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VOL. CXL. No. 16. 2
Whole Number 3639.

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913.

   
 

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The Evolution of the Silo in

HILE the silo had its origin in

RR] Europe, the evolution of the mod-

ern silo with which all are so
familiar has “been a distinctly American
process. The first silos were simply deep
cellars or pits in which 'the green corn
Wasi‘packed and weighted down with a
covering of boards, straw and earth, or
some similar substance to exclude the air
and 5pack the silage together, as was
then thought necessary to prevent it
from Spoiling. But the labor of getting
the feed out of these pits was not a task
to appeal to American farmers, and had
it not been for the improvement of the
silo through a natural process of evolu-
tion, the silo would not be so common
an equipment upon the ayerage farm as
it is today, even if the advantages of
Silage as a succulent winter feed were as
well understood and as generally appre—
ciated as they now are.

It is interesting to note that the first
introduction of the silo into American
agriculture was by a Michigan man, it
being said upOn good authority that the
first silo in America was built in \Vayne
county, by Dr. Manley Miles, formerly of
the Michigan Agricultural College. Not-
withstanding that early introduction of
the silo into Michigan agriculture, the
growth of its popularity was slow for
many years. Thisfact was due partly to
a natural conservatism of the farmers
with regard to adopting a radically new
method of this kind for the storage of
valuable feeding stuffs until it had been
thoroughly tested out and demonstrated
to be an efiicient method, but perhaps to
an even greater degree to the imperfec-
tions and disadvantages of the earlier
types of silos with which we are fa-
miliar.

,The first silos to be constructed after
the idea of the pit in the ground was
abandoned were built above ground in
the same form as the old pit; that is to
say, they were square. in shape, generally
being constructed of lumber with a dou-
ble ceiling on the inside to make them
as air tight as practicable. They were
not as high as thOSe built today, which
fact, together with the square shape,
pievented the silage f1 om settling as com-
pactly as it does in the modern silo, and
notwithstanding the fact that the old
method of putting a

feeds was the chief factor in populariz-
ing the silo and stimulating the work of
progreSSch manufacturers and the ap—
plication of American inventive genius
to this problem.

One of the first essentials in the mod-
ern development of the silo was the de-
velopmen_t of machinery by which the
corn could be cut and elevated into the
silo. \\'ith the adoption of the above-
ground form of construction, the silage
cutter with an elevator attachment was
the first development, but the introduc-

terial available upon the farm and in a
crude way as compared with the modern
silo of this type. But to the 'manufac-
lurers belongs the credit for the devel-
opment of this most popular and useful
type of silo to its present day perfection,
with many exclusive features of value
and of material and workmanship which
insure a degree of permanency which,
with reasonable care, will extend beyond
the life time of the owner.

Silos of more permanent material were
also constructed rather early is the evo-

tion of blower elevators, which facilitatedlution of this farm necessity. Silos ol'

 

 

 

 

 

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the convenience in filling taller silos, with
the simultaneous development of the
round type'of silos, were factors which
may be considered as most important in
the evolution of the silo in America.
The first of the round silos were, like
the square ones, of home-made construc-
tion and generally with the double lin-
ing of lumber, but as this form of silo
was in reality nothing but a huge tank,
manufacturers of wooden tanks soon de-
veloped the stave silo. This form of silo
was also to some extent built out of-ma-

on Farm of C. R. Taylor, Oakland County.

stone and brick, and later of concrete,
were built, and where the foundations
were adequate and the workmanship good
some of these structures gave excellent
service. But of modern developments in
the use of permanent material for silo
bilding, none is more important than that
of the adaptation of vitrified hollow tile
to this use. Silos of hollow tile were
first bilt from ordinary building tile and
hooped like wooden silos. But here again
the manufacturers rose to the occasion
and brought out special tile for this pur—

America.

pose, adapted to the circular torm of
silos and with special provisions . for
doors. At one stage in the development
of this form of silo dependence was placed
upon the tensile strength of the vitrified
tile, but later steel reinforcement was ad-
ded in a manner to provide adequate, in-
surance against cracking or <preading of
the wallsvfrom the enormous pressure
brought to bmr on them through the
weight and settling of the silage. In com-
mon with the earlier forms of manufac-
tured silo<, this type of silo has increas-
cd in popularity since its introduction,
and is now favored by many who desire
to build for the greatest permanence. as
well a: for satisfaction in immediate
service.

Another form of permanent construc-
tiOn which found early favor among us-
ers of silos was the cement or concrete
silo. The principles of cement, reinforce-
ment. however, were not sufficiently well
understood to give these earlier struc-
lures the degree of permanency desired,
while the art of waterproofing the porous
cement was not generally applied and
silage did not keep uniformly well in
these structures. Later developments in
the, evolution of this class of silos are.
like those of the stave silos, due largely
to the enterprise of manufacturers who
have devised adequate. methods of rein-
forcement, the latest development of this
type of silo being secured in the, plaster-
ing of several enats of cement over a,
superstructure of steel, both inside and
outside. This makes a thin concrete silo
with steel reinforcement. which will car-
ry the entire load. In this silo the ce-
ment plaster is troweled down in such a
compact manner as to make it imper-
vious to‘both air and moisture. This
type of silo has the advantage over con-
crete silos of monolithic construction in
that the reinforcement is more ample and
evenly distributed, leaving no chance for
the silo to crack and settle from the
pressure exerted on it from the enormous
weight of the silage.

These steel cored silos are a modern
development in concrete construction, in
which the, universally accepted principle
of sufficient reinforcement to carry the
entire load is followed out; this essential
principle in concrete construction being

a logical outcome of

    
   
    
   
    
    
  
    
  
  
   
   
  
   
    
   
   
  
   
     
    
    
   
   
     
   
    
   
 

 

tight covering over the
silage and weighting it
down was commonly
practiced, the silage (lid
not keep uniformly well
and the percentage of
failures with the feed
were against the rapid
introduction of the silo.

So far the evolution
and introduction of the
silo was due to educa-
tors and progressive
farmers who were con-
tinually looking for
some means of increas-
ing the profits from
their farms by the in—
troduction of more im—
proved and up-tmdate
methods. But from this
time on the evolution of
the silo to its present
day perfection was
largely the work of en-
terprising manufactur-
ers rather than of edu-
cators and progressive
farmers, although the
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modern knowledge 0f
the low and unreliable
tensile strength of ce-
ment, notwithstanding
the enormous crushing
strain which it will re-
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Other types of silos
have been developed. in—
cluding a metal type,
which so far as we
know has not been in—
troduced into Michigan,
and other types of
home—made silos. in-
cluding the lath and
plastered silo, which is
perhaps most commonly
used of the home-con-
structed types in Mich-
igan. But so rapid has
been the development,
and so great the im-
provement of the man-
ufactured silos, or those
for which the material
is manufactured by
specialists in that line,
that, unless there is
”same special reason for
the building of some
other type, such as the

      
     
       
           
         
         
         
       
     
       
 

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availability of material for such con-
struction upon the farm, it is very doubt-
ful if it will pay the average farmer to
experiment with types of construction
With which he is not familiar. At least.
before breaking ground for a silo, it
would pay every farmer who contemplates
the erection of this‘near necessity of the
modern farm, to caréfully investigate the
advantages offered in these several types
of improved silos, of the manufactured
kind or kinds for which materials are
manufactured by specialists in this line,
as to» cost and satisfaction in use as well
as permanency, and the absence of risk
regarding their success.

After such an investigation if economic
reasons point to the advisability of erect-
ing a home-made silo, then careful con-
sideration should be given to the type
which local conditions suggest should be
built, and even though skilled labor may
not be necessary to the performance of
the greater part of the work, someone
who is familiar with the details of con-
struction of the type of silo which is to
be built should be employed to superin-
tend the work, to the end that costly
mistakes may not be made which will
result in a waste of valuable feed as Well
as the necessity for expensive repairs.

There are. however, certain essentials
of silo construction for which the builder
must himself provide, the most important
of which is the foundation. This should
be adequate in any event, and should be
preferably of concrete construction with
a sufficient depth and width of footing to
insure against settling from the weight
which will be placed upon it, or heaving
from the effect of the frosts getting un-
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not present the soil about the foundation
should be provided with artificial drain-
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stability.

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silo needed and to the availability of
needed material, such as gravel and sand
in case a silo of the more permanent type
is to be erected. There are. many factors
which enter into the consideration of the
silo problem which can be wisely solved
only in the light of local conditions, but
whether a silo is needed upon the farm
or not can no longer be considered to be
in the nature of a problem. The solu-
tion has long since been found in the
great economy of Silage, not only for
dairy cattle. but for feeding cattle and
sheep, and even horses as Well. The
problem is not, “Do we need a silo or
can we afford one upon our farm?" but
rather. “Can we afford to longer do with-
out this essential equipment?”

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a stage where we can make no mistake
in our selection, provided our part in the
matter of erection is well done. Proh—
ably more silos have been erected in
Michigan during the last year than in
any previous two years. if not more than
in the previous decade. and it is certain
that the proportion of farmers who come
to an appreciation of their need of this
farm equipment will increase more rap-
idly in years to come. until the farm
which is not so equipped will be a rare
exception. Hence the importance of con-
sidering this probelm seriOusly, at once
and from every angle.

DURABILITY OF THE LATH AND
PLASTERED SILO.

Please inform me in regard to the dur-
ability Of a silo built of 2x4 studding and
lathed and plastered on inside and out.
As we have timber on our land we think
that we can build one of this kind the

cheapest.
Allegan CO. I, N. M.

Six years ago last August I constructed
two such silos. The reasons for chooging
this kind were mainly three: A wind-
Storm had blown down enough elm tim-
ber to make the lath. There was plenty
of good gravel on the farm. They could
be built at that time with farm help cost-
ing less than $1.00 per day and extra day
labor at from $1.00 to $1.25 per day.. So
the cost of materials bought was about
$75 per silo and the labor cost about the
same.

Silo number one was 16% feet in diam-
eter and 35 feet high, with three feet
foundation wall and 32 feet superstruc-
ture. Two by two inch studding were
placed one foot apart on the foundation
wall and lathed inside and out with elm
lath, two to 20 feet long. The two-inch
space between the lath was filled with
concrete one to six, then plastered inside
and out with cement plaster one to two.
This construction proved to be a fail-
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to crack up and down. Examination

showed the lath to' be completely rotten
and the studding nearly so. So far we
havesimply plastered OVer the cracks on
the inside and the silage has kept fairly
well. To make it safe it, has been neces—
sary to hang old wagon and buggy tires

from top to bottom every foot or two

around the silo and hoop it from top to
bottom with wire fencing; and it should
have another coat of plaster on the out-
side to cover the metallic reinforcement.

Silo number two was 16% feet in diam-
eter and .40 feet high. The construction
was the same as in number one, except
that the two-inch air space between the
lath was not filled with concrete. So far
this silo has kept silage well, and has
been satisfactory, except that the outside
coat Of cement plaster has a tendency to
scale Off and has had to be patched some,
Think it will soon be necessary to cover
it with woven wire and another coat of
cement plaster on the outside.

Cement piasten seems to make an ex-
cellent lining for a silo. The curvature
seems to hold it firmly to the lath. The
acid in the silage slowly eats the cement
plaster, therefore it should receive a coat
of cement whitewash about every third
year. Cement plaster will scale off the
outside of the silo and never should be
used unless the wooden laths are first
covered with woven wire. We note from
the above experience that in the lath and
plastered silo an air spacc is absolutely
necessary, and a four-inch space would
be better than a two-inch space in my
silo. I think if an opening on the outside
were left at the bottom and top, so that
a current of air would continually pass
up between the lath they would last
longer. But probably the only absolutely
permanent concrete silo is the solid con-
crete wall with metallic reinforcement;
and the only objection I know of would
be that in very cold weather the silage
would freeze more than in a silo with an
air space in the wall.

Oakland Co. SUBSCRIBER.

SPRING WHEAT AND SPELTZ'FOR
SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.

I would like to know if speltz and
spring wheat can be successfully grown
in the southern row of counties in Mich-
igan. How much is sow of each kind of
grain per acre, and when should each
kind be sown? -

St.~.loseph CO. C. W. S.

In early days spring wheat was the only
variety grown but later on' it didn’t seem
to do as well as at first: No one seems
to be able to give the exact reason. Fin-
ally people found out that spring wheat
did not do nearly as well as winter
wheat, and this seems to be the experi-
ence all over the country. When the
country is new, when the soil is rich,
spring wheat does well, but as the coun-
try gets older, as it becomes deficient in
vegetable matter and it becomes in such
condition that it no longer seems to push
crops vigorously, then a slower growing
variety of winter wheat takes the place
of the spring wheat. This has been the
history of wheat all over this country.
Spring wheat used to do well in Ohio and
Indiana. It gradually worked farther
north until finally in Wisconsin and Min-
nesota and now in the Dakotas and far-
ther north in British Columbia spring
wheat is grown, but in the Dakotas it is
getting so that winter wheat is gradually
taking the place of spring wheat. I see
no reason why spring wheat wouldn’t do
just as Well in Michigan as it ever did if
the land was only in proper condition to
puSh the growth of the plant.

Vl'ith speltz the case is a little differ-
ent. Speltz will do well in almost any
place in Michigan at the present time if
the land is in any condition at all to raise
any crop. COLON C. LILLIE.

 

FARM NOTES.

 

Building the Concrete Block‘Slio.

I intend to build a cement block silo
this summer, 10x30 ft. Does it freeze
through a four-inch solid block quicker
than a six-inch hollow block? Which
makes the strongest wall for silo, four-
inch or six-inch blocks? How thick
must the foundation be and how deep in
the ground on sand? Does it need hoops
and about how far apart?

Allegan Co. H. A. L.

Silage will, of course, freeze more in a
solid wall silo than in one which has an
air space, whether built of hollow blocks
or a double wall with air space between.
Where solid bi0cks are used four-inch
blocks make a strong wall it properly
hooped or reinforced with steel wire laid
in the cement between the blocks. You
should use about as many hoops as you
would in a stave silo. or their equivalent
in reinforcement. A six-inch hollow block
would not be sufficiently thick for the
best results. Where one intends to build

‘a concrete or concrete block‘siio it will“;
be' found profitable to employ someone
to superintend the work who, is familiar
with this kind of construction. as it is
easy to make mistakes which will be diffi-
cult and costly to repair.
Buckwheat as a Crop for Green Manure.
Kindly give me your opinion about
sowing buckwheat. to be~turned under
as a fertilizer. I have been told that
potatoes planted in soil which has, been
renovated by plowing buckwheat under,
are sure to be scabby. Can you tell me
the reason why I can’t raise a good crop
of cats? Our soil is a sandy loam. Three
years ago I raised 26 bu. of cats per acre
and since then I can not raise 10 bu. I
have changed seed, thinking the fault lay
in that, but it did no good. I also sowed
them on good ground. PIOWed under a.
four-year-old meadow, planted to pota-
toes and the following year to cats, but
to no purpose. I sow two bushels of seed
to the acre as do most of my neighbors,
excepting one, and he SOWS one and a.
quarter to One and a half bushels. Which
is the proper amount? ’
Grand Traverse Co. J. S.
On land where one cannot be sure of
getting a catch of clover, buckwheat
makes an excellent catch crop for green
manuring purposes. It does not, like
clover, add any plant food to the soil
which it does not take from it, but it
will add considerable vegetable matter
and will bring up from the lower strata.
of the soil some available plant food in
the roots. As a beginning on worn land,
it is a good crop to use for this purpose.
The writer, however, knows nothing with
regard to the tendency to promote sea-b
in potatoes. "
ReaSOn for Failure of Oats. .
One reason why,a sandy soil does not
grow oats well is the fact that cats draw
very heavily upon the soil for moisture
during the period of their rapid growth
and the maturing of the grain. W'hen
an open soil of this kind becomes deplet-
ed in its content of humus it rapidly loses
its power to hold moisture and even
though there might be plenty of available
plant food in the soil the plants cannot
use it unless it is in solution and avail-
able in the form of soil moisture. The
plowing down of leguminous crops and
the growing of a short rotatiOn, plowing
the clover down the second year, will
tend to increase the humus content of
the soil. This, in turn, will increase its
power to hold moisture or a solution of
plant food.

SEEDING CLOVER WITH PEAS AND
OATS.

 

I have a. small field near barn we would
like to seed to clover this spring. Would
pcas andcats be good to sow on it or
would it be better to sow to barley? It
is corn stubble and in good condition.
Have raised peas on it. It is clay loam
and tiled. Would rather sow to peas if
they will be as good to seed with as
barley. 'Would it be better to plow or
dies it, or drag it up?

Branch Co. S. S. M.

Peas are not a good crop to use as a.
nurse crop with grass or clover. They
not only produce a very dense foliage
which shades the ground, especially when
they are mixed with oats, they combined
make a very dense shade, but the pea.
vines are weak and are liable to lodge
badly, and when they lodge badly they
are almost sure to smother out the elb-
ver. It would be much better to seed
with the oats alone, seeding one bushel
of oats to the acre, and leave the peas
out. Or barley is even better than oats
because barley don't have quite such a.
dense foliage as oats.

I don’t think it is necessary to plow
this ground if it is a corn stubble. If
you will disc it up or work it up with
a spring-tooth harrow so that you have
a good seed bed. If the corn stubble
bothers you, are in the way and are lia-
ble to be in the way in mowing, it would
not be Very expensive to rake these up
with a horse rake and draw them off
the field. I have done this many times.
You can do it then cheaper than you
-could plow the ground and then fit it.
One trouble in plowing the ground is,
that you have got to go to work and
thoroughly work it and pack it down to
get a good seed bed for grass or oats. It
is liable to be too loose. If you can work
up the surface soil and get it in good
tilth you Will have an ideal seed bed be-
cause for oats and grass you want it fine
and nice on top 'to a depth of two or
three inches and the balance of the soil
wants to be compact, otherwise your
plants will not get a good root hold.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

 

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.SHOULD DRAIN TILE BE LAID A LIT-

TLE APART AT THE ENDS TO
ALLOW WATER TO ENTER.

 

Thanks for your reply to my question
about tile draining in hardpan. I told the
neighbor whose drain was not a success
on this soil he might bring the tile up to
the top, pile some stone around it. and
drain off the surface water that way.
and he thought he would trv it. but your
way may be better. Please state
whether tile should be laid close togeth-
er, that is, endways. or slightly apart
so the water can get in and run off, for
it surely cannot penetrate the glazed
surface of the tile.

Oceana Co. J. A. H.

I have been thinking considerable about
this drainage proposition ever since I
received the first inquiry, and there is no
way that I can solve it in my mind. I
never saw any ground that you couldn’t
tile drain if you had an outlet at all, and
frankly, I don’t believe there is any. I
have one field that has a hardpan. You
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tar are plastered on the steel core or
reinforcement, which can be seen at the
top. The barber pole appearance is due
to the different times of plastering and
consequent difference in dryness of the
strips.

 

tile drains through that, cutting right
through the hardpan and putting in the
tile drains, and they work all right. I
have laid tile in beds of quieksand on the
creek ilats many times and we have no
trouble. You don’t have to put straw or
anything else over the ends of the tile
to keep the dirt from running in, but you
must have a decent fall. If you have
got a good fall for your tile when the
water enters the tile it washes what lit-
tle sediment gets in at first down
out of the tile. It goes out in the form
of roily water. In a short time the earth

becomes packed and channels open
through the dirt, so that no more runs
into the tile and they will last. nobody

knows how long, without ever filling up,
if they are laid on a true grade.

It would seem to me that the reason
why this tile drain did not work in drain-
ing the pond is for the same reason that
Horace Greeley’s ditch wouldn’t work. I
presume you all remember the story
abmit Horace Greeley, who was very
much interested in agriculture. He had
a pond that he wanted drained. Someone
advised him-to get a surveyor to survey
it out so that he would know just ex-
actly what he was doing. but he thought
there wasn’t any use and so he went to
work and dug the ditch from the river
into the pond, and everything was all
right, only when he got through the wat-
er ran the wrong way. Ilis pOnd was
lower than the river. .VVhere is the out-
let to this man's ditch? If it isn’t a
good one and if he hasn’t sufficient fall,
and he has got quicksand to lay it in,
his ditch won’t work. You have got to
get a good outlet, then you must have a
decent fall for the tile drain if you want
it to work in quicksand. I certainly
would not bring the tile up to the sur-
face of the ground and drain off the sur-
face water. That isn’t what we have
tile drains for. We want the tile drains
so that the water will soak down through
the soil and into the tile drain that.way.
It leaves the fertility in the soil. Where
you run the water from the surface into
a tile drain, why the water isn’t strain-
ed. as it were, by the soil and we might
as well have an open ditch.

Laying the Tile a Little Apart. ,

This is the wrong thing to do. Tile
want to be laid just as close together as
you can get them. You can’t get them

and ‘

THE MICHIGAN

so close together but what the water

'will enter between the title. Wat‘er
doesn’t run into the tile in a. stream. It
soaks down into the soil and circulates
into the tile slowly.
chance for it to get in at the ends of the
tile. Water doesn' run through the soil
in this way, but it goes down slowly. The
tile drain is working practically all the
while. One beauty of the tile drain is
that it takes off the surplus water, leaves
the pores of the soil open and then when

rains come these pores can absorb the‘

moisture that comes and then the excess
is gradually drained into the tile drains,
but it doesn’t go in there with‘a rush.
If you leave the tile open at the ends it
is liable to fill up. The dirt Will come in
and clog up your tile drains. It is the
wrong thing to do.
COLON C. LILLIE.

DESTRUCTION OF GROUND MOLES.

 

Barry County Subscriber’s question as
to how to get rid of ground moles brings
to the minds of the many readers of the
Michigan Farmer what a destructive lit-
tle animal the ground mole is. I would
like to ask Mr. Subscriber if he really
knows whether ground moles do really
eat corn or not. As to fixing up a poison
dope for the little destroyers, I believe
that is useless. I never have been able
to determine whether moles eat corn or
not and have about come to believe that
they do not. One thing we all do know;
take. the country over, year after year,
they destroy many acres of corn. My
experience is that they work worse in a
June grass sod than in any other sod. I
have seen patches of June grass sod lit-
erally chopped to pieces by the moles,
and take it after a few days of dry. hot
sunshine, the top of the ground would
lay up loose and dry as an ash bed. And
June grass sod is generally pested with
cutworms. The June grass seems to be
food to the worms, and I have about
come to believe that the grass and worms
are food for the moles, as the gras.‘ roots
and perhaps the worms are food for the
hog, so they are to the mole. If you
turn a lot of hogs into a field of June.
grass sod and they will completely dig it
up, will they not? A thought just strikes
me now, although I never have tried the
plan, that if any of the readers of The
Farmer have a patch of ground that the
hogs have been running on for a year
and they have been given their liberty.
that is, not having rings in their noses,
I would like, if they can, to have them
fit the ground up for corn and see if they
would be pestered with worms.

Now I know of no better way of get-
ting rid of the moles than was given to

 

 

 

 

 

Vitrified Hollow Clay Block Silo.
The spotted appearance of this silo is
due to the different angles at which the
light was reflected. from the glazed tile
when the photograph was taken. The
blocks are of an even brown color and
the silo is attractive in appearance.

 

the subscriber, and that is by trapping.
Moles have a runway, and if you have a
boy that isn’t able to do much, or a girl.
and never have tried trapping them, just
the very next time you go to town get
three or four traps and hunt up the
moles'. runway. Show the boy or girl
how to set the trap and you will soon
haVe Mr. Mole. I kn0w of a man who
caught seven in the same runway in one
day. I have a runway across the lanes
that the moles have used for six consec-
utive years.

Monroe Co. J. M. TUTTLE.

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dairy products in the most profitable way—only then can you take the
interest in your dairy that will make it a complete success. Make a comparison
by actual figures of your present dairy earnings and what they would be with a

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COW BARN QUESTIONS.

 

I have your letter of recent date with
recommendations for a cow barn. Iwant
to ask a few more questions about the
barn. How many feet do you allow be-
tween the rows of cows for driving in
with the spreader to take out the ma-
nure? Also. how wide and deep are the
gutters behind the cows? The model cow
stall that you speak of, what is it like
and how are the cows tied?

Minn. J. H. S.

The alley or driveway between the two
rows of cows in my cow stable is 11 feet.
There is a four-foot alley in front of each
row of cows on the outside, two feet for
the cement manger, then five and a half
feet from the front of the manger to the
gutter, the gutter is one foot wide. This
would make a total of 25 feet. The barn
is 36 feet wide, leaving 11 feet between
the two gutters for a driveway, and this
width answers the purpose very nicely.
If one's barn was 38 feet wide instead of
36, two feet more, it would do ,no harm
and it would be a little bit handler in
loading, .and yet these additional two feet
are not necessary.

The gutters are one foot wide and eight
inches deep. Some would prefer to have
them wider than this and some would
prefer to have them deeper. One can
suit his own fancy about that. Ours with
the model stall gutters are just simply
receptacles for holding manure until it
is hauled out, because the gutter has
nothing to do with the principle of the
model stall whatever.

The Model Stall.

The model stall differs essentially from
any other stall so far as I know. It has
a manger on the floor made out of ce-
ment for the eiisilage and grain and then
above that manger is a permanent hay
manger. Each stall is separated from
every other stall so that the cows cannot
tramp on the udders or teats of their
neighbors. The hay manger is peculiarly
constructed. It is narrow at the bottom,
only a few inchesand then it is made
out of slats slanting back towards the
cow at an angle of 45 degrees, coming as
high as the top of the manger in the
feeding alley. which is four and a half
feet. The philosophy of this is that when
the cow eats hay she has to stand back
in her stall, thus keeping the stall clean.
\Vhen she is eating her ensilage and
grain we noiice where she stands with
her hind feet and then put a 2x4 up
edgewise juSt across the front of her
hind feet. and if the length of the animal
and the position of the 2x4 are attended
to carefully, it will be found that the
manure will not be tracked up on the

cow’s bed.
Now this is how the stall works out.
The cow can eat hay out of the upper

manger only when she stands back, and
when she lies down she has got to step
up and lie on this bed just in front of
the 2x4, 1. 9.. between the 2x4 and the
cement manger. This space gradually
fills up with bedding so that the 00w
has a bed four inches deep to lie on and
keeps her off from the cement floor.
This arrangement is also a ‘great sav-
ing of bedding. When you have cows in
stanchions the bedding is constantly
working out into the gutter. With the
model stall the bedding expense can be

reduced to a minimum. The cow can
be tied in any way that the owner
wishes. You can use a halter, or you

can use a strap around the neck, or you
can use common hitching chains and have
them stapled to the sides of the stalls or
the front of the stall. or wherever you
choose. In fact. you can tie the cow so
as to give her all the liberty a cow can
have and still keep her confined in the
barn and yet she will keep clean because
when she lies down she must step up and
lie on this platform which is kept clean.

ARE HOLSTEIN CATTLE EVER RED
IN COLOR?

I am writing you for information about
Holstein cattle. Are they ever red? I
bought two cows last February that were
represented to be bred to registered bull.
The calves are both red. The cows are
black except some White under body and

on legs.
Newaygo Co. E. F. B.
Holstein cattle are spotted, usually
black and white. Sometimes, however,

they are red and white. I am told there
are a, number of herds in Holland, the
home of these cattle, that are red and
white. Even some breeders there prefer‘
red and white to black and white, but

 

.place,

APRHJ 3.9.. 1913
the great majority of Hoistejns are bleak
and white.
do not approve .of red in the place of
black. As a matter of fact, I, think that
in this country Holstelns that have red
on them are not eligible to registration
in the herd book. At least, I have been
told that. But. of course, this is only a
fancy. It simply means that the breed-
ers are trying to eliminate the red color
entirely in this country, which is all well
enough if they choose to do so, and the
only way to stop it would be to put re-
strictions upon the registration of Hol-
steins which have red color. Neverthe-
less if you read and study the history of
this breed you will find out that Holstelns
have a right to have red once in a while
in the place of black, because it was
one of the original colors of the breed.

But when you come down to have an
animal entirely red or entirely black, I
never heard of it. and it certainly would
be objectionable, to say the least. You
do not say that your cows are registered
Holsteins. If they are not, then you may
expect almost any kind of color once in
a while. If your cows are grade cows
and almost entirely black and you breed
them to a. Holstein bull, even though the
bull is pure-bred, your cows of mixed
breeding may produce calves thatdo not
have the typical Holstein markings, be-
cause if in their ancestors you had red
cattle, which would be quite liable. this
character would be just as liable to be
transmitted as any other character. Pos-
sibly not as liable, because the Holsteins
are exceedingly well-bred and their char-
acters generally predominate’“when they
are bred to cattle of miscellaneous breed-
mg.

 

GRASS TO SEED WITH OATS TO PRO-
VIDE PASTURE AFTER OAT
HARVEST.

Will you please advise me as to what
kind of grass seed can I sow 'with oats
that will make good pasture for cows af-
ter harvest? ‘

St. Joseph Co. F. T.

One cannotmbe sure of a good pasture
by seeding any kind of grass with cats
this spring and then take off a crop 01’
outs. The crop of oats is removed dur-
ing the dry part of the summer and us-
less there are very favorable conditions
we cannot expect to have very much
pasture“ on that field for that season.
Pasture is something that takes quite a.
little time to become established. How-
ever, if the season is favorable one can
get considerable feed. There is nothing
better than common red clover With rape
mixed with it. If common red clover and
rape were sown alone on this field this
spring without oats one could be sure of
a pretty good supply of cow feed late in
the season, but, of course, by sowing
oats the land is so completely occupied
the fore part of the season as to largely
use up the moisture and some of the
plant food, and then when the dry weath-
er comes and yOu harvest the oats the
other plants have a very poor chance for
a vigorous growth unless there is an
exceedingly well distributed amount of
rainfall. If this is so then the clover
and the rape pasture will come on and
in some years will make a fine pasture
for all kinds of stock in the latter part
of the season.

m

 

Will you kindly advise me in regard
to the best kind of silo to erect. I am
quite favorably impressed with the looks
of the vitrified tile silo.

Shiawassee Co. A. S. P.

The indestructible silo made out of
vitrified hollow clay blocks is undoubted-
ly a splendid silo. I dont’ see how it
could be bettered. The first’cost of it
may be more than some other kinds of
silos but it will be a permanent invest-
ment as long as one cares for a silo. On
the other hand, most all silos will last
a long time. A. good modern stave silo
will last longer than the life-time of a
man and any of the cement block silos
that are plastered on the inside, or the
grout silos, or the lath and plastered silo,
are also permanent structures and I
shOuld let the price settle the kind that
I would build, because they are all good.

 

Don’t turn the cows out to pasture too
early this spring. Wait until the grass
gets from~four to six inches high. When
the grass first begins to grow it is, of
course, quite succulent and watery and
the cows .better be kept off until it makes
a good start. Then, again, if you don’t
pasture the grass too close in the first
it will last longer in the summer
time. There is nothing worse for a pas-
ture than to pasture it too close real
early in the spring.

 

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APRIL'im, 19'13‘5. ' '3“

In Michigan practically every summer
has its dry periods of more or less pro-
tracted duration. The cows dry up and
the milk checks become small. Most
dairymen annually resolve that they will
provide againstl these periods in the com-
ing year, but when the drouth appears
again they are usually found unprepared,
-—alas, for the strength of human resolu-
tion! A few, however, are profiting by
the experience and they have insured
themSelves against further loss by build-
ing and filling a Summer silo that they
may have ensilage at hand when the
pastures fail.

I have about concluded that the sum-
mer dairy is a. bothersome proposition.
There is enough to do. on a farm in the
Summer months without milking a large
number of cows after finishing a hard
day’s‘ work. A further burden is added

 

 

 

 

Stave Silo on Farm of J. G. Johnson, of thick.

Kent County.
An excellent illustration of this popular
type of silo, which is perhaps more com-
mon than any other in Michigan.

 

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The summer silo is a sure way out.
We fill it when the corn is at its best;
and so we get the largest possible
amount of feed from a. given area. The
ensilagc is succulent, and the COWS will
eat it with a relish. It is right at the
barn where we can get it with the least
trouble when we are too busy to go to
the. field after a. soiling crop. There are

a good many men with small herds of

cows who do not feel able to have two
silos, right at the beginning. and there
are other men who have silos, but are
not as yet, sufficiently convinced of the
value of ensilage as a summer feed, to
induce them to build others at once.

If every man who has a. silo, would
put up a little more ensilage than he will
need during the winter, and save it
until the dry weather comes on, he
would be able thus to test the worth of
ensilage as a summer feed.

Those who are. to erect silos. in the

future, should build them high and not

t'oo large. in diameter. Forty feet is not
a bit too high for a silo. and sometimes
50 feet is better. Ensilage spoils much
faster in summer than in cold weather,
and so the silo designed for summer
feeding, should be small in diameter,
unless the herd is large. The higher the
silo, the more firmly the corn is packed
and the better it will keep. A. small
dairyman with only eight or ten cows,
having a silo ten feet in diameter, and
40 or 45 feet high, should have several
feet left in the: spring. and if he will
Stop feeding after the grass gets good.
and not re-open the silo until pastures
are short in July, he will find those few
feet of ensilage. coming to him just “like
money from home.” The writer has had
the experience, and he knows.

But many of us on small farms, hardly
have the requisite corn to fill one silo.

and we are wondering where the. stuff is

to come from to fill two. If we make a.
wise use of the, stable. manure. we shall

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soon grow better corn than we have in‘
the paSt, and some of us need to grow a‘

larger variety. \l'e should not

but we should plant a larger sort than,
much of the corn that is ordinarily grown‘

in this part of the state.
And then, too, we should plant it quite
“'0. are going to get the value of

the stalks when we put them in the silo.i

and so when we plant a large kind of
corn, and plant it thick, we shall get: an
increased tonnage, and preserve the food

by caring for the calves, which, if born value it contains,

in the spring demand attention from the
already overworked farmer.

011 the other hand. the winter dairy variety.

distributes the work 0f the. dairy farmer
to his advantage. In the summer time
when his crops need every bit of labor
available he is relieved to a large degree
of the attention demanded by cows in a.
full flow of milk. Vthn his crops are
cared for the winter dairy furnishes him
with an indoor Job throughout the cold
months and he has time to look after the
details of feeding and caringr for the
cows consistent with the best practices
along this line.

\Vhile it has not been absolutely proven
yet, there is a general opinion that cows
which freshen in the fall will give a.
larger annual output of milk that those
freshening in the spring. ’J‘hoso (-tillllllg
in in the fall. if properly fed will give
good mcsses during the winter and then
when turned out upon fresh grass in the
spring they will be. stimulated to con—
tinue to do good work until within two
or three months of the time to rcfrcshen.
Spring freshening cows are frequently
checked in their flow of milk by summer
droughts after which it is difficult, if
not impossible, to bring them back to
their normal flow. -

Of course, the winter dairy will not be
dry in July, but the calves will be out
of the way, and the milking will not take
so long, and all in all. the work will
prove considerably lighter. than it would
be if the COWS were in full flow of milk,
and we had to feed the calves also.

'\\'e hardly feel like cutting green feed
for a lot of cows after We have finished
our day’s work in the field, though if
we have a quantity of peas and oats near
the barn it is not so hard after all. But
the peas soon get hard, and if we begin
on the fodder corn too soon, it is worth
but little as it is largely water until af-
ter the ears have formed. “'e can feed
hay but we seldom do this, and, in fact,
the mogt of us ‘allow the cows to pick
short grass in the failing pastures, while
the milk grows less and less, and we lay
our trouble to the flies.

VVliile We advise a larger corn we, must
not plant a col‘n that is too late. Any
however, that will get to the
state where. the cars are well glazed, will
answer our purpose.

After feeding ensilage for a summer or
two, we shall be able. to settle. the mat-
ter once for all, in favor of the summer
silo. and then by planting a large kind
of corn, and by making the most of the
stable manure, and growing better and
better crops in consequence. we shall find
a herd of good dairy cows will add great-
ly to the profits of the farm. and enable
us to keep it in much better condition
than we could have done had we gone on
farming in the ordinary way.

Occana Co. \V. F. TAYLOR.

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Don’t licglect to plant enough corn for
silage. purposes this spring so that this
fall you can but up a sufficient amount
of silage to last your cows the entire

year. l’lant' more. than enough to last
then] through the winter until grass
grows next spring. liave a sufficient

amount left in the silo so that you can
fer-d them just as soon as the pasture
fails in the. summer time. Then, if you
forget to plant the fodder corn it will
make no particular difference. You can’t

make any better money than to plant a '

sufficient amount of corn so that you can
put up silage enough to last your cows
every day in the year when they haven’t
got good pasture.

Keep the cows in the barn nights until
the weather becomes warm and settled.
Don’t turn them out when the ground is
too cold or too damp.

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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.

 

Cull Beans as a Hog Feed.

I would like to know the feeding value
of cull beans and rye for hogs on clover
pasture; beans and rye boiled together
at the rate of 100 lbs. of beans to one
bushel of rye. 01‘ would it be better to
have the rye ground?

Isabella Co. ~ R. D.

Cull beans cannot be figured to have
as high a feeding value as corn for pigs
on clover posture, since corn and clover
pasture would make a very wellbalanced
ration. The beans will have a larger
percentage of protein than corn, but when
fed in connection with clover pasture
this would not give them an added val—
ue, while the cost of cooking must be
considered. However, cull beans and rye
mixed, as suggested, would make a very
good pig feed where the hogs are run-
ning on clover pasture. It would be bet-
ter, in the writer’s opinion, to grind the
rye and mix the meal with the cooked
beans, making a thick slop of same for
the hogs. If corn is available it would
be a cheaper feed to use than rye in
connection with the beans as there is
about 10 cents per bushel difference in
the market price of these two grains at
the present time. Howavcr, if the rye
must be sold and com purchased the
transaction would consume the most of
‘ this difference in price. so it would prob-
ably be just as well to feed the rye.
Other Grains to Feed with Beans to Hogs.

I have a quantity of cull bcans that I
want to feed to hogs. “hat, in your
judgment. should be fed with them. in
order to make a more. balance-d ration?

Calhoun Co. H. H. V.

Something would depend upon the age
of the hogs, the cost of beans and the
availability of other feeds. Hogs can be
fattcncd successfully on cooked cull beans
alone, but at the present price of corn.
this grain would, in the writer‘s opinion,
be a valuable addition to the ration and
make it more palatable, if not bctter bal—
anced. For hogs that are well grown and
are being l‘attened. cooked cull beans and
corn would make a very satisfactory ra—
tion. For younger hogs some middlings
would add efficiency to the ration.

Succulency in Sow’s Ration.

Last week‘s Farmer reminds us thatin
feedingr a brood sow, volume and succu—
Icnce is necessary. as wcll as a proper
proportion of food clcmcnts. ls volume
and succulcnce obtaiucd by fccdingplcnty
of skim—milk? SUBSCRIBER.

“'ith regard to the bulk and succulency.
I do not think that the Skim-milk would
answer the purpose. Skim-milk is a
splendid food as a part of the ration, but
it is an unbalanced ration, being too nar-
row. Of course, it is bulky but the bulk
doesn’t last for any considerable length
of time. It is like drinking water when
We feel hungry. The water fills up and
satiSfies but only for a short time. And
so the brood sow wants some other kind
of food containing a certain portion of
fiber in it to properly distcnd the inteS-

 

 

 

tines and then a. succulent food, like
roots, potatoes, green clover, alfalfa or

rape, etc., keeps the tract in proper con-
dition. These foods furnish bulk as well
as succulency.

- The Hogpen Problem.

The shed roof and curtain front con-
struction of poultry houses appears to be
successful. \\'ould this~ some system of
construction be applicable to bog house
construction? My idea is to have enough
gluxs to allow the sunshine to reach the
back wall or nearly so, and enough mus-
lin curtained windows to thoroughly ven-
tilate and the general plan of the house
such that there would be no drafts.

Kent C0. 1). E. XV.

There _is no doubt that better ventila-
tion is needed in many hogpenS, but, in
the wi‘itcr's opinion, adequate ventilation
could better be secured by the use of the
King system in the larger pens than by
_the use of muslin windows, although
these would undoubtedly be superior to
no ventilation or inadequate ventilation.
It‘ is, however, coming to be a more gen-
eral opinion among hog breeder-s that
the small portable hogpen is better suit-
ed to the needs of the average farmer
than the larger and more expensive
buildings in which many animals are
housed. The. writer has used a building
of this kind in the housing of a litter of
fall pigs during the winter with ap-
parently better results than Where they
were housed in the permanent hogpcn.
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,‘way at the top so as to admit air, but

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now contemplating the conversion of the
permanent hopgen into two good-sized
feeding pens or floors, with a view to
housing the hogs in conveniently located
small lots adjacent in portable hogpéns
of the A type, built with good tight
board floors, and located at some little
distance from the feeding pens with the
idea of promoting a. desirable degree 0f
exercise for the pigs. We have never
seen a. hogpen built on the plan suggest-
ed in this inquiry SO cannot speak from
experience with regard to its practica-
bility or desirability. If any of Oui'read-
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of construction, particularly with the use
of muslin covered Windows for the hog-
pen we would be glad to hear from them.

 

LEARNING THE CALF TO DRINK.

 

 

After the calf has been with the cow
two or three days, or until it has be-
come strong, it is best to take it away
from the ‘cow and tie it up with a rope
three or four feet long. The calf may
struggle a little at first, but it will soon
get used to being tied and will cease
struggling. When the calf has been kept:
from the cow long enough to become
quite hungry, take a clean pail and draw
a few quarts of milk from the mother;
then step in front of the calf, and after
dipping one hand in the milk insert one
finger in the culf‘s mouth and gradually
back up until the calf has reached the
end of his rope, which will naturally pull
his head down so it will be an easy mat—
ter for him to follow the finger into the
milk in the pail held in front. A few
lessons in this way will soon learn almost:
any calf to drink, at least such has been
the experience of the writer. To get
ustride of the calf and force his head
down into the pail is contrary to nature
and often results in the loss of much pa-
tience and perhaps all the milk.

Ottawa Co. JOHN JACKSON.

 

 

STEERS NOT DOPNG WELL.

 

I would like your opinion on the feed-
ing of 13 head of cattle averaging 830 lbs,
They have all they will cut and that is
12 lbs. of corn silage, 1 lb. corn meal On
it at each fccd twice a day: also corn in
bundle and all the clover hay they will
cut once-a day. Their bowels are quite
loose and they do not put on fat or look
good. \Vhere is my miStake in feeding.
and what feed could I buy that would
be better than the meal, as I llflVt" to buy
it? \Vould.thcrc be such a. thing as my
Silage being too sour. as it was very wet
when put in the silo last fall? Silo is
cement. Last season I fed the Sumc
feeds to my cattle and they did fine and

St. Clair Cr). J. 1‘.

Of course. it is practically impossible
to give a very satisfactory answer to a
condition of this sort when one hasn’t an
opportunity to study it somewhat in de-
tail. I would venture an opinion. how-
ever. that the probability is that the corn
Silage is not of the best. As J. P. says,
the corn was-very wet. There wasn't dry
weather enough last fall to properly mu-
ture corn, anyway. I don’t think cu-
silage is as good this year as it usually
is. I am positive that mine is not. And
I think thl would have something to do
with it. Then again, I don't believe that
hay, on the average, is as nutritious and
as palatable as it is some years, because
there was too much moisture lust year.
I think all of these have a bearing and
tend to produce rather unfavorable rc<
sults in the feeding either of these cattle
or dairy cows

I believe that J, P. would find that he
would get better results if he would feed
a little cottonseed meal. I don't think
he is feeding enough protein in this ra-
tion. especially as long as his steers are.
not eating a Vcry heavy feed of clove!“
hay. Cottonseed meal being rather con-
stipating will tend to correct the loose-
ness of the bowels also, and will furnish
protein to help balance up the ration.

COLON C. LILLIE.

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STORY OF THE BREEDS.
Brown Swigs Cattle.
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mation about the Brown Swiss breed of

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caiitigona Co. E. V. W.

The Brown Swiss is one of two distinct
breeds of cattle which originated in Swit-
zerland; This breed, the Brown Schwyt-
zer, as they are there known, originated
in the Canton of Schwytz but is now
common not only throughout Switzerland
but has becn introduced into many other
countries, including the United States.
This breed has been refined by centuries
of careful and intelligent breeding and is
characterized by a uniformity which is
the result of a long period of selection.
This breed of cattle is in the dual pur-
pose class, being excellent dairy animals
and of good size, with fair beef quali-
ties. They stand high in favor in many
European countries to which they have
been exported, particularly Germany,
Russia and Italy.

The first importation of the breed was
made into the United States in 1869. Since
that date many importations have been
made, eSpecially since 1880, in which year

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and if he had been fat he would have
easily weighed 600 lbs. I understand the
fiaxseed, ground, is better than the oil-
meal but I have never tried it. To my
notion, the water, With separated milk, is

a great help to the calf’s digestive
organs.
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LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

Reports from the south regarding the
spring crop of lambs in Virginia, Ken-
tucky and Tennessee have been conflict-
ing, some statements being that fewer
would be born than uSual, but other re-
ports claim that the crop will exceed that
of last year; Fortunately for this im-
portant industry, favorable weather has
prevailed this season, and late reports
say that by the time the lambs are ready
for the market they are expected to be
in excellent killing condition. Marketing
is expected to begin during May, and by
the first of June the movement should be
on a large scale. Predictions have been
made recently by well-informed men in
the sheep trade that the July and August
market for western lambs will be an
extremely animated one and that sales
will be made at a range of from $7.50fd‘
8.50 per 100 lbs. That sheepmen will
make strong efforts to secure as many
for feeders as possible may be taken for
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Brown Swiss Cattle in their Native Country of Switzerland.

the American Swiss Cattle Breeders’ As-
sociation was formed. They are well
distributed throughout the country, al-
though not as numerous as individuals
of the special purpose dairy breeds.

As above noted, they are in the dual
purpose class, of medium to rather large
size, the standard weight of cows of this
breed in Switzerland being put at 1,200
to 1,300 pounds each. Theyavcrage well
in dairy quality and are fair beef pro-
ducers, although not noted for early ma-
turing qualities. They are good grazers,
and, in fact, are excellent general pur-
pose cattle, which fact has contributed
to their popularity in sections where they
are most numerous. Their weakest point
may be considered a tendency toward
coarseness, especially of bone, although
many individuals show much quality. As
Compared with Shorthorns they are less
valuable as beef producers. but more
uniformly good milkers. Thus in their
class as dual purpose cattle, they may be
considercd relatively strong in average
dairy quality as compared with this best
known of general purpose breeds, but not
as valuable from the ‘standpoint of beef
production.

 

RAISING CALVES 0N SEPARATOR
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I have noticed a great many inquiries
in the Michigan Farmer of late regarding
raising calves on separator m‘ilk, so I
thought 1 would give my experience in
raising a grade Durham calf on separat-
ed milk.

I fed this calf four quarts of fresh milk
twice a day for the first two weeks, then
I gave him two quarts of fresh milk and
three quarts of separated milk, with
about a dessertspoonful of oil meal
(cooked to a jelly) twice a day for three
weeks. From then on till he was five
months old, I gave him five quarts of
separated milk and one quart of water,
and gradually increased the oil meal un-
til he was getting three tablespoonfuls
twice daily. He had good grass until
he was five months old. “'hen I put
him on winter feed. I gave him a quart
of ground feed, the same as was given
milch cows, twice a day, and what mixed
hay and corn fodder he would eat clean.
When this calf was a couple of days less
than nine months old be weighed 525 lbs.

9 a,

to make the lambs in good killing condi-
tion before marketing, and this will
doubtless be done very extensively unless
conditions should be unfavorable. The
past winter season saw unusually small
feeding operations in the middle western
stateS, former sheepmen being afraid of
the high prices asked for feeding stock,
but the men who had the courage to re-
main in the business made plenty of mon-
cy, as the rise in fat stock far more than
made, good the dcarncss of the feeders at
the start. while the abundance and cheap-
11css of feed helped out womlerfully. By
the middle of February most of the west-
ern lambs that were. fattencd in the Iowa,
Jilinois and Missouri corn fields were mar-
keted, and since then the market has re-
lied largely on Colorado for supplies, with
Montana and ldaho doing considerable
hay feeding, while about 150,000 head
were finished on grain near Chicago at
feeding stations. The stockmen in those
states are, finding that alfalfa hay fed to
sheep and lambs pays much better than
when shipped out of the state. Recent
reports regarding lambing in ldaho state
that more lambs were dropped under cov-
er than ever before, and early marketing
is expected. Colorado sheepmon state
that they have greatly profited from the
winter‘s opt-rations, and many of them
received from $8.806I'925 per 100 lbs. for
finished lambs they had put in the pre-
vious fall at costs of from $6006.25, freight
paid to the river. Others have sold at
$8.40@8.60, and they, too, made substan-
tial profits.

'\\’arm, spring weather has put in an
appearance, and this should serve to re-
mind stockmen that as the scaon ad-
vances the. demand for heavy cuts of beef
will naturally become smaller than ever.
\\'arm weather always creates a smaller
demand for heavy beef, the average con-
sumer turning to the lighter cuts, and
this year such discrimination may be ex-
pected to be even more than ordinarily,
because of the unusual dearness of all
descriptionsoof beef. Hence, stockmen
should market their heavy cattle at their
earliest convenience, retaining only im-
mature stock requiring a longer period
for fattening.

President A. L. McFaddin of the Texas
Cattle laiSerS’ Association, stated re.-
cently that there are in Argentina 29,-
000,000 head of cattle and in Brazil 25,-
000,000. American packers have in Bu-
enos Aires scven large killing plants with
a killing capacity of 7,800 steers daily. or
2 340, 000 head annually. This applies only
tti dressed beef, the canners being in ad-
dition. He added that the packers of the
bnited States have encouraged the cattle
industry in Argentian and other South
American countries, the duty placed by
this country on feoregn meat being one
and a half cents per pound.

IMMEDIATE ACTION IS BEST.
Turn to pages 510 and 511, read the
announcement there and act at once.

 

 

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This rat destroyed over one dollar’s worth of property

last year. Every other member of his tribe did as
well. How much disease they Spread no one can tell.

The farmer is one of the worst sufferers from their
depredations. They make his corn crib their head—
quarters; they burrow through his silage and ruin it;
they gnaw through the floors of his barn, granary and.
poultry house; they hide under his board walks or
wooden floors or in his cellar.

There is only one effective way to stop the rat. Build
of concrete. Rats cannot gnaw through or climb up
concrete. There is no nesting place for them under
concrete floors. Any structure built of concrete is
proof against them.

When you build of concrete always specify

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He looks and feels better. does
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Insist on having the"Stewart."
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BRUCE W. BR

 

—Year aroundp layers. Fans 31
cm: per 15 Dng r160 3500 1100.
WN. R. 0. 3p Mayville. Mich.

—trom prize winnin stock'
5%0_ white egg strai n.
32. 33 e 32. 75.1493 Satisfaction guaraneg
11133 BY H0 NING. Elkhart. Indiana.

ARRED ROCKS. B. C. Reds. We still have a few
1100 ood Red Coekerels for sale 31232831606 Efislor
hatc ing. OSTRANDER BROS. orley. 10h.
CHICKS—We ship thousands.diflerent varieties.

prices r1 ht. New booklet just out. free.
FREEPORT HATCH RY. Box12. Freeport. Mich
RIZE WINNING PARTRIIDQE WYANDOTTES

Stock for sale. Eg or 15. 87 per 1(1)
B. HAMILTON. R. $0.“ 3. bgurgis. M1ohigan'

COBKERELS Hill SALE-3‘33. Wilforiirfia him:

Wyandottes 31 each. Also eggs for hatchingfll} for 15.
84 per 100. C. D. STUART. Riverside. ichigan

CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTON

E 33—15 four and pens.send for Mating list. MRS
“FELIS ROUGE Pine Crest Farm. Royal Oak. Mich.

EGGS BARRED ROCKS—31.3.1: “3395333321?

W. 0. COFFMAN, R. No. 6. Benton Harbor. Mich.

Indian liunnor liucliEg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EGGS—Barred Rock. WhiteWyandotte. .SilverSpangied
Eamburgs LiDght Brah ma. 31 settings 5012110
ED .131 SHOP. Lake Odessa. Mich.

settings. Mrs.
E gaday Barred Rocks.i’.’.?.§‘. stints“

per 15. Eggaday Poultry Ranch. Marshall. Mich.

 

E E —-Barred Rock. first few mated with ckls.
figs. ggsdirect from Bradley Bros. .33 per 13. Utility
fleck. $2 per 1.). A.A .TPA ULLO. Deokerville. Mich.

FOR SALE- -Eggs from prize winning R. C.R. 1. Reds. 31 50 per 15,
Eggs from standard bred town «‘1 white 1nd. Runner Ducks
white eggs strain. 31. 50per l3. Coy G. Brumm. Nashville. Mich.

ILVER LACED. golden and whiteWy andottes. Eggs
S for hatching at reasonable prices; send for circular.

Browning s Wyandotte Farm .30. Portland. Mich.

 

 

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Fairbanks-Morse
Eclipn Engines

"1:100 Sizes:""" m “rowing:

A pint of gasoline will run
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hour and pump over 1000
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feet head. Adapted to run-
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Handy 'Reliable
Low Priced
As simple as it is possible
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," Manufactured 1n
our immense fac-
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Large. dust-proof
bearings. Thorough
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No.2 Eclipse Engine is twice as powerful
as No. 1. Recommended for deep well pump~
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quantity of water desired in 24 hours and
we will send catalog No. FR 601

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Chicago Detroit

Fairbanks Scales. Oil and Gasoline Engines. Pumps. Vlaiai‘

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8.0. R. R. COCKERELS FOR SALE—3.5591351,

Elmer Smith. R. 2. Box 52. Redford. Mich.

8. ii. I. Minorca Cookerols and I’. 0. Fall Pigs.

Satisfaction guaranteed. R. W. Mills. Saline. Mich.

Prize Winnings Barred Rock R. I. Reds. Mam-

moth Pekin and I. Runner ducks.
Stock for sale. Eg 1.32. 33. per set. Utility $5 per 1“).

 

 

 

EMWOO ODFAR .SR. R. No. 13.Grand Rapids. Mich

1.50 1."
Pure Brod Parlridge Wyandolio Eggs 32:7 50 ,2?an
A. C. FREEMAN. 219 Oak St. lpsilanti.Miri1igiin

 

ORPINGTONSWAN winter layers and money
makers on the f.1rm.E{rgs

from record layers Ruffiand W h itos $2 for Lil) 36 for 00.

BROUKDALE ORPING l‘ON ll Alibi, llillsdaie. Mich.

 

OLUMBIA Wy.andcttes W innersat Chicago. Grand
Rapids. South Bend and St Jose h. Stock andeggs.
RICHARD SAWYER, Benton arbor. Michigan

AK KNOLL POULTRY~ Silver and Partridge
Wyandottes and Ind Runner Ducks. Eggs lor
sale. E. H. &J.A COLLAR. Coopersvillo, Mlkhlglm

LY MOTH ROCK EGGS FOR SALE. Good winter
layers 15 for one dollar. 50 for two dollars.
IYIRS. ARTHUR L. GREEN. Goodrich. Michigan.

 

 

 

05E COMB BROWN LEGHORNS from Mad. Square Gardm
winners. eggs and day—old chicks our 5 eciallv. Also M11111.
Pekin Duck eggs. Claudia Bette. illsdrlle. Mich.

 

TANDARD BRED POULTRY R I. REDS either comb. Show

quality eggs $2 per 15. Fancy $2 per 30. Runner a Roucn
duck eggs $1. 50 per 12. At. geese eggs $2. 50 per 5 All mailed
free to you Mihc . do 1.1t seed com 32 poi bus.
FRENCH FRUIT A: POCLTR1 FARM. Lndington Michigan.

RITE ROCK,‘4 1 (‘WHITE LEGHORN. BLACK
Spanish and Indian Runner duck eggs. 15. 31. 25;
30. $2; 5033; 1.00 35 ..N BURT Oakwood Ohio.

WHITE WYANnorirgks‘iiigés.‘iikiinfii
circulars now ready OLDS. Ypsilanti. Mic .
WHITE EEGIIORNS"‘}Y‘-'~"gk°“ saw 1......
Maple City Poultry Plant. 08d: 0.8%.glihi'igttleéer‘3:
While Wyandolies‘g‘madn f" “151‘? Z.‘§°’1“?d.2§
110 on (311 a.
February. A. FRANKLIN SMITH. Ann Arbor.
Whih Wyandolies‘ti‘éitfidififft‘f"$33313? ‘3
circular. David Ray. 202 Forest Ave. Ypsilanti. Mich.

LILLIE FARHSTEAD POULTRY

B. P. Rocks.R. 1. Beds. and 8. CW Le horn em

for sale. 15 for 31:3 for 31.50: 50 forsg'... 50.
COLON C. L1LLIE.Coopersville. Mich.

 

 

 

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Send 20 stamp. W. E. LECKY. Holmesvillo. Ohio

FOX AND WOLF HOUNDS

of the best English strains in Ameri-
ca: 40 years exglerience in breedin
these fine houn for my own sport.
I now Seller them for sale.

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NATU RAL INCUBATION.

 

At this time nine out of every ten
farmers are interested in the above sub-
ject. Although incubatorsvhave come into
general use, I think there are more chick-
ens hatched on the farm by natural means
than by artificial, and farmers’ wives are
putting as much thought into the above
subject, at this time, as into any other.
Now is the time to renew the flock. and
upon this depends the success or failure
of your season’s chicken business. Half
of the fleck Should be renewed each year.
and the most of these should be hatched
early, because only early-hatched pullets
can be depended upon for profitable win-
ter laying:

The following notes have been gathered
after 12 years of experience in the poultry
businesS. during each of which years I
have raised and hatched some chicks in
the natural way. I am practicing both
the natural and the artificial method. and
0f the two much prefer the latter, yet
under some conditions the former is ad-
visable. I am of the opinion that natural-
ly hatched chicks are a little stronger
and easier to raise, yet the labor prob-
lem is more than three times as great.

From your best pen or best individuals
select such eggs as. are of medium size,
are clean. fresh and without cracks. Dis-
card eggs of odd shapes and sizes. Do
not set eggs from your entire flock, only
from the selected bent, because at this
time of the year your poorest specimens
may be laying the best. The eggs select-
ed must be kept out of drafts to prevent
evaporation, and, if kept for any length
of time, should be turned daily. I never
set eggs that are older than ten days,
and a week is still better.

I use both barrels: and boxes for mak-
ing suitable nests. All that is necessary
is a receptacle of the proper dimensions
and with low sides. to afford ventilation
and prevent the hen breaking the eggs
when entering the nest. A common baw-
1'el, with one end cut out. laid on its
side and filled with cut straw to the prop-
er depth is about as cheap and good a.
nest arrangement as you can get. ’

 

Place the nests in a cool. dry, well-
ventilated room. well away from the oth-
er poultry and all chances of disturbance.
Saturate the interior of the box 01' bur-
rel with some lice paint, disinfectant or
coal oil.

Place two inches of loner: dry earth in
the bottom and form the nest proper of
chaff or, out straw on top of the earth,
making a little hollow to prevent the eggs
from rolling: outward and getting chilled.

I take the broody hen from the nest
she is occupying in the evening. handling
her carefully. and dusting her with a
good reliable lice powder. Exercise care
not to use too much of this powder, be-
cause if you (in, you are apt to drive
broodinessv and lice from her at the same
time. The following is the lice powder
made and u-‘ed by the Cornell experiment
station, which I have been using for sev-
eral years with exceptionally satisfactory
results. Spread 21/2 lbs.

in :1 shallow pan or tray. Pour 14 pint of

crude (‘ul‘boliC acid into a cup. and into
this pour {$4 pint of gasoline. Pour this
mixture over the plaster of paris and
mix thoroughly. Run through a wire
window screen upon a piece of paper, A1-
low it to stand for 11/2 to 2 hours until
thoroughly dry. Do not place near a

stOVe but keep the powder in a cloued can
or jar. Apply by means of an ordinary
sifter or with the fingers. Brush it in
among the feathers about the vent. fluff
and under the wings. A small pinch of
the powder is sufficient for one fowl.
Broody hens are treated at the beginning
of the period of incubation and again,
lightly, a few days before the eggs hatch.

For a day I place the lien on dummy
eggs and keep her there by means of a
box or basket set over her. If on the fol-
lowing day she appears contented I give
her the eggs. If early, I never give an
average sized hen more than 13 eggs;
later on it may be advisable to allow 15
eggs. The more eggs given the more apt
she is to break some of them, and to get
the contents of the bro-ken eggs over her,
the nest and the other eggs. This means
a job of cleaning. as it will never do to
leave broken eggs in the nest.

The hatching room _'should ‘be Slightly
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grit, whole grain—preferably corn_—and :1
box half full of road dust.

On the seventh day I dust the eggs
and remove all infertiles, which show
perfectly clear at this. time. On the 14th
day I test a second time and remove all
but the fertile eggs which at this time
show about two-thirds dark. All others
are dead germs and should be removed.
Testing is done by holding the egg be-
tween some strong light and the eye.
The writer uses sunlight coming through
a small hole out in the window shade on
a south window. This beats any patent
tester yet invented.

The chicks should begin to chip the
shell on the let (lay and should be all
Out by the end of the 22nd, Do not dis-
turb the hen. save to carefully remove
the empty egg shells from time to time
to prevent their capping any of the re-
maining eggs.

The evening of the 23rd day remove all
unhatched eggs and egg sheila. The next
daymove the chicks and hen to the place
where you intend to keep them. Do not
give any food until the evening of the
23rd d:1y.- but provide the chicks with
grit. charcoal and fresh water. Feed of-
ten. but little at a time, of easily digest-
ed food, remembering always the danger
of. overfeeding the little fellows.

New York. F. W. KAZMEIER.
SOME TIMELY “DON'TS” FOR BEE-
KEEPERS.

 

Most bee-keeping articles. tell what to
flu. “'hat not to do is in some cases
more important.

First, don’t spend either time or money
in trying to construct a new form of :1
hive—not that there are not some faults
in nearly all of our standard hives. but
let the experienced bee-keeper remedy
them if possible.

Don’t make your increase ten fast. The
desire for work bees tempts the inexpe-
rienced to divide colonies to that extent
that they are almost worthless, either
for surplus or to try to winter.

Don’t be contented in keeping bees
that are not good hOney gatherers. This
is the principal reason we keep bees. and
.if they fail to give a good surplus when
they should, supersede their queens with
some of a good honey-producing Strain.

Don’t allow king birds, skunks, toads
and snakes to hang around your apiary.
They weaken the working force of every
colony.

Don’t spend any time worrying over the
frequency of poor seasons. Rather. spend
time in preparing the, bees to make the
most they can of any season that comes:
then you will be surprised to see how
few poor seasons there are.

Don’t allow your bees to acquire the
habit of robbing. Hundreds of weak col-
onies are IOst annually through the devel-
opment of this habit whit-11. frequently,
is the result of neglect. It is one of the
bad fezitures of taking bees out of win-‘
tor quarters :1 few at a time. The col-
onies that are taken rut first have their
cleansing flight, become well located and
in prime, condition to altar-k every colony

taken out later. “ban you find 11001-
ony being robbed. even if the trouble has
just started, close -1110 entrance and keep
it so for several (l:1_\':; then, if they have
any brood, set them on top of a strong
(-olony with a queen-excluder between.
if they have no brood, but still have a.

\queen. give them :1 comb containing brood

from some other colony.

in putting two colonies together in this
way don’t disturb either of them any
more than you (‘nn help. especially the
stronger one. if you keep close watch
on your zipiury, and treat them as de-
scribed. you can save nearly all of your

weak colonies with but little trouble. and
at the same time prevent the apizn‘y be-
coming demorulized, which frequently
happens. where several weak colonies are
being overpowered.

Shiawassee Co. N. F. CUTE.

Remedy for Egg-eating.mA short time
ago a neighbor told me what she had
done to remedy this unprofitable habit in
hens. She said she used bran (or other
ground feed) mixed with vinegar. no
water being used in the mash. Strangely
enough the hens eat it with considerable
relish. crowding ‘one'anoth‘er at the
tmugh. The vinegar appear-i to‘furnish
something they crave..++Harriet.

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DETROIT, APRIL 19, 1913.

CURRENT COMMENT.

In the last issue the
personnel of the six“
ty-third Congress, now
in special session, was
commented upon from the standpoint of
political affiliations, with a view to pre—
paring the reader for a more intelligent
study and understanding of the trend of
proposed tariff legislation which is the
immediate program in Congress. As not-
ed in that comment, the democratic party
leaders have practically agreed upon pro-
posed tariff schedules with reduce (lut-.
ies all along the line and add many pro-
ducts to the free list, including wool and
a number of other products in which
Michigan farmers are interested. There
is also said to be an agreement by which
the present duty on refined sugar will be
decreased 25 per cent with a provision
that sugar will be automatically placed
on the free list within three years. But
the exact form in which proposed tariff
reductions will be finally presented to
Congress cannot be authoritatively stated
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Prospective Tariff
Legislation.

But, while these schedules cannot be
discussed in detail until they haVe been
finally formulated, there are certain fac-
tors of the proposed tariff legislation
which can be intelligently discussed at
this time. In the general proposition of
revising the tariff d0wnward, the demo-
cratic party is carrying out the propu-
ganda with which it went to the people
in the election of last fall. On this ground
there is probably little, if any, occasion
for excitement or apprehension on the
part of the interests which are affected.
Conditions are different at this time than
they were at the time the McKinley tur—
iff bill was enacted. of which the present
law is only a slight modification. And
even in the marked reductions of the
schedules which are proposed by the dem-
ocratic leaders the principle of protection
is still applied, even though the schedules
may not be arranged with that intention.

With the proposed free list.
the case is entirely different. Take the
matter of wool for instance. On this
proposition the democratic party is, by
its record, committed to a tariff on raw
wool. Twice during the last Congress the
democratic leaders prepared and passed
through the House a bill providing for
a 20 per cent duty upon raw wool and in
conference agreed to the increase de-
manded by the Senate as incorporated in
the bill which President Taft vetoed. At
this time the leaders stated that this
amOunt of tariff represented the amount
of the difference between the cost of
production at home and abroad, taking
issue with the tariff board on the amount
of this dilférence. rather than upon its
existence; The ~fact that it was upon
this rec’drfd‘ "that they went before the

however,

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THE .MI‘CHIGAN FARMER

votes to pass the free Wool clause in the
Senate, although it is stated that an
agreement was reached between members
of the Senate committee and the Pres-
ident at a recent conference, and it may
be equally necessary to make a. conces-
sion on the wool schedule as has already
been done upon the sugar schedule in
which some southern states are directly
interested.

The same thing might be said with re-
gard to some of the other articles which
have been placed upon the free list, a.
number of which will directly effect the
farmers of Michigan, at least in some
seasons. But while the proposed tariff
legislation will be made a party matter.
the members of the two houses from the
various states may be depended upon to
look after the interests of their own con-
stituencies as far as possible. Hence,
this legislation, like other contemplated
legislation, will be a matter of compro-
mise ,amOng the various active factors,
with political and business ocnsiderations
somewhat mixed. The Michigan legis-
lature has memorialized the President
against free wool and doubtless the or-
ganized wool producers will also protest.
But there is little that the individual can
do except to study the problem carefully
and adjust his business to the resulting
action when the time arrives for such ad-
justment. In stlch an adjustment there
may be compensating advantages in the
increased purchasing power of the farm-
er’s dollar, as claimed by the advocates
of tariff reduction.

Of all the many ob-
Co-operatlona Kind stacles blocking the
of Education. way to successful
co-operation, lack of
education is the most prohibitive. The
ignorant. the selfish and the thriftless of
our state and country will not be tempt-
ed to undertake a co-o-perativc scheme,
nor would they find themselves competent
to handle such an enterprise if attempted.
it is the thoughtful, intelligent class who
have the courage to bury selfish desires.
shoulder responsibility and launch out in
such an undertaking. A prominent edu-
cator has said that “Co-operation is a
form of moral education,” and the his-
tory of efforts to organize groups into
mutual assmwiations of an economic char-
acter, as well as of those that have been
successfully managed, has pointed pre-
cisely to the importance of such a moral
training. In the Farm Commerce depart-
ment of_this issue appears an article on
a co-operative laundry that was organ-
ized and put on a business footing With-
out the uSual trouble of pleading,
bribing and threatening, Simply because
those approached had been actively con-
nected with a co-operative creamery for
a score of years previous; they were
trained to work together and they knew
how much more efficient their efforts were
when organized. Although there is a
growing appreciation among the rank and
file of our civilization of the advantages
offered, by co-operation, the fact remains
that a vast amount of educating must be
done before any large portion of the pos-
sibilities of this form of organization can
be enjoyed.

The great develop-

In the Field of Ag- ment of agriculture
riculture. which has occurred
during recent years

has made it. imperative for the farmer
who would keep pace with the industry
to avail hinlSelf of every opportunity to
gain information upon any phase of the
complex business in which he is engaged,
Of all the various means to this. end of
which every farmer may avail himself
his agricultural paper is the cheapest, and
is one which no farmer can afford to neg-
lect. Through that medium the reader
will not only get the valuable opinions of
specialists along every line of agricultural
effort, but will also secure an even great-
or benefit through the exchange of ideas
by practical farmers who are engaged in
the various branches of agriculture in a
general way, without making a, leading
specialty of any one line.

In view of the fact that this issue will
be sent to a copsiderable number of Mich-
igan farmers who are not new readers of
their home farm papers, we trust that
the regular readers will pardon 8. refer-
ence to some of the more recent efforts
which we have made toward the improve-
ment of the Michigan Farmer along these
lines.

Last year we brought out a new devel-
opment in agricultural journalism by es-
tablishing a Practical Science department,
thus providing for a weekly discussion of
the more purely scientific phases offlthe
problems (if the farm and the farm home.

and .

establishing our new Farm Commerce de-
partment, through which the business side
of farming, particularly that phase of it
which pertains to the marketing of farm
products will be discussed from week to
week with a particular'view to encourag-
ing the adoption of better marketing
methods and "the development of organ-
ized marketing among the farmers of the
state. In developing these new phases in
agricultural journalism, We have. how-
ever. not minimized the importance of
other departments, but have sought to
make constant improvement in their char-
acter as well.

PrOgreSS is our motto. as it should be
the motto of every Michigan farmer, and
as a. means of insuring that we may Work
together with a still larger proportion of
the farmers of Michigan for the.better-
ment of Michigan agriculture, we have
not only sought to make every possible
improvement in the character of this pub-
lication, but have at the same time cut
'the fOrmer subscription price in half.
Having thus met the farmers to whom
this issue will go, who are not now regu-
lar readers of the paper, more than half
Way, may we not hope that a. large ma.-
jority of them will determine to join the
Michigan Farmer family in order that we
may all work together for the further bet-
terment of Michigan agriculture.

In another column will
The Marketing be found a brief report
Problem. of the conference on
~ marketing and farm
credits held in Chicago last week. While
no new ideas were brought out at this
conference, it will perhaps serve to bring
various interests together which have
been working independently along similar
lines and toward the same end. These
same facts and DhaSes of the marketing
problem have been repeatedly discussed
in our editorial columns and later through
our Farm Commerce department, which
was established with the view of pro-
moting the solution of this problem of
business farming. '

There is plenty of room for effective
work by every person or organization in-
terested in the betterment of American
agriculture. We are proud to count the
Michigan Farmer among the pioneers in
this kind of work and gratified at the
general interest which is being taken at
the present time which speaks well for
net only the ultimate, but early solution
of this vexed problem.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEKL

 

National. ‘

The Ohio legislature has passed a bill
that provides for pensioning mothers.
Destitute widows, women whose hus-
bands are completely disabled, have de-
serted them, or are serving prison sen-
tences. are to be cared for under the
provisions of the measure. Juvenile
courts are authOrized to pay such moth-
ers $15 per month for a cihld and seven
dollars a month more for each additional
child. An annual tax of one-tenth of a
mill is planned to furnish funds to supply
the pension allowanaces.

The amount of water flowing through
the channel of the Mississippi is. perhaps
as great as that of any previous flood
known in its history. While there is con-
siderable distress, the loss is largely con—
fined to property,’ the precautions: taken
by authorities under the supervision of
the federal government having enabled
people living in dangerous places to es-
cape to high ground,

Two persons were seriously injured in
a wreck near Cadillac, Sunday, when a
southbound passenger train was derailed
by the teetering of the tender.

An exciting contest is on between can-
didates for the presidency of the organi-
zation known as the Daughters of the
American Revolution in national session
at Washington. There are three candi-
dates who are actively campaigning for
the position.

The federal government suffered a, de-
feat by a jury sitting in Chicago return-
ing a verdict in favor of the defendants
charged with obtaining $10§000.000 worth
of Alaskan coal lands by the use of dum-
mies. It is the opinion that the govern-
ment’s conservative program regarding
Alaska will be disturbed by the verdict
of the jury. '

The strike of workers in the rubber
factories at Akron, Ohio, is at an end,
and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Com-
pany, with labor matters settled, declare
that they will be able to fill all orders
promptly. No concessions were granted
the men by the employers.

Foreign. ‘

The health of Pope Pius X is critical,
according to reports from Rome. On Sun-
day there was improvement but his med-
ical attendants are still very anxious over
his condition.

The Huerta government of Mexico
confesses that the present financial status
of that country is weakened by the at-
titude. of the United States in refusing
to recognize the new organization. The
ministers have sought loans from abroad
butthey have been unable to effect same
because of a lack of credit, a matter
which it is claimed would be overcome
should recognition at Washington be
made. The growing strength or the reb-

voters in the last campaign will make it This year we have led in another new e15 in the northern states is giving the

more difficult

to secure the necessary development of agricultural journalism in new government further alarm since the

now beginning

APRIL 19, 1913; ’

support of armies in the field is ridl' dig
exhausting the treasury of the republic?

Several bills have been introduced into
Congress -to mtike the Sherman law a
more effective weapon for destroying
trusts and combines.

An attempt was made on the life of-
King Alfonso of Spain. Sunday, as he was:
riding through the streets of Madrid:
The monarch was at the head of a'parade
when the would-be assassin emerged from
among the spectators, grabbed the King’s
horse by the reins and fired three times,
but all bullets went amiss and the ruler
escaped unharmed. The criminal declar-
ed he was out to avenge the life of Fer-
rel‘. who for political reasons was put to
death a. few years ago.
fifth time that Alfonso has baffled those
who would take his life, the subjects are
to, believe that he is a
charmed being. ' ' *

Seven persons are dead and 15 injured
as the‘ result of a derailment on a branch
of the Central Vermont Railway near St.
Lambert, Canada. The accident was sup-
posed to haVe been due to the spreading
of rails.

The congress of San Domingo convened
on April 13 anad chose Jose Borda Valdez
president of the republic to succeed Arch-
bishop Nouel who, because of ill-health
has been compelled to leave the island
for Europe in search of treatment. The
government must call a general election
within a year to elect a new executive.

On Monday of this week there began in
Belgium a unique fight for the expansion
of political liberty. The socialists have
organized thousands of workmen, and
they are quitting work to the numbers of
from 300,000 to 500,000. hoping thereby to
compel the government to extend to them
full rights of franchise.‘= While the gov-
ernment has taken? the precaution to
have in readiness all availabble troops,
the men who have quit work declare
there is no danger'of rioting and that no
one will be molested, but that they have
determined to refrain from productive em-
ployment until their demand is granted.

Only a, part of the demands of the al-
lies .who have submitted the conditions
upon which they will settle matters with
Turkey to representatives of the powers
will be allowed by the representatives.
according to advices received here. The
powers do not feel that they can dispose
of the Aegean islands in toto to the al-
lies, and that the solution of all financial
‘matters must come before a special com-
mittee sitting, at Paris before whom
agents of the belligerents may appear to
present their claims for indemnities.

NATIONAL CONFEBEhTCE ON MAR-
KETING AND FARM CREDITS.

 

 

The first national conference on mar-
keting and farm credits was held in Chi-
cago,-April 8—10. Two days were devot-
ed to discussing problems of marketing
and distributing farm products and one
day to farm credits. Four hundred and
fifteen delegates registered, representing
34 states and four provinces of Canada.

Editors of agricultural papers, bankers,
college professors, farmers, commission
men, congressmen, state legislators and
the professional crank with an ax to
grind made up the audience. As was to
be expected, the discussions represented
many different points of view. It was.
however, agreed that present methods of
marketing and distributing farm prOducts
are wasteful and the road between pro-
ducer and consumer is ‘00 long and cir-
cuitous.

Some of the suggestions for improving
conditions were the co—operation of pro-
ducers for selling and the co-operation of
consumers in the city for buying; the
provision of better and more prompt ship-
ping facilities by the railroads and bet-
ter market roads in tl‘e country.

The conference adopted resolutions on
farm finance, urging a reform in our gen-
eral currency system and asking that
provision be made for “the wide circu-
lation of the notes and papers of farm-
ers, merchants, manufacturers and busi-
ness' men generally through proper dis—
count and rediscount systems." Also,
that state and federal legislation be pro-
Vided for the organizatiOn and supervision
of co-operative credit and land mortgage
banking associations to provide short and
long time loans. ,

The establishment of a bureau of mar-
kets in the United States Department of
Agriculture by the last Congress was
heartily commended by the conference.
Agricultural colleges were asked to give
more attention to the teaching of the
business side of farming and to establish
bureaus of exchange as a medium of
bringing buyers and sellers together,

It was voted to hold another conference
at Chicago in April, 1914. .

The proceedings of this year's con-
ference are to be printed in book form
and given wide distribution. The real
value of the conference was largely in
focusing the attention of the public on
the economic prOblems of agriculture that
are fundamental to the public welfare.
It sets men to thinking about them and
will hasten their solution.

_E. M. Tousley, of Minneapolis, empha-
Sized the great need of standardization
of products for marketing in order to af-
fect wise, judicious and profitable distri-
bution. Such will enable the producer to
know the real value of his product and
the consumer will know just what he is
buying.

Chas. Vim Hise. president of the Uni-
verSity of Wisconsin, advocated (go-opera.-
tive selling agencies to secure the division
of the markets of the country so as to
avoid cross freights, secure reasonable
transportation and the maintenance of
prices.

_ The mission of the agricultural college
is not only to enable the farmer to raise
better crops but to enable him to net
mOre on the crops raised, said Sidney E.
Mazes, of the University of Texas. Work
ign‘e :gricultulil-aiI economics must have
- aeremp ass and a lacei
agricultural curriculum. p ‘ 11 every
_ Continued on page 501).

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Whence Come the Gypsies with the Springtime

PRINGTIMIG brings, each year, the
gypsies. \V’hen, in the words of the
poet,

II

“Under my window springtime sings,
then watch out for the long caravan of
gaily-hued wagons filing out the surbur-
ban highway to some convenient camp—
ground near the river; watch out for the
dark-skinned woman who comes to the
back door, presumably to tell fortunes,
but, more probably, to pilfer stray spoons
or other utensils; watch out for your
hen-roost; time was when one would
have tOld you to watch out for your chil-

dren, though today kidnapping is almost
passe with the gypsies: but, above all
else, watch out for spring—for spring

and the gypsies go hand in hand.

\Vhence come the gypSics‘? Oh, yes.
your particular Visitors, if you live in
Philadelphia, will tcll you they campcd

By FELIX

is found. In the fourteenth century, gyp-
sy bands traversed the Balkans, and by
1417 were established over Hungary and
Transylvania. Despised by the peoples
among Whom they came fOr the simple
life they observed, they took refuge be—
hind delusions and claimed descent from
ancient kings, though today these fables
are scouted by those few who settled
down to spending at least a year in one
place.

(iypsydom, however, is to
day at its best in llungary; at its worst,
its most pitiable miscry, in the heart of
ltoumania, where Romany is most nu-
merous.

.\ gypsy town in Carmen Sylva’s
is different from any other town in
rope. There is no semblance of city

be found to-

land
Eu—
gov-

 

 

 

 

 

A Home of the Better Class of Gypsies in Hungary.

and if
tell you
near Sierra Ma-
they have been
on. since last
their history,
the same. 011
winter encamp—
grow up, mar-
die, and they
nearest country
originally, came

somewhere beyond
you live in Los Angelcs they’ll
they camped, perhaps,
dre. And. before that.
on the march, off an
Springtime. So, back into
year on year. the story is
these marches. or these
ments, gypsies are born,
ry, elect their queens and
are buried. often in the
graveyard. But whenco,
these gypsies?

Germantown,

The one clue to the origin of this iso—
lated, unlettercd race, without tradition
and without history, is in the names by

which they are called—Roum for man
and Romm for wife, and Romain for their
musical language. From this slender clue
the historians have been able to over-
throw the tradition of their Egyptian or-
igin, a tradition so long given credence
that some of the gypsies 0f wcstcl‘li Asia.
and northern Africa themselves have
come to believe it. Other ethnologists,
however, have gone a step or two farth-
er. Taking the name Zigeuncr for their
clue, they discover Mesopotamian, Sar-
acen or even Indian origin, while some of
them seem to trace a descent from the
tribes that wandered from ancient Egypt.
Today the Indian idea seems to meet
with most favor among students, although
it is agreed that the gypsy must have
left the. Peninsula before 99 A. 17., per-
haps in the hordes of Genghis Khan. The
conclusions are that he spent some time
in Persia, whence one section of the tribe
went, via Syria, to Egypt and to northern
Africa, while another passed across Asia
Minor to Turkey, entering Europe by
way of Greece about 1398 when definite
mention of a gypsy Chieftain in Hellas

ernment, no hotel or even inn, in fact.
no place where even the plainest provis-
ions may be purchased. One rides out
from the nearest peasant village into the
flats, where only an occasional wicker
fence, such as the gypsies are so clever
at Weaving. stretches

J. KOCH.

gypsy boys and girls, slapping their faces
and tearing their hair until the tears
start in their eyes, in order to evoke our
pity, begin following our droshky, begging
for a bani or franc. Like the little Dutch
boys along the canals to Monnickendam,
who follow the tugs, begging, these gypsy
little ones also have a set form of cry,

Semi-occasionally a little portico, where
Strings of fish from the brook dry in sum-

mer, adorns the fore-facade of these
homes. .
Gypsy life, however, is little concerned

with the home. be are back in the age
of the nomads, and nomadic to the last
degree is the character of such village,

titted for use today and left to the moles
and the hungry dogS, without regret, on
the morrow. Everyone living out of doors

 

far more plaintive and touching to the
heart These children,

however, spoil their pleas

‘by overdoing thcni, caus-

ing the visitor to become

weary of paying for their

Self—inflicted pain.

ready to dismount
village itself. the
of children is join-
ed by the savage dogs.
Between the yclps of
these animals and the
children’s cries all the
town is immediately in-
formed 01‘ our arrival and
from the curious under-
ground homm mcn, wom-
cn and babies appear in
legions, verily rising from
the ground,

The dwellings of gyp-
sydom, in ltoumania, are
subterranean throughout
——narrow little, cellars,
just under the surface,
with the sloping roof of
staunch oak timbers cov-
ered with a matting of
reeds, upon which the
soil excavated for the
dwellings has been thrown
to form a low mound. 0c—
casionally this exterior

Once
at the
SWELI‘In

 

 

 

 

will be smoothed over and
even giycn a mat of
whitewash. but usually it
is left as the soil chances to fall. One
low door pierces the home, and to it a
path is dug through the earth, much as
are the entries to the snow forts of our
own boys and girls at home. In winter,
when the deep snows almost block these
roads, the gypsy boys tunncl through the
ice, perforce, in order that they may quit
their dwellings; and it is not an unusual
thing for a prowling wolf to fall sud-
denly through the crust into such arcade.

The Typical

Roumanian Gypsy.

the hour of re-
dark-eyed men

and staying.“ outside to
tiring. the brown-skinned.
and the “'Hllzv‘ll and children, happy-g0-
lucky as the: American negro, are ever
out in the open, spending their leisure
time smoking at the (lUUr-::.lde or saunt-
ering. among the dogs and the pigs in
the road, down to the eds of the corn
ticlds and meadows that stretch off to all
horizons, their undulating wart-s broken
only here and there by the tremendous

 

off to mark a neigh-
bor’s fields; or one of
the homes of wat-
tling, coated with
blue—painted adobe,
or some of the long
caravans of ox teams
plodding marketward
break the monotony
of the farm-land.
Then the gYD-qy
town, the home of
some 20 to 24 fam-

ilics most closely in-
ter—wed, is sighted.
No settlement, as
we‘d think of it, is
in sight—only little
hillockS, three 01‘
four feet high, upon

which the sod Seems
to grow greener than
elsewhere, possibly
because not so fre-
quently walked over,
and with a dog—
half—breed of wolves
evsnarling at its 7 lit—
tcr on the mound.
There is but one
thing to indicate the
proximity of a hu-
man settlement, and
that is the children.
Long before the first
hillock is sighted the

 

 

 

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hay-stacks, for hay in this region is the
one great staple and the peasants are
forced to gather it all into one large,
communal stack, that possible incen-
diaries may suffer with their victims.
Vast patches of red peppers, furnishing
the national dish of this region, cabbage
fields and tomato patches also encompass
gypsy-land. To these, Bulgarians come
to work in summer, since irrigation from
the Danube has made these lands so fer-
tile. But the gypsies look on and idle.

The
gypsies.

roadside, too, swarms with the

They 1011 in the shade of sweet-
scented acacias. Thoug small in stat-
ure. the clear-cut, oval features make
these folk beautiful to the lover of native
types—the black eyes piercing from be—
neath the wild, black hair, the pearly
teeth standing out against the olive and
the brown of the complexion. and the
slight, dainty hands and unshod feet ad-
ding to the picture.

Reticent only as to their origin, which
they claim their elders alone know, these
people have'a certain frankness and kind-
liness that is refreshing to the sojourner
among the Balkan folk. Their story, a;
they tell it. out under the trees, is that
of the nomad par excellence.

“YVe came here from a camp-ground at
———and came there from another 211—,” and
so on. so far back as the oldest Roum
can remember. “On these stops we were
born, we wed. and we will die; and. as
were our ancestors, so we will be buried
beside the trail. “'e stop when our lead—
er Wills it and build our homes—\Ve work
for a year for some landed proprietor,
who settles for all of us with the chief,
and then we go on, and on, and on!"

Dismounting and approaching the huts,
they rcmind us of nothing so much as
the dug-outs of Iceland or the cyclone—
cellars of Kansas, save for the little por—
tico which the larger hove-ls possess. of
thatch or reeds cut from governmental
preserves on the Danube.

Crossing the slanted earth floor of this
veranda, stooping low at the. doorway,
one passes underground into a dark, futil-
1)‘-aired chamber much the shape of a
tent, due to the sloping side walls meet-
ing at an angle overhead and clo=ed off
by perpendicular framework behind. The
“supports to these walls are a dozen or
more logs, that protrude like ribs into the
interior, over which smaller limbs are
ilaid. The earth, taken out when exhum—
IKing the burrow, is thrown over the tops
,for support. Inside, this soil is smoothed
iinto adobe between the slats, and finally
![coated with whitewash. An open hearth.
‘where a cat or two lie: a circular table
(standing six inches from the ground and
iserving the entire family as these low
tables do over the Balkans; what seems
a toy chair. but which is the elder’s scat
at this table. the rest of the family squat-
ting upon the earth, and a chest or two
constitute the furnishings of the cham-
ber. Two walls of wattling extend up—
ward from the ground to the slanting

roof at right and left. giving the but a
pair of side chambers. intensely dark and
cramped, and more lit for wild beasts’
lairs than human habitations. I11 fact.
in all Europe, no more abject homes than
these miserable gypsy huts are to be
found.

Smaller families will utilize one of these
two cuhbies—they do not rise to dignity
of rooms~for barn and stable, where dis—
cOnsoIntp geese and chickens mopc in the
dark. with a 111iSerablc cow or hog be-
neath a single slit of window.

The other wing of the dwelling consists
of a similar apartment. though this may
be extended a trille and, when white-
washed and given a window or two, pos—
sesses a certain cozincss, despite its ut-
ter poverty and compression. This is the
parlor and living-room of the home, and
here the gypsy wife kccps her choicest
possessions—another chest, stacked high
with blankets, and an earthen stove. Ov-
er the latter the gypsy, when at home, is
fond of puttering, between twirlings of
his WhiSkers, in his picturesque garb of
long gingham shirt of blue and white
hanging down over white trousers, a
brown coat slung over the shoulders and
a rude black hat on his head. The young
gypsy wife—for they are monogamists,
rumors to the contrary notwithstanding——
is close beside it, a white kerchief about
her head but not over her chin as is the
custom with other Roumanian women. A
string of coral encircles her neck of
bronze—an entail from distant genera-
tions—while a waist of white, a skirt of
blue, and a brown apron to match her

00mplexion make her a’ fit model for the
most exacting artist.

The gypsies marry very early, and while
the women , retain their

‘tivacity and the

‘cal

 

'THETM‘ICHIGAN iF’A’ R-MER '-

sweet kindliness which makes the maid-
ens charming, their beauty fades rapidly
and one sighs with'regret that the hid-
eous old crones who chatter in the musi-'
language of Romany should have
come to such a state as we find them.

A gypsy's son. in pajamas of white and
wearing the tall alpaca cap of these peo-
ple, assists his mother in getting dinner.
His voice is, by contrast, almost shrill,
having not yet attained the melody of
the mature adult. A wrinkled old hag,

The Heart of

By Gertrude

 

 

 

 

CHOOL had called at the little log
schoolhouse at Sandy Plains. A
hymn had been sung; a little verse

of poetry, expreSSing a pleasing senti-
ment. had been repeated several times by
the pupils, led by the teacher, and now

the latter, Miss Ida Melbye, a trim, capa-
ble looking young woman of twenty—five
or thirty, with plain, large-featured face
and sincere grey eyes, was passing from
desk to desk, giving out lessons, answer-
ing questions. advising, reproving, and
incidentally getting acquainted with her
new charges, for this was “first day of
school.”

Presently she noticed that the general
interest, which had beenab<orhingly cen;-
tercd upon herself, had abruptly turned to-
ward the door. Glancing that way she
was slartled to see, framed in the open
doorway, against the bright September
sunlight outdde. the figures of a tall,
dark man and an equally dark little girl,
who might have alighted there like birds,
so noiseless had been their coming.
Promptly‘ recovering 1er self-possession.
she greeted thcm courieously, inviting
them to enter. She offered her one chair,
which the man accepted. drawing the
girl to his side and returning the bold,
curious stare of the scholars with a calm,

expressiOnle=s gaze which seemed to in-
clude the entire room.
The teacher, noting something of im-

pertinence and contempt in the childish
faces, commanded, with a ring of sharp-
ness in her tone: "Attention to your
books, now, children." \Yaiting a moment
to see that her order was obeyed, she
turned again to her guestz. Both were
sifll contemplating the now busy schol-

ars, with, she fancied. a gleam of satis-
faction in their sharp black eyes, and
their diverted attention left her free to

study them in turn.

They were Indians. of the “’innebago
tribe, from the small colony located by
th- governmcnt on a tract of land near
by: having fulfilled the requirements
were recognized as lawful cit-
as such were lawful patrons
Both were well and neatly
dressed, with only certain characteristic
touches of color and ornamentation to
distinguish them from their White neigh-
bors. She decided that the man was fine
looking, of medium height. slight and
sinewy. with small, well formed hands
and feet. His black hair was closely
trimmed, his face beardless as a wom-
an‘s. few of his race having any indica-
tions of'a beard. His features were even
and clean cut, his air most serious and
dignified.

The girl was very like him, and just
escaped being pretty, in that her dark,
oval face was slightly heavy at the jaws
for her otherwise rather delicate fea-
tures. Miss Melbye was sufficiently fa-
milfar with their race characteristics to
recognize in them the pure type of \Vin-
nebago, a decision in which she was con—
firmed when the man turned to her and
announced in soft, low, measured voice:
“Me Charlie Eagle."

Miss Melbye bowed with all due defer-
ence, for the family of Eagle is well
known as closely related to that of Thun-

and,
demanded,
lLflPllS. and
(f the school.

der, the family name of the legitimate
chief of the tribe. The bearers of the
name, however, were now without title

or especial honor, more than being looked
upon as the tribe aristocracy.

“Me live over there," indicating with a.
gesture of his slender brown hand the
group of small frame buildings, provided
by the government, and used for gran-
aries and storehouses, with their accom-
panying white tepees—wigwams or tents
—-built and occupied by the individual
families of the colony. They were situ-
ated a half-mile from the schoolhouse,
but visible through the intervening grove
of scattering scrub oak or jack pine.

“This my girl, Mary Eagle; she eleven
years old. She come to school.”

“Did she ever come to school before?”

but with pristine black hair,
be present, doing her share of the work,
for the gypsies attain great age—living in
the open, titling the fields, camping and
trekking—and remain robust to the last.

These, then, are the typical gypsies in
the traditional home of the gypsy. Wheth-
er all the tribes have, at one time, come
from here or no is a question. The lan-
guage would seem to say they did. Other
things say they did not. But that’s the
question for the savant.

 

a Winnebago.
K. Lambert.

 

“Ye-'es—two years—maybe; she read
second reader.”

The teacher bowed and smiled encour-

agingly into the girl’s glistening eyes,
watching her so intently. “Very well,
Mary,” she said, “would you like this

deSk?” indicating one near her own.

The girl nodded and, taking her school
bag from her father, went to her' seat.
The teacher took the girl’s hat and gay
red and purple scarf. hanging them be-
side her own, and returned to show the
new pupil the lessons for the day.

A little later, as Miss Melbye was
standing near the door, the Indian arose

and, coming close to her, said in his
soft, monotonous voice: “The children
here—sometimes they bother my girl; I

no like it—maybe you see that?”
“Certainly-I will attend to that,” she
replied earnestly. "I shall.~ surely, not
allow anyone to tease Mary, if I know it.”
He nodded and smiled, showing gleam-
ing white teeth, “I think so;" then turn-

ing a parting look at Mary, now busy
With her books. he departed with the
noiseless, graceful movement peculiar to

his people.

This was Miss Ida Melbye's introduction
to Mary Eagle, “the most baffling and
perplexing proposition,” as she was af—
terward wont to declare, “that I ever
encmmtered in my work." Not that she
formed this conclusion at once. It was
forced upon her, by slow degrees, in the
measure of her experience.

Day after day she watched and studied
the strange combination of natural child—
ish attributes and impulses, and the wild,
almost animal-like, instincts and pas-
sions At first, Mary held herself aloof
from all companionship, refusing to talk,
aside from her lessons, answering the
teacher’s friendly overtures by nods and
gestures. This attitude was explained
when an older girl confided to the teach-
er, after a sharp rebuke for some un-
kindness toward the little alien, “Other
teachers, here, never cared how we used
her. None of them ever liked to have a
squaw come to school, anyway." But
even with this enlightenment, it was long
before the “new teacher" could convince
Mary that she was trying to be kind and
just toward her.

Mary made rapid progress in her stud-
ies. having a strong, retentive memory,
and her teacher gave her every possible
aid and encouragement. Soon the other
scholars, forced to treat her with civility,
accepted her, if not in full goodfellowship,
at least, as a part of the school, and she
began to join them on the playground and
then to mingle in their games.

After a time she began speaking to her
companions in their play, first, only in
monOsyllables, then in brief sentences.
but never freely, in easy, fluent conver-
sation. The blood of a silent, reticent
race was too strong within her to be ov-
ercome by any degree of educational cul-
ture. Her cold, undemonstrative manner
did not invite familiarity from her com-
panions, 'even .in their play; but she
seemed content to make one in their
sports and games, never missing nor ap-
parently desiring the intimate friendships
formed between the white children.

The teacher often drew the erect little
figure close to her side and stroked the
silky black hair, parted and combed down
smoothly behind her ears, the shining
braids tied with gay ribbons that were
the envy of the little white girls; but ev-
ery attention was met with the same air
of impassivity. This cold reserve, coupled
with a passionate temper that knew no
restraint was the despair of her teacher
who was often called to the playground
by an outcry, to find one or more of the
white children with torn garments or
bloody noses from an encounter with
Mary, who, defiant and victorious, had
routed the entire band with the first
weapon that came to her hand—a ball
bat, a paling from the fence, 3. stick of
wood, it mattered not to her.

may also

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Br FLOY scaoomuxmn anmsrnono, 5‘

All alone by itself, in a. back pasture lot,
Stands 11 beautiful wild apple tree;
And though humble in station and far
from its kin,
It is happy as happy can be.
It spends not the hours in useless regret
Because it has grown in a lot ’. ,
InStead of a nursery amid valued trees,
Or in some favored, fair orchard spot.

It does not complain to the raindrops and

wind
That its11 apples are coarse-grained and
sma
But teaches each leaflet to whisper the
praise

Of Him who in kindness rules all;
And from springtime till autumn it does
what it can,
In its owu proper place in the lot,
To brighten the earth and contentment
to bring,
ThOugh it grows in a rough, lonely spot.

“’hen the blithe, tuneful
back from the South,
And are searching for some sheltered

songsters fly

nook
“here to build their brown nests, then
the apple tree says.
“‘ith its sweetest and loveliest look:
“Let me hold your new nests, I am will—
ing and strong,”
And the birds 11 hisper one to the other,
”I think We had better chose this quiet
place,
I m afraid we can’ t find such another."

So they build their snug homes on the
high leafy boughs
Of the blossoming, wild apple tree,
And throughout the long days of their
Stay in the North.
From intruders and care they are free.
Ilere their birdlings are reared midst the
blossoms and leaves,
And here taught to sing and to fly;
So with songs of contentment and an-
thems of praise,
The bright, sunny hours pass by.

“'hen the hot. scorching Sun of mid-,
summer beams down
On the cows in the old pasture lot.
And they find themselves longing for C001
Woodland brooks
And other fine things they have not.
Then the wild apple tree spreads awide
its great arms,
And kindly invites the meek cows
To gather around and to lie down and
sleep
the. cool.
boughs.

In tempting shade of its

In the fair chilly autumn, when apples
are ripe,
And a- nutting go schoolgirls and boys,
Then to yield her best fruit to the chil-
dien so gay
Is one of the few simple joys
Of the wild apple tree, the contented old

tre e,e
“ ho seemingly says to us
“Be happy and cheerful, do the1 best that
you can
Though your station' be humble and
small.

 

In the earlier combats Mary scorned
explanation and took her punishment,
with the other offenders. in proud silence;
but, later, when questioned kindly as to
the cause of her anger, she came to
briefly mentioning the chief incentive:
“May Turner, she say ‘Mary Eagle-
Squaw!” (A deadly insult when applied
in derision), Or, “Fred Johnson, he throw
my hair ribbon in mud!" Trifiing acts,
but sufficient to arouse her fierce resent-
ment.

“LaSt day of school” was an event in
the lives of these children of Sandy
Plains, and Miss Melbye planned to make
it a day of pleasure for the entire dis-
trict, and, as the school year drew to a
close. began to formulate her ideas for
the occasion—a picnic, with long tables
and a holiday feast prepared by the dis-
trict mothers. a long program of recita-
tions and singing by the school pupils,
and ice cream and lemonade, furnished
by herself. '

Mary was given a prominent place on
the program and an invitation extended
to her family and friends to be present
and take part in the merry-making. In
the general excitement of preparation. the
drilling of the pupils in their various
parts, the continual diScussion of details,
Mary became deeply interested and near—
ly as excited as were the little white
girls. “My father—he come,” she an-
nounced proudly.

The picnic proved a great success: the
dinner all that could be imagined even in
the wildest dreams of the juvenile epicu—
rean; the ice cream and lemonade. good
and plentiful; the literary program, well
selected and nicely rendered. Mary Eagle
did her part most creditably and her
father was there to see and hear. After
it was all over and the teacher was'pre-
paring to leave the grounds. the Indian
came to her and offered his hand. “I
thank you,” he said, with native dignity,
‘my girl, she have good time "

» Then Miss Melbye mentioned to him

something that had occurred to her. "I

have been wanting to speak to you," ‘she
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have some of the characteristics of spar-
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Something About the Sparrow Family.
By ISAAC MOTES.

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‘V THEuMIiGH‘lGAN F'ARMER W?

mer monopolize the nesting places about
the houses so that other birds are forced
back into the woods.

English sparrows do not migrate like
other species, but spend their lives near
the place of their birth. The majority of
them never get more than, perhaps, 400
yards from the place where they were
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country is thinly settled. The towns and
cities being far apart, the sparrows sel-
dom get far enough away from home to
take up their abode in a new place. Al-
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since they were introduced into Atlantic
coast cities, they have not yet reached
California and some of the other western
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Come help us get the barrow up

Speaking softly in my heart.

BOOSt a Little—By Anna Stems.

John and Joe and little Ted were playing in the yard.

“'heelirig barrowfuls of wood o'er the frcsh green sword.

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Now they pushcd and tugged and worked, getting very red,
’l‘ill in the door espying inc, thus spoke Master

5 Soon the needed aid was given and away they sped.

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on this mountain load;
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or the fringillidne, have short, stout,
conoid bills~—that is, shaped like a cone—
large and short, but with a fine point.
This fits them for eating different seeds
and grains, for birds of the sparrow fam-
ily are all sced caters They have hills
stout enough to crack or peck to pieces
grains of corn, yet sharp pointed enough
to pick up. apparently with case. the fin-
cst grass or weed seeds.

The English sparrow, as every boy and
girl knows, has a large, stout bill for a
bird of its size, which fits it for eating
seeds and grains of different sizes. \Vlien
you throw grains of whcat or barley upon
the roof of the porch from your upstairs
windows, the sparrows crush them or
peck ihcm to pieces with apparently no
trouble whaicvcr. 'l‘hcy seize a bit of
hard bread or cracker and crush it into

part of the I‘nited States are the vesper
sparrow, tree sparrow, chipping sparrow,
field sparrow, swamp sparrow, savanna,
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Inhabiting the 'niidland or central por-
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sparrow, Baird sparrow, western llcns-
low sparrow, Lcconle sparrow. clay-c01-
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English sparrows have had an inter-
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bush sparrow, Nuttall sparrow and gold-
en-crowned sparrow. ‘
California has more birds than any oth-
er state in the Union, and therefore more
sparrows. Ameng those confined more
locally to California than the ones last

mentioned are the sooty fox sparrow,
Townsend fox sparrow, Yukutat fox
sparrow, thickbilled sparrow, Stephens

sparrow, brown song sparrow, Heerman
song sparrow, San Diego song sparow,
Samuels song sparrow, Alameda song
sparrow, Bryant marsh sparrow, lagoon
sparrow, St. Clements song sparrow,
Santa Barbara song sparrow, laguna spar-
row and San Benito sparrow. The spar-
rows of California are less migratory
than those of any other section of the
country.

Then there are other species inhabit-
ing Mexico, and still others peculiar to
Alaska, the latter summering along the
northwest Pacific coast and coming south
in winter as far as northern California.

Then there are the seaside sparrow
along the South Atlantic coast; the Scott
seaside sparrow, the Texas seaside spar-
row, the FiSher seaside sparrow in Lou-
isiana and Texas; the Macgillivray sea—
side sparrow on the South Carolina coast,
and the dusky seaside sparrow.

It will therefore be seen that the spar-
row family is a large one. and widely
diStributed over the country. These are
all much wilder than English sparrows.
as they live in the woods or along the
seashore. and do not associate with peo-
ple as do the little usurpers from across
the Atlantic.

As a rule, all these species are grayer
than English sparrows. Some of them
differ so littleofrom each other that it is
impOSsible to tell them apart. They are
paler on the breast and the under side of
the body than the English sparrow, and
their wings and backs are generally
streaked with brown, thOugh sometimes
the breast is almost white and the streaks
are a very light brown. The fox spar-
rows are generally more reddish than any
of the others. Some have a tinge of yel—
low on the breast and about the head.
under or just over the eye. Some have
pale brOWn heads streaked with white.
while others have browner heads. streak-
ed with black. These. sparrows are. as a
rule. about the length of the English
sparrow. :1 little longer or shorter, per-
haps. but with somewhat smaller and
more slender bodies. The English spar-
row is a somewhat plump little bird, but
some of these woods sparrows are scarce—
ly as large as n man’s thumb.

Most of the woods sparrows summer
in the north, in Canada or Alaska, and
come south in winter. though a few, as
already mentioned, are restricted to cer-
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LITTLE FARM FABLES.

 

BY AUNT QUI LLIA .

A Bit of Timely Advice.

Winter still lingered and most migra-
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One day when a number of them were

 

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comparingr climales. Bluebird said:
““‘hile I like both sections and enjoy the
journey: back and forth, I have learned

that birds in all localities have their
grievances."
“Very true," rejoined Robin. “Farmers

in all parts of the country seem to be
unmindful that we have always been of
incalculable benefit to them. At the
north they not only begrudge us a few
cherries, but are robbing us of grubs and
insects by means of sprays, powders and
various b‘ug-i-cides.”

“\\'e have those same difficulties to
contend with here.” put in Redbird who,
with a few southern friends, had joined
the company; “and added to them are
our troubles with tourists and native
hunters Who surely are wiping us off the
face of the earth.”

After a little further discussion it was
decided to send someone out to stump the
states and induce all the feathered folks
to leave in a body and establish a com-
munity in a land where man was un-
known.

By common consent the honor fell to
the mocking bird, for. said they, “he is
far and away the best speaker among
us. His vocabulary is so extensive. his
tones so varied and persuasive, and his
flights of eloquence so high and well
sustained that none can resist his ap-
peels.”

And so, forth went Brother Mocker,
representing the 'Ancient Order of Or-
nithologlcal Aviators and Insect Eaters
and preaching with all his might a purer

APRIL 19, 1918'.
altruism in a land where man!
known. , .

In all fairneSS it must be admitted that

see» 1m;-

he was remarkable for drawing large
crowds at his first addresses. But self-
interest soon got to the front. The more

he pondered on his present snap of an
easy living on the bounty of a few very
rich old birdS, and pictured to himself
the free transportation to the promised
land that was sure to be his at the end
of the campaign. the longer grew his
tongue—which by nature was not short.
Volubility increased. But inflated vo-
cabulary, ear-splitting tones. and redun-
dant eloquence generally, seemed rather
to exhaust than to animate his hearers.
Yawns and 'restlessness were everywhere
in evidence. and the meetings broke up
with no clear or lasting impressions hav-
ing been made. Flashy rhetoric had kill-
ed results.

One day, at the close ofa frenzied flight
of oratory, an old eagle with a penetrat-
ing eye approached him. “Just a word,
friend," said he. ”Compactness is pow-
er. You are too verbose. Not long ago
two students were resting under my tree.
As one was reading aloud from an old
author I caught this sentence: “Words
are like sunbeams. The more condensed
they are the deeper they burn.’ ” ,

DAN AND THE BEAR.

 

BY MRS. JEFF DAVIS.

Dan Maxwell and his father spent two
weeks. one summer, with some friends in‘
the Olympic mountain 4. They had grand
sport, hunting or fi'hing every day.

One afternoon they were fishing in a.
pretty stream that glided down a gentle
slope. Dan decided that he could find
better fishing farther up the stream. so
he left Mr. Maxwell and went to a spot
where the water was deeper.

After awhile his attention was attract-
ed by a black. moving object just across
the stream. Finally, it came out in the
open and, at first, Dun thought, “W'hat a.
big. black dog!"

Then he noticed that it had a funny
walk——a kind of roly—pflly. woddling walk,
as if he were made of jelly—all shaky.

Soon the truth dawned upon Dan—only
a narrow stream separated him from a
big, black bear! He was thoroughly
frightened and called loudly to his filth-
er: “Come fast! Help! Help! Here is
a big bear!”

Mr. Maxwell was soon at his side, and
Dan was '.~.~urpri<cd that his father did
not seem afraid. .

“Don’t be: alarmed. son." he said. “that
bear does not look cross, and he won’t be
opt to ford the stream, anyway.”

Although Mr. Maxwell had a gun, he
Only picked up a few stones and began
throwing them at the bear. Old Bruin
looked around. growling. and trotted off.

Dan was ashamed that he had been
so frightened. and after that often said:
“Father, I want to be brave like you, so
that if I ever meet another bear I won’t
be so frightened.”

Even after their vacation was over
Dan 'often referred to his father's brav-
cry. and hoped that he might some day
become like him.

“There is only one way to grow brave”,
said his father once, when they were dis-
cussing the subject. “Yen must take ad-
i'nntuge of all the little. every-day
chances. Being bruvc in them will leach
you to have courage when the big oppOr-
tunlties come.”

“i don't understand, father.” said Dan.

“You know in schOcI the easy lessons
come first; then the hard ones, and al—
most before you realize it you have mas-
tered very difficult studies."

“Yes, father but that hasn't anything
to do with being brave."

“I haven't finished. my son. I want to
explain what true ctiurnge really is. Re-
member, the greatest bravery is that
which enables us to do what we believe
to be right, though the whole world Should
oppo‘e ll~‘. livery boy can not kill a
giant, as David did, nor can he slay
bears. But I believe everyone can do
harder, and bravcr.pihings lhnn he thinks
he can. Now. jIISt keep your eyes open,
and you will find plenty of chances to be
brave. Sometimes when all the biys are
teasing or imposing on another fellow. you
can show your bravery by taking his
part.”

What his father said sounded reason—
able to Dan, and as he walked to school
he kept thinking about it. He realized
that he had not always displayed the
kind -of bravery that Mr. Maxwell had
urged.

At recess that day he had the opportu-
nity to test 'his courage when several of

 

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said, “about Mary. She learns so well,
why not educate her for a teacher among .
. Your people?” . ' 0
He waited a moment before answering,
., N O-le- Cut Tzres
satisfaction dawned in his face. “I not
know—maybe—I see—you think?” 0
“Yes,” She urged warmly, “I think that 1 0 OverSlze
she could easily be trained for a teacher." 5 O _
“So? I think maybe. too. Thank you,”l
with a deep note of pride. —
The children gathered around to bid
their teacher good-bye for the summer '
vacation, as it was settled that she “ O I O T. , T.
should return in September. Mary stood Not B It k ld
close to Miss Melbye's side, happy and “I l e - lme ,1, lres
smiling. “’ith an abrupt movement she}
put her arms around her teacher’s waisti ' . .
and, pressing her face to the \yhlte wom- ' GOOdyear tlres Of tOday are 1101'. billlt as they once were, not as
ans shoulder, wh1spcred softly, “lood- . .
bye, teacher." others build tires now.
TOuched by this unexpected display of .
affection. Miss Melbre bent,am_1mmng Goodyear success 1s clue to ceaseless advancement. Every in-
s an arm around the lithe form, kissed the . . . . ‘
brown forehead. “Good-bye, dear," she! crease 1n sales came through mcreasmg mileage.
said kindly. 3
\\ 1.... school reopening m September- And now, after fourteen years of betterments, scores of our
Mary was among the Iirst to greet the , . .
teacher's return. mung her race to be experts spend all their time on research and experiment.
kissed, with the other little girls. Al-
ways a fairly good student, she now ap-‘
plied herself to her books with unwavcr-l ‘
ing interest. llcr devotion to learningE H Th W k
was explained when she said, in a. con-I ow ey or
fidential tone, to her teacher, “Some day“, ‘
I ”3““ f0“ 17133'”‘“1‘"’“ think?” 5 /These men wear out, on a me- And from this shop came the of cars. And you‘ll adopt them,
"‘(lertamly. Marx.” replied Miss Melhye, tered machine, hundreds of 10 per cent oversize, which adds like the rest, when you once try
H” W” “"“‘i“”“ I” ‘1‘) 3“ Wt‘“ “5 5’“th Goodyear tires. one—fourth to the average tire them out.
are dOing now,” an assurance that . ' , .
brought a glow of Sillisfzu'tion t0 the iitrtroctlfit4%11i‘oihigllasflsw‘évrec12131111: mileage. Average Profit
dark “1“?- ipared—by actual metered mile- - $2 90 P '1'“
Often Charlie Eagle came into the age. _ Men Not MlSled - er “'8
schoolroom. to si 'i ‘ ' ' - - ' ' ’
listening to Maryt‘s “retritar’figitis.aerllrtIiSEt To get a fabric Whmh would In these days Of odomctcrs, iogcfgtssoafiiilffir;{0353011 IVE),
as silent and motionlmg as a statue he stand all Stram’S’ 200, fabric; men know which tirc scrvcs 3. 5‘ O f ‘ (‘3 a (19(3Ldr
. . . .. . ‘ were “35th out, (“1d mileage rc- best. And that tire alone C’lll tirc. ur ax crahc prolit last
evmced his pride and gratitivation by an Stilts recorded. - , ‘ year was but $2.90 per tirc.
almost imperceptible relaxation of his fea- - (when All others. CO 1' ‘ ~ ’
tures and rhais h , , _ These comparisons have gone - .. ~ _ - 1 09C?“ tircs CO“. “H. the
, , pe 1 , a )\\ grunt of ap f . 1 .. ~\ (1 Lndtrtlns ttst Goodyear tires way from Q1353 to $104.93 ac-
prov-.11, when unusually pleased. 0}? orfilcars ant . llt‘nb' 1 21,117 have outsold every other tirc in cordimT tofisizc and type .Thc
\Yhen “last day” approached again, the E‘s; Vite] kfigwmthgigdg agée c1311 existence. most popular sizc‘%.?51x4I—costs
Gillian)“, dammed (”1‘ “Other memo“ lead in sales unless it also leads And the sales have doubled from $3295 to $3/90, differing
“1th the accompanying features of the, in mileage. chr ,md over “1% t1] tn, l , ‘Vlth tpr and ”(”1109- And our
preceding yclar, to which teacher and} came (bettcrkn’oivn iqslékyscfir: zu'crag‘c 1);.0m)8l)1 51“ illCSC tires
parents readi y agreed. , ’ i , . ' ‘ ‘ “'le szict ,. gm/t )Cl‘ i' .

‘ Again Mary entered actively into the‘ What They ve Done 531C biv’) far exceeded“ .011” prc- That's \f‘lry voti ":txc'it the
preparations and fairly distinguished her- This research department cost \lous ~ years put too“ ier. Goodyear price- tire:: with so
Self in her part of the exorcism, which. us about $100,000 per year. On That’s the result on actual much mileage. Tires that can’t
were listened to, by her father and Eli this year’s output that’s about use, on hundreds of thousands rim-cut——oycrsizc tires. This is
number of Indian friends, with every in-i five CCHtS Per tire. due to the fact that
dication of approval. i But note the result: SO mUCh 0f the cost

Once again the teacher bade them all A” the remarkable ‘ £085 into things that
good-bye, with the understanding that mileage you get from - .. ' '-. . CCunt-
she was to return in September, but an Goodyear tires is due ’4» No other tire in all
unforeseen occurrence. changed herplansi to this ceaseless im- GOOD ‘* EAR the world Offers you
and it was almost four years before she} provement. 1 equal value.
again took up school work at Sandy! No-Rim-Cut tires— =O‘ AKRON OHIQ ‘_
Plains. Then she came early in April, to. the tires that en’d rim- J. \ ,
teach the spring term. She found somel cutting—were (level- N R. C '1'" Write for the Good-
changes. The schoolhouse had been re-i Oped in this Shop. 0. lm- ut lres yearTicll‘e 800k?l4t:“
built and enlarged. Some families had! Withtheold-ty etires. . . . year e ition. t (6 ls
moved away. and others had taken their , 23 per cent mgt with With or Without Non-Skid Treads all known ways to
places. Some of the older pupils had Lrim'Cut I‘Uin. economize on tires. 1
dropped out and younger ones filled in
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girl of‘Mary’s class. that Miss Melbye re-
ceived her first intimation as to the cause
of the change which so puzzled her. “I
don’t think that Mary will come to school
much more.” the girl remarked confi-
dently. “I think she intends being mar-
ried, soon. She has the nicest fellow! A
student from the Indian school at Tomah
——Willie Rainbow. He's nicer than lots
of the white boys.”

At the school picnic, at the close of
the term. Miss Melbye met Willie Rain-
bow. At her request, Mary presented him
to her teacher, most creditably, and he
acknowledged the introduction with per-
fect ease of manner; indeed, few white
boys could hope to equal him in grace of
bearing. Slender and alert, with the
dark, smooth face and intensely black
hair and eyes of his race. his features
were regular and his general air and ex-
pression more pleasing than is common
among the men of the tribe. His dark
blue student’s uniform became him well;
and many of the girls present, beSide
Mary. followed his movements with ad-
miring glances.

Miss Melbye was surprised at the large
number of Indians attending the picnic,
until it was explained to her that there
was to be an Indian dance at the Indian
colony soon. which was but one of a ser-
ies of small dances, followed by a. “big
medicine dance.” at the Indian mission,
twenty miles away. "

Among the Indian students from the
Tomah SChOOl, Miss Melbye noticed sev—
eral very pretty and interesting young
“squaws.” One of these, a short, plump.
round-faced creature, showily dressed, and
agreeable to white estimates of beauty
but for a coarse, sensual mouth and bold
manner, attracted much attention from
the young Indians. “'illie Rainbow, with
the others, seemed to find her amusing:

and she openly favored him with her
preference. Another young,r fellow, in
student's blue. slightly older in looks

than \I'illie. but very like him at any
distance beyond extreme nearness, also,
apparently, stood high in the good graces
of the dark belle, although Mary pointed
out a plain-faced young squaw as his
wife. -

“lie, Tom Dccorah,” she explained.
“liis squaw over there, watching,” and
she smiled. “He talk much with Ella
Green Grass, His Squaw no like.”

“Is that pretty, young squaw, Ella
Green Grass?”

Just then \Villie Rainbow joined the

group under discussion, and the answer
came, “Yes. She bad squaw. Me no
like!”

Something in her tone caused her
teacher to glance up in time to catch the
old, fierce gleam of anger in her eyes.
and the fact served afterward to bring
this conversation back to Miss Melbye‘s
mind with significant force.

The big medicine dance was held at
the Indian mission. late in July, and was
to last a week. Toward the end of the
Week it was reported that a young squaw
had been ~found, stabbed to death, under
a tree on thé mission settlement grounds.
This rumor received little attention from
the white people, even when the report
was later confirmed, as a stabbing affair
among the lndians was a common occur—
rence at their reunions, where more or
less drunkenness was responsible for fre-
quent and fierce quarrels.

Not until the news came that it was
lvllla Green Grass who was found dead.
and that Il'illie Rainbow had been ar-
rested by the white authorities for the
crime, did Miss Melbye become deeply
concerned. After the hearing, she was
Somewhat reassured upon learning that
there was little evidence against him. A
party of white visitors on the grounds,
during the evening, had seem him in com—
pany with the murdered girl, near where
She was, a. few hours later, found dead.

Nothing could be learned from the In-
dians. As was usual in such cases, they
absolutely refused to talk; and before
night, on the day succeeding the tragedy,
the settlement was deserted by all save
the very old people and the children, leav-
ing no clue tending to a clearing up of
the mystery. In the absence of testi-
mony incriminating anyone else. Willie
Rainbow was held for trial.

3T0 Miss Melbye this seemed little short
of an outrage and. being fully convinced
of his innocence, she did the only thing
that seemed to offer her a chance of be-
ing heard in his behalf—she went to see
the Indian agent at the county seat
where \Villie was held. The agent, Mr.
Jones, received her kindly, and appeared
grateful for her interest in this trouble-
some charges. She began by asking him‘
some question about the murder; and he
admitted, frankly, that he could tell her

APRIL .19, 1913.

-no more than she already'ltnew. Then
'she voiced her protest, With. all the ve-
hemence' of a strong, fo‘rc'e‘ful’nature, con-
eluding~ With: (“\Vith‘out‘rd'cert‘aln amount
ofprooi’, foreshadowing his guilt, a white
man cannot be deprived of his liberty.
Vlv’hy, an Indian?” .

“It‘is this way,” explained the agent,
gravely. “Every year, since I took charge
of this tribe, there has been some of them
badly injured or killed at their annual
Dow-wow. Last year two were killed. an
Indian and a. squaw. The year before,
one, a squaw. And not one word of real
evidence can be forced from them in re-
gard to crime or motive, although, of
course, they know all the circumstances;
but they simply won’t tell. Now this
young fellow is smart, and fairly well
posted in civilized laws and customs. I
am convinced that he could tell all about
this affair if he would. More, he is a.
prime favorite among his people. If In-
dian etiquette forbids his telling what he
knows of the crime. someone else may
be led to tell, in order to free him. If no
one appears at his trial in September,
and he still keeps silent, I shall try to
have him convicted and sentenced.”

Miss Melbye gave a little cry of dis-
sent, and the agent smiled. “Of course,”
he admitted. “if our scheme fails, we
shall have to release him; but I purpose
following up the case to the very limit of
my power.” And with this she» had to be
satisfied that she had done all that she
could; but she accepted an invitation to
visit Willie at the jail.

She found him thinner of face and
rather depressed in spirits; but he smiled
as he took her offered hand, recognizing
her at once. “This is much kind of you,”
he said in his soft, even voice.

There was little she could say to him,
more than that she, regretted this “diffi-
culty,” and trusted that he would soon be
free, at which he thanked her. But when
she touched upon the subject of the mur-
der his Indian blood asserted itself, and
his eyes became cold and expressionless:
the dark, thin face, impaSSive. Miss Mel-
bye fully understood the utter futilin of
any effort to draw him out. An Indian
never betrays himself in idle talk.

\\ hen they were again upon the street,
the agent asked “\Vell, and what is your
opinion now?"

She looked up at him with troubled
eyes. “\Yillie Rainbow could tell much
about the murder—if he would;" adding
hastily, “but he, himSelf, is not guilty."

“No,” said Mr. Jones. slowly, “but who
is? \Vhy should he shield the murderer?
If we could find one with a motive for
doing the stabl)ing'——say, jealousy—-and
that one, someone whom the prisoner
might have a motive or reason for
shielding—~5ay, a relative or sweetheart——
then the case is clear.”

Before he had finished speaking a flash
of memory thrilled Miss Melbye like an
electric shock. “She had squaw; me no
like!” The horror of the thought sug-
gested held her speechless for a moment,
but reason was active. Should she—could
she—start the white avengers upon the
trail of this other victim? If Willie chose
to suffer—

ll'hile her thoughts still circled blindly,
the agent spoke: “This is your car, Miss
Melbye, if you make your train. Thank
you for your visit." and he was standing
alone, with lifted hat, while the car
whizzed on. carrying away the clue he
so eagerly sought. And Miss Melbye went
home to study the hardest point she had
yet encountered in her long problem.
Should she tell the little she really knew?
“'as it her duty? Was she "accessory to
crime" in not telling? But, if Willie Rain-
bow chose to sacrifice himself, could she
betray the friendship and confidence she
had gained by long and careful effort?
Round and round she pondered the ques-
tion, but never any nearer a solution.

(Concluded next week).

THE MULE—AN APPRECIATION.

BY W. J. SPILLBOY.

The mule. occupies a peculiar position
in life. As Josh£Billings says, he has
two legs to walk with and two to kick
with, and he wears his wings on the
side of his head. He is frequently and
unjustly abused. Doubtless he is not
perfect, but, as the old Quaker said to
his wife, “Nobody is perfect but thee and
me, and sometimes I have my doubts
about thee.” ,

" The mule is subject to spells of melan-
choly, but we should feel for the mule,
and, in a, dark stable, refrain frdm let-
ting him feel for us. A friendly-pat on
the headis all right, but the caress of a.
mule is not to be sought after.: _I would

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Futile Farms “d “m“ ”'9“ “ml! in DelnWM'e- ful‘y as deep as a tI‘eaiise on the fourth requirement you have laid down for that car you are gomg to buy.

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address. State Board of Agriculture. Dover. Delaware member of Congress writing a circular

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i arguiozigoo‘m’iziifffiiggynmm.ninfefigiudiinn. of tune. He means well, but to have REQUEST.
him sing a solo under your window at
, McClure - Stevens Land Co. midnight is not comforting. In a jovial m
Successors toA- J- SBVOIIBG‘LCO- Established 1833~ mood he laughs heartily, but his mirth is
" ‘ Farm, Fruit and Stock Lands. We own 20.000 acres of choice . ‘ .
, ,nnimprovsd lands in Gladwin and Clare Counties. Sold on more like the cry Of a gOOSe than the
. easy pagnlegta.wll:‘terestfip:r.cent. KV‘riltélffi'gin‘fxmution. ripple 0f laughing water.
-’+ It is impossible to give a mule a liberal
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CANADA LAND—Write foronr32 p.39 booklet education. but he makes good use of

°°nt3inin 63F’h‘WOKri‘PMO what he has. He may not know as THE NINE BIG FEATURES:

views. and statistical and detai ed information .
ghost oui‘iimtiaiiliimif (3311ng svsskaigoheivsbi It's many words as Noah \\ ebster, but the
me' ° 3° an 0" lnmpeg' wade" few he has learned are expressive.

F0" SALE—4m“ ‘uu "MBEHEU L‘nns—Ehe In society the mule does not shine.
est . . .

. of soil located in oil belt. Bflowing wells in vicinity. There’ for once' he does not know What

‘ 4N0Itnnenostumps. Thesardenof the county. located to do with his feet. His appearance is

nearcounty seat. Withinhfimile ofnew ER. For par- . .

tlculnrs.wrlteJohnD.McKinzie.Box7V.Atlanta.Mich. against him, and he has never learned

to eat pie with a fork. Being deprived

of the advantages of home life, he is a o ' o o
Altalt [an r bit uncouth in his habits, but his heart Large In value— Low In Prlce.
is right. As a parent he is not con-

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most productive virsin soil out or. doors. three average (1" some Placesl- proved. Every fundamental of highest priced construction is

bumper crops alfalfa peryeer.excellentfor allgrains As the poet has Well said, the mule is, ' found in this car Fvery latest improvement is immediately
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. and waste his sweetness on the desert _ _ _ . _ , _
"lad. BI PRESTON, Unaway. Mllill. air. The horse fills the phi-ado ground, Beautiful 1n hue and color, luxurious in upholstery, mechanically
but the mule draws the commissary wag- right, the Detrmter offers the utmost that any reasonable sum
Literature willbesentto any- on. Knowing that he will never receive )
one interested in the wonder- iromotion he ‘s not much of . soldier Of money can buy.
‘ futhacraxplento Willey. the Elh h ’ J 1i] in b til f“ ‘f ' '
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climate on north. Writetoa public ornniuflon iii-trivel it from a little farther. A mule would Write today for our proposition.

reliable information. Scorn-
monto v-lloy DevolopmonioALIFORNlA not look well on a monument, but on a
:fi:::’"sacramonfo. dump pile he is hard to beat. Take

him all in all we should have respect for BARBER MOTOR SALES COMPANY

his lonely and industrious state, and

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' ThecinadnnPacificiaiwaydiscusses? DAN AND THE BEAR. 799 3‘” W“ J ’ . 8m
33303? $111“ ighm‘ifiii‘éieui’siifiil‘ioafih t? “fig“chfiwigi m 7 7
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tlers havem years to pay. A splendid o portunlty to , _ - - -
start in profitable farmin . Special cheap excursions the boys began teasmg little Joe White.

weeklyfromDetroitand icago. You mustseeandhe Dan took his part, and soon the others Book of 100 vehicle Bargains—P.REE

satisfied before buying from us. Write for particulars. _
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boy cry. - - . 3 V . '
363 A $5300 Another time, when the boys proposed} . . . K ,
to go into Mr. Martin’s orcliard‘ and get‘ L8t I h N .\ ‘
18 C cry]?! T l some peaches, Dan said: “Boys, we all: 18 ew peCla " s‘ ' .. W U
ow: one: no a. . , . , - -. . . : ’7‘. ‘ ‘ '
Big moneyanaking ’New York t’arm. well located. know that 1“" NIa] till 15 a poor ”mm mm .' \\

with good %iiding§b&rodtéctlveéiei£s. firing-watered his fruit crop means a great deal to him. ‘
pmmrefor cows‘ cor “mo '1 ' t‘t‘mber‘fim BcS‘ides, it would be stealing to take his

" sugar maplets. up is orchard. 2-sltory 11-13)???accidents;i I rs B a o .
running we er. -room ennui, ouse. - . am wit ' ' . - . - . . . . . , . ~ '
running water. 50 ft. horse barn. poultry house. other fruit In ‘1 Joi‘e’ JUSt, as ml“ h .15 11 we ,0

buildings: a, ed owner unable to care for it; if taken srneaked in here at night and took it."

now18 cows. heifers. bull. 50 hens.wa ons. machinery e p 0“ e‘ :1 e on e

and tools so with it: price for everyt ins only $5300. The other boys called him “preacher,”
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liberal terms. Complete details with with traveling H . ,, .. n .
directions to see this andagood little 26-acre farm fl'illd cat. baby, Lllld Oilli'l‘ names lll
Post yourself on real value: before you _
buy a uggy, surrey or wagon of any ' *

near a charming lake for $800. on easy terms. page 3]. ridicule, but Dan did not give ill. Fill-
kind. Buy where you are sure of get-

“Strout’s Farm Catalog 36." Just out. write today .

for free copy. More for your money here today than ally, the others decided to leave the fruit
ting the most for your money, thesaf-
est guarantee of satisfaction and the

the same money will bu ’ elsewhere. Get the facts.
E. A. STROUT FARM GENOY.Btation 101. Union alone. and Dan felt that he had saved all]

Bank Bldg..‘Pittsburg. Pa. of them from Committing a sin and prob-
ably getting into serious tumble.

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, . , rmmes, and he said: are making
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. (_ . , - - treat iro mess, in ' son If vou continue -

improved ianqig' SWIM]; pay “1‘“ to 31".932'35“? ”l.” l" l I" ‘l ‘ best treatment. Here IS proof that
proposition 9 e an s are ocatr in liar evoux to 1 V in , V011 . (‘hal‘wcl .1. {lion tho . A .

and Emmet counties and are near churches, schools. " 0 0 I - I ‘ ‘ “ g “L our prices save you $35.00 to $50 00
railroads. and on rural routes. There is land to unit. “1108 YOU will become a trulv 1”:va nmn, ' ‘
.everyb Idy. rolling. level. hiTh. low. fruit, stock. or ‘ ‘ _ , . . ' 0 49 00 f

general flirminglands. This and has'ustiieenpluccd JllSt keel) lll mind that it it as lll'ave to vet , 0 0 ese

on the market and is selling at from to $15 per arm

on the easy payment plan. Write 0,. come to we. stand up for what you believe to be right Metal Auto Seat Buggies
McLAUOflLING: LINSELL. in time of peace. as to be a brave sol— ' . 3
208 PITk Ave” Petoskey,Mlch. flier in tiyne ()f “'al‘.” AlreadYSOld;Pnce 59.90 .
i can not tell you all the brave things See this beautiful. durable bUggY in net
ural colors in our bpecxal Vehicle Catalog—

that Dan did. and WIN not mention those along. with many other illustrations and
that he failed to do. for sometimes he descriptionsthatguidc young/11in buying u

 

-- . n . . U,- ,- the vehicle you'wmzt. Please ask
.3 IS NOW "I the Province 0' forgot. lhe examples I have glven \tlll for Vehicle Book No. 75M56

show you that ho is striving to attain
SASKATGHEWAH true courage, and, his father says, that sears, ROEIIIICIK and C0.
kind is better than being able to meet at Chic 0 Illinois
Western Gamma “3'

bear without being afraid. This splendid bug-

Do you desire to at a Free gy at $5990 h‘lS /

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triple panel auto

that well known Wheat Land! “ . " ' " ”

The area is becomin morelim- , That WE.“ all 2213,103ng comtldence, seat. gen 11 i n 8

use mg no legs "in. lo, said Mr. Biggins. It took great tact to leather uphol~

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being built. The day will soon .
_ come when there will be no Free Home- “The pension-examiner and the life- braced shafts.
needing land left. . wheels made.
; '33." ,,ICumn:..SukItchcw-n hm“. insurance doctor both called on me at mill mougliit fifth
:-- came to on Ill homestead - u w eel, rea lpng
' _ Much. moo. with about 01500 worth of the same ume' distance self oiling
I min-Kai) .mtd Utfi -————————- axle. kbiew style
. '0 when. . . . ' lit ct t .
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Conservation of Health Should

be the New Fad.

E hear a. great deal about con-
servation nowadays; conservation

of our national forests, of our
fuel supply, of the water power rights
of birds, flowers, fish and game. Conser-

vation is a. good word to use just at
present, it sounds as if we were right up
to the minute in our reading, and con-
sequently it is vcry much overworked.
Everything is being conserved, if we can

judge by the talk going on around US,
that is, everything but one thing, our
health.

Even there we hear a, great deal of
talk after the mischief is done. There
are hospitals and sanatorio to take care
of the folks whose health has been for-
feited. And there ismuch literature tell-
ing us how to prevent tuberculosis. But
most of the conservation work being done
regarding the health is like locking the
barn after the horse is stolen. “'9 fall
sick, then we spend money in time trying
to affect a cure or to prevent ourselves
getting worse.

It is so much easier to conserve our
health before we lose it. That is why
so few.of us do it, the process is so sim-
ple we slight it. All we nccd, if we are
normal at the beginning, is to take care
not to abuse our bodies. And by this I
mean to take care not only to feed them
the right sort of food, but to avoid over-
work 01‘ over-strain in any way.

Temperance, that is the great word. It
means temperance in eating, drinking,
sleeping. working and playing. Take just
enough plain, wholesome, nutritious food,
just enough health-giving drink, sleep at
least seven hours out of the 24 if you are
an adult, eight if you can, and for chil-
dren, eight or nine hours. Do not work
until you are so tired you do not know
how it feels to be rested, and plzly just
enough to be brightened up from your
work. In short, be an all-round person.

There is not 21 person living, except the
most poverty-stricken, who can not have
enough plain, good food to keep him in
trim. Especially on the farm where there
are milk and eggs in abundance, is it
easy to have :1 well-balanced ration. Yet

how many there are who sell ihe eggs
and feed the milk to the stock, while
their children grow up puny, undersich,

the victims of every childs’ disease, and
easy prey for tuberculOSis. Milk and c ’35
and lean meat are absolutely necessary
for the growing child. These, are the
foods of which the cells are made. while
the starches and fats give heat and en-
ergy. The mother who can not afford to
feed her growing children eggs, meat and
all too often has to afford in later
years the medicines and
heavy doctor bills.

And the older oncs nced the animal
foods as well. Baked goods and vcgcm~
blew do not cost as much as 1ch animal
foods, and to some they are easier to pre-
pare. Bcsides. the person who lives
largely on sweets and starches is more
apt to be plump than the one who sticks
to a balanced ration. But plumpness is
seldom an imlicution of health. It is your
spare, wiry person who usually lusts,
while the healthy—looking individual with
the'extra pounds of fat falls an ca<y
victim to diSease.

Regular hours of rest and sleep are as
essential to the conservation of health as
wholesome food. Of course, I do not mean
that there is never to be an eVening
party. Rather, that the evening parties
are to be the occaSional reward of well-
doing, instead of coming ihi-cc or four
nights out of the week. “'licn you stop
to think of it, do not the folks who are
up night after night, having a good time,
work harder fm- their fun and have far
less pleasure, than those wise ones who
sleep well six nights in the week, with
perhaps one night up until 11 p. m. or
midnight? The pleasure seekers lose out
all round. They not only fail to have
the good time they are going after, but
they end up with lost health and grouchy
tempers.

But there are many who eat sensibly

milk,
expense of

and sleep soundly, yet sin against health
in another way. They overwork. Now,
I know that to many this seems like a.
virtue rather than a vice, but it is just
as much of a sin to work so hard that
the body finally succumbs as it is to
commit suicide directly. To most women
it seems impossible to get along without
overworking. But the family could get
along with a. few less cookies or pies,
Susie’s dress could go untucked and the
children might be pressed into service in
the garden. Something might be left
undone in every household in order to
give the mother time to conserve her
health. If she works herself into sickness
or unto death, the family get along. Why
not let them get along while she is well
and with them?

The trouble with us all is that we are
prone to overdo everything. None of us
are satisfied with just enough. The dish
we like is so good we want just one more
helping; .we had so much fun at this
party we simply must go to that one to-
morrow night; this book was so enter-
laining we've got to read that one right
now; the washing dried this morningand
why not iron this afternoon? So we go,
without rest, and the result is damaged
health. Let us begin conservation of our
health while it will be {1 simple. matter.

DEBORAH.

ECONOMICAL LACE CURTAINS.

BY H. L. G.
Not very long ago while visiting the
home of a young married couple who had
just got nicely settled, my attention was
drawn to the lace curtains; not that they
were so novel nor unusually ornamental,
but that they were, so simple and prac-
tical, and were, as well, both restful to
look at and easily sccn through while
looking out. 'l‘hcy were made of plain,
ruthcr heavy net, hemmed without lacc
edging, and ornamented solely by inscr-
iion running across one side and the low-
cr end about six inches from the edge.
Those curtains were, of course, factory
mode.
Being a close friend and relative of
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The inscrtion reminded me
of some I had seen in one of the ten-
cent shops. This gave me an idea. Af-
ter examining all the details of making,
I decided I could improve on the work.

The sitting—room at home needed new
curlains, four of them. Accordingly, af-
lt'l' making measurements of the windows
and calculations as to materials needed.
I purchased five yards of double-width
cable net, which is something like two and
one-half yards wide; 15 yards of insertion,
one and one-fourth inches wide; 17 yards
of lace to match, two and one-fourth
inches wide. The lace and insertion were
prol-ured at theten-cent shop and looked
like iorchon. A spool of white cotton
thread, No. 40, and about ten yards of
1hree~eighths inch Battenbcrg braid made
up the rest of the list, the latter not be-
ing counted into the COSt as it was al-
ready at hand.

The piece of net was first trimmed
across the ends to make them even and
then cut into halves lengthwise; and each
of these out into halves across, thus mak-
ing four curtains, each having one"sel-:
vage side and one raw edge side. The
edges of the ends were turned over'

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three-eighths of an inch and pressed with
a moderately hot iron, then turned, 10-
gether with the selvage side, into a hcm
one inch wide and pressed again. This
is done first to guide one in placing the
insertion which is next applied. Lay the
insertion across one end six inches from
the hem and up the salvage side the
same distance away, turning a corner
and mitering instead of crossing at right
angles, and carefully haste the edges of
the insertion to the net. Stitch on a
chain—stitch machine. The work on such
a machine is liable to rave] if the thread
ends are not immediately fastened. Be
careful, also, to have the chain always
on the wrong side of the work. Should
a chain-stitch machine not be available,
the work must be done by hand, other-
wire the thread will break in laundering.
As soon as the insertion is stitched on
turn the curtain over on the table and
cut the net apart ccmerwise of the in-
sertion. (‘urc must be exercised here,
else one is liable to cut the insertion,
also. In cutting. follow the: dotted line
bctwcen the two heavy lines in the dia-

gram. Now. turn back the two out edges
barely lhrce—cighths inch. press, turn

again fully thi'ce-eighths inch, press. and
sew. A glance at the diagram will show
that the hem at the outer angle (mark-
cd X), has :1 Weak spot. rind will fray in
laundcring if not previously darned. This

need not cover so large a spot flSl to al-
tract attention. and take: but a few cx-
tru minutes. it is always better to do
the work so well in me first placc that
fussing afterwards is unnecessary. Tn
doing;r the work on these particular cur-
tains. the darning was done in 3 rec-

tangle so as 1‘0 fill out the vacancy in the
hem and turn :1 nice, square corner. The
stitching of the ends of the curtains
should be deferred until the net along
the aforesaid row edge side has been
turned over nearly ihrce—cighths of an
inch on the right side, pressed and cov-
ered neatly by hosting the Battenbnrg
braid over it and sewing the edges. This
gives a very ncut as well as a very dur-
able edge. After the hcm has been sown
in {It the ends and sclyac'o side. the lace
edging is next sewn on slightly full, with
umplc fullness to turn the corner.

\\'hen the four curtains were finished,
it was found that the fir—t cost was less
than five (loll-11‘s or slightly less than
one-half than the local shop-keepers ask-
ed for them. (53

HOME QUERIES.

 

Household Editor;—-‘Vhat is meant 'by

“sziutcing?”—Cook

“Sauteing” is what we commonly call
frying. cooking the food in a small
amount of fat in {he frying pan. Frying
reully means cooking.r in enough fat to
cover, as we do fried cakes.

Household Editm‘1—Hrrw
macaroni?—M. B

It should be .1 large quantity
of boiling, salted water until tender, then

do you cook

cooked in

draincd 21nd washed quickly in cold wat-
er. ’l‘hcn rcturncd to the stove and flu-
ishcd with tomato sauce and grated

(-hc-osc or a while sauce and cheese, or in
wliulcver way your recipe Miggests.
.llouschold laditor:*How much liquid is
eight ounces?—A Reader.

A half-pint, or one measuring cup.

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Household Editor:~l’lca:<é tell me how
old :1 child should be to lwgiii to feed it
something besides milk. and what would
be best to feed it?~.-\ Render.

The child should be at least six months
old, and it is better to wait seven months,
as the Salivary glands are not ready to
work before that age. Begin feeding a.
little dry toast or cracker, give it to the
child to nibble on and watch that it does
not get any lai‘ge'piece: in its mouth
that might choke it. After a week or
two you might give a very little well-
cooked furina or rice with milk, not sug-
ar. 0r give rolled oats if the child is
constipated. A little orange juice or.
scraped apple may be fed, too, if there is
any constipation. Add gradually other
starches, but avoid potato until after the
second summer, and do not feed other
coarse vegetables. After the first year
you can give a half an egg each day at
first, gradually increasing to a. whole egg.

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LETTER BOX.

‘ “A Good Preacher lees up to His Own

Teaching.”

My Dear Mistress Deborahz—Permit me
to remind you that it is a good preacher
who lives up to his own teaching. Surely,
if every man and woman would desist
from giving advice or suggest a way to
bring the cart out of the ditch into which
we have turned it, unless we asked them
to do so, We would resent their indiffer-
ence, as we now resent their interfer-
ence. Every one of us human beings is
an ingrate at bottom. \\'e are all ready
to avail ourselves of the voluntary assist-
ance of our neighbor when we need it,
we’d rather be saved the asking for it,
but when We are comfortable again we
look for some nice, handy stage trap to
take that officious fellow out of our way,
just like the boy in Goethe’s “Sorceer's
Apprenticez" “To your corners, brooms,
brooms ye were created to be spirits, just
to serve the master's purpose does he
call ye forth to action.”

No doubt it is a very comfortable doc-
trine on which you hold forth, but say,
who asked you to give that advice? I
did not. You vent‘ured. You have made
it your business, because you thought it
was right. I wonder where this good old
world Would be, or what would become of
it, without the. blessed busybodies who
voluntarily make the world's business
theirs instead of minding their own.
Moses could have lived comfortably at
the Egyptian court, enjoying its splen-
dor, sharing the greatness. But instead
of minding his own pleasant business, he
minded the sorrows and oppressions of
the Israelites, and went out with them,
leading them to freedom, to the worship
of the one and only God, to our Father
in Heaven who sent that Man of Sor-
rows, llis Only Begotten Son. down from
Ileaven to mind our busmess. to show us
the way to salvation, through love,
through service, through brotherlincss.
lie left His spirit with the world and it
those who do His work. Col-
umbus was one of them, so was Abraham

Lincoln, so is Thomas .l'ldistou, Marconi,

(‘lara Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Frances \Villard, Jane Addams. and oh,
thank God, ever so many. many more,

who enrich the world because they mind
our business and make, it their own.

No reform was ever started, no discov-
el‘y ever made, no Science perfected, no
invention given us- by the self-centered
cgolist. who minds his own business only.
The good woman. who rescued 150 little
girls at the age of 10 to 15 years, out Of
the clutches of the white slavcrs, was
attacked and beaten by the cadets. liv—
ing upon the proceeds of that traffic.
\thn complaining to the authorities
about it. she was told to mind her own
business! The nurse who goes to the
bedside of the typhoid patient in the
Slums, the physician who goes out to the
bubonic plague, the leprosy, the cholera
centers to help, as he may. to learn how
to help, as he ought: the missionary who
carries the gospel and with it the key to
unlock new countries for our enterprise,
for progress and enlightenment; the wom—
en who go out of comfortable homes into
the highways and byways to help the
half starved, overworked victims of av-
arice and unscrupulous egotism and help
them to secure better wages, better
homes, should they all mind their own
business instead? \\'hich is the better
woman. the one who folds her hands in
coimilacent severity, saying. “Thank lod,
my children are safe; I mind my own
bitsiite<sl” Or the one who carefully
guards her own, yet goes forth, too, to
wrench other mothers’ children from the
fox traps of greed and vice, from misery
of soul and body?

I grow melodramatic and there is no
occaSion. i just wanted to show that
each medal or coin has two sides. “’8

humans have the vices of our virtues and
vice versa. Those of us who are helpful
have a tendency to intrude and, at least,
with our own children, we are not to be
blamed if we are. over anxious. Just
when they have outgrown school, when
their budding scx conSCiousness makes
them the prey of temptations, they are
told by chums and companioi'is that they

'are old enough to take care, of themselves

and need not heed the. admonitions of an
old-fashioned, silly mother. But when
prison bars surround the boy, when the
deserted girl brings home the baby, the
reSult of a reckless runaway marriage,
then mother is to help, to cheer, to nurse,
to give up her last few pennies—Well,
well!

Enough said on the topic. My sermon-
izing is uncalled for, but it is the out-
come of the same Spirit which dictated

yours. We are both women, dear Debor-
ah, and it is not in our nature to just
“Mind our own business.”—F. H,

 

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Procure a quantity' of stick sulphur.
Have at hand the flowers you wish to
preserve; also iron pan to burn sulphur
in and square, wooden box to hang flow-
ers in during process.

Tack tw'o narrow pieces of wood re-
sembling perches for a. bird, on opposite
sideS; stretch four pieces of coarse wire
from one to the other for the bunches
of flowers to be suspended from. In pro-
curing a box the object is to obtain one
that is air-tight, but this can hardly be,
as it wouldn’t be any time until what
little oxygen the air contained would be
consumed, then the sulphur would no
longer burn. Bore a hole or two on one
side and close them by means. of'corks
when necessary.

Suspend the flowers from the wire in
loose clusters, arranging them according
to' size, using sound judgment. The
small flowers, such as forget-me-nots,
should be placed in dozens, while large
flowers, such as roses, would be from
two to three in a bunch.

Suspend from rods, as each cluster is
tied, placing far enough apart so as not
to touch each other. 'When you have
yOur rods all hung full, there will be four
rows. Now place your iron pan in the
bottom of the box and put about a quart
of clear, live coals in pan.

The prOcess begins when you sprinkle,

on about two or three ounces of sulphur.
previously crushed. The holes must be
corked up as soon as there is a good
supply of sulphur fumes “'rap the box
completely in a heavy blanket and leave
till next day at same time.

The flowers will be as natural in form
as when put in, if work has been a suc-
cess. The shade will be a dull creamy
white after the bleaching. However, they
will gradually lose this creamy tint and
assume their natural color, though fainter
in shade, if exposed to pure. dry air.

The flowers must be kept in a dry room
in the. shade. They will keep indefinitely
as to form and color, if the box has been
scaled air-tight and the work success-
fully done.

FASHIONS BY MAY MANTON.

 

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The above patterns will be mailed to
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

(Continued from page 490).

W. G. Edens, of the Illinois Highway
Improvement Association, laid the pres-
ent high cost of living to decreased per
capita production from the soil, lack of
good roads and lack of financial assist-
ance for farmers.

Geo. \Voodruff. of Joliet, Ill., outlined
the various farm credit systems in Eu-
rope, stating that, owing to peculiar ex-
isting conditions, the rates of interest
in all are higher than is usually reported.

“Co-operation is conservation." stated
Lieutenant Governor McKelvic, of Ne-
braska. “If we would encourage the

farmer in deriving the maximum produc-
tion from the land, we must join him in
the economical marketing of products as
a means of insuring a larger profit on
larger crops. In the past he has often
found a poor crop in a lean year more
profitable than a large crop in a good
year.”

Dean Homer C. Price, of the Ohio Col-
lege of Agriculture, outlined the various
German credit systems. He also empha-
sized the fact that merely because a plan
worked well in another country it would
not necessarily be satisfactory here on
account of our different customs, laws
and conditions. He described the possi-
bilities of a state land mortgage bank

that would be possible under American
conditions and through which money
could be had at a low rate on land se-
curity.

“Improving Farm Credits in America,"
was the subject of an excellent address
by B. F. Harris, of the Illinois Bankers'
Association. He stated that in farming
we ,are looking for a big yield other than
mere bushels; so in farm financing we
are striving for :1 greater gun! than easy
money. The farmcr himself is the great-
est problem.

The industrious application of honesty
and good judgment is the basis of credit
with the. farmer as with any other busi-
ness. The farmer with these attributes
on a decent farm makes the ideal debtor,
and the average country banker appre—
ciates this fact. Census figures: justify
the statement that the farmer has stood
still during the past ten years? Too few
have the real constructive idea and in~
stead of using their ready money to im-
prove their farms up to the new farm
basis, they use it in making a first pay-
ment on an adjoining farm or on anoth-
er, miles away. “We can’t afi‘ord to fur-
nish money at any price for
‘land skimmers’ and ‘soii
said Mr. Harris.

ALFALFA GROWERS ORGANIZE.

 

Kent county was first in Michigan to

engage a farm demonstrator and is first;
.1150 to organize to boost that great for-l

age crop, alfalfa. The Kent County Al-
falfa Growers’ Association was organized
in Grand Rapids, April 2, with J. H. Skin-
ner, who is at the head of the farm bu—
reau work, as general manager. The al—
falfa campaign will be carried to the
homes of farmers in a unique manner.
namely, by automobile train, and a gen-
eral campaign committee has been ap—
pointed as follows: 'le. Mollow, chair—
mun; Milo H. Edison, J. H. Brewer, (1‘.
Ilunsbei'ger, James Patterson, H. I).
Perkins, Chas Holden and J. H. Skinner.

Ch:1i1‘men of other committees are as
follows: Auto (ruin. Lee ll. Bierce;
finance, J. H. Brcwcr; schools, County
Commissioner Freeland: publicity, E. J.
McDonald. Local managers for the dif-
ferent townships have been selected as
follows: Frank Church, Tyrone: J. B.
Maynard. Slilon; Reuben Furnum, Nel-

son; John Griswold, Spencer; Chas. Rice,
Sparta; Chas. R. Allmand, Algoma; Chas.

Carlyle, Courtlund; Cha i. Godfrey. Oak-
field; 'Wm. H. Oliver. Alpine; C. Iiuns-
berger, Plainfield; Bert Rumsdell. Can-

non; E, P. Nash, Grattzin; John Preston,
“Valker; H. D. Perkins. Grand Rapids;
W'm. Stonebreaker, Ada; J. E. Tower,
Vergennes; Martin Boersma, “'yoming;
Valentine Gieb. Gaines; Thos. Johnson,
Cascade; Earl Curtis, Lowell; Jerome Lil-
lie, Byron: J. E“. Patterson. Paris; Mzm-
uel Wilson, Caledonia; John Livingston,
Bowne.

It is the purpose of this campaign to
show alfalfa to be the most wonderful
forage crop known to man, that it can be
grown anywhere in Kent where drainage
is good, and that every farmer can with
profit, raise from 10 to 40 acres. Quite
a start has already been made, with a
number of fields of 40 to 60 acres, but
the acreage is relatively very small on
the 5.000 farms of the county.

The campaign will be conducted along
lines similar to the one recently conduct-
ed in Sangamon county, [11. Starting
from Grand Rapids the train, or proces-
sion of 25 or more automobiles, with able
speakers headed by I‘rof. Perry G. Hol-
den, the famed corn expert, who is now
in agricultural extension work, will pro-
ceed from place to place. where meeting
points have been previously arranged for,
spending probably an hour in a place,
and will cover the county in this man—
ner. Moving picture films will enliven
the evening meeting“, soils will be tested
and there will be many practical dcmon~
strations to arouse local interest.

The Grund,Rapids meeting was at-
tended by leading representatives of [he
Pere Marquette and the Grand Rapids &
Indiana railroads, who are showing great
interest in the movement. also by Mr.
Williams, a banker of Allegan county,
representing the Michigan Bankers’ As-
sociation. The state bunkers are giving
special attention to farm development
work and exhibits of farm and orchard
products are not uncOmmon now in the
lobbies of banks in Traverse City and
elsewhere. Mr. Williams is an enthusias-
tic alfalfa man and has had great suc-
cess with this crop on very light soils in
Allegan county. It is probable that an
alfalfa campaign will be conducted in Al—
legan county, following the one in Kent,

’with the same speakers and demonstrat-

ors who serve here.

Kent Co. A. GRIFFIN.

  

 

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A Successful Co-operative Laundry

 

The little town of. Chatfield, Minne-
sota, enjoys the distinction of having the
first successful co-operative laundry con-
ducted by farmers; at least, we have not
been informed of another farmers’ laun-
dry conducted on a co-operative basis.
This laundry was organized and estab-
lished in 1912 and according to the pa-
trons, it has already merited its place in
the list of prespering co-operative enter-
prices.

The laundry was the result of educa-
tion and accident. Since 1889 farmers of
the surrounding community had conduct-
ed a co—opcrative creamery at Chatfield,
and the success of working together in
the creamery business paved the way
for extending the benefit to other lines.
They became educated to the idea of
co-operation so that when the suggestion
was made that a co-operative laundry be
established, it did not take long to bring

the e<tablishment into being. And the
suggestion came about something like
this: .-\ few years ago the men working

about the creamcry fixed up an old churn
in the engine room of the creamei'y build-
ing and used it' for doing their washing.
The plan worked to the entire satisfac-
tion of the men, who after reflection
thought of the possibility of using the
power provided by the crcamcry and the
water and heat that are naturally wasted
in butter-making processes, for doing
the washing of the farmers who brought
their milk there. Later when the mat-
ter was presented to the board of direc-
tors it met their approval, with the
above results.

.\ special incorporated body was or-
ganizcd to undertake the venture. The
crcanicry company built an addition to
their crcaincry and so arranged it as to
take advantage of the power and heat
available, and then rented this building
to an organized co—opcrative laundry as-
sociation composed almost entirely of the
members of the creamery association.

The business was inaugurated in a
manner that gained and kept the conti-
dcncc of all. The company was incor-
porated with a capital stock of $5,000,.
dividcd into 1.000 shurcs of $5.00 each. No
one individual purchased more than five
shares, there being 230 shareholders in
all. Many of the successful officers of
the crcamcry were elected to similar
oiliccs in the new association. A compe-
tent laundrynian who had had much ex-
perience was selected to oversee the work
of equipping the plant and to take gen-
eral charge of the laundry. These steps
paved the way to busineSs success.

As indicated above, every advantage
was taken to secure the greatest econ-
omy in the combination of the two en-
terprises. Labor is utilized to its best
advantage by having the engine room
placed between the laundry and the
creamery. _An elevated tank was con-
structed in which the overflow of water
that is run through the ripeners is pump-
ed while the exhaust steam from the en-
gine is adequate to beat this water to a
sufficiently high temperature for laundry
purposes. Another tank is provided to
store water for rinsing.

There is also economy over the ordi-
nary laundry methods, in delivering the
clothes to the laundry and returning
same. Selling cream to the creamery
makes necessary two or three trips, eith-
er by the farmer or a cream collector, to
the creamery every week, which service
affords an inexpensive means of getting

5.3.; APRIL 19,4913 .

being members of the association or not:
~those belonging receiving a larger per-
centage of the net proceeds than those
not members.

The prices charged for the first few
months were merely temporary and were
intentionally made high to cover any
surprise expenses that might comew up for
payment. The charge for a family wash-
ing was put at five cents per pound,

which included the.ir0ning of all flat
work, underwear, shirts, hosiery, etc.
Pieces that require hand-ironing are

charged for according to the time re-
quired to do the work by an expert hand
ironcr. \Vhile these prices are high and
will probably be reduced it is believed
from the experience gained in the run—
ning of the laundry thus far that the
laundry work of the average family will
amount to about two dollars a month.

The farmers and their wives are en-
thusiastic over the business and already
they wander how it was that they ever
got along without it.

 

COLD STORAGE ON THE FARM

 

One of the great problems to be work~
ed out by fruit growers is what to do
with the fruit crop after it is grown. Mr.
Clark Allis, president «of the New York
State Fruit Growers’ Association, thinks

 

 

 

 

 

Engine and Shipping Room of Mr. Clark Allis’ Private Cold Storage Plant.

the laundry to the community washers
and back again.

The business is financed on a strictly
co-operative basis. First, the expense
Of Operation and upkeep are taken from
the gross proceeds. Then rent and inter-
est‘ at the rate of six per cent on the
money inveSted in equipment are paid.
The remainder is rebatcd to the custom—
crs according to the amount of work
they have had done and the fact, of their

he has solved the problem in erecting a
private cold storage on the. farm.

There are three things that stand be-'
tween the average farmer and this goal
that Mr. Allis has reached, to-wit: The
quantity of apples, the money to build,
and the farm located upon the line of
railroad. There is a plan, however, by
which these objections may in a way be
overcome. I refer to the co-operative
plan and some are putting it into practice.'

 

 

 

inside View of a Co-operative Laundry Run In Connection with

 

 

a Co-bperative Creamery at Chatfield, Minn.

 

 

 

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3‘APRIL 19, 1913.

A description of the Clark Allis & Son
plant may be interesting to the readers
of the Michigan Farmer: The main build-
ing is 48x70 feet. The packing ‘and ship-
ping room is 35x50 feet, with a basement
capacity of 15,000 barrels, and with room
for 5,000 barrels more on short storage.

The building is built as follows: The

roof is non-rusting galvanized iron, heav-
ily graveled on top, six inches of shav-
ings and two thicknesses of building pa-
per underneath. The sides are. matched
siding, eight inches of fine shavings, pa-
per, matched lumber, paper, matched
lumber. The floors are similar. The

- building has three stories and a base-

ment. Each floor has two storage rooms
and each room is a unit by itself, i. e.,
there is a separate system or cooling
plant for each room. At one end of the
building is an ice chamber with a ca-
pacity of 800 tons, with heavy doors op-
ening into the rooms next to and ad-
joining it.

The refrigeration system used provides
a separate tank for each room. These
tanks are located upon the top floor. are
filled with coiled pipe heavily insulated.
These pipes connect with a double coil in
the storage room which hangs from celi-
ing, (see illustration on page 508). These
pipes are filled with calcium chloride
strong enough not to freeze. An ice
crusher is also located on the top floor
which discharges crushed ice into any
tank. As it goes in salt is scattered into
the crushed ice. The quantity of salt
regulates the temperature of the solution,
i. e., the more salt the more cold. As
soon as the solution cools gravity takes
the denser brine into the storage room
below and the brine warmed by the ab-
sorption of heat from the rooms replaces
it without pumping. The melted ice and
salt finally go through a pipe into the
basement, cooling it with the drip. The
storage rooms when in use are never
warm enough to thaw ice. Lump calcium
chloride is placed into the trays, and this
draws the dampness from the rooms, thus
preventing the frost from coating the
pipes by the dripping. This adds much
to the cooling capacity of the pipes. Once
a day in warm weather, and once in sev~
eral days in cold weather, will suffice for
filling the tanks with ice and salt. One
man cares for the storage.

The plant is equipped with two gaso-
line engines for running fans, forcing in
cold air from outside and warm air from
a. heated room located in the building. in
zero weather. The power is also used for

hoisting barrels, ice and running the ele-

vator. There are 200 square feet of plat-
form around the building for unloading
from wagons and loading into cars.
New York. \V. C. EATON.
DIRECT MARKETING PROVES SUC-
CESSFU L.

 

From the reports of both producers and
consumers who have undertaken to sell
and buy directly according to the direc-
tiOns which have been published in recent
issues of the Michigan Farmer. we have
received the most sanguine encourage-
ment as to the efficiency of the Nomid
plan of distributing some of our farm
products. Consumers are delighted since
they have been getting a superior quality
of produce at a reasonable price, and the
happiness of the producers lies in a rev-
elation as to the ease. with which goods
are delivered to consumers, in the words
of satisfaction from the letters coming
to them asking for larger orders and in
the better prices and prompt payments
made. I

And these gratifying results have come
in a most unfavorable season. Speaking
generally, prices have held to a lower
level than during most normal years be-
cause of increased prOdiiction, and that
particularly along those certain lines that
enter more specially into direct commerce
between producer and consumer. Under
such a condition of heavy supply it is
well known that margins of profits are
naturally smaller than during a scarcity.
and to have the direct plan work so fav—
orably when conditions do not offer even
ordinary advantages. is most welcome
news in a time when the great question
of marketing looms large and black upon
the horizon of agricultural economics.

The Michigan Farmer will continue to
keep its readers informed along the line
of better marketingil Not only will read-
ers find in these columns. expositiOns on

the most advanced theories in direct and_

co—operative distribution, but'actual ex-
amples, illustrated in many instances,
will be given to show in. a. clear, uncola

ored manner What practical men' are now '

doing to cut down the cost of getting
farm products to thewfinal consumer.

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Asc'n.. avid Woodman. Soo'y.- rena..Paanw. Mich.
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Herd. consisting of Trojan Ericns. B ackbirds and
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AYRSHIRES“°“...° 0: mm... d...

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GUERNSEY BULL CALVES,
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HICKS GUERNSEY FAIll. Saginaw. W. S.. Mich.
10 "e . GuCIIISG gulghready for service. Large
Moi"... .. narrates: starter
GUERNSEYS—Bull calves. reg" tuberculin tested. Splen-

‘did breeding. Moderate pricel Wlndomoro Farm. Water-
vliet. Mich. J, K. Blatchford. Auditorium Tower. Chicago. Ill.

HEREFORD BULLS FOR SALE éfiifiapi’iggg
ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Mich! an.
IIA'I‘CI III'IRII IIOISTEINST.‘§‘8‘%ZE§ET”§2°£
enable prices. HATCH HERD. Ypsilanti. Michigan.
GHOICE Bull Calves from A. R. 0. demo. Sized by

our hard sire whose dam and site's dam each made
over 30 lbs. In 7 days E. R. Cornell. H0well. Mich.

A riiw cnoicr tranc'irwal 33.12:?
GBEGOBYAcBORDEN. Bowen. Mlchlgan.

FOII SALE—MIST!“ BU". CAIF

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'Conoordia’l Poul DoKo]. her 3:1]: nglb'. Imported cow.
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l8; Martha". Mich.

H2232?!" BDLLi—wetll bro]? at reasonable places.
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I‘I OLSTE IN CATTLE

The Greatest Dairy Breed
Sand for FREE Illustrated Becki-h
Holstein-Friction. Auo.. Box I64. Brnltleboro.Vt.

“Top-Notch" Holsteins.

Yearling bulls all sold. Choice bull calves from 2 to
7pm. ol . _ol fashionable breeding and from dams
With omcial milk and butter records for sale at
reasonable prices. .

MOPHEISON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlohlyln.

Service Bulls and Bull calves

Slml by Johann Corcordla Champion,

whose site"s dam and dnm’s dam average 34.06
lbs. butter in 7 days, average fat 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

Brocdsvillo, Mich.
Have for sale several fine young
bulls out of cows with high official
butter and milk records.

Send for circular.

FAIR LAWN FARM

Offers the following young

Holslein, Friesian Bull

Prince Sarcastic—

Fine in form and breeding. Beautifully marked.
Sure to please you.

REED a KNOWLES, Howell, Mich.
LONG BEACH FARMS.
IIOLSTEIII BULL GALVES

WORLD RECORD STOCK. from $75 to $250
Augusta,(Kalamazoo Co.) Mich. F. S. Kenileld, Prop.

 

 

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REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COW, 7 yrs. old. Fresh
Inst. Sept.. bred to A.R.O. son of Pieter-tie Henger-
voids Count. De Kol. Dark markings, fine breeeding
and individuality. $225 delivered. Hobart WfiFny, Mason. Mich.

BULL CALVES

Oflered by YPSILAND FARMS, Y sllantl. Mich.
Home of Milk and Butter State hampions.

They Keep It Up
There are some cattle that give more
milk when the are fresh than aJei-sey.
but there isn' any breed that gives as
rt milk' as

:hI‘he Jersey

at as small feeding cost. nor to there
any breed of cattle that will keep it up
like Jerseys will, your in and year out.

That’s why you ought to buy Jerse s to
increase your herd'a efficiency. and
for Jersey facts.

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' —Registered Jersey Cattle. tuberculin test-
F0r.sale ed: bulls and bull calves: heifer and heifer
calves: cows with Register of Merit. and Cow Testing
Association records. IRVIN FOX. Allegan. Mich.

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.

COLON C. LILLIE. Coonenvllle. Mich.

—Bulls ready for service, bred for
JOI'SOYS pioduction. Also cows and heifers
Brookwater Farm. H. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

— 1

Dairy Bred Shorthorns 2.282333
at present. J_. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.

—Large Catfish—Heavy Milken.

Dairy Shorlhom' Milk Records of all cows kept.

No stock for sale at present.
W. W. KNAPP. R. No. 4. Watervliet. Mich.

Scolcli Shorlhorn llulls and Muller: For Sale.

W. W. KNAPP, Howell, Michigan.
SHEEP.
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRES s
7 1 line Ram. 3 Ewes & 3 Lambs, all for 5 O
O. D. WOODBURY. Lansing. Mich.
“BREED UP YOUR SIIIEEP” $33.31;: "$33.33
" h , 3
PARSONS: RTNeoglfgrgdrfdi £23K; girlish.
flog. Bamobuillcl Sheep. Pure Bred Poland China
H

068 and PERCHERON HORSES. 2% miles
E. Morrioe. on G. T. R. R. and M. U. R. J.Q. A. COOK.

SHROPSI‘IIRES 6 DUROCS

KOPE-KON FARM. Klnderhook. Michigan
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' ' —A Desirable Bunch of Saws of
llllfllcs & VIGIOINIS Either Bread due A ril and May.
M. '1‘. Story. R. B. 48 Lowell, ioh, ity Phone 55.

BERKSHIRES Choice spring boars and gilts.
riced to move quick. Farmers
stock. ELMHURS STOCK FARM. Almont. Mich,
' ' ' —Best breeding; best. type.
Quick Maluring Berkshires gamma... guaranteed
or money refunded. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.

0 I 0 —Big growthy typo. last. fall gilts and this
0 - 0 spring farrowto offer. Very good stock.

Scott No. 1 head of herd. Farm 56 mile west. of depot,
OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

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Sow waionan 932 LBS.
A 23 MONTHS o D

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IONIA GIRL

I have started more breeders on the road to anc-
0053 than any man living. I have thelargest and tin.
cat hard 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

9rd. Write for my plan.“How to cite Money from
.3088." G. 8. BENJAMIN. R.No. l 0 Portland. Mlo‘h.

‘lr Write me for

O. l. C. 6 [NE [ice on Spring .
Pigs, airs and trioa, not. akin. ave a number1
of serv co males of good ty 0. Write me describing .
of your wants. A. J. GORDEL‘N. R. No. 2 Don. Mich. 1

     

 

o I c Extra choice bred gilts, service hours 3
I I I and spring pigs. not. akin from State
Fair winners. Avondnlo Stock Farm, Wayne. Mich, l

o I c’ -—-all sold. Orders booked for April ‘
I I s and May pigs of the choicest breeding.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan

0 l C, —All sold. will book orders for
o 0 So March pigs.
ALBERT NEWMAN. Marlette. Michigan
9 —Bred sows, March igs pairs and
0- I. C s trios. Buff Rock .323 8150 per-15.
FRED NICKEL R. 1. Monroe. Michigan.
—Boars all sold. A few gilts of
0- '- Co extra quality, bred or open.
GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mich.

0 l C’s—All 3 es. growthy and large. Males
0 I ready. 00m select; from. Attractive rices
on young stock. H. H. JUMP, Munith. Mic .

'llli't‘l'tiiéilsdiitiiiiii's‘i‘t‘mii? is
a . ' .
Broolgwnter Form, B. F. D. No. 7. ‘Alnli‘ufrfisf, Mnilclfi

MILES Ill. sou: BUT out-“33st“ tiniest:
Station A. Bay City. Mich. Route 4. Box 81.

F 'l A f ['1 t l f ‘
aim Jerseys arm. £323.? amt Ali‘ibé’f
price 825 each. lII. A. BRAY. Okemoe. Michigan.

UROCS BBED SOWS l l . ' .
1)“),50 8.1 so d Servtce Boers $40

. Jnnunr ' igs $12 to 815, either sex. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. 1%.98. Cook. Route 2. Stanwood, Mich.

DUROC JERSEYS—DRE!) Gills FOR SALE.
CAREY U. EDMONDS, Hastings. Michigan.
DUROB JERSEY GILIS’EflJT” Wit-li’teaipoi $35332?
I pay the express. J. H. BANGHART. Lansing. Mich.
POIANII CHIVAS—flit iiiffit‘i’textn‘iiifiz‘é‘f

Prices right. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

~Largest in Michigan. Bred ilts
Large TYPO P. c- all sold, have some good Sgcpt.
and Oct. pigs that have size, bone and quality. Write
your wants or come and see. Expenses paid if not as re-
presented. Freelivery. W.E. Livingston,Parma.Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA BOAR—Cheap or
. WI“ exchange for sow. A few light weight:
gilts left. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Michigan.

PolANn CnlNAS—Either sex. all ages, Some-
p. 1). LONG. R. No. athci'ignfiwilagids? hilarity:
P C. BflARS AND SOWS—m‘et’pe'simd

.A. A. woon & SON. Salingy Mlgcxfiifgifin'

ARGE Yorkshires—Cholce breedin at k 11
L not akin, from State Fair prize-swisger: 333?:
grees furnished. W. C. COOK. R. 42 Box 22,Ada. M‘ch.

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. or .
WATEllMAN. Ann Arbor. Might) Mecdfig‘figgfigm‘?

 

 

 

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

April 15, 1913’.
Wheat—The market has suffered a res
action since reaching the high mark of
last XVednesday. quotations being about
3c below the market for that date. Deal-
ers are attempting to strike a balance
between the splendid outlook for the new

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III

  

 

crop in this country and the heavy de-
mand that comes to us from England

and the continent of Europe. It would
hardly be possible to imagine a more per-
feet stand of the grain than is pictured

by reporters from almost every section
of the winter wheat belt, while on the
other hand, exporters are buying wheat

on every dip of prices here showing that
the market abroad is anxious for the
grain and that present prices seem to be
near the point where they will buy. It is
known that much wheat will have to go
into Europe to satisfy the call from that
quarter of the world. The visible supply

decreased 1,314,000 bu, and the amount
on passage increased 4.128.000 bu. One
year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat

was $1.08 per bu. Detroit quotations for

the week are:

No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. May. July.

Thursday ....1.111/2 1101/2 1111/2 , 93%
Friday .......1.11 1.10 1.11 9331,,
Saturday ..... 1.10% 1.09% 1.10%.. 93%,
Monday ...... .09 1.08 1.09 92%,
Tuesday . . . . . 1.08 1.07 1.08 921/;
Chicago, (April l4).——i\'o. 2 red wheat,

$1.08; May, 9098c; July, 893.90

New York, (April 14). No. 2 red, $1.14
f. o. b. afloat; May. 981,131“; July, 970.

Corn.~l)espite the reduction of wheat
values corn prices have held steady with
those of last week. “’hile weather con-
ditions show improvement in most of the
corn growing states farmers are not tak—
ing advantage of it to deliver corn so
much as they are to push forward farm
work. The decrease in the visible supply
amounts to 2.307.000 bu. The demand
appears to be holding steady. One year
ago the price for No. 3 ctrn was 791,430
per but on this market. Local quotations

 

for the. past week are:

No. 3 N0. 3

Corn. Yellow.
Thursday . ................ 56 561/._,
Friday .................... 56 561,9
Saturday ................. 56 57
.Monday ................... 56 57
Tuesday ................. 56 57

Chicago, (April l4).—No. 3 corn,551/§61)
56c; May, 55‘/,,c; July, 551/31); Sept, 563.360.

Oats—Again oats has shown a dispo-
sition to be different from the other
grains for, instead of its declining with
wheat, the market has advancwl. The
price change amounts t.) a full cent.
There is an improved demand from farm-
ing sections where thc cereal is not
grown in quantities to feed Work ani-
mals during the season of spring farm
operations. Receipts are small. The vis—
ible supply shows a decrease. of 703.000
bu. One year ago the local price for
standard oats was 62c per bu. Detroit
quotations for the past week are:

No. 3
Standard. White.
Thursday . .. 38 37
Friday ..... 38 37
Saturday ....... . ..... . .. 381/3 371/2
Monday .......... . . '39 38
Tuesday 39 38

Chicago, (April 14).-No. 2 white, 3661i
361/;c; standard. 3561:3594c; May, 341/2c;
July, 341,4,»c; Sept, 3378c per bu.

- Beans.—Slight improvement shows in
the price for beans; however, the local

market is sluggish and very little busi-
ness is done. immediate, prompt ship-
,ment is now quoted at $2 per 131)., as is
ialso May delivery.

I Chicago, (April 14).—No change has oc—

‘curred in bean quotations at this point.
The market is slow. Pea beans, hand-
picked, fancy, quoted at $2.20612.25; do.

choice, $2.05612.10;
kidneys, $1.75612.25;
612.75 per bu.

Clover Seed.-~~.\lthough the past Week
has been an active one in the clover secd
deal, prices for common grades are un—
changed and alsikc is down 250. Cash
seed is now quoted at $13.25 and prime
alsike at $12.50 per bu.

Toledo, (April l4).~-\\'ith conditions
about the same as a week ago, cash seed
is being ex'changcd at $12.05 pcr bu. and
April at $13.60; prime alsike, cash, $12.55
per bu.

Timothy Seedrir-Thi‘s deal is unchanged
with trade inoderatcly active. Prime spot
sold Tuesday at $1.70 per bu.

Toledo, (April SLACash timothy seed
rules steady, being quoted at $1.70 per
bu; $0111., $1.95 per bu.

Rye.—»'l‘his cereal rules higher than last
week, with a noticeable improvement in
the demand. No. 2 rye is now quoted at
62c per bu.

Chicago. (April
higher under a
iye 63c per bu.

Barley.—-Chicago.

$1.806T/185; red
$2.130

prime.
white kidneys,

14).—Quotations
better demand. N0.

are
2

(April 8).—-Quotations

for this grain range from 4660690 per
bu., the. highest figure. being 10 above

the top limit for last week.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

 

Flown—Jobbing lots in 1,4, paper sacks
are selling on the Detroit market per 196
lbs. as follows: Rest patent, $5.60; see-
0nd_ $5.20: straight, $4.90; spring patent,

bl.

$5.10: rye flom‘. $4.60 per b
Feed. «Detroit jabbing prices in 100-
lb, sacks are as followg: Bran, $23;

coarSe mkhlhngs. $23; fine middlings, $27;
cracked ccrn. $22.50: coarse corn meal,
$22.50; corn and out chop, $22 per ton.

THE MICHIG

Hay.—Poor" roads have reduced offer-
ings and prices are improved with the
demand fair. Carlots on track at DetrOit

are: No. 1 timothy, $14@14.50; No. 2,
$126113; iight mixed. $13.50@14; N0. 1
mixed, $126113 per ton.

Chicago—Market higher, largely due
to reduced receipts. Choice timothy,
$186,119 per ton; No. 1, $166017; No. 2 and,
No. 1 mixed, $146015; N0. 3 and No. 2
mixed. $7.50@11.50; clover, »$7.50@12.50;
alfalfa, choice, $1.7.506i«18.50; do. N0. ,
“550611750 per .ton; do. No. 2, $12.50@
14.50.

Straw.—Stcady. Carlot prices on wheat
and oat straw on Detroit market are $8
8.50 pcr ton. rye straw, $196th per ton.

Chicago—Lower for rye and wheat
straw and higher for oat. Rye, $86119;
wheat straw, $5.506126.50; oat straw, $6.50
$7.50 per ton.

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Butter.—All markets are strong at last

week’s revised figures with some reac-
tion from the sharp decline noted in

some instances. This strength is credited
to the backward spring and to highway
conditions which have hampered the de-
livery of cream, and is therefore regard-
ed as temporary. The 10 advance at El-

gin on Monday developed a firmer feel-
ing in all markets, but local values are
unchanged. Detroit jobbing prices rule
as follows: Fancy creamery, 330 per lb:
firsts, 311/20; dairy, 24c; packing stock,
220.

Elgin.——Market firm at 33c.

Chicago—This market reports rather
limited offerings and an unexpectedly
good demand. Values, however, remain
practically unchanged, ‘with stocks well

cleaned up and the market in good shape.
Quotations are: ‘Extra creamery, 34c;
extra firsts, 3360331/2e; firsts, 32c; sec-

onds, 2861300; dairy extras, 31@32c; firsts
28c; seconds, 250; packing stock, 12617241420
as to quality.

New York—After a decline of 1@1%c,
creamery values in this market are more
nearly on a part with other markets.
Qutltations are: Creamery extras, 351/20;
firsts, 34%61‘3511 seconds, 331/26111l4c; state
dairy, finest, 346135c; good to prime, 31
613%; common to fair, 27611300; packing,
206124c as to quality.

Eggs. Eggs continue in the firm posi-
tion they occupied a week ago. The
ticnd of values has been slightly upward
during the week in Spite of heavy offer-
ings at all points. The local quotation
slmws a gain of 1/_.c. At Detroit current
offerings. candied. and cases included,
are qtiotcd at 181/,3c per dozen.

Chicago—Very firm with nearly all
grades showing a fractional advance, Mis-
cellaneous receipts, caSes included, are
quoted at 176118c; do., cases returned,
1(31,§611171/é(‘; ordinary firsts, 16%601734c;
firsts. 173461>18c; storage packed, firsts,
181236118340.

New York.—-Values generally are a lit-
tle higher than last week but offerings
are heavy and the market is reported
weak. Fresh gathered extras, 21c;firsts,
Nil/361201.; fresh gathered storage packed,

 

firsts. 191,4261‘201/2c; western gathered,
whites. 20611210
Poultry.—The approach of the Jewish

holidays is giving strength to poultry and
all kinds are firm. In the local market
hens have set a new mark by advancing
a full cent. Quotations are: Live.—
Spring chickens, 17942613180; hens, 181/26!)
lite; No. hens, 15617160; old roosters,
12c; turkeys, 1961200; geese, 1561‘151/20;
ducks, 18612th per lb.

Chicago‘Live chickens, in light supply

and quoted higher. Market firm in all
departments. The quotations on live
are: Turkeys, good weight, 15c; others,
10c; fowls, good, 171/2c; spring chickens,

171/2c; ducks, large, fat, 18c; do. thin, or-
dinary, 156016c; geese, full feathered, 120;
do., plucked, 8&100 per lb; guinea hens,
$4 per dozen. °

Cheese. Steady;
lots, Michigan flats,
old, 161/261‘17c; New
new, 1661\161/2c; old, 186i181/2c; brick
cream, 1462141/2c; limburger, 18@19c.

Veal. Steady; values unchanged from
last week. Fancy, 136171140; common, 11
6112c.

Chicago.~Market recovering from the
recent slump and all grades are higher.
Fair to choice, 8061110 lbs.,.1261113c; extra
fancy stock, 131/20; fair to good chunky,
11156112140.

unchanged. “’holesale
new, 131/2 @14c;
York flats,

 

 

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

 

Apples.—The deal continues about
steady with last week. Detroit quota-
tions now are: Fancy. per bbl., $2.50@

3.50: ordinary, 75c6l $1.50 per bbl.

rules steady with a

Chicago—il‘rade
fair demand and ample supply. Standard
winter varieties. $2614.50 per bbl.

Potatoes.—A.'\lthough the stock of pota-
toes iii Detroit is not large. the daily re-
ceipts run quite. heavy and keep the mar-
ket favorable for the buyers. Values re-
main unchanged. Michigan stock in car
hits, 4361450 rer bu.

Chicago—Receipts have shown a de-
cided falling off this week both as com-
pared with last week and a year ago.
Fancy Michigan stock, 4361*45c peir bu;
best “liseonsin, 406i>45c; Minnesota, 40@
45c per bu.

WOOL.

 

t
Boston—Locally there is nothing to in-
terest the grower except that the market
is cleaning up to be ready for the new

clip. Although attention is diverted to
the wool-growing sections there is too
little buying yet to establish values. A
few purchases have been made in the

southwest and west at prices 00mparable
with those prevailing in 1912. Sheepmen
are holding for good prices since they
feel that there is a wide enough market
for all the wool that is produced at good
quotations, while.buyers are uncertain as
to the future condition of the trade in

. heifers

AN FARM'ER.’

this country because of tariff legislation
and point to the possibility of purchasing
their supplies in a world market.

 

 

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS,

Buffalo.
April 14, 1913.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, New York).
Cattle.

Receipts. 140 cars, which was the same
number received one week ago. Market
10c lower. Bent 1350 to 1500—lb. steers,
35880612910; good prime 1200 to 1300-lb.

 

do., 55875611885; good to prime 1100 to
1200-lb. do., $8.25 ((18.50; coarse, plainish
1200 to 1300—lb, do., $7.2561}7.85; medium

butcher steers, 1000 to 1100, $7.506v8.10;
butcher steers, 950 to 1000 lbs., $73561)
7.90; light butcher steers, $6.85@7.35; best
fat cows, 8675611750; butcher cows, $5.50
6126.25; light do., $4.75@5.25; trimmers,
$375604; best fat heifers, $7.75@8.50; me-
dium butcher heifers, $6.756i)7.95; light

butcher heifers, $6616.50; stock heifers,
$5.25615.50; best feeding steers, $7.256!)

7.50; fair to good do., $675607; prime ex-
port bulls, $7.256117.50;'best butcher bulls,
$6.75@7.25; bologna bulls, $5.756r6.50; stock

bulls, $525606; beet milkers and spring-
ers, $68@80; common to fair kind, $406050.
Hogs.

Receipts, 80 cars, campared with 100
one week ago. Market steady. Heavy.
55950613960; mixed, $9.65619.70; yorkers,
55965611970; pigs, $9.70@9.75.

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts, 80 cars. compared with 75 for
Monday of last week; lower. “7001 lambs
$51.151119.35; culls to fair, $7.506L9.10; clip—

ped lambs, $8618.15; yearlings, $8608.50;
wethers, $7.506iz7.75; ewes, $7@7.25.

Calves, $5@12.25.

Chicago.
April 14, 1913.

 

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 28,000 35,000 20,000
Same day last year..22,122 33,293 23,836
~Received last week...50.615 104,008 89,179
Same week last ycar.41,371 120,114 76,108

Too generous receipts of cattle today;
following the liberal supplies of last week
made a bad market for steers, which
were very slow of sale at reductions of
1061:15c, but butcher stock, as usual, re—
mains steady and active. llogs opened
about 5e higher, with sales at 3889060940
for all except small lots of heavy rough
packers. but before long the demand was
slow, and the improvement was lost.
Hogs received last week averaged 242 lbs.,

compared with 228 lbs. one year ago, 238
lbs. two years ago and 226 lbs. three
years ago. Sheep and lambs were slow

of sale at generally 10611150 lower prices,
although some prime lambs brought $9.25.
The shipping demand was checked by
the large receipts at Buffalo, Pittsburgh
and other eastern markets. . ,

Cattle were marketed last week much
more liberally than in recent weeks, with
a big share of the offering showing up
on Monday, that day's run aggregating
27.069 head. Such badly distributed Sup-
plies are almost certain to result in fluc-
tuations in prices. and a break of 106fll5c
took place on Monday, followed by a
stronger \\'cdnesday market. As usual,
demand centered all the time in the me-
dium kind of steers, with a moderate call
for the best class and no lack of activity
in fat cows and heifers. The larger share
of the beef steers crossed the scales at
$810619, with the better class of weighty
steers going at $9619.20. and the cheaper
class of light-weight, warmed-up steers
fetching $7.2561»8.25. A good class of corn-
fed steers went at $8.50 and upward, with
sales of a desirable class of yearling
steers at $840609. The bulk of the steers
sold decidedly higher than a month ago,
while comparisons with a year ago show-
ed that the best beeves were only about
50c higher, the commoner lots selling
around $1.75 per 100 lbs. higher. Butch-
er'ing cows and heifers had a free. move—
ment on the basis of $5.1061‘8.35, a few
heifers going up to $8.80, while a sale
took place of 38 head of fancy little baby

heifers that averaged but 591 lbs. at $9.
the highest sale on record of such
weights. Cutters went at $440605. can-

ners at $3.35@‘4.35 and bulls at $550618.
There was a marked falling off in the
demand for stockers and feeders, and
prices averaged 101G200 lower, the break
being mainly in the plain and medium
stock steers and the pretty good feeders.
Stockers sold at 5365061810
of considerable weight at $7.40618.25. Only
a moderate trade took place in feeding
at $6.25616.75, with stock heifers
salable at $5.75@6.40. Calves had a good
outlet at $475,619.35 per 100 lbs., milch
cows being slow at $556985 for medium
to choice ones. Calves of the better class

advanced 5061‘75c, while steers below
$8.40 were irregularly lower, with a DOOI‘
demand. Bulls advanced 1560250, while

fat c0ws and heifers were 106L15c higher.

llogs have been marketed for a week
past with much less liberality than a
week earlier, when supplies were greatly
increased owing to delayed c0untry ship-
ments showing up, and supplies also ran
behind those of a year ago on several
days. However, there was less urgency
in the general demand than usual most
of the week, and even eastern shippers
operated much less freely than a week
earlier, although their purchases were
relatively large, considering the smaller
offerings, and on Monday they took a
goodly number. Prices had rallies on
some days. weakening on others, with
valiJes well under the recent highest day,
when the best hogs went at $9.70, the
high point for many months. The good
average quality of the hogs shipped to
market is well maintained, and the av-
erage Weight has increased in recent
weeks, with prime light hogs adapted for

the fresh meat trade the market toppers,-

and strong weight pigs also selling very
high. At a period of extremely high
prices for beef and mutton, the call for
fresh pork is especially large every-
where. _Provisions are also

and feeders

having a good

 

.APRIL 19, ,1-913.

sale, and the aggregate stocks held in the
five leading markets, the first of April
stood at only 241,000,000 lbs., against 338,-
000,000 lbs. one' year ago. Extremely
heavy hogs are the lowest sellers. The
week clOsed with hogs selling at $87060
9.37%, compared with $8.60@‘9.30 a week
earlier. The bulk of the Saturday sales
took place at $9.15609.30, boars selling at
$4605, stag; at $9.25@9.60, pigs at $761)
9.20, and throwout packing sows at $8.35
@870.

Sheep and lambs were extremely high
sellers laSt week, with a large general
demand, especially for fat stock, with the
receipts made up mostly of lambs, as
usual, and decidedly more shorn flocks
showing up. After advances in prices
there were reactions, but at all times
sales were made extremely high. \\'00led
Colorado-fed lambs of the best grade.
sold nearly aS' high as at the year’s high
spot in January, 21 $9.35 top being report-
ed, and fat yearlings, wethers and ewes
sold proportionately high, as well as feed-
ers. Shea-ring was in progreSs in the big
sheep feeding stations around Chicago.
and wool sold tWo cents per pound lower
than a month ago.

Sheep and lambs closed on Saturday
largely 250 higher than a week earlier,
with \vooled lots quoted as follows: Lamb;
$6.50619.25; yearlingS, $140698; wethers,
$6.25617.40; ewes, $4.256p7.50; bucks, $561)
6; feeding and shearing lambs, $66it8.
Shorn lambs sold at $7.40@8.30 for fair to
choice lots; shorn yearlings at $6.75@7.40
and show wethers at $6.15@6.85.

4—“...—

CROP .AND MARKET NOTES.

 

Newaygo 00., April 8.——March was a
pretty cold winter month and the first
Week in April has been a gOod wet one
with heavy showers with lots of thunder

and lightning; the low land is most all
under water. Looks much like a late
spring. Farmers seem to have plenty of

hay on hand, which is cheap; no sale. for
corn fodder.. Lotsof horses for sale and
they are high in price. Potato prices are
most disappointing to the farmer at
30 cents a bushel. Young clover and fall
grain looks good at present. N0 plowing
done yet. l’roduee prices paid by dealers
are: Beans. $1.60; hay, $86119; veal, 561)
8c; sheep, 21/426,131/20; beef, 361'51,§c; chick-
ens, 13c; pork, 10160; butter, 28c; eggs,
170 per dozen.

Mecosta 00., April 9,—April has been
a stormy month. Not very cold, yet not
warm, with lots of wind and some rain.
Farmers are just started plowing. Some
fall plowing done so that will help in
some caSes. However, indications point
to another good fruit year here. \Ve
haven’t had any warm weather to swell
the fruit buds. Not as many public sales
as usual. Everything that is offered is
bringing good figures, however. There
is quite a demand for good milch cows,
and peOple so fortunate as to have some

to sell are getting their own figures.
Horses are also scarce and bringing high
prices. The potato market is practically
unchanged from what they were last
month, ranging around 33c. Hardly any

spring pigs at all. Some farms changing
hands now. Ranging from $20 per acre
up to $60. Improvements and location
making the difference in most cases.
Shiawassee 00., April 7.——\\'eather mod-
erating, soil drying and roads improving.
Strong winds continue from the south and
southwest. A considerable amount of
water standing on wheat and rye and
will do a great deal of harm to the euops.
Wheat has come through the winter in
fine cOndition and is starting up well.
New seeding has also withstood the win—
ter in good shape. A number of farmers

busy laying tile drains. Barn building
has already'begun and a number of large
buildings Will be erected this spring in

this locality. Fruit, from all present evi-
dences has come through the winter in
good condition and fruit trees in general
are very healthy. On account of the hard
winter two years ago a large number of
farmers are compelled to reset a large
portion of their small fruit orchards.
l’eaches in particular were hard hit. A
considerable interest is being manifested
in the selection of seed grains, showing
that farmers are awake to the import-
ance of good seed. Lamb feeders are
unloading freely, some well pleased with

their winter work while others have the
:‘I)IUC’"1." Good milch cows are high and
in good demand.

Monroe 00., April 2.~\\'e
great deal of rain here at present. Roads
are very bad, have had many washouts,
means an extra boom in taxes this vear.
1 believe Seeding is coming through in
good shape. Cattle, generally, are look-
ing well. Good cows are fetching from
$75 to $100 per head; horses from $125 to
$250 each. No sheep in this county to
speak of and not a great many hogs in
this locality. Dressed pork $10 to 11 per
hundred.

are having a.

 

CONDITION OF MICHIGAN FRUIT.

 

\

There have been few seasons when the
condition of fruit has been more promis-
ing in Michigan than this. The following
from the state crop report indicates the
opinion of the state’s agents:

Ifi'uit.~—Fruit correspondents generally,
write “That owing to the mild winter
fruit buds are in excellent condition.”

The following table shows the prospect
for an aVerage crop of the various kinds

of fruit in the different sections of the
state. -
°Sou. Cen. Nor. Up.

State. Co.’s Co's Co.’s Pen.
Apples . . .80 80 82 82 95
l’eaches .81 83 76 78 98
Pears ........ 82 88 80 81 65
Plums ........ 81 82 79 76 93
Cherries ...... 87 88 . 86 86 85
Small fruit ...89 89 88 88 98

In regard to the question, “XVhat per
cent of orchards are being sprayed?”
correspondents report 40 in the state, 46
in the southern counties, 29 in the
central counties, 31 in the northern coun-
ties and 36 in the Upper Peninsula.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

ow

" APRIL 19, 1913.

This is THE FIRST EDITION.

 

In the first. edition the Detroit Live
stock marketaare 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 edi-
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-
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKFIE;

Thursday’s Market.
April 10, 1913.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1124. Market active and 15@
25c higher than last week.

We quote: Best dry—fed steers, $8.25
@850; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200,
$7.60@7.85; do. 800 to 1000. $7.50@7.75;
do. that are fat, 500 to 700, $6.50@7.50;
choice fat cows, $6.50@7; good do., $6@
6.25; common d0.. $4.50@5; canners, $3.75
@425; choice heavy bulls, $7; fair to
good bolognas, bulls, $6@6.50; stock bulls,
$550646; choice feeding steers, 800 to
1000, $7@7.50; fair do, 800 'to 1000, $6.50
(Ii/6.75; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $6@
6.75; fair do., 500 to 700, $5.75@ 6.25; stock
heifers, $5655.50; milkers, large, young,
medium age, $60@75; common milkers,
$35@50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan 1’. Co.
1 cow weighing 900 at $5.50, 3 do uv 950
at $5.50, 2 bulls av 835 at $6, 2 steers
av 945 at $7.50, 23 do av 927 at $7.25, 2
do av 840 at $7.25, 2 bulls uv 730 at $6,
4 cows av 895 at $6.75, 1 do weighing
1040 at $5.50; to Newton B. Co. 12 steers
av 727 at $7, 12 do av 946 at $7.20. 2 do
av 885 at $7.50, 2 do av 885 at $7.50, 5
cows av 870 at $5.75, 2 cow and bull av
950 at $6.50, 1 cow weighing 1120 at
$6.75; to Thompson Bros. 4 canners av
850 at $4, 4 cows av 782 at $4.75, 2 do
av 815 at $4; to Mich. B. Co. 1 do weigh-
ing 1100 at $6, 1 bull weighing 1910 at
$6.50; to Goose 1 cow weighing 1000 at
$4.50, 3 steers av 666 at $6.90; to Austin
3 stoekers av 460 at $6. 1 bull weighing
550 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. CO. 3 butchers
av 640 at $6.50, 1 cow weighing 1090 at
$5.50, 3 bulls av 1320 at $6.50. 3 steers av
690 at $7, 4 do av 962 at $7.75; to Ham-
mond, S. & Co. 3 cows 21v 937 at $5.50,
26 cows av 1034 at $6.85, 11 steers av 968
at $7.65, 4 cows avv 1080 at $6.75; to
Breitenbeck 7 do av 900 at $5.50; to
Thompson Bros. 2 cows av 1095 at $6.50.
2 steers av 1000 at $7.75, 13 do av 723 at
$7, 2 cows av 910 {it $4.20.

Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 3 steers
av 1057 at $8,.1 cow weighing 820 at $4.25,
3 cows av 993 at $5.75. 2 heifers av 750
at $7; to Newton B. Co. 22 steers av 725
at $7: to Rattkowsky 4 do av 1130 at
$7.30; to Knll 5 cows av 1078 at $5.50, 2
steers av 565 at $6.50; to Hammond. S. &
C0. 5 do av 828 at $7.35, 2 cows av 1010
at $6.35, 2 bulls av 825 at $6.35; to Nugle
P. Co. 13 steers av 1010 at $7.90; to Ham-
mond, S. & Co. 4 do av 795 zit $7.40; to
Mich. B. Co. 15 do av 1092- at $8, 5 do
av 886 at $7.75.

Roe Com. Co. sold Kamman B. Co. 16
steers av 896 at $7.50. 10 cows and bulls
av 1147 at $6.65, 9 steers av 1086 at $7.75.
1 do weighing 550 at $6: to Hammond, S.
& Co. 2 cows av 915 at $4.60; to Parker,
.W’, & Co. 23 steers av_1130 at $8.25, 22
do av 935 at $8; to Mich. B. Co. 19 do av
1079 at $8; to Newton B. Co. 6 chs and
bulls av 1060 at $6.75, 7 cows av 914 at
$5. 12 do uv 960 at $6.75.

Haley & M. sold Thompson Bros. 2
steers av 660 at $6; to Sullivan P. Co. 4
cows av 960 at $6.25, 1 cunner weighing
780 at $4.25, 4 butchers' av 570 at $5.35,
2 cows av 930 at $6.30, 1 do weighing 900
at $5, 10 steers av 982 at $7.45; to Mich.
B0. C0. 9 do av 861 at $7.80, 1 do weigh-
ing 940 at $7.25; to Nagle P. Co. 2 do av
1100 at $7.85, 1 bull weighing 1150 at
$6.75; to Mich. R. Co. 12 butchers av 735
at $7.10, 3 do av 830 at $7.10, 6 steers av
708 at $7, 19 do av 820 at $7.50, 2 cows
av 850 at $5, 7 butchers 21v 750 at $6.10,
11 do av 694 at $7.35, 3 do av 577 at
$6.50, 2 cows av 925 at $5, 2 canners av
785 at $4.25. 1 bull weighing 940 at $6: to
Thompson Bros. 1 canner weighing 470 at
$4: to Sullivan P. Co. 4 cows 21v 955 at
$5.25, 2 cow and bull av 980 at $6.50, 3
steers av 920 at $7.50, 2 cows av 1120 at
$6.25. 8 do 21v 1045 at $6.10. 2 do av 865
at $5, 3 do av 987 at $5.35, 4 steers av
820 at $7, 3 cows av 943 at $5.35. 2 can-
ners av 770 at $4, 1 steer weighing 890
at $6.25; to llammond. S. 8: C0. 3 butch-
ers av 907 at $6.50: to Roll 15 steers av
931 at $7.65; to Mason B. CO. 6 do {IV
633 at $6.50. 16 do av 817 at $7.50, 1 do
weighing 770 at $6.75; to Sullivan 1’. Co.
5 heifers uv 790 at $6.50.

Glenn sold Mich. E. Co, 3 bulls av 1370
at $6.50, 2 heifers av 8:35 at $7.25, 2 cows
a'v 1035 at $6.25.

L0wen.~tein sold llammond, S. & Co.
12 cows av 1097 at $6.15.

Groff sold same 1 cow weighing 1250 at
$6.50, 1 bull weighing 1520 at $6.50, 2
heifers av 760 at $6.50, 4 butchers av 800
at $5.50.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 822. Market $1 lower than
last week; trade slow on common grades.
Best, $9.50@10; common, $6.50@7.50; milch
cows and Springers strong.

Spicer & it. sold Parker, W. & Co. 1
weighing 190 at $12; to Applebaum 2 av
125 at $9, 3 av 130 at $9.50, 1 weighing
130 at $9, 3 av 120 at $9.

Roe Com. Co. sold Reittkowsky 3 av
180 at $6.50; to Nagle P. Co. 3“av 150

at $10. g

Haddrell sold Newton B. Co. 3 av 120
at $9.

Glenn sold Mich. B. Co. 2 av 115 at $9.

Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 1 weigh-
ing 330 at $7. 12 av 135 at $10.25; to
Patrowsky 6 av 140 at $10.25. 8 av 140
at $10, 6 av 130 at $8; to D. Goose 7 av
145 at $10. 1 weighing 220 at $6; to J.
Goose 1 weighing 170 at $6.50, 1 weighing
150 at $10, 5 av7125 at $10, 1 weighing

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

130 at $6.50; to Mich. B. Co. 6 av 140 at
$10, 17 av 150 at $8.50, 5 av 105 at $8, 14
av 140 at $10.25.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 1997. Market 25@35c higher
than last week. Best lambs, $9@9.25;
fair to good lambS, $8.50@9; light t m-
mon lambs, $7@8.25; yearlings, $8q)8.50;
fair clip sheep, $6.50@7; clip culls and
common, $4.50@5.50; clip yearlings, $8.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Swift & Co. 228
lambs av 82 at $9.40; to Nagle P. Co. 604
do av 80 at $9. 28 do av 70 at $8.60; to
Bray 112 do av 75 at $8.75, 95 do av 80 at
$9.25, 36 do av 70 at $8; to Sullivan P.
CO. 9 do av 55 at $8, 4 sheep av 90 at
$4.50, 15 lambs av 55 at $6.25; to Parker.
W. & Co. 25 sheep av 45 at $7.10; to
Mich. B. Co. 13 do av 77 at $8.50; to
Newton B. Co. 36 do av 76 at $8: to Coc-
tello 5 clip lambs av 47 at $5; to Mich.
B. Co. 1 buck weighing 130 at $5.50, 2
lambs av 60 at $7.50, 1 buck weighing
130 at $5.50, 1 sheep weighing 170 at
$7.50, 25 lambs av 75 at $9, 174 do av 80
at $9.25, 1 sheep weighing 150 at $6.50, 4
do av 130 at $5, 87 do av 109 at $7; to
Sullivan P. Co. 15 lambs av 85 at $9.25,
19 do av 50 at $7; to Barlage 14 do av
70 at $8.54.

Jackson sold Parker. W. 8:. Co. 6 sheep
av 115 at $4.50, 16 lambs av 110 at $8.75.

Glenn sold Mich. B, CO. 59 lambs av 65
at $8.50, 14 do av 55 at $7.

Hogs.
Receipts, 3995. None sold up to noon;
looks as follows: ,

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $9.25@9.30; pigS, $9.35; mixed, $9.25
((99.30; stags‘one—third off. '

Haley & M. sold Parker, \V. & Co. 140
av 160 at $9.30. 230 av 200 at $9.25, 90
pigs av 145 at $9.35.

Spiccr & R. sold same 250 av 160 at
$9.30. 250 av 200 at $9.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond. S. &
$€00.301010 av 200 at $9.25, 510 uv 150 at

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 10
av 205 at $9.35, 125 av 190 at $9.30, 200
av 200 at $9.25.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Newton B, CO.
196 av 180 at $9.25, 47 av 150 at $9.30.

Friday’s Market.
April 11, 1913.
. Cattle.

Receipts this week, 1333; last week,
1906. Market steady at Thursday's
Dl‘lC‘eS. Best dry-fed steers, $8.25fi'850;
steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200. $7618; do.
800 to 1000, $7.5061‘7.75; do, that are fat,
500 to 700, $6.50(€I)7.50; choice fut cows
$650017; good fat cows, $6086.25; common
cows, $4.50@5; canners, 11537562425: choice
heavy bulls, $7; fair to good bologna
bulls, $6@6.50; stock bulls, $5.506L6;
chOice i‘ceding steers. 800 U) 1000, $7672
7.50; fair feeding steers, 800 to 1000. $6.50
«16.75; choice s-tockers, 500 to 700. $661)
6.75; fair stockers, 500 to 700. 5557561625;
stock heifers, $5695.50; milkers, large,
young, medium age, $606180; common
milkers, $35Gp50.

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week. 1.001; last week,
1128. Market steady at Thursday’s
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week. 2763; last week,
3457. Market steady at Thursday’s
prices. Best wool lambs, $9619.25; fair
do.. $8.50@8.75; light to common wool
lambs, $7668.25; yearlings. $8618.25; fair to
good clip sheep, $6.50m7; clip culls and

common, $4615; clip lambs, $7.75418.15.
Hogs. ‘

Receipts this: week, 5312; la<t week.
7902. Market 10c higher than Thursday;
light to good butchers, $9.35; light yorkers
$9.35; stags one-third off.
prices. Best. $9.50fti/10; others, $5Gi8;
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ACCESSORIES TO FOOD PRODUCTS.

BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.

Spices. ’
Accompanying a large list of food pro-
ducts, we have a considerable number of

accessories to food products, the value
of which, in the dietary is chiefly ex-
hibited from a condimental viewpoint.

Among this class of substances, a group
of peculiar and special interest is the
spice: group. There are quite a number
of spices which contribute certain special
features to the articles of diet in the hu-
man dietary. It seems especially neces-
sary that some provision be made beyond
the flavor and aroma of the foods them;
selves to make certain subStances in the
dietary tempting and palatable. There
is real reason for the user of salt, partic-
ularly in the diet of potatoes, and with
the increased use of salads and articles
of like nature, the demand is steadily in-
creasing for the rarer and otherwise less
used spices.
Spices Not True Foods, But Condiments.

Spices are of great importance from a
dietic point of view. “'e do not figure
the actual food value which they contain,
and of course. some of them do have
value; but it is the zest-giving feature
which they impart which makes the diet
more tempting and more palatable. that
shows the importance of this class of
sbstances. Many experiments have been
made in different experimental stations to
determine. the effect of the palatability
and Ilavor. This is a dillicult factor to
establish, but it is certain that they do
have influence, either direct or indirect,
on the amount of food eaten, increasing
possibly the chances for digestion and
utilization.

Spices Greatly Ad‘ulterated.

Spices, aside from being interesting from
a standpoint of their dietary relations,
have bccn of great interest to the public
analyst because it is this class of sub-
stances: more than any other, which has
been su<ceptible to gross ndultcration.
Years ago, before the advent of the spice
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so common, because, of course, the adul—
terant could be more easily detected in
the whole spice than in the ground pro-
duct. But when the convenience to the
housewife of the pulverized spices became
evident, the adulteration of the article on
a large scale became common practice.
Microscope Valuable Aid to the Analyst.
In the laboratory, the most valuable
method of detecting adulteration depends
the microscope. An analyst who is
skilled in the manipulation of the micro—
scope will have little difficulty in identi~
tying the. adulterant used. Almost all of
the spices have a definite celular struc-
ture which, when the microscopist once
becomes familiar with that particular
form, will be a ready means of identify-
ing sophisticated articles. Aside from the
microscopic method of detecting adultero—
tion and fraud. chemical methods have
very materially assisted the analyst in
his work. The greatest obstacle in the
way of clunnical standard for spices has
been the fact that the spices themselves,
though pure, vary in a considerable de—
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siders the variety of conditions under
which they are grown.
Pepper.

Pepper is the dried berry 'of the

pepper plant. It is cultivated in many

countries in the tropics, but is especially
native to the East India Islands. The
plant grows from 12 to 20 feet in height.
“'hcn the fruit, or berry, begins to turn
red, it is then gathered and dried, (lur—
ing which process it assumes a black
color and becomes crenated, or crinkly.

White Pepper and Black Pepper from the

Same Berry,

It is not generally known that, black
pepper and white pepper come from the
same berry; but pepper, whether white or
black, is originally from a berry which.
when dried, becomes black, or grayish
black on the outside, and due to the dry-
ing, the shell is crinkly or crenated in
appearance. “’hite pepper is produced
by removing the outer dark colored shell
from the dried berry, after which it is
almost milk white, or greyish white in
appearance. Sometimes this outer shell
or skin is ground by itself; other times,
the whole berry is ground, which makes
the ordinary black pepper of commerce.
is somewhat

pepper which larger than

There is a variety, or class, of white.

APRIL 19, 1913.-

    

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the black pepper, and smooth. They
are frequently coated with lime which
gives them a white appearance. There

are a great many varieties of pepper.
Some of them are more valuable as a
spice than others. Among these may be
mentioned Singapore, Mangalore, Acheen,
Penang, Alleppi, Samatra, etc.

(To be continued).

 

PREPARED INFANTS’ AND INVALIDS’

FOODS.

 

(Continued from last week).
lnvalids’ Foods.

By invalid foods, we refer here to
foods designed to be used by persons
suffering .5 with certain more or‘ less
chronic disorders. The one disease
which has called forth the greatest num-
ber of those prepared invalids’ foods is
diabetes melletis. In this disease. the
human system seems to be unable to
properly reduce the starches and sugars
to their final end products. Consequently
in diabetes, the starch and other sugars
are eliminated in the form of grape sug-
ar. So commonly has this phenomenon
been linked with diabetes that the dis-
ease has come to be known to the ordi-
nary citizen as “sugar diabetes."

A number of years ago. we went into
a. pure food restaurant in Chicago, and
were attracted by the bill if fare on a

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certain few tables in this restaurant
which were. set. apart for persons suffer-
ing with this disease. A special menu

was shown so that they might have sch-
ed to them the foods with b they like, but
which would not aggravate the sugar
condition in their body. Vie saw many
gluten breadS, that is, bread made from
flour from which the starch had been
more or less completely removed, gluten
cakes; no sugar or Streets were served,
even coffee, instead of being sweetened
with sugar, as is usual, was sweetened
with stir-chdrillc. Sacchaiine is the well
known coal tar substitute :ur sugar which
we have come to hear so much about in
the controversy between "Dr. Wiley and
the ltcmwn Board over its admissability
in gcncral into food products. Saccharine,

of course, is not sugar, neither is it a
food. but it is 500 tinns sweeter than
cane sugar. The last ito'm on the menu,

considering the object of the whole bill
of fare, was very amusing. It read as
follows:
Buckwheat Cakcs~Choice Maple Syrup.

“'c were Vcl‘y much inn-rested in know-
ing why, after the sugar had been so re-
liuiousiy removed from lll-‘ diet, the very
last item on the program would provide
a Very libcrnl allt‘nyance of this very
sugar in the form of magic syrup. This
simply serves to show how very incon-
sistent many dietiSts have been in mat-
ters of those, invalid foods.

Many Gluten Foods are Frauds.

Very few of the gluten preparations
have been especially meritorious; some
of them have been freed from starch to
a remarkable degree, but many of them

have contained no less march than raw
wheat flour, and in this respect have
been absolute, frauds. \i’inton reports

the analysis of one known as
etublc gluten,” which sold at

“pure veg-
:70 cents per

pound. as follows:

Per Cent.
lloisturc .......................... 10.78
Mineral matter ............ . ........ 220
Fat ................................. 3.25
I’i'oteids ............................ 1.25
Starch .............................. 55.55

It will thus be seen from this analysis
that over half of this sit-called pure veg-
etable gluten is starch, which is the very
thing the, product is supposed to have
eliminated. It is very easily seen that
a person suffering with diabetes, who
would be led to use such products might
be doing himself great injury, supposing
the product was what it was represented
to be.

Some of these gluten preparations have
not been so devoid of merit. \Vinton also
sights several other gluten preparations

which contain as low as four per cent
starch. lesides flours which have been
waShcd free from starch, which are

known as gluten preparations, there have
been put on the market products manu—
factured from casein of milk. These con—

tain no starch, and should contain no
Sugar, or at the most, only a trace of
sugar. Cookies, crackers and biscuit are

manufactured from this product, and it
seems as though, if the question of pal-
atability can be solved, that they should
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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 at
stallions and more. a clan of horses
that will pious you. and all are for
sale at prices not equaled-by anyone
in the business when merit is consider-
ed. Will be pleased to have you ask
about them and to visit us at any time.

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offer at very reasonable and attractive prices
with guarantee the best. If you come with
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to sell to you. We have our selling cloth on
every day in week. Write your wants or
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BUSY

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'I‘WO PERCIERON S'I'UBS. CHEAP.

One imported 13-year-old, weighs 18!) lbs, in bre ad-
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to our subscribers. Each communication
should state historyand symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address or
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
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Indigestion—I have a cow that has not
thrived all winter, neither has she given
as much milk as she should for some
time. Her appetite for grain is fairly
good, is fed cob meal, bran, corn fodder,
millet hay illld good wheat straw. Some
time ago she began losing her hair; I
applied kerosene 21nd lard, thinking she
might have lice, but I fail to find any.
T. J. S., Niles, Mich.——Give her 1/2 oz. of
fluid extract gentian, 54,. oz. fluid extract
cinchona and 1,4 oz. Fowler‘s solution at
a dose in feed three times a day. Her
bowels should be kept open and you had
Ibetter diScontinue feeding her millet hay.
’ Effects of Feeding Unbalanced Ration.
——I bOught four pigs of my neighbor on
December 1, 1912; commenced feeding
them warm separator milk, adding whut
ear corn they would eat up clean. Two
of them continued to thrive and grow, the

other two began to show stiffness in hind

quarters and found it troublesome to get
up without help. I have been feeding
them warm milk, oats and some oil meal,
without results, ‘These two pigs fail to
grow and have been sick for the past
three weeks. J. F., Decatur. Mich—You
brought on their rheumatic trouble by
feeding too much corn and svvect milk;
it is not a balanced ration for pigs.
Continue feeding oats, oil meal, roots,
and give each one a tablespoonful or two
of lime water at a dose three. times a

day. Apply one part turpentine, one part
aquu ummonld and four parts- soap llnl-
mcut to back once daily. live 10 grs.

sodium salicylate at a dose three or four
times a day.

“Minus. l liuve :1 horse that has puss-
ed :1 few long round worms recently and
I Willilll likc to know what I had better

give him. J. IL, Freeland, Mich-Alix
together equal parts powdered sulphate
iron, ground gentiun, ground wormseed

and (IllaSSizL an’d give him a tablespoonful
or two at a dose in feed twice a day.
Swullen Face Osteo I"i)1‘osis.—My 18—
month-old filly is troubled with smollcu
face which seems to yield to treatment,
but the swelling is inclined to return and
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hlld an inflammation of bones of face
and it is possible that she suffers from
constitutional osteo DOI‘USiS (big hulld).
u very peculiar disease and one that is
none too well understood. Some Vets.
think it is rheumatic. others belicve it
a parasitic ailment and the horse seems
to be the only animal that is affected. It
is possible for it to be the result of a
fungus on the grass or l'nddcr. Change
lici' dict completely and give 2 (11‘s. of
hypo—sulphite of soda and 2 drs. calcium
phosphate at a dose in feed three times
a day.

’l‘horoughpin.—I have a iii‘elve-year-old
horse that has a large puffy swelling on
both inside and outside of both hock
joints. A neighbor tells me that he has
bog sp'avin and thoroughpin, but these
bunches do not cause any lameness 01- in-
terfere with his working: \V. R.. Ilear-
burn, Mich—The very best advico i can
give you is to leave him alone and not
treat him until he shows either stiffness
0r lameness.

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and open
is covered

clined to hold his head high
lips frequently and his dung
with slime. YVhen I feed him salt and
stock ionic, it: makes him worse. Ilad
him examined by two different Vett; one
of them thought he had kidney trouble.
the other that he had heart disease.
L. S., Mayficld, Mich—(live. your home
1 dr. ground nux vomica, 1/2 oz. ground
gentian. 1/: oz. powdered fenugreek and
1 oz. bicarbonate sodii at a dose in feed
thrco times a day. A change of feed,
giving him plenty roots will do him good.

“'arbles.—~I have a two-year-old Jersey
cow that has several small hard lumps
on back that have been there for a few
weeks. She appears to be well and
giving 12 quarts of milk daily. XV.
Battle Creek, Mich—The bunches you
mention are warbles that have not yet
matured. The skin should be opened and
the grub squeezed out and killed, then
apply boracic acid to wound once :1 day.
Rub iodine ointment on small bunches
once a daY.

Abnormal I—leat.-I have a three-year-
old heifer that had second calf some time
ago and I bred her three weeks after she
came fresh and she has been in heat con-
tinually ever since. I am anxious to
have her get with calf and would like to
have you tell me what to do for her?
C. C. H., Constantine, Mich—You had
better breed her to another bull and are
you Sure that she does nOt suffer from
contagious abortion?

Nervousness—Lacks Appetite for Grain.
——My eight—year-old horse is nervous and
will not eat enough grain to keep him up
in flesh when working hard. By chang-
ing his feed I find he thrives best. R, C.,
Vassar, Mich—His grinder teeth ma.
need floating. Give him 15 oz. fluid ex-
tract ‘gentian. % oz."fluid extract cinchona
and 1 dr. fluid extract nux Vomica. at a
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TO all intents and purposes, soil is alive. It

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of all, it feeds.

It responds to good or bad treatment.

It pays its debts, and pays with interest many times compounded.
Being alive, to work it must be fed. During the non-growing seasons
certain chemical changes take place which make the fertility in the

soil available for the next season’s crop.
Iant food is added to soil on which

plant food to the soil. Unless

crops are grown, unless the soié is lifd’ in time it starves.
ta
of plant life, should be spread evenly and in the proper

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But this process adds no

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should provide and regulate the sup-
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The Functlon of Tillage.

The commercial fertilizer does but one
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Soil Management‘sin the Orchard.-

 

A one-horse plow is better adapted for
working in close'to the trees. Disc and
cutaway narrows are serviceable‘and con-
vcnient for shallow tillage early in the
spring. They may be set to throw the
dirt either way. On loose, friable soils
they will give better cultural results than
the plow. The spring-tooth and the drag
Ilal‘l‘0\V can be used to break the crust
after rains, and to refine. the surface after
it has been loosened with the cutaway 01‘
disc. A spike—tooth harrow may be used
to stir the surface after it has- been work-
ed by other implements. The. most valu-
able implement we have ever used in our
orchards and Vineyards is the‘large V-
shaped cultivator. It is a two-horse im-
plement with big shovels or teeth. If
used after the ground has become firm
after a rain it leaves the surafce of the
soil in nice, condition for the spring-tooth
harrow to prepare a deep, 'dust mulch.
The Moisture Problem.

Tillage regulates the supply of moisture
in the soil. After we have thoroughly
manipulated the soil to get at the supply
of plant food, the most important object

of tillage is to regulate the supply of'

moisture in the soil. We all know from
experience the effects of long, protracted
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Overhead.
thing very well; but it is only one thing.

Tillage, however, performs many func-
tions. It does manifold thing's, things
chemical, biological and physical. It in-

creases the fertility of the. soil by making
available more of the plant food already
preSent. Tillage modifies soil texture by
refining the soil particles. By modifying
the texture of the soil and increasing
porosity it makes the conditions more
favorable for the multiplication of bac-
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ture perhaps more than in any other way
promotes the. growth of the trees and the
production of fruit. That tillage in some
degree does what commercial fertilizer
docs, besides 1‘icrforming other valuable
functions has not always been recognized
by fruit growers

Too many growers look upon tillage as
a means of destroying weeds. While this
is one of the most important objects, I do
not look upon it as by any means the
most important. As I understand the
purpose of soil manipulation, it is that
we may get still further at the plant food
which is in the soil. It seems to me that
many have a wrong idea of the funda-
mental principles involved in tillage.
There is abundance of plant food still- in
the soil, and tillage,- in its most intelligent
sense, is the means of getting at this
unavailable plant food, or of getting more
of it.

The Proper Implements.

Of first importance is the selection of
suitable implements. “'e should have
plows, harrows and cultivators which will
pulverize the soil thoroughly and deeply
in the spring and leave the surface fine
and loose to a depth of about three
.inches. “'e want implements which will
in every process of manipulation make
more available plant food. There is poor
excuse for a man to spend money for
commercial manures and fertilizers until
he has made use of that which is abund-
antly in his soil. Some soils need addi-
tional plant food, but not until they are
depleted of that within reach. of labor.

For plowing in the orchard the ordinary
walking plow is better than a riding plow.

 

(See page 502). ,

successful means of combating the effects
which follow long drouths.

To discuss the manner in which soils
lose moisture intelligently we should have
a knowledge of the upward movement of
the water in the soil. The dryer the con-
dition of the atmosphere and the higher
the temperature, the. more rapid becomes
this upward movemnt of the water and
hence it passes off rapidly by evaporation
and the crops suffer unless we understand
how to control the moisture. The princi-
ple by which water rises in the soil is
called capillary attraction. It is rather
difficult to explain, but it is a fact, how-
ever, that there are passages through
which water is seeking the surface at all
times. Now one of the great objects of
tillage in dry seasons is to hold back, or
keep down, this soil llloistill‘e: or at least
to centre, it that it shall pass through
the plants that are upon the soil rather
than pass out and be evaporated without
bcing utilized by the plants. The roots
of the plants penetrate to a certain depth
of the soil, and they take up the moisture
that is constantly pressing upward to-
wards them. Fine tilth, fine culture at
the surface, will seal over the openings
of these capillaries so that it will be DOS°
sible in a period of drouth to carry an
orchard through successfully. If the sea-
son is very dry the cultivation should be
frequent and the surface should be kept
as fine as it is possible to make it. This
fine soil will form a blanket and the
moisture as it presses to the surface will
be held underneath it. The result will be
that the trees will receive more. moisture
and go through severe and protracted
drouth with better success. So tillage
means, first, .making available, as far as
is possible, the plant food that is suit in
the soil, and. second, the holding back of
the supply of moisture, that the trees
may utilize it. TVe must look upon tillage
from these standpoints if we secure max-
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Tillage Makes Necessary Soil Feeding.

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the supply of soil moisture. If tillage
alone is depended upon to maintain the
fertility of orchard soils there is nothing
being grown on the soil except, of course,
the trees and nothing added to it in the
way of vegetable matter. By clean culti-
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mulch, the soil moiSture is very effec-
tively retained. However, there is another
side to the tillage problem. We are con-
stantly drawing on the land's stored—up
fertility without renewing the supply.
When it becomes necessary at last to
apply fertilizers we are up against an
expenSive proposition.

Now one thing that would add very
largely in this whole matter, both in ob-
taining more plant food, and also in help—
ing to control the moisture. is the incor-
poration of green manure plants. I wish
to be clearly understood upon this im-
portant phase of the subject. One of the
reasons why drouths are so severe in
their effects upon trees and fruit crops
is the fact that much of our soil has lost
so largely of its vegetable matter. It has
become depleted of its supply of humus
which is always present in a new soil. In
new lands the supply of humus is usually
adequate, and the more humus, or the
more vegetable matter, the soil contains
the greater is its ability to resist drouth.
Since, through tillage, we have taken so
much production from the soil we have
reduced 01' de<troycd largely its vegetable
one of the first matters to be

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SPRING CARE OF THE STRAWBERRY
PLANTATION.

The first essential in the spring care
of strawberry plantations is the remov-
ing of the mulching material from over
the plants to between the rows where it
shall serve as a moisture conserver. This

mulching which has been on through the-

winter has protected the plants from the

and thawing of winter and
which breaks off many of the fine
and leaves the
as to dry out

freezing
Spring,
feeder roots by heaving,
plant in condition so
easily.

This heaving is one of the main causes
of lack of vigor in plantations in spring,

Still a mulched strawberry patch is 2111
exception rather than the rule. There
are strawberry growers and stuwbcrry

of mulching or not
probably more than

growcrs. The matter
mulching determines,
anything else, whether a man belongs
to one class or the other. The “really
and truly” strawberry grower will always
mulch.

The mulching should be removed} as
soon as spring weather has arrived. If
the plantation is in a frosty place the
mulching might be left on a little later
than usual so as to keep the plants in
check some, or if it is desired that varie-
ties should bc'ar a. little later than usual
the plants should be allowed to grow
through :1 thin mulching.

If the mulching is on very thick. care
must be tnkcn to not leave it on too
long, otherwise it may smother the plants.
l\'[ulcl1in;,r an thick is sufficient for
a winter covering.

Ordinarily the mulching Should be left
betwccn the rows until miter the fruiting
season is over. Here it has two import-
ant functions, that of conserving the soil
moisture and that of keeping the berries
clean. Both are highly essential in suc-
cessful strawberry growing. Sandy and
dirty fruit: is discounted every time on
the market.

Should the plantation lack vigor in
spring.r it; may be advisable to put the
mulching to one side and cultivate it sev-
eral times. and then replace the mulch-
ing. A couple of applications of nitrate
of soda W1 ill do as much good in invigor-
ating the patch and not entail as much
work. One application made in spring
when the growth of the plants starts and
another close to the fruiting time will
greatly invigorate the, plants and will
also encourage better fruiting. One hun-
dred pounds to an application is suffi-
cient. Care must be taken to keep the
nitrate of soda off of the plants, other-
wise serious injury by burning will re-

inch

sult. Making the application along each
side of the row will give the desired
results.

If the plantation has not been mulched
through the winter. spring cultivation
would help the patch. As the fruiting

 

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season approaches some mulching mate-
rial should be used so as the fruit will
be kept clean.

Van Buren Co. FRANK A. WILKEN.

WHITEWASHING FRUIT TREES.

Is it beneficial to the orchard trees to
whitewash them in the spring? If so,
is there any special way of preparing the
whitewash?

Midland Co. M.

Not many years ago when the p1esent

knowledge of the science and art of
spraying was a. closed book to our fruit
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among the more progressive and thrifty
orchurdists, and the practice no doubt
had merit. But the good coming from
whitewashing is now secured by spray—
ing and since the latter practice has pus-
sibilities that cannot be obtained through
the earlier way, it would be unwise to
attempt to control troubles of the fruit
trees by the 01d method. The chemicals
used in spraying will make the bark of
the trees smooth and give it that lively
appearance that used to follow white-
washing, and besides many insects, fun-
gnus diseases are Controlled. The white-
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TOMATO PLANTS DYING.

 

I have tomatoes planted in the house
and they sccm to die from something
bothering: around the roots. They turn
yellow and shrivel just below the top of
lhe soil. There are some little black
bugs: in the boxes. Do you think they
cause the trouble? \Vhat can I do to
kill them? \\'0uld also like to know
what to do to make onions ripen. This
is sandy soil and they grow too long and
don't get ripe.

S.

Lake Co. A.

“'e cannot satisfy ourselves as to the
cause of the trouble with the inquirer's
tomato plants. It is possible that the
little bccllcs of which he Speaks are the
common lieu-beetles and that they do
the damage. They can be brought under
control by Spraying the plants and soil
about with Bordeaux mixture containing
an arscnmc, such :13 Paris green or ur-
senatc of lead. How to make the Bor-
deaux mixture was described in detail in
:1 recent number of The Farmer. The
ai‘Scnate 01‘ lead is used at the rate of
one pound to 50 gallons of the BOI‘(lellllX,I

and the Paris green at the rate of oncl
pound to 100 gallons of the mixture. l

“'e are of the opinion, however. thatl
the trouble is not due to the beetle. but}
that ii is the result of a. disease known:
as: “damping-ofl‘.’ This disease is of a
buctcrinl nature and its activity is due
largely to environment. Its depredutions
are confined 21111141911 entirely to plants
grown indoors :111d generally comes from

unbroper watcring and vcutilating of thel
house where the plants are growing. Thel
(liScase is also aggravated by damp cloudyl
weather. l

These suggestions may help to save
the unaffected planlS. Water them at
midday that the soil may dry off before
evening. Ventilate the house every dayI
that it is. possible to do so, inking pre-l
caution that the plants be not placed in
a cool, dump current of air. Sprinkle
warm dry sand over the surface of the
soil, or apply some air-Slaked lime, or a
little (li‘y sulphur. It is also Wise to
spray the plants with Bordeaux mixture.
and since the little hccllcs are present
it would be well to add the arsenatc as
Specified above to destroy them also i11-
usmuch as both can be done by the same
operation.

A sure method
lure where (hr-y have
tiuue growing not known. The hztbit
may be the result of seasonal conditions

of makingr onions mn-

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and until man can Control the weather he‘

in having his 011—
ns he would like,

is not likely to suceed
ions ripen every year
or it may be from poor need, a. situation
that can be remedied. The customary
expedient is lo break the tops down when
the seuSon has arrived for ripening.
This is easily done by rolling some light
object, like a. barrel, over the tops. The
philosophy of the scheme is that the
brcaking of the stems, holds the plant Sup

into the bulb and (hereby causes them to
more quickly develop and ripen. The
plan. no doubt, helps but in seasons like

last fall there is pretty apt to be trouble
of continuous growth even where this
plan is carefully practiced. Avoid plant-
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is the farmer’s most valuable asset.

 

Associational Sentiment:
The farmer, he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.

CLUB 'DISCUSSIONS.

 

Discuss Practical Topics—The Berlin
and Almont Furmers' Club. of Lapeer
county, met at the pleasant home of Mr.
and Mrs. James Tripp to hold its .March
meeting. Roll call was responded to by
an Irish Vi'itticism. “Bean culture and
the effect of crop on the soil,” by Alex.
Braidweod. He said to rotate beans in
the place of corn, in the usual crop ro-
tation. That when kept clean, by culti-
vation, they did not take from the soil
more than other crops, nor as much as
oats. At the price beans have been for
several years, one could afford to use
enough commercial fertilizer to keep the
soil in good condition. \Vhen dragged in
on bean ground, it also benefited follow-
ing wheat crop. “Our Almont roads and
preparation for a corn show," by L. F.
Chandler. He said if we would with-
draw from the c0unty system and build
our OWn roads, with the $2,800 we now
furnish the C(lunty road system by the
two-mill tax, we could build four miles
of state reward road where we now build
one. To prepare for a corn show he
would suggest two committees be ap-
pointed: One to solocit funds to be used
fOr prizes, one for judges. Some shows
use the following points to scare from:
Greatest yield per acre, 30; best ten ears,
20; best written history of crop, 20; best
showing of profit on yield, 30.

“How to raise hogs and what kinds.”
C. B. Scully. said it was not so much the
kind of hOg as the care taken of it. A
hog, to do its best, should have a dry
pen, be‘ fed a ration calculated to produce
bone and muscle till ready to fatten. His
experience is when a pig has reached
100 lbs. to feed what it can eat in one-
half hour, twice a day, is as much as a
hog can assimilate. _

“The Clover Crop."——George Rider said
we could not farm without,the clover
crop, especially .lune clover. He said a
ton of June clover was worth as. much
to him, to feed, as a ton of bran. He
liked best to seed wheat ground, though
he had had good clover on oat ground. The
Club adjourned to meet with Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Hallock the second Wednesday
in April.

Corn Day.——A goodly number of mem-
bers and friends of the Looking Glass
Valley Farmers’ Club gathered in March
at the Woodman Hall in Wacousta,
where they spent a very pleasant day.
The meeting was called to order by the
president, after which the opening exer-
cises were rendered and officers were
elected for the ensuing year as follows:
President, King Lee; vice-president, Bert
Oliver; secretary, F. C. Openlander;
treasurer, Chester Miller. Mrs. Maler
then gave a report on the lecture course
and announced that Mrs. Pooler, a reader
and impersonator, would be here on
March 21 to give a number on the course
in place of the magician who failed to
come as was expected. The Reverend
Pollock, of Grand Ledge, then gave a
very interesting and instructive address
on the question of local option, which was
followed by one on the same Subject by
Mr. Carpenter. Both addresses were very
much enjoyed and held the entire atten-
tion of everyone present. It being corn
day several brought specimens and it
was decided that in spite of the hall
some very fine corn had been raised.
Claud Miller gave a short talk on “How
I like my silo.” followed by F. Shadduck
and others. Mr. \Vinegar and F. Howe
then gave shOrt talks on “\Vhat is a top
notch farmer?" Adjourned after a very
pelasant time. to meet on April 8 at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. “'elton for the
annual sugar social.——Mabelle \Vesseler.

Rural Betterment—The Salem Farmers’
Club held its March meeting at the pleaS-
ant farm home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Crane. This was one of the most profit-
able meetings held by the Club. The
main feature of the afternoon was an ad-
dreSs by Rev. Arthur Mumford. of \Veb-
ster, which was one of the finest we have
‘had the pleasure to hear. His subject
was “Rural Betterment." He began by
showing the value to the community of
the rural church with all its influence
in the way of higher living——Christian
culture and general uplift. He told us
something of the ideal environment in
the farm home which induces the boy and
girl to stay on the farm. He said, make
the boy a partner in all your plans for
the betterment of the home and sur-
roundings, citing instances which had
come under his own observation showing
how the added interest ties a boy to his
home, with the happiest results. He gave
a fine plea for the centralized rural high
school, and gave instances showing its
value, also its practicability and econ-
omy. This subject was discussed by a
number of the Club members. also by the
Rev. Knowles, showing greatly in favor
of the central sch001 if it can be brought
about in our township. An original poem
was read by Miss Mae Atchinson, and the
Club adjOurned feeling they had spent a
profitable and pleasant day—H. c, T.,
Cor. Sec. .

OTTAWA PATRONS AND TEACHERS
HOLD GREAT MEETING.

 

The Ottawa County Grange, Teachers’
and Patrons’ Association held a third
succes2<ful meeting in Nunlca, March 27-
28. and again demonstrated its right to
exist. Among the features of intensely
practical interest may be mentioned a
talk by H. Skinner, agricultural ad-'
visor of Kent cnunty, containing good
practical suggestions to teachers of ag-
riculture as well as to the. farmers pres-
ent. He strongly advised testing seed
oats, either at home or at school, since in
Kent county many samples are showing
only 45 to 60 per cent germination test.
He scored Michigan farmers for dishon-
est methods in packing apples, thus 10w-
ering the standing of our fruit and de—
moralizing our markets. He believes the
grea‘tGSt opportunity of the rum] teacher
is in improving the social conditions of
the country.

Rev. Moore, of Coopersuville, in his ad-
dress on “Country CDmmunity Building."
urged the co-operaiion of home, church,
and school, emphasized the need of great-
er play privileges for the country child,
and the good to be derived from parents
visiting the schools, and from teachers
calling at the homes of pupils.

Many practical truths were given by
Mrs, F. D. Saunders in her address on
“Sanitation.” Among other things she
Sold: “Our bodies are giVen to us to use,
and it is irreligious for us to‘abuse them
or neglect to properly care for them. Our

~power to do is lessened by disease.” She

discussed the importance of recognizing
the trinity of health—pure air, sunlight,
and cleanliness, and making them a. part
of Our daily plan of living. The dark,
damp cellars found in many farm homes
are unsanitary and should receive atten-
tion before other parts of the house. We
should strive to eliminate the “typhoid
fly,” by thorough screening, cleaning up
our back yards and looking after other
breeding places of these pests now rec—
ognized as carriers of scarlet fever, ty-
phoid, tuberculosis and diphtheria. \Ve
must strive to make the country a good
place in which to live—for only by mak-
ing the farm home healthful, beautiful
and its social conditions good, may we
hope to keep the child on the farm.

Miss Georgia 000k told the story of
her Mothers’ Club in an interesting way,
bringing out the importanCe of what
mothers suggest to their children about
school. before school bpens. \Vith this
idea she called the mothers together and
asked them to CO—Ope,l‘ate with her by
suggesting to their children that they
were to have a good school. The moth-
ers meet at the Schoolhouse each month
and discuss with the teacher matters of
interest to both. At these times, ex-
hibits of sewing, nature study and exam-
ination papers are inspected by parents.
Miss Cook said she thought it required
“unusual ability to teach a country schOOI
well. Any ordinary person could fill a
high school position but vastly more is
required of the rural teacher.”

Manosr Smith, lecturer of \Ves-tern P0-
mona Grange, gave it very able talk on
the topic, “Can not the most of us work
but one-half the land we now do and Still
maintain our present. income?” He said
that in a few instances this might be
possible, but in general he should answer
“no." \Vhile it is certain that more effi-
cient methods- of farming will double the
yield per acre, he questioned whether it
was possible to do this at present with
profit. He feared flooding the market
with produce and cited laSt year's apple
crop as an illustration. When the times
make greater demands of the American
farmer he believes he will be equal to the
Occasion.

Prof. French gave an address on “Ag-
riculture for the Rural Schools,” which
was both broad and deep in its scope.
He said that “education should discover
to the child the line of work he will en-
joy." It is not so important that he be—
come wealthy as that he “enjoys living.”
it a man is making a good, complete,
clean living on the farm and enjoying it,
he is all right. The farmer should not
be envious of men in other occupations.
Prof. French outlined quite fully the
things to be taught in agriculture. and

suggested apparatus for carrying on such'

work in the rural school.

A short business seSSion of the asso—
ciation was held Friday afternoon at
which time the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Melvin Smith; first vice-president, Fred
Gordon; second, Myrtle Triel; third, Kate
Kelly; secretary, Myrtle Brown; treas-
urer, N. B. Spencer; executive commit-
tee, L. A. Vandenburg, Charles Dunning,
Laura HoSmer.—Myrtle B. Brown, Sec’y.

Kelley Memorial Proposed—Fredonia
Grange No. 1, of Chautauqua county, N.
Y., the Oldest subordinate in the United
States, its organizatiOn dating from
April, 1868, has fittingly started a move-
ment for the erection of a memorial to
the late “Father" Kelley. The resolution
recently adopted by that Grange proposes
that a monument. surmounted by 3. mar—
ble or granite bUSt of the Grange’s hon-
ored and revered founder, be erected in
the building or upOn the grounds of the
Capitol at Washington, as a lasting me-
morial of his life and work. It has been
suggested that the necessary funds be
secured by asking each Grange in the
United States to contribute according to
its membership. and the movement will
no doubt be given definite form at the
next meeting of the National Grange.

 

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increased Orders over 100 %

” l ‘HE leading agricultural states of our own country, and the three
principal agricultural provinces of Canada, have already contracted
for over 100% more Overlands than they did a year ago. They

Wanted even more than this but we could not supply the demand.

American farmers have already taken more than twice as many
‘ Overlands as they bought last year—and the season is only half gone.
A few of the individual increases for Overlands for 1913, over

1912, by states and provinces, are as follows: North Dakota, 152%;

Kansas, 134%; California, 101%; Colorado, 93%; South Dakota, 85%;

Texas, 84%; Minnesota, 78%; Iowa, 61%; Oklahoma, 61%; Nebraska, 54%;

Saskatchewan, Canada, 150%; Alberta, Canada, 150 %; Manitoba, Canada,

[150%.

We are shipping over 150 cars a day.
In spite of that, we are over 5000 cars behind our “immediate?

‘fshipping orders.” 0 ‘

Ifyon are in the market for a car examine this Overland at once.

It costs 30% less than any other similar car made, and in most
cases is bigger, better made, moreipowerful, more cOmfortable, more
serviceable and more completely equipped than any _> of the average;

$1200 cars manufactured. ,

There is an Overland dealer near you. Look him up and ask to
see this car—the best buy 1n America. ;,_Catalogue on request to the

,factory. Please address Dept. 86.

{The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, (Ohio,

  
 

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