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VOL. CXLl. No. 14. ;





Whole Number 3663.

ITI‘I the coming of alfalfa as one

SKI of the main crops, draining the



cold and wet places, also keep-

ing the water out off the sags, will be-

come a question of vast importance to

the farming interests of this state. There

are many fields where only parts are

adapted to alfalfa growing, as the seed

does not germinate readily on cold and

wet ground, drowns and freezes out eas-

ily in the depressions, hence a few re-

marks might not be out of place at this

time.



What Lands Need Drainage?



In the Michigan Farmer of March 8,

page 290, Prof. J. A. Jeffery says in part:

“We are coming to appreciate that a

much greater area of our land would be

benefited by drainage than was thought

a. few years ago. There are places which

appear to be perfectly drained because of

natural conditions, and yet demonstration

proves it to be profitable to install some

system of drainage. Often on the side of

hills there will be spots where the water

Will not leach away, and frequently farms

that have a gcntle slope that naturally

would look to be properly drained remain

cold and wet. Then, too, there are spongy

places at the foot of slopes which requre

the same treatment. These places, to—

gether with the large area of level lands

over our state, would be greatly improved

by the use of tile drains.”



The cause is nothing more than a vein

of water too near the surface, as a gen-

eral rule it will not be nearer the surface

than four feet, nor deeper than 12 feet.

If deeper than 12 feet it seldom shows on

the top of the ground. If nearer the sur-

face tlfiin four feet it would have broken

out in the form of a spring long ago.

This is no theory but a fact well known

to the old-time well—diggers and to men

who have made it a careful study. If

these veins are tapped when the frost

goes out of the ground in the spring, the

water will rise to the surface and some-

times overflow. It will then keep sinking

into the ground as warm weather comes

on, and disappears by evaporation and in

other ways, until about August 15 to 20,

when it reaches its lowest level. where it

remains about 30 days. It will then com-

mence to rise again, completing its cycle

the following spring.



Much depends upon the size and pres-

sure of the vein. If the vein is light a

spring crop can be raised when the ground

warms up. A good sign to follow is to

watch for that toll-tale weed known to

botanists as Equisctum. commonly called

horsetail, or scouring rush, of which there

are said to be 25 or 30 varieties growing

in the Unitcd States, but only four or five

growing in Michigan, Arvense Equisetum

resembling a miniature pine tree and

Sylvaticum Cquisetum growing like a

reed with prominent telescoping joints its

entire length. growing sometimes 18

inches in height, are the only ones grow-

ing to any cxtcnt in this state. On ac-

count of the acidity of the soil where

these fern-like plants grow seed does not

germinate readily, especially clover, al-

sike, alfalfa and all legumes, nor will this

soil stand the litmus tests. An applica-

tion of lime or barnyard manure will ben-





efit it, but will seldom last more than

two seaSOns.

The reason dquisteum can grow on





sour land is because it is a subaquatic

plant and does not greminatc from seed,

but starts from spores similar to mush-

rooms. Land as above described should

be drained not less than three feet deep,

four feet would be better, which is prob-

ably as deep as draining can be done

with the present price of labor. Too much

tiimg is done too shallow. This has no

reference to “mucky” land, for that is

a different proposition.



In land already tiled these places should

be tapped, which can easily be done. Dig





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, OCT. 4, l913.





Observations on Tile Drainage.





a hole about three feet across, six feet

deep and four feet from drain, bore three

or four two—inch holes, down to the vein,

be sure to havo holes enough to relieve

the pressure “fully.” A barrel can be

sunk into the hole and the tile run from

it to the main drain, or fill up the hole

with stones level with the drain. Then

run tile to the middle, make a place for

the water to run in at the end, by plac-

ing stones around it, then fill in the hole

about a foot above the tile with stone,

and a few pieces of tough sod should be

placed, grass Side down, to prevent dirt





sand of a cave-in, also turtles and small

animals.



In tiling land as above described by

Prof. Jeffery, it is not unusual to get a.

light flow of water. if such is the case,

the tile should not be laid until the stream

is satisfactory. That can be obtained by

boring down in the bottom of ditch along

the edge where only a small quantity

comes up, the tile may be spread a little

for four or six feet and then covered

with gravel, but where a heavy flow is

started a barrel or stones as described

above, should be put in three or four feet





 





 





 





 





Sugar Beets on “New Land”





Farm of G. A. Randall.





of Gladwin County, whose





1912 Crop on Similar Ground Brought $103 Per Acre.





going dOwn between the stones. Should

there be a 10W place in the field at this

point carry the stones up level with the

ground, or a little above, omitting the

sod, of course. It will then answer a

double purpose, by carrying off the Sur—

face water also. It is a good idea to take

out a tile of the main drain and cut a

three—inch hole into it. which can readily

be done with a cold chisel, and make the

connection before the vein is tapped, be-

cause if the flow of water is heavy it will

rise above the drain, the banks will cave





in and, when water is turned in, large

quantities of sand will run in also. In





case the tile is left open at the cnd, for

quicksand to settle or for other reasons,

a wad of hay or grass should be stuffed

into it lightly, which will keep out the





back from the drain. If too close there

is danger of the tile settling at this point

and ruining the drain. XVhere the Vein

lies under clay 50 per cent will probably

flow quicksand, more or less, if the ilow

is heavy it may run 24 hours, sometimes

even longer. No attempt should be made

to lay tile until flow of sand ceases.

\Vhere this stream runs into the drain,

no alarm should be felt about it tilling

up, as the quicksand is light and will

flow through with the water, there is no

known way to prevent it.



On heavy flat land where

lies near the surface the tile must be

laid on boards and swalc hay used to

keep the sand down. l'nless this is re—

sortcd to the tile will raise up before they

can be covered. QuickSand will also run





quicksand





 





 





Sugar Beets Estlmated at





15 Tons For A cre,





Grown by F. L. Chisholm, Huron Co.





50 CENTS A YEAR.

$2 FOR 5 YEARS.





in through the joints and the tile will

finally settle and will even sometimes dis-

appear. Of course, there is no need of

using the hay only whe.‘e the quicksand

is encountered in its worst form.



In laying a tile drain. there is one thing

always to be remembered, and that is,

the depth of the tile in the ground will

be the water-line and when once estab-

lished water will sink into ground to this

line, “providing“ there is no‘ upward

pressure against it.



Draincd land. as a general rule, does

not reach its stage of perfection until it

has passed through a season of heat and

cold, especially clay or mixed soils which

are impervious to water. Land, like cv-

erything else, is subject to the laws 0f

contraction and expansion and heavy

land contracts during warm dry weather

causing the ground to crack, and the ac-

tion of frost is similar to that of heat,

but the tissurcs produced by frost arc the

(l(‘C])L‘St and none will go below the water





line. That is one of the main points of

deep tiling, the deeper the drain the





more will air clllcr the soil and a greater

amount of water will be absorbed aftcr a

rainfall. ()t' course, it is trut- that a

chilled pIOw cannot be used to advantage





in this land, but after the first plowing

it can be worked nicely with the modern

Stccl mouldhoard.



Livingston '(lo. N. P. Monrnxsox.





A STANDARD MICHIGAN CROP.





portion of Michigan’s soil

peculiarly adapted to the

growth of sugar beets, this is one of her

standard farm crops. I'nlike many of the

ccrcals, clchrs, etc, which require exact-

ing climatic conditions and soil prepara-

tion and qualities, beets will grow well on





The greater

and climate is





either old or new ground of divergent

conditions and in normal seasons will

make paying crops. Indeed, as a farm





crop they are an exception to thc rulc. as

they are immune while in u young state,

from ordinary frosts, withstand wet and

dry weather as well and better than most

other crops and if planted in season may





be harvestcd comparatively early in the

fall. The rcason many let beets freeze,

unharvested. in the ground is because





they are a crop that can stand rigors of

almost any weather conditions and may

thus be planted from April till July, and

if properly cultivated and kept free of

wecds will make a big root development,

and on this score many plant beets alto—

gether too late in the



The accompanying illustration is of new

ground beets planted .Ituzt- 4. and while

put in late, to date, September 3, they are

larger than any I harvested last scason

and better in every way. Individual spec-

imens weigh eight to ten pounds, those,

of course, are too large as it is the aVcr-

age sized, two, three or live-pound boots

sugar companies like and the ones. too,

that have the least tare and as a rule,

test better in their sugar content.



One advantage I think new ground has

over older soil is the beets are easier lift—

ed when mature as such soil usually is

naturally loose. This condition also allows

them to root deeper.



Gladwin CO. C.





SPHSUH.





A. RANDALL.





 





FARM NOTES.





Wild Carrot.



I am inclosing a weed for identification.

It is taking possession of the highways

and in some places the pastures in this

county, and either through indifference,

or ignorance of its nature, but little at-

tention is paid to it.



Clinton Co. E. B.



The specimen Sent is undoubtedly wild

carrot. It is a biennial introduced from

Europe, the seeds of which are readily

dispersed both by the winds and animals.

As it grows plentifully along the roadside

it is difficult to eradicate it from the fields
286—~2





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apart and spread. ‘



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without attention which will prevent it

from seeding. Thorough culture of the

head crops in the rotation and care in not

sowing grass seed in which the seed of

this weed is present are the methods to

be pursued in its eradicatiOn.



Rye and Buckwheat as Crops for Green



Manure.





VVOuld like to ask through the columns

of the Michigan Farmer if rye is any

good to plow under as a green manure.

Have been told it is no good. Have a

piece of hilly land that is quite sandy.

Thought I would sow t? rye this fall.

plow tinder in the spring and plant to

beans. Has a June grass sod now. Also

would like to know if buckwheat is any

good to plow under.



Osceola Co. SUBSCRIBER.





Any kind of vegetable matter plowed

down will benefit the mechanical condi-

tion of the soil by increasing its supply

of humus. available plant food and power

to hold moisture. Rye and buckwheat

serve an excellent purpose where legumi-

nous crops, such as the clovers, cannot

be successfully grown. Following this

treatment of a worn soil by plowing down

a crap for green manure. an effort should

be made to get clover or alfal’a or some

other legume established, as these crops

will add Dlilnt food as well as vegetable

matter to the soil.



Sweet Clover as a Pasture Crop.





“’1“ you advise me as to the value of

Sweet clover as a pasture and also its

value as hay. I read recently that when

taken in the same stage and under the

same conditions sweet clover had almost

the same chemical composition as alfalfa.

The writer of the article I read also said

that it would grow on the most barren

ground and that as a soil builder it is

unexcelled. It is a biennial, maturing

Seed the second year and then dying.

Wouldn't it be good for a permanent pas-

ture? The roots extend eight to 20

inches deep. are from a quarter to a half-

inch in diameter and add humus to the

soil when the plant dies. Ground intende'l

for alfalfa will be greatly benefited by

growing sweet clover a cou‘ple of years

before. Also please tell me how much to

sow per acre.



Hillsdale Co. J. D. S.





Sweet clover would not be adapted for

a permanent pasture which is closely

stocked throughout the summer becauFe

of the fact that it is a biennial and must

be permitted to ripen seed in order to

perpetuate the stand. In a bulletin by

J. M.\‘Westgate. Agronomist in charge

of clover investigation of the Bureau of

Plant Industry. the statement is made

that sweet clover makes excellent pasture

for horses, sheep, cattle. hogs and chick-

ens.



As a means of creating an appetite for

the plant it is advised to commence pas-

turlng stock on it very early in the spring

before other green feeds have started. In

order to keep the forage in a tender con-

dition a sufficient number of animals

should be pastured on it at all times so

there will be an abundance of fresh shoots

for grazing purpcscs. The cl:1im is made

in this bulletin that stock. when pa'Stur—

ed upon sweet clover, make gains which

compare very favorably With those ob—

tained from either alfalfa or red clover.



LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.



On Monday, September 15, travel on the

roads caused great clouds of dust to float

away to the adjoining fields. On the

morning of the 17th the mud was six

inches deep in some places in the public

highway, This simply means that we had

a splendid rain. 8. r8111 old-fashioned, all-

night, all-day rain. Some of the time it

raincd real hard but most of the time it

was a steady. old-fashioned soaking rain.

The fields (lid not look wet at all. They

were so dry that they could absorb all

this moisture. With this all-day and all-

night min, yet the ground was not wet

clear down to moisture. In digging po-

tatoes the following morning it was no

trouble at all to find dry dirt, and if it

doesn’t ruin any more, and it looks as if

the rain was over with, it will not be

many days before the ground will need

another shower. This gives one some idea

of the dryness of the soil. I don’t think

I ever saw this country so thoroughly

dried out as it was before this last rain.



And this drought affected the corn in

some places seriously. For instance, in

a field of seed corn on some of the best

corn land, the stalks did not ear at all

owing to the dry weather.



My seed corn plat is practically a. fail-

ure this year. It is a failure so far as

ear to row is concerned, but. of course,

there is a lot of good seed corn on the

plat, but there is bill after hill that has

no cars at all. It is on splendid land. it

was planted in good season. and has been

well taken care of. All it lacked was-

moisture._ Of course. the rain has come

entirely too late to be of any benefit to

corn. My ensilage corn, which is later,

of course will freshen up and perhaps





 





make a. little more growth. I think the

rain, even as late as it is, will be 8. ben-

efit to the sugar beets. They have never

wilted hardly this summer. It Is strange

about that. I raised crops of sugar beets

before where, when dry weather came.

the leaves would will: down to the ground

in the middle of the day, but the beets

this year have not done this. I can only

account for it by the fact that the ground

was dry when the beets were planted.

The beets had to send roots down deeply

in order to live at all, and in this way

they have gone dowu deeper than usual

this year, and this has kept them from

wilting during the excessive part of the

drought. I cannot explain it in any other

way.



The vines in one field of lima beans are

setting full of pods as they ought to, and

they are not ripening up as they should.

Those in the other field which was plant-

ed several days later are farther advanced

and taking the growth of the plant into

consideration are better podded, The oth-

er field was covered with a heavy coat of

stable manure and plowed under. I am

inclined to think that there wastoo much

nitrogen in this manure and this has pro-

IOnged the growth of the plant and made

perhaps an excessive growth of vine and

has retarded fertilization. We know that

too much nitrogen tends to make a too

thrifty leaf growth, and rather prevents

the formation of seeds or pods. and I am

of the opinion that if We had only put on

about half of this manure this year and

saved the rest for another year that we

would haVe-had a better crop of beans

than we now have with this one rather

excessive coat of manure. These lima

beans. like the sugar beets, have not

seemed to be affected by the drought.

They have a tap root like alfalfa that goes

down deeply, and the ground when they

Were planted had no excess of moisture.

so that the roots could go down and must

go down if they live. They got well es—

tablished in the subsoil before the se-

verest part of the drouth came, and that

czlzlblrd them to go through the drought

without showing its effect, but they have

not poddcd and ripened and matured as

they should, and I am of the opinion that

it is owing to an excessive amount of

stable manure used on the field.



A fter this splendid rain the ground will

certainly be in condition for the sowing

or wheat. I intend to work the land over

with a spring-tooth barrow. -VVe can fix

three three-section barrows by Putting in

a spreader pole so that the engine can

draw the thrce three-section barrows. and

it will not take long to run over the 75

acres which we have practically ready

for sowing. If it wasn't for harvesting

a field of lima beans at once we- would go

to sowing in a day or two, but the sow-

ing must be put off until we harvest these

beans. That is one trouble with canning

factory crops, they are exacting, they

must be‘done at just such a time. Of

course, the- man who sowed his wheat

just before this rain will probably come

out all right because the rain did not

pack the ground excessively. It came

down so gently at first and came so

steadily that it didn’t pack the ground

like a downpour would, but I believe a

man who goes to work and works up this

soil now, lets a little more air into it by

good cultivation with a spring-tooth har-

row, will have a better seed bed, and the

wheat will have :1 better start than the

man‘s who sows just before the rain. Sev-

eral pieces in this vicinity were sown

early, one the very last of August. That

field is extremely spotty. On the higher

portions of the field and on the clay por-

tions of the field, one can scarcely see

any wheat at all. On some portions of

the field, however. there is a fairly good

stand. If the seed hasn't been injured by

remaining in this dry soil this rain will

cause it to germinate and come on all

right, but I have had experience along

this line, and nine times out of ten when

wheat is sowu when the ground is not

moist enough to cause germination at

once, much of the seed molds and loses

its vitality, and even though rain comes

as it has this fall and some of this wheat

comes up it will not be as thrifty or as

productive as though it had been placed

in moist ground and come up in the ordi-

nary length of time.





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The trees and shrubs imported are

chiefly evergreens, such as pines, spruces,

and firs, and broadleaf plants—oaks, ma-

ples, etc. The majority is stock of for-

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BY FLOYD w. noexsorx. ,

How Lang will a Soil Last Without Fer-

tiiizers?



In discussing the use of commercial

fertilizers and natural manures, and the

prevention of the waste of farm manures,

we very frequently hear the question

raised as to the length of time which will

intervene before any of our ordinary soils

will become worn, or run, out. This

problem has been approached from a va-

riety of viewpoints. Many farmers main-

tain that there need’ be no concern given

to the question of replenishing soils with

the plant food constituents, or adminis—

trative agents, removed by the groWing

crops. This subject has been discussed

quite freely in scientific circles, and a

very important bureau of our government

at one time permitted the information to

become widespread to the effect that

practically all soils contain a sufficient

amount of nutrients to support crops in-

definitely. As a matter of fact, we do

know that some of the oldest soils in the

world having been cropped for centuries

are still responding to cultivation. Nearly

all of our so-called virgin soils in this

country are soils which are entitled to

that name only in so far as the tiiling in—

fluence of man is concerned, for long be-

fore they have been under cultivation

they have supported crops of forest trees

which have grown and removed nutrients

for many hundred yearS. Most of us are

also familiar with the fact that many of

the gigantic [trees in California that have

caused so much admiration have been lo-

cated in these identical spots and ab-

stracting nutrients from the soil they

were able to reach 2000 years ago.’



No Manure Means Small Crops.



Fortunate it is indeed, that most of the

so-called plant food constituents seem

to occupy a more or less administrative

relationship to the plant. for if there were

actually removed from the soil with each

succeeding crop the total amount of

nutrients called into action by that crop,

it would be a matter of a very few years

indeed before many of the soils would

become extinct as far as crop-producing

value is concerned. As it is, when the

amount of plant food constituents remov-

ed in any one crop is compared with the

amount of these same ingredients still

left in the soil, it would indicate that

there w0uld be a sufficient amount of

nutrients for many years to come. We

are decidedly conscious of the fact, how-

ever, that without the use of manures in

s0me form or other, cultivation through

a very limited number of years would

show a decided falling off in crop produc-

tion. '



It seems almost axiomatic to the writer

that if there is a sufficient amount, stud-

ied from an arithmetical point of view,

of phosphoric acid, we will say, in a giv-

en soil to last 200 or 500 years under av-

erage crop production, there is no very

strong argument to encourage the farmer

to replenish each year the equivalent of

phOSphoric acid removed. From this view-

point it is difficult to understand why in

the crops of two or three years the soil





, can so behave that no longer is‘a maxi-





mum crop produced. From our obServa-

tions we have, therefore, come to the

conclusion that the amount of phosphoric

acid and other plant constituents which

are found in that plant at maturity is no

criterion whatsoever of the actual amount

of these agents which have been called

into action during the life of the plant.

\Ve have, therefore, adopted the term

“administrative agents” instead of “plant

food” and we believe that if there is

found in a certain crop 25 pounds of

phosphoric acid by analysis, it is by no

means an indication that 25 pounds of

phOSphoric acid is all that plant used dur-

ing its entire life.



Growing Crops Exhaust the Available



Agents in the Soil.



As stated before, we do know that in

spite of the fact as evident from a math—

ematical consideration, there is sufiicient

amount of these administrative agents to

last for many years in maximum crop

production, still the continuous cropping

of a soil for a very limited number of

years shows a steady decline in the crops

grown each succeeding Year on this soil.

This is prevented by the application from

external sources of manures of different

kinds in what; is called available form.

This w0uld seem to indicate that growing





crops either exhaust the soil of its plant

food constituents or, as we believe, re-

move the available plant food constitu-

ents from the soil in part and re-lock

other available agents thus cutting short

from both ends, as it Were, the available

material in the soil. “’hen crops are not

removed from the soil this condition is

compensated for by the decay of the root-

lets in the soil and by the decay,

wise, of the leaves and stems upon the

surface of the soil. But under modern

cultivation nearly all of the portion of the

plant above the ground is removed for

edible purposes and in many instances

nearly all of that portion beneath the

ground is, as well. So that under inten-

sive cultivation the depletion of the soil

in available plant food constituents or

administrative agents is very rapid in-

deed and it becomes quite necessary to

study the most proper and economical

means of re-building the nutritive condi-

tion of that soil.



Manures Surely Increase the Yield.



As we stated before, it is common

knowledge that the use of barnyard ma-

nures and commercial fertilizers has re-

sulted in a marked increase in crop pro-

duction and We therefore argue that this

clearly indicates the necessity for the use

of fertilizing materials. Farms are grow-

ing smaller in this country and it has

become necessary to feed more people

from these smaller farms than have been

heretofore fed from the larger farm units.

Consequently the yield of wheat and oth-

er crops per acre must go up instead of

down, or the cost of living advances so

rapidly that it becomes impossible for the

consumer to keep pace with the prices

asked. We therefore are confronted with

the condition that the soil instead of be-

ing kept at its initial productive capacity

must actually be built up in its produc-

tive capacity and consequently more

available food constituents must be placed

on the soil each succeeding year than are

taken off the previous year.

The Use of Fertilizers Means Soil



servation.

Barnyard manure and commercial fer-





Con-





tilizers have their origin in the soil itself,

and by returning to the soil the constitu- ‘





ents found in barnyard manure and com-

mercial fertilizers we are simply restor-

ing what at one time was a part ofthat

soil, and consequently assisting nature in

her effort at conservation of the soil.



There are a number of ways of ac-

complishing this all of which must blend

together finally to produce the desired re-

Sult. It is useless to put fertilizers on a

soil unless proper cultivation of that soil

is at the same time followed. Some

scientiSts have insisted that the question

of the fertility of the soil lay only in the

application of barnyard manure and com-

mercial fertilizers. Others have insisted

that it lay entirely in the proper cultiva-

tion of the soil, but it seems to us that

any far—seeing man must realize that all

must go hand in hand in securing the

proper condition for maximum crop pro-

duction. The growing Of a leguminous

crop, while a decidedly admirable thing

to do and besides a necessity, adds no

basic principle to the soil. it does return

nitrogen to the soil and it does return

organic matter which in turn serves to

assist in the reduction of the other basic

agents which are in that soil, but it may

readily be seen that it adds no basic

principle to the soil itself. It becomes

deSirabie, in fact, it is necessary, that we

should always consider the maximum crop

production, for it is our duty to get from

a. soil everything that that soil can give

and the only way this can be done is by

likewise returning to the soil the agents

indicated. .





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_MAKllNG APPLE CIDER.



“Any kind of apples will do for cider,”

was the remark of an apple grower a few

days ago when asked if he had any ap-

ples suitable to use for cider. Perhaps

the old farmer was honest in his belief,





but he was nevertheless mistaken. Ripe,

clean apples only should be used for

cider. Divide the fruit, so that in case





of worms they may be cut out. The later

cider is made, other things being equal,

the better it will keep. A good cider ap-

ple should be hard and sound with rich

juice and a somewhat acid flavor. The

freshly-made cider should be placed in

one or more open-headed casks, set up-

right. with faucets a few inches from the

bottom, through which the elder can be

racked off. Let stand about eight hours

for the scum to rise to the top, which

should be skimmed off. If about one pint

of strong wood ashes and the same of

lime is put’ in a barrel it will cause the

p0mace to riSe to the top better. .\ de—

posit of fine pomace will settle to the

bottom below the faucet.



Care should be taken when drawing or

dipping cider not to disturb the settlings

in the bottom of the casks. It should

then be stored in as cool a place as pos-

S'ible and tightly bunged. It is claimed

by many that cider will keep sweet long-

er in oil bzlrrcls than in others. as the

oil which comes out forms an air-tight

coating on top of the cider in the barrel.

A great many prefer new barrels for cid-

er, but I think second-hand whisky or oil

barrels will give satisfaction. Some peo—

ple use salicylic acid to keep cider sweet.

I generally find that, while fermentation

is prevented, the cider has a kind of flat

taste and, of course. can not be used for

making vinegar. Some claim to get re-

sults from this kind of cider in manufac-

turing vinegar, but all cases that have

come under my observation have pmven

nat no good vinegar can be obtained by

such a proce s. There are other ingredi-

ents than Salicylic acid which can be used

to keep cider sweet. One pint of grated

horseradish added to each barrel will pre-

vent fermentation. Cider can be preserv-

ed by adding one pint of mustard seed to

each barrel. "



Cider can be kept sweet for years by

puttin’gr up in the ordinary preserving

cans, such as the common fruit jar. Let

fresh made cider stand until settled, then

rack or dip off from the dregs, boil or

skim until thoroughly clarified and While

warm put inlobottles or jugs. Fill them

as full as possible, cork tightly, but do

not seal, and set in a dark, cool place.

This cider will become better than when

first made. To milkc champagne cider.

let it partly ferment and then rack of

into bottles. Put about four raisins and

as many cloves in each bottle, cork tight-

ly and seal. Store the bottles in a cool

cellar. Cider when made in clear, cold

weather late in the season will keep best.

All packages should be full and tightly

corked and stored in a cool place. If a

package is opened on a warm day it will

ferment and soon have an alcoholic effect,

therefore it should be used as soon as

convenient after opening, if the weather

is warm.



A. M. LATHAM.





 





STRAWBERRIES AN EXACTING CROP.





 





In strawberry growing, as in other

lines of agriculture, the largest success is

secured only by directing operations along

definite lines of procedure. There are

several factors involved. First there is

the question of soil preparation. Any

gOOd soil will grow maximum crops of

strawberries, but it must be in a superior

condition of tilth and contain an abund-

ance of plant food. Good drainage is

necessary and requires the prompt re-

moval of water from the first two feet or

so of surface soil. This drainage also

promotes-activities in the bacterial ‘life

in the soil and facilitates both prepara-

tion and maintenance tillage.



Second. There is the factor of tillage

which should secure a. fine. mellow, yet

compact soil. It is hardly possible to ov-

erdo the matter of preparing the soil for

strawberry plants. Thoroughness of prep-

aratory tillage facilitates the work of

maintenance tillage. but to profit most

therefrom, the latter must follow closely

the discontinuance of the former to avoid

crustlng and consequent loss of soil

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Third. Varieties must be selected that

are good producers and suited to -market

requirements; and, too, the plants must

be handled in a manner to conserve vi—

tality and insure quick, vigorous growth

in each plant. This requires that the

roots be protected from the sun and air

while out of the ground, and that the

roots be firmly imbedded in the soil with

the crown just on a level with the Sur-

face.



Fourth. The style of row influences re—

sults both as to the quantity and quality

of the product, as well as modifying

greatly the work required, both as to

kind and amount.



Fifth. Efficiency in methods requires

winter protection to the plants; and it is

the opinion of the writer that this factor

is the most essential of any, or, at any

rate, is indispensable to securing returns

commensurate with the labor and other

considerations involved.



Sixth. The market problem enters

largely into the question of profitable re—

turns; and this is a queStion that should

be carefully considered at the start; im-

menE-‘e crops of superior fruit will avail

nothing, if the crop can not be disposed

of to a good advantage.



Seventh. Because of the high moisture

content of a properly developed straw-

hcrry, the moisture factor is one of great

importance and the problem of maintain-

ing such a state in soil moisture that the

needs of the plants may be fully met is

a perplexing one: ofttz'mes a period of

d‘outh will render useless, to a greater

or less extent. the labor and painstaking

care of the most proficient grower; hence

cultural methods should be such as to





conserve a maximum degree of moiSture.





during the fruiting season.



Eighth. Insect pests and fungous dis-

eases make necessary timely applications

(if insecticides and fungicides to insure

the highest state of health and vigor in

plant foliage.





Ninth. Skill and ability are required to

properly harvest and dispose of a crop

of small fruit, of whatever kind. The





berries must be picked at the right stage

of ripening. and handled in a manner

best adapted to the requirements of the

case. Proper oversight of the pickers,

suitable packages, and ability as a sales-

man, are the points to be considered.

The degree of efficiency in acquiring a.

knowledge of the underlying principles

and their application to the problems





met, determines the degree of success

secured.

Emmett Co. M. N. EDGERTON.





IMPORTANT GATHERING OF HORTI-

CULTURISTS.





An event of national importance to

fruit and nut growers and the fruit and

nut growing interests of this continent

will occur in \Vashington, D. 0., Nov.

17 to 22. On this occasion the 'American

I’emological Soeiety, The Society for

Horticultural Science, The Eastern Fruit

Growers’ Association and the Northern

Nut Growers' Association will meet as

a unit. The program and business of the





separate organizations will be conducted

independently in the same building, while

all exhibits will be displayed in common

though entries shall be made through the

respective bodies, thus keeping the iden-

tity of each intact.‘The material already

promised for the several programs indi-

cates an exceptionally interesting and

valuable series of addresses and lectures

both in text and illustration.



Exhibits are assured from Cuba, Porto

Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Canada

and all the leading fruit growing sections

Of the United States. Ample 001d stor.

age space has been provided near the

meeting place and persons contemplating

making an exhibit of perishable fruits

may forward material well wrapped and

packed to the Washington Market Com-

pany, who will care for it at a very nom-

inal charge. All packages should be

plainly marked “for the American Pomo-

loglcal Society.” Requirements for ex-

hibit space should be filed before Octo-

ber 15 with the secretary of the Ameri-

can Pomologlcal Society, who may be

addressed at 2033 Park Road, Washing-

ton. D. C. Exhibits of new or little

known fruits or nuts are solicited from

all parts of the continent. For meri-

torious new ones the American Pomo-

logical Society offers the Wilder Medal,

the foremost honor awarded by Ameri-

can pomologists. Other pomologicalsub-

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to entry for this honor. Application for

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meeting. Exhibits of fruits and nuts

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cartons.
OCT. 4, 1913-





 





LAYING BOXES FOR THE HENS.





 





In providing laying boxes for the hens

the main point to be considered is the

possibility of keeping them clean and

sanitary. The great danger is that they

will soon become infested with mites and

lice, hence the necessity of having the-

boxes so constructed as to be easily and

quickly cleaned.



Boxes should be of a size to fit the

hens; thus the larger breeds should have

larger boxes. Nests, however, should not

be made so large that two or three hens

can crowd on at once, with consequent

strife and broken eggs. The number of

nests should be about one for every three

hens in the house. Some poultrymen use

separate boxes placed under a shelf along

one side of the building. It is a good

plan to have the nests in semi-darkness,

as hens are supposed to like seclusion

when laying. They are not so likely to

form the habit of egg-eating if nests are

not fully open to the light. This per-

nicious habit is usually formed by acci-

dent. The nesting ‘boxes form a tempt-

ing place in which to scratch if they are

placed in the strong light; an egg is

broken, it is eaten, the taste is enjoyed

and the habit is formed. Darkening the

nests may even then overcome it, but

better it were never contracted.



An excellent method of making neSts

is to put the sides together, bottomless,

resting this frame upon a shelf a little

wider than the box. The boxes should be

half filled with nesting material, which

may be easily changed as desired by

simply removing the frame and sweeping

the shelf clean. This is the easiest style

of nest to keep free from vermin. Hay

and straw are poor material for the nests,

being we bulky and unyielding. Seed and

chaff from the bottom of the hay mow

is much better. Best of all, however, is

cedar excelsior, as it helps to keep lice

in check. Nesting material may be re-

moved and placed outside for cleansing.

It should always, however, be thoroughly

dry when returned to the nests. It is

best to provide new every few months, as

the old becomes so discolored and foul

that exposure to the action ‘of the ele-

ments will not cleanse it.



There are many variations of the nest-

ing box which might be mentioned. The

more advanced breeders of fancy stock

are using the trap nest almost exclusive-

ly. This hardly seems practical for the

poultryman who keeps hens for eggs‘par-

ticularly, and it is scarcely necessary un-

less one is building up a particular strain

for breeding. One could have a building

equipped with trap nests, in which his

best hens are kept to obtain eggs for

hatching. In fact if one is in the busi-

ness on a considerable scale it will pay

him to improve his flock in this way.



New Hampshire. C. H. CHE'SLEY.

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Nearly every poultry keeper is troubled

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While there are many ready prepared

lice mixtures on the market, none are

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mended by PennSylvania State College.

It can be made at home and is much

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of paris; 154 pint gasoline; 14 pint crude

carboiic acid. .



When the ingredients are mixed one

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costs less than five cents a pound. The

mixture should be worked through a fine

sieve to break up any lumps that may be

present and to get it in such form that

it will sift readily. “‘hen it is first mix-

ed it will be too wet to sift, but the gas-

oline will soon evaporate. The active

principle in driving away the lice is the

carbolic acid.



To use the home-made preparation,

which should be kept on hand the year

around, one simply sifts it over the birds

the same as any other lice powder. By

perforating the bottom of an ordinary

baking powder can, a convenient sifter

can be made. Then one holds the fowl

to be treated, rubs back the feathers and

applies the powder. A few applications

will Suffice. It may be used on young

chicks which'are affected as well as on

older fowls. It is well to treat sitting

hens very thoroughly before the eggs are

placed under them, and then again after





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the eggs are hatched. It is also well to

treat all fowls at time of putting them

into winter quarters.





Penn. L. J. HAYNES.





SPROUTING OATS FOR WINTER

GREEN FOOD.





 





Many poultrymen report satisfactory

results from the use of sprouted oats in

winter. It should be clearly understood

however, that they are not fed for the

food value of the oats themselves but

rather for their stimulating effect upon

the digestive organs. They prove an ex-

cellent laxative and consequently must

not be fed too liberally, but, properly

used, they relieve the p0ultryman from

the necessity of providing succulent food

in other forms during the cold months.



The process of preparing the oats, as

practiced at the Maine station, begins

with soaking the grain in water at a

temperature of 60 to 70 degs. F. for about

48 hours in pails or galvanized wash tubs,

During this soaking process there should

be added from five to ten drops of for-~

malin to kill the spores of moulds and to

inSure a clean, sweet feed. After soak-

ing they are spread out abOut one inch

thick on trays, which are placed in a

sprouting rack, seven to each rack, the

trays being ten inches apart, and kept at

a temperature of from 60 to 80 degs. In

from seven to ten days, depending upon

the temperature, they will have developed

sprouts about three to four inches long.

as well as a massive root deVelopment,

the entire mass being very tender and

succulent. The fowls will eat them ra-

venously. About one square inch of feed-

ing surface is supplied daily to each fowl

or what they will clean up quickly.





CLOSING THE HONEY SEASON.





 





To close the honey season properly re-

quires a little thought and quick action.

Upon it depends the reaping of the larg-

est returns.



\Vhen the flow from white-honey plants

commences to dimini:~‘h. the supers on the

hive should be reduced to one. Take all

the rest off and remove and crate all the

salable honey.





partly or wholly uncapped, but which has

considerable honey in it, is put into sup-

crs, the partly capped in supers by them—



sclvcs. ’



Go to the hives and remove the one

remaining super and put on one in which

the combs are partly capped. These will

be all or nearly all capped if the honey

How does not stop too quickly. Take all

the salable 'honey frOm the last super re-

moved and treat as the others. This

keeps all your white honey from being

mixed with the dark, which prevents its

bringing the highest price.



If there is a fall flow you may put on

a super of the partly capped honey and,

if you have not enough, put on the sup-

ers having uncapped combs Near the

close of the fall flow the above process

should be gone through with again so as

to get the greatest possible number of

combs in a salable condition and prevent

a large accumulation of partly filled sec-

tionS.



The remainder of the sections, whether

partly or wholly uncapped, are extracted.

The partly capped sections are uncapped

deep before being put into the extractor.

The combs are saved for next year, as

they make valuable bait comb for getting

bees up into the supers early.



There will be considerable liquid honey

smeared over the sections after extract-

ing. The sections are put into supers and

two of these are put on a hive at sun-

down, with an empty super between. The

bees will clean these up in twenty-four

hours, when they may be removed. The

combs should be piled in a building that

is known to be mouse proof.



The cappings will have considerable l

honey in them which may be pressed out

with a wax extractor or some sort of a

press. The residue will be nearly pure

beeswax. This may be rendered by means

of a solar wax extractor.



With extracted honey much the same

process is gone thrOugh. Care must be

taken not to extract uncapped combs un-

til they have remained on the hive a long

time, as the honey is liable to be thin and

unripe. This makes an inferior product

which is liable to ferment and sour.



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‘.milk. or rather

iiiberty of writing to you for advice. We

; sell our milk direct to a milk man in the

ieity. The trouble is sticky or ro-py cream.

“After the milk stands about 24 hours or

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ROPY MILK AND CREAM.





1





We are having some trouble with our

cream. and I take the





of the can, or-if in a small vessel it will





,‘hang'in a kind of a rope when poured

gout. The milk itself will be all right and





seems to sour. and it doesn’t

ShOW' any for 24 hours, or sometimes

nearly 48 hours. We were troubled some

last summer for a week or two; earlier in

the season. right after a lot of rain and

one of our neighbors was troubled the





it never





7same way. They take milk to the same





man. “'e didn't find out the trouble. We

had the deputy state inspector here to

look over everything and he said every-





'thing was 0. K. as far as he could see

[and thought the milk would be all right





in a short time. But we would like to





lmow the cause. Vile think it is some-

‘ thing the cows get after a heavy rain, fOr





it happened the same this year, we'had

a very heavy rain here about two weeks

milk is

just about the same. We deliver at night

and cool the morning's milk at home.

and the milk man cools the night’s milk

and he washes all the cans. We feed the





.cows grain, oats and bran twice a day,





and stable cows at night and feed green





corn. all they will eat up clean, in the

daytime: have timothy and red-top pas-

ture. We have another neighbor that





has the same trouble with his milk. with

cows on clover pasture, and I think grain

or green corn- Please let me know what

the trouble is. or what you think would

cause the same.



Ray Co. . W. J. M.



From the description given by W. J.

M., one is certainly warranted in saying

that he is troubled with ropy milk bac-

teria. Even though microscopic organ—

isms of plants havo a peculiar power of

sweet for a considerable

length of time at the same time they may

make it stick or I'Opy. They always trou-

ble more in wet weather than they do in

dry weather. I’r‘ually cows get infested

with them by going through the mud or

water in the pasture and the bacteria.

get onto the tents and udders of the cow.

the cow is milked some of

them get into the milk and there they

multiply and do the damage. There is

It can beeas-

ily prevented. N‘E'hen I was connected

with the Dairy and Food Department as

deputy we had several cases of this kind

brought to our attention. Dr. Robison,

who was then the state analyst. made a

very thorough investigation of one par-

ticular case. He found out that the cows

in going out to the pasture had to go

through a mudhrle to the end of the lane.

It was an exceedingly wet season. In

this mudhole the (cats would drag in the

water and this is the way the cows be-

came infested with these bacteria. Of

course. if there is anything like this then

it shOuld be fixed so that the cows would

not have to go through a place of this

sort. Of course. we know that some-





 





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Ih we the milkcis “a





galmost as, if by





:timcs in pastures we have water that it

Ewould be impractical to fence the cows

Wagiinst but a mudhoc in a lane, or some-

thing of that sort the fence should be

'Inchd so that the cows would not have

to go through it and get the bacteria on

their udders.





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The way to stop this is to wash the





dairy utensils and the udders and «iteats

101’ the cows in





a weak solution of car—

a five per cent solution. Also

ash their hands in this

and 3011? trouble Will disappear

magic. You might think

:it necessaIy not to wash the dairy uten—

sils and milk pulls and strainer and that

sort of thing if you wash the tents of the

cows, but undoubtedly some of these

bacteria art- on some of the vessels now,

and if you don‘t wash them in a weak

solution of curbclfc acid then they will

continue to multiply and you will think

that the treatmcrt of the cows is not ef—

fective. The practical way to do it is when

you get the watcr ready to wash the dairy

utensils in turn just a little bit of car-

bolic acid into it' and stir it up thorough-

ly. It won’t do the dairy utensils, nor

yOur hands, any harm, but it will kill

these bacteria. Then before you milk

take a brush or a cloth and brush off the





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luddcrs and flanks of the cows and have





a solution of this sort. Take a pail of

water and pour just a little bit of carbolic

acid into it and stir it up thoroughly and

then with a moist cloth rub off the teats

and udder and flanks of the cow. Wash

your hands in this water before you begin





to milk. If 7011 will do this two or three

times you will be rid of your trouble. It

is simple, doesn’ t cost much, but you

must use the catholic acid or you will

continue to, have trouble.





IT TAKE so LONG TO

sauna:





WHY DOES





 





.Can any of the Michigan Farmer read—

ers tell me why it takes me so long to

churn? It takes. from one to one and a.

half and semetimes two hours to get

butter. There is not one of my. cows that

have been giving milk a. year, and besides

two of them were fresh about six weeks

ago. They have all the salt they want,

because there is a trough in the .cattle

shed where they can go and get salt any

time they come from the pasture fer a

drink. They have good clover pasture

and are fed night and morning green corn

fodder cut fresh. After I have churned

about one hour the cream will sound (i

use a barrel churn) as though it had

come and then I will have to churn some-

times an hour or more afterwards. It

cemes in little fine granules and stays

there, then I will let it stand for three or

four hours and draw off the water and

milk and put on fresh water, then churn

perhaps about an boar or so before it will

gather. when it will be soft and salvy.

“'e used a separator until about two

months ago, and now I set the milk in

regular milk creeks in a good stone cellar

and it is no better. If’ anyone can tell

me the cause and a remedy for the same

I will be only too glad to know.

ManiStee Co. H E H.





Usually when the churning does not

'come in the proper time it is a matter

of temperature of the cream, and of rip-

ening of the cream. If you attempt to

churn sweet cream too cold it takes a,

long while to churn. On the other hand,

if the cream is properly ripened and at

the proper temper.1ture. about 60 degree:.

it usually comes in a half or three-quar-

ters of an hour. Too many people guess

at the temperature in making butter.

Temperature is a very important thing in

the process of butter making, and one

ought to have a thermometer. After the

cream has accumulated in sufficient quan-

tiiies for a churning, it ought to be rip-

cncd, that is, it ought to be soured. This

can be done by putting the crock or the

can in which the cream has been kept

into a tub of warm water, stirring it so

as to have it all of uniform temperature

until it is 70 degrees. Then leave it at

10 degrees until the next day, or about 24

hours. The cream sours or ripens as the

buttermaker says Now take the cream

can and set it in a tub of cold water and

stir it gradually until the temperature is

lowered to 60 degrees or a little below,

depending smnething on the weather.

Then put in churn but don‘t have your

churn too full—the Churn ought; not to

be over one—third full. If you fill your

churn too full it is going to take a long

time. there must be concussion in order

to get separation of the butter-fat from

the milk. And if the churn is One-third

full it ought-to churn in about a half or

three—quarters of an hour.





 





ENSlLOlNG BEET TOPS.





1 know you have had experience in pre-

serving beet tops in the silo. I have this

year 4-5 acres of as heavy beets as I

have ever seen and am short of other

feed. We are now erecting a new con—

crete silo that is 14x40 feet inside. I

think our silage corn will not fill it this

year, so after the corn settles there will

be room for a large quantity of beet tops.

Now from your experience would you

c-nsilo the beet tops or simply pile them

in snug round piles to feed from the

field? I know they keep well in this

way, though, of course, they freeze quite

bully. Again, do you have trouble from

getting stones into your silage cutter in

the bect tops?



Bay Co. L. W. 0.



I certainly should put the larger part

of this 45 acres of beet tops into the silo

if I had room, because 1 know from ex-

perience that it makes splendid en'Silage.

The beet tops will keep in a silo just as

well as corn. “here one only has a small

acreage of heels it is a nice way to feed

them out from small piles, where a little

paths is taken when the beets are loaded

to put the tops in such piles as suggest-

cd. If the fall is favorable and you can

feed them out before it comes excessively

cold weather then I don’t think it pays

to put them into the silo. B‘ut undoubt-

edly theFe whole 45 acres of heavy beets

could not be fed out by this time, and

they would last well along into the win-

ter, and as is suggested, in extreme cold

weather these piles will freeze clear

through. I wouldn’t like to feed too many

frozen beet tops. As a fact, I would not

want to feed too much of any feed that

is frozen. If they can be thawed out be-

fore they were fed I don’t think it would

do any particular harm. but to feed many

of them in a frozen condition I am posi-

tiVe would not be good for the animal.

Then again, if the fall should be wet and

stormy, the land is in such condition that





‘ V . eon can;





no quiteajob to go onto this undead

haul off the beet tops.





and as I say; a' small ambunt of'beet tops

can be fed in this way successfully, but





when you have large quantities of them,





it is too riSky, and if I had the silo room

I should certainly put them in. The only

trouble in ensiloing beets is that it is

mighty hard on the ensilage cutter. A

certain amount of dirt will stick to the

tops and once in a. while a pebble will

get entangled into the tops. One year. we

took out the knives entirely of the en—

silage cutter and had fair success in

blowing the beet tops into the silo, but

with this unusually tallsilo. 64 feet, I

don’t. know whether it would be possible

to do it or not, but I know you can blow

them that distance after they have been

slightly out up by the ensilage cutter.

You could take out half of the knives and

not cut them very fine and they will make

good enSilage. One could rig up some ar-z

rangement so that he could draw up a.

big tub full of beet tops with a pulley

and put them in in that way, which would





be entirely satisfactory if this could be





arranged. I believe that if one is going

to raise a. gem-1 acreage of beets every

year it would pay to rig up something of

this sort, or if one has a slat carrier that





would be tall enough,—and a gasoline en-,





gine to run it the beet tops can be pitch-

ed onto this open slat carrier and ele-

vated. We did this one year. Since then

I have not raised quite as many beets

and they haven’t been as good a crop

some years, and we tried another experi-

ment in mixing the beet tops in with

cornstalks. We fed the beet tops and

cornstalks into the feed cutter at the

Same time, and they were thoroughly

mixed in the silo. It settled down and

made splendid ensilage. and the cattle ate

every bit of the cornstalks as well as the

beet tops. If one wanted to he could also

feed straw through the ensilage cutter at

the same time he did the beet tops and

get a good mixture in this way, which

would be entirely consumed by the ani-

malS. The beet tops flavor the straw and

the cornstalks and add to their palata-

bility. Of course, one would not argue

that it adds to the food nutrients of these

substances, but it certainly adds to the

palatability and they will eat more of

them, and there is enough moiSture in the

beet tops so that it will pack down and

make splendid ensilage. I am sure that

it would pay to put the biggest part of

this acreage in the silo. It is a splendid

feed and it can be saved with practically

no loss when it is ensiloed.





 





 





 





CERTIFIED MILK PRODUCTION.





 





The first medical n1 llx commission that

undertook the production of certified milk

was organized in 1893. Since that time

over 60 commissions have been establish-

ed but nearly onecthird of that number

are inactive at present.



About 125 dairies are engaged in pro-

ducing certified milk and the daily pro-

duction is nearly 25.000 gallons, an in-

crease of 300 per cent in five years. While

this seems a remarkable increase it

should be remembered that only about

one-half of one per ccnt of the totalmilk

supply of the country is certified.



“'hile the chief demand for certified

milk is for infants and sick people, it

further serves to teach the public, the

value of careful methods in milk produc-

tion and the extra cost of absolutely clean

milk.





 





CREAM AND MILK TESTED FREE.





 





..TVc are pleased at the way readers are

re 'ponding to our offer to test milk and

cream free of charge. It indicates that

subscribers are giving close attention to

the columns of the paper. since we did

not display the plan in bold type to get

the attention of those who merely glance

through a paper, but in the regular type

used for all our contributions that the

careful and earnest reader would discover

the plan and adopt it if he aphroved and

had uSe for it The results indicate that

such Ieaders have not, only read of the

plan but that they approve it and that in

the disposition of cream and milk there is

evidence of a real demand for the service.



The free test is available to everyone

of our subscribers. V’Vhen the dealer col—

lects your milk 01 cream have a. sample

taken that is satsfactory to you and the

dealer put it in a wide- -mouthed bottle,

enclose in mailing case and send to the

Michigan Farmer Laboratories, 674 VVood-

ward Avenue, Detroit. If you have no

mailing case we can mail you one for six

cents, 02- we can send you a suitable bot-

tle and case for ,ten cents We have ar~

ranged with a large company to supply

these casesand bottles at these prices for

the convenience of our patrons.





one has to do it.

‘whether it rains or snows, or in the sum;-

shine, and he has to do it whether the:

fields are soft or whether they are hard.‘





 





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“'ith the third Amer-

Detrolt the Good lean Road Congress in

Roads Center. session at Detroit. with

thousands of delegzitefi.

present who are interested in the good

roads problem in various sections of the

country, and with leading road building

experts of the United States and Canada

in attendance. Detroit may well be said

to be the good roads center of the west-

ern hemisphere during the pre'ent week.

This Congress, as previously announced,

is held under the auspices of the Ameri-

can Highway Association, the American

Automobile Association and the Michigan

State Good Roads Association. Particl-

pating in its deliberations are nearly 30

organizations directly or indirectly inter-

ested in thc goml roads propaganda in

differentrections of the country.



From a technical standpoint the men

who have been given a place upon this

program are wholly competent to discuss

the questions relating to the building of

permanent highways from every stand-

point. from the financing of the proposi-

tion to the maintenance of the permanent

highway after it has been built. From

the standpoint of disseminating informa-

tion among highway officials and road

cxpci'ts, this Congress is bound to be a

great SUCCESS. Also from the standpoint

of developing the most advanced ideas in

the administration of the road money the

same desirable object will doubtless be

attained.



From the standpoint of creating rural

sentiment for better roads, where such

sentiment is most needed, however, this

Congress would scarcely compare with a.

much smaller public meeting at almost

any point in the interior of the country

where the road problems of immediate

practical interest to the people there

gathcred might be discussed. \l’hile meet-

ings of this kind are of no small import~

once to the cause of better permanent

highways, yet probably the other end of

the highway problem is of even greater

importance as was emphasized by Hon.

A. \V. Campbell, deputy minister of rail-

ways and canals in Canad'i, who has

spent 25 years in good roads work, mo 1-

ly in Ontario.



During the first day of the Congress

Mr. Campbell. in an excellent address,

emphasized the idea that in any compre—

hcnsivc scheme of road improvement the

common dirt roads should be first im—

p-ovcd to a condition of economic cf!"-

ciency: next the main roadS, thcn 1h.a

national trunk lines, and finally the in—

ternational highways; and that not only

should the common roads be the first im-

proved, but that they Should ho so im-

proved under competent supervision by

public spirited citizens who make this

their life work. In this connection the

point was made that where there is only

a small amount of money to spend it is

far more essential that it should be wise-

ly expended, with careful attention to all

details, than where a larger sum is ap-

propriated for a more definite purpose.



In his most practical talk Mr. Campbell

emphasized the idea that where bonds

are issued for theconstruction of perma-

nent highways care should be taken that





 





THE MICHI.GAN FARMER"





the period intervening before the matu-

rity of the bonds should be a shorter pe-

riod than the life of the roads, 'in order

that future taxpayers may have a residue

of the value left in the roads after their

first cost and maintenance has been paid.

So far as maintenance is concerned, he

advised that it should be provided for in

every case before or at the time the roads

are constructed as it is an economic

waste to build good roads without any

provision for their proper maintenance.



It is a matter for congratulation that

almost at the outset of a great road

congress like that in sessiOn at Detroit,

such exceedingly practical. ideas, so far

as this problem relates to the farmers of

the state and country. should be voiced.

With the dissemination of this spirit

among those interested in the good roads

propaganda throughout the country there

is hope that ultimately each township

withinthe nation may become as much a

good roads center 'so far as the interest

of the people is concerned, as is the city

of Detroit this week during this session

of the American Road Congress.



“'hen this shall become true, then will

the solution of the good roads problem be

greatly Simplified since all the factors for

a really efficient road system will be

working harmoniously together toward

the same end, viz., the highest degree of

economic efficiency at a minimum of cost.





In his address

The Federal Government before the Good

and Good Roads. Roads Congress

at Detroit Mon-

day, Secretary David F. Houston, of the

United States Department of Agriculture,

set forth the attitude of the federal gov-

ernment toward the movement for better

wagon roads in this country. Naturally

the leaders along the line of rural eco-

nomics would early appreciate the func-

tion of the common roads in bettering

rural conditions, both socially and eco-

nomically, and the growth of the activi—

ties of the general government in the im-

provement of roads seems to proportion-

ately meaFure the increasing appreciat'on

of the American people at large in this

public enterprise. In 1893 Congress ap-

propriated $10000 to investigate methods

of road management throughout the I’ni-

ted States and from this modest begin—

ning the work has grown until there has

been established an office of public roads,

:1 :omewhat comprehensive organization.

whose scope and usefulness are much

broadened from the work of the depart-

ment along this line 20 years ago. Re-

cently Congress appropriated $500,000 to

be expended by the secretary of agri-

culture in co-operation with the post-

master general in improving the condi-

tion of roads to be selected by them over

which rural delivery i=. or may be, es-

tablished. This appropriation is made

contingent upon the raising by the state

cr lor-al subdivision where the roads are

to be improved double the amount as-

signed by the federal government. all of

which, however, will be used under the

supervision of the federal engineers.



The Secretary also pointed out how the

sentiment for good roads was developing

locally in that the states which appropri-

ated $2.000.000 ten years ago gave $43.-

000,000 in 1912 and that the counties and

townships of the country last year raiied

$175.000,000 to be expended upon the

roads. It is significant in connection with

the use of this last amount that from 20

to 40 per cent was wasted, hence the

economy of co—operating with the federal

government that the monies which are

gathered from the small subdivisions may

be used to the greatest possible advan-

tage. To this and other ends he believed

that there should be the closest rclations

between the states and the n-itional gov—

crnmcnt. By proper co-operiition they

can bc mo-"t helpful to the smaller polit-

ical divisions by bringing to them the re-

sults of experience from all over ihe

country and world, as well as by con-

ducting experimental work, that the oili-

cials and engineers of the smaller places

m-iy have the last word in methods of

road construction, maintenance and ad-

ministration.



’l‘he Secretary emphasized the import-

ance, of milking haste slowly in matters

where, certain knowledge cannot be had,

for while the people will stand a reason-

able expenditure of money when they are

convinced that it is applied to the use

for which it was intended. they will rebel

if their money is used lavishly on un-

tried plans. So to provide a safe policy

for- the federal government to follow in

extending help to the local political units

in the good roads movement, he believed

that activities should be confined to the

following lines:





"First, the‘ federal government should

require the cOLOperatiOn of the state in

a larger measure in financial support and

in construction and maintenance.



“In the second place, it should be un-

derstood that the' federal government

should have adequate supervision and

control over the enterprise in each com-

munity and guarantee the efficient ex-

penditure of its own funds. '.



“In the third place, the federal com-

missioner should deal exclusively with

efficient agencies provided and supported

by the states.



“In the fourth place, the plan should

provide for the apportionment of funds

among the states, on the basis of certain

essential factors: and



“Finally, the primary undertaking

should be to improve those'community

roads which are essential for the market-

ing of products and for the betterment of

the phySical, intellectual and social side

of rural life."



Personally the Secretary made a most

favorable impression. His views were

received as the result of a careful exam-

ination of the road question from every

angle and this, with a personality devoid

of the marks of the politician. but traced

with every line of the true statesman,

elicited the confidence of all who heard

and saw him. .W’hile his message was

directed particularly to those interested

in the bettering of our greatest means of

transportation and communication, the

country roads, he unconsciously spoke

with equal force and emphasis upon the

hundreds of other rural problems coming

under his supervision by virtue of the

high position which he holds, through his

own personality.





Now that a tariff bill



NatIOnal Aid to has passed both houses



Agriculture. of Congress and all dif-



ferences between the



two houses are about to be amicably set-



tled and the bill written into law, while



the currency measure is well on its way



toward final cOnsideration by the Sen-



:ate, other important legislation will be

considered by Congress.



It is quite certain that measures which

are drawn primarily in the interests of

the country's agriculturer will receive

early consideration when the other im-

portant work which is before Congress is

dli'posed of. Among the measures of this

class which have been introduced is a

House resolution providing for the or-

ganization and control of agricultural

credit associations. It is probable, how-

ever. that little will be actually accom-

plished in legislation of this kind in the

present session of Congress inasmuch as

the American Commission on Agricultural

Co-operation has not as yet formulated

its final report of the investigation con-

ducted in Europe. But the fact that such

a resolution is now before the Committee

on Ways and Means of the House, to-

gether with the fact that President Wil-

son recently issued a statement urging

action by Congress in behalf of rural

credits seems to insure that this propo-

sition will be made the subject of na—

tional legislation at a comparatively early

date.



In the meantime, other measures in be—

half of American agriculture are also

pending, including a bill recently intro-

duced by Senator Smith, of Georgia, to

provide for co-operative agricultural ex-

tension work between the agricultural col-

leges of the several states and the United

States Department of Agriculture. This

bill is practically the same as the so-

callcd Lever bill, which was passed by

the House in the last Congress and failed

of final passage in the Senate by only a

narrow margin, due largely to the fact

that a bill drawn somewhat along the

same general lines which originated in

the Senate had been previously passed by

that body and the sympathies of his col—

leagues were with the author of this bill

instead of the author of the House bill.



The bill above referred to which is

pending in the present Congress provides

for appropriations for agricultural exten-

sion work in the different states, begin-

ning with an appropriation of $480 000

for each year with an increase of $300,000

additional per year until there is perma—

nently appropriated for each year an ad-

ditional sum of $3,000.000 over and above

the original sum. 'It is quite cert~iin that

federal aid for agricultural extension work

along these lines will be strongly sup—

ported by educators in this line of work

the country over. Vi’l’atever the final

outcome of prOpOSed legislation, such as

is above noted, the fact remains that

there is very general and definite recog-

nition among members of Congress that





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lens and solicitous consideration, what-V

ever may be the exigencies of the hour'





so far as tariff.legislation is concerned.





 





WHAT IS OFFERED THIS WEEK.





 





Did it ever occur to you' that the most

tactful and considerate way in the world

for a merchant to present his proposition

to you is through a newspaper advertise-

ment? ‘



The advertisement never intrudes, nev-

er bores, never insists. It awaits your

convenience and is satisfied with what-

ever attention you may wish to bestow

upon it.



But when you are ready. there you will

find it, with its truthful information about

some thing some man has for sale.



Before you lay the paper aside, look

over the advertisements and see what is

being offered this week.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





National.





The champion base ball teams. of the

American and National leagues for the

season of 1913 are the Philadelphia Ath-

letics and the New York Giants. These

two teams will contend for the World's

Championship, beginning next Monday at

New York. “



Dr. James B. Angeli. president emeritus





of the University of Michigan, is danger- ,

.ously ill at Ann Arbor with pneumonia.





Dr. Angel] is now 84 years old, and has

presided over Michigan’s great school for

40 years. His health began failing three

years ago following a tour of Russia

where, because of his inability to speak

the language his experiences were trying

and resulted in a temporary breakdown

when he reached Germany. Through all

the physical lnfirmitieS, however, the

grand old man has retainedhis remark-

able mental faculties unimpaired.



Eight hundred teachers of Detroit have

petitioned the regents of the University

of Michigan for an extension course of

study to be given in a series of lectures

on Saturdays. It is understood that the

petithn will be aIIOWed.



Prof. Julia Anne King has resigned as





head of the department of history of the'





Normal College at Ypsilanti after a con-

tinuOus service of 32 years. It is hoped

by both alumni ,and students that she will

consent to retain some connection with

the institution. -



Two Bay-City officials are in trouble.

A grand jury has returned indictments

against Alderman Durocher, charging him

With drawing pay from the city as an

inspector, and former city engineer Schin-

dehette, who is claimed to have padded

the city payrolls to his personal advan-

iage.



George Brown, of Sheridan township,

Tnuscola county, was killed in an automo-

bile accident at Bad Axe, Mich. and

three others were injured. ' -



It is probable that the cause of the

strike of the 38,000 allied shopmen of the

Illinois Central and the Harriman lines,

Will furnish the first work of the federal

industrial commission recently appointed

by President lVilson. The men walked

out two years ago, a large number of

whom are now otherwise employed.



Two drug—crazed mulatto boys started

a shooting affair at Harrison, Miss, Sun-

day. which resulted in the killing of three

white men. three Negro men and a Negro

woman. A. race war was prevented only

by the arrival of a company of national

guardsmen and the vigilance of local offi—

cers. -



Highland Pahk, a suburb of Detroit

which is now securing its water supply

from the larger city, is planning to in-

stall its own system by bringing water

from the hills of Oakland county.



Timothy L. W'oodruff, three times lieut-

enant-governor of New York state. was

stricken with paralysis in New York city

Monday while notifying John Purroy

Mitchell of the latter’s nomination for

mayor of that city on the republican

ticket.



The caFe of Governor Sulzer in the im-

peachment court of the New York Assem-

bly, is proceeding. The prosecution ex-

pects to finish its side of the case by the

middle of this week when it is anticipat-

ed that two weeks will be conusmed in

examining the witneSSes of the defense.



The copper miners of the Upper Penin-

sula have won a victory in the local

courts by having the injunction prohibit—

ing. parading. pickcting and other strike

activities. dist-'olved. This has resulted in

a change in General Abbey's plans of re-

movmg toops .from the strike zone, since

the labor leaders immediately set about

to plan for a demonstration early this

week. “’hile the miners are endeavoring

to hold parades, the operators are seeking

the protection of the troops while import-

ing strikebreakers, which they declared

they would not do when the difficulties

with the laborers first began.



At a scientific gathering in Detroit it

was stated by an authority that there

were probably around 100 persons poison-

cd every year in this country by mush-

rooms. although a majority of the varie-

ties of this plant are non-poisonous.



United States Senator Henry Cabot

Lodge, of Massachusetts, is seriously ill

at his home at Nahant, Mass. The well-

kn'own statesman recently underwent an

operation. .



‘ Foreign.



The international aeroplane races for

1913 were finished September 29. France

retains the title of world’s championship.





The- race over a course of-124.28 miles,





was covered by the French aviator in 59

minutes 45 3-5 seconds. or at an average

speed of 125 miles per hour. Belgium was

awarded second place.
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A Vanished Pleasure of our Yesteryears





By HOWARD C. KEGLEY.





hunting 1 accompanied my grand-



father on a journey into the woods

near his home. He was armed with an

old muzzle-loading army musket, and he

carried a shot bottle and a powder flask

in his pocket. We trudged along happily

that day, for there was neither road nor

wire fence to break the peaceful quiet of

our surroundings. Through bramble,

across bog and into heavy timber we

went, and finally arrived at the big trees

in the nut grove.



I shall never forget the first squirrel

we shot. Grandfather saw him first, and

then he pointed him out to me. I shad-

ed my eyes with one hand and gazed

long and eagerly at the hickory limb on

which the red-fox squirrel was lying, and

then I squinted my eyes convulsively as

the old musket belched forth the lead

that brought the quivering shape to

earth.



Three squirrels we killed that day, and

grandmother stewed them for dinner on

the day after.



During the succeeding summer I fre-

quently accompanied grandfather when

he went squirrel hunting, and always he

allowed me to carry the game. a priv-

ilege that used to make me feel very im-

portant, especially when we happened to

meet someone who congratulated us upon

our success I would swell out my chest

and look very indispensable to grand-

father on such occasions.



Eventually I became old enough to han—

dle a gun My brother owned a little 22

rifle that wasn't much of a locker, but it

had a pair of sights on it which made it

impossible for us to miss the mark if we

.squinted our eyes properly when taking

aim. I’ll never forget that little gun.

Half of the time when I was using it I

was getting a squirrel with it, and the

other half of the time there was a bullet

stuck in the barrel of it. It always

seemed to me that every time I tried to

fire that gun the bullet attempted to turn

a somersault in the barrel.



\Vith that little rifle under one arm I

used to meander through the woods in

quest of squirrels, when I was about 15

years old, and I gathered a great many

of them into my game sack, too. About

that time grandfather was getting too old

to go hunting. He used to sit dreaming

on the doorstep, through the long after-

noons of fall, when the blue jays were

yelping in the haw trees and the oak

leaves were chrome yellow or fiery red

from from bites.



Along about that time it was that,

when I would walk across fields to grand-

father’s house to Spend a day, he would

shift his gaze to the distant wood and

say: “YOung fellow, I‘d like powerful

well to have a Squirrel for mother to put

in the pot. Do you ’low you could take

the musket and go over there in the

grove and knock one down?”



At such time I took the old muzzle-

loader, climbed the rail fence dOWn by the

barn-lot, went over into the hickory grove

and bored :1 hole through a couple or

three red squirrels which made fine eat-

ing after grandmother had cooked them

to a turn. During his last years it was

my privilege to bag many a squirrel for

grandfather, and he remained a lover of

squirrel meat until the end.



By the time grandfather had gone to

the better land I had grown up and was

as persistent-a squirrel hunter as he had

been in his heyday. During my high-

.school days I uSed to sit in the sweltering

schoolroom sometimes all day, but not

often. If the yelp of a blue jay drifted

in at an open window, bearing to my ears

the sounds of the woods, I was a goner.

I could no more withstand the call of the

timber than 'I could take wings and fly.

At such times, when the oak leaves were

flaming red with autumn color, and the

hickory nuts were falling with each pass-





THE first time I ever went squirrel





ing gust of wind, I would sneak out 01'

the side door of the schoolhouse, go up

the alley, get my rifle out of the stable,

and “hike” for the hickory grove away

up along the silent-flowing stream that

wiggled its way through the rich soil of

our community on its endless journey to

mingle with the waters of the mighty

deep somewhere along a far-off shore.



I used to love to tiptoe along through

the woods, approaching a big naked tree

with stealthy footsteps, keeping a watch-

ful eye out for the fiirt of an orange tail.

With bate-d (not baited) breath I would

pause beneath a, tall sycamore and, start-

ing with the lowest limb, search each

bough to the end as thoroughly as though

looking for a needle sticking in the bark

of the tree somewhere. Then I would

pass on to another tree and to yet an-

other, studying each one until the mus-

cles of my neck would ache from the ten-

sion. And then, suddenly, I would catch

a, glimpse of the object of my search as

he was making a run for a hole high up

on a big, crooked limb. I couldn’t hit him

With a rifle while he was running, so I’d

have to wait till he came out. Some-

times he would come out in an hour and

sometimes not again all that day. Some-





it c0uld hardly be climbed, but my chum

said he would climb it, and he did. The

squirrel went into The hole head first.

His tail was j’Qst barely inside the tree,

and when my chum had finished his climb

he grabbed that tail in one hand and

started to pull on it violently. Of course

the squirrel dug his claws into the wood

and resisted arrest. Finally my chum

relaxed his grip on the tail for a moment

to get a new hold, and in that time the

squirrel changed ends, so When my hunt-

ing companion put his hand back into the

hole to seize the squirrel, that squirrel

grabbed him by the index finger with its

teeth. ‘



My only warning was a yell. That boy

relaxed his gripcn the tree, and down he

came, landing in a heap on the ground,

with a notch bitten out of one finger. He

was whipped for time being, but so

great was his indignation that be filled

his pipe full of tobacco. lighted it. climbed

the tree again, and puffed and blew to-

bacco smoke down into the hole in the

tree until the squirrel was so nearly suf-

focated that it had to climb out on a

limb and be shot.



One time. just before my struggles with

the world became so urgent that I was





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Skipping lightly o’er the lawn,

Darting up a tree,



“'hisking in and out again

Scolding saucily.





Leaping now from branch to branch——





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Pretty little creature he,

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Seeking shyly after food

\Vhile the sunshine lingci

Here’s a nut, so temptingly

Held in Daddy’s lingers.

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times I waited two hours for him, and

sometimes while I was waiting for him to

reappear I would see another squirrel,

SOme distance off, descend a tree and be-

gin gathering nuts or acorns on the

ground. In the latter case I would give

chase, and if he didn’t get into a hole I

would tree him on a limb, where he would

lie- flat on his stomach, trying to defeat

my aim. Then I would remove my coat

and hang it on a sapling beyond the oth—

er side of the tree, and when he Saw it

the squirrel would get scared at it and

come around to my side of the tree.

whereat I would plug him and he would

come down and take rooms in my game

bag.



Oh, the fun I have had chasing red

squirrels in the woods! Once, while hunt—

ing with a chum of mine, I treed a nice

one. We shot him several times, but he

got into a hole. The hole was fifteen feet

from the ground, and the tree was so big





forced to cease. being a frequent wanderer

in the woods, I joined a party of sports-

men who drove twenty miles to a belt of

virgin timber where, according to report,

there were plenty of squirrels. “'e start-

ed at midnight and arrived upon the

scene shortly after daybreak. I shall nev-

er forget the pilgrimage. Before we drove

into the timber we could see squirrels

running around on the ground, eating

their breakfasts beneath the trees, and

before we stopped the team the boys were

standing up in the wagon, shooting at the

game.



Fun? We had it all right. We were

not the only hunters there that October

day, however. Other parties followed us,

and before the sun was two hours high

the woods echoed with a fusillade that

soanded not unlike a Fourth of July cel-

ebration. My party left the field of ac-

tion shortly after noon. We had our game

bags full of squirrels, and had satisfied





our appetite for hunting, at least once in

our lives. I presume that no less than

four hundred squirrels were shot out of

that piece of timber that day. It was

less than ‘a mile square, too. Today one

might tramp through it all day without

seeing more than one or two squirrels,





and l have gone through it when I did

not see any. Such have been the rav-

ages of time.





I started out to tell you how much fun

I used to have hunting squirrels. NOW I

am going to tell you how much fun I

don‘t have in that way.



\Vhen grandfather first took me hunt-

ing we never encountered a fence in a

long day’s walk, except perhaps an old

worm fence near the edge of the clear-

ing, where the shoats were imprisoned.

\Vhen I grew old enough to use a firearm





the barbed wire fence had arrived upon

the, scene, and I occasionally found a

farmer who was unwilling to permit me





to hunt in his fields and woods.

.\ few months ago I took a little jour-





ncy back to the, scenes of my boyhood

and, oh, what a change 1 found! 'l‘here

was a railroad track cutting across the





best. piece of timber land in that part of

the country. The old hickory grove was

missing. It had been cut up and sold

for town lots. 'l‘here are some b'ghouses

now on the land where I once lay on my

back in the grass and waited for a squir-

rel to come out and play with me. Buck—

miller’s pasture is still there. but it has

a ling-tight fence around it. and there is

a sign on about every other fence post,

which says: "No Hunting on these Prem~

ises. No Trespassing!” lt is thus every-

where!



I sauntered up along\the lazy creek that

used to lead me to good squirrel shooting.

Hamlin's walnut grove was gone. It long

ago went up the chimney via the heating

stove. The ground on which it stood is

cut up into small plots which serve as an

experimental plant for the state agricul-

tural college. ] ripped my trousers on a

wire fence as I climbed over into what

used to be 1201) Ilunter’s pasture, in or-

der that 1 might cut my initials upon and

renew old acquaintances with an aged

Sycamore tree which was the only old

landmark I could recognize. There were





scars on its trunk which still bore silent

proof that I, and many of my boyhood

friends, had often used it as our back-





stop when we had wished to indulge in a.

little target practice. I took my jack-

knife and tried to dig a bullet out of the

tree. but it was no go. There was a

house on the hill nearby. and a woman

was standing out in the (ltml‘yal‘d, watch-

ing every move I was making. She ap—

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away some of the thoroughbred Shorthorn

cattle that were grazing in the pasture.



So I left the old, familiar spot, climbed

over the fence again, and sat down on a

cement culvert which arched the little

tile ditch out of which I used to drink

when I was thirsty. I didn’t like the ce-

ment at all. I wished it had been an old

wood culvert, or a tile drain.



['p through Ilannum’s farm I saunter-

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have all taken themselves to other scenes,

where corn and hogs don’t satisfy man’s

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shot a squirrel from. I was disappointed

and sore at heart. Going back to the

road I sat down on the end of a bridge,

thinking that I’d catch a ride back to

town when Bill Arrasmith came along

with a load of corn. But no such luck.

The only thing that came along was a.

big automobile with red, glistening gears.

So I walked!



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but civilization seems to have cast it into

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joy squirrel hunting! What a tremendous

figure it cut in my boyhood!



Pity the youngster of tomorrow, though.

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THE WAY OF HOPE.





BY R. G. KIRBY.





The sun beat down its withering light

on the old plank walk that led past the

mill to the station. N0 hum of industry

disturbed the quaint little town save the

rusty grind of the old mill and its busy

rivals of the insect world singing in the

scented fields of clover. .



Bildad Bennet, the miller, gazed reflec-

tively from his shaky office toward the

green station where the ceaseless clicking

and occasional te:1m-~ter gave a slight air

of business to. the village. “Nearly train

time.” he grunted, 11nd looked expectantly

down the walk toward the main street. A

white—haired lady walked slowly down the

plank walk, a wistful hopefulness in her

expression and a sad look in hcr dark

blue eyes. Poor Betsey Ann, thought the

miller, her bOy has been gone nearly two

years and the little home over the hill

must be growing rather lonesome by this

time.



The drummer sat down his sample case

and, aftci‘ [licking the dust from his col—

lar, squinted inquiringly at Bildad. “Fun-

ny old lnrly coming down the plank walk,”

he remarked, and j.ildad only quietly

said, “That‘s Betsey A1111, who has lived

here a great many years.



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‘Betscy Ann for example; nearly two years

ago her boy kissed her goodbye over then»-

by the green station and went to work in

a big factory in Chicago. \‘i'ell, he has

not been back since 11rd Betsey, having

lost much of the responsibility of keeping

up a home, has become a continual VIS-

ilor among the neighbors. until she 11 111—

most 11 nuisance. Every day :11: train time

she comes down to the station and waits

for the mail bag and then solemnly plods

along with the carrier until he arrives at

the office."



“lines she get many letters?" asked the

drummer.



“No, that is the remarkable part of her

story." explained Bilnlad. “She has only

received one letter since he left home.

Every day she has been to the station and

looked down the track for the first faint

curling of smoke ac‘oSs the prairie. and





 





has noted every pas: cnger unfortunate

enough to get off at Perkin’s Center.

Then she lingers until the local disap-





pears around the bend and again plods





wearily to the po-‘t office with old Mor—

gan, the grizzled veteran who carries the

pouch." '





“Funny about some boys who leave

home," remarked the drummer. "They

forgot the old folks and live a life-so full

of successes and failures that they can-

not write to the parents Who are past the

prime of life and are living only for the

children who seem not to care."





 





As he finiShed speaking the little old

lady walked past the mfll and took up

her stand by the dingy station. The train

whistled across the distant fields and her

eyes brightened; then with 11 hissing 111111

lchugging‘ the grimy local pulled around

the bond and into the station yard. Mor-

gan grabbed his mail pouch and Bet:~'ey

A1111, with her customary “How de «do

Morgan,” walked along beside the hcro of

many battles who was still Serving his

\ country.



_ The mail was nearly sorted when the

‘postmastcr gays a low whistle of sur-

pi'ir'c that awoke the occupants of the

barrels. and he handed Bet—





.lnearby sugar





Sey Ann 1111 ciivelope well covered with

postmarks indicative of a long journey.

Slu- smiled and. clutching the travel-





worn loltm,‘ disappeared over the hill to

the little cottaue 011 the uncultivated farm.

That night every 1111111,.woman, and child

in Perkiu's Center knew that something

wonderful had 'l'1appened in the life of old

Betsey Ann. Bill had written home from

the west and told of his long journeys

through the snow—capped mountains, and

the best part of the news was the fact

that Bill was coming home.



He had worked a few weeks in the city,

then had gone across the country as a

hobo and finally shipped on a northern-

bound steamer with some othei young

fellows posSessing adventuresome dispo-

Bill never thought to write when





 





he could, and after plunging into the

depths. of the woods there was little

chance for communication with the out-

szde world. After leaving the trail he had





soon dispatched a message to .Perkin’s.





Center to inform that little world of his

good fortune.



Betsey Ann was an unqrowned queen

and no prouder mother ever walked the

streets of the village. No more the neigh-

bors spoke in undertones regarding her

Bill and accused him of all the disr‘e‘pu-

table things that a wild boy is capable

of doing. 13111 had seen the world and

was coming ‘home, and the mother-’in-

stantly forgave him all the lack of atten-

tion that so marked his first year in the

big world. ,5



The next month as Bildad Bennet

glanced down the plank walk to the'sta-

tion he saw Betsey Ann, dressed in her

holiday attire and smiling like the morn-

ing sun, as the local rumbled into the

station. The light of forgiveness stood on

the mother’s brow and all thought of the

lonely hours had disappeared, for her boy

was coming back. Somewhere in the big

unknowu world he had made good and

was coming back to make a home for her.



The train stopped with a long hiss and

a weather—beaten young mam leaped from

the : teps of the first coach. It was not the

spindly-legged youth that had been the

bane of the good citizens of the town.

ard not the boy whose life was predicted

to be one long series of trouble for him-

self and others. Bill had grown to be a

man in these brief years and Betsey Ann

realized first of all that she did not wel-

come the same boy that went to the big

city.



“\Vell,” drawled the miller, “it was kind

of tough that Betsey has had to worry

all this time, but I always said that the

boy would turn out all right if he had

the chance. They say that he has a big

jrlb with that Pacific Transportation com-

pany and is earning enough money to

take Betsey A1111 out to the coast and

build her a fine house. Betsey will be

foolish to go; she better remain here with

the old friends, the ones that stuck by

her when Bill was a little careless and

did not do his duty by the mot-her who

raised him and tried to make him into a

man. She loved him too much and he

wouldn’t have amounted to a row of pins

11' he had remained in this town with

someone furnishing a comfortable roam

and plenty of good meals. Beats all what

a few hard knocks will do for the boy

who has always been tied to home with-

out any responsibility.”



“Yes.” said the teamster, "it took Bill

two years to wake up to his responsibility

and he didn’t get down to businei‘s until

he was up against adversity and had to

work hard or go on the rocks. They say

that he knows all the big men at each

end of his line, and it started from meet-

ing some big boat owners who were out

hunting and got lost in the woods when

they were badly in need of supplies. Bill

and another loafer had a hunting lodge

up in the mountains and Were catching

enough animals to make it rather profit-

able. One of the big corporation men felt

mighty appreciative to Bill and asked him

if he wanted a job 011 the boat line. They

say he- is earning a heap bigger income

than any man in Perkin's Center. and

some of us is getting a right smart bunch

of money over expenses.”



Bildad paused from his work to brush

a fly from his bald head and added more

news to the general gossip of the town.

“Do you know," he said, “I hear that if

Betsey A1111 doesn't want to go west that

Bill is going to pay off the mortgage on

the farm and build a new porch on the

old house and just keep his mother in

Slide all the reSt of her life. He has lots

of money in the bank, seVeral hundred

dollars of it, and gets money even when

“he is on his vacation; beats all how a

good-for-nothing loafer will surprise the

home folks and make good after humming

away his youth and not writing but one

letter to his poor mother in two years.”



Bildnd smiled. pu bed the cat away

from his easy chair, and, putting his feet

on the desk, looked off across the prairie

to see the wavy smoke of the oncoming

local. “First time that Betsey has not

been down to the train in almost two

years. and they say that there is a big

love feast going on over the hill. Bill

furnished his own fatted calf and Betsey

thinks he is a money king. She does not

care for the boy’s big income but just

wants a little love and companionship,

and it’s mighty tough for a boy to for-

get his mother. Maybe the kid can make

up for it.” mused Bildad as he stroked

the yellow cat and watched the passen-

gers go down the plank walk. g



Two weeks later a mother and son



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som is what they value the most.



There is a pretty custom among the

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along. they gather boquets and toss them

to those who may be in too much of a

hurry to pick them.



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away for a special occasion.



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that led through the grounds were more

seats in shady nooks that looked most at-

tractive on a hot day.



Many graceful shrubs and shapely trees

already adorned the yard. and previous

years among his plants had given him

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of bulbs and seeds. So the walks were

extended, fancy beds laid out, and gar-

dening begun in earnest. Some of his

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flowers, some of old-fashioned varieties,

and a few quite rare; but his rose gar-

dens, perpetually blooming, were- his es-

pecial pride.



Of course, the passing neighbors and

friends were the first to see and avail

themselves of the invitation to stop and

rest; but soon flower-lovers from near

and far flocked in. They found them-

selves as free to come and go as they

would have been in a public park, for un—

less they sought the house or chose to

write notes or make signs to the silent

gardener at work among the roses. there

woo one to make “visitors” of them.



But they soon saw the “method in his

madness.” Attached to every young bush

or plant of size was a white tag bearing

the price in plain figures. They saw at

once that they were perfectly free to

come in and share the restfulness of his

gardens and at the same time select at

their leisure whatever they might wish

to buy.



The idea. took immediately. It was a

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independent old man in trouble; it was

an opportunity for flower-lovers to study

plants and lldd to their own collections if

they de-"lTQd: a place for tired people from

yardless flats to get a breath of fresh air,

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nearby park to enjoy. Only a few took

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pitality; the many appreciative ones more

than compensated him, and soon the in—

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THE COWBIRD A HOMELESS

VAGRANT.





 





 





 





BY V. E. LEROY.





In The Farmer of Aug. 23 the author of

“Fighting with Greater Efficiency,” Mr.

V. E. Leroy, puts the (‘Owhil'd in the class

of bad birds along with the English Spar-

row. I would like to know why this is

done. I always believed the cowbird to

be a very useful bird. supposing it fed

upon the flies that bother cattle and never

knowing it to do harm.



Mecosta Co. G. XV. D.



His name is Molothrus ater, alias Cuck-

old, alias Cow blackbird, alias Cowbird.

If you know anything about him you will

feel like adding, alias Feathered Hog,

\Vlnged Sneak, Black Thug, etc., ad in—

finitum with all the names imaginable

that indicate something “worthless, low

and vile. It is a common occurrence for

suspicion to be placed against the man

who goes under two or more names. Al-

ways there is something unusual about

him. Either he is a genius or a criminal.

\\'ith the cowbird this hold“ good, be-

cause he not only has several names but

he is both a genius and :i criminal; he is

a genius at crime.



Throughout the bird world, the mater-

nal instinct is supposed to be one of the

most strongly developed of bird traits.

But there are exceptions to this rule and

the cowbird mm be pointed out as one of

these very few exi-ci'rtions. Next to de-

liberate murdei'. tho-re is another crime

that is :lilhOl'l'Cd by most of the higher

:mimalsur—humans included. It is the act

of abandoning young“, helpless offspring,

thrusting them onto some other mother





doubtless more maternal





who possesses

compulsion” will give the

proper care and nourishment t0 the

wanton waif. This contemptible trick

stands against the cowbird as a black

mark of degeneracy and causes him to





be shunned as a pest by every other





“parents by





. species cfhbird except the English spar-





row, and even this little “rat of the air"

filthy. quarrelsome. and the acknowledged

Chieftain of the Holy Order of General

Uselessness, has a keen enough sense of

what’s 'right or wrong to move him to

give his offspring the best he can possibly

get by hook or crook to give them—and

that is no little bit. considering the typi~

cal “Roosevelt family" he raises.



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COLDER WEATHER COMING.





 





BY LALIA. MITCHELL.





Oh, it’s gwine to be colder weather.

Dah’s suah to be fros’ I know.

Fo’ de crows da’ flock together,

An’ 9. propncxt um (le crow. -

But eben if he’s mistaken

It suah am a-comln’ Fall

Fo’ dc, bumble-bees forsaken

De bushes out, by de wall.





Oh, dah’s gwine to be change ob seaSOn,

Cause de crickets tore me so,



An’ de little mice. an da' reason,

So de mice da’ suahly know.



Sides dis, all do flab-flies hover

Low down; but I's suah it‘s Fall



‘Cause I’se looked, an’ I cayn’t diSCOVel‘

A bumble—bee by de wall. ’





Oh, dah’s gwine to be fros’ an’ snowin',

An dah's gwine to be cold an' ice,

’Cause de birds am southward goln’

To de fields ob cane and rice;

An’ it’s comin’ c10'Se, it’s comln'

An' doan’ yo’ doubt it at all.

Fo' de bumble-bees ain’ hummin’

No mo’ by de garden wall.





 





fields apparently for the purpose of se-

curing flies wliich‘frequent cattle, or the

other insects that are disturbed by their

movements. Often these birds are seen

sitting on the backs of cows; generally

they are on the ground just in front of

the cow, looking for insects on which they

feed, together with wee-d seeds and bet—

ries. Considered from the viewpoint of





his food done, the cowbird does little or'





no harm and possibly he is of some little

real value to the farmer’s stock or ani-

malS, but, taken in other ways, this bird

deserves extermination, and here are the

reasons:



Cowbirds never pair at the mating sea-

son. They build no nests. They roam

about in flocks and mate promiscuously.

\Vhen the female feels the necessity of

depositing an egg, she leaves the flock

temporarily and goes in search of a nest

that has been built and is being used by

some bird of a different Species. MOSt

any nest will do, but generally she selects

the nest of a bird much smaller than a

cowbird. Most frequently these nests

belong to such birds as the phoebe, sung

sparrow, towhee, warbler, indigo bunt-

Ing, ovenbird or field sparrow, but eggs

have been found in the nests of the red—

winged biackbird and the cardinal. A

llit has been made of over ninety differ—

ent species of birds that are victimized

by the (30wbird. After the egg is laid,

tiouble begins.



What the owner of thé nest does, on

returning home and discovering the ailen

egg, depends a great deal upon the na-

ture of the bird imposed upon. Some

there are that will promptly desert at the

first gilmpt‘e of the interloper, leaving

their nest and their own eggs to what-

ever fate they prove to have. It has been

said that some birds are able to remove

the foreign egg by kicking it out of the

nest. Perhaps such work has been done.

but it is doubtful; nevertheless, we all

hope it is true. Some of the very small

birds, such as the yellow warbler and the

redstzirt, endeavor to circumvent the trou-

ble caused by the intruder by building a.

second story .to the nest, enclosing the

egg of the vowbird between the two floors.

Of course, this method makes it necessary

that the birds sacrifice their own eggs

also, if any happen to be in the nest

when the cowbird makes its call. Ne‘Sts

with three cowhird’s eggs thus enclosed

have been found. That lllE‘illS that the

owners of the nest hail U) build prac—

tically three nests. Think «f the extra

work done by these birds to protect them-

selves and their offspring f cm the calam-

ily a, cowbird’s egg when it

113101195, for then is when the real trou-

ble :irises.



'l‘hiough some fluke in the laws of na-

ture, the cop'bird’s egg has acquired the

trick of hatching before these rightfully

belonging to the nest and, once the cow-

bird has batched, his demands for food

so claim the attention of the foster par-

ents that the latter‘s own eggs or young

are neglected and usually perish from

want of care and food. It seems strange

that the old birds should feed the young

cowbird, but they do. In fact, the cow-

bird gets most of the food brought to the

nest and he grows so rapidly that soon

he is as large, and, generally, before he

le'ives the nest. much larger than the

birds feeding him. His bulk often Serves

to smother the young of his foster par—

ents, and many times he actually suc-

ceeds in kicking or crowding them out Of

the nest altogether. It is no wonder that

birds are driven to abandon their work

of incubation and sacrifice the source of

the greatest happiness. that of success-

fully rearing young. and all because this

homeless vagrant, this hogglsh outcast

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were seasick, is toa lazy to build a._nest

of his own and too degenerate to care

for his own ottsprlnz-



Remember that each young cowbird

that reaches maturity means the death

of a whole nestful of small birds of an-

other species, and practically every bird

in r'whose nest the cowbird habitually

lays eggs is an active insect destroyer or

weed-seed eater and. therefore, just as

valuable an asset to the farmer as a

bird can be. Thus we see that for the

life of one cowbird wltose good to the

farmer is small at its best, there must be

paid, as a price for that c0wbird. a whole

nestful of other birds whose good to the

farmer is, beyond all possible doubt, many

times greater than that of any cowbird

ever was 0r ever will be.



Kill the cowbird.





THE WAY OF HOPE.

(Continued from page 294).





walked proudly down the cinder path to

the green station. and half the town were

standing along the track to say goodbye

to Bill. ‘Old Betsey Ann was happy. de-

spite the fact that they were leaving

Perkin’s Center, but she was only going

for a month and then would return to

keep up the home which was to be Bill’s

vacation place every year. One day she

came back. and then even Bildad Bennet,

the miller, and Morgan, the mailman.

spent many of their valuable hours list-

ening to the descriptions of the great

snow-capped mountains and the Golden

Gate.



On pleasant days she walks down to

the little station and plods along with

Morgan, and nearly every other day the

postmaster replies, ”Yep, there is a nice

thick letter from the vest." Betsey Ann

goes home happy and there is enough

Wonderful news to keep the neighbors on

her front porch for several days. They

never pity her any more but think that

it muSt be nice to have a son who is hus-

ily engaged in the office of a big trans-

portation company that owns boats which

cost more than all the houses in Pcrkin’s

Center.



liildad stepped out on the creaky porch

of his rickety mill and called tolBetsey

who had just come down to the mill for

:1 new supply of chick iced, “Say, Bet-

sey, what do you hear from Bill?” and

she replied with a smile, “Well, do you

know, Bildad, the b 'y is a b‘g surprise to

you folks, but I nln‘f')‘: knew he 'would

turn out all r‘ght; the {slits that doubted

him forgot the good stuff his father was

made of, and ll'll jllt'l (*o‘i‘t‘n't hell) beingr

:1 man when he woke up and had the re-

sponsibility of a real m"n—.~-:i:ce job.”



The local whistled Ell‘l‘nillJ the bend and

Betsey excl-timed, “(joulhyo Bitt‘al, some

mall is surely coming l(,(l‘l_\’ art] I must

see if old Morgan is attending" to busi—

ness." She disappeared down the squeaky

walk toward the village; the. mill throb—

licd and groancd at its toll. Betsey climb-

td over the hill with a big letter and she

smiled and thought of he: boy and the

good news that always came from the

west.





A WAY OF HIS OWN.





BY E. L. K. w.



l'pon the. broad field of creation,



'l‘wo mortals were never the same;

l-Iach one has his hopes and ambitions,



And each his life purpose and aim.

Together, in closest communion,



From childhood the two may have



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And. bound by the ties of true friendship,



Still each has a way of his own.





".i‘were folly to draw, howe’er kindly,

A mark for another to toe,

()r point, as a leader and mentor,

The way that our neighbor should go.

Though he. with respect and politeness,

May thank us for such favors shown,

We’ll find, despite all, in the sequel

lle‘ll follow a path of his own.





Not knowing what all may environ,

Nor what one‘s temptations may be,



How often we censure another,

Forgetful of true charity.



“’9 differ, while still, all are faulty;

To err every mortal is prone;



And, ’mong all his fellow imnsgressors,

Each one has a way of his own,





God knoweth our many temptations,

He knoweth our trials and cares.

He notes every good resolution

Amid life’s allurements and snares.

Some good in each one of his creatures,

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TWO young mothers were rocking





 





their babies, (yes, I know it is for-

but they were doing it),

plans for the dar-





hidden,

and talking of their

lings’ future.



“Our boy is going to have a college ed-

ucation,” said one mother proudly.

“Neither John or I had much learning,

but our boy shall have his chance. John

says Jackie is to be a graduate of the

best college in the land and have $1.000

in the bank by the time he is 2], if we

have to live on brown bread and water.

Our boy is to have the things he wanted

and couldn’t get." And with this am-

bitious prophecy of the little one‘s future

she fell to kissing him rapturously and

singing, “ch, him shall.”



The other mother sat quiet a few min-

utes. She was evidently thinking over

her friend’s plans.



“We hadn’t planned much about Billy.”

she said finally slowly. ”Only just to

have him grow up strong and healthy. I

suppose We ought to be laying by some-

thing for him, but we thought maybe if

we gave him a good start physically he

might make his own future. You know

health seems to me so much more im-

portant than anything else. You see so

many little pindling children, and the

terribly bright ones in school almost al-

ways look pinched and pale and nervous.

Of course, I want Billy to get an educa-

tion, but if he can only have it at the

expense of a strong body. I believe I'd

choose the health. Besides, I don’t be-

lieve he would want us to starve our-

selves and him juSt so he could have

things better than we did. If he should

turn out that kind, he wouldn‘t be my

son. He’d rather We would be comfort-

able and happy all together, so him

would.” and she, too, fell to kissing and

cuddling the small mite of humanity

whose future was not to contain a college

education and a bank account.





Once I would have held with the first

mother, but the older I grew the more I

see the value of health. A sound mind

in a sound body. “hat a blessing to the

fortunate possessor. The mind may not

be cducntcd in the academic sensc of the

word, but good sense, sane judgment and

a desire to progress are of greulcr value

than mere book learning. And of what

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vs. Health.





One of the greatest financiers of the

country would exchange much of his

gold, it is said, for a sound Stomach. Yet

every mother can give her children sound

stomachs if she used common sense in

feeding them as they grow up.



I once thought it would be a terrible

calamity if my sons could not be given a

college education. Now I have changed

to the belief that if I give them health

they can get the college education for

thcmSelves if they want it badly enough.

If they do not care for it enough to work





for it, it will do them no good after they

get it.

Health, that is the first and most im-





portant thing in life. Give the growing

children plain, nourishing food. milk and

eggs, oatmeal. wheat breakfast food or

corn food. whichever best agrees with

your own child, plain cuts of beef and

mutton and bacon, good bread, whole

wheat, graham and white in judicious

mixtures, plain cookies and puddings and

fruits, no rich cakes. spiced dishes or

condiments. See that they are in bed at

7:00 o’clock or 7:30. in a room well ven-

tilated and With plenty of warm covers in

winter. Let there be no night parties un-

til they are at least 16. and then only on

Friday evening when they can slcep late

next morning. Give them absolutely no

drugS, unless ordered to do So by a com—

pctént physician. See that they have

plenty of exercise in the open air, and

lct them take part of it in helping you

with your work. Mix a judicious amount

of fun in with the daily grind, and you

should have healthy, strong children, un-

less they have some organic trouble.



It isn’t a hard thing to raise healthy

children if you go about it systematically.

It doesn‘t take as much time or money as

it does to rear sickly ones, and yet so

many look upon it as a wonderful thing.

The whole secret is to live simply and

sanely, and living simply calls for less

cxpe'nditul‘c for the table and less time

in,getting meals, than the. high living

which makes for disordered stomachs and

nerves. If your child falls ill. consult

yOur physician. Do not go to the drug

store and buy a bottle of patent dope,

warranted to cure everything from freck-

les to shingles.



Give your child health. Then if he is

worth a “chance” he will make one for

himself.



DEBORAH.





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The Preservation of Grapes and





Unfcrmcntcd





RAPES may be preserved in many

G attractive and desirable forms.



Grapes grow wild in many places,

and the wild fruit may be preserved in

the form of ketchup, jelly, and butter,

with fairly good results.



If grapes of an especially fine quality

are desired for any purpose, they may be

secured by baggin the bunches when

they are about half grown. This con-

sists in tying paper bags over the fruit.

By this means the grapes are caused to

ripen earlier, and are also protected from

insects, and :1 much better quality is

produced because of the higher tempera-

turc inside the bag. The only objection

to this is, the color of the grapes are not

natural. but this can be remedied by re-

moving the bags later in the season and

substituting mosquito netting.



Grapes Should be thoroughly washed

before they are either eaten, or preserved,

but the washing should be done quickly

so that they may not stand in. water any

length of time. An. excellent method for

washing grapes is to hold each bunch un-

der the faucet with the water turned on

strongly.



Grape sugar is particularly easy of di—

gestion, and therefore this fruit is a. val-

uable article of food.



’ Grape Juice.

Probably no other product of the grape





 





 





Grape Juice





universally popular as unfcrmented

grape. juice. It is :1 combination of food

and drink, refreshing and delicious in ev-

ery reSpect. The manufacture of grape

juice is very casy. but its preservation

without change is somewhat difficult. Yet

with a little care as to details. any per-

son can preserve grape juice successfully.



Some people make the mistake of boil-

ing their grape juice. This \prevcnts fer-

mentation, but it changes the appearance

unpleasantly and gives the product a

scorched flavor. Tlic remedy is to take

care that the temperature does not reach

the boiling point.



In making grape juice use sound, well-

ripened grapes, avoiding carefully those

over-ripe. The juice Should be pressed

out, as in making wine. It will be found

that this process can be greatly facilitated

by heating the grapes to about 180 de-

grees F. for a few minutes before press—

ing. The juice should then be put in hot—

tles of convenient size, and cork stoppers

put in loosely. The bottles are then set

into a boiler, or other receptacle contain—

ing enough cold water to come up to the

necks of the bottles. The water is heat-

ed until it reaches 180 degrees F. and held

at that point 20 minutes. This heat is

sufi‘icient to keep the juice. and as it is

below the boiling point. the natural flavor

of the grape is not ruined by boiling. To





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keep the





the juice without boiling is

secret of the whole process.



The bottles are then taken from the wat-

er, corked tightly, seal :1 with paraffin, or

beeswax, and put away in a dark place





to keep. Some prefer to heat the bottles

on the second day again to 1'80 degrees F.

for ten minutes to further insure the

keeping of the juice.



Where a clear, colorleSS product is de-

sired, the juice may be heated, before

being put into the bottles, to 180 degrees

F. for about five minutes to coagulate





some of the solids and then strained

through a fine cloth into bottles. Then

proceed as stated before.



\Vhen well made, grape nectar is as





fully refreshing a drink, as grape juice.

T0 eight pounds of slightly crushed

grapes, add three cups of good vine-

gar. Let stand four da1s. Heat enough

to <0ffcn, then put in bag and Squeeze

out juice. To one pint of juice add one

pound 0f sugar, and heat to just below

the boiling point, keeping at that temper-

atule 20 minutes When cool bottle and

seal with paraffin.

Spiced Grapes.



Spiced grapes are a splendid moat rel-

ish. Five pounds of grapes, three pounds

of sugar, 1110 teasDoons each of (inna-

mon, and all-spice, half teaspoon cloves.

l‘ulp the grapes, boil the skins until ten-

der, cook pulp and st1ain through a seive,

add it to the skins, put in sugai, spiceS,

and soant pint of vinegar. Boil until

thorOughly jcllied, and seal.



Grape Ketchup.



Cover With vinegar t11o quarts of grapes

that are ripe 11nd thoroughly mashed, and

cook them until they are soft. Strain

them and add 11 cupful of sugar, at table-

spoonful of cinnamon, a te-aspoonful each

of cloves and allspice, and a quarter tea-

spoonful of cayenne pepper. Cook the

mixture slowly. until it bccomes thick and

heavy. Placc it in bottles while it is hot

and seal and label them. If the vinegar

is very st1ong dilute it or use less. If too

little vinegai is used, there is danger of

the kctchup's sticking to the kettle and

burning.



Grape Marmalade.





“’ash the grapes carefully, removing all

stems and imperfect fruit, and drain them

Well through 21 colander. Separate the

pulp from the skins. Put the pulp into

the prcServing kettle, heat it to the boil-

ing point, cook slowly until the seed.q sep—

urntc from the pulp, then run through a

colander. Return the pulp to the kettle

with the skins. add an equal amount of

sugar and cook the mixture slowly for 30

minutes.



Separate the skins from the pulp. Place

the skins on the back of the stove, and

let them simmer for about five minutes.

Cook the pulp until it falls to pieces. Run

it through a colander to remove seeds.

Stew some sour apples. To three quarts

of pulp ndd three quarts of the mashed

apples. and two quarts of the stewed

grape skins that have been. put through

a meat grinder to chop them fine; the

juice and pulp of four lemons. one ounce

of stick cinnamon that has been broken

in bits. and tied up in cloth, and scven

pounds of sugar. Let all get hot togeth-

er, adding the sugar last. Stir until it

diFsolvcs. Boil half an hour, or longer if

necessary. Take out the spice bag when

the flavor suits. Put up in jars, or cover

with paraffin and paper like jelly after it

is cold. Vi'ill keep years.



Grape Conserve.



“'nsh two and :1 half pounds of grapes

vory carefully. Separate the skins from

the pulp. Place half of the Skins in a.

granite saucepan on the stove and allow

them to simmer for about five minutes;

the rest of the skins may be thrown

away, for the conserve is too strong if

all are used. Cook the pulp until it falls

to pieces. Run through a colander. l‘eel

two oranges and run them and the stowed





skins through a meat grinder to chop

them very fine. Mix together the pulp,

and oranges and grape skins, add two

and a half pounds of sugar. Boil the





mixture five minutes lOnge-r. Add half a.

pound of chopped English walnuts, cook

a few minutes and seal in ars at once.

Green Grape Jelly. .

Gather grapes when just beginning to

turn a. little pinkish; mash and add





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HOME'QUERIES.





 





Household Editor: How often should a

child six months 01d be fed?—-B. N.



Every three hours.



Household Editorz—Should meat for

soup and stews be put over in cold water

or in hot?—Sally Lunn.



The meat should be put in cold water

for both. In making soup, as you want

to extract as much goodness as possible,

bring slowly to a boil and simmer sev-

eral hours. In the stew as you wish to

use both meet and broth, bring to a boil

quickly and cook only until the meat is

tender.



Household Editor:—-I have a recipe





which says to “toss” bread crumbs in

melted butter. How is this done?—B. D.





Put the crumbs in the butter in a fry-

ing pan and shake as you do popcorn, or

stir with a fork. The object is to get

every crumb coated with butter.





Household Editor:~I am a subscriber

of the Michigan Farmer. Can you or

some reader please giVe me a sure recipe

for the removal of large, dark—brown

liver spots from the face?—M. S.



I know of no remedy for “liver Spots.”

There many lotions sold as “cures,” but

I have never seen one that “cured."

Right living is the best thing. Avoid

coffee and rich foods, drink plenty of

water, both hot and cold, see that the

general health is good and that the stom-

ach and bowels are in good condition and

you will have done about all that you

can.



A Fond Mother:-—-“What Every Child

Should Know,” series of books should

furnish you eVerything you want for

children of the age you mention. If you

will send your name and a stamped en-

velope I will tell you Where these may be

secured. I can not publish names of bus-

iness firms in this column.



Household Editor:-—Can you inform me

through the Michigan Farmer of an in-

stitute in Michigan that gives nursing

lessons by mail?—P. W.



Household Editor:——“’e saw your ad,

vice about the charcoal iron, in the Mich-

igan Farmer. Could you tell me Where

I could purchase the same, as I am very

much interested in them?———Mrs. H. W.



We can not print the names and ad-

dresses of business firms in this column.

Send self-addressed and stamped envel-

ope, repeating your query, and the de-

sired address will be given.



Household Editorz—Ii'ould you please

publish a recipe for canning elderberries

and apples, if you have one?—-Mrs. A. T.,

Lowell.





Vi’hat reader has a recipe?



Household Editorz—In the issue of Aug-

ust 30, I saw an article in the Home

queries Department in regard to making;

pies so the juice will not run out. I d)

not profess to be a veteran pie~mwker but

still I make a great many pies d::ring the

course of a year and very seldm have

the juice run out of any kind of pie I

make. I never use cloth around the edge

or a paper funnel, or any other device.

The only thing I do is to press the lower

crust firmly on the bottom and sides of

the pie plate so as to exclude all‘air cells_

then use a tablespoon of flour with ll'llf

the amount of sugar I intend for a pie.

generally a cup full, work the sugar and

flour together and have it cover the bot—

tom and sides of the pie plate. Then

place the fruit in carefully. add the re—

mainder of the cup of sugar on top of

the fruit, the spices, if used, and a little

butter, but no wetting, and have the top

crust with plenty of air holes in it. IVet

the edge of the lower crust with cold wat-

er then press the edge of the top crust

down firmly all around the edge of the

pie plate. Last, but most important of

all, I bake them in a slow oven. I gener-

ally allow from three—quarters of an hour

to an hour for apple or berry pic. I am

safe in saying I never have the juice run

out of a pie unless the oven is too hot.—

G. E. P.



Household Editor:—~I just read “Young

Cook’s” inquiry, “How to keep a fruit

pie from running over." I have tried put-

ting a layer of cold cooked rice- on the

crust, then put in berries. The rice can

not be told from the berries. This may

work With other fruits—Mrs. H. M. D.



Household Editorz—J noticed in Home

Department of Michigan Farmer 0f Aug.

30 a. lady asks if there is any way to keep

fruit pie from running out. I have made

and baked many pies, but have never yet

found a way to keep fruit pics from run-

ning out, but I have a way of handling

my fruit pies so that I lose none of the

juice. It is this: When the pie begins to

run out take from the oven and tip side-





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cut all the’julce that will come. Put back

in the oven and finish baking. ‘ When

done remove from the oven and at once.

while pie is hot. pour back the juice

through the opening in_ the top crust.

You must pour juice back while pie is

hot so the pie will absorb the juice. I

find this method very satISfactory. I also

have a way of canning sweet corn which

I think very good. Perhaps some of your

readers might like to try it so I 'will give

it. Take corn that is in the milk, shaVe

from the cob, raw, and to nine cups of

corn add one cup of White sugar and half

a cup of salt. Put in kettle and cook

from half to three—quarters of an hour.

then can and press down well into the

can so that juice will come on top. There

will not be much juice; this amount will

fill three cans. To cook it in winter I

pour boiling water over it, add soda size

of a pea, bring to a boil, then drain and

season as you would any canned corn.

We find this very nice. Adding the soda

makes it tender. We have taken the

Michigan Farmer 21. great many years and

could not do without it.——F. E. R. A.



Household Editorz—To fit the top crust

of a berry pie so the juice will not run

out: Make the pie, all but the top crust.

On that, when it is rolled, lay a dinner

plate and cut it a perfect round. Take a.

fork and print around the edge. put prints

of the fork in crust as usual. lay it on the

pie, put in the oven and have an even

heat and the pie will not run over.—

Mrs. A. D. F.



Heusehold Editor:——To keep the juice

in berry pies try “baking your pies with-

out the top crust until well done, then re-

move and put top cruSt inlplace and re-

turn io oven. Bake to a delicate b"own.

I find this a good way for all fruit in

more ways than one. Besides not losing

their filling one can know that the fruit

is well cooked—A Reader.



Household l-lditorz—IVill someone please

itll me through these columns how to

make grape jolly? I have tried making

jolly several times, but it is. always a

failure. I saw a request in your i sue of

August 23 for a different way to cook pie-

plant other than stewed or in pics, so I

am sending a recipe for “Rhubarb Birds'

Nest]? which is very tasty. Butter 8

pudding dish and cover the bottom with

about two inches of :liced rhub-irb, sugar

1) sweeten. a pinch of salt, and put little

pieces of butter over it. For the crust.

take one egg. one-half cup sweet milk,

a piece of butter size of an egg, one tea-

spoon of baking powder, ard flour to

make a stiff batter. Pour over top and

bake. To be eaten with sweet or whip-

ped cream. Apples and other fruit may

be cooked this way.——Mrs. A. P.



Grape Jelly.



Crush tho fruit with a potato masher

""41. ll‘uoo in a ro“re"‘n ke’ile. If there

is not enough juice in the kettle to pre-

vent hiilllliig. add il l' file vote". Boll 20

minutes and then strain thruugh a jelly

bag. loll the juice 20 minutes, skimming

(ff all impur ties, measure. and add sugar

(up for cup. Boil until it jellies, when a

little- is tried in a cold sauce dl ii. If you

heat the sugar in the oven while the juice

is boiling. the last cooking will not take

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soak her clothes, that have yellowed with

age. in sour milk or buttermilk for four

or five days, keeping them well covered,

then rinse in several waters, and tyagh,

they will be as white as ever. Please re-

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Narrow skirts are still staying by us,

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and the ridicule of men. The fall books

show some only one and seven-elghths

yards wide around the bottom, although

they have the draped effect. Barrel

skirts, is the name given them by some.

There is a ray of hope, though, in the

hot that the same style book shows one

or two senSible straight skirts three yards

wide at the bottom.



The early coats are getting away from

the Balkan styles that had such a run

l'l the early spring. Many have plain,

tailored man’s coat sleeves, and are

stuight and trim and tight fitting, com-

ing to just below the hips. One or two

Eton jackets are shown for early wear.



I like to bear down on the- fact that

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pink, blue and orange which some af-

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OVVADAYS the successful farmer

N must possess ability as a salesman.



The man who merely raises big

crops does not succeed. Many high-class

products are sold for palpably less than

they would have. commanded if offered by

some other man. While every product

muSt sell on its own merits its price is

sure to be better if it is intelligently mar-

keted.



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farmer’s business equipment as are the

goods he produces. Because he secures

only a small percentage of the consum-

er’s dollar does not usually imply a leth—

argic demand; it means, eSpecially if the

products are of a creditable character,

that someone has failed as a salesman.

The thought must be annoying to the man

who, after making a sale in which he has

made sacrifices, understands well that the

some products in the hands of organized

buyers and middlemen will bring 50 per

cent more money. Illustration’of this

point is afforded by the common knowl-

edge that many buyers of farm products

sell them at enormous advances. It can

not be said that the products have in-

creased in intrinsic value as a result of

short-time ownership by these shrewder

and more fortunately situated men. Such

products have an added value due to the

cost of holding, storing and selling. but

the most acceptable explanation of the

premium enjoyed is expert saleSmnnship.

“'hile the individual farmer is at the

mercy of organized buyers and transpor—

tation companies, yet as the original

owner of the products he should exercise

his ability as a salesman—Whether indi-

vidually or through a co-opcrative asso-

ciation.



Prepare to Hold Perishable Crops.



The foremost problem confronting the

producer of farm products is that of be-

ing able to hold his Stuff until the mar-

ket conditions are favorable for selling.

The growers of winter fruits, vegetables

and truck crops who have storage facili—

ties are able to hold their stuff a few

weeks until the markets are cleared of

the poorer grades with which they are

flooded during the fall and early winter.

Cold storage houses remove the necessity

of selling at once—a necessity which most

buyers quite naturally work to their ad-

vantage. Even a temporary Storage

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fording sufficient protection against sud-

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sho'tly after the products have been har-

vested, and annually freeze and destroy

thousands of dollars worth of produce.



An Excellent Type of Storage Plant.

' The most suitable type of storagehouse

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the machine syStcms commonly used in

the old-style storage plants. Some of the

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to understand. In each storage room is

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chlorid. The coils in the storage room

are connected by a flow pipe with a re-





turn pipe with another coil, called the

primary coil, placed higher up in the

building in an ice tank. This tank, 01'





bunker, is filled with a mixture of broken

ice and salt. \Vhen one of these rooms

is filled with fruit the heat given off by

the fruit is taken up by the brine in the

Secondary coils placed in the room. As

the brine takes up the- heat it becomes

lighter and passes upward into the pri-

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cold brine at the same time drops from

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and thus there is set up, by the force of

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pumps or other machinery. In these

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from $10000 to $16,000.



What Can a Community Invest in Storage

Facilities?



How much to invest in a storage house

depends upon circumstances. If the grow-

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large storage house where he can secure

ample facilities, it is perhaps, better to

hire his fruit stored, but if his farm is

a conFidemble distance from suitable

storage plant the question of the invest-

ment is a live one. The man who has an

average annual crop of 2,000 barrels of

apples can figure on about $1.000 cost if

he hires his apples stored. Figuring on

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storage house costing $15,000 should prove

a fine investment for ten farmers who

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piled stctistics and figures show that a

storage house may safely constitute from

20 to 30 per cent of the investment on the

fruit and truck farm. As a rule, if a co-

operative association is formed it is bet-

ter to limit the members to one neigh-

borhood. There must be trust, confidence

and a community of interest among the

members or owners of a storage plant to

make it a success.



Ability to Hold Crop Makes Grower More

Independent.



\Vith such a storage house the growers

are made independent of the middlemen.

They are prepared to listen. in October

and November, to the offers of traveling

buyers, and to accept their proposition or

not, as they choose. If the prices offered

are reasonable it is advisable to accept

them in order to save work and the pos-

sibility of loss from decay and shrinkage.

Such losses are usually unavoidable and

must be calculated in figuring the profits

from storage. It is good business policy

for the growers to be independent of

flooded markets and middlemen during

the fall and early winter.



Now as regards the apple question, the

growers of Michigan and New York plant

the trees, cultivate and fertilize them for

15 or 20 years and study the requirements

of the orchards. The trees reach a hear-

ing age in fine condition and the crop is

grown. He has made :1 close study of

every problem connected with the orchard

end of the business and worked all sum-

mer to get a good growth and color to

his apples, and then what? He Sells his

entire crop to some buyer before they are

ready to harvest. That is what the big

interests of the country demand. They

want the grower to produce the apples





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and let them, the middlemen, have the

profits.

Now it seems to me that it is about





time for apple growers to awaken to their

Opportunities and save that profit. Let

these buyers and middlemen have their

profits after the fruit is put on the mar-

ket at a time when it demands it. For

instance, the Snow apple is demanded in

October and November and up to about

Christmas time; then the Spitzcnburg and

King for the holiday trade. Then come

the Grecnings; and later on the Spies and

Baldwins. Now what farmer wants to

hold his Snow apples until February. The

market isn’t calling for them. Then why

should the growers put their Greenings,

Spies and Baldwins on the market in the

fall When it does not want them? How

many growers haVe made their sales to-

day? The buyers knew there was going

to be a short crop and have bought the

fruit quicker than usual. And thousands

of growers are obliged to sell to these

buyers because they have no cold storage

at hand.



Of course, the grower can barrel his

fruit and ship it to the large cold storage

plants in the city just as well as the

commercial dealers. But this is not the

best way. It is expensive and it injures

the appearance of the fruit. There are

many conditions in storing the apple crop

that must be considered. Some will say

that apples Should be put in barrels be-

fore they are put into storage. This is

not true. Certain varieties, such as the

Rhode Island Greening, are inclined to





 





 





OCT. 4, 1913.





scald, and will keep much better if placed

in crates so that there will be a free cir-

culation of air. The Baldwins, Spies and

the Ben Davis will keep just 'as well held

in great bins that will hold a few hun-

dred barrels as in any other way. In this

way the barrels can be filled just before

shipping time and will reach the market

in ideal condition. It furnishes work for

the men at a time when the other farm

work does not demand attention and puts

the fruit on the market at the time it

demands it.

How the Midd-lemen Do It.



Let us see how the commercial buyers

handle our apples. A wealthy firm from

IiOSton, New York or Chicago sends out

buyers all over the country to look up

apples. These men have other agents who

hire men to pick and pack the apples.

They ship them to storage houses in the

large cities and hold them until the mar-

hot is favorable for selling. Can these

men advance money, hire expensive help,

pay storage charges and handle this fruit

cheaper than the growers can? \Yhen

they want to sell a few hundred barrels

they plug the barrel a little if it shakes

and put them on the market. Now the

farmer can puck and grade his apples a

few days before it is time to ship to some

large market. There are no rotten ap-

ples squeezed together to make the bar-

rel tight. And how long before—if his ap-

ples are properly marked—is it that he

has a reputation upon his apples in the

market, whatever mark he uses?



A Too Common Practlce.



Now what are the conditions through-

out the apple growing regions of Michi-

gan and New York today? Last season

i had charge of the packing of more than

10.000 barrel; of fine New York apples.

One of the large commercial growers had

sold his crop on the trees for $15,000 just

as it was; he had nothing to do but haul

the apples to the station. We got orders

to put every apple in the barrels; we- put

in windfalls, wormy apples and all. and

faced the barrels with good apples on

both ends. Did that sale help the reputa-

tion of New York apples? Customers

know that they came from Niagara coun-

ty, New York, and they sold for a higher

price on that account. Other men sold

their crop in the same way and the buy—

ers put everything they could scrape to-

gether in the barrels because they wanted

the number of barrels regardless of the





quality. .

Now right here is the point for the

farmers of Michigan and New York.





Above all things protect your name and

interests. Don‘t ruin your business by

allowing commercial buyers to pick and

pack your fruit and put it on the market

in a way that will disgrace your reputa-

tion as producers of choice fruit. It has

taken you years to bring your orchards

into bearing and it is your business to

protect yourselves against such practices.

lmn’t let your beautiful Greenings, Kings,

Baldwins and Spies reach the market

looking like a mess of slush for some

buyer to get rich. The owner of this par-

ticular orchard said, “I made a pretty

good sale, they are having to dig around to

make out the estimated number of bar—

rels.” Now look and see what that man

is doing. He is killing the reputation of

his farm and community by allowing such

stuff to be sold with his name attached.

It is just such men who are ruining the

apple business in sections where the fin-

cst fruit is being grown.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





WORLD’S GRAIN PRODUCTiON.





 





A cablegmm dated September 19, 1913,

from the International Institute of Agri-

culture, Rome, Italy, has been received

by the United States Department of Ag;





riculture, containing the following infor-

mation:

Wheat.

Preliminary estimate of production:





Bulgaria 60,627,000 bushels; France 322,-

734,000 *buShels; Hungary 166,677,000 bush-





els; Italy 209,440,000 bushels; Roumania

88,185,000 bushels; Canada 211,004,000

bushels. In the following named coun-





tries the total production is estimated at

3,330,000,000 bushels, which is 4.1 percent

more than was produced in the same

countries last year: Belgium, Bulgaria,

Denmark, Spain. Italy, Luxemburg, Rus-

sia, Switzerland, United tSates, Canada,

India, Japan. Algeria, . Tunis, Prussia,

England, Wales, France, Roumania, Hun-

gary, (excluding Croatia and Slavonia).





Rye.

Preliminary estimate of production:

PruSsia 367,644,000 bushels; France 53,-





364,000 bushels; Hungary 56,006,000 bush-

els. The total production in the following

named countries is estimated at 1,496,000,-
OCT. 4, 1913.





I 000 bushels, which is 6.7 per cent less





than Was produced in the same countries

last. year: Belgium, Bulgaria; Denmark,

Spain, Italy, Luxemburg, Russia, Switzer-

land, United States, Canada, Prussia,

France, Roumania, Hungary (excluding

Croatia and Slav0nia)-



Barley.



The total production in the wheat coun-

tries named above, minus India and

France, is estimated at 1,225,000,000 bush-

els, which is 1.2 per cent more than was

produced in the same countries last year.



Oats.



Preliminary estimate of production:

Prussia 429,499,000 bushels; Roumania 34,-

447,000 bushels; Canada 420,049,000 bush-

els, The total production in the wheat

countries named above, minus Indian and

France, is estimated at 3,426,000,000 bush-

els, which is 5.9 per cent less than was

produced in the same countries last year.



Corn.



Preliminary eStimate of production:

Hungary (excluding Croatia and Slavonia)

184,758,000 bushels; Italy 98,422,000 bush-

els. The total production in the follow-

ing named countries is estimated at 2,-

766,000,000 bushels, which is 22.4 per cent

less than was produced in the same





__countries last year: Bulgaria, Spain, Italy,





European Russia, Switzerland, United

States, Japan, Tunis, Hungary (excluding

Croatia and Slavonia).



Rice.



The production in Japan for 1913 is es-

timated to be 16,662,000,000 pounds, which

is an increase of 5.1 per cent over the

crop of last year.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





 





Newaygo Co., Sept. 20.——It is cold and

rainy here with a few flakes of snow.

Bean pulling, silo filling and peach pick-

ing are the order of the day. Our dry

spell was broken the 15th with a big rain.

Late potatoes will be benefited by the

rains as they are still nice and green and

will grow until killed by a heavy freeze.

Fall Seeding and pastures look bad on

account of dry weather. Threshing is

mostly all done. Winter apples are drop-

ping quite badly; butter 300; eggs 250;

peaches are selling from 75c@$1 and are

mostly all picked.





Pennsylvania.





Erie Co., Sept. 26.——VVeather very dry

for several weeks, with only light show-

ers. Czops all good. Frost killed corn

and potatoes; grapes only half a crop.

No apples but plenty of pears and peach-

es. Cattle are very high; fresh milch cows

very scarce.



Crawford Co., Sept. 22.~Long continued

drought broken by good rains and a kill-

ing frost on the 10th. Corn all caught in

the valleys as there was a killing frost

the 10th of June and corn not ripe. Pota-

toes one-third of a crop and small; oats

good, 40 to 70 bu. per acre; wheat is a

f ir crop. Buckwheat half a crop, largely

f ost-bitten. Dairying good here, butter

selling at 320; milk $1.60 on stand. Deal-

ers Offering $1.45 per cwt. for buckwheat;

750 for potatoes; $1 for wheat; oats 45c.

\Vith plenty of old hay left from last year

price is 60c per cwt. Fruit a total fail-

ure. Wheat about all sown and usual

acreage.





New Jersey.





Morris Co., Sept. 22.——The past season

has been Very dry. Last night we had

the first good rain this season. Wheat is

a fair crop; oats poor. Corn is about

two—thirds of a crop. About one-half of

the fall seeding is done as some of the

farmers have been waiting for rain, so as

to be able to plow. The rain last night

will help. Corn cutting is about half fin-

ished. Threshing buckwheat is progress-

ing rapidly and is a fair crop. “’heat 90c;

rye 56c; buckwheat 80c; hay $15 per ton;

rye straw $14; butter 33c; eggs 34c.



Monmouth 00.. Sept. 22.———l‘otat0es are

nearly all gathered with about 75 per

cent of average crop. Some places they

were a complete failure. Corn is good,

with but little damage done by hail;

about one-third of the crop is cut at this

writing, Some winter grain sown. Thresh-

ing about done; wheat and rye yielded

poor; oats fair. Peaches are about done

and a very short crop; cranberries are

reported plentiful. Apples scarce and

high. Hogs are scarce and command a

good price. Very few sheep raised in

this section. Have had one light frost

but no damage done. Late pasture in

fair condition, having had a reasonable

amount of rain during the last three or

four weeks.





Ohio.





Knox Co., Sept. 22.—This will be a busy

week for farmers. Not much seeding

done yet, but much will be done- the pres-

ent week if the Weather is favorable.

Most farmers use commercial fertilizer,

and plant about one and a half bushels

per acre. A good deal of corn to out yet,

which was blown down badly early in

August, making hand-cutting necessary.

A good many one-horse cutters introduced

last year, which cannot be uSed much

this season. A good prospect for clover

seed. All kinds of live stock high in

price. Apples and peaches very scarce.

This is an oil and gas region, many farm-

ers getting about $1 per acre annual rent-

al. Potatoes scarce and sell for 80@90c

in field.



Clermont C0" SEDt. 25.——-Plenty of rain

last week. Drought affected nearly all

crops this summer. Wheat fair, about

20 bu. per acre. Oats fair: potatoes half

a crop. MOSt of corn cut. Many new





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMERN





silos built. Corn crop short. Most of

the wheat is sowed. Rain helped pastures

which were nearly dried up. Very little

fruit. Hogs about as usual, getting them

ready for market, Heavy frost Monday

night but nothing hurt. Just a little ice

Tuesday morning. Eggs 26c; butter 28c.



Holmes Co., Sept. 22.-—Cooler with a

good rain. Farmers cutting corn which is

an average crop. Seeding well along;

pastures good; cloverseed scarce. Many

farmers selling cream; cows high. Labor

is scarce. Building some improved roads.

Not much ‘land changing hands. Some

farmers moving to town. Some district

schools have only three and four scholars.

Granges are booming and much'intei‘est

is taken in them. Few public sales. Not

much hutning on account of new hunter’s

license law, but farmers not much at-

fectcd.



Wisconsin.





Polk Co., Sept. 23.——September has been

a wet and cold month for the time of

year. Farmers are about through hay-

ing their second crop of clover hay. LaSt

night, Sept. 22, we had our first killing

frost in this COunty but as all the corn





is about cut and put in the silo but very ~





little damage done. Threshing is a little

later than other years, as the farmers

did not have time to thresh until their

silos were filled. There has been a great

number of silos built this year. Almost

all farmers have silos now. Corn ripened

fine this year and is about the best crop

farmers have here. Potatoes are good

and selling at 500 a bu. Hay about $10

per ton; eggs 23c; butter 330; oats 36c;

barley 550.



Waukesha Co., Sept. 19.—A nice rain

on the 16th for 30 hours was the first for

two weeks. Farmers very busy plowing

and cutting corn. Much corn is being

put in the silo. Most of the rest in

shock. It is a very fine crop of first-

class corn. Potatoes 750; oats 34@36c;

clover hay and alfalfa plentiful; timothy

hay $11 a ton; eggs 26c; butter 360 re-

tail. Farmers getting $1.04 per cwt. for

four per cent milk at creameries.





Indiana.





Alien Co.——The heavy frost of yesterday

killed practically everything that could

be affected. This frost was the first we

experienced this year in this vicinity. The

crop conditions are otherwise practically

unchanged. All kinds of good products

will sell high this winter. Meats will soar

and eggs are constantly going up. Onions

are considered very short and are now

retailing at not less than 20 per lb. Pro-

duce prices are: Home—grown potatoes,

6061.800 per bu; Michigan-grown potatoes,

$1.15; (nions, 75c@$1 per bu; beans, $2.25;

Strictly fresh eggs, 260: country butter,

24c; f-incy creamery, tub, 27c; old hens,

126(130 lb; broilers, 140: apples, 40@60c;

corn 706/700 per bu; wheat 900; oats 40@

45c; hay, $106416 per ton.



Illinois.





Marion Co., Sept. 22,—Farmers are very

much crowded with work, cutting corn,

picking apples, and preparing ground for

wheat and grass. Stock peas almost ready

to out, which look as though there will be

a good yield of both forage and grain.

Apples are a good crop here this year:

are selling from $1.50@3 per barrel; mo.-t

of the Ben Davis apples will be bulked in

the car, for from 500@$1 per cwt, price

depending on grade. Cattle are selling

from 5@6c per lb: hogs $75008; eggs 23c;

butter 25c; peaches 750@$1.25.



Missouri.





Vernon Co., Sept. 24.—V\’e have just

passed through one of the worst drouths

this county has ever known; plenty of

rain now for fall seeding. Lots of wheat

being sown. “'heat averaged 15 to 40 bu.

per acre; oats 10 to 25 but corn almost a

total failure except on bottom land. Corn

worth 750; wheat $1; oats 500; hay $16;

butter 250; eggs 18c; chickens 12c.



Warren Co., Sept. 23.—Corn and oats

are short but wheat is a good yield, of

excellent quality. (‘orn is now being cut.

Tiny is very scarce and high, and a good

deal being shipped in. Not many hogs

or cattle being fed. There is a good de-

mand for Jersey cows but no supply. Re-

cent heavy rains helped fall pastures and

water supply which were both very short.

A large acreage of fall wheat is being

FOVVI'I. ,



Ste. Genevieve Co., Sept. 22.~Ilnlf crop

0f corn; oats almost total failure; wheat

a good yield; hay crop cut short by the

drought. Truck crops and gardens yield—

ed low. Pastures dry during summer, but

a good late fall pasture. Corn about all

cut. Not much wheat ground broken yet,

but rains of Sept. 10 will help late plow-

ing. Lots of cowpeas lay'ruined in the

fields. Stock high, except horses, which

are in no demand, and good fancy stuff

called for. Feed high and scarce.



Polk 00.; Sept. .24.—An abundance of

rain since Sept. 8, has revived pastures

and. put new life into the stock and grain

business. Wheat is selling at 80c and corn

about the same: timothy hay $16; straw.

baled, $8 per ton: h'Ogs 8c; milch Cows

good price but horses draggy. Hens sell-

ing for 90; eggs 15c; butter 200. Progre'PS

IS being made toward seeding an average

crop of wheat; 75 per cent of total corn

crop, was put in shock or silo, assuring

abundance of rough feed. Condition of

corn 30 per cent.



Harrison Co., Sept. 23.——We have been

'havmg good showers since Sept. 15, which

has started the grass that was badly

burned during August. Wheat sowing is

now in progress about the usual amount

being sown. Many silos going up and are

now being filled: corn not more than half

a crop. Wheat about 12 bu. per acre:

oats poor, 20 bu. per acre: hay a fair

crop. Wool not all sold yet, buyers are

havmg some trouble getting farmers to

take the 230 which they offer per pound-

Potatoes not half a crop.





Kansas.

Franklin Co., Sept. 22.—-—Summer hot

and .dry; light rain last Week, with much

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





 





October 1, 1913.





Wheat.—Wheat has made daily ad-

vances during the past week, notwith-

standing the bearishness of the home

wheat movement. Nort'hwestern receipts

are running much heavier than a year

ago, but on the other hand, in the winter

wheat sections marketing is very small.

There is, however, a heavier total pri-

mary movement than a year ago. The

Canadian visible supply is 3,265,000 bush-

els greater than a year ago, while the

world’s visible supply shows an increase

of 28,743,000 bushels, as compared with

this date last year. The foreign market

has been holding steady, little attention

being paid in Liverpool to the fluctua-

tiOns over here. Russia is a liberal sell-

er of wheat at the present time. Trading

in local markets is quiet and there is

nothing to indicate that Michigan farm-

ers are ready to sell their crop. One

year ago No. 2 red wheat sold on this

market at $1.063, per bu. Quotations for.

the past week are as follows:



No. 2 No. 1





Red. White. Dec. May



Thursday . . .91% 91% 94 99

Friday .......91% 91% 94% 99%

Saturday . . . . .92 92 94% 99%

Monday . ..... 931/2 93% 95% 1.00%

Tuesday . . . . .94 94 96 1.00%



\Vednesday .94 94 95% .00

Chicago, (Sept. 30).——No, 2 red wheat,

93(194l/gc; No. 3 red, 90611920; Dec., 87%0;





May, 92%c per bu.



Corn—The chief feature in the corn

market during the past week was the

general selling of the September option.

Most of the transactions, however, were

in small lots. There was a reaction of

about 1c in the market during the week.

One year ago No. 3 corn sold on this

market at 69%c per bu. Quotations for

the week are as follows:





No. 2 No. 3

Yellow. Yellow.

Thursday ...... 75% 75

Friday 75 74

Saturday 74% 74

Monday 75 74%

Tuesday ...... 74% 74

\Vednesday .......... . 73 74

Chicago, (Sept. 30). —No. 3 corn, 71%@

721,4c; No 3 yellow 721/4,@73c; Dec.,

70%c; May, 72c per bu.

Oats.-—Oats are in good demand and

the market remains firm at an advance





of 1c over the same day last week. There

is, however, a rather heavy undertone to

the market due to the competition of the

Canadian Northwest. One year ago stan-

dard oats sold on this market at 35%0





per bu. Quotations for the week are as

follows:

Standard. White.



ThurSday . . . . . . . . . ....... 43%

Friday ........ 44% 43%

Saturday ......... . . . . 44% 44

Monday ........ . . . . . ..... 44% 44

Tuesday .............. . . . 45 44%

Wednesday ........ . ..... . 44% 44



Chicago, (Sept. 30).—No. 3 white oats,

41(i>41§./,c; standard, 42@42%c; Dec.,

42%c; May, 4535c per bu.





Beans.—This market is inactve although

there has been a nominal advance in quo-

tations for prompt and immediate ship-

ments of 10c per bushel since last week.

\Veather conditions have favored getting

the bulk of the new crop houSed in good

condition, so that the quality of th1s

year’s crop is certain to be better than

that of last season. Cash beans for im-

mediate and prompt shipment are now

quoted at $1.95; Oct., $1.90 per bu.



Chicago, (Sept. 30).-Market is steady.

Offerings small; stock of beans low. Quo-

tations unchanged; pea beans, hand- pick-

ed, choice. $2.10: red kidneys, $2.25 @2. 30;

white kidneys, $3 per bu.



Rye.——The rye market is dull with no

change in value-9: cash No. 2 quoted at

680. which is last week’s figures. At

Chicago cash No. 2 is quoted at 651/261)

title, which is 1c below last week’s quota-

tions.



Barley.——This grain is quiet with limit-

ed receipts during the week At Chicago

quotations range from 58(1785c per bu.,

which is about last week’s range. At

Milwaukee melting grades are selling at

(17@820 per 1311., which is last week’s quo-

i- ition4.



Cloverseed. ”Them has been a reaction

111 the seed market during the past week,

prime October now being quoted at $7.50;





Tit-c. $7.50 per bu. Sales of March were

made at $7.65. with October alsike at $10

per bu. At Toledo prime cash sold at

$7.50: October and December at $7.45;

March, $7.55; October alsike, $10.35 per

bushel.





Alfalfa Seed—Prime selling at

$7.50 per bushel.

Timothy Seed.-T‘his market is un-

changed. with prime spot selling at $2.50

per bushel, which is last week’s figure.

At Toledo prime cash, old seed, sold at

$2.40; new September and October at





$2.42%; March. $2.55 per bushel.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.





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Flown—Jobbing lots in 1,4 paper sacks

are selling on the Detroit market per 196

lbs. as follows: Best patent, $5.40; sec-





ond, $5.10; straight $4.90; spring patent,

$5. 10: rye flour. $4. 60 per bbl. .



Feed. ———In 100— lb. sacks, jobbing lots:

middlings $29; cracked corn, $27: coarse

Bran, $26; coarSe middlings. $27; fine

my meal, $31; corn and oat chop, $27.50

per ton





Hay. —Condition of deal is.unchanged.

Carlots on the track at Detroit are: No.

1 timothy $16@16.50; standard $15@15.50;





THE"‘MICH”I'GAN' FA‘kM‘ER w





No. 2,$l4@14.50;5113ht mixed, $15@15. 50;

No.1 mixed, $13.5



Chicago. -—-Good marlket. Demand good

for timothy paiticularly. Supply light.

Choice timothy quoted at $19. 50@20 per





ton; No.1, $18. 50@19.;50 No.2, $17@

17. 50.



New York.—~Market easy with prices a.

shade 'lower. Best demand is for‘good

timothy. Large baled, No. 1 timothy,

$20.50@21; standard, $19.50@20; light clo-





ver mixed, $18@19; heavy mixed, $17@18

per ton.

Straw.—-Detroit. ——Steady. Rye, $8@9;

wheat and oat straw, $7@7. 50 per ton.

Chicago. —Quotable steady as follows:





Eye, $7@7. 50; oat, $6@6.50; wheat, $6@

.50.



New York—Higher. New rye straw,

$18 per ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





Butter.—The local market continues

firm, despite signs of weakness at other

points. Offerings of dairies and packing

stock are not to the demand and a 10

advance is recorded. Quotations:

creamery, 31c per lb; firsts. 30c;

23c; packing stock, 210 per lb.



Elgin.—Market firm at 31c per lb.



Chicago—The slight price reductions

noted this week affect the better qual-

ities of butter which are comparatively

easy. The under grades are barely steady

and still a little slow, but stocks gradu-





 





dairy,





ally being reduced. Quotations: Extra

creamery, 30%@31c; extra firsts, 29@

29%c; firsts, 25%@26c; seconds, 24%@

25c; ladies, 23%@24c; packing stock, 22%

@230.





New York.—-—An unsettled condition is

apparent in this market, due to the fact

that receivers are carrying over consid-

erable stock of all grades. Packing stock

is holding its own but creameries and

dairies are off 1(11-11/2c with most sales be-

ing made at inside quotations. Quota-

tionsz Creamery extras, 30%((D (131c; firstS,

271/2@29%c; seconds 25%(112;7c state

dairy. finest, 29%(1'30c; good to prime,

27((1‘281/2c common to fair, 2467126%c;

packing, 21611240 as to quality.



Eggs.—-The general tone of the egg

market is good at all points. Locally t'he

demand is excellent for good stock and

quotations show a gain of 1c over last

week in the face of liberal offerings.

Current offerings, candied, quoted at 25c

per dozen.



Chicago—A general advance of 1c over

last week’s figures is noted in this mar-

ket. The better grades are very steady

at the advance and, despite the fact that

Offerings are running ahead of this pe-

riod a year ago. there is no accumula-

tion. Refrigerators continue in good de-

mand and firm. Quotations are: Miscel-

laneous lots, cases included, 17@25c, ac-

cording to quality; (10.. cases returned,

161436124140; ordinary firsts, 22(7231': firsts

25((26c; refrigerator stock in good de-

mand at 23fi231/2c for April firsts.



New York—This market continues ir-

regular with a fair interest in fancy

grades of fresh gathered stock. Former

quotations, however, are being shaded

someuhit but the outside figure on

strictly fresh western eggs is 1c higher.

Fresh gathered extras 33((1‘35c; ext1a

firsts, 30((1‘32c; firsts 27@29c per dozen;

western gathered whites, 28((D39c per doz





Poultry. ——Young and old chickens are

on a level as to values in the local mar-

ket. All kinds and grades continue firm.





% (£116c per

11((D12c;

17@18c;





Quotations: Live—Springs, 15

1b; hens, 15%@16c; No. 2 hens,

old roosters, 10617110; turkeys,

geese, 11(1'12c; ducks, 14((D15c.

Chicago. -—Chickens were unusually

plentiful at this Week’s opening. the re-

ceipts including considerable thin, light

stook. The demand was only fair and

both fowls and springs had to be marked





down %@lc. Other kinds steady at for-

mer figures. Quotations on live are:

Turkeys, good weight 19c; others, 12c;





wals general run, 141/_.c; spring chickens,

14c; ducks, 14c: geese, 8((D13c; guinea

hens, $4((D5 per dozen.



New York—Market quiet with values

practically unchanged. Fresh dressed

western chickens, 17(D24c; fowls, 14((D

19%c turkeys, 18(1120c.



Cheese—Michigan and New York flats

a good cent higher. Market firm. VVhole-

salc lots, Michigan flats, 15((D151/2c; New

York flats, 17@171/2c brick cream, 17@

17%0; limburger, 14%(D15c.





 





 





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples—Apples and firm

with a consistent demand. particularly

fer the best grades. Prices higher. Good

grades from $3.506D4 per hhl. while poorer

kinds. which constitute a large proportion

of the bulk, are selling around $2 per

bbl. At Chicago values rule from $2.50@

4.75 per bbl. Market is firm for the high

grades and the demand is ample to keep

the houses clean and allow no surplus to

accumulate.



Grapes.——Delawares and Niagaras are

steady at 40(D450 per peck basket. At

(‘hicago the market is fair with receipts

small. Prices advanced. General quota-

tion 18((D210 for 8-lb. baskets.



Peaches.—Supply has improved and val-

ues are down. Prices range from $1. 25@



50 for choice and $1. 50@175 for fancy

West Michigan stock. The Chicago trade

is receiving ample supplies, but quality

is generally inferior and fruit does not

stand up well. Prices rule from 50c@





1.50 per bu.



Plums. —-In light supply. Quoted at

$1. 50513175 per bu. At Chicago prices

range from 75c@$2 with supply meagre.



Pears.—-Plentiful and selling at $1. 5061)

1. 7.5 per bu. for Bartletts. Duchess $3. 25

@3. 50 per bu.



Potatoes—Freer offerings has made

trading a little easier. alth0ugh price

changes are small. Prices rule at 90c

per bu. Receipts at Chicago showed an-

other increase and the trade rules easier

at lower values Receipts last week, 135

cars; previous week, 130 cars, and cor-





are SOHI‘CG





Extra .





responding with last year, 95 cars. The

demand is good. with Michigan stock go-

ing at 70@75c per bu.

TOmatoes.—Demand good. Offerings

smaller. Home- -grown, 90c@$1 per bu.

Cabbage. —Steady at last week’ 5 figures.

Good quality quoted at _$2@2. 25 per bbl.





PRICES ON DETROIT— EASTERN MAR-

KET.





 





 





A large amount of farm produce is be-

ing sold at the eastern market these days.

Sheds are altogether too small to accom-

modate the teams. Buyers packed the

aiSles. Peaches offered more freely with

the best price around $1. 75 per bu. To-

matoes not so plentiful and majority of

good, exchanging at 70@800; potatoes

lower, 80@90c; cauliflower, $1. 75@2 per

bu; cabbage, 60c for both red and white;

squash, 50@6OC; melons, $1@1. 25, car-

rots, $60; peppers, green, 700; do.,- red,

$2; lettuce, 300; turnips, 500; apples, $1. 25

C01. 50; pears, $1@1. 25; celery, 25@35c per

large bunch; hay, loose, higher at $15@

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The season for peaches will soon be

over, smocks having appeared and they

are the latest peach. Peaches ranged

from $1((D2 on the market Tuesday morn-

ing. Apples have wide range in quality

and pr,ice choice stock ranging from 850

@$1. 25. Kieffers are the leading pear and

are worth 75c@$1. Grapes are bringing

75@9OC per bu., and 12@14c in 8-lb. baS-

kets. The end of the fruit season is near

at hand. In vegetables the potato market

is somewhat off, with local quotations at

65@75c. Tomatoes slumped Tuesday and

sold at 40@60c, the lowest of the season.

Eggs ale film at 260; butter unchanged.

In live poultry, fowls are quoted at 12@

13c, springs at 14@150. Dressed hogs

are worth 12@12%c.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.

September 29,1913.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, New York).



Receipts of stOck here today as follows.

Cattle 200 cars; hogs 85 double decks;

sheep and lambs 70 double decks; calves

1300 head.



\V'ith 200 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and with 23. 000 repoxted in

Chicago and with the butchers every-

whereb expecting the duty to come off of

Canadian cattle this peek, Oul market

was in almost a demoralized condition;

the heavy cattle selling from 25((71500 per

cwt. lower than last week, and all butch-

er cattle from 15(025c lower. Common

grades of cattle of all kinds weie ex-

tremelv dull. Market was draggy and

dull from start to finish, and there wele

selvleral loads of “eighty cattle left un-

soc.





We quote: Best 1350 to 1500~1b. steers,

$8.50((1D8.75; best 1200 to 1300-lb. steers,

$8. 25((18 50; best 1100 to 1200-111. steers,





38(68 25 coarse and plain weighty steers,





$7 21O710; choice handv steeis 1000 to

1100 $8(18.35: fair to good (10., $767.50;

grassy 800 to 1000-lb. steers, $6.756D725;

best cows, $6.50((D7; butcher cows, $5.25((D

6; cutters; $4.50fD4.75; trimmers, $3.75@

4.25; best heifers $7.50((1?8: medium

butcher heifers. $6.25r1'7: stock heifers.

$5((D5.25; best feeding steers. $7((D7.50;

fair to good do.. $6.25(«D6.75; com-





mon light stockers, $5.50((D6; best butcher

bulls, $6.75fl7.25: stock bulls, $5((D5.50; best





bologna bulls, $5.50@6; best milkers and

springers, $70@80; common to good do..

$50((‘160. .





“’ith 85 double decks of hogs here to-

day. we had an active trade on every-

thing, especially pigs and lights; this kind

sold considerably higher, while the mixed

and yorkers sold a strong dime higher

than Saturday’s beSt time. The bulk of

the mixed and medium Oweights. also

yorkers selling around $9.5 Best select—

ed lots a few bunches at $9.15: {heavy at

$951930 as to quality; best grade pigs

$8.50rfl'9: as to weight: common kinds $5@

6: roughs $8fi850: stags $6.50((D7.50.



The sheep and lamb market was active

today. with prices about 200 higher than

the close of last week: most of the choice

lambs selling from $7.50((D7.60; few at

$7.65: yearlings $5.50((D6. Look for about

Steady prices the balance of the week

with moderate receipts.



We quote: Choice lambs, $7.50@7.60:

c'ull to fair lambs, $6((D7.40: yearlings $5.50





((D6: bucks, $317ka25: wethers, $5((D5.25;

handy ewes, $4.50((D4.75: heavy (10., $4617





4.25; cull sheep. $303. 50' veals choice to





 





extra, $11 50((D12: fair to good (10., $10@

11; heavy calves, $5. 50((D8.

Chicago.

September 29. 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Received today ...... 23.000 3.9.000 38.000

Same day last year. . .18,916 17.164 63.310





Received last week...‘54,932 137,412 231,647

Same week last year.57.351 86.533 177,221



Last week saw sheep and lamb ship-

ments fr0m here of 231,647 head, being

'the heaviest of the year and chiefly feed-

ers.



The receipts of pigs today are estimat-

ed at 10,000 head, being much the largest

of the season and mainly from Iowa and

other cholera-stricken regions.



Hogs are active today at firm values,

with heavy lots 5c or more higher. Hogs

sell at an extreme range of $8@9.



Cattle are in slow demand today, and

prices are largely 10c lbwar, heavy steers

being the worst sellers. At a late hour

not much trading has been done.



Sheep and lambs are in lively request

today, especially feeders, .which are in

large supply and show more firmness. The

best range lambs bring $7. 35, an advance

of 10c.



I—IOgs received last week averaged in

weight but 214 lbs., comparing with 217

lbs. a week earlierand 232 lbs. 9. month

ago. The average was 233 lbs. 3. year





OCT. ' 4, 1913.-





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ago, 215 lbs. two years ago and 264 lbs.





three years ago.



Cattle haVe been making further high

records for another week, the choicest

beeves soaring to the highest prices re-

corded since last January, with the best

class bringing $9.25@9.50 and the greater

part of the Steers offered crossing the

scales at $8.25@9.25. For the commoner

class of grassy light-Weight steers there

were buyers at $7.15@8.25, while sales

were made of medium class steers at $8.50

and upward, with a good kind bringing

$8.90 ‘and over, while medium to prime

little yearling steers found purchasers at

$8.50@9.40. Range steers were ready sell-

e-rs at $7608.50 for most of the offerings,

with no large supply on the market and

few that were on the feeder order. Na-

tive butchering cows and heifers shared

in the upward movement and sold at

$5.10@8.‘50, a few selling up to $8.80. Cut-

ters sold at $4.40@5, canners at $3.40@

4.35 and bulls at $5@8, yearling bulls top—

ping the market. There was a strong

desire upon the part of farmers in sev-

eral states to buy stockers and feeders,

and a fair business was transacted,'al—

though advancing prices and competition

for the fieshier class of feeder steers from

the packers were obstacles that restricted

the movement of cattle to feeding dis-

tricts. Stock steers sold at $5.25@7.65,

while feeders sold usually at $6.50@8.15

for lots carrying considerable weight.

Calves. because of light offerings, sold

away up, buyers paying from $5@7 per

100 lbs for the heavier ueights up to

$10. 50@12. 10 for the choicer class of light

veale1s.Milkers and springers sold on

a basis of $55@110 per head for common

to prime, most backward springers going

to killers. During the latter part of the

Week prices for the general run of cattle

and calves declined sharply, the demand

becoming poor.



Hogs have been bringing good prices for

the better class of coxn- -fed offeiings, the

spiead in values between choice light and

medium butchering lots of the class so





popular with eastern shippers and the

rough. heavy packing sows being ex-

tiemelV Wide. Increasing 1eceipts have





resulted in breaks in prices, however, not-

withstanding a very good demand for

choice lots to ship to eastem packing

points I‘Fually the best shipping demand

is expeiienced on Monday, although it is

apt to be of reasonably good proportions

011 other days, except near the week’s

close. Because of the larger percentage

of pigs fmced on the market from re-

gions where cholera prevails extensively,

the recent average weight of the receipts

Shrank on a single week from 231 to 217

lbs. and pigs have been selling at ex-

tremely low prices on the whole..1s com-

pared “ith prices realized for desirable

consignments of hogs. As compared with

other yeais, hogs are selling well, al-

though some stoekmen are inclined to be

dissatisfied on account of the high prices

foi cor.n Demand for flesh and cured

hog products continues on a large scale.

At the close of the week hogs brought

$195109, compaied with $7. 85699. 30 when

the week opened, the cheapel kind selling

closer to the better class. Pigs blought

$408.25 throwout packing sous $7017. 90,

Stags $8.25fi'8. 70 and boals $1@3 25.





Lambs and sheep have continued to

come to market in enormous numbers,

Supplies running larger in volume than





ever and far ahead of a year ago. There

was a geneially good demand during the

past week, particularly for range feeding

lambs prices for which ruled much stead-

iei than fo1 other offerings, but mutton

lambs had to ge decidedly lower in price

As usual sheep and yearlings displayed

less weakness than lambs as there wele

fewe1 of them, the great bulk of the daily

111-rivals consisting of lambs. The demand

for feeders is expected to continue very

large all thiough October, or up to the

close of the 1ange shipping season. After

that much higher prices for sheep and

lambs may be looked for. The week clos-

ed with lambs selling on the basis of $1411

7.25. yearlings at $4. 75@5. 50, wetheis at

$4074. 60 ewes at $2. 50((D4. 25 and bucks at





$3((i3. 50. Feedeis bought 1ange lambs at

$6616.55. yearlings at $4.75@5.50 and weth-





ers at $4654.50.



Horses were not in as good demand last

week. on the whole, as a week earlier, and

sometimes the auction was cut short be-

cause of lack of buyers. The best demand

was for choice workers with a fair call

f01 horses to send to the lumber regions

of Maine, Michigan and TVisconsin. The

pomer horses continued bad sellers around

$856100 per head, while the best exha

heavy (lrafters were firm at $3000350 and

no large offerings. More horses sold for

$150((D275 than at other figures, with not

manly going below $125 or above the $30

mar <





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





(Continued from page 301).





lower temperature now. “’heat and oats

made a fine yield. Few fields of corn



made anything but fodder; cowpeas-and

hay were fair. Silos are prevalent here

and nea1ly all were filled early. Alfalfa

is being tried in this county. Those who

had alfalfa fields haivested four good

cr.ops A good many have sown alfalfa

this fall. Stock water is Very scarce, a

great many haul water, some have sold

their stock on this account. Potatoes are

a. fair crop. Fruit is rather scarce.





Dickinson 00., Sept. 23.—A good soak-

ing rain last week relieved the longest and

severest drouth we have had in 40 years.

“'heat averaged 15 to 20 bu. on upland

and 20 to 40 bu. on bottom land, good

quality. Corn total failure except where

it was put in the silo. Pastures which

have been bare all summer are beginning

to green up again. Alfalfa made a good

seed crop. Prairie hay and alfalfa selling

at $15@20 per ton. Ensilage at $7. 50 per

ton: corn 84c; wheat 80c; potatoes a fail-

ure. shipped in at $1.20 per bu. No fruit

except apples; hogs scarce Selling at 8c.
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all other markets. are right up to date.

Thursday’s Detroxt Live Stock .markets

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Thursday's Market.

Spetember 25, 1913.





Cattle.



Receipts, 1194. "Market steady with

Wednesday; 10@15c higher than last

week.



We quote: Extra dry-fed steers and





heifers, $8@8.50; steers and heifers, 1000

to 1200, $7.50@8; do 800 to 1000. $7@7.50;

grass steers and heifers that are fat, 800

to 1000, $7@7.50; do 500 to 700, $6.50@

6.75; choice fat cows, $6@6.50; good do

$5.50@5.80; common do $4.50@5.50; can—

ners, $3.50@4.25; choice heavy bulls, $6.50

@7; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $5.50@

6.25; stock bulls, $4.75@5.25; choice feed-

ing steers, 800 to 1000, $7@7.25; fair do,

800 to 1000, $6.75@7; choice stockers, 500

to 700, $6.50@6.85; fair do, 500 to 700, $6.25

616.50; stock heifers, $5@6; milkers, large

young, medium age, $60@85; common do

$40@50.



'Johnson sold Newton B. Co. 9 cows and

bulls av 970 at $5.50, 1 bull weighing 1260

at $3, 2 steers av 835 at $7, 6 do av 550





at $ .



Sandall sold same 7 butchers av 854 at

$6.25, 2 cows av 895 at $4, 6 steers av

763 at $7.10.



Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 2 cows

av 1045 at $6.30, 10 butchers av 694 at

$6, 2 steers av 950 at $7, 2 cows av 950

at $5; to Bresnuhan 1 steer weighing 890

at $6.75, 2 do av 1010 at $8; to Sweet &

Co. 5 stockers av 496 at $6.30; to Breiten-

beck 13 butchers av 719 at $6.70, 2 cows

av 875 at $4.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 do

av 1017 at $6, 2 do av 1135 at $6, 1 do

weighing 1040 at $5.50, 2 do av 1010 at

$6, 2 do av 975 at $5.50; to Sullivan P.

Co. 4 cows av 1170 at $6.20; to Ham-

mond, S. & Co. 1 bull weighing 1080 at

$6; to Marx 3 cows av 1103 at $6.10, 6

butchers av 828 at $7.10; to Mich. B. Co.

7 steers av 983 at $8, 9 do av 786 at $7.25,

9 butchers av 685 at $6.25, 16 do av 560

at $6.50, 2 steers av 925 at $7.50, 6 cows

av 951 at $6, 2 canners av 940 at $4, 1

bull weighing 1280 at $6. 3 steers av 1133

at $8, 1 cow weighing 900 ill. $5, 5 do av

836 at $6; to Newton B. Co. 20 steers av

1120 at $8.10, 20 do av 597 at $6.75, 2 do

av 705 at $6.75, 22 do av 830 at $7.20, 6

do av 626 at $6.75, 2 oxen av 1340 at

$5.50, 1 bull weighing 1320 ‘at $6, 5 cows

av 894 at $5.50, 1 heifer weighing 680 at

$6.75; to Puchs 4 bulls av 670 at $5.25.



Spicer & R. sold Sweet & C0. 15 stock-

ers av 645 at $6.75; to Bresnahan 9 do

av 620 at $6.50, 7 do av 554 at $5.25; to

Mason 13. Co. 4 butchers av 750 at $5.50;

to Cooper 1 heifer weighing 710 at $5, 1

(l0 weighing 730 at $5; to Kull 6 butchers

av 721 at $5.90, 1 cow weighing 980 at $5;

to Kamman B. Co. 20 steers av 740 at

$6.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow weighing

970 at $4.



‘loe Cum. Co. sold Bresnahan 4 butch-

crs av 790 at $6.50, 1 cow Weighing 1000

:‘t $5.35; to Sweet & Co. 3 stockers av

490 at $6.50; to Newton B. Co. 4 butch-

crs av 892 at $5.60; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 1 bull weighing 1820 at $6.60; to Brei-

lcnbeck 16 steers av 952 at $7.55; to

Sullivan P. Co, 2 bulls av 890 at $6, 1

steer weighing 790 at $6.50; to Mich. B.

Co. 24 do av 842 at $7.25, 11 do av 693 at

"725; to Sullivan P. (‘0. 7 butchers av

m3 at $6.25; to Dennis 3 cows av 973

at $5.



Bishop, B. & H, sold MaSon B. CO. 2

canners av 825 at $4; to Mich. E. Co. 2

steers av 1045 at $7.40, 3 cows av 1010 at

$6, 1 do weighing 1000 at $5.50, 2 heifers

av 715 at $6.75. 9 butchers av 531 at

$5.50, 5 do av 750 at $5.70. 3 do av 707

at $6.90, 29 do av 770 at $6. 4 do av 790

at $6.85, '8 cows av 990 at $5.35; to Jesse

4 stockers av 637 at $6.50; to Parker, W.

& Co. S cows av 825 at $4.25; to Sullivan

1’. C0. 3 bulls av 750 at $5.75, 1 steer

weighing 950 at $8.25, 9 butchers av 496

at $5.25, 4 bulls and cows av 935 at $6.25,

8 butchers av 610 at $6.75, 5 steers av

940 at $7.30, 1 do weighing 840 at $7. 1

cow weighing 960 at $5.50. 1 canner

weighing 840 at $4.25. 7 butchers av 786

at $6.80, 1 cow weighing 950 at $4.50, 2

do av 1015 at $5.60, 1 do weighing 1150 at

."6.75; to Taggnrt 3 stockers :iv 533 at

$6.75: to chct & (‘0. 3 feelers av 773

at $6.75; to Newton B. Co. 2 canners av

900 at $4.25, 2 cows av 1045 at $6.50, 2

heifers av 780 at $7.30: to Heinrich 11

steers av 1028 at $8. 2 do av 71.5 at $7; to

Goose 1 bull weighing 1360 at $7; to

Parker, W. & Co. 13 yearling steers av

.75 at $7.75; to Mason B. Co. 1 cow weigh-

ing 1090 at $6.25. 1 do weighing 880 at

$4.50. 1 heifer weighing 870 at $7; to

Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull weighing 930 at $6,

4 cows av 950 at $5.75, 8 do av 900 at

$4.25: to Schuman 2 heifers av 775 at

; to Taggerdone 6 feeders av 700 at



to. Smith 24 stockers av 500 at

$5.30; to Thompson Bros. 6 cows av 850

at $4.30, 2 steers av 940 at $7.25, 2 cows

av 890 at $5.25: to Rattkowsky 14 butch-

ers av 750 at $6; to Kull 2 steers av 1050

at $7.75; to Marx 6 do nv 765 at $7.25, 2

do av 870 at $7.25; to ’l‘hcmpscn Bros. 3

do av 810 at $6, 2 he‘fcrs av 770 at $7.50,

4 do av 917 at $7. 1 mm weighing 980 at

$6; to Sullivan P, (‘0, 7 butc“crs av 723

at $6.80; to Goose 11 do av 463 at $5.35:

to Mason B. Co. 6 do av 625 at $6.75, 5

cows av 916 at $5 75: to Bresnahan 16

heifers av 570 at $6.60: to Taggerdine 9

stockers av 602 at $6.60: to Parker. W.

& Co. 2 steers av 1220 at $8.25: to Ham-

mond, S. Co. 1 bull weighing 940 at

$5.50.





 





TH‘E, MICHIGAN FAR’MER.





. Veal Calves.





Receipts, 421. Market strong. Best,

$11@12.50; others, $6@10.’50.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 2 av 145

at $12,'3 av 120 at $10; to Parker, W. &

Co. 5 av 126, at $12, 5 av 130 at $12, 2 av

150 at $12.50, 5 av 125 at $12; to Goose

6 av 500 at $5.25, 2 av 140 at $12.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 6

av 165 at $12.50, 5 av 170 at $12, I weigh-

ing 230 at $11, 7 av 170 at $12.50, 7 av 170

at $12.50, 7 av 206 at $11; to Applebaum

4 av 325 at $6.50; to Newton 8. Co. 4 av

175 at $12.50, 3 av 150 at $11.25, I weigh-

ing 140 at $12.50, 1 weighing 270 at $12.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co, 2

av 155 at $11, 5 av 145 at $12.50, 4 av 145

at $12.50, 5 av 130 at $12; to Newton B.

CO. 2 av 120 at $10, 5 av 155 at $12.50; to

Parker, 17V. & Co. 3 av 165 at $12.50. 4 av

110 at $11.50, 5 av 250 at $8, 11 av 150 at

$12, 4 av 130 at $12.50, 2 av 180 at $7, 5

av 165 at $12.50, 10 av 168 at $12. 5 av

155 at $11.50; to Goose 6 av 400 at $7.50;

to McGuire 15 av 150 at $12.50, 4 av 150

at $10.50. 1 weighing 300 at $8, 1 weigh-

ing 170 at $12.



Roe‘Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 2 av

190 at $10.50.





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 7922. Market opened slow;





run heavy; will probably c10s‘e lower.

Best lambs, $6.75@7; fair to good lambs,





$6@6.50; light to common lambs, $5@6;

fair to good sheep, $3.50@4; culls and

common. $250693.





Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

32 lambs av 70 at $6.75. 23 do av 83 at

$7, 65 sheep av 73 at $2.75.



Sandail sold Young 104 lambs av 63

at $6.60.



Taggart sold Hammond. S. & Co. 34

lambs av 75 at $6.95. 34 do av 60 at $6.90.



Bennett & S. sold Sullivan P. CO. 13

lambs av 75 at $7.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 35 lambs

av 75 at $7, 25 do av 75 at $6.75; to Cos-

tello 32 lambs av 50 at $5.50; to Goose

10 sheep av 106 at $3.50; to Sullivan P.

CO. 10 lambs av 73 at $6.85; to Youngs

25 do av 75 at $6.75.



Haley & M. sold Bray 8 sheep av 125

at $4, 12 yearliugs av 11.0 at $5; to Cos-

tello 35 lambs av 55 at $6; to Newton B.

Co. 31 do av 67 at $6.75, 54 sheep av 110

at $3.75; to Applcbaum 13 do av 110 at

$3.75; to HammOnd, S. & Co. 27 lambs av

73 at $6.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 100

lambs av 71 at $7; to Powers 15 do av

75 at $7. 460 do av 75 at $7: to Sutton 152

do av 65 at $6.25, 67 do av 60 at $6; to

Sullivan P. Co. 22 do av 60 at $5.75. 34

do av 70 at $7, 26 do av 83 at $6.75, 59

do av 55 at $6, 4 shcep av 120 at $4. 43

lambs av 73 at $6.60; to Thompson Bros.

75 sheep av 93 at $3, 17 do av 100 at

$3.50; to Nagle P. Co. 18 sheep av 120 at

$3.75, 65 lamb: av 73 at $7, 38 do av 75

at $6.90, 10 sheep av 91 at $4, 24 do av

125 at $4, 23 do av 105 at $3.65; to Sulli-

van P. (‘0. 22 do nv 120 at $3.50; to Ham-

mond, S. & (‘0. 40 do av 85 at $4. 30

lambs av 70 at $6.90. 8 do av 80 at $3.35;

to Nagle P. Co. 47 lambs av 67 at $7.





Hogs.





Receipts, 41.87. Nothing sold up to noon;

looks as follows:



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $8.806I8.90; pigs, $750618; mixed,

$8.506Z/880; heavy. $8.25@8.75.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

(‘0. 250 av 180 at $8.85. 810 av 190 at

$3.80, 605 av 170 at $8.75, 300 av 170 at

$8.70, 210 av 140 at $8.25.



Roe Com, Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 240

av 200 at $8.80, 175 av 190 at $8.90, 25 av

210 at $8.65.



Sumlry shippers sold same 460 av 200

at $8.80.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 230

av 180 at $8.85, 50 av 190 at $8.80.



Sundry shippers sold same 375 av 185

at $8.80. -





 





Friday’s Market.

September 26, 1913.

Cattle.





Receipts this week,

1621; market steady.



\Ve quote: Extra dry-fed steers and

heifers, $8618.50; stems and heifers; 1000

to 1200, $750618; do 800 to 1000, $7697.50:

grass steers and hcifers that are fat. 800

to 1000, $7627.50; do 500 to 700. $6.50@

6.75; choice fat cows, $6,656.50; good do

$550,665.80; Common cows, $4.506I.5.50;

czinners, $3.506M25: choice heavy bulls,

$650627; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $5.50

6176.25; stock bulls, $4.756B525: choice

feeding steers, 800 to 1000, $761725; fair

do 800 to 1000, $675607; choice stockers.

500 to 700, $6.506i6.85; fair slockcrs, 500

to 700, $6.256?6.50; stock heifers, $5606;

milkcrs, large, young, mcdium age, $6064)

87.50; common milkcrs, $406150-



Veal Calves.





Receipts this week. 517, last week. 500;

market 50c lowcr. Best, $116312; others,





1378; last week,





$76010.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 9091; last week,

8491; market dull at Thursday’s prices.





Best lambs, $6.50@6.75; fair to good do,

$6606.25; light to common (10., $5605.50;

fair to good sheep, $3.506P4.25; culls and

common, $250623.

Hogs. _



Receipts this week, 5331; last week,

4418; market 10c higher.



Range of prices: Light to good butch—

ers, $8.856DS.95; pigs, $7607.75: light york-

ers, $8.50@8.95; heavy, $8.25@8.75.





 





Foreign beef is entering the United

States to a greater extent than ever be-

fore. and the indications are strong that

such importations are going to grow con-

siderably in the near future and up to

such a time :ws our American farmer-

stockmen produce more beef. Late offi-

cial figures from Washington show that

between two million and three million

pounds of fresh beef, nearly all of it from

Australia and Argentina, have entered

our ports within the last three months,





 





 





the indications being that such imports

for the current fiscal year will exceed

eight million pounds. Heretofore, such

importations have not averaged above

333,000 lbs. a year. Several days ago

there arrived in New York a cargo of

1,000 quarters of Argentine beef, the first

big shipment ever‘brought over. The

various big meat firms of this country

took a great interest in the matter and

had representatives on the docks to ex-

amine the beef. It was reported as fine

in quality as any beef in this country,

and the federal inspector stated that it

was in first-class condition. The im-

porter stated that the beef left the ship

at about 101,40. per pound, without the

tariff, the latter making the price 12c a

pOund, or a cent less than our American

beef. It was not thought that the re-

cent importaticns would at first reduce

the price of our beef, but that in time

it would work in that direction, if im-

ports were kept up. ~



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removed in a few seconds without disturbing the

Hoot/or. Heats water with one-half less fuel than

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18 Wall St, Deerfield, Wis.





 





 





IGas Engines

CHEAP





l 15 H. P. International Harvester. ":

2 12 H. P. Alanna. ’

l 12 H. P. Ideal.





These machines are mounted

on steel trucks and are complete

with cooling system.



Prices much less than new.



Have been used a. very little.

Were taken in exchange for

other machines.





Also have one 12 H. P. Tractor

in A-l condition.





Address Box 299, Lansing, Michigan.





 





 





 





We Want HAY&.STHAW





. We get the top price on consignments, make

liberal advancem: ta and prompt remittances.





Daniel McCaiirey’s Sons Co.





PITTSBURG, PA.





Reference. Washington Trust Company. or any bank in City





 





Potatoes, A plea. We pay highest market price

for car lna s. The E. L. Richmond Co" Dolrofl.





Mlch. Responsible representatives wanted.





wishing to dispose of HAY

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ANS at to rice ‘1;

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2 on“ FERRETS Theiy hustledrats and rabbits. Small,

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Tile Your Farm





with a Cyclone ’l‘ile Ditching Machine and

end your ditching troubles at once. When

you’re through with the work on your land

you can earn many dollars by cutting ditches

for your neighbors. The





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——ls guaranteed to live up to all our claims

and save enough in cutting drains to pav

for the tile you put into them;



—price places it within reach of the average

farmer.



You know the benefits and advantages de-

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matter off any longer. Hundreds of farm-

ers are using Cyclone Ditchers to dig their

ditches. You ought to get busy with a Cy-

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what it is doing for hundreds of others.





Write A Postal





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the Official Detroit Market for

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Breeders’ Directory~Conlinued.





YORKSHIRE Swine—We have some nice sprin

pigs now ready for solo. Write for discription an

OSTRANDER BROS. Morley. Mich.





BIG TYPE MULE FOOT HUGS—All a as to

35 salon Prolific and hardy. Best breed for Mioghiganl:

Also Ponies. J. DUNLA P,Box M.Wlllinmsport. Ohio





YORKSHIRE SiViNE~Young boar: ready for service. Also





spring farrowcd gilt: and Aug. fan-owed pigs for sale.

(ll-)0. S McMUlLifiN, Grand Ledge. Mich.





' —‘Pigs furrowed in A Lt 1’

Large Yorksmres prize winning stocklfg‘fqor 5:32

JONES & LUTZ. Oak Grove. Michigan.





IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES





Sons and guts-bred for September and October





 





prices.





 





Pairs not akin,





 





furrow: Service hours. l’igs all ages. Breeding

and prices upon application.

W. L. COOK. R. 42, Ada. Michigan.





 





Ll lie Farmstead YORKSHIHES





Spring bred glits all sold. Gilts bred for next August

farrow'. Se tember was either sex, pairs and trios

not akin. rders booked for spring pigs.





COLON C. LlLLlE. Cooper-ville. Mich





 





Cooked Feed Means Boiler Slock





D1 99;: Profils”





Cooked feed prevents hog cholera and other stock diseases.





Costs no more to serve than raw.





cattle and poultry thrive on it.

cold days, Just as you do.





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They need warm cooked food on





. Heesen Feed Cooker





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THE: MICHIGAN FARMER





 





 





OCT. 4, 1913.





 





 





Engines and Dairy Profits





The kind of power that brings in profits to the man who keeps cows is the





kind that's steady, strong and always working. He must be able to use his

power plant in all his work from husking corn to separating cream.





The Olds and Falk Engines





are built to give just this service-—to do a hundred jobs and do..them well.

The Olds burns gasoline—the Fall: burns kerosene. Both are reliable, pow-

erful engines. Working with the other Rumely machines, they are profit-

making combinations.



Rumely makes a complete list of farm-power machinery—saw rigs, pump jacks, etc. and a full

line of corn huskers, hullers,

cream separators, shellers and

tractors, including the Oil-

Pull, CasPull, TigerPull and

Toehold. See your dealer

about these Rumely farm-

power combinations and write

for data-books on any mach-

ine or combination you are

interested in.





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(Incorporated)

Power-F arming Machinery





Battle Creek, = Michigan.

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Rumely Feed Mill

An all-steel, burr type feed mill.

Grinds car com or small grain.

Built for wear and large capacity.



Rumely Cream Separator

A close-skimming large capacity

separator. Patent distributing

blades, and other money-making

features. Made in three sizes,of from





500 to lOOO lbs. capacity per hour.





Watts Corn Sheller





A strong, durable sheller of large

capacity. Made in 4 sizes. Capac-

ity 75-400 bushels an hour.





The Home Creamery

A simple, sanitary, butter-making

outfit, made in l4 styles and sizes.

A regular factory outfit built to fit

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LIVE STOCK AWARDS AT THE STATE

FAIR





 





Shorthorn Cattle.



Bull 3 yrs.—lst, N. \V. Wagner, Fre-

mont, Ohio; 2nd, A. E. Stevenson, Port

Huron, Mich. ‘



Bull 2 yrs.——1$t, John Lessiter & Sons,

Clurkston, Mich.; 2nd, Jay H. Smith, Ann

Arbor, Mich.; 3rd, L. C. Kelly, Ypsilanti,

Mich.





Sr. Yearling.—1St, Stevenson.





Jr. Yearling.—lst, \Vagner; 2d, Lessiter.‘





Sr. Calf—let, Smith; 2nd, Wagner; 3rd

and 5th, Stevenson; 4th, Lessiter.



Jr. Calf—lst and 2nd, Stevenson; 3rd,

Lessiter; 4th, Kelly.



Cow 3 yrs—1st and 4th, XVagner; 2nd,

Smith; 3rd, StevenSOn; 5th, Lessiter.



Heifer 2 yrs.—lst and 2nd, “’agner;

3rd, Stevenson; 4th, Smith; 5th, Lessiter.

.Sr. Yearling—1st and 2nd, Stevenson;

3rd, Smith; 4th, Lessiter.



Jr. Yeai'ling—lst and 5th, Wagner; 2nd

and 3rd, Stevenson; 4th, Smith.



Sr. Calf—lst, Stevenson; 2nd, “'agner;

3rd and 5th, Smith; 4th, StevenSon.



Jr. Calf—lst, Stevenson; 2nd and 3rd,

Smith; 4th and 5th, \Vagner.





Exhibitor’s Herd—lst, \Vagner; 2nd,

Stevenson; 3rd, Smith; 4th, Lessiter.

Breeder’s Herd~1st, Stevenson; 2nd,





Wagner; 3rd, Smith; 4th, Lessiter.



Calf Herd—lst, Stevenson; 2nd, Smith;

3rd, Wagner; 4th, Lessiter.



Heifer Get of Sire——1st, \Vugner; 2nd,

Stevenson; 3rd. Smith; 4th, Lessiter.



Produce of Cow—1st, \Vagner; 2nd, Ste—

venson; 3rd, Smith; 4th. Lessiter.



Sr. Champ, Bull—“'ugner.



Jr. Champ. Bull—Stevenson.



Sr, and Jr. Champ. Female—4Vagner.





Gr. Champ. Bull and Cow—“'ngner.

Polled Durham Cattle.

Bull 3 yrs—15L \V. K". Rose & Sons,





Rossville, Ind.; 2nd, C. E. Simons & Son,

Geneva, Ohio; 3rd, “'m. M. Jones, Fair-

mounl. 1nd,; 4th, M. M. Garrett, Coldwat—





er, Mich.; 5th, L. C. Kelly, Ypsilanti,

Mich.

Bull 2 yrs—let, Jones; 2nd, Kelly.





Sr. Yearling—1st, SimOns.



Jr. Yenrling—lst, iarrctt; 2nd. Kelly.



Sr. Calf~—1st and 2nd, Rose; 3rd. Kelly.



Jr. Calf—Jst and 5th, Simons; 2nd,

Jones; 3rd. Garrett; 4th, Kelly.



Cow 3 yrs—1st, Rose: 2nd, Jones; 3rd,

Simons, 4th and 5th, Jarrett.



Heifer 2 yrS.—lst and 4th, Rose; 2nd,





 





Jones; 3rd. Simonr‘; 51h, Garrett.

Sr. Ycurling‘ 1st. Rose: 2nd. Garrett;

3rd and 4th, Kelly; 5th, Simona.





Jr. Yearling—lat and 2nd. Rose; 3rd and

5th, Jones; 4th, Simons.



Sr. Calf—lSt and 2nd. Rose;

rett; 4th, SimOnS; 5th, Kelly.



Jr. Calf—~1st, Rose; 2nd and 5th, Gar-

rett; 3rd. JoneS; 4th, Simons.



Exhibitor’s HerdHISt. Rose; 2nd, Sim-

ons; 3rd, Jones; 4th, Garrett; 5th. Kelly.



Breeder’s Herd—45L Rosie; 2nd, Simons;

3rd, Kelly.



Calf Herd—let. Rose: 2nd, Simons; 3rd,

Garrett; 4th, Kelly.





Hereford Cattle.





3rd, Gar-





Bull 3 yrs—15L Calhoun Bros, Bron-

son, Mich; 2nd, \V. T. McCray, Kent-

land. Ind.



Bull 2 yrs—71st, J. H. 8; J. \V. Van-

Natta, Lafayette, Ind.



Sr. Yerirllng~lsh Van Nzltta.





Jr. Yearling—let, McCray.

Sr. Calf—1st, Van Natta; 2nd, McCray;

3rd, Calhoun.





Jr. Calf—1 st, hlcCi‘ny.





COW 3 yrs~1st, Van Nutta; 2nd, MC-

Cray; 3rd, Calhoun.



Cow 2 yrs—let, McCray; 2nd. Vsln

Natta: 3rd, Calhoun.



Heifer Sr. Yearling—-lst, McCiay; 2nd

and 3rd, Van Nattu; 4th. Calhoun.



Jr. Ye;1rling~lst, Van Natta; 2nd, MC-





Cray; 3rd and 4th, Calhoun.



Sr. Calf—1H, McCray; 2nd, Van l'zitta;

3rd and 4th. Calhoun.



Jr. Calf—also Van Nutta; 2nd. McCray;

3rd. Calhoun.





Exhibitor’s Hei'd—lst, Van Nutta; 2nd,

McCray; 3rd. Calhoun.



Breeder's Herd—1st, Yon Nattu; 2nd,

McCray; 3rd, Calhoun. '



Culf Hcrd~lst, Van Nritta; 2nd, Mc-

Cray; 3rd, Calhoun.



Gct of Sireelst, McCray; 2nd, Vun

Natta; 3rd. Calhoun.



Produce of Cow——lst, McCray; 2nd, Van

Nutta; 3rd, Calhoun.



Sr. & Jr. Champ. Bull & Sr. Champ.

Cow—Van Nuttu.



Ji‘. Champ. Cow—Ztir-(‘i‘uy; id. Champ.





Bull and Cow—Van Nntla.

Aberdeen-Angus Cattle.



Bull 3 yrs—lat, Otto V. B:1ttle~‘, Magew-

keta, Iowa; 2nd, \Voodcote Stock Farm,

Ionia, Mich; 3rd, Clark Bros. li'and

Blanc, Mich.



Bull 2 yrs.





 





19f, \Yoodcotc; 2nd. Battles.





 





Sr. Yearling lst, Rattles.



Jl‘. Yearlingmlst, Rattles; 2nd, “'ood-

cote.



Sr. Calf—1st, Battles.



Jr. Calf—lst, \Voodcote; 2nd, Rattles;

3rd, Clark.



Cow 3 yrS.—-1.st, Rattles; 2nd, \Vood-

cote; 3rd and 5th. Clark; 4th, \Voodcote.



Cow 2 yrs.—1st, Battles; 2nd, XVood-

cote; 3rd, Clurk.



Heifer Sr. Yearling—lst, Battles, 2nd,

Clark; 3rd, VVoodcote.



Jr. Yearling lst‘. \Voodcotc; 2nd, Bat—





 





tles; 3rd and 4th. Clark.

Sr. Calf—lst, Battles;

3rd. Clark.





2nd, “'oodcote;





Jr. Calf—lst, Battles; 2nd, \Voodcote;

3rd, Clark. '

Exhibitor’s Herd—lst, Battles; 2nd,





Woodcote; 3rd, Clark.

Breeder’s Herd-—-lst, Battles; 2d, Wood-

cote; 3rd. Clark.

Calf Herd—lat, Battles; 2nd, VVoodcote;

3rd, Clark.

Get of Sire—Ist,

cote; 3rd, Clark.

Produce of .Cow——lst,

Woodcote; 3rd, Clark.

Sr. Champ. Bull & Cow—Battles.

Jr. Champ. Bull & Cow—VVoodcote.





Battles; 2nd, Wood-





Battles; 2nd,





 





Gd. Champ. Bull & Cow—Battles.





Galloway Cattle.





Bull 3 yrs.—lst, James Franz, Bluffton,

Ohio; 2nd, S. M. Croft & Sons, Bluff City,

Kansas. ' .



Bull 2 yrS.—1st, Croft; 2nd, Franz Bros.



Sr. Yearling—1st, Franz.



Jr. Yearling—1st, Croft.



Sr. Calf—lat, Croft; 2nd, Franz.





Jr. Calf—1st and 2nd, Croft; 3rd, Franz

Bros._



Cow 3 yrs.~1st, Croft; 2nd, Franz; 3rd,

Franz Bros.



Cow 2 yrs.——ls't, Croft; 2nd, Franz, 3rd,

Franz Bros.



Heifer SI‘. Yearling—lst, Croft; 2nd,

Franz.



Jr. Yearling—lst and 2nd, Croft; 3rd,

Franz.



Sr. Calf—lst, Franz; 2nd, Croft; 3rd,

Franz Bi'oS.



Jr. Calf—lst, Croft; 2nd, Franz; 3rd,





Franz Bros.



Exhibitor's Herd—lst, Croft; 2d, Franz;

3rd, Franz Bros.



Breeder‘s Herd—lst, Croft; 2nd, Franz.



Calf Herd—lst, Croft; 2nd, Franz; :li‘d,

Franz Bros.



Get of Sire—Jet, Croft; 2nd, Franz; 3rd

Franz Bros. .



Produce of Cow—lst, 'Franz; 2d, Croft;





3rd, Franz Bros.

Sr. Champ. Bull—Franz.

Jl‘. Champ, Bull—Croft.

Sr. Champ. Cow~Croft.

Jr. Champ. Cow—~Croft.

Gd. Chump. Bull—Franz.

Gd. Champ, Cow—Croft.





Fat Steers.





Steer 6 mo. and ud. 1 yr.—lst, J. H. &



W. Van Nutta; 2nd, Lessiter.



Herd of Three—lst, Vain Natta;

Lessiter.



Gr, Champ. Steer—Van Natta.



Two yrs and un. 3—lst, Van Natta; 2d,

Lessitei‘.



One yr. and un. 2~—1st, Van Natta; 2d,

Stevenson; 3rd, Lessiter.



Red Polled Cattle.



Bull 3 yrs—George lneichen & Song,

Geneva. 1nd,: 2nd, Frank Hartline &

Sons. Sti’usshurg 0.



Bull 2 yrs—Isl, Ineichen; 2nd. J. M.

Chase & Son, lonia, Mich.; 3rd. Calhoun

Bros” Bronson, Mich.





2nd, -





 





Sr. Yearling~lst, Calhoon.



Jr. Yearling: lst and 3rd, Chase; 2nd,

Calhoon.



Sr. Calf—lst. Herbison Bros, Birming-

ham, Mich.; 2nd, Calhoon; 3rd, Ineichen.



Jr. Czilt'wlst and 4th—Ineichen; 2nd,





Her-bison; 3rd, Hartline.



Cow 3 yrxhlst and 2nd, Ineichen, 3rd

and 5th, Hartline: 4th, Calhoon.



("ow 2 yrs.~lst and 5th, Hartline; 2nd

and 3rd, lneichcn; 4th, Chase.





Heifer. Sr. Yearling—let, Hartline; 2d.

Ineicheu; 3rd. Calhoon; 4th, Chase.

Jr. Yearling—list and 2nd, Ineichen;





3rd, Hartline; 41h, Culhoon; 5th, Chase.

Sr. Calf—4st and 2nd. Herbison; 3rd,

Ineichen; 41h, Culhoon; 5th. Hartline.

Jr. Culf—lst. Calhoon; 2nd. Ineichen;

3rd. Hartline: 4111 and 5th, Chase.





Exhibitor's Herd—Jet, lncichen; 2nd,

Hartline: 3rd. Ctilhoon; 4th, ChaSe.

Breeder‘s Herd—lat, Ineichen; 2nd,

Hartline: 3rd. (‘zilhoom 4th, Chase.



Cull Herd~lst. Calhoou; 2nd. Herbi-

sou; 3rd, lncichen; 4th, Hartline; 51h.

Chase.





Gct of Sire—1st, lneichcn; 2d, Calhoun;





3rd. Hurtline: 4th, Herbison; 5th, Chase.



Produce of (‘o\\'——lst, lneichen; 2nd.

Hartline: 3rd. Hcrbison; 4th, Calhoon;

5th. Chase





Sr. Champ. Rull——lneichcn.

Jr. Champ. B111l——He“bison.

Sr. Chomp. (‘owrlneichcm

Jr. Champ. Cow—Jrlai‘tliue.

id. Champ. Bullwlneichen

.id. Chomp. Cow—Ineichen.





Jersey Cattle.





Hull .‘2 yrs—71kt Edwin S. George, Pon—

tiac, Mich; 2nd. A. Deshano, Auburn,

Mich; 3rd, Nclls Fulyan, Geneva, Ill.





Bull 2 yrshlst. H. B. \Vattles, Troy.

Mich.; 2nd, Dcshnno.



Yearling—1st, “'nttles'; 2nd. leorge.



SI‘. (‘aIf—lst, '\\';iltle~‘: 2nd and 3TH,





George; 4th and 5th, Doshnno.



hill Jr. (‘nlfvvlst George; 2nd, \Vnttle-S;

and 4th, Deshano.



George; 2nd, Deshano;





3rd





3rd and 5th, iVattlcs; 4th, Doshuno.

Cow 3 yrs—lat and 3rd, \Vuillcs; 2nd,

George.

Cow 2 yrs— lat and 3rd, \Vattles; 2nd,





Deshano; 4th, (’icorge.



Heifer 1 _Vl‘.——-lSt :iml 2ud——\Vattlcs: .‘ld,

George; 4th and 5th, Falyzin.



Sr‘. Calf—ht. Gcorge; 2nd and 31'd,\\'nt—





ties; 4th. Deshuuo. '



Jr. CulfA—lst. George; 2nd, \Vattlcs: 3d,

Failynn; Alth. \Vattles; 5th, 'Deshano.



Exhibitor’s llci‘d—lst, George; 2nd,

“'attles: 3rd, Doe'hano.



Breeder's Henl—‘lst, \Valtles; 2nd,

George.



Calf Herd—lst, George; 2nd, “'attles;





3rd, Deshano.

Get 0f Sirc'Mlst, Deshano; 2d. \Vuttles.





Produce of Cow—lat. “rattles; 2nd,

George; 3rd, Folyan; 4th, Deshano.



Sr. Chump. )illll‘CPUl'QG.



Jr. Champ. Bull——\\'nttles.



Sr. Chump. Cow—George.



Ji'. Chump. (‘ow—“’attle:<.





Gd. Champ. Bull and Cow~iVattles.

Guernsey Cattle.



Bull 3 yi's.—~lst, A. \V. 8:

'\\'aukesha, \\'is.



Bull 2 yrs—”lat and 3rd, Fox; 2nd, E.

H. Raum), Detroit. Mich.



Bull 1 yin—let. Fox.



Sr. (“nib—let, Fox.





J. E. Fox,





.li‘. Calf—lst. Fox.



Cow 4 yrs—15L Fox.



I—leifer 2 yrs—ISL Fox.



Heifer 1 yr.—1st and 2nd, Fox; 3rd,

Falyan.



Sr. Calf—lat, Fox.



Jr. Calf—lst, Fox.



Exhibitor's Herd—lst, Fox.



Breeder’s Herd—lat, Fox.





Calf Herd—lst. Fox.



Get of Sire—let, Fox.



Sr, and Jr. Champ. Bull and Cow and

Gr. Champ. Bull and Cow—Fox.
OCT; 4. 1913.





Holstein Friesian.

B 11- 3 yrs.—‘——1st. F. P. Knowles, Au-

hurg, Mass; 2nd, F. E. Eager & Sons,

IiOWell, Mich.; 3rd, H. W, Norton & Son,

ell, Mich.



H(l3vilill 2 yrs.—lst, Knowles; 2nd, D. M.

\V. Downing; 3rd, Rogers Bros.



Bull 1 yr.——lst, Downing; 2nd, Eager.



Sr. Calf—lst, Eager; 2nd, Downing.



Jr. Calf—1st and 3rd, Eager; 2d, Down-

ing.



Cow 4 yrs.—lst, Eager; 2nd, Knowles;

3rd. Eager; 4th and 5th, Norton.



Cow 3 yrs—1st, Norton; 211d, Knowles;

3rd. Eager.



COW 2 yrs.~—1st, Downing; 2nd and 5th.

Eager; 3rd, Knowles; 4th, Norton. '



Heifer 1 yr.——1st and 3rd. Downing;

2nd, Knowles; 4th, Eager; 5th, Knowles.





Sr. Calf—lst and 2nd—Knowies; 3rd,

Eager; 4th, Norton; 5th, Downing.



Jr. Calf-’1st. Downing; 2nd and 5th,

Eager; 3rd.. Knowles; 4th, Rogers.

Exhibitor’s Hez‘dmlst. Downing; 2nd.

Knowles; 3rd, .Eager; 4th, Norton; 5th,

Rogers.



Breeder‘s Herd—lst, Downing; 2nd,

Eager.





Calf Herd-—1st, Eager; 2nd. Downing.

Produce of Cow—lst, Downing; 2nd.

Norton; 3rd, Rogers; 4th. Eager.





Sr. Champ. Bull—Knowles.

Jr. Champ. Bull—Downing.

Sr. Champ. Cow—Eager.





Ji‘. Champ. COW and Gd. Champ, Bull—

Knowles.

Gd. Champ. Cow—Eager,





Ayrshire Cattle.

Bull 3 yrS.—lst. \V. P. Schank. Avon,

N. Y.; 2nd, J. F. Converse & C0., VVood—





ville, N_ Y., 3rd, Shuttleworth Bros.

Leamington, Om . ‘

Bull 2 yrs. 1st, Converse; 2nd. Scnank.





 





Bull 1 yin—1st and 2nd, Converse; 3rd,

Schank.





Sr. Calf~lst. Converse; 2nd, Schank;

.‘lrd, COnverse.

Jr. Cfllfilst. Schank; 2nd, Converse;





3rd, Shuttleworth.

Cow 4 yrs—lst and 2nd, Schank;

and 5th, Converse; 4th, Shuttieworth.





3rd





 





Cow 3 yrs—1st, Schank; 2nd, Converse:





37d. Shuttleworth.



Cow 2 yrs—lst and 2nd, Schank; 3rd

and 4th. Converse.



Heifer l yr.—~1st and 2nd, Converse:

3rd and 4th, Schzink; 5th, Shuttleworth.



Sr. C.ilf——lst and 4th. Converse; 2nd

and 3rd. Schank; 51h, Shuttlewortli.



Jr. Calf—1st and 2nd, Sclmnk; 3rd,

Converse; 4th, Shuttleworth; 5th, Con-

verse. :



Exhibitor’s Herd—18L Converse; 2nd.;

Schank; 3rd. Shuttleworth. ‘



Breeder‘s Herd—lst. Cmiverse; 2nd.;

Schank. i





Calf Herd—4st. Schank; 2nd, Converse“

3rd, Shuttlcworth.



Get of Sll‘ew—1St, Schank; 2d, Converse;

3rd. Shuttleworth.



Produce 0f Cowhlst, Schank; 2nd, Con-

verse; 3rd, Sliuttleworth.



Brawn Swiss Cattle.



Bull 3 yrs. ist. JOS. P. Allyn, Delzivnn,

\\'iS.; 2nd, H. \V. Ayers, Honey Creek.

Wis; 3rd. Hull Bros, Painesville, 0.



Bull 2 yrs.——1st, Ayers; 2nd, Hull; 3rd,





 





Allyn.



Bull 1 yr.-——lst, Ayers; 2nd, Hull; 3rd,

Allyn.



Sr. Calf—1st and 4th, Allyn; 2nd and





3rd. Hull.



JI‘. Calf—lst, Hull; 2nd and 3rd, Ayerfi.



Cow 3 yrs.—lst and 3rd, Allyn; 2nd and

4th. Hull; 5th, Ayers. ‘



Cow 2 yrs.lst, Allyn; 2nd and 5th. Hull;

3rd and 4th, Ayers.





Heifer 1 yr.——lst and 4th, Ayers; 2nd,

and 3rd. Hull; 5th, Allyn.



Sr. Calf—lst and 3rd, Hull; 2nd and

ith, Allyn; 5th, Ayers.

‘ Jr. Calf—lst and 4th, Hull: 2nd, Allyn;

3rd, Ayers.



Exhibitor’s Herd—~15t, Allyn; 2nd. Hull;

3rd, Ayers.



Breeder's Herdylst, Ayers; 52nd, Illlllz‘

3rd, Allyn.



Calf Herd—lst, Hull; 2nd, Allyn; 3rd,

Ayers.



Get of Sire—lst, Allyn; 2nd. Hull; 3rd.

Ayers.



Produce of Cow—lst. Allyn; 2nd, Hull;

3rd, Ayers.



Jr. Champ. Bull—Ayers.



Jr. Champ. Cow—Ayers.



Sr. Champ. Bull—Allyn.



Sr. Champ. Cow——Ailyn.



Gd. Champ. Bull—Allyn.



Gd. Champ. Cow—Allyn.



Dutch Belted Cattle.

All first premiums in this class were





awarded to anlebrook Farm, Adrian,

Mich” the only exhibitor 0f the breed.





Shropshire Sheep.





Rain 2 yrs.—-15t and 5th, Jess L. An-

drews~ \Vest Point, Ind; 2nd. E. E. Le-

lzind & SOn, Ann Arbor, Micli.; 3rd and





4th, H. E. Powell, Tonia. Mich.



Rain 1 yr.—lst and 3rd,

Leland; 4th, S. L. \Ving, Kinderhook,

Mich; 5th, Powell. »



Lilmb~~lSt and 2nd—Powell;

drews; 4th, Wing; 5th, Leland.



Ewe 2 yrs.——1$t, Powell; 2nd. Andrews;

3rd. Wing; 4th and 5th. Leland.



Ewe 1 yr.——lst, 2nd and 4th, Andrews;

3rd, Powell; 5th, Wing.



Lamb—1st and 2nd, Andrews; 3rd and

4th. Leland; 5th, Wing.



Flock—lat, Andrews; 2nd, Leland; 3rd.

\Ving; 4th, Powell.



Young Flock—4st. Andrews; 2nd, Wing;





3rd, An—





3rd, Leland; 4th, Powell.



Lamb Flock-Ast, Leland; 2nd, Wing;

3rd. Powell; 4th, Andrews.



Get of Sire—«lst, Leland; 2nd. Powell:

3rd, Shuttleworth; 4th, Andrews; 5th,

\Ving.





American Shropshire Special.



Ram 2 yrS.—-lst and 3rd, E. E. Leland

& Son, Ann Arbor, Mich.; 2nd, H. E.

Powell, Ionia, Mich.



Ram 1 yr.—-lst, S. L. Wing, Kinder-

hook. Mich; 2nd and 3rd. Powell. »



Lamb—1st and 2nd. Powell; 3rd and

4th. Wing.



Ewe 1





_ yr.—lst, Powell; 2nd, Leland;

3rd. VVing. ' .





Andrews; 2nd, :





 





 





 





. TH E MI "c HIG A N F A'R M ER





THE OCSTOBER'ALE





12





Reg. Holstein-

Friesian Cattle.





125





State Fair Grounds,





f Oeiroii, October I6, I9 I 3





This sale will afford better





opportunities than ever before





offered in any sale ring in Michigan to select good individuals





with the best of breeding.





Among the cattle consigned are:





5 daughters of King’ Segis Pontiac iioweii 79300.

15 daughters of Prince Segis Korndylie 38835.

13 daughters of Johan Hengerveid Lad 45104,





most of them in calf





to a son of King Segis.





4 granddaughters of The King of Butter Kings.

A daughter of Bessie Calamity Countess 30.79.

’ A sister to Calamity Wayne Pauline 30.25.

KELLY 85 HAEGER, Auctioneers.





'Send for Catalog.





Attend the Sale.





H. W. NORTON, Jr., Sale Mgr., Howell, Michigan.





 





BREEDSVILLE, MIOH.

Have for sale fine bulls out of

cows with high official butter





and milk records.

PRICES $100 to $200,





all grandsons of King Segie,

King of the Pontiacs and DeKol

2nd, Butter Boy 3rd.





Hos FEED CHEA .





 





ASK BARTLETT 60.,

JACKSON, MIOII.





Holstein Friesialr‘i Bull Calves





A FEW CHOICE for Sale. A took.





GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.





$100 —Buys two choice high grade Holstein heifers. 2 and 4

I months old, and one registered hull, 4 months old, not

8.8. Reuvey. Akron, Mich.





—reasona.ble rioes. ohoice‘ re -

For Sale istercd HOL TEIN BIKES. rea .v

Maioe._HATCI-l HERD. Ypsilanti. Mich.





Buy A World Record Holstein Bull





NEXT TIME. We have 2 with 75% same blood of 3world

record cows. Great bargains at 8250 each. LONG

BEACH FARMS. Augusta, (Kalamazoo 00..) Mich.





“Top-Notch” Holsiclns.





Choice bull calves from 6 to 10 mo. old. of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with official milk

and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.





MoPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Michigan.





EG. HOLSTEIN BULL—Month old. Mostly white

very pretti'ly marked. .Fino individual with excellent

A.R..0. backing. $50delivcred. Cheap at $100. Write for

pedigree and photo. Hobart W. Fay. Maison. Mich.





HOLSTEIN ROLL





come and see. E.





Bull Ready For Service.





A grand son of Pietertje Hengervelds Count

DeKol, and out of Bertha. Josephine Nudine.

This is an almost faultless individual. Guaranteed

right in every particular. and ”dirt” cheap to a

quick buyer. Also 7 good cows, one fresh—the

others yet ttoreshen. The above would make a

fine herd for some one. $1950 will buy the bunch.





L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.

BUTTER BRED JEESEEBA“





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.





akin. all nicely marked. 31:. white.





 





 





 





ready for service. Bred. built. and

mood ri ht. Write or better.

. CORN .LL. Howell. Michigan.





 





21 —'305





Rog. Ramoboillol Sim . Pun Brod Poland China

HUGS and PERCHE ON HORSES. 2% miles

E. Morrice, on G. '1‘. R. R. and M. U. R. J. Q. A. COOK.



ia oilering more and better





The Inglemle Farm Shrvo’pshire Sheep than over

before. All stock recorded. rite us what you wont

HERBERT E. POWELL. Ionia. Mich. Citizen'l Phone.





SHROPSHIRES A ‘0" °h°l°° mn- priced





right for immediate shipment.

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michlgan.





SHROPSRIRE RAMS. Registered. Sircd by Imp. Hinton rum.

Quality for grade or registered flocks. Also some young

WILLIS S. MEADE, Lapeor. Michigan.





 





 





Prices right.





 





OWOI.



Prize two-year-‘cld Shropshire Rama 1912. I

1“ IIIII 2nd Also cod yearling Roma and Ewes for

sale. E. E. LELA D ii: SON. Ann Arbor. Michigan.





REGISTERED SRROPSHIRE“£“”::;.%‘}.:§'.? $5332

Broodingof the best. Harry Potter. Davison. Mich.





MAPLESHADE FARM SHROPSHIRES





Reg. yearling and ram lambs. 25 ewes and 15 ewe

lambs. WM. P. PULLING it SON, Pal-ma. Michigan.





 





 





 





' —2 3 ' .

Reg. Shropshire 3:31.53St‘Klniv'ofidafimfiiiS:

type. Geo P. Andrews. Dansville. Ingham 00.. Mich.

SHILOPSRIRE YEARLIRO “aflafifi'sgiié’i‘i .5155:





. E. MORRISH. Flushing. Michigan.





SHROPSHIRE RIMS IRO EWES FOR SALE.





DAN BOOHEB. R. 1. Marion, Michigan.

' ' —Good ones cheap. Write before

SOTONOIW Rams Aug. 15th. for special pro oeition.

KOPE iKON FARM. Kinderhook. M chitin).





H008.





' ' -—A Desirable Bunch of Sowa of

nIII'OOs &. VIOIOIIOS Either Breed due A ril and Mtg.

M. T. Story, R. R. 48 Lowell. Mich. ity Phone .





BERKSHIRES Choice spring boars and gilt.





riced to move quick. Farmers

stock. ELMHURS STOCK FARM. Almont. Mich.





—of spring farrowing with the



BerkShIre Boar best of breeding for sale.

A. A. :PATTULLO. R. No. 1, Deckerville, Mlph.

sired by best son





Beauiiiul Young BERKSHIRE SUV 0.- 5.... Ma...“





out of a daughter of the World's Champion Premier

Longfellow. Price $50. worth $100 Pigs either sex.

$15 each. C. D. WOODBURY, Lansing. Mich.





' —Spring and summer pigs. write us



IIIIOSIOI' Whlles your wants. Price and qualit right.

Meadow View Stock Farm. R.F.D. No.6.HoiiandiMioh.

o i 0 —BIG GROWTH)! TYPE. Last aprin

- - . stock, either sex, pail-snot akin. Very coo



stock. Scott No. 1 head of herd. Farm )6 mile west

of depot, OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.





O I C —MARCR and APRIL PIGS, the long

0 . - growthy kind. with plenty of bone.

No cholera. ever on or near farm. Satisfaction

guaranteed. A. NEWMAN. R. l. Mariette. Mich.





 





 





50W WEIGI‘IED 932 L33.

A 23 MONTHS OLD





‘ IONIA GIRL ll.»





I have started more breeders on the road to ano-

cesa than any man living. I have tholargoet and lin-



‘ est herd in the U. 8. Every one an early developer.

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

filace one hog in each community to advertise my

erd. Write for my plan."flow to Make Money from

Hogs.” G. S. BENJAMIN. I.No.l 0. Portland. Mich.





 





 





 





-—Bred slits all sold.

have a No. of Spring





0. I. C. SWINE





pigs on hand. Will book orders for Sept. pigs.

get my Knee on pairs and trios not akin.

. J. GORDON R. No. 2. Dorr. Mich.





0.l.O’:.——-Taking Orders for Sept. Pigs, ”$5.13“

FRED NICKEL R. No. 1. Monroe. Michigan.

Ouroc Jersey R098“§:.i'2p‘ii£°.wbo‘i.‘.°.‘l fills“.

winning strain. W. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mic .





For Sale. of the l r e i- 'th

nuroc IBM! Boa“ type, also Re; eT-C‘Li‘droli

Stallions! Lyn-old. M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Mich.





 





Roar: Rudy lo Ship.





Hastings. Michigan.





Ouroc Jerseys—25 Sgrsing





CA REY U. EDMON





 





BREEDFIIS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





Aberdeen-AnB ug. d

Herd. consisting of Trojan Eric“. eckb r s an



Prides. only. is headed by Egerton W. the AND

CHAMPION bull at the State. West Michigan and

Bay City Fairs of 1912 and the sire of Winners at those

Fairs and at HE INTERNATIONAL. Oblong, of

1912. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. ic .





GUERNSEYS—Reg. 'l‘uberculin Tested. Winder-

moro Form. Watorvliet. Mich.

J. K. BLATCHFORD. Auditoriun Tower. ChicagoJll,





Silver Creek. Allegnn County. Michigan.

JERSEY —-Bulis calves bred for ioduot~

ion. Also cows and eifers.





Brookwater Farm. R. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys





(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-

culoeio.i Several good bulls and bull calves out of

good dau-y cows for sale. No females for sale at

present. Satisfaction guaranteed.



COLON C. LII. IE. Coonersville. Mich.





F0 R SALE-Fag'seZTVSISXI rggdligiilgbsa. EST





milk. 513 lbs. butter in 11 months. Sire's dum's

record 10350 lbs. of milk. 604 lbs. butter in one year.

WATERMAN & WATERMAN. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





For Sale Or Exchange To Avoid Oloso Breeding.

.The four-yonr-old’imported Guernsey Bull. “Prides

Charmant" 1485. Son of "Golden Noble 2nd" R.G.A.S.

2322 P. S. EDWARD LOWE. Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





road y for service. Large, thrifty

top not-char. Write today for de-

G. A. Wigent. Watervliet. Mich.





Guernsey Bull





scription and price.





HIGH CLASS GRADE

GUERNSEYS FOR SALE





Tuberculin tested. Fresh Oct.. Nov. and Dec-

Bred to splendid registered Bull. Recently sold five

for $100 each. Only ton left. Will take $850 for the

lot. Must sell by Oct. 15 to make room for registered

cows. If you want them and see them you will buy.

Farm 3 miles north. 5%; mile west of Watervliet. Michi-

gan on Pore Marquette.



J. K. BLATCHFORD. (Owner)

Auditorium Tower. Chicago. Illinois.

CLINT BISHOP. Manager of Farm.

Also Poland





HEREFORD BULLS FOR SALE on"... no...





ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Michigan.





 





Purebred Registered





HOLSTEIN CATT L E



The Greatest Dairy Breed

Send for FREE Illustrated Booklets

Holstein-Friction. Auo..Box I64. Braitloboro,Vt.





 





 





l Holstein Bull ............ $900



I Holstein Bull ............ $IOO



3 Holstein Bulls ......... $200



Holstein Bull ............ $250

Our sire is brother to 3 world record cown. The

dams are choice with large A. B. 0. records Quality

one no vex-y cheap. LONG BEACH





considered th

FA MB. Augusta. (Kalamazoo Co.) Michigan.





 





——Regietered Jersey Cattle. tuberculin test-

For sale ed:_bulls and bull calves; heifer and heifer

calves: cows With Register of Merit and Cow Testing

Assoointion records. IRVIN FOX. Allegnn. Mich.





REO POLLEO COWS and HEIFERS”$‘§i§i§i§'§ifr§i’§§l



John Homer 4. Son. Grand Ledge. Mich. Route 4.

_ g .



9 Shorihorns 315‘.” Sign looser:



Write for pedigrees. W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Mich.





3 Choice Shortliorn Bulls For Sale.





7 toOmoa. old. Baton bred. Registered. Call or write to

J.E. TANSWELL. Maple Ridge Farm. Mason. Mich.





OIIRY BREO SHORIHORRS





J. B. HUMMEL.





FOR SALE—6 Shorthorn Bulls. ’7 to 12 mos. aired by

randson of Whitehall Sultan. also choice

females. . B. McQuillan. Howell or Chilson. Mich.





SHEEP.





l‘l‘ PAYS TO BUY PURE BRED SHEEP

OF PARSONS. "the sheep man of the east:"

I sell and ship everywhere and pay expres:

charges. I will start one man in each twp.

Write for club ofier and descriptive price list.

Shropshircs Rambouillet. Polled-Delaines and

R





PARSONS OXFORDS.





Grand Ledge.

FOR SALE at





OXFORD RAMS AND EWES mm... prices.





Address B. F. Miller or Geo. L. Spillane. Flint. Mich.





1Ehroo-loar-Old OXFORD and SRROPSRIRE Rams.





or sale cheap. Porkhurst Bros" Reed City. Mich.





SIIEFP FOR SALE IN CARLOAD LOTS.





PARKHURST BROS" Reed City. Mlcmkan.





—Baten bred bull T-mo.

old for sale. Price 3100.

Mason. Michigan.





. 1.

Michigan.





 





 





 





 





~25 High Class Spring Boers. Ex-

Durocs cellent quality and Breeding. Write

or come and see. J. O BARNEY, Goldwater. Mich.





-—Spring boars from rizo- i -

Illll'OC-JCI'SBYS ping strains. Sowsp all 2113!!





Brookwater Farm. R. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

O _1 , ‘ ' ‘

Duroc Jersey PIgS 0 nooks old. the big kind.





SKOO each. edigrae fur-

nished. F. A. LAMB dz SON. Caesoiihlls. Mich.





BIG TYPEDUROQS—March and April Boars. ready

for sex-Vice. Pairs not akin. Also Shro nhiro

itams for sale. F. J. DRODT. R. No. 1. Monroe. ich.





nuroc Jerseys For Sale—Three fall boars. also sprin





pigs. either sex; of finest breedin and individ

quality. John McNicoll. Station A. RiBay City Milili.





POLAND CfllNAS-]g1;30tcl‘ Western and Home

Prices right. w. J. HA(3i§LSH1lili/9?li$?zl£stg.uLilli???

Choice Lol oi S rin Pi rm?“ “'3"

L. w. BARNES & songyroxg Shiegasefdrgo? Milli:

LARGE STYLED POLAND CHINAS—Spring and





summer pigs, Also Oxford bucks and buck la b

ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. Ming“. 5





Butler’s Big Bone Prolific Poland Chinas





Big boars ready for service. weigh up to 250 lbs. not



fat, from big_prolific cows that not only furrow big



litters but raise them. Write for what you want.

J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Michigan.





Poland China





Spring Boers and Sows





of size. bone and quality. I ship c. o. (I.

Write me at once.





WM. WAFFLE, Goldwater, Mich.

POLAND CHIVAS-$3? ”0’3 3' i‘ic'a. "332:





P. 1). LONG. R. No. 8. Gran Rapids. Michigan.





P. a. moon in mm Piss-.322. haired





to please. R. W. MILLS. Saline. Michigan.





[AME "PE [1.3. ”II. ”as all sold. Have the





greatest bunch of

a ring pics I ever ruined. Eight sows formwcd-fi.

me or write. Expeviesol paid if not satisfied. Free





livery from Perms. . E. Livingston. Farms. Mich.





at close prices.





 





 





(Breeddrs’ Directory continued on page 303.)
3067322“





 





"TI—IE MICHIGAN 'FARMER





OCT. 4. 1918.





 





THE BEST IIIIIIIEIII





lllt Pllli KILLER Fill! Ill! lilihilll soot

Gombault’s





caustic Balsam





IT HAS NO EQUAL





   





 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





 

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





A

-Iti t I;-

FOI’ ing,so:t‘l)1.l:;;;d Pertaetly Sate

healing,and for allOld and

‘h Sores, Bruises, or

0 Wounds, Felons, ROIIObIO Remedy

Exterior Cancel-3,30”: '0',

at $222.“

I]

causric BALSAMlhas Sore Throat

l a

Body 11° are...“ Chest Gold

’ Backache

We would say _to all Neuralgia

who buy it that It does .

ngt contain a gartiele sprains

o poisonous su stance

and therefore no harm Strains

can result irom its ex- Lu mbago

‘ ternal use. Persistent. . .

thorounlhuse mil:1 cure Diphtheria

many 0 or c I’OIIIC‘

ailments and it can he Sore LUTQS

used on any case that Rheumatism

requires an outward and

application with . .

. pgffect safety. 3" 5h" JOInts





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





REMOVES I'IIE SORENE88--STRENGIIIENS MUSCLES





Cornhill. Tex. —"0ne bottle Caustic Balsam did

my rheumatism more good thsno $120 00 paid in

doctor' sbills.’ T'I‘O A. BEYl-I ll.



bPrice O 1.50 per bottle. Sold byo druggiats, or sent



you expresap re paid Write for Bookl at





The UIWRENllpE-WILLIAMS COMPANY. Cleveland. 0-





 

   

   

 





 





 





33 Package OURES any case or money refunded

81 Package OURES ordinary cases. \llneral Heave

Remedy Co. 463 N. Fourth Ave" Pittsburgh. Pa





IT PAYS TO DEHORN





Dehorncd cows give more milk; take

less room; are gentleand easily handled.

Dehorned steers fatten quitker and

are not. dangerous. llorns cost

money; remove them with the new





Improved Keystone DelIorner





quickest. cleanest strongest and most

satistattory (lean, she Ir and sliding

cut. no (rushing; no bruising Money

hark guarantee. Semi for booklet





M. T. Phillipe. Box 128 Pomeroy, Pa.





SAVE“: "‘ °‘ “$1.00





Every mouthful of unground

feed your stock eats means





 





 





 





Lamb—lst and 2nd, Leland; 3rd, Wing.



Ram, any age—lst, Andrews.



Ram, any age, Michigan bred—lst, Le-

land.



Ewe, any age—lst, Andrews.

11Ewe, any age, Michigan bred-15t,Pow-

e



Four Lambs Bred by Ex. ——lst, Leland;

2nd, Powell; 3rd, \Ving



Edwin S. George Special Sheep.



Pen of four Lambs bred in Michigan—

Cup, E. E. Leland & Son, Ann Arbor,

Mich.



Hampshire Sheep.





Barn 2 yrS.——1st and 2nd, Walnut Hall

Farm. Donerail. Ky.; 3rd, Interlaken

School Farm, Rolling Prairie, Ind.; 4th

and 5th, Monroe Stock Farm, Lucas, 0.



Barn 1 yr.—-lst and 2nd, \Valnut Hall

Farm; 3rd, Peter Arkell & Son, Teeswat-

er, Ont; 4th, S. L. Wing, Kinderhook,

Mich.



Lamb— lst, 2nd and 3rd, Walnut Hall

Farm; 4th,1nter1aken School Farm; 5th,

Monroe Stock Farm.



Ewe 2 yrs—lst and 3rd, \Valnut Hall

Farm; 2nd. Interlaken School Farm; 4th

and 5th, Monroe Stock Farm.



Ewe 1 yr.——15t, 2nd and 3rd—“’alnut

Hall Farm; 4th, Monroe Stock Farm; 5th,

lnterlaken School Farm.



Lamb—lst, 2nd and 3rd, \Valnut Hall

Farm; 4th. Monroe Stock Farm; 5th, In-

terlaken School Farm.





Flock—lst, \Valnut Hall Farm; 2nd,

Interlziken School Farm; 3rd, Monroe

Stock Farm; 4th. \Villiam Newton.



Breeder’s Flock—lst, “'alnut Hall





Farm; 2nd, Monroe Stock Farm; 3rd, III-

terlaken School Farm; 4th. \Vm. Newton.



Lamb Flock—lst. \Valnut Hall Farm;

2nd, MonrrIe Stock Farm; 3rd, Interlaken

School Farm; 4th, Newton.



Get of Sire~1st, \VIIlnut Hall Farm;

2nd, Monroe Stock Farm; 3rd, Interlaken

School Form; 4th, Newton.





Oxford Sheep.





Ram 2 yrs—lst and 4th, Peter Arkell

& Son, Teeswater, Ont; 2nd and 5th, G.

W. Heskett, Fulton, 0.; 3rd, S. L. \Ving,

Kindcrhook. Mich.



Ham 1 yr.——lst, 4th and 5th. Arkell &

SOn; 2nd, H. C. Arkell; 3rd, Heskett.



Lomb~15t, I'ieskctt; 2nd, 3rd and 4th,

Arkell & Son; 5th, \Ving



Ewe 2 yrs—lst, “'ing; 2nd, B. F. Mil-

ler, Flint. Mich; 3rd, .»\Ikell & Son; 4th,

II. C. Arkell; 5th, Hcskett.



Ewe 1 yin—lst and 3rd. Arkell & Son;

2nd, H. C. Arkell; 4th, J. C. “filliams;

5th, lieskett.



Lamb—4m. H. C. Arkell: 2nd, Heskett;

3rd and 5111, Miller; 4th. \\'ing.



Flock—1st, Arkell & Son; 2nd, Heskett;

3rd, \Ving; 4th. H. C, Arkeil; 5th, 'Miller.



Breeder’s Flockwlst, Arkcll & Son; 2d,

Miller; 3rd, Heskett; 4th, \Ving; 5th, H.

C. Arkell



Lamb Flockalh‘t. Miller; 2nd, AI‘kell &

S011; 3rd. Heskett; .4th, \Ving; 51h, H. C.

.\rkcll.



Get of Sire—lst, Miller; 2nd, Arkcll &

Son; 3rd, Heskett; 4th, \Ving; 5th, 11. C.

.\rkell.



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Gd. Champ. Ram (2 yr. old)—-Arke11 &





Southdown Sheep.



Ram 2 yrs—lst and 3rd, Robt. McEwen,

Byron. Ont; 2nd. S. L. iVing, Kinder-

hook, Mich; 4th. G. XV. Heskctt. Fulton,

Ohio; 5th, Interlaken Farm. LnPOI-te. Ind.



Rum 1 yr.——1st. Monroe Stock Farm.

Monroe, Ohio; 2nd, McEwen; 3rd and 5th

Heskett; 4th, \Ving.



Lamb—~18t. 2nd and 3rd, McEwen; 4th,

Monroe Stock Farm: 5111, Heskctt.



Ewe 2 yrs—1st Monroe Stock Farm;

2nd and 4th, Heskctt; 3rd, McEwen; 5th,

\Ving.



Ewe 1 yr.—lst and 5th, Monroe Stock

Farm; 2nd, McEwcn; 3rd, Hcs‘kett; 4th,

\Ving. I



Lamb—lst, McEwen; 2nd, \Ying; 3rd.

McEwcn; 4th and 5th, Heskett.



Flock—1st, Monroe Stock Farm; 2nd.

MeEwen; 3rd, \Ving; 4th, Heskctt; 5th,

Interlakcn Form.



Flock—lst, McEwen: 2nd, Monroe Stock

Farm; 3rd, Il'eskett; 4th. \Ving; 51h ln-

teriaken Farm.



Lamb Flock—1st, McEwcn: 2nd, lies-

kett: 3rd, \Ving; 4th. Monroe Stock Farm;

5th. lntcl‘lakcn.



Get of SiI‘c—rlst, McEwcn; 2nd. Hes-

kctt; 3rd, “’ing; 4th, Monroe Stock Farm;

5th Tnterlaken Farm.



("homo Rank—McEwen. .



Champ. Ewe—Monroe Stock Farm.



Cheviot Sheep.



Rum 2 yrs—lst and 3rd, R, & XV. POS-

tlc, Camp Chase, Ohio; 2nd and 5th, G.

C. \Voodmnn, licnnington. Mich; 4th, In-

terl:1ken Farm, Laportc. Ind.



Ram 1 yinvlst and 5th, Postle; 2nd and

4th. \\'oodman: 3rd. interlaken.



Larnb—Jst and 5th. \\'oo(lman; 2nd and

3rd. l’ostle; 4th, Inth'lIIken.



Ewc 2 yrsrmlsl’ and 2nd, Postle; 3rd,

lnIcrlzIkcn: 4th and 5th, “Voodmzin.



Eu'c 1 yr.~vlst and 2nd. Thistle; 3rd,

\l‘oodmnn; 4th .IIId 5th, lnteriaken.



Lanib~lst and 2nd. Postlc; 3rd and

5th lntcl'laken; 4th, XVooanan.



Eloclx'wlst, Postlo; 2nd, \Voodman; 3rd,

lIIIeI'lIIken.



Young Flock—fist. T’ostie; 2nd, “'ood-



Postle;





man.



Lamb Flock—Jet, 2nd, Wood-

man; 3rd, Interlaken.



Get of Sire—1st. Postle; 2nd, TVood-

man; 3rd, Interlaken.



Champ, Rfim an] Ewe—Postle.





Horned Dorset Sheep. .





                 





chia, Ohio; 3rd and 4th, Geo. C. “700d—

nIan. Bennington. Mich; 5th. Interlaken

School Farm, Rolling Prairie, Ind.



Ram 1 yr.——1st and 4th, Cherry; 2nd

and 3rd. Woodman; 5th, Interlaken.



Lamb—lst, 2nd and 4th, Cherry; 3rd,

Woodman; 5th. Wm. Newton, Pontiac.

Mch.

Ewe 2’yrs.—lst and 3rd, Cherry; 2nd

and 5th, Woodman; 4th. Interlaken.



Ewe 1 yr.——1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, Cher-

ry; 5th, Interlaken



Lamb—lst 4th and 5th—Cherry; 2nd

and 3rd, Woodman.





 





Flock—1st, Cher ry; 2nd, Woodman; 3rd,

Interlaken; 4th, Newton.





Young Flock—lst, CheIry; 2nd, Wood-





man; 3rd,Inter1aken.



Lamb Flock—lst, Woodman; 2nd, Cher-

ry; 3rd, Interlaken; 4th, Newton.



Get of Sire— lst. \Voodman; 2nd, Cher-

ry;3rd,1nter1aken; 4th, Newton.



Ch amp. Ewe (Yearling)—Cherry.



Champ. Ram (Aged)—Cherry.





Lincoln Sheep.





Ram 2 yis.—1st S. L. “'ing, Kinder-

hook, Mich; 2nd, “'att Bros” Kerwood,

Ont; 3rd \Vm. Newton, Pontiac, Mich.



Ram 1 )1 ~—1st “7 att; 2nd XVing; 3rd,

C D. McLean. KeIwood, Ont.



Lamb lst and 5,th “ing; 2nd and 4th,

\V :;1tt 3rd McLean.



Ewe 2 yrs. —1 t and 3rd, Wing; 2nd,

\\';alt 4th McLean.



EWe 1 yr ——1\t and 2nd, Wing; 3rd and

4th “'att; 51h, M(Lezm.



Lamb— lst and 2nd, \‘Vatt; 3rd and 5th,

Wing; .4th, McLean.



Flock—lst, Wing; 2nd, “’att; 3rd, Mc-

Lean.



Young Flock—Ist, \Vatt; 2nd, \Ving.



Lamb Flock—lst, \Vatt; 2d, Wing; 3rd,

McLean.



(act of Sir,c—1st \Vatt; 2nd, Vi mg, 3rd,

McLean.



Leicester Sheep.





Barn 2 yrs. ——lst. “m McLean & Sons,

Kerwood Ont.; 2111 C. D McLean Ker-

w,ood Ont; 3rd, \Vm. Newton, Pontiac,

Mich



Ram 1 yI. —1st, M Lean & Sons; 2nd,

McLean.



Lamb—lst, 2nd and 3rd, McLean &

SOIIS; 4th and 5th. McLean.



Ewe 2 yrs—lst and 2nd, McLean &

SonS; 3rd, McLean: 4th and 5th, Newton.



Ewe 1 yr. —-1st, 2nd and 3rd McLean

& Sons; 4th McLe can; .Ith. Newton



Lamb—lst 2nd and 3rd, McLean &

Sons; 4th and 5th. McLez.In



Flock—1st. McLean & Sons; 2nd. MC-

Lean; 3rd, Newton.



Young Flock—lst, McLean & Sons,



Lamb Flock—lst, McLean & Sons; 2d,

McLean; 3rd. Newton. .



Get of Sire—lst. McLean & Sons; 2nd,

McLean; 3rd. Newton.



Champ. Ewe (1 yr.)—McLean & Sons.



Champ. Ram (Agedl—McLeun & Sons.





Cotswold Sheep.

Ram 2 yrs.——lst and 2nd. Peter W.

Hiniz, Clyde, 0.; 3rd, \Vm. Newton, Pon-





tiac. Mich.

[tam 1 yr.—lst and 2nd, Hintz; 3rd,

Hintz;





Newton.



Lamb—lst and 2nd.

4th, Newton.



EW 2 s.—1St and 2nd Hintz; 3rd

and W4th, Newton.



Ewe 1 y1. —1st and 2nd, Hintz; 3rd and

4th. Newton .



Lamb—1st and 2nd,

4th, Newton.



Flockwlst, Hintz; 2nd, Newton.



YOung Flock—lst. Hintz; 2nd, Newton.



Lamb Flock—lst. Hintz; 2nd. Newton.



Get of SiIc—Jst Hintz; 2nd. Newton.

'American Cotswold Associational Specials.



l’en Four L‘lnle—ISI. Hintz.



Champ. Ewe (2 yr l—l—Iintz.



Champ. Barn (1 yr.)—Hintz.



Delalne Sheep.



Ram 2 yrs—lst and 4th. S. Blamer &

Son, Johnstown, (1.: 2nd, David K. Bell,

Brighton Sta.. N. Y.: 3rd. Calhoon Bros,

Bronson. Mich; 5th. E. M. Moore, Wix-

om. Mich.



Rum 1 yr.~1.<t and .‘Irl. Blamer; 2nd

and 5th, Crilhmm: 4th, Moore.



Lamb—lst and 5th, Blamel'; 2d and 3rd,

(‘IIllII.0n; 4th, llell.



Ewe 2 yrs—lst and 2nd, Blumer; 3rd,

Bell; 4th and 51h, Moore. .



Ewe 1 yr.—1:<t, 3rd and 4th—Ca1h00n;

2nd. Blamer; 5th. Moore.



Lamb—lst. Blamer: 2nd and 4th, R.

\Villiams‘On, Xenia, 0.; 3rd and 5th, Cal-

hoon.



Flock—lst. Blamer; 2nd, Calhoon; 3rd,

Moore; 4th. Bell: 5th. \Villiamson.



YOIIng Flockklsl Calhoon; 2d. Blamer.



Lamb Flock—1st, C:;Ilhoon 2nd Blamer.



Get of Sire—lst, Calhoon; 2nd, Blamer;

3rd Moore.



American Merino Sheep.



Ram 2 yrs.—J'):1_vi<l K. Bell, Brighton

St:1., N. Y.: 2nd, it. E. \\'ill.'amSon,

Xenia, 0.; 3rd. S. Blame? & Son. Johns-

town, 0.; 4th, E. M. Moore. \Vixom,

Mich: 5th, '\\'. M, Stalcy, Mal'ysville, 0.



Ram 1 yin—lst. Bell: 2nd, \Yilliumb‘on;

3rd and 4th. Blamer: 5th. Moore.



LanIb—~lst. \Villiamson; 2nd and 5th,

Blamel‘; 3rd, tell; 4th, Calhoun BrOS.,

Bronson. Mich.



Ewe, 2 yrs—lst, Moore; 2nd and 5th,

Bell: 4th, Calhoun: 3rd, Blamer.



Lamb—lst. Blamcr: 2nd and 5th, VVil-

liamson; 3rd, Bell; 4th. R. I), Stephens,

South Lyon, Mich. ‘



Ewe 1 yin—lst. Moore; 2nd, Blamer.

3rd, Bell; 4lh, \Villiamson: 5th Calhoon.

Flock~—lst, Bell: 2d. Moore; 3rd, Blam-

cr: 4th, \Villiamson; 5th, Calhoon,

Young Flock—lst, Bell; 2nd,



3rd, Stephens.



Lamb Flock~1st, Bell; 2nd, Moore; 3rd,

Stephens; 4th, CIIlhoon: 5th. Biamer.



Get of Sire—1st, Bell; 2nd, Moore; 3rd,

Stephens; 41h, Blamcr; 5th, Cnihoon.





Rambouillet Sheep.



Ram 2 yrs—Orth & Matthews, McGuf-

fey, Ohio; 2nd. E. M. Moore. \Vixom.

Mich; 3rd and Ith, F S King Bros.’ Co.,

Laramie “homing; 4th, J. M. Shaw, Ed-

ison Ohio.



Ham 1 yin—lst and 4th, King Bros;

2nd and 5th, Orth & Matthews; 3rd.

Moore.



Ram Lamb—lst and 3rd. Shaw; 2nd

and 5th. Moore; 4th, King Bros.



EWe 2 yrs. or over—lst and, 2nd, King

Bros; 3rd and 4th, Shaw; 5th. Moore.



Ewe 1 yr.—1st. Moore; 2nd and 3rd,

King Bros; 4th, Orth & Williams; 5th,

Shaw.



Ewe Lamb— lst and 4th King Bros;

2nd and 3rd, Moore; 5th, Shaw .



Fleck— lst King Bros; 2nd, Orth &

Matthews; 3rd, Moore; 4th Shaw.



Young Flock—1st King Bros; 2nd,

Moore: 3rd Or th & Matthews.



Lamb Flock— 1st. Moore; 2nd, King

Bros; 3rd Orth and Matthews.



Get of Sire—Ist Moore; 2d, King Bros.,

3rd, Orth & Matthews.





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3rd and





Hintz; 3rd and





Moore;





Fat Sheep.



Middle \‘I'ool 1 yr.—1st, Peter Arkell &

Sons, Tecswatei, Ont.; 2nd, Wm. New-

ton, Pontiac Mich.



Middle \V. 1 yr. —lst and 2nd, Geo. W.

Heskett, Fulton, O.



Champ. M. W. VVether—lst, Arkell &

Sons.



Gd. Champ. \Vether—Arkell & Sons.



Middle Wool Lamb—2d, J. C. Andrews,

\Vest Point, Ind.



L. Wool 2 yr.—1St, Newton.



Merino Lamb—lst and 2nd, Newton.



Merino 2 yrs—1st and 2nd, Newton.



Merino 1 yin—lst and 2nd, Newton.



L. \\'001 1 yr.—1St and 2nd, Newton.



L. \\'001 Lamb—Jet and 2nd, Newton.





Berkshire Swine.





Boar 2 yrs—lst Hibbard & Baldwin,

Bennington, Mich.



Boar 18 lnos.~18t, Neils Falyan. Gen-

eva, 111.; 2nd, .J. \V. Clapp. Novi, Mich.



Boar 12 mos—lst and 2nd, Clapp.



Boar 6 mos—lst, Hibbard & B.; 2nd,

B. B. Pelry, Leslie, Mich; 3rd and 4th,

Clapp.



Boar no. G mos—lst. 2nd and 3rd, Hib-

bard 8; B.; 4th, Clapp.



Sow 2 yrS.—1st and 2nd, Hibbard &

B.; 3rd and 4th, Clapp.



Sow 18 mos—lst and 3rd, Falyan. 2nd

and 4th, Hibbard & B.



Sow 12 mos—1st and 2nd, Hibbard &

B.; 3rd and 4th, Clapp.



Sow 6, mos—1st and 3rd, Perry; 2nd,

li‘alyun.



Sow un. 6 mos—1st and 2nd, Hibbard

I"; 8.; 3rd and 4th, Clapp.



Exhibitor’s Herd—lst, Hibbard & B.;

2nd, Clapp.



Breeder's Herd—~1st, Hibbard & B.



Fouz let of Sire—lst Falyan; 2nd,

Hibbm'd & B. 31',d Clapp



Four Produce of Sow—1st,Hibbard &

B.; 2nd Clapp.



HeId—American Trophy, lst, Hibbard

& B



Michigan Trophy, 4 pigs—lst, Hibbard



Clgomp Boar 1 yr. or over—lst, Hib-

baId &B



ChampB. Boar on. 1 yr.—lst, Hibbard &

B





Champ. Sow 1 yr, or over—1st, Falyan; I





Champ. Sow on. 1 yr.—1st, Hibbard & B.



Gd. Chump. Boar and Sow—Hibbard

& B.



Poland China Swine.



Boar 2 yrs—lst and 2nd, A. C. Grieve,

Xenia, 0.; 3rd, C. E. Simon & Son, Gen-

cva, ind.; 4th, Bean Creek Farm. Addi-

sOn. hiich.



Boar 18 lliOS.——]St, C. C. Beatty, Van-

wert, 0.; 2nd. Bean Creek; 3rd, Beatty.



Hour 12 mos.——lst and 2nd, Grieve.



Boar 6 mos—1st, Beutty; 2nd and 3rd,

Gt‘ievc; 4th, Simon.



Boar un. 6 mos—lst, 2nd and 3rd,

Grieve; 4th. Simon.



Sow 2 yrs—lst, Beatty; 2nd and 3rd,

irieve; 4th, Simon.



Sow 18 n1o:~'.~]st. Beatty; 2nd, Grieve;

3rd. Simon; 4th. Bean Creek.



Sow 12 mos.~—-1st and 4th, Grieve; 2nd

and 3rd, Beatty.



Sow 6 mos.~—lst, 3rd and 4th. Beatty;

2nd. Simon.



Sow on. 6 mos—lst, Grieve; 2nd, Beat-

iyz 3rd. Bean Crock; 4th, Simon.



Exhibitor's Herdwlst, Beatty; 2nd,

Grieve; 3rd. Simon; 4th. Bean Creek.



Bleeder’s Herd—lst, Grieve: 2nd, Beat-

ly: 3rd, SimmI; 4th, Bean Creek.



(lot of Siren—lst, GI'icve; 2nd,

3rd, Bean Creek: 4th, Beatty.



Produce of Sow—lst, Beatty; 2nd, Bean

Creek.



Champ. Boat‘ 1 yr, or over—Beatty.



Chump. Boar 1m. 1 yr.——-Beatty.



Champ. Sow 1 yr. or over~Grieve.



Champ. Sow IIII. 1 yrmBeatty.



Gd. Champ. Boar—Beutty.



Gd. Champ. Sow—~Grievc.





Hampshire Swine.





Boar 1 yin—lst, Lenawe-e Stock Farm;

2nd, D. W. Castor, Belleville, 0.; 3rd, W.

C. Gilliland, Van \Vert, .



Boar 18 mos—lst, Leroy P. Stephen,

Carlock,-Ill.; 2nd, Adam Alt. Rockford,

0.; 3rd, Castor: 4th, Lenawe-e Stock .



Boar 12 muse—181, Gillilund: 2nd. Clark

“roan. Gram] lllzmc, Mich; 3rd, Alt.



Boar 6 mos.~—15t, Alt; 2nd. Castor; 3rd,

Lenawee Stock: 4th, Stephen.



Boar 1m. 6 most—lst and 4th, Castor;

2nd. Stephen; 3rd, Alt.



Sow 2 yrS. , Castor; 2nd, Alt; 3rd,

(lillilund; 41h, Stephen:



Sow 18 mos—1st, Gilliland; 2nd, Cas-

tor; er, All; 41h, Lenawee Stock.



Sow 12 most—lst and 4th, Castor; 2nd,

Alt; 3rd, Gillilund.



80w 6 mos—1st and 3rd, Castor; 2nd,

Alt; 4th, Gillilund.



Sow no. 6 mos—lst, Alt; 2nd and 3rd,

Castor; 4th, Clark Bros.



Exhibitor’s Herd—kt, Alt; 2nd, Castor;

3rd, Gilliland: 4th, Stephen.



Breeder’s Herd—lst, Castor; 2nd, Alt;

3rd. Gilliland: 4th. Clark Bros.



Get of Sire—lst. Alt; 2nd, Castor; 3rd,

Gillilzmd; 4th Clark Bros.



PIoduco of Sow—lst, Castor; 2nd, Alt;

3rd. Lenauce Stock; 4th Gilliland.



Champ. Boar 1 yr.—-Stephen.



Champ. Boar. no. 1 yr.—Alt.



Champ. Sow 1 yr. and un. 1 yr.—Cas-

tor.



Gd. Champ. Boar—Stephen.



Gd. Champ Sow—Castor





Duroc- Jersey Swine.



Boai 2 3’12: 01 over—lst H. E Brown-

ing, Hersman 111.; 2nd, E. E Stemen &

Sons Middleport 0.; 3rd and 4th. Brook-

water Filzm Ann ArbOI Mich.



Boar 18 mos. ——1st and 2nd, Browning;

3rd Stemen; 4th M. T. Stoxy, Lowell,

Mich.



Boar 12 mos. “lst. Stemen; 2nd, Brown-

ing; 3rd. BIookwater Farm; 4th Story.



Boar 6 mos. ——lst, Browning, 2d, Brook-

water Farm; 31d Stemen; 4th Story.



Boar un. 6 mos. ——lst and 4th, Brook-

water Farm; 2nd and 3rd. Stemen.



Sow 2 yrs. or over—~—1st, Browning; 2nd

and 4th Stemen; 3rd, Browning.



Sow 1'8 mOS. ——1$t and 4th, Stemen; 2nd

and 3rd. Browning.



Sow 12 mos. —lst and 3rd—Browning;

2nd Stemen; 4th, Brookwater Farm.



Sow 6 mos. —lst and 3rd, Browning;

2nd and 4th Stemen.





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Sow un. 6 main—lat and 4th, Story;

2nd and 3rd, Breakwater Farm.





itor’s Herd—ISL Brownihg: 2nd, ‘

Stlejr’r‘iteirl); 3rd, BTOOkwate!‘ Farm; 4th.

Story. . _



’ Herd—lst, Browning, 2nd,

$55,839.51,” S3rd, Story; 4th, Brookwater

Farm.





of- Same Boar—1st, Browning;

2n§?1gt§n?:n; 3rd, Brookwater Farm; 4th,

Stfifi} Produce of Same Sowulst, Brook-

water Farm; 2nd. ,StOI‘Y- .

Boar and 3 Saws owned by Exhibitor—-

lit, Brookwater Farm; 2nd, Story.



' Three Barrows on. 1 yr.—1st, Brook-

water Farm; 2nd. Story. '

Champ. Boar 1 yr, or over-Browning.



Champ. Boar un. 1 yr.—Browning.

Champ. Sow 1 yr. or over—Browning.

Champ. Sow un. 1 yr.——Browning. .

Gd. Champ. Boar and Sow—Browning.





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veterinary queries were lost in the mails

while being forwarded to our veterinarian.

A special reply will be sent to every Sub-

scriber who was inconvenienced by our

inabilty to answer his question if he will

repeat same.



Swollen Joints—I have a suckling colt

with swollen joints, was all right until a

week ago. E. W” Alpena, Mich.—Apply

equal parts spirits camphor and tincture

of iodine to enlarged joints once a day

and give five grs. sodium salicylate soda

at a dose three times a day.



Stifie \l'eakness.-—IVhen moving my

three—year-old filly I can hear both stifle

joints crack and slip into place. then she

moves well. It is noticed most when

backing. D, S. H., Klbbie, Mich.——Apply

one part powdered cantharides and six

parts fresh lard once a week, lightly, and

she will recover.



Chronic Contracted Hoofs—Thrush.——

For the past five years my 13-year-old

mare has been troubled with contracted

boots and the treatment we have applied

has done little good. I also have another

horse that is troubled with diseased frogs

of both fore feet and I would like to know

how to treat them. G. M., Zeelz—lnd. Mich.

—Apply light blister to coronet once a.

week and apply lanolin to boot daily, will

partially remedy this chronic trouble, but

don’t look for a cure. One part can-





‘ tharides and six parts fresh lard makes a





very good blister; however, you can safe-

ly apply any of the blisters that are reg-

ularly advertised in this paper. First ap-

ply hydrogen peroxide. then apply calomel

to diseased frog daily until he gets well.

The hoofs should be kept clean and dry.

Roarer.—I have a brood mare that had





distemper last spring; since then she

breathes with difficulty, and glands of

throat are swollen. Local Vet. fails to





help her. W. 0., Glad'win, Mich.—-Apply

one part iodine and ten parts fresh lard

to throat glands once a day and give her

1 dr. potassium iodide at a dose in feed

or water three times a day. It may be

necessary to perform a surgical operation

on throat before she recovers.

R-heumatism.—I'Ve have a colt that has

a very painful joint ailment which shifts

from one joint to another. Our local Vet.





'thought it either sprain or rheumatism.





This lameness shifts from one fetlock to

the other, but is never present in both

at, same time. C. M., Evert, Mich.———Ap-

ply one part iodine and ten parts lard to

joint every day or two. Give 5 grs. of

Sodium salicylate at a dose three times a.

ay.



Sore Neck—I have a colt that has a

sore neck; this cavity is deep and I have

been unable to heal it. This sore keeps

raw, no matter what I put on. G. E. S..

New Boston, Mich—«Apply one part iodo-

form and ten parts boracic acid to sore

twice a day. It is perhaps needless for



e to say. but be sure the collar fits.



Indigestion.~——Eight-year-old cow gives

milk that does not keep long before it

changes, and after standing some time

curd-like bodies stick to'edge of pan. Is

her milk fit for people to use? W. D. T.,

Beldlng, Mich—Give her a dessertspoon-

ful of hypo—sulphite of soda at a dose in

feed three times a day. Are you keeping

the milk free from outS‘ide contaminating

influences? Her milk is not fit for domes-

tic use.



Infected Udder.-—I have a cow that has





had several attacks of udder trouble and





I am anxious to have her cured. Mrs.

W. L., Cheboygan, Mich.——When a cow’s

udder becomes infected in more than one

quarter. and when one inflammatory at-

tack follows another, she rarely gets en-

tirely well. She will be benefited by ap-

plying iodine olntment to diseased and

caked portion once a day and give her 2

drs. of potassium iodide at a dose in feed

three times a day.



Warts on Tests—I have a. three-year-

old cow that has numerous growths on

udder and teats which interfere with the

milk flow, and I, would like to know what

will take them off. F. 13.. Wollston, Mich.

Apply one part salicylic acid and two

parts fresh lard or lanolin to warts daily.

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Farmers’ Clubs





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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.





President—alas. N. McBride. Burton.



Vice-President—C. B. Scully, Almont.



Secretary-Treasurer—Mrs. C. P. John-

son, Metamora. .



Corresponding Secretary——Mrs. Wm. T.

McConnell, Owosso.



Directors—C. P. Johnson,

H. W. Chamberlain,

T. Hill, Carson

Belding; R. J.

man, Flint.



Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





   

 





Metamora;

White Lake; Wm.



City; Jerry Spnulding,

Robb, Mason; J. F. Rie-





 





Assoclatlonal Motto:

The skillful hand. with cultured mind.

is the farmer's most valuable asset.





CLU B DISCUSSIONS.





 





The Best Money Crop.—The September

meeting of the Ingham County Farmers’

Club was held at Woodlawn with Mr. and

Mrs. W. M. Webb, and there was a. good

attendance despite the fact that it is a.

busy season. Mr. Webb has the distinc—

tion of never having failed to pay his

dues, having joined the Club in the early

years of its organization. he and Mr. Rus-

sell, tollowed closely by others, stand next

to the two charter members, President

Ives and Judge Bristol. Mr. \Vebb has

lived on the farm 45 years and spent his

whole life in the same vicinity, and has

surrounded himself with the comforts of

life. After the usual good dinner, Presi-

dent Ives called the meeting to order and

Lloyd and Lola Avery sang a vacation

song. Mrs. 'l‘ay10r called the roll, the

response being "Helpful Thoughts.” E.

A. Densmore. President of the Farmers'

Mutual Insurance Co., who gave a paper

upon “Things Real and things Personal,”

giving a good deal of information about

real and personal property, and telling

the difference between larceny and tret-t—

pass. It was full of interest and a. whole

meeting could have profitably been given

to it and the discussion. The question of

the day, “The Farmer’s Best Money

Crop,” was handled by XV. H. Taylor who

said in part: “The best crop depends

upon the farm as well as the farmer. At

the present time perhaps beans are taking

the place of the wheat of years ago as

a cash crop, but the raising of live stock

is not to be ignored, as it helps to main-

tain the fertility of the farms. No ques-

tion but dairying is profitable, but all

can not do this-too many do not like to

milk. One of the best crops is that of

contentment—to realize our blessings and

care for the coming generation.





Ladies Discuss Topic of the Hour.—

Nearly 50 members of the Charleston

Farmers’ Club met at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Theron Palmiter and family,

Saturday, Sept. 20, in spite of a cold, wet

and disagreeable day. After the usual

picnic dinner, the Club was called to or-

der by President Hagleshaw. Following

the business meeting. an excellent pro-,

gram in charge of Miss Clara Palmiter

was given. Piano solos were rendered by

Hazel Bradley, Leona Miller and Iva Max-

son, a v0ca1 solo by Mrs. L. L. Joy, and

a violin and piano duet by Mr. Joy and

Miss Maxson. Alta Fenner and Mrs. A.

1‘. Simpson each gave a recitation and

Mrs. L. J. Bradley a reading. Socialization

of Farm Life." The topic, “Meals for

Threshers," was discussed by the Club

members. Some excellent and palatable

meals were mentioned. The program was

closed with the singing of several songs

from the Club song books. The place se-

lected for the next meeting is at the home

(If Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Pike near Gales-

burg and as it is the time for the annual

election of officers. there will be no ice-

turer’s program. Topic chosen for discus-

sion at that time is “What to Feed Poul-

try in the I’Vinter Time." Mesdames G.

L. Perry. Olin Beta, and Theron Palmiter

and Messrs. \Villiam Henson, L. J. Brad-

ley and A. B. Imus were appointed to

discuss the subject. Mesdames J_ L. Bate-

man, Olin Born and A. D. Scrackengast

were appointed to assist the hostess.





Discuss Practical Farm Toplcs.~Mr.

and Mrs. \Vm. Gerber entertained the

members of the Burton Far'ners’ Club, of

Shiawassee county, very enJoyably at the

September meeting. After an excellent

dinner that was prepared from products

raised on the farm, the program was

taken up. The roll call was made inter-

esting, each member responding with ear-





liest remembrances. “\Vaste on the

Farm.” Mrs Hammond said that the land

was not tilled thoroughly enough and





there was too much waste on most farms.

In the dairy business the farmers were

not careful enough about selecting the

right kind of stock. “Waste About the

House." Mr. Hammond thinks the lad-

ies waste too much energy in trying to

outdo their neighbors. A. Schultz thinks

a four-horsepower gasoline engine the

most practical for all farm work. “Are

State and County Fairs a Benefit to the

Farmers?” Mr. Brookins maintains that

they are a great benefit in all ways.

“Which is the Better to Hire, a Thresher

with Help, or Furnish One's own Help?”

Mr. Garner said that 'help is so scarce

that it is better to hire a. thresher with





help. “Is there any way by which you

may Condemn a Gravel Pit for Public

Use?” Mr. Peterson said if circumstances





and conditions demand it, there is a law

that permits the public to condemn it.

The meeting was adjourned to meet in

November with Mr. and Mrs. Albert

Schultz—Reporter.





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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved." ‘





 





TH E OCTOBER PROGRAMS.





 





State Lecturer's Suggestions for First

Meeting.



Song.



A story—told by a woman.



How can we help blot out the great

'White Plague,” Tuberculosis? Discus-

sion baSed on experience in sleeping out

of doors.



Prayer, “A Tuberculosis Day Prayer.”

by Chaplain.



Humorous recitation.



Violin solo.



A. sold :ye for 80c a bushel to the vil-

lage merchant. who in turn sold it to B.

who lives on a farm less than two miles

from A. for $1.50.

you suggest? Diseussion.



Appointment of committees

schools.



Some of the things I liked in this pro-

gram today.



Closing song.





to visit





MONTCALM POMONA MEETING.





 





Montcalm County Pomona Grange, No.

24, met with Bushnell Grange two miles

east of Fenwick on Thursday, Sept. 18.

for an all-day meeting. On account of

the busy time the attendance was Small,

but delegates were present from the fol—

lowing Granges: Montcalm, Howard City,

Butternut and Crystal. A splendid chick-

en-pie dinner was served by the ladies of

Bushnell Grange.



In the afternoon there was a short fifth

degree session. Reports from the several

Granges showed that the organization is

holding its own. Bro. and Sister Hiram

Smith, of Montcalm Grange, were elect-

ed delegates to the State Grange from

Pomona, and Bro. Ashley Berrige and

Sister_ J. M, Parkhurst are the alternateS.

Bro. Ashley Berrige 'was suggested as a

candidate for the State Executive Com-

mittee.



In the fourth degree session a good pro-

gram was carried out, Sister Forsyth, of

Bushnell'Grange, giving the address of

welcome in which she urged the necessity

of keeping up with the times in Grange

work. Bro. \Villiam “'alker, of Crystal

Grange, talked on how to keep the boys

and girls on the farm, in which be men-

tioned making the farm attractive. giving

them something to own and control, and

not giving them bad jobs to do. In the

discussion that followed much interest

was shown in the question and many val-

uable helps suggested. The roll call was

responded to with sayings from Poor

Richard’s almanac.



“Saving Strength in the Home," was

discussed by the sisters, and the follow-

ing things were suggested: HaVe a vac-

uum cleaner and sweeper. gasoline sad

irons, a power washer, linoleum on kitch~

en floors, a room to do the washing,

churning, etc., in. which can be done with

a. gasoline engine. One sister present still

does hers in the good old way. ,



The subjects brought out by the ques-

tion box were: “The best time to sow

alfalfa;” some- thought in the spring. while

some favored August. It was decided that

a 40-acre farm is large enough for one

man to attend to. although much depends

upon the man. It was the opinion of all,

except one, that it pays to have a gar-

den, and that one member said he never

had had a gardendn his life. The age

which a child should reach before choos—

ing his or her vocation in life was left

undecided. It was thought best to let

them have time to decide for themselves.

Bro. E. IV. Johnson read an original poem

on Grange work, this closing a very in-

teresting session—Press Reporter.





COmmuni‘ty Specialties received some

consideration at the first September meet-

ing of Harmony Grange, of Charlevoix

county, it being proposed that the Grange

take the lead in making the community

noted for some particular thing. How-

ever, there was some difference of opin-

ion as to what would be the best thing

to make a specialty of. In View of the

prospect of a creamery being established

at Boyne City in the near future, several

advooated the adoption of some breed of

dairy cattle, thereby establishing a repu-

tation as a. community in which modern,

up—to-date dairying is the chief interest.

Some members of the Grange are making,r

a Study of the various dairy breeds and

their adaptability to the conditions of this

section, hoping to enable the organization

to reach a conclusion and to make a

practical beginning in the near future.





 





Nearing the Century Mark, as regards

membership. is the report from Vermont-

ville Grange, of Eaton county. More than

40 members have been added to the roll

during the. past year. making the degree

work consume an undue proportion of the

time allotted to meetings. However, in-

terest in the program work is keen and

the future of this subordinate seems very

bright.





COMING EVENTS.





 





Pomona Meetings.





Charlevoix Co., with Charlevoix Grange.

Tuesday, Oct, 7. County convention.



Clinton. 00., at Maple Rapids, Friday,

Oct. 17.



Eaton Co., with Delta Mills Grange,

Saturday. Oct. 18. Prof. French, of M.

A. C._ will talk on “Agriculture in Rural

Schools.” .





 





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