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VOL-CXU- NO- 21- ; DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, NOV. 22’_ 1913. 32233.5?355AYE’RTEI

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THE MICHIGAN FARMEi-R

The Bean Disease ’SituatiOn.

of beans widely prevalent in the

state of Michigan at the present
time, viz., anthracnose, caused by Col—
lctotrichum lindemuthianum, and bacte—
rial blight, caused by Bacterium (Pseu—
(lomonas) phaseoli. Besides these two,
there are a number of other dis-eases
which are, taken together, quite destruc-
tive but which are so overshadowed by
these two. that the ordinary observer does
not even notice their presence. The an-
thxacnose is found in the whole eastern
l'nited StateS, i. e, in the humid parts
of the country. The bacterial blight, how-
ever, is found over the'whole country,
being equally destructive in California,
Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan, Both
of them cause lesions on the stems and
leaves, and are frequently very destruc-
tive to germinating beans, destroying
them before or Shortly after they appear
above the ground. They persist on the
leaves and stems until late summer, and
if the season is at all favorable (with
tonsiderable periods of moisture), attack
the pods, causing the formation of discol-
cred spots which may or may not discolor
the seeds, although the latter are usually
affected if they occur in the diseased
pods, even when they show no sign of
discoloration. The yield is greatly reduc-
ed if either of the diseases is abundant
and the presence of discolored beans
causes a marked decrease in the price
that the grower can obtain for his pro-
duct.

Both of these diSeases are spread main-
ly by means of contamination of seed,
these contaminations being both internal.
(i. e., the organisms are within the seed
even in many cases when there is no dis—
coloration evident), Or they are attached
to the outside of the reed, having become
deposited there in threshing or from con-
taminated sacks or in various other ways.
it must be borne in mind and emphasized
very strongly that lack of discoloration is
no sign, whatsoever, that the beans are
free from one or both of these diseases.
for unless the beans are taken from pods
that are perfectly free from either d's-
case and these pods are sterilized exte“—
nally to destroy any adhering organisms
and then are shelled by hand and placed
in Sterile sacks. avoiding to the utmost
degree, the contact with any object that
has been in contact with the beans, bean
bods, or bean straw. one cannot hope to
have seeds that are even reasonably free
from this trouble. It is indeed possible,
by following out these methods, to obtain
Feeds that are reasonably free from an-
thracnose infection, but no such freedom
from bacterial blight has yet been obtain-
able. Ii0wever, by ordinary methods of
threshing even of rather clean pods, there

T HERE are two very serious diseases

will result quite general contamination of.

the beans with anthracnose spores as well
as with the germs of the blight.

Even were absolutely clean seed ob-
tainable, it still remains to be worked out.
to what extent the disease can spread
from diseased fields to healthy ﬁelds, and
furthermore, to what extent the use of a
field in previous years for growing beans
will lead to infection of the new crop.

In view of the foregoing facts, it is
clear that all attempts to control the dis-
ease by using seed from supposedly unin-
fected or slightly infected regions should
at first be made only in the form of ex—
periments. Such experiments, as well as
tests of seed that has been subjected to
vari0us treatments in the attempt to de-
stroy the organism of the disease, have
been planned by the Department of Bot-
any of the Michigan Agricultural College,
and will be carried out under the direc—
tion of a special man whose appointment
has been authorized for this purpose. Un-
til such experiments have been made, any
attempt now on the part of the College,
or the. Experiment Station. or any other
ofﬁcial body, to obtain supposedly clean
seed for distribution in badly infected re-
gions like the Thumb, will only lead to
false expectations. and, in all probability,
later to disillusionment. If our experi-
ments in the coming year, made in var-
ious parts of the state, should show that
seed from ﬁelds comparatively little in-
fected is of beneﬁt it will then be desir-
able that all agencies should attempt to
obtain such seed for rather general dis—
tribution, but in view of the facts as we
know them. to attempt such a distribu-
tion now is exceedingly inadvisable.

Mich. Ag. Col. ERNST A. Bussnr.

 
A PROPHESY FULFILLED.

As nearly as I can remember. it was at
least 20 years ago that I began teaching

 
classes the species of fungi that lived on
bean plantS——noting in particular, anthrac-
nose and the bacterial disease, the worst
two at that time. I knew these two fungi
worked on the leaves and on the pods
where the mycelium or roots penetrated
the seeds which carried the trouble over
to be ready to destroy the crop of the
next year. In some cases, these diseased
beans could not be detected from those
which were clean and exempt. I could
pick out, in some cases, seeds that were
infested, distinguishing one disease from
the other. For five years I planted Such
beans in the botanic garden, to see them
fail to produce a crop of new beans.

No treatment of the seeds that I could
ﬁnd, would avail anything. for the trouble
in each case went beneath the skin. The
proper thing to do was to select healthy
pods wherever found, using the beans
contained for seeds the next year.

You, Mr. Editor, will doubtless remem-
ber that I took pains for many years pre-
vious to 1910, when I left the state. to
furnish a copy of the essential facts with
the recommendation that it be printed,
just in the nick of time in August for
bean growers to avail themselves of the
information. This you did for many years
while the disease was becoming more
abundant and destructive each year. Ap-
parently little or no attention was paid
to the reports. More recently the growers
were hit hard and began to take notice
and soaght a. remedy, even to inducing
the Legislature to pass a law to have the
subject investigated. At a recent meeting
of the Board of Agriculture, I understand
a move was made to authorize the selec-
tion of a competent man for this purpose.

Mich. Agril. Col. W. J. BEAL

MAINE POTATO GROWING.—ll.
General Methods.

Less than ﬁfty years ago the great
county of Aroostook was in forest, and
after the lumberman had passed on back
to the tall timber it wasfound that all
this rich and beautiful alluvial soil was
capable of producing potatoes and the
wonderful natural resources are being
cashed in on the tuber. Some observing
economists are reasoning that the cash-
ing in process is extravagant. that much
of the land is being mined instead of
farmed. This may be and, if so, and it
probably is, it is much to be lamented;
but the new, speculative farmer, who is
playing for what is in sight, is rarely a.
conservationiSt and he ﬁgures that the
land‘s ability to grow potatoes will prob-
ably continue as long as he cares to draw
upon it. The more careful, economic
farmer who shall abide, will come later
and marvel at the waste that went before.

This applies to the new country of
Aroostook, where fortunes from potato
growing have been and others are being
made and many others to be made are
worked for and dreamed about. Aroos-
took farm values have advanced rapidly
under the potato stimulation, and cases
are not rare where farms have been
bought around $200 per acre and paid for
with two or three good crops bringing
fair prices.

In the remainder of the state, hOWever,
where the farms are older—some of them
indeed, looking very old and worn—there
is more thought given to conservation of
fertility and winning back that which has
departed; hence, in “Central Maine.”
where they have but recently learned that
potatoes grow as abundantly as they do
in Aroostook, if not so spectacularly, more
attention is given to (lairying. dairy COW
production, sweet corn and berry grow-
ing, grass and clover crops and tried
grains.

Aroostook is practically a beautiful vast
plain, some land slightly broken and roll-
ing, little wood in the farming part—left
for utility Cl' beauty. The farms of “Cen-
tral Maine" are generally small. much
broken, ﬁelds are small and irregu‘ar.
Here a good “stand" of grass. really se-
cured very easily, is kept and mowed for
such long years that at last its early
goodness becomes only a memory; and,
too, many of the so-called pastures are
I think, merely calledpastures for lack
of some harsher name. and because the
cows are turned out on them. Of course.
there are many ﬁne pastures and many
ﬁne, ,bright farmers on beautiful farms,
but these latter make the other majority
show off the worse.

The Aroostook farmer. as a rule. follows
his potatoes with oats. in which clover
and timothy are sown. One season’s hay
is out, as much of the hay as the farm

 
" The remainder is sold.

likewise the oats, is fed.
The land is then
fall plowed, generally, for another big
potato crop. This cannot be counted as
an unwise,rotation or practice, and I
think where followed it cannot be proven
that the farmer is a miner. Further in
his favor he plows and tills well, culti-
vates his, potatoes thoroughly and uses
chemical manures to the limit of size of
application, and no doubt often wastefully
as to composition. Potato land so tilled,
the crop planted with a planter. cultivat-
ed, and the crop harvested with a. me-
chanical digger is not outraged, if we be-
lieve, with Jethro Tull, that “tillage is
manure."

The soil doctor asserts that the land
must have animal manure, and I am told
where dairying is followed in Aroostook,
or steers fed and potatoes and the grains
and grasses and clover grown, that all the
crops are better and the land in better
heart. This is, of course, reasonable and
true. but the Aroostook potato grower is
not a. stock man, does not want stock—
even selling his surplus horses in the fall
and re-buying for spring work—has not
time to be fussing about cows and is gen-
erally pushed for men at potato picking
time, paying from $2.00 to $3.00 with
board, per day. Such prices for labor will
not rapidly bring in the cow or the steer,
and if the above outlined rotation, with
heaVy doses of chemicals for the potatoes
does not hold the fertility the fertility
will go.

The use of fertilizers is extremely heavy
——from 1,500 to 2,500 pounds, of about
4:8:7 per acre. This mixture costs about
$38 to $40 per ton. It is shipped to the
farmers in barrels and into these barrels
the enormous crop of 300 to 500 bushels
per acre on great ﬁelds is gathered and.
hauled to the farm potato houses, built
abOut half under ground and equipped
with heating arrangements; or to the cars
direct from the ﬁelds for shipment. Thus
the Aroostook farmer does not think or
talk of bushels of potatoes but of barrels.

The potatoes grow too big and are
thickly planted to keep down the size. For
seed the smaller tubers are used, about
18 to 22 bushels of seed per acre. The
hill row method of culture is general as
being best to get rid of surplus moisture
—It is a pOnd-lake country. The Aroos-
took horses come from the corn belt and
are ﬁne, big and costly. The latest in
farm tools are bought, spraying for blight
and bugs is followed.

In “Central Maine” less careful and
thorough attention is generally the rule,
but many of the potato men who are
crowded out of Aroostook. come farther
west and south and on the cheaper lands
and following the better methods ﬁnd that
the best and most productive potato land
is not all in ArOOStook but all over the
state. In Aroostook, the snow comes
early and the grOund is but little frozen.
The land having been fall plowed can be
tilled almost upon the heels of the going
snow, and the crop can be earlier planted;
and indeed, it must be hurried to escape
the fall frost that does not wait for the
tardy harvester. ’

Central Maine has less and somewhat
later snows, more frost gets into the
ground and the farmer must wait longer
for its departure in the spring. He says
when he plan-ts late he gets bigger crops.
His rainfall was small during the sum-
mer and October was all rain when the
late crops were to have been dug. Quite
a hard freeze the ﬁrst of November caught
thousands of bushels of needed tubers yet
undug. More mild weather since has
started the diggers but the ground is wet
and cold, the potatoes have developed rot'
and of course the frost-nipped ones are
lost also.

Pennsylvania.

horses need,

W. F. MCSPARI'MN.

THE SEED CORN CAMPAIGN IN /GEN-
ESEE COUNTY.

While Genesee county ranks well up in
the counties of the state there is great
chance for improvement in the matter of
varieties grown. While Genesee county
has good soil in a majority of cases for
corn, yet many farmers are not devoting
enough time to the selection of varieties
or to selectmn of good seed. There are
several reasons for this, the fact that
many farmers think it too costly to spend
their time in selecting from the ﬁeld. It
is not too costly and there is probably not
another short job on the farm that will
actually pay in dollars so well. as the time
spent in selecting good seed corn.

The Genesee County Crop Improvement
Association in co-operation with the Farm
Crops Department of M. A. C., staged a
two-day campaign for the selection of

-NOV. 22, I913.

pure and good seed corn. Five demonstra-
tions. were held one day and six the next.
in widely separated parts of the count}!-
The idea intended was to excite interest
in rather than to select seed. In fact, the
most salient feature of such a. campaign
is the interest and discussion which is
aroused and which continues long after
the campaign is over. ,

The following points were emphasized in
the campaign work: Maturity of the
plant, maturity of the ear, selection from
fall stand (three-four stalks) in hill; if
from drills from normal stand in row.
Percentage of grain to cob, location of
ear on stalk, general adaptability of the
variety. StOrage in well ventilated dry
place. leaving the ear on stalk as long as
possible in order to get full maturity and
hardness.

As to varieties already growing, a great
deal may be done to improve them and in
some cases the variety is wholly unsuita-
ble for our climate. There seems to be a.
tendency on the part of the farmers to
send away fOr their seed corn and as a
result oftentimes they get varieties which
require too long a season and again they
may be accustomed to too short a sea-
son and thus not make full use of our
season here. The fact is that if some
good farmers would take up the breeding
and improvement of corn adapted to their
locality other farmers who do not feel
disposed to do this work with corn could
well afford to pay them well for seed up—
on which they have spend considerable
time in selecting and curing properly.

Genesee Co. W. H. PARKER.

SOIL AND FERTILIZER QUESTIONS.
Applying Fertilizer In the Fall.

I am doing some fall plowing. The land
is rolling and runs from clay to heavy
sand and has been a meadow for ﬁve
years but has not been pastured. Have
allowed aftermath to fall back onto the
ground. I only had manure to cover it
partially, and have considered sowing
commercial fertilizer on the balance. I
wondered if I could not sow fertilizer
this fall, with a disk drill, as sowing it in
the spring with corn has been very un—
satisfactory. I thought perhaps it would
become incorporated with the soil during
the winter and be of more beneﬁt to the
ﬁeld. I have watched my farm papers
closely, but have not seen anything on
this subject.

Lenawee Co. J. W. W.

is soluble

Since commercial fertilizer
plant food I would not think it necessary
to apply the fertilizer in the fall for a.
spring crop. If you use a fertilizer con-
taining simply phosphoric acid and potash
there probably would be no loss unless
there would be a loss from washing or
erosion. YOu say your land is rolling.
Now if it sh0uld be an open winter and
plenty of rain, some of this soil might be
gullied or washed out and you would cer-
tainly lose some fertilizer. It would be
removed, soil and all. There would be
practically no danger. however, of the
phosphoric acid and potash, the mineral
elements, getting away. On the other
hand, if you used a. complete fertilizer
containing the three essential elements of
plant food, Initrogen, phosphoric acid, and
potash, there might be some danger of
loss with the nitrogen. With excessive
rains this might leach out of the soil and
be lost entirely, and therefore I would not
think it advisable to apply the fertilizer
this fall for corn next spring.

However. I do believe it to be a good
plan to apply it on the ground before the
corn is planted. a week 0r two for in—
stance. or it would do no‘harm if it was
two or three weeks before the corn was
planted. Then there is no chance for
leaching or loss in any way and the plant
food in the fertilizer becomes dissolved in
the soil moisture so that it can be readily
utilized by the plant. There always is
danger in applying fertilizer late in the
spring if we ”haVe a. dry season, that it
is not absorbed or dissolved in the soil
moisture, and consequently we do not get
the beneﬁt out of it. For instance. I have
applied fertilizer on potatoes planted late
in June, by opening a furrow with a
shovel plow, planting the potatoes, cover—
ing lightly with a. hoe, and then applying
some fertilizer, and then ﬁnishing ﬁlling
the furrow. It was an extremely dry sea-
son, and when we dug the potatoes we
found lots of the fertilizer just as it was
applied in the spring. It had not been
dissolved in the soil and consequently the
potatoes didn’t use it.‘ Now had this
ground been plowed earlier and the ter-
tilizer applied there were plenty of rains
So that it would have been dissolved in
the soil moisture and Well distributed in
the soil so that the plants could have util-
ized it. But to apply it this fall I think

is unnecessary and I‘don'ut think advis-
‘COLON C. LILLm.

able.

 
' NOV. 22, 1913.

RAINFALL: AND FARMERS' CROPS.

 
During the present fall I have experi-
enced a feeling akin to disgust when I
have heard people in other occupations
than farming, as well as the critics who
loaf at the street corners say: “Well, the
farmers are never satisfied; they are al-
ways grumbling. They complained all
summer because the rain didn’t come, and
now we are getting plenty of it they
grumble, saying they can‘t harvest their
crops.

Such people are overflowing with con-
ceited ignorance. They are not aware of
the fact that water is the freighted agent
that sustains plant and animal life. They
would appear astounded if they were told
that every pound of bread they cat has
cost tWo tons of water in the making. 1f
the critics would spend but a small por-
tion of their time studying to understand
the manner in which the food that sus-
tains them is produced, they would enjoy
life just as well as they do at present,
and w0uld not be as ready to make de-
risive remarks about the farmers who
spend their time on the farms, labor
hard. and take their chances with the
(lrouths and excessive raini‘allsv, in their

efforts to coax from the earth the food-

that sustains the nations.

\In producing crops on the farms it
makes a great difference. as to the time
of year the rains come. in the middle
west, in order to produce maximum crops
there must be at least 21.3 inches of rain-
fall during the year. if the rain is evenly
di>tributed chr the growing season, from
March to October, then there is- what is
called a growing season. int if the rain
falls during the fall and winter, and but
little comes during the summer, the sun
pumps from the. surface of the ground
what moisture there is coming up out of
the grOund by capillary movement of
moisture, and no gravitational water go—
ing into the soil, then there is distress.
The farmer sees the crops he has labored
hard to plant. wither and, in some Soils,
perish from the lack of moisture,

On the other hand, if there is but a
Small amount of rain or snow during the
fall and winter, and nearly all of the 35
or 40 inches of rainfall comes during the
spring and summer. on the heavy lands
the soil becomes water—Soaked; the air
can not circulate through it, and there is
no iife in it; the vegetation can not grow
under such conditions, and there is dis—
tress.

'.l‘hc farmers living on the farms know
very well conditions necessary for the
production of crops, and when the condi-
tions are adverse to their growth, they
See it, and very properly mcntion the
fact. The lack of moisture. or an excess
Of water, is a hindrance to crop produc-
tiOn, and if carried to an extreme. means
not only a diminution of the year‘s in-
come, but may mean a lack of sustenance
for the stock kept on the farm and a liv-
ing for the family. Many a. family has
been driven from the farm selected for a
home, because a year of drouth or a ser-
ies of years of droutbs, had made it im-
pOssible to live and meet the debts which
were a part of the purchase price of the
home. It is justifiable for farmers to
watch their crops closely, and the needed
rainfall. for it means success if the rains
come at the right time, and in the right
manner, or if they fail to come during the
grewing scar‘on, crop failure and disaster
must necessarily follow.

The maximum amount of rainfall at the
proper time, 31'..wcl1 distributed over the
whole country, means national prosperity.
if the summer drouth is universal there
will be a general shortage and high prices
will prevail. The present small potato
crop and the prevailing high prices for
the time of ‘ye-ar, is an example. lixces-
sive rains in the fall, which would have
prevented the gathering of the crop. would
have caused a greater potato shortage,
and those who deride the farmers for
watching the rains and the drouths, would
haVe been obliged to pay much higher
prices than they are now paying for this
important article of food.

Much has been said and written about
the conservation of moisture that is al-
ready in the soil, by proper cultivation
which maintains a dust mulch, and pre-
vents loss of moisture by evaporation. A
good deal can be accomplished with heed
crops on clay, clay loam and ﬁne. sandy
soils. but on coarse sandy lands and grav-
elly loams, evaporation is rapid, and the
hygroscopic water which constitutes the
ﬁlms of moisture that surrounds the soil
grains, is not replenished by capillary
water for any great length of time, and
on account of a lack of rainfall, or gravi-
tational’water, the crop must fail. There

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

are numerous spots of such soils in all
parts of our state.

Our grasses are an example which will
show very clearly the necessity of a con—
tinuous distribution of gravitational mois-
ture by rainfall. A single ton of hay
pumps from the earth 500 tons of water
before it is ripe fer harvest. If the sup—
ply of water is diminished the amount of
hay produced is correspondingly reduced.
If the graSSes are consumed by cattle, it
takes from 15 to 20 tons of water to make
a pound of beef.

The more we look into this matter of
moisture the better we can understand
the necessity for a continuous supply in
order to make the required amount of
food for an existence a possibility. It is
calculated that on an average, one thou-
sand pants of moisture are required to
grow one part of dry matter. \\'ith the
facts in the ease in mind. it is not strange
that those who labor to produce the nec-
essities for the sustenance of the popula—
tion of the country, apprehend a shortage
and disaster when the rainfall is not plen-
tiful during the growing season of the
year. l'nless the rain falls, and the. sun
shines, the art of cultivating the soil and
all the light thrown upon the great sub—
jects which pertain to agricultural pur-
suits by our scientiﬁc investigators, will
go fer naught. (liven the rain and sun-
shine alternately and continuously, pros—
perity and happiness is assured.

Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.

GROWING; LIMA eEANs FOR THE
CANNlNG FACTORY.

(‘anning factories, of course, grow some
common white beans and put them up in
various ways. Some canning factories
even go into the. pork and beans proposi—
tion as the big packers and packing con-
ccrns do, but canners all want dwarf lima
beans to can. This is an entirely differ—
ent proposition from growing ordinary
white beans. The dwarf lima beans re-
quire a longer season to ripen ’in. You
can’t raise them too far north or they will
not properly develop. Of course, they
don’t want to be ripe when harvested.
They want to be just right for canning.
The original lima bean was a pole bean,
one had to use poles, but they have been
changed by scicction to a dwarf beau.
which grows about one and a half to twu
feet high. \\'c are just attempting to
grow these beans in this vicinity for the
canning factory. So far the results have
not bccn satisfactory. Last year was an
exceedingly wet season and cold and the
beans didn’t do well at all, some fields
were never harveStcd. This year» the
bcans were put in earlier and the season
was dry and warm. They grow well. but
for some reason or other they did not till
wcll. liven the canning factory man can
give no cxplanation. in some, sections
lima beans are quite a protltablc crop.
Many people near canning factories re~
ccive as high as $30 and $60 and some-
times as high as $75 per acre for the
green beans. They are pullcd at the right
time and drawn to the canning factory
and run through the viner and separated
from the pods and then the canncr pays
so much a pound for the pods. The straw
is usually taken home by the farmer and
i‘cd to live stock.

The t‘armcr should receive more for
crops grown for the canning factory than
for ordinary crops, owing to the fact that
he must haul them in a green condition
to the factory. This is costly, because it
takes the teams away from the farm work
just when you are sure to want them on
the farm. In raising ordinary beans it is
much the. same as wheat. You can draw
them to market after the farm work is
done, but with canning factory crops they
must be drawn at just the right time_ it
is very exacting, and the farmer can’t
afford to raise them unless he can get
more for them than he can for ordinary
crops. COLON C. LILLIE.

RUNNING AN ENGINE.

Ten or ﬁfteen ycars ago almost no one
but an engineer knew anything about
running an engine. Now, the ability to
start an engine and keep it running is
almost as necessary on the farm as know-
ing how to milk a cow.

Almost every farmer now has: an en—
gine. and many of those who have not are
in the marketsiooking, studying, thinking
and deciding. This fall and winter will
See a great many engines purchased by
farmers.

Permit us to make a suggestion. Be-
fore deciding, watch the advertisements
in the Michigan Farmer; get all the infor—
mation possible, and then choose the en-
gine that: seems best adapted to your
needs, regardless of price.

 
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CAUTION!

The great pepularity of the
clean, pure, healthful

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SPEARM/NT

is causing unscrupulous persons to wrap
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some 5 and 10 cent stores. These rankx

imitations cost dealers one cent a pack-
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people for almost any price.

If you want Wrigley’s look before you
buy. Get what you pay for.

Be sure it’s
WRIGLEY’S

We are inserting this advertisement solely
to protect our customers, who are contin-
ually writing us that they have been
deceived by imitations which they pur-
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the dairy business and I would appreciate
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but expect to build one next year. The
following is the feed I would like bal-
anced: I have plenty of good corn fodder
and excellent oat straw but no hay. How
much and when is it best to feed this
roughage? For grain I have wheat bran,
cottonseed meal, corn meal. and oil meal.
How much of each should. I mixtogether
to balance properly?

Eaton Co. W H. J.

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a ver satisfactory combination for the
roughage pact of the ration. In food con-
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Cotton Seed Meakgiiiul°iiﬁiia Fifﬁiho'imi:

 
age I would prefer to have oil meal as
one Of the grain feeds, although it is a.
little bit higher priced than cottonseed
meal. But oil meal is naturally a little
laxative and tends to keep the bowels of
the animals in good condition, while cot-
tonseed meal is constipating, and if fed
heavily in connection with cornstulks and
clover hay it probably would decrease the
digestive efﬁciency of the cows.

I dOIn't think there is anything any bet-
ter and probably nothing any more eco-
nomical than the entire corn plant. There-
fore, when you are feeding cornstalks I
would recommend that you feed some
corn meal in the grain ration as you have
this product anywaw: and with it I would
sugcht that you feed oil meal, and cot-
tonseed meal, and mix them in equal
parts by weight. That is, m’x together
100 lbs. of corn meal. 100 lbs. of cotton-
seed meal, and 100 lbs. of oil meal thor-
oughly. Now feed the cows all the cat
straw and all the cornstalks they will
eat up clean twice a day. You can feed
corn fodder once a day and out straw
once a day. It is not necessary to feed
them so liberally of this that they waste
a. large part of it, but on the other hand
you ought not to compel them to eat it
all up clean, because much of it is unpal-
atable. You probably can get better re-
sults if you will cut the cornstalks with
an ensilage cutter, that is, you will get a.
larger percentage of the stalks consumed
than you will if you feed them whole. Now
feed the cows a pound of the grain to

 
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every four pounds of milk the cows pro-
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grain a day for every pound of butter-fat
which they produce in a. Week.
WHAT GRAIN T0 FEED WITH COOK-
ED BEANS FOR GROWING
HEIFERS.

 
I wish to feed cooked beans this winter
to mv cattle. \Vould you please.- advise
Inc as to the best kind of grain to use to
secure the host results? I have plenty of
good clover and timothy hay and oat straw
for roughage. The cattle are growing
heifer-s that I expect to make cows of.

Oakland Co. E. G.

\Vith plcntv of good mixed hay and out

straw I think you can get splendid results

without any other grain than cooked
beans. They probably will eat cooked
beans better wh ere you feed no other

grain ration than they would if you fed
another grain, and where they have no
choice they will relish the cooked beans
better.

Growing heifers should be urged to
conSumc a comparatively large amount
of roughage. This is better for them than
it is to feed them a large amount 0f grain
and a small amount of reughage. It in-
creases their capacity to consume food
later on when they become cows, and it
is cheaper. I should expect heifers to
make a splendid growth and do well upon
plenty of good clover and timothy hay
once a day and oat straw once a day,

as much as they will e.“ up clean, and
then a feed of cooked beans. If you really
want to feed some other grain in con-
nection with" the cooked beans or haven’t
enough of the cooked beans to carry you
through, then I know of nothing better
than corn and Outs ground together. Y0u
can feed cooked beans once a day and a
little corn and oats once a day, and with-
out doubt the heifers would do well. Of
c0urse, if you fed them :1. little more grain
you wouldn't have to feed them quite so
much of the hay and straw, and it all
depends upon the amount you have of
each. But with plenty of good mixed hay
and cat straw, growing heifers can get
along on a small grain ration and do well.

 
PEA MEAL FOR COWS.

 
What grain and how much shall I feed
to my cows? I can. buy cottonseed meal
for $32.50 and pea meal for $26. and bran
for $24. I also have oats and corn on
hand. For roughage I have com silage.
cornstalks, bean straw and mixed clover
hay

St. Clair. Co. SUBSCRJBER.

At the prices named pea meal is the
cheapest and best grain ration that you
can get for the cows. In fact, I don't
know of any better grain ration than pea
meal to coax cows to give milk. It is
most excellent feed. I make a. practice
every year of growing peas and oats. Of
course, what I am after largely is the
peas, because peas are rich in protein, to
balance up a ration of corn silage. This
year we raised 20 acres and it has been
my practice to raise about that much ev-
ery year. Next year my calculations are
to practically double this area of peas
and oats. _

We sow peas and oats together. because
they harvest better, and then oats are a.
most excellent food for cows also. By
mixing a bushcl of peas and a bushel of
cats together and sowing about two bush-
cls to the acre we usually get a. fairly
good crop of grain, and if they are hur—
Vested before the oat straw gets too ripe
the out and pea straw is us good as tim-
othy hay for cows, or any other stock.

I should advisc you to buy pea meal.
If you want to feed some oats you can
mix half cats with the pea meal and get
splendid results. Oats are a 'splendid food
for all kinds of stock. The only trouble
is that they are usually high priced and
it makes an expensive ration. If I could
get all the pen meal i wanted at the price
named I don’t believe I would lOok for
anything else. On the other hand, if you
can‘t gel: enough then it; might pay you
to mix ground outs with the pea. meal.
Or it would do no harm and make a. good
ration if you mix corn and oats together
half and half to make a good corn chop,
and thou feed the pea meal in connection
with this. I wouldn't buy any cottonseed
meal or any bran at the prices Stated if
I could get all the pea meal I wanted for
that price.

PUTTING CORNSTALKS IN THE SILO.

 
We have about seven times of heavy
corn fodder after ﬁlling silos. Would it
be better to put this into silo as soon as
we have room for it, or feed as a rough-
age? “e haven t enough of other rough-
age without this. Can you feed ensilage
entirely and no othei roughage without
harmful Iesults? I get better results from
feeding corn that has been shocked and
then run into silo, and dampened than I
do rom corn put in when it has lain out
three to four days.

Emmet Co. H. L.

If you put the cornstalks into the silo
and wet them sufﬁciently so that they
pack down there isn’t any question but
what you will get better results from
them than you will if you keep them dry,
because they will pmcticully all be con-
Sumcd if they are made into silage. If
you feed them dry not over half of them
will be consumed anyway, and probably
not; over one-third. It is possible that
some of these stalks that are made into
ensilage when they are all consumed are
indigestible and act largely as a. iillcr, but
the cows will get all of the nutrimcnt in
them they possibly can; whereas.'when
they are fed dry only a certain per cent
of them are consumed at all. If you have
gOt the silage room I am positive it Will
pay you to make ensilage out of the com
stalks if you are short on roughage.

I don’t like to cut up the corn and leave
it on the- ground two or three days. I
think it is a. very bad practice. The corn
absorbs odors from the ground. It is lia-
ble to must on the lower side of the bun-
dies, which will impair its feeding quali-
ties. This is especially true if there hap-
pens to come a rain while the corn lies
on the ground. I remember one year

when we had a considerable amount‘of
silage corn cut, and the machine broke
oown, causing us to wait several days for

 
NOV. 22, 1913.

repairs. In the meantime there camels.
rain and the weather was warm. The
corn on the bottom of the bundles began
to get musty and to absorb odors from
the ground which made the'silage dis-
tasteful to the cows. We could tell when
we fed this ensilage. The COWS didn‘t
like it. So I believe it would be better to
have the corn shocked than it would to
leave it on the ground.

But why shock it or why leave it on the
ground. Why not cut it up when it con—
tains the largest per cent of digestible
matter and put it into the silo. That
time is when it has just reached maturity
and contains its natural juice. Then it
makes choice ensilageu

If perchance, we can’t handle the corn
then and it; gets too dry then the next
best thing is to add water to it. But the
ﬁnest ensilage is made from mature corn
containing a sufﬁcient amount: of its no.-
ural sap so that you don't have to use
any moisture. That’s prime ensilage. The
cows- know it, too.

Where one hasn't the dry roughage he
can get along with the ensilage alone as
a. roughage, although it is not advisable if
other roughage is available, becauSe en-
silage gives bctler results if some dry food
is fed in connection with it. However.
people have fed this as an only roughage,
just simply grain and ensilage and get
good results, but I wouldn‘t want to rec-
ommend it. If I couldn’t get hay I would
buy straw, or some fodder.

 
GRAIN TO FEED WITH SILAGE, CLO.
VER HAY AND FODDER.

 
I am milking 36 cows,
buy my grain feed. I have corn silage
and clover hay and corn fodder. What is
the best and cheapest grain feed to buy
to make a balanced ration?

Berrien CO. A. N. B.

Corn fodder is supposed to be the
entire corn plant without being huskcrl,
grown thick probably so that the ears are
mere nubbins and some stalks having no
cars at all, but it is the entire corn plant.
This being the c:1$e I do not believe that
I would ﬁgure on buying any corn meal
for the grain ration, but I would conﬁne
myself entirely to those foods which are
comparatively rich in protein, like cotton-
seed meal, oil meal, and gluten feed, pea
meal, and cull beans. Undoubtedly the
food in which you can buy a. pound of
digestible protein for the least moncy is
cottonseed meal, because this is exceed-
ingly rich in protein. Most practical
dairymcn would make this the basis for
the grain ration. However, I would not
care to feed over two pounds of cotton-
seed meal a day and then I would feed
some other grain in connection with it to
make as heavy a grain ra-tion as I want-
ed to feed. And I would buy any other
grain ration in which I could buy a pound
of digestible protein the cheapest.

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CHANGES DURING THE ROTTING 0F
MANURES.
(Continued from last week).
Waste of Manures Through Weathering.

In connection with this it is interesting
to note some very decisive experiments
conducted by this same station bearing
on the waste of farm manures, due to ex—
posure to weather generally. At the same
time the effect in a preserving way of the
various so-called absorptives that have
been used from time to time is noted.

One ton of fresh manure treated with
40 pounds of floats compared with one ton
of weathered manure treated with 40
pounds of ﬂoats showed a loss, due to
weathering, of 18.66 per cent of the total
mineral matter which was distributed as
far as fertilizing constituents were con-
cerned, as followS: 4.47 per cent of the
phosphorus was lost during the action;
32.96 per cent potassium likewise. and
33.61 per cent of the nitrogen was lost
during the weathering. in spite of the
ﬂoats that were used as a preservative.
The value of this loss. as determined by
crop production, per ton, was $21.58. In
the case of freSh manure to which acid
phosphate had been added there was a
loss, due to weathering, of 16.13 per cent
total mineral matter containing 17 per
cent phosphorus, 38.2 per cent potassium
and 31.56 per cent nitrogen, with a total
crop production loss of $14.97 per tOn.
\Vith kainit as a preservative, there was
27.1 per cent loss of mineral matter, due
to weathering; 16.67 per ccnt loss of phos-
phorus, 43.85 per cent 108s of potassium,
31.51 per cent loss of nitrogen, and a loss
of crop production of $21.21 per ton. In
the case of gypsum, the weathered ma-
nures showed a loss of 28.67 per cent min-
eral matter; 9.72 per cent phosphorus;
54.37 per cent potassium and 29.65 per
cent of the nitrogen, with a loss in crop
production of $14.70 per ton. In the un-
treated manure. that is, manure having
no preservative added. the mineral loss
due to weathering was 22.15 per cent: the
phosphorus loss was 42.5 per cent, potas-
sium loss was 51.2 per cent, and the nitro-
gen loss Was 35.63 per cent, with a crop
production loss of $21.45 per ton.

The average loss or waste due to weath-
ering of the manure. in spite of any pre—
servatives added, was 22.54 per cent of
mineral matter; 14.7 per cent phosphorus,
44.5 per cent potassium. 32.19 per cent
nitrogen. with a 10515 of crop production
of $18.66 per top.

Absorptives do not Prevent Loss in the
Barnyard.

The loss due to weathering in these in-
stances should not be confounded VVlill the
losses due to the escape of ammonia such
as Ot'Clll‘S in the stable when any of these
various materials are used as absorptives,
but it may be considered that practically
mostly all of these losses here recorded
are due to the actual dissolving of the
soluble constituents in the manurcs, by
rain or other weathering agents, and it is

interesting to note that farmers when
thrmving manures into the yard, which
have been removed from the stables
where it was treated with the various

absorbing agents such as Iloats. acid phos-
phate, kainit, gypsum. etc, cannot rely
on these agents to prevent waste in the
i‘arn‘iyard‘ for it is evident from the rec-
ords herein presented that it becomes just
as essential to remove speedily that ma-
nure to the field where absorbing agents
are mixed with it as when untreated.

LABORATORY REPORT.
The Over—run Problem.

As we are shipping our cream and
would like to know how much butter a
pound of butter—fat makes, several per-
sons have asked me and I told them I
didn’t know but would write and aSk
someone that knows. I see by our farm
papers that you test milk and cream free
so hope you can tell me.

lCmmct (10. I“, S.

The question arises frequently as above,
as to the manner of figuring the amount
of butter to be obtained .from one pound
of butter-fat. Of course, if it were not
for the fact that other materials are in-
corporated during the process of manu-
facture of the butter, then one pound of
butter—fat would make one pound of but-
ter. but during the process of manufac-
ture a certain amount of water is incor-
porated with the butter-fat, together
with a small amount of curd from the
milk or cream. likewise salt in other than

 
fresh butter. These products, that is,
the water, the curd and the salt, consti-
tute the ingredients which make the ov-
errun, as it is called, in butter. Overrun
in butter means the amount of materials
over and above the fat present. For in-
stance, one pound of butter will make
from 1.12 to 1.20 pounds of butter. It is
plain to see that if one pound of butter-
fat makes 1.12 pounds of butter, the ov-
that butter is 12 per cent. If
one pound of butter-fat makes 1.20
pounds of butter, then the overrun in
that butter is 20 per cent.

One may easily see how, therefore, it
becomes possible for a creamery to pay
the full butter prices for butter—fat and
still have a sufﬁcient margin under cer-
tain c0nditions to make a fair proﬁt. We
will suppose, for example, that the Elgin
market for butter is 40 cents per pound,
and the creamery will pay the farmer for
his butter—fat the same price that the
lClgin market quotes for butter. In oth-
er words, 40 cents per pound for the but-
ter—fat. One hundred pounds of butter-
t'at would, therefore, yield the daii'yman

errun in

$40. This same 100 pounds of butter—fat
can, by the process of manufacture. be
made into 120 pounds of butter, 120

pounds of butter at 40 cents per pound
yields $48. The creameryman then gets
for the manufacture in that case, the dif-
ference between $48, his total income,
and $40, which he pays the dairyman.
For the manufacture, therefore. of 120
pounds of butter the gross proﬁts of the
creameryman is $8.00 and from this must
be deducted the cost of labor, and the
cost of the several operations incident to
the manufacture, shipment and selling of
the butter.
Keeping Cider Sweet.

Can you tell me of some way to keep
cider sweet?

Osceola Co. W. J. R.

There are two or three ways of pre-

serving cider. The one most ordinarily
used is to pasteurize. This may be done
by drawing off the cider into glass bot-
tles or fruit jars and placing same in a
pan or boiler surrounded by water and
gradually raising the temperature as is
done in the canning of fruit, until the
water just begins to boil on the outside.
The corks and can covers should be im-
mersed for about 20 minutes in boiling
water. They are thcn taken out and af-
ter the cider has stood in the jars for
about one-half hour the corks and stop-
pers are inserted, the can covers Scaled
down and the water allowed to cool
gradually.

The objection to this method of pre—
serving cider is that it usually gives the
rider a slightly cooked taste which is not
relished by some people but if care is
used in paSteurizing the same it makes a
very delicious beverage indeed.

There is another method followed. This
is the use of chemical preservatives. \\'e
will describe this method, although we
wish it to ho understood that we do not
approve, of the use of chemical preserva-
tives in beverages. Bur/mate of soda to
the amount of 0.2 per used
which will preserve the cider for a Con—
siderahlc period of time. If the
to be used for other pui'pOScs than drink-
ing it possibly might not be objectionable
to use bcnzoatc of soda, and there are
people who contend that benzoate of soda.
is harmless when used in these amounts.
The writer, however. has not been one to
acknowledge the harmlessness of benze-
ate of soda and we have. therefore, stren-
uously advised against its use.

ccnt may be

cider is

 
In experiments comparing barley meal
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the cost of gains was slight, although it
was concluded that “maize is worth ap—
proximately $1.23 per ton more than bar-
ley meal for pig feeding. As regards the
quality of the pork, barley meal seems to
be slightly Superior to maize meal.”

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meal consisting of one part Ilaxseed meal
and two parts corn meal, it was conclud-
ed that these two meal mixtures are of
practically equal value. In cattle feeding
trials, comparing home-grown and im-
ported feeding stuffs, no material differ-
ence was realized either in gains made or
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Feeding an Orphan Colt.

Kindly advise how to feed an orphan
colt two months of age.
Hillsdale Co. SUBSCRIBER.

A colt only two months of age should
be fed milk as well as grain. At ﬁrst
cows' milk should be modiﬁed to make it

more nearly like the mother's milk in.

consistency. Cows’ milk is richer in fat
but contains ler sugar than mare's milk,
consequently some water should be fed
with it and also some sugar added. About
a dessert spoonful of granulated sugar
should be added to each feed of milk, and
about half as much water as cow’s milk.
It is also well to add two or three table—
spoonfuls of lime water as an aid to di—
gestion. This is made by placing a lump
of lime in a bucket of water, then pour-
ing off the ﬁrst water and re-ﬁlling the
bucket. Only small feeds of milk should
be given, and the Sugar may be eliminat-
ed gradually as the colt becomes accus-
tomed to the cow's milk, The milk should
always be fed from a clean pail, and if
any signs of “scouring” appear, the ra-
tion should be reduced. If the colt be-
comes constipated. give a thrce or four
ounce d050, 0f castor oil. When the colt
reaches an age of three months, it can
safely be fed skim-milk and a liberal
grain ration. A colt two months old needs
grain feed, but should not have corn.
Ground oats and bran make the ideal ra-
tion for colts of this age, and while only
:1 small food may be given at ﬁrst, this
may be gradually increased with proﬁt
until the colt is getting all it will eat up
clean twice a day.

AUTUMN CARE OF THE EWE FLOCK.

Incal culable difficulty with ewes during
plegnancy and lumbiig time originates
from improper feeding and care following
mating. As a common rule, ﬂock owners
give special attention to their flock pre-
vious to and during the mating season,
but all too frequently overlook the vital
necesxity 0f continuing their attentive ef-
forts until the harvest is over.

There are numerous detrimental inﬂu—
ences prevalent during the period follow-
ing mating that may be antagonistic to
the best intei'eSts 0f the liock owner. In
this state and other states where there
is a wide variation of atmospheric and cli-
matic conditions, there is danger from
detrimental inﬂuences that do not ucc0m-
pany llock management in less variable
climates. However, sheep are naturally
well equipped to resist ordinary climatic
changes, except those of constant expos-
ure, drenching storms and exn-essively
damp or Wet stables. Pregnant ewes are
particularly sensitive to the injurious ef-
foot of such influences and should be safe-
ty protected against them.

Exposing pregnant owes to drenching
storms and damp stables is» one of the
most potcnl means of impairing the phy-
sical health and activity of both the ewes
and their unborn young. During the early
stages of pregnancy there are certain
physical changes taking place in the life
of the ewes. Any influence tending to pro-
duce abnormal conditions at this particu-
lar time is very likely to result seriously.
Ewes succeeding mating should receive

special attention to safeguard them
against over-exposure to drenching
storms. The stable should be well light-

ed and always open. If possible the exit
should be on the side opposite the prevail-
ing winds so as to prevent a strong cur-
rent circulating about the sheep while in
the stable.

Colds and cutarrh are very common ail-
ments of shecp during the late fall and
early winter months. Vi'hile generally not
considered serious by ﬂock owners they
do impair the physical vitality of the ewes
and materially influence the growth and
development of the unborn lambS. It is
next to impossible to prevent some mem-
bers of the ﬂOck having colds and dis-
charging at the nose as some are more
subject to attack than others, but if the
ailment becomes general there is cause
for alarm. It is a great deal better to
prevent the attack than to try to cure it
after it once gets a foothold. It is not
safe during the fall and early winter
months to allow the flock to remain out
nights. It is a much safer practice to

 
conﬁne the flock in the stable and leave

[one door open by placing a gate across to

 
NOV. 22. 1913.

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afford ventilation. Too close conﬁnement
is as dangerous as over- exposure and both.
should be guarded against.

As winter closes in the ﬂock must be

conﬁned to dry feeding. NOW is the time
when precautionary measures should be
exercised. The change from pasture to
dry feed is a very radical and abrupt one

and likely, unless made gradually, to pro-,

duce digestive trouble. Some measure
should be taken as soon as the ﬂock is
permanently removed from pasture to
substitute some form of succulency to
take the place of that provided in the
pasture. Ordinary dry roughages are de-
ﬁcient in succulent matter and can not
be depended upon to take the place of
green forage. So long as the ewes can
haVe access to a meadow pasture, even
though it may be late in the fall, they
will secure enough succulent food to carry
them along, but when this fails some oth-
er provision must be made. Ensilage of
course, is excellent if at hand and will
answer all purposes. Roots are unequaled
for supplying succulency in the ration if
plenty are in store. Potatoes, cabbages,
etc” may be fed with splendid results.
VVilh the wide resource of supply no ﬂock
owner should neglect to feed plenty of
this kind of food to his ewes following the
mating season.

“The best that the farm can afford is
none too good for the ﬂock," is an old
English adage and very applicable Wher-
ever sheep are maintained. Ewe-s, suc-
ceeding mating, should be fed a highly
palatable roughage and grain ration. No
one kind of roughage possesses all the es-
sential elements vital in a ration for preg-
nant ewes. A wide range of roughage
should be supplied, not only to insure per-
fect nutrition. but also to encourage heal-
thy assimilation and promote strong ap-
petites. Never under any condition, feed
musty or moldy roughage to pregnant
ewes as serious results are likely to fol-
low. If the roughage is fed in racks in
the yard do not fail to keep the racks
well cleaned out. Vi'el or soggy food is
equally as injurious 'to pregnant animals,
especially if compelled to eat it 011 ac-
count of the lack of better food. Supply
the ewes with good wholesome food and
plenty of it in proper proportion and good
results are sure to follow.

Shiawassee Co. .LEO C. REYNOLDS.

 
SlLAGE FOR HORSES.

Under this head, George, M. Roumel.
Chief of the Animal Husbandry Division,
Bureau of Animal Industry, comments on
the value of silage for horses, in a recent-
ly published bulletin. Silage has not been
generally fed to horses, he states, partly
on account of a certain amount of dan-
ger which attends its use for this pur—
pose, but still more, perhaps, on account
of prejudice. In many cases horses have
been killed by eating moldy silage, and
the careless person who fed it at once
blamed the silage itself, rather than his
own carelessness and the mold which
really was the, ‘cauSe of the trouble.
Horses are peculiarly susceptible to the
effects of molds, and under certain con-
ditions certain molds grow on silage which
are deadly poisons to both horses and
mules. Molds must have air to grow and
lherefOl‘e silage which is packed air—tight
and fed out rapidly will not become
moldy. If the fender watches the silage
carefully as the weather warms up 'he can
soon detect the presence of mold. '\\'hen
mold appears, feeding to horses or mules
should stop immediately.

It is also unsafe to feed horses frozen
silage on account of the danger of colic.
This is. practically impossible to avoid in
very cold weather, especially in solid-wall
silos. By taking the day's feed from the
unfrozen center of the silo and chopping
away the frozen silage from the edges and
piling the frozen pieces in the center the
mass will usually thaw out in time for
the next feed. When silage is properly
stored and is not allowed to mold, no feed
cxceeds it as a cheap winter ration. It is
most valuable for horses and mules which
are not at heaVy work, such as brood
mares and work horses during the slack
season. With plenty of grain on the
cornstalks. horses will keep in good con-
dition on a ration of 20 pounds of silage
and 10 pounds of hay for each 1,000 pounds
of live weight.

Washington, D. C. G. E. M.

> T”

 
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Nov. 22, 1913.

TH E INTERNATIONAL.

The character and extent of the Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition is too well
known and too generally appreciated by
the stock breeders and feeders of Mich-
igan to make any extended comment re-
garding the Show for 1913 which will be
staged at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago,
frOm November 29 to December 6, inclu—
s1ve. Sufﬁce it to say that the entries
f0r this show vastly exceed those of any
previous event in the history of the show.
This means that the patron of this great
show will have the advantage of seeing
more animals of all breeds, in both breed-
ing and fat classes compete in the show
ring than have ever before been gotten
together in one place, and see the best
types in each class picked by judges of
international reputation. In addition the
spectacular and entertainment features of
the show are in themselves well worth a,
trip to Chicago. Besides all those attrac-
tions practically all of the national breed
associations will meet during the exposi-
tion, which is an additional incentive for
every breeder of pure-bred stock to at-
tend. A list of these meetings and the
places where they will be held follows:

Location of Halls.

Convention hall No. 1, second ﬂoor of
International Amphitheater

Convention hall No. 2, third floor Live
Stock Record Building. Entrance through
Saddle and Sirloin Club.

Convention hall No. 3, second floor Live
Stock Record Building. Formerly desig-
nated as Wool Ofﬁce.

Convention hall No. 4, second floor Live
Stock Record Building. (corner room).

ConventiOn hall No. 5, second floor Live
Stock Record Building. Second door to
left, near head of stairway.

Convention hall No, 6, second floor
Swine Department, (above harness shop).

Convention hall No. 7, second floor.
Swine Department. (above harness shop).

Convention hall No. 8, second floor, Live
Stock Record Building. Aberdeen—Angus
th‘ce.

Monday, December 1.

Percheron Society of America, Congress
Hotel, 8:00 p. in.

Tuesday, December 2.

American Shire Horse Assn, Hall No.
3, 7:00 p. in.

American l‘olled Hereford
Assn. Hall No 4, 7:30 p. in.

National Ass'n of Stallion Registration
Boards, Hall No. 2, 7:30 p. in

Continental Dorset Club, Hall No. 5,

Stock Yard

Breeders’

7:30 p. in.

American Berkshire ASSn,
lnn,‘7:00 p. in

American Aberdeen-Angus lircedcrs As-
sociation, Grand l’aciiic liotcl, 8:00 p. m.

American Cotswold ltcgistry Assn, Hall
No. 7, 7:30 p. in.

American Society of Animal
tion, Hall No. 6, 8:00 p. in.

International Live Stock Exposition
Assn, Saddle and Sirloin t‘lub, 8:00 p. in.

Wednesday, December 3.

Produc-

National Duroc Jersey Record Assn,
Hall No. 5, 1:30 p. in.
.American Poland-China Record Assn,

Hall N0. 3, 2:00 p. In.

Red Polled Cattle Club of America, Hall
No. 4, 2:00 p. In

American Ass'n Importers and Breeders
of Belgian llorscs, ”all No. 2, 7:30 p. in.

American Galloway Brecdcrs’ Assn,
Hall N0. 5, 8:00 p. in.

American Shropshire Registry Assn,
Hall No. 3, $8z00 p. m.

American Hampshire Sheep Breeders’
Assn, Hall N0. 4, 8:00 p. in.

National Lincoln Sheep Breeders Assn,
Hall No. 6, 8:00 p. in

American Cheviot Society,
8:00 p. m.

American Duroc-Jcrsey Swine Breeders'
Assn, La Salle Hotel, 8:00 p. in.

Chester \Vhite Congress, La. Salle Hotel,
8:00 p. In

American Shorthorn Breeders’
Congress Hotel, 8:00 p. m.

0. I. C. Swine Breetlcrs’ Assn, La Salle
Hotel, 8:00 p. m.

American Ilambouillet Sheep
Assn, Hall N0. 8, 8:00 p. in.

Thursday, December 4.

American Yorkshire Club, Stock Yard
Inn, 7:00 p. m.

American Sonthdown Breeders’ Assn,
Hall No. 3, 7:00 p. In.

American Oxford Down Record Assn,
Hall N0. 4, 8:00 p. m.

American Tamworth Swine
Assn, Hall No. 5, 8:00 p, m.

American Suffolk Horse Assn,
ers’ Bldg, 8:00 p. m.

Polled Durham Breeders’ Assn, Grand
Paciﬁc Hotel, 7:30 p. m. .

Friday, December 5.

American Shetland Pony Club, Stock
Yard Inn, 4:30 p. m.

LIVE STOCK! NEWS.

Hall NO. 7,

Assn,

Breeders’

Breeders’
Breed-

 
The long continued extensive marketing
of pigs and underweight hogs in the Chi-
cago stock yards causes general comment
among stockmen and yard dealers. as
well as in packing circles, and everyone
admits that it will cut heavily into the
future supply of matured hogs. which
means much higher prices ultimately.
Provisions have shared in the extremely
large decline in hog values, but both hogs
and products have undergone recent ral—
lies. Pork is still selling much higher
than a year ago_ and so are lard and
short ribs. St0cks of lard in Chicago are
understood to be controlled by wealthy
dealers, and there is increased specula-
tive trading. Hogs have been marked up
in German markets recently 11/, cents a.
pound, and reports from Denmark are
that hog killing is running 20 per cent
less than last Year, all of which will work
to develop a. larger foreign demand for
American hog products.

THE'MICHIGAN FARMER

Thus far since the new tariff went into
operation the importations of Canadian
beef cattle have been of comparatively
moderate'proportions, partly because Can—
ada has no large supplies to spare for
outside markets, and partly because the
Canadian railroads ﬁnd the longer haul
from the northwestern provinces to east—
ern Canada more proﬁtable. A short time
ago the ﬁrst shipment of'beef cattle of
the season from Alberta showed up in
the Chicago market, comprising steers
that brought $8.15 per 100 lbs. and heif—
ers that sold at $7.40. A great many ship-
ments of Canadian stock cattle have
reached American markets and have
gone a long way to ﬁll vacant feed lots.
Many such consignments have gone to
eastern markets, and this has materially
lessened the demand in the Chicago mar-
ket for stocker and feeder cattle for ship-
ment to various eastern feeding districts.

Regarding cattle paper, W. A. Heath,
president of the Chicago Live Stock Na-
tional Bank, says there is no discrimina-
tion made against cattle paper, beyond
the cautiOn exercised in making any kind
of loans. He adds: “The demand for
cattle paper is very heavy on account of
the depletion of herds and the general
rural tendency to feed and breed for the
future. Cattle paper is the equal of any
other, involving fewer losses than any
other collateral banks accept, although it
was very different in range days. There
has been some disposition to withhold
loans on range sheep, but even in Chicago
that tendency is not marked. The effects
of the tariff were discounted some time
ago, and the manner in which the coun-
try has been. buying feeding lambs, al-
most without a deviation in prices dur-
ing the past month, indicates little ap-
prehension. The faith that banks and
loan companies have in cattle paper un-
der ordinary conditions may be shown by
the statement that such loans are made
up to the full extent of the purchase price
of feeding cattle. Loans are now made
largely On that basis.”

‘thre are hogs going to land? This is
a. question constantly heard, the recent
slump in prices having left them at the
lowest values seen at any time since last
February. The Chicago packing frater-
nity appears to have complete control of
the situation, and hundreds of farmers
owning young hogs and pigs are becoming
alarmed and are hastening to market
their holdings for fear that further largc
declines will take placee later on. Lead-
ing packers are being interviewed on the
prospects for the. hog trade, and they are
extremely bearish as a matter of course.
and some of the market reporters arc cv-
idcntly hypnotized by this talk, having
veered around to the rankest pessimism,
thereby endeavoring to intensify the dc—
prcssion. Here, for instance, comes Pat-
rick Cudahy, the well-known packer. who
makes the boldest predictions as to the
future, his opinion, as expressed, being
that “there should be plenty of hogs in
the country to market for the next twelve
months, for we have had very high prices
and plenty of feed for more than a year
past.” Possibly there should be plenty of
pigs and hogs left in the country after
the long c0ntinucd enormous marketing
of mere pigs and young hogs prematurely
from cholera-stricken districts of the corn
belt. especially from Iowa, but from all
accounts, there has becn a tremendous
decimation of everything in the swine
line. and it is impossible to avoid the
conclusion that later on there is bound to
be a corresponding falling off in the coun-
try’s supply of matured hogs. This pack-
cr ventures the opinion that “this cholera
talk is more sensational than real,” and
he believes the reas0n so many young pigs
are being sent to market is because there
are too rrany of them in the country. He
takes the ground that the inducement to
breed has been great, and farmers have
overdone it. Then, as if all this was not
enough, the packer winds up by stating
that the industrial situation is unsatisfac-
tca'y and a great many shops are reducing
their working forces.

In a short time the season for market-
ing sheep and lambs from the Montana
and. other distant ranges will be ovcr,and
then sheepmen engaged in feeding flocks
in the middle west and farther cast will
have the field to themselves. The closing
range shipments are. running very largely
to an inferior class of lambs, mostly of
the thin feeder kind. and farmers who are.
not fastidious as to quality and weight
are picking these up on very low terms.

Fewer brood sows are being marketed
in Chicago than in recent years at this
season. while great numbers of pigs
weighing from 60 to '80 lbs. are arriving
and selling at big discounts from prices
for matured hogs

There has been a large marketing of
pasture and stalk field common cattle for
several weeks past, and caStcrn markets
have received great numbers from several
states along the northern line of south-
ern states, including Virginia. Kentucky
and Tennessee, as well as liberal num-
bers of Canadian stockers. A great deal
has been said about the great numbers
of Canadian beef cattle that are going to
be brought into the United States under
the new tariff law, but the truth is that
Canada, as well as this country, is very
short of beeves and really cannot spare

many. In fact, the demand from this side
of the international boundary line has
resulted in stiff advances of prices for

beef cattle, and this is sure to check the
movement to a Serious extent. Canada
can spare stockers and thin old canners.
perhaps, although even of these the limit
is likely to be reached before long. Thus
far large numbers 0f stockers have reach-
ed our markets, most of them going to
eastern feeding sections, although the
Chicago market has received some long
trains. The Chicago packers have re-
ceived some trains of thin, old canning
cggvsibof late, these bringing around $4 per
5.

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so abundantly supplied in grass.
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DETROIT, NOV. 22, 1913.

 
CURRENT COMMENT.

With the return of the
Thanksgiving holiday each
and every one of us will
ﬁnd many reasons fOr thankf‘ulness for
the blessings which have accrued to us
during the year. The Governor's procla4
mation, in which he joins the President in
setting apart Thursday, November 27. as
a day for Thanksgiving, is unique, both
in its brevity and in the prominence given
to 1111 important but little considercd ap-
plication of the Thanksgiving spirit. For
the latter reason every reader will ﬁnd it
profitable to read and rcilect on this proc—
lamation, the text of which follows:

Just a “thank you" thrills the heart of
the receiver and rcveals the kindliness of
the giver. Gratitude is contagious, gram-
tudc enriches the home and the state.
gratitude makes life wotth living. During
the past year Michigan has shared with
the Nation in peaic and prospciitx, in
civic and religious progress,
ciaiion of health and sanity. The ﬁrcsides
of Michigan have had the courage and
faith that conquers. To God, the source
of all power, it is ﬁtting that we devote
one day to praise and tnank<giv1ng in the
soul: that shall brighten and beautify all
the days of all the years to come 7

Therefore, I, VVocdbridge N Ferris. Gov-
ernor of the State of Michigan, do hereby
join the President of the United States in
designating Thursday. the 27th of Novem-
ber, as a day for all (if the people of this
Commonwealth to celebrate in thanksgiv—
ing and prayer.

In addition to the social and civic
causes fer thankfulncSS to which atten-
tion is called in the Governor's proc1.1ma-
lion, we should not forget the more Dure-
ly material causes for thankfulness. in
token of which this day has e‘er been
made an occasion for the feast of the
year. Our ﬁrst page illustration was de—
l‘Igned to emphasize this feature of the
Tlizlnksglving occasion. The photograph
which furnished the foundation of the de-
sign was taken on a central Michigan
farm, (the J. Jensen farm. of Montcalm
county), is not only emblematic of the
bountiful products of the autumn's liar-
vest, but as well of that choicer product
of the farm home which, collectively 00n-
Sidcrcd, is an earnest of the nation's fu-
ture prOgress and thus a cause for gen-
eral as well as individual thankfulness.

Let us then be thankful not only for
bath civic and material blessings, but as
well for the promise for the future in the

Thanksgiving.

cholcer products of the farms of this
country, not forgetting to make those
about us thankful by broadening the

Thanksgiving spirit. as suggesited in the

Governor’s proclamation.

The maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine. which is
in effect the assumption by
the United States of police
power over the international affairs of the
“Tester-n Hemisphere, is an ofﬁcial duty
which certainly does not tend to simplify
the otherwise arduOus task of the Presi-
dent in the administration of the execu~
tive department of our national govern-
ment. The problems which arise in con-
llcilon with that Policy. arealways dini-

The Mexican
Problem.

in an appre— ,

THE MlCH IGAN FAR MER

cult of solution, and this appears to be
especially true with the Mexican one that
is now pending. It is needless to say
that if the administration in its effort to
wisely solve this problem becomes involv-
ed in complications which require a. unit-
ed expressiOn of patriotic loyalty on the
part of the whole people, that pairiotis’m
and lOyalty will be forthcoming. But such
complications should be avoided if pos-
sible, and the administration should not
be permitted to harbor miStaken ideas as
to the sentiment of thinking people on
this point through theindefault in the
expression of that sentiment. In time
connection Michigan Farmer readers will
be interested in such an expression by
Mr. M. J. Lawrence, President of the
Lawrence Publishing Company, in a. re-
cent letter addressed to President Wilson.
Mr. Lawrence's views on this question are
the more illuminating from the fact that
he is a student of other countries and
other peoples, having traveled extensively
in many foreign countries, including Mex-
ico. His letter follows:
November 10, 1913.

My Dear Mr. President:

If a just cause should arise for a war
with any other government, I think I
would be as courageous in sentiment as
anyone. but in sincere patriotism and with
a foreknowledge of probable results, I
View with absolute horror and alarm 'the
possible armed intervention by us with
the purely internal troubles of Mexico.
From my insight of the matter there is
positively no justiﬁcation for this action
on our part. The only plea is protection
of I'nilcd States citizens and their in-
vestments, which are not at all seriously
threatened and if so, we Should hesitate
over the knowledge that if we march an
armed force over the Mexican border it
will cost an hundred lives of United States
citlzens and an hundred United States
dollars to one citizen and one dollar that
there is any possibility of loss under pres-
ent or probable future conditions We
have everything to lOSe and nothing to
gain. The days of reward by conquest
and indemnity are past. From a philan-
thropic viewpoint the subject is in no way
worthy of the cost. With the low pedi-
gree and grossly immoral character of the
great mass of the Mexican pc-oplc, a.
peaceful settlement or any material prog-
ress in civilization by our government
system is a hopeless task. I have vcry
much admired and approved of your ﬁrm
stand so far, in repelling the "jingo-isms”
of politicians and some over—enthUSiasts.
May I hope that you will continue? I
absolutely know that the great mass of
the intelligent people and the important
business interests of our country look with
much alarm and for no satisfactory re-
sulis from an armed interference with
Mexico. The life and health of a citizen
soldier is just as precious a care of yours
as that of any other citizen. Vl'iih much
respect, I am.

Very truly yours,
M LAWRENCE.

In the issue of
November 8th
Mr. N. A. Clapp
of W'ayne Co.,
described the operations of a solicitor for
subScriptions to the capital stock of the
“Michigan Farmers’ (Io—operative Asso-
ciation," and indicated that those who
had subscribed were anxious fer more
deﬁnite information regarding the status
of the organization toward the ﬁnancing
of which they had contributed, The Mich-
igan Farmer at once started an investi-
gation in their behalf. An inquiry'ad-
dressed to the clerk of Wayne county
brought the information that there was no
record of such a corporation in his olﬁce,
but a similar inquiry addressed to the
Secretary of State led to the information
that articles of incorporation under the
above name were ﬁled in his ofﬁce last
spring. Acting on this information. a
member of the Michigan Farmer staff vis-
ited the Secretary of State's ofﬁce at Lan-
sing and secured a list of the original
stockholders in, and officers of, the As-
sociation. All of these men. ten in num-
ber. gave Detroit as their residence, but
they were apparently not of sulﬁcient
prominence in a business way to be tele-
phone subscribers, and none of them were
known to prominent men in the produce
trade of whom inquiry was made.

Following up the only clues available
from the city directory, one of the “origi-
nal stockholders" was ﬁnally located. He
is a clerk in a 100-11 shoe store, where two
others interested in the “Farmers” asso-
ciation were also employed at the time- of
its incorporation. one of whom is named
as secretary. This one original stockhold-
er thus far located states that he sup-
posed he signed the incorporation papers
as a witness instead of a principal, and
denies any present knowledge of the ef-
fairs of the concern, or the whereabouts
of its promoters.

The Farmer has been unable to locate
the principals in the promotion of this
“Association." but hasten to warm its
readers against investing in its stock on
the unsupported claims of a solicitor who

A Farmers’ (?)‘ Co-opera-
tlve Association.

was apparently the “brains”. of the or-
ganization, but who seems to have failed
to impart any deﬁnite information regard-
ing the personnel of its ofﬁcers or even
the location of its "main ofﬁce,” to those
from whom he has been successful in se-
curing 510 stock subscriptions.

In fact, it is quite as important that
farmers act collectively in the organza-
tion of (re-operative marketing assoda-
tions, as in supporting them after they
have been organized. and it is always well
to show the door or the road to the “gum
shoe" solicitor for, or promoter of, such
enterprises.

One of the county
Farm Management agriCultui-ists who
Studies. has been engaged
during the past year
in the new county agricultural work, was
recently heard to make the statement that
he had learned a great deal about farm-
ing in the past year, and that the man—
agement of his own farm would be great-
ly modiﬁed to conform to the new ideas
he had gained in this Study of farm man-
agement in one of the better agricultural
counties of the state. In this connection
he also advanced the idea that any farm-
er could well afford to spend a, year trav-
eling around over his county and state
inspecting different farms and talking
over agricultural problems with their own-
ers. his idea being that this would ulti-
mately prove a good investment in the
greater succeSS which would later come
to any man who made a systematic study
of farm management in this way.

This would, of course, be impracticable
for the average farmer, but the average
farmer could make much more» of a study
of farm management without any partic-
ular investment of time. if he would only
direct his attention to that end. Such a.
study could be begun in his own neigh-
borhood. and with the establishment of
the habit of directing his thought and ob-
servation in that channel, such study
could be systematically carried on during
the necessary business trips which called
him to other parts of the state. Once in-
terested in this line of investigation the
average man will begin to make a special
study of farm management problems which
will undoubtedly prove most proﬁtable as
well as a source of great satisfaction.
There is much worthy of our careful at-
tention in the idea advanced by the coun-
ty agriculturist above mentioned.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 
National.

The ﬁfth gun attack on trains in the
c0pper dlstrict of upper Michigan occur-
red Sunday. An attempt to import strike
breakers aroused the strikers to attack
the train in which the foreigners were be-
ing brought to the mines. One of the
striker breakers was injured during the
battle. This incident was the chief ex-
catement of the past week. On Tuesday
attorneys of both the Western Federation
of Miners and the mining companies will
appear before the Supreme Court at Laos.
ing in the matter of the injunction against
strike violence issued and later revoked
by Judge O'Brien.

A federal grand jury has returned in-
dictments against 11 men who are in con-
irol of approximately $20,000.000 of assets
at Los Angeles, Cal. The charge against
the men is that they have sent falsifying
statements through the mails.

The loss of life and vessels on the great
lakes during the storm one week ago is
still undetermined. At present it is known
that 19 vessels were either wrecked or

NOV.- 22, 1913. ;

sent to the bottom, and that 254 lives
were lost. It is feared, however, that the
loll of the storm will even exceed these
ﬁgures when all the facts become- known.
Th greatest loss occurred in the southern
part of Lake Huron.

Various charges having been made that
much of the loss on the great lakes dur-
ing the recent storm could have been
avoided by a better system of reporting
prospective weather conditions, President
Wilson has been asked by congressmen to
make an executive investigation of that
bureau of the government.

Fourteen men were carrieddown with ,

a. wall of a seven-story concrete building

.Whlch collapsed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

last Friday. Four of the men were taken

from the ruins severely injured, and oth-,

ers are believed to be buried beneath the
mass of concrete and steel.

Dean C. Worcester. formerly of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, and also Secretary of
the Interior of the Philippine Islands, de-
clared in an address at San Francisco.
that the FilipinOS are by no means ﬁtted
for self—government, and that any plan
which would give them entire freedom at
once would ruin the governmental insti-
tutions of the islands.

Fourteen persons were killed and over
100 injured on November 13, when three
coaches of a Georgia Central passenger
train left the rails south of Eufula, Ala.
A broken rail caused the wreck.

The annual meeting of the Michigan
State Horticultural Society will be held at
Traverse City, December 2-3-4. at which
time an excellent program will be given.

Produce and storage men of the central
states are endeavor-lug to make arrange-
ments with the railroads for the privilege
of storing fruits and vegetables in transit.
That is, a through rate will be charged
for goods that are put in storage and held
a while at some point along the line- and
afterwards forwarded to its destination.
This privilege has been extended to the
shippers of the Paciﬁc coast and has
worked a good advantage to them. The
produce and storage men of the central
states are anxious to have the same ad-
vantage, but the railroads have been in-
different to the demands. A hearing on
the matter was held in New York last
week. the, outcome of which is uncertain.

A killing frost occurred on November 10
in Florida and did much damage to the
bean and pea. crops. This is the earliest
killing frost in the history of that state.

While foreign countries are urging the
United States authorities to lift the em-
bargo on potatoes. experts here declare
that if importations from Europe are al-
lowed to enter unreSlricted. certain potato
diseases such as ihc black wart disease.
are sure to be brought mto this country.
The diSease above mentioned is particu-
larly pernicious in Great Britain.

It" is unofﬁcially announced that a na-
tional convention of the republican party
will be held in March of 1914 for the pur—
pose of planning for the next congres-
sional campaign. _

Philip B. \Vachtel. former speaker of
the Michigan House of Representatives
died at his I’etoskey home. November 14.
He was 62 years- old and had held many
local and county ofﬁces.

Fareign.

The situation in Mexico is very difﬁcult
to diagnose. It appears. however. that
the rebels have taken courage from the
attitude of the United States govern-
ment, and are now showing strength in
the campaign to wrestle northeastern
Mexico from the hands of Huerta. The
strategic point upon which the rebels are
now concentrating their forces is Mon-
terey. Already a number of railroads are
reported to have fallen into the hands of
the rebels. and they. of course. hope to
completely cut off communication with the
outside world, and ultimately force the
federal troops to surrender. The rebels
have also capiured Juarez under the lead-
ership of Gen. Villa. An advance is also
being planned on Chihuahua. That Gen.
Huerta purposes: to stand ﬁrm against
the demands of the United States, is
shown by his requesting MiniSter Aldape
of the Interior, to resign. and appointing
Foreign Minister Moheno. who is bitterly
anti-American, as his general adviser.

 
Michigan and United States Crop Report.

 
Crop estimates and forecasts as of November

1, 1913. with comparisons for

Michigan and for the United States as made by {he United States Department
of Agriculture, are given below; condition estimates are given in percentages of a

normal:

Corn—Yield per acre ............... ..... .
Production. (thousand bu.) .............
Old. on farms Nov. 1, (thousand bu.)..

Quality, 1913 crop. per cent ............
Potatoes—Yield per acre .................
Production, (thousand bu.) .............
Quality, per cent ..................
Buckwheat—Yield per acre- ................
Production. (thcuSand bu.) .............
Quality, per cent .......................

Sugar Beets—Condition, per cent .........
Apples—Production, per cent .............
Quality, per cent ....................... .
Pears—Production, per cent ..............
Qualiiy. per cent .......................
Grapes—Production. per cent .............
Quality, per cent .......................
Clover Seed—Yield per acre ..............
Production, per cent ....................
Prices to Producers Nov. l-—Wheat ...... .

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Prices to Producers Oct. Iii—Hogs ........
Beef cattle ............. ............
Clover Seed
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1913. 1912. 1913. 19 .
33 5 34.0 28.0 29.2
54.074 5.1.250 2.463.017 3,124,746
1,934 1, 673 137.972 64.764
86 79 88.2 85.5

96 105 89.2 113.4

33,600 36.750 328.550 520.647

90 88 87.8 90.5
15.0 17.0 17.2 22.9
960 1,088 14,455 19,249

90 91 86.5 91.1

91 88 89.0 92.9

42 82 44.6 69.9

74 85 70.2 83.0

69 54 58.7 73,5

86 85 82.0 88.2

68 88 72.8 87.8

87 85 86.0 90.0

1 8 1.5 2.0 2.0

92 78 80.5 74.5

87 101 77.0 83.8

"70 63 70.7 58.4

89 34, 37.9 33.6

55 85 69.6 45.5

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27 20 27.4 25 9

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livery article is written especially for it,vand does not appear elsewhere

 
Elizabeth’s Introduction to Thanksgiving.

By EDITH G. HAWKES.

S the train neared San Lorenzo, a
A tired white face pressed against the

glass, and two eager eyes watched
the ﬁgures on the approaching platform.
The eagerness faded as close scanning
failed to discover the one face that should
be familiar among all these strange oneS;

bewilderment succeeded, and then dis—
couragement. Elizabeth gathered up her
belongings slowly and followed her fel-

low-passengers, with a sense of dismay
that became active unhappiness as she
stood on the station platform with her
bags beside her, waiting and hoping at
ﬁrst, then waiting and fearing.

“You’d best go inside, Miss. and sit
down, if your friends ain‘t here yet,” said
the station agent at last, passing her in
the discharge of some duty. “’I‘hat'Sl
where they‘d look for you if they got here
late.”

“Thank you,” said the girl, with an
English accent and a sweet, tired voice.
She took his advice, however, and sat

some solution to this
difﬁcult problem. Here she was, a stran-
ger in a strange land indeerl—~Eiizabeth
IValker, twenty years old, just from her
aunt‘s little book—shop in a far-away Eng-
lish city, come here to meet her lover. to
whom she had been betrothed these two
years past, and whom she expected to
meet and to marry this very day, here, in
this little California town whither he had
drifted on his arrival a year before.

Bob had agreed to meet her, had indeed
told her that he would drive in from the
ranch with the horse and buggy he had
recently purchased with the girl’s coming
in View. Elizabeth had written, naming
the day she would arrive and the time the
train would get in as nearly as she could

down to think out

ﬁgure it out. And now, oh, what should
she do?
After she had sat there for half an

hour, paticn-tly enough, but growing more
and more worried with each passing mO-
ment, the station agent, seeing her still
there, approached her again.

“Don’t you want to go to a hotel, Miss,
or a rooming ln'iur'e'.” he asked kindly.
He was a middle—aged man, with daugh-
ters of his own, and the girl’s trouble was
plainly written on her face. “I can't leave
here very well to take you anywhere un-

til my assistant comes back, and that
won’t be till late, because, this being
Thanksgiving, and him being young, I

let him have a couple of hours extra.
VVOuld you mind telling me who you was
expecting? I‘ve lived here a good many
years. and maybe I might; know your
friends.”

Thus encouraged, Elizabeth told the
friendly agent that she was expecting Mr.
Robert Denton, and that she much feared
something had happened to him to make
him forget his agi‘eement.,

“Dent0n~—no, I don’t know anyone of
that name. Has he been here, long? Do
you know where he lives?"

"He has been here a little over a year,”

answered Elizabeth. “I always address
his letters to San Lorenzo, R. F. D. 2,
whatever that means.”

“It means rural free delivery—where (lid
you come from that you don't know
that?” asked the agent. amused at her
ignorance. But when he learned her
story, he said, “Well, poor thing, that‘s
pretty tough, now, it is. I’d send you to
my home. quick enough, but the folks
have gone to spend Thanksgiving out in
the country, at my married daughter's.
I could get a taxi and send you to a hotel
if yOu like, and then watch for your friend
myself, and send him to you when he
comes.”

But at that moment fate intervened.
Around the corner there drove rapidly a.
trig little woman in a trap, who drew up
so suddenly as almost to throw herself
out.-
‘Oh, Mr. Brown,” she called, ”didn’t
Matilda Jenkins come on this train? She

 
promised sure to get back this moming,
and here it is Thanksgiving, and a big
crowd coming to dinner, and I simply
can’t do everything myself. I meant to
get there on time, but I stopped at the
post ofﬁce, and there was a line there a.
bleak long." She stopped at last, out of
breath, and waited for an answer.”

Mr. Brown shook his head. “I didn’t
see her, Mrs. Marvin. Of course she
might have come in the crowd and gone
eff, but she generally stops to speak to
me when she goes through.”

"\Vell, I SuppOSe I shall have to do the
best I can without her. but it is certainly

“Vt'hat is Thanksgiving?” now asked
Elizabeth, having heard the expression
for the third or fourth time.

“Well, I declare, and you don’t know
that.” Mrs. Marvin turned to look at this
phenomenon—«a girl who did not know
Thanksgiving. “There, there,” she added
kindly, ”it's natural enough, of course. I
forgot that it is only an American holiday,
and of course an English girl wouldn't be
familiar with it.” So she explained the
reasons for our national day of feasting,
and the part played in it by turkey and
cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie for loy-
al, old-fashioned folks, whether cast or

queer, when she promised so positively.” west. “\Ve haven't any children.” she

Elizabeth, who had been listening in— ﬁnished, “so Mr. Marvin and I always
tcntly, now stepped up. “I expected to invite some other folks that are far away
be met, and my friend isn’t here." she from their own people, and it makes it
explained. “I don’t know what to do nice and cheerful for all of us. and makes
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Was the time we farmers used
And when the
It was generally

And close relatives

Was declared a trophy

If l ever ﬁnd another

I shall never rest a moment till

For ’t is late now

THANKSGIVING TIME.
By CHAS. H. MEIERS.

Years ago—l still remember—
In the last weekrof November

long task was
intended,
On Thanksgiving Day, to banquet in the house where I was born.

Then our best friends were invited,

indicted,

To appear in time for dinner under penalty severe.
And the last one done with dinner

I could show you many trophies, for I captured one each year.

Mother used to do the cooking,
And l’ve found there’s no use looking,
For no other in creation can make victuals taste so fine.

Who can cook as could my mother

I can scent the turkey roasting,

And I hear the huskers boasting
As i journey back in fancy to the days that have gone by;
in November

And, as clearly I remember,
Just about the time for giving thanks and eating pumpkin pie.

to try to finish husking corn.
nded

winner—

the day that she is mine.

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with myself until he comes, so perhaps I
could help you out, if you care to have.
me. This gentleman would keep a look-
out for Robert, perhaps.”

Mr. Brown said heartily, “Sure, Miss.
And Mrs. Marvin's would be a fine place
for you to go to wait. Only you need
rest more than you do work, I’m think-
ing,” he added frankly.

Mrs. Marvin had answered hastily, “Oh,
if you would, it would be such a relief.”
Recalling Mr. Brown’s last remark, she
looked for the first time closely at the
girl's tired face, and said, “You do look

tagged out. to be sure. \Yell, you come
with me anyhow, and I'll see that you

get some rest. Perhaps we can help each
other, You can tell me all about it as we
go along.”

So Mr. Brown put the girl‘s bag into
the trap,- and off they went, while Mr.
Brown called after them, “\Vhy don’t you
stop at the post ofﬁce? Perhaps there’s
a letter for her there. At any rate, they
could tell her the direction of R. F. D. 2
from town."

“Post ofﬁce is closed for the day now,”
answered Mrs. Marvin over her shoulder.
“Now, my dear, let‘s hear your story.”
KindneSs and pity ﬁlled her motherly face
by the time Elizabeth ﬁnished her recital.
and she said decidedly, “You shall stay
with me until that rascal appears, and
after this Thanksgiving dinner is out of
the way we’ll go around to the different
hotels and see if he has been there.”

rs forget our homesickness, which other—
wise might be pretty bad on a family hol—
iday. Here We are at home now.” She
drove in beside a pretty bungalow, sprang
out and tied the horse at the stable door,

and, before Elizabeth knew what was
happening, she and her bags were depos-

ited in a snug little room at the side of
the house. while her brisk little hostess
was bringing her a cup of tea and a plate
of cookies.

She was aroused from her
gentle tap at her door
her hostess saying,

“If you would be so kind as to sit
downstairs and watch things While I run
and dress, I should be so grateful. \\'e
can ﬁx the table after I come down."

doze by a
and the voice of

Elizabeth hastily bathed her face, bor-
rowed an apron from Mrs. Marvin, and

then followed that lady to her
where preparations for dinner were al—
most complete. There seemed little to do,
save to see that nothing burned or boiled
over, and Elizabeth looked around her
with interest, noting the little differences
from the arrangements she was used to.
She gazed out of the- windows into a
roomy drying yard and garden, where
chrysanthemums ﬁaunted themselves in
gorgeous rows along the sides, where
shade trees sheltered comfortable seats,
and where some late roses still lifted
the'r brighrt heads. Further off she could

kitchen,

see the brown hills dotted with trees and
veiled with a blue haze that softened

   
their outlines. it was all very pretty, and
thought she could be very happy
there, if only—and there her troubles came
back upon her with a rush. Had she
been foolish' to leave the Station? \Vhat
should she do if she never found Bob?
What could have become of him? Why
lzad he not met her, as he had promised
to do? She could not doubt him, know-
ing too well his staunch and Sterling hon-

she

csty, but something had happened, and
she could but fear it was some accident

that Would leave her abandoned in this
new land, so far away from home and all
her friends. Then she remembered Mrs.
Marvin, and with a grateful warmth, as
she recalled her kind words and actions,
set herself to render all the help she.
could with so cheerful an air that some—
times she deceived evcn herself into think—
ing that all was right, after all.

Soon the guests arrived, and a. gay ta—
bleful sat down to enjoy the feast of good
things spread before them. Elizabeth had

shyly refused to take a place with the
others, but, having eaten a good dinner

before their arrival. at Mrs. Marvin’s car-
nest solicitation, she now served so deftly
and quietly as waitress, as one course
succeeded another. that when the dessert
had placed upon the table and the
door closed upon her for the last time one
(if the guests said to her hostess, “\\'hat

been

a treasure of a maid you have! W’hcr-
ever did you get her?"
“I believe she is a treasure.” replied

Mrs. Marvin, "but she is not a. treasure of
a maid, Mrs, Talbot.“ She then related
the story of Elizabeth as she had heuid
it that morning, and announced her in—
tention of making the round of the hotels
later to see if they cOuld find any trace
of the missing man. "And if we don't.”
she added, "Miss \\'alker shall Stilly with
me, and welcome. until she has written
to Mr. Denton, and had some response.”

“What a shame." exclaimed Mrs, Tal-
bot, “it isn’t fair that she should stay out
there and work all alone while we are en-
joying ourselves in here. The ﬁrst day in
her new home, too. Let‘s all go out and
help her!”

She sprang up, and the other women
followed Suit, leaving the men to finish
their cigars while they troopcd out to the

kitchen. Mrs. Marvin explained to the
surprised girl, and introduced her to her
friends. It was a case of many hands

making light work. and soon the kitchen
was restored to its accustomed order.

The next move was to array Elizabeth
in the simple wedding gown she had
brought in one of her bags, wrap her in
an automobile cloak, and make a place
for her in one of the automobiles that was
drawn up Outside.

“For,” said young lVIrS. Jaquith, “I feel
it in my bones that we are going to ﬁnd
Mr. Tienton before long, and we'll have
that wedding tonight, see if we don't"

Elizabeth was not so sure, but she could
not find it in her heart to resist these
kind friends, who were taking so warm
an interest in her affairs. and who seemed
to ﬁnd this way of keeping a holiday a
better one than sitting around a tire and
gossiping. So she was sweetly acquies-
cent, and not knowing the town at all,
nor the customs of the country, she aban-
doned herself to their plans with an in—
terest that served to make her forget her
troubles in the effort to remove them.

To one hotel went the merry party, then
to another until they had made the
rounds of all the places Robert would be
likely to visit in search of his betrothed.

At only one did they ﬁnd any trace of
him. The clerk of the Maynard House
said that about three hours before a.

yOung man, who Said his name was Den-
ton, came. there inquiring for a young
lady named Walker, but as he was ap-
parently too distraught to leaVe his ad-
dress or to say whether he would come
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gave Elizabeth the comfort of knowing
that Bob was evidently alive, 'unhurt, and
searching for her. This was such a vast
relief that thereafter ‘she, hitherto only

patient and passive, became as gay as the.

rest of them, in her own gentle way, and
the reaction so brightened her eyes and
flushed her checks that her new friends
discovered suddenly that she was really
a very pretty girl. with the perfect Eng-
lish complexion, enhanced by the bur-
nisyhed gold hair and the deep blue of her
eyes. The tired look had vanished, and
she soon looked, as Mrs. Marvin expressed
it. “more as a bride ought to look.”

The next call was at the railroad sta-

tion, but this, too, was in vain, for the
fricnd‘y Mr. Brown had departed for his
own Thanksgiving dinner when his as-

sistant arrived. and in the rush of other
business had completely forgotten to pass
on the word about Miss Elizabeth \Valkcr
and the man who was presumably hunt-
ing for her. Then to the other raiirbad the
party made their way, with no better
luck. The search was about to be given
up in despair, when, as the machines were
passing down Main Street, in the glow
from an are light overhead, Elizabeth
spied a face that made her excluim ex-

 
citedly. “011, stop, stop, please! Bob, Bob,
Robert!” '
Mrs. Marvin, beside whom she sat.

could hardly hold her in the seat, but the
driver, after a glance in the direction in
which the girl had stretched her arms,
turned his machine to follow a buggy in
which sut a dejected and somewhat dis-
heveled young man.

AK they drew up beside him, and Eliza-
beth once more cried out. “Bob, Bob. don‘t
you know me?” the young man looked up.
dropped the lines, and sprang from the
buggy, while Elizabeth jumped into his
arms with an abandon that was totally
unlike her usual quiet English self, but
that was an only too natu1211 result of her
exciting day. She Shed a few tears of re-
lief, then turned to her sympathetic
frlcnds with the simple introduction. “This
is Mr, llobert Danton. Robert? this is
Mrs. Marvin, who has been a most kind
friend to me today. This is her husband,
and the others are friends, too. who have
helped me to forget my troubles: and to
ﬁnd you.” Then, Still smiling, she brought
out the critical questiou, “\\'hy were you
not at the train this morning?”

“It won't take long to tell,” responded
Robert. “My horse went lame on the
road this morning and I lost a good hour
going l)f1Cl{ for another. Then I went to
the wrong station, and by the time I get
to the right one I found nothing but your
box to tell me you had been there. I'vo
spent the day traveling from one hotel
and rooming house to another, and was
just trying to decide whether I had better

go home for the night, or go back and
spend the night at the station where I
saw your box.”

“Have you had any dinner?" asked Mr.

Talbot, who had been observing him
keenly.

“No. I don’t believe I have,” replied
Robert, smiling.

“011, and on Thanksgiving Day, too.”

exclaimed Mrs. .anuith.

“I wish he had had mine.
Marvin, patting his vest.

There was a laugh at this, but Robert
Said decidedly, in response to u general
invitation to have dinner at once. “No,
thank you, I don‘t care for any dinner
until I have made this young lady my
wife, nor do I need any, now she is here."

“Vl'ell said,” l‘etorted Mr. Marvin. “\\'cll,
the ladies had made up their minds to
celebrate the wedding tonight, and to play
chapcrons or witnesses, or whatever is
necessary, so if you've no objectionx. and
if you have a license, we'll bunt up a.
minister at once, before the reverend gen—
tlcmen are all in bed. There won’t be
any justices about on a holiday."

“VVc shouldn’t care for a. justice under
any circumstunces. Elizabeth would prc~
fer a clergyman, I am sure. In fact. I
had already spoken to the Rev. Mr. Black
about it, and he expected us earlier in the
day."

“Then take in your bride and move
aloug. The rectory is only a block away."

In a. few moments more, Elizabeth
Walker, her present troubles over at last.
became Elizabeth Denton in the presence
of more wedding guests than she had any
cause to anticipate when she rode into the
town that morning. The ceremony over.
and congratulations received, with a warm
kiss from Mrs. Marvin as she slipped a.
chain and pendant around the girl’s neck,
the men had their innings.

“VVe’ll go to the hotel.” the}r said, “and
have a wedding supper. the best they can
give us on short notice.” So back they

” sighed Mr.

 
MICHIGAN FA-RMER

went, only to ﬁnd that the telephone had
been busy to such purpose that the Sup-
per was already prepared, ‘with ﬂowers

and favors complete. Nor was it so late
when they broke up but that they Were
able 'to gather up Elizabeth’s belongings
and e5cort her and her newly-made hus-

Nov. 22, 191.1

band to their home. Elizabeth ‘herSelf,
weary but smiling. said her gentle fare-
wells. and saw them off with the words,
“Ali’s well that ends well, and I am glad
to have made so many new friends. I
shall never, never forget to celebrate your
Thanksgiving Day.”

Moving Pictures—(A Colonial Living Room)

By MRS. M. B.

RANDOLPH.

 
My fancy‘s moving pictures show

An ancient room, with ceiling low;

Pale tallow tapers light the gloom,-

And wuxen ones whose wild perfume
The senses thrill; how ﬁne and rare,
How faintly green, how smooth and fair,
Those SWeet bayberry candles were!

The scenes entrance me; pass them on~
Those moving pictures—One by one:

Now 'tis the backlog's glow I see
\N'ith firedogs shining brilliantly;
Across their brightly burnished brass
The ﬁtful ﬂames meandering pass,
And on the muntelpiece o‘erhead
Again their light the candles shed;
The tallow dip, the waxen shaft—
How plain their polished columns tell,
How true their ﬁick‘ring signals spell
Our Yankee mothers' handicraft!

Now comes the low wainscoted wall
\Vhereon the wavering shadovvs fall;
Traced o'er it see the silhouette

Of noggin, cup, and possenette

That on the near-by cupboard stand.
Left there. perchance, by hurried hand;
Plebians are they, cheek—by-jowl

With lordly tank and high-born bowl,
Yet bright their polished pewter bums
As silver of patrician urns.

In farther corner of the room
Stands out the form of clumsy loom
Against the graceful spinning wheel
And natty ﬁgure of the reel:

All. 2111. with silent tongue proclaim
The busy hands of Yankee dame.

And now behold, though last not least,
You board that held the annual feast—
The banquet’ of Thanksgiving day;
Divestcd now of its array

1 nclothed it stands, save for the sweep
()f ample, homespun naper1.

\\' he1eon. erStwhile, stood trenchers cheap
“11h some choice bits of Holland clay;
The two-fined fork, the rich old spoon,
(Bestowed, perchance, as parting boon
On Mayﬂower friend) lay side by side
On linen that was housewife‘s pride;
To us, indeed, an odd surprise.

And yet no source of wonderment

Nor any cause for discontent

In our forbears’ grateful eyes. ,
From turkey up to pumpkin pie

How all the viands seemed to vie
Each with the other, that no guest
Might ﬁnd another's ﬂavor best;

And yet some seeds of corn must lie
BeSide each trencher or each plate
That other day to Celebrate

“’hen naught was had the Lord to praise
Save kernels few of Indian maize.

The guests are gone; the rising moon
Begilds one lone ancestral spoon

Which on the board its place still holds
Above the linen’s Snowy folds;

The ﬁre-light dies. and in their turn
The candles low in sockets burn;
Hushed now the sounds ‘of festal mirth,
The old cat sleeps upon the hearth.

The latch-strings in. barred is the door.
Prayers are o‘er for all that's been
Thought, said, or done. with trace of sin;
Silence reigns from vault to ﬂoat".

All is still without. within.

Save our Yankee father's snore.

Auld Lang Syne.

By CHARLOTTE BIRD.

Since we were last out at the old

place?” asked Nolan Taft, the well
seasoned president of the Yurmouth Com-
mercial Bank, of his gray-haired com-
panion.

“La, Brother.” replied she whom for a,
generation her world hill] called Mrs.
Sabin. “we move-d off the farm the next
spring after mollxel‘ (lied. Yes, it is forty-
one yeurs ago this Summer.”

Mr. Taft ruminated: “Mary, you and
I are getting along in life to be what
some might call old people. Yet I mind
the time- when I thought a person of six-
ty was about ready to shrivel up with old
age."

“And
foot.”
way.

“Yes," he chuckled in sympathy. “thy,
sixty isn’t old; I feel as young today as I
ever did in my life."

“So do I—Only, that once in a while the
rheumatiﬁm kctches me so that I have
about all I want to do to get up and down
stairs.”

“But
than I am.”

HOW many years has it been, Mary,

on the other
in her jolly

shoe is
Sabin

now the
laughed Mrs.

are two whole years older
he joked slyly. “let up,
l’olly. or whatever your name is, or we
shall not get the-re in time for dinner,”
and he shook the reins over the plodding
livery horse.

Noll

For awhile, in reminiscent silence. the
two drove 211011;: the country road, he
handling the reins awkwardly like one
unacchtomcd to driving.

“The old Fritz plucc, isn’t it.” as With
his whip he pointed down the road.

“Yes, the same old place. La, Nolan,
the house is gone."

“And the spot is now a corn ﬁeld." he
ﬁnished. The}r slackened the pace of their
willing horse and leaned far forward to
see. ,

"Remember Joe Fritz, Mary, that
gawky, long-legged chap that we always
teased you about? Always had a little
yellow dog at his heels.”

Mrs. Sabin laughed again till'hcr ample
frame shook. “I am not likely ever to
forget that fellow.” she replied.

“Do you recollect the time that with his
foot he pushed the stove over at school?”
and again they both laughed.

“La," she said. “I don’t know when I
have thought of him before. He is dead,
poor fellow, isn’t he?"

“Yes, died before we left the country. I
wonder whether they still have a cup
down at the, old spring," and the bank

prcsldent peered down the well-remem.
liez‘ed ridge on the other side of the road
from where the house had once stood.
“Whoa, Polly! I’ll go downOand see.”

As a. measure of safety Mrs. Sabin laid
her gloved handoon the reins of the steady
horse and Watched her brother as he cau-
tiously deSL-endcd the stony path to the
old covered spring. He took a drink and
then lingered on the spot, evidently
dreaming.

Presently he recalled himself, reﬁlled
the cup with the sparkling water and
turned back up the- path to give his sister
her Share of the pleasure.

“\Ve don‘t get such water as that in the
City,” she remarked gratefully, as She
handed back the empty cup.

“That we- don‘t. Shall I bring you some
more?"

“No, no; thank you,"
with the cup.

At the sume slow, even pace the drive
was resumed. Pretty soon they turned
to the right, drove through a quiet bit of
woods rich in autumnal tints, and then
mounted a long but gradual incline.

i“\Vc youngsters never appreciated how
beautiful it all is, did we?" be remarked.

“No, we did not know enough,” she an-
swered feelingly.

They neured a white schoolhouse at the
edge of :1 bare, hard—beaten playground.
“All, the old ln'ick is gone, isn’t it?” he
Higlletl regretfully. “I wanted to see the
old desk once more where I carved my
name with Maggie Oliver’s under it.”

“YOu were always sweet on Maggie,
wex‘n’t you?"

“Yes,” he meled and his eyes wore a.
reminiscent light. “I mind one day when
I was clubbing 021k balls off a tree for
her. The club cunc down and struck her
on the head. She keeled over and I
thought that I had killed her. How Ifelt
at that moment words can nevi‘er de-
scribe.”

“There is still a rail fence.” she re-
minded. “If there was a pig or a. sheep
about—and in those days people let their
stook run—I would sit on that fence and
(all till the teacher came to my help. I
was only ﬁve. you know, that ﬁrst year
and had to come nearly a mile to school
alone because you were still too little. Old
Mrs. Snyder, how kind she always was!

and he returned

‘Poor leetle t'ing!’ she pified me regular-
ly, whenever she saw me.
leetle to go to school alone.”’
“She was a good-hearted all body, old ‘
(Continued on page 472).

‘She’s too

1

 
NOV. 22, 1913.

_THE MICHIGAN FARMER

A Composition That Was New;

By L. D. STEARNS.

"Oh, dear,” sighed Donna Larkin, seat-
ing herself on the floor, Turk-fashion, and.
rumpling her pretty brOWn curls with two
plump hands. “Whatever shall I do,
Mother? Teacher says she’s tired of stor-
ies of dogs and cats and birds, and wants
compositions this week about something
new. I've thought and thought, and I
don’t know a, thing that’s new."

Mrs. Larkin smiled. “\Vell, daughter,”
she responded, “there isn‘t very much
under the sun that's really new, so don’t
look so distressed. I expect Miss Lee
meant something different.”

Donna nodded. “Yes,” she agreed,
“that‘s what she said—and interesting."

"Everything is interesting, if you see it
in the right way," her mother replied.
“Take your hand, for instance. That is
not very new, but it is certainly interest-
ing.”.

The frown on Donna’s face deepened.
“Interesting! My hand!” she fairly ex-
ploded. Then, scornfully, "I'm sure,
Mother, there‘s nothing interesting about
that. It's just simply a hand. That's all
there is to it.”

“Don't be so Sure, little lass,” her
mother warned gently. “How many bones
do you suppose it took to make that same
hand?”

Donna tilted her head thoughtfully to
one side. “One for each finger and
thumb,” she mused, “would be live.”

Her mother smiled quietly. "l'm afraid,"
she announced, “it would be a. pretty stiff
hand it‘ there were only five bones there,
for, child it took‘ thirty-two bones, besides
many muscles, cords and tendons to make
it strong, and quick, and graceful. And
even that is not all, for before it was able
to do its work countless little fibres had
to be sent branching out from thousands
of nerves into these muscles, by means of
which, when the mind issues its. com-
mands for the hand to work, or rest, or
play, the whole machinery is set in mo-
tion.”

The scowl had disappeared as Donna
leaned a little forward, clasping her hands
about her knees. “Then,"- she said won-
deringly, opening a pink palm and.slowly
closing it again, “it needs all those just
to do that.”

Mrs. Larkin nodded. "Besides,” she
continued, “the skin of the hand is full
of tiny nerves, all connected with the
brain, like some vast telegraph system, in
order to give the sense 0f touch which is
so highly developed in the hand, esDecial-

tive, through its sense of touch; used to
lift burdens, but never to fashion them.”
‘ With a quick little breath Donna sprang
to her feet. “And now,” she laughed, ”it’s
going to write, a composition about its
very own self.”

Her mother smiled. “But don't forget,
little lass," she cautioned, “that ﬁrst and
last the brain must give commands which
it is right that the hand obey.”

LITTLE FARM FABLES.

 
BY AUNT QUILLIA.

 
Thank You.

Once upon a time an old farmer, having
accumulated a comfortable fortune, re-
tired, with his dog, to a nearby village,
there to pass his declining days.

Being without kindred he began plan-
ning how best to dispose of his hard-earn-
ed money. Having decided that he would
like to see it doing sOme good while he
still lived, he began bestowing it on those
whom he considered less fortunate than
himself.

\Vith more kindness than wisdom he
proceeded to give so bountifully and cheer-
fully that soon all who had either real or
fancied troubles flocked to his door, ex-
pccting and receiving the aid for which
they asked.

Profuse and constant were the thanks
which he received. and often the more
emotional of his beneﬁciaries, in devout
tones and with tears in their (-yes, im-
plored Heaven’s choiceSt blessings upon
him.

Although neither expecting nor desiring
any recompense. he was clever enough to
make note of the fact that he seldom or
never received anything for his gifts but
thanks and prayers. However, being of
an all-around charitable nature he at-
tributed this to a weakness of human na-
ture and, smothering all unkindly feelings,
he went on with his favors.

Day after day, week after week, month
after month, he Continued to lend his as-
sistance until his once fat pocketbook be—
gan to grow thin. Fewer and smaller
became. his crisp bills and shining coins.
until, at last, his dear old dog ceased to
wag his tail when he saw his master ap-
proach the cupboard, or to lick his chops
at sight of the empty frying pan.

\\'ithout giving any thought as to his
own condition, sadly did the master note
Fido’s weakness and emaciation, and one

 
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ly at the ﬁnger tips. A single square
inch of the true skin—or cutis, as it is
called—of the palm contains twenty thou-
sand tiny nerve Iilaments, or papillae,
which carry impressions from and to the
great central station, or brain, while the
outer skin shields and protects them.”

Leaning forward, she took Donna‘s hand
in her own. “Tell me,” said she, “what's
it really for, this hand that is so wonder-
ful and complex?"

Donna smiled. ”To feel, and work and
play with,” she replied thoughtfully, “and
I suppose, to help people.”

“YeS,” agreed Mrs. Larkin, “but it
should give pleasure, as well as help, and
to do so must be well kept, dainty and
clean. By practice it comes to act as
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deaf and dumb; for you know how they
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as useful and dainty, which it will be-
come through exercise 'and care; educa-

 
morning, with the tears coursing down
his withered cheeks he. laid the lifeless
body upon the wheelbarrow and proceed—
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Hearing his laments. a passer—by paus-
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ble. This man, who had been his most
constant beneficiary. expressed unbound—
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ion could compare with a faithful dog, and
that there was nothing in all the world so
heart-breaking as an aged man with
neither friends nor funds.

Notwithstanding, this fellow, in spite of
his loud condolences. vouchsafed no as-
Sistance, not even to the casting of a
shovelful of dirt over poor Fido‘s body.

On leaving, he extended a well-groomed
hand, declaring for the hundredth time
that he should never forget the favors re-
ceived in the past. “Thank you,” he ex-
claimed, “thank you a thousand times
for all you have been to me."

Exasperated beyond endurance, and

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AULD LANG SYNE.
(Continued from page 470).

Mrs. Snyder. That is the roof of her old
barn OVOI‘ there.” Suddenly his eyes
brightened. “And there is the old tulip

tree in the middie of the ﬁeld.”

MrS. Sabin's recollections were resum—
ed: “One morning she gave- me a bunch
of bright red and yellow tulips. Dear me!
I have loved tulips ever since and have
looked in vain for any as lovely as those
were. The teacher took them away from
me and stuck them into a. glass jar; she
thought I had brought. them from home
as a gift to her."

“Ah, there is a new farm house on the
iplace Where the old Snyder log house
stood.”

“So there is." and her eyes grew misty.
“Of course, she must have been gone
these years and years."

“Yes, Mary. we are living in a new
generation, you and I, the second at that
from yours and my childhood,” he rumi-
nated. “There are some things about
which we can talk with nobody else but
each other.”

“Y95, and tomorrow the young of today
will be where we are now."

Thus realizing the facts of life, the two
aging people became still and even more
reminiscent; they were now approaching
the scene of their earliest childhood. And
in this signiﬁcant hour each felt the oth-
er as the most acceptable companion in
the world.

They drove past the new barn on the old
homestend‘at least, it could not have
been more than twenty-ﬁve or thirty years
old. But there stood the same old story-
and-a-half heuse, now weather beaten in-
stead of a clean white with neat green
shutters.

“0h," he exclaimed with a note of sor—
rOW in his voice, “the old ox-heart cherry
tree is gone. In the cherry season. as a.
little cub, I all but lived in that tree."

“And they had potatoes where the old
rawsberry patch used to be,” she quickly
added. “Shall we stop?”

”To be sure. Let’s go over the old
place once more. I want to go up into
the orchard Where old \Vatch’s grave is.”

“Poor old \\'atch!" she murmured ten-
derly. “Father thought that he was go-
ing mad or he never would have made
you have the old family dog killed.” '

“A black day that for me!” he sighed.
"I loved the old dog almost as if he had
been a human member of the family. To
me it was Simply awful when Josh Ames
took my loyal old friend up into the or-
chard to shoot him. I never have really
gotten over it.”

In the frank presence of several won-
dering witnesses the two visitors to the
neighborhood descended to the ground.
When Mr. Taft had tied the horse to the
deeply gnawed hitching post they passed
up the ancient brick walk and entered the
house where they introduced themselves
and stated their relations to the place.
They were bustlingly conducted into the
old parlor and, sitting stiffly on the up-
holstered company chairs for a minute
with their hostess, they discussed such
commonplaces as the weather.

 
But time was too precious to be frit-
tered away on empty civilities. “Sure!"
the wide-eyed woman met the man's
strange request, “you may go up into the
little bedroom." Evidently, though, she
had her- mental reServations, for she ad—
ded: “Please excuse the looks of things
up there; I have not got around yet today
to making the boys' bed."

“No matter Whatever." belittled Mr. Taft
sincerely, and he and his sister climbed
the narrow stairs. Once to them all had
looked so ﬁne, but now to their more ex-
perienced eyes everything came as plain
and humble. Thus the two went together
over the old place. But changes took
away the sense of familiarity. Then in
the presence of the strangers incumbent,
the recalling of old times lost much in
realism.

At the expense of some pufﬁng, side by
side, they mounted the old path up to the
orchard and found the place where, Mr.
Taft judged, old Watch's dust lay. But
nothing remained to identify the spot.
The old headstone had either been cov—
ered with soil or carried away.

For awhile they stood and gazed and
dreamed and yearned over the neighbor-
hood, Where they had been born and been
young together, where they had gone to
School. to church, 'to parties, to spelling
school, to debating society together—
where they had swung in the barn and
ridden the old family horse to water.

The intervening years ceased to exist
and again they were children. Again
their parents were living, and going about
their affairs on the farm and in the little
house down there at the foot of the hill.
Before their aging eyes ﬂoated a mist of
which, even in each other’s presence, they
were half ashamed.

But this mood was too delicious and yet
too painful to endure long, “Now, Mary,
let's go down to Maggie Oliver's." He
spoke in the language of his boyhood and,
as it once again to run down the hill in
the old way, he grasped her band.

“Yes," she agreed,» “let’s go down and
see Maggie."

But a certain stiffness of muscles called
them back to the facts of their present

life. She spoke ﬁrst and in present-day
language: “Maggie and Solon, you re-
member, bought the old Oliver place,

when her father died.”
“Yes," he replied after a, pause, “I re—
member that she married Solon Crites."

Again, guided by the unaccustomed
driver. the horse crept down the long,
clay-colored hill road towards what had
long been distinguished in the neighbor—
hood as the Crites mace.

“Queer, how things turn out in life!"
and very gently with the whiplash Mr.
Taft ﬂicked the horse's side. “At one
time I took quite a. shine to Maggie. 1—-
l—” and he laughed.

“She was a good girl, Maggie was, but.
Nolan, never quite~of your stripe.”

“She might have grown to be of my
stripe,” he spoke wistfully.

Again the pair alighted and approached
a house, a newlsh house built on the spot
where, in the older one of their day, they
'had spent so many delightful hours. They

 
‘ NOV. 22. 1913.

THAN KSGIVING COURTSHIP.

 
BY IRMA 'l‘. SOPE'R,.

My. dis air am gittin' chill!

'Most froze c0min' o’er; de hill.
What's that? Co'n pone. smokin‘ hot!
"Would I like some?" Like as not;
Ain't no niggah, Mandy Lee,

Beats yo' cookin‘, seems ter me.

Noticed Squire Green’s drawed his co’n;
Gittin' wintry, shore‘s yo’ bo'n.

Leaves am drappin’ off de trees,

Bet ternight it’s gwine ter freeze.

W'ild grapes jest am gittin' prime-
Ain’t no good till frosty time.

Hoe cakes good? I’ve tuk some twice;
Guess I’ll take another slice,

Mandy. listen, do yo' hear?

Nex’ week Thanksgivin' time is here!

Big folks up thar on de hill.
Bakin’, fust'in’, ﬁt ter kill.
(Tranb‘ry sauce an' raisin pie.
Stuff ter bile an’ stuff ter fry.
Makes me hungry jest ter go
Near de house, they's cookin' so.

Somethin’ I cain't understan’
thy dat turkey rules de lan'.
Come along Thanksgivin’ day,
Hain't no other got no say!

Mandy, laS' year here wit you

’Member We had chicken stew?

Chicken stew. an“ fresh baked ham.

An’ a heapin' dish 0’ sweet boiled yam?
Yum! I most kin taste 'em yit—

Them wuz things yo' don’ fo'git.

Now I’se two dandy chickens, thar.
\Vhat's had de bes' ob co'n an’ care.
“'ould yo' cook 'em Thanksgivin' day?
Yo' would? Miss Lee, what's dat yo’ say?
Yo' think dat chicken shore am ﬁne?
Miss Mandy Lee. will yo’ be mine?

To Johnsing change yo’ name from Lee?
Miss Mandy, come along wit me!

 
rang the bell and then eagerly stood face
to face with a rare pleasure.

A fumbling and turning of a key inside.
a pull and the door frOnting them stood
open. A stout. ﬂabby old woman with a
browned and wrinkled face and neglect-
ed iron-gray hair stood before them. A
ﬂash of recognition on both sides and
then the blood left the face of Maggie
Oliver and she clung to the door for sup—
port.

At this totally unexpected greeting a
strained silence of embarrassment held
the three. Then the girlish prattle of
Mary Taft broke the stillness. "Maggie,
do you think that my brother has chang-
ed much?"

As if out of a dream, Maggie Oliver
spoke: “For over forty years my natural
eyes have not seen him, but he is as dear
to me today as he ever was."

This cleared the atmosphere, for all un-
derstood that it was the youthful Nolan
Taft who had called out all this loyalty,
and that the speaker did not even know
the man. In the next breath it was Mrs
Crites who extended the hand of wel-
come and hospitably urged, “Now do come
in and let’s make a day of it. I'll ring
the bell and have Solon come right in
from the ﬁeld and we’ll talk over old
times together.”

“That is what we have come for.”
laughed Mr. Taft, "to talk over the good
old times.

“This is Nolan’s first vacation for ten
yetrs," chirped Mrs. Sabin in her cheer-
ful way, “and we are visiting the old
neighborhood.”

Presently the three were talking as if
for a. wager. Mrs. Crites, for one of her
age and ﬁgure. darted in and out of the
room at a surprising speed, for bad she
not become a girl again? And didn't she
know how to cook a good dinner and en-
joy a delightful visit at the same time?
Besides, there was her daughter, the cup-
able Martha, to help.

Narrowly Mr. Taft studied the favorite
of his boyhood days and decided that
she looked ten full years older than
she really was. lie compared her with
his own well-dressed wife. the happy.
young-looking mistress of a beautiful
home. He divined that the tenderness
toward himself into which the surprise
had betrayed her. had sprung from a to-
tally platonic heart-hunger for ﬁner things
than Solon Crites had been able to offer
her. ”If I could only help her." he re~
ilected pityingly.

Then the white-shirted Solon was led
in by his wife and greetings renewed.
With this new note the pleasure of the
visit went on unchecked At the loaded
dirner table the guests met the two still
unmarried children. “Harry, our son.”
announced Mrs Crites proudly, “and
Martha. our baby. We have four married
sons besideS. Paw. will you pass the
bread?—and seven grandchildren. Martha.
pass the butter, will you?”

“You are ahead of me." remarked Mr.
Taft. “I have only three daughters and

 
H \

TH'E' MICHIGAN FA R'Mv’E‘R

ﬁve grandchildren. Yes, I lost my ﬁrst
wife; I have been married to my present
one f0r thirty-two years”

“We are to lose Martha in the fall,"
and Mrs. Crites glanced proudly at her
crimson-faced daughter.

“So!" and Mr. Taft looked at the girl
with a new interest.

For about two minutes after dinner the
guests were left alone in the sitting—room.
“Sister Mary,” spoke the man, “w—would
it be proper for me to——to give Maggie
something—401‘ old times‘ sake? I would
never miss it, you know.”

Mrs. Sabin looked thoughtful and then
expressed herself. “It is :1 pretty delicate
situation, Nolan; you_could hardly give
money to another man’s wife. But—why
not give the daughter a wedding present?
Maggie would be even better pleased than
with a presient to herself."

A moment he crmsidered and then
granted. “1 think Mary, that you have the
right view of the matter." Presently he
took from his pocket his pen and checque
took and hastily wrote and tore. off a
checque, and then stuck it into his pocket
till the time should be ripe. “I have made
it a ﬁfty." he added.

“Now that will be a real pleisure to
Maggie and a help to Martha,” pronounc-
ed the pleased Mrs. Sabin.

At length, the hours brought‘the time

of parting. “Mary.” asked Mrs. Crites,
as she returned to the room with a large
package. “have you room in your rig for
this—just a couple of chickens for yours
and Nolan’s dinner tomorrow.”

“We can make room for such an at-
tractive gift," declared Mr. Taft with all
heartinessv.

“Now. do come again some day," urged
the hostess as the guests were ready to
depart.

“We have certainly had a, delightful
visit,” spoke Mrs. Sabin, and this state-
ment was echoed by her brother.

“And Martha.” spoke her mother’s old
lover, “as a. tribute of friendship and good
wishes I add my mite to your wedding
presents." With this he slipped the
checque into her hand and then got into
the buggy beSide- his waiting sister.

The mother detected the act and her
eyes sparkled with gratiﬁcation. Nolan
always had understood the ﬁnest ways of
doing beautiful things. Possibly his pres-
ent amounted to as much as ten dollars.

At length, leaving good will behind

them and also bearing it in their train,-

the aging brother and sister went up the
hill on their way back to town.

"Well,” spoke Nolan Taft with a Satis-
ﬁed air, "we have had a great day of
courtship and one thing and another,
haven't we?”

“I don’t know when I have had such a
good time.” she agreed with fervor. “It
was almost as if the dead had come back
to life.”

“Wasn’t it, though!
Maggie!”

“Who is just as well satisﬁed with her
niche in life as you are in yours, you
egotistic man. And, Nolan, I am just as
glad as I can be that you married Lois
and Edith."

”So am I. Mary, and so is Maggie."

And Maggie—poor

THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
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One at a time.
From the merchant to the cobble-r.

Says to a friend,
“No shoes to mend.
Nor have I shopping to do, dear.

“But here’s a sign
That strikes me ﬁne.
Reading, ‘Get your life insured here.’ ”

 
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and says she shall stay there until she
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'stand. I can’t help thinking the whOIe

thing might have been averted if the girl
had been trained right from the start.
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mother who jumps and runs every time
her baby cries, who, as the child grows
older, gives up rather than have any fuss,
who admits she can do nothing with the
child of six, can look forward to nothing
but trouble when her girl has reached
the age of 16.

The whole modern tendenCy of making
things easy and pleasant for children is
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arithmetic in schOol. \‘\'e are raising a
generation of spineless youth, of boys and
girls without moral courage, ideals or con-
victions. Our young people of today have
but one notion, to have a good time. And
it is the fault of the-parents. “'e parents
have read and heard so much about al-
lowing our children to develop naturally
that we have come to believe we must
not cross them, muSt not even direct
them. It is time the pendulum swung
back again and we began to inject into
our children a little of the respect for
law and- order which our wiser fathers
and mothers taught us.

DEBORAH.

THE HOUSEWIFE’S DRESS.

 
BY :tms. F. NISEVVANGE'R.

E housekeepers hardly want 8.
VV working uniform like a nurse or

a deaconess, neither can we al—
ways be daintily dressed, like a lady of
leisure, but it is possible to have our
work dresses neat and attractive as well
as suited to our varied occupation.

The cuStom of wearing out partly worn
and out-of—style dresses in the kitchen is
not vcry general, fortunately, and should
never be adopted as a practice. Cooking.
hmrse-tidying, mcal-scrving and baby—
tcnding are certainly of suilicicnt import-
ance to call for the dignity of a dress
purposely made to wear while performing
thOSe duties. One is not conﬁned to one
material or style in the making, but there
are three requiremeuts—washableness,
neatness, and attractiveness.

Fashion is indicating the return of long
sleeves, but I think I shall ncver follow
her lead for my work dresses. for l dis-
like the feeling of slccvcs about my
wrists when at work, cvcn though they
are protected by rubber sleeves or their
very satisfactory substitutes, the legs of
black cotton hose. Some use sleeves with
buttoned cuffs that can casily be turned
back and others have a slightly full
slecve with a rubber band in the hem so
that it can be slipped up out of the way;
but I like best the three-quarter length,
finished in any desired way and up out of
the way at all timcs.

As for the dress itself, it should be one
of the numerous and pretty one—piece
styles. There is nothing else so comfort-
able and hygienic (all the weight from
the shoulders), nothing So easily made——
if you do your own Sewingvand laun-
dered and put on, while one may be sure
of a neat waistline even though reaching
to a high shelf, stooping to the oven or
handling a mop.

My aprons, however, do not follow one
style. They are numerous in number and
variety, and of different materials. There
are the one-piece calico aprons that cov-
cr me from shoulder to hem. except for
the square cut out neck, front and back.
These are used principally to cover the
daintier afternoon dress while getting
supper, or to slip on over the “church”
(lIE‘SS while I start dinner, or over the
“company" dress while I ﬁnish a meal
when entertaining. if I feel the need of
something more protective‘than the bib
aprons made of pretty gingham and trim-

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med with novelty braid. These are made
to slip over my head, with the bib in
front and a sort of fancy collar in the
back. Then there are always several of
the short, “waist tie" aprons of ging-
ham, calico or percale. These come in
handy here, there and everywhere, some-
times to protect one of the larger aprons
while doing some ”spattery" or dirty lit-
tle piece of work. It is nothing to wash
and iron them. Besides these, I have my
white work aprons for bed making and
baking. The baking aprons are simple
bib affairs, but the others merely tie at
the waist. I have never bought new cloth
for these, but make them of partly worn
sheets or bleached sugar sacks.

System in dress as well as in work and
pretty nearly everything else is a real
satisfaction.

TABLE LINEN.

BY FANNIE V. “'II.SON.

When purchasing table cloths and nap-
kins a woman always wants the very ﬁn-
est and whitest linen she can afford.
However, in this day of clever inventions,
one can get mercerized cotton fabric
which does very well for everyday use.
The mercerizing process improves the
looks of cotton material and increases its
strength.

Table—cloths of linen may be bought for
the same pricc as good mercerized ones
but they do not wear as well. Cheap lin-
en cloths are ﬁnished with a very stiff,
glossy dressing, but after the dressing is
washed out they look coarse and thin.
Sometimes one can get the unbleached
linen very reasonably, and it will give
good service, but as the general thing,
if buying linen it is better to get the best.
Of course, we all like to have good linen
cloths for nice, but I would rather use
the mercerized table—cloth for every day
than the, colored ones. They make a little
more waShing but they look ever so much
better.

There are several kinds of padding one
may uSe under the table-cloth, to save
the table and dcaden the sound of mov-
ing dishes, The best is asbestos cloth and
it will last forever but it is quite costly
and the common cloth padding does very
well.

“ENJOYING POOR HEALTH."
nv MARY (LARK.
. “Josiah Allen’s “'ife,” in her inimitable
way, speaks of one of her characters as
”enjoying poor health," and if We give

the subject a moment's thought we will~

realize that we are all vauainted with
one or more persons whom the expression
aptly ﬁts, and the more we think about
it the more we become convinced that a.
great majority of the ailments “enjoyed”
by human beings exist only in the imagi-
nation.

One of the cha.actcrs in “Three Men
in a Boat" tells how (having nothing else
to do), he picked up a medical work, and
was amazed and horriﬁcd to ﬁnd that he
had pronounced symptoms of every (lis—
case described in the book, excepting
“linusemaid's Knee.” and couldn't un-
derstand why he didn‘t have that, too.

The claim is made that women “enjoy”
poor health, more than men.

As a ncighbor remarked: “The women
do the grunting but the men do the dy-
ing.” Be that as it may, I have person-
ally known both men and women, Whose
whole ‘miuds seemed ﬁlled with them—
selves, and their varied ailments, and were
unable to converse on any other subject
for any length of time.

1 have also observed that these same
people can, if so minded. do'a heavier
day’s work, can endure more heat or
cold, or eat a heartier meal, than most
folks who never mention their health. I
believe that almost anyone can become
sick, if she will but allow her mind to
dwell on the state of her health. and
will talk about it on every possible occa-
sion. if you doubt all this, the next time
you are in the company of such a person,
just put in an hour or so telling her how
bad she looks. and recall, or manufacture
cases of people you have known, who

were afflicted “the very same way" and

 
Nov. 222, 1913:.

either had "an awful sick spell" or even
"died-in a short time.”

Then, take a'different course with the
next one, and remark on how well she is
looking, "so‘much better than when you
last saw her.'.’ Tell your funiest jokes,
and nine times out of ten you will ﬁnd
that the “ailment” has ceased to exist.

There is plenty of real sickness, broken
benes, etc., to keep the doctors busy, so
let us all resolve to not “enjoy poor
health” ourselves, or help anyone else to,
either.

“Say you are well, or all goes well with
you, and God will hear your words and
make them true.”

Vegetablej—D—i-shes.

TUFFED cabbage is a meal in itSelf,
S and is worthy to be seen on more

tables than it is. The Savoy cab-
bage is better for this purpose but the
ordinary vegetable will be found tasty.-
Strip off the outer leaves; cook the cab-
bage half an hour; drain and cool; then
unfold the loose leaves, and lay them
back carefully so as not to break off from
the stub. Have ready any kind of meat
—-ham, veal, or sausage, minced very ﬁne
and seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs;
then add one-quarter of the amount of
meat with stale breadcrumbs made very
ﬁne. Place a layer of this mixture, being
careful not to have it too thick, on the
lOOSe leaves. Then as the leaves are
spread press them back into shape, and
when the last layer is in shape tie them
securely in cheesecloth and cook until the
heart of the cabbage is tender. Only just
enough water should be used to cook the
cabbage in and then the liquor-should be
used as a foundation for a sauce to serve
with the cabbage. Thicken the liquor
w1th flour, and add butter to suit the
taste. The sauce is poured over the cab-
bage after it is dished. _

Another way to stuff cabbage. Take
apart with care one head of cabbage, wash
and place on ice for an hour. Grind ﬁne
one and a half pounds of pork loin, and
add two eggs. one cupful of cracker
crumbs, half of an onion minced ﬁne, one
teaspoonful of salt, and one-half teaspoon-
_fu1 of White pepper. Mold in a round ball
cover with the cabbage leaves to resemble
a head, wrap in cheesecloth, and boil un-
til the cabbage is tender. Carefully re-
move the cheesecloth, place the head on
a ﬂat diFh and surround with mashed p0-
tatoes, carrots cut into dice, and small
boiled onions.

Turnip Croquettes.

Wash, pare and cut into thin slices six
medium-sized turnips; then boil tender.
adding a teaSpoonful of sugar to the wat-
er: drain when tender, mash and wring
out the surplus water by placing the
mashed vegetable in cheesecloth. To each
half-pint of turnip add the beaten yolk of
an egg. season with salt and pepper. then
mix in half a cupful of mashed potato,
put through a sieve; form into croquettes
and proeeed with the crumbing. egglng,
and frying as with other croquettes.

Scalloped Onions.

Boil six large onions until tender, drain,
out into small pieces and add to a white
sauce made of one tablespoonful of but—
ter, one of ﬂour, and one pint of milk.
Pour the mixture into a baking dish,
cover with bread crumbs, and bake 20
minutes.

Onion Soup.

Cook four large onions in a quarter of
a pound of butter until tender, being care-
ful not to brown, then place them in a
kettle with one quart of white stock, a
scant teaspoonful of salt and a dash of
cayenne, and cook slowly for one hour.
Stir into this one and one-half cupfuls of
milk and let simmer for a few minutes.
Warm a soup tureen, put into it the well-
bcaten yolks of four eggS, and slowly pour
the hot soup over the eggs. beating con-
stantly. Have ready slices of French
bread which have been spread with cheese
and toasted, put One slice into each plate
and serve the soup. Grated cheese may
be sprinkled over the top if desired.

Carrot Soup.

This soup is very nutritious, and has a.
delicate color. Old carrots take longer
to cook than young oneS, but otherwise
they are just as good. Cut the carrots in
very thin slices, and cook until soft
enough to press through a fine sieve. Cook
a slice of onion with them. This may be
removed before putting through the sieve.
Put about a tableSpoontul of butter in a
saucepan with two tablespoonfuls of flour
and cook a few minutes 'without brown-
ing the ﬂour. Then add one pint of milk
and cook until smooth. Put in the carrot
pulp and heat well: season with salt. pep-
per a little nutmeg or mace. A few slices

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

of green pepper add to the ﬂavor, but
should be taken out before mashing the
carrots.

Stuffed Cucumbers.

Take cucumbers as nearly of a size as
possible, cut off one end, dig out the
seeds. Throw into salted water for an
hour or more, or Sprinkle with salt inside
and drain. Fill with a stufﬁng made of
minced veal, chicken, or ham, or a mix-
ture of the three. a small quantity of
bread crumbs and one egg. Season with
salt, pepper and a bit of grated lemon
peel. Put into a sauce pan with a few
chopped onions, minced green peper and
a bit of mace. Cover with good rich
broth and cook until tender.

Green Peas with Fresh Pork.

Cut a round of trimmed pork into dices
and slightly brOWn, sprinkle over it two
full teaspoonfuls of ﬂour; add half a pint
of water, two pints of peas, two small
onions, and some parsley, or celery tied
in a bunch; cook until the peas are done;
season with pepper and salt When ready
to serve remove the onions and parsley
and serve very hot.

Peas with Bacon.

Fry six strips of bacon to a light brown
and remove from the saucepan. Pour out
of the pan all of the fat except two table-
spoonfuls, and in this brown one minced
onion; now add one can of peas which
have been drained, cook until heated
through, salt and pepper to taste, and
just before taking from the ﬁre stir in
three tablespoonfuls of cream. Pile in a
dish and place the bacon around the sides.

Fried Squash.

Take the small green and yellow sum-
mer squash peel and cut into half-inch
slices. Dip in egg and flour, or crumbs
and fry in plenty of fat until an appetiz-
ing brown.

Corn Puffs.

Press out the pulp from six ears of
sweet corn. This will be about one and
one-half cupfuls. Add to this one cupful
of milk, the yolks of two eggs, one-half
teaspoonful of salt, and one and one-half
cupfuls of pastry ﬂour sifted with one
teaSpoonful of baking powder. Add the
well-beaten whites of the eggs and bake
in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.

 
Iron rust may be removed from any—
thing easily, quickly and lastingly, by ap~
pling peroxide of hydrogen. l’nur on af-
fected parts in small quantity and let
stand a. few minutes—Mrs. J. J. O'C.

 
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Ill

RESSING poultry is accomplished
D in quite as many ways as is the

mixing of cake. Because of the
variety of methods in vogue, the novice
is often confused, and many producers do
not even attempt to benefit by the better
prices offered by private customers in
towns and cities. even when urged by
consumers to do so, but continue to take
whatever price the country buyer offers.
It is the purpose of this article to give a
method of performing this work, particu-
larly as related to supplying private buy-
ers. There are other ways to do it, but
the following method will give general
satisfaction:

Preparing the Birds.

Fowls should be fasted for 24 hours or
more before being killed. This will empty
the crop and entrails of food, thus ad-
ding to the appearance of the birds when
dressed and to the keeping qualities by
removing from the body practically all
fermenting foods. It is the practice of
Some dishonest or ignorant men to feed
hcavny up to the time of killing in order
to increase the weight, but the rchn-ed
prices obtained for fowls so handle-d us-
ually niorc than overbalunce the added
weight and besides, it is almost impossible
to keep a market" when employing such
methods, especially where one is selling
direct to consumers.

Killing.

There are several modes of killing the
lbirdr‘. The usual method is to cut off the
{head with a hatchet. ol‘ ax, and ordinarily
{this method is satisfactory to customers.
§\\'ringing off the head is another way of
‘killing that, is not so much practiced. but
when skillfully done is quite as humane.
llt will not work so well with old birds as
lyoungcr oncs. In regular killing pens the
Customary method is sticking. This is
done on tho outside of the neck by cut-
ting through the skin and severing the
jugular vcin, or if one does not wish the
wound to show, by piercing the brain
through the mouth with a short sharp
knife. These last two methods require
some skill and practice to petrform with
any great accuracy. The man who sells
direct can sometimes ascertain if his cus-
tomers have any preference us to the
manner of killing, and then follow their
wish.

 
Removing the Feathers.

There are two ways of removing the
feathers. by scalding and by dry picking.
Vl'hile both mothods are used for ordinary
purposes the scalding method, if done with
care, will ﬁll all requirements, To scald
have water just below the boiling point
in a vessel sufficiently large to immerSe
the bird. Hold the. bird by the feet and
head, if it has not been removed, and
Souse him in the water about fOur times,
or until the feathers arc cusily plucked.
Some birds will require more- scalding
than will others, the density of the feath-
ers making the difference. The water
should not got dOwn to the skin in such
quantities that the latter will be scalded
but the action of the, steam gene-rated by
the water should penetrate the pores and
loosen the flesh of the bird. The fowl
may be allowed to cool for a moment if
too warm to handle with comfort. The
large feathers must be pulled by force.

Should dry picking be the method then
the work should begin immediately after
the brain has been pierced. It has been
found most satisfactory to remove the
feathers in the following order: First,
large feathers, then those of the breast.
base of the wings, the neck, the legs and
ﬁnally those from the back, Avoid, if pos—
sible, the killing of chickens when pin
feathers are too plentiful.

Turkeys are usually dry picked, because
the birds then present a better appear—
ance kthan where they are Scalded. The
work should be done when the body is
still warm to avoid tearing the skin. Here
is a hint on removing the large tail feath-
ers: If they are pulled straight the tis-
¢Sue about the quills “sets" and makes
the taSk difficult, but if they be given a
twist as they are pulled then they come
off quite readily. If one chooses to pick
the turkeys by scalding the work should
be done the same as for chickens.

Ducks and geese are more difﬁcult to
pick than chickens. Because of this,
steaming is more effectual than scalding

 
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Preparmg Poultry for the Consumer.

  
with water. Put a little water, three or
four inches, in the bottom of a caldron
or ordinary wash boiler, and bring to a
boil. Arrange a rack of some form inside
to hold the -fowl above the water, but low
enough to permit a cover to be placed
over the receptacle when the fowl is on
the rack. Steam for from one to two
minutes, then turn the bird on the other
side and steam again for the same length
of time. This will loosen the feathers
when ordinary scalding fails entirely. If
such an arrangement is impOSSible scald
as for chickens and then wrap in some
burlaps for a few minutes, causing the
steam to penetrate the feathers.

Drawing the Birds.

When the fowls are to be sold to a com-
mission house they should not be drawn
but in. direct dealing drawing the birds
is frequently required. City people are ac-
customed to having their butcher draw
what p0ultry they secure from him, and
consequently they are not familiar with
the duty and usually prefer not to do it
#90 when poultry is ordered the requeS't
will oftcn be made to draw. \Vhere fowls
are held long. as by the regular mar-
keting system, experience shows it to be
the best polic-y not to open the bodies
until they go to the consumer, but in

direct marketing the fowls will be kept
only a few days at the most, so that

drawing by the producer is practicable.
This is a feature, however, that should
be understood when the order is given,
for if nothing is said about it then it is
reasonable to suppose that delivery is to
be made without the removal of the en-
trails.

.-\ few Suggestions on drawing may be
helpful to the novice. Make the incision
for the removal of the bowels as small as
possible. Do not remove heart and lungs
unless requcSted to do so. Replace the
gizzard inside the fowl. A higher price
per pOund is necessary to cover the
amount dresSed away and the expense of
doing the work. Keep the birds neat and
attractive; one man got into the good
graces of his customers and rapidly on-
largcd his trade by having his offerings
not only clean but also by placing a sprig
of parsley in the incision of each fowl and
wrapping them separately in clean parch-
ment paper.

Cooling Before Shipping.

The keeping quality of poultry depends
upon cooling immediately after killing.
It is more important to do this properly

than it is to hasten the shipment to its
destination. During cold weather the

dressed fowls. can be cooled out of doors.
\\'hen the days are warm and nights cool,
as at present. the end is accomplished by
putting out of doors at night after they
have been held in cold water up to that
time. in the warmest weather best re—
sults follow the use of cold water. The
practice of plunging a warm fowl into ice
water does not work as satisfactorily as
it would seem. The better way is to ﬁrst
put the fowl into well water to remain
a few hours, after which it is thoroughly
cooled in ice water. Fowls to be consumed
without delay do not require to be cooled
to the extent of those being shipped a.
long distance. By killing one evening,
cooling during the night and delivering
the next day, satiSfactory conditions can
usually be maintained.
Packing.

The season, quantity of birds sent, and
the distance to be shipped determine the
manner of packing. Poultry can be dry-
shippcd in the winter season, whereas
in the Summer time they must be iced
if going any distance, and this condition
liSually limits the amount of business in
the warm months. However, when Sup-
plying a church society, or club, or other
organization with a quantity of poultry
for a banquet, or supper, a barrel may
be employed which makes an excellent
package, and when used icing is done
easily as follows: First, put in a layer
of broken ice, then one of chickens, an-
other layer o'f broken ite, then the second
layer of chickens, and so on. alternating
until the barrel is ﬁlled or the supply of
chickens exhausted. Place the fowls so
the feet will all come to the center of
the barrel. Put ice on top and over this

and the end of the barrel fasten burlap,
which can be held in place by removing

 
the top hoop, pulling the‘ burlap down
around the barrel and then replacing the
hoop so as to hold the burlap between it
and the staves.

Where only a few chickens are to be
shipped then a box of convenient size is
used. It is probable that with the aver-
age person few occasions will offer them-
selves where the barrel will be needed and
that most of the shipments will go for-
ward in boxes. \Vhere dry-shipped in
boxes it is time well spent to wrap each
fowl in paper and should the consign-
ment be for more than one family, it is
well to write on a lag fastened to each
fowl, or the paper wrapping, the weight
and the person to whom each is intended
if the producer knows the quantity want-
ed by the several parties. By kn0wing
the weights but little trouble is requir-
ed of the paity who receive: the shipment
to parcel the birds out to his friends, or
fellow employcs.

The receptacle should be securely fast—
ened and the addresses of both the send-
er and consignee plainly written thereon.

STUDENTS CO-OPERATE IN BUYING.

Deﬁnite plans have been formed by more
than 2,000 students of the Ohio State Uni-
versity to co-operate in the purchase of
their groceries, meats, coal and household
furnishings, in an effort to reduce the cost
of student living. Twenty—ﬁve organiza-
tions are represented in the? new combi-
nation in which all the work of buying
and distributing will be done by students.
Ofﬁcers have been elected to direct the
work and a sioreroom will be rented to
be used as a distributing point to the var-
ious boarding houses. Already one car-
loud of potatoes and three c‘arloads of
coal have been purchased. Carload lots
will be delivered on the University rail-
road spur, which is near enough to the
student resident district to minimize the
amount of hauling. Some of the estimates
of the amount of goods such an organiza-
tion will use during the your are: Bread,

 
$4.000; groceries, $320.00“; meat, $21000;
coal, $5,000. It is extimated that from 20

to 50 per cent will he suvcd on the goods
purchased. Later muny more commodi-
ties will be handled by the co—opcrutive
concern. It is said that this is thc only
organization or its kind among the larger
colleges and universities in the United
States which plans to do its buying on
such an extensive scale.

OUSTING THE MIDDLEMAN.

Possessing 20 Jersey (-ows that were
each producing an average of- 352 pounds
of butter :1 year, Mr. Potter. a dairyman
living nine miles from Athens, Ohio, built
up a good business on somewhat original
lines. He was not satisﬁed to market his
product in the ordinary way. Although
his farm was one of only 00 acres. he in-
stalled a complete and np-to-date equip-
ment in order to insure sufﬁcient power
and water to make high—class butter at
all times. He furnished a tenant house
for living quarters for a hired man and
his family, ihus solving the labor prob-
lem by guaranteeing employment through-
out the ycar. With such a plant in work-
ing order, Mr. Potter decided to become
his own salesman and market his product
direct to the consumer in the town of
Athens. The butter is packed in crocks
holding from one to ten pounds and (le-
liveries are made weekly. So great has
become the demand for ihis butter that
thcre is a long waiting list of perSOns de-
Firous of becoming regular patrons. By
making a superior product and by insur-
ing prompt delivery. Mr. Potter has been
able to secure a price that keeps from
three to f0ur cents above the retail price
of creamery butter in the same market.

COMING NEXT WEEK.

The readers of this journal are to be
congratulated upon having the opportu—
nity to read in next week’s issue a real
sane and practical article from the pen of
Mr. Kelley, on the suggestive topic, “Your
Crops and your Markets.” It will appear
in this department.

 
Reports come from the south and south-
west, from the latter particularly, that
because of the poor supply of corn, large
numbers of healthy hogs are being Ship-
ped out prematurely. Many sellers are
renters unable to borrow money to buy
corn, althOugh there are 3.150 numerous
men owning and working the farms who
refuse to invest in more grain for feeding
purposes. It is unfortunate that the coun-
try lacks a system for facilitating the dis-
tribution of stock hogs from the drouth-
stricken sections to other more favored
regiOns with suﬂicient supplies of corn and
other feed.

 
Nov. 22, 1913.

Crop and Market Notes.

Michigan.

Livingston Co., Nov. 11.-——This section is
in the throes of a terriﬁc blizzard. one
that would do credit to the month of Feb-
ruary, Farming operations are at a stand-
still. There is probably not more than
40 per cent of the corn crop husked and
farmers will not be ready for winter for
two or three weeks. Wheat and rye are
looking ﬁne. New seeding has come _on
fairly well where it was not entirely kill-
ed, but next year's hay crop will probably
be light, owing to the dry weather earlier
in the season. Farmers are disposing of
their beans at about $1.75 per bu. Beans
are only a fair crop but the quality is
above the average. An unusually large
number of light hogs are going on the
market this: fall from this sectiOn. . Not
much fall plowing has been done. Potato
crop about 80 per cent of a normal one.
There may be some timothy hay for sale
but it will be little.

Washtenaw Co., Nov. 6.——The weather
at this date is ﬁne, allowing the farmer
much needed time to complete the potato
harvest. Farmers are devoting more land
to this crop than formerly, ﬁnding that
one year with another, more proﬁt can be
made from it than any other crop. And
this year while the yield is low, dround
100 bushels per acre, the price makes it
the money maker of the year. Dairying
fruit and potatoes are making farmers of
this section prosperous. Although .all
crops are making a. low average yield
the better prices resulting from this con-
dition bids fair to make this an average
year ﬁnancially. Eggs 30c; butter 35c;
potatoes 75c; oats 500; hay $14; cows $50
@75 and in some instances $100. While
taxes and the various expenses of the
form are all high farmers have the money
to pay them and credits and collectiOns
are good.

Emmet Co., Nov. 6.—-—Meadows. new
seeding, wheat and rye, are in excellent
condition. A good supply of feed on hand
for conSumption, and some hay and straw
for sale. Not much grain for sale. A few
lieeves and hogs being fed. A good aver-
age crop of potatoes grown, selling at 50c;
wheat 80c; corn 72c; oats 42c; rye 5.30;
beans $1.25; hay $146115; straw $761.8; ap—
ples 35611750; eggs 30c; butter 28c; beef
ilQ110c; pork 10((1‘101/2c.

s. Hillsdale Co., Nov. 5,-Not enough
potatoes to supply the place; new seeding
not more than half a catch but has im~
proved some of late. Not much wheat
sown as last year; it looks ﬁne. No rye
sown. Feed plentiful; a. good deal of hay
for sale. MOre corn uncut than usual;
quite a large quantity of grain yet to mar~
ket. No cattle feeding: some lambs; hogs
not as many as usual, price $7.50; eggs
30c: butter 25@30c; but few calves raised.

Northern Isabella and Southern Clare
Co.'s, Nov. 6,—I’otatoes 75 per cent of a
crop, selling at 500. Meadows, new seed~
ing, wheat and rye all good. Lots of rough
feed and but little hay being sold. Beans
$1.65 per bu.

Manroe Co., Nov. 4.~—Potatoes were not
a good crop this year, the aVerage yield
being around 70 bushels and the quality
inferior. At Toledo the market pays 85c
61$1 per buShel, according to quality.
Meadows are fair, new seeding is good.
Wheat and rye made a good growth. Corn
crop was small and of rather poor qual-
ity. This section keeps comparatively
little stOck aside from dairy cows. Toledo
prices are: Milk $1.80 per cwt; wheat
93c per bu; corn, old, 90c shelled; oats 41
((14%; loose timothy hay $146015 per ton;
baled do. $13@15; Keifer pears 75c: milch
cows $70@100 per head; dressed hogs
light 11c; heavy 10c: live hogs $8.10@8.25
per cwt; calves, dressed13@14c; beef $6.25
(18.50; fowls 13@14c.

'Delta Co., Nov. 3.——This has been a fair—
ly satisfactory season for producing farm
crops. Potatoes are yielding from 75 bu.
up. Farmers are holding tubers for bet-
ter prices. Many old meadows are being
allowed to run too long. New seeding is
good. Rains improving meadows. Oats
an excellent crop here, yield reaching 80
bushels per acre. Not much wheat is
raised. Rye is good. Cattle scarce but
hogs are quite plentiful. Good cows are
selling at $60@75; draft horses. $600@750
per pair; hay $12@14 per ton: straw $6@
7; potatoes 45@50c per bu: eggs 25c; but-
ter 3o@35c; wheat 85((i'90c; oats 52c, Some
silos are being built.

New Jersey.

Morris Co., Nov. 4.—Corn husking is
progressing slowly on aceount of Scarcity
of labor. 'Wlnter wheat, rye and mea-
dows never looked better. No stock is
being fed except a few hogs. About the
usual amount of grains remain in the
farmers’ hands. Very little grain is be-
ing marketed as most farmers feed it up
to milch cows. Potatoes are a fair crop.
New hay $14 per ton; potatoes $1; wheat
95c; eggs 45c.

New York.

Columbia Co., Nov. 10.—Weather ﬁne.
Corn pretty well housed, but light crop.
Potatoes not more than half a crop and
are held for higher prices. But few apples
in this county, owing to spring frosts.
Meadows not promising owing to drouth,
though they have revived some since re-
cent rains. Pastures short and cows fail—
ing. But ,little grain in farmers’ hands.
Very little stock except milch cows on
hand. Corn $1.10; rye 85c; potatoes $1.50:
butter 40c; eggs 50c and very hard to
find.

 
Pennsylvania.

Erie Co., Nov. 10.—We had a Snow
storm on the night of the 8th. about four
inches falling- Crops are practically all
harvested. Apples were a very light crop.
Prices for all farm products and live stock
are high. Potatoes 90c; apples :1: hay
$10 per ton; straw $5; cows $75@100 per

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

head; heavy horses $200@300 each and
very scarce. The grape crop along the
lake shore is now all harvested, the yield
was very light but the price is good.

Chester Co., Nov. 6,—Potatoes were not
more than half a crop, and sell readily at
800 per bu., wholesale, and retail at $1.
Meadows and pasture land have made a.
good growth of grass. which is unusually
green for this time of the year. Fall seed-
ing which is principally wheat, is up sufﬁ-
ciently to completely cover the ground.
The color of the wheat is good and the
plant is in ﬁne shape for going into win-
ter. Alfalfa ﬁelds are becoming more
numerous throughout the county. and
some of the older ﬁelds where the soil
has become Well inoculated, are turning
off heavy yields of hay.

Montgomery Co., Nov. 5.-—The weather
is ﬁne; had plenty of fall rains; meadows
and new seeding all look good. The farm-
ers mostly depend on dairying and poultry
raising. Chickens, ducks and geese are
raised extensively but no turkeys. as no
one seems to make a. succeSS of it. Cat-
tle scarce and high; not many cattle
raised; most farmers buy fresh cows and
milk them off and fatten them for beef;
also some young cattle being fattened since
labor is scarce and feed.is high. Hay was
a heavy crop. Potatoes failed; quite a.
few farmers did not get enough for their
own use. Hay sells from 45@80c per cwt.
Eggs 40c; chickens, live, 16c: dressed, 200;
home-made butter 35c: Creamery 40c:
milk at creamery 160 per cwt; veal calves
$10.50; hogs, dressed $12.

Ohio.

Warren Co., Nov. 12.~—It is cold and
wintry with two inches of snow on the
ground. Corn husking and shredding are
in progress. The crop was about 50 per
cent of a normal one. Potatoes yielded
poor, and farmers are buying for their
own use. Fall pastures are good, but
many of the ﬁelds of new seeding were
killed during the summer by the drought.
\Vheat and rye are in ﬁne condition but
there are a few reports of ﬂy in the ear-
lier seedings. Farmers have plenty of
roughage but the short corn and oat crops
will reduce their grain supply. This con-
dition has stimulated the early marketing
of hogs, and the purchasing of mill feeds
for cattle. “‘heat is the only grain we
have for sale. The usual number of cat-
tle are being fed. Dairying is increasing
here. Local prices are: Alfalfa hay $20
per ton; clover $13; wheat 900; hogs $7.60
per cwt; eggs 350; butter 300.

Carroll Co., Nov. 11.——\'Ve had an unus-
ual snow storm on Sunday, Nov. 9, and
the roads are drifted nearly full so that
they are practically impassable at many
points. This storm came so unexpected—
ly that many people have their sheep and
cattle Out in the pasture lots, and were
not prepared to stable them as yet. Graz-
ing has been excellent right up to the
time of this Snow storm. It looks like
real winter now.

Falrﬁeld Co., Nov. 11.—On Sunday and
Monday we had a regular blizzard and the
snow drifted high along the fences. The
temperature was down to 29 degrees F.
\Vheat is looking ﬁne. Our hay crop was
about two-thirds of a normal yield. Tim-
othy is now selling at $14 per ton loose,
and $15 for baled. Potatoes were a light
crop, and are now retailing at $1 per bu.
for home-grown and 85617900 fOr imported
stock. The farmers seem to be holding
more of their wheat than usual. the crop
being a. good one in this section. Apples
yielded light and are selling at $1@1.25
pe-r bu. Hogs are scarce and there is re-
ported a number of c.15es of cholera. But
few cattle are being fed. Milch cows are
eagerly sought and high prices are being
paid, ranging from $506885 per head. There
is a small demand for horses. Hogs sell
at $750638; fat cattle $5.50@7.505 wheat
85c per bu: rye 65c: oats 45c; eggs 35@
40c : butter 30W35c: corn 60c: coal 120
per bu. at yards.

Logan Co., Nov. 10.—Octoher was cloudy
and wet. which delayed the ripening of
corn. Before the recent freezes, the crop
had gotten in good condition for cribbing.
Wheat and rye are looking ﬁne, although
a little late. but with a few more grow-
ing days the growth will fully cover the
ground. Old meadows are looking well.
but new seeding is thin and the plants
small for this season of the year. Farm-
ers are well supplied with mugh feed and
aloe grain. Some hay is being sold at $14
per ton. Cats are going at 40c. and oc-
casionally a load of corn at 65c per bu.
Feeding operations seem to be rather
quiet this fall outside of hogs and a few
lambs. Many lambs went to market di-
rect from pasture lots at from 5@6%c
per lb. HOgs selling at 71.40, and calves
a-t 9%c. There will be scarcely enough
apples for home consumption. Michigan
potatoes are being sold here at 95c per
bushel on car; eggs 28c: dairy butter 30c;
creamery butter 360; standard milk $1.60
per cwt.

Harrison Co., Nov. 4.-—-Wheat is looking
ﬁne. in fact never saw it look better at
this season. Meadows are getting a good
start. There will be plenty of feed for
home consumption in this section but
practically none for sale except a small
amount of wheat. A considerable num-
ber of cattle is being fed. Horses are not
very plentiful at present. The general
reduction in the price of wool has cut
down the size of Our ﬂocks of sheep. Po-
tatoes were not more than 25 per cent of
a crop. Turkeys are very scarce and so
far none have been sold. Quotations:
Eggs 30c: butter 300: wheat $1: potatoes
$1: wool 23c: horses $175@z:0; ‘cows $50@
100; hogs $7.50: chickens 13c: sheep are
selling at sales from $250294 per head.
Corn was 75 per cent of a normal yield.

Columbiana Co., Nov. 5.—The month has
started in with some ﬁne weather and
the farmers are having a good chance to
ﬁnish their fall work. A good portion of
the corn is husked and some have hauled
their fodder. There are a good many

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

 
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Wheat.~—The advance of last week has
been maintained. It is the prevailing
opinion of students of the trade that the
present basis of values is none too low.
Discouraging reports from Argentine, a
heavy shortage in India, and decreasing
prospects from Russia have urged men to
buy rather than sell and thus stimulated
higher prices. One year ago the price for
No. 2 red wheat was $1.051/2 per bu. Quo-
tations for the week are:

No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec. May.
“'ednesday . . . . 96 96 9614 1.0014
Thursday ...... 961/,. 9614 961,41 1001/2
Friday ......... 961/, 96111 96% 1.00%
Saturday ...... 961/, 9614 96% 1.00%,

Monday ........ 961/; 96% 97 1.01
Tuesday ....... 96 96 961/2 1.00%
Chicago, (Nov. l8).—No. 2 red wheat;

86140; Dec, 85%0; May 90%c per bu.
Corn—As winter approaches corn val-
ues become firmer and move to higher

levels. Farmers are not selling the grain
freely even though tempted by the pre-
vailing high quotations. Demand is ac—

Last year’s quotation for

tive and large.
Prices this

No. 3 corn was 61c per bu.
past week were:

No. 2 No. 2
Mixed. Yellow.
XVednesday ............... 75 76
Thursday ................. 75 76
Friday .................... 751/2 761/2
Saturday ................. 77 761/2
MOnday ................... 771/2 77
Tuesday .................. 78 77
Chicago, (Nov. 18) ~71 let ember corn
701/2c pcr bu; May 70-?gc; .luly 4134c.
Oats—Tone of this market is ﬁrmer
with demand good. especially from the

southern states. Yalucs rule higher. One
year ago the price for standard oats was
34c per bu. Last \ycek’s quotations were
as follows:

No. 3
Standard. \Vhite.
\Vednesday ............... 421/2 42
Thursday ................ 421/2 42
Friday .................... 421/2 42
Saturday ................. 43 42
Monday ................... 421/; 411/2
Tuesday .................. 43 42
Chicago, (Nov. 18).» December oats,

38:51:10 per bu; May 421/;c; July 413/ic.
Rye.—This cereal is steady and quiet.
No. 2 is quoted at 67c per bu.
Barley.«At Chicago barley is quoted at.
536E81c per bu., while Milwaukee quotes
the malting grades» at from 6061‘80c.
Cloverseed.——l’Cxce‘pting alsike, all val-
ues are higher with sentiment changing
from day to day. l’rime spot is quoted at
Detroit at $8.50 per bu; December $8.55;
March $8.65. Prime alsike is steady at
$10.50 per bu. .-\t Toledo, December and
March are quOted at $8.70 and prime 3.1-
sikc at $10.65.
Alfalfa Seed.—Market is steady,
prime spot quoted at $7 25 per bu.
Timothy Seed.‘—Market steady at $2.50
per bu. for prime spot.

F L6 L11; A N D ”FWE E158.

with

 
Flouanobbing lots in IA, paper sacks
are selling on the Detroit market per 196
lbs, as follows: Best patent, $5.30; sec-
ond, $4.90; straight, $4.50; spring patent,
$5.10: rye flour, $4.60 per bbl.

Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks. jobbing lots:
Bran, $25; coarse middlings, $27; ﬁne
middlings, $27; cracked corn, $31; coarse
corn meal $30; corn and oat chop, $25.50
per ton.

Hay.—Market unchanged. Carlots on
the track at Detroit are: No. 1 timothy

$16.506117; standard $15.506016; No. 2,
$14.506115; light mixed 1515506016; No. 1

mixed $13.5061114.

(.“hicago.—-—Offeiings light and demand
good with prices steady. Choice timothy
quoted at $186119 per ton; No. 1, $16.50@
17.50; No, 2, $156116.

Straws—Detroit.»Steady. Rye, $8609;
wheat and out straw, $7617.50 per ton.

Chicago.-Quotable as follows: Rye
$850609; oat $650617; wheat $6606.50.
Beansrmlicmand increasing and prices

Immediate and No-
quoted at $1.90;
bushel at country

show at 10c advance.
vember shipments are
January at $1.95 per
points. Chicago reports firm trade at
steady prices. I‘ea beans, hand-picked,
choice, are quoted at $2.25; common
$175612; red kidneys, choice, $3613.10 per
bushel.

 
DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

Buttern-Jl‘he rise in values at Elgin and
in most other markets seems due to a
scarcity of butter of the better grades
and is entirely conﬁned to such grades.
Medium qualities and low grades continue
in ample supply and just as hard to move
as last week. Good creamcries are up 1c
in the local market while packing stock
is quoted 1c lower. Quotations are: Ex-
tru cre-amcry 32c per lb; firsts 300; dairy
23c; packing stock 200 per lb.

lClgin.—Market ﬁrm at 32c per 1b., an
advance of 1c over last week.

Chicago.—Strictly fanCy goods ﬁrm at
quotations; other \grades dull. Quotations
are: Extra creamery 320; extra ﬁrsts
30%@31c; ﬁrsts 25671280: seconds 22%@
23c; ladies 22@221/2c; packing stock 20%,@
21c per lb.

New York—Market steady with the
better grades of both creamery and dairy
showing a further advance. Quotations
rule as follows: Creamery extras 3461735c;
ﬁrsts 28@32c; seconds 25%6D271/2c: state
dairy, ﬁnest 31@32c; good to prime 2761)
30c; common to fair 23@260; packing 20@
22c as to quality.

 
THE MICHIGAN FARMER_

Eggs—Supplies show‘ no improvement
and the demand for fresh stOck of good
quality, considering values, is holding up
remarkably well. The local quotation is
4c higher than a week ago. Current of—
ferings, cases included, quoted at 37c per
dozen.

Chicago—Receipts here are running
ahead of those at the‘corresponding date
a year ago and yet values are 76,1181: above
those ruling at that time. Fresh stock is
slightly higher than laSt week, while stor-
age supplies are moving well at an ad-
vance of 1.1/20. Quotations are: Miscel-

laneous lots. cases included, 28611330, ac-
cording to quality; do. cases returned.

271/260321/20; ordinary firsts, 30611320: ﬁrsts
34611341/211 refrigerator stock in good de-
mand at 271/20 for April ﬁrsts.

New York.——The . almost prohibitive
prices in this market are affecting con-
sumption to some extent, but strictly
high-grade stock continues very ﬁrm.

Quotations are: Fresh gathered extras,
4461i46c; extra ﬁrsts. 42611430; ﬁrsts 39@

41c: western gathered whites, 5860620

Poultry.—Although shipments for the
holiday trade are beginning a little early.
activity in the local market is sufﬁcient
to give it a healthy tone. Quotations now
are: Live.——Springs, 1215617130; hens,
Ill/261112c: No. 2 hens 963100; old roosters
9(1171(lc; turkeys 1961=20c; geese 1468141/2c;
ducks 156116c.

Chicago—Liberal receipts at this point
are being cared for without a break in
values, Trade good but chiefly local. Quo—
tations on live are: Turkeys, good
Weight, 16c: others 12c; fowls, general run
10%c; Spring chickens 121,1.c; ducks 11@
13c; geese 8@13c; guinea hens $5637 per
dozen.

Cheese.—Market rather quiet, values
unchanged. Wholesale lots, Michigan ﬂats
1561/151/20; New York ﬂats, 1760171/gc; brick
cream, 176D171/2c: limburger. 141/2@15C.

VeaI.—Steady at unchanged ﬁgures.
Quotations are: Fancy 1360131/3c per lb;
common 1061i11c. ‘

Chicago—'l‘rade quiet: receipts light
and demand only moderate. Quoted as
follows: Good to choice 90617110 lbs., 1461)

14%0; fair to good 60@90 lbs., 1263133420.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.—-Trade is fair at steady prices.
QuOtations: Snow $4614.50; Spy $350617
3.75: Greening $3.5(l613.75; King $350604:
Twenty-ounce 3535061375 per bbl: No. 2,
61.756122?» per bbl; bulk $125611.in per
cwt. At Chicago prices are higher.,de-
mand urgent and supplies limited. Values-
rule from $2.75@5.50 per bbl. No. 1 Jon-
athan’s selling best; Spies are $275611;
Baldwins $3613.50.

Potatoes—Trade rules steady under fair
receipts and active dcmand. Quotations
are as follows: In bulk 6061i65c per bu:
in sacks 6561‘75c per bu. At, (‘liicugo the
receipts of higher grades are small and
trade is ﬁrm While poorer kinds are- easier.
Michigan stock is going at 68611750

Cabbage.—Ste:i(ly at last week‘s ﬁgures.
Good quality quoted at $2612.25 pcr bbl.
The demand is fair at Chicago with offer—
ings fairly liberal. Quotations range from
$1.25@1.40 per bbl. for white and $2.50 for
reti (if good quality.

Onions—Fair demand and trade with
prices for nitive. stock at $2.40 per 100—lb.
sack. The Chicago market is well sup-
plied and somewhat slow with values

GRAND RAPIDS.

The potato market is showing weak-
ness. Prices in Grand Rapids have held
up well but are lower, sliding from 70c t0

60c this week, with demand slow. Pota-
toes are being loaded at Allegan at 550
and this price prevails at most points.

Large receipts of poultry have made the
market slow, even With Thanksgiving
close at hand. In regard to turkeys, how-
ever. the situatiOn is abOut as usual, with
fancy stock in demand at good prices
The ruling price for fowls is 9@10c; tur-
keys 126P16c. Grain is bought. at the
mills as follows: \Vheat 91c, oats 40¢;
rye 78c; corn 74c; beans $1.65.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
November 18, 1913.
Buffalo.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo. New York).
Cattle-Rcceipts, 800; steady. Veals—

Receipts, 125: unchanged. Hogs—Receipts
0.600; heavy. 55810611815; mixed, $80560
8.10: yorkers, $7.8561‘8.10: pigs, $77561)
7.85%; roughs, $7.2561i7.40; stags, $6.50@

7: dairies, 3178560810. Sheep—Receipts,

 
5,000; sheep, steady; lambs, $5.25@7.30.
Chicago;
November 17, 1913.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today ...... 25,000 50.000 50,000
Same day last year..27.159 37.135 49.752

Receipts last week...58.224 163,328 183.527
Same week last year.58,042 144,915 190,809

Cattle, receipts today look excessive to
most buyers, and while a few sales of
desirable lots are at about former prices,
the general market is a dime or more
lower. .with prospects of a bad break be—
fore the close. Hogs are active at a de-
cline of 100. the top being $8, while the
boorer lots go as low as $7.35. For two
weeks receipts have averaged 205 lbs.,
comparing with 223 lbs. a year ago, 203
lbs two years ago, 234 lbs. three years
ago, and 227 lbs. four years ago. Sheep
and lamb receipts hail mostly from feed—
ing districts and comprise natives and
fed westerns, with a good representation
of fat flocks. especially from Iowa corn

ﬁelds. The feeder trafﬁc is animated at
steady prices. but lambs are off 25c or
more. with slow trading and the best
taken at $7. Sheep are irregularly lower.

Cattle feeders throughout the territOry
tributary to Chicago have got into the
habit recentlycf reversing the usual cus—
tom of having the principal run of the

week on Monday, and the big receipts
have been on Wednesday, thereby making
the ﬁrst day a day of higher prices and
the latter one of slow trade and declining
values. This was the. course of events
last week, and early advances disappeared
subsequently, only 20.269 head arriving
Monday, while 23.731 showed up two days
later. A further break in prices took
place on Thursday, and the bulk of the
beef steers received for the week went at
$7.75@9.15. the commoner" lots of light-
weight grassy steers fetching $6.706ii7.75
and the choicer class of weight steers $961)
9.40. Fair to medium steers went at $7.80
6118.45, while a good class brought $8.50
and upward. with ordinary to prime year-
lings sold at $8609.60. Butchering cows
and heifers had an outlet at $4.80@8.25,
with small sales of prime heifers at $8.50
(1119.25, while cutters sold at $4.30@4.75.
canners at $3.25@4.25 and bulls at $4.50@
8. The stocker and feeder trafﬁc became
active as the week advanced and lower
prices prevailed for the rank and ﬁle of
the offerings, stockers going at $5637.35,
feeders at $6.2561;*7.65 and stock and feed-
ing heifers and cows at $4.856D6.65. Calves
were purchased at $4.75(g>11.50 for coarse
heaVy to prime light vealers, while milch
cows had a fair sale at 5560611100 per head,
with backward springers- going for beef.
Stockmen are getting rid of their cattle
not wanted for wintering, and Vl'isconsin
and other States are furnishing many
graSers, while eastern markets are re-
ceiving plenty of stock cattle from Canada
and Virginia. Among beef steers. year-

lings are. much the most popular with
buyers. Feeders and stockers are want-
ed for shipment to Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.

Hogs sold most of last week within a.
very narrow range of prices, the market
failing to show the highly sensational
downwa‘"d movement of the preceding
Week. Packers. and smaller butchers op-
erated freely, while evidently averse to
letting prices soar milch higher, and the
eastern shippers were very fair buyers of
the choicer class of butchering hogs, the
highest values bcing recorded for droves
that averaged from 207 to 265 lbs. The
great bulk of the offerings aVcraged rath-
er light in weight, and light hogs and lit-
tle pigs continued to go at a marked dis-
count. It appears to. be the sentiment
of the trade that hogs are not going to
sell lower than during the recent raids
made by the big packers, and ruling
prices are higher than in most former
years, affording good proﬁts for maturing
hoalthy swine. notwithstanding the unus-
ually hign corn prices everywhe‘e. Fresh
pork has an enormous consumption ev-
erywhere. and big proﬁts are made on
cutting up pigs and light hogs, while cash
orders for cured meats and lard arc gain—
ing in volume. At the best time last week
prime hogs brought $8.30, closing values

Saturday ruling at $7.506?8.10. compared
with $7.35618.10 a week ago. l’igs brought
$5.5061,7.50 and throwout packing sows

$6.756b7.45.

Sheep and lambs adVanced early last
week to the highest prices paid for fat
st0ck in a long time, prime native lambs
soaring to $8.25 on a short supply of such
offerings. This boom in the market start-
ed in greatly increased supplies of all
kinds of live muttons, and prices declined
all along the line, faster than they had
advanccd.‘ Shipments from Montana
ranges have shown a great falling off. the
season being nearly over, and such offer-
ings consisted mainly of feeders and in-
ferior killers. Choice feeders have had
a good outlet at higher prices, with an
extremely wide spread between the poor-
cst and the best lots. This is the season
of the year when sheepmen are apt to
rush in half fat ﬂocks on the appearance
of cold and stormy weather, and this is a
policy that fails to result satisfactorily to
owners. Closing values for the week
were: Lambs $5.506D750: yearlings $5.25
616.40; wethers $4.406115.15; ewes $3@4.35;
bucks $3613.75. Prices at the close were
the lowest for many weeks, with feeding
lambs going at $5.2561>6.75.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

(Continued from page 477).

acres of potatoes to dig yet and the yield
so far has been poor. The meadows all
look promising and the good results from
lime sowing can casily be seen on the new
meadows. V\'heat all looks good and is
in ﬁne condition to stand freezing weath-
er; there is very little rye sown in this
county and the little that is sown is for
turning under in the spring. Most of the
farmers have plenty of grain for their own
use but there is little surplus. There is
more hay than is needed for home con-
sumption, quite a number have been bal-
ing and selling in this vicinity. Farmers
are not feeding much extra stock owing to
the price of feed. Eggs 36c; butter 30c.
Potatoes have been selling for 75c.

Darke Co., Nov. 6.#\Vheat and rye are
looking very good, but pasture is short.
Potatoes are a short crop, being sold at
$1 per bu. Many hogs are being fed at
present. NOt very much corn being sold
yet, 55c for 72 lbs. being paid. Oats 37c;

wheat 960: no tobacco being sold in this. position.

township yet. People are waiting for bet-
ter prices.
lndlana,

Laporte 00., Nov. 10.—A cold storm
struck this section Saturday and Sunday
and turned into a blizzard and the snow
continued blowing and drifting until this
morning. Farmers were not prepared.
Very little corn husking was done and
shredding has commenced. Some cider
apples not-gathered yet. Four to six
inches of snow on the ground and is bad-
ly drifted.

Tlppicanoe 00., Nov. 9.——The weather
is cool and damp this week. Potatoes are
very scarce and can hardly be bought at
any price here. Most of the potatoes are
shipped here from Michigan. Wheat and

‘Hogs are dying by the hundreds.

 
l

NOV. 22, 1913p

rye look ﬁne, the cool weather of late has

kept the ﬂy from doing any damage. The
fall pastures are 'still in good shape al-
though the late frost has affected them
slightly. Corn is a very poor crop at
this point and not very much is for sale.
\Nheat and oats were a good crop and the
farmers are still marketing them. Farm-
ers are beginning to buy steers for feed—
ing; few hogs are fed now on account of
cholera. The following are being market—
ed: Wheat 87c; oats 35c; rye 600; tim-
othy $14@16; clover $12@15; straw $6;
eggs 300; spring chickens 10c; old hens
100; ducks 10c; geese 60.

Allen Co., Nov. 8.—Not enough hay is
arriving at the local market to supply the.
demand. Good grade hay is in heavy de—
mand and Sells at $16. Live stock mar—
kets are featureless. Cholera is playing
havoc with the hogs and the farmers are
making a stiff ﬁght against the epidemic.
The
price has gone down 2..c per cwt. This
is attributed to the rage of cholera as the
packing houses will not pay fancy prices
for hogs unless they test healthy. The
turkey market is a live one and the birds
start off at 150 per lb; 12c birds may be
looked for shortly.

Illinois.

LaSaIle 00., Nov. 11.—A long expected
ad predicted cold Snap has arrived. It
followed on the “heels" of an Indian sum-
mer of about four days' duration. No ap-
preciable damage has been done by the
cold. The corn crop averaged around 45
bushels an acre, and if the drouth had
only let up in time the crop would have
been in the neighborhood of 70 bushels an
acre. Prices on produce, cattle and hogs
remain good. Turkeys very scarce, but
plenty of wild ducks now.

Marion 00., Nov. 4.——Most farmers are
buying potatoes for their own use, which
retail at the stores at $1.25 per bu. Mea-
dows are in ﬁne condition and new seed—
ing is good. \‘l'heat is late but growing

nicely. Rye is good; sown mostly for pas—
ture. A majority of the farmers have
enough feed to get through the winter,

but there will be no surplus of grain for
sale and very few cattle fed for markct.
Hog feeding will be limited to those need-
ed to supply home use. Some grass fed
cattle are. selling at 5616c: hogs 7c; chick—
cns 10c; butter 30c; eggs 30c. Stock peas
will make lots of feed but are damaged
some on account of much rain at cutting
time.
Wisconsin.
Pierce 00., Nov. 10.~The weather has

been bad for fall work. Corn is being
shredded. Several were latein building

silos and the corn has been frosted. Many
patches of cabbage were '
freezing weather. 10 above zero November
10. The apple crop was abundant and has
been stored. Plenty of roughage for the

stock. No snow; not much winter grain
sown but what is looks well. Plowing
nearly all done. Most hogs in a hcalthv
condition. Have shipped a large amount

of stock but many feeders are being held
on account of reported rush from Canada.
()uts 33c: wheat, sping 80c; barley 5061i
580; rye 520; flaxsecd $1.25; buckwheat 60
6117(lc: butter 25c; eggs 25c; onions $1;
squashes 126115c each; potatoes 40611500.
Small fruit vines and canes are protect—
ed. Young orchard trees have- been pro-
tected from rabbits very generally. Corn
fields are visited by much wild game as
husking is only partly ﬁnished. Roads in
a fair condition for winter.

Missouri.

Lafayette 00., Nov. 3.—The potato crop

was a failure here and northern stock is
selling to farmers at $1 per bu. Meadows
are in good shape. A good acreage of
wheat was sown, and it is looking ﬁne at
the present writing. SOme rye was sown
for spring pasture. Farmers have. enough
feed, but corn fodder will have to be sub-
stituted for timothy hay. There will be
no corn shipped from this section this
year. \Vheut sells at 85c; hogs $7 per
cwt; cream 35c per lb; eggs 27c. Many
people are holding their products for bet-
ter prices. Hogs, cream and eggs are
about the only products farmers are. now
selling.
. St Genevieve 60.. Nov. 3.—\Vheat seed—
ing was considerably delayed here because
of l‘atc rains, hence much has been sown
during the past fcw days. Corn is yield-
ing better than earlier reports indicated.
Biue grass pastures are ﬁne. The potato
crop on the Mississippi river lowlands was
very good but on the high lands the crop
amounted to nothing. Feed is scarce here
and most_farmers will be buying grain
before suing. About ten per cent of the
wheat is still in the farmers’ hands. From
106125 per cent less cattle will be fed here
than usual. Hogs and sheep are in about
normal supply. \\'heat 880; potatoes 70c‘
corn 55c; cattle $8 per cwt; hogs $7‘ a1:
falfa. hay $16 per ton; timothy hay $13.

FOR SALE;§,.:::,:31:i,:121c
One Imported Belgian Stalltoifiil'.

The above horses are all ﬁrst-class sires—good d-is-

. Good in every way. From 8 to 10 years old.
Will take ’500 for any one of the above. Have too
much business to .attend to them. If interested
write for particulars.

Geo. D. Conner, 40 Water St, Battle Creek, Mich.
PERCHERON STALLION FOR SALE

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both registered. Write R. B. HUDSON.
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NOV. 22, 1913.

THIS is THE FIRST EDITION.

 
In the ﬁrst edition the Detroit Live
Stock Markets are reports of last week;
all other markets are right up to date.
Thursday’s Detroit Live Stock markets
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.
November 13, 1913.

Cattle.

Receipts, 1350. Market steady.

We quote: Best steers and heifers,
$7.50@8; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200,
$7@7.25; do 800 to 1000, $6.50@7; do that
are fat, 500 to 700, $5.50@6.25; choice fat
cows, $5.75@6; good do. $5@5.50; common
cows, $4.25@4.75; canners. $3@3.85; choice
heavy bulls, $6.25@6.50; fair to good bo-
lognas, bulls. $5.50@6; stock bulls, $5@
choice feeding steers, 800 to 1000.
$6.75@7; fair do. 800 to 1000, $6.25@6.50;
choice stockers, 500 to 700, $6.50@6.75; fair
stockerS, 500 to 700, $5.75@6.25; stock heif-
ers, $5@6; milkers, large, young, medium
age, $70@90; common milkers. $40@50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. CO. 23
steers av 1039 at $7.25, 12 do av 742 at
$6.10: to Morse 11 stockers av 510 at $6:
to Kamman B. Co. S cows av 1022 at
$5.25; to Ratlkowsky 6 do av 953 at $4.50,
2 do av 1085 at $4.50; to Hammond. S. &
Co. 1 ox weighing 1500 at $4; to Mich, B.
Co. 7 butchers av 636 at $6, 1 bull weigh-
ing 1040 at $6.25, 15 butchers av 630 at
$5.90, 5 do av 707 at $5, 8 cows av 1085 at
$4.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 7 butchers
av 786 at $3.85; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 ox
weighing 1930 at $6: to Newton B. Co. 1
heifer weighing 960 at $6.75, 5 cows av 820
at $3.85, 1 do weighing 610 at $3.50.

Haley & M. sold Mason B. CO. 3 butch-
ers av 791 at $6, 6 cows av 970 at $6, 4
heifers av 705 at $5.25. 7 do av 704 at
$6.25: to Fenton 12 stockers av 620 at
$6.50; to MaSOn B. Co. 3 heifers av 779
at $6.35; to Newton E. Co. 4 cows. av 1030
at $5.75. 12 butchers av 810 at $6.50, 13
do av 1195 at $7.25, 3 steers av 1000 at
$6.75, 4 do av 942 at $6.75, 8 do av 530
at $5.75. 3 do av 837 at $6.50; to Sullivan
P. Co. 6 cows av 1086 at $5, 4 do av 937
at $4, 8 do av 1041 at $4.75; to Parker. W.
8.: Co. 10 butchers 21v 836 at $6.50, 5 do
av 810 at $5.75, 9 do av 733 at $6, 19 do
av 800 at $6: to Robinson 17 feeders av
740 at $6.60, 4 do av 890 at $690; to Bres-
nahan 8 heifers av 610 at $5.80: to Mich.
B. Co. 2 bulls av 770 at $5.50, 3 do av 1173
at $6; to Applebaum 3 cows av 893 at
$4.25; to Breitenbeck l3 cOws av 1024 at
$4.75; to Mich. B. Co. 5 butchers av 604
at $5.75, 1 heifer weighing 620 at $4.50, 1
bull weighing 1030 at $5.75, 3 heifers av
556 at $5.50. 1 do weighing 500 at $5, 2
bulls av 1480 at $6.25; to Fry 5 butchers
av 592 at $5.65; to Game 3 cows av 1023
at $4.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 2
heifers av 745 at $6.25, 1 bull weighing
1340 at $6, 1 cow We‘ghing 1330 at $5.50,
4 steers av 925 at $6.25; to Denton 2 cows
av 930 at $4.60. 2 do av 1060 at $4.85. 5
do av 926 at $5; to Parker, W. & Co. 14
butchers av 770 at $6.25, 2 do av 875 at
$6.50. 6 do :iv 657 at $6, 20 do av 658 at
$6, 4 do av 890 at $6.10: to Goose 2 cows
av 1080 at $5.10; to Hammond, S. & C0.
4 Steers av 642 at $5: to Sullivan P. Co.
4 cows av 900 at $3.75, 1 do weighing 770
at $3.10, 12 butchers av 644 at $6, 2 steers
av 970 at $7.25: to Parker. 11'. & Co. 1
bull weighing 1550 at $6. 2 do av 860 at
$5.50, 13 butchers av 788-at $6; to Newton
B. CO. 6 cows av 1116 at $5. 5 do av 1070
at $5.65, 1 do weighing 980 at $3 75, 2 bulls
av 845 at $5.50, 2 heifers av 730 at $6.50:
to Sullivan P. (‘0. 2 rows av 1060 at $5.
5 butchers av 894 at $6.35, 2 do 11V 830 at
$6, 2 cows av 855 at $3.75, 4 do av 1010 at
$5.50: to Goose 11 (lo av 952 at $4.75: to
Mich. B. Co. 3 do av 937 at $6; to Ham-
mond, S. & Co. 12 butchers av 638 at
$5.90, 3 heifers av 323 at $4.50: to Newton
B. Co. 29 steers av 874 at $6.30.

Veal Calves.

Receipts. 398. Market steady.
others, $8@]0.50.

Haley & M, sold Parker. W. & Co. 3
av 130 at $10, 14 av 150 at $11. 14 av 140
at $10.50. 5 av 150 at $11.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 4
av 185 at $10.50, 5 av 150 at $11, 21 av 130
at $10, 5 av 150 at $10.75, 3 av 150 at $11.
2 av 150 at $10.50.

Bishop. .B. & H. sold Parker, 11'. & (‘0.
6 av 150 at $11, 5 av 160 at $11, 18 av 170
at $11. 2 av 170 at $9; to Rather 3 av 145
at $10.50, 5 av 145 at $10; to Applebaum
2 av 410 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av
160 at $11, 16 av 165 at $10.50; to MC-
Guire 8 av 175 at $10.75, 8 av 150 at $10.50,
9 av 155 at $10.75; to Burnstine 5 av 150
at $10.25, 2 av 200 at $11, 5 av 155 at $10:
to Hammond, S. & Co. 4 av 145 at $11.
7 av 135 at $10.75. 2 av 145 at $10, 5 av
150 at $10.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts. 8749; market steady. Best
lambs, $7.25; fair to good lambs, $6.25@7:
light to common lambs. $5@6: fair to good
sheep, $4@4.25; culls and common, $2.75
@325.

Roe Com. Co. Sold Mich. B. Co. 53
lambs av 78 at $7, 39 do av 50 at $6.75, 92
do av 65 at $6.75; to Newton E. Co. 5
sheep av 120 at $4, 10 lambs av 73 at $7:
to Sullivan P. Co. 103 lambs av 70 at $7:
to Thompson Bros. 9 do av 85 at $4, 15
do av 80 at $6.75.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 57
lambs av 75 at $7.25: to Young 112 do av
85 at $7.10. 59 do av 75 at $7.10. 78 do
av 66 at $630. 65 do av 65 at $6.65. 66 do
av 75 at $7. .

Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 15 sheep
av 80 at $3.50. 11 do av 100 at $3.75, 104

 
Best $11:

THE MICHIGA—N F-ARMER

lambs av 65 at $7, 45 do av 88 at $7. 6
do av 75 at $6, 61 do‘av 75 at $7.25, 11 do
av 58 at $6.25, 21 do av 50 at $6.25, 52
sheep av 110 at $4.25; to Nagle P. Co. 154
lambs av 80 at $7.25.. 45 do av 60 at $6.50.
8 sheep av 110 at $4.50; to Parker, W. &
Co. 86 lambs av 90 at $7; to Nagle P. Co.
18 sheep av 120 at $4.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 39
lambs av 90 at $3 50, 125 lambs av 75 at
$6 85, .18 do av 67 at $6.50. 63 sheep av
110 at $3.85, 40 lambs av 68 at $6.90, 117
do av 75 at $6.85, 37. do av 72 at $7, 63 do
av 75 at $7.25, 115 do av 83 at $7.10; to
Ratner 26 sheep av 90 at $3.25; to Young
17 lambs av 55 at $6.25, 43 do av 55 at $6;
to Kull 25 do av 75 at $7; to Swift & Co.
221 do av 80 at $7.50, 122 do av 83 at $7.50,
236 do av 80 at $7.25 41 do av 75 at $7.35,
40 do av 70 at $7.35; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 31
do av 60 at $6.25. 74 do av 60 at $6.35; to
Nagle P. Co. 133 do av 75 at $6.85, 18 do
av 100 at $7; to Mich. B. Co. 85 do av
52 at $5.60; to Parker. 11". & C0. 64 do av
70 at $7.15; to Thompson Bros. 26 do av
60 at $6.50; to Davis 162 do av 60 at $6.25.
16 do av 65 at $6.50, 17 do av 55 at $6 25,

55 do av 55 at $6.20; to Sullivan P. Co. 83 _

sheep av 95 at $3.85, 37 do av 90 at $3.75,
26 lambs av 55 at $3.50, 16 sheep av 110
at $4.25, 10 lambs av 63 at $6, 33 sheep av
90 at $3.75. 40 do av 130 at $4.25, 19 lambs
av 50 at $6; to Thompson Bros. 11 sheep
av 105 at $3.50, 30 do av 95 at $4.
Hogs.

Receipts, 5690. Market 5@10c higher.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
erS, $8.05@8.10; pigs, $7.85; light yorkers,
$8.05@8.10; heavy, $8.05@8.10.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Bay City Sausage
Co. 81 av 190 at $8.10.

Same sold Newton B. Co. 182 av 190
at $8.10.

Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 234 av 180
at $8.05.

Sundry shippers sold same 144 av 190
at $8.10.

Roe Com, Co. sold same 350 av 190 at
$8.05. 150 av 200 at $8.10.

Spicer & R. sold Hammond, S. & Co.
1215 av 190 at $8.

Haley & M. sold same 760 av 190 at $8.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
2500 av 190 at $8.05, 2560 av 180 at $8.

Friday’s Market.
November 14. 1913.

Cattle.

Receipts this week, 1921; last week.
1923; market steady.

We quote: Best steers and heiferS,
$7.50@8: steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200.
$7@7.25; do. 800 to 1000, $650627: do that
are fat, 500 to 700, 335068625: choice fat
cows, $5.75@6; good do, $5@5_50; common
cows. $4.25Qi4 75; canners, $3@385; choice
heavy bulls, $6.25fi‘650; fair to good bo-
lognas. bulls, 35.50636; stock bulls, $563
5.50: chOice feeding steers, 800 to 1000,
$6.75@7: fair do. 800 to 1000. $6.25@6.50;
fair stockers, 500 to 700, $5.75@6; stock
heifers, $5625.75: milkers. large, young,
medium age, $70@90; common milke'rs,
$40@50. ‘

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week. 717: last week 676;
market steady. Best, $11; others,
10.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 13.986; last week,
12,721: market 10@15c lower than on
Thursday. Best lambs. $7@7.10; fair to
good lambs, $6.65@6.85; light to common
lambs. $5.75@6.25; yearlings, $5685.50; fair
to good sheep, $4524.25; culls and common
$2.75@3.25.

Hogs. ..

Receipts this week. 12,687: last week,
13.475; market 50 lower. Range of prices;
Light to good butchers, $8; pigs, $7.75;
light yorkers, $8; heavy $8.

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robes, rugs or gloves when ordered.

Yourtur goods will cost on less than
to buy them, and be “or more. Our
Illustrated catalog gives a lot of in-
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should have, but we never send out this
valuable book except upon request.

It tells how to take of! and care for:
hides; how and when we pay the truly.“
both ways [about our safe dyeing pro«
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to the customer. especially on hone
Mice and on" oklns: about the fur
53%;“? game trophies we sell. taxi-

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to y Frisian Fur Compe- “T
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FOR SALE-Rebuilt Machinery

22 H. Pitta traction on inc; 2TH. 0 if G.
H. Gaar Scott. 18 E! itts: 18 H. Lobe; 16 H. Pt.
Huron; 16 K. Le or; 16 H. Reeves: - H. Russell;
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Alamo; 12H. Badger and many others.
for description and price.

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ANTED—A Granite Field Bolder, 7 ft. hi by
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liberal advancements and prompt remittances.

Daniel McCaiirey’s Sons Co.

PITTSBURG, PA.
Rat-«nee. Washington Trust Company. or In! hank lnoiﬁl

 
for on: o .I..RI

Potatoes. A nice. We pay highest market price
103;. Th I ohm. . Delve“.
Iloh. Bunch-lb]. representatives wanted.

$7@-

    
A combination that offers all
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It enables you to use, in-
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"Button-on” hangers make
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I will out your name neatly on Brass (one inch let.-
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A. H. BRAUNLICH. Ida. Mich.

- nlulll 'l'iLE ran SALE
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Farms and Farm lands For Salli
NEW JERSEY FARM 1“" ‘" ”“9““-

Near good markets.
Comp‘l I'm-m Agency. 147 E. State St... Tronton.N. J.
Rich mellow lands.

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Got catalog. Holmes Realty Agency. Lansing. Mic .

 
ANTED FARM LANDS—For quick results state
rice and description in ﬁrst letter. WESTERN
SALES AGENCY. Phoenix Bldg. Minneapolis. Minn.
ARI FOB. SALE—In aninztou Township. Oakland Cc
F20 miles from Detroit. 240 acres. Will sell allprpu-tof it.
For particulars address owner. W E. McHugthrmingtchmh

NEW YORK ﬁ?..‘l‘%:.—‘i§§3.“vi§’i%2°& :33

FARMS sell them every day. winter

and summer. Ask for list.
McBUBNEY a 00.. Fisher Bids" Chicago. Ill.

 
BUY A F ARM—In Montcalm or Kent. County
where it pays to form. All since

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‘MICHICAN FARMING LANDS

Non: Saginaw and Bay City. in Gledwin and Midland
Counties. Low prices: Easy terms: Clea title. Write
for map- and putloulcn. STAFFELD BROTHERS.
15 Merrill Building. Saginaw. (W. 8.). Michigan.

MlOHlGAN FARMS and FARM lANOS

For sale or trade; reliable information furnished on
any part of note. If you wish to buy. sell or trade.
"3:." J. u. BOTTEHFIELO. 521 "mum mug. limit
2500 ACRES out. over hardwood land near
Rose City. Mich..cn D. it M.B. B.cepecially
adapted for stock and fruit. raising. ddrccs.
JACOB SCHWARTZ. Saﬂnaw. Michigan.

—entirely enclosed with woven
ZIM'Acre Rancn wire fence. $10.“ worth
buildin . ﬁne coll. living stream of water. lots of
speckl trout. sold 810 (1]) worth of cattlcofromlrnnoh
last month. Hundred be yet to Winter. 6
BARGAIN. $25 per acre. will take another good form
in exchange for one-half value of this.
GREENOUGH & BRAINERDJ'acsnr. Michigan

McClure - Stevens Land Co.

Successor-etc A .1 Stevens & Do. Established 1888.
Farm. Fruit and Stock Lends We own 20.000 acres of choice
unimproved lands in Gledwm and Clara counties. Sold on
any payments. Interest 6 percent. Write for information.

Gladwln, Michigan.

115 Acres—90 incultivation. 26 in timber. dark
red soil. about $0.0“) feet of hemlock.
ash. maple and basewordJO-room house in and to air.
barns. Buildings cannot bcduplioated or less on
35000. hort drive over a good road to county seat. a
town of 4000 people. Tele hone. rurnl delivery. Price
. This and over 1(1) ct er farms for sale at bargain
prices. The Keystone Realty 00., Mansﬁeld. Pa.

142 A —l% cleared. good farm. lO-room
cres house, painted and covered.
two barns, round barn basement, 62 feet. other
20x24. milk house. concrete ﬂoor. milk sold to
ordens. silo. all good condition. Owner will
include to quick buyer 23 cows and heifers. 4
horses. harnesses. wagons. mower. rake. grain
drill. harrow. sulky plow. 150 bone. 50 tons hey
4 ton: straw. 5 tone millet. 8 acres ensllue. 50
bushels potatoes. 150 bushels onto. 2 miles from
railroad town and shipping station to New York
City. 50 cords stove wood in wood house. AJl
for 86,3)0. 83. cash.
Hall's Form Agency. Owczo. Tloga 00.. N. Y.

116 Acres, 56200 Part Cash
Stock, Crops, Machinery

Big money-making New York State farm.wcll drained,
fertile ﬁelds. brook watered‘pasturc. lots of hull:
and wood; comfortable IO-room house, 73-“. born,
other buildin .- conveniently located. owner retiring
includes if to on now 13 cows, 9 yearling. 3 calves.
pair horses. colt. gasoline engine all machinery,
which; hay and othcrcropc, only sham for all. part
can : full details of this and other ﬁne farms in all
the boat farming occtionoof the East. p.393. Btrout'o
Biggest Farm Bar nine. “Fall Edition ' write today
for copy. _ A. srnoor uni! AGENCY.
Station 101. Union Bank Bldg.. Pittaburs. Po.

Three Crops a Year

can be grown in the mild climate of Virginia
and North Carolina Alfalfa grows well, also
rape, peanuts and all kinds 0! fruit. Good
farmlands as low as 815 an AC“.
Write today for lists and inbrmntion.
F. H. LIB-IllnI. Agricultural Mt"
Norfolk & Western Railway. Room 221, ’
N 5W. Ry. Bld‘.. Roanoke, Virginia

 
loved lands in Dclawu'o.

 
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER_

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

Wheat—The advance of last week has
been maintained. It is the prevailing
opinion of students of the trade that the
present basis of values is none too low.
Discouraging reports from Argentine, a
heavy shortage .in India, and decreasing
prospects from Russia have urged men to
buy rather than sell and thus stimulated
higher prices. One year ago the price for
No. 2 red wheat was $10595 per bu. Quo-
tations for the week are:

No. 2 No. 1
Red. White. Dec. May.
\Vednesday . . . .96 96 9614 1.00%
Thursday ...... 96%, 9614 961,42 1001/2
Friday ......... 9614 961/1, 96% 1001/2
Saturday ...... 96 14 96%, 96% 1.00%,
Monday ........ 96% 961/2 97 1.01
Tuesday ....... 96 96 961/2 1.00%
Chicago, (Nov. 18).—N0. 2 red wheat

8614c; Dec, 85540; May 90%c per bu.

Corn—As winter approaches corn val-
ues become firmer and move to higher
levels. Farmers are not selling the grain
freely even though tempted by the pre-
vailing high quotations. Demand is ac-
tive and large. Last year’s quotation for
N0. 3 corn was 610 per bu. Prices this
past week were:

No. 2 No. 2
)lemi. Yellow.
\Vednesday ............... 75 76
Thursday ................. 75 76
Friday .................... 751/52 761/),
Saturday ................. 77 76%
Blonday ................... 77% 77
Tuesday .................. 78 77
Chicago, (Nov. 18) —7Iie1 ember corn

701/2c per bu: May 7073M: .Iuly 4134c.

Oats—Tone of this market is ﬁrmer
with demand good, especially from the
southern states. Values rule higher. One
year ago the price for standard oats was
340 per bu. Last week’s quotations were
as follows:

No. 3
Standard. \Vhite.
\Vednesday ............... 421/2 42
ThurSday ................ 421/2 42
Friday .................... 421/2 42
Saturday ................. 43 42
Monday ................... 421,4; 411/2
Tuesday .................. 43 42
Chicago, (Nov. 18).—~Iiccember oats,

3855410 per bu; May 421/20; July 41%c.
Rye—This cereal is steady and quiet.
No. 2 is quoted at 67c per bu.
Barley.—At Chicago barley is quoted at
5367;81c per bu., while Milwaukee quotes
the malting grades: at from (5001'800
Cloverseed.—Iixcei)ting alsike, all val-
ues are higher with sentiment changing
from day to day. Prime spot is quoted at
Detroit at $8.50 per bu; December $8.55;
March $8.65. Prime alsike is steady at
$10.50 per bu. At Toledo, December and
March are quOte'd at $8.70 and prime 3.].
sike at $10.65.
Alfalfa Seed.——Market is steady. with
prime spot quoted at $7 25 per bu.
Timothy Seed—Market steady at $2.50
per bu. for prime spot.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 
Flown—Jobbing lots in IA; paper sacks
are selling on the Detroit market per 196
lbs. as follows: Best patent, $5.30; sec-
ond, $4.90; straight, $4.50; spring patent,
$5.10: rye flour. $4.60 per bbl.

Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $25; coarse middlings, $27; ﬁne
middlings, $27; cracked corn, $31; coarse
corn meal $30; corn and oat chop, $25.50
per ton.

Hay.—Market unchanged. Carlots on
the track at Detroit are: No. 1 timothy
$16.5061.17; standard $15.506iil6; No. 2
3145061115; light mixed 9515506016; No. 1
mixed $13.5061114.

Chicago—Offerings iigiit and demand
good with prices steady. Choice timothy
quoted at $186M!) per ton; No. 1, $165061)
17.50; No, 2, $156116.

Straw.—Dctroit.ﬁSteady. Rye, $86219;
wheat and out straw, $761750 per ton,

Chicago—Quotable as follows: Rye
338506119; oat $650607; wheat $6606.50.

Beanspdiemand increasing and prices
Show a 10c advance. immediate and No-
vember shipments are quoted at $1.90;
January at $1.95 per bushel at country
points. Chicago reports firm trade at
steady prices. l‘ea beans, hand-picked,
choice, are quoted at $2.25; common
$1.756o2; red kidneys, choice, $3612.10 per
bushel.

 
DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 
Butter.»’l‘he rise in values at Elgin and
in most other markets seems due to a
scarcity of butter of the better grades
and is entirely conﬁned to such grades.
Medium qualities and low grades Continue
in ample supply and just as hard to move
as last week. Good ci‘eameries are up 1c
in the local market while packing stock
is quoted 1c lower. Quotations are: Ex-
tra creamcry 32c per lb; firsts 30c; dairy
23c; packing stock 200 per lb.

Rigid—Market ﬁrm at 32c per 1b., an
advance of 1c over last week.

ChicagoﬂStrictly fancy goods ﬁrm at
quotations; other grades dull. Quotations
are: Extra creamery 32c; extra ﬁrsts
301/2@310; ﬁrsts 256D2Rc; seconds 221,561)
23c; ladies 22@221/20: DziCking stock 201/261)
21c per lb.

New York—Market steady with the
better grades of both creamery and dairy
showing a further advance. Quotations
rule as follows: Creamery extras 34@35c;
ﬁrsts 286D32c; seconds 25566327150: state
dairy, ﬁnest 31@32c; good to prime 2761)
30c; common to fair 236026c; packing 2061)
22c as to quality.

follows:

Eggs.-—Supplies show’ no improvement
and the demand for fresh stoek of good
quality, considering values, is holding up
remarkably well. The local quotation is
4c higher thdn a week ago. Current of-
ferings, cases included, quoted at 370 per
dozen.

Chicago—Receipts here are running
ahead of those at the'corresponding date
a year ago and yet values are 761180 above
those ruling at that time. Fresh stock is
slightly higher than IaSt week, while stor-
age supplies are moving well at an ad-
vance of 11/2c. Quotations are: Miscel-
laneous lots, cases included, 28612330, ac-
cording to quality; do. cases returned,
271/260321/2c; ordinary ﬁrsts, 3061232c; ﬁrsts
3461v341/2c; refrigerator stock in good de-
mand at 271/2c for April ﬁrsts.

New York—The - almost prohibitive
prices in this market are affecting con-
sumption to some extent, but strictly
high-grade stock continues very ﬁrm.
Quotations are: Fresh gathered extras,
“@460; extra ﬁrsts, 4260430; ﬁrsts 39@
41c: western gathered whites, 5860620.

Poultry.—Although shipments for the
holiday trade are beginning a little early.
activity in the local market is sufﬁcient
to give it a healthy tone. Quotations now
are: Live.——Springs, 12%@13c; hens,
111/261‘12c; N0. 2 hens 960100; old roosters
961710c; turkeys 19613200; geese 1460141/20;
ducks 1561160

Chicago.——Liberal receipts at this point
are being cared for without a break in
values. Trade good but chieﬂy local. Quo-
tations on live are: Turkeys, good
weight, 16c: others 120; fowls, general run
101/2c; Spring chickens 1.21/2c; ducks 11@
13c; geese 8@13c; guinea hens $56117 per
dozen.

Cheese.-——Market rather quiet, values
unchanged. Wholesale lots, Michigan ﬂats
15@151/2c: New York flats, 1760171/2c; brick
1760171/20: limburger, 141463150.

cream,
VeaI.——Steady at unchanged ﬁgures.
Quotations are: Fancy 1360131/2c per 1b;
common 1060110. '
(‘hicago.—'l‘rade quiet: receipts light
and demand only moderate. Quoted as

Good to choice 9060110 lbs, 1461)
141/20; fair to good 60@90 lbs., 12@131/2c.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.——Trade is fair at steady prices.
Quotations: Snow $461450; Spy $2.506?
3.75; Greening $3.50613.75; King $350604;
Twenty-ounce $3.5061‘3.75 per bbl: No. 2.
$1.756i‘223 per bbl: bulk $1.2561.I.50 per
cwt. At Chicago prices are. higher, de-
mand urgent and supplies limited. Values
rule from $2.75@5.50 per bbl. N0. 1 Jon—
athan’s selling best; Spies are $275614:
Baldwins $3ﬁi2.50.

Potatoes—Trade rules steady under fair
receipts and active demand. Quotations
are as follows: in bulk 6061.650 per bu:
in sacks 6561‘75c per bu. At Chicago the
receipts of higher grades are small and
trade is ﬁrm while poorer kinds are- easier.
Michigan stock is going at 68611750.

Cabbage.—Stcady at last week's ﬁgures.
Good quality quoted at $2612.25 per bbl.
The demand is fair at Chicago with Offer—
ings fairly liberal. Quotations range. from
$1.2561)1.4O per bbl. for white and $2.50 for
red of good quality.

Onions.—~Fair demand and trade with
prices for n itive stock at $2.40 per 100-lb.
sack. The Chicago market is well sup-
plied and somewhat slow with values

GRAND RAPIDS.

The potato market is showing weak-
ness. Prices in Grand Rapids have held
up well but are lower. Sliding from 70c to
60c this week, with demand slow. Pota-
toes are being loaded at Allegan at 55c
and this price prevails at most points.
Large receipts of poultry have made the
market slow, even with Thanksgiving
close at hand. In regard to turkeys, how-
ever. the situation is about as usual, with
fancy stock in demand at good prices
The ruling price for fowls is 9@10c; tur-
keys 126F16c. Grain is bought. at the
mills as follows: “Vheat 91c, oats 40c;
rye 78c; corn 74c; beans $1.65.

THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
November 18, 1913.
Buffalo. -
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo. New York).
Cattle—Receipts. 800; steady. Veals—~
Receipts, 125; unchanged. Hogs—Receipts
9.600; heavy, $8.106D815: mixed, $8.056?
8.10; yorkers, $7.856178.10: pigs, $77561)
7,85%; roughs. 55725611740; stags. $6.50@
7: dairies, 58785617810. Sheep—Receipts,
5,000; sheep, steady; lambs, $5.25@7.30.

 
Chlcago_.
November 17, 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today ...... 25.000 50.000 50,000
Same. day last year..27.159 37.135 49,752
Receipts last week...58.224 163.328 183.527
Same week last year.58,042 144,915 190,809
Cattle receipts today look excessive to
most buyers, and while a few sales of
desirable lots are at about former prices,
the general market is a dime or more
lower. .with prospects of a bad break be-
fore the close. Hogs are active at a de-
cline of 10c, the top being $8, while the
poorer lots go as low as $7.35. For two
weeks receipts have averaged 205 lbs.,
comparing with 223 lbs. a year ago, 203
lbs. two years ago, 234 lbs. three years
ago, and 227 lbs. four years ago. Sheep
and lamb receipts hail mostly from feed-
ing districts and comprise natives and
fed westerns, with a good representation
of fat ﬂocks. especiailv from Iowa corn
ﬁelds. The feeder trafﬁc is animated at
steady prices. but lambs are off 25c or
more, with slow trading and the best
taken at $7. Sheep are irregularly lower.
Cattle feeders throughout the territory
tributary to Chicago have got into the
habit recentlyof reversing the usual cus-
tom of having the principal run of the

week on Monday, and the big receipts
have been on Wednesday, thereby making
the ﬁrst day a day of higher prices and
the latter one of slow trade and declining
values. This was the course. of events
last week, and early advances disappeared
subsequently. only 20.269 head arriving
Monday, while 23.731 showed up two days
later. A further break in prices took
place on Thursday, and the, bulk of the
beef steers received for the week went at
$7.756179.15. the commoner’ lots of light-
weight graSsy steers fetching $6.7061J7.75
and the choicer class of weight steers $961)
9.40. Fair to medium steers went at $7.80
6178.45, while a good class brought $8.50
and upward. with ordinary to prime year-
lings sold at $8609.60. Butchering cows
and heifers had an outlet at $4.80@8.25,
with small sales of prime, heifers at $8.50
6119.25, while cutters sold at $4.30@4.75.
canners at $il.25@4.2_5 and bulls at $4.50@
8. The stocker and feeder trafﬁc became
active as the week advanced and lower
prices prevailed for the rank and ﬁle of
the offei‘ingsi, stockers going at $5607.35,
feeders at $6.2561)7.65 and stock and feed-
ing heifers and cows at 2348560665. Calves
were purchased at 55475601150 for coarse
heaVy to prime light vealers, while milch
cows had a fair sale at $6061.100 per head.
with backward springers going for beef.
Stockmen are getting rid of their cattle
not wanted for wintering. and “'isconsin
and other states are furnishing many
grasers, while eastern markets are re-
ceiving plenty of stock cattle from Canada
and Virginia. Among beef steers, year-
lings are much the most popular with

buyers. Feeders and stockers are want-
ed for shipment to Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.

Hogs sold most of last Week within a
very narrow range of prices, the market
failing to show the highly sensational
downward movement of the preceding
week. Packers. and smaller butchers 0p-
erated freely. while evidently averse to
letting prices soar much higher, and the
eastern shippers were very fair buyers of
the choicer class of butchering hogs, the
highest values being recorded for droves
that averaged from 207 to 265 lbs. The
great bulk of the offerings aVeraged rath-
cr light in weight. and light hogs and lit-
tle pigs continued to go at a marked dis-
count. It appears to be the sentiment
of the. trade that hogs are not going to
sell lower than during the recent raids
made by the big packers. and ruling
prices are higher than in most former
years, affording good proﬁts for maturing
healthy swine. notwithstanding the unus-
ually high corn prices everywhere. Fresh
pork has an enormous consumption ev-
erywhere, and big proﬁts are made on
cutting up pigs and light hogs, while caSh
orders for cured meats and lard are gain—
ing in volume. At the best time last week
prime hogs brought $8.30, closing values
Saturday ruling at $7.506ES.10. compared
with $7.35618.10 a week ago. Pigs brought
$5.506i.7.50 and throwout packing sows
$6.756177.45.

Sheep and lambs adVanccd early last
week to the highest prices paid for fat
stock in a long time, prime native- lambs
soaring to $8.25 on a short supply of such
offerings. This boom in the market start-
ed in greatly increased supplies of all
kinds of live muttons, and prices declined
all along the line. faster than they had
advanced.‘ Shipments from Montana
ranges have shown a great falling off, the
season being nearly over, and such offer-
ings consisted mainly of feeders and in-
ferior killers. Choice feeders have had
a good outlet at higher, prices. with an
extremely wide spread between the poor-
est and the best lots. This is the season
of the year when sheepmen are apt to
rush in half fat flocks on the appearance
of cold and stormy weather, and this is a
policy that fails to result satisfactorily to

owners. Closing values for the week
were: Lambs $5.50@Y.50; yearlings $5.25

61640; wethers $4.4061‘15.15; ewes $3@4.35;
bucks $3613.75. Prices at the close were
the lowest for many weeks, with feeding
lambs going at 3532565675.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

(Continued from page 477).
acres of potatoes to dig yet and the yield
so far has been poor. The meadows all
look promising and the good results from
lime sowing can easily be seen on the new
meadows. \Vheat all looks good and is
in ﬁne condition to stand freezing Weath-
er; there is very little rye sown in this
county and the little that is sown is for
turning under in the spring. Most of the
farmers have plenty of grain for their own
use but there is little surplus. There is
more hay than is needed for home con-
sumption, quite a number have been bal-
ing and selling in this vicinity. Farmers
are not feeding much extra stock owing to
the price of feed. Eggs 36c; butter 300.
Potatoes have been selling for 75c.

Darke Co., Nov. 6.—vVVheat and rye are
looking Very good, but pasture is short.
Potatoes are a short crop, being sold at
$1 per bu. Many hogs are being fed at
present. Not very much corn being sold
yet, 55c for 72 lbs. being paid. Oats 37c;
wheat 960: no tobacco being sold in this.
township yet. People are waiting for bet-
ter prices.

Indiana.

Laporte Co., Nov. 10.—A cold storm
struck this section Saturday and Sunday
and turned into a blizzard and the snow
continued blowing and drifting until this
morning. Farmers we‘re not prepared.
Very little corn husking was done and
shredding has commenced. Some cider
apples not-gathered yet. Four to six
inches of snow on the ground and is bad-
1y drifted.

Tippicanoe Co., Nov. 9,—The weather
is cool and damp this week. Potatoes are
very scarce and can hardly be bought at
any price here. Most of the potatoes are

 
shipped here from Michigan. Wheat and

o

rye look ﬁne, the cool weather of late has

kept the ﬂy from doing any damage. The
fall pastures are still in good shape al-
though the late frost has affected them
slightly. Corn is a very poor crop at
this point and not very much is for sale.
Wheat and oats were a good crop and the
farmers are still marketing them. Farm-
ers are beginning to buy steers for feed-
ing; few hogs are fed now on account of
cholera. The following are being market—
ed: Wheat 87c; oats 350; rye 60c; tim—
othy $14@16; clover $126015; straw $6;
eggs 30c; spring chickens 10c; 01d hens
10c; ducks 10c; geese 60.

Allen Co., Nov. 8.—~Not enough hay is
arriving at the local market to supply the
demand. Good grade hay is in heavy de-
mand and sells at $16. Live stock mar-
kets are featureless. Cholera is playing
havoc with the hogs and the farmers are
making a stiff ﬁght against the epidemic.
Hogs are dying by the hundreds. The
price has gone down 2.,c per cwt. This
is attributed to the rage of cholera as the
packing houses will not pay fancy prices
for hogs unless they test healthy. The
turkey market is a live one and the birds
start off at 150 per lb; 12c birds may be
looked for shortly.

IIIlnoIs.

LaSaIIe Co., Nov. 11.—A long expected
ad predicted cold snap has arrived. It
followed on the “heels” of an Indian sum-
mer of about four days’ duration. No ap—
preciable damage has been done by the.
cold. The corn crop averaged around 45
bushels an acre, and if the drouth had
only let up in time the crop would have
been in the neighborhood of 70 bushels an
acre. Prices on produce. cattle and hogs
remain good. Turkeys very scarce, but
plenty of wild ducks now.

Marion Co., Nov. 4.-—Most farmers are
buying potatoes for their own use, which
retail at the stores at $1.25 pe: bu. Mea-
dows are in ﬁne condition and new seed-
ing is good. \Vheat is late but growing
nicely. Rye is good; sown mostly for pas-
ture. A majority of the farmers have
enough feed to get through the winter,
but there will be no surplus of grain for
sale and very few cattle fed for market.
110g feeding will be limited to those need-
ed to supply home. use. Some grass fed
cattle are selling at 561160; hogs 7c; chick-
cns 10c; butter 30c; eggs 30c. Stock peas
will make lots of feed but are damaged
some on account of much rain at cutting
time.

Wisconsin.

Pierce Co., Nov. 10.—The weather has
been bad for fall work. Corn is being
Shredded. Several were late in building
Silos and the corn has been frosted. Many
patches of cabbage were caught by the

freezing weather, 10 above zero November '

10. The apple, crop was abundant and has
been stored. Plenty of roughage for the
Stock. No snow; not much winter grain
sown but what is looks well. Plowing

nearly all done. Most hogs in a healthy
condition. Have shipped a large amount

of stock but many feeders are being held
on account of reported rush from Canada.
tints 33c; wheat, spiug 80c; barley 5061)
58c; rye 52c; flaxsccd $1.25; buckwheat 60
6070c; butter 250: eggs 25c: onions $1;
Squasihes 1261115c each; potatoes 40611500.
Small fruit vines and canes are protect-
ed. Young orchard trees have been pro-
tected from rabbits very generally. Corn
ﬁelds are visited by much wild game as
husklng is only partly finished. Roads in
a fair condition for winter.

Missouri.

Lafayette Co., Nov. 3.—The potato crop

was a failure here and northern stock is
selling to farmers at $1 per bu. Meadows
are in good shape. A good acreage of
wheat was sown, and it is looking ﬁne at
the present writing. SOme rye was sown
for spring pasture. Farmers have enough
feed, but corn fodder will have. to be sub-
stituted for timothy hay. There will be
no corn shipped from this section this
year. \Vheat sells at 85c; hogs $7 per
cwt; cream 35c per lb; eggs. 27c. Many
people are holding their products for bet—
ter prices. Hogs, cream and eggs are
about the only products farmers are now
selling.
' St Genevieve Co., Nov. 3.—\\'lieat seed—
ing was considerably delayed here because
of late rains, hence much has been sown
during the past few days. Corn is vield-
ing better than earlier reports indicated.
Biue grass pastures are fine. The potato
crop on the Mississippi river lowlands was
very good but on the high lands the crop
amounted to nothing. Feed is scarce here
and most farmers will be buying grain
before suing. About ten per cent of the
wheat is still in the farmers’ hands. From
106125 per cent less cattle will be fed here
than usual. Hogs and sheep are in about
normal supply. Wheat 88c; potatoes 70c‘
corn 55c; cattle $8 per cwt; hogs 857' all
falfa. hay $16 per ton; timothy hay $1’3.

 
FUR SALE;§,.:1,riss.iar21:ii

one grey.

on Imported Belgian Stallion, bay.

The above horses are all ﬁrst-class sires—good dis-
position. Good in every way. From 8 to 10 years old.
Will take ’5in for any one of the above. Have too
much business to .nttend to them. If interested
write for particulars.

Geo. D. Conner, 40 Water St, Battle Creek, Mich.
PERCHERON STALLION FOR SALE

Prize winner. two years old. black. in to I
P. s. A. JUNE ELLIOTT. oiiomiaga‘.l $651335:

FE R R ETs—fé’i dile’i‘i'niatMZitgf ts‘ thrift:
list. . free. BERT EWELL. Wellington. Ohio.
F0" SHE—4 yr. old Clyde mare and yearllnn til

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both re isteted. Write R s. HUDsoﬁ.‘
Michigan Agr'! College. East Lansing. Michigan.

SPANlSn JACK—f4 3’98“ old. guaranteed euro
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$1

 
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NOV. 22, 1913.

THIS is THE FIRST EDITION.

 
In the ﬁrst edition the Detroit Live
Stock Markets are reports of last week;
all other markets are right up to date.
Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets
are given in the last edition. The ﬁrst
edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi-
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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Thursday’s Market.
November 13, 1913.

Cattle.

Receipts, 1350. Market steady.

We quote: Best steers and heifers,
$7.50@8; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200,
$7@7.25; do 800 to 1000, $6.50@7; do that
are fat, 500 to 700, $5.50@6.25; choice fat
cows, $5.75@6; good do. $5@5.50; common
cows, $4.25@4.75; canners, $3@3.85: choice
heavy bulls, $6.25@6.50: fair to good bo-
lognas, bulls. $5.50@6; stock bulls, $5@
choice feeding steers, 800 to 1000,
$6.75@7; fair do, 800 to 1000, $6.25@6.50:
choice stockers, 500 to 700, $6.50@6.75; fair
stockers, 500 to 700, $5.75@6.25; stock heif-
ers, $5@6; milkers, large, young, medium
age, $70@90; common milkers, $40@50.

Roe Com. Co. sold Newton B. Co. 23
steers av 1039 at $7.25. 12 do av 742 at
$6.10; to Morse 11 stockers av 510 at $6;
to Kamman B. Co. 8 cows av 1022 at
$5.25; to Rattk0wsky 6 do av 953 at $4.50.
2 do av 1085 at $4.50; to Hammond. S. &
Co. 1 ox weighing 1500 at $4; to Mich. B.
Co. 7 butchers av 636 at $6, 1 bull weigh-
ing 1040 at $6.25. 15 butchers av 630 at
$5.90, 5 do av 707 at $5, 8 cows av 1085 at
$4.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 7 butchers
av 786 at $3.85; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 ox
weighing 1930 at $6; to Newton B. Co. 1
heifer weighing 960 at $6.75, 5 cows av 820
at $3.85, 1 do weighing 610 at $3.50.

Haley & M. sold Mason B. Co. 3 butch-
ers av 791 at $6, 6 cows av 970 at $6, 4
heifers av 705 at $5.25. 7 do av 704 at
$6.25; to Fenton 12 stockers av 620 at
$6.50; to MaSOn B. Co. 3 heifers av 779
at $6.35; to Newton B. Co. 4 cows av 1030
at $5.75, 12 butchers av 810 at $6.50, 13
do av 1195 at $7.25, 3 steers av 1000 at
$6.75, 4 do av 942 at $6.75, '8 do av 530
at $5.75. 3 do av 837 at $6.50; to Sullivan
P. Co. 6 cows av 1086 at $5, 4 do av 937
at $4. 8 do av 1041 at $4.75; to Parker, W.
& Co. 10 butchers av 836 at $6.50. 5 do
av 810 at $5.75, 9 do av 733 at $6, 19 do
av 800 at $6; to Robinson 17 feeders av
740 at $6.60, 4 do av 880 at $6.90; to Bres-
nahan 8 heifers av 610 at $5.80: to Mich.
B. Co. 2 bulls av 770 at $5.50. 3 do av 1173
at $6; to Applebaum 3 cows av 893 at
$4.25: to Breitenbeck 13 COWS av 1024 at
$4.75; to Mich. B. Co. 5 butchers av 604
at $5.75. 1 heifer weighing 620 at $4.50, 1
bull weighing 1030 at $5.75. 3 heifers av
556 at $5.50. 1 do weighing 500 at $5, 2
bulls av 1480 at $6.25; to Fry 5 butchers
av 592 at $5.65; to Goose 3 COWS av 1023
at $4.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 2
heifers av 745 at $6.25, 1 bull weighing
1340 at $6, 1 cow Weighing 1330 at $5.50,
4 steers av 925 at $6.25; to Denton 2 cows
av 930 at $4.60, 2 do av 1060 at $4.85. 5
do av 926 at $5: to Parker. W. & Co. 14
butchers av 770 at $6.25. 2 do av 875 at
$6.50. 6 do av 657 at $6, 20 do av 658 at
$6, 4 do av 890 at $6.10; to Goose 2 cows
av 1080 at $5.10: to Hammond, S. & Co.
4 Steers av 642 at $5: to Sullivan P. Co.
4 cows av 900 at $3.75. 1 do weighing 770
at $3.10, 12 butchers av 644 at $6, 2 steers
av 970 at $7.25; to Parker. XV. & Co. 1
bull weighing 1550 at $6, 2 do av 860 at
$5.50, 13 butchers av 788-at $6; to Newton
B. Co. 6 cows av 1116 at $5, 5 do av 1070
at $5.65, 1 do weighing 980 at $3 75, 2 bulls
av 845 at $5.50. 2 heifers av 730 at $6.50;
to Sullivan P. Go. 2 cows av 1060 at $5.
5 butchers av 894 at $6.35, 2 do :lV 830 at
$6, 2 cows av 855 at $3.75, 4 do av 1010 at
$5.50; to Goose 11. do av 952 at $4.75; to
Mich. B. Co. 3 do av 937 at $6; to Ham-
mond, S. & Co. 12 butchers av 638 at
$5.90, 3 heifers av 323 at $4.50: to Newton
B. Co. 29 steers av 874 at $6.30.

Veal Calves.

Receipts, 398. Market steady.
others, 387310.50.

Haley & M, sold Parker. W. & Co. 3
av 130 at $10. 14 av 150 at $11, 14 av 140
at $10.50, 5 av 150 at $11.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 4
av 185 at $10.50, 5 av 150 at $11, 21 av 130
at $10, 5 av 1.50 at $10.75. 3 av 150 at $11.
2 av 150 at $10.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, IV. & Co.
6 av 150 at $11, 5 av 160 at $11, 18 av 170
at $11, 2 av 170 at $9; to Ratner 3 av 145
at $10.50, 5 av 145 at $10: to Applebaum
2 av 410 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av
160 at $11, 16 av 165 at $10.50; to Mc-
Guire 8 av 175 at $10.75, 8 av 150 at $10.50,
9 av 155 at $10.75; to Burnstine 5 av 150
at $10.25, 2 av 200 at $11, 5 av 155 at $10;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 4 av 145 at $11.
7 av 135 at $10.75, 2 av 145 at $10, 5 av
150 at $10.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 8749; market steady. Best
lambs. $7.25; fair to good lambs, $6.25@7;
light to common lambs. $5726; fair to good
sheep, $4@4.25; culls and common, $2.75
@325.

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 53
lambs av 78 at $7, 39 do av 50 at $6.75. 92
do av 65 at $6.75; to Newton E. Co. 5
sheep av 120 at $4, 10 lambs av 73 at $7:

 
Best $11:

to Sullivan P. Co. 103 lambs av 70 at $7: 1

to Thompson Bros. 9 do av 85 at $4, 15
do av 80 at $6.75.

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W". & Co. 57
lambs av 75 at $7.25; to Young 112 do av
85 at $7.10. 59 do av 75 at $7.10. 78 do
av 66 at $6.80, 65 do av 65 at $6.65. 66 do
av 75 at $7.

Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 15 sheep
av 80 at $3.50, 11 do av 100 at $3.75, 104

THE MICHIGA'N F-ARMER

For

lambs av 66 at $7, 45 do av 88 at $7, 6
do av 75 at $6, 61 do av 75 at $7.25, 11 do
av 58 at $6.25, 21 do av 50 at $6.25. 52
sheep av 110 at $4.25; to Nagle P. Co. 154
lambs av 80 at $7.25, 45 do av 60 at $6.50,
8 sheep av 110 at $4.50; to Parker, W. &
Co. 86 lambs av 90 at $7; to Nagle P. Co.
18 sheep av 120 at $4.25.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 39
lambs av 90 at $3.50, 125 lambs av 75 at
$6 85, 18 do av 67 at $6.50. 63 sheep av
110 at $3.85. 40 lambs av 68 at $6.90, 117
do av 75 at $6.85, 37 do av 72 at $7. 63 do
av 75 at $7.25, 115 do av 83 at $7.10; to
Ratner 26 sheep av 90 at $3.25; to Young
17 lambs av 55 at $6.25, 43 do av 55 at $6;
to Kull 25 do av 75 at $7; to Swift & Co.
221 do av 80 at $7.50, 122 do av 83 at $7.50,
236 do av 80 at $7.25 41 do av 75 at $7.35,
40 do av 70 at $7.35; to Sullivan 1’. Co. 31
do av 60 at $6.25, 74 do av 60 at $6.35; to
Nagle P. Co. 133 do av 75 at $6.85, 18 do
av 100 at $7; to Mich. B. Co. 85 do av
52 at $5.60; to Parker. 11'. & Co. 64 do av
70 at $7.15; to Thompson Bros. 26 do av
60 at $6.50; to Davis 162 do av 60 at $6.25.
16 do av 65 at $6.50, 17 do av 55 at $6 25,
55 do av 55 at $6.20; to Sullivan P. Co. 83
sheep av 95 at $3.85, 37 do av 90 at $3.75,
26 lambs av 55 at $3.50, 16 sheep av 110
at $4.25, 10 lambs av 63 at $6. 33 sheep av
90 at $3.75, 40 do av 130 at $4.25. 19 lambs
av 50 at $6; to Thompson Bros. 11 sheep
av 105 at $3.50, 30 do av 95 at $4.

Hogs.

Receipts, 5690. Market 5@100 higher.

Range of prices: Light to good butch-
erS, $8.05@8.10; pigs, $7.85; light yorkers,
380569810; heavy, $8.05@8.10.

Bishop, B. 8: H. sold Bay City Sausage
Co. 81 av 190 at $8.10.

Same sold Newton B. Co. 182 av 190
at $8.10.

Same sold Sullivan P. Co. 234 av 180
at $8.05.

Sundry shippers sold same 144 av 190
at $8.10.

Roe Com, Co. sold same 350 av 190 at
$8.05, 150 av 200 at $8.10.

Spicer & R. sold Hammond. S. & Co.
1215 av 190 at $8.

Haley & M. sold same 760 av 190 at $8.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.
2500 av 190 at $8.05, 2560 av 180 at $8.

Friday's Market.
November 14. 1913.

Cattle.

Receipts this week, 1921; last week,
1923; market steady.

Vi'e quote: Best steers and heiferS,
$7.50@8: steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200.
$7@7.25; do. 800 to 1000. $6.50@7; do that
are fat, 500 to 700, 835072625; choice fat
cows, $5.75@6; good do. $5@5 50; common
cows, $425614 75; canners, $3@3 85; choice
heavy bulls, $6.25@6.50; fair to good bo-
lognas, bulls, 35.506176; stock bulls, $563
5.50; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1000,
96.75627; fair do. 800 to 1000, $6.25@6.50;
fair stockers, 500 to 700, $5.75@6; stock

heifers, $5705.75; milkers, large. young,
medium age, $70@90; common milkers,
34071750. ‘

Veal Calves.

Receipts this week, 717: last week 676;
market steady. Best, $11; others,
10.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts this week, 13,986; last week,
12.721; market 10@15-c lon'er than on
Thursday. Best lambs. $7@7.10; fair to

good lambs, 366562685; light to common
lambs. $5.75@6.25; yearlings, $5615.50; fair
to good sheep, $4@4.25; culls and common
$2.75@3.25.

Hogs. ..

Receipts this week, 12.687: last week,

13,475; market So lower. Range of priceS:

Light to good butchers, $8; pigs, $7.75;
light yorkers, $8; heavy $8.

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and rlcce. Come and no. for ourself. MICHIGAN
FAR HOME COMPANY, recnville. Michigan.

 
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Rigid and Rod Track Combined

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2- in- 1
Carrier

 
While ﬁlling tub carrier “stays
ut”—moves only when you push
it, because track cannot sag.

Outside the barn you use the
rod track. Stand at the door, give
carrier 3. shove; it runs out, dumps
itself at proper point, and returns
automatically to the barn. Never
{ails Io dump.

Cannot jump either the rigid or
rod track.

We make carriers for rigid track
-—carriers for rod track—also
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ces‘sof JAMES Sanitary /,¢°fe%>‘ gr I
Cow Stalls, Stan- 799.390” 3900” .
chions,Pens,Venti- zoo! _. .496
latOrs, etc. Agile. £19330 ‘

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before you’i'n- 102.4355, V2210?
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‘ and aim raved land- in Delaware.
FCrhl. Fill! diver-“l tannin. live nook,
licioue fruib and ideal Mace. for information
addre- Btcto Bonrdof Agriculture. Dover. Delewuu.

‘MICHICAN FARMING LANDS

Nee: Saginaw and Bay City. in Gledwin and lldlend
Counties. Low prices: Ens! terms: Clcu title. Write
for up: and particulnn. STAFFELD BROTHIBB.
15 Merrill Building. Saginaw. (W. 8.). Michigan,

MICHIGAN FARMS and FARM [Mills

For sale or trade; reliable information furnished on
any part 01 mm. It you wish to buy. sell or trade.
“iii." 3. n. iiillTEilFiELn. 521 Hammond 3105., ncmii
250° ACRES out over hard wood lend nee:
Rose City, Mich..on D. & M,B.B.eepeoielly
adapted for stock and i'ruil‘. raising. rem.
JACOB SCHWARTZ. Salinaw. Michigan.

—entirely enclosed with woven
2160-Acre Ranch m, m... “0,000 m...
buildiw. ﬁne coil. living stream of water. lots 06
speckl trout, acid 810 (1]) worth of cattlc'tromlrnnch
last month. Hundred head yet to Winter. IG
BARGAIN. 8% per acre. will take another good farm
in exchange for one‘half value of this.
GREENOUGH & BRAINERD.Vaesnr. Michigan

McClure - Stevens Land Co.

Successor-to A .1 Steven. a On. Established 1888.
Farm. Fruit and Stock lands We own 20,000 acre- ol choice
unimproved land: in Gledwm and Clare counties. Sold on
only payments. Interest 6 percent. Write for information.

Gladwln. Michigan.

115 Acres—90 in cultivation. 26 in timber. dark
red soil, about 250.0(1) feet of hemlook,
ash. maple and bamwordJO-room house in good repair,
3 bone. Buildings cannot. be duplicated or less an
8501]). Short. drive over a good road to county cent. a
town of 4000 people. Tele hone. rural delivery. Price
842G). This and over 100 oi. or terms for sale at bargain
priccl. The Keystone Realty 00., Mansﬁeld. Pa.

—-125 cleared. good farm. lO-room
142 Acres house. painted and papered.
two barns. round barn basement. 62 feet, other
20x24. milk house. concrete ﬂoor. milk sold to

Bordens. 3110. all good condition. Owner will
include to quick buyer 23 cows and heifers. 4
horses. harnesses, wagons. mower, rake. grain

drill. barrow, sulky plow. 150 bone. 50 tons buy
4 tone straw, 5 tone millet, cores ensilnc. 60
bushels potatoes. 150 bushels cute. 2 miles from
railroad town and shipping station to New York
City. 50 cords stove wood in wood house. All
for 5.500. 8 , cash.

Hall’s Farm Agency. Owezo. Tloga 00.. N. Y.

116 Acres, $6200 Part Cash
Stock. Crops, Machinery

Big money-making New York State farm,well drained.
fertile ﬁelds. brook watered-pawn". lots of fruit.
and wood; comfortable lO-room house. 73-18. barn.
other buildin ; conveniently located. owner retiring
includes if tn on now 13 cows. 9 yearlinsu, 3 onlvee.
pair horses. colt. gasoline engine all machinery.
magician. hay and other-crops, only sham for all. part
can ; full details of this and other fine farms in all
the best farming ccctioneot the East, page3, Btrout'c
Biggest Farm Bar nine. "Full Edition '. write today
for copy. A. STBOUT FAR AGENCY.
Station 101. Union Bank Bldg. Pittaburg. Pu.

Three Crops a Year

can be lrown in the mild climate of Virginia
and Nonh Carolina Alfalfa grows well. also
rape, peanuts and all kind- of fruit. Good
farm land: as low as ‘15 an AC".
Write today for lists and inﬂammation.
F. ll. LOB-lull. Agricultural Mt...

Norfolk I; Western Railway. Room 221, ’ ’
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NOV. 22, 1913.

 
$2,275 From 100 Acres

Three Forks, Mont., March, I912.

 
t .
\‘l' Dear Sir:
Your letter of recent date regarding my experience as a dry land
homesteader in Montana received, and in reply will say: That l located

[ill 160 acres three miles south of Three F orlrs, Mont., on February I, l9l0,
lfl and commenced improving in the spring of that year. l built a two-room
ltli house, a rou h shed for a barn, and broke 85 acres of the land, which l
Wt seeded with urlrey Red winter wheat the following fall.
ll‘l‘ti‘ During the winter of l9IO-l9l l, l cut fence posts and commenced

fencing the land, which I completed in the spring.

With practically no experience as a farmer l harvested from about
l00 acres 2,540 bushels of wheat, which I marketed for $2,275.

My first year's crop considerably more than payed for the improve-
ments, although l cannot give you the exact ﬁgures, as I am sorry to say
that l did not keep a close record of the cost.

if I had this same crop to handle over again, with the experience 1
have gained from last season,l am satisﬁed that I could easily have gotten
an increase of 25 per cent by better cultivation.

Hope this will give you the information desired; however,l shall be
glad to give you any further data l may have if this does not cover what

i d.
you wan e Yours truly,

 
WM. L. IRVINE
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What This Man i ou an 0
Secure a Government Homestead in Montana—where farming
pays. In Dawson County and Musselshell Valley are thousands

of acres of land open to settlement under the Homestead Act.
These homesteads, some of which are 160 acres and others 320 acres each, are \

 
The period of residence on homestead land is now only three years, and a
ﬁve month leave of absence is permitted each year.

Low Round Trip Fares to Montana points are in effect on the ﬁrst and :2:
third Tuesdays of each month, Via the ill

Send for literature on how to secure a government homestead, etc.

n. w. STEINHOFF, D. P. A.

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212 Majestic Bldg. — Detroit. Mich.
0. E. SHANER, Immigration Act. GEO. B. HAYNES
750 Marquette Bldg. Chicago Gen’l Passenger Agent , .
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extremely fertile, producing large crops of all grains, potatoes and small fruits. \

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FALL WORK IN THE ORCHARD.

 
The fruit grower’s year ends when the
apple crop has been harvested and sold.
He can rest with a feeling of relief when
he knows: that he has sent his share of
the world’s food supply on its way to
waiting months; He should not rest long.
\Vhen one season ends, another starts,
and immediately preparations should be.
made for the next crop. Fall work in the
orchard is not always given the consider-
ation it ought to have. it is of consider-
able importance, and will relieve the
grower of much work during the spring
rush.

The ﬁrst thing to be given consideration
after the apples are off, is the putting into
winter quarters: of all the tools and ap—
paratuSes used in harvesting. It is a.
common fault to leave Such work undone;
it is an uneconomicai fault, as ladders
and baskets will warp, and the picking
bags and the canvas of the sorting table
will rot.

Much can be done to help in the con—
trol of the insect pests of the next sca-
lson’s crop. The codling moth, the chief
iapple pest, passes through the Winter in
the cocoon stage undcr old bark, under
rubbish in the orchard, in old apple bar-

 
hicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. .fl/

 
ALBERTA

The Price of Beef

's lligli and so is the Price ottiiittlc1E
‘ th P ince o
h or a??? WegterdovCanada).

   
tie have given place to \he culti-
vation of wheat. oats, barley and
ﬂax. the change has made many
thousands of Americans, settled
on these plains, wealthy, but has
increased the price of live stock.
There is splendid opportunity now to get a

FREE HOMESTEAD OF 160 ACRES

(and another as a. preemption) in the
newer districts and produce either cattle
or grain. The crops are always good. the
climate is excellent. schools and churches
are convenient and markets splendid in
Manitoba. Saskatchewan or Alberta.

Send at once for literature. the latest
information, railway rates. etc., to

M. V. McInnes
176 Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, Mich.

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i. - FLORIDA
The land of All-the-Ycar Out ﬂoor tile——

. Write and tell us what you would like to do
if you come to 1‘ lorida. Fruit growing, truck~
ing, poultry, bee keeping, stock raismg, dairy-
mg a Winter home or busmess or profeSSional
openings, as well as some lines of manufacturing.
and we try to assist you to get the right; location.
Your success means our success and the success of the
community inwhich ymirive. illustrated bookletsand
“Facts About Florida" sent tree on application.

FLORIDA EAST COAST RY. (3)

.I.:.m R HAM V.-Pr . s nsonNorthwestex-n
Room $19“ City hum,” ' °r wellnuaoom 119 09 Wrist

orwrite Supsgitntendent of Immigration, St. Augustine, Fla. A an Street, Chicago. Ill.

 
MAPLE SYRUP MAKERS

The Grimm Evaporator

used by principal
maple syrup makers
everywhere. Saw
in; of time and fuel ‘ ‘
alone will pay for ' -
‘lhe outﬁt. Write for
catalogue and state
number of trees you
tap.
GRIMM MANUFACTURING CO.

619-621 Champlain Ave., N. W.. Cleveland, Ohio.

Cutawa

Ask your dealer to show you CUTAWAY

(CLARK) disk barrows and plows. Write us for

free book,“ The 5011 and/utenswe Tzllage.
The Cutaway ”arrow Company

992 Main Street lllggnnurn. Conn.

  
hall we send you free book about

APPLETON
woon saws

It shows pictures of all our buzz. drag, cir-

cular log saws and portable wood sawing
rigs. with or without Appleton Gasoline
Engines, Tells you straight facts which
we guarantee our saws to back up. Opens
a way for you to make money this Winter
sawmg your own and your neighbors'
wood. You want a saw to last—made
_ strong-boxes that never heat—don’t ex-
periment. with cheap saws then, buy an
gppli‘etgn, is!) years the standard. Send for
0° e to ‘ ' Batavia HI.,U.S.A.
APPLETON M'rc. co. 620 F3... 5.,

  
Pulverized Lime Rock

We can ship in carload lots in two days after ordor
is received from Muskegon and Benton Harbor.
Write for prices direct to you.

LAKE SHORE STONE 00., Milwaukee. Wis.

 
Does more work with less draft and leaves a
better surface mulch than any other cultivator made.
It Works Right Up To Your Trees

Cultivating the entire surface beneath low brancnes
without disturbing boughs or fruit. Write forncata-
wuaam... , logue and free book ”Modern Orchard Tillage.

OW 00.. 606 Nevada Street, Marnhalltown, Iowa

 
. frels, and in places where apples are Sltor-

fed. Much can be done to kill off these
'moihs, if the loose bark on the trunks
and larger limbs is Scrapcd off, and the
jrubbish places in the orchard and cellars
;clcnned up. Every moth killed by this
fpl‘UCOHS will get rid of the source of 60 to
70 months in the spring. The fall canker
worm is also one of the insects which can
be controlch by this method of cleaning
up. ”Orchard sanitation" is a suitable
‘nnnie for this work, and it will be found
an excellent supplement to spraying in
the control of insect and fungus: troubles.
Birds are great assistants in this Wonk, as
they are eager for the opportunity to take
care of all the cocoons exposed by this
cleaning up.

Autumn is- an excellent true for cutting
out blighted limbs which have been neg-
lected during the growing season. If left
untildhe spring pruning, they will often
be missed, as they do not have the tell-
talc leaves to show them up. Limbs
which have been broken by the weight of
the crop should also be attended to at
this time. If the limb is a large one, it
can be saved by drawing it up in place,
and holding it by a bolt or bracing it by
wires from other limbs, if the break is
not too ragged. it pays to save large
broken limbs of trees, as in one season
they will often more than pay for the
trouble by the fruit they will bear. Limbs
beyond repaid should be cut off and the
lWounds painted over with a paint of pure
lwhite lead and raw linseed oil,

l The protection of trees from mice and
rabbits during the winter is also very
important work to be given consideration
at this time of the year. These winter
orchard pests often do more damage in
one night than can be repaired in several
ycai's. The. mice harbor in brush or grass,
and will not venture very far in the op-
cn. Therefore, if the ground at the base
of the free is kept clean of these things,
there will not be much danger from this
source except when the snow becomes
dccp. Then they will burrow under the
snow and in comfort feast upon the bark.
)loiinding the tree-s with soil or cindcrs
lo the height of eight or twelve inches
will serve to keep the base of the tree
free from snow. If the monnding has not
been done, occasional trainping of the snow

 
‘around the base of the tree will also act

as a means of checking the. mice.

Damage. from rabbits can host be pre-
vented by protecting the trunk of the tree
with thin veneer, closely woven wire. or
any of the manufactured tree protectors.
A hcavy spraying of the trunk of the tree
with lime-sulphur. the commercial article
diluted to about eight to one, has proven
successful to many for protection againSt
both rabbits and mice. Various formulas
0f poisonous paints have been recom-
mended. Strychnine placed in green fruit,
or twigs dipped in a strychnine solution
and placed in various parts of the orchard
have proven effective. But there is al—
ways danger attending the uSe of poison,
and it is advisable to try other means
ﬁrst. A shot gun could supplement the
tree protectors, and would be a method
of death dealing which would be much
easier on the rabbit than poison.

  
If there is a bad infestation of scale in
the orchard, or if an old, neglected or-
chard is to be renovated, a fall applica-
tion of lime-sulphur would be of great
value. In such cases this spraying should
be in addition to the regular spring spray—
ing for scale. Lime-sulphur is an excel-
lent cleanser and renovator of old trees,
and frequent applications on neglected
trees will not come amiss.

There is something for the ambitious
fruit grower to do at all seasons. of the
year. Above are just a. few Suggestions
of what might be done at this time. In
the house it is usual to have fall and
spring cleanings. The orchard will be
benefited if its. manager follows this cus-
tom of the housewife.

THE STRAWBERRY MULCH.

 
Now is the time to mulch the strawber-
iics, just as soon as the ground freezes
hard, not before. There are several ad-
vantages derived from a good mulch. It
prevents heaving which is sure to kill
many of the plants and to leave all of
them in poor condition for next year. It
Ill‘eFel‘VcS fcriility that might be lost in
the leaching and erosion processes. It
improves the physical .condition of the
soil, and supplies some fertility if allowed
to decay and be harrowed into the soil
ncxt summer. It will keep the berries
free of grit next summer. and hold mois-
ture to take them through the drouth.

\\'l‘lcn should the mulch be applied, and
how much is needed? We should wait un-
til cold weather has come to stay, and
until the ground is frozen sufficiently to
stop the growth of plants completely, and
to bear up team and wagon. Then we
may drive out into the patch without in-
jury to the ground. If the mulch is ap—
plied before the plants stop growing it
will smother and kill them. Hauling the
material onto the ground with a team re-
duces the labor very considerably. The
latter part of November is usually early
cnough for this work in Michigan. \Ve
like to have :1 good, solid mulch at least
ihree inches deep. There isn‘t much dan-
ger of getting too much unless you put it
on too early or leave it on the plants too
long in the spring, after the plants begin
to grow.

It doesn’t matter very much what kind
of material is used so long as it makes a.
good snug covering and will not blow
away. (foriistalks are sometimes use'd but
they do not make a good mulch. They
are excellent, however, when put on top
of Iother light material, like straw or
leaves. Coarse manure is also used but
it makes too close a covering, and is too
often full of grass and weed seeds. Any-
thing containing such Seeds should be
avoided. The. reason is obvious. Sawdust
also make-s .1 tight, close covering but
does not beneﬁt the soil or plants like
straw, leaves. or foddci'.

Straw is the best of material for mulch-
Iug strawberries, and has the advantage
of living most easily obtained, and the
cheapest. The cheapest, damaged straw
is just as good for this purpose as better
grades which cost more.

For the last few years we have used
the waste part of shredded fodder for
mulching the strawberries. All of the
stalks and pith, tasu-‘cls and such wastes,
are carefully saved and mixed with the
manure. If we get shredding done early
in November as we did this year it is an
cosy matter to save enough of this mate-
rial to cover the strawberry beds by the
middle of December. When this is being
saved for this purpose we do not feed
roughage that contains seed. \Ve want it
to be perfectly free of all seeds.

This material is excellent. It contains
manure and humus material enough to
improve the ground. It is too heaVy to
blow away .and it lays close enOugh to
make a good mulch. It costs almost noth—
ing. The rain and snow of winter soak
the manure into the ground so that both--
ing,r is left by spring but dry, clean, chaffy
material which is just right to hold the
big berries off the ground.

If the mulch is left until rather late in
the spring it will hold the frost in the
ground and keep the berries from coming
out early enough to be killed by late
frosts After all danger is past the mulch
should be raked off the plants and left
between the rows. and close to the plants
to protect berries, hold moisture and
smother weeds. E. P. H. GREGORY.

 
. Nov. 22‘, 1913'.i

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Veterinary. g

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

Advice through this department is free
to our subscribers. Each communication
should state history and symptoms of the
case in full; also name and address of
writer. Initials only will be published.
Many queries are answered that apply to
the same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will probably ﬁnd
the desired information in a reply that
has been made to someone else. When
reply by mail is requested, it becomes
private practice, and a fee of $1.00 must
accompany the letter.

       
Bronchitis—I have a hog that wheezes
whenever he exerts himself; this fellow
acts much like a fat hog, so far as his
breathing is concerned, but he is not
ileshy. What caused this ailment? W.
l. S., East Jordan, Mich—Your hog took
told and if you will give him 40 drops of
sweet spirits of nitre, 10 drops fluid ex-
tract nux vomica and 15 drops tincture

lonelia at a dose three or four times a
day he will get well. Keep him warm and
dry. clean his pen, feed him food he

moves most and his bowels should be kept
moderately open, but avoid purging him.
Indigestion—Rheumatism.——My sow had
first litter of pigs last June, when pigs
were two weeks old mother pig took bil-
llous attack, that is what local Vet. called
it, two pigs stiffened and died; the other
stunted and although eating plenty does
not grow. All the young pigs of this lit-
ter are stiff. C. E. T., lonia, Mich—Give
1;. gr. sodium salicylate at a dose in feed
or water as a drench three times a day.
Change their feed and keep bowels open.
Heifer Gives Bad Mllk.—I have a heifer
that seems to be healthy, but her milk is
bad; cream from it soon sours and I
Wish you would tell me what to do. A.
t). S., East Jordan, Mich.—-Changing her
feed, cleaning milkhouse, milking into
very clean utensils, having clean hands,
will all contribute toward remedying this
trouble. Give her a teaspooiiful oi‘ hypo-
sulphite soda at a dose in feed twice a.
day. is she drinking clean water?
Barrenness.—Is the following formula
as good as can be put together as a. rem-
edy for barren mare? Gentian, 8 ozs;
bicarbonate soda, 8 ozs; nux vomica, 4
ozs; arsenic, 1 dl‘., dosc a. tablespoonful
twice a day. This medicine to be given
until mare is surely in foal. This mare
has a two-months' old colt by her side
and I believe she is safely in foal. but she
rubs herself as if itchy. A. B., Lake Odes-
:a, MlchxiClVlllg this medicine will tone
up her system and somewhat improve her
general health, but will have little to do
with promoting conception. “'hat she
needs is good care and plenty of feed.
Shoulder Lamcness.—I have a ten-year-
uld horse that has been lame. bv spells
for the past 12 months, when traveling
he spreads; horseshocr tells me he has
good feet, no bunches on legs and is in
good health. A. C l, Birch Run. Mich.
—I am inclined to believe lameness is in
Tight shoulder and it may be the result
of a torpid liver. Give him 20 grs. of
calomel and a tablespoonful bicarbonate
of soda at a dose in feed onCe daily for
a week, also apply equal parts turpen-
tne, aqua ammonia and raw linseed oil
to shoulder every day or two. Are you
sure that he has not ran against some
in ird substance and jammed Shoulder? If
Hi he might never recover.
Indigestion—Loss of Appetite—I have
a cow that came fresh September 1. which
ale too much corn and sickened herself;
then some t:me later she ﬁlled liesrelf
full of bran; this made her quite sick;
SJIL‘C then she has poor appetite. I gave
i't'l‘ gentlan and Fowlcr‘s solution but it
(lltl not act as well on her as the other
city you prescribed for; she got well. J.
ll. “L, Brown (,‘Lty. Mich—Give her epsom
salts, or raw linseed oil to open bowelS;

also give 1 oz. tincture gentian, yg oz.
tincture cinchona and 1 dr. tluiil extract
iiux vomica at a dose in water as a.

drench three or four times a day.

Bruised Withers—Alist-esvay 15—year-
old mare has a bunch that came on with-
cls on week ago; this swelling is neither
real hard or soft, but when pressed causes
pain. G. (l. G., llillsdale, Mich.~Apply
one part tincture ariiica, three parts spir-
its of camphor and four parts alcohol to
bunch three or four times daily. In some
such cases I ﬁnd painting the bunch with
lllIL'Llll'e iodine daily. good results are ob-
tained. If bunch softens, open it and in—
lect one part bichloride mercury and
:00 parts water.

Abscess—I have a gray more that had
abscess in throat, which Vet. opened. let-
tine.r out quite a quantity of pus; throat
healed, but later broke open in other
parts of body. Vets. fail to agree about
her ailment and I would like your opin-
ion. B. H.. Grand Blanc, Mich—Ask your
Yet. to give her bicterin treatment for
this suppurative ailment and she will re-
cover. There are several reliable manu-
facturers of this remedy whom you can
rely on furnishing it if your Yet. refuses
to give it; no other treatment needed.

Luxation of Stifle.—~l have a ﬁlly two
years old that has a soft movable bunch
on stiﬂe joint and the cap seems to be
easily moved out of place. J. C. C.. Har-
bor Beach. Mich.~—«Apply one part red
iodide mercury and ten parts cerate of
cantharides to stiﬂe every week or ten
days.

Wart on Teat.——My cow has a wart on
teat which I would like to have removed.
She is due to freshen next February and
I would like this bunch removed. J. C.
K, OkemOS, Mich—Cut off wart and ap-
ply equal parts powdered alum and bor-
acic acid- twice daily.

 
Behind the stove doing nothing one
quarter of the time, you would ﬁgure
you were losing money.

Your horse works for his board and
keep; he hasto be cleaned and fed;
someone must be paid to take care of
him. Every day he is idle

You Lose Money
Your horse need not. be kept in the
stable one hour on account of icy
roads, if you use

Red Tip Calks.

Get them now and you are always
ready for the road night. or day, rain
or shine.

RED TIP CALKS Save Time, Money
and Worry. Send for Booklet D.

llelersllp Mtg. 00., New Brunswick. NJ.

Insist upon the Red Tip.

 
HEwo
BELGIANS
They Are Here!

H. & H. Wolf. importers of Belgian
Horses exclusively, advise old and
prospective patrons that their new 1913
importation is now in their barns. It
is in all respects by far the mOSt se-
lect lot of horses of this breed that
have ever been stabled in their barns.
Big, weighty, typey drafters of quality
all through, that challenge comparison
with the Best Anywhere. A select lot
of mares, too. Get our terms and Guar-
antee. "I‘his will interest you as much
as the horses.

Hewo Stock Farm
Wabash, Indiana
More than a quarter century

 
with the breed.
On promises in Lenawoe
00. A farm of 92 acres to

AUCTION SALE ..................N....

29th. 1913. Located seven miles from Adrian. two
and one-half mlllea from Sand Creek and three and
one-half miles from Cadmun.

W. '1‘. CUNNINGHAM. R. R. No. '1. Adrian. Mich.

 
M B TURKEYS~Largo with ﬁne plumage. Toms :6
i . Hens“. Fawn and white Indian Runner docks,
Drakes S2Ducks 81. Collar Bros" Coopersville. Mich

BREEDEIS’ DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.

Aberdeen-An us.
Herd. consisting of Trojan Erlcas. B aokbirds and
Prides. only. is headed by n W. the GRAND
CHAMPION bull at the State. West Michigan and
Bay City Fairs of 1912 and the sire of winners at those
Fairs and at. THE INTERNATIONAL. Chic 0. of
1912. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Ich.

GUERNSEYs—ch. Tuberculln Tested. WIndor-
mm Form. Watoxvliel‘». Mich.
J. K. BLATCHFORD. Auditor-inn Tower. ChicagoJll.

GUERNSEYS

Some choi'o bull calves by May Rose sires, out of dams
now. making good A. ll. records. Prices reasonabla
St. Auctell Farms. R. No. 3. Jackson. Mich.

 
Purebred Registered

HOLSTEIN C ATT L E

The Greatest Dairy Breed
Send for FREE Illustrated Booklets
Holstein-Frieda, Auo..Box 164. Brnttlcboro.Vt.
$1M Buys a choice high grade Holstein heifer? mo.
old and a registered bull 7 mo old. both poi--
fectly marked. X white. B. B. Reavoy.TAkrou. Mich.

A FEW “01cm Holstein Frlecian Bull Calves

for Sale. . . . .
GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.

“Top-Notch” Holsteins.
(lboicelbull calves from 6 to 10 mo. old. of fashion-

nblo breeding and from dams with oﬂcial milk

and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.

"BENSON FARMS 60.. How-ll. Mlohlgln.

 
' ' ~80 or 1 ice bulls from 2 to
"centered “0'3“” 4 mvonfhsnold, Excellent type
and breeding. $50 to 875 delivered: every one a bargain.
Better write today. HOBART W. FAY. Mason. Mich.

Buy A World Record Iolsteiil Bull

NEXT ml We have! with 75$ same blood of 3'0rld
record cows. Great bargains at 850 each. LONG
BEACH PARKS. Axum (Knlamuoo 00..) Mich.

FOR SALE—3 Registered Holstein Heifer
Calves. Write for doccriptto.
nnderioes. Coleman & Whipple, R. 6. Mason. Mich,

 
T H E ‘M"I C H‘ LG A'.N-' FAR M E‘ R

Bigelnw’s Holstein Farms

'Broodsvlllo. Mlch.
Have for sale several ﬁne young
bulls out. of cows with high ofﬁcial
butter and milk records. '

Send for circular.

3 FINE YEARLIIIO BULLS!

1 Son of Sir Jolie Johanna. out of an 18th 3-
year-old daughter of Sir May Hartog Pooch.

2 Sons of Johanna. DeColantha 5th and out of

A. R. O. dams.

5 Bull Calves. by Johanna Concordia Champ-
ion, No. 60575. A copy of the 24th volume
of the Holstein Friesian year book With
each of these bulls.

Prices ri ht to quick buyers. .
L. E. CONNliLL, Fayette, Ohio

I ' on . t
Maple Lane Register of Menillerd‘og “3.33235
tuberculin tested Jersey Cattle of all ages for sale.
IRVIN FOX. Prop.. Allegau. lilohltan.

BUTTER BRED ‘JEFo‘wER‘QEBIELS

CRYSI'AL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

FOR SALE
20 months old Jersey Bull

MEADOWLAND FARM
Waterman & Waterman. Ann Arbor. Mich.

 
g E RSEYSTE‘SE Lﬁfﬁieliliﬁ“il?n§§)l§rl§f$

ET!“ B. DCUMA. Route 2. Holland, Michigan.

JERSEYS—Bulls calves bred for product-
ion. Also cowa and heifers.
Breakwater Farm. R. l“. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-
oulocis.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of
good dairy cows for sale. No females for sale at.

present. Satisfaction am .
COLON C. . Coopenvillo. mob.

2 Yearling Shorlllorn lull: For Sale"2.",§,d§.l‘,}‘§§
White Hall Sultan. W. C. 08108. Hillrdale, Mich.

OIIlll BOEO SHOOIHOOISZlSiS:eligdhé‘llg's'i'b‘i:

J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Mic an.

-B II 1' 81:01.2 the
9 Shorthorns all.“ mm“ of bmm'l...
Write for pedigrees. W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Mich.

 
FOR SAL ——3 Shot-thorn hulls. White two
year-old roan. yearling and
red calf. E. J. FRANK. Beading. Michigan.

21—481

0 C’s-Beam ready for service. Aug. plan. all
0 0 of 1'! hi: type. I paIy express charges.
. n

GEO. P. ANDRE S. Dansville sham Co. Mich.

 
RITE US Your Wants For Reg. Chester White Swine. Holl-
teiu Bulls, Shropshire Sheep Lamb Rams. Sept. pigs now
ready for shipment. RAY B. PAlllAll. Bronson, Michigan.

 
o l C ~Spring boars all sold. Have a ﬁne lot. of
0 0 - a ring gllts. Sept. gill a. ready to ship, not
akin. Longt y Prince No. 381 . end of herd. (Will

. weigh 5Q ton when mature.) A. Newman. R. I. Mariette. Mich.

 
O. I. C. SPRING BOAIlS it‘ll simian:

JOHN BERNER & SON. Grand Ledge. Mich.

 
‘x'ﬂ-ﬂs

50W WEIGHED 932 LBS.
A 23 MONTHS OLD

E
lONlA GIRL

I have ltnrted more breeders on the road to suc-
cess than any man living. I have thalargest and tin-
est hard in the U. 8. Every one an early developer.
ready for the market at six months old. I want to
Klacc one box in each community to advertise my

std. Write for my plan,“ﬂow to Make Money from
Hogs." o. s. BENJAMIN. I.No. i 0 Portland. mall.

    
For Sale, of the l growthy
Bur" Jﬂne’ Boa" typo. also 2 Reg. crchcron
Stallions“ Lyn—old. M. A. BBAY. Okemos. Mich.

 
”Huang—7 boars. spring furrow. Fall pigs. either
sex. Prices reasonable. 8.0. STAHLMAN.
CHERRY LAWN FARM. ll. 2. Shepherd. Michigan.

DUROO BOARB and Gilts Sired by Cherry King 2.
The bi_ bone kind.large healthy animals at farmers

prices. rank Mathews. R. F. D. 3. Bristol. Ind.

 
Fancy bred Duroo Jerseys—Boar's tit Gilts of spring do
summer furrow. Good individuals at. reasonable
prices. John McNicoll. Station A. R4. Bay City. Mich.

{moo JERSEYS—Spring boars of the big type. a
few from cherry King.the 1912 International champ
ion. at prices that will sell them. W 1‘. Taylor. Illlnnjieh

 
I have a few choice young breeders
Improved Oheslers of A...“ fan-ow. either sex

Twenty years a breeder. W. 0. Wilson. Okemos.Mich.

 
nunocs—Ilﬁ High Class immuned boars ready for
normal. Special prices for 30 days. Write
or come and see. J. C. BARNEY. Goldwater. Mich.

BIG TYPE DU ROCS—March and April Boars. ready

far service. Pairs not akin. Also hro lac
ic .

name for sole. F. J. DRODT. R. No. 1, Monroe.

Oumc Jerseys—2O Spring Soars lludy in Skip.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings, Michigan.

OUROOS, Good Enough to Ship Without the Money.

KOPE KON FARM. Kinderhook. Michigan.

 
3 Choice Shortliorn Bulls For Sale.

7 to!) mos. ol 1. Batcehred. Registered. Call or write to
J.E. TANSWELL. Maple Ridge Farm. Mason. Mich.

 
F0“ S‘LE_6 Slim-thorn Bulls. 7 to 12 mos.. sired by
grandson of Whitehall Sultan. also choice
females. W. B. Mchiillan. Howell or Chilean. Mich.

 
SHEEP.

lluroc-Jerseys’ﬁl’ié“‘.li’.°i;i' "Sél‘wﬂii‘léﬁé

Brookwatcr Farm. R. F. .No. 7. Ann Arbor,Mloh.
——Bo W '

POLAND CHINAS Breli millage? $113.23?

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

 
Poland Ohinas and Sing'e Oomb While leghnrus.

B. M. WING & SON. Sheridan. Michigan.

 
' -Yoarling and ran. lambs from Champion

lllceslﬂl’s ﬂock of Thumb of Mich. Also select Berk-

shire swine. mhurst Stock Farm. Almont, Mich.
FOR SALE at.

OXFORD RAMS AND “V ram... prices.

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

lhroo-lur-Old OXFOllO and SHROPSHIOE Hams

For sale cheap. Parkhuret Bron, Reed City. Mich.

For Sale OXFOllOS. 30 Reg. Rams. Price: Olglll.

J. A. DeGARMO. Muir. Michigan.

 
IT PAYS To BUY PUIII BRED SHEEP OF PARSONS,
'tho sheep man of the east." Shropshires, Rambouillet.
l’olled DBIBH‘IBS and Parsons Oxfords. R, 1 Grand Ledzo,llfich.

lleg. llamobulllel Sheep, Pure Brod Poland Ohina
IIOGS and PERCHEBON HORSES. 2% miles
E. Morrice. on G. T. R. R. and M. U. R. J. Q. A. COOK.

HROPSHIRE RAMS. Registered. Sirod by Imp. Minton rain
Quality for grade or registered ﬂocks Also some young
owes Prices right WILLIS S. MEADE. aneer. Michizln.

REGISTERED sulolslllnE-mzaihr ‘33::

Bmodlngof the best. Harry Potter, Dawson. Mich.

MAPLESHADE FARM SHROPSHIRES

Reg. ewes bred to choice imported ram. Rain and owe
lambs. WM. P. PULLING it SON. Patina. Michigan.

IN G LESIDE FARM—é’il’ﬁbsps’ﬁi‘ildnia‘i
ewes bred to choice rams for 315.00 per head.
HERBERT E. POWELL. Ionla. Michigan.

Twelve bred lwo—ycar—old Shropsbin Ewes for sale
W. E. MORRISB. Flushing. Michigan.

SHROPSHIRE AfOW 'choice rams priced

right. for immediate shipment.
C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan.

SHBOPSlllllE IIIS IllO EWES FOR SALE.

DAN HOOKER, R. 1. Marion. Michigan.

H005.

' ' —-A Desirable Bunch of Sows of
DOW“ & “elm“ Either Breed duo A ril and May.
M. '1‘. Story. R B. 48 Lowell. Mich. ity Phone 55.

BERKSHIRESZEESSSS Eiééaiﬁig’fiio i‘il‘l

gilts. T, V. HICKS. Route 11. Battle Creek. Mich.

—of s rin farrowinu with the
Berksnire Boar best 901' llbreeding for sale.
A. A. PATTULLO. B. No. l. Deckervllle. Mich.

OllllOESS'S OERKSHIOES. IISIEOPIEOE Slllllll
THE LONG SQUARE KIND
2Hnndsome yearling boars. SSplendid fall gilts. 4
Spring pigs. Papers and igrees furnished. No
cholera over on the farm. Prices Reasonable.
W. 0. HULBERT. Mgr. R. 4. Big Rapids, Mich.

0 l 0 —BIG GROWTHY TYPE. Last spring
. . 0 stock. either sex. pairs not. akin. Very good
stock. Scott No. 1 head of herd. Farm 56 mile west
ofdepot. OTTO B. SCHULZ‘E. Nashville. Mich.

—Bred gilts all sold.
OI II c- SWINE bye 3 No. of Spring
pigs on hand. Will book orders for Sept. plus.
get my {rice on pairs and tries not akin.
. J. GORDON R. No. 2. Don. Mich.

' -Spring and summer pigs. write us
OPCSICI' I'll“: your wantl. Price and quality ri ht.
Meadow View Stock Pam. ILRD. No.5.Holland.M ch.

O.l.O':.—lakilig Order: In: Sept. list. “”3303.“

FRED NICKEL B. No. 1. Monroe. Michigan

 
POLAND OHINAS

The Large Prolific Kind

Elgar; SPRING BOOBS
At Farmers' Prices.

ALLE N BROS
Paw Paw. - - lV‘llchigan.
POLAND CHINA—Spring. Summer and [all plan.

from large proliﬁc sow. litters up to 16. S cinl
ROBERT NEVE. Pierson. ich.

 
prices on boars.
Proliﬁc Poland Chinaa. the

l
Bun-EH 3 Dis BONE kind that keep right on grow-

ing after you get them. Big boars ready for service.
Bows bred for spring far-row. fall pigs. All at farmers‘
prices. '1 hey don’t breed them any better. A breeder
fol-over 20 years. J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

—Th '
P. O. MIBOH INO IPHIL PISS “.13. l‘i’Sﬁi-l’ﬁle'ﬁg
to please. R. W. MILLS. Sallne.- Michigan.
—P l d ' .
FOR SALE agdazpriﬂffrﬁiwgol’ﬁmggﬁa
G. W. BOLTON. R. No. 11. Kalamazoo. Mich.
—Ch . l . .
POLAND CIINAS «$133.3: “pallié‘égrl’éﬁii
L. W. BARNES & SON. Byron. Shinwasse 00., Mich.
BIG TYPE P. Cricmrrssszrassist:
A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. Michigan.
roman CllllllAS‘ﬁllls' :23.- :l‘ rs. 22:22:
P. D. LONG. R. No. 8. Grand Rapids. Michigan.
ARGES’I‘R INPROLIFL "
L HOGS—de’chnioe fall ytaagildgslltﬁiggestﬂlgiviﬁ

a ring
I .0. S

 
igs I ever raised. 5 Rows farrowed 49 pigs.
ARTZ. R. 37. Schoolcraft. Michigan.

FOR SALE—Spatial Price of $20.00

for two weeks on P. C. BOA from mliﬁc sows.
LeROY F. HOWARD. SchoolcraftPMichigan.

I tags Type P. C. Largest. in Mich. Boers all sold.
.1 Am booking orders for Bred Gilts. Come and see
Biz Desmoma, In! est Boar in U. S. of age weighs 845
lbs. at 19 months. .x%%nses£ald if not satisﬁed. Free
Livery from Purina. . E. ivingstcn, Purina. Mich.

 
' —Pigs farrowcd ' A
Lafgc 10" kShlres prize winning xgltook‘tsuligrfrla‘lgi
JONES & LUTZ. Oak Grove. Michigan.

IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES

Bows and gilts bred for September d 0 t
furrow. Service boars. Pigs all 386:): Brgegifg
and prices upon application.

Michigan.

W. C. COOK. R. 42, Ada.
BIG TYPE MULE FOOT HOGS~AII f
350 sale. Proliﬁc and hardy. Beat. breed for Militias still.-
Also Ponies. J. DUNLARBOX M.Williamspoﬂ. 0%“)
YORKSB IRE SWINE-Young boars ready for service. Also

spring furl-owed (lit: and Aug. fan-owed pig for sale.
. S. MCMULLEN, Grand Ledge. Mich.

YORKSHIIE sme—A few choice boars left.
sale. OS'I‘RANDEB B a smirﬁi‘is. hiiicufck
Yorkshire Boats—At farmers price-.short noccd.blg

boned fellows. farrowed A til 24. wei' ht. 225 lbs
Fall pigs, send for photos. Charis. Motz. Egan. Mich:

llllle Farmstead Yorkshires

Spring iltc. splendid ones. I ll ‘, ‘
Guam-14 for String rim-ow. “ ”i“ 81th" 5°“
Ll Ll Cooper-ville. Michigan.

Pain not akin, GEO

 
BOLON C.

 
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Poultry and» Bees.

 
THE -MICHIGAN FA‘RMER

 
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THE AVERAGE FARMER AND THE
HEN.

 
The introductory paragraph of this ar-
ticle Inay well be made up of the follow—
ing questions: \Vhy is it that the major-
ity of farmers are careless in regard to
the kind~of hens they keep, although
careful in regard to the kind of sheep,
hogs. and cattle? W'hy is it that many
capable farmers, successful in other lines,
feed their hens grudgingly and look upon
them as a sort of necessary evil? Why
is it that so many farmers believe that a
mixed ﬂock, crossed and recrossed beyond
recognition, is more proﬁtable than a.
pure strain.

In considering the ﬁrst question, a sim-
ple statement of facts will be sufﬁcient to
show its pertinence. A great many farm-
ers who would be ashamed to have a.
mongrel, scrawny drove of hogs or cattle
on the place, are astoundingly indifferent
when it comes to hens. Little or no at-
tention is paid to improving the ﬂock.
Practically no effort is made to weed out
undesirable and unprofitable fowls. Often
hens are kept years beyond the stage of
usefulness, finally to die of old age, or be
sorted out at last, after their unprofitable-
ness has cut down materially the profits
from the younger members of the flock.
ASI to why this practice is indulged in,
the reasons seem to be these:

Indifference and Inappreciation.

Regarding the hen as a minor asset,
and i‘o;getting that attention to these
minor assets may spell the difference be-
tween success and failure, the farmer is
apt to consider anything in the line of
hens as good enough, and to think that
the returns do not justify the expense and
trouble requisite to the keeping of some
good strain of laying stock. This is the
explanation of the indifference of many.
Some seem to think that the hon, unlike
other things, ought to bring paying re-
turns without the expenditure of time or
money, and even without proper care. and
give little atttntion to the kind kept for
this reason. Negligence, and Sometimes
ignorance, fostered by a wrong idea as to
the true importance of the hen, seem to
explain, in most cases. this carelessness.

In taking up the second query, elements
involved in the first question enter in. A
misconception of the true worth of the
hen, a reluctance to give her a fair Show
which is based on this miSt-onception, and
a sort of prejudicial feeling generally,
see-m to explain the situation. Let it be
said, however, that the tendency to feed
hens grudgingly and consider them of no
account is less marked than formerly. The
hen, like the old apple orchard, is grad—
ually but surely coming into her own. In
many inﬁtances the farmer's wife is fully
awake to the situation, if her husband 'is
not. She knows how much of the living
expenses are paid from eggs and chickens
sold, and how the problem of setting a.
table is simpliﬁed by the possession of a

 
geod flock of E's—r5 In-c...<iunuli,\', when
the husband is . 1‘ go down into
his potl it ard dig up money for these

things, he, too, awakes to a. realization of
what the liens are capable of doing.
Crossbreds Considered Desirable by Some.

As to why so many farmers prefer a.
mixed flock, the writer has not been able
to ﬁnd any satisfactory explanation. A
sort of general idea, to the effect that
mixed fowls make better layexs, seems to
prevail. Granting that there is reason for
this in the case of a Single cross, there
still remains the fact that many do not
stop here. In the farming communities
with which the writer is acquainted, it is
difﬁcult to get eggs for setting that are
even reasonably pure, of any strain.
Much inquiry is often necessary before a.
ﬂock of Barred Plymouth Rocks, 01‘ Brown
Leghorns, or other well known breeds can
be found. Occasionally, some breed new
to a locality, is introduced. Many buy
eggs for setting, but the pure- stock is Sel-
dom kept. and the new addition serves,
mainly. to render the pedigree of the 10-
cality hen more complicated.

Some readers may consider this state-
ment of conditions overdrawn. In all the
farming communities with which the writ-
er is acquainted. however, the questions
in the introductory paragraph are perti-
nent. Of course there are- many excep-
tions. some of them striking ones, of
farmers who are awake to the possibili-
ties of poultry raising in connection with

the farm and farm work. Every farmer
keeps hens, as a matter of course, and
why not make them a paying feature?
The man who has a. good ﬂock is the
man who would no sooner dispense with
or neglect the hens than he would dis-
pense with or neglect the other attributes
of Successful and varied farming. It is
not necessary to follow the ways of the
professional poultryman or fancier, but it
is necessary to give the hen a fair show
if she is to perform. for the average farm-
er, the work of which she is capable»
Hillsdale Cu. J. A. KAISER.

OLD HENS UNPROFITABLE.
Many farmers fail to realize the highest
returns from their poultry_ simply be-
cause they keep hens long after their use—
fulness has passed. ['nlessl the hen is
especially valuable as a breeder, it will sel-
dom pay to carry her longer than two
years. Ordinarily, a hen lays 25 per cent
fewer eggs in her second year than she
does in her pullet year. “’here market
eggs alone is the object, the farmer will
do well to dispose of all his old stock and
ﬁll his house with promising yearlings. It
should be borne in mind, however, that a
vigorous two-year-old hen will transmit

 
Barnyard and Poultry House upon Grand
Smith.

more vigor to her offspring than will a
younger fowl. A wise practice. and one
in common use among systematic poul—
try-keepers, is to dispose of all two-year-
olds except the most vigorous, which are
retained in the breeding pen.

Indiana. T. Z. RICHEY.

ESSENTIAL DETAILS OF INDOOR

WINTERING OF BEES.

 
Probably the most convenient place in
which to winter bees is in the cellar. The
first step is to make sure that the tem-
perature can be kept from going below the
freezing point. A portion of the cellar
should be partitioned off and provided
with sufﬁcient ventilation to allow the es-
cape of foul air and also to regulate the
temperature, should there be any danger
of it rISing too high, as this would cause
the bees to become restless and crawl
outside the hives. After a number of col.—
onies are put into a cellar the tempera-
ture will be several degrees. higher than
it formerly was on account of the warmth
of the bees.

The apartment should be so situated as
not to be Subject to constant invasion by
individuals when going to the Cellar prop—
er for fruits, vegetables. etc. \Vhere a
great rumber of colonies are to be win—
tcred indoors it would be an advantage
to build a repository in a. side-hill and
have the doorway at the lower side level
with the ground so that there would be no
necessity for a stairway.

Some time in November the bees should
be prepared for carrying in. The covers
of the hives will, of course. all be sealed
down tight and it will not be necessary
to disturb them. But the hives should all
be gone over and loosened from the bot-
tom boards so that when you come to
pick them up there will be no snap or
jar. When cold weather comes and indi-
cations are for its continuance, the hives
can be picked up and carried in very
gently. Care should be exercised at this
time not to arouse the beesf we do not
want them to ﬁll themselves with honey,
as it will probably be ﬁve months or more
before they will have a cleansing ﬂight.

This work can best be performed by

  
It is evident that here POuItry is not Censidered a Negligible Asset.

two persons and I use a carrier so made I
that two hives, or even three, if they arel
not too heavy, can be carried at once by1
means of handles similar to those of a;
wheel-barrow. By this means the beesl
hardly seem to know that they are being}
moved. I
Tierlng up the Hlves. ,

Lay on theﬁoor two joists or walll
strips, on edge, and place the hives onl
them six or eight inches apart. The next I
tier of hives is placed on top of the ﬁrst, ,

each hive resting upon two of the lower. ‘

tier; the next tier is placed in the samel
way until they are as high as the cellaz-l
will permit. The reaSOn for this manner
of piling is to give the bees ample bottom
ventilation and to allow dead bees to drop
out of the way. This also permits the
bee-keeper to inspect his bees at any
time. By taking a dark lantern and hold-
ing a. looking-glass under the hive he can
see right up into the cluster. Have a
thermometer in the cellar and try to keep
the temperature between 40 and 50 dogs.
Visit the cellar occasionally to ascertain
if the bees are quiet. If they seem a lit-
tle uneasy at times a little more ventila-
tion will probably quiet them. Have as
little noise and as. little, light as possible.

Years of experience have taught me
that if a strong colony becomes uneasy in
the top tier, it may be quieted by putting
it on the cellar bottom, and that a small,
Colony, which is in a roar of disturbance,
can be stilled by raising it from the bot—
tom of the cellar to the top. Also closing
most of the ventilation from the hive

if

Traverse County Farm of Mr. Thomas

 
having the small colony will cause it to'
become quiet, while removing the whole'
top from an uneaSy Strong c010ny will
cause the bees to quiet down and cluster
compactly for the rest of the winter.

The strongest colonies will best endure
the lowest place, and the chances of the
weakest will be improved by a place at
the top—a fortunate requirement if the
lifting be considered. So long as the bees
have not been moved in cellar should be
kept open to allow moisture to escape, and
to prevent mold, and it is best to keep it
open during the entire time of taking in,
and afterwards, until the bees are well
settled, as during the excitement of
changed conditions they are apt to be-
come too warm. \Vith a. small number of
colonies there would be no danger. Of
couise, if the weather should turn warm.
,the cellar would have to be closed.

Bees consume considerable less honey
in a cellar than when wintered out of
doors, other things being equal. The
dead bees must be swept up and carried
from the cellar occasionally, and every-
thing kept sweet and clean, so as not to['
have foul air in the apartment. In early
spring, when the weather begins to warm
up, the bees will begin to show signs of
restlessness. They Should not, however,
be set out too soon. About the time of
soit maple bloom is about right in most
localities. F. G. HERMAN.

 
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2 Farmers’ Clubs

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Address all communications relative to
the organization of new Clubs to Mrs.
P Johnson. Metamora. Mich

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PROGRAM FOR TWENTY-FIRST AN.
NUAL MEETING.

 
Tuesday, December 2, 1913.
10:30 . .
Invocation—Rev. W. S. Steensma.
Payment of dues.
Presenting credentials.
Appointment of committees.
Presentation of resolutions.

1:30 P. M.

Music—School for the Blind.

Invocation-Rev. J. S Williamson.

Report of Associational Secretary, Mrs.
C P. Johnsom Hadley and Elba Farmers’
Club.

“As the City Man Views the Country
Man,” H. M. Nimmo, Editor of Detroit
Saturday Night.

“As the Country Man Views the City
Man.” Hon. A. B. Cook, Maple River
Farmers’ Club.

Music—School for the Blind.

”Some Phases of Agricultural Improve-
ment.” Dr. Eben C. Mumford of the U.
S. Agricultural Department.

7:00 P. M.
Music.

President’s address—J. N. McBride, of
Burton Farmers’ Club.

“About the Telephone System”——Hon.
Lawton E. Hemans, Mason.

Cornet Solo;—Prof. A. J. Clark. M, A. C.

“Side Lights on Farm Life”—Mrs. W.
H. Taylor. Ingham County Farmers’ Club.

Poem——C. K. Farley, Berlin and Almont
Farmers’ Club.

Cornet Solo—~Prof. Clark, M. A. C., Lan-
sing.

“Our State Charges who have Violated
the Law”—-Chapiain Jackson State Prison.
Wednesday, December 3.

8:00 A. M.

Conference of Local Club Workers, di-

rected by H. C. \\ hiting, Ray Farmers'
Club.
10:00 A. M.
RepOrt of Committees—
Temperance.

Honorary members.
Club extension.

Good of the Order.
Credentials.

National affairs.

State affairs.
MiSceilaneous business.

11:00 A M.
Election of Office: s.
1200 P. M.

Music.

Invocation—Rev. O. J. Price.

“The School Teacher"-——Miss Euretha
Bannister, Grand Rapids.

“Junior Clubs”——Cary A. Rowland, of
Charleston Township Farmers' Club.

Recitation-«Mrs. Clyde Newcomb, Lin-
coln Township Farmers‘ Club.

Vocal Solo—Rev. W. H. Thompson, Lan-
smg.

“The Country Church”—Rev. W. S.
Steensma. East Lansing.
Discussion. Mrs. Nettie Todd, North

Shade Farmers’ Club.
Wednesday Evening.

Music—Industrial School.

Treasurer’s report.

“The Building of a Virile Race”—Hon.
H. C. Glasner. Nashville.

Recitation—Mrs. C. A. Matthews, Essex
Farmers' Club.

Solo—R. C. Huston, M. A. C.

Paper~Miss Nora Braun, of Webster
Farmers’ Club.

Music—~lndustrial School.

“COurtesy and Politeness"—Mrs. C. S.
Barber, Lansing. Mich.

Thursday.

Visiting Agricultural College Industrial

School and School for the Blind

FARMERS’ CLUBS IN MINNESOTA.

 
(Continued from last week).

If one will stop to think of the nature
of these Club meetings and the programs,
he can easily See their value from an ed-
ucational viewpoint. The children and
younger people usually furnish the enter-
tainment features of these programs,
which consist of recitations. readings, and
music. Every parent is proud of his child
when he does well on the program, and
spends much time in training the child
for his part. The readings. recitations.
and music keep the younger people inter-
ested in the Club meetings and enliven
the program which would be too heavy
and dry if made up only of the discus-
sions of farm topics. The opening of the
main discussions on the program is. usu-
ally assigned to some member whois es-
pecially well informed on the subject un-
der discussion and can get the rest of
the people in the meeting to think on it.
Everyone knows that it is easier to follow
a good speaker than it is to open the dis~
cussion himSelf, and many people will add
good points who never could be persuad-
ed to open an argument.

In every community there are farmers
who' seem to be making more of'a. success
of some line of farming than their neigh-

.~ #1,;

hers and usually are backward in talking
about their business. But if these men
can be gotten on their feet during some
Club meeting and plied with questions
they will give a good talk and add much
to the general knowledge of the commu-
nity. If every community could make
general the knowledge which each indi-
vidual of the community has, it would
ndt need any outside help whatever and
would increase its efﬁciency a hundred
percent. Facts given by such men as
these are of untold value to the commu-
nity, as they are acquainted with local
conditions, and what they have done was
done in the community and can be re-
peated by any other man in the locality.
And after a little practice some of these
backward speakers become the best in
the Club. Nothing but practice can make
one a ﬂuent speaker.

Another educational feature of these
Clubs is their ability to bring in outside
talent which will add to the general in-
formation of the community. A Club may
be the means of bringing a farmers’ insti-
tute to its locality, and this community

-will stand a far better chance of getting

a good corps of workers than a commu-
nity without a. Club, as the institute sec-
retary is sure of the Club's interest in the
meetings and that the meetings will be
well advertised and attended. Many Clubs
have brought the ﬁrst institute to their
localities. The Club may decide to hold
a short course for a few days during the
winter. It can get a man and woman
from the Agricultural Extension Division
and invite the high school zigriculturists
from the high schools about them to help.
This force, with the local men who are in-
terested and can talk, will give an excel-
lent short course which will last for sev—
eral days and should be equal to or sur-
pass a. farmers' institute meeting.
(Continued next week).

        
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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
ﬁrst improved."

 
THE DECEMBER PROGRAMS.

 
State Lecturer's Suggestions for First
Meeting.

Song by Grange choir.

“Good will march" about the hall, with
singing.

Roll call of ofiice1s. responded to by each
naming one thing the Grange has ac-
complished during the past year.

Election of ofﬁcers for 1914.

Roll call of newly elected ofﬁcers. re-
sponded to by each with a word of greet-
ing or word of promise for the coming
year.

“Banquet march," led by ofﬁcers, pres—
ettit and newly-elected masters together,
9 c.

Closing song.

HELPING ONE ANOTHER IN GRANGE
ACTIVITIES.

There is a hint to those of us who are
put in places of Grange responsibility in
an incident related recently in The School
Journal. The article tells how, at the 0D-
ening of the fall term of a certain univer-
sity, the president sent a personal letter
to each member of his faculty asking his
co-operation in solving the problems which
arose in conducting the school. He wrote
in part:

“The success of our university in the
past has come as the result of the hearty
co-operation of all members of the fac-
ulty. The efﬁciency of the future will be
in direct proportion to the helpful con-
tributions made by faculty members. I
take this opportunity to invite you to
make suggeStions for improvements. * *
I need your help. I must have it if your
dreams and mine for this institution are
to be realized."

Does anyone doubt that any Grange
could be Strengthened by leadership such
as this—leadership that seeks co—operation
and suggestion 61‘ its co—workers? Think
what a power thirteen ofﬁcers of a Grange
might become. even in one year, by con-
ferring frequently together over ways in
which to overcome obstacles and to meet
difﬁcult situations! For my part I have
often wished that the Grange manual had
required that, whenever a feast is spread,
the officers should sit at one table and
talk concerning ways and means to im-
prove their own Grange. What force
would be engendered if the master and

overseer sat dOWn together for the ex— ,_

press purpOSe of planning how to begin
their Grange on time: or the master and
stewards diswssed methods of improving
the ritualistic work; or master and lec-
turer planned the programs together; or

THE'MICHIGA'NiFARMER

master, secretary and treasurer spent an
evening together in revising lists of mem-
bers, and making lists of people who are
eligible to membership in the vicinity, all
with the view in mind of making the
Grange organization grip them in some
worth-while way; or, what c0uld not be
done if all the ofﬁcers and members of
committees met in conference to discover
what deﬁnite things their Grange could
undertake for the distinct betterment of
the neighborhood. Such co—operation, in-
voked candidly. is dynamic in results. '

There comes to mind a. certain local
Grange where for years it' has been the
practice of its lecturer to seek very much
of this volunteer suggestion from other
ofﬁcers and members. Scarcely a pro-
gram in years has been planned without
a conference of from two to seven or
eight persons, and not infrequently a.
general call is made to the entire mem-
bership fOr topics and suggestions. This
simple—but all too 'unusualapractice
chieﬂy explains why this Grange is one
of the foremost in its state in program
work.

Let us suppose that this same Grange
should apply the same tactics to other
lines. It is interesting to speculate what
it might accomplish with this system of
frequent, frank conferences applied to the
department of ﬁnancial co-operation: to
the building of a hall; to the organizing
of farmers into other helpful groups for
the improvement of farm interests; to the
promotion of sociability or better recrea-
tions in the community. There is no rea-
son to suspect that the principle that
proves so good in one department would
not work well 111 others. JENNIE BUELL.

POMONA MEETING AND FAIR.

 
Shiawassee Pomona was recently enter-
tained by Perry Grange. the host planning
to combine the Pomona meeting with its
annual fair The plan worked well, the
exhibits surpassing those fxequently seen
at town or county fairs 1nd the attend-
ance proving very satisfactory. The ex-
hibits were placed in the town hall the
sisters’ part of the show comprising hand
embroidered bed 1i,ncn table 1unners cen-
tetrpieces with cxochet and tatting trim-
mings, punch work cobwebby laces. bat-
tenburg work sofa pillows and bedquilts,
together with a fine display of canned
fruits and vegetables. pickles. preserves
honey and baked goods In the se(tio11
devoted to fruits, grains and vegetables
were prize squashes weighing 30 lbs.: one
pumpkin of the common variety tipped
the beam at 461/; lbs; there were im-
mense beets, citrons and potatoes and
good specimens of all the vegetables now
in season. Some very ﬁne Rural New-
Yorker potatoes came from a ﬁeld which
yielded OVez
these together with a magniﬁcent display
of apples were among the exhibits re-
served with a view to placing them 011
exhibition at the State Grange meeting
at Flint next month. A large number of
Indian relics were shown by different
members and an interesting collection of
butterﬂies and moths was shown by G.
A. Scoﬁeld. Among the antiquities seen
were a bible printed in England in 178'.)
and brought to this country in 1829 by
Jas. Bridger; a book on anatomy printed
in 1775; a calf yoke made in 1850; a spin-
ning wheel and a number of old muskets.
A goat in a pen caused much amusement
as a sign over it invited. ”Join the Grange
and have a Free Ride."

A portion 0f the afternoon was given
up to an interesting program. State
MaSter Ketcham told what was being
done by other Granges and particularly
those in the remote northern sections of
the state where many subordinates are
being organized among the Finns. C. .
Miller, of M. A. 0.. described the advan-
tages offered by the short courses at the
College, while A. R. Potts told of the one-
week lecture courses planned to be given
in the country by men from M, A. C. He
explained that where there are 30 men
desiring such a course this service may
be obtained by each contributing $1. when
four lectures each day will be given on
any subject chosen. The primary school
pupils ﬁlled in the last half hour of the
afternoon with songs which were highly
appreciated. The evening was given over
to degree work performed by Perry
Grange and to a public meeting held in
the opera house.

 
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down—there is no C. O. l).—no lease nor mortgage. You keep your money right in your own pocket. -

Some people PRETEND to give you a free trial, but they ask you to give them your
money first. We are not afraid to let our separator speak for itself. Test the Mclotte Cream Separator in every
way, watch your proﬁts go up, watch the increase of the amount of cream, then, if.y0u do not believe that you
ought to have a cream separator, just send it back at our expense. If, however, you decide to keep the genuine

Mclotte, we will allow you to keep it on extremely easy
are so small that you will

monthly Pa yment hardly notice them. You only pay

out of your increased profits. You don't need to be without a cream separator when you can have the separator
right in your dairy house while you are paying for it. In reality you do not pay for it at all. It pays for itself.
That is what we want to demonstrate to you. We want to demonstrate and prove
beyond all peradventure that the Mclotte Cream Separator, does pay for itself. Only a few months’ use of a ”winged! m. h M . _ . _ .
Melotte Cream Separator and you will be satisfied that this statement is absolutely correct. A few months and iass—Viniao—r‘iigteiirizgilt' mall?" Fir“ Grand
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the separator has paid for itself. It does not cost you a penny because the increased amount of cream has paid hibition. First Prize.
for the machine. We don't want to tire you with a long discussion of how our cream separator is made here. 1898~London—First Prize. 1911—Brussels—Grand Prize

. . . . . 1900—1) ' .v
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One Mclotte has been running at Remincourt,
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work without appreciable wear. Think of it!
, Every part is made at the factory at Remin-
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The bowl hangs down and spins as though
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There is nothing to get out of alignment
, and wear out bearings. The bowl is lined with
—‘ special indestructible White enamel. The Me-
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World’s Grand Prize Winner

Here are a very few of the hundreds
of grand world’s prizes the Mclotte has won.
The entire list would cover this page:
1888—Brussels—International ISM—London Gold Medal and

Exhibition -— Progressive First Prize.
1904—St. Louis —First Prize.

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