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The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Journ
DETROIT, MICH” SATURDAY. OCT. 26. I912. '

VOL. CXXXIX. No. I7. ;
Whole Number 3614.

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A” in'the State.

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WHERE ONIONS PROVED A SUCCESS.

. 0 find a farm that will not advan-
l tageously lend itself to the profit-
able production of some special
crop, is difficult. (if all the many lines
of special agricultural work, some one of.
them is certain to be adapted to the soil,
climatic, and marketing conditions of ev-
ery farm in every community.,Why these
opportunities are not developed is due
largely to our blindness; we either do not
understand the conditions required by
these agricultural specialties, or we fail
to see in our soil the advantages we have.
So, when we discover a man who has a
clear vision to see the possibilities of his
land and has become informed on all the
phases of the production of crops suited
to those conditions. We are attracted by
his work and make a study of it. Such
a. man is George Cowdin, who lives in the
northern part of Oakland county. That
he has suited his crops to his soil and
that he has worked out econom'cal cul‘
tural methods are. shown by the follow-
ing review of his work:

Mr. Gawain has made a success raising
onions. Fosthe past 15 years he has
produced large yields of this crop on a
dertain portion of his farm specially
adapted to onion production. The yields
for the different years range from 300
bushels to over 1,000 bushels per acre.
He'esttimates that his 1912 crop will run
close to the thousand bushel mark. The
acreage ranges from three to five acres
per year. \Vith continuous large yields
ranging over so long a time, and the lust
crop being fully as large as any yet
grown it is safe to state that: he has
prospered to an unusual degree in this
line of production.

While ‘good managing ability has play-
ed a large part in the Success attained.
it must be stated that the conditions of
this land are unusually favorable for the
enterprise. There is perhaps 20 acres in
the plot which was formerly a tamarack
swamp and is at the head of a chain cf
similar swamps. The wash from a. num-
ber of large farms is carried dOWn upon
this land and the sediment is deposited
over its surface. The muck is from one
to five feet deep with gravel and sand
below affording good natural drainage
after the spring freshets are over. A

large Open ditch runs lengthwise ofvtthel

area dividing the plot in two parts of
about equal size. These conditions sup-
ply to this soil an abundance of plant
food and control the moisture to the ad-

vantage of the crops.
The cultural practices followed by Mr.

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emu-ammo Hanson on Mr. 0

Cowdin differ in some regards to those of
other growers. we shall follow them in
sequence from feeding the soil to mar?
keting the crop.

His method of feeding the soil is quite

different from that of the average truck
gardener. Liberal quantities of high-
grade commercal fertilizers are commonly
used by men following: intensive cultural
methods, but Mr. Cowdin has found that
he gets very little good from fertilizers

larger yields.
A single rotation of crops has not been

is to follow onions (there gent-rally

with cabbage and the cabbage \vith

follows onions with onions for three and

 

 

Mr. Cowdln Illustrating the Method of Topping with Sheep

of this kind, due, he believes. to the fact
that this soil is so well supplied with tin-
(vlements of fertility that additional plant
food is not required. That he believes
in commercial fertilizers is testified to
by the fact that on the day the writer
called, his men were taking a liberal
quantity to a field being sown to wheat.
He does apply more or less irregularly,
but usually about once in three years, a
gooduapplication of barnyard manure.
These applications result in an improved

practice is not in harmony with the pre—
of horticultural
given Mr. Cowdin results, and results are
what men farm for.

one of the exacting parts of the work
is the preparation of the soil.
each year form problems of culture that
are settled upon their own merits rather
Some. years the
land is plowed in the fall and some years
in the spring
necessary to

however, when manure is added and the
effort is to do this in the fall to give
the manure a longer time to unlock its
plant food and to temper the mechanical
qualities of the soil. Zefnre the crop can
be planted a very thorough course, of
preparatory culture must be followed to
make the surface mulch as fine as pos-
sible, destroy weeds and rid the ground
of foreign matter that would later inter—
rupt the cultivators. If the ground re-
quires loosening a spring—tootht‘fl harrow
is employed and then the spiked—toothed
harrow follows to pulvcrizn and firm the
land for seed. Should it be unncccssary
to loosen up the ground, then only the
spike—toothed harrow is used. Many har-
howings are required and often it be-
comse nct’wssnry to go over the- land with
g'it‘dcn rakes to act it right. Mr. (Tomlin
has also mzulc for himself a small hand
drag tirit is cilicient in the preparation
of onion soil and its use supplements the
other tools mentioned. After these meth-
ods, variously employed to suit the sea-
son, the soil bed is fitted to receive the
little seeds.

’l‘hu varieties of onions grown have
been narrowed down to not more than
tno kinds. The variety planted in largest
(:unntitics is the Yellow Globe, while the
led Globe is the other one used occas-
ionally to supplement. These varieties
have proven themselves to be well adap-
ted to commercial onion growing, being
good keepers and excl-llcnt sellers.

“bf all the little details that must be
watched and kept right in a. business of
this kind, Mr. Cowdin believes that the
scltcticn of seed is of the highest im-
portance. As grown on the farm in ques-
tion no thinning is done; the seed is sown
carefully and because of the richness of
the soil thcrc is plant food sufficient to
develop all the seeds into onions. Should
the set-d by poor there is certain to be
an inferior stand of onions, a fault that
cann-d bc corrected by any amount of
after care. Again, 0114* would not care
to grow a crop of onions and at harvest
time have the variety prove of a different
kind than was wanted. For these and
other reasons it becomes of the utmost
importance to look carefully after the
seed question. ‘

The drilling «.f the seed is now almost
llOWn to a science so far as the practice
upon this farm is concerned. The rows
'iave been tried all distances apart from
l2 to 20 inches and it has been found
hat the tools work to best advantage
vhcn the distance between is 13 inches;

 

owam'suuck Land are here muurated in the Order y. are Planted—onion}, cabbggc and Carrotq.

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so all onion crops are now drilled with a
13-inch space between the drills. A. com-
mon garden hand—drill is used to put in
the seeds. As to the seas-on for planting,
it is a rule to get the seed in as early as
the ground can be gotten in shape. Some
years the frost is out of the subsoil when
the surface is ready. Drilling is not de-
layed because of this. for onion seed and
the young plants will not suffer much
should they be exposed to a few cool
nights. These practices are. closely fol—
lowed.

Thinning, the bugaboo of most onion
growers, has been almost entirely elim-
inated as stated in a preceding para-
graph. The seeds are all allowed to grow.
in this soil plant food is so abundant
that all the onions that can crowd into
the row will mature and so by using
seed that has practically a perfect ger-
minating test, and drilling them so that
they are regularly and evenly distributed
in the rows. thinning becomes an un—
necessary practice.

it requires from $30 to $50 dollars'
worth of labor to weed and cultivate an
acre of onions as grown by Mr. Cowdin.
In planning for the labor side of the bus-
iness one should count on about one em-
ployc tor each acre grown: i. 0., under
ordinary conditions it will take one per—
son for each acrc to keep the work up
during the rush days of the gr twiiig sca—
son. The work will be divided between
Weeding and cultivating. “’here the first
Weeding is done thoroughly and the
weather permits regular cultivation, the
succeeding weedincs will take compara-
tively little timc. While rains interrupt
onc’s plans during the average season
the effort has been to give the, whole,
onion patch a cultivation once every
week. One man with a wliccl hoe will
cultivate about an acre a day. in fol—
lowing those plans as closely as one can
the cost for labor will vary within the
$30 to $50 limit.

The dirt is worked away from the on-
ions throughout the season. The hoes or
shovels are set at an angle for the first
cultivation. which is given as soon as
the little plants are large enough to mark
the rows, and kept s» through to the last
stirring of the soil. ’l‘hc angle pulls the
dirt to the center of the interval between
the rows of onions. thus giving the bulbs
freedom to expand.

Harvesting is done by hand. The, Oli—
ions are pnlicd and two rows thrown to-
gether with the tops all laying in the
same direction at right angles to the

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General Plan of Mr. Cowdin's Onion
House. Nos. 1 and 2 are bins, 3 is win-
dow, 4 is door leading to house from an-
other building and 5 are dead-air spaces
in wall.

 

 

 

course of the rows. Sometimes when the
weather has been favorable the onions
are fit to be topped immediately after
the pulling, but if not they are allowed
to lay and cure out. when the tops are
cut off with sheep—shears and the bulbs
thrown into crate-s. ’l‘he crates are tie-red
up out in the field where they remain
until there is danger of the bulbs being
frozen. Then they are drawn to the
storage house. All this work requires
time when the. acreage is large and the
crop yielding well.

By means of a specially fitted storage
house. Mr. Cowdin finds no trouble in
keeping the crop through to the spring.
This house is, say 20x20 feet, inside meas-
urement, with the ceiling about 12 feet
above the ground. There is a dead air
space in the wall. the inside wall being
plastered. The structure- has no floor.
The house is entered from another build-
ing and as one walks in he sees an aisle
running across the center with a small
window high up in the wall atl the oppo-
site end. The‘alley is about four feet
wide. On either side of this alley three
bins are partitioned off, the partitions
being built of latticework to allow cir-
culation of air through them. Sills run

horizontally across these partitions about

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

every foot, reaching from the alley to
the wall at the back side of the bins.
False bottOms, made of slats, are built
in sections to fit on these sills. There
are narrower sections for the sides ad-
joining tlie alley which can be dropped
in behind some bumpers to keep the on-
ions from falling out of place. Now the
false bottoms are placed on the bottom
sills and the narrow section adjacent to
the alley dropped in when cure-d onions
are poured out of the crates onto the floor
thus made. The onions are piled from
eight to ten inches deep; the depth de-
pending upon the quantity to be stored,
for if there is insufficient room for the
crop then all this space is used. On the
sills ncxt above these onions are placed
other sections and another layer of on-
ions put on. Then a third section, and

per acre at 500 bushels. Thus we see
that conditions here are almost opposite
from those of Mr. Cowdin’s and yet we
must agree that Mr. Hilbert is making
a success when he can grow this number
of bushels per acre on such land as he
has.

In a column of the horticultural de-
partment of this issue of The Farmer Is
an article on harvesting the onion crop,
by Mr. tanda‘ll, who informs us that he
has grown a most successful crop of on-
ions on sandy loam. This is another tes-
timonial showing that the possibilities of
producing such special crops are very
wide, in fact, the proposition appears to
limit itself to the individual himself. If
the proprietor will sacrifice the time and
attention, and possibly expense, to make
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Illustrates
on Sills, 4; 2 are Partition Studding, and 3 ShOWS Ends of Stats of Partition.

so on until the bin is filled. The other
bins are. filled in the same manner. By
this arrangement the air is permitted to
circulate throughout the entire mass of
onions, anti tllc. onions are separated
from outside changes of temperature by
the dead air space in the wall. Besides,
should the mercury go down very low
and the bulbs be in danger of freezing,
the lighting 01' an oil stove 'or a. big lamp
and placing it in the alleyway will keep
the temperature safe. inside the storage
room. The stove may also be used to
reduce the moisture in the bulbs should
it be necessary to put them in before
they have. been well cured outside. With
this hOUSt.‘ it is easy to keep the onions
in excellent shape. providing they are put
in in proper condition.‘ On one or two
occasions it may be inserted here, by
way of parenthesis, the onions have froz-
en when not closely watched and it was
found that if they were slowly thawed
out little or no harm is done them.

The onions are sold to commission
houses in Flint and Detrmt. The nearer
they can be delivered to the final con—
sumer in the long list of middlemen the
higher price one usually gets. For this
reason Mr. Cowdin has acquainted him-
self with reliable commission men who
sell to retailers and disposes of his. on—
ions to the one who offers the best price.

The marketing is customarily done in
the spring. Better values are- obtainable
at that season, as a rule, and good inter—
est is made by waiting. But this is not
always the case. the price occasionally
being higher in the. fall than during the
following spring. ll require-s that one
llc acquainted with the conditions of the
crop each season. If plentiful and the
price. is fair in the tall. then it is a wise
rule to sell. but if scarce receipts are
quite certain to be increased by holding
till spring. Mr. Cowdin paid a compli-
ment to his faim papers as a medium of
furnishing him knowledge of crop c011-
ditions.

Mr. Hilbert‘s Succcss with Onions.

in our opening paragraph we made. the
statulllcllt that there were undoubtedly
special crops adapted to every farm in
every community. I'pon reading the. ac—
count of Mr. Cowdiii's work, the reader,
unless he has had wide experience. may
possibly haVe come to the conclusion
that if he is going into the onion busi-
ness and expects the greatest success he
must buy a tamarack swamp. Now, jus:
to show that this particular special crop,
which is almost always associated with
low ground, has a wide range of possib‘l’-
ities and that it is not necessary to have
a tamarack swamp or any other muck
land upon which to grow the onion plants,
we are reproducing on page 384 an
illustration of the- -onion field of Mr.
Hilbert, of Leelanau county. Mr. Hilbert's
farm overlooks Grand Traverse Bay and
Carp Lake, his land being a portion of
a high plateau. His onions are planted
in two fields of two acres each. These
fields are located in or near the highest
point of the plateau. The soil, instead
of being muck, is a good quality of clay
loam. A conservatIVe estimate of the
yield for this season puts the average

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No. 1 is False Bcttom Resting

then to make search for crops that will
lit into those. condition he is quite cer—

tain to be successful. The. accomplish-j

n.cnts referred to are a few of hundreds of

examples that might be given of what‘

can be done by an insistent application
of one's mind to these problems.

WEIGHING AND GUESSING.

 

The farmer of today who tries to get
along without a good. reliable scale, bV
depending on his ability as a guesser, is
usually the- one who wonders why farm-
ing doesn’t pay better. He. never knows
just how much he is feeding his stock,
how much his cows are producing, when
his hogs are in the right condition 'to
sell, or whether or not he is getting hon-
est treatment from buyers.

The farmer should always hear in mind '

that he is not running a free soup house
for hungry and unemployed animals. He
is in business for profit. His business is
to produce or secure foodsiuffs as cheaply
as possible and furnish it to his boarders
in such a way as to insure the greatest
profit. on his investment. This cannot be
done by guesswork.

To make stock pay well for their board
their feed must be weighed so that the
rest of their keep may be known and also
that the quantity may be fed which will
produce the maximum return. Vl’hat the
stock produces must be- weighed so that
the ones not showing a profit may be
weeded out.

\Vhen stock is being fed for market,
the Scale. will tell when they have been
fed long enough. 'l‘hcn when a market
has been found, the scale will insure the
farmer correct weights from the. buyer.
The first scale the writer saw installed
was bought by an lowa farmer who
thought he was not being given a square
deal by stock buyers. His neighbors
laughed at him when he hauled -:he scale
home, but the laugh was turned when he
showed them in less than a year how the
scale had almost paid for itself. Buyers
are seldom dishonest; but they are less
liable to make errors when they know
the farmer has a check on them.

l’F‘ldllfrc sold ~10 commission merchants
should be weighed for the same reasons.
And when selling hay or grain to individ-
uals in town, a scale on the farm often
saves the time. labor, and expense neces-
sary in hauling to and weighing on the
public scale.

No modern farm is fully equipped with-
out a. scale; for the farmer who does
not weigh will sooner or later find that
he himself, has been “weighed in the.
balance and found wanting"

California. L. L. DEBRA.

 

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as the time limit for making entries
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creditably represented at the Interna-
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for much more Michigan stock and it is
to be hoped that there will boa. larger
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OCT. 26, 1912.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

As I stated before, it was coming just
right for me to put in about 100 acres of
wheat this fall, but the season has been
so late that it was impossible to get it
in on time. To begin with, we didn’t get
through harvesting and hauling the oats
until nearly the first of September. Then
the ground had to be plowed, and there
has been so much rain that it hasn‘t
been possible to work nearly all of the
time, and We have been delayed. We
have only got in 80 acres. We finished
sowing this on the eighth day of October.
This is really too late to sow wheat, yet
I have sown wheat before the first week
in October and had a splendid crop. Very
much depends upon the season. It is
usually better to sow the winter wheat
along the first of September, or any-
way, it should all be sown in September.
But in a season like this we simply have
"to do what we can. The balance of the
ground was all plowed and. practically all
fitted. If it hadn’t rained On the night
of the 8th we would have finished the
balance, nearly 15 acres, but it rained,
and the next night it rained again, and
it kept raining so that nothing could be
done on they land the balance of the
week. Then, Saturday night, October 12,
there came a downpour which simply put
us out of business. It is absolutely im-
possible at this writing, October 14, to
do anything on the land. It will be sev-
eral days before We could get onto the
land and finish fitting it and sowing it,
and consequently l have abandoned the
rest. Of course, it isn’t so serious a.
proposition to abandon a portion of this
wheat now as it would be in ordinary
years. W'c have got so used to doing
this scrt of thing this summer that one
can give up more casily. I will have to
leave this land now and put it into spring
crops, probably into oats. \Vell, it will
be plowed for spring anyway, and all we
will have to do is to give it a good thor-
ough disking and sow the crop. I think,
on the whole, it is bcttcr. If we could
have only finished sowing it last week
I would have put it all in and run the
risk. Now just as soon as the land dries
we have got some lima beans to get off
to the factory and we have got our third
growth of alfalfa. to haul, and we must
fill our silos yet. The land is too wet at
the present time to run a. corn binder,
and we probably will come out all right.
We have got in a good bunch of wheat
anyway, and also a few acres of winter
emme-r to try again.

“’e are iust hauling the third crop of
alfalfa. This Was well protected by hay
caps and the heavy downpour of Satur—
day night didn’t Wot into only a few
cocks where the caps were bIOWn off, and
by turning them out this morning to the
sun and wind they are going to be in
very fair shapo indccd to haul.

The alfalfa has started up again and
the field looks green all over. if we have
a few weeks of good weather there will.
be a. good growth to protect thc plants
through the winter. This has ccrtainly
been a. wonderful growing season for
grass crops. I don’t expect that alfalfa
will grow every year the way it has
grown this year, it would seem to be
impossible. There has been so much rain
that grass COuld not stop growing.

Rape Past‘ure for Hogs.

I raised some early peas for the can-
ning tfactory this year on trial. They
were not a success, but after I got the
peas off I disked the ground up and sow-
ed it to dwarf esscx rape. 'l‘hc Tape came
on nicely. This has been a. splendid sea.
son for this sort of thing, and we have a
splendid growth of rapc. 'l‘hcre is about
five acres of this, and now we. have
something like '70 shouts on pasture there.
In addition to 'this rape pasture they get
all of the ground barley and wheat they
can cat, and ihcy am doing well. I am
positive that they are- doing much better
than they would without the rapc, be—
cause before thc rape was big cnough
there was :1. thin: whcn lhcy were not
doing well. Now thcy are growing splen—
didly, and l holityo it would be a good
plan to figure on raising a small acreage
of early peas cycry ycur, golfing them off
in time to sow itO rope for fall pasture.
By taking good care of the peas and giv-
ing them good cultivation I believe
enough moisture could be held so that
One would be practically assured of the
growth of rape» after these early peas.

Potatoes.

I have the nicest stiand and the best
growth of potatoes this year I evcr had
in my life A man competent to judge.
said the other day that it was the best
field of potatoes that‘ he ever saw» in his
life. I think probably he exaggerated

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

just a. little bit, but certainly it is a
magnificent growth of vines. You can’t
see a particle of ground. It is just one
solid mass of vines. Most of the field
was planted to green mountain potatoes.
I got the seed of the Maine Experiment
Station a. year ago. On another side
of the field where we planted our old
stock potatoes for seed they are blighted
some and are not so green.
COLON C. LILLIE.
WHY YOUNG MEN LEAVE THE
FARM.

 

I have read in the past year several
reasons why young men leave the farm
and go to the cities to work. I will try
and give some actual facts on farming
and will let some older ones try and an-
swer them. Take our oat crop this year,
40 bushels is .‘l good average yield, at
27c per bushel at threshing time. That
is the magnificent sum of $10.80 and
that, too, on $100 per acre land. The
sccd was worth $1.50 per acre.

Take our bean crop. There are hun-
dreds of acres that hardly pay expcnscs.
It is certainly encouraging to be carrying
beans! out of the water to find a place to
dry them and at the some time whistling.
“Wait till the clouds go drifting by.” At
the present thcre are acres and acres of
corn to be cut with the largest part of
it standing in water. And, too, it takes
a bumper corn crop to bc Worth,$25 per
acre in the shock; $13 to $20 will catch
the- most of it. If some of those would-
like-to-bc farmers had actually fitted a
piecc of whcut ground and spent some-
thing like $13 or $l4 per acro for labor,
secd and fertilizer and at threshing time
reteivcd 10 bushcls of marketable whcat
for their pains there would be a different
song and dance.

No, 1 timothy hay is quotcd at Detroit
at $16.50 to $17 per ton. Local pricPS
are $13 and the actual cost to dcliver the
some, baled, to the hay dealer here is
$2.50 pcr ion. \Vith 11/2 tons per acre
where is thc profit on $100 per acre land?
If some of these newspaper farmcrs ac-
tually had to put' on a pair of rubber
boots and harvest their crops after put—
ting a whole summer’s, labor on them and
at the some time had taxes, insurance,
inlcrcst on the mortgage, labor bills, fer-
tilizer bills, coal, groceries and a thou-
sand other things to pay it would turn
their hair gray in a single night.

Those are just a few rcasmis why
farmer boys go to thc cities to work
where the- visions of $2 to $3 per day
are dancing before their eyes.

IFflbLlla C0. YOUNG FARMEB.

 

Undoubtedly this has been a. discour-
aging year for “Young Farmer," and
many more like him, yet we venture to
say that he has not and will not suffer
for food or clothing or fuel with which
to keep comfortable during the coming
winter, experiences which many a man
who has become discouraged upon the
farm and gone to the city to seek other
employment has

unexpectedly encoun-

tere-d.
Now, with regard to the profits in
farming. “Young Farmer” is right in

his idea that thcy are not. excessivcly
large, yet observation cannot but prove
that conditions are not So bad as he
paints them. Hundreds and thousands
of farmers are not. only making a living
but a competence- on the fcrtilc lands of
Michigan that sell for $100 per acre. in
the prairie states of the corn belt, they
grow these same crops which hc men-
tions, on lands which sell for more than
twice that amount and yet the land keeps
getting higher in price because there is
a demand for it from those who believe
that it is a good investment at the price
for which it sells.

But the. most successful farmers do not
sell their cats when thrcshcd, or their
corn in the shock. They feed them to
live stock and produce live stock orduiry
products for the n'arkct, retaining a large
percentage of the plant food which these
crops contain to maintain and improve
the fertility of thc soil. \\'hcn live stock
farming is judiciously combined with gen-
eral farming together with tho produc-
tion of some spccial crop to provide a
cash revenue and when scicntific methods
are applied to the problcms with per-
sistence year after ycar, the young farm-
er, even though he may not have sufii—
cicnt capital to make his task an easy
one, is more certain to succeed than the
young man who enters any other line of
business today.

-Trne, there will be discouraging sea-
sons, as the present season has been
discouraging for “Young Farmer,” but
instead of becoming discouraged and

leaving the farm for a life which seems
to offer better advantages. but) about
which you really know little, it is a far
better plan to devote some thought and
intelligence to the so'ntion of the prob-
lems in such a manner as will make
thQSe discouraging seasons less frequent
and ultimate success more certain—Eds.

 

AN OUT-DOOR CELLAR FOR A
DOLLAR.

 

 

 

Not everyone could make, ’even with
the available materials at hand, a desir-
able frost-proof ce‘llar at an actual cash
outlay of a dollar, but that is what we
did on our new farm. Here it is in a
nutshell for the benefit of many whom I
know have similar opportunities and ma-
terial at hand and are wondering where
the cellar for this winter is coming from

On many farms are log buildings,
shcds etc, whose mission has been out-
lived and which are not used for any
particular purpose at present. Such a
building on our place had formerly been
made for a hog-house. This was 18x20
ft. 6 ft. high at the eaves, a. shed 0r
shanty roof and 12 ft. at its highest rise.
Built of logs and chinked well, a floor had
been made of hemlock plank 2-in. thick.
On taking these up we found that by
turning them thc undcr sides wcrc yet
bright and the most of them still good.
The pole rafters running lengthwise Of
the building had roiled badly and their
place was supplicd by ncw mil-s from the
WOOds. The plank were spikcd to 7—ft.
fence posts at cat-h corncr and «no 13081:
between on each sido, or six posts in all,
being in size 10x12 it. inside dimonsions.

This plankcd box or room was built,
of course, insidc tho log building and the
space bctwecn its walls ard those of the
log shed was nearly «1 ft. .\ sawmill had
left a large pile of sawdust handy on our
place and from this we drcw and filled
all rrund in this space. taking 20 loads
in all. The sawdust was packed well
and. over tho inner roof, boards were laid
loosely and ovcr thcsc hay to the depth
of six inchcs was shroud, and then saw-
(luSt 2 ft, (ll-op on this. A boxed recess
or door opening {it one corner was left
for a door 2x511; ft, which was built to
fit snugly. The outcr door was also made
as snug a fit as possib‘c. all being built
(if rough lumbcr, old boards, etc., found
on tho farm.

If frost gets into this cellar it will have
to come in at. two opcn doors or travel
through heavy sheathing paper, (with
which we have it lincd inside on the
plank walls), 2—in. plank, 4-ft. of saw—
dust and logs, :ivcruging one foot in
thickness. I holicyc a. five-foot wall, all
built of non—conductors of“ heat and cold,
proof against cycii itt‘ialld weather. The
dollar was cxpcndcd for one roll of heavy
roofing fclt at 790 and the balance for
spikcs and nails.

llow much will this ccllar hold? \Vell!
we havc bins clear to the ceiling, on one
sidp ample shelves for 200 quarts of can—
ned fruit, a hanging bin for 40 bushels
of onions. other lower shelves for winter
squash, pumpkins for pics, etc., and bin
room for 100 bushels of potatoes, {1. root
bin, space for harrcled pork, and yet
room to got around inside conveniently.
'l‘wo (lays’ time was occupicd in all, mak-
ing and repairing the buildings and draw—
ing sawdust for filling. This will make
a convcnic-nt ccllar in many ways, al-
though with some disadvantages, and fill
the purposc until more time is at hand
to make a pcrmancnt one. Stovepipe
forms a vcntilator from the center of the
ceiling up through all to the outside and
closed in. vcry cold spells with a cover
from the inside.

Gratiot Co. G. A. RANDALL.

PASTURING NEW SEEDINGS.

There are two mistakes in regard to
pasturing stOck common with many
farmers, viz: Turning stock out to pas-
turc too early in the spring, and pastur-
ing new sccdings after the nurse crop
has bccn rcmovcd. ’l‘urncd out onto the
short tcndcr grass of spring. stock will,
of coursc, lit-gin to “pick up” and the
flow of milk will be increased, but this
benefit is secured not so much because
of the food value of the grass but be-
cause of it‘s succulent nature. But the
farmer pays dearly for this young and
tender grass, especially if the pasture
lot is overstocked. Under such condi—
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taining a growth of any consequence,
hence the stock have short picking the
entire season.

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feed the temptation to feed this off with
stock is strong. This is a great mistake
however, and for several reasons. First,
while the top of the plant is thus being
prevented from growing the root system
of the plant is likewise being restricted,
and it is not. reasonable to suppose- that
a clover plant with its root system re-
stricted in this manner is capable of
growing as large a top the following sea.
son as a plant with a root system much
larger. Second. the young grass plants
of this new seeding are- injured and
sometimes destroyed by the sharp hoofs
of the animals. Third, this growth be-
ing cropped close, and the stubble broken
over, there is nothing to catch and hold
the snow in winter. Hence it) is blown
away into some fence corner or public
highway where it is not needed, and the
first bright days of spring leave the young
grass plants exposed to the injurious ef-
fects of “sugar weather.” Not only so
but tJhe excessive freezing of the ground
during the winter that must necessarily
take place in the absence of a snow cov-
ering, works more or less injury as well.

I prefer to leave the entire growth, to-
gether with the stubble, standing, so as
to catch and hold as much of the snow
as posible. However, if this growth gets
too large, and likely to reach the seed
stage it will be advisable to clip it.
Weed growh might! make it advisable to
follow the same course, but in either
case, these clippings, together with the
after growth, will provide considerable
winter protection.

I am well aware that these new seed-
ings will afford considerable fall pastlure»,
but feed thus secured must necessarily
prove expensive, being secured as it is,
at the expense of next year‘s hay crop.

Emmett Co. M. N. EDGERTON.

 

FERTILITY OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF
SOIL.

Is not beech, maple, basswood and elm
timbered land the best quality of land
in the central and northern sectiOns of
Michigan? When there is a sprinkling
of pine and hemlock with belech, maple.
and clm would you not; consider the land
less valuable than where the pine and
hemlock is entirely absent? \Vhere most
of the timber is pine and hemlock is not
the soil, as a rule, thin? Is not a clay
land better, aas a usual‘ thing, than a
sandy clay soil? While a sandy soil has
less merit than either a stiff clay or a.
sandy clay soil? What can you say as
to the desirability of black muck land?
“'hich is preferable, practically level land
or rolling land? Is a gravelly loam equal
to a clay loam without gravel? I am
thinking of purchasing some unimproved
land in central or northern Michigan and
it“ you will answer the foregoig questions
I will consider myself better qualified to
judge land. .

Herricn CO XV. W. H:

Generally, without question, land whlch
was heavily timbored with hardwood tim—
ber is more fertile than land covered
with soft or pine timber, but there is
such a variation in the fertility of the
soil in either case that one can hardly
express an intelligent opinion
tht fcrtility of any section of heavily
timbercd land, as it isn’t all alike. Hal-(L
wood timberland in one particular local—
ity is better land than in another, and
it is exactly the same with pine tim-
bert'll land. or land formerly covered by
hemlock. There are portions of this that
seem to be extremely valuable agricul-
tural land, while other sections of it are
too light. It won’t hold moisture. The
particles of soil are too coarse, and Yet
the crop of timber seems to have some-
time gotten a start so that it developed
and grew in a good growth, but this
land will not' stand the wear and tear of
growing good crops, so well as many
other soils. Some of the cut—over pine
forest lands in the state, when stumped,
make lite very besl‘ of our farming lands,
I didn’t use to think this was so, but I
have learned from observation and expe-
rience. that it is so. It costs consider-
able to get them stumped, of course, and
get them improved, but when it is done
you not only have a nice easy soil to
work. but one that contains far more
fertility than we useld to think it did.
This is proved beyond a question of
doubt by the crops which are grown up-
on it. For some crops this is the very
best kind of Illlltl, but. of course, we
know more about how to handle this kind
of land than our fathers did. We know
that it is necessary to grow legumes in
the rotatiOn and lake considerable pains
in keeping vegetable matter in the soil,
and when we do this. this land is among
the very best. all things considered.

Of course, beech and maple, or hard-
wood timbered lands, contain usually very
much more clay in their composition than
the lands on which the pine forests grew,

regarding

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

and yet this is not always so. I know
of same lands where a fair growth of
hardwood timber grew that are pretty
light and coarse for agricultural pur-
poses. And so one can hadly tell by the
growth of timber; lt'is simply a general
indication. The general indication is
that the hardwood- timbered lands .are
the most fertile.

To the quellit‘ion, “Is not any clay land
better than sandy-Aland?" I would an-
swer, not always. It depends something
on the kind of crops you want to grow.
Clay land is good for wheat and oats
and grass, but it is not the best land for
potatoes and corn and any kind of vege-
tables. But here one must know what
is meant by heavy clay land. There is
a very great difierence in heavy clay
lands. What I call heavy clay land is
the- real genuine article. I haVe heard
people say that their land was heavy,
and when I came to examine it it con-
tained quite a percentage of sand and
was a pretty decent sort of land to work.
In our section where the clay subsoil
crops out to the surface it is genuine
clay. There seems to be very little sand
in it. Now that kind of soil is extremely
difiicult to work. Itl can’t be worked at
all in wet weather. It is almost impos-
sible to get a good stand of corn upon
this kind of soil. Even if you plow under
good crops of legumes and use stable ma-
nure, UIlIeSS the season is exceedingly
favomble, especially at the beginning of
the season. you can’tt get a good stand of
corn. On the other hand, this land raises
Splendid crops of wheat, and usually of
oats. and splendid crops of grass.

On the other hand, a Wholly sandy soil,
if it is coarse grained, is extremely poor
for agricultural purposes. In fact, we
have in Michigan considerable areas of
coarse sandy soil that does not hold
moisture. does not contain practically
any vegetable matter, and it is extremely
difficult to grow profitable crops. Of
course, by applying a commercial fertil—
izer and getting a growth of clover and
plowing it down, filling up the soil with
vegetable matter, this soil can be im-
proved, and after a time if handled prop-
erly you can grow crops, but as an in—
vestment it is worth very little. Coarse,
sandy soil at this day and age of the
world, ought not to be used for agricul-
tural purposes. It isn’t worth the effort.
The time may come when it will pay to
prepare all of these poor sand lands so
that they will grow good crops, but at
the present time they are not worth the
effort.

Now with regard to muck. In a gem-
eral way we can say the same thing
about muck that we can about other soils.
Thcre are no two beds of muck that are
alike. As a usual thing, muck is de-
ficient in phosphoric acid and potash,
and is usually sour. If muck, when first
plowed doesn’t grow crops the probability
is that it is sour and needs lime to sweet—
en it. Then the probability is that it
needs potash and phosphoric acid.
\Vhere muck contains a large amount of
organic nitrogen this usually is in such
condition that it cannot be used by
plants until after it is weathered or
frozen and thawed and becomes available
by the slow process ,of nature. Most muck
soils respond to stable manure quite as
readily as any kind of soil, because the
stable manure furnishes available plant
food and it is alkaline in reaction and
assists in sweetening the muck. One
must know from actual experience before
he can tell anything about the quality of
any given muck land.

I should prefer practically level land
to rolling land for agricultural purposes.
(if course, it is a nice thing to have a
little rolling land on the farm for the lo—
cation. of buildings so as to give good
drainage and probably better sanitary
conditions, but where you want to plow
and work the fields the level land is much
more, convenient, and it doesn't gully in
excessive rains, when you haVc the land
in crops. It is much better in a great
many ways. If it is too wet it can be
thoroughly tile drained, and then it is
the best land that one can get.

I couldn’t tell you very much about
the land in the sections which you men—
tion. I can tell you that I know that
there is some of the best land in the state
in western and northern Michigan, and
I can also tell you that I know that there
is also some of the poorest land in the
state in the same sections, and one would
have to know just the locality you would
get this land in in order to give any in-
telligent opinion, and even then I would
not trust‘ anybody, I would go and ex-
amine it myself. It is theonLy Safeway.

”COLON C. LILLIE.

GROWING COWPEAS AND SOY
BEANS.

 

I want tlo tell briefly of an experiment
with cowpeas and soy beans this fall,
grown on the light sandy lands near
Grand 'Rapids. This soil lacks humus,
has no clay sub-soil and must be fer-
tilized every year to get any results. It
is so light as to come almost within the
description of "blow-sand,” as the wind-
storms last summer amply showed. Strips
of this land were plowed late in April
and were dragged a number of times
during May. On May 29 I sowed 16 rows,
or a peek of cowpeas, the Whippoorwill
variety, the seed being shrunken and not
looking first—clasg. Rows were two feet
apart and in passing I might say that
next year I shall make the rows at least
four inches wider than this, using less
seed in the row—one every three inches
is about right. On June 5 I put in a
similar plot of soy beans, 16 rows. The
beans were treated with nodule-forming
culture obtained at the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, following directions, with
one row of untreated seed left as a
check. Beans and peas were cultivated
several times and kept reasonably clean
but from the start the cowpeas took the
lead, being green and thriving, covering
the rows for many weeks belfore harvest
time September 23, while the beans look-
ed yellow and splndling, having dropped
their lower leaves. . The bean stems welre
woody and leaves tough, making this
crop of little value for‘hay. A scythe
was used in cutting the crops and cow-
pea harvest was much like shearing a
thick lleece of wool, the long tendrils
forming a thick mat of greenery over the
land. Only a few pods were in sight on
either the peas or beans. On September
23 I forked over the cowpeas, the beans
being thin and not requiring this labor
for curing, and the following day the hay
was put in the barn. My horse and cow
have eaten the cowpea hay with great
relish, cleaning up big stalks and every—
thing. The nodules on the» cowpea roots
are large and numerous and this nitro-
gen, in connection with the shaded and
moist condition of the ground during a
large part of the summer will, I am cer-
tain, insure a good crop of almost any-
thing to follow the coming “year. As to
the soy beans, the roots have small no-
dules, with no difference between treated
and untreated seedlings so far as I can
see.

Now here are some conclusions I have
reached as a result of the experiment: I
shall not try soy beans here again as a
soil renovating crop. I shall get in the
cowpeas earlier, say from May 10 to 15,
planting in rows 28 to 30 inches apart,
and dropping about four peas to the foot.
Cowpeas are a tender southern crop and
frosts must be watched out for at both
ends of the season, but the fact that
they will make such remarkable growth
On soi‘ that will scarcely produce any-
thing else, not even the proverbial “white
beans,” giving a big yield of nutritious
hay and storing up nitrogen in the soil
for future crops, makes it seem as though
here is a legume well worth cultivating
on the lighter soils of Michigan. The
New Era is recommended as an earlier
variety than the \Vhippoorwill and is
probably better suited to this; latitude.
I am satisfied that there are wonderful
possibilities locked up in the humble
CUVVDG‘A. as a soil reuovator on the light
sand lands of Michigan.

Kent Co. A. GRJFFEN.

REDUCING COST OF PRODUCTION.

 

“An important means of reducing the
cost of production,” said Prof. \V. J.
Spillman, of the Department of Agricul—
ture recently, “is the full utilization of
equipment, since it reduces the amount
of equipment necessary. The average
farm horse in the northern states works
only three hours a day. This is because
the system of management on the aver-
age farm is so poorly planned that at
certain times the work is very heavy,
while at other times there is nothing to
do. It is neceSSary to keep horses
enough to meet the needs of the farm
when the work is heaviest, but at other
times those horses are idle. The aver-
age cost of horse labor on the farm un-
der these conditions is about ten cents
an hOur. With a well—planned cropping
system that distributes the farm labor
equally throughout the season it is
possible to get six hours’ labor per day
out of the horses. When this is done
the cost of horse labor per hour is re-
duced to five cents. .
.“Maoy a $12 plow isvused to plow no
more than 10 acres a year. -- At this rate

 

OCT. 26, 1912.

the cost per acre for the use of the plow
is about 19 cents. When the same plow
is used to plow- 40 acres a-year, the plow
cost per acre is reduced to about five
cents, or less than one—third what it' is
when the plow is used on only ten acres.
Approximately the same thing is true of
all other items of equipment. For the
reason that the equipment must be suffi-
cient to do a great deal of work in ru’sh
periods the amount of equipment on poor-
ly managed farms must be much larger
than on well-managed farms where there
are no rush seasons. 0n the latter type
of farms the work is well distributed, so
that no great amount of it must be done
at the same time, thus making possible
a minimum of equipment. '
“These examples are given merely as
arguments for well-planned systems of
farming. One of the great strictly farm-
management problems that We now have
before us is that of working out such
systems for sections of the country, for
farms of all sizes and types?
Washington, D. C. G. E. M.

FARM NATES.

 

Clipping New Seedings of Alfalfa.

I have an acre of alfalfa sown the
first of August on an old pasture sod
that was plowed early and kept dragged
down well. I now have a. fine stand
about eight inches high and very thick
and dark green in color, and with a
very few pig weeds in the low corner.
that had I better do, clip about four
inches high and leave on the ground;
clip close and rake off, or not touch at
all? How would it do if I clipped and
raked off to take the spreader and give
a llghl coat or light manure after the
grOund froze so that the spring thaws
would not injure it? The ground this
was sowed on was very rich, having been
pasturcd for six years and manured ev-
ery winter. Have 10 acres more in same
field in same condition that I want to
pasture until July and if wet enough
plow and seed to alfalfa next year, if
this acre does well.

Clinton Co. J. R. H.

A new seeding of alfalfa should not be '

clipped, no matter if the growth is rank,
until the buds have developed and the
new growth started from the crown of
the plant. To clip before this period of
growth has an exhausting effect upon the
plant as it robs it of 'leaf surface until
such time as the buds can develop and
uhe new growth start. thus weakening its
vitality and in some cases injuring or
destroying the stand. It would, of
course, not injure it as badly to clip
high, as suggested, and still if the plants
are clipped even four inches from the
ground most. of the leaf surface will be
eliminated.

Tile plan of giving new seedings of al-
falfa a”light coat of manure distributed
with the spreader after the ground is
frozen is an excellent one as it is less
liable to be injured by the freezing and
thawing weather of spring. Undoubtedly
this plan of seeding is an excellent one,
providing the weather conditions are fav-
orable as they have been this year to
work down the sod ground and prepare
a good seed bed. In a dry season, h0w-
ever, this method would not be as suc-
cessful, if indeed, it were practicable at.
all.

The dark, green appearance of this
alfalfa would indicate that it is inoculat-
ed with the bacteria peculiar to the plant
and a good stand of dark green plants
of the height mentioned should insure a
successful, permanent and productive
stand.

Harvesting Ruta-bagas.

I Would like to ask you the best meth-
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a half acre, the first we have raised. I
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with some roots. Is that practical with
ruta-bugas and how would you hold it in
using it?

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LIVE STOCK ‘1

LA “MAMA

“THE MATING OF THE FLOCK.

The mating season Should be looked
upon as one of the most important De—
riods in the management of the. breed-

ing flock. So important is it that succeSs
or partial failure may depend upon It.
As the time for mating draws near it
may not be out of place to notice briefly
some of the essentials that contribute
very considerably to the final results of
our breeding efforts.

The time beginning immediately after
the weaning of the lambs is one of great
opportunity for the building up and re—
invigorating of the ewes after the some—
what long and severe physical strain to
which they have been subjected during
the lamb-dropping and nursing period.
The necessity for improving this oppor-
tunity is emphasized if, for any reason,
the lloek has not had liberal feed and
good care. The ewes that have not
suilicicntly recuperated and become
stroni.r and hearty by mating time had
better be left out of the breeding calcu-
this season, for they are pret-
drop later lambs that will be
uchen and thriftlcss and a continual
disappointurent.

lations for
ty sure II:

I’ew tliinas contribute more to the val-
ue of a flock of ewes or lambs than does
uniformity. In order that lambs may be
uniform in size and shape it is necessary
that they be strouL,r anti thrifty at birth
and in a condition to grow rapidly and
:~=tcadily. This end is largely influenced
by the (icgrce of strength. vigor, and

flcshincss possessed by the cwcs at mat—
ing Itimc. III fact, very much of the
ditlicnlty of weakness, uneyenncss, dilil
untlIriftfncss in the lamb crop may be
traced. with a great degree of
to a lack of proper condition of the par—
mating time.

are somewhat irregular at
influence that tends
this irregularity is
in hand—

certainty,

cuts at

All animals
mating time and any
to overcome or adjust
desirable. It should be the :Iilil
ling the flock to sot'lll‘t‘ as uniform acon-
(Iition oi~ possible.

In all
viduals that

flesh as is
flocks there are found some indi—
are more lacking in flesh and

strength than others. Among these will
be some of the best mothers and pro-
ducers in the flock. It may be necessary

to separate. even at a little trouble,

these from the flock for the purpose of
giving lilt'lll better care and feed, that
they may gain more rapidly, thus cn—
abling the thinner ones to catch up with

and stronger ollcs.

conditioned ewes tend
later mating than do
members of thcrflock.

the more fleshy

'I‘IIIII .‘Ind poorly
very decidedly to
the fleshy, vigorous

Not only is the time (If lamb dropping
affected. in the way noticed, but the
strength, vigor. and thrift of the off-

spring is also very considerably influenced
thereby.
\Vith
hearty.
reasonably
ing. it the.
a result of
handling. etc.
flock of
uniform in
start,
feed,

individuals of the: flock all
strong, and vigorous one may
expect a fairly uniform mat—
Inale is what he should be. as
good breeding care,
The

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the

proper
.droppcd by
will be very liker
flesh, and vigor
also, with proper
and mature with a
dcgree of uniformity, thus
grower to time. the mar—
to the lust advantage

lambs
such a
to be
from the
care and

reasonable
enabling the
kcting of the. crop
with regard to price and season.

There is a marked tendency among
flock owners. especially the smaller and
younger farmers, to use ram lambs for
breeding purposes. \Vhile extended ex—
perience. and even careful observation,
will satisfy nearly anyone that a tried
aged ram is by far Inore to be preferred
for breeding purposes, many breeders are
able to obtain very satisfactory results
by the use of young and untried sires.
A very considerable degree of uncertainty
is avoided by breeding to a sire that has

size,
and
grow

reached full maturity and development,
and has proved his value as a stock
getter.

Much more care should be exercised

when using a young ram. There is more
danger of overworking him, and always
the possible result of weak fertilization.
Good judgment must be used in develop-
ing and fitting a lamb that is to be used
the first year. Especially is this true if
the flock is at all large.

Most flock owners follow the practice
of allowing the ram continual freedom in
the flock, while some few only turn in
for a few hours each day. Both methods
have their advantages and should be used
under different conditions. If both ewes

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

and ram are in good condition and the
flock is not unreasonably large there is
little question but what the former meth-

od is most satisfactory. If an exces—
sively large number of ewes are to be
bred it may be best to limit the time

that the ram spends with the flock to a.
few hours each day. ,

Providing the feed for use for the late
summer and fall months is an important
part of the work and should receive care-
ful planning and thought. Good nutri-
tious pasture is always desirable. In
some seasons, and under certain condi-
tions, this is not always possible. Vt’hen
this happens an ample amount of supple—
mental feed will be necessary. either from
some especially provided forage crop or
by the feeding of hay, bean pods, etc.,
from the Winter feed Supply. Sometimes
one plan may be the most economical;
sometimes the other.

The best of’ care and feed only, will
bring the best results and the highest
degree of satisfaction, while each year's
experience and observations will prove
the best guide for future efforts.

Ingham Co. H. M. YOUNG.

THE IMPROVING OF SWINE.

 

Only those who have giVen the matter
considerable observation and thought,
fully realize the progress made in the
iIIIpI‘cvcment of live stock during the
last half century. It' was during the
years immediately following the Civil
war that a revival in our live stock iII~
tt-I‘est began, and, with an exception of
a few periods of depression, the efforts
toward improvement have been
cut and crmsvtant, and progress has been
steadily Inadel.

in all classes of live st'Ock the III]Dl‘0V€--
marvelous. New breeds

persist-

Incnt has been

have been formed and great progress
made In different directions, and wheth—
(~1‘ it be the horses, cattle, sheep or hogs,

the improvement has been so marked
that a specimen cf the Old variety would
be locked upon at the present time as a
novelty. Yet with all that has been
there are :I. few specimens of horses
seem to be a reversion back to the
former type, and a few specimens of the
old style \V’Illt'h existed. The same is
true with cattle, and yet with the ex-
ception of a few remote districts, a gen-
uine Iative cow is a rare find, and the.
old style, long legged, short tlecccd and
slow maturing sheep is not found even
ill the remote districts.

But with the improvement of swine.
iIlCI progress made has been more Inar—
velous and coinplt to than with any other
live stock. Many new breeds
formed, ranted, improved, and

occupy an honorable and
position among the breeds.
has been so universal
to go into some of

denc,
that

class of

have been
.‘lt present
promintnt
The. improvement
that it is necessary
the, l‘Cll'tlte districts oi the southern states
to find the genuine old style “razor back”
hog, that is a fair specimen of the orig--
inal type of the domestic hog. \Vhe'ther
tile breed has been improved by the
Europeans across the ocean or developed
in our own country. the improvement is
so marked that it requires a stretch of
to realize the vast difference be—
original type of the hogr
“sixties" in comparison
type of today,

some of the important
points that haVe been improved that we
may have fixed in our mind the great
pIoa‘ress made. \Vith the exception of
the English "amw 01th and the Ameiican
Hampshire bIc-eds, the heads and faces
of the hogs have been shortened, widened
and imprchd very much in general ap—
pearance. Instead of the old style of
what we call the snowy hog that was
built with a single purpose in view of
gathering the food from beneath the sur—
face of the ground. We have the short,
broad face that represents the modern
type and is adaptrd to modern conditions
where the food is furnished to the ani—
mal instead of being compelled to hunt
for it. in the place of the large slouchy
cars, we have the medium—sized that are,
well balanced and proportioned to the
modern head, which adds. very much '10
the, beauty and general appearance. In-
stead of the long. narrow neck, we have
the short neck that is thick and molds
well into the shoulders. which are broad
at the top, supported by short legs, that
are wide apart, giving ample room for a
large, heart, which insures good circula—
tion of blood and economical assimila-
tion of food. Instead of‘the narrow
chine, we have the well arched ribs that
make up a well—rounded body, the broad
back, the long hips, the deep hams and
the well let-down flank, which consti-
t-ute an animal that is both a good feed-

memory
tween what the
was back in the
with t? e improved

Let us consider

er and good assimilator, that insures
large returns for the food consumed. In—
stead of 'Ihc ungainly brute that was
both homely and despised on account of
its ugliness, we have the fine, symmetri-
cal form that produces a beauty that
challenges admiration and awakens ap-
preciation wherever the best types are
found.

It is a matter of considerable interest.

to those who have in mind the great im-
provements made as to who has ac-
complished most toward the improving of
our breeds of swine. There are 'two
classes of individuals who handle swine
for the profits they can secure from
them. One class we will call the spec-
ulator, who only has in mind the dollars
that can be secured by buying and sell-
ing, or buying, raising and selling. The
other class are those who have in mind
the improvement of the individuals of the
breed which they handle, who are look-
ing forward to an enhanced price for a
desirable specimen. These are the ones
who have in mind the real improvement
of the breed. It is this class of men who
spend their time looking after the coniv
fort and advancement of the animals
they have under their charge that not
only watch them by day, but meditate
on them during the night. Very often
during the waking hours at night, the
individual is studying out means bv
which he can make an improvement that
“ill surpass the improvements made by
his competitors.

At the shows or fairs,
produced by these good breeders, or
Inolders of breed, are brought to-
gother and comparisons made. Ilere is
a place. where many important lessons
are learned. It may be by chance that
one has gained an advantage which he
cannot explain, but the individual who
has been outstripped returns to his task
with renewed energy. dcsiring if possible,
to not only match the best he has seen

the specimens

at the last shows, but to surpass any—
thing that has been produced before.
Very often these men who are eager to
make, such progress succeed, and the

various observers at the annual fairs can
testify to the fact that steady progress
has been made all along the line in the
conformation of their animals and gen-
eral make—up, until today we have breeds
that are so nearly perfect that» the ques-
tion arises among the thrifty ones wheth-
er much improvement can be made, and
the task in the future seems to be to
maintain the advancement achieved in
the desirable characteristics of the ani-

mals now possessed.
Credit to Whom Credit is Due.
The individual members of the live

who have achieved sucn
marvelous results are deserving of much
credit for their painstaking, and for the
possibilities that have been brought to
the. individuals who have the privilege
of handling the improved live stock, that
is universally bred, fed and marketed at
the present time. These painstaking fel-
lows, who have, joined their energies in
the discussion of improvement and hand-
ed to us at the present time in the place
of the old ugly looking.r animals, a thing
of beauty that is an ornament to the
fields in which they are kept. Instead
of the slow maturing animal of fifty
years ago. that required two years of
zime for grOWIh, maturity and fattening
for market, we have. an animal that ma-
tures and is fed for market at six or
eight months of age and at the same
time produces a better quality of meat
than was ever produced in the old style.
slow growing hogs of the sixties. Instetd
of the animals that' produced small llt-
ters. and often only one litter per year.
we haVe those that produce not only two
litters. but large ones twice a year,
which makes it by far cheaper and less
expensive to maintain a herd of animals
suilicient to produce the supply of hogs
that consume, the coarse feeds on the
farm than was the case before the im-
provements were begun. The possibilities
for making money from the swine at
the present time are greater than at any
time since the revival 0f the interest in

stock fraternity

live stock Was begun. The benefactors
may have lived, done their work and
died, without having been accorded many

honors or having acquired any great sums
of money 'for their efforts, yet as bene—
factors of the race they are deserving
of our expressions of gratitude for their
services, and our consistent emulation of
their example.
Wayne Co.

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FORAGE POISONING 0R SO-CALLED

CERE‘BRO-SPINAL ME-NINGITIS

‘ " OF HORSES.

The Cause of the Disease.

During the last five months numerous
reports have been received by the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry relative to the
existence of forage poisoning in various
sections of the United States, part‘icular-
ly in Louisiana, West Virginia, Kansas.
and Nebraska. It has usually occurred
when a. hot, dry period has been follow-
ed by rains, or during wet seasons, es—
pecially those which are characterized
by frequent rains alternating with hot
sunshine, producing a damp sultry at“
mosphere. Such conditions are most
favorable to the production of molds, and
all outbreaks that have been investigat-
ed by the Bureau have been traced to
the eating of unsound or moldy forage or
feed, or to the drinking of water from
wells or pools containing surface water
drained through decomposed and moldy
vegetation. The disease has been shown
to be also due to eating damaged en-
silagc, hay, corn, brewe-rs’ grains, oats,
etc. Horses and mules at pasture may
contract the disease when the growth of
grass is so pro-fuse that it mats together
and the lower part dies and ferme-nts or
becomes moldy. No specific organism or
virus has yet been found which can be
considered as the cause! of this disease.

How the Disease May be Recognized.

The so-callcd ceurcbro—spinal. meningitis
of homes being an entirely different dis-
ease from that which occurs in man, the
symptoms as. well as the cause are dis—
tinctly different. In the most rapidly
fatal attacks death takes place in from
five to 48 hours. Such cases begin with
violent trembling or stupor and extreme
weakness, or with staggering gait, par-
tial or total inability to swallow, impair—
ment of eyesight, followed by partial or
complete paralysis, inability to stand,
with marked delirium, during which the:
animal lying flat on its side becomes vio-
lent and knocks and bruises its head. In
the second form of the disease the. same
line of symptoms may be noticed in a
milder degree. Difficulty in swallowing,
slowness in chewing the food and inabil-
ity to switch the tail are observed.
Breathing becomes heavy and noisy, and
delirium may develop with stiffness of
the spinal muscles or partial cramp of
the neck and jaws. Death occurs in from
six to 10 days. In the last or mildest
form, the lack of voluntary control of
the limbs becomes slightly marked, the
power of swallowing never entirely lost,
and the animal has no fever, pain, or
unconscious. movements. In those cases
which get well the animal generally be-
gins to improve about the fourth day and
goes on to recovery. One attack docs
not protect against a second attack, as
horses and mules have been known to
have the disease two or three times.
How the Disease May be Prevented and

Treated.

The first principle in the: treatment of
this disease consists in a total change of
fee-d and forago. Horses kept in the
stable should be fed with sound forage
and grain from an uncontaminated
snurCO, even if such feed has to be
brought from a distance. Ilorscs that
have become affected while at pasture
should be removed from the field in
which t‘hcy llZlVO been running. The ani—
mals should be brought. to the barn or
corral and fed on wholesome and clean
feed and forage The water, unless from
an unpolluted source, should likewise be
changed.

At: present this preventive treatment
is the only satisfactory metlhod known
for checking the disease, as all medicinal
remedies used have been unsatisfactory
in the vast majority of cases. The first
step is to empty the bowels and remove
the poisonous products, but on account
of the difficulty in swallowing, an aloes
ball or Glnuber’s salt is hard to give. In
fact, no remedy should be given by the
month if the throat is paralyzed, as
pneumonia is liable to result. Fifteen
grains of barium chlorid injected into the
jugular vein, or two grains of eserin un-
der the skin, if the animal is not too
greatly depressed, will usually act
promptly. Intestinal disinfectants such
as calomel, salicylic acid, and creolin are
also used. If much weakness is shown
and the temperature is below normal give
aromatic spirits of ammonia, digitalis,
alcohol, ether, or camphor. Rectal injec—
tions of warm water are good, and warm
blankets wrung out of hot water may
also be applied to the body. Subsequent
treatment should consist of two-grain
doses of strichnin twice daily, or a mix—
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

.‘7’ 355

 

 

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Reo the Fifth, without them,
could be built, I judge, for $200
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I employ them because, after
25 years—after building and
watching 60,000 cars—I regard
them all essential.

I could not build a car without
them to justify men’s faith in me.

Judge if you want them. Or
would you rather have a cheaper
car without them?

Big Tires

My cars have always been
over—tired. But on Oct. 1, for
the new series of Rco the Fifth,
I adopted tires 34 x4.

That means 22 per cent larger
tires than last season. Tire mak-
ers say that 22 per cent will add
65 per cent to the tire mileage.
Does that seem like a waste?

Costly Features

I am using this year 190 drop
forgings. They are costly, but
they give me lightness combined
with strength. That means tire
saving, and it means a racy car.

I am using 15 roller bearings—-
11 of them Timken, 4 Hyatt High

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Tires—
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Wheels
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I use a $75 magneto to save
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45 horsepower.

Radical Tests

Each lot of steel is analyzed
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Each engine, is tested 20 hours
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F'EEDERS’ PROBLEMS.

 

Will It Pay to Feed Cattle?

“’ith a silo fttll of ensilagc and a quan—
tity of dry fodder, whcat straw. oat and
pea hay and bean pods, would it pay me
to buy good ycarlings at four cents a
pound and feed them until spring and
then sell? \\'hat grain would you btty
with the above feed and how much
would you feed?

()sccola Co. A. W.

Given the conditions mentioned in this
inquiry with good facilities for feeding
cattle and a good feeder to‘care for
thcnt they should return an excellent
protit this year. Of course. no one can
prcdtct with certainty the future of the
cattle market, but if good, well-bred
yenrlings can be purchased at four cents
a pound it is considerably under the
prcscnt tnarkct values at the big mar-
ket centcrs. By good ycarlings we mean
thosc of fairly uniform type, carrying a
fair proportion of blood of some one of
the boot breeds which will insure the
neccssary quality when finished to bring
a lair price upon the market.

Ycarlings carrying a considerable per—
ccntagt- of dairy blood so that they are
of the dairy typc rather than of the beef
typo would not be nearly as good a prop—
usition as would those bctter bred for
the purpose of bccf production at a
somewhat higher price. But if fairly
good tinit'orm yt-arlings of the above de—
scribed type can bc purchascd in the
communityfor t'our ccnts per pound the.\'
would bc well bought and should return
a good profit in feeding.

The feeds mentlonod form an excellent
basis for the ration for iattt-ning steers.
(Tarn silage has come to be rccognizcti
as one of the most economic foods and
the roughage mentioned is wcll suitcd to
be used with it. Ensilagc, hochor. will
not rcplacc any large amount of grain in
the ration and if a good profit is cxpcct—
od frotn thcse cattlc they should be t'cd
liberally with grain throughout the win—
ter, bcginning with a light: feed and in-
croasing to fttll t'ccd as the feeding pe-
r'tod advances.

As to the. amount, and kinds of grain
which should be fed with cnsilagc, clover
hay, or oats and peas, bcan pods and out
straw, last winter tho experiment sttaticn
of Indiana furnished some Valuable in-
formation. ln those experiments the
steers weighed approximately 1,000 lbs.
each. In the lot showing the second
best protit in which oat straw was a
factor in the ration, the average grain
ration consisted of 13.88 lbs. of shelled
corn, 2.7!) lbs. of cottonseed meal, 2.31
lbs. of oat straw and 25.26 lbs. of corn
silagc. Of course, with the substitution
of other roughagc in the ration for oat
straw still better results might be se-
cured and with younger and lighter cat-
tic a little less grain per head might be
suiiicir-nt. but this is a factor which can
best be dctermincd by the appetite of Line
animals when they are once gotten on
full feed and it is right here that the
skill at tho t‘oodcr becomes the greatest
factor in the protitable fattening 0f the
cattle.

(lattlc of good t‘c-cding quality will pay
better for a high tinislt than cattle of poor
roni’o‘r'mation and hcro again the skill of
thc t‘ccdcr must be cxcrciscd in deter-
o‘tining what degree of finish to feed for.
\\'l‘.atvcyer thc tinish desircd, however,
liberal feeding will be found more prof-
itable, short feeds in which rapid gains
are made being more economic than the
long feeding pcriod in which small gains
are madc, sincc thc cost of bodily main-
tenant-c is much lower.

Corn Silage for Horses, Colts and Calves.

I would like to ask through the Mich-
igan Farmer whcthctr corn ensilagc is a
goid food for growing tolts and for brood
IIJCU't‘S‘.‘ Also, is cottonseed meal a good
grain ration with corn ensilage for milch
cows? ls corn cnsilage a good feed for
calves?

Kalamazoo Co. SUBSCRIBER.

Corn silage may be successfully fed to
horses under some conditions. If the
onsilage is made front matured corn and
not too acid it can be successfully fed to
broodi mares and idle ltorscs, but great care
should be taken not to food any molded
cnsilagc. or corn silage made from too
immature corn which develops too much
acid in fermentation. Corn silage is,
however, a feed too bulky for horses, ex-
cept in limited quantities and should not
be made a large factor in the ration at
any time, although it can bc used as a
succulent factor in the ration under
proper conditions, where care is used in
feeding it, without deleterious results.
The same will bc true with ensilagc for
growing colts, but its value for this pur—
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succulency could be rfurnished by aSmalI
feed of roots, as the latter would be pre-
ferable. \lery young calves should not be
fed corn silage,‘but when they get a. little
age it» will make. an excellent-feed for
them in connection with clover hay and
a suitable grain ration.

The uSe of cottonseed meal .with corn
silage for milch cows was discussed at
lcngth in the dairy department of the
last issue.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Of late the big Chicago packers have
acquired complete control of the pro—
vision market. on the Board of Trade of
that city. They have been for a. long
time carrying enormous amounts of lard
and cured hog meats, and for several
months they have seen the accumulations
of thcse products in Chicago and other
western packing points decreasing rap-
idly, while the demand on botlt domestic
and export account has increased to
much extended proportions. Thus the
situation has changrd greatly in their
iavor, with the marketing of hogs re-
duced materially and hog prices so much
higher that it was an easy matter to ad-
vance quotations for lard and meats.
Fresh pork is having an enormous con-
sumption nearly everywhere, and lard
stocks are espccially small. It is now
expected that marketings of hogs will
still become further reduced, and now
that the public in provisions is ranged
on the bull side. tltorc is no tell—
ing where the advance in priccs will
stop.

Illinois has been seriously crippled in
its hog industry by disease. 171) to two
years ago Illinois, with the single cx—
ccption of Iowa, took thc leadcrship in
the production of hogs in the ['nitetl
States, but during the past 12 months
tl.at state has bccn swept from one end
to the other by swine plague, and sta-
tions that formerly loaded a train of
hogs wcetkly have done no shipping for
several months past. The northwestern
portion of Illinois has been cleancd up,
with thousands of pigs shipped from
thcrc to Chicago, and there is going to
bc a shortage of matured hogs from there
the coming winter. St. Louis is suffer—
ing from the same cause, and hog rc-
ct-ipts at that point for the. year have
fallen materially behind those for last
ycar. It is estimated that even with per-
t't~ct health conditions, it is going to take
at lcast two years to bring Illinois back
into a normal hog industry.

Ruling prices for light yearling steers
have rison to such high figures this year
as to tcmpt many owners of cattle on
the western ranges to cut out their fat
yearling sitters and ship them to market
without delay. This has been carried on
to a greater cxtcnt than ever before, it;
having been unusual in former years. In
past seasons owners have marketed thin
light two-year—olds for the feeder trade,
but this year the. luxuriant grass
throughout the western range country
has made all the cattle fat regardless of
age, and the feeder supply is the small-
est scan for years. ’Whilo rangemen are
reaping a harvest by marketing their
yearling boo-f steers and heifers this year.
this points to a scrious shortage of ma-
tured bect' cattle next? year, and farmers
and ranchers of the west. northwest and
southwest who are favorably situated for
breeding and raising young cattle will be
able to make. good profits by doing so.

The prospects for high prices for well
finished droves of hogs are uncommonly
bright: at the present time. Recent mar-
kcttings have been hardly more- than
enough of late to provide for the fresh
meat trade, while stocks of provisions
storcd in packers' cellars have been heav—
ily drawn upon. \\'itlt tho period of ac~
cumulation believed to be several months
away and stbck hogs reported to be any—
where from 15 to 25 per cent less than a
yt:t_r ago, while sickness has destroyed
many herds and compelled premature
marketing, there does not seem to be
much likelihood that hogs will fail to
sell extremely high the coming winter
season. Sows h-tve bccn marketed freely.
the pigs were born later titan usual, and
they wore not forced during the summer
because of the high price of corn. Now
that the corn crop of 1012 is a big one
and the price decidedly lower than last
year, farmers may be expected to hold
their hogs to maturity.

The shrep and lamb markets of the
Wcst have bcen surfcitea with range
stock in recent weeks. as is apt to be the
case every year in the autumn, and av-
erage sales have been at comparatively
low prices. After the last range ship—
ments of the year are made there will
be a much better chance for owners of
fed muttons on the hoof, and prices may
be oxpected to rule much higher for fat
ilocks. With live mutton selling at less
than half the price of live bccves, mut—
ton has become extremely popular, and
the decline in prices has been in a meas—
ure lessened. The best feature is found
in the fact that increased runs of range
stock on the feeder order have enabled
shecr'men ’to stock up at last on more
favorable terms than hitherto. It would
seem that this is a highly favorable time
for taking up the sheep feeding business,
to say nothing of buying a small flock of
breeders.

Secretary Charles W. Baker, of the
(‘hzcago Live Stock Exchange has mailed
to the insurance underwriters a check
for $833, the amount of dimcs collected
for the insurance of live stock in the
Chicago stock yards, covering possible

James Wilson, secretary of agriculture,
who visited Chicago recently after a trip
through the western country, expressed
himself as opposed strongly to slaughter—
ing calves of good beef grades. The kill-
ing of calves must be stopped, according
to Mr. Wilson. if the rise in the cost of
living is to be checked. “Beef is more
healthful than veal. and there is every
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before you part with your money?

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risk of damage in shipment. And it your stove ever needs repairing, the

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Are you dealing fairly by your fields?

Are you always taking from them and seldom
giving anything valuable back to them?

Are you feeding out your crops upon the land
that produced them, or are you hauling your
harvests direct to market?

Are you interested in knowing how to restore
exhausted fertility?

Do you know that the best way back to big yields
is Via. the live—stock route?

Have you heard that good farmers everywhere
are tremendously stirred up over this big national
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Advice through this department is free
to our subscribers. Each communication
should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably find
the desired information in a reply that
has been made to some one else. When
reply by mail is requested. it becomes
private practice, and a fee of $1.00 must
accompany the letter.

Part‘lal Dislocation of Stifle Bone—I
have a three-year-old colt that I com-
menced working this spring. Since last
May, when backing or stepping over
from one side of stall to other, he is in-
clined to jerk up leg and is affected about
the same in both. The cords on leg up
near the body are somewhat swollen. I
have been applying to these cords a good
liniment, but without much succeSS. J.
W. M., Colon, Mich—Apply onee part
tincture of iodine and five parts cam-
phorated oil to stifle joints once a day.
Also give 1 dr. ground nux vomica at a
dose in feed three times a day.

Lump Jaw—(Actinimycosis).—One of
my cows has a. hard bony bunch, size of
goose egg. on face below eye and as I
have never seen a case of lump jaw, I
wish you would tell me whether this is
a case of it or not. This enlargement
opened sometime ago, but is healed now.
A. J. DeL., Temperance, Mich—Your cow
suffers from lump jaw (actinimycosis)
and will be. benefited by giving her 2 drs.
potassium iodide at a. dose in feed twice
a day for 30 days; also apply to bunch
one part red iodide mercury and four
parts fresh lard every five- or six days.
It is not always a good plan to keep an
animal of this kind in a herd of well cat-
tle, especially if the bunch is suppurat—
in .

lg)istemper.——I recently purchased a
young sow and nine pigs that were then
only a day old and in moving sow in
wagon she became much heated and ex-
cited, but: for four days her pigs thrived
splendidly, then I noticed them acting
dull, dumpish and breathing quick, act—
ing very much as if they had taken cold.
Their bowels were too loose and nearly
all of their tails were sore. Have kept
these young pigs alive by feeding them
cows’ milk. Now I have a horse sick
with distemper and it occurred to me
that perhaps he had infected these pigs.
H. T., Dearborn, Mich—I am not sure
but you are right in your supposition of
the young pigs suffering from distemper
infection. Distemper is quite fatal to
very young animals of any breed and
especially so if they do not eat enough
to support their strength. If they are
not all dead. they will be benefited by
giving each one one-eighth of a grain of
quinine at a dose three times a day.
Also be painstaking in cleaning their
feeding utensils.

Food Infcction.—-\Vould like to know
what ails my hogs. Farmers around here
are losing large numbers. The principal
symptoms are dullness, disinclination to
move and exercise and their bowels are
much constipated. One man told me his
hogs bled at mouth before they died and
others showed great weakness in hind
quarters. \V. C, South Rockwood. Mich.
—You fail to give me enough clinical
symptoms. for me to make a correct
diagnosis However, 1 am inclined to be-
lieve that thcir food supply has a whole
lot to do with causing their death. The
first step to be takcn in the lrcatment
Of this ailment is to give 2 or 3 ozs. of
castor oil and the same quantity of ‘olive
oil every six or eight. hours until the
bowels movo fairly tree. Also give one—
twentieth of" a grain of strychninc and
30 grains of bicarbonate soda at a dose
three times a day. You should have one
of them examined after death; this will
lead either your Yet. or yourself to know
positively what ails them.

Light Millderx-Cow has had second
calf, but only gives one gallon of milk
daily; when sold to me was represented
to give 21/2 gals. of milk a day; will come
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, Make Your Hogs
; Cholera Proof

Immunize your hogs now—make them cholera proof. The cholera season is here and .if it
is in your section, there are man ways for it to infect your herd. It 18 the most contagious

and the most deadly of all hog diseases.

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when less than the price of one animal will pay your veterinarian for immunizing fifty with

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which I imagine she is, little can be done
to improve her milk yield other than
feeding her a milk producing ration.
Nervousncss. ——I have a four- -year- -old
mare weighing 950 lbs, that seems to
havc either kidney or bladder trouble.
Whenever she comes near another horse
or is approached suddenly by a person,
she strains as if in heat and usually
passes urine, which is of a, dark yellow

 

color and thicker than normal. S. P.,
Brooklyn, Mich—Your mare should be
bred, treated kindly and handled by one

and the same person as much as pos-
sible. She is naturally nerVOus when ir-
ritated, the muscle at neck of bladder
relaxes, allowing urine to escape. Drugs
out very little figure in the treatment of
this kind of case.

Acute Lymphangitis.—Have a six—year—
old horse that appeared to be well on
Saturday, worked all day; Sunday morn-
ing right hind leg was swollen from hoof
to body and 24 hours later sheath was
also swollcn. i gave him sweet spirits of
ultra and buchu leaves, but this treat-
ment could not have done him much
good. for the swelling and tenderness re-
mains in limb. S. C., Dimonda'le, Mich.
—-—If your horse is costive, give him 7 drs.
aloes, 30 gis. calomel and 2 drs. ginger
made into :1 bolus and given at one dose
~—one dose only. If this cathartic medi-

cine fails to act in 20 hours, giVe 1_ qt.
raw linseed oil. Discontinue feeding
grain, but give a dessertspoonful pow-

dered nitrate of potash at a dose in feed
or water three times a day. Foment leg
with hot water one hour at a time and
three timcs a day. Moderate exercise
will greatly assist in reducing leg. It
is always a mistake to feed a. horse much

grain when idle and not exercised.
Chronic lndigestion.~Ever since last
spring one of my horses has been trou-

bled with indiucstion and I would like to
know what to give him that will assist
in buildirg him up. 1 also bought an-
other horse 1.1st swing and last week he
was taken sick and treated by our local
Vet. for indigestion and recovered. Vt'hat
1 would like to know is what to give him
to prevent another attack. J. 0. Ann
Arbor, Mich—First of all, you had bet-
ter examine their teeth; they may need
floating. Mix together equal parts of
ground gentian, ginger, charcoal, bicar—
Donate soda and salt and give each horse
two tablospoonfuls at a dose in iced
three times a day. Careful feeding and
not over—feeding when the animal is ex—
hausted and hungry or when idle, will
perhaps prevent another attack of acute
indigestion.

Injured Back—Partial Paralysis—I
found one of my yearling colts down
some six weeks ago and since then
he has been unable: to get up without
assistance. \thn found in pasture I
hauled him home on stoneboat, called
Vet, who gave 1nedici..e and applied lin-

imcnt to buck and was doubtful of a re-
Covery. Sometime later I called another
Vet. who gave medicine for kidneys and
bllstcred back from coupling to kidneys.
He is some better, but has rather poor
use of hind legs, but gaining in flesh,
and I would liko to know what can be
done for him. .1. L. R., Reed City, Mich.
Givc colt 40 grs. ground nux vomica and
60 grs. powdercd nitrate of potash at a
dog.) in feed two or three times a day.
Also apply one part turpentine. one part
aqua ammonia and four parts olive oil
to back once a day. On account of your

colt bcing young, he may make a fairly
good recovery; however, it will be slow.
It is needless for me to say that he
should bc kept warm and not exposed to
cold ruin storms and later, wct snow, for
this falling on his back would have a
bad ci‘fect. His bowcls should be kcpt
opcn and he should be exercised some
every day.

Bunches on Log.—--My pigs, while feed—
ing on rape, began to have bunches on
their legs and now 1 have taken them
out of the lot and am feeding princi-
pally corn, but they are lame and one of
the sons has limped since wct weal-her
set in. Pigs are between three and four
months old and arc not growing as they
should. P. L. “1.. Dalton, Mich—Your
change of

pigs will be benefited by a
iced. Fecd them some middlings, oats,
and oil meal with their corn; also give

them each 5 grs. sodium salicylate at dose 1

in iced two or thrcc timcs :1 day. Apply
tincture iodine to bunches three times a
week. Théy should be kept in a dry.
comfortable lot or pen.

Cow llolds up Milk—My six—year-old
cow seems to be in good health, but rc-
fuses to give down her milk. We took
calf from her a short time ago and since
then she has no ('11de udder to indicate
sickness. but we have thought that she
was giving much more milk to calf than
we are now getting. F. J., Port Huron,
Mich.~The quieter you are and the less
your cow is excitcd at milking time, the
morc successful you will be in taking

the milk from her. llcr milk yield will
not be improved much by giving her
drugs; therefore i advise you to increase

her food supply and milk her while she
is eating.

Indigestion-Vertigc.—I have some hogs
that haVe been .in a good clean pasture
all summer, with a good clay wallow;
they thrived well until about two weeks
ago, when I bcgan to feed soakcd rye
and mangles and since that time they
have been sick, uppcar weak, and stag—
ger when walklng: their ears lop and
their appetite is not good. Can you tell
me what ails these hogs and what to do
for them? A. B., Gaylord. Mich—A thor—
ugh change of feed will go a great ways
towards making your hogs well. Feed
them some corn, oats and middlings.
Feeding rye and mangles no doubt pro—
duced indigestion and fermentation which
was followed by weakness and the ab-
sorption of gas, doubtless poisoned their
system. Give each full- -grOWn hog one-
half teaspoonful cooking soda and the

same quantity of salt and a tablespoon-
ful of powdered charcoal at a dose in
feed two or three times a day.

 

 

 

BREEDSVILLE,

‘1"st MICHIGAN #Afihén. — '

Bigelow’s 'NolSle’in‘ arms,

MICHIGAN,

Have for sale. several fine young bulls out. of cows with high official

butter and milk records. Send

for circular.

 

SICK [106801.11

Cured and disease reven’o
\ ed with Snoddy’ s owder.
__ Clears hogs of worms.
‘ .' Makes hogs thrifty. Will
$- send man and treat sick
hogson msurance. Treatment' is simple. Any one
can use it. $5casecures 4011 Book and test. re-
porteiree. Agents wanted. ..D 1:. man 00..
Dept.D ,. - Nashville.Teun.

PERCH ERO N S

bred for utility as well no show unlity. Stable
includes several international w nners. Three
2-year-old stallion colts of finality for sale. Come,
or write B. F. ANDERSON. . No. 3. Adrian. Mich.

—Eorses. cattle, ah
For sale and dogs neairlya
exchan South West. Mich an
Asc'n.. vid Woodman. 80610111er

BREED“? DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.
ABERDEEN-ANGUS.

Herd, consisting of Trojan Erica Blackbirds and
Pridee. only. is headed by
by Black Woodl oodlnwn. lire oft 0 Grand Cham ion steer
and bull at the bIntemntional in 01110000..

A few choicolébned young bullFs for uni; “Mich
AYRS HIRES—gfifil’i. ”153$?” lflfii

and bull calves for salami-1111111111 swine. ill pure
bred. Milan School for Deaf. Flint. Mich.

GUERNSEY BULL CALVES,
YORKSHIRE PIGS. Good Stock.
HICKS GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W. S.. Mich.

roduoingan-

— f h
GUERNSEYS B“".§.“’l;°§m'€.‘fbe§§§1n tested 1.1.
females for sale. ALLAN KELSEY. Lakeview, Mich.

    

 

 

“swine poultry
breeds. Sires
8‘Pcdigrced Stock
“.PawPaw Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

—Regiltered GUERNSEY BULLS,
For sale Lore Yorkshire hogs, either sex,
best breeding. JOHNgEBEL 1110. Holland, Mich.

HATCH HERD HDLSTEINSZ‘3fi‘L'fiomy‘ll‘1‘

dams. ATCH HERD. Ypsilanti. Michigan.

DAIRYMEN TAKE NOTICE!

22 head of grade Holstein cows and heifers. 15 giving
milk 3 (oming in soon. 4 heifers coming in later on
No exceptiom this is the finest bunch of cows in tho
country. JAMES KNOWLES, Azalla, Michigan

HOLSTEIN FEMALES—“1‘ {“3“ “23,261,111.

Iran Farm rightin the City. onl) a. few minutes from
Jackson and Lansing. Interurban cars every hour.
v—Th'e kind that

Halstein-FHOSlan cattle make good,
GREGORY &. BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.

“Top-Notch” Holsteins.

Choice bull calves from 7 to 10 mos. old, of fashion-
able breedinlasandl from dams with o flcial milk and

 

Dairy Brod Shortborns’:°fl1[‘.t:m °' “1““ 11.82.1“MPJPW .11..

oruocd note. JB MMEL. tlhsMinion. Mi ch,

 

' -—Lar¢e Cattle—Bea Milken.
000'! “WWW": mm Becordl Fum'hed. Buns
all sold. Prices rl t. Anquaredcalho b.1111

W. W K APP. .No. 4. Watervliet. Mich.

 

oc'r. ‘ as, 1912

OUR Imp. 85m:- Whites and Tamworth swine won
is ”we bred

‘1' m in 1m.
b1- u“ t at“ don‘t. m1 vi {3:
O l WINE Write. me for
Opt“; .13 big-18ml “W lilo ”Mun:
mrrnn-teJ ° 1593111311 1111." 11.. 'z‘iom. 111.1.

 

0 I C ho!ell=es.£ndloveud‘ig.o

a J wed
pics Rolling 111m 1 “311:. M11111.

0 L 0’8“ 3“ ’0‘ 0‘ 18“; urine stock for 3110,1113

mt” t in not akin.
Blrcdby Grand mote-11113.3“: 81:01:11». 1. Haiti:
west of depot. OTTO B SOHU’ LIE. Nashville. Mich.

AVING moved my Lord 010 0.3130 from
H Southern IndianatoPompeil. (Eli-stict‘Go” Mich-

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5111:1211.

“BREED UP YOUR “KENT—73:1]? 8333...“:
pARSONS, “The Shoe Mm of the 11...,»-

GBAN LEDGE. MICK.

RAMS FOR SALE‘l‘i’ii‘igfif‘l‘lrfifififillx

0. I. SOUTHWIOX. RNo. 14 Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

' -—Yenrl1n and ram lambs from Champion
“mum's ilock or humb of M11111. Also select Berk-
shire swine. Elmhurst. Shock Farm. Almont, Mich.

 

For Sale, 0xiord Down {23‘1111‘1’3’33
different ages. 5. E. GILLETT. llavenner. (31110.

 

In: Dmbuilltls‘l’é'fi?‘ 38.3313 3:. ":93: .

one Rm 211 miles

write for circular of
R.J Q. A. 000K.

breedi
Morrioe.onG 13.11.1111 MU

Oxford Down Shea; 39,23: “Yawn: Field

for sale.
I. R. WATE'BB HiBhInd. (Llohfi

OXFORD ”A's” sired by fiddeviies sired 0by aand bred
r. MILLER or (111011113 0 1.11111

L. SPILLAM, Flint, leMiclh

“ 01101111113! gum ”‘3:i°.i‘p.l§1?.1:§§..‘ll::
PARSONS. 01°11'3va GRAND LEDDE. "l0"-
tor sale. at reasonable

OX F O R D S prices; twenty-five two.

vent-Old OXFORD rams; fourp two-year-old SHB BOP-
HIRE rams; and five yearling Shropshire reme-
PARKBUBST BROS" Reed City. Michigan.

 

 

a . Iunnowlpre uedtoofi‘ernome ohoi breedin
51331 for 11.10.11: wu. 11.11.11 :. 911-13111. M11111.
BUROC_JERSE -l‘all and 8 tin boars from

grin-Winn“ nine. sows
all ages. SPECIAL B IN in enamel-L311?
Brookwater Form, B. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor-.10 .

 

[£765 TYPE WINDS—3"?“ "‘5‘81 ‘1‘“ 6.811;.” $222

0 fall ilts of the righted sort. Let me tell you
amt anyliln

on ma be in need of or call at
MAPLE (BRONILl FAR

Stockbridge. Mich man.

 

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0.1. ens

30WWEIGHEDml-Bs.
- 23 MONTHS!)
"10111.1 GIRL

I have started more breeders an the road to on;
cone than an man 1 lying. I have tholargcst and film

 

out hard in t vary one an early 11 lo er,
ready for the market at six months old. Inna: to
to 11 vol-tine my

gluon one 1103 in each communi
Write for my plan,"flowto eke Money from
Hogs. " 0. 8. “MAIN". R.No.l0 Pull-ml. mob.

 

 

1
001106 JERSEY ‘35:. "5531371 11‘3"“‘1’211‘11‘38139'39
Choice breeding. Prices reasonable rite or come
andsee. R. G. IVVIA N. R. No. 4, Monroe, Mich.

~THE BIG KIND.

DUROC JERSEY SWIN w111. your

wants. F. A. LAMB a SON. Oasecpolis, Mich.

 

 

Superb Von Nmyer Dlmhouillui: 3%.“.{31 fig“;
absolutely the best. Dr. L. Breisnoher. Detroit, Mich.

RAMBOUILLET RAMS "1“” “96°“ 0m

weighing 225 pounds
and upw.ard A. E. GREEN. Orchard Lake. Mich.

Dhoice Registered NAMBDUILLETS’B?‘".§3§"%32§

and sold rlght. Ira B, Baldwin. Hastings. Mlch.

 

 

and “Berkshire

Northern Grown Shropshim Shows... 11....
ling and tuo year-old rams, two b01111! soldn enough for
service, one of the best Jersey bulls 1n Mich. 3 yr. old.
Blue Bells Golden Lad 86851. Will be sold cheap it
taken at once. D..C Magahay, R1,Harrisville, Mich

SH ROPSHIRES FOR' SALE

° two-year. yearling and ram lambs;
50 ChOICC Z) yearling ewes from imported sires.

F. R. OTTAWAY. Flushing. Mich.

SNNDPSNIHE YEINUNG‘E’E: 1.9.12" "iioi’la‘ld'filté’xf
type. Geo. P. Andrews, Dan-ville. Ingham 00.. Mich.
—C ' II
F QR SALE nfih‘fi‘if'fim‘ihgfi 117321.75
Prices right. JONES & MORRISH. Flushing, Mich.

 

 

 

Dcpsimd Duroc Jcmy Pigs...x 8 “1.10 Will" 3°71";
e while they last. 0. A. Taggottx R. No. 1.01111), Mich.

I HAVE some extra. good DUROC males for sale.
Prices right, last fall and spring furrow. Breeding
and (nullity myK stun d a.rd Bred sow sale this winter.

KESSLER. Cusopolls. Michigan.

 

——fcr sale: 20 line service boars of fanc
nuroc Jcrsa" breedingMand individual quality):
Prices reasonable John cNicoll. North Star, Mich.

DUDDD JERSEYS, NEND IMMUNE TD DHDLERA.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.
—A f

DDNOD JERSEYS 1O.ZX1%°°ly1§l1“‘lv§l1 "132:“3?21%1‘1'§:

sex. Pairs not akin. M. A. BBAY. Okemos, Mich.

 

 

SWINE. Spring and summer i for
"urn Jersa! sale both 11cxe11.I11.y'expr%s¥sa 2')
years experience. J.H B,ANGHART Lancing. Mich.

DUROG JERSEYS*&°1.€L‘."1102?:
ready for service. Prices right for 10 days. Write or
come and see J. C. BARNEY. Goldwater. Mich.

Big Smooth Poland China No 3

reasonable prices. ALLEN BR

 

from large sires,
either sexes. at
S. Paw Paw. Mich.

 

 

butter for sale at reasonable prices Also —'l‘en oodewes Yearlin rams and OLAND CHINAS— Gilts and 1earlinz sows bred

1 1. 1 Shropshires 8 P 1 11 1
boggrlahgolumninms co.. Howell. moi-luau. ram 11.1.13 s.lffi‘1§1§?h.l~l3?igfl£giMfifitc? 2f D rfitIstHOP efioutea'ol‘rgoliak: 53%;»me ilsyhm
"OI-STEIN BULLS lNGLESlDE SHROPSHIREST?W331".§1§ ”LAND CHINAS "3:32:82"? 211‘ :“fgw 83122.
ewes; also yearling and lam brams for sale At. reason- P D. LONG R N0 -G'l'flnd RIIDldB lch-

From 310 12 months old, $6010 8250 each.
You can 't buy better.
LONG BEACH FARM, Augusta, Mich.

5--Yearling Holstein Bulls--5

And 4 Bulls from 4 lo 8 months old.

All from A. 11.0. dams and sired by Johanna
Concordia. Champion, the greatest bred bull of

 

the breed. Send for his breeding and be con-
vinced that this is not bluff. If you want th1s
kind, worth themoney, write or come quick.
Ll El CONNELL' - Fay°“°' Ohio-
N A, F011 BALE—6 yearling Holsticin Fries-
.69“ Mk; lan Bulls. 2 A. R. 0. bred me cows.
Also bull takes 34 years a breeder.
Photos and pedigree- on up slicationglé
.Jackson. South Band. In 719 BexS
Fe b. 17 19121101111 white
"35% will“ 0&8 37% 2931001111111 91-1111? 11 en’Keol
d rd enior vear- o s u r.
(113111611800 11. LAPHAM it 8. 81.. Johns. Mich.
30111 Junie 5,1912d cire‘ea 81?: fit the Klid clxthle
t a. augh r o cngerve 0
D2??? 0:1)me A. B. 0. daughter of Sadie Vale
Concordia) I Paul DeKol. her dun 1120111. imported cow.
..8 LEWIS. Marshall, Mich.

Purebred Registered
[“1 OLSTE IN CATTLE

The Greatest Dairy Breed
Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets
Holstein-Friction. Asses 30: l64.hunleboro.Vt.

EGISTERD Holstein Cattle—Two
Herd headed by R‘Henfigrveld
FLOYD F. JONES

I
Lilllo Farmstead Jerseys
(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-
culosis.) Several Rood bulls and bull calves out
good dair1 cows for sale. No to on for sale at.
present. Satisfaction nfiuflaranteed.
COLO Coo mule. Mich.

 

cod bull calves
in Pietertie.
Oak Grove, Mich,

 

Jerseyucaule For Sale.

C A.B STOL Fenton. Michigan

 

-——Bulls ready for service. bred for
Jerseys ploduction. Also cows and heifers.
Brookwater Farm. 8. F. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

BUTTER BRED ”Win?“

County. Michigan.

RED NILE!) BULLS FDR SALE—1.. 1111131

trains. JOHN BEBNIBA SON. (ire-1W

 

 

 

 

able prices. HERBERT E POWELL. Ionic. Mich.

Shropshire Rams and Ewes for Sale
DAN BOOHER. R. No. 1. Marion. Mich.

UBDL-IUTTDN SHBDP mandrake. "3311.12

for price list. Maplewood Stock Farm. Allegan, Mich

 

 

Shropshire Rams and Ewes
at furmers' prices. HARRY POTTER. Davison. Mich.

~Yearling rams at $12 d
ShrOPShngOSSL Two extra. fine ramgit
$5 each. .THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.

H008.

—Young sows due Mar. it A ril.
00m: E“ 'm: :Brod to Isl: Tgrize and champion
boar. Priced to move them. tot-y. Lowell. to]:

——Be 1: b d
Quick "aiming Berkshires sJa-rfifm‘l‘fi‘l‘fllmy”
or money refunded 8..BARTLETT Pontiac, Mich.

BREE choice Berkshire Boers ready for service. to
.‘closc. out. rite me 1ourw Wm we will lease you
with our stock, A. A. PATTULLO. Decks le, Mich

1151111111111 .1.- ...

bredgiits 3353111911

“1am“, stared and trans-

Excellent breedmg’ ndividuals.
C.C COREY. New Haven.°eMlchlzn11.

SMITH 81 WARNER’S “ELMHDBST FARM"

ofl’en for sale Masterpiece Berkshire Ross of all ages
of No.1 breeding. and 1101818 tein Bulls of all ages
Also 20 orBO head of high grade heifersl ‘1er old.
sired by a grandson of Pontiac Korndyke

he a sire of Pontiac Pet. 0.11. . of 37.90 butter and
48 other A. 11.0. daughters and his dam Pontiac
Clotlm No. 4772. with 3'91“ 11.0% 27.14 butter; milk 553 5:
average fat 392 mend after she was
11 16am old. B. 0. BASNFIELDw Supt. Owendale. Mich

 

 

 

 

 

 

W eaned
two fox-3g

——-8 rin [88. either
Improved Chesters... " '1 .0 1.... .
choice young boar and 11 few sows bred for early fall
furrow. W. 0. WILSON. Okemoo. Mich. Both phones.

_ and bred 11111.]
11.8- WAIST ““3311sgfnioisilggfigifigmdgfiolsttyi’:

bulls. Bargains. HA . neon. Mich.
Extra choice bred slits. service ho

0. 'u c. and aptlnap 11.1? not skin from 5121':

Fair winnou. Avoid-lo Stoc Farm. Wayne, M11111

9 —All 9..., mwthy and lame. Iowa bred.

0. '0 CS Slide-ready, 10010 from. Attractive

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

o 'I- cl. of superior quality 17 choice young
no 111111.11 ED 1110111115 yM‘é‘L'i'aebofifiZMgfififn
0.1.0’:

with size a quality. the kind I can positivol
‘fuarantee to ve satisfaction or null retnn
money. one: ’Ifitoo Farm B. No. l Mariette. Mich.

 

 

1111111111 cums-as 12112111311111:
Pr1ces rtght. W. J. HAGELSHAW, Augusta. Mich.

POUND cHII‘s—Young sows ill-(ll! for April furrow.
L. w BARNES a SON Bygron. 3111.53.31.11"ch 0r M1311.

—B by i .

POUND DHINIS Shgrt 3:." ‘1‘; 1"c§"1v§:“.§.’1“°61?353
bucks. Prices right. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.
POL‘ND Gum‘s—Home of Michigan' 3 Grand Cham.
Priced to sell. .1) IMAFTOI‘IIEW‘ggNGNfitxg 1131:1213.

1.1:. 11011115 AND sows-lame “111.2121?
Mic chlgan.

A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline.y

 

 

 

 

 

P. C. B0ARS—ml‘1b]: afiffi‘ifdr “$151233:

faction guaranteed. W. MILLS? Saline, Mich.

Butler’s Big Type Poland Chinas.

W e have 11 few big-boned, long-bodied P. C. boars 1st
in herd. Two big yearlinfiat Early spring pi
go to Summer [1138. to 315. Fall ,pigs 85 one

Pedigree with ever
.1. cut/1.13311, Portland. Michigan.

MICHIGAN‘IS Great Big Type P. 0 He 111—30“...
at 5% 1110. old not fat. Sold one to
head Agricultural College]: hard. in believing.
Come and be oonvin uses pai if not a re
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BUSINESS DAIRYING.

Leaving out the question of profit, more
than one—half of the dairymen are failing
to make expenses from their business. It
is very doubtful if a profit can be made
from the average dairy even under good
management. The character of the herds
must be changed, but. the majority 0f
dairymen are not in a financial condition
to make radical changes at Once. It
must be a gradual evolution which may
be made economically. \R'hen we buy
improved stock we are exchanging our
money for what others have accomplished
by thought and systematic methods of
breeding.

How to maintain types and desirable
characteristics in the: great dairy breeds
is the foremost: question. After years of
careful and intelligent breeding, aided
and supported by liberal systems of feed—
ing and management, we have» dairy ani-
mals possessing energy and ability to
consume and economically digest large
quantities of food. Every observing
dairyman has noticed the beneficial ef-
fects of a number of generations of at-
tentive care and feeding upon certain
dairy herds. The same herds, if given
ordinary food and care, would cause the
average dairyman to lose: moncy and
condemn pure-bred stock. Hence, in some
cases, we may safely say that feed is
more important than breed. It takes
time to develop» 6,000 and 10,000-pound
cows from an ave-rage herd of mixed
breeding: The increase in rations must‘
be slow and the animals gradually bred
and developed until they have the abil—
ity to digest and assimilate large quan—
tities of food and withstand the drains
upon their organs of digestioa and pro-
duction.

There seems to be a general tendency
among dairymen to ignore the teachings
of science. This is wrong. Science means
nothing but organized common sense ap-
plied to the management of the cows, so
that they will be maintained in a healthy
and vigorous condition. COWS that pro—
duce milk only during the summer are
compelled to endure many hardships, but
.the counteracting influences of plenty of
fresh air and sunshine offset the evil ef—
fects of improperly proportioned feeds
and lax treatment. This is nature's rom—
edy, but where Our livelihood depends
upon the income from the dairy we must
improve upon nature.

Improved methods of breeding and feed—
ing have completely changed the form
and function of dairy cattle until the
modern dairy cow stands before us a
highly developed artificial animal and if
We successfully mcet these changed con-
ditions we- must give her such artificial
care and environment as is consistent
with the increased drains on her system.

Expensive barns are not necessary, but
warm, light, properly ventilated stables,
may be made cheap and attractive. Such
buildings add to the permanent value of
the farm. Sunlight and fresh air are
cheaper than dairy foods and drugs. They
not only purify the air and destroy dis-
ease germs that are detrimental to ani-
mal health, but they turn a dark, foul
stable into a room where it is a pleasure,
rather than a burden, to properly look
after the little details that add to the
comfort of the cows. Good help are not
attracted to a farm where they are com-
pelled to wade in filth and care for a lot
of dirty, lazy cows. On such farms
neither owners nor hired help take any
pride in their work and the cows return
no profit. Is this picture overdrawn? By
no means.

()ne of the mom diflicult things for a
man to do is to part with an old practice
and establish himself in a new lino of
work. The tension of the years holds
firmly and when the thought of change
comes there is dangcr of drifting and
this is liable to carry in the oppo-
site ‘extrcme. Farmers are prone to go
to extremes. Many who ‘l‘ound an added
flow of milk and ('Ol’lls'f‘ttllenUy more profit
when they began to keep their cows in
warm stables gradually shortened the
period of outdoor life until their cows are
kept inside from the time they are put
up in the fall until spring. Many dairy
farmers who gadVOCate this close stabling
will accuse the writer of heresy, yet I
am convinced by years of ‘experiencee
and observation among the better class
of dairymen that the greatest need‘ of
the dairy business, both from a produc-

THE MICHIGAN.. FARMER.

Itive and a..reproductive standpoint, is

more common sense methods of herd
handling. “One swallow does not make
a summer.” Neither does one year’s re-
sults establish a fact. If we are work—
ing for one season’s results alone the
more quiet weI keep the cows the greater
will be the profits. I do not claim that
cows giving milk need much exercise.
The cow in her wild state, if she has
plenty of food, east, drinks and lies down
in order that she may complete the fur—
ther work of digestion. Every thoughtful
student of physiology and hygiene un—
derstands the beneficial effects of pure
air and a bath in health-giving sunshine.
How much better We feel and how invig-
orating it is to our several senses to step
out into the fresh air after being,r con—
fined in the house all day. Fresh air
helps to purify the blood and the more
thorough the pure air is taken into the
lungs the more thorough and complete
will be the purification. Cows are not so
much unlike human beings after all. Give
them plenty of light, warmth and pure
air and outdoor exercise and supply thcm
with proper food and the cows will be
strong, healthy and immune from the
diseases so common among dairy herds.

Good feeding is an integral part of
success in the dairy business. Taking
into account the average product of the
dairy and our actual experience and
Close observation in doubling milk yields,
We are safe in saying that the average
cow does not receive two—thirds of the
food nutrimcnts she is capable of digest—
ing and turning to profit. This does not
mean that we should give them all the
concentrated feed they will eat. Such
spasmodic feeding results in loss by gar-
get, inflammation and indigestion, but
that we continue to fecd and add to the
rations gradually as the: cows become
able to digest: and assimilate more food.
It noulrcs a long time to put an aver-
age dairy hcrd on a money—making basis.
“'0 must study our cows individually as
well as collcctchiy. By weeding out the
interim- cows and feeding the good ones
until nature is satisfied of its perma—
nency we may gradually develop a herd
of high—producing cows from our com-
mon sock.

Clcsc competition and the increased
price of all dairy foods of recognized
merit are fast eliminating the go-as—you
please style of dairying, which always
results in loss. The successful dairyman
of today is forced to adopt a uniform
system of feeding. lly balancing rations
,of cheap farm—grown feeds with limizcd
quantities of the various feeds of com—
mercc, giving the animals all they can
digest and assimilate We may look our
cows square in the face and say, “If you
do not pay your board go to the sham-
bles.”

Summer. is a critical time in the life
of the dairy cow. Pastures are not uni-
versally good caretakers of stock. Many
of the best dairy farmers have become
discouraged through depending upon pas-
tures for summer feed. In fact, thcre
seems to be a tendency to rely more upon
cnsilage and, soiling crops than pasture
grass for summer feed. It is unwise, in—
deed, not to carry over the contents of
one silo for summer feed and grow soil—
ing crops to help out the pastures. Few
pastures furnish sufficient food for more
than six or eight weeks during the spring
and summer, after which they bcgin to
deteriorate in quality and lose their suc-
culcnce. It belongs to the penny—wise
and pound-foolish policy to compel cows
to stamp dust and fight flies in a dry
pasture when the condition could be eas-
ily remedied. It is not my purpose to
advocate a complicated systcm of soiling
and catch crops to supply green fccd for
the cows during the summer; however,
every dairy farmer who allows his cows
to fall away in milk yields and flesh con—
(iition through want of sufficient food and
withholds his bcst feed for winter use
is allowing dollars of possible profits slip
thI'Ough his hands. This fact has been
a. stumbling block to many dairymcn and
it seems almost impossible to convince:
them that the best soiling crops and the
best feeding crops are the same. Corn,
clover, alfalfa and oats and peas arc the
best crops for feeding and soiling.

Many dairymen complain thatl their
COWS do not give enough milk to pay the
increased cost of feeding during the fall
months. To such men I would say that
it is not so much a question of gaining
in milk yields as it is not to allow them
to shrink.

Another question of great importance
to the farmer who keeps cows to main-
tain the productivity of his soil, is the
manurial value of his food, not alone in
the food he buys, but such as he raises

on his own farm. It is possible to feed
the soil through his cows. The legume
crops, (clover, alfalfa and cowpeas), have
the power of getting their supply of
nitrogen from the atmosphere, and they-
not only leave their decaying roots and
stubble to furnish the soil with nitrogen,
but they supply an abundance of pala-
table and nutritious forage and fodder
which adds to the fertilizing value of the
manure. Cows that are fed straw, tim-
othy hay and cornstalks cannot produce
manure of much fertilizing value. Both
directly and indirectly the results of a
proper system of feeding and crop grow-
ing will be» the rapid gain in the fertility
of our farms as well as the increase in
the production of our cows. To keep the
soil fat as well as his cows, should be
every dairy farmer‘s foremost profession-
al object. More profits will be male
each year and the farm will gradually
increase in value as the system is con-
tinned.

New York.

LATE AUTUMN CARE OF COWS.

W. MILTON KELLY.

 

The recurrence of frosty nights and
(old, chilling winds should remind the
dairyman that it is now time to get the
cows accustomed to their winter quarters
by stabling them at night. Fcant pas-
tures, eaten down to the crown by shiv—
ering animals, are sccn ytnr aftcr year.
Apparently it is assumctl that every bite
secured now is so much sand; a false
economy that thc thoughtful farmer is
careful to avoid. hit the agriculturally
wrlful 0r ignorant we havc always with
us; hence the necessity of perennial ref-
crcnce to the subject.

The evil resulting from such a practice
is two—fold. Not only are the cows forced
to subsist thus bound to prove unprofit-
ablc, but it is one of the surest ways of
runningr down a farm, If the real effect
of late fall and curly spring pasturing on
subsequent crop production could be es-
timatcrl, i am firmly convinced that such
a ration. judged by the results, would. be
found much more expensive than a full
food of hay and grain. .\ comparison in
absolute terms of the rclatiyc yield of
grass from a iicld that has been closely
fall-pasturcd, with another which has
had a fair aftermath left to protect the
roots during winter and add It) the store
of humus, might bc a usct‘ul work for
some, of our cxpcrimcnt stations. Moro-
.ovcr, the exceeding high prices realized
for dairy products during the past sea-
son should act as an incentive to grcatcr
effort in raising the standard of our
herds and to improve the. methods of
(aring for them.

The farmcr who conducts his opera—
tions on busincss—likc principles is bound
to admit that humancncss is necessary to
the economical management of a herd.
’l‘lu-re are others. however. who seem to
think that a certain amount of exposure
to wt-ather inclcmcncies is equally im-
portant to induce a hardness of consti-
tution; and still others who go to the
other extreme, coddling their coWs until
the effect is decidedly enervating. That,
the bovine race is possessed of a won—
derful inherent vigor is evidenced by the
remarkable manner with which they have
withstood this more or less excessive
pampering on the one hand and inhuman
neglect and exposure on the, other. If it
were only necessary that the: cows be
able to exist, they would undoubtedly
get along fairly well with very little, if
any, attention. Rut we must. not lose
sight of the fact that in the dairy cow,
capable of large production. We have: an
extremely delicately organized machine.
She. docs not carry on her back a thick
(-om of flesh to protect her from the cold.
and having highly-developed mammary
organs that are very sensitive to cli«
matic conditions. she will, if forced to
lie on the. cold ground‘ during the night
be very susceptible to inflammation and
other disorders. l'nder such conditions
the owner should not be surprised at a
marked falling off in'ther r'nilk'fiow of
possibly 40 per cent, and in some cases
«vcn more.

it is also necessary at this season to
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nourishment than summcu- past‘urage.
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increase it. As the season advances
there is usually a supply of fodder corn
planted closely in June, which is cut and
shocked, forming a source of supply dur-
ing the fall. Being well-cared this grain
comes in at a time when it is needed,
and may be fairly well-balanced by feed-
ing in conjunction with clover hay. A
little ensilage or roots will give succu—
lence no the ration and thus avoid a
sudden change to dry feed when the
grass has become dried up.

Shelter and feed. however, are not all
the requisites, The stable conditions
should be made as near as possible like
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THE RELIABILITY OF DAIRYING.

 

I have talked so much through the col-
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question of the reliability of 'the dairy
business that it seems almost as if no
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ject again, and yet in a way it is always
new and always proper to present this
phase of the business bccauSe it is of
great, importance. Many people do not
realize the value of having a business,
of being engage-d in a phase of farming
which is reliable and is not affectcd by
bad seas0ns. i had this illustrated to me
in a graphic way just the miller day.

A vt’armer of my acquaintance living
some distance, made a trip to Lillie
Farmstead to look over the arrangements
of the dairv barn, and especially to get,
mcasurcments of the model cow stall. I
knew that this farmer, who used to be
quite a large dairyman. had forsaken the
dairy business a few years ago for the
fruit business. I had been told that he
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stability as a business proposition.

A, cold winter or a bad summer does
not materially affect this business. The
cows go on producing. if they are prop-
crly cared for, without any intermission.
lf adverse weather conditions shorten the
crops on the dairy farm the dairyman
is not put out of business, be simply tem-
porarily purchases some feed from the
outside and bridges over a. poor year on
his own farm whilc his business of dairy?
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BEAN STRAW FOR DAIRY COWS.

I should like to ask if bean straw is of
any use to dairy cows, or will cattle eat
it? I should like to have Colon C. Lillie

answer this as 1 read many of his valu-
able letters.

Ivosco Co. G. B.

Good bean straw is a splendid food for
dairy cows, but poor bean straw, like
poor cloveur hay or any other poor feed,
is practically worthless. By good bean
straw I mean, where you pull the beans
just as soon as they will do to pull. don’t
wait until they get dead ripe. If you do
they are injured very much the same as
clover hay is injured by leaving the plant
until it gets dead ripe. The-n if you pull
these beans when in this condition and
stack them up in small piles in the held
until they cure out, much the same way
as you would clover hay, then put them
under shelter and take care of them
properly. you will have an excellent feed.
After the beans are threshod this bean
straw is a pretty good substitute for clo-
ver hay. On the other hand, beans that
are left out until they are, ripe, very lit—
tle pains taken in the curing of them,
are kept in the windrow too long, and
perhaps a large amount of them put into
the bay to heat and some of them mold,
this kind of straw in not very valuable.
And again, you take a fall like this where
there is so much rain, it is practically
-' impossible to cure bean straw so that it
has very much food value. You can read-
ily understand this if you have had any

.cure them in that way.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

experience in curing clover hay. I am
of the opinion that the bean growers
would make mOney if they would attempt
to cook up all their beans or put them
in piles and put hay caps over them and
The straw would
be worth enough more to pay for the
labor and they would reduce the risk on
colored or spoiled beans to the minimum.
Stacked up in this way and pains taken
it would take a. little labor to do it, but
it is labor that would be well invested.
Stack them up in good tall sacks and put
a good hay cap over them and leave
them there until they cure out, just as
you would clover hay or alfalfa hay.
Then you have got a feed which, when
put into the bay, won‘t heat. It will
keep just as well as clever hay will keep
in the bay. \Vhen the beans are threshed
you have got a. quality of bean straw
that approaches very nearly to the value
of good clover hay, if not quite.

 

PUMPKINS FOR DAIRY COWS.

lVill you tell me the feeding value of
pumpkins to milch cows and also for fat—
tcning purposes, as compared with bran
at $1.50 per cwt., or corn meal at $1.75?
I am feeding corn fodder and corn with-
out llusking and need more protein to
balance. “"ill pumpkins do it?

Charlevoix Cu. B. P. W.

Pumpkins are a very good food for
dairy cows, used as a supplementary food
with other foods, but they are not rich
in protein and will not be a good food
to balance up the ration with your un-
husked corn. \Vheat bran is a good deal
better for this purpose than either corn
meal or pumpkins, and a little oil meal
in connection with the bran would prob—
ably make a cheaper ration than the
bran alone. The pumpkins, however. are
an excellent food to feed, by feeding a
small amount every day. It furnishes a
succulent food, is very appetizing, and
it has a good effect upon the cow. Pump~
kins would take the. place of turnips or
beets or my root crop of that sort, and
would take the place quite satisfactorily,
but cannot be depended upon to balance
up a ration of corn, because they are de-
licicnt in protein.

THE COST OF DAIRY PRODUCTS.

 

Figuring how much a quart of milk or
apound of butter—fat will cost to produce
brings to the dairyman questions of the
most fundamental character. There are
:1 number of factors that contribute to
that cost, and all, or nearly all, of them
being variable. the determination of what
that cost will be is practically an impos-
stbility. Cows differ in their ability to
change food into milk. Some cows can
produce milk worth twice the value of
feed and more; others are able to re—
turn scarcely enough milk or butter—fat
to pay for the feed they consume Sec-
ond. feeds vary in their milk producing
qualities. Clover and alfalfa hays are
more. valuable. pound for pound, than
timothy hay and will make milk cheaper.
Third, the combination of feeds has a
bearing upon the cost of production. If
the several feeds are put together in such
proportions that none of the food nutri-
ents are wasted then a more economical
product can be secured than where one
or more of these constituents are in ex-
cess of the needs of the animal. Other
factors entering into t'be proposition are
the, efficiency of the help employed; the
conveniences provided for the care of
the cows and the handling of the product,
and the cost of equipment, animals, feed
and labor.

These variable factors should not, in
the least, discourage a person from con-
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One should, because of them, be en'c’our-
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opportunity to the careful man. These
vc-ry conditions make dairying atttractive
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and it is reasonable to suppose that the
thoughtful, painstaking man is found in
the first half while the careless, indolent
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER; (13) 361

 

 

What aWool Man Knows About the Wool Tariff.

As I am one of the largest dealers in Fleece
Wools in Michigan, I have been asked as can-
didate for Congressman at Large to set forth
my position as to the legislation I would favor
concerning Wool, should I be chosen to rep—
resent all the peeple in our State. I will try
to make the article as brief as possible, cutting
out all technical terms.

I will start by saying that there has been
no bill introduced, or considered during the
past two years of Democratic control of Con»-
gress. for free Wool, or anything like it.
Chairman Underwood of the Ways and Means
Committee did introduce a bill bearing his
name, and it is considered by the best Wool
expertsin the United States as being the near—
est to perfection of any legislation in that line
ever proposed. and which would have reduced
the tariff from 11 cents per pound, on such
\Nools as are grown in our State, to 7:} cents
per pound. This bill eliminated the crooked
and deceptive features of the Payne—Aldrich
bill. You will recall I’resident Taft as having
said, “Schedule K of the. Payne—Aldrich bill is
so crooked as to be indefensible.” But when
the members of Congress, irrespective of party,
by more than a two—third vote wished to rc—
lieve our people fro‘m this obnoxious bill, and
notwithstanding that he had most heartily con--
demned it, he could not see the credit of cor-
recting this measure go to a Democratic house,
hence, vetoed the bill, not once, but twice.

Free Wool Not Contemplated.

Mr. Taft’s pet Tariff Board, now in opera-
tion for more than two years, has not been
able to present as comprehensive or accept--
able :1 measure to Congress as has Mr. Under—
wood and his colleagues. However, Mr. Taft’s
Tariff Board did recommend a reduction in
Schedule “K," which on the whole was nearly
as gr ‘at as the Underw0od Bill, but it retained
many of the old—time jokers. for which this
VVool Tariff legislation has become famous.
I have said that you can fumigate the house
without burning it to the ground; we can cor-
rect and perfect this \Vool Bill, eliminating
clauses that are ambiguous and to which a
double construction can be put, in fact, cutting
out what our legislators please to call “jok~
ers," and substituting honest, plain language,
without approaching anything like free wool.

However, it seems to me that altogether too
much prominence has been given this question
of Wool Tariff. when we consider that it is
one of the smallest industries of the farm.and
notwithstanding the fact that it has been given
artificial support and an attempt made to sus-
tain sheep husbandry by the use of all kinds
of stimulants. gradually, but surely, natural
conditions must prevail. And as the country
has become cleared up and more settled and
the land becomes more valuable for other purv
poses, sheep have become fewer and fewer,
which is demonstrated by the following Gov-
ernment figures The states east of the Mis~
sissippi river in 1803 had 10.632,000 sheep.
Seventeen years later, in 1010, these same
states had 11.844000 sheep, a loss of over 30
per cent. In our own state we had 2,510,000
sheep in 1803. and in 1910 we had 1.500,000; a
loss of just .10 per cent. Mind you, this cov—
ers a period of the highest protective tariff
this country has ever had. I have not the
official figures for 1012, but it is estimated by
those best able to judge that we have not in
excess of 1,350,000 sheep in our state, produc—
ing about $000,000 pounds of \Vool. for which
the farmer receives about $1,750,000.00.

Just another ilustration: We have approx-
imately three million population in our state.
and it is estimated that it costs 81—3 cents
per day, or $30.00 per year per capita for what

 

 

 

EDWARD FRENSDORF,
of Hudson, Mich.
Democrat Candidate for Congressman-at-Large.

 

 

 

 

 

 

we purchase at our dry goods and clothing
stores in the way of wearing apparel. lf this
estimate is correct, and I have every reason
to believe it is, the three millions of people in
our state spend $00.000.000 yearly for their
requirements, without considering horse blank—
ets, robes or felt boots, and this represents a
SUM FIFTY TIMES GREATER than our

whole \VOol production brings the farmer.

If because of a tariff, the goods we buy are
increased in cost two per cent it equals the
full amount our farmers are receiving for the
Wool tliey grow.

Dairy Products Far Greater than Wool.

It may be you will better comprehend how
small our Wool interests arc in Michigan.
when I tell you that the value of the dairy
products of the county in which I live. exceed
in value all the Wool grown in Michigan. And
I understand that there are several counties
in Michigan that equal or exceed this (Lena—
wee) county in the product of milk. Ilas it
been a 'Tariff that has made the dairy in Mich--
igan multiply many fold during the same pe~
riod that sheep have grown fewer and fewer?
The kind of protection that has made the
dairy profitable is the protection-against fraud
and deception, not a tariff. I have reference
to the Pure Food Law. which was enacted
largely through the aid and influence of the
women of our land. Oleouiargarine. butterine,
cottoline and other substitutes for butter can
be purchased in almost any hamlet in the
state, but I defy you to buy these substitutes
without knowing what you are getting. ' The
manufacturer and dealer dare not practice dc—
cgption‘ and they are compelled to manufacture
these substitutes for butter under Governmtnt
supervision, thus insuring the consumer a more
wholesome product than he would otherwise
get, as well as furnishing protection to the
farmer’s cows. '

A Pure Goods Law.

For years I have been advocating, and did
present before the \xVays and Means Commit—
tec what I please to call the PURE GOODS
LAW. and which, if enacted, would cause and
make it compulsory to have every piece of
cloth and every garment for man or woman
bear a tag or label stating what ingredients
and the proportion of each, this piece of cloth
contains. This would not only give ample
protection to the censumer of manufactured
goods, protecting you from being imposed

 

ADVERTISEMENT

upon and defrauded. but would, in my opin—
ion. tend to increase the demand for all—wool
goods to such an extent that the farmers of
our country would receive at last fifty per
cent more for their Wool than they do today.

You must know that you are not getting
much Wool in the goods that you are now
consuming. when I tell you that 234,000,000
pounds of foreign and domestic \Vool is all
that is consumed by our 00,000,000 of people,
which gives to each inhabitant two and three—
fifths pounds for every conceivable purpose.
The covering of some of our furniture, blank—
ets for your beds and horses, lined rubber
goods for your feet. robes for your carriages
or automobiles, knit goods, wraps. sweaters,
‘lr articles in which yarn is uscd, hats, caps,
etc.. are all supposed to contain V’Vool: in fact,
it is used for the covering of the new—born
babe and for the covering of the casket in
which many of us will be buried. Some of us
use underwear supposed to contain \Vool and
some of us boast of owning a cloak or an
overcoat in which this precious tibre is a
comp nent part Occasionally you buy a dress
pattern for your wife or daughter. or a bolt
of tlannel to keep the school children warm,
or for grandma who lives with us. llowevcr,
if I tarry too long with the women in the dry
goods stores, what will bt left of these two
pounds and nine ounces of \Vool for us men
in the clothing store? In fact. had we llltll
done our shopping first, and provided ourselves
with a real All-\Vool suit and overcoat, the
supply of VVool would have been exhausted
and all of the articles enumerated above for
the women would have to be made without
the semblance of real wool in them. The
truth is you are wearing most everything other
than Wool in the goods you are buying, paying
for wool and getting torn~up rags—known as
shoddy. mixed with cotton, and the manufac~
ture of shoddy is one of the most profitable
in our country: everyone from the rag buyer
to the seller of the goods in which they are
used. make big prolits. and you pay them.

No Scare in Business.

The business world is accepting it for grant—
ed that Gov. \Vilson will be elected and that
a big majority in Congress and the Senate
will be Democrats, thus assuring tariff legis-
lation along the lines set forth in the Under-
wood llill. Despite this fact. and in face (.f
this readjustment of Schedule K, eliminating
its dishonest features, \\7ool has been steadily
advancing during the past ycar. and today is
selling freely at prices 331—3 to 35 per cent
above those prevailing a year ago. The \Vool-
cn and \Vorsted Mills are contracted away
ahead into April. 1013. to an extent never
before known, which is conclusive evidence
of their confidence in the Democratic party.

After serving an apprenticeship in \Voolen
and \Vorstcd Mills learning the \Vool business,
I have applied myself the best I knew in the
exercise of that education and I believe that
because of that training and the knowledge I
have of the needs of the people. that at this
particular time I can be of special service in
enacting laws that will be to your advantage.
And I pledge you my earnest and honest en-
deavor to light for such measures as the one
set forth in this article and such other legis-
lation as I deem for the best interests of the;
great masses whom I will strive to represent.

Sincerely yours,

 

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Our attention has
been called to an
editorial in a con-
temporary agricultural paper, in which
ihcy undertake to credit themselves with
high moral sentiment by announcing that
they have refused to accept any political
advertising, and follow with a sermon of
condemnation of all other papers that
have accepted any. NOW, while we have
no evidence that any political advertising
has been offered to said paper, yet grant-
ing that such is the case, the fact that
they 112ch not the courage to do business
along proper and well recognized lines or
have not the confidence in the intelligence
and fairness of their rcadcrs to dare to
publish a properly worded advertisement
when piiid for is, in our opinion, no good
reason for blowing their own horn of
virtue so hard, and the subscribers to
this paper will easily discover and an—
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iiucmcc in The Michigan Farmer, nor
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space to sell as an important part of our
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political speaker who paid his fare, as
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record to fear any criticism from them.

Political Advertising.

Statistics relative to
Farm Mortgages. the mortgage indebt—

edness of farms in
the I'niicd Siatcs are given in a report
soon to be issued by Director Durand, of
the Bureau of thc Census, Department of
Commerce and Labor. An abstract of
this report which was prcpzircd under
the supervision of John Lce Coultcr. ex-
pert special agent in agriculture. con-
tains some interesting swusiics relating
to form mortgages.

These statistics show that the total
number of farms in the United States,
operated by their owners, which were
moi‘lg‘igcd in 1910 to be 1,227,439, while
2,621,263 farms in the same class were
free from mortgage indebtedness. From
these figures it appears that approxi-
mately one-third of the farms in the
United States, operated by owners, are
mortgaged. As compared with the fig-
ures in the census of 1900 ihcre is an
apparent increasc of 17.7 per cent in the
number of farms mortgaged. This ap—
parent increase, however, is largely due

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. THE" MICHIGAN FARMER.

to. the greater number of farms, there
being also an increase of 4.4 per cent in
the number of farms free from mort-
gages. ‘

From the standpoint of. total value,
however, the mortgage indebtedness of
the farms in‘ the United States is much
less than 20 years ago. The total value
of lands and buildings» of the 1,006,511
farms, in which both the fact of the
mortgage indebtedness and its amount
where reported was $6,330,000,000 in 1910,
and the amount of indebtedness was 31,.
726,000,000, or 27.3 per cent of the value.
the corresponding proportion in 1890 as
shown by the census report was_35.5 per
cent. Thus, while thel average amount
of mortgage indebtedness 0n farms in-
creased from $1.224 in 1890 to $1,715 in
1910, the :iverage‘value per farm increas-
ed from $3,444 to $6,289, more than dou-
bling the farmer’s equity, notwithstand-
ing the increase in mortgage indebted-
ness.

One fact brought out by these figures
is that the amount of the mortgage in-
debtedness is not an indication of a lack
of prosperity. There is no question that
American farmers were more prosperous
in 1910 than in 1890 or 1900, yet the sta-
tistics show a larger proportion of farms
to be mortgaged. This fact is rather an
indication that in a period of prosperity
money is more freely loaned by farmers
for the purchase of more land or for the
making of needed improvements, as well
as the fact that a larger proportion of
farm mortgages represent a portion of
the purchase money of the farms bought
during a period of prosperity.

In fact, it is noticeable that in sections
of the country which have been most
prosperous from an agricultural stand~
point, the proportion of mortgaged farms
is greater, the proportion being highcr
in Iowa. and \Visconsin than in any other
single states, and the proportion being
relatively high in the group of states to
which Michigan belongs, viz., the east
north central states, in which 330.636
farms werc reported as mortgaged, as
against 478,408 free from mortgages.

.lut perhaps one of the most impres-
SiVe lessons to be drawn from these fig—
ures is their illustration of the need of
better credit facilities for farmers of the
Unittld States. If we may assume that
the average rate of interest would be re-
duced in this country through the opera-
tion of co—operative credit societies to
the figures which prevail in Europe there
would be a saving of approximately two
per cent to the class of farmers whose
farms are mortgaged. Anyone who has
investigated the proposition will readily
admit that thcre would be a saving of
at least one per cent, and if we take an
uvcrage of these estimates and say that
the ultimatc annual saving would be one
and one-half per cent or thereabouts, on

the total mortgage indebtedness in the
country, the aggregate annual saving in
interest would approximate the very

sum of $30,000,000—s'ure1y
a benefit sufficient to interest ev-
ery farmer in the country and enlist
their aid in bringing about this most de-
sirable innovation, upon which frequent
comments have been made in these col-
umns.

respcctable

Attention has been

Foreign Potatoes called through these
Quarantined. columns to the dan-
ger of introducing a

now and destructive potato disease var-

iously known as potato wart, potato
canker, black scab, etc, through imo
portations of potatoes into the United

States during the past year. This dan-
ger wns brought to the attention of Con—
gross by the Department of Agriculture
and resulted in the passage of what is
known us “The Plant Quarantine Act,"
which was approved August 12, 1912- in
pursuance of the authority granted by
this act notice was given on September
20. 1912, by \Villct M. Hayes, then acting
secretary of agriculture, that it had been
ascertained that this discaso exists in
the following countries, viz.: Newfound-
land; the islands of St. Pierre and Mi-
quclon: Croat Britain. including England,
Scotland, I’Valcs and Ireland; Germany,
and Austria—Hungary.

In view of this fact it is declared that
it iS necessary in order to prevent the
introduction in the United States of this
potato disease to forbid the importation
into the United States from the COuntries
above named of the common or Irish po-
tato. For this reason the importation
for all purposes of the species and its
horticultural varieties is prohibited until
after further notice.

It is indeed fortunate that there is a
bountiful crop of potatoes in the‘Unit-ed
States this year, which fact will prevent
the exclusion of foreign potatoes from

being- a. serious. hardship to consumers

and at the same time enable the exclu-
sion of this comparatively new and de-
structive disease from the United States.
If it should be found in any section that
the disease has appeared from the use
of foreign seed, prompt measures. should
be taken to suppress it, since we
now have enough and to spare of these
handicaps in the production offihis crop
which is an especially important one in
Michigan.

Every year at just
this season we are
accustomed to hear-
ing of a shortage
of. railroad cars to move farmers’ crops
and at the same time afford adequate
facilities for the ordinary shipments of
merchandise, coal, etc. This brings to
mind a pertinent question as to why it
is that the farmers are the only class of
producers who are prone to market all
of their year’s products within the space
of a few weeks, or months at most.

01' course, at this season of the year
the farmer has labor bills and taxes to
meet and many men have not. or think
they have not, sufficient capital so that
they can afford to hold their crops after
they are ready for market. Yet at pres—
ent this class of farmers is a smaller
percentage of the whole number than at
any previous time in the history of Am-
erican agriculture. There is no doubt
that the percentage of American farm-
ers, who could not make arrangements
for needed credit at their local banks if
they thought it desirable to market their
crops more conservatively, is very small.
There is also no doubt that it would be
much better for every farmer if he would
make some arrangement for needed cred—
it to pay cash for everything he buys
and us0. a greater degrec of judgment in
the time and manner of marketing his
crops.

The fact that so many farmers market
all their produce as soon as it is secured
and in a marketable condition is, to no
small degree, responsible for the- fact
that the farmer gets tor.) small a propor-
tion of the consumer’s dollar. These pro—
ducts must be held by someone until
there is a demand for them from the
consumer and this demand is an all—
year one, or one extending over a season
of considerable length for the most per-
ishable products, and there is no ques-
tion but that a more goneral tendency
toward conservative or gradual market-
ing of farm products would add to the
prosperity of our farmers. This is a
matter which is well worthy of the
thoughtful consideration of a large ele-
ment of Michigan farmers who are so
situatcd that they can practice reason-
ably conservativc marketing without any
hardship to themselves. It is just as
essential that we study market condi-
tions as that we study economical meth-
ods of production if we are to make our
farms return a maximum profit.

Hasty vs. Conserva-
tive Marketing.

At the Fourth National
Conservation Congress,
the report of the com-
mittcc on wild life protection brought
forcibly to the attention of the public
the need of better protection of birds of
economic value to agriculture. In this

Bird Protection.

report reference was made to the
official estimate contained in the 1904
Yearbook of the Department of Ag-
riculture relative to the annual crop

losses in this country due to dcpreda-
tions of insect pests, the various items
of which. as ihero estimated, amounted
to $420,100.000. It is undoubtedly true
that the economic value of our migra-
tory birds in keeping these insect pests
in check is not so well recognized by the
average citizcn and particularly the av-
erage former, as should be the case.

Very many of tho bird species most
valuable to agriculture are rapidly being
cxterminaied. Even the robin is being
regularly and legally killed as game in
seven stat-cs of the Union, while there
are five states which pcrmit the killing
of blackbirds and in many other states
the laws do not: afford adequate protec-
tion for the migratory birds of economic
value to agriculture.

Among this class are a number of
Species of shore birds, so—called, of the
diet of which insects form the most im-
portant factor. It is thus obvious, as
emphasized in the report above noted,
that adequate protection must be given
in the form of a national law if these
birds of economic value are to be pre-
served.

While many of the northern states have
an adequate law in this respect, the
greatest abuses along this line are per-
mitted in the southern states,»to which
manycof our most appreciated birds mi-

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grate during-the winter season.._.'rhere
are a number of bills before the *‘presebt
Congress, any one of which would_be
adequate in protecting these migratory
birds. but unless these are specifically
called to the attention of the members
of Congress none of them may be enact—
“d into law.

Hence, a. recent suggestionrmade by
the New York Zoological Society, that
every interested person write their con-
gressman and senators as soon as prac-
ticable after the November election, urg-
ing them to work for the adoption of any
one of these bills providing adequate pro-
tection to our migratory birds, is worthy
of our special attention,- and efforts to
the end that our sweet singing friends
may be preserved to us instead of being
ruthlessly slaughtered in other sections
of the country.

The postal savings
The Postal Savings bank system, which

Bank System. has now been in ex-

’ istence little more
than a year, promises to be a. popular
institution and holds out promises, ac-
cording to a high official of the service
recently interviewed by our Washington
correspondent, of becoming self-support-
ing within three years. There/are already
about $25,000,000 on deposit and deposits
are growing rapidly. The system which
has been evolved for handling the busi—
ness of our postal savings banks is said
to be more simple than that in force in
Great Britain where- a large corps of
book-keepers numbering three thousand
are employed. In the United States, be-
cause of the absence of pass-books, only
ten book-keepers arc. at present required
to handle the business and it is estimat-
ed that this force will hardly be more
than doubled. ,

The margin of profit to the govern—

ment on these deposits is one—half of one
per cent. Interest is paid at the rate of
two per cent per annum, while the gov-
ernment secures 'two and one—half per
cent from the depositories, this margin
being estimated to be sufficient to cover
the cost of administration. It! is prob-
able that the popularity of the postal
savings bank system has been more gen-
eral because of the fact that it has been
the aim of the government to make this
investment local in character—that is, to
deposit money in government depositorics
at the centers where it is deposited by
the public.
Probably in no pro-
vious presidential
campaign, certainly
in no campaign of
recent years, has the outcome been a.
question of such interesting possibilities
as is the caSe in the present campaign.
The formation of a new political party
with a popular leader as its candidate for
the preSidency, together with the exist-
ing uncertainty as to the alignment of
the many former adherents to the old
parties, has made the outcome of the im-
pending election, ‘so far as the presidency
is concerned, the subject of an unusual
amount of speculation by well-informed
men in whom an unusual absence of a.
fixed and certain opinion is notable. To
one who has not devoted much thought
or study to these possibilities a study of
the cause of this unusual degree of un-
certainty will be a matter of interest.

This unusual degree of uncertainty re-
garding the present presidential cam-
paign is due, primarily. to our method of
electing a president and vice-president.
This method is provided in Article XII,
of the amendments to the Constitution of
the United States. as follows:

Article XII.

The clectors shall meet in their re-
specllve states, and vote by ballot for
president and vice-president, one of
whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant
0f tlic some state with themselVes. They
shall namc in their ballots the person
Voied for as president, and in distinct
ballots the person voted for as vice—pres-
ident, and they shall make distinct lists
of all persons votcd for as president, and
of all persons voted for as vice-presi-
dent, and of the number of votes for
each, which lists they shall Sign and cer-
tify, and transmit sealed to the seat of
the government of the United States, di~
rectcd to the president of the senate; the
president of the senate shall, in pres-
once of the senate and house of repre-
senlatives, open all the certificates and the
votes shall then be counted; the person
having the greatest number of votes for
president, shall be president. if such
number be a majority of the whole num-
ber of electors appointed, and if no per-
son have such majority, then from the
persons having the highest numbers not
exceeding three on the_,list of those voted
for as president, the house 0f represent-
atives shall choose immediately by ballot,
the president. .But in choosing the pres—
ident, the votes shall be taken by states,
the representation from each state hav-
ing one vote; a quorum for this purpose

Interesting Election
Possibilities.

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OWN the choke—dusty river road
D from Bayview, past the old saw

mill 0n the outskirts of Turtle
Creek, came an automobile of common
type. It was full July; grasshoppers,
startled from the roadbed, spread their
white-edged black wings fan—like and
whirred dizzily along beside the ma-
chine. Gay darning needles balanced on
roadside grasses, tlwirking their tails,
thrusting out their wings, stiff and
straight, composing with the flowers into
fascinating Japanese effects.

Susan Dunlap, at the worn wheel of
the machine, was blind to none of the
beauties about her. She had just re—
turned from a boarding school in a busy
eastern city and it 'as good to be back
where wild canaries scattered out from
beneath the wheels and where early bar—
ley stood in African head-dress stacks
in the contented little farm yards.

It was a gay, exciting ride, her first
along that road for a year. An occas-
ional collie rushed out from a farm house

and raced along beside the machine,
barking, snapping and eating dust. Fa-
miliar whitish—yellow buttlcrilie's ilitted
across the road, bluebirds balanced on
telegraph wires and the country—side
glowed with the purplish hue of cab—
bages.

There was color and exciteiment. Susan
Dunlap enjoyed it all. The machine
jounced over a culvert and she had a

glimpse of reddish—yellow sand bank,
with gray grass and roots hanging down
from the turf above. A wisp of a woman
in faded gray country—cut‘ clothes had
glanced back fearfully over her shoulder
as she heard the clutter of Susan’s clutch
and leaped out of her buggy to jerk her
half-broken horse into the ditch and hold
its tossing head as the auto rolled by.

Susan loved it' all; chickens racing
headlong for grasshoppers at break—neck
speed: the familiar old sign tacked to a
four-corners tree, “Go to the Bayview
Bazaar for Clothing," painted in yellow
on a black ground, the color scheme be—
ing bizarre enough in itself; the: fantastic
patented mail boxes, the posted signs
of a coming School election, corded wood
and brush heaps; “No Camping” signs
on marshes and “No Tresspassing” on
last winter‘s hay stacks; the little de-
serted graveyard with its yawning, tooth-
less cavitics: the “Pfut't!” of slippery,
thin mud as the machine lurched through
roadbed hollows; the narrow porches of
the white. farm houses, each with its up-
bolstered sofa. I

Susan was charmed. She turned into
a. little jog road looping off the main one,
the automobile surging along through the
private cut to the village. It swaggered
a little over the privilege of using that
private road, momentarily forgetting the
ugly black patch on its off hind tire, its
twisted headlight and rubbed-off leather
upholstery, revealing the hair stuffing be—
neath, for taking the private cut through
Nathaniel Edgeworth‘s land was a priv-
ilege of which any automobile might well
be proud. Edgeworth was Turtle Creek,
and Turtle Creek was Edgeworth’s, as
far as property went.

It required a special permit‘ to take
advantage of the short out to the depot
through Edgewotrth’su property; in re-
quired more than that, for the permit
could be forcibly seized and torn to bits
before one’s very eyes if the road were
not used in the properevst manner. More—
over, only six such passes had ever been
issued in the. town’s history,

Automobile of privilege, it surged on,
starting a chicken from the road at the
edge of a thin grove; the bird squawked
with terror, flapped its wings and made
a dare-devil leap in front of the machine,
d0ubtless with suicidal intent, its wings
fanning distractedly. The chicken made
a miraculous passage between the wheels
somehow and bobbed back tlo its senses
as it reached roadside cover. Susan

slowed down and looked back at the bird,
standing awed and palpitating, squinting
One eye at the machine, endeavoring to
metronome

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chugging exhaust and emitting an
alarmed, curious, burring cackle.

Before she turned again the machine
had passed through the thicket which al—
most concealed the rambling old Edge-
worth house as this year’s sprouting
twigs will nearly hide a. last ygear's
bird's nest.

At the lower end of the road, past the
thicket, there was a stretch of close—
clipped turf; and as the machine shot
out of the grove a bent old fellow, hob—
bling with the aid of a croquet mallet,
rushed across in front of it, eyes straight

ahead, pursuing a truant bull.
Susan saw him just in time; she
screamed, and the crunching of brakes

was followed by a roar from a tall, hol-
low-looking figure back on the lawn. The
automobile crashed to u shivering stop,
not two feet from the cricket—like old fel-
low, who came to an abrupt halt and
turned with surprised eyes on the bow-
window automobile, which was now quite
humbled. '

“Did ye think I was a rooster?” he
asked, his thin, stubble-covered lips
twitching and his vague, faded giay eyes
lighting up with a kindly smile, soft and
txpressive—an abstemious holy— man' s
look—as he mechanically groped in the
grass at the roadside for the. lost croquet
ball.

“Oh, I didn’t think there'd be, anybody

here! I’m so sorry. Mr. \Vat‘tlcs," Susan
cried. “I looked around just in time.
You aren’t hurt?”

“No,” the old man laughed heartily.

“But ye was shootin’ along as fast as a.
torpcdy boat."

“I’m sorry. I should have been watch—
ing the road. Y0u——” Susan broke off in
her explanation to Zeb \Vattles, turning
to the tall man who had shouted from the
lawn and whose rapid approach she had
nervously noted out of the corner of her
eye. He was followed by a fussy little
fellow, champing his mustache and frown-
ing like a Japanese war god.

The tall man leading looked like an
old merchantman hull, his life had evi-
dently been spent beating against the
rocks; but it had not broken his spirit,
diminished his size, or altered him much,
though his frame appeared hollow, his
high shoulders, flung back, seemed some-
how thin, and the look in his hard face
was haggard. Ile was a hull, an old
merchantman hull, and the-y don‘t dash
against the rocks forever.

'\\'ith palpable haste,
swung across the roadside litch, the girl
called out in explanation: “Oh, oh, Mr.
ngeworth 'I didn’t think there’s be
anybody here. It’s supper time, I didn’t
think there’d be anybody here. I was
going slow.”

“SO was the freight train goin’ slow,
the one that killed the old tin-peddler;
he reckoned he could git acrost in time-—
goin' too slow, that was,” came in a hard,

before he- had

unaccented voice, as Nathaniel Edge-
worth, lord of the manor, crossed the
ditch and clapped a sprawling, freckle-

splotched browri hand on the leather arm
of the driving seat.

The girl jumped.
split.

“'attlcs put in with an embarrassed
laugh. “She wa’ant hardly goin’ at all,
Colonel. If there’d been a fly in the road
three feet nearer the thing than me she
wouldn’t have touched it, “not by a rod.”

Frantic uneasiness was expressed in
the girl's flushes and glances from one
to the other of the old men; she thanked
Wattles for his help with a glance.

“I wouldn’t a cared to be the fly, would
you, Miss?” Edgeworth had that start-
ling way of thrustling out his neck, glar-
ing, and asking his question in a. rau-

The» worn leather

cous tone, as an obdurate eagle ques-
tioning a chick, carried to its :‘cl‘ie, on
the important matter of its preference,
whether Chick would wish to be shred-
ded, or just clawed and pcckod apart.

llalf hypnotized by the glare, the girl
slid gradually toward the side of the
seat away from him.

()ld Wattles put in, stepping up unob-
trusively and touching Nathaniel Edge—
worth’s sleeve, “Don't‘ pester her, Col-
onel; ain't you showed you like the gal
by sendin’ her away to board school at
enormous qxpcnsc‘.’ Don't (mind him,
Miss Susie, he‘s got the rheumatis" bad
today, can't cycu play croquet, and it
always makes him seem like what he
ain’t at all,” i‘here was a sly twinkle in
the old icllow's eyes. though his taco was
drawn down sobcrly enough.

Nathaniel lid: cuoith turned with a
harsh hiss. i'tlzltt-tl to that of the irritable
rattlesnake. and bulged out‘ his eyes at
\Vuttles, who w.1s suddenly reminded of
the agnc he once had had and relapsed
quickly into the forgotten quaking.

“lrl’ah!”

Susan Dunlap clutched the steering
wheel and wondered if by any chance
She had touched her auto horn.

The appearance of Nathaniel Edge—
worth’s face sufficienti assurance
that she had not and that her admirable
old foster uncle had only emitted a
laugh, his mouth remaining open in the
surprise of it.

“Hall!" he repented.
of something a triilc
horn, the repetition clearly
purpose of bringing his mouth nearer
shut so he could follow up the remark by
bellowing: “l was only joking. Your
uncle was only joking, Miss Susan,’ this
he always c.11lcd her when he wished to
be, most intimate and friendly. lle look-
ed at her almost ndmiringly for a mo—
mcm, then turned on “'attles and snap-
ped: “I was only sorry for the minute
you didn't run the old fool down. \Vhat’
good's he, anyways? Litterin’ up the
town, that’s all. Can‘t even play a de-
cent game at croquet. I say, what‘ good’s
he, anyhow?"

This was so obviously addressed to old
Wattles himself, who could never be
called upon ‘to answer such a questitin,
and was so clearly a positive. statement
that no reply was forthcoming.

“WIS

like. the explosion
less than a fog
being for the

1

Then Nathaniel Edgeworth, raised to
an amazing emotional pitch, did an as—
tounding thing. He reached out and

dragged one of Susan Dunlap’s hands to
him, as a lobster pulls in a succulent
shrimp, and pressed his cracked dull lips
to the fair skin on the back of her l1an.l
fer an instant. Old \Yattles and the girl
both clutched at their faltering breath;
it' was an open question whether he
would bite her or not.

Hornbill, the third of the trio of vet-
erans, who had stopped on the lawn just
short of the ditch (prompted by discre-

tion), dropped his croquet mallet and
started forward as Nathaniel Edgeworth
committed the act which passed for a.

kiss and startled a town called Turtle
Creek when the story came out that night
(every story having a regular, formal
coming—out in Turtle Creek).

Unconsciously, Hornbill rushed forward
just in time to hear Nathaniel Edgeworth
remark, having wiped his leathery lips
on a shiny sleeve, “I’m sorry your uncle
seemed cross to ye, Miss Susan. Now
don’t worry, Miss Susan; you’re free to
come 1111’ go, as usual, through the road.
You just hurry on home to your supper
now, and if any other old worthless fool
gets in your way, I say,—,run him oVer,
run him over."

Old Wattles, humbled, but with the

same kindly smile, stepped to the front
of the machine and took hold of the crank
bar to start the motor for Miss Dunlap,
it having cooled in spite of Nathaniel
Edgeworth’s radiating heat. His efforts
at cranking were slow and labored; he
(lid everything that way, and somehow
could never get‘ results. A moment later
his puny body was pushed aside and the
hulking, hollow form of Nathaniel Edge-
worth threw the crank bar twice in a
rapid circle. .1\ click came as the spark
caught. The machine hiceoughed, splut-
tcrcd and rolled on, a bit too showy, al-

most out of taste, it hardly seemed pos-
sible that the fresh, lithe girl‘s wishes
Were exactly embodied in that: coup de

theatre c'tI‘.

Nathaniel Edgeworth stood in the mid-
dle part of his private road and actually
waved his hand aftelr the girl. though it
looked more as though he were shaking
his fist. She turned with fearful,
flushed face, but (lid not dare wave. back.

Hornbill, across the ditch, looked until
his eyes were in danger of popping out.
He had known Nathaniel Edgeworth for
thirty years and il-lti nevt r but once, seen
such open expression of tenderness, al—
most lovcfirthdt was: when Nathaniel
Edgeworth‘s son was sick. Just before
he died Nathaniel, Senior, had thawed.

Before old \\';Ittles’ awe, from the same
source. had abated, Nathaniel Edgetworth
had turned on him and remarked through
thin lips savagely: “Good-night. And
l'll jest remind you that 1 did beat the
last grime, of croquet. Good—night.”

Crown-up boys quarrel much the same
as1 youngsters. and some men are bullies
all their lives; others, fags; Old \Vattlcs
was glad enough to get off SO easily. He
didn’t know exactly how he had offended,
but he understood Nathaniel Edgevvorth;
not as those of the. town, but as an in—
timate; and though he feared him, it
was in a different degree.

\Vattles took his dismissal with the
same gentle smile and moved off weurily
toward his own little house, built on a.
corner of Nathaniel lCtlge\\'oi‘th's land,
given rent free to him on lCdgeworth’S
explanation that he wanted a. house near
by in case of tire or sickness. Old VVat-
tlcs went wwnrily toward home, after
having carried his croquet mallet back
to the grounds :llld placed it precisely in
its box. together with his bull, l'suully
Nathaniel lidgeworth asked him to stay
and cat supper with him and Brigadier
General I-lornbill, his companion, who was
all but a servant, \Vattles not possessing
sufficient of the menial in his nature to
qualify for the position and therefore be—
ing relegated to his own perilous
pendence in: the little, house».

But no invitation had been extended
tonight. \Vattles’ mouth unconsciously
watered when he heard the llldgeworth
supper bell clang just as he pusli’ed open
the rusty screen door on his own back
stoop and entered the kitchen.

A small, brightfaced girl sprang up at
his entrance, skillfully tucking away it
little turban she had been all afternoon
fashioning out of a begged bit of tea-
matting.

“lle-llo, “ails!” she cried,
her vivid lips to be
tremblingly tender old

“Hello, Jerry. Got

The girl (she must haVc been seven-
teen, though her lightness of manner
made her seem much younger), glanced
toward a cupboard in the corner co-n-
fusedly, then clapped her hands and
cried: ”Oh, yes. I’ve something you
like. But it will take a little time. I
didn’t expect you. Why didn’t yOu stay
at Edgeworth’s; weren’t you playing cro—
quet?”

“Yes, but I didn’t stay to supper;
bought I’d come home tonight,” he an-
swered, shuffling to a corner and hang—
ing up his hole-ventilated and age-yel-
lowed straw hat.

“I’m so glad you did. I like to have
you home to supper. It makes things
taste better when you eat with some-

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body." She had deftly jerked a. heavy-
red cover over the rickety deal table and,
having skipped to a cool little stone shed,
just off the back stoop, came back with
a bowl of lobbcred milk which she sug-
ared and placed before him, Wattles
having drawn up a chair and seated him-
self. .lerry quickly put into his age-
trembly hands the weekly Bayview Ilugle,
a left-over copy which Bud, the delivery
boy, had given her that afternoon.
“Now. you eat that and read your pa-
per while you're waiting and I’ll have
the rest ready in a jiffy.” She hurried
out to the roadside with a knife, leaving;
her father mumbling over the news and
the sour milk most contentedly—though
they always had meat at lildgcworth’s.

' Jerry slipped into the kitchen unnoticed
a few minutes latcr. bearing an apronful
of grccns she had snipped off along the
road. Giving the “Lambs—quarter” a
perfunctory sousing. she threw the mess
into a wide—mouthed kettle, took out a
crun'ibiing chunk of good corn bread, her
own makc, sliced it, and then sat down
opposite her father, cxciaiming: “The
rest'll be ready in a minutc, \Vatts. It’s
something you like. Can you guess what
it is?"

His eyes pccrcd over the top of the
papci and he pushed up his spectacles.

“Lot's- soc," lic muse-d, "pclas and car-
rots 7777 likc your mother used to cook to-
gcthcr?‘

“Noon “ hcr answcr was 1mconsc1ous-
ly prolongcd.

lie sniffed cxpw-tantly and
again: “(lalmcall"

“Don't be: silly! 'I‘hzit‘s fr breakfast."

“Give it up. .lcrry." \Vatts smiled
gently, his lips purscd in 1lrcoccupation;

guessed

slowly an eia t cd (xprcssion warmed his
cheeks and lighted his cycs. iic was
looking past .lerusha to the piano in the
ncxt room and humming a snatch of
Song. ,

llc rosc suddcnly, the humming.r became
more dct‘miic and a light shone in his

eycs as he shuffled quickly to the. piano
stool, covered with a tooled piccc of
leather. .lerusha's work. His fingers
threaded through the keys, and aliaunt-
ing, wistful little air crept forth. quaint
and old-fashioned.

.lcrusha sat listening till the kettle bub-
bled over. Then she. jumped up and dish—
ed out a large helping of the succulent
grccns on a platt- for \Vatis.

filc had finished the air.

.lei'usha slipped to the door and an-
nounced in a little flutter o." happiness:
“There! (‘omc to dinner, \VitllSl it's
your vm‘y favorite dish. liul you hth-n‘t
gucssul yet!" She motioned toward the

platc and took hold of his arm. llo- look—
od straight past her with unsccing eycs
and answered, "Yes, .lcrry,” carcssingly.

“it's something you lovei (Tome, \Vatts.
it’s a mess of grow-us!" she climaxcd
proudly, trying to fix his vague gaze on
herself.

“Yes, .icrry," he, said vcry tenderly.
"‘it was an old air. One of the first
things i learned as a boy. i haven't
playcd it for, \\'t'ii, bicss me, I don’t be—
lieve l'vc rccailui that tune since your
mother dicd, Jcrry."

()Vcr at liltigcwol‘lh's Brigadier General
llornbill was spluttcring ovwr his coffcc,
as he always did. it was somcthing
about tho sinful plodigaliiy of modern
times, as usual. Nathaniel ltldgeworth
had bccn most iaciturn after his curt
dismissal of \Vatilcs. lie looked several
times toward tho vacant third chair at
dinncr, and when Mother Hubbard, the
garruious old soul who worked by the day
in lildgtwvomh’s stifling kitchen, asked
What had become of \Vattlcs he only an—
swcrcd, “Hope he. fell down the old well
on his way home.”

llother Hubbard
something burning in the kitchcn and
went to see what it was, remaining until
she was rcquircd by a rcqucslful roar
from the lord of the manor to bring in
her luscious strawberry shortcake. Un—
like the few serving womcn in Turtle
Creek (excepting the Dunlap's hired girl)
Mother Hubbard was not required to eat
at the common table. Nathaniel Edge-
worth didn’t like women. Nathaniel
Edgeworth never liked anybody~but his

discreetly smelled

'snn. who was dead—anybody at the cor—

ner store could tell you that.

Brigadier General (by courtesy) Horn—
bill, in a bungling effort at moilification,
had swung through the orbit of his con-
versational repcrtoire and finally reached
the stumbling block. Hornbill’s habit
was invariable. He always ran against
a snag.

“An‘ there’s airshlps an' everything.
What’s the world comin’ to, Colonel?
What’s the world comin'to, I say? Why,
in your an’ my day we’d a. thought 8.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER,

0N BLISSFUL HALLOWEEN.

nautomobill was a chariot from heaven——
a miracle! Now it’s an everyday fact,
just like. the.gattiin’ game an’ torpedy
boats. But, be that as it may, Colonel,
it’s a. chariot of hadesl I say if petlple
want to get killed why don‘t they go to
war,,why do they buy a nautomobill in-
stead?” He mangled the word almos:
beyond recognition. doubtless due to the
bullet he had received in his jaw at
Gettysburg, which remained to thrust it-
self between Hornbili and any attempt at
a peaceful flow of language. “It’s as
ruinous to the country as appendysight-
us,” (another word the indefatigable bul-
let would never admit in its true charac-
ter), "Colonel. V/hy, look at the howl
they raise over the Fourth of July list of
dead—though it ain’t one—thousandth of
the men that died for the- sake of their
country at Bull Run. A man might jes'
as well go to war as to stay to home an‘
be killed by a nautomobill. I say he
might. better. \Vhy, Colonel, they talk
about fifty or sixty peiopie bein’ killed
in the country's cause on Fourth of July,
an’ here’s a hundred or two bein’ killed
every day by nautomobills, an’ they ain't
dyin' in no cause at all.’

Nathaniel Edgeworth bruised his fist
on the table, knocking over a plate of
fried chicken (\Yattles' special delight. a.
delicacy even at Edgeworth's.)

“Stuff and nonsense!” lic bawicd, his
eyes spitting fire through narrowed lids.
“There ain't nobody that kin talk as
entertainin’ as you, General, because
most people- is limited in their conversa—
tion by common sense and a. due respect
for farts."

“W'ell, be that as it may, Colonel, I
don’t say as that’s the actual existin’
fact. but it's the tendency.” Brigadier
(lcncral only backed water to escape coi-
lision with that particular old merchant-
man hull.

“There you go now, pervertln’ facts. I
tell you, Jcneral, the automobile is the
-fore—runncr of peace and plenty. it
proves prosperity, an’ there ain’t no
danger at all exccpt when old fools like
Watts gets in the road of ’em. I tell
you that. gal Wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

irrelevant as the last sentence was,
liornbill continued desperately: “Be that
as it may, Colonel, you got to admit the
much of them nautomobiils is vicious.”

"80’s the smell of perfume," exploded
Nathaniel Edgeworth. “Stick to yer ar-
giincnt, General, or don't say nothin'! I
ain't gl'in' to have no beatin’ around the
bush in my house." A more discreet man
would havc banged his unbruised fist on
tho table the second time, but Nathaniel
'iddgeworth was too much in earnest just
tin-n to considcr any such niceties about
his hands. “if you’re goin’ to say any—
thin' against that gai’s drivin’ an auto-
mobile, out with it.”

Brigadier General liornbili dropped his
knife and fork with a clatter and leaned
forward in his chair. There was a tense
moment that even Mother liubbard felt
in the kitchen. Then Brigadier General
Hornbiil, ruffled, bcgan: ”i suppose if
that car Was a sixteen-wheeled Jugger—
naut you'd let that gal drive through
yonr private road with it, Colonel, en-
(langcrin’ life an'vw”

lie got no further. Nathaniel Edge-
worth, at white licat, pushed back his
chair and rose with an ominous clatter,
swelled up till his hollow form sce-med
hulking and beat his bruised fist on the
table.

“There ain’t nobody goin’ to tell me
what I kin or kin't do; what'I will or
Won’t (lo. 'l‘hat gal can do what She
likes, an‘ I ain‘t playin’ no favorites
eithcr. I ain‘t goin‘ to stand here an’
take orders from nobody—it tain’t my
way!” A surge of blood rushed to his
temples; lie tottered. “I don’t take or—
ders from n-obodychastwise a depend-
ent."

Brigadier General Iiornbiil, instantly
humblcd, pushed back his chair and be-
gan apologeticaliy, “Be that as it~——”

He got no further. Nathaniel Edge-
worth took a groping step forward, eyes
lit strangely, his face blue, grasped a.
chair and stood swaying. lie clutched
madly at his chest, toppled and fell——
flat.

“My God!” cried Hornbill, starting to
his feet and standing trans-fixed, eyes
staring glasslly. His form suddenly
slumped and he slid to the floor beside

the motionless body, staring into the;

horror-stretched face of the veteran.
muttering: “I saw a. man struckfistruck
like that once at—at Fort Anderson—but
he—was facin’ fear."

Mother Hubbard rushed in and found
Homblli, on his knees beside the pros-
trate form. still mumbling. .

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BY RUTH mmok‘n.

Above the rich brown stubble field
The autumn breeze-s blow,

And iieecy clouds across the moon
Like white-robed phantoms go.
Deep in the wood a. lone owl calls,
From out the pine-tree’s green;
The hour so late holds mystic fate,

For this is Halloween.

Now from a. farm-house lightly trips
A maiden fair to see,

And love has kissed her pouting lips
And pledged all constancy;

Though frighted at the shadOWs near
That veil the midnight scene

Vl’ith magic art, to prove his heart
She comes this HalloWeen.

Around the pine with circles three
Her footsteps, light and slow.

Then in her mirror looks to see
A face she hopes to know.

\Vith winsome smile and tender eyes
She Scans the silver sheen;

lle greets the lass from out the glass,
This mystic Halloween.

A stalwart figure stands beside
The graceful country maid,
\Vho doubts no more his loyal heart
Or fears her love betrayed.
The lone owl flops his wings in glee
And leaves the happy scene.
\\'here lovers prove the powers that move
0n blissful Halloween.

 

THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED IN
THE NIGHT.

 

BY ELRE NE NISEVVA NGE'R,

 

“Hu sh, boys!” whispered the leader
of a ghostly—looking gang, warningly.
“\\ e'li have to wait a. little; I hear some-
one coming.”

A dozen cautious, skuiking figures stop-
pcd in their tracks and, after listening
an instant to the unmistakable- sound of
an approaching team and rig, hastily hid
among the orchard shadows a little to
one side of a small wcather-bcaten house
that gicamed duily in the moonlight of
a pcrtcct October night.

“it's Kurl’s and VVater’s young folks
coming bank from tllc Halloween party
at Mowen’s,” murmured one hiding fig—
ure to his neighbor.

“Hope they don’t make any noise when
they go by licre that will disturb friend
Mack,” was the low rtply as a thumb
jerked over his shoulder in the general
direction of the big house a little to the
rear of its small, brown neighbor. “l’m
anxious to begin operations here; this
ain’t no fiftecn-miuute job we've laid
out to do."

The young people passed with only the
sound of low conversation and laughter,
and whcr. that died away in the distance
twelve figures slipped stealthily out from
their hiding places and gathered around
one of their number, a tall man who
was evidently their leader.

“It’s Never. o‘clock." he announced,
snapping his watch shut and pushing
back a drooping felt hat, “and I think
we can bcgin."

“Everything all ready?" a companion
Whispered cautiously.

“As near ready as I could get it. I
didn't dare drive the wagon any closer;
we’ll have to bring the jacks and rollers
the rest of the, way ourselves."

“Come on, then, lead tht‘ way and we'll
haVe everything on the spot in a jiffy
and without any noise,” and twelve dusky
forms slipped through the orchard and to
the roar of the big barn where a team
and wagon, with extra horses ticd to a
hind wheel, stood waiting at the end of
a. lane.

\l'ith keen enjoyment the men unload-
ed jack—screws and house-moving rollers;
than, some of them carrying the former
and the remainder dragging the latter,
they began a round—a—bout, cautious ap—
proach that would bring them in front
of the little dark house that stood near
the road, backed by the modern home of
generous dimensions.

For thirty years the little, unpainted,
one-story house had stood there alone in
the big yard. the home of one of the
early settlers of the country. For two
more years it stoodthere, the inexcus-
able eyesore of a pleasure—seeking, beau-
ty loving public that liked to motor along
the pretty road to the lake, and the con—
stant annoyance of it's old—time mistress,
now Occupying the large. handsome
house just behind this weather-beaten
relic of a past century.

It was in the middle eighties that big,
bluff Mack Stevens went east for his
bride and brought her, a shrinking, girl-
ish little creature, to this home of his
on the west bank of the Platte. They
hadn't needed much room at first and the

0013.. 26, . 1912.

community was not strong on style so».

while the house was new, it looked as "
well as the average; but, as the years}

went by, the neighbors built new houses
and made various improvements till, for
appearance, the Stevens place stood as
much alone as though stranded on the
Island of Desolation. To the wife, son
and daughter this became a real burden
because it was so plainly unnecessary.

Mack Stevens had prospered; his farm
was one of the best, his stock was nu-
merous and well cared for. Barns, cribs,
and granaries were built as needed, but
the original small, one-story farm-house
stood for years, shouting of Stevens’ sel-
iishncss toward his family to all pass-
ers-by; then, finally, the new house was
built.

\Vhen Mack did le-t himself go in this
matter of building he did it “right and
proper” he would have told you. His
ideal then seemed to be to surpass his
neighbors in commodiousness and con-
venience, more for the sake of leading
than to secure her comfort and pleasure,
his patient, over—worked wife suspected,
but even in anticipation she enjoyed to
the’full the furnace, bath—room, running
water, roomy closets and wide porches.

To more than one Mack had casually
mentioned that the old house would be
moved down over the bench into the pars-
ture and made over into a hog—house,
but he was extremely slow in getting
started at this and a, progressive height-
borhood finally jcorcd unwiscly.

After everything was complete about
the new home and the family had moved
into it, the little dark house still held
its ground a couple of rods in advance,
looking like a scarred, abnormal growth
on the face of a good work, and then the
fatal questions began to come-sat first
good-naturally, but later causticallyiike:

“\Vhen are you going to move the ‘has
bcen,’ Mack?”

“\Vant some help with the jacks? The
ccunty’ii be glad to turn out.”

“Since when did You get so sentimental
over parting with old friends?” and so
on till the climax was rcachcd .whcn fath-
erly Old Jack irown, driving by from
town, pulled up a trifle to inquire, mock-
interestedly, of Mack at the mail—box:
“Decided that the front yard is “the best
place for a hog-house, Stevens?”

Then Mack flew off him handle. “I’d
have you dummed meddlers understand
that I can tend to my own business if
you can’t tend to yours!” he roared.
“And, by whillikins, the old housc’ll rot
to the ground before l’ll move it to please
any bunch of old mcddlers! I’ve Changed
my idea. about hog pasturing, though,”
he added, “the hogswand—the fools, too,
is all runningr in the road.”

“Right sure they‘re all in the road,
son?” asked Brown mildly, starting on.
but Mack stamped up the drive unheed—
ing, past, the old house, past' the wide
front porch of the new one, from which
there should be a beautiful view, but was
not, and into the wood-house as far from
the road as possible.

Then, unconsciously, the very next
day, tired little Mrs. Stevens played the
trump card.

Andy Freeman came to return a saw
he had borrowed a. couple of weeks be-
fore; not seeing Mack about, he called at
the kitchen door to leave word concern-
ing it. From where he stood on the back
porch he had a slanting pict'urc of scat—
tcred trees, gay in their autumn colors
and half veilcd by a soft October haze.
Filled with the glory of the season he
called out cheerily: “Isn’t this the dand~
lest weather, Mrs. Stevens? You’ve a.
view here to cure sore eyes—” and then he
stopped suddenly.

Mrs. Stevens had started to respond
smilingiy, then her face flushed and her
eyes filled. Her mind could sec only 'the
ugly obstruction in her front yard that
l'cpcllmi neighbors and friendly strangers.

“View!” she exclaimed unexpectedly;
“live, been shut off here from everybody
and everything till i‘m getting that des-
perate I'm afraid I’ll set fire to the old
house some day and burn up the new
one, too.”

The flush faded quickly and her eyes
dmpped shamedly as she murmured,
“Don’t mind what I say, Mr. Freeman;
I guess I ain’t well this fall.”

Before- night Andy Freeman had inter-
viewed his neighbors and a Halloween
party was planned with the secrecy of
a lynching, and even more carefully as
to certain details, for the undertaking
proposed was of a decidedly delicate na-
tureand any slip would be painfully em—
barrassing.

All that was five days ago, and now
the hours are creeping along toward
midnight of Halloween and a dozen

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OCT. 26, 1912.

among the apple trees, skirting the house
that shelters four sleepers and drawing
steadily nearer to the open space in
front of the little old house and farthest
from the new. There they gather in a
tense group-

“I know they all sleep in the back bed-
rooms upstairs,” one whispered.

“The lights have been out for two
hours,” another volunteered, and if there
were ever twelve minds with but a single
thought, twelve hearts that beat as one,
those twelve united in the hope that the
sleep would continue unbroken and the
lamps unlighted.

A quiet signal in the moonlight and the
men took their pre-arranged posts about
the house—some at the jack-screws, some
ready to adjust the rollers, two as scouts
to watch the road and the slumbering
house, and Andy Freeman, instigator, as
general manager with the weight of the
Whole on his determined shoulders.

After painfully slow and careful min-
utes the old house sent out a low, pro-
testing creak and Andy became a crea-
ture of omnipresent watchfulness; one
second at one jack, cautioning the man
at. the bar to go slow, then on to the
next, and the nextl, and the next. A few
quick steps back to get a perspective
View in the moonlight to see if all seem-

THE ‘MIC-HIGAN IRAIQMEIQ.~

ed level and square, then back again
directing the men.

Fraction by fraction, the litltle building
rose under the slow, steady lifting of the
jacks till Andy called a halt. It was
high enough and each man knew his
next work. Almost magically, by a few
cautious moves, the rollers were in place
the horses hitched cn, a couple of rods
of wire fencing laid flat, and then amo—
mcnt’s pause till the scouts reported,
"All quiet and a clear road.”

A low word and light touch for the
horses and the. house began to move. Still
cautiously, but with firm determination,
the men moved with it, watchful ever
th-it nothing might go wrong. As the
space widened between the houses their
spirits until finally, when the road
was reached, Jack Brown “cut a pidgeon
wing" in approved nineteenth century
style and shook his fist gaily with a sat—
isfied, “W'e don’t want you to wake up
yet, Mack Stevens, but you’d have a
hard time stopping us even if you did,”
and Andy, glancing at the moon to see if
its light would last long enough, swore
that the old man there winked and smil—
ed in friendliness at them.

The moon dropped lower and at last
men and horses came back alone. The
hog-house was finally where it belonged.

I'US‘C

“Don’t suppose Mack’d be ornery
enough to bring it back, do you?” Lem.
Johnson asked.

“I might be a little leery about Mack.”
Andy answered grimly, “butl I think he'd
hunt a. long while to find men and tools
to help him.”

“Best night’s work I’ve done in a good
many years,” a voice: at the rear com—
mented.

"The corpse is disposed of,”
added. “All we've got to do now
light the candles and hike out."

Another trip to the wagon and each
man came back with a grinning jack-o-
lantern which be disposed of as pre-ar-
ranged.

“These ought to show up pretty well
yet when Mack turns out atl four o'clock
to get at his corn shucking early,” Andy
muimured with satisfaction as
again stood grouped in the orchard shad-
ows looking at the trail of grinning jack~
o-lzinterns, with their candles guaranteed
to burn at least five hours, that started
at the back door and led around in front
where the final four stood leering where
the four corners of the old house had
been.

“But there’s always a fly in the 0int-
ment,” Bud. “'illiams grumbled softly. “I
want to be here at four o’clock but I’ve

another
is to

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got to go home with the rest of you and
get a little sleep myself.”

“Yes, I guess we’ll make ourselves
scarce now, and imagine. the rest,” and
the others agreed, with a. farewell wav-
ing of caps and hands as they backed
away.

“You owe us ten dollars for this job.
Mack,” was the final comment, “but

we’ll call it square if you’ll do the right
thing now.”

Mack Stevens must have. imagined a
good many Halloween ghosts in the elec-
tion crowd that he met a few days later,
but ghosts tell no tales and a dozen men
are hard to locate in several score.

if suspicious and conscious looks were
abroad, more than one had a share and
these quickly vanished when Mack found
that no one: was going to mention the
Halloween penformance and when his
neighbors found that Mack had returned
to his senses, was ashamed of his former
attitude and, in his heart, grateful for
their handling of the situation. The. first:
conspirator to pass the Stevens home
read his reformatiOn in the fact that all

litter had been cleared away and the
vacant place filled and graded ready for
a spring seeding to lawn grass. The

whole world could read it in the faces of
his family.

The Big House On The Gila.

Did you know there were ruin‘s in this
country when the white people came
here?

“Yes,” I hear you answer, “there was
the old mill at Newport, and there are
the mounds through the Ohio Valley.”
True enough; but? did you know there
were remains of large. villages and that
these remains are still standing?

Along the (lilu river, in swuthcrn Ari—
zona, are many of these villages, but
there is one famous ruin which remains
in about the same condition that it was
in nearly three hundred years ago. That
is Casa Grande, about five miles from

the town of Florence. The name Casa
Grande, as those who study Spanish
know, means Big House. There are

many remains of “Big Houses” scattered
over this country, but none so well pre-
served as this one near Florence.

Over two hundred years ago a Jesuit
priest, Father Kino, with about sixty
followers, marched north from Mexico,
through cacttls and greasewood, sur-
rounded by h-ostile tribes of Indians,
seeking to establish mission posts on the
Ella river. In this he was not successful,
however, for the men whom he lcft there
were afterward murdered. In his march
he came, upon the Big House and held
mass within its walls. \Ve can imagine
the bravu Franciscan father standing
there surrounded by the gully accoutcred
Spanish soldiers and the gaping, half-
naked natives, who, for the- first time,
saw the sign of the cross. In his diary
he. describes 1110 Big House, so that we
know it was in almost the same condition
then that we find it today. He tells us
about the Indians, too. The I’imas, who
at the present time live near the ruin,

he, says, were a peaceful people in round
bee—hive-like huts, and cultivating the
the soil. They raised corn, melons,

gourds, and much wheat which they sold
to the missionaries. Today we find them
the. same quiet, industrious agricultural
pcoplc. They live in square shacks made
of cactus wood and brush. Their clothes
and otbcr belongings are not kept in the

house but are hung on a pergola-like
affair in front. This is very sanitary
but rather hard on the clothes. Most of

their cooking and household work is per—
formed outside You will see the little
girls sitting on the ground before alarge
pan of dishes, contentedly washing and
wiping them.

.The Pimas are all good workers, from
the little children, who may be seen car.‘
rying their little water jars, up to the
old squaws who manufacture the jars
and also make baskets. Their baskets
are not so beautiful as those of the
Apaches. The Very mention of that name
makes the cold shivers go down your
spine. They lived in this region and
were very troublesome to the Pimas. As
far back as we have any account of
them they were a lazy, roving. blood-
thirsty people. In t'he. sixties and sev—
enties they became so troublesome to the
white people that finally their chief,
Geronimo, and the worst of his follow—
ers were deported to Florida; that put an
end to Indian warfare in this region.
But the memory of their blood-thirsty
massacres still lingers in the minds of
the people living there, and as you travel

BY LELA ANGIER LENFEST.

through the country you almost expect
to find some Apache warriors ready to
spring upon you. But‘ really you cannot
imagine a more peaceful country than it
is at present.

But to return to our Big House, for I

feet thick and are made of blocks of
what some people call adobe, but adobe,
as you know, is sun-dried brick. But
these blocks, four by five. feet, were not
dried in l‘llc sun. Thcy were made on
the walls in boxes of wood or brush,

 

 

 

 

West Front of Casa Grand'e.

am sure you all want to hear more of
this prehistoric ruin. In is built on
slightly elevated ground and overlooks

the Gila valley.
Buttes and
for about

enclosed by distant
mountains. Surrounding it
sixty—live acres are mounds

 

Note Smooth Finish of Plaster on Inside Wall.

which were filled with wet earth. \thn
this hardened the box was removed. You
see this is very similar to our way of
nulking concrete and cement buildings
nonadays. This is one of lhe very in-
teresting things about this old building,

 

 

Style of Mexican Shacks In Country Around the Gila Valley Ruins.

 

 

The lea

Indians also IiVe in Similar Shacks.

and irrigating ditches. Recent diggings
in these mounds reveal the fact that
they are remains of buildings similar to
the Big House.

The walls of this house are about five

for it is the only one in the United
States built in this manner. There are
a great many in Mexico, which have led
people to think that the Aztecs built this.
But the Pima Indians say, and the- scien-

that
their
great

tists think they are right in
their ancestors built it. (me of
legends relates that Civano, a
chief, built it'for his twenty wives. Up-
on their heads these» wives wore large
half baskets, half hood like bonnels, sim-
ilar, we may imagine. to our “peach-
baskel” hats. llow modcrn it must have
looked to see those dusky maidens lrip-
ping in and out of those, tall doorways,
arrayed in “pouch—baskct" bonncts. lint
how they livcd in this 43x59 house the
legend docs not tell us.

this,

On the ground floor of Cusa Grandc are

five rooms, four on the oulside and one
in the center, the latter extending
through to the third story. To get into

this central room one is obliged to crawl
through a low opening‘ubout three feet
high. \Vha: the, purpose of this room
could have been is a matter of specula—
tion. 11 may have been a store romn, or
if, as some think, ”14‘ building was a
temple, it may have. bc'cn the holy place.
You sue the riddles arc. not all connected
with the Sphinx. “'0 have some in our
own southern desert. The inner surface
of the walls is covered with a beautiful
smooth plustcn shining. as one writer
says, “like l’ucblzt How this
was made We do not know. But it is
wmulcrl‘ul to think that. though it has
bceu exposed to the storms for ncul‘ly
tln‘cc ceniurios, it still remains smoother
and liner than that on your hard plaster-
ed living room. (nu- thing that is spoil—
in}: it, however, is llltli every iravclcr
thinks he must immortalizeu himself by
pulzing his name on the wall. Le: us
hope that none of the rcaders of this
paper are sacking such clu-ap fame.

potlcry.”

The curlh all about thcso ruins is tilled
with bits of broken pottery, bone. orna-
lncnls, shells and pieces of stone axes
and hammers. Some of the beams found
in Cash ll‘ando show the marks of stone
axes. The bits of pottery show red and
black patterns similar to the Zuni pot—
tcry. From some: ol' the mounds have
bccn dug vases and necklaces of bone,
bracelets. and anklcts. and a toy mount—
ain goat. \\’hilc. following the fashions
in\bonnets, these dusky women (lid not
fail to IH'UVidt' their children with play-
thing's.

Scattered through the ruins and run—
ning along parallcll with the Gila river
are irrigating ditches. It is said to be
the most extensive irrigating system
known among the native races of
country. Is it not remarkable that. three
centuries ago these people had a more
scientific way of storing and distributing
water than that practiced by munywhite
communities today?

0111‘

These interesting people have left other
records on the rocks throughout the Gila.
valley. These are the cclebrated Picto—
graphs or Pictured Rocks. One pile of
these ro<~ks is said by the. Indians to be
a guidepost giving directions for going
to Casa Grande.

Are these not a remarkable people?
I am sure you will be interested to read
and study more about these ancient tribes
of the great- southwest. And, perhaps, in
time you may be led to attempt the solu-
tion of some of the riddles which puzzle
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C THE CUB AND

BY H. D.

THE
THE FORMULA.

SMILEY.

 

“Und all day long from ‘der time you
get up mit der sun until it is away past
bed time alreatty. you fool arount in this
01’ shop und get nowhere! For w-hy don’d
you ‘tcnd by your bus'ness und not be
like a crazy man all der time?”

Mrs. Hornbcrger, standing in the door-
way of the little shop back of the house,
thus addressed her husband, who, with
.I small glass graduate in one hand and
a bottle in the other, listcrned with re-
signed patience to the tirade.

“But. Katie, dear." he'mildly expos-
tulated, “don't you see dot 1 got her now
almost where I want her, pretty near?
i think today dot I hav hit on der prin-
cipal of what i should mix to make der
gas, und if dot is so. then we was rich
und go on a visit by de-r ()1’ Country.”

“Yabl” snorted his‘ indignant spouse.
“You say dot effery day for one year
alreatty. while you [fool away your time
when you should be by der store 'tending
your bus'ness! You was an 01‘ fool!"

She ilounced indignanily into the house,
while 'l‘ink gazed after her over his spec-
with that helpless expression of
the inVentive genius who has long since
given up all hope of being understood.

“\\'c.ll," he consoled himself as he. again
‘turncd to his work. “You can'd expect a
anythings Vot a

taclos

woman to nndorstandt

than does, anywwy. Yoost dcr same I
get cvcn mit dot gas company!" he: added
with an indignant scowl.

.=\ year before 'l‘mk had had a gas
range installed in his house. Both he
and Mrs. l-{orubcrgcr had been delighted
with the new convenience, which did

away with the kindling of tires and split-
ting and carrying in of wood. When the
tirst gas bill came, hewever. they under-
went a shock of surprise and dismay.
“My gootness!" gasped the
Norman. “Dot lcedle stofe burn up more,
tins than what two cord of wood would
cost alrcatty! ‘\\'c can'd offord, it, Katie."

horrified

So, reluctantly, they returned to the
old method of cooking, and the gas range
merely an ornament to their
kitchen. At the end of the, month an-
other bill came along that was seventy—
iivc cents higher than the first.

’l‘ink put on his hat and went down to
see about it, and anyone who has dis-
puted a bill with a gas company knows
the result.

“Hill. i told you

became

we don't use. any gas

last month!” cried the exasperated Ger.
man. "What is it you charge me three
dollar nnd twenty—life- cents for alreatty

when we cook mit Wood?"

llut argument was futsile. He was as-
sured that the meter kept accurate ac-
of the amount of gas used and

was always right, and, anyhow,
if it was a little bit off this month it
would correct itself of its own accord
next month. The fact was also impressed
upon him that he would have to pay the
bill.

“You get a man up dcre and take dot
mctcrcr und stofe oud of mine house
quick before I smash ’cm up mit der ax!
You was swindle-rs und robbers und, by
golly. l thinks I put you oud of bus‘ness
for this before I gets through." was his
parting shot as he slammed the gas oli’ico
and stamped angrily

count
that it,

behind him
back to his store.

“is 'l‘cutonic irc was thoroughly arous-

door

“(l and he could not, nor would not, for-
get the injustice that had been perpe-
trated upon him. A few days later be
cleaned out the. little shop that stood
back of his home, titted it up as a sort
of laboratory and set‘ about it with tho

avowed intention of inventing a fuel gas
that would be so moch cheaper than that
produced by the gas company that he
could undersell the “swindlers.” as he
termed them, “und put‘ der robbers oud
of bus‘ness.” -

His knowledge of chemistry was lim-
ited, but he was obstinate in his pur—
pose, notwithstanding that he had so far
managed to blow himself up on three
different occasions with more or less dis—
astrous results.

On each of these oceasions Mrs. Horn—
bcrger had viewed the wreckage with a.
complacent gaze and remarked:

“Well. if you’d stay by der store where
you belong it: wouldn‘t have happened.”

This never failed to elicit a snort of in—
dignation from the inventor, but nothing
further, for be well knew that during
the time of his experimenting he had
made butl little pretense of keeping up
his store where he dispensed cigars, to-

bacco and soft drinks. The place was

open as usual during the evening, but
the proprietor was seldom seen about the
premises during the day.

Tink carefully poured exactly two
ounces of a yellow fluid into the graduate
and as carefully emptied it into a rusty
old carbonic—acid gas drum, such as are
used in soda water fountains. He had
picked this up the day before from a junk
healer, believing that it would answer his
purpose fully as well as a new one.

Jle continued to carefully measure and
weigh out different ingredients and empty
them into the receptacle, carefully noting
down each item in a little note book as
he proceeded. He finally finished by pour—
ing in a quantity of water and, quickly
screwing the cap onto the drum and ad-
justing the gas—pressure gauge that was
attached to the cap, he sat down to await
developments

At the end Of ten minutes the guage
registered a pressure of twenty pounds

and the old German‘s eyes shone with
gratification. The mixture that he had
compounded was not only forming gas,

but was making it even fast'cr than he
had hoped.

“By chiminy. I got her this time!” be
exclaimed exultantly. “Now I show dot
robber gas company what was what! li‘or
ten cents a month I supply all (ler gas
dot was necessary for de-r cooking in dcr
house. und when I rent‘ mine machines
oud for a dollar a month to cffm‘ybody,
where those swindler gas company be
then?"

Art the end of an hour the, gauge regio-
tercd a pressure of fifteen hundred pounds
and was still climbing, as were Tink’s
spirits as well.

“In another hour she be up to three
tlnmsam,” he told himself in great glcc,
“und still enough of der compound to
make ten times dot amountt. Tinker you
was a rich man alrea‘tty and a benefactor
to dcr human races!"

lie glanced at his watch and noted with
some- conustlernation that it was after
eleven o’clock.

“By chiminy, it was nearly noon und
I ain’d been by der store this morning
yet,” he told himself accusingly. “Poor
leedle Teddy ain‘d even have his break-
fast yet! I go right down now and take
care of him und get back in plenty time
to look after der gasser machine," he de—
cided, and with a. hasty glance at the
gauge be seized his hat and hurried out
the door.

Ten minutes later he arrived at his
store. and let himself in, picking up a
quart bottle of milk that set on the door-
step as he did so.

Hastening to a little cupboard he took
therefrom half a. loaf of bread and a bowl;
breaking the former into the latter, be
poured the milk over it, and then picking
up the bowl he hurried to the back door
and let himself out into the little court
yard in the rear of his establishment.

“By gollyl" he exclaimed as he hastily
set the, bowl on the ground and looked
about him in dismay. “Now where dot
loedle Teddy bear gone ‘to alreatty?”
with consternation at: an
empty leather (ollar attached :to a dogr
chain. which was in turn fastened to a
medium—sized tree that grew in the court
yard.

That cellar should have encircled the
neck of a small cub bear that had been
presented to Tink by a friend from North—
t-rn Michigan about a month before. The
old German was devoted to his little pet,
but was obliged to keep him at the store
because his good spouse absolutely re-
fused to have the animal around or near
the house.

“Hi there, Teddy, Where you gone to?”
he called anxiously as he peered about
the little yard.

An answering grunt from above caused
him to look upward, and there on a limb
of the tree sat the youngster, looking
down at its master with a mischievous
twinkle in its heady black eyes.

“VVha-t you doing up there, you leedle
rascal!" cried the relieved German.
“Come along down here und put on your
collar und eat your breakfast,” he or-
de-red, good—naturedly.

The cub made no move to obey and
after much coaxing Tink gave up this
method of capturing his pet, and bring-
ing a ladder from the rear of the yard
he placed it against the tree.

“[ bet I get you now. by chiminy,” he
chuckled as he startedup the ladder.

The cub, however, had no intention of
being taken so easily. and as his master
approached he scrambled out on the end

Ile gazed

MICHIGAN *FARMER.‘

of the limb and leaped nimbly to the roof
of the Store. '

“So!” exclaimed Tink as he wiped the
perspiration from his forehead. “You
think a young scamper like you can fool
an 01’ feller like me, eh? .Well, wait, I
show you!”

He descended to the ‘ground again,
placed the ladder against the side of the
store, and two minutes later was on the
roof with the cub.

The building was two stories high with
a flat roof about twenty by fifty feet in
area and. covered with a, coating of tar,
topped with gravel. The place was
sweltering hot under the direct rays of
the mid-August sun. but in spite of his
corpulency and years Tink started after
his pet with all the enthusiasm of a
young farm hand chasing a greased pig
at the county fair.

The cub displayed astonishing agility
for a youngster and scampered up and
down the roof, dodging and twisting and
eluding its more awkward pursuer at ev-
ery turn, although more than once it was
pushed into a corner where escape seem—
ed impossible.

So intent was Tink on the chase that
he did not realize to what exertion he
was putting himself until finally he was
compelled to stop on tottering legs, pant-
ing for breath and with the perspiration
rolling off his face in rivulets.

“.l'Lonner vetter!” he gasped as he stag—
gered t0 the side of the roof and sank
down with his back against the coping.
”\Vhat you think I am? If I run any
more something will blow up sure!"

Something did blow up. To his ears
came the sound of a loud dull boom, and
from where he sat? he cordd look across
the house-tops to where his home stood
and see boards and divers other objects
tlying high in the air.

“By chimiuy!” he panted as he tried to
struggle to his feet, only to drop back
:tuain from utt’cr exhaustion. “here goes
(lot passer machine a blowing up!”

For several minutes he sat there blow-
ing and gasping and watching with bulg-
ing eyes while boards and shingles and
other things floated earthward again.

“Der formula!”_he groaned. “By golly
it was blowed up, too! I left him on dcr
bench!"

He eyed the cub belligerently.' That
youngster was seated on his haunches at
the other end of the roof, reflectively
scratching his ear with one hind foot and
apparently waiting and ready for further
frolic.

“Und mebbe Katie is all blowed up,
too!” Tink added as an afterthought.

Mrs. llornbergetr had slipped out to call
on her neighbor, Mrs. Kast, who lived a
few doors up the street, and was prepar-
ing to return to her oWn home when the
explosion occurred.

“My gootncss, vot’s dot!” gasped Mrs.
Kas't.

“It’s dot ol’ fool husband of mine a.
blowing himself up again!” exclaimed
Mrs. lIornberger as she gathered her
skirts about her preparatory to running.
“Mebbe he have. killed himself this time
alreattyl”

Other neighbors, many of whom were
at dinner, came rushing from their homes
at the sound of the explosion, which not
only shook the ground but shattered win-
dows in many of the houses. These join-
ed the frantic spouse in her wild bolt for
the scene.

Arriving there she felt that her worst‘
fears were justified. Where the little
shop had stood was'a bare hollow hole»
and scattered around for yards in every
direction was the debris of the laboratory.

It was evident that Tink’s compound
had made gas much faster than he had
anticipated it would, and had finally
reached a pressure that was greater than
the rusty old drum could stand, where-at
it had exploded with terrific force.

Not being aware that her husband had
gone to his store, Mrs. Hornberger was
certain that he had been in the shop at
the time and was now “all blowed up
into leedle bits.”

There was much wailing and gnashing
of teeth while sympathetic friends and
neighbors searched far and near for the
remains, or fragments of the remains of
the unfortunate inventor.

More and more people arrived until
nearly the entire town was assembled
about the premises, and far into the af-
ternoon the search continued, but with-
out the finding of so much as a lithe
finger. It was not until nearly supper
'time that the crowd began to break up
and go home, much mYStified over the
strange disappearance of the inventor,

It so happened that about this time
several of the townspeople passing Tink's
cigar store heard a hoarse cry, coming-

(Continued on page 371).

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“He was took again?” she cried; ech-
mg, “took again?”

Hornblll did not 100k up; his hand was
faltering for the heart—beat. His face
had broken up into sharp, hard lines—the
look of a soldier.

Mother Hubbard,- horrified, screamed:
“Why don’t you do something? Do some-
thing, General! Don’t sit there like you
was bereft of reason!”

“Go for a doctor," said Hornbill in a
hushed tone, turning slowly.

When the woman was gone the old fel-
low remained motionless for many min-
utes. Then he sought, through blurred
eyes, to remove with fumbling fingers, a.
bit of flag he had worn in his but-tonhole
since Gettysburg. Snatching it off at
last with violence, he placed it in Na-
thaniel Edgeworth’s lapel, touching it
tenderly, thoughtfully, and muttered
through pulsing lips, “Comrade.”

“Comrade," he faltered on, “don’t mind
what they say. Your heart was big, too
big, they couldn’t understand—” a tear
dropped on the back -of his hand and
startled him. He clutched at the form
with frenzied fingers. His eyes glinted,
he held hard, crying out, “Comrade! You
aren’t—”

The doctor shoved open the door a
moment later. Hornbill had collapsed;
he had to be pushed aside for the exam-
ination of the body.

“Yes, at last,” said the doctor, stand-
ing up and shaking his head slowly.
“Burst a blood vessel. I always told him
that violence—”

“Shut up!” screamed 'l'fornbill, his dumb

eyes suddenly ablaze; a quiver tore
through his tense old frame, he sprang
for the doctor—4nd fell, senseless, his

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Chapter ll.—A Vest-Pocket Farm.

The Johnstone apartment hotel on
Forty-fourth street has a reputation. No
yOung fellow (or old one, for that mat—
ter), ever secured a suite of three rooms
for less than a hundred a month within
its calm and respectable limits. Econo-
mists figure that a family man cannot
safely spend more than one—sixth of his
income on rent; but Sidney Edgeworth
was no economist; though he had studied
both the politicaland social ends of econ-
omy at Harvard, he had passed gaiiy
through the subject, delightfully ignorant
of the means. That’s why, with an in-
come of only five hundred dollars a
month, Sidney dared try living at the
Johnstonc; but then, he was not a fam-
ily man. Through college he had re-
ceived the same allowance and sonic—
times had managed a yearly saving of
three hundred dollars, which went for a
horse or a week’s fun New York, it
being his principle never to have any-
thing left over to remind him of the old
year. -

Now, fresh from college, with the fu-
ture all ahead of him and most of this

in

world's knowledge behind him, Sidney
Edgcworth was spending his first sum-
mer in New York. Of course, it was
hardly the proper thing to do; nobody

stays in New York City summers, except
street car conductors, bakers, bar—tend-
ers, gas inspectors, street cleancrs, busi-
ness men with families at the beach, and
that sort of people—four million of them.
Most of the fellows were at Newport,
abroad, or pleasure—rcsorting somewhere.
Sid lidgeworth (no one ever thought of
calling him Sidney) stayed in town be—
cause he was looking for a job. Few of
his friends ever called it that; he was
seeking a business connection, looking

for an opening.
It’s very ditllcult work to search for
employment in the summer when one

has already iivc hundred dollars a month
roof garden On every corner
within a half—mile radius of home. But.
Sid did his best; once he found himself
within thrce miles of the sacred precinct
of \Vall Street, the most suitable spot
for job-hunting among the: feIIoWs of his
set, but he met an old chum on the Sub—
way and had to bet draggcd back tip-town
to a cool grotto where men founder and
On the face of it the thing seem_

and finds a

gorge.

ed simple. All the time in the world
and five hundred dollars a month with
which to look for work. Strange he did

not find it—and almost two months gone
by—he mustn’t idle through life, it
wasn’t the proper thing to do; he must
at least have his name down somewhere
as fourth or fifth vice-president in some-
thing. If he had capital, how casy it
would be; but there was not a cent be-
hind Sidney Edgeworth beside his allow-

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘

ance; and that was a thing problematical,
though ‘he had come to think it sure as
the sun.

Tired and disgusted, after a hard day,
(in which he had risen at ten o’clock.
breakfasted at eleven, lunched at three
with a friend who also thought of going
into business, and found no opportunity
awaiting him when he went home at sev-
en to eat alone in his rooms), Sid sat
rolling his after-dinner cigar re-ilectively
between smooth, unsullied fingers and
making faces at Fate.

There came a ring at the bell. Soft-
footed Roberts answered and Sidney did
not even ‘look up expectantly when his
man (allow a chap at least one luxury!)
returned and held back the curtains to
the dining-room, a tramp of heavy feet
following.

A big, bluff fellow, broad-faced and
flushed, pushed paSt Roberts and rushed
up to Sid with eagerly extended hand.
He was followed by a bilious-looking lit-
tle chap in his early twenties, though he
had bored himself long and consistently
into looking fully thirty.

“Hello old Sideral," exclaimed the op-
en-handed one, bearing down on Sidney
Edgeworth, who had pushed his chair
back and was getting to his feet, a wel-
come ready, “still star-gazing?"

“It was never the stars,” corrected
young Edgeworth, “my tastes are plebe-
ian; any little girl in the back row of the
chorus would do for me, if I were inter-
ested in them at all.”

“But they tell me you're looking for a
job—”

“Looking, yes! But still through the
wrong end of the opera glass, I fear.”

"The original pessimistic pup," grin-
ned the other, beaming down on Sid with
a mixture of the fraternal and paternal
in his wide, tooth—gleaming smile.

The little fellow followed in, pulled his
baby—mouse: inuatachci ireilectivcly and
said, with weighty lightness, “Ah, hello,
Sitieral." He slumped, backboneless,
to a chair, dangling his leg over one arm
and his stir-k over the other.

Sid acknowledged the greeting perfunc-
torily and turned again to the beamy—
faced one. “You just came back?”

“305‘. back to work, too.”

“Some chaps are unlucky.’ put in the
dawdling gentleman, clothes-pinned on
the chair.

“in almost call it luck if I had some-
thing to do,” said Sid, still addressing
the bigger fellow; “what’s your work,
Jim?”

“Going to run a construction gang for
the gmxernor—mut in Yonkers. Begin to-
n‘iorrow.”

“Oh, lovely!” echoed the languid one.
“I always did say it shows much finer
character for a follow to be constructive
than destructive. But I hardly know
what one should be—in Yonkers, you
know.”

“He shouldn’t be—in Yonkers,” put in
Sid. “But tell me, Jim. is there a future
in that sort of thing? I suppose it’s nice
to be mechanical and have a mission in
life and all that—4 shall never forget the
time you tinkercd with my motor and got
'hcr to going. I wonder—my watch's
stopped, could you fix it?”

Jim laughed. ”That kind of knowledge
won’t help me in putting up big apart—
ment. houses. I’ve got to know how to
handle men.”

“()h, man-handling?” said Sidl lidly,
raising; his big brown eyes thoughtfully,
“l'vo road of it in Jack London‘s stuff.
How’s it really done? Is it like being
the coxswain of the crew? I’ve often
thought I could he that; you know all
one has to do is to sit in the boat and

in—

ycll, though I suppose it's a bit hard on
onc’s throat.”

“No, Sidcral,” laughed .lim, looking in-
to the carncst big eyes, “it’s like being

stroke of the crew; you've got to set the
pace in actual labor.”

“Oh, I shouldn’t care for that at
Said Sid, “that’s too much like—”

“IVork?” supplied the languid one, hip-
ping at his mustache as though he
liked it.

“Yes. Exactly,” agrced Sid faltering-
ly, pulling his brows together into a
frown and asking, “But, Jimmie,
isn’t there something I could do in
business of yours? You know, over-see-
ing, offering suggestions, or some-thing
like that? I couldn't mix in with your
dagoets—I never could stand the smell of
garlic.”

“You might be time-keeper.”

“Time! Oh, I could never keep that;
I’m always wasting it and losing it. Be-
sides, there’s no advancement; time just
rolls along, much the same every day."

(Continued on page 372).

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If you will fill out the coupon, tell me how many head of stock WW

you have, and mail it to me today, I’ll send you enough Sal—Vet to last
all your farm animals 60 days. You simply pay the freight charge when ‘
it arrives, and when the 60 days are up report results. If Sal-Vet does not « Q9

do all I claim -—if it does not rid your stock of deadly stomach and free
"9°" res“ tsméofi‘iisdirég 33:31.3 313332338332 I intestinal worms—I’ll cancel the charge—you won’t owe me one penny. : w

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“You need not crack up your ‘Sal Vot’
to me. I have seen it and its use-tells
the story for itself. My experienceflfilfiu
that Worms and ‘Sal Vet’ cannot livawin '
the same place. I am enclosing chem.

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Worms are the cause of 90% of live-stock losses. They kill I’ll Save ‘

your sheep and hogs, stunt the growth of your lambs, pigs, calves

and colts, and keep all stock in a weak, run-down, money-losing ’, y
condition. According to government reports, the losses caused by ~ ' I, save l ‘
worms in stock amount to millions of dollars every year. You Will ’

be surprised to find what your share of this big loss is. It will more ' I, save '

than pay your taxes every year, even though none of your animals

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I want you to see with your own eyes just what Sal-Vet will do for your
farm animals before you pay me one penny. You have nothing to lose, but
everything to gain, for if the Sal—Vet I send you don’t rid your stock of stomach
and free intestinal worms during this 60 days’ trial test, you won’t owe me one
k food. It is a wonderful MEDICATED SALT
containing just the things animals crave to rid themselves of worms. It requires
no doping, no drenching, no mixing, no starving. You simply place it Where
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for the shipment and want to Say-that no expelled worms from these by the dozen. west or me on aidJoinlng (am, lost about been feeding their hogs with other nem-
honest man can get around paying for Since then they are doing fine, haVe bet- 40 hogs and pigs with cholera. The one edies and their hogs have been dying
‘Sal Vet‘ other .m m on W tot-appetite: and (bod is doing them more east on udjoinint farm, lost all he had right alorig, while I have not lost a

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J, H. sweeps, numb. Mich. (Signed) C. M. NONWEILER, A. J. HOFFMAN, Lerlpsic, Ohio. 1). s. JONES, Venedocia, o.
“I ‘mi'gt say I had good results 1mm Boonville, Indiana. “Have been feeding ‘Sal Vet’ for the “i am well pleased with ‘Sal Vet.‘ Since
' using ‘su Vet} Hy stock hosts are do- “Have fed ‘Sal Vet’ to hogs and lost past 60 days. and am much pleased to feeding it my sheep look so well that
' lng._fi_ne. I have also fed ‘SIJ Vet' to 3. none. Neighbors both sides of me—east say that my pigs did better this winter they are the talk of the township."

btwchtrol pigs just beginning to eat. I and westfihave had cholera bad. One than ever before. My neighbors {have E. L. POWERS. Clio. Mich.

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THESE MEN 0

They are recognized as the leading American
authorities on the breeding and feeding of live-
stock and their diseases. They are conserva-
tive men, of wide experience, who would not
endorse any remedy of doubtful value, and who
use and recommend

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“Please send us two barrels
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”no-B. Snead,
The Eminent Authority on Live
Stock Diseases, says:

“As a stock tonic and worm
remedy I do not hcsitatc to say
that Sal-Vet is unsurpassed by
any compound l have over giv- I

ore You [y

Worms steal the animal’s food, suck the blood and sap
ve your Hogs the life, strength and vitality of your stock. They keep your
farm animals thin, scrawny, half-starved—no matter how

V9 VOUI'Sheep much you feed them, they don’t gain flesh. The pests

can’t be removed by ordinary means. When cholera breaks

lie your read out in your neighborhood, wormoinfcsted animals are the first

to take the disease and die.

qu It 0" No Pa! Stock filled with worms can’t gain—they can’t put on money-making

flesh. Their food does them no ood. The are money losers, instead of money makers;
the .only hope lS'tO GET RID F THE ORMS. I’ll do it for you quickly without
\\ ‘\\ W asking you to nsk one penny if you will simply mail me the coupon today. I'll
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Gonditio'm',

"Your Sal-Vet saved my hogs. Many “I am feeding Sal-Vet and find it is
other herds all around me died from without doubt the best medicine forhogs
I ever saw. It is ridding my hogs of

en a trial; and as you well
know, my business as veterinary
editor of the National Stock-
man and Farmer and the Tri-
bune-Farmer of New York re-
quires me to test many tonics
and remedies for animal ail-
ments."

L. H. Coach
Editor Practical Farmer, Phil-
adelphia, says:
uIn order to have reliable data.
before expressing my opinion
about Sal~Vet.I gave it to twenty-
one cows in their food for a
month. Eight others were given no Sal-
Vet at this time. At the end of thirty
days' test, the 21 cows that had been
iven Sal-Vet showed a tone and condi-
ion of health that was really remarkable
In my experience feeding‘ this topic to
horses also, I can only speak ofit in the
words of highest praise. I am satisfied
that Sal-Vet is a wonderful vermlfuge

and tonic for horses."

 

 

 

Roscoe M. Wood,
Secretary of The Standard De-
laine Merino Record. Saline,
Mich., says:

“We have found a worm pre-
ventive in Sal-\‘et' when prop-
er conditions of pasture are

hog cholera, but mine are still all
_ . worms by the hundrcd, and I am rccom- ' .: , ' ' . .
healthy. I can att'rlbu’te their escape to mending it to my neighbors, several of maintamtfdf fluf‘lllt és lkwt CE”
nothmg but Sal-Vet. ——R. B. renske, whom have decided to fccd it too.”— Sum”) 0 01k 110 00< SO t 63’
Hoyt, Kans. Walter Gray, 1{_ No. 4' Huntsville, Mo. can eat all they want and have
no other salt. We have found

this preparation ccononiical to
use under all conditions."

J. 6. Duncan, W ‘
President of the American ‘
Shropshire Registry ,
Association, says: ;

“Last summer I used Sal-Vet K , .
exclusively on a bunch of lambs '.
which had no other treatment
for worms. I am positively sure
that these lambs are entirely
free from worms of any kind.
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Your biggest losses come from wasted feed and the failure of your animals

.0 get the good of What they eat. Don’t wait until your animals are sick and iii}; Sé‘é’éheéiviii‘émiie 235311.12. <1" ,
treatment, as well as other

dying before you commence to rid them of worms. “An ounce of preven—
tion 18 worth a pound of cure.” I’ll put every animal on your place in the
pink of condition—make them worm-free, thrifty profit—producers. You
can’t afiord not to accept my 60—day offer to feed all your stock, since the
Sal-Vet I send you won’t cost you one penny, if it fails to do what I claim.

. Beware of lmitations!

You Can’t Get Results Like These with lmitations of SAL-VET

remedies. I sincerely believe
that ‘Sal‘Vet’ is a vermlfuge that shou
by all good stockmen."

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Robert J. Evans,
Secretary American Duroc
Jersey Swine Breeders‘ As-

sociation and Editorof the
Duroc Bulletin says:

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In my travels I find hundreds
of Our peo 1e usin Sal-Vet ' and
have yet to ear the nut complaint from
any user. On the other hand, I have neard
many most complimentary remarks con-
cernin its efficacy as a worm destroyer,
digest ve and conditioner. One romi-
nent Ohio sheep man told me that ehud
tried man such remedies. but that "Sal-
Vet” ha never failed him. Our Duroc
men are using it With excellent results."

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“Enclosed find check for the 531- “Ship us at once another 3oo-lb. “Before I got your Sal—Vet my
Vqt you sent me. It has more than barrel of Sal-Vet. We find it an hogs were in bad shape *al‘flicted
paid for itself“ I have not 195t a invaluable asset to successful sheep with a terrible cough and had no state Experiment stafims
smgle lamb thls summer, While a. farming. Every sheep on our place appetite. After feeding Sal-Vet for “We have b on , S 1 V f 1
year 380 the worms killed $200 IS in excellent, thrift condition.” three weeks, you would not rccog- e m, t tll tth tUStlgg a- at or he PP“ twg
wolrthMofl'my 1limbs. —-Frank Wore k—Geo. _McKerrow & ons, I’ewau- nizc the animals as the same bunch. it ethic £00; resfltsruwe’ lgiearsiczggdev’iyiih iilwrigir
re , ar mg, 0. cc, Wis. -—L. P. Raymond, Malcomb, Iowa. lambs have been quite free from serious parasitic trou-

ble, and as the Sal-Vet has been fed faithfully durin
the period mentioned, we consider it a vermifugc o
consxderable merit.——-—John M. Evvard, Experimentalist,
Iowa State College.

Sal-Vet‘is also used and endorsed by the experi-
ment stations in the following states:

OHIO, TENNESSEE, NORTH CAROLINA,
TEXAS, IDAHO, CALIFORNIA, OKLAHOMA,
CONNECTICUT AND ALABAMA.

The phenomenal success of Sal-Vet has brought out a number of imitations, claiming to be the same
or as good as genuine Sal-Vet. Some copy the name very closely. This is done to deceive you. Look at
the name care/idly, see how it is Spelled, and accept no worm destroyer and conditioner, that does not have
our trademark on every package, drum, keg or barrel.

Sal-Vet is prepared from a secret formula under the direction of Mr. Sidney R. Fell, Registered /
Pharmacist. Medicines improperly mixed are not safe. Don’t take chances, especially when you can try
the genuine SAL-VET (usedand endorsed by practically. all_great breeders, feeders and agricultural
college experiment stationS) Without risk. Costs nothing if it falls and very little if it proves satisfactory. P R I c E 8
Send the coupon NOW. ‘

40 lbs., $2.25; 100 lbs, $5.00; 200 lbs., $9.00;

goo lbs., $13.00';_500 lbs., $21.12. boecial discount
or large quantities. No orders filled for less than

5" . :_ - , j ' f ‘ 0 lbs. Never sold in bulk; only in Trade-Marked
| , s ,. e ,, _ _ , eve an . al-Vet Packages.
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370 (22)

THE BANK OF GOOD DEEDS.

BY ARTHUR W. PEACH.

Our little kindlv deeds seem often vain
So swift the busy days go by.

And every hour brings opportunities
Another’s need to satisfy.

But every kindly act and helpful word
ls like a coin, new—minted, bright,

Such as a child drops in its treasure bank
That hides it quickly from his sight.

Thus may we fancy life‘s small deeds
are coins
Dropped in the bank the Master keeps;
Not one is lost beneath ,llis watchful
care
Though long within the dark it sleeps.

Sometime, His hand will take the bank
of deeds
And open it before our sight;
And there before us we. ourselves, shall
see '
Our kindnesses shine in the light.

But little of earth’s gold can many have,
And often with it comes great care:
But he who treasure has in kindly deeds
The wealth of Paradise may share!

 

LITTLE FARM FABLES.
BY AUNT QUILLIA.

Greed and Its GrueSOme End.

A herd of swine, having devoured the
last ear in a large crib of corn, set up
such a squealing as to render life into]-
erable for a farmer and his family. More-
over their attitude was so belligerent that
the farm hand refused to enter their
pen, declaring that he would risk neither
life nor overalls within reach of their
ravenous months.

And so, for the safety and sanity of all
concerned, as well as for hygienic rea—
sons, they were transported to a distant
field of clover.

This was an ideal spot for either pig
or poet, but in this case it appealed to
nothing but the most depraved of appe-
tites, hence no time was lost in congrat-
ulating themselves on the happy change
nor in thanking their lucky stars for such
deletable feeding grounds, but, instead,
they fell at once to mangling and biting,
pushing and crowding one another. each
in mad greed fighting ’to secure for him-
self the largest share of pasture.

Not content with the stems, leaves and
blossoms of their flowery feast, they
soon set about uprooting the rich earth
with their wretched snouts and, with
reckless hoofs, began trampling the
l‘looming meadow until it was no longer
a thing of beauty but a. desolate expanse
of unsightly acres.

Long before the time for a new crop of

' corn had arrived the last vesturc of ver—

dare. had disappeared. Meantime the
summer sun had dried up the, little brook
that purled through the meadow. until
shoat after shoat, and adult porkci' after
porker, had succumbed to hunger and
thirst and had lain down to die.

In the midst of this appalling Situation
a bouncing old 'Hcrkshire managed, with
her last breath to gasp. “Reminds me of
an old saying I often heard in youth. My
owner, an English dairyman, used to go
among his maids cxclaiming, ‘Milk the
cow, lassie, but don’t pull off the udder.’

“\Yc. poor fools have done both.”

A YOUTHFUL INSTITUTE LECTURER.

 

This enthusiastic farm boy, a member
of a boys’ corn club, sewcd a young corn
plant to a piece of black cloth, later tak—
ing it ten miles to a farmers‘ institute to
demonstrate the necessity of shallow cul-
tivation. The longest! root was 42 inches
in length.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘

CONNECTING A WEIGHT CLOCK TO
AN ELECTRIC ALARM BELL.

BY 1. G. BAYLEY.

1f the clock is wound reglarly, it will
be noticed that the weight reaches a. def-
inite point at certain hours each day. If
an ordinary electric push button is plac—
cd upon :t small shelf immediately under
the weight at a distance from it to agree
with the hour desired to awake, the
weight will hear down the push button,
closing the circuit and ringing the bell.
Such an arrangement is shown in the
cut, where A is the clock, B the bell, C
the batteries, and I) the push button.
To prevent the clock from stopping a]-
together, or to avoid any accident to the
clock on account of the sleeper not get-
ting tip when the push button is reached
by the weight, a sliding arrangement can
very easily be made as detailed at E, and
F. A shelf, shOWn in detail at E, made
of two pieces of wood nailed together at
right angles, the vertical piece being a.
little wider than the shelf or horizontal
piece, and having \'—shaped edge-s cut to
fit grooves in the two cheeks or sides (b,
b), as indicated at F. These side pieces
are nailed to the wall-plate from the far
side. .
The shelf is to slide in the grooves in
these side pieces, the latter being so ad-
justed that the weight will hear suffi-
ciently upon the push button to ring the

 

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bell, and at the same time slide the shelf;

downward in the grooves if necessary.
This adjustment can be obtained by op-
ening or closing the sides carefully until
the proper distance apart, when they can
be nailed tight.

IL is of course important that the clock
be wound at regular intervals, say in the
morning, on rising.

The shelf should aim be pushed back
to its correct position at the same time.
This position should be marked on the
inside face of the two sides (1), b).

 

 

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CATALOG NOTICES.

 

The Crosby Frisian Fur (30.. Rochester,
N. 'Y., have just issued a finely illustrat-
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describes in detail the work of this com-
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head mounting. as well as listing a va-
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If there are not enough people in your
neighborhood to get up a club of 10 trial
subscribers, why not write some of your
friends elsewhere? Just read page 378
and see the liberal offers.

 

OCT. '26, 1912.

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Three upeedl forward and reverse, sliding gears. F our-c linder motor, 3%-inch bore and
”6-inch stroke, Bosch muneto. 106-iln'Ch wheel base, 3§x3%-inch tires. Standard color.
black. Trimmings. black and nickel. 32" Roadster. fully equipped.$975 f. o. b. Detroit.
20 ’ H. P. Runabout. fully equipped. 3750 i. o. b. Detroit.

An Axle Built to Stand the Strains
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: (The rear axle of an automo- In this type, the casing or
bile carries most of the load housing of the axle carries
and drives the car. the load; the axle shafts

»Its work is most severe; and drive the car.
it is also subjected to the Each part has its own work to do.

- - Neither is forced to carry the'
Stralns Of travehng over weight and drive the car as well.
rough roads.

And the axle is so strong and sturdy

So it must be strong enough 3:; “amid: "ohsuplg’" 0‘ "“8:

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A CHARACTER. SKETCH.

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~ BY E. s. CRAWFORD.
_It was just before Decoration day“ The

wind had died down during ‘the'night‘

until not even a leaf stirred. As the sun
roSe higher‘and higher it became bright—
er and brighter, and hotter and hotter,
until the heat in the corn-field became
alm0st unendurable.

Slowly, very slowly, George follows the
marks, back and forth across the field,
stabbing each hill of corn with a. slow
but clock-like regularity. As he finishes
the row he throws his planter carelessly
against the fence, pulls his Ingersoll from
his pocket and examines its face minute-
ly. “Eleven o'clock,” he mutters. “If I
don’t hurry I’ll not have to make only
two more rounds. Gee! But it is hot!
Say, ain’t I glad the old rushing boss
went to the house. Guess ’twas too hot
for the like of him."

“'ith these spoken thoughts George
shambles alongside of the fence to the
shade of a nearby oak tree, takes from
a more shady spot'a large brown jug
and. lifting it high above his head, pro-
ceeds to let the once cool water trickle
down his parched throat. Having thus
refreshed himself bodily and dampened
the dust in his larynx, he returns the
jug to a sun—freed spot and glances over
the fence toward the house in a long-
drawn—ou-t gaze.

Finally, he- allows his eyes to return
to the jug. only to take a second pull at
it. Thus doubly refreshed, he returns to
his fallen planter, picks it up from the
ground and examines its contents. “Guess
I'd better have some more corn," he mut-
tcrs. George, thereupon, leisurely saun-
ters to thr- inviting shade of the oak,
dragging both his feet and the planter
after him.

Prior to filling the planter with the
highly hrized shed corn he takes a third
helping at the jug and. therewith washes
another mud pic into his digestive ma-
chine, all unmindful that it had already
commenced to call for better care.

With a continuance of the snail—like
movements, he fishes from his pocket the
cheap timepiece and looks long and lov—
ingly at it. Whether it was the face in
the case, or the speed of the second hand,
or the nearncss to the mid-day hour that
absorbed his attention remained a quan-
dary. Anyway, he mutters, “How slow
the time goes. “'cll, I must have an-
other drink.“

As George replaces the jug in the most
s'hady spot obtainablc, the planter falls
to the ground. For several minutes
George looks at the fallen planter and
the spilled corn. Finally, he looks all
around and, seeing only neighbor Brown's
hogs rooting under a large willow tree by
the roadside, he pulls a small handful
of grass over the corn—bedecked sod and
picks up what appears to him an instru-
ment of torture——tlie planter.

Just as he finishes filling it the second
time, refreshing himself from the jug for
the tenth time, and examining his face
in the glass of the watch for the seventh
time, the sound of the dinner bell comes
ringing across the field. \Vith a whoop,
George's snail-like movements are no
more ‘.lS he picks up the now empty jug,
bounds lightly over the high rail fence
and starts for his mid-day meal. Little
attention or thought is given to the fact
that neighbor Brown‘s hogs are then pass—
ing through the open gate into the corn
field for a mid-day lunch, and that be-
fore he returns a major portion of the
coveted seed corn will have been spilled
or catch.

THE CUB AND THE FORMULA.
(Continued from page 366),

apparently from the clear sky, and re-
pcatcd at frequent intervals.

After listening in astonishment to this
strange sound for several minutes one
of the men halloed and was promptly
answered by a burst of muffled but un-
mistakable Teutonic expletives and ap-
pcals.

“That sounds like old man Hornber-
ger himself!" exclaimed Frank Mitchell,
the one who had halloed. “Hey, is that
yOu, Tink?” he called.

“Yah' Yahl" came the answer in ag-
cnized tones “I was up on der roof!
Come up and get me quick! Der ladder
is by der back door!”

Three minutes later half a dozen men,

were on the roof, bending over Tink who

still sat where he had first dropped, with.

his back against the coping.

“Tell me quick— Katie—was she tall
blowed up?”

“No, she’s all right,” Frank Mitchell
assured him. “She was over at Mrs.

. position too long.

’fl'fi‘l—W’fi a»: Y» At

10-111 42nd

"THE. MICHIGAN FARMER.

Kast’s house at the time of the explo- TOILER IN THE FIELDS so BARE. I

sion.”

”Und der shop?"

‘fVanished completely. But what are
you doing up here on the roof? We
thought you were dead and have been

hunting for you all the afternoon. Why
don't'you get up?"
W‘Get up! 1 can’d get up! What you

think, dot I sit here all der afternoon if
I could get up!"

It was only too true. As before stated,
the store roof was covered with a coat
of tar, topped with gravel. This was
several years old and had hardened, but
the spot where Tink had sat down had
been repaired. at short time before with
fresh tar and this had softened under the
hot August sun until it resembled—well,
soft tar. Tink, alas, had remained in one
The for had had time
to take hold and had held him fast. all
the afternoon in spite of his frantic ef-
forts. to free himself.

It took the united efforts of six men
to pry him loose from his position, and
then with such disastrous results that a.
boy had to be dispatched to Tink’s home
for another pair of trousers before the
old gentleman could again descend to the
ground.

“Where was Teddy bear gone?” he
cried as seen as his feet were firmly
planted on terra firma once more. “He
climb down der ladder, und I see dot he
eat his bread und milk, but now where

he gone?"
A hasty search of the little court
brought no trace of the bear, but foot—

prints in the dust of the alley showed
that he had clambered over the rear wall
and made his escape.

The arrival of Mrs. Hornbetrger at this
juncture put a stop to further search for
the time being; she reached the scene out
of breath and full of apprehension. Hav-
ing heard thatvhen husband had been
found on the roof of his store in a help-
less condition, but living, and being un~
dcr the firm impression that he had been
in his shop at the time of the explosion,
she could arrive at but one conclusion as
to how he had reached the roof.

“There, you ol’ fool,” she panted after
she had recovered sufficient breath for
speech, “now mebbe you will be satisfied
to come by your store like a gentlemen’s
and ’tend your bus’ness, instead of wait—
ing to be all blowed up there by der ex-
plosion! Was you hurted anywhere?”

“Nein.” answered Tink mournfully,
”but der shop und der formula und ef-
ferything was all blowed’ up und gone
and we was a poor man ,alreraxty.”

“\Vell, if you'd stay byfi‘der store where
you belong, it wouldn’t—" began Mrs.
Hornbergcr.

”Yah!” screamed Tink,
umphant finger under her nose. “\\'here
was you? W'here- was you‘.‘ If you'd
stay by your house where you belong, it
wouldn’t have happened alreatty!"

“Hi there, Mr. Hornberger," yelled a.
shrill voice as a young lad came- squirm—
mg through the crowd that now tilled the
little court yard, “come quick! My dog‘s
got your bear up a tree!”

“Oh, my gootness!" gasped Tink.
“Don'd lct noddings happen to Teddy!
\Vhere was he? Take me to him quick!”

Followed by the crowd the boy soon
reached tho tree where a dozen excited
dogs were barking and leaping upward
at a very much frightened little cub bear,
who trembled in the crotch of a. limb.

The dogs were quickly bcatcn off and,
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were sent up into the tree with a rope.
After several attempts they succeeded in
dropping '1 loop over the bear’s head.

The little fellow made a desperate ef~
fort to escape and in the scramble that
followed an object was dislodged from
the crotch of the limb and fell at Tink's
feet.

“Oh. by golly!” cried the excited Ger—
man. “It was dcr lcedle note book! lt
was der formula!"

The book had evidently been blown high
into the air by the force of the explosion,
and in coming down had lodged in the
trcc. \Vhilc it was quite badly battered
from its expcricncc the writing was still
legible.

“And yoost think," said Tink to his
wife in the privacy Of their home: that
cvening, “if I‘d caught leodle Teddy up
dcr on dcr roof like I was trying, he
would never have climbed dot tree, und
you und 1110 would be yoost poor folks
und ruined, instead of being rich und
wealthy and going by a visit to der Ol'
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372 (24)

BRAMBLE HILL.

(Continued from page 367).

“Oh, there’s advancement all right. We
could start you at eighty dollars a month
and if you cut down expenses consistent-
ly, didn’t keep men idling about when
you could get along with a shorter shift,
I dare say you’d be getting ninety before
the end of the year.”

“0h,” said Sid blankly.

“But are you honestly looking for real
work, old Sideral? Somehow it doesn't
seem natural; it’s like a deep—sea diver
asking for a steeple—jack job. Drop that
seriousness, it isn‘t like you to be so
concerncd*about anybodywmuch less
yourself.”

“\\'cll, it's like this,” Sid motioned Jim
to Sit down, pushing toward him a long
red box of cigarettes. “I think it’s more
or less the proper thing, to work, you
know. Everybody does it, after a fash—
ion, and those who don't, worry. Now if
1 had an income like Doodle there,” he
leveled his finger at the gentleman who
insistcd on treating his mustache as the
maltese does her catnip, “if I could keep
three polo ponies and go in for amateur
ucronauting, keep a racing stable of air—
ships, you know, I wouldn’t be bored.
iut a man gets tired of this sitting
around, you know.”

“It nevor tirt-d you much at college,”
put in Jim.

“()h, 1 say." remonstratcd Doodle with
a draw] much more affected than his
usual one, “a man cahn't get tired at
Ila’vard, there’s tea at four evcry day,
you know—and tennis, for the athletic
ones.”

Jim laughed. “I'm glad you haven’t
lost that little cynicism of yours, lloodlo;
it’s a good deal like a newspaper man‘s
Wit; but you know old Sidoral hcre was
iicycr onilc that kint.”

“Unly lit-cause he didn’t like tea and
found tciinig fatiguing,” remarked lloodlc,
pulling back his mustache quickly as
thtugh he had missed it much in the
Illtll‘llt'illt of effort.

"oh, you follows make me tiret, ex-
claimed Sid. “I'll admit I wasn’t much
(it, collcgc, but i was ncycr a sissy, own
if I did waste my timc. But hcrc‘s the
rub! You know where that blcsscd al—
lowancc of mine comes from?”

“Yt‘s.”

“Well, thr- taciturn old gentleman who
givcs it to inc, grandfather in name only,
as Laura Jean Lililwy must how: it, is
getting on in ycars. llc. doesn‘t like me.
You remcmbcr the only mcssage I had
from him during my four ycai‘s, outside
of the alll'\\ul't'(, which came i'cgularly
through his lawycr‘f"

“ch, illt“ lawyer's name was ’Ncwt
I’lumf l ll‘llltilllilt'l” that Vcry wcil; think
of it' .‘x’t'yst l’l'util" '\\'hcn lloodlc had
niai-agxcd to master his (njoyn'icnt lic con-
tinutd. “Yes, 1 l‘t‘llllOlllil‘i‘l' something
about that message; it was in answer to
a wire asking grandfather it‘ yoti were
to spcnd your holidays with him; your
t'i'cshman ycar, wasn‘t it? \Vhat did he
say in rcply'.’ I always thought it was
prctty good, Voltaire being dead.”

“His answer icad. ‘ch, Christmas is
unming,”‘ said Sidney slowly, recalling
lllt‘ tcft'tgram, “ ‘bnt you arcn’t.’”

“,l’retly good!" laughed Jim. “Sort of
an old sour-bill, isn’t ho?”

“ch, meaning no disrcspcct to the old
devil, ho is.” answcrcd Sidney fervcntly.
“l haycn’t any kick coming, though. ilt’s
done more for inc than anybot'ly else, but
I can‘t be altigcthcr thankful and a
groyclling \yoim, you know; he does it
with sin-h dcuced poor grace. It isn’t me
he’s doing it for, anyway. it's just that
my father always wanted mt- to have a
good education, which my grandfather
dcnicd hint, thinking he ought to stay in
Turtle Creek and grow cabbages. Last
time 1 saw grandfathcr, six ycars ago,
he said he hopcd he’d nevcr see my face
again; didn‘t like boys in general—me, in
particular. Told me to come and call on
him if I evcr got any sense and came to
be a senator or anything.”

“l"i'e'tty strong,” whistlcd Jim.

"\Vell, he was a good sport when I was
left alone; a your latcr; communicated
with me through his lawyer and said
he’d see me through collcge. Blew him-
self. Conscicnce money, I guess. Sup—

pose the allowance has got to be a habit
with him now. But he may cut it off;

that’s why I’m looking for work. Be-
sides, therc’s a girl in Turtle Creek; he’s
sort of Jord of the manor there, you
know. The girl’s a kind of foster niece
of his, adopted by his sister’s husband.
Rollins was telling me the. other day
that he met this girl, Susan Dunlap, at
some dinky little boarding school up
the Hudson. Says she’s all right and
seemed to be in the best set there; it’s

THE MICHIGAN FAR‘MER.

a place where they teach archery and
that sort of thing—one of those fad
schools which, quite mercifully, nev-
er get talked about, you know. The old
gentleman hasn‘t much feeling, but what
little he has is for the ladies. He must
have sent her through school; her foster
father hasn’t any too much money, I
gue‘SS.”

“So that’s the rub. You’re afraid you
won’t inherit the old gentleman’s prop-
erty?” said Jim.

“I haven’t much idea that I will. but
I’m the only immediate relative."

“That’s not so bad,” drawled Doodle,
”providing he hasn’t a hobby and doesn’t
endow a cat hospital, a dog orphan
asylum, or something, you’ve got hope;
and I say, while there’s hope, why
work?”

“Oh, well, out out this seriosity," said
Jim, snapping shut his watch, which he
had been holding open for a reflective
minute. “Life is short, and I have to
begin work tomorrow morning. I’ve- got
tickets for the Broadway Roof; we just
came in to get) you, Sideral. Come
along!”

Sid hesitated.

“I’ve such a lot of things to do,” he
plead.

“\Vhat?”

“\\'cl], there’s—let’s see," his eyes cast
vaguely about the room in search of an
evident duty, “oh, yes, I haven’t sent the
rcccipt yet for my last month’s allowance
and Nathaniel Edgeworth is a stickler
for such details.”

“Don’t make work of that, Sideral, it
should be a pleasure,” coughed Doodle,
his larynx stumbling through an envel-
oping fog of cigarette smoke.

“Then there’s that reccptiori at Van
Alstyn’s to be accepted. I’ve. got to get
some roses for Miss Ycrkecs, she sails
tciuorrmv; then there are all the keys to
this apartmcnt to sort, and oh, such a
lot of things.”

“You ought to have a secretary, such
a mass of work.” said Jim.

“Uh, I say now, got Roberts to do those
Come along with us. Make a
last night of it. Jim begins dying on the
installment plan tomorrow. 1 say, leave
busiucss to Jim and those fifteen—dollar—
a—wcck chaps and drown dull care in the
shallow depths of a Martini,” remarked
Doodle.

“Sir-h a lot of things have accumulat-
ed while I’ve bccn looking for work, you
know,” cxclaimcd Sid. “But I'll go, just
to show you I haven’t become a hard-
shcllcd, crabbcd business man already.
I'm glad you follows aren’t dressed. I
could never got into even a dinner coat
on a hot night like this.”

The trio swung out of tho Johnstonc
and crossed to a snug little cafe on
Forty—second strcct, whcre they met sev—
eral follows and duly drowncd dull care
with each in many Martinis.

Then, with an addition of four to their
originil party. they wcnl to the Broad-
way lloof Garden, arriving just in time
to get a glimpse of do last vaudeville
turn bcforc the ten oft-lot k intermission.

things

During that aiiiilcrs period they saun—
tercd about at the rcar of tho roof, where
a medley of rural attractions were hous—
t-d for the divcrtiscmcnt of patrons.
’i‘hcrc was a miniature farm in the roar
where a pig wallowod in thc (“Xil‘QlllO
rcalism of two—inch mud (strikingly clean
mud, it was) and gccsc and ducks cack—
lcd and clattcrcd on a. very exactly rc-
produccd farm pond, with crystal clcar
water running over a. mirror bed, which
showed the silly yollow l'cct a—splashing.
Behind, was a decidcdly Dutch wind-mill,
and a picturesque French hayrakc leaned
against a log cabin.

(lvor in one corner was a very won-
dcrt'nl farmer in a Knox straw hat and
six—dollar shoes, milking a real Cow into
a sure-cinough pail.

‘1 thought they milked them nowadays
dircct int-o the sterilized bottles at ever.~
so—much a quart,” remarked Sid, ab-
sorbcd in the picture.

"Yes, they milk the cream off first into
the little bottles,” put- in another Har-
vard gciiticiiiain, who had primed his
conversational pump with seven cock—
tails. “They put the cow out to pasture
first, to be quite certain of getting pas-
teurized milk.”

“\Yhy, Sideral,” put in Jim, amid the
groans with which the- facctious gentle-
man’s remarks had been received, “I
thought your grandfather ran a farm
and you were there once?”

“Only once—yes, my luck was with me
when I was young,” answered Sid. “I
didn’t stay long enough to learn the dif-
ference between the cow—bell and the
dinner-bell. I remember rushing in sev-
enteen times in the afternoon we were

there, hoping it was dinner and finding
it was only the cow."

“But doesn’t this remind you of that
richly rural spot: you once graced? Don’lt
the geese recall your childhood days—
whooping cough, goose grease, and pate-
de-foi-gras?” put in Doodle.

“This, gentlemen,” said Sideral, turn-
ing to the fellOWS behind him and wav-
ing a vaguely inclusive hand toward the
vest-pocket farm, “this,_ gentlemen, is
Turtle Creek to the life. List to the cow
softly snipping her succulent cud. The
geese; you will note their frightened
foolish faces and goose flesh. At the
right we have a capitalist in overalls,
demonstrating with a lowly cow how to
milk money from any properly pacified
trust. The milkman is Brigadier General
I-Iornbill to the life, he's my grandfath—
er’s companion, you know. I saw him
milk a cow once; thevmethod is quite
correct, only when the cow swished her
tail and shied away from him he so far
forgot himself as to strike the lady and
remark, ‘Be that as it may, you’ll givo
down your milk or I’ll attach your good-
for-nothin’ hide an’ git an injunction out
ag’inst yer further proceedings.’ ”

"Amiablc old person,” remarked some—
body. “But do they really have wind—
mills like that one on your farm out
west, Sideral?”

Sid still took pride in being the only
westerncr in his set; though his claim
was flimsy, being based solely on his one
bricf visit to that famed farm in Tui“le
Crcek, for he had been reared in Boston
by a happy—go-lncky artist, his father.

“Why, certainly, they have to have
some power to supply all that water to
the creek that runs through the land,”
he replied grandly.

“Uh, I say, they supply water everY-
whore,” remarked Doodle. “Ilere, let's
drop this personally conducted tour to

‘ Turtle (Ircck and gather convivially about

you table, give the merry waiter with
the wocping eye the recognized signal of
distress and quaff right iiicrrily mid song
and jest till the—3'

“Sit down!" Jim pushed him with a
laugh into a chair at the nearest table
and his lvlmersonic flow abruptly ceased
as the grave question concerning his per-
sonal taste in drinkables was suddenly
prt'scnted to him.

They did make! a last night of it, see-
ing Jimmie off on his hazardous sojourn
to the wilderness of 'Yoiilx'eis, giving him
a charm against bear—bites, a bottle
against snake—bites and a handful of col-
lar buttons (bought from a persistent
blind vendor who had trailcd their in—
tricate winding way from one cafe to
another, with much credit to his eyesight)
——the collar buttons to trade off for a
sct of furs with the liidians.

At three o’clock the crowd broke up,
leaving the original trio together OVcr
their fourth “last” glass.

That finished, Jim pushed back ‘his
chair with the remark, “lIaVc to go now.
Don’t know what the governor'll say.
ICxpccts me on the job at eight tomor-
row; in Yonkers, as I have said before."

”Uh, well,” drawled Doodle, “it’s just
the pink of the evening, bttt if you’ve got
to quit I suppose it‘s all right; Sid and
I understand how it is with the laboring
class. But there's one thing, Jimmie, We
must do. I couldn‘t touch an car to my
downy pillow tonight if it were over—
looked. My conscience would stick pins
in my back and I could never face halid-
some old Sideral here again if this duty
were not performed. V’t'e owe it to him,
as a hopeful child of Fate, fathered, fos-
tered and favored by a group of God-
given sons at whose every beckon a star

does fall from the heavens. On behalf

of the Grand Old American Common—
wealth, not to mention the irreproachable
State of Massachusetts——”

“Cut the preamble and state your con-
tention; I’ve got to go,” broke in Jim.

“\\’ell,” said Doodle, “we have with us
tonight a gentleman whom we have base—
ly dragged from duty. He’s a young
man and we hope he does well, you
know. IVith these facts in view, Jimmie,
could you conscientiously close one of
your eyes tonight without seeing Sid
home andvattcnding personally to the
sorting of those many cabinet and closet
keys of his, and would you miss the
pleasure of assisting at the incubation of
his acceptance to' the Van Alstyn’s, not
to mention his acceptahce to the check
sent by his doting grandfather, not to
mention~-"

“Done!” cried Jim, jumping up with
alacrity, possessed by Doodle’s inoculating
frivolity, always cropping out at an un-
seemly hour. “He’d get his acceptances
mixed. We’ll tend to that, eh, Doodle?
Come on!”

“1 say," cried Sid, getting to his feet

OCT. 26, 1912.

and struggling between a laugh and a.
frown, “I’d like to have'you fellows come
home with me and all that.
time you took it upon your manly shoul-
ders to straighten out my affairs I had
a deuce of a time over it. Had to pay
my laundry bill twiCe because I couldn’t
remember if you fellows: had made me
write a, check for it that night or not,
and I didn‘t want to do anything silly,
you know.”

Encouraged by this reminiscence, they
bore him off to the Johnstone. It had
been almost a monthly duty through col-
lege for Doodle and Jim to settle Sid's
perplexities after a celebration and hatch
a fresh batch of troubles for him. Sid
took it so good—naturedly, though he did
swear always, next day, to keep things
straight and thus escape in the future
their solicitous attentions.

They entered Sid’s apartment quietly,
to avoid awakening Roberts, who was
old; though he had a fixed and subser-
vient smile, it was certain he didn't
wholly approve of such proceedings, he
being the only one left to straighten
things out next day. '

They seized upon Sid’s amazing bunch
of keys and began fitting them haphaz-
ard to drawers and things, Sid following
mechanically to remove the keys, drop-
ping them wherever he took them out,
and laughing mttch at the foolishness of
Doodle, who had discovered a sardine-can
key in the kitchen and wouldn’t be hap-
py till he found a lock to fit it. '

“Come,” cried Jim, "we'll write that
letter of thanks to Grandpa Edgeworth
for Old Sidcral, and then we’ll be going.”

Pulling out a bunch of neat, crested

paper Doodle seated himself on an up-.

turned chair before an antique escritoire,
tilted his cigarette like a fare dealer,
cocked his heat far to one side, and in-
dited, as follows, Jim and Sid grinning
suggestions over his shoulder:

“Dear Old Grampz—

Your loving and kind wishes for me,
sent in your charming epistlc, received.
I appreciate them much more than the
mere money you enclosed. In fact, I
threw the money in the waste baskct and
put your kind words in the bank. It was
so like you to send me a grandfatherly
embrace in the letter. I return it by
embracing your check, which I have de-
cided to rescue from the. waste basket
and give to my landlord, just to show
him how kind-hearted some people can
be and how hard-hearted—”

The Slight tightening of Sid’s fingers
on Dondle's shoulder caused him to stop

But last ‘

_. ._-A‘

abruptly and turn to follow Sid's and

Jim’s stare.

Roberts, in a chaste and demure dress- ’

ing-robe, had slipped softly into the room
and, standing at respectful’distancc, bow—
cd gravely to his master, asking: “Did
you see the telegram for you, sir?”

“No! Where is it?” said Sid cart-lessly. '

“I left it on your bed, sir, thinking you
might overlook it otherwise, Sll‘.”

"\Vell, get it, read it, and if it’s any-
thing important don‘t show it to inc—till
tomorrow.”

“Very well, sir

Jim and Doodle, feeling a chilling re-
serve in the old fc-llow’s steady bearing,
and finding his business of no immcdiate
interest to themselves, 'had returned to
the. letter.

“Don’t forget to put in that I’m look-
ing for work,” smiled Sid, Roberts hav-
ing glidcd on into the bedroom and Sid’s
mind being once more. care-free.

“I’ll say." ‘I have just signed a con~
tract with ——’ " Doodle broke off abruptly
and turned irritably as he became sud—
denly conscious of the. restraining influ—
ence of old Roberts again. The cock-
tails wcre on the verge of causing him to
say something very rude when Roberts,
his face quite pale, stammcrcd out: “If
you please, sir, your grandfather is dca< .”

llis trembling hand came: jerking out
and he gave Sid the telegram.

Sid’s eyes took in the message in a
startled stare:

“Nathaniel Edgeworth dead. Come at
once. NEVVT I’LI'M.”

I’loodle’s hand went slowly down; with
a covert motion he slipped the half-writ-
ten sheet into the waste basket, removed
his hit and threw away his cigarette.

Sidney lCdgewort'h stood looking first
at the yellow paper and then at his com-
panions, who dropped their eyes con-
sciously. '

He dropped into a chair, inert, speech-
less. The surprise had shaken off' all
artificial stimulus.

Roberts withdrew quietly. and Jim’s
chums sat stupefied—ashamed.

(To be continued).

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A Look Into a Mexican Home—How the
Famous Tortilles and F rijoles are Prepared. '

happy until Americans entered
their country and stirred them to
discontent. Now they will never behap—
py again,” declares Mrs. Frank 1. Mc-
Allistcr, a Michigan woman who has

THE Mexican working classes were

spent eight years in the Mexican capital]

“The magazine articles and stories rela—
five to their misery and abuse are mis-
leading. They were not hard—worked,
had enough to eat, and if they were ever
in need of money could always borrow it
from the ‘lWon‘ on whose hacienda they
lived. And it' they never paid it back it
did not matter. But a few malcontents
have gone about instilling the seeds of
dissatisfaction and the happy, carefree
life of the natives is a thing of the past.”

There will be plenty, who, having
drawn their View of the case from highly
colored stories of oppressed peons, will
doubt this View of a woman who spent
eight years of her life among the Mexi-
cans and who speaks Spanish like, a na—
tive. But her story of the life of the
women of the working classes is enough
to make the hardworking northern wom—
an turn green with envy. Imagine living
in a land of sunshine and flowers, with
no horsework to speak of except prepar—
ing the meals, and the rest of the time
to spend with your birds and flowers and
i‘aneyWork! To be sure, there is little
housework to do, because there isn’t
much of a house to keep. One or two
rooms with dirt floors and no rugs to
beat “cold decidedly simplify matters,

children slumber peacefully on straw mats
on the dirt floor, and no elaborate dishes
to prepare to suit the fancy of hungry
men, you can readily see that the prob—
lem of woman’s work is decidedly simpli—
fied.

The story of a Mexican woman‘s day,
as told by Mrs. McAllister, is one of peace
and poetry. Every home, however hum-
ble, has its birds and its flowers, and the
housewife’s first task in the morning is
to see to her feathered pets and look
after her flowers. Everything grovvs so
luxuriantly there that the plants require
little care cXcept watering, and With
slight effort the homes are filled with
roses, gorgeous geraniums, fuchias and
blossoms in colors and sizes unimagina-
ble. to the northerner. Plants and birds
disposed of, the family is called to “cof-
i‘ce,” this being the name of the early
morning meal.

And here is where the northern farmer
would feel himself aggrieved. Think of
going out to your iorcnoon's work sus—
tained only by a cup or two of coffee and
pastalcs, or sweet bread, as the Ameri-
cans put it! llastales are nothing more
than small cakes of piecrust with sugar
sprinkled on tap, and this, with coffee,
constitutes the only breakfast of every
Mexican family. The coffee is more nour—
ishing than outs, however, as the cup is
two tablespoonfuls of (trip coffee added.
The making of this coffee is an art. Each
family has its drip coffee pot, and the
coffee is made by pouring one tablespoon-

 

 

 

This Gardener Has Carried His Crates of Chickens, Eggs and Vegetables Twenty
Miles Over the Mountains.

even if there were no other points of dif-
ference between their housekeeping and
ours. But when with this you consider
there are no styles to keep up with. no
winter clothes to get ready in the fall
and summer clothes to provide in the
Spring; few beds to make, because the

ful of boiling water Iove-r one teaspoonful
of coffee and letting ihe water drip
through the grounds. In this way all the
strength and flavor of the berry is ex-
tracted. The liquor thus obtained, is of—
ten put into a perfumery bottle in the
poor families, and in this receptacxe set

upon the table. It is two tablespoonfuls
of this to a cup of hot milk which con—
stitutes the Mewican’s breakfast.
Breakfast, or rather, “coffee,” finished,
the men set forth to work in garden or
field and the' women go about the task of
preparing the real breakfast, which is
served at 11 a. m., and is the only mid--
day meal. Frioles, or Mexican beans,
“dry soup,” a salad, tortilles, the Mexi-
can bread, eggs, a joint of meat and a.
sweet must be: prepared, and as the
Mexicans are famous cooks we can read-
ily see they must take plenty of time in

the rice is done.and then served as the
first dish of the meal.

After the dry soup comes the meat
course, which is usually in the form of
a stew, or pucharo. For this a knuckle
of meat is cooked with diced potatoes.
cabbage, carrots, turnips, or any- vege-
tables at hand, the whole flavored with
the moisture which remains on a knife
blade that has been used to cut a garlic.
The knife is passed through the stew.
leaving a suspicion of garlic flavor.

A, salad follows the meat, either let-
tuce alone or with other salad vegeta—

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charcoal is Brought to the Door.

the preparation of their food. The mak—
ing of tortilles is an art in ltsclt‘ and one
member of each family is trained for
this task. But it is more sure than our
complicated breadmaking, for there is
no yeast to worry about and no fear of
getting too hot or too cold during the
raismg process, because, there is no proc—
ess of raising.» The tortilles‘ are. simply
little flat corn cakes. fried a. delicate
brown on a small brazero, or stove. The
corn is first leached, as we (lid for old-
fashioned hominy. Then the soft pulp,
thus obtained, is placed upon a stone ta—
ble with legs so short that the tortilles’
maker must kneel before it to work.
Kneeling "thus she rolls the mixture with
a stone rolling—pin until it becomes a
soft mass, when she takes a bit in her
hand, spats it against the palm of the
other, and then back and forth in the
palms until a flat smooth cake is formed.
The cakes are then dropped on a sheet
of iron on top of the brazero, without the
formality of greasing it first, and brown-
ed on each side as we do our pancakes.
The sound of spatting tortilles can be
heard all over the streets at any hour of
the day, as this corn cake forms the sta—
pie part of the nation’s diet.

Rice soup, or dry soup, as it is called,
forms the first dish of this 11 o’clock
meal. This is made by putting a large
lump of lard in the skillet, and when it
has melted adding one fresh hot pepper
cut in small pieces, a half a sweet pep-
per chopped, a half an onion chopped, one
pint of stock or water boiling, and
four tablespoonfuls of cleaned and wash-
ed rice. This-mixture is cooked until

bles, as tomatoes or cucumbers. For this
the housewife prepares a French dressing
by carefully mixing a half teaspoonful of
salt with three tablevspoonfuls of olive oil
and then adding a sprinkle of pepper and
three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. To pre—
vent curdling, the salt is always mixed
with the oil before the vinegar is added.
Frijolcs, or beans, always form an im—
portant part in the hearty meal of the
day. These are. red, and in appearance
a great deal like our kidney beans. \Vhile
they are dried beans, they are always
new and do not take so long to cook as
our dried beans. In fact, everything in
that country in the line of food is new.
“here a new garden can be made as
soon as one has been used up, there is
no need to keep food stored, so they
haVe no winter vegetables in the sense
We have. The frijoles are cooked much
as we cook navy beans, boiled first in
soda. water, then washed, and boiled in
salted water until nearly done, when a.
little chopped hot pepper is added and
a generous lump of butter. Frijoles form
an important part in the diet of the Mex-
ican. in fact, they are to him what mac-
aroni is to the Italian. And those who
have eaten the beans as cooked in old
Mexico are loud in their praises of this
national dish. Eggs in some form. may
or may not form a part of this noon
meal, which is concluded with a table-
spOOnful of preserves and demi tasse.
The manner of serving the metal would
appeal to most American women. When
the food is prepared it is carefully packed
in a receptable having a compartment for
each course and a. tiny pan of live coals

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m the bottom to keepe verything hot,
and then carried to the men in the field.
If there is a baby the mother takes it on
one arm, picks up her carefully-packed
breakfast in the other, and followed by
the older children sets forth for the spot
where the men are employed. Here the
entire family eat contentedly, and then
lounge and visit for an hour or so dur-
ing the hottest part of the day.

The women sometimes take along the
fancywork at which they are adepts. and
as they sit and gossip their fingers are
busy at the miracles of drawnwork. em-
broidery and Irish crochet for which they
are famous. These articles they sell for
a song when completed, a great deal of
the work finding a market in the cities
of the American southwest. The after-.
noon for the women is devoted mostly to
needlework, as the evening meal is simp-
ly chocolate and more pastales.

The women are very cleanly about their
work and always keep a washbasin of
water on the brazero, or stove, in which
they frequently wash their hands while
preparing the meals. The brazeros in the
homes of the new are of brick, while the
wealthy boast stoves with tops of marble
and sides of tile. Besides the large brick
brazero there are- small ones of pottery
which can be carried about the house,
and on which the tortilles are baked.
Charcoal is the only fuel used. The cook-
ing utensils are of pottery, too, and hang
in orderly array above the hrazero.
Stove, dishes and house are kept im-
maculate.

As the Mexican woman is expert in
lace making and in making drawnwork,
she is also an adept in washing these
(lcliczitc. pieces of handwork. The drawn—
work and large pieces of lace, are al—
ways washed on a frame. These pieces
are always made on frames so there is
no trouble in getting a frame, to wash
them on. They are carefully bested on
the frame, wet well with water and rub-
bed with soap. Then they are set in the
sun and left until dry. If the dirt has
not come out they are taken in, wet and
soaped and again set out and this proc-
ess is repeated until they are clean. Then
they are doused with water until wet all
over and carefully pressed with a medi~
urn hot iron on the wrong side, over a
Turkish toWel doubled four or six times.

The Mexican is simple and kind heart:-
ed, always ready to divide his last tor-
tille with you. lie is fOnd of his animals
and so devoted to them that there are
pools provided for the use of the animals
as bathing places. Even the most hum-
blc peon is artistic. fond of rare paint-
ings. which he has the chance to study
in his cathedral, and appreciatiVe of the
best in music.

DIET.——No. 1.

Rapid Eating and Nerves.

A man was once asked why he worked.
He replied:

“I work to earn money to buy food no
get strength to earn more money to buy
more food to get more strength to earn
more money to l)uy——” but his questioner
was out of sight.

So we all realize that we have- to have
food to get strength to work, or play as
the case may be. Yet. with all the im-
portance of food. which we recognize in
a vague sort of way, how grossly care—
less most of us are about choosing the sort
of foods which will give us most strength
with the least wear and tear on the di—
gestive organs. How few of us know. Or
care, just what food elements the body
needs, or the proportion in which they
are needed. Even physicians, who should
be informed about food values and diet_
ing are, for the most part, as ignorant
as the laymen, or if not as ignorant, at
least as careless. A few are waking up
to the importance of right feeding, and
are training their patients to see that if
they eat right and keep the stomach
right the body will be. provided with good
rich blood. that is. taking it for granted
that the person breathes only pure air
and exercises sanely. and the danger of
disease will thus he averted.

Correct dieting in cases of illness, most
of us know. Vigue-ly, is of as much ben-
efit as medicine. How many of us ever
stop to think that it‘ we had correct diet-
ing in health, half the diseases would be
done away with. because we would be
physically strong enough to throw off
the germs which thrive in impoverished
blood?

A certain physician who is unusually
successful in treating delicate infants
eflfects his cures almost entirely without
medicine. His theory is that unless the
child has an organic trouble it will thrive
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point to the sanity of his belief. Would
it not be well for those of older growth
to apply his doctrine to themselves and
trust to curing many of their ailments
by sane methods in eating?

Half of Women’s troubles come from
bad tempers, caused by nerves, and a
good half of the “nerves” are caused by
wrong methods in eating. This may be
stoutly contradicted by the women whose
“good digestion waits on appetite, and
health on both,” and possibly by the
women who are victims of their own
dyspepsia. But it is nevertheless true.

To begin with, the nervous woman al-
ways eats too fast, one of the rbot sins
Where digestion is concerned.

urging herself on.
ing just ahead
amount of work

of her the

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.‘ V

had often spoken of as being made of
iron, gave symptoms of being composed
of cells, after all. She had always prid-
ed herself on her care in dieting, so she
could not think what was the trouble.
One day in a physiology recitation a great
light broke. Here she had Ior three years
been teaching children the evil effects of
eating too rapidly; and now she could
not imagine what ailed her stomach,
though she had been bolting her dinner
for days. That ended the “rush order
dinners” for one girl, and 1n a few weeks’
time the stomach was back at par again.

There are other hurried women who
would not know themselves in six

She is al—
ways in a mental hurry, ever in thought
There is always loom-
immense
she must get through

months’ time if they would follow this
girl’s example. I know all about the
temptation to hurry the meal. It seems

a pity sometimes that we have to take
time to eat when there is so much work

 

 

 

 

 

A Pottery Peddler with His Wares on His Back. See Page 374.

with, and everything she does is done
in .t hurry, the outward visible act being
accentuated by the “hurry” thought be-
hind it. Shc is in no frame of mind to
digest her food properly, because through
the wonderful network of nerves which
controls her body, her stomach is affect-
cd by the upset condition of hcr mind.
Addcd to this, she. bolts hcr food without

properly .(‘hl_)\\'lllg it, swallows pieces begrudge the time it takes to tire up.
which have never been properly broken If we would but stop to think how
up by the teeth and mixed with saliva. much better we feel after a little rest

The food thus unprtparcd is taken into
a stomach which, because of the nervous
condition of the mind, does not freely
give up its digestive juices, and the first
stops of indigestion are takcn. Instead
of being turned into good hcalthy blood,
the poorly digested food gcnerates poi—
sons which further derangc the nerves.
Suppose this were, the only harm done,
that the woman never ate the wrong sort
oi" food, this thing alone would upset her
Just as an illustration,
3. school teacher who
road from her
all took their
went home to

system.
the case of
boarded just across the
schoolhouse. The children
dinners, and the teacher
get a “good, hot mcal.” But the thought
of possible mischief always made her
wish to hurry back. She rushed across
the street. and into the dining—room as
soon as school was dismissed, and liter—
ally fell upon her dinner with such gusto
that she usually performed the whole
feat of going home, eating a dinner of
soup, meat, potatoes, vcgetables and des-
sert and getting back to school again in
17 minutes! '

After a couple of weeks of this the
young woman began to feel decidedly
uncomfortable. Her stomach, which she

whole
take

piled up ahead of us, but after all,
Mothcr Nature knows the best way to
get results, and it was a wise scheme of
hers to ordain that the human machines
should stop for rest and fuel three times
a day. No one would think at using in-
scnsate machinery as we use our bodies.
\Yc carct‘ully oil and clean and tire our
engines of iron, but the human engine we

and food, how much stronger and fresh—
er we are for work, we would give a full
hour to each meal, instead of the 20
minutes, or at best 30, that We grudg—
ingly “waste” on meat time now.

Let every nervous woman resolve that
she will from now on take time each day
to eat slowly. Let her give at least 16
“chews” to each mouthful of food, if
she will not give the 32 that Gladstone
is said to have given. Even 16 is bet-
ter than what most of us do. Let her
resolve to banish all thoughts of work
from her mind while she is at the table
and give up that time to getting ac-
quainted with her family, and her health
and spirits will rapidly improve. She
may not eat any different food than she
now eats, perhaps she will not eat near-
ly as much. But what she does eat will
be properly assimilated and go for
strength of muscles and of nerves.

There are other things she may do to
help her nervous condition, food to be
cut from the dietary, and some she shuns
now to be added. These will be dis-
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On page 378 you will find an Interest-

 

 

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practical use.

OCT. 26, 1912

 

Anty Drudge Advises Mrs. Oldstyle

Mrs. Oldstyle—“The country looks so fresh and pretty,
. it makes me feel like throwing all my old things
aVvay, they look so dingy. But I guess I’ll have to
try and be satisfied; my mother got along,”

Anty Drudge—“Yes, indeed, your mother did get along;
but that’s no reason why you should! There was
nothing better for her to have, but you can use
Fels-Naptha Soap. It will save your clothes and

make them look fresher. It cleans and brightens

If you boil even a heavy piece of rope
[week after week and month after month, the
rope may look clean; but it won’t be of any
Why? Because the strength
of the fiber has been boiled away.

What woman wants to treat her delicate
cotton, linen or woolen clothes this way?

With F cls-N aptha Soap you do not have
to boil the strength of your clothes away;
you don’t have to rub them to pieces, either.
Fcls-Naptha Soap dissolves the dirt, and it

does this in cool or lukewarm water.
Grocers and general stores sell F els-Naptha. Made in Philadelphig

 

 
   
   
   

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Cattle or Horse hide, Calf, Dog, Deer,
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robes. runs or gloves when ordered.

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from two—thirds of the states and a ma.-
jority of all the states shall be neces-
sary to a choice. And if the house of
representatives shall not choose a'pres-
ident whenever the right of choice shall
devolve upon them, before the fourth day
of March next following, then the vice—
president shall act as president, as in
the case of death or other constitutional
disability of the president. The person
having the; greatest number of votes as
vice-president, shall be the vlcc-prcsi-
dent, if such number be a majority of
the whole number of electors appointed,
and if no person haVe a majority, then
from the two highest numbers on the
list, the senate shall choose the vice—
president; a. quorum for the purpose shall
consist of two—thirds of the whole num—
ber of senators, and a majority 01’ the
Whole number shall be necessary to a
choice. But no person constitutionally
ineligible to the office of president shall
be eligible to that of vice-president of
the United States.

The fact that a majorly of the presi—
dential electors for whom we vote, in—
stead of for a president direct, are re-
quired for the election of a candidate,
makes it quite possible that. in a three-
cornered contest like that of the present
year the canvassing of the returns of the
electoral vote may not result in the
electiOn of any of the candidate's. As
provided by the article in the constitu—
tion above quote, it would then become
the duty of the present House of Rep-
resentatives to proceed to the choice of
a president by ballot. But here again
the method of procedure which is laid
down in the Constitution is such as to
make the result uncertain under exist-
ing conditions.

By the terms of the Constitution each
state has one vote and the candidates
voted for must be confined to the three
persons receiving the highest number of
votes from the electoral college, so—called.
Now, it happens that while a majority
of the present llousc of Representatives
are democratic in politics the democrats
have a majority of the delegations in
Congress fxom only 21 states, while a ma.-
jority of the delegates from 22 states are
republican in party afliliations and the
members from the remaining three states
are equally divided between the two par—
ties. Thus the outcome of an attempt to
elect the president by the, House of Rep-
resentatlves, should no candidate receive
a. majority of electoral votes, is proble—
mzltical, since a majority of all states is
necessary to a. choice.

In the event that no choice is made by
the House of Representatives before the
fourth day of March next following, the
Constitution provides that the vice—pres-
ident shall act as president as in case of
death or constitutional disability of the
president. In the clection of the vice-
president the Senate acts in a similar
capacity, as does the House of Repre-
sentatives in the election of the presi—
dent, in case there is no election by the
electoral college. There is, however, this
difference, that the Senate is limited in
its choice of candidates to the two high—
est numbers on the list as showu by the
electoral vote.

It so happens that it is difficult to forc-
tell what might be the action of the
Senate in this contingency sincc, while
a. majorly of the members of the Senate
are republican in their party affiliations,
there is :1 division in their ranks due lo
the altitude of a number of sorcallcd
“insurgents,” senators who have not act—

ed in accord with their party colleagues

in many cases in rcccnt scssions of Con-
gress. For illustration, when the reci-
procity hearings were in progress in

Washington, the Senate was vainly try-
ing to choose a president protempore,
which was not then accomplished, due to
the tactics of the so-callcd “insurgent"
contingency and, so far as we are ad~

vised, no agreement was reached upon
this point.
Naturally, however, existing conditions

would be likely to cause a different align—
ment of factional forces in the election
of a vice-president, and yet there re—
mains a. degree of uncertainty which
would make the outcome problematlcal in
case this duty should devolve upon the
present .Senate. Of course, any analysis,
'such as the above, is only of speculative
interest, since it is based upon contin—
gencies which may not arise after the
electorate have exercised their right of
franchise in November, but a better un-
derstanding‘ of the Constitutional pro-
visions relating to the election of a. pres—
ident and vice-president would seem to
make the above assumption of premises
and discussion of possibilities worth while.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

National.

The state of Minnesota is laying a plan
embodying a. survey on the part of

 

teachers and pupils of the public schools

and of the pupils’ parents, which is de—
signed to be the basis for effective health
work without the assistance of nurses
and physicians.

I’hilander C. Knox, secretary of state,
reports that he will retire from public
life March 4 next, regardless of the re-
sult of the coming November elections.

It is unofficially reported; that five
United States senators will be called up-
on during the coming session of congress
to dcfcnd thcir seats in that division of
our fu’l‘TflI legislative body. These sen-
ators urc: Dupont, of Delaware; \Vatson
and Clinton, of West Virginia; I’enrose,
of Pennsylvania. and Warren, of VVyom-
mg. The- charges were the result of in-
vestigations by the Clapp committee on
campaign expenditures.

The ocean steamer, Berkshire, caught
fire in her forward cargo hold while en—
route along the coast of North Carolina.
There were 21 passcngci's aboard the ves-
sel. The ship finally succeeded in anchor-
ing at Lookout Cove, near Cape Lookout.
A, strong gnlc- prevented life savers from
rescuing the crow and passengers. If
those on board '1rc- able to hold the fire
in chock until llic storm abzites it Will be
possible to l‘OSl'llt‘, them.

Colonel Roosevelt, who was shot a.
week ago whilc. in Milwaukee, is greatly
improved and his physicians believe that
he has passed the danger point. On Tues-
day of this week he left Chicago for
Oyster Bay. Tic: was accompanied only
by members of his family and his phy-
sicians.

The United States Scnulc committee
making an inquiry into the amounts and

sources of political campaign expendi-
tures. is still in session. Many large
contributors haVc bccn called upon to

testify before the committee as to con—
tributions made to campaign managers
for assisting the campaigns of different
political parties. Thus far the leading
parties appear to bc. suffering alike from
the results of the lllv'CSUgllthD, if the
fact of receiving libcml contributions
from large concerns and influential men
can be taken us :1 criterion.

Forty-nine passengers were injured
when a railway train on the Illinois Cen—

tral was dci'nilcll ncur llopkinsvillc, Ky.
None of the injured are believed to be
seriously hurt.

()ne person was killed and four in-
jured at a gl‘adc crossing near Hart, N.
Y., when an automobile party was run
down by a train.

Forty persons were burned severely in

an automobile explosion {LL l’etaluma, Cal.
The 2l('('I(ICl'll’ may cost the life of Mayor

Zurtmann and lhrcc others.
“Mikc” Murphy, the trainer of the: ath-
letes who crowned themselves with glory

in thc Olympian games last summer, and
the bond of the athletic training depart-
ment of the- University of Pennsylvania,
is seriously ill at Philadelphia with the
chances against his recovery.

The Livingstone Channel at tho mouth
(If the Detroit i'chr is completed. On
Saturday last a flotilla of 20 boats passed
lhrough the new watercourse. headed by
the steamer Livingstone, under the di-
rect captainship of \Villinm Livingstone.
presidan of the Lake Carriei‘s’ Associa—
lion, whose cff‘n‘tx‘ more than those of
any other, mmlc the channel possible.
This channel is entirely in American wut-
ci‘s and is from $200 to 400 feet widc and
extends from the deep river water above
the Limo Kiln Crossing out into Lake
Eric

A concrete dam which held the» watcr
in llzzmlin liiikc, located nine miles north
of lunlirigton, gave way Sunday and al-
IUVYWI the water to run off completely,
draining the lake except for a small
sir-cum that flows through the lower por-
lion of the lake bed. It will probably cost
$50,000 to renew the dam.

Urgent injuiry is being made by the
naval (lcpui‘tment of the federal govern-
mcul to locate» the transport Prairie,
which, with 750 marines, sailed in the
coast of Santo Domingo, October 3. to
investigate, the uprisings in that island
and interfere if American or forcign in—
terests were in danger. Nothing has

been heard from the vessel and crew
Sinco October 2.
The (picsliOn
U. R. tracks
Fort street.

of the rcmoval of the D.
from certain portions of
in Detroit, will be. consider-
ed before the state supreme court this
week. the city asking that the‘court issue
a writ of assistance compelling the com-
pany to remove the tracks within 30
days. The company declares that this
would be an impossibility, that it would
require at least 161 days to do the work.

The Michigan Grand Lodge of I. O. O.
F. held their sixty-eighth annual en-
cumpment in Detroit last week.

Foreign.

The campaign in the Balkan war is
active. The reports indicate that the
combined forces of the Bulgarian, Ser-
via, Montenegro and Greeks have been
successful so far in routing the Turks
from a number of positions. The Bul-
garians are said to have captured Kirk-
Killcssch uftcr days of severe lighting.
The Serb-Bugarian army cluim to have
taken 20,000 prisoners, three months’ food
supplies and considerable ammunition.
The Turks are retreating towards Adir—
anople in confusion, burning the villages
as they go. The Greek fleet is reported
to have captured a Turkish transport
full of troops and also blockaded the is-
land of Lemnos.

anyphoon swept over several of the
Philippine Islands on Oct. 16. While it
is difficult to learn the exact loss, esti-
mates place the number of people killed
at 1,000. The towns of Bogo, Danuo, Tol-
edo, Maasin and Escalantc are. reported
to be practically wiped out. Shipping
interests suffered from the storm.

Ful‘.y 200 Bulgarians and Serbs
leave Detroit this week to answer
war call from their home country.

will
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377

What Low Price.

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(gens To YOU

Read what I have to offer you .-

A New 1913 Model
Farm Engine

—So simple a child can
run it;

—So economical, it costs
but a cent or two for gaso-
line on a big job:

-So reliable, it won't go
wrong:

—-So efficient, a. touch starts
it going:

“ . —So durable, I give you a
permanent guarantee of satisfaction:

-—And so positive am I that you’ll buy one
if I make my price low enough. that I‘m going
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Galloway Engines
$50 To $300 lower In Price

than asked for the next best engine on the market.
You can’t go wrong on a deal like this. My 30, 60,
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THE WILLIAM GALLOWAY COMPANY
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l estate mortgages. Organized twenty years 8.30.
l Examincil and supervised by the State of Michigan.
gheposits by mail conveniently made. This society
l oll‘ers many other advantages which cannot be
‘cnumerated here. Full information gladly given
it you will send us your address.

INDUSTRIAL SAVIIIGS SOCIETY

219 Hammond Bldg. Detroit, Michigan.

I. NOV WATERBURV. AUSTIN N. KIMMIS.
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We manufacture the very best quality of Steel
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The Last Call to

Taking The Michigan
The Michigan Farmer Every
Week Until January 1,

THE MICHIGAN ‘ FARMER.

OCT. 26, 1912.

those
Farmer

FUR [lNlY5n

1913,

This offer is made so extremely liberal, that every farmer in Michigan and adjacent
territory not now a subscriber can with almost no cost give The Michigan Farmer atrial.
Even the few trial copies will be of benefit and we feel that it will convince all that The

Michigan Farmer is a necessity in the home of every farmer.

As the paper starts from the

time the order reaches us and no back numbers are sent, orders should be sent at once.
These Premiums Free for 10 Trial Orders.

Speak to your neighbors about the above offer and take their order.

If you send us a club of

10 trial subscriptions with 50 cents to pay for them, we will send you free, postage paid, your
choice of one of the premiums described below. You can secure as many clubs of 10 as you
wish and for each club you can select one premium. This club offer is open also to our present
subscribers and as the premiums are valuable and trial subscriptions easy to get, it will

pay everyone to make the effort.

Write for sample copies to distribute we will send them free.

Address The Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

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Solid 14K Goldi’P-oint Fountain Pen.

 

This fountain pen is not one of the cheap, plated point pens usually given as
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has a gt'miine Hk gold point. The barrel and cap are made 'of hard rubber.
The manufacturer fully warrants it for one year and repairs duringr that time

due to (lefeci will be made without charge or pen exchanged. The guarantee slip -

is packed with each pen. Ask for Premium No. 221.

A Beautiful Christmas Assortmenti

It is not too early to grit this beautiful 159—piece Christmas assortment, as
you will then have it when you need it. It is the finest assortment of Christmas
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not giw presents. This assortment contains the following, all in gold and beau-
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Fifty Maple Leaf Seals, 50 Santa Claus Seals, 12 Christmas Stamps, 12 Small
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thoroughly incorporated in the leather that it is guaranteed DOt ’0 D001, wear.
scrape or wash off. ‘ '

Any man can strop a razor with as keen an edge as can the most expert bar-
ber. A few strokes on the sharpening side, followed by a like number on the fin-
ishing side does the trick. The lot we have purchased are “Extra Strong” and it
requires but little stropping to bring a deadly dull blade to a. half splitting edge.
Ask for Premium No. 211.

 

PATENT TENSION SH EARS

Good quality of material. 8 inches
with patent adjustable spring ten—
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from spreading and giving a clean
cut the full length. \Ve have sent
out thousands of these with excel-
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have been one of our most popular
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Six Rogers German Silver Tea Spoons.

 

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1

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Lock Stitch Sewing Awl, with straight
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PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

MILK Pnooucrs.

 

BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.
Cheese.

As We have mentioned heretofore, one
of the chief products manufactured from
milk is cheese. The cheese is so named
because of it's caseous or casein charac-
teristics. Whereas, butter is produced
from the butter—fat almost exclusively,
cheese, on the other hand, has for its
chief constituent the proteid or the case-
in of milk. Of course, it would be wrong
to assume that cheese contains no but-
ter-fat as it would be wrong to assume
that butter contains no casein. At the
same time cheese, however, does contain
butter-fat as a normal constituent which
lends value to it, whereas it is more
nearly true in the case of butter that
casein is an accidental ingredient present
because of the peculiarity of the manu-
facturing process.

\V‘ithout doubt cheese is one of the
most valuable food products at the dis—
posal of man. Its composition places it at
once among the more- expensive nitro-
genous or protein foods and because of
this it fills quite an important place in
the dietary when it is desirable for econ-
omy and other reasons to exclude meat
from the diet.

Casein and Milk Fat the Chief Constitu-
ents of Cheese.

The two principal constituents of cheese
are casein (and its accompanying proteids
of a similar nature), and butter-fat. In
fact, cheese contains usually more but-
ter—fat than it does casein, a fact not
generally known among people who con—
sider it simply a product manufactured
from the c sein of milk.

Composition of Whole Milk Cheese.

An average analysis of about 140 to 150
whole milk cheeses shows the following
composition:

Water, per cent ...... ..............38.60-
Total solids, per cent................61.40
Casein, per cent ........ ........... 25.35
Milk fat, per cent......... ........... 30.25
Milk sugar, per cent ................. 2.03
Ash, or mineral matter, per cent.... 4.08

Cheddar Cheese Best Known.

Cheese vary very materially in their
composition. Some are firm and some
are quite loose in texture. We presume
to say that the variation alone, as far as
the moisture content is concerned, might
be all the way from 25 to 60 per cent.
Among the well-known varieties of cheese
known generally_throughout the world is
the Cheddar cheese, which is, perhaps,
the most common of all cheescs in the
United States. Leach states that it orig-
inated, however, probably over 250 years
ago, in England. It belongs to a class of
cheese known as “hard,” and Cllellil'li‘
cheese would therefore be known as a
hard cheese. In Michigan there are three
quite distinct types of cheese, distin-
guished from each other in the main by
the degree of hardness. Cheddar is the
very first; the Michigan type comes next
and finally what has been termed “Soft
Michigan cheese,” which is quite loose
in texture, but when made from choice
milk is very delicious indeed.

80ft Michigan Cheese.

The soft Michigan cheese is easily, we
think, the most popular cheese in the
state and seems to win its way most
easily. It lacks, as a rule, the strength
of flavor in some other cheeses and which
many Amcricans have not yet become ac-
customed to and because of its sweetness
and freshness it is consumed in quite
large quantities by many people in the
state. We feel that soft Michigan cheese
would have everything to recommend it
were it not for one great drawback. This
will be removed when better inspection
methods are exercised by the food offi-
cials and a more complete sanitary con-
trol of the products or the dairy is had.
Low grade milk or milk which is unclean,
of course contains a multitude of con-
taminating bacteria which find in soft
Michigan cheese conditions ideal for their
further development, and conseque‘lntly
this development takes place to the great
detriment of the finished product and in
some instances with harmful results to
the consumer. Too much care cannot be
taken with the milk which is to be man-
ufactured into cheese for surely, contrary
to what may have been once the gen—
eral belief, good cheese cannot be made
from poor milk any more than can good
butter. ’

Varieties of Cheese.

There are many varieties of cheese

which find popularity in certainvsecttons

- of the country.

Cheese the Cheapest Animal

steak at 18 cents per pound.

For instance, the Roque-
fort is a cheese which has a definite fla-
vor developed through careful control of
bacterial cultures. Likewise the Brie and
still more prominent, but less popular
among our people, the Limburger and
Sweitze'r.

Cheese standard According to the Food

and Drugs Act.

According to the standards laid down
by the food standards committee, a. pro-
duct to be called cheese must have the
following characteristic: It must be sound,
solid and well ripened, manufactured
from milk or cream by coagulating the
casein thereof with rennet or lactic acid,
with or without the addition of ripening
ferments, and shall contain in the wat-
er-free substance, that is in the total
solids, not less than 50 per cent of milk
fat. Under special act of congress ap—
proved June 6, 1896, cheese may also
contain added coloring matter if not in-
jurious to health.

' 'Skimmed‘milk cheese conforms to the
above standards for cheese except that
there is no minimum percentage of but-
ter—fat specified.

Adulterated Cheese.

One 'of the most common forms of
adulteration of cheese is the substitu-
tion of a skim-milk cheese, or a par—
tially skim-milk cheese for a whole milk
cheese. Many instances likewise are
known where a foreign fat has been ad—
ded in the place of butter-fat. For ex-
ample, voloomargarineu mixed with the
skim-milk would bring up the fat con—
tent but this would be an adulteration
because it would be a substitution of an
inferior product.

The term “full cream choose” is a term
which has sprung up commercially and
has had some long standing in the coun-
try to designate a cheese made from
whole milk. We presume the reason for
its being called full cream cheese is be-
cause it is meant that all of the cream
natural to the milk was in the milk when
the cheese was made. Food officials
have contended with a good deal of
strength in their contention, we think,
that the tcrm full cream cheese: is not
properly descriptive- of the whole milk
cheese, but would mean to the consum-
er, cheese madc from cream. We hesi-
tate to endorse this view from all points.
However, we do feel that there is no
real excuse now for continuing the term,
“full cream cheese,” when whole milk
cheese is meant.

Filled Cheese.

Another tcrm, “filled
grown up commercially. Under this term
is usually meant a skim-milk cheese to
which a foreign fat, such as oleo oil,
fallow, etc., have been added. We doubt
very much the advisability of permitting
this term in this way to stand, and think
that a cheese» which has a foreign fat
added to it should be more clearly and
thoroughly marked so that there can be
no opportunity for misunderstanding on
the part of the consumer.

cheese,” has

Food Pro-
duct.

Cheese is one of the cheapest animal
food products at the disposal of the con-
sumer. At 20 cents per pound cheese is
as cheap as eggs at 10 cents per dozen
and is one—third Cheaper than sirloin
The point,
then, is that in considering such ques-
tions as the high cost of living and cut—
ting down the expenses or a high meat
diet, the ingenuity of the housewife may
very creditably be spent in devising an
attractive way for placing this very val-
uable food product on the table.

 

BUTTER.
(Concluded from last week).
Cleanliness the Key to the Production of
Good Butter.

In the manufacture of creamery but—

,ter, because of the perishable nature of

the cream, care should be taken at the
very outset, for it is impossible after
cream has been contaminated, to so re-
move the taint as to permit of the man-
ufacture of a high-grade article of but-
ter. When creamerymen realize that

they must exert every effort at their

command to have the milk and cream
brought to them in as pure and whole-
some condition as possible then the first
permanent steps to the manufacture of
a high-grade article have been taken.
The greatest factor in the creamery
(Continued on page 387).

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The horizon of vision, the
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In manner of housing poultry, we have
two systems, much different in their PX-
tremes. One extreme is the colony plan,
COnSisting of placing small buildings for
small flocks at a distance apart to obvi-
ate the use of fences, thus giving your
flocks free range without intermingling
of the different flocks.

The other extreme is the continuing
apartment house, consisting of series of
separate pens, covered by one roof, each
pen opening one to the other, or having
a. hallway at front or rear and each pen
opening into this hallway. There are
several plans and arrangements between
these tWO extremes which may be built
to suit conditions.

.The colony plan has its advantages,
viz.; small flocks on free range, no ex-
pense for fences, less need of attention
to cleaniinese and to providing supplies
of animal and vegetable feed during the
Summer.

The colony plan also has its disadvan-
tages, viz, cost of labor to care for fowls
during all kinds of weather, for some—
times it, is dilficult to get around to care
for same regularly; houses built on the
colony plan, if built as they should be.
are expensive, considering their capacity,
for partitions. which can be constructed
of netting. are much cheaper than end
walls. The colony plan allows about 100
fowls per acre, while the larger housing
system, with suitable conditions, allows
from 400 to 500 fowls per acre.

Location and Construction of Buildings

The first point to consider is a suitable
and convenient location. Choose an ele-
vation with natural drainage away from
the building, for damp ground means
trouble. If the house can be built in a
sheltered place, or in front of farm build-
ings, so much in your favor. A dry, por—
ous soil, such as gravclly or sandy loam,
has preference over a clay soil, for the
surroundings are more easily kept in a
sanitary condition. if the soil is not na-
turally dry it should be made so by
drainage. Do not select a pure sandy
soil, or one too poor for the support of
plant food, for ground that will not sup-
port plant growth is unfit for poultry.

Always face, the buildings toward the
south, as sunlight and warmth are es—

 

 

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sentiai to success; without sunlight,
warmth and dryness there is certainly
trouble in store for you.

Tile buildingr should be erected on a
gt’iod, solid concrete wall extending down
into the ground below frost, and about
eight inches above outside surrounding
ground: also the surface enclosed by the
wall sllotl‘d be higher than that outside,
to prevent dampness.

As to the size of building, I submit
sketches showing the outline of a prac—
tical open-front poultry house. The form
of the building iniluenccs the cost of
construction; a square house. as outlined,
costs less than any other shaped house
and additions may be. added on east side
as the flock IlH‘l‘I'flSE‘S. A low house is
easier to warm than a. high one, which
is in favor of this shaped house, but get
it high enough to avoid danger of bump-
ing the, head. This will furnish ample
air space for as many fowls as the floor
will accommodate.

Roofs, Floors and Walls.

Each form of roof has its advantages
and disadVantages. I prefer the shed
roof, covered with some kind of patent
roofing, with slant to the north, for sev-
eral reasons; first, it gives the highest
front exposed to the sun’s rays, which
are rollccircd back, drying and making a
warm shelter; second, it throws all rain~
water to the rear, lessening the length
of cave trough one—half; third, it allows
the windows to be. placed high; fourth,
a roof will last longer slanting to the
north; fifth, the one—span roof is cooler
in summer and warmer in winter, for it
allows the vertical rays of the sun to en-
ter every.» part of the house.

For floors, I have used cement, dirt,
and boards, but. the board floor, properly
built of matched lumber, is the best I

 

have found. Place the floor high enough
from the ground to admit circulation of
air and prevent dampness, for dampness
is fatal to all poultry. ' ’,

The walls must be. built to conserve
warmth and dryness and to giVe strength
to the house. Ease oft-leaning and dis—
infecting, also economy and durability
are factors to be considered. Common
drop siding is best, and the north and
west walls should'be the most firm and
solid, the studding in these two walls
being placed not more than 2 ft. 3 in.
apart. Tar-red paper should be placed
between studding and siding on these
two sides.

In dividing a long house into compart-
ments I place a partition every nine feet,
the supports for the partition being
placed on a concrete wall running
through the building from north to south.
The posts for the partition help support
the roof, lessening the danger of trouble

   

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

almost sure to induce Crowding, while
some of. the perches will remain unoccu—
pied. A’ good example 'of how this plan
works out is seen in the accompanying
illustration. '
PREPARING BEES FOR,WINTER.
Many are often puzzled to know how
much honey a colony should have in the
hive to insure safety as regards winter
stores. After years of experience along
this line, I now allow from 20 to 25 lbs.
of honey to each colony .to be wintered
on the summer stands, and from 15 to 20
lbs. for those which are to be wintered
in the cellar. The above estimate, I
think, will hold good, .for it is claimed
that bees consume less stores wintered
in the cellar than when wintered on the
summer stands. This is, in a measure,
true while they are in the cellar, but it
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in time of heavy snows. The» lower 21/2
ft. of the partition is made of boards and
the remainder of poultry netting, this
style of partition favoring a free circu—
lation of air and the ready admission of
light to all compartments.

The sketch showing arrangement of
doors and windows represents the front
wall of a two—compartment house. There
are no doors or windows in the other
walls. The doors should be at least two
ft-et six inches by five feet high and
placed one foot from bottom of house.
Windows are four by five feet, covered
with the cheapest unbleached muslin that
can be obtained. Place same as high as
possible. hinged at the top so they can
be swung in from bottom and fastened
lo roof with hook. I would not place bot—
tom of windows lower than 21/2 feet from
floor of house, as the wall prevents strong
winds from striking the fowls. Cover
windows with one-inch—mesh poultry net-
ting.

Dropping boards are placed at north
side of house, two feet from floor and
horizontal with same. The: roostingpolcs,
above dropping boards, are hinged to
back of building with common gate lug—
screws, so that roosts can be removed at
will or can be raised and lowered. All
interior furnishings should be placed high
enough from iloor to permit the fowls to
use every part of the floor space.

Last, but not least, whatever kind of
house you construct, look out for
draughis, for a house with draughts
means a failure.

Livingston Co. IV. B. OPDYCKE.
A POINTER 0N BUILDING PERCHES

FOR FOWLS.

 

Those who are furnishing new poultry
houses this fall should not make the mis—
take of placing the, perches on inclined
supports rather than on the level. Plac—
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what more during the spring months and
unchangeable weather than those protect—
cd in the double—walled hives.

In case I find myself compelled to feed,
and I usually prepare for this emergency.
i prefer to feed by removing combs that
have little or no honey in them and re-
place them with combs well filled and
t‘uppt‘d over in the earlier part of the
season.

Perhaps some of them need no atten-
tion at all. Some will be found with in-
:sullicient stores, While others may have
more than they really need. In order to
learn their condition we must examine
each conoly and make a note of its con-
dition. The bee-keeper who leaves his
colonies short of stores in the fall, ex-
pecting to feed them in winter or spring,
makes a serious mistake, for even though
they may never be actually short for
present needs, the deficiency operates
against them, especially in the spring
when they like to see; plenty, and need
plenty for breeding. Wheire bees are win—
tered out‘ of doors they generally “break
clustclr" with every warm spell that
comes and go over to the outside combs
of scaled honey, uncap the same, and
carry quite a. store of it over into the
center combs, surrounding the cluster, so
that they may have plenty of unsealed
honey near at hand to carry them over
to another warm spcll. This, in a' meas-
ure, insures their safety from starvation
should the cold hold out longer than the
sealed stores immediately above them
last, as they have, this much in addition.
In thus carrying honey the whole colony
is aroused, and a merry hum is given off,
the same as with colonies being fed at
any time, or when procuring nectar from
the field.

Uniting Weak Colonies.

If there are weak lots, unite two or
more after removing the least valuable
queen. The stronger the colony in bees
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OCT. 26. 1912.

strange, but it is quite true; a small lot
of bees in a hive containing several combs

,are restless, with the result that they

consume honey to ra1se the temperature
lowered by the cool air surrounding them.
In uniting two weak colonies I recom-
mend the following plan: Select the col-
onies (for the sake of convenience we
will suppose you have in use the eight—
frame hives), remove four frames of
comb from each one, taking those, of
course, that contain the least brood and
honey; shake the bees down in front of
their hives and contract each colony on
to four frames of comb. Also at this time
remove one of the queens; if there is any
difference, take away the inferior one.
This preparation shoulu take place a day
LI‘ two before uniting the colonies. To-
wards evening, after it is too late for
bees to fly much. smoke each colony a
little, then remove the four frames of
queenle'ss bees from their hive and put
them into the one containing the queen.
They will make up all right during the

‘ night, as queenless bees have nothing to
--fight for and are not apt to go back to

their old stand. I would, however, re-
move the empty hive from the old loca-
tion so as not to entice the bees. Then
as the nights begin to get cold, and bad
weather occasionally prevails, the bees
become quiet. glide into inaction, and
compose themselves for their long sleep,
if sleep it be, or for that condition of
wakeful lethargy which is favorable for
wintering in the best possible manner.
Bees will often winter—kill, with plenty
:of honey left in the hive, but this honey
is away from the cluster, for be it known
that during a continuous spell of cold
weather they will starve rather than leave
the cluster in search of food.
New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.
HOW EARLY-LAYING PULLETS
WERE PRODUCED.

 

A single comb \‘i'hite Leghorn pullet,
that laid her first egg just four months
and 14 days from the date of her hatch—
ing, is one of the results of breeding for
early maturity obtained by the College
of Agriculture. of Ohio State University.
The usual age at which pullets begin
laying is about six months. This extra—
ordinary fowl was one of a lot of 720

that were hatched at the same time...

Five or six others from this hatch began
laying much earlier than ordinary fowls,
showing that it pays to breed for early
maturity.

It may be interesting to know just
how this flock was fed.‘ From the first
day to the sixth wcek they received
twice a. day, a grain ration of 2 lbs. of
fine cracked corn and 3 lbs. cracked
wheat. Until the twenty—first day they
also received, three times a day, a moist
mash composed of 4 lbs. rolled oats. 3
lbs. corn meal, 3 lbs. wheat middlings,
6 lbs. wheat bran, 4 lbs. sifted meat
scraps. 2 lbs. alfalfa meal, 34 lb. bone
meal, and 14 lb. tine charcoal. This was
mixed with skim-milk or buttermilk and
fed in shallow trays. From the sixth
week to maturity they received a grain
ration of 2 lbs. of cracked corn and 2
lbs. whole.wheat. fed in open hoppers.
From the twenty—first day to maturity
they received a mash composed of 1 lb.
rolled oats, 1 lb. corn meal, 1 1b. wheat
middlings, 2 lbs. wheat bran, 1 1b. sifted
meat scraps, 34‘, lb. alfalfa meal, 2 ozs.
fine charcoal. This was fed dry in open
hoppers. In addition they were given
green foods and grits.

POULTRY AT COPPER COUNTRY

FAIR.

 

The poultry department at the. fair
recently held at Houghmn was without
doubt the best exhibit of it's kind ever
seen north of the straits. In speaking
of its creditable features, JLK ge Harri-
son, who placed the ribbons, said: “You
have here upwards of 400 birds, there be-
ing numbered among the fowls speci-
rnens that would win in any national
Show. I have worked at eleven shows
this fall and this exhibit is by far the
best I have handled. At other fairs,
poultry hucksters make large exhibits
of rare specimens of birds, so that they
have no competition and thereby win
large sums of money as the result of
there being no competition. This fair is
void of that unpleasant feature, as every
fowl entered is confined to home terri-
tory. Fancy poultry has advanced more
in Upper Michigan in the past five years
than in any territory that I haVe cov-
ered. Many of the lexhibitors intend
sending their specimens to such national
shows as Duluth. Detroit, and Chicago,
and I predict that they wil] give a good
account of themselves."

 

,THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

. October 23, 1912.
Grains and Seeds.

Wheath’l‘he general tone of the mar-
ket of this country was steady the past
week. There is more or less of a bal-
ance between the bearish condition of
this country and the bullish situation in
Europe. The Balkan war is still the im-
portant element considered by wheat
dealers and the political disturbance
there has kept prices up in spite of the
heavy receipts coming into the grain
centers of this country. Bcsides the dc-
inand due to the war, there appears to
be many stores where sLOcks had been
completed that need to be filled with the
new crop This demand, together with
the cash wheat wanted by millers for
immediate use, has made the wheat mar-
ket a much bettcr one than it otherwise

 

would have been, espcciaily sinCe the
bears are afraid to sell too short unless
affairs in iiurope should take a sudden

turn and cause an advance in wheat vai-
‘)
..

ulEn. Uta year ago the price for No.
red wlicat on this market was $10014
per bu. Quotations for the past week
are:

No. 3 No. I

lied. 1White. Ilec. July.
Thursday . . .1.10 1.09 1.11174 1151/3
Friday .......1.10 1.011 1.12 1.15,“;
Saturday ....1.10 1.09 1.12 1.1554
Bioiiday ......1.10 1.054 1.1;: 1153?;
'l‘ut‘stlay ..... 1.101/2 1.0111,: 1.1213 1.103,.
\\’ednesday . .1.111,4 1.101; 1.1.314 1.171,;

Corn-Sellers have a little htt tor n1—

xramuge in corn circles than they had a
week ago \‘y'ct weather has tcndcd to
harden the corn market. the moisture
damaging considerable of the corn that

had not well matured. The price is about
1c higher than a weck ago, There is a
fairly liberal offering at country elev-
tors in the corn belt. One year ago No.
3 corn was duotcd at 76c per bu. Quo-
tations are as follows;

No. 8 No. 8

Corn Yell-3w.
Th 11 rsd a y ................. b 4 66 1,153
Fl ltiu‘y ................... (i4 (361/2
S'itiirday ................. 641;!» 67
Monday ....... 6W. 6?
’l‘ui-sdtijt' .,. .............. '13 (ilk:
Wednesday 65 671/2

took place

 

 

 

Oats.” .‘\o inattrial change
in the out lii‘itl the past wwcl-z, i'riccs
have tluctuatco a little, but occupy sub—
stantiaély llo» sinie basis as tlicn. lic—
ceipts Ll 5: u .go are large and thc gen—
eral low. m'illaiit] wide, although the call
for 1il,- -xugn to ship is only ordinary.
(in 1.11 t1, inarkct thc offcrings are
srnal. the grain occupicd a nrln plu-
sltiw h 'l'utroay. One year ago stan-
(1:1: ats \thl'o‘ quoted at SOc per bu.
\.J.; paths for the past wet-k are:

Standard.
'i‘l w‘snay ................. .‘Iti
li'lnin)‘ .................... 36
Saturday ................. 3‘
llioniiay ................... 36
'i‘ucw-tlziy .................. 2'. “75;
\Vcdnt-sday ............... 361,15;

BeansrAlthough little trading is go—
ing on. priccs arc a littlc unsettled for
cash beans. showing an advance of 10c
last Friday and a loss of onc—htiii of that
amount on Tuesday of this week. .i’arin-
ci‘s are slow about offering thcir beans,
due to bad roads, to the large amount.
of farm work waiting to in; donc. and
also to a confidence that values will not
go much below tlu- prc'scnt basis. LJUO—
1ation> are as follows:

Cash. Nov.
'l‘luirsllay ................... $3.310 ."‘_‘..‘l(l
191-1.in ‘ ..................... 260 2.10
Saturday ................... 2.60 2.120
Monday .................... 2.60 2.30
'i‘ucsdm) ................... 2.33 2.30
“’ednesday . , . . . ........... 2.55 2.120

Clover Seedpfitguotalions remain steady
small,

with a week ago. Offerings arc

(inc to the light harvest. There is ac-
tive bidding for thc seed that is coming
in. tJuotations are as follows:

' tit-t Alsike.
Thursday ....... . . ...... $1l 2.1 $12.75
Fruity .............. 11 “5 12.75
Saturday ................. 11.25 12.77
Monday .................. 11.25 12.75
Tuesday ................. 1] 25 12.75
Wednesday ............... 11.25 13.00

Rye—Practically nothing is being done

in this market. The price remains the.
same as a week ago. No. 2 rye being
quoted at 74c per bu.
Flour, Feed, Potatoes, Etc.
Flour.~'l‘hcx market is active with all
grades steady.
Straight ....................... . $5.20
Patent Michigan .................. .. 5.60
Clear ................................ 4.90
Rye .................................. 4.80
Feed—No changes arc made in any
of the feeds. Carlot prices on the
track are: Bran, $25 per ton : coarse

middlings, $28: fine middlings. $31: crack-
ed corn and coarse corn meal, $29; corn
and oat chop, $25 per ton.

Hay and Straw—Market continues
steady at last week’s range of values. Quo-
tations are: No. 1 timothy, $16.50@17:
No. .2 timothy, $15@15.50; clover, mixed.
$13©1550; rye straw, $106,010.50; wheat
and out straw. $8@9 per ton. ’

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

Potatoes—Although offerings of pota-
toes are large there appears to be a
scarcity of fancy grades. Many com-
plaints of tubers rotting are reported.
Values here are steady. Local prices are
4563500 for car lots on track.

Provisions—Family pork, $21; mesa
pork, $23.50; clear, backs, $24; hams, 16c;
briskets, 14c; shoulders, 13%0; picnic
hams, 131,42c; bacon, 19%c; pure lard in
tierces, 131,430; kettle rendered lard, 14c
per lb.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—-VVith receipts liberal in the
large cities, prices haVe held firm and in
Detroit an advance of l/éc is noted for
creamery offerings. Dairy butter and
packing stock remains steady. Quota-
tions are: Extra creamery, 301/20; first
creamery, 29%0; dairy, 22c; packing stock
19c per lb.

Eggs—“bile the volume of egg offer-
ings is fairly liberal, yet the quantity of
fancy grades is small. due to a consider—
able percentage of. inferior stOck. Prices
have moved up 10 on the local market.
Current reccipts. candied, cases included,
being quoted at 28c per dozen.

Poultry—«Increased offerings have met
with a broader demand, due to high
prices of other meat products. Prices
on the local] market are steady with a
week ago. They are as follows: Broilers
136.13%13 per lb; hens. 1261121/20; No. 2
hens, 061.11%; old roosters, 961.10c; turkeys

17:6116c-; geese, 1061‘11c: ducks, 12611 Sc;
young ducks, 146L15c per lb.
Veal.-—A11 grades steady. Fancy, 13%
61114c per lb; choice, 9@10c.
Cheese—Steady. In wholesale lots,

Michigan flats. 15%@16c; York state flats,
1812611Slc; limburger, 171/26118léc: brick
cream, 18%61‘1ilct domestic Swiss. 21612.3(-

Der lb.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Peacl1es.—~Market is small with prices
higher. AA. $1.25; A, $1; B. 75c pcr bu.
Pears—«Duchess. $1.25 per bu: .lieiffer,

75618.5(;

Apples—There is a good movcmcni of
apples due to their cheapne'ss. Local
prices: $1.75612.23 for fancy, and $161
1.50 for common; poor, 75c©$1 per bbl.
Good apples by the bushel are selling
(it 4061'60c.

Grapes—ii. 10-lb. baskets: Delewarcs,
30c: Niagaras, 2561130c; Concords, 30c:

Honey.—~Choicc to fancy comb. 15@16c
pcr lb: amber, 126113c.

Onions-”(Iron is large. Per bu., 750.

Cabbage.h$1.1561.1"" pcr bbl.

.uv.)

OTHER MARKETS.

Grand Rapids.

l'otatoeis are being marketed freely
licrc. offcrings at thc city market Tues-
day morning reaching 11,000 bushels and

selling at 406150c. The hay market is
shady at $126115. Eggs are bringing 29c;
(iiiiry butter, 2461230 The. last of the
grapes are coming in and are selling at
3061:30c per bu. Apples are worth 2:061
50c. Grain prices are as follows: \Vhea‘t.
$1.06; rye. (ific; oats. 34c: buckwhett. 631-:
it"\’.' corn, 50c. Hand-picked beans are
selling on thc basis of $2.25.

“V—fi

Chicago.
“heat—No. 3 red, $1.06@1.(18; Dec,
$127,.c: May. (lTTL-c,

("urn—1N1) ,l, 656164c; Dec., 5335c; May

Gfllmc.

1)ats~l\‘o. ;' white, 341.36135c; Dec,
‘tle; May. “-1".c.
litittcruws‘tcady. with prices and con—

ditions practically unchanged. (Quota-
tions: l‘rcatnerics, 2412612111: dairies,
221,1111’7c

Eggs—Demand coutlnuc-s to absorb

libcra] rcccipls at steady prices.
Firsts. flit: ordinary firsts,
cases included. 19~7120c per

tin» fairly
Quotations:
21c; at mark
pound.

Poultry—Live, casy. Chickens, lll/éc
per lb: springs. 1ftc: turktys. 15c. Dressed
steady. Frcsh kiiwd wcstern chickens.
1261ch: fouls. lilrtlm“ turkeys, spring.
23c: obi .liil’och.

HE‘Jllls' ,\il kinds lower, due to increas-
ing rcI-tipts of new stock. l’tu lit-tins,
(‘llllil«. linut'i»piclu:ld, $3613.10 per bu;
primc. 32.90612: rcd ltit'lncys. $215,612.43.

i’otatoes.—~»l~lu,\'ing almost wholly con-
nncd 1.» supplying immciliate needs and
Values h.i\'1 declincd sonicwhat in con-

:;s follows: Mich-

scqucnce Now quoted
3861 lec;

igan. 10611231- peir bu: Minnesota.
\\'isconsi;i. :156140c.
Hay and Strawz—wAil
last week's revised figures.
Timothy, choice. $206121: No, 1,
1.0.50, No, 2: and No. 1 mixed. $156116:
ciovcr_ 51486111: No. 2 and no grade, $561’
7: alfalfa, choice, $1661sz No_ 1, $146115:
No. :3, $106113. Straw—ltyc, $961.10;
wheat, $650617; $650617,

erotics steady at
Quotations:
$1 b.3061

oat,
New York.

Rutter—An active trade has carcd for
thc increased butter receipts and prices

 

have been maintained. Extra grades
have found an especially good demand
and in many instances prcmiums are
paid for such kinds. Quotations are:

Extra crcaniery, 311/261 321,1i_.c: first cream-
ery, 2961301/gc; seconds. 27612811311 proc—
cs: extra. 271/50 per lb.

Eggs—The market is dull
the high grades where there exists a
strong demand. Fresh gathered extras
are quoted at 3261'3312extra firsts, 2961:4102
firsts, 25612Rc: western gathered whites,
3061‘37c per dozen.

Poultry ~1‘n‘esscd.~—The market shows
a little weakness due to liberal offerings
Fresh killed western chicks are quoted
at 1361717c: fow'ls. 13@17c: spring turkeys
1561121c; 01d turkeys, 16@17c per lb.

except in

 

Boston.
“Mot—Liberal buying of domestic wool
by manufacture-rs is reported. The trade
extends to nearly all grades. in fact.

Dealing in Ohio fleeces was a little Jess
active than in former weeks, the bulk of
the trading being in territory stocks.
Values are holding firm and some of the
brokers declare that further advances
are likely to follow present conditions in
the market. A good demand fer woolen

goods gives the trade a strong founda-
tion. Michigan fine, unwashed wools are
quoted at 22%(61230; delaine unwashed,
z4@25c; té-blood, 27@280; %-blood, un-
washed, 29@29%c,per lb.
Eigin.

Batten—Market firm at 290 per 1b.,

which is last week’s quotiation.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Buffalo.
October 21, 1912.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, New York).

Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, 315 cars; hogs, 100 double decks;
sheep and lambs, 90 double decks; calves
1,200 head.

With 315 cars of cattle on our market
here today, and 27,000 reported in Chi—
cago, all grades of cattle sold lower, from
1561125c per cwt. There were very few
loads of good cattle here and not a single
load of prime. The best, weight cattle-
sold only about 10c lower than last Mon-

 

 

day, but all others from 15c to a. full
quarter lower, except bulls, which sold
about steady.

we quote: Best 1.350 to 1,500—lb. steers
$9619.50; good to prime 1,200 to 1,300-lb.

do., $8.25618.75; good to prime 1,100 to
1,200—lb. (10., $750618; medium butcher

steers, 1,000 to 1.,100, $6 25616.75; butcher
steers, 950 to 1.000. $5.50@6.25; light
butcher steers, $5615.50: best fat cows,
3112561575; butcher cows. $4614.75; light
butcher cows. 6350611375; trimmers.
$3256.13 40; best fat heifers, $6.5061:7.2:’.;
medium butcher heifers, $525615 7:3; light
butcher heifers, $425655: stock hcifcrs,
M61450: best feeding steers, dchorned,
$6616.25: common feeding steers, $5615.25:
light stockers. $4614.50; prime export
huls. $6616.25; bcst butchcr bulls. $5.50
617.73: bologna bulls, $450617»: stock bulls.

$450615: bcst milkers and springers, $60
6170: common kind 110., $256140.

itcctipts of hogs today about 100 doti-
blc decks. \\'ith just a limited demand
3-ri(cs were 1061151‘ lower on all but pigs

and lights: this kind selling steady. One
or twt. decks of fancy heavy hogs sold
at $51313. and a fcw closely sorted at $0.10
619.13. but the bulk of thc mixclrl wcm
to our local packers at .‘lc a lb. Choice
yorlUiK. $5.737718.902 light yorkcrs, $8.25
615511; pigs. $8618.13: roughs. “75618.21:

  

s $7617.50. Trade extrcn‘icly dull 1m

 

sta .
york weights; sevcral loads of this kind
going over unsold.

’l‘lic slim-p and lamb markct was fairly
actiyc today. with prices steady with the
closc of last week: most of the choice
lambs sclling for $7.65; yearlings. $561)
5.75: look for about stcady prices the
balance of tlic wick.

Choice lambs. 67.6061765: cull
do” 3‘." 30617.25; ycariings. $5615.77»; bucks
$2,306.1J, \\'cihcrs. $453615: handy ewes,
$461425: hc-ivy ewes. $373614: cull‘sheep
$2613: vcals, choice to extra. 3451.50.61”;
fair In gJOd (311., $15061 9.25; hcavy calves

to fair

 

 

$450616. .
Chicago.
October 21, 1912.

Cattle. loos. Sheer).
tcceiyctl today “2.1.000 33001» 50,000
Some day last ycar..-‘le.024 113.071: 67.544
ltccciycd last \y'cck..63 919 116.637 147,3le
Same wcck last yeiii 72.306 1.31.500 220,583
Following the heavy rccclpis of catiic
last wcek. lhc run today was :tliiir:st too
large. ili1<l loiyr-rs took their tiinc in llil<
int,r their ordcrs 'l“lc r-hoicrr lot:- went
at prctty wc.l silzstaiiiml prices, and can~
ncrs iiilil cuitcrs w< :‘c l-o lower as a rule.
but otbcruisc sztlcs draggct'l. anti priccs
were l:ir;:cly 1th or morc lower. The I'v-
ceipts incluzll-d about 6.000 Vsestcrn ranue
cattle. Hogs lowlic 2"" on an arcragc.
with salrs at “25619.20. a spcculator

paying the tcp fianrc. the one transaction

above $0.171 iiotzs rcct-iw-d last wot-k
averaged 226 11‘s.. comparcd with 222 lbs.
it year .‘lg‘tl null 345’ its two years ago,
The sheep and littiil‘ i‘cceipls show a
much incrcascd pt-iiccnttiec of "'cd coo—
signments, with mom shccp than usual.
and While fat muttons sold all right. tne

‘css attractive lots showed weakness at
times. There was n of: illicit/lance of
buyers of feeders, especially frnnl Mich—

the fcetier markcl

lean and Indiana, and
was strong”.

f‘attle prices suffered some sharp
breaks last week as a result of much
larger receipts than usual, and even the
choiccvr offcrings had to sell off some.
Beef stecrs sold chiefly between $7 and

$10. with the choicer lots bringing $95061
1.0 $15. and the commoner light—weight na—
tive gr." s—fed steers taken at $160617.
. middling kinds sold away off. and as
for the poorer cattle, it was tough work
finding purchasers. the average duality
of the daily runs being much inferior to
formcr supplies. .l’rime little yenrlings
sold as high as the best heavy bocves of

 

long feeding. the pcrcentage of choice
cattle being very small. Cows and hen"—
ers brought “356117.50 as (-1 rule, With

limited sales at 3577561875 for extra heif—
ers. Cutters brought 5337561430, cannors
3424061170 and bulls $4617 Western
range cattle comprised a fair part of the
receipts and averaged considerably lower,

with stems selling of $5619.75 and cows
and heifers at $461750. There was fair

animaticn in the stocker and feeder trade.
as larger offerings made lower prices, es-
pecially for all except the choicest offcr—
ings. Stock steers sold at “25606.65 and
fcede-rs a: $5.8061i7.60, with not many sales
of feeders near the top figures. Calves
were much lower than a short time ago,
selling at $4609.75 pcr 100 lbs, and milk—
ers and springer-s sold as usual on a basis
of $356174?» per head for the commoner
kinds, while the best cows were scarce

and salable at $060100. salies being
chiefly around $5061.75. Backward cows

are only suitable for beef and should not
be shipped to market. Southwestern pas—
tures are marketing large supplies of
grassers. and this is a depressing influ-
ence. Cattle averaged 15617400 lower than
a week earlier, with everything included,
and lots selling at $9@10.25 declined most

 

OCT. 26, 1912.

of all. A Canadian ranch marketed two
cars of prime grade Hereford and Short-
horn steers averaging 1,560 lbs. at the
record price of $10.25, the owner having
43 cars on the market.

Hogs continued to be marketed spar-
ingly for still another week, supplies be-
ing much smaller than for corresponding
weeks in recent years, and there was a.
great deal of complaint regarding the
poor average quality of the daily offer-
ings._ The undesirable quality of the
offerings tended to depress prices, and
buyers filled their requirements much of
the time at considerably reduced quota-
tions from the previous week, at which
time hogs sold at the highest values re-
corded in more than two years. Droves
of hogs of choice quality and averaging
around 2555 to 315 lbs. were among the
highest sellers, and buyers discriminated
against light—weight hogs, these selling
Slowly at a much greater discount than
lieretoforc. It is now planiy evident that
the country has marketed the great bulk
of the hog crop and that no large num-
bers of good hogs are left for future mar-
keting. There is all the time a large
consumption of fresh pork, as well as of
cured hog meats and lard, and supplies of
proVisions are melting away very fast.
At the same time the extremely light
demand for hogs to ship to eastern pack-
ing points is taken advantage of by local

packers to depress prices. Saturday’s
sales werc at $8.25619.20, compared with

{68.65610421/2 a week earlier, the high day
of the year. Stags went at $9.2:36129.65
and pigs at $4.25618.15.
Sheep and lambs undcrwent
advances in prices last week
of the great falling off in

some lively
on account
receipts from

the western ranges. The upward move—
ment was particularly marked in choice
iccl-zs, With "at lambs l(.‘2l(llllg' off under

the influencc of a strong demand. 'i‘hore
“as an exiiczncly largo demand for iced-
crs, and bccausc 1f the great decline in
the rcccipts buyers wc‘rc forced to pay
materially avlvauccd prices, especially for

choice kinds. Sliccpmen in feeding dis-
tr cis havc snvltlcnly become confident
that better tinics are :thcad and have

ceased to ship in thcir holdings- liberally,

foresccirilz that tho approaching end of
the range shipping season means much

irighcr inarkc.s Killers l'ay'c bccn taking
the tops of feedcr ianib c lnsignincnts
from the ranges. Tho ("use of the week
saw sheep largely 4061 7101- highcr than a
‘.\'(‘('l{ earlicr, while lambs sold lint-61$]
higher. fccdcr lambs at $6616.65 being 25
61.3011 highcr. Lambs sold at $36175,
ycarlings at $175616, wethcrs at $42560
4”». owes at 392.50.611.60 and bucks at
$2.7561375. Brecding ewes sold at 54635,
and feeders Illilil 114.751.17.310 for ycai'iings,

346114.50 for “cthers and 113.257.13.73 for
ewe-S.

.l-lorses wcre offered last week consider—
ably less freely than .i ycar ago. and
more horses and mules of the heavier
(lass could have been sold than arrived.

A riotewcrthy sale was that of a car load

of highwlass loggers of heavy weight,
numlwririg 21 hcad. at $300 per head or
thcrcnbouts, for shipment to the north-
t-rn Michigan ‘lunibci‘ region. Lighter
rorses of the draft type were taken
around 1417561325. and thc heavier ones
‘.-‘l'(' want-"ti :tiiywherc from 3425061325,
while wagon horses brought 55160611250.
Farm Workers We're salable at $10061‘200,
mares sclliug the highest invariably. In-

horses sold as low as $75.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

ferlol‘

 

A significant feature of the recent Chi-
taco catllt- tunic is found in the numer-
(llts' suit-s of Canadian steers at extremely

high prices. quite a numbcr of range
stccrs from the Dominion having brought
around $9.50 per 100 lbs, while several

days ago at sale was recorded of two car

touls of Canadian range steers at $10.25
por 100 lbs. the highcst price ever paid
(in that inarkct for grass-fed cattle. Such
transactions are sufficient proof of the

.xtram-ziinarv scarcity of fat beef cattle.
Not only are heavy. long-fed cattlccom-
nniiullng rccord prices. but the best little
_\(.'.tilill;,_'s haw been scliing nearly as
high as the heavier beevcs.

'i‘lic (‘hicagn market fm- stockcr and
l't't-llc-r t-ziltlc has licen variable jii recent
weeks. with prices usually maintained
much bcttcr for the bettcr class of feed-
crs than for othcr kinds of i'cxcdcrs and
stockcrs. All along the easlcrn dcmand
has been singularly poor, especially SO
far as the ”litliCei‘ ft-ci'icrs arc conct-rned,
with the rtgion (:il‘Utltltl (,‘l’iicogo taking
ihc bcst lots as a scucral rule. The cast
has bcen obtaining its fcctlcr supplies
iar'gciy from its home regin. purchasing

chict‘ly rather ordinary stock. All this
points to a great shoiagc of choice bceves
throughout the eastern country for
months to come.

l’airick (‘udahyz the well—known packer,
says: “\Ylll‘e we :‘1‘e exporting consider—
able hog product at lhc present time. I
bclicyc the time is not far distant when
grout-rs in this country will not be equal
to the task of meeting domestic con—
sumption. Vl’t» are eycn sending lard and
hog ments to Canada. a big Calgary. Al-

berta. order having bcen filled at one
plant recently. Everything has operated
In curtail hoe: production since the pan-

ic of 1907. illisease has given the indus-
try a setback. and highnpriced corn has
incn another handicap. My forecast of

the hog market is decicediy bullish.”

A purchasing agent for a. big horse
ranch near 1.0s Angeies, Cal. has made
a recent purchase in Marshalltown, Iowa,
of :1 pair of Percheron mares at $2,000.
The ranch is being stocked with Per-
-.herons. and the mares alluded to are
puresblooded animals. four years old,
well-matched dapple grays. weighing 1,900
lbs each. During this autumn they won
$600 in cash prizes at the state fairs of
Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota. be-
sides prizes offered at three fairs by the
Percheron Society of America. Fourteen
other Percheron mares were purchased
by the agent in. the county at an aver-
age cost of $235 per head, the entire car
load costing an aggregate of $5,290.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

   
   

 

OCT. , 26, 1912.

THIS 13 THE LAe'r EDITION.

 

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKITO.
Thursda—y’e Market.
October 24. 1912.

Cattle.
Receipts, 2,329. Bulls, canners and.
gOI'd i‘ccidci's steady; all others 10@loc
lower.

We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and
heifers, $8; steers and heifers, 1,000 to
1,200, $650617; do. 800 to 1,000, $5.25@6;
grass steers and heifers that are fat, 800
to 1,000, $5.25(w6; do. 500 to 700, $425615;
choice fat cows, $5@5.50; good fat cows,

$4.25(u4.50; common cows, $3.50@3.75;
canners, $2.50@3.50; choice heavy bulls,
$56,175.25; fair to good bolognas, bulls,
$4.50@4.75; stock bulls, $4625.50; choice
feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $5.50(w6.25;
i'ziir do, 800 to 1.000, $5@5.50; choice
stockers, 500 110 700, 847562525; faitr
stockers, 500 to 700, 3545062475; stock

heifers, $3.50@4.25; milkers, large, young,

medium age, 8545(11165; common milkers,
$250135.
Spicer & R. sold Sullivan 1’. Co. 10

butchers av 574 at $4.50, 5 do av 732 at
$3.50; to Beli‘ord 25 steers av 962 at $6.25;
10 Kamman B. Co. 1 do Weighing 850 at
$4.50; to Bresnahan 4 bulls av 645 :11
$4.25, 2 do av 590 at $4;-to Mason 1’). Co.
4 cows av 947 at $3.75, 19 butchers 11v
593 at $4.50; to Nagle P. Co. 2 cows av
1,150 at $4.40; to Hammond, S. <82 (Jo. 2
heifers av 600 at $4.65, 2 cows av 915 at
$3.65; to Snow 2 stockers av 550 at $4.50;
to ita-ttkowsky 2 cows av 1,060 at $1.25;
to Bray 7 do av 736 at. $3.40; to Snow 3
stockers av 607 at $4.65.

ltoe Coin. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
1 steer weighing 950 at $6, 5 do av 960 at
$6.75, 6 cows av 965 at $4.15: to Nagle 1’.
(lo. 2 cows av 1,150 at $4.75; to Sullivan
1’. Co. 11 butchers nv 615 at $4.25, 22 do
21v 581 at $4.50, 5 do av 500 at. 5'4, ‘1
cows av 847 at $4.50, 2 bulls av 950 :11
$1.50, 2 stoclicrs av 380 at $3.50: to Snow
2 do av 035 at $5; til-Newton B. (.‘o. 15
stocketrs av 580 at $4.50, 1. steer woighlns
1.200 at $7, 13 butchers av 1.,025 at $4.15,
11 cows av 822 at $3.50, 4 meters nv 8:10
at $5.50; to Kamman 13. (To. 6 butchers
:LV 7310 an $4.75, 11, stcers av 850 at $5.75,
2 cows av 1,005 at $4.50, 20 butchers av
552 at $4.40, 4 do av 705 at $5; 110 iii-citen—
beck 19 do av 740 .-11 $515, 4 cows av
1.010 at $4; to K-zimman 15. (lo. 14 butch—
ers av 930 at $4.25; to Schumakcr 3 fez-‘11-
tars av 903 at $5.50; to Bresnahan 1 bull
weighing 1,030 at $4.75, 4 cows av 935
at 3.50, 16 do av 923 at $3.65, 10 do av
900 at $3.60, 18 do av 846 nt $3.65. 11 do
av 736 at $3.60; to Fry 14 butchers av 570
at $4.25; to Mason B. Co. 28 do av 752
at $5.10.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. (70. 9
cows av 1.053 at $4.50, 8 heifers av 781
zit $4.75. 2 steers av 960 at $6.25, 2 bulls
11v 1.025 at $5; to Parker, \V. & (,‘o, 11'.
steers av 933 :11 $7. 2 do av 900 at $6. 22
buichci's av 960 at $6.25, 5 hulls av 885
111 $4.65: to Sullivan 1’. (lo. 7 cows av 1171
at $4.3“, 7 do av 964 at $4, 5 butchcrs av
774 at $4.75,,6 steers av 1,083 at $7, 25
butchers av 373 at $3.80, 11 do av 680 at
$4.50, 14 do av 560 at $4.25; to Joncs 15
Slfx’kel‘s av 601 at $4.75; to Hammond.
S. & Co. 8 cows av 845 at $3.60, 17 butch-
H's av 675 at $4.05. 28 do av 578 at $4.35;
to Nagle 1‘. Co. 2 cows nv 1,090 at $4.60;
to Goose 26 butchers av 520 at $3.80; to
'J‘hompson Bros. 1 bull weighing 1,160 aL
$4.75, 3 cows av 900 :11 $3.85, 12 butchers
nv 752 at $4.35; to Regan 26 do av 586
at $4.10, 28 do av 592 at $4.10; to Bres-
nihan 8 bulls av 571 at $4, 2 cows av
900 at $3.50, 8 do av 825 at $3.50. 5 do av
884 at $3.50, 13 do av 1.,120 at $3.60, 4 do
av 937 at $3.50, 2 bulls av 685 at $4.25;
to Mich. B. Co.- 5 steers av 746 at $5.25,
6 ('OWs av 950 at $4.10; to Bray 3 do av
1.026 at $3.50.

Haley & M. sold Bresnahan 9 stockers
av 500 at $4.15, 7 canners av 800 at $3.50,
1, cow weighing 790 at $3.50; to Rasttkow-
sky 15 cows av 920 at $3.90; to Bresnahan
6 heifers av 593 at $4; to Mich. B, Co.
2 oxen av 1.575 at $5. 5 cows av 1,000 at
$3.75. 1 bul'l weighing 1,320 at $5; to
l-Jresnahan 2 cows av 960 at $3.50, 5 bu‘ls
av 625 at $4.10, 8 butchers av 585 at
$4.35, 4 do av 587 at $4.15, 13 cows av
823 at $3.45, 3 bulls av 597 at $4, 2 do av
660 at $4. 8 cows av 767 at $3.40, 8 butch-
crs av 627 at $4.15, 9 do av'855 at $5.80,
6 cows av 925 at $3.50. 4 heifers av 580
at $4.25, 2 cows av 915 at $3.50; to Bi‘eit-
enbeck 4 rows av 995 at $3.75, 2 (10 av
1.000 at $4; to Parker, \IV. & Co. 18 steers
av 966 at; $6.25; to Hammond, S & Co.
1 bull weighing 1,000 at $4.75: to Schlis—
(”her 26 butchers av 620 at $4; to Apple-
baum 8 do av 725 at $4.65; to Fromm 3
do :iV 860 at $5.25. 7 (10 av 743 at $4.99;
to Grant 9 do av 800 at $4.60; to Sullivan
1'. Co. 3 do av 713 at $4.50, 2 cows av
940 at $4: to Bray 10 cows av 915 at
$3 50; to “'anty 7 feeders av 860 at $5.25,
3 do av 800 at $5; to Brodero 5 cows and
bulls av 936 at‘ $430

Sandal] sold Mich.
av 580 at $4.50.

Same sold Newton B. Co. 2 bull's av
1,125 at $4.75, 1 do weighing 600 at $4.50,
2 cannons av 765 at $3.50.

Campbell & Co. sold same 7 cows av
787 at $3.45, 3 do av 983 at $4
. Veal Calves.

Receipts. 559. Market steady at VVed-
nesdayl prices: 50c lower than last week.
Best, ”@950: others, $4@8; milch cows
and springers steady.

Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Go. 3 av
150 at $9.40; to Goose 2 av 150 at $8.50,
2 av 275 21434.25, 2 aw 140 at: 89.40.

B. Co. 14 butchers

Roe Com. Co. sold Thompson Bros. 1
weighing 120 at $9. 1 weighing 200 at $5;
to (loose 4 av 250 at $4.50, 1 weighing
140 at $9; to Nagle 1’. Co. '13 av 160 at
$9.25; to Goose 2 av 125 at $8, 1 weighing
230 at $5, 4 av 250 at $4, 1. weighing 140
at $9; To Rat‘tkowsky 8 av 150 at $4.50,
10 av 278 at $4, 1 weighing 290 at $5.50.

Haley & M. sold Rattkowsky 2 av 125
at $4.25; to Newton H. Co. 4 av 145 at
$8.50, 5 av 150 at $8.75, 2 av 145 at $9,
1 weighing 230 at $8, 3 av 150 at $8.50, 14
av 225 at $4; to Lalloa 7 21v 150 at $9.50;
to Thompson Bros. 8 av 130 at $8.50; to
McGuire 4 av 140 at $9.

Bishop, 1%. & H.-sold Newton 13. Co.
5 av 155 at $9, 9 av 150 at $8.75; to
Parker, VV. & Co. 2 av 120 at $7.50, 2 av
130 at $8, 2 av 150 at $7.50, 6 av 125 at
$8.50, 5 av 125 at $9.50, 2 av 105 at $7,
2 av 215 at $7, 13 av 1.30 at $9, 9 av 150
at 9, 5 av 155 at $8.50; to Sullivan 1’, (3o.
14 av 140 at $8.25; to McGuire 7 av 145
at $7.50, 4 av 1.80 at $9.50; to (loose 9 av
200 at $4; to Burnstine. 3 av 175 at $6, 5
av 125 at $9, 13 av 1.35 at $9.50, 3 av 150
at $9, 3.1V 120 at 9.

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 4 av
145 at $8.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 6,660. Markct steady at last
weck’s prices. Best lambs, $6.50@6.65;
fair to good lambs, $6696.25; light to com-
mon lambs, $4.50615.50; wethers, $4114.50;
fair to good sheep, $3613.50; culls and
common, $2412.75.

Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
29 sheep av 100 at. $3.35, 11 do av 110 at
$3.35; to C:.>s1cllo 8 lambs av 45 at $5;
to Thompson Bros. 21 slice-p av 90 at
$3.25; to Newton B. (to. 36 lambs av 58
at $4, 39 do av 65 at $6.25; to Costello
28 do av 55 :11 $5; to Naglc 1’. Co. 150
do av '77 at $660, 711 do :iv 70 at $6.25,
4;: wcthcrs av 110 at $4, 92 lambs av 65
at $6.25, 74 sheep 41V 90 at $3.25; to
Thompson Bros. 44 lambs av ‘70 at $6.40;
to Costcllo 24 do av 45 at $5, 17 do av
65 at $6; to Hayes 15 do av 67 at $5.75;
to Brcitenbcck 89 shccp av ‘80 at $2.75,
106 lambs av 60 at $6: to Sullivan 1’. CO.
10 sliccp av 99 .it $2.50, 28 111) 11v 115 at
$3.25; to (from 20 lambs av 50 at $5.50;
to Thompson Bros. 41 do av 70 at $6.40.

Spit-(Jr K: it. sold Hammond, S. & C0.
15 shccp av 100 at $3, 7 lambs av 65 at
$6.25. 42 do 1.1V 7:1 zit $6.65, 8 do av 70 at
$4, 13 ‘shcop av 90 :11 $3.25, 93 lambs av
75 ill $6.115: 11) Sullivan J’. (.‘o. 23 lambs
av 50 at $5 50, 8 Wcthors av 77 at $4.50,
111 lambs av 5.3 :11 $5.40, 32 do av 75 at
1'6: to (,‘roni 16 do av 55 at $5.50; to Sul-
livan 1’. Co. 6 shccp :iv 115 at $3.25, 16
lambs av 65 at $6.25, 32 do av 50 at
$5.25; to Costello 13 sin-op av 95 at $2.50;
to Nogll- 1’. (lo. 54 do av 120 at $3.25; to
Hammond, S. & (To. 65 do av 115 at
.550, 11. do av 95 at $2.50, 12 wethcrs av
85 at $4 50', to Sullivan 1’, Co, 2 811131;)
41v 115 at $2.50. 10 do av 99 at $3.25, 10
lambs av 55 :11 $5.25; to Mich. B. Co. 34
(in “V 75! Ill $0.50.

lioo (join. (1!). sold 1\licll. B. Co. 10
lambs av 64 at $6.25, 8 do .‘i\’ 55 at $6.25,

THE MICHIGAN FARMBR.

 

18 slrccp av 100 at $3.25; to Hayes 62
lambs av 65 at $6.25, 26 ycai'lings av 70
at $4: to ’l‘hoinpson Bros. 53 shcrcp av 95
:11 $2; to Newton B. Co. 79 (lo av 75 at
$13,511; to Mich, 13. Co. 69 sheep av 70
at $2.

Bishop, 1:. (‘51: H. sold Hammond, S. &
(To. 3! lambs av 83 at $6.60, 6 do av ‘1’0‘
:11 $6.25, 12 sheep av 115 at $3.50; to (Jos—
iollo 29 lambs av 70 at $5.25, 21. do av

1o Sulfivan l’. (‘1). 22 «,lo av 52 at $5, 17
.«hrcp 11v 90 at $2.50, 20 lambs av 72 at
$6.50. 31 do av 80 at $6.25, 12 do av 55 at
$3; to Mich. B. C”. 20 do av 55 at $3.23,
149 do av 50 at $5 35:
20 lambs av 72 at $6.50;
:iv 55 at $5.50; to Nagle 1’. (1o. 56 do av

73 at $6, 70 do 1.1V 67 at $0.50. 84 do av!

70 at $6.50, 240 do av 75 at $6.50, 128 do
av 75 at $6.50, 102 do av 70 at $6.60. 2321
do av 80 at $6.65, 1.94 sheep av 110 :11
$3.25: to Sullivan 1", Co. 52 lambs av 70
at $5.60; to Croni 49 do av 60 at $5 50.

Hogs.

Receipts. 4,620. Nothing doing up to
noon in this department.

Markct 30@40c lower than last
close. Bcsl, $835618“); pig's, $7617.75.

Bishop, B. & ll. sold Hammond, S. 8:
Co. 7.00 av 180 at $8.45, 1,010 av 170 at
$8.40. 410 av 150 at $8.35, 400 av 165 at
$8.35, 210 av 130 at $8.10, 300 av 1.70 at
$8.30.

Same sold Newton B. Co. 69 av 1.75 at
$8.10, 8:; av 1:35 at $8.35.

Roe Com, (.‘o. sold Sullivan 1’. Co. 125
av 200 at $8.45, 240 av 1.90 at $8.35, 26
pigs 115 at $7.25.

Spicer & it. sold I’arkci', Vl'. & Co. 200
av 175 at $8.40, 110 av 1.70 at $8.35, 11.5
av 150 at $8.25, 75 av 200 at $8.45.

Haley & M. sold same 350 av 175 at
$8.40, 21.0 giv 200 at $8.45, 75 av 170 at
$8.25, 125 av 170 at $8.30.

wcr 11's

NOTICE.

Quarantine Proclamation.

The sale of hogs for any purpose, ox—
ccpt for iiiiiii(:‘<:liate slaughtcr, is hereby
l.~i_'oliibited until further orders of the
Live Stock Sanitary Commission of this
state,

This order is to be in full force and
Effect on. and. after 1.2 o’clock noon, Mon-

1
l
l
55 a1 $525; to (from 12 (lo av 50 at $25.50;,
1
l

to Sullivan 1’. Co.‘
to (from 13 do‘

 

 

day. Oct. 21, 1912.

By order of the Live Stock
Commission.

Dated at Detroit, Mich., Oct, 18, 1912.

Sanitary

 

 

 

Horses were offered in tlhe usual num—
bers last week, with the customary small
proportion of choice business horses, and
the active demand for choice heavy draft-
ers made firm prices. These were salable
at $250€i>325 per head, with sales all the
way down to $175@225 for lighter
we:ghts. Farm workers were quoted at
$1,006 200. with a moderate demand, and
the call for wagon horses was as large
as ever at $160@250. A recent train of
cars containing 100 Percheron, French
and Belgian drafters valued at $60,000
passed through Chicago for North Da—
kota. They are -to be sold to farmers
and ranchmen.

 

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is the waste of corn fodder. You need an

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Any Rumely dealer will show you this mlchlne. Ask to see the
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One man can do all the leading; without loss or danger.
Send {or our “ Shredder Book and get all the facts. Do it now.
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Alsotwohundrnd acre-H ol' «winner land tho miles

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R. 8.. good house. barns and out buildings, windmill
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near to the electric ll. li. This is a snap at $140 pcr acre
as farmers near by arc sci | 1113 l‘orfiillU and $125 per acre.

80 acres, 5 niilcss from ltomoo, good new house.
barns and out buildings. 2 11 clls, 7 acres timber.
good clay loam. This is a snap at $60 cr acre.

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production of grains, grasses, live stock and
truck crops. Fertile and attractive farm lands
may be had at very low prices.

WRITE Efifiév‘znfii’tii’ltl’f; FREE

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FOR SALE
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in Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to
WILBUR MCCOY. E. N. CLARK.
A. & l. Agt. for Florida. A. & LAgt. tor Virginia
Alabama. Georgia, and the Carolinas,
Jacksonvnle. Fla. Wilmington, N. C.

 

 

 

 

 

20,000 Acres

of out over Hardwood Lands
Located in quuc Isle and cholioygu Bounties.

Near railroad and market, finest of farming
lands. prices from ‘5 up, according to improve-
ments and location.

hereafter described is
stock Ranch oflerod for sale at a very
low rice. .Two hundred and forty-two acres one and
one- alf mile from Beaverton. Gladwin county. Mich.
All under wire itenoe and watered by a fine. clear
stream of water; high banks: no waste land. This
and was used as a stock ranch by a large lumber firm,
and it is in a prime No. loonditonto make a fine farm
and stock ranch combined. Here is an opportunity
for YOU. Will you investi ate it?_ Write us about
it. We will live you fu description and take
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‘HORTICULTURE

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THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT-FLY.

 

The recent announcement of Secretary

‘Wilson, of the Department of Agricul—

ture, of his purpOSo to hold hearingsfor
the purpose of determining the advisa-
bility of establishing a quarantine against
the importation of plants, fruits or trees
from countries where the Mediterranean
fruit—fly is known to exist, has aroused
c-onsidcrable interest in this very de—
structive insect and there have been
many demands on the Department for in-
formation concerning it.

That the Mediterranean fruit-fly is a
most serious drawback to the successful
cultivation of fruit in the countries where
it is established, there can be no ques=
tiou. Indeed, the cultivation of fruits is

THE, MICHIGAN FARMER.

market and guaranteed free from the
maggots. On the trees that were not
sprayed, the situation was just- the re-
verse, almost every ripe fruit being in-
fested by maggots ranging from newly
hatched to fully developed. The pupa.
were also present under some of the. de-
caying peaches, and there were numer-
ous flies flitting about the trees. The
poisoned-bait method of controlling the
ily appears entirely feasible in this coun-
try, especially in more or less arid re-
gions, where the spray cannot be washed
off by rains.

HARVESTING THE ONION CROP.

 

All around, the season was-wet with us
this year and just right for the growth
of our black seed, red-weatherfield on-
ions. We had them on rich sandy loam,
in fact, an old cow—yard and While in
spite of us, the weeds grew, so also did
the onions, and the harvest has been
heavier than was expected at first.

 

 

Mr. Cowdin’s Onion Field. The Onions are Pulled and Lying in Windrows to
Dry Before Topping. See First Page.

scarcely possible in the worst infested
regions. The fruit-growing industry of
Bermuda was practically destroyed many
years ago by the introdu‘ction of the in-
sect into that island. Its introduction
into the United States in all probability
would be calamitous to the orchard in-
terests of our more southern states and
of California in which region it would
find conditions very similar to those. in
countrics where it now exists in most
destructive numbers. By the establish-
mcnt of a strict quarantine, such as pro-
post-d by the secretary, it is believed
that it will be possible to prcvcnt disas-
tcr to the American fruit industry.

The greatest amount of damage is done
to the ripening fruit by the female which
with her sharp oviposit-or, pierces the
fruit and dcposits the small glistening
white eggs just underneath tho skin.
These hatch in a very short time, two
to four days in midsummer. Their de—
velopment, however, dcpends upon the
ripcncss of fruit—in all probability if the
fruit is green the eggs will not hatch.
The larvae or “maggots.” when hatched.
at once begin to feed on the pulp of thr-
fruit. In apricots they make straight for
the center; in pcachcs and other fruits
they are more inclined to work out in
different directions. When fully develop-'
ed, which usually requires a fortnight or
three weeks, they leave the fruit, which
has previously fallcn, and enter the
ground. Here they soon change to the
pupal stagr and remain for 12 days or
three weeks, when they become trans-
formal into the fly, completing one gen-
eration.

The governments of certain countries
have put in force regulations for the en-
forced control of fruit-flies, and in each
instance the principle followed has been
the inspection of orchards and cleaning
up and destruction of all fallen fruit. At
the present time the United States au—
thorities are experimenting with the
"poison-bait" method of controlling the
insect, similar to that tried in South Af-
rica. In that case the bait consisted of
a. solution of five gallons of molasses, one
pound of arsenate of lead, and 25 gallons
of water. This was used in the form of
a. spray evenly distributed over the trees,
bushes, prickly pears, et'c. N-ot'only were
thousands of the flies prevented from
reaching maturity, but the deposition of
eggs in the fruit already ripening was
almost completely stopped. The fruit on
all the late varieties of treated trees
ripened perfectly, and was sold on the

These onions were duly thinned but the
weather prevailed so wet that it was im—
possible to hoe or cultivate in~them and
the weeding was done by hand. A few
days of recent sunshine, the best thing
that can happen when harvesting' on-
ions, gave us the opportunity and they
wore pulled and topped. An old pair of
sheepshcars are excellent to top with.
The onions then lay in the bright sun-
shine a whole day to dry. It is desirable
to leave them much longer than this but
as it is now late we were fearful of light
freezing at night, so they were put on
the cow—loft floor to further dry and cure
or season. Air can circulate all about
them here, but no sunshine or dampness
affects them in the least. It is also cool
here and before the coming of real cold
weather We will place them in a sus-
pended bin in our frost-proof root cellar
where they will keep well until last next
spring, as prices are better at that time
of the year. \Ve have sold from this
piete already this season more dollars’
worth of onions at $1.00 per bushel, to
merchants and others in our home town,
than the whole tract of land embraced
in the onion field would bring at the
present high valuation of land and fur-
thermore, the bulk remains to be sold
yet. Diversified farming in Michigan
pays, we grew sugar beets, field beans,
lima beans for market, buckwheat, oats,
field corn, sweet corn, potatoes, field cu—
cumbers, onions, hay, strawberries and
a large garden of all common vegetables
for ourselves and the market," this sea-
son. There are always people in towns
and cities anxious to pay a good price,
often a fancy price, for fruits and vege-
tables from the farm, providing they are
strictly fresh and No. 1 goods and after
all, it pays to grow and sell this kind.
Gratiot Co. G. A. RANDALL.

 

PRUNING AND WINTER TREATMENT
OF SMALL FRUIT.

 

Where winters are severe enough once
in four years to seriously injure unpro-
tected bush fruit, mulching or laying
down will often pay well. Much depends
upon the character and cost of the ma-
terial used, and its durability. Straw,
unless clean threshed and free from
grass seeds, is a most productive source
of future trouble to the grower. Forest
leaves can be secured in sufficient quan-
tity in some localities to be available
for use among the bush fruits. Where
obtainable, pine needles also form an

admirable mulch, and with a. littlecare
in removing can be used two or three
times. Broken cornstalks that have been
well tramped over in the barnyard are
useful, and sorghum bagasse is utilized
in some sections. In the colder and drier
climate of the Upper Mississippi Valley
the only sure protection for blackberries
and raspberries is the laying down and
covering of the canes. This is accomp-
iished by digging away from one side Of
the plant, toppling it over with a fork,
and w‘hoily or partially covering lthe
canes with earth from between the rows.
This methOd involves staking or trelliS-
ing the bushes when they are raised
again in spring, but it is found profitable
because .of the insurance against crop
failure which it affords. On most heavy
soils water furrows should be run be-
tween the rows with a light one-horse or
shove-l plow late in fall, in order that
surface [water may be promptly removed
during the winter months.

XYith the strawberry the only pruning
needed will be the removal of superfluous
runners. The raspberry and the black-
berry, hearing their fruit almost, exclu-
sivcly on branches from canes of the
previous year, are benefited by syste-
matic pruning, while the currant and the
gooscberry need it as urgently as do the
tree fruits or the grape, if large fruit
is the object Sought.

Though sometimes subject to serious
damage by insects and fungous diseases,
the small fruits, as a class, are less in-
Jured by them than the tree fruits. Most
of the serious troubles may be avoided
by choosing vigorous and resistant varie-
tics or by spraying with well-known in-
secticides and fungicides.

New York. T. A. TEFFT.

RESTORING OLD ORCHARDS.

There are a great many neglected ap-
ple orchards in Michigan. In fact, it is
the «xvcplional instance where an or—
chard rcm-ives anything like proper care
and attcntion in the part of the state
where the writer resides. Sod-bound and
given over to neglect and disease they
stand offering mute testimony to the fact
that in the various activities of the farm
the orchard as a rule is the last thing to
be considered.

Farmers owning these plantations will
say in excuse for not taking care of
them. that apples do not pay, that in
bearing years the price is too low to be
profitabie and that it is too much trouble
to spray them as they should be to in-
sure a profitable annual return.

Yet if propcrly managed there is ,no
part of the farm that would pay better
returns than these same old trees, for
even up to the age of 40 1‘0 50 years an
apple trt-c can he made to produce, and.
produce profitably. In certain portions
of the state there has been for several

OCT. 26. 1912.

poundedmixture to suit every need of:
the trees. 7 ‘

Orchards under the care of this societyi
the‘ present season hang full of perfect
fruit. While those in the same» vicinity
not treated. are 'almost‘barren. Is not
this sufficient proof that the treatment
is effectual and that even old neglected
t‘rees can be brought back- to profitable
bearing. One instance is cited of a man
who had 40 acres in apple trees that had
not been hearing to any extent for
years. The first year that the spraying
company rented it his half of the crop
brought him more money than all the
rest of his 200 acre farm. There is not
a doubt about apples bringing good prices
if they are prime in quality and put on
the market by men who understand how
to sell them. This is being demonstrated
in hundreds of instances over the state
but more especially is. this the case in
the fruit belt where orcharding receives
proper attention. When Red Astrachans
can be sold at six dollars a barrel any
man knows there is a profit in it and
this has been done the present season in
Gd. Traverse county, possibly elsewhere.
Where there is an orchard of good stan—
dard varieties it is like owning a gold
mine and notihaving it developed, to
pursue the course commonly followed
and allow it to stand neglected and un—
fruitful. If one man does not feel able
to carry on the work two or more neigh-
bors can combine and hire it done. The
coming winter will be a convenient time
to talk this over and lay plans for oper-
ations early another season. Michigan
apples are so superior in flavor that they
always command 'top—ofanarkct prices
at any sales center. It. is to be hoped
that the tide now under way restoring
them to favor will spread until every
tree in the state is again producing
bountifully.

Genesee Co. E. E. Rocxwoon.

FILLING. THE STRAWBERRY ROWS.

 

When it was see-n that the white grub
problem was going to be the source of a
great many vacancies in the double—hedge
rows, notwithstanding all due vigilance
in hunting out and destroying the enemy,
provision was made to secure» a supply
of plants to fill in these vacancies. For
this purpose, and while engaged in fill-
ing in the regular rows, and pruning, ex-
tra plants were set in the narrow 16-inch
space, to be taken up at the proper time
and moved to the empty spaces in the
rows. This work is now being done, dur-
ing the fore part of October. It would
no doubt have been more timely had this
work been done two or three weeks ear—
her, but other duties prevented.

In moving plants in this manner, it
is desirable that no more soil be disturb-
ed than is necessary to preserve a good
degree of life and vitality in the plants

 

 

 

Onion Field of Mr. Hilberiq, of Leelanau County. The Onions are Grown on High
Land and will Yie'ld About 500 Bushels ,Per Acre.

years past an attempt on the part of
skilled horticulturists to bring back into
bearing some of these old orchards. The
undertaking has proven successful, and
others have been encouraged to try it.

In Genesee county a society has been
formed which is meeting with gratifying
results.

The society is composed of men who
rent the orchards on the following basis:
They attend to spraying and pruning and
have half the crop. The owner has noth—
ing to do but market his share of the
harvest and this the company will do
for him if he so desires.

The society is thorough in its. opera-
tions. Orchards are sprayed as many as
seven times if conditions require it. The
work is done in a scientific manner with
power sprayers and a. carefully com-

removed. To go at this work with a
spade or fork is not profitable, because of
the injury that will be done to the plants
that comprise the regular rows. In pro-
portion as the root growth of these
plants is disturbed, will the fruiting ca-
pacitv of the row be reduced. A lump
of earth four or fiVe inches in diameter
moved with the plant, is about right. A
garden tr0wel is an excellent tool for
taking up these plants.

Throughout weather conditions have
been favorable, both for the growing of
the plants and transplanting, cool, with
plenty of moisture. Hence, the plants
are large and vigorous and show no wilt
when removed. It is not expected that
the rows filled in, in this manner, will
be as productive as those filled in in the
regular way, still, these plants should

 

 

 

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give fair returns 0n the investment, es-
pecially so if the bed is held over for a
second harvest. Besides, the appearance
of the field will be greatly improved
thereby-

Looking over this strawberry bed, a
few rods distant, there appears to be a
perfect stand of plants as well as an
ideal growth, but on closer inspection it
will be seen that none of the rows con-
tain a sufiicient number of plants to
make an ideal row, and a few have a
very ragged appearance. These rows are
along the north side of the bed and next
to a clover field. Here thereare several
rows that are short from one-fifth to one-
half of the number required to make a
full row of plants. In fighting the grubs,
the same care was exercised here as
elsewhere in the bed. The logical con—
clusion is that the grubs have been work—
ing over from the clover into the straw-
berry rows, p05sibly because of a desire
for varied fare. As this clove-r sod is to
be plowed this fall and put in peas next
spring, it is altogether likely that there
will be further undesirable experiences
of this nature. For, obviously, the- grubs
now in the soil will have to Search else—
where i’or feeding grounds, and the straw-
berry rOWS are easy of access.

A vacant space here and there in the
rows of strawberry plants may not ap-
pear to signify a great deal. whereas the
aggregate may total a considerable per—
centage of the whole. It is only that
portion of the ground that- is fully occu-
pied with roots that is going to make
good in the maximum yields. “'hether
results will justify the grower in filling
in rows in this manner is a question
that can only be answered by the indi-
vidual himself, and this only after care-
ful experimentation.

Emmet Co. M. N. EDGERTON.
DEALERS’ OPPOSITION TO CO-OP-

' ERATIYE EFFORT.

 

Some peculiar conditions are developing
in the apple deal in western Allegan
county this fall. Heretofore there has
been complaint, especially among dealers,
that the pack has been uncertain and
unreliable, but when‘ an effort is made
to correct this deficiency, strange to say,
it meets with no encouragement from the
men who have been raising the complaint.
Without doubt there has.bcen ground
for this criticism. Some growers do not
know how to put up good apples and too
often there are found in any community
those who are not disposed to pack their
apples straight; and with all there have
been different ideas regarding the mat—
ter of grades, so that there has been no
uniformity in the grading.

To correct all of this, and to establish
a reputation for the product of this sec-
tion as well, growers, about' 100 in num—
ber, have formed an organization and
are putting up the apples and offering
them for sale under one management.
The growers have no voice in the grad—
ing, but a. packer is put in each orchard
who does the grading according to the
instructions of the manager. A really
fancy grade is being put up which cor—
responds Vt'lth the regulations of the Sui-
zer act recently passed by congress, and
a brand is put on the barrels which ac—
cords with the provisions of that law. in
order to make such a grade, however. it
is necessary to cull out considerable that
usually goes into the ordinary pack, and
which is really good fruit except it has
some slight defect, like a curculio punc-
ture or small scab, which only affects the
appearance of the apples slightly.

The strange feature of the situation is
that buyers will go out among growers
who do not belong to this association and
raythem as much {or their pack of the
general run of the orchard as they can
buy this fancy grade of association up-
pics for. In addition it becomes neces-
sary for the buyers to keep a man on
the ground to receive the apples, and
they must advance considerablc money
on their purchases besides, pay hotel and
livery bills and load the cars, while in
buying of the association all of these 8X»
penses would be saved and no money paid
until the fruit is loaded in the cars. One
explanation of the Situation is that the
bus/ers are. for the most part brokers who
buy for the larger dealers, and it does
not require much sagacity for them to
see that when the association accomp-
lishes its object of securing a line of
trade direct with the smaller dealers who
supply a localmmarket the business of
these brokers will be cut out; but still,
men sent out by the association to so-
licit this line of trade, while doing some
business, are notvlmet with the encour-
agement that might be expected. That

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

is, dealers who supply a local and con-
stant demand, which naturally is best
pleased with a reliable line of samples,
are unwilling to pay much more for such
fruit than‘they are for the general run
of barreled stock. ’ . _

Viewed from the present experience,
therefore, putting up fancy apples looks
like a losing proposition. It costs con-
siderable to grade the apples so closely,
while the fruit can be run into the bar-
rels in one grade -much more rapidly, and
then the lower grade must be sold for
50 ‘to 75 cents less per barrel. Then there
is the expense of the organization to be
met. And, besides, there is the apparent
hostility and evident ill will of the buy-
ers to be met. which is not at all pleas-
ant. Altogether, it looks as though the
men who are not in the association are
decidedly the gainers. On the other hand,
however. there is no telling where the
apple market might have gone to if the
Fruitgrowers’ Exchange were not in the
field. This is evident from the experi-
ence of a year ago. Then the buyers be-
came so arrogant and insolent that the
growers became incensed, and held an
indignation meeting, and that was the
inception of this Exchange. That effort
had the effect of immediately advancing
the price fully 50 cents per barrel; and
where the price would be now and what
the attitude of the buyers might be this
year, with the larger crop in the coun-
try, if a‘ considerable proportion of the
orchards were not tied up in the Ex-
change, is only a guess. The outside
growers are doubtless money ahead, due
to the existence of the Exchange.

But the organization was not affected
merely for the present season but to es-
tablish a reputation and secure a. per-
manent market, so that no matter what
the size of the crop may be consumers
who know our brand will look to us for
'their apples. Boxed apples are now
quoted considerably higher than barrels,
simply because the grade is higher. The

grade the Exchange is barreling is equal .

to that of the boxed goods and must
when it becomes. known command a
higher price and prove the wisdom of
organized effort. Sales are being made
of this fruit at profitable prices, howv
ever, and with a little patience the mem—
bers Will without doubt realize good mon-
ey. Our experience will no doubt be of
interest to those who may contemplate a
similar move.

Allegan Co. EDWARD HUTCHINS.

MARKET NOTES.

 

Apples—The general market for apples
is active. There- are probably more ap-
ples moving this fall than for the past
few seasons. There is a. general im-
pression among consumers that a large
harvest of this fruit is being made with
the result that liberal buying is evident
in the majority oi? our large cities. Es—
pecially is this true in New York City,
where receipts are double what they were
a year ago, but because of the wide de-
mand trading there continues brisk and
dealers are enabled to take care of a
large portion of accumulations. Winter
varieties are beginning to come into Chi-
cago in large quantities and there is con—
siderable inquiry for corlots of this kind.
Packing stock appears to be displacing
the shipments of bulk apples and good
fruit is finding a wide outlet. Receipts
are heavy in Cincinnati and the market
is a little weak yet. The amount of ap-
ples offered is larger than in ordinary
seasons. Good apples are selling quite
satisfactorily in the crowded markets of
St. Louis. There, apples are arrivmg by
both boat and rail. In Boston a good de—
mand for fancy i‘ruit prevails While IoW»
cr grades arc a burden to the trade.

C.‘ibb:1gc,—e'l‘here is promise of a good

crop of cabbage this fall and the marlc't .

will probably rule lowcr than usual. In
the cities along the- Mason and Dixon
lines the supply at this time is large,
giving the trade a bearish tone. In Pitts-
burgh stock is accumulating. with trad-
ing favorable to the buyer. The same
can be said of Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Philadelphia. At St. Louis receipts are
moderate and the demand fair, while at
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very heavy thus far. Northern cities
have up to this time had a little firmer
tone. Boston increased values last week
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caused the figures to be lowered to the
former level. In New.York there was a
fair trade but accumulations the past few
days has given the market a duller tone.
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386 (38)

WE STAND at political cross-roads.

The sign boards are clearly worded.
We are the deciders of our fate
for the next four years. Is it to be success
or depression?
it * *

You have before you three candidates.
Of the three:

Only one, Mr. Taft, has had the courag-
eous strength to show where he stands on
the tariff.

Only one, Mr. Taft, has taken the pains
to attempt to produce a tariff law which
would be just to the manufacturer and the
consumer alike.

Only one, Mr. Taft, has tried to take the
tariff out of politics, and get it on a fair
protective basis—a basis resting upon facts.

Only one, Mr. Taft, has had the fearless
strength to stand alone in the face of

- political demands, as well as popular de-

mands, and refuse to O. K. tariff bills
which he knew would bring disastrous
results. .9

Only one, Mr. Taft, has been far-seeing
statesman enough, to recognize that the
control of monopoly could come only
through the control of the patents which
make this monopoly possible.

Only one, Mr. Taft, has gone direct to
the heart of the matter, and proposed
patent laws which would cure the evils of
monopoly by removing the cause.

Only one, Mr. Taft, has proven himself
the just judge, by calmly surveying the
monopoly situation and putting his hands,
backed by means of a cure, on the failings
which the workings of the Sherman law
have brought out.

1‘ 3k *

Each one of these candidates stands at
a cross-road.

Each one is pointing to one of the sign-
boards.

Which road will you take?

1' II! It

On the board above Professor Wilson we
read the warning against theory,——the un~
tried, questionable dreams of the imprac-
tical theorist.

Alongside it is the warning: Remember
1893-1896.

Remember these four years, when not
less than 3,000,000 men were out of em-
ployment. 0

Remember that when these men were
marching up and down the land, eating at
free soup houses, the money they were not
earning was the money the farmers of this
country were not getting.

Remember the fact that this lack of em-
ployment, this Democratic rule, cost the
people fully four and one-half billion dollars
-——much more than the entire cost of the
Civil War.

it * it

The learned Professor, in his request of
you, the American Farmer, for your sup-

ort, presents as his platform the same
“Tariff F or Revenue Only” principle, which
caused the disastrous four. years in the
middle nineties.

He has worked out beautifully spun
theories. But in reality here is what the
Professor offers for your acceptance.

We quote from history; the history of the
last Democratic administration:—

Bank failures throughout the country, as
many as ten failures in one day. Collapse
of commission houses. The Chemical Bank,
one of the largest in the country, unable to
fill its weekly orders for currency.

Encounter between anarchists and so-

' lists.

claFifty million dollar Government bond
issue to meet conditions. Ten thousand
miners strike in Ohio. Property destroyed
in Pennsylvania by striking miners. New
York silk factories closed.

THE ‘ MICHIGAN FARMER.

N inety-Tliree or Nineteen Twelve

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Riotous meeting of workmen in Boston.
General strike among the silk weavers.
Railroad bridges burned, and other riotous
acts by miners in West Virginia. Troops
ordered to Cripple Creek, Colorado, to
suppress mining troubles.

Coxey’s Army formed to march on
Washington. Coxey’s Army a terror _to
farmers of the West. ,

Governor of South Carolina declares mar-
tial law.

Men killed‘and wounded in Pennsylvania.
coke riots. United Mine Workers strike.

Attempted demonstration of Coxey’s
army on steps of Capitol. Members of
army arrested for holding up railway
train.

Farm products find no market. Farmers
in financial difficulties. .

II it 1‘

But why continue? The fact remains
that this is the only past history to which
the Professor can “point with pride” as a
promise of what his theories will develop
in the future.

fl II t

A loud noise distracts your attention to
a second cross road.

Wild claims, resonant epithets, circus
antics form the side-show of the campaign.

Here, gentlemen, is the road-way of
Promises but no fulfillment. Anything you
can think of, just ask for it.

It makes no difference how impossible or
impractical the fulfilling of the promise may
be—-—you’ll be told your wants will be car-
ried out.

The Jester, with his tinkling bells, has
followed his cap into the ring.

The menagerie, fresh from the wilds, is
with us.

Gentlemen, here is the Third Termer.

The way is impossible, hence,

A vote cast in favor of this road, is just
as fully a vote cast for the road of the
theorist, the Professor. A vote cast for the
nightmare of eighteen ninety-three.

III * #1

But here is a third road. The signbcard
is painted with fresh accomplishments.

No megaphone calls your attention. No
“barker” stands in front calling on you to
come inside.

The one appeal made to you is the
statement of deeds well done.

Here is the record of what the Tariff
Board tried to accomplish, and would have
effected but for the obstruction of unfav-
orable Democrats in the political House.

Here is a $58,000,000 deficit changed
into a $30,000,000 surplus.

Here is the central idea of Mr. Taft’s
Tariff plan—a plan as simple, as clear as
sunshine. Namely:

———Basc the tariff on the facts and figures
which show the exact difference between
foreign and home cost of production.

——Forget the political demands of office
holders or favored interests. Take the
tariff out of politics and place it on the
solid foundation of real protection of home
industry.

Here is the record of a calm, judicious,
fearless man who neglected his political
opportunity, that he might save the coun-
try from immeasurable loss.

Here is the record of the Wool Bill,
vetoed because it would have crippled the
American Wool Industry.

Here is the record of the president who
promised Tariff Revision, and has accom-
plished an average of 4%» per cent revision
downward.

This in face of the charge by his oppon-
ents that the tariff is higher than ever.

The figures of the Payne law, after 35
months of operation, show this 41/), per
cent below the Dingley law.

Here is the record of the man who, by

OCT. 26‘, 1912.

wise administration of tariff and trade
laws, has fostered industrial conditions,
until the prosperity of the country has
reached a height never before equalled.

- Here are the figures which show an enor-
mous increase in land values,—in farm
products:

Figures showing manufacturing products
nearly doubled.

Here is the story of the President who,
recognizing that our future welfare depends
largely on a prosperous, growing farm com-
munity, has encouraged and supported the
study of soil and crop conditions as essen-
tial to national prosperity. ,

* * *

A wise statesman once said:

“The man the people laugh at, they
don’t make President.”

The chair of the President is a position
of calm, dispassionate dignity. The Chief
Executive of our land should be one who
is an index to the position the nation holds
in the councils of the world.

Jest has its place,—-—but it is not in the
controlling of our national destinies.

Sport, the hale and hearty, happy-go-
lucky atmosphere of the outdoor life, has a
peculiar hold on the fancies of most men.
But the government of this country can-
not be successfully run on the rules of a
Wild—\Vest show.

Theory is pleasant for some to study out
——it is a means of mind development. But
theory, unproved by practice, is too dan-
gerous when the welfare of a hundred
million people is at stake.

* II! ‘I

The strongest recommendation which the
Taft administration has, is that its actions
looking to country-wide prosperity have
been carried out quietly, smoothly, almost
without a knowledge that things were be-
ing done.

It i *

When you have a field to be plowed, do
you jump from one thing to another, plow-
ing, feeding the cattle, hustling here and
there,—yelling, cracking a whip, and mak-
ing a general hulla-balloo? Not much!
You wouldn’t accomplish much if you didl

You start a furrow, and you plow until
that furrow or the entire field is finished.

Would you employ a farm hand who
spent his time in telling about the theory
of farming? Or would you get the man
who farmed,-—who did things?

Vote as you run your farm.

* I *

Gentlemen, we stand at political cross-
roads.

On one side is a road abandoned sixteen
years ago. It was rocky, it was ‘full of
chuckle holes, and mud patches.

The dust of sixteen years has smoothed
the surface somewhat. The broom of
theory has pushed a little sand into the
holes, and the rocks have become covered
with moss.

But underneath it all is the same disas-
trous going,—the impossible driving of old.
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On another side is a zig-zag road, and
smiling, smooth—tongued politicians are
calling you by your first name, slapping
you on the back, and telling you what a
jolly good time awaits you on this road of
empty promises.

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The third road is the road you now are
travelling. It has led you, quietly, but
surely, into the land of prosperity and big
values.

It has put the country on a height of
wealth it never approached before.

Which road will you take?

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

Charles D. Hilles, Chairman.
James B. Reynolds, Secretary.

 

 

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OCT. 26, 1912.

BUTTER.

 

(Continued from page 379).
itself, assuming that the cream has been
brought in in good'condition, for the
succeszul manufacture of high—grade
butter, is the observatiOn of scrupulous
cleanliness in the creamery. All of the
products of milk, at some stage or other,
are especially susceptible to bacterial
invasion and form, as a. rule, excellent
culture media for the growth of various
germs. Consequently the methods which
science has shown to be fit weapons for
the attack and eradication of bacterial

diseases are the very methods which
creamerymen and the butter—makers
mustl call to their assistance in the

creamery.

Rancidity in butter is not the result
of aging of pure butter, but is the re-
sult indicating bacterial invasion of that
butter. Fishy flavors and cowey flavors,
strong aromas in butter,‘ show lack of
care somewhere along the line in the
manufacture of the product.

A product? which has been carelessly
produced upon the farm can never be
made into a good finished product. On
the other hand, milk which has been
produced under every possible precaution
as to cleanliness may be ruined by the
prevailing unsanitary conditions in tho
creamery and by untidiness on the part
of the butter-maker.

Prices of Dairy Products Not so High as
Meats.

Within the last few years, looking at
it from the consumer’s point of view, the
various products of the- diiry industries
have been retailing to them at exceed-
ineg high prices. W'hile it is desirable,
at the present time, from the Consumer's
point of view, to keep price-s as low as
possible, we should like to note that even
at the prevailing prices the products of
the dairy are selling much cheaper in
comparison to their intrinsic worth than
are practically all other animal food pro-
ducts.

Coloring of Butter.

A great deal has been said, especially
in food circles, during the past few years,
regarding the use of artificial coloring
matter in butter. Most idealists fail to
realize that it is an exceedingly expen-
sive thing for the manufacturer of sta-
ple commodities, such as butter, to in—
troduce with financial success innova—
tions with regard to the product they are
selling. It has been the. custom for a
great many years for the. butter maker
to add coloring matter to butter and
judging from the market alone, coloring
matter seems to be demanded by the
consumer. This may be shown by the
fact that in one, section of the cvuntry
a very light 3utter will be demanded,
Whereas in another sect-Eon cf the coun‘
try a very heavily colorcld butter will be
indicated. We believe, for example, rhit
New York City will take a very light
butter, whereas, on the other hand, we
understand that the- butter which se-
cures the highest market price in the
city of TVashingon is so yellow that it
is almost red. bIanllfz'Oill'i'l‘S like to
cater to the demands of the consumer
and the consumer is not always govorned
in .he matter by the proper sense 0.” the
fitness of things. Personally, we are of
the opinion that butter should be manu—
factured without the use of artificial col-
OI'iIlg matter, and we certainty shall
DOt change that viewpoint. 0n thn
other hand, we are unable to
0““ at ”10 Present timc thee {T‘w'tll
crying need In this state for a product
uniform in quality as well as uniform in
color, with. the entire abolition of color-
ing matter in the. product and the pm-
has recognized this fact and.by a specific
proviso in that law permits the use of
harmless coloring matter in butter.

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It has been estimated that the annual
production of honey in the United States
amounts to the value of $20,000,000. But
officials of the Bureau Of Entomology,
however, state that the production of
honey is not the most valuable service
that bees render, since their work in
fertilizing the blossoms of fruit trees is
worth many times $20,000,000 every year.
Suppose, for instance, that there were
no bees or other insects obtainable to
move from flower to flower, carrying
with them the pollen of one to the oth-
er, and thus fertilizing it, would not the
farmer haVe a most difficult task if he
should be required to hand-pollinate the
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on page 378 you will find an Interest.
Ing'offer. Don’t fall to read It.

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
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THE NOVEMBER PROGRAMS.

 

State Lecturer’s Suggestions for Flrst
Meeting.

(Co-operation Day Program.—“They
helped everyone his neighbor; and every-
one said to his brother, ‘Be of good cour—
age.’ ”—Isa. xii, 6). -

Fifteen minutes of orchestra
followed by a song.

music,

Election echoes by two men and two
women.
“What shall the women do next?"

\Vhistling duet.

Business co—operation: 1, its
in England; 3, in Denmark.

The Grange plan of co-operation 00n-
trasted with the American Rochdale plan.

Closing song, with whistling accompani—
ment.

Suggestions for Second Meeting.

(Farm and Home Day Program—“Life
should yield results.”——Richards).

Song.

The Farm: 1, what
know about his own farm. 2,
can know his farm better.

instrumental solo.

The Home: 1, why its work needs to
be studied. 2, helps that a woman has
in studying her duties.

Quartet. -

What breed of dairy cattle best
the demand of our locality?

Declnmation, “A tribute to the cow."

Dialog.

need; 2,

a man needs to
how a man

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POINTS TO WORK TOWARD.

 

At a meetingr during the earlier part of
the year, at member of \Vashteiiaw Po-
mona was askcd to name some things
for its other members to think about
and work toward. Bro. II. H. Hodge was
the member who responded to this re-
quest. His p'ints wc're so well taken
that I made note of them at the time and
now wish to pass them on in order that
other l‘omonas may have the benefit of
such a statcmont of concrete things which
it would be well to undertake. These
were in the. form of questions, as follows:

1. How can I‘omona Grange enlarge its
membership in unorganized sections?

2. Can we not devise some way by
which Pomona Grange can be a clearing
house in buying and selling?

3. Can we» not devise some way by
which we can co-operate with our state
educational institutions in discussion of
topics?

4. Cannot Pomona Grange have a con-
fercnce with the scientific housekeeping
department of the Normal college?

5. Cannot Pomona Grange devise
some means by which all farmers’ organ-
izations can co-operate throughout the
county?

6. Is there not some way in which the.
Grange can go to the leaders of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement and say,
”Is there not some way in which we can
further the objects for which your move-
ment stands?"

These questions cover a broad range.
They show an open and kindly attitude
toward the work of other organizations.
They suggest progress not only along the
usual lines of Grange endeavor, but also
in the direction of the still larger thought
of the co-cpcration of organizations. They
are good to think on—good to act upon.

JENNIE BUELL.

GRANGE INFLUENCE.

 

Some critics of the Grange have called
attention to the fact that the organization
of many Grangcs in cities and large
towns indicates that the control of the
order is fast slipping away from the
farmers and that it cannot longer be
designated as a truly farmers' organiza—
tion. .

In contradiction of this criticism, says
a writer in the Grange Review, instances
without number may be furnished show—
ing these so—called “city Granges” hard
at ‘work along distinctly agricultural lines,
especially arousing among their members,
who are workers in other occupations, a
positive interest in the farm and in all
that makes for its prosperity.

For example-one such Grange recently
VOted to procure a plot of land for the
purpose of planting and cultivating corn
by its members, who will compete in the
big New England corn show. Another
“city Grange” took hold of a dormant
agricultural fair. gotl all the town’s D80-
ple interested and eventually put it well
on its feet and with every indication of
a successful future. Another holds an

annual June flower show, that creates
keen competition and wonderfully im-
proves the qualtty of local cultivation.

Another offers prizes for the bestwgardens

 

made each year by its members. Scores
of such Granges conduct a fair every au-
tumn at; which exhibits of fruits and
vegetables are made the conspicuous fea-
tures. Other Granges of this type have
excited a. distinct influence in their city
in behalf of more school garden work for
the children; for tree planting along city
streets and avenues; laying out public
parks and playgrounds; not to mention
the influence excited by such Granges for
better market facilities for the nearby
farmers and the: bringing of producers
and consumers of food products into clos-
er relations, for mutual benefit, all of
which seems to giVe the “city Oranges”
ample warrant. to live and to increase.

 

Baraga Patrons Hold Fall Meeting.—
The sixth session of Seward Pomona was
recently held at L’Anse, Baraga county,

with a fair attendance. This Pomona
was organized a little more than a year
ago with an enrollment. of 49, which has
since been Increased to 85, and its finan-
cial condition is very satisfactory. The
special committee. appointed at the Ska-
noe meeting last June, reported a, i'esov
lution favoring the abolishment of game
laws, and the resolution was adopted.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Anderson were
chosen Pomona delegates to State Grange,
and Edward Mitchell was selected to rep--
resent the subordinates of the. county.
Pomona ofi‘iccrs for ensuing two ye.-.rs
were elected as follows: Master, Houkcn
Lundin; overseer, August ()hmaii; lectur-
er, Mrs. C. H. Anderson; chaplain, Aug-
ust Ohman; secretary, \\'. T. Menge;
treasurer, Mrs. I’ctcr Girord; steward,
Peter Clync; asst. steward, August Holm-
stroni; lady asst. steward, Miss Albertina.
Stenson; Ceres, Mrs. lrloakcrn Lundin;
Pomona, Mrs. August Hanson; Flora,
Mrs. Alvid Johnson; gatekeeper. Joseph
Picai'd. L‘Anse was awarded the winter
meeting of the Pomona, to be held in
January.

 

 

COMING EVENTS.

 

National
Meeting, at
to 26.

Annual
Nov. 13

G ra nge, Forty-sixth
Spokane, Wash,

Pomona Meetings.

Gencsec (‘o., with Enterprise Grange,
Friday, Oct. 25.

Lenawcc l’oinona will visit Branch Po—
mona, 'l‘hursday, Oct. 31, at Goldwater.
Lenawcc members furnish program and
Branch degree team exemplifies the
Fifth liegi'cv. Thursday, Dec. 5, Branch
Pomona visits Lenawee l‘omona at Ad-
rian, with a reversal of above conditions.

gum? Calif,

AWM
OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA'
TION 0F FARMERS’ CLUBS.

President—J. D. Leland, Corunna.

Vice-President——D. M Morrison, St.
Johns.

Secretary-Treasurer—Mrs. C. P.
son, Metamora. .

Directors~C. L. Wright, Caro; E. W.
\Voodruff. Blanchard; C. P Johnson,
Mctamora; H. W. Chamberlain,
Lake; Wm. T. Hill, Carson City;
Spaulding, Balding.

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

 

John-

White
Jerry

 

A350ciational- Motto.—
The skillful hand, with cultured mind,
is the farmer’s most valuable asset.

Associational Sentiment.—
The farmer, he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.

A SUCCESSFUL CLUB FAIR.

Lincoln Township Club of Isabella County.

The members of the various Farmers’
Clubs over the state may think we are
(lead, but We, are not. We held our sec—
ond lair in U('lub("l', and though the day
was cold, cloudy and somewhat rainy, we
had a good attendance. The exhibits
were Very good. The greatest in variety
cf all Wt'I‘C potatoes and squash. There
was a, good display of needlework, and
some line bead work, also canned fruit
and fresh apples, \‘Ulllo- of the latter be-
ing very large, especially the. \Volt' ltivcr
variety. There was a prcmiuin of .50
cents for the best peck of potatoes, won
by Mr. C. A. V'Vhite; beSt ton e‘aI‘S? Uf
com, 50 cents, won by Mrs. .los. Brown-

ridge; best pair of chickens, 25 cents,
won by Mrs. Wm. Hetherington. The
winners were Whine Orpingtons. Ye

scribe had a pen of White Leghorns but
they were not in it with the 0rpingtons.

There was also a prize given for the
best loaf of bread baked by a girl 12
years old or under. There was a prize
for the best collection of canned fruit,
and for the best quilt.

We had some good speakers from Mt.
Pleasant, our county seat. Mr. Walter
Keen, present county clerk, spoke on
“Monopolistic Trusts.” He brought out
some very good points. . Next Dr. Aman—
da Holcomb spoke on “\Voman Suffrage
and the White Slave,” also “Child Labor."
The other two speakers were Mr. H. A.
Graham, candidate for judge of probate,
and Mr. Northcon, candidate for repre-
sentative. in the legislature. The last
two did not talk politics. We had a
bountiful dinner, and were treated to
watefl‘melons by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Gray. Thus we spent the day, Friday,
Oct. 11, in the Strickland Gleaner Hall.—
One of the Charter Members.

\

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CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

Labor vs. CapitaI.—The October meet-
ing of the VVixom Farmers’ Club was en~
tertained by Mrs. Jane. Larcom at her
home in \Vixom. Although a rainy day
quite a. number were'there for the noon
hour, and when President Gage called
to order at 2:30 the house was comfort—
ably filled. A good program was listened
to, consisting of vocal and instrumental
music, recitations and a number of good
queries were discussed, but the ques-
tion that provoked the most discussion
was: “Resolved, that labor unions are
the biggest trusts in the United States.”
The negative side said capital was the
biggest trust; money moves men: noth—
ing so powerful as money. Men are not
sacrificing themselves for labor. \Vhen
referred back to the Club, capital won
out.——Mrs. II. D. Stephens. Cor. Sec.

Farmers’ Hospitality.—Tho September
meeting of the Assyria Farmers’ Club
was held at the pleasant home of D. W.
Cargo and wife, Sept. 26, but owing to
the. very unpleasant (lay and the busy
season of the year there were. only about
60 to enjoy the fine dinner that was serv—
cd. After the rc-past, President Mayo
called to order, the Club sang Beulah
Land. Chaplain read the twenty—third
Psalm, then usual routine of business.
Elsie Tanker read a fine piece, showing
the difference between the, hospitality of
the farmer and the business people of
the towns when they drive out in the
country, if it is anywhere near meal time.
The farmer says put your horses in and
have something to eat, the farmer’s wife
gets up a good meal and they seem to
enjoy it No so when the framer or his
wife goes to town. If they have to stand
around all day they are seldom even ask-
ed to go to dinner. Mrs. Nina Tasker’s
paper on “Influence,” was fine and en-
joyed by all. Song by the young ladies
was much enjoyed.

Discuss Highway Problem.—The Odes—
sa Farmerrs’ Club met with Mrs. Lottie
Durkee, Saturday afternoon, Oct. 11. The
meeting was called to order by President
Foght and opened with a piano solo by
Mildred Durkee. This was followed by
a reading by Mrs. Florence Lepard, “Gil-
liland,” which was well received, as her
selections always are. Mr. Kahn read
his paper. which was very good, the sub-
ject being. _“Do people watch the work
of their senators and representatives as
closely as thcy should?" This was well

 

discussed by tho-gentlemen present. The
subject for the September meeting.
“Should farmers adjoining the. roads be

compelled to keep the roadside clear of
brush or other rubbish, or should it be
done by road officers?" was discussed by
members. after which the meeting was
adjourned for dinner. The afternoon ses-
sion was given over to an entertaining
literary and musical program.

Elect New OffIceI‘S."iTIl<‘ mcmbers of
the Charleston Farmers’ Club were very

pleasantly entertained at the home of
NII‘. and Mrs. J. D. Miller 0n the. after—
noon of Oct. 5. About 50 were present.

Many of the ladies took advantage of the
opportunity afforded by the display of
fancy work and lessons given by Miss
Spring. After the usual business meet-
ing the following.r officers were elect-
ed for the ensuing year: President, W.
J. Hagelshaw: viccvprcsident, George
Perry: secretary, Mrs. L. J. Bradley;
treasurer, Mrs. Theron I’almiter; lectur—
er, Mena. Holmes: reported, Clara Pal-
mitcr; directors of the Junior Club, Mrs.
Floyd Coville and Carey Rowland. A fine
literary program was also enjoyed. Mr.
llowlan,‘ entertained the company With
a phasing description of a junior corn‘
growing contest held in Indiana :1 short
time ago and which he attended. A piano
solo by Miss Leon Miller and a reading
“Vi‘illie's First Hallowacn," by Lurn Snell
were also greatly enjoyed. The occasion
being the anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus. 'Verne
'Palmilm- gayc :1 brief talk of his life and

compared his progressive- spirit with the
progressive spirit of the Farmers' Club.
Hazel Rradlcy u‘avi‘ a piano solo. The
afternoon closed with the serving oi" a
fine I‘I(‘l’li(' supper. The next meeting
will he held at the home of Mrs. Alice
Henson, on November 9, with a picnic

dinnor instead of supper.

The Golden Potlatch.irln an open let—
tcr to the liigham County Farmers’ Club,
Mr and Mrs. \\'. Il. Horton_ former
members of the Club now residing in :he
slate of \Vashington, in addition to de-
scribing sights and scenes incidental 21'
their trip to the west. described the his-
toric festival of Seattle and the city it-
sc-lf in the following inlcrcslingr manner:
“Each July Seattle has a gala week
called “The Golden I’ollatcli,” an Indian
name for free festival. It is after the
manner of New ()rlcans’ Mardi Gras and
St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet. It, however,
celebrates the arrival in Seattle harbor
of the first gold-laden steamer, “The
l’oi'tliln(.” from Alaska in 1896. that
event awakening the world to untold
wealth in Alaska. It is a fine sight to go
down to the docks and see the vessels
loading for Alaska. One. cannot conceive
of the vast trade with Alaska. Seattle
never forgets \Vm. H. Seward, as he was
indirectly inliucnced in making the city
what it is today. by the United States
purchasing Alaska. At the entrance to
Volunteer Park you will observe a life-
size bronze statute of Mr. Seward, and
at the Washington State University
grounds a home constructed after the
style of his eastern home. * * r The
general topography of the city is hilly.
Several long ridges rise gradually to the
elevation of 350 feet above sea level. To
the west is Elliott Bay, an arm of Puget
Sound. Three miles east of the salt Wat—
er is beautiful Lake Washington, 30
miles long and from three to four miles
wide. Lake Union and Green Lake are
within the city .imits. Work is progress—
ing upon a canal to connect Lakes Union
and I’Vashington with Puget Sound. so
all large ocean—going vessels can enter
Lake Washington. affording one of the
finest fresh water harbors in the world."


 

  

 

. Completely Equipped ’

 

The Fastest Selling Carin America

EFORE we announced this car

we had signed contracts for over

39,000. Yet we had planned to

limit our 1913 production to

40,000 cars. We are now ship-
ping 150 cars a day. Yet we could ship
500 a day if we could make them. Right
now we are over 3,000 cars behind our
immediate shipping orders. We have
been in this condition for the last 30
days. It is beginning to look as if we
never could catch up.

Practically every important 1913 an-
nouncement has been made. A careful
examination of these announcements
will prove precisely what we have been
claiming—that there is not a $1,200 car
built that has any more practical value
to offer than this one for $985.

And here are the comparative facts
which support this seemingly bold state-
ment.

Automobile values must be looked at
from several different angles. You
must consider not only the price, but
what that price buys you. You must
take into consideration the power, the
strength, the beauty, the construction,
the size, the appearance and the equip-
ment of the car. You must judge a car
by the material in it; the workmanship
in; it; the methods employed to produce
to and last but not least, the facilities be-
hind the production methods.

Examine each one of these funda-
mentals in this Overland at $985 and you
will find a car that is identical with any
$1,200 car in the world. Go further and

you find high-grade construction and
painstaking care in finish that equal the
production methods employed in the
making of any $5,000 car you know of.

This car has the power of a $1,200
car; it has the strength of a $1,200 car;
it [has the size of a $1,200 car; it has the
seating capacity of a $1,200 car; it has
the wheel base of a $1,200 car; it has
the chassis construction of a $1,200 car;
it has the comfort of a $1,200 car; it has
the beauty and finish of a $1,200 car.

, Take the equipment item alone. It
has a Warner speedometer—the best
made; it has a fine mohair top and boot;
it has a clear vision wind shield; it has
a self-starter and Prestolite tank—every
practical accessory made for an automo-
bile. And all for the one price—$985.
There are no “extras.” ,

Then there are those important con-
struction features which are only found
on the very high-priced cars. This
model has a drop-forged I beam section
front axle, fitted with the famous Timken
bearings; a three-quarter floating rear
axle fitted with Hyatt bearings; a selec-
tive transmission, with three speeds
forward and reverse, fitted with annular

bearings, and a cold rolled pressed steel _
frame. 'It has the center control. The,
' brakes are unusually large for a car of

this size and power, and are ample for
cars of much greater weight. There are
two powerful sets of‘the drum type,
internal expanding and external con-
tracting. The great braking surface of
these is indicated by their dimensions,

13 inches by 2% inches each. These
are the brake dimensions you find on
$1,500 cars. Pick up the catalogue of
any $1,500 car and see for yourself. The
springs are semi-elliptic front, three-

quarter elliptic rear. Each spring has
Six leaves. Tires are 32x3 % Q. D. ’

This model is superbly finished. The
striking body is in dark Overland blue-
Battleship Gray wheels harmonize per—
fectly with the rich, dark body which is
trimmed in black and nickel plate.

How can we market this car at this
rice? By making 40,000 cars a year.
ncreased production brings decreased

selling prices. There is the answer in
six small words.

If we could bring you fully to realize
the size of our huge organization, you
would more fully appreciate and under-
stand the value of this car and why we
can do what others cannot.

The demand for this car has already
swamped the entire visible supply for
the 1913 season. It has actually sim-
mered down to a mere allotment pro—
position. So if you want an Overland
‘69” get your order in quick.

Any man who pays over $985 for a
completely equipped 30 horsepower, five

‘ passenger touring car of this type and

size is just wasting money.

See this Model “69” at the Overland
salesroom in your city at once. Order
early if you want it early. Handsome
catalogue on request. Write today, ad-
dressing Department. 86.

\The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio

Self Starters

30 Horsepower
5-Passenger Touring Car
IIO-inch Wheel Base
Tim/zen Bearings

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Prestolite T ank

Mohair T 01) and Boot
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