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DETROIT. MICH” SATURDAY. AUGUST 3. 1912.





V . cxxxrx. No. 5.

“33:. Number 3602. l





ESTROY weeds. Dig them up by



the roots, slash them with a spud



or hoe, cut them with‘a scythe or

mowing machine, spray them with sul-

phate of iron, pasture them with sheep

and goats, choke» them out with grass

and heavy growing forage cropS, change

the crops on fields that are infested, cul-

tivate frequently during the early part of

the season. Every farmer should wage

a vigorous and relentless warfare on

these noxious and unsightly enemies of

agriculture. A co-operative united effort

on the part of adjoining land owners

should make weed killing a common ob—

ject. Individual effort may succeed in

keeping down weed growth on a small

area, but a man is up against a difficult

proposition when his neighbors persist in

producing seed faster than he can de-

stroy the weets. I\'o complete victory

can be gained over the most noxious of

these expensive and injurious nuisances

until farmers band togcther and make a

concerted and persistent effort to clean

up their fields, fence corners and road-

sides and employ methods which are

both preventatiVo and destructive.



There is no accurate way of getting at

the loss which weeds cause to the coun—

try annually, but it is safe to say that

it amounts to one hundred million dol-

lars, perhaps double that amount. Not

alone do weeds make it much more ex—

pensIVe to grow crops, but they make a

heavy draft upon the moisture and fer-

tility of the soil, besides they reduce

((JllSldQI'flbl)’ the market value of the

products.



For example, a report from the Minne-

sota grain inspection department shows

the average dockage per bushel on wheat

for two yoars_to be 19 ounces. This

dockago is very largely due to weeds.

Minnesota produces annually about 200.»-

000,000 bushels of small grain. Had the

land been free ot’ weeds the same amount

of plant food, moisture and labor would

have produced over three million bushels

of wheat or he equivalent in other

grains. This makes an actual 1 ss due

to weeds of about two and one-half mil-

lion dollars, or an an—





'farmers.





Controlling Weed Growth on The Farm.





valuable seed. Cheap clover and grass

seed and seed grain from other localities

are prolific sources of trouble to many

Grain should be cleaned. not

only the seed, but the grain to be fed

should be cleaned. It prevents the foul

weed seed from going back to the ficld

with the manure, where it will cost a

vast amount of labor and mOney to get rid

of it. The screenings will make good

poultry food or may be ground with

corn and fed to other stock. Fanning





mills, as they are made today, will take

the cockle out of wheat, kale out of

rats, buckhorn out of clover, in fact.

they are arranged so as to handle all

kinds of sccd and grain. It will pay a

farmer "lo place superior samples of

grain on the market, Sow cleaned seed

and prevent weeds from getting on his

farm, either through sced or manure.

Some of the noxious weed seeds live

in the soil for years. Several years ago

the North Dakota Experiment Station





 





 





 





Harvesting Hay and Wheat in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.





These scenes were taken in Chippe

Rolla Winn, out three tons per acre.

on the farm of Joseph N. 'VVelsh in 1910.





wa county; the hay field, on the farm it

The wheat harvesting scene was taken

The yield was :31 bushels per acre.





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conducted an experiment to determine

the length of time weed senls retained

their vitality in the soil. \‘.'ild grew

after being buried in the will 20 months.

Mustard and Stilliv of weed

seeds grew after bl ing buried 56 months.

These facts ought not to discourage the

farmer. One season of systematic culti-

vation will bring most of the seeds into

condition to gcrminate and be destroyed.

\Vhat few are ltt‘t to grow luicz‘ may be

removed cheaply by cultiva-

tion. one should keep up tile work wilh

vigilance after be up a licld

of the worst of Careful

work one season failure to con-

tinue the warfare the lil'Xl will avail

little in the work of ('l"llltlllL{ up the

field. After the most annual

wccds have been brought under control

:1 system of rotation of crops which pro-

vides for one of cultiva—

tion and one Or I'r‘tips on

t'ach field in six or seven ycars, will

eventually clean up a iicld of most

weeds, incrcase the net income pr-r acre

and tend to add to the prt-dur-tivity of

the soil. Whether the weed is an an-

nual, a biennial or a pcrcnniul, if inc

farmer is to make any headway, it is

necessary that ho study them and gfll'l

a knowledge of their habits of growth

alsv-l' 39‘?“ of their strong points and,

n‘t‘h'e-ir’weak points and plan his methods

of subduing them Annuals

are by far the common and easily

(-(mil‘nllctl, consequently it perhaps,

bctlci' that I should discuss lllcniiials

and perennials in anoibcr article.



it‘arni manure contains many

seeds Wllltll will germinate and grow as

S'von the conditions arc. favorable.

For mason it is judgment that

it to apply farm manure

to or crops as a top-

tho wced seeds

,L’crminute quickly.

being shaded and

gross and clover

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nual rental of 2:0 ccziis

per acre on every acre

on which small grain is

grown. Added to this

great loss we must in-

clude cost of fighting

weeds, loss of fertility

and moisture, strain on





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to tie up the

weeds, freight charges

for shipping the weed

seeds, etc.

\\'eeds arc

in curious ways. Many

a farmer has had his

land stocked w i t h

needs because the

seeds have been carried

by the wind over frozen

snow and ice with

which the country is

Covered in the winter.

Some are carried by the

Wind. as for example.

thistle and milkweed.

Others have burrs or

needles which attach

themselves to anything

with which they come

into contact. These find

their way from field to

field, into the barn and

feed lot and finally into

the manure pile and

are again distributed

over the farm. Others

'get into clover, grass or

Seed grain,v_ and for

some of these the farm-

er pays the price of





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deductions of this pliar—w:

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the w e e ill

and handle cul»

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since we have

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more to the grass and

C‘lOVt‘l‘ fields iiistcatl 01'

on the sod ground

which was to be plowsnl

immcdiatcly and plant.-

ed with potatoes 01‘

ccrn. The experience

of ozhrr l‘armcis along;

tbcse lines might prove

of hem-lit in considering

this phasc of handling;

farm manurcs and con-

trolling; weed growth on

our faims.



()no of the most

fectual means of con-

trolling wce.l growth,

more especially, as it

concerns the annuals its

to plow the field early

in the spring harrow it

thoroughly and

quently as many times

as may be necessary

before planting time.

Fortunately this labor

is not in the least wasti-

ed, because it goes a.

long way toward pre-

paring ground for plan:-

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opportunity to germinate and keeps

the barrows going until planting time

will save a great deal of subsequent work

off cultivation. He has warmed up the

soil. He has given them moisture and

heat, and they naturally grow. By the

frequent harrowing he kills them right

at the start. The stirring of the soil in-

vites the seed to germinate and‘then

they can be destrOyed by the thousands

by harrowingagain. A weed germinated.

sprouted and then buried or uprooted is

done for. By keepng up the good work

with the weeder or smoothing. harrow

until it is time to start the two-horse

cultivators going in the corn or potato

field he has destroyed sO many weeds

that he will have but little difficulty in

keeping his crops free from weeds durn

ing the rest of their growng perod. Early

harrowng and cultva'tinrhr counts might-

ily in controlling weed growth on the

form. There is 11-.) system of soil man—

agcmcnt that will clean up a field of

weeds in one season, because many of

them will not grow the first year. Fre-

quent cultivation hastcns their germina—

tion and destroys those that grow during

the early part of the season. It will not

destroy many of the weeds that grow

later.



Another way of disposing Of these an-

nual weeds is smothering them out with

grain, grass, and forage crops. A thick

stand of grass, grain or forage will

smother out most of the weeds that ger—

minate after the field has been seeded.

A thin stand of grain, thin spots in a

meadow of low, wet places where crops

fail to make a good stand simply invite

weeds. 1f thcre is no crop to occupy the

land and shut out the Sunlight the weeds

are sure to come in. Whoever saw an~

nuals surviVo in a field that had a good

stand Of millet. buckwheat or sorghum?

The drainage which would remoVe sur-

face water and enable the crops to

make an even stand Over the whole of

the field would be of great value in

simplifying the problem of weed control

on hundreds of farms. Not only would

weed control be simplified but there

would be an increase in the average

yield of every crop grown on the field.

The trouble on most farms is that these

weeds are not destroyed early in the

season. They are allowed to grow, the

farmer figuring that the cultivation'of

the crop will destroy them later. Un-

fortunately, wet seasons and other fac

tors over which he has no absolute con—

trol frcqucntly upset his plans. and, as

farmers say, “the weeds take the crop.”



I know a few agricultural leaders who

think that, thcy know about all there is

to know about farming who say they

would not have a hoe in the corn or po—

tato field. \Vell, I am not one of those

old fogles who sccm to think there is a

peculiar virtue in a lot of soil massed

about a plant with a hoe. “'hen it can

be done with a horse. it is a much easier

task and the morc economical way to

do it. Nevertheless, I am very sure that

there are times and fields where no other





tool is better than the good oltl liot'. alltl

that its usc at the proper time in such

cases. even if more expcnslvc, will yield





returns “sonic fifty, some a hundred

fold." It is easy to say, “l'se a weedc-r

or smoothing harrow, early and often,”

and such advicc 3 good, but there are

many tines when. on account of wet.

weathcr or inability to spare thc tinic,

the ground gets hard, so that one oi

these tools is of about as much value as

would be a briar brush dragged over a

stone pavcmcut. \Veeds get a start in

the row or hill, where no horse tool that

1 ever saw will get them without taking

out the plants too. By all means use a

hOc rather than allow a few weeds about

the hills to sced the field for another

year. \\'hcn some of the bad annual

weeds, as wild mustard, are but thinly

scattered through the field they may be

I't'meVed quite cheaply by hand pulling.

This method is not in favor with farmers

but it is, however, often morc economical

to remove wot-is entirely by hand pulling

after some other method of eradication

has about cleaned up the field. A few

remaining plants allowed to go to se?d

will give the weeds a good start for an-

other year, and much of the work that

has been directed toward destroying

them will be lost labor. In such cases

hand pulling is certainly practical.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





AN IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.



There has been organized in Shiawas-

see county at Owosso, “The Improvement

Association.” This society is broader

than the usual “Chamber of Commerce,”





 





“Board of Trade," or “BusineSS :Men’s

AssOciatlon," as such bodies are looally

known, and is to embrace the farmers of

the county, or at least those who have

business relations in the principal city

of the county.



The somewhat local view that sepa-

rates the city man as having interests

diverse from that of the farmer in the

general upbuilding of the .country, par-

ticularly in the middle west, is not well

founded. in the manufacturing towns of

the east, where, for example, shoes and

the weaving industry are predominant,

there is in a general way no intercom-

munity interests between town and coun-

try. In the middle west, where cities and

towns are dependent in a, large measure

on agricultural products, such a. move as

this Improvement Association is destined

to be effective 31' great good, in both an

economic and moral sense. Among the

things proposed for the general good is

to employ a regular secretary, who will

be the laboring man of the aSSOciation.

and connect up the industrial forces of

the country and city. A rest-room for

people coming into the city for' the day.

provided with lavatory and comfortable

seats and tables; 3 projected.



Under the provisions of the recent ap-

propriation for agricultural experts by

congress, to be provided under certain

(:o-Operative conditions of the country,

it is proposed to secure such aid for

Shiawassee clunty. The secretary of the

Improvement Association expects to con-

fer with the various individual farmers

and associations Of farmers and to se—

cure immediate action, if possible. in

the matter of commercial ferti izers, i. 9.,

their adaptation to soil and the grade of

goods, an agricultural director could save

the farmers Of any county many thou—

sands of dollars annually. Any qualified

expert Of wide sympathy and training

could do much to establish a higher

standard of farming and at cost not to

exceed 50 cents a year to the individual

farmer. Among some of the essential

qualifications should be a knowledge of

soils and a working acquaintance in

chemistry. Also a man of sufficient ad—

dress to Occupy the country church pul-

pit on occasions, when demanded.



The Improvement Association also ex-

pects to take up the subject of good

roads. They will lend a hand to advance

parcels post. These questions are par-

ticularly the one! that more closely re-

late to farmers, while securing new in-

dustries for the cities, parks, etc., win

constitute the additional work of this

body.



Another subject of both city and coun-

try interest is discussed, that of a coun-

ty hospital. Perhaps none that the at-

tendant physician knows better the in-

adequacy of medical attendance under

unfavorable home surroundings. The

workingmen’s compensation law is in—

tended tO have the industries provide for

accidents occurring in those ocupations.

The hospital at hand would be a great

relief to the individual sufferer, and also

would extend farther to the many cases

of sickness not of direct accident. T0

the workingman who is confined to his

bed in an unsanitary boarding house.

when better and cheaper attendance at

a county hospital could be had the

chances for recovery are vastly increas-

ed. Intelligent mechanics prefer large

cities fOr work oftentimes because of

greater assurance Of skilled medical care

at a hospital.



At a banquet given by 1110 Improve-

ment Association at its inception there

was the most tolerant and liberal feeling

expressed by business men towards all

who work in this world, which includes

about everybody. If Cain had come into

the meeting and said something about

not being his brother’s keeper, he would

have found an unsympathetic audience.

The city tradesman is not slow to see

that for many miles outside the corpora—

tion boundaries, good roads. the trolley,

the automobile, telephone service and

rural mail delivery Of the daily paper,

has vastly extended his possible patron-

age. The farmers’ employes are getting

good wages and their patronage is strict-

ly cash, so he is, in the language of the-

insurance man, really a better “pros-

pect" for the tradesmen than shop men.



One of the economic features of unit-

ing the interests of city and country are

those factories whose productions origi-

nate on the soil, like sugar beet growing

or where, like the automobile industry,

the sales of machines and good roads are

largely country affairs. The sugar man-

ufacturers are alert for soil improvement

and good roads. The factory manager

is in most cases a chemist and knows

the basic principles of taming. One of

the difficult things for most men not ac-





THB Mt‘cfiieAN-iiFARMER2.!  .





un'ainted with agriculture u) comprehend





is that for years the cities have lived on

the unearned increment ordnvestment of

stored up soil fertility which *now has

become partially exhausted. When Rom-

an agriculture was depleted grain was

shipped in from the conquered prov-

inces. That was the economic thought

of their day, and how very similar the

proposition of reducing the high cost of

living by shipping in duty free Canadian

grain or free raw material food stuffs

from Argentina.



The Shiawassee county plan of conser-

vation of soil and the upbuilding of city

and country, mutually caring for the in-

dustrially injured and sick Of both city

and country, appeals to one’s idea Of





righteousness, rather than the Old Roman





plan of bringing in cheap corn from out—

side or its modern counterpart of eco-

nomic thought of soil depletion at home

in order to make some other industry

succeed.

Shiawassce Ct). JAs. N. BIL‘BIFJDE.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





The subject of midsummer irrigation

is not of very much interest in this par—

ticular locality at the present time. Sat-

urday morning, July 20, the weather de-

partment at Grand Rapids gave out the

information that Saturday would be fair

and warmer. Early in the morning, the

sky was overcast with heavy clouds, we

began to pull peas in one field for the

canning factory. About eight O'clock it

began to sprinkle a little, not enough to

stop work. I thought probably it would

go away and be a fair day, but it didn't.

It rained a little bit harder until by 11

o'clock we had to quit work, and from

that time on it gradually increased until

along towards night there came a steady

downpour which lasted until nine or 10

O'cYOck at night; in fact, it was raining

hard when I went to bed; one Of the

m:st sl-verc rains in my remembrance.

Sunday morning great ponds of water

smod in nearly every field, wherever

there was a depression. Many Of the

fields are gullied because the water got

so high in the low places, broke over the

ridges and washed out. The tile drains

are working as heavily as they would in

the spring Or late in the fall. Much dam-

age has been done. The oat crop, which

is just beginning to turn a little bit in

many places, is laid flat. It never can

be out clean with a reaper, but then, we

ought not to complain, because the news

comes that in many localities in the Uni—

ted States they had cloudbursts, and not

only crops were destroyed but human

lives as well, and nothing of that sort

took place here. But certain it is that

we have enough moisture, and it doesn’t

seem as if the land could get so dried

out that we couldn’t plow oat stubble

this year in time for wheat.



There will be an abundance of grassy

and weedy corn fields and all other hoed

crops this year, and we are much in the

same position that the farmers are down

in Cuba when the wet season comes. All

they can do is simply to sit On the fence

and see the weeds grow as well as the

crops, and that’s all we can do at the

present time. The land is entirely too

wet to cultivate, but the weeds do grow

wonderfully.



It is a wonderful time for pastures and

for second growth Of meadows. The sec-

ond growth Of clover meadow is simply

wonderful. If the weather fairs off and

suitable weather comes so that the flow-

ers can be fertilized and filled in this

section there will be the best crop of

clover seed we ever had, but,'of course,

one ought not to build any hopes on this

finicky crop at the present time because

conditions may be so that it will not

properly fill. I have seen a heavy growth

of second clover that did not contain a

sufficient amount of Seed to pay for hull—

mg.



Part of the wheat has been cut, but

none of it hauled in as yet. That that

was cut was out, of course, in this heavy

rain. In one field near the house, on an

acre some of the shocks are floating in a.

pond of water, but the wind was not

heavy and not a great many of the

shocks were blown down. I think that if

it only stays fair by setting out part of

it that the crop can be saved. So far as

we were concerned, we were so slow that

we didn't get any of the harvesting done.

\Ve are just getting the binder ready

now and as soon as the ground gets dry

enough so that we can run it we will try

and cut our wheat.



'Haying is practically done in this coun-

ty. I finally have all of my clover hav

hauled. Much of it was injured, some of

it quite severely. The surprising thing





 





 





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hay as well as they do. 01! course, it

was cut when it ought to I have been,

Just at the right stage of maturity, and

it was raked up the same day it was cut,

and cocked up. None of it was blistered

in the sun, but some of it got soaking

wet and the weather was not drying so

that’a white mold formed on the bottom

of the cocks, sometimes on the sides of

the cocks where they didn’t dry off as

quickly as they ought to, yet I put it all

in the barn. We have seven calves that

I thought were too young to turn out to

pasture this spring so, of course, we are

feeding them hay. Before we, hauled

this clover hay we were feeding them a

new crop of alfalfa and orchard grass

which were mixed together. This was

cut and cocked up and cured in the cock

and never got a particle of rain on it.

I hardly see how you could get a better

quality of hay than that, but strange to

say, this clover hay that got wet seems





to be relished just as well by these'





young calves as the other, and the same

with the horses, they eat it just .as well.

COLON C. LILLIE.





 





FARM NOTES.

Winter Vetch as a CrOp for Green

Forage.



What can yOu tell me about winter

vetch as a crop to plow under? Some

tell me that 1 can never get it out of

the ground when once in. Is this a fact?

i want to sow rye and vetch this fall

and plow it under next June, keep it

well disked until fall and then sow the

alfalfa withOut a cover crop. What do

you think of that plan? Will the vetch

kill out by plowing or is it hard to get

rid of? SUBSCRIBER.



The impression that vetch is likely to

become a weed on our better soils is

well founded. A Mecosta county farmer

writes that on a ten—acre field where

vetch was sown some 20 years ago and

allowed to seed that he has been unable

to eradicate it with ordinary cultural

methods, although a four-year rotation

was practiced on this field. However, it

is unnecessary to permit it to seed where

one desires to use it as a soil improver.

If sown with rye in August and plowed

under before the seeds mature to the

stage where they will grow, that will

be the end of the vetch plants as the

plant is an annual and reproduces Only

from the seed and not from running rdot

stalks, as is the case with many of our

noxious weeds. The plan outlined for

putting this land in good condition to

seed down to alfalfa would seem to the

writer to be a very good one, but after

plowing the vctch the land should be

thoroughly packed down by frequent til—

lago before the seed is sown in order to

provide a good firm seed bed. As soon

as this has been accomplished and moist.

are conditions are right sow the seed, so

it will get as good a start as possible

before winter.



Harvesting Timothy for Seed.





I have 10 acres of timothy that I don’t

need for hay so think of cutting it for

seed. W'hich is the best to cut it with,

the hinder or mower, and what kind of a.

machine is it threshea with for best re—





sults‘?



Kent Co. 0. L. G.



The grain binder is the most satisfac-

tory implement for cutting timothy seed.

The cutting should be done at just the

right stage to prevent the shelling of the

seed. When the seed turns brown is the

proper time to cut and the bundles

should not be allowed to stand in the

shock too long for the same reason. The

seed is threshed with an ordinary grain

separator, but the wind on the sieve

must be carefully regulated so as to not

blow the comparatively small light seeds

over. The thrcshing of timothy for seed

should be profitable under present con—

diticns since the seed brings an unpre-

cedented high price on the market.





ALFALFA.



The amount of seed harvested in the

United States during 1911 was approxi—

mately twenty million pounds, or enough

seed 'to sow a million acres or more. In

addition to this a large quantity of seed

was imported from Europe. Alfalfa is

now recognized as the big money crop to

the farmer. We still have a limited sup-

ply of high-grade dry land seed grown

in Dakota, Nebraska and Montana and

shall be pleased to submit sample and

prices upon request, Alfred J. Brown

Seed 00., Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





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to publish notice of all farmers’ picnics

and gatherlngs. If you know of one ad-

vise us with place and date at least ten

days in advance.





 

 

   





 

 





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LMAWA‘M

CORN SILAGE THE MOST ECONOMI-

CAL ROUGHAGE FOR FAT-

TENING CATTLE.



In the Michigan Farmer. for May 11,

the results ofthe season’s experiments at

the Indiana Experiment Station were

given in detail. These results proved

conclusively that the cattle feeder can-

not afford to eliminate silage from the

ration for fattcnlng cattle. The results

of similar trials at the Iowa station, as

compiled by Profs. J. M. Evvard and W.

J. Kennedy, are equally convincing. Re-

garding the results of the trial, these

authorities say:



Silage must be put into the feeding

program of every Jeef producer who

wants to fit steers for the market eco-

nomically and efficiently. The animal

husbandry section Of the Iowa Experi-

ment Station proved that in part a year

ago in a thorough feeding test; it proved

it fully this year in a second test. The

animals fed on silage, made cheaper

gains, they lost less in shrinkage, and

they returned greater profits than other

animals in the test fed on clover hay as

roughage. The silage—fed ‘stcers put on

gains at a net cost that was $2.01 per 100

lbs. less than the clover hay—fed steers,

and the best lot of silage-fed steers made

a profit of $271.46 per animal as against

$17.27 per animal, for those fed with

clover hay.



Fifty steers were fed in this test. They

were not fancy steers when bought, but

average animals from the Nebraska

range. They. were bought November

last arid fcd 150 days. from November 23

to April 21, 1012. Thcy cost in Omaha

$4.50 and in the station feed lots $4.65.

They sold well, bringing from $8.10 to

$8.2. These steers were divided into

five lots of 10 animals each and put on

scparate rations as follows:





 





Lot l—Shelled corn, cottonseed meal,

clover hay.



Lot. 2—Shclled corn, cottonseed meal,

clover hay. corn silage.



Lot 3—Shelled corn. cottonseed meal,

corn silage.



(The above lots were all put on full





feed.of_l,grain in 40 days).





Lot .4——Shelled corn, cottonseed meal,

corn silage.

Lot 5~Shelled corn, cottonseed meal,





corn silage.



Lot 4 and lot 5 were handled the same

the first 90 days, silage fed heavily, and

shelled corn increased to full feed in the.





90 days as followa: Il‘irst month, 6.14

lbs.; second, 10.48 lbs; third, 14.97 lbs.

daily. Beginning the ninety—first day,

lot 4 was allowed corn and silage ac—





was held

on corn,





cording to appetite, while lot 5

back on silage and. shoved hard

the object being to make the ration con-

centrated at the end of the fattening pc-





iiod. Cottonseed meal was allowed in

equal amounts of practically 25?], lbs.

daily to lots 2 and 5. Lot .1, because of

clover, which contains protein, was fed





somewhat less for best results.



All feeds were charged at actual mark—

et rrices as follows: Shelled corn, first

month. 50 cents; second, 51 cents; third,

55 cents; fourth, 57 cents, and fifth, 65

cents. Cottonseed meal, $28 a ton; clover

hay, $15 a ton; corn silage, $3.20 a ton.

is based upon the ac-





The silage cost





tual value of corn in field, eight cents

below market, at time of siloing. Cost

of filling silo. storage of silage, and de-





preciation on equipment are .included.

This allows the farmer a field profit on

the corn. The 80111111 production cost on

this silage would not exceed $2.40 a ton.



All roughage was fed twice according

to the stcer‘s alllietite. excepting in lot

5 the last two months, where it was lim—

ited.





 





THE: ' MICHIGAN FARMER.





Hogs following cattle were valued at

$6.10 the first three months and $7.50 the

last two. ‘



The record of feed, gains, costs and

profits follow in lots for the entire feed-

ing period, and will be found in the table

at bottom of this page.



‘It will be remembered that last year

the Iowa station called attention to the

indicated possibility of feeding silage

heavily in the early part of the feeding

period, decreasing as the animal became

finished and quite fat, for the evident

reason that the large amount of silage

was not desirable in producing rapid and

economical gains at the close of the fecd~

ing period. .It is somewhat interesting to

note that lot 5 handled in this manner,

heavy silage and light corn at the be-

ginning, with light silage and heavy corn

at the finish, returned the largest profit

per head, or $23.46. This in spite of the

fact that corn increased to 57 cents and

65 cents, from 50, 51 and 55 cents during

the first three months. In other words,

everything was against this lot because

(if the high price of corn,. but in spite

of this big handicap it won out by a nar-

row margin.



In making a change of this sort, as the

animal becomes fattciied, it is advisable

to do it gradually, pushing heavily on the

corn and coming back gradually upon

the silage. The object. is to concentrate

the ration at the end of the fattening

period.



Clover is an exceptionally good cattle

roughage, but at present prices its use

is quite prohibitive. Had the clover in

this experiment been figured at $10 per





ton instead of $15, the net prolits Would

have increased practically $3.50, or ac-

tually $3.28, or $20.65. liven at this ad—





vantage it is readily seen that the silage

at $3.20 per ton is a more valuable feed

than clover hay at $10.



The value of silage for a short feeding

period is again abundantly demonstrated

in that cattle in lot 3 on shelled corn,

cottonseed meal and silage made an av—

cragc g-iin the first three months of $32.95,

$8.67 and $15.17 per cwt. or an aVcrage

cost of practitally 7%; cents. For a short

feed the experience of the Animal Hus-

bandiy llcpartmcnt has been that silage

is a superior roughage.



It is gratifying to feeders of silage to

know that the Iowa Station results again

show that silage-fed cattle are not heavy

shrinkers. This year they all beat those

having clover, as last year the least:

shrinkage occurred on those cattle fed

both silage and clover hay. _



The least shrinkage occurred on those

cattle which received both silage and

clover for roughness, being very light

at only 21 pounds. This is in accord

with the experience of last year. That

those which had clover should have a

heavy shrink is somewhat surprising,

but the facts speak for themselves.



Silage is highly relished by both cattle

and sheep, and is fed with profit to these

classes of animals. The feeder with the

silo must not get the impression, how—

ever, that silage is a cure for all ills, but

that it has its shortcomings as well as

its longcomings. The dairyman has Iona:

since concluded that he cannot saisfac~

torily run a dairy herd without the silo,

which furnishes, as nearly as human in-





genuity has been able to figure out. pas-

turc conditions in the winter time. The

steer feeder is coming to feel that the





silo is a valuable adjunct to his business

in evidence of which the rapid increase

of the number of silos in the corn be‘t

states is unmistakable. Silage is z

starchy food, however, and when fed

must be supplemented with a protein

feed, such as cold pressed cottonseed

cake, cottonseed meal, Or oil meal. At

present prices we would recommend

either the cold pressed cake or the cot-

tonseed meal. Another mistake which is

usually made in addition to feeding with-

out supplement, iS to assume that silage





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Detailed Statement of Results—Ten Two-year-old Steers in Each Lot.





 





Lot. 1. Lot 2. Lot 3. Lot 4. Lot 5.



Initial weight ...... . ............. 940 943, 919, 920.6 922.8

Final weight .......... . ..... 1299.7 1299. 1261.3 1246. 1351

Av. daily gain ................... ‘ 2.892 2_373 2.231 2.169 2228

Average Feed Eaten Per Steer Daily in Pounds.

Shelled Corn ..................... 20.20 16.95 15.60 18,71 14,04

(‘ottonsecd 111031 ................. 2.23 3.08 3.08 3.08 33.08

Clover hay ....... . ........... . . 9.02 3,90 .......................

Corn silage ................ 1...]. .......... 22.35 27.10 3031 33.53

Cost (f 100 lbs. gain, cxcuuing



hogs) ............................. $12.63 $11.77 $10.65 $10.7 $10.7:

Net cost of of 100 lbs. gain on



steers, deducting hog profits.... $10 83 $ 9,62 $ 9.10 1; 9.08 $ 8.31

Necessary selling price at 100 lbs.



at Ames to break down even,



excluding hogs ................. $ 6.86 l; 6.60 $ 6 23 g 6.23 .g 6.27

Including hog profits ............ S 6.36 $ 6.01 $ 5,86 8 5.80 $ 5.75

Actual selling price * at .Ithnesl.



deducting cost of shipmcn am



shrinkage from Chicago value $ 7.69 it 7.72 $ 7.61 l; 7.60 55 7.62

Net profits on each steer......... $17.27 $22.22 $22.03 $22.45 $23.46

Pounds shrinkage per steer ...... 34.7 21.0 31.3 32.0 290

Per cent shrinkage ........ . ..... 2.669 1.617 2482 2.563 2307



*Chicago values are Lot 1, $820; Lot 2, $8.15; Lot, 4 and 5, $8.10.





is a-complete feed within itself and use

it as a sole feed in thinking that it will

produce a marketable finish. It is news-

sary in finishing animals to add consid-

erable concentrate, especially corn, in

that it is the cheapest one we have, es-

pecially toward the finish of the feeding

period. The truth of the matter is' that

in finishing steers and heifers, or other

cattle for the block. it is necessary and

quite imperative that a concetrate grain

be fed in considerable amounts through-

out the feeding period. Cattle which are

being stalked or roughed through the

winter can get along nicely on corn si—

lage for grass and subsequent frcen feed.

but for the fattening animal the grain

must be added. .



The most eloquent friends the silo has

are those men who have fed silage. Cer-

tainly no greater recommendation can be

offered for any feed than this.





COMBINED GRANARY AND HOG PEN.





We are thinking about building a

gianary and hog pen combined. Our

idea is to build the building 20x24 ft., 16

ft. high to the eaves, on a north slope.

:he lower six or eight feet of cement and





:lie upper part out of lumber, building

steps up to second story what it lacks.

say three or four feet, with cement

tloor. Now what we want to know is

will the hogs do well on cement? Sec—

ond, keeping the hogs below the gran—

ary would the odor affect or injure the

giain? Third, would it make it too moist

for the grain? We thought by building

the two buildings in under one roof





would make it cheaper. Any suggestions

would be highly appreciated.



Manistee Co. C. C. I".



It would not, in the writer's opinion,

be advisable to build a combination

building of this kind since there would

be more or less condensation of moisture

from the hog pcn which would tend to

make the granary above it damp, unless

the floors were made moisture-proof and

tho hog pm; well Ventilated. SO far as

the cement lloor in the hog pen is con—

ccriicd. the concrete is the most suitable

material to use. It should be made a





little sloping for drainage and a false

floor of lumber should be used for .1

sleeping nest for the hogs. Some use





the elevated sleeping platforms and like

them, but the better way, in the writer's

opinion, is to use a small false floor

which can be removed or changed at

will.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





Profits on the dit’fcrcnce between 4,000

and 10,000 lambs is what silos made for

Anthony (lardiicr, of Kansas, during the





last winter season. He is one of the

largest sheep feedcrs in Kansas, and he

says silos are indispcnable. They not

only increase his protits per lamb, but





also enable him to more than double: his





operations. He owns two enormous con-

crete silos, with a combined capacity of

1,300 tons. The farm is located in the

i100 per acre land region, and the land





is too high—priced for pasturage or range

purposes, c~Vcry acre being required to

pioduce liberally. A live stock journal

gives the following particulars: “Last

summer was a hot one. Corn over a

large section of the southwest was ruin--

cd by the hot winds. Reno county suf-

fered along With other sections. Iiad

Mr. Gardner been without, silos he could

not have cut and saved his corn before

the hot winds damaged it; nor could he

have made the best use of the Katlr he

grew last season. His silos are in their

third year. They were tilled with corn

in the fall of 1910 and 7,500 lambs were

faltened with cnsilage and grain. in

lilll he cut all of the corn on his half

section of land for silage and corn was

the principal crop, lie toppcd off one of

the silos with 100 tons of Kai’ir, in order

to try it.”



\\'in. lieu, senior member of the firm

of ltca I-iros, the widely known and ex—

tcnslvc Montana sheep and Wool opera-

tors, says: “The herds and tlocks in

Montana are small ones, ll’lt'l‘e shadows

of their former grandeur. \Vashington,

(ii-egon and '\\'yoming ranges are badly

in need of rc-slocking, and these states

are drawing from Montana‘s compara-

tively small supply for that purpose.

Mixed young cattle have been sold of

late on Montana's ranges to Washington

and Oregon stockmeii up to $Ai0fi145 per

head. and \Vyoming, with a smaller sup—

} l_v of bovine stOck on hand than she con—

tained at the opening of last winter. the

new lamb crop included, is clamoring for

breeding stock. Montana yearling breed-

ing ewcs are being purchased to stock

\\’,\'oniing ranges, costing $4 per head on

the ranges. Canada is also coming to us

for mutton sheep, requiring a great num—

ber of them, and one purchase ran up

to 7.000 head. At the same time the

coast demand is culareing.



Cltarles Brown, of Clay county, Illinois,

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making and believes that $10 cattle are

by no means improbable in the near fu-

ture. He expresses much wonder as to

where corn belt stockmen are going to

obtain feeder cattle during the next few

years.



Grass is good on the sheep ranges, and

sheepmen generally show a. determination

to finish off their lambs carefully, so that

the supply of range feeding lambs may

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Milk—I have a good three~

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bloody nil-k. 1 am vealing her calf and

let, calf suck her twice a day. After the

calf satisfies itsvlf i strip cow tarefully;

before giving bloody milk her bag was

taked badly, but we succeeded in soften—

ing udder. \V. H. A., Merle Beach,

Mich—Put 1/.1 lb. sugar of lead in 1 pt.

tincture of arnica in a gallon of water

and applyto affected quarter three times

a day. .\rc you sure that the calf does

not injure udder, or does the bag not

come in contact with some hard sub-

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Septic Navel Infection—4 have a colt

that was fouled April 21; was all right,

s]il"_\' and playful until he was a week

old, thcn he went lame in fore ankle.

The swelling extended up to body; later

hc wcnt wrong in opposite fore leg. I

reduced swt-lling by using arnica and

Wilt’ll hazel. ’l‘his colt has poor use of

his limbs, can get up alone. but gets

about wi.h difficulty. I placed him in

sing. and h“ is thriving. bill walks bad-

ly The only dubious part of his sick-

ness is his inability tt- got along. C. B.,

titscgo, Mich.~--(live colt 10 grs. potas-

sium iodide and 10 drops fluid extract of

nux vomica at a dose in a little water

as a drcnch three times daily. It is pos—

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results by giving onc—half the dose I

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(lay. Fowl the mare well and soon as

.-olt can walk about in sun lct him do so.





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Diseased 'l‘ooth.——F0r the past three





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the discharge from it empties into nasal

passage. The only remedy is to extract

llic tooth. then he. will get well.



Acute lndigcsiion—Rupture of Dia-

phragm or Stomachunl'iave lost three

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toms of their sickness. Two of than

were. taken as with spasmodic colic, roll

and tumble and appear to be most easy

when on back. remaining in this posi—

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ly, bloat more or less, tremble violently.

and death takes place. in two or three

hours. Our local Vet. has no doubt done

all he can to save. them,. My horses are

not the only ones in this neighborhood

that havc (lit-(l. if a sick one lives more

than night or nine hours, he remains

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orablc. l.. H, Charlotte, Mich—Feed

him no clover, or musty, dusty, badly

cured l't'ducr of any kind; also salt him

wcll in ordwr to int-reuse thirst and if he

drinks fl‘t‘.‘l_‘.' of Watcl‘ tho bth'ls will be

less cI‘stivc. Mix iogethcr equal parts

ground uonlian. (-inchona, ginger, bicar—

bonate soda and muriam ammonia and

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feed two 03‘ three times a day.



Swollcn (ll-oinxwiiavt- :1 tiireevyear-old

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scrotum toot caust-s no pain. Last fall it

seemed to bother him and I applied light

blister which caused it to open and dis-

charge pus. ’l‘lzis chlline; is eight inches

long, and hard, but painless. H. V. D.

Byron (“‘«ntt-r, Michgvl advise you to

leave him alone. for it is almost impos-

sible to reduce or remove a swellim..r of

this kind. (live him 1 dr. potassium

iodide at a dose in feed or water twice

daily.



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her back. for ever since she travels wit-i

fore legs wide apart and her hind quar-

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(live licr 1/; dr. ground nux vomit-a and

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indigestion and l gavc her a pint of raw

linseed oil and thought she would be all

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dead. After skinning her I opened into

abdomen and an enormous quantity of

water ran out of her. This cow was

due to calf in two or three weeks. C.

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Herd. consisting of Trojan Ill-loo? Bl kbirds and

Prides. only. is headed by non . 3 row: on.

by Block W awn. sire of t Grand Chain ion steer

and bull at. the International in 01110380. 90.. 19m.

A few oholoely bred youiifizhuils for sale.



WOODCOTE ST K FARM. Ionla. M1011.





AYRS mass-One .. Wm“ M

breeds: ,youn bulls



and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swine. 1. pure



bred. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint. Mich.





G U E R N 5 EV $“EJl‘V’eEli‘3‘3'pé‘lal’K‘i‘iui’éiN





at. farmers prices. ALLAN KELSEY. Lnkeview. Mich.





 





—Re i tered Ayrshire Bull Calves at.

For sa|e [argnllars' rices. Also afew cows

and heifers. E. A. BLACK. . No. 6. Lakevtew. Mich.





G U ERN S EY EtUlichg‘golEgdfil‘flfd





to pay. (Reed W. W. BURD 0K. syland. Mich.





GUERNSEY BULL CALVES, YORK-

SHIRE PIGS, Good Stock.





HICKS GUERNSEY PAR“. Saginaw. W. S..Mich.





A 24-lb. Bull





Have Bull Calves out of—



13. 20. 23, 24-h). Cows A. R. 0.

By a. 24-lb. Bull.



My herd averages 19 lbs.



If you want this kind write





BIGELOW’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. GONNELL, -

HDLSTEII BULL £315.62? $3.12?“ $83. ‘55





daughters in advanced retry. out; ofa grand

dau liter of De Kol 2nd utter Boy 3rd. over

100 aughtem in advanced liegistrV. A beautilul call

of choicest. breeding). Price on ,v 850.



C. D. WOODB BY. Lansing. Michigan.





“Top-Notch” Holsteins.





Choice bull calves from 6 to 10.11109. old. of fashion-

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

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

head is good herd.



McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell, Mlchlgun.





6 HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES





From $50 to 80. Send for pod

LONG BEACH ARM, Augusta.





MN ”,9. F08 SALE—6 yearling Holstieiu Fries-





Fayotio, Ohio.





 





 





recs.

ichlzan.





ian Bulls. 2 A. R. O. bred. Some cows.

Q glint; bulldculges. 34 yearsls Lil-cedar.

__ 0 on an e l tees on up we ion. .

fih-nlamgfll‘E‘G c. Jackson.p80u6: Bend. 1:13.. 119 Rex St.





 





     

 





 





r ~PASSENG ER Hupp Touring Car 1912 model for sale.

~ clump. including extra tire. inner 0331113 0_

mm. A-l condition. Box L-M. Mich. Farmerbetrotg





 





W‘NIED—An experienced farmer. to rent. on shares

a farm containing 13) acres. High state

of cultivation. well drained. well fenced. Han must

understand dairy business as well as general farming.

Will give possession April 1. or May 1. ‘ Only 00d

man need apply. Must. furnish references. Apply at

once. Address C. H. BURGESS. “'illiamstou. ich.





 





VOMPETENT MAN WANTED. to care for regis

C tel-ed herd of Holstein cattle. Must. be .

er and ggne'al caretaker. Married





milker, good I _

L. E. NNELL. Fayette, Ohio.





man preferred.





NEW LEHH BEAN HAHVESTER.





It. is too early to Harvest but not too soon to buy a.

bean Harvester. Buy now and you will have it when

you need it. The New Lehr is a time and labor saver.

Fully adjustable. Works satisfwtorly. If your

agent. does not. carry ours write to the.





The Lohr Agricultural 00., Dept. M, Fremont. 0.





DO YOU KNOW BEANS





have varied less in price for several years than any

other crop you raise? Encourage your bean crop

to do its best for 1912 and be sure and be prepared

to harvest them on time with a rush. Don’t run

the risk of losing your hard labor and your most

valuable crop b y depending on an imperfect; tool to

harvest them.

The ORIGINAL





“Patent Miller Bean Harvester”





has not disappointed the Farmer for nearly forty





 





 





than the imitations.

Your best implement dealer has them.

Manufactured by



LE ROY PLOW 00.. LE ROY, N. Y.

Michigan Distributors—





Jillill DEERE MW 00., indianapolis, Indiana.

FOR SALE, One Registered Percheron Marc





2 years old. M. A. BuAY. Okemoe. chhigan.





 





 





 





years and it will not. this year. They cost. no moref‘





   

 

   

   

   

 





mam .~ spa: noun Top wmmx Id. speed

our analogous! tore-ting proposition. We of» nuke a full line of carriages and lumen Write t

ELKHART CARRIA f 8: HARNESS MFG. CO,





 





NOLSTEIN BULL READY FOR SERVICE.





A fine individual. beautifully marked. two-thirds

white. His sire a grandson of Pontiac Korndyke

and Hanger-void De K01. his dam a fine young





daughter of Sir Ma ' Harm Pouch.

ED. 5. LEWIS. flinch-ll. Mlchltun.





' ~dropped Feb. 17. 1912. nearly white.

"”3an 8““ call 37M 1: blood Hen erveld Do Kol

dams; ‘record Senior 2-vearold. If?! lbs. butter.

GEORGE E. LAPHAM. ll. 8. St. Johns. Mich.





Holstein-Friesian Cattle‘TEZk?“foéli?‘

GREGORY I: BORDEN. Howell. mchlxan.

Purebred Registered

l'l OLSTE IN CATTLE





I The Greatest Dairy Breed

Saul for FREE Illustrated Booklets

Holstein-Friction. Am)" Box 164. Brattleboto.Vto





EG ISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE—Bulls all



sold. Herd headed by Hanger-void Coin Pietertje

LO‘lFD F. JONES. R. I". D. 3. Oak GroveIMich.

Blg Bull Bar aln’ofi‘3°fig ”€53

ready for service. Hate Herd. Ypsilanti. Mich.





Lillie Farmstead JERSEYS





Bulls ready for service. also bull calves and heifer

calves. Cows all in yearly test. Satisfaction guaran'

teed. COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvule. Mich.





MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.

T. P. MARSTON. Bay City. Michigan.

NoTlCE—I olYer for sale a fine three-year-old Jersey





‘ ‘ cow. Also two young bull calvus at bar-

galn prices. 0. A. TAGGETT. R. No. l. Caro. Mich.





Jerse Cattle For Sale.





C. A. B ISTOL Fenton. Michigan.





BUTTER BRED Jnfi’fi‘sflé‘”





CRYSTAL DRUG STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Micki; .





RED POLLE D’om‘i" “filigiémiime'iwy

90 u ' .

J. M. CHASE at 50815333311... Mica-43:38





RED POLLED BULLS FOB SA LE’ S‘il’k‘i‘li";





strains. JOHN BEBNER 62 SON, Grand Ledge. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





1913 {315%}?





Fourth Successful Year





Backed By 3.9 Years

Manufacturing Experience

‘ Gray and Davis Dynamo Electric

Lighting System. Guaranteed for one

ear. Sell-Starter. i20-inch Wheel

se, Unit Power Plant, Three-point

Suspension, Bosch Magneto, Do-

mouncuble Rims. min. '1‘”an-

side Outtoi Levers. List price Model

.0123. It you will write us, we will tie-goo

y.





ART.“





 





 





31322:? avidslggllmvzsSec'$§'lgl'zgu.¥)§glngaw, Eliohk. or n J

‘—‘-'

SHEEP

BREEDEIS’ llllEC'l‘lll . ’





 





' —Yearli and ram lambs from Chem ion

'5"th flock of humb of Mich. Also select. erk-

shire swmn; Elinhum Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.



‘ —Who wantslll ood ewes and

H a mpShi res ewe lambs. an a good BOO-lb.

imported ram for 8226. Also have 7 00d ram lambs

for sale. All registered. E. A. Hardy. [goaliesten Mich.





llee —Good Yearll Field

01‘0"! DOW“ 5 Ram and ewe-Nd! all uses

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





ll ' —-Wleh toclose out both All

ea. Hambomllel: .. 1.... - ”m



. . F —

E. orrioe. on G.T.R. .3111! .llle. £13? A2. “161%.;





 





 





 





HOOS.





' ' -—Yonn¢ sows due Mar. & A ‘l.

nurllcs alld Vllilorlas Bred to let: rim and champion

boar. Priced to move them. M. T. tor-y. Lowell. ioh.





 





 





EBKSHIRES for Sale—March l'arrowed hours and

gills. sired by Handsome Prince 3d. out Weyeneth

Lady Francis A. A. PA’l‘TULLO. Deckerville, Mich.





Quick Malnring Berkshires“Beat bmmgi “my”.





Satisfaction t

or money refunded. O. 8. BARTLETT. Ponstll'zéalll fill





Weaned igs either 9e 51'

BERKSHIRES two (god brted gijlts Shil‘iszr -l

sows , is era and trax s-



ferred. Excellent breedln . l ' ' .- ,. v

C. C. COREY g r2610 ce lnletlltJld.





. New Haven. Mlchpan.





Improved Chesters“§.‘¥i‘“‘iti’.‘§s'if§5§"§

choice young boar and A few 60" s bred for early fall

furrow. V5. 0. WILSON, ()kemos. Mich. Both phones.





-Both Hens dl d ‘ .. - 9-

Bug. lilieslBI'Wlllis servim-ablo :fglrigglfl’dgliglfi‘CJl:

bulls. Bargains. RAY PAliHAM, Bronson. Mitzi.





 





O 1 0’3 Special Prices on spring pg: and service main-'F.

. also fall pigs 300 to pick from Shipped on approval

ROLLENIMG VlEW STOJK FARM. Cass City. Michigan





D i c SWINEv-Males weighing $0 lbs. each. Apo

. - I a. few very choice gilts. bred for June- la'w

row. Geo. P. Andrews. Dansville. lnxhnm 00.. Mil h.





Extra choice bred gilts. service in; .

0.. In Cl and spring pigs. not. akin from Evil;

Fair winners. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne, Mich





 





9 —-All ages. crowtby and let .

0. E. C s Males ready. 100 to select frggi. ”333.3%;

prices on young stock. H H. Jump. Munith. Mich.





9 —-I have some very fine a d .

o. E. C S {3.11 pigs. either sex. mslgs r33“ trill :22?

Vice now. “2311‘s not akin. UTTO B. S HULZE

Nashvtlle. ioh.. half mile west; of depot. '





UR Imp. Chester Whites and Tamworth ' '

O 245 lat at Fairs In 1911. Service hours. 1513083231: 13:23

for spring lax-rowel either breed that will please You

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





swine and Bull Rock 00 k l

o. I. G: right was. best of bmediu.cpgigesw:;

. D. SCOTT. Qulmby. Mich.





Choice cprl l . b “F '

0. l. C. Challenuer"lg31.l’.)$vritgfor 5:3:

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. Zeeland. ich.

0 l cvs of ‘superior ualilfy. Sfl’vlC/Z] boiifilflglt .

. - 991' p1 . oa Inputs. so

eggs $1.50 per . fled Nickel, B. .1. Monroe. M33:





0 I 0.8 with size & quality. the “mile”: iflvely

. - fuarsntee to lve satisfaction or w l refund

ewman's Stoc Farm.R.No. LMarlotto.Mioli.





Write

O. l. C. SWINE “Monmsepéfi

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

of sex-Vice males of good ty e. Write me describing

of your wants. A. J. GOBD N. B. No. 2 Dorr. Mich.





O. I. C.——0rdars looked For grim Pigs.

C. J. THOMPSON. Bocklord. .



gyms JERSEJSfi‘ififglifii phiiétillii. 25$?



“fife. ”it. ‘8‘? v16il°§.’i€“°§3§"i’; 1.1.2.53: fulfil:





Duroc Jerse s‘filébm'il? “i" ““‘i





l :4.

pay the express. J. H. p g





down for quick sale.





money.





 





 





s

annular, Lanelfig. Mich





DURllC JERSEY SWINE‘lvHfi’i’Ie” {5WD}





wants. F. A. LAMB d: SUN. Cassopolis. Mich.





 





 





I UliUC-J EHSEY‘ SUWS bred for July and August,

farrow. Cllolt‘t‘lV bred spring pigs, l’rioes

reasonable.. JOHN MchCULL. North Star. Mich.



—10 Fall and





DUROC JERSEY Winter Boats,





ready for service. Prices ri ht for 10 days. Write or

come and see J. 0. BAR EY. Goldwater. Mich.





POLAND-CHINA SWINE





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





Big Smooth l’olaml China Hogs £7?.‘.‘;.“‘£§§.fl.‘.“i?l

reasonable prices. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Mich.





~Bred f l' l ’1 . . 9



Poland Chlnas all T132311 :zgesfiteh'afillfecr:



pricel. W. J. HAGELS A“, Augusta, Michigan.

_B' t . ' ' ‘u. .



MUN“ lllllNlS sifia‘lfll’ r1151; 3.15.3.1” léfilis‘iiii‘lfé



bucks. Prices right. ROBERT NEVE, Pierson. Mich.





OLANo CHINAS—Gilta and earl'

for but. of Be t. furrow.y a 1:535 332' gm

n. D. BISHOP. onto 38. Lake Odessa. Mich.





”LAND CHINAS”1§,‘-‘h°’ “”- 8“ ages. Sonne-

P. D. LONG. BleollgB. figgminuipl‘ifl TS;





 





 





 





ARGE TYPE P. C.-—Largest in Mich. Co



see greatest erd of big, prolific P13. in staggeggag

avg. 10 lye to l tter. Free livery. ex eases paid if not

outlet} . order early and get choice. Frlt'cs reasonable

quality oonstdered. W. E. Livingston. Purina, Mich'





15 Poland China Saws ET: baffling Ht-





priced to soil. WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater, icéiiZd'





—-Y b

POUND 0|"le $335533? riiillfi’éf’gilii‘i’m:





L. W. BARNES & SUN. Byron. Shiawassee 00.. Mich.





Big Tyvpe P. c. Saws $9. $3.33

A. 001) I SUN. Saline. mom.

Mulefoot H 3"” 3°" W GILT“

b . .

Boar's all ages. G. C. Bugfio‘lv'? fifialfidiiigl





fi’l.‘§."ml.°’-k"lli' Ellis;§‘;i.§z.?§:;

wa'rrfi't‘M'AN. Mafifil I“ I 39$. m goggle:





Lillie Farmstead YflBKSHlHES.





AbunhoiceGilh brodl'm'floptomborhrmw good

ones. 8 'th ' ‘

Dwxfieieraenpamandtmm





'-

LON c. fifi‘l‘ea.%oopunvtiio. Mich.
’AUG 3. 19512.





The Masterpiece of 48 Engineers.





:3





THE MICHIGAN ' FARMER.





N ew HUDSON “37””:





Furnished Complete—No Extras to Buy





 





 





 





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They Had a . Hand





in Building 200.000 Cars of 97 We” Known Makes





Don’t Fail to See This Car





In the HUDSON “37” is expressed the com—

bined skill and experience of the greatest body of

automobile engineers in the industry.





These men represent the training of the great—

est factories in the world. They have learned

what experience has taught the 97 principal

makers of Europe and America.





They were active, important members of those

various organizations and combined had a hand

in the production of more than- 200,000 automo-

biles. '





Imagine what strides, what advancement, men

of such experience are bound to offer in the car

which all have joined in perfecting.



You probably have an ideal of what a. motor

car should be. Your knowledge of automobile

shortcomings undoubtedly has suggested improve-

ments which you would have in a car if it were

built to your order.





\Vell, here is where you will find not only what

you wish to see, but also what has been expressed





, through the experience that has been gained from

, the 200,000 owners who have used the cars which





these men have helped to build.





It is all in the one car. It expresses as nearly

the limit of four-cylinder construction as has

been reached.





   





The Greatest Engineer

of All—Their Chief





At the head of these experts is Howard E.

Coflin, the foremost automobile engineer of

America, recognized here and abroad as the most

startlingly original designer the industry has

produced.





His genius is an inspiration to his associates.

From him they have gained in ability. On ac—

count of them he has become a broader and more

versatile builder.





\Vhat one man lacked in experience, some one

of his associates was able to supply. The

problems one was unable to solve, others soon

found the answer for.





That accounts for the completeness of this car.

That accounts for the fact that you will find on

it the very things that you have wished to find

on an automobile. That explains why this car

will do the things which other four-cylinder

automobiles have failed to accomplish.





Electric Self-Cranking—Electrically Lighted





fladn’t You Better Wait?





Even if you are impatient to have a new car

now, don’t you think it better to see the HUDSON

“37” before you buy? .





It will only be a few days at the illUSt before

- ' “9—,,

your dealer Will have a oi to demonstrate to

you. If you buy any other ‘ar before you have

seen the “37” disappointment is surely in store

for you.





No car you can get today, regardless of“price,

has all the features that are offered in the 37.”





Consider for a moment the rapid advancement

that has-been made in motor (5er building. It is

almost as startling as are the changes in fashion.

Think how strange are the open cars of two years

ago. What proportion of their original cost do

you 'think such cars new bring? It is not due to

wear that their value has declined so much. No,

it is the ad ’ance that has been made in auto-

mobile building since the open cars were put on

the market.





With that thought in mind you must recognize

the importance of choosing wisely now. Auto-

mobiles as now built should be of service for

many years and you don’t want to feel that you

will have to buy a new car in two, three or four

years because the one you have just purchased,

will at that time be out of date.





Your Safety in This Choice





No one is likely to soon have many new ideas

to offer that these 48 engineers have not already

anticipated.





They all combine in saying that the new

HUDSON ”37” represents the best that there is

in four—cylinder construction.





They proved every move they have made

through 20,000 miles of gruelling country,

mountainous, mud and snow driving.





The most abusive treatment one of the most

skilled drivers in the world could give this car

in the thousands of miles he drove it, without

developinga single weakness, or discovering a

single detail in which improvement could be

made either in design, construction, simplicity,

easy riding qualities, responsiveness, safety or

power, is aguarantee that you will find it ex-

presses your ideal of what a four-cylinder car

should be.





 





 





Some of its Notable





Features





 





Electric Self-Cranking. Automatic. Will

turi; chr motor 110 minutes. Free from

coniplicntioi'is. Simple. Positively ef-

fective.



Electric Lights. Brilliant head lights.

Side lights. Tail Lamp. Illuminated

(lash. Extension lamp for night work,

iibi'ut car. All operated by handy switch

on dash.





Ignition. Integral with electric cranking





and electric lighting equipment. (lives

magneto spark. Known as. lli‘lct) J’ut-





(’llit'tl System, the most effective, elli-

cieiit yet produced.





Power. Four-ovlinderfien blon, mug

stroke. New type, wit—adjusting multi—'

ple jet carburetor High etiii-ir‘ncy, great

economy. 4:} horscpo\\ci', brake test, 37

horsepower at 1300 icvolutions per min-

utc.



Speedometer. Clock. Illuminated face.

M/dgnctic construction. .lt‘W‘clcil bear—

ings. Registers up to 030 miles- uii hour.

flight day keyless clock.



Windshield. l-tain vision and ventilating.

Not a inalécshil't. Not till aiitlt‘llinC—lli.

A part of the body.





Upholstering. 1:3 inches deep. Highest

developiiiciit of :iiitoiiiol'iile upliolstoriiig.

‘l‘urkish typo. Sott. tlcxible. resilient.

Comfortable positions. llandbut‘t‘ed leath-

('l"~"iil€ best to be had.



HOPn'-*i‘;lllll type. Cont-walcd tubing.

Demountable Rims. Latisi type. Light.

Easily removed. (‘fil'l‘y :ltile—inch Fisk

iireswheavy car type. l‘lXil'Zl rim.



Top. (:eiiiiine mohair. ili‘zicel‘ul lines.

\\'cll tilted. Stoiin curtains. liust en-

VI-lopc.





Bodies. Note illustration. lN‘rp, loiv,

\\'l(lt3 and coiui‘oi‘tublo. You sit in the

t’ll!‘ 'llUl on it. High backs. tirawitul

lint-s. All tinishcd according to best





coach painting pi'uciims. :11 t'tiillS"‘\'2ll'—

iiis‘n and color.



Nick-'1 trimmings throughout.



Gasoline Tank. Gasoline is cairied iii

tank at rear of cur. Siniplo. ol‘t'i-ctive,

with two pound pie-ssuic. ix'erps cou-

stunt supply in carburetor either going

up or down hill. Magnetic gasoline gauge

continually indicates gasoline level.





Wheels. Extra strong. .\l‘lilll‘l}' type.

’l‘cn spokes in front wheel. 'l‘en hub

tlniige bolts. Twelve spokes in rear

wheel. Six hub flange bolts. Six spoke

bolts.





Bearings. All Roller hearings, thoroiigh-

ly tested. Latest type.



Rear Axle. l’resscd steel. 'l-‘ull adjust-

able, full tloaiing. Lingo ilt‘lii'illgH. Heat





treated nickel steel shafts. Easily disas—

sembled, an item which indicates the





simplicity and get~at-zibleiicss of the en—

tire car.





Models and Price. Five—Passenger 'l‘our—

ing, Five—Passenger Torpedo, 'l‘wo-Pas-

senger Roadster—vflSISTS, f. o. h. Iieiroit.

Canadian price. duty paid. $24235 f. if. 1).

Detroit. One price to illl——-t'V€l‘_\,'\V'li(~l'O.





Simplicity. The. ilI‘TiStiN standard of

simplicity is maintained. livery detail is

accessible. There is no unnecessary

\vcight. All oiling places are convenient.

There are but tWo grease cups on the

motor. [ivory unit is so designed that it

can be quickly and easily disnssoinbled.

'i‘hink whiiT an advance this. is over even

the previous III’DSHNwthe “ 3"——the

“Car with 1000 less parts.”





HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY





No. 150





7396, Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
78 (6)

The Michigan Famier





. ESTABLISHED 1843.

THE LAWRENCEPUBLISHING CO.





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CURRENT COMMENT.

. In another column

Unity of Rural and of this issue will

Urban Interests. Do found an article

on the organization

of on improvement association with its

hcadnluurters at the county scat of one

of thc- important agricultural counties in

the stale. 'l‘lic plan upon which this US-

Socizllion is organized, as outlined in this

urticlc, shmrs that thcre is a recognition

by the lenders in the affairs of both city

and country of the fact that their inter-

csts are very similar in character, and

that whit will be beneficial to the one



will also be hclpl‘ul to thc other.



One of the most encouraging tcndcncics

of our modcrn times is this gctling to-

:4‘(‘lhcr of urban and rural intcrcsts which

has bccn notcd many times through

these columns during the past year. This

gcncvrul rccogiiition of the fact that the

intcrcsts of our county, state or country

should be considered as a unit and that

whatevcr makes for the advancement of

any one division or class of people is also

bencliciul Mike to others, promises well

for the future material advancement of

our prosperity in future years. This ten-

dcncy has been shown not alone in the

llmitci‘ of commercial organization, but

has found expression in a social way as

wcll. Many of the Farmers' Clubs and

(lrungcs have a town membership and

many of the town organizations have

country membership.



There cannot be too great a (lCVciOp-

mcnt of this spirit of unity bctwcen ur—

ban and rural pcoplc along industrial or

(«icial lincs. it is a work which should

receive cncourugcment from cvery source

and this movement. for business unity in

lhc promotion of the intcrcsts of an cli-

rire county is certainly a move in the

right dircction.



After weeks and months



Bourne Parcels of discussion of the

Post Bill. parcels post proposition

the scout.» committee on



post oliiccs and post roads rczichcd all

:lgl'epnll'nt on the post otlice appropria—

tion bill, including a parcels post pro-

vision, which it will be rcmc‘i'nbcrcd was

lumic a part of thc post oilice appropria—

lion bill instcnd of being threshed out '15

at. scporatc problcm. pursuant to tho rcc—

ommclnlntion of the postmaster~gcncral

’l‘his :igrccmcnt is practically the par—

cels post bill as drawn by Senator



’murnc. with sonic comprofhise provi-

sions.



Brictly summurizcd, this bill provides

that postal ratcs on parcels shall vary

with distances, thus protecting lOI-al mer-

chants and computingr with the cxpress

companies. The most radical provision,

lmwcvcr, is the cntirc elimination of one

class of matter, the third and fourth

classes of nmttcr being combined. The.

class eliminatcd is that known as third

class matter which included books, cat—

alogs, circulars, form lcttc-rs and other

printed math-r, packages of seedS, plants,

bulbs, etc., which class of matter is now

mailable at once cent for each two

ounces or fraction thereof.



The rates on this combined class of

mailable matter are figured in this new

bill according to a zone system, a special

rate of one cent per ounce. up to four

ounces being provided.for circulars and

small packages of goods. The rates for

local city and rural delivery are five

cents for the first pound and one cent

for each additional pound. Within the

50 mile zone six cents for the first pound

and two cents for each additional pound;

with the 200 mile zone seven cents for

the first pound and three cents per pound

for each additional pound; within the 500





 





mile zone eight cents per pound for the

first pound and four' cents .for each ad-

ditional pound; within the 1,000 mile zone

11 cents for the first pound and seven

cents for each additional pound; within

the 2,000 mile zone 12 cents for the first

pound and 10 cents for each additional

pound; outside the 2,000 mile zone 12

cents per pound and 12 cents for each

additional pound.



These rates, according to the senate

committee, are based upon the careful

computation of actual cost of carrying,

distributing and delivering packages, plus

actual cost of transportation. The weight

limit is fixed at 11 pounds and the max-

imum charge 12 cents per pound. which

are the international limits and rates.





It appears, however, from an analysis

of the rates that books and catalogs

formerly mailable at the third—class rates

will be obliged to pay a. considerably

higher rate than at present, and higher

even than would be required to be paid

by those mailing similar articlcs from

foreign countries to any point within

this country. Apparently this compro--

mise was rcached as a means of satisfy—

ing the people who have demanded an

udcquate parcels post and those who have

objected to its application under the

fundamental principle of our post office

scrvice, which has not taken into con-

sidcrution the item of distance in the

matter of the charges made, and like

most compromises of—this character, it

would seem to have some serious defect.





In vicw of the present Situation we

would reitcrate our declaration of some

time ago, that it would be better for the

friends of parcels post to advocate the

thorough investigation of every phase of

the question by a joint committee, their

rcport: to be acted upon at the next ses-

sion of congress, instead of favoring the

cfll'iy disposition of the matter in a poor-

ly considered ridcr to the general post

oflico appropriation bill. What, the peo—

ple of the country want is an adequate

parcels post systcm without the compli-

cations andgcostly preparations which a,

proposition of this kind would seem to

cntnil, and a schedule of the rates which

would be plain to the average patron

without the assistancc of an expert in-

icrprcter of rate sheets.



Possibly this may be the kind of par-

cels post which is best adapted to a big

country like ours, but this ought to be

carcfully demonstrated by a campaign of

education before we make any expensive

c-xpcrimcnts, since it is not the kind of

parcels post that those who have favored

the proposition have had in mind.





Hon. David Lu—

Tolnvestigate European bin. delcgutc of

Co-opcrat‘ive Credit the United States

Systems. to the Interna-

tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome,

has prepared a report to that body on

the confercnce held at Nashville. Tenn.

in April, 1912. Michigan Farmer readers

will remember that at the session of the

Southvrn Commercial Congress, held at

Nashvillc, the initizitory step was taken

toward the investigation of European

systcins of co—opcrative rural credit, that

u confw-cnce was held between the Am-

cricnn deli-gate and ofiicials of congress

and that after a conference lasting a

wcck resolutions were passed favoring

the formation of a sclect committee of

two membcrs from each state in the

Union to visit Europe and investigate the

crcdit systems there dcvelopcd. with a

View to making a rec'nmmcndation re-

garding the establishment of a similar

systcm in the United Statcs which would

be bcst adapted to our conditions.



In the report by Mr. Lubin, it appears

that the date decided upon for the Am-

erican committee to start on its journey

to Europe is May, 1913, which time has

bccn adopted. The original plan of hav-

ing two delegates from each state was

adhcred to and the point is made that

by having the committee start in May,

1913, an opportunity will be afforded to

ask the state legislatures, most of which

will be in session from January 1, 1913,

to make the requisite appropriations for

the traveling expenses of these delegates.

It is estimated that $1,200 would cover

the thrce months’ traveling oxpenses for

cach delegate, including his proportionate

share of cost of stenographic reports,

translations, etc.



In his communication Mr. Lubin says:

"It is now in order for the agricultural

organizations and the leaders in agricul-

tural industries in the United States to

see "that each state appoints its delegates

to the American committee. to pledge can-

didates for election to the State legisla~

tures in November to support the re-

quisite appropriations and “to work ear-

nestly for this purpose during the see-





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sions of the legislature's.” “He also sug-

gescs. that all agricultural Organizations

appoint committees 'to take up the work

now, to the end that every section of the

United States may. be represented in this

committee which Will start for Europein

May, 1913, to investigate European’co—

operative credit organization‘s. Corres-

pondence with regard to same should be

directed to the Southern Commercial

Congress. Southern Bldg, Washington,

D. C., and requests for publications on

the subject to the American Delegate to

the International Instittite of Agriculture,

Rome, Italy.



Considerable space has been devoted to

this proposition of European credit or-

ganizations in the editorial columns of

the Michigan Farmer. Vl'ithout question

they afford an example by which Ameri-

cans should profit, and this move toward

the sending of a representative body Of

men who are interested in American ag-

riculture to make this investigation and

report a practicable scheme for the or-

ganization of a national rural society in

the United States, which will be adapted

”to our needs and conditions, is one which

should receive the support of every per-

son who is interested in the further up—

building of our agriculture. Indeed, it is

believed by many that a national move-

ment of this kind would bring about in

a natural way a. desirable measure of

banking and currency reform, and afford

an elasticity to our circulatory medium

which is generally rccognizcd as desir—

able, but for which adequate provision

has not yet been made.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





Nati0nal.



Two men, a. woman and three boys

wore killed outright when‘a Lake Shore

& Michigan Southern truin struck an au-

tomobile at a crossing near Alexis, Mich.,

Sunday afternoon, The approaching rail-

road train was obscured by a corn field.



A number 01' passengers were hurt

when two electric cars collided just out-

side of the city of Detroit on the Detroit,

Jackson 8; Chicago road. The accident

occurred Sunday night during a storm.

It was claimed by the officials that the

danger lights were obscured by the heavy

rain which was falling.



Unusual excitement was caused last

week by the arrest of several aldermen

of the common council of Detroit upon

the charge of graft. Detectives had been

employed in connection with the closing

of Seventh street to accommodate the

rnlargcment of certain railroad proper—

ties. In order to secure the required

votcs for passing the ordinance closing

the street it was necessary to pay for

same in amounts ranging from $100 to

$1.000 It is probable that a grand jury

will be selected to review the evidence

collected by the detectives and investi-

gate further into the charges that have

lecn made.



Seven balloons started from Kansas

City in the elimination contest to deter-

mine the three American balloons to

cutcr in the international balloon race

In Germany next fall. Two of the bal—

]~)t)llS were unheard from Monday. The

Kansas City No, 2 landed about 24 miles

from Detroit on Sunday after having

sailed about 040 miles. This is the long-

est trip made by any of the balloons

reporting.



The dcmand for stccl is so urgent at

present that premiums are being paid by

consumers for prompt shipments. Tile

price for steel rails has advanced, as has

also the price for steel pipe.



According to the bureau of statistics

the total volume 0" exports from this

country during the past fiscal year

amounted to over $1,000,000.000. The

mcst‘ rapid grcwth of any export product

on the list is in automobiles, which dur-

int,r the past year wore shipped abroad

to the valuc of $28,000.000. In 1902 only

$1.000,000 worth of autos wcre cxport’ed.



The republican members of the Stanley

stool committee iIaVc l'l(’()illInQIi(1t‘d at law

under which an interstate corporation

would be required to obtain a charter

from the federal government before d0-

ing business.



Orders have been awarded the various

car companies by the Denver & Rio

Grande railroad for 700 box cars, 100

stock cars, 3210 coal cars and 50 cabooses,

entailing a cost of $1,000,000.



There appears to be no legal opposition

to the merger of the Bell Telephone and

Home Telephone Companies in Michigan.

Hcarings have been held before the state

railway commission and it appears from

the reports of the hearings that the prlv-

ilcge will be allowed. The only obstacle

that is delaying the final decision 15

whether independent companies through-

out the state who have had working ar-

rangements with the Home Telephone

people will be protected in their rights

When the physical property of that con-

cern is transferred to the Bell Telephone

Company. It is the purpose of the com-

mission to see that these rights are

properly surrounded with safeguards.



Effort is being made to secure congres-

sional legislation providing for the con-

struction of an ocean-to-ocean road

across the United-States. It is the pur-

pose of the promoters to follow the old

trail across the continent if they are suc-

cessful in their efforts to get the favor

of congress.



The supreme court of the state of Illi-

nois sustained the law enacted by the

legislature of that state prohibiting the

drinking of intoxicating liquors on rail-

road trains in "the case of Tarantia. vs.

Louisville &. Nashville railroad.





1‘ - AUEM'3, 191's. - 5‘ ..





_ ‘ fiForelgn.‘ ' ,

.. Mutsuii'itmwno" ’fOr 44'v-yea‘grs, has been

Emperor ‘of"Japan,’, died at‘ Tokio last

Monday morning. He' was the 12lst em-





peror of that country. His son will 3qu-





ceed to the throne. The dead emperor's

reign was one of great importance to

Japan for, during that period the coun-

try wae transformed from a simple her-

mit nation to a world power.



In a dense fog the steamship Empress

of Britain, of Quebec, collided with the

steamer Helve-tia. between Cape Magda-

lene and Fame Point. The latter boat

was struck amidships and cut in two.

Her crew was saved. The Empress of

Britain returned to Quebec with her

how badly stove in and her fore com-

partments filled with water.



The rebel band in Northern Mexico are

now using gue-‘illa. methods. The feder-

als under Gen. Trace-y Aubert are well

scattered over the entire territory and

will fight the rebels after the latter’s

own methods.



Complications are reported in the set-

tlement of the dock workers' strike in

London. The representatives of the men

reached an agreement with the employ-

ers and declared the strike off. The

workers, however, affirm that the repro—

sentatives betrayed them and that they

will not consent to the terms of the agree-

ment made. Just what the outcome of

this will be it is impossible (to state.





MICHIGAN FAIRS FOR 1912.



The following contains a. list of fairs

to be held in Michigan during 1912. Most

of the dates have been received from

official sources but Should anyone have

positive knowledge of incorrectness in

the list we would appreciate greatly if

they would advise us with correction.

Also, if any fairs are omittcd we would

be pleased to receive information regard-

mg them. The list is arranged as fol-

lows: First, the name of fair; second,

where it is held; third, the date.



So. Michigan State Fair, Benton Har-

bor, Aug. 13—16.



Tuscola Co., Vassar, Aug. 21—24.



Cass City, Cass City, Aug. 20—23.



Caro, Caro, Aug. 26-30.



Flint, Flint, Aug. 26—30.



Gratiot (30., Ithaca, Aug. 27-Sept. 1.



N. E. Michigan, Bay City, Sept. 2—6.



Antrim Co., Bellaire, Sept. 3-6.



Barry (10., Hastings, Sept. 2—5.



Cass Co., Cassopolis, Sept. 3—6.



Howard City, Howard City, Sept. 3—5.



Marquette Co., Marquette, Sept. 3—6.



Sanilac Co., Sandusky, Sept. 3—6.



West Michigan State, Grand Rapids,

Sept. 9-13.

1"Charlevoix 00., East Jordan, Sept. 10-

L).



Deckerville, Docket-ville, Sept. 10-13.

13Menominee:- Co., Menominee, Sept. 10-

1'{Thumb District, Port Huron, Sept. 10-



Michigan State, Detroit, Sept. 16-21.



Allegan (30., Allegan, Sept. 17-20.



Berlin. Berlin, Sept. 17-20. '



Cadillac, Cadillac. Sept..17-20.



Calhoun, Marshall, Sept. 16—20.



Delta 00., Escanaba, Sept. 17-20.



Emmet Co., Petoskey, Sept. 17-20.



Creenville, Greenville, Sept. 17—20.



1:1ur0n Go, Bad Axe, Sept. 17-20.



Otscgo Co., Gaylord, Sept, 17-20.



Cheboygan Co., \Volverine, Sept. 25-27.

2602h7nrpewa Co, Sault Ste. Marie, Sept.



Copper 00., l—Ioughton, Sept. 24—28.



Ionia C0,, Ionia, Sept. 25<27.



Inter-State, Kalamazoo, Sept. 23-28.



Lenawee 00., Adrian, Sept. 23-27.



Milford, Milford, Sept. 24—27.



North Branch, No. Branch, Sept. 25-27.



Occana C0.. Hart, Sept. 24-27.



St. Joseph Co., Centerville, Sept. 24-27.



Armada, Armada, Oct. 2—4.



Eaton 00.. Charlotte. Oct. 1—4.



Hillsdale Co., Hillsdale, Sept. 30-Oct. 4.



Imlay City, Imlay City, Oct. 1-3.



Osceola Co., Evart, Oct. 1-4.



Fowlerville, Fowlerviile, Oct. 8—11.



State Fairs and Expositions.



Iowa, Des Moines, Aug. 22—30.



Ohio, Columbus, Aug. 26-31.



Canada, Toronto, Aug. 29—Scpt. 9.



indiana, Indianapolis, Sept. 2—6.



Minnesota, Hamline, Sept. 2—7.



Nebraska, Lincoln, Sept. 2—6.



West Virginia, Wheeling, Sept. 2‘6.



Kentucky, Louisville, Sept. 9—14.



Ncw York, Syracuse. Sept. 9—14.



South Dakota, thon, Sept. 9—13.



Vl'. Michigan, Grand Rapids, Sept. 9—13.



Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept. 10—14.



Michigan. Detroit, Sept. 16—21.



Illinois, Springfield, Oct. 4-12.



International Dairy Show, Milwaukee,

Oct. 22—31.



National Dairy Show, Chicago, Oct. 24-

Nov.





MICHIGAN FAIRS THAT SHOULD BE

WELL ATTENDED.



_ One. of the first and best fairs in Mich-



Igan is the one held in Tuscola county at



Vassar on Aug. 21—22—23-24. Horse races



and other big attractions are promised.



\Vm. Grant, See.



The Caro Fair and Night.Carnival is

looked upon as one of the most success-

ful fairs in Michigan. It will be held at

Caro, Aug. 26—27—28-29—30. F. B. Rans-

ford, Sec.



The Sixty—third Annual Flint Fair will

be; held Aug. 26—27—28—29-30. This fair

will be a great one and not to attend

Will mean loss of profit and pleasure.

“7m. Veit, Sec.



The Southern Michigan State Fair this

year promises to be the ”Biggest Yet.’

After much study and thought the board

of directors have placed the dates Aug.

13—14-15-16-17, believing that a date at

this season of the year in this particular

location will give the best results. There

are to be many radical changes In the

procedures and many novelties offered In

the way of free attractions. The build-

ings and grounds are now in the hands

of the ground—keepers and Will be reno-

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A CASTLE TOWN AND ITS CHIVALRY.





BY EDGAR WHITE.





HEN the daily press recently an—



nounced the incorporation of



“The College Mound Oil Com-

pany” it is very likelythat not one read—

er out of a thousand had the slightest

idea where the place was. Sixty years

ago nearly everybody in the west could

have told something about the twn on

the hill. Then it was a seat of learning,

having students from Missouri and many

other states. The large castle—like struc—

ture, with its imposing towers, stands

today on its lofty eminence, just as it

did in ’51. Now the world rushes by be-

hind the iron horse, and the old college

is far away from its pathway. That ex-

plains the difference. That is why the

ancient town and its quaint School build-

ings are only a memory to white—haired

doctors. lawyers and business men scat-

tered throughout the Mississippi Valley.



If College Mound were in Switzerland,

or nestling amid the pleasant hills of old

England. it would long since have be-

come immortalized in the printed rccord

of history and of the magazincs. ,Thc

average American doesn’t sce the pictur-

esque about his own vine and tig tree.

To him the place would simply be cat—

alogued among the “lost towns," with the

possibilities of a restoration by a big oil

concern—nothing more.



Leaving the ridge road on the cast you

the valley, which you

cross at a lively gait because the road is

smooth, and then begin an ascent of the

long hill, On the crest of whichvarises,

out of the mists, as an apparition of the

dead and forgotten past, the big structure

which gives the town its name. Nestling

about its feet on the hillside, like the

cottages of its tcnantry, are the homes

of those who have not forsaken the 01.1

town with its glory.



Sir Walter Scott, with such a subject,

might have called us about the fireside

of a stormy winter’s night, and peopled

the place with fierce men-at-arms, sworn

to the bidding of Some mighty baron.

For the foray, the scout, the tourney he

would have the wide swells of bluegrass

meadow, the soft carpeted forest, the

smooth plateau. Calling up the past he

would have the old tavern, with its

swinging sign, the six-horse stage coach





College and came back, and some wno

did not return. There was a day when

the students mat in the large chapel and

in the presence of the president chose

the colors under which they would serve.

There were some who donned the blue

and same who espoused the gray.

Under the trees at Penny’s ilidge those

of the gray met and chose a tall fair





patriotism—the man who would fight and

die for his country. Patriotism is only a

broadening of the love for the hearth—

stone."



Of a verily there was character about

the town on the big hill. Ilobcrt Gipson,

live foot tall, lived to be 118 years old,

and after being mustered in was reject»

ed because he was too old. He was then





there was not a punctuation mark of

any kind, and most of the Words disclos-

cd an individuality of spelling. \Vheu

the old gentleman died some of the dis—

tant kin immediately went to law to

break the document which had been pro—

part-d with such care to outwit the law-

yers.



“\Vhy, sure." said the men of Black-

stone; "it will be a joke- to bust that;

why, it doesn‘t mean anything."



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College Mound, Showing the Old Castle-like College Structure Erected Ten Years Before the Civil War.





stripling as their captain, and as their

lieutenant a dark-eyed, clear-headed

student of the law but recently wedded

to one of the most bcautiful maidens in

all that country. Destiny took the cal)-

tain through a hundred battles, right up

to the cannon's mouth, with flashing

sabre. and brought him home to his loved

ones. it took the dark-eyed lieutenant

along the same path up to one hot sum-

mer day. The troopers were guarding a

southern railroad embankment, when it

sent a minie ball squarely into his fore—

head, and the sweet—faced younguvomun,

waiting in the shadow of the great ca—





45, and lived 73 ycars after being denied

the honor of dying for his country.



"I'll show ’cm that l'm only a young

chap,” he said, and he just kept on liv-

ing long aftcr those who had turned him

down had died of old ug .



Robert's son. Smith, born and l'oai‘F-l

on the great lull, was an illiterate man,

but with plenty of good. hard scnsc. .‘s

he was getting along in life a mule kit-k—

ed him and he thought he was goingr to

(lie. So be called for l‘oolscap paper, a

quill and sonic ink. Then he disposed of

his lands, houses, horses, mules, cattlo

and farming tools among a Score or so





 





   

   





 





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Another View of the Old Town with the College Building on Mound in Left Background.





running from the Missouri river to the

capital city of Iowa, the huntsman with

l'llunlcd hat and flint-lock rifle, the wind-

ing horn and the long lean hounds of the

chase. For College Mound had all these

glorics when her big building was young.



And then it had its tragedy, too. There

were some who went to war from the





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thctlral structure, laid aside her pretty

clothes and selected a dress of black.

“You. go to the hills,” said Opie Read

once to the writer, “when you want

character. The feud was born amid the

hills, not on the plains. An excess of

sentiment is the foundation of the feud.

When you broaden the feud you have





of descendants, and when he had finish-

ed his task he looked at the document

complacently.



“Thercl” he said to the children, “1

have made it so plain that you won’t

need to spend any money lawin’ over it."



The will began thus: “in the naim of

god amen.” 1n the 2,000 words 01' it





and began figuring on how long thoy

could keep the case in court. It looked

like easy money. The will was printed

in the newspapers and law magazines as

a curiosity of literature. The old tes-

lllll‘l' was, ridiculcd for ttying to beat the

lawyers, with a Chinese puzzle.



The circuit judge took the will out of

the clerk’s oilice one night and sat up

with it at home. Next morning he came

into court with the problem solved.





“ta-ntlcmen." he said to the array of

lawyers, “it is very clear to me that the

old man meant so and so,” and he went

on, taking up that funny looking docu-

ment phrase by phrase, and shedding

the light on it. When ho had tinishtd it

was as clear as the nocnday sun just

what the old man wanted to do with his

cartth posscssions, and the case stopped

then and thcrc.



“l'ncle” .lilnps Dysai‘t, one of the

founders of tho Collt-ge. was a T‘rcshy-

terian from away bat-k. Although a great

fricnd ot‘ mlucation, he hadn't had time

in his bury life for much “book—larnin’."

But it was no handicap. llc debated

with any sort of talent the Hillllisl‘s 01‘

“t‘atnpbcllitt-s" sent against him. and in-

Vttriably won. worn ‘em

out,” the discomtilcd oncs quld say. It

was rclatl-d ol‘ “l'nt'Tc .lilnps" that he

refused to join in a inctting where they

were praying for rain “llwt-auso the wind

was in the wrong directittni.”



“l'nclc .limps" was once matched for

a dollato with a Catnpbcllitc~that’s the

term they used in the old days, and it

was intended to (onvcy no roproach—

his opponent having been contracted for

by the Baptists. Not long before, “lin—

cle .limps” had worsted a very lt-arned

Baptist debater, and the Baptists de-

clarod the only reason was that their

champion lacked the: physical ability to

talk as loud and long as “Uncle .limps.”

But the Campbellite was as big and

strong as “l'ncle .llmps." The Baptists,

confident in their gladiator, were out in

force, right up in front.



For the first half day the two men

sparred for points. In the afternoon

“llnclo Jimps” agreed to some proposi~

tion his opponent laid down. Then the

Campbellite acquiesced in a shot “Uncle

Jimps” made at the Baptists. Before





“llthlllsc to
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;long both debaters joined forces and

iwere ripping into the Baptists’ ranks

gright and left. “Uncle Jimps" had taken

{his opponent into camp, and the Baptists

gwho had come to cheer left to weep.



‘ When the Civil war was at its height

,word reached College Mound that “The

FBlack Horse Cavalry,” of Iowa, were

headed down for Macon and Blooming-

‘ton for the startling purpose of, wiping

out two good towns. Many citizens of

College Mound were then fighting in the

south, but there were plenty of old farm-

ers about the big hill, and they gathered

thcir flint—locks, scythes and corn-knives

and hastened to the threatened points.



The “invasion" it was said, was sched—

uled to occur on a certain date designat-

ed as black Friday. It was a dark, rainy

day. The patriots from College Mound

patrolled the streets all day waiting to

spit the "Black Horse" and their riders,

but the enemy never came, and the Col-

lege Mound army was convinced that the

greason was; the “invaders" had learned

of the reception awaiting them.



College Mound has never had :1. Cir-

cus, a lncrry—go—round or a moving pic-

ture show. Its only annual diversion Is

a big Holiness campinccting, which runs

for ten days every summer. Then the

village is roused to its old-time life and

hustle, for the campmce-ting brings many

people to town. 0f night all the little





THE‘MitHin'Xnfancies. , ’





stores and cafes "are brilliantly illumi-

nated with oil lamps, and here and there

is a street light. To College Mound, and

for miles around, it is the harvest home

occasion, and everybody quits work and

goes to town. The meeting itself is not

the only magnet. It is the social oppor-

tunity; the meeting of old friends, an oc-

casion when everybody is out.



For 21 years the Holiness people have

held their big meeting at the hill town.

It was far from the “maddening throng,”

the lure of theatres, the temptation of

the saloon.



If vast lakes of oil are washing the un-

derworld shores about the College the

discovery will be read with interest by

the alumni now scattered to the four

corners of the nation. The enmmerciai

experts of a far-off state who made a

$50,000 wager that there was oil in those

parts were not attracted by the senti-

mental atmosphere about the school—cas-

tle and its hive of retainers. Their sur-

veyors took no account of the almost

sacred history that belongs to everything

within reach of vision from thetower loft.



“If we hit it,” they say, “we‘ll make

a burg out of this place. Wonder you

tellers never thougbt‘of getting busy on

this proposition yoursclves."



It is the spirit of the age. Sir Walter

Scott stands no show with steam shov-

els, pipe-lines and railroad cars,





 





A WATERMELON WAR;





- BY ADELA S. CODY.





The vine grew on Mr. Norton‘s side of

the fence but a stray runner had cropt

through a knotholc: in one of the lower

boards and snugglcd down among the

petunias that were massed under the

hollyhocks which rose in a gorgeous ar—

ray of red and white along the trim walk

which led to Mrs. Fenmore's door. There

it flowered and bore a melon that acted

like the little green peach which proved

so disastious to Johnny Jones and his

sister. Sue, for “it grew and it grew and

it grew” in the most remarkable man—

ner until it threatened to reach the tops

of tie hollyhocks themselves.



Islrs. Fcnmore looked at it with admir-

ing eyes and a troubled mind. Daily she

.-sked herself, did it belong to her or to

her neighbor?



They were not on “speaking terms”

and not by the stiffest bow did they ao-

knowlz‘duo that they were aware of each

other’s existence. So Mr. Norton did not

know that the prize melon of Sweetbriar

llulo had rambled off his premises anl

was flourishing among his neighbor’s

li'iwm‘s.



She had a hard task to impress upon

thc mind of her nine—yeur—old son the

fact that the melon did not become theirs

just because it. happened to grow on

thcir side of the fence, and that “plug-

ging” it to test its lipencss was not to

be thought of for one moment. But ev-

ery time Eddie passed up or down the

walk he would pause and furtively push

aside its veil of glowing petunias and

pound its big spccklcd side with his list,

listening eagerly to ht-ar tho drum-like

(who which would proclaim that it was





I'ornlj,‘ to be catcn. And his air of mys—

tery and the hints he dropped when he

cut-muuwrt-d (‘laicncc Norton were fun-1y





maddening to that young person.



Although Eddie kcpt his secret darkly,

its intluoncc was fclt among the boys of

the Village who took sides with the

twain. a‘though ignorant of the cause of

the ll‘tlllifio. Eddie was always able to

find tine. fat anglcworins any hour dur-

ing the lishing season, and was the best

pitt-lnr in the club, and wasn‘t afraid to

huh! bumblt‘hccs in his bare hand, while

Clarence was grncrous in treats of

chewing gum and tafi’y and always had

various kinds of pencils and bits of

string it. lolltl or give. so each boy be-

came the head of a gang which upheld

him and whatever he did.



Surrounded by their gang as “backers"

one day, the boys had a glorious “scrap-

ping match." and Eddie carried hOme

one eye hiddcn by a thick black “shut-

ter" and wore a corsage bouquet of blue

and black marks over his chest, while

Clarence surprised his father ’by the un-

usual width and vivid color of his nose

and a “tattoo” of black and blue spots

over his chest and shoulders. _



After the heir of his house had been

bathed in witch-hazel by the colored

housekeeper, Mr. Norton took him by

the hand and marched into Mrs. Fen-

more’s yard.



Mrs. Fenmore came to the door with

a bright color in her cheeks and a.





brighter sparkle in her eyes, enveloped





in an aura of arnica and Witch—hazel.



“'Vt’ell?" she questioned, curtly.



“Madam, I have called to protest

against the laxity of your control of that

young ruffian who assaulted my son and

—as you may seer—so vilely disfigured

him."



Mrs. Fenmore gave her head a toss and

said, scornfully, “Poor little Sissy-boy,

was its pretty face spoiled by naughty,

naughty Eddie? It's too bad!”



Mr. Norton grew red with anger. “You

are determined to send that unfortunate

boy of yOurs to the gallows by encour-

aging his evil tendencies,” he said hotly.

“From my soul I pity the child who is

actually spurred. into rowdyism by the

parent whose aim should be to safeguard

him against it."



“Huh! Your Clarence is a shining ex—

ample of parental influence in restrain—

ing a boy from rowdyism." sneered Mrs.

Fcnmore. “Look there!" She wave-.1

her hand dramatically towards her son,

who had appeared in the doorway beside

ill'l‘ with a big handkerchief hiding one

(gyr- and numerous pieces of court plaster

<-riss—c1os.~:iug his frccklcd face.



Mr. Norton frowned fiercely, not so

much at this evidence of his son’s pugil-

istic powers, as at the unholy satisfac—

tion that tilled his bosom at the thought

that Claronce had given at least as much

as he had received in the battle. Dis—

guise it as we will, we all admire the

one who can give, as well as take, hard

blows in the struggles of life, whether

those struggles be physical or moral

ones.



“The. provocation was sufficient to—to

~justify the—‘thewaction of my son," he

linally stammcrx‘d; “but I shall sce that

he is punished in accordance with the

gravity of the offense.”



“No doubt,” scoffed Mrs. Fcnmore.

“You will probably take him to a show

and make him drink pink lemonade!"



Mr. Norton flushed still deepcr. Per-

haps her shaft struck nearer’ the mark

than she herself“ guessed.



“At least I shall see that he is not

abused again by the poor misguided

child who has the misfortune to be your

son,” retorted Mr. Norton.



The principals in the case grinned re—

assuringly at each other. The storm area.

was growing wider and they saw an ex-

cellent prospect of excitement before

them. Eddie winde his solitary eye and

Clarence tried to turn up his nose in

scorn. an attempt so remarkable in its

effect that Eddie laughed aloud. and the

patches over his face became so amusing

in their grotesque/«mess that Clarence

echoed the laugh.



“Come here, my son,” said Mr. Norton,

with dignity.



"Come into the house, Eddie,” ordered

Mrs. Fenmore, sharply.



That evening Mrs. Fenmore cut the

melon from its vine and ordered the col—

ored bay who was her assistant garden—

er, to carry it to Mr. Norton.



“Mis' Fenmore, ma’am, yoh shorely

isn't gwine ter give dat man dis yere

fine mellun? It growed in yer garding

an' ’longs ter yoh,” protested that youth.





seriously





 





“It belongs to Mr. Norton—so take it

to him,” was the firm reply.



Mr. Norton, seated on his front porch,

beheld a negro boy approaching very

slowly, bowed beneath what seemed to

be an enormous hump upon his back.



He was surprised to see the hump

transformed into a huge watermelon as

the boy unstrapped it and laid it care-

fully upon the porch.



“Mis’ Fenmore sends yoh dis yere.”

was the rather sullen explanation of the

gift.



Mr. Norton dropped his cigar and smil-

ed indulgently.



"It‘s just like Kate—all fire and tow—

blazing out at one in a perfect fury, but

never too proud to acknowledge she is in





'fault and always willing to make up

again. She hasn’t changed, I find, since





we quarreled and made friends almost

daily in old Kentuck,” he mused, almost

audibly.



“An' she tol’ me ter give yoh dis—”

went on the boy, handing him a small

white misslve.



Mr. Norton took it with a feeling of

intense satisfaction and turned on the

light in order to read it. But the look

speedily changed to one of indignation as

he perused the curt note.



“Take that thing back and tell LIPS.

Fcnmore that I do not wish to have any

communication with her what-ever. I

(-an already see the poisonous influence of

her son’s example in Clarence.”



Clarence had come out on the porch

and was eagerly inspecting the water-

melon. A look of keen disappointment:

crossed his features as the negro, with

a grin, proceeded to strap the melon on

his back.



“Mis’ Fenmore, he sez dat he don‘t

want ter have his son pizened, an' here‘s

de mellun back," was the message- the

boy gave as he began to unstrap the

melon in Mrs. Fenmore’s dining-room.



“The idea! Does he take me for a.

Lucretia Borgia? I won’t have his hate-

ful old melon on my place one instant:

longer. Return it at once!" cried Mrs.

Feinnore, with blazing eyes.



Eddie, whose face had shone with

pleased anticipations at the sight of the

returned melon, sighed regretfully and

glanced longingly at the forbidden fruit.

Sambo looked at her protestingly.



“But, ma’am, he says dat he don’t

-want—-—" - '



“Take that melon back this instant!”

commanded the lady.



“My buck's half broke now, totin’ dis

yere mellun 'round to folks what don’t.

want it," grumbled the boy in an aside

to Eddie. “White folks am shorely queer.

Why docsn‘t dey give it ter someone

what don‘t hab ter be forced tcr eat it?"



“I guess it's fine and ripe,” said Eddie,

stroking the big speckled side caress-

ingly.



“it shorely is,"

hc left the room.



"Mis’ Fenmorc, sah, sez she ain’t no

Creeture. Bargain, an' she won’t have yer

ol’ mellun, nohow," was the return mes-

sage as the boy again dumped the melon

at Mr. Norton’s feet.



“Hey—here! Tlidr’t I tell you that I

wanted no comnnlnication with Mrs. Fen—

more? Take that object out of my sight

as quickly as you can, or you’ll be sorry

that you came bothering me."



“Say, boss, you might as well take

it,” said Sambo, earnestly. “Dal; wom-

an ’sists dat de mellun 'longs ter yoh,

an' I dasn't go back wif it. Lemme cut

it, sah, an‘ yoh jest try a slice ”





Sambo assured him as





 





“Take the detestable thing away at

once," commanded Mr. Norton.





Very slowly and reluctantly the negro

began to put the straps around the de-

spised melon. Before he had them buck-

led there was a fierce chug, chug, chug,

followed by a blaze of light flying along

the road in front of the house. A wild

scream rang upon the air and Mr. Nor-

ton sprang tc his feet crying, “Clarence!

Where is Clarence?"



"I. seed him chasin’ a firebug on de

road as I cum in, sah.”



Tile automobile had stopped and as

Mr. Norton ran down to the scene two

white-faced men were lifting a limp lit-

tle figure from the road beside it.



“He ran straight in front of us with-

out a bit of warning]: apologized one of

the men as Mr. Norton put his hand

across his eyes with a groan of “clap-

ence!”



They carried him into the receptio

hall and laid him on'the sofa. ‘



In an agony of apprehension Mr. Nor-

ton looked on while Mrs. Fenmore deftly

examined the unconseious child with the

skill and knowledge of the trained nurse.



She looked up with an assuring smile.



“Don’t be alarmed, Francis, he is not

inlured,” she consoled him.





he: artist -





“Now bring me some water and col:-

ogne.’? _ ,, - ~



When, Clarence revived he found him-

self supported by the arm‘ of Mrs. Fen-

more, while his father stood gazing at

him with a look of such anguish in his

eyes that the boy’s sole desire was to

chase it away.



-“See, Papa, I caught it'!” he Smiled,

holding out the firefly which he still held

in his clenched hand. “But it must be

different from the- ones we’ve always had

here for, just as I touched it, there was

a big flash and I fell down and hurt my

head someway. It must be a. new kind

of electrical lire-fly, although it looks just

like the others.”



"The firefly that knocked you down

was an automobile,” said his father. “Are

you hurt badly?”



“No, I just feel shaky—and my legs

are wobbly," answered the boy arising

and going to his father.



The gentlemen who had waited to learn

the extent of his injuries looked reliev-

ed. They offered to send medical as—

sistance but Mrs. Fenmore assured them

that it was unnecessary and they went

away.



“15 there anything I can do for you,

son?" asked Mr. Norton, anxiously. “Is





'there anything you would like?"





“Yes, I would like to keep Mrs. Fen«

more here always, and I’d like a slice of

her watermelon right now,” was the

prompt rejoinder.



Eddie, who had stolen in as a quiet

onlooker, darted out and dragged the

melon into the apartment.



“Here it is, Ma!" he cried.



Mr. Norton looked questiioningly at

Mrs. Fenmore.



“What do you say, Kate? Shall we di-

vide the melon and unite our future

lives, forgetting and forgiving the quar-

rels and mistakes of the past?”



She blushed as rosily as a girl and

said, laughingly, “Get me a. knife. Fran-

(is! .That poor motherless child shall

have all the watermelon he, can eat."



“Golly, but dis is de premium mellun,”

laughed Sambo, on Mr. Norton’s back

porch, his face buried in a semi-circle

of the juicy, red meat, while on Mrs.

Fenmore’s front porch Mr. Norton lin-

gered to say, “Those boys of ours, Kate,

are fine plucky littlechaps and it would

beapity to have them fighting each oth-

er when they ought) to- be taught to (li-

rect their blows against; the» evil'slofi the

age. Since they have inherited ‘theiritmil—

itant qualities from us, we must help

each other to show them how to use

them for the good of mankind."





 





THE GLORIFIED COMMON DAY.





BY DORA ll. STOCKMAN.





V\'hen the evening shadows gently fall

And your setting sun is slipping o'er

the brink,

through Time‘s

backward look

Across the vanished years and think—-

and think——

Watching the pictures Memory shall re-

call,

Which one 9will you judge then—the best

of all.





When telescope you





\Vill the picture be of childhood,

()f some joyous care—free day

\Vhen you plucked the Springtime blos—

snms

In the sunshine of the- May?





Or some. soft, deep, silvery moonlight,

As you tarried at a gate



By the fragrant blushing roses

When Love, smiling, sealed your fate?





Will it be the flush of victory,

That ethereal hour of fame



Vth-n the throng hushed into silence,

Plaudit to a. well-earned name?





Or that fiercer, harder. conflict.

strained nerves and muscles

tight, '

vvhpn you wrestled with the Angel

Through the long hours of the night?





That picture of the shadows

Veiled in heavy mists of rain,

Where the trees are sighing, moaning

Like a soul in mortal pain?

Will the picture you remember paint

these crises on the way,

Or will you love the miniatures taken

from the common day?





Days you gladly bore the burden

With your loved ones by your side,



Hearing songs of j0yous laughter

Guiding steps in ways untried;





Banished tons of childish troubles

‘Vith the magic of your smiles,



Reaching golden cords of prayer

Past the intervening miles?





When the evening shadows gently fall

And peacefully your sun slips o’er the

brink.

When thmugh Time’s

backward look

Across the years, and think—and think





telescope you





———and think——



The sweetlest picture Memory shall then

reca



Will glorifly the Common Day—the best

of al .





 

   





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AUG 3. 1912. ,

LEGEND .OF THE CORN.





~___——





BY L._ A. -THORNTON.





By many a. camp-flre’s ruddy light,



This legend quaint, of yore was told,

When dandelions turned to white



And maize fields showed their yellow





old.

And those who listened. aged and youth,

Ne’er questioned, in their hearts, its

truth.





\Vhen Iroquois were bold and strong——

A line of braves of stalwart mein—

One led the chase, however long,

His steps a king‘s, his brow serene,

With tireless heart and courage high,

The light of freedom in his eye.





And in a Wigwam, dark and low,

There dwelt a.m0dest Indian maid,



As fair as fairest flowers that grow

0n meadow—side or woodland glade,



\Vith heart as tender as a dove—



A gentle maiden, formed for love.





The brave beheld the maid and turned

His head to pay her tribute due;

The maiden looked on him and turned

For him to speak, as maidens do.

And then they later named the date,

\thn she should go to be his mate.





By nights he watched, in woodland near,

Lest one should steal his bride away,

And every sound that reached his ear

Left him to anxious doubts a prey,

Until, one night, he woke and found

Her footprints in the yielding ground.





The maiden, walking in her sleep,

Chose out no path, but wandered free,

A trail that easy was to keep,

And soon he came where he could see

Her fair young face, her tight closed

eyes.

They knew not terror, nor surprise.





\Vi'h eager haste to draw her near,

The lover rushed, in wild alarm.

The maiden, wakening, screamed in fear,

And as he clasped her in his arm

She trembled, stiffened, shrank

changed

Into a plant,





and

unknown and strange.





He sought to clasp her hands, as fair,

As lily buds at early morn,

And found, instead of fingers fair,

He held but ears of yellow corn.

And where her locks had floated free

But tasseled corn-silk could he see.





This is the legend told of yore,

\Vhen Iroquois their camp—tires lit,

And when the corn its fruitage bore

They saw the niaiden’s form in It.

FOr so. the story said, was born

The first silk—tasseled stalk of corn.





 





 





EXTRACT FROM Al‘l AUTOBIOGRA-

PHY.





 





BY UNCLE iii,ETA\VAL.





The two children, Alice and James, hall





‘becnoplaying tag on the grass plat that





flaw—EA rd...” . .





 





 





 





bordered my special seed corn patch near

the house. They were tired and Alice

and ”Shep," the dog, were lying on the

sod near a deep green stalk of corn,

while James went to the house. It was

a warm, sleepy day. Shep was Soon

dreaming of gophers, when Alice was

surprised to hear, in a weak but audible

voice, “Good afternOOn, Miss Alice; how

warm the sun is and how quickly ‘Shcp’

went to sleep; he must have been very

tired. I have tried to make you hear me

for several days but you have gone to

the house before it was quiet enough.

There is a weed feeding upon the soup





my roots need; I wish you would pull

him out. Thank you. I shall do better

now that the robber is not fattening





himself at my expense in the shadow we





make while I suffered because of the

heat.

“Did not know that cornstalks could





. -t.





talk? Why, Alice, all plants talk but

not with words. Look at my neighbors.

What are they telling you? Certainly.

They are suffering from the want of

moisture. We drink, eat, and sleep the

same as you do and you know how you

feel when you are thirsty. Think, then,

what must be our condition, tied here in

one place, if we cannot get water. Yes,

those drooping leaves, with curled edges

that emit a dry sound as they strike the

body when moved by a breeze are tell:

ing a story. I call it talking. No, I

am the only stalk that can speak’in

words, and I can only do it on sleepy

days like'thi's to tired children who are

resting. So our days are often dull, but

there are lively times here in this corn

patch after dark, I assure you; especially

on moonlight nights.



”As I cannot move around my roots

must absorb such food as is near them.

I am told that many of the plants are

thus made sick and die. You see we

cannot choose like you; the happiness of

our short lives then depends upon the

seedbed prepared by the farmer to a

great extent. Your father has made this

soil to be mellow and rich to a. great

depth, porous and filled with humus; it

holds moisture much better than the

fields and has a better class of food, so

we live better than the field corn.



“You would like to hear about

work? Much of it is so common





my life

you





VTHE MICHIGAN FARMER.





attached by horny points in rows to a

common center nursing tube. You call

the cradles kernels or grains and the

nursing tube a cob; both, as one, an ear

of com.



“All of my family are very proud of

the way every mother cares for her corn

babies. “'hy shouldn’t we be? Are we

not monocotyledons? The health and

comfort of each little bud as it is being

ripened saps the life blood of its mother

beyond recovery. There are many plants

like that weed yOu pulled~that can raise

baby-buds year after year and not die

because of the act, but not so with my

family.



“Mother knew when she first arranged

the threads of silk running from each of

Our cells to the open air that she had

but a short time to live, so she devoted

the rest of her life to the work of pro—

viding for her babies. Not only is there

a large number, but eat-h baby must be

provided with condensed nutritious food

for a future use. have its own horny

point connection buried in tho breast of

the nursing tube (the cob) and a house

of horny skin that will protect from

common injury. She held as up

ye nursed through the cob the thin soup

that Dame Nature had first helped moth-

er to cook in her leaves by the aid of the

outside force, the sun. How mother





emitted oxygen you need and inhaled the‘





carbmi dioxide you exhale is something





 





 





 





An ingenious Farm Boy and his





A youthful reader,

I would write you a little letter.

gan Farmer? My name

this rig, all but the wagon.

ever I want to.”





 





living in Macomb county. writes

\Vill yOu

is Donald Warren and the. dog’s name is Bose.

\Ve are good friends together.





 





Faithful Friend.

as follows:





this picture





Docile,



“I thought

in the Michi--

I made

i hitch Bose up when—





plcase put





 





know it now; but, like all lives.

may be details interesting to any

child. My friends, the summer breeze,

thc insects, the birds, Grandmother and

Grandfather Toad and many of my mid-

night visitors have informed me of our

family history for ages past, not neg-

lecting my own babyhood while with my

mother and after being brought to your

home by your father,



“It seems I first grew by the aid of

Dame Nature and an outward fort-c, the

sun, on my mother’s body in a bed like

this last season. There were many of us

baby corn plants, in horn-like cradles,





must

there





 





GETTING THEM INTERESTED.





 





 





 





Six-year-old Don Reid and





A Tuscola county reader, Mr. William Reid,

It is evitlUllt

interested early in life, the picture showing his six-year—old





which the above is reproduced.

born upon the farm





 





his Yearling Colt, Nettie.





sends the postcard photo from

that he believes in getting those





son, Don Reid, exercising a yearling colt that has already been broken to bar-





ness.





Don is the proud owner of this filly colt and calls her Nettie.





you can study at home,

mixed this cat bonic acid

push thin soup, ma king





but how

with tho





it thick and





nmirishing to us babies, is another story.l

us ;

l raphers use glass plates and that





were with

in which





I‘lame Nature’s

night and day.





workmon





The Soil my





roots rest, if mellow and porous, is filled:





with oxygen which is in all life and

the great cause of destruction. (‘lxygen

is found in air and water. Both forms

are needed by our roots. Keeping one

or both from us causes us to turn yel—

low, droop and die. If the farmer

keeps the Soil mellow and tine we «an

get the air. I said finc, for a lump is a

locked matter and a Mod so much

wasted soil, as we can not use anything

it contains.



“\Ve often suffer after storms

hardening or (‘rusting of

shut: out the oxygen, or the water

stands in the soil and, by its

keeps out the oxygen from the air. in

t-ither case we must rely upon the farm—





often





is





from (i

the surfaco that





or to either drain off the extra water or

break the soil crust.

“So far as we plants are interested,‘





the Still is a vast storehouse built of poll-





blos, sand and mud on rocky foundations

with joists of limostonc containing bins.

apartments, dining halls, \\t>l‘l( rooms.

many workmen, for various classes of

work, with other inhabitants, good and

liiltl. all ncoding' oxygen.



“Mother‘s roots gathered nutriment





from these bins, by the aid of tho micro—

scopic hairs on her active roots, through

an osmos process which your tcavhor can

explain. As I said, much oxygen was

Collected, more than she needed: this she

thrcw away by the transpiration process

going on through the stomata or months





located in the leavos. Thus, you 'seo, my

leaves are constantly reversing the ef~

fects of your respiration by giving off

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body, was sleeping in that kernel on a

bed of endospcrni Wrapped in a leaf—like

blanket soon to be awakened by the

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apartments.



“When the walls of my cradle were

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with a horny nail, detrrinined to enter a

bin and help myself to the elements

found there, at the sanit- time stretching

my bud—like head to reach the light. and

air. \\'hat has happened to me since~~—"



“\Vake up, Alice, mother wants you,"

cried James as ho tickled her car.





HOW I CAPTURED A WILD GOBBLER.





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IKY ISA AC MOTI‘ZS.





“'hen a small boy on the farm it was

my business in the afternoon to stop my

plot» a little earlier than my brothers,

takt- out my pony and go after the cows,

for wc lived in the. west where the range

was free. Also it was my duty to drive

up the calves every morning as soon as

i got up. So. every morning for years

the first things I did were to dress, wash

my face and hands, catch my plow pony,

liop upon his back, sometimes with only

a halter to guide him, and go after the

calves, which were generally not far

away.



One bright .Tune morning I started on

my daily morning ride just at daybreak.

\Vc lived a half mile from the. river,

where the grazing was very flno. Sonic-

tiines the ealvcs'went to the rivt'r ho.-

ioni and did not come. up until late un-

less I went after them. If I couldn't hear

the bell close around the house 1 know

they had gone to the river. so this morn-

ing I rode straight for the river bottom.

Pretty soon I heard the bell away up

stream. It was near sun—up when I

found them. so I hurried them along at

a lively rate.



Our farm was in the edge. of the Woods,

next to a wide prairie on the. west. (in

the way home we cht, along rather near





the edge of the prairice about a hundred -





yards from it~~sin the edge, of the thin

woods ,aiid while passing along through

these woods I saw a halt‘ dozen wild tur-

kt‘ys run out of lll‘.‘ bushes ahead of the

calves and go towards lilt‘ prairie.



There were a few wild turkeys to be

found near our farm. but it was diflicult

to get near enough to kill them with a

shotgun, and this was the only kind of

gun we bad. My older brother George

had gone turkey hunting several times in

the early morning. By calling them he

had managed to get several shots at

them, but the woods were so thin that

the turkeys could see, him a long: way oil”,

and the small shot scattered so at, long

range that he had never been able to

kill one.



I had heard a cowboy, who stayed at

our house one night. tell about running

Wild turkeys down on horseback on the

plains. He said it was easy to do this

if you found them in open country and

you were on a good horse. \\'licn I sai"

the turkeys making for the prairie I left

the calves and rode towards them. I did

not crowd them too much, as i didn‘t

want to make. them fly up at tirst. but I

kept close enough not to lose sight Gt

them.



\t'hen they got to the edge of the

woods, with the. prairie in front of them,

thcy turned up along the edge of the

timber as though they WOLild go back

into the woods to the north. I circled

around them briskly through the thin

woods, and they turned out into the

prairie. The bunch grass on the prairie

was tall and afforded them some protec-

tion, so they ran out unhesilatingly into

the open space among this tall grass.

liniibtlr-ss they expected that l would pass

(In up the river bottom. I almost lost

sight of liit'i‘d here, but as I rode on

briskly towards the place where I knew

they were I saw them going on towards

the open prairie. I had noticed a big

black gobbler with white spots on his

wings. He was running through the tall

grass about seventy—five yards from the

woods. I kept in his direction, taking

to go fast enough to scare them

yet, as I feared they would rise





0&3'8 not

up just





ind tly back into the timber. There were.

a few scattering trees far out on the

prairie, and also some clusters of bunch

grass, while far across, fully at mile away,

was a line of‘dark green timber marking

the course of a creek that ran into the

liver south of our farm.



“'th they were too far out to turn

back I began to crowd them a little more,

k~eping my eye on the big white—winged

gobbler. “'lth about 300 yards between

them and the edge of the woods I crowd-

ed them still more, for up to this time

they acted as though they might turn

back towards the woods at any time but

as they got farther out they started run-

ning straight ahead. Then I put my

hol‘So to a run and began to gain rapidly

on the turkeys. The big gobbler was

ahead. Vi'hen I came within perhaps

sixty yards of them they scattered. Some

rose. and flew straight ahead. Among

these was the gobbler. He was very big,

and made a tremendous roaring sound

with the flapping of his wings. You

have no idea, unless you have heard

them, how much noise a big wild turkey

makes in ilying.



\Yhen I saw him rise I put my horse

to his greatest speed, leaning over his

neck, shaking out the reins and sfapping

him on the. neck to encourage him. He

seemed to realize what was expected of

hint, and I never knew him to run so

fast in all his life. In spite of this, how-

ever, the gobblcr gained on us {right-

fully, for he llt'W like a cannon ball. lie

was a big heavy turkey, and very fat.

1 knew this by the loud noise he made in

tlying. and by his tlying so near the.

ground. He had not risen high, and

gradually came lower and lower. for a

big turkey never flies high if he rises

from the level ground, as he is so heavy.



Iie flew perhaps 500 yards. then came

to the ground with a. thump and began

running. I was at least 200 yards behind

him when he struck the ground. I could

not see him, but I had marked the direc-

tion “'t'll, and felt he would run straight

ahead when he came down. As my horse

was going at terrific speed it wasn’t long

before I got sight of him again. running

along between the clumps of bunch grass.

l'retty soon we were close on to him

again. As we continued to gain, he tried

1; rise and fly again. He flapped his

wings terribly but couldn't get off the

ground.



By this time he had begun to run as

though Vt-ry tired, and wobbled from side

to side. It didn‘t take me many seconds.

to catch up with him and pass him a

yard or so to the, left. I struck at him

with a large stick which I carried, and

he dodged off to the right and started in

a new direction. My well trained pony

stopped and turned in the same direction.

and we were soon close upon him again.

.\s “'o overtook and passer] him I struck

at i‘is head but missed hint. and he, turn~

ed in a different direction. “’hen I turned

my horse again the turkey was near a

large clump of bunch grass. As we. be.-

gan to crowd him be commenced running

around this bunch of grass, weaving from

side to side as though about to fall.



He ran around the clump of grass three

or four times then made a dive into the

grass head tirst and sank down with on‘y

his tail in view. I jumped off my horse,

grabbed him by both legs and dragged

him out. He flopped frantically and al-

most tore loose from me, tired as he was.

I didn‘t realize what a monstrous big

turkey he was until I had him in my

hands alive.



Holding him by the legs with my left

hand I struck him on the head several

times with the big end of the stick. Then

I climbed on my horse again, with me

turkey in my right hand .and gallopc-i

home with him dangling at my side.



The sun was an hour high when I got.

home. The calves stood bloating around

the pen, the cows lowed inside, and

mother Stood in the kitchen d'4m‘ W0“—

(lo-ring what had become of me. but when

she saw the pig gobbler in my hand, and

ltcard my story. she was VBI‘Y much

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having been duly harvested, much



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how the outpute.t,pleases the mothers-in-

iaw. Sfflow thifigs are going with Mrs.

Mason since John married that Susie

Dimples and took her in with his mother

is varied by wonderment as to how Susie

is getting along with that particular Mrs.

Masmu .. However, the question is put,

the thought behind it is the same, there

is bound to be trouble between the two

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Though why the jokers always make it

the husband's mother-in-law who stirs

lungs up. when nine times out of ion it

is the other way around, nobody seems

to know.





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About once out of one thousand times

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his wife's mother. But ninety—nine timcs

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effort to see things through the eyes of

the other.



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witir'the young woman. llut this time I

am going to take sides with the older

one. The poor woman has had little

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de‘ rv‘g/very much, still I think‘shehas

a VW grounds for complaint on hcr sidc.



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at the man in the case from the ‘same

point of View. The wife regards him as

a man, the wisest, best man in the

world, who nccds no advice from anyone

because he is a fountain of wisdom him—

self. (N. B.~—I am speaking now of

those brief days known as the honey—

moon). The mother sees him as a boy

she has had to watch over and chasten

for the last 25 years in order to kcep

him from going plumb wrong. She has

fondled and spanked him with the ut-

most impartiaiity,. advised him and

threatened him, flattered and ridiculed

Whichever would best bring about the

end she desired. She held his hand when

his first tooth was pulled; she knew all

about the time he first stole. his father’s

razm' and crept furtivcly up to his room

to come back with his face haggled in a

fearful and wonderful manner, and she

thrillcd with pride when be cast his first

vote, after she and his father had told

him how to do it. She knows all his

good points and all his shortcomings,

though she wouldn’t let a soul tell her

he had one. In short, she knows he is

a very human sort of boy, child she

rcally thinks, and now to see some snip

of a girl gush up at him and actually

regard him as a man of sound mind and

sober judgment. is too much for the good

lady. It is small wonder that she can

not refrain from a snort of disgust.





And when the first question of import—

ance comes up in the new family and he

listens to that Susie Dimples, whom the

mother has watched grow up from pig-

tail and pinafore days instead of going

to his own mother for advice, I ask any

fair minded jury of daughters-in-law,

can the mother be blamed for feeling

abused? Of course She can’t. If she

were a real wiSe woman she would skill-

fully hide that hurt feeling and reflect

that it is the way of the world, just the

way the boy’s father did 30 years ago.

But the truth is that she is a very hu-

man woman and when she is hurt she

shows it. some way or other.





In the home, too, whether you move in

with her or she moves off the farm and

leaves yen and your new husband to

wrestle with the problem of keeping

house alone, can she be blamed if she





occasionally seems to interfere? Sup-

posing she stays, can you blame her if

she doesn't find it easy to sit down and

see some. young woman lo-rding it over

the home that has been hers for years?

Perhaps you are a. perfectly capable

housekeeper, an excellent manager and

the prize—winning cook of your neigh-

borhood. You may be a much better

housekeeper than your mother-in-law,

and naturally you would rcscnt any sug—

gestions from her. That isn’t the point

in these disagreements. The fact is

that the home has always been hers and

she just naturally can't bear to see one

of the neighbor’s daughters coming in

and taking things out of her hands. Can

you blame her? What did you and your

mother feel when your brother's wife

came to the home and wanted to become

mistress? You were a great dcal quick-v

cr than your mother in telling her “not

to butt in,” and here you are doing the

some thing in another home and you

think the woman you are pushing out

should not resent it.



Now don’t begin to say the wife should

be mistress in her own home. VV-e aren‘t

looking at things through your eyes to-





day, but through the eyes of your moth—

er-in—law. We are trying to see if she

hasn‘t some grievances.



There'll be a thousand things on which

you will disagree, not because either is

very much wrong, but because you

haven’t the same point of‘ View. She

doesn't understand yOu and you do not

understand her. There is a grcat deal

of talk about husband and wife being

one, but the fact remains that you have

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says things which hurt you, not because

she wants to hurt you but becaum- shc

doesn’t understand your temperament

and has no idea how her words sting. If

the truth were kuoWn you probably hurt

hcr even more deeply than she does you.

for added to the sting of your words is

the knowledge that she is slowly but

surely being put on the shelf by younger

blood.



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balance that. For there is nothing hard-

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“FINISHING” THE GIRL’S EDUCATION.





BY KATHARINE A. CRIMES.





A serious problem arises in many

homes when the daughter of the family

outgrows the lbcal' school. This is es—

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country, Or in a 'small tOWn wherr- the

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at home and letting the education go

without finishing.



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the grades somewhere between the ages

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School permanently at that early date

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Some are staid and sensible at seven-

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to say, howevcr, that very ft’VV girls un-

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gaincd in one way is so easily lost in an-

other, and far more vital particular, that

this plan should be adopted only under

the most necessary circumstances.



One case which occurred not long ago

may be cited as a fair average result of

allowing girls to go away to school [00

young. A farmer’s daughter, whose par-

ents were most anxious to educate her

as well as possible. was “passed” out of

the rural school at fifteen. 'The nearest

high school was too far away to admit

of her attending from home, and there

were several potent reasons why it was

not thought best for her to board in

town. The place was rather rough, and

there was a clique of girls in the high

school, about, her own age, who were

known to be objectionable companions

for her. Besides she would be compelled





to board with comparative strangers, as

there were no relatives or close friends

with whom she could have a home.

After long and anxious consideration,

it was decided to be best to send her to

a very select and highly recommended

boarding school for girls, in a city 70





miles away. A personal visit to the

School impressed the- mother with the

desirability of the plan and she was as-

sured by the lady principal that only the

most carefully reared girls were admit-

ted. Although the expensc was rather

heavy for people in their circumstances,

it was cheerfully madc up by parcntal

self—denial, and cvcn by the selling of

stock that was rially needed on the

farm. The girl’s w<.-1farc must come first,

declared both fathcr and mother, looking

proudly at the bright, sweet-faced

daughter who was the oldcst of their

brood.



So she “went away to school," carry—

ing with her the highcst hopes, fondcst

anxieties, and proudcs: dreams of the

loving group left at home. Even the lit—

110 boys willingly accepted the curtailing

of their plcasuros that "sister" might

have a chance for school. Her enthusi-

astic letters after entering scemed to jus—

tify the step that had bot-n taken, and

the parents bcgan carefully to plan so

that she might have the full four years

there.



Sue returned at Christmas for a brief

visit. Thcy all wondered at the change

in her, and approved, the younger chil~

drcn admiringly, the parents with doubt-

ful reservc. There were some disap-

pointing featurcs, but she had lu-cn there

such a little while, and her time at home

was so short, that they felt they could

not judge fairly. It was not until she

came home for the long vacation that

they were able to obscrve fully the ef-

fects of her year away from home.



They soon discovercd that she had ac-

quircd a smattering of French and Ger-

man, which she took care to air 0n cvcry

occasion. Close attention soon showed

that her musical taste, which had been

carefully cultivalcd during previous years

by both mother and teat-hers, had so do-

gcneratcd that she no longer found any

beauty in the grard old fugues and sym—

phonics of the masters, but went [to

spasms of delight over any light, trashy

“drawing-room com1.>0sition.” Mathe—

matics, in which she had once particu-

larly shone, she had learned to “abhor."

while history—«except for a few semi-

historical novels—was a “grind.” Her

English studies had consisted of learning





.to read “that perfectly lovely” Browning





with an exaggerated accent, and in au-

preciating the fact that Shakespeare was

“too sweet for anything." Her naturally

well-modulated speech had become high—

pitched and artificial, while. worst of all,





   





shc manifestly burned to impress the

simple folks “back home” with the fact

that she was rapidly acquiring "culture."



Mother, too, SOOn discovered that the

sweet, natural, unaffectcd girl who went

away had come back an ultra-modern

young lady, who undcrsiood just how to

pad her instep so as to show off her

patent leather slippers to the best all--

vantage, how to remedy defccts of tiguro

by judicious lacing and “forms,” and how

to use powders of various shades on her

wild—rose skin until she- looked like a

wax doll. She had also become an adopt

in the mysteries of manlcuring and mas-

sage, and watched her round, babyish

throat anxiously for incipient wrinkles.

in short, the dear, whole—souled, uncon—

sciously attractive child had become a.

simpcring, superficial, self-satisfied miss,

aping ways that Sht‘ had never been

taught to scc in their true light, because

they had never before touched her simple.

wholcsome life.



Needless to say, her “higher educa-

tion" 'cndcd right there. Father and

mother spent more Stet-'pless, anxious

nights, trying to decide how best to bring

back the genuine swoctncss they had





on wit‘tingly sacrificed. “We ought to

have known better,” they told them-

selves reproachfuiiy, but the mischief





was done, and they must undo it, if they

Could.



The next year she was sent back to

the district school, ostensibly to review,

but really to put her back into touch

with the hearty, wholesome life of the

girls and boys who had been her old

companions. iler music was once more

taken up under the patient, plodding

teacher who had built the foundation of

hcr musical education. New and at~

tractive books Wore bought for the home,

and Sllt' was allowed to plan a delight-

ful aml instructive course of reading for

the whole family. The younger children

wcn- brought to the front, and “big sis-

tcr” was asked to superintend their stud—

ics and amuscmcnts. ln evcry possible

way, the self—centered ai‘titiciality which

slu- had acquired at school was combat—

ted, and the hv-althful normality of her

childhoml restored. .



And it was restored, but it took sev—

t-ral years to do it. Of course, she might

have outgrown lie-r undesirable ways,

cven if allowcd to go lvack to school. But

nothing could recompense the woman

that she. would become for the loss of

the natural growth of those ycars.



in sccnring thc. boon of wholesome

Womunlincss for ilu-ir daughlcr, the So-

cullcd higher education was perforce

lli'glwcictl, in so far as tho routinc of the

schools was concerned. lint so far as

books, music, and un atmosphere of

simplicity and rciincment can furnish it,

she is receiving a real higher education

at home. l'ndcr thwir inilucncc she is

taking on the grmrionsncss of genuine

culture, and cxpumhng into the rich

lnxurinnce of thmxghti‘ul, unselfish wom—

anhood. If, when she has grown older,

she still dcsircs a collcge course, she will

find that these ycars have becn spcnt in

the best possible preparatory way.



’i‘l‘e question of the girl's education is

a serious one. \\'ithnut doubt, the host.

attainable is hcr due, but whcthcr the

bcst. is to bc secured by sending her

away from home while Still in hor middle

teens is to bc gravely doubtcd. Tho, girl

of that age needs her mother‘s watch-

i‘ulness, her father's protection, and the

quiet simplicity of the home atmosphere.

After she has become mature in judg-

ment. and has learned to rely upon her

own ideas of right and fitness, she may

safely be sent away from home, but not

ht‘fiil'e. Books and music may easily be

furnished her at home, and her educa-

tion rounded out by their aid, without

the risk and sacrifice incurred by send-

ing her away to “finish" it.





If your meat grinder seems dull just

grind a. piece of scouring brick through

it and see how well it sharpens and also

polishes it.—-Mrs. J. J. 0’0.





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RECONCILED.





BY G. T. EVANS.





Today, because our baby Ruth



(She’s my new sister), got a. tooth,



Ma. ran outside and hollered, “Oh,



Guess what there is to look at, Joe?”



(That’s not my father’s biggest name,



It’s Joseph), and then father came



A-flying in, and ma she said,



"The darling’s lying on the bed.”



And she and father went up stairs,



Both putting on a lot of airs,



.As if they thought the baby was



A little wonder. just because



She had one tooth. And then they kissed



Heir mouth, and cheeks, and ears, and

wrist: .



And ma said, “Oh, you dear Blue Eyes,



Your tootSie's such a sweet surprise!”



They didn’t know that l was there,



But when I cried. “It isn’t fair



To make a fuss about one tooth;



I’ve got just lots more teeth than Ruth,



I counted them and there was nine,



But you don’t even look at mine!”



They kissed me, too, and hugged me

tight.



And then I seemed to feel all right.





GIRLS WHO WORK TO SAVE

MOTHER.





 





BY E. E. n.



HERE go the two bos{ gimp, I know



I of," said my hostess one afternoon

its we sat on :he porch with our

sewing. “Their mother comes first with

“them, and their own wants are supplied

only after hers liaVe been iooked after.

If there are new clothes to be had moth—

er gets hers first and the daughters take

what is left. This is so directly opposed

to the general rule that it its worthy or

mention. This is not the elder woman‘s

doings, either, but the girls insist on it.



“l’urtlieiinore the mother is not a slave

to her children in that home." she con-

'tiiiued. "it is the girls and not the

mother who get up in the morning and

prepare the htcakt‘ast. Most of the cook—

ing: and baking they .‘llSti do and they do

all their own sewine: and mending.”



“But pray tell inc," 1 inquired, “what

does the mother do in this unique house—

hold, where the daughters take so much

of the Work upon themselVI-s‘.“



“'l‘he mothei'.’ 0. she has enough to

look after. The girls do not want her

to work herself to death for her children

the, way so many mothers do. She looks

alter the house in general, does quite a

bit of Work in the tlower garden and acts

as counsel in whatever way is required.

But as for going ahead with the house—

work she doesn’t do it."



Then I fell to thinking ltow nice it

Would be if all mothers were as sensible

as this one was and brought up their

daughters to work and to wait upon

mother instead of reversing the situation

as is so commonly done how—a—days.

Would it not smooth out the wrinkles and

take years. from the face of many a

struggling, hard-worked mother? And

would not the result be equazty as good

for the girls? \\'hat better development

for a yming life than to give it respon-

sibility and the «are for others? The

Stlf—sacriiice that so few of our young

people exercise widens the sympathies

and gives a broader scope to human in—

terest which is invaluable in character

building. Lct us strive for more thought-

ful daughters and fewer tired mothers.





HUMAN WELFARE QUERIES.





 





 





Household liditor:~l. Should one who

is nervous clerk in a. department: store?

2. Kindly advise results from taking:

patent medicine. Should one who is not

always stroni.r physically continuallytake,

it or let nature taki- its course, as ill

nervousness, loss of appetite and sleep?

3.1m you think .1 nervous gill should

learn dressmaking? ‘1. litres a dressmak—

ing: course by mail prove it hilt'tt-SS? I).

Yt'hat is the best remedy t‘t-x- unstiting

neth-s',’ ti, How can l send fancy work

patterns in tor the pain-ri’wll. R.



l. Nervous people are much better



with some tniploynient where they can

obtain plenty ot‘ pure, air. Some deputi-

nicnts iii a store do not i-tqtiirc exhaust-

int,r work, but the loin; hours and bad air

nould not help a ]l('i'\"lll.\ poison.

2, it is inadvisable. to take any patent

medicine unless told to do so i=3: a re—

lialtle physician. .l-iecauso one pawn has

been helped by a drug it does not follow

that another would be. it is not well to

“let nature take its Course" when inc is

neiyous and lt'roni insomnia.

Rotter go to a doctor who knows his

l’iusiiiess and follow his directions ini-

plicitly.



3. lll‘E‘FFnlflkillg would be a. poor trade

for a nervous woman. it is very exact-

ing. with long hours and close attention

to details, both of which are bad for a

person afflicted with "nerves.”



4. l never knew a person who took





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dressmaking course by mail, so can not of 36—inch material.





say if it would be a success. '





5. The best remedy for unstrung nerves 2' 4. 6. 8 and

is plenty of sleep, plain DOUI‘iShing fwd, inch all-over.





as well cooked cereals, beefsteak, lamb

chops, the white meat of chicken, bac0n,

milk and eggs, white or brown bread, and

no tea, coffee; candy, cake, pastry or

stimulants of any sort. Take plenty of

gentle exercise in the open air, don’t

Worry, and work as little as possible.



6. Send a. good clear photograph or a

good hand drawing of your fancy ‘work,

with carefully written instructions for

making it. “'rite only on one side of

the paper and use a. typewriter is pos-

sible, though this is not necessary if

your writing is distinct.



Household Editorz—I am going with a

party to Put-in-Bay. What would you

advise me to wear, a foulard dress or a

wash dress? ] have a new fonlard .[

want to wear, but my mother thinks I

should wear a wash dress. \Vhich is

right?—Molly.



By all means wear the wash dress for

an outing.





Household Editor:——Can you give me

a formula for making baking powder?—





New Cook.

Sift one pound and two ounces of





cream of tartar, a half pound of soda

and one-fourth pound of cornstarch to-

gether five or six times and put in an

air-tight can. It would be better to

make only about a quarter of this pro-

portion, as home-made baking powder

loses its strength much more quickly

than manufactured.



l-lousohold Editor:—l have a cake

recipe which calls for lemon juice but it

does not tell when to put it in. Can you

suggest the right way to mix the cake?

~Mrs. .



Mix the lemon juice with the eggs and

sugar and sift the soda with the flour.



llouslchold ltlditor:— My little girl is

very funny about her eating. She is

three years old and never eats anything

unless I coax her. She drinks a great

deal of milk, and seems to feel well.

\\'hat Would you advise me to doihu

Young Mother.



So long as she drinks plenty of milk

and seems to feel well I should not wor-

ry much about her. Milk is a food and

perhaps your child is not ready for any

other sort. See that the food she does

eat is suitable to her years, bread or

toast, eggs, well cooked cereals, no candy

or rich desserts and but little fruit and

vegetables. \\'hen she is ready for other

foods she will probably take them.





 





 





To freshen pork cut the slices and

place in a basin of buttermilk two or

three hours before you wish to fry it.

remove from the buttermilk and roll ill

flour and fry as usual. This way you

save all the fat and the pork browns

moon—L. T. F.





MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.





 





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These patterns may be obtained from

the Michigan Farmer office at the prices

named. ‘Be sure to give pattern number

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No. 5814. Misses’ and Small Women's

Dress Having Three—piece Skirt. Cut in





sizes l4_ 1i; and 18 years. Age '16 years

itouires 41;. yards of :Hi—iiich material,

=’-.,-_\';titl of 27-inch all~ovciz Price, 10





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No. 5821, Ladies’ and Misses' Bathing

Suit. (fut in 8 sizes, .‘10 to 44. inches bust.





Size :Iti requires 4% yards of lit—inch

goods, 5',,—yard of 21—inch contrasting





goods. l‘rice. 10 cents.





No. 5826, Ladies’ Sur‘plice Dressing

Sack. t‘nt in sizes 33, 36, 40 and 44

int-tics bust measure. Size 36 requires





31,1. yards of Fifi-inch goods, 51;, yards of

insertion. Price, 10 cents.





No. 5408, Ladies’ Four-gored Skirt.

Cut in 5 sizes, 22 to 30 inches waist

a measure. Size 24 requires 23;; yards





around lower edge and requires 4 yards

Price, 10 cents.



No. 5372, Children’s Dress. Cut in sizes

10 years. Age 8 requires

’J yards 36 int-hes wide, 1,4,:xard of 18-

Price, 10 cents.





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Mrs. Cropps—“N ow, Mame, there’s no use going On that

way about your white petticoats.

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I can’t parboil





starched things. That’s





plenty good enough to wear on the straw ride.”

Anty Drudge—“Why, Mrs. Cropps, your Mame wants

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you won’t have to steam and boil and slave to do it,



either. J ust get a. cake of Fels-Naptha Soap and use





Why, Mame could wash

herself.” ‘





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THE AUGUST PROGRAMS.





state Lecturer's Suggestions for Flrst

Meeting.



Song, by Grange.



Are our local. laws being enforced as

they should be? If not, what can the

Grange do to help?



Old'time music.



Three reasons for rotation of crops,

by three men in three-minute talks.



Progress in fighting flies, repdrts on

success or failure, by five women and

two men.



How to keep butter hard without ice.



Song. ”Help it On,” No. 108 in Grange

Melodies.



Iloll rail, “Objections to Woman’s Suf-

frage," responded to by the lecturer call—

lg upon a member, who, after naming

objection. asks another member to an—

swer it, until all have been called out.



Song, “Polly put the kettle on and we’ll

all take tea.”



Refreshments, tea and wafers, (With

fortune telling).





READY FOR RALLIES.





 





In most cases where a rally will be

held this summer, the initial steps have

been taken, that is, the place, the ap-

proximate time and the chief speaker

have been decided upon. Besides these,

there are a number of minor details

which have Weight in the final success or

failure of the day which it is not out of

place to mention:



I. As much of the desirable outcome

of a rally centers upon the presence- of

the advertised speakers, it is of utmost

importance that no slip occur in the ar-

rangements for such helpers. Explicit

directions as to date, place and how to

reach the rally should be sent well in

advance to the speakers engaged and an





acknowledgement received, in order that





each party may know that the other un-

derstands the plan. In case of an emer-

gency at the last, the speaker should be

expected to make desperate efforts to be

present, going to extra expense and ex-

ertiOn on his own part if necessary, since

nothing is more disastrous to a Grange

effort than failure at this point.



2. A program being a strong feature

of a Grange rally, ”is essential that live

topicsjbe handled by the speakers, and

that in a concrete manner without over-

much rambling talk and digression. This

is not always an easy thing for a pro—

gram-maker to manage, but it is an aim

to keep in mind. There is no dearth of

live topics for discussion this season; the

only trouble will be. to select the more

important ones. The question of equal

suffrage should be upon every program,

whatever other subjects are brought for-

ward, as it is not only a “liVe topic" but

one which the Grange has especially es-

poused during the present campaign

season.



Stirring music, and lots of it, seems

as essential at a rally as a good dinner.

Gl-t n hustling. energetic leader—or be

one yourself—to induce everybody to

sing. This is really not so difficult if

familiar airs are chosen and verses or

choruses repeated until people catch the

Spirit of the “general sing.” It pays,

always and richly. The catchy, suffrage

songs set to old tunes meet this need

admirably and provoke thought.



3. Preparation of the grounds play no

inconsidernble part in the outcome of the

day. Clearing up a little each year, if





the picnic is an annual affair. and ad—





ding conveniences and equipment gradu—

ally is the best way. Provision for needs

of people and horses should be made,

looking to their eating dinner comfort-

ably and spending a. delightful day in the

open. One important item, all too often

overlooked, is to place the seats near

enough to the platform. Voices are swept

away in open air by even a slight wind.



4. The esthetic side of the day should

be provided for in effective decoration.

The simpler this is, the more it will

comport with the beauty of the outdoors.

Nothing excels a large “Old Glory" hung

over the entrance, backed by the living

green of the trees. Add, this year, some

striking [yellow suffirage banners and

streamers, and little else need be done,

unless it be to bank cut branches of

trees about the platform.



5. Every rally should bubble over with

whole-souled, joyous sociability. Iwould

haVe a committee on reception, self-ap-

pointed or otherwise, meet people as

they gather, direct them to the assign-

ments of the grounds and make them ac-

quainted with any strangers. More than

this, someone should be on the outskirts





'of the audience during the program to





lead those who prefer to visit to a dis—

tance and, in an inoffensive way, to

maintain order and quiet within hearing





‘distaucc of the platform. All amuse-





ments should precede or follow the pro-

gram proper and by no means be carried

on at the same time. More attention

needs to be paid to games and amuse-

ments in which all can join—particularly

Children.



6. Finally, the rally is designed to feed

the Grange. Because of this, there ought

always to be at hand application blanks,

and invitations to join should be extend-

ed to those persons present who are not

now members. JENNIE BUELL.





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





Newaygo Pomona was pleasantly en-

fertained by Sitka Grange in June. A

well prepared program, a social time and

meals fit for a king were among the

many pleasant features of this meeting.

“Units of Soil Fertility” was given at—

tention by M. J. Thompson, of II. S. De—

partment of Agriculture, who explained

in full the elements of plant growth and

mod. Illiss Becker, county commissioner

of schools, put forth some forceful

thoughts. on some of our greatest needs

ill the rural school. Another important

topic, “Our duty to society and school.”

was well handled by Mrs. George \Va'-

ren. "How the farm may educate the

farmer,” by H. W. Zerlant, and “\Vom-

an’s Suffrage" were also given attention

at this session.'Fremont Grange will en—

tertain Pomona on the first Tuesday and

\Vcdncsdzly in 0ctober.—Sophia iiimbell,

Secretary.



Two Meetings of Branch Pomona.





Branch l’omona held a very success—

ful meeting with Quincy Grunge ill June.

Notable features of the program were

the welcoming address by Miss Leona

Stanton, an able address by Superintend—

ell Robinson. on the subject, “ls Agricul-

ture the True Basis of Prosperity,” a

line talk by \V. Glcnu Cowell Oil primary

election. and an able paper by Mrs. Mc—

Cartney, of Girard Grunge, on “Does

woman‘s invasion of the business field

improve home conditions?" Butler and

Quincy Grange orchestra furnished musnc

for tile occasion. The Granges repre-

sented were Gll‘lll‘d, Butler, Bronson, Ba-

tavia, Ilnity, Goldwater, Four Towns,

uith Quincy out in full force. Quincy

furnished a line banquet for 260 hungry

patrons, which was served in line shape,

everybody receiving prompt attention

and an ample supply of all the good

things of the season. The Grange-s 0f

Branch county now have a membership

of about 1.350, and most of them. are in

a flourishing condition.



The Pomona patrons of the county

were again entertained on Thursday.

July 18, this time by Unity Grange at

the beautiful farm home of Unity’s mas-

ter, Bro. M". M. Garrett. The closed bus-

iness session was held in the spacious

parlors. after which a feast was en—

joyed in the shade of the well kept or-

chard, where a table accommodating 100

persons had been placed. After more

than 200 had been served a good literary

program was rendered, the feature of

which was the able presentation of equal

suffrage arguments by Sister Vi'oodman.

chaplain of State Grunge, and Rev. Jones,

of Bronson. Unity is one of the young—

est Granges in the county and is to be

congratulated on the success of this its

first effort in the way of entertaining the

patrons of the county. The Grange and

its master were given a rousing vote of

thanks.





i FARMERS’ CLUBS





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Address all communications relative to





the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P. Johnson. Metamora, Mich.





 





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Associational Motto.—



The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer's most valuable asset.

Assodational Sentiment.—



The farmer, he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.



INGHAM COUNTY FARMERS’ CLUB

HISTORY.





 





 





Read by Mrs. W. L. Cheney, on the

occasion of the fortieth anniversary of

the Ingham County Club, held at M.



C.





We are told that history is a knowledge

of facts, usually considered dry and un-

interesting, but we will try in the few

moments assigned to us this afternoon

to review a few of the many pleasant

events that have transpired within the

40 years of existence of this organizatiOn

to make this history interesting.



First its inception: A few farmers

who were thoroughly interested in agri-

culture in the vicinity of Mason, thought

it would be a good thing for themselves

and the community to have a farmers’

organization, and through the columns

of the Ingham County News, then edited

by Kendall Kittredge, there was a. call

for those interested to meet at the edi—

tor’s sanctum Saturday, Jan. 27, 1872.

Less than one dozen men met. but a.

committee, consisting of A. M. Chapin,





' ”THE” ‘Nfiéfiléfiifi‘fifitfififih.





H. A. Hawley and d.“ w. Bristol. was'

appointed to perfecf"'an organization.



At an adJourncd' meeting, articles of

association were adopted and the follow-

ing eleven gentlemen became charter

members: A. M. Chopin, H. A. Haw‘ey,

A, F. \Vood, Enos Northrup, Allen Rilwe.

Frank White, I). C. Smith. Wm. H. Ray-

ner, L. H. Ives. K. Kittredge, G. W.

Bristol. Of these gentlemen, nine have

finished their work. Messrs. ll't-s alri

Bristol are with us today. I All are rcpz‘o-

sented in our membership today but

two.



The officers elected were: Pres, D. L.

Cady; vice—presidents, A. F. VY‘ood. H.

A. Hawley; rec. see, Frank White; cor.

sea. L. H. Ives, tress, Wm. H. Rayner.



The meetings continued each Saturday

throughout the winter, with a member'—

ship of 23. At the close of the second

winter 42 men had bccome members, and

this was the order of business:



Reading of minutes of last meeting.

Discussion of markets and reports

Inouiries and answers.



Results of experiments.



Replies to letters of inquiries.

Discussion of stated subjects.



. Miscellaneous.



The year 1874 was an eventful one.

The regular weekly meetings were held

throughout the winter season, and dur-

ing the summer six homes were opened

for the entertainment of the members

and their families, those of Messrs.

\Vood, Sommcrvllle. Chapin, Ives, lll’lw—

ley and R. F. Griffin.



In 1875 the Club made itself famous

besides the regular meetings, by holding

a poultry show, and later a plowing

match at the farm of R. F. Griffin. There

were ten entries and only one three-horse

team.



In 1876 another poultry show was

held.



In 1878 farmers’ institutes bcgan being

held, and there were many under the

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families, and really we can boast just a

little over the stale institutes that are.

held now annually at Mason.



This Club also held many seed Shows

with profit.



At the beginning of these. being on

Arbor Day, this Club put itself on record

by planting a tree on the court yard with

appropriate exercises, Hon. 0. M. Barnes

giving the principal address.



In passing I just want to mention that

$25 prize won by this body at the state

fair at Detroit in September, 1880, when

Nettie \Vood put into shape for exhibi—

tion 100 samples of W001 of different

breeds furnished by ten men.



(Continued next week),





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.



Chlldren’s Day Meeting—The “rash-

ington Center Farmers“ Club held the

July meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Brown, at Social Glen. This was Gill'—

dren's Day and the program was en-

tirely in the hands of the little people.

After reading of minutes and miscel-

laneous business, roll call was responded

to by naming your favorite bird. The

program was then turned over to the

children, of whom there were 27 prescnt,

and they cutertuincd the grown—ups with

music and recitations the rest of the af-

ternoon. At the conclusion of the pro—

gram, ice cream, cake and lemonade

were served to over 50. The next meet—

ing will be the. annual picnic August 8.



Agriculture in the Schools.—At the July

meeting of the Ingham County Farmers‘

Club, which was held at the home of

Judge C. B. Collingwood, of East Lan—

sing, more than 100 were present Pres,

Ives, after appropriate opening remarks,

introduced as the first speaker, Thomas

Gunnison, the first mayor of the town.

who cordially welcomed the gathering.

Dr. A. C. True, of VVashinglon. D. (1.,

was the next speaker, and told how, in

attending different conventions, all were

interested in agriculture. At a meeting

of the commercial bankers the question

was discussed how to help the farmer

grow more food stuffs, when someone

suggested the best way would be to give

the farmer cheap rates for all the money

he needed to use, and the queStion was

dropped. Railroads are all interested in

the farmer having better crops, for it

will give them more freight to haul. He

spoke of the country life commission and

that a substantial basis for continued

prosperity was an intelligent and well-

educated people living in the country.

What seemed an adequate education now

would not be in 25 years from now, and

to show the growth of agricultural edu—

cation. a year ago there were 900 colleges

and schools where some agriculture was

taught, this last year 'there 2,600 colleges

and schools above the primary grades.





NOTICE TO GRANGES AND FARMERS'

CLUBS.





We will be pleased to publish in the

Michigan Farmer the dates .of picnics

and gatherings held. Secretaries will

kindly advise with date and place at’

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July 31, 1912.

Grains and Seeds.



Wheat—Conditions affecting the Wheat

trade gave the market a firmer posi-

tion than it occupied a week ago and

prices for both cash and future deals are

ruling front one to two and a half cents

higher. Much confusion was started by

the report of black rust in North Dakota.

The upturn in prices caused by this re-

port was augmented by similar reports

from other sections in this country and

also from Saskatchewan. Later reports

modified somewhat the extent of the

scare and gave the market a slightly eas—

ier tone. Abroad there is a firm tone

with cash wheat finding an active de-

mand. The visible supply shown] an in-

crease for the first time this season, it

amounting to 72,000 btt. A year ago the

price for No. 2 wheat was 23'8ch per bu.

Quotations for the week are as follows;



No. 2 No. 1





Red. \Vhite. Sept. Dec.





Thursday .. . .103 1.02 1.031,; 1.051/4

Friday ....... 1.03 1.02 1.041,, 1 061,11.

Saturday ...,.l.04 1.03 1.011,, 1.0614

Monday ...... 1.04% 1.03 1/2 1.0434 1.0637,;

’J‘uesday 1.051;. 1041/2 l 041/: row,

\Veducsday ..1.07 1.06 1.45411; 1.06%,





Corn,*’i‘hcre was a gain in the strength

of the ctrn market last week. The in-

fluence of an :.u‘:\'ancing wlrcat market

was felt and weatlcr conditions have

not been ideal for pasting illt‘ new crop

as it should, while in Kansas: and Okla—

homa the €Xllt-‘lllti_\' ho. \\ca.her has

(larnagld the prospects for a bumper

crop. 'l'ller‘c is little trading on the itu'tll

marltct. Thu p:ice fct .\’o. .'l c an a year

ago was titic per bu. witch-trons are as





follows:



No. 3 No. 3



Corn. Yellow.

Thursday ................ 76 78

Friday ................... T7 79

Saturday ................. 77 79

l\1orrday .................. 76%: 7811:

Tummct- ................. 761:, in

NVednesday . . . . . . . ..... . . 761/3 79





Oats.~i'i‘his ccre'tl shovs a greater “‘1—

vance in price than either wheat or corn.

Harvesting is progressing rapidly and

11H: outlook for a. hcavy yield is no more

promising than it tas bet-n. The visilflc

supply shows a deul‘casc (1' 611.000 bu.

A ,‘tear ago the pr‘icc for standard oats

has 4115c pt-r lul. Quotations for the

wtek are as tollows;





Standard. No.3



White.



tl‘hursday ................ 601/2 00

l“! lday ................... 61 601,4;

Saturday ............ 61 601,:

.l‘lorrdzty .................. 61 001:

’l‘uesday ................. tiolgz 601,2

\ ednesday ............... 61 601,3,





Beans.~~t‘asli beans rule lilt‘ same as .r

wu ii ago. Ut.‘ltll)t'1' quotations have fitte-

tualctl a little, a drop of 2c Jast Friday

“as rcgoirn-d on Saturday, only to be





lost again Mwnday. The row crop is

promising. tgtu rations are as follows:

Cash‘ Oct.

Thursday )203 2.25

i“riday ..................... 2.65 2.23

Saturday ................... 2.6) 2.25

I\1orrday . ............. . ..... 2.65 2.23

'l‘ucsday .................... .: 65 2 23

\Ytdrresday ........ .. ....... 2.65 2 23





Clover Se'ed.""l.ll(‘ quotaticn for Octo‘

llt'l' clover set-(l rerrraincd steady ‘

Tuesday of this Week when a 100 de—

cline was agreed upon. The market is

quiet and quotations are as follows:

I’r‘ime ()Ct.





Thursday ......................... 3p” 85

Ft rda y ................ . . . . . ....... 9.85

Saturday ....................... . .. 0.83

li/londay ............... .... ........ 0.85

'l‘uesday .......................... 317.3

Wednesday . 9.75





Rye.‘»'l‘his tttcal remain. stcady at

last week's quctasion, which is 73c per

bu. for No. 2. 'l‘lu- price is merely nonr—

inal.



Fleur, Feed. Potatoes, Etc.



FIOLII‘.*-hl’l'lt'(..\‘ itl't.‘ steady, except for

ry.~ floor which is off to“





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

l’atent Michigan ...... .......... 5.80

l‘h ar .............................. . . 5.00

Rye .................................. 5 00





Feed.» r\'ttltrcs arc hfgher for all grades

(xt-cpt bran and («arse middlings. Car—

lti. pl‘iccs on tratk arc: llran, $26 per

ttvn; <oar'sc middling”, HS; line middlings

brill; cracked torn an: coarse c'r'n meal,

$.32: ccr‘n and cat chop, 3:11 per ton.



Hay and Straw. -lii‘)' is stcady while

straw rules Qowcr. Quotations: No.

timothy. 3:1.{alu221 No. 2 tirrrothy, $1810

lfl; clovci', rrliXttl, shift/20.7.0; rye straw,

$10 :‘ttl’ttll; plant and (at straw, 320.5041!

10 1101‘ ton.



Potatoesv'l‘he advanced prices if last

week have improwd under a good de-

mand. Mithigan Lifelines are of small

volume. 'l‘l'o ruling price for southern

offerings is $32.3 pcr bbl.



Pr’ovisionsrAl’amily pork, $19012030:

mess pork $10: clear. backs, $050012};

hams, 15c: briskcts. lBfiI/lzlgc; shoulders,

]]l./2(“, picnic hams. ll’ulllgc: bacon, l

critic; pure lard in tierccs, 1114c; kett.

rendered lard, 2‘;:' per lb.



Dairy and Paultry Products.



Batten—No changes if account have

appearca irr condilicns aft'ccting the but-

ter markct. Tho demand is lively from

consumers but slow from the storage peo-

ple, while the. output is about normal for

July. Quotations are: Extra creamery,

261,§>c; first cr'camery, 251/5c; dairy, 21c;

packing stock, 19c pt-r lb.



Eggsr-The factors influencing the eg

deal rcmain steady and the-quotations is

the same as given a week ago, current

receipts, candied, being quoted at 201/2c

per dozen.



Poultry.-Receipts are of small volume

and prices remain on substantially last



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THE" MICHIGAN FARMER;





week’s basis, except for broilers, which





are 40 lower. Quotations are: Broilers,

20@21c; chickens, 13%@14c; hens, 13lé@

14c; No. 2 hens, 9@10c; old roosters, 9@

10c; turkeys, 16@19c; geese, 10@120;

ducks, 14c; young ducks, 15@16c per 1b.

Veal.——All grades steady. Fancy, 11@

1..c per lb; choice, 8(ur9c.

Cheeses-Steady. Michigan flats, 16@

17c; York state flats, 17@18c; limburger,





1761190; domeStic Swiss, 2268230; brick

cream, 171/2fi1/18c.





Fruits and Vegetables.





Cherries—Sow are higher and quoted

at $2fg12.25 per its-qt. case; sweet, $2@





2.25 per 16-qt. case.



Raspberries—Reds selling at $4.50@5

pcr 24-qt. case; black, $1.40@1.50 per

16—qt. case.



Blackberries.~St:eady. Ruling quota-

tions are $1.50@1.75 per 16—qt. case.



Huckleberries.——Sclling at $3613.75 per

bushel



Gooseberries.—~Steady at

bushel.



Honey.——Choice to fancy comb, 15@160

per lb; amber, 12@13c.



ApplesiNew apples are

quoted at $5.50@6 per bbl.





OTHER MARKET—S.





$2@2.25 per





higher and





Grand Rapids.



There were 4:30 loads of frttit and pro—

duce on the city market Tuesday morn—

ing, including about 60 loads of potatoes,

which sold at Mic-((1551. Fruit prices were

as follows: Apples, $1: blackberries,

$1.00; red raspberrics, $1.75: cherries, ."2;

huckleberrics, $160612. Vegetables were

bringing the following prices: 'l‘ur'nips,

carrots and beets, 10c; cabbage. 3‘3c; cu—

:urnbers. 2:0c; peas, $1.50; beans, 75c;

parsley. 20c: sweet corn, tin/ac; celery,

15c. llay is bringing $1441.15. Jobbers

are paying the country trade 18c for eggs

and 22c for dairy butter. Live fmvls are

worth 10c. (,lld ulnar is dill-ted at $1.

New wheat at 06c: tats. 53c; beans, $2.20



Chicago.



“'hcat’. No, 2 rcd, $1.001,§@1.02; Sept,

“Bide; l)ec., 105340



Own—No. 3, 'i21,§@73c; Sept., 660; Dec.

57c.



(rats —No. 2 white, 47(050c; Sept., 33c;

lice, 2.41.10.



lluttcr.w\‘olume of business fair at

prices which have ruled for several weeks

past Qttctz‘rlions: Creameries, 23((925C;

dairies. 21112“: per lb.



Eggswlirst week’s advance On rniscel-

lancwrs lots has been lost, while the bet—

tir grades have, advanced 1/252 Quota--

'ivrr':: Firsts 16c; ordinary firsts, bilge;

at mark, c. cs included, 156116c pcr (toz.



l'olalces.— Receipts show a heavy in-

crtasc and the market is easier. Early

uhios from Kansas and Missouri are

quoted at 7.361771% per bu: illinois stock,

lt56i72c: Minncsmas, 70Fu75c.



Rtanss—rMarket quiet with last week's

icwcr values ruling. Quotations are:

lca beans, choice, hand-picked, $2.856!»

2.88 per btl: prime, $2.757j‘2.78; red kid-

neys. $250612 60,



flay and straw—No changes of conse-

quence since last week. Quotations are:

Timothy. choice, $236124; No. 1, $217122;

No. 2 and No. 1 mixed, $17ft118.50; clover,

“will: No. 2 and no grade, $5018; alfalfa,

'chon-o, 512.50711‘4; N0. 1, $12fii‘1250: No.

2, Mount. Straw—Rye, $10.50ftl‘11; wheat

“330618.30; oat, $7.50fi‘850.





 





 





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Rutter—Prices: are substantially the

same as a week ago. Demand is largely

tor current consumption. Quotations are:

Fteamery, special extras. 27€L2714cz do.

firsts 26012t113c; do. seconds. 25(1251/20;

factory, current make: firsts, 22611230 lb.



ligaswrllarkct is steady Demand and

supply are normal and prices remain un-





changed. l’rcsh gathercd extras. 23(32‘10:

extra, firsts, 2tltir22c: firsts. 181,é@10‘./_~c:





western gathered whites. 20(6240 per (107:.

l’oultry»Dressed. unsettled. \Yestern

broilcrs. fresh killed. 21412711 fowls, 111/2

6117c; turkeys, lGfiil'l‘c per lb.

Boston.



\‘t'ool.-~liver.\' Nature of the wool mark—

ct points not only it! maintaining,r present

price: but to advances. The past week

has been a Very active one. Traders are

reccivinc; new wools from the west. but

there is little opportunity for sorting,

owing to the urgent call from buyers

who appear ready to take the offerings

in original bags. There is scarcely any

argument over prices, the sellers having

tl'ings their own way in this regard. For—

tign market prices are above the domes-

tic q'iotatit-ns. thus. furnishing grountls

or higher valucs than those now pre-

\':ri'ir':'. Michigan 1', and -"-... sold on the

nra‘kct hero at 20c. l‘nwashed delaine

is quoted at 2641270.



Elgin.



Britten—ehlarkct is firm at 250 per 1b.,

which is tllo quotation of one week ago.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

.Tuly 2.0, 1012.





‘(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,





New York (‘entral Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, New York).



(‘attlewlt‘cccipts. 170 cars: all grades of

cattlc Weighing l,20ll sold about 10 lowcr:

all other grades sold steady at last week's

prices. Rcst stecrs, 1.350 to 1,500. $8.50

010.15: good to prime 1.200 to 1,300; $8.50

6:275: good to prime. 1,100 to 1,2007lb.

steers, $8.154/8.40l: medium butcher steers

1.000 to 1.100, 3114041765: butchcr steers,

97.0 to 1,000. thinness; light butcher

steers. $5 “#1625; best fat cows, $5 50617

6.25: fair to good. $4.615: common to fair

kinds, $3 25(03130: trimmers, $2.50fdlll:

best fat heifers, $7617.50; fair to good





heifers, $5.50fi6; light butcher heifers,

$4.50fi5' stock heifers, $3.50fi‘4; best





feeding steers, $5fl’525; common (10.. $4

@4.F.-0: stockers. inferior, $3.F:O@4; prime

export bulls, $6©D6.25; best butcher bulls,

$5@5.50; bologna. bulls, $4.25@4.75; best





milkerrs and spring‘ers, $50@60; common

kinds, $25@35. '



Hogs—Receipts, 65 cars; market about

5c lower. Heavy, $8.80@‘8.85; yorkers,

$82.75@8.80; pigs, $8.70@8.75; Stags, $5@

6. 5 -

Sheep—Receipts, 32 cars; market ac-

tive; choice spring lambs, $7.50@8; culls

to fair, $5.50@6; yearlings lambs, .iStito)

650; bucks, $2.50@3; ewes, $3.75@4.50;

wethe-rs, $5@5.25; sheep, culls, $2@3.



(Jalves——Steady; tops, $10.25@10.50; fair

to good, $7.50@10; heavy, $56116.



Chicago.

July 29, 1912.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today 21,000 45,000 25,000

Same day last year..27,114 41,730 28,753

lteceived last week...’%0,853 111,115 106,236

Same week last year.60,351 120.840 110,525



Cattle buyers turned their attention

mainly today to fat stcers and butcher

stock, these selling at steady prices,

while the liberal percentage of common

to middling cattle moved off slowly at

further reductions of 10@15c. The boom

in good hogs last week that was largely

due to the liberal shipments from here,

aggregating 35,475 hogs, brought about

a large run today, and prices broke 1001)

15c promptly, with the decline largely in

the better class of swine. Hogs sold at

$7.20tgl8.35, only one sale being reported

at the top, it’ exception is made- of part

of a car load at $8.40. Hogs received last

week averaged in weight 240 lbs., com-

pared with 237 lbs. a year ago and 249

lbs. two years ago. Prime lambs were

1041 15c higher today, with a sale of two

double-decks of prime ldaho range lambs

a. $7.85, while a sale took place of two

double—decks of prime ldaho ewes at

$4.50.. The general market was fairly

active for sheep and lambs at steady

prices. There was a large showing of

range stock.



Cattle receipts of late years have been

fallng off amazingly, both here and at

other western markets, and the beef

scarcity is startling, the aggregate cattle

receipts for the year to date at six lead-

ing Western markets having been in

round numbers about 632,000 head less

than for the corresponding period last

year. Extremely high prices for beef

and the hot weather have greatly lower-

ed the consumption of beef, vegetables

and fruits being largely eaten as sub-

stitutes, but the meager offerings of cat-

tle here last week forcedbuycrs to pay

advanced prices for offerings with the

slightest claim to quality, and by Thurs-

day a large share of the killing catte-

of both sexes sold fully 500 above the

low spot of the preceding week. A big

share or' the beef steers crossed the

scalcs during the week at $7.25@9.15,

with the choicest heavy beeves recover—

lug all of their recent decline and fetch-

jug $8.75Ql9.75, while the poorer light-

weight grass—fed yearling steers went at

$580016}; A desirable class of yearling

steers brought .‘p‘SQL‘UJO. and all kinds of

cattre selling at $8.75 and upward were

as high as at. any time since 1873. Fair

to prime cows and heifers had a tree

out-et at 334.2561‘825, a fancy grade of

heifers being worth up to $8.60, while

cutters sold at $3.40fu4.20, carrrrers at

a2.40@3.:15 and bulls at $3.50tol7. A stiff

advance in calves put prices on the high-

est level since January, with sales at

$4M 10.10 per 100 lbs. The stocker and

feeder trade was checked materially by

the scarcity of grotl offerings, especially

or weighty feeders and a sharp rise in

values. Stockers and feeders weighing

from 600 to 1.000 lbs. brought $4 mil/6.90,

with not much doing above $6.50. Milk-

trs and springers Were in better demand

at advances of a few dollars per head,

buyc.s paying $35GLTS.



Hogs have surprised many people by

their big advances in prices lately, the

demand on local and shipping account

frequently exceeding the offerings. Last

wet-k started off with a Monday rtrn of

42.761 hogs, and prices broke 5((1100, but

subsequcnt days showed very moderate

supplies and good advances were scor-

ed easily. a nruch enlarged eastern ship-

ping demand being the strongest factor

in the rise. it is a long time since such

a bid advance as that of the past week

has been witnessed, prime light-weight

shipping hogs bringing the highest prices

of the year. .\s is usual at this season,

lhcrc was an extremely wide spread in

prices between prirnr-g light butcher lots

and coarse heavy packing hogs, there

bcing a liberal port-outage or szws of a

grassy kind included in the reccrpts. The

western packers have slaughtered far less

hogs for the. summer packing season

than last year, audit is evidcnt that

thcrc is no excessive supply of market-

.tble hogs left in the country. 'l‘hc large.

consumption of fresh pork everywhere

is a powerful bull point, and owners o."

lhrit'.y young hogs Slitlliti hold them tru-

tii fat and reasonably Wcighty, for hog

prices are very much higher than in

trust former years, 1010 excepted. Sat—

urday saw the highest prices of the

Wick. hogs selling for $7.40@8.50, with

one sale at the top. A week ago the top

was $7.00. The marked increase in pur~

chasm last week by eastern strippers is

largely the cause of the boom, the top

being the highest since November, 1010.

l'igs sold at $6.752r3.10. stags at $8.2.‘Lm/

870 and boars at $3.50@4.25. Throwout

packing sows brought $6.60W7.20 and

rough packing hogs $7.35@7.50,



Sheep receipts last week consisted

mainly of native ewes, with a few bucks,

and western ranges furnished most of

the. wethc‘rs aridyearlings.‘ Lambs. (“on—

tinued to makeup the great bulk of

daily offerings, natives being numerous,

while Oregon, Washington and ldaho

ranges shipped in a good many lambs.

Prime range lambs sold at the highest

prices of the season. but they were, su—

perior to any lambs previously offered.

“’ednesday’s big run of southern lambs

at Louisville. from which point packers

received 10,000 lambs for the day's sup—

ply direct, was a disturbing element in

the market, forcing a decline in prices

for all except the best grade. Montana





AUG. 3, i912.-





shipped in some big supplies for range

wethers. The demand for feeders and

breeders was' active, and high prices

were paid for the better class of both,

with nowhere near enough offered.

Lambs have been going at $5607.50; with

fancy range lambs at $7.75. ==Feeder

lambs brought $5.25tw.).85. Yearlings

went at “@550, ewes at $2604.25 and

bucks at: $2.50@3.25. Breeding ewes

brought $4615.25, and yearling feeders

sold for $4@4.50.



I Horses had to be good in quality and

heavy in weight to suit the few buyers

who showed up in the auction ring on

different days, and, unfortunately, the

offerings consisted largely of an inferior,

thin kind, which had to be sold, if at all,

at concessions in prices. Receipts for

several weeks have been fewer in num-

bers than a year ago. but they have in-

cluded too few good animals. Inferior

horses we quoted at $75601th per head,

while superior heavy drafters are worth

anywhere from “506.0325, fair to good

lighter drafters weighing from 1,550 to

1,050 lbs. going at $17560225. Very little

demand exists for drivers or feeders.

Farm workers are slow at $100fu.200.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Genesee Co., July 26.—’,l‘co much rain

has fade: in the past week or so. Hay

fields have been flooded before the crop

was secured In many instances hay

cocks were surroundcd by water and

considerable of the product has been

damaged. New hay sells on the market

at from $86,012. Good yields are the rule,

although some meacows were thin.

Wheat harvest now in operation, with

probably an average yield. Some cases

weather being unfavorable f‘or harvest-

ing at the proper time. The rains have

done considerable damage. yet later

crops, like corn. beans and potatoes, will

be benefited. Good roatls' work is nOW

going forward in stvcral townships and

all are to have, a share in the improve-

ment already decided upon under state

supervision. Prices on farm products

are go'rd as a rule, and at the end of the

season, no doubt, it will no found that

yields have been usually bountiful.



Sanilac Co., July 25.~~llaying is pro-

gressing, about: 80 per cent done at this

date. A light shower came on the night

if July 20, and a hard rain the 23rd

which soaked things and put the oats

down badly. This was the first good rain

We have had in this locality since beans

were planted. Beans are about three

weeks behind this year. Corn is grow-

ing finely. Some fields of wheat will not

thr‘c’sh the seed, some half a crop. very

little that is a good stand. Short pas-

ture reminds the stock owners of selling

their sheep early this season. Markets





quiet. Eggs, 18c.

Northern Isabella and Southern Clare

Co.’s, July 2Al.~—T0o wet for haying but





most of the hay was secured. Wheat is

nearly ripe but hardly worth cutting.

Beans are doing line where the ground, is

not too ,wet.

Potatoes doing fine. Beets .qulte weedy,

owing to the frequent showers. All kinds

of cattle looking well.



‘ Branch Co., July 23.~—-»llay medium,and

fine. quality, with ideal weather for se-

currng crop. Corn very uneven owing

to cutworms, poor seed. and late plant-

mg. Oats a large acreagc and promise

a bountiful crop. Wheat badly winter-

killed and many fields sown to other

crops. Some other lields which were

seeded last fall have. been cut for hay,

many remaining pit-ccs very poor. New

seeding generally good. Large acreage

of potatoes and very promising. Fruit

crop very light and but very few apples

in orchards. Large acreage of beans,

looking well. Cabbage crop promises to.

be large. Cucumbers looking good. Pas-

ture short and cows shrinking on milk.



Ottawa Co., July 25.w’.l‘his has been a.

very “catchy" time for haying on ac-

count of frequent heavy rains. A large

amount of hay has been damaged and

there is still considcrablc yet to cut, and

i: is getting so ripe the quali.y will be

very poor. Since wheat was cut there

has been so much rain, aml tlu~ Weather

warm, that the wheat is growing quite

badly in the shock. The lu-avy rains

have lodged the oats very bad in most

fields, so it will he very diilicult to cut

them. It has been impossible to culti-

vate or hoe corn for some tirnc, Si many

fields are very woody and the general

prospect for a crop of corn in this sec—

tior‘, has not bcen so poor for many

ycars. The new canning factory at

t‘oopcrsville has had a gcod run of peas

and there are quite a, f'cw more to be

harvested as soon as the ground dries

off, The factory so far has given geri-

cral satisfaction. l.irna b1 ans. will be the

next crop to harvest and can, and the

wct weather is having a bad effect On

this crop as well as all other crops.



lndiana.



Laporte Co., .luly 25l.-—\\'eckly rains

have kept tho corn growing at such a

record~brcaking rate that it is now tOO

large to cultivate. (rats mostly cut and

r’cpct‘ttd about an avcragt- crop. New

potalccs and green corn a fair yield with

prospect far a good yit-hl of late crops.

Hay light and not equal tc last year.

l’astures have greened up and will soon

be good if no drouth comes. Clover and

alfalfa seeding,r reported good. Silos will

be filled with corn as usual, f'trrncrs be-

m‘r: pleased with results from feeding en-





silage. Butter firm at 30c with prospect

(if an advance soon. Apple crop very

short. Farmers are getting interested in





expert crop improvcmcnt as advanced by

the agricultural schools of the state.





 





Holstein Breeders Hold Picnic.





Tire annual picnic of the'VVcst Michi.

gan Holstein Breeders' Association will

be held at the Long Beach Stock Farm

on the shores of Gull Lake», near Augus-

ta, Mich, Wednesday, August 7. It is re-

quested that the, breeders bring their

wives and families to enjoy the outing

and program-





(Jats, beginning to turn._





 





 





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‘, AUG 3.1912.

THlS Is THE uAs-r salmon...





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Thursday’s Market.

August 1, 1912.

Cattle.



Receipts, 1.978. Market steady at Wed-

nesday’s prices; 10@15c lower than last

week. .



W'e quote: Extra dry-fed steers, $7.50

@8; steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,

16.25817; do. 800 to 1,000, $5@6; grass

steers and heifers that are fat, 800 to

1,000, $5@6; do. 500 to 700, $4.50@5;

choice fat cows, $4.75@5.25; good fat

cows, $4.50; common cows, $3.25@3.75;

canners, $2@3.25; choice heavy bulls,

$4.50@5; fair to good bolognas, bulls,

$4114.25; stock bulls, 53.50094; choice feed—

ing SLeers. 800 to 1,000, $4.75@5; fair do.

800 to 1,000, $4.50@4.75; choice 'stockers,

5100 to 700, $4.25@4.60; fair stockers, 500

to 700, $3.75@4.25; stock heifers, $3.25@

4; milkers, large, young, medium age,

$40QL60; common milkers, $206130.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1

L-ull weighing 1,480 at $5, 5 cows av 920

at $5; 10 Newton B. Co. 23 butchers av

500 at $4, 2 steers av 1,355 at $7.75, 2 do

av 1,490 at $7.75, 5 cows av 972 at $4.25,

3 do av 813 at $3.25, 19 bulchcrs av 707

at $5.50, 30 do av 683 at $525; to Sullivan

1’. (To. 5 cows av 836 at $4.50, 1 do weigh—

ing 760 at $3, 2 do av 1,060 at $4, 4 steers

av 807 at $6, 1 do weighing 570 at $4; to

legan 11 butchers av 510 at $4; to Goose

3 do :w 357 at $3.50; to Newton B. Co. 6

do av 671 at $5.25, 6 cows av 925 at $4, 1

(10 weighing 1,000 at $6, 3 do av 866 at

$3; to Sullivan P. CO. 2 do av 840 at

$1.25, 1 do weighing 1,030 at $3.25. 6

butchers av 600 at $4.25, 11 do av 6'10 at

$4.75, 4 cows av 970 at $4; to Goose 7

butchers av 421 at $3.50; to Fry 11 do av

730 at $4.75, 9 do av 617 at $4.65; (0

Mich. B. Co. 1 heifer weighing 650 at

33.25, 2 cows my 735 at $3.25, 4 do av 950

at $4.25.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. CO. 3

steers av 983 at $6.10, 4 cows av 1,137 at

$4.73, 2 bulls av’ 1,160 at $4.50, 2 cows av

840 at $3, 3 do av 893 at $4, 4 do av 900

at $13.10, 3 bulls av 870 at $4; to brosna-

ban 6 cows av 943 at $3 25, 11 stockcrs av

540 a684, 3 cows av 1,116 at $3.75, 1 cau~

ner weighing 550 at $3, 2 do av 840 at

$2.75. 1 cow weighing 1,060 at $5.25, 6 d0

av 965 at $4.25; to Kumman 15. Co. 6

butchers av 883 at $5.75, 2 steers av 1,060

at $7, 7 do av 796 at $5; to Newton B.

Co. 12"butchers av 768 at $4, 3 cows and

bullszlav 810 at $4, 1 cow weighing 960

at 553,12 steers av825 at $5.50, 15 butchers

av 800-:at $6, 2 cows av 1.015 at $5, 5

butchers av 570 at $4; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 1 bull weighing 1,120 at $4.50, 5 do

av 966 at $4.50; to Applebaum 7 butchers

av 747 at $4.25; to Parker, W. & Co.

steers av 1,035 at $7.50, 6 cows av 981 at

$3.75, 2 bulls av 920 at $4.25, 5 do av

1,010 at $4.50; to Cooke 7 steers av 763 at

$5.85, 11 do av 764 at $6; to Austin 2

blockers av 62.] at $4.23, 2 do av 560 at

$4 25, 7 do av 580 at $4.50.



Spiccr & R. sold Brcsnahan 9 cows av

001 at $3.85, 17 butchers av 713 at $5.25;

to Parker, W. & Co. 27 steers av 946 at

$7.25; to Mich. B. Co. 6 heifers av 603 at

$4.50, 4 bulls av 880 at $4.50, 4 do av

525 at $4, 4 butchers av 637 at $3.50, 7

do av 790 at $5.50. 1 bull weighing 820 at

$3, 2 do av 415 at $3.75, 2 do av 915 at

$4.50, 2 do av 640 at $4, 1 do weighing

8:70 at $4.50; to Morgan 4 stockers av 512

at $4.50,: to Schlischer 9 butchers av 422

at $3.85; to Brosnahan 9 do av 528 at

$4.25. 1 cow weighing 800 at $2.50, 6 do

av 00.3 at $5; to Kamman B. Co. 13 steers

av 782 at $5.75, 3 do av 030 at $5; to Ratt-

kowsky 2 rows :Lv 1,123 31 $4.50, 1 do

wcighing 820 at $3.50, 2 do av 1,020 at

$4; to Thompson Bros. 10 butchers av

747 at 351.30.



Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 bull

weighing 910 at $4.25; to Brcitenbcck 1

cow weighing 950 at $4.50, 1 do weighing

1,000 at $4, 4 do av 917 at $4, 7 butchers

av 856 at $5.75, 10 do av 817 at $5.75; to

Sullivan P. (lo. 2 cows av 1,090 at $4.50,

15 do av 974 at $4.60, 5 (14) av 1.156 at

$4 75, 1 do weighing 860 at $4, 2 bulls av

810 at $4.25, 9 butchers av 648 at $4.85,

2 cows av 810 at $4.25; to Bresnahan 6

cows 'av 856 at $3, 1 canner weighing 730

at $2.50, 3 cows av 913 at $3.25, 1 do

weighing 680 at $2.50,. 1 do weighing 1,080

at $5.23, 3 steers av 660 at $5, 2 (lo av

(’00 at £4.25, 8 do av 671 at $5; to Regan

6 lwifcrs a'v 523 at $4.25; 10 Newton B.

Co. 4 stccrs av 1,072 at $7.50. 2 do av

1.135 at $5.75, 2 bulls av 565 at $3.75. 13

butchers uv 640 at $4.60, 8 do av 421 at

$4 25, 2 cows av 875 at $3; to Mich. B.

Co. 2 bulls av 1,100 at $4.50, 1 do weigh~

ing 1,100 at $4.75, 1 do weighing 1.200 at

$4.75, 1 do weighing 1,030 at $4.50; to

Lachnlt 11 butchers av 800 at $5.40; to

Kamman B. Co. 8 do av 930 at $6.20. 9

vows av 911 at $4, 15 butchers av 755 at

3:530; to Applebaum 3 do av 640 at $4,

4 do {xv 417 at $430-



Sandall sold Bresnahan 3 bulls av 563

at $3.50, 1 steer weighing 1,510 at $7.50, 2

do av 1,205 at $5.50, 2 cows av 1.035 at

$4, 3 steers av 666 at $4.65.



Vi'eeks sold same 5 cows av 858 at

3.20.



Lowenstein sold same 4 cows av 930

at $3.25, 9 do av 1,033 at $4.50.



McLaughlin sold Hammond, S. & Co.

2 bulls av 1.160 at $455-



Same sold Newton B. Co. 3 cows av

983 at $4, 10 butchers av 783 at $4.50.



Allington sold Rattkowsky 6 cows 8.7





833 at $4.10.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 912. Market strong at Wed-

nesday's and lastweek's prices. Best,

$9@10; others, $4@8.





   





- Bishop, B. &- H. sold Sullivan P. Go.





4 av 150 at $9, 5 av 166 at $9.50,'6.av 166 .





at $8, 1 weighing 100 at $7.50, 1 weighing

130 at $8; to Parker, W. & Co. 10 av 181





-at $9.50; to Rattkowsky 4-av 148 at $9.35,





2 av 115 at $8.75; to Goose 3 av 175 at

$6, 9 av 150 at $9; to Bray 1 weighing 200

at $10, 17 av 160 at $9.50; to Nagle P. Co.

2 av 125 at $6, 9 av 145 at $6, 11 av 150

at $9, 5 av 225 at $5, 9 av 150 at $9, 20

av 150 at $6.50, 6 av 145 at $8.50, 5 av 160

at $9, 1 weighing 120 at $7; to Mich. B.

Co. 13 av 150 at $8; to Sullivan P. Co. 6

av 155 at $9.50, 19 av 160 at $9.50; to

Newton B. Co. 2 av 130 at $7, 7 av 140

at $9.25; to Parker,-VV. & Co. 11 av '150

at $9, 7 av 180 at $6.50, 4 av 155 at $9.50.

6 av 160 at $10, 13 av 155 at $9, 7 av 130

at $8.75, 6 av 150 at $9.50.



Spicer & R. sold Bray 2 av 190 at $9.50,

4 av 140 at $8, 5 av 180 at $9.50; to Sul-

livan P. Go. 12 av 135 at $8.75; to Goose

6 av 155 at $4.75; to Burnstine 1 weigh-

ing 180 at $8, 5 av 150 at $9; to Bray 6

av 170 at $9.75, 3 av 220 at $6.25.



Haley & M. sold Patrowsky 5 av 150

at $9, 2 av 105 at $7, 13 av 155 at $9; to

Bray 4 av 140 at $9.50; to Thompson

Bros. 2 av 135 at $8, 3 av 1.40 at $9; 'to

Bray 9 av 150 at $9; to Newton B. Co.

7 av 160 at $9, 1 weighing 150 at $7; to

Bray 15 av 160 at $9.50, 3 av 170 at $7.

3 av 150 at $10, 3 av 215 at $6, 9 av 150

at $9; to Mich. B. Co. 5 av 190 at $8, 2

av 155 at $7.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Goose 5 av 185 at

$6, 2 av 150 at $10, 16 av 130 at $8; to

Mich. B. Co. 32 av 200 at $5; to Sullivan

1". Co. 6 av 185 at $6.



Sandal] sold Newton B. Co. 15 av 140

at $8.23.



Long sold Bray 11 av 130 at $7, 10 av

158 at $9.50.



Adams sold same 2 av 170 at $10.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 2,808. Market 50c higher than

last week’s close; steady wilh \Vednes-

day. Best lambs, 86.500197; fair to good

lambs, $550706; light to cwmmbn lambs,

$4.50@5; yearlings, $4604.75; fair to good

sheep, $3613.50; culls and common, 82

@250.



Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 1

buck weighing 170 at $3.50, 12 lambs av

65 at $7; to Bray 34 do av 55 at $5, 100 do

av 68 at $6.53, 15 sheep av 1.15 at $3.25;

to Newton B. Co. 2 sheep av 130 at $3,

20 lambs av 55 at $6; to Mich. B. Co. 14

do av 60 :11 .85, 46 do av 60 at $6.75, 51

do av 53 at $5.30. 4 sheep av 95 at $3.60.

18 do av 90 at $3 25, 2 do av 125 at $3;

lo Thompson Bros. 4 do av 77 at $2, 13

do av 05 at $3.



Bishop, B. 6‘: ll. sold Mich. B. CO. 6

sheep av 100 at $3.25, 30 yearlings av 80

at $1.75, 7 sheep av 110 at $2.75, 4 do

av 80 at 82.75, 15 lambs av 57 at $6.50. 69

do av 67; :11 $6.50, 20 do av 81') at $6.50,

102 do av 70 at $6.50, 42 yeaz-lings av 85

at $4 50; to 'l‘lmmpson Bros. 15 lambs av

65 :11. $3.50, 1 buck weighing 150 at $2.50;

in Sullivan 1’. Co. 10 sheep av 100 at

$3.25, 21 lambs av 50 at $4.50, 26 do av

50 at $5, 7 do av 70 at $7; to Newton B.

Co. 20 do av 70 at $6.75, 28 do av 65 at

$6.50, 22 do av 70 at $7: to Mich. B. Co.

22 (1. av 55 at $5: to Thompson Bros. 14

sheep av 110 at $3; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 65

lamlw av 68 at $6, 49 do av 70 at $6.50;

in Bray 65 shoep av 85 at $3. 26 do av

5'3 at $2.50. 40 do av 80 at $4, 18 do av

00 at $3, 37 lambs av 77 at $7. 97 do av

52’. at $4.50: to Nngle P. Co 37 sheep av

95 at $3; in llm‘land 32 lambs av 65 at

$6 50; to Fithalrick Bros. 14 do av 67

at $0.30.



Sliver & R. sold Thompson Bros. 8

lambs av 71'» at $5.50, 2 sheep av 170 at

$3. 3 do av 95 at $3.50: to Vosso 26 lambs

av ‘18 at $5.25: to Mich B. (‘0. 19 do av

50 at $5, 3 sheep av 90 at $3 14 lambs

av 63 at $5.50; to Young 12 wool lambs

av 80 at $5, 11 lambs av 58 at, $5.50; to

3arlage 10 sheep av 90 at $2.50, 16 lambs

av 60 at $5.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Hayes 57 lambs av

65 at $5.50; to Barlage 38 do av 60 at

$6, 30 do av 60 at $6.25, 20 d0 av 50 at

$6, 21 sheep av 100 at $2.75.





Hogs.



Receipts. 1.729. Market steady at last

week’s closing prices.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $8628.25; pigs, 87.75158; light yorkers,

$8708.15; stags one-third off.



Spiccr & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 250

av 190 at $8.30, 50 av 200 at $8.35,



l‘laley & M. sold same 130 av 210 at

$8.35, 115 av 180 at $8.30, 210 av 150 at

$8.25.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

(‘0. 215 av 200 at $8.35, 320 av 190 at

$8.30. 600 av 155 at $8.25, 150 av 130 at

$8, 150 av 180 at $8.20.



Roe Com. CO. sold Sullivan P. CO. 125

av 200 at $8.25, 140 av 190 at $8.20.



Receipts, 1,729. Market strong 15c high-

er than last week’s closing prices .



A Holstein milch cow that brought $100

in the Chicago market recently, weighed

close to 1,500 lbs. and was fat enough to

beef right now.



The wool market has developed unus-

ual firmness recently, with consumption

reported the largest seen 'for a period of

fivo years and estimates of the domestic

wool shortage placed from 20.000.000 to

30.000000 lbs. The London wool market

has had a. good advance recently, and it

is reported that only about 5.000.000 lbs.

are left of the Montana clip. Vi'yoming

reDOl'ts a still smaller percentage left,

while most of the Texas clip has disap~

peared from first hands. and Utah and

Nevada have sold nearly all the 1912

clip. Recent sales have been made in

Montana at 20fi122c per lb. for medium

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FEEDING STU FFS CONTROL.





BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.





For a long time it has been customary

for farmers to take in exchange for their

grains the mill lay-products to be uscd

as adjuncts to the rgougha es in the shape

of hay, coin stovei and the like, which

were the basis of the feeding rations on

the farm. There thus grew up among

the milling fraternity a natural market

for the refuse by-products of their mills.

\Vith the practice of more intensive

daii‘ying and the study which dairymeii

were making of the new ideas regarding

the balanced ration, certain manufac-

turing concerns in the large centers of

population began putting upon the mark-

et by-products of an entirely different

nature than the milling by-products, but

designed to compete with the miller in

his market. Oatmeal factories had

sprung up and the natural product from

the maiiufactuie of oatmeal, that is, oat

hulls, was produced in enormous quan-

tities. Corncobs. the product from the

manufacture of homiuy, and other corn

products accuinulattcd likewise in the

large milling centers in enormous quan—





tities. The temptation offered by a fas—

cinating price was too great for many

millers to resist, consequently oat hulls





began to find its way in ground corn and

ground coriicobs began to be introduced.

Many concerns, such as the American

Cereal Co., The Great \\'estc:-n Cereal

Co., and the “—0 Company began cater-

ing to the demand of the dairyinen and

placed scientifically balanced rations up-

on the market, not as an issue subsidiary

to thtir general manufacturing business

but as one of the main spokes in their





Whole manufacturing plant. flat bulls

and c-' iriicobs. Were blended by Folll‘,‘

manufacturers scientifically, if we may





use that term in this connection, and by

fine grinding and careful mixing feeds of

smne considerable merit Were thus placed

upon the market. In this way the man»

facturcrs were able to utilize to a dc-

cidcd advantage what was otherwise

practically worthless and the ground oat

hulls and the ground corncobs which

would otherwise have found their way

into the furnace for fuel were placed on

the market to be sold as edible stock

foods.



Michigan was the Dumping Ground for



Worthless Feeds.





Our neighboring states, following the

lead oi New England, began to make





public official examinations of these pro-

ducts and Michigan speedily became the

dumping ground, as it were, for products





which would not pass muster in other

states. During the writer‘s experience





as chemist of the Michigan Experiment

Station, following the lead set by the late

Dr. it. C. Kedzie, a persistent campaign

for the inauguration of a feeding stuffs

control law for the state of Michigan was

begun. This bore fruit with the passage

oi such an act by the legislature of 151113,

and went into full effect with the active

support of the dairymen’s association and

the Michigan Miller’s Association as well.

Crude Fibre Declared on the Package.



(me of the unique features of this law

was the requiring of the branding on the

package of the percentages not only cf

piotein, carbohydratc's and fats, but of

the crude fibre as well. The reason for

the writer's adVocation of the plan of in-

cluding crude fibre in the law was be-

cause it was the real index of the not

available energy of that feed to the ani—

mal. Obviously, the manufacturer could

not be required to state on the package

digestible nutrients,

neither could he be required to state

thereon the net availability of that feed

to the animal. However, with the plac-

ing on the package of the percentage of

crude iibrc. which, of course, represents

the roughage in the ration, the feeder

thus had at his disposal factors which

would give him a very close approxima-

tion indeed, to the real intrinsic. value of

that feed when given to his stock. The

statement of the content of crude fibre

on the package was a distinct advance

over the lows enacted in the neighboring

states which required simply the content

of protein and fat to be mentioned.



Before going into any other features of

this subject we shall append hereto a rfull

copy of the law covering the sale of

commercial feeding stuffs in the state of

Michigan.





lilo percentage of





The Law.

See. 18. Any manufacturer, company,

person or persons who shall sell. offer





PRACTICAL SCIENCE.





I.





or expose for sale or for distribution, in

this state, any'concentrated commercial

feeding stuff used for feeding live stock,

shall furnish with each car, or other

amounts shipped in bulk, and shall affix

to every package of such feeding stuff, in

a conspicuous place, on the outside there-

of, a plainly printed statement, clearly

and truly certifying the number of not

pounds in the car or package sold or of-

fered for sale, the name or trade-mark

under which the. article is sold, the name

of the manufacturer or shipper, the place

of manufacture, the place of business,

and a chemical analysis, stating the per-

centages it contains of crude protein,

crude fibre», nitrogen—free extract and

ether extract, all constituents to be de-

termined by the methods adopted by the

association of official agricultural chem-

ists. \Vhenever any feeding stuff is sold

at retail, in bulk or in packages belong-

ing to the purchaser, the agent or dealer

shall furnish to him a certified copy of

the chemical analysis named in this sec-

tion.



ta) The term concentrated commercial

feeding stuffs as used in this act shall

include linseed meal, cottonseed meal,

pea. meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals,

oil meals of all kinds, gluten feeds, maize

feeds, stcrch feeds, mixed sugar feeds,

hominy feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn

and oat feeds, meat meals, dried blood,

clover meals, mixed feeds of all kinds.

slaughter house waste products; also all

condimental stock foods, patented and

proprietary stock foods, claimed to pos—

nutritive properties and all other

materials intended for feeding to domes-

tice. animals: Provided, that such feed—

ing stuffs, as defined above. shall not

include hays, straws, foddcrs, ensilage,

llle whole seeds nor the unmixed meals





SesS





made directly from the entire grains of

wheat, rye, barley, oats, fiaxseed, maize,

buckwheat, \vet brewers’ grains, malt





wet or dried beet pulp when un—

mixed with other materials. Neither

shall it include wheat, rye and buck-

wheat brans or middlings not mixed with

other substances, but sold separately as

distinct articles of commerce, nor pure

grains ground together.





sprou ts,





(b) Before any manufacturer, company

or person or persons shall sell, offer or

expose for sale in this state any c011-

eentratcd commercial feeding stuff, he or

they shall, for each and every feeding

stuff beating a distinguishing name or

trade-mark, file annually, with the Dairy

and Food Commissioner, a certified copy

of the chemical analysis and certificate

referred to in this section, and shafl de-

posit with said Dairy and FOHd Commis-

sioiier a sealed glass jar, or bottle, con—

taining at least one pound of the feeding

stuff to be sold or offered for sale, to-

gether with an affidavit that it is a. fair

sample of the article tints to be sold or

offered for sale. He or they shall also pay

annually into the state treasury a license

fee of $120.00 for each and every brand of

feeding stuff he offers for sale in this

state. Said fee is to be paid on or be-

fore: April 1 of each year: Provided, that

whenever the manufacturer or importer





shall have paid this license fee, his

agents shall not be iequired to do so.





‘Wlienever any manufacturer, importer,

agent or seller of any commercial feeding

stuff desires at any time to sell such

material and has not paid the license fee

therefor, he shall pay the license fee

prescribed in this section, before making

any such sale. The money collected un-

der the provisions of this act shall be

paid into the state treasury and be used

to help defray the expenses of the office

of the Dairy and Food Commissioner, in

addition to the regular appropration

therefor. I

(c) Whenever the manufacturer, im-





porter. agent or seller of any commer-

cial feeding stuff shall have complied

with the requirements of this section,





the Dairy and Food Commissioner shall

issue, or cause to be issued, a license,

permitting the sale of said feeding stuff,

which license shall terminate on April 1

following the date of issue.



((1) All such analyses of commercial

feeding stuffs required by this act, shall

be made under the direction of the Dairy

and Food Commissioner, and shall be

paid ‘for out of the fund's arising from the

license fees provided for in this section.





(e) The Dairy and Food Commissioner

shall publish, or cause to be published in

bulletin form, at least annually, a cor-

rect statement” of the analyses made to-

gether with any incidental information





concerning same which he may deem

proper.



(1) Any manufacturer, importer, com-

pany, agent, person or persons who shall

sell, offer or expose for sale, without:

first complying with the provisions of

this act, any commercial feeding stuff,

or shall attach or cause to be attached

to any car, package or other quantity of

said feeding stuff, an analysis stating

that it contains a larger percentage of

any one or more of the constituents nam-

ed in this section than it really does con-

tain shall, upon conviction thereof, be

fined not leSS than $100 for the first of-

fense, and not less than $309 for every

subsequent offense, and the offender

shall also be liable for damages sustain-

ed by the purchascr of such feeding stuff

on account of such misrepresentation.



(g) The Dairy and Food Commissioner,

by any duly authorized agent, is hereby

authorized t0*select from any package 0f

commercial or other feeding stuff ex-

posed or offered for sale in this state, a.

quantity not exceeding two pounds for

a sample, such sample to be used for the

purposes of an official analysis and for

comparison with the certificate filed with

the Dairy and Food Commissioner, and

with the certificate affixed to the pack-

age on sale.



1 .\dded by Act No 12, P. A. 1905).



Sec. 19. The published annual report

of the Dairy and Food Commissioner

which shall be made to the governor,

shall include a complete accounting of

all moneys received by the department

from every source, and the amount ex-

pended by the department.



t.-\tltlcd by Act No. 12, 'I’. A. 1905).



Sec, 20. All acts and parts of acts in-

consistent with this act so far as they

are inconsistent are hereby repealed.



This act is ordered to take immediate.

effect.





(Added by Act No. 12, P. A. 1905).

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Michigan Bird Life, by \Valter Brad-

ford Barrows, S. It, I’roi’. of Zoology and

Physiology and Curator of the General

Museum at the lVlichigan Agricultural

College, is a book of 822 pages, containing

a list of all the bird species known to

tccur in the state, together with an out—

line of their classifications and an ac—

count of the life history of each species,

with special reference to its relation to

agriculture. In addition to the text, this

book contains 70 full page plates and 152

text figures it is published as a special

bulletin of the department of Zoology





and I’hy siology of M. A. C. and will be

distiibuted to Michigan people at cost

while the edition lasts. The price of





the book is tiO cents in cloth binding or

4.1 cents in paper binding, with 30 cents

addition to prepay expiess charges fiom

the. college. UHltIS should be addressed

to Secretary A. M. Ilioun luast Lansing,





Mich. In addition to the subject mat-

ter above outlined this book contains

lteys which will serve the reader in





identifying birds of different species so

that he may acquaint himself with their

life history, which is fully treated in each

case. "his book. which is printcd upon

good paper with especially clear illustra—

tions, will be found a valuable text and

reference book for every farmer and will

prove a valuable educator for the chil—

dren of any family. Prof. Barrows,

is an authority second to none on the

subject of Michigan birds, has spent sev—

eral years in preparing this work and the

people of Michigan should generally avail

thrirselvcs of the rare opportunity thus

afforded them to secure a. valuable book

of this kind at a nominal price which

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etc., are also fully treated in this book

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Before maulting begins the flock should

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roosters which are often kept in the

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GETTING GROWTH IN TURKEYS.





 





Young turkeys are very tender up to

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the “red head” they are comparatively

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dows, pastures. and grain fields, since

they are great foragers, they will get

the insects that furnish the meat food

essential to their growth and develop—

ment. The owner’s care and the cost

of giving growing turkeys one feed of

grain a day will be returned many fold

by the turkeys making more rapid

growth, and they will be ready for mark-

et much sooner. J. M.

DOES THE BEE MARTIN, OR KING-



BIRD, DESTROY BEES?



A Barry county reader wants to know

whether the common bee martin, or

kingbird, is really destructive of bees.

There is difference of opinion as to this

—uot so much as to Whether the bird

really catches bees but as to the loss sus—

tained by the apiarist. That this bird,

which is a prominent member of the

family of flycatchers, is capable of cap-

turing hoes upon the wing has been very

conclusively provcn, but its friends de-

clare that it chooses the larger and slow-

er fiying bees, which limits its, depreda-

lions almost exclusively to drones. Some

have sought to prove that the bird is not

destructive of bees by examining the

crops of birds, reporting failure to find

evidence of the consumption of bees. On

the other hand, some observers claim

that the bird does not consume the body

of the bee, more especially the worker

bcc, mez'rly extracting the juices and

tiisc-trding the remainder.



In his rect-ntly published exhaustive

treatise on illichigan bird life, Prof. liar—

i‘ows, of l\'l. A. C., states that the facts

do not warrant the opinion that this bird

is an encmy of the bcc—kccper. Upon

this point he says: “It has been shown

most conclusivcly, by the examination of

numerous stomachs, as wcll as by care-

ful observation of the living bird, that it

seldom eats worker bees, usually con-

tenting itself with drones.

makes an occasional mistake and snaps

up an armed worker, undoubtedly paying

a sevore penalty for its carelessness. The

stomach examinations just referred to

(281 stomachs), made under our oWn di-

rection in the United States Department

of Agriculture, showed that about 90 per

cent of the food consisted of animal mat—

ter, most of which was insects. These

included beetles, grasshoppers, butter-

fiies. bees, wasps, two—winged flies and

even caterpillars. There were 50 honey

bees in these stomachs, 40 of which were

surely drones, and only four certainly

workers.”



From the above it seems safe to say

that the general bee-keeper has little to

fear from this bird, unless these fly—

catchers are present in such numbers as

to endanger the queens when making

their flights. To the man who is making

a specialty of rearing queens. however,

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A NEW APPLE PEST.



It may be that the title of this letter

is somewhat misleading, for the pest of

which I shall speak is not new, but only

new in respect to its attack upon the

apple trees in this part of the state.



At the opening of the season of 1911,

just after the leaves had come out, the

apple trees were seen to be covered with

minttte lice. They occasioned consider—

able comment at the time, but soon dis-

appeared, and so far as the writer knows

they did little, if any, harm. This year

they came again and their work is no-

ticeable in all the orchards as far as I

know, and upon some sweet cherries as

well.



There are many species of the aphides

or plant lice, as they are generally called,

and there are some very interesting facts

about them.



The eggs ate deposited upon the twigs

in the fall, after which the cold weather

kills off the lice. These eggs hatch in

the following spring, producingr a genera-

tion of females which quickly develop,

and give birth to another generation,

also females, and so they go on multiply—

ing thrOughout the summer, until in the

fall both males and females are pro—

duced, which meet, after which the fe-

males once more lay their ergs upon the

branches. and succumb later to the cold

of the gathering winter.



The green apple aphis is most preva-

lent here. It puts its little bill into the

tender bark, and sucks out the sup for

food. For this reason it can not be

killed by any poison applied to the sur~

face of the tree. No spray can reach

that part of the tree from which it gets

its food.



By thus sucking the sap from the tree,

it weakens its vitality, occasions drop-

ping of the fruit, and some species of

the aphidcs fasten on_ the fruit itself,

and prevent its development.



The lime and sulphur sprays have no

effect upon this pest. ()il sprays are used

sometimes, but their use is, without





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doubt. attended with some risk to the

trees, and our impression is that the

direct‘ results of the oil sprays are not





very satisfactory.



A solution of nicotine will kill any of

these plant lice, if applied at the proper

time. We can buy this, or we can obtain

the tobacco stems and steep out the

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The solution of nicotine can be applied

to the trees in ctmnccion with the regu-

lar spray, immediately after the blossoms

fall and thus the only additional expense

will be in the direct cost of the prepara-

tion



Without doubt these lice are subject to

conditions of the season which may be

against them next year, but they have

such a start now that it would seem that

the only safe way would be to give them

a good liberal dose of tobacco extract

next spring.



Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR.





CULTIVATING ORCHARDS.



\Vithoul (It‘llltl our best fruit growers

who practice cultivating in their or-

thaitls have the work so well organized

that they keep ahead of it and always

keep their orchards in line shape. But,

I presume there are many like myself

who are running a general farm in con-

nection with their fruit growing, and at

this time so many things that need do-

ir.g are crowding upon us that our or-

chards are apt to be neglected. It has

always scented to me that the things

that I knew just had to be done got done

some way and other things that could be

passed by for the time were simply

crowded out entirely. And now I have

some of this very same work that has

gotten ahead of me.



Two of our orchards which are on

sand and quite badly infested with sand





burrs were plowed and disked early in

the spring and dragged once or twice

since. Then we put our time in get-

ting in corn, potatoes, and cucumbers.

In the meanwhile we attended to the

spraying, then followed the cultivating





of the hoed crops. And now, when we

are, as we think, somewhat caught up

with our work, these orchards are star-

ing us in the face with a growth that is

too heavy to do anything with but to





 





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plow under, and there is an objection to

plowing. A good many of the trees are

pretty thoroughly loaded with fruit, and

as they are naturally low tree, now they

are nearly resting on the ground. W'hile

plowing seems at this time to be im—

practical I hardly know what I can do to

kill out these sand burrs other than wait:

until next year and then put these or-

chards on the necessary list.



Our young orchards are closer at hand,

and if a. man and team are out of a job

for a while, cultivating can be done. The

spring-tooth harrow is a fine cultivator

and easy to use, so these orchards have

nothing to complain of. '



In cultivating, there is one thin-g we

bear in mind and that is to get our 0r-

chards in proper shape before it is too

late. If we cultivate too late we are apt

to do great injury to the trees by having

unripened wood for the winter season.



I mentioned sometime ago, in an arti—

cle, that I believed in removing all dead

and diseased pt-ztch trees as soon as pos—

sible after they were known to be such.

Till July 12 I could not find time to do

it but on the morning of the 13th we had

a. very heavy rain, which blocked our

farming operations for several days so I

got: a team into the orchards immediately

after the rain and commenced pulling

trees. Of course, it was quite muddy

but the trees were up-rooted the more

easily for it. I made it a complete job

and removed all unhealthy looking trees

as well as those diseased. By the time

I get this job completed the ground will

be dry enough to barrow and unless we

get some more beating rains in the next

two weeks this harrowing will be the

last for this season. I will try to haVc

the weeds pretty thoroughly killed out

so they will not bother when it comes to

sowing a czttch crop. R. G. THOMAS.





SCALE-INFESTED, BUT NOT FRUIT

TREES.



It is not the fruit trees alone that are

subject to the San Jose scale. There are

several other trees and shrubs that are

subject to attack.



The mountain ash has been extensively

planted as an ornamental and is deserv-

ing of attention for this purpose. But it

is liable to become a rare tree unless

something; comes along to eat the scale.

for not many will care to plant it if it

must be sprayed. The scale finds it a

choice feeding ground and settles upon it

with as much contentment as the pro-

verbial pig in a clover field. Among the

trees in a nursery there is nothing more

subject to attack. If it is near fruit

trees it may become a bad breeding nest

before the evil is suspected. This is not

saying that the scale chooses a mountain

ash in preference to other trees. Ordi-

narily it has no choice. It is carried to

a. tree by some means of distribution ov-

er which it has no control. But the kind

of food it has does make a great differ-

ence with its multiplication. If susze-

nance is good and is in plenty the scale

thrives and increases, otherwise it: tends

to race suicide.



The Jztpztn quince is another plant be-

loved of the scale, in which it shares

about equal honors with the mountain

ash. The moral is on the surface. Either

spray or dig up this pretty shrub, other-

wise the scale will be present till the

quince dies, which will not be long.



Those who have Camperdown 'elms

should be told to look for scale, unless

they already know about it. The Ameri..

can elm is exempt, though it has troubles

of its own sufficient to meet all reason-

able requirements.



The dogwooz'ls should not be overlook-

ed. The red branched species is a refuge

for the scale and should be thoroughly

sprayed.



Frequently the wild thorn is allowed

to grow along fences or in brush lots

near orchards, affording a. distributing

point for the scale. Like all pest—breed-

ing trees it should be either sprayed or

destroyed.



Another tree which feeds and fattens

the scale in the purple leaved plum,

Prunus pissardi. It makes a pretty tree

with its highly colored foliage and its

wealth of white blossoms in their sea-

son, but should be sprayed, and that

thoroughly, otherwise it is a source of

sorrow.



Osage orange hedges are not as com-

mon as they once were, but there are

still some of them left, together with

stray shrubs that have escaped from cul-

tivation. If the scale were to do no oth—

er damage than destroying the osage

orange it might remain in peace, but it

does not. The best way to dispose of

osztge is to dig it out, thus putting the

Scale out of the job.



Owners of currants and gooseberries





should not be surprised to see them die.

The scale can kill them in ‘two years.



These are the most important among

the trees and shrubs outside the orchard

fruits which are attacked by this scale,

but the list is far from complete. How-

ever, these should receive attention as

well as apples and plums.



Oakland Co. FRANK D. WELLS.

THE WHITE GRUB IN THE STRAW-



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me that the

havoc in his





A correspondent writes

grubs are working great





new strawberry bed and wants to know

what can be done to prevent further

damage.





Now that the larvae of the June beetle

are already established in the soil, the

only thing to be done to to hunt out the

repredators and kill them. If there are

plants that do not appear to be doing

as well as they ought, it is altogether

likely that a grub is working at their

roots. If taken in time, a plant may be

saved by removing the enemy. \Vork em—

ployed in destroying these pests is time

well spent, for, if left unmolestcd a sin-

gle grub will often destroy several

plants, making a. clean sweep as he

works from plant to plant.



The presence of these grubs may be

more easily detected during the heat of

the day. when the foliage of the plants

being worked upon will show wilt. Then,

loo, this is the feeding hour of these

larvae, hence they will usually be found

near the surface, that is, near the base

of the plant. At other times one has to

dig down several inches before the grub

is found.



These larvae are doing considerable

damage in our new spring-set bed. This

was to be, expected for this piece of

ground was in strawberries the two pre-

ceding seasons. “'9 knowingly took ex-

treme chances because of the fact that

this particular piece of ground is es-

pecially adapted to the growing of straw—

berries, t‘tossessing large quantities of

humus and being rich in plant food.



At present vacancies in the row of

plants are quite numerous. However,

much of this vacant space will be filled

in by directing runners across from the

I »w opposite. This is another advantage

possessed by the double hedge-row plan

of culture.



In dealing with this problem,

tion is better





preven-

than cure and a grub in—

tested soil had better not be set to

strawberry plants. Short rotations will

aid in solving the problem, as the beet-





les will then seek other grounds as a

depository for their eggs.





Emmett Co. M. N. EDGERTON.





 





SYSTEMS OF IPLANTING STRAW-

BEERRIES.





 





The bill system is on the decline as a

favorite way of planting this fruit. The

land is marked both ways, as for corn,

except narrower, and the plants are set

at the intersections which requires a

greater number of plants than fer the

other systems. After the runners start

it is difficult to keep the plants confined

'to a sufficiently limited space, requiring

extra labor,



The matted—row system is less expen-

sive. It is started by marking the field

4 ft. one way and 21/: or 3 ft. the other.

Plants are set at the intersection, culti-

v:tted both ways and as the runners de-

velop they are allowed to form a matted

row, i. e., a row that occupies a strip of

land from one to one and one-half feet

wide. Cultivation is then done, in Only

one direction. The saving Comes in the

fewer plants recuired and in the smaller

amount of labor needed to train the run—

ners.



The hedge r0w is formed by having the

plant's set in a straight line. In this

system no two plants are permitted to

grow side by side as in the matted row.



There are two kinds of hedge rows—

the single and the double. The single

hedge row consists of a single row of

plants about every 32 inches. The dou-

ble hedge row has two rows set 24 inches

apart and then a 32—inch space to the

next row, i. e., every other space be-

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THE PRESENT STATUS OF OLEO.



It is really too bad for the cause of

pure food and honesty that the manu-

facturers of oleomargarine will not be

satisfied with the present law gove1 11mg

that product, knowu as the Grout bill.

Nothing can be fairer to their interests.

Under this they are allowed to manufac-

ture oleomargarine and only have to pay

one—quarter of a cent a pound revenue

tax, just enough so that the government

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if they persist in coloring it yellow in

imitation of butter so that it is liable to

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sumer then they have to pay on this

colored oleomargarine 10 cents a pound.

Now the oleo interests have made a

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change-this law and remove the 1-0 :cent

tax. They have brought forward the

Lefer bill, which is a good bill in many

ways, as it requires that the original

packages of 0160 must be small and the

revenue stamp must be placed upon each

package,“ but they insist that they shall

have the right to color olenmargarlne.

Now the dairymen claim that they have

no right to color oleomargarine unless

they color it some other color than but-

ter; because, when oleomargarine is col—

ored in imitation of butter it is colored

for the purpose of selling:r for butter and

deceiving the consumer.



Now the dairyman is not the only one

affected in this—the consumer is'also

him. If the consumer pays for butter he

ought to 1121Vc butter. If he pays for

oleomargarinc he ought to get olcomar—

garinc, and get it at a proper price per

pound. it is a pure—food proposition in

this respect, purely and simply. There

is a law which prevents people from soil-

ing corn syrup for maple syrup. even

though they color it and flavor it in imi—

tation of maple syrup it is against the,

law to sell it as maple syrup, and that

is right. Maple syrup is a special pro-

duct. and it cost more money to produce

than it dms corn syrup. It is a better

product. that is, many people. think it is,

and they are willing to pay a better

price. Now it is a ”and for the manu—

facturer to take common corn syrup or

glm-ose and color it and flavor it so that

it imitates maple syrup and sell it as

maple syrup. It is a fraud on the con-

sume-r, and it is an injury to the pro-

ducer of maple syrup. This is exactly

the case with oleomargarine. The same

can be said of vinegar. It is believed by

many that cider makes a much better

vinegar, more wholesome, than could be

made from acids, but it cost more to

make cider vinegar than it does acid

vinegar. Consequently manufacturers

are. all the while trying to disguise acid

vinegar so that it looks like and tastes

like, and will sell for cider vinegar. Now

there is a law against this. This law is

to protect the consumer more than it is

the producer. but it protects the pro-

dancer as Well because cider vinegar is

more costly to produce.



And so with o‘leomargarine. Oleomar~

gar-inc, we will admit. for the sake of

argument, is a wholesome product. It is

made out of animal fat. There is noth-

ing in i1; deleterious to health. but its

natural color is the color or lard and tal-

low. Now if it is prepared so that it is

wholesome and sold as oleommrguine it

is a substitute For butter. The dairyman

mklmenoobieeflentoflflehecame





 





‘ me- MTCHTGAN FARMER.





there is not enough butter being pro-

duced at the present time to supply the

demand if oleomargarine or the substi-

tute for butter was taken off the market.

Peopie would not have enough to spread

upon their bread. But when this manu-

facturer of oleomargarine attempts to

color tallow and other animal fats so

their product looks like butter and sells

11' for butter, then it is a fraud. It is a

cheaper product than butter, it is'not as

good as- butter, everybody knows that.

There is :10 use in denying it and there

is no use arguing about it, and the only

reason that the manufacturer insists that

it be colored yellow is so that it can be

sold for butter and get a better price.

or butter price for it, and when they do

that they defraud the consumer and the

producer as well.



‘he dairy interests of this country have

brought forward a hill to offset the Lefer

bill. The bill 'was introduced by Con-

gressman Hagen, of Iowa. This bill sticks

to the color distinction. If you take

away the color distinction then there is

no use of having any legislation at all.

Besides that, it changes the original

package somewhat, and it prohibits the

manufacturer of oleomargarine from us-

ing butter in the manufacture of their

product. These are the essential fea-

tures. \Vhy should the oleomargarine

manufactuiet be itllowcd to take good

pure butter and mix it with a lot of tal~

low and lard and sell it f01 oleomargax-

ine? if a manufacturer of butter should

use any other animal fat in connecmn

with butter-fat and attempt to sell 1t

1‘ 1r butter, then it would be adulterated

butter, but the manufacturer of 0190-

margarine can take creamery butter and

mix it with animal fat. in some brands

as high as 40 per cent being creamery

butter, and then sell it for Oleomargarine.

Thcy do this so as to make ’olcomargarine

look like, taste like, and smell like but—

ter so that they can sell it for butter

and get a butter price for it. Now the

llngon bill, which will. prevent this,

outrht to prevail. There ought to be the-

color distinction and the manufacturer

of oleomargarine ought to be prevented

from using butter.



The government cannot

manufacture of colored oleomargarine

but it can use its taxing power. Hence

a tax of ten cents a pound is put upon

this product so that it will practically

prohibit its manufacture.





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My advice would be first, don’t build

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Then again, the silo in the barn will

warp your barn out of shape, the pres-

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inside.



'l‘hcn again, don't build a square silo.

Build one ten feet in diameter, make it

round. You don’t want a square silo.

You can build a much stronger silo and

have it” round than you can to build it

square with the same material.



If you want to build a serviceable

round silo and do the most of the work

yourself you could build a lath and plas—

tered one as follows: Make a circular

wall for the foundation, you go into the

ground if you wish to but I would ad-

vise you not to go into the ground, build

it on a level with the ground and make it

11 little higher to get the capacity. Then,

on top of this circular wall put: a circu-

l11r sill made out of inch boards, double.

’l‘hen set your studding 011 this circular

sill 16 inches apart, lath the studding on

the inside and plaster it with cement

mortar made two parts sand to one part

cement. You can clapboard it on the

outside. Get six-inch lumber and have

it split so that it will be one—half inch

thick and put it so that one piece will

come directly above the other. not have

it, lap. Then it will go on nicely. in

building this silo re-inforcc it with com—





mon fence wire, galvanized wire, for

hoops. Put them on before you put 011

your siding on the outside. Vl'rap the





wire around twice a foot at the bottom

and then every three feet above that.

Fasten the wire to the studding. This

will assure you ample strength. For a

moi put two 2x8's arms the center three

feet apart, leaving an open space three

feet, and slant your roof from these two

beams to the edges. Put two 2x4’s on





top of the 2x8‘s and.‘then make a. cap to

go over them by using two other 2x4’s

and nailing boards acrosg so that it will

just fit down over the pieces fasten-ed t0

the 2x8's. You can have this cap in sec-

tions so that it can bc easily taken off.

\thn you fill the silo remove the caps.

In this way you avoid having any dor-

mer Window or anything of that sort.

Other kinds of silo would serve your pur—

pose nicely. A stave silo c2111 perhaps be

erected with the least trouble. while a

cement silo has the advantage of being

more permanent.



DAIRYING A LARGER BUSINESS



THAN FARMING.



Men talk abOut dairying as if it were

on a par with raising wheat, or corn.

or clover, or any other one particular

crop. “111311, in fact, growing tl11-se is

The mere production of crops while

dairying is a business in itself; it is mak-

ing a manufactured product, it is con-

verting the corn and the clover and the

other food stuff grown upon the dairy

farm into a marketable, 111anuf11ctured

product, whether it be butler. cheese,

milk, Or butter-fut. So the dairyman 25

more than a mere crop producer. Crop

production is but a part of dairying, an

elementary part. A man must be a suc—

cessful crop producer, a successful farm—

er, if he makes the grcatest success out

of dairying. But the fact that one does

produce. good crops is not proof that he

will succeed with dairy cows. He must

also have an ability to select, feed and

care for cows.





WINTER DAIRYING.





 





 





 





Fifteen or twenty years ago I thought

there was but one side to the (111cstion

of winter dairying. All arguments were

in favor of having the (bus freshen in

the fall and go dry 1'11 the summer time.

Since then dairy markets have changed

so much that there is two sides 11’) the

question at the present time. Fiftcen or

twenty years ago we used to sell butter

in the summer time for 12 and 15 cents.





Our cremnery has sold butter for this

price for storage purpose-s. The com—

mission men did not think they could





afford to hold and store butter unless

they could get it down below 20 cents.

The price of cheese and market milk and





all other dairy products has always bee-11’

based on the price of butter and conse»





quently they were low in the summcr

time. Now there is no question but

what a cow will give more milk in a year

if she freshens in the tall,

erly taken care of and fcd in thc winter

time. If the cow frtshens in the fall

and the dairyman is providcd with good

corn silage and clover hay and a grain

ration to balance tlzc fced and has to

good warm stable to keep her in she Will

keep up the llow of milk with very little

falling off all winter long and then when

summer comes and the pasture grass is

luxuriant the cow will flush up for a

time like a new milch cow The period

of lactation is prolonged. 011 the aver-

age the winter milker gives the largest

amount of milk. \\'liere one has little

pasture there isn't any question today

but what it is more profitable to have

the cow fresh-en in the fall. (m thc oth-

er hand, if a man is so situated that he

has an abundance of cheap pasture.

waste, cutover, or rough land that can-

not be plowed but which contains plenty

of giass, it is a question whether it

would not be better for him to have his

cows give the larger amount of milk in

the summer time. and therefore they

would necessarily freshen in the spring.

The consumption of ice cream in this

country is growing to enormous propor-

tions. It, to my mind, has much to do

with the summer price of butter. Fif—

teen 01‘ 20 years ago very little butter-

fat was consumed for ice cream, while

now there is an enormous amount of it.

This cuts down the supply of butter for

storage, advances tlic price, and makes

conditions better for the dairyman. it

gives a man with cheap land for pastur-

age a chance to make something out of

it. Of course, it has always been the

case, that the man who furnishes market

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greatest supply of milk during the grow-

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be natural for the cows to freshen at

that time and man can do his very best

and yet he will not get the entire bend

to freshen in the fall when he wants

them to. But it is not so bad now with

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spting, because you will get something

f0r the grass that grows on the hillsides

and in the cut-over lands that cannot

be utilized in any other way only by

pasturina‘, and the indications are that

the summer price of dairy products will

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oieomargarine pushed for

there will always be a large class of peo-

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will buy it at any reasonable price. \\'e

might be much concerned about this if

the only market for dairy products was

butter and cheese, but the growing de-

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Figutrd in any way,

dait'ying in the future

ing than lllty have lit‘t‘ll in the past. To

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tion than the labor and the feed, and

with the ttndt-rstamling that we now

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caring for the

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man t‘ait make more money ottt of dairy—

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tealixe that in litany instanre‘s the pro—

duction is lessened owing to the fact that

unprofitable t-ows are disposed of more

closely than before. \\'hile this means

a smallt'r quantity of the dairy products

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liis from his herd depends upon

the by whit-h he, can produce

the his farm. He must learn

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upon own farm. He must use by—

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capacity. He must grow red

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and the bulky part of the ra—

iie must these two

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PASTURE IS GOOD.





 





bust pasture this spring

: we have had in B't‘tll‘S. We rented a farm

in the neighborhood with about aortas

of additional pasture; and we didn’t have

to turn the young cattle onto the (-ow

pasturo at all in the spring. and tin-n i

built a gootl—sixwl exercise yard for the

the flat so i didn’t

the main pasture tmrll

:ttwl growth. If you let

tariy and allow them to roam

they do not give YY‘iC

grass a t'lltllit't‘ to grow and at the same

time there isn‘t for them to (tat so

(-atiy. so i found in a big yard. some-

thing like two acres. There is a

running throuuh it and it has quite a

lot of shade. \\'tt tutned the rows in this

enclosure early. ’i‘ht‘y ate their rations

in the barn. we did not allow any for the





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grass grazed from the enclosure. and we

kept them there until the grass got a

good start, and the consequence is that

they had good pasture and that pasture

has llt‘ltl out well until the present time.

Now the dry weather begins to toll.

There is an abundance of grass. the .lune

grass is getting ripe and is dzying up

and it isn't so palatable as it was. Ever





Since we turned the cows onto the pas-

ture we hthn’t been able to get them ‘to

eat very much ensilage. \Ve finally de-

cided to leave it out of the ration en-

tirely and will not feed it again till the

pasture gets short. \Ve have more en-

silage left on hand probably than the





cows can consume this year but if there

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Sandwlch, III.

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The PER FECT

BORN HARVESTER





Gun 30 Adlnclod to cm

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Works in any

kind of soil. Cuts

stalks—doesn't pull like

other cutters. ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER.

Outs Four to Seven Acres 3 Day

with one man and one horse. Here is what one

farmer says: -.

Trotwood, Ohio, Sept. 28. 1911.

Dear Sin—I am pretty well satisfied with my ma-

chine. lt does good wOrk. I cut 151 acres of drilled

corn in three days. Yours truly, SAMUEL LAVY.

SOLD DIRECT TO THE FARMER

Send for booklet and circulars felii , 11 about

this labor-saving machine; also coma ins; testi-

monials of many users. Send for this circular

matter today. ,

‘_ LOVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

i l 1222 (Hilton. Street, Llncoln. Illinois.





 





 





 





 





 





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STANDARD





 





Baling Presses





t Catalogue Free





P. K. DEDERICK’S SONS.

46 Tivoli Sh. Albany. N. Y.





 





 





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buys this High Grade Ho Fencin ' '

than usual kinds offered. ‘ inches hifihhgalihlfsr

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strongest. built, per rod--.-g.-fi--?ffi:§:-2 7c



Per 100

$1.25 m, m GALVANIZED WIRE

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and to bale more hay than any other

one-horse machine on the mullet. .

Built almost entirely of steel; no side attain:

powerful leverage make! bales no that; lo foul

can be loud ed into 36-foot can light draft. 10W

Imp-over and no jarmakea if any on horse; low

platform and hopper make. it easy to feed. Auto-

matic feeder makes smooth bales. Made with or with-

out self-feeder. Getjree book and price before buy-

lng elsewhere—it mil save you _onay.

Every mnehine guaranteed. '3

Sent on 5 day: free trial.

GEO. ER’I‘EL 00..

Manufacturers

285 Ky. 8L.

Quincy. Ill.





 





6 BUGGY WHEELSW.&2 38!.“

With Rubber Tim,fl8.45. Your Wheoll Rerubbcmd.

‘ $10.30. [nuke wheel- ” to 4 in. trend. Tupi, $6.50,

Shem. 82.10; Rep-1r Wheell. 85.95; Axle- 5235; Wu;-

. .,, ‘ on Umbrelln free. Buy t. All for Catalog 28

SM HICKORY Hull: 00.. 28 l' 83.. cud-nu. Ohio.