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VOL. CXL. No. 24. 2

Whole Number 3647.





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1913.





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lWhy and How to Thin Fruits.





 





Thinning is one of the orchard opera—

tions which is often recommended but

seldom practiced. Many think it one of

the non-essentials, one of the frills of

orcharding. They consider it a good

thing for the man who wants to putter

around and get rid of some time and

money he has to spare. .Others think it

one of the most important operations of

the orchard and one which will do much

to bring out the good qualities of the

fruit. They believe that for the time

and money invested it brings as much

profit as most anything that" can be done





stunted in growth. Thinning is the main

remedy for Such cases.

Increases Percentage of Good- Fruit.

Commercial growers of plums and

peaches who have tried thinning consider





it very important in getting good fruit.

Peach growers especially find it very





profitable to thin. The. difference in size

in the peach makes great difference in

the market Value. lt‘rnit from unthinned

trees when heavily loaded is small and

runty and is oftcn a drug on the market

when large sized fruit sells readily. Aside

from increasing the size of the plums





 





 





 





Well-cared for Six-year-old Keiffer Pear Orchard. (890’ Article on Next Page).





in the orchard. excepting spraying. The



latter are generally those who have in-



vestigated the matter most thoroughly.

The Theory of Thinning.



The theory of thinning sounds good and

practical. The prime purpose of fruit

trees in their natural conditions is to

reproduce their kind. Their main object

is to produce. seed, not fruit. The fleshy

part of the fruit, carrying the seed, is

for the protection of the seed; and inci-

dentally, a little flavor tasting good to

man and animals is given to the fleshy

part so that they will cat it and thus aid

in the distribution of the seed. .\ bittcr

or unpleasant taste is usually given the

seed so that it will not be chewed but

rather. swallowcd whole or spit out.





The production of seed is .1 drain on

the vitality of the tree. The seed con-

tains concentrated cssential plant ele-

ments. The llcshy part contains little

besides water.



The tree generally tries to bear a lot

of seed. and therefore the fruit is gener-

ally smaller than man would like it. Man





cares little for the seed, in fact he is

constantly trying to do away with it. The

fleshy part is what he is after. The tree

cares little for the fleshy part but puts

foith all efforts to prodUce seed. To ac-

complish his aim man must thin om the

fruit so that the remaining fruits will get

larger size. \\'hen the tree is relieved

of part of its task of producing seed it

puts its energies into developing larger

fleshy parts to the remaining fruits.

Nature USGS'DO judgment in the pro-

duction of fruit. A tree will bring to ma-

tu'rity so large a crop of fruit in one

year that it will have to rest up a year

before it bears again. By limiting the

production in the productive y'ears man

can often bring the tree to annual hear—

ing. Some varieties will overhear each

year and so ’deplete their vitality that

they will die prematurely. Thinning will

lengthen the lives of .such varieties. Some

varieties will bear crops too young, and

as a result will become checked and





thinning plays an important part in the

control of the fungus troubles of the plum.

Thinning so that no two fruits touch

each othcr will greatly help to control

the rot.



There is no doubt in the, minds of those

who know. as to the practical value: 0f





thinning of peaches and plums. It is

profitable beyond a. doubt. But as to

the value of thinning applcs there is some





controversy. Home arc, Vcl‘y enthusiastic

over it and othcrs who have tried it find

that it docs not pay. It depends upon

circumstam-cs win-thcr it pays or not.

The. markct catcrod to is probably the

determining factor. If apples arc sold

through thc usual channels of trade, the

commission housc. and packcd without

any distinctch pack or mark which be—

comcs a mark of rcpulatioii. it is Very

doubtful if it will pay to thin. ’l‘hcrc is

not enough di"inction made bntwu-n the

various grades of fruit in the way of

price to make it pay for thinning. ’l‘hin-

ning is one of the operations which be-

long to the fancy fruit business. and

should be. followed by other opci‘atiolls

which lnlong to the same line of work.





The applc grower who thins should work

up a reputation for his fruit in the, par-

ticular market he caters to. He should

have. his gradcs well established and

stick to them. Then thinning will be

profitable with a doubt. Thinning is con-

sidered essential and most profitable out

West where they are careful about their

grades and pack.

The Cast of Thinning.



The cOSt seems to be the greatest bug-

a-boo to the intending thinner. Thinning

is epenxsive. the cost of running all the

way from 20 to 80 cents a tree. Some

figure that it takcs just about as long to

thin a tree as it does to pick it. The

cost of thinning is somewhat offset by

the greater ease of picking and packing

at harvesting time.



Tests show us that for every cent put

into thinning we generally get three back,

that is, provided proper care is given in





packing and marketing. So with the av—

erage cost of :30 cents a tree we would

get a dollar per tree profit on the thin—

ning. This would amount to $50 per acre

profit, which is nothing to be sneezed at.



Thinned peach and plum often have as

many bushels of fruit as they would have

had they not been thinned, the size of

the fruit making up for the lack in num-

bers. On apples, however. there is gen-

erally less fruit but the larger per cent

of the better grade of fruit is what makes

thinning- profitable. I'ntiiinned trees. ex-

periments have shown, have about 20 per

cent more culls than those thinned. There





will generally be just about as much

packable fruit on the unthinned trees as

on the thinned but there will pack only

about half as many number ones from

the unthiilned as from the thinned. The

others will be of the lower grades. Culls





and number twos are not producers of

large profits.



Thinning needs judgment. It is hard

to State set rules for it. .\ distance of

about six to eight inches is the proper

distance to thin apples. l‘caches should





not be lcft any closer together than four

inches. live or six inches would be bctter.





and for plums about four inches. if the,

variety of plum is large the distance





Should be greater. In all cases the clus—

ters should be thinned out to one or two





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No two fruits should touch each

other. The largest and most perfect fruit

should be left. Fruit. at the ends of long

growths had better be taken off so as to

lighten the load of the tree. These ter-

minal fruits are generally bruised so as

to make a second grade fruit anyway.

Often one side or part of a tree is heav~

ily loaded while. the rest of the tree has

a light crop. Such heavy bearing parts

should be thinned as the different limbs

of the tree are independent of each other

in the bearing and setting of fruit.





fruits.





Thinning needs courage. It seems

wasteful to most people to thin off onc-

half to three-(pmrters of a. crop. The





axiom, “look up. not down.” is one which

the thinner should keep in mind. Pay no

attention to the f"uit on the ground, it

may weaken your courage. In the west.

the .laps are considered the best thin—

ners because they do as they are told.

regardless of what they think the, conse-

quences will be. The white men, they

say, lets up a little on each tree because

his conscience begins to hurt him.



The proper time for thinning iS

as soon after the June drop

for apples and before the pit hardens in

case of the stone fruits.





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The human hands, well directed, are

the best thinning tools known.

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Apple Scab and It’s Control.





 





The disease known as apple scab is fa-

miliar to nearly everyone. It is probably

the most serious fungus disease of the

apple. lt attacks both the foliage and the

fruit, appearing first in the spring on the

leaves. where it produces velvety

olive green spots of more or less circular

outline. Later these spots become darker

green. or brownish, and more irregular

in shape. The leaves are frequently more

or less wrinkled. and in bad cases fall

prematurely. This exposes the tree to

sun scald and often prevents the fruit

buds from developing normally.



The more charactcristic effect of the

fungus is found upon the fruit. Typical

specimens of the disease are shown in





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ally more numerous around the blossom

end of the fruit. Frequently the. fruit is

distorted while it is young by severe at:





tacks of the fungus. “here the scab

spots are numerous they often run to-





gether and then cause deep cracks in the





apple. This allows the fruit to dry out.

.\ good instance of this is shown in one

of the apples in the photograph.





The Nature of Apple Scab.



Apple scab is caused by a fungus known

scientifically as \‘cnturia pomi. The dis-

case is spread by means of minute spores

or germs which grow on the scab spot

and are blown by the wind from tree to

tree. \Vhen these. spores are blown onto

a leaf or fruit thcy germinate the same





 





 





 





Apples Affected with Scab.





the accompanying photograph. The fun-

gus also attacks the stems of the young

fruit at blossoming time, especially if the

weather is unusually cool or moist. This

causes the young apples to shrivel or

drop, and often reduces the crop very

materially. On the fruit the spots pro—

duced are circular and greenish black in

color, appearing at first very much like

those on the foliage Later the outer

layer of the skin peels off, caused by the

working of the fungus under it. These

spots on mature apples have a dark brown

or blackish color with a narrow margin

of a light gray color. They present a

rough russeted appearance and are usu-





Proper Spraying is Best Means of Control.





as a. seed would in the ground and start

growth. The mycelium or roots of the

fungus grOWs into the tissues of the. leaf

oi fruits and derives its nourishment

from there. The development and spread

of the disease is very much influenced by

weather conditions. Moisture on the

Surface of the leaf or fruit is essential to

the germination of the spore. On this

account the disease is spread mostly in

the spring and early summer or' in the

fall. There are usually two bil‘d i_nfec- .

tions during the year. one occurring in'

June shortly after the young appleslflhave

set. and another in August‘ or September.

The disease spreads Very little during the
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It is 'not

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ples in storage. If the fruit is affected





, with the spores before going into storage,





the fungus will continue to grow. The

spots render the apples very unsightly

and unmarketable at fancy prices. .





The disease thrives best during moist

cool weather, particularly so when this

prevails during. the early part of the sum—

mer. Also, trees appear to be more sub-

ject to attack when crowded so as t'o

shut off a free circulation of air and sun-

shine. Therefore the first preventative is

to select a good location where air drain-

age is possible, space the trees at a prop-

er distance apart, and then thin out>by

proper pruning. Another method of at-

tack is by destroying the dead leaves. It

has been found that the disease winters

over on the dried fallen leaves. These

are then the starting place for the growth

on the next season. Therefore if they

can be destroyed it will prevent some of

the spread of the disease the following

year. This can be done in tire ways,

either by raking up the leaves and burn—

ing them or by plowing them under.



The most important operation in its

control, however, is spraying. This must

not be neglected if the disease would be

kept fr0m doing harm. For this purpose

either Bordeaux mixture or lime sulphur

solution can be used, and at least .three

applications should be made. The first

should be put on just after the buds have

swollen and begin to Show color. How-

ever, if the trees have been thoroughly

Sprayed with lime and sulphur for scale

before the buds open this first application

for scab can be omitted. Another should

be made with dilute lime-sulphur or self-

boiled lime-Sulphur shortly after the pet-

als have fallen, and a third application

about the first part of August. \\'here

the disease is very bad or the weather

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THE KEIFFER PEAR.





 





 





The Keiffer pour is the standby of the

masses and one prominent grower has

said that tlris variety can be raised at a

profit when sold for only 2.7 cents a bush-

el. There is no fruit that can be raised

much cheaper than that and on the av-

erage it Should be made a very profitable

crop. It is a large golden yellow pear

that becomes tinted with red on the sun-

ny side, and though the quality is only

fair, it is a profitable and desirable mar-

ket variety. The Keiffer must be prop-

erly ripened in order to bring out its good

qualities as an eating pear. They should

be left on the trees until reaching full

maturity and picked just before they be-

gln to tint, which is at about the time

that the leaves begin to fall. After pick-

mg they should be placed in a dark, cool

storz'ige room where an even temperature

is maintained. Stored in the proper man-

ner develops their quality and makes the

Keiffer a far more desirable variety.



It is one of the most hardy of all our

commercial pears and its resistance to

blight is well known. It is not wise to

plant a large number of one variety of

pears in the same block but for cross-

pollination, the Garber is recommended

as a very efficient variety. In a large

orchard about eight or 10 per cent of the

Garber will be sufficient.



The big money in Keiffer pear raising

is due to its value as a baking and can-

ning pear. The canning factories demand

a pear of good size and shipping qualities

and make a fine market for large quanti-

ties of this variety. The large size and

remarkable beauty make it a favorite on

the fruit stands where attractive speci-

mens having good keeping qualities are

neceSsary.



The Keiffer pear tree is productive and

the fruit will hang on well in a high

wind. It makes a good~looking, orna-

mental trce for the front yard and serves

the dual purpose of furnishing landscape

beauty and good fruit for the table. The

merits of this variety have not been ap-

preciated because so many farmers have

rushed them to market when immature

and they haVe been purchased by the un-

informed public and used for immediate

consumption. When carefully handled and

properly ripened, the average pear mar-

ket will find little fault with the Keiffer.

The combination of juiciness with the

subacid flavor and the aroma of the Bart-

let make it a variety that will receive

more consideration from a select market





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FARM NOTES.





 





Seeding Alfalfa In Wheat.



I have 17 acres of‘land in one field near

my barn which I would like to get seeded

to alfalfa. It is sowed to cats now. I

intend to sow it to wheat this fall. I

will manure it good before I plow it this

fall and lime it also. Now how should I

apply the lime and how much to the

acre? I intend to top-dress it this com-

ing winter, then sow the alfalfa in the

spring just the same as I would clover.

Any advice you or any of the readers can

give me will be greatly appreciated.



Saginaw Co. * ' J.



VVhex‘e lime is to be applied as a prep-

aration for alfalfa in the manner sug-

geSted by this inquiry, it will be best to

sow same after the ground is plowed for

wheat, and work the lime into the soil

when the land is being fitted for the

wheat crop. The best method of applying

lime is with a. lime or fertilizer distribu-

tor, although if hydrated lime or ground

lime is used, a. sufficient amount can be

sown with a fertilizer drill to give good

results on many soils.



The best authorities advise sowing from

two to four 01- more tons of ground lime—

stone per acre. It is the writer’s experi-

ence that a lesser quantity will give

equally satisfactory results, although the

beneficial effects will doubtless not be as

permanent where only a small application

is made. We have just finished sowing a

carload of ground limestone at the rate

of one and a half tons per acre, and have

had very good results where hydrated

lime was used in quantities as small as

400 to 500 pounds per acre. “'here ap-

plications of ground limestone are made.

it can be distributed with a manure

Spreader or even sown by hand. The

method of application will depend alto-

gether upon local conditions.



W'hether alfalfa can be successfully

seeded with wheat on land where it has

never grown is a point not thoroughly

demonstrated. We have known of some

very good stands of alfalfa Secured in

this way, but unless one is certain that

the bacteria peculiar to the plant. is

present in the soil, or unless the soil is

liberally inoculated with this bacteria,

this method of seeding might not be as

successful as it doubtless will become

when our soils become thoroughly inocu-

lated with this bacteria. as they now are

with that peculiar to red clover. The 13h-

eral manuring of the land and the appli—

cation of lime will. however. go far to in-

sure the success of any method of Seed-

ing alfalfa.



Crops for Green Manure.



“'hat crop should I sow in June for a.

green manure crop to be plowed down for

com next spring? Soil is sandy loam

with clay sub-Soil. I had ,llhought of Hun-

garian millet or buckwheat, or possibly

rape. “'ould like to sow what I can get

most plant food from.



Cass Co. SUBSCRIBER.



In the writer's opinion legumes, such

as cowpeas or soy beans would be more

profitable to use as a green manure crop

on this land than would rape or millet or

buckwheat or rye because it adds some

plant food to the soil, provided the soil,

or seed, is inoculated with the bacteria

peculiar to the legume sown. One of

these crops, if sown in rows and cultivat-

ed, a large growth of vegetable matter.

would be secured which would be in the

best possible condition to plow down the

following spring. Either the soy beans

or the corn, or both, should .be fertilized

with a phosphoric acid and potash fer-

tilizer, provided the ground is in need of

added fertility in order to get maximum

results with the corn. Rape or rye or

buckwheat, or in fact. any cover crop

will add vegetable matter to the soil and

thus tend toward increasing its humus

content, but will add nothing in the way

of actual plant food which the soil did

not already contain, simply leaving it in

available form for the succeeding crop.

while a leguminous crop will accomplish

this same result and at the same time

add a needed store of nitrogen in .the soil





for the use of succeeding crops.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





The Wheat Crop.



We have a good stand of wheat in this

country but it is heading very short. The

spring has been cool and dry and wheat

has not made any great growth. The

question is, what effect will this have

upon. the wheat? People who have been

good observers all their lives say that

this is going to be a splendid wheat year,

that when wheat heads short, when it

doesn’t go all to straw it will go to head,

and we will have a good yield of good

plump wheat.



The Season’s Work.

At this writing, June 3, we have our





 





JUNE 14, 1913.





field of lima beans. 'A field on which we

will plant common field beans is allready

to be planted, and the ground is all fitted

for the rest of the spring crops,'with the

exception of the potato crop, andgthat





has been plowed and harrowed for some





time. We hardly ever get our ensilage





com in before the middle of June and_





sometimes not until the last of June. “'e

hardly ever plant our late potatoes until

after the middle of June, so that we are

very much farther ahead with our work





' this year than we have been in the last





several years, and it is quite encouraging.

It looks now as if we would be able to

narrow the corn ground before the corn

comes up and after the corn comes up.

Some years it is so wet that we can’t

get onto our heavy land and the weeds

get a good start and it is almost impos-

sible to clean corn fields without hand-

hoeing. It looks this year as if we could

manage it without any hand-hoeing.

Applying Fertilizer to Beans.



In planting lima beans and also in.

planting common field beans this yearwe

planted them with a wheat drill, sowing

three rows at a time. \Ve used commer-

cial fertilizer, stopping up the feed runs

directly over the hoes that sow the seed

so as not to have any fertilizer in the

drill with the beans, as beans are very

susceptible to injury from fertilizer when

it touches t‘hem. They are very much

more tender in this respect than corn or

cats or wheat, and so we have just sown

the fertilizer in the drill hoes on either

side of the row, and I believe the best

way is to go on and sow the fertilizer





broadcast with the drill before you plant-





the beans, and hart-ow the ground and

mix it thoroughly with the soil, but, of

course, it takes more time to do this. As

long as we have a drill with the fertilizer

attachment we are putting on the fer~

tilizer at the same time we plant the

beans to save going over the field once.

Probably, taking everything into consid-

eration, it is the most practical way to

use fertilizer.

Rape Ready for Hog Pasture.



The rape and oats have made a re-

markable growth the last few warm days

and we are able to turn the hogs into one

field.





 





THE ALLEGAN COUNTY ALFALFA

CAMPAIGN.





 





The alfalfa campaign in Allegan county

turned out better than we dared to hope.

In all there were 49 meetings held in the

county during the week and in all, 5,925

people attended. “'ayland and Allegan

led with an attendance of over 300 each,

while Plainwell, Burnips Corners, Martin

and Hamilt‘on cut between the 200 and

300 mark. This large number of meetings

were held within the week by a system

of relays that kcpt meetings going in

three places at once—each speaker taking

his turn at every meeting place. This

system worked the speakers prct'ty hard

but reached the people in every remote

part of the country.



The following speakers addressed these

meetings, four of them remaining

throughout the week: Prof. P. G, Hol-

den, Chas. W. Farr, W. R. Baughman,

all of the extension department of the

lnternatiouul Harvester Company. Dr.

Eben Mumford. of M. A. C., John C.

Ketcham, Master of State Grange, and

C. B. Cook. of the Allegan Farm Bureau.

Each meeting lasted from one hour to

one and a half hours. The subject was

divided by the speakers, so little ground

was covered twice. A lively discussion

at the close of each session bore testi—

mony to the amount of interest taken by

lhe farmers generally. A large motor

truck carried a quantity of alfalfa liter-

ature for everyone interested and samples

of seed. A partial list of those who are

going to grow alfalfa this year gives the

names and addresses of over 300 farmers

in the county who will plant all the way

from one to 20 acres each.



The alfalfa campaign has done much to

arouse people on the farms of Allegan

county to the Splendid possibilities of a.

great crop that is growing rapidly in

favor in all sections where it is given an

honest trial. Alfalfa, means more pro-

ductive soils. better crops, an abundance

of the best hay that can be grown and

farming communities more alive to the

best there is in farm life.



Allegan Co.



Michigan is fast coming to the front

as an agricultural state. It ranks first

among all the states of the Union in the

production of beans and rye, and is sec-

ond in the production of apples and po-

tatoes, and third in the production of

pears, grapes and buckwheat.





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IMPROVING OUR POTATOES.—ll.





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In attempting to improve any of our

varieties of potatoes, it is well to keep in

mind the fact that some of the character-

istics we can not change. If the variety

is red, or flesh colored, the color is fixed

and we can not change it. If there is a

tendency toward deep eyes, we may mod-

ify this fault some by selection, but can

not entirely eradicate it. If the potatoes

are round, and when they grow large are

hollow in the middle, it will be impossible

to breed them solid all through and main-

tain large size and productiveness.



One of the first things to do in im—

proving a variety of potatoes we wish to

retain on account of desirable leading

characteristics, is to keep in mind the

faults and modify them, and if possible,

eradicate them. If the round variety is

inclined to grow too large, and are hol-

low, select the tubers from which to se-

lect the breeding sprouts, from among the

tubers that are moderate in size, and put

more seed in a hill, thereby changing the

habit. There is not much danger from

hollow middles where there is a large

number in a hill. Eight or ten medium

sized potatoes in a hill gives bett'er re-

sults, both as to quality and yield, than

three or four large overgrown ones.



If the variety in hand is inclined to

grow long and coarse, select medium

sized tubers for seed that'are more oval

and have a tendency toward a. large

number of eyes. Consumers dislike the

large, prongy potatoes; they are coarse

grained and lack the rich potato flavor

that the medium sized potatoes have. On

account of their poor quality buyers of-

ten throw out as culls the long, large,

prongy potatoes, while the very large po—

tatoes pile up well in the measure they

are not profitable to raise, because both

buyers and consumers discriminate

against them.



By careful selection of seed from the

right kind of tubers, the strength and

vigor of the vines can be maintained and

improved. The strong vines resist dis-

eaSes, while those of a feeble growth

readily succumb to diseases of various

kinds. The kind of potatoes that liayo a

strong root system and produce vigorous

vines withstand Summer drouths and the

diseases which prey upon both vines and

tubers, much better than tliOse that have

but a small root system.



The fact Should be kept in mind that

ancestral influences, both natural and ac—

quired, can be retained by proper man-

agement. If the varieties raised are vig-

orous, that characteristic can be improv-

ed and be dependtd upon to assert itself

each year if the conditions with which

they are surrounded are favorable. The

potatoes of the same variety that have

not been bred up in vigor can not be

depended upon to yield wcll in quantity

or quality. It is the well bred strainsof

the varieties grown that yield best. The

rule holds geod with grains and vegetables

as with the dairy cows and laying hens.



“'hen we were using the then new va-

riety known as the \\'hite Eli-pliant. I

had used them as a field potato for sev-

eral years on account. of the excellent

quality as an eating potato. and also on

account of their being good yielders. One

spring I had laid out. the ground I de-

sired to plant, but found that I lacked

about one—half bushel of seed to plant

the whole patch. {other than plant an-

other variety iii the same field I went

about three miles to secure the same kind

of seed. .»\t digging time the difference

in the potatoes produced from the half

bushel of seed procured away from home

was very pronounced; there was: not the

uniformity in size, nor was there any





thing like as good yield. As far as I

know the conditions were equal. The





seed procured lacked the breeding, or

ancestral influences necessary to make a,

profitable crop.



I have a case in mind which shows that

ancestral influence can, and will, be car-

ried over during unfavorable seasons and

reassert itSelf when the seed is surround-

ed by favorable conditions. A farmer in

one of the great potato growing districts

of the state sold some seed potatoes of

a good variety to a man living on light,

sandy soil. The seed was planted, but on

account of a dry season and adverse con-

ditions, the crop was nearly a failure.

For some reason the man who sold the

seed needed more for planting the follow-

ing season than he had on hand. and

rather than take such seed as could be

secured in his immediate community, he

went to the man to whom he had sold

seed the previous year and bought some

of his small potatoes, as those were all

that could be secured. To his gratifica-

tion and profit the ancestral influences

were reasserted under favorable condi-





T.HE MICHIGAN FARMER





tions, and he had an excellent yield of

good potatoes from the small seed.



\"e have good reasons for believing that

if persistent effortl and attention were to

be given to improving our best and most

popular varieties of potatoes. the quan-

tities required by the consumers of the

country could be supplied from one-half

the usual acreage devoted to the crop,

the quality would be improved and a

larger profit remain in the producers’

hands after the necessary expenses of the

crop have been met.



W'ayne C0. N. A. CLAPP.

THE BEST METHOD OF INOCULAT-

ING ALFALFA.



The adage, “If a little is good more is

better,” is the slogan that I have adopted

when inoculating for alfalfa. \Yhy not?

If you will stop and think about it a little

you will surely see it as I do and if any

0f the readers of the Michigan Farmer

will visit me I can convince them that my

new method of inoculating is far ahead

of any method they ever heard of and the

cost is but a trifle as compared to the

good it will do. One team with two wag-

ons and one man to load the wagons and

two men to spread the soil can in0culate,

using two tons of soil per acre at a cost

of not more than one dollar per acre. My

method is to manure the ground quite

heavily with well rotted manure, or what

is better, with fresh manure that has but

very little straw in it. and on a cloudy

day (and if it rains a little it is all the

better). draw from two to three tons of

soil from a well inoculated alfalfa field

and spread it right onto the manure and

disk it thoroughly at once. You should

have one tcam follow with the disk and

if that is not convenient do not spread

more than one wagon load before disk-

ing it in. If it should happen to be rain—

in}; a little it won't do any harm to in-

oculate two or three acres before disking

but be sure to disk it before the Sun

shines on it, for if the Sim shines on it

even for only a short time it will kill the

bacteria and your work will be wasted,

and much worse than wasted, for you

would think inoculating does no good and

you would not try it again. Then plow



as soon as convenient.



On May 3, 1912. I sowed a field of al-

falfa with peas for the canning factory.

.\ small part of it I did not inoculate; on

part of it I sowed a half ton of Soil per

acre. and on part of it I sowed one ton

and two tons pcr acre. “'here I sowed it

at the rate of two tons per acre and

plowed it under with the manure the al-

falfa is SO much better than where I

sowed a half ton per acre after plowing

and draggid it in, Ithat I would like to

have, everyone that intends to sow alfalfa

come and see it.



I was much interested in- the article in

the Michigan Farmer of May 4. from Mr.

("olon Lillie, in which he tclls how he

inoculated for alfalfa, and I think it is

all right as far as it gocs. but if I did

not use more soil than he did I would not

expect much result on my farm. Per—

haps his land does not need as much in—

oculating as mine does. Now if Mr. Lillie

will come and see my field of alfalfa and

It'll the readers of the Michigan Farmer

exactly what the thinks of my method of

inoculating and how much more hay he

thinks I will get per acre by my method

than I will from the old method of inoc—

ulating he will do more to put alfalfa on

the map of Michigan than all of the al—

falfa campaigns have done in the state

this year. for they do not advocate heavy

inoculation and heavy inoculation mixed

with manure and plowed down is the

foundation on which we must build if we

make a, grand Success in raising alfalfa.

'l‘hercfore when inoculating don‘t forget

that “if a little is good, more is better.”



Oceana Co. H. K. BRANCH.





ALFALFA AFTER EARLY POTATOES.





Seeding alfalfa after early potatoes has

proved the most satisfactory method at

the Ohio station. A few years ago Dean

Price, of the College, conducted a com-

parison of different methods of seeoing

alfalfa. He started three small pieces of

alfalfa each containing six acres. The

first six acres were seeded in the spring

with oats as a nurse crop, the second six

acres were fallowed during the summer

and seeded late. These two plots during

the following two seasons produced prac-

tically the same amount of hay. On the

third six acres the land was planted to

early potatoes. These six acres produced

533 bushels of potatoes. During the fol-

lowing two seasons the third plot yielded

much the same as the others but the

money from the potato_crop made it

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W'lth the heavy draft from nursing

their lambs and the gradual decline in

growth of pasture there is every danger

that the ewes will become reduced in flesh

and unthrifty. No time of the year is

more vexing to both sheep and fleck

owner than the summer season when

drought and excessive hot weather re-

tards pasture growth. Meadow lands par-

ticularly are very apt to evidence the ef-

fect of hot dry weather and especially if

having been well pastured during the

early part of the season. It is unsafe to

rely altogether during the summer months

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forage.



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condition and also produce a uniform

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weeds that otherwise would go to seed.



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Shlawassee Co. LEO C. REYNOLDS.

COST OF RAISING HORSES.

Reports have been reccived from about

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Agriculture upon the cost of raising

colts on farms to the age of three years.

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third year $9.56; hay, firSt year $4.14, sec-

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first year $2.56, second year $5.41. third

year $6.21; other costs, $3.01; total, $104.06.



The total cost for all feed is $56.30,

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$14.18 for pasture, and $1.21 for other

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ALFALFA HOG PASTU RE.





Last year we sowed out first alfalfa,

10 acres in four small fields, using differ-

ent amounts of seed and sowing at dif-

ferent times, to learn a little about the

plant and the way best suited for our

farm. We used nitro-eulture obtained

from M. A. C. on all but a small strip

for comparisOn. W'e obtained excellent

results and we have been pasturing one

field with hogs. Vl'e turned them into

another in which the alfalfa is nearly

waiSt high this morning. In the one

from which we turned them, the alfalfa

is beginning to start from the cuown

again but none of it is in blossom and

some weeds are coming in it. When

should we clip it, and will it do harm to

leave the growth on the ground or must

it be removed? We want to use that

field for paS'ture again when it gets Suf-

ficient growth.



Shiawassee Co. G. J. F.



Alfalfa can be cut as soon as the new

growth is Well started from the crown of

the plant. It should be cut before this

new growth gets tall enough so that it

is clipped 'off with the mower. If the new

growth is cut off it seems'to injure the

growth. On the other hand, they tell us

that if alfalfa is not cut when the new

growth starts it doesn't seem to do well.

Now the proper thing for you to do is to

turn the h'ogs out of this pasture and cut

the balance for hay. Then as soon as

the new growth starts up nicely and is

five or six inches high you can burn the

hogs back in. VVlthout any question the

way to pasture alfalfa is to not have too

many hogs for the alfalfa field, and then

when it comes time to cut, save what the

hogs have not‘ eaten for hay. In this way

if you will cultivate the alfalfa with a

spring tooth barrow every year, either

early in the spring or before the alfalfa

starts to amount to anything or directly

after it has been cut fOr hay, go over it

thoroughly both ways. you will not injure

the alfalfa and you will root out the June

grass and other weeds. Then by properly

fertilizing it you can keep it down to hog

pasture for almost an indefinite period of

time. Of course. it will do no harm to

I-lip this field of alfalfa and leave the

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PLANTING SOY BEANS IN ,CORN FOR

SILAGE.



Seeing an article in the Michigan Farm-

er some time ago on planting soy beans

in corn for ensilage, would like to have

you tell me how and when to plant the

beans. \Vould it be practical to plant

enough to fill a 12X3U-ft. silo?



Monroe Co. J. S. ’



Personally I don't think very much of

the, idea of mixing soy beans with seed

corn and planting it for silage. because .I

like to grow the ensilage corn pretty thick.

Corn is a’ very vigorous grower and when

you have a good crop of corn on the land

you will get a very small growth of soy

beans. In other words. you can't grow

two crops on the same ground in the

same. season and have both of them good

crops. I have tried this and most every

year I try it over again, and always meet

with the same. results. I think it is much

better if you want to grow soy beans to

mix with the corn silage to grow them on

a separate piece of ground. Put them in

r0Ws 28 inches apart and plant about a

bushel of seed to the acre and then cut

them at the same time you cut your en-

silage corn and mix them in with the en-





silage corn. Put in three'or four loads

of corn to one load of soy beans, run

them through the cnsilage cutter and





mix them as thoroughly as you can with

the corn silage. The cows relish them

and they furnish a cheap source of pro-

tein, and I think the plan a good one,

although there is a question as to wheth-

er you cannot supply the protin in grain

cheaper than you can to grow the soy

beans as a forage in this way. Corn is

about as cheap a crop as we can grow.

\Ve want this to furnish the carbohy-

drates. It is necessary for best results

that we feed some grain in connection

with the clover or alfalfa hay and corn

silage, and we can have this grain con-

tain a gt’iod per cent of protein to balance

up the ration. I am of the opinion that

if we grow the soy beans and allow them

to ripen, and harvest them and thresh

them and grind the soy beans and feed

a little soy bean meal in connection with

the corn silage that we will get better

results than we will if we put them into

the silo, as long as we hang Indian corn

silage as the great silage crop.

BEST SILO CORN FOR MONROE

COUNTY,



After reading much of your writings,

1 would like your advise on the best corn

to grow in Monroe county for a silo and

general feed. \Ve expect to feed all the

corn we grow.



Monroe (‘o. J. \X‘.



As I have often stated in the Michigan

It‘armcr. l think the best silo corn is the

largest variety of dent corn that will ma-

ture sutliciently to make good silage in

any gth-ll section. There is no best va-





riety. linsilagc corn is nothing more or

less than common iicld corn grown for

the silo. Some people have. a. specitic

name for ciisilage corn, but it _simply

means dent corn that is grown a good

ways south and has the habit. of taking

a long time to mature because it has

been grown in a climate where the sea-





sons are long. \Vllen that corn is brought

north it requires a longer season to ma-

ture than our climate. it grows very large.

but does not contain a very large, per

cent of digestible nutrients. You can

grow an immense amoum of fodder ~or

bulk of this sort of corn on an acre. but

you can’t get as much dry matter per

acre as you can with a corn that matures

in a shorter Season. I believe the best

ensilage corn or the best corn to plant

for ensilage is any good variety of dent

that is grown for about 100 miles south

of us, and I am of the opinion that it

will pay a man to buy his seed corn from

a point 100 miles south of him every year

where he wants the crop for the silo. It

makes little difference what the name of

it is as long as it is good vigorous corn.

Of course, one wants prime seed, seed

that has been harvested before frost and

that has been kept from freezing all win-

ter. “'e want it to grow and to grow

vigorously. Corn grown in a given sec-

tion tends to acclimate itself «to that sec-

tion and becomes earlier, and when it

becomes earlier it doesn’t grow as large.

Now what we are after in silage is to get

the largest amount of digestible nutrients

to the acre. The food nutrients which

we get out of the cornstalk in silage is





THE MICHIGAN





just as important as that which we get

out of the ear. One is just as digestible

as the other, and we don’t care whether

we get these nutrients in the stalk and

leaves or in the ear itself. The purpose

is entirely different than it is when we

raise corn to husk and simply sell or

feed the grain and consider the stalks of

little account. Now when the corn plant

properly matureS, not dead ripe, but

glazed and dented and not yet ready to

cut up because it would shrink some, then

the chemist tells us is the time it con-

tains the largest per cent of digestible

nutrients. Now the largest variety of

corn that we can get that will properly

mature will yield for us the largest num-

ber of tons of digestible nutrients: per

acre and that is what we Want; we don’t

care what the name of the corn is. As

1 say, when we take corn farther south

.where the season is longer and bring it

north it will grow luxuriantly but it 11S-

ually will not properly mature. It hasn’t

the maturing habit for such a short sea-

son. \X'hen returning from Cuba I brought

home some Cuban corn. This corn down

there only grew to a moderate height. It.

was good vigorous corn. I planted an ear

of it in the garden. It grew to an ex-

treme height. some of them reaching 13

feet high, and became great large stalks.

And when killing frosts came it was just

nicely tasseled and silked out. You see.

in Cuba. it grew in a climate where it

could have the whole year to mature in

and'when it got up into Michigan it had

to hustle up and grow in about 90 or 100

days and it hadn’t acquired this habit.

Now that corn was not properly mature

and would not' make good silage. although

there would be an immense bulk to the

acre. And so I repeat. that I belieVe that

the best seed for ensilage corn is a good

vigorous variety of dent corn that is

grown about 100 miles south of us. That‘

corn will undoubtedly mature sufficiently

to make good silage and will produce the

largest growth of dry matter per acre.





HOW TO CURE A KICKING COW.





 





 





 





Can you give me a cure for a kicking

cow? She is both ugly and nervous.



Kalkaska Co. Sifnst'nlmzn.



There is one thing certain. you can't

cure a kicking cow by beating her with





the milking stool or abusing her in any.





way. Cows resent this kind of treatment.

This will not subdue a cow any more

than threshing subdues a balky horse,





the more you whip them the balkier they





get. The only way I know of to cure a

kicking t'UW is through kindness. Try to

get on the right side of the cow. Make





l.er believe that you are her best friend.





And I think after a time the right man

with the right knack can get the cow





so that She will not

is a cause for kicking.

isult of pain or injury.

who milks the cow has long fingernails

or perhaps he has hard callonses on his

hands. Perhaps he does not know how

to squeeze the teat of the cow without

giving the cow pain. All she knows is to

resent this pain by kicking. It is her

only way of defenSe, and consequently if

the cow is caused pain by milking the

thing to do is to remove the cause. Very

often a cow has chapped teats. the same

as a man has chapped hands. The teats

get chapped in the cold dry winds. or

sometimes a teat is injured by scratching

it on a barbed wire or something of that

sort. If this is the case. when you go

to milk the cow it is going to hurt, and

the cow is going to kick, and you can’t

blame her for it. In such cases as this

a healing salve should be u>‘e(l, or vase—

linc, to soften the teat and make the in-

jury as light as possible. Sometimes the

cow gets a teat injured so that you can—

not cure it with anything of this sort

and only time will do the healing. In

such cases it may be necessary to tie the

cow’s legs so she cannot kick, until the

wound heals.





kick. T'sually there

It is usually the

Perhaps the man





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PREPARE TO CAPONIZE THIS SEA-

SON’S SURPLUS COCKERELS.





 





Everyone desires to realize the greatest

amount of profit possible from the sur-

plus cockerels but is puzzled as to which

is the best method of disposing of them.

Selling them as broilers will, of course.

bring in a profit, but unless one has a

good market for them this is not satis-

factory. In order to secure highest prices

they must be in prime market condition,

and this entails quite a bit of labor unless

one is properly prepared for the work.





The best method of disposing of them .





for the farmer and poultryman alike. is

selling them as capons. Cockerels that

have been caponized bring a price per

pound that compares favorably with that

of broilers. Some markets quote them at

30fi11'100. and as they Weigh from 8 to 12

lbs. each. according to breed, it will at

once be seen that caponizing is profitable.

A large capon will bring about as much

as a good-sized turkey. and from a small-

er amount of feed consumed. No special

feed or feeding is necessary in growing

capons. In fact, they will eat anything.

They will eat feed that the other fowls

will not touch. Hence. the small feed

bill in raising capons.



A capon is an unsexed male bird. A

capon shows no inclination to crow or

fight. He is quiet and docile. The comb

and wattles of the capon cease to devel-

op. Capons are also easily fattened. One

of their characteristics is a fondness for

little chicks. They can be taught to cure

for a brood of chicks and make the best

of mothers. Cockerels caponized in the

fall will be right to brood chicks early in

the season when broody hens are una-

vailable. They are especially 01‘ value to

the breeder of a non-sitting variety of

chickens, as chicks can be batched in an

incubator and given to the capons to be

cared for.



Caponizing can be learned by anyone,

and a little experience will enable one to

become quite expert in manipulating the

instruments. Procure a good set of in-

struments—they can be purchased very

reasonably, and the work is much more

eaFlly done with a full sch—follow the

directions that accompany them and you

will have very little trouble. Of course,

your first operation may not be a SIlC-

cess, but this should not discourage you.

You are acquiring experience. and that is

what is needed. It is a good plan for the

beginner to watch an experienced person

perform the operation if this is possible.

Lacking this, the next best thing to do is

to experiment on a dead cockerel, one that

has been killed for table or market.



The heavy or meat breeds of chicken

are better than the light or egg breeds

for making capons. They should weigh

from 11,5 to 3 lbs. and be in good health

at time of operating. It is best to per-

form the operation early, if possible, be-

fore hot weather sets in. While the Work

can be done successfully in hot weather.

the results are usually not so good as

earlier or later. Do the work in a room

where there is plenty of light, and select

a day that is bright and clear.



For the operating table a bowel or box

may be used, as preferred. It should be

of the right height for the operator to

work well. A barrel turned on end an-

swers the purpose nicely and is usually of

the right height. The fowl should be

laid on its side, a cord tied around the

feet and a weight attached to the end.

which is allowed to hang down the side

of the barrel. This is to keep the feet

still and hold the fowl in position. An-

other string is fastened around the wings

and a weight attached to this also.



Cockerels intended for caponizlng should

have. no food for about 24 hours previous

to the operation. Now. follow the direc-

tions that accompany the instruments.

After the cut is made and held open by

the Spreaders, the male organs will be in

full view. In size and shape they resem-

ble navy beans. and are of a yellowish

color. Some remove the upper one first.

but it is better to remove it last. If the

upper one is removed first, and a loss of

blood occurs, the View of the lower organ

would be obstructed and its removal made

more difficult. Do not sew up the out

after the operation; it will close of itself.

Vl'hen the canon is released the ribs will

close up‘the wound and it usually heals

in ten days.



Care must be exercised to remove the

organs entirely or “slips” will occur. 01'





course, when this happens the fowl will





Poultry and Bees.





not be a capon and cannot be sold for

such. It often happens that the organs

develop again and the cockerel becomes

lit for breeding purposes.



The fowls are ready to be fed asvsoon

as the operation ls over with. First they

should .be provided with1water, however.

They should not be put on fattening

food. The object is to keep them growing

until they are about a. year old. Then, a

few weeks. before marketing. place them

in small yards and feed three or four

times a day. on fattening rations. This

will put them in prime market condition.



Indiana~ O. E. HACHMAN.





 





HOW TO MAKE AND USE A SWARM

CATCHER.



I will describe how to make a swarm

catcher, with which a swarm clustered 30

feet high can be hived nearly as quickly

and eaSily as when near the ground. It

requires only a. short time to make one.

The material, which is worth but a few

cents, consists of a large bag made out

of any kind of stout, coarse cloth—such

a sack as binding twine comes in is ex-

cellent. To hold the mouth of this sack

open, a pieCe of smooth wire. as large or

a little larger than telegraph wire. is

used. It is bent to a circle with the ends

overlapping some inches. so that they

can be tied together with small wire or

stout cord. The mouth of the sack is

then securely sewed around this wire

hoop. A crotched stick. the prongs of

which naturally stay as far or a little

further apart than the diameter of the

wire hoop. is used, and with stout cord

the end of each prong is tied to the wire

hoop at points directly opposite each oth—

er. so that the ~SltCk swings free. Now

the Open mouth of the sack will always

point upward. no matter at what angle

the pronged stick may be held. The stick

below the prongs should be at least two

feet long, so the small end of a long

light pole can be attached to it by a1-

lowing the two to overlap a couple of

feet. and binding them together with two

short straps. Different length poles 0:111

be used, as they can be attached or de~

tached in an instant.



“'hen a swarm is clustered on a small

limb. the eutcher can be pushed up

around them, then quickly raised up, jar-

ring.r the limb so that the whole swarm

falls right into .the sack. If they are

clustered on a large limb, the mouth of

the sack can be raised up under them

and, by moving it one side. the bees are

brought into the sack. Thus a swarm

can be picked right off the body of a.

tree. for, by letting the mouth of the

sack catch on the body of the tree below

the bees, then gradually raising it up,

the bees will be brushed in. Carry to the

hive and invert the bag, or rather turn

it inside out, and the bees will drop in

front of the hive and run into it. and the

hiving is done Until tried, no one would

believe from what apparently inaccessible

places swarms can be secured with one

of these. when rightly made. I have

tested quite a few swarm catchers, but

have found none to give such thorough

satisfaction as this simple device, which

any bee-keeper can make.



New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.



Bee-keepers who do not keep queens

for more than two years clip the right

wing of queen in even years and the left

in the odd years. The age of queen can

thus be told.



Don’t bother with starters of comb

foundation in your breeding or extract-

ing frames, but put in full sheets of foun-

dation and prevent bees from building the

worst nuisance of the apiary—«drune comb.



Don’t use second-hand packages for

your comb or extracted honey. You not

only bear down the price of honey 011 the

market, but yOu indirectly raise the

freight rate.





 





Don’t try to winter weak colonies. If

yOu are anxiOus to save all you can. feed

them syrup made from granulated sugar

as soon as harvest commences to close.

so that breeding will be kept up until

they are strong in bees. These often

make your best colonies in the spring.

If you cannot do this you had better

unite two or more in the fall, for a. weak

colony in the fall is usually a dead one

in the spring.
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BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.





Symptoms by whlcli Tuberculosis is

Recognized.



Before describing the symptoms or

signs by which tuberculosis is recognized

or suspected in a living animal, it is well

to say that there is no symptom which

can be relied on with certainty. Any of

the symptoms may sometimes be caused

by some other disease and not one of

them is characteristic of tuberculosis

alone.



Many of the symptoms that are relied

on by the human physician in reaching

his opinion are not available in examin-

ing cattle. The thickness of the skin and

the chest wall, for instance, makes it

difficult to detect a diseased condition of

their lungs by listening to the sounds

made in breathing, whereas this is com-

paratively easy in human beings.



It must also be clearly remembered that

cattle may be very badly diseased and

yet show no symptoms of ill health.

They may be fat and sleek, looking the

picture of health, while their lungs and

other organs are full of tubercles. Such

cases can only be detected by the tubr-

culin test.



As tuberculosis may attack almost any

organ of the body, we may have in each

case the symptoms connected with the

part affected as well as those affecting

the general state of the body as a whole.

We will take up in detail each of the

more important symptoms suggestive of

the disease.



Unthrlftlness.





The animal is not doing as well as it

should for the care and feed it is getting.

Its coat is rough and its skin has lost its

suppleness and feels harsh and thick.



Along with the unthriftiness is noticed

a gradual loss of fieSh as the animal gets

thinner from week to week. It appears

to be pining away, and such cows have

been known to dairymen for a long time

under the name of “piners.” or “wast-

ers.” After a time they are reduced al-

most to skin and bone. Some cows show

clearly the symptoms of unthrifliness and

loss of flesh, being very weak and thin,

but are heavy milktrs and even in their

weak condition continue to give an abun—

dant quantity of milk. Cows of this kind

are, unfortunately, too numerous in dairy

herds. The temptation to keep sut-h

cows and to use their milk is greater

than some persons can resist. Such cows

are a great danger to other animals that

may come, in contact with them, and the

use of their milk in a raw state is very

apt to cause tuberculosis alike in young

persons and lower animals.



Cough.



This symptom is only present when the

disease is attacking the lungs or some

part of the breathing organs. It is not

a loud, sonorous cough, but rather a sub-

dued and infrequent one, and may be

heard only at Such times as when the

stable is first opened in the morning or

when the animal is driven. At a later

stage of the' disease it may be heard at

any time of the day. Cows do not usu-

ally appear to cough up anything. This

is because. they do not spit. Most of the

material coughed up from the lungs: is

swallowed, but many tuberculosis germs

est-ape from the mouth in the form of

spray or are discharged from the nose.



Enlarged Glands.



Enlargements in the region of the

throat, especially when they cause'diifi-

culty in breathing, are very likely to‘be

due to tuberculosis.



Loss of Appetite.



This symptom is not seen until the

later stages of the disease, when the an-

imal is evidently wasting.



Bloating.



Diseased glands in the chest some-

times prevent the usual paSsage of gas

from the paunch to the mouth by press-

ing on the gullet. In this case the cow

suffers from bloating, and the paunch is

often distended with gas. This, however,

is not a very frequent symptom.



Looseness of the bowels, or “scouring.”

is seen in cattle affected with the disease

in the bowels. This kind of diarrhea can

not be cured by any known treatment.



When tuberculosis attacks the udder

no change can be detected at first, but

after a time hard lumps can be felt in

some parts of the organ after it is milked

out. Milk from such an udder must not

be used, as it is almost certain to be

teeming with germs of the disease.





 





 





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CURRENT COMMENT.



There has ever been a.

difference of opinion

among good farmers us

to the unit of land

which is most profitable. According to

:1 recent Washington report the farm

muuogcmint bureau of thc l'nitcd States

Department of Agricullnrc has attempt—

ed to scllle this much mooted question by

:in inveStigation of many forms in Mich-

igun and other states to determine the

relation between the size of the farm

and the profit derived from it. This re-

port states that a minute study of some

600 forms in Ncwaygo county revealed

the fact that many of the owners of

small forms were not makingr expenseS,

and the general conclusion was reached

from the investigation that 160 acres is

the smallest unit of land upon which

farming l‘tln be made :1 profitable venture.

The supplementary statement is made.

howcvcr, that “as a. general thing the

farms in Newnygo county are of fair size

and their opei':.itors are earning :1 fair

return on their investment."



This report was published in the form

Of an interview from Dr. Spillman, head

of the Farm Management Bureau of the

I'nited States Department of Agriculture,

written by a leading “'ashington news-

paper correspondent and published in a

Detroit pziper. The interview was re-

fern-d to Dr. Mumford. suite lender in

farm management and field studies and

demonstrations in Michigan, for an opin-

ion as to its accuracy. lie replied with

the following statement: “To my knowl-

edge there has been no such invostiga~

tion in Newziygo c'Ounty, but there was

made, last Summer, by the Office of Farm

Management, :1 study of about 630 forms

in Lenawee county. “'0 have not yet

received a tabulation of these results so

that it is difficult for us to comment upon

them at this time. " * * I do not know

what Professor Spillman’s statements

were, other than what is reported in the

article which you sent me but I aim in-

clined to think that he would qualify

those statements in such a way that they

would be made to apply to particular

types of farming rather than to farming

in general.”



It thus seems probable that this report

which has been circulated in the Michi-

gan press in a semi-official form may be

erroneous as to facts which will appear

in the official report of these investiga-

tions in Michigan. If so it is to be re-

gretted as tending to discredit the farm

management work which is being under-

taken in this state and which already

promises much in the way of benefit to

Michigan agriculture.



It appears that similar investigations

are being made in several states and

that the results are soon to be published

as a warning to city people who formerly

put their money into mining stocks but

who are now buying small tracts of land





Size of Farm vs.

Profit.





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





which they never have seen in the belief

that farmers are making money so rap-

idly that they cannot go wrong on such

an investment. If the publicatiOn of sta-

tiStics resulting from this investigation

accomplishes the result of disabusing the

public mind of the impression that the

farmers of the country are coining mon-

ey, a result worth while will have been

accomplished. It would appear, however,

that the conclusion above referred to,

that farming'on less than 160 acres of

land is an unprofitable venture is ill ad-

vised. else it is a sad commentary on

Michigan agriculture. The last census

figures ShOW the average size of all Mich-

igan farms to be‘ 92 acres, including un-

improved land, and a fraction over. 62

acres each of improved land. If the 218-

sertion accredited to Dr. .Spillman in this

press report were true, it must logically

follow that agriculture in Michigan has,

on the whole, been an unprofitable ven-

ture for the'farmers of the state.



The trouble with investigations of this

sort, and the reason why they cannot be

expected to settle a problem of this kind

definitely, is that the personal equation of

the farmers themselves is not taken into

account. Probably a majority of the more

capable farmers who began with small

farms have added to their holdings until

the factor of the perFonul equation is on

the side of the larger farm, yet there

are thousands of successful farmers'in

Michigan who are operating on 80, 60 and

even 40 acre farms who will not accept

this settlement of the question of the re-

lzition of the size of the farm to the

profit from it as final and authoritative.





in the last issue

comment was made

on the advance of

interest rates on good farm loans which

was revealed by 1111 investigation of this

proposition in two of the best agricultural

counties in central Michigan. Another

evidence of the present tendency of finzin-

(‘lzll institutions and capitalists to hoard

money is found in a recent report from

westcrn Michigan, in which the state-

ment is made that an installment of

$100,000 of an authorized bond issue for

the construction of good roads remained

unlimited because of the fact that no

bids were received on the date set for

the receiving of bids. As a result it is

predicted that rond construction in this

county will be delayed for the want of

available funds, although a similar

amount of the same authorized issue of

bonds was easily floated when previously

offered. When bonds of this character do

not find a ready sale at this season of

the year it would appear to be evidence

of a restricted money market the legiti-

mate cause of which is difficult to an-

alyze.



“'hile it is but reasonable to expect a

degree of conservatism on the part of

both banks and capitalists as a precau—

tion against any business disturbance

which might result from the enactment

of pending tariff legislation, it is entirely

possible that the decline in average prices

for agricultural products has contributed

to the present apparent scarcity of mon-

ey. A recent computation by the United

States Department of Agriculture indi-

cates that average prices for farm pro-

ducts were about 28 per cent lower on

June 1, 1913, than on the same date in

1912, 5.1 per cent lower than in 1911, 9.2

per cent 10wer than in 1910 and 17.3 per

cent lower than in 1909. If this is a con-

tributing cause to the present situation,

however, there is hope in the fact that

prices for agricultural staples appear to

have reached the low mark and are now

in the process of reaction, since the same

report states that the average prices re-

ceived by producers for staple crops in-

creased about 4.3 per cent from May 1

to June 1 of the present year, as com-

pared with an increase of 1.2 per ccnt

during the same period a year ago and

an average increase of 3.4 per cent dur-

ing the same period of the last five years.





The Money Market.





The annual loss from

the depredations of

rodents is enormous.

The waste caused by

mice would seem large if it could be

shown in the aggregate, but the waste

caused by rats is much larger. It is a.

sufficient argument for the elimination of

the rat nuisance in itself, to say nothing

of the sanitary reasons for such a course.



In sections of the country where there

has been an epidemic of rats, organized

rat hunts have been conducted with a

view to reducing their numbers and the

consequent annoyance to the inhabitants.

Few farmers have not been so annoyed

by the rat nuisance at some time in their

experience that they have resorted to all





Eliminating the Rat

Nuisance.





kinds of expedients to rid the premises

of them, most of which, however, resulted

in failure. In fact, there is but one cer-

tain ‘metvhod of eliminating the rat nui-

sance, and that is to starve out the rats.

New buildings .should be constructed so

that they will be rat proof, and old build-

ings, especially where grain or other pro-

ducts which the rats can utilize as food

are stored, should be made rat proof.

Then, and .only then, will the rat nui—

sance be eliminated. And the elimination

of the rat nuisance by this means and by

removing piles of old material or rubbish

which harbor rats will be found a profit-

able and satisfying investment on any

farm.





It appears that the syS-

tem of prize farming used

to stimulate interest in

boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs the

country over has outgrown its original

scope in some sections of the south where

this movement originated. According to

a recent estimate made by the Farme:s'

Educational and Co-operative Union, of





Prize Farming.





.Texas, over $250,000 has been spent in





prize farming in that state during the

past five years. This has been done Iurge-

ly through the interest which business

men have taken in the proposition, and

this fact has caused the executive com-

mittee of the organization above men-

tioned to make an investigation of the

proposition with a View to pointing out

more practical lines of co—operution for

those who desire to render effective aid

to the agriculture of the state.



As a result of this investigation the sys-

tem of prize farming which has grown up

in that state has been condemned by the

organization, on the ground that its edu-

cational value is too limited to be of any

practical use; that it turns the mind of

the child from practical to fancy farming,

:~nd that its effect is, immoral where the

«'t of growing a prize crop exceeds the



"o if the product. The assertion is

; .. o made that it gives the occupation of

firming a childlike appearance and ac-

knowledges the farmers as delinquent.

feeble and incompetent. The conclusion

is reached that the assembling of the

best products of the farm in a community

for study and comparison of educational

value and in competition for small prizes

offered after the. crop is grown would not

be so objectionable. but the offering of

large prizes before the crop is grown is

declared to be damaging to agriculture as

on industry.





As previously noted in

these columns, the Leg-

islature made an appro-

priation of $20,000 for

the purpose of paying the transportation

of Michigan’s Civil war veterans who par-

ticipated in the Battle of Gettysburg on

July 1-2-3, 1863, to the reunion which will

be held on the battle ground on the fif-

tieth anniversary of that momentous bat-

tle. It later developed that the appropri-

ation would not cover the cost of the

transportation of all the applicants, and

as discrimination between them was im-

possible this appeared an almost insur-

mountable obstacle to the participation of

Michigan’s veterans in the event. But a

friend in need appeared in the person of

Representative VVeidenfeller, of Van'Bu-

ren county, who interested himself in the

task of undertaking to induce the

railroads to transport the veterans and

hold over their claim for the short-

uge until the Legislature could make

another appropriation. This he succeeded

in doing by personally guaranteeing the

payment of same in case the Legislature

fails to make the appropriation. Thus

Michigan’s veterans who participated in

the Battle of Gettysburg are assured the

opportunity to review this stirring period

of their lives on the scene of action.





While the state pays the transporta-

tion of the veterans. the government fur-

nishes sleeping tents and camp equip-

ment, and the state of Pennsylvania feeds

them while there. For them it will be a

celebration of the National Holiday which

will offer greater attractions, though ac-

companied by sadder memories, than any

in which they have participated since the

days of their youth.





The Gettysburg

Anniversary.





Following a precedent first es-

tablished in 1900, Governor

Ferris has issued a procla-

matiOn urging all citizens of Michigan to

display on that day “the most beautiful

and the most significant of all the flags

of all the nations of the earth," to the

end that our youth may be encouraged

to love and reverence the Flag and what

it symbolizes. This is an appeal which

should be responded to by country people

in making use of the Red, White and

Blue for decorative purposes on June 14.





Flag Day.





JUNE 14, 1913.





HAPPENINGS or THE WEEK.





 





National. -



Four persons were killed and two oth-

ers fatally injured when a tast‘ freight

train plunged over an embankment at

Blue Fields, W. Va... Sunday morning and

struck a. residence.



William Merritt, a resident of Redford,

Mich., was run down and instantly killed

by an interurban car at Monnier read and

Grand River avenue, Just outside of De—

troit last Sunday night.



The United States Senate “lobby in-

vestigating committee” continues to take

testimony this Week. It is expected that

the work of examining the senators will

be completed by the middle of the week

and that following this part of the pro-

gram. the calling of men supposed to be

identified with the lobby itself, will be—

gin. Just how long a time the committee

Will need to complete its task and what

the effect of the effort will be, are con-

jectural.



The labor troubles of the Pere Mar—

quette railroad are still unsettled. and it

is possible that the dissatisfied workmen

will extend the “walkout" to other

branches of the company‘s interests than

the shopS, although it appeared at the

meeting held in Grzmd Rapids, Sunday,

‘ihat some 0f the unions did not favor

calling a strike because they felt that the

grounds advanced for such a move did

not warrant the action. The engineers

were most insistent upon remaining at

work, while the hoilermakers'would have

gone out eagerly. A meeting of the com~

pany’s men was also held at Saginaw

where the idea of arbitrating differences

with the company seemed to prevail.



Glenn DuBoiS, editor of the Charlevoix

Courier, and prominent Grange worker

throughout Michigan, died at Churlevoix

last Sunday morning at the age of 40.

He had been ill for several months.



The weather station at Detroit reports

that Sunday, June 7, was the coldest June

day on record with two exceptions. they

being June 7, 1875, When the mercury

dropped to 38 degreee‘. and June 2, 1894,

when it reached the same point. The

loweSt point reached last Sunday was 39

degrees F.



Members of the United States Senate

committee selected to make inquiry into

the strike situation of West Virginia are

now in the district making a personal

investigation of conditions.



Following the general invitation of Sec-

retory of “'ar Garrison to college stu-

dents to enter special military camps at

Gettysburg, Pa., and Monterey, Cal,

where the rudiments of army life will be

taught, about 500 college men have re-

sponded in spite of the fact that the an—

nounccment was made very late. The

plan is novel and the response of the

men of our colleges will go far toward

making it a success.



An important decision was handed down

Monday by the United States Supreme

Court when it decided in what is known

as the Minnesota freight and passenger

rate cases. that the several states have

power to fix reasonable rates on inter-

state roads, until such time as Congress

shall choose to regulate such roads. In

the same decision the court laid down

some far-reaching principles governing

the valuation of railroad properties for

rate making purposes, and upon these

principles the court decided that in cer-

tain specific instances the state 0f Min—

nesota had fixed rates at an unreason-

ably low figure and that these rates

amounted to a confiscation of property;

the state waS, therefore, restrained from

enforcing the measure in these instances.

Many states are affected by the decision.



The people of northeastern Michigan

are to be congratulated upon the success

of the road “bee" held Monday of this

week to conStruct a continuous roadbed

from Bay City to Mackinaw City, a dis-

tance of 250 miles. It is estimated that

10.000 persons participated in the great

event and that 150,000 cubic yards of

earth and gravel were moved by 4.000

teams. The road passes through eight

counties and 48 townships and while it is

not completed at all points yet the work

is so far advanced that a little additional

attention and labor will pructicallv fin-

ish it. '



Col. Goethals, engineer of the Panama

canal project, announces that on New

car's Day, 1915, the grcat ('zinal will be

ready to carry the largest ships afloat.



Foreign.



The relentless campaign waged by

women of England and planned to dis-

turb political, business and Social affairs

es much as possible, has finally resulted

in one of the women workers being killed

while doing campaign work. Misu “'ild~

mg. Davison who has been active and

prominent in the militant endeuvors of

the suffrage movement in England for

some time past, died the result of injuries

received when she attempted to stop the

King's horse during a running race at

the derby meet last Vl'ednesday. Her

skull was fractured and she. was removed

to a hospital where, after an operation.

she died.



This week the house of commons will

again consider the bill providing for the

home rule of Ireland. A year ago the bill

was passed by the commons but was ve~

toed by the house of lords. Should it be

vetoed again by the house of lords and

the commons should pass it the third

time a year hence. the measure will be-

come law—a. route already mapped out by

the supporters of the bill and made pos-

sible by the action of the government a.

few years ago when the power of the

lords over legislation was restricted.



Affairs in Mexico remain unsettled.

Rebels recently captured Metameros and

it is reported that Zacatecas, capital of 8.

state by the same name. was also taken,

but the federals deny this. The federals

have failed in the attempt to win over

the forces of General Blanco by bribery

and the captain who tendered the terms

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FARMERS SHOULD CONTROL THEIR.

OWN CO-OPERATIVE ENTER-

”RISES.





When a. stranger comes into your com-

munity and poses as working for the

benefit of the people and begins to pave

the way whereby the “shackles that bind

you to an expensive system of distribut-

ing your farm products may be broken,”

watch him. ‘If he is congenial, persua-

sive and what we are in the habit of call-

ing “clever,” then watch him all the

more. There are too many wrecks of

once hopeful ventures, over our state and

ecuntry to permit us to withhold from

our readers words of caut'ion about men

who are going- the rounds promoting or-

ganizations purporting to aid in improv-

ing the marketing conditions of Communi—

ties. In Michigan there can be found

scores of old buildings that once housed

creameries which have since failed sim-

ply because a promoter came along and

enthused the people of a community over

the dairy business, regardless of the fit-

ness of the community for that line of

farming, pointed out the advantages that

would accrue if a co—operative creamery

were built and conducted, and then in

his most artful manner suggested that

the contract for the building and the ma-

chinery be given to a particular firm at

a price about twice the value of the

property. Now there are other ways in

which these men get money out of a.

community but this is the way that pro-

moters of creameries got money out of

Michigan men in years gone by. And so

it is a safe principle to watch when a

capable stranger comes into your town to

urge the residents to undertake some

business proposition, and conclude that he

is not doing the work for his health. Had

the farmers of the communities where the

creameries failed made an investigation

as to the cost of creameries and put their

orders with some reliable dairy supply

house it is safe to say that fewer of them

would have failed, since there would have

been only about one-half the. capital to

supply and pay interest on.



The fact that we are talking of strang-

ers must not be lost sight of, for there

are in Our state and over the country

many public spirited men who feel the

true advantages afforded by the organi-

zation of farmers in large business units

for mutual welfare, and are willing to

sacrifice time and expense even, that

those advantages may be brought to oth—

ers whose business training does not en—

able them to understand the benefits of

co-operation; but these men are not the

kind that will thrust themselves upon

you—they come as a guest and merit your

closest attention and deepest considera-

tion. These men are true apostles of the

gospel of co—operation.



Regarding this whole matter the ex-

periment station of Nebraska has pub-

lished a bulletin containing some whole-

some reading ulong this very line. which

we are appending. The information is as

applicable to other business enterprises

as to creameries and should be weigl’ied

carefully. The bulletin says:



As a result of efforts put forth by farm

organizations for co-operation along var-

ious lines. there is now much agitation

in favor of the building of small cream-

eries. both private und_co—operative. The

creamery promoter, with a keen eye for

business, has been quick to take advan—

tage of the situation and he has made an

effort to capitalize for his own benefit the

sentiment already developed towards co-

operation among the farmers,



All creamery promoters are not swind-

lers, nor are all creameries. built by them

failures. Frequently much good results

from their efforts, but many of them are

entirely too careless regarding where they

build creameries. They have frequently

placed creameries in localities and under

conditions that could result in nothing

but failure. Seemingly their interest in

the creamery ceases very shortly after

the last note has been collected. If the

co-operative movement is at all worth

while, it must start from within the heart

of the dairy community instead of in the

fertile brain of a creamery promoter.



There are promoters who are so ready

and willing to help the farmers that they

frequently offer to organize a creamery

company in any neighborhood, solicit the

stock, get 'out articles of incorporation.

build and equip the plant and turn it over

to an association of farmers for a certain





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lump sum. This, of course, seems a very

satisfactory way, as it relieves the mem-

bers of the creamery association of all

the preliminary work. One can, however.

rest assured that .no one is doing this

work for nothing and that no outside

party can do it as cheaply and effectively

as the farmers of the community. These

promoters are not working for their

health; they usually get a good profit,

which the farmers pay.



The organization is not as strong as if

it had been created entirely by and for

the community; therefore, again I em-

phasize—do your own organizing. and or-

der everything needed direct from a re-

liable creamery supply home. The cream-

ery organized by the farmers’ own ini-

tiative not only is better and cheaper

but is on a more substantial foundation

from the very first and better able to

weather successfully any little storm that

may come. If the sentiment and interest

in the 00mmunity is not developed suffi-

ciently to make possible the organization

of a creamery by their own efforts as-

sisted by disinterested outside help, such

as that from the experiment station offi-

cials and others vitally interested in the

permanent development and prosperity of

the dairy industry, the chances are that

the creamery promoter cannot develop

enough interest and mutual confidence

among the farmers to make the co—op-

erative creamery a success after the pro-

moter’s influence is withdrawn.



THE OUTLOOK FOR A GOOD CROP OF

HONEY.





With the exception of California the

outlook for the 1913 honey crop is prom-

ising in all the main producing districts

of the country. Because of the liberal

rains and the congenial weather early in

the season. white clOVer got a good start

and in spite of the cooler days and nights

that have prevailed since the crop has

made splendid development. which con-

dition leads to the belief that there will

be. an abundance of nectar for the bees

to gather. Even should dry weather con~

tinue it is the belief of well informed men

that the clover is so far along that the

influence on honey production from the

plant will not be detrimental. In the

southern part of the country there is ev-

ery indication that a good crop will be

taken from the. hives, while the usual

amount of honey will likely be produced

by tho bees of the alfalfa regions.



In California the conditions seem differ-

ent. There one thing and another mili—

tated against thebee men and an abso-

lute failure is predicted. Dry weather,

cold periods and untimely frosts affected

not only the plants upon which the bees

work but the bees themselves were hin-

dered from performing their labors.





Oranges blossomed when it was too cold ,





for 'the bees to fly freely.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.



Gratiot 00., June 7.-~—..\ much needed

rain came last night. i‘Ixr-epting hay and

wheat, farm chops are promising good.

Corn was about all planted by May 31

and many are now cultivating. The bulk

.of the beans Were sown the first week in

June. Many beans are going onto the

market at $1.83. Owing to the fair cool

weather farm work of all kinds is well

in hand. i‘lg‘gs, 180; butter. 18612220 '



Berrien 60.. June 5.—'l‘he hard frosts

the Litter part of May damaged the fruit

to a large extent. The weather has been

so cool that crops are not advancing and

farmers are late with their planting. The

wheat prospects are very poor in this

section; wheat heading out and some not

a foot high. It is V9 '3' sho-;t and will be

hard to harvest. Hay, especially timothy,

is not a good crop this year but clover

is more abundant. Stock is in good con-

dition. only a few are ready for market;

there is not much demand for horses.



Mecosta Co., June 9.~—So for June has

not been very warm, and at this time the

weather is quite cool. Farmers are fur—

ther along with their farm work than

usual. Indications point to another good

fruit year. All live stock is selling at a

very high price. Butter—fat is worth

28c: eggs, 18c; hogs, fat, 8c; fat cattle,

6@80 for what can be bought.



Mcnroe 00., June 9.——It has been very

cold and backward in southern Monroe

county this spring. Fore part of April

was somewhat wet, which retarded seed-

ing oats. A great many fields were not

seeded until in May. The latter part of

April and the fore part of May were cold

with -the exception of now and then .a

warm day, and suddenly turned to cooler.

with two or three light showers. May 26

on Monday. it began to rain and rained

continually for two days and nights. This

whole county was inundated. which de-



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WANT To Bungriz‘ageafii‘ga





breeding. W. H. H. W oocter. 0 o.





BREED“? DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





 





 





Aberdeen-An us.

Herd. consisting of Trojan Erica. wkbirds and

the GRAND





Pridee. onlyz. is headed by Ezerton W.

CHAMPIO bull at the State. West Michigan and

Bay City Fairs of 1912 and the slreof winners at these

Fairs and Ill THE INTERNATIONAL. Oblong. of

1912. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. lch.





GUERNSEY BULL CALVES,

YORKSHIRE Pics. oood Stock.

HICKS GUERNSEY MRI. Saginaw. W. S.. Mich.

GUERNSEYs—Ezs. Timmla‘istii‘... "as:

J. K. BLATOHFORD. Auditoriun Tower. ChicacoJll,





 





 





I Have 2 Res. Guernsey bulls left. Ready for service,

the very best breeding. cheap if taken soon. Guar-

antee satinfaction. John Ebola. R. 10, Holland. Mich.





HEREFORD BULLS NR SALE 6133: $323





ALLEN BROS" Paw Paw: Michigan.





HOICE Bull Calves from A. R. 0. dams. Hired by

our hard sire whose dam and site's dam each made

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





A FEW ClfllCE E?‘“§i‘i$."ii’?iafi‘ 383‘ $253?





GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.





 





HOLSTEIN BULLS—well bred, at reasonable prices.

Barred Rock Chickens from 15 years breeding. Good

layers eggs 15 for 31. W. B. Jones, Oak Grove. Mich.





 





FOR Sale—~Two ref. Holstein bull calves. 11.9 7 months

old from good A. .0. dams. Fine individuals. Price

reasonable. Floyd F. Jones. R. 3. Oak Grove. Mich.





“Top-Notch" Holstclns.





Choice bull calves from 2 to 8 mo. old, of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with omcinl milk

and butter records for sale at. reasonable prices.

MOPHERSON FARMS CO" Howell. Mllhllln.





FOR SALE—IIMSTEIN BULL CALF





Born June 5, 1912 sire a son of the King of the

Pontiacs from a daughter of Hengerveld De Kol.

Dam of calf, an A. . 0. daughter of Sadie Vale

Concordia'a Paul DeKol, her dam amlb. imported cow.



D. 8. LEWIS. Marshall. Mich.





Purebred Registered

H OLSTE lN CATTLE

The Ore-tut Dnlry Breed

Sand for FREE 1"ch Booklet

Holstein-Frieda. Auo.. Box I64. Brntdcboro.Vt.





' —Bull 8 months old, dark markin 5.

"eg' "0'3“"! little undemized but. nice individugl.

good A.lt.(). backing rare bargain at. $50 delivered to

your express office. HOBART '. FAY. Mason. Mich.





Service Bulls and Bull Calves





Siren by Johanna Corcordla Champion,





whose sire's dam and dam‘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. - - -





Bigeiow’s Holstein Farms





Breedsvillo, Mich.

Have for sale several fine young

bulls out. of cows with high official

butter and milk records.



Send for circular.





NTHIS HOLSTEIN BULL





wasisircd by best son of PONTIAC BUTTERBOY.

Dam has official record of erlbs. as4-yr.-oid. 90 lbs. milk

a day. Price 8100. C. D. WOODBUBY. Lnnsing,Mich.





IlATCII lllillll ll0LSTElN Tli‘é’ifiifiilfsil‘é‘fl





onuble prices. HATCH HERD. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





HOLSTEIN BULLS.

3t08 months old. $75 to 8300. Don't, buy until you

get. our pedigrees and rices. LONG BEACH

FARMS. Augusta. Kn amuzoo Co.. Mich.





JERS ‘ '



BUTTER BRED metric“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.



Silver Creek. Alleznn County. Michigan.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-

culoall.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of

good dairy cows for sale. No females for sale at

present. Satisfaction guaranteed.



COLON C. LILLIE. Cooper-urine. Mich.





—Registered Jersey Cattle, tuberc ilin te. t-

For sale ed: bulls and bull calves: heifer ahd hei Ea.-





calves: cows with Register of Merit d C ' T .t'

Association records. IRVIN FOX.alAlle;:n. 813135





FOR SALE:;?‘§“.SE¥ em. CA.“-

a .v or i s .



high class ancestry. WATERMAN i figThllngAolflt



Meadowland Farm. .F.D. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.





Jersey Cows and Heifers





To reduce the herd we will Hel125 head of fem ales at at:

tractivo prices. Black Meadow Farm. Royal Oak,Mich





They Keep It Up

There are some cattle that give more

milk when they are fresh than a Jersey.

but there isn’t any breed that gives as

rich milk as

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like Jerseys will, year tn and year out.

That’s why you ought to buy Jerseys to

increase your herd ’s efficiency. Send

for Jersey facts.





AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE 01.03

83‘ W. 23d 3%., ll'cw York





 





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JOI‘IOY‘ 53:33:03,315. All; '33:?“ 1:91:93:

Brookwater Farm. 8.1'. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

lllllll BREB sunnmonmi‘riahzf‘ i‘ilLJ'sToS:



J. B. HUMMEL. Macon. Michigan.

“air! 3horihornFifii‘fifczfilaffivctfl‘l‘é’fi:

No stock for sale at present.



W. W. KNAPP. R. No. 4. Watervllet. Mich.





 





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T PAYS TO BUY thorouihbred sheep of PARSONS.

"The Sheep Man of the hot." R. 1. Grand Ledge.

Mich. (Write for descriptive price list.) I pay express

charges. Oxfords. Shropshire». Rumboulliet. Pulled Del-inc.





ling. Bamobnilhl Sheep. Pure Brod Poland China

HUGS and PERCHERON HORSES. 2% miles

E. Mon-ice, on G. T. R. R. and M. U. R. J.Q. A. COOK.





SHROPSHIRES G DUROCS



KOPE-KON FARM. Kinder-hook. Mlchjgnn.



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llurocs 8ilicioriartififsl’fiilzdfil‘é‘ii‘ .‘if has?

M. T. Story. R. B. 48 Lowell. Mich. ity Phone 55.

BERKSHIRE Choice spring boars and gilts.

stock. ELMHiiaslzrshggotiE fifthf‘ffibnfififififi

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B E R KS H I R E 0.22.31 moiini‘ifgii‘é‘é'fi





ed or eligible. served and ready for cervrce. Some

fine well bred young boars ready for service.

F. D. & H. F. HOV EY. Imlay City. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Quick Maiunng Berkshire: 3:“...{33‘35233‘13ng’d

or money refunded. C. 8. BARTLETT, Pontiac. Mich.





 





' —bred for July farrowlng,nlso aohoice

A Yearlmg 80“ lot of. Spriu Pins for sale. Either

sex. A. A. PATTIJLLO. R. 0.1 Deckerville. Mlch.





 





o I 0 —Big growthy type. last. fall gilts and this



- - 0 spring farmw to offer. Very good stock.



Scott No. 1 head of herd. Farm 5‘ mile west. of depot.

OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.





O I C 9S—A FEW' BRED SOW’S FOR

0 0 SEPTEMBER FARROW’.

GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Ingham 00., Mich.





O. l. C- SWIN riceon Spring





Pigs, pairs and trioa. not akin. ave a number

of servxce males of good ty 9. Write me describing





 





Write me for





of your wants. A. J. GORD N. R. No. 2 Dorr. Mich.





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IONIA GIRL





I have started more breeders on the road to one.

coca thannn man living. I have thelargest and flu-

est herd in t. e U. 8. Every one an early developer,

ready for the market at six months old. I want to

lace one hog in each community to advertise my

erd. Write for my plan,“How to Make Money from

Hogs." G. 8. IENJAI‘INJLNoJ 0 Peril-ml. "loll. .





 





 





o I Cls—all sold“ Orders booked for April

I I and May pigs of the choicest. breeding.

C. J. THORIPSON. Rockford. MIChlzan





9 —Bred sows, March pigs pairs and

0. I. C 5 trips. Buff Rock Eggs 3150 per 15.

FRED NICKEL R. 1, Monroe. Michigan.





 





0 l C’s—All ages. growthy and large. Males

. ' ready. 100 to select from. Attractive prices





on young stock. H. H. JliM P, Munlth. Mich.





o I 0 —March pigs ready to ship, the long

- I I growthy kind with plenty of bone. at

MAN. R. I, Mariette. Mich.





 





farmers prices. A. NEW





DUROC_JERSEYS—Fall and Spring boars from

prize-winning strains. Sowe

all ages. SPECIAL BARGAIN in summer pigs.

Brookwnter Farm, R. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor, Mich.





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DUROC JERSEY sits... 3.32. 23.3. 33. Eli:

I-‘. J. DRODT, R. 1‘0. 1. Monroe, Michigan.





Mitts ALL sotn BUl ourB “33%” latest;

Station A. Bay City. Mich. Route 4. Box 81.

DUROC JERSEYS—BREE mus FOR SALE.

CAREY U. EDMONDS, Hastings, Michigan.

UROC JERSEY SPRING- l‘IilS of either sex for





sale. Pairs not akin, also ‘3 Reg. Percheron mums.

2 years old, both grays. M. A. BltAY. ()kemos. Mich.





—— Fl ' .

POLAND CHINAS Br‘lfrl‘ 3.33%“.fieiniiii‘éif





Prices right. “2 J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta, Mich.





Builer’sBig Bone Poland Ghinas





We have a few nice fall boars. also some big sows

bred for fall furrow. Our hogs are all cholera proof.

J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Michigan.



' ‘ ' at close ri ‘es. E

Big Type Poland Ohlna Plgs m... big list...“ Biff

Rocks. 31 per 15. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





~Lnrgest in Michigan. Bred ilts

Large Type P- c- all sold, have some good Sgopt.

and Oct. pigs that have size. bone and quality. “'ritc

your wants or come and see. Expenses paid if not as re

presented. Freelivery. W.E. Livingston.Parma.Mich.





POLAND CHINA ‘Sliitlllior so); atll ages. Some-

P. D. LONG, a. No. 3. Grgnfioonugid; it‘llchringgi

P.AC.A80ARS AND $0WS‘lfirgeggghgigge





WOOD & SON. Saline. Michigan.





 





 





 





ARGE Yorkshires—Cholcebreeding stock. all ages,





not akin. from State Fair prize-winner . Ped -

grees furnished. W. C. COOK, R. 42 Box 22.Adaa. M'cll.





Lillie Farmstead YURKSHIHES





Spring bred gilts all sold. Gilts bred for next. August

know. So tember plgfi either sex. pairs and trios

not akin. rdere booked for a ring pigs.



COLON C. LlLLlB. cover-ville. Mich





 





GDMPLETE DISPERSION SALE OF HDLSTEINS





On Thursday . June 19 I will offer at Public Sal

Entire Horde! 53 putzebrod Holstein-Friesian Cate“:1 y





This herd consists of 27 choice female: of milking mggfimléeifen and 13 heifer calves Four of the





2-year—old heifers are from dame with A. R O





. . records up to .





he now: are large animals in good





condition and of desirable type and breeding. All are heavy producers although only 3 few have been





ofllcially hey are on ble of maki





n3 good records if given the opportunity.





Ontalo ready about Junog.a All animals over six months will be tuberculin tested if desired. Sale





n._m. Write to: catalog.





F. W. SAVAGE. Bollavillc, Michigan.
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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





June 11, 1913.





Wheat—The decline in wheat values

that started over two weeks ago has con-

tinued to the present time, the amount

taken from the prices during the past

week totalling 3c for cash and only a

fraction for futures. While two months

ago prices were largely dependent upon

conditions in Europe, today crop pros-

pects in this country seem to be the big

item in making values, and the present

decline is ascribed to the crop now grow-

ing which promises to be large. The

government crop report places the con-

dition for all wheat at 87.2 as compared

with a ten—year average of 86.1. The av-

erage yield for the country is estimat-

at 15 bushels per acre. Of course, there

are chances that the plant may be further

damaged than it already has been in

some western states, but each favorable

day adds to the Security of the claims

now made. It seems to be the opinion of

wheat merchants that the present trade

has two sides and that prices under pre-

vailing conditions ought to remain some-

where in the vicinity of those now ruling.

\Vith stocks in Chicago greatly reduced,

buying of cash at Minneapolis and Du-

luth for foreign shipment, and accidents

to the spring wheat Crop to consider. there

are chances for the price level to move

upward as well as downward. One year

ago the price for No. 2 red Wheat on the





 





local market was $11414; per bu. Quota-

tions for the past week are:

No. 2 No. 1

Red. “'hite. July. Sept.

Thursday .....1.05» 1.04 911%,; 911/“;

Friday ....... 1.05 1.04 91% 91%

Saturday .. 1.04% 1.03%; 911,4 911/1,

Monday ...... 1.04 1.03 91% 91%

Tuesday ...... 1 031,45 1.02% 911; 911,4

'\\'ednesday ..1.04 1.03 92%, 9214

Chicago, (June 10).——No. 2 red wheat,

99134614310395 .luly, 901,210; September,





8994c; December. 921;,c per bu.

Corn.—There has been enough strength

in the corn deal to overcome the decline

in wheat and at some points work to a

fractional higher level. The cold weath-

er has been discouraging to the, growing

crop and in many sections where the crop

was well along damage is reported. It is

probable, however. that the extent of this

damage is not large, but observations

lead to the generally accepted theory that

("orn having a slow start usually does not

attain the size and give the yield that

crops having a rapid growth from the be-

ginning does, and so many dealers hold

bullish ideas regarding the future. There





is also good buying at present which,

with short supplies, gives the trade a.

firm footing. The local price for N0. 3

corn a year ago was 771/20 per bu. Quo-

tations here for the past week are:

No. 3 No. 3

Corn Yellow

Thursday ......... 59 61

Friday .......... 59 61

Saturday ................. 58"; 6031,

Monday ...... . ............ 78 i; 60'};

’J‘ucsday .................. 59 61

\Vednesday ............... 591/2 611/2

Chicago, (June lOl.—N0. 2. 583437059140;





No. 3 yellow, Twig/owe; Sept, 591,40; Dec.

570 per bu.



OatS.~Tliis grain followed wheat rather

than corn and prices have suffered a. de-

cline of a cent. The government crop

report giycs the. Condition of the. grow-

ing crop as 91.1 as compared With the

ten-year average of 88.4, and the acreage

is placed at 1.1 per cent above that of

1912. One year ago the local price for





Standard oats was 57%,0 per bu. Last

week’s ( notations are:

x I No. 3

Standard. Whilte.

Thursday 42 4

Friday ............ . ...... 411,5 401/;

Saturday ................. 4115» 40%

Monday .......... . . . . . . 41 40

'l‘iiesday .................. 41 40

\Yednesday .......... . . . . . 41 40

t‘hicago. clone Hit—No. 2 white oats,





iii/«1405M standard, 3964.400; Sept, 3731c;

lice, 987,39- per bu. '



Beans.-’l‘he local market is donig

nothing in the bean deal and the nominal

ouotations published by the board are

the Same as a week ago, or $2.05 per bu.

for prompt and June shipment and $2.10

frn' August. The supply seems to be

ample. . _ .



Chicago—The condition of this trade

remains the same as last week with prices

unchanged. Pea beans. haiitl-picked.'are

quoted at $2.35: choice. $2.30; prime.

$2.20: red kidney-S, $2, and white kidneys

$2.50 per bu.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





FIour.—Jobbing lots in 1,5 paper sacks

are. selling on the Detroit market per 196

lbs. as follows: Best patent, $5.70; sec-

ond, $5.20; straight, $5; spring patent,

$5.10: rye. flour, $4.60 per bbl.





Hay.——No change is noted in hay

values at this point. Carlots on the





track at Detroit are: No. 1 timothy,

$14.50fl15; No. 2, $12@13: light mixed,

$13.50@1~l; No. 1 mixed, $12@13 per ton:

Chicago.——Values about $2 lower. ChOice

timothy, $16 (016.50 per ton; No, 1, $14@

15; No. 2, $126,113; No. 3 and clover mix-

ed, $7@11; clover, $8@12: alfalfa. choice.

$166917; do. No. 1. $14@15; do. No. 2, $11

@13 per ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





utter.—There has been 'little change

ianutter since this time last week. El-





 





 





THE MICHI'GAN-‘FARMER’,





g'in declined 'ch on Monday but the local bulls, $6-.50@7; bologna bulls, $6@6.50; showed '2. great gain for the Week, and =





market is steady at a. fractional gain over

last week’s figures on creamery stock.

Detroit jabbing prices rule as follows:

Fancy creamery, 2794c; firsts, 26c; dairy,

220; packing stock, 20c per lb.



Elgln.—.Market steady at 271,40.



Chicago—In this market the feeling is

a- trifle easier all around and dairies are

fractionaily lower. Quotations are: Ex-

tra creamery, 271,50; extra. firsts, 26%c;

firsts, 25%c; seconds, 25c; dairy extras,

26c; firSts, 24c; seconds, 220; packing

stock, 12@22c as to quality.



New York.—Fractionally lower figures

are quoted on nearly all gradesbut the

market is reported firm in tone. Quota-





tions: Creamery extras, 28@281/1c; firsts,

27%68279740; seconds, 26@27c; state dairy,

finest, 27((0‘271éc; good to prime, 251/2@





261/40; common to fair, 24@25c; packing,

20(61211/20 as to quality. .



Eggs.——While the general tendency of

values the past week has been down-ward.

no marked changes have occurred. In

the local market a decline of 140 is not-

ed, current offerings, candled, being quot-

ed at 18940 per dozen.



Chicago—This market is steady with

some improvement in the demand report-

ed. Miscellaneous receipts, cases includ-

ed, are quoted at 161/2CCL171/20; do., cases

returned, 16@17c; ordinary firsts, 17%0;

firsts, 181/20; storage packed, firsts, 22c

per dozen.



New York—Steady and unchanged.

Fresh gathered extras, 22617230; western

gathered, whites, 20@23c per dozen.



Poultry.-—Business in the local market

hardly sufficient to establish quotations.

Broilers quoted lower and old ,hens high-

er. Quotations are: Live—Broilers, 27@

28c; hens, 1761/171/éc; N0. 2 hens, 12@13c;

old roosters, 11@12c; turkeys, 17((hl8c;

geese, 12((1,v13c; ducks, 17611180 per lb.



Chicago.—,—Chickens lower; ducks and





gee-Se higher. Quotations on live are:

Turkeys, good Weight, 15c; others, 10c;

i‘owls, good, 16c; spring chickens, 250;





ducks, 1.6c; geese, full featherd, 10c;





guliiea hens, $4 per dozen.





FRUIT—$7510 VEGETABLES.





 





Apples.—The volume of business is not

large but the trade is highly satisfactory

to sellers. Detroit quotations are: Fancy,

$44175; ordinary, $3(w4 per bbl.



Chicago. The best grades

are steady at last week’s values.

dard varieties, $3.50f4i6 per bbl.



Strawberries—Recent frosts have dam-

aged the crop and prices are higher and

firm with average stock.going at $4 per

bushel;



Potatoes—On practically every import-

ant market within reach of Michigan po-

tato growers a heavy decline in prices is

reported. This decline is due to heavy

receipts—the predictions that the recent

spurt in values had removed practically

the whole, surplus from farmers’ hands,

proved to be erroneous. Local prices have

dropped to the figures that prevailed be-

fore the recent advance. Michigan stock

now selling at 12041350 per bu. in car lots.



Chicagostai-ket easier under heavy

receipts. The offerings last week reached

558 cars compared with 921 cars the pre-

vious week and 177 cars for the corres-

ponding week last year. I'nder such

eiitirmous supplies priccs could'not stand

and consequently they suffered another

heavy decline. Quotations range from 25

@30c per bu.





GRAND RAPIDS.





of apples

Stan-





 





 





'l‘he strawberry crop in this section will

be very light, the freeze of May 9-10 evi-

dently having seriously injured the early

crop, and it is feared the frost last Sun—

day night has hurt the late ones. Only

one crate of home-grown berries was of-

fered on the city market Tuesday morn-

ing, which readily brought $3.50. Aspar-

agus is up to $1, as compared with 75c

last week. l’ieplant and spinach sell at

last week’s prices, 400 and 50c respec-

tively. Lettuce is lower, selling at 500.

Hay is selling on the markct at $11fi714.

Dressed hogs are bringing 104(110; live

poultry 10fi112c. In the grain list wheat

is lower, No. 2 red selling at $1, corn at

62c and oats at 42c.





 





Buffalo.

June 9, 1913.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,



. East Buffalo. New York).



Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle. 160 cars: hogs. 110 double decks;

sheep and lambs, 25 double decks; calves

1700 head,



\Vith 160 cars, of cattle on our market

here today, and 21,000 reported in Chi—

cago, the. Weight," cattle sold from steady

to about 10c higher than last week, qual—

ity considered. There were a few loads

of the best cattle here today that has

been shown here in the last 60 days, and,

of course, they brought considerable more

money than any cattle sold last week.

The difference in the quality and finish

making,r the difference in price. The

handy butchering steers sold from about

steady to 100 lower. A good deal of

grassy stuff of all kinds coming now, and

we have to quote that kind off from 15@

25 cents.



We quote: Best 1350 to 1500-lb. steers,

$8.25(d8.50; one fancy load at $8.75; good

to prime 1200 to 1300-lb. steers, $8608.30;

do. 1100 to 1200—lb. do., $7.85@8.15; coarse

and plain weighty steers, $7.50@7.85;

good to choice handy steers, $7.80@8.15;

medium butcher steers, $7.75@7.90; light

common butcher steers and heifers, $7.15

((37.40; best fat cows, $6.50@6.75; good

butcher cows, 35575617625; light do., $5.25

@5.75:.trimmers, $4604.25; best fat heif-

ers. $7.25@7.75; medium butcher heifers,

$7.25@7.'50; light and common heifers,

$6.50@6.75; stock heifers, $5.75@6.25; best

feeding steers, dehorned, $7.25@7.50; light

and common stockers, $5.50@6; prime

heavy bulls, $7.25@7.50; best butcher





stock bulls, $5.50@6; best milkers and

scpsringers, $65@85; common kind do., $40

a) 5.



We had a liberal supply of hogs today,

about 110 double decks. Demand was

fairly good, although prices were,5@100

lower; general sales of mixed grades and

yorkers BC. with a few at $9.05; one fancy





load of hogs selling up to $9.15. Pigs and

lights, $9@9.10; roughs, $7.50@8; stags,





$6@7. Market closed a little easy and

a few unsold. but we do not predict much

change for the near future.



The sheep and lamb market was active

today, with prices about the same as the

close of last week: most of the choice

handy yearlings selling from ,$7.40@7_50_

Spring lambs from $8.50‘@9.50. Best weth—

ers mostly $6; ewes, $5695.50, owing to

weight and quality. Look for about steady

prices the balance of the week.



We quote: Choice spring lambs, $9@

9.50; cull to fair .10., $6@8.50; yearling

lambs, $7.25@7.50: bucks, $3@4.50; weth-

ers. $6@6.25; handy ewes, $5.25@5.50;

heavy ewes, $5fii,5.25: cull sheep, $3604.50;

veals, choice to extra, $11@11.25; fair to

good, $7@10.50; heavy calves, $4.50fd 6.

\Ve advise caution in buying heavy calves

as buyers are discriminating against that

kind.





 





Chicago.

June 9, 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 21,000 55,000 15,000

Same day last year..13,544 44,606 16,474

Received last week...45.277 155,276 96,710

Same week last year.33.926 128,243 86,064



This week opens with a lively demand

for cattle, with steers largely a dime

higher and butcher stock active at firm

prices. Hogs are active, but the liberal

run makes prices 5c lower, the best going

at $8.65. Hogs marketed last week aver-

aged 244 lbs., compared with 233 lbs. one

year ago, 237 lbs. two years ago and 241

lbs. three years ago. Sheep and lambs

are in very small supply and from 15@25c

higher, prime fed shorn lambs bringing

$7.70.



Cattle had a broader general demand

last' week, and decreasing receipts helped

sellers to maintain prices, especially for

the moredesirable offerings. with the call

centered still on fat light steers, good to

choice handy—weight yearlings and fat

cows and heifers. After Monday there

were fewer heavy beeves than usual, and

supplies of such this Side of the Missis-

sippi river are not over large, according

to all accounts. Beef steers sold chiefiy

at $7.6061‘8.45, the cheaper class of light

steers fetching $7.10@7.75 and the better

class of weighty cattle taken at $8.45@

8.75. Numerous sales of heavy steers

were made at $8008.25, while common to

prime yearlings brought $7.25fi‘8.75. Quite

a number of slop-fed cattle from distillery

sections arrived and sold at $7.356118.30.

Butchering cows and heifers sold freely

at $541 8.60, while cutters went‘ at $4.40@

4.95, canners at $3.35W4.35 and bulls at

$5.35fix7.50, a prime: bull bringing $7.75.

There has been a. large inquiry from sev-

eral states for desirable stock steers and

well-bred feeders, the excellent pasturage

nearly everywhere making farmers anx-

ious to utilize it. but the offerings were

totally inadequate, while prices asked

were apt to be higher than intending buy-

ers felt like paying at this time. Packers

and feeder buyers competed for the best

lots, and these sold largely to the form-

er. Stockers sold mostly at $7 and up-

ward, with the best class bringing $7.80

(418 and inferior lots selling sparingly at

$6.25 and upward. Feeders found buyers

at $7.35@8.10, while stock heifers brought

$6506.75, with not nearly enough offered.

There was a lively demand for calves,

and high prices prevailed. with not

enough to go around. the better class of

light vealers going at.$10@11 per 100 lbs.,

and the commoner to fair lots of heavy

calves taken at $5.50@7.50. Milkers and

springers had a good demand at $50@100

‘per head, the inquiry being mostly for

choice ones. Stock steer calves brought

$750418. Prices for the greater part of

the beef steers at the close stood 15(rr20c.

higher than a week earlier, stockers and

feeders being 15(d20c higher.



Hogs were in good demand most of

last week, with a Strong call at times for

eastern shipment. but rather unexpected

large increases in the receipts gave buy-

ers opportunities to lower prices, placing

the market on a cheaper basis. Rallies in

prices took place, but sellers had to take

considerably reduced figures for all sorts

of hogs. The course of the market from

now on will be governedlargely by the

volume of the receipts, and should liberal

supplies be furnished, prices may be ex-

pected to drop considerably lower, al-

though there is no probability that pre—

paring hogs for the market will cease to

be a proiitable occupation for owners of

healthy young stock. The. summer months

are usually ones when hogs come to mar-

ket freely, and it is likely that many own-

ers will have good supplies for shipment

from now on. The wants of the fresh

meat trade are extremely large, and cash

trade in provisions is large also. while

the Chicago stacks are down to 108,783,521

lbs., compared with 101,474,594 lbs, one

month ago and 164,278,678 lbs. a year ago.



Sheep and lambs would have sold as a

whole more satisfactorily to owners last

week had the offerings averaged better

in quality, for the proportion of well fin-

ished flocks was very limited, and lots of

grassy and half-fat stock showed up

daily. Demand was good enough for

choice handy weights, these selling at a

good premium, although even the best

fed lambs had to go lower. The most im—

portant feature was the great increase

in the supplies of southern spring lambs

shipped direct from Louisville to the Chi-

cago packing plants direct. Fed lambs





JUNE 14, 1913‘.





prices were more or less low-er except

for fat stock, while springlambs declined

fully 500, selling at $6@8.50 per 100 lbs.

Shorn flocks closed as follows: Lambs,

$5@7.40; yearling wethers, $5@6.35; weth-

ers, $4.25@5.75; ewes, $3@5.10; bucks,

$3.25@4.25. '





 





NATIONAL CROP REPORT.



The crop reporting board of the bu-

reau of statistics of the Department of

Agriculture, from the reports of the cor-

respondents and agents of the bureau

l‘eDOrt on the condition and area of the

leading crops of the country as follows:



Spring \Vheat.—Acreage, 18.063000; con-

dition, 93.5 per cent of a normal; indica-

ted yield, 13.5 bu. per acre.





\Vinter \Vheat.———Condition, 89.5 per

cent: indicated yield, 15.9; production,

492,000,000.



All Wheat—Area, 49,601,000; condition,





87.2 per cent; yield, 15; production, 744,-

000,000 bu., as compared with 730,000,000

bu. for 1912. ,



Oats—Area, 38,341,000; condition, 87;

yield, 28.8; production. 1,104,000,000 bu., as

compared with 1,418,000,000 bu. in 1912."



Barley.—-—Area, 7.255.000; condition, 87.1;

yield, 24.4; production, 177,000.000.



Rye—Condition, 90.9; yield, 16.5.



Hay—Condition, 87.5.





Pastures—Condition, 89.2.





 





MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.





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Wheat.—The average condition of wheat

is 83 in the state and southern counties,

81 in the central counties, 85 in the

northern counties and 92 in the upper peé

ninsula. The present condition of wheat

is practically the same as reported on

May 1. The condition one year ago was

58 in the state, 48 in the southern coun-

ties, 60 in the central counties, 73 in the

northern counties and 94 in the upper pe-

ninsula. The per cent of wheat sown

that will be plowed up because .Winter





killed or otherwise destroyed is 5 in 'the' V

in the





state and southern counties. 6

central counties. 4 in the northern coun-

ties and 2 in the upper peninsula. The

damage by Hessian fly is 5 per cent in

the state, 8 in the southern counties and

2 in the central and northern counties.

Rye—The condition of rye in the state

and southern counties is 88, in the central

counties 86, in the northern counties 90

and in the upper peninsula 94. One year

ago the condition was 78 in the state, 76

in the southern counties, 74 in the cen—

tral counties, 85 in the northern counties

and 94 in the upper peninsula.

Corn—The acreage of corn planted or

to be planted as compared with last year,

is 100 in the State, 99 in the southern

counties, 101 in the central counties and





103 in the northern counties and upper

peninsula. The condition- of corn as

compared with an average is 84 in the





state, 82 in the southern counties, 87 in

the central and northern counties and 105

in the upper peninsula.



Oats—The condition of oats as com-

pared with an average, is 90 in the state,

central and northern counties, 89 in the

southern counties and 97 in the upper

peninsula.



The condition one year ago was 87 in

the state, 90 in the southern counties, 79

in the central counties, 86 in the northern

counties and 97 in the upper peninsula.



Barley.—The acreage of barley sown or

that will be sown as compared with laSt

year is 89 in the state and northern coun-

ties, 92 in the southern counties, 83 in

the central counties and 97 in the upper

peninsula.



Meadows—The condition of meadows as

compared with an average is 83 in the

state, 85 in the southern counties, 78 in

the central counties. 81 in the northern

counties and 91 in the upper peninsula.



The condition one year ago was 89 in

the state, 85 in the southern counties, 90

in the central counties, 94 in the north-

ern counties and 101 in the upper pe-

ninsula.



l’otatOes.—The acreage planted or to be

planted as compared with last year is

93 in the state and southern counties, 92

in the central counties, 96 in the iiorth~

ern counties and 94 in the upper penin—

sula.



The condition as compared with an av—

erage is 89 in the State and southern

counties, 87 iii the central counties, 92 in

the northern counties and 94 in the up-

per peninsula.



Sugar lieets.——Tlie acreage of sugar

beets planted or to be planted as com-

pared with last year is 84 in the State,

79 in the southern counties, 87 in the

central counties, 83 in the northern coun-

ties, and 97 in the upper peninsula.



Colts and Calves.-——The number of colts

as compared with last year is 93'per cent

in the. state, southern and northern coun-

ties, 92 in the central counties and 95

iii the upper peninsula. The number of

calves as compared with last year is 96

per cent in the state. 95 in the southern

counties, 94 in the central counties, 97 in





the northern counties and 101 in the

upper peninsula.

Fruit—Fruit correspondents in 26 of





the 28 counties in the southern four tiers

of counties, 11 of the 13 in the central

counties, 16 of the 27 in the northern

counties and 4 of the 15 in the upper

peninsula report serious damage to fruit

by the heavy frosts on May 8 to 11, which

has reduced the prospect of the various

kinds of fruit considerably below the fig-

ures given in the May report.



The following table will show the pros-

pect at the present time for a crop of the

various kinds of fruit in the state an

the different sections:



Sou. Cen. Nor. ‘11:».

Stave. Co.’s Co.’s Co.’s Pen.





make up the principal part of the offer- Apples 65 71 76 80 89





ings, with some increase in the supply of Pears





....... 58 62 69 67 98





spring lambs offered on the market, While Peaches 50 54 60 , 69 100





native ewes are numerous.

fed western wethers come in

bunches.





Most of the Plums . ..... 55 58 60 56 ' 97

large Cherries . .. . . 56 61 64 , 6.9”". .98 -'

The sheep and lamb receipts Strawberries ..63 69 76 73. 98





 





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Thursday’s Market.

June 5,1913.

Cattle.



Receipts, 857. Market steady With Wed-

nesday or last week on all grades.

, We quote: Best steers and heifers, $8

@850; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200,

$7.75@8; do. 800 to 1000, $7@7.50; .do. that

are fat, 500 to 700, $5.50((16.50; choice fat.

cows, $6.50@6.75; good do.. 31575611625;

common cows, $5605.50; canners, $37561)

4.25; choice heavy bulls, 356506117; fair to

good bolognas, bulls, $6616.25; stock bulls,

$5@5.75; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1000





$7@7.35; fair do., 800 to 1000. $6026.50;

choice stockers, 500 to 700,’ $6.25@6.50;

fair (10., 500 to 700, $550616; stock heif-





ers, $5@5.75; milkers, large, young. medi-

um age $50@ 70; common milkers $356045.



Roe Com. Co. sold Kull 9 butchers av

to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull

Weighing 1130 at $7, 2 cows av 1090 at $6;

to ,Kamman B. Co. 12 steers av 1010 at

$7.95, 1 cow weighing 850 at $5.75; to

Bray 2 cows av 895 at $5.25, 8 do av 931

at $5.25, 2 canners av 855 at $4.25; to

Newton B. Co. 2 steers av 810 at $7;'to

Hammond. S. & Co. 2 heifers av 460 at

$6.50; to Snow 8 stockers av 452 at $6, 2

do av 350 at $5.60; to Bray 3 cows av 820

at $5, 2 do av 925 at $5.25, 2 do av 880 at

$5; to VVyness 4 do av 955 at $6; to Sulli-

van P. Co. 3 bulls av 847 at $6.35; to

Newton B. Co_ 2 do uv 780 at $6.



Bishop. B. & H. sold Bresnahan 3 cows

av 933 at $5.10, 2 do av 1120 at $5.10; to

Schuer 5 do av 984 at $5.20, 7 do av 920

at $5. 25 3 do av 823 at $5,1 do weighing

800 at $550.1 do Weighing 1060 at $5; to

Newton B. Co. 2 stee: s av 940 at $7. 30,

1 cow weighing 1070 at $6.25, 12 steers

av 955 at $7.60, 9 cows av 972 at $5.90, 17

steers LIV 1160 at $8, 24 do av 10101 at

$7.75. 3 cows av 1030 at $6; to Mich. R.

Co. 5 cows and bulls av 1140 at $6.60; to

Sullivan P. Co. 3 butchers av 753 at

$6.50, 4 do av 1015 at $6, 9 do av 1058 at

$6.25; to Mason B. Co. 4 steers av 1045 at

$6.30; to Parker, IV. & Co. 18 steers av

12475 .at $8.25; to Kull :l cows av 923 at

$6.3 to Hammond. S. & Co. 7 cows av

10125 at $6. 25; to Marx 7 steers av 1006

at $7. 40; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 2 butchers av

950 at $6.50, 2 do av 1015 at $6.10, 9 steers

av 1075 at $8, 5 do av 800 at $7.35, 2 cows

av 1135 at $6.75, 3 do -.1v 900 at $6; to

Parker, IV. & Co. 2 bulls av 1100 at $6.50;

to Mason B. Co. 10 steers av 772 at $7.60;

to Thompson Bros. 2 c0Ws 21V 950 at $4.25;

to Sullivan P. CO. 3 butcher's av 800 at

$6, 5 do av 950 at $5; to Converse 8 cows

av 900 at $7.35; to Bresnahan 14 butchers

av 580 at $6.25; to Parker, \V. & Co. 4

bulls av 1310 at $6.50; to Bresnahan 1

bull weighing 1530 at $7; to Marx 3 steers

av ‘893 at $7.75, 3 do av 940 at $7.65, 1 do

weighing 680 at $7.



Spicer & R. sold Newton B. Co. 5 cows

av 1080 at $6; to Kull 3 do av 810 at

$7.25, 2 do av 790 at, $6, 1 do weighing

1100 at $5.75, 1 do weighing 930 at $5: to

Breitenbeck 5 butchers av 808 at $7.25.

2 bulls av 1000 at $6.40, 2 cows av 1035

at $6; to Mich, B. Co. 2 cow and bull av

1085 at $6.50, 2 cows av 870 at $5; to Kull

21 steers av 885 at $7.75; to Mich. B. Co.

5 bulls 11v 778 at $6.25, 2 do av 1400 at

$6.7



Haley & M. sold Mich. E. Co. 2 bulls av

1020 at $6. 50, 2 do av 925 at $6. 60 1 cow

weighing 1220 at $6 21 2 cow and bull

av 990 at $6.70; to Heinrich 8 steers av

1090 at $7.85, 1 cow weighing 1.020 at

$6.75, 1 bull weighing 540 at $5. 50; to

Bresnahan 9 bulls av 650 at $6.35; to

Mich. B. Co. 12 steers av 1104 at $8.15,

1 do weighing 730 at $7.



Lowenstein sold Goose 7 cows av 963

at $6.



Same sold Bresnahan 7 butchers av

746 at $6.75.



Robb sold Kull 2 steers av 910 at $8,

2 do av 705 at $7.50.



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 1165. Market steady at \‘Ved-

nesday or last week's prices. Best. $9.50

@10; otherS, $.1F815 milch cows and

springers, $5618 lower.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker V‘l. & Co.

1 av 140 at $9. 75, 7 av 140 at $9.50, 4 av

180 at $9. 50, 23 av 150 at $9. 50, 2 av 155

at $10, 2 av 180 at $7. 50, 1 weighing 120

at $9. 50, 4 av 150 at $975.5 av 125 at

$9.50, 2 av 170 at $10, 1 weighing 130 at

$10, 2 av 225 at $10, 9 av 150 at $9.50, 3

av 140 at $7.50, 18 av 135 at $9.50; to

Sullivan P. Co. 4 av 140 at $9.75, 6 av 1:15

at $9, 1 weighing 120 at $10, 8 av 140 at

$9.50, 2 av 145 at $10, 15 av 140 at $9.75,

21 av 145 at $9.25, 5 av 150 at $9.50; to

Hammond, S, & Co. 21 av 165 at $10, 3

av 125 at $5, 5 av 140 at $8. 2 av 145 at

$10, 5 av 125 at $8, 16 av 150 at $10; to

McGuire 14 av 140 at $9.75, 17 av 150 at

$9.50, 2 av 200 at $6.50: to Nagle P. Co.

6 av 105 at $8, 25 av 140 at $9.75. 14 av

135 at $9.50, 1 weighing 150 at $10; to

Goose 3 av 150 at $10. 5 av 95 at $7, 4 av

135 atv $6.50; to Thompson Bros. 12 av

140 at $9.50.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 9 av 150

at $10, 10 av 139 at $9.50, 10 av 135 at

$8.50; to Applebaum 4 av 145 at $9.25; to

Goose 2 av 155 at $9. 25, 2 av 160 at $9. 50:

to Applebaum 7 av 190 at $9 35, 2 av 140

at $975, 25 av 135 at $8. 50.



Haley & M sold Newton B. Co, 10 av

151 oat $10, 2 av 105 at $8, 16 av 150 at

$9.5



Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond. S.

Co. 6 av 145 at $9.50. 9 av 120 at $8. 10

av 16‘? at $10, 1 weighing 230 at $10.50,





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2 av 140 at $10; to Goose 15 av 150 at $9;





to Barlage 4 av 155 at $10.11 av 175 at





$10.



Long sold Nagle P. Co. 4 av 155 at $10,

1 weighing 130 at $8.



Groff sold Goose 14 av 125 at $10.



Milch Cow Sales.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Bresnahan 1 cow

and calf at $55, 2 cows and calves at

$130, 2 cows and calves at $95, 2 cows and

calves at $50, 1 cow and calf at $60, 2

cows and calves at $125 3 cows and

calves at $171.



Same sold Converse 1 cow and calf at

$70, 2 cows and calves at $140.



Same sold IIer 4 cows and calves at





$195

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 2099. Market steady at “led-

nesday's prices or last week's close. Best

lambs, $7.35; fair to good do., $650707;

common (10., $4.75@6, fair to good sheep,

$5015.50; culls and common, $2.50@4.



Bishop, B. & II, sold Parker, \V. & Co.

11 sheep av 90 at $4.25, 89 lambs av 68 at

$6.23, 147 do av 70 at $7.25; to Mich. B.

Co. 41 sheep av-75 at $4.50. 4 do av 73





at $2.50; to Newton B. Co. 147 lambs av

70 at $7.35;'to Thompson Bros 18 sheep





av 115 at $5; to Barlage 2 spring lambs

av 60 at $9, 10 sheep av 79 at $5, 25 lambs

av 55 at $5; to Youngs 99 do av 78 at

$7.35; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 11 sheep av 88

at $5, 16 do av 90 at $5.25; to Hobbins

1.6 lambs av 63 at $5. 65 do av 65 at

$5.50; to Thompson Bros. 25 sheep av 95

at $4.50; to Mich. B. Co. 10 do av 103 at

$5, 23 do av 100 at $5, 20 do av 110 at

55,14 do av 115 at $5; to Sullivan 1". Co.

75 lambs av 83 at $7.35; to Thompson

Bros. 26 do av 82 at $7.35: to Fitzpatrick

Bros, 34 sheep av 95 at $5.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Barlage 10 spring

lambs av 47 at $8.50. 18 sheep av 105 at

$5, 6 spring lambs av 63 at $10, 6 sheep

av 135 at $5, 9 do av 120 at $5, 14 do

av 120 at $5.



Long sold Mich. B. Co. 43 lambs av

65 at $7.25, 15 spring lambs av 55 at $8,

52 do av 60 at $6.



Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 1.3

Sheep' av 100 at $5; to Mich. B. Co. 12

spring lambs av 55 at $9. 3 sheep av 140

at $5; to Barlage 9 do av 120 at $5, 14

do av 1.15 at $5, 10 lambs av 81 at $7; to

Young 19 lambs av 85 at $7.



Sharp sold Hammond, S. & Co. 16 sheep

av 105 at $4.



Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 8

lambs av 68 at $6.50, 13 sheep av 100 at





$5.‘5 14 do av 75 at $5... "7 1, 18 do av 75 at

$3, 15 spring lambs av 55 1t $9; to Mich.

1:. Co. 44 sheep av 115 at $5.

Hogs.

Receipts, 5946. Market 1077150 lower





than on “'ednesday or last week.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-





ers, $8.50; pigs. $8.50; light yorkers, $8;

stags one—third off.



Bishop, B. & I-l'. sold Hammond. S. &

Co. 3000 av 190 at $8.50.



Haley & M. sold Parker, “1 & Co. 480





av 180 at $8.50.



Spicer & It; sold same 500 at $170 at

$8.50.

{20‘ Cum. C0. sold Sullivan 1’. Co. 42.1

av at $850.





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CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.





Advice through this department is free

to our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and a-derSS of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a. reply that

has been made to someone else. When

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Loss of Vision—I recently bought a fine

ten-year-old mare that was sold to me

as blind. I am inclined to believe that

she can see some out of one eye and as

the eye has retained its natural color, I

thought something could be done for her.

The eyeballs are smaller than natural.

A man stated if I would let him take her

for two weeks, he could cure her. I

would like to know if it is unlawful to

drive a blind horse in Michigan. H. S.,

l—loughton, Mich—Your mare is doubtless

incurable. If given good care and care«

fully handled, I do not believe that any

humane agent would interfere with your

using her.



Found-er.—-My three-year-old filly has

been stiff in front for the past two

months, caused. I am told. by founder.

She gets up with some difficulty and be-

fore doing so usually makes two or three

efforts, frequently flopping over on side.

IV. 3.. Carsonville, Mich.~—App1y one part

red iodide mercury and eight parts cerate

of cantharides to fore coronets every

week or ten days. Give her 1 dr. of

potassium iodide and 1 dr. sodium salicy-

laie at a dose three times a day. Her

fore feet should be kept moist.



Eczema.——-My 12-year-old mare worked

hard all last year, besides she raised a

colt, which made her thin. Her skin

itches, but it is not raw, and I‘am sure

she is not lousy. B, B., Brighton, Mich.

—Give your mare a dessertspoonful of

Donovan’s solution at a dose in feed two

or three times a day. Apply one part

bichloride of

water to itchy parts of body twice a day.

If this does not correct itching._ use 10-

tion twice the above strength one to 500:

Or apply one part chinosol and 250 parts

water twice a day.



Nasal Catarrh—Roarer—Garget.—I have

a 12-year-old horse that was always well

until early this spring, but since he had

a sort of distemper he discharges some

from the nose, rattles in throat and

breathes heavy. I would like to know





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what can be done for garget in cow. A.

C., Bancrofttlilichr—Give 1 dr. powdered

sulphate iron, 1,5 oz. ground gentian. 1,6 oz.

ground cinchona, 1 dr. ground nux 'vom-

ica at a dose in feed two or three times

a. day. Apply one part iodine and ten

purts fresh lard to caked quarters every

day or two.



Injured Navel—One of my colts jumped

over partition and scraped navel, making

an ugly sore which I have been unable to

heal. The remedy you piescribed for

stocked leg soon effected a cure. \\. A.

B. Benzonia, Mich. —Apply one part iodo-

iorm and ten parts boracic acid covering

sore with some oakum and an elastic

band around body to hold (1:1kunl pad on

sore. It may not be necessary to use this

appliance.



“'eakness.—Have a four—ye:1r-old colt

that is thin, has poor life, lacks vitality

and when worked hangs head. I have

owned this horse for only a short time.

B. J., Grant, Mich.—~—Give him 1 (11'. of

ground nux vomica. 30 grs. quinine and a

teaspoonful of salt at a doFe in feed three

times a day



Spiained Fetlock Joint—One year ago

m\ t“ o yt'ea —old colt sprained fctlock

joint and I have applied different kinds

of liniment without much success. The

joint is enlarged some, a hard bunch on

each side of joint making him quite lame.

but the joint is not much inflamed. T.

Muncelona, Mich—Apply one part

red iodide mercury and six parts fresh

l rd to hard bunches on fetlock joint ev-

ery ten days.



\Veak Eyes—Have an eight-year-old

mare that has a watery discharge coming

from one eye for the past twelve months.

Our local Vet. tells me the optic nerve is

affected. N. C. H., upeel‘, lllich.——Dis-

solve 40 grs. of boracic acid and 40 grs.

of borate of soda in 4 ozs. of clean boiled

water and apply to eye twice a. day.



Bone Spnvin—Sprained Back.~My 12-

yezir-old mare is very lame, caused by

bone spavin, or else severe sprain. IV.

l‘.. Dryden, Apply one part red

iodide mercury and ten parts cerute of

canthaiides to hock every ten days.



Chlonic Slave1ing.~l wmte you a year

ago about a mare that slavered and she

continued to do so until she dropped her

colt on April 29; since fouling she is no

better. Have had her teeth floated three

different times and am giving her ginger

and nux vomica. .I. M. ll. Otsego, Mich.

Give her 1 oz. of ground gentian. and a.

dessertspoonful of Fowler‘s solution at :1

dose in feed three times a day.



Acute lndigestion.~—I have a bull calf

three months old which I feed 6 ozs. of

middlings, 2 ozs. of ilaxseed, 8 lbs of'

separator milk while warm twice a (15“. l

He is also fed hay with :1 little mohsses.

This young bull seems to be subjeclt to:

bloat and has it nearly every (1.1\ .l

l). M., Grant, Mich—(live youi bull 1 d1. 1

of salicylic acid at a dose in feed thiee

times a. day. Perhaps he “mild be ben-i

eiittd by giving him a pint of raw linseedl

oil otcusionally to clexn out the stomach

and bouels.





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_(Continued from page 665).

layed farmers for :1 whole week in get-

ting on to their fields to work. Some had

just plantedoand the ground was so sat-

urated with water and kept cool that the

ground had to be refitted and planted.

Some Were just ready to' plant and had

to refit their ground. so here. the 7th,

there is a good deal of corn to be plant-





cd yet. The fore part of May. was too

cold for making any amount of growth

in grass so hay will be a light crop





though the heavy rain has helped the



meadows some and has puShed the oats



along. Cows are generally looking well,



hogs and small-pigs are bringing good



money. Light frosts June 7 and 8

Indiana.





Laporte 00., June 9.—Heavy frost on

the morning of the 8th and 9th; mercury

34 (legs. before sunrise on the 8th; 36

degs. this morning. Keen cold wind

during the day but still at night. Beans,

corn and potatoes showed no injury yes—

terday and show no effect of frost now.

How the wheat crop is is a problem that

time alone can solve. Carly planted corn

is being replanted. Cutworms and extreme

cold wind did damage in most fields. Large

acreage but not a strong stand. Cows

are doing well. Butter, 35c: eggs , 20c:

good demand. Cultivating corn and

planting potatoes is the work at present.

Fruit crop light.



Ohio.



Carroll 00., June 5.—Sheep shearing is

about over. Farmers busy cultivating

corn and potatoes; corn came up nicely.

and is growing Well, but the potatoes

were slow in coming up. The frost

which we had about a month ago hurt

the. wheat and rye a good bit. Plenty of

rain this spring.





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I wonder why I like to do the things Pop

says are wrong;



I seem t0,be a-hunting for trouble right.

along.



’Tis easy to remember the things I should

not say, '



And then I get a. scolding—but there.

I'm built that way.





I wonder why the apples in Johnnie Cres-

sy‘s yard



Are nice and sweet and juicy, while ours

are sour and hard.



Pop says they are alike, but I can’t see



it just that way,



so I get a scolding



times a day.





And 'bout twenty





I wonder why I like to pull our tabby

cat’s big tail



Until I get u scratching.

cry and wail.



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sounds that way,

Because I'm up to mischief

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BY RUBY BAUGHMAN.





“I just wonder where they ever came

from.” complained Margaret rattling the

old paint brush vindictively against the

sides of an old tin can that smelled sick-

eningly of gasoline.



“I‘m almost sure that I brought' them

home with me from the Lakes. The cot-

tage was—I saw some in the cottage. I’m

01‘ course they could easily get

into my things.”



“I guess one

sighed Margaret

a mattress scum.



“I don‘t know how many I brought but

I’m sure we got the start. If one could

only ask somebody what to do! I’ve read

the cook book and the files of the Medi-

cal Companion clear through, and from

the unsympathetic silence ihey maintain

1 judgc that ~ the only pew-ln such

a calamity ever befell. They’re worse

than a suicide in the family.”



“I’m glad Mother‘s gone. She'd very

much prefer suicide, I think.”



“Everything seems SO useless. Day un-

to day uttereth speech about some new

scheme of assassin-é n; night un'to night

showetli knowledge that murder has not

been committed.” poking sadly into the

recesses of the creaking springs.



“The gasoline cure is decisive if it Once

touches them. But how can one‘be sure

we’ve reached them—every one?”



“Things are pretty well drenched now

in these rooms. They smell like Standard

oil tanks. Now let’s get the sulphur go-

ing next, It’s a good thing we can sleep

on the porch-roof. No human can sleep

in these rooms for days."



Carefully planting an old iron kettle in

the middle of the floor she put into it

first some crumpled bits of paper; over

these she poured a liberal measure of the

delimited—tinted ”4‘\\‘(‘l'S of sulphur.



“They’re off,” she laughed, setting a

match to the death—dealing powder. “May

they die in peace."



“They seem to die only in pieces and

each fraction then rises to a speedy res-

urrection.”



In each of the upstairs sleeping rooms

the girls set the destructive fumes. Out

of the cracks of doors and windows pour-

ed the pale blue smoke; even the key-

hole puffed out jets of cerulenn vapor.

-\ pungent odor bit into the eyes and

lungs and drove them down stairs.



“These last few weeks the house has

felt like an inferno; now it smells the

part." lamented Beth with a degree of

satisfaction as she opened the. windows of

the sitting n and looked down the

avenue of elms to the distant Squares of

vari-linted oats, corn, and meadow fields.

“How good it is to get back to the coun-

try again. I dislike the city more every

year.”



“In that case, why remain there?” in-

quired the stay-at-home sister mildly.



“Because my work is there. I like to

feel that I’m doing something worth

while. I don’t mean rthat I think you’re

doing nothing worth while staying here

with father and mother. But there will

be time enough for me to come home to

live when you have gone to‘keep house





Slll‘t‘.





is enough for u start,”

looking anxiously along





 





for Robert,” and she watched the pink





,tinge creep up to the temples ofMargar-

et’s gentle face.



“But do you never——"



“Oh, I know very well that you think I

ought to marry John. But I don’t like

this idea of being staked fast. I’m will-

ing to admit that the tethered cow has

the richest grass—«usually,—but I'd rather

have thinner picking over a, wider range.

\Vhen I run across a situation that I

can‘t handle better alone than with a

man, I’ll be, convinced and marry John.

Look at Jennie Jenkins. I don’t see that

she improved her condition much. She

was making good money teaching—ad-

vancing in years though, I’ll admit, and

alone. But now ShJ’S got a sick husband,

two babies, no money—compelled to live

with her mother-inJaw—hemmed in like

Caesar’s army by the enemy and the na-

ture of the place."



“At any rate she has the sympathy of

the community and the satisfaction of

knowing that Mrs. will be engruvcd on

her tombstone. \Vas any odor ever so

utterly unbearable as that combination of

gasoline and sulphur!” .



“I could stand "John Reed, maybe”,

more warmly than Margaretts laughing

comment would seem to warrant, “but-his

Step-mother! I don't care if she is my

own father‘s only sister. “'hy. on earth

John Reed’s father ever drew a blanklike

Aunt Martha for his second choice, I can’t

see. And then to die and leave. her on

John’s luckless hands—"



“That might be an argument for-alle-

viating John’s suffering, if you can.”





“She’s always suspecting, somebody; of-

You can alwaysjudge a‘wom-i





something.

on by the motives she imputes to others.

And when she can’t confirm; K

me a week to figure out what, she ‘means

to imply and by that time I’ve forgotten

what she said. She was H 7

store when I got the sulphur and followed

me into the grocery and heard me order

the gasoline."



“\Vell——?”



“Don't say ‘\\'cll,’ just like that little

mother-wren out in the lilac bush. She





asked me what I was going [0 do with it.” ‘ ‘~





“And y0u told her?"



“I said we were going to clean some

gloves and bleach some hats—and we

are," in reply to the reproach in Blar-

ga:'et’s eyes. “I will not be quizzed by

her; she‘ll be over to see what we’re

doing."



“You, but—”



“’l‘hut sulphur is putting my eyes out;

I hope it is slaughtering our foreign pop-

ulation upstairs. The more I think about

Aunt Martha nosing after me, the mad-

dei‘ I get.”



“And the madder you get the more you

think about it,” chuckled the mild one.



“I’d never get on with her, never,” in

answer to her own unspoken thought.



“You’re nor fair to John’s step-mother,

leth. You‘re not likely to be with peo-

ple you don‘t understand," a Stern rebuke

for so gentle a judge.



“But I do see through her; that’s just

the point. She has a. soul as stiff and

straight in its emotions as the row of

Lombardy poplars in front of her house.

Her mind works in one dimension only.”



“Just because she. dared to criticise you

for going to the <-ily——”



“Aunt Martha belongs to the straight—

est sect of the Pharisees and I usually

find my place among the public-ans and

sinners, but that surely makes it no af-

fair of hers if I choose to try to jab Out

a living with a pen. If I ever knew her

to own once to any of the mishaps that

beset ordinary lllUl‘lalS-—lf I heard her

say it once with her own lips—if I ever

knew her to climb down from that dizzy

pinacle of perfection, I’d admit I’ve been

wrong. After the awful affliction I've

brought on this house’meekness would be

a more fitting garment for me than fault-

findlng.” Beth admitted, stepping out on





the porch. “Come here, sister mine.” she

called softly.‘

Over the gate at the end of the elm—





lined lane gazed an elderly gray horse of

personality and distinction. hitched to a

low phaeton. On the comfortable cushions

sat a gray-haired woman, also of per-

sonality and distinction. '



“Behold our Aunt Martha, as I predict-

ed. Though you cry to the mountains and

rocks to fall upon you, still will Aunt

Martha search you out. I’ll wager the

avenging angel will engage her for deputy

in the day of——"



“811,. Beth, Beth. it’s a good thing you

a-ren’t so bad as you sound,” but Beth

was furtively watching, through her lash-

es. the tall man-figure striding up the

lane beSide the carriage. “Sometimes I

think your work has made" you a, bit com-

mon in your way of—”





With no sign of the perturbation that:





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Bikini: their knees the two girls went down

the stepswpast the glowing_.geranium b0“

der to greet their guests, Margaret CO!"

dial, Beth absent-minded.



As they reached the first veranda step

the delicate nostrils of Aunt Martha’s

high-bridged nose quivered to the attack

of the gasoline-weighted sulphur.



“You’ve been using the gasoline, I no-

tice," to Beth who was nearest to her.



“Oh, yes,” watching John’s broad shoul-

ders with' a pro-occupied, perfunctory

smile.



“Just how do you do it? I’ve been

wanting to try it but did not know how

to go about it.”



“Oh, you just daub it on thick int‘o ev-

ery nook and corner. “'e put it in an old

can and used an old paint brush.”



“Why, I should gueSs that it would re-

quire a clean bowl. Someone has told me

to use soap with the gasoline."



Beth's dreamy eyes looked far down

the vista of elms. ‘



“Oh, we didn’t; we burned sulphur in

the bedrooms afterwards, lots of it.”



“Sulphur? What for?" and Beth’s

dream faded before the shrill surprise in

Aunt Martha’s voice.



“Why, to kill—” .



Whatever woman fancies had been soft-

ening the edge of Beth's antagonism to

the institution of matrimony were lost in

the fright of her near disaster.



“To clean and bleach the hats, to be

sure."



“You‘re so self-absorbed; I suspect

you’re working out one of your stories

under our very eyes,” accused Aunt Mar-

tha. “Not a love story, of course, with

your prejudices. John, I want to talk to

the girls about a matter—about a very

delicate—very troublesome matter, \Vould

you mind waiting for us on the north

porch?” with a shade of anxiety to which

Beth was not deaf.



Meekly, as befits a man in the minor—

ity. John started across the sitting room

to comply with the request, then turned

coughing.



“This house is full of smoke. Are you

sure—I surely smell burning wool.”



Beth ran for the stair. Even as she

reached the top step, a tiny flame licked

out at} her from the keyhole of the first

door. A cloud of smoke enveloped her as

she pushed it open. .



"John! John! John!" she called in a

voice that shook as she had never known

her voice to shake, “get the hose below

the bay window, quick, from the outside

——0n the roof of the Window! You can‘t

get in up here," and she ran wildly down

past the frightened, fluttering woman and

pushed John before her to the porch.

Quickly he grabbed the serpentine coil

that wriggled and writhed along the grass

in his grasp.



“Turn on the water. Beth, when I get

up there. Don't try to go up stairs. Stay

where you are.”



Before Beth could quiet her gasping

breath he had reached the roof. broken

the pane, and sent the hissing stream in-

to the blazing room. Ages long Beth

waited, trembling, stripped of her fem-

inine self-assurance, till this masculine

person should announce that the danger

was over.



“It’s more smoke than fire." came the

judgment of the sterner sex, as he clam-

bered down. "I'll go up on the inside to

be sure,” and he took the stairs three at

a jump. The women below heard doors

opening and windows creaking.



““"hat in the name 0’ senSe have you

got up there? It smells like the day of

judgment,” as he wiped his eyes stream—

ing with the sting of burning sulphur.



“Is everything—did you see—” and Beth

quavered off into embarrassed silence.





John finally discovered that which

should have been obvious from the be-

ginning, and a slow smile spread from his

gentle, gray eyes to his smoke-stained

face.



“i don’t believe the girls are reliable

advisors on that point in household eco-

nomics you wished to consult them about;

their methods are rather too disastrous

and exciting to become popular. I must

go find Mike to help me get that mess

cleaned out before your father comes

back," and he disappeared, laughing. to

find the man-of-all-work.



With an impulsive. almost un-Aunt-

Martha—like swoop, that lady pounced up-

on the two girls. Beth felt the old bar-

riers. melt in some mysterious way before

a. great flame of common understanding.

“So you have them. too? And you were

using the gasoline to—"



“To assuage an unmentionable family

sorrow,” half-.sobbed, half-laughed the

penitent Beth.



“I can tell you more easily then, what

I came over for. John brought some home

with him from town—he may have got





them on the train—at any rate—” but

Aunt Martha’s tongue refused to formu-

late ~the disgraceful .fact. “I didn’t know

what to do for them—I never had any——

I couldn’t ask—and in my trouble I' came

to you girls. I wouldn’t even want your

mother to know. I thought you girls, es-

pecially Beth who has seen more of the

world, would be more generous in your

judgment. Even when you’ve held your-

self fartherest from me,” turning to Beth,

“I’ve thought—” but Beth’s arms, closely

clasping her, tilted the gray bonnet to

the last fraction of inconsequence over

the soft, gray waves of hair.



“I’m sorry I’ve been so hateful, Aunt

Mantha. I’m sorry and ashamed. If I

can make up in any way—”



“You can keep'your agreement.” inter-

rupted Margaret’s soft suggestion.



“Why, what—?" mOpping a tear-wash-

ed face with a blue gingham apron cor—

ner.



"You said you’d give up your solitary

independence juSt as soon as you found

yourself in a situation where you really

needed a man to help you."



“Of course.” ruminated Beth, “if there

hadn’t been a man about, I could have—”

but Margaret broke in on this perilous

pondering.



“But you didn’t; you called John. Fur-

thermore you said if you ever heard Aunti

Martha admit that—" coutinued Margar-

et, as Aunt Martha's gray silk arms fold-

ed over the last throb of rebellion against

things as they were to be.



”Beth, Beth.” interrupted John’s voice

from the back porch. "I wish you’d come

and tie up my hand. I cut it on the

window.”



“Tell him, honey, tell him right now.”

whispered Aunt Martha. “He‘s waited

long enough for two belligerent females

to come to terms of peace, so we can

both live with him in one house."





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BY AUNT QUILLIA.

A Hapless Venture.





A witless calf, having become dissatis-

fied with the pasture in a fine meadow,

conceived the idea of bettering his condi-

tion by scaling a fence into an adjoining

field.



Friends, relatives. acquaintances, all

joined in a protest to dissuade him from

his foolish plan, warning him of the dan-

ger of the attempt and assuring him that

the lot in question was the poorest on

the farmstead.



Especially did his mother labor with

him, citing instances of disaster that had

come under her own observation.



"Bossie," said she, “it is a wild. im-

practical scheme. Strong, half—grown cat-

tle. Bull Hereford, Bull Holstein, Bull

Guernsey, for exampe, have been caught

on those deadly barbs Young Galloway

so lactcrated his hide. intended for a

beautiful robe, that he was shot the next

day and carted off to the butcher’s'skin

and all. Lady Jane .‘lcrr‘ey tore her

lovely udder completely from her body

and met the same fate. I implore you to

desist." '



But of no avail.“ So wretched did he

become over the opposition encountered

that he nearly wore his mother out with

his unhappy bawls. Indeed they so got

onto her nerves that. at last, they ar-

rested all lactic secretion and. one even-

ing at milking time, she was ignominous-

ly banished from the barnyard.



One night when the rest of the herd

were dozing Bossie quietly stole over to

the side of the pasture which bordered on

the promised land.~ “Nothing Venture,

nothing will,” said he. whereupOn giving

a desperate leap he landed sqarely upon

the summit of the fence. The more he

struggled to release himself the more did

the cruel barbs tear his hide and pierce

the tender flesh beneath.



Setting up an unearthly bawl he soon

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his wide sharp horns he succeeded at

laSt, and, tossing him without ceremony

into the coveted field, he exclaimed,

“There, simpleton, go your own way. Re-

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gravel—providing those goats have left

any. You have made night and day hid-

eos with your bawls. You have disgraced

your mother and well—nigh ruined your-

self. all of which reminds me of what I

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You Can’. t MoVe Away From Yourself.





ID you ever get so out of touch

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person near you thar you wished

most heartily you could get 3,000 ‘miles

away, and never come back? liver feel

just as if everyone you knew was untrue

to the heart? That you were the only

good 11nd true person in the neighborhood

and were being spoilcd by your surround-

lugs? That if you could just get away

you would be 2111 right?



If y0u l11-1VQ. if you feel that way now,

just stop it. \Vhen you get to that con—

dition it is a sign that you are in pretty

bad shape your-“elf and need a thorough

ovrrhauling. Better stop and take, ac-

count of yourself and see honestly if you

would be any better off in other surround—

ings than you are at present. \Youldn‘t

you act under given circumstances, just

the same in Portland, Mu, as you would

in l‘oreland, Ore? And have you any

reason to ,think that things would be dif—

ferent for you in the west from what they

are in the east? Human nature is the

same the world over. You wouldn't

change if you changed your location, and

as folks are folks whether cast or west,

if it is outside inlluenccs that are. dis-

turbing you, you Would probably be dis-

turbed just as much by others in one

place at: in another.



I rcnwmbcr the first ‘time this was

brought forcibly to my notice. I had been

particularly annoycd by 11 neighbor's child

who came to pluy with mine. livery morn-

ing before wc left the table he was

there and cvcry forcnoon there was a.

squabble for 1111: to settle. I thought him

particularly quarrelsome and firmly be-

lieV’cd that if I could move out of the

ncighborhood my troubles would end. I

rcmurkcd onc 1111'u‘ni11g to an older neigh—

bor that I would like to move a thousund

milcs from Johnnie Smith.



“\\'cll, you‘d find anothcr Johnnie Smith

thcrc to hclp you scttlc," shc remarked

plucidly, “11nd he might be cnough sight

worse than this onc. You‘ll find Johnnie

Smiths any plucc you go, so why not

stay right hcre‘ 11nd try to adapt yourself

to this one you're acquaintcd with? Of

(ourse, i don't want to my anything

about your boys. but l've noticed them

1111;11‘1‘1-ling bctwccn themselves once or

twice whcn Johnnie wasn't around," and

with this l’aithian shot for Johnnie she

took hcr departure.



Hf course 1 sniffcd at tho time. \\'o Ill-

wuys do whcn Sulllt‘nlle tells us somcthing‘

we 111 cd to know. llut the more i thought

of it‘ the. more I saw she was right. There

are, extreme conditions when changing

one’s location will affect :1, grcat change

in living generally. As whui :1 boy has

gotten into bad company, moving to an

entirely diffcrcnt neighborhood 11nd giving

him good companions may work u chunge

in him. “rut for ordinary cyci‘yday liv-

ing, just getting in with new people will

have no effect. if you are morbid, or

quarrelsome, inclined to sulk in one

ncighbmhoml you will be in another. if

you are not a success in business at home

you arc not likely to lie -l11‘oad, unless

you change your line of busincs.< and try

something to which you are better fitted.

In short, if unything is wrong with you

the thing to do- is to stay where you are

and fight it out. Don‘t blame Jones or

Smith or the town. blame yourself. And

then work to remedy your defects.



DEBORAH.

WASHING BLANKETS, QUILTS AND

COMFORTERS.





 





'l‘o wash blankets, quilts and comfort-

ers choose :1 worm sunny day so that

they will dry as quickly as possible. 1’se

soft water if it can be obtained.



Blankets—“’oolen blankets should be

washed in luke warm water, cher in hot

or cold water. as it shrinks them. I‘so

:1 good white soap or some reliable woolen

soup. Put the blankets to soak for 1:")

minutes in warm water, soaping the

blanket as it is put in the tub, putting

on a little etxra soup where the blanket

is most soiled. After allowing to soak,

work the. blanket around in the tub. rub~

bing between the hands and applying

more soap where needed. Souse the

blanket several times and wring intoan-

other warm water, going over blanket to

see if any Soiled places have been missed.





Woman and Her Needs.





At Home and Elsewhere.





JUNE 14, 1913.





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et as free from water as possible. Shake'

well before hanging up to dry. Roll ouch





corner a trifle and pin with a small





safety pin to prevent the corners froln'





whipping out. \\'hen dry they will be

fluffy and soft, ready to fold away for

unother winte1 \nother way is to Htletch

the blankets on ctntain stretcher, putting

them on double.



Comforters—Never rinse Comforters in

cold water us it tends to harden the cot-

ton batting. Comforters are washed in

the same way as blankets, only the water

should be fairly hot and they should soak

1'1 couple of hours in :1 good hot soapy

water to loosen 11p the dirt. The ends 01‘

any parts may be rubbed on a wash-

hour‘d 01‘ washed in the washing machine.

After the comforters are dry, roll and

beat with a smooth round stick. This

will loosen up the cotton and make the

comforters more fluffy.



Quilts—“'ash some as the comforters,

except that where the colors will not run

they should be scalded to make them

more clear and fresh.



THE EASTERN WAR AND OUR NEW

CLOTHES



The high waist lines and tight skirts

which have been with us so long seem

doomed. In fact. no waist line at all

seems to be the rule in most of the new

coats and suits, :111d blouses and lingeries

gowns are rapidly following. lusl why

:1 war over in a (luster of lGuiopean

slates whi1h none of us could bound and

most of us had ungotten (111. ted, should

change the style. of American women’s

inches below the waist line. :111d pullcd

clothes, is one of the unsolved mysteries

of Fashion. But changed it is, and now

all you can hear is “Balkan," “ lulg‘ur-

11111.” or “lloumanian.” \‘trange as it

may sc1 1n, nothing is ‘Montcncgiin, ” even

<1’111e the capture of Scutari.



"elh sum lot 1! of the Ilnee new styles

sci-ms to be vivid colors .11).] diesses and

K'uits that look like a meal bag with 0,

string run around the bottom about .K‘ix

up just (amugh to make a few guthers.

“Sloppy," is the way one bold young

1112111 expressed his opinion of his sister’s

ncw White dress. .\nd though the young

woman was highly indignant, most of 11s

ugrce with him. Aftcr the trim, scant,

tight—fitting attire of the past two or

three seasons, thc new things look

“queer,” to my the least. llowcvcr,

they are here, togclhcr with draped skirts,

and are likely to stay. So we might as

well accept thcm and pretend we like

them as we did the hobble when it ap-

pcu ‘1d.



’l here will be many a sigh, though over

the increased .1mount of matetia] required

f‘oi the new clothts. 1101, \\ hcie a suit

with :1 hobblc skirt could be? gotten Out

112' 11 yard or so of cloth, the new ones

will require morc.





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Substitute one tenspoonl'ul of baking

powder for one egg in griddle cakes. Sodft

must also be used for the buttermilk as

usual.—lelar1‘iet.



To Clean Feathers and \Vhito Plumes.

»»I\'[ake a suds of half a bar of nuptha,

soap or some olhcr hard white variety,

shaved into :1 pint of soft. clean rain

water. \Vhen it is like a jelly. dilute it

with warm rain water. . Soak the plume

or feathers in this for tcn or fifteen min—

utcs, occasionally drawing it rather loose—

ly through the hands to strip out the

dirt with the suds. ltinse in water of the

same temperature. If there is any s‘oiled

streaks left, lay it on a smooth surface

111111 with :1 soft toothbrush rub gently

with soap and water. wmking outwardly

from the stem. Rinse in clcur, waim

water. and afterwards, if a white plume

or feather, in bluim,r \1'z1ter.'Dr211V through





the palm of the hand to squeeze out the.





water, but without twisting. Pin or

stitch the stem to :1 cloth and hang up

to dry with the thick end of the stem

up and the plumage hanging down. If

there is time enough, Shake it near the

stove until dry. It can be dried out

doors in a gentle breeze, but care'must

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TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.





President—Jas. N. McBride, Burton.



Vice-President—C. B. Scully. Almont.



Secretary—Treasurer—Mrs. C. P. John-

son. Metamora.



Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Wm. T.

McConnell, Owosso.





 





 





Directors—C. P. Johnson, Metamora;

H. W. Chamberlain, \Vhite Lake; \"m,

'1‘. Hill, Carson City; Jerry Spa ulding,





Belding; R. J. Robb, Mason; J, F. Rei-

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Associational Motto:

.The skillful hand. with cultured mind,

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Associational Sentiment:



The farmer. he garners from the soil



the primal wealth of nations.

THE JUNIOR CLUB.



The Junior Farmers’ Club, so—called,

has proven to be a method by which the

young people could be interested in Club

work in many communities in Michigan.

Such an organization has, an the same

time, proven of great benefit in interest-

ing the boys and girls of the Club com-

munity in the possibilities of the farm,

where this work has been directed along

right lines.



This is the age of boys' and girls‘ Clubs.

In the south these organizations have

been even more popular than in the north

but they are becoming popular every—

where,~ many of them having been organ-

ized in Michigan during the past year.

Generally these Clubs engage in some

competitive contest, such as the growing

of corn or potatoes by the boys, the can—

ning of fruit or vegetables or in the prac-

tice of culinary art by the girls. The re-

sult is educational as» well as inspiring

to those who participate in the contest.



At least one County Association of

Farmers‘ Clubs has promoted corn con-

tests among the boys of the county this

year. This is a commendable Work, which

might well be undertaken under the aus-

pices of the organization itself, just as a

.lunior Farmers’ Club might be organized

and given similar interesting work by

each IOcal Club in the state.



It is perhaps too late to go into a

scheme of that kind this season, but there

are other interesting lines of work for

the junior organization. For instance it

might be given charge of the work of

promoting a Club fair, where such a spe—

cial feature has not been inaugurated by

the local Club. This would prove bene-

ficial to both young and old. and it would

doubtless be a matter of surprise to the

older members that the young folks could

develop as good an event of this kind as

they undoubtedly would if given the op-

portunity to try. This is but one of many

ways in which the young folks could be

interested in the work. There are un-

doubtedly great possibilities in the junior

organizatlion, and every local Club would

do well to develop them in an original

vay.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.



Hold an Enjoyable Afternoon Meeting.

——The Hadley and Elba Farmers' Club

held a very enjoyable meeting at Home—

btead Dairy Farm, May '15, in spite of

mud and rain. The roll call response,

“My Favorite Flower,” was followed by

general discussions on what can be said

in favor of parcel post and the influence

of the Club on a community, and a read-

ing by Mrs. James Mclloiigall. After a

bounteous supper the Club adjourned to

meet June 19 at Stony Creek Farm with

Mr. and MrS. James Mellougall. and the

Annual Children’s Day program is in

charge of a special committee—~Mrs. C.

P. Johnson. Sec.



Have Picnic Dinner.~—I\Irs. Thad Joy

and Mrs. L. L. Joy very pleasantly en-

tertained the Charleston Farmers’ Club

in May. Owing to the busy season but

few of the men were able to attend but

the ladies endeavored to make up for the

deficiency. Following the picnic dinner

the usual business program was carried

out. In the absence of both the president

and the vice—president. 0. F. Mt-Clary,

occupied the chair for the day. A song

service was also enjoyed with Miss Iva

Maxson, piano. and Mr. Joy violin, act—

ing as accompanists. The Club members

had an interesting time viewing Mr. Joy’s

gentian beds and learned many things

concerning the plant’s cultivation. The

Club has accepted the invitation of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Flanders and both the

senior and junior Clubs will meet with

them on the third Saturday in June. Mrs.

Olin Bent, Mrs. J. Bateman and Mrs. A.

J. Atkins have been appointed to assist

the hostess. A literary program will be

given.



Opposed to Free Wool.~The May meet-

ing of the Wixom Farmers’ Club was en-

tertained by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Free-

man at their pleasant farm home and

proved to be a very successful meeting.

After dinner the Club was called to order

by President B. T. Nicholson. America.

was sung by the Club. The question box

contained 15 questions and were all thor-

oughly discussed. They were varied, some

on the farm products and the question

regarding "free wool’f provoked a warm

discussiom, nearly all agreeing that they

did not have any use for iL—Mrs. R. D.

Stephens, Cor. Sec.





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Suggestions for Second Meeting.





Song.



Roll—call responded to by each giving

a favorite. verse of poetry.



Reading, “The best will ever written."



Soil cultivation: l. \l'hy cultivate? 2.

“'hen cultivate? 3. How cultivate



Song.



Stunts in tongue twisters. .



Results of teaching agriculture in our

schools this year, by an eighth grade pu—

pil, a teacher, and school officer or

parent.



Mock school meeting, conducted by the

women.



TWO-DAY MEETING OF GRAND



TRAVERSE POMONA.



Seven of Grand Traverse county’s ten

subordinate Granges were represented at

the Pomona meeting held at Old Mission

on \Vednesday and Thursday of last week.

The quarterly reports showed that there

had been a gain of 19 in total membership

since the first of March, the number now

on the rolls being 803. The reports also

showed that 43 meetings had been held

during the preceding quarter, and that

programs had been carried out at 3:3 of

these meetings. The present value of the

pioperty 0f the Several subordinatc

Granges is 314.825. East Bay Grange had

the largest gain in membership.



It was reported at this meeting that

Long Lake subordinate is about to erect

a hall upon its lot near Long Lake town

hall. The building will be 30x50 feet in

size, with a basement and ground iloor.

The new hall will be the seventh Grange

hall in the county, the Granges already

having halls being Grand Traverse, Elk

Lake, Peninsula, East Bay, Fife Lake and

Summit.



A big mid-summer rally was decided

upon, and a committee assigned the taSk

of ‘making the necessary arrangements

and the Granges of the surrounding coun—

ties are to be asked to help plan a cele-

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region that the Grange is one of the prin- i





cipal factors in the wonderful develop- 0

nn-nt going on in the Grand Traverse

region.





Among the topics considered during the;





program sessions were "Alfalfa." “Agri~

cultural School,” “The Farmer’s \\’or.-‘t

Enemy." and “Lower Taxes." Recita-





tions. readings and songs were contribut-

ed by Scott \\'oodward, Mrs. E. A. Evans.

Mrs. 1*]. J. McMullen, Mrs. Arvilla Gard-

ner and Chas. H. Drake. Mrs. J. D. Mills

contributed inStrumental numbers.



The alfalfa discussion was a most prof-

itable one because it was by men who are

actually growing this valuable forage

crop. Calvin Spangler, of Monroe Center.

op ed the discussion by relating his ex-

pe ices since he made his first sowing

some years since. He had for exhibition

an alfalfa root that proved convincingly

that the plant goes deep into the ground

for its food and moisture. Among the

many who spoke upon this subject were

Peter Zimmerman, E. O. Ladd, Henry

Broadhagcn, E. J. McMulIen. M. J. Gil-

more. Chester Lewis. S. M. Kingsley. and

Frank Grubb. From the many remarks

it was clear that only a few of our farm-

cz's have yeti discovered the full secret of

alfalfa growing.



The subject of lower taxes was handled

by E, O. Ladd. who urged that property

be assessed at its true cash value, be-

lieving that in this way it is easier to get

a square deal between man and man. He

also nientimicd the advantages of a. more

complete separation of 10cal and state

taxes, and he gave it as his opinion that

one of the very best ways to reduce tax-

es is to reduce the dependent class by

the establifihment of legal. social and

moral conditions that will make it easier

for people to do right than wrong. The

cost of maintaining the poor, operating

jails and hospitals is one of the chief rea-

sons for high taxes. He felt sure that

much poverty and much wrong doin‘:

could be prevented by the adoption of

higher metal standards.



A prominent feature of a most excellent

evening program was an illustrated lec-

ture entitled “The Economic Geography

of the Grand Traverse Section of Western

Illichigan,” by It. H. Elsworth, assistant

secretary of the \Vestern Michigan Devel—

opment Bureau. Over 100 lantern slide

views of farm and orchard scenes in this

section were shown. The Granges were

first in this region to begin a systematic

development of the resources of the re-

gion. and it was a pleasure to the mem-

bers to see what a big gain had been

made in the last five years.





COMING EVENTS.





Pomona Meetings.





Wayne Co., with West Road and Wil~

low Granges, in Willow Grange hall, FrI~

day. June 13. '



Montcalm 00.. with Langston Grange,

Thursday, June 19.



Charlevoix Co.. with Barnard Grange. at

Barnard Grange hall, Thursday. June 19.



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