The Only Weekly Agriéultural, Horticultural, andLiVe Stock Journal in the State.
DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1913.

1' VOL; CXLI, No. S. g

l Whole; Number 3654.

Potato Blight.

' " HE blights or tw0 fungous diseases
I of the potato plant are becoming
more important year after year to

the potato groweis. During fav01able
weather as much as 50 per cent of the
potato crop has been lost, due to the in-
jury caused by this fungus. Many farm-
ers think that the early death of the
vines is due to early ripening, but this
is not the case.

'The two important potato blights are
the early blight (Macrosporium, Solani),
and the late blight (Phytophthora Infes-
tans). The latter is of more economic
importance than the former. It produces
the early death of the vines as well as
a dry rot on the potato tube1 while the
early blight causes only the early death
of the vines

The early blight makes its first ap-
pearance during July, or at the time the
potato plant first begins to bloom. This
fimgus lives on the tiSSues of the plant
and Spreads its mycelium through the in-
tercellulai spaces the leaves -The
mycelium is thread- like and more or less
branched The tissues . ~

are the spores prevented from germinat-
ing on the leaves, but those that may fell
upon the ground are rendered powerless
by the copper sulphate in the soil from
the Bordeaux. 1

To prevent this fungus disease. it is
important that seed be. selected which is
not infected in any way. It should be
allowed to dry thoroughly before storing
and then placed in a cool, dry place. Af-
ter the potatoes are dug the vine's'should
be burned, and in serious cases it may
be necessary to pull‘the vines 'off and
burn before digging the potatoes. to pre-
vent .infection of the tubers. Banking

.the dirt around the rows causes a thick-

er layer of soil around the tubers and
prevents the spores from getting to the
tubers.

Some varieties of potatoes offer more
resistance to the late blight that others
It may be said, however that while cer-
tain varieties show a considerable degree
of resistance, yet it is also true that no
vaiietym may be expected to maintain such
resistance through a long period of time.

In =preparing Bordeaux mixture it is
important that the copper sulphate be 98
per cent pure The' lime. should be fresh-
1y burnt. Twelve lbs. of c0ppe1 sulphate,

VALUE OF TEMPORARY FENCING.

 

The age of high-priced land is here—5

and going higher yeai by year. The

price of farm labor has already reached

a point that discourages the farmer who

'is in debt- and has to depend mostly on

outside help to operate his farm. These
conditions'are here to stay. They must
be given serious thought by any farmer
who expects to increase his earnings and
make'a-dividend on his investment. How
many farmers have ever thought of the
hundreds of dollars that “small fields”
and hundreds of rodsof “unnecessary

fenceS” are costing them each year. Of
course, small fields are handy for stock,
especially, ,But they are too expensive,

and by no means pay an income for the
damage they do. In fact, it is not neces—
sary to have a single permanent fence
on the inside of any farm, no matter
whether it be 40 acres or 600. The out—
side should be well fenced so that you
may know your stock is on your own
farm and other people’s excluded. But
the inside fences should be temporary
and removable. I am informed that
down inhOhi/o, where the land is very
high, they, have no road fences even, and

50 CENTS A YEAR.
$2 FOR 5 YEARS.

level, productive land, near the buildings,
in one field. I can then have rows of
corn 160 rods long. Will have a strip of
corn, a strip of hay and a strip of grain.

’By farming this way it is going to save

me over $100 each season in time and la-
bor, besides the extra acres of land that
the fences take up; also the Lip—keep of
the fences as well as the interest on the
investment, which in all would amount to
at: least $200 annually.

Now, brother farmers, is not this worth
saving? You may say, what are you
going to do for fences when you want to
turn your stock in your fall clover or
your stubble? Two men will construct a
temporary fence down this 180 rod line in
less than a day. All that is necessary is
to have some good anchor posts at each
end where your fence starts, which should
be left there for the purpose. Then have
about 75 or 100 good oak stakes to drive
along about two rods apart. A woven
wire fence four feet high and a barb wire
on top makes a good fence, which can
be tied to the stakes with soft Wire. This
same fence can be removed in one day
and there you have the whole deal in a
nutshell. If this same 160 rods was di-
vided in 40-rods parts and a cross fence
at each point, look at
the extra turning and

 

cf the potato leaf die
and cause a character-[V
istic brown spot, circu-
lar or eiliptical in shape;
and marked with con-'
centric markings. These '3’
spots increase in siz‘epU
until they 1' form"; large
patches of dead' tissue. '
If the leaves of the plant- . , ..
become injured or are~ -- "
bruised in any way, .iti ‘
is more susceptible tO~
the attack of the fun-3
gus. 4
In a field Where this-
disease has once gotten
a good start it cannot
be controlled, but if
the plants are sprayed
with Bordeaux mixture
just before the fungus
makes its appearance,
its growth can be
checked. The Bordeaux
prevents the germina-
tion of the spores upon
the surface of the
leaves. '

From an economic
point of View the late
blight is the oldest po-
tato malady. The great
famine of 18115 in Ire-
land was largely due to
a failure of the potato
crop, caused by' the de-
structive effect and
prevalence of the late
blight. If one of these spots is examined,
that are produced by this fungus,.it will
be found to be bordered by, a grayish
white mildew. By use of the microscope
small fruiting bodies can be seen, called
hyphae, which contain thousands. of
Spores. .These fruiting hyphae during
warm, cloudy and muggy weather pro—
duce a great'many more spores than'in
cooler periods; A field that is slightly
infected tfiy. in a few days during‘fava

 

orable 'weather, look as if‘frostrhad in-.
Early potatoes are'rare-y.
ly attacked by this fungus but the later.
title or : more ‘ sprayings 'are given apply

jured the vines.

varieties are seriOusly injUred.’during tu-’
ber formation. Where an attack of the
late blight is prevalent, rotgof'the tuber
always follows. The tubers- become in-
fected by 'the spores which have fallen
upon the ground: T-hefungu's ‘may begin
growth at once or it may develop after

.. ' the potato has been dug and”‘stored. By
' spraying with Bordeaux mixture not gnly

Membership of Bliss Alfalfa Club,

' acre.

8 lbs. of burnt lime and 75 or 100 gals. of
water will furnish enough Bordeaux to
spray one acre, or at a cost of $2.00 per
Before mixing the lime and copper
sulphate it should be dissolved separately
in a large quantity of water and then
mixed. -Only one or two days’ supply
should be made at once, as it does not
hold 'its strength if kept longer than this
peri0d.« 'If spraying is done during damp
weather the mixture should be diluted to
75 gallons but during favorable weather
it"should'be diluted to 100 gallons. Sev-
eral sprays may, be necessary. ‘Vhere

the 'first- one as soon; as there is a good
deVelopment» of- vine.- ' ~
.Since ',the - potato : blight ,is annually
causing a heavy loss- it«is:essential that
every farmer use everYIpossible measure
to prevent the'
fungus. . s
Indiana", J. C. KL1N111.

development of this -

 

 

Recently Organized in Emmet County as a Result of the Alfalfa Campaign.

farm to the center of the highways. *At
the high price of land we muSt utilize
“every foot” of the soil in order to make
good, consequently what is the use of
paying interest on five to 20 acres of
good productive soil on each farm, which
the fences take out, when we can get
along with 'less fences. My theory is to
utiliz'e‘all the rough, undeSirable land for
pasture, and the good, level soil for crops.
“'hen a farm is all hilly we must make
the best of it, to be sure, but most farms
have more or less level fields. It is safe
to say that on my farm “there were 30
acres of the best land taken up with
fences and shade trees. I am giving the
place a ,f‘hair cut” this year by removing
most of the trees, and next season will
give it a “shave” by removing over 800
rods of fences. I shall have all the tim-
ber land, marsh,kand what I call hilly
land, in a 250-acre permanent‘pasture
the balance, or 250 acres, which is,’ good,

trampling down of val—

uable crops I would
have to pay for. These
little “odds and ends"
are seldom given even
a sober thought, yet
they are costing mil-
lions every year. All

of these things help to
make farming more dis-
couraging and is it any
wonder that so many
farmers “work hard”
for 40 years and never
make much progress?

There are many items
of farm management in
which reforms are. need—
ed. lVe are all work-
ing, or should bc, for
some purpose and unless
we figure on economy
and save the time that
is liable to he unprofit—
ably utilized 011 our
farms, we must not ex—
pect to reach the desir-
ed goal.

Farming can be made
easy and profitable with
the right kind of man-
agement, but it is 111)
hill business to be doing
two days’ hard work,
when “one" easy one
will answer the same
purpose. You’ can ac-
complish a measure of
this in hwing less fences and large fields
on your farms.

\laShtenaw Co.

 

B. F. WASHBURNE.

 

ALFALFA CAMPAIGN

The accompanying cut shows the re-
sult of the alfalfa campaign in one Mich-
igan community which is typical of the
results in the state at large. The alfalfa
club, the membership of which is shown
in the illustration was organized July 15.
by Hon. A. L. Duell, of Emmet county.
Previous to the inauguration of the pres—
ent alfalfa campaign some 79 similar
clubs were organized by M. A. C. field. men,
and many more have been organized by
codnty agriculturists in recent months.
These clubs and individuals who have
become interested in the possibilities of
alfalfa, will soon furnish valuable object

IN MICHIGAN.

lessons to the farmers of all sections of 1;“V

the state. ,

 


 

BEAN DISEASES OF MICHIGANr

 

There are two serious diseases of beans
in Michigan—bean ~anthracnose and bean
blight. Bean anthracnose is caused by
a parasitic fungus whose scientific name
is Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. .It is
found on practically all parts of the bean
plant and causes blotches, more Or less
circular, usually about the size of one’s
thumb nail, upon the leaves. On the
stems long cankers sometimes extending
along the stem and into theground are
caused by this pest. On the pods typical
areas are produced. Red or maroon coli-
ored spots appear on the pods and these
enlarge in a day or so until they are
about the size of a bean. In general
these spots are circular but-two or more
may run together to make a kidney-
Shaped “sore." These spots have a
sunken center and soon this sunken cen-

ter becomes yellow with masses of
Spores. These spores do not blow about
as do most spores because they are

sticky and dry down to a crust but with
rain or heavy dew these spores soak
loose and are brushed about by the
swaying plants, or transported by insects
and the infection is soon spread so that
no pod escapes. Cultivation of fields
immediately after a rain or early in the
morning is to be avoided. The growth of
the fungus is not restricted to the pods
but the threads of the peSt grow into the
seeds beneath the fungous spot. Exam—
ine a badly spotted pod and you will
findv the seeds beneath the pod are all
discolored. This discoloration shows a
dangerous condition in the seed.

Bean Blight.

A very serious disease of beans in this
State is caused by the bacterial organ-
ism, Bacillus phaseoli. The attack of
this germ is much like that of the an-
thracnose with the exception that the
spots are not so large nor so regular and
the color in the advanced stages is not
SO deep 21 red as is produced by bean an-
thracnose. In general the pods and the
leaves are spotted with amber blotches.

Control, .

Professor IVhetzel has shown that it is
possible to avoid absolutely bean an-
thracnose. To do this the farmer must
recognize the disease and select pods for

seed which are absolutely free from
spots. These pods must be threshed
apart from the general run and such

seed should be kept in tightly sealed jars

and planted in clean ground at some
distance from the infected fields. If se-
lection is careful these seeds ill give

plants entirely free from anthracnose. If
it is not possible to secure seeds enough
for the entire field, the selected seed
may be planted in a separate patchand
be used as a sour of seed supply for the
following year. T ere is no general ‘con-
trol measure for bean blight since it is
much more difficult to find pods absolute-
ly free from blight germs.

Spraying with Bordeaux mixture as
found by Professor Halsted, is said to
have a beneficial effect on the crop. Its
Value for controlling bean anthraCnose
has been questioned by “'hetzel. With

the lack of experimental evidence it
cannot be said whether it is best to
spray or not.

Mich. Ag. Col. G. H. Coons.

FARM NOTES.

 

Fitting a Poor Sand for Alfalfa.

I have a sand hill of about one acre
which is about three feet above the
other land. \Veeds are about all that
will grow upon it. In 1910 I seeded it to
clover with oats. The clover came in
patches on the lower land. In 1911 I
sowed alfalfa with oats. It did a little
better than the clover, but did not make
a on I have a lot of hen manure and
cog'se horse manure which I thought of
puliting on this land and plowing under,
then harrow to keep the weeds down
and sow to alfalfa and oats in the spring.
Can you suggest a better plan?

Saginaw Co. A. H.

IhidOubtedly what this soil needs is
more vegetable matter in it, which could
be secured by sowing some crop for
green manure to be turned down next
spring as a preparation for alfalfa.
Doubtless rye and vetch would be the
best combination to use for this purpose.
Also it is possible that this soil needs
lime for alfalfa. If so it would be well
to apply it before sowing vetch or he
application could be delayed until the
ground was plowed for the alfalfa in the
spring. If a crop of rye and vetch is
plowed down and the hen manure applied
on the surface and disked in, and if an
application of,lime is also made, there
should be no good reason why a good
stand or alfalfa‘bould not be secured on}
this land. The plowing down‘Oi’ a_' own.
for green manure will add sufficient hu-
mus to the soil so that it will hold mois-

ture far better thin it 'doe‘s illits pres-
ent condition. It» would be a somewhat
expensive method» of preparing the soil,
but would, in the writer’s opinion, be
more profitable than successive failures
in attempting to get it seeded without
such treatment. .
Pea Weevil.

Will you kindly tell me whether there
is any way of treating peas for bugs?

Newaygo Co. H. K

There is no good way of protecting the
growing crop of peas from weevil. The
matured insect lays its eggs on the pods
and directly over each pea.‘ The grub,
when it hatches out. eats its way through
the pod and into the pea, where it passes
the winter and emerges about planting
time the next spring. The seed peas can
be treated so as to prevent damage to'the
succeeding crop in several ways.

One method is to place them in a
tight box and subject them to the fumes
of one or two ounces of bisulphide of
carbon to each hundred pounds of seed.
Another method is to pour the seed peas
into water when the infested peas will
float and may be removed. Other meth-
ods of destroying weevil are to heat the
peas to a temperature of 145 degs. F. or
by soaking them in boiling water for one
minute. Another method is to keep the
peas over one season in a tight box and
during this time the beetles will emerge
from the peas and die.

A Catch Crop After Barley,

Could I sew any green crop on a sandy.
loam field that has been in barley? I
want it for a fertilizer. Vi'ould it be too
late to sow sand vetch? Would rape
make any growth in fall? I had it in
early potatoes last year and seeded it to
clover and the winter killed it all out.

Calhoun Co. G. E. S.

Sand vetch should, for best results, be
sown from the middle to the last of Au-
gust, sowing same with a light seeding
of rye. Under favorable conditions it
will then make a good growth in the fall
and again the following spring. produc-
ing quite an abundance of vegetable mat-

ter to be plowed down for fertilizing
purposes.
Rape sown after harvest will, under

favorable conditions, make quite a rank
growth and serve an excellent purpose
in fixing the available plant food in the
soil and furnishing a cover to the soil
over winter. Notwithstanding the fact
that rape adds nothing to the soil in the
way of fertility which it does not take
from it, a crop following a cover crop of
rape generally shows the beneficial re—
Sults of such treatment to a marked de-
gree. It will not, however, add actual
plant food to the soil as will the vetch
which has the same ability for the trap-
ping of nitrogen as clover or the other
legumes.

Sowing Vetch with Self-seeding Rye.

Vl'ill you please advise me as to how
the following plan will work out with a.
poor stand of rye? The soil is sandy
loam and will produce good corn, but
from some cause the rye did not do well.
How would it do to let this ten-acre field
seed itself then dise well and sow vetch
in August or the first week in Septem-
ber, to be cut for hay in May or June of
next year? If the plan will work out,
should the vetch seed be inoculated, and
how much culture should I obtain? How
much per acre? Could this field be pas-
tured next spring without injury to the
hay crop?

St. Joseph Co. SUBSCRIBER.

This plan of seeding the field would
probably be all right in case the rye is
not thick enough to make too heavy a.
Seeding to permit the vetch to make a
good growth.

The usual custom is to sow 30 or 40
pounds of vetch seed per acre with a
light seeding of rye about the middle of
August and under favorable conditions
this 'will make some fall pasture and
could be pastured the following spring
before cutting the hay crop, but probably
not without shortening the hay crop to
some extent, as it is impossible to pas-
ture any forage plant and still have it
yield as heavy a growth of hay as would
otherwise be the case. »

Grasses for Permanent Pasture.

Please let me know what is a good
combination of grass seeds that gives a
good pasture all the growing season.

Ottawa Co. J.

The grasses which will make the best
combination for permanent pasture
throughout the season will depend not a
little upon the character of the soil upon
which they are to be sown. For ordinary
or average uplands the mixture of grass-
es recommended by the best authorities
on this subject include Kentucky blue-
grass, orchard grass, red-top, meadow
feSCue and tall oat grass, placing the
relative importance of these grasses in
the order named. 'With these should be
combined ,the clovers which are best Suit-
ed tothe‘soil. In the endKentucky blue-

grass Will be found the main dependence

T H E MIC HI GA N.

F A R' M‘ BR
for the permanency of pastures; For
lowlands 'red~top should be .,giy;en the
preference over orchard grass and aisike
clover should take .the place of common
red clover. 0n sandy lands Bromus in-
ermis or Russian brome graSs is advised,
although it has not been tried out to any
considerable extent in Michigan. rFactors‘
of quite as much importance in the main-
tenance of a. productive permanent pass
ture are the methods of handling and
fertilizing the pasture. It should not be
grazed too closely if the best results are
desired and on ordinary soils it will be
necessary to give it some fertilization at
more or less frequent periods to maintain
the most productive pasture.

Clnquefoll.

Enclosed please find portions of the
butt‘ and top of a weed I find growing
on my farm which I cannot name, as
I have never seen anything like it. I
think it came in clover seed. Can you
give me its name through the columns
of the Michigan Farmer?

Lapeer Co. H. H. G.

The specimen enclosed is commonly
known as rough Clnquefoll. It is a near
relative of another variety of cinquefoil,
commonly known as five fingers, and
which is more generally distributed, al-
though this weed is quite a pest in many
pastures. ‘Cultivation given in the crop
rotation, spudding and hoelng will serve
to keep same in check.

LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

I am trying to play the alfalfa game
correctly. I have read everything almost
that has been said upon this plant,_in-
eluding Joseph Wing's wonderful book on
alfalfa, and also Secretary Coburn's,‘ be-
sides talking with men who have made
a considerable success with the plant. I
have also had some personal experience
now for the past four years. The more
I study the plant, the more information
I get from those who have given the
plant a careful study, the more I
see that alfalfa has peculiar habits, that
we must supply rather unusual condi-

tions. In other words. it is a new crop,
that we have, all got to learn how to
handle in order to get the most out of

it. Joseph IVing says, and he. probably
is one of the best posted men in a prac-
tical way on this plant east of the Mis-
sissippi, that you must not clip young
alfalfa, weeds or no weeds, until the new
growth starts out at the crown. If you
clip alfalfa before this new growth starts
you injure the plant. It may recover
from it, but it weakens it. On the other
hand, if you wait very long after the
new growth starts so that when you clip
it you clip- off the ends of the new
growth, you injure the plant and weak-
en its vitality. Also, if you let alfalfa
grow and don't clip it at all and let the
old crops die down and new crops come
in as we do sometimes with other crops,
this injures the plant. Alfalfa is an ex-
acting plant. You have got to do things
right and you have got to do things at
the right time in order to get the best
results. I seeded 15 acres to alfalfa in
May. Had it not been '80 dry I can be-
lieve that I would have had a good cut-
ting this year. It was very dry and the
alfalfa started very slowly. I have got a
good stand but the plants did not grow
as fast as I rather expected they would,
because the most of it was on good land.
Some of the best plants, however, are a.
foot high. Some of this was seeded. as
I have stated before, with oats as a
nurse crop, some with winter rye as a
nurse~crop, and some without any nurse
crop at all. The ground is the most free
from weeds, I think, where oats were
used as a nurse crop. There are com-
paratively few weeds where winter rye
was sown as a nfirse crop, and there are
quite a number of weeds, especially in
places where no nurse crop was sown at
all. Had it been common red clover I
should have clipped it long ago and cut
off these weeds, some of them have
grown up two feet high, but I was fol-
lowing Joseph VVing’s advice, not to clip
it, weeds or no weeds, until the new
growth started at the crown. The. new
growth has started and so we have clip-
ped the alfalfa. On that portion where
oats were used as a nurse crop we. have
raked up the oats and are feeding them
to the cows. On the balance of it. how-
ever. we will leave the weeds lying on
the ground. It may be that there are
so many weeds in some places that it
will smother some of the plants. and yet
the weeds dry up in the sun and don't
do as much damage as one would think.
“Hood Crops."

The more experience I have withfarm-
ing. the more I try to handle the hoed
crops so that we don’thave to hoefthem
by hand. -~.For instance, with .ensilage

corn, if yodwiillpuethe corn' in pretty

-I planted to lima. beans.

‘ for information and prices.

And. 2, 1913. _

thick in‘drillsand drag it once before it
comes up. and perhaps once afterwards.
and get the cultivator going as soon as
you can, the corn will get a start suffi-

ciently if it is thick in the rows so that

it .will shade the rows and smother the
weedsclose to the row. Those between
the rows, of course, we can take care
of easily enough with the cultivator.
Where, however, there is a. vacant space
and the corn doesn’t come, or perchance
it is cultivated up, there we have plenty
of weeds because the land is full of
weeds, and there is no way to get them
out except by hand-hoelng. This year
on one field that has received applications
of stable manure for a number of Years.
The canning
factory man tells me that lima beans

don't want to be too thick, they ought-

to stand a foot apart in the row. Perhaps
I ought not to .have put this field into
beans because I knew well enough that

with a crop like this where the beans-

sto'od six‘inches to a foot apart, it would

come up between the rows with weeds.'

because I_ knew the land was full of
weeds. You take the land that has been
covered wit-h stable manure every year
or two for the last 25 .years and YOU
have got some weed seed in it, and when
you give it a half a chance that weed
seed will gr0w. Well, it has grown this
year. These summer showers and hot
weather have given us a crop of pig
weeds or red root, which could be de-
stroyed only by the man with the hoe in
actual operation. This field was fitted in
good shape, planted to beans, harrowed
before the beans came up. and we got to
cultivating it early. “'e had a. good
stand. of beans. The canning factory

'man said that I had the start of a splen-

did crop. The beans grew nicely; you
couldn't see a weed. But after one of
those showers came and hot weather
followed the red root started and in a.
week or ten days you could scarcely see
the beans in some. portions of the field.
Now I have men taking those weeds all
out. Some places they have to look to
find the beans in the row, but we are
chopping the weeds out. The weeds have
not been in there long enough, seemingly,
to injure the beans. They look just as
nice after we get. the weeds away from
them as they did before; in fact, they
have only been shaded a. few days by
these weeds, theweeds have grown so
rapidly. Of course, it costs considerable
money to do this, but it is the only thing
to do. In fact, if they were not taken
out by hand they would actually ruin the
bean crop because they grow so rank
and so tall that they would shade the
ground so that the beans would simply
stop gr0wing entirely. These weedy fields,
made so by the application of stable ma-
nure for years, are rich and will grow
goo-i crops if you have a favorable sea-
son and can keep the weeds down, but
you have always got a job on your hands
with the weeds in a hoed crop. When
We put these fields to oats or to wheat
these crops come up, of course.

interfere.
Sugar Beets.

The sugar beets have come on wonder-
fully well lately. Moisture and good,
thorough cultivation, with warm weath-
er, have made them grow. The fore part
of the season was cold and dry, and I
have a. poor stand on a few clay places
in the field, while on the largest portion
of the field thereis a fairly good stand.
And seemingly the beets have come on
on the clay places so that without going
through the field and giving it close in-
spection you would say that you had a
goodstand of beets. I have taken out
the weeds once after they were thinned.
It wasn’t very much of a job because we
gave them a good hoelng when they were
thinned. I have kept the field cultivated
and in 'many places the tops almost touch
between the rows now. As a matter of
fact, the beets are master of the situa-
tion. They have got ahead of the Weeds
and the ground is so shaded that no
weeds will grow. I don’t think that I
will' have to touch these beets again.
Perhaps if we have a heavy rain so that
a crust will form, I will cultivate them
once more, and yet the ground will be so
shaded that it will be difficult for a.
crust to form that will be of any par-
ticular detriment to the beets.

SAND on WINTER VETCH.

 

‘We handle in large quantities the high-
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CONTROLLING THE APPLE’S GREAT-
EST ENEMY.

 

How to tell when to Spray for Second

Brood of CodIIng Moth.
[Of all the insects which are injurious
the codling moth does 'the
greatest damage and in order to make
the apple crop a profitable one, both the
first and second broods of the codling
moth must be killed. Even though the
first brood of this moth has been dis—
posed of, the apple crop will suffer very
much if the second brood is not killed
off. Usually when weather conditions are
normal, the second brood hatches out
about the first week in August and at
this time an arsenical spray may be ap-
plied.

Under the usual weather conditions,
the time to apply the arsenical in order
to kill moSt of the second brood of the
codling moth is the first seven or ten
days in August. This will usually get
rid of the greater majority of these pests
but we should bear in mind that the
weather conditions govern the time when
the insects are on the wing and as this
season has been a rather peculiar one as
far as the weather is concerned, it would
be well to apply the following test which
will tell exactly when is the right time
to spray for this much dreaded pest of
the apple. ‘

First of all, Scrape the loose flakes of
bark off from the trunks of several trees
in the orchard. This loose bark is more
easily scraped off after a wet spell when
it has been softened somewhat and comes
off with a very little scraping. Now take
some old burlap bags or sacks and fasten
one on each tree. Each sack should be
folded two or three times and then it may
be faStened to the tree with finishing
nails or it may be tied on. The main
reason for fastening the sack to the tree
in this manner is to avoid a great amount
of pulling and tugging when the cloth is
taken from the tree. Now after the lar-
vae of the codling moth have gotten their
fill and have devoured enough apple ma-
terial for their development, they search
for a secluded place to spin their co-
coons. In the absence of the lOOSe flakes
of bark, the bands of burlaps furnish the
next best thing under which to spin the
cocoons and if the horticulturist will look
from time to time, under these strips he
will find the tiny cocoons which will soon
open up and free the codling moth.

The next thing to do is to make a cage
in which to place these cocoons until
they hatch. For this purpose, a glass
cylinder open at both ends is very con-
venient and in the absence of such a
cylinder, one may use a lamp chimney or
a lantern globe. Over each end of the
chimney. a piece of mosquito netting
should be tied. Now this cage may be
placed over a plant jar filled with soil
which should be wetted from time to
time. The cage should be placed out in
the open air, in a shady place which is
protected from the rain. The reasons
for placing the cage in Such a manner
are that one should try to have it in as
near orchard conditions as possible.

Now that the cocoons have been spun
under the burlap and the cage has been
made, the next thing to do is to get the
c0000ns and place them in the cage
where they may hatch. This can be done
by carefully cutting the cocoons from the
bands and in doing this, the small piece
of burlap of which the cocoon is spun
should be cut out. Now place these small
pieces of material on which the tiny
creature is quietly resting, in the cage.
The cocoons may be gathered in July and
one should look for the moth the latter
part of this month. Be careful to look
under the loose bits of burlap in the bot—
tom of the cage for the moths are often
hiding there and are not readily seen.

The codling moth, as it hatches from
the cocoon, is a beautiful tiny creature
whose fore wings may be rosy or of a
pale gray hue With numerous dark
specks interspersed throughout the gray.
Near the end of the fore wing there is
a large brownish spot and upon this spot
one may see irregular golden bands. Not—
withstanding the fact that this creature
is very troublesome to the orchardist, it
is very beautiful.

As soon as one finds the moths hatch-
ed 0ut in the cage, he may feel certain
that they are ,flying in the orchard and
laying their eggs singly 0n the fruit or
on nearby leaves. In about ten days

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these eggs will hatch and the young
worm will burrow his way into the apple
and eat his way into the core, causing
the apple to fall prematurely.

Now if the spraying with an arsenical
is to be effective against the codling
moth, it must be done some time' during
the ten days after the appearance of the
first moth. If the spraying is done more
than ten days after the appearance of
the first moth, it will be of no avail to—
wards the control of this insect and the
result will be a harvest of wormy apples
which are no good to keep or sell; hence
the grower’s profit on the orchard will be
very materially lessened if it is not
entirely taken away. Since this method
of ascertaining the time to spray for the
codling moth does not involve a great
deal of expense the extra crop of apples
will probably repay us for the time and
expense we have been put to, in making
the test.

Ingham Co. I. J. MATHEWS.

GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT GROWERS
, MEET.

 

The Grand Rapids Fruit Growe-rs’ As-
sociation held a special meeting July 19,
and after hearing crop reports by mem-
bers from different sections it was voted
to send out circulars to Michigan, Indiana
and Ohio points to bring the buyers here.
In past years this printed prospectus of
the crop has been sent out into 10 sur-
rounding states but it was thought that
the crop this season would not justify
this widespread advertising. Grand Rap-
ids is developing into a great consuming
market and will take Care of nearly all
the peaches grown in this vicinity this
year. but there will be a surplus of plums
and apples for shipment. Apples will not
run over 50 per cent of last year's big
yield, Baldwins being especially shy.
Duchess are of fair quality but are in
many cases scarred at ends, attributed to
frost marks. Grapes promise well. Grow-
ers have been getting very good returns
on cherries and raspberries marketed in
Grand Rapids. President Oscar XV. Bra—
man, of Kent, urged co-operation in mar-
keting and pointed out the faults of the
present system, or lack of it, when 400
to 600 growers rush their products on the
market the same day, glut it and sell for
what'they can get. It was voted to ap-
point a publicity committee to keep the
consuming public better informed through
the newspapers as to when fruit of every
kind is in season. Editor Brown. of the
Fruit Belt, spoke of Grand Rapids, not
only as a great local market but as the
natural gateway for the greatest fruit
section in the United States and the
proper distributing point for this terri-

tory. Reports were given of short crops
in other states, and it was stated that
Michigan will market one of her best

money crops this season.
Kent Co. A. GRIFFEN.

CU LTIVATE THE GARDEN.

 

 

If vegetables are planted in long rows
so that a horse and plow can be used,
not only Will considerable work be saved,
but cultivation will be more thorough.
Late crops, as tomatoes, cabbage, and
celery will stand the dry weeks of sum—
mer much better if the garden has been
thoroughly plowed earlier in the season,
and the wheel hoe u1~'ed later. Cultiva—
tion by hand is satisfactory for shallow
rooted early crops, but the garden that
has been plowed with the horse will con-
tinue to grow after the shallow worked
plat has dried up. The trampling of the
crops by the horse may be obviated if
the end panels of the garden fence are
removable so that the horFe may be
turned on the Outside.

Missouri. H. F. G‘FJNSTEAD.

KEEP THE FRUIT PICKED UP.

 

All fallen fruit, whether of any value
or not, should be picked up from the
grOund. Decayed fruit is a breeding
ground for disease and insects. ~Hogs are
excellent orchard scavengers, when they
'can be kept from other crops or from de-
vouring fruit of value. It is some more
labor. but just as satisfactory to carry
the fruit out to them.

Missouri. H. F. G'RJNSTEAD.

 

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MARKET OUTLOOK.

 

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that the scarcity argument has been
temporarily inoperative. To aggravate
(matters, excessively high temperature

curtailed beef consumption all over the
country, especially in the east, and dis-
;turbed industrial conditions. also re-
pressed demand. Tl'e must not overlook
the fact that the product is costing the
[consumer big money and he is always
diSposed to show resentment by reducing
purchases. This is a beef eating coun—
try, however, and even semi-abstinence
is impossible for any lengthy period.

A feature of the summer trade has

jbeen a broad outlet for well finished
‘yearlings, and the supply of little cattle
!has been decidedly liberal. Compared
[with heavy bullocks the young steers have
found a satisfactory market. For half-
fat yearlings buyers have been less keen
{and growers will do well to lezirn the
leSSon that to get maximum results year-
_lings must be fat.
I Quarantine cattle, as Texas bred stuff
‘from below the “tick” line, as known in
trade vernacular, have been running
somewhat freely during the past 50 days.
They have arrived in good flesh and the
bulk of them have sold below the 70 line.
making lots of cheap beef, and. under
the circumStances, the grades of native
steers with which they compete have
done a very considerable market stunt.
Down in the southwest, they are using
cottOn cake as grass and making their
quarantine cattle much better than in
former seasons.

Prospects, rather than market history,
concern the feeder most, and viewed from
that standpoint optimism is warranted.
That the entire grass beef producing re—
gion west of the Missouri river will mar-
ket a small crop during the coming sea-
son is Cel‘tillll. The Dakotas, Montana
and “’yoming picked their herds close
last season in response to the incentive
of high prices, insuring a light beef
round-up in 1913. Northwestern grazers
have been compelled to restock in recent
years largely with Mexican and other
trash, consequently the short run in
sight from that quarter will lack quality.
An acute beef shortage exists on the
Pacific Coast and that quarter will draw
more heavily on herds east of the Rocky
Mountains. Even from Southwestern pas-
tures come reports of a deficiency. Corn-
fed cattle have been run heavily and the
trade expects Only moderate supplies
from that quarter during August, Sep-
tember and October, consequently prices
ought to work higher unless the public
quits eating beef entirely. Hog product
is high, no cheap mutton is on the mar-
ket horizon, and beef will undoubtedly
have less competition than last summer
and fall. Prediction is always risky, but
I am convinced that fut cattle are due
to seek higher levels. Each year a high
syn-t in the trade develops and that the
pinnacle of 1913 has been recorded no-
body versed in market matters believes.

Much has been said and written about
beef scarcity. So far this your that com-
modity has been reasonably plentiful, but
how feed lots are to be replenished if
the growing corn crop lives up to ex-
pectations is worrying many. “'9 have
been told that with free trade South Ain-
,ei'ica will deluge our markets, but inves~
tigation shows this to be an error. In
the first place, Argentina, the Only Sur-
plus producing country in the southern
hemisphere, has been getting out of cat-
tle and into grain. Commercial cattle
values have advanced 50 per cent at
River Platte fl‘eezers'within a year, and
while Australia may throw ‘a little beef
into Pacific Coast markets, its influence
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vada Mountains. Argentina could only
injure our common cattle even if able to
fill Atlantic Coast markets, which the
best informed people in that trade say
is impossible, and present prices in North
and South America for the same grades
of cattle 'show a differential of only about
two cents per pound in favor of frozen
Argentine beef laid down at New York
on a free trade basis. Considering in-
feriority of the foreign article its popu-
larity will be doubtful unless River Platte
prices fall and the trend of cattle values
down there is upward.

A world Wide cattle scarcity exists and
if American consumers are to enjoy any-
thing like an adequate. supply of the
qualitied article the domestic market‘has
afforded for 25 years past, it must be
produced within the United States..-
lVritten by John T, Alexander, of the
Union Stock Yards,, and read at the
Illinois Cattle Feeders’ Convention, July
15, 1913, by Prof. H. W. Mumford.

FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.

 

Catch Crops for HOg Pasture.

I have about one acre that is in corn;
land is in fair condition. \Vould like to
pasture it With hogs next summer. Would
it be advisable to sow it about August
10 in the standing corn to winter vetch?
Does vetch make good hog pasture? Or
would you sow it to June clover at
about the same time or sow vetch on
early next spring plow it down and Sow
rape?

Allegan Co. J. F.

Either of the plans suggested might be
profitably carried out in case conditions
are favorable at the time and after the
seed for the catch crop is sown.
Really, however, alfalfa is the very best
of the available hog pastures and if con-
ditions are particularly favorable alfalfa
might be sown in the standing corn and
if a catch is secured makes a better and
more productive hog pasture next sum-
mer than any of the forage aplents sug-
gested since it will make a continuous
growth throughout the growing season.

Vetch, on the other hand, would ma-
ture rather early in the season unless
quite closely pustured and rape would
not come on to make as early spring
pasture as the other crops suggested. It
is however, one of the very best of hog
pastures and has the advantage of being
easily and cheaply grown. It is imprac-
tical to advise any definite course to pur-
sue which would be best, because one
does not know what the local weather
conditions will be. If there is an abund-
ance of rain, would sow clover or alfalfa
in the corn. Otherwise vetcli and rye
would grow under good, favorable condi-
tions. while in the event, of failure with
any of these catch crops the rape could
be depended upon for spring sowing with
reasonable certainty of getting a. profit-
able hog pasture within about six weeks
after the seed is sown.

 

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

The development of the “baby beef”
industry is more rapid than most people
are aware of, thousands of fat little
yearlings tipping the scales at around 700
to 800 pounds reaching the Chicago stock
yards in the coui‘Se of a year. Owners
let the caIVes run with their mothers un-
til ready for slaughtering, and not long
since a Missouri farmer marketed in Chi-
cago a consignment of 700-pound Here-
fords that were last September calves at
$8.80 per 100 pounds.

Horses were in extremely poor general
demand last week, as is usual around the
Fourth of July, and all that stood in the
way of a bad break in prices was the
curtailment in receipts, country shippers
anticipating a slow trade. Demand cen-
tered in a medium-priced class of horses
showing harness marks, and more ani—
mals went at $185@250 per head than at
any other figures. Quotations for the
better class of drafters at $275@350 were
mainly nominal, nor was there much do-
ing in the cheaper class of horses, such
as go at $85@125. A better trade is ex-
pected in the near future, but the pres-
ent time is not usually one of any large
activity, and owners should act cau-
tiously. >

Nevada has been bringing in a good
many cattle from the dry sections of Cal-
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experienced. The indications are that the
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Montana and Colorado cattle from Chi—
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Only moderate supplies of western
range cattle are expected to be marketed
this year. Ranges were in poor condi-
tion last autumn, and owners marketed
their cattle very extensively. the. high
prices ruling proving irresistible. -

  

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DAIRY NOTES.

 

Extreme hot weather is hard on dairy
cows. We never can get them to do so
Well. They always shrink, no matter
what we are feeding them. It takes con-

siderable energy to overcome extreme hot

weather, and the cows seem to use up
this energy to overcome the heat. It
would be the same, of course, with ex-

treme cold, but in the winter time we
can protect them against the cold and
keep them comfortable even though the
weather is bitter. In the summer, how-
ever, this is impossible. There is no way
to get cool in the summer time. You
have got to simply take off your coat and
stand it, and that is the way with the
poor cows. Our cows have shrunk more
than they ought to during this hot
weather, h0wever, owing to the fact that
we have no succulent food. We are giv-
ing them all the good bright hay they
will eat, and'also giving them grain, and
they have some pasture, in fact, about 50
acres of permanent pasture, but 50 acres
of permanent pasture for a herd 0f 50
cows gets mighty short along about July,
especially when we have had a dry
Spring. So there isn’t very much suc-
culency to the pasture grass at the pres-
ent time, and with no ens‘ilage we feel
the effect. One does not notice the ef-
fect of the ensilage so much until after
he has had it to feed for two or three
years and then is deprived of it. Then
he can see that a succulent food when
the pasture is dry is a wonderful stimu—
lant in keeping up the summer flow of
milk. With dairy cows in order to get
the very best results it is absolutely nec-
essary to have some form of succulent
food as a part of the ration.

It is amusing to read in some of the
trade dairy papers their ideas of pasture.
For instance, one of the leading New
York dairy papers states in an editorial
that they have had good showers in the
central west which will refresh the pas-
tures and give good feed for the balance
of the season, and they look f0r the out-
put of butter to hold up. Now as amat-
ter of fact, every farmer knows that in
the hot weather in the middle of the
summer time when pastures are pretty
closely fed down, that a good shower of
rain, while it does refresh them a little
bit, adds but very little to the growth.
They don’t freshen up like spring and
fall in mid-summer, and unless people
supplement the pasture by corn silage or
some other food they are not going to
keep up the flow of milk. In three or
four days after a good shower one can
walk through the pasture and he would
hardly realize that there had been a rain.
The heat of the sun evaporates very
much of this moisture on pasture ground.
it doesn’t wet down very much, it doesn’t
do the grass as much good as the dairy
editor seems to think. Of course, a week
of wet weather wotuld stimulate the
growth of grass, but just a shower, even
though it is a good one, seems to have
very little effect, except to wash the dust
off from the grass and green it up for a
day or two. It has no permanent lasting
benefit, certainly not sufficient to prolong

the milk period. I am speaking. of
course, largely of permanent June grass
pastures.

WILL A SILO PAY?
h.—
VVill a silo pay on the farm? Which
is the best source of feed for milch cows
in the summer, a silo or high land pas-

ture?
Charlevoix Co. C. H.
For the last twenty years all stock

breeders have argued that the silo was
made for the dairyman, and there was
a doubt about its being profitable for the
production 0f beef or mutton. These late
years, however, after experiment stations
have made quite exhaustive experiments
people have come to the conclusion that
the silo Will pay for all kinds of live
stock. More silos are being put up in
the central west today in the feeding dis-
tricts probably than in the dairy districts
in the east. Years of extensive drought
have compelled the farmer to take notice
of the silo. There isn’t any question. but
what if a man has live stock to feed, and
raises corn,» that he can afford to have a
silo. As a matter of fact, he cannot af-
ford to not have one. We have always ar-
gued that to harvest the corn and put it
into the silo "was cheaper ‘than to harvest

   

it in any other way. It can be figured

out beyond a reasonable doubt that if.

you put good corn into a good silo that
you needn’t lose 'over five per cent of
the food value of the corn plant, while
on the other hand, if you dry-cure it you
are bound to lose from 25 to 40 per cent,
and sometimes with bad Weather you will
lose even more. No one argues that by
putting the ears of corn into the silo
adds to their value. As a matter of fact.
there is a deterioration, a slight one, in
food value in the silo. The ears can be
preserved in the old-fashioned way by
cribbing, without very much loss, prob-
ably no more loss than it would be to
put it into the silo, but it must be re-
membered that the cornstalk and the
foliage constitute 40 per cent of the food
value of the corn plant. In the old-fash-
ioned way 75 per cent of this is lost in
the best available way of taking care of
it. Now when the entire corn plant is
put into the silo the stalks and leaves are
preserved as well as the ear corn, and
few peOple fail to realize that if the stalks
are cut when they ought to be and put
into the silo, that the food value in the
stalks is just as digestible and just as
palatable as it is in the ear of corn.

Silo Vs. Pasture.

From an economical standpoint no one
can afford to pasture good level land. If
you have got some waste land on your
farm that is not cleared or is too rough
to plow, or something of that sort, of
course the most practical way of utiliz-
ing it is by pasturing. But if it can all
be plowed, if it is under a good state of
cultivation, you can’t afford to pasture
it, because when you pasture it very
much of the feed is wasted and tramped
upon and soiled by the cattle so that it
is an abSolute waste. You can put this
same land into forage crops and keep
many more cows or stock of any kind
upon the farm than you can if you have
the pasture. Of course. here comes in
again the question of help. If you can’t.
manage so that you can get help enough
to handle when you grow forage crops,
so that you can feed the stock, that must
be taken into consideration. It is very
much easier to let down the bars and let
the cows and the other stock into a pas-
ture than it is to harvest crops on that
land and take them to the barn and feed
them to the cattle. It costs money to do
this. but if you can get the labor to do
it there isn’t any question but what you
can make more money than you can to
pasture the field.
BUILDING A STAVE SILO INSIDE THE

BARN.

 

 

“What would your opinion be upon put-
ting up a stave silo inSide of a barn? I
have a stave silo which has blown down
several times and a neighbor of mine has
one he has put up three times. He
thinks he will put his up in his barn this
time. Do you think the moisture from
the silo will injure the barn?

Genesee C0. W. M.

I can answer this question in, my own
opinion. by simply saying, “Don‘t." Nev-
er build a silo inside the. barn. The place
for a silo is outside the barn. See how
expensive it is so far as shelter is con-
cerned, to build a stave silo inside of
the barn. It is right in the way. You
want the barn room for something else,
and there is no use in it. If you build a
stave silo outside of the barn where it
ought to be, and where it is most con-
venient, put it on a good solid foundation,
use good material for the silo, and good
hoops, anchor it well with guy wires,
and if you will take hemlock boards. say
half an inch thick, bend them around the
inside of the staves at the very top of
the silo and nail each stave or bolt each
stave to this board, there is very little
danger of its ever blowing down. Once
in a while if the staves shrink very much
it is better to tighten up the hoops a
little. It would be better in nailing on
the boards on the inSide of the top of the
silo to put on a width of two or three
boards, anything to keep the staves from
getting out of place, that is the reason
they blow down. If you can keep the
staves all together, like the staves in a
barrel, there is no- danger about its fall-
ing down, but when they get too lOOSe
the wind wracks it. But take my word
for it, and never build a stave silo inside
of the barn, or any other kind of a silo
for that matter.

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After 41

to w ich it

  

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extra screens and riddles.
Th

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a}? "r". FRE " by next mail my latest
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PAID BY MYSELF. this. my new 19 8th
and Cleaner. Use the machine a month. CIht astatisi’ied at end of 30

As a matter of fact. $1. 00 won’t half pay me for the freight. I only want
the dollar to hold as evidence or good faith.

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lysars’ experience. I know every grain and noxious weed grown in
America. know the section where each one grows.
grows on your farm. Experience has shown that 9. Grain Grader and
Cleaner should have the special equipment

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scarcely two states in the United tates to which I send the same equipment. Thus you
get the exact outfit to handle the grains and wet- d ,
i you want more or different screens.
I will send them free. Not a penny would I ask for

Chatham now handles over 70 seed mix-
tures—wheat. oats. peas. beans. corn. barley.
flax. clover,‘tlmothy, etc. Takes cookie. wild
oats. tame oats and smut from seed wheat;
any mixture from flax: buckhorn from

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for your state.” T Here are a
few facts: This company sup-
plies seven-tenths of the total Roch

Phosphate used. Only 30 ,‘a of our total
One Southern state
uses as much as Illinois. We are now shipping Rock
Phosphate into 37 states, to Cuba and to Canada. Write

us for further information and for prices. Mm an.” ”per

output is sold in Illinois.

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.. Phosphorus Is the limiting element In crop production in the Central and
’ Eastern states. The value of all fan‘n land depends on its productive
power; than isn't it evident that an increase of the supply of the
“2. _ Phosphorous III your soil will give u corresponding increase

' ' » in production. and In value? The average valueoftillahle

-.. d In this section Ia $150. and the average amount
0‘ Phosphorus' Is 1,200 pounds per acre. One

   
    
  

ton of Rock Phosphate, costing about $8.
willodd 20% to the total Phosphorus
in each acre of your land. and
the consequent increase
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add $30.00 per
acre to its
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Many persons do not keep poultry be-
cause of the damage done to crops
around the buildings. On small places
this is a. serious matter, for in many in-
stances this loss is greater than the
profit from the poultry. A solution that
will give an "income from both crops and
poultry is, much deSiI‘ed. There are some
methods, including the French, known as
the no-yard systems; but they have
their objections where large numbers are
kept and do not fill the want. One man
seems to have solved the problem, for
he was able to keep a large number of
hens and raise his own stock without oc-
cupying much space.

011 a lot 100 by 130 feet he had two
houses, each 16 by 100 feet, facing the
south. TheSe houses Were built one on
each end of the lot, leaving 21 space 100
by 100 feet between them. “'hen I saw
them in June there were 500 laying hens
in one house. This house was divided
into pens 10 by 16 feet, each containing
50 hens. In the other house where 800
chicks, from one day old up to twelve
weekS. Half of this house was divided
into pens, 10 by 16 feet: the other half
16 by 50 feet, was divided by 24-inch
wire, one-inch mesh, into small pens so
as to keep the young chicks in small
lots.

The space between the two houses was
divided into two lots, each 50 by 100
feet. In one section was white top clo-
ver thick and rank. This patch was fur-
nishing more tender clover tops than the
chickens could eat. A lawn mower with
a. grass-catcher attachment was used to
cut all the clover the chickens could eat,
twice a day. The other section was
planted in rutubagns and would produce
enough to furnish green food for the
laying hens during the winter.

\thn range and exercise for the grow-
ing stock was mentioned, the owner
laughed and said: “The houses'ure kept
thoroughly clean and covered with clean
Straw in which the chicks are made to
scratch for seeds. I force them 10 work.
111 August, I select 2:30 pullcts and give
them .thc section now in (-lnvm- for from
four to six weeks. They are 111011 put
into the laying-house to replace 250 two—
yeur-old hens that are disposed of. Some—
times when nothing can be destroyed they
are let out. but this is only for a few
days in September.”

This is a SOO—hen plant Operated on
a space of ground 100 by 130 feet. Lego
horns are kept for egg production. Every
year from 600 to 800 chicks are raised.
Some are purchased as day-old chicks
and some are hatched. The aim is to
raise 250 strong pullets to keep the lay-
ing flock up to 500. The two-year-old
hens and the Surplus pullets are Sold at
a dollar each. The cockerels go to mar—
ket when they are 12 weeks old. The
eggs are sold to a New York hotel at an
advance of ten cents a dozen above mar-
ket quotation.

New Jersey. C. E. MORRISON.

 

THE FACTOR 0F BREAKAGE lN
SHIPPING EGGS.

 

To reduce the enormous breakage of
eggs in transit, which yearly causes a
loss of millions of dollars to producers
and raiSes the price of eggs to consum-
ers. the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
through its Bureau of Chemistry, has
undertaken to determine the safest man-
ner of packing eggs for long and short
shipment by rail. The waste from this
source. according to the Year Book, in
New York City alone in 1909 was over
137,804,768 eggs, 01‘ over 111/3" million (107.-
en. out of a total consumption in 1909 of
27.689.600 dozens of eggs. In other
words. about nine per cent of all eggs
received in New York were cracked. and
of these a large number were unfit for
food.

The Bureau of Chemistry regards this
nvestlgation as particularly important
because the many millions of dozens of
eggs now broken in shipment naturally
tend to keep the price of this food higher
than if there were no breakage, or break-
age were materially, reduced. The Bu-
reau, through the Food Research Labora-
tory, is now engaged in shipping eggs
handled in different ways on long jour—
neys to different points in the United
States, and is carefully noting their con-
dition on receipt at destination. Ship-

 

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pers, railroad men, and commission men
are co-operating with the investigators,
since the situation is growing very acute,
because the railroads are claiming that
their damage losses are such as to make
the carrying of eggs an unprofitable com-
mercial proposition.

ITALIANIZING BEES, 0R CHANGING

THE RACE.

 

Introducing a queen to a colony com-
posed wholly of young bees is an easy
matter, but to introduce one into a col-
ony composed of old bees requires more
care. First, seek out the old queen and
destroy her, then cage your Italian queen.
or queen of your new race. A satiSfac—
tory cage may be made by winding a
strip of wire cloth, 31/2 inches wide and
containing 15 or 20 meshes to the inch,
about the fiinger. Let it lap each way
one-half an inch, then cut it off. Ravel
out the half-inch on each end and weave
the ends of the wires, forming a tube the
size of the finger. These and similar in—
troducing cages may be purchased of the
supply dealerS. Put the queen into the
cage, being careful not to press her ab-
domen, and insert cage between two ad-
jacent combs containing honey, each of
which will touch it. The queen can thus
sip honey as she needs it. If you fear
the queen may not be able to sip the
honey through the meshes of the wire,
dip 11 clean piece of sponge in honey and
insert in the upper end of the cage be-
fore you compress the end. This will
furnish her with the needed food. In 48
hours again open the hive, after a thor-
ough smoking: also open the cage but
let it still remain on the comb. Now
keep watch, and if, as the bees enter the
cage or as the queen emerges, the bees
attack her, secure her immediately and
I‘e-cage her for another 48 hours. At
times the queen is not well received by
the bees and is then balled, as it is term-
ed. ly the expression “balling the queen"
we mean that the worker bees press
about her in a compact form which be—
comes at times as large as a peach. Here
the queen is held until she dies. By
slnnking the ball or dropping it into wat-
er the queen is Speedily liberated.

\l’lien bees are not storing, especially
if robbers are abundant, it is more diffi-
cult to succeed. If the queen to be in-
troduced is in a nucleus, you can intro—
duce her safely by taking the frame con-
taining the queen, bees and all, and set-
ting it in the middle of the hive contain-
ing the queenless colony, though it is
bent to smoke them well.

Ayoung queen just emerging fromacell
can be safely introduced at once to 21
colony after fixst destroying the old
queen. You will have to wait a few days
befoxe eggs will appear in the cells as
she will have to become fertilized first.
.Shemayneverlay.from different causes,
and you will have to keep close watch 01‘
hives where virgins like her have been
introduced. so as to provide another
queen in case the virgin does not become
u'layer.

Many bee-keepers. have colonies that
are much better than others and would
like to have more of their bees like them.
Here is an easy method to accomplish
this. At swarming time the hives rear
21 number of queen cells. Queen cells are
usually received with favor, especially if
the colony has been queenless for 24
hours. Cut the cells from your good hive
and fasten into queenless hive, between
the combs, being careful to look over the
frames and see that all other queen cells
were first destroyed. If they destroy the
one you supply, wait 24 hours and sup-
ply another. If you wait seven or eight
days, and then deStroy all their queen
cells, they will be sure to accept a cell.
But to save time I would always intro-
duce a laying queen.

If you are to introduce an imported
or valuable queen, make a new colony, all
of young bees. Simply place two frames
of fully matured brood in a hive and the
queen on them. By nightfall there will
be a goodl-y number of young bees in the
cluster with the queen. Unless the day
and night are warm they must be set in
a warm room and the entrance closed to
prevent bees coming out. As the number
of bees warrant it, more brood may be
added, and by adding brood alone we
may soon have a full-sized colony. ,

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ADVISES THE NOMID PLAN OF
SELLING BUTTER.

 

While we are giving so much time to
the proposition of eliminating the mid—
dleman and to the discussion of markets
and marketing it is well for the dairy-
man who lives near a large city to look
into the prospects of building up a retail
butter trade. The dairyman who believes
he would like to go into the business of
retailing so as to get all the profit him-
self, should first consider the following
questions:

1. Is there a reasonably large market
at hand which I can depend upon as be-
ing permanent?

2. Have I the necessary transportation
and marketing facilities and if not, can
I procure them at a cost that will not be
prohibitive?

3. Have I the machinery and the
knowledge necessary to manufacture a.
good quality of butter?

4. Can I depend on my dairy herd to
supply me with enough to fill regular or-
ders at all times?

If the dairy farmer can meet these re-
quirements, he can build up a steady
trade that will bring in a comfortable
income every month, providing he exer-
cises good judgment and has a little bus-
iness ability.

The first point that must be settled is
the manufactureof an excellent grade
of butter. Remember that there are only
two classes of people who would care to
bother with a “butter peddler.” One is
the class of people who would take almost

any kind of butter you furnished, pro-
vided yOu sold it cheaper than they
could buy butter elsewhere. These peo-

ple would not make a dependable or
profitable class of patrons. The other
class are those who will pay any rea-
sonable price you ask providing your
butter is always of a top—notch quality.
Those are the ones you want for your
customers. They will seldom ask credit
and will stick to you as long as you de—
liver satisfactory butter.

Getting started is not an easy matter
and requires patience. About the only
way to secure your “select” customers is
to take a number of samples of your
butter with you and make a canvas of
the homes in the best part of the city
until you secure enough customers to
start. Then, if you provide a good but-
ter at a reasonable price, your trade will
grow without much further effort on
your part to secure more customers. A
satisfied patron will get customers for
you better than you can.

Give your butter a suitable name.
Choose a name that will reflect some
particular merit or feature of your but-
ter that you wish to make your strong-
est advertisement. “Cream Nuggets” ex-
presses the idea. See that the name is
simple and easy to remember. You want
customers to speak well of your butter
so give it a name that they will remem-
ber easily.

The crock method of packing butter
for retail is gradually giving away to
the one-pound and two-pound cartons.
The cartons are more satisfactory in ev—
ery way.
furnish a supply of wrappers Have
him show you samples of labels and then
give him an idea for an original simple,
and attractive design that you will use
for your own. The printer will help you
in this matter. Be sure to select a sat-
isfactory label in the start for you don’t

want to be changing labels after you
have built up a trade. This is the day
of the fad that the “label must tell"
and people are being impressed more

than ever with attractive labels. Do
not have the printing on the wrapper too

flashy or too plain for either of these
extremes conveys the impression of
cheapness.

Aim to make a good impression right
in the start. Patrons will overlook a lot
after you have been serving them sev—
eral months. They will be mighty fin-
lcky at first: The first few weeks will
either cinch or lose their trade Cinch
it, even if you don’t make much of a.
profit. »

In the start it is well to stick to the
one product. Put your whole efforts to
making the best butter you know how,
and selling it. Be careful in feeding, to
guard against any bad flavor in the but-
ter. 'Watch that the cream is. clean and
not t00 ripe so that the butter will not

Arrange with a good printer to»

become rancid too soon. Strive always
to make a butter of uniform quality and
excellence that will hold your trade. One
bad churning may destroy the good re-
sults of many months of hard work.
Make your motto “The best~—and always
the same”

After the butter business has settled
down to a permanent paying basis, it is
often possible to add to the income by
furnishing your customers with sweet
cream, milk, skim-milk, or even vege-
tables and other farm products. es-
pecially eggs. This will come unsolicited;
and it is better so. Stick to the one
product you have chosen as your stock
in trade and let the other products be
merely side-lines.

Now is a good time to consider build-
ing up a retail trade for the parcel post
may soon be able to make all your de-
liveries for you, in which event you can
supply customers everywhere at a trifling
expense.

California. L, L. DEBRA.

THE NORTH LANSING MARKET A
SUCCESS.

North Lansing decided not to be out-
done by tbe bigger part of the Capitol
City and already a thriving market is
being conducted on Turner street. The
Lansing market is now in process of
construction, but the people of the north
side believed that “a bird in the hand
was worth two in a bush.” and have al-
ready proven that a city‘ market is a

sane and sensible way of bringing the
consumer and the producer nearer to-
gether.

The growers of fruit and produce be-
gin to back their wagons up to the curb
about six o’clock in the morning and by
six-thirty many purchasers are seen
wending their way along the street. lad-
en with a spacious market basket and
an acquisitive demeanor. The street cars
bring many buyers from Lansing and
the opportunity of purchasing nice fresh
provisions combined with the novelty of
the new method of business serves to
draw many customers from their usual
haunts of trade. Large automobiles
stand by the curb and frequently the
whole family go out for an early morn-
ing spin and make a short stop to in-
spect the market and lay in a good stock
of fresh fruit and vegetables.

The prices at the different wagons seem
about the same and in some instances
they are as high as the neighboring
stores, but the best part of the whole
business is the fact that the citizen can
buy his fruit and vegetables fresh from
the farm. The provisions are hauled in
during the cool hours of the morning and
they are sold and in the refrigerator of
the ultimate consumer long before the
beat of the day. There is no opportunity
for the fruit and vegetables to become
covered with dust as when they are ex-
posed on the display stands at the gro—
cery store and then hauled all over the
city in aihot dusty wagon.

Black raspberries were selling one
morning last week at 15 cents per quart
on the market. The. grocery stores in
the city were selling black raspberries at
the same price and it may seem a
poor saving to make a trip to the mar-
ket when the same provisions could be
ordered over the phone. The market,
however. had the advantage by a big
margin for the farmers' berries Were
firm, clean, and fresh picked the previous
day. Many of the berries on the stands
at the stores showed a certain per cent
of half-ripe fruit and the appearance of
the boxes was often sunken and mushy,
showing that they had been considerably
shaken up during transportation.

A big bunch of nice fresh lettuce that
would completely fill an ordinary market
basket was purchased for five cents and
for ten cents we bought a large bunch of
well grown beets that would make suffi-
cient greens for an average sized family.
TheSe prices were certainly as low and
probably lower than any store on the
main street when we consider the size
and quality of the purchase. Everything
was clean and fresh and still showed the
tinge of that refreshing greenness that
gives a man the fruit and vegetable ap—
petite. which never comes from constant
observation of a heap of wilted leaves
which are specked with dust and baked
in the noonday sun. I
.The women of the city enjoy doing
their own marketing and'if' we disregard

the money saved, there is certainly some
value in giving the housewife a chance
to leave the hot kitchen in the cool
morning hours and sharpen her Wits by
bartering with the tillers of the soil. The
farmers are appreciating the advantages
of the market and ever sincg the open-
ing day there has been a gradual in-
crease in the number of wagons ’lined up
along the curb. One farmer was heard
to remark, “If I had known last spring
that this market was to be opened, I
should have put in a much larger acreage
of vegetables and next year I am going
to be a truck gardener and show the
people around here that we can raise the
finest lot of vegetables in the state.”
That farmer has a couple of boys 'just
big enough to help with the garden crops
and assist with the sales on the curb.
It should be an excellent stimulation for
their business instincts and make them
more interested in farm life than as if
their only experiences in that line con-
sisted entirely of exercises at the end
of a hoe handle.

It Seems that the market should be the
solution to the cost of high living in the
small town as well as in the city and it
seems that the markets are a partial
success at least in the cities or their
operations would not be continued. We
cannot blame the railroads for raking in
our money, when We allow the neighbor-
ing farmers to ship their produce to the
commission man in a large city like Chi-
cago. The commission man ships it back
to the grocery store around the corner
and we go down and cheerfully pay our
tribute to the transportatim company
which has been perambulating around the
country with our bread and butter at so
much per mile.

The North Lansing market is being
appreciated by the peOple all over the
city and it seems that any town, regard-
less of its size, is making a great muni-
cipal error if it does not at least try out
the market proposition and give the cit—
izens a fair opportunity to find out the
benefits of buying direct from the pro-
ducer. The farmer will also appreciate
the chance to receive a fair compensa-
tion for his work in the field and his
money is going to be Spent in the town
that gives him the best market for his
products.

At the present time, the farmers are
not thoroughly accustomed to the new
methods of dealing and prices are some-
whathigher than they will be. when com—
petition and better organization of the
market give both the producer and the
consumer a better underStanding of its

functions. The general interest in the
project is shown by the fact that the
buyer must get there early or go home

empty handed, as nearly all of the farm-
ers have been able to clean out their
wagons in a few hours. The automobile
trade has been good and many machines
stand by the curb while the owners wan-
der along inspecting the provisions in the
wagons. It is no unusual sight to see an
automobile leave with the back seat
filled with dish pans full of currants and
gooseberries. It only shows that the
canning season has arrived and the peo-
ple appreciate the opportunity to get
nice fresh fruit at a slight reduction
from the price demanded in the store.

On’the opening day there were only
seven farmers present but the rapidity
of their sales has led many others to un-
dertake the business and the success of
the North Lansing market and the
broader field that will open with the new
Lansing market is loading many farmers
to plan on putting in a large acreage of
vegetables and small fruits. There is
certainly a chance for a big boom in the
market gardening buSiness and it should
mean an excellent profit for the farmers
that get into the game early.

The members of the North Lansing
Commercial Club take considerable pride
in their new market and are studying
out plans that will enable the business
to be carried out with the greatest effi-
ciency. The best way fOr the farmers
and merchants to avoid knocking any
spokes from the wheels of progress is to
study out practical amethods of co-oper-
ation. When the busineSs men and the
farmers combine to work for the mutual
good of a town it results in bigger busi-
ness and a more prosperous community.
The city market at North Lansing is
proving a success and the plan is worth
trying out in every town where the high
cost of living and the “cost of high liv-
ing” are responsible for much worrying
among the citizens. ‘ It is a boost to the
agricultural interests of the community
and gives the people more for their mon-
ey than they can receive after hiring
several middlemen to help place the pro-
visions within their reach. - .

Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.

 

 

 

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munities. Fortunately, with improved
facilities for trading, this class of trades-
men, so many of Whom were fakers,
With the return have practically disappeared, at least to
The American Com- from Europe 0f the the extent that they are no longer rec-
mission’s W°rk' American colnmis- ognized as a public nuisance. This fact,
Sio“ to investigate however, makes it easier for an occas-
agrlcultural credit in Europe, interest in ional one to dupe unsuspecting and hon-
this proposition will undoubtedly be re- est country people.
newed throughout the I'llltl‘d States. A One such is reported as operating in
letter iSSued by the cmnmission throws the southwestern part of Michigan. Up-
no new light on the matter of ("l-Olleril' on occasion, and when other methods
tive credit other than to mention the failed, this surviving specilnen of his
development 0f Dm'is‘llllal t‘l‘elllt Ol‘glmilll' kind would inquire for' someone in the
tlons along C<)-Ol)cl'ative lines. With re— neighborhood who had a farm to sell,
gard to co-operative Selling this letter then would represent that he had a pur-
conlains the following paragraph: chaser for a farm whom he could bring
“The organizations for production and the following day, if upon looking the
distribution of farm products follow 00- {amp over he found it would suit re-
Operative lines. Farm prnducts :ll‘e sold quil‘cments, securing his lodging and
bY' the producer at a relatively lllghel‘ breakfast in this manner. He would then
price and are bOUl-let by the GOHSleel‘ at undertake to sell his wares, sometimes
a relatively lower price because the cost succeeding. upon the representation that
of distribution is considerably lowered by he was asking no commission for getting
CO—operative marketing." a buyer for the farm. Of course, the
Next to better facilities for the utiliza-‘ buyer never came.
tion of credit to provide a larger working In all such cases those imposed upon
capital, the farmers of the country, and should notify the authorities to the end
Michigan, need better marketing facili- that the country may be Well rid of this
ties which will bring to them a larger class of impostors.
proportion of the consumer’s dollar as
seems to have been affected by co-opcr~
alive selling organizations in Europe. This
phase of the commission's work and re-
port will prove equally interesting with
that dealing pu"ely with the co-operative
credit organizations and will be awaited
with. interest. by very many thinking
farmers. ~

 

DISHONESTY SHUNS SUNLIGHT.

 

Dishonesty thrives under cover; the
man who is honest has no fear of the
light (if day.

This 'is true in business.

The manufacturer who identifies his
product with his firm, by putting a name

The parcel post law or a mark upon it and advertising it to
Congress and the passed by the last the world, can usually be depended upon

Parcel Post. Congress contains an to give full value. ,

administrative provi- For he has more at stake than the
sion empowering the Postmaster leneral buyer; his reputation and his future bus-
to change from time to time. subject to incss depend upon delivering satisfac-
the consent of the Interstate Commerce tion. If he falls but once, he will be
Commission, the classification of articles; sluinned by the buyer forever, as his
mailablelunder the law, “as well as the name is known.
weight limit, the rates of postage. zone It iS W911 to keep yourself informed
or zones, and other conditions of maila- concerning all those who come out into
bility if, in his experience, he shall find the light 0f day and advertise their
that they or any of them are such as to goods in the Michigan Farmer.
prevent the shipment of articles desir- ‘——‘——
able.” HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

Under the authority granted by this -—--——
clause, Postmaster General lurleson has National.
announced the de‘cision of changing the A strike at the Upper Peninsula. copper
part-cl post regulation as to the Size 0f mines involving some- 20,000 miners ~as-
the packages mailahle, as well as 3. r0- 1:11:13]te begghgeiilgglsstgi‘gplcg‘itlgnls “Eggtcgfie
duction of postage rates to take effect ed out 311% is now at_the scene of the
on August 15. He has, in accordance disturbance. Through the \Vestern Fed-
with the provisions of the law, secured eration of Miners. _which claims a_mem-.
the consent of the Interstate Commerce be???” 0f_somethlng like half 0f the

striking mine workers. they have de-
Commission to these changes. manded an eight-hour day, a higher wage
news that there has been introduced in scale, the abolition of the one-man drill-

Followlng this announcement comes the lllg, device, and the improvement of _min-
. ,m... 1,.me
for the repeal Of this ildm‘ll‘Stl‘atWe the same basis as that of the west. The
Clause in the parcel post law. Naturally calling out of the state~troops was the
the railroads and express companies are ”3511” Of attacks made upon miners who

. . . . w attempted to work, and also upon depu-.
using their influence to bring‘about SUCh ties who were undertaking to protect life
legislation, as any increase. ”1 the “59' and property. Since the arrival of the
tulness of parcel post would mean a loss statte btroops ftherte gas been ino fflfirther
m th‘em- It is probable, however, that lS ur ance o no e u t e mne o cials

. ,y have not shown a disposition to recdgnize
the real issue in Congress, 0" the influ- the union and there is considerable ap-
once: whicll will bring support to well prehension as to the outcome.

1 r refiis the fact that that body is “In $111!: which délsttrlgiyed gm plant 0;»
. . 0 e. I 16 ng amp on 0 ng, ompany. o

'3qu 01' its p w r t wants to make Blnghampton, N. Y.. some 35 girls lost

g .. , , their lives, the larger portion being so‘

‘ As. heretofore noted, this provision 0f charred in the ruins that identification
m‘mw which permits the Postmaster was impossible. Steps are being taken for

 

 

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an‘ investigation or. the * disaster" with a,
view to preventing such losses of life in
the future. After a similarly disastrous
fire in 1911 laws pere passed providing
for a rigid investigation of factories and
mere adequate fire escapes. The state
labor department, which- is under Tam--
many control, is‘ censured by many who
are familiar with the circumstances, for
laxity in the enforcement of the laws.
Others censure the legislature for inade-
quacy of the laws. I.
"Dr. H., F. Asbury. a.member of the
lower branch of the West Virginia Legis-
lature, has been found guilty by a jury
of having accepted a bribe for his vote
in the recent contest for the election of
the United States senator. This is the
third conviction of seven charges against
members of the legislative body.
Railroad officials joined last Week in
the fight in the Senate to prevent Post-
master General Burleson ‘from making
proposed increases in the size of parcel
post packages transported through the
mails and reducing rates on August _15.
The representatives of the railroads claim
that this would mean a loss to them of
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year on busi-v
ness which the government would take

from the express companies under these

proposed changes, and the plea was made
that if these changes were inaugurated
the railroads should be given some corn-
pensation for this extra amount of mall
which they would be obliged to carry.

John Collins, 89 years old. the first
white child born in Farmington township,
Oakland county, is reported as dying of
paralysis. .

The American commission on agricul-
tural co-operation returned from its Eu-
ropean trip late last week. Certain mem-
bers of the commission announced that a
wealth of information has been obtained
which will enable the preparation and
submission of a report of its findings be-
fore the end of the present year. Thirty—
six states and four provinces of Canada
were included in the personnel of the
COmmission, aside from the seven mem-
bers appointed by the President. A. let-
ter has been prepared outlining the work
of the commissioners in Europe, whlch
will be sent to the governors of the states
represented, and to farmers’ organizatlons
and agricultural institutions throughout
the country. Co-operation among farm-
ers, credit systems and the organization
of rural life in European countries have
been made the particular subjects of
study. The commission states that it
found the prevailing rate of interest paid
by the farmers for short time loans from
four to five and one-half per cent on
terms generally better than those avail-
able to American farmers. One class of
credit organizations supplies such loans
and another long time loans on land
mortgages. The commission will report
on October 27, to the Southern“ Commer-
cial Congress, which originated the idea
of the investigation, at its'session in M0—
bile. The federal commission will report
to Congress.

According to a report made public by
Chairman Rice of the Michigan prison
board of pardons. who has been making
a personal investigation ”into the subject
of criminality. the use of liquor is the
chief cause of crime in this state. He
also maintains that the greatest percent—
age of criminals come from the unedu—
cated class and that our present system
of education will necessarily decrease the
amount of crime in future generations.
The prisoners possessing a liberal educa—
tion are usually in prison because. of
forgery.

Foreign.

The Mexican situation continues to 0c-

cupy the attention of the goVernment but

no definite announcement has yet been.

made of the policy which will be pursued
in the present crisi's except to indicate
that no arms or ammunition will be al-
lowed to go from this country into Mex—
ico to either the government or rebels of
Mexico. The plan of recognizing the gov-
ernment, which would be the choice» of
the Mexican people in an election, which
has heretofore been favored, may be im-
possible, not only on account 0f the atti-
tude of the Mexicans, but as well because
of the difficulty of insuring a fair elec-
tion in case that plain was made accept-
able. Ambassador Wilson is now at
V’Vashlngton and important developments
are expected after his conference with
the President and further consideration
of the problem by the cabinet.

Direct wireless communication between

' America and Asia has been established

between theU. 8.. Signal Corps station
at Nome, Alaska, and the Russian sta-
tion at Anadyr in Siberia.

Turkish troop's have invaded Bulgarian
territory and burned several villages along
the route taken. No declaration of war
has been made, however, Turkey having
apparently trusted to the jealousy of the
powers to prevent European interference.
Disagreements among the allies who were
winners in the recent contest are still
unsettled.

Augusta B. Leguia, former president of
Peru, and his son, were sent to the pen-
itentiary last week following a riot dur-
ing which six persons were wounded by
shots from the ex-president's residence
following a threatened attack on the
house by a crowd. The affair has caused
a sensation and it is predicted that it
will bring about a ministerial crisis.

Militant suffragettes continue to con-
duct demonstrations in' London which
frequently end in riots in defiance of the
authorities. Last Sunday the ambitious
object of these leaders was an attack on
the residence of Premier Asquith, which
was, however, blocked by the mounted
police. .

Rebels in the south of China suffered
defeat and the capture of two important
forts on the‘Yang-tse river in the Kiang-
se province. Late dispatches ‘state that
an armistice ._has been arranged to per-
mlt' negotiations between leaders of the
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Livingston Co.,: July 23,—Haying and;
harvesting is nearly completed. Hay was
secured in excellent condition; the wreath;
er; being very favorable for haying but
extremely dry for growing crops; It has
been So dry that new seedlngs have been

 

practically ruined. Wheat has nearly all‘_

been secured, and the crop is fair and
of a- good quality. Pastures are very
short, owing to the dry weather. Corn
and beans have made a. good growth in
spite of the dry weather. Oats _wlll be
a fair crop but the straw will be short.
Fruit is not very plentiful, with the ex-
ception of plums and peaches.

Mecosta Co., July 25.——General run of
crops looking quite good. Hay much
lighter crop than last year; crop mostly
secured in good order. Less acreage of
potatoes, and considerable more of beans
than last year. Corn looking good, and
acreage about the same as last year.

Newaygo 00., July Zia—«July opened
with two weeks of hot weather, but
since then has been fine weather, with
very cool nights. -Potatoes and corn
needing rain badly. Early potatoes are
almost a. total failure on account of the
drought through June. Hay mostly all
put up. Rye and wheat all cut. Oats are
poor and a short crop. Potato bugs are
a full crop and are worse than they
have been for years. Raspberries are a.
light yield. but if we get rain blackber-
ries will be full. Eggs, 17c; butter, 23C;
chickens, 11c.

Southern Hillsdale Co., July 21.—The
spring continued wet so long that many
farmers here were quite discouraged, but
later the season has been very favorable
and now crops generally are as good at
this season of the year as they have been
in the past 30 Years. W’heat, rye and
barley are all a good. crop. Oats, while
not as tall as usual, are filling well. Hay
was a very good crop, much better than
it seemed possible 30 days ago, and corn
is looking unusually good. .

Lapeer Co., July 17.——Thunder Showers
last night caught much hay out, but will
be of great benefit to all growing crops
as it was getting very dry. Hay and
oats will be a better crop than was ex-
pected a month ago. Rains the latter
part of June and the Fourth of July

helped them wonderfully. Cherries and'

plums were a good crop but the hard
wind of last Saturday and Sunday blew
many off. About all cherries not picked
were blown off. Wheat harvest begin-
ning.

Ohio.

Hancock Co., July 28.——\Veather very
warm, with frequent showers. Wheat
and rye about all thrashed; wheat yield-
ing about 20 bu. per acre; rye not so
good; corn growing very rapidly, and
prospects are for a large crop. Early
potatoes will not be a very large crop;
late potatoes a very poor stand on ac-
count of the June drouth in this section.
A great deal of the little clover was hurt
by the dry weather. Farmers are con-
templating having a large crop of clover
seed. All live stock is scarce and. high;
hogs selling around $9.50 perrcwt; wheat.
810; com, 86c per cwt; oats, 37c per bu;
rye, 53c; barley, 45c; butter, 200; eggs,
14c; old chickens, 12c; spring chickens,
180 per 1b.

Knox Co., July 26.—-Farmers mostly
through making hay and stacking wheat:
hay crop rather light; wheat good; oats
rather short and ready to harvest. Live
stock doing well generally, but some hog
cholera reported. _Fat hogs about 9c; beef
cattle 7c. Good'draft horses $175@225.
Spring chickens 180.

New York.

Orleans Co., July 21. Orleans county
is passing through a severe drought. We
have had no rain to speak of since about
June 1. Late planted corn is suffering
on this account and 21150 on account of

 

cold nights. Early planted corn looks-

fairly good. . Hay, wheat, barley and oats
are good. Hay is nearly harvested and
in good shape, selling from $5@10 from
the field. Beans are looking well. con—
sidering the weather. On hard land they
are suffering some. Potatoes are look-
ing good. Early crops need rain. T0-
mlltoes, of which a large acreage is
planted, are looking good. Berries of all
kinds are a light crop and prices ruled
high. Apples will not be over half a
crop. Baldwins are very light. Pears
are the heaviest crop in years. Peaches
a heavy crop and large acreage. Plums
are a light crop. Quinces very light.
Niagara Co., July 23,—Continued hot
weather. Picnics thrive and city guests
arrive. Hay is not yet all harvested and
wheat and rye are sufi'ering to bee“.
Berries are fast drying up and selling
as follows: Black caps at 6@7c; per qt.;
red raspberries, 12@12%c. Crops seem a
little late on account of long cold spell
in the spring. Cherries selling for 30.
per 1b., not much demand and crop is
very abundant. Beans look good; corn
is coming but not very high yet. Old
hay field are giving ‘poor returns and
young fields 'are doing fine. Clover is
great. Wheat this year seems above the
average and hay 'below. Hay is selling
at $10@12 a-ton; beans $2 per bu; corn

and oats $34 per ton; bran, $24; mid-.

dlings, $27.

Genesee Co., July 26.——We had very.

cold and dry weather in the spring. This
was followed by wet and cold. Later
very hot and dry. ,Splendld for getting
work done, but not good for growing
crops. Hay quite a, good crop. Wheat
good; oats promise to be a fair crop.
Most fields of potatoes good. Corn and
beans backward in growth.' Apples below
a normal crop. Factory peas a bumper

crop, netting at factory $50 to $154 per.

acre. Fruit and other crops damaged to
quite an extent by wind and hail; all
kinds of live stock very high. Farms

changing hands very little. Prospective,

buyers awaiting _the results of tariff re-

form. Following are' the prices offered“

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O'ur Motto—“Tho farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
first improved."

THE AUGUST PROGRAMS.

State Lecturer“: Suggestions for First
‘ Meeting.

Song, "The Grange is Marching On.”

Roll—call of officers responded to by
each contributing a one-minute entertain-
ment feature. ‘

Breakfast, dinner and supper for
threshers, by three women and three men.

A choice quotation.

Good rules for better crops.
sion.

Music by orchestra.

The present tariff situation from the
Grange standpoint.

Quartet. “Keep politics off your farm,"
No. 144, Grange Melodies.

"Making home attractive."

Song. .

Suggestions for Second Meeting.

Song, “Farewell to Summer,” No. 132,
Grange Melodies.

Why does it pay to attend Grange in
Summer? by four members.

Recitation, “A toast to laughter."

Can a city man go to a farm in your
neighborhood with $1,000 and make good?
How?

Character song.

A.farm girl of 18. with a common
school education, wants to go to city to
earn more spending money but father
and mother object: 1. What advice
would you give girl? 2. What would you
do if you were girl's father? 3. What
would you do if you were girl’s mother?

Question box.

The Grange Ginger Jar,
“Surprise committee."

Music by orchestra. ,

Discus-

Discussion.

opened by a

 

AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

 

Live Topics are the rule with Olivet
Grange, oi Eaton county, one of thepro-
gressive subordinates that is having good
programsthroughout the vacation period.
At one of the July meetings Mrs. Jessie

Church gave a reading on "J. \V. Mc-
Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury,” the
high light‘ of President Wilson's cabinet.
Mrs. N. D. Lumphear gave a short sketch
of the work of Miss Virginia Brooks in
reforming Hammond. a suburb of Chi-
cago. Mrs. Joseph “'illis gave a reading
on Charles *I‘ool, the New Zealand re—
former, showing that these islands in the
South Pacific ocean, through Mr. Pool’s
efforts, are far ahead of many other na-
tions. Mrs. L. B. Taggart’s account of
her recent four weeks’ visit with friends
in New York. Connecticut and New
Hampshire was another of the extremely
interesting numbers on the program.
general discussion on bean raising em-
phasized several points: Bean raising is
~hard on the land; it is a tickllsh crop. as
so much depends on the season to secure
Success; on the whole, year in and year
out, corn pays just as well.

Fifteenth Annual Picnic—Gilead Grange
of Branch county, willehold its annual
picnic on Thursday, August 14: at Gilead
lzlke. This event is a very popular one
in that section. the Grange having held
a picnic each year for the past 15 years.
A gradual increase in attendance and
popularity has been noted from year to
year, inciting Gilead patrons to greater
efforts each succeeding year.

That Five-County Rally—The date that
has been selected for the big rally of
Granges from five counties, to be held at
Traverse City. is Wednesday. August 27.
The affair will really be conducted by
Grand Traverse Pomona Grange. but pa-
trons and farmers generally from alisur-
rounding counties are cordially invited to
participate. State Master Ketcham and
Dr.'Eben Mumford, state leader of fed-
eral extension work for Michigan, will be
the chief speakers.

Co-operating with Farm Bureau.-—In
Cass county the Grange is co~operating
with the county farm bureau in awak-
ening farmers to the importance of the
work which the county farm expert is
trying to do. With a View to pressing
home the need of an expert in each coun-
ty," at meeting was recently held at La
Grange, Cass county, under the auspices
of the local Grange. the meeting being
the first of a series for creating senti-
ment favorable to securing a farm expert
for that county. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Hon. Jason Woodman, farm
expert for Kalamazoo county, who, in the
course of his remarks, said: The farms
of Cass county or‘ any other county in
the United States are not being worked
to produce anything like their average
capacity. There is too much waste on
every farm, and that which
is not made to yield what it should. I
don’t believe a farmer in Cass county
gets a full yield of potatoes. It isn’t the
fault of the farm, but the fault of the
farmer. The potato field should receive
more attention than the vineyard.

 

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' Kent county annual picnic at John Bull

park. Grand Rapids. Wednesday. Aug. 13..
L >Club work. She said they were doing it

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Shlawassee Co.. with Venice Grange.
at Venice Grange hall. Friday. Aug. 1.
Inghum 00.. with. Aurelia. Grange.

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Associational Motto: ‘
The skillful hand, with cultured mind.
is the farmer‘s most valuable asset.

 

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

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

Wlll Hold August Picnic.—The Pitts-
ford Farmers’ Club met at the pleasant
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Pratt
July 16; on account of the busy time on
the farms very few of the gentlemen
were present, but after a bountiful din-
ner the Club was called to order by
President Robt. Cousins, and a fine tem-
perance program was listened to with
interest. Select readings, recitations,
special music, also songs by the Club
from our new song books, which we have
purchased since my, last report to the
Michigan Farmer. Many thanks to all
who so kindly answered my request for
something good in Club song books. Our
annual Club picnic we voted to hold on
our regular Club day, the third \Vednes-
day in August, at Mallory Lake. with a
short program, sports, ice cream, picnic
dinner and social time, special features
of the day.

Children's Day.—The Annual Children’s

Day program of the Hadley and Elba
Farmers’ Club was interesting and well
rendered. A goodly number were present

and the rain only served to increase the

merriment and g0()d cheeriof the day. M.l'.
and Mrs. McDougail are fine entertainers
and merit much praise for their until'ing
efforts in providing pleasure for their
guests. The July meeting at the Hadley
town hall was not largely attended. ow-
ing to a misunderStanding about the date.
Short historical sketches of the U. S.
flag and Michigan were given by the
Misses Blanch Snook and Retta Johnson.
The next meeting will be held August 21
in connection with the Lapeer Farmers’
Picnic at Neppessing Lake—Mrs. C. P.
Johnson, Cor. Sec.

Discuss Co-operative Sellingflsmce our
last report Peach Grove Farmers' Club
has held two meetings and attended a
picnic with The Experiment Association
of North Grand Rapids. On June 21 the
meeting was held at the heme of your
correspondent. with about 70 persons

A present to enjoy a very good program of

music and reading. The subject for dis-
cussion was ”Co-operatinve Selling." One
speaker said he had had some experience
in the co-operative plan of selling milk
and did. not much favor the plan. The
others to talk seemed to think that the
time is near when most, if not all, mar-
keting will be done in that way. The
work of an association at Fenville, or-
ganized two or three years ago, was cited
as an argument in favor of the proposi-
tion. Also the idea that the growers who
organized and began to work at once to
build up a trade would have the advan—
tage over those who delayed, as buyers
who once began to deal with the com-
pany would go there next year for their
fruit or potatoes, or whatever the people
had to sell. On July 4 a joint picnic was
held with the North Grand Rapids Ex-
periment Association in Richardson’s
Grove on the bank of Grand River. About
250 were present. Foot races, nail driv-
ing contest and a ball game were some
of the things that helped to enliven the
meeting. July 19 we met at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. L. Brown, and spent the
evening in singing and an old-time spell-
ing match. Some of the older ones could

out-spell the younger owes, those of
present-day teaching force and high

We have a notion that
line of school
work would be a very great improvement.
—M. G. Finch, Cor. Sec.

Interesting the Young People.—The Sa-
lem Farmers’ Club held its June meeting
at the pleasant farm home of Mr. and
Mrs. Sylvester Atchinson. The attend—
ance was good, including visitors from
\Vixom and Howell Clubs. After a boun-
tiful dinner President Thompson called
the Club to order. Mr. Gage, of VVixom.
who had driven from that place in his
auto, then gave the Club a good all—round
talk—~said he would speak offhand but
might have to stop and “crank up.” He
reminded us of the things that make a
strong government. Religious, mental and
social faithfulness. He spoke on the sub~
ject of the Japanese in California, and
the new alien law. He referred to ’Col.
Roosevelt as having vindicated himself
in regard to the liquor habit, but thought
a man who has occupied the position be-
fore the public which Mr. Roosevelt has.
should be able to say, “I am a total ab-
stainer from all that intoxicates.” He
thought neighboring Clubs should often
VISIt each other and learn their methods.
Mrs. Brown, of the HOWell Club, spoke
of getting the‘ young people interested in

school grad ua tes.

very successfully in their Club.‘ They
have frequent question drawers and give
the young folks work to do and ques-
tions to answer. Club adjourned with
muslgie—H. C. T., Reporter.

3.

 

. line-ran unaware

FOR SALE OR TRADE

(What not.) Bani-hurl Percheron Stallion.
block. ll“ hund- hish. weigh- lflm lbs. This home is
acund. oily e and a col: getter. No use for‘him.
Ho wi make you money uioh.

. o
J. C. BUT . Port d. Michigan Bell P o.

WANT TO BUY Effimog‘im‘“

breeding. ’W. H. H. WER’I‘Z. Woooter. 0 lo.

DIME]? DIRECTGIY.
CATTLE.

H Aberdeen-An us.

crd. consisting of Trojan Erica E aokblrds and
Prldoe. onlfi. is headed by Morton w. the GRAND
CHAMPIO bull at the State. West Michigan and
Bay City l'airaot 1912 and the sire of winners at. those
Fairs and pt THE INTERNATIONAL, Chicago. of
1912. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. Mich.

 

 

 

 

AN OPPORTUNITY

CHOICE GRADE fiUEIIIISEYS FOR SALE.

To make room for registered stock will sell 15 young
High Grade Guernsey Cows and 3 Heifer Calves.
Average return for butter fat from creamer ' .60 each
cow for six months. December to June. Al bred to
registered ell-e Commence freshen September.
Price put. on each animal and no change made.
Chance rarely ofl'ered to reap the benefit of nine
ears careful weeding and breedin . his action
nvited at Windermere Farm. Water-v1 et. Mic . For
further particulars address J. K. BLATCHFORD.
Auditorium. Tower. Chicago. Ill.

 

Guernsey Bull Calf—{lithlénl’égdn2.5.“.‘233:
A Gee Dandy. G. .A- WIGENT. Watervliet, Mich.

GUERNSEYs—Feg. Tuberculin Tested. Winder-
mon Farm. Watervliet. Mich.
J. K. BLATCHFORD. Auditoriun Tower. ChicagoJll.

 

 

I Have 2 Reg. Guernsey bulls left. Ready for service.
the very best breeding. cheap if taken soon. Gum-L
sntee satisfaction. John Ebola. R. 10. Holland. Mich.

Also Poland

HEREWRD BULLS FOR SAI. Ch“... Hog...

ALLEN BROS.. Paw Paw. Dilchlsan.

 

HOICE Bull Calves from A. R. O. dams. Six-ed by
our herd sire whose dam and site's dam each made

over 30 lbs. in 7 days E. R. Cornell, Howell. Mich.
A FEW CHO'CE Holstein Frieslan Bull Calves
for Sale. Stock.

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.

“Top-Notch" Holsteins.

Choice bull calves from 6 to 10 mo. old. of fashion-
able breeding and from dams with oflcial milk
and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.
MoPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlohluln.

 

 

Purebred Registered

H OLSTE IN CATT LE

The Greatest Dairy Breed
Sold for FREE 11W Booklet
Holstein-Frisian. Also.. Box [64. Bruttleboro.Vt.

Bigelnw’s Holstein Farms

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

Send for circular.

WANTED 10 [101. STEINS.

Registered heifers between age of 12 and 20 mo.
0. E. WINTERS. Croosoy. Michigan.

DISPERSION SALE

Over 40 head Registered Holstein cows dz heifers of
chmoest br me. Describe what you want. or come
and see them. 0. D. WOODBURY. Lansing, Mich.

lIIEIlISIEIIEII IIOL8IEIII8.

ave but two."
others have but one.

 

 

 

 

"Some Crickets have
four legs, while others
Some knockers have two legs, while
Hobart W. Fay; Mason, Mich.

 

. _p ‘
Young Holstein Bull .d‘li.‘i’°ir$..§£°$fli§
for him will sell cheap. For information inquire. Dr.
Geo. W. Dunphy. Park Dale Farm, Rochester. Mich.

FOR SALE—On Cornwall Farm. Clare. Michigan.
. Holstein new milch cows. Also good
Dairyman wanted. Enquire of ERNEST PIETZ

 

—2- r.-old Jersey Bull—Dam'sS- r.-old
Flil’ Salon 1 lbs. milk 513 lbs. fat. sol lbs. $353.?
Sim dam a record—123397 lbs. milk. 600 lbs. fat. 706le
butter. 2-gr.-old full sister's record-8610 lbs. milk, 435
lbs. fat. 13 lbs. butter. All authenticated. kind
sound. sure. Waterman a Waterman.Ann Arbor. Michv

 

I
Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-
oulocu.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of
good doll-y cows for sale. No females for sale at

present. Satisfaction guaranteed.
COLON C. LILLIE. e. Mich.

BUTTER BRED “Er‘r‘gfi‘gl‘l’fi'z‘m
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Sllvef Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

 

r Sale—4 Beg. Holstein cows bred t 8' K
I"‘(l)’Iel'.el-tje Hengemld. No 56929 Algo é'bal‘i'é‘lill/z:

and 3 heifers. E. A. BLACK. n.‘ 6. Lnkevlew. Mich

 

—Resistered Jersey Cattle. tuberculin t t-
For sale ed: bulls and bull calves: halter and hole?“
calves: cows with Register of Mex-it and Cow Testing
Association records. IRVIN FOX. Allegon. Mich.

Jersey

loll" Farm Grass lab Mich A '9" on
loo 0! Sylvan, 5m 1» the blood or 5.?dl‘:.'.;°§mgd-igpg;

 

—Bulle ready for service bred f
0780!! ploduotion Also 'd or
Brookwnter I'm. R. l'. D. No. 'i. mag-hrlfhlffiocrl:

IIED P011300“ and liEIFEBS—F" ”’°' °’ 3°“
John Dom: a. Son. Grand Lodge. hill? ”83332.1”.
”All; "El mamnuffmdiz“ rigid:

. B. mum Moon. on.

mm.“ “Inf—A few yearling and 2—yeurold

heifers for sole. Also Shro -

shire toms and ewes. M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Mic .

' —-Lor:o Cattle-Beavy Milken.

hit! SIIM'IIOIII mu: Becordl of all cow. kept.
No stool: for ado agnostic.

W. W. KN PP. it. No. 4. Watervliet, Mich.

 

 

sneap. ,

IT PAYS TO BUY PURE BRED SHEEP
OI" PARSONS. "the sheep man of the east:”
I sell Ind ship everywhere and pay express
charges. I will start one man in each two.
Write for club offer and descriptive price list.
Shropshires. Rambouillet. Polled-Delnines and
pARSON OXFORDS. R. 1.
Grand Ledge. Michigan.
‘ —Yearlin and ram lambs from Chnm ion
““30“.“ flock of humb of Mich. Also select rk
shire swine. Elmhurat Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.
' t is ofierin more and better
The Ingle’lde Farm Shropohllge Sheep than ever

before. All stock recorded. Write us what you want.
HERBERT E. POWELL. Ionia, Mich. Citizen's Phone.

 

 

 

Iltg. Ranobuillai Shun. Pm Bred Poland China
HUGS land PEBCHERON HORS§S. 2% miles
E. Morrloe. on G. T. R. R. and M. U. B. .Q. A. 000K.

SHROPSHIRES £4 DUROCS

ROPE-K01? FARM. Kinder-hook. Michigan.

 

 

 

H005.

' ' —A Desirable Bunch of flows of

Durocs Hiciona: Either am“... rilandMay.

M. '1'. Story. 8. 11:48 Lowell. Mich. ity Phone 55.
—boar

BERKSBIR stock 0R SALE. With or without.

re iutry papers. Big value for the price. Write for
in ormatlon to D. F. Valentine. Temperance. Mich.

 

 

igs from fine thoughbred

 

' -bred for July farmwing.also a choice
A hailing 80' lot of Spring Pics for sale. Either
sex. A. A. PATTULLO. R. 0.1Deckervllle. Mich.

 

o l C ~—Blg growthy type. last. fall gilts and this

0 - - spring furrow to char. Very good stock.

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

 

O l C’s-A FEW BRED SOWS FOR
I I SEPTEMBER FARROW.
GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mich.

 

o I cls—all sold. Orders booked for April
I I and May pigs of the choicest hreedlng.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan

, ——Bred sows, March pigs airs 'nd
0. I. C S trios. Bull Rock Elm 8x1150pel‘315.
FRED NICKEL R. 1. Monroe. Michigan.

 

 

9 —All 3 es. growthy and large. Male
00 L C 5 ready. loom select from. Attractive price:
on young stock. H. H. JUMP, Munlth, Mich.

 

sow WEIGHED 952 L88. .
A 23 mourns o o

" IONIA GIRL

I have started more breeders on the road to eno-
ceas than any man living. I have thelergest and flu-
est herd in the U. S. Every one an early developer.

_ ready for the market at six months old. I wont to
filace one 1103 in each community to advertise my

erd. Write for my plan,“How to Make Money from
Hose.” 6. S. BENJAMINJLNo. l 0 Portland. "loll. .

    

 

o I C! —We make a specialty of O. I. 0. hogs
I I on our farm. 0 all regis-

tered in O. I. O. Ass'n. J. R. WAY. Pompeii. Mich.

-—I am offering filo-lb.
O. l. C. SWINE gm... bred. a... to
farrow the latter gal-t of August and fore part. of
September. All w o are interested write me.
A. J. GORDON R No. 2. Dorr. Mich.

—F l d '
DUIOC-JERSIIYS file.%nln5l‘3é'ii‘.3i’.¥’ £32
all ages. SPECIAL B RGAIN In summer pl .
Brookwater Farm. B. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mix.

 

 

 

uroc Jerseys—G ilts all sold. Spring pigs of the Iar e
Dand heavy boned tr 8. Pairs not akin. Satisfactign

guaranteed. F. J. D OD’I‘. ll. No. 1. Monroe. Mich,

 

I uroo Jerseys For Sale—Three fall boars. also sprin
plus. either sexz’of finest breedin and individua
quality. John Mchcoll, Station A. RiBay City Mich.

 

lllll'oc Iomys—Ilolhing BuI Spring Pig: For Sale.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.
—B W

MILAN” CHINAS Bfeil‘. Eimtl-meeznillfiazgl:

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

 

ARGE STYLED POLAND CHINA SPRING
Bows bred for fall furrow. also ShorthornPIIglsll
calves at close prices. Robert‘ Neva. Pierson, Mich.

POLANB cmNAS’fiifh" 88" “13888. Some-
P. D. LONG. a. No. 8. (325.. “flash; ll‘lloifllgfgi

P. I). Illlllll All! IPIIIL PIGS—3.33. 'é’fifirl’fidcéfi

to please. R. W. MILLS. Saline, Michigan
all sold. Have the

UIIGE TYPE P. 0. FALL PIGS 8.83.... bunch o.

a ring pip’I ever raised. Eight sows farrowed 86,
me or write. Expenses paid if not. satisfied. Free
livery from Parmo. W. E. Livingston. Perms. Mich.

P. C. MARS AND SGWS‘tfimliiglfilm

A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. M10 (an.

 

BIG TYPE MULE FOOT HOGS—A
350 sole. Prolific and hard . Beet breed for‘llflo Bl, £211..
Also Ponies. J. DUNLAP. x M.Wllllnmeport. 0 lo

ARGE Yorkehireo—Choioe breedi took. age.
not skin, from State Fair prlzg-‘wilnneflfn Pedi:
green furnished. W. C. COOK. R. 42 Box 22.Ada. M’ch,

ORKSHIRE Swine-We have some ‘
Ypigs now ready for sale. Write for disonrligotigglggg
prices. OSTRANDER BROS. Morley. Mich.

Lima Farmstead ,vnnlsmnts

Spring bred ruc- nll cold. Gilta bred for next . gt
miLSe . ruin either fix. p‘inh‘ and

or n r a an. ' A

COLON c. EIELIB. donor-ville. man.

When Writing to advertisers pllge

 

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

July 30, 1913.

Wheat—Little interest was shown on
the wheat market on Tuesday, owing to
the absorbing interest in the corn deal.
Large primary receipts with increasing
stocks and a lull in the export demand
have tended to make a bearish market
nithout, however, any reduction in val-
ues. Weather conditions in the north-
west are generally favorable for finishing
the crop and it will be only a short
time before new spring wheat will be on
the market. One year ago No. 2 red
\\ heat closed in this market at $1.051/2 per
bu. Quotations for the week are:

    

 

No. 2 No. 1
Red. White. Sept. Dec.
Thursday .. . . . .881/2 881/2 801,4 92%
Friday .........88 88 883/4 921/2
Saturday ......88 88 88% 92%
Monday ....'...88 88 88% 921/,
Tuesday .......88% 881/2 891/; 92%
\Vednesday . . .88 88 883/; 921/2
Chicago, (July 29).——No. 2 red, 87%0;

Sept., 86950; Dec., 901/40 per bu.
Corn.——This market advanced sharply
on Monday and Tuesday owing to unfav-
orable weather reports from the south-
west. Intense heat with complete lack
of moisture is reported throughout the
corn belt and the corn crop is said to be
in b d shape. In Kansas the crop is re-
port (1 to be the poorest, with two ex—
ceptions, since 1800. Cxperts have re-
duced their estimates of the season’s
yield from 300,000,000 bu. to 500,000,000
below previous estimates. No, 3 corn
sold on this market one year ago at
761,40 per bu. Quotations for the week

are;
No.3 No.3

Corn. Yellow.

Thursday ..... 64 66
Friday 631/2 651/2
Saturday 64 66
Monday 641/2, 67
Tuesday ....... 651A; 671/},
Wednesday ..... 66 68
Chicago, (July 29).—July, 65-‘,'vgc; Sept.,

651/80; ])ec., 62%c per bu.

Oats—This market, though active and
strong, did not keep pace with com. the
apparent reason being an unusual aggre—
gate of sales from the northwest where
favorable weather is bringing the crop
along rapidly toward maturity. One year
ago standard oats sold on this market
at 601/3C per bu. Quotations for the week
are as follows:

No. 8
Standard. White.
Thursday . 43 42
Friday 4.3 42
Saturday ...... 3 42
Monday ..... 43 42
Tuesday ..... 434}; 42%,
Wednesday ....... 43% 42%
Chicago, (July 29).—July, ~10 1/gc; Sept.,

41%c; Dec, 4353,60 per bu. asked. .
Beans—Market inactive with nominal
quotations 5c lower than last week. Re—
cent showers are favoring the develop—
ment of the growing csop. Prices for
immediate, prompt and Augu>t shipment
$1.95; October, $1.85 bid at country points.
Chicago, (July 20).—rl\1arkct unchanged
from last week's quotations. l'ea beans,
hand—picked, choice, $2692.05 per bu; red
kidneys, $1.75Q1/1.90 per bu. _

Rye.—This market is unchanged With
cash No. 2 quoted at 64c pcr bu.

Barley.-—This market is practically un-
changed with outside quotations a pomt
higher at Chicago, where the market
has a range of 48‘7963c per bu.

Clover Seed.——'l‘here has been a decline
in the price of prime seed during the
last Week, trading being almost com-
pletely in futures with October and De-
cember selling at $8.25; October a1s1ke,
$10 bid and $10.25 asked. At Toledo
December clover seed sold at $8.30 and
December alsike at $10.25 per bu.

Timothy Seed.——Market unchanged from
last week with prime seed selling at
$2.50 per bu.

FEOUR AND FEEDS.

 

 

Flour.—Jobbing lots in 14, 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.

Feed.~—In 100—lb. sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $23; coarse middlings, $23; fine
middlings, $26; cracked corn and coarSe
corn meal, $26; corn and oat chop, $24
per ton.
' Hay.——Prices up again 50c@$1 on all
grades. Carlots on the track at DetrOIt
are: No. 1 timothy, $15.50((D16; No. 2,
$12.50@13.50; light mixed, $146114 50: No.
1 mixed, $11.50@12.50.

Chicago—Old hay quoted $2 per ton

higher. Choice timothy, 9518601850 per
ton; No, 1, $16.50fwl7.50; N0. 2, $15@16;
No. 3 and clover mixed, $116014; clover,
$8.50@12.50; alfalfa. $14.50fl11750.
Straw.——Detroit.—Rye, $9@10; wheat

and oat straw, $8@8.50 per ton.
Chicago—Rye straw, $8fai9; oat straw,
$5.50@6; wheat straw, $550,606 per ton.

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.
Butter.-—Steadiness characterizes the
market at all points. Elgin remains un-
changed. Locally the demand continues
satisfactory. Extra creamery, 260; firsts
2436c; dairy, 200; packing stock, 190.
Elgin.-—Market steady at 260.
Chicago—This market is featureleSS,
supplies running near normal and other
conditions showing no change of con-
s’équence. Quotations are: Extra cream-
ery, 2615c; extra firsts. 25@25%c; firsts,
-24@241/éc; seconds, 23@23%c; dairy ex-

 

T-H‘E'MICHIGANFAR'MER",

tras, 25c; firsts, 231,40; seconds, 22c:
packing stock, 12@21c as to quality.

New York—Market fairly steady, al-
though last week’s figures are being
shaded somewhat on most grades. Quo-
tations are: Creamery extras, 26@26%c;
firsts, 25@251,§c; seconds, 23%@241,§c;
state dairy, finest. 25%@26c; good to
prime, $24@25c; common to fair, 22@23c;
packing, 19@21%c as to quality. ’

Eggs.—The trend of the market gener-
ally is slightly in an upward direction
since receipts are approaching the low
point of the year. Local quotations are
up 1/2c from last week. Current offerings
candied, quoted at 171/20 per dozen.

Chicago—Nearly all qualities are some—
what higher, the better grades gaining
1,50 or, more. Miscellaneous receipts,
cases included, are quoted at 10@15c; do
cases returned, 9@14l/2c; ordinary firSts,
151/26016c; firsts, 173/;@18c; extra, 20@21c
per dozen. ’

New York—Market firm; choice west-
ern stock showing an upward tendency.
Fresh gathered extras, 24@26c; western
gathered whites, 20((_L26C per dozen.

Poultry.—Receipts of poultry at all
points are heavy for the season. Locally
broilers have been in great supply and
as a result they are quoted 5c lower than
at this time last week. Hens are also
quotezl lower, while ducks and geese are
higher. Quotations are: Live.——Broilers,
180; hens, 15§I§qi,16c; No. 2 hens, 12((0130;
old roosters, 11@l.2c; turkeys, 176018c;
geese, 12(113c; ducks, 15@16c per lb.

Chicago—Spring chickens are again

lower; no other changes of consequence.
Quotations on live are: Turkeys, good
weight, 18c; others, 12c; fowls, good,
"15c; spring chickens, 18c; ducks, 13c;

geese, 10c; guinea hens. $4 per dozen.

Cheese.~“Steady. Wholesale lots, Mich—
igan flats, 14%(014-34c; New York flats,
151%.; (u 16c; brick cream, 141/,@15c; limbur-
ger. 141/2@151/2c.

Veal.——Little doing; quotations largely
nominal. Fancy, 131/2@14c; common,
lOfiZ‘llC.

Faun-rs AND VEGETABLES.

 

Apples.—The range on new apples is
widening as the fruit becomes more
plentiful. Now being quoted at $1.50@2
per box. and $450613?) per bbl.

Huckleberries.»—Quoted at “((474.50 per
bushel.

GOOseberr‘ies.——N0t plentiful
per bushel.

Currants—Higher.
2.75 per 24-qt. case.

Raspberries.——The red kind are more
plentiful and somewhat lower; blacks un-
changed. Reds“,$4.50@25 per bu; black,
$202.25 per l6-qt. case.

Blackberries—Selling at $2602.25 per 16-
qt. case.

Cherries.~—.\bout gone.
@375 per bu.

Potatoes.~Little
week. Southern
@3 per bu.

Cabbage.—New
per bbl.

at $2.50@3

Ordinary, $2.50@

Quoted at $3.50

change from last
white quoted at $2.75

selling at $2.50@2.75

WOOL.

 

Boston—Greater activity is noted in
the domestic wool market with prices
holding steady. Buying of the now clip
is active in the west. Light trading is
reported in fleece wools, Ohio half-bloods
selling at Z-lc, with other grades at pro-
portionate prices. '

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

A total of 295 loads of produce were
reported on the city market Tuesday
morning, including 75 loads of fruit. and
prices were as follows: Red raspberries,
$2002.75 per crate: black raspberries, $2;
blackberries, $1.25@1.50; eurrantS, $161)
1.25; gooseberries, $1; Duchess apples, 80c

«0531.25. New potatoes brought 50C@$1;
hay, , $146016. Dressed hogs are worth
lOE/zéli'llc; live fowls, 13c. New No.

red wheat is bringing 81c at the mills;
oatS, 40c; corn. 67c; beans, $1.60.

 

THE LIVE STOCK} MARKETS.

Buffalo.
July 28, 1913.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo. New York).

Receipts here today: Hogs, 65 cars;
sheep. 22 cars; cattle, 205 cars.

With 205 cars of cattle on our market
here today the market on all heavy cat-
tle of 1200 lbs, and upward was fully
150 per cwt. lower than last Monday, al-
though the heavy steers today were not
so good quality as last week. All butcher
grades were fully 25c'per cwt lower than
last week.

\Ve quote- as follows: Best 1350 to
1450-lb. steers, $8.60@8.85; best 1200 to
1300-lb. do., $8.256l38.65; best 1100 to 1200-
lb. d0.. $8.256‘850; coarse and plain
heavy steers, $7.50@7.75; choice handy
steers, $8608.50; grassy 1000 to 1100, $7.50

6:77.75; do. 800 to 1000, $7.25@7.50; best
fat cows, $6.50@7; best grassy cows,
$5.75@6; good do., $5.25@5.50; light do.,
$4.75@5.25; trimmers, $3.50@3.75; best fat
heifers, $7.50@8; medium grassy, $6.75@

7.25: common, $6@6.50; best feeding steers
$7.256B7.50; light common stockers, $5.75
06 25; best butcher bulls, $6.50@7; best
bologna bulls, $5.75@6.50; stock bulls. $5
@550; milkers and springers, best, $70@
85 per head: common to good, $556065.

Receipts of hogs today, 65 double decks
and mark but little changed from Satur-
day’s close. General sales of the mixed.
medium and heavy were at $9.85, some
ordinary heavy ends down around $9.50@
9.60; yorkers, $9.85@9.90; pigs and lights
$3.890@9.95; roughs, $8@8.50; stags, $7.50
I .

The sheep and lamb market was fairly
active today: with 22 cars on sale and
about the same as the close of last
week; most of the choice lambs selling
from $7.75@8; yearlings, $6.50@7; look for

about steady 'prices the balance of the

week.
We quote: ‘ $7.75@8.25;
$6.50@

cull to fair,

7; bucks, $3@3.25; wethers, $5.50@6;
handy ewes, $4.50@5; heavy (30., $3.75@
4; cull sheep, $2.50@3.50; veals, choice to

Choice lambs,
$6@7.50; yearlings,

 

extra, $11@11.50; fair to good, $9.50@
10.50; heavy calves, $5.50@7.
Chicago.
July 28, 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Received today ...... 18.000 46,000 25,000
Same day last year..20,928 44,830 22529
Received last week..46,273 126,894 91,339

Same week last year.30,853 111,115 106,236

The week opens with a moderate cat—
tle supply, but while the better class sell
readily at former prices, other kinds are
Slow and weak, with numerous grassy
lots not wanted. Hogs of the best light
class are selling all right at unchanged
values, but other kinds of swine are 5(a)
10c lower and not particularly active.
Hogs marketed last week averaged 246
lbs, compared with 243 lbs a week ear-
lier, 240 lbs. one year ago, 237 lbs. two
years ago, 245 lbs. three years ago and
227 lbs. four years ago. The sheep and
lambs received included a good percent—
age from Idaho and Washington ranges.
Sheep and yearlings were fairly active
at about steady prices, but lambs moved
off slowly, and at a late hour not many
had been sold. Some choice lambs sold
early at $7.50, while a sale of prime se-
lected lambs was made at $8

Cattle that were desirable in quality
sold all right last week, there being no
excessive offerings, but killers were rath-
er exacting in making their selections
and drew the line firmly against grassy
and other inferior cattle, having found
that they dress out unsatisfactorily. The
bulk of the beef steers offered found
buyers at $7.90@8.90, with the best class
of heavy beeves going at $8.90fl'9.20, the
top price being 5c higher than any sales
made recently. The commoner class of
light, grassy steers brought $725608.
while warmed—up steers 'sold at $8.05@
8.25, medium lots at 31583000850 and good
cattle at $8.55fir885. For common to
prime little yearling steers buyers paid
$7.8064‘0, while butchering lots of cows
and heifers went at 5349061865, cutters at
$4.30M485, canners at $3.45@4.25 and
bulls at $5.35frl/5.75, ordinary female-s and
bulls sharing in the decline noted in
steers not of the better class. Little was
done in stockers and feeders, demand be—
ing light, and the greater part of these
cattle sold at declining figures. Stock
steers sold at $5.506r7.60 and feeders at

$7617.00, with stock and feeder heifers
scarce and wanted at $5.50fi1i‘665. There

was the accustomed good demand for
veal calves, prices ruling extremely high.
as the receipts were only moderate in
volume. Calves sold all the, way from
$5017.50 for the heavier weights up to $10
(«011.50 for the desirable class of light
vealers. Milkers and springers sold spar—
ingly at $50fl185 per head. Prospect: are
much better f0r fat beeves than for
grassy lots, for the latter are unpopular
with packers and smaller butchers. while
the former are getting scarcer all the
time. but it is probable that before long
a good many thin glass-fed cattle will
be. purchased at comparatively low prices
for feeders. The close of the week saw
the best calves sell at $11, while steers
avenged $100115c lower than a week
e..rl'cr, the best excepted, and the gen—
eral run of female cattle, except the bet-
ter class, sold 2560400. lower.

Hogs sell off on some days as a mat-
ter of course after advances, but the
market remains in good shape, and the
supplies offered are all greatly needed for
the requirements of the fre h meat and
provision trade. The principal change in
features is the increasing proportion of
corn-fed and grassy sows now showing
up, this being of yearly occurrence. and
causing a marked widening out in hog
quotations. These offerings, while need-
ed for manufacturing lard. have to go at
bottom prices, while, the best prices are
obtained for prime light and butcher
weights adapted for the eastern shipping
trade. Of course, every man who is for-
tunate enough to own some hogs fully
realizes their great value. and those who
have Sufficient feed are not going to let
the swine go to market before being
well matured, for the ruling prices are
almost unprecedentedly high, being enor—
mously above the figures of'reccnt years.
Even pigs of good weights are selling ex—
tremely high, although not so close to
matured hogs as a few weeks ago.

Monday last week saw the best hogs
sell at $06251“. in one instance, the high-
est point yet reached. At the week’s
close hogs sold at $8.55GM.50, while stags
brought $9.30fi179.60, boars $461.5, pigs $7.40
(@923 and throwout packing sows $861)
8.50.

Lambs and sheep displayed the usual
features last week, with frequent large
fluctuations in prices, depending upon the
size of the receipts and the general de-
mand. Prices broke sharply on Monday
under receipts of 31,408 head, but rallied
sharply later in the week under greatly
lessened receipts and a good demand.
Much of'the irregularity in the receipts
arose from the uneven shipments from
Louisville to packers direct. Idaho fur-
nished the principal part of the range
lambs, while Montana and Oregon ship-

ped in fair numbers of range wethers very dry.
feeders. corn has been cut half by long drouth

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for this season of the year, -with good
team horses weighing from 1,400 to 1,550
lbs. wanted at $250@285 per head. In-
ferior animals were slow of sale around
$85@125, and prime heavy drafters were
scarce and largely ,nominal at $300@350.
while livery pairs were in restricted de-.
mand at $250@350. A large share of the
horses sold singly at $185@250.

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

Daniel Adamson, of Nebraska, had two
carloads of steers and spayed heifers on
the Omaha market recently. and received
$7.90 for the steers and $7.60 for the heif-
ers, both lots going to a feeder buyer.
He said cattle shipments from' the west-
ern ebraska grass country this year will
probably be later than usual. The range
is in pretty fair condition, but it is be-
ginning to dry up in spots. Fortunately,
however, a dry spell would not mean
liquidation this year. A shortage of cat-
tle exists, and there will be more than
enough feed to fatten even a normal crOp
of cattle. A condition that will make
this shortage more noticeable at market
than in the country appears in the unus—
ual number of range contracts. More
contracts are being made on the range
this year than ever before, Mr. Adamson
thought.

The course of the sheep market has
been so erratic in recent weeks that
sheepmen could never tell when making
shipments to market whether they would
make good profits or suffer big losses. At
Such a time it is always best to get the
advice of a leading live stock commis—
sion firm as to the best time for sending
in stock.

The recent course of the hog market
has demonstrated the soundness of the
reasoning of- leading packers and others
several months ago. when they showed
that on the strength of the swine short-
age and the large requirements of the
trade, both hogs and provisions were
bound to sell much higher. Where hogs
will finally land there is no telling, but
low prices look a long way off, and ev-
ery owner of thrifty young hogs should
do his best to finish them off in first-
claSs shape.

The demand fOr stocker and feeder
cattle of late has fallen off, farmers be-
ing too busily engaged in haying and
harvesting to pay attention to restocking
their pastures. Such demand as has pre-
vailed has run largely on the lighter
weights, and choice stock steers are es-
pecially favored, selling nearly as high
as heavy feeders.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

(Continued from page 96).
by dealers, not the retail prices: Butter,
dairy, 26c; creamery, 29c; pork, dressed,
Ill/2c; live, Sl/gc; eggs, 240; spring chick-
ens, 18c; fowls, 15c; lambs, dressed, 14c;
wheat, $1; oats, 45c; beans, pea, $2;
beans, medium, $2.10; beans, red kidneys

$1.90; beans, red marrow, $2.15; hay,
loose, $10@12. ' 4'

Pennsylvania.

Columbia 00., July 28.——Eastern New
York is having an off year. The cool
backward spring, with killing frosts in
May, played havoc with the ruit. Most
all berries were killed and the apple crop
will be Short. l’ear trees are badly
blighted. Dry weather has cut pastures,
hay and oats, below the average. Early
potatoes are scarcely half a crop and
corn is in'vneed of rain. Potatoes are
$1 per bu; butter, 30c; eggs, 30c.

Indiana.

July 21.——Exceedingly dry
Oats and hay made

Early garden stuffs
failed; wheat, good; corn not promising.
Corn, 700; wheat, 900; hay, $21; oats,
3:30.; potatoes, $1.60 per bu; butter, 30c;
eggs, 16c; blackberries, 400 per gal; ap—
ples. crop failure; peaches half crop;
wheat threshing in full blast; good yield
and quality reported.

Erie 60., July 24.—»\Vith the exception
of, strawberries the fruit crop has been
above the average. From northeast an
average of 500 bu. a day has been ship-
ped 'fOr the last three weeks and the av—
erage price received is about $3 a bu.
This has meant an income of about $1,500
a day to the fruit growers of this dis—
trict, according to Mr. \Voods of the ex-
press company, who has a record of ev~
ery bushel shipped. The above figures
do not include the fruit marketed retail
at Erie and other near-by towns. The
grape crop in the Chautauqua and Lake
Erie grape belt, however, will not be
more than 60 per cent of normal yields.
The crop of 1012 in this district amount-
ed to a total of 7.600 cars having a val-
uerof $2,000,000. in no place is there 21
report of more than 60 per cent of a full
crop. \\'ith the increased freight charges
which go into effect this year, the sell-
ing price must be considerably higher,
for much of a profit to be realized. Oth-
er crops are looking good, especially hay,
which is selling for about $10 a ton. At
North East a total of 1,500,000 cans of
pears were preserved, this crop being
good. Potatoes and cabbage. as well as
corn are making rapid growth.

Missouri.

Folk 60., July 24,—The season has been

Practically no hay crop, and

Davies 00..
weather prevails.
about a half crop.

The demand for feeders was especially and if. no rain soon will be almost total

strong, and good prices were paid.

Idaho failure.’
Sent in some good bunches of ewes, and a loss.

All grass seed sown in spring
Cattle and stock hogs dull, but

a good many native ewes were offered. fat stock selling Well at or near market

At the close of the week most sheep were price.
15@25c higher than a week earlier and tom-:wheat.‘ 75c.
Lambs were 331‘ fem-Wheat, and unless there is a decided

lambs 35@50c higher.

Corn is worth-68c; hay $16 per
It is too dry to plow

able at $5.50@8.25. yearlings at $4.76@ change in the weather the crop put in
6.75, wethers at $3.50@5.40, ewes at $2.50 willbe small. The yield this year was

@5, bucks at $3@4 and feeding lambs at batter . than an average.
The week’s receipts ran far per acre.

$6.40@6.90.

about -20 bu. ,_
Eggs are 90; butter, 20c. Pu-

short compared with the previous week “we. have been'poor,since April, and are

and a year ago.

Horses were in fair demand last walked.

now dried up and too short total-nub

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'In' 'the‘ ”first edition the Detroit Live
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday's Market.
July 24, 1913.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1577. Market 10@15c lower
than last week, and very dull.

We quote: Best dry—fed steers and
heifers, $8@8.15; steers and heifers, 1000
#to 1200, $7.75@8; do. 800 to 1000, $7.50@
8; grass steers and heifers that are fat,
800 to 1000, $7.50@8; do. 500 to 700, $6@
6.50; choice fat cows, $6; good do., $5.50
@575; common do., $4.50@4.75; canners,

 

$3.50@4; choice heavy bulls, $6.50@6.75;
fair to good bolognas, bulls, $5.75@6.25;
stock bulls, $5@5.50; choice feeding
steers, 800 to 1000. $6.50@7; fair do., 800
to 1000, $6@6.50; choice stockers, 500 to
700, $6@6.50; fair do., 500 to 700, $6@
6.25; stock heifers, $5@6; milkers, large,

young, medium age. $60@75; common do.
$35@50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
1 bull weighing 1470 at $6.75, 1 do weigh-
ing 700 at $5.30. 1 do weighing 600 at
$5.50, 3 do av 1147 at $6.50; to Sullivan
P. Co. 5 steers av 1008 at $7.50, 2 d0 av
1105 at $6, 9 butchers av 525 at $5.75; to
Kamman B. Co. 9 do av 712 at $6.50, 2
do av 565 at $6.50, 7 do av 873 at $7.10,
4 cows av 930 at $5; to Bray 8 bulls av
526 at $5.25, 1 do weighing 870 at $6. 2
cows av 1115 at $6, 4 do av 852 at $4, 1
do weighing 920 at $4, 1 do weighing 700
at $3; to Breitenbeck 7 cows av 937 at
$4.50; to. Parker, W. & Co. 1 bull weigh-
ing 1010 at $6; to Rattkowsky 2 cows av
1065 at $4.75; to Johnson 3 stockers av
627 at $6.40; to Grant 2 butchers av 440
at $5, 1 do weighing 750 at $5.50; to
Mich. B. Co. 3 bulls av 907 at $6, 3 do
av 507 at $5.25; to Johnson 1 steer weigh-
ing 660 at $6; to Wyness 2 bulls av 750
at $5.75, 2 heifers av 860 at $6.75; to
Newton B. Co. 1 cow weighing 830 at
$5, 3 do av 1100 at $5.25. 1 bull weighing
1240 at $6.75, 1 do weighing 1050 at $6.25,
4 steers av 800 at $7. 3 cows av 1117 at
$5, 1 canner weighing 790 at .350, 8
cows av 1064 at $5, 8 steers av 932 at $7:
to Hammond, S. Co. 2 cows av 875
at $3.60.

Haley & M. sold Grant 8 cows av 890
at $5.30; to Mason B. Co. 2 steers av 675
at $6.50, 1 cow weighing 830 at $3.75, 14
butchers av 567 at‘ $6.25, S cows av 881
at $6,: to Sullivan P. Co. 2 bulls av 715
at $5.25, 1 do weighing 1460 at $5.75; to
Johnson 10 stoekers av 590 at $6.25; to
Goose 3 do av 633 at $5.70; to Breiten—
beck 1 bull weighing 850 at $6, 7 cows av
904 at $5, 6 butchers av 755 at $6.15; to
Mich. B. Co. 2 bulls av 510 at $5.50, 3 do
av 920 at $6, 5 do av .940 at $6.25; to
Sullivan P. Co. 4 heifers av 795 at $5.90,
1 cow weighing 950 at $4: to Bray 2
heifers av 540 at $6; to Rattkowsky 4
cows av 1015 at $5.75. .5 do av 1004 at
$5.75; to Goose 3 heifers av 483 at $6.05;
to Mason B. Co. 4 butchers av 715 at
$6.65, 7 do av 730 at $6.05.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.
4 butchers av 767 at $5.50. 7 do av 886 at
$7, 2 cows av 1000 at $5.50, 4 do av 840
at $5, 13 do av 877 at $5.50, 2 bulls av
1010 at $6.50. 1 do weighing 1330 at $6.50,
1 canner weighing 680 at $3.50, 10 butch-
ers av 665 at $6. 7 do av 721 at $6.25. 9
cows av 980 at $5.65, 4 steers av 1262 at
$7.75, 4 do av 1082 at $6, 3,cows av 933
at $5.75. 1 bull weighing 1030 at $6.25, 2
heifers av 625 at $5.25; to Kull 4 steers
av 942 at $7.75. 2 do av 650 at $6.50. 14
do av 975 at $7.35, 6 do av 828 at $6.80,
10 butchers av 732 at $5.75. 1 cow weigh-
ing 670 at $4.50; to Mason B. Co. 23
butchers av 826 at $6.90, 2 cows av 985 at
$4.50. 1 bull weighing 980 at $6.50; to
Hammond, S. Co. 6 cows av 1075 at
“5.75, 4 COWS av 960 at $4.50, 4 bulls av
M2 at $6, 5 cows av 832 at $4.50; to
Bresnahan 2 canners av 980 at $4. 1 do
weighing 940 at $3.75; to Kamman B. Co.
2 steers av 785 at $7; to Bray 2 oxen av
1340 at $6.75, 2 heifers av 535 at $5.50, 2
do av 760 at $6.50.

Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
3 bulls av 1020 at $6.50, 2 do av 730 at
$5.75, 4 do av 990 at $6.40, 4 do av 682 at
$5.75; to Baldwin 14 stockers av 380 at
$5.55; to YVard 1 canner weighing 870 at
$4.40. 1 do weighing 740 at $4; to Cliff
22 stockers av 490 at $6, 22 do av 470
at $6; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 steers av 717
at.$6._50, 5 cows av 1012 at $5.35, 1 do
weighing 740 at $3.75. 7 butchers av 707
at $6.10, 6 cows av 1033 at $5.75; to AD-
plebaum 2 do av 955 at $5.25; to Johnson
2 stockers av 650'at $6; to Grant 2 heif-
ers av 780 at $5.75; to Bresnahan 7 do
av 613 at $6; to Ward 2 cows av 620 at
$4, 1 do weighing 850 at $4, 2 do av 1040
at $5; to Thompson Bros. 1 cow weighing
810 at $3.50, 4 do av 855 at $6.25; to Ratt-
kowsky 7 do av 1070 at $5.50; to Goose
1 do weighing 1040 at $4.25; to Sullivan
P. Co. 4 steers av 907 at $7.25. 1 do
weighing 900 at $6, 16 butchers av 777 at
$6.25. 3 do av 583 at $5. 4 bulls av 1191
at $6.35, 1 do weighing 590 at $5.50; to
Johnson 2 steers av 670 at $6.25; to
Michigan B. Co. 1 steer weighing 1000 at
$7, 2 cows av 1185 at $6. 3 heifers av 643
at $6.25, 5 cows av 1100 at $6; to Man:
6 ste’ers av 895 ”at $7. .

Mllch Cows.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Bresnahan 1 cow
“$70, 1 do at $75. 2 cows and one calf
at $110, 1 cow and calf at $75, 2 cows

. and 2 calves at- $110. 2 c'oWs and one calf

a

at $110, 1 cow and calf at $65. 1 cow and
calf at $60. 3 cows and 2. calves at $215,
2. cows and 1 041156531985: 4 .

‘ Haley & M. sold same 1 cow at‘:$67.50,

     

1 .cow and calf. at $75, 2 cows and 2
calves at $100, 2- cows and 2 calves at
$115, 3 cows at $165, 2 do at $135, 2 cows
and 2 calves at $147, 2 cows at $115. 1
cow and 1 calf at $75, 1 cow at $57.50

Bishop, B. '& H. sold Converse 4 coWs
and 2 calves at $266.

Haley & M, sold Rosshelm 1 cow and
calf at $65. x
Veal Calves.

Receipts, 858. Heavy grades dull; oth-
Se;rs0 steady. Best, $10@11; others, $7@
.5 . - *

Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 5 av
250 at $5, 3 av 130 at $8, 2 av 190 at $10:
to Goose 10 av 167 at $11. 2 av 200 at $8;
to Burnstine 3 av 130 at $10.50, 8 av 150
at $11, 3,av 140 at $7, 3 av 200 at $11, 6
av 150 at $11, 6 av 150 at $10.50, 3 av
165 at $7; to Rattkowsky 3 av 160 at $7,
7 av 170 at $10.50.
11Smith sold Newton B. Co. 4 av 160 at

Robb sold Kull 6 av 155 at $11.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, 1V. &
Co. 2 av 245 at $11, 10 av 188 at $11, 6
av 250 at $10.50; to Applebaum 7 av 160
at $11, 2 av 200 at $9; to Thompson Bros.
1 weighing 160 at $10.50, 1 Weighing 150
at 11, 4 av 200 at $10.50, 3 av 180 at
$10.50;L to Newton B. Co. 15 av 150 at
$10.50, 4 av 250 at $8.50; to Goose 12 av
160 at $10.50; to Rattkowsky 4 av 175 at
$10.75; to Goose 6 av 240 at $7, 9 av 145
at $10; to Hammond, S. & Co. 5 av 145
at $9, 14 av 160 at $10.50, 7 av 180 at
$10.50, 1 weighing 130 at $8; to Sullivan
1’. C0. 6 av 155 at $11, 7 av 120 at at
$8.50. 19 av 130 at $10.50; to McGuire 28
av 160 at $11, 2 av 140 at $9; to Sullivan
P. Co. 8,aV' 160 at $11.

Adams sold Rattkowsky 4 av 150 at
$10.50.

Spicer & R. sold Parker,,\\'. 8; Co. 3

av 150 at $11, 5 av 145 at $11, 6 av 145
at $10.50, 3 av 225 at $9; to Thompson
Bros. 4 av 150 at $11; to Newton B. Co.
2 av 160 at $11.25; to Thompson Bros. 1
weighing 110 at $8; to Newton B. Co.
av 140 at $10.50; to Applebaum 10 av
140 at $10.50; to Hammond, S. ,& Co. 11
av 160 at $10.60; to Parker, \V. & Co.
13 av 150 at $10.50, 4 av 150 at $8.50.
Sheep and Lambs.
3426. Lambs $1 lower than
last week; sheep steady. Best lambs,
$7.15@7.2.5; fair to good lambs, $650627;
light to common lambs, $5@6; yearlings.
$5696; fair to good sheep, $4@4.50; culls
and common, $2.75@3.25.

Haley & M. sold Parker, W, & Co. 7
lambs av 70 at $7.75; to Kull 15 av 75
at $7.50; to Harger 36 sheep av 105 at
$4, 10 av 89‘at $2.50.

Adams sold Young 43 lambs av 60 at
$6.60.

Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 31 sheep av
90 at $3.35. .

Roe Com. Co. sold Barlage 26 sheep av
110 at $4.25, 28 lambs av 73 at $7.25; to
Newton B. Co. 27 lambs av 70 at $7.25,
70 sheep av 105 at $4.25; to Barlage 6
lambs av 75 at $7, 18 do av 75 at $7, 49
do av 65 at $7, 26 sheep av 105 at $4.25.
4 do av 110 at $4; to Hayes 8 do av 95
at $3.50, 15 lambs av 67 at $7, 25 do av
75 at $7.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.
4 lambs av 65 at $7.25, 15 do av 75 at
$7.25, 11 sheep av 95 at $3.75, 16 do av
95 at $4.50; to ThompSOn Bros. 16 lambs
av 65 at $7.25, 7 sheep av 100 at $4.50; to
Mich. B. Co. 8 do av 125 at $4, 101 lambs
av 70 at $7.30; to Hammond, S. & Co. 47
do av 70 at $7.25. 56 do av 70 at $7.40;
to Sullivan P. Co. 26 do av 58 at $6, 16
do av 65 at $6.50, 14 sheep av 100 at $3.
31 lambs av 53 at $5, 35 do av 50 at $5;
to Hammond. S. & Co. 47 lambs av 77
at $7.15, 56 do av 70 at $7.15; to Naglc
P. Co. 22 sheep av 100 at $4.25. 25 do
av 130 at $4.50, 25 do av 135 at $4.25; to
Thompson Bros. 5 do av 120 at $4; to
Fitzpatrick Bros, 19 lambs av 65 at
$7.25, 24 sheep av 125 at $4.50; to Young
47 do av 75 at $7.15. 14 yearlings av 85
at $5.50; to COStello 100 lambs av 67 at $7.

.4!

Rec‘eipts,

Hogs.

Receipts, 1899. None sold up to noon;
prospects about 50 higher.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
ers, $9.50; pigS, $9.55; light yorkers, $9.50;
stags one-third off.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 450
av 190 at $9.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. &
Co. 1300 av 180 at $9.50. 210 av 220 at

& Co.

$9.45.
sold Hammond, S.
$9.50.
190 at

sold same 350 av

Haley & M.
300 av 180 at

Spicer & R.
$9.50.

 

Friday's Market.
July 25. 1913.
Cattle.

Receipts this week. 1819; last week,
2031. Market steady at Thursday’s
prices. \l’e quote: Best steers andheif—
ers. $8098.25; steers and heifers. 1000 to
1200, $775618; do 800 to 1000, 3375051775:
grass steers and heifers that are fat, 800
to 1000, 37.506.57.75; do. 500 to 700. $66?
6.50; choice fat cows, $6; good do., $5.50
@575; common cows, $4.50@4.75; canners
$350634; choice heavy bulls. $6.50@6.75;
fair to good bologna bulls, 35.756625:
stock bulls, $5fl5.50: choice feeding
steers. 800 to 1000. 36.50607; fair do. 800
to 1000, $6@6.50; choice stockerS. 500 to
700, $6626.50; fair do., 500 to 700, $550676:
stock heifers. $5696: milkers. large. young
medium age, $606,080; common milkers,
$35@50.

Veal

Receipts this week.
923. Market 25c lower.
others, $6@9.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 3992; last week,
3296. Market dull at Thursday's decline.
Best lambs. $7@7.15; fair do., $6.50@6.75;
light to common do., $5@6; yearlings, $5
@6; fair to good sheep. $4@4.25; culls and
common, $2.75'@3.

. s.

Receipts this week, 2860; last, week.
2368. Market steady to 5c lower. Range
of prices: Light to good butchers. $9.45:
pigs, $9.50; mixed, $9.40; stags one-third
oil. ‘

Calves.
1054; last week.
Best. 310691075:

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should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
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'Stifle Lameness.—I have a two-year-old
colt that is lame; the only bunch on leg
is on stifle joint and this enlargement is

the size of a hen egg. Our local Vet.
tells me the only remedy is feather fir-
ing. F. B. N., Gaylord. Mich..—I am in—

clined to believe your colt should not be
fired during hot Weather, but apply one
part red iodide mercury and ten parts
cerate of cantharides to bunch once a
week. Kindly understand you must keep
up this treatment for some time in or-
der to effect a cure. When other reme-
dies fail I sometimes fire this kind of a
case; however, it is seldom necessary.
Right Age to Breed Mare—“mat age
do you think it is desirable to breed a
mare? G. B. H., Charlevoix, Mich—I
have thought it generally a mistake to
breed :1 filly before she was three years
old. and if a mare proves to be a good
mother keep her at it. for horses will
never again be cheap. If the produce of
a mare do not come up to expectations
sell her.
Enlargement on Side of Neck—Fur the
past two weeks a bunch has been grow-
ing on side of neck of colt and I have
been wondering if a poultice Would do it
any good. F. .(J. \V., Marion, Mich.-mClip
.off hair and apply one part iodine and
ten parts fresh lard; also give him 1 dr.
do-“Ies potassium iodide twice a day.
The neck has perhaps been bruised and
if the iodine ointment does not scatter
bunch it will soften and require opening,
then inject one part carbolic acid and 30

parts water into sack twice :1 day.
Cow Does Not Come in Heatfil have
a revcn-year-old cow that came fresh

May 1; since then she has not been in
heat. \\'. l‘., Dryden. Mich—Give your
tow a tcaspoonful of powdered capsicum.
15 grs. of powdered cantharidcs and
dr. of ground nux vomica at a dose in
feed three times a day. The effect of
drugs in this kind of a case are not
very reliable. A forced service will some-
times produce the desired effect.
\Val‘ts on Teat—Lumpjaw _ Bursal

Swelling-Bog Spavin.—I have a three—
year-old that has a great many long
warts on teats and the skin is some-
what soro. This same cow has a hard

 

bunch under jaw the size of a goose egg.
1 also have another cow that has a soft
bunch on fore leg. but it does not inter—
fere with her milk supply for she is giv-
ing 14 th. at a milking. \Vhen this
bunch came on her. i_t must have been
painful for she gave very little milk.
\Vhat had I better apply to soften a
bunch in hock of five-year-old mare? C.
A, H., Imlay City, Mich—Clip or cut off
warts and apply one part salicylic acid
and four parts vaselinc once a day. Ap-
ply one part red iodide mercury and six
parts lard to bunch in throat every five
or six days. Apply equal parts tincture
iodine and spirits of camphor to puff
swelling on leg daily and you may apply
the same medicine to hock of mare every
day or two.

Anaemic—Blood Poison—J have a nine-
year-old mare that our local Vet. treated
for pinworms. but she is no better and
is in a debilitated condition and I would
like to know what to do for her. She al-
so had a small bunch in throat, but this
has yielded to treatment. I have anoth-
er mare that had an attack of blood poi-
son; we placed her in a sling and kept
her there for a few days and now she
has quite zi few pimples on different
parts of her body; her skin itches. \V.
M. Van S.. Birch Run, Mich—Give your
mare 1,4; oz. Fowler’s solution, 30 grs. of
quinine and a teaspoonful of salt at a
dose in feed three times a day. Give
your other nrire 1A; oz. of Donovan’s 50-
lulion at a dose in feed three times a
day and wash sores with one part bi-
chloridc mercury and 500 parts water
twice a day.

Home Afraid of Automobile and Mo‘tor-
cycle. I am writing you tn know what
("ill be done for a horse that is afraid
of automobiles and motorcycles. He is
a very good work horse, but I can’t keep
him on the road when I meet either of
the machines. I. L.. hiohawk, Mich—It
is very difficult indeed. to overcome fear:
however. if the horse could be driven
double and allowed to see plenty of them.
at the same time treating him kindly
when frightened. he would soon gain
courage after he once learned that he
was in no danger. The seeing of sights
often. and esnecially the same sights.
soon becomes monotonous, and neither
man or beast pays much attention to it.

Barren Mare—Have a mare that I
have owned about six weeks: she is ap-
parently in the best of health, but I
have failed to observe her to come in
heat. She is ten years old, gentle in
disposition. works and eats well; howev-
er. I am anxious to breed her and would
appreciate a suggestion as to what course
to adopt. J. H. P.. Aloha, Mich—It is
possible that your mare is barren; how-
ever. you may try giving her a tea-
spoonful of powdered capsicum and 1 dr.
ground nux vomica at a dose in feed
two or three times a day. Also clean the
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then oil the hand wel‘ introducing it into

vagina and gently dilating opening lead-
ing into uterusf This, or a forced ser-
vice, will often .times have the desired
effect of bringing on heat; furthermore.
it is good practice to have her teased
frequently by a stallion. She may come
in heat and heat and pass off without it
being discovered. .

Summer Cholera—Several of my pigs
have died lately, seemingly the result of
diarrhea. but before their bowels move
they stiffen and their membranes darken.
Have been feeding middlings, and I for-
got to mention that these pigs are only
nine weeks old. L. S.. Emmett. Mich.—
I am inclined to believe that your pigs
die the result of summer cholera. Mix
together one teacupful of dry flour and
add a dessertspoonful of bicarbonate of
soda. also a tablespoonful of ginger in
a half pailful of lukewarm water and
mix this with their feed three times a.
day. A change of food should be made
and each one of the pigs should be given
a dessertspoonful of olive oil soon as
they show symptoms of sickness. The
fiour. soda and ginger mixture is dose
enough for 12 or 14 pigs.

Simple Catarrh or Infectious Catarrh
in Turkeys—I have 34 turkeys that are
10 weeks old which sneeze or cough and
seem to have something in their throat
or head and it is hard to tell just where
the trouble is located. This ailment is
doubtles's'contagious. I find they all
have a fairly good appetite. but I have
not been feeding them heavy for some
time. They first showed this sickness
when four weeks old. I am anxious to
do something for them before they com-
mence dying off. M. S. Sunficld, Mich.———
I-From the length of time that your tur-
keys have been sick it leads me to sus—
pect that they suffer from infectious ca-
tarrh; however, it may be- only simple
non-contagious catarrh. An ailment of
this kind is usually the result of undue
exposure to cold and dampness or to
drafts of air. Now, in order to treat
them successfully you should keep them
clean and in a place free from drafts;
besides. they should not be exposed to
too much damp weather. Mix together
one part salicylate of sodium, one part
hypo-sulphite of soda. two parts pow-
rered sulphate of iron. four parts ground
ginger and four parts gentian root and
give each. turkey 5 grs. at a dose two or
three times :1 day. Kindly understand,
much depends on their food supply. It
will benefit them to waSh out their heads
trace a day with horacic acid solution,
13 grs. to the ounce.

Knuckling on Fore Fetiock.-I have just
purchased an eight—year-old horse that
is over on one fore ankle, caused from
over—driving on road. and I am told when
his leg was inilamcd they applicd a
strong blister which made him much
worse. In his present condition he is not
worth a dollar, unless he can be straight-
ened up. He appears to me like a horse
that had tendon trouble for a long time.
T. .T. H.. Mongo, Ind—You will obtain
fairly good results by applying one part
powdered cantharides and six parts lard
to back tendon evcry week or ten days
and allow him to run in pasture all the
1time, except 48 hours when you blister
pm.

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Stung, or the Trappcr’s Retaliation.

town financier. The Colonel can

run down, rope and hog-tie a. dol-
lar so quickly that the human eye can-
not follow the act.

The Colonel’s crown of sorrow was in-
termittent rheumatism, He was wont to
declare that whenever a big round-up
occurred, such as floating a block of ce-
ment stock or engineering the promotion
of a new interurban railway, he was al-
most sure to be stricken with inflamma-
tory rheumatism in its most malignant
form.

He had journeyed to Hot Springs, Ark.,
and to Hot Springs, Va., and to Mt.
Clemens and Battle Creek, Mich, in
search of relief, and had been relieved—-
of some of his surplus wealth, but noth-
ing else to speak of.

One day the Colonel felt—or thought he
felt—one of those intermittent attacks
coming on, and he hastened to consult
Dr. GunSuallus on how to stave off the
impending calamity.

Dr. GunSuallus had been Col. Wattruss’
medical adviser for twenty years, and he
believed in “absent treatment” in the
case- of wealthy and chronic sufferers
from rheumatism. He therefore retired
into his private office and perplexedly
consulted a map of the world. He was
somewhat at a loss as to just where he
would send his patient this time, having
practically exhausted all the popular wat-
ering places.

While he was thus engaged, Ernie Wer-
ner, another small town financier, but of
tender years, and for whom there is still
hope of salvation. happened into the out-
er office in search of a prescription. The
Colonel explained his own presence there
as a matter of course.

“I know where you want to go!” ex-
claimed Mr. “'erner, assuming that air
of conviction he used when disposing of
a block of cement stock to an unsuspect-
ing prospect. “I've just come back from
a fishing trip up around Boyne Falls.
Friend of mine, Joe Beam, has a shack
on Butternut Lake, hunts and traps.
Some health sharks have discovered
Ponce De Leon‘s long lost spring. It’s
just a little babbling brook, but drink of
it, lave in it, and, Presto! You frisk
away as agile as a young buck deer in
the moulting season.

“Shortly a syndicate will erect a huge
hotel in the midst of the wilderness and
make it the greatest American Carlsbad.
Just now there is nothing in the way of
accommodations except Joe’s shack, but
he’ll be glad to see any friend of mine
and it won’t cost you a cent except car
fare.

The Colonel embraced the last proposi-
tion eagerly. An opportunity to try the
latest brand of curative waters free of
charge appealed to his economic side with
such force that he decided to start for
the woods 011 the next train.

The next day he stepped off the Pull-
man at Boyne Falls, hired a livery rig
and was driven to Butternut Lake, some
twenty miles into the wilderness.

A letter from Mr. Werner introduced
him to the trapper, who he found whit-
tling out pelt frames outside his shack,
Joe gave him a hearty invitation to pile
right in and make himself at home.

COL. JOHN WATTRUSS is a. small

“VVhat’s the matter with your jaw?"
inquired the Colonel, after the driver had
deposited his bag inside the shack and
driven away.

“Toothache,” answered Joe in a mouth-
ful-of—mush voice. “Know what’s good
for it?"

,Colonel Wattruss knew how to do any-
thing in the world except cur-e rheuma—
tism, and was willing to admit it. He
a‘ssured Joe he would fix that tooth in
jig time. ‘

From his bag be dug out a sheet of
blotting paper. He overhauled Joe’s stock

By HOWARD DWIGHT SMILEY.

of provisions and then filled a cup half
full of vinegar, added a. teaspoonful of
cayenne pepper, another of salt, another
of mustard. He brought this concoction
to a boil on the stove, poured it onto the
blotter and applied it to the side of Joe’s
face, binding it securely in place with a
towel. .

“You’ll feel better by-and-by,”

he as-
sured the unsuspecting trapper.
The toothache did feel better. Joe for-

got he ever had such a thing inside of
five minutes. That blotter and contents
riveted his attention completely.

Joe Beam had been brought up to en-
dure great hardships. He endured this
one for another five minutes, and then
tore off the towel and looked into his
shaving mirror. The left side of his face
resembled a parboiled lobster and felt
like a forest fire.

“Tooth feel better?” inquired the C01-
one] solicitously.

Joe wasn’t sure. Somewhere back of
the confiagration he thought he could
feel the indignant molar struggling for
recognition. He was certain a minute
later when he applied some bear grease
to his face to alleviate the smart.

The big grinder sprang to the front
and asserted itself in a manner that made
the woodsman yelp with pain.

“Put on the blotter again,” suggested
the Colonel, much distressed by the oth-
er’s agony.

Only the fact that Col, Wattruss was a
friend of Mr. “’erner and Mr. \Verner
was a friend of Joe, saved the financier
from instant annihilation.

“This tooth’s gotter come out!” splut-
tcred the indignant trapper. “Do you
think yOu can pull her?"

“I don't know,” anSWered the Colonel
dubiouSIy. “\\'hat with?”

Joe produced a stout fish line an
eighth of an inch in diameter.

"Reckon this will do,” he said.

The Colonel had never pulled a tooth in
his life, but he did not doubt his ability
to perform the act if driven to it. Con—
fidently he secured one end of the line to
the offending molar, seated Joe on a
bench, mounted a soap box behind him
and pulled manfully.

He might as well have tried to dis-
lodge an oak stump in a field, so far as
results showed. After ten {minutes of as-
siduous effort he desisted, much to the
trapper’s relief.

The latter threw himself onto the bunk
and grOaned his agony, while the Colonel
stood by helpleSSly.

“What can I do now?” he asked.

“let me a drink of water. Follow the
trail back of the shack to the creek.”

The Colonel picked up the bucket and
Went forth. As he rounded the back of
the shack his attention was arrested by
the carcass of a deer that hung from the
limb of a tree, some twenty feet above
ground.

He noticed that the carcass was at-
tached to a rope, which was passed over
the limb, the other end being fastened to
a small sapling underneath. Joe evidently
used this method for keeping his fresh
meat out of reach of wolves and other
animals.

The Colonel had an inspiration. He
hastened back to the shack.

“Mr. Beam.” he said, "I know how to
remove that tooth, if you’ll trust me.”

“Go ahead," groaned Joe. “You can’t
do worse than you’ve already done.”

If I tell him what I am going to do it
will scare him out of his wits, thought
the Colonel. He decided to try subter-
fuge.

“This is a secret method,” he informed
the trapper. “I’ll have to blindfold you. ”

“Go ahead "

The Colonel fastened the towel over the
trapper’s eyes in a manner‘that effectu—
ally prevented his seeing anything, and
then led him forth by the end of the
fish line, which was still attached to the
aching molar

He stood the trapper beside the Sap-
ling, securely tied the line, to the rope,
allowing for plenty of slack, and then
drew out his pen-knife.

“Now brace yourself,” he admonished.

Joe braced, and the Colonel cut the
rope.

The result was astonishing—particularly
so to the trapper. The deer carcass
Weighed all of two hundred pounds, -while
Joe tipped the scales at a hundred and
sixty. The deer had a nice little ten
foot drop before it took up the slack in
the rope, and the law of gravitation took
every advantage of this fact.

The resultant jolt yanked Joe three feet
into the air and mighty nigh broke his
neck, but it fetched the tooth!

Joe had bee-n reared in the solitudes of
the big woods, where audible opinions are
a lost art. He didn’t say much, but he
thought a lot. ’ He was rid of the tooth——
that part was all right, but he was not
quite sure in his own mind if the main
act in its removal was not more of a
practical joke than an act of mercy.

“Now about this remarkable stream of
water I am up here to try," began the
Colonel when they were once more in the
shack. “Ernie tells me it is a wonderful
cure for rheumatism, is that so?”

“I’ve heard say it was,” answered Joe.
“Never tried it myself, but those who
have say the results are plumb start-
ling.”

“Good! I am going to try it! Might
as well begin right now!”

“Creek's right back yonder. Come along
and I’ll Show you.”

It was a placid little stream, with clear
sparkling water and fern-covered banks.
Colonel Wattruss was at once impressed
by the beauty of the spot.

“It will be a real pleasure to bathe in
such a sylvan pool!” he exclaimed as he
began to disrobe.

“Finest drinking water in the world,”
averred Joe.

“This is about as good a place as any,
isn’t it?” said the Colonel as he poised
on the brink.

“Sure,” agreed Joe. “Jump right in.
It ain’t more’n up to your neck.”

The Colonel plunged in confidently. He
was a fairly good swimmer, but he had
forgotten that act of the really discreet
bather, which is to test the temperature
of the water with his big toe before en—
tering.

This lapse of memory,nearly cost the
financier his life. He came'to' the surface
with a splutter and gasp made one fran-
tic effort to drag himself from the icy
cold water when his limbs doubled under
him with cramps, and he floated help-
lessly away.

Joe crashed through the bushes after
him and, as the creek was narrow, man—
aged to overtake his man and haul him
out a short distance down stream.

It took considerable rubbing and pound-
ing before he could get the Colonel’s
limbs straightcned out enough for him to
put on his clothes and walk to the shack.

Whatever the medicinal properties of
the water may have been, they could not
overcomethe effects of the cold shock on
the Colonel’ssystem. Inside of an hour
after' his emersion his limbs began to
swell and shortly the financier was in the
throes of inflammatory rheumatism with
all its dips; spurs,- angles and variations
complete. ' '

Joe had a busy. time of it that night.
The colonel, in his hurry to get. away,

had neglected to pack any remedies for
his malady, and Joe’s store of medicines
was limited.

He remembered the Colonel’s recipe for
toothache, and offered to mix up a gallon
and apply it, soaked in old newspapers,
but the patient declined without thankS.
The most the‘trapper could do was to sit
up and keep the fire going, and pose as a
mark for the sufferer to swear at.

The Colonel had brought a bundle of
newspapers with him and, between min-
istering to the wants of his patient, Joe
took time to Skim through them. One
item in particular seemed to interest him,
for he turned back to it again and again
with much rumination, and finally cut it
from the paper and tucked it away in
his wallet.

At daybreak he questioned the patient.
“Have these attacks often?” he asked.

“Yes,” groaned the Colonel. “Millions
of times.”

“Do they last long?”

“Anywhere from two weeks to six
months. Can’t you get a doctor for me?"

“’Tain’t neceswry. I can cure you.”

”You can!” gasped the astonished Col-
onel. “\Vhy haven’t you done it then?"

“It’s a secret method,” the trapper ad-
vised him. “I’ll have to blindfold you.”

“All right, go a‘head!"groaned the Col-
onel. “I’ll die if this keeps up!”

“You just lie still and I’ll go fetch the
medicine. I won’t be long; I know right
Where it is.”

“Go on," moaned the patient; “only
hurry up! I’m dying right now! I’ll
never stand on my feet again!”

“Oh, yes, y0u will,” said Joe confident-
ly. “This medicine’ll fix you up in jig
time.

The trapper dug out a g1ain sack flom
under the bunk, picked up an ax and
went out. He was back in an hour, but
to the ColOnel it seemed a month.

“Did you get it?” he asked eagerly as
the other entered.

”You bet! We’ll have you prancing
around as chipper as a hopper-grass in
no time now." .

. He dropped the sack in a corner and
approached the bunk with the towel.

“I’ll have to blindfold you so you won’t
discover this wonderful medicine,” he
said.

“Is it going to hurt?” asked Col. Wat-
truss apprehensively.

“Never hurt me none," answered the
trapper as he fastened the towel over the
other’s eyes and then gently removed the
blankets from the Colonel.

“I‘m cold,” chattered the patient.

“YOu‘ll be warm enough in a minute,"
answered the trapper as he picked up
the, grain sack. He untied the string
gingerly, quickly shook the contents out
onto the floor and thcn sprang out the
door, slamming it behind him.

Joe braced a stick of wood againSt the

door to hold itishut and then jumped for
the window and closed the wooden shut-
ter, which he also fastened.
»He had no imore than finished this
when a mighty roar arose within. The
Colonel was annOuncing. in his loudest
voice, that he was being murdered and
shrilly appealing to somebody to come
and save him quick. A second later he
heaved against the door and Joe prompt-
ly reinforced the stick of wood with his
shoulder.

“Lemme out! Lemme out, I_'tell you!
I’m getting killed!” howled the Colonel,
who, from the sound of things, was de-
molish’ing everything in the shack.

“That medicine’s working first rate’”
chuckled Joe, with his shoulder still
against :the door. “He’ll just plumb wreck
my shack, but he’s going to get cured!"

Crash! The glass in the window went
out and the Colonel was battering against
the wooden shutter.

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henfiivelm ' '
"You lemme out of here!" roared the
frantic‘Colonel. “I’m getting killed! I'm
being eaten alive!”
“You just be calm," admonished Joe.
“You're being cured of your rheumatiz.”

Crash! A wooden bench struck the
shutter from within and knocked it from
its hinges. Joe promptly ducked and ran,
nor did he pause until ‘he- had put a good
quarter of a mile between himself and
the scene of activities.

When. half an hour later, Joe cautious-

ly approached his domicile, he discovered

the Colonel seated on a log, about one
hundred yards from the shack, clothed in
a suit of light underwear, and gingerly
rubbing himself.

“What in thunder were you trying to
do?” he demanded indignantly.

“Cure your rheumatiz," answered Joe
meekly. "Feeling better?"

"Cure rats! Those bees mighty near
stung me to death!"

The Colonel’s visible anatomy resem~
bled the back of a wart toad, in the mat-
ter of bumpS, and a Kansas sunset in
hue. Also it was quite evident that the
Celonel was Very much wrought up.

Joe took his wallet from his pocket.
extracted the clipping and handed it to
the Colonel.

"Here’s a piece I cut out of the paper
you brought yesterday, which says that
a big dock has discovered that bee stings
are a sure cure for rheumatiz. You was
suffering something terrible last night
and I didn’t know What to do for you
until I read this. I knew there was a
bee tree handy and so I just went out
and smoked 'em, and chopped her down
and got a sackful of bees and turned
’em loose on you for general results. Near
as I can figger, she worked first rate."

”You go get my clothes!” ordered the
indignant financier. “I'm going home!"

“How are you going to get to Boyne
Falls?” asked Joe.

“I'm going to walk!"

Twenty minutes later Joe was standing

'in the middle of the trail, watching the

indignant Colonel striding Off in the di-
rection of Boyne Falls, bag in hand. The
Colonel’s step was strong and springy
and there were no indications of lame—
ness.

“Guess them bees done the business,"
chuckled the trapper. “Last night he
couldn't move a muscle."

A year later he received a letter from
Colonel Wattruss, profoundly apologizing
for 'his rudeness. and enclosing a check
for a hundred dollars. The letter read
in part:

“Your treatment was drastic, to say
the least, but it has certainly demon-
strated that Dr. Cornell is right in his
surmise that bee venom is a sure specific
for rheumatism. I haven't had a recur-

rence of the attack since you turned
those bees loose on me.”

DOROTHY, FLUFF AND THE SILVER
BELLS.

 

(Concluded

Everybody and everything on the place
was provided for, while Fluff’s future
was still a problem. It wasn't possible
to take her with them. for they were to
make several visits before sailing, and
kittens as a rule don't like traveling nor
visiting. Dorothy wept over leaving her
pet until Grossmutter said that she al-
most wished they had never seen Fluff;
but that was something so dreadful that
Dorothy immediately began to control
her grief and take a more reasonable
view of the situation. She did the best
thing possible, both for herself and Fluff.
She took the kitten in her arms and set
out upon a round of calls. She visited
every house in the neighborhood and fin-
ally found a boarding place that she
hoped Fluff would like. Two old Quaker
ladies, who lived in a little vine-covered
cottage at the foot of the hill where
Grossmutter’s house stood. 00nsented to
take the kitten and keep her until Dor—
othy came again, and they promised to
write once. a month and tel Dorothy all
about her. .

And now it was possible and even
pleasant to make plans for Fluff’s comfort.
Dorothy made a new soft cushion for the
sleeping basket. and herself chose its
winter resting-place behind the big stove
in the sunny sitting—room. She bought
a new ball and a. string of large wooden
beads, and last of all she got a beautiful
collar. It was made of soft light brown
kid, with a dainty silver buckle, and
plenty of holes in the strap ,to allow for
the growth of Fluff’s neck during the
year. -

There was-a silver plate. a—ndgon it was
engraved “Fluff.” AS, a. finishing touch

from last week).£

 

 

THE iMICHIGAN FARMER

to this handsome collar Dorothy tied, on
two little silver bells, which pleased Fluff
very much, for kittens are often very
vain, you know; but in time this kitten
learned that, though tinkling ornaments
may be all very well in their way, yet
sometimes life is much more satisfactory
without them. In spite, however, of her
new collar and the musical bells Fluff
was not quite at ease. She seemed to
know that Dorothy was going away, and
she would follow her about. If by any
chance she lost sight of her mistress, she
would wail
would leave packing, or whatever
being done. and join in the search
the little girl.
‘ At length one evening at dusk Gross-
mutter and Dorothy took a little covered
basket like the one that had brought
Fluff—only this was the next size larger
——and with the kitten inside and the cov-
er securely fastened, they went down the
hill to the Quaker ladies' cottage. Dor-
o'thy was very. sad at leaving Fluff, but
she did not cry as much as she thought
she should, because it was so difficult to
per5uade Fluff to lie down in her sleep-
ing basket that she got quite interested
and excited with her task. Finally, how-
ever, the» kitten allowed herself to be
petted into a sort of drowsiness and was
quiet long enough f0r Dorothy to slip
hastily out of the room. and the parting
was accomplished.

‘The next morning, long before Fluff’s
breakfast, Dorothy had sailed out of the
lovely harbor, past the light-house on
Brant Point, and with tears in her eyes
was trying to forget Fluff in watching
the clouds of wild ducks flying low across
the sound. Now, when the old ladies op—
ened the outer door that morning, Fluff,
who hadn't enjoyed her breakfast as
much as usual owing to the strangeness
of everything, darted out and up the hill
to see what had happened, for naturally
she was a little bewildered at these un-
usual doings. How do you suppose she
felt when she found that no door or win-
dow opened to let her in? No soft voice
called sweetly, “Fluff, where are you?"
She searched all about the house and
grounds, but nobody she knew and loved
was anywhere to be seen. At last she
thought that she would go,to the minis-
ter’s house. for she had often been there
with Dorothy and had always been pet-
ted and played with as much as she liked
So she trotted across the lawn and, jump-
ing up on the broad ledge of the window
of the dining-room where the minister
and his wife were at breakfast, she mew—
ed plaintively. The kind minister came
immediately and let her in, and then
Fluff ran through the rooms excitedly
searching everywhere for Dorothy. Fin-
ally she came back and, looking up in
the minister's face, mewed again loudly
as if to ask, ““‘here is Dorothy?" The
minister, who liked kittens and who was

was
for

’always good to anything or anybody in

distress, took Fluff up and talked to her;
he told her gently that Dorothy had gone
away, but would come back again per-
haps in .a year, and that she must be a
good kitten and everybody would be kind
to her and help cheer her loneliness
Whether Fluff understood this long speech
1 do not know, but she became quiet and
even showed some interest when the
minister picked up a morsel of fish and
gave it to her on his fork.

The minister’s wife said, warningly.
“This time shall not count, dear, but
you mustn't spoil Fluff‘s manners." All
that day Fluff was very restless. She

wcnt many times to Grossmutter’s house
and looked up at the windows, but she
didn't cry any more. At night the kind
minister took her home to the old ladies,
who had been very anxious about her all
day. She soon curled herself up in her
basket and slept soundly.

Every morning after her breakfast at
home she would appear at the minister's
window and ask to be let in; then. after
greeting him with a good-morning
“miauw” she would patter out into the
kitchen where, on a particular corner of
the zinc under the stove there was al-
ways a tidlbit awaiting her in a pretty
cracked plate.

At noon she seemed to prefer to dine
at home, but her supper she chose to
take at the minister's. and she never.
failed to go into the sitting~room for a
good-night before she asked the maid to
open the door for her to go.

When. as sometimes happened, the
minister's family were away, Fluff would
visit the next house where the colonel
and his wife lived. and there, too, she
always found a cordial welcome. and
something very good, to eat. So you see
she got on very comfortably, though she
did miss Dorothy and the games and

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so piteously that everybody

romping, for of course the old ladies were!
not very spry, and there were no chil-'
dren in'the neighborhood. Besides, Dor-«
othy seemed to heye taken with her all
the butterflies and birds. for there were
only English sparrows left and they al-
ways came in such crowds and screamed
and scolded so loud that Fluff only look-
ed out at them wistfully from under the
corner of the steps, but never dared to
clamber up the vine-trellises into the
midst of such a fluttering and sputtering
family. She used to think sometimes of
that one exciting experience when she
had hunted down the poor little mouse,
and she longed for another wild chase.
She often listened in dark corners and
queer out-of-the-way places but she nev-
er heard the gnawing of tiny sharp teeth
nor the almost shadowy sound of the
slender little feet. Fluff did not know
that the tinkling of her beautiful silver
bells could be heard so far away by the
wonderfully quick ears of mice that they
always had warning of her approach.

At last it was mid-winter. The min-
ister and the colonel were both to close
their houses and leave the island f0r sev-
eral months.
was to be thought of. Suddenly the min—
ister had a bright idea, which wasn't
anything unusual, of course; but it seem-
ed strange to him that he hadn't thought
of it before.

He remembered that Fluff, being a kit-
ten,
one of which was catching mice. He
knew that besides the sport she would
probably enjoy a meal obtained by her
own efforts, so he took off the silver
bells, and that very evening Fluff brought
a tiny mouse and laid it before him; af-
ter he had stroked and praised her she
snatched it up and ran away. What fol-
lowed he did not see, but he now felt
easy about Fluff’s future. The kitten
herself at first missed her silver bells,

and again Fluff’s comfortr

had her own rights and privileges. ,

  
  

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Clover Blossom—“Anty Drudge,
do you like my dress? I made
it. I’mgoing to wear itto the
Grange Dance tonight. I never
had a fancy dress before, but
Ma and I wash with Feis-
Naptha Soap now and I knew
the li ht blue wouldn’t fade,
and tfie lace wouldn't have to
be rubbed to pieces.

Anty Drudge—“You look sweet!
I’m glad I told you about.
Fels-Naptha Soap. It won’t
hurt anything.

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and often pulled her collar around to look
for them, but life had all at once become
so interesting that she soon forgot them.
One day she came up the hill with a
note pinned on her collar. It contained
:1 request from the old ladies that the
person who had removed the bells should
put them back again, so the good min-
ister went to see the old ladies, as he
had meant to do. and told them how they
had all conSpired to deprive Fluff of her
rights. for she could catch no mice as
long as she was decorated with the sil-
ver bells. and he suggested that they
should be put away until Dorothy came
back and then Fluff might wear them to
celebrate the joyful event. The old la-
dies saw that the minister was wise, and
they also understood why they had
thought that Fluff was not a good “mous-
er,” but they soon had reason to change
their opinion about that matter.

Fluff seems very contented and happy
in these days, and I’m not sure that she
even remembers all that happened through
the beautiful summer, though sometimes
when it is stormy and she doesn’t wish
to go out, she lies quietly on her silk
cushion with such a serious and far-
away expression in her lovely yellow
eyes that the old ladies say softly to one
another, “she is thinking of Dorothy."
And perhaps she is, only with cats one
can never tell.

 

SMILE PROVOKiERS.

 

The night watchman of a large hotel
saw an apparition in white moving along
the hall at 2:00 a.“ in. He hastened his
Steps, and tapped on the shoulder what
proved to be a man.

“Here, what are you doing out here?"
asked the watchman.

The man opened his eyes and seemed
to come out of a trance.

“I beg your pardon,“ he said, “I am a
somnambulist."

“Well” said the watchman, “you can’t
walk around these halls in the middle Of
the night in your nightshirt, no matter
what your religion is.”

 

A girl, a great lover of Nature, went
to the seashore for a holiday, and. ap—
proaching a typical fisherman said:

“A'n, sir, how well you must know the
face of Nature, and know it in all its
moods! Have you ever seen the sun
sinking in such a glare of glory that it
swallows‘up the horizon with fire? Have
you not seen the mist gliding down the
hilltop like a specter? Have you never,”
she went on impassionedly, “seen the
moon struggling to shake off the grip of
the ragged, ru‘gged storm—cloud?"

“No, MiSS." responded the fisherman,
“I used to see dem things, but I’m on

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Soap won’t harm
the daintiest fabric,
nor fade the most
delicate color. But
it will do the hard-
est, coarsest kind
of work as well
and as easily as it
will do the finest

All you need is
cool or lukewarm
water. Fels-Naptha

Soap will do the
rest. Clothes soaped
with Fels-Naptha
and put to soak are
practically clean
when you come to
wash them. They
don’t need hard
rubbing or boiling.

l t dissolves grease
on pots and pans,
takes out all kinds
of stains, makes dirt
disappear.

Directions for doing all kinds of

work with Fels-Naptha Soap are
on the Red and Green Wrapper.

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Don’t Be In a Hurry.to “Get Even”.

‘acrHEN I was a child we had a.
neighbor who went by the nick-
name of “Old Bunting Wilcox,”

and everyone could stop work long enough

to tell the newcomer how the old man
earned the name.

It seemed he used to settle all those
domestic squabbles which enliven the te-
dium of married life by bunting his own
head against the wall. \Vhen he and the
good wife had a difference of opinion,
instead of beating her, as is the manner
of some men, he retired to his own
room and knocked his own head smartly
against the side of the house. This ar-
rangement was highly satisfactory to
bt:"\ parties. At least the wife didn’t
mind and it seemed to relieve the old
man’s feelings as much as swearing or
lighting do other men‘s.

It is not my purpose to offer this course
of procedure as a sure way of settling
family quarrels, though there would be
more happy wives if more men tried it.
It is simply to call attention to the fact
that there are a great many of us who
might enjoy the same sobriquet so far as
our actions go. Many of us are “knock—
ing our heads against the wall,” figura-
tively speaking. in the misguided opinion
that we are spiting someone else.

Children are more prone to do this sort
of thing than grownups, for experience,
that blessed teacher, usually shows us
the folly of bumping ourselves because
We are mad at someone else, before we
reach adult age. I have in mind a girl
of 12 who was miffed at her mother be-
cause she was refused a second dish of
sliced peaches and cream. She went out
to the orchard and ate three dozen
peaches without stopping to breathe, as
it Were. Atfe-r the doctor had left with
his stomach pump, and the memory of
castor oil had died away. the young lady
decided that it is better not to bump
yOurself just to get even with someone
else.

Of course, she was a foolish child. But
it is such childish knocking of oneself
that fills our jails. Boys and girls, men
and women, defy the law, often with the
idea of spiting title officials. They get
the mistaken notion that the individual
is bigger than law, and that they have
the right to do anything they please.
Boys between 14 and 22 years of age are
so apt to resent any attempt to bridle
them in any way that they often break
the laws, not from any inherent badness
but just to shew the officers they will do
as they please. Now, bless you, the offi-
cers don’t care if you break them. It’s
up to you to behave, and if you do not
it is up to them to arrest you and put
you in jail. Then you will have plenty
of time to reflect on how little anyone
else cares when you knock your own
head against a hard, hard wall.

Perhaps the most foolish of all the folk
who knock themselves are the girls who
marry for spite. A girl is jilted. Her
lover leaves her for a prettier face, or
for a girl with more money, and just to
Show him that she doesn’t care a mite
about him she rushes off and marries a
man that she wouldn't look at twice if
she were given her choice. If she would
only stop to reflect that the man she is
trying to spite Will only laugh in his
sleeve, and that she will be the one to
Suffer, would she be in,such
There is no form of punishment known
to humans more awful than having to
spend your life with someone you do not
care a little bit about. And the worst
of this is that the innocent party must
suffer too.

It is well when we are thirsting for
revenge on someone, to stop and reflect.
\Vho will be worst hurt, the party we
want to reach or ourselves? Invariably
we will be the ones hardest hit. for re-

venge is a boomerang that always comes

back to the sender.
DEBORAH.

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DESCRIPTION OF CROCHETED LACE
AND INSERTION.

 

BY PEARLE WHITE M'COWAN.

Insertion.

The solid circles in both lace and in-
sertion are termed wheels, and all the
so—called fans are very open, being made
with chains of three between each double
crochet.

Terms used, ch, chain; (1. c., double
crochet; sts, stitches; st, one stitch; sc,
single crochet.

Chain 28.

First Row—Count back 4 sts and dc.
ch 3, dc in same st as before. ch 3, do
in same place as before. Count back 8
sts on ch and do in 8th st. Ch 3 and do
in same. place, ch 3 and dc in same place,
Ch 3 and do in same place. Ch 9, turn
and catch, back in 4th st of this chain,
making a loop. Dc into this 7 times,
then catch on first chain, by a so 8 sts
back from last fastening. Now do 7
more times into this same loop, then dc
into last st of first ch. Ch 3 and,dc in
same st, ch 3 and dc in same st, ch 3
and do in same st. Ch 4 and turn.

Second Row.—Dc into center of last
fan, ch 3 and do in same place, ch 3
and dc in same place, ch 3 and dc in
same place, do in center of 2nd fan, ch
3 and dc in same place, ch 3 and do in
same place, ch 3 and do in same place.
Now do 14 times into loop thereby mak—
ing a solid wheel, then dc into center of
last fan, ch 3 and dc in same place, ch
‘3 and dc in same place, ch 3 and do in
same place. Ch 4 and turn.

Each succeeding 2 rows are but a rep-
etition of those already described, except
that, the position of the wheels is made
to alternate in the different rows, and
the 7th and eighth rows are made en-
tirely of ‘fans, ‘thus forming the wheels

into groups of three as shown in the
illustration.
Lace.

First Row.—Ch. 51. Turn and do in 5th
st back on chain. Ch 3 and do in same
place, ch 3 and do in same place, ch 3
and dc in same place. Ch 9, turn and
catch back in 4th st of this chain there-
by making loop, into which do 7 times.
Count back 8 sts on 1st ch and so there-
in, turn back and do 7 more times into
loop. Count back ‘8 sts on lst chain and
dc therein, ch 3 and. do in the same
place, ch 3 and do in the same place, ch
3 and dc in the same place. Count back
8 more sts on lst chain and dc therein,
ch 3 and dc in same place, ch 3 and do
in same place. ch 3 and do in same
place, ch 9, turn and catch in 4th st of
this ch, thereby making loop, into which
dc 7 times. Count back 8 sts on lst ch
and so therein, then turn back again and
do 7 more times into loop, thereby mak-
ing first half of wheel. Count back 8
more sts on original chain and do there-
ing, ch 3 and do in same place, ch 3 and
dc in same place, ch 3 and dc in same
place. Ch 10 and catch in last st of
first chain. Ch 3 and turn.

Second Row.—Dc into large loop formed
by two chains 16 times, do into center of
last fan of preceding row, ch 3 and do
in same place. ch 3 and do in same place,

ch 3 and do in same place, thereby mak—
ing fan. Now do 14 times into loop,
thereby finishing the wheel. (The fans

and wheels are so simple to make, that
further description of them would seem
to be superfluous, therefore hereafter we
will merely say 1 fan or 2 fans as the
case may be, and lst or 2nd half of
wheel). Two fans, last half of wheel, 1
fan, ch 4 and turn.

Third Row—Three fans, lst half of
wheel, 2 cans, ch 3 and dc into 1st st of
the 16 double crochets of the previous

haste? ,

row, ch 3 skip 1 st and dc into 3rd st of
the row of 16 double crochets of previous
row, repeat to the end, thereby making
8 double crochets in the row of 16 double
crochets of the previous row with a ch
of 3 sts between each. Ch 3 and turn.

Fourth Row—Dc 3 times into each
mesh of the preceding row thereby mak-
ing a solid row of 21 double crochets.
then ch 3, and make 2 fans, last half of
wheel, 3 fans, ch 4 and turn.

Fifth Row—One fan, 1st half of wheel,
2 fans, 1st half of wheel, 1 fan, ch 3 and
dc juSt in front of row of 21 double cro~
chets of previous row. Now ch 3 and
dc into center of first group of 3 in this
same row of 21 double crochets. Repeat
to the end, chaining 3 and double cro—
cheting into each succeeding group of
three, thus forming 9 open work square
meshes. Ch 3 and turn.

Sixth Row.—Make 8 square meshes by
double crocheting into each of the mesh-
es in the preceding row and chaining 3
between each dc. Ch 3, 1 fan. last half
of wheel, 2 fans, last half of wheel 1
fan, ch 4 and turn.

Seventh Row—Six fans, 1st quarter of
wheel, caught by a so just at the outer

 

edge of last fan of preceding row; 2nd
quarter of fan, 1 do in do of preceding
row, 1st quarter of fan, catch by so in
do of previous row, 2nd quarter of fan,
do in do of previous row, continuing thus
to the end of this row, making in all the
first half of five fans with a dc between
each.

Eighth Rom—Dc 14 times into loop thus
finishing the second half of the first
wheel, so into dc of preceding row, last
half of 2nd wheel, sc into do of preceding
row, last half of 3rd wheel, so into do of
preceding row, laSt half of 4th wheel, so
into dc of preceding row, last half of 5th
wheel, 6 fans, ch 4 and turn. This is
the last row of the scallop.

The first row of the next scallop is
made the same as the first row of this
one except that the counting of stitches
on the first chain is, of course, done away
with, the centers of the fans of the pre-
vious row serving as pivots into which
the fans and chains of this row are
caught. The chain of ten which begins
the scallop is caught in the center of the
last half of the first wheel of scallop
No. 1.

SOME OF THE FABRIC TERMS.

 

BY A. L. L.

What woman has not wondered what
the clerk meant when he talked glibly of
de chines and de soles and Jacquards
and boucles and what not? A dictionary
of the terms used over the counter would

be a welcome addition to most libraries.
Cut this out and save it as the beginning
of your dictionary.

Chine means printed on the warp, so
that the design appears only faintly.

Jacquard is also a term applied to the
design. It is called Jacquard after the
man who invented a mechanism to weaVe
complicated figures into the cloth.

Cravanette, contrary to the general no-
tion, is not a fabric. It is the proceSS of
waterproofing silk, wool or cotton.

Voiles is a semi-tranSparent cloth,
either silk, wool or cotton.
-Pompadour refers to small floral de-

signs.

Boucle is a fabric with knots, loops or
curls on the surface.

Messaline “silk" is really a light-weight
satin.

CharmeuSe is also a Iight—weight- sat-
in with a high luster.

Chiffon was originally a sheer silk tis_—
sue of plain weave and soft finish. Be-
cause of its light weight and soft finish
the term came to be applied to cloths
with these qualities so that we have
“chiffon tafeta,” chiffon velvets, etc.

Eponge is a French term meaning cloth
that has been sponged.

Rep is a cloth having cords running
crosswise,'whereas in corded cloths the
cords run lengthwise.

 

FURNISHING THE HOME.

 

In choosing a home one should have an
eye to the surroundings. If it is in the
rural district see that it is on a main
traveled road, or one that will be in
time, and that the building spot is in a
pleasant place.

'Surround the home with trees, flowers
and shrubs so that it will be a pleasant
sight to those passing by and also to
yourself as you look out. Nice wide
porches add so much to the home com—
fort! A hammock, some rockers or seats
ure time in summer. A fewplant boxes
and cushions on a nice large porch make
a most desirable place to spend all leis—
of geraniums, nasturtiums, pansics or
asters add wonderfully to the home sur-
roundings and do not require much care.

In furnishing the interior of the home,
simplicity should be the keynote in ev-
erything. The plainer the furniture. the
silverware, the range, etc., the easier it
will be to keep them clean. If one can
have the selcctiing of the wood to be used
in finishing the rooms, choose the wood-
work and floors of hardwood waxed and
polished. I prefer the wax to varnish or
paint because it can be just rubbed 0V6?
with a waxed cloth occasionally and made
to look like new.

With the polished floors for the farm
home, the large rag rugs to come about
two feet from the wall all around, are
my choice for bedrooms, sitting-room
and dining-room. In buying the furni-
ture we should not put all the money in
one or two rooms and let the others suf-
fer for it, but divide the money so that
the conveniences of the kitchen will av-
erage with the furniture in the living-
room. Then, if we try to add each
year something to each room that we
have really wanted we will enjoy it more
than as if we had it at first.

The bed-room furnishings should be
simple and plain. If one can have one
bedroom, at least, down stairs, so much
the better, as it is much more conven-
ient in sickness. A great amount of care
should be exercised in furnishing the
children’s rooms and especially'the boys.
Too many mothers think that the girls’
rooms should be dainty and nice, but
anything will do for boys to romp in.
If the boys’ room is furnished neatly and
they are taught to have a place for ev-
erything and everything must be in its
place, except when in use, they will take
as much, or more, pride in keeping it
tidy, as the girls. Let the pictures and
books in their room be of something that
really appeals to them. If they are es-
pecially fond of horses, frame a picture
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beautiful pictures of horses and hang in
their 'rOOm. Give them a copy of Black
Beauty. Or if they care for dogs frame
a picture of Beaautiful Joe and give them
the book. Off from each bedroom should
be a- nice large closet and if the closet
is supplied with the hangers for men's
and women’s clothes, it will mean a
great saving in room needed, also in the
work of pressing.

The livinig-rOOm should.havc. first of
all, beside-s a few comfortable chairs, a
good—Sized reading table supplied with a
good lamp, one that will give a good

' light if it can be secured, papers, books

and magazines for all members of the
family. For here, around this table, to
a great extent will be formed the char-
acters of our boys and girls. Next, a
writing desk or table with pens, pencils,
paper and ink ready to be picked up and
used at any time.

Musical instruments are a great source
of pleasure in the home and are so rea—
sonable now in price that nearly all
families can afford at least an organ.

There should be a well filled book—case

V with good books for the children, as 'well

as the older ones. If one gives a child
a good book at each birthday he will be
more apt to read it and be interested in
it, than if it is just bought and put in
the library and in this way you will
soon fill the library with the books
needed.

The curtains should be of :1 material
thin enough to be easily seen through or
if of a heavier, closer weave, should be
drawn back nearly to the casing, and a
drape hung at the top, for it is very un—
satisfactory, eSpecially to the men of the
house to wish to, see Srinietlllng outside
and have a curtain so thick they cannot
see through.

There should be a few small pictures,
pictures with a meaning.'not anything
that can be picked up, in small, plain
frames, to brighten the walls of this
room.

In building a home if one would ar-
range to have a bath-room in it, they
would not put in anything that would
give more pleasure to the entire family.
In this room, besides the necessaries for
the toilet, should be a medicine cabinet.
If we haven’t the bath—room, this should
be in the mother's room or some other
convenient place where the unsightly.
though necessary medicine bottles can
be kept and locked away from the little
ones.

The dining-room should be light and
one of the most pleasant rooms in the
house, and well supplied with plants and
flowers. The furniture should be plain
and, of course, as expensive as one wish-
es to afford. I do not care for the plate
rails or things of that kind in the aver-
age home where the housewife does her
own work, because it means too much
duSting. Pretty fruit pictures will dec-
orate these walls nicely.

In the pantry the enclosed cupboards
are my choice where things are put away
out of sight and dust. if the kitchen
floor is covered with linoleum it will wear
for several years and is ycry easily
cleaned. The range, work table and sink
should be so arranged as to save as many
steps as possible.

I have not spoken of the library or
parlor in my home furnishing, because
they are not found in the average home.
If one can have the library it is a great
help but I do not care for the parlor. To
me the word parlor brings with it the
thought of a room closed, only to be
opened on special occasions. There is
much more of a feeling of friendliness
and fellowship in the living~room, where
the family live, where, in the evening,
the family gathers to spend a pleasant
hour before retiring, either all to sing or
the older members to read or write, the
younger ones with games and the little
ones with toys, than there is in the par-
lor where papers, games and toys dare
not enter for fear the room will not be
in perfect order.

The things I have mentioned cannot
come to all of us at the beginning of
home-making, but the longer we wait
and the harder we strive for them the
more we will enjoy them when thay are
ours to enjoy.
OUR MOTHERS WAY OF “DOING UP"

FRUIT.

 

 

BY A. L. L.

Our mothers and grandmothers used
to dry large quantities of fruit instead
of canning so much. The process is
simpler than canning. and if the fruit
soaks over night in water before being
stewed for use satisfactory results are
obtained. Pears may be dried as follows:

 

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Pare, quarter and core the fruit and to
every six quarts allow one cup of sugar.
Add just enough water to prevent burn-
ing, stew until tender, take out the
fruit and arrange on plates or platters,
boil down the juice and pour over it and
dry in the oven. Peaches may be dried
in the same way.

To dry citron, cut in inch pieces after
paring, boil with an equal amount of
sugar until clear, then remove the fruit,
boil down the juice until thick and pour
over the citron, which has been placed
on plates. This need not be dried in the
oven. Let it stand in a clean, dry spot,
covered with a thin cloth to keep out
dust and insects

Cherries may be dried by simply let-
ting them stand in the sun after pitting
them and sprinkling with sugar. Berries
shOuld be picked over. washed and
sprinkled with sugar. They may then be
dried in the sun or in a slow oven.

After drying. the fruit may be packed
in jars or tied up in sacks and put away
in a dry place. Of course, it must be
done up so tightly that no dust or ver-
min can enter. The dried cherries may
be used in fruit cake instead of raisins,
or in any way that raisins would be used
and many think home-dried cherries su—
perior to the store raisin’s. If desired for
sauce soak the fruit over night in water
to cover and. cook in the water in which
it soaks.

Drying fruit has the advantage of being
more economical than canning as it does
not require so much sugar, and there is
no expense for cans, tops and rubbers.
Neither does it require so much fire, as
a great deal of it can be done by the
heat of the sun. It is not so tiring a
job, either, as it is usually Spread over
several days. instead of having to be done
all at once. There is not the necessity
for sterilization and the close attention to
many details to exclude germs and pre-
vent spoiling. Altogether it seems to be
a method that the busy farm-wife should
practice more extensively.

 

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As a user of fertilizer I would like to
know how much phosphate rock to apply
per acre in order to get the same results
as from 300 lbs. of complete fertilizer?
Also, would it be a good plan to use
phosphate rock as an absorbent in sta-
bles?

Allegan C0. J. P.

We have not been willing to advise the
use of raw phOSphate rock on Michigan
soils. Of course, raw phosphate rock
will improve and build up the permanent
productive capacity of a soil in time, but
it is made available so slowly, especially,
we think, on most Michigan soils and
particularly the soils of western Mich-
igan which, as a rule, are considered de-
ficient in organic matter, that it seems
uneconomical f0r a farmer to pay for
raw pliOsphate'rock expecting to get any
measurable results therefrom. There
might be some advantage in using phos-
phate rock as an absorbent in the stable
but physically the raw rock is very nearly
inert and consequently will not act as an
absorbent any more than ordinary dust.
So we do not enthuse very much over the
use of raw phosphate rock even in this
relationship.

The fertilizer of a phOSphate nature
which is most available at the present
time is known as acid phosphate, or
sometimes as super-phosphate. Our at-
tention was first called to the advisability
and the practicalibity of using acid phos-
phate as an absorbent in stables by Mr.
Colon C. Lillie. Due to a discussion over
the value of gypsum as an absorbent in
the stable and because of some of our
objections to acid phosphate as a for-
tilizer in general, Mr. Lillie suggested the
use of acid phosphate as an absorbent in
the stable, the principal reason for this
being to trap the ammonia which is lost
to a high degree from the liquid excre-
ment.“ This seemed to us an admirable
plan and we think the nail has been hit
airly on the head to state that the real
place for the use of acid phosphate is
liberally applied in the stable. In so do-
ing it is certainly brought in contact at
the same time with organic manures,
and. as we have stated in these columns
from time to time, to get the most ben-
efit from the use, particularly of phos-
pliatic fertilizers, they should be com-
bined with organic manures. By using
the acid phosphate in the stable the evil
effects of a possible excess of acid are
overcome; the ammonia which is so
prone to escape is trapped, or conserved,
and the phosphate is, in the third place,
coupled with its desirable amount of
organic fertilizer. A manure thus rein-
forced with acid phosphate should be a
Very valuable fertilizer indeed. and We
Suggest to the questioner above that in’
stead of using raw phosphate rock he se-
cure acid phosphate and use it as an
absorbent in the stable freely and then
apply it to his soil along with the barn-
yard manure, and that it be distributed
as liberally over the"soil as he feels able
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In these columns we have explained
two or three good reasons for the sup-
plementing of corn with succulent feeds
in the ratioa for hogs. He may sum-
marize by saying that the first reason
was the total inadequacy of corn from a
mineral standpoint to provide for the
bony structure in swine. The second was
merged more or less with the first, in
that we showed the predominance in corn
of the unoxidizable acids over the bases
or alkalies. From these two premises we
should argue that, especially in growing
swine, rations should be provided which
overcome the deficiency of corn in these
two important relationships.

The use of green feeds in connection
with corn will diminish the need for
nitrogenous concentrates that exists in
dry-lot feeding, but to what extent has
not yet been determined. Neither do the
data at hand show what amount of grain
feed should be used in connection with
green feeds. Additional data are needed
to Show what rations, in kind and
amount, are best for use in connection
with green feeds. Green feeds alone
should not, of course, be expected to pro-
duce gains. '

Green forage.has a high value for use
in (pork production. .

Spring sown crons cannot take the place
of'fiejgslier "sources of! green fieed for‘
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