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VOL. CXL. No. 7. l
Whole Number 3630.

,DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1913

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1‘ MICHIGAN DAIRYMEN’S ANNUAL MEETING.

HE Thirty-ninth Annual Conven-

l tion of the Michigan State Dairy-
men’s Association was held in the

‘ municipal auditorium of the city of Sag-
inaw, on February 4~7 inclusive. The
accommodations afforded by the magnifi-
cent building which housed the conven-

tion were appreciated by not only the
dairy farmers, Creamery men, cheese
makers, and ice cream men who attend-

ed, but also by the supply people who
found there excellent conditions for the
display of their products. \Vhile the
weather was cold there was nothing about
it to discourage any who attended and
all seemed to enjoy the bracing effect of
the sharp winds coming down from Sag-
inaw Bay.
Although the attendance was not all
' that may have been desired, especially at
the early session, on \Vednesday after-
noon there was none too large seating
capacity in the hall to fully accommodate
all those who came to listen to the ad-
dresses. The fact, too, that the sessions
were divided, butter makers, ice cream
men and cheese makers each holding
smaller sessions by themselves, made the
attendance appear smaller at times than
it actually was. One could not help but
observe, however, that there was intense
interest on the part of those who were
there, as shown by the animated discus-
sion following the different talks and pa-
pers, and also the ease with which it was
possible to profitably employ the time
made vacant by the absence of two or
three speakers who were to have appear-
ed upon the program.
.The exhibits of the supply men were
more than usually attractive, due, pos-
sibly, to advantages afforded by the large
spacious room in the auditorium which
gave every opportunity to show goods to
advantage. The space, too, was fully oc-
cupied, showing these men to. be loyal
supporters of the Michigan organization.
‘The first session was called to order
by President Eldridge. of Gratiot county.
After invocatiOn the dairymcn were we]-
comed by the Mayor of Saginaw and fol-
lOwing the response, the president gave
his annual addreSs which contained ad-
vanced ideas for the consideration of
Michigan’s dairymen. Secretary Bechtel,
of Tuscola county, then gave a report of
his work as secretary and treasurer. “'e
cannot refrain from expressing the gen-
eral appreciation of the members and oth-
ers of the work of the organization’s oth-
Qials, particularly that of Mr. Bechtel, who
seemed to have the
affairs of the whole
convention well in
hand and managed
them with no all)-
parent discord.
A Greater Income.
There was a fair
attendance present
when the president
called for order at
the afternoon meet~
ing, which was
known as the dairy
farmers’ session.
Vice-president Van-
derboom, of Mar—
quette county, was
asked to take the
chair for the ses-
sion. He pointed
out that the dairy-
man was the foun-
dation of the whole
dairy industry, and
that. upon the farm-
er’s ”knowledge of
the dairy cow, of
the ways of treat--
ins her, of provid-

 

ing her with good water, properly com-
pounded, whole'some feed, fresh air, sun-
shine and grooming, depended the Whole
superstructure of the ’great‘ dairy busi-
ness divided betweenr the butter makers,
cheese makers, condensed milk manufac-
turers, ice cream men, etc. He stated
that if our milk could be produced in
sanitary barns by sanitary men and cool-
ed properly immediately after milking and
ihen,kept cool until delivered,
much greater revenue would be received
by our dairymen. He believed that we
could get on an average two cents more
per pound for our butter if produced un-
der conditions that can, without great
inconvenience, be maintained by our dairy
farmers. -

Chairman Vanderboom then called for

that a .

cow in his herd that was nine years old
and had consumed silage from the time
she was old enough to eat roughage, and
'yet‘appeared to be in the very best of
health.

I The importance of the right form for
a silo was impressed. The early silos
were made too wide and too low to give
best results. Mr. Bullock mentioned a
silo built many years ago on former Gov-
ernor Rich’s farm, which was 22 feet
square on the ground and 30 feet high.
In these large silos much loss occurs be~
cause of a lack of weight of the matcrial
in the silo which prevents proper packing
and the exclusion of air, and also be—
cause it is usually impossible to feed the
material out rapidly enough to prcvcnt
decomposition. He recommended that it

 

 

 

 

 

Good Type of Black Jersey Cow, with Udder of Unusual

the first. paper on the program by C. A.
Bullock, of Lapeer county, entitled,
Silo and Silage.

As is common in all innovations in
methods of doing things, the silo has
come in for a number of complaints, in
this case, however, bearing upon one par-
ticular subject and that is the effect of
the acid generated by the fermentation
of the silage upon the digestive system
of animals. Mr. Bullock first mentioned

this complaint and answered it by point-
ing out that those making it were almost
invariably men who had never used sil-
age in their feeding or who had experi-
ence only in the use of a poor quality of
this feed due to ignorance of the proper
method of making it.

He mentioned a

Development,
is better to build two silos of a smaller
diameter than to build one of larger di-

mensions and it is also advisable to have
the silo from 30 to 50 feet in depth.
Silos should be'anchored in some man-
ner, that is, when built of wood. Mr.
Bullock reported that an insurance com-
pany of his locality had paid insurance on
30 silos than had been blown down. This
impressed the necessity of giving attcn-
ti-on to this feature in the construction,
although most of the manufactured silos
have provided against such contingencies.
The cost of the ensilage is determined
to some extent by the kind of corn usod
for making it. It is possible to grow
larger varieties of corn for ’this purpose
than where the crop is used for grain.

 

 

Vlew of the Popular Fruit and Flower Show Recently Held at

Michigan Agricultural College, (See report on page 195);

together unwarranted.

 

The speaker recommended growing as large
a variety as the climate of the locality
will mature. By allowing it to grow a.
long season a. greater bulk can be obtain-
ed frOm the same acreage than from corn
that matures earlier. Even though this
time extends beyond the early froslts a
good silage can be made from it. In
fact, Mr. Bullock is not frightened if the
corn is frosted; he believes, however, that
it should be. hurricd to the silo us soon
after such frosuing as possible.

\Vith regard to feeding, he. mentioned
that his plan was to feed the silage twice
each day, at morning and at night.

Certain experimentors are endeavoring
to improve the quality of silage by steam-
ing it at intervals when filling. This, Mr.
Bullock thought was an expense that was
unwarrantcd, inasmuch as comparatively
little of the silage when properly made
undcr ordinary methods, is lost, and
besides, the gradual heating caused by
the fermentation of the material neces-
sarily cooks it sufficiently without using
foreign heat for that purposc. Nor does
the speakcr add salt to silage, as is the
practice of some. lie has found it easy
to make good silage without this addi-
tional expense and naturally does not
practice it.

Concerning the amount of silage corn
required, invcstigation shows that. on an
average one acre of corn when cnsilocd will
feed three cows for a. pcriod of six
months. As compared with other sources
of feed this shows the silo to be un-
usually economical, not only bccause it
increases tho amount of digestive nutri-
ents to be gotten from an acre, but also
because, within such a structure can be
placed a larger amount of feed than in
a barn that would cos‘t many times the
price of the silo.

Discussion.~—The discussiOn was led by
H. \V. Kinney, of Saginaw county. He
is interested in the silo and has investi-
gated the question over the country and.
finds that the enthusiasm for cnsilage is
widespread. Thcre are many ways of
obtaining information these days and
he mentioned that these avenues are be-
ing widely used by i'urmcrs, stockmen and

dairymcn to obtain facts regarding the
construction and filling of silos. 1n al—
most cvcry community are those who

have attempted cnsiloing corn but failed
to follow the recognized rules and secur—
pd a poor product, thereby bringing pre-
judice. to bear against silage that is al—

IIowever. at
present time these
prejudices are be-
ing largely over—
come and farmers
are recognizing the
utility of the silo.
as may be seen by
t h e, exceedingly
large number that
are being built all
over the land. He
believes that accu-
rate information is
an important thing
just 110W and Sug-
gested that. silo
talks be started in

the

cVery community
in which animals
are fed.

In the general

discussmn Mr. Bul-
lock was asked with
regard to the case-
ing of his silo. It
seems. that, he first
built a square silo
16x16 feet on the
ground and 22 m y
high.’ Later ""‘ia‘qi, ,

 

  


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erected inside of this square silo a round
one 14 feet in diameter and 30 feet high.
He has found advantages from this cas-
ing. The hoops on the round silo have
never required tightening, the air space
between prevents the silage freezing and
the outside structure insures against
wind. The roof is built upon the outside
casing and from the top of the round silo
over the air space between that and the
casing is constructed a floor. This en-
ables him not only to fill the round silo
completely full, but also to pile ensilage
underneath the roof so that it can be
pulled into the silo after settling. Mr.
Bullock throws water on the silage im-
mediately after filling and again in about
a week. This saves considerable of the
material on top and aids in pressing the
silage down to exclude the air.

Mr. Kinney suggested a method of
keeping silage from freezing, the plan
consisting in making a trench in the
silage around the wall of the silo, this
trench being about a foot wide and from
12 no 15 inches deep. As the body of the
silage is fed down, this trench is gradu-
ally worked down with it. The air space
between the silage and the wall of the
silo prevents the body of the silage from
freezing. It is, of course, advisable to

frozen as it would be difficult to dig out
the material after frost had once con-
gealed the material around the walls.

There are often complaints of silage
molding near the walls of the silo. The
cause for this, suggested by some, lays
in the walls absorbing moisture from the
material immediately next to it, thus
permitting the air to enter and mold it.

How to Build a Dairy Herd.

This. the second topic for discussion at
the afternoon meeting, was ably handled
by PM f. A. C. Anderson, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, with whom the au-
dience appeared to be well acquainted.
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lection and breeding produced a. fast
horse. Practically all other useful breeds
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characteristic of this nation.
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bring to this side the highly developed
animals that had been produced by Eng-
lish and European breeders.
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velop an American coach horse. This
enterprise may be said to have failed, not
so much because of its being impossible
to develop the type of animal these men
had in mind but because of the introduc-
tion of automobiles which satisfied the
demand for an-anlmal of this type.

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the fast horse. “'ithin the memory of
many men living today a horse that
could trot in 2:30 was considered an un-
usual animal and that speed was calcu-
lated to be the fastest that horses could
ever go. Nevertheless animals have been
developed which have gradually cut the
speed down until today there are scores
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corded men declared that she was a
sport and only some such abnormal indi-
viduals would ever be found to equal such
a. record, but Prof. Anderson stated that
We have now records of 31 cows that have
produced over 800 pounds of butter-fat,
which means practically 1,000 pounds of
butter. Within the past five years 15
animals have exceeded the 1,000—pound
mark. The records shows that 16 Hol-
stelns, eight Jerseys, six Guernseys and
one Ayrshire have yielded 1,000 or more
pounds of butter in a year.

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are no short cuts to the increasing of
good dairy stock. Such stock must be
bred by making use of the good blood we
haVe and that which may be imported
from abroad. A‘ fault with the American
dairyman is that he does too much mixed
breeding. An instance came under Prof.
Andersons's notice where a man had been
breeding his cows to a Guernsey sire for
a number of years until he had secured
a high-grade and an excellent type of
this breed. Upon visiting this herd he
discovered that this man had changed
and was using a Hereford sire because a.
neighbor had remarked that that breed
had valuable dairy qualities. The progeny
would probably neither be economical as
a milker nor produce a decent type of
beef animal. A second example came to

 

his notice at the agricultural college where

start this trench before the silage has

VVhe-reas,‘

Some ten .

an animal was brought for service which
the owner thought had. excellent qualities
because, in her were strains of some ex-
cellent Shorthorn, Holstein and Jersey
blood, and now he desired to breed to a
Guernsey in order that he might incor-
porate the qualities of all of these differ-
ent breeds in a single animal. This ten-
dency of mixing the breeds is wrong and
yet it is more common among the rank
and file of farmers and dairymen than
one may be led to believe. In trying to
get all the qualities combined in a. single
animal we are certain to miss all.

One influence that probably leads to
this cross breeding is the fact that we
often find in the fat st'ock ring animals
of such breeding taking first prizes. Now
it. often happens that the progeny of the
parents of different breeds makes an ex-
cellent individual, but when this individ—
ual is again bred the results are very
discouraging. For this reason cross-bred
animals have no place in the dairy herd.
Their progeny cannot be counted upon
and the dairyman who expects to stay in
the business must depend upon the calves
for maintaining the standard of his herd.

The dairyman should keep to a certain
line of breeding for he will defeat his
purpose if he changes his policy after a.
few years. The ground should be care-
fully studied not only as to the purpose
for which he is in the dairy business, but
also to include his personal likes and
dislikes and select a breed that will best
meet the requirements. In three or four
generations, even 'if he starts with a.
grade herd but uses a thorough-bred sire
of his favorite kind, he is sure to secure
the appearance and producing qualities
of the breed selected.

The herd can be developed most eco-
nomically by‘saving the heifer calves.
These should be kept until they freshen
when the less likely ones may be sorted
out. One should attempt to have a sur-
plus of such stock so as to give a. wider
chancc to secure better animals.

The man who attempts to build up his
herd should be persistent. He needs
that quality which enables him to follow
a single policy year after year. Too many
men want variety, they desire to change
from one thing to another but the dairy-
man cannot do this and succeed. If re-
sults are not what he thinks. they ought
to be then the possibilities are that a
little closer application to the dairy bus-
incss will improve them since a certain
amount of equipment and expenditure of
nervous energy are- needed to care for
a few cows, which equipment and energy
would probably suffice for many times
the number of animals kept.

Prof. Anderson closed by impressing the
need of making our dairy farming inten—
sive. More cows are required in a single
community to make the business. pay
best. The expense of the long haul and
the deterioration of products due to in-
convenient trzmsportation both work to
the disadvantage of dairy economy and
both of these objections may be partially
eliminated by the farmers of the commu-
nity making dairying a more intensive
business.

(Continued next week).

WHAT PLANTS TO GROW FOR THE
FIRST CROP ON MUCK LAND.

I have recently purchased 40 acres of
muck land with muck ranging in depth
from six inches to six feet. It has never
been plowed and I would like to have
someone advise me through The Farmer
as to the hem crops to raise on it the
first year. FL. A, M.

There is so much difference in the char—
acter of muck land that one cannot tell
without making a careful investigation,
and really without some little experiment-
ing. This the farmer has to do himself.
Sometimes the muck land will grow al-
most any kind of crops the first thing
without the addition of any manure or
fertilizer or anything of that sort. On
the other hand, some muck land won‘t
grow anything at first. It all depends
upon the muck land. I‘sually the best
crop to put on muck land is com, but I
have seen muck land where corn didn’t
seem to grow at all. I name seen muck
land where you had to put on a good ap-
plication of potash and phosphoric acid
to get corn to grow. The muck is so raw
and so much in the form of peat that
even the nitrogen is not available, and
yOu can practically grow nothing until it
is weathered. In such cases as this a
good application of stable manure is the
best medicine that you can give it. If
you haven't got the stable manure then
a good complete fertilizer will help out.
I would say that you must experiment in
a small way until you find out the best
crop to put upon this land because nobody
knows what kind of muck you have got.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

 

 

 

 


 

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‘ FARM NOTES

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Applying Lime to Bean Ground.

I would like some information on how
to sow lime and what kind to sow. I

have eight acres which I intend putting

into beans in the spring, and the land is
very sour. I want to sow this to wheat
next fall and seed it to clover the next
spring. \Vill it pay to sow lime with
beans or would you advise sowing it with
some other .crop?

Kent CO. C. J. S.

There would be the same reason for
applying lime to land which was in an
acid condition as a preparation for the
bean crop that would obtain if the land
were being prepared for alfalfa or to be
used for clover. The bean, like these oth-
er plants, is a legume and for the best
success of the crop requires the soil to
be in condition to become an acceptable
home to the nitrogen-fixing bacteria
which finds a home in the roots of the
bean as other species do in the roots of
alfalfa and clover, thus affording nitrogen
for the crop and a residue for succeed-
ing crops.

The kind of lime to sow will depend
upon local conditions and the amount
should depend largely upon the kind used.
If ground limestone is used, from one to
three tons per acre should be applied as

-THE MICHIGAN FARMER

season for its development, provided a
stand of clover can be secured as sug-
gested. ’

It will be impossible to tell whether this
alfalfa will make a stand until spring,
when an examination will determine
whether it is alive and whether the nod-

ules are present on the roots. If the
plants are not so inoculated it will not

make a successful stand. Inasmuch as
the clover seeding also failed on this land
it may be possible that lime will be re—
quired to place the land in a condition to
be successfully seeded to alfalfa. The
plan of planting early potatoes and seed-
ing after the crop is removed is a fairly
good one and if lime is needed it had best
be applied when fitting the land for po-
tatoes. .
«- f-\ Seed Oats

V’Vould it be all right to sow oats in
Clare county that were shipped in from

Chicago?
Clare Co. J. F. S.

It would be much better to secure seed
oats from some Michigan farmer who has
a heavy producing strain of seed of some
desirable variety. While there is no
doubt that seed oats secured on the gen-
eral market from a distant point would
grow and probably give fair results, yet
unacclimated common seed will not gen-

 

 

 

 

 

The Farm Barn of C. l. Roosa, of Gratiot County.

it will leave a residue in the soil and its
application will give more permanent re-
sults. If causuc lime is applied, from 500
pounds to one ton may be used. The
smaller amount might correct' the acidity
but would not leave a. residue of lime in
the soil, and generally about 1.000 pounds
per acre is to be recommended. The kind
of lime to use will depend upon looal con-
ditions, as to its availability, cost, etc.
If lime is to be applied to this soil it
would certainly be better to apply it be-
fore the bean crop than before any other.

Clover Seeding Failed.

I have a field of five acres of rather
worn sand on which I have failed to get
a stand of clover. Last winter 1 manur-
ed nearly all of it and planted it to pc-
tatloes last summer, securing slightly over
100 bushels per acre. Now do you think
it would pay me to sow Canadian field
peas or soy beans to plow under to bring
this land up, or not. About how min-h of
either to sow per acre and when is the
proper time to sow, and about how much
is the usual price per bushel? Last spring
I decided to try a small piece of alfalfa,
so I plowed under a. half acre of heavy
rye and manured it well before plowing,
sowing the last of May. Alfalfa came up
vcry nice and grew well for a short time
and then the weeds fairly swamped it.
This last fall what was left of it was
very dry looking and yellow. Do you
think it will amount to anything, or would
it be best to plow and plant to early po-
tatoes, keeping all weeds out. and try
again after harvesting potatoes?

Allegan Co. , E. W.

The failure to get a seeding of clover
on this soil may have been due to an
acid condition of the soil rather than to
lack of available plant food or poor physi-
cal condition. In that'case it may be nec-
essary to apply lime as a soil corrective
to promote a stand of clover. However,
the application of stable manure would
tend to promote a better physical condi-
tion in this soil and the wet season of
last year may have also tended to correct
this condition, so that a successful seed-
ing of clever might be secured in a crop
of spring grain, such as a light seeding
of oats or barley. In the writer’s opinion
it would be worth a trial and if the seed-
ing failed a catch crop could be sown to
provide vegetable matter for plowing down
the following spring, Such as rye and
vetch or 'even rye alone. As a means of
determining whether lime is needed it
would pay to apply lime on a small plot
while the ground is being fitted for cats.

The culture of soy beans was described
in a recent issue, but it is not, in the
writer’s opinion, good economy to devote
the time to the growing of a crop for
green manure which occupies the entire

‘manure made upon the farm.

erally produce as well and where one
knows nothing of the source of the seed
he is not apt to get as productive a strain
as could be selected by securing it from
a Michigan grower of reputation. If one
is to secure seed from a distance it would
be better to get it' from some reliable seed
dealer than to take an ordinary market
quality of cats.

Best Method of Handling Sandy Field.

I have recently purchased an old farm
that has been farmed for years and has
never been kept in shape nor had any
manure to speak of and therefore is in a
rundown condition. There is one field in
particular that is very light sand with
quicksand from two to eight feet below
the surface. \\'hat should I plant on this
field to improve the soil so that: it will
produce a paying crop and how should I
handle same?

St. Clair Co. SUBSCRIBER,

It is a pretty difficult proposition to
place a field of this kind in a first-class
condition of fertility. “here there is no
heavier subsoil a sandy field with quick-
sand below it should be so handled as to
have something growing on it at all times
in order to hold the available plant food
which is contained in or may be‘incor-
porated with the soil. Such land should
always have a cover crop on over winter
and considerable vegetable matter plowed
down to. improve the physical condition
of the surface soil. Rye will serve this
purpose very well. However, unless sta-
ble manure is available or chemical fer-
tilizers are applied it will take some time
to build the soil up in condition where it
will produce well.

Using Chicken Manure.

When and how should chicken manure
be applied to get best results? I have
about a ton. stored under cover. Have
a 40-acre farm of light sandy soil. \Ve
raise corn, rye, clover, potatoes and gar-
den truck.

Calhoun Co. W. R. I.

The best way in which to use chicken

manure is to mix it' and apply with other
While
chicken manure contains considerably
more plant food than most other manures
produced upon the farm it is not in any
sense a concentrated fertilizer and under
ordinary conditions it will not pay to
treat it as such. It is difficult, however,
to apply it evenly and thinly enough un-
less mixed with the other manure, placing
a portion of it on top of the load when
the other manure is being drawn to the
field.

 

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No. 3, publish an illustrated catalog de-
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vines, small fruit and ornamental trees.

 

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Available
Q, Plant Food

/ -good season, with nor-

mal sunshine and rain,
good seed and cultivation will
produce good crops; but with
these advantages in the crop’ s
favor it can do much better if
well provided with available
plant food. Bumper crops
need more food than ordinary
crops. They need it while they are growing and
making heavy demands on the soil, which cannot
supply it fast enough for it is in unavailable form.
The crop Cannot wait for it to become available,
except at your expense. A stunted crop makes no

profit. The answer is supply available plant food by -
using

A. A. C. Co. Fertilizers

Sugar Beets are gross feeders and will repay liberal
fertilization. High grade quick-acting complete
Beets fertilizers should be used, to supply plant food to
the soil in such form as the plants can immediately
take up and use in their growth. 300 to 500 pounds of fertilizer
per acre should be applied broadcast and worked into the soil
with a barrow, or drilled in with a grain drill a few days before
planting.
Plants on fertilized land grow much faster. Fertilized
beets grow fast and in a short time the leaves will cover the
ground, thus smothering the weeds. The saving of labor
alone in taking care of a fast growing field of beets more than
pays for the fertilizer, besides increasing the yield from three
to four tons to the acre, also the sugar content.
Write us and we will be glad to inform you how to fer-
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THE MONITOR WAY IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY

It deposits the seed on the downward turn of the disc—at the bottom
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and not dry top earth as is done by other drills. —

Owing to its uniform depth the seed all comes up at the same time-—
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FEB. 15, 1913.

 

,reen Backs in
Straw Stacks

"j HE wastage of grain by the average Threshing Ma-
chine is far more than many suppose. The operator
usually knows it, but he can’t help it with that kind
of machine, so he covers it up all he can and lets it
goat that. The farmer suspects it, but thinks he

has to put up with it, and much of his hard-earned money goes

over into the straw stack.

This great wastage is the result of employing an incompetent type of
threshing machine that rushes the straw to the stack, but does not beet
the grain out of it.

It is up to you farmers to say what machine willthresh your grain this
seaSOn. You have worked hard to grow the grain and you pay the bill for
threshing it. You can’t afford to divide your profits with the straw pile,
for every bushel that goes into the stack is money right out of yourpocket.

You Can Save Your Thresh Bill
by Hiring a Red River Special
to Do Your Threshing

It will save the grain for you; it will waste less of your time; it will
do your job quicker; it will clean your grain better: it. will pay you all
around. It is the only threshing machine made that uses the true and
are method of separation by heating the grain out of the ntrew just as you
would do with a pitchfork.

The Big Cylinder, the Man Behind the Gun, the atented Grate and
Check Plate and the Shakers that toss the straw up and at it as you would
do with a pitchfork, save the grain that others waste, whether it be wheat,
oats, rye, barley, flax, peas, rice, alfalfa, timothy or other grains or seeds.
THE RED RIVER SPECIAL WORKS ON AN ENTIRELY DIF-
FERENT PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION from any other make. It
beats it out, while other makes hurry the straw to the stack and expect
the grain to fall out, which it does not do.

W. F. Miller and sixteen other farmers of Lorraine, Kas., say: “The
Red River S cial wasted less of our grain than any other machine we
ever had. rom Universal Feeder to Wind Stacker it did its work per-
fectly. We believe it saved enough more grain than other machines
would to pay our several thresh bills.”

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FIFTH NATIONAL co’RN SHOW.

 

' The first National Corn Show, held, at
fChicago, in 1907.

came as the result of
what some people termed-an effort to
popularize scientific research in corn
growing. There was much criticism of
a, “one-crop show,” at which prizes
valued at thousands of dollars were
awarded for single ears 0r groups of 10
cars. The critics pointed out the danger
of attaching undue importance to single

‘features of corn growing, and directing

too much attention to a single crop. Per-
haps this early criticism had its effect,

and perhaps the managers were guided

wisely by these early objections. But
certain it is that the organization and
the show started six years ago have out-
grown criticism and have- developed the
most valuable and comprehensive agricul-
tural exposition of the present time.

The Fifth National Corn Show has just
closed at Columbia, S. C. No longer a
one—crop Show, it combined all of the
elements of a real national agricultural
exposition. “’hile better crop production
was prominent as one of the aims of the
exposition, better farmers and better
farming through more liberal education
was the chief aim.

The strictly educational features were
made stronger than ever before, denot—
ing the attention that is being given at
present to adapting and developing our
schools to country and farm needs. The
study of the work of the school and the
church as community centers, the adap-
tation of rural school curriculums to ag-
ricultural instruction, and the develop—
ment of corn and canning clubs to in-
terest the boys and girls of the farm all
dealt with the educational problems. And
perhaps no place in the country is in
greater need of such a demonstration than
that selected by the managers for this
year‘s Show.

An Alabama teacher, in commenting on
the tomato clubs organized by the gov—
ernment for girls, remarked that these
clubs have done the first work in in-
structing southern housekeepers in the
economy of canning and preserving fruits
and vegetables. A South Carolina teach-
cr said that from the interest thus arous-
ml shc. hopcd to make progress in teach-
ing sewing and mending, two arts and
economies which have been entirely neg-
lected. '

Corn and Tomato Clubs.

The show just closed was the round-up
of the corn and tomato club work for the
There were close to 60,000 boys
and girls throughout the south enrolled
in such clubs during the past season, and
the winners in corn production and in
securing the greatest no. profit from an
acre of tomatoes were brought together,
free of personal expense, at this Show.
There were about 550 of these young peo-
ple, about 10 being girls. The boys were
housed at the Show grounds under mili-
tary organization, while the girls were
provided with rooms in the city. A week's
school was, given, the boys being instruct-
ed by college and department teachers in
corn and general crop growing, while the
girls were given instruction in canning,
sewing and general home economics.

Station Exhibits.

The management has done well to
prevent all exhibits of an advertising na-
ture to enter the Show. There Were no
land or orchard booms there. Each state
was represented by its experiment sta-
tion. and these station exhibits reflected
the leading agricultural interests of ouch
state. More stations were represented
than ever before. and while the ground
covered by each was not as varied as in
previous years, the aggregate show was
stronger and more instructive. Each sta-
tion put 0n exhibit the lines of work to
which it hurl given greatest attention. and
thus indicated the present status of its
leading industries. Thus Michigan led in
seed selection in grain and forage crops:
Pennsylvania in its soil and fertility ex-
periments, both in general crop and or-
chard work: New York in plant breeding
work; Indiana in corn breeding; “'iscon-
the

ies, and the western states in grain and
live stock work.

Michigan—This state was Well repre-
sented with a splendid showing of the
grains and grasses and legumes, showing
the improvement that has been made by
selection and breeding. Being a leader in
the production of beans, fiber flax, beet
sugar, peppermint and potatoes, the work
with these crops figured prominently. An
exhibit showing the various steps in the
manufacture of sugar from sugar beets
was, perhaps, the most popular. This
process was shown by samples of the
product in its various stages. The dried

pulp proved to be of particular interest to
southern cattle feeders who are looking
for such a product to lighten up cotton—
seed meal in their feeding rations The
Michigan booth drew many visitors
through this exhibit alone, and there were
many inquiries as to the supply and
availability of feeding pulp. The exhibit
was in charge of Prof. Spragg and Mr.
\V. F. Raven.

Pennsylvania.——The Pennsylvania. Sta-
tion attracted Wide attention with its
graphic exhibit of results obtained in

its 30-year fertilizer tests.
atlve yields from diflcrcnt methods of
treatment were shown by charts and
also by bales of forage crops and glass
cylinders of grain corresponding to pro-
duction yields. The comparative results
obtained from cultural and fertilizer ex-
periments with orchards, under direction
of Dr. Stewart, werevshown by boxes of
apples from the various orchards. The
quantity of apples per box corresponded
with yields, and the apples themselves
showed the quality. The small model
respiration calorimeter attracted a great
deal of attention, and directed interest to
the animal nutrition studies.

New York—The New York Station ex-
hibited results obtained in plant breeding
applied to oats, wheat, corn and timothy.
As plant breeding is one of the more
recent lines of investigation taken up by
stations and is proving to. be a field of
wonderful possibilities, all stations are
doing more Or less work in it‘. There was
probably more duplication of this work
shown in the exhibits than in any other.
but New York was easily the leader, just
as it is the leader in results obtained.
Improvements shown in timothy and grains
particularly were highly enlighthuing t0
the show visitors. Another feature of
the New York exhibit was a 21x40—Ioot
model of a county or local fair ground
adapted to meet the needs of a com-
munity s‘ocial center. I

Ohio—The Ohio exhibit specialized in
two lines, wool studies and soil and fer-
tilizer tests. Ohio authorities have gath—
ered what is, perhaps, the most instruc-
tive exhibit of wool and woolen fabrics
that is to be found in this country. It
not only shows samples of wool from all
breeds and all wool producing sections,
but it also shows how wool is ha. dled in
the manufacture of fabrics, and gives
suggestions on improvement in growing.
shearing, tying and packing. The ex-
hibit appealed particularly to visitors from
live stock states. The exhibit in soil
studies was along the well-known lines of
investigation conducted in that state.

Virginia—Virginia showed strong in
studies of grain and forage, both from
standpoint of improvement and preven-
tion of diseases. Tobacco studies were
also prominent. It showed the best ex-
llibil of apples on the grounds, in dem-
onstrating the possibilities of orchard
work under proper care and treatment.

Other States.—-Indiaua had an interest-
ing exhibit of general live stock and
grain farming, based on its corn grow-
ing industry. Its work in corn breeding
helped to explain the supremacy of this
state in national corn contests. Indi-
ana has won the national trophy on ten
ears five years in succession, and leads

The compar-

in winnings on single ears. Rhode
Island specialized its exhibit in poultry
and soil studies. The effect of lime,

alone and in conjunction with other fer-

tilizer, was a prominent feature of the
exhibit. South Carolina. exhibited stud—
ies in cotton in all of its phascs. from

cultivation of soil to weaving of cotton
cloth in a small-sized loom. Studies of
soil formation, soil erosion, effect of fer-
tilizers and advantages of rotations;
studies in dairy husbandry and the rc- -
lation of live stock to cotton and corn
growing, and studies of effect of careful
seed selection, rounded out what was,
perhaps the best state exhibit on the
grounds. “’isconsin showed results of
pedigreed seed production and results
in the state from furnishing such seed
to farmers. Georgia showed studies in
cotton growing on 10 types of soil most
common in the state. Washington
showed studies in grain, grasses and
apples; Missouri in grain and soil stud-
ies, also process of cob pipe manufacture;

Kentucky, corn, tobacco, soy beans and
hemp; Texas, corn, grains, tobacco and
rice; Nebraska, effect of cultivation on

corn yields, relation of water supply and
heat upon corn yields; Louisiana, sugar
cane and rice and manufacture of sugar
from canes; Minnesota, corn studies in
selection, testing and cultivating. The
New England States and New Jersey.
Delaware and Maryland were not rep-
resented.

Government Exhlbit.—-In keeping with

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FEB. 15, 1913.

HAULING MANURE IN WINTER.

 

In regard to the article written by Mr.
Haynes, of Pennsylvania, in the Michigan
Farmer of January 11, I would like to
ask if it would be good judgment to haul
out manure in the winter when the
ground is frozen like a rock, or had per-
haps a foot of snow on the surface? He
stated that no man would think of buy—
ing a ton of commercial fertilizer, and
piling it up f0r three or four months, to
be wasted by leaching, and I don’t think
he could find a man that would be foolish
enough to spread his commercial fertilizer
on top of the snow or on top of the frozen
ground. to be washed away before the
frost was out of the ground enough to
take up any of the goodness of it.

Now this has been a question in my
mind for some time, and I would like to
hear from other men who have had ex—
perience in this mat‘ter of hauling out
manure on the frozen ground or on the
snow.

I would like to hear from Mr. Colon C.
Lillie on this subject, and others, for it
would be a great saving in labor to me
if this manure could be hauled out on
this frozen ground without being wasted.

as we handle more manure than most

farmers On 80 acres, for in addition to;

what is made on the farm we haul from
town, only a mile distant, all that we can
buy, and at present‘ have quite a lot on
hand.

Two years ago I hauled all winter as
fast as I could get the manure, and cov-
ered about 16 acres during the winter.
Now our land is- quite level and heavy
clay loam, but in the spring the water
in the county drain was red with the
leaching from my fields, for a mile below
us. and I think I must have lost a large
portion of my labor. .

Of course, there is bound to me a waste
in either case, Whether it is left in a pile
or spread on the fields, at this season of
the year, when the land is frozen and
dormant. and there is no plant life grow-
ing to take up the plant food, and hold it,
but what I want to know is which is the
most economical of the two methods.

At present we are piling the manure
that we get from town back of our cow
barn and mixing it with the cow manure
by (iFi-Ving over the pile. and unloading
on both sides and keeping the pile flat
and well spread out to prevent heating.

Mason Co. SUBSCRIBER.

On comparatively level land it is the
consensus of opinion among practical

farmers, as well as scientists, that it is
better economy to haul the manure direct
from the stable to the fields, even during
the winter season, provided it is applied
to sod ground. 0f course,‘when there is
considerable snow on the frozen ground
and this melts rapidly there is undoubt-
edly some plant food carried away with
the surface. water. which is lost beyond
recovery. But there is also an unavoid-
able loss of plant food where the manure
is stored‘in piles over winter,‘ both from
the leaching of the manure and the chem-
ical changes which take place due to
the action of the bacteria which hasten
the decomposition of the manure. \\’here
the manure is mixed as described in this
t':lSt' and storcd in a large. flat pile, this
loss would be nowhere near as great as
is the case, where the manure is carelessly
piled under the eaves or in the barnyard,
and perhaps less than would be the case
it‘ the manure were hauled directly to the
iicld. But (‘tlllh'ltlt‘l‘alile more labor will
l.t~ required to handle it in this way, and
labor is money in the spring of the year
when the season's campaign is beginning.
Where the manure is hauled out on sod
ground the turf will tend to hold a larger
proportion of the surface water and most
or the, plant food will settle into the sur-
face soil and become available to the
crass roots. .\lso a Vigorous early growth
of grass will be promoted which will be
beneficial on the later plowed fields. The
plan above described is undoubtedly a
good one but f0r the average farmer, la-
bor cost considered, we believe it the
more economical plan to haul manure di-
rect from the stable for application on
level, sod ground when conditions are
reasonably favorable. The ideal metlhod
of handling the manure during the winter
would be to store it in a cement lined
manure pit or shed where there would
be no loss from leaching and where the
temperature of the mass could be better
controlled by adding water as heat devel-
oped. But few farms will soon be equip-
ped in this way and their owners must
conserve the manure as best they can in
some other way-Eds. '

 

In the south, membership of boys’ and
girls’ agricultural clubs increased from
46,000 in 1911 to 60,000 in 1912.

 

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IT does not require the cutting words
snvlng people of the present tl‘me.

1than as to the producln; beef of good

unullly by lho general tanner. Mh'hlglm
ln lo a sorry mmdltlon. A glunvo Hi the
Nllll'k m-nl forward from (In: dll‘tel’ent

[ports or the shite on nmrket days. wlll

convlnco the average oil-locker that l'ulr-

‘ly good speclmens of beef ontlle lure

Nl‘lll'l'l'. A rml good lot' of bullock: would
stand out Ilka "apples ol.‘ gold ln picture:
of Hllvm'.” Dr H might be truthfully sold
that the good ones would he as apples of
gold lo a lmekurou-ml of tanner metuls
than nllver. Thorn Lu :1 profusion of
plm‘h—l‘mvkml, puthollled, weasel Walsled
cattle. that glVo but small. It any. profit
to the producers. and little satlnfuethm
to tho rims-tumors who hove n lnnro for
wilul‘nblo, Julr'y and nutrltl-mm l'wel'.
Another feature of the mom huslness ls
oqupt-rullng. lnHlond or "Will (lNllt'l'H tn
the vltles, vllluges and humlets gelllruz
lholr suppllos of meals from farmers
near thorn. they um supplled from lnl‘i-te
(leulors ln our parent slnnxhter house, wu-
l‘ors. (‘onsunwrs :lre (‘Hllliwllvcl lo pay rt
profit to the shlpneru who send the stock
to murkot. the cost of trunuporrnllun to
nnd from the llllll‘lil‘l, nnd n prolll lo the
uluuulllerer and finally to the lelrllmlor.
ll is not slrnnuo lhnt lho prlven lo the
formers havo- nol been high for tho grunt
bulk or the (‘flttlo sent l’orwurd. and that
prices are lilgh lo tho cunHllmurH, 'l‘hnro
one too mnny gelling n llving lwtwl-l-n
the producers and lho ('onsunlorzl.
Crusade Annlnst Farmer's Beef Calttle.
|"lu‘ morn llmu u qnnrlvr ol' :1 (mnlnl‘y
lllt‘ ln-ml of llnv (’1lllll‘ l'anlng‘ llllHllll‘i-(N
lulu lwvn ol‘ :1 nulure ll'ml. llllH dlmtroyml
heel‘ produt'tlun among the formers, lu—
Nlend ol’ envournglnu the breedlng from
(he most [ll‘lll‘llltllll‘ specimens of formers”
vnltle, During the slxtles and seventles
there was an lnterest ln good cattle nur-
lurml 115' [he :lul‘lvullul‘ul press us wvll
:l.\‘ the moul doulors nud the (“llllHllllll‘l’H.
\"ht‘n‘lt begun to look us llloutzh good,
prolllulllo czlttlo for the groom] l'nrnu‘rH
to rnlso were going to be. unlvvrsnlly
sought for, the bewltchlng and deveptlvr-
l-lnlms of that foe to good sense, the god-
dess of fashion. entered the breeders'
arena and begun the destruetlon of em-
ol‘ the noblest and best breeds of cattle.
the Shorthorns. that was ever orlglnnted.
Hy one fell swoop of her maglc wand the
beautiful rouns, red and whltes were
eliminated, and the red craze became
rampant. The fashion In blood llnes. or
“unfashlonable crosses," helped to elim-
lnnte still another very useful and profil-
uhle class of cattle. Then, to keep pace.
with breeders of the great west. who hud
had to compete with the early maturlng
l'ollod Angus. the pony-bunt Sl‘oll'll
Slmrlhorns were allowed to supplnnl the
noble cattle or the old sort lhut “'t'l‘ll
good at the milk pull und the butcher's

'blm‘k.

The idea of dual purpose cattle has
been pretty nearly eliminated from the
minds of the cattle breeders of the state.
The dairy business has had a rapid

growth, but has not rendered any mate-

rial aid toward the production of a good
class of beef cattle needed to meet the
demands of the increasing numbers of
consumers. In fact, the dairymen are
not raising calves enough to matntaln the
needed numbers in their herds; they too

.Often go outside to replenish their stock

of dairy cattle“ The question naturally
arises, what should he doue‘.’
A Revival of Interest Needed.

The fact that a large proportion of the
rich herbage in the shape of grasses that
spring up in many of the Evy-places in
our state, goes to waste for the want of
a. good class of cattle to consume it.
and convert it into juicy and palatable
beef. is pretty Well known. If, by chance,
a thick—skinned, heavy—boned, narrow—
headed, narrow-rumped, “latby” specimen

'of a mongrel, bred to retain all the un-

desirable qualities of the inferior breeds,
wanders over the verdant fields, the her-
bage is only partially utilized, for it is
not in that class of cattle to make more
than just fair returns of inferior meat
for the feed consumed. and much is wast-
ed—going no man can tell where, for it
is not saved in bones or meat, fat or
lean.

Looked at from the viewpoint of an
economist, it seems as though vigorous
efforts should be made to revive, among
the general farmers. an interest in good
cattle that will yield well, both at the.
milk 'poll and the butcher’s block. Such
are not a mere dream, but a reality.

‘ Dual Purpose Cattle.

 

While there may not be enough to supply
ull who need them at present, there can
be round slres among the mllklmrrlhort-
horns to hegln with, and many 3 commu-
nlty can be made richer in the dollars
lhut they can gather, and the tortlllty
whlc-h they can add to the so“. The
grades of such pure-bred slrr'n mm bring
forward a. llne cuntormallon. or bloom of
beauty, and a. wealth of dash that wlll
not only bring mom to the prmlnm-r, but
u loothsomc quality of meal that will
nullsly the consumer.

lllvory tanner, not a prol’esulonuldnlry—
man. breeder or feeder, should awaken to
lhe opportnnltlcs which confront hlm. All
need some cows to supply the l‘nmlly with
milk. cream und butler for domuslle con—
sumpllou, um] some butter to no” lo mid
lo llll‘ nc-mo‘nl Income of llw l'nrln, and
old in sm'urlng the necessary comforts
ol' Ill'e. lly using u [.mre—ln'ed lee from
dual purpcme HLIM'k, the hull onlvou can he»
mmlo steers ot' und faltened l‘or market
nl an early age, and tho holler-H that lum-
m-ss the nevi-usury slze nod general chur-
m-ll-rlsllc-s which C(nnmend them us lwlng‘
llllvd to be l't'lltlllh‘l’l ln llle herd no vows.
may he used to ruplmre the. llll'l-t‘llll: vows
ln lho herd, and the general (-hurnl-Ler
o1" lho herd (-nn ln- ul‘nduully lnlprovwl.
’l.‘luv lmslnvns ol' ulllk produvllon and lwef‘
prmluollon can he, l'llrl'lwl un til lhv Home
llme. mud n llbornl lnconw rvnllzcd from
Imlll sources.

\\':lynu (Jo. N. A. CLAI'l'.

FATTENING HORSES FOR MARKET.

Among the home doulvrn In tho bl}:
l'illl'fl l'nllonlnu‘ IN (-onHldvl'wl :I. loullinmlo
oywrnllon. Some of them: men how» rog—
ulnr fl-mllng lelllons lo whirl) lln-i' Ht‘llll
llllll lllll‘Hl'H plclx’l‘rl llll I‘ll ll low lll'll'l‘, lll
l‘hll'uuo runny lllll'Fl'H ('llnngo llllllllH for
the purpose, the buyers l‘nllvnlm; them
for the onslvru market.

The onl of funding In oullo lurur“.
fillllll‘ or lho feeders I'N'konlng ll nl not
ll‘HH than M0 [H'l' month. Some of ”win
not hold of poor l'oedors Homollnnw. (ll‘
voursv. such horses :lro hnndlml nt :1,
loss. The doslrnhlv nulnml In the horse
that ls lhln lint young: for that horse
gonernlly has ll well—developml dlm-sllvc
system and will lny on fat ruphlly ll’
proporly l'wl.

The men who make :1 llllHlllvHH of l‘nl-
lonlng horses expect, of course, to plclc
up their equlnc rnnl'orlnl (ll‘ :1 low prh-o.
The farmer sending a, thin horse to mur-
lwl need not expect lo olllaln much for
hlm. for those men musl‘ buy low ln order
to nmkv :1. good profit ofl' lhelr opt-rd-
films. The nuln who has ll horse In Hell
should, therefore. sou llml hls :Inimul
goon to market In sull'lvionl l'orm lo sell
regularly, rzllher than he picked up as
:l "feeder."

The, horse- llml is being filled for the
nulrkol should luqu good ll‘l'll’]. Experi-
enced horse filters examine the ln'u'ses'
tooth and where needed l'uu‘l- them lllod
or "llouled." ln Hllllll' mun-s they have
:1 \‘l-loririurinn oxlrm-l. decayed teeth. A
buyer or thin horses says that it is re-
mnrkuhlo how nmuy horses then» are
lhul zlro thin ln llP-Vll on account ol’ the
poor condition of their loelh. Such
horses improve very rapidly when once
the trouble with the tooth has bcenrcm—
(‘tlll‘ll

\l'lion feeding: horses for the purpose
of fattening it should be, remembered that
the stomach of the animal is smnll in
proportion to his size. The horse t-unnot
ruke ill one time. one—fourth as much
into his stomach us can u steer of the
same, age. The horse, that is being fed
to get into condilion should therefore be
fed a little at n time, but frequently. It
should also be kept in mind that it is a.
very easy matter to feed :1, horse too
much corn fodder or other roughage.

Long time between feedings is not de-
sirable. The regulation of the feeding
hours is a matter of considerable im-
portance. The horse adapts himself to
receive food at a. certain time, and if he
is disappointed by a failure to receive his
ration at the expected time he is wor-
ried thereby. ~

The appetite of each horse should be
carefully studied and the ration regulated
accordingly. Also the ration should be
well balanced f0r best results.

Illinois. W. H. UNDERWOOD.

Hog cholera is raging in Minnesota, and
the experiment station officials advise
farmers whose hogs have become affected
to cut down their feed to the 10west
amount that will keep them reasonably
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BROOD 80W MANAGEMENT.

 

To produce strong healthy litters it is
not, only necessary that: the sow; be fed
correctly upon feeds that furnish suiti-
cient muscle. bone- and energy-making
materials, but that. they be bundled wise-
ly during the period of gestation.

The mother sow needs food for three
important purposes; first. for her own
maintenance; second. for growth on her
own body; and third. for the nourishment
of the fetal pigs. Corn lacks muscle and
11111111 formers and in addition is too coli—
ccntratod (not bulky enough for brooding
swine). 'l‘ankagc, meat mcnl, llnsm-d oil
mcul. skim-milk. huttcrmilk. bran, outs.
mit‘idlings, shorts. soy beans, clovcr and
ult‘nit‘n. are the logical supplcmctiis to corn
in tho middic wcst. At the town. Station
we linVc found that most oxvclicnt 1'11.-
tious t'or gills carryini.r litters tll't-I

1, Corn RR to {)0 per cent: mcut meal
or tunkage containing 60 pcr cont pro-
tein, '10 or 12 per ccnt.

2. Corn, '75 pcr ccnl:
or iilt‘ull‘u, 2F; pcr cent.

fl. (lorn, 80 nor cent; oats. chopped
clover or alfalfa. 10 per cent: moat 1ncnl
oi' tnnknge. it) per cent.

‘it‘or old sows the proportion of meat;
mcal or tnnkago can be cut down prac—
tically onc-ihlrd to two-iil'ihs and still
got cxccllcnt results.

Slronkcr, hculthicr litters having more
hair. more color and more honc havc boon
the rcsull whcm-ver we addcd a suitable
protein and ash stippiciricnt to corn.
thn we sclcctcd our supplements wisely
we also got chcapcr pigs. .\t present
prlccs for purchascd protciii and ash
supplcnicnts, mcut incal and tanknue are
our chcapcst. sources.

Abovc all things. cxceptlng the food
supply only, an abundance of exorcise is
"lust important; All ('lilHHcH ol' prcgnant
animals do wcli only whcn abundant op-
portunity l'or exorcise is allowed. The
gcnerol tone and vigor of the mothcr is
rctlcctcd in the offspring: lhc bcltcr the
Kent-rat licalth and condition of the dam
the stronm-r and more vigorous the
young. itaiigo on pasture ls pci'haps the
best of all. Allow the sows to follow cat-
tle for awhile lint be surc to remove them
when thcy loud to become clumsy and
heavy. Scattcr the i'ccd ovcr the around,
such as sheaf oats, soy bean hay, ctc.,
and lct the sows gather it‘.‘ Food on the
side of thc iicld opposite the slcc‘plng
bunks. Allow hay In racks, tho eating,r at
which is conducive to light cxcrcisc. Shut:
the sows from the houscs tn the middle
of the day rathcr than allow thom to
huddle up and snooze pcaccabiy. Schemes
to induce exorcise cost: little, yet the
returns are considcrohlc,

\Varmt'h, dryness, ventilation and sun-
light. arc the essentials of an ideal hot:
house. Such conducive conditions can be
secured with a little forethought. Good
dry bedding is nceded and to be kept dry
must be changed regularly. Arrange the
hmiscs so as to avoid droughts and heavy
winds, preferably placing them in shcl-
tered nooks. Although the hog can stand
considerable cold yet the breeding hog
does not have the fat which should ordi-
narily kecp the fat hog warm, neither
does the breeding sow have such a warm
coat as the horse, for instance. that
roughs it. \Ve havo found in our expe-
rience that sensible shelter saves many
cents.

\Ve hog mcn cannot afford to feed our
hard—carncd corn and other grains to
lice and worms. Crude oil is cheap, costs
not more than $4.00 a barrel, is easily
applied and does the lice up brown and
black, hence why hesitate. It kills the
nits at one application and can be used
in winter because it is an oil and does
not cvaporate. An old broom, a sprink-
ling can and a couple of hurdles handled
by two active men is sufficicnt equipment
for ridding the farm of hog lice.

Worms are a serious drawback. I know
of no better remedy than santonin. six
grains; calomel, four grains to 100 pounds
of hog given once on an empty (12 hours
off feed) stomach and repeated in 10 days
if necessary. It is not well to use any
worm medicine upon sows within a cou-
ple of months of farrow, because all
pregnant animals in advanced stages have
some tendency to abort when given a
strong laxative. The thing to do is to
tend to the worms in time.

Laxativeness of the bowels is highly de-
sirable as costiveness is a menace. Plenty
of exercise, combined with laxative feeds,
such as tankage, oil meal, bran, alfalfa,
hay, etc., will largely solve the problem.
However, if it does not, a week before
farrowing an emergency remedy of 'an
ounce of epsom salts per 100 pounds of
hog will help considerably.

flnc-ly cut clth-r,

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

'l'he essentials of brood sow manage-
ment may be brletly summarized: l’ro-
vido suitable food, but do not ovcrt'eed.
Emphasize the protein and ash constitu-
ents. Keep the sow growing nicely but
do not fatten.
tv'xerclsc. A dry, warm, well Ventilated
bed in 11 sheltered house is in order. Kill
off the lice and drive out the Worms he-
causo you cannot afford to t'ccd parasites.
.\Void constipation by natural l'ccdiiw.‘
management but rcsort to oinorm-nctcs tt‘
iicccssary. l’i'nctice genllcncas with your
brood sows, spcak kindly in their prcs-
cncc. recalling always that good lrcat-
incnt bcspciiks contcntincnl with its vor-
i'csponding proiits.

lowa. Exp. Sta. .1. M. l'2\‘v/\1111.

SALT FOR HOG-S.

i noticed an article from St. (flair coun-
ty on i'ccdlng suit to hogs, which very
much interested inc, and now i want to
till my cxpcrlouco on one Hlllglv, hog
that i once rulscd and fcd it' salt, a sin-
gle hnndt'iil two or thrce times a. \vcck.
from the time it wotghtd 71) lbs. until it
was hutchcrcd. i also gave it stock food
and all it wanlcd to cot and drink l)"-
.vldcs, and it Would cat a, lliinp of salt. as
large as :1 walnut. as though it was sugar.
i kept. account of all this hog eat as i
had to buy its food. and at the time i
killcd it this hog iuadt' me .35 per cciit on
my invcstmciil, and it. was scw'n months
old the day We 'kllli-d it, it wcluhed Zliil
lbs. 1 think hogs should he salted two
or thrce limos a. chk. the some as other
stock. tlicu i don't think it. will hurt them

but do lhcm lots of good.
1.121111ch ()1). H. B. SMITH.

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

't‘iic rcccnl widcly pulillshcd cslliiiatc ot'
a wcll—lnl‘ormcd statistician that the scv-
cn surplus corn states licld four million
l'cwor hogs than a your ago has acted as
.1 powerful 'l'actor in liardcnliii,’ prices tor
11111;.ln thc markets of the c'ouiitiy, and
cvt'n lhc hi5,r t ‘htcago packtrs have bought
lions iii a way that Hlltl\\l'(l plainly their
iaucr-inss to secure all the raw matcrlal
possible. To malnlai n tin ir stocks oi lard
and c-uiul hog inc. its at such a. time has
i141.” simply imposslhic for in addition to
the hog shortage, they tilt. c'onliontcd
with the necessity of providing for tho
lilggt-st iri-sli ”Hull (oiisiiiiiplloiie-'V1i wlt—
111sstd.’il1c (‘liitago illtll'lttl loi hogs
has hccn the center of a huge eastern
shipping demand, the cholccr class 01
light and incdtiim-wflght, hogs tit-1115.: us—
ually wanted for this purpose, and these
havc sold at the highest prlccs paid tor
.111ytl1i115,,r in the hog linc. llogs arc corri-
lng to marekit largely of mcdlum weight.
rc'wut receipts in thc (‘hh ago maikct
having aVcragcd around 226 lhs., and the
average stockman docs not care to hold
his swlncat‘wrrtactiing medium size not-
withstanding prospects aic cvcrywlicic
rcuaidcd as cxccllt at for thc tutuio mar-
kct. li‘: iriiicrs who have stillicicnt trod
and hogs to follow thtir cattle arc. . tor-
tuiiatc, hogs selling at much high'cr
prices than were paid a ycar ago, while
feed of all kinds is very much chcapcr.
For some weeks past. farmers have hccn
disposed to let their hogs go when they
could sell for around $7 per 100 lbs.

The remarkably mild, pleasant. open
winter has bcen the means of a great
saving of feed on the farms of the c-oun
t1',y and the cm surplus is the“ by ma-
terially iiicrcased. A rucunt St. Louis
message said: “in summing,r up the many
causes of lessened corn consumption an
impoitaiit factor is the hi5.,h quality of all
rouglimss liive stock is requiring much
less grain and is keeping fat on clover
and cowpcas and hay. 1 am wintering
horses that are fat on hay and four cars
ol‘ corn at a feed. that. would usually rc-
<1uire eight cars of corn."

A prominent live stock commission of

Chicago is advising its country patrons
to buy good quality feeding steers weigh-
ing from 9.30 m 1100 lbs. from the middle
of February to the iirst of March, pro-
viding these cattle come on the market
as freely as they promise. They could
be fed from 7:3 to 100 days to make mon-
cy. In the opinion of the lirm, market
prospects are favorable for the beef cat.-
tlc trade next May. June and July. Fur—
thermore, they believe, the August and
September markets promise to be all
right. it being an assured fact that the
northwest will have a big shortage of
bcef cattle for the autumn trade. The
indications are that warmed-up cattle will
come to market in large- volume for four
or five weeks more, but after that re-
duced supplies are looked for,

For years the packers have been mak-
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Hiaughtering cattle of only feeder qual-
ity, their object being to secure plenty of
cheap beef, and they are still doing this,
thereby still further lowering the chances
for getting a good supply of choice- beeves
in the future, bidding higher prices in
many cases than stockmen feel able to
pay. For the present year a shortage of
cattle is inevitable. Fewer thin cattle
went to feeding districts during the last
six months than usual, with a large per-
centage of-young cattle and cows. The
fancy prices for finished steers seen last
year may not be repeated this year, but
the rank and file of the steers will un—
doubtedly sell high. It requires the best
part of three years to produce a steer,
while raising supplies of hogs or sheep
can be done in a. short time.

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3HOW TO VENTILATE A COW STABLE.

 

. I would like advice as to how best to
ventilate my cow barn. This cow barn
is a lean—to on south side of main barn
and is 40 ft. long, 14 ft. Wide and 8 ft.
high, with floor above stable and straw
being kept above cows for bedding. This
stable has a door on east end to let
cows out and into stable, also small
door at end of feed alley in front of
cows. The cows stand in stable facing
the north. There is a. door at west end
'of feed alley entering the silo. also a
door in south side used when cleaningr
out stable. There is a large door on
north side of cow stable directly in front
of driveway in barn through which we
feed the cows and is left open at night;
this is the only ventilation there Is.
There are four doors on south side of
stable. I would like the most practical
way of ventilation described fully in The
Farmer.

Calhoun Co. E. O. P.

The question of ventilation is a simple
one, it simply means a change of air.
‘Vhen air has once been breathed by ani—
mals it becomes unfit to breathe again,
and the problem is to get in fresh air
in exchange for this air which has been
already breathed. You can do this by
letting windows down at the top, you can
do it by opening the door, you can do it
by the hay chute which opens just
through the ceiling of the stable. but in
all of these ways, while you produce- a.
change of air in the stable you are do-
ing it at the expense of temperature;
that is, you cool the stable at the same
time. The troublesome thing about ven—
tilation is that the need of ventilation
comes at the same time when we need
to keep the stable warm. In other words,
it is a cold weather problem. we don’t
have to figure about ventilation in the
summer time when we can keep the win-
dows and the doors open, which provide
an exchange of air and good ventilation.
But when it comes cold weather and we
have to shut up the stable~ in order to
keep the covvs comfortable so far as tem-
perature is concerned then we have to
provide some way of changing the air in
the stable without reducing the tempera-
ture. and there is where the problem
comes.

It don’t make any difference about how
many doors or windows there are in a
stable. about ventilating it. They really
haven’t anything to do with the prob-

. lem. You want a stable tight so that you

can control the air current. If the floor
over the cows isn‘t tight no system of
ventilation will work properly. This
ought to be double boarded with the
cracks mis-matched. Then it would be
better to have stable sealed besides. And
the stable ought to be double boarded
with a dead-air space in the wall. The
doors and the windows ought to fit tight.
This is the only way that you can con-
trol your temperature and the only way
that you can control your ventilation. You
have got to have a tight barn to keep it
warm in cold weather. Then if you open
the windows to get a change of air you
cool it off. and SO there isn’t any partic—
ular use in making the barn tight.

Prof. King. of the Wisconsin Experi-
ment Station. solved this problem. He
realized that if you made an opening
through the wall of the stable up next to
the ceiling that the Warm air up next to
the ceiling would rush out and cold air
would rush in.» This would give a change
of air but it would lower the tempera-
ture of the stable. He, however, con—
ceived that if he would box this hole in,
as it were, and extend the box down on
the outside of the Stable to within a foot
of the ground that the cold air could
come up this box and enter the stable
but the warm air couldn't go out, since
it is lighter than the cold air and could
not pass down through the column of
cold air. Now this solved the problem
of getting pure cold air from the outside
into the stable without allowing the warm
air of the stable to go out. These open-
ings we call pure air intakes. You want
a number of them scattered all around
the barn. In fact, you want enough of
them so that if the wind blows hard from
one direction on a cold night that you
can shut up the ventilators on that side
and still have enough openings on the re-
maining sides of the stable to furnish all
the pure air that you need tor'your cows.

Now that you have succeeded in getting
pure air into the stable you must draw
the impure 31:- Out, and Prof. King does
this by going to any convenient place
in the stable and building a chimney,

 

 

 

FEB. 15, 1913.

nothing more or less than a. chimney.
We call it a ventilating shaft. But it is
a chimney that opens at the bottom. It
is built up through the stable, up through
the storage part of the barn and out the
roof, and the taller it is above the roof
the better, because the taller a chimney
is the better it will draw, and this wants!.
to be made tight for the same reason
that the
leaky it does not have a good draft. It
should be double boarded with tar paper
between. Now the pure air enters the
intakes up next to the ceiling and gradu-
ally diffuses with the warm. air and this
forces a circulation and the impure cold
air from the floor of the stable goes
along to the ventilating shaft, enters this
and passes off outdoors. Here we have a
continual circulation of air or exchange
of air and good ventilation and at the
some time we have retained the warm
air of the stable and not allowed the tem—
perature of the stable to get down too
low for the comfort of the cow.

 

 

BEAN MEAL FOR DAIRY COWS.

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I would like a balanced ration for my
Holstein cows weighing from 1,000 to 1,200
lbs. 1 have the following feed on hand:
Good corn silage. clover hay. wheat bran
and buckwheat bran, and .middlings, Corn
meal is $22 per ton, cottonseed meal is
.33 per ton, dry brewers’ grain is $22 per
ton. bean meal is $15, and ground oats
$22 per ton.

lsabella Co. P. .l. Melt.

You can make a splendid ration out of
clever hay and corn silage by simply feed-
ing wheat bran and buckwheat bran and
middlings. You wouldn’t need anything
better if you have plenty of these. But
on the other hand if you can get bean
meal as cheap as you say I think it would
pay to encourage the cows to eat a por-
tion of bean meal at least. I am well
aware that bean meal is not used very
much as a dairy food but I see no reason
why it shouldn‘t be encouraged. “'e are
bound to have a large quantity of cull
beans in this statee every year, and they
ought to be utilized to the best advan—
tage. If we can get our cows so that they
will eat bean meal it makes a splendid
source of cheap protein. I don’t know
why bean meal isn’t just as good for
food as pea. meal, and if we can gradu-
ally get the cows to eating the bean
meal it will save very much in the ra-
tion, and therefore I would suggest that
you, for a grain ration, use 100 lbs. of
bean meal, 200 lbs. of buckwheat mid-
dlings and bran, and 100 lbs. of wheat
bran, or in that proportion.‘ Mix together
thoroughly and feed a sufficient quantity
to enable. the cows to produce maximum
llows of milk. If you want to encourage
them to do their very best feed a pound
of grain per day for every pound of but-
ter-fat produced in a week. In this way
you can get a good ration without buying
:my very expensivo feed. Give them all
the clover hay they will eat up clean ev—
ery day, and also all the good corn silage
they will eat without wasting.

RATION WITH CORN FODDER, CORN-

AND-COB MEAL AND BUCK-
WHEAT MIDDLINGS.

 

 

\‘t'ill you kindly tell me how to com?
pound an economical balanced ration for
cows? The roughage is com fodder. I
have corn and out meal and buckwheat
bran and middlings. Is the buckwheat
as good :18 anything I could get? Also
tell me how to balance a ration with one
feed a day of clover.

\‘an Buren Co. S. H. M'.

This ration is deficient in protein and
it lacks variety, especially in the rough—
age. Corn fodder makes a very good
roughage as :1 part of the ration but
when you attempt to feed nothing but
corn fodder it doesn't give the cow H.
fair Show. There isn’t variety enough.
It would make a much better ration to
have one feed a day of clover hay, but
even with one feed a day of clover hay
and one feed of corn fodder you could
not balance this ration very well with
the corn-and-coh meal and buckwheat
middlings. Unless you fed quite heavily
of the buckwheat middlings you would
hardly get a sufficient amount of protein.
I would suggest that you add a feed of
clover hay. Give the cows all the clover
they will eat up clean once a. day and
all the corn fodder they will eat up fairly
clean once a day. This Will do very well
for roughage. Then mix corn-and~cob
meal and buckwheat middlings and
wheat bran, equal parts by weight, and
feed as many pounds per day to each cow
as she produces pounds of butter-fat in a.
week. At first begin gradually by feed-

ing leSS than the amount indicated by:

the above rule and then gradually in-

crease the quantity until the cows are‘

on a. full grain ration.

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,cow ought to have over two pounds of

FEB. 15, 1913.

DAIRY FARMER’S QUESTIONS AN-
' SWERED.

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I have been reading so much about the
balanced ration for dairy cows that I
want to be sure if I have it right. \j hen
I put up my silo I was told to Simply
feed cOttonseed meal in connection with
the corn silage. I' am now feeding Wheat
bran with; the meal, mixed together
equal parts by measure with the corn
silage. Then I feed mixed hay in the
t‘orenoon and afternoon and cut corn fod-
der at noon. Now am I feeding the right
kind of feed in the right kind of a way
to get best reSults?

“'ill the following four-year rotation
imprOVe my soil? Corn, oats, wheat and
clover? \\’here should the stable manure
be applied to top—dress the wheat in
Winter or put on the clover sod for corn?
\Vill alfalfa grow successfully on self~
drained clay soil that is fertile, with a
hard subsoil, the top soil being 12 to 14
inches deep and very sticky.

Allegan Co. T. xv, K.

Good dairy cows will do very well on
corn silage, good mixed hay, and corn
fodder for roughage with two pounds of
cottonseed meal per day fed on the corn
silage. If they are large cows this is
hardly enough grain so that they will
give maximum yields. Small coWs could
get along very nicely with this. Yet I
would prefer to feed something besides
the cottonseed meal, and personally I
w0uld object to mixing cottonseed meal
Wit’h Wheat bran half and half and then
feeding it, because I would be afraid that
it wouldn’t always be mixed thoroughly
and that I would feed more cottonseed
meal to some cows at certain times than
I don’t think that any

cottonseed meal a. day. This should be
the limit, and if I ma; Obttonseed meal I
would feed it alone 60 that I knew just
exactly how much I was feeding ‘every
time. The principle, however, is right.
That is, to feed a grain ration that is
rich in protein to help balance up the
carbohydrates in the corn silage. If you
want to feed cottonseed meal then I
would feed that separately once a day,
giving two pounds to the fresh cows, and
making the balance of the ration bran or
bran and corn meal, using your own judg-
ment as to the amount of grain feed to
use. if you want cows to do their very
best yott should food each cow about as
many pounds of grain ration per day as
she produces pounds of butter—fat in a.
week.
A Crop Rotation.

A rotation of crops does not increase
the fertility of the soil. It rather in-
creases the yield of the crops. There is
no way you can figure it out that by
changing the crops on the. soil that it
would add anything to the soil by doing
it. but you can figure out that you can
get better yields, and it is better busi-
ness management to have a rotation of
crops than it would be to grow one crop
in a rotation. If you have a four-year
rotation of crops and feed all of the
rOughage to live stock, carefully save this
manure and put it back onto the land, by
the addition of a very little extra plant
food in the form of commercial fertilizer
you can keep up your land in crop-pro—
ducing power and in fact increase it. and
at the same time raise profitable crops.

Disposing of the Manure.

As to whether it will pay best to put
the stable manure as a top-dressing on
the wheat or pttt it‘ on the clover sod to
be plowed under for corn, is largely a
matter of opinion and conjecture. You
will get good results either way. If you
put it on the wheat it will increase the
yield of wheat and it will practically as-
sure a splendid seeding of clover that
follows the wheat. On the other hand, if
you put it on the clover sod it will prac-
tically assure a good corn crop. I think
you should use the system hcro that
Works out best: in your plan of farm man-
agement and make no particular mistake.
One trouble with top-dressing wheat is
that many times during the winter the
wheat land is not. in condition to drive
on, and one don't like to cut up the land.
Then again. if there is plenty of snow it
is difiicult to spread it evenly. and where
you are top—dressing wheat it would be

.possible to pttt on so much that the wheat

would lodge down. I have thought this
matter over carefully for my own farm
business and believe. taking everything
into consideration, including the labor
problem. that I get as good, or better,
results by putting the stable manure on
land that is to be plowed dowa for corn
the next spring. Of course, I want to
raise big crops of ensilage corn because
that is one of the basic foods of the farm
dairy.
Alfalfa on Clay.-

Alfalfa will do just as well upon clay
as it will on sand, sometimes I think bet-
ter. On one clay knoll in one field I get
a better growth of alfalfa than I do on

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

sand in the'same field, and on one par-
ticular side hill which is nothing more
or less than a regular clay bank grows
the’nicest alfalfa that I ever say grow-
ing anywhere. Here the clay comes right
out to the top of the ground, there is no
top soil, yet those alfalfamoots go right
dowu into that solid clay. But you can’t
grow alfalfa on flat clay land that holds
moisture without first tile draining it.
Alfalfa won‘t grow with wet fcet. This
clay bank that I speak about has plenty
of natural drainage because at the foot
of the bank, or side hill. is a tile drain,
and it is well drained, and so all clay
must be if you want to grow alfalfa.
When it is properly drained alfalfa thrives
on clay because most all of our clay soil
in this country is rich in carbonate of,
lime.

 

 

WHAT FEEDS TO BUY WITH CLO-

 

VER HAY AND CORN FODDER.

“'hat feeds can I buy to get a balanced 3
ration for milch cows? 1 have clovcd hayfl
shredded cornstalks for roughage. andl
corn meal and pcas and oats, mostly oats,
Also some mangcls.

Ottawa Co. N. DelV.

“’ith corn meal and peas and oats you
have a pretty good start for a balanced
ration where you have clover hay to feed
for roughage. I would suggest that you
fced gluten feed to help out the cornl
meal and peas and oats, as you sayt
there aren‘t very many peas with oats.
and I would suggest that you mix corn
meal, ground peas and oats. and gluten
feed equal parts by weight. to make up
your ration for the cows. if you want
to feed libcrally and encourage your cows
to do their best. feed as many pounds
per day of this feed as they produce
pounds of butter-fat in a week. it is an
excellent thing to feed a fcw mangels as
a succulent food in the ration. If you

 

haven't enough to last all winter then I
would food only a small amount of man-
gels once a day and make them last as
long as possible so as to get the full value
of their succulency. Give them all the
clover hay they will eat up clean and the
same with corn fodder, only don't insist
on the cows eating the corn fodder all up
clean, because much of it is not palatable.

 

 

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SILO INSIDE OF BARN.

 

I have a barn 34x70 ft., bttt lack stable
room and am now contemplating building
a silo. \Vottld it be all right to build the
silo at the end and continue the length
for a number of feet. with stalls on eith-
er side and an alley the entire length?
And if the silo is inside would not the
slaves be as good as the vitrified clay hol-
low block one? Is there any objection
to the silo being inside? it will be much
chcaper than the vitrified clay one out-

side.
Clinton Co. E. A. C.

My advise is not to put the silo inside
of the barn. If you need more stable
rootn build onto the end of the barn,
making it longer, so that you have the
room desircd, and then put the silo out-
doors at the end of the barn. Have the
chute built between the barn and the
silo so that when you open the door it
will connect directly with the silo. Place
your silo outdoors. You don’t want it in
the barn. It isn't intended to be in the
barn and you will always regret it if you
put it there. l know from experience be-
cause l have tried it. and nearly spoiled
a barn by putting a silo on the inside. A
stave silo will last just about as long
outdoors as it does on the inside. If it is
kept painted on tho ouISidc wood is
pactically indestructible, and it will stand
outside as long as your barn will stand.

 

 

COTTONSEED MEAL WITH BEAN
MEAL AND GROUND OATS.

 

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half by weight. How mttch cottonseed

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If you have no difficulty in getting the
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COWS DOING FAIRLY WELL BUT "ET
NOT SATISFIED.

 

I haVe read a number of replies to in-
quiries relative to a balanced ration for
dairy cows, where different kinds of
roughage is fed, and as none of these
replies fit my case I would like to have
Mr. Lillie or someone informed, give me
a little advice. I am feeding my cows
silage morning and night, all they will
eat. Also, bean straw, cornstalks and
mixed hay. I feed silage in morning as
soon as milking is done. As soon as the
covvs have cleaned up their silage I feed
a liberal amount of been straw. When
they have picked this over pretty well I
turn them out for water and feed them a
liberal amount of cornstalks in feed rack
outside. About four o’clock I put them
in the stable and feed them mixed hay.
about 25 per cent clover, and then feed
silage again after milking. For grain ra-
tion I feed each cow six quarts of cooked
cull beans and one pound of cottonseed
meal night and morning, this is fed after
milking and just before feeding silage.
Cull beans clean and free from dirt, cost
me $13 per ton, or 39c per bushel. My
cows are doing pretty well. but am not
satisfied. Think they ought to do better
and would like to be advised what change
to make in my ration or method of feed—
ing to secure better results.

St. Clair Co. E. J. R.

Theoretically this ration that Mr. R.
is feeding is correct. It' is a good one,
and it is composed of the most economical
kinds of food. If these cows will eat
these cooked beans readily and seem to
relish them I cannot think of a more cco-
nomical ration than is being fed. If they
eat six quarts of cooked beans and Seem
to like them it might be that you could
do away with the cottonseed meal en-
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icause beans are rich in protein and there
Lis no use in feeding any more protein

than is necessary. This can be deter-

lmined on trial. M'r. R. says the cows

are doing fairly wcll but he is not satis-
lled. Now from this description no one

1can tell anything about whether the cOWS

are doing as well as they ought to or
not. The question is, how well are they
doing. How much butter-fat on the av-

Icrago are they producing? Perhaps Mr.

R. expects more of the cows than he
ought to. Perhaps they are doing as well
as they could under any conditions. Then
again. the question comes up. is this hay
which hc foods of good quality, or did it
got too ripe. or did it get wet. or some-

‘ihing of that sort? All of these things

have smncthing to do with the way the
cows perform. They not only want the
right kind of food but‘ these foods must
be in the right condition, that is, they
must be palatable. Cows must like them
in order to have them do their best.

l suspect that one reason why these
cows do not do us well as Mr. R. expects
them to is because they are left outdoors
too long in the winter time. I believe
that if he would put them back into the
burn as soon as they all get through
drinking. and feed them there. that he
would get better results. I believe it is
a case of too much exposure in cold
wcal’lier. This, of course, is supposing
that the barn is warm, well lighted and
Well ventilated. If such is the case I
would let them out only long enough to
drink :md then put them back, and I am

‘01' the opinion that they will increase in

the How of milk without any change in
the ration.

 

QUESTIONS ABOUT COTTONSEED
MEAL.

 

1. How many pounds of cottonseed meal
can profitably be fed. daily, to breeding
cows with a ration consisting of silage
night and morning and hay or straw at
noon? 2. ls the ‘light feeding of cotton-
St'l'fl meal. say two pounds daily, apt to
(-zlusc abortion in a healthy Hereford
hm'd‘.’ .‘l. “'hich will be the most profit-
ablc feuding. cottonseed mcal at $32 :1.
ton, or linseed meal at $45 a ton?

lilll‘t'm (.‘U. E. C. lllCC.

'I‘hc concensus of opinion of men who
have been feeding cottonseed meal for a
number of years is that no animal ought
to receive over two pounds per day. That
ought to be the limit.

I do not know whether cottonseed meal
can produce abortion or not. I have a
notion that in my own herd cottonSeed
meal tended to produce irregularity in
breeding. but this is only a. notion. I
cannot prove it. Cottonseed meal at the
price named will certainly furnish you a
pound of digestible protein cheaper than
you can get it in oil meal at the price
named, but, of course, it isn’t all there
is to a ration. We haVe got to have a
ration that does the business and keeps
the animal in good condition. While I
do not believe that two pounds of cot-
tonseed meal per day will injure mature
covvs after freshening, I would not like
to feed any more. Oil meal is a, safer
feed than cottonseed meal.

FEB. 15, 1913.

A DIFFERENCE

It Pold This Man to Change Food.

 

”What is called ‘good living’ eventually
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me for business.

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“Grape-Nuts has been a boon to my
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OBSERVATIONS ABOUT HOT-BEDS.

Keeping a sufficient quantity of rich
soil out of the reach of Jack Frost is the
care of the truck farmer who produces
his own plants. Hot-beds and the care
of them is getting more and more intelli-
gent attention with each year. Some
time ago some of the farmers undertook
to dispense with the hot-bed, but every
one of them went back to them the next
year.

Late in the fall a plat of ground is cov-
ered with straw or manure and the cov-
ering weighted down all winter. When
it is ready to startl the beds, the right
kind of soil is at hand for the purpose.
The farmer also keeps on hand close to
the beds a plentiful supply of strawy ma-

apples, pears and quinces, including sev-
eral promising new seedlings, were ex-
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ware, Colorado, California, Arkansas,
Connecticut, Ohio, New York, \Visconsin,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Montana,
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Rhode IHland, and Oregon. British Col-
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Plant Industry of XVashington, D. C.,
were Shown.

Michigan apples occupied first place, 17
counties being represented. Field Agent
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and first, second and third prize ribbons
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Illustrating a Convenient Method of Ventilating Hot-bed.

nure, and he watches the weather close
enough to cover the entire bed, wood
frame and all, when there is danger of
freezing.

Some of the farmers have been able
to utilize the old windows taken from
wrecked buildings in Chicago for hot-bed
sash. Ilere and there sash of the right
length are to be had at advantageous
prices.

llot-beds should not be too wide. A
little less than twice the length of the
average human arm, so that the center
of the bed may be reached from either
side is the popular width.

The accompanying picture shows some
beds opened to admit warm air. The
sticks holding up the, sash have notches
so that the sash may be held up. at dif-
ferent distances from their resting place
on the siding. The man with the team is
unloading old orange boxes to be used
in handling spinach.

Illinois. J. L. GRAFF.

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
FRUIT AND FLOWER SHOW.

 

The Fifth Annual Fruit and Flower
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The show is held under the auspices of
the Horticultural Club, and is managed
by the seniOr members of the organiza—
tion. Each year, since the inauguration
of the .show in 1909, it has grown in size
and importance. The first three shows
were held in the. laboratory of the Horti-
cultural Building; last year larger quar-
ters were needed, and the show was held
in one of the larger laboratories. So great
has the show grown in magnitude and
popularity, that in order to have ample
room for the exhibits this year, it was
necessary to utilize a large part of the
pavilion of the Agricultural Building.

From the moment that the doors were
opened, Friday afternoon. large crowds
of interested visitors kept the members in
charge busy explaining the varied fea-
tures of the exhibit. The fact, that not
only students, but people from the vicin—
ity of Lansing and nearby towns were
among the visitors, proves that the mer-
its of the show are being appreciated and
are becoming greater in the opinion of
the public.

The collection of fruit was large and
varied. Over 150 identified varieties of

choice of all varieties. For the best col-
lectiOn of varieties, Allegan county was
given first place; Newaygo, second, and
Grand Traverse, third. The Canada Red
was given the choice over all other va-.
rieties. A plate of this variety from
David McCann. of Van Buren county, was
given first place; .l. G. France, of Cal-
houn, receiving second. and Kent third.

No prize ribbons were awarded for the
State collections, other than Michigan.
The state collections, as a whole, were
exceptionally good. Those from Ohio,
Delaware, Connecticut and Oregon were
certainly worthy of mention.

The New York State Experiment Sta-
tion again sent an interesting exhibit' of
apple crossesl. These apples come from
trees of known parentage, and are the
result of experimental work in apple
breeding, which was started by the ex-
periment station about 12 years ago. A.
large number of the crosses were shown
with apples of the parent tree. None of
the crosses seem to carry ‘with them
quality characteristics, yet the exhibit
was highly instructive to those who were.
interested in plant breeding. i

Considerable interest was centered'
about a plate of Northern Spys which
were said to be the fruit from cions of
the original Spy tree. It' is known that
the variety originated considerably over
a century ago, still we can detect but
little difference, if any, between the fruit
from cions of the original tree, and those
far removed. In other words, the fruit
has not changed appreciably through
propagation during all these years.

Insects and diseases of fruits, tools
and material used in pruning and graft-
ing, and the instruments and materials
used in pathological work were effective-
ly displayed, creating an unusual interest
in this feature of the show. The various
methods of pruning and grafting were
demonstrated. ./

The college green houses furnished the
plants and cut flowers for the floral dis-
play, which was very attractive and
greatly enhanced the beauty of the show.

Following the plan of last year, an ap-
ple pie contest was held, which was open
to all young women of the home econom-
ics course. The pies were judged by
competent judges, and three prizes were
awarded. The first prize was $5.00 in
gold; second, one barrel of apples; third,
one bushel of apples. Twenty-four choice
apple pies were received as a result of

   
  
  

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prizes were won by senior girls. and the
third by a junior. The pies were auc-
tioned just before the close of the show.
Choice fruits and freSh sweet cider ‘were
on sa’le during the Show, and the odds
and ends of these were auctioned with
the pies.

Each afternoon two short illustrated
lectures were given by Senior horticul-
tural students in the large lecture room
0n the second floor of the Agricultural
Building. “Twenty-year-old Campus
Scenes,” and "Fruit Growing in Michi-
gan.” were the subjects discussed. The
lectures were interesting and instructive
and were well attended.

As an educational feature there is no
better fruit show held in the state. \Vhile
the quantity of fruit is not as great as
that displayed by the larger land and
apple shows, there is tl large assortment
of varieties from various parts of the
country. It affords an admirable oppor-
tunity for the Study of varieties, and the
comparison of varieties as grown in the
different fruit-growing sections of the
State and 0f the country. It is of addi-
tional value, coming as it does at this
time of the year, as there are a large
number of short course students to whom
the show is valuable and interesting.

There are many counties in the state
where fruit is grown, and it is hoped
that more counties will be represented
at future shows. No great effort is made
to obtain fine specimens of fruit, the ob-
ject being to get suitable specimens for
comparison and study. The show is prov-
ing to be a strong factor in upholding the
horticultural interests of the state. and
while all due credit must be given to the
Horticultural Club, still more credit is
due the members of the horticultural de-
partment whose enthusiasm and loyalty
act as an incentivo for greater effort on
the part of the students.

Agrl. College. R. E. LOREE.

 

ROOT GALL ON NURSERY STOCK.

 

Trees having crown or root call are
unsalable, according to the laws of Mich-
igan. Not only does this apply to the

- tree affected, but to all the trees with it.

That is to say, one tree of this kind is
sufficient to condemn :l can-load, if the
buyers arc so inclined. This is going to
an unfair extreme. To refuse good trees
because one or two have gulls is taking
an unjust advantage of the nurserymen,
but it can be done.

Crown gull is to be found most any-
where and on a great variety of plants,
so that though the trees are free of it
when planted it does not follow that they
will remain so. Tho soil may be filled
with the disease germs: that have come
from some native or cultivated plant. in
which case the trees are promptly inocu-
lutod. 'J‘hcn, too. it must be admitted,
according to reports, that trees with galls

 

on them when set out have later been
dug, only to find the roots clean. From
this it is easy to infer that perhaps too
much stroSs has been laid upon the gall.
But no one wants to plant diseased trees.
at least not till the causes and effects
are better understood than they are at
present.

The stringency of the law compels the
nurserymam as a matter of self-defense.
to sort his trees very carefully, throwing
on the brush heap all trees having such
galls as czmnot be readily removed with-
out injury to the roots. Calls on the
smaller roots can be cut of! and the tree
be left with a. strong root system suffi-
cient to overcome the disease. But with
all the care exbrcised, objectionable trees
will frequently escape notice.

It is a good plan for buyers to examine
the trees when they are delivered and so
settle the matter at once with the nur-
sery company. If the trees are good. ex-
cept for a few specimens of gall, do not
refuse them. If many are bad, settle the
matter then and there.

Oakland Co. F. D. WELLS.

 

KEEPING BEETS FOR TABLE USE.

 

“'hen we want to use a few of the
table beets during the winter months and
do not have them in the storage we have
put them in among the pile of carrots
that is in the stable to feed to the stock.
A few scattered around in the carrots
make it easy to get them when wanted
and to have them fresh all the time. If
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good feed for the horses and cows as
well as the carrots. When they are stor-
cd in this way they are always fresh
while from the storage they are often-
times dried and shriveled to some extent.
Ohio. R. E. ROGERS.

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Be First With

What The Fruit Buds Show.

Many farmers have a very vague. idea
of what the fruit buds show, or perhaps
it would be nearer the truth to say that
they have no idea what a fruit bud is.
Yet the buds can tell the orchardist
something of the next season‘s prospects,
even in the early winter, if he but knows
how to read the story. And he should
know, for with this knowledge he can
better plan for the work of the spring.
If he finds no buds have set, forwarned
he can plant some CI‘OD to take the place
of the expected fruit, Another reason why
he should know is that he may better
plan for the marketing. Thrifty growers
order baskets, boxes and barrels in the
winter, when there is ample time for the
hauling from the railroad; and, by study-
ing the buds, it is possible to judge in
a general way how many will be needed.
Then the spring of an off season is the
best time for severe pruning; especially
is this true of the peach. By knowing
in advance the prespects, a severe head-
ing-in may be done without the loss of
the crop, as might be the case if one
knew nothing of the story of the buds.

Apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry
trees form their fruit buds the previous
year, and by knowing the difference be-
tween these and the leaf buds it is pos—
sible at any time during the winter or
early spring to tell if there be any prob-
ability of a harvest. Also, one may de-
termine if the- buds have been injured by

‘ cold weather.

The fruit buds of the peach are Very

easily distinguished. Upon shoots of the
past season’s growth, especially if the
trees have made a lot of strong new
wood, will be noticed lateral buds, usu-

ally growing in sets of three, the outside
ones large and plump with the middle
one small and undeveloped. The large
buds are fruit buds and the small one is
a. leaf bud only.‘ Some shoots may be
seen bearing only single buds, these gen-
erally on the weaker-growing trees. Such
are leaf buds only. “hen the winter
temperature has been so low as to en-
danger the life of the embryo, one may
tell if harm has been done by cutting
across the base of the bud and should the
the undeveloped flower have a Small dark
spot in the center, it is winter-killed. Live
buds‘should be of a. greenish color, but

SETTING A STRAWBERRY BED.

When one moves toa place where there
is no fruit. of any kind, as I have done
several times, the first thing to do is to
get about establishing a bed of straw-
berries, for this is the quickest way to
get fruit of the best kind. Plants set
this spring will bear bountifully the next
year, and there is no such thing as a.
total failure of strawberries.

TVhile the strawberry will do its best
on light soil with warm red clay subsoil,
it will grow on any land. If the land is
wet throw it up in beds and fertilize with
plenty of rotten manure. It would have
been better to manure- a piece of ground
last year and put it in some cultivated
crop so that it would be clean of weeds
with the soil loose, but if you have no
such place select the best you have. New
ground, either timber or sod, that has
been in some other crop f0r a. year in
order to kill the grubs, is good for the
strawberry.

it would have been bettcr to break the
land in the fall, but since this could not
be done, the work may be done as early
in the spring as it will do to work, and
harrowed several times to thoroughly pul-
verize and pack the soil. “here there is
not too much sod new ground will often
be found to be the best place for the
strawberries. Since the first ycar is the
only time you can apply stable manure
on account of weed seed. this should be
done at the rate of not less than 20 loads
to the acre before the plants are set.

The selection of the plants is of as
much importance as the soil where they
are to be set. It mUSt be remembered
that there are two kinds of plants, which
are called perfect and imperfect flower—
ing. It is better to have both kinds, and
when the imperfect flowering are set
t'here should be a row of perfect bloom-
ing kind every fourth row in order to

 

fertilize and make them productive. The
perfect flowering plants will produce
alone. If you should select the plants

yourself from an old bed, be Sure to get
those with clean, White roots, as these
are the young ones, while those with the
dark roots and setting up out of the
ground are those which bore fruit last
year, and are worthless. It is best to
get the plants as near home as possible,

when the cold has been too severe they
appear of a dark brown hue. As the
fruit buds of the peach grow on strong
wood of the previous season, this empha-
sizes how important it is that the trees
should be in a good growing condition.
The strong trees will also withStand the
ravages of cold, and come through the

winter with a larger percentage of live
buds than will the trees of weaker
growth.

Apple trees have a different habit of
producing their fruit. By closely exam-
ining a tree one may not only predict for
the coming year, but can also tell if the
tree has produced a crop the previous
season. Apple‘s are grown all the ends of
short branches commonly called fruit
spurs. \Vhen an apple is picked from a
spur a scar is left where the stem sep-
arated. Those spurs which have fruited
the past year will have scars upon them,
and at one side of the scar will be seen
a small pointed bud. This is a leaf bud.
Other spurs may be found upon the tree
bearing the same kind of buds. but‘ which
fruit scars. All these slender
buds will bear leaves only, but upon
stronger shoots may be found larger
rounded buds and these will be found up-
on examination to contain embryo flowers
and consequently may be expected to
produce fruit.

In the fruit-bearing habit of the apple
tree may be found the reason for non—
bearing and biennial crops,
found it in the case of the peach. Old
neglected trees have insufficient vigor to
produce strong new Spurs each season,
and the tree that bears every other year
devotes all its energies to fruit develop—
ment one year with the result that no
new fruit buds are produced.
that if a tree can be kept growing all the
time, new spurs of sufficient strength to
develop flowers each year may be pro-
duced.

'l‘he pear produces its fruit in a man-
ner very Similar to the apple. The strong
terminal buds are generally fruit buds,
and the same methods of cultivating,
pruning and thinning as advocated for
the apple should encourage annual crops.
The plum and cherry are more like the
peach in their fruit;bearing methods.

New HampShire. C. H. CHESLEY.

show no

and keep the roots dampened till ready to
set in the ground. Bunch the plants ev—
enly, and cut off a little of the tips of
the roots with a sharp pair of shears, as
well as remove some of the large leaves
if the leaf area seems to be out of pro-
portion to the root.

There are three ways of planting. If
you have only a few square rods in the
garden to devote to strawberries you will
probably decide on the matted row, which
consists of setting the plants 18 inches
or two feet apart in rows three feet apart
and letting the runners take half of this
space the first year, the balance being
kept clean by cultivation. The hedge
row is similar except that the row is not
allowed to get as much as a foot wide,
the runners being kept cut off. The hill
system requires more, work in cultivation
but is more satisfactory in gathering the
berries, and probably produces a greater
per cent of large fruit. The plants are
set two feet apart in rows wide enough
to allow cultivation, and none of the run-
ners is allowcd to root. This cutting back
results in a large thrifty plant a foot or
more in diameter with a powerful root
system.

\Vhen you have decided the distance
apart to set the plants lay off rows with
a. small garden plow or marker, then take
a dibhle or trowel and make a hole, set—
ting the plant in this with the roots
spread out fan-shaped so that the crown
of the plant will come even with the top
of the ground. If the ground is moist
press the dirt to the roots and continue
to the next. If the weather is dry put a
little water in the hole before pressing
the dirt to the roots. If the plants are
puddle-d by keeping moist in a bucket of
water into which dirt has been stirred
they will rarely need further watering. A
convenient way to set strawberry plants
is to take the plant in one hand, and
when the tro’wel is thrust into the ground
and pulled to one side. set the plant by
the side of this implement so that when
it is removed the dirt will fall back
around the roots of the plant.

I do not set strawberry plants as early
in the spring as I would some other
plants, as I have found the best time to

be May. If it is possible take the plants
up with a little dirt adhering to the
roots. H. F. GRINSTEAD.

 

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A study of nearly four hundred Amer-
ican dietaries, recently made by the Min-
nesota College of Agriculture, revealed the
fact that meats and fish formed 17.8 per
cent by weight of the total food mate-
rial; eggs 2.1 per cent; dairy products 18.4
per cent; and all animal foods combined
formed 38.5 per cent of all foods con-
sumed. Thus over one-third of the food
eaten came from animal sources; the re-
mainder from the plant kingdom.

Meats furnish nutrients at a higher
cost than that of the same nutrients
when obtained from vegetables; but, ow—
ing to their pleasing flavor, they will
probably remain an important part of
the American dietary, at least until their
cost becomes prohibitive except to the
wealthy. As a substitute for meats eggs
are employed with less objection on the
part of the consumer than are such vege-
etable products as beans, macaroni, peas,
etc., and, at present market values, a.
given sum of money will buy more food
nutrients in the form of eggs than in
most kinds of meat.

Eggs do not differ greatly in compoSi-
tion from meat. The average 633. as
purchased, consists of about 11 per cent
waste material or shell. The edible por-
tion consists of about 74 per cent water.
13 per cent protein or muscle-building
material, 10.5 per cent fat, and one per
cent mineral matter.

For comparison, medium fat round
steak, as purchased, consists of about 7
per cent waste material, bone, fat. etc.
The edible portion consists of 66 per cent
water, 20 per cent protein, 14 per cent
fat, and 1 per cent mineral matter. Thus
round steak contains slightly less refuse
and water than eggs, but rather more
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WINTER CHICK RAISING.

We have hatched from 2,400 eggs, OVer
1.2.00 chicks, and up to the age of four
weeks have not lost more than five per
cent, 58 chicks, and this, too, in January
and February, when all nature is against
you. This is an extraordinary good work,
and maybe some of your former readers
would like to know how we have accom~
plished this.

In the first place, I would like to have
it. understood that all of these chickens
will be disposed of as broilers, when
weighing between one and one and a
quarter pounds alive. So our one idea
was to make them grow as fast as Dos-
sible, without making them go off their
feet and legs, which often happens with
winter chickens when fed too heavily.

In the- incubation of the eggs we used
plenty of fresh air, and much moisture.
We sprinkled the floor every day, es-
pecially at hatching time. After they
were all hatched we would leave them in
the incubator another 36 hours, during
which time enough fresh air was admit-
ted to prevent them panting. Then they
were moved to the breeder. which was
previously thoroughly cleaned and disin-
fected and heated up to 9.3 degrees. Great
care is exercised not to get them chilled
while moving from incubator to breeder.
We use a covered basket. previously
warmed to about 95 degrees. and‘get
them moved as quickly as possible. We
place in flocks of 50 chicks, and no more.
The first 12 hours in the breeder they
are obliged to stay under the hover, with-
out either food or water. “'hen 48 hours
old, fresh water with the chili taken off
is set before them in small fountains,
into which they can not get and wet
themselves. Likewise a dish of oyster
shell and Charcoal. and grit (chick size),
is set before them. About 12 hours later
they get their first feed, the following
mixture: Rolled oats, 8 lbs; bread crumbs,
8 lbs; sifted beef scrap. 2 “as; bone
meal, 1 lb. This is slightly moistened
with sour skim-milk and for first four
da'ys is fed five times a. day. This is fed
on low rim pie plates, about two plates
for 50 chicks. One thing we always kept
in mind. and that was to feed them just
a. little less than they would have eaten,
if they had it, and not, as so many say,
to feed all they will eat up clean. be-
cause they then eat too much.

From four days to two weeks the grain
mixture: Cracked wheat, 3 lbs; cracked
corn, 2 lbs; pint-lead oat meal, 1 1b., is
fed in the litter twice a. day, and the
rolled oats and bread crumb mixture,
moistened with sour skim-milk, ted three
times a day. In addition to this, they
have the following dry mash mixture al-
ways before them in self-feeding hoppers:
Wheat bran. 3 lbs; corn meal. 3 lbs;
wheat middlings, 3 1118.: best sifted beet
scrap, 8 lbs; bone meal, 1 lb.

 

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These crisp flavoury bits
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above only cut the-moistened mash down
to two feeds a day, and from four to six
weeks same, but' cut moistened mash
feeding dow’h to only one- feed a day.
After they are six weeks old the cracked
grain can be replaced by whole grain.

As before stated, charcoal, grit, oyster
shell and granulated bone is always be-
fore them [in hoppers. Twice a, day they
get clean fresh water to drink, being
careful to always have the chill taken Off.

Green Stuff Necessary.

After they are live days old we com-
mence feeding green food, starting with
a half handful for 50 chickens. and be-
tween one week and four weeks feed a.
big handful a day to 50 chickens, being
sure that whatever you feed it is not
frozen. “'e use very line cut cabbage and
think it about as good as anything you
can get for its purpose. “'0 use :1 chop-
ping knife and wooden bowl to cut it
with. The finer you cut it the better.
Once in a while an onion cut up very fine
to about 200 chicks when they are small
and 100 when they are larger, is very
beneficial and much relished by them.
This green food is scattered over the
litter so all have an equal chance- of get-
ting their share.

The hovers are cleaned out once every
three days and thoroughly disinfected
and renewed with clean straw. “’9 use
cut straw about four inches long for
the litter in the scratching pen. and for
under the hover about two inches long.
Some advise the use of sand .under the
hoppers, but we could never get the best
results with its use.

The feeding utensils and drinking foun-

~ thins are scalded once a week and rinsed

every day.

Fresh air in abundance is allowed in-
side, and muslin windows are employed
for getting it inside without drafts. Fresh
air and sunshine are especially necessary
in winter for the successful raising of
chicks.

\\'hatever you do. let_me remind you in
conclusion, do not ovcrfecd, keep them
warm, and everything about them scrupu-
lously clean.

New York. F. W. KAZMEIER.
WINTER CONDITIODlS FAVORING

BEES.

 

\Ve are having a good winter for the
bees. There has been but little snow, and
the alternating cold and warmth have
given them repeated chances for winter
flights thus far. It will now be very
Strange if they do not come through the
winter well. Bees: are warm blooded, and
as long,r as a colony keeps in health the
tcmpcr‘ntut‘e of the cluster is about the
some as the normal temperature of the
blood of ti human being. So bees g0
safely through some of the most extreme
cold spells, even with :1, great (lE‘ill more
ventilation than one would think good
fOl‘ them. An occasional warm day, al-
lowing thcm to lake wing and cleanse
themselveS, is always beneficial, and it
may be safely asserted that with a warm
day once every three or four weeks ordi-
nm'y colonies will live through the most
frigid weather known in our latitude.
But when cold spells arc, of long duration
the bees are not only in danger of being
compelled to discharge their bowels in
the hive, but are also running the risk
of constipation.

\VlIm-c bees were properly housed in
November, as they should be in our cli-
maic, not :1 great deal remains to be done
for them. but it. is important that this
be done when necessary. If they arc be—
ing winlcl‘cd out of doors, when snow
comes and drifts so as to obstruct, hivc
entrances and exclude the air, it. should
be shovclcd away as soon as the storm
is over. If allowed to remain it may soon
thaw, seal the hive entrance with ice.
and smother the bees. As a. rule, the
principal cause. of winter losses among
bees in this part of the country is lack
of ventilation. Some bee-keepers, in their
anxiety to protect their bees from the
cold, cover and mnke the hives so nearly
air tight that it causes the bees to sweat.
Then the little air they may have in the
hive when the temperature drops low,
becomes foul, causing the insects to be-
come so weak that they cannot leave the
cluster to seek their stores; thus they
hang in the cluSier until they starve, and
when the bee—keeper opens his hives he
finds the frames damp and moldy and
his bees dead. Packing is all right if
the bees are kept dry. Bees do not often
freeze, but they can be easily smothered.
Thus it would be preferable to prop up
one end of the hive rather than to seal
it down air tight. Bees can live in either
a. moist or cold atmosphere only at the
expense of vitality.

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CURRENT COMMENT.

In a recent report

Postmaster General’s Postmaster General

Report. Hitchcock stated

that notwithstand«

ing the abuse of the flanking privilege by

the members of Congress. the postal ser-

vice of the country is on a self—supporting

basis. Incidentally he recommended the

abolishing of the frauking privilege un-

der which a vast amount of literature of

doubtful value is circulated by members

of Congress, particularly during a cam-

paign season. Judging from the wording

of the Postmaster Gene-ral‘s report the

volume of franked matter is very much

larger than is appreciated by the general
public.

Another interesting feature of this re-
port was the recommendation made for a
change in the parcel post law, both as to
increasing the weight limit and decreas-
ing the rate on matter of this class.
Also the Postmaster General recommend-
ed including present third-class matter
under the provisions of parcel post. These
recommendations bear out the idea often
expressed through the columns of the
Michigan Farmer that, even though not
wholly satisfactory, the preSent parcel
post law would act as on entering wedge
for the introduction of the system and
that public Si‘liilll’le’l’lt would demand its
gradual amendment and improvement un-
til it incasnres up to the needs and dc—
inands of the people of the country for
this kind of service.

At the annual conven-
Standardization. lion of the American

Society of Agricultural
Engineers. held at Chicago. the subject of
standardization was given considerable
prominence. Unquestionnlfly standardiza-
tion, as applied to the parts of agricul-
tural machinery whenever practicable,
would be it great boon to i‘lic farmers who
use it, since it would make the matter
of repairs much more simple. This is
particularly true so far as bolts, screws
and nuts are concerned. Very often it
will be found that non-standard small
parts of this kind are used in construct-
ing a great many different lines of agri-
cultural machinery, ncccssitating a trip
to town, or perhaps a special order which
must come from the factory or distribut-
ing point before even minor repairs can
be, mode.

Some of the engineers speaking at this
meeting advocated a still further applica-
tion of standardization, extending even
to the guards and knives of mowing and
reaping machines. wagon gears, etc. The
point was brought out that the cost of
production could be considerably cheap-
ened by such standardization and that it
would really be a. benefit to manufactur-
ers as well as to consumers.

It is a matter for congratulation that
the mechanical engineers of the country
are considering such problems in an or-
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standardization of small parts common to
all machinery would be greatly to the
advantage of the users of such machin-
ery.
‘ Those who have
Agricultural Credit from advocated the
a New Angle. government fos-
tering of agri-

cultural credit have had opportunity to
view this proposition from a. new angle in
the bill recently introduced by Represent-
ative Batlirick, of Ohio, (H.R.27661).
Briefly stated. this bill provides for the
creation of a bureau of farm loans under
the control and direction of the Secretary
of the Treasury for the purpose of lend-
ing money to bona fide tillers of the soil
upon farm mortgages. The plan con—
templated under this bill is the issuing of
government bonds bearing not to exceed
four per cent interest, interest payable
annually, for the purpose of securing
funds for the making of farm loans, said
loans to be made upon the approval of
the commissioner of the bureau of farm

loans, contemplated by the bill, upon ap-

proved real estate mortgages not in ex-
cess of 60 per cent of the value of the
property and at a rate of interest not to
exceed four and one-half per cent per
annum. A severe penalty is provided in
the bill for the making of false state-
ments with intent to defraud the govern-
ment. The bill also provides for an ap-
praisement of the property offered as
security by appraisers appointed for the
purpose whenever a farm loan is sought.

The author of this bill claims for it:
that it proposes a greater and speedier
co-operation than would be possible
through scattered groups of farmers or-
ganized under a self-help system which
is not so well adapted to our country as
to European conditions. The author be-
lieves that if it is not paternalism for our
government to loan money to banks at
two per cent that it cannot be paternal-
ism to loan money to farmers at four and
one-half per cent, and that if the loaning
of money to banks on such securities as
municipal and railway bonds is safe
business for the government it is a safer
business to loan money upon such secur-
ity 'as the farms of the country. The au-
thor claims that such a law would not‘
only reduce the average interest burden
nearly one-half but would pay the cost
of operation and provide a. large fund each
year with which to meet losses and en-
able an amortization plan to be carried
out by the government.

This is at least approaching the prob-
lem of agricultural credit from a, new
angle, an angle which we anticipate will
not be popular in financial circles, but
which will at least bear close study by
the comm0n people of the country.

A bill was recently
introduced in the
lower house of Con-
gress, (H. R. 27321),
requiring railroads engaged in interstate
commerce tolmaintain an average speed
of at leaét 15 miles per hour for live-stock
in transit from time of loading to the
delivery of same at the point of destina-
tion. Many Michigan shippers state that
they have a difficult time to get stock

Stock Shippers Seek
Legislation.

to market and have been obliged
to quit shipping to the eastern mar-
kets because the railroads are so
slow in handling stock originating at
local points, stock shipments of pack--
crs and speculators originating at big
markets being given the preference and
going through on fast schedules While
locul shipments are neglected, with de-

lziys at c'vcry junction point, causing a
heavy shrinkage and losses for which the
shipper is obliged to make allowance in
making country purchases.

Some shippers maintain that in specific
instances railroads have failed to make
an average spec-d of more than seven
miles an hour with certain shipments.
thus entailing a heavy loss upon theiship-
per. On this account the national legis-
lation above mentioned is being sought,
also a bill has been introduced in the
state legislature providing for the more
prompt handling of local shipments of
live stock within the state. Reasonable
demands along this line should receive
general support for humane as well as
economic reasons.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

 

National.

In a fight between strikers and sympa-
thizers on the one hand and mine guards,
deputies and detectives on the other, 16
persons were killed and 40 injured at
the Kanawha. coal fields of \Vest Virginia,
Monday.

A fire at Gladstone. Mich., destroyed
five busineSs establishments in the Kratz
building. .

A pernicious system of grafting that
has apparently been years in building in

New York city, is being bared by ofli-r

cials. Revelations brought, out in the
recent Rosenthal case tlogether with con-
fessions just made by a. police captain,
Thomas W. Walsh, has given the prose-
cution a. large amount of information
which will enable Pr0secutor Whitman to
ferret out other valuable facts concern-
ing the system used by the grafters. It
is now estimated that the amount se-
cured froni gamblers, pool room men and
illegal resort keepers exceed the $2,000,000
mark.

As a. result of a smashup on the We.-
bash railroud at Detroit last Sunday night
five persons were more or less seriously
injured. The cause of the accident has
not been explained.

Seven persons narrowly escaped death
and were injured severely, when a, Detroit.
Woodward avenue car Struck an automo-
bile in which the victims were riding,
throwing all except one to the street.

The remainder of this session of Con-
gress will be very busy since a large
number of bills yet remain for action,
including appropriation bills that will ex-
ceed three quarters of a billion dollars,
and also arrangements with regard 00 the
control of the Panama Canal.

Foreign.

During the past week war has been re-
sumed between the Turks and the allies.
No decisive battles have been fought
although activity is reported in all por-
tions of the contested territory. Adrian-
ople is under fire. the bombardmentl of
which was the first move by the allies
on the resumption of the contest. An-
other effort of the allied forces is a move-
ment of troops for the capture of the
peninsula of Gallipoli which occupies a.
commanding position between the Aegean
Sea and the Sea of Marmora and also
opens the way to Constantinople by wat-
er. Reports indicate the Greek fleet is
now in the Gulf of Saros and Servian
troops are present to uid the Bulgars in
capturing the territory. It is believed
that the Turks failed in a desperate. at-
tempt to land forces near ROdoS'tO, a fort
on the Sea of Murmora. the purpose being
to distract attention of the enemy from
(lallipoli. It is believed that the Turks
are anxious to reopen negotiations for
settlement and Hakki Pashi has been
sent to London for that purpose.

Moxican disorders assumed new pro-
portions Sunduy when followers of Gen-
eral Reyes and Felix Diaz, a. nephew of
former President Diaz, released the lead-
ci's from prisons where they had been
placed by the gOVernment, organized and
fought the federal troops before the pres-
idential palace. So suddenly did the out-
break present itself Uhat the populace was
wnfused and did not move from the
scene of the conflict in time to avoid be-
ing caught, and women and children were
killed by bullets. The total casualties
are reported at 500. The federals were
practically defeated although they suc-
cecded in holding the palace. General
Diaz sent an ultimatum to President Ma-
dero to resign or stand responsible for
further bloodshed and since the» president
refused it is expected that Uhe struggle
will be renewed at any hour. The rebels
hold Ciududela, the almost impregnable
arsenal and its immense stores of mili-
tary supplies, which give them a decided
advantage in any Struggle that may oc-
cur.

The steamship Crown Point, from Lon-
don, Eng, to Norfolk, Va, is reported
adrift in the Atlantic, having lost her
rudder.

Gloom overcasts London, Eng, because
of the report that Cupt‘ain Robert F.
Scott, a British veteran of two Antartic
expeditions, and three of his companions
were overwhelmed by a blizzard after he
had succeeded in locating the South Pole.
The Pole was reached by the expedition
one month later than the Norwegian,
Amundsen, discovered it. The remainder
of the party are reported safe and it is
thought that the bodies of the unfortu-
nate persons have been recovered.

Advices from Mozambique, Africa, are
to the effect that an engagement between
Portuguese and native forces resulted in
i1 defeat of the latter, they losing 200
killed and 500 wounded. The victory is
considered inmportant in that it opens up
a new region for Portuguese develop-
incnt.

MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.

X\'lieat.~—In reply to the question, “Has
wheat during January suffered injury
from any cause?" 159 correspondents. in
the southernkcountics answer “yes” and
118 “110;" in the central counties 73 an-
swer “yes" and 52 “110;” in the northern
counties 54 answer “yes” and 43 “no,”
and in 'the upper peninsula six answer
"yes” and 16 ”no.”

Snow protected wheat in the state nine
days, in the southern counties seven, in
the central counties nine, in the north-
ern counties 14 and in the upper penin—
sula 21 days.

The average depth of snow on January
15 in the state was 1.51 inches, in the
southern counties 1.12, in the central

counties 1.20, in the northern counties
1.49. and in the upper peninsula 5.88
inches.

On January 31 the average depth of
snow in the state was 1.69 inches, in the
southern counties 0.38, in the central
counties 0.76 of an inch, in the northern
counties 3.92 and in the upper peninsula.
9.15 inches.

The total number of bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in January at 97
flouring mills was 96,500 and at 75 ele-
vators and to grain dealers 68,037, or a.
total of 164.537 bushels. Of this amount
108,588 bushels were marketed in the
southern four tiers of counties, 43,306 in
the central counties and 12.643 in the
northern counties and upper peninsula.
The estimated total number of bushels
of wheat marketed in the six months,
August-January. is 3,250,000. Eighty-nine
mills, elevators and grain dealers report
no wheat marketed in January. The av-
erage condition of live stock in the state
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with stock in good, healthy and thrifty
condition: Horses and sheep 96; cattle
and swine 95.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

Genetics 60., Feb. 6,—A1ter mild winter
weather the extreme cold of the past
few days marks a decisive change. Those
who have begun to fear an ice shortage
will have no further reason to complain.
All hands are now busy filling the houses
with a, product that will. be more appre-
ciated next July than It. is at present.
County road work still gomg on by haul-
ing crushed stone and other material
ready for renewing operations in the
spring. Markets have been rather dull
of late not much produce being offered.
Two things remain at top prices, work
horses and inilch cows. A number of
farms are changing hands, both by sale
and rental. Farmers who have tested
their cats claim that only a. veg‘ytgmall
ro ortion germinates, suppose
Bwilrig to continued rain during harvest
of last year. Some of the corn tests as
badly as the oats. Farmers now rarely
plant their seed without first testlng‘ it to
ascertain its germinating qualities; Un—
der favorable conditions one mans oats
tested only 10 sound grains out of 150.

Emmet 00., Feb. 6.—VVeuther. for Jan-
uary generally mild, With very little snow
just sufficient to make fair.sleighing for
light traffic most of the time, but not
enough for the proper prosecution of
lumbering operations. A decided drop in
temperature theffirst of February to be-
low zero. Ice formed over the ball, Wthh
is now covered with fishingshanties. A
large quantity of wood is being hauled to
market by farmers, and some timber
being harvested by them as saw logs.
UreSsed beef. 7%(1Mc; hogs, Sapllc; eggs
retailed at 40c during December and tore
part of January, but are now down to
30c.
Sanilac 00., Feb. 7.—.~\t present we are
having cold weather. Not very favorable
for the fields. No snow but vast amounts
of ice and the ground is frozen very
deep. Up to February 1 the weather was
very changeable. Roads were never bet-
ter than they are now. A lot of gravel
being drawn for the highway and bmld-
ing purposes. Some wood sawmg done.
Coal down in price, soft selling at .154 and
hard at $7.50 per ton. Farmers objecting
to wages asked by hired help, claiming
they cannot stand for such wages With
produce so cheap. Hay markets very
dull. Beans can hardly be sold. Very
few dry ones in the country; oats, 30c;
wheat, $1.02; eggs, 20c; butter-fat, 32c.

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Hardin 00., Feb. 8.—February brings us
the coldest weather of the season So far.
The ground is covered with snow and the
thermometer near the zero mark. Quite
a, business being done in the marketing
of corn, oats and wheat. The wheat and
rye looking very well yet. January was
a very open month and froze and thawed
several times but if we have good weath-
er from now on we stand a good chance
of a fair crop. Oats, 30c; corn, 45c; hogs

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last year we had another off season. A
wet, cold, backward spring, which was
followed by a dry spell the fore part of
the summer. After that we got rain too
frequently, which it h‘as kept up to the
present time. Very little snow and cold
weather this winter. No ice crop as
yet. Hay was a fair crop. Much of the
wheat was damaged by the Hessian fly.
Barley and outs were short. Corn was
quite a. good crop. Beans greatly dam-
aged by wet weather, and secured in bad
shape. Potatoes, where not thoroughly
Bordeauxed, were struck hard by the late
blight, and consequently are decaying
badly. It seems some farmers are not
aware of this. Following are 'the prices
offered by dealers, not the retail prices:
Butter, dairy, 28((fl30c: creamery, 36c;
pork, dressed, 100; live, ”ii/3c; turkeys,
live, 200; chickens, live, 15c; ducks, live,
18c; lambs, dressed, 141:; eggs, fresh, 25c;
wheat. $1; outs, 40c: potatoes, 4.1-; (-ab-
bage, $3; beans, $2.25f0240 per bu: apples
$l@l.50 per bbl: buy on track, timothy,
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WOULD LICENSE DOG BREEDERS.

In regard to the dog nuisance spoken of
in your last issue, I think something like
the following would help some: First, that
no one except a licensed breeder should
be allowed to keep a female dog and his
license should require him to keep only
pure-bred (logs, and to keep them strictly
on his own premises, confining the fe-
males during the breeding period; Sec-
ond, that every dog owner should know,
not guess at it, that his dog is confined
in some building at night and whenever
he goes away from home. A penalty of
$5 for the first offense, with increasing
amounts: up to a jail sentence, should be
imposed upon any who fail to comply.

Ingham Co. L. A. W.

WOULD iNCREASE DOG TAX.

On page 158, issue of February 8. you
ask the question, “How improve the dog
law?” I am a sheep breeder but not a
dog owuer. I would answer it this way:
ltziise the dog tax to $3 for male and $5
for female dogs and if not paid give the
sheriff $3 for putting them out of the

way.
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The annual Round-up Farmers’ Insti—
tute will be held at the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, East Lansing, Mich, on
February 25-28, inclusive. Supt. Taft an-
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in the selection of speakers and that ev-
ery one of the topics discussed is promi-
nently before the people of the state at
the preach! time. A summary of thetpro.
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John Doe died a year ago and left his
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John‘s fault, he had worked hard enough,
goodness knows. He arose at 4:30 and
gulped down two or three cups of strong
coffee, chinked in between with burned
potatoes and greasy sausages, then hur-
i'ied away across town to work until six
in a factory. At noon he ate a cold
lunch from a pull, there were 30 minutes
for refreshments, and at 5:30 he quit and
came- home to eat a poorly cooked sup-
per, smoke a pipe and go to bcd. For his
long hours of toil .lohn received $9.00 a
week. There were three small children,
a baby arrived three months before
John's death, sickness a plenty, i'ent $12

til month, food, coal, cal‘lel'e and clothes,

so you can readily see why John left his
family unprovided for when he (lied.
John’s wife had no time for mourning.
After the first shock her gl‘icf was over-
shadowed by the pressing necessity of
making a living for herself and the three
babies. She could not do it by taking in
washing, shc was 100 frail. The house
wasn’t large enough for boarders, and if
it had been Mrs. Doe hadn’t the strength
to cook for them. She had no particular
education, so she was decidedly in a bad
The family physician helped solve
suggesting that if she

ing, he lmd noticed in John’s sickness
that she was vcl'y good in the sicki‘oom,

and he promised to call her on simple,

easy cases and coach IlEX‘.

’I‘hcn licr siSiei‘s (‘iilllO forward and 0f-
fci'ed to take the children if she could
clothe them. They had enough to do to
hike care of their own, but it is always

Ellie ones with the biggest loud who are
lwilling to take on a bit more.

The hen
with one chicken never offers to adopt

;the orphans 0f the barn ym-d. So the

question was settled. One sister took the
oldest boy, the other took the two little
girls and in her periods of offiduty Mrs.
l‘me would stay with the babies.

Her first case took her away from home
six weeks. The inevitable happened.
When she returned the baby didn’t know
her and the iwo-year-old toddler ran 10
her aunty for everything. Instead of tak-
ing it wisely Mrs. Doe, poor woman, went
and walled and accused her sister of at-
tempting to poison her babies' minds
against their own mother! She went over
to visit her boy and instczld of upholding
his aunt's discipline she told him he
nccdn’t mind aunty while she was there!
Both aunts were outraged but fortunately
before a real qual‘l'cl arose the mother
was again Called out 10 work.

l-l’owevel‘, there soon came another
longer period of rest and the mislchief
)l’i-s. Doe, hurt to find hci‘
children estranged, us such young chil-
dren would nzllnl'ally bc. and not wise
enough to bow llt’l' neck to the yoke.
vowed the cllildi'cn were bolus and didn’t
need to mind another woman. Naturally
the sisters thought when she was de-
pending upon them 10 food and (‘211‘0 for
her little ones, she should be. reasonable
enough to waive some of hcl' rights. Af-
lcr lln‘cc wwks of bickering she. took the
little ones to a homo and agreed to pay
for their board. But :1 long period of
idleness followed, she couldn’t meet her
bills, the woman who was boarding the
children turned them out, one sister rev-
fuse-d to help out, and the other one had
to take all three. Mrs. Doe is at present
meek enough, became she has little work
and less money but if prosperity comes
again, will she behave? .

I write this, not because I expect many,
if any, of my readers. to be placed in ex-
actly the same circumstances, but be-
cause so many women come to a place
where they have to depend on the kind-
ness of others. And all too often they
refuse to adapt themselves to circum-
stances. After having followed one’s in-
clinations for years, it is so hard to sub-
mit our will to others. But when we are
depending on others, it must be done. So
often there is the spinster aunt, the help—
less cousin, the mother-in-law who must

be cared for. Alltoo often they assume
the position that it is nothing more than
right that they sheilld be given a home
and that all the other inmates should
respect their whims and fancies. They
are aggrieved if not given the best room.
miffed if not served their favorite viands
and positively insulted when left out of
the family councils.

It is well for these women i'o look at
the other side of the picture. It is sel-
dom a pogitive pleasure to take an out-
sider into one's family, even where there
is plenty of money. And when, as it all
too often happens, L'he addition to the
family means positive sacrifice to the in-
mates the least the newcomer can do is
to make herself as inconspicuous and of
:is little trouble as possible. The only
wise thing is to take the advice we give
children, “be seen and not bean.” Re-
member, but! for the bounty of these
friends you would be homeless. and adapt
your mode of life to your altered circum-
stances.

DEBORAH.

THE POTATO AS DIET.

BY CHARLOTTE BIRD.

The potato is the vegetable in by far
the widest service. Even with continu—
ous use one does not tire of it. The no-
tato has no pronounced flavor, so it may
be united with many other foods. And
so the cook is able to combine this valu-
able aid with her menu two or even three
times a day.

The principal constituent of potatoes
is starch. The saliva uccompanyingmas—
iication and the juice of a certain stage
of digestion converts the starch inllo sug-
ar and so makes it a flesh former. Nitro-
gcn, on the other hand, is a strength, a
muscle builder. On this account potatoes
should be used with those articles of food
ill which nitrogen predominate-s, such as
eggs, meats, the grains, peas. beans, len-
tils, cheese, mushrooms and bananas.
Among the different kinds of fish, salmon
and Whitefish contain the most nitrogen.

The best part of the potato lies just
under the skin and, since it is extremely
soluble in water, this vegetable is best
cooked in its skin. For this reason the
raw potato should be pared with a small
and very sharp knife. And on account
of this solubility of the potato it should
never be put to cook in cold water, for
thus considerably more than half of its
nutrition is lost.

Old potatoes should be soaked in water.
If they are strong, the water should be
changed while they are cooking. Pota-
toes to be either baked 0r boiled in their
jackets, should have, a little bit of skin
cut off at each end and {lftel‘ they are
cooked, the skin should be pierced to al-
low the steam to escape. Potatoes should
be» boiled slowly and not at :i gallop, for
too rapid cooking makes them a solid
paste which is neither palatable nor di-
gestible. As soon as boiled potatoes are
tender, the watci‘ should be drained off
immediately and thoroughly or they will
become soggy and lose their mealy qual—
ity. In fact, they should be dried a. min-
ute or twa over the blaze. Then sprinkle
with salt :llld shake the vessel up and
down to give :iii‘ to the potatoes. If p0-
laioes are cooked in their jackets and
then peeled and mashed they are delicious
because they retain all the original vir-
tues of this vegetable.

Potatoes may be kept warm without
spoiling for a long time, if the skins are
picrced and they are well aired. Old po-
tatoes are said to be more wholesome
than new. But any waxy potato, what-
ever its age, is unwholesome.

Baked potatoes are very wholesome.
They should be baked in a hot oven from
40 to 60 minutes according to their size.
\Vhen soft they must be served at‘ once.
But if they must be kept for awhile,
pierce the skin to let out the steam and
let air.

Creamy Mashed Potatoes—«The pota-
toes should be mashed in the still hot
vessel in which they have been cooked.
Use a wire masher and continue till the

mass is free from the smallest lump.
Then season with salt, butter and cream
and a llttle'pepper. Then beat well to-
gether till creamy and light and serve in
a hot dish.

Potato Cakes—Season al generous allow-
ance of grated raw potato with butter
and salt, a little sugar and cinnamon and
then bind together with beaten egg and
flour. Shape into fiat cakes and fry a
good brown on both sides.

Creamed Potatoes,—-—This is a nice way
to use up left-Over boiled or baked po-
tatoes. Put into a frying pan 3. table-
spoonful of butter. \Vhen this is melted,
not browned, add a small cup of milk
and heat to bubbling point. Then put in
about a pint of the cold diced potatoes,
salt, cover and cook very slowly till the
milk is all absorbed. Then add about
two tablespoonfuls of rich cream and
simmer very gently five minutes longer.

On account of what goes into its coin-
position potato salad has special hygenic
value. A delicious potato salad is made
as follows: One-half cup cream, one
heaping teaspoon of flour, one and a half
tablespoons vinegar, one-fourth teaspoon
sugar, one tablespoon butter, one-fourth
teaspoon mustard, and salt and pepper
to taste. Cook in double boiler. Just be—
fore taking from the fire, add the well
beaten whites of two eggs. Then mix
'tlioroughly wilh a dish of cold cooked
sliced potatoes with it little slice-d onion.
Let stand~0n ice for a little While or in
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HOME QUERIES.

Household Editorz—XVould like to know
what would remove uncooked sweet apple
stain from linen—M. S.

Try chloride of lime, a level tablespoon-
ful to one quart of water. Dip the stain
in and leave only a few minutes, then
remove and rinse in clear water. If the
stain is not gone repeat until it disap-
pears. Rinse thoroughly as the lime will
rot the fabric if not all removed.

Household Editorz—How do you clear
soup?~—Mabel M.

.Let the stook stand until it is cold, then
skim off all the fat that collects on top.
If it has jellied, wringafiannel cloth out
of warm water and wipe over the top to
remove all particles. If not jellied, lay a
tissue paper on top and the fat: will ad-
here to this. Then pour off all the stock
that is clear into a soup kettle and allow
the white and crushed shell of one. egg
to each five cups of stock. Mix these
thoroughly, then set over the fire and
stir constantly until it begins to boil. Lct
boil vigorously five minutes, then set
aside to cool, skim and strain through a
doubled cheesecloth. Small piece of mw
lean meat will clear it if eggs are. scarce.

Houschold Eilitol‘2—(‘arl you sllgogst a

pretty salad? Something with red in it?
—M. 8.

Try heaping candied cherries on leaves
of cabbage lettuce. Serve with mayon-
naise dressing, passed in (I pretty bowl,
or with whipped cream. If cherries are
out Of season. chopped beets are pretty,
zind most people like them.

Household Editor:—\Vhat is the best
prepared food for a baby?~—Anxi0us
Mother. -

It would be hard to answer your ques-
tion, as what agrees with one- baby may
not with another. The patented foods
are nearly always some form of starch,
though, 0f c0ul'se, there are some milk
preparations. The starches. are either
malted, boiled or baked and the. malted
starch is supposed to be loosening, while
the baked is more apt to be binding.
Many physicians say that no bilby Should
have starch in any form until it is seven
months old, as the salivary glands are
not ready for work until this age and
the saliva is needed to digest the staiich.
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BY MRS. MARY E. UNDERWOOD.

It is often necessary for the men to
work in the fields in cold weather. Fence
mending and various odd jobs, as well as
early plowing, take farmers out some--
times on very chilly days, and frequently
the fields are too far from the. house for
them to return to dinner. I like to please
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TH-E MICHIGAN FARMER

FEB. 15, 1913.

 

    

What Anty Drudge Learned in the City

Anty Drudge—“I am glad to have the chance to tell you
women a few things I learned while I was in the
city. I found that I could get such fine things to
help me that I came back to the country and
brought some of them with me. Every woman
who tries can find ways to help her in her work,
and the best thing I found was Fels—Naptha Soap.”

The reason there are so many tired-out,
unhappy women on farms today. is that they
will not learn the new ways in which they
could help themselves in their work. And
yet the farmer’s wife has so many advan-
tages over her sister in the city. And she can
have the advantage of F els—N aptha Soap just
as easily as not.

F els-N aptha is a soap that does the hard,
disagreeable part of your work for you; just
soap the clothes and put them to soak for
about thirty minutes in cool or lukewarm
water, and see how easy it is to get the dirt out
without any hard rubbing or boiling. Re—
member, Fels—Naptha Soap works best in cool

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Old Dutch Cleanser saves work and time on
the farm in dozens of ways. .

’Aside from its many good uses in the home where it'
takes half the work from housekeeping, it is invaluable
in quickly and hygienically cleaning the dairy pans and
pails. In the barn, harness and carriage sides and tops
clean easier and better. Everything that requires
cleaning calls for Old Dutch Cleanser. Nothing else,
will do the work half so well.

Many uses and full directions

on large Sifter. Can - 10c.

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lunch instead of a cold one. It is not
half so difficult as it sounds, and you
can have quite a variety in the lunches,
too.

One day I make coffee, heating the milk
and even the pail I put it in. This pail
is covered tightly and put into a larger
pail or a basket which is well lined with
warm newspapers. Around the inner pail
I pack baked potatoes, right from the
oven. Then I wrap the whole in warmed
newspapers and send it out. It keeps
nice and hot till it reaches the fields. The
rest of the lunch I pack in another bas-
ket, the slices of buttered bread, cake or
pie, with white enamel cups and paper
napkins. -

Another day I send soup, with some
white enamel bowls, and hot biscuits,
nicely spread. Sometimes I have apple
dumplings, made this way: I take ap-
ples that have been baked without the
core and uSe one for each 'dumpling,
wrapping them up in a plain crust and
baking quickly. They will keep hot for
nearly an hour and need no sauce be-
cause the apples are nicely seasoned.

Meat scraps I often use to make little
individual pies, mixing a little crisp fried
pork and finely chopped potato with'the
lean meat. The men just love these pics,
and they keep steaming hot in the pail.
When seeing the keen enjoyment of the
cold and hungry men. one feels well re-
paid for taking the tramp to the. far-off
field to deliver the lunch to them.

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SUGGESTIONS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.

 

BY ELLA E. ROCKWOOD.

One of my friends has a habit of stick-
ing a needle of suitable size into every
spool of thread in her Work basket. In
this way there is never any bother in
finding a. needle which is just right for
the thread and by replacing it after use
it is always there when wanted.

It sometimes happens that one wishes
to wear a net yoke over high necked un-
derwear. The latter can not be turned
dowu smoothly owing to the shoulder
seams. But by ripping the shoulders
and overcasting the edges the garment
accommodates itself to the lower outline
very nicely. Hooks and eyes attached to
the separated portions render it high-
necked again, as desired for ordinary
wear.

A southern cook gives this method of
cooking a tough steak so as to make it
as tender as veal. Dredge the meat with
flour and chop the entire surface on both
sides with the edge of a dish or with a
regular meat pounder. Dredge again and
repeat the operation, crossing the first
marks. Have ready a little suet or but-
ter in a spider, melt, and lay in the
meat. Sear quickly without burning,
then add half a cup of hot water, cover
closely and set where it will cook slowly
for half an hour. Add salt and pepper,
if desired, and turn the meat once dur-
ing this time. It should brown down, but
not be allowed to scorch. Remove to a
hot platter and spread with butter. Gravy
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WHAT’S IN A BONE?

 

PY ELRENE‘ NISEXVANGER.

Physiologically and chemically, there
are several things in a bone, and “do-
mestically” there are several meals in a
bone if it is large enough and if one
knows how to make the most of it.

If you want meat as well as soup_ it
doesn‘t pay to buy the 10 or 15 cent
bones, for you have the bone to pay for
anyway, and so much more meat, pro-
portionally. comes on a 23 (-cnt soup
bone. This is the road such a one us-
ually travels with us. a family of six:
Steak, hamburger. boil and soup. cro—
quel'tes or hash, sometimes both, and the
denuded bone, although it could scarcely
be called green, is finally run through the
bone cutter and fed to the chickens,

The first time the s0up~bone “steak”
was served at our house, the “gude men”
said it. was the tenderest steak we had
had in a long time and one of the chil-
dren said it tasted like fried chicken.
None of them knew its source. “’ith a
sharp knife I cut off the- largest possible
slices. we like our steak well-done and do
not care to have it thick, pounded them
well to bruise and soften the tough fi-
bres, dredged with flour and put in a
hot skillet with a little lard. After cook-
ing slightly on both sides a little water
was added and the covered skillet pushed
toward the back of the- range where the
“steak" finished its cooking rather slowly
and came out deliciously tender and fine
flavored. .

For the hamburger, scraps and odds-

 

and-ends are trimmed off, run through

the food Chopper, seasoned and cooked
after my favorite hamburger recipe.

The bone and remaining meat then go
into the soup kettle and simmer slowly
for a. long time. We like a. little rice in
our soup and, sometimes, a little celery Or
tomato for a change of flavor. There is
plenty of the boiled meat for our dinner.
served with a. favorite sauce or catsup,
and plenty left to make into hash or cro-
quettes for breakfast.

 

CROCHETED CAP.

 

BY FANNIE V. WILSON.

Seeing Mrs. C. C. E’s request in your
paper for directions for a crocheted call
1 send the following. I have just nished
one in all white yarn but they are very
pretty when made in white and blue or
red.

Get eiderdown wool yarn, four skeins
are enough. If you use two colors get
two of each. Chain three stit‘ches of
white yarn; join with slip stitch. Chain
2*. yarn over hook, insert hook in ring,
draw yarn through (big loop), yarn over
hook, draw through all three loops on
book.“ Repeat between stars 10 times,
when ring ought to be: well filled.

In chain of 2 at beginning of row make
2 stitches of pattern. In each stitch of
preceding row (taking up full stitch),
make 2 stitches. Continue until at end
of third row. There will be 29 stitches
around. Make three more rows of one
stitch in each stitch of preceding row,
increasing one stitch only at end of each
row. \Vork new measures 42 stitches
around. Make two more rows without.
any increase. This finishes crown of
toque. ‘ .

The colored yarn may be used for the
brim. Chain one stitch; turn and work
with inside of crown toward you. Put
one stitch of pattern in one stitch of
preceding row. Make four rows. Finish
cap with a row of one slip stitch in each
stitch of preceding row. This gives firm-
ness to edge of brim.

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president of the Geological Society and
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OLEOMARGARINE.
BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.
The Counterfeiting of Butter.

“iithin recent: years mOst of the natural
yroducts of commerce have been subject-
ed to counterfeiting. In no realm of coni-
rnercial activity has the substitute been
more thoroughly exploited than in the
:lairy industry, and in the offering upon
the markets of the country of a substi-
lute for the most prominent of the milk
products—that is, butter. In no small
way is the conservation of the farm re-
sources hinged upon the sale of the com-
modity, butter. The increased sale of
butter at satisfactory prices is coupled
directly with the increased investment in
dairy cattle, which investment is. in its
turn, directly connected with the increas-
ed productivity of the crops on our soils
and in turn, of a consequence, responsible
in no small way for the increased fer-
tility of the soil.

The Dairy Industry is the Farmer’s Most
Stable Industry.

It is conceded that the dairy industry
furnishes the most standard and satis-
factory, and safe agricultural investment
which is open to farmers. There is little
risk in an intelligently directed dairy hUS-
'iness. The income is practically a cash
one, and there are few difficulties in the
way of a. satisfactory profitable business
year in and year out. No line of animal
husbandry is so devoid of risk and spec-
ulation as is the line of dairy husbandry.
It seems that there can be no limit to
the demand for high—grade, dairy pro—
ducts, provide-d the dairyman is given
ample protection in his market.
Oleomargarine First Called Butterine—

Named Like Butter. '

A number of years ago. when oleomar-
garine was first placed on the market,
an attempt was made to call ’it butterine,
and in some sections it is still advertised
and sold as butterine. 'l‘his trade name
is entirely at variance, with the t'XaCt
letter of the National Food and Drugs
Act, and likewise with that of the state
of Michigan. Consequently to market
oleomargarine under the name of butter-
ine is absolutely illegal and rightly so.
There is no question that the word but—
lerine was given this commodity in order
that it might attract to itself a portion
of the reputation of the product which
it was supposed to imitate, namely. but—
ter.

Oleo Made to Taste Like Butter,

Not content with imitating butter by
this combination of vegetable oils, ani—
mal oils, fats, such as tallow. lard. oleo
oil, cottonseed oil, etc, the manufacturer
must go on further and make this pro-
duct taste as nearly like butter as pos-
sible. To accomplish this, this mixture
of oils and fats is actually churned or
stirred with milk so that it may attract
to it some of the flavors which arc found
in genuine butter. After adopting the
name and as much of the flavor as pos—
sible, still the product lacks one essential
characteristic which butter possesses, and
that is the color.

Oleo Made to Look Like Butter,

Consequently the manufacturer added
the artificial coloring matter. thus mak-
ing three counts of similarity between
the sophisticated, or imitated. article. and
the genuine butter. The first is the
name; second. flavor, and third, color.

Food Laws Require Original Names.

It has been the spirit of all food laws
to prevent the naming of a substitute ar—
ticle in such terms that there is apt to
be deception on the part of the manu-
facturer or dealer, and that the consumer
may be misinformed regarding the real
character, of the product she buys. For
instance, vanilline could not be a legal
name for an imitation vanilla extract. or
lemonine would not be legal as a name
for an imitation lemon extract, and thus
on through the list of genuine food pro-
ducts. If a substitute is offered it must
be given under an original name, such
that it meets with favor through its owu
merit and not usurp the credit belonging
to the product which it imitates. We
say, therefore, that the word butterine
should in no sense be permitted as desig-
nating the product which we have come
to know as oleomargarine. There is even
a question as to the advisability of per-
mltting the stirring of these fats with
milk or cream which is done purely for
the purpose. as we have stated, of allow-
ing these fats and oils to absorb and

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appear from the market and

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

  

Science.

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hold some of the flavor characteristic of
the genuine, butter. The government,
however, has permitted this to be done
in the process of manufacture of oleo-
margarine.

Yellow Color a Trade-Mark of Butter.

Restrictions, however. have been placed
on the use of color in oleomargarine. A
certain more or less yellow color is one
of the distinctive trade-marks of butter
and therefore for oleomargarine to be
colored yellow or any shade of yellow is
an attempt to permit it to mas'querade in
some degree in the market for the product
which is imitated. For a number of years
the national government has seen fit to
allow on the statute books a law requir~
ing manufacturers of colored oleomar-
garine td pay a tax of Who 3. pound over

and. above the cost of uncolored oleomar- -

garine. for the privilege of adding the
coloring matter or. in other words, for
the privilege of imitating the color of
butter.

The Lever Bill.

There is a bill in Congress at the pres—
ent time which if enacted into law will
repeal the provisions of the present oleo—
margarine law and thus permit the in-
discriminate coloring of oleomargarine.
If oleomargarine may be manufactured
and so cleverly manufactured that it will
pass in the market as pure butter. it
needs no great argument to demonstrate
that a very severe blow indeed will be
dealt to the dairy industry.

Our Prosperity Depends on Our Dairy

Industry.

\Ve have stated. and submit. that no
argument is needed now to remind the
people of this commonwealth that the
prosperity of this state is in no small
way bound up in the success of thedairy
industry. ()lcomargarinc can he manu—
facturcd for approximately 10 cents per
pound, while. butter must command a
price at least twice as high to make it
a commercially attractive business. It
can be. easily seen that-to cripple the
dairy business oleomargarine need be sold
for but a few cents under 23 cents per
pound, to permit it to drive butter from
the market. Again, the allowing of col-
oring matter in oleomargarine is a. direct
blow to the consumer of both butter and
oleomargarinc. With no restrictions on
the coloring of oleomargarine. uncolored
or white oleomargarine will shortly dis-
the time
for cheap oleomargarine will have passed
away. Even with the placing of the {Wits
tax on the. production of oleomargarine,
there is a limited sale of uncolorod oleo.

Colored Oleo Illegal in Michigan.

In the state of Michigan at the present
time, it is absolutely illegal for any arti-
ficial coloring matter to be introduced in-
to oleomargarine and as natural oleomar-
garine is naturally very light in color it
is not easy for it to masquerade in the
market as butter. Of a consequence the
consumer knows at a glance what he is
getting, olcomargarinc or butter. This
condition works to the Very decided ad-
vantage of the consumer for she may
now in the state of Michigan secure oleo-
margarine at a low cost somewhere near
the cost at which it should be I‘ctailed.

“'0. have followed with close interest
the times in this and in neighboring cities
when unscrupulous manufacturers have
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olcomargarine with coloring matter with- .

out paying the 91940 tax.
Colored Oleo is Not the Poor Man’s
Butter.

This coloring matter has added not a
calorie to the food value of the oleomar-
garine but because it now resembles but—
ter, from 10 to 15 cents per pound is at
once added to the selling price and the
poor man‘s butter is a thing of the past.
“'c assert, with absolute confidence in the
integrity of our position, that the reten-
tion of the present low price on oleomar-
garine and on that account its meeting
within the bounds of the average. con-
Sumcr, and likewise its action as a bal-
ance wheel at the times of excessive but-
ter prices, depends absolutely upon eith—
er the retention of the revenue tax at a
high point an colored oleomargarine. or
better still, the absolute prohibition of
the introduction of any sort of color into
this substitute product called oleomar—
garine. This is not the dairyman’s prob-
lem alone but the consumer's as well.
The consumer’s interests, strange as it
may seem, will go hand in hand with
those of the dairyman, in this respect.

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206—-22

BREED“? DIREC'NIY.
CATTLE.

~—Horses. cattle. shee . swine and
For sale poultry. nearly all pbreeds. Sires
exohansed. South West Miohi an Pedigreed Stock
Ass’n.. avidWoodman. 8ec'y.- reas..PawPaw. Mich.

Aberdeen-An us.

Herd, consisting of Trojan Ericas. B aokbirds and
Prides. only]. is headed by Egerton W. the GRAND
CHAMPIO bull at the State. West Michigan and
Bay City Fairs of 1912 and the sire of winners at these
Fairszind at THE INTERNATIONAL, Chica o, of
1912. ‘V OODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia, Ich.

AYRS BIKES—0“ .. 1mm .....,
breeds: you bulls

and bull calves for sale. Berkshire swine. nill pure

bred. Michigan School for Deaf. Flint. Mich.

GUERNSEY BULL CALVES,
YORKSHIRE PIGS. Good Stock.
incus GUERNSEY nun. Saginaw, w. s.. Mich.

Hereford Hulls For Sale, Also Poland China Hogs.

ALLEN BROS.. Paw Paw. Michigan.

Bulls. ready for service. Lar e
10 "33- Guernsey Yorkshire ho s.| the best i'gt
Come or write. JOHN EBELS. R. 0. Holland. Mich.

IIA'I‘CII IIERI) IlflLSTElNSl‘il‘S‘Y’i‘ZSZE’Siii-2‘53

onable prices. HATCH HERD. Ypsilanti. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHOICE Bull Calves from A. R. O. dams. Sired by
our herd sire whose dam and sire's dam each made

over 30 lbs. in 7 days E. R. Cornell, Howell. Mich.

A new comer “Bel 82.12:?

GREGORY & BORDEN. Ifowell. Slichlgnn.

' Calf. out of grand daughter
H0'5*eln Bu“ De K01 2nd. Butter Boy
3rd. Sired by best son of Pontiac Butter Bog.
Price only $50. 0. l). WOODBURY. Lansing, .Mic .

FOR SALE—*IIMSI'EIN BULL CALF

Born June 5. 1912. sire a son of the King of the
Pontiacs from a daiighter of Hengerveld De Kol.
Dam of call". an A. . 0. daughter of Sadie Vale
Concordia's Paul DeKol, her dam amlb. imported cow.

ED. 3. LEWIS. Marshall. Mich.

Purebred Registered

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1' The Greatest Dairy Breed
Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklet
Holstein-Friction. Auo.. Box I64. Bratdeboro.Vt.

“Top-Notch” Holsteins.

Yearling bulls all sold. Choice bullcalvcs from 1 to
41110.0! , of fashionable breeding and from dams
with (official milk and butter records for sale at
reasonable prices.

McPHERSON FARMS co.. Howell. Michigan.

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: l Siren by Johanna corcordia Champion,

whose sire’s dam and dams dam average 34.06
lbs. butter in 7 days. average int 4.67 % Also cows
and heifers bred to him. I can offer you bulls at
bargain prices. Try me and see. and do it quick.

L. E. CONNELL,
Fayette. - - -

Bigelow’s Holstein Farms

‘ Breedsville, Mich.
Have for sale several fine young

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:bulls out of cows with high official
butter and milk records.

Send for circular.

OLSTEINS-Cow 11 yr. old. bred Jan. 11. '13, A.

R. 0. record 18.74 lbs. butter 542.8 milk in 7 days.
Heifer 16 mo. old. bred Aufi. 31. '12. Price $125 each,
Bull calves priced to sell. . B. Reavcy. Akron.l‘dich.

 

RANDSON of PONTIAC KORNDYKE and
ARTIS from a 19 1b.: Dam. $200.

ONG BEACH FA RM

Augusta.(Kalaxnazoo Co.)Mich. Fred S. Kenfield.Prop.

 

' ' ' —.\'oung bulls out of A. R. O.
Hakim" Fruflan all": dams and sired by a. hull with
a 31 lb. dam. W. B. JONES, Oak Grove. Michigan.

F0" s‘lE—Registered HolsteinBull. ready for ser-
vice. A. R. 0. breeding. Price 0100. Write
for pedigree. CHAS. S. RILEY. Metamora. Mich

egistercd Holstein heifer. born Jan 8. 1912. Mostly
white. Sires 3 nearest dams have 7-day butter rec~
ords that average. 21 lbs. Delivered at your express office
for 8125. Write for pedigree. Hobart W. Fay. Mason. Mich.

—Bulls ready for service. bred for
Jerseys production. Also cows and heifers
Brookwater Farm. R. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

0R Sale.Jersey Bulls. old enough for service. sired by a grand-
son of Imp. Interested Prince and from cows that produce
400 to 500 lbs. butter annually. A. Newman RI, Mariette. Mich.

At Your Own Price

J E RS BY B U LLS
Ready for service and younger calves. Strong well
grownhnd the2best of breeding both sides.‘ All regis-
tered stock. They will be soldf'to the parties sending
in highest bid on or before March. lst. 1913. Write
for discription and other information and on receipt
' ame pick out your bull and send your bid to

i’issiiianrou FARM, Pontiac, Michigan.
BUTTER BRED wrindfi‘iafihlc‘m

CRYSTAL 81’an STOCK FARM.
Silve. Creek. Alleles: County. mom.

I
Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-
culosis.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of
good dairy cows for sale. No females for sale at
present. Satisfaction guaranteed.
’ OOLO LIL Cooper-cynic. Mich.

F s I —A Jersey bull calf dropped Feb. let. Solid
.r a 0 color. out of a40 lb. cow. Price 825. Write
F. A. LAMB & SON. Casso‘polis. Michigan.

' Grill —Lnr e Cattle—Heavy Milkers.

"a"! 8|. 0]! “allukglgeoorde of all cows kept.
k f s e a resen .

N° “0° wirw'l KNADPP, R. No. 4. Watervliet. Mich.

for sale. heifers bred to
Dual Pumussclitoiihgnii: BiOld Knights Iii“ ired
dM 'su ascyouuauws
33811.32“. “ avmson a ham. Tecumseh. Mich.

Scotch Shortliorn lull: and Holler: For Sale.

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

 

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Farm Commerce.

  

FEB. ,15, 1913.

   

EMU!“llllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllll|llllllllllIllIlllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllHIllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIlllllllllillllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIZJ—j:

A Need for Co-opcration.

By W. H. Ingling, General Manager Monmouth Co., N. J., Farmers’ Exchange.

example the case of the California.

Fruit Growers' Exchange to prove that
co-operation among fruit growers can be
successful. Naturally this movement
would begin in the west, because the in-
crease in production was in greater pro-
portion than in the east. and they of
necessity were forced to find the remedy
to meet the conditions which were forced
upon them. But‘ when the same condi-
tions existed in the east in the vegeta-
ble growing sections of the eastern shore
of Virginia, the farmers were forced to
apply the some remedy.

In 1898 the conditions in Accomack and
Northampton counties of Virginia, known
as the eastern shore, where the principal
products are white and sweet potatoes,
were very bad, the farmers were being
swindled .unmercifully. This was partly
because they were so far from the large
markets and were entirely at the mercy
of the track buyers. Sweet potatoes were
carted four miles to the station, and sold
for 25 cents per barrel. Imagine, if you
can, what the position of the grower was
after he had grown his crop and sent his
cart, containing six barrels, to the sta-
tion, four miles away, where he probably
could not deliver more than two loads,
or 12 barrels a day, and was given the
generous sum of $3.00 for his day‘s work.
The market in the city was $1.50 per bar-
rel. The farmer should have been get-
ting $1.08 per barrel f. 0. b. at least. He
was therefore being defrauded out of 83
cents On each barrel.

This wretched state of affairs caused
widespread discontent, and :is the inter-
ests of one were the interests of all, it
brought the farmers together and resulted
in the organization of the Eastern Shore
of Virginia Produce- Exchange, which was
incorporated under the laws of the state
in 1900. They began business at’ once
and, of. course. experienced the usual
difficulties us all do in the first years of
their existence. The manifest loyalty of
the better class of farmers influenced the
vacilluting ones, and they were gradually
brought to see that their interests were
identical. and thus they were united in
an organization that ranks among the
first as to financial ability and volume of
business.

Standard Grade is Sold.

Following the example of the California.
Exchange in grading their fruit‘, they
graded their potatoes and branded them
“The Red Star Brand.” This brand is
kept up to the standard, and all potatoes
that do not reach this quality do not take
the brand. thus putting a quality of
goods on the market that always bring
the highest price. These potatoes are
graded by the farmers and brought to the
statiOn, where one-fifth of them are in-
spected before the lot is accepted and
branded. If found inferior, they do not
carry the brand, but are sold as ungrad-
ed. Their success because of the care
in the preparation of their goods and the
wise distribution has been phenomenal.
They have been in business 12 years, and
their total businesg for 1911 was $2,300,-
000. They have a capital stock of over
$40,000 and a surplus of over $70,000, and
are paying a 10 per cent dividend each
year.

“'6 have given examples of how and
where co—operation has been successful in
preparing and distributing immense quan-
tities of fruit; and also where it has been
equally prosperous in the vegetable dis-
tricts. It does not make any difference
whether the product be oranges, onions.
prunes, nuts, apples, grapes, potatoes,
beans or any other commodity, so long
as there is sufficient quantity of some
one article of food to make a car lot
business.

We have shown the true conditions that
face the farmers, and how they have been
hampered in their endeavors to market
their products through the old system of
distribution; and have pointed out, we
think, a. better way and given some ex-
amples of how others have tried this new
path to the betterment of their condi-
tions and the mutual pecuniary advan-
tage of all concerned. We wish to still
further illustrate this subject by giving

IN our article last week we cited as an

a brief outline of the history of The
Monmouth County Farmers’ Exchange of
Freehold, N. J., showing the causes that
brought it into existence, how it was
organized, the manner in which it does
its busiue-SS, and the results of five years
work, in the hope that it may stimulate
others to follow the example. .

Dissatisfaction among the farmers of
our county, which is one of the largest
producing sections for potatoes in our
state, began to manifest itself in 1906.
Our formers felt that their products pass-
ed through i'he hands of too many dealers,
and because of this the expenses of mar-
keting were too excessive. Originally the
discussion began in the grange meetings.
but soon it became general among all the
farmers of our county. During that year
little was accomplished except to agitate
the question and kecp it in motion. In
the winter of 1907—8, definite action was

taken. A committee was appointed to
visit the general office of the Eastern

Shore of Virginia Produce Exchange and
examine their mode of operations to see
if we might not be able. to emulate their
example to our mutual advantage.

The committee made a very optimistic
report, and as a result :i meeting of the
farmers was called in January, 1908, and
was very largely attended. The manager
of the Eastern Shore Exchange was pres-
ent and addressed the meeting, explain-
ing their system of operation, amount of
business and the beneficial results re-
ceived by their farmers. The meeting
was greatly impressed with the State-
ments made, and subscriptions for the
capital stock to the amount of $2,000 were
taken. Committees were appointed to see
the farmers not present and receive their
subscriptions. The matter was pushed
forward vigorously and successfully to
completion, and resulted in the organiza-
tion of the Monmouth County Farmers’
Exchange, and was duly incorporated un-
der the laws of New Jersey, March 3,
1908, with an authorized capitalization of
$100.000—20000 shares with a par value
of $5 each.
and we are empowered to do any kind of
business anywhere in the county.

Next Week.

In the February 22 issue Mr. Ingling
will tell the Michigan Farmer readers: how
their local co-operative association is or-
ganized and what the results have been.

THE NOMID SYSTEM—A PLAN FOR
MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS.

 

Chapter VI I.—(Conoluded).

Common Carrie-rs Defined.

A common carrier is one who under-
takes to transport the person, or goods,
of anyone who may choose to employ
him, for hire. There are two character-
istics which distinguish a, common from
a private carrier: First, the common
carrier must serve all who apply with-
out discrimination while a private car-
rier may serve only those he may choose.
And second, the common carrier is under
an exceptional liability in transporting
the person or goods. Whereas, the pri-
vate carrier has the some responsibility
toward the goods that an ordinary bailee
would have. Examples of common car-
riers are: Railroads, steamship lines,
stages, express companies, telegraph
companies, etc.

Carriers Obligations to Public.

Common law, as well as statute law,
imposes many obligations and duties up-
on common carriers. As indicated above
the common carrier must treat everybody
alike, he cannot grant'special privileges
to one and charge excessive rates to an-
other without becoming liable. He may
not charge more than a reasonable price
for the transportation of goods, although
it is often difficult to determine just what
a reasonable rate is. Excessive charges
may be recovered back. The common
carrier is obliged to use the greatest care
and diligence in regard to the goods in-
trusted with him. If he is in any way
responsible for damage to the goods he
becomes liable to the extent of the loss.
Should the damage be the result of an
act of God then the liability of the car-

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no hit gone, and horse kept at work.
$2 per bottle, delivered. Book3K free.

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delivered. Book with testimonials free.
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GIVE IT A TRIAL

Your money back if you are
not satisfied

GERMAN DISTEMPER REMEDY for Ooughm
Colds. Distemper. Kidney Troubles and Worms
nHorses and Stock. Price 5009mm a bottle at all
druuists or direct prepaid.
GERMAN DISTEDIPER REMEDY (20..
Goslien. Ind.. U. S. A.

FAliAiS Alli FARlA LAliilS
7 Hill SALE llil EXGHAIEE

B Sale—W acres 360: 3) acres $57.50; 110 acres 860.
Timber location and buildin mood. Washtenaw
00.. The Smilanti Agency 00.. peilanti. Michigan.

CANADA I‘m—Write her out 32 page booklet

con t ai n in 63 photographic
views. and statistical and detai ed information
about our lands in east central Saskatchewan. It s
free. The Waleh Land 00.. Winnipeg. Canada.

BUY NEW YORK FARMS MW.

Best Lands. BestOro . Best Homes. Biggest barns.
Finest schools, churcres. roads and transportation.
For list of New York farms address. '

MOBURNEY & 00.. Fisher Building, Chicago. Ill.

STOCK RANCi-H‘" m.” 1......
with woven w i re.
well watered by river. grass in abundance. land first
class for farmin here is your on rtunity. .
U. G. REYNOLD . B. F. D. No. 3, rindwin. Mich.

' andunim roved lands in Delaware.
Full.“ rams diversifle farming live stock. dc-
licious fruits and ideal homes. or information
address. State Board of Agriculture. Dover. Delaware-

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Bargains in Ohio Farms n... WW"...
day for farm list. J. B. RICE 8: (70.

Warren. Ohio Cortland. Ohio A ndover. Ohio

 

FOB SALE-240 acres of excellent land. good build-
ings. located near South Lyons. i adjacent to 3
railroads. and only 32 miles from Detroit. For particu-
lars inquire of. E. J. McNaughton. Middleville. Mich.

CASH FOR YOUR FARM

I bring buyers and sellers to ther. Write me If
on wantto bu . sellortrade. tablished1881. Frank
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fertile farms. good
sunny Tennessee water. housestarnn,
orchards on each. rural routes. telephones. Sixty-live
acres $660._295 acres $1500. 194 notes . 2&) acres 8‘
Free list. JENKINS dz SON. Huntingdon. Tenn.

FARM FOR SALE,

One mile from Normal Sehool. fipring creek. Some
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timber. Address 0. A. CAIN. llmun. Michigan.

9mm co. iiiufgsiagigpma‘gmm?

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twenty-five acres d beari orchard. balance
good timber. Good use and col at. One mile from
eenter of city on graded street. Thirty acres in good
meadow. price“) per acre. Will allow {10(1) for timber.
I). W. STEWART. Big Rapids. Michigan.

FOR SALE or for rent on shares a. 2)!) acre

farm four and one-half miles
northwest of Dexter. Mich. One hundred acres clezir~
ed. therest woods and pasture. None but good farmers
need 3 ply. Address—MRS. LOUISE ll. GATES.
No. I! 3 Center Ave.. Bay City. Michigan.

For Quick Sale

Choice Section Saskatchewan Farm Land. 640 acres.
rich soil. fine wheat district. short distance from good
town. Price $20 per acre. Terms 5 cash. balance .r
years. Should double in va'ue within 3 years. Must
be sold. Apply P. 0. Box 756. Owen Sound. Canada

when you can buy
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For Central Michigan Farms
Write for descriptions and prices. I. 0. Hanes.
Farm. Sales Mgr, Lansing, Michigan.

FARM “scam-For .... mm 176
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T H E ' MIC H I G-A N'F‘A’R’M’ua

rier does not hold. a. subject more fully

explained in a. later paragraph.

Duties of Common Cari-less Toward Ship-
pers.

There are a number of things required
of common carriers that have grown out
of their relations With the public. They
are obliged to receive freight, providing
it is offered at a reasonable time and
place, and this holds where the goods are
consigned to a point beyond the reach of
the lines of the concern receiving them.
But this is not to be construed to mean
that common carriers are compelled to
take freight in violation of a law. as for
example. the transportation of explosives
on trains carrying passengers. Common
carriers are bound to provide a sufficient
number of suitable cars to handle the
products naturally coming to them dur-
ing the busiest seasons. It has been held
that a shipper could hold a railroad com-
pany liable where notice had been given
the company that a certain number of
refrigerator cars would be needed. and
then the shipper tenders more fruit than
the cars ordered will carry, whereupon
the company refuses to accept the sur-
plus. although it is prove-n that the car-
rier could have handled the surplus. A
further duty is to provide suitable facili-
ties for handling freight at terminals. A
failure to do this renders the company
liable for damages resulting from inade-
quate or unsafe terminals. Freight should
be sent by the regular transportation
route and any deviation should be made
only after notifying the shipper unless it
is impossible because of the nature of
the goods to receive back instructions.
'W'hei‘e delay in transportation is due to
negligence that is unreasonablc and in-
excusable, and it results in damage to
the goods. the carrier is liable. The car-
l'iCl‘ is also liable if he delivers goods to
the wrong party, or if he fails to de-
liver them at all unless they have been
destroyed by an act of God and without
negligcuce by carrier, or where the goods
are dclivei'ed at the wrong place. But if
public officials forbid the delivery of goods
in conformity to :1 statute the carrier will
not be held liable. \Vhei'e freight is lost
in transit the carrier must prove that it
was lost by some cause for which the
carrier is not responsible, otherwise the
carrier stands liable. Such a, cause may
be an act of God with no negligence on
the part of the- curi‘ier. or it may be
that the goods were accepted at the
shippex-‘s risk.

Common Carrier’s Flights and Immunities.

We havo just mentioned some of the
liabilities of the common carrier. It
Should be understood that common car-
riers have certain rights which they may
exercise and (:crtaiu immunities from rc-
Spousibilily. In the first plaice such pet-
or corporations have the right to
make and enforce reasonable and proper
regulations for carrying on the business
as carriers to the protection of the pub-

SOUS

lic as well as the protection of their
own interests. In the operation of such
large business as are most common

carrier concerns where much help is am-
ployell :lll(i many people ill'(' to be served
illC right to make and enforce proper and
reasonable rules to facilitate the handling
of trains, conserve the welfare and the
safely of its patrons and others and give
the greatest measure of service to the
public. becomes an important feature in
the carrying on of a. common carrier bus-
iness. llut these rules must not contra-
vene DOSiliVP statutes nor deprive the in-
dividual of his rights.

Common Carrier’s Liability May be

Limited.

In all ordinary crises the general liabil-
ity of a common carrier may be limited
by a special contract with the shipper.
This. of course. cannot be done where
there is a constitutional or statutory pro-
hibition to enter into such contracts.
Such a, contract should be plain, fair to
both parties. 1'. e., the shipper should

have a consideration for relieving the
carrier of liability. and reasonable in its
terms. The courts will usually not up-
hold :1 contract that excuses the carrier

of willful misconduct and gross negli—
gmicc. such contracts being contrary to
public policy.

Common Carrier’s Lien on Goods it

Carries.

The common carrier can hold goods
until the charges against them are paid.
And when he holds goods for this pur-
pose he is not liable as a common car-
rier, but as an ordinary bailee. He also
has the usual means at his command to
recover from the goods his compensation.
After he has held them a reasonable-
time after the charges against them are
due and demanded, he can go before a

(Continued on page 208).

Help the Horse

thro his hate'6 the illar-then watch him
' in co
pull.w 'I‘hdiia 1See how gladly he'll help you.

Ventiplex Pads

are made of our . t._porous. Venti

ric. It's full of ittle an essence. a]

free circulation of air. A the momtnrel ks

a blotter. Draws it right through to the outside

from whence it quickly evaporates. Easil

washed. They keep the horse's neck and shoe -

ders clean. dry andidfil-f: fréililn soiresiggfilsifif.
Y C! aler shou ve em 11 s . 6

hasgvli: w‘i-ite us. Tell us his name and address.

BURLINGTON BLANKET COMPANY

labors of the tannins "Stay-on" Blanket
Dept. 49. Burlington. Wis.

Canadian Addressj-Windsor. om. '
PURPOSES

HARNES mm...

Shipped direct from factory at factory prices. We
guarantee to please and save you money. May we
send you large FREE catalogue! Write or it now.

ELKHART CARRIAGE & HARNESS C0" Eildialt. lad.

 

 

 

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0 I c Swine. both sexes. Hales weighing 100 ton
- v - lbs. Kerd‘registered in O. I. 0. Association
GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mich

' —-Y o u n breeding
Improved Cheaters no... 2...... 8....
Also a few tried sows to be bred for spring furrow
and early fall pigs. W. 0. WILSON, Okemos. Mich.

o I c Extra choice bred glib. service boars
I I I and spring pi . not akin from State
Fair winners. Avondale Stoc Farm. Wayne, Mich,

of Se tember and ()c-
00 I. C0 Pigs tober pi’arrow for sale
cheap. JOHN BERNEH «it SON. Grand Ledge. Mich.

 

 

 

 

o I C’s—All ages growthy and large. sows bred.
I 0 Males ready. lOOtoseiect from. Attractive

prices on young stock. 11H. Jump. Munith. Mich.

 

o I. C's—Boar pigs all sold. choice gilts. Place your
Iorder for spring pigs with me. Your money‘s worth
or your money back. Fred Nickel. IL]. Monroe. Mich.

 

0 I c, —A fine lot of last spring stock for salmbig
o - 8 growthy type. either sex airs not akin.
Sired by Grand Champion boar Scott 0. 1. Half mile
west of depot. OTTO B. SOHdLZE. Nashville. Mich.

WROC-JERSEYS‘ESL‘et’iSEl’Ji‘Z $3.2?” €3.33
all ages. SPECIAL BARGAIN in summer i .
Breakwater Farm. R. P. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. MESS.

—for sale: a) line service boars of fancy
I'm M313 breeding and individual qualit .
Prices reasonable. John Mchooli. North Star. Mich.

BURN! JERSEYS—A Few Gills lor Sale

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.

nunoc GILTS—‘m- .. m Shra-
shire Ewesmto .
KOPE-KON FARM. Kinderhook. Miohim.
swan s ' a r
imc lusty ml. to... £33 ”I :2??§3;.%i:? ‘il
years experience. J. H. BANGHART. Lansing. Mich.

Butler’s Big Bone Poland Chinas.

We d m’t claim to own all the good he in the U.
S.. but we do claim to have bred and so d more big
type Polands in the last ten years than any two other
breeders in Mic-hi ii. If you wants ood fall boar
write J. . BUTLER. Portian Michigan.

POLAND CHINAS‘EJIS‘. Efiiir‘éein‘lugfis‘f
Prices right. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.

POLAND cums-Ell? w" :l‘ri: '32s:

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P. G. Bililflll SUIS’li’s’iZdbifle‘i‘i’riéiili‘c‘.” 135.3222
ready for use. Mapiewood Stook Farm. Allegan. Mich.

 

LARGE styled Poland China spring and fall pigs
from strong. healthy. prolific breeders. either sex
at low prices. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.

 

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GUERNSEY BULL CALF

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Sire Halcyon Star. by imported BiJon. grandson of
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ported daughter of Lord Mar. 1-! daughters in advanced
Register. $50 takes him. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich.

—Richest Hengerveld.

BULL CAI-V: DeKol and Korndilke
PSILA D

breedin . Special prices for quick sale.
FARM . Ypsilanti, Mich. Cole Brothers. Owners.
heifers for

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Dairy Brod Shorlhorn: his. til... m... Bun.
all sold. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.

    

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ARGE TYPE P. C.—~Largest in Mich. A few late
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lbs. at 10 mo. and 18 days 0] . Come or write. I can show
the goods. free livery. W. E. Livingston. Parma. Mich.

 

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I have started more breeders on the road to suc—
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est herd in the U. 8. Every one an early developer.
ready for the market at six months old. I want to

lace one hog in each community to advertise my

erd. Write for my plan,"How to Make Money from
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sneer}.
leiOSShIS—Ymrnnrf and ram lambs from Chain ion

flock of humb of Mich. Also select erk-
Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.

 

shire swine.

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"380“. “3531‘” it'll": Siliiill LEllSE. HIGH.
F0“ SALE—60 Registered'Rambouiliet ewes with

lamb—cheap if taken immediately.
HOWARD M. RAYMOND. (irass Lake. Michigan

gig. flambuillsi Steep. Pure Bred Poland China

"GS and PERCHERON HORSES. 256 miles
E. Morrice. on G. T. R. B. and M. U. R. J.Q. A. COOK.

QHRUPSBIRE SHEEP—15 Reg. ewes for sale. bred
i

in choice Imp. Rains. Also Re. Clydesdale Stud
Colts. 8 months old. W. P. Pulling & Son. Par-mu. Mich.

nous.
BERKSHIRE BOARS

May and June furrow. large size. heavy bone. :18 and
$20 each. GEO. E. LAPHAM. St. Johns. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quick Malunn Berkshires sf:...§§€fi,‘:§.‘;?§.ffig&
or money refun ed. 0. S. B! RTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.
O l C —TWO BOARS_ fit to head any

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herd. Fall igs ready to ship.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rock 0rd. Michigan.

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Pigs. airs and tries. not akin. ave a number
of serv ce males of good 135?. Write me describing
of your wants. A. J. 603 N. B. No. 2 Don. Mich.

 

 

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and breeding my standard.
by postal before sale.

 

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LARGE Yorkshires—Ohoioe breeding stock. all ages.
not skin. from State Fair prize-winners. Pedi-
grees furnished. W. 0. COOK. R. 42. Box 22.Ada. M’ch.

MULEFOUT H06 SALE.
Forty Saws and hills,

all bred. and some good boars. ’I‘hird annual
PUBLIC SALE FEBRUARY 20th.

Write me for free catalog. ready now. Full of
pictures 01 the hogs on sale.
G. C. KREGLOW’. ADA. OHIO.

BHOLERA PROOF H068.

I'lreep from 4000 to 6000 grade Yorkshire and Poland
Chins cholera immune hogs and am selling rolific
brood sows. also shouts weighing from 50 to {do lbs.
at prices that make thg-m desirable on cholera in-
fected farms. Son‘s weighing more than 100 lbs. are
supposed to furrow in A ril and May. I expect to have
several thousand pigs rom immune sows and boars
for sale next spring.

ALVAH BROWN’S-PIG FARM, Grand Rapids. Michigan.
(LARGE YORKSHIRE SWIMEzgg‘gf‘3358m23‘lflgffi’

e0. S. McMnllen. Citz. Phone. Grand Ledge. Mich.

Lillie Farmstead YORKSHIHES

As iendid lot of fall pigs at reduced rioes. airs
an _trios not akin. Young sows and gi ts br for
April fan-ow. Your money back if you are not satisfied.

COLON C. LILLIE. Cooper-ville. Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Feb. 26, 1913. Pure-bred Durocs.

Consisting of 32 head of bred gilts and tried sows safe in pig. to fan-ow last of March and April.

Quality

Parties from a distance will be taken care of at my expense by notif in
Breeding of the sows will be furnished on request. y ‘ me

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

February 12, 1913.

Wheat—“The market seems to be bold-
ing on about an even basis with a week
ago, although many factors are working
to change prices. Chief among the bear-
ish influences is the heavy shipment of
wheat from South America. There ap-
pears to be a good crop in the southern
country and present prices are encour-
aging its rapid marketing. Among the
bullish features are the drouth in In-
dia, which may entirely overbalance the
crop in Argentine, the resumption of the
lialkau war, the smaller world’s supply
and a decrease in the primary receipts
of the l‘nited States. Although the bears
feel confident that they have the better
outlook yet on every decline in the mar-
ket there are buyers ready to take what-
ever wheat is offered. One year ago the
price for No. 2 red wheat was 971/20 per
bu. Detroit quotations are as follows

 

No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Nay. July.
Thursday 1.12%; 1.11%; 1.16 96%
Friday .......1.12“,/,, 1.11% 116 961/2

Saturday “1.131,; 1.1214 1.16% 97
Monday ....1.1.': 1.12 1.16 96%
Tuesday ..... 1.12% 1.11 14 1.14% 96%
Chicago, (lt‘eb. ll).——No. 2 red wheat,

$1.001/J61»1.111/2; May, Slfll/zc; July, 911/20.

New York, (Feb, 11).~—l\'o. 2 red, $1.10
f. o. b. afloat; .luly, 5181M per bu.

Corn.~'l‘he average price for corn is a.
fraction higher than a week ago. Colder
Weather is a bullish feature. (in Mon-
day primary receipts were reported at
l,380.000 hu., against 1.930.000 bu. a week
earlier. but the bct'ter prices of the past
few days again encouraged selling by
farmers. One year ago No. 2 corn was
quoted on the local market at Gfiléc per
bu. Quotations are. as follows:

No. 3 No. 3

Corn Yellow.
Thursday ................ 311/ 53%
Friday ................... .1 2 :1
Saturday ................. 51%; 521/2
Monday .................. 511/2 521/43
’l‘ut-sday .................. 51 52

t‘hicago, (It‘cII. 11).»No, 2 yellow, 501,1»
m 31c: May, Stripe: .luly, 53741c pet; bu.

Oats—”This market continues to ad-
yance, present prices being over a cent
above the highest figure of a week ago.
The chcapncss of this feed has increased
its use, causing a large proportion to be
absorbed on the farms and by feeders.
‘l’rimary receipts were. 864,000 bu. on
Monday, compared with {125.000 bu. a
week earlier. One year ago standard
oats were, quoted at 531/2c per bu. De-
troit quotations are as follows:

No. 3
Standard. White.
'l‘hursday ................. 361,4; 351/2
Friday ................... 2:7 3
Saturday ................. 2’. 36
Monday .................. 371/2 301,42
rl‘ucsday .................. 371/3 361/2

tli‘cb. 11):~~No. 2, 33W33‘Agc;
May. 3471.11: ,luly, 343.4c per bu.

Bean3.- (7:1in beans are unchanged.
immediate. prompt, and February ship-
nicnts are quoted at $2.10; I\C[ay, $2.20
per bu.

Chicago, (Feb.

t‘hicag'o.

iii—Prices here rule
lower than last week. Pea beans, hand-
picked, $2.20: $2.25 for choice, $20561)
2.10 for prime: rcd kidneys, $2 for old
and $2.33612.40 for new.

Clover Seed.~.\ little weakness devel-
oped in the seed market last week and
prices now rule lchr. Prime spot is
quoted at $12.35; prime alsike $13.50 per
bushel.

’l‘olcdo, (Feb, ilk—Values lower. Cash

and February. $12.30: March, $12.35; al-

sr'kc. prime, $131.55: March, $13.65 per bu.
Rye.~1.owcr. cash No. 2 quoted at 63c
lcl‘ bu.

I t‘hicago, (Ft-b, 11).—N0. 2 quoted at

t’irlfrltl4lét‘ per bu. _ '
Barley.—(“hicago. (Feb. 11).—H1gher.

quoted at. 50(11711- pcr bu.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

FIour.——.Tobbing lots in 1/8 paper sacks
are selling on the Detroit market per 196
lbs. as follows: Best patent, $5.60; sec-
ond. $4.00: straight, $5.20; clear, $4.90;
spring patent, $5.10; rye flour, $4.90 per
bbl

Feed.~Dctroit jobbing prices in 100-
iIl. Sticks ill'(‘ :15“ folIows; Bran_ $24;
coaisc middlings, *3: line middlings.$23;
cracked corn. $24: coarsc' corn meal,
$21.30: corn and oat chop, $20 per ton.

Hay.w»l‘nchangcd. (‘arlots on track
at Detroit. No. 1 timothy, $14.5061115; No.
2, 5511;111:150; light mixed, $13.5061114; No.
1 mixed. $12.506115‘. per ton.

Chicago.——Demand light and market
lower. t‘hoice timothy. $106117; N0. 1,
$‘l::..’.oml4.50: No. 2 and No.1mixetd,
“1.306112; No, L: and No. mixed, $0611
11; clover, $76111: alfalfa. choice. $16611
17: do. No. 1, $14.30 1115.50; do. NO. 2. $11
(-11.2. per ton.

New York.—-]\Iarkct
31418501110.in per ton: No. 1,
clover, mixed, $18.

Strawr~Car lot prices on wheat and
oat straw on 'Dctroit market are $850619
per ton: rye straw, $106v11 per ton.

Chicago—wLower. slye. $7617.50; wheat
straw, $550610; oat straw, $6616.50 per
ou.- .

t New York.~—Rye straw, $196120 per ton.

lower: standard.
$206112]; light

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Butter.—-—Good quality stock continues
firm. and higher everywhere. Elgin ad-
Vanced another cent on Monday and
creameries have made alike gain in the
local -market. Jobbing prices in the De-
troit market are: Fancy Cl'eamery, 35c

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

per lb; firsts, 34c; dairy, 22c;
stock, 21c.

Elgln.-—Market firm at 35c.

Chicago—Market generally firm, with
creamery goods in exceptional demand
at a good advance, the under grades, as
a rule, showing the most gain. Dairies
of good quality in fair demand at former
values. Quotations: Extra creamery,
351/“; extra firstS, 33%611341/2c; firsts, 31@
Illl/éc; seconds, 276v29c; dairy extras, .300;
firsts, 260; seconds, 220; packing, 12@
201/éc as to quality.

New York—Steady; both creamery and
dairy show an advance of a. full cent or
better. Creamery extras. 37@380; firsts,
114611361,éc; seconds, 31@33%c; thirds, 29@
30c; state dairy bestt, 34@35c; good to
prime. 29@33c; common to fair, 23611280;
packing, 1761‘211/20 as to quality.

Eggs—The colder weather of the past
week has not been severe enough to check
the production of eggs and receipts con-
tinue heavy at all points. Locally prices
IlaVe sagged 20 since this tlime last week.
At Detroit current offerings, candied,
and cases included, are quoted at. 22%0
per dozen.

Chicago—Receipts at this week’s open-
ing were practically double those of a.
week ago and values are 1.61711/20 lower.
More uniform quality is indicated by nar-
rowing of quotations on the various

packing

grades. Miscellaneous receipts, cases in-
cluded. are quoted at 1860220; do. cases
returned, 1761211/Jc; ordinary firsts, 18@

20c; firsts, 220; refrigerators, firsts, 16%
@17c per dozen.

New York——Market weak, practically
all grades quoted 10 lower. Fresh gath-
ered etxras, 2661127c; extra firstst 241/261)
250; firsts, 2360240; seconds and lower
grades, 206111220; western gathered whites
2561:28c.

Poultry—The renewed interest mani-
fested in this market this week seems to
center in live stuff, chickens receiving
most attention, but nearly all kinds are
quoted. higher. Quotations: Live—Spring
chickens, 151Ag@10c; hens. 1561/151/20; No.
2 hens, l26114c; old roosters, 106012c;
turkeys, 186119c; geese, 15611151/21“; ducks,
.186110c per lb.

Chicago.~~Local demand sufficient to
hold market steady. Chickens in light
supply and one cent higher. Quo-
tations on live are: Turkeys, good

weight, 15c; others, 100; fowls, good,15c;
spring chickens, 100; ducks, large, fat,
17c: (10., thin. ordinary, 156F16c; geese.
full feathered, 130; do., plucked. 861110c
per

New. York—Dressed stock firm. Fresh
killed western chickens. 1461230; fowls,

1111.61171: turkeys, 1461240 per lb.

Cheese.—--~Steady; last week’s values
rulc. Quotations: \\'holesale lots: Mich-
igan flats, 151,.é61116c; New York flats, 181/2
6119c; brick cream, 161/2613170; limburger,
1734(1118(‘.

Vea|.—-l)etroit.——Dull and lOWer. Fancy
13611rlc; choice, 1261.1121/zc per lb.

Chicago—Fair to choice. 8060110 lbs.
13611.4c; extra fancy stock, 141/2c; fair to
good chunky, 1261‘13c.

 

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.-—Slight improvement in deal
with prices a little better. Detroit quo-
tations now are: Fancy, per bbl., $2.50
613.50: ordinary. $1601.50.

Potatoes.~»(lood supply and quiet trade.
Michigan stock in car lots, 50c in sacks,
46c in bulk.

Chicago.»~—Offerings continue to run be-
low those of a week ago and a year ago
and prices are advanced. Fancy Mich-
igan stock 486150c per bu.

DETROIT RETAIL PRICES.

 

 

Eastern Market.~'l‘here was a. good
market on Tuesday morning, with plenty
of buyers on hand. Prices were ruling
a little firmer. Apples were in good stip-
ply with best Steel Reds selling at $1,
other grades and kinds ruling from 6561)
85c per bu. Potatoes wore a little firmer
at 55c per bu. Cabbage was plentiful
and in good demand at 25c; red, 40c per
bu. Onions. 6561175c; rutabagas, 30c; car—
rots. 35c; parsnips, 40611450 per bu; pork,
3410506111 per cwt; veal, 15c per lb. The

 

sheds Were, fairly well filled with hay
which is selling from $166120 per ton,
loose.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
- February 10. 1913.
Buffalo.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo. New York).
Receipts of stock here today as follows:
Cattle, .00 cars; hogs, 60 double decks;
sheep and lambs. 75 double decks; calves,

700 head.

\Vith 90 cars of cattle on our market,
and with favorable weather, our market
advanced over last Monday‘s prices from
1061151,- pcr cwt. all around, and in some
instances on the handy—weight good qual-
ity cattle, weighing from 950 to 1050 lbs.,
25c per cwt. While the market was slow.
everything was sold at the close, and the
market closed steady with the opening.

“'63 quote: Best 1350 to 1500-lb. steers,
$8.25fi8.75: good to prime 1200 to 1300-lb.
do., $7.756i8.25: do. 1100 to 1200—lb. (10..
$7.35618.15; coarse. plainish 1100 to 1200-
lb. (10.. 5572561175; medium butcher steers
1000 to 1100. $6.75fi‘750; butcher steers,
950 to 1000, $6.75617.50; light butcher
steers. $6610.50; hes-1' fat cows, $661)6.75:
butcher cows. 5548561550: light (10., $4.25
61 4.75; cutters, 5153.75611425: trimmers, $3.50
6173.60; best fat heifers, $7.251G7.75; me-

dium butcher heifers. $6.25616.75; light
(10., $5.2561‘5.75; stock heifers, “@425;
best feeding steers. dehorned. $6@6.60;
light common stockers, $450635; prime
export bulls, $6.506PG.75; best butcher
bulls, $6.256P6.50; bologna bulls, $52561)

5.75; stock bulls, “75605.50; best milkers
and springers, $656375; common' to fair
kind (10., 55406150.

Receipts of hogs today were very light,
in fact. the lightest for some time. De-

mand was good from both shippers and
packets and the market anywhere from
156025c higher tlan Saturday’s best time;
big advance on be mixed grades of hogs
It was generally a one-priced market for
everything, $8.75, with a few light decks
at $8.80. Roughs, $7.50@7.75; stags, $6
@7. »

The sheep and lamb market was active
today, with prices about the same as the
close of last week; most of the choice
lambs selling from $9.40619.50. Yearlings
from $7@-8.50. Look for about steady
prices the balance of the week. with
moderate receipts.

XVe quote: Choice lambs, $9.40@9.50;
cull to fair do., $6119.25; yearlingwethers
$8608.50; yearling ewes, $6.50@7; wethers,
11625611650; handy ewes, $5.75@6; heavy
ewes, $5.50@5.75; cull sheep, $3.50@4.75;
bucks, $3.50604.25; veals, choice to extra,
55115061112; fair to good do, $10@11; heavy
calves, $450676.

Chlcago.
February 10, 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 19,000 54,000 25,000
Same day last year..26,144 54,192 33,543
Received last week...43.876 149,452 93,201
Same week laSt year.5'1,679 189,100 113,262
A meager run of cattle for Monday
brought about a. pretty general advance
today of at least 10c, with demand cen-
tering strongly in the medium and low-
priced beef steers and butcher stock.
Hogs, despite the unusually large re-
ceipts, were purchased briskly at stronger
prices, and desirable light weights were
a nicked higher, numerous lots going at
$8.20. Hogs marketed last week aver-
aged 229 lbs., against 217 lbs. a year ago,
231 lbs. two years ago and 209 lbs. three
years ago. Sheep and lambs were» active

stron rices.

atCattleghzllwe met with a better demand
for a. week past than was expected at the
beginning of Lent. and the undertone
of the market was firmer. with moderate
receipts. Beef steers sold chiefly at a
range of $7.25618.50. with only moderate
sales at $625607, while the better class
of corn-fed cattle brought $8.50@9, with'a
good grade bringing $8 and over. Plain
to medium warmed—up steers brought
51672561760 and medium to g0od_short-fed
lots $7.65617.95, while the ch01cer class
of little yearlings found buyers at $775617
8.50. The cold snap interfered materially
with the movement of stock trains, and
a great many consignments were very
late in arriving. Comparison with five
weeks ago shows that since then there
has been a. marked narrowing in prices,
the best going much lower and the com—
monest much higher, steers having sold
then for 53575611940. .Cattle sold much
higher than in most former years, with

the cheaper kinds showing especially
marked advances. Butchering lots of
covvs and heifers have been gomg at

$4.656i‘7.40. while cutters sold at $415611
4.60. canners at $3.106ll4.10 and bulls at
3142061065. There was a good demand
for stockers and feeders, and all that
kept this trade within bounds was the.
limited offerings of desirable lots, prices
for which were extremely high. Stockers
sold usually at $5615.50 for inferior lots.
with the best lots firm at $6.756117.40, while

feeders carrying much weight sold for
$6.606: 7.65. It will be seen by these fig-
tires that choice stock steers and the

better class of feeders are selling very
close together. There has been quite a.
demand for breeding cows to ship west,
but the offerings were greatly inade-
quate. Calves sold anywhere from $4607
f0r the less desirable heavy weights up
to $061110 per 100 lbs. for the best class
of light vealers. Milkers and springers
sold moderately at $4061.80 each, g-OOd
cows being usually wanted.

llogs made a great record last week
when the best lots advanced to $8.15 per
100 lbs, the. highest prices reached in a
long time. Supplies have been falling Off
in volume of late. and there has been
sharp competition between local packers
and eastern shippers to obtain the best
lots. with local speculators taking a hand
frequently and thereby aiding in the up—
ward movement. ’I‘he upward movement
went so far that country shippers were.
able last to offer $7.25 to stockmen for
their hogs. and the market was unusually
strong, although after the sharp upturn
quite a reaction Occurred. The bulk of
the hog sales took place within a narr0w
range of prices, with lots averaging
around 104 to 260 lbs. among the highest
sellers and coarse heavy sows the worst
sellers. The official statement of the
stocks of provisions in Chicago ware-
houses on the first day of the month
showed 516.220.5163 lbs., compared with 74.-
800.090 lbs. a month earlier and 134.097.2512
lbs. a year ago. the increase during Jau-
uary being much smaller than usual, as
a big share of the hogs marketed went
for filling the enormous fresh pork trade.
The highest prices were paid Saturday.
when hogs went at 51765613815, the high-
cst quotations since early last November.

Sheep and lambs were marketed last
week much less liberally than heretofore.
with sheepmen unwilling to ship in 'free-
ly. as they believed that by waiting, they
could put prices up again.

._.__

THE NOMID SYSTEM.

 

 

(Continued from page 207).
court of equity and have a decree for
their sale. “’ith this authority the com-
pany can sell the goods, retain the trans-
portation charges, pay the necessary le-
gal fees and expenses of selling. and re-
turn the remainder. if any, to the con-
signee. or shipper.
Not Always Liable for Losses.

In the case of property that has na-
tural qualities which cause it to quickly
decay or spoil, as fruits, the common
carrier is not liable to loss due to such
inherent cause where there is no negli-

FEB. 15, 1913.

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pany act negligently and through that
negligence the natural forces of decay
\vould be set to work, as, for instance,
'where the common carrier is handling
fruit in refrigerator cars and neglects to
keep these cars properly iced. then the
carrier would become liable.
(Continued next week).

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‘ ) oosner Ranges
and Heaters

Why not buy the Best when you
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Save enough on a single.
Itove to buy your winter’:
fuel. Thu-t days free ttlol

In your own cum before you

:my. t:oml 'flol 13d: tor '-
a 00.: a ogon r o...
'fiosm 8t. Hula at ’

Bean Pickers

This is the quiet time for farmers. Why
not buy a

LOHR & WILDT
Bean Picker,

pick your own beans, and when inside
of two months you sell, {on will receive
the highest; market price or your crop.

Write for catalog, or send $4 to

THE MILLER COMPANY,

Vaosa r, Mlchlgan.

 

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leo This :10 Days' Free Trial

Put a Winner Ple Truck on'yourfwnlklng plow, no mot-
tor what kind. Plow in comfort fox-10 days. Then if you

I89 Iny fault in the ‘
t Vllnnor Plow Truck

1* return it and we will return your
1 money and pay freight both
, ways. We take all the chances.
,. . We believe it will
1’ please you as it has
pleased thousands. To
the first buyer of a Win-
;ierdin every neighbor-
100 we make a S ecial
-‘V lgroduc‘p'ory Offer. 0er this
» 0 er. rite todn free
book. Don’t tonowthoplow Another-mint. y to:

LEWIS MFG. 00 Box L. GOITALAND. N”.

AUCTION SALE

H CHRISTIAN!” FIRM, IHIIIEE, MIGII.
On FRIDAY, FEB. 21,

at. 10:00 A. M. Registered Jerse C ' -
Mor an and Humbletonian fibrosiss agilmOBflgs;
mac inery, tools. etc.

B. E. BULLOCK, Proprietor:

DASH 5‘23 BAGS

Turn them into money. We buy them in any
quantity, sound or torn, at a liberal price and
pay tlzotfroigllzt. kWri;e for pyrticulars. Refer-
ence: )1 mens an . roquoo Ba Go.

Broadway, Bullalo, . V. U ' 755

FOR SALE.

801111113? Betti Pogo: Seed. true to name.

reen oun u n o atoes teat bli h

Black. Vlctor Outs, a great fgedin oust. t resistors.
Wing 11 \thte Cap Corn. thoroug Iy acclimated.

fire-dried. cOLON c. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich‘

SOY BEANS FOII SAL

By the first man in the field with seventee
experience as grower. originator and introducltlaryeam

EDW. E. EVANS, West Branch,Mich.

We Want HAY&.STBAW

_ We get the top price on comignments, make
liberal advancements and prompt remittances.

Daniel McCaflrcy’s Sons Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.
Batman. Wuhincton I‘m-t Company. or any but In city 1

Ship your earload not. to In.
THE E. L.
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ALBERTAl

The Price of Beef

  
 
  

 

  
  

L040 (and another as a preemption) in the
Ole-mt. newer dish-tom and produce either cattle
, or grain. The oroge are always good. the
_. climate trucelhu schools Muslim-cue
a are convenient and markets lvlendld In
Manitoba. Saskatchewan or Alberta.
80nd at once lor literature, the latest
information, railway rota. m. to

M. V. Mclnnes
176 Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, Mich.

   
  
  

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That section of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama and
Georgia traversed by the

Nashville, Chattanooga &
St. Louis Railway

is rich in natural resources, and its climatic
conditions and the fertility of its soils offer
unexcelled opportunities for the profitable
production of grains, grasses, live stock and
truckcrops. Fertile and attractive farm lands
may be had at very low prices.

WRITE gaiév‘zfil’fiiui’; FREE

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The Nation’s
Garden Spot-

m1 GREAT FRUIT and TRUCK
, GIOWPIG SECTION-
alon g th e

Atlantic Coast Line

RAILROAD

in Vial-in, North and South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, write to
WILBUR McCOY,
A. A; I. Axum! Florida.
Alabama Gear in.
Jacksonville. 1‘ a.

E. It. CLARK.
A. 8 I-Azt. for Virginia
and the Carolina,
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that you can ‘end the drudgery of high lifting and
cave your tape-m hemest hauling over
fields by uni-mg your wean with

1:11th STEEL wii’éns

V8 25 0' the Draft

We will lhip you act: four

for 80-da tesL
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THE .MICHIGAN FARMER

Built by One of the
_i_i_1_ fie World

THIS IS THE FIFIST EDITION.

In the first edition the Detroit Live
stock markets are reports or last. week;

 

all other markets are right up to date."

Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets
are giVen in the last edition. The first
edition is mailed Thursday, the last odi-
tion Friday morning. The first edition is

. mailed to those who care more to get the

paper early than they do for Thursday's
Detroit Live Stock market report. You
may have any edition desired. Subscrib-
ers may change from one edition to an-
other by dropping us a card to that effect.

 

DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday's Market.
February 6, 1913.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1047. Light butchers and bulls
Strong; fat grades and canners 10@150
lower; best grades dull.

VYe quote: Best steers, $7.50; steers
and heifers, 1000 to 1200. $6.50Qt7; do. 800
to 1000, $6606.50; do. that are fat. 500 to
700, $5606.75; choice fat COWS, $5.50@6;
good (10., $45005; common cows, $3.25@
3.72;; canners, $3003.50; choice heavy bulls,
$5.50@6.25; fair to good holognas. bulls,
$5005.25; stock bulls, $4604.75; milkel‘s,
large, young, medium age. $50@65; com-
mon milkers, $354345.

Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 16
butchers av 847 at $5.65, 2 cows av 750 at
$4.25. 1 bull weighing 910 at $5.75, 3 cows
11V 1000 at $11.75; to Newton B. CO. 10
butcher's av 705 at $6.50, 10 cows av 965
at $11.65; to Kill] 2 do av 1010 at $5, 9
heifers uv 603 at $5.30, 2 cows av 1010 at
$5. 9 heifers av 603 at $5.30, 2 cows av
030 at $4.25; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 3 bulls av
1133 at $6, 5 steers av 988 at $7.25, 8 do
21v 704 at $6: to Schucr 2 cows av 870 at
$4.22,: to Goose 12 butchers av 283 at
$4.90; to Sullivan P. Co. 21 cows av 900 at
$4.35, 6 (10 av 1166 at $5.1 do weiuhlng
10.0 at $4.50, 8 heifers av 620 at $5250, 1
(10‘ weighing 570 (it $4.

'nung‘s sold Sullivan l’. Co. . . 1“ .
903 at $6.75. 7 stoe 5 av

 

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 367. Best grades 50c higher
and others st‘endy. Bcst, $1071.11; others
$4610.50; milch cows and snringers, good:
strong. common, dull.

line Com. Co. sold Goose 5 av 110 at
$10.50, 10 av 140 at $7.50, 3 av 140 at
$10, 4 av 135 at $10,

Haley & M. sold Newton B. .‘l
30 at $10.50. 00‘ 1 av

Bishop. B. & PI. sold Mich. B. CO. 4 av
125 at $10, 2 av 140 at $10.50, 2 av 130 at
$10.50: to (loose 4 av 135 at $9, 1 weighing
110 at $8.50, 5 av 130 at $8.50; to Thomp-
son Bros. 4 av 150 at $10.50. 8 av 115 at
$8: to McGuire 1 weighing 140 at $10: to
ll'urnstine 8 av 130 at $10, 2 av 90 at
$8. 0 av 115 at $10; 10 McGuire 3 av 165
at $10.50, ‘1 av 135 at $10.50, 7 av 150 at
$10.50, 9 av 140 at $8, 2 av 170 at $10.50;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 9 av 140 at $10.

Sundry Sales to Rattkowsky 4 av 145 at
$10; to Mich. B. Co. av 130 at $10, 2
av_120 at $10, 6 av 140 at $9: to Bray 3 av
$931281}? to Rattkmvsky 2 av 195 at
. . n; 0 urnsline 1 wei'hin‘r 10 z
2 av 150 at $9.50. 5 ° 0 It 511'

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipt” 3777. Market 2561357) higher
than last week on lambs; sheep steady'
quality common. Best lambs, $8.75; fair
0 good lambs. $8018.50; light to common
lambs. $550017; fair to good sheep. $4.50
(on; culls and common. 962756325.
av 50 at $7. 14 do av 45 ut $6.50, 47 do av
()5 at $7.75, 32 shecp av 00 at $4.05: to
Youngs 11. do av 80 at $2.60, 88 lambs av
80 at $8.50: to Mich, R. Co. 17 lambs av
80 at $8.50; to Bray 35 do av 60 at $7
10 sheep av 83 at $3.50. ’

lloe (Tom. Co. sold Thompson Bros. 47
sheep 21v 105 at $1.50, 2 lambs av 85 at
$8.25, 3 do av 120 at $7.50.

Hogs.

Receipts, 2628. None sold up to noon;
prospects look as shown below.

Range of prices: Light 10 good butch~
ers, $7.80m7.85; pig‘s, 87.90171 8: light york-
ci's, $7.80-fi'7.85; stags one-third Vofl“. ~

Roe Com. CO. sold Sullivan P. Co. 250
av 180 at $7.00.

7133:1101), B. & ll. sold same ’75 av 125 at

_l~lish0p. B. & it. sold Parker. XV. & Co.
1::00 av 190 at $7.83, 310 .w 260 zit $7.80.
1010 av 160 at $7.90.
Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
380 av 175 at $7.90, 610 av 190 at $7.85.
Spicer & 1:. sold same 110 av 160 at
$7.90, 450 av 1.90 at $7.85.

 

Friday’s Market.
February 7, 1913.

Cattle.

_ week, 1761; last week.
182. 'Market steady at Thursday‘s
prices. Extra dry-fed steers. $7.50@7.75:
steers and heifers. 1000 to 1200, $li.75(w
7.25; do. 800 to 1000, $050617; do. that are

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Largest Concerns

25—109

for American Roads Especially

The J. 1. Case T. M. Company,
Inc., maker of the famous Case
Forty, is a $40,000,000 concern. For
seventy years it has manufactured
the finest machinery in its lines.
You know, and your friends know,
the quality.

The Case Company has thousands
of customers in every part of the
United States. Our machinery goes
to all parts of the world.

We are making the Case Forty
for our old customers as well as for
hundreds of people who will drive
cars in the cities.

The Case reputation is staked in
each car. Our methods of building,
our grade of materials, must be bet-
ter than usually go ‘into Forties to
maintain our 70—year-old standards.

Savings We Do
Not Make

We could make large savings on
the cost of our motors by using
cheaper materials. Also on clutches,
transmissions, drive shafts, wheels,
axles and other vital parts. We
could cut our assembling cost in
two, and this cost is one of the
largest.

We put into the Case—in every
car—hundreds of dollars of extra
value that does not appear on the
surface. But that insures Case
Service. No other Forty at $2,200
ever gave equal value.

What Permits It

We can do what other makers
can’t. We created no new business

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cASE FORTY

 

when we‘started making automo-

biles.

We had 10,000 dealers and

65 Branches before a car was sold.
We saved that selling expense. We
saved oflicers’, sales manager’s and
advertising department 5 alari es,
rent and other overhead charges.

Makers of other cars must include

such costs in the price.

We put all [/1856 savings Mia the
far without charging buyer: an ex-

tra penny.

Have the
Catalog

Write for the Case Cat‘
alog, or send the coupon
for it. See what sort of
car (an be made for
$2,200. Note the Case
Thirty also at $1,500.

Case Cars are built for
American roads after 70
years ofbuilding machin-
ery to travel those roads.
You need such a car.

 

This Emblem
on an automo—
bile has the
some aignil‘
canoe as the
Sterling mark
on silver.

 

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.Vame

J. I. CASE T. M. COMPANY, Inc.
541 State Street. Racine, Win.

Please send complete information
about Case “40" and “30.”

 

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5-Pusenger Touring, Fully Equipped, $2,200

Westinghouse Electric Starter; Westinghouse Electric Lighting System for all Lamps;

I‘III“‘I-‘-III‘II-‘.III‘I‘I‘II‘II

The Car With the

Famous Engine

  
   

Side and Tail Lamps,Comblnation Oil and Electric: Warner Auto-Meter; Electric Horn:
Ruin Vision Ventilating Wind Shield; English Mohair Top, Side Curtains and Cover; 37x4‘xé-
inch Tires: Firestone Universal Quick-Detachable Demountable Rims; 124—inch Wheel
Base: Three-Quarter Elliptic Springs; 4%15'l-inch Cylinders; Brown-Line Transmission;
Timken Full~Floatin¢ Axle; Rayfield Carburetor with Dash Adjustment; Bosch Magneto,

Dual System Sin Ie Point
addition, Extra ire and
and Handy Work Light on (on: wire.

nition. The usual Tools, Tire Repair Kit, Jack, etc. And in
ube on Rim, Extra Tube separate, Tire Chains. Tire Cover

J. 1. CASE T. M. COMPANY, lnc., RACINE, WIS.

Cue Cm are sold through 1 1.000 Dealers and 65 Branch Home:

Lansing, Mich.; New York City and Syracuse, N. Y.;
Columbus, 0.; and lndianapolls, 1nd.

 

 

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Write today sure for Phelps’ new book on Split Hickory Vehicles. Shows
largest selection in America—over l40-fnll and complete line of harness
' styles. 167.000 regular customers already. Phelps ships direct to you 4'
from his mammoth factories~uo dealers’ profits.
You ought to have this fine book whether you buy
It is buggy authority. Then too—-

  

 
 

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,mwwmgogf, f," reign-figs” £62 39% to 700. $5,506,115.50; choice fut cows, EU’S W to Save Y“ $2.? t° $I0
1: Mum" pun. y arms-m d .0 ; good (10., 3347501350; common fives ' I“ M '—
wmmflhnmm Stalled-don.“ cows. $s1.25«14.50:_ canners, $35004; choice , G YOU-3| aoplnlay: {and SW fimeSt ' I:¢’-\
heavy bulls. $6.50; fair to good bologna Dflé$§fi£§§éw wm’es‘flregg Carts Corgi es. (1:3,. 7 ’
. , , v , it, ,1, 11‘ ,

Runab
S n Wagons, ates—oil of the famous genuine
1* ickogy construction. Write immediately and get: free
book by return mail. Phelps sag the postage, too.
Adams . c. P" l. . Proficient

.“- c. men-s The Ohio Carrion I“. c... Station 32 count-e 0.

bulls, $5.75@6.25; stock bulls, $450415;
milkers, large, young, medium age. $506;
65; common milkcrs, $300140.

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 625: last week. 071.
Market steady at Thursday's prices. Best
$100011; others, $4. Mitch cows and
springers steady.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 5680; last week,
WMMhtmtePMEI-m 7764. Market for good lambs some high-
mommm‘uu‘odei‘iimd.“W‘figsbeuonmimuayit 5' er; sheep steady ; light: to common lambs
coversp ec yan mar nextrow. Alwaysmam; dull and hard to sell, ut no higher; best
DIM-depth. Threestles. oneurhorowu. lambs, $8.85; fair lambs. $7.75@8.25; light
Gulch-rein Butcher and Seeder to Common lambsr “@650; fa” t0 300d

sheep. $450625; culls and common, $2.75

    

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Save dnft— save repairs.
Don't rut roads or fields. Bond Code! for free
illustrated catalog 01 wheels and wagons.
Electric Wheel c... 38 ll— “. “Day. II.

   
  

     
   
  

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Great dust ulch.

waffias,sow?mdg,m§§: @3.50; handy westfirn wethers, $7.50@8. C . m ofiden . .0“. 1
808 all“. e . 095_ m. “fiat! can
,lemeM Receipts this week, 5171; last week, Owl Brand on Cone-seal Heal 2:3,, mfim

   
   

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Make milking easy. Cure sore teats with

all kinds.

PHILADELPHIA

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whether your cows are profitable producers or merely boarders.
Some cows digest their feed perfectly and convert it into
milk; others eat as much, but waste it because of poor diges-
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a question of putting them in proper physical condition.

my. Animal Regulator

was designed for just this work, and has been doing it satisfactorily for
40 years. Itincreases the appetite, strengthens the digestive system;
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stimulates the milk-producing organs, and that means profitable
25c, 50c, $1; 25-lb pail $3.50.

p.399 Healing Ointment
25c, 50c

The best remedy for sores, cuts, burns, sealds, wounds of

“Your money back if it fails”

Get Pratts Profit-sharing Booklet FREE at dealers, or write us.
Our products are sold by dealers everywhere, or

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As a.hog raiser—your every thought is of fit—and

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deserves all the investigation you give it.

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Horse Owners Should Use

GOMBAULT’S
CAUSTIC BALSAM

The Great French Veterinary Remelczig.
A SAFE. SPEEDY a POSITIVE CU .

Prepared exclusively
bv J. E. Gonibault. ex-
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As a HUMAN REMEDY for Rheu-
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WE GUARANTEE that one table-
spoonful of Causatic Balsam will produce
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liniincnt or s avin cure mixture ever made.

Every bott e of Caustic Balsam sold is
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per bottle. Sold by druggi’sts or sent by ex-
press, charges paid. with full directions for its
use. Send for descriptive circulars, testiiiio.
iiials, etc. Address

THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

To Lwe Stock Men

Diseases of Cattle,
Horses, Hogs, Sheep
and Poultry treated by
Dr. David Roberts. the
nation ’3 greatest veter-
inarian. Book of 184
pages, plain, practical,
authoritative. G iv e a
symptom, tells what to do.

     
    
 

Get this book. Free at most ru

stores; if not at yours. send 25c an
receive copy direct. postpaid. You
can write Dr. Roberts about any
trouble with your live stock and get
his personal advice by enclosing a
2-cent stam . Experiment is more costly than neglect.
Get correc information by writing Dr. Roberts today.

DR. DAVID ROBERTS VETERINARY C0.
9621 Broadway. Wnukesha, W‘lo. ' I

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It is just what you need around
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writes: “Since
getting such good
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used half the bottle the swell~
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, ' n on the chest."
'5. ‘ i 3"- Get Kendall‘s Spay.

In Cure at any
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has reinforced knife. eccentric gears, arched handles and
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No tearing or splintering. stock are bet-
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device when dehoming? Money back
if not satisfied. Write today for booklet.

M. T. Phillipl. Box 126 Pomeroy. Pa.
JACKS and MULES

Raise mules and get rich.
18 Jack and Mule farms un-
der one management.
where can be seen 420 head
fine lax-fa Jacks. J ennys and

4 to 17 hands high.
w t. firm" can
r or or con
day. Address
KREKLER’S JACK FARM
West Elkton, Ohio.
Branch barns: Clinton Ind,

 

 

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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 someone else.
reply by mail is requested.

 

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Sweeney—Chicken Lice—Our 9~year—old
mare sweenied shoulder four months ago
our local Vet. prescribed a remedy which
appears to full to effect a cure. I also
have an eight-month-old colt that is thin
and itchy. This colt: occupies a stable
where chickens were kept a year ago and
he may have some lice. C. H. A., Eaton
Rapids, Mich—Clip off hair and apply one
part cantharides and eight parts fresh
lard every wee-k or ten days until the
shoulder muscles grow to their normal
size. Apply insect powder to your colt.

Thin Hoots—Two years ago I pur-
chased a two-year-old filly and after us—
ing her a few times she went lame and
sore in both fore feet. Her lioofs are
thin, has not been shod for over a year,
but when walking on hard ground she
ilinches badly, but moves fairly comfort-

able when walking on soft ground. She
also has a corn in one foot. Have con-
sulted two different Vets, one advised

blistering coronet, this failed to help her
and the other said nothing could be done
that would help her. R. L. 0., Ithaca,
Mich—Her lioofs are toolight and weak
f0r weight of body and all that can be
done is by applying shoes to protect
weak sole and small nails should be used.

Hide-bound.——I have a. seven-year-old
horse that is not thriving, his hide sticks
fast to bones of back and every time he
moves he grunts as if in pain. XVhen
led to water he is slow in lowering head
and I might add I am working him only
enough for exercise. He has been treat-
ed by a capable Vet. but does not im-
prove. R, G., Manton, Mich—Groom him
well twice a day. Give him 1 (lr. ground
nux vomica, 1 oz. ground gentian and 1/2
oz. Fowler’s solution at a. dose in feed
three times a day. He should be well
fed and also have a change of feed.

Obstructed Teat.——I have a cow that
had one teat hurt, leaving a. bunch about
the Size of bean, which makes it difficult
to milk her. H. A B., Dewitt, Mich.—
If this hunch is situated so that it can
be cut out, this would be the proper thing
to do; if not, apply tincture iodine three

 

    
   
  
    
   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  

times a week.

Heifer with Six Teats.——I have a three-
ycar-old heifer who has six teats. two of
which are very small, and I would like
to know if they can be removed. I can
get a little milk from these small teats.
but I would like to know if they can be
safely removed? A. A. W., Chesaning,
Mich—If you will tie a silk cord that has
been dipped in one part carbolic acid and
nine parts olive oil tightly around teats
close to udder and allow it 10 remain on
until end of teat sloughs off, I believe it
will be as convenient way as you can re-
move them. Or they can be removed
with a knife, but it may cause you more
trouble.

Sidebone.—My eight-year-old mule is
lame. the result of a sideblonev, and I
would like to know how to treat him.

C. H. 19., Maple City, Mich—Lowm- heels
and apply one part iodine, one part red
iodide mercury and eight parts lard every
two or three days. or as often as it is
necessary to keep the part blislcred.

Cow Holds up Milla—lhave a four-
year-old cow that for the past 12 months
has been inclined to hold up milk in both
fore quarters of udder. This same cow
came fresh a few days ago and is much
the same as last year. H. R. T., Hes-
peria, Mich.»—Her udder may lack deVel-
opment of fore quarters; therefore, she
giVes less milk than from hind quarters.
Nothing can be «lone more than careful
milking. kind treatment and feeding her
at milking time.

Cows and Pigs Have Diarrhoea—Would
like to know what to do for my cows and
pigs that are troubled with diarrhoea. I
am feeding cornstnlks, bean pods and
ground corn, oats and barley. C.’ H. F.,
Shepherd, Micli.——l’ei'liaps zi change of
feed and water might benefit them and
you had better discontinue feeding the
beet tops. Illix together equal parts of
ground ginger, gentian, powdered catechu
and cinnamon and give cacl. cow two ta-
blespoonfuls at a dose and each pig 9.
teaspoonful in feed three times a day.
Your stock should be kept warm, dry and
comfortable.

Loos of Power—This morning one of
my pigs was unable. to get up and the
whole trouble appears to be in hind
quarters, but their appetite is fine. C.
8., Kalkaska, Mich—Feed your hogs less
corn, more oats, oil meal, tunkage and
roots and if his bowels are costive give

 

either castOr oil or epsom salts to open
them. Also give 10 grs. sodium salicylate
at a dose in feed two or three times a
day. o

Chronic Cough.——I have a cow that
came fresh Jan. 10, 1913, that appears to
be- in good health, but suffers from a
chronic cough. W. N. W., Swartz Creek,
Mich.~—Give her 1 dr. guaiacol and a des-
sertspoonful tincture of opium in 2 ozs.
of raw linseed oil at a dose! three times
a day. ‘ ‘

 

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FEB. 15, 1913.

 

HEWO
BELGIANS

NEW IMPORTATION

We have given more than a quarter
century to importing breeding and dis-

tribution of the Belgian horse. We
handle no other breed and believe we
have now in this new importation of
stallions and more: a clan of bones
that will please you. and all are for
. sale at prices not equalled by anyone
in the business when merit is consider-
ed. Will be pleasedto have you ask
about them and to visit us at any time.

[1.8: H. WOLF

Wabash, Ind.
HEWO STOCK FARM

 

 

 

rYou Are Welcomel
Whether You Buy or Not.

We want to get acquainted
and talk Stallion business with
you. It will be interesting.
Price and quality the convinc-
ing argument. Satisfaction
another link in the chain bind-
ing us to our old customers. It
will be a step forward 'when
you buy of us. Write or Wire
us when you will come.

GEO. W. SOUERS 8 SONS

Huntington Indiana

 

 

   
   

 

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DUNHAMS’
PERCHERONS

are today as for the past
forty-seven years the

Fresh importation.
alogue F R E E .

D HAMS. Wayne. Du Page County. III.

A. A. PALMER 6: SONS

Open the season with the finest aggregation of

PERBHERU Stallions

and Mares

they have ever offered to the breeding public.
60 Head to select irom.

P. O. Beldinn. Mich. R. R. Orleans.

PEBOHEBOHS—BLAOKS and GBAYS

We can show more bone and muscle than any breed-
er in Michi an. Young stock for sale from mares

Cat-

 

 

weighin 1 lbs. Imposant 79403 (79835)
weight lbs. at head of stud.
CHAS, OSGOOD 5t SONS. Mendon. Mich.

 

PERCH ERON S

bred for utility as well as show quality. Stable
includes several international winners. Young
Stock for sale. me. or write

B. F. ANDERSON. R. No. 1. Adraln, Michigan.

For Sale: 4 Percheron Stallions

2 to 4 years old. weight 1600—20001b3., sound and good
ones. cheap. if so] at once. 10 Shorthorn cows,
o bulls and 2) Oxford Down ewes. bred. For further
particulars write H. B. PETERS. Burton. Mich.

PERCIIERONS—‘lge good a... 3......
yearling stud colts. 0R. Sililllllgfibfmtfihtazremg?

ling. Percheron Slallion and Marc Calls for Sale.
M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Mich.
We make a s ecl-

m orted and re b ed '
I fielglan & lye‘i‘cheilbn Slfillllllls- alt of Qua ity.
Bone anleeight. G. a H. Loonns. iiiunton. Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

qOME fine oung registered Clydesdale Stallions

i... for Sale romlto yearsold. lnthe springsome

Will make ton horseswith lots of qualit and good

action. Must be sold before the firs of April.
F. A. PETZ.‘ Capac. Michigan.

Maple Grove Stock rFarm‘ti-giftfiff‘m’igifif“
Mares and Colts'for sale. with size. bone and ual-
ity. EARL W. BARNARD. R. No. 13. Saranao. ioh.

 

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FIFTH NATIONAL CORN SHOW.

(Continued from page 188).
its eflort to stimulate agriculture in the
south, the United States Department of
Agriculture made the largest exhibit at
this show that it has ever made. This
exhibit covared all phases, from soils
_to schools, from grains 11nd grasses to
refrigerated beef, from road building to
heavy power farming.

Schools—The increased interest in
rural school development was reflected
in larger exhibits of school, church and
community work. A model of an ideal
community center was exhibited under
the direction of Miss Carney, of Illinois.
The model included a consolidated school,
a church, grange hall, creamery and laun-
dry, parsonage, teacher’s cottage, school
barns and fair grounds sheds. The plan
was to center the community about the
school and the church, with the grange
introducing the social features and help-
ing the co-operative development through
the co-operative Creamery and community
laundry. The school barns and fair
ground sheds were to be used in the local
school and community fairs, festivals and
carnivals. Miss Anna B. Taft represent—
ed the Church and Country Life Depart-
ment of the Board of Home Missions, and
the church and school studies attracted
general attention. The Winthrop Normal
School of South Carolina, also made an

vexhibit of its home economic work in

sewing, cooking and general housekeep-
ing, while a model improved school
room contrasted with an unimproved
school 1-,oom gave suggestions for build-
ings and equipment.

A strong program of addresses by
men of national reputation was given
throughout the two weeks of the show.
The attendance was good. although not
up to the standard of two years ago.

The leading awards follow:

Ten Ear Awards—Dent.

Central Zone—“mite, J. 'l‘. Henderson
& Son, Shelbyville, Ky.; yellow. Charles
Short, Greenburg, Ind; mixed, G. A.
lrown, Franklin, Ind.

N . , N. R. Rnessler,
Reloit, “is; yellow, N. ll. Rnessler; mix-
ed,Ch1is Stoen, Bereford. S. D.

Eastern Zone. —V\'hite, Josiah Massey,
Chesteitoun Md‘, yellow Burton Buy,ard
ll ayneS'burg, Pa.; mixed D. M Landis,
Lancaster, Pa.

Southern Zo11e—\\'h'1te,G. T. Buford.
Pulaski, Tenn; yellow B. A. ltucker,
llelaplane, Va; mixed, G. L. Fentress,
Sansaba, Tex.

W'e-stern Zone. —No samples entered.
National Sweepstakes. —\Vhite, J.
Henderson & Son; yellow Charles Short:
mixed. C. A. Brown.

Jram'l Champion (winner Indiana tro-
phy)——~Charles Short.

Single Ear Awards—Dent.

Eastern Zone.-—Pucey Cloud, Kennett
Square, Pa.

Central Zone—Joe Helms, Richmond,
Ind.
l.\70rthern Zone—N. R. Raessler, Beloit,

                     

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Southern Zone—Henry Manteke, News
Ferry, Va.
\Vestern Zone—«No entries.
Grand Championsmp (winner Kellogg
trophy)——Joe Helms.
Ten Ears—Flint.
Northern Zone—George J. Friederich,
Brooklyn, Mich.
Eastern Zone (Second Grand Cham-
pjonship).——James M. Moore, Bethlehem,
3.
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Northern Zone—«George J. Friederich,
Michigan.
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to you on free examina-
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N. M. Rmmm No More Corns, Bun-
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Consequently, it is easy to be seen
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This steel soled, waterproof shoe is
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Saves $10 to $20

One pair of these light, springy, comfortable
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pairs of the best qualityall-leather workshoes.
There are no repairs—and no loss of time, or
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The Shoe With the Sole of Steel

, FreeBook BRWBLE HILL

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Sid started off at a pace quite unusual
for him. Jerusha had the fine faculty of
imparting the virus of action. Sid couldn’t
resist her enthusiasm, it was contagious,
infectious. As he rushed along toward
the house his mind was brisk with the
thought of action. The air seemed charg-
ed With electrical energy. He was full of
a species of suppressed emotion that
thrilled him. He wanted to do something.
lie wondered what thought had occurred
to Jcrusha. He recalled the Old Settlers’
Reunion idea. Things came to her in
flashes. She had a habit of figuring out
ideas and a manner of executing them
that was really aStounding.

Before he reached the house he sighted
Jimmie strolling in the yai‘d, smoking.
lie hurried up and was about to deliver
the message when Jim cut him off with
a smile and greeting: “\Vell, are you all
packed up, Sid? Ready to hit the long
trail to New York. Got all your sweet,
sad good-byes said? \Ve leave early in
which gives perfect traction, firm footing. the morning, you know, and I’m going to
and Drotectthe solesfrom wear. The rivets impersonate the alarm clock and wake
themselves (which take all the wear) can be you up; I’m not taking any chances on

replaced when partly worn. 50 rivets cost , .
but3009nts, and should keep the shoes in leavmg you bchmd to eat out your soul

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sol workshoe that. looks bad, eels bad smells
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on can walk more, stand

N. M. RUTllSTElN, “The Steel Shoe Man”

Canadian Factory
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ill this burg wllel‘ew”

“Wait a minute!” Sid stopped him.
“.‘leruslla’s got an idea. Come along.
Quick! She wants to see you.”

“\Vants to see me!” cried Jim, with
an incredulous cock to his head.

"Yes, you. She shows poor taste, but
come. on! It’s something important. You
ought to have seen her eyes snap. She
had an idea once before that was worth
a hundred dollars to me."

“\Vallts to see me!” repeated Jim, op-
cnillg his eyes wide and thrusting out his
cllcst in an exaggerated swagger. “\Vell.
what do you know about that! I’ve been
walking up and dOWn ill .the front yard
here all afternoon just hoping she’d come
along the road. I must have one more
glimpse of her before we leave. She’s a
quccn! And she's commanding me to
come to her. \Vill l?”

“She’s down watching the construction
gang lay those heavy iron rails across the
chest of my old friend Hope, whom I
nourished until they tore him away from
me. Come along.”

”With the construction gang? Wait!

element.” - .
They hurried back to where Jerusha

Maybe i won’t shine. I'll be right in my ’

051' as you fertilize your soil for
better results, we sacrifice part
of our profits to give you “Ball-

Band” quality.

you a better fit we make “Ball-Band” Boots and
Arctics over a natural last. We know that a farmer
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was waiting. She had walked to the end
of the farm, a quarter of a mile from

the construction train loaded with ties
m and tools. She was standing on the
“ bank of Turtle Creek, getting her feet

. a quite muddy in the ooze at the water’s
a (2ng as she it‘llllOd far forward to thrust
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shimmery grccn branch as the young fel-
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pointing to thc wct length of it.
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~“\Vell, may I ask what difference the
dimensions of the creek make?” queried
Jim stood, looking
first at one and then the other, try-
ing to appear intelligent.

Jcrusrha was glowing with some subtle
and strange enthusiasm which greeted
illcm glowingly from her eyes. As their
gaze of bewilderment brought her back to
her original idea she laughed with a glad
little thrill and cried: “Oh, I’m so glad
you brought Mr. Rogers,-Sidney. I want
him to agree with me and say the
scheme is entirely practical, and that he
will stay and help manage it. We need
someone with experience in construction
work.” She flashed a look and a smile at
Jimmie, who flushed and bowed con-
sciously.

“I couldn’t recommend anyone more
highly than my friend Jimmie, but will
you kindly enlighten us as to the duties
he is expected to perform with regard
to this splendid creek which is four feet
deep and twenty-five feet wide?” said
Sid. ‘

“It’s so simple!” Jerusha cried. “But
it won’t be a nice thing to do, I’m afraid.
I don’t see why somebody didn’t think of
it before.“

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By ROBERT CARLTON BROWN.

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thousands of dollars, I’m surprised I
didn’t connect with this luminous
thought,” answered Sid. “But may I be
so bold as to interrupt your monologue
and ask, WHAT IS IT?”

”\Yhy, we’ll build a dam across the
creek right at this point. 1t’s narrow and
shallow here—an ideal spot. It’s Simply
great!"

“Yea,” ‘answered Sid. Her enthusiasm
was communicative, but he couldn’t un-
derstand what she was getting at. “Yes,
it’s a great idea,” he continued, “but
why not let the beavers build the dam?
It's more in their line. 1 don't see the
point to such exertion on our part.”

“You do, don’t you?” cried Jerusha,
turning to look straight into the blank
eyes of Jim Rogers; us she did the glim—
mer of an idea ilickercd in them. His
face began to relax from its stare. The
fire in her eyes kindled a spark in his.
He glanced down the slight slope to the
valley where the track had already been
laid. The kindlcd spark gleamed brightl-
er. Suddenly his face lighted up. He
glanced from the creek to the railroad
track, looked at the radiant girl with un-
derstanding and admiration in his gaze,
and cried: "\Vhy, yes. It see it now!
It’s great. A wonderful idea! \Vhy didn’t
I ever think of it? It’s too good to be
true!" He swung round and slapped Sid
on the back. “Sideral, old dreamer, you’re
saved! Miss \Vuttles is the heroine.
Thank her for having dragged your
worthless body from beneath the merci-
less onrushing railroad engine.”

“But not so fast!” cried Jerusha. “I’ve
just cut the ropes with which the villain
bound him to the track. The engine. is
still speeding around the curve with wide~
open throttle.”

“How melodramatic! I’m thrilled!”
cried Sid. “But what the devil is it all
about? Am I the hero that was to be
run over, and am I not to know a thing
abOut how I'm to be saved?”

“You’re supposed to be lying uncon-
scious on the track,” said Jerusha. “You
ought to be able to see the plan. But it
may not help you a great deal, at that.”

“It will serve as a pretty practical tem-
porary barrier at least,” chimed in Jim
with enthusiasm. v. I“...

“Yes, it will give us time,” answered
Jerusha, looking straight at Jim again,
the gaze sending a thrill through him.
“You’ll stay and help manage things for
Sidney, won't you?” -~
*1 “I’ll stay if I lose my job!” he shout-

ed, reaching out his hand to clasp heart-
ily the one Jeruslla had extended.

4» Sid looked on blankly, like a little boy
listening to a pair of Esquimaux convers-
ing in their native tongue. Finally he
broke out: “Now that congratulations on
the completion of the Panama Canal are
all over, and the straight ticket has been
\adopted and elected, and all that sort of
thing, will you kindly inform an innocent
bystander, one of the common people,
which way he shall vote, in which direc-
tion the Wind is blowing or, in other
words, what the devil is all this high-
signing and four dimension and new

; thought and nostology about? XVhat of

the dam, and why the hectic hilarity? Is
it at my expense?”
1, “No, it’s to your profit." said Jim.
“Vi'e’re going to fight!” cried Jeruslla,
her fingers clenching and her black eyes
snapping with the joy of conflict, as they
had when she hurled the coins in Bango s
sly, seared face and forced her way to
freedom.

Chapter XIV.—Building the Dam.

It was a soft early summer night, the
second after Jerusha’s idea of damming
the creek had served to excite Jim’s fur—
ther admiration. The final faint streaks
of evening gray had been inked out by
black night, the smaller day birds. had
yawned their last sleepy “clle‘eps!” and
gone to bed. XVhen all twilight songs
and sounds had ceased, and all trees,
fences and buildings had been swallowed
up into silent, sinister night there slowly
appeared, one by one, tiny points of light
pricking their way through the Stygian
blackness behind the Edgeworth mansion.

The small lights in the Edgeworth barn-
yard did not carry far. As they increased
in number they mingled into a dim glow,
out of ‘which a, Scandinavian face would
start suddenly as one of the lanterns
threw its light'on a man. There were
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to each. Besides, a score of teams. hitch-
ed to all manner of working vehicles were
in the spacious yard
and roadway. All kinds of carts were
seen in flashes from the lanterns. There
was a hush over all the men; they seemed
to be awaiting a signal. The horses
stamped and pawed and backed impa-
tiently, but beyond a few Scandinavian
oaths from the drivers there was silence.

Suddenly a bright light rushed down
the back steps from the Edgeworth man-
sion and trotted with a jerky limp toward
the dim halo formed by the grouped team-
sters. Then the motive power of the
hurrying lantern came to view. It was
Brigadier General Hornbill, coming to
take command. He stopped abruptly and
threw his light along the line of teams.

“Everything ready?” he cried slharply.

“Got all my men here, General,” came
a sullen voice.

“Then move on!” Brigadier General
llornbill clicked his heels together and
delivered the order in true military form,
standing by while the command was car-
ried down the line from one teamster to
another.

The shimmering halo resolved itSelf in-
to a slow gliding glow worm and wound
off up through the condemned right of
way toward the point which the railroad
track had reached. A few curses cut the
air and several whips were swiShed and
snapped, but the strange caravan was
under strict orders to maintain silence.
The horses lumbcred along, stumbling on
the little used road which ran to the end
of the farm.

As they neared a point opposite the
place where Jerusha had found the creek
to be only four feet deep and twenty-five
feet wide, Brigadier General gave a sec-
ond order and the caravan came to a
squeaking, scraping, groaning halt. Along
the newly laid railroad there twinkled
several red lanterns. Hornbill looked anx—
iously at these and then swung his lau—
tcrn in a signal to Jim. Jerusha. Sid.
Mother Hubbard and ‘Vatts, who had
formed a scouting party and gone ahead
to the spot chosen for building the dam.
Receiving an answering signal that ev—
erything was all right, the Generaljump-
cd dowri from the wagon on which he
had been riding and led the way through
the verdant valley to the edge of the
creek, where the party from the house
was gathered about a Camp-fire. the glow
of which was partly hidden from the
watchmen stationed over the supplies
down at the railroad track.

So there they were. and it was made
cvident that they were there with a pur-
pose, and that purpose building a dam
bcfore breakfast. .Iim took charge of the
stone‘boats and directed the drivers to
an old quarry where there was much
loose rock lying about. Hornbill took
charge of the plow gang, which was al-
ready ripping up the ground to make a
direction trench to lead the diverted wat—
crs into their new course; the dirt was
being dumped into heaps along the bank
of the creek, to be used for filling in the
dam, after the stone had been put in.

Sid and .Terusha crossed to Bramble
Hill with two laborers and helped load a
wagon with sumach, hazel bushes and
scrub oak. When they returned with their
loads the dam was already well started.
lt‘irst had gone in load after load of the
limestone rock with which the farm
abounded, then when the water had risen
a good deal, to ride the stones, they filled
in with dirt and brush to hold it. The
face of the dam was formed with alter-
nate layers of brush and earth; being
backed by the rock it formed a perfect
dam which could not be undermined in
any way.

\Vhen Sid and Jerusha returned the
water was already pouring and roaring
through the direction trench. just above
the dam, which connected the creek with
the condemned valley.

“Here!" cried the little Irish grade con-
tractor. “Come here, you, sor, an' see
that these square heads don’t dump their
wagons in the creek. I’ll be goin‘ afther
them Norsks I sent fer a load of cord

wood. Watch ’em close, they're a slip-
pery lot.”

Sid jumped as he realized that the
words were addreSSed to him. Before he

could protest the contractor had snatched
a lantern out of a dazed Swede’s ham-
like fist and darted off into the night to
look up the shirkers. -

So Sid was forced into the gap. Pick-
ing out what he deemed to be a strategic
point he made a stance. as though play-
ing golf, and watched the workers care-
fully.

Jerusha, laughing at the seriousness
with which Sid undertook the work, pick-
ed up a lantern and went 01! to where

,

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Mother Hubbard was working over an old
kitchen stove, carted out earlier in the
day so hot things could be cooked on the
spot for the laborers. Sid followed her
trim little figure with his eyes as she
turned and waved to him as he stood in
Napoleonic grandeur, his arms folded,
preparing to boss the job.

The salute served to animate him and
he was all action for the first time in his
life. Those workmen who thought from
his looks that he would be easy prey were
soon assured of their mistake. Sid at-
tended personally to each loafer. He
was mentally and physically alive.

“Here! Throw that load of stone over
there! No, not there!” he shouted, jump—
ing into a pile of loose loam and direct-
ing a bungling teamster where to drive.

“Get out of his way there! Jump! Now
pull in there! None of that! Look
sharp!”

He felt red blood rushing through his
veins and he glowed warm with the real—
ization that he could handle a gang of
men and boss them; he could get as
much work out of them as anybody. In
the distance be heard Jimmie shouting to
a couple of thick—headed Norsks; he knew
Jimmie was getting work out of the men
whose wagons he was loading over at the
old quarry. He recognized the profes-
sional twang in Jim’s voice and admired
it; then he shouted an order just to make
sure that his tone- was as businesslike.
lie flushed with pride as he made sure
that it was. Here he was actually doing
the thing he always admired in others.
and really doing it Well at his first at-
tempt. The restless spirit of Jerusha had
been imparted to him.

Half an hour later as Sid leaped for-
ward to snatch a shovel from a laborer‘s
hands and tling several spadefuls of dirt
into a gap that had sprung. he heard a
laugh behind him and turned quickly to
find that Jcrusha had returned and sur-
prised him at work.

“Good for you!” she cried.

Back and forth, like fire-flies, the men
flitted with their lanterns. No one was
idle, and yet no one worked noisily.
There was a hushed air of secrecy over
everything and often Sid glanced anx-
iously toward the lantcrns outside the
sheds of the railroad watchmen. The
railroad men were probably asleep. at
least they showed no signs of being aware
of what was going on. -

Everyone was asbusy at the dam as a
beaver and yet the ruSh of the water into
its new course and the occasional slide
of a load of stone were the chief noises.
The task was not herculcan. as Turtle
Creek was narrow at that point, but it
ran deep just above the shallow spot they
had picked for the dam. The depth added
to the weight of water directly above and
it was a great problem to keep the loads
of stone, which came in rapidly under
Jim’s managcmcnt of that branch of
work, from shifting with the current, as
the volume of water piled higher and
higher all the time. But Sid mastered
that problem by holding four stone wag—
ons and five loads of earth and then
dumping the nine loads at once onto the
dam; that servcd to back up the bubbling
water Which would have quickly seeped
through the reek and dirt if it had been
dumped in single loads. Though the task
was not gigantic it served to keep thirty
men on the jump all night.

“Lucky we got that limestone ready.”
cried Sid, sweating as he helped force up,
with a crowbatr. the end—gate of a wag-
on-load of stone ready to be dumped.

“It’s lucky you had the stone on the
farm, you mean.” anSWered .lerusha who
stood by, watching. “It would have cost
no end of money to make as good a dam
any other way. And here you were ac-
cusing luck with giving you the small end
of it by fitting this part of the farm with
limestone.”

“If this goes through.” cried Sid breath-
lessly, “l’ll never have another word to
say against my luck, or this old farm, or
a single pebble on it." He mopped his
brow, loaded with heavy drops of per-
spiration, and 'threw down the crowbar.

“VVeIl, even if the scheme doesn't
work." smiled Jerusha, ”you have work-
ed. And that’s something. I call it
quite remarkable.”

“But I worked on those Old SettlerS'
Reunions.”

“That was only ladylike labor; you
didn’t have to stir the lemonade with a
crowbar or handle the ice cream with a
scoop shovel.”

“Oh, it isn’t as though I were utterly
without pride in this achievement,” said

‘Sid grandly, gazing around like Chanti-

cleer about to command the dawn to
break, from the mound of dirt on which
he stood. “I have but one regret," he

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Over an hour later Jerusha called Sid.
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To his surprise he found Jerusha pre-
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built two hundred feet from Mother Hub-
bard’s stove. .

“I never knew how much fun it was
to work.” exclaimed Sid, joining her, and
adding, “I never had the slightest notion
either how hungry it makes a man.”

“I knew you‘d be hungry.” She stood
up from the fire and passed a hot hand
over her cheeks, suffused with crimson.
tier fire-flushed face, her gypsy costume,
her air of mystery, taken together made
her seem an elf spirit of the night, god—
dess of briarbush and tanglewood.

She thrust a hot sandwich into his hand
and cried: “There! I knew you’d be
hungry! Eat that! It just came off the
fire. There may be a. bit of charcoal
clinging to the bacon.”

Sid took the sandwich and stood fumb-
ling it in his hand blankly.

“l'lcat it!” .lerusha jolted him into full
consciousness. “Call “'alt‘s and the Gen-
eral and Jim. There‘ll be more ready in
a minute."

“ Int you must be hungry yourself. You
eat this wonderful sandwich,” cried Sid.

“Nonsense. Don't you know the duty
of a squaw? i tend the camp-fire. I
built it, too. \Vhat do you think of it?
l learned that herding sheep and picking
blackberries when I was little. I used to
take a little lunch, build a fire and warm
some ('Oft‘ee sometimes.”

She deftly tipped the cover off a steam-
lug pot Sid noticed for the first time,
hanging in the fork of a crooked stick
thrust into the ground beside the fire.

""l‘here!” she cried, ladling out a cupful
of steaming coffee. “Smell of that!”

“()h!” cried Sid. “And you’ve been do-
ing all this during the last hour I thought
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brcczily, brushing a. singled lock of hair
out of her starry, happy eyes. “Put your
mouth to better uSe 'calling Watts and
anybody else who wants to sample my
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sha, gypsy goddess of the camp—fire, stood
looking on with a happy. infectious laugh
as she finished distributing her welcome
cookery among the chosen circle, her
little family, she called them, their faces
all aglow with gold as the bonfire burst
into them.

“llow is the bacon, Sid?” she asked,
just as he closed his jaws over a lus-
cious double-mouthful.

He couldn’t answer. but, his incoherent
mumbling c0nveyed his appreciation sulfi-
cicutly to please the cook. There is no
praise a young cook (or an old one, for
the matter of that) enjoys bet‘ter than
the proof of her pudding in busy, inter-
ested. not~to—be-interrupted jaws. Jeru-
sha was surrounded by a circle of these.
She glanced proudly from one to the
other, flushed and excited.

l‘llow's yours. “'atts?” she asked
quickly, glancing to the end of the circle.

No answer came. Hornbill stepped for-
ward and gesticulated like a policinello,
meanwhile endeavoring to swallow his
mouthful of bacon and bread. “\Vatts
ain’t here yet. He wanted to finish help-
iu’ load stone up on the hill there,” he
finally managed to reply.

Jerusha turned quickly, apprehensively,
like a mother, and called, “Watts! Come
to supper! \Vatts!”

Then she listened. Finally a. slow,
plaintive call came, “Yes, Jerry.”

She smiled her relief and dropped to
her knees beside the fire, raking out with
the broken head of a hoe a score of roaSt-
ed cars of early sweet corn. She passed
them around as soon as they had cooled
sufficiently to be handled.

Sid took his and held it up admiringly,
turning it about in his fingers as though
it. were a plump partridge on a‘splt, ex-
amining it like a connoisseur. “Why, Jer-
ry!” he cried, touching the light brown

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tap-tinted kernels, moist and steaming,
“it‘s stewed in its owu juices. You don’t
mean you cooked it in that wild, bar-
barious bonfire of yours?"

“Why notl?” she flushed happily. “Na-
ture meant 'corn to be roasted on the
ground, among red-hot coals.” She broke
off abruptly amid the chorus of exclama-
tions as' the others sampled her wares,
then called again, impatiently, “Watts,
hurry! Everything is getting cold.”

Without waiting for his reply she dove
down again and, with the hoe head, a
rare and wonderful cooking utensil, rak-
ed out (if one can rake out with a hoe)
two dozen or more outwardly charred po-
tatoes, passing them around, piping hot,
on the end of a shovel.

More exclamations from the hungry
mob. Jim had been standing in mute ap-
preciation, admiring Jerusha’s swift-
changing expressions, her spirit—~she
seemed to frolic with the fire—«watching
her deft fingers fly and marveling at her
practiced manner. But neither he nor
Sid had neglected eating. They broke
open a perfectly huge potato between
them. The steam puffed out and the
mealy contents of glistening, gleaming,
snowy white crumbled apart‘. Jerusha
handed them a knife with a pat of but-
ter 0n the end. “'ith this applied and
melted, and aided and abetted by a hand-
ful of salt, each enjoyed half of the de-
licious tuber.

“1 never had one half so good at
Browne’s Chop House!” exclaimed Jim.

“Nor anywhere else," added Sid.

“I‘ve often heard of this cooking over
a, camp-fire," remarked .Tim impressively,
forming a trio with Sid and Hornbill.
“but I i-ever imagined it could be any-
thing like this.”

“Only other time I ever saw it done,”
said Sid. “was when some of us fellows
went camping. It lasted two days. “’e
got kerosene on the ham, burned the
beans so they looked like beads on a jet
necklace, and one of the fellows got hit
by a snake. \Ye thought it was a. spot-
ted alder. but it proved to be only a.
garter changing its skin."

“YVell, I’ve known about the same kind
of thing in camp cooking, but I’ve heard
others land it to the skies and I never
belichd a word of it before,” enthused
Jim. “It‘s wonderful! And I don’t think
so only because I have an appetite, either.
\\'ho would ever think of eating the skin
to a baked Potato at a restaurant, except
some retired ranchman from Arizona?
But here I’m doing it. The under skin is
crisp and crackly and delicious. “'hy,
it’s a revelation! “'hat do you think of

sweet Corn cooked in its own tasty, (le—'

lectablc, dainty, delicate, gamey, tooth—
somc, appetiziug, lickcrish, delicate, ex—
quiSite, rich, luscious, ambrosial juices,
Mr. llornbill?”

“What: do I think of what?” gasped the
Brigadier General, choking on a. bit of
bacon. -

”I say, what do you think of it?”

“I think you’re tryin’ to air your learn-
in’, young man," splattered Hornbill, red
in the face and revengeful as a result of
the choking.

"No, no, I mean the sweet corn. TVhat's
your opinion of it?”

“Oh, fair to middlin’, nothin’ extry,”
allowed Hornbill with a sniff at the po-
tato and a lingering eye toward the open
stove where Mother Hubbard presided,
frying fish and Dork chops for the mass of
laborers, .lerusha's circle being only an
overflow affair. “I like it fair to mid-
dlin’, uothin’ extry.” he repeated. “But
be that as it may, a gal like Jerusha
hadn‘t ought to cook as well as this. It
oughter take more time. \Yhen she’s as
old as Mother Hubbard an’ has spoiled
as much stuff in the learnin’ of her art
why it seems to me it’ll be a hull lot
more beeOmin’ to my mind if she does
as well as she does now. But be that
as it may, you can’t——”

He stopped consciously in his flow of
reflective philosophy as Jerusha turned
her fire-kissed face up to him and quer-
ied: “Hasn’t \Vatts come yet?”

“No. Don’t know what’s got into him,”
replied Hornbill. lie gulped down guilt-
ily the last piece of potato he had been
mangling-and cried. ”IVatts!”

No answer came. .Ierusha, aroused by
his absence from the circle about the
fire, stood up and looked off to where
Mother Hubbard was feeding her hungry
laborers.

“Is Watts there?" she cried.

“No," the answer came from Oley, who
was assisting Mother Hubbard, with a.
huge aprOn about his waist.

“Here, Sid!” Jerusha cried, thrusting
the big coffee pot into his hands. “You-
pour it while I hunt up YVatts, and look
out for the cover. It’s hot!”

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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more
cousequence than the farm, and should be
first improved.”

 

GRANGE AIMS FOR 1913.

New officers have assumed their duties
in hundreds of our Granges. Many of
these are asking themselves the ques-
tions. “What is our Grange situation?
What do we need most? How can it be
attained? TVhat can I do to bring this
result about?”

These are just the- sort of questions ev-
ery officer ought to ask and. after finding
a clue, seek to work out a solution of the
situation.

One such inquiring officer thus states
the problem of his Grange as he sees it:
"Most of our members are getting old!-
a number of them .were charter members.
We need new blood and younger life or
the days of our Grange activity are 1111m-
bered. “7e have four young men; how
shall we get more?”

Now here is a conCIete example: there
are many similar one. To some Granges
the answer may seem simple. and should
be patterned after Ilo1are Greelm s f1-
mous remark, “The way to lesume is to
resume;" they would say to this inquirer,
“The way to get members is to gct mem—

 

bers." But this will not suffice; he de-
sires specific suggestions. ()11 general
principles we may safely say to a lec-

turer seeking such aid, something like
this:

M'ake the most of the young people you
have. Quietly put responsibility upon
them whenever you can. For instance,
assign a debate and appoint two of them
as leaders. Allow them to choose the
subject and their assistants. Help them
work up their points and create as much
interest and good-natured rivalry among
the entire membership as possible. An—
nounce an open program hour upon the
night of the debate and, if outsiders
come, see that they have a hearty social
time. as well as hear a program that is
worth while.

01', assign fifteen minutes or half an
hour of your program in advance to the
care of the young people you have. 'Ask
them to fill it in any way they choosew
with music, declamations, talks or stunts
Of fun—and suggest that they call upon
Other young people of the neighborhood.
In doing this, be: sure to ask “Jack” to
bring “Jill.” Encourage them to surprise
the Grange with a real treat in the time
allotted them, while you, on your part,
set about planning to receive them and
their friends as guests of honor for the
cvening.

In such ways as these you open the
privileges of the Grange to the young
men’s associates. yet not indiscriminately.
You thus put a premium upon member-
ship and such cordial overtures will not
long go unaccepted. One by one and
twos and more the young people will be
knocking at your doors. But you must
really want them. Be sincere. Re Will-
ing to forego, if need be, some long-ac-
customed Grange habits when you take
in a. body of fresh, vigorous young peo-
ple. Be glad, too, that you have done.
the best possible thing for your Grange.

JENN'E BUELL.

AMONG THE LIVE* GRANGES.

 

Woman’s Building at Hillsdale.#lt is re-
ported that l’lillsdale Grange and the lo-
111ona of that county are co- operating
with the \Vomen’s Congress in raising
$2,800 for the ercction of a woman‘ s
building on the county ’fair grounds. The
plan is to allow the Grange to use the
building for its meetings throughout the
year.

Cass County Pomona met at the court-
house in Cassopolis, Jan, 30, and had an
interesting program, after which officers
were- elected and installed for the ensu-
ing year as follows: Master, Fred Brady:
overseer. Harmon Coble; lecturer, Mrs.
Geo. Tolbert; steward. Wm. Wagner: as-
sistant steward, Leo Parker; chaplain,
J. W. Springsteen; treasurer. J. S. Green;
secretary, Mrs. \Vm. Wagner; gate keep-
‘er, G. H. Redfield; Pomona. Mrs. Harmon
Coble: Ceres, Mrs. Geo. Rickert; Flora,
Mrs. Henry Rine: lady assistant steward,
Elisabeth Hadden.

Pore Marquette Grange, of Mason coun-
ty, had an attendance of over M0! at its
installation exercises. The installimg oth-
(er was C. L. Honk who managed the
meeting in a way that. brought him many
11 ords of compliment.

COMING EVENTS.

 

Pomona Meetings...
Charlevoix Co., with Maple
Grange, Thursday, Feb 20.
Ingham Co., with Cedar Grange Sat-
urday, Feb. 22. Patriotic program
Fgengiee Co., with Flint Grange, Friday,
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Farmers’ Clubs

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

 

Associational 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.

WHAT THE LOCAL CLUBS ARE

DOING.

Columbia Club, Jackson County.—The
delegate from this Club reported the spe-
cial feature meetings held were an Aug-
ust picnic and a Thanksgiving meeting in
November. The roll call is suited to the
occasion and is of considerable interest
at each meeting. Also an annual oyster
supper is held. The Club has yearly pro-
grams, holds 12 meetings during the year
and collects annual dues of 25 cents for
each individual member.

Charleston Club—This Kalamazoo coun—
ty (‘lub was organized a little more than
a year ago and was reported by one Of
the delegates representing it at the! State
Association. to be in a prosperous and
growing condition. It is strictly a farm-
ers' organization and meets at the homes
of the members each month. The secre-
tary of the Club, who was also a dele-
gate, reported that there are 41) families
rehresented in the membership. The Club
was a success from the start and helped
in gctting an agricultural expert for Kal-
amazoo county. Monthly program-s are
prepared and in the summer a picnic sup-
pet‘ is served. while in the winter months
dinner is served. A junior club composed
of the boys and girls is an example of
the spccial feature work of this organi-
zation. At a recent meeting the Club had
the highway commissioner of the town-
ship present to advance plans for highway
improvement next spring, which were
discussed by the Club. this being an ex-
ample of the helpful community work un-
dertaken by this Club.

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

Will Hold Club institute—«The Salem
Farmers' Club gathered for their January
meeting at the pleasant home of the pres-
ident, G. ll. Thompson. A large number
were in attendance. The program con-
sisted of fine music, furnished by the
Ladies’ Quartette, of Lapham. Select
reading by W. C. Thompson. on “Accu—
racy in Small Matters.” A humorous reci-
tation by Bruce Rorabacher and discus-
siOns by the Club. The subject of parcels
post was first discussed, its rates, rules,
etc. also its manifeSt advantage of ex-
press. The problem of rendering clay
soil more arable and productive by the
use of lime, was then discussed. A large
number took part in these discussions. A
vote was taken as to how many would
like to have the county road system. Sub-
mitted again to the people". Vote showed

members in favor of submission. Several
new members were received. Club w11l
hold an institute in February. Closed

with music. 11, C. Thompson.

Give Prizes for School Work—The Farm-
ers’ Club of Texas township, Kalamazoo
1-,ounty held their legular meeting at the
home 01‘ Mr. and M1s. V. D. Lacey of
that township, on Tuesday Feb. 4. The
following program was given: Meeting
c1lled to otder by the president, Mrs.
Henry \\ alker, at 10:30 a m. The sub-
ject “The cause of general failures in
farming, ‘ was taken by Chas. liende1son,
and a general discussion followed. An
em-ellent paper. ”The, power of Music,”
by Mrs. Albert Why, was read, after
which a bountiful dinner was discussed.
The afternoon session opened with in-
strumental music by Miss Lenore L‘acey,
followed by reports of committee on ed-
ucational day. A prize offered for differ-
ent grides of school work one for best
cm 11 raised by boys and best jelly made
by girls and also for best embroidery
work done by ladies of the Club. The
subjcct of voting is being studied by the
ladies also The next meeting will be
hold at the Texas Church, on March 5,
when Jason Woodman, the Kalamazoo
county farm expert. will be present——
Mrs. Geo. Middleton, Cor, Sec.

A Chickempie Smash—The Cloverleaf
Farmers' (Hub. of Allegan county held its
regular meeting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Bushroc, Jan. 13- After the open-
ing exercises it was voted. to hold a.
chicken-pie social at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Weatherwax. After a good lit-
erary and musical prOgram the Club, led
by Bro Canfield. discussed the question,
“Would the straightening of Gun river
help the township?” a question of consid—
erable local inte1est. About '15 were
present at the Club social held at the
home of Mr and Mrs. Weatherwax, Fri-
day evening, Jan 24 A bountiful supper
was served, consisting of chicken-pie and
other good things After all were served
we were invited into another room where
games and music were enjoyed and at
a late hour all returned to their homes,
voting it a jolly affair.-—Hattie Shafer,

 
  

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