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DEC. 20, 1913.





THE MICHIGAN FARMEVR





How I Made My Corn Crop.





By GRANT WINTERS.





While the bay and girl club movement is only just started in Michigan, the

members of a few boys’ corn clubs previously organized participated in a corn-

vgrowing contest this year, and the winner in this contest wil-l go to Washington

-to participate in the annual meeting of Winners in these contests 'to be held Dec.





11-18.





When it was determined that a Michigan boy would participate in this





educational trip the Michigan Farmer asked Dr. Mumford, Sta-te Leader of Farm

Management work in Michigan, to send for publication an account of the record

made by the winning boy as soon as same was available, together With a copy of

the boy’s story on how he grew the crop, which counts 20 points in the score on





which prizes are awarded.





In a recent communicatIOn Dr. Mumford states that





Grant Winters, o‘f Antrim county, aged 14 years, has been declared the winner in





the Michigan contest.





shelled corn, and his score in the contest was 91.62 out of_ a poseible 100.





His yield of corn on the a‘cre grown was 87.07 bushels of





One





other contestant, Roy Winters, aim of Antrim county, got a higher yield on his

acre (88.54 bushels of shelled corn) but as yield counted only 30 points the winner





overcame this handicap on the other points, which were as follows:





Best show-





‘ing of profit on investment, 30 points; beSt exhibit of 10 ears at county, district

or state fair, 20 points; best written history or account entitled, “How I made my





corn crop,” 20 points.





The winner’s- account of how he made his crop follows,





and on his return from Washington an account olf his trip. from his own pen, will





be pu-bliShed in our Magazine Section:

SELECTED an acre of land as near

I the house as I could get, on account

of the crows. They are very trouble-

some. My father planted three acres of

corn and they pulled it mostly all up and

then he filled in the vacant hills and they

pulled it up again and then he had to

plant'the ground to beans. They bothered

mine some. The land had been cropped

for some time and it was not very good

corn land. It had grown millet the year

_ before. '

Preparation of Seed Bed.



I plowed my land about the~first of May

and dragged it to keep the moisture. I

then marked it out and put six tons of

manure on my ground in the furrows that

I plowed out with the plow and horses. I

did not have enough to put broadcast. or

course, this took some more time to do

that way. I would not advise you to do

this way; if you could get plenty to

spread on all the land it woulld not be so

expensive. The soil was plowed back

again. This process ,got it in good shape.

I smoothed it down with a float and then

I marked it again for planting. I set out

stakes so as not to lose the lines.



Fertilizers.



As I have said I used barnyard manure

and no commercial fertilizer; I did not

have the money to buy it.



Seed.



Seed corn could not be found near my

home that would promise good, so I

worked a day for my uncle and earned a

dollar and sent to Petoskey. a place 50

miles north of my home, and got Mur-

‘ dock’s yellow dent, a variety that adapts

itself to a change in locality. I did not

test. It came shelled and they guaran-

teed 90 per cent test and it grew good

and I had a good stand. But another year

I will not have to send away for my seed

as I have it saved from the standing

corn.



Planting.



I planted May 28. I wanted to plant

earlier but the weather was cold and wet.

1 had worked too hard for good seed corn

to plant it and let it rot. I marked my

ground in the row and then planted from

16 to 18 inches apart in the row and then

three grains in the hill. After it came up

and got large enough to tell the best stalk

1 thinned it to one stalk in a hill. If this

is done at the right time you will not

have many poor ears in your field. I

missed two rows in thinning and I had a.

lot of nubbins on the two rows.



' Cutivation.



As soon as I got it planted I Went over

it with the spike harrow. I finished at

night and I got up at four o’clock in the

morning to keep the crows off until I

could get it dragged before I went to

school. Then after awhile I dragged it

again/ and then I cultivated seven times.

First I cultivated deep to loosen up the

soil and let the roots get a start and then

I did not go so deep but used a sweep

cultivator all summer. and Went twice in

a row three times. Then I hoed it. I

learned a lesson when I hoed it the last

time. I was trying to get out a little

bunch of quack gram and I cut off some

brace roots and it blew down and my

father showed me my mistake. Then, of

course, the corn fell over after the ears

got heavy on it. But I learned a lesson

and the weeds did not live in my corn

field. I cultivated it as long as I could

to keep it growing and ripening up. I

did not go very close so as not to hurt

the roots. I only went once in a row.





Harvesting.



I cut my corn and shocked it up into

66 shocks. I changed work with my fath-

er for it was hard work to tie it up good,

as I am not a very large boy for my age.

The frost did not hurt the fodder. I

helped dig potatoes and pick apples and

he helped me husk. I have selected sev-

eral ibushels of good seed corn while

husking and will have it for sale in the





spring for the farmers who neglected to

save their seed corn. I have saved the

fodder and sold it to my papa for $15. I

had 110 bushels of corn and I am going to

be a corn club boy another year and try

not to make so many mistakes.

SAGINAW COUNTY SCHOOL FAIR

AND FARM BUREAU EXHIBIT.





 





Aleng in the spring of 1913 County

School Commissioner Tefft first entertain-

ed the idea of having some kind of a

school fair or exhibition in the fall. This

matter did not take a very definite form

at that time, but announcement was made

in the schools and through the farm bu-

reau, that an opportunity would be given

the school children to exhibit what they

grew or made, or what they selected from

the crops on their fathers’ farms.



Nothing was positively assured for

prizes, and all 'the inducement offered the

children to undertake the work was that

ribbons would be given for the first and

seCOnd premiums. It was further stated

that if any money was available from

gate receipts, or other sources, after ex-

penses were paid, it would be apportiOned

among the prize winnerS. As soon as

school opened in the fall assurances came

from every part of the county that the

parents and children were taking great

interest in the fair. A‘ccordingly plans

were perfected for holding the same at

Riverside Park, a beautiful spot on the

banks of the Tittaba'wassee river near

Saginaw. The dates chosen were Friday

and Saturday, October 3-4.





Those responsible for the success of the

fair hoped that two or three thousand

people might attend. It was thOught that

that many might be expected if the

weather was fair. To get as. many chil-

dren as possible interested, they were

admitted free and adults were charged

ten cents. There Were no charges for

making exhibits. Opportunity was given

local merchants and manufacturers to

display their goods, and arrangements

were made with concerns handling mod-

ern school apparatus and sanitary equip—

ment to demonStrate the same. All of

these commercial exhibits were intereSt-

ing and instructive, but two or three

merit special mention because they con-

tributed largely to the pleasure of the oc-

casion.

and very attractive exhibit of dahlias and

gladioli by a local firm, and the others

were by music dealers of the city, who

furnished music. ‘



The attendance and number of entries

surpassed all expectation. No fewer than

5,000 people were present on the two

days. And if anybody was disappointed

because they came they certainly did not

make it known. A more wliolesomely

happy crowd would be hard to find.

There was not a single objectionable fea—

ture on the grounds. Permission was

granted a local vaudeville company to

give a clean show in the casino, but there

was so much else to see that the com-

pany fared very badly indeed, scarcely

making expenses Experience has proven

the wisdom of eliminating this feature,

since people come to see the fair and are

not interested in theaters.



The program of entertainment and

races which had been arranged, delighted

the people. Songs and folk dances by

pupils of some of the country schools,

and races by the tots of the kindergar—

ten, all won applause. The present Sup-

erintendent of Public Instruction, the'n

Deputy Superintendent, Fred L. Keelcr,

and Prof. W. H. French, of M. A. 0.,

spoke interestingly on educatioual topics.

They had the close attention of the peo-

ple. These special exercises did not take

a very long time and visitors turned their

footsteps in the direction of the buildings

which sheltered the agricultural exhibits

and theschool work. Here they lingered,

'to examine and ask questions.





One of these was an extensive'





Even a general description of this chief

'part of the fair, which would do justice

to all that was to be seen there, would be

too lengthy for corisideration here, but

mention will be made of some features of

it which seem of greatest significance.

Nearly 500 premiums Or honorable men-

tion cards were given. The corn show,

which contained a large number of en-

tries, was ably judged by Prof. Grover,

of the M. A. C. Other farm products and

samples of school work 'were judged by

local people. After corn, potatoes were

next in point of quality and quantity, al-

though thee was a splendid display of

fruit that attracted much attention. The

city school gardens furniShed a variety

of very fine vegetables, and some novel—

ties, among them being cotton plant, flax

and home-grown peanuts. In fact, the

purpose of this fair as an educational in-

stitution was well carried out, as there

were a good many unusual and interest-

ing things shown. Maps, drawings. paint-

ings, nature study work. needle work and

manual training exhibits of more than

usual merit were entered. There was so

much in this department and all of it of

such excellence, that it was indeed a

task for the judges to pla‘ce the awards

fairly. It was no disgrace to lose in such

company.



It is impossible to meaSure the results

of this effort. It was undertaken as an

experiment to determine the feeling of the

people with reference to it. So ready was

their responSe that there now exists no

question as to the demand for such an

exhibit. Everybody who had anything to

do with it agrees that it was a glowing

success. Exhibitors, visitors and mana-_

gers express themselves as well pleased.

Assurances from all parts of the county.

from people who did not exhibit this year,

indicate that probably more than twice

a: many people will take part in the next

fair. Children are taking a greater in-

terest in the agricultural work.



The experience of the first year indi-

cates where improvement can he made.

For instance, a complete classification will

be made, which will make the task of

judging much easier and also help the

exhibitors to decide what to enter. The

purpose of the fair as an educational ll:-

stituticn is hep; prominently in mind.

'Iu‘ncourage-meat is given the children to

employ their time through the summer

in raising scmtihing to exhibit. This Is

accomplished by offering special prizes

for an account of their “p'oject.” N0

provision was made at the first school fair

for poultry or other farm stock, although

a half dozen entries were made. The

interest in this department proves the

wisdom of making it a prominent feature

next year. In fact there are many sug-

gestions which will be carried out, to

make the school fair the biggest and best

event of the school year.



Saginaw Co. EARL P. ROBINSON.





 





SOIL AND FERTILIZER QUESTIONS.





 





»Applylng Lime in Winter.



Have just finished plowing six acres,

which I will seed to alfalfa next spring.

Have tested the soil and find that it

needs lime. One of my neighbors and

myself are thinking of getting a carload

of lime. “7e want to get the lime and

draw it home-this winter. \Vould there

’be any waSte by drawing and spreading

on ground in winter where it has been

fall-plowed? If not practical to spread

in winter would like to haul and pile in

field. VVhic‘h would be the better way?

How much limestone would you advise

putting on per acre?



Mason CO. M. D. Y.





As long as your land is fall-plowed it

would be perfectly safe to draw the lime

and spread it on the land. It would hard-

ly be advisable to draw the lime and

spread it on the land and then plow it

under. because the lime leaches down

into the sub—soil soon enough without

plowing it down. Put the lime 0n the

surface. But unless the land should waSh

this winter so that some of the soil and

lime would be washed off from the field

you will lose nothing by applying it. It

wil be just as wr-Il to apply it during the

winter time as it would be to wait until

spring.



How Much Lime to Apply.



The amount of lime to apply for alfalfa

is something that has not yet been deter-

mined, and, of course, it cannot be de—

termined with any degree of accuracy be-

cause one does not know how badly the

soils need lime. Some soils don’t need

any lime at all. They have a clay su-b-

soil that is full of lime, and there is no

need of applying more. On the other

hand, there are othersoils that are do-

ficient in lime, they are acid in reaction.

Now alfalfa needs quite a little bit of

lime as a fertilizer; besides, it needs an

alkaline soil: that is. the soil should have

an alkaline reaction inS'tead of an acid re-





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action. If your soil is" acid you should

not only apply lime enough to correct the

acidity but leave some in the ground for

future use of the plant and for the cor-

rection of the acidity as it is produced

along from the decaying of organic mat-

tei‘. Possibly 500 lbs. of finely ground

limestone to the acre would correctthe

acidi-ty. It might take 1.000 lbs. Then

500 le. more might do for the alfalfa for

a year or two. It depends on how long

you intend to leave this alfalfa. It un-

doub‘tedly would pay you to put on at

least a ton of ground limestone per acre,

and if you intend to leave the alfalfa

down several years probably while you

are at it you had better put on two tons

per acre. Governor Hoa;d advises four

and five tons per acre. and Joe \Ving says

that there is no danger of getting on any

too much.

Mix the Fertillz'er with the Soil.



We see in your issue of the 22nd that

you advise J. W. \V., of Lenawee county,

to sow his fertilizer two to three weeks

before he plants his corn; now do you

advise using a fertilizer distributor or a

fertilizer grain drill and put the fertilizer

in the ground?



\Vashtehaw Co. SUBSCRIBER.



If the fertilizer is applied with a fer-

tilizer diStributor on top of the ground

the land Should be harrowcd soon after-

wards to mix the fertilizer with the soil.

Of course, if it is put on with a fertilizer

drill it is mixed with the mil at once. Rl't

the idea in all cases where the fertilizer

is applied several days or a few weeks

before the crop is plantcd, it is put on

and then the field is fitted, that is, har-

rowed and cultivated and prepared for

the crop. In this way the fertilizer is

di tributed all through the soil so that

the plants can get it whcn they need it.

In many instances we do not get results

with fertilizer simply because of the poor

distribution in the soil. livcn and thor-

ough distribution is one of the prime fac-

tors ‘in getting results with commercial

fertilizer. Applying it so that it can be

dissolved in the soil moisture is very im-

portant, because plants only get their

food out of a solution; that is, the food

must be fi.‘>‘t dissolved in the soil mois—

ture before the plants can use it. In oth-

er words, the plants need soup. Prob-

ably plants never have indigestion. for it

is said that if animals would chew their

food until it is made into soup in the

mouth before it is swallowed there 'would

never be any such thing as indigestion.

I’ndoubtcd'ly most Amt-ricans do not give

plenty of time to eating; they are in too

big a. hurry.

Value of Muck as a M'anure for Sandy



Land.

I have considerable muck land which I





am draining with open ditches. My up

land is a sandy loam. I am drawing the

muck from ditch banks onto up land





(after it has been plowed) at the rate of

40 loads per acre, spreading it as it is

drawn. In spring will disk several times

and plant to corn. VV’hat is the value of

a load of muck as a fertilizer as com-

pared to a load of barnyard manure, and

what kind of commercial fci'tilizer should

I use? In your opinion will the above be

a profitable investment? ““ould like to

’hear from other parties who have used

muck on sandy soil.



Mecosta Co. P. D, Q.



Ordinary muck contains about as much

nitrogen as barnyard manure, but the

nitrogen is very inert in form. Most all

muck has acid reaction. It has been

watersoaked so long that the nitrogen is

in a very unavailable- foi'm and it is very

low in phosphoric acid and potash. Rarn-

yard manure contains millions of bacteria

which when applied are added to the soil,

and they at once go to work to change

the Organic matter of the soil into such

a form that the plants can use it. Muck

has no bacteria to speak of, and if it has

bacteria they certainly haven’t the prop—

crties of converting organic matter into

available plant form. Now it would be

extremely difficult to say what the value

of this. muck would be compared to burn-

yard manure. Possibly it is worth half

as much as barnyard manure, yet I doubt

it. Yet there is no questIOn but what if

this muck were mixed with sandy soil it

would improve the mechanical condition

of the sandy so-il,.and of course it does

add some available plant food. This muck

if it had been weathered, frozen and

thawed, subject to the action of the ele-

ments for six months or a year. would be.

more available, and 'by mixing it with the

sand of course it will have this action

and the nitrogen will become available.

If it is necessary to haul away the muck

that is thrown out of the open drain to

get it out of the way, undoubtedly it will

pay to put it on this sandy land. On the

other hand, if it is thrown back and lev-

eled off, it might be worth more on the

muck land than it would in the sand. It

is a question whether it would pay to

haul it and distribute it over the sand.



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VARIATION OF MILK TEST.





 





\Vill a cow test more when fed on dry





is there no change in test?

Lupeer Co. J. C. F.





A change of feed makes no difference

in the per cent of bu'tter-ii‘zit which the

icow puts into her milk. The richness of

the milk is the individuality of the cow

and you can't change it by changing the

feed. If this could be done then people

would feed Holstein cows a ration so that

they would give- milk just as rich as Jer-

seys or Guernsey's. Different individuals

of the same breed of cows give milk of

different richnese. For instance, two Jer-

sey cows standing side by side in the

same barn and fed the same ra'tion, car-

cd for in exactly the same way, give d'f-

:f'e-renlt tests. One- of them will give 4.2

per cent milk, while the other will give

6.5 per cent milk, so that feed, speaking

generally, has nothing to do with the

test. It might be that if you would

change the feed from dry feed to corn

silage all art on‘ce- that temporarily there

would 'be a change and the cow would.

give eitiher richer or poorer milk, possibly

poorer milk, but if the change is made

gradually there would be no variation in

the milk test. But when the cow is used

to the corn silage ration and gets back to

her limit, she should give the same per

cent of butter-fat that she did ordi-

narily.





CU‘LL BEANS FOR cows AND HOGS.





 





rITcan buy cull beans. kiln—dried last

year’s beans or this year’s stock, for $15

per ton. I have been using some and I

mix t'wo :bags of outs to one of beans.

\V-hat would you add to that for milch

cows? Have silage, dry cornstalks, some

'bezin straw and mixcd hay to feed. XVou'rl

nut tl‘a't be gold feed fer pigs to mix

some corn and grind? I can get browers’

grains and buttermilk to mix with it.



St. Clair 00. M. D. B.



If you can get your cows to eat as

much of this mixture of beans and oats

us they require I don‘t think you Will]

need any other kind of grain at all. I

don’t think you can better this ration so

far as: balancing up a ration for your

cows is concerned. Usually cows don't

like bean meal very well and they refuse

to eat any considerable quantity of it,

but if you have got your cows so that

they will eat the bean meal, and it is

largely a matter of habit more than any-

thing else. I am satisfied that they will

do well on it. There isn’t any reason

why cows should not relish bean meal

ju 't as well as pea meal. The only rea-

son is because they have never had any

of it to eat ard it is a new thing. If

you can gradually get them to like bean

meal and will mix tw'o bags of oats to

one bag of beans and grind them I don’t

'believe you can get any better grain

feed. It isn’t necessary .to buy any c0t~

ionsecd meal or gluten feed or any other

kind of feed to balance this ration. \Vith

silage, -co:nstnlk:4, nud mixed hay to feed

for roughage, and this grain, you ought

to get as good results as you could with

any ration that you could compound.

Good dairy cows ought to have three-

fourths of a pound, 01‘ perhaps a pound,

of this grain mixture for every pound of

butter—fat that they produce in a week.

For instance, if a cow produced 10 lbs.

of butter-fat in a week then She ought to

have 10 lbs. of grain mixture a day, and

this, divided into two feeds, feeding her

five pounds in the morning and five

pounds at night. If they only give a

very little milk and produce only a small

amount of butter-fat then feed grain ac-

cordingly.





but the trouble of it is, the average hog

won’t eat bean meal or raw beans. The

beans must be cooked and then they will

cut them and relish them. This may be

largely a maitter of habit with the pigs

also. Perhaps you can get your pigs 30

That they will eat raw bean meal. I tried

bean meal to feed pigs last winter. They

will pick out every other portion of the

grain in the ration and leave the bean

meal in the trough. They didn”t seem

to like it at all—«they wouldn"t eat it. Per-

haps if we had starved them to it we





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do this beceuSe I wanted them to gain.

But if you had a feed boiler so that you





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then mix your other grain with them you

need any other protein. You

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Bouns are a good feed for growing hogs~





,or gluten feed, or anything of ..i;'hat soul,





because there is a sufficient amount of





protein in the beans to make growth with

the hogs. However, if y0u can get but-

termilk Ito mix with the boiled beans and

the other grains you would be fortunate

indeed. There is nothing better than

corn to feed with buttermilk and beans.

Such a. c0m|pound makes a. splendid food

for Ihogs. You can usually buy buttermilk

at a price that makes a. cheap food, and

hogs will do better with buttermilk or

skim-milk in the slop than they will with-

out. It is natural food for them.





SWEET CORN FOR SILAGE.





 





I had a talk with a. man from a. dairy

neighborhood and he adv'ised sweet corn,

Country Gentleman, or some other large

sweet corn. for silage. As it is all sweet.

to the ground and other com has a. large

pithy stock, much bulk and no substance,

'his arguments seems reasonable. He says

he can grow four times as much to the

acre- and therefore keep four times as

many cows. He has two silos. one for

corn and one for alfalfa, and feeds corn

morning and night and alfalfa at noon.

and next week alfalfa morning and night

and corn at noon, and does not feed





grain.



C'h-arlevoix C0. J. J.



My firm opinion is that your friend from

a dairy neighborhood is exaggerating the

virtues of SWeet corn for silage. In the

first place, I never could raise as many

tons of sweet corn to the acre as I could

dent corn. 1 have tried it several times.

I never could get as good a germination

with sweet corn seed as I could with dent

corn. and therefore could not get as good

a stand, and I never could get as vigor-

ous a growth of Sweet. corn as I could

of dent corn. Years ago I made silage

out of sweet corn and I didn’t like it as

well, nor the cows didn’t like it as Well,

as the silage made out of dent (torn.

There is so much sugar in sweet corn

that when you evnsilo it there is so much

acid generated by the fermentation that

you have got a sour silage. It is all right

and they will do pretty well on it, but

they don’t: like it as well as they do nice

pure dent corn silage. State experiment

stations have had this same experience

with silage mode from SWeet corn. You

can put it down as a fact. that SrWeet corn

doesn’t make as high-grade silage as

good dent corn will. You can put it down

as another:- fact that you can’t, on The

average. raise as many tons of silage to

the were with sweet corn as you can with

denlt corn.



Alfalfa and corn silage will make a

balanced ration so far as food nutrients

are concerned, but you can’t get as good

results from an entirely bulky ratio-n like

this as you can where you feed less of

the bulk and a little grain. Animals will

do better if a part of their ration is a

concentrated ration.





A BALANCED RATION WITHOUT

CLOVER HAY.





 





I am a reader of the Michigan Farmer.

and would like your advice in regard to

balanced ration for milch cows. I have

small Jersey cows and am feeding,r good

ripe com silage. all they will eat. and

ground oats and corn. three bags of oats

'to one of shelled corn, and 100 lbs. of

bran. I feed corn-stalks for roughage. Is

cob meal of any value for feeding stock?



Lenawee C0. G. S.



If you had clover 0r alfalfa hay so that

you could feed it once a day with the

ration you mention. I would say that you

had almost a perfect ration. \Vithout

either of these feeds. I should judge that

the ration is a little bit deficient in pro-

tein. Just simply cornsrtalks for rough-

age is really not enough variety for cows

to do their best. Cornstalks: are a good

feed and ought to be used, of course, but

where you have nothing else for roughage

only cornsta‘lks, they get rather monoto-

nous to the cow. She don't like them so

well as she would if you had col‘nS'talkS

once a day and clover hay once a day.

It is a good deal like asking yourself to

eat potatoes and salt pork three times a

dingy. You could do it and do well upon

it, but it is not as a'p'pe‘tizing as where

you have a variety. But a grain ration

composed of three bags of oats and one

bag of shelled corn and 100 lbs. of wheat

bran is a good grain ration. lit is hard to

beat. If you only 'had clover hay once

a day I would say that you could not im-

prove nthlis ra‘tlon. But without the clover

hay you need more protein and I would

advise the purchase of either cottonseed

meal, gluten feed, o‘il meal, or brewers’

grain and feed a slight amount of this,

say a pound a. day to ealch cow. If you

can get cull beans and coax your cows to

eat bean meal you would have a cheaper

ration than one containing'the products

above mentioned. if the cows will eat

the beans. and I think they will after a

little coaxing, they will do well upon

them. They are \a good food.



There is practically no feeding value in





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corn cob meal. , If you areu‘golng to feed

corn alone as a‘grain'ra-tion, I should any

that it. would pay to grind the cob and

all [because it will give more bulk to the

grain. Corn meal alone is a heavy, sog—

gy grain. It is not bulky enough. There

isn't bulk enough to it for good feeding. It

ought to be mixed with bran or with

oats, but if you have no oats or bran and

want to feed the corn alone then I think

it Would pay to grind cab and all because

it will lighten up the food and will keep





it from setting in masses in the animal's ‘





stomach, and I think you will get better

digestion and assimilation and get more

out of the corn, but as long as you have

oats and bran to feed with the corn meal

I should say that the corn cob would be

absolutely worthless in the food.



WEIGHT OF SILAGE—WHAT GRAIN



TO BUY.





 





About how many tons ofsi'lage is there

in our silo? Its diameter is ten feet and

at the time of filling, albout the middle of

September it contained about 28 ft. of

silage. It has settled three or four feet.

“'9. have not opened the silo yet and

expect of course, that some is spoiled.

Our corn got quite dry before we got our

silo up. We had a good stream of Water

running in the blower continually while

filling, also two and part of the time

three men in the silo with distributor. Is

40 or 50 lbs. of silage per day a good lib—

eral amount for a cow? We have clover

hay-bean fodder and Wheat straw for

roughage and as we have got to buy

grain, what would you advise with this

combination? Most of our neighbors use

cottonseed meal at $32 per ton,



Allegian Co. L. L. N.





On the average it is figured that a

cubic foot of silage will weigh-t 40 lbs. A

cubic foot will weigh more in a. large silo

than in a small one. For instance. in a.

ten-foot silo you con’t get the ensilage

'to settle as rwell as you can in a larger

one, there is proportionally more friction

on the sides. But figuring the silage 20

feet deep in this silo and figuring 40 lbs.

to the cubic foot ther'c would be about 30

or 35 tons of silage. if it is ten feet in

diameter there would be about 85 square

feet in the surface and this, multiplied by

the depth of 20 would give 1,660 cubic

.feet of silage, and 40 lbs. to the cubic

foot would make 66,400 lbs., or between

30 and 35 tons. If you had covered the

top of the silage after it was smoothed

off. with about a half-inch deep of com-

mon salt you would not have had any loss

at all. ‘



Undoubtedly your neighbors are right

in feeding cottonseed meal in connection

With the corn silage and the ordinary

roughage. There is no source of d'iges‘

tible protein as cheap as that contained

in cottonseed meal. If you don’t feed too

much cottonseed meal it is a splendid

food. I have said a great many times

that I Wouldn’t want to feed over two

pounds of cottonseed meal per day per

c‘ow. but I know that down south they

feed much more than this and seem to

have no injuriOus results: From my ex—

perience and observation I would stick to

the rule to feed two pounds of cottonseed

meal a day and then if you want to add

more grain, feed wheat bran, and if you

have got good dairy cows you can feed

enough grain in this proportion so that

each cow is getting three—fourths of a

pound of grain to every pound of but-

ter-fat produced in a week, or a pound of

grain to every three or four pounds of

milk produced in a day.





COWS ABORTl NG.





 





Have two cows that have aborted.

Would you advise me to sell them or can

they be cured?



Kent C0. G. H. T.





Af'ter cows have aborted two or three

times they become immune and will not

abort again. Sometimes, however, they

fail to breed. One is not sure from two

cases of abortion that you have contagi-

ous abortion, but it is suspicious. Many

cows abort from various causes, others

have contagious abortion. If you have

contagious abortion the only remedy I

know or is disinfection thoroughly and

persistemtly. Disinfect the cows every

day, the stables and everything. Irrigalte

the cows after abortion, with permanga~

Irate of potash, etc. Consult your local

veterinarian.





 





It is an unfortunate fact that so many

cattle feeders have been marketing their

holdings much too soon, many shipments

having been made. long before the cattle

Were properly finished. In many cases

the cattle should have been kept on feed

fully 60 days longer. 'Fortunately for

stookmen, the autumn was unusually

mild and pleasant. and this went a long

way in counteracting the dearness of

feed, as the cattle required much less

corn than in other years, so that a big

saving of corn resulted._ ,Where stock—

men have the corn. and also have hogs

to follow the cattle. they should make





their cattle at least reasonably fat before

marketing them.





 





 





 





 





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THE INTERNATIONAL.





 





The Grand Champion Steer.





The grand champion fat steer at this

year’s International was a grade Angus

of :wonderful quality and finish, as will be

readily seen from the accompanying out.

He was bred by his exhibitor, J. 1). Mc-

Gregor, of ‘Brandon, Manitoba, who also

won last year’s grand championship with

a half—brother of this steer, as well as

the reserve championship with this steer.

Glencarnolck Victor 2nd was sired by Gol-

den Gleam and out Of the same dam as

Glencarnock Victor, last year’s champion,

his granddam being an ordinary red nurse

cow. Three facts are worthy of special

comment in connection with the victory

of this s‘teer. First among these is that

'he is a winner that “came back”, and

with high lhonors. Second, he was finish-

cd without the USe of corn, being fattened

on feeds grown in NorthweStern Canada,

'barley and oats being the principal grains

used. Third, he was fed by a 17-year-old

boy, Harry Bowman, who had cared for

him since he was a calf and whom the

steer’s owner would not permit to be de-

prived of the privilege of caring for him

to the finish. In the work of feeding the

boy was advised by a competent herds-

man but was himself largely responsible

for the finish in which the steer was

shown. Barley, cooked or ground with

oats, was the principal grain ration fed,

with a little ground flax or oil meal ad—

ded. Turnips, green oats and successive

sowings of pasture with sheaf oats and

barley and prairie hay as the roughage in

the ration made up the feeds which con-

tributed to the carrying over and finish-

ing of this great steer. \Vhile entered as

a senlior yearling Glencarnock Victor was

two years old at the date of the show,

and tipped the scales at 1,470 lbs. He

was so pre-eminently good that the

Scotch judge, J. ii. Campbell, deliberated

but a few minutes as between the chains

pious by ages before making the award.



Glencarnock Victor 2nd was not sold at

auction as is the usual custom with In—

ternational winners. Instead he will be

taken back to (‘anada and used for edu-

cational purposes on a demonstration

train, after which he 'will be slaughtered

and his carcass used at a. great barbecue

which will be given at Brandon by the

successful exhibitor.



The reserve champion was Bright Boy,

a fine Hereford calf. bred and fed by Jas.

Price, of LaCrosse. \\'isconsin.



The Breeding Classes.





This department of the Show was a

magnificent spectacle, with a larger num-

‘ber of entries than usual, and of a qual-

ity and finish which affordcd patrons a

liberal education in the matter of type

and finish desirable in the several breeda‘.



In the cattle exhibits the Shorthorns

were, as usual. the most numerous. This

breed also furnished the ringside sensa-

tion of the show in the great bull. Ring-

master, exhibited by White & Smith, of

Minnesota, who again defeated all com-

ers for the grand championsmp of the

breed, this being the fourth purple rib-

bon which he has won in Open competi-

tion at the international. Although now

past t'iVe years old, he “came back" in

the pink of condition and was again an

easy winner. The exhibits of dairy Short-

horns also attracted much attention and

with the organization of a national breed

association it; thc patrons of this type

they seem bound to become a more prom—

nent factor in future shows of this de-

servedly popular breed.



The Angus breed was second in point

of numbers and the entries were of such

uniformly good quality as to attract uni-

versal attention.



Herefords came next with a. large and

attractive exhibit, and there was a good

representation of Galloways, Polled Dur-

hams and Red Polls.



The exhibit of breeding sheep was not

large in some departmentS, but the popu-

lar mutton breeds were much in evidence

and the exhibits were fully up to the

high International standard of quality.



The breeding swine cl’asSes were well

filled, especially by the lard and general

pui'pOse breeds, with a. good representa-

tion of the bacon breeds.



The Michigan exhibits showed up well

in all these departments and their failure

to land championship honors was no dis-

credit in the company in which they ap-

pcared.



The Horse Show was easily the best





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ever put up in America, 'in the opinion

of competent judges. The Percherons led

in point of number as USual, with a large

and about even representation of Clydes,

Shires and Belgians, and several stables

of Suffolks.



NATIONAL BREED MEETINGS HELD



AT THE INTERNATIONAL.





 





American Berkshire Association.



The annual meeting was held on Tues-

day, December 2, at the Stock Yards Inn.

Dr. V. Hawkins, olf Fawn Grove, Pa., and

Wyman Lovejoy, of Roscoe, 111. were

elected as directors. The officers will re-

main the same as last year until the first

directors’ meeting, at which all routine

business will be transacted. An increase

of about 20 per cent over 1912 has occur-

red in the business of the Association.



Continental Dorset Club.



The annual meeting was held in the

Record Building, at the Stock Yards, on

Tuesday evening, December 2. Officers

elected for the ensuing year were as fol-

lows: President, Harry Wheeler, Elburn,

111.; vice-president, H. H. Cherry, Xenia,

Ohio; second vice-president, S. S. Schaef-

fer, New-castle, Pa, secretary-treasurer,

J. E. Wing, MechaniCSburg, Ohio. Here-

after flock books will be sold at COHt in-





MICHIGAN FARMER





sion of ways and means for improving

the organization. Officers elected were:

President, Geo. R. Crouch, Lafayette,

Ind.; vice-president, Eli Sprunger, Sagi-

naw, M-ich.; secretary-treasurer, J. D.

Connor, Jr., Wabash, Ind. Directors, A.

L. Wilson, Creston, Ohio, and Henry

W'olif, Wabash, Ind. Treasurer’s report

shOWed a balance of $6,754 on hand. ‘



National Lincoln Sheep Breeders’ Asho-



ciatlon.



There was a large attendance of mem-

bers at the annual meeting held at the

Stock Yards, “'ednesday, December 3.

Following a general di9cussion of the fu-

ture prospects, the following officers were

elected: President, F. H. Nicl, Lucan,

Ont.; vice-president, David C‘oupar, Mar-

iette, Mich; secretary-treasurer, Bert

Smith, Charlotte, Mich. Directors, J. T.

Letlrbridge, Alliance, Ont., and C. J.

Fielder, De Graft, Ohio.



American Rambouiiiet Sheep Breeders’



Association.



At the annual meeting held \Vednesday

evening, December 3, many breeders in—

dulged in a general discussion and elect-

ed officers as follows: President, R. A.

Jackson, Dayton, “Wash; vice-president,

F. S. King, Laramie, VVyo.; secretary,

Dwight Lincoln, Milford Centre, Ohio;

treasurer, E. L. Davis, Flint, Mic‘h. Di-

rectors, F. R. Cook, Belle Fourche, South

Dakota; John E. Webb, Southport, Ind.,

and L. W. Shaw, P'atterS'burg, Ohio.



White Swine Breeders Congress of



America.



A love feast at which the several Ches-

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stead of giving them to members. An

increaSe of 235 members over 1912 was

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Percheron Society of America.



At the annual meeting President Nave

stated that the membership had increased

709 during the year. Present member-

ship bein-g 5.540. A total of 9,754 certifi-

cates of pedigree were recorded during

the fiscal year. This number is 378 less

than last year, but surpasses all previous

years with the one exception. Of the an-

imals recorded, 7,819 were American bred

and 1,395 imported. Transfers numbering

6,452 were issued during the year.

Ameican Aberdeen-Angus Association.



Nearly 100 breeders wcre present at the

T'hirtieth Annual Meeting held at Chica-

go International week. It devcloped at

this meeting that there is considerable

interest in the making of a dairy class

for Angus cattle. There was a lively dis-

cussion on the subject, but no action was

taken. Directors elected were: L. H. La-

mar, Storm Lake, Ia.; Rev. J. C. \Vhitc,

Perry, 1a., and \\'m. IV. \Vilson, Muncie,

Ind. Officers elected were, John D. EV—

ans. president, Sugar Grove, 111.; Chas.

Gray, secretary, Stock YardS, Chicago;

C. J. Marlin, treasurer, Jefferson, Iowa.





American Galloway Breeders’ Association.



An optimistic discussion of the breed

occurred at the annual meeting held on

\Vednesd-ay evenling, December 3, by the

large attendance of members present.

Three directors were elected as follows:

Vi. W. Straub, Avoca, Nebr.: O. H. Swi-

gert, South Bend, Ind., and J. F. Me-

serve, Ellis, Kans. The officers will be

chosen at a directors’ meeting to be held

later.



American Belgian Horse Association.



The American Association, importers

and breeders of Belgian horses, was held

Wednesday evening, December 3. A fea-

ture of the meeting was a lively discus-





Congress, the purpose being to better the.

breed and bring about harmony among

breeders. A universal score card which will

doubtless be adOpted by all the CheSter

White Associations was arranged by the

more than 200 breeders in attendance.

Officers elected were: I. T. Cummings,

Xenia, Ohio, president; C. R. Doty,

Charleston, 111., vice-president; F. J.

\Vade, \Veston, Ohio, secretary; J. N.

Bradshaw, Lamar, Ill., treaSurer.



American Hampshire Sheep Breeders' As-



sociation.



Nothing of importance except election

of officers o-ccurrcd at the annual meeting

December 3. The breeders present were

enthusiastic at the results of the year.

The treasurer’s report showed a balance

of $2,378 on hand. Officers elected were:

President, F. J. ilagcnbarth. Spencer.

Idaho; vice—president, IV. C. Cavan, Chi-

cago, 111.; second vice-presnlcnt, F. M,

Benham, Caniai'idaigua, N. Y.; third Vice-

president, John NaSh, Tipton, Ind.; sec-

etary-treasurer, C. A. Tyler, Cold-water,

Mich.



American Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso—



ciatlon.



At the annual meeting held at the Con-

gress Hotel, at: Chicago, \I'ednesday ev-

ening, December 3, twa directors were

re-elected as foll'ou'S: James Brown, of

Chicago, Ill., and J. H. Prather, IVil-

liamsville, Ill. Frank Schofield, of Hills-

boro, Texas, was the new member elect-

ed. Officers will be chosen by the direc-

tors at a future meeting. Reports of the

condition of the Association were most

gratifying, Showing a ,su'bstan'tial in-

crease in business during the last year,

while, the Association is in better finan-

cial condition than ever before.



0. I. C. Breeders’ Association.



A brief meeting of this association re-



sulted in the choice of the following offi-

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We are given to 'believe that poultry

culture is a. complex and precarious bus-

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heir to would cause discouragement, if

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ture, when we analyze it we find it com-

p0sed of simple things. \Vith these

simple things given attention, poultry

raising becomes a. well managed and suc-

cessful affair. It is a matter of attention

given these simple component parts which

makes the business complex or not.



One of the main things which needs

attention. especially at this time of the

year, is the matter of dryness. If every-

thing else is given attention and this mat-

ter neglected, success with poultry will

be uphill business The reason for the

importance of this matter of dampness

and drynese is not Often readily seen.

Many of us» have the idea. that the coop

should be dry, but We do not know Why,

and because of this we are not as partic-

ular to keep conditions with reference to

this matter in as good shape as we

might.



There are few places 'where conditiOns

are as favorable for the development of

bacteria, the cause of disease, as the

chicken coop. There is always plenty of

dirt in a coop. no matter how clean it is

kept. The excr‘ements which are easily

productive of bacteria are found in the

litter in which the food is thrown. It is

therefore very essential that we keep con-

ditions so that they are unfavorable for

the development of the germs. Two things

are essential for the development of bac

teria, moisture and heat. If either of

these is lacking, the bacteria cannot

thrive. Depending on the kind of germ.

some develop with a. minimum of heat,

and others will start with a small amount

of moisture.



The matter of heat cannot be controlled

very well; even if it could be, the tem-

perature would haVe to be kept quite low,

in fact, too low for the well—being of the

fowls, to prevent the growth of the germ.

The matter of moisture, however, cun be

controlled, and the he:11th and comfort of

the fowl be improved by its control.

There are various conditions which will

cause dampness in the chicken coop. One

of the most common (1111s at this time of

the your is the closed coop in which there

is little ventilation. The lack of ventila—

tiOn makes it impossible, for the moisture

exuded from the fowls to escape, there-

fore it condenses and freezes on the walls

of the coop. Conditions inside such coops

are so cold and damp tl1:1t the body is

fairly chilled to the bone and the vitality

of the fowl is low wci‘ed in the GlltleerOl to

keep warm. These conditions are also

favorable. for the development of bacteria,

especially when the weather moderates a.

little. The writer has often remedied

such conditions by knucking out some of

the window lights and putting in 11 muS-

lin cuntain. ~The damper the coop, the

greater the amount of space for muslin

Windows necessary to rectify the condi-

tions. It is surprising the great; differ-

ence such a change will make. A great

improvement in the condition of the fowls

will 'be noticed. and often this change

alone will Fltart the hens laying. Care

should be taken to put muSIlin in the win-

dows on only one side of the coop, other-

wise there may be 11 draught through it.

It is advisable to heme three sides to the





',cOop ; tight and -to get all the ventilation





loom in“. fourth,

preferable.



Floors are often a source of dampness.

When, this is the case, it is hard to keep

the litter dry, and it is very important to

have it so to keep the fowls in health.

(aThe floors should have proper insulation

from the- dampness of the ground. Cin-

ders or sand make good foundations for

floors on this account. Many poultrymen

"have set 'their cooéps on posts a. few feet

from the ground to keep the floor dry.

The censtant circulatiOn of air under the

coop makes this '1)0:‘Slible. The laying of

some good roofing paper on the floor or

between a double floor will keep draughts

from coming through. To make it still

.‘better, the overlaps should be cemented,





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especially if the roofing paper is put 011

top of the floor. Even if on top of the

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when it is covered with litter.



Where attention is given to keep condi-

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quickly and dry droppings are not a. very

great source of trouble. Under dry con-

ditions the fowls will be able to withstand

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tive than dry cold, even with the ther-

mometer higher in case of the former.

This matter should not be overlooked if

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THE BEEKEEPERS’ CONVENTION.





 





From the humming and buzzing that

was going on at the convention rooms in

the Y. M. C. A. building in Detroit. it was

apparent that the members of the Mich-

igan Affiliated Beekeepers’ Association

were deeply interested in discussions of

the various phases of the subject dear to

their heart. Like the beeS, they went

right at it in a spirited but good natured

«way.



This meeting, which was held Decem—

ber 10—11, was opened by a very excellent

address by the prev'idenlt. He reviewed

some of the work of last year, esliecially

with what was accomplished in a.

legislative Way. The new foul brood law

which was passed recently has been a.

matter of good [feeling among the bee

men. The president, Mr. Morse, also

strongly urged that the association work

for a larger membership. He said that

more of the 16,000 beekeepers of the state

ought to have active intter'eslt in the as-

sociation. The report of the- secretary

which followed, Shmved that the society

was in a good financial condition but it

also showed that the society Could be 11

power for greater good if the membership

was larger. It is to the advantage of

every man to belong to associations of

his occupation; t0 ‘ith s the beekeeper is no

exception ‘ ‘



The first talk given was by Leonard

Griggs, of Flint, Mich. His subject was

the broad one of the production and sale

of honey, and during his talk he gave

many items of value. Among the things

he suggested was the leaving of some

between 'the frames and the walls of the

hives. To accomplish this he puts nine

frames into a. ten-mime hive, using divi—

sion boards inplace of the missing frame.

This will cause the bees to go to the

supers from the edges instead of crowd-

ing through the middle 'as usual.



Prof. H, H. I’ettit. of the Agricultural

College, gave a talk and Showed slides on

the relation of the beekeeper to the fruit

grower. He spoke of the value of the

bee “to tihe fruit grower in its work of

assisting pollination and also mentioned

the bad effect the spraying of fruit trees

While in blossom had on the bees. The

slides showed the bees working on fruit

and other blossoms.



The evening session was opened with a

talk on imagination as applied to the bee

businesS‘, 'by E. B. Tyrrell, of Detroit. Mr.

Tvrretll is secretary of the National Bee—

keepers’ Af‘vsocialtion. He said that imag—

ination was not vague dreamings, butt :1

real planning for the future and with this

interpretation of imagination in mind he

suggested s-‘ome things in bee culture

which might become common practice in

the near future. Among these he sug—

gested the plan of shipping the bees south

in Winter, the,- idea of co-Operative bee-

keeping, the use of. temporary hives for

'this purpose, and the use of parcel post

in creating a mail order honey trade. His

plan of co-opera‘tiVe bee keeping was to

have several farmers buy a certain num-

ber of hives each and put them in charge

of a competent beekeeper. He said that

many farmers, and especially fruit grow-

ers, wanted the advantages of bees, who

did not wish or know how to care for

them.



(Continued next week).





FOR NEXT WEEK.





 





“The Hen’s Place on the Farm," the first

of a series of ten articles on poultry cul«

tnre, will appear in next week's issue of

the Michigan Farmer.





 





 





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DEC. 20, 1913.





 





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FATE OF TUBERCLE BACILLI OUT-





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Bimogy of the Tubercle Bacillus.





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2. The. beaded appearance of there

germs led the early investigators to a

belief in spore-formation. This is now

known not to Occur. The fatty content

of the ba‘cilli varies from 10 to 42 per

cent, which is five times as much as is

found in any other micro—Organism. It

appears that this fatty material has little

or nothing to do with the duration of

their viability.



3. The tubercle bacillus does not secrete

a soluble toxin, but that poisons are

formed is Well known. it has been Shown

by various investigators that_tubcrcles

can be produced in te-‘t animals by the

injection of dead cultut‘es. Tubercles thus

produced may be mistaken for those pro-

duced by living germs.



4. A clear criterion of death

sary in reporting results on the duration

of life of the tubercle bacillus. This fact

many'illvestigatilrs have disregarded.



5. The tubercle bacillus may be. classcd

with the nOnspore-bearing organisms as

to viability; but in this class it is one of

the most resistent. especially as to dry—

ing and to the antagonism of decay or-

ganisms in water and foul matter.



The Action of Sunlight, DeSSicatlon and

Foul Material upon Tubercle Bacilll.



6. The action of sunlight upon bacteria

was first studied by Downcs and Blunt in

1877. Numerous investigators have con-

tinued this study to the present day. One

of the most important facts brought out

is that bacteria when directly exposed to

the sun are killed in a few minutes. This

is due to the effect of the ultra violet

light. The- ultra violet rays are now

cheaply produ'ced artificially by the mer—

cury vapor lamp. This lamp is destinlul

to play an important part in sterilization

and disinfection.



7. It is shown by the results of all the

investigators that tubercle bacilli when

exposed directly to the sun are killed in

a few minutes to a few hours. The time

of killing is less at higher :lltilllch: but

it is ten to fifteen times longer in diffused

light.



8. 'l‘uberculous sputum reduced to dust

and inhale-d by test animals causes tuber-

culosiS.‘ ;\ much less amount neces—

sary to produce tuberculosis by inhalation

than by ingestion. This, however, must

not be taken to indicate that inhalation

plays a lnore important part than inges-

tion as a cause of tuberculo'Sis. The more

important method depends upon the op-

portunity of infection from each. Inves-

tigators do not agree on this question. At

present both inhalation and ingestion

should be conSidered dangermls sources of

tuberculous infection.



9. The Mills—Reincke

which has been given a mathematical

equivalent by llazen’s theorem, VlZ.,

“\Yhere one death from typhoid fever has

been avoided by the use of better 'water,

a certain number of llc'ltlls, probably two

or three, from other causes havo been

avoidet,” has been found by Sedgwick

and MacNutt to be sound and conserva-

tive. Their studies show that tubercu-

losis has decreased in certain cities of

Massachusetts. which decrease is evident-

ly due, in part, to the improvement of

their water supply.



10. It is reported in the literature that

tubercle bacilli live for a very long time,

several months to more than a year, in

water and other material.



11. In experiments to determine the

time that tubecle bacilli live in various

conditions the chief difficulty is the “in-

dex of death” for these germs. This is

true since cultivation of the tubercle

bacilli from contaminated material is not

feasible, and since the dead germs pro-

duce, in teSt animals. tuberclesindistin-

guishable by microscopic appearance from

those produced by live tubercle bacilli.

Action of Sunlight and Desslcatlon upon



Bacteria.



12. Pure- cultures of norlSpore-bearing

organisms and the vegetative cells of

spore-bearing germs when exposed to di-

rect sunlight in thin smears are killed in

from one-half to six minutes: the human,

the bovine. and avian types of tubercle

bacilli exposed in the same way are kill-

ed in from one to four minutes.





 





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13. “'hern exposed to deslsication in a

dark, well-ventilated place, the nonspore-

bearing organisms and the vegetative

cells of spore—bearing organisms died in





one to four days; the. spores of B. sub—

tilis and B. vulgatus used as controls

were not killed in 35 days; the human





type and bovine type of tubercle bacilli

exposed at the same time and under the

same conditions were dead Within four

and eight days respectively.



Tubercle Bacilli ln Cow Manure.



14. Pure culture of bovine tubercle

bacilli mixed in cow manure and exposed

in a two-inelh layer in a pasture field in

the Sunshine remained alive and virulent

for two months.



15. As would be expected, these germs

exposed in cow manure- retained their

vil‘ulence longer in the shade than in the

sunshine, as shown both by the greater

severity of the disease produced in the

guinea pigs inoculated on the same day

with the germs expoSed in the sunshine,

and by the greater length of time that

the guinea pigs which were inoculated

with the germs exposed in the sunshine





remained alive.

of





16. Tubercle. bacilli in the manure

a naturally infected cow exposed in the

same manner as the artificially infected





manure were dead within two weeks af-

lcr cxposure.

Tubercle Bacilli in Garden Soil and in

Running Water.

17. Tubercle bacilli in garden soil and

in a (lead tuberculous guinea pig buried





ill garden soil were alive, on the 213th

and 71st days respectively, and dead on

the 230th and 00th days, after first ex-

posed.



18. Tubercle bacilli live for more than

a year in running water. A watering

trough harboring these germs may be a

dangerous stlurcc of infection to cattle.

The better disposition of dead tubercu-





lous animals is to destroy by burning.

Tubercle bacilli in drinking water is one

of the possible sources of infection for

man. infection is not prevented by .lilll-

tion. since clumps containing a great

number of these organisms may be in-

closed in lnucoid material which prevents

their separation and destruction.



Effect of Cold Upon Tubercle Bacilli.



1S). Tubcrclc bacilli in market buttei

placed in cold storage live for more than

ten months, which is a longer time than

such butter is usually kept in storage.—

Sllmmal'y of facts published in Illinois

Bulletin No. 161, by Chas. l“. Briscoe.





 





WATER REQUIREMENTS OF PLANTS.





 





Briggs and Shanta, of The Bureau of

Plant Industry, \Vashington, D. C., haVe

carried on investigations in the water re—

uuirements of different crops at AkrOn,

COL, and at Amarillo and Dalhart, Texas,

in 1910 and 1011.



The results of these experiments are

Iiziven in Bulletin No. 28-}, Bureau of Plant

industry. The avei'age of these experi-

ments are as follows: Pounds of water

required to produce a pou‘nd of dry mat~

ter lw‘hole plant). millet 27.3; sorghum

306; pig weed 275; tumble weed 277;

Russian thistle 336; corn 365i; sugar beet.

377; rape 441; potatoes 4‘18: wheat 507;

barley 539; buckwheat 578; oats 614;

sweet clover 70!); field peas 800; alfalfa

1,068.



The pounds of water required to pro-

duce a pound of grain was as follows:

Sorghum 700; millet 923; buckwheat 1.037;

barley 1,244; wheat 1,357; oats 1.680. It

required 166 pounds of water to produce

a pound of potato tubcr anl 110 to pro-

duce a pound of sugar beet root.





The water that would suffice for pro-





ducing a 50-bushel crop of oats, accord-

ing to these. figures, should .be sufficient





for producing 2,500 lbs, of alfalfa. The

BO-llusl‘e; _ oats will COntain 171 lbs. of

digestible protein, while the 2.300 lbs. of

alfalfa will contain 277 lbs of digestible

llrotein. ' Of digestible carlmhydrates and

fat the 50 buslhcls of oats contain 942 lbs,

while the 2.500 lbs. of alfalfa would have

1,012 lbs. The alfalfa with its larger root

system, and especially if the plants are

not too thick, will be able to draw mois-

ture from more soil than can the Oat

plant, and will therefore be able to pro-

duce more than the 2.500 lbs. of alfalfa

to the 50 bushels of cats. In fact, it wil.

likely be nearer two tons, which would

contain 444 lbs. of digestible protein and

1.620 lbs. of digestible fat and carbohy-

drates.





 





Straight Talk





on Flows—No. 2





The first part of your plow to wear out is the Share. No other part of a Plow

is of so much importance in the matter of draft, as the Share.



Until a few years ago all plow shares were practically alike. They were

bought in the open market—three-ply steel—one soft layer sandwiched between

two hard layers—all welded together. When new and hard they held a good cut-

ting edge, but when the temper was drawn to re-sharpen them, it could not be put

back without expensive ovens and a refrigerating plant. Then, too, they were

easily broken—requiring a new Share.



A few years ago a steel manufacturer of Chicago discovered a process for

making soft-center steel from one layer instead of three, which can be safely

re-tempered any number of times.



By a secret process known to and used only by the one manufacturer (now the

Moline Plow Co.) the outside surface—one-third through from each side—is as hard

as the hardest steel, yet the center is soft and fibrous.



This makes a Steel Share tough—tougher than the steel plate used on U. S.

battleships—a steel which will stand jars and strains that would break ordinary

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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





 





VV'hile the ethical

Santa Claus In benevolent character





and

of





Transition. the Christmas spirit is

. eternal; its symbolism

'will nuturally adapt itself to changing





conditions.



In previous years our cover designs for

the iSSue of‘ Christmas week. haVe been

accompanied by more or less of cffort to

give something of the very ObSi'UI't? origin

and uncertain history of Santa Claus—

thut jolly rotund T'eulonic fig uie of un-

cie'nt folk long, that comes to u< with the

sswmcll of film, pine and the holly, out of

the snowy woods of northern Europe.



To our ancestors of centuries ago, it

was consistent im-igcry to the creduiity of

youth, for this rubicund representative of

benevolence, to come down the capacious

chimneys of the wide fireplaces, with his

Christmas pack; but to modern conditions

of house warming with. base-burner

stoves or furna'ces for hot air 01‘ Steam

or gas, and carefully lockcd doors and

fusitcned windows, Sunta's ticket of gen—

eral admission seems to haw: elapsed and

to the child mind, his working method

had become a brain-teasing enigma.



But lo! The clock 0f progress strikes

an important heur in the annals of the

great Republic and behold—~The Parcel

Post.



Santa Claus becomes elevated to the

dignity of a great director gcncrul of

Christmas, giving, his proper sphere, and

the myriad messengcm of the Post Office

Department acknowledge his sovereignty

and loya‘lly co-operu'te in carrying out his

directions.



The twinkling eyed, snowy bearded p.1-

tron Saint of Childhood is now secure

upon his throne in the center of Toyland

'whence he has but to visit; the post office

with his treasures carefully wrapped and

addressed.



No longer puzzled, the little one may

close his eyes and with his faith undis-

Iturbcd and peacefully dream of the joy

of Ohnis'tmus morning.





While the United



Packing the Christ- States m 21 i1 has

mas Parcels. been liberally used

(heretofore for the



delivery of small Christmas giftS. its use

will be greatly extended this year, on ac-





count of it being the first Christmas sea-

son since this inauguration of the new

paicel post. This enormous Christmas

business will tax the parcel post service

lo its utmos't and in order to facilitate

the handling of this large amount of

package mail, it is quite important that

those who make use of it, co-operate with

the postal authorities by carefully follow-

ing out the parcel post regulations in the

matter of packing Christmas pamcels for





shipment. To the end that patrons may





be properly advised with regard to these

regulationsalprply‘ing .to Christmas palck-

ages, some suggestions on the‘ preparation

of Christmas gifts intended for tranmis-

slon by mall have been issued by the





THE MICHIGAN FARMER,





postmastersi of Detroit rend Grand Rap-i





ids post offices for eircu’lamion'throughout

the state. We give'a. synopsis of the

more important suggestions as follows:



Parcels should be of sufficient strength

to withstand the pressure of other mail

included in the sucks in which they are

shipped, and the weight" of other sacks of

mail Which may be piled upon them. In

case of umbrellas, canes, 910., these arti—

cles should be fastened between boards

slightly longer and wider than 'the arti-

cles themselves,

injured should be crated in wood or box-

ed in heavy corrugated pasteboard boxes.

Care should be taken that the combined

length and girth should not exceed 72

inches. Any article with sharp points,

corners or edges Should have same well

protected to prevent damage to other mail

or injury to employes. Articles of glass,

crockery. or any commodity easily~break-

alble, should be carefully packed in boxes

of sufficient strength. with. excelsior or

other packing material to prevent the

contents from coming into contact with

any portion of the box and all such pack-

ages should be marked “Fragile."



In the sending of ChliSItmaS gifts, the

legulations pe.mit beside the name and

address of the sender, which is required,

inscriptions such as “Merry Christmas,"

“Please do not open until Christmas,”

etc., on the outside of the parcel in such





a manner as not to interfere with the ad- _





dress.- Written matter in the nature of

11 personal communion-11011 cannot, how-

ever, 'be enclosed. else it will subject the

entire package to the first-class postage

rate. Photographs, printed books and

other printed matter are not mailalble by

'parccl post, but as third-class matter, and

any parcel containing two classes of mat-

ter is chargeable at the higher rate. Pa-

trons are cautioned against the use of

Xmas “stickers" in a careless manner. If

Xmas or other stamps or stickers. other

than po tage stumps, are ued on the ad-

dres: side of the package, same is ren-

dered unmailublc. \\'hcné Xmas stickers

are used, care should also be taken not

to meal parcels therewith, as this would

render them unmailauble at the parcel posit

1atc and necessitate their being returned

or held for postage. In order to insure

dclivery by Christmas, matter should be

mailed by parcel post without further de-

lay, as it should reach the office of desti-

nu‘tion two or three days prior to Christ-

mas to insure delivery before that date.





The state fire marshal

Some Christmas h'as i>‘sued a circular

“Dont’s.” calling the httention of

the people of Michigan

to a few Christmas “Dont's.” These are

of such a. pertinent nature as to merit

general consideration. Briefly summar-

ized, the fire marshals circular is a warn-

ing against Czll‘eleSSl‘ie’SS in the handling

of Christmas decorations, particularly the

more inflammable sort which preferably

should not be selected for decorative 'pur-

pose“. After reciting a number of perti-

nent comments with regard to the decora-

tions of the Christmas tree, and advising

the piling of the presents around the tree

ra‘ther tht-in putting them on it, he ’adds

two “dent's" not usually included in this

list, which are, however, prwcticsil and to

the point: “Don't fail to “have a pail of

water handy,”

if (there is a. fire.” ~

The annual visit to

Boys’ Corn Club VVaShingiton of boys

Work. 'who have won cham-

pionships in corn clu1b work in their var—

ious states is of greater interest to Mich-

igan people at this time than ever before.

because a. Michigan boy has participated

in that trip during the past week, In

another column of this issue appears an

account of his championship winning, and

his description of the methods by which

his winning crop was grown. \Vhe'n one

reads of a record of production like that

made by Grant Winters in a Michigan

county which has not generally been ap-

preoiated as being strictly in the corn

belt. he cannot but be impressed to some

extent with the educational possibilities

of contests of this kind.



The figures with regard to the profit

showing in the Michigan c‘humpion‘s crop

have just been received from XVthing-

ton, and are very creditable indeed. com—

pared with those made by other contest-

ants, the profit showing being $53.65 on

the acre. As an illustration of the edu—

cational value of this work, however, the

contestants from the southern states af-

ford u better example. they having been

in the Work much longer. In this connec-

tion, it is interesting to note that the

'winning record from the southern states

made by Wlalter Lce Dunson, of Alabama,

has again broken the record for not only

amount of production, but for the econ-





Any article likely to be.





and “Don't lose your head,





orny. in production as Well. 1111151031





raised 232.7 bushels of shelled corn on a *





single acre at a cost of 19.91. cents ~per

bushel. His nearest competitor was J.

Jones Polk, of Mississippi, with 214.9

bushels per acre and a per bushel cost of

21.4 cents, While J. Ray Cameron, of

North Carolina, secured a. yield of 190.4

bushels per acre at a. per bushel cost of

33.25 cents. ,



It will thus be seen that the corn c'lub

boys are making big records all over the

country in the production of corn, and

that .many of t‘hem are making low cost

records at the same time. The reduction

of cost in production is quite as import-

ant a. factor in the making of profit as

increasing the yield, and where bOth are

accomplished at one and the same time.

the object lesson afforded the community

and the country is most important and

cannot but stimulate a more earnest

study of these two factors in successful

agriculture by the community at large. to

say nothing of the effect upon the suc-

cessful contestants and their contempor-

aries in the work, who will strive f6r a

better record each ensuing year.





Not only has the



Parcel Post Service first year's experi-

Enlarged. ence with the parcel



iDO'St service demon-



strated the wisdom of those who for so

many years ,la‘bored diligently to secure

its establishment, but that experience has

olso shown that the service can be ex-

tended beyond the original limitations

made by Congresa, and this in face of

the fact that the people, generally, have

hardly begun to take advantage of the sys-

tem. Even before the first Six months

had passed it was found that the depart-

ment could extend the limit and lower

the rates in the firSt and second zoneS,

and now Postmaster General Burleson has

iissucd an order which authorizes the ac-

ceptance of parcels of greater weight by

portal ugcnts and lowers the rates In all

zones outside of the second zone. The

following order shows the changes made:



On and after January 1, 1914, the limit

of weight of parcels of fourth-class mail

for delivery within the first and second

zones shall be- incc‘eased from 20 to 50

pounds and in the third, fourth, fifth,

sixth, seventh and eighth zones from II

‘to 20 pounds



The rate of postage on parcels exceed-

ing four ounces in weight in the third,

fourth, fifth and sixth zones Shall be as

follows:



Third Zone—Six cents for the first

:pound and two cents for each additional

pound or fraction thereof.



Fourth Zone—Seven cents for the first

pound and four cents for each additional

pound or fraction thereof.



Fifth Zone—Eight cents for the first

pound and Six cents for each additional

'pound or fraction thereof.



Six1th Zone—Nine cents for the first

'pound and eight cents for each additional

pound or fraction thereof.



All regulations or parts of regulations

in conflict herewith are hereby rescinded.



This change is certain to increase the

amount of businese done by the parcel

pO'SIt division of the department, and

should be greeted by the rural classes,

since it make; the service more nivail-

able to them as a channel for market'ng

some of the more concentrated products

of the farm, as butter. cream, eggs, non-

ey, syrup, etc. The greater the amount

of good carried the lower the rates can

be made, so that the patronage of the

public will be the determining factor in

the future usefulness of the plan.





DISHONESTY IN ADVERTISING.





 





\Many of the states have enacted laws

against dishonest advertising, to protect

the public. It seems strange to us that

it has been fOund necessary to prevent

by law some publishers from publishing

advertisements known to be dishonest.



If every purblisher had follOWed the

practice of the Michigan Farmer, in never

admitting the advertising of anyone

whom we did not investigate and find rea-

son to believe to be absolutely reliable,

there would have been no necessity for

such a law. No man may use the col-

umns of this paper and not do just as he

agrees to.



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DEC. 20, 1913.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WWEK.‘





 





, _ National. ,

A genera-lreview of 'the effect of the

Underwood-Simmons tariff law on im-

ports into this country shows that the

food supply of the country has. been:

greatly broadened. In spite of this fact. '

however, Secretary of Commerce Redfleld

has observed that retanil prices of food re~



main at recent high leVels.



Former President Tauf't advocated a new

Datin-Aimenilcan policy for this country in

an address recently delivered in New

York. He proposed that the United States

invite the countries of Brazil, Argentine

and Chili, to assist [this country in up-

holding the Monroe doclrlne. This policy.

he declares. would place 'the great South

American nations on an equality with the

United Sta-tee. Three "things would be

gamed by this attitude. It would relieve

this country from part of the burden.

would give assurance of its dis-interested-

ness. and would add weight to the dec—

laration of the policy among European

nations.



Michigan is greatly interested in the

hearing on the seamen’s bill now before

Congress The bill is framed to make

travelling by water safe-r. In doing this.

hc'w'ever, it is claimed by transporta‘tI‘On

companies that the restrictions placed up~

on the cons'trulction of boats are so

sweeping as to make it im'pOssivble for

American com-ponies to compete with for-

ign companies. Inasmuch as the bill will

affect traffic upon the Great Lakes 51'

large representation of shipping interests

from Detroit and other lake ports are in

Washington urging certain changes in the

present provisions of the measure.





In order to prevent violence in the

strike zone of Upper Michigan, Judge

O’Brien of the Circuit Court, issued an





Order for all strikers: to surrender their

1mm: and ammunition, and to refrain

from slots of v’olence. The unions were

also notified that there must be no parad-

ing. T'hese precautions haVe been taken

because of fear of an outbreak that would

over‘flsx the powers of the local police

force.



Other labor unions of Philadelphia are

considering the proposition of striking in

sympathy with the garment workers, who

have been out on strike for 23 weeks.

Plans for a. general strike will include

160,000 workers and will go into effect

December 29, in the event that the strike

is ordered. ‘



in the event that no further landslides

occur it is now stated by the officials of

the Panama canal commission that tho

canal can be opencd to traffic sometime

in January. A channel 17 feet deep and

90 feet Wide has already been completed

through Uhe Curcuracha slide.





Foreign.

Much interest is momfested in the re-





port from Pails that Dr. Bose, of the

University of Mountpeher, has iSOIated

the germ causuig cancer. The germ is





descrlbed as belonging to the protozoan

type and is iounu principally in water, Dr,

Bose has been studying cancerous tumors





to: mo-re than twenuy years.

The rituuuon in Mcxmo has not im-

proved, in fact, matters appear to as-





sume a. more complicated condition. Re-

cent atrocious acLs by rebels have caused

Secretary of b'tate ls.y.1n tosend a spe~

cial representative of the United States,

to the» commander of the rebel troops to

make a protest. 'Ihlis action is considered

a. help to the federal forces. President

Huerta in a. private report asserts that

his position is now much stronger than

it has been at any time some he was

placed in authority. His reason for not

putting down the rebellion sooner is that

when he assumed command of the fed-

eral forces he was confronted with an

empty treasury. During the past ten

months, he has sought to strengthen the

country’s financial resources, in which

effort he Claims to have been tolerabiy

successful. He also declares that there

will soon be 700,000 troops in the field to

put down the rebel armies. These reports,

of course, cannot be given Uhe fullest

credit; they may possibly be the last of-

foit to retain control of the government.



(in Friday last, when federal and rebel

forces were fighting wt Tampivco, Rear

Admiral Fletcher, commander of the Am—

erican naval forces in Mexican waters

threatened to open fire upon both forces

unless they ceased fighting; the order was

immediately obeyed. The reason for in-

teifercnce was that the fight greatly en—





dangered foreigners who were then in

the city and could not leave. ’ .

England is having trouble in India. An





armed revolt started in southern India

largely because of the refiltriotions that

are placed upon Indians emmigrating to

other English possessions. Restrictions

on Indians migrating. to Africa. are dhiefly

responsible for the present dilemma. An-

nouncement also that Canada. will legis-

late to prevent immigration from India

has further aroused the resentment of

the Aslaltics.



It appears that a crisis is near in the

Italian parliament over the issue which

has been raised on the question as to

whether the Pope or the Italian goven-

men: has temporal sovereignty over the

Vatican. The situation will probably ‘be

less intense because of the fact that Pope

Plus will shortly issue a document stating

that the Vaitioan is prepared ‘to abandon

its claim of temporal sovereignty, pro-V

vided international guarantees are given

that the Pope’s position will be respected.



An investigation by the Ontario gov-

ernment into the recent calamities on

Lake Huron during the storm of Novem-

ber 9. has resulted in the following sug-

gestions being made: Thtait all lake ves-

sels be provided with wireless telegraph

instruments that more effective -and-

stringent methods be adopted by. vesSel





'oWhers to keep a proper list of all per~'





sons on vessels, that lights and mg 913- '

rials be improved, etc. '
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From Forest to Christmas Parlor.





By FELIX J. KOCH.





OT'so very many years ago a move-



rment was begun to rob childhood



of the Santa Claus story~—to tell

the children just who brings the trees,

and when and by whom these are trim-

med or decorated. Immediatrly from this

there sprang up in the minds of those un-

fortunate children who should so snon be

made’ subject to ico110claFm, the query,

”Then what’s the use in a tree. after

all?" The amalgamated Christmas-tree

growers of the cOuntry saw that in the

logic behind the question, so natural to

the average intelligent child, lay the ruin

of their business, and so they set the ball

rolling toward a counter movement which

has permitted the Yule-tide myth to per-





sist. Wherefore, the Christmas tree is

still with us.

Wonderful, indeed, is the traffic in





Christmas trees. Like only the fireworks

industry, perhaps which flourishes very

nearly 1'01 :1 single (laws benefit only, the

Christmas-tree grower, or the Chlistmas-

tree planter, (for Christmas trees bring

such good prices now that planting has

become an industry worth considering)

believes in big sales at small profits. He

must get his trees down to a price al—

lowing the wholesale nurr‘eryman to make

a profit, the corner grocery to make a

profit, and, possibly, the boys who buy

and then hawk the trees down the ave-

nue to 'make pocket-money from the

traffic. '



At some of the, principal distributing

points consignments of as many as twen—

ty carloads are received early in Decem-

ber. Think of the concentrated happi-

ness, the child laughter; the surprise and

the merriment that such quantities of

trees imply. 0"



The jobbers tell us that a large propor-

tion of the trees come from Maine, New

Hampshire and eastern Canada. notably

Nova Scotia. “'ild trees, they say, still

rank the best, having by far the better

color and really looking more natural.

Then, too, price is a c0n$’ide"ation, for

even the freight on them doesn't equal

the cost of labor on the planted trees. A

wild tree that brings a dollar, retail,

would, if planted and grown on the tree-

farm, have to sell at $1.25. Down in Ohio

there is a good-sized Christmas-tree farm,





but these groves seem to be growing

scarcer. Sometimes a farm will have as

many as 5,000 trees in a patch, and there

are whole lanes of Norway spruce, the

white Canadian spruce. the Scotch, the





Austrian, 01‘ the American White pine tO'





meet the vagaries of taste among cus-

tomers, while the silver hemlock is also





Arriving in May, the trees will be plant-

ed about June. After that they are trans-

planted thrce or four times before cutting

for market, it being found that they grow

much better through this practice. \Vith

good care the trees will grow six to eight

inches at year. \Vhen from six to a dozen

feet in height, these trees are cut. They





 





H unting for Trinkets—the





given certain area. Fifteen years of

Christmas—tree raising, in one instance.

has resulted in four fine acres of trees.

As to profits, the. trees sell at anywhere

from 50 cents to $5, though the average

price paid, the country OVt'l‘, is a dollar.





Nurserym en of note, who raise th 3

trees in quantities, sometimes import

much of their finest parent stock from





France. Brought here. planting is done

upon a clayey subsoil, rather than the

sandy loam wthich persons recalling the

evergreens of the





 





 





Michigan forests are

prone to favor.

Ramble up and down

the broad alloys of

trees with the Christ-

mas-tree grower and

his comments will

teach interesting les-

sons of the traffic.

Yonder, and he points

to where the frost-

skimmed ground sep-

arates lines of trees,

are two rows of excep—

tionally fine pines. The

call for thcse is limited

and so prices rise, and

'for these big fellows

he’ll get seven dollars

apiece. T h a t other

patch consists of trees

just over from France.

‘tJVVO or three years old

W h e n t h e y came.

There was 20 per cent

duty on them, and this

Will figure in their ul-

timate sale price. On

arrival here the trees

will be kept for a week

or ten days in the

Shade, then, gradually,

they are brought out

into the light. Hav-

ing come over in box—

es, it is often found

that the trees haVe

sprouted enroute and

careful pruning is

then quite necessary.





beginning t h e fact

. that today not less

than 430,000 trees,

meaning about 1 5 0





Height of Holiday Pleasure,





should hold their needles for from four

to five Weeks thereafter.



During odd moments. on the tree farms,

cmployes cut the blocks for the trees,

these usually accompanying them in the

shipment. Certain seasons find but little

else to do. since there is no particular

insect bothering the trces and they re-

quire but little attention unlit the cutting

season.



One who has looked into the history of

the Christmas tree in this country tells

us that it was the





the Fatherland. He came to the conclu-

sion that the young firs covering the

mountain-sides around his home could he

made a source of income at no greater

cost than the labor of chopping and of

transporting, and, since the season for

trees came at a time when he hadn't

much to do and time hung heavy on his

hands, it is minted that he loaded two of

his ox—slcds with some healthy young

conifers and drove with these, over rough

roads and through a deep snow, to the

river at Catskill. There, be shipped the-

trees by rail to New York. Arriving there

him>‘o1f, he rented a. strip of sidewalk at

the corner of Greenwich and Vescy

streets. Quickly, indeed, the trees were

sold, and this. at mighty good prices,



It is further related that this pioneer in

the businers remained a few days sight-

secing in the metropolis and then went

home, well satisfied with his venture.

The next year he was back at the same

old stand, with still grcatcr stock, and

since then riva ; innumcrable have sprung

up and the trade has become one repre—

senting thousands of dollars. One au—

thority On the trailic estimates that today

the Catskills {llnltc supply not less than

250,000 Christmas trccs each Yule—tide.



Another story, touching the deVelop-

ment of the industry. is interesting. Some

twenty years after Carr's venture.

duck hunters off the coast of Maine no—

ti'ced the quantities of those trces he‘c

It ()Ccurrcd to them to buy these and So

inaugurate a great tradc from that state,

which has continued with unabating pros-

perity ever since. To such broad extcnt

has that trade dcvclopml that the coast

of Maine has been almost stripped of its

firs, and tree-takers are now forced to go

a goodly ways inland. ’l‘oday perhaps

two-thirds of the trees of the Empire

State and all of New England hail from

the forests of Maine. Most of these are

bmught in by schooner and are from six

to twenty fcct in height.



Owners of (Zlhristmas-trce land net no

little profit at this season. An acre of

fir-land, it is stated. will give sometimes

3,000 trees. Allowing, say. 3210 per acre

for stumpage‘. $30 for labor and carriage,

and $50 for freight, the trees do not cost,

according to this. reckoning, 2c each. de-





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German settlers 0 f

Pennsylvania who first

brought the Christmas

ree to America and

who used it for dec-

ades before the staid

Quakets, inspired by





their children’s de-

scriptions o f t h e

ne-ighborS’ trees. saw





fit to adopt it. These

German emigrants. of

course, cut down their

own trees in the for-

ests, taking either

pine or hemlock, as

fancy might dictate.

(‘ont.ast with this





carloads, are sold at

wholesale in New York

city alone each year.

“'hat would old Mark

Carr, the Woodsman

who plied his axe

among the foothills of

the Catskills and who

was the firSt to intro—

duce evergreens as an

article of trade to this

end, say to that? Carr,

it seems. had read

somewhere of celebra-

tions in the near-by

city at which boughs

and wreaths Were used

in place of the trees of





 





 





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livered in New York or Boston, where

they bring anywhere from 20c to $5. Of

this the Maine farmer receives from a

dime to 40c as his share, and so, for 40c,

the dealer -receines a‘ perfectly straight,

symmetrical tree about 15 feet in height.



Up in Maine,- as early as November,

thousands of persons are annually engag—

ed in foresting this oncevvalueless tree,

so that today the industry means a value

of $150,000 to that state alone. Prior to

the growth of the industry these fir-lands

were practically worthless and exempt





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from taxation.

of 20.000 acres for $100. NOW men give

$15 to $25 per acre for the land just to

get the Christmas trees. The choppers

get to work early, for a fall of snow en-

hances the difficulty, particularly since

the snow is liable to melt and freeze.

making the branches too brittle to trans-

port. The work, therefore, is hurried and

the trees are piled at roadsides in the

forests, where they keep fresh six weeks

or more, until the time comes for ship-

ping out to whatever section is desired."





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Little Drop-the-Handkcrchicf.





A Christmas Fable—By Howard C. Keglcy.





 





LASPING in one of her chubby



fists a handkerchief, in the corner



of which was tied a five-cent piece

which she had earned, a little girl emerg-

ed from a comfortable-looking home and

dashed down the street. She was going

to the candy store to spend her money

for sweets. Yes, she had earned the

money. and her mother had told her that

she might spend it for candy.



\Vith a glad heart she hurried along the

street, now walking, now running. every

now and then pausing for a moment to

look into a shop window and admire the

beautiful Christmas toys which were on

display. She had intended to buy her

candy at the little store on the corner.

but. it was a beautiful day, and as she

skipped along she became filled with the

joy of living and decided to venture

farther into the city and buy her sweets

at one of the palatial candy shops where

her father often bought bon-bons for her

mother when they were on their way to

the theatre.



At length she slackened her pace and

went sauntering along the pavement.

chewing one corner of her handkerchief,

smiling out of the corner of her eye at

a couple of “newsies” who were threat-

ening to fight on the street corner, and



‘wallowing in the glories of the gladsome

day.



In the course of a five-minute walk she

came to the public park. where a cosmo-

politan crowd baskcd in the sunshine- and

argued vast and unfathomable questiOnS.

At length she approached the most dis-

tant seat in the park and noticed that

upon it there was seated a man who

Seemed to be very downcust. As she

drew nearer she recognized the individ-

ual. lie was the poet who lived in the

loft of a tenement building several blocks

from her home.



Right well she know the poet. for he

was a man of great understanding among

children. He was 11 person of great sor-

row, and therefore he was able to read

the hearts of'thor'e with whom he came

in contact. and speak some word of con-

solation to them. He looked on the joy-

ous side ‘of life rather than upon the

financial side of it, and it was a common

belief, among the .~hildren of the neigh-

borhood in which he lived, that he sub-

sisted On crusts of bread, and scrawled

his beautiful thoughts upon Scraps of pa-

per which he picked up in the market

place and carricd to his dingy attic. The

little girl had often heard her mother

speak about the poet's poverty, and she

know something of his gladsome spirit,

for he had often walked a short distance

with her while she was on her way to

school, or else paused in front of her

house, as she played in the yard, to make

some pretty remark about her golden

locks of hair or to recite to her some

beautiful child rhyme which he wove from

the little joys and sorrows of the children

who lived ’round about him.



This day, as she saw him sitting upon

the park bench, she fancied that his face

looked unusually sad. Indeed it did, for

he had 00mpleted a. poem which he

thought would ‘be sure to sell to some

magazine, only to find that his purse did

not contain the necessary nmount of

money to pay the postage on the manu-

script. Thus it happened that the poet

sat upon the park bench that beautiful

morning, and wondered at the ways of

the world, with sadness in his heart.



As the little girl drew nearer, the poet

arose from the park bench and strolled

aimleSSIy down the gravel path toward

his unplastered room in the tenement.

His face was the very picture bf disap-

pointme'nt.



The little girl, being younger and more

active, soon passed him as he wandered

along the path, and as she hippety-hop—

ped along an impulse came to her.



She clenched her list upon the five-cent

piece that was tied in the corner of her

handkerchief, and then she bit her lips

until they ac'hed. She was wondering if





she couldn't get along without the candy

that she had set out to buy and trying to

convince herself that the poet, perhaps,

needed the money worse than'the candy

merchant needed it. .She was several

yards ahead of the man: he was gazing

at the ground over which he was walking,

and no one was near.



”I’ll do it!" the little girl told herself.

At the same time she dropped her hand-

kerchief in the path and fled as rapidly

as her little feet would carry her.



When she reached the end of the park

she paused behind a. tree and looked

back. The poet had found the handker-

chief and he was looking at the corners

of it to see if it bore any initial. It am

not. She was happy became of that fact.



After pondering over his find for some

moments the poet turned and hurried

back along the path in the direction of

the bustest street in the city, and the lit-

tle girl, thinking he had gone in search of

a bakery, turned her footsteps homeward,

with a song in her heart.



The poet did not spend the money for

bread. Instead he hurried to the post

office and mailed his precious manuscript

to the editor of a great magazine. Days

followed, during which he subsisted upon

crusts and penny cakes, but it was not

an unusual thing for him to do. ,He had

been doing that very thing for years. But

of late it was unusually hard for him to

be in straightened circumstances, because

Christmas was drawing near, and he

longed to enjoy some of the dainty holi-

day puddings and cakes that were to be

seen in the shop windows throughout the

city.



At length Christmas morning came. It

was beautiful. The air was cool and

crisp, and everywhere there seemed to be

an ideal Christmas spirit in the atmos-

phere. But up in his loncsome lolft the

poet was downcast and reStless. It seem-

ed so unfair that all the world should be

Seemingly intoxicated with holiday cheer,





While he, up in his poorly-ventilated at-

tic, had neither crusts nor cakes, nor

Christmas cheer.





Sort-owing in his heart, the poet de—

scended the filthy stairs of the tenement,

thinking to go out into the heart of the

city and lose himself and his sadness in

the gladsome Yuletide. As he reached

the door at the foot of the stairs he un~

consciously opened the mail box to See

what it contained, for it seemed to be

literally filled with neatly wrapped pack-

ages all tied with Christmas ribbons and

covered with Red Cross‘seals. There were

several letters in the box, also, and as he

fondled them and wished that they were

his, his eyes suddenly fell upon one which

was addressed to him.



“’ith frantic fingers he tore open the

envelope and drew forth its contents.

VV‘onder of wonders! He could not believe

his eyes, and he believed that they were

deceiving him. It could not be real; he

thought that he was in a dream, but he

wasn’t. It was a reality. He was gazing

at a brief note from the editor of a. great

magazine, which read as follows: “We are

delighted over the beautiful poem with

which you have favored us. I take pleas-

ure in handing you herewith a check for

it, at the same time wishing you a very

Merry Christmas and a happy and pros—

perous New Year.”



“'ith the precious check clenched in one

hand the poet hurried down the street.

Little he knew where he was going. and

little he cared. He only knew that he was

on his way to a shop where he could pur-

chase bread and pies and cakes and pud-

ding and candies and nuts. and what not.



“”hen he hadl'filled himself with the good

things that he had bOught, and had Settled

back to reflect upon the joy of it all, the

poet's mind drifted back over the things

that had transpired in the weeks that had

just paSsed. He felt a longing to do some

generous act to show the world that he

was thankful for the blessings he receiv-

ed. So he arose and took himself into

the busy streets again, and he fared





You wold buy zit-township,





'der, and hurried





T His Mel on Ion-TN" ”’ch RM? E R





among. the shops 301 more than an hour,

feasting his eyes ‘upon the many beauti-





"ful- gifts that the rich could afford, and

‘spending his mOney here and there for





things to please the little folks- At last





.he emerged frOm the shopping district





and returned to his loft.



Upon whom should he bestow the little

gifts that he had purchased? He was ac-

quainted with many of the little girls and

boys who lived in his neighborhood, but

he didn't know any of them by name, and

so he concluded that it would make no

difference who received the gifts. But,

as he gazed upon the array of presents

which he had purchased, he observed that

they were only suitable for little girls.



So it happened that, as the shades of

evening fell, the poet fared forth. After

walking a short distance along the street

he crossed the corner of a yard, hurried

up the Steps to a house, deposited at the

front door a handkerchief with which

were wrapped up tw0 dolls, a lot of can-

dies, nuts and little trinkets. The poet

was gOne as suddenly as he- had appeared.



As there was only one little girl in the.

«family that lived in the house it was easy

to guess who the presents were for. One

corner'of the handkerchief, too, was fray-





‘ed out, where a little girl had once chew-





ed it.



Thus it happened that a. little girl, who

cast her bread up0n the waters, saw it

return to her after many days, bringing

with it not only happiness and cheer for

her, but, fame and fortune for another

who was a child at heart.



And that is how a certain little girl in

Greater New York came to be known as

Little Drop—the-Handkerchief.





A “TRUE GENTLEMAN’S” XMAS.





 





BY L. D. STEARNB.



It Was Christmas. The first snow of

the season lay soft and white over the

earth. The merry jingle of sleigh bells

filled the air, mingled with gay laughter

and happy cries of "Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!"



John Lane stood by the window looking

dolefully out over it all. He had meant

to be quite manly all day, for down in his

boy heart he was a. very true little gen-

tleman. and he kn'ew his mother could

not afford to make ChriStmas this year.

But it was the first time in all his nine

years of life that Christmas Day had not

been filled to the brim with everything a

boy could wish, and when he had found

only a parcel with mittens and a pair of

:tuckings, a big lump had somehow got—

tcn into his throat and it had stayed

there ever since.



Then, suddenly, ’he seemed once again

to hear his father’s voice, as he had

heard it many times in the past: “Son,

I'm leaving mother to you. Be a true

gentleman, always."



At the same instant his mother spoke.

“Laddie,” said she, “We‘ve got each oth-

er, even if we haven‘t much of a Christ-

mas today.”



He wheeled. the dawning light of man-

hood filling his eyes. “lVIa,” he cried,

“let’s change my mittens, and get some





for you instead. Men don't mind bare

handS.”

Mrs. Lane gave him a bright'smile.





“Perhaps," she said, “I’ll be able to get

some, too, next week.”



She opened the oven door and peeped

in. “It’s a dandy roast, son,” she laugh-

ed, “even if it isn't turkey. or goose. we

can have all we want, and some left over

for tomorrow. And there's a couple of

onions, and lots of potatoes, besides."



I'p the street came a big boy, whist-

ling, shovel in hand. John watched him

an instant, then a daring idea came to

him. \Vhy could he not get his mother

mittens?



His eyes grew bright, and his cheeks

red. Turning. he clapped his cap on his

head, buttoned his coat to the chin, and

tied his tlppet about his neck. “I'm

going out, Ma,” he called over his shoul-

into the sharp, frosty

air. .



His coat was pretty thin, and he shiv—

ered a. little. But a man shouldn‘t mind.



When he came to the great house on

the bill he went boldly up and rang the

bell. "Please.” he asked of the old lady

who opened the door, “might I finish

shoveling your paths? They’re only part-

ly done, I see.”



The woman gave him a sharp look.

“Who sent you?” she asked, and her

voice, somehow. made John think of the

long, shinning icicles hanging Just above

his head. “I thought everyone knew I

didn’t want boys bothering here.”



He lifted his boyish head high. His

bright eyes met hers fearlessly. “No one

sent me.” he declared sturdily, touching

his shabby cap, “and I didn’t know. I





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have to take care of ma . ,.

Her hands get pretty cold when '

and I thought p'rapisJ might get her

some mittens if I worked hard. ” '



“Humph!” she~.sa.id. Then: finial Christ-

mas. I should say y'Ou’d best stay at

home with her today."



The thin, pinched face of the boy so-





'bered. “We can 't barre Christmas at our

house," he declared, “only Just a dinner

what‘s going to be prime." He stepped

closer. “Lots of potatoes, and two whole

onions,” he confided, “and a great roast

of pork.” “



“Well,” she replied ungraciously, “I





haven’t even a Christmas dinner.”



Quick dismay sprang to the bright eyes.

It was such a big house. But nothing in

it! How dreadful it must be!



“Be a true gentleman always.”



It see-med to John as if the words were

spoken in his very ear. His young form

stiffened. Reaching up, he touched his

worn cap once more. “I’ll do ’em for

nothing, ‘cause you're a lady, like my

mother,” he' declared gallantly, “and then

I'll come and take you back to dinner with

us. Ma always says what we share we

never miss. Mary I have a shovel. please?"



Without speaking, she pointed to a

shovel and closed the door. ~



When he rang, half an hour later, she

came out, dressed for the street, and

walked slowly along by his side.



He threw open the door for her to enter

'when they reached home; then turned to

his mother. “Ma,” he explained, "I

brought her ’cause she hadn’t anything,

at all.”



Before Mrs. Lane could reply a heavy





step sounded outside and someone

knocked.

The old lady opened the door. “Put it





on the table, Pat," she ordered the big

Irishman who stood there, a broad smile

lighting his honest face, as, depositing a.

big basket, he hurried out.



Old Mrs. Go-ldhurst lifted the lid, the

rich silk of her gown rustling crisply as

she moved. “No matter how much one

«may chance to have,” she remarked slow—

ly, “it doesn’t make a Christmas dinner if

one has to eat it alone."



She lifted out cakes, jellies and pics, 3.

great turkey, crisp and brown, and pack-

age after package, the contents of which

John could not even guesS. “He's earned

'them," she remarked with a nod.



Then, both hands outstretched, she

stepped forward. “I'm a lonely old wom-

an,” she said to the wondering mother,

“and I'd like to eat. dinner with the wom-

an whose son is the truest gentleman I

know." She turned to John. “After din-

ner, we‘ll talk business, she added.

“Palt's getting old. We need a manly

young lad to do chores morning and

night; and—” her voice wasn‘t in the least

like icicles noww“we’ll treat you right."





A BOY’S CHRISTMAS.





 





BY CORA A. MATSON DOLSON.





“Just who planned it, I don’t know—

Mamma read it somewhere, though——

One that wrote it can’t know much

Boat a boy, to give him such,



Such a Christmas present—My!

TOWels, loops to hang ’em by,



And six wash- cloths, trimmed with braid.

Mamma says she read it made



Boys remembez to be nice—



S’pose they’d wash their faces twice

’Fore each meal, and selub ’em dry,

With these things a- hanging by!

But the roller- towel‘ d be,



I think, good enough for me.



Hardly seems like Christmas, though,

\Vith these towel gifts to show:

\Vonder if the other boys



Got such things instead of toys!

Gee, but I've got skates and ball—‘-

Guess ’tis Christmas, after all!”





SANTA CLAUS, 1913.





 





 





BY CHAS. E. JENNEY.





Old Santa’s come forth from his grotto:

“Up-to«date" is quite clearly his motto;

No jingling of bells,

But a horn hoarse-1y tells

That he drives an eight-cylinder auto.





“Left the

less;

Dined on venison cooked by the tireless;

Have a stock quite complete,

Every last wish to meet

From the millions of orders by wireless.”





reindeer for power more tire-





“Yes, the country up there is quite

dreary

Though a bear that I met seemed quite





cheery

As I came by the Pole;

He had just swallowed whole

All the records of Cook and of Peary.”





“This climbing of chimneys is tiresome;

When airshlps get cheaper I’ll hire same,

And as I float by.

- With presents piled high.

Right into each flue I will fire some. ’





He stops with a stare at the Isthmus;

Says he. “This is getting abySsmus;

I muSt trade my machine

For a new sub- marine

When I came

Christmas."





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Peggy’s Christmas Turns Out Uncommonly.

By ALTA LAWSON LITTELL. '





Peggy Ryan exclaimed rapturOusly,



stepping back to survey the gully

decked Christmas tree on which she had

just adjusted a shining red ball. “Don’t

you think so, Jack?"



“Aw, you say that every year,” her

brother Jack answered disgus'tedly. He

was sitting on the floor, hands clasped

about his drawn-up knees, on which his

chin comfortably rested. “How do I re-

member whether it is the best we ever

had? Girls are always saying things are

the handsomest and dearest and sweet-

est,” he continued with masculine con-

tempt. “Do let that ball alone, Peg.

You‘ve changed it ten times now."



“\Vell, anyhow, we aren't always trying

to pretend We don‘t care when inside

we’re tickled to death, as boys do.” said

Peggy, ignoring the last of Jack‘s re-

mark and changing the ball to a different

twig for the eleventh time. “You know,

Jack Ryan, you are just as tickled over

this tree as I am, and you jurt sit there

and pretend you don‘t care, the way

father did when the men came up and

asked him to run for supervisor. It is

the handsomest tree We ever had," she

repeated emphatically, “the very ha'nd-

s-omest. And all that bothers me is, we

haven’t a soul to share it with. livery

family in this neighborhood is just as

well off as we are. The neighbors are all

going to have Christmas trees and there

isn‘t one poor person to be kind to. l‘u-

less it is Jo Konarz, the Hungarian boy,”

she added reilectivcly.



“Don’t you worry abOut Jo Konarz,"

said Jack. “He'll have a better t‘hrist-

mas than you and I will. Over in his

country they begin to celebrate Christmas

way back in November sornctimc. and

they're going to have the grand wind—up

tonight, Jo told me."



“Oh, what are. they going to do?" Peg-

gy asked excitedly. “I always Suppmsed

Hungarians were half heathen. Isn't it

funny to think that those foreigners we

sort of looked down on when they came

here last fall are a lot like us?"



“They're going to burn the Yule log to-

night," said Jack. “Over in their coun-

try the men cut down an oak tree on

Christmas eve and the women and girls

go out and fix it up with red silk and

things. Then as the father comes in with

the tree they hold lighted candles each

side the door and throw corn over him.

Then he puts the log in the fireplace,”

continued Jack, tossing a holly leaf into

his own fireplace as he spoke, “sprinkles

corn and wine on it, and then he sets fire

to it. They put out the fire before the

log all burns up, and lay little pieces that

are left in the boughs of the fruit trees

to make them grow. -.To and his father

are out cutting the log now, and his

mother is trimming a Christmas tree.

The rest aren’t to see it till morning.”



“I wonder what Bud Simmons's grand-

father would think if he knew a foreigner

was burning a Christmas log in the fire-

place he built." mused Peggy. “\Vhat if

some Hungarian or Swede Should burn

one in ours next year?” and she gave the

fire a poke. “But it’s interesting to know

what the children in other countries do

Christmas eve." she continued. “Now in

Germany they don't help trim the tree as

we‘ve done. The father and mother trim

it with candles and stars and tinsel and

Shiny apples and funny cakes, and they

put the presents around on the table.

Then on Christmas eve along comes a

Christkind to give them presents if

they‘ve been good, and a funny old fel-

low, dressed up in skins. follows to give

them cakes and candy if they can say

their prayers,

can’t.”



“YOu read that in that book lvriss Good—

rich brought to school," Jack said pro—

vokin-gly. “I read something more. I

read that Christmas wasn’t really Christ‘s

birthday at all, but just an old heathen

holiday. Nobody knows when Jesus really

was born, and the Christians just said

Christmas day should be December 25

because the Romans had a feast for the

sun on that day. Then the Christians

could tell the heathen around them that

they must worship Jesus that day instead

of the sun.”



“I didn't see that,” Peggy answered





IT’S the handsomest one We ever had,"





i this morning?





and a. beating if they.





Slowly. “So it iSn’t really Jesus’ birth-

day at all. Well, I don‘t care what that

'books said, I shall always feel it is His

'birthday anyway. I think it is a beauti-

ful day and I’m glad the Christians took

it away from the sun. I’m glad of an-

other thing, mother,” she added, turning

to Mrs. Ryan who had just come into the

room,” “l’m glad you never taught us

that Santa Claus was real. Jessie Brown

just found out yesterday that he isn't,

and do you know what she said to me

She said she’d never like

Christmas any more now that she knew

Santa Claus was just her father in his

overcoat turned wrong side out. I‘d hate

to have all my Christmases spoiled in

that way.”



Mrs. Ryan kissed the face turned up

to her. “It is too bad,” she agreed, “but

I think Jessie will feel better when she

gets the furs I saw her mother buying

for her last week.”



“I know I would." said Peggy, giving

her mother a shrewd 10ok. “llo you know

what I'd give you on this tree if 1 could,

Mumsy dear?" she continued. “l’d give

you a woman to help you in the kitchen.

That’s what you need more than anything

else, for you are just working your pre-

cious self to skin and bones for your sel-

fish family.”



“W‘ell, so long as you can‘t give me a.

grown—up helper suppose you give me a

half-sized one and start her to picking

up this room," answered Mrs. Ryan. .lack

unwound himself, yawning, and lazily

began to help Peggy pick up the bits of

string, kernels of pop corn and leaves of

holly which they had scattered about the

room in their efforts at decorating. “Then

we‘ll all go to bed and be fresh for morn-

ing," added Mrs. Ryan.



“There's a pretty story I read some-

where," said Peggy, stooping over for the





with—I was just telling Jack we have so

much and no one poor to share it.”



“You‘re always thinking up some out-

landish thing, Peggoty,” said Jack.

“Come on down to earth and we‘ll carry

this stuff out to the kitchen stove. Here,

I’ll take the lamp. You'll get to dream-

ing about a starving babe and drop it be~

fore we get to the kitchen.” Jack took

the lamp from Peggy’s‘hhand and started

from the room.



“\Yhat was > that?” ‘Peggy asked sud-

denly as they reached the hall. “I thought

I heard a baby cry.”



“Oh, come on,” jeered Jack, “you‘ll be

hearing animals talk next, like they do in

Ireland on Christmas eve. \Vake up,

Peg. You live in the United States.

Come on to the kitchen and burn up that

stuff."



“There, I knew I heard someone,” said

Peggy at the sound of a knock. And,

dropping strings, pop corn, paper and

holly in a heap she darted to open the

door. Jack stood spellbound, for there on

the porch stood a woman with a. bundle in

her arms, from which came the muffled

cry of a baby.



“Corne right in. Peggy urged excited-

ly. “I'll call mother. Go right in that

room. Oh, mother,” she called, as she

threw open the living-room door, "here’s

the child now, just when I was talking

about it.”



The woman paused bewildered in the

lighted hall, quite taken aback by Peg-

g,\"s incoherent welcome. Mrs. Ryan came

forward quietly. “(‘ome in Where it is

warm,” she said kindly to the tired—look-

ing stranger, “and Peggy, dear, hadn't

you better pick up the things you drop-

ped and take care of them?" She drew

the woman into the warm living-room.

and Peat-{y and Jack, understanding that

they wore to leave their mother alone to

find out the meaning of the stranger's

Visit, departed fcr the kitchen.



“Oh, it's just like in books,” Peggy

said ecstatically. "Something really has

happened instead of just the ordinary

common Christmases. She’s dropped right

down from the clouds so we could have

someone to share Christmas with."



“Huh.“ grunted Jack, “more likely

she’s walked up the road from the inter—

urban, looking for someone she knows out

here and has just stopped to ask the way.

\Vhy can't ymi be sensible, Peggy“? \Vhat

do you suppose she thought of you pranc-





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last elusive, holly leaf, “about a little child

coming to a German house just at night-

fall one Christmas eve. It was crying

piteously and the hausfrau, who hadn’t

much to eat herself, took it in and divid-

ed her bite with it. Just as the child

swallowed the last mouthful the room was

suddenly as bright as day and the wom-

an saw that it was really the Christ-child

she had fed. Wouldn't it be nice if things

like that really did happen? Maybe we

wouldn’t really see the child change, but

if there was someone we could divide





 





ing around there, in the hall talking about

‘the child‘?"



“\Vell, it came So right on top of what

I had been thinking about that I couldn't

help getting eXcited. If she just came to

ask the way, she’s staying at long time,”

Peggy replied.



Ten minutes paSsed, and still there was

no sound of the woman’s leaving the

house. Then Mrs. Ryan called Mr. Ryan

into the room and the children heard the

murmur of voices.



“I’ll surely burst if this keeps up much





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A CHRISTMAS HYACINTH.





 





BY SUSAN M. KANE.





 





A pot of flowers is a charming gift for

Christmas. The bulb in this picture cost

7c. These perfect bIOSsom shoots ap-

peared three weeks after being brought

into the light. A card bearing the fol—

lowing verse, the pot (laintily wrapped in

white tissue paper and tied with a bit. of

ribbon delighted both giver and recipient

last year.



Ah, little hyacinth, no sw‘eeter thing



In all the world could one be getting.

Fragrance from all your tiny bells will



ring,



.\ud tell, for days, I fondly you've bcen



petting. ,

(lave light and heat, and water ne'er

forgetting,



’l‘ill from the hard brown bulb you uscd



to be,

God’s gift of beauty sprang, with its

green setting,



And to my friend a Christmas joy



you'll be,



She‘ll love. you—a gift from tlod and mel





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longer,” said Peggy. “\\'hat in the world

can they be talking about, Jack?"



Even Jack. who had pretended indiffer-

ence. began to admit his interest.



“Maybe the place she started for is so

far she wants to stay all night," he haz-

arded.



“No, that’s not it." said Peggy. “If it

had been, mother would have settled it

without calling in father. I'm going to

find out. If mother doesn't want me she

can send me away again. I simply can't

stand it any longer,” and Peggy darted

down the hall and, softly opening the

door, crept into the room and to her

mother’s side.



“And so 1 took the baby and left the

city.” the girl was saying, for now that

her Wraps had fallen off in the heated

room, l‘eggy say she was scarcely more

than a girl. "There wasn’t much chance

for me there, and if you'll keep me, I'll

work my fingers to the bone to please

you. ma‘am."



“It‘s the helper I wished for you, moth-

er," whispered Peggy, eagerly clutching

her mother's sleeve.



She watched her father’s face as her

mother’s eyes sought his. “ ‘lnasmuch,’ ”

he began huskily; then, “I think she had

better stay."





TWO WAYS OF GIVING.





 





BY IRMA T. SOPEB.



There was once a man who had much

to say about the things he had given

away at Xmas time. And, about the

cost, he ranted so much you would think

’twas lost—the money he'd Spent at the

Xmas time, when all should be happy and

joy bells chime.



“Last year,” he said, “I gave John a

chair. ’Twas leather and oak, and a.

gorgeous affair. Just ‘thank you' he

wrote; but he never came near. 1 think

that his brain must be quite out of gear."



To a niece he had sent a fine NVHU‘l]

and a chain, and met with the same old

“thank you” again. SO it went. To his

servants he gave each a bill. and gifts to

his neighbors. just over the hill. But

whate’er the present—a chair or a book

——they all said, “I’d rather get one pleas-

ant look.”



And the man simply wondered, and

wondered some more, why they were not

grateful, the rich and the poor. Poor fel-

low! He never had looked in the glass

or he’d known why such state of things

came to pass. For so sour and so crab-

bed and cranky was he that a smile on

his features 'not ,once c0uld you see. He

needed. to change him, some comfort and
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cheer, and smiles and kind greetings from

friends far and heal. - But, never a one

Of them thought it worth while “He‘s

c1anky with us and at him well not

smile."



Novw 01w, in the same town dwelt a quite

different man, who worked and who play-

ed on the opposite plan. For, so cheery

and happy and whistling was he, that all

who came near him were glad as could

be. At Xmas he said, “I’ve no money to

spare, no gifts can I purchaSe, but good

cheer I’ll share." So he smiled at the

rich, and he smiled at the poor; a. kind

word for all who might come by his door.

And a bright “Merry Xmas" and -“Hap-

py New Year" greeted children and grown

folks on days dark or clear. He helped

many troubles, eased many a care, and

where. Then when someone asked why

So sunny was he, he said: “I’m so happy

i just have to be." 4



So you, from this jingle, a lesson may

:ift: There's more in the giving than lies

in the gift.





 





AN UNEXPECTED SWAP.





 





BY WARREN ICHLER.



The three of us were tramplng along

the dusty road to Little Bear creek in

charge of John Ashe, our guide and friend

of many seasons of bass fishing, when a

buggy, drawn by a fat, plodding bay

mare, rattled past us.



in the buggy sat two white—haired but

vigorous looking old men, and as they

passed Wt noticed that both leaned far

out of the bug-:11 to call a cordial greet-

ing to John.



“John, who are those men? ' I asked,

idly curious. ”They look almost like

brothers and certainly seem intimate

Miough to be brothers. I’ve seen them

together several times in the last few

days."



John turned to me and said severely,

“Havi- you bin coniln’ up to Little Bear

for ten not heard of Billy

llaworth an‘ Job Ilawley? \\1'ell. well, an'

1111: wife sayin' l'm glttin' to talk so much

that l'n1 scarin' all the bass out uh Little

Hear.



“liowstunever.

yo this much;





so-asons 4111’





1.





he continued, “l'll tell

there was a time not so

yory long ago when them two old men

Wouldn't no more a' rode with each other

than they'd a‘ rode with th' (11d Boy his-

solt‘. Th' one on this side, as they passed

11s, wuz old Job llawley. He owns th’

hundred an' sixty (diagonally) acrost the

section from 11111, an' old iilly llaworth

owns th' quarter section right acroSt th’

load t'run1 him on th‘ south."



Having delivered this infor111a11ou John

trudged on in gloomy silence, but our ex—





;criencc with him had taught us that

“UUIICI‘ or later a tale of two old men

..ould be forthcoming, and that, unless

John had changed mightily, the story





would i111 interesting.



“John." said the lawyer, winking at me

as he spoke. “Ain‘t you going to tell us

:bout the trouble between those two old

men and how they managed to settle it?"

walkin’ don’t go well to-

;zether," answered John oraculnrly, “spe—

t-ial' if you got a lot uh wadin' to do like

we have. Secin‘ as you seem to want to

sit inc started, l’ll tell you all about it

lliis ovenin' if I‘ don‘t foi‘gil."



We all knew that the story was as-

sured by this. for old John never missed

:1 chance to relate any choice bit of neigh-

savingr himself from the

iuilings of other gossips by emphasizing,

in his dry way, the humorous side of ov—





“Talkin' an’





lmxliood gossip,





cry incident.

Act-ordingly,

stretched on the





that evening, as we lay

grass; of his dooryard





after a thoroughly satisfying day with

nature and tho ('11i’it‘0 bass, it required

very little urging to get John fairly

started.





“You sec it W117. this way,” he began,

pulling hard on his corn-cob pipe to help

his memory, “Old Billy an’ .lob wuz

kind uh forty-Second cousins an'

ZiVud neighborin' there on them two

places for near thirty years untilabout

:even or eight years ago when the trou—

hie between ’em started.



“Old Billy decided one year that a big

ditch was what he needed to drain his

land. an’ accordingly he gits up a peti-

tion an' lays th’ matter before the super-

visors in th' reg‘lar way.



“Now. uh course, the only way he could

run his ditch was through old Job’s farm

an’ on down to Big Bear creek. I ain't

goin’ to say whether old Billy was right

or not, but anyway old Job made a most

awful ruction about th' ditch. claiming it

wouldn’t benefit nobody an’ so wuz a

useless expense to th’ taxpayers an' so

on. an’ he finally caps the climax by git-

tin’ an’ injunction an’ stoppin' th' hull





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THE MICHIGAN F'ARMER





{‘Naterly Billy Haworth was pretty

sore, an’ 'him an' Job had some words

that nobody heard but their wives, an’

first off anyone knew, Old Job an’ Billy

wasn’t visitin’ back an’ forth ner speak-

in’ when they met.



“Well, you know how folks is in a

neighborhood quarrel an’ this’n wasn‘t

no exception. Some sided with Billy an’

some with Job, an’ between th’ friends of

Job comin’ to. him an’ tellin’ him what

Billy had said, an’ Billy’s friends tcliin’

him what Job had threatened, I guess

that perticler quarrel was pretty Well

haShed over.” John paused and refilled

and lighted his pipe.



“Go on, John,” urged the lawyer, im—

patiently, “How did they settle it?”



“Hold on now, Mr. Lawyer,” chuckled

John, “I’m comin' to that an’ you ain’t

got me on th' witness stand, nohow, you

know.” The lawyer subsided under the

indignant glances of the rest of us.





“Well's I was sayin, John continued,

having secured a good light, “Th’ neigh-

borhood busy-bodies all had their say—-

now Sairy." (this to his wife- who was

looking at him sharply) “you needn‘t look

at me. fer all th’ sayin’ I done was here

at home to you—an’ things had appar-

ently settled down agin‘. Th’ case was

decided in faVo;-,uh old Job. an’ old Billy

went out th’ courthouse that day vowin‘

it'd be a long time before he ever broke

silence with Job Ilawley.



“Things drug along an' drug along that

way fer five years, till last April Fool’s

day, an‘ migiht a been draggin’ along that

way yit but fer some uh Lem Curtin’s

foolishness.



“Guess you never any of you met Lem

(,‘urtin, but anyway he works a little farm

over on ’tother side uh Little Bear an'

was born with nothin’ but jokes an' fool-

ishness in his noodle, leastways that’s all

that ever comes out.”



"You boys must git John started some-

time ttr-lliu' about how Lem pitched up a

bumble-beeS’ nest to John in the hay

mow one hay harvest," interrupted Mrs.





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Ashe.



“Now. Sairy.” said her husband some-

what shcepishly. “l‘m tellin’ ’em another

story, an’ anyway I fixed Mr. Lem good





for that piece of smartnesS,“

irrelevantly.



“\Yell. anyways." he went on, “all this

what I'm a comin’ to happened one April

Fool's day; it‘ll be two years come next

April



“Fool's day come on Saturday that year

an‘ that was pic for Lem Cu tin an his

gang 11h ‘hoodlums, fer everybody roun’

here goes to town Saturdays an’ so he

had ’em all in a bunch, so to speak, to

work on.



“\Veil, ”mongst other things they done

was changing th‘ patch over Harve Slo-

cum’s blind eye to this good one while

he was sittin’ slewun’ alongsme the gro-

cery store with moic'n his usual load 11h

hard cider. Th‘ pore old teller like 'to

went crazy when he woke up, thinkin'

fer a minit er so that 1he‘d gone blind.



“\\'ell ’bout three or four in th’ after-

noon, when i'olks was beginnin’ to git

ready to go home, Lem thinks up th’ big-

gest joke of all.



“ ‘\\'oul-l11‘t it be fun, fellerS,‘ he says,

l'ncle Billy Haworth





an’ plenty

he concluded





‘to swap horses 121;-

an’ ['ncle Job‘."



“Well, some of ’em was fer doin’ it an’

some was kinder Scared of it, but in th’

end Lem had his way.



“ ‘But how‘ll we do it,’ one of th’

ast. ‘Someone'll See us an’ tell.’



“ ‘Fasy as pie,’ Suys Lem. ‘l'll git in

l ncle Billy s bu ggy an’ give out that he

ast me to take- th' old mare down to git

shod. One of you fellows do th’ rame

with Little Job's rig an’ we'll swap them

two old mares in no time down behind

th’ grist Inill!’



“\\'ell. 'twas easy enough, as it turned

out, an' nobody ’spicioned anything, fer

th’ two mares was full sisters an’ looked

just alike. That was one of ’em, l‘ncle

Billy's old Kate, that you seen him driv—

in‘ this mornin', an‘ Uncle Job’s Betsy is

a sure match fer her anywheres.



“Uncle Billy’s Kate was a good enough

old mare without no faults an’ kind as

they make ’em; but old Betsy was mean

tempered an' would ’casion'lly balk,

though Job had ’bout cured her by lettin'

her have her own way mOst uh th’ time

an’ puttiu‘ dirt in 'her mouth when she

got stubborn. But, course, Uncle Billy

didn‘t know that trick.



“Sairy had walked acrost th’ (fields an’

gone to town with Uncle Billy that after-

noon, ‘5 I was busy with th’ oats ground

an’ couldn't leave. So she rode home

with Uncle Billy an' Mrs. Haworth, an’

naterly seen all what happened.



“You know how ’tls with horses. Some-

times they’ll balk like sin fer one man





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an‘ never try it ’tall on another one.

Well, old Betsy hadn‘t been up to any of

her tricks in quite a spell I guess, but

Lem had hitched her up pretty tight

when she was ust to free harness an’ a

free rein, an' she started for home in .i

pretty bad temper, I reckon.



“Then, too. (Tm-1e Billy bad a 'habit uh

twitchin’ an’ jerkin’ at tli’ lines, an’ old

BetSy u'aSn't used to that, so I reckon

that it wasn‘t no wonder that she finally

balked an’ stood set us a stone'rlght at

th' corner back uh my place here.



“Uncle Billy never carried rm gad for

old Kate, an’ besides it was so new fer

him that he was all busted up over it.



“ ‘I can’t imagine what’s got inter old

Kate,‘ says] he, gettin’ out an’ lookiii’ ov-

er tli’ harness careful like. ‘I’d take- oath

1 never hitched up so tight, but I reckon

Tom has been foolin' with this set uli

harness agaiu.’ Tom was his nephew that

stayed with him.



“He fooled around an‘ done all he knew

to start old Betsy; but she naterly didn't

understand it when he called her Kate,

an' was enjoyin’ balkin’ anyway, since

she wasn't. liavin’ no clods stuck in llCI‘

mouth.



“Sairy an’ Mis’ Haworth was fer gittin’

out an’ walkin’ home, but Uncle Billy

said he‘d git goin’ again in a minut er

SO, an’ just ’bout that time, here comes

Uncle Job drivin‘ old Kate, bound fer

home. too.



“Th’ road's awful narrow back there,

you know, an’ Uncle Billy was right in

th’ middle of it, so Job just miterly had

to stop an’ wait on him.



“At first he wouldn’t say nothin,’ just

kinder set there grinnin’, an’ Uncle Billy,

seein’ it, begun to git madder an' mad-

der.



“At last Job couldn't hold in no longer

an’ leaned out an’ says, sarcastic like,

‘How much longer are you goin‘ to con-

tinue obstructin’ the public highway, Bill

Ha worth 1" -



“ ‘Bout as long’s you continue obstruct-

in’ that ditch, I reckon', returns Uncle

Billy, tryin' to lead old Betsy to one side.



“It was gittin’ a little dusk by that

time an’ both of ’em was wantin‘ to git

home. Besides, Uncle Billy was pretty

Sore over Job’s ketchin’bim in such a

fix. ’ ’



“ ‘This is a nice state uh things,” says

Job. real slow an' scornful, ‘wlien folks

is held up on th’ public road by old busy-

bodies that can't handle their own horses.‘





“Mis’ Hawley tried to say somethin’ to

calm him down but he was liavin’ too

much fun with Uncle Billy fer that.



“ ‘Seems‘s I ain't holdin’ up nobody but

them that obstructs justice an' I ain’t

worryin’ ’3 much '5 I might,’ answers

Uncle Billy.



“They was some more words passed.

with Mis’ Haworth an’ Mis’ Hawley an’

Salt-y. too. tryin’ to calm them two old

roosters down. but 'twasn’t no sort of

use, an’ at some perticler cuttin’ remark





 





11h Job’s Uncle Billy's patience give clean

out.



“ ‘l.)oggone you, Job Hawley’. the yells,

‘I kin lick you on less ground than you

stand on if you are five years older'u I

am.



“Old Job commenced (‘limbiii’ out uli

his rig, with his wife tryin‘ to hold him

in, an' Salty an‘ Mis Huwortli was

screamiu' to beat time. I reckon the'

was some excitement fer a few miniiits.





i





“let‘oru them two old men (-mild git

more than good an’ squared off (it each

other though, who should come drivm’

up but Lem Curtin hiSSelf.



“‘\Vhat's goin’ on here?’ Ilie ast. not

beiii’ able to git past for their blockiii’

the road.



“'I‘lu-n be seen what tli’ trouble was an’

be just roared an’ ‘liee—hawed.



“I will say fer him, though. that he got

down an' stopped them two old codgei‘s

from makiii’ an' evez'lastiri‘ Spectacle uh

theii‘selves an’ fiii‘ly, between spasms.

he managed to tell about his. joke an' git

them two old tellers to swuppin' horses

back agin.



“After they found out what tli’ trouble

was it didn‘t take long for Job an’ Billy

to git straightened out, for Uncle Job

soon stopped BetSy's balkiu' streak; but

Lem had to git in his rig an’ drive Off

pretty fast to keep both t‘liem old men

from mobbiu’ him. As ’this, they both

swore they’d have tli’ law on him.



“Somehow el' Ol’llt‘z‘ them two old men

found themselves agi‘eeiii’ with each oth-

er in abusin‘ Lem. an’ talkin’ to each

other in swappin’ their horses back, an’

Mis Hziwortlli an‘ Sairy aii‘ )Iis Hawlcy

'was liavin’ a l‘cill good visit together,



“They didn't say notlilii' more after

they gut hitched upu'ig‘lil'. but tb‘ noxt

nio:'nlii' Job came siilliii’ into L'nclo Bil-

ly's yard 311’ says: ‘Billy, I been think-

in' things over laSt night an’ that ditch

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when he turned 'roun’ aud’ sayS, ‘Mother

an’ me‘s expet‘tiri’ you an Mis Haworth

over to supper this cvenin.; remember

were not goin' to take no for an answer.’



“Settled out of court," remarked the

lawyer as John refilled his pipe.



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mit that the writer hit it off exactly

right. It is not good for man to live

alone, nor for woman, nor for families.

Man is a gregarious animal, and when he

ceases to be sociable and shuts himself

up within himself, he at once gets into

trouble.



God never intended us to live as so

many American families do nowadays,

so hard put to it to make both ends meet

that when the day’s work is over we are

too tired, or too grouchy, to have any-

thing to say to our fellows. \Ve can’t

very Well get along without the work un-

der the existing trust rule and reign of

high priceS, but surely we can inject a

little more beauty into life by at least

making an effort to be friendly. And our

reward will come in the form of renewed

strength and inspiration to take up the

battle on the morro-w.



Living'alone gets us too much into the

habit of introepection. \Ve arrive at ev-

ening tired and out of sorts. Instead of

refreshing ourselves with a bath and

clean clothes and dropping into one of

the neighbor’s for a half hour or an

hour’s chat, we slump down into a chair,

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bly or to ourselves, about the innate per-

versity of things mundane. Everything

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unreliable and hard to get. the roads bad,

taxes certain, and nothing good under the

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“DAY OF THE JOY OF GIVING.”





 





BY SUSAN KANE.



Here and there the tree-clad hills that

walled the valley down which we were

driving showed bits of gold and ruby.

Nearer at hand were a few signs of de-

cay in the russet-brown of the ferns and

low growth. \Ve ran along a river that

leaped the ragged rocks in its bed and

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the sea. And the sea was before us.

broad, peaceful, glorified in the light of





the wonders of a setting sun into which

we Were racing. Hill was answering to

hill, giving up its light at the call of the

sun. The colors began to mingle, the

quiet shadows came and the hum of the

engine murmured with the voice of the

stream as We, billowed into the dimming

reaches of the road.





It was then my companion’s voice. like

a discordant tone in an otherwise beauti~

ful harmony, reached my ears, and this

is what she said: “Oh, dear! The Crisp-

ness in the air makes me think of Christ—

mas, and Christmas is a nightmare to

me!”



The loveliest of feSItivals; the tendercst,

most human, and best of all our holidays!

Yet there are those who have so garbled

the spirit of [the hallowed and gracious

time, that even in the midst of the retire-

ment of a glorious day, they could enter.

tain sordid thoughts of the obligations we

upon ourselves at the ChriStmas

season.





”We are at a time of transition in many

reforms for the uplift of all the people.

In most of these movements there is the

necessity to leave old age and create the

new, to bring about the right condition.

Christmas is not the day of the joy of

taking, that means selfishness, and the

whole Christmas structure would have

crumbled ages ago had it been built

around that. Christmas giving and not

the day, has become a nuisance to some

of us, a nightmare to many. A reform in

Christmas glving has begun, Is needed.

but it must come through a backward

movement, back to the time when it was

a “Day of the joy of giving—that means

love."



“The gift without the giver is bare,”

and the giver is not represented in tokens

the contemplated purchase and presenta-





 





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it make them a. bit different for us to

grumble about them? NOt a particle.

Werrying and complaints never altered a

wrong. “'orse than that, much brooding

over our troubles only unnerves us and

makes us that much less fit to meet our

problems and soilvc. them.



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Instead of shutting ourselves up at

home and turning our woes over and over

in our minds, how much better to get out

and see how other folk fare. If we look

about us and talk to our friends we will

always find that we are not alone in our

misery. And though it always seems a

sneaking sort 'of consolation to me, it is

certainly a fact that misery loves com-

pany. It eases up your load a great deal,

to find that the other fellow is squaring

his shoulders to carry a similar package.

And the way he meets his problems will

furnish yoti with ideas and courage to

tackle your own. Get into the other fel-

low’s life if you want your own to be

easier, and not alone for that, but that

you may make him happier, too.



Personally, I have- always desplSed a

whincr or a quittcr. \Ve all have Our

own problems to solve, our own obstacles

to surmount, and it is by making our-





selves master of the situation that we

develop character. Yet how many, in-

=~tcad of meeting the issue squarely and





cheerfully, get behind somebody else, or

else do the task with complaints and bit-

terness of spirit.



lnvai‘iably, it is the unsocial churl who

sidesteps. The chap who is cheery and

big-hearted will shoulder his load uhcom-

plainingly. lie can see that the other

fellow has his problem, too.



DEBORAH.





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harassment. If the offense of paSS-

inconceivable reique labeled

(‘hristmas gifts remained alone with the

givers. they might suffer for their sins

without wholly marring the beauty of the

sacred time. More often. those who re-

ceive are embarrassed, for they feel that

presents of like or greater value are ex-

pected in return, that they are pressed to

spend when they cannot afford the mon—





and

ing out such





ey for such purposes. So the bargain

counter is sought, the attic is searched;

things are 'brOught out which were re-





ccived last Christmas for which they hazl

no possible use and the exchange is made.



To open the purSe and buy gewgaws

for one, a score, or 50 persons is not

(.‘hrisitmas giving in the finest and highest

senSe of the term. It is making of the

season one of waste, a lottery, a rivalry

in light-minded conduct. But there are

good gifts and the best are those made

by the fingers that toil, gifts into which

we, have put our heart and soul, making





them an expression of our thought and

our love. Such gifts go to those, who

much our live“: to thOSe whom we wish





to remember with a gracious thoughtful-

ness; to those into whose lives we wish

to take a gleam of the light of the true

Christmas spirit.



God’s gift to the world of His only be-

gotten Son on Christmas day was His

expression of love. And it is only love-

gifts that will make our Christmastide a

season of joy to be anticipated and re-

membered, a time of “Peace on earth,

good will to men.” '



NOVEL CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

..__L~—_

BY L. M. THORNTON.



\Vhen the dry goods stores have their

sales of toweling remember that Christ-

mas time is not so very far away. and

among the most serviceable of home-made

gifts are those in which dainty towels

play an impgrtant part.



From the unbleached toweling, the kind

with a blue or red stripe, make a wash

day apron that will he as unique as it is

useful. Measure 21 length of the towel-

ing that will extend from the waist to the

knees of the one to whom it is to be giv-

en 'and to this length add enough to turn

up for six or‘seven inches, the turned up

portion forming a pocket for clothespins.



Hem the lower edge turn up on the out-

side, forming the pocket, and stitch on





~Raise





A





either edge and also through the middle.

This makes really three pockets but the

pins can be easily gotten when thus dis-

tributed and will not all be to one slide,

to the inconvenience of the wearer. Gath-

er the top and stitch it firmly to strings

of heaVy linen in the same color as the

apron, or to ribbons of the same color as

the stripes.





HOME QUERIES.





 





Household Editor:—Is there any way

of removing the cream separator oil from

my kitchen floor? Several boards where

the separator stood have become saturat-

ed with the oil, making a very unsightly

spot. The floor is of hard maple—C.

C. F.



Who has had similar trouble?—Ed.



Household EditOrz—At what hour would

you give a. party for boys and girls of 12

to 14 years of age? My daughter wants

to give an evening party. and I think she

is t00 young. She is 13.-——Anxious Mother.



Boys and girls of the age you mention

should be tucked away in bed by 9:30 at

the very latest every night. I should

think you might better give the party

Saturday afternoon, when the young folks

can spend apart of the time out of doors.

Or comp;omise by having them come di-

rectly from school Friday. Serve them

a good substantial supper, then games

:ntil 8:30 and home. Midweek evening

)arties are responsible for m0st of the

school failures.





Household Editorz—My little girl, seven

years old, has to walk a mile and a half

through the snow to school. Can you

suggest an outfit to help keep her warm?

~Mrs. M. .



DreSS her in comfortable fitting wool

underwear, with wool dresses and bloom-

ers to match the dress. Bloomers instead

of pettfcoats are much warmer and more

sensible for little girls her age.



Household Editorz—I have two children,

two and four years old. They haVe play-

ed outdoors all summer and fall and now

it is cold they still want to go out. But

they just stay a out a few minutes and

get cold and then want to come in. and

as soon as they get warm they want to

be bundled up and go out again. It

seems to me I am all the time taking off

coats and rubbers and putting them on

again. My mother says to keep them in

all the time, but it seems as though they

would be better to get the air. What

would you advisc?——M. K.



It may console you to know that you

are only one of several hundred thousand

mothers worried by the same problem.

\Vith children the age of yours it does

seem that a mother can waste an entire

morning with “bundling up" children. ‘I

should think the best thing to do would

be to keep the children in until the sun

is well up, say 10 or 10:30 a. m., then

wrap them up warmly in good wool

clothes with warm leggings and over-

shoes and send them out in the sun for

an hour and a half. They could stand

this on all but the coldest days. Then

after the afternoon nap, let them out

again while the sun is nice. While they

are indoors have them play in a well—

ventilated room, or you could leave their

wraps on and send them into a room with

the windows wide open. An easy way to

ventilate is to cut boards four inches wide

of a length to just lit into the window.

the lower sash. place this board

under it and draw the window down to

touch the board. This leaves a crack be-

tween the upper and the lower sash where

the air can enter.



Household Editor:—~.\t what age would

you let a child bare tea and coffee?—

Young Mether.



I should never let a child have tea and

coffee at any—age. They do not need the

stimulant. Instead, give them good pure

milk and a cup of cocoa occasionally in

cold weather. CocOa contains a stimu-v

lant, as do tea and coffee but it does not

seem so harmful.





‘Home.made Insect Powder.



Please repeat the proportions to be used

in making the insect powder described in

your poultry columns some months ago.

The ingredients, as I remember them,

were plaster of paris, gasoline and ear-

bolic acid.



Ingham Co. S. A. C.



The recipe referred to calls for 2% lbs.





plaster of paris, $54 pt. gasoline and 34 pt.

crude carbolic acid. Mix the ingredients

thoroughly and when sufficiently dry

work the mixture through a fine sieve.
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co'LDs "AND HOW‘Tp CURE THEM.»

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By ANNA RUTHERFORD.



At this season of the year when the

temperature is variable and the mgercury

is often precipitated with great sudden-

ness, it-ls not at all uncommon to hear

people complain of having caught cold.

What is good for. or what will cure a

cold? is a common question and one that

the sufferer from this disagreeable com-

plaint is always prone to ask. In reply to

it I would suggest the old adage, “pre-

vention is better than cure.” For, though

there are many ways to ameliorate un-

pleasant symptoms and aid towards re—

covery, unless a cold is checked in its in-





cipiency it must “run its course." So I

will repeat, prevention is better than

cure, and is certainly easier. Keep the





body comfortable, do not oppress by too

\heavy clothing, and do not under-dress.



Vanity is the cause of many colds.

Young girls—and women of full mature

years, for that matter. love to hold on to

their sheer summer garments and reveal

bare arms and necks regardless of chilly

dampness and biting blasts. And not only

ordinary colds but many a case of ’grippe

aitd even consumption is developed in this

way. Reason and personal comfort are

always one's safest guide-s.



Some pcoplc are. so methodical that they

never vary their rules.‘ They are govern-

ed by the season, not the weather. I

know a man of this type whose overcoat

goes in the packing chest in April and is

not brought out again until November no

matter how the mercury varies Just so.

many house-keepers begin to pack away

their blankets and quilts when the first

balmy spring breezes begin to blow and

they remain packed all summer. It is al-

ways well to have sufficient wraps and

bed-covering within convenient reach at

all times.



Now the best thing to do when one

realizes that one is taking cold is to get

the body thoroughly warm. A cold is

simply a congested condition of the nasal

organs and bronchial tubes or some other

internal portion of the body and you want

to promote capillary circulation. draw the

blood to the surface. This is the secret of

dispelling a cold. Then eat sparingly,

avoiding all meats and rich, heavy foods.

Over-eating, clogging the system, is of

itself, a prolific source of colds. There is

not a grain of Wisdom in the old saying.

“stuff a cold and starve a fever,” but

plenty of cold water is good for both.

Have your room well ventilated. without

draughtS, and take plenty of rest. At

bedtime take a dose of quinine and cover

so warmly that you will, perspire freely

during the night. Then do not cool off

but rub dry before getting out of bed.

Repeat the quinine and sweating next

night if necessary.



Brisk massage of the tip of the nose

will often prevent development of a cold

if done at the very outset.





Another remedy, said to be. most of—

fectual if used in time, is half a tea-

spoonful of bread soda and half a tea-

spoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia

in half a cup of boiling water. Take at

bed time.



Comparative immunity from colds and





hardiness of constitution may be acquired

by having plenty of fresh air in the sleep-

ing rooms at all times, engaging in hearty

out-door exercise and sports. and gradu-

ally accustOming the body to cold baths.

And these are especially effectiVe it be-

gun in childhood or early life.





 





 





 





THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.





 





BY V. T. W.





To beat the meat trust every farmer

should grow his own meat.



Perhaps it will do no harm to tell how

we do it at our house. iVe kill yearling

beef, and sell more or less, according to

Orkneeds. we can some of the fresh beef

and com the greater part of the rest. “'6

do not make the brine very strong, the

meat is just right to cook Without fresh-

ening, and to the brine we add three or

four pounds of sugar, preferably brown.

Saltpctre should be used sparingly as it

makes the meat hard. Better leave it out

than get in too much. Pour the brine on





‘ boiling hot‘.





Late in the winter we dry a portion

and, as it grows warmer weather we be-

gin canning what is left. We cook until

perfectly done and can in Mason jars.

Stored in a cool place it will keep quite a

long time and is very good



Our pork is also salted just enough to

be good, and to the brine for a barrel of

pork we add a. quart of good cooking mo-

lasses.



Soak the meat over night in ‘a weak

brine, poured on hot. It is sometimes





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THE M 1‘ c H i G A N [F Ag-R ?M'".E':R





necessary to pour'the brine of!

it over.



In the spring, we take a. largevbarrel

and with pieces of wire bent like a paint-

er's hook we hang pieces of meat all

around the inside of the barrel, not allow-

ing them to touch each other. Vl'e then

put two or three inches of /ashes in an old

pail, on which we put a few live coals

and a few cobs, set in the barrel and

cover all with a cloth, and over that.

boards. \‘Ve do this every day till cured

to suit. Do not leave close to a building.

it kept dry the meat can be left in the

barrel till used up. It is well to build 3.

Smoke under it once in a while.



Or take cooking molasses, stir quite

thick with black pepper and paint the

smoked meat with it. “'e have kept meat

this way until September and the only

reason it didn't keep longer was. there

wasn‘t any to keep. Lean pork can be

canned if one cares to do so, and makes

a change from salt pork.



People always say our meat is so good.

The sugar fur beef and molasses fer pork

makes all the difference in the world. All

raise chickens, and it seems to

me that by using a little forethought, yes,

and a little hard work, there is no need

of the farmer making the trip to town

and paying a big price for cold storage or

enibalnied meat.





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WINTER PLANTS GROWN IN WATER.

BY DlR. L. K. HIRSHBERG.



To grow plants without soil is a plea.“-

ant winter diVersion and a means by

which green things may be had without

the trouble and dirt of an ordinary win-

dow box. Mort-over, the soilless garden

is more or less IIUVt‘I and far more inter-





esting than D‘v’ttcd plunts.



(.lo, iii-:t. to a ilorist and buy a few

bulbs, Lot too many to lwgin with, if you

are '1“ amateur gardener. (.‘hinesc lily

bulbs~ whit $1.40 a dozen or thereabouts;

white paper narcissus bulbs may be had

’1‘: about 40 cents: a dozen, and Utln-r





sorts are oven ('hc‘iper. lloman hvacinlhs

inid for almost any price. but thi-

lluiw bulbs cost 10 and 12 cents





int-x b.-





a; .

[my Iliv liyaciutihs the tall, iii'cttil.\'-

sliaiw-l aldsscs- made Just to:- the purpose

are most (ll-.l‘ut'lth‘. [f you prefer. how-

ey'cr, can use a llat glass bowl for

your gal-dun and plant a number of bulbs

in it among; small stonew‘ and pebbles. A

little Salltl may be Ilf"‘(lt‘<l to hold the

bulbs upright until they get started.



The Clllilt‘>~t' lily is the best of all flow-

ers for the amatcur water gardener. It

does not requiri- starting in the dark, as

most bulbs do, and it will come into

blmnn in 40 days, Cover the bottom Of

a glass bowl with pebbles. and set the

bulbs among them, having first taken off

tllc hardest layer of dried brown skin.

'l’ill the bowl with water until it half sub-

merges the bulbs. From time to time,

as the water becomes muddy and impure,

pour in fresh water, flooding out the wat-

er in the bowl.



Do not tip the bowl or try to p0ur out

the water, or you will diSturb the roots

and hinder the growth of the plant.

Gently drip out the water after flooding

the bowl, so that the dish is filled just

half way up the bulbs.



The glass in which hyacinth bulbs are

grown should be of clear glass, so that

the growth of the roots may be watched

from day to day. This is one of the most

interesting parts of growing plants in

Plant the hyacinth bulbs in the

glasses so that the root surface of thc

bulb just touches the water and set it

in a cool, dark place until the roots are

fully grown and small sprouts are put

forth at the top. This will take from six

weeks to two months. Then bring the

plants out gradually to the light. Do not

place them in the direct sunlight until

they have become accustomed to the

light.



In buying bulbs for Water growth, tell

the tlorist that they are to be grown in

water and he can help you choose those

specific varieties that will bloom best and

quickest in water.





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Your Methods and Your Markets.





fruit and vegetables to meet the



exacting demands of the quality

market the next problem confronting the

grower is that of beating the other fel-

low in early productiOn, to be first on the

market with quality produce. In these

days the grower needs both practical and

scientific knowledge of the requirements

of his crops from start to finish. A few

days’ time in the ripening of the crop

often means a big difference in the prices

obtained for it in the market.



Starvation is a common cause of afruit

A large crop of choice fruit

cannot be obtained without a normal

healthy growth of the tree or plant.

Healthy trees and plants that are provid-

ed with liberal quantities of plant food.

eSpecially phosphorus and potassium, will

usually withstand and outgrow attacks of

disease and produce fruit earlier than

growing under less favorable conditions.



The selling of grapes, peaches, pears,

plums, cherries, and other perishable

fruits to hotels and groceries is more sat-

isfactory than attempting to reach the

exclusive family trade. Excellent oppor—

tunities for this direct trade with grocer-

ies may be found in small cities, and in

the suburbs and finest residential districts

of large cities. By meeting the grocery-

man, studying the class of fruit he is

selling and making a special effort to

meet his wants from day to day, it is

possible to get him interested in pushing

your products with his best customers and

in that way work off about What you pro-

duce. The gr‘oceryman will be found thc

best Customer for the grower of quality

fruit who has the desired quantities to

deliver two or three times each wcck

throughout the $821,501]. By putting up the

fruit in neat and attractive packages. of

the size best suited to his trade, it light-

ens his work of going to markct and sort-

ing over his stock and he will be glad to

have a regular supply of quality fruit to

offer his chtOmeis.



As a rule, the big hotels pay better

prices than the grocerymcn, but their

daily demands Vary to such an extent

that they prefer to deal with commission

men, who are well equipped to furnish

them with varying quantities from day to

day. In the case, however, of dessert ap-

ples, bagged grapes and fruit that can be

held in storage and delivered to them

regularly throughout the fall and winter,

the hotels will be found very desirable

customers and are often willing to pay a.

fixed price regardless of market condi-

tions. If the grower is able to store his

fall and winter fruits and deliver them

as wanted he will find the hotel trade

very profitable. Many a grower, within

easy distance of first—class groeeries and

hotels, is producing fruit and vegetables

that would be welcomed by these buyers,

if he would study their needs and stan-

dards and put up his stuff in a way to

meet their demands. And many a grower

on the very outskirts of a small city is

selling his choice fruit and vegetables to

traveling buyers, when it would be easy

to obtain better prices from private fam-

ilies. groceries and hotels right in his own

city. Once these standards of quality and

methods of reaching the trade are mas—

tered and met, the possibilities for sales

go far beyOnd his regular customers. For

every groceryman, hotel-owner and well-

to-do family is seeking high and low for

quality products.



The grower of quality fruits and vege—

tables shOuld avoid the public market.

The Old-fashioned public market is a

dumping ground for every grower who is

producing cull, trashy stuff. \Yhen you

haul‘quality products to the public mar-

ket the prices are, in a measure, governed

by the prices of these inferior products.

If the grower has a surplus of rather in-

ferior stuff it may pay him to haul it to

a public market and get what he can out

of it. The grocery, hotel or private fam-

ily trade is far more desirable, besides it

opens up a trade among the better class

of customers who are ready to pay a.

good price for Fomething that meets their

demands.



Earliness an Important Element.



In quality vegetables, perhaps, more

than in quality fruits, the question of

early maturity is within a grower’s con-

trol. I know a man who has been experi-

menting for seven years to perfect a high

vielding strain of early maturing sweet





: FTER selecting suitable varieties of





crop failure.





corn that would mature early enough to

be put on the market a few days ahead

of the regular crop. For the paSt three

years he has disposed of his entire crop

among hotels and restaurants here in

Buffalo. Another grower has made a re-

markable success with early peas and

string beans. In the case of early corn.

peas and beans, a few days’ time makes

a big difference in the prices obtained; in

some instances a difference of more than

100 per cent. By careful selection of seed

and scientific methods of culture these

men obtain almost fabulous prices for

their peas, beans and sweet corn. An-

other successful truck grower in Niagara

county, N. Y., has succeeded in beating

out the other fellows in muskmelOns. By

selecting seed from the choicest, early

maturing melons, starting his plants un-

der glass and putting them out under in-

dividual hot-h0uses~—small boxes covered

with glass to protect them from cold

weather and insects—she is able to market

his fineSt-fiavored, home-gown muskmcl-

one in neat and attractive baskets con—

taining one-half dozen quality melons at

$1 per basket. His groCcryman takes spe-

cial pride in furnishing his most select

trade with these melons, and handles all

that he can raise during the early part

of the season. By the time the other

fellow's muskmelons are fit to sell he has

cleaned up several hundred dollars from

his crop. This year he started out to

beat them on early tomatoes and sac-

ceeded in selling a large part of his crop

at from five to scven cents per pound

before his neighbors began to harvest

their crops. By the time prices had drop-

ped down to a dollar a bushel he had

about cleaned up his early plantings. 91: -h

results are not wonderful, neither are

they the result of chance nor accident;





the consumer’s dollar, however, the prob-

lem of educating the city customers to

pay caSh for their produce must be work-

ed out beforegrowers will ship their pro-

duce to the city and take chances of

making satisfactory collections. I know

of some growers who have had rather

disheartening results dealing with private

families in the city and I would not ad-

vise the average grower to go after this

class of trade. As a rule, business men,

who have a commercial rating, are deSir-

able customers, especially for winter pro-

duce to put into their cellars. It is much

better to sell the smaller fruits and veg-

etables to the groceryman or hotel and

get the cash than to be compelled to

write several letters, make a few personal

calls, and in the end find that some of

your customers have moved to other

parts of the city, or to some other city.

A whole lot of the farm to family ad-

vice that has been published by the ag—

ricultural papers. during the past year has

been written by persons who have made

only a superficial study of the market-

ing problems in a big ‘city. They have

not considered the fact that the family

demand for fruits and vegetables has, ‘in

a great measure, been Fupplanted by the

restaurant and hotel demand. Thousands

of fairly well-to-do families do compara-

tiveiy no regular home-cooking. Perhaps

they have a light breakfast. the man gets

his noonday luncheon at a restaurant, and





DEC. 20. 1 913,.





for the evening dinner the wife depends

upon the delicatessen shop, or they ’go out

together and buy a square meal at a.

hotel or reStaurant. These changes in

the way of living in the big cities have

greatly changed the demands for food

products. People who formerly bought

fruit and vegetables by the bushel at the

public market now buy the same pro-

ducts by the quart or peek at the grocery

store or depend upon canned goods'from

the delicatessen shop. All>of these things

have greatly changed the marketing

problems.





In sections where good roads have been

constructed the motor truck is proving

an efficient aid in solving the marketing

problem. It enables the grower to deliver

his fruits and vegetables to city. custom-

ers as cheaply and quickly as they could

hire them hauled from the city markets

or freight depots to their homes or bus-

iness places. The grower of quality

fruits and vegetables cannot afford to

keep his teams on the road at a cost of

from $5 to $6 per day when the same

work can be performed with a motor

truck at a greatly reduced c0st. In many

sections of the country the motor truck

is enabling farmers who live twenty and

thirty miles from large cities to make

regular trips two or three times a week

to deliver their produce to their city cus-

tomers.





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What Losses, Occur in Marketing Eggs?





UCH loss results from the present

M methods of handling eggs, and

because of this loss we are anx-

ious to secure definite information as to

where it occurs and what the cause,- or

causes; may be.

it is very probable that if the methods

used in handling eggs by the thousands of

Michigan farmers are brought together

and compared, that the extent of the loss

may be learned and ways of overcoming

it discovered. \Vith this idea in mind the

following 18 questions have been formu-

lated which, when answered, will bring





 





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Kind for Shipping Eggs that





but they are the result of making a close

study of the quality market and exercis-

ing clever and judicious management in

meeting the demands for choice, early

maturing vegetables.



Select Seeds with Care.



The question of seeds is very impotant

to the grower of quality Vegetables. The

price hepays for seeds is a ve.‘y small

item compared to the value of the work

they are doing. that is, it is a very small

part of the expense of the crop, and for

that reason the man who is growing qual-

ity vegetables must have the very beFt

seeds. As a rule, the men who have

achieved the greatest success with one

or two early maturing crops have raised

their own seed. In fact, it is the only

way one can intensify the early maturing

habit and obtain uniform reSuIts. The

question of plant food is an equally im-

portant one; the cost of a few loads of

manure or a. few hundred pounds of fer-

tilizer is a very small item compared with

the results it will produce. The same

thing applies to the labor question; a few

days’ extra labor being nothing com—

pared with the expe-nSe oftthe crop.



During the past few months the inter-

est in direct selling has been greatly stim-

ulated by the parcel post, and, perhaps,

it eventually may prove a great aid in re-

ducing the high cost of living and enable

the grower to obtain a larger portion of





are apt to be Roughly Handled.





out the method employed by each person

replying to them. So we are, asking you,

kind reader, to study the questions care—

fully, answer them, faithfully and mail

your answers to the Farm Commerce Ile-

partincnt of the Michigan Farmer, Dc-

troit. Your answers will then be compar—

ed with thousands of others, and from

this comparison we shall be able to draw

valuable conclusions on the general sub—

ject of marketing eggs. These conclu-

sions will then be published in One of the

January numbers of this journal.



The results of an investigation of this

kind will be a direct contribution to the

poultry literature of Michigan and for

this reason every reader will be eager to

give true answers to the questions. Your

correspondence will be held confidentially,

so that you need have no fear of an;r

personal publicity should you think your

way of handling eggs is not the most up-

to-date. Be sure, therefore, to tell us

(not what you thing the practice should

be) but the practice you are actually fol-

lowing, that the conclusions may be

founded upon facts and not upon theories.



Here are the questions Number each

answer to correspond with the number of

the questiOn as printed, then it will be

unnecessary to write the question out.





1. Do you keep grade or mongrel hens?



2. Do you keep all pure-bred hens?



3. How often do you clean your poul-

try house? .





4. How often do you replace the chaff

in nests?



5. Do you allow hens the freedom of

your premises, or are- they confined in a

poultry yard?



6. Do you allow roosters to run with

the hens when the eggs are not used for

setting purposes?



How often do you gather eggs, es-

pecially in warm weather?



8 What do you do with eggs from

nests that have been hidden away by the

henis?



9. l‘nder what conditions do you hold

eggs while waiting to be marketed? How

long do you usually hold them?



10. he you know how to candle eggs,

and? do you candle them before market—

ing.



11. Do you grade eggs before market-

ing? if so are they graded according to

size only, or size and color and shape?



12. \V'hat do you do» with dirty, crack-

ed and abnormal sized eggs?



13. How do you market your eggs?

(To grocerymen, egg dealers, hucksters,

commisswn men or to consumers direct)?



14. Do dealers take your eggs as they

come, or do they candle them and pay

for the good ones only?



15. Do your dealers offer more for large

clean eggs than they do for, small dirty

ones? if so how much?



16. if you ship eggs by express, do you

have complaints of breakage? How do

you pack eggs for such shipments?



17. Have you sent eggs by parcel post?

What was your success and how did you

pack the eggs? ‘



18. Have you tried to secure private

customers to take your eggs? 'VVhat meth-

od or methods did you try and with what

success?





SENSIBLE (SO-OPERATION.



An effective way in which agents

may co-operate with each other is well

illustrated in the arrangements of County

Agent ll. 1’. Miller, of Portage county,

Ohio, co-operating with District Supervis-

or W‘. M. Cook, who is doing ccunly

agent work in Green county in the same

state. Portage county is one. of the lead-

ing potato producing counties of the state,

while Green county farmers do not pro-

duce sufficient potatoes for their own use.





Through a co-operative plan worked-





out by Messrs. Miller and Cook, three

cars of potatoes have already been ship-

ped direct from Portage county farmers

to Green county farmers. Through this

arrangement Green county farmers are

not only saving from 10 to 20 cents per

bus-he] on the potatoes purchased, but

Portage county farmers have received

more money for the potatoes so handled

than they could have secured from local

dealers. This feature of county agent

Work is capable of much development,

and suggests a rational aid to the solu;

tion of the “high cost 0f living.”





NOTICE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS.





 





Those who are ’taking The Farmer for

the first time should understand that they

can have samples of milk and cream test-

ed free of charge at the Michigan Farm-

er Laboratories, 674 Woodward avenue,

Detroit. Fo'lfow these directions: I‘hor-

oughly mix milk or cream by pouring it

three or four times from one can to an—

other, immediately take large enough

sample to fill a four-ounce wide-mouthed

bottle. insert bottle in mailing tube and

send by parcel post to the above address.





 





 





 





 





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‘ Crop and Market Notes.





 





Michigan





Gratiot 60., Dec. 8.—-Mild weather has

prevailed and much fall-plowing done up

to and including the 6th. Sunday the

7th, the ground froze. 'Dhere is plenty of

corn in the field at this date. All other

work is well rounded up for winter, and

it is considered the close of a very prof-

itable year. Corn seems to be the crop

in greatest demand in the market. It

sells at 52c for 56 lbs. shelled. Bean mar-

ket dull at $1.65; hogs 7c; potatoes 50c;

eggs 320; butter 22@26c.



Emmet Co.—That the season may not

have been a highly successful one with

each indivuiual farmer, is surely no fault

of the season. True, the season did start

in rather unfavorably, with its prevailing

low temperature, but later on this draw-

back was quite largely eliminated by the

line. warm, favorable weather that came

on the last days of June. and prevailed

throughout the remainder of the season.

and, in, fact, is with us yet. There was

sufficient precipitation to afford moisture

for the full development of most crops,

at least, in most instances. and especially

where the services of an efficient dust

mulch was made use of.‘ To be sure,

there was a deficiency of rain to afford

ample moisture for the development of

the early potato crop, but takirg the sea—

son as a whole, conditions were pretty

favorable for the farmer. One thing is

sure, we can not expect them to be im-

proved upon. as a general thing. Farmers

fall plowed until late and did other work

that could not be done under ordinary

conditions. Farmers are marketing po—

Itavtoes, and some hay and other farm pro-

ducts at these prices: Hay. loose $14@15;

potatoes 45c; beef 9@10c; pork 8%(rii9c;

dairy butter 280; eggs 32@34c. Dry wood

is selling around $2.75.



Hillsdaie 00., Dec. 4.——Farmers in this

section are better prepared for winter,

so far as getting the.r work done is con-

cerned. than for many years. More fall

plowing ls lbeing done than has been done

before in a long time. A light corn crop

which it did not take so long to harvest,

and favorable weather, explain the fore-

going statements. Wheat is looking fine;

better in fact, than in several years. Gen-

erally speaking. the year 1913 has not

been a successful one for the farmers 0t

this section. The unprecedented drought

which lasted through te summer months

and into the autumn, was the principal

factor in making the year unsuccessful.

Because of this drought, there was no

good crop. All crops were light. some

less than half the normal yield. Because

of the light crops. farmers are disposing:

of but little grain of any kind. Mostot

the fall shipments of hog; have been dis-

posed of net ziround Tc. Many chickens

have gone on the market in the past .tew

weeks at around 100. Local quotations

for butter is 28fdx300: eggs 35c. \Vestet‘n

lambs in considerable numbers. are be-

ing fed in some parts of the county.



Northern Isabella and Southern Clare

Co.’s. Dec. 1.#Damp, disagreeableweath-

er, with more or less rain prevails. FaLm-

crs are doing more fall plowing this fall

than any fall since the country was

cleared up. Fall pastures are fine and all

kinds of stock looking good. Farmers are

holding their beans for higher prices. i\ot

mil-ch hay being sold. President \V‘ilson

raid 1913 would be a prosperous year. and

I think the average farmer here has no

complaint. No. 2 rod wheat 88c; No. 1

white wheat 88c; rye 58c; oats 37c; beans

$1.65; mammoth clover seed $7.50; hay,

baled. $106: 13; cream 290; eggs 28c; fowl

8c; chickens 8c: ducks 11c; geese 8c: tur-

keys 16c; potatoes 50c; butter 27c; hogs,

per cwt. $9; beef $8(ry10; mutton $7; veal

$11; hides 9c. , .



Mecosta Co., Dec. 5.——~Fa-rmers have had

an ideal fall to get their wOrk done. Many

of them are doing some plowing now.

Crops have been very good here this year.

especially potatoes and corn. Potatoes

have been marketed quite freely at from

50@60c~ per bu. Though there are quite

a quantity still in tihe 'farmers’ hands.

Practically no corn sold yet. Stock going

in for the winter in good condition. As

it whole the farmers have had one 'of the

very best seasons ever experienced in this

section.



New Jersey.



Monmouth 00., Dec. 5.—VVe-at.her uri-

iiriiually warm for December. Corn about

till husked. The principal products being

marketed are pork at 11Q012'c; poultry 18

((1.25c; milk 4%‘v/sc net. Very little corn is

being sold at 600 per bu. Corn ripened

very poorly, causing much mo-uldy corn

and soft cob. 1913 can hardly be called

a succesriful year for the farmers of this

section.



New York.



Niagara 60., Dec 10.——Flour is low and

feed is high. Beans have been brisk. but

have fallen; white beans $1.90; red $23.63,

with outlook poor. Lieneriil farming this

year has bcen good, with good prices and





' fair crops; fruit good except apples, which





were small crop with prices high. Prunes

were abundant and sold at high prices

Cherries, plums and pears exceptionally

large crops with low prices. Cabbage $1»

on track; hay 51161112; poultry 901130;

beef high, fat steers, live weight Sflfic;

calves 10L; young cows $061125; Jer—

seys $80@150.

Pennsylvania.



Erie 00., Dec. 8.1—Weather and roads

have been fine until yesterday. Big snow

storm on now. Considerable fall plowing

has been done. Farmers have had quite

a successful season. Prices very good.

Veal $10 per cwt alive; poultry 120; pork

70; eggs 40c; butter 35c; hay $10; straw

$5: oats 450; potatoes 75c; apples $1:

cows $50@100; horses very high also.

Farm work very well advanced.



Chester Co., Dec. 8.—This has been a

Very poor year for the farmer. as far as

the crops are concerned. all of them.

wheat, oats, corn, hay and potatoes fell

short of an average crop. But the farmers

of this county depend largely on the

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the farm and having had plenty of good

pasture all summer and the Crops being

sufllcient for feeding purposes during the

winter, with milk br.ng.ng a fair price,

the past season cannot be teimed as an

entirely unsuccessful one, although it has

not‘ been as good as 1912. Some few

faimers have corn for sale at 65@70c per

bu; potatoes 80c; notymu-ch hay for sale.

Corn fodder 3c per bundle. The average

price or milk hr the year Will net the

fari'nei‘ l‘rtm 4@41/;c per qt.



Montgomery 00., Dec. 6.——Buck and

Montgbmery counties had exceptionally

fine weather until today. The rest sea-

son has been successlul. The farmers

have an ample supply of feed and sicck

or. hand for the coming winter. L’roilts

are not as large as usual as there are

too many middlemen to get a profit from

what the farmer produces and consumes.

Eggs 450; creamer-y butter 43c; milk $1.70;

chickens, dressed 18c; wheat $1; rye 75c;

veal calves $1.05; choice t.mothy hay 700;

meadow 50c per cw-t.



Lancaozier' 00., Dec. 8.—Farmers have

bad a :uccess in- cropS. except tobacco.

That is a half crop this year. They are

now selling country butter at 35C; eggs

40c; chickens, live 12@14c; dressed tur~

keys 2&1’1050; duck-s “@170; geese 1461'

18c; potatoes 75@800; h0g5, dressed 11c;

calves, l.ve weight 9@10c; tobacco now

selling Slow at 9(q10c per lb; good tillers,

Seconds 2g3c.



Crawford 00., Dec. 10.—Had a heavy

which began the 8th and lasted

until the 10th. Much colder. Crops are

nearly all stored; new seeding looks prom-

ising. Much wheat and rye have been

sown in this secton and looks fine. The

season of 1913 in general has been a pros-

perous yelll‘. Cows are selling. for $50M

75 a head. Milk is $1.80 per cwt; apples

50c@$1 per bu; eggs 40@45'c; butter 350:

cheese 1664 200; wheat 99c; corn 72c; oats

3c; rye $1.



Ohio.



Wayne 00., Dec. 8.—The weather for

the past three weeks has been warm and

damp, changing to colder weather on the

7th. Early sown wheat is looking fine;

lute sown is a good stand but very small.

New seedings looking good. Corn was a

fair crop. yielding fairly well; nearly all

in the cr.b at present writing. Milk cows

scarce and high. Hogs quite plentiful

but high in price; quite a number of auc~

tion sales for this time of the year. Ev-





erything selling well. Milch cows are

selling f:om $60@100; horses bringing





somewhat less than last spring. ranging

in price from $50Q1225. Farmers have

disposed of most of their surplus hay at

a good price, ranging from $126114 per

[in Wheat selling at 98c; corn 35c per

basket; oats 42c: eggs 360; butter 350.



Hancock 60., Dec. 8.~——1)amp. rainy

Weather retarded husking with machine.

Cold spell stating in. About one-fourth

of corn to husk yet. \that and rye look

fine. GraSs looks good. Some lall plow-

ing has been done. Many hogs going to

market at $7.25 per cwt. Although some

hogs. being lost from cholera this was a

very successful year for farmer“. All

crops but oats yielded above the ave-r-

age. Very little corn sold. \Vheat, new

We; corn 55c; oa-ts 37c; rye 55c; clover

seed slams; eggs 35c; butter 26c; pota-

rtoes 75c; hay $10Qir12.



Darke Cc., Doc. 8.—Have been having

ideal weather for the farmers. The corn

shredders are around in every direction.

Farmers are busy gathering the golden

grain. With a week’s nl-ce weather corn

Iliusking will be a thing of the past. Corn

not a full crop. but of good quality. Crop

was cut in half by the drouth in August

and September. Hogs are all doing well.

“heat and rye doing fine. and if winter is

not too severe, will promise a good crop.

Potatoes were half a crop. now worth $1

per bu. Corn 68c; oa-ts 420; p0ultry 90;

butter 350; hogs 71/2c; one-third of the

1913 tobacco crop is under contract at a

reasonable price.



HarrLon 00.. Dec. 12.~—“'e are now

having real winter weather and stock of

all kinds are consuming feed for the first

time this winter. This has been a very

good year for farmers in this county, Po-

tatoes were the nearest to a failure. oth—

er crops were fairly good, and the farm-

ers seem to be prosperous and happy.

Some cattle, hogs and sheep going to

market at good pruces. Turkeys are near-

ly all marketed at ”@170. Sawmills are

cleaning up the list of the timber in this

county. and a good big oak tree will soon

‘be a curiosity. Some farmers are plzint-

ing catalpa and locust for post wood.

Quite a lot of changes being made in the

roads in order to get better grades over

the hills of this country. Some concrete

roads being built. and everyone seems to

be awakened to the fact that we need

better roads. and it looks as though we

were gong to have them.



Indiana.



Eikhavt Cc., Dec. 7.—Farmers through

husking corn, and are doing chores and

cutting wool. The year has been a. fair-

ly prosperous one, crops have been fair

and Drives high. The usual acreage of

wheat was sown. and is looking good.

Farmers have plenty of feed and are

keeping a large amount of stock. A large

amount of corn is being sold at 550:

wheat 900; rye 60c; potatoes 75c; eggs

340: butler 30c. Good roads are being

agitated among the farmers.



Illinois.



Perry 00., Dec. 1.—1Ve- have had plenty

0f rain for the last week, the ground is

full of water now. The sky was clear

thismorning, warm enough to do without



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December 16, 1913.



Wheat.—Since a. Week ago there has

'been a slight easing up of the tone in

wheat Circles, and prices are now ruling

on a loWer basis. This is the first reac-

tion of moment since the grain started its

upward flight a couple of weeks ago. The

situation. does not appear so very alarm-

ing to holders of the grain since news

seems to support the contention of the

bulls that prices should rule rather above

- present figures than below. Farmers have

sold spring wheat liberally on both sides

of the boundary line so that there is es-

timated to be proportionately less of the

crop in their hands than ever before at

this season. Then, too, primary receipts

in the winter wheat sections are below

those of a year ago, and the decrease in

the visible supply amounts to practically

'three millions of bushels. Argentine is

also complaining of unfavorable Weather,

"while other producing countries have

nothing to add to the argument of the

bears. The bears are, however, making

much of the excellent condition of the

new winter wheat crop which is now in

unusually good shape, and also of an un-

expected bearish government report. Not—

withstanding this fact, reports are at

hand from Missouri, lllinoiS, and Indiana.

stating that thc plant is over—large and

that the root system is small because of

excessive moisture, conditions which will

make winter-killing more probable. One

year ago the price for No. 2 red wheat

was $1.051/2 per bu. Local quotations’for

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No. 2 No. 1 .

Red. White. Dec. May.

\Vednesday . .1.011/2 1.01% 1.01%; 1.061/2

Thursday ....1.011/2 1.011/2 1.011/2 1.0614

Friday . . . . .1.001/2 1.00%; 1.00%; 1.051/2

Saturday ..... 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.05

Moxiday ...... 99%; 991/; 991/2 1.05

Tuesday ..... 991/2 99%; 991/2 1.05

Chicago, (Dec. 16). No. 2 red wheat,





9214c; Dec., 88%c; May, 9214c per bu.

Corn.——'l‘he past proved a bearish week

in the corn trade, values generally drop-

ping a cent and a half. The depression

was largely accredited to reports that

farmers were delivering new corn in large

quantities in those sections where the

yield was normal this year. In spite of

this fact, however, the visible supply is

scarcely larger than a week ago, l]](II('alt—

ing that the offerings are quickly absorb-

cd by the unusually wide buying circle.

Many sections where feeding is extensive

and where the corn crop is usually ade-

quate to meet local demands, will go

to make outside purchases necessary this

year. It is to be expected that where

fairmeis must have money that they will

Ibe tempted to sell corn at the present

higlh figures. and it is but natural to ex-

pect that dealers will take advantage of

the heavy offerings to bear values when

they are buyers and not sellers. In some

sections come reports that the farmers

are preparing to hold the grain until next





spring. One year ago the price for No.

3 corn was 481/21“. per bu. Local quota-

tions are as follows:



No. 2 No. 2



Mixed. Yellow.

\VedneSday 70 72

Thursday ................. 70 72

Friday 693/2 71%

Saturday W... 69 71

Monday 681/2 701/),





Tuesday 68% 70%



Chicago, (Dec. 16).—N0. 2 corn, 72%0;

Dec., 70140; May, 70%0 per bu.



Oats—This cereal has suffered a frac-

tion-a1 decline in values, the result largely

of the influence of the other two grains.

The visible supply has decrcased over

one and one-half million bushels and

there is a fairly lively demand for the

grain, taking the country as a whole.

Fcedel's are using a more liberal portion

of oats because of the price. One year

ago the selling price for standard oats

was 37c per bu. Quotations for the past

wcek are:





No.3

Standard. White.

\\'ednesday ....u-....... 44 431/;

’l‘lhurSday W. 44 431/2

Friday ................... 4334 431,4

Saturday 433/; 4314

Monday ........m... . 431/; 4234;

Tuesday 43% 423,;

Chicago, (Dec. 16).——N0. 3 white oatS,

4111;61’4234c; Dec., 39%c; May, 4214c per

bushel.





'Beans.—'I‘he reports from farmers in-

dicate that bean values are on about a.

$1.75 basis at country elevators. The lo-

(- board of trade quotes immediate and

Rfimber shipments at $1.75; January

$1.80 per bu. Chicago reports a small

trade at steady prices for all except red

kidneys which show a light advance. Pea

beans, hand-picked, choice, are quoted at

$2.15: common $1.75@2; red kidneys,

choice. $2.80 per bu. .



Rye.———This cereal rules higher. No. 2

is quoted at 57c per bu. .



Barley.—-At Chicago barley is quoted at

5261175c per bu., while Milwaukee quotes

the melting grades at from 58@760.



Cloverseed.——Values are steady except

for alsike which shOWS an advance here

and a decline at Toledo. Prime spot is

quoted at Detroit at $9.40 per. bu; Dec.,

$9.40; Marc-h, $9.50. Prime als1ke steady

at $11.25 per bu. At Toledo, December is

quoted at $9.47 and prime alsike at $11.10.





 





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





FIour.—Jobbing lots in 1,4; paper sacks

are selling on the Detroit market per 196

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0nd, $4.80; straight, $4.50; .spring patent,

$5.55; rye flour, $4.60 per bbl. ,



Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jabbing lots:

Bran, $23; coarse middlings, $27; fine

middlings, $27; cracked corn, $31; coarse

corn meal $30; corn and oat thOp $25.50

per ton.



Hay.—All grades are steady with last

week. I‘riCeS: Carlots on the track at

Detroit are: NO. 1 timothy $16@16.50;

standard $15@15.50; No. 2 $14.50@15; light

mixed 315631550; No. 1 mixed $13.50@14.



Chicago—The better grades rule high-

er' with a firm demand. Lower grades are





steady. Choice timothy quoted at $18.50

61119.50 per ton; N0. 1, $176918; No. 2,

$146115.





Straw.——Detr0it.~—Oat and wheat straw

is higher. Rye, $8658.50; oat straw, $7.50

@8; wlheat straw, $7607.50 per ton.



Chicago—Quotable as follows: Rye,

$750608; oat, $7607.50; wheat, $650637.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.‘





 





Butter.——The local market continues

firm for better grades which are scarce.

Prices are about steady. Quotations are:

Extra creamery 34c per lb; firs-ts 310;

dairy 210; packing stock 18c per 1b.



ChiCago.-—T'he bu'tter market is very

quiet except on the very best grade pro-

duc-t. For this there is a good demand

and 10w supply. Prices on good grades

have advanced 2c, while on poor butter

the price has declined. Quotations are:

Extra creamery 3561735140; extra firsts

34612341/3c; firsts 251569290; seconds. 2261)

221/20; ladies 20@211/2c; packing stock 20

@201/2c per lb.



Elgiii.~—Mai'ket firm at 350 per lb. which

is a lc advance over last week.



New York—Prices for the best grades

slightly higher; for poor stuff lower.

Quotations are: Creamery extras 36@27c;

firsts 28((L34C; seconds 246122712; packing

stock 1961191/2c as to quality.



Eggs—The local egg market is steady.

Mild weather is bringing larger receipts

of fresh stock. Price‘s lower. Current

receipts of fresh stock isquotable at 320

per dozen.



Chicago—Market is steady with little

change in prices. Consumption not what

it ought to be. Receipts of fresh eggs

still running iiglrt. Refrigerator stock

liberally offered with demand light. Quo-

tations: Miscellaneous lots, cases includ-

ed, 26611310 according to quality; ordinary

firsts 2861.291/2c; firsts 3161/311/2c; refrig-

era-tor stock steady at 2661;27c for April

firsts,



New York.—-—Market rather weak. Prices

considerably lower for which the increase

of the fresh sup-ply is accounrtable. Quo-

tations are: Fresh garnered extras 3361)

34c; extra firs-ts 35c; firF-ts 33@34c.



Poultry.——The local poultry market is

active and prices on all stock except

chickens are higher. Quotations: Live:-

Springs, Ell/263140; hens 1461714160; No. 2

hens 960100; o-ld roosters 961i10c; turkeys

206123c; geese 1461715c; ducks 16612170.



Chicago—Trade good at steady prices.

TurkeyS, geese and ducks are slightly





higher. T-h-in, poor stock of any kind is

hard to sell. Quotations on live are:

Turkeys. good weigh-t, 16c; others 12c;





lfowls, general run 121/20; spring Chickens

12c; ducks 14c; geese 13c.



Cheese.—Marke-t is. steady with values

Sliglhtly lOWer. VVIholesale lot“, Michigan

flats 156116c; Nelw YOrk flats 161/261l17c;

brick cream 1660161/2c; limbupger 1461ll5c.



VeaI.—Colder weather has steadied the

market. Prices slightly higher on fancy

veal. Quotations: Fancy 131/2@14C Der

lb; common 1060110.



Chicago.-M|zu"kct1 quiet. Supply is

meeting demand. Prices are unchanged.

Quotcd as follows: Good to choice, 9061)

110 lbs, 13%6014-0; fair to good, 60@90

lbs, ill/(26013160.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples.—Prices firm and market active.





Quotations: Snow $4634.50; Spy $450605;

Greening, $3.506D4.50; King. $45061)

4.75; Steele Red, $5605.50 per bbl; N0. 2,





$2.2561‘2.75 per brbl. At Chicago prices

rule firmer under a moderate demand.

Values for country packed rule from $3.50

615.50 per bbl. No. 1 Jonathan’s selling

best; Spies are $3.756v4.25; Baldlwins are

$350614.



Potatoes—The local market is steady.

Demand is fair. Quotations: In bulk 60

@65c per bu; in sacks 70611750 per bu for

carlots. .‘it Chicago prices are without

important change. Buyers take hold of

fancy lots and there was a fair trade of

the cheapest stock; medium grades were

hard to sell. Michigan stock is held at

6061769c.



Cabbage—Steady at last week’s figures.

Good quality quoted at $2602.25 per bbl.

The demand is fair at Chicago with offer-

ings light: prices on white are higher.

Quotations rule at $1.75 per bbl. for

white, and $1.75@2.50 for red.





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The potalto movement conrtinues slow,

with buying price around 45c at loading

stations in Cadillac territory. Many tu-

bers are being held in storage for a high-

er market. Much hay is being moved by

farmers during the pleasant weather, the

price paid here.for timothy. loose in loads,

ranging from $166919, or $364 higher than

a year ago. Dressed hogs are lower than

last week, the price paid being around

10c. In live poultry fowls are quoted at

101,§@11c; turkeys 16c; ducks 10c; geese

8c. Wheat is worth 970; oats 400.; com

750; beans $1.60.





PRICES ON DETROIT EASTERN

MARKIET.





 





The Eastern market was not large on

Tuesday morning. and business was eas-

ier than for some time past. ,T'he reason

is accredited largely to the prevailing

moderate weather. Because of it produce

can be moved as readily as in the fall and





thus the trade is kept fairly well sup-

plied. Apples are in a strong position

and are ruling from 900 for Ben Davis

to $1.50 for. the hand-lpicked Steele Reds.

Potatoes have taken a slump and are now

going around 75c for good stock. Cabbage

ranges from 65613850 per bu; carrots 75c;

parsnips 75c; onions $1.25@1.50; celery

300 'bunch. Hay is not moving rapidly

with the better grades of loose quoted

around $18 per ton. Pork was quoted at

$10.50 per cwt.





 





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

December 15, 1913.

Buffalo.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, New York).



Receipts of stock here today: Cattle,

290 cars; hogs, 150 double decks; sheep

and lambs, 120 cars; calves, 700 head.



Witlh arbund 300 cars of cattle on this

market here today and 30,000 reported at

CihicagO, our market on all grades of fat

cattle is 25c per eth. lower. and on good

grades of heavy weight cattle from 3561)

50c per cwt lower. ,



We quote: Best 1350 to 1450-lb. steers,

natives, $8.25618.60: best 1200 to 1300—,Ib.

do, $8618.25; best 1100 to 1200—lb. do, $7.25

6117.75; coarse and plain weighty steers,

natives, 55690617735; best Canada steerS,

1350 to 1450. $8608.50; do 1150 to 1250, $7

607.50: choice handy steerS, 1000 to 1100,

95775612825; fair to good steers, 1000 to

1100, $7607.50; best cows $650607; butch-





er cows, $5.256p5.75; cutters, $4.25@4.75;

trimmers, $3.25@3.75; very common old





Tlmd. 532.75617325; best heifers, $7.156o7.60;

heavy prime fancy heifers, $750618; me-

duum butcher heifers, $66,116.50; lig'ht d0,

$5.256i5.85; choice heifers, $7607.50; best

feeding steers, de‘horned. $7.1061’l7.25; fair

to good do, $6.356L=6.50; fancy stock steers

$6.25; best do, $560616; common light d0,

$5.106i‘5.23; best heavy bulls, $660617; beSt

bwtc‘her bulls, $6.3561/‘6.75; bologna bulls,

$560606; stock bulls, common to good,

$4.856D5.75: best milkers and springers,

357561100; medium to good, $506070.



Our hcg trade- was extremely dull and

strong 10c lower on all grades except pigs

owing to liberal supply both here and at

other points. A general one-price market

for everything outside of pigs, bulk sell-

ing at $7.90. Pigs and lights up to 8c;

rougihs $7617.25; stags $66117; late trade

was dull and quite a number going over

unsold, mostly yarded too late to sell.



The market was active today on handy

lambs and sheep, (lull on heavy. Prices

15611250 lower than the close of last week.

Choice lamobs selling at $7.7561l7.85. Close

steady. Look for shade higher prices.

We quote: Ohoice lambs, $7.80607.85; cull

to fair, 5555061775; yearlings, 956611650;

bucks, $3.50603.75; wethers $5605.25; handy

ewes $4.606u4.75; heavy do, $4.506114.60;

cull sheep, $3.50@3.75; veals, choice to

extra, 95115061112; fair to good $106,311.25;

heavy calves $550608.



Chlcago.

December 15, 1913.





Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today ..... 35,000 55,000 45,000

Same day last year..37.114 35,103 58,957





Receipts last week..64,821 221,184 152,964

Same week last year.62,697 169,449 140,048



This week opens with an extra large

cattle supply, following a week of exces—

sive runs, and the general market is 10

61/15c lower, choice ycarlings excepted.

A carload of choice yearlings brought

$9.65, and a sale was made of two cars

of exceptionally prime Iowa-fed 1.025-lb.

yearlings at $10, a new record-breaker

for the reason. Hogs opened about 50

lower, but the break was pretty nearly

recovered later on good buying. ,The

sales took place at 91374569790. Hogs mar—

keted last week averaged 215 lbs, com—

paring with 222 lbs. one year ago, 213

lbs. two years ago, 225 lbs. three years

ago and 216 le. four years ago. Sheep

and yearlings went at generally steady

prices, but lambs were about 250 lOWer,

the best going at $8.



t‘attle opened largely 10611150 higher on

Monday last Week, with a brisk general

demand and a *fairly lir'ge run, but weak-

ened later in the Week, the \VedneSday

receipts being liberal, rallying on Thurs-

day o.i a light suiiply. The bulk of the

beef steers disposed of during the week

brought $7.75618.90, with fair transac-

tions on the two big days at $9699.60,

prime yearlings going at $9609.50 and the

better class of heavy steers a-t $8.60@9.25.

The cheaper class of light—weight steers

sold at $6.5061D7.50. fair to medium lolts

bringing $7.606;8.20 and a pretty good





kind $8.25@8.50. Butchering cows and

heifers opened Monday 1061/15c higher,





but suffered large declines later in the

week, the demand falling off materially.

Sales were at a range of $4.806L‘8.50 for

ordinary to prime Iota withoccasional

small sales of prime yearling heifers at

$8.756“). Canners sold at $3.2561‘r4.25, cut—

ters at $4.3061_4.75 and bulls at $47561)

7.75. Stockers and feeders had a fair

sale, the former going at $5657.50, only

prime little yearlings telling anywhere

near the top figures, while feeders that

carried much weight sold usually at $6.40

607.50 and a few as high as $7.65. Stock

and feeding cows and heifers had a fair

sale at 5648560675. Calves sold freely on

a basis of $5608 for coarse to good heavy

weights and at 239506191150 for fair to

prime light vealers. For milch cows there

was a slow demand at $606090 per head,

buyers getting them frequently at lower

prices, while ordinary cows had to go for

beef. The recent colder weather proved

a help to the sale of beef, but a greater

fall in temperature was needed to make

the consumption really large. The close

of the week saw beef steers largely a

dime higher than a week ago and cows

largely 15 @200 lower. _



Hogs were marketed here and else-

where with great liberality last week, the

dearness of corn evidently acting as a

spur to early shipments in many in—

stances, for an unduly large percentage





\





DEC. 20, 1913.





of the offerings continued to comprise.





undenweights and .mere pigs. There was

a good local eastern shipping demand

most of the time, and the market showed

considerable rallying poyver, prices react-

ing after declines.

demand centered in the choicer class of

heavy lard 'liogs, which made up much

the smallest proportion of the daily runs,

and they sold at a generous premium,

while the packers were very apt to neg-

lect the good 180 to 220-lb. mixed offer-

ings, which were in liberal supply. The

iighrter hogs had to go at a large dis-

count, as has been the rule for many

weeks, and light—weight pigs sold lowest

of all. While hogs have been Selling

much below the high time of the year,

they are still bringing better figures than

in most former years. The week’s close

saw hogs selling at $7.45@7.92%, compar-

ing wit-h $7.30@7.90 a week earlier, pigs

closing at $661)7.50 and throwout packing

sows at $7.106ij7.50.



Sheep and lambs have been doing very

much better for their owners ever since

the. range shipping season closed, thereby

stopping this former vigorous outside

competition, and fat lambs of desirable

size have sold especially well, going at

the highest prices recorded in a long

time. As usual, choice lambs sold far

higher than anything else in the live

mutton line, with fat little yearlings on

the lamb order selling next best. The one

unfavorable feature of the market was

the tendency of s-heepmen to ship in ex-

cessive supplies, this forcing some reac-

tions in prices, particularly for the less

deSirable flocks. The small percentage of

feeders offered caused these to go at full

values, however, there being a strong de-

mand at the highest prices of the season.

Some two-year—old feeding wethers

brought $4.85 and some yearling feeders

$5.85, new high records Closing sales of

the week were made of lambs alt $55061)

8.25 for inferior to prime, with feeder

lambs scarce and firm at $635607. The-

top for prime Christmas lambs stood 250

higher than any sales of the preceding

week and was as high as any sales since

July. Yeallngs sold at $5.7561J7.15, ac-

cording to weight, wethers at $5605.85,

ewes at $3604.85 and bucks at $3.25@4.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





(Continued from page 569).



fire with the doors and windows open.

Wheat, rye and grass are doing fine, ex-

cept on very Wet land. Stock peas $1.50

}.e_' bu; wheat $1; corn 80c; oats 45c; po—

tatoes (northern) $1 per bu; hay $156520;

bu'Lter 25c; g‘gs 38c; sweet potatoes 50C.

1 think from what 1 can find out, farming

was not an unqualified success in this

county this year, as farmers have but lit-

tle to sell, and some will have to buy feed

before spring.



LaSalle Co., Dec. 1.—Breeders’ Sales

Company recently organize-(l here with

gieat enthusiasm, by a number of influ-

cntial stock breeders and horsemen of

this vicinity. There is every prospect

of success for this new enterprise. Speak-

ing in a general sense, 1913 has been a

very good season. li‘armess have dispos—

ed of their corn and wheat or are holding

them for better prices. All kinds of fowl

selling well. Turkeys 18612200; retailing

at 25c and up. Roads in bad condition,

due to a week of rainy weather.



Missouri.



Lafayette Co., Dec. 9.—This year has

been a successful year for the farmers in

this section, although the drought has

(ione considerable damage. \Vheavt was

good; corn a half crop; clover good. Good

timothy hay is very scarce. Pastures

were good in spring and late fall. The

drought has killed some bluegrass in this

section. The farmers have plenty of

roughage for cattle. 1 think the hog rush

is over in this county. Old corn sells at

75612800 per bu. New corn at

Hogs at $7 per cwt; bu‘tter at 350; eggs

at 32c; buttermilk can be had at the

creamery for 50 for 8 gals.



Vernon Co., Dec. 8,—Weat‘her fine, with

some stock on pasture yet. Plenty of

green vegetables in the gardens. Most all

'fall plowing done. The past season has

been a bad season for the farmer, owing

to the drought, with the exception of

turkeys, which were a good crop. They

ale worth 151/2c; chickens 10c; butter

20c; ggs 320; corn 85c; oats 48c; wheat

$1; hay $16; hogs 7c; cattle 461360.



Kansas.



Dickinson Co., Dec. 8.——We have had

two weeks of continual wet weather and

heavy rains, but it is still quite warm.

Wheat and late sown alfalfa look fine.

No corn to husk; shipped in is selling at

74c. Some cattle are being fed rough

fecd plentiful. The year 1913 has been a.

protl)er0us year for Kansas farmers, with

'the exception of corn, which was a fail-

ure in nearly all parts of the state. Pro-





(luce high; butter 30c; eggs 34c; chickens .





11c. Prairie hay was short but there is

enough alfalfa to take its place.

Nebraska.





Hitchcock 00., Dec. 6. The month of

November was very. nice. Warm and

fine weather for the farmers to finish up

fall work, but the first week of December

brought the reverse with rough misty,

rainy weather, ending with snow. This

’has been the most moisture that as fallen

this time of year for some years back.

Wheat is in fine shape with the ground

thoroughly soaked. It was very dry all

through May, June, July. and therefore

was not very successful for farmers as

the small grain crop was cut very short

and corn was a failure except in some

places, though enough was raised so as

not to cause the farmers to buy feed or

seed. Scarcely any grain is sold now.





 





Wheat 71c top; corn, shipped in 73c; bar-





ley 50c.

South Dakota.



Deuel Co.—Weather. fine; no frost. no

snow: pl0wing nearlydone; some plowing

new ground in fine shape for spring work;

cattle and hogs doing fine; barley down

to 45c a bu; not much corn for sale.





Much the strongest,





 





65 (11170c.'
one. 20,: 1913. ,





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Thursday's Market.

December 11, 1913.

Cattle.





Reeipts, 1990. Canners and bulls steady;

all others 25c lower than last week; milc‘h

cows $3@5 lower.



We quote: Best steers and heifers, $8

@9; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200, $7@

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

fat, 600 to 800, $6.25@6.75; do 500 to 700,





,$5.50@6.50; choice fat cows, 356612625; good





fat cows, $5.50@5.75; common cows, $4.50

@5; canners, $361.4; choice heavy bulls,

$6.25@6.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls,

$5.50@6; stock bulls, $5@5.50; cho.ce feed-

ing steers, 800 to 1000, $675697; fair do.

800 to 1000, $6.256v6.75; choice stockez‘s,

500 to 700, $6.50616.75; fair do, 500 to 700,

$6626.25; stock heifers, $5.50@6; milkers.

large, young, medium age, $75@80; com-

mon milkers, $406150.



' Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.

27 butchers av 800 at $6, 10 do av 977 at

$7, 28 do av 686 at $6.50, 22 do av 620 at

$6, 5 cows av‘1034 at $4.75, 26 steers av

1103 at $8.25, 6 cows av 855 at $4; to

Strong 2 stockers av 650 at $5.85; to Sul—

iivan P. Co. 7 cows av 947 at $5.25, 5 do

av 928 at $4.25, 13 butchers av 784 at

$6.60; to Mason B. Co. 5 cows av 1026 at

$5.25; 'to Thompson Bros. 3 do av 910 at

$4, 1 do weighing 1150 at $5; to Newton

B. CO. 11 do av 1107 at $5.75, 4 do av 905

at $5.25, 9 steers av 900 at $7.25; to Ap-

plebaum 4 heifers av 505 at $5.40; to Ra‘tt-

kowsky 6 coWs av 1120 at $5.35, 4 do av

1260 at $6.60, 2 do av 1210 at $6; to Howe

20 feeders av 807 at $6.70, 4 do av 790 at

$6.70; to “'eech'ler 15 steers av 1017 at

$7.60; to LaBoe 3 feeders av 850 at $6.75;

to Goose 5 cow's av 960 at $4.80; to Mich.

B. CO. 26 steers av 1015 at $7.50, 22 do av

1085 at $7.40, 2 cows av 1210 at $6, 1 do

weighing 960 at $5; to Hammond, S. &

C0. 2 cows av 1165 at $6.25, 1 do weigh-

ing 1100 at $5.50, 3‘ bulls av 1457 at $6.25,





‘2 do av 930 at $5.75, 12 steers av 900 at





$7.20; to Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weighing

1160 at $6.50, 3 cows av 1073 at $5.25; to

Sullivan P. CO. 4 butchers av 815 at $6.25,

2 cows av 1185 at $6.



Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 2 cows

av'815 at $4.25, 3 do av 913 at $6, 1 bull

weighing 1550 at $6.50; to Hammond, S.

'8: Co. 1 do weighing 1550 at $6.25, 1 do

weighing 1660 at $6.35; to LaBoe 6 feed-

ers av 808 at $6.75; to Strong 3 stockers

av 600 at $6; to Francis 3 do av 470 at

$6; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows av 1073 at

$23.75, 5 do av 1014 at- $4.50, 1 steer weigh-

ing 1050 at $7.50, 4 do av 915 at $6; to

Hirschleman 14 butchers av 928 at $6.60;

to Mich. B. Co. 15 do av 900 at $6.60; to

Rattkowrky 4 cows av 980 at $4.85; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 3 do av 793 at $3.75;

to Sullivan P. CO. 2 do av 990 at $5.75,

3 steers av 833 at $6.75. 2 cows av 820 at

$3.90, 1 steer weighing 600 at $6.25; to

Watts 2 cows av 1025 at $5.75, 3 heifers

‘av 800 at $6.75.



Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 1 heif—

er weighing 760 at $6.75, 1 bull weighing

730 at $6, 14 steers av 870 at $7.50: to

Kull 3 butchers av 703 at $5.80, 5 do av

674 at $6; to Rasmick 4 cows av 905 at

$5; to Hfirslchleman 9 steers av 730 at

$6.40; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 cows av 945 at

$5.85, 3 do av 1157 at $5.85. 1 do weigh-

ing 880 at $4, 2 do av 1210 at $5.85; to

App-lebaum 2 cows av 1125 at $4.50; to

Bower-slox 4 stockers av 627 at $6.25, 12

do av 653 at $6.40; to. Kamman B. Co. 4

cows av 845 at $5.30, 10 steers av 936 at

$7; to Itattkowsky 9 cows av 1090 at

$5.70; to Mich. B. Co. 11 butchers av 833

at $6.75, 1 cow weighing 1200 at $5.85; to

Bowen‘sox 8 feeders av 762 at $6.50; to

Kamman B. CO. 4 cow‘s av 845 at $5.30. 10

steers av 936 at $7; to Ra‘ttkowsky 9

cows av 1090 at $5.70; to Mich. B. Co. 11

butchers av 833 at $6.75, 1 cow weighing

1200 at $5.85; to Goose 4 cows av 1030 at

$4.50; to Bower-50x 2 stdckers av 675 at

$6.65; to Thompson Bros. 1 steer weigh-

ing 930 at $8.



Roe Com. Co. Sold Mich. B. Co. 7

butchers av 640 at $6.15, 7 do av 741 at

$6.25. 1 bull weighing 790 at $5.50, 5 cows

av 1000 at $5.60, 3 do av 1107 at $5.50. 7

butchers av 630 at $6: to LaBoe 5 stock-

ers av 632 at $6; to Strong 6 do av 626 at

$6. 14 do av 547 at $6, 5 d0 av 582 at

$6; to Bresna‘han 2 heifers av 615 at $5.25,

2 do av 610 at $5.25: to Rattkowsky 3

cows av 960 at $5, 4 butchers av 422 at

$5.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 1 bull

weighing 1190 at $5.75; to Sullivan P. Co,

13 butchers av 861 at $6.65, 2 steers av

895 " at $7, 2 butchers av 790 at $6.60: to





Mich. B. Co. 6 cows av 1070 at $5.75, 34





heifers av 760 at $6, 1 do weighing 1090

at $7.75; to GOose 2 cows av 1150 at $6.25:

to Hammond, S. & Co. 4 steers av 917 at

$7.20. 5 cows av 1060 at $5.60: to Newton,

B. Co. 2 butchers av 865 at $6.50: to

Thompson B. Co. 7 do av 347 at $5.50, 2

cows av 735 at $4. 1



Veal Calves.



Receipts, 474. Market strong.

$11@11.50; ot’hers 886210.50.



Roe Com. Co. sOId Nagle P. Co. 2 av

145 at $11; to Rat'tkowsky 4 av- 200 at

$5.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 av 165 at $11.

1 weighing 140 at $9, 1 weighing 110 at





Best





10.

$ Haley &. M. sold Nagle P. Co. 1 weigh-

ing 130 at $11; to Parker. W- & Co. 7 av

175 at $11. 4 av 150 at $11, 2 av 140 at

$11. 2 av 125 at $11.



Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 3 av

'160 at $11.50, 9 av 155 a't $10.80: to New-

ton B. Co. 2 av 185 at $11; to Parker, ~W.





 





THE MICHIGAN- FARMER





& Co. 3 av 275 at $7.50, 1 weighing 100 at

$10, 7 av 145 at $11, 5 av 125 at $11.

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 8036. Market steady to strong.

Best lambs, $7.75@7.90; fair to good do,

$7.25@7.50; light to common do, $6.50@7:

yearlings, $6@6.50; fair to good sheep, $4

61.4.50; culls and common, $3@3.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Levy & Son 111

lambs av 75 at $7.85; 'to Milch. B. Co. 51

do av 55 at $7, 7 do av 65 at $7.50, 3

sheep av 95 at $4.25, 14 do av 105 at

$4.25; to Barlage 10 lambs .av 35 at $5, 32

do av 60 at $7.10, 62 sheep av 85 at $4.25;

to Mich. B. Co, 40 lambs av 60 at $5.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Swift & Co. 212

lambs av 86 at $7.75, 29 do av 80 at $7.65,

136 do av 85 at $7.75, 45 do av 85 at

$7.65; to-Suvllivan 1’. Co. 30 sheep av 95

at $4.25, 9 do av 105 at $3.75, 111 lambs

av 55 at $6.75, 51 sheep av 110 at $4, 67 do

av 125 at $4.50. 8 lambs av 75 at $7; to

Parker, \V. & C0. 16 do av 55 at $7, 49

do av 80 at $7.50; to Levy & Son 211

Sheep av 115 at $4.50, 36 lambs av 78 at

$7.85, 20 do av 80 at $7.75; to Thompson

Bros. 21 sheep av 97 at $4, 21 do av 95

at $3.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 16 lambs

av 65 at $6.75, 10 do av 61 at $6.85, 119

do av 78 at $7.80, 36 do av 75 at $7.80, 11

do av 68 at $6.75; to Sullivan P. CO. 19

do av 55 at $6.65, 16 do av 60 at $6.85; to

Thompson Bros 12 do av 70 at $7.35; to

Kull 31 do av 50 at $6.25; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 15 do av-85 at $7.85; to Mich.

B. Co. 64 do av 75 at $7.75, 33 sheep av

95 at $4, 103 lambs av 75 at $7.75; to Sul-

livan P. CO. 23 do av 50 at $6.50; to Ham-

mond. S. & C0. 40 do av 85 at $7.90, 49

do av 70 at $7.65; to Nagle P. Co. 104 do

av 75 at $7.75. 90 do av 80 at $7.65, 46 do

av 80 at $7.85, 100 do av 78 at $7.85: to

Hammond, S. & Co. 14 do av 65 at $6.85.



Hogs. _



Receipts, 7619. N0ne sold up to noon;

bidding as follows: ‘



Range of ‘priceS: Light to good butch-

ers, $7.6561l7.70; pig‘s, $7.60; mixed, $7.65;

‘heavy, $7.65607.70.



Haley & M. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

460 av 200 at $7.70, 450 av 180 at $7.65.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker. W. & Co.

1010 av 210 at $7.70, 3500 av 180 at $7.65.

515 av 160 at $7.60.



Roe Com. C0. sold Sullivan P. Co. 280

av 200 at $7.70, 270 av 180 at $7.60.





Frlday’s Market.





December 12, 1913.

Cattle.

Receipts this week, 2344; last week,





1658; market dull.



We quote: Best steers and heifers.

$8.75; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200, $761)

7.65; do 800 to 1000, $761.17.50; steers and

heifers that are fat, 600 to 800, $6616.50;

do 500 to 700, $525666; choice fat cows,

$6; good do, $5.50@5.75; common do, $4.50

@5; canners, $3684; choice heavy bulls,

$6.25@r6.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls.

$550606; stock bulls $5615.25; choice iced—

ing steers, 800 to 1000, $6.256436.75; choice

stockers, 500 to 700, 55650611675; fair do.

500 to 700, $6656.25 stock heifers. $550656:

milkers, large, young, medium age, $75@

80; common milkers. $406150.



Veal Calves.



Receipts this week, 625; last Week, 728;

market steady. Best, $1161?11.50; others,

$86,010.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts this week, 1005; last week

9199; market easy and 10c lower than oh

Thursday. Best lambs. $7.75; fair to good

lamlbs, $7.25@7.50; light to common lambs.

$6.50@6.75; yearlings, $6616.40; fair to

good sheep, $46L4.50; culls and common,

$2.506i3.50.



Hogs.



Receipts this week,

12,720; market steady.



Range of prices: Light to good butch-

ers, $7.65@7.70; pigs, $7.70; mixed, $7.65;

heavy, $7.65@7.70.





NATIONAL BR-EED MEETINGS HELD

AT THE INTERNATIONAL.





10,822; last week,





 





(Continued from page 557).

cers on the evening of December 3: Pres-

ident, A. M. Foster, Rushville, Ill.; vice-





president. Chas. O. Griffith, Gi‘eenville,

Ill.; secretary-treasuer, O. C. Vernon,

G'oshen, Ind. Trustees, F. J. \Vade,





Vt'eston, Ohio; \V. P. Doolittle, Woodland,

M0.; Caleb Silver, Cleveland, Ohio; Hon~

arary president, D. G. Bronson, East

Hardwick, Vt. Nearly 500 members were

reported in 33 states. The meeting was

cut short so that the members might in-

dulge in a. banquet given by the ASSOUla-

tion, at which roast O. I. C. pig was a

prominent feature.



American Poland Cihina Record Associa-



ton.



The annual meeting of this Association

Was featured by a banquet which brought

some 200 people interested in the breed.

Officers elected were: President, J. M.

Kemp, Kenney, Ill.; secretary, \Vm. Mc-

Fadden, Flo:smoor, Ill.; treasurer, J. .

Blackif‘ord. . .



' American Bur-cc Association.





At the annual meeting of the Dome





Association, officers were elected as fol-

lows: Presridennt, Henry W. Ma'tern, of

Lostant, Ill.; secretary. R. J. Evans;

treasurer, Ora Jackson.



Dairy Shorthorn Association.



At a meeting of this new organization

'held Wednesday, Dec. 3, the following

officers were elected: President, G. H.

Davison, MlIIlbI‘OO'k, N. J.; vice-president,

S. D. May, Granville, Center, Pa.; secre-

tary—treasurer, C. B, “‘ade, Orangeville,

Ohio. Directors, oneyear,D. F. Mobaugh-

lin, South Dakota; W. H. OtIS, Colorado

Springs. 001.; Wm. Gnalce. Barrin'gton. Ill.;

two years, F. M'cMartin, Claremont.

Minn: F. Holland, Milton, Iowa; S. H.

Davison: three years. Geo. Taylor, S‘hel—

burne. Mass; L. D, May and C. B. Wade.



Red Polled Cattle Club of America.



At the annual meeting of this club,

'held Wednesday. Dec. 3. Secretary Mar-

tin’s report showed an increase in re-





ceipts over 1912 of $1,900. Officers were

elected as follows: President, Charles

Kraft; vice-president, Adolph A. Arp; sec-

retary, Harley A. Martin; treasurer, ”W.

S. Hill; directors, Chas. Graft, Jos. Keeltel

and A. P. Arp. .

American Cotswold Association.



At the annual meeting of this association

in the Record Building, Dec. 2, the fol-

lowing officers were elected for the ensu-

ing year: President, D. C. Lewis, Camp

Point, Ill.; vice-(president, F. Poirsons,

Ft. \Vayne, Ind; second vice—president,

J. R. Allen, Draiper, Utah; secretary—

treasurer, F. \V. Harding. VVaukesha,

Wisconsin.



American Oxford-Down Record Associa-

tion.



"The annual meeting was held in the

Record Building, Thursday evening, Dec.

4. One of the features of this meeting

was a diseussion of the dog question, and

J. C. Williamson, of Ohio, was appointed

to confer with other Record Associations

relating to the matter of securing protec

tive legislation in the various states. Olli-

cei's were elected as follows: President,

Henry Arkel‘l, Tee'swater, Ont.; vice-pres-

ident, R, J. Stone. Stonin'g‘ton, Ill.; sec-

re-tary-ltreasurer, W. A. S‘halt'or, Hamilton.

Ohio; directors, C. C. Croxen, Atalistsa,

Iowa; J. C. “'illlamson, Xenia, Ohio.

GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS AT



THE INTERNATIONAL.





 





Carlot Grand Championships.



Cattle—Fat steers, Escher & Ryan,

Irwin, 1a., on Angus yearlings; feeders,

A. A. Neale, Montrose, Col., on Shorthorn

yearlings.



Sheep.—Knollin & Finch, Soda Springs,

Idaho, on Westesn lambs.



Hogs—4. D. King, Burlington, Kas.. on

Berkshires.



Individual Grand Championship.



Steer.-.l. l). Mourcgor, Brandon, Mani-

tG‘ba. on Gloucarntnck Victor 2nd, grade

Angus, senior yearling.



VVether.——J. 4’1. 1). J. Campbell, \Vood—

ville, ()nt., on Shropshire yearlings.



liar-row and Pen Barrows—John Fran-

ces & Sons. New Lenox, Ill., on l’oland

Chinas.



Breeding Championships.-Cattle.



Shorthorns.—GI'and champion bull,

“'lrite & Smith, St. Cloud, Minn, on

Rin'gmastcr; grain champion cow, Anoka

Farms, \\“auk'esha, Wis, on Maxwal‘ton

hlissie.



Abeluleen-Angus-«Grand champion bull,

XV. A. M'cllenry. Denison, Iowa. on Erwin

(L; grand champion cow, same on Black-

cap.



llerefords.-—-Grand champion bull, V\'. J.

Davis, Jackson. Miss, on Point Comfort.

14th; co‘w, \\'.I1'I'en McCray, Kentland,

Ind., on Perfection Lass.



Polled Durhams—Bull, J. H. Miller,

Peru, 1nd,, on Sultan's Creed; cow, same

on Sylph of Miami.



Galloway'S—B’ull, C. S. llctnhncr, Clari-

don, Iowa; cow, G. E. Cla’k, Topeka,

Kaa, on Daisy Dimple.



Red Pulled—Senior champion bull, Geo.

Inichen & Sons, Geneva, 1nd.



Sheep.



Shropshire—Jtam and

Farm, COO[)€.'SLU‘\VII. N. Y.



Cotswold—Ram, E. F. Park, Bur-ford,

Ont; ewe, Anoka Farms, \\'aukesha. \Vis.



Dorsctrmltam and ewe, \V. II, Miner,



Y.





owe, Iroquois





.C'hazy, N.



Lincoln—Item and ewe, ll. M. Lee,

Highgnte, Uni.



Hain1>>liii‘c.—l{.un, “'alnut llill Farm,





li)cnerail, K33; ewe, \V. W. Arnold, Gales-

ville, Ill.



Southdown.—Ram and ewe, Chas. Lect

& Sons, Mantua, O.



Cheviot—Ram, (1. \\'. l’arnell, \Vingarte,

1nd,; ewe, ll. & \\'. Postlc, Camp Chase,

Ohio.



Swine.



Berkshire—Boar, liimendorf Farm.

Lexington, Ky; sow, \V. E. Spicer, Bush-

nell. Ill,



Chester-“'hitc.—Boar,

\Valnut, I:I.; row, .T. XV.

ville, Pa.



Poland-China.——Boar and sow, J. E. Me-

harl'y, Tolono, Ill.



YOIkshire.—Boar, F. M. Buck, Lal”orte,

Indiana.





Thomas Kent,

Brendel, Zions-





Haxnpslrire—uBoaI' and sow, Saltonc

Stuck Farm, Gu‘eensburg, Ind,

Horses.

Percheronsx—Gmud champion stallion,

J. Crouch 8: Sons, Lafayette, 1nd,, on





ldell‘onse; mare, same on Lapalisse; Am-

erican bred stallion, Burress SLOL'k Farm,

Wenona, lll,, on Sultan; mare, Dunhams,

Wayne, 111., on Mirabella.

(:I_\'LI€S(IE{IC.TTS(’IIICI‘ champion stallion,

Conyngham Bros” \Vilkesba'rre, l’a., on

Fyvie Baron; mare, Fuxll‘llolme Farm, New

Market, N. J., on Harvester lam-moss.

Shire—(Hand champion stallion, ”Rur-

gess Stock Farm, on Brccaldcn Here-

ford; mare, Geo. McCray. Fit’hian, Ill.

Suffolk—Grand champion stallion, Haw-

thorne Farm, 111., on \Vestside Chieftain,

mare, same on Geneva. -





W PURE-BRED CATTLE SALES AT THE





INTERNATIONAL.





 





At the Hereford sale held Dec. 5. 46

'head sold for $25,380, averaging $561.50,

the top being $2.200 for the senior bull

calf Standard II. The 26 bulls sold aver-

aged $626.70. '



The International Shorthorn sale held

Dec. 4, resulted in 42 head being sold at

an average of $426.80. Maxwalton Roan

Lady topped the sale at $1,275, while

Michael Wagner's Ohio-bred heifer, Mary

A‘Ubots'burn 9th, brorugh‘t $1,000.



Fifty-two head of. Angus sold for $14.-

160, averaging $272.30 at the American

Association sale held Dec. 3. The young

s‘horw bull, Kemp, went at $2,005.





StoclI'I‘arm to Lease on Shares





an acre farm in Aloona County. Mich. together with

stock, harm. cattle. sheep. boss; to lease from 3 to 5

years 9N SHARES. Man having a icultural college

experience preferred. 1!. K. Gust n. Alpena. Mich.





 





 





 





 





on many farms in West- .

em Canal-in 1913, some

Heldsbeingre ortedaa

igh as 0 usheln .

per acre. As high as

100 bushels were record-

ed in some districts

for oats, 50 bushels for

barley and from 10 to

- 20 bushels for flex. ,, .

, J. Keys arrived in the 3

country 5 years ago from Deu- I

1 mark, with very little means. Be , S

. homesteaded, worked hard, is -/ ' _ '

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, $4,000. His wheat weighed 68

lbs. to the bushel and averaged \

over 35 bushels to the acre. .



Thousands of similar Instances might be

related of the home. are in Manitoba,

Sukatchewan and AI em.



The crop of 1913 was an abundant one

everywhere in Western .



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()It SALE—~Farm of 120 acres. under, good state of

cultivation. gravclly soil, ample buildings, 1 mile

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Cheap. It. is finely located on Saginaw, Flint. and

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CHAS. GILLIGAN. H. 1. Bridgeport. Michigan.





For Sale or Exchange for good business. 320 acres 3%

miles N. W'. of Hastings on Main road. Sand and

Gravel loam soil lays level. 2 sets of good buildings with

silos. Well fenced and watered. 54 mile from school.

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Good buIIdings, IIvmg water. never rented.

$90 per acre. 825 less than surrounding farms.



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cattle. hogs and chickens on green feed all the year.

I will take your Michigan farm in exchange. Special

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That there is a relation between tree

growth and the production of fruit is

commonly known to fruit growers. It is

known that heavy production and vigor-

ous growth do not go together. We have

evidences of it in most every orchard

where we find the smaller trees~ages be-

ing equal—bearing the most fruit. We

can find numerous cases where a differ-

ence in soil conditions will make a differ-

ence in the growth and productivencss of

trees of the same varieties. On the light-

er soil, the trees will invariably make the

least growth and bear the most fruit. The

writer has seen instances where there

was a difference of five years or more

in the coming into bearing of trees of the

same variety, the difference being mainly

due to a difference in soil conditions.



We can also note this relation when we

compare varieties. When we note the

vigorousness of the growth and the pro-

ductiveness of a variety and compare it

with that of some other variety of oppo-

site tendencies. we have good illustrations

of this relation. The Northern Spy is

tl'pical of the varieties which make large

and vigorous trees. It is known for its

slowness in coming into bearing. The

Wagner apple is typical of the opposite

kind. It is known for its early and con-

stant productiveness, and for the small

growth of tree it makes. Very often we

sce small stuntedJWagener trees which

are apparently bearing themselves to

death. Between these two extrcmes we

have all the other varieties. and in all of

them we can quite accurately judge both

the early and the constant productiveness

by the size of the tree the variety makes,

and vice versa.



The reason for this relation between

growth and productivencss is a thing

which few know. Many think that the

production of fruit is a drain on the vital-

ity of the tree and therefore it cannot

make the growth it should. “'9, also hear

others say that the reason SOmc varieties

hear every other year is because they

have to rest up one year to regain vitality

lost from bearing a heavy crop the year

before. Both of these statements are

partly right. If] the proper plant food is

not made available for the tree to make

its. pro-per balance of growth and produc-

tion, the tI‘ee will likely suffer if from

over—production, and if from over—growth,

the fruit growcr's pocketbook and pa-

tience are the things likely to suffer. A

balanced ration is an essential for the

well—being of fruit trees as Well as for

animals, but What is a balanced ration for

one variety may not be one for another.



A suggestion as to the manner in which

fruit buds are developed would probably

give light on this matte-r. In spring when

the buds are first formed. they are all leaf

buds. Some time in July some of these

change to 'fruit buds. This process at

changing from leaf to fruit bud is contin—

ued until some time in OctOber. It is

early in July that the terminal buds of

the new growths are supposed to form,

and the rest of the season is spent in

ripening up the newly made wood. Un-

der conditions where a vigorous growth

is encouraged, this ripening process does

not go on as Well as- usual. and where

there has been a large growth, few of the

buds change to fruit buds. This will ac.-

count for the fact that the fruit buds are

most always found on the shorter growths

and spurs of the tree. It is natural,

then, that anything which Will check the

growth of the trees W'lll make likely the

formation of fruit buds. A demonstration

of this can be made by tying a wire

tightly around a. limb so that it will con-

strict the sap in a year or so, or by gird-

ing the limb by taking off a narrow Strip

of bark. The limb so treated will Set to

more fruit buds. but it will not grow as

much as» the others.



The value of the knowledge of the rela-

tion between growth and production is

easily apparent.



When setting young trees, the growth

characteristics of the varieties should be

taken into consideration. SOme varieties

set fruit buds too easily, while others lack

in this respect. Very often this will as—

sist us in the selection of varieties when

we know the character of the soil of the

proposed orchard site. For instance, it

would not be advisable to set a Northern

Spy in a. rich soil. as it would spend years

in wood production before it would give

signs of bearing. On the other hand, it

would be just as great a mistake to Set

a Wagener on light soil, as it would lit-

erally bear itself to death. The Spy and

other varieties which make large growth.

want the lighter soils, while the Wagener

and varieties with small growth will need

the heavier for best results. On the prop-





 





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Tree Growth and Production





 





habit of overbearing and will become a.

fair-sized tree, and the Spy will come into

hearing so that the present generation

may reap some of the benefits of its fruit.



The matter of soil fertility and cultiva-

tion can also be used to control tree

growth. If the trees are growing too

much and are on a soil fairly retentive of

moisture, leaving the orchard in sod may

tend to check the growth and bring the

trees into bearing. On the other hand,

when trees are overbearing, good culti—

vation with the addition of fertilizer or

the use of legume cover crops, such as

vetch and clover, will undoubtedly

much to encourage the trees to grow and

to produce more normal crops.



Pruning may also be used to increase

wood growth or fruit production, as may

seem necessary. In general, a. liberal cut—

ting out of the smaller growths and spurs





will check production, and to favor pro-

duction these should be left and the

larger limbs should be cut out. Articles





which will appear later will take up the

ma’oter of pruning in more detail.



Girding may be used to bring trees into

hearing. but it is a method which may be

harmful to the tree, and does not always

give the desired results. Other methods

as suggested above, should be tried first,

then, if necessary, girding should be used

as a last resort.





 





ANNUAL STATE HORTICULTURAL



MEETING.

(Continued from lust Week).

The Thursday morning sesSion was op-

ened with a talk by Prof. Eustace on the

practical control of orchard troubles. Prof.

Eustace gave a very valuable talk on this

subject. He explained the need (if spray-

ing on time and of doing thorough work,

and took up the various fruit troubles un-

der their proper headings, insects, fungus

troubles. bacterial diseases, and physi0~

logical troubles. Special stress was also

laid on proper spraying for the apple Scab,

and the cause- of poor results was ex—

plained. Prof. Eustace stated that it was

necessary to get there with the spray be-

fore the scab attacked the fruit. After

the scab became established it worked

under the skin and spraying did very lit-

tle good. Bacterial troubles: could be con-

trolled to a great extent by giving them

proper and immediate attention. The phy—

siological troubles, however, we have no

cure for.



Mr. W. S. Palmer, of Kalkaska, gave a

very able paper on the essentials of com-

merciul vegetable growing. Mr. Palmer

has had considerable expelrienlce in this

line of work. \Ve hope to have articles

from his pen on this subject.



Mr. O. K. White, the popular field

agent of the horticultural department of





the Agricultural College, told us why some"





fruit growers did not get better results.

At the opening of his talk he said that if

he told the real truth he would undoubt-

edly have brickbats coming his way. He-

laid special emphasis on thoroughness and

stated that few really knew what that

word meant. He took up the various dis-

cases and insects and gave hints on

spraying for them to gct be'ttcr results.



Mr. Eben Mumford, -who has: charge of

the farm management work in this state.

spoke on “W“hat the Farm Management

Movement can do for the Fruit Grower."

In his very able talk Dr. Mumford gave

some interesting facts regarding the

horticultural interests of the state. He

stated that the fruit growcrs were better

organized than any other branch of farm-

ing in the state. The industry has in—

creased 152 per cent in the ten years from

1899 to 1909 and now was eStimated as a

$10,000,000 industry. He said that the

two main factors in the advanccmcnt of

the World were the discovery of knowledge

and its dissemination. The dissemination

was the greatest problem; evcn with all

of the agencies of giving knowledge to

the world it was not disseminated as

thoroughly as it should be. The work of

the Farm Management Department was

to help in this Work of dissemination.

Agriculture is a local problem and there-

fore the rule-of—thumb method of farm-

ing would be a failure. The county farm

advisor is well situated to help on local

problems.



For the afternoon sesSion Mr. Ferns-

Worth and Mr. Case had similar subjects

but treated them in different ways. Both

spoke on marketing fruits. Mr. Farns-

lworlth spoke of the importance of good

roads in marketing fruit and he urged

that farmers take active part in the good

roads, even if from a selfish standpoint.

He valued the location of a farm worth

$200 an acre in the marketing of fruit. He

believed in, organization and urged hon-





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DEC. 20, 1913.





eSty in packing. He Valued advertising

and said that it would pay more- to get

in the tree tops and make a. noise than to

whisper down a. well.



Mr. Case Said that when the fruit was

packed and aboard the cars, only one-half

of the problems of the fruit growing bus-

iness were solved.‘ He found that the

home market was the best until it was

fully supplied and he suggested that the

grower look for some of the nearby mar-

kets which were good ones, but often

neglected because of the habit of sending

the produce to the large distributing cen-

te-rS. "By figures he showed that often

more than half of the price the grower got

for his fruit was used in various charges

in getting it from the farm to the re-

tailer. He said that dishonesty never

'paid, but that keeping the consumer in

mind when preparing the fruit f0r ship-

ment would pay a big profit and build up

a reputation. He believed in co-operation

but said that it it was to be Successful one

man would have to be sole dictator of the

association. Mr. Case dictates the price

to be paid for his fruit and every week

he Sends a. postal card with the price for

the week stated, to retailers who are his

consumers. He mentioned the value of

advertismg and said that good orchard

views on post cards put in the fruit pack-

ages had been good advertisements for

him.



Mr. R. E. Hanley closed one of the

strongest programs that the state society

has had for some time. Mr. Hanley is

from Chicago, where he has charge of the

Chicago branch of the North American

Fruit Exchange. He explained the plan

of the EXchange, which offers selling scr—r

vice to local co-operative societies. He

said that Michigan was less organized for

marketing than other fruit states. He

stated briefly the cesentials of a SUCCESS-

ful local marketing society and laid em-

phasis on the importance of having a

competent man as manager of such an

organization.





JONATHAN APPLE.



This variety is one of the comparatively

new ones which bus made for itself a.

prominent place in the list of popular va—

rieties. In many cases it is pressing’ hard

the older kinds fOr eminence. It is an

ideal apple for a high-class trade because

it has good flavor, color and appearance.

Combined with these qualities it has a.

texture which also makes it valuable for

culinary purposes.



It is one of the early winter varieties

which is good to eat at harvesting time,

and its keeping qualities make it good

until into February. It is one of the va-

rieties which is likely to shriVel in storage

and when not properly stored it will often

develop dark sunken spots on the surface

which will seriously injure the appear-

ance of the fruit. This is not the Baldwin

spot as many think, but the Baldwin spot

there is no known cause for it.



The tree is a moderate but quite vigor-

ous grower, the growth being rather slen—

der. The character of the growth is such

that often the limbs will break down un-

der a heavy crop. To rectify this fault

an occh'ional heading back of the main

limbs is advisable.



Under favorable conditions the tree

comes into bearing at about six years of

age, and will generally bear heavy crops

biennially. On the lighter soils where the

trees are likely to overhear the fruit is

often small. Thorough thinning and lib-

eral fertilizing will generally increase the

size of the fruit in such cases.



Although New York is the state in

which the variety originated, the south-

western states grow it at its best. Mis-

souri is undoubtedly the best Jonathan

state in the country. This is undoubtedly

due to the fact that the prevailing soil

condition are favorable to the develop—

ment of the variety. Very good Jona-

thans can, however, be grown in the low-

er pcnim‘ula of this state, where the soil

is fairly fertile. The variety needs a for-

tile soil to encourage a stockier growth of

tree, and an increase in the size of the

fruit.



The variety originated on the farm of

Philip Rick, at \Voodstoek, N. Y., about

the year 1826. Judge J. Buel, of Albany,

did much to give it prominence by bring-

ing its good qualities to the attention of

the best growers of his time. At first it

was disseminated under various names,

New Spitzenbulrg being one of the most

prominenlt. This name was given it be-

cause of its similarity to the Esopus

Spitzenburg apple. Finally the name giv-

en it by Judge Buel, the Jonathan. was

accepted by the variety experts of that

time. This name Was given it in Honor

of Jonathan Hasbrouck who first called

his attention ”to the variety. Brother Jon-

athan is a name often given it now.
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CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.





 





Advice through this department is free

to our subscribers. Each communication

.‘hOUld 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

piivate practice, and a fee of $1.00 must

accompany the letter.





 





'l‘hrush.———I bought a mare lately that

has thrush in one hind foot. B. E. B.,

lteading, Mich.———Keep the foot dry, clean,

and apply calomel twice a. day.



Periodic Ophthalmia—I have a colt 18

months old that has been troubled with

sore eyes for the past nine or ten months.

llis eyes appear to be all right part of

the time and seldom more than one eye

is sore at same time. A. M. H., Clyde.

Mich—Your colt suffers from periodic

ophthalmia and is perhaps incurable.

When eyes are sore fomen‘t them with

hot water, apply a saturated Solution of

borancic acid and give a dessertspoonful

of Donovan's solution at a dose twu or

three times a day. A bright light usually

irritates sore eyes.



Mare Out of Condition—We have a

mare with a good appetite, is fairly well

fed, which fails to lay on flesh. Have

given her tobacco, ashes and salt for

worms and when she works perspires

freely. J. 11., Grant, Mich—Her teeth

may requ.r-.: floating. Increase her grain

ration and give her 1,5 oz. Fowler’s solu-

tion, 1 dr. fluid extract nux vomica and

a teaspoonful of ground wormseed at a

dose in feed two or three times a day.



Stomach \Vorms~—R~heumatism.—I wish

you woull tell me of a remedy for stomach

worms in horseS; alSo what to give a

stiff cow. R. W., Harbor Beach. Mich.—

Oive your horse a teaspoonful of turpen—

tine mixed with one—halt pound of sugar

and mola5ses twice a day for a few days.

Give your cow a tablespoonful of powder-

ed nitrate of potaSh in feed twice a day.

Rub her sore joints with camphorated oil

twice a. day.

' Mange—Sows Have Lice—I have a

three—year-old colt that has i'tch, but is

in fairly good fles'h. What had I better

apply to kill lice on cou's? F. C. H., New

Baltimore, Mich—Give your colt a tea—

spoonful of Fowler's solution and a tea-

spoonful of powdered nitrate of potash

at a dose two or three times a day. Ap-

ply one part coal tar disinfectant and 30

parts water to skin three times a week.

The colt should be well groomed. To kill

lice on COWS, drop 5 ozs. of crushed

stavesacre seed in a gallon of boiling

water; let it simmer for two or three

hours, then strain and fill with water to

original one gallon, then apply every two

or three days and you will soon kill all

the lice. But, remember your stable

should be cleaned and sprayed or white-

washed with lice—killing mixture.



Chorea.-—I how: a three—year-old colt

which had distemper last spring and par-

tially recovered. The colt staggers when

he walks and has been in this condition

for several months; has a good appetite

but does not grow. Our local Vet. calls

this a case of locomotor ataxia. F. R,

Saginaw county, Mich.———Your colt suffers

from chorea which occasionally proves as

a sequel to distemper in horses, but very

Il'requently in dogs. In the horse it seems

to arise as an original lesion. Locomotor

ataxia, “Tabes Dorsallis.” usually devel-

ops as a result from exposure to storms,

especially if the horse is not in good con—

dition and it may Occur in old hores and

debilitated ones. This disease usually

develops somewhant slowly and gives rise

to an unsteady gait behind. There is no

vure for either one of these ailments;

however, you might try giving 1 dr. doses

of ground nux vomica, 1 dr. doses of io-

dide potassium two or three times a day.



Nervousness.—For the past three years

my eight-year-old brood mare seems to

eject urine occasionally without any very

good and apparent cause. On account

of this ailment. her tail and hind quarters

are always soiled. F. C., West Branch,

Mich—Your mare is in-curalble; she suf-

fers from weakness of sphincter muscle

at neck of bladder which should keep

bladder closed. Give her 1 dr. ground

nux vomica at a dose in feed two or

three times a day.



Mare Never Lays Down in Stable—I

recently purchased a mare and not know-

ing much about horses, I would like for

you to tell me why she never lays down

in stable. Her stall is wide and roomy,

kept clean and well bedded. Mrs. W. H.

'l{.. South Haven, Mich—A horse that is

able to lie down and get up without 35-

sistance out doors, will often lie down in

barn if placed in a box stall. I have

owned horses that would never lie down

in a. single stall and have had homes that

got cast and were unable to get up in a

narrow stall; this seemed to frighten

them from laying down again in narrow

single stalls.



Muco-enterirtis—Bone Spavin.—One of

our hogs died and I would like to know

cause of death. It took sick, vomited.

llurged and died about 20 hours later. The

stOmach and bowels were inflamed, but

no stoppage. I also have .a mare eight

years old, with enlarged hock joint which

I am told is a bone Spavin. W. E. M..

“'hite Cloud, Mich—Your hog died the

result of inflammation of bowel and could

not have been saved. Give your horse

rest and apply one part red iodide mer-

cury and eight parts aerate of can—

tharides to hock joint every week or ten

day’s. Or, you can safely apply any one

Of the spavin ,or ringbone remedies that

are regularly advertised in this paper.





 





THE ".MICHIG





 





HEWO

BELGIANS

They Are Here!





H. & H. Wolf, importers of Belgian





Horses exclusiv‘ely, 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. This Will interest you as much

as the horses.





Hewo Stock Farm

Wabash. Indiana

More than a quarter century

with the breed.





 





 





 





 





 





Mctz Bros,





.Niles, Mich.

We have a fine lot of imported and

American bred





Percheron Stallions





on hand and we can sell them for less

money than any other importer. Write

us your wants.





METZ BROS., Niles, Michigan.

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FEEDING

MOLASSES





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





W. H.

EDGAR & 30',

1232 Lafayette

81161.. Detroit. Mich.

I have.........hcad of V



cattle ....... sheep ..... hogs Mail this

Coupon





Today





and ............ horses. Send me '

your trial proposition to prove that

B to}; )y ) Funding Mousse: will benefit

all of them.





Name.......................





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JACKS and MULES





Balsa mules and get rich.

18 Jack and Mule fazmahun-

d o managemen . w are

02111039 seen 420 head fine

large Jacks. Jennys a'n

Mules. 14 to 17 hands high.

Good ones. Stock guaran-

teed. Write for p r i c e 9

today. Address

KBEKLER'S JACK FARM



West. Elkton. Ohio.

Branch barns. Clinton. Ind.





REGISTERED HOLSTEIN





-Two bull calves

of excellent

typo and breeding. Good A.R.0. backing Write for





W. B. READER. Howell. Mich.





pedigree and prices.



' black. 2 years old. First check

A Fills Shfilland PM}. for 860 getl him. Also choice

Barred Bock cookerels. Michelson strain. 32 each or 2

for $3.50. 3 for $5. HILLCBEST FARE. Kalamazoo. Mich.





REG. CLYDESDALE BROOD MARE





6 years old and stud colt 17 months old. weight 13001bs.

WM. 1’. PULLING 8 SON. Pal-ma. Michigan.





F s | Reg. Percherons—l stallion coming 2. one

or a e 6-mo. old 1 two—yr.-oid mare and two wean-

ling fillies. J. no. man a Sons. 1:. 2. so. Johns, Mich.





BREWER? DIRECTORY.

arms.

Aberdeen-An us.





Herd. consisting of Trojan Eric-s. B ackblrds and

Prides. onl , is headed by rton W. the GRAND

CHAMPION bull at. the Sta. . West. Michigan and

Bay City Fain of 1912 and the sire of winners at. those

Fairs and at TE]! INTERNATIONAL. Chic 0. of

1912. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. ch.





AY RSHIRES‘gfifi 31222 {35°32}? $33. 33°33:

description. Michigan School of the Deaf.Flint,Mich.

GUERNSEYS‘Ei‘E; T‘éiffi‘fuii‘fifili’i‘a. "will?

J. K. BLATOEFORD. Auditoriun Tower. ChiomJll.





 





 





 





 





 





EGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL—Eight month.

Rold. First check for$60 takes him. One five month.

8’75. quality for 850. G. A. Wigent. Watervliet. Mich.





GUERNSEYS FOR SALE—Tuberculin tested a Bag-

3 cows. 4 heifenl our old. 2 heifer calves. 2 bu

calves. GEO. N. ORA FORD. R. D. 2. Bolton. Mich.





A FEW culCE Holstein Erie-inn Ball galore:





for Sale. A. E. book,

GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.





Waulod—llim Hogidorod Holst-ll Mellon"???





.95: old. H. BROOK. B. 2. Chorlevoix. Michigan,





AN "FARMER





Bigelow’s Holstein Forms





Breadsvillo, Mich.





, Have for sale several fine young





bulls out of cows with high official

butter and milk records.

Send for circular.





3 FIIIE YEARLIIO BULLS!





1 Son of Sir Jolie Johanna, out of an 18th 3-

year-old daughter of sir May Hal-tog Posch.

2 SoAns of Johanna DeColantha 5th and out of





 





. . 0. 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.



Hoes right to quick buyers.





L. E. doNNELL. Fayette, Ohio





 





 





 





Purebred Registered





HOLSTEIN CATT LE

The Greatest Dairy Breed

Send for FREE Illustrated Booklets





 





Holstein-Friction, Auo..Box M4. BrattleboroNt. g





 





“Top-Notch” Holsteins.





Choice bull calves from 1 to 3 mo. old, of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with oficial milk

and butter records for sale at. reasonable prices.





MOPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlohllln.





Wanted 6 Registered Holstein Heifers





Fromltoz years old. Send pedigree with prices.

C. E. WINTERS. Augusta. Mich.

fl . ' H '



Ill-ill FIRM 2..3§.°s§6"&§"si5‘2§%‘t,whim 3.18225?



S. 0. BATHFON d SON, R. F. D. 5. Ypsilanti. ich.



KORN-El. STOCK FARM ‘ii'SiSc‘zl‘dglfl‘iPfi





months old for 5100. E. B. CORNELL. Howell. Mich.





Magnificent Holstein Bull Ball For Sale





Two months old. By 26 lbs. butterbull: dam. the A.





 





 





R.O. Cow Houwtie P. DeKol Albino. None finer.

chen-elghths white. Yellow skin. nly S75.

ROUOEMONT FARMS, Detroit. Michigan.





 





REGISTERED EOLSTEIN BULL 5 months old. In

his pedigree are 4 of the greatest sires of the breed.

for cdigrce. hard to beat. _ his

chart. W. Fay. Mason, Mich.





I75 delivered: Send

breeding at. any price.





 





Rogllolstoin Bull 1 year old dam and sire'sdnm aver-

age 2169 lb. butter 7 days, A 3.0. Write for pedigree





and price. CHAS. s. RILEY. Metamora, Mich. u. 1





 





Maple lane linglsier of Merit Herd'oocflefieiif‘ité’l

tuberculin tested Jersey Cattle of all ages for sale.

IBVIN FOX. Prop.. Allegan. Michigan.





BUTTER BRED JEPSE‘QEBA‘LS

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





JERSEYS—Bulls calves bred for product.

ion. Also cows and heifers.

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





 





 





 





Llllio Farmstead Jerseys





(Tuberculln tested Guaranteed free from Tuber-

culosis.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of

good dairy cows for sale. No females for sale at

present. Satisfaction aranteed.



COLON . l'. . Cooper-ovum. Mich.





om" onto snonmonlsarmtir sagas;





J. ‘B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.





—Bulls from 8 to 12 months

9 Shorthorns old. Best of breeding.

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





SHEEP.





 





 





 





 





 





' -—Yearli and ram lambs from Chain ion

lOIOOSlOrS flock ofn'fhumb of Mich. Also select Ben-k-

shire swine. Elmhurst. Stock Farm. Almont, Mich.



FOR SALE at





OXFORD RAMS AND EWE mm... p.10...





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





lhreo-Year-Old OXFORD and SHHOPSHIHE Hams





For sale cheap. Parkhurst Bros. Reed Citv. Mich.





 





 





 





T PAYS TO BUY PURE DIED SHEEP 0F PARSONS,

“the sheep mom of the east." Shropshires, Bambouillet.

Polled Delaines and Parsons Oxfords. R. 1. Grand Ledge.Mich,





 





ling. llamobuillel Shcop, Pure Brod Poland China

H008 and PERCHEBON HORSES. 2% miles

E. Mort-ice. on G. T. R. B. and M. U. R. J. Q. A. COOK.





INGLESID'E FARMféii‘rE’éi‘fs’hfiZfiS‘s‘é‘f





ewes bred to choice rams for $1.100

HERBERT E. POWELL. Ionia. Michigan.





 





"21—573





0. I. C’s-7'??? ringofboars all sold-





i on b ., o'r-ro B." ULZE. One-halt

me and guillvlllc. Michigan-





we'st o’f Depot. N _





WRITE US Your Wants Fer Reg. Chester ‘White Swine.

Holstein Bulls, Scotch Collie pups. Sept. pigs now

ready for shipment. RAY B. PARHAII. Bronson, Michigan.





 





o I c —Swine. Holstein Bull _calf. Bf. B. and

v . I White Leghorn 01:15. W rite me your wants.

FRED NICKEL R. No. 1. Monroe. Michigan





 





"\TH 15





i saw walourn 952 L33.





A 23 MONTHS O D





‘ iONlA GIRL





I have started more breeders on the road to suc- '

coca than any man living. I have theiargest and fin-

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

ready for themarkot at six months old. I want to

filace one hog in each community to advertise my

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

‘ Hogs." c. s. BENJAMIN. R.flo. I 0 Portland. won.





 





 





 





 





1 For Sale, of the in: e growthy

numc JOTSG’ Baal: typo. also 2 Reg. ercherou

Stallions Lyra-old. M. A. BBAY, Okemoe. Mich.





 





Dunn‘s—'7 boars, spring farrow. Fall pig, either

sex. Prices reasonable. 8.0. STA LMAN.

CHERRY LAWN FARM. R. 2. Shepherd. Michigan.





Fancy bred Duroc Jerseys—Boers & Gilts of spring &

summer furrow. Good individuals at. reasonable

prices. John McNicoll. Station A. R4. Bay City. Mich.





 





DUROC JERSEYS-Spring boars of the big type. a

few from cherryKing.the 1912 International champ

ion. at prices that. will sell them. W 1‘. Tnylor.Mllnn.Iich





 





nunocs—36 High Class immuned boars ready for

service. Special firices for 30 days. Write

or come and see. J. 0. BA NEY, Goldwater. Mich.





 





IG TYPE DUROCS—March and April Boar's. ready

hr service. Pairs not. akin. Also Shro shire

name for sale. F. J. DRODT, R. No. 1. Monroe. ich.





OUROC JERSEYS—20 Bred Gill: ior 8an





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.

nURoCS—Fnll yearling sows and spring gills, bred for



March and April furrow, bred to two of the

best bred boars in the state. Also a few hours. (all are im-

mune.) Come or write. H. G. KEESLER, Casaopolis. Mich.





llllllOllS, Good Enough to Ship Wilhoul ihe Money.





KOPE iKON FARM. Kinder-hook. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





—Spring boars from prize-win-

Duroc'Jerseys nin strains. Sows all ages

Brookwater Farm. R. l". . No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.





POLAND CRINAS‘BBPJA gfifigir‘lefin‘lufifi‘?





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





POLAND CH INA—350“” ""8"”

. boar guaranteed

in every way and immune. 835. I ship 0.0.1). and regis-

ter free, write at. once. Wm. Wafi'le, Ooldwnter,Mich.





Poland China: and Single Comb While loghorns.





B. M. WING & SO Sheridan. Michigan.





ARGE STRAIN. PROLIFC POLAND CHINA

'HOG'S—‘Two chooce fall yearlings. the best lot of

firing pigs I ever raised, '3 sows fan-owed 49 pigs.

. 0. SWARTZ. R. 37, Schoolcrnft. Michigan.

UTLER’S Big Boned Prolific Poland Chinas. Grow

big, has easy, mature early. ready for market in

6months. by? Because we’ve bred them that. way

for 20 years. Buy a bred sow or some igs now. and

make more money. 50 bred sows. 100 fnlfpigs. Poland

China history free. J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

' A’Sows bred, also summer and tall ig-.



Paland chlna from large. prolific sows. Barred flock

ROBERT NEVE, Pierson. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





cockerels, 31 each.

P. ll. MllillH Alli) lPlill. PIGS—fifi3.18§§.§3‘lé§3

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

—P l ' .

FOR SAL agdaxgripfhggtwllol’ficeshgrgllfg

G. W. HOLTON. R. No. 11, Kalamazoo. Mich.

l’ O l. A N O CRIN 118—3332.?J§§.°’p".‘i€§é“.i§fii

L. W. BARNES (it SON. Byron. Shiawasse 00.. Mich.





noun» onions-ails? “2:. :l‘ as. has:





0

P. D. LONG. B. No. 8. Gran?! Rapids, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





arge Type P. C. Largest in Mich. Bonrs all sold.

Am booking orders for Bred Gilts. Come and see

Biz Desmoins. lar est Boar in U. S. of age weighs 8L")

lbs. at 19 months. ‘xpenses Enid if not satisfied. Free

Livery from Patina. W. E. ivingstcn. Parma. Mich.





 





in August from

stock. for sale.





large Yorkshire-En; fossil.





 





lvlelve bred lwo-yoar-old Shropshiro Ewes for sale





JONES & LUTZ. Oak Grove, Michigan.

MULEFOOT HOG hill. 22%}:

all ages. C. F. BACON. Milan. Michigan.





 





W. E. MORRISH. Flushing. Michigan.

SHROPSHIRE gonosigszdaoassiré

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan.

”008.



Y

llurocs &. Violonas’fiiiifl’filéfiafi‘éfiillr‘ii 5332??

M. ’1‘. Story. R. R. 48 Lowell. Mich. City Phone .

TWO YOUIE BOLHS .12“:thSigfietéeéiglef‘ifielfirgli‘?





A. A. PATTULLO. Deckerville. Michjgnn.





 





 





 





—All ages for sale. Big growthy.

Mlllfl F0“ “083 prolific.profitnble, healthy. Write

for what you want. G. O. KREGLOVV. Ada, Ohio.





350 BIG TYPE MULE FOOT HUGS—~America'c

Champion Herd. Prolific. hardy. Best for Mich.

Also Ponies. J. DUNLAP.Box M.VVilliamsp0rt. Ohio





FOR SALE YORKSHIRES





Boar pigs. Aug. farrowed. from large litters.

MEADOVVLAND FARM

Waterman & Waterman. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





 





 





—Brod gilts all sold,

0. I. C. SWINE 1...... a No, of 5......

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

got my Krice on pants and trios not akin.

. J. GORDON R. No. 2. Bart. Mich.





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Chalcl WIN“: your wants. Price and quality right.



Meadow View Stock Farm. R.F.D. No.5.Hollnnd.Mich.

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0 0 - a ring gilts. Sept. i? ready to ship. not

akin. Lengt y Prince No. 3815. end of herd. (Will

Weigh 55 ton when mature.) A. Newman, R. l. Mariette, Mich.





-—-8 ring Boar- all field. fall ' re d to

0- II cl ch 0. also a few choice red gig?! hoaifgrs.

JOHN BEBNEB & SON. Grand edge. Mich.





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sale. OSTRANDER BROS. Morley. Mich.





 





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farrowed pigs. airs not skin. for sale. S ecial

price on trios. Geo. . McMullen. Grand Ledge. ich.





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Gilts bred for Sir-in furrow.

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Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





 





Associational Motto:



“The skilluful hand with cultured mind

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.”

Associational Sentiment:



“The Farmer: He garners from the

soil the primal wealth of nations.”





 





THE ASSOCIATIONAL MEETING,

(Continued from last week).

Wednesday Afternoon Session.



The first address of the afternoon was

giVen by Miss Euretha Bannister, of

Grand Rapids, the subject being “The

School Teacher.” Miss Bannister’s ad-

dress was of a nature to add to her hear-

ers’ appreciation of the school teacher

as a valuable factor in the life of every

community. “'0 shall undertake in the

not far distant future to publish at least

a synopsis of MiSS Bannister’s address.



The second member was an address by

Cary A. Rowland, of the Charleston

Township Farmers’ Club, on the subject

of “Junior Clubs.” As Mr. Rowland was

recently selected by the State Board of

Agriculture to take charge of the organ-

ization of Junior Agricultural Clubs in

Michigan, his address is of more than or-

dinary interest at this time. He defined

as the purpose of the Junior Clubs to

first increase production, and referred to

the work done in NOrth Dakota, where an

average of 67 bushels per acre was pro-

duced by the boys‘ corn club; second, to

improve the boys and girls through the

development of business habits and the

faculty of initiative by inspiring in. them

an increased interest in the farm and by

bringing them into direct touch with the

sources of agricultural information, such

as the United States Department of Ag-

riculture and the Michigan Agricultural

College, and third by training them for

‘co-operation in a larger field. Touching

upon the nature of the work to be done

by theSe Clubs, Mr. Rowland referred to

the boys' corn clubs and the girls’ can-

ning clubs as developed in other sections

of the c0untry_ and related something of

the benefits which have accrued from the

conduct of this kind of work in the south.

In speaking of the relation of parents to

these clubs,’ he emphasized the need of

encouragement in the work. The first

factor in interesting the boys and girls in

this work is getting them to enroll in the

clubs; next, the necessity for close study

and application to secure best results; and

last, but not least, is the formulation of a

report of the work accomplished. In clos-

ing his address Mr, Rowland described

the nature of the local organizations

which would be effected and the exhibits

which would be made a feature of 'each

year’s work. As a means of accomplish-

ing the best results in this kind of organ—

ization, he advocated the bringing to-

gether of the school and the home in one

common effort. to introduce efficient meth—

ods. Mr. Rowland’s earnestness speaks

well for the future Succer of the boy and

girl club movement in Michigan.



In this connection it will be of interest

to every Club member to know that the

State Association of Farmcrs’ Clubs has

taken steps in the direction of making the

Farmers’ Club organization prominent in

this kind of work during the ensuing

year. Mention has been made in this de-

partment of the boys’ corn club and Show

conducted under the auspices of the Ing—

havm County Farmers‘ Club, which was so

good that some of the exhibits will be

shown at the National Corn Exposition

this winter. The idea of having more

such work done in connection with other

Clubs during the ensuing year was advo-

cated, and it was decided by the execu-

tive committee of the State Association to

make an exhibit at the next annual

meeting of the best exhibits selected from

the shows of this char-actor held by local

organizations next year, in order that the

character of the work done and the na—

ture of the results accomplished may be

brought prominently to the attention of

the delegates present from the local Clubs

throughout the state.



The last number on the ‘Vednesday af-

ternoon program was an address on “The

Country Church,” by Rev. \V. S. Steens-

ma, of East Lansing, who expressed the

most practical of modern thought on this

topic, and advocated an increased sphere

of usefulness for the country church in

every rural community. We shall at-

tempt in a future issue to give a synopsis





 





of 'Mr. Steens-ma’s practical ideas upon

this great queStion which‘awaits a. prac-

tical solution for the highest good of the

rural communities of Michigan and the

country.



A pleasure not anticipated from reading

the published program was enjoyed by

the delegates present at this session, in

an address by Governor Ferris, who spoke

with his usual earnestness and eloquence.

After relating his early experience in

farm life, and drawing from the subse-

quent history of the farm upon which he

was born, some economic lesS-Ons which

were given a practical application, Gov-

ernor Ferris turned his attention to the

educational recommendations included in

the resolutions adopted by the Association

at its morning session. Here he was on

ground particularly familiar to him, and

criticised in no uncertain terms the atti-

tude of the committee which reported the

resolutions in question, and of the mem-

bers who acquiesced in its adoption by

the Association, backing up his criticisms

by arguments which were the result of

his wide experience in educational work,

and observation of past and present edu—

cational methods in which the modern

trend of education was vigorously defend-

ed. In closing his address, Governor Fer—

ris spoke in more poetic vein, declaring

that he w0uld count it a blessing if some

misfortune should comlpel him to spend

the rest of his life on a forty-acre farm

where he could him-“elf work the soil in

close communion with nature; where he

could plow for the joy of plowing; where

he 'could have time to study the stars and

become better acquainted with the great

world of nature.



Wednesday Evening Session.



The music for this session fas furnish-

ed by the lndus'trial School boys, and was

one of the appreciated features of the

evening’s entertainment. Next followed

the treasurer’s report, which showed a

total receipts of $349.76 for the year, and

a total expenditure of $179.46, leaving a

cash balance in the treasury of $170.30.



“The Building of a Virile Race,” was

the topic assigned on the program to

Hon. H. C. Glasner, of Nashville, author

'of the much discussed Glasner Bill which

was before the Legislature last winter.

Mr. Glasner was unable to be preSent, but

Mrs. Glasnevr filled this number on the

program moSt acceptably, giving a mas-

terly address which compelled close at-

tention of the delegates, and showed that

she had been a m0st thorough student of

that modern science, Eugenics.



Mrs. C. A. Matthews, of the Essex

Farmers’ Club, gave one of her always

appreciated recitations, and was com-

pelled to respond to an encore.



The paper preared by Miss Nora

Braun, of the \Vebster Farmers’ Club,

entitled, “The Rural Help Problem,” and

read by Mrs. E. N. Ball, was a compre-

hensive discussion of this vexed question,

which will be summarized in a, future

issue.





 





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FARMERS’ CLUBS IN MINNESOTA.





 





(Continued).



Again returning to the matter of roads,

the farmers of the state are not paying

enough attention to the use of the state

and county road funds. The farmers are

merely criticising the state highway com-

mission and county commissioners while

the automobile clubs are at work with

these people trying to get the state and

county funds spent where they will be

the most used by auto traffic. If the

farmers, thrOugh their clubs, would make

known to the county commissioners what

roads in their community they would like

improved, they would be very likely to

get the desired improvements. As it is

now, the commissioners do not know the

wishes 'of the majority of the taxpayers

of their county. Road—dragging can also

be taken up by Clubs. If a group of

farmers would drag their roads, each man

taking a certain piece of road, they would

be assured of good roads in their commu-

nity, at least, and then if they, as a, Club,

would work for a road-dragging law such

as Iowa has, the roads of the state might

be improved eventually.



Another very important feature of this

Club work is looking after the markets,

both for selling the farm produce and for

buying farm supplies. This brings in the

subject of co-operation, which will be

discussed more fully in another article.

However, the general spirit of co-opera-

tion must be developed in these Club

meetings or in some other way, before

co-operative work can be successful in

a community. A farmer must learn to





co-operate with his neighbor before he

can expect to co—operate with a man in

the next county or in another part of the

state. And, too, there must be a better





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THE M'ICHIGAN‘FARIME'R





feelin'g between the farmer and the busi-

ness man of this country. They must be

brought together on some common

ground. The business men are necessary

and cannot be driven out, but they can

be made more efficient and their number

decreased.



The farmer and the business man

should get tOgether and talk over their

problems and help each other to be more

efficient. The farmers near Duluth and

the business men of that city came to-

gether several times 1ast winter in an

effort to help each other. They have diS-

cuseed the problems of buying and selling

and are trying to get (in common ground

where they can work together and reduce

the cost of business so as to benefit both

parties. They are succeeding well and a

much better feeling exists now than

ever before. We feel that the next great

improvement along agricultural lines will

be caused by co-operation for efficiency

in production and marketing.



Many Clubs have held contests and fairs

during the last year as part of their

work Among these were corn, small

grain, vegetable, clover, and alfalfa con-

tests, and contests for the women and

girls. Some of the Clubs had regular in-

dustrial fairs where premiums were of-

fered for corn, all kinds of grain, vegeta-

bles, fruit, cooking, and art work.





In some cases the money was raised to

finance the fa/ir by holding socials and

giving entertainments during the year.

At other fairs the exhibits entered were

sold by the board to raise money to pay

the premiums. At others no premiums

were offered but everyone interested

brought exhibits. For one industrial fair

$200 was raised at socials and entertain-

ments given in the schoolhouses during

the year. .



Many a fair is made the basis for

gathering an exhibit to be placed as a.

Club exhibit at the county fair. Most

of the western and northern county fair

boards offered prizes for Farmers’ Club

exhibits this year. One paid as much as

$60 for the best Club exhibit. Another

offers a silver cup for the best exhibit.

The cup becomes the property of the Club

which wins it three years in Succession.

Another offers $40 for every Club exhibit

scoring 450 points out of a poasible‘GOO,

and an additional prize of $10 for the one

scoring highest, and $5 for the next high-

est. Fairs offering prizes have drawn

good collections of exhibits, some rivaling

the county exhibits at the state fair. No

one can learn good farm products until

he has exhibited at some fair or contest

and very few people become much inter-

ested in producing good products or take

pride in their products unless they have

a chance to exhibit in competition with

their neighbors.



We have tried in this article to give

an idea of the work these Farmer-4'

Clubs can do and their influence on their

members. We firmly believe that there

'is no other force working for agricultural

development which can do as much to-

«wards bettering the people socially. edu—

cationally, and financially as these Farm-

ers’ Clubs.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





 





A Thanksgiving Meeting.—November 20

found the roads in a very bad condition,

yet about 80 members and visitors of the

Hickory Farmers’ Club overcame that

difficulty and arrived at the farm home

of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Soukin in time

to do justice to the bountiful Thanksgiv-

ing dinner served under the supervision

of bins. Albert Howell. After a social hour

the program was opened with the song,

“Beauty for AShes,” followed by prayer.

The secretary then read the report of the

previous meeting. Ms, B. B. Reavey fav-

ored us with the recitation entitled, “The

Lost Hymn,” 'which was highly appreciat-

ed by all. Mr. Mout Moshier had a paper

on “Mother.” Tears came into the eyes

of many, as the paper contained many

beautiful thoughts. Mrs. Albert Howell

soon had us all laughing as she read

“The City Man in the Coutnry,” illustrat-

ing very nicely the ideas some of our

city neighbors might form in connection

with work on the farm. Robert P. Reavey

discuSsed the topic, “Can the farmer dic-

tate prices?” saying. in part, that farm-

ers should raise enough of one kind of

crop to bring several buyers from var-

ious points to compete inprices and that

the farmers Shauld hold for reasonably

good prices, but that they must 'hold to-

gether in order to do so. Mrs. McLaugh-

lin read, “Why men so seldom fall ill,”

picturing his wife’s attention and wor-

ries in such an instance. William Edgar

and son, Elton, gave some very fine

music. The Business Men‘s Association

of Caro had sent L. G. Seeley as a del~

egate to the Club 'to say that the men

of Caro wished to make Caro an ideal.

place for the farmer to trade. He gave

their plan of getting into closer fellowship

with their farm neighbors. It is their plan

to secure an expert from the Agricultural

College to come into the county to study

the soil and its condition to find what

crops are 'best ‘adapted to such soil. Club

adjourned to meet the third Thursday in





 





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DEC. 20, 1913.





December, which will bé the Christmas

meeting, to be held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. David Summerville near Akron.

——Mrs. R. L. Robinson, Cor. Sec.





Hold Annual Meet-ing.—The Somerset

Farmers’ Club was very pleasan‘tly enter-

tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hop-

kins Brooks, Saturday, Nov. 29. After an

intermission of three months owing to

sickness and removal of those to entertain.

Notwithstanding the inclemenc'y of the

weather 35 or more were in attendance.

After a social hear the company were

invited to the dining-room where a real

Thanksgiving feast was spread. After

dinner the president, Mr. Harry Lombard, .

called the meeting to order and a busi-

ness session was held. A rising vote of

thanks was given our secretary, Mrs. M.

Carney, for her faithfulness and untiring

efforts of the past two years for the suc-

cess of the Club. Mr. and Mrs. M. \Val—

worth invited the Club to meet at their

home December 27. The program was

[omitted owing to the lateness of the hour.

Election of officers for 1914 resulted as

follows: President, Mr. Harry Lombard;

recording secretary, Mrs, Blanche ‘Ves-

cott; [correspOnding secretary, Mrs. Zoa.

White; treasurer, Mr. John Calhoun.





An interesting Meeting.—The Indian-

fields Farmers’ Club held a very interest-

ing meeting on Nov. 20, at the home of

Mr. and Mrs. David Andrews. At the

noon hour a, bountiful Thanksgiving din-

ner was served by MrS. Charles Pierce.

The social hour seemed all too short, for

it is crowded full of enjoyment, as the

members are so loyal and kindly disposed

to each other, and all seem prompt in

attendance. President Wm. Eldridge call-

ed the Ciub to order. J‘as. Paul was elect-

ed delegate to the State Assoeiation of

Farmers’ Clubs. \V. P. Bush gave a very

instructive talk on the advisability of the .

several Clubs uniting for the purpose of

hiring a county agriculturist. After some

excellent musical numbers, James Paul

read, “The Original Thanksgiving.” As

the hour was late, the remainder of the

program was not given. The question

box was of especial interest, as usual.—

Margaret Arnold, Cor. Sec.





Dlscus; Co-operatlon.—The Hadley and

Elba Farmers' Club held its meeting at

Ferndale w-i-th Mr. and Mrs. Rial Si ons,‘,

Nov. 20. President B. L. Smith callfii‘ the-

mee‘ting to order and Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Ivory were elected delegates to the State

Association. Mr. Frank Smith resigned

as truStee of the traveling library and

C. A. Davenport was elected in his stead

with Mrs. Davenport as librarian. Edith

Mills gave a very appropriate reading

and was followed by C. S. Riley with an

exceedingly interesting and instructive

paper on co-operative buying and selling,

that created a spirited discussion. Pro-

gram and music committees- were ap-

pointed for the Farmers' Institute—Mrs.

C. P. Johnson, Cor. Sec. '



Planning for Next Year’s Fain—The

Thornapple Farmers" C'lub held the ban.-

ner meeting of the year, December 4, at

the commodious home of Dr. and Mrs.‘

Amos Hanlon. The weather man favor-

ed us with a perfect day, more like May

than December, and a good-sized com-

pany attended the meeting. The losing

side in the contest for new members

served an oyster dinner to 84 persons. It‘

was the annual meeting of the Club, and

the following officers were elected: Pres-

ident, E. J. McNaughton; secretary, Miss

Annabel Campbell; treasurer, Mrs. H. C.

Helrigel. A short literary and musical

program was followed by an interesting

'talk by Mr. E. J. M'cNaughton on “Ben-

efactors." His line of talk referred to

the improved methods of farming and the

introduction of better live stock as the

benefactoJSA of the farming community.

All farmers cannot make a success of one

particular line of farming, but each

s'hOuld follow that for :which his land is

best adapted, and for which he has the

mOSt ability. The retiring president had

just rethrned from the State A3s0ciation

more enthused than ever'overour organ-

ization. Already plans are being discuss-

ed for a fair, to be held next fall.——Mrs.

Mertta Morgan.



,Elect New Officers—The \Vise Farm-

ers’ Club met with Mr. and Mrs. \V. J.

Jennings in November. With a full house

and a fine day. After a good dinner the

Club was called to order by lax-President

J. H. Seclcy. After the opening exercises,

the men's topic, “Does the silo pay for

the average farmer?” was opened by

Jonh Buckborough, who claimed that ev—

ery farmer who kept cows should have

a silo, but that a great many farmers

made a mistake in building t00 large

silos instead of building two silos. Fred

Phillips did not favor the silo, said he

preferred to feed his milch cows good,

clean feed, not sour fermented corn, to

make good butter. The next question was

for the ladies. “Do the women earn one?

half of the income of the farm?" Ques-

vt‘ion opened by Mrs. J. H. Seley and fol-

lowed by a. well prepared paper by Mrs.

Ruth McIntosh and a half dozen ladies,

and when they were through the men be-

Igan to think they had not done much.

The December meeting. will be held with

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Seeley; January with

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Badgley.





Think the Cow a MOney Maker.-——The

Deerfie‘ld Farmers’ Club met. at the home

of the Hall Brothers for dinner Nov. 22.

After dinner an excellent program was

rendered. “Is the cow a paying proposi-

tion?" was discussed by . F. Lutz,

Douglas Glaspie, Fred Hall, Albert Cam-

eron and our preSident, Frank Eaton. It

was decided that the cow is a money-

maker,‘ if you haVe the right cow; one

that is a producer, not a boarder. The

question box, which was conducted by

Chas. Leonard. brought many lively and

interesting discussions. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred" Hall were elected as delegates to

the State Association—Mrs. J. F. Lutz,

Secretary.
DEC. 20,1913 .





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





' Great Meeting of Michigan Patrons





 





1,115th Grange at Flint takes Prominent Place in long list of Annual

Grange Gatherings.





An auspicious beginning“ of the “fifth

decade of Grange history in Michigan

very fltly describes last Week’s great

meeting of patrons at Flint. Probably no

one of the forty annual gatherings which

preceded it proved more generally pleas-

ing or satisfactory. The entire four days

were brimming full of business and pleas-

ure so deftly intermingled as to lighten

the arduous duties of the delegates and

to leave little room for monotony. A large

proportion of the delegates Were new and

inexperienced in State Grange procedure,

while a number of the officers, including

the State Master, ‘had not yet completed

the first year of what gives promise of

being a most successful administration.

Notwithstanding these conditions, the

work of the various sessions, with their

multiplicity of details which are only

fully appreciated by those familiar with

these annual gatherings, moved with a.

tmoothness and precision which marked

this meeting as Well nigh a. record-making

one. The pre— arranged Schedule was

more nearly adhered to than in any other

State Grange meeting of the past: decade,

with the result that the really important

work of the meeting was performed with

deliberation and the conclusions of the

body upon matters of public interest

were, for the most part, only arrived at

after careful consideration and discussion

in committee rOOms and upon the floor

of the convention.



The delegate body was not materially

larger than that of several which have

[receded it, about 415 delegates, repre-

senting practically every countyin the

state, being present. The visiting priv-

ilege wins well embraced, mostly by pa-

tron-s of Genesee and surrounding coun-

ties, the attendance at some sessions run-

ning wellfabove the thousand mark. ’1‘h:

city of Flint ably supported Genesee’s

enterprising patrons in supp-lying many

little details in the line of accommoda-

tions which facilitated the work of the

delegates, heightened the pleasure of vis—

flora and greatly contributed to the suc-

ceSS of the meeting generally. The new

Masonic Temple, in which all of the ses-

sions were ’held, accommodated the' at-

tendance very comlfortalbly, begides af—

fording excellent quarters «for the State

Lecturer’s department and for a number

of the committees. The delegates“ appre-

ciation of hospi’tuiliilties extended was fit-

tin-gly expressed in resolutions adopted

during the closing hours of the meeting.



Miscellaneous Features.



Mention of a number of features which

figured prominently in the four days’ pro-

ceedings seems des’ra-ble before beginning

a detailed report of the meeting. First,

it may be said that the custom of giving

up Tuesday evening of State Grange Week

to a. public meeting has annuully become

more and more popular. For several years

an unsuccessfiull effort has been made to

secure a speaker of state or national

prominence for this occasion. This year

the desires of the executive committee

in this direction materialized, and the re-

ception given this innovation by the del-

ogates and by the general public would

seem to insure its continuance. The pub-

lic meeting at Flint on Tuesday evening

was characterized by Master Ketc'ham as

“Governors night." the distinguished

guests 1being Gov Eberhar‘t, of M'nnesota,

and our own Gov. Ferris. Fl: nt' s formal

welcome to the State Grange was extend-

ed at this time by Hon. D. D. Aitken the

response on behalf of the Grange being

made by C. H. Bramble. Gov. Eberhart

was then introduced and discussed, at

some length, "Some Problems of Country

Life.” His solution of country life prob-

lems involved the introduction of agri-

cultural and industi’ial training into the

rural schools and the conversion of these

schools into civic and social centers. He

strongly favored the centralization of rur-

at schools, declaring that experience in his

own state has shovm this to be essential.

As an adjunct to the centralized school

he would have a plot of ground on which

to conduct agricultural experiments, and

would make every teacher in such school

a leader in the organization of social and

study clubs, parents‘ organizations, etc.

He declared that in many sections at

present there is no place to meet and no

one to lead in organization work, while

the assembly room of a. centralized school

is large enough to accommodate an entire

cammunl'tyand easily suited to any kind

of entertainment purposes. He advocated

having the mate extend aid to such schools





. as a means of insuring a high standard





of efficiency, non-compliance with regula—

tions in the selection of teachers and pro-

viding of equipment being 1folloWed by

forfeiture of such state aid. Minnesota

has about 70 such schools and many more

demanded. The employment of county

agricultural agents was also favored by

the” speaker, his idea being that state and

county shOuld co-o-pelrate in this line of

endeavor, this being the plan in vogue in

Minnesota, the state and county dividing

the expense equally. Where states ‘are

indifferent or averse to giving aid, how-

ever, he believes that the fedeTal govern-

ment should take a hand, although his

observation has been that better results

have been secured where- the agents Were

employed under the direction of the agri-

cultural icollege and- Schools of a. state

than otherwise. 0f the merits of the

1county agent system he said: “The agent

comes in personal contact with all farm-

ers throughout the year and is a guide

and advisor in all matters pertaining to

intensive agriculture. He should be the

means of securing more and ‘better graded

stock. and in several counties of Minne-

sota he has been the means of securing

as high as eight or nine carload-s of such

stock, which has been p'urc'hlaé‘ed in the

first instance by bankers and busineSs

men of the town and turned over to the

farmers at actual cost.” He held, furth~

er, that a secondary benefit from cen-

tralized schools and agricultural organiza-

tions is secured through their influence

upon the highway problem.



Gov. Ferris paid tribute to the Grange

as a recognized force in the improvement

of rural conditions and took a broad and

wholesome view of the great question of

co-opera‘ti'on, when he said: “The Grange

has donc much in the way of bettering

the sc~c"al life. Your work has counted.

You have already, if you never do anoth-

er‘stroke of work, one of the brightest

pages in American history. Organization

is one of the fundamental requirements

for success in this country today. Or-

ganization is necessary along all lines of





The nominees were Former Master Hull,

T. H. McNaughton, of Kent county, and

Burr Lincoln, of Huron c0un'ty.



The contest over the locatiOn of next

year’s meeting was an unusually good-

natured one, and interest in the invitation

speeches was heightened by the appear-

ance of President Hurtc'hllns, of the Uni-

versity, in behalf of Ann Arbor. Muske-

gon and B'Ibtle Creek were the other con-

tendeis, the choice of the delegates fall-

ing upon the last named by a narrow

margin. The vote this year was made an

advisory one, the executive committee, in

case of difficulty in making satisfactory

arrangements, being empowered to open

nego't-iatiOns with the second—choice city.



Another feature of the meeting which

will long be remembered by all present

was the very imprewsive memorial hour

observed on Thursday afternoon. W'itli

appropriate music, beautiful flowers and

tender words the Grange paid its last

tribute to those who have passed away

within the year. Former Master Horton

delivered the ora'tion in memory of

“Father” Kelley, founder of the Order,

and Hon. John K. Campbell, former mem—





‘ber of State Grange executive committee,





while Chaplain \Voodman spoke for the





less distinguished dead.

Master Ketcham’s Address.



In his annual address the State Master

sought to impress upon the delegates the

necessity for careful, considerate and

consiutent a'Ction upon public questions,

to the end that the Grange may still more

strongly in‘tl‘ench itself in the confidence

and esteem of the agricultural public.

The present healthy condition of the Or-

der was referred to and the inauguration

of joint Pomona meetings, which were

'held- in 20 counties during the past year,

was commended. The influence which the

Grange exerted in shuping state legisla-

tion last winter was regarded an encour-

aging portent of the organization’s grow-

ing usefulness. The major portion of the

address was devoted to the presentation

of three very live subjects viz.. parcel

1post, good roads and rural credits, and

the sections covering these subjects are

given in full.

for which the

season and out,

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The 11eW,parcel post law,

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Flint’s New Masonlc Temple In which the Sessions of State Grange were Held.





endeavor. Labor is organized and Well it

should be organized; capital is organized

and it should be organized; the farmer is

organized and he should be. But do not

lose sight of the fact that the organizing

of capital simply to help capital, or labor

to help labor, or the farmer to help him-

self is not the thing. Remember you are

not merely organized to fight one another

but to give co-operation for better things.”

He also Went on record as favoring the

consolidation of rural schools and, while

not finding fault with introduction of vo-

cational training, he held that more of it

should be given in. the home.



An unusually large clues—165 in num~

her—took the sixth or State Grunge de-

gree on Thurid'ay evening, this work be-

ing p‘eceded by the conferring of the

fifth degree upon a class of 60 candidates.

On the previous evening the delegates

'w'i’tnessed the exemplification of the first

and second degrees by a well drilled team

from Perry Grange, of Shiawaseee coun-

Ity. Anot'her subordinate which contrib-

u'ted much to the success and pleasure of

the various sessions is Fair-field Grange.

of Lenawee county, its male quartet,

styled the “Comical Four,” making a de-

cided hit.



The election this year consumed little

time, the delegates silmlply having to rati-

fy the Grange primary nominations f0r

three places on the executive committee.





the results of its operation have far ex-

ceeded the expectations of its most ear-

nest advocwtes. The effect on transpor-

tation rates 'has been almost revolutionary

in many localities. Instances without

number could be cited showing the pop-

ularity of the new law, but they would

be superfluous since its advantages have

been demonstrated graphically to all who

have made use of it. In this connection

it is a matter of common report that the

use of the parcel post by the very people

who have fought hardest for it, is a. mat-

ter of distinct disappointment to the post

office department and it is earnestly rec—

ommended that this phase of the subject

be given careful consideration by the

proper committee. Undoubtedly the in-

crease in weight limit and the decrease in

rates effective July 1, 1913, in the first

two zones has improved this condition

somewhat. If the reported increase of

the weight limit to 50 pounds, and a 00r-

11'evs‘ponding decrease in rates. shall be

made, we can see no reason why there is

not then at hand for the farmers a prac-

tical and profitable means of working out

the high-cost-of—living problem. Inas-

much as the whole question of the au-

thoritv of the Postmaster General to low-

er rates and increase weights bus been

the subject of sharp controversy, we fur-

ther recommend that the proper commit-

tee take the question under advisement

and bring to this body a clear and 11n-

equivocal deolaration of the position which

the Grange should take in this important

matter. It is hard to see Why the mere

question of prerogative should stand in

the way of progress. and as I view the

question we should strongly support the





.struotion.





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present law which puts the power of ad-

justing parcel post rates and weights in





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ject to approval by the Interstate Com-

merce Commission. 5

Good Roads.



No subject before this session of the

State Grange should receive more thor-

ough consideration than the report of the

committee on good roads. The mere an-

nouncement of this subject is enough to

provoke lively discussion and sometimei

bitter COn-troversy in almost every county

of Michigan. We are distinctly wide

awake upon the question. Over $700,000

will be spent this year by the State

Highway Department and over f0ur and

one-fourth millions will be spent by coun-

ties and townships in the construction

and maintenance of roads. This seems

to be a very impressive showing, and yet

Michigan by no means leads in road con-

The intense interest taken by

all classes of our citizens in the matter

of road building is bringing to the fore-

firont several matters in which the Grange

will be expected to take a prominent part.

In the campign for good roads there are

of course tW‘O widely divergent views as

to the place where they shall be built.

One view favors the “center’ to center"

road or, in the language- of one who has

made light of Michigan’s road building.

“roads that begin somewhere and end

somewhere." The other view favors the

building of “farm to market” roads. One

.is’ designed principally for pleasure and

the other for business. Here assuredly

we should have “husineSs before pleas-

ure.” Shall we not speak out our con—

victions emphatically at thlis point? A

second phase of the road question to

which I invite your attention is the mat-

ter of federal aid. Here, as above, the

same divergent views are held. “Scenic

boulevaTdS” and “memorial highways"

are thedrcam of one group of enthusi-

asts, while the improvement of the post

roads is advocated by the other group.

Under the “general welfare“ clause or"

the constl'tutiOn it is hard to see why our

state-“men have so long deferred action

upon this vital matter. Rivers and har—

bors (real and imaginary) have been im-

1proved and reimproved until it is said

that the total so expended in Michigan

alone has reached the splendid sum of

lforty-lfive millions since we came into

the union. If such expenditure in whole

or in part is logical and sensible, how can

one consistently oppose the appropriation

of money by federal government for the

construction and iInp'ovcment of the pri—

mary channels .of tradewt‘he farm-to-

market road. By all means let us have

federal aid for roads but let us have :1

:hand in its distribution. The third poinl

in this good road movement worthy of

careful thought is the matter of permu-

nence in the work. In our zeal we have

given this question too little considera-

tion. “'9, have half as-‘umed that When

a grow] road was built that our work was

complete. “'aste. high cost of adminis-

tration, extravagance and inexperience

have given much trouble. Are- We ready

to jump into such extensive public im—

provements until we have grown up :1

greater number of capable, experienced

men? It iseasy to go crazy about evmv.

a worthy work. Is it timely for the

Grange to sound a note of conservatism

'here? “'8 believe it is. “Half speed

ahead, please!"



Rural Credits.



Good roads and rural credits are- well

said to be the most important subjects in

connection with the economic side of ag-

rzcultu-“e and it is therefore deemed im-

portant to follow the road discuSsion with

a brief statement of the matter of rural

cred t. I hill comp: Ll'fltlveh 1etcnt times

the tern11c: Hilts has not been modified by

the azljwtiva 111ml 0! city. But the

strong agitation upon all phases of farm

l1fe has brought out the fact that there

13 a marked difference between the two.

and that real Iprogress in agriculture can

not be made under a system of credib‘

fitted especially for the commercial life

of the city. Careful students of our 11:;-

rlcul‘tui‘al conditions freely asshl‘t that our

present course is shaped town’d the lami-

Ind and tenuntn ristlm (f the old 11111111

and they lire. e us to get hold of the situ-

atlon before such an un— -\merican Condi-

tZOI‘l fastens itself firmly upon us. Farm

tenancy has increased from 271.6 per cent

in 1880 to 37.1 per (rent in 1910 and the i11—

crease since 1910 has been even more

marked. Further than this, the number

of farm homes mortgaged in 1910 was

33.6 per ‘cent of the whole. Add to these

the startling fact that for the whole

country the average- intere‘t rate on farm

loans is over eight per cent and we have

abundant justification for speedy and ef-

fective action. To improve the ch111.‘es

of the tenants on 37.1 per cent of cur

farms and to lighten the burden of mort-

gage indebtedness on another 23"...) 1-13? cent

is certainly a pruiscwoz'thy undertal-zing.

but when we consider that those two

classes make up 70 per cent of the {211111

residents. and that the Very stress of

their condition tends toward a policy of

ioll depletion, the problem becomes ul‘

once a matte of concern for 11ll.since

the ultimate source of fo< d supplv is plucn

rd in jeo'paidx. \arious 1111s have be

plorposed to 1emedy these threatening

conditions, and commissions have studied

European organizations which are meet-

inlg Old country needs successfully, but

the demand seems. at present, to be for

a system distinctly American. free from

opportunities for capitalistic exploitation

and from the long-drawn-out, slow-grow—

ing. old—country systems tuited to condi—

‘tmns of peasantry. Public sentiment has

developed sufficiently to bring this im-

portant duestion to the earnest attentimi

of the President and Congress and this

is therefore the time 'to act. It is accord—

ingly recommended that the committee

on resolutions give this question all the

consideration possible and suggest in its

report some method of bringing about a

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