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VOL. CXXXII. No. 23.

Whole Number 3454.





FARM NOTES.

“Treating" Seed Corn. '



During the past week or ten days we

have received a number of inquiries from

subscribers who were ready to plant corn

and wished advice on the treating ofgtheir

seed corn with some substance which

would protect it from the depredations

of gophers, crows, cutworms, wireworms,

etc. To these the writer has made a.

personal reply giving his views and ob-

servations on this subject, but as a gr'eat

deal of corn will be planted during the

first days of June, on account of the

extremely late season, a review of this

problem will not be amiss at this time.

These inquirers have mentioned having

seen various substances advocated for

this treatment, such as kerosene oil, tur—

pentine and similar penetrating sub-

stances Which would impart a disagree-

able odor and taste to the corn. Now,

it is a patent fact that careful expcri-

mental work along this line, extcnding

over several trials is a safer guide in a

case of this kind than the testimony of a

grower who has tried' it out with apparent

success in. a single instance and has come

to the conclusion that such treatment of

seed corn is the proper thin". In the

treatment of seed corn with such sub—

stances the first vital consideration is

whether or not it will injure the germi-

nfingnflnwpr of the snarl Fortunately

there is some experimental evidence on

this point. The Kansas station has been

studying this question from the stand-

point of the prevention of the ravages Oi

rodents, and after an extensive series of

tests has recently published a circular

stating that the use of kerosene, crude

petroleum, fish oil, crude carbolic acid,

spirits of camphor, coppcras, etc., when

used in sufficient quantities or strength

10¢ impart a lasting odor to the corn

seriously injures the germinating power

of the seed. Thcy also conclude that the

use of any of these substances in quan—

tities or of a strength which will not in-

jure the germinating power of the seed

is worse than useless, as the little odor

imparted is soon dissipated when the

corn comes in contact with the soil. The

most promising treatment of seed corn

for this purpose tried by this station was

with coal tar, .the corn being first wet

with a little warm water and thcn u twa-

spoonful of coal tar added to a peek of

corn. With a thoro stirring and mixing

of the corn this small amount will coat

and color the kernels and when dricd the

corn is not sticky, will work wcll in a

planter and rctains a lasting gassy odor.

Soaking the corn in a strong tobacco

dccoction for a few hours and then thor—

oly drying also appcar to promise some

results, but notwithstanding the cxtcn—

sivc nature of the experiments made this

station still considers the proposition in

an experimental stage so far as the

cffectivencss of such trcatmcnt is con—

cerned in the protection of Sccd corn from

rodents, the most troublesome of which

in that state are field mice, which run

thru the burrows of moles and destroy

considerable corn and other sccd grains

after planting. But the negative results

obtained are of a nature which should

cause our Michigan farmers to exercise

care and discretion in experimenting with

“treated” seed corn as a protection of

the seed from gophers and crows, to say

nothing of worms.



In any event it is difficult to see

how such treatment of the seed could

prove any protection against cutworms.

These attackthe tender shoot at the sur-

face of'the ground, and it is hardly con-

ceivable 'that the treatment of the seed

could effect either the smell or taste of

the blade of corn, even granting that the

worms are epicurean in their habits.





DETROIT. MICH" SATURDAY. JUNE 5, I909.





Probably the'most effective safeguard

against the depredations of cutworms is

to thoroly fit the ground, delaying plant-

ing a few days if necessary to this end.

In the meantime, the worms will be just

that. much nearer maturity from the

larval stage and when the corn is planted

the conditions will be favorable for its

quick germination and rapid growth.

Then, too, when the panting is delayed

until the soil is well warmed up it can

safely be planted deeper than would be

practicable if planted earlier and under

less favorable conditions, and as the cut-

worms work at or near the surface of the

ground, much of the corn will grow up

again even if it is cut. There are two

methods of handling the soil which prom—

ise about equal protection. The one above

noted of plowing early and preparing a.

good sccd bed being the better for the

future development of the crop, but it

will also be noted'that where the corn

ground is plowed just before planting

time, the worms will“ be turned down

with the ‘sod and will continue to work

on the grecn shoots of grass and the

tender rootlets until the corn gets. a fair

start. Either of these plans would seem





both‘ .safer‘and more effective than any

plan'of treating the seed could posibly be.

Thenmritera has tried various plans of





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use of the latter in comparison with the

highly poisonous corrosive sublimatc. In

the use of the formaldehyde or formalin

treatment we have found _it convenient to

make enough of the solution to fill two or

three barrels, setting these on a platform

devised for the purpose and boring a hole

near the bottom of each so that'the solu-

tion can be drained out into a tub when

each batch has soaked long enough. Then

the tubers can be emptied out. and the

barrels refilled 'and the liquid‘ again

poured over them until the potatoes are

covered. Of course, some fresh mixture

will have to be added from time to time,

and it is best to keep the barrels covered

during the process of soaking, but the

solution can be used several times. \Ve

have always used a mixture of 1 lb. of the

common commercial 40 per ccnt formal-

dehyde to 30 gals, of water, soaking cach

batch 11/2 hours. This is the mixture

which has commonly been recommended

for the purpose by experiment stations,

and it has given us good results, altho per-

fect immunity has not, been secured,

7probably because the.soil has in some

cases been infected, in which case. the

treatment can do little good. However,

recent‘c‘xperiments seem to! indicate that





'a stronger mixture can, be, safely used or '





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treating sccd corn, but has never bccn

satisfied that any benefit has rcsultcd,

but knows of farmers who are stcadfast

in their faith that such treatment has

been the salvation of their corn crop.

However, as above notcd, we prefer to

accept the conclusions reached at cxpcri-

mcnt stations as a result of many trials

and careful observation, to the experience

of a grower, which may have bccn due

to factors which he did not carcfully note

and upon which hc had no reliable check.

Treating Potatoes for Scab.



Several requests are at hand for. specific

instructions as to how to procccd in tho

treating of seed potatoes for scab in the

inost cffcctivc and economical way.



As before noted in these, columns, tho

writcr has successfully trcatcd his pota-

tocs for the scab fungus many timcs,





.both with the corrosive sublimate treat-





ment and with the formaldehyde treat-

mcnt, and last year with the gas treat-

ment. The corrosive sublimate treatment

was discarded for the formaldehyde treat-

ment because of the greater safety in the





strength above notcd for a longor limo

without injury. A bulletin recently issucd

by the Michigan station recommends

soaking the tubers in a, mixture Of this

strcngth for two hours, and a presS bul-

lctin from the \Visconsin station rccmn.

mcnds the use of one quart of formalde-





hyde, which would be approximately ‘2

lbs., to .‘lO gals, of water, soaking the





tubers for 11,5 hours. Thus it would :2“.

pear that the quantity that may be used

with safety is larger than that required

for effcctivc troatmcnt for scab and that

exact proportions necd not be maintaincd

for good results. The sccd, howcvcr,

should be trcutcd before bving cut and

care should be takcn to keep it separate

from untrcatcd seed-and not to handle

it in infected crates without disinfecting

them. ,



However, some growers claim to have

had more favorable rcsults with the other

trcatment. The solution for this treat-

ment is made by using 1 oz. of corrosive

sublimate to 7 gals. of water. This should

first be dissolved in a little warm water





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$1.50 THREE YEAR





in an earthen vessel and then diluted to

the desired proportions. The seed is

soaked in this solution for 11/5 hours the

same as in the formaldehyde solution.

Great care should be exercised in its use

and in handling the potatoes after treat-

ment on account of the poisonous nature

of the material with which they are

treated. . "" w.



Another method of treating the seed

which the writer used last year and will

employ again this year is with formalde-

hyde gas. This was done in accordance

with tllv formula recommended by the

Maine station; thrce pints of formalde-





‘liyde bcing poured over ‘23: ozs. of potas-





sium pcrmanganatc spread evenly over

the bottom of a large crock for each 1,000

cubic foot of space in the cellar in which

they wcrc treated, thc Ccllar being closed

tightly for about 36 hours after treat-

ment. llcre again there is a difference

in the quantity rccommcndcd ,by the

different stations, the \V'isc‘onsin station

recommending 24 ozs. of potassium per—

manganate and four pints of formaldehyde

for each 1,000 cubic feet of space. How-

cvcr, the first formula givcn seemed to

give us good results, and as the Maine

station should be a first—class authority

on this subject we shall use the same

quantity this. year. This method of trout

mcnt would be of (ltiestionalilew'ziltie to

farmers for the reason that the

,fumes Would prove objectionable where

the potatoes are stored in a house cellar,

but in our case tiny wcre treated in a

cellar undcr an outbuilding, with entire

satisfaction. It is a pcculiar fact that,

whilc thc potatovs did not sccm to be

injurcd in any way for sr-cd, the weeds

growing about the c-«liar wall were visn

ibly affcctcd by the cscziping- fuincs. For

best rcsults the potatoos should be in

Claim as the gas will pc-notrzitc them

more readily, but with a little longer ex-

posurc to it thcy will all be reached in

a compact pilc or in sacks.

Seeding Low Land.



I would bc vi-ry much ])1.-asml to gct

your opinion on what crop 1 should sow

to sccd down right :1(*1‘t< of low ground

which was plowcd lust tall with thc- iue

tt'llllOll of sowing" it to oats this spring

and seeding it down to clovwr. This fir-Ill

has been to corn twicw. ’l‘ho heavy rains

havc kcpt it too out to think of sowing

It to oats now.



Allcguii (,‘o. J. H. B.



\thrc it is dcsircd to got a good sot-d-

ing of grass on low land, the bcst nu-thod

of sccding it into in the

lll't'llill‘t} a and

grass sccd without a nurso crop. It then-

is u DI‘OSpH‘t that tho Ilvlil will bc dry

cnough to pwrmit tho posturing of slump

and hogs on it during the sumnn-r it

Would bc pruclitalvlo to sow it to dwarf

Essa-x rapo for that purpose and sm-d to

grass in this crop. llut if the lam >iltlLlitl

be wct at any timc during: tho sillillllvi‘

it would not bc good practice to hi the

stock run ovcr it and tramp it down. ‘lt‘

sown alone as curly as tho ground can

bc propcrly iitlcd it would be possible t0

to gct a light crop of buy the first year,

but for the best rcsults with the stand

of grass for a scrics of years it would

be bettcr to prepare thc land well and

seed, letting thc grass rmnain on the

land over winter if 1ch growth is not too

large. There is no grain crop cxcopt

buckwheat with which this ground (31111151

be seeded latc in the season. Alsiko

clover should be used on this low land

in a mixture with timothy and red top,

and a libcral amount of seed should be

used for best results.



Seeding a Sandy Hill.





I have a large hill whore the wind has

swept the sand and blown out holcs here

and there. Now, I wish to fill and even

up and seed. The soil consists of high,

red sand. Rye grows very good on this

kind of soil; probably I could seed with it.

Or how would it be to seed and spread





smlson is to





grind Seoul ln'll SH\\' 1110.
598 (2)

manure on surface? This tends to keep

wind from blowing both sand and seed

away. What seed is best to use on this

high, dry soil, and what time of year

should I seed? .

Monroe C0. SUBSCRIBER.





“'hile the writer never had any exit

perience in seeding land of this kind,

yet the plan of sowing without a nurse

crop and topdressing with stable manure

would seem to be the most feasible one.

If the ground is plowed early and worked

thoroly to prepare a good seed bed and

the grass seed is sowed when the weather

conditions are favorable to its quick ger-

mination and rapid growth, the chances

of getting a good stand of grass would

seem to be good by this plan. If the

surface of the ground is left rough as it

would be if rolled with a corrugated

roller, or if harrowed after rolling with a

smooth drum roller, the sand will blow

much less freely, and the topdressing

of stable manure will tend to further de-

crease the Velocity of the wind at the

surface of the ground. If June grass

comes in freely on this land, a seeding

of red and alsike clover and timothy

should be sufficient. If June grass does

not grow readily probably one of the best

grasses to use as a soil binder on such

land is'brome grass (Bromus inermis).





PREPARE FOR THE BEAN CROP.





 





“‘ith the price of beans hovering

around the $2.25 mark, which is a record

price for this commodity, probably, owing

to this fact, a larger acreage will be dc-

voted to this crop this season than in any

one season in the history of the state, and

while the price will probably be good

during the coming season, for the reason

that practically all of the old crop has

been consumed. yet it is always wise in

changing our farmingr i’ipcrations to"‘make

haste slowly;" especially is this true with

the novice or beginner. The man that is

contimnilly changing from one crop to

another will usually find that he is just

a little too late to realize the best prices

on what he happens to be raising that

slason. for the rcason that others. think-

ing that the price would be high, have

also changed their plans and gone into

what seemed a inonov-niakim: crop. only

to find that when their crop is ready

U1 ular‘ni‘t lllt'lt‘ is a surplus and the

market is far from what \vns expected.



\l'hile perhaps there is no grcat danger

of this being the case with beans this

year. it will seldom be found profitable

to break up our crop rotation in order to

increase the acreage of any one crop.

(‘Sllt't'litily if that crop is a cash crop, the

profus from which are always more or

less unccrlain.



in prcparina‘ for the bean crop, the old

adage that “what is worth doing is worth

well,“ applies with unusual significance,

for unless the preparation of the soil has

been vcry thoro the best results cannot

be (-xpcctcd. '



A clovi-r sod turned under makes an

ideal place for this crop. The plowingr

should be done as early in the season as

possible so that the soil can be worked

over several limos planting in

order that thc‘moisiurc may be conserved





bcforc





and also to kill all the weeds possible

before the crop is planted.



\\'hcrc the ground has been plowed early

and burrowed frequently and the ground

is reasonably free from weeds, drilling

in rows L’.\ in. apart is preferable to plant-

ing: but where thcrc is danger of the

wccds getting the start planting is bet-

ter, as more thoro culture- can be given

the crop, in drilling. the writer has

found that from 2“ «its. to 2-} (its. per

here is about the right amount to sow.

depending on the season and the soil.

lH-forc the loans come up tho ground

should bc gone over with a spike—tooth

barrow to loosen up llll‘ soil and kill the

words that have startcd and after the

first cultivation they should be gone over

cross-wise of tln- rows with a wccdcr,

which will loosen up the soil in the rows

and also kill the WH-ils that may have

started. This should be done in the

middle of the day when the sun is shin-





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inc: as the young plants are very tender





in the morning and are easily broken ofl’

Frequent culiivaiions should be given

the crop during the grrm'ing Sl‘ilFtil] and

isptcially after each rain in order that

the moisture may lH‘ conscl‘vcd, for quite

often it hnppcns that just at the most

critical time. whcn the pods are “setting"

we have a dry spcll and unless there is

plcnty of moisture in the soil the yield

is sure to be greatly lessened. Upon

good soil where good cultural methods

have been employed. 20 bu, per acre ie

only a fair yield and with prices ranging

from $1.50 to $2.00 1101‘ bu. there is no

crop that will yield a greater profit for





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THE MICHIGAN FARMEfi,





the time expended than the bean crop,

and considering the fact that it only

requires about four months from the time

the crop is planted until the cash can

be realized upon it. and also that where

the ground has been kept clean the soil

requires but little work to fit it for

wheat, beans make a good cash crop for

many farmers whose soil is adapted to the

raising of this crop and, with the advent

of modern machinery for handling the

crop it is one of the, easiest crops to

handle that is raised on the farm.

Livingston Co. C. C. O.





AFTER THE CORN IS’IN.





The most important work at this time

is to spray the fruit trees and berry

bushes. The principal spraying for the

codling moth, or apple “worm,” also the

cherry “worm” and plum eurculio comes

at this time, and it is also a favorable

time to cover the foliage with Bordeaux

mixture for the scab. This is important

on young trees not yet in hearing. as well

as older ones that have blossomed. An

application of Bordeaux mixture (three

pounds blue vitriol and five or six of lime

to 50 gallons), to which is added two to

three pounds of arscnate of lead, will

work wonders with the fruit crop. The

general farmer can at least afford to give

this one spraying even if he gives no

more. Leave a few trees unspraycd and

compare the fruit with the sprayed ones

and see for yourself whether it pays or

not. Notice the thriftiness of the foliage

also, and how the sprayed trees behave

the next season. Every farmer should

read Prof. 'l‘aft's article on page 568 of

the Michigan Farmer of May 22.



Those who take enough interest in fruit

to spray the tr: cs will probably give more

care to their orchards and small fruits

in the way of pruning and cultivation.

This will be a good time to prune trees

and clean out raspberry and blackberry

plantations. These fruits are getting

more scarce, and priccs will never be

down win-re they \\'cl'(‘ a few years ago.

so it stands us in hand to take care of

our trees and bushes or go “fruitless.”



Garden truck, potatoes, pop corn, sweet

corn, squashcs. pumpkins, melons, etc.,

should be put in now. “'0 have to do a

mile ilauring to keep the rich) corn, pop

corn, and sweet Corn from mixing, but

with a little planningr it can be done.

The early sweet corn should bo near the

house, but that used for drying or can-

lllllil' may be further away if necessary.

The vine plants should be where they

will not smother out other plants in late

summer, and where they will not bother

in culiivating. as in a corn tield that is

to be sown to wheat.



Calhoun Co. S. B. HAn'riuAN.





ALFALFA SEED IN MICHIGAN.





 





There has been, from time to time,

attempts made to make alfalfa a success

in the state of Michigan and a large

pcrccntage of these attempts have failed

outright. The main cause of this failure

is in the seed that has been planted.

Now. there are as many varieties of

alfalfa and families of alfalfa as there

are of clchi‘ and some of them arc adap~

ted to this state and others are not.

ltig’ht hcrc lies the solvent of the alfalfa

problem in Michigan. The H"t'(] that is

puntcd in this state must be raised in

the state, or at least conio from ilk same

famiii-s that are doingr well in this locality.



To illustrate the point made in the

above paragraph, I will sight the work

that is being done at the state cxrn-rinn-nt

station. A few years ago it was rcu'iztol

that in order to make alfalfa :i snccos»

in this state it must be bred here

and the seed distributed of iill' family

that was the best for the state. To that

end the station has been working. Some

ii; families were started in thc oxpori-

mental plots and after the St'cnnd year

those withstanding the winter show that

over half of those families are not good

for this state. and yet the seed of this

family of alfalfa has bccn sold by sccd

companies to farmers of the state and

they have failed to get results. Is there

any wonder?



To make the example concrete, take the

Arabian alfalfa that has been recom—

mended for the northwest. There Were

two long roWs of Arabian alfalfa started

and it was cut last fall just before. the

killing frosts. it grew practically all

winter at a very low temperature, but

this spring during the severe freezes it

was killed. The plant characteristics of

Arabian alfalfa are a little different than

that of other alfalfa, as the leave: are

about twice as broad as the Russian and

three times as long. 0f the numerous





families represented in the nursery are

those which present a great contrast to

their sister families. Some of the plants,

show thrift, large stalks, and an upright

pose, while others resembel pursley in

its tendency to sprawl out over the

ground, while still others seem to be

stunted in their growth and prefer the

bush form. The contrast in shape brings

vividly to mind the inherent character-

istics which are, either desirable for..this

state or not wanted.



In Michigan there are only two places

where alfalfa seed is successfully grown

to any extent—that is' to the writer’s

knowledge. One of these places is in

Antrim county and the other in Ionia. In

the northern county some of the farmers

are even bringing alfalfa seed to the fairs.

This seed, however, is bot as soon as it

is for sale and makes one of the best

seeds that the farmer of this state can

buy, simply because the plant has demon-

strated that it‘ will grow and produce

seed in this state.



In what is known as the alfalfa belt

in the south there is no trouble about

getting a stand of alfalfa the first seed-

ing. The seed is sown in the fall and two

cuttings are realized the first season.

Alfalfa in the belt will produce four to

five cuttings and about a ton to the acre

each cutting. It brings at the alfalfa mill

at least $38.00 per ton when it is first cured.

and the price some times in the year

goes up to $12 or $14 per ton. But the

seed used in this belt is of a different

family than that which will grow in

.l\iichigan. The plant leaves and stems

are of a different size than that which

is doing the best in this state.



“'hcn the experiment station finally

scclil‘cs seed for distribution to the farm-

cl‘S in the state, the success of the legume

will be practically established. One of

the best things that the farmer can do

who has any alfalfa that will produce

sud, is to plant it until he has enough

to profitably sell to his neighbor.



Allegan Co. E. B. REID.





A LATE SPRING AND THE PRICE OF

HAY.





The price. of hay in the middle of May

in the state of Michigan is double What

it was last fall and winter. ‘ Early in the

season hay was a drug on the market.

Much of it was sold for five and six dol-

lars in the barn and seven or eight do]-

lars was a good price for baled hay (le-

livered at the station; but a late spring

has changed the market. The bay has

all been used up. There is scarcely any

hay in the country and the price just

the very last of feeding just before grass,

is double what it was in the fall. Sev-

eral supervisors say that they never

found so little bay and grain in farmcrs‘

hands the first of May. when they usually

take their assessments. as there is now.

This will probaldy mean high priced hay

early next fall and cheap hay next spring.

because farmers will be saving of it.





 





 





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BERT, of the '\V()()LEN MILL, Reed

City, Mich. i





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LLIVE STOE‘S





THE RAISING OF VEAL.





 





 





There are hundreds of farmers who

keep just enough cows to keep their fam-

ilies in milk and butter or who try to

keep the house in groceries out of the

milk sold. Most of these farmers make

no pretentious along the line of dairying,

they never think of a silo, of a test, or of

a cream separator. Many do not even

attempt a well balanced ration. They

rarely. especially when work is rushing,

try to milk at regular hours. I



The natural result is forthcoming.

Hardly one—half of. the cows pay for the

feed consumed and the other half do not

make their owners rich. As a further

result of this lack of interest, the sires

used are of an inferior type and are

hardly ,worthy of the name. They are

not Herfords, or Jerseys, or Shorthorns,

but simply ”bulls.” So it is that the

calves produced are of no particular class

or breeding and show no signs of ever

developing into either beef or dairy ani-

mals. The early dta th of such animals

is indeed a boon to the stock interests

of any community, and so the practice

of vealing such calves is far from being

a detriment to the breeding interests of

the country.



Having proven that in such cases the

vealing of calves is not a slovcnly prac—

lice, and having made the statement that

a majority of these cows do not pay out

at all, it is certainly all right to suggest

a means by which these cows will pay

better, and which will be a time and

labor saver t0 the farmer. The means of

accomplishing this end is to raise veal

for market. An ordinary cult is the lit-st

milking machine ever invented. needs no

sterilizing, and but little attention. Be-

sides saving }'(\1II'SI.‘If and the women

work, he is :1 profitable animal.



In no case, when we have veaied calves

have we bit-n unable to buy our butter

and still have a good profit left, when on

the other hand, we usually have a hard

time to keep ourselves in butter. Such

is the case not only with ourselves but

\vitll man of our neighbors as well. We

h'a\e HOT ‘calves‘ six weeks of age for

Sll.25, (0111' bllttt'l‘ nor‘t’nint during the

same length of time be'ng $3.00. \l‘e were

able to steal enough from the cow to keep

us in milk during the time. Indeed, when

we are not selling milk we almost invar-

iably keep calves. In some instances it

is about the only way to profitably utilize

the poor cow.



C‘alves (an be obtained from milkmen,

who want to sell the milk, and from peo-

ple who' don‘t want .to bother with them.

.\s a mic, it is not at all desirable to

allow the calf to run with the cow; but

is much better to pen the calf and to let

the row to it twice daily. (11' com-co

circumstances alter cases, but the prob—

abilities are that if you are included

among a largo class if non-dairying

farmers, veal—growing will prove profit-

able for you.



Ohio.





CLYDE A. TVAUGH.





AN EXPERIMENT WITH HOGS.





Feeling that possibly some of the read-

t]’.\‘ of the Michigan Farmer would be

interested in an experiment which I eon—

dut‘ted last fall, 1 will, as best I ('1111, give

the results obtained. It might be \"t‘ii

to say that I was led into making the test

I.¢'t‘illl.\‘0 of so ninth “talk," and principally

among farmers, that it was a losi 111g pro-

position to attempt produ 'iug poik at :1.

profit, when new corn wa< bringing 90o

pt-r cwt. on the market. I had considei—

able faith in the teachings of our experi—

ment stations, and agricultural papers,

also in some of the men who made the

assertion that hogs 1vould fail to make

.‘—’ood as the “mortgage lifter," with corn

at the pro 'ailing high Dllf‘t’. Having no

particular desire to grow pork :11 a 105;,

I must confess, was “kind—o" on the

fence as to know just what to do. After

figuring for a number of days as to the

probable outcome, I decided to make the

test and at least satisfy myself on the

question.



I selected for the ttst thorobred stock.

using 5 Poland Cliinas, age 7 mos, and

2 Duroo lerseys, age l? mos All were,

very tlnifty and pl' 'rld in the sumo pen,

and receiv ed the same, «“2118 and attention.

Each hog was numbered and weighed at

the beginning of the test and at the be-

ginning of every week thereafter. Hogs

had been upon full feed for about two

weeks previous to the beginning of the

test. They were fed regularly all they





'THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





would consume of the feeds which made

up the ration. The drink was nothing

other than ordinary dish-water, given

three times per day, before the corn. Al-

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the mow, morning and night, about 1 lb.

to a feed. Corn was weighed at every

meal, (three times per day), and fed upon

a cement floor.

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Hit} reader, by consulting the feed and

v..i;.:lrt table, will readily note the great

dii‘i‘t rr'nce in gains in favor of the Duroc—

.lt-1'seys, but it is reasonable enough to

believe that they (the Duroc—Jerseys)

consumed a greater amount of food than

any two of the Poland Chinas. Taking,

the total gain of 37.3.3 lbs. for the lot,

\vnich was produced at a. cost uf $16.13

for feed, leaves a balance of $3.00 to pay

for labor and the satisfaction of knowing

that hogs can be profitably grown, even

tlzo corn t-oniniandt'd the V« ry attractive

price of Sec per cwt.

Ohio. G. O. Looms.





BREEDING, GROWING AND TRAINING

MULES.



inning the past ten years the demanl

1111' high class mules has been constantly

increasing. There is a call for good siZetl

niulo teams from the city breweries and

other heavy trucking et-ntcrs, from tho

southern planters and farmers and from

the rural free delivery men. The gov-

ernment is constantly buying mules for

St‘lViL’U in its island 1111$St'ssi4111s and num-

erous foreign countries are looking to this

country for their supply of mules. In

the face of all of these demands the sup-

piy is inadequate.



In the prartit'al language. of the mule

11!;tl‘Ix't‘t and farm the t~ 1'111 “mule" means

13:11 progeny of thw “jock" and the mare,

whiie the term “hinny” means the reverse

mos-s, or that of the stallion upon the

jenny, 01' fluid le ass.



in the p-'"'o(1~a ion of the mule. the

quality of the jack is of‘ the greatest ini~

portancc, as his. influtnec is marked or.

t-vr'rv mule that is produced. Great im-

lll‘ovt'nb'llt has been made in the mule

since the importation of tilt’ Spanish jat-lzs

into this country.



it has l‘t'SllIlt'iI in giving us animals

that reach maturity at an early age and

that posslss llllll'o size and action and

have a better quality and finish.



The Market Mule.



In the breeding of mules for market

purposts the jack should good

size altho it is not always best to select

a huge jai-k that is deficient in other

respects. An ideal jack is one from four-

tw-n to fifteen hands high. with a good

depth of chest, length of body and with

H good strong constitution, which is indi—

(filled by a good round barrel. He should

IlflVe IlPflVY, flat boned limbs, a long thin

face and fine under jaw, ears carried

upright and not too thick. His temper

should be kind and sprightly and his ap-

pearance good, for these qualities are cer-

tain to be transmitted to his progem’.



He should be fed and cared for at all

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THE MICI—IIG’AN FARMER:





J. K., Hilli‘ards, Mlch.—If





t3 produce an even lot of bolts, and to, you will dilate the neck'of Womb with .the





thisend he should rarely be allowed to





breeding season of three months. Feed

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t should be allowed him at all times.





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If I were going to make a spec-

of the business I would take my

.time and select mares from some city

'dealers where I could find well-bred

'able-bodied mares that Were disqualified

for city uses, on account of being foot—

sore or blemished. There are many ex—

cellent mares in every city that can be





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bot for very low prices and these mares





will go out to the farm or ranch and

raise a number of fine mules before their

days of usefulness are over. Now, I

expect some scientific breeders will jump

at me and say that I am giving my

readers poor advice, but I am speaking

from the practical and money making side

of the question and I have personal ac-

quaintanccs among the most successful

mule breeders in Oklahoma and Missouri

who are making a practice of doing just

what I am advocating. \Ve simply can—

not afford to use the very best mares

for mule breeding when we can sell them

for from two hundred to three hundred

dollars each.



\Vhen breeding mules for market the

brt-ctlcrs in the southwestern states breed

their mares so that they will drop their

('olls early in the spring. At this time

the colts will come when the weather is

favorable and be well started when win-

tcr sets in, and if they are all weaned

at the same time they will go into the.

stable or feeding yards in condition to

make better growth. AVoid yarding in

the fall until after tly time or they will

suffer great annoyance, and perhaps scr-

ious injury.



Mules are timid animals, possessing a

great amount, of curiosity in their com-

positions. They are affectionate, but

possess a habit unusual in most domestic

animals, that of resenting an injury. and

on account of this pcculiarity they are

that by many to be ugly and stubborn.

A careful study of their disposition and

a good line of treatment, from the begin—

ning will overcome these cvil propensities.

It is much easier to take a mule colt and

train it than it is to take an older mulc

that has been misused and overcome any

bad habits or tricks from years

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Advice thru this department is free to

our subscribers. I‘Iaclt communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many (tllcl‘ics are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

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()pacity of (‘ornca.—~I have a valuable

marc that has gone almost blind, vcry

suddcnly, a white tilm has come over her

cycs and I would like to know what to

do. \Y. I.., Armada, l\lich.wPut 1 gr.

nitrate silver, and 1 gr. sulfate atropia

in an ounce of cithcr distilled or rain

water and apply to cycs once a day. Also

blow a little calonicl into eyes once daily.

(live 2H grs. calomel three times a week





mares during a in





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‘fOre finger, or with a dilator, or subject





her to a forced service she might come

heat. Perhaps when the weather

warms up she will come in heat anyway.

The yeast treatment will not do any

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Knuckling.——I have. a heavy draft mare





atu‘al exercise with the run of a grass that is “'9'le in ankles, caused, I think,





from working when her hoofs were too

long she has been in this condition about

a year. J. N D., Dryden, Mlch.—Blister

ankles with cerate of cantharides or any

one of the blisters that are regularly ad-

vertised in this paper, and fairly good

results will follow; however, it is possible

that the joint can never be brot back

into place and the ligaments be as strong

as they were originally.



Cracked Hecl—Distemper.-My 4-year-

old horse has sore heels and his bowels

are quite constipated. I also have a.

yearling colt that is now suffering from

distemper, his threat is broken open in

three different places. Vt'hat shall I do

for them '3 l). M. ’l‘., \Vhite, Cloud, Mich.—

Apply pcroxide—hydrogen to sore heels

twice a day, ten minutes after each ap-

plication apply to cracks equal parts

borac acid, powdered alum and iodoform.

At this season of the year grass is the

best remedy for constipation. Inject

some peroxidc-hydrogcn into throat

wounds twice a day, ten minutes later

inject carbolic acid and water, 1 part to

20 of water. ‘



Dropsy.¥I have a 3—year-old filly that

I have becn woxking on the farm some;

she has a soft bunch on the under part





 





of belly, situated pretty well back. This

swelling is about 4 in. wide, by 12 in.

long and perhaps 1 in. thick. J. B. R,





Kingston, Mlch.—Give your filly a tea.-





spoonful of the following compound

powder: Powdered digitalis, powdered





nux vomica and rosin

equal parts by Weight; they should be

mixed thoroly. Hand rub swelling and if

_ any application it should be a

little iodine ointment.



'l‘uberculosis—lVill you please tell me

what the first symptoms are of tuber—

cuolsis and from the time an animal takes

it. up to death? 0. \V. D., Hespcria,

Mlch.—To answer your question fully I

should have to occupy several pages of

this paper and then l could only partially

cover the ground, as the history of tuber—

culosis is quite extensive: besides, animals

may suffer from tuberculosis all their

life and die from other causes. During

the acute attacks an animal usually has

chills and a slight rise of temperature;

however. it may not be noticeable to.the

casual obschcr. My advice to you is, if





gentian, ginger,





you suspect having tuberculosis in your

herd, havo them tested with tuberculinc

by a competent veterinarian and abide





by his decision and you will come out all

right.



Acute Indigestion—I have. a 2-year-old

colt that has been sick: I was obliged to

£21“. two Yelp. to trcnt‘ him a, short time

ago—they diagnosed his ailment as acute

indigestion. He has these sick spells

every few days. I have given him nitre,

laudanum, acouite and other simple home

remedies, but they do not always give

very quick relief. .I. IS. Il.. Dct'ord, Mich.

—Acutc indigestion is generally the, result

of a fcrnn-ntation of food in the stomach;

thcrcl'ort- a change of feed is Very im-

portant as a preventative: besides, if you

will gve a ttaspoont'ul of gingcr, a tea-

spoont'ul or two of powdered charcoal and

a toaspoonful bicarbonate soda and a.

tcaspoout'ul hypo—sultite soda at a dose

in feed night and morning and it will

perhaps prevent future attacks. Besides,

whwn the grass gcts a little more sun

and matures a little more, fully it will not

be so apt to produce indigestion. Aro-

matic spirits ammonia, ginger, pepper-

mint, salicylic acid, hypo—sulfite soda,

charcoal, etc., are calculated to give a

certain amount of relief when acute at-

tacks comc on, and if the bowels are

costive .rrivc aloes, salts or oil as a, lax-

ativc.



It‘lig‘lmilc—S\vocli\'.—~I have a 6-year-old

gelding that wont lame on fore. leg when

he was three years old. (me Vet. located

the trouble in shoulder, the other in foot,

shows symptoms of ringlmnc. Last

spring he appeared to be over his lame-

ness and went fairly good until the first

of August, when he appeared to be

S\\'('t'llit'(I. Another \'ct. looked at

and he thot his limb was fractured be-

twccn knee and shoulder. Ito treated

him the rest of the summew he is now

so he can hear his weight when he walks,

but will let it hang and rest his too when

he stands. Ilavc blistcrcd his shoulder

twice this spring. “'hat; had I better

do for him? 1.}. A. P, Munit'h, Mich.“

I am somewhat inclined to believe the

leg was fractured and that a fibrous union

has taken plat-e instead of a bony union,

and it’ so the leg will always be weak and





the horse unable to work. A fracture

should unite perfectly in six weeks:

therefore, it always looks suspicious if





the horse does not recover from a frac»

turc in that length of time. (‘outinue

blistering the shoulder with the same

liniment you have been using, for it is

all right.



larrcn Marcil bot a 6—year-old mare

last winter, which seems to be perfectly





for thtcc wet-ks. li‘ecd grass, instead of ‘ . . a

grain and l,,~(,[,.\.t the onus from a bright healthy, but fails to get with foal. bhe

hum wt-s bred twice last fall and has been

tilistrtictetl 'l‘eat.—~I have a cow that I’l‘l‘fi the Silmt? number of times this

set-ms to have an obstruction in one of Sill'mg- A. “'- IL, GOUdI‘lch, Mlch.—W 0U





her teats, making it almost impossible to

milk her. It feels like a small bunch upon

the inside—it is not sore and there is





 





had better try the yeast treatment which

is made by putting two heaping teaspoon-

fuls of yeast, in a pint: of boiled water.





inflammation. \Vhat troutmpnt do you Set the solution near the stove and main—

mtviso? (t, W. 31,, Ct'oonvillo’ Mich.——- tain at a warm room or outdoor summer

If the bunch is not growing any larger, temperature for about five hours; then

you had better use a milking tube and add three pints of boiled water and kf‘f‘l)

leave the, treatment to reduce hunch it warm for another five hours. By this

alone. Ry illillll'ing iodine ointment time the solution will have a milky ap—

directly ovcr bunch you might succeed pearance and is ready for use. Flush the

in absorbing the bunch; however, it is parts with warm water and inject the

doubtful. yeast. The animal should be mated from



Heifer Does Not (‘ome in lleat. 1 two to eight hours later. The yeast treat-





would like to know what to do for a bar-





ren heifer; she had a calf a few months cattle and horses when the disorden is

ago and has not bl-cn in heat since. due to an acid condition of the genital

\vould like to know how to man'wn the tract. In cases where the animal does!





if this will be suitable





yea st treatment,





ment is effective in curing barrenness in





not come in heat it has no value.





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For getting {rem I to 8 mares in foal from one service of a

stallion, $3.50 to $6.00. 851' Improflnnting Outfit f0!

barren and irregular breeders.$ .60. Selelng Hobbies,

Stallion Bridles, Shields. Supports, Servrcc Books, etc.

Prepaid and lllllrllltoed. Stallion Geods Catalog FREE.

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WILL TRADE FOR FARM or CITY

PROPERTY. STAND-

ARD BRED YOUNG TROTTING STAL-

LION. record 256%, none of his foals are over 3

years old. they are a fine lot. III of them. He is a

sure foal getter. and I very handsome horse.

Box 2. Mlchlgan Farmer. Detroit, Mlch.





HOW TO OIIIIE NEAVES it‘l‘éeiitg'Sinmt'fiS





world for 200. Dr. J. H. Burdlck, Sandwich, Ill.





 





 





 





EBKSHIBES. Three brood sows, granddaughter! of the

great Premier Longfellow, also a few choice gilt! at bargain

prices. SHINEVALE FARM, Pt. Austin. Mlch.





BREWERS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd headed by UNDULATA BLACKBIRD

1T0 83836. one of the best eons of PRINCE ITO

50006, and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit

and Grand Rapids Fair: of l907 and 1908. Herd con-

sists of Ericas. Blackbirds, Prides. etc. .



WOODCO'I‘E STOCK FARM. Ionlu. Mlch.





 





 





 





 





 





ABERDEEN ANGUS bull, 1 rolled Durham

herd bull closely related to World's Champion, and

one yearling bull left. Freight and car fare to buyers.





 





— fl 1 d b ll f ll t

“OLSTElNS bAreeldfnéegnsd‘Iluedlvlguagtyfifigemgg.

old for 8100. I. M. SHORMAN. Fowlervllle, Mlch.



— .. f

NOLSTEIN BULL Shi‘hti‘c‘t. 58.3 ‘3: $5231}





Sire. Sir Jollle Jonanna, No. 36664. One 20 mo., very

fine individual, largely white. Two 3 mo. old. Benn-





 





 





ties and war h the mone '. These must he sold by

June 10th. Ii. E. CONNIELL, Fayette, Fulton 00., O.





 





. - . HICKORY GROVE s'rock

"OISIIIII'FI'IIIISIIS. FARM. Owen Tnft.Pl-oprletor.

B. 1. Oak Grove. Lolv. Co.. Mlchlnn. Bell phone





IIOLSTEINFRIESIAN ‘éié't‘i’fififi‘fiéfillfii





Royal King. W. B. JONES.OakGrove.R. No.3,Mich.





I

BOIllllMAll STOOK FARM,



JACKSON. mm, I Holstein Battle.

Has more Imported Holstein-Friesinn Cows

than any farm In the Middle West. Registered

BULL CALVES of the most fashionable breeding. 30

fine, registered, Duroc Jersey sows clue to furrow soon.





H EREFORDS:’£‘1‘§.?§.“1I§’.“ £31233?





China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. IVIlch.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Northern Grown Jerseys.

ROYCROF’I‘ FARIVI. Sidnaw. Mic .





 





ERSEY Bull Calf born Feb. 9. ’09, first calf of a

heifer whose dam gave 73-14 lbs. of milk in ’08,

, Sire’s Dam’s record 10,060 lbs. in 10}: months.

i Tm: thnAY-WATEKMAN (30.. Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





Llllle Farmstead Jerseys.

We have some splendid bull calves for sale from

one to six months old. They are from cows with

records of 300 to 4‘25 pounds of butter last year.

Write for description and prices.



COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersvllle. Mlch.





 





St. Lambert Jerseys. tfislné’oné‘éaeotéiffi





heifers. L. B. KUNEY. Adrian, Mlch., Bell Phone.





 





 





l OLLED JERSEYS—Hornless dalry cattle,

l Rules for registration. breeder-’3 names, etc., of

I Chas. S. Hatfield. Secy. Box 9. R. 4. Springfield. 0.

l





‘RED Pour» BULL .t22?.i§‘il5g$%“f.‘lt.‘lfg

l sows. John Berner & Son, Grand Ledge, Michigan.

‘ MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.

'1‘. F. MARS'I‘ON. Bay City. Mlchluan.

CHOICE JERSEYS- 5232i."32".itifibfiilufi‘t‘li’é





CLARENCE BRISTOL. B. No. 2, Fenton. Mlch.





 





 





 





 





Pure Bates Shel-thorns.

Polled Durhams. A. D. DeGarmo. Highland. Mich.

BED POLLED MILEiisfit’éfé‘tlletmfiwlial

heifers at $50 to $75. E.Brackett. Allegnn, Michigan.





 





CLOVER BLOSSOM FARM, Port Austin. Mlch.





 





 





JUNE 5'; 1909.





V ‘ Owing to condlt'o ‘3

’ ~ . ‘ which _ make it

necessary 5 for the





management toluve the State the‘ entire equip-

ment ofFrancllco Farm Inn.” be sold. 30 Grand





, Shorthorn cows and heifers, mostly Young Phyllis“,





Young Mary; and Lavinia: with two or three ScOtch

crosses, and a. high c‘ass herd of P. 0. swine are in the

offering. Come and see tht m and you will be surprised

at the prices made. P. P. POPE. Mt. Plehaant, Mlch.





WOODLAND SHUHTHOHNS.





Let us quote you prices on some choice cows Ind

heifers. We want to buy a good bull out of a heavy

milking dam. Red preferred.





MEYER BROS.. R. 7, Howell. I'llchlzan.





FOR SALE—Two choice Shorthorn bull





calves: one out of a Scotch

Mysle cow and got by n Scotch Golden Drop bull. the

other. Scotch Topped Bates Ducheaa.both from large

heavy milking damn. Stock Ind price will suit you.

CHAS. F. DAWSON. R. No. 2, Central Lake, Mich.





J. a. nous: 'smct FIRM, gnaw». me...





for sale.

Have some choice cows and-heifers at right prices.





sneer.

ERDENHEIM FARM





SHROPSHIRES





EDWIN S. GEORGE, Owner.





Rams and Ewes for Sale.

WRITE FOR PRICES '1‘0





ROBERT GROVES. Shepherd.

R. F. D. No. 3. Pontiac. Mlch.





SNIIOPSNIIIE HALL STOOK FARM.





Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes

from 1 to 3 years old, all bred to Imported Cooper,

and Mansell rams to lamb in March and April, also

on very choice ewe lambs. thla is to make room for an

importation that is going to arrive this spring.



L. S. DURHAM dc SONS. Concord. Mlchllnn.





GO INTO SHEEP RAISING





Buy of Michigan’s Largest Breeder of good sheep.

Romeyn C. Parsons. Grand Ledge, Mlch.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





AMBOUILLET—Flock founded 1892 with 40 ewes

selected from one hundred registered ewes of the

best breeding possible. J. Q. A. COOK.Morrlce,Mlch.





11068.

FOR SALE, 2,000 FIGS,





6 to 8 weeks old, at $2.50 to $3 each: any breed.

Will ship by express and give your money’s worth.

UTILIZATION CO... Grand Raplds. Mlch.





NORTHERN GROWN BENNSNIIIES.

ROYCROFT FARM. Sldnuw, Mlch.

A FEW FALL GILTS bred for fall knowing,





also choice lot of spring pigs bred by Kim:

Premier. A. A. PATTULLO. Deckervllle, Mlch.





BERKSHIREs—SPRING pi...

sired by, sons of

Premier Longfellow and Masterpiece, um ‘world’s

champions. C. D. WOODBURY. Lansing, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





. —-Bred to PRIME

Berkshire Bred Sows. BACON and BA...

0N DUKE for Fall fan-ow. at prices that will sell

them. Two good young boars left. Rather than

have public sale we will save the expense and give

you the difference, but they have got to so quick

Hupp Farm. G. C. Hupp, M311, Birmingham. Mich‘





 





ADAMS BROS. IMPROVED CHESTER WHITES,Litchfield.Mich ,

won more premiums in '08 than any otherherd in Michigan

Stock all ages for sale. Prize winning W. Orpington, W. Leg-

horn and Bufl’ Rock eggs, $1 per 15. Shel-thorn bulls & heifer!





IMPROVED CHESTER WHITE 7,3;me €531,353?

one full boar, also March Apr. furrow ready to ship.

W. O. WlLSON. Okemos, Mlch. (Both Phones)





CHESTER WHITES Boers ready for service



' $15 00; Gilt: bred for fall

furrow $20.00: Spring pigs either sex. Satisfaction

guaranteed. COLON C. LILLIE, Cooperaville. Mlch.





nunoc JERSEY SWINE.%*}°‘1§1§*§EI2%§Z‘. it





for 15. J. H. BANGHART. Lansing, Mlch.





 





 





 





 





UROC JERSEYS—Boar's ready for service. sows

bred. Pr 3 at weaning shipped c. o. d If desired.

L. It. KUNEY, Bell Phone 131. Adrian, Mlch.





—Nothlng for

Duroc Jerseys m... .. H...

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hustlnus, IV lch.

DUROC Jersey of size and quality. 40 Bonus ready





for service. 50 sows at Farmers Prlces. Sails-

factlon Guaranteed, J. C. Barney. Goldwater. Mlch





 





 





 





O I. C.’s Boers &sows all sold, I have a fine lot of

. young pigs that will soon be ready to ship.

A. NEWMAN, Route No. 1, Mariette, Mlch.





 





o I C’s—ALL AGES. Thirty sows bred

0 . for spring furrow. Shipped

c





on approval. H. H. JUMP. Munlth. Ml h.





 





0 l c Boers ready for service. Spring pigs by

0 0 0 grandson of World’s Grand Champion.

Glenwood stock Farm, Zulnnd, Michigan, R. 6. Phone 94.





 





O l C swine very prolific. My herd is

- o 0 headed with a grand non ofJacksou

Chief, the world’s Champion and Grand Champion,

the greatest O. I. C. boar in the world, also a. Grand

son of Tuteay second. the world champion sow.



Place your order now for spring pigs.

A. J. GORDEN. R. No. 2. Don. Mlch.





WEANLINGiPlgs and bred Sows at bargain: to

quick buyers. from large-styled, prolific Poland-

ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Mlch.





- —Choice young boars, fall far-

POIand'chlnas row, bred right, some show pro—

spects and herd headers. Prices right. Write today.

L. W. Barnes dz Son, Byron, (Shlawnasee Co.) Mlch.





POIand-CHinas_ figghlngietbu‘gs spring





7 . have

your order now. W00!) «8.: SONS. Saline. Mlch.





LARGE ENGLISH YORKSNIBES.





Boats ready for service $15.00; Gllta bred for fall far-

row $20.00; spring pigs either sex. Satisfaction guar-

anteed. COLON C. LILLIE, Coopersville, Mich





 





 





 





China sows.





 





 





 





 





 





NICORN DAIRY RATIO





contains more true

proteins and energy





than any other feed; that is why it makes more milk——9 lbs. UNICORN





equals 10 to 14 lbs. of any other ration.





Send for Booklet.





CHAPIN 8. c0., Inc., Milwaukee, Wis.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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JUNE WORK IN THE GARDEN.





 





 





 





 





Pickling Cucumbers.



It is supposable that by the second week

of June, the transplanted cucumbers are

yell under way; but preparations for the

pickling crop are now in order. A safe

guide as to time of planting is the old

rule of putting in the seed when the

blackberries are in bloom. There is noth-

int.r efficacious in said blossoms, but the

conditions which bring them out are

seemingly favorable for the cucumbers

and planting at this time seems generally

pretty safe. For best results, the ground

should be very rich and the best ferti-

lizer is well rotted manttre applied directly

in the hill. It should be well mixed With

the soil just where the seeds are to be

dropped. In growing for the market two

ways of planting are practiced and as to

results, my experience has been that there

is little, if any, choice. A quick way of

preparing the ground is to 'plow light

furrows four feet apart and turn cross

furrows at same distanCe. Where the

furrows interact drop the manure and

do not be stingy with it. York it well

into the ground with the hoe and leave

the hill somewhat higher than surround-

ing surface. Plant plenty of seed, fifteen

or twenty seeds are not too much, for

many fail to grow and they will do no

harm until they begin to crowd. This

leaves a surplus for beetles and when

their onslaught is pretty well past it is

but a slight job to thin to three or four

thrifty plants. In large areas it is very

convenient to omit say, every foulih row

for easy access in gathering or fertilizin‘r.



Another very guild way is to furrow but

one way and fill the trench with the ma—

nure and drill the seed and when well

established thin to a foot or fifteen inches.

The culture should be shallow and fre-

quent until vines begin to run. For larg-

est crops keep them closely gathered

(always out but never pull them). None.

should be allowed to mature seed as this

practically destroys the vigor of the

vines.



It is timely now to prepare the ground

fo1 the late (lop of btt'ts 111d carlots.





‘Ligh’t soil made lich l.v p1e1ious year’s





manuling is best. A ge-.111.1ous supply of

these vegetables is always acceptable as

they are at all times valuable for feed

if market prices are too low for profit.



If not already out, the rug plants and

peppers should be transplanted at once.

The former should be shaded from the

sun for a few days as they are tender

at best, and require careful attention. A

check is bad for them at any time, but

especially so just at the time of trans-

planting. Potato beetles are, especially

fond of them and will work destruction

among them unless kept off at some rate.

For this trouble they can be handled the

same as potatoes, or gathering by hand

is effectual provided there are not too

many plants to go over. The stem borers

which work in tomatoes are also trouble-

$01118 to the peppers; but fortunately they

are not very numerous. I know of no

remedy for them except they can be

caught while at work and thus destroyed

as they simply drill into the side of the

vine and work in the pith. ’l‘heir pres—

ence may be known by the chips around

the stalks where. they are at Work and

sometimes they can be caught by hand

before. doing much damage to the stalk.

Their presence in the stalk will be known

by a small round hole where they enter,

or the vine will soon begin to wilt after

they once get to work and then stalk and

worm had better be destroyed at once

as there is no relutdy for the vine after

they are once woll at work.



Some Garden Requisites.



At this time of year some extra ferti-

llzm‘s are of very great advantage; and

a timely application will often work won-

ders. A sack of nitrate of soda or bag

of bone meal will often make many dol-

lars for the user. They can be Obtained

of the seedsmen or fertilizer dealer in

hundred pound lots at regular wholesale

prices, and I know of no better invest-

ment. A barrel of liquid manure can be.

made at almost no cost and kept ready

for use at all times and its value to

glowing crops can hardly be estimated.

Another easily obtained and very valu-

able plant food is hoof parings. G0 to

the blacksmith shop and get a halt

bushtl or more of them, put them in a

barrel and fill with water, and after

soaking for a few days the liquid is ready

for use and is good for vegetables. flow-

ers (11‘ house plants of any kind. When

the liquid runs low fill up with water





THE MICHIGAN FARMER. ' (61‘ 601





again as they do not seem to lose their

virtue for a whole season. Any good

high grade fertilizer can' be obtained in

small quantities and some or all of the

above will be, if kept on hand, a sure





 

 

 





 





 





 





way out of many difficulties. .41 _ -_ . __ .

' Wayne Co. J. E. Mouse. .. 1._._.,1W23.;'.._ ii. Runway? ., ”a new!” 9...?“ r...





 





 





 





LIME-SULFUR SOLUTION AS A SUM-

MER SPRAY.





 





 





The benefits that have been derived

from the lime-sulfur solutions when used

as a remedy for the San Jose scale have

led to its being tested as a summer splay

for fruit trees to prevent the development

of the various fungi upon the foliage and

frttit.



During the last year it has been used

upon quite a variety of fruit trees and





ONGO in?





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other remedy for the control of the leaf— issued by the National Surety Company. we will keep you satisfactorily roofed for

curl of the peach. As this treatment giving you absolute protection and the ten years, and that is what you want.

must .be given bfefor:1 the buds snlell‘, fltill: -. certainty ofsutisfaction. But. of course Congo is not made of pa-

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. . 1 means that we have satlsfied the National guarantee it.

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moshpart, can be used Without danger of; provisions of the guarantee; and if we FREE SAMPLE

‘murmg the tree' The “rage 0f “‘9‘ should fail to do so. the loss will fall on





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together with a. copy of the Guurantee

Bond. Both free on request.





peach and the Japanese plums, llowever,; them.

is so tender that if used after June 1st





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injury in this case is very largely con- ,

lined t0 the fruit, the skin of which is ‘,." I. r ‘ ' _ ’ 3". .' y‘ ‘ .' 3, . f - a -

given a russetted appearance. ' " ‘ ‘ ' '" '

For this reason the use of the lime- _

sulfur solution as a substitute has been

suggested and was tested under the direc-

tion of the writer upon a variety of fruits

last year. It; was found that when the

ordinary home-made mixture was reduced;

to one-fifth the usual winter strength.i

or 171 lbs. of sulfur and 1.3 or 20 lbs. ofl

lime in 250 gallons of water, little or no

injury was done, but with lllt‘urillilllll

quantities in 1710 to 211') gallons the foliagel

was more or less injured. The applica-l

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tions were made at the same time as

when Bordeaux mixture is used and care,

was, of course, taken to tlloroly cover

the trees.



Fall-1y good results were secured

against the mildew and leaf blights of

(nu-rants and gooseberries and the brown

rot upon the early varieties of peaches,

plums and cherries was g1'1‘latly reduced.

The results against the scab of the apple

and pear \vt-l'e less satisfactory and par-

ticula1ly where the varieties are not

much llljlll'1'11 when Bordeaux is used. the

benttits from the litter are so mueh

greater that its use is 1')!'(fl'll‘t‘-fl. In wet

seasons, however, it might be safer to

lt-ly upon the diluted lions-sulfur solution

for such varieties as Jonathan, \Vae‘ener.

Greening :11le others that are 111ssett111'





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h?" the Bflm‘dlmx mixture. V1 m“ ”mp GHAMBERS, BERING! QUINLA“ o I MSEgAFl‘SHPRIEES’

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noticeably inferiol to those Obtained with

the Bordeaux mixtule.



In all cases where the limc-sulfut stlu—

tion was, used the foliage seemed smaller

and less healthy in appearance than

where it had been sprayed with the l.o1

deaux, bttt just how much the effect

would be could not be told in a single.

season.



Experiments were also tried with the

self-cooked lime-sulfur solution, Using 7.

lbs. of sulfur and 10 lbs. of lime in 7.0

gallons of water; and also with two or

the commercial brands, diluted at the

rate of one part to 50 parts, of water.l





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ol ttttd as 1l1.\c 1‘s pl 1(tlc.tlty the same _ CHAMPION dusts two rows of po—

as of Bordeaux mixture wallc the home- tatoes or tobacco as fast





made solution would cost somewhat less. as you walk.



The lime-sulfur solutions do not seem THE BEETLE

to be adapted for use with arsenate or Potato Duster (Horse

lead and other arsenicals as does Dor— Power) dUStS four rows.

deaux mixture, and in fact, from our THE JUHBO,

Present light upon the subject, the com— dusts trees.





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conditions mentioned above and even , , » Most reliable and econ-

then we are of the opinion that it woull OH BAND, EASY SPRAYIHG , .. 7 * Olllicfll- Cutalo"'u° ”-09

be better to use Bordeaux mixture of “A“IO'POD” NOZZLE " ' " 7'“ 111:2":OBOSCHERT

llzllf Strength or weak COpper'Su’f‘qtp Slight pressure on lever starts dense 472 Water Stroot.

Ffllllthn. ' spray. Automatic sl1ut-ofl'.I)oublcs ca- Syracuse. N. y.

. . pacity. Saves solution,time. labor. ‘ .

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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





\l'iih the passing



Lessons from the in‘o history of the

Wheat Corner. Chicago May wheat

dcal, the fact seems



1o have lwcll clearly established that the





bull element in the market was correct-





in lhc d1-ducii1‘1n that ihcrc is an aciual

shortage in the world's supply of wheat,

and that the advance in cash wheat was

1.111. mainly to this causc, rather than to

11111 manipulation of the market. Settle-

Ili1'lllS for wheat sold for May dclivcrv

\vcrc madc on the last day of the option

at 2} .34, with cash whcat selling at 8‘ ’1".

In ordcr to thc bctim‘ un1.lcrsland the

significance of quotations 1:1~ 11111111115, the

rcadcr should know that “c111111'aul”

whcat, or that in which spcculalion is

(arricd on by lib-ans of salcs for future

('lclivcry, is '11 gradc which Would bc rcp-

1'1's1'nlcd by th1 mixing of onc-lhird No.

2 and two—illirds 1.11 gradc wllcal, which

111‘1'Hlllll:5 for 1:11: 111-1w111n the

price at which iinal with-12111115 wcre.

made in thc Illay 11111i11n, and tho price

of cash whcat on lhc >1'illlt‘ d:1l1. A cor-

1'111't undcrstan/lim.r 111‘ this proposition is

cs<1>111ial to an inlclliuvnl :~'l'1.l1,l_‘.' of the

markct from thc standpoin! oi salc: of

i'lillll'cs 21s thcy '111‘1' 1‘1'11111'l1-1l from day U)

day, but wilh that 11111l1-1',~'1;1111li11g, an

intcrcslinc‘ sidc light is llll'11\\'n upon the

probable trcnd of thc whcat market for

future months as vicwcd by the trained

mcn who figure in lhcsc d1-als. For in—

slancc, the fact that July wheat is soiling

at H.113 at this writing, means that in the

opinion of the men who operate 011 the

(‘hicago Board of Tradc, cash wheat of

standard markct grades will sell pro-

portionately highcr than that figure all

thru July, as tho standard market grades

of wheat arc supcrior in quality to “con-

trcat” whcat as above described. In like

manner, it 111calls that in the opinion of

ihcsc same men that during Scptmnbcr,

standard markct grades of cash wheat

will sell proportionatcly higher as to

quality, than the current quotation on the

Scptcmber cplion, which at this time is

$1119. By this means, and with this un-

derstanding of the proposition, the grow-

ers of wheat may read the consensus of





1Eil'i'1-1'1'111'11





oipin on among large grain dealers who

have the broadest posSibl'e avenues of

information touching the probable world-

supply and demand for the grain in fu-

ture months, as readily as they can read

and Understand the government crop re-

ports.



Of course there are many factors which

must be taken into consideration in the

study of market problems in this or in

any other manner. Notwithstanding their

constant and them study of the propo—

sition these experts may be mistaken in

their conclusions. That such is often

the case is proven by the history of other

attempted “corners” in wheat. Then the

trend of the market may be temporarily

influenced by the buying of cash wheat

for the purp1se of holding up a future,

but while such a campaign might prove

successful during the months just pre-

ceding harvest it would hardly prove

practicable during September, when the

bulk of the country's crcp is in the

growcr’s hands and rcady for marketing‘

at any time. That dealings in futures

should be shunned by ptolucers, is a

fact so apparent as to need no argument,

for they cannot hope to compete with the

expert traders in this kind of speculation,

but having the wheat crop harvested and

in the granary, they can safely and legiti-

mately take into consideration this mani-

festation of the concensus of opinion as

held by these expert crop and market

students, in connection with the govern-

ment reports, and their own observation,

in determining when to sell the crop into

which they have put their hard labor and

the expense incident upon its production.

Unless such thotful reflection is indulged

in by wheat growers, history is likely to

repeat itself in that the wheat which the

grower sells ~at what seems to him an

attractive price is later doled out to the

consumer from the big store-houses at

a vastly higher figure, a condition which

could hardly be remedied by the abolition

of trading in futures in the big markcts.

But by such iniclligcnt study of condi-

tions and conscquent conscrvative mark-

ciiug by growers as conditions seem to

warrant, thcy can rcscrvc to themselves

the substantial profit on the wheat itself,

and rest content to leave to speculators

the paper profits 011 that which they

never owned.



HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

Foreign.



The Canadian parliament passed 21 MW

making railroads 1'1sp usible for fire set

by sparks lrom locotnotivos and making

it unncccssary for the plaintiff to prove

whether the slacks were dnfcctive 01‘ not.



Baron Ifriu, vicc-admirai and chicf of

the Japancse navy suggests that an alli-

ance should be i‘ormcd i'ctw1 1'11 the l’uilcd

States, England and Japan. He states

that Japan would be cxcccdingiy glad to

form such a Colublnalion, sincc shc fools

hcrsclf highly indcbtcd to this country

for h1'1‘ civilization.



Count Zeppelin, the German invcnfor

who has had such succcss with his air

ships, just complctcd a 11' p of 551) milcs

made in 37 hours without comingr to the

ground. In the ship was the Count, two

cnginccrs and a crew of sevcn men. This

is lhc most succv-ssful trip ever made

in a dirigible balloon.



Rcvolutionary dis1u1banccs are giving

tho inhabitants . of Porn C11n<ideral1le

anxiety. The actlvitics of the rebels have

coascd 1111\‘1'1'V1-1‘, sincc Saturday last ‘.'.'thl

a d1-1n11nstralionrwas madc 111:;11' Lima.



Fol‘l‘ncr Vice-I’rcsidcnt and Mrs. Fair-

b~1nks wcrc 1‘1'c1'i\‘cd [by the Emperor and

limprcss of Japan, Monday.



_Amcri1-ans in Mcxico 1‘i1y hcld memo—

rial s1-rvi1'11s last Monday and dc1-11!’:111-1]

thc gravcs of soldicl‘s who fcll in the var

with that country in 1548.



National.



011 'I‘ucs'lay ihc ballicship Missisdppl

w: 15 p.11s111111-1l with a sichr scrvicc by

M ssik‘sh-pizuu 1'11 Scranton, win-1c the

\'1ss1-l was :1111'11111'1'111



I)1'('11l‘:lll')ll Day sci'viccs wcrc hold cv-

cryu'iu-rc ihruoul lhc country Monday.

All )‘1-Ii1n'lsj indicatc an unusually large

alcndancc at tho ll1ou<an1ls of scrviccs

1'11111l1.l"l11] in honor Of thc Soldicr and

Sailor 1l1'a1l.



’l‘nc slrcct railways of Philadelphia are

bung licd 1111 by a slrikc. l\lcn aro

b1-ing i1np11r111d by the Companies but

dcspuc this troublc the l1cal mcn have

111-1111 able to prevent the cars from

moving.



'l‘hc \Vright brothers who have become

dislinu‘uishcd for their flights upon their

acroplancs will bc prcscntcd with gold

1111-dals by Prcsidcnt Taft. They will also

make lcsts of spccd in their flying ma-

chines for the government and if '11 cer-

tain spccd is made they will receive a

bonus from the government.



A spccizd scssion of thc lcgislaturc of

Alabama will be 111-111 for considering the

adoption of a cmnpulsory educational bill.



Some 14,000 tons of stecl pipe is b1-ing

shippcd from Zancsvillc, Ohio, to tho San

Joaquin vallev C: 1]. for the construction

of an oil lino to San Francis1o Bay. The

shipment will 1"cquiie 4:10 cars.



There has been a failure on the part of

the strikers and operators of the Gcoru

gian railroads to settle the matter of

employing negrocs as firemen and the

question will now be left to arbitration.



A statute of Lincoln was unveiled at

Hodgcnville, Ky., Monday. The unveiling

was by Mrs. Benjamin Helm, a sister-in-

law of the great emancipator.



President Taft was chicf speaker at the





.for more than a week.





’Xl'hcat and rye are very poor;





JUNE 5, 1909. ‘





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unveiling of a granite monument at *Getd

tysbuig, Pa. The monument was erected

by cengress to the soldiers who fell dur—

ing the civil war.



Tw'o Oklahoma towns were laid in ruins

by a tornado last Saturday. They were

Kev W est, a. small negro village, and

Depew ,



At: Jackson, Miss. floods, caused by

heavy downpours of rain, have placed the





.1ailroads in a disastrous situation——the





vater being within a foot of the highest

mark reached in 1902.





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





Clinton Co., May 24. —Ground still wet,

but few oats sown Some corn is being

planted. “heat and grass of all kinds

doing well, but' pasture is late. Live

stock generally looking well.



Genese-e Co., May 29.——Vegetation is

advancing rapidly with favorable weather

In spite of the

cold and backward spring, oats, even

where put in extremely late, are coming

on nicely and farmers are beginning to

feel better over the prospect. Only oc-

casional fields have been put in corn

altho many will be planted next week'if

the weather permits. Large acreages of

beans and potatoes are also a feature of

Genesee county agriculture for this year.

Both brot good prices last year, which is

ever an inducement at planting time.

Sugar beet growers are preparing about

the customary amount of land. The crop

appears to be gaining friends in this part

of the state. All in all, no industry is

making greater headway than dairying.

Prices have been upheld all spring and

dairy butter has not; brot the farmer 1933

than 24c at the county seat up to this

date and most of the time it has ex-

ceeded that figure. Today’s market re-

ports a falling off, however, and 210 Is

quoted as the price paid to producers.

Appendcd is full price list for this date

at Flint, the county seat, and leading

market town. Wheat, $1.52; oats, 640;

beans, $2.30; rye, 800; potatoes, old, .000;

dressed hogs, $9.50 cwt.: becf, $Gfi'8f1il

cwt; mutton, $8; veal, $8.50; old chickens,

alive, 13c;yea1'lings,l4c,alch; butter,

21c; eggs, 200; hay, $S@9 per ton, baled;

wool, 310132c.



Osceola Co., May 27.—April ended up

in a snowstorm which delaycd farm won;

several days; very little oats sown in

April; too wet on heavy ground to do any

rain today will help out in good shape as

it was getting a little dry on sandy land.

rye was

never known to winterkill as bad as last

winter, probably 011 account of the small

growth it attained last fall. Corn planting

was. a little late, but about all planted

work to speak of up till May 10; early

sown cats are up and doing fine. Pas-

tures and meadows are looking good;

clover is making good growth; a good

now; first planted commencing to peep

thru the ground. Potato planting just

begun, about the same {1131 cage will be

plantcd as in previous _\c11is;a few. old.

pota~tocs ha\e been maikctcd now at from;

500.20 per bu. Farmers have been W

busy as the late spring delayed the Work

and it all came at once, and owing to



0 dry weather last fall ihcrc was hardly

any plowing done then, leaving it all for

this spring. Owing to the late spring,

hay is pretty well cleaned 11p, a few car-

loads have been shippcd in, selling at $11}

pcr ton. Fruit prospccts are good if

nothing happens from llowvoll. F111 mill.»

and hogs are not very plcntiful. Spring

pig's are very scarce. Butter, 186 20c. pcr

lb; eggs, 180 per doz.



Livingston Co., May 24. The weathcl‘

this spring has bccn vcry unfavorablo

for the rapid advancement of farmingr

opcrations. ’I‘hcrc is perhaps not moro

than onc-quartcr of the corn crop plantcd

at this date, tho the past week. which

has been quite fair, has hclpcd out con-

sidcrablc and if the present weather con~

iinucs practically all of the corn in this

section will be in bcforc June 1. Owing

to the wet cold spring there was probably"

not more than 80 pcr (.‘1'Ilt of tho acreage

that was intcndcd for oats sown and at

lcast 5 per ccnt of this has bccn desiroycd

by the wet w1-1'1thcr. On May 171 onc of

the worst storms in thc history of this

country passcd cycr ccriain parts of the

county, (IOlllg thousands of dollars of

damage; houses, barns, orchards, fcnccs

and 1--vc1‘ythi11g in its path were lcvclcd

to thc ground and thc heavy rain and

hall which accompanicd it did consider-

ablc damage to oats and fruit. 11‘111':1ncr'

l; ;'1\c just turncd lhcir \tm k to pastulc

li' 1v promises to be .1 fan clop and w. ‘:1c1r,

lools much bcttcr than was 1111110 p1t1 «l

cariicr in the season tho some pieces a1e

vcry spottcd. G1 rain is \clv scarce 11111

the plicc is almost piohibitivc I'Iircd

111-111 is very scarce and wages are high.

Prices 011 all farm producc are good, H111

thcrc is practically no grain in thc hands

of thc farmcl‘s.



Gratiot Co., May 2-C4.—l xtrcmc fair

wcaihcr has prcvailcd since thc lilill.

Practically all sccding is complclcd anl

if the prcscnt ideal weather continucs

lunch of thc corn will be planlcd this

wet-ck. Orchards are just coming into

bloom. Oats are making rapid growth

and we are beginning to bclicvc thcio

shall yet be a “sec—d time and harvcst. "



Calhoun Co. ., May 28 —Aft11 two wccks

of fair weathu which allowed most

farmcrs to get their c0111 planted we hav 0

had a fine rain, which has been of much

bcncfit to oats ulnat, 1111111111ws and

fruit. “heat is looking “111 for its small

fall gmw th many pious looking fine, and

oats arc l1111ki11:r f"1i1. Meadows were

badly luut by thc drouth and some are

bung plow cd 1111 but where there was a

good c.1i1l1 it is growing nicely Corn is

mostlv in, and 11 larger acieagc than

usual is being planted Fruit p1omises

a good ciop b111ring future f10sts.Ap-

pics, howex e1 blossom rather unevenlv.

Stiawbenics may be a light crop as the

(by fall injured many patches Prices

{110 \ci y good. Hogs bring from $6@6.50;

ordinary steers, $5 and up; corn buying

at 75c; oats 7170' wheat, $145; potatoes,

804000; h11v market much better, buyers

now offeii 11g $10 for mixed hay.





 





 





 





 





 





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THE ORIGIN OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY





BY FRED P. LUTZ.





HEN the white rural carrier



wagon passes your farm house



door, hastening with its load of

mingled joy and woe, with the story of

the doings of the world, how few there

are who pause to think of him who was

the cause of it all—in whose brain the

microbe of this progression first found

soil, and grew until it had spread its con-

tagion thru the mentality ot‘ the mass of





 





 





 





 





Milton Trussler, the Man who First thot

of Rural Free Delivery.





the mind of the nation. \Vhat spurred

that man to action?



Twenty-eight years ago there was a

Grange organized in Fayette county,

Indiana. It was christened “Bentlev.'

It stood by the roadside in a farming set—

tlcmcnt where there was no village, not

even a crossroad nor a smithshop, usually

the prominent factors in determining the

small rural centers.



The villages of Fairfield, Evorton and

Blooming Grove each lay three miles

from the selected sight. Indeed it was

the equalization of the distances of these

places that determined the site.



As a matter of course, the natural

leader of the community and there is

such a one in every community—Milton

'l‘russler, had been selected as the master

of the irangc. In assuming the chair he





 





spoke of the benefits that were to come

from the conveniently placed trading cen-

ter and pledged his political influence

toward securing a post office for the

store.



It was just at this time that an inspira-

tion came to him “out of somewhere into

the here," and he thot, “Why shall not

the farmer have his mail laid down to

him at his door as well as his brother in

the city? Fired with the ardor of a new

thot, and eloquent with-earnestness, he

forgot place or occasion and for over

an hour he pointed out to his hearers the

objections which might be urged against

the scheme. He answered‘ them as be

advanced them. So well did he arrange

his plans that those who heard him do-

clare that the manner of ope‘ation which

he outlined are practically the plans of

today.



The state ofiicials of the Grange, who

were present, were converted to his idea,

and induced him to travel over the state

and talk rural delivery as a farther ad—

vancement of the. Grange movement. And

so it was that the name of Trussler be—

came so well and favorably known that

he. was made master of the State Grange,

a position which he filled for nine years.

As state master he was ex—olficio a dele-

gate to tho Iritional meetings and here,

too, he kept the idea of rural free de—

livery to the front.



From the national conventions the sub-

ject went back to the state conventions,

and constant agitation took it farther

and farther away from a Utopian dream.

Finally the consideration was serious

and so it continued until the proudest

day of Milton Trussler's life. was the day

that the rural mail carrier stopped his

little wagon and left Milton ’l‘russler his

paper on the day which it was published.

Ills earnest, unselfish work had kept the

people with him, and they sent him to

the legislature for several terms, finally

nominating him for the office of secre-

tary of, state in 1892. Tho he went down

in the tidal wave of that year, he ran

2,000 votes ahead of his ticket.



Mr. 'l'russler descended from a strong

family, one of his brothers having served

as secretary of state for Indiana just

after the close of the civil war. Another

brother spent the greater part of his life

in the round of the various offices of his





home county, where a grandson, Clyde

Trussler, is today the youngest county

school superintendent in the state. He

was elected when only 25 years of age.



’l‘he Trusslers are well-to—do Virginians,

with a family story of descent from Poco-

hontas. They came to the \Vhitewater

valley before the land had been surveyed

for entry and when the remarkable co-

trrie of famous families who first located

in Indiana were coming. Brookville, Ind.,

v.as then the ccntcr of the community,

and it was in this town that Gen. Lew

\Yallace was born, while Maurice Thomp-

son and Joaquin Miller first saw the light

of day within an hour's drive.



Capt. Eads, the great civil engineer,

was the son of a Brookville merchant,

whose partner's son was Gen. James-

N. ’l‘yncr, who, as postmaster under





President Hayes, gave the postal card to

the country.

At one time in the history of this





were peculiarly “homing folks,” who

placed the family and neighborhood above

the world at large. It was this desire to

aid his immediate neighbors that prompt—

ed the founding of the rural free delivery

system.



Particularly noteworthy is the part that

this homing instinct had in the promo-

tion of rural free delivery when the mind

reverts to the earlier efforts for speedy

communication which forced the “horn-

ing" habits of carrier pigeons to act as

the winged messengers of the world’s

business.



How few realize the importance of

ideals in Inatciial progress! All that this

era has which is better than the primal

cave man enjoyed, is the direct outcome

of day dreams, an ideal, and far too fre-

quently. the world never knows its real

benefactors.



Psychic paddle wheels plashed thru the

pulsing currents of Fulton’s imagination

long before the Clcrmont breasted the

waters of the Hudson; Morse lay listening

to the tintinnalmlations of ghostly arma-





 





 





A Michigan Rural Mail Carrier and His Best Friends.





community there livcd in Brookvillc the

governor of Indiana. his lit-utcnant, one

congressman, one L'nitcd States senator,

and the entire, supreme court. In all, one,

hundred congressmen and seven governors

have come out of the community in and

around Brookville.



Prominent among this class of keen and

brainy men and women, the Trusslers

did not spring into the blaze. of publicity,

like many of their associates, for they





 





 





 





 





Bentley Grange Hall, in Indiana, where definite idea of Rural Free Delivery of Mail Originated.





turcs thru many a slctplcss night infore



the wire botwecn \Yashington and Balti-



more flashed the message, “\Vhat (.iod



Hath \Vrought.”



In the growing of dawn, there are the

rarest tints,



Then, the white light leaps in full glory,

frcc,



So the grad things of earth,



Had, to hcrald their birth,



All the hcart warm words of pure poesy.



From the desire to save himsclf and

his Icig‘hbors a jfltll'llcy of three, miles,

grow the entire systcni, tho more was

nccdcd than 1111‘ more conception. Dreams

arc fugitive and intangible enough—they

only matcriahzo under ardent labor. It

rcuuircd rears for the infection, indus-

triously propagattd, to reach bencticcnt

fruition.



.lust across the road from the old

Grange hall is a modest woodcn church,

which is a monumcnt to thc homing in—

stincts of Milton 'l‘russlcr, and which was

as much an objcct of his care as the

winning of the daily mail for his ncigh-

bors.



This church was foundcd by Mr. Truss-

lcr and five others. \thn it was dcdi-

catcd Illr. ’l‘russlcr quoted from the words

of the Savior, “I must be about my

father's business.” and continued in his

own words, "lircthrcn, I bclicve that whcn

He used the word business, he meant it.

(Fur church should be run as a business

proposition. \‘i'c cxpcct to be benefited

by this church and We should pay for the

good that is to rrsult. It would be

strange business for one of us farmers

to go out and ask :illlls of our neighbors,

and I think that the funds to run this





'church should be raised without intrusion





upon its spiritual work.”



The jokcsmith has a big basket of

alleged humor ancnt the collection plate,

which he usually rcshapes when unusually



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HOW MISS JANET SAVED THE DAY.





BY HAR'RJET LUMMIS SMITH.





Miss Janet Matthews was fifty-seven

when she witnessed her first game" of

base ball. She followed her niece, Mir

iam, into the grandstand with the air of

a lireputable citizen who has been en-

trapped into being a spectator at a prize

fight. Thru her lorgnette she scrutinized

the various objects of interest, occas-

ionally appealing to Miriam for infor-

mation.



“‘IVho are those men in the dirty white

suits with the red B?"



“IVhy, those are our men, Auntie, the

Baxter college team. And the others in





the blue uniforms are the Atwater Uni-_





versity men. I‘ll explain something about

the game, so you can understand it

better."



~Miriam’s explanations were full and en-

thusiastic. Henry Irwin, the shortstop

of the Baxter college team, had been her

teacher, and it is seldom that the devo-

tiOn of a. teacher is repaid by such rc-

sponsiveness on the part of a pupil. As

hfiiss Janet listened, the look of perplexity

deepened on her face. Her brows con-

tracted in a puzzled frown.



The opening of the game put a stop to

Miriam's instructions. She sat leaning

forward, breathless with interest, while

Miss Janet’s eyes roved about the field.

Suddenly an indignant voice exclaimed,

“Miriam!"



“What is it, Auntie?"



“I think it is a shame. There is one

‘blue man playing alone against all those

men in white. That is contrary to my

ideas of fair play."



Miriam’s attempt at reassurance was

cut short by a startlcd exclamation from

Miss Janet. “O, Miriam, look! ’l‘hat poor

blue boy is running. I have noticed that

‘1hc ferocious looking man with a wire

cage ovcr his head has made several very

threatening gestures, and I suppose the

other apprehended violence.”



“IIe’s only trying to get to his base,

Auntie,” explained Miriam. “He hit the

ball, you know." Miss Janet bridled.



“Really, Miriam, I see no reason why

he should not hit the ball. Apparently

that man in the middle, who goes thru

"those extraordinary contorlions, is aim-

"i‘ng the ball directly at him with the in-

tention of injuring him. “'hy Should he

not til-fend himself?”



,- “’z'rh the progrcss of the game Miss

Jainl's intert-st incrcascd and also her

lwwildcrmcnt. “’hcn IItnry Irwin stole

sccond base, sliding twice his length

thru the dust, and bcaiing the ball by six

inchcs, the spectators broke into ap-

plause and Miriain‘s cliccks glowcd rosily.

lint Miss .lanct's face was anxious.

“IYhat has happwncd'.’ Has he f;‘1intcd'.’”



“0, no, Auntie. lie has only stolen

second.”



’l‘lic troubled cxpiw-ssion (n the face of

the oldv-r :udy was n it banishm'l by this

assurance. “Stolcn scconal.” she repeat-

cd. “And I thot he was a young man of

such good principlcs. luair, dear!"



Rcforc Miriam had made clear to her

the filt‘t that sicalingr baws may be cm-

sistn-nt with tln- liigin-st moiai cliiiriiclcr,

IIcnry lmd s -orcd, and thr first run of the

day was liiilvd with frantic cnihusiism.

'ihiiss Janet lookcd about bur on the howl—

ing, chccring throng and thou j'rillcd in

the applause with sun-h hcartincss that

sln- split her gloves.



But the Miss .lnnwt wont home with the

most chaotic notions rcgdrding the na—

tional game, she had distinctly enjoyed

herself. I'ndcrncath the prim exterior

of this digniiird maidcn lady was some-

thing which rcspondtd to the challenge

of that gallant sport. She surpriscd Mir-

lam by inquiring anxiously about the

date of the ncxt ,L'tlllli‘, while hop com-

mcnts on what she had witncssr-d tricd

the girl's gravity to thc point of liystcrics.



iefore. the season was ovcr, Miss Janet





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was a good cxamplo of the feminine fan.

She nv-vcr missrd a game, and she had

become the most iilogical of partisans.

'l‘crmiimlogy was her wcak point. “'hilo

She lovcd to talk wi<cly of szici'ilicc hits,

crrors, groundcrs and home I'llng she

generally mcant something very different

from what shc said. and this made her

convcrsation confusing.



This trifling wcakncss in Miss Janet

had unexpectedly scl'iidls consequences,

For on one occasion. in discussing a game

with Henry Irwin, she rcduccd that young

man to a condition of bcwildcrmcnt which

resulted in his giving Way to helpless

laughter. hIiss Janet lookcd at him so-

vcrely and soon made an excuse to leave

the room.



, A pair of reproachful eyes met those

of Mr. Irwin when he approached the





corner of the room where Miriam sat.

“I should think you‘ might have kept

from laughing for my, sake,“ Miriam de—

clared tearfully. “You know how hard it

is for her to forget a grudge, and how

she hates to be laughed at."



“I didn’t mean to laugh, hang it all,"

said the conscience-stricken Henry. “But

when I found out what she meant, I

laughed before I knew it.” Reasonable

as Miriam knew the excuse to be, she

could hardly hope that it would reinstate

her lover in the good graces of her aunt.

As a matter of fact, it did not.



“I don't doubt he has his good points,

Miriam,” Miss Janet would say, “but 1

have higher ambitions for my niece’s

husbant.” And on these occasions Mir—

iam’s lips would become a singularly

straight, inflexible line. She was too true

an American girl not to intend to marry

the. man of her choice, despite Aunt

Janet, and Aunt Janet‘s money.



The spring of Henry's graduation, base-

ball excitement ran high at Baxter col-

lege. There had never been a more effi-

cient team in its history, but Atwater

University, a rival of long standing, was

equally fortunate. Graduates of both

institutions came in swarms to attend

the great game. The grandstand was re-

splendent with the Baxter colors, while

Atwater's blue and gold flashed defiance

from the breast of many a loyal rooter

Miss Janet and Miriam occupied a box,

and each carried at Baxter pennant.





The first run of the day was made

in the first inning by Atwater. In the

fourth inning McNeil, of the Baxter team,

was put out at the home plate, and the

enthusiasm of his partisans, who thot

the score as good as tied, subsided into

a chilling anxiety. The seventh inning

credited Atwatcr with two runs. Miss

Janet moved uneasily and let her pennant

fall. “I should think our men would be-

gin to do something,” she exclaimed.

“It's preposterous.” Miriam saw that her

hands were trembling, but she herself had

no heart to offer consolation.



The eighth inning opened gloomily for

Baxter. Crockett, one of the most ro-

1iable of the Baxter batters, struck out

and went off with his head hanging. Hig-

ley, who.followed, knocked up a fly which

sailed obligingly into the hands of the

right fielder, who caught it without mov-

ing an inch. “Preposterous,” snorted

Miss Janet again.



Then things took a turn. A two-base

hit on the part of Billy Bates brot the

llaxtcr pennants to the front. Hender—

son followed with a grounder that shot

playfully by the shortstop and gave Rates

a chance to get to third. IVhen Henry

lrwin came to bat the bases were full.

St-vcral thousand people were hoping

against hope for a safe hit. A smaller

number, but no less ardent, were praying

that ignominous failure might crown his

efforts.



“Strike one!” said the umpire non-

chalanily. The ball had just ticked Ir-

win‘s bat. Henry braced himself and

waited with Sct tccth for the next. Just

as he struck it swerved to the right and

the Atwatcr partisans shouted dcrisivcly.



”0, isn't he going to hit it?" moaned

Miss Janet. "llc must lzit it. If only he

.1o»-,<—” She looked across at Miriam and

tlorir (-ycs met. The girl ninbsrstoml the

unspokcn plcdgc. and a wave of carminc,

tln; Baxter color. suffused hor chcek.



It was time for those of the fates who





pity lovers to take a hand in the game;





The next ball that came flying down to-

ward the home plate glanced from

licnry's but and shot toward that portion

of the grandstand which was reserved

for ladies, and which. owing to its com-

paratively safe location, was not pro—

lv‘l‘ii'd by wire screening. It struck Mia»;

.lranct in the ribs and she fell back faint-

ing in her chair, hcr face an ashen gray,

ln-r parted lips (-oloi‘lcss.



Henry, following the course of his foul

bull, droppcd his bat, horror stricken.

“iNIy God," he said, “I've killed her!”



A number of policemen hurried to the

scene. A doctor forced his way down thru

the excited crowd. Among them they

tcnderly raiScd Miss Janet, when she

opcncd her eyes. “I\'liat's the matter?”

she demanded.



Miriam bent over her, almost as pale

as she. “Dear Auntie, everything is all

right. I‘Ve are going to take you home.”



“But I don’t want to go home,” said

Miss Janet with positiveness. “It would





be absurd to go home before the game is

finished.” She turned percmptorily to

one of the policemen supporting her,

“Please put me down, my good man.

Thank you for your trouble. but I am

going to stay and see the game out.”



The sight of Miss Janet, standing very





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erect and returning to her box, was the





signal for applause. A whited’aced

youth in at Baxter uniform uttered an

ejaculation of heart—felt gratitude as he

saw her tottering back to her place.





Miss Janet leaned toward him with some

asperity. “Young man what are you

doing here? Never mind Whom you maim

or kill. Your business is to win this

game.” Her flashing eyes caught his and

held them.



Like Miriam, Henry understood. “I

will!” he answered.



How well he kept his word is part of

the annals of two colleges. It will be a

distant day when Baxter reunions fail to

recall the time that Irwin sent the ball

over the fence, and the men ran home

one after another, and the great game

was over. And when Henry, his chest

still heaving, came around for congratu—

lations, Miss Janet leaned forward and

kissed him.



“You can’t expect Miriam to do as

‘much here,” said the old lady in his ear.

“But if you will come home with us after

the game I'll see that she has a chance

to do whatever is fitting. You saved the

day, Henry, and you will have no reason

to be sorry.”



Henry’s answer completed his conquest

of her maiden heart. “Miss Janet,” he

cried impetuously, “It isn’t my game.

It's yours. I'd lost my nerve when you

sent me back. If it hadn't been for you,

Baxter wouldn’t have scored. Your pluck

saved the day."



Miriam interrupted with a tremulous

little laugh. “Just listen to you two

praising each other,” she exclaimed.

“II'here do I come in?" She blushed

under her lover’s expressive gaze, and

blushed more deeply when Aunt Janet

took it upon herself to answer that query.



“You, my dear,” said the old lady with

deliberation, “play quite an important

role. You are the prize of victory.”





 





FOR SALE—A ROGUE HORSE.





BY J. IV. GRAND.





 





 





 





FOR SALE CHEAP—A Bay Horse, black

points, can trot in 2.40. Owner has no

further use for him.





 





There was a runaway seven weeks ago.

The horse, a bay, with black points, six-

tccn hands high, with a record of 2.43. is

now for sale, cheap. The lniggy was sold

to a wooden’toothpick factory. The man.

hobbled out of the hospital recently and,

told all about it. He had bandages

around his head and one arm was in a

sling. but he said he was spending ten

hours a day trying to sell a bay hirie

with black points.



I bot the brute up in “'cstchester

county, he said, and paid $700 for him.

The first look I had at him I said to him:

“You‘re a rogue horse, you are!" \\'ol‘_,

I drove him for a wcck and felt like; bog-

ging his pardon. He Went like a lamb“

if you ever saw a lamb go in 291:} on :1

fairground track. I brot him to the city

and sent him up thru the park. He bo-

havcd like a gentleman horse and I in)-

gun to trust him.



This particular day he sulkcd a bit

whcn I turnvd him into the park. I thot‘

I would take that out of him. So I SI'Ilt

him wcll ahead of the harness fir ten

mill-s. He was ouict as a cut of cold

roast lamb whcn I pullcd him up at one

of the road-houscs. I had him rubbcd

down till he was dry as a bonc and thou

gave him a bit of warmi~h watcr. Then

I let him pcg along casily toward town.

lIc wcnt like an old lady going to markct.

(‘oming down the incline on the bridge

Ihc skin on his neck bl-gan to Wrinkle.

I knew what that meant in a r )guc-

horse and :"rabbcd for the slack on the

rcins. 'I‘hc brute was slogging his head

and went down the bridge on four feet,

like a turilc. At the foot he whirled to

the right and ilcndcd on a dead run, for

the tangle of “clcvated” posts. I tried

to stcer him clear. He wouldn’t have it,

I tried to saw his head in two. I couldn't

do it.



I woke up in a hospital. The brute

didn't have a scratch on him. He is for

salc—to a man who is opposed, on con-

sch-minus In'inciplcs, to the Society for

the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.



I woke up in the hospital. There was

molten lead in my head in the place

where I usid to keep my gray matter.

Little black specks danced in my eyes.

When I looked down at the white counter-

pane the small blacks Spt-cks were there,

moving about like lcpidaptera. Then I

knew there was an odor. It was a faint,

sour, sickly odor——a combination of alco—

hol and dead people. The odor was all

about me, like a cloud. Probably it was





JUNE~ 5, 1909.





ether. I do not know what it was.

I couldn't move my hands, and it





feet away from my neck. ‘I Was wonder-

ing whether my head .Would ever come

back, when a tall doctor loomed out of

the gray clouds. He was about eighty

feet high and had a, long nose, He pulled

my arms and legs and twisted my head.

Then he said—and his voice was some~

where up in the air—“Do not change

the bandages until 5 o‘clock.”



“No, sir.”



The “No, sir" came from a little woman

who wore-a white apron and a mobcap.

She was such a little woman and her

hands were small and made out of white

satin. Red hair she had, and it was

combed up in big puffs on the top of her

head. Her voice was soft as whipped

cream.



“You might give him another hypo-

dermic injection now,” said the doctor.





Then it was as tho :1 gnat had stung

you. A little thing stung in your arm,

don’t you see? There wasn't any pain;

as the moments drifted by there was

neither pain, nor place, nor time. A fel-

low felt as tho he were on the island of

the lotos-eating people. Some poet chap

has written about them, you know. Then

I sorter began to drift away. First thing

I knew I was back in the Metidja desert;

sands, sands, sands, spread like a gray

woolen blanket, a camel lurching ahead,

with bullock trunks piled high; the

mouse-colored donkey I rode ambled eas-

ily. “VVherc’s Algiers?" said I to myself.

“Not here. This is Fort Napoleon.

Here’s the white lady of Kadidja; here’s

a fall—” down, down, 1,000 feet thru a.

fall of feathery snow. Don’t you know

I slid down and the dry snow sifted about

me and the end was?



That’s when I fell asleep.



The pain began to come again when

the morning blurred the windows. The

man on the right hand cot to mine was

awake, too. He said, “Hello.”



“Hello," I said.



“Do you see the screen?” he asked.

“Man died last night. Put the screen

around him. Dead. They had tele-

graphed for his wife. She didn’t come in

time. Clergyman came up and wanted

to pray. Man didn't want any prayers.

Said so plainly——too-plainly. In’ fact,

shocked the clergyman. ‘ {T



“Little woman,” the man on the’right

hand cot to mine went on; “Nice little

woman, muse, red hair, was holding his

head. ‘Give it to her,’ he said, dying.



“No one knew what he meant. No one

except the nurse. She leaned over him

and kissed his lips. “'ifc—widow. I mean

—will come today and get the kiss.”



The man on the left hand cot to mine

wolnx up. He was a big, burly fellow,

with a thrce days' board on his red face.

I would have known him for the driver

of a brcwcr's cart, even had he not given

inc the information. He was surly as

wcll as burly, so when I said: “\Vhat's

the math-r, neighbor?” he only gruntcd.

I started to give him my views on tho

questiiiln, when such a little hand fcll on

my mouth. “You mustn‘t talk," said the

nurse who owncd the small white hand.

Then I remembered the man behind the

screen and said: "Won‘t you kiss me?”

She laid hcr hands over my face and

eycs~and I fell asleep again.



“Easy," said the tall doctor, and altho

he was only taking away the bandages

it sccmcd to me that he was removing

layi-r after layer of my hcad. “So. gentle-

mcn, you observe that this is a curious

case. Not serious. but curious. Mr.

Iirown, place your finger here. 'What is

that fracture?"



There was a crowd of students about

my bed. It was cyidcntly Mr. Brown

who thrust his iingcr into the hole in

my skull and stirrcd up my brain mat-

ter. “Quite corrcct," said the tall doctor.



Then again the gnat stung my arm and

the students and the doctor rode away on

a cloud. And out of the cloud there

shone the face of the red—haired woman

with small white hnnd<.



The clouds had rolled away the next

day when I awoke and did not come.

back, ncithcr did the gnat. The tall

doctor did, tho, but he had shrunk to six

feet or so, Then the students cam”

again, but they were just ordinary, every-

day young men. But the little woman

with the red hair and white hands, she

was there all that day and the next and

the next, with her voice like whipped

cream. and her rippling smile, and she

was the only vagary of my broken head

that did not shrink into the common-

place. She remained a charming dream.



And so I got well and mean to sell that

rogue horse.





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' BY Jamar LEACH.





Us boys, why, now it’s been a month

We’ve gone barefoot, an’ say,



It seems an awful time to wait

Clean since the first 0’ May.



The trees are all leaved out, and now

The sun’s real hot at noon,



And ma told pa this morning, “Tom.

Today’s the first 0’ June.”





Us boys we almost laughed out loud-

We almost, then we did—



For ma knew ’bout it and it was -

No use to keep it hid.



Us boys, we’ve talked for more’n a. week

How it was comin’ soon,



The day they always say we can

Go swimmin’ first 0’ June.





Before us boys get to the creek

It seems as if we’d burst,



And don’t we dig to see which one

Can get his clothes off first?



And don’t we grab the one that does?

And don’t we hold him fast



And keep him standin’ on the bank

Till he jumps in the last? 0





And first the water’s awful cold—

It’s most as cold as ice—



But then, us boys don’t care for that

And soon it’s warm and nice.



We thot ’twas lots of fun in May,

But now we’ve changed our tune;

Us boys have most fun when we can



Go swimmin’ first 0’ June.





THE EARLY AMERICAN AUTHORS.

William Eullen Bryant.





BY CARL s. LOWDEN.



This distinguished American poet and

journalist, the first prominent poet of

our country, was born in Cummington,

Mass, November 3, 1794. He numbered

among his ancestors Priscilla and John

Alden; and his father, a sturdy physician,

did not neglect the training of his son.

Very soon William became cultured and

refined, entirely in keeping with the tra-

dition of his lineage.



At thirteen he wrote his first poem;

and at eighteen he wrote the justly cele-

brated “Thanatopsis,” which, owing to

its charms and general beauty earned

him a wide reputation. He continued

his literary studies for a while, and in

1815 he was admitted to the bar. Ten

years of law was sufficient to show him

its faults as legitimate means of earn-

ing his subsistence; and he then became

editor of the New York Evening Post.

This influential position he retained until

his,death in New York City, June 12, 1878.



The majority of Bryant’s poetry was

written while he was occupied with the

arduous duties of editor. During this

time and shortly before, there appeared

“To a NVaterfowl,” “Planting the Apple

Tree,” “The Ages,” “Letters of a Trav-

cler in Europe and America,” translations

of “The Iliad,” and “The Odyssey,” a

“Popular History of the United States,"

and a standard American anthology which

was. eagerly welcomed by scholars thru-

out the world. '



Bryant wrote forcible prose. While

connected editorially with the Evening

Post, he formulated certain rules of gram-

matical construction for use in the office,

which are today considered the most

reliable of any collection ever attempted.

His style both in prose and poetry, is

simple, clear, and direct; in an amazing

way it reflects his utmost sincerity. He

was a passionate lover of nature. “I was

always," he says, “from my earliest

years, a delighted observer of external na-

ture—~the splendors of a winter day-break

over the wide waste of snow seen from





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our windows, the glories of the autmunal

woods, the gloomy approaches of a thun-

der storm and its departure amid sun.

shine and rainbOWS, the return of the

spring with its flowers, and the first:

snowfall of winter. The poets fostered this

taste in me; and tho at that time I rarely

heard such things spoken of, it was none

the less cherished in my secret mind.”

The typical poem, “To a Waterfowl,"

which is given below, is commonly con-

sidered among the best of this great

master’s works.

“Whither, midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last

steps of day,

Far, thru their rosy depths, dost thou

pursue

Thy solitary way?





Vainly the fowler's eye

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee

wrong,

As, darkly seen against the crimson sky,

Thy figure floats along.





Seekest thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,

Or where the rocky billowz; rise and sink

On the chafed ocean-side?





There is a power ‘whose care

Teaches thy way along that pathless

coast—

The desert and illimitable air——

Lone wandering, but not lost.





Thou are gone, the abyss of heaven

Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my





heart

Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast

given,

And shall not soon depart.





He who from zone to zone,

Guides thru the boundless sky thy certain

flight,

In the long way that I must tread alone,

\Vill lead my steps aright.”

The following verses have been selected

from “The Crowded Street.”





“Let me move slowly thru the street,

Filled with an ever shifting train,

Amid the sounds of steps that beat

The murmuring walks like autumn rain.





How fast the flitting figures come!

The mild, the fierce, the stony face;

Some bright with thotless smiles, and





some

Where secret tears have left their trace.





And some who walk in calmness here,

Shall shudder when they reach the door



“'here one 'ho made their dwelling dear,

Its flower, its light, is seen no more.





Some, famine-struck, shall think’ how





ong

The cold, dark hours, how slow the

lin‘ht;

And some who flaunt amid the throng,

Shall hide in dens of shame tonight.





Each, where his tasks or pleasures call,

They pass, and heed each other not.



There is who heed, who holds them all,

In His large love and boundless thOt.





These struggling tides of life that seem

In wayward, aimless course to tend,

Are eddies of the mighty stream

That rolls to its appointed end."





THE ORIGIN OF RURAL FREE DE-

LIVERY.





(Continued from page 603).





hard up for material, but his utmost

efforts would fall flat at the Ireland

church, for from 1881 the church has

prospered. There has never been a col-

lection plate passed inside its walls, save

the annual missionary offering, and that

donation is sacredly set aside for its

intended purpose. There has never, in

all that time, been a minister or a lec-

turer occupying the pulpit who was not

paid for his individual effort before he

left. the building.



The financial record, kept in the plain





 





 





 





 





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Boy, and his Dogomobile.





handwriting of Milton Trussler, is a strik-





ing curiosity. The entries read: ‘Paid





Rev. Crossley for preaching,” and the

amount. If the occasion were a serial

meeting, each day’s entry shows the

daily payment. The church was planned

to work along the





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ers of today I was powerless to defend

myself, as I had emptied my gun at the

deer.



ThevIndian’s intention was not to kill

me—not for a time, at least—for, drag-

ging me to a nearby tree he produced a





 





lines of the modern

institutional work of

the cities. A large

parklike yard sur-

rounds the building,

beautifully shaded

with native trees,

and the burial place

is far away out of

sight. The church

is the social clearing

house for the com-

munity, and reun-

ions, celebrations,

picnics and like

gatherings are held

within its walls or in

the yard, as the oc-

casion demands. As

a certain conse-

quence the church

'has grown without

parallel. In denom-

ination the church

is Universalist. In

the Ireland's young

people’s Christian

Union is found the

latest exemlplificzh

tion of the homing,

neighborhood idea

of the founder. Two

years ago the Union discovered that it

was numerically Well up in numbers in

comparison with similar organizations of

its kind. It is the largest society of its

kind in the whole nation.



Not considering all the circumstances,

a country church sitting by the roadside,

with only the surrounding farms to sup-

ply its membership, maintaining the larg-

est society of its kind in the nation thru

the harmony of communal interests, is a

splendid tribute to the memory of the

quiet unostcntatious man who sent the

daily mail into hundreds of thousands of

country homes thru the realization of an

ideal.





SAVED BY A DOG.





 





BY RAY E. wHITE, (14 years old).



The boys in our vicinity liked to go

and hear an old settler tell Indian stories

by the hour, sometimes telling the same

story over again when it was an espec-

ially interesting one. There is a story

which he was generally asked to repeat,

I know not why unless because it shows

the usefulness and faithfulness that comes

thru kindness to dumb animals. The fol-

lowing is the story as the old settler

told it:



“My father and mother and I lived alone

in the forests of “'isconsin. The nearest

neighbor was sixteen miles away, with

all woods between, so you see it was not

as you have it today, with your schools

and playmates. \Vhere our little cabin

then stOod is today the flourishing city

of Eau Claire. There were then no

schools, but if there had been, searcely

any one could have attended. and the

only playmate I had was my dog, Carlo.

He was my constant companion and I

had taught him several tricks. Sometimes

when I was out in the woods I would

send him to the house with some mes-

sage, and afterwards found how this

simple trick probably saved my life.



“Often when my work was done I

would take father‘s musket, go out into

the forests and hunt game, which was

very plentiful. One day I shouldered the

gun, called my dog and started on a.

hunt. It was a fine morning and, with

little thot of Indians, I went away with

a heart as light as my heels. Carlo, too.

seemed happy, for be bounded from one

plaCe to another as is natural for a dog.

I had been out two or three hours and

had brot down a little small game. As

it was nearing noon I was about to re-

turn home when a deer bounded out of

a thicket a little way ahead. Now, it

was quite a feat for a boy of fifteen to

shoot a deer. So, not stopping to think

that something must have frightened

the deer to make it come out of its hiding

place in broad daylight, I shot and killed

it. Carlo ran up to it and I had started

towards it when I heard a crackling of

the bushes in the direction which the deer

came from and a young redskin hopped

out. He had undoubtedly followed me

for a considerable distance waiting for a

good opportunity to capture me. I did

not know what he intended to do with me

but he would probably kill me. As I did

not have one of your modern breechload-





 





Ireland Church,





in which no Collection is ever taken.





stout cord from his pocket and bound me

securely to the tree. Luckily he (lid not

see the dog or he probably would have

killed him, and Carlo did not notice us,

for he was busy watching the deer. No

word was spoken between us until the

Indian had me bound. Then he said, in

broken EngliSh, ‘You no go. Indian go

way off. Come back, big lot Indians.

Have heap big pow-wow.’



“I new saw what he was going to do.

He would gather a lot of Indians and

have a big time in honor of the Indian

who had captured a ‘pale-faee.’ How I

wished I could got word home. My

father and I, with a musket apiece, could

put to flight twenty Indians, for they

were very much afraid of guns and had

not learned to use them yet. After the

Indian had gone I worked for about five

minutes in a vain endeavor to free myself

but at the end of that time I was as

secure as ever. I then called my dog.

He came and barked as if to say he would

like to help me, but for some time 1

could think of no way he could do so.

After a while I thot of a scheme. Why

not send Carlo home with a message! At

first this sounded plausible, but after a

second thot I nearly gave it up. How-

eould I write a message while tied hand

and foot to a tree. Then, besides, I had

no pencil or pain r. Suddenly an idea.

occurred to me and I immediately com-

menced working with the rope that bound

my right hand. After a few moments

I was rewarded by the freedom of that.

hand. Then what could I do, you say,

with no paper or pencil? Perhaps if you

were in the danger I was you would think

how, and think quick, too, if you were

afraid the Indians might return at any

moment; so I hastily tore a strip of bark

from the birch tree to which I was tied.

All I could do must be done with my one.





hand alone, so I tore a small narrow"





strip from the larger one, dippt-d it into

some blood which had been started from

a sore that had been opened by the rope's

rubbing. and scribbled. rather than wrote,

the single word, IIlCIiP, on the bark, giv—

ing it to Carlo with the word home. He

seemed to know something was wrong

for he started off directly on a run. Aftci

he had gone, all sorts of fears ran thru

my mind. Suppose the dog should be

hurt or lose the precious message. Sup—

pose tlic Indians should return before

help come, but all my fears were ground-

less, for I afterward learned that Carlo

had reached home safely and given the

note to my mother. She called my father,

who got the other gun and told Carlo

to ‘Go find George.’ Carlo started of

quite rapidly and father followed as fast

as he could, but they arrived none too

soon. After freeing me and recovering

and loading my rifle we bid behind some

bushes. We had been there scarcely a.

few moments before the Indians came.

I shuddered to think what would have

become of me had I been tied to the tree.

They were covered with paint and were

armed with awful looking weapons. Their

smile of triumph changed to looks of fear

and wonder when they found I was not

there. I picked out the Indian that had

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my father shot and two Indians fell. The

rest scattered and ran.“ We did not try

to .follow them for I had had enough ad-

venture for one day. After that you

may be sure nothing was too good for

dear old Carlo. “’hat more can a dog do

than to save the life of his master?"



After the old settler had finished telling

the story he would always show us the

scalps of the two Indians and the picture

of an honest, intelligent looking dog to

prove the truth of the story, which I

never doubted in the least.





 





LITTLE FARM F'ABLES.





 





BY AUNT QUILLIA.





The End of a Trust.





A large body of toads once assembled

in a farmer‘s garden. From far and near

they had met. some coming tron; their

beautiful bungalows under the great man-

drake leaves in a distant part of the

township. others from marshy savannas

that bordered nearby pools, and still

others from the secluded fastnesscs Oi

sundry heaps of stones.



They had met to form a trust. By

scores and hundreds they had hopped

along the harddieaten paths that

stretched like brown ribbons along the

grassy waysides. and now, as they were

gathered under the broad silvery cabbage

leaves, or fresh green ovals of lettuce,

one could see by the moonlight that pur—

pose was written on every stolid coun—

tenance.



The Hon. “'inkless “‘artman—principal

speaker of the evening—was a large and

rather imposing fellow in spite of his

rough skin. He had long possessed the

largest holdings in numerous small con-

cerns. and, on account of his wealth,

dignity of presence and other considera-

tions he was allowed to hold the floor

and air his opinions without restraint.



“Good friends,” said he, “our combine





ourselves but of incaleulable benefit to

the farmer. The birds alone have never

been able to gather up all the insmrts

that infest his crops. By furnishing us

with long, rapid lances, a capacity for

stealthy watching, power to see prey at

long distances, and ability to silently

seize (.‘il'iportunitics, nature has fitted us

for a predatory life. It is evidently our

province to help the farmer and, at the





 





same time. line our own stomachs with

the good things of the world.



“Now, I prepose that we jo'n our inter-

ests and take possession of this entire

garden, and not only this but of all sur—

rounding ones. Let these be some of our

mottoes: ‘lndividual rights.’ ‘No senti—

mental rot for society.’ ‘llown with the

community.’ ‘1'1) with personal interests.’

‘l‘lvery man for himself and the devil

take his neighbor.’



“I am tired to death of these long-

faced moralists who everlastingly preach

responsibility toward society and the

guardianship of the commonwealth.



“Let it be understood that no cock or

hen, no goose or gander, no hen—turkey

or .L'obbler, no fowl of any kind, n; bird,

wild or tame, has any rights in thesm

our (~xelusive domains. He will diligently

earner up all insects. and those that we

cannot use trUi<<l\‘(.-s we will allies: to

prey upon tin.~ crops, muzntime deviating

that \\'e an; of great benefit to the i'ai'rnr-r‘.

and by using this llllli' slogan \H will

so impose upon his llilflit'l'l‘ljtj tint he

will never ruin: a voice against ux"



Here someone belly snuuestwl that

such fabulous prvali'llv might end in

disaster. “Toads,” said iii. "like other

living creatures. are liable to Immune

suri‘eited, and Sill'fl‘ll might be i‘o‘mverl

by disease. It is pw<sible that the bloated

bodies of toads Would so encumber the

ground that the farmers, in disgnu,

might at last arise and wipe every one,

livingr or dead, off the lace of the earth."



At this man‘s remark, \Vartman only

gave a sniff of cont'empt and went on

with his harangue. For hours be con-

tinued to orate on the advantages 01

a trust until his hearers, tired of travel





 





 





and of his, tireless tongue, one by one fell

fast asleep.



’l‘he inspirntiou of an admiringr audience

having lltl’ll lws‘. t‘w- Slimlllvl‘ himself

begun to grow drowsy. At this point an

owl who, in a nearby iiiapie, hid setn

and heard all, noiselessly left his perch

and pounced upon hi< victim with these

words: “Surrender. “'artman. Insects

are the natural property of birds as well

as of toads, yet you have ‘xcllldcd all

birds and fowls from your selfish com-

bine. Even predatory wealth itsolf may

become a prey to silent and unseen

forces. I have been delegated to make

way with you. If your end had not come,





will not only be of great advantage to,





I should strive to impress you with this

truth to which a popular writer in the





world of men has lately given utterance."





It is this: ‘Nobody should have every-

thing, until everybody has something.’ ”‘





 





KINKS.





Kink l.—Hidden Picture.





 





. ——.s.a ‘

This near-sighted hunter has lost his

dog. Please find it for him.





Kink ll.——lnitiais.





— is for trials the dairymen meet,



—for their homes in the country so

sweet;



——for their enterprise lightening their

toll.



~ is for milk, their farms’ Standard Oil.



—~ for the intellect needed to bring.



—ash returns largely without laboring



—ard to the injury of body and mind.



— is for innings for them of the kind



—ained by other producers who join



——nd win their full share, and more, oi

the coin



—ceded to.live and make the work pay.



— is for farmers who prune and who

spray;





—— for the apples they gather this way;'





—— is their reason for sorting.r them well,

~— er their marketing methods which sell,

—nding in making “sure thing" for the

man

—aising the very best fruit that he can.

——is for daughters, true girls of the

farms,

—lecting to use their wits and their

charms

—Ao brighten and broaden the neighbor-

hood life.

——<-fute the magazine articles rife

—n the dreadful condition of the farmer‘s

wife.

—— is for ingenious ideas these girls

—hink out beneath their hats and their

curl<,

—:«king on farms a field for their wits

“lllll‘t‘tl full as big for adv. writers' hits

——aliing the trade as any that ever

appily opened for city brains clever.

Prizes for Straightening Kinks.

To the first 1‘3 who send us correct

answers to ALL of the above Kinks.

we will give choice of a package of :7”

post-cards representing a trip around the

world. a (30py of “(.‘onerete Construeti ill

on the farm.” or a bread and cake knife.

“'here contestant or some member of his

family is not a regular subscriber a

year‘s subscription (Tic) must accompany

answers. Answers must not reach us,

later than lune 23, (H correct Silllliiihs

will be published in issue of July 3. Ad-

drp<$ “nun-rs to Puzzle Dept, Mitliigun

Farmer. ‘

Answers to May 15 Kinks.

Kink 1. Hidden

Picture.——'l‘lie' lndlan

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. Going to the Exposition.



A reader of Home Chats writes that

she and her husband rented their farm

and are going to take a western trip

this summer which Will include a visit

to the Yukon-Seattle Exposition and

some of the California points of interest.





As this is their first extensive journey.





by rail she asks if I can give them any

information as to selection of routes,

amount and variety of clothing and other

articles to be taken along, also points on

the use of sleepers and (lining ears. Fur-

thermore, she asks about the comparative

merits of standard and tourist coaches

as represented by first and second class

tickets. ' '



Among the pleasant recollections of

my life I count my two trips to the

Pacific Coast. These trips were made

over different roads and with tickets of

different grades, one being first class, or

standard, the other second class,»or tour-

ist from Chicago. As to the latter, I

found the coach we occupied immacu-

lately clean and perfectly comfortable in

every way. What was lacking in luxu-

rious upholsterings was more than com-

pensated for by a delightful element of

informality among the passengers who

happened to be particularly congenial so

that the social spirit which soon devel-

oped enhanced the enjoyment of the long

journey many fold. Among the number

were retired farmers and their wives,

theologians, teachers and several repre-

sentatives of the business and profes-

sional world.



There is one point which should not

be overlooked in deciding between the

tourist coach and the Pullman, however,

and that is the fact that in case of acci-

dent the latter is more than twice as

likely to escape injury because of the

substantial manner in which it is built.

In case of any delay the Pullman passen~

gers are- always first looked after, too,

and then will be first sent toward their





destinati . .



As to telectiOn of route, 'I think'all

roads have numerous points of interest

while probably not one of the over-land





roads is 'wholly lacking in long stretches





~of monotonous prairie or desert. Yet





even these are not entirely devoid of

attraction to eyes which see them for

the first time. It is well to go one wav

and return by some other road so as to

see as much of the country as possible.



To persons unaccustomed to travel,

there may be some thii gs about a sleeper

not quite understood at first, but any

bright man or woman soon catches on

and nobody notices a mistake even should

one be made. To keep an eye out for

pointers and do as the rest do will enable

most people to get along without attract-

ing undue attention.



In the coach which is to be occupied

continuously for three or four days the

traveler finds everything arranged for

comfort and convenience. Upon the col-

ored porter one is dependent for many

little services and a quarter slipped into

the dusky palm occasionally will not be

without good effects. Some pay all in

one fee at the end of the journey, others

at the beginning. Certainly to enlist

his good will during the time one is en

route is quite essential. The wage he

receives from the railroad company is

merely nominal and would scarcely pay

for his meals. Ilence the patrons of the

road are expected to help out in tips for

services rendered.



“'hile on the train ladies usually prefer

to do most of their dressing and undress-

ing in their berths. The crowded con—

dition of the compartment set aside for

this purpose makes such a course expe-

dient, unless one is an early riser. The

little netted hammock at the back of the

berth will hold the various articles in

disrobing. One’s purse will be safer there

also than under the pillow. Stockings

may be. tucked into shoes where they can

be easily found. A stout cloth bag is a.

convenience; into it can be placed var-

ious small toilet articles where they may

be found when wanted. Skirts are best

fastened by safety pins to the draperies

to avoid wrinkles, or laid lengthwise at

the back of the berth upon removal. '



‘Vhat to wear on such a trip is a ques-

tion ususlly debated by most women. A

good tailored suit of almost any color

except black, will be a wise choice and

with it a waist of soft silk, or two or





three clean white cotton ones, as pre—

ferred. As for the hat to wear with it,

select one of medium size, not too fancy

in makeup, and that is comfortable on

the head.

color as the suit will be a great conven<

ience when sight-seeing or autoing, es.

pecially so on the coast where the wind

blows a good deal. Tied down firmly this





will anchor a refractory head piece more





successfully than any number of pins.



In addition to the suit, one will need

little else in the line of dress, unless it

be a more pretentious gown for dinner

at hotels. If there are friends to visit

that is another matter, and in such case

a. greater variety of apparel will be re-

quired. For convenience the less baggage

the better, and a trunk is both an en-

cumbrance and an expense. A suit case

and a smaller hand bag ought to hold

everything a person would require for





an absence of three or four weeks, it'





there is no visiting on the program.

Whatever by way of hosiery or underwear

is required beyond a single change can

be purchased as needed, and this in light

weight can be washed in one‘s room and

dried without ironing. Some women

make a practice of wearing partly worn

hosieryr when traveling, discarding them

when soiled. Others do the same with

handkerchiefs, but most of us dislike the

idea of appearing in public Wearing

clothes which we would be ashamed of

in case of accident. At home we are

known for what we really are, regardless

of the clothes we wear, but among stran-

gers we are judged largely by our ap-

parel. This and our behavior, or the

manner in which we conduct ourselves

makes its impression, be it favorable or

otherwise, and this judgment is not al-

ways. tinged with leniency either. For

this reason, ladies of good breeding dress

with quiet taste when traveling and draw

attention to themselves as little as pos-

sible. Showy or exceptionally attractive

raiment lays the wearer open to criticism

and a woman so attired in public lit-Ml

not be surprised if she finds other “'Olllt'll

eyeing her with suspicion. “'omen of

the best taste, regardless of flnam-ial

standing, garb themselves in a way that

will be unobtrusive in traveling.



An example of this kind came under

my observation a couple of years ago

when a young woman powdered, painted,

puffed and perfumed, boarded an over-

land train. She was showily ,cmvnevl.

and wore. a big but profusely trimmed

with plumes. ller black eyes wandered

all over the car seeking glances of ad—

miration. In less time than it iakm to

tell it every person in the coach had set

themselves in judgment upon her. and I

fear it was not a very charitable one

either. Deservedly or not. she drew upon

herself harsh criticism merely by the way

in which she was dressed. It: was some-

thing which no woman would willingly

invite if she cared at all for the opinion

of strangers. ..



I think the dining car is a sort of

bugbear to the incxpcriem-od travrdcr.

The uninitiated are apt to feel ill—at-ease

in ordering a meal with a white-uproncd

lackcy standing by, and fellow-travelers

in imagination ready to note any diver—

gence from the established order of pro-

eel-dings. However, a little knowledge

of what is expected, coupled with a inan-

ner of composure and dignity will enable

anyone who will keep their eyes open to

get along without serious blunder. Mak-

ing out an order for a meal which shill

embrace a suitable variety and not over-

run reasonable bounduries when totals

are set down, is not an easy matter. Bar—

gain counter prices do not prevail in a

diner and it calls for careful planning

to provide a meal that will satisfy a.

healthy appetite for less than a dollar.

By eliminating extras and being content

with a few substantial dishes, it can be

done.



\Vhere there are two or more persons

in the party it simplifies matters to allow

one to do the ordering for all. Many

single orders are sufficient for two. and

by ordering all together the meal can be

served in family style, cozy and home-

like. I have seen well-to-do people con-

tent themselves ‘with one meal a day in

the diner, bringing out a previously

packed lunch basket for the other two,

and in a Pullman, at that,



By the way, many experienced trav-

elers never start on a long journey with-

out taking along something in the line. of

a lunch. Dining cars are not carried





. , THE'rMIcH'IGAN' FARMER.





A long tissue veil of the same





thruout, as a rule, but are dropped out

and picked up again as they are required.

Delay of any kind in reaching the sta-

tion where the car is taken on means

belated and hungry crowds to feed when

the place is finally reached. In such

cases it is a source of satisfaction to be

able to produce something to eat, it

nothing more than fruit, and the person

possessing such will be the envied 01

many.



Tipping the waiter is a custom which

prevails the same as tipping the porter.

Since ten per cent of the amount of the

bill is considered a fair tip, it is not nec-

essarily much of a burden. Men are

notably more generous in the matter of

tips than women, and quarters and halves

are not infrequently left on the tray.

Surely no one would think of offering less

than a dime no matter 110w small the bill.

It pays to keep on the right side of those

who render personal service to the trav-





eler. Whether or not one believes in the





custom it will be wise to follow it. It

is another case of “when in Rome,” and

the coin will be well expended, especially

if the same service will be required again;



Tourist passengers haveall privileges

of the dining car the same as those trav-

eling on first-class tickets. Yet it is

more common for the former to provide

themselves with lunch baskets and it is

entirely possible to make the journey to

the coast with the expenditure of very

little for meals if one so desires. Tea

and coffee can be, purchased from the.

kitchen at any regular meal hour, but

passengers are not allowed to make these

for themselves, even if provided with

alcohol lamps for the purpose, owing to

danger of accidents by fire.



Taking it all around such a trip can

hardly fail to be a pleasant and profitable

one, and I congratulate my correspondent

upon being able to take- it. If there is

further information which I can impart

it will be a pleasure to do so in a personal

letter.



HOW TO MEND CHiNA, GLASSVVARE

AND BRIC-A-BRAC.





Glassware, china and brie-a—brac can

be patched and glued together and made

to look like ncw, if one is careful to fit

the edges closely iogetlwr. In this way

many valuable dishes and ornaments can

be saved.



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Over the Fence





Neighbor Says Something





The front yard fence is a famous

council place on pleasant days. Maybe

to chat with seine one along the street,

or for friendly gossip with next door

neighbor. Sometimes it is only small talk

but other times neighbor has something

really good to offer.



An old resident of Baird, Texas, got

some mighty good advice this way

once.



He says:



“Drinking coffee left me nearly dead

with dyspepsia, kidney disease and bowel

trouble, with constant pains in my stom-

ach, back and side, and 5) weak I could

scarcely walk.



“One day I was chatting with one

of my neighbors about my trouble and

told her I believed coffee hurt me.

Neighbor said she knew lots of people

to whom coffee was poison and she

pleaded with me to quit it and give

Postum a trial. I did not take her ad-

vice right away but tried a change of

climate which did not. do me any good.

Then I dropped coffee and took up

Poslum. .



“My improvement began immediately

and I got better every day I used

P0stum.



“My bowels regular and in

two weeks all my pains were gone.

Now I am Well and strong and can Cit

anything I want to without distress.

All of this is due to my having quit

coffee, and to the use of Postum regu-

larly.



“My son who was troubled with in-

d’gcstion thought that if Posium

helptd me so, it might help him. It

did. too, and he is now well and streng

again.



"We like Postum as well as we ever

liked the coffee and use it altogit~thcr

in my family in place of coffee and all

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liquid are not left standing in them.‘





Clear glass will show the ('l‘uik mum'i

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into an ow-n-iiimitln-xl b tile, and set in:

the sun until it (lisswvlvcs. is the bwb

kind of pine for cl or gla-s. It should,

be shaken every day and before bl-inz‘

used should be siiainml thru a (‘li'lel

lawn cloth. \Vlit-n tho gluping‘ 34 to be‘

done the l/i‘olicll glass pita-vs Sll‘illlll l";

washed well in hot suds, espcially ont

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when they are tightly and eVenIy titted

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(‘f (‘lOlll Sllnlllnl l)‘ lu;ll«l:lj.1'< ll llLl'iiilfv'

around them to hold the edges well to-

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Cement nus not properly llllXt'.l. It is

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otherni-e the crack will look jagged,

causld by bubbles of air getting in. rw—'

lbw-ling the light, making. the ruggcl,‘





bl‘tikrll linw glaringly apparent.

liric-a—blue that is part nietal (lull

glass should not be so difficult to mend.

particularly win-re the two materials

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of paris mixed with the beaten while of

an tgc, will make then: as strong and goal

as new. This shouid be done quickly,

for within live minutes after

it on the pieces it burdens and holds tile

metal and glass, or china firmly tfig‘t‘lllcl‘.

’l‘wo metal pieces should be mended

with solder. The edges shou‘d first be

carefully dusted, washed if they are very

dirty, and rosin brushed over tin-m. Then

when fitted well together and tied in pl-lce

a stick of solder should be lilltl upon the

break and a hot iron brot down lightly

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rosin may be removed with a cloth dipped





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An appetizing‘ way of preparing eggs

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608, (121

HEALTH INQUIRIES.





BY CHARLOTTE A. AIKENS. -



An inquiry has come to hand from a

subscriber who wrote about a year ago

for advice as to the best method of re-

lieving chronic diarrhoea. She improved,

for a time, but later began to suffer

from distress in her stomach after eat-

ing. For this trouble she consulted a

doctor who told her that the stomach

was in such condition that no part of the

work of digestion could take place in it.

She has used medicine for a year for this

condition and has lived chiefly on toast,

milk and eggs. She has gained twelve

pounds in weight, but still has some dis—

tress, greater at some times than others.

Is getting very tired of her restricted

diet, and of taking medicine, and wants

advice as to what changes in diet she

should make. Has very little trouble

now with diarrhoea.



The question of medicine is one which

must be left entirely to the judgment of

the physician. Personally, I do not be-

lieve in continuous drugging. Medicines

have their place. They cure very few

diseases. The question as to how far the

work of digestion depends on the stomach

is still unsettled. Games not a few are

on record in which the stomach has been

entirely removed and a fair measure of

digestion has continued. The stomach

digests one Single class of foods—proteids.

The digestion of starches and fats and

sugars is not dependable on the stomach



\l'ithin the past year I have given con-

Siderable study to the question of diet

and digestive disorders. It is a big and

important subject. In pursuing this study

I corresponded with the medical director

of one of the largest sanitariums or

health resorts in the country, where

sometimes as many as five hundred pa-

tients are under treatment at once. A

very large proportion of these are suf-

ferers from dyspepsia or some form of

chronic digestive disorder. The utmost

care and labor is expended to get at the

bottom of these ailments. Experts are

employed to analyze the stomach con-

tents and find out just how much pepsin

and hydrochloric acid and other digestive

juices are Secreted in the stomach glands.

After years of experience in this kind of

work a doctor should be able to sp«-ak

with authority, and Dr. E. says: “I am

rather skeptical as to the need of as much

dieting as is now in vogue. The dirt-e-

lions which we give are very individual.

“'e do not diet diseases, we diet indi-

viduals, and two indivrduals with the

same disease may requirt different diets.

* * * There are a few general rules in

dieting. First, the for d stuffs are very

similar, however dii'frrt-nt the foods which

tin-y make up may be. For instance, if

you tear down two houses of very dif-

ferent architecture, and pile the bricks

in one heap, the wood in another heap,

and the iron in another heap. it would

be rather difficult to tell what kind Of a

house those formerly composml. And yet

that is exactly what our digestive organs

do with foods. They tear down the var—

ious foods to the simple food stuffs, and

there really is not so much difference in

these Dl‘otlllt'ls of digestion which are

absorbed into the blood stream.



“A great deal depends on the way food

is prepared. A pit-cc of strak has not a

deliuite value which is invariable. (me

has always to think of tho condition be-

fore cooking and the way it is cooked.



“Quite as much depends upon the int-n-

tal condition of the person eating as upon

the preparation of the food. The experi—

mwnts of scientific experts have shown

that the secretion of the stomach diges-

tive juices d: pends greatly upon the mind

stimulus, and the digestion depends

grwatly upon the rapidity with which this

St't‘l't‘lltlll occurs.



“,l.astly, patients are terribly crazy now

about (lit ts, and it is our duty to disabuse

tin m of three many fads and theories by

showing them that of the foods on the,

ordinary menu there is smircely one

which cannot be so prepared, that it will

llt‘ lll‘llt‘lll’llll to almost any patient. It i:

llll'l'l sting to note that they will with

pleasure take a food when it is prescribed

as a medicine which would distress them

when it was ordered as a food.”



He further that many of the

cases of so-callt-d dyspepsia have some

other trouble. A frequent trouble is a

hardening and thickening of the opening

from the stomach into the bowels. In

cases where the trouble seems to be a

deficiency of the digestive fluids of the

stomach, he recommends frequent small,

dry meals.



I do not wonder the inquirer is tired of

a diet consisting solely of eggs, milk and

toast. She asks about the best cereal

foods to use in her case. Inasmuch as





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THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





there is a tendency to diarrhoea, cereals

containing much gritty substance should

be avoided. For real nourishment, good

old oatmeal stands at the top of the list

of cereals. If very thoroly cooked, it is

about as easily digested as any cereal

food. But in her case it should be boiled

for hours. Oatmeal which is hastily

cooked in ten or fifteen minutes while

the breakfast table is being set, is not

a wholesome diet for any one. In our

house we cook it in a tireless cooker over

night, and bring it to a boil in the morn-

ing. A double cooker is just as good.

It should be put to cook the afternoon

before and boiled for hours. The double

cooker keeps it from burning. A little

tin or enamel bucket set in a pot of water

can be used instead. It is impossible to

keep it from burning unless some such

method is used, when the boiling is con—

tinuedzfor hours.



I would suggest trying a small piece of

tender beef or fresh fish or chicken to

give variety to the diet. \Vell cooked rice

occasionally also might be tried. The

main thing is to chew every bit of food

very thoroly, not to eat when overtired,

and avoid worry. Everyone who has used

ordinary powers of observation has no-

ticed that the appetite fails when a bit

of bad news is received. The stomach is

at once influenced by the effect of this

news on the mind of the individual. There

is a very close connection between the

nervous system, the brain and the diges-

tive organs, and food eaten under the

strain of nervous excitement or worry

is certain to be long and difficult of

digestion.



There is so little nourishment in many

of the vegetables that they are best

avoided in this case. Hot breads, pastry,

etc, also are best let alone. A little ex-

perimenting with small, dry meals, using

fresh, tender meats and fish, mealy, well-

baked potatoes, macahoni, oatmeal, rice,

etc., very thoroly cooked, e gs and milk

combined with fresh, tender young vege-

tables, cream, butter and stale bread or

toast, would seem to be worth trying in

this case. Sugars and fruits should be

used sparingly, if at all. In addition,

tonic measures, such as a tepid sponge

bath, using about two teaspoonfuls of silt

to a quart of water, and a brisk rub with

a coarse towel afterward, with plenty of

timi- spcnt outdoors in the sunshine, will

help to build up the general health. A

good rest and a visit away from home

two or three times a year with congenial

people who will help her to forget her

troubles, would probably do as much good

for this woman as medicines.



The tendency in these conditions is to

get low-spirited and that of itself makes

the general condition worse. Happiness

and health are closely associated. It is

rare to find a really healthy person who

is not happy. And happiness can be cul-

tivated. It is a condition of mind. The

trouble with a great many farm women

is that they stay too closely at home,

brood over their ailments and magnify

small things till these things look like

mountains. It is a bad habit. Less

money spent in drugs and more spent on

vacations and holiday trips would llll'illl

better health and happier homts. It is

easy to settle down and saw, “0, I can't

get away. see all the woik there is to be

done. “’ho would see to the chickens

and turkeys, etc., to say nothing of the

children." But there are none of us so

desperately useful or valuable that we

tannot be spared fora month or six weeks

each year. A good rest and a holiday

trip are remedies well worth trying.





 





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lot and seven cans from the cane-sugar

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FIGHT LICE NOW.



At this season hundreds of chickens

die and thousands of hens stop laying

because- of the evil effects of lice. A

thoro application of insecticides to flock

and poultry houses once a,week during

the hot months will save dollars, and

save the life of many a chick that might

grow into a prize winner or a phenomenal

layer.



A good dusting powder, one containing



a large percentage of tobacco dust pre-

ferred, is, to my mind, the best insecti-

cide for lice on the fowl. Hold the fowl

by the legs, head downward, and sprinkle

the powder among the feathers, especially"

where they are thickest, for here is the

hiding place of the vermin. To be effec—

tive it is necessary to rub the powder

into the feathers, and down to the skin,

all over the fowl. This must be repeated

once a week for at least a month.

_ Do not think when you have the fowls

dusted that your duties end there. Get

your kerosene can and soak the roosts

and cracks in the poultry house to kill

the mites, fleas, and other vermin which

harbor there. Roosts need not be treated

oftener than once a fortnight in hot

weather, and once a month in winter.

Don’t forget the dust bath. This is na-

ture’s method of getting rid of vermin.

The time fowls spend in dusting them~

Selves is well spent. In summer the hens

will- find their own wallowing 0r shuffl-

ing places, but in winter a box two or

three feet square and 'two feet deep

should be filled two-thirds full of dry

earth. The fowls will certainly appreciate

it and it will save lots of time and trou-

ble in dusting the fowls.



Liquid lice killers are also good and

when properly applied will rid the fowls

of body lice and clear the house of mites

as well. The trouble with them is that

they are carelessly used, and so either

prove dangerous to the health of the

flock or else are not used to good advan—

tage in getting rid of the lice.



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SEASON F'A—VORABLE TO GAPES.





The frequent and heavy rains, which

havc grcatly increased the cares of pool--

trymcn on flat or low land, promise also

to be productive of a large number of

cases of gapcs in the growing chicks.

Under such weather conditions earth-

worms are not only very numerous but

are easily obtained by fowls. The trouble

known as gapes is due to the presence in

the wind-pipe cf the gapeworm. These

‘worms obstruct the passage of air to and

from the lungs and thus occa<ion the

characteristic gasping movements of the

suffering chicks.



It has been found that the commonly

recommended practice of introducing into

the trachea. a partly stripped feather, or

a blue-grass top, and by a twisting mos

tion dislodging and rl’lmoving the worms

docs not seem to be practicable for very

young chicks. The trachea is so small

and so easily injured that it is impossible

to dislodge and remove all of the worms

by such means. Chicks gent-rally recover

without treatment when they are at;

tacked after they are half grown, and

hence fowls that might, from their size,

be trcatcd successfully with a feather do

not require treatment of any sort. It is

the very young chicks that suffcr most,

and the. only remedial treatment in their

case that seems to be successful is rub-

bing the neck from time to time with

lard 0r vaseline, thoroly mixed with a

little turpentine (three parts of the lard

or vaseline to one part of turpentine).

This treatment should begin before the

disease has made its appearance. It will

not help a chick in the last stages of the

trouble. Pure turpentine will very quickly

kill a chick when rubbed on the neck

over the trachea.



A French Scientist asserts that the use

of pounded garlic with the usual food

(one garlic bulb to ten chicks daily),

Supplemented by special care in the use

of only pure water, Which is changed

Several times a day, has been found to

completely eradicate grapes from pheas-

ants. This is a simple treatment and

there is no apparent reason why it should





 





 





' THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





not prove as effective. with chickens‘as

with pheasants.



Experiments. show that chickens con-

tract the disease when-allowed to run on

soil which has become infested with the

gapeworm, or when fed earthworms, and

that keeping chicks on a plank floor for

several weeks after they hatch will pre-

vent the gapes. It is probable that the

same result would be obtained by simply

elevating the earthen floor above the

surrounding level, so that it would not

retain moisture. It must be remembered,

however, that after the disease is estab—

lished in a brood it will be conveyed from

one to another thru the medium of food

and drink, and in such case a plank floor

would not alone obviate it. In case the

disease should be introduced by chicks

which had contracted it elsewhere, the

proper treatment would be to isolate af-

fected individuals as soon as discovered

and medicate. the drinking water of the

rest.





 





NOT FRIGHTENED AT THE HIGH

- GRAIN VALUES.





It now looks as tho those who stay in

the hen business will see high prices for

eggs next winter. I believe a higher range

'of prices will prevail from now on than

perhaps has ever been known under nor-

mal conditions. The only abnormal con-

dition at present is the high price of

grain, which is scaring many out of rais-

ing chickens and has already caused many

to curtail their operations. _



Eggs locally are now being picked up

at the door at 21c a dozen, while those

shipping to Boston realize 24c net. his

is four cents a dozen higher than is ordi—

narily paid at this season, or until about

July, and it is not rcasonable to expect

they will go any lower.



Many are discouraged, but it seems to

me that where one is equipped for quite

a flock he is shortsighted if he does not

hatch a sufficient numbcr of chicks to

replace at least one-half his flock. (iood

year-old hens will pay some profit, but

they are not comparable to pullets that

have been hatched early and kept comin".



“'it‘h grain where it is now, dairy and

poultry products must stay at an average

high range of prices. \Vith us, fairly

clean wheat retails at $1.95 per cwt.:

corn, $1.60, and corn meal $1.50. Oats

are out of the question. I bclieve hens

will pay a profit if anything docs. That

is, if' they are given proper care.



Maine. D. J. R.





PUTTING SUPERS ON-THE HlVES.





The first super given SIlOLIIlI. always

contain bait sections; that is, scctions

filled with drawn comb saved from the

previous season. One bait section ill the

center of a super will gcncrally induce

the bccs to commcncc work promptly.



But sometimes a colony will rcfusc to

commence work “upstairs“ even when

bait sections are given. The common

black bees hardly ever are as obstinate

as this, but Italians can sometimes only

be started to work above by taking a

super from some other colony in which

work is under way, and putting it (bees

and all), 011 the colony that refuses to

go to work.



Xthn to give thc first super is an im-

portant question. If given too early the

bccs are liable to gnaw holes into the

foundation; and their running over the

foundation also seems to make it less

inviting to the bees when they come to

draw it out into comb. “Billing until the

ncctar flow is undcr way before giving

surplus apartments is, in my opinion,

as undesirable as giving them too early.

In the first place, some surplus honey

will be lost, and the swarming fever is

increased when the bees, have no place

excl-pt the brood-nest in which to store

honcy. It has bccn given. as a rule, to

put on the surplus :lpill‘llllcnts when the

bees commence to build bits of comb be-

tween the top bars of thc brood frames,

thus indicating that they are securing

nectar from the, fields with which to make.

wax. This is just a little late. (Others

may think differently; everyone. is en-

titled, to opinions of his own). I seldom

wait until the bccs construct bits of comb

on the frames, etc., but put on the supcrs

as soon as I see, from the way they net

at the entrance, that they are carrying

nectar.



“'hen the super that was put on first

is about ‘half filled, another is given

below the partly filled one, and, if there

seem to be idle bees, a third super is

given. During a good nectar flow and

with large swarms, four or five supers

are not too many. If one. docs not give

all of the bees in a hive a chance to

work, how can large yields be scoured?





 





When giving extra supers, great care

must be taken not to place a super below

a partly filled one when the indications

are that the nectar flow will soon cease,

for one may be caught with a lot of partly

filled sections, and these usually sell for

several cents per pound below the price

of well filled sections. If one is not sure

whether the bees will finish a whole

super of sections it is best to err on the

safest side and set the super on top. in

which case the bees will not commence

work ill it until they really need the

room. The reason fresh supers are not

always given on top of partly filledones

is that honey would beglost by so doing,

thru the bees not commencing work in

them until they are crowded out of the

ones below.





Wisconsin. F. A. S.





 





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manila twine. Even under these condi-

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Rise in Linseed Oil as Applied to Painting.



There may be danger of a false im—

pression gaining headway that the rise

in price of linseed oil makes it too ex-

pensive to paint the buildings that need

it this year. At first glance there might

Seem to be some basis for such a thot.

Linseed oil, this year is 750 a gallon as

against 500 a gallon last year a rise of

50 per cent. This fact alone is liable to

impress itself on the farmer. Ile says

to himself, “I’ll put off painting now.

Linseed oil may go lower next year, and

I'll save money by waiting.” But he

won’t save money rather will the posi—

ponement probably be more costly. Ho

overlooks the fact that wood not suffi—

ciently protected by a good coat of paint,

and thereby exposed to all kinds of in-

clement weathcr, is certain to rot. To

allow the wood in house or barn to dc-

terioratc for lack of paint so that it will

have to be replaced is far more expensive

than to pay a little higher price than

usual for linseed oil. Lumber is not only

very dear now but it is going to be more

costly, because of the growing scarcity.

To l‘e-paint a III—room house could not

be more than $2 ovcr what it would have

cost last year, and anyone whose build-

ings nced l’l"[)illllllll{.’,‘ should compare this

really slight cxcess with what an outlay

for new lumber would mean by ncxt ycar.

In this connection, it is well to be sure

that nothing but pure white lead of a

standard brand is used for your painting,r

work—lost the lcud for purity. Place a

small piccc of the while lcad, about the

size of a pinhcad. on a. match a short

distance from the lip. llold one or two

lighted matches undcrncrlth. If the load

is purc and rclizlblc, it will in a l'cw

scconds reduce to small shining globules

of metallic lead which. tho small, are

easily disccrniblc. “\Vllilc Lead" that

will not reduce in this way is not pure

and is unlit for use.



The Arkansas Valley.



The transformalion of a once barren

plain into a productive country is so \von-

dcrflll in its cffccl as to produce the

most profound impressions on those who

“’cl‘c familiar with thc country bcl‘orc lhc

lransformalion was wrot, A man who

had once cndurcd great hardship on the

plains in soutllcastcru (.‘olorado and

northern Kansas was invited by his old

partner to visit his place in the Arkansas

Valley. ll'c complicd with rclllclaucc as

it rcvivl-d mcmorics of his l'ormcr cxpc-

'rl'cncc; mcmorics of a barren plain. of

thirst, of dying sheep and the blcaching

boncs of czllllc. llc :lcccptcd the invita-

tion. but wrote his friend that. the crea—

tor ncvcr inlcndcd man to live in such

:1 (loll—forsakcn country. His partner rc—

plicd that man's cxpcricnce in the (lardcn

of Eden. whcrc ho had cvcrylhing made

to order was l'lisasl'rous; that it was

where he, had subdued the, wilderness and

turned the desert into :1 garden that he

had shown himself a. man. The friends

mcl‘. cnroutc. and made their first slop

at Garden C‘ily, Kas. \Vilh his curly

experience ill mind, this man could not

believe his eyes, and said, in alarm, “I‘m

all in; take my watch and remember mo

lo loving friends." His fl'icnd replied,

“You're not in Heaven ycl, bllt you're

pretty ncrlr it. This is Kansas.” Then

he listened to the talc of the transfor-

mation—how water was first pumped

from the river for irrigation: how the

govcrnment stcppcd in and showed that

the river was insignificant in comparison

to the great underground store of water

that had leached from it and could be

pumped from wells; how farmers raised

an average of 231.1. tons of sugar beets

per acre; how vegetables and fruits and

all kinds of crops responded to the water

pumped from the ground and supplied by

canals. Learning that the A.. 'l‘. & S, F.

Ry. not only touched this country. but

as well that to the north of it, which his

friend said was claimed to be still better,

this man is now urging his friends to

write C. L. Seagravcs. Gen. Colonization

Agent. llTl—M, Raiway exchange, Chi—

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MARKETS 2





DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.





 





from country places which causes an ea.s-"‘

ier feeling in the deal. Southern'offerings

Good stock is quoted at ‘90@‘

New potatoes from the south

are quoted at $4.75@5 per bbl.

Provisions.——Family

mess pork, $19.50; light short clear, $19.50,

heavy short clear,





 





pure lard, 11 $510;





hams, 13c; picnic hams, 8c.

Dairy and Poultry Products.

Butter.—Values remain at

Trading continues steady with

the demand and supply adjusted to keep

the movement active.





June 2, 1909.

Grain and Seeds.



Wheat—Those interested in the wheat

market have seen what the public would

the unexpected, happen when the

May options were delivered without dis-

turbing the trade prices for cash grain

It was generally anticipated

that prices would go down as soon as

contracts for the above option were satis-

fied, but the

which goes to prove that the market is

based, not upon a speculative basis, but

the foundation of supply and de-

holdings are known

to be reduced to a short supply and the

condition of the winter wheat crop is not

encouraging for consumers of the grain;





The following are





19c; packing, 171/20 per lb.



Eggs.--The price for fresh eggs lost the

fraction the past week. At the new figure

the trade is steady with an active mar-

Extra fresh eggs,

included are now quoted at 21C





case count and





Poultry.—The poultry deal

and the conditions

values ruling as a week ago.





are unchanged with





the maturing of the wheat

plants and Oklahoma sent out a very huh

lish state report putting the condition 01

the crop at 61 points as compared with

74 points for the corresponding period a

The American visible supply

decreased over two and one-half

bushels during the week.

price paid for No.





broilers, 280300 .lb.

Cheese.—New Michigan, 131/2@14c; York





brick cream, 16c lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Apples.—Market steady.

are quoted at $7637.50 per bbl.

Onions-Bermudas, $1.50 per crate.

Strawberries.—24-qt.

Per bu, $4.50.

Vegetables.—-Green onions, 10c per doz:

1560200 per (102;





A year ago the

2 red wheat was 91::

Quotations for the past week





No. 2 N0. 1 No. 3





 





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head lettuce, $2.50 per hamper;





H: H

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. . 400 per doz; asparagus, 75@80c per doz;

splendid growmg _ rhubarb, 406‘50c per doz.

of the last week has been worrying the



little and the

the early days of the

period, showed up somewhat to the sur-

prise of traders,

of the wheat trade

demand of corn

itself has caused the tobogganing prices

of a few days ago to be rescued and brot

back to the high basis upon which trad-

ing was done a week ago.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.

The old potato deal will be off in three





remaining in farmers’

Tuesday morning‘s market on

_ the Island was the biggest of the season,

This tendency -



ceipts the past day or so and the promise onions, 5(1‘60 doz; lettuce, “Ne 11); spin~

Asparagus took a drop,

selling at 60@75c doz. bunches.

hothouse lettuce

glass farmers are now giving their aliens

to cucumbers and tomatoes.

are unchanged.

doiry butter are heavy.





placed upon shipments in the near future.





was 75c per bu.





In grains, wheat





Quotations follow:

(irains.—~\\'heat,

(31c; buckwheat, 600 per bu: rve, 80c.

jleans.——l>landpicked,

Button—Buying prices,

171,1;G'i19c; creamery in tubs, 241,450; prints,





.................. $2.50 per bu,

‘Oats.——\\’hile there is a general opinion

the cat crop has been permanently

damaged by the unusual weather of the

recent warm

excellent growing weather has given hope

for such improvement that the bcars have

worked values to a lower level than pre-

Thc decline is not large





Cheese—Michigan full cream is selling

at 1662161420 per lb; brick, 17c; Swiss, 17c;

limburger, 17c.



Eggs—Case count, 19@19Vzc.



Potatoes~60f070c per bu.

32.50074 per cwt;

and heifers, best quality, 3@51/20: dressed





 





railed last week.

the price still

consumers continue to complain that they

amount they

Market is firm,





compelled to

use as much as possible.

A year ago the price for No. 3 white was

Quotations arc:





Hogsr—D-rcssed,

Poultry—Fonds,





lSfiiiliJc: ducks, 1401x150; broilers, 11,; to

lbs., 228(17300 pcr lb.





 





Beans.*'l‘h<-re is no trading and consc— (form—N0. 3’ 751120; July, 71%c; Sept,





57@59c; July, 54c;





of the grain stored. Hats—N0. 3 white,





foliowing 11"111" Beans—Pea beans,

$2.50@2.60; red

$2fl2.15 for old.



Britten—Steady.





 

 





Cream eries, 22 @ 25 1,1, c;





Firsts, 200; prime firsts,





L‘lizc pcr doz.

7 Potatoes.——-Higher.

@950 for average offerings.





..................... Carlots in bulk, 85





Cleverseedu rr'l‘hc plant has





Pot a toes—Michigan.

A pplcs—Ft cad y.

Spitzcnburg, $5@5.50.

I‘Ig‘SS.—‘V(‘St(‘l‘l;





90458543 per bu.





Portion—mt‘rcauu-ry, 256126c; prints, 24%





Pl‘li!‘l’.—“‘v‘fill‘l‘n





Cm‘fa'

—-‘ -l¢;

(:IUI





\\'Hll1<a\ti:'f.‘ .. iii”)

luv has adyaumd to Shc. and

now \yorth $2.50 per bu.

market continues





2mgfl‘27c per lb.

firsts to ex-

204520150 per doz.





 





l’ouitry.~Alivc,

"cstcrn chickens, broilers, 29/712100; fowls,

“'estcrn broilers,

151/éW161/éc pcr lb.

Grain—“meat, No.

, Rfic; oats, mixed, 62c.

Pn’vtatocs.—P€‘r 180 lbs., $2.62@2.75.





Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.

............... l.‘l.TM;.oml





Feed, Provisions,

Flouanrit-es

Quotations are as follows:





“'n’lI.——~’I‘ho activity of the wool market





have advanced

till at present they are on practically the

some lasis as they held three years ago

when the market was at its best.

e anxious buyers at the pres-

ent range of values, which activity would

indicate their belief in a good future mar-

The following are the leading quo—

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces——





Patent Michigan

Ordinary Patent

Hay and Straw.—Priccs





clover, mixed, $12: ryc straw, 310010.50;

wheat and cat straw, $9 per ton.

FCEd.—-Hic:l(l\'.

coarse middlings, $31: sip» r-iiddiings, $31;

cracked corn and coarse corn meal, $31@

. corn and oat chop. $30. '

Potatoes—Operations

hot weather is bringing





unmercha nta hie,





three-eighth:

ouarter—hlood

The washed.

surplus holdings 340.





Michigan, Wisconsin and New York





 





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fleeces—Fine unwashed, 24@250; delaine

unwashed, 30@31‘¢; half blood unwashed,





33@35c; three-eighths blood unwashed,

33@3~5c; quarter blood, 33@.34c. Ken-

tucky, Indiana and -Missouri—Three-

eighths blood, 34@35c; quarter blood,

34@37c.





 





Elgin.

Butter.—Market continues firm at 250

per 1b., which is the price of last week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.‘





Buffalo.



' May 31, 1909.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)





Receipts of sale stock here today as fol»

lows: Cattle, 135 loads; hogs, 16,000 head;

sheep and lambs, 8,000; calves, 2,300.



The cattle market opened about steady

with last week’s prices but closed dull

and 106150 lower on all butcher cattle.

One fancy load of cattle, as good as has

been here in years, sold at $7.35. They

were strictly prime and would top any

market in the country. Cows and heifers

sold lower today than last week. There

were some grass cattle on the market

today and they made against the trade

on the common kinds. \Ve would advise

caution in buying the common and grassy

kinds as there will be a wide range in

prices between the dry fed and the grass

cattle. Stockers sold a shade higher to-

day, while fresh cows and springers were

from $2@3 per head lower than last

Monday.



We quote: Best export steers, $6.75@

7; best 1,200 to 1,300 lb. shipping steers,

$6.50fl6.80; best 1,000 to 1,100 lbs. do,

$6@6.40; light butcher steers, $5.50@5.75;

best fat cows, $5.25@5.50; fair to good,

$4.50@4.75; trimmers, $175613; best fat

heifers, $6@6.50; light fat heifers, $~i.50@

5.50; best bulls, $5635.50; bologna bulls,

$4.25@4.75; best feeding steers, 800 to 900





lbs., $4.50@4.75; 700 to 750 lb. dehorned

stockers, $4.25@4.50; common stockers,





$3.50 904; best cows, $45@55; medium, $35

@‘45; common, $25@30.



Good hogs sold today about steady with

Saturday, yorkers 5@150 lower and pigs

from 10fi20c lower. Market closed about

steady with the opening.



\Ve quote: Medium and heavy, $7.50@





7.60: mixed, $740,607.55; best yorkers,

537.25.07.40; light yorkers, $70p7.15; pigs,

$6.75Q6.S5; roughs, $6.40@6.50; stags, $5

«(3.50.





The lamb market today was slow and

strong quarter lower than Saturday. “We

look for lower prices the balance of the

week.



\Ve quote: Top lambs, $7.75fi8; fair



good, STWT.65; culls, $7.5Mzfi; skin



culls, “€14.50; yearlings, $6.50@6.75;



wcthcrs, $6.257FG.50: ewes, $5. 5711‘550;



cull sheep, $2414; best calves, $$S. 5@8.50;

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medium to good, $7QS; heavy, ‘





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Chicago.

May 31,

Cattle. Hogs.

Received today ....20,000 44.000

Same day last year ..11,767 26,836

Received last week ..42,277 161,459 56,740

Same week last year.33,028 146,332 64,977

Cattle were marketed so sparingly last

week, following the sharp breaks in prices

of the previous week, that sellers had a

much better show, and despite the fact

that the consumption of beef thruout the

country was still on a smaller scale than

in recent years, prices for fat beeves were

15((‘1200 better. It is true that people are.

eating more beef than they did a few

months ago, but beef is too high to admit

of normal consumption, and a resumption

of full supplies of cattle spell disaster

for stockmen. Beef steers have been

selling largely at $0477, with inferior to

fair light weights going at $5@6 and

choice heavy shipping cattle at $6.84le

7.25. A good class Sold at $6.50@6.75, and

a medium class at $6.10ri36.45, exporters’

purchases being chiefly at $6.25rfi‘6.65 and

no big numbers wanted for foreign mar-

liets. Handy little yearlings were the

most satisfactory sellers, and fat butcher





1909.



Sheep.

11000

21,659





stock had a good outlet also, only fair

supplies of long—fcd Kansas and Ne-

braska steers being li-‘ded. Cows and





heifers were not in excessive supply and

sold freely at $250716th canuers and

cutters going as usual at $2013.55, bulls

at $3.25fi5.75 and sings at $5fi0. A good

many distillery—ft d cattle Were marketed





to good advantage. (‘alvcs Were good

sellers, going at $307.50, according to

quality. The stocker and feeder trade,





was of but spiall proportions, owing to

small offerings and high prices, burns

paying $5’..2IM(5.75. with few transactions





highpl‘ than $3.30. \Yith abundance of

luxuriant grass. there is not much in—

ducement ful‘ sh'pping in stock cattle.





Today’s cattle market is slow and largely

]oc lower, with :1 $7.23 top. '1‘. B, Iiol‘d,

of Nt‘lllttz-‘ILZI 110d 1') cars that br..t $6.90.



Hogs were shipped in unusually freely

last week to Chicago and other western

markets. and tho Chicago packers Were

dispostd to hold back and fill their orders

late in the day at lower prices after the.

eastern shippers secured the cream of the

offerings at high prices. Good fat droves

continued to sell around the best prices

of the year, with a strong demand, and

fat strong—weight pigs, as well as strong-

weight hogs on the shipping order and

heavy lard hogs were extremely good

sellers daily. The hogs arriving on the

market have bctn averaging SIR lbs_. or

3 lbs. higher than a year, whiio the

average was lbs. two \‘les ago and

237 lbs. three years ago. The future on!-





2.5





look for both cattle and hogs is consid-

ered as extremely good. and stockmen





cannot be too careful in finishing off their

hogs these times, for there is an unusu-

ally large consumption of fresh pork and





provisions. Today‘s market was active

and about So higher, with sales at $69..





€17.45. Tight hogs went up to $7.30.

Sheep and lambs have continued very

scarce for still another week. and very

high prices prevailed for all fat consign-

ments, with a good outlet, altho the dear—





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JUNE 5. 1909.





Suthion ev‘eryw’here. With. anything

like even fairgsupplies, lamb prices would

rule much lower, and attimes recently

the packers have held back and abso—

lutely refused to buy except at reduced

values, but there were quick recoveries

in every instance. Fat sheep and lambs

are clOSely held, with over 80 per cent'

reported in feed lots -near Chicago. ’As

yet spring lambs are offered sparingly,

and quality is lacking as a rule. Today’s

market was steady, with a scarcity of

ch01_c_e stock. Ewes were salable at $3.75

@6215, wethers at $6@7, rams at $3.50@

5.50, yearlings at $7@7.75, clipped lambs

at $4.50@8.85 and spring lambs at $6@11.

Horses have been selling well or other—

w15e, according to their quality, a super-

abundance of thin overworked horses

right from farm work going $5@15 per

head lower than recently. But good

fleshy horses were good sellers, and fancy

prices are paid for extra heavy stall-fed

drafters. Drafters of a desirable class

are finding buyers at $170@215 per head,

fancy animals going at $220@250 or even

higher, and not long since some eastern

orders were filled at $275@350. XVagon

horses and farm chunks have sold at $140

@200, and drivers have found buyers at

$140@350. Feeders are indemand at 31’”)

@200 for shipment to Ohio and Pennsyl-

vania farming sections. b‘.





 





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





'Wtool is selling at high prices, and pre-

dictions have been heard that top has not

been seen yet. Such talk is based. on

short clips in various countries, and a

Wildly bullish market has been seen in

London recently. All over the west very

high prices are reported for the spring

clip,.and fleece wool has sold at 2963291,an

per pound in Missouri and at 31@311,éc in

tho and Michigan. The Boston market

has received wool 0f the new clip from

\Vyoming, Arizona, Nevada and Utah,

and it is reaching the mills briskly.



Our export cattle, sheep and meats

trade has undergone a great falling off





in recent years and our once good eus~

tomer, the United Kingdom, is buying





sparingly this year. This is particularly

noticeable in the Chicago cattle market,

where the export buying each week is a

very small affair. The exporters take

most of their cattle on Mondays, and

recent selections have cost them largely

around, $6.25Q‘6.65 per 100 lbs.



The Chicago packers haVc sent buyers

to Louisville, Ky., recently, and they have





shipped a great many southern spring

'Iambs direct to the 'Ch‘icago packing

houses. Thus far no very laige supplies





of spring lambs .have been offered on the

open market at Chicago, and prime lots

have been disposed of- readily at very high

prices, some selling at $11 per 100 lbs.

The “crop" is-reported as a large one,

but many complaints are heard of out-

breaks of the scab disease. resulting from

carelessness of shecpmen. Thus far the

markets-of the country have had to de—

pend largely on last year’s lambs and

sheep, and extremely high priccs have

been paid as a result of their extraordi—

nary scarcity. Killers complain that

meat-eaters will not pay high prices

enough for mutton to admit of profits.

but mutton is selling at prices that are

prohibitory to most families. lccf, too,

is selling high, and hog products. both

fresh and cured, are unusually popular

with the public generally.



Recently one of the largest live stuck

commission firms in the country, with its

headquarters in Chicago and branch

housrs in every other leading market. re-

ceived advices that the supply of young

hogs in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan is

fully 25 per cent less than a year ago.

This condition arose from most of the

farmers wintering as few pigs as pos-

sible on account of the extremely high

price of born. For some time, the eastern





farmers have been free sellers of pigs

and light hogs, and this has been very





marked in the country tributary to Ruf-

falo, this movement being encouraged by

the fact that corn has been selling around





80 cents per bushel. During the last

thrcc months Buffalo has received more





than one—fourth of its hogs from West of

Indiana. The prolonged eastern shipping

demand in the Chicago market is surfi—

cicnt explanation of the high prices paid

week after week. This state of things

promises to continue thruout the sum~

mcr and even well into the fall months.





There is no danger of any suri'eit of

hogs this season, and owners need giVo

themselves no untasiness regarding fu—





ture prices, altho there may be a tempo-

rary decline before June, is over. .luly

z'nd August are going to be extremely

good months for Sellers, unless all pre—

dictions fail, and the prophets say that

$3 hogs will be Sccn. Thus far the big

supplies of hogs promised by some of tho

packers have not shown up, and western





marketings have bccn showing a great

reduction in numbers as t-1)lllp:ll‘ml with

a year ago. ln the eastern markets also





there have been heavy losses.

the circumstances it is perfectly natural

that high prices should prevail in the

markets of the country, and the only pc—

culiar feature is the disposition of many

siockmen to market their pigs and light:

Weight hogs in order to save their corn.

True, feed is extremely high, but plenty

of farmers are making big profits in put-

ting high—priced corn into healthy grow-

ing young hogs.





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JUNE 5, 1909.

THIS Is THE LAST EDITION.





 





in the first edition the DetroltXLive





Stock markets are reports of last week;





all other marketsare right up to date.

Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets

are given In the last edition. The first

edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-

tion Friday morning. The first edition Is

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Thursday's Market.

June 3, 1909.





Cattle.~





Receipts, 1,124. Market active at last

week‘s prices on dry-fed; grassers selling

around $5, trifle lower. '7



Dry-fed cattle steady. Grass cattle 15@

25c- lower than last week at the close.



\i'e quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $6.75; steers and heifers, 1,000 to

1,200, $6@6.25; steers and heifers, 800 to

1.,000, $5.50@6; grass steers and heifers

that are fat, 800 to 1,000, $5@5.25; grass

steers and heifers that are fat, 500 to 700,

$4.50@4.85; choice fat cows, $4.50@4.8’);

good fat cows, $4614.15; common cows,

$3613.40; canners, $150602; choice heavy

bu‘lls, $4.75@5; fair to good bolognas,

bulls, $4.50; stock bulls, $4614.15; choice

feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.75@5.25;

fair feeding steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50@

4.65; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $4.25@

4.75; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $4@».25;

stock heifers, $3.50fi‘4.25; milkers, large,

young, medium age, $4054 47; common

milkers, $25@35.



lishop, B. & H. sold Goose 5 cows av

960 at $4.3 ; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 steers

av 886 at $5.65; to Kamman . Co. 10

do. av 787 at $5.60, 1 cow weig Ting 1.000

at $4; to Jonghin 6 do av 961 at $3.25, 4

(10. av 985 at $3.50, 1 do weighing 890 at

$2.25; to Mich. B. Co. 9 butchers av 860

at $4.50, 2 do av 860 at $4, 2 cows av 660

at $2.50, 5 steers av 1,240 at $5, 3 cows

av 790 at $2.50, 3 do av 1,060 at $4, 3

steers av 1,073 at $5.75, 2 bulls av 1.440

at $4.50, 1 do. weighing 1,380 at $4.50, 3

cows av 1,040 at $4.50, 2 steers av 960

at $5.90, 1 do. weighing 600 at $5.60; to

Sullivan P. Co. 3 covvs. av 1,000 at $4.50,

8 steers av 894 at $6, 2 bulls av 1.268 at

$4.50; to Newton B. CO. 4 cows av 1.150

at $5, 3 (10. av 1,050 at $4, 5 steers :I\' 1,184

at $6; to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 bulls av

1,335 at $4.50, 4 cows av 1,040 at $4.50;

to Regan 11 butchers av 600 at $4.50, 2

bulls av 500 at $3.50; to Davenport 4 cows

av 945 at $4.30, 17 stockers av 656 at $4,

2 do. av 735 at $4.50, 6 do. av 666 at $4.20;

to Thompson Bros. 4 steers av 852 at

$5.50; to Schlischer 6 butchers av 870 at

$5.50, 2, do av 815 at $5, 4 steers av 625

at $5.50., ‘



ROG Co Co. sold Newton B. Co. 20

steers‘av 1,347 at $6.75; to Hammond, S.

& Co. 20 butchers av 797 at $4.70, 14 do.

av 911 at $5.10, 13 s'tecrs av 954 at $5.50:

to Sullivan P. Co. 3 bulls av 1,193 at $4.50;

to Lacalt' 6 butchers av 933 at $5; to

Catplis 22 do. av 980 at $5.15, 14 do. av

1,000 at $4.25.



Sharp sold Freeman 2 stockers av 580

at $4.50.



Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull weigh-

at $5.35, 2 bulls av 1,030 at $4.25.



Sonic sold Sullivan P. 00. 1 bull weigh-





ing .360 at $4.50, 18 steers av 870 at

$5.85, 6 do. av 753 at $5.



Kendall sold same I; cows av 810 at

it". no

..... .





llI-ndcrson sold some 1 bull weighing

1.550 at $4.50, 2 do av 825 at $4, 6 cons

21v 1.0l8 at $4.50.



(11‘an sold sumo 2 do av 1,110 at $4, 3

siw-rs av 076 at $5.80.



Long sold same 2 cows av 1,175 at $4.75,

2 licifcrs av 825 at $3.50.



SDICI'I‘, M. & R. sold Newton B. Co.

20 Sli't‘l'h‘ av 1,133 at $6, 5 do. av 1,088 at

$3.90. 21 cow’s av 1.066 at $4.50, 1 bull

\vt-ighing 1,100 at $4, 13 butchers av 718

at $5; to llultkowsky 2 bulls uv 410 at $3;

to Hunt 3 butchers av 833 at $4.35; to

1lummond, S. & (lo. 10 stccrs av 877 at

$5.50, 26 (To. av 020 at $5.50; to Carey 3

(‘UWS 21V 1.036 HI. $3.17), II do, {IV 975 at

$3.15; to Sullivan 1". (.‘o. 1 bull weighing

2.000 at $4.75; to Prince 3 stm-kcrs 21v 500

at $4. 4 do av 500 at $3.75, 2 (1., :l\' 605

at $4: to (‘arcy 2 cinncrs av 880 at $3.15.



".obb sold llummond, S. & Co. 17 stccrs

uv 982 at $6.25.



Kulullcr sI-ld sumo 2 cows av 960 at

$3.75, I: steers :I\' 1,177 at $6.50.



Ilcndcrson sold same 30 do. av 980 at

$6.20, 19 do. av 960 at $6.20.



Ilulov sold Marx 3 butchers av 500 at

$4.50, 1 cow weighing 930 at $4



(Wm-smith sold same 6 steers av 053

at $5.50.



Ilulcy

52 at$



Kendall sold Kammun 5 cows av 1.000

at $4, 1 steer weighing 920 at $7, 2 do. av

780 at $3, 2 (10. av 725 at $5.25.



Long sold same 2 do. my 820 at $5.



Veal Calves.



Roccipts, 1.120. Murkct 2561500 higher.

Zest, 7.5067825; others, $4617; inflch ‘cmvs

und springors, good. steady; common,

dull.



Spiccr, M. & R. sold Cuplis 13 av 130

at $7.25, 5 av 140 at $5. 18 av 140 at $7;

to Newton B. Co. «'1 av 115 at $5, 20 av

145 at $7.50: to Mich. 11. (in. 5! :lv 140 at

$5, 24 or 1-10 at $7.35; to McGuire 20 av

135 at $7.50: to Micll. E. Co. 26 :l\' 1l5 at

$7.50; to Burnstinc 6 av 115 at $7.25; to

Murkowitz 13 av 140 at $7.50; to Newton

15. Co. 17 av 135 at $7.25.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.

26 av 140 at $7.50, 6 av 10’) at $5 26 :Iv





sold Prince 6 stockcrs av





' 142 at $7.50; to (loose 25 av 145 at $7.85;





to Fitzpatrick Bros. 11 av 160 at $7.25;

to Bresnuhan 9 av 145 at $7.40; to Strauss

& Adler (New York) 10 av 140 :11 $7.50,

2 av 150 at $7.75, 29 av 130 at $7.25. 7

av 150 at $8, 40 av 135 at $7.70, 25 :t\' 140

at $7.50; to Parker, TV. & Co. 16 av 135

at $7.75, 6 av 150 at $5, 11 av 155 at $7.75,





-o.v 130 at $7.60,





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, THE 'MIGHIGAN' .FARMER.





New .165 at $8.25, 7 av 150 at $7.50, 26

5 av 150 at $7.75; to

Strauss & Adler (New York) 4 av 135 at

$5, 36 _av 150 at $7.75, 4 av 135.211: $7.50,

18 av 130 at $7.25; to Newton B. Co. 12

av 135 at $7.75; to Markowtz 5 av 105 at

$5, 13 av 155 at $7.80.



Lewis sold Newton, B. Co. 1 weighing

110 at $7. '



Oversmith

at $7.25. .



Morris sold Sullivan, P. Co. 5 av 110





sold Burnstine 12 av 135





.at $5.50, 42 av 140 at $7.50.





Robb sold Bresnahan 1 weighing 190





at $7.





Wickmann sold Mich. B. Co. 8 av 130'





at $6.85.



Haley sold same 30 av 130 at $6.90, 2

av 200 at $5.



Belhcimer sold same 7 av 150 at $7.50,

1 weighing 170 at $6.



Haley sold Hammond, S. & CO.

110 at $5, 28 av 143 at $7.50.



Noble sold same 4 av 155 at $7.10.



Groff sold same 19 av 140 at $7.50, 1

weighing 100 at $6. -



Downmg sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 13 av

135 at $7.15.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 933. Market steady with last

Thursday. Thin grass stock hard to sell.

13. K. Holmes says keep them home until

fat as they will go higher.



Best lambs, $7.90; fair to good lambs,

$650657; light to common lambs, $150716;

spring lambs, $8010; fair to good 'shevp.

356?,550; culls and common, $3@ 4.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.

9 lambs av 90 at $7, 8 sheep av 100 at

$3.50; to Mich. B. Co. 5 do. av 120 at $4.

18 lambs av 75 at $7.50: to Fitzpatrick

Bros. 17 do. av 55 at $6.50, 10 shch av

60 at $4, 12 spring lambs av 50 at $8, 17

sheep av 100 at $4.50, 0 do. av 80 at

$4.25, 33 lambs av 60 at $6; to Sullivan

P. Co. 26 do. av 80 at $7; to Newton B.

C. 8 spring lambs av 55 at $9, 2 lambs

av 80 at $6, 6 do. av 88 at $6; to Young

13 do. av 77 at $7.50, 10 do. av 99 at $6,

19 spring lambs av 60 at $8.50; to Parker,



' & Co. 21 sheep av 60 at $4.50.



Spiccr, M. & R. sold Newton B. Co.

4 sheep av 105 at $5, 11 lambs av 77 at

$7.50, 12 do. av 80 at $7.25, 2 sheep uv

140 at $4, 1.0 mixed av 80 at $5.75; to

Fitzpatrick Bros. 4 lambs av 115 at $7.75,

2 sheep av 120 at $4, 5 do. av 130 at $5.50,

5 spring lambs av 55 at $8.50, 8 lambs

av 9.3 at $6.50; to Mich. 13. Co. 27 do. av

80 at $7, 18 do. av 70 at $7.25; to Eschricli

3 sheep av 125 at $3.50, 39 do. av 65 at

$5, 8 do. av 80 at $3.25



Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 12

spring lambs av 60 at: $0.



Groff sold Hammond, S. & Co. 1 buck

weighing 130 at $3.50, 2 sheep av 90

at $5.50.



‘Vickmann sold Mich. B. Co. 13 sheep

av 75 at $4.25.



Robb sold same 5 do. av 40 at $5.



Belheimcr sold same 197 fall clip lambs

av 80 at $7.90.



Robb sold Newton

lambs av 45 at $7.50.



Downing sold Fitzpatrick Bros. 4 spring

lambs av 60 at $0, 4 sheep av 65 at $4.



Haley sold same 7 do. av 130 at $4, 12

mixed av 85 at $6.50.





Gav





B. Co. 15 spring





Hogs. 4



J.cceipts, 3,959. Market steady at last

\vI-ck's prices.



{ange of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, 9512561745; pigs, $6.75; light yorkers,

$7617.15; roughs, if; off; stags, 1A; off.



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

16 av 215 at $7.50, 985 av 180 at $7.40,

213 av 160 at $7.25, 131 av 150 at $7.25,

73 av 155 at $7.15, 116 av 165 at $7.20,

204 av 175 at $7.30.



Roc Com. Co. sold Hammond. S. &

Co. 14 av 156 at $7.25, 52 av 184 at $7.45.



Spiccr, M. & R. sold same 95 21v 1



1





--~ i-v r- 72

at $1.45, 67 av 181 at $7.40, 286 av 74

70





at $7.35, 119 av 166 at $7.30, 54 av 1

at $7.40.

Sundry shippers sold same 112 av 184





atB$7.}35, 2 av 154 at $7.10.

_ Is 101), B. & H. sold Newton B. Co.

35 pigs av 110 at $6.75.





Friday’s Market.



May 28, 1909.



Cattle.



Market steady at Thursday‘s prices.

1\'e quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $6.50; steers and heifers, 1,000 to

1,200, $6016.40; steers and heifers. 800 to

1,000, $;>.75@6.25; grass steers and heif-

ers that are fat, 800 to 1,000, $5.50fl‘6'

grass steers and heifers that are fat 500

to 700, $5615.50; choice fat cows $5; ’eood

f:tt_ cows, $4614.50; common cows 111300

3.25; canucrs, $2412.50; choice hcuvv’ bulls

$4375; fair to good bolognus, bulls,$4.250}.i

4..)0; stock bulls, $3.500, .1; Choice feeding





stocrs, 800 to 1,000, $4.75; fair fccding

steers, 800 to 1,000, $4.50; choice stockcrs,

500 to 700, $4674.25; fuir stookcrs, 500 to





700, $375014; stock heifers, $3.50; milkcrs,

lurgc, young, medium ugc, $40Q150; comm

mon Inilkcrs, $250130.



Youugs sold Kumman B. Co. 6 stccrs

av 1.180 at $6.50, 1 heifer, Weighing 020

at $6. 4 cows nv 087 at $4,



Bishop, 1:. & H. Sold same 3 cows av

1,006 at $4.50, 3 steers ;l\' 883 at $6.



ltoc (jom. Co. sold same 4 butchers av

960 at $5, 4 do uv 852 at .4.



Bishop, D. & II. sold Huston 12 stock-

ers av $6.50 at $4.



Same sold Goose 1 cow weiOhi 8.0

at $3, 2 do av 960 at $4, 1 bullbwgighiITg

840 at $1.50, 1 cow wcighing 850 at $2.50.

tso‘zlfllf: sch; suuzmn 1 bull Weighing 1.300

:1’ .,~.I:I, L to :Iv 1,135 at 4.” ' ' -

ing 830 at $1.25. $ 00, 1 do “exgh



Sheep and Lambs.



Market steady at ’l‘hursday's prices.



3 ~mst lambs, $8; fair to good lambs.

$0.00W7: ight to common lambs, $550616;

sprIng lambs, $8fi9.50; fair to good sheep,

$5655.50; culls and common, $3.5007450.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. CO. 4

sprmg lumbs av 58 at $9.25, 4 sheep av 120

at $4.50, 2 do av 155 at $3.50, 4 do av 95

at $4, 23 lambs av 60 at $7.75.





0 5.

Market 5fi10c lowc?‘ than on Thursday.

Range of prices: Light to good butch—

crs. $7.25477310; pigs, 367507680; light

yorkers, $7@7.15; stags, 1/3, off.





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SOME BUTTER QUESTIONS.





 





kindly give me information

about renovating butter, telling how

cream, when too sour, is to be treated,

what you call a commercial starter and

how it should be used whethe1 renovated

butter is sold for fiist— class creamery

butter, and how $011 determine the per-

centage of water in butter. Can buttet

be salted in the churn as well as in the

worker ?



Kansas. F. H.



Renovated butter is poor butter that

has been reworked, or renovated. The

principal source of raw material for reno—

vated butter is poor dairy butter that is

sold in grocery stores all over the coun-

try and is very poor butter when sold.

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shipped to the renovator. One city in

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faet01y for years and its owners have

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to the manufacturers. \l'e do know, how-

ever, that the butter is acchtulated there

in very bad condition, much of it. Then

it is melted up and worked with fresh

milk and, by some process understood

only by the manufacturers, it is brot

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cream and the cream is churned at once.

This dots, in a nous-are, improve the

quality of butter made from overripc or

ovtrsour cream, but it is not as good as

tho you had had the handling of the

cream before it became sour.



A commercial starter is simply milk

into which pure culture containing lactic

acid bactcria, has bet-n introduced. The

milk is pastcurich in the first plate to

kill all the bactcria in it and then pure

culture is introductd and the lactic acid

bacteria are allowed to multiply until the

milk sours. This then is intrmluctd into

the pasteurizcd cream and those lactic

acid bacteria give it the flavor of ripened-

ertam buttet.‘



The way to determine amount of mois-

1111c is to valgh out carefully at small

portion of the butter. Put this butter

into an oven and heat it at a low tem-

perature until the Ill‘llSlUl‘t‘ is all (vap-

oratcd and then weigh it again. The

difference between the first weight and

the last will be the moisture contvnt.

Thcn this can l.e reduced to pere1ntage

easily. It is simply a problem in per-

centage at'tcr the weigaing has been

done. Th~ro are moisture tests on the

11'1111'kr1t‘, in applying which definite

amounts are taken so as to get the per

(14-111 easily, but the chemist, as I under-

stand it, docs not take a definite amount.

lle t: 11:1 s a small amount of butter, Weighs

it :l({'lll';lltlY and thtn evaporates the

moisture in a sl 1w <1v.n, weighs again

and tigurcs tut his pnrctntoge from the

actual weights.



Yes, butter can be Salted in the churn

just as well as when worked, in fact,

loltcr. Very l'ttlo butter is

salt I in the workr 1’11’11.y:1days. It is all

Silllt‘tl in the thurn. After the butttr

come-s in line granules tho buttermilk is

was-it'd out of it and the salt is intro-

ducwl. The churn is turned :1 few tirncs

to mix the salt with lllv butter and th1n

the butter is takcn out of the churn and

packed in the desirt d kind of package,

or made into prints.





W’ill you





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A PROPOSED NEW BARN.





I am sending a dcscription of my barn

plans for criticism, The building is to

be 46x64 ft., with an S—t’t. basement under

the barn floor and hay lit-nts, thus giving

sufficient basement room for tool shed and

repair shop. The stables will be along

the south side with 11111111111111»- largo win—

dows to let in the sunlight. There will

be a rise of about 4 ft. to get to the

barn floor and the stables will he a trifle

above the grade level. ll'ith this plan

I can feed the cattle from the main

floor. There is a deep gully north of the

born into which I can conveniently drain

the stables. How would you ventilate





 





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





th: s batn? It is to have a gambrel roof.

Ottawa Co. J. J. H.





I would first put a basement under the

whole barn. »I think that J. J. H. will

make a mistake in having only a two-

thirds basement. It will cost but little

more to have a basement under the

whole barn, and then .he can put his

cows in this basement. Now, by a base-

ment I do not mean a hole dug in the

ground. I would have the. basement prac-

tically all above the ground, at least “on

two or three sides, but it is so cheap

to get more room in a barn by having a





v basement that I would not think of hav-





ing a stable in the way that J. J. H.

indicates he intends to have his. He

will need this room for storage, or where

he is going to have his stable would be

a good place to put part of the tools——

just as good as in the basement.



The trouble in having cow stables

above ground is that they are always

cold. If you have a plank floor, for in-

stance, you never can keep a cow stable

warm. You must have a cement floor.

Of course, you have a cement floor in

here with the plan proposed, but I take

it, you do not intend to have, as you

speak of feeding the cows from the main

floor. If necessary, I would raise the

barn higher rather than to do away with

the basement under the whole barn.



Now, with regard to draining the stable

into a deep gully. If this simply means

draining in order to keep the ground

under the stable dry, it is all right, but

if you intend to drain from the gutters

of the stable into the deep gully, it is all

wrong, because this is the valuable part

of the manure and you want to use ah-

sorbents enough if possible, in the stable

to absorb this so that it can be drawn

out and spread on the land. You should

use cement gutters so as to save all the

liquid as well as all of the solid manure



I think there is but one way of venti-

lating a stable and ventilating it right,

and that is by the King system of venti-

lation. The King system has pure-air

intakes opening on the outside of the

stable down next to the ground and on

the inside 11p next to the ceiling. This

allows pure air to come into the barn and

prevents warm air from going out. The

warm air, of course. accumulates up next

to the ceiling. Then a ventilating shaft

is built which got-s up thru the stable,

up thru the storage part of the, barn and

thru the roof. This ought to go high

enough above the roof so that there will

be a good draft. This is boarded tight

to within a foot of the floor. Now the

pure air comes in thru the pure-air in—

takes, gradually miXos with the» warm air

up next to the Ceiling, forces, a circula-

tion, and the cold. impure air is drawn

from the floor of the stable into the venti—

lating shaft and escapes. Now, one Oh-

jcction to having the stable as J. .l. H.

indicates would be that it would be hard

to ventilate. You have to have a stable

very tight in oxdcr to ventilate it in this

way. If you have openings you will not

get the air to go as you want it to and,

consequently, it will not be Well venti—

land. You must have a stable warm and

have it well ventilated at the same time.

You can do this latter by having it in

the basement, but by a basrmcnt I do

not mean that you must necessarily go

below the surface of the ground.





 





 





CEMENT BLOCK VS. BRICK SILO.





\‘Vould be pleased to have Mr. Lillie

discuss tht1 merits or demerits of the

two following describcd silos: (me built

with two independent walls, each 4 in.

thick, with a L’~i11. dead air space he-

l\vt11111 them, the material to be concrete

blocks, slightly concave, lxts'xi’tl inches in

s11.:t1. each ticr to be tit-d, if necessary,

with .a short. crooked wire. The. other

plan is to bmld :1 silo of brick, each brick

11111113.“! 4x8vl‘3 1n. and containing three air



l.111nbtls al out ‘3 in. square ( ach. The

inside w. 111s of cithtr 5th to be plastexed

with 1111111111t pltsttr 1.1111 1111 llllt'k silo

to have reinforcing wire: or outside bands.

“'ottld you advise the use of an all-steel

dom 11.111111 in any case?



8.1111131: (11 A. REDMOND.



EIIllt‘l one of the proposed forms of

construction Would make a most excel-

lt111 silo. I think thc1 one air space in

tho cont-rote construction would be suffi-

c't111t, and if it cost less to make. this

than the brick, I should certainly make

the concrete. In fact, I think the con-

crete silo would be the strongest and best

and would cost less than the brick silo.

\Yhile the brick silo, with the three dead

air spaces, would be a greater protection

against freezing than the one dead air

space in the1 cement or concrete blocks,

I do not consider this of any great im-

portance. As a matter of fact, the freez-





 





ing of ensilage is of no great importance

People have silos made simplyI

of stoves and the silage does not freeze

Many people





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easiest to clean.





of these “bucket bowl” fellows





make their claims ridiculous.

The Sharples Dairy Tubu-

lar Cream Separator is, with-

out exception, the only sim-

, ple, sanitary, easy to clean

separator made. We put pic-

tures against “bucket bowl”

talk. Wefrequently Show you

pictures of the light, simple

Dairy Tubular Bowl and of

heavy, complicated Hbucket





Sales greater than most,

Write for catalog. No. 152.





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combined.





 

 





 





put pictures of their separator bowl

parts into their advertisements—they

all realize that pictures would





bowl."

to clean ?





Pictures Against Talk





0 matter how complicated his cream sep-

arator, every "bucket bowl”

turer claims his machine is simplest and

Even the makers of disk

machines—with 40 to 60 pieces inside the

bowl—make the same claims. Yet none





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





manufac-





dare





One pan contains the single little

piece used in Sharples Dairy Tubu-

lar bowls. The other contains noth-

Iné but diskslrom a single “bucket





Which Is simple and easy





bowls.” Compare them. They tell the whole story. It will take you less





than thirty seconds to put Hbucket bowl” claims where they belong.



The self styled “original maker of disk machines” is trying to maintain

sales by patent infringement suits against equally cheap machines, that have

been made for several years with disks like his.

expense and dissatisfaction, get a Sharples Dairy Tubular.

world’s biggest and best separator factory. Branch factories in Canada and





If you want to avoid work,

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The United States Separator has

built up a reputation for efficiency

and durability that makes it the

foremost machine from every stand-

point: of separator requirements.



. \V e prize that reputation and in



, the Changes we ha\e made for 190‘)

every feature that hashelped to make

the L nited States famous as the re-

liable separator has been

retained.





Every improvement that has

been made has been made with the

object of building up and adding to

that reputation.





\l'e have added “ W o rk i n g

points” and not fancy

“tal king points.”





Send for

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ll'hen the lady of the house sees the

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iably the IOlVA is the

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heig

runs so easily.

easily washed that it is a favorite

wherever introducvd. .



The IUIVA is the only machine which

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YOUR

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You buy 3. Cream Separator,

not on account of some “fancy talking

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to handle your dairy product more

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A machine that will handle more

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These are your requirements, and



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JUNE 5,‘ 1909.





have built silos of a single thickness of Johnson grass. In a ten weeks’ test it

matched lumber and the freezing did was found that 41 lbs. of green feed gave

practically no harm. As a matter of fact, an average daily yield of 14.9 lbs. of milk

it doesn’t'ln'jure silage to freeze anyway. fer eaeh- cow, while the lot fed 324 lbs. of

It’s only a. little inconvenient in feeding, cottonseed meal gave 14.2 lbs. ‘he differ-

but if you leave the ensilage that freezes ence in favor of green feed would have

onto the sides of the silo alone until it been greater if the cows had had no

warms up and comes off, and thaw it out access to pasture.

a; little by keeping it in the warm stable In a comparison of large, medium, and

or feeding chute before it is given to the small rations with three lots of cows,

cows, it has not been injured and will receiving respectively 13 lbs., 10_lbs., and

not injure the cows. 1 would prefer a 6 lbs. of a grain ration consisting of wheat

silo with a hollow wall because it does bran and cottonseed meal in proportions

protect it some against the freezing, but of 2 to 1, the average weekly yields were

as I say, this is of minor importance. 833, 873 and 743 lbs. In the last case

Now, with these two silos I should take tl1e1e was also some loss of body weight.

the one that could be built the cheapest. A second test with three lots of nine

The double wall cementblock silo will cows each Showed that 9 lbs. of the

cost enough, and if I were building it 1 mixture yielded better results than 11 lbs.

\xould leave off one of the walls, putting of the same.

up a single cement wall and 1cinfoning In a test of four months with 30 cows

this with galvanized wile l)etween the it was found that silage resulted in 8

Courses so that it would have sufficient saving of $100 over a feed of wheat bran,

sfrength to stand all pressure. You can cottonseed meal, and Johnson grass hay.

do the same thing with a brick silo. During hot weather it was found to be

VVlnle the double walls protect largely of no advantage- to protect" cows from

against frost, I do not consider this of the heat by keeping them in the earn,

enough importance so that it would pay as they were more contented in a shady

to put up a double walled cement SllO, yet pasture-

it would be a nice thing to have it, and Another experiment showed that, with

the first cost is the only thing against it. 149 cows, the average cost of feed pci

I consider the hollow brick as entirely cow per month was $4.10 in the dry—fed

too expensive to be considered at all. herds and $3.50 in the silage-fed herds,

_____.____ the average cost of one gallon of milk

PREVENTION OF MILK FEVER. being fifteen and nine ccnts respectively

__ and a corresponding cost of one pound of

In nearly every farm or dairy paper butter—fat of 20 and 20 cents respectively.

one may read of the cure for milk fcvn‘, —_.__._*____

and how to apply it, but I do not remember CEMENT SILO PRACTICAL BUT

sccing much about the prevention of this EXPENSIVE.

trouble, which to me seems even more

important than ‘1 cure. I think milk As I am thinking of erecting a silo this

fever can be prevented almost entirely. year, the question of using cement al‘isos.

My method is to withhold all grain 1‘21- Sillo‘agcnts “EC” some discouraging till“

tions, except an occasional small feed 2‘:11ll(1s}££:"gyc} 2:121:11ée’d133) (llvymllrllgtldogllt III:

of bran, for a period of ten days to three man who uses a cement silo. I under--

Weeks previous to the time of freshcning. ifftil‘fiéil'clglfi) Sggge$iighf 1'23;fii)1ft].' will cost

After the cows are turned on pasture ideas of m}; own in‘ regall‘lldto \\1ll\1l INSET:

most people are busy and the dry cow build a cement silo for, but \vould also

gets little attention. Let me say now “kc to “SR UIU Dlubztblc cost Vilieio stone

that there is little, if any, danger of a III-21351131211;133.753.111.311811. isllllcuflhrnilnd “Md

('0\\' fOUI‘ )‘031‘5 01a 01‘ 105$. (10"910131113 the \Vould like also to learn the probable

trouble;_ neither will the skim-milk cow (‘OSt of cement w01k 101 wall and floor

be troubled, but the best cow, the pride [\ltllllg‘1:(fimf§(lntitund(I bill“ 30\72 ft.,witl1 a

of the herd, must be watched. \Vhile for \Vay ne CO. on one COINUSUBSCMBER,

such Iwconsider it bad practice to have As I have stated many times in The

them come flesh betWeen May and Octo- Farmer in the past year 01. two. the

ESL-3:” aspen)! times ”1 SOOmS lmilVOld- cement silo is entirely practical. It prob-

for some reason, p1efe1ablc “my makes the best silo that can be

YV1htn this is the case keep the COW on built. The only question is its first cost.

shortpasture if possible, and at least a If one has 1110 gravel on his own farm

week or ten days before the calf is ex- close at hand, so that he docs not have

pectcd—sooncr in the case of a cow that 1., pay f,”- it, “01.1,“. for 1“,,“ng it, prob-

hUS lllld a DPCViOUS HUM‘R Of 1110 {9"1‘1'— ubly a cement silo can be built as cheaply

take her to the barn and feed on dry hay. up, any; but “.110“. one has to hm, “w

L‘e sure she has plenty 'Lf salt as this grave], and has to haul it a considerable

will be needed to keep bowels in good distance, the question of expense is a

condition. Let her have 21 yard, without “my important one.

grass, but shade, to exercise in. Be sure Now, there isn't any (llicstion but what

she has all the watcr she wants. Keep you can keep silage in a cement silo. ’l‘hc

llcr thus until the calf is four days old. silo, however, must be plastered on the

then bring her up to Whatever feed you inside with a rich ccmcnt mortar. Mix

like. You will have no more trouble and cement and clean sharp sand at the rate

in a very few days she will be giving a of one part cent and two parts sand to

full mess of milk—~morc than if you l1ad.make mortar 01‘ plaster for this. Unless

fed heavily and dCVclopcd an attack of you so plaster it you will hare mouldy

the fever. cnsilagc next to the walls of the silo, but

“T1110 it is 21 V1‘1‘y great comfort if you will do this the cement silo will

to know that this (IlSczlSO, for so many keep cnsilngo just as Well as a stove silo,

years the, dread of the dairynnln, can be and perhaps better, bccnusp 11”.“, will be

so readily curcd, it is much better for all no cracks in it. I have used a cement

concerned to prevent it. The idea I have $110 for some. 16 or 17 years and I know

tried to express is that if you prevent what I am talking about when I say that

the cow from having her full flow of milk ('Ih‘illtge 'will keep up next to a cement





 





 





 





at time of calving you will 112ivc no wall. There are a number of (‘f‘lllt-nt

trouble with fever. I have kept cows for silos in Ottawa county and “my in... giving

thirty years and have never yet had a cxrcllcnt satisfaction. ()f courso 111..





case of milk fever on my farm, so feel Slave. silo can be put up much more

safe in recommending this way of caring easily and quickly. If you are gning 1.,

for them. Have had them freshen every builrl a cement silo you want to begin

month in the year and always found my at once or you won't get thru in time,

cows my best investment, the only kept while a stave silo can be put up in :1

on a small scale. I usually have from few days.





six to ten milking at once and have found It would be practically i111possiblc for

much help in the Michigan Farmer. Long 11111 to estimate the cost of the ccmcri,

may it thrive, work of a basement barn and the floor.





Ottawa Co. R. B. REYNOLDS. You can figure it out better than I, be—

_ _. _ cause you know the cost of materials and

TESTS WITH DAIRY COWS. I do not. For your wall, you will want

to use cement and graVcl at the rate of

The Department of Agriculture has about one part cement to six of gravel.

l‘ct'cth‘d a report of some experiments If you use two coats for your floor You

made at the Mississippi experiment sla- can use one to six for the bottom cont,

tion with dairy cow‘s. Experiments last— and one to two or three, or possibly

jug 1(3 and 10 weeks. respectively, were one to four, for the top Cont. If yum

undertaken to see if it paid to feed cot- use only one coat I would mix it one to

ionsccd men] when cows had an abund— four clear thru. This I know will make

ancc of green feed. In the former test it goOd solid floor that will last almost

the cottonseed meal gave 5 per cent bet- indefinitely.

tcr returns, but this was not enough to ——

pay for the extra cost of 'thc.n1eal. In FREE DEAFNESS CURE.

the second test thcrc was no increase in A remarkable offer by one of the lead-

the yield of milk. ing ear specialists in this country, who will

Using cows pastured at night, but kept send two months’ medicine, free to prove,

up during the any, cottonseed meal his ability to cure Deafness, Head Noises





 





 





 





 





 





 





was fed at the barn in comparison with and Catarrh. Address Dr. G, M, I;z-an:l_

the soiling crops, alfalfa, sorghum, and 1111111,.102 East 12th St, Kansas City, Mo.1





 





 





 





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SHARPLES SEPARATOR C0.

John Deere Plow Co. and Deere & Wehher Bu.





Sued For Infringement!”





DE LAVAL DISC

Cream Separator Patents





For the information and caution of all whom it may

concern announcement is made that the DE LAVAL

SEPARATOR CO. has brouo}1t suit in the U1VI'I ED

STATE S CIRCUI I‘ COURTt3 against the SIIARI’LES

SE PARATOR ( 0. for infiingement of LETTE IxS I’AT-

EVT IVO. 743, 428 by the 111anuf'acture and sale of Cleani

sepaiators containing DISC bowl construction covered by

the claims of said letters patent.



And that similar suits have been or will be filed as

quickly as possible against the IOIIIV DEE IE I’LOW

CO. and the DE EIxE A \VEBIIE I’ CO., who aiejobbing

such infringing SHAIIPLES separators to dealeis in the

‘Vestern States.



Attention is pertinently called in this connection to the

recent hypocritial advertising tirade of the SIIARI’LES

concern againstDISC sepa1ators.\Ve have known for some

time that they new getting 1eady to b111101 out a DISC ma—

chine and thus movino up in line with 11101e modein DE

LAV AL imitatorsand would— be competitors. \Ve have but

now, however, been able to obtain one of these new DISC

machines and the necessary evidence of infringement. The

facts Speak for themselves and require no further comment.



I11 addition to the above suits the DE LAVAL COM-

PANY now 112.s infringement suits pending against the

STAVDARD, I()\VA, PEERLESS and CLEVELAND

Separator Companies and the \\ 111. Galloway Co., all cover-

ing the 111.1nuf212tu1e 01 sale of IN]1 111%: (iLVG DISC

SEPAI‘IA'I‘URS, which infringement applies equally to

machines being made by different ones of these manufac-

turers and sold under their own and various other names

by sevei al “mail order” and other concerns, as well as to

E VE RY USE II of any such inhinging separatm bouOht

of AI\ Y of these pilltlt‘”.



To avoid any possible misundei standing and dispel

the pietense of some of these concerns that their machines me

similar to the DE LA\ AL it is pioper that we should add

that none of the patentssued upon involves the, DE LAVAL

“SPLIT—\VIIVG” FEEI ”NC I )EVICE or its combination

with the HIPROVED DISC construction utiliyed in the

up- ~to- date DE LA\ AL sep2u21t01s and tlr. 1t none of the

machines is in any degree equal in efi1cie11(v, all- around

practicability and durability to the I\II’I{C\ E D DE

LAVAL machines of today.



“'21. have for years patiently stood the appropriation

by would— be competitms of abandoned, disc 1rded or patent

expiied DE LA\ AL inventions and types of sepan 21tor

construction, but have now deteimined to put a stop to the

more brazen utilization of LI\ E patents.



There are STILL ()TIIER infringers of DE LAV AL

patents who will be held accountable in due course.





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THE MICHIGAN" FARMER.’





GRAND RAPIDS MILK CONTEST.





A milk contest, conducted under the





’nuspices of the dairy division of the U.





S Department of Agriculture, the Grand

Rapids board of health, the city milk

commission and the municipal affairs

committee of the board of trade, was

held May 14. The contest proved very

successful so far as the number of en-

tries and the tests wore concerned, tho

the attendance at the. sessions was light.

Twenty-two dairy firms made entries,

the number of. entries reaching 52, and

the prize winners, with scores, were as

follows:



Producers—Market Milk—First, Wm.

\‘i’arrcns, 971,4; St’t‘tlllll, L. J. Rindge, 973.3.

Marktt (‘1'eztm.——Fi1'st, L, J. Rindge, 9714;

second, l.1t‘[1\'("ll\\'tll‘ill llros, .06.





Dealers—Market Mil':«:.-—'l~‘i1'st, Vern K.

Reed, 97; Si_'.l'v)ltl, .l. ‘5‘.'. louwman, 971/2.

Market t‘re:1ni.~l~‘i"<t, Sanitary Milk





Company, LS; FtC‘c'Iltl, Cherry Farm dairy,

931.5. ,



The milk was all c.1refully analyzed.

It was good murket milk, way above

the average. Only one sample was below

leg-.11 standard in butter-fut, that analyz-

ing only ‘_’.l per ("111. pretty poor mik.

From a sanitary point of view, which is

shown 1:111;wa by the number of bacteria,

the milk varied from a few hundred hac—

terlu per c11l=ic t" 11timettr to 05'1-1' 1,500,000

bacteria in one sample, but on the whole,

the samples 55'<-:'» 1115' in bacteria. A

greut majority 4-1” them would come under

the rule spa-1311111 for cei'tiiied milk, which

is that milk shnll not contuin over 10,000

bacteria per c. c.



The speakers during the morning and





afternoon sessions included Profs. C. B.

Lune and 1.. II. Maynard, of the U. S.

Ilt'pill'tlllwiii, In: 11. S. 1'155'12111d,of Dc-





ti'oit, 21nd Profs. (‘. l-l. Marshall and A.

C. Antlcisun. 111‘ the Michigan Agricul-

tural Colhuw. II. A. Haven, state in-

spector 11.1‘ tlzlll'lt"=, 211111 others contributed

to the sin-c1 >1< «.t‘ the- meeting.



grout deal of

111111111}; tho milk men,

I ('1'1‘411111 Rapids,

:11111 1111 dwul-t it his done :1 great teal

of good, l11~:111.~'v you cannot ci'r'nto inter-

est in :1 111111 111111l111‘t in this 55‘:15' without

having 1". 1'< .:111t in much good, not only

to 131-: 111-1111511-11' but to the consumer as

Well.





This t'“lllt>'l t'l‘t'HlWl :1

illlt'l'l‘Fl', 1.111 11111;:

but 1111111111: the citizens 1





Dairy Farm Contest.





Inspection of the 2.”. duh'y farms, near

(in-111.1 which 55'1-1'11 entered in

conuwtlilol1 in ccnnm-lion with the above

milk contest, hus I111 11 oomph-ted by Dr.

\\ l11t:1k«11'. of [215' 1111‘1ion:1l dairy division.

The ,2115'11111111111'. (1:1i1'5' swu'o curd was

uwd, tho- inr'pcction covering Condition of

statics, uttnsils, milk rooms 11nd

hundling 11‘ milk, the equipment rcpre~

sentinr; 4” p11- cent of the fold] score and

methods 1;»1 1111' um. 'l'hr awards were

I‘ll's't, l.1:15'r>n'.5'<11".h 311115.,





ll.1}1id.~',





cows,





as follows:

M 1)(l‘ Cent;

The «ldil'y

linden,

\\':,11'1'l-11 and \'.111

llOll(’lLllllt' lllv'iillwll. .-\ I'Ull'lrl’lflll fault vats





second, John I}. .‘11211't'11, 78.0.

farms of Doi'nhus,

Iluthhun, 1.:1moreuux,

Sphinit'r were





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llz'iu'gs,





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luck 111' ll(’ H l' Iiii"lllil4 < for 1l‘uill 1115' coul—

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ileg‘ the milk, also ha 1‘; of iltlt"§‘tlilli': light

in the Slillllt'S. In insiwcl to light, 1'11111

mum»: 11.1.1 «:3' 2‘21»? 51'1' stanchion Elvis





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PREVENTING SCOURS IN CALVES.





Ilnvin: l1'(l :4121114 j"'I“I:' tff)‘1(1l('l’l" (x in

floxlfx'; v.1'.o< \‘.i:l ("117:Zl111'.« for the

lullv'fll All. 1‘. Ii. llo'x'. of .\l.’l.'~,‘|lll (‘11.,

".‘3111 l‘l"l1l.' i:115':i:'~1l 1"“; 11'dlllg scours,

l'Ij. ( «.1 Ill~~4'l'\.‘.llt1ll l llli‘.'f‘ ll'ni‘llt'd

‘1;.:1t_ «mm: in mll‘cw' :111- 11311.1135' caused

l1‘.‘ tl't'l'2il-"llll:, \5'1131 i1 l1l'lll;;< Uil indiges-

lion. \‘1'.-11 llll" i~‘ 5."v'll Marti-(l ii is

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Hunt-1 12' hwy-111.111 i~' 15121111 :1 5.1111111! of

r'lll'c" ll! z-‘lrw ll 5'11“ >‘.



My method 1211- Last fww yours 11:1.q been

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he will 1:11:11, sine»- the

Wu): «:1 11's

ll‘ll’ll‘t' intcndml is in :1 lllmlfilll't‘ respon-

sible for 1h.) <';1'.l' scouring, us in drinking

from :1 p.11'l he ink: s, the milk fuster than

by sur'kinc. llw Fili‘t‘ to 11:15'1‘ the milk

as 111211' the li‘lilllt'l‘zillll't‘ r~l' l'i<'\V milk as

l’l'ovide $11121: good stock food

11nd follow tlli‘l(,'ll(lll\‘ 111 its use. Feed

with 01' without oil lll<'-:ll :1nd I think you

will not he troubled with calves scouring

I have not 1113-1-11. at least, and previous to

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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-



_ TION OF FARMERS CLUBS.



President—A. L. Chandler, Owosso.



Vice-Presldent—Mrs. Clara L. French;

Pompeii. .



Secretary—Mrs. 4W. L. Cheney, Mason.



Treasurer—D. K. Hanna, Caro.



Corresponding Secretary-é—Clayton Cook,

Owosso.



Directors—D. M. Beckwith, Howell; D.

M. Garner, Davisburg; T. B. Halladay,

Norvell;~ E. Hallock, Almont; B. A.

Holden, Wixom; Wm. H. Marks, Fair

Haven.





 





Assoclatlonal Motto.—

The skillful hand, wan cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.





 





Associational Sentiment.—

The farmer; he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





 





HOW THE LOCAL CLUBS ARE CON-

DUCTED.

(Continued from last week).



“The delegate from the Hickory Club,

of Tnscola county, mentioned the rivalry

between the local clubs at the county fair

as a factor in keeping up club interest

which is as potent as the local club fair

ill other clubs. This club has montnly

meetings and maintains a good interest

tllruout the year.



The Deerfield Township Club, of Isa-

bella Co., was reported by its delegate

as having a membership of over 100. A

July picnic is held annually as a special

feature of the club’s work. A good pro-

gram committee. succeeds ill interesting

"the young people in the meetings and the

club finds no difficulty in keeping up a.

general interest in its meetings.



The Exeter Club, of Calhoun Co., has

a floral fund which is maintained by each

member contributing 10 cents annually.

The annual dues are 25 cents for each

member. ‘.T-he programs are prepared

monthly and published in the local paper

the week before each club meeting. The

delegate reported the club ill prosperous

condition and the interest good.



The delegate from the Maple Rivet

Club, of Siliawassee Co., reported a mem-

bership ‘6" ‘bver 100,.for that organization.

. ds twelve greetings during

This is: One bf the _‘few club

organizations ill the state that is not

llampercd'by arlack' of funds, the annual

dues being tine dollar per year for» each

family, and the members are assessed

pro rata when more money is needed.



The Excelsior Farmers’ Club, of Lake

Co., was reported by its delegate as an

active organization. Reports of all its

meetings are published in the.loca1 pa-

pers, which has brot the club to public

notice and added to the attendance of

and interest in its mot-tings. The farms

of its members are all named.



The North-{mt Venice Club, of Shia-

wassee Co., was reported as having a

membership of 24 familics. Twelve meet-

ings are held during the year at a speci-





 





 





fied time each month. The, host and

hostess do all the entertaining. The

average attendance of the meetings is





over 100. The club owns its own chairs

and dishes. The question box is a much

appreciated feature of the monthly meet-





ings and the questions :lskcd and an-





swercd at each meeting will average

from 10 to 15 ill number.

The Howell Farlncrs‘ Club, of Living-





ston Co., was rcportcd to have a mem-

bership of 100. A program committee





of three is appointed for each meeting,

cach of which proposes or asks three

questions, which is considered a marked





improvement over thc sct program.



The delegate from the Assyria Farmers’

Club, of Barry Co., rcported a member-

ship of 1th for that club. The young

people are interested in the club work

by putting them on the program. and

those outside the club are also inter-

ested by asking them to take part in the

mcetings when thcy attend. The dis-

cussion of religious and political subjects

is ball‘rcd. A program committee of

three members, each of which servos for

three montllS, one being appointed at.

each meeting. prepares the programs

from month to month.



A. B. Hubbard. delegate froln the VVhito

Lake Club, of Oakland Co., reported that

club in a prosperous condition and doing

good work“ There is plenty of talent

among the membership to make each one

of the 12 meetings hcld during the year

:lnd'thcrc is nearly always

The young people

and the an--

The annual

Pro-





a good one.

a. good attendance.

conduct the June meeting,

nual picnic is held in July.

dues are. 25 cents for each member.





grams are prepared monthly. The tem-

perance sentiment among the members

is strong. . .



Mr. Holden, delegate from the Wixom

Farmers’ Club, of Oakland Co., reported

a. membership of 25 families for that or-

ganization. Like many of the older clubs





they need regeneration by the introduc-





tion of new blood. As a means to this

end he recommended the securing of

speakers from prosperous and successful

clubs to give the membership new en-

thusiasm.



The Central Club, of Ionia Co., finds it

hard to get the members together ill the

summer season when the work on the

farms is pressing. In the winter season,

however, the club is very prosperous, and

the programs are made as interesting and

varied as possible.





THE SUMMER —PICNIC.





The season of the year is approaching

When the preparations for the summer

picnic should be made. That an increas-

ing number of farmers’ clubs are making

the summer picnic a feature of their

organization is a matter for‘congratula-

tion. The increase ill the number of

clubs holding an annual picnic meeting

has been very noticeable ill recent years,

still out of something over 125 clubs that

reported to the associational secretary

in reply to the questions asked from

which the club statistics published in the

annual report are made up, only 36 clubs

or about 30 per cent of those reporting,





 





make this summer picnic an annual

neighborhood event. This is a mistake

which should be rectified at once. The





summer picnic is a great advertising fea-

ture for the work of the furmcrs’ clubs.

Outsiders feel more free to attend these

picnic meetings and take part ill the

social intercourse which marks such

events, than they do to attend club lnect-

ings at the home of sonic mcmbcr, and

by a little foretllot on tho part of mem—

bcrs to invite their fricnds outsidc the

club to attend the picnic and cnjov :1

social day with tllelll, they may be easily

illtcrcstcd ill club work and be induccd

to join the club or to take steps to or—

ganize one ill tllcir own collllnunity ill

case the territory is not alrcady occupicd

by such an organization. This is surely

worth the effort. It is the one best op.-

portunity to work for club extension dur—

ing the summer season and, from that

standpoint alone, every lnclnbcl‘ of cvcry

farmers’ club in the statc should takc an

active illtcrcst ill makingr thc summcl-

picnic a regular t'caturc of thc work of

his local fal'lllcrs' club.



But tllcl‘e arc otllcr reasons why the,

summer picnic should be lnudc :l l'cgulur

i'catul‘e Of the Work of tho local club.

During the busy summer scuson the at-

tcndunco at tho monthly lncctings is al—

most .surc to wahc, and thc mcmbcrs son

lcss of each otllcr ill a social way than

during the active club work.

All will agree that it is u plcllsurc to

meet together for a social good tinlc at

the club picnic, and slil‘t'ly at’tcr the hur-

vcst has been garnered the mcnlbcrs cull

wcll afford to take this day of rest. and

recreation for pure clljoylllcnt. Ill

cuscs a program is prcpurcd, or a spcakcr

from outside is furnish the

mental feast", while ill other clubs the day

is given over to uthlctic and a





scusoll ot'





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cllguucd to





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social good tinlc, wllilc ill still Hillol‘s‘

the last mentioncd i'cuturc is givcll pro—

dominance to tllc exclusion of all clse.





It makes little diffcrcncc what thc plan,

so long as it is in accord with tho wishes

of a. majority of the lllcmbcrs. 'l‘hc cvcnt

itself is the important thing, botll for the

good 0f the club and of its individual

mcmbcrs. Those clubs that have not

mudc a spccial l'caturc of thc summcl‘

picnic do not know what thcy are mis-

It is a lnuttcr of club history that

where this inau—

gurutcd, it is practically always porpctu-





sing.





custom has nllco bccn





:ltcd. 'l"hc writcr docs not know of a

slllglc cusc in which tllc club picnic bus

lit‘t‘ll discontinucd us a spcclzll summcr

l'cuturc of club work zlftcr it has bocn

once inuugul'utcd. Next year's report

should show that instcud of only till pcr

cent of the clubs ill the state, holding





annual picnic meetings, only 110 per cent

or lcss ncglcct this important feature of

club work. The way to insure such a

rcsult is for every club nlcnlbcr in the

state to work for the summer picnic ill

his own club this year. This is thc time

to get busy to that end. It: will be worth

the effort involved from a personal stand-

point, to say nothing of tho ulldoubtcd

benefit to the club as an organization.

Allnounccmcnts of such events arc invited

in this department. Please advise us of

the dates at the earliest possible moment,

ill order that the. greatest publicity can

be given to prospective club picnics.





 





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THE JUNE PROGRAMS.



State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First



Meeting.



“Every fault ill your child is the lack

of some virtue.”——Elizabcth Harrison.



The Child—IV. His Growth.



“'histling duct, by two boys.



Soil Fertility—IV. Commercial

lizel‘s.



Fifteen minutes of pure fun (furnished

by a “Surprise Committee" of young

people).



Suggestions for Second Meeting.

“I believe all children's good,

Ef they're only understood.

Even bad ones, ’pears to me,

’5 jest as good as they kill be.”



Children‘s Day Program.—In charge of

Flora of the Grange, who may make it

a day of real joy to the little ones of

the neighborhood, with refreshments at

the close. Let the children furllish a. pro-

gram of recitations, dialogues, fancy

drills, flower excl'ciscs and songs. For

the older pcoplcs' part, use. the topic:

“The Child—V. liis School and Home

Conditions.”





SOME GRANGE PROBLEMS.





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work, such as are not uncommon.

would you solve them?



(livcn a Grange with varied ages and

gifts, but claiming to have “absolutely no

musical ability." \tht would you do it

you wcrc rcsponsiblo for thc [N‘Dgl‘tlln of

that (ll‘allgc‘?



(livcn, a small

nn-lllbcrship a dozcn boys.

tcrcstcd now ill simply

mot-tings but, whcn the llovclty is

off. cannot be hold by any drifting sort

of methods that lots the lrangc “tuke

(’ill't‘ of itself.” \\'ll;lt things, just cnougll

beyond lilt'SO boys to lllakc tllcnl Stl‘I-lt'll

a bit, would You proposc ill this Gl'ullgc'.‘



Given, a good lecd lllclnbcrship but thc

master, lccturcl‘, and ovcrsccr

llcal'ly always ubscllt l‘rolll ollc cause and

Fii‘it‘t'il boys and girls are lllcln-

bcl's and willing to :lttcml it'

“anything as they say.

stops do you advisc‘.’

lul‘gc lllcnlbcrship



rcccivcd ut



lllolnbcl's :ll'c





il'zll go, but among the

Thcy are ill-

:lttclldlng tho

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sccrctll l'y





allot llcl'.

Hit-1‘0 is





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doing,





and new

numcs bcing cvcry meeting.

Most of lilo young pu-oplp

but the master is of middle age and level-

hczldcd, and otllcr t'llll‘il‘lll; ith"

spirit of all is that of readiness for. the

poet (lchhllllllI-llt. Ilow shull

that (it"vt-ltllllllt‘lll be brot about?



(lrullgc oi‘ lllhhllc—ugcd :lil-l

llllllllly tlt'vntcll ttl lilo





(,livt-ll, :l





Ulilt]«'l'~1

Pussilllq-





(lchll. :l

1'llit'l'lY Ilt'lillit‘, .lll

lcclul'c hour liltclcsts, buying good tinlcs

togcthcr 21nd contcnt to lczlvc it so. Two

or thrco young pcoplc zlrc also in the

Grullg‘c. \\'hut should hc (lollc for those

fcw young nlclnbcrs, and for thc future of

tho (lrullgc?



(livcll, a Grunge with a lllllldl'cd lncm-

good~sizcd town with tuirfy



Most of thc lllclllbcl's curo





bcrs, hour :1

good nlurkt-ts.

little for ritualistic work or

opcrution: but u i'cw

l‘cuturcs lllight be dcvclopcd to advantage

cvcn ill that, ltlt'utlnll. if you wcrc ln;l.-~

tcr, what would you do?



(livcn, a (irangc with tho “nine o’c‘ock





lillulll'iul cou





vcl‘y bclicvo lhcso





habit." lll (‘HllHt‘lllll‘llt‘t‘. of thc luto hours

kcpt, tho lllclllbcrship is dropping~ ofi‘ and

losingr intcrcst. \tht should the lnustcl‘

do? if hc fails to act, what rcnlcdy can

be applied? .llaxsln DUELL.





POMONA MEETINGS.





Gratiot County.



Gl‘utiot Pomona hcld u vcrv succcsst'ul

mot-ting with Arcmlu ”range on May N.

lh-spitc tho buckwurdncss ol' tlo- scusoll,

which has lnudc lnrnlcrs unusually busy,

thcrc was a good :lttcndancc and lil

(lrungcs rcportcd.



’l‘hc t'cuturc of this nlooting was :lli

:lddl'css by Stutc Mustcr llull. llis sub-

jcct was “The li‘ill'lllt‘l‘.” ulld ulllollg othcl‘

things hc said that thc t'urlllol- of today is

doing too much work with his hands and

not enough with his bruins. llc illus—

tl'utcd this by u truill standing on it sid—

ing and [fill lllé'll show-ling gruvch r‘ol

$1.30 pcr day. ’l‘ho lllzlll in tho cub ol tho

t-lluillc facts $3 pcr day and tho than at tho

bond of thc railroad olllcc $1” pcl' dzlv.

\\'hv tho difi‘crcncc. One has trained tho

illil'Illt‘t't that llil'ccts the hand.



A tnrnlcl' sent his boy to M. A. C.

The boy came homo and wuntcd to try

what he had bccn taught. llo wisllcd

to prunc and spray the tcn—acrc orchard

as had bccn taught him. 'l‘llc farmer





said, “No. You can get: out and work

the same as l.” The boyhbcing a chlp

off the old block, said: “Seems to me





dad, you made a big mistake when you





 





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dug up the money to send me to college ”

The farmer tllot. “Well, take the or—

chard; you can’t more than spoil it.” The





boy carefully trimmed, pruned and

sprayed the orchard as he had been





taught, and the result was he made more

in one year from the ten acres than his

father had made in ten years. ‘



.The more the farmer trains the intel—

lect the more he has for his family. Ye

know many things the farmer knew fifty

years ago and many more, but the farmer

of today knows why he does this or that

way. He. is the man who discovers things

and the chemist tells him what it is. Pie

knows that clover enriches the soil; the‘

chemist has told him why.



' A farmer stood watching the great mill

in Mlnncapolis running the bran from

the mill into the river. He said: "it

seems as if that ought to be lllade use,

of," and he takes some home and feeds it

to Bossy. He finds it good for food. The

chemist then, with his trained intellect,

comes and examines it and tclls him wllv

1t 15 good and how to make what is called

a. balanced ration. The farmer is tile

discoverer.



The farmers must organize and have

the power to sell to buyers. He told how

he went to buy a milk can and the mcr-

chant asked llim $3 apiece, so he said be

guessed he would send to Chicago and

got the same can for $2.15. “()3 no,“ says

the merchant, “patronize home and int

the money stay here. I help to build the.

roads and the churches, etc." Now what

is the difference? The merchant sent tl

Chicago, bought the can for $3.13 pail

ten cents to the railroad and put 73’ cents

lll his pocket. I sent to Chicago, got the.

can tor $2.15, paid the railroad ten cents

and put 73 cents ill my own pocket. The

money staid at home just the same. I

help build roads and churches just the.

same as the merchant.



0n the othcr hand I took a quantity

of huttcr to town and asked Mr. Mcrchant

21‘: fonts pcr pound. The nlcl'chullt sail:



lit-ll, i can got any quantity of butter

ftrolnIT'o and So for 20 cents. I can‘t do

i . " lc moncv goes: '1 ’ ' ' B

it stay at: home: a“ t), “11y DOL Ad



The l‘arlncr asks for a square deal. We

want‘ lawmakcrs and Dollt‘it's to benefit

the inrmclls and not lct just a few be

bcnclltcd to the disadvantage of the

iarmcr. “'o want a square (lcnl. How

thcy laughed wllcn thc Grangt“ asked for

rural ircc dclivcry of mail, but thru the

pcl'scvcl'ullCc of the Grange it w‘cllt tlll'u.

how we want parcels post and postal

szlvlngs banks and we are goine‘ to have

tllcnl ill time. D





 





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





A Travel Pregram.~lll the unique pro-

gram anoycd by membcl‘s of Grand 'l‘l'u-

vcl-sc Grange :11; a reccnt meeting is found

a suggcstlon which should prove of intcr~

cst and value to lccturcrs gcllcl‘ullv. The

plan of the lcctlll'cl‘ was to have QHCll

l'ntl'oll ill-sclibo solllo point of interest

vlsltcd durille‘ his travels and the success

of thc int-cling fur surpasscd expecta—

tlolls. it blot :ut' the l'ncr that practi-

cally ovm’y member had been more 02‘ less

ol :1. traveler. Many places and events 01‘

lntcl'csl wcl'c (lcscl'lbcd, uniting which

wcrc thc following: Lansing wllcll lnvudcd

by the State til-:lngc: slulc prison at Jack—





son; a trip llllll (icorgiu; :ln ascent of

Mount: llowc, (‘:llil'.; an cXcursion tllru

thlrlccn southcrn stutcs with Illc Union





army; the Shcnulldouh vullcy: \Vcst Cun—

udu; l’ut—in~ izly Island: tho ’I‘abornaclo,

Suit Lukc l‘ily, with tho big organ ulld

chorus cho‘r: Inc Michigan day picnic in

Los .\]lf_’,'¢'lr-.\' ill Ihc willlcr of Him; Lincoln

park, (‘hlcugm lndustl'lul homo. llullsinu;





lllc ‘(lhio Hrphunugn honlc; stulc pclli-

tcntlul'y, l‘olulnbus; lhc lllounluills oi

\\I-.st \1l‘g‘.ni;l: tho (illio nulul'ul gust





rcuion; thc llakota country; llostoll; Krill.

sus and its gruss-hoppcrs; thc hills of'

Now York slutc. and Sugar Loaf, llcc-

lalluu county. 'l‘llc :lccount oi‘ an llldinll

ll‘ourlh of July in liukolu was spccizlllv

intcl‘csting. an thousand wild lllllllllli.

with i‘culhcrs :llld ponics and still lws and

hours Ilill'tll'ililllttl :1) this cvcnt. Ono

.l’ntron ill‘.\‘('1lllt'(l :l low-d of mountain

cutllc whosc logs arc lollccr on onc sido

lhnll tllc olhcr that ihwy lll.’l\' stand lc\‘c.

on the stl-cp sidcs. 'l‘his >t.ltclllcllt was

doubtcd by some of lhosc prosolll, Til.-

account of thc sizc and nunlbcr and chill“

lnous zlppclitcs ol' the wcstcrll grusshop—





pcrs causcd l'\(‘l£iill;liillll:~‘. an nlcmbt-l‘

guvc ull uccount ol‘ u sixty~lllllc \vulk.

I‘hc mclnbcl‘ who llicIurl-d lloston toltl





how it is thc custolll in that city of trudi-

titllls :lllll t'lllllll‘c in [IN :ll\\';l)’:< (ll‘t‘SSt'l

up whcll on tho strcct or ill public pluccs.

It was said that thc idcu is carricd to tho,

(Xll't‘llll'. lt wus tho \‘t-rdict o! lhc. lllllw

jlll‘iiy of tilt! rilll'ilitl'l'i :Il'Il-l' [llt‘ Sttll‘lt'S

wcrc :lll ill, thut cvcrjclhina' lukcn into





collsitlt-l‘ul‘loll ill" lll'u'lll 'l‘luvcl'sc l‘cfz‘iuli





uvcragcs up will with the l't-st, of the

world.

Burnside Grange, ol‘ llupt-cr <‘o,, r.»—





(-clvcd :1 visit from l’olllollu l.cctlll‘t-r

Judd, on May lb. who conduclcd :l school

of instruction. This (:l‘:llif4'l‘ now has twl

dca‘rcc) tcunls and cntcrluincd l'omonl





Juno 5.





COMING EVENTS.





Pomona Meeting3.



Ouklund Co.. with llldcpcndcnco Grange,

in (.‘lul'kston, 'l‘ucslluy. .lunc N.



Sullilnt- (‘o,, with llllk (il'ulluc, \l'cdnos—

day, how 5’.



Kent t‘o._ with Oukticld Grunge,

ncsday. June 25:.

Spcukcl‘.





. \Vcd—

Miss .J't'lllllt.‘ Bucll, State





('hlppcwu ('o., with lios’mlulc (Irullac,

ill .luly.

(‘uss (‘o., with 'lt‘diicld (livlllg‘o, flvo





milcs from lidwzllulsburg. ’l‘llursduv, June

it). lion. .1. K. t‘uulpbcll, speaker:

Calhoun (‘o., with (‘onvis Grunge,

'l‘hursdzly, .Tuno 10. (ion. l>cckc, sl‘lrwlkcr.

(flinton Co., with 'llunncr Grange, \Vcd-

llcsdny, July 7.

itost‘ord Pomona (llosconlmon 00.), at

Roscomlnon, Saturday, July 31.

lluy Co., at Pinconning,





Tuesday

July ‘13. '
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