year ironclad guarantee. Sizes . . . 1 ‘ . _ . ‘ . ,..

'2‘». m :0 H P“ “ p,,..p[,mon“e be thtmd unt omplimcntat) tetei ent rs to

Prices. In stock. ready w shill -' persons who possessed what were called

Ptslalbrtngsfullparticuinrs free. ‘ ' ' ”

write m- pmpositw on first en- "hm ik tut mmg notions. and to students





cine in your locality. rim)





l -i (r "i '1

DetroitxotorCu'Supply 00., is; lit. it (n





their time in

agricultural college.





But ihe old order changcth.





who wasted





 





Slowly, at





   





' ‘ t'rst, bi t ma": ra ii llv liriii h. iast

10,000H1gh 3 l 1‘ . ‘1 g l 9.1 ‘

. tcw years. 'lhere has been one simple

L1 3 Saved 'Itafit'll for this change and that is that

fileCtriC {the young man who has a grasp on the

mr i kind of knowledge that comes from 21

Easy work for you. light draft. for horses. The . ,~ - . , - .. . . .‘ . . _

one unbreakable. low-down handy wagon. Steel st tenttfic agricultural ti dllllllg is .t \ 3]

wheels. all heights and tire widths. Have ruttinir. ual‘ilp man. He knows about the many





Send for free book on labor saving farm hauling.

ELECTIDC “III. 00.. IO! 35 . Quincy. III.





WEEDLESS ALFALFA





customers. In





things that must be known to grow crops

and fitiit successfully. And. as long as

knowledge is power, and crops are grown,

he will remain a valuable man.



some agricultural newspapers





 





 





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is what. we are” till-sing to sf)” our tt



FREE sample wi s ow you t at. we come pre 2: see once i a Whil ; _ ‘



near doing this. All other field seeds: also Field be . n‘ n e. 1 lefEIPHCF TO

and Cow Peas. Soy Beans. thch. Ra agricultural college students that m a





39. etc. .

O. M. SCOTT é” SON, 1% Main St.. .Iarysville, Ohio.





IIIIIEII TWIIE 116 III.

1' . Fullygu eed





From factory to arant .

. Farmer agents wanted. Samples and catalog

free. THEO. ”.1 In 50.5. “mo. Ohlo





little uncomplimentary. The idea. is deft—

ly put that they are a little “too nice”

10 get out and do hard heavy work—that

they rven think that beneath them. etc.



It is a satisfaction to know that such a





 





 





 





. . tttc lull in t-ttchcs, usually. t Hit the

being established. ‘. .1' ‘ ”i

\l I . f l l } ll under side oi the leaves.

5 l .‘ I . I S i ’ . .

l 0.“ “lulu“ hr 01H?“ r u i (-l .\lnilll the tune stitittsh vnics are IIIII-.

material of our kind are. ever used, . . . .‘ ._ . . .

. . - .ttug out then lhnd oi tonrth lent the

which explains why I . . .

- illI‘St hugs. winch have wlntcrcd over. but





‘is to





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





nation as this could not be formed in





lVIchiltran. and I seriously doubt ill‘ it' 18‘

Students in agricul-z‘





justltled anywhere.

tural colleges

many of

there. and

reiiitiln. A

Labor”





are there for a

them have worked hard to get

others have to work hard to

lecture upon the “Dignity of

would fall upon uninterested





purpose;





CJII‘S.

llurinp; the ten-day lilaster vacation last

.\piil. about twenty advanced students in





hortlcullure in the Michigan .-\gricnltnrttl

College went to various fruit farms to

prune. orchards. ’l‘lie pttrties who hired

them were well pleased with them and





several have already spoken for tho ser—





vices of students. Last summer, a num-

bcr of students worked, from the lime.

college closed in June. tttilil it opcncd in

Into September. on fruit farms. They

were not "visitors" or “coinpztnjt'” but

workers. receiving; not “salary" but

whites. and no further consldcralion or





lban tiny “liit‘ctl tiittti' would be

granted. That these. students were good

workers and were worth ciiiplt,i_\'ilig can

be bctter told by the then who employed

them than in any other way. Read what

the following Michigan l'i'uit growers have

to soy:



"Student lic-lp has paid me well. - They

come :it ll season of the year when help

is Very hard to obtain in this section. In





fit Volts:





 





 





out and Bunch or WlnllItIIl Your

limp in tine Operation





HF. THORNBURGH SIDE DELIVERY BUNCH-



ER and WINDROWER attached to your

mower takes the place of 'a dump

rake, revolving rake, side delivery rakes

and fodder. Use. it. one. full day with any

mchr and it. will more. than save its cost.





The timothy, clover, alfalfa. etc... is left on the

field in loose. hollow bunches or \vindrows so

that it can be, quickly curod, without bleaching,

and is ready to be loaded onto wagons. The

crop is absolutely free from dirt or rubbish.

There is no loss of seat by being run over by the

team and mowor or by being dragged over the

stubble and kicked with ti tctlder.





 





 





.W&~





years of full crops. the thinning season

is just on and they can stay until the

>tllill'l0l‘ and full fruit is mostly harvest-

cd. I have found these students bright,

industrious. ambitious fellows. ready to

do any and till kinds of work. of which

ilicic is :t g'i‘t'ut Vttl‘iely on the overture

fruit farm." ticorge 1.;_ L‘hat'icld. \‘ttn

lint‘cn (‘ouitty.



"'l‘lmre is little of sentiment in this

matter of ctitployitig,r help, tiny prime.

idctt is cilicit‘ttcy and industry. llo\\-

t‘\'t‘l. l have rtttlter given prct‘crtj-tn-c to

‘llt‘ students. becttuse they are looking‘





for opportntiitirs of gaining (leit-l‘it‘lit-i' iii





orchard work and I have wound to help,

ihcin :tloitg‘ iii such ways as full within‘

my lii~\\'t'1‘. I have. at! dil'l‘crtnt tinics.

IIdtl Inn's l‘t'otn bollt ll. .\. t‘_ and \\‘is—

totisiii l'tiiversity ttiid have found IIIt‘III

:tl‘ rind. faithful. conscientious and lit-

dtistrions workers. ’l‘hcy are. too. rallici'

tilinvo the ordinary run of help iti tttlclli-

emu-- :Illtl tire thoughtful and careful

about their wwrk." l-Idwttid Ilutcliins.





\Ilcgtltt

"Nttdclit





t‘ot‘ttty.





liclp has paid me. It is dilli—





cult to find men who will take an inter—

est in the work from more than ti tintin-

vial standpoint, but the young niltii who





is aspiring; to it place in the t'ruil—tzrowing

world or who wants prttcticttl txpcricncc

for educational purposes, has an interest.

:Iillltisl akin to thtit of the owner of the

orchard. Intelligence, :tltrliui-ss and en'-

tliusittsni characterize the student who

blocs to succeed in his chosen line.“~-—

\\‘m. 1.. littrter. Mason County.



"My idea on the question of students

as lttlp on the farm. is this: It should

he :1 cc—opertttive proposition between

the agricultural college and each ‘indi-

vidnal farmer. .\s the farmer derives

gtvut benefits from the college, he. should





iii l‘i‘llll'll be. glad to do all iii his power

to push the work along. The benctits





should lie mutual. as the students have

all lllt‘ up—t i-dztte methods and the, farm—

t‘.‘ the practical ideals. Besidts this. they

llI'L“ plettsatit. gentlenianly fellows to have





in your honie.”—~.l. U. Frttleigh, Muske—

goti County.



Such testimony certainly should have

considerable weight with Michigan fruit





growers who are "up against” the help

question.

Agrii. Col, Mich.





ENCOURAGING PEPPER PLANTS.





H. J. EUESTAC E.





My

all thus





have not grown at

are on heavy land,

\\' but can I do to





pepper plants

far. They

inclined to bake.

hustle them along?

Wayne Co. l‘. _.\_ It.

After a crop has started to grow it is

usually 1co late to put the soil in better

condition tor improving that particular

crop. In such short time as is left there

are but few fertilizers that can be ad-

ded which will become available to this

crop. and also the mechanical condition

of the 'soil cannot be greatly improved

before the season is over. There me,

however, two things that may assist our

correspondent in his predicament. Que-

scatter about the liberal

application of nitrate of soda, using from

one to two pounds per square rod. This

fertilizer should be carefully worked in-

to the surface so that it will have op—

portunity to dissolve quickly in the soil

moisture. The other thing is to give the





plants a





plants thorough cultivation. The ten-

dency of the soil tO bake will tints be

overcome in part, and by loosening up





the ground air will he admitted. This

gives the bacteria in the soil 3 chance to

prepare food for the plants.



After the crop is removed this} fall it

Would be advisable to apply a heavy coat

of barnyard manure. If this is not avail—

able and it is possible to draw vegetable

material front another field and plow it

under. good results are certain to follow.

The addition of vegetable matter will

loosen up the soil and make better

ground for the growth of plants.





Make more money off your crops. Write

ltoday for free catalogue and give the name of

1 your implement dealer.





 

 





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MANUFACTURING Co.





Dept. T.

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Save tho cxpcnso oi' having it, done by

somebody clsc. nnd Httvc the waste or

having from '25 to fill‘j‘iof your Hood broken

by improper threshing. Mr. Yodor from

Kttnstm mitdo 8i}? por tit-m out of his crop

of (‘ow l’ctis threshing itl with





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You can do as well or better. I) cumin

from Illinois mudo$90 "in ii dfiy i'lllt ti. half

threshing Beans tind‘l‘eus \\ ith tin “wens.

You can mnko tin Owens Thresher pay

you a profit ovcr ttnd ubovo its own cost.

the tire-it. season. if you raise lit-tins or pout-I.

It, is gittu‘ttntecd to thrash direct from tho

vines without. splitting the seed and in-

crease the value of the vines for fodder.

Mode in four sizes. Write for prices and

Freo t‘tttttlog. giving all the facts and

experience of ot icrs.





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Dom. 6. chamber of Commerce.

MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.





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-only engine running on coal oil nu¢-‘ ‘

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too. Gasoline is 9c to 150 higher

than coal oil, and still going up.

'l‘wo pints of coal oil do work of ’

three pints of gasoline. Starts '

without. cranking. Only three

moving parts—no cams. no sprock-

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on skids. All sizes. 2 to ‘20 ll. p.,

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I‘ttnipii. sows, churns. sophrutel , inders can-

inilk. grinds food. shells corn. _ ' not. curlionize.

Prices (stripped) $29.50 up. Thousandl in use. If you are

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The choice-t and one of the beat soil restorers known,

We haves fine lot of seed that we on retail at; log.

than ordinary whole-ale ricea. Our seed is hulled.

yellow blossom. GUARKNTEED TO GROW. Thi-

plant is also a splendid preparation for alfalfa.





ALFALFA ii‘fiz‘eiisrttrgtrrem

IIIE WING SEED EMMY





Writ. for tree ample. t

nox s49 neonates-um. 'omo
THE





S there anyone who is more in need

I of help and sympathy during the sum—

mer months than the young mother?

it’ there' is 1 can’t think at.

who it can be. Thanks to





this moment



modern edu-

cational methods the new;‘ mother. is usu—

ally as ignorant of what. the baby needs

as is the child itself and she brings to

her task nothing but fears and worries

and a desire to do the very best for

baby. Teething. summer complaint, heat

rashes and other ills loom before her.

She knows neither how to avoid them

nor how to cure them when they do or-

rive, and the- advice given her by older

mothers is usually so varied as to plunge

her deeper into indecision. Then, at a

time when she. ought to be almost cu—

tirely free to care for baby, her house—

,work doublcs up. There is gardening

think of, fruit. that must be picked or

wasted, young chicks to look after. 0x-

ira help on the farm, but usually no ex-

trahclp to: her, since towns IIEIVH robbed

the farms of the girls who could go out

to housework. The young husband can

not hclp her in hcr pcrplexitics for he is

even more ignorant on the subject of

babies than is she, and is besides dceply

concerned in the problem of making the

money to kcep the home going.



First of all. on the hot days, make the

baby comfortable. A vivid memory ling—

ers with me of a young mother who took

her year—old baby out on the hottest day

in July dad in woolen shirt and band.

Wool stockings, flannel petticoat, outing

flannel ’dit‘to, lonsdalc dress and coat!

:Ngediegsdgo say, the baby cried and fret-

M and -Was actually sick, until the old

aunty who was entertaining him and his

mother, took off all his clothes 'but the

woolen band, diapers and slip and put

him on the floor on a blanket to creep

and roll and kick.



It is always a good thing to keep the

baby's abdomen (:(vered with woolen for

the first two summers, and for this the





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COMBATING THE FLY.





 





BY H. 1.. G.

Before this article can possibly find its

way into print, the files will have got a.

fair start; but this should not discourage





the fly-fighter, for it is as true in this

case as in any other, that it is “better

late than never.”



Prevention should, of course, be given

first thought. The first few stragglers

that show themselves on the window

panes in early spring should be kilkd.





Keep a. good lookout for everything in the

way of breeding places, such as decaying

bones, dead animals, the offal from

butchcring. etc. If these are found to be

already infested with larvae, pour plenty

of kerosene over them and bury immedi—





ately. if an outside closet has to be tol—

erated, kecp plenty of dry road dust at

hand to use in it. \\'ood or coal ashes





are a good substitute when dust is not

avalable. '



The extra work of warring against the

pests is grcatly lessened by the many

putcnt devices for that purpose, such as

the screen trap and the various poison

boxes. But should these not be at hand,

one can readily contrive makeshifts at

home. Almost everyone has seen the

trap made by putting soapsuds into a

tumbler, covering with a dry bread crust

into the center of which a small hole has

been cut, and lower side, within the tum—

bler, plentifully daubed with molasses

and vncgar to attract the flies. Have

the suds made of soft soap if possible for

the insects seem to like the odor of this

best. Let the suds be Within an inch of

the crust and the latter should be dried

rather hard else a few slaps to precipi—

take the flies into the water will break

the-‘slice into pieces. Bread is further

objectionable on account of its being food

for those too wary to go down through

the opening. .;Cardboard substituted for

the bread has neither of its faults while





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YOUNG MOTHER’S WORRIES.





ilttl‘e sleeveless wool shirts, or bands, are

sui‘liclcnt. ’i‘hcse bands with the diapers

and a cool slip are enough for tho young

baby on the hottest days, and on cool

days a tlannellctte skirt and stockings or

croclwted hootecs may be added.





It’ the mothcr uses care in the diet she

may IIDDI'tHItIi the summer even with

tecthlng before hcr, with not great wor-

ries ahead. If the. baby is a nursing

baby there is little to fear, provide-d the

mother uses discretion in her own diet.

In any case, the feeding is simplc. (live

nothing but milk until baby is chun

months old, thou add‘a little starch in

the form of crackers or dry to;1st. Follow





this up later with a spoonful of rice, wr-ll





cooked, i‘arina. tapioca, or perhaps oat—

mcal. :1” well cooked and given with a

little milk. They do not. ”(th sugar, as

tlu- starch is converted into sugar during

digestion. Avoid potatoes for the first

two ycars, as potato starch is very ditii-

cult of (ligcstion. It‘ruit, too, should be





avoidcd, unless you wish to run the

chance of trouble. The practice of giving

tho baby a taste of everything on the

Iilllltl is bound to giVo trouble sooner or

later. \’\"hilc it, may be strong enough

to stand it for a time, its stomach is

really not ready for cvery sort of fOod

any more than its brain is ready for

books, nIHI mischief is the invariable





result.



(H'angc juice is the only thing in the

naturc of fruit which can escape this

rulc. This may be given, a tablespoonful

at a time, for constipation. Do not dope

the. baby with medicine, no matter wno

advises it, unless ordered to do So by a.

competent physician.



'l‘hcn don't worry. A worried, ncrvous

mother upsets the baby. For the first.

few ycars the mother is the child's world





and ew-rything that uffccts her affetus



hcr baby. Keep cool and happy and



baby will bc more apt to do the same.

DERrrnAH.





it has all of its virtucs. (if course, such

a trap has to be constantly watched to

ho cf‘t'cctivc, a good rainy day job when

the pcsts arc most persistent in coming

into the house. ‘



_ Most of the pests can be driven out of

the house after the morning work has

been done and most of what remains can

be (I8Sii‘t),\’t‘t'l with a ”swatter.” A most:

effective one is the screen swatter. it is

mude of a piccc of new window scrcc'n

(old screen soon gocs to pieces), two

short cloth-covered dress stays, and an

old whip handle or smouth slender stick

that may be split at one end. Cut the

screen about 8x10 inches and turn over

a hcm 0n the sides so that the ends of





the dress stays are under it, one at each





end, and, thcn turn the end hcms over

the stays. Scw all around with wrapping

cord to strengthen the hcms and hold





the stays into place. Split the small end

of the whip handle and push the screen

down into it about one and a half inches





and clasp a pig-ring about it. A wire

may be used for the purpose, but scc

that the ends do not, stick up. (inc made

like this lasted all last summer and is

still good. The stays prevent warping

or twisting. Such a swattcr is most of-

fictive after the time-honored flour Slick





driver‘has done its durndcst best.



It is'better to use sticky fly-paper in

the house and poison outside. If a sheif

is put up outside in the sunshine, the

hapcr may be set upon it. \Vheu the

flies fall they do not need to. be constant-

lv swept'up or else crushed on the floor.

Small chickens have been known to eat

many of these dead flies without suffer-

ing ill results.



Generally sneaking, as little poisoning

should be done about the house as pos-

sible as the odor draws them wherever

it is set. The most successful work along

this line can be done by taking the poi-

son where they are found thickest, such

as in a. hoghouse. One such building





\





which had .‘I. cement floor, had a half

dozen plates of poison constantly setting





about with all the swill barrels and pails

kept (:arct'ully covered. It. is safe to say

that at, lcast a bushel of dead flies were





floor during the sum-

prchxntlng





swcpt, up from that

mer. It helped materially in

the nuisance about the house.



in thc cold fall wcathcr, it is the habit

of flies to'*t.ollct:t at night on the outside

of window scrccns. ospccially where thci'c

is warm air escapingas at a kitchen win-

dow let down a little at the Ai'tcr

the WIINIHWS ('losctl for night,

they still remain clinging screen





(up,

the

the





:il‘t:

to





and are numbed by the cold when morn-

ing tomes. It‘or'nerly these were IJI'IlShi‘tl

lloWu into a basin of hot. water; that IS.

all that could be bct'orc, the warm vapor

aroused thcm. Now it lllclt'lllMI some-

what, (iit'l'c'rcnt is used; for, knowing tln-ir

habits, measures are takcn to control





their (:ollr-cting plum-cs. As night

pioachcs, all doors and windows uro clos-

cd but two kitchen windows which are

lowered a little at the top. The escaping

warmth attracts nearly all the sWarm to

these pluccs. 1 rise early the next, morn-

ing, dross warmly, put, about a half inch

of cold watcr into a square cake tin and

pour (-nongh kcroscnc. ovcr it to covm‘

the surface, moistcn a wing or long ouil





up-





with the oil to use as a brush, stand on

a kitchen chub- to get. the tin as near

them as possiblc, and press its side

against the scrccn. 'l‘hc oil goes at once

into the insc-cts' spiraclcs, or breathing

apparatus, kiElinP,r them instantly. .-‘i

week of such warfare will kill thousands





of them.





HUMAN WELFARE QUERIE“.



J. A. \M—.T0 can strawberries without

cooking, mix equal parts of the berries

and sugar, let stand 24 hours and

put into (:lcan, cans, taking care to

scal tightly. strawberries used at

soda fountains picparcd by mixing

thcm with until more sugar

will dissolve. It is that them.-

can stand on for

without spoiling. send





then

('UItI

The

are

sugar no

claimed

in unopcued dish weeks

You may

short cuts re~ipcs you

do not promisc to print them all.

liditorrtlun you Icll me

:1 good way to prwparc strnwhm'rics to

serve with ice crcam'.’ llult' of my fam<

ily like strawberry'ice cream and half do

not, and nonc of thcm like it with just.

sugared strawbcrries on [0]).”"AVIUIIICF.

Make a strawbcrry sauce by boiling

cups of sugar with two water

for ten minutes, then adding cups

of crushed strawberries. (if course, lct

thc. syrup cool before adding the berries,





tbc

\i‘t:





all





and wish, but





Household





'lll'tft' of





{UHF





and if possible. chill the mixluie before

pouring over the ice cream.



llonschold l-Iditorr-rllow do you make

she! bcts‘.‘ Jifwenty-one.



.\n easy way is to boil two cups of

sugar and four of watt-r for 20 minutes.





'l'hcn :uld your fruit juice and half frcezc,

opt-1: tho trcezm- and add the stiffly heat—

(-11 white of one egg and finish freezing.

[for lemon shcrbet use ti'irce-fourths of

a cup of lemon juice with the amount of

given above. For orange sherbet

usc tWo cups of ol‘:'lige juice and a quar-

ter of a cup of lemon juice. Raspberry

and pineapple sherbet call for too

of illu fl‘tll! juice- and a qurtwr cup of

lemon juice. The raspberry shcrbet is

imprchd by adding a half-cup of currunt

.llllt'e instead of the lcmon. (if course,

this recipe can be doubled, treblcd. ctc.,

but be sure to use these proportions.





syrup





Clips





Household Editor:~I am five feet and

five inches tall and weigh only Silt pounds.

How can I increase my \veiglui—Niary.



Stop worry and work first. Sleep as

many hours a day as you possibly can,

eat regularly and slowly and avoid at—

coholic and other stimulating drinks.

Drink milk in moderation, beginning with

a half glassful and increasing the amount

gradually until you take a glassful at a

time. Drink it slowly, allowing 15 min-

utes to a glass of milk. Eggs. that is,

the volks, are reckoned among fattening

agents, cereals, and butter, olive oil and

fat bacon. Do not take anything in ex-





 





eating eggs

and grmlually

you take

the olive





becn

day

until

I'm:





ccss. if you havc not

lwgln with only ulH- :1

increase this numhcr

tnroc or four daily.

salad drcssings.





(‘ZLYI





nil in





PROVIDE WATER FOR THE BIRDS.





nY ELLA m. norxwuon.

The spring months have bccn cold and





wet, but now that warmer wl-athcr has

come irrovlsion should bc made for the

birds. No mutter it‘ your btnm- is quite

near some water confide or Inkl- the rub-

ins and other songstt-rs which frequent

the premises will lu~ quick to take all—

vnnluge of a dish of clear water sci. near

the llUlch wbcre tbcy have access to it.

I have sot-n an old robin cnll hcr thrce

young ones recently fledged, to drink

from the shallow basin plat-Ml for them,

[inter all four took a bath in the same

receptacle. Iiirds love frr-sh watcr but.

will suffer from thirst hr-rme they will

drink that, which is stale or dirty,



The troublesome English sparrow will

no doubt find the drinking Vessel and

make use of it. They may :Ultgrnpl to

drive other birds away when tin-y :1p«

proach it but an old robin can take her

own part and will not suffer such nt‘w‘iw:





without, deft-noting hcr rights. Sometime»;





this old mother robin is the selfish one

and drives away the others who wish to

drink or bathe.



It' you baw- no drinking dish sr-t for





your fcathcretl friends place one now and

state what a fund of enjoyment it will bi:—





comc as soon as discovered. int IN: some

to cleanse the dish and providu fresh

water every day. if this. nut-ans adding





another task to bands already fuél. let the

children





take (:bargo of it. The respon-

sibility will do them good and they will

be incrcasing thcir stock of bird-lore





while doing a. kindly and humane action.





 





 





MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.





 





These patterns may be obtained from

the Michigan Farmcr ofilce at tlw prices

Be sure to give pattern number

the size wanted.





named.

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No. 5071, Children's Dress with

{and Sleeves in One. Cut in sizes .

:1 and 7 years. Age 3 reduires 15.. yards

of 36-inch material. Price. 10 cents



No. 4091, Ladies’ One-piece Corset Cov-

er. Nine sizes, 32 to is inches bust

measure. For 36 bust it r-I-piircs 13:

yards of 17-inch tinuncing. Price. 1!)

cents.



No. 5658, Ladies’ Empire Dress Closed

at Front. Cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches.

bust measure. Size 36 requires 57‘. yard:

of 36—inch material, 34 yard of 24-inch

satin and 5.4; yard of 18—inch ail—over.

Price, 10 cents.



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HOME m YOUTH





THE “DISGRACE” HOUSE.





 





 





 





BY ELISABETH R. LITTS.





A little group of girls and boys had

gathered on the front steps of the Foster

home and were talking earnestly. Oc-

casionally one or another would cast a.

scornful glance towards the little cottage

next door which was the cause of all the

arguing that had been going on among

the young folks for almost an hour.



Gertrude and Harold Foster were the

most detcrminod of any that the Morton

boy and girl should not be countenanced

by any of their set, nor recognized in any

way. The rest of the young folks were

fast coming to think their way—all ex-

cept Hal Chase and his sister Carolyn,

who declared it a shame to ignore people

just because they lived in the "disgrace"

house; and, in truth, that was the only

reason existing in the minds of the

others.



Now, the reason the humble- little house

was to blame was this: the particular

block in which this set of young folks

lived was one of the nicest and best ap-

pearing of the town. lCach home was

large and well kept, with beautiful

grounds. livery resident yictl with his

neighbt‘lr in having his place look the

llcatest and in consequence it was al—

most an ideal block—- all except the “dis-





gracc" house. which was the one eye—

sorc to the proud owners of the other

homes. This was the only small and un-





block. A little fivc-

brown and dingy from the

Fug years it had stood without even one

iciitshing coat of paint. .lt bclongcd to

a woman who had moved away yr'al‘s ago

and left it in the hands of a nephew.

who collected the rent and that was all.





sightly place in thc

room cottage,





it was so run down it could not command

much tent. and only poor families occu-

pied it. The old lady (ould not be inllu-

tnced to scll it, or to repair it. although

every man in the block had tried to buy

it from her. So, naturally enough, it was

very obnoxious to all the other inhabit-

ants of the street, and it had been given

‘he name of “disgracc” house by the

young folks, who could not be blamed

much for the feelings they cherished

againsr the occupants as they came and

went. for come and go they (lid. It was

generally so unpleasant for them that

they did not care to remain long in the

neighborhood.



The young people in the block, always

cliqued together. had held themselves

aloof from everyone in the little cottage

and never recognized any of the young

people who happened to be so unfortu-

natt- as to live there. int the last ten-

ants of the little house seemed to be dif—

ferent. someway, from their predecessors.

liven t'let'trude Foster, who was the

proudest and haughliest girl in the block,

had to admit that they were different.



There was a young man whom they

had heard called Manly, -by his sister,

whom he called Grace. And manly he

was, indeed. lle was about the same

age as Gertrude Foster, tall, well built

and intelligent looking. lloth he and his

sister were quiet and unassuming. They

always dressed neatly, carried themsclves

well and never seemed to notice the 1n—

tendcd coldness of the young pcople in

the block. They had lived in the little

cottage several months but not one

friendly nod or encouraging smile had

they recechd from one of their neigh—

bors.



This evening the young folks were

'athered at the Foster home and the

question was under discussion. Hal

Chase. said he had learned that the Mor-

tons had moved there from the city, had

once had money and that Mr. Morton

had been a man of some prominence, but

sudden losses and poor health hastcncd

his death and now the widow and two

children had only a slight income. The

circumstances caused them to move into

this small town where expenses would

be lower and where the widow might

find sewing to do to help keep the young

folks in school and increase their meagre

income.



“I tell you, girls,” Hal added, “I think

it is a bit snobbish to keep up this in-

difference toward the young people who

happen to live in the “disgrace” house

when we find that they have been as

well raised as we ourselves. The boys,

here, don’t say much, but I would be

ashamed of my comrades if they did not

prove themselves honorable enough to be

willing to accept young Morton as a. com-

panion, even though he does live there.”





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





withla. shrug of his shOulder towards the

house next door.



For a moment the girls did not answer.

Gertrude was generally the spokesman

when they were together. She admired

Hal very much and did not wish him to

think she was really so small as to hold

such a feeling when it was not right.

Finally Ruth Merrill, Gertrude’s chum,

replied:



“\Ve have all snubbed them so long

that I, for one, do not feel like coming

down now and showing them that I de-

sire their acquaintance, and I won't. You

boys go ahead and cultivate Manly‘s

friendship, if you care to, but I think

you can’t make us girls welcome him

very graciously, and as for Grace Mor-

ton, why I know she would feel very un-

comfortable with the rest of us girls, even

though we did condescend to take her

1nto our circle. “'13 don‘t care whether

you boys———"



"Oh, well, let‘s not have any hard feel-

ings over it," broke in Carolyn Chase.

"1 think Hal is right, though. I have

never seen anything to criticise in either

one of them, and Mrs. Eldon, who had

Mrs. Morton make a dress for her, said

she never met; a more refined lady; and

Margaret Eldon told me that she ac—

companied her mother to the house one

day and that she was very much charm—

ed with Grace Morton; that Grace t'ook

her into her room to show her some em-

lnoidery she was making; while there,

Margaret was admiring a beautiful pic-

ture and asked Grace who the artist was,

and she answered that she did that when

she was in School. I believe she must

have. gone to college and that is more

than any of us girls have done, yet.”



Just then some of the party were call~

td away and no more was said regarding

the Mot-tons. .\s the days and weeks

passed, things continued just as they had

been bel'orc. No one seemed to care to

he the first to speak to either of the

young people. and all felt that they

would be humbling themselves in doing

St).



For several wceks the whole town had

becn vcly much intercsted in the erec-

tion of a big monument, which was to

be unveiled soon, in honor of the soldier

boys of that county who marched away

and newr returned. The eventful day

was close at hand and the girls in the

clique were greatly excited beCause four

(if their number were among« the young

ladies chosen to bear the flowers, their

fathers or grandfathers being veterans of

the late war. The guest of honor and

speaker of the day was to be the gchr-

nor of the state, and as the town had

never before been honored with the gov-

ernor‘s prcscnce there were great antici-

patious and much preparation for the

affair. Gertrude Foster, whose father

was the mayor and of course knew all

about things. confided to the girls that

they expected the governor to take sup-

per with them that day, as the unveiling

was to take place in the afternoon anl

the governor’s train did not leave until

evening.



\thn the day finally arrived it was

beautiful and clear and everyone was

dressed in holiday attire. The girls were

crowded together on the grandstand

awaiting the arrival of the speaker. Car—

olyn (‘hast leaned over in her seat and

whispered to (:crtrude.



"Will the gchrnor be at your house

this evening?” she asked.



“Oh! no,” sadly replied Gertrude. “We

are so disappointed; he wrote father that

he has some very dear friends in town

and he wishes to spend all his free time

with them. Isn’t it too bad?”



Just then the sound of the band ap-

nounced his approach and everyone he-

came interested in what was going on.



The governor’s address was very stir-

ring and he spoke in glowing terms of

the veterans in this loyal town. He hoped

their sons would prove themselves the

heroes that their fathers had been. He

added that he had just had the pleasure

of securing an appointment to \Vest

I’oint .»\cadt‘my for a bright young man

of the town, and had heard that he pass-

ed his preliminary examinations with

high honors. He said that this young

man‘s grandfather had been a general of

prominence in the time of war and that

he knew the town would some day be

pretid of its young citizen.



\Vhen the address ended, a buzz of cur-

iosity spread among the young people and

a little group of them soon clustered t0—

gethcr at the foot of the grand-stand.



“Say! boys,” called Harold Foster, as

soon as he came within hearing of the

others, “who do you suppose ”the boy is

in this town that is going to West Point?

I haven’t head a. thing about it, have any

of you? I wish I was going."





“And I wonder who the people are that





'the governor is going to take supper





with,” his sister added. “They must

be very important to be friends of his,

as father sald he has always been a very

prominent man. But there is father,

now, talking to him. 'Perhaps he will

find out. And who is that young man

the governor is shaking- by the hand?

\Vhyl Just look, girls, it is Manly Mor-

ton—syou don’t suppose—-Oh, no! it could

never be he. And there is Grace Morton

coming up, too, and her mother, and

look—he is introducing them to father.”



“GoOdness me!” exclaimed Carolyn, “I

do believe they are coming this way. I

do hope father won’t stop and introduce

us to the governor. It will be so humil-

iating; he will haVe to introduce the

Mortons, too, and the governor will think

it strange that we do not know them.

Come on, let us go at once.”



“It is too late now,” cautioned Harold

in a. low voice as he noticed his father

start toward them and motion to their

little party “We will have to stand up

and take our medicine.”



After the introductions were over the

governor looked at the group of young

people and exclaimed in his hearty voice:

“Strange you young folks here have not

become acquainted with the Mortons be-

fore. ] am sure you will enjoy their so-

ciety. Manly's father and I have always

been great friends. and Mrs. Morton and

my wife are cousin's. Come. now, Manly,

lead the way home; I am httngry and it

has been a long time since I have tasted

your mother’s excellent cooking.”



He raised his hat and bowed to the

amazed listeners and, taking Mrs. Mor—

ton’s arm. they started off in the direc-

tion of the “disgrace" house. After they

had passed, the little group walked quiet—

ly down the street, keeping a respectful

distance behind them, until they saw

them turn in the gateway to the little

cottage. Each one felt ashamed to llIOK

into his friend's face. At last Hal Chase

broke the silence by saying:



“i think everyone of us will be glad

to admit the Mortons to our circle. I

have always felt mean about the way we

haVc treated them. and I intend to apol-

t'gize lo Manly the first chance I get, I

believe. luth, you will find that Grace

Morton will not feel so uncomfortable in

the presence of on girls as I think you

will in hers, and I wouldn t be afraid to

wager my hat that you will all be try-

ing to win Manly’s good opinion, and that

you will be proud to walk with him on

the street when he comes back from

\Vest Point. I have admired him for

some time and, if you will all be honest

about it, i believe you have, too. How

about it, "iertrude?"



But Gertrude did not answer, nor look

up, for down in her heart she knew it

was true.





SENSE AND NONSENSE.





Manhood begins when we have in any

Way made truce with necessity; but be-

gins joyfully and hopefully only when we

have reconciled ourselves to necessity.





The little Sloan boy across the street

is forever asking questions.



“You’d better keep still or something

will happen to you,” his mother told him

one night. “Curiosity once killed a. eat,

you know.”



This made so deep an impression that

the boy was quiet for three minutes.

Then: “Say, mother. what was it that

cat wanted to know?”





I honor any man who, in the conscien-

tiOus discharge of his duty, dares to

stand alone; the world, with ignorant,

intolerant judgment, may condemn, the

countenances of relatives may be avert-

ed, and the hearts of friends grow cold,

but sense of duty done shall be sweeter

than the applause of the World, the

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“What’s that?” asked the employer.



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Paper read by Valois B. Todd at. the

March meeting of the North Shade Farm-

ers’ Club, of Gratiot county. Published

by request of Club.



(Continued from, last week).



Another phase of this question which

presents itself very forcibly to us is,

whether this is to be a gOVcrnment for

all the people or for the special, priv-

ilege-seeking corporation. Some 30 years

ago Chief Justice Ryan, of \Visconsin. in

an address before the graduating class

of Madison University, said: “The ac-

cumulation of individual wealth seems

to be greater than it ever has been since

the downfall of the Roman Empire. The

enterprises of the country are aggregat—

ing vast corporate combinations of un-

examplcd capital, boldly marching, not

for economic conquest only, but for po-

litical power. The question will arise, and

arise in your day, though perhaps not in

mine, which shall rule, wealth or man;

which shall lead, money or intellect; who

shall fill public stations, educated and

patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of

capital?" The fulfillment of

that prophecy has arrived. The condi—

tion in Vi'isconsin before the overthrow

of the political ring whiclnrun the state

in the interest of the- railroads is a fair





corporate





sample of the conditiOn which exists

more or less in every state as well as

the nation, The interests in \\'isconsi:i,





for instance, Would elect their candidate

goycrnor and he would serve them Well,

so \ycll. in fact, that they knew they

could never elect him again, so to pull

the wool oVer the eyes of the people they

put up a new man and he served the

samc purpose; and the next election they

would have another new man. After the-

pcople had been aroused to the cmulltion

of affairs under the leadership of La

Folletten'and sent dole-gates to the con-

vention pledged to support a progressive

man for governor, for three successive

campaigns these delegates were bought

off by the interests. After the peoplc

had elected their governor and legis-

lators for another term, the money power

bought and co-erccd enough of the legis-

lators so no reform measures could be

passed.

To know that‘ the legislative branch of

our national government has becn con-

trolled by the money power ever since

the Civil \Var. it is only necessary to re-

view its acts. The special privilege class

by no means own all the people‘s rcpre-

sentativcs. There are many who try to

stem the tide. The executive and judi-

cial departments of the government are

by no means free of the influence of

special privilcgc. One of the principal

methods of special interests in securing

control of the government is through the

corruption of the people‘s representa—

tive-s. There is no dishonorable method

but what is used. Some arc gotten

through bribery, some by the throat of

financial ruin, some by the promise of

lit-tier positions. Those who are strong

for equal rights for all and special priv—





ileg to Door, and are especially valuable

to this great power, “special interest."

are taken upon a high mountain and





shown the kingdoms of the world to be

theirs for the sacrifice of their principles.

It is only the strongest and most stead-

fast character that can withstand their

inlluence and temptations.



Another trouble we have is the ignor—

ance and carelessness of many of the

voters. It is the duty of every citizen .o

vote but it is his first duty before he

votcs to know not only who he is writing

[0,. but what the candidate is and what

he stands for, which is of more import--

ancc. Then there are many who do not

vote. as their conscience dictates. They

will say, i believe in that man‘s princi-

ples, I believe he is honest and patriotic,

but 1 am afraid to vote for him because

the money power is against him; he is

afraid he will lose his position if the elec-

tion goes against the great financial pow-

ers. They will bring on a panic and in—

jure the business, and this fear is nor

authority that 96 men control the United

States, and 14 of these predominate in

power, and so many go_on from one elec_

tion to another selling their' birthright

for a kettle of tmttage.



(Continued next week).





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





 





 





 





Our Motto—“The farmer is or more





consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





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THE NEW GRANGE PRIMARY LAW.



This law provides for the advisory

election of master, secretary, and mom-

bers of the executive committee of State

Grange. Any fourth degree member, in

good standing, is eligible to office. Nom-

inations of candidates must be made by

lesolutions passed in subordinate

'Granges, without debate, at the last

meeting in September. Said resolutions

shall be signed by master and secretary,

and sent, over the seal of the Grange.

not later than Oct. 1., to the secretary

of the State Grange.



Resolutions from ten Granges shall be

necessary to have the name of a candi-

date printed on the official ballot. A

sub-committee of the executive commit-

tee, of whom one shall be the secretary,

shall meet on or before Oct. 10, and can-

vass the resolutions and inform the can—

didates who have been nominated. In

case any do not care to have their names

printed on the official ballot they must

advise the secretary prior to Oct. 20.

Prior to Nov, 1 each Grange will receive

twice as many ballots, from the secre-





 





tary of the State Grange, as the number;





of members shown by the report for

quarter ending June 30, and the election

shall occur at the first regular meeting in





_ November.





In order to take part in nomination or

election of officers under this law.

tiranges must be in good standing with

the State Grange. In other words, their

dues must bc paid for the quarter end—

ing June 30, and members, to be entitled

to vote, must have the annual word or

be entitled to receive it.



.\L the first mot-ting in November, when

the election shall be held, the polls shall

open at the rcgular hour for calling the

meeting, and remain opcn for two hours.

The result of the clection shall be de—

clared to the Grange, the master, secre-

tary, steward and tellers shall sign the

report and send one copy to the secretary

of the State Orange. and keep one copy

on file.



On the first day of the next session of

Michigan State Grange, the election com—

mittee of the executive committee shall

make its report, and the names of can—

didates having the largest numbcr of

Volt-s shall be placed on the ballot for

ratification by the State Grange.



I have endeavored to give the reader,

in a fcw words, some idea of this new

departure in Grange clcctions. It is im-

portant that eycry patron should under-

stand the law Hit-roughly, and it‘ would

seem wise to discuss it in Grange meet—

ings so as to





provisions and avoid mistakcs.





The Michigan Statc Grange has always .





stood for primary election, but this is

the first time that the opportunity has

been given to put the theory in practice

in the Grange itself. The election is only





 





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advisory. bccause the constitution of the?





ordcr makes the delegates to the State

Grange the clot-tors, but there is no doubt

that they will ratify the result of the-

primary, unless some-candidates should





 





 





 





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which case there may be some question"





as to the action of the State Grange in

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The writer is heartily in sympathy with

the new law, but rcgrcts very much that

provide for a second choice.

hoped that every Grange in





it docs not

it is to be

tho state will be in

the State Grange and be rcady 10 take

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the election, and thus demonstrate the

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The twelve scholarships to Cornell Ag-

ricultural College, offered by New York

State Grange, have recently been award~

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being chosen by a series of competitive

examinations. These scholarships are





valued at $50 each and it is understood

to be the purpose of the Grange to award

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COMING EVENTS.





Pomona Meetings.



Lenawee (30.. with Fruit Ridge Grange,

Thursday, Aug. 1. J, C. Ketcham, state

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Kent 00., at John Ball park, VVednes-

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is his name and we are going to send him





and his complete outfit as it looks in the picture below free to you or some other boy or. girl.

Pony, Buggy, Harness, Saddle, Bridle, all sent free, to your door, all charges paid. Send us your name today if you want “Chum”





 





 





 





 





 





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to play with him. He will learn to know you and come

a—running when you call or whistle. He‘s never too tired

for a canter in the saddle or to be harnessed up to his

nobby pony wagon which we also send free, and he will

carry you and all your boy and girl friends just.





If you have been to eireuses you have

seen some ponies who look something like

“ Chum," but no matter how many cir-

cum-s you may have seen, you never saw

a prettier pony than “Chum,” nor one

that. you can teach to do more clever

tricks. And say! this buggy and harness

are about the nicest. you ever saw. “'e





running, and as pretty as can be.





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HERE ARE THE NAMES OF OUR 58 LUCKY PONY WINNERS





1. "Ron", John B. Corn, Jr., Pulaski County, Ark.





ieit',” Marcella Conley, Chickasaw Countly. Iowa





3. “’l‘oM," lielen llerrmann, Cuming County, Ne r



4. “ DANDY," (trace Burrows, Wright County, Minn.



5. " Dena," Dorothy Lee Eagle, Jackson County, Mo.

6. “DIXIE," Walter MeLaren. Moody County, S. l).

“SPU’l‘TY,” Mildred litter, \V’atonwan County, Minn.





x1e," Frank lIarris,‘ Yellowstone County, Mont.

(3," Ruth Mead, Saline County, M





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"Tony," Maurice llinile, Chippewa County, Minn

"BONNIE," Amyle Kaicr, Carroll County, Iowa





'l‘ZlH," Marie and Margie Parker, Knox County, Ill.

RY," (‘leta Johnson, Douglas County, Kans.





“Dow," ()liver E. ()lson, Koocliiching, County, Mliiii.





no," Jeanette Lansing, Knox County, Nebr.





“KING,” Vic. J. lireitbach, Dubuoue County, lows

“IGVANGELINE,” (:ladys lloux, Saline County, Mo.

"Qiii-Liixin," Stan. J. Malicelt. Redwood County, Minn.

“(‘APTAiN," Ida (i’lv’eeie, Mountrail County, N. ii.

"Items," Clarence 1“. Busiek, Adams County. ind.





Your Best Chum





“Chum" is the pony's name and he's the best chum you or

any other boy or girl could ever have. “Chum” is not like





'1' chums. He's always around when you want.





fast as you would want to go.





ght so many we know just .tlic

get,——stronu, comfortable, easy





paste it on a postal card or put in an envelope

and mail it to us today. Be. sure to write

your name and address very plainly

so that you will get, the 1000

free votes at once





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If you send us your name and address right away we will at once send you 1,001) votes free toward Winning

. See what a fine start these free Votes will giVe you, and if you follow our directions and do as



these 58 other boys and girls did, you will have just as good a chance to get “Chitin” as they had

to get, their ponies, and none of our Lucky Pony Winners nor their brothers or Sisters

can act. “Chum." but; you have a chance to get him if you send us your name



address today. Boys and girls who write us quickest are generally

-. luckiest in Winning our ponies. Cut (nit the. (coupon good

for 1,()()()frce votes, Wiite. your name and address on it,





 





 

 





 





 





"TEDDY," Geo. Cooper, Stearns County, Minn.

“SONNY," Elmer Iloth, Allamaltee County, Iowa

“JIM," Joey Edwards. Barton County, ’ans.



“FAIRY," Lawrence Ulrich, Washington County. Minn.

"JACK," Bernice Harvey, Union County, Iowa

"PA'I‘SY," Rena Smith, St. Lawrence County. N. Y.

“Gus," Frank and Vera Brown, Dakota County, Nebr.

“MIBCHIEF,” Orville Ilimle, (‘iiippewa County, Minn.

“SPARKLE," Eloise Savage! (‘odington County, S I





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“NED." Jules and Ruby holielln, Yellowstone County. Mont.





"PRINCE," Norris Nupson, Fillmore County. Minn





"EMPRESS," Avery and Orrie Knight, Chickasaw County. In.





“Bl".OWNIE," Twylah Hart, Shelby County, Ohio.

“BEAUTY," Bertram Eldridge. Stark County, Ill.

“INEZ,” Edwin Kobenstein, (loodhue County, Minn.

“FUZZY," Mary McMahon. Cavalier County, N. I)

"DAISY," Leia Hainline, Adair County, Iowa.

“MAJOR," Margaret Roth. Rice County. Minn.

”LADDIF‘.." Robbie E. Notten. Chickasaw County, lowa.

“JOE." Harold It. Palmer. Uswcgo County, N Y.





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get to us qui ly.





Addrou Your

Letter or Postal to





Almost every boy and girl sometimes dreams that they will own a pony.

did, and we made their dreams come true by sending them their Ponies and outfits.

these 58 boys and girls until they wrote us that they wanted one of our Ponies.

over the list the 58 Lucky Pony Winners live all over the United States, some of them more t a .

miles from St. Paul, the home of The Farmer’s Wife, so it doesn’t make any difference where the winner

More than half of our 58 Lucky Pony Winners

live in towns with less than 500 population, and some of them in places with less than 100 people, so

no town is too small or too far away for us to send “Chum" and his whole outfit.

No child, no matter how rich his parents may he, owns a nobbier or more desirable pony and outfit

than this one which we shall send free and all freight and express charges paid. _

the best chance you ever had to get. a Shetland Pony. so if you haven’t any and think you would

like to have us five you this one, send your name and address to us right now so it Will be sure to

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lives, “Chum ” will be sent without any cost to you.





 

 





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Just as soon as

we hear from you

will send you the coupon good

fOF 1000 free votes, enter your name

in the contest, and tell how to take care of

And we have

a Surprise for you which will double your chances of

getting one of our Shetland Ponies free. The work we re-

quire you to do to becomea registered contestant for ”Churn,"

is something that pretty near any boy or girl who could drive a pony

can do, and we promise every contestant a fine prize of their own selection.





Did You Ever Dream You Would 93 g _Po_ny





All of our 58 “ Lucky Pony Winners"



We never heard of one of

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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.





"Polly," Alfred Hokenstad, Dane County, Wis.



“RAS’I‘US,” Herbert llill, (‘lay County, Minn.



"BILLIE," Ilazel McMartin, Kingsbury County, S. D.

"Derby," A. Fltzsiininons, Clayton County, Iowa.

“GINGER," Chas. Foster, Randolph County, Mo.



"HERO," Gudrumn Ekeland, Lac~qui~Paric County, Minn.

"Roman," (.ii‘iord Turns, Brookings County, S. l).



"PONTO," Joseph Dziuk. Benton County, Minn.



“JEWEL," Arthur Marode, Douglas County, Nebr.

"GENERAL," Geo. and Peter Hentges, Yellow Medicine, Minn.

"Bass," Wilfred Dearchs. Rossuth County. Iowa.



"HAPPY," Harry Parker, Fergus County, Mont.



“PEPPER," Merle Ilersehlcb, Dodge County, Minn.



"JEAN," John H. Elrod, Smith County, 'l‘enn.



" SPORTSMAN." Harold A. Pierce. Waushara County, Wis.

"CHEYENNE." Marguerite Hallett, Winnebago County, Iowa.

“Seem," Catherine Rohrbeek, Pacific 00. Wash. '

"MIDGET." John McCartney, Mossac Co., ills.





You’d Be Proud of Clium





“Chum" is a real Shetland Pony, three

years old, 42 inches high, and weighs

about 320 pounds. We selected him at

the famous Ileyl Pony Farm, at \Vash-

ington, Illinois, where we had over 100

ponies to choose from. In lots of these towns

where we have sent. ponies free, our Lucky Pony

Winners are the only children who own a real

Shetland Pony in their town. Think how proud

you would be driving “Chum” to school, and

to the post office, and to church, and every-

where. You would be just the happiest child

alive if “Chum” were yours. Didn’t you ever

notice what good times children have who own

onies, and how pretty these cute little fellows

ook trotting up the road? Everybody runs to

the door and stops to look at a Shetland Pony

going by. Can you think of anything you

would like to own better than “Chum”? Read

this page through carefully and then send us

your name and address at once.





Don’t Let Anyone Per-

suade You That You

Cannot Win “Chum”





Probably some iolks will tell you that we won't

give you “Chum," just like people told these othei

58 boys and girls and it you believe these people

you'll never be one of our Lucky Pony “’iimers.



But the bankers or the DOSLHIuStOl‘S in their towns

told these other 58 boys and girls that the Webb

Publishing Company. publishers of the Farmer‘s

Wile, is one of the largest Publishing Companies in

the United States and that oi course we could afford

we to give away so many ponies and outfits to boys and

girls to advertise our paper. :50 these 58 boys and

girls sent us their names and addresses and won

ilicir ponies. and you will have to send us your name

and address if you want us to send “Chum" to you.

Wouldn‘t you rather be one of our Lucky Pony

Winners and believe that we give away ponies. If

we didn't give away ponies free the editor of this

paper wouldn't let us print. this advertisement. But

you know we dd give them away, so you must send

us your name and address it you want “Chum." and

we will help you ritzlit away by giving you 1,000

votes free toward him.





 





 





 





 





 





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