DEC. DETROIT, 2‘3 M 13 MICH .~ *Ww‘mxww ~ w M HIGAN M O LUME CXLI ER‘ '3 . . i ii? . 578—2 . THE MICHIGAN FAR‘MER Weed Seeds in Manure. HERE is a great diversity of opin- l ion among farmers as to the vital- ity of weed seed in manure. Many of those who have an opportunity to .haul manure from town hesitate to do so for fear of seeding their fields to ob- noxious weeds. In turn there are those who contend that the vitality of the weed seeds is destroyed, when it is masticated and digested by the animal. However, it is the general consens'us of opinion that seeds falling from feed ‘racks into bed- ding, the flatter being removed directly to the field, will do considerable damage in seeding the field. Primarily, it was the former question that invoked our interest in the matter and in sequence to this, the records were turned to for inquiry as to whether any scientific work had been accomplished along this line. The subject has been very well ti‘eaated, especially by the Mary- land and Vermont stations. The work carried out at Maryland is especially in- structive and interesting. ' The latter station noticed that foreign weeds were rapidly gaining entrance to the state from an unknown source. It is to be remembered how, in many of the corn states, farmers have blamed the en- trance of certain weed pests. to the en- trance of live stock used for feeding purposes. Vt'eed seeds gain entrance into manure in two ways. They may fall direct from manger to bedding or may pass directly through the animal’s body. Usually, both end in the same product, i. e., the so- called barnyard manure. Weed Seeds ln Manure Six Months. Separate heaps of cow manure. horse manure and a mixture of the two, were constructed, each pile being about four :l‘eet high and four feet square. and each containing several tons. Each piie was well tramped. A sample of eat-lb was taken and thoroughly sterilized by boiling for one ‘hour. This, of course, destroyed all fungous growth and foreign seeds. From the sterilized substance, sufficient material was taken to fill six small bags. into these bags of sterilized manure were placed the weed seeds that were to be tried. They were then buried in the cen- ter of various piles of manure to which the samples respectively belonged. A vi- tulity check was previously run with sim- ilar aged seeds in sterile soil. The tem- perature of the heaps was taken daily. The highest temperature recorded for the horse manure was 201 degs. F., and the lowest 40 degs. F. The highest for the cow manure was 168 degs. F., and the lowest 40 degs. F. The average temper- atune outSride the piles was 60 degs. F. After sixty days the temperature re- mained constant within the piles. but in order to duplicate results upon the aVer- age farm, the material was left for six months. At the end 01' this time, the bags were taken from the piles and an attempt was made to grow the contained seeds in sterilized soil. Not a seed grew. They rotted and became easily crushablc in the fingers ~ Weed Seeds in Manure One Month. To duplicate the average conditions un- der which the truck gardener and dairy— man labors, the experiment was again duplicated, and like conditions repeated, except that the trlal was closed at the end of one month. The seeds Were tried out as before in sterilized soil, and the same results obtained, except that the seeds of six varieties remained hard. It is doubtful whether any of these would have grown, although Dr. W. J. Beal, of the Michigan Agricultural College. found, in tweed seed vitality experiments. that at the end of 25 years, one more variety germinated than had germinated at the end of five years. The seeds that could easily be crushed in the fingers, of course, never would have grown. We may well assume that there is lit- tle danger of germination from seeds that have remained in manure piles one month and none at all from those that have re- mained six months. ' Masticated and Digested Weed Seeds. To determine the vitality of digested seeds, three healthy. Yearlingoaves were chosen. As before, samples of the-Weed seeds Were germinated in sterilized soil to test their natural vitality. _. A ration of wheat bran, gluten meal. malt sprouts and corn fodder was fed twice a day. These feeds were used in; E . if. order that no weed seeds would be con- sumed except those purposely fed. The calves, were fed four days before collecting the manure. This was done in order to decrease any chance of error .from i eeds previously eaten. As a. furth- e‘.‘ precaution the calves were not bed- ded. A total number of 2,000 seeds were fed from each variety. Over 35 varieties were tested. Three agricultural conditions were im- itated as follows: (a) Where the manure is hauled direct upon the field as a top-dressing and sub- jected to the action of the rains. (b) Where the manure is hauled from the stable and plowed under immediately. (c) Where the voidings are allowed to remain as they occur by chance. The following results Were obtained: (a) “'hen the manure was used a a tcp-dressing, 12.8 per cent of the seids fed to the animals germinated. (b) In the case, where the manure was plowed under, but 2.3 per cent germi- Rated. (0) Only 3.1 per cent of the seed grew when placed under conditions similar to those of cattle in the field. The seemingly 10w per cents have :t tendency to make the germination of the weed seeds seem relatively small, but when we taken into consideration that certain commercial feeds have been found to contain 1,000 to 125,000 seeds of obnox- ious weeds to the pound, the danger be- comes obvious. Taking the least per cent of 2.3 and the lowest number of seeds to the pound, we have 46,000 weed seeds to the ton. This figure, we may well assume, is many times too low. Indian.. L. E. NEUFER. FARM NOTES. Is the Use of Land Plaster Profitable? “'ill you please tell me the real. value of land plaster? Could I buy it at $4 per ton and be sure that it would be a paying investment? On what crops would it give the bet results, and about how much is necessary to apply on an acre? Lapeer Co. .. J. S. In former years, when Michigan soils were comparatively new, gypsum or land plaster was in very common use, being generally sown on new seedrings of clover at the rate of from 100 to 200 pounds per acre. Often the beneficial results were very apparent, but as the land became older in cultivation, iihese results were not so apparent, and finally the use of plaster was almost entirely abandoned upon the older agricultural lands of the state. The reason for this was simple. Land plaster is not a fertilizer, but when applied to the comparatively new land which contained a surplus of unavailable mineral fertility, notably potash. a chem- ical action resulted from the application of the land plaster, which is chemically known as calcium sulphate, which con- verted a portion of this unavailable min- eral fertility into a form which could be used at once by the plants. The failure of the land plaster to produce beneficial results after a few years, was not due to any deterioration of the quality of the product itself, but rather to the fact that this store of unavailable mineral fertility upon which the plaf'ter had power to act as above noted, had become so depleted as to be a negligable quantitiy. Thus the question as to whether land plaster would be a profitable investment would depend very much upon the soil to which it is applied, but upon the older soils of the state it is doubtful Whether any ben- eficial. results would be noted from its ap- plication, for the reasons above set forth. Eradicating Quack Grass. Please advise as to best method of killing quack grails, both for light, sandy and heavy clay land, if any difference. Have read in some farm paper to plow in the fall and in spring sow two bushels of buckwheat per acre, plow down when in blossom, and follow with sand vetch. Have heard that following buck- wheat with millet would also kill it. Cheboygan Co. H. T. R. No matter what kind of soil quack grass may be growing on, there is just one sure method of'eradicalting it, and that is by not permitting it to make any top growth above ground for a sufllcient period of time to starve the roots. The best method of newnufllshlng this result will depend not a little u-pon Where the grass is growing, whether in an old sod .in a pasture or meadow, or in a cultivat- . , ‘ . .-’~ .125.” 0 ed field used in,the regular crop rotation. W'nhere growing in a pasture or meadow undisturbed for some time, the roots are much nearer the surface than where growing in a cthlvated field which is stirred at a considerable depth. In this case, the best way -to eradicate it is to plow very shallow after haying time and keep disking it different ways of the field frequently during the balance of the summer. This cuts up the sod into small squares and, under usual summer weath- er conditions, it dries out sufficiently so that it will not grow. Then in the spring this same land should be plowed to a considerable depth, When it may be used for a crop with very littée trouble, if any, from the quack grasS. Whether it can be smothered out by the use of other crops as suggested, is a debatable question. Some claim to have had success with the plan suggested in this inquiry. In some states, experiments have been conducted in the use of different crops for smother- ing out quack grass, of which crops hemp is said to be the most prOmiLang, but we have not seen a statement of the result of these experiments. If the plan of us- ing buckiwheat followed by vetch or mil- let is tried, We should be glad to learn the result, but from present knowledge can recommend no method, except some System of thorough cultivation which will .prevent quack grass from making a growth above the ground, Which promises any degree of certainty in its thorough eradication. Applying Lime to Growing Alfalfa. I saw an item in the Michigan Farmer about sowing alfalfa. I sowed seven acres of alfalfa the first of September, 1912, but it did not seem to make any growth this summer. I cut it three timeS, but from three cuttings I did not get over four tons. There seems to be a good stand on the ground. Would you kindly inform me through the paper whether lime would be of any good if sown on in the Spring, or not? Lenaiwee Co. SUBSCRIBER. It is very doubtful Whether the applica- tion of lime to the surface of this field would act as a soil corrective to an ex-- tent which would cause the plants to be— come inoculated and make a. good growth at once. Provided the lime could be ap— plied and worked into the surface soil with a harrow before the alfalifa starts in the spring, beneficial results might follow, depending somewhat upon weather condi- tions. In order for the lime to act as a soil corrective. it must be in a moist con- dition in contact with the soil with which it had been previously well mixed or act wpon it in sOlution in the soil water, as would be necesfary in this case, which is a much slower process. It would per- haps be profitable to experiment a little to determine what results may be secured by this method, but it is a better plan to apply the lime and work it into the soil when fitting it for some crop, and the longer this is" done before the alfalfa is sown, the better the results that will be noted in the early inoculation and vigor- ous growth of the alfalfa. ”Whether it will pay better to leaVe this stand of alfalfa and attempt to improve it as suggested mill. in the writer's opinion, depend some- 'W'halt upon whether any of the plants are inoculated or not. If there is Scattering inoculation, which can be determined by the appearance of the plants, whether they are of a dark green color and make a vigorous growth or of a light green and o'fs‘tunted appearance, or an exam- ination of the roots can be made to de— termine whether nodules are present up- on them. If there is scatteri:-g inocula- tion, it perhaps might pay to heme the stand, but otherwise it would be better to 'plow it up for some crop and apvp'iy lime at once as a preparation to neseed- ing to alfalfa at the proper time in the crop rotation. Corn Vs. Oats. Which would you consider the harder on our soil, :1 100 basket yield of corn per acre or a 50 bushel yield of cats per acre, soil being a gravelly loam with a clay bottom? Grand Trailer-5e Co. H. W. B. From_ the standpoint of the actual plant food taken from the soil by a 100- baslket yield of corn and a. 50-bushel yield of oats per note. the corn would take the most plant food from the soil. According to the tables used by Van Slyke in his work on “Fertilizers and Crops.” a corn crop yielding 50 bushels of shelled corn per acre would contain, including the cornstalks and cobs, 78.4 lbs. of nitrogen, 27.6 lbs, of phosphoric acid and 55.2 lbs. of potash, while the 50 bushel crop of cats. including the straw, would contain 48 lbs. of nitrogen, 18 lbs. of phosphoric acid and-40.8 lbs. of potash as an ap- proximate average. Thus the corn would 0 'of a series of articles entitled, DEC. 27, 1913. take from the soil plant food in excess of that taken by the oats amounting to 30.4 lbs. of nitrogen, 9.6 lbs. of phosphoric acid and 15.4 lbs. of potash. ' . In the consideration of this question, however, other facts should be taken into account aside from the amount of plant food actually taken from the soil by these two crops. The out crop, in common with other small grains of its class, has com- paratively shallow roots which occupy the surface soil only, and thus take prac- tically all of their plant food from that portion of the soil which forms the fur- row slice when plowing. On the other hand, corn is a comparatively deep rooting plant, and reaches down for a consider- able portion of its plant food below the soil occupied by the oat crop. Then, 'too, the method of culture followed in pro- ducing a corn crop is such as to increase the available fertility of the 9011 through the chemical processes which take place after a thorough mixing of the soil, thus bringing different soil particles into jux— taposition, and by this means increasing the available fertiiity in the soil, al- though, of course. not its total content of plant food. It will thus be seen that it is difficult to anSWer this question in an authorita- tive manner. Tak’mg crops of the yield mentioned, the corn crop would actually take fmm the soil a considerably greater amount of plant food than would the cat crop, yet it by no means follows that it would be harder on land, when considered from the standpoint of the 9011's ability to produce future crops. As a matter of fact, experience has proven that it is bet- ' ter for the soil to produce a crop of corn and a crop of oats following it than two crops of cats in succession, even though the corn does actually take more plant food from the soil, which is one of the reasons for the use of crop rotationin- steadof a single crop system of farming where it is desired to maintain the fer— tility of the soil. There are, of course, other reasons, and perhaps still better ones, for using a carefully planned crop rotation, yet it is certain that a success— sion of crops having different habits of growth will not produce soi'l exhaustion as. quickly as a single crop grown year after year, even though a larger aggre- gate of plant food is actually taken from the soil by the variety of crops. Top-Dressing Fall sowri Grain. . I have a field of rye which I am think- ing of top-dresflng with manure. Is it all right to top-dress either wheat or rye after it is up? Ingham Co. SUBSCRIBER. Rye or wheat may be safely top-dressed with stable manure. provided it is even- ly and thinlly spread after the grain is up, if the soil is in condition to permit its application. This should be done with a manure spreader after the surfaCe of the field is frozen so that it will not be badly cut up by the process. This treat- ment will undoubtedly increase the pros- pect of getting a seeding of clover in the grain next year, and in fact, many farm- ers have found that it practically insured a good seeding where oliher methods fail- ed. Only thin applications should be made, which can be far better accom- plished by the use of a manure, spreader than where the manure is spread by hand. REINFORCE THE OLD STYLE OF TILE SILOS. There was no experience to guide the men who erected the first tile silos. At that time the stress on the walls was not well understood and the resistive power of the tiles was in some cases» over-esti- mated. As a reSult of this lack of knowl— edge some of the first silos built of tile collapsed. One owner lost 200 tons of silage just as he was ready to take his herd into winter quarters In every in~ stance that has come to notice the fault was in the insufficient reinforcement provided. Where this had been properly . looked after there Was no trouble. Those who have such silos should see to it im- mediately, if they have not already done so, that additional reinforcement is pro— vided to prevent the possibility of loss. Iron bands or rods fastened firmly abbot the silo will accomplish the desired end. In recent years the builders of this style of silo have had experience and the aid of actual tests of the strength of tile to guide them, and the structures erected with this information at hand have met every demand made upon them. SELF-MADE FARMERS. In the next issue will appear the first “True Stories About Self-made Farmers.” tell! ing how a young man earned his own farm. ‘ DEC. 27, 1913. How to Get a Farm. tends to make a livelihood by tilling the soil should aspire to have a farm of {his own. It may be discouraging to a young man When he looks around over the country, and sees that every foot of land is owned by some-body. To such we will say that we never knew a time when money would not buy land, and We never knew a time when an able-bodied man could get money easier than at the pres- ent time. \Vith every farmer begging for help, ’he ought not to 'be entirely without money. Two mOnUlls’ twages will pur- chase an acre of improved land and no man who tills the soil should be content without at least one acre. \Vhen we consider the possibilities of one acre of land it looks like no small affair. But we must remember that the possibilities are much greater than the probabilities. People who have not studied the matter closely are often de- ceived about the profits of farming. They figure on the possibilities only, and from such reckoning they conclude that the farmer's prOfits are immense. The man Who owns one acre of land has one spot on the face of the earth which he can not be crowded Off from to please the convenience or fancy of a landlord. In many, and perhaps most instances, it would not be policy for a young man to invest his first two months' wages in an acre of land, but I will say that he loan 1 CONTEND that.” every man who in- do much worse with Ihis first wages. Eveir a small piece of land makcs a man an important factor in a neighborhood. The neighbors look upon him as a fixture, and they will take more pains. to get ac- quainted with 'hi-m. There are many dif- ferent crops raised at the present time from which the g'l‘oss receipts are large. although they require a large amount of labor. If a man has a surplus of labor he can do well by raising such crops. As one of these crops I will mention straw- bcrrics. I intend to raise strawberries enough every year to supply my family, and I tsequently raise one bushel of ber- ries on a square rod of ground. A little figuring will Show that there is a profit there if ‘we have a market. And in this section of the state a farmer who has a strawberry patch, has the whole country THE MICHIGAN FARMER hunting ’him up in stralw'berry time. Then it gives the boys and girls a chance to put in their time. A man with a small farm can usually rent adjoining land, and he has this advantage that he cannot be crowded off. A man with a small farm can sell out and buy larger When he gets able, or perhaps ’he can do better by buying ad- joining land. \\'hen a man works and earns money, and pays the owner of the land a fair price for it, he has just as legitimate and honorable a right to it as the man who goes into rthe forest with his axe and lhews out a farm for himself. I once knew a man 'who was a large and successful Ifarmer; he also had other buiness interests, and was looked upon as a man of ability and judgment. In con- versation with a neighbor I overheard him remark that a man could be just as in- dependent on 40 acres of land as he could on more. He claimed that the necessi- ties of life were very simple and the man who could be satisfied with them was all right on 40 acres. He gaVe as the principal reason for coming to such a conclusion that the 40-acre farmer was not bothered with the perplexing question of securing proper farm help. I have ob- served that the man W‘l'ro does good farm- ing on 40 acres of land can 50011 buy more. On 40 acres of «land a man can keep some stock and that will help him to solve the greatest of all great farm problems, which is that of soil fertiliza- tion. I wish to give a leaf from another man’s experience. A few months ago I was talking with a large and successful sandy land farmer, and the question of clover seeding came up. He claimed there was only one sure way of getting a stand (:f clover and that was secured by fitting your land up in good shape in the spring, and sowing your clover alone. Then, by clipping your seedling a number of times during the summer you were sure of a good stand. This seems like an expensive way of getting a stand of clover, but I feel certain that the farms of this vicin— ity would be in‘much better condition had their owners adopted that plan some yours ago. Branch Co. 0. A. VANDERBILT. lllli!lllllHlllllilllllllllllllllllllll|llll||IIIillllll[llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|IlliIll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHHIHHHIHHHHHHlllllllillllllllllllllll|llll“lllllllHillHHIHHHHHIIHHI A ROTATION 0F CROPS FOR A DAIRY FARM. I would like to sce the matter of crop rotation on a dairy farm discussed in the Michigan Farmer. It seems to be con- ceded that corn and alfalfa are about the two crops to grow, and how can these two be alternated to best advantage? Hon; James \V. Helme, at the State Round-up last winter, stated that he has 50 acres, 10 of which is in permanent pas- ture, 20 in corn, and he aims to cut 15 acres of alfalfa every year. “hat is done with the other five acres is not stated. All of the latter cannot be occupied with buildings and yards. Each year he seeds three acres to alfalfa. and plows up three acres. Now, with such a system of ro- tation it would seem to be necessary to replant some of the ground to corn 8. number of times before it should be again reseeded to alfalfa. Ordinarily we do not consider it good practice, nor prof- itaible, to plant corn on the samc ground two years in succession, and to continue this four or five years without a sod plowed down, even with a liberal applica- Ition of stable manure, would hardly be expected. to give a satisfactory yield. Apparently the largest profit is not gain- eo‘. from alfalfa either, without leaving it for cutting a few years, It would not be most profitable to plow it up after cut- ting one season, as is done with red clo- ver. How may a rotation of these two crops be arranged on. say, 40 acres so as to get the most out of the alfalfa and still not plant any ground to corn year after year, that is, so as to have these properly balanced up for a dairy iherd'? Allegan Co. EDWARD HUTCHINS. A number of years ago before I began to raise sugar beets and other special crops and while I was almost exclusively in the dairy business, I had a three-year rotation of corn, clover and wheat. My experience is that bedding muiSt be pro- duced on the dairy farm, as well as the‘roughage and the concentrates. Of courSe, I didn’t feed the Wheat, but I had the wheat to sell to buy cottonseed meal and oil meal or any other feed that I chose to feed the cows. With red clo- ver of course this rotation worked very nicely. We plowed clover sod which liad been covered with stable manure and put it into corn for silage. The corn was tak- e‘n off the last of August and first of Sep- tember and the ground fitted Without plowing. usually with a cultivator, and sowed to wheat. Then the next spring the clover was seeded in the wheat. This worked nicely. “'9 had good crops of clover, good crops of corn and good crops of wheat. For a seven-year average I had over 30 bushels of wheat per acre with this sort of a. rotation Withou-t plow- ing for the “’dlea‘t and with the applica- ltion of about 200 pounds of commercial fertilizer on the wheat. That was all the fertilizer that was used in the rotation. But now when We want to substitute alfalfa for red clover and when we realize that we can’t get the best out of alfalfa unless we keep it more than one year, the problem is not so simple. Gov. Hoard thinks that we can get along nicely by using alfalfa two years and then plowing it up and putting it to corn. If we keep alfalfa down two years the rotation is not so simple as with my old rotation of three years and three crops. On a farm of 40 acres as suggested. probably you would 'want about ten acres Olf alfalfa. This would leave about 30 acres for other (rops. Now if you kept the alfalfa down two years, Ithen, of course, you would have to plant part of the ground to corn two years in suceession. My knowledge of alfalfa is not sufficient yet to warrant me in saying that you could seed alfalfa. in wheat the same as I do red clover, al- though I think the time is coming when we can do thiS, after We get our soil Well inoculated with the alfaifa bacteria. We could put in cats in place of wheat. Some think this would be better. And then we could seed alfalfa in oats in the spring, seeding a light seeding of oats, say a bushel to the acre. And I ’think this is the best time of the year to sow it. I don’t think there is any better crop than cats or barley to seed with, poviding we do not sow too much seed per acre to smother the young plants. If we will properly lime the soil and supply the proper amount of phosphoric acid and on the sandier soils some potash as well, and properly inoculate the soil. I don't think there is any question of getting a good seeding with cats. Then for two years 10 acres of alfalfa on a farm ought 'to be a sufl'icie'n't amount of hay for the dairy and also for what work horses it is nec- esaary to keep. You certainly ought to get from 40 to 50 tons of .good alfalfa hay off frOrm ten acres. ' Now if we will plow our ten acres of alfalfa up and plant it to corn, after the corn we can sow oats or oats and peas, and if necessary we could do this With- out plowing in the spring, which would save a little work. And then, too, if we wanted to we could put this into owts and peas again by munuring it well and plowing it in the fall, and this would put it into good condition to seed to alfalfa, after we had supplied an abundance of lime and phosphoric acid. One cannot tell just exactly how much oats and peas with the alfalfa, but a little experience would determine this. If one wanted (four crops in the rota- tion he could put in a special cash crop, 'potatoes for instance. There is nothing better to grow in the state of Michigan than potatoes, and tcn acres of potatoes with the peas a'nd oats and corn, and two years of alfalfa make a splendid rotation. If ten acres of alfalfa did not provide enough roughage in the form of hay, the pea and oat straw would be good enough for one feed for the cattle, providing there was not a sufficient amount of a1- falfa. Then the peas and oats would make an ideal ration to feed in connec- tion with alfalfa hay and corn silage to the dairy cows and the growing stock, and if you could produce enough of it you wouldn't have to purchase any other kind of grain. I wouldn't want to posi- tively figure this out without a little ex- perience but I hope to learn from ex- perience just how long we can leave al— falfa to the best advantage, and I doubt if very manly people know at the present time. COLON C. LILLIE. ANOTHER HOME-MADE CONCRETE MIXER. In your issues of November 1 and 29, Mr. F. E. Smith. of Cass county, describes his concrete mixer for O. F., of Iosco county. I am much interested in labor- saving devices, too, and had occasion to use some 70 barrels of cement in and about my new barn this season, using my gasoline engine to do the mixing With. In the wall construction I used a barrel mix- er, something similar to Mr. Smith's de- scription of November 29. But this one would not mix wet. Mr. Smith does not say that his does. I considered this rather inconvenient, so when it came to the concrete floors, of approximatcly 2.330 sq. ft., I decided I would have a good mixer of my own. I secured the assistance of my brother and we constructed the one which we now use. I got an extra heavy galvanized stock tank, 18 gauge. 3 ft. in diameter and 2 ft. high. I then got an old mowcr, removed the left hand drive Wheel, made two skids of 2x6 planks, fastened them 26 inches apart with two 3x4's running crosswise on top securely bolted. \Ve then rcmoved pitman wheel shield to al- ‘low the use of a larger belt pulley which we bolted to it; We allowed this to be outside of the skid; we then fitted and bolted this side of mower frame to one of the cross pieces, after the right hand side had been raised to about 35 degrees. \Ve removed tilt lever and bolted two heaVy iron legs in its place, Which rested on the other cross piece near the skids and were securely boltcd. \Ve bolted two 3x4’s au'Oss outside of right wheel, fitted with a pair of heavy strap hinges at one end. \\'e then made a wood bottom just the size of the bottom of tank, fastened this to hinges, tank to this with lag-in. bolts about every foot around the bottom on the outside, and fastened opposite side of wood bottom to cross pieces on wheel by means of a look lever device, so tank may be dumped (whcn washed. if no oth- er time). “'e run tank about 22 revolu- tions per minute. It will mix from one to 25 Shovels of wet as wt-ll as dry. Grav- e1 may be shoveled in and out while in motion. or may be dumped if desired, when not in gear. Lower corner is sowed off of skids, like a boat runner. Two men will mOVe it from place ~to place, yet it is heavy enough to require no staking down. Cot- ter pin in end of axle may be removed and wheel and tank may be removed if desired, to load in wagon or otherwise. One of the pawls in w‘heel should be re- versed so the tank can not turn back— ward or forward unless axle also turns. Lower front Side of tank is only 28 in. from floor. Machine should be run in op- posite direction to that used in mowing. so as to not unscrew little bevel pinion. A two-inch belt runs it. Outer end of tank is entirely open. Mixture may be seen at all stages and mixer may be thrown in'Or out of gear any time. Hillsdale Co. C. J. HOUBMAN. ~ 3—579 :~“\ . ~ . -?.',7;1‘7'-$;;:‘i>::':.: ' ’I’Irn "5'7-1‘ ‘ ,_.< “-1010,: \;“‘ ‘ ‘04-... ‘ .. 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FARMER lfzillllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllfllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. llllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfilj Practical Science. _ E l—lfilllllllllllllllllllullllllllllllulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllls'lllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllli’fl “Mil“ 1L: 4:1" - «llllllWM ’ I " ll“. sumed on the other ration. It might be reasoned also that the difference in the nitrogenous equivalent caused by the BY FLOYD W. ROBISON. lowering of the protein content in the Considerable space has been deVOted in timothy hay ration was in part responsi- these columns and elsewhere to the stan- 1,10 for this difference. dardization of rations for dairy cows. Great attention has not been given to the study of rations for sheep. doubtless because sheep, unless being fattened. are not producing a product in which varia- tion in feed and treatment is so notice- BALANCING THE RATION FOR THE LAMBS. Clover Superior to Tlmothy. In figuring 'the cost of the gain pro- duced, it was established that the lambs receiving clover hay made gains varying from $1.50 to $3.50 per hundred less than . . 53:1,”:"3’" The I ‘- ' .1 . .0 ‘I' :‘ll ' ‘ b 0 BIG MONEY MAKING CROPS A'A'C' Fertilizers THE best is none to good for you. About a thou- sand tons of surface soil are cultivated to the acre, and it is hard to understand Why an application of a few hundred pounds of good fertilizer will make such a wonderful increase in the crop, but it is a fact. Our fertilizers are quickly soluble and are so compounded that they thoroughly enrich the acre of soil, just as a few drops of bluing will color a large amount of water. 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Whitney Central Baal: Bldg; Atlanta. Empire Bldg.; Francisco. 25 California St.; Savannah. Ilignk is Trust 8' 'feed consumed that able as with dairy cows. Wool Similar to Meat in Composltlon. It is an interesting fact. however, that the product wool is in a measure a pro— duct similar in general composition to the product of the dairy cow, and the beef steer. \\'ool, milk and been" are to a de- gree quite similar in composition. The principal constituent of milk to which we give attention in the feeding of a dairy cow is protein. The casein. the albumin of milk are protein compounds and therefore we find it desirable in estab- litlhing the optimum ration for the dairy cow to provide a ration with a more or less conspicuous percentage of protein; likewise with the beef steer in the pro— duction of beef. “With bee-f the lean meat is a protein product and it becomes de— sirable in the finishing and development for market of beef cnitters to provide a certain more or less definite percentage of pl‘oteid material in the ration. VVOO-l is a typical protein compound. In fact, pure wool is as essentially a protein compound As is the white of egg, the casein of milk or the lean meat tissue. It may be assumed, cherefore, that it is just as eSSential that a certain definite conbtituen-cy of protein be provided in the ration of sheep as in that of dairy cows. Of course. this has not forced it— self to the attention of feeders as plainly as in the case of the dairy cows because the commodity. wool, is marketed at much rarer intervals than is the case with milk and the effect, therefore. of any particular feed is not so apparent as in the case of dairy cows, In the fattening of lambs and sheep it also becomes quite esSentiali to establish more or less rigid lines in balancing the ration and the present prices ol‘ the (ill. ferent ccmmodltics [fed to sheep makes it necessary that feeders should scruti- nize the economy and waste in feed ma- terials for sheep quite as carefully as for any other class of domestic ani‘mals. Timothy Hay Has Been Largely Used for Sheep. The great feed for sheep ‘heretofore has been the various z‘ougvhages, oat straw. bean and pea straw. timothy hay, etc. and there has been not nearly enough at- tention paid to the incorporation of high- er protein roughage feeds in the ration. Many farmers have r-tuubbornly held on to the feeding of timOthy hay in spite of the fact that the data given in various experiment stations have definitely shown that ieguminous feedS, such as clover and alfalfa, are I‘aralhead of timothy hay in their economic relationship to the feed- ing of sheep. Some Actual Results. In pursuing this investigation the In- diana station procured some very valu- able results in a combat-Leon of timothy hay and clover for fattening lambs. (me lot of lambs was fed timothy hay as a roughage. corn as a grain ration; and another lot of lambs fed clover as a roughage. and corn as the grain ration, to establish the difference in the effects of the two rations, the unknown factor in one being the timothy hay and in the other cliover hay. The average. of three trials showed that the lambs. fed clover hay and corn alte as much as 20 per cent more grain and 53 per cent more hay than the lot fed on timothy hay and corn. In the case of the lot fed clover and corn. the lambs showed a gain of 69 per cent over the lot fed timothy hay, cant reduction in the grain required to produce a pound of gain and a 10 per cent reduction in the roughage. It is apparent that from the data on probably much of this difference was due to the lack of ,palatability of the ration containing tim- othy hay, as much more feed was con- ,ana summary of and a 40 per the lambs receiving timothy hay. lam‘bs fed timothy hay were marketed at 40 cents per hundred weight less than those fed clover hay, indicating again that there must have been a very mark— ed inferiority in the finish of the lambs receiving timothy hay. When cottonseed meal was added to each of theSe rations the behavior of the lambs under this feed indicated at once that a lack of protein in the previous diet was one of the causes of the differ- ence in values of the two rations. Cot— tonseed meal, 01' «misc, enhanced the value of each ration from a protein standpoint but even then the clover hay ration was found to be again superior to the timothy ration, and in spite of the fact that a concentrate high in protein, or nitrogen, had been added. The Indi— this experiment is in- teresting. and is as follows: let—Timothy hay in all rations when it was fed proved a very unsatisfactory feed for fattening lambs. 2nd.——'l‘lie lambs fed shelled corn and timothy hay were very unthrifty. 3rd.——Lamlbs fed Shelled corn and c10- ver hay made more growth and economic gains than those fed Shelled corn and timotlhy hay. ‘ Mir—A ration of shelled corn and clo- ver hay produced better finish than did a ration of shelled corn and timotlhybay. In the case of cottonseed meal being added to both rations, the clover hay Iproduced more economical gains and a better finish as well tilian the ration con- taining timothy hay. ’ Corn Silage. “'it‘h the addition of corn silage to the ration there were no great differences shown. corn silage did not seem to affect either favorably or unfavorabl)’ the rate of gain on fattening lambs, Corn silage was fed at the rate of approximately one pound per day per head and this amount While not affecting the rate of gain did slight— ly reduce the cost of the gain. altlhough from our perusal of the data we would not give any consideratiou to this item for it is very small. Neither the consumption of clover hay nor the consumption of grain was af- fected to any extent by the addition of silage to the ration and aside from the small saving in the cost of the ration. the corn silage was without any appar- ent benefit. Of course. corn silage is a succulent feed and we apprehend that much of its value is due to this factor of succulency, accompanied by its effect in increasing the palatabilitv of a ration. 'l‘hese items are of a much more minor importance in the case of sheep feeding Chan in the feeding of dairy cows or of steers. lncreaelng the Protein Content of the Feed with a Concentrate. it has been apparent from the results detailed lherein that the addition of clover lha)’ to the ration for fattening lambs was Very advantageous and far superior to the uSe of timothy hay in the ration. This shows henT at a glance the superiority of a feed containing a larger quantity of protein and it is apparent from this that it is just as essential that a high protein content be maintained in the case of rl‘attening and maintaining lambs as in that 01‘ other domestic animalS. The question of what concentrates to use de- pends to a considerable degree on the cost of the different concentrates. In the first experiment conducted by the Indiana station the lambs fed tim- othy hay and corn gained approximately 18 lbs. per head. and those fed cotton— seed meal in addition to comig‘ained over 26 lbs. per head. In the oe'c0nd trial the lambs fed timothy hay and corn alone gained 10 lbs. per head and those on cot- (Conrtlnued on page 583). Shelled corn and clover hay plus' l 4.4-..- ‘- ._....... r / ... ..._._. -———— -«A-~ ——--— ___——~ _,.._- -v- .:-«‘_.u_.._.. «.r—vv-v-W avail... ~W + ,‘. i i g. g f: l i l i I i g l i g ' i l l l i l i‘ ,; l, i r; l I l i . business. DEC. 27, 1913. gIllIllIIlllIlllllIllIllllllllllIIllIIlllIll|IllllllllI|lllllllllllllllll|lll|Ill|Illl|lllllI|llllllllllIllllllllllllllll ‘5 E o Dalry. r: a grillllIllll|lllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllIllI|llllIllIII|||lllllllIlllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE. IllllllllF THE DUAL-PURPOSE COW. The high price of beef leads farmerS, as a rule, to consider the dual-purpOSe cow. Several years ago Governor Hoard. through the press and from the lecture platform, had the dual-purpose idea pret- ty we'll subdued. But good beef was» then only four or five cents a pound. Now it is practically double that price and people are again beginning to think of the dual- purzpose cow, the cow that will be profit- able producer of milk and butter-fat and at the same time will raise a calf that will be a profitable feeder. Mr. James J. Hill, the great railroad magnate of the Northwest, has recently been induced to invest in some dual—purpose Shorthorns for breeding purposes. He is going to es- tablish a herd. We learned from Prof. Shaw and also from other people who have visited England, that very many of the English farmers prefer Shorthorns for dairy cows. They don‘t call them, however. dual-purpose cows, they call them dairy Shorthorns. Now I am of the opinion that this re- vival of into; est in the dual-purpose cow is going to do some farmers 21 lot of dam— age. They are going to lose money. Peo- ple are going to breed cows again to Shorthorn bulls for the purpose of raising calves to sell for beef. and the first they know they will have a herd of dairy cows that won‘t pay for the feed and care nec- essary to keep them. The purposes of beef animals and dairy animals are antagonistic. Cattle that have been bred for generations to consume large quantities of feed and put that feed into meat are not good milk producers. ()n the other hand. animals that have been bred for generations to consume large quantities of feed and put that feed into the. milk pail rather than into choice cuts of meat upon their backs, are not going to change all at once and produce splendid sirloin steaks and sirloin roasts. or what the epicure needs and is willing to pay for. That is impossible. If you breed so as to have good square-backed, heavy—loined steers their dams are not going to be good milk producers. On the other hand, you can take Short— horn cows and by selecting them and breeding them 'for generations you can get just as good milk producers and prof- itable ones as you can with Holstein cows or Jersey cows or Guernsey cows. There is no question about that, because all of the dairy breeds have been developed along this line. just the same as all the beef breeds have been developed by selec- tion and breeding. But when you come to combine the tWo ideas, choice beef production and heavy milk production in an animal. you are asking too much. You are asking the impossible, and it will nev- er comc to pass. Now as I have stated before, I am of the opinion that at the present piit-e of beef that there is money in raising beef in Michigan. I do not know but what it would be better for some of the dairymcn who are milking cows' now to go to rais- ing beef. Men who do not like cows, do not take an interest in them, will not handle them as they ought to be handled. or cannot get the help to handle them properly, such men perhaps had better go into beef production. I do not believe there will be any chance for an over- production of beef for a number of years to come, and it leuks to me that it would be quite a safe proposition to go into the beef businer at the present time, and I believe that there would be more money in going into the beef business than there would be in going into the dual-purpose If a man is going into the dual-purpose business he might just as well stick to the Holstein business or the Jersey business and have cows that will produce butter—fat economically, and then if he has surplus young cattle that are not needed for the dairy business he can fatten them and sell them for beef. They will eat all right. They do not. cut up as nice, but they will make about as many pounds of growth on feed consumed as will Shorthorns. They will make as much as dual-purpose Shorthorns. Of course, it will not be as good beef, you will not get as nice heavy loins and cannot have such nice tenderloin steaks or roasts. There will be a larger per cent of offal to the net weight of the carcass, and all that, but I believe a man had better not THE,rMICHIG-AN FARMER change if he has a good herd of COIWs. The dairyman has got to raise a good many heifer calves to keep up his herd, becauSe all practical dairymen know that something is happening all the while to his best cows. He must have a number of heifers coming into the stable every year in order to keep up his herd. Now if he breeds his dairy-bred cows to a beef bull the heifers will not be worth saving ‘for milk purposes. He will be disap- pointed, I have tried it. The herd will deteriorate as milk producers. But this very thing will be done for the sake of having a steer that has a little broader back and a little deeper 10ins. He had better raiSe his Holstein steers or his Jersey steers, if he can get more out of them for beef than he can for dairy pur- poses For instance, I had four Jersey bull calves that didn’t shape up to suit me and when they were nearly a year old I castrated them. They were not out of cows that did very well and I didn’t want to sell them as dairy sires. Last winter we fed them ensilage and a very little grain and this summer turned them into the pasture and along early in the fall I sold them for $40 a head. \Vell, it was not a big price for steers, but they didn't cost much. Of course, if I had had Short- horn calves they perhaps would have brought me nearly twice .as much, but how much more profit would they have returned? I would have received little more per pound, if any more, as anything goes for beef now, and if Shorthorn steers were twice as large and Weighed twice as much it would have cost nearly twice as» much to produce them. HOLSTEIN BREEDERS MEET. The \Vcst Michigan Holstein Breeders' .-\s>‘oeiation held the first of a series of three winiter meetings at lrand Rapids. December 3. with a large attendance. President M. \V. \Villard. of Grand Rap- ids. introduced C. I’Iunsbergor. of Kent county, as the first speaker, who talked on the Hdistein cow for profit and eco- nomical milk production for the city. Mi‘. llunsber‘ger is getting 18 cents per gallon for milk delivered in Grand Rapids. He has a grade herd. keeps careful record of each cotw’s performance, and says that ('UWS‘ giving less than 7.000 pounds an- nually are not profitable for the city milk trade. In the matter of feeding, Mr. Hunsber— ger uses enisilage, about 18 pounds per cow. stalks and a little straw for rough— age, and for grain he mixes dried malt. cottonseed meal, gluten meal and dried bet-t pulp. Peter But’h, of Kent county, who has a large herd. stated that he feeds to fresh cows, 25 pounds of en- silage per day, once a day, and stalks out fine. all they will clean up. lie feeds malt. dried beet pulp, cottonseed meal and oil meal. equal parts. and half the quantity of lbl‘an. He uses the wet pulp. To put flesh on dry cows he feeds 100 parts oil meal, 100 parts corn meal and 50 parts bran. Judge \\'illia.-ms, of Allegan county, told of the waste that comes from unneces— sary duplication of milk routes in city deliveries in the retail trade. TlillS cx— pense in Chicago is estimated at $3,000,- 000,000 a year, and it is a tax on the producer and the consumer. At the afternoon scsx-ion Arthur Clark, of Kent county, spoke on the value of high-grade sires. One s'olutiOn of the p-Ioblem of keeping boys on the farm. he says, lies in starting them in the pure- bred catuie business. President \Villard told how. with his mixed herd, he in- creased the butter—fat average per cow from 270 vaunds to 2120 pounds by the USe of two pure-bred bulls. Judge \Villiams, of Allegan, has increased the. average milk production in his herd from 3.700 pounds to 8.200 pounds, which is attrib— uted in part to the use of pure-bred Sires. Dr. Elzinga, 21 Kent county veterinar— ian, explained the tuberculin tests and anslwei‘ed many questions. Secretary Harper, member of the state live stock rc0mmisSion. told of the work that is be- .ing done in behalf of the breeders. He 'warned the farmers especially in regard Ito buying cattle from Illinois, where there is no state inspection. A number of the Kent county breeders will place their herds under federal inspection, so that they may sell stock in any state, or in Canada. A. GRIFFEN. 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Write for catalog, stating number of trees you tap. Champion Evaporator Cm. Hudson. 0. “NEW-WAY” means reliability. Keyser, W. Va. “’9 have found our “NEW- WAY” High Pressure Power Spray- er to be just as recom- mended. It, is very efficient for hillside work. It performs just as well there as it does on level ground It. is light in weight, simply constructed and easy to operate. We use two leads more if mag. The “NE -WAY” is omiealiy. Write tor catalog sc I. Wu‘w You can do it with a “NEW-WAY” High Pressure Power Sprayer Guaranteed to carry 200 lbs. Pressure Continuously “'1 V QR " '4'5' and four nozzles and have no trouble in keeping the pressure at 200 lbs or reliable and efficient and it 0 rates econ- ALKIRE ORCHAR CO. 7 Ann Street. JANUARY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FRUIT GROWER. January is one of the farmer’s rest months.» He has considerable time which ‘he can use as he wishes. He can either waste it or put it to valuable use. The former involves doing nothing and rust- ing, or doing something which would be worse than nothing. The latter means that he put his time to increasing his knowledge so that he can work more in- telligently the coming season. It is never too late to learn and one can never learn too much, are tWO common expressions full of truth. Reading is probably the most common method of reviewing the experiences of others, which are of great value in our education. January is undoubtedly the reading month of the year for the farm- er. It is during this month that the edi— tors of the {arm papers are working over- time -to furnish us with reading material, and investigators and others- who have had experience and have Ulle faculty of putting it on paper are busy writing up the results of their past seaslon's work. It is quite surprising to learn through a government investigation that 40 per cent of the farmers involved in the in- vestigation claimed that they farmed by their own experience alone. It is es- pecially surprising because Uhe farmer has more sources of information than the man in another line of business; he has avail- able more good reading matter at a cost of practically nothing, than the worker of any other trade. That any of the 40 per cent have farmed without any outside help is mudh doubted. In their conver- sation (with other people they haVe re- ceived suggefltionsv which were used to advantage. These in turn were taken from someone's experience, which was recorded in some farm paper or experi- ment station bulletin. A farm paper, or a bulletin, is nothing but a record of peo- ple's experience. So, in fact, these sources Which are not given due credit, are bene- fiting one 40 per cent most every day. (No one- lives today without taking advan- tage of the experience of the past and the present. In the early days speech was the only means of conveying thought from one person to another. Signs on trees and stones, and the written message, were steps in the progress of improvement. The invention of the printing press made it pOssible to make numerous copies of a message and the development of the government messenger system or post- oflice department inicreaSed greatly the ease and speed of delivering messages. The present farm paper is but a collec- tion of messages sent to a. large number of people. Imagine, if possible, the trans- ference of thought at the present time, by speech alone. Our present age of progress would not be possible under such con- ditions. Reading is a means of’education which all can afford; Many of our most promi- nent men got their early education bor- rowing books from others. While many of us read, thorough and systematic read- ing is a rare thing. We read promiscu- ously, throw the paper aside and forget what We have read. As each issue of Li farm paper is a veritable encyclopedia of agricultural information, it would be of little value to read all of it. The items of general interest, and then those dc- Imrtments of the paper which touch upon your particular kind of farming, should be read. As farming is quite a. general- ized business, a great majority of the articles will be of interest to you. Arti- cles which strike you as being of special merit may be cut out and filed away. The common book letter files are» very good for this purpose. The subjects can be arranged in alphabetical order, and an lindex may be written on the inside of the front cover of the file. Arranged in this way, items of important information are in shape for quick reference. in the busy season. Some farm papers compile in- dexes for the convenience of their read- ers. The Michigan Farmer does this twice a year. This makes it convenient to save the papers of each voiume and bind them with tihe index. Such- a volume will contain reference to most every phase of farming that can be thought of. The fruit grower has an excellent op portunity to improve his knowledge of his occupation during the Winter months. His work is laid aside urltil spring and he is DEC. .27, 1913. gill“llIllllllllllllllIllllflllllllllllillIilililllllllillllilllfliilililIllilllillilllllllilllllllillllllllllllllllmlllliillilillilllIIlllllllllllllllllllIlillflilllllliiillllllllfllllllllillflllllllllllllllllilillllilllllfllliflllllfllllllld"ilkF ‘ E a Homculturc. EllIllliilfl|IIllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllll|lilliiillIlllllllllllllilllillIllll|illllllilll|lllllilllllllllllllllllilIllllllllillilllilllllilllllllllllillUllillllllIllillIlill]lllmlllllllllllllllllfllll[llllllllllllilllllllillllliMilling:- entirely free for she pursuit of knowledge. The time can be spent in no more valu- able way. REGARDING LIME-SULPHUR AND ARSENATE OF LEAD. There are probably no two materials Which are of more importance in the pro- du‘ction of good fruit than lime-sulphur and arsenate Of lead. They are the only materials needed with the exception of water, in the spx lying solutions for most all fruits; exceptions to this are the peach and grape. ln spraying for peaches the materials are the same but the lime—sul- phur is in different form. In the case of grapes, Bordeaux mixture must substitute lime~sulphur use fungicide. Both lime-Sulphur and arsenate of lead are of quite recent introduction in fruit work, having come to notice at about the same time. in 1892, arsenals of lead up: first. used for spraying purposes, the Gyp— sy Moth Commission of Massachusetts using it in the control of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. Shortly before this time lime-sulphur, a. sheep dip, was first used as a. spray by M. F. Dusey, of Fresno. Call. But it was not until recent years after lime-sulphur was shown valuable as u fungicide by western inveStigators that the two wcrc combined; then, by the efficient work they did they speedily took the place held by the once popular COlll- bination, Bordeaux mixture and Paris green. As with many new things, the combi- nation of lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead was thought to be impossible for spraying purposes by many authoritlee'. Some were sure that the chemical action which resulted when they were mixed would be harmful, and recommended any- hing but the addition of arsenzite of lead 0 lime-sulphur. It may be recalled that the introduétion of lime—sulphur as a spray was aisle received in the same way. Eastern authorities stated that while it worked well in the west, it was not at all suited to eastern conditions. But now there is an unanimous vote in favor of both these. Everyone who has used the materials 'has noticed the color change when arse- nate of lead and lime-Sulphur were mix- ed. At first the color is a reddish yellow. then gradually turning darker until the color is a chocolate brown. If there is an excess of limo-sulphur, the mixture will turn black. This is due to chemical action, and the blackish substance is the precipitate of this action. Often after the tank has been sprayed out. the black material will be found in the bottom of the tank. This can be prevented to a great extent by adding the arsenate of lead after it is thoroughly worked into liquid form and by keeping the dilute lime-sulphur thoroughly agitated when the arsenatc of lead is being added. According to the chemists the addition of arsenaite of lead to lime—sulphur de- creases the sulphur and calcium in solu— tion and increases iihe thiosulfate and sul- fite in solution. The latteii him are thought to be the active agents in killing insects, and are also the parts of the solution which add fungicidal value to the lime-sulphur. Regardless of the chemical action, ac- tual experimentation has shown that the addition of arsenatc of lead adds greatly to the fungicidal value of lime-sulphur and it has also shown that the arsenate of lead has slight fungicidal value when sprayed alone. There is a x'aSt amount of work 'being done by experts in the endeavor to im- pI‘OVe lime—sulphur and arsenate of lead. or to find something better. No substi— tu-te for lit-senate of load has been found which will give as good results. A few get discouraged witlh lime—sulphur and go back to the Bordeaux; in a short time they are advising lime-sulphur again. FARRAND ON VARIETIES. The chief speaker of the December meeting of the Oakland County Horticul- tural Society was T. A. Farr‘and, of Eaten Rapids. His subject was, “Varieties of Fruit.“ He stated that he believed many of ~our old standard varieties are here to stay and urged that growers be careful in selecting varieties which are best adapted to their locality. For commercial purposes he said that the Elberta stood first among peach growers. The next meeting will be hefi at the Farmlngton Town Hall, January 3,1914. at 10:30 a. m. DEC. 27, 1913. lllllllllllllllllL‘: a lllllllllll|l|l|lIllllIll|Illll|lllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllIllllllllllllIllIlllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllI||Illllllllllllllllllllllfi SMOKEHOUSES AND SMOKING MEAT. About six weeks after cutting up, Our hams, shoulders and flitc’hes of bacon are taken from the brine, made with salt, sugar, mo-lass‘es and sal'tpeter, and pre- pared for hanging in the smokehouse. The meat could remain longer in the brine, or until spring, if desirable, as it could not get any saltier than the brine which has made it salt enough to suit the taste. When the meat is taken out a slit is made in the rind deep enough not to tear out, and 'a strong string is tied in it for hanging up betWeen two poles placed in the smokehouse overhead, about four inches apart. A short stick is put through the loop in the string in the ham or Shoulder, and between the two poleS, and turned crosswise of them. These poles are placed in pairs overhead in the smokehouse, but never directly over the fireplace, in the middle of the house, be- cause too much heat will injure the meat land fry out the fat. No meat is hung on spikes driven into the side of the house, ‘because where it rested against the house it would not get nicely browned with the smoke. For the same reason the differ- ent pieces of meat are not allowed to 4201101] each other. For wood to make the smoke, hickory, hard maple, or black 'birc‘h are preferable. Pine, hemlock, oak and most other woods should not be used to make smoke, as they will impart a disagreeable taste to the meat. \Ve cut our wood in small chunks and if seasoned. will hold fire, smolder, and smoke without making a great heat, which is undesirable. Green wood will make a great smoke, but does not hold fire well and needs more attention. In the absence of proper wood, corn cob-s will do, but are apt to make too hot a fire. and are not equal to wood. If the fire is inclined to blaze it is smothered 'by throwing an old tin dish pan over it. It is better to get the smoking done, and the meat put away before the green flies come around hunting for a place to lay their obnoxious eggs. We put our hams and shoulders in 50— ib. flour sacks, tie up tightly, and hang up in a cool, dark room between two 'poles, as described for the smokehouse. They will keep good all summer or until eaten sooner. We have found this method of hanging up preferable to packing in ‘barrels with oats or wheat bran. Farm— ers’ smokehouses are generally too small and too low. They should be large enough to hold all the meat without hanging against the sides of the building, or over 'tihe fire, and they should be high enough for a person to stand erect in hanging up the meat and taking it down. Some smokehouses are built with brick. ’l‘ihey last longer than a board building and are not liable to get burned. The cost of sugar-curing ham-s and shoulders is so little more than the old way of salting, it is surprising that all farmers do not practice it. Pennsylvania. J. W. INGHAM. BALANCING THE RATION FOR THE LAMBS. (Continued from page 580). tonseed meal in addition gained over 14 lbs. per head. The cost of gain was greatly reduced by the addition of cot- tonseed meal. The grain required to make the gain was reduced frOm 5.29 to 4.36 by the addition of cottonseed meal, while tlhe 'hay required, quoting from the Indiana report, was reduced from 4.84 to 3.66 lbs. for each pound of gain to the fattening lamlb. This resulted in a sav- ing in the cost of feed from $1.00 to $2.18 per hundred weight, or an average saving throughout of something over $1.50 per hundred pounds when a concentrate such as cottouseed meal was used in the ra- tion. The results: of this experiment, particularly in the use of cottonseed meal, thereby increasing the protein in the ra- tion, is very interesting indeed, and the summary of the Indiana station is here given in full, as reported by them: Summary. The addition of cottonseed meal to a. ration of shelled corn and timothy hay increased the appetites of the lambs for both grain and hay. The addition. of cottonseed meal to a. THE MICHIGAN FARMER ” lllllllIlliilllllllIlllllllllI|lllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIll|IlllllIlI|llIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIIllIll|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllll|lllllllllll|lllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllE Live Stock. ' ' lIllIllIlllll|llllllllllllllllllllllll ration of shelled corn and timothy hay improved the thrift of the lambs; in- creased t-he rate of gain; decreased the cost of gain, and added greatly to the selling value of the lambs. The addition of c0ttonseed meal to a ration of shelled corn and clover hay did not greatly affect the appetites of the lambs for either grain or hay. The addition of cottOnseed meal to a. ration of shelled corn and clover hay slightly increased the rate of gain and added materially to the selling value of the lambs. The addition of cottonseed meal to a ration of shelled corn and clover hay did not on the average of three trials, affect the cost of gain when corn was as low as 40 cents per bushel but made slight decrease in cost of gain when com was above 40 cents per bushel. The addition of cottonseed meal to a ration of shelled corn, clover hay and corn silage had no effect on the roughage consumption but slightly increased the grain consu-mputicm in one of the three trials. ' The addition of cottonseed meal to a. ration of shelled corn, clover hay and {corn silage slightly increased the grain consumption in one of the three trials. The addition of cottonseed meal to a ration of slhe’lled corn. clover hay and corn sifiage slightly increased the rate of gain and added to the selling value of the lambs. The addition of cottonseed meal to a ration of shelled corn, clover hay and corn silage did not affect the cost of gain when corn was valued at 50 cents per bushel but made a slight decrease in cost of gain wfhen corn was above 50 cents per bushel. The resubts of this experiment are very gratifying indeed. in that they indicate that probably much better results might be obtained in the feeding of lambs and sheep, particularly in the fattening of lambs, if a more concentrated ration be fed, with a correspondingly narrower ra- tio between the protein and the non“ nitrogenous constituents of the feed. “'e apprehend as well that it will be- found that by giving greater attention Ito the question of feed for sheep, much more profitable results might be obtained through the medium of wool production as well. l/’ LIVE STOCK NEWS. General conditions existing in the Chi- cago hog market have undergone no verv radical changes in recent weeks, and the liberality of the supplies there and at other important receiving points has tended to depress prices for all descrip- tions. This state of things is likely to ex1st_, with the customary frequent ral- hes in values from time to time so long as marketings are kept up so generously, but it seems to be pretty unanimously ad- mitted by dealers all around that ulti- mately there must come a time of reck- oning and that theSe enormous premature marketings will in the end result in de- ficxent supplies of matured swine and much higher prices. As for a fortnight past the hogs marketed in Chicago have averaged in weight but 205 lbs. per head, pigs and light hogs have felt the brunt of the attacks made on the market by slaughterers, including the big packers and the smaller butchers, and on days when lhogs broke from 10((‘1715c per 100 lbs.. pigs went off from 25@500. “Scarcely any cattle are On feed. and where some years ago from 200 to 400 cars were fed every year. one can get only a few odd loads now,” said Fred- erick Schaeffer, of Iowa, recently. More sheep are being cared for than ever be- fore, as farmers want some stock to eat their grain, but few hogs are on feed, as they _have been dying everywhere. Vac- cmating with serum does little or no good, even when state or commercial medicine is used, and I have spent over $3,000 in the last few years to get rid of the sickness but with no good results. Some died quicker than others, and most frequently the fat ones got dizzy and died in a few hours, while at other times they got better, but died later on. Thin hogs last longest, and young suckling pigs do well. One veterinarian vaccinated 1,700 hogs Iw1thin a radius of seven miles, but all died. Extreme changes of weather from wet to dry are always followed by many pigs getting sick, with those in dusty buildings or around straw stacks suffering most severely. Brood sows are gomg to be worth $100 by next spring. Some cattle are coming in from Canada. but prices have advanced over there until it is hardly a paying proposition to pur- chase Canadian stock to send to the mar- kets of the United States, and by another year the movement will be of very small volume.” 7—583 ? Straight Talk on PlOWS-No. 3 In our previous talks on Plows, we have explained that the most vital feature of any plow is its share. Also, we have told you of the discovery of the wonderful ACME Steel which is used in making our famous ACME Steel Shares and Moldboards. Now let us consider this subject a little further: Let us suppose you are in a store selecting a razor or a knife—you are un- decided which one of the two to buy. They are practically the same price —each has an attractive handle and highly polished blade, but one has a fine steel blade that. you can re-sharpen—it will retain its original hardness as long as you use it—while the other has a blade which will not hold an edge after you have sharpened it the first time and soon becomes dull. Which one would you buy—the one that will stand re-sharpening, of course. All new plows are attractively painted——they all have their foot lift, eta—the shares are all bright and sharp when new—in fact, to the, naked eye there are several plows that look very much alike. So then in selecting a plow remember the SHARE is the Blade of the plow and that is what you should con- sider, just as you do when you buy a razor or a knife. You should demand a Plow with a Share that can be successfully re-tempered every time it is sharpened. You should demand a Share that you can keep as hard as new and with a sharp, keen cutting edge all the time. Acme Stéel Shares are the only Shares that can be successfully re-tempered after re-sharpening. They are ‘ the only Shares that can be keptas sharp and hard as new during their entire life. They have the quality of steel in them that no other plow share has or can have, because they are made by our own patented secret process, in our own factory and they are used only on Plows man- ufacturered by the Moline Plow Co. ACME Shares hold a hard, sharp, keen cutting edge. _ This means light draft—more Numerous heavy blows acres per day and the best can't break Acme Shares. plowing you have ever done, More than 1,000,000 farmers will testify to this. A gilt-edge Guarantee goes with every ACME Steel Share. It guarantees that you or your blacksmith will not break it in the field or in the fire. Our Free Booklet is full of valuable information on Plow Shares and Plows. Write for it. OUR 1914 ALMANAC FREE. WRITE TODAY. Your Flying Dutchman Implement Dealer sells MOLINE PLOWS with ACME Steel Shares—see him. One light blow easily breaks other Shares. Dept. 26 MOLINE, ILLINOIS _———— —-——'———-—. mm»‘ / I __ -" 4 . ~ .«m num- w rum-"1,1,4? I fifiico ' ' ,1 LL pale, golden~haired woman entered. She had been a beauty, but her prettiness was the kind that becomes blurred and dead- ened by work and poverty. She showed plainly enough that she hadn't been hard- ened to it. Her eyes were heavy, sunk- en. Her pale lips and bloodless cheeks told of a fight against illness and worry. The stuffy black skirt, one patched aloe uhat she sometimes forgot to hide be- neath her skirt, and the sieazy out-of- da'te ha-t spoke eloquently of a very flat purse. “\Yhat can she want," thought Deer- ing as his eyes scanned the pitiful figure. “She certainly isn’t Jim‘s wife." ’ Aloud he was all kindly courtesy. “Won't you have this chair? It is cooler near the fan. VV’hat can I do for you?" The 'woman sank wearily into the prof- fered chair. “Do you remember my husband?" she began abrupbly. “He used to speak of you. You went to school together." “Yes, of course. How slow I am get- ting to be," exclaimed Deering. trying desperately to keep the surprise but of his face and voice. - ‘ Mrs. Nestbit smiled wanly. “You are quite excusable. You couldn't have known. I might as‘well come to the rea- son of this errand. I know that you are busy and I am truly grateful for this in- terview. I came to ask you if you had need of a stenograplher or if you knew of a place that I might get. 1—! Should hesitate to bother you only that my need is imperative." “Surely you don't need to—” began Mr. Deering and then stopped, embar— rassed at his brutal thoughtlessness. But Mrs. Nes‘bit did not seem to mind. She stated 'her case apaflhetically. Ev- ery emotion. except urgent need of work, seemed burnt out. “Father always had money. Jim always had plenty. As you (Continued on page 588). . of the H EN you lift the Bell Telephone receiver from the hook, the doors of the nation open for you. ' Wherever you may be, a multitude is within reach of your voice. A's easily as you talk across the room, you can send your thoughts and words, through the open doors of Bell Service, into near-by and far- oii states and communities. At any hour of the clay or night, you can talk instantly, directly with whom you choose, one mile, or a hundred, or two thousand miles away. 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O I [When writing to advertisers please mention the Michigan Farmer .. ~.W ”a”. . -M .. ... l. ,i» 'backs with a stick. DEC. 27. 1913. .THE MICHIGAN FARMER - Billy’s Happy Nchcar By M. PELTON WHITE. ILLY GLENN was eight years old B and lived on a big, big cattle ranch way out on a western prairie. There wasn’t another little boy, or even a little girl, for Billy to play with, but he was never the least bit loneslome. How could he be when he had Qdeenie, a round dumpling of a Shetland pony, to ride, and Sandy, the wisest, friskieSt Scotclh collie ‘that ever barked (according to Billy) to romp with the livelong day? Nothing about the place was afraid of the jolly red-checked lad. The chickens flew to his shoulders and peeked wheat from his hands; the cows- put their heads through the bars to have him rub their noses and the pigs grunted co-ntentedly whenever he scratched their fat, bristly Indeed, every crea- tue loved Billy and Billy loved every crea- ture and everybody, and was as happy as happy could be from the minute- he 'l.ecame wide awake until he was fast asleep. Then something dreadful happened. Something went wrong with one of Billy‘s hips. A. wise doctor was brought fem the nearest town. He was very gentle and kind to Billy. just the way doctiiirs al- ways are to little boys who are trying to be brave and cheerful when they are suf— fering a lot of pain. The doctor told Mr. and Mrs Glenn that Billy must lie quiet in bed for a long, long time with a heavy weight hung to his foot. That was the only thing that would do tlhe hip any good and keep their little bOy from being a cripple for life. Oh, how sorry everyone was ful' poor Billy! His parents read him all the stor- ies they could find and told him all the stories they could think of. The hired men contrived all sorts of games fo" him to play with his hands. made puzzles for him and brought in all the things from out of doors that they thought would in— -terest him. even to one of the little pigs. At first Sandy couldn’t understand why s. “I'm so sorry, dear. The mice have gotten into the box and spoiled every bit of it.” Poor Billy! A big lump came. in his throat and he turned his face to the wall real quick so that his mother should not see how watery his eyes were. But mothers can guess a lot of things. Mrs. Glenn went out and told Mr. Glenn. VVlhile they were talking one of the hired men came up and said something that made them both look glad; then he jumped on a horse and went down the road lickity- split. Mrs. Glenn went back to Billy and told him about Ali Baba and the forty thieves and other stories that he liked. “Happy New Year," boomed a big voice early» the next morning before Billy was scarcely awake. The big voice belonged to the hired man. He was covered with snow and had icicles in his whiSkers, but the inside of the basket that hung from his arm was comfy and warm and held two fluffy kittens fast asleep. “Mew," soueaked one little kit. “Mew.” squeaked the other. Then they both began to purr. Billy said they were wishing him a “Happy New Year." and that he was going to name one Ali Baba. “Perhaps he’ll find the .‘forty thieves’ that stole my pop corn. I’ll call the other one Flit-tel‘mouse.” ’l‘he kittens grew into fine big cats, and they must haVe done their duty, for the next year Billy iad all the corn he want- ed to pop. YOUR CAT AND ITS CARE. BY FRANK n. SWEET. Many people think that a cat has no intelligence. and resistS. or rather does not understand, any efforts made to con— trol it. Fidelity is also a trait not at— tributed to cats. 'l‘hosc who hold this View are the ones who turn their cats out in all winds and weathers, allow them to forage for food, take no pains to train Billy’s New Year- Present—Ali Baba and Flittermouse. this little master stayed in bed and wouldn't play with him. lle would wag his tail and lick Billy‘s hands as murh as to say, “Come on for a run." But after awhile ‘he seemed to know something was wrong, and would lie on the floor watch— ing with his big sorrowful eyes. Sometimes Mr. Glenn led Queenie to the window. \Vhen Billie called to i'lcl‘ she would whinny. and he "wondered if she missed him as much as he missed her. and whether the cows and the chick- ens had forgotten him. \Vinter came, and the holidays, and all the sick boy could see from the window were banks and banks of white, white snow. ' “Did farther bring in my pop corn that he planted for me last spring?” asked Billy one morning. “Indeed, he did.” answered hisx other, “It’s a w‘onder I didn’t think of it before. As soOn as the dishes are washed I’ll porp some for you.” Billy’s eyes sparkled. How much fun it would be Watclhing the brown kernels hop and dance nd split their jackets and turn outsidedin. all fluffy and crif-frp. It would be very nice to eat. too. If there was any left he was sure his mother would make popcorn balls. Mrs. Glenn got out the popper and went up to the garret for the corn. She came back with a very long face. "VVlhere is the pop corn?” asiked Billy. them, leave them out all night, and cuff them under every provocation. Now I have in mind a cat, the. descend- ant of six generations of house cats, that has ’bcen Well cared for. kindly treated. and properly fed. His coat is most lux— uriant. He is five years old and very heavy for his siize. but plays like a kitten. He follows the members of the family about the house and gardens, and when any of them come in at the front door he bounds to meet them. Never having been abused, he is entirely without malice, and friendly to everyone. If you want a good hOuse cat, bring it up from a kitten. Do not commence with a grown cat. Above all else do not take in-a tramp: they are hopeless. in choosing fro-m a litter of kittenS, look’ for a prettily masked cat, and one whose fur. when parted in places. grow‘s very thick on the pelt. Be sure to choose from a fat litter—one that looks well nourished. Very thin kittens are some- times Well fed but infected with fleas. thus getting a poor start. Then, too. look at the eyes. Many kittens are sore eyed from expOSure to strong light. Kittens should be kept in the dark for at least two weeks. Some eyes become all right in time, but others remain sore always. \Vhen matter accumulates on the lids. put the kittens into a dark place and frequently cleanse the eyes very gently with a soft cloth dipped in warm water. , Order, s At the end of three or four weeks kit- tens have usually reached the stage where even a. person unaccustOmed to cats is able to make a good choice. Choose a kitten with a wide, fiat nose, eyes far apart, and a wide forehead and jaw, the muzzle not too long. This will prove to be an intelligent cat. As soon as kittens have learned to lap milk they can be taken from the mother. The early feeding of a kitten is very im- portant. Many half-grown cats are trou- bled with fits. Because of this some peo- ple say that they cannot raise a cat, and it is a prevalent notion that fits are caus- ed by raw meat. They are more often caused by over—feeding and wrong foods. Rarw food—sparticulurly meat—is the nat— ural diet of the cat tribe. Do not give a cat three heaVy meals a day. A young kitten Should be fed a little warm milk every few hours, and as it groWs bigger, and eats more at a time, the intervals between the feedings should be lengthen— ed. \Vhen the kitten is: eating about four times a day. begin to introduce solids into its dict, at the night feeding. An animal always sleeps after a heavy meal. so that night is the time to give this meal, and then the cat is livelier during the day. liegin with cereals or cooked vegetables. (tats like such vegetables as swoet corn, asparagus, cold potatoes, t-‘quash and spinach. ’l‘hen gradually lead up to raw fish and meat. A full grown cat should have as much warm milk in the morn— ing as it wants, and no other food until night, when it should be fed all the raw fish or meat that it will eat. and before going to bed it should be given a drink of milk. .-\ kitten brought up on this diet should make a fine healthy cat with a luxuriant coat. Some cats are very fond of liver. lobster. shell—fish. canned salmon and sardines. though the two latter should be given sparingly. as they are very rich. Some cats. however, cannot eat shell-fish, as it produces naurca. and also some- times an eruption around the head and neck akin to mange. ()nc must rt’mcmbcr that cats differ in their tastes just as people do. I know of one cat that will never touch water. while some cats require it constantly. In very hot weather if you find your cat lying under a bush in the yard, panting like a 005:. with his tongue dripping: be is not mad: he is simply sweating. and will prob- ably be glad of 'a drink of water. .-\ cat‘s dish should be kept clean and sweet. and he should not be expected to drink milk that has stood a long time. in the dish. Home cats will go hungry rather than touch sour milk. Then. too. care must be. taken to prevent your cat from eating tainted meat. For a few cents any butcher will send. with the daily scraps of fresh lllt'di for." the. cat. Keep catnip on hand, and give a little once, or twice a week. \thn ,one cannot procure, fresh catnip, packages"especially for 'cats are. kept at bird stores. Have a warm. sheltered place. for the cat to (deep in at night. ("ats greatly en- joy beds of hay. though some persistently refuse to sleep in a bed which has been prepawd for them. They prefer to crawl away and hide. in winter, when cats are. not out of doors much, they often lie for hours un- der a stove or in front of a radiator. It is well to prevent this if possible, as it makes them very dull. and sometimes causes illness. Sometimes in winter cats hayc coughs and asthma, but these sel- dom amount to much. In summer, when a cat is out in the grass a great deal it occasionally gets fleas. If it seems to he really suffering. go over it with a fine tooth comb and catch and kill the. fleas. .\ll bug pow- ders are dangerous with cats. as they healthy cat is constantly washing. and HHSHill|lHilIllillllllHI!illIlllllllEHiEllilil‘!lHllHla‘lllHIIHHIHHEilllllllililllIllllilllillHIHHHIIIHIHHHHI ALMOST NEW YEAR. BY RUTH RAYMOND. Ohiillun it am almost New Year— Solemn fact fo’ one laik me “'lho may nebber se-e annuddcr. Fo’ I’s'e ailmost eighty-three. An’ dese years I’s been a learnin’ How to plan, an’ work. an’ pray; Now it‘s time to close, dei records Fo’ tomorrow’s New Year’s Day. If dars debts. go out an’ pay dcm: If its kindneSS dat yo’ owe. Do some deed to make de balance Da:t 01’ Year am gtw'ine to show. Ebery man am sure yo’ brudder. \Vlhedder rich, or poor. or gray: Make de fam'bly ’lations stronger. Fo’ tomorrow’s New Year’s Day. Ehe-ry debt yo’ OWe am reckoned Wid de interest added in: ldbery debt yo’ pay am canceled As de good blots out de sin: PraiSe de La‘wd fo’ all His bless-in's. He bulb scattered long yo’ wav: (‘lose de ’counts- in dis year’s ledger, Fo’ tomorrow’s New Year’s Day.‘ afl’ear Immigration figures show that the population of Canada increased during 1913. by the addition of 400.000 new settlers from the United States and Europe. Most of these have gone on farms in Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta. Lord William Percy. an English Noblemnn 85-33. "The possibilities and opportunities offered by the Canadian West are so infinitely greater than those which exist in England. that ll; seems absurd to think that people should be impeded from coming to the country where they can most easily and certainly improve Mir position.” I; New districts are being opened up, which will make accessible 3. great number of homestends in districts especially adapted to mixed farm- ing and grain rats 2. 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I). W. ROGERS, Sec. Dated at Hastings. Mieh.. Dec. 0. 1913. V ANTED FOR U. S. ARMY—Able-bodied. un- married men between ages 18 and 35: citizens of U. S. or have first papers: of good character and temperate habits. who can speak. read and write the Eng 1511 language: good ny. food. lodging. clothing and medical attendance roe. For information apply at Reoruttln Station, 212 Griswold Sf... Detroit, Mich. Heavenrloh _ lock, Saginaw. Mich. 144 W. Main St.. fincksont. QMichét P l'tsxzitginnw Mel‘s}; zFeanté Mich. uron uav 9.. o uron. c . . a inaw 8t” Pontiac. Michigan. 8 GOVERNMENT FARMERS WANTED 33.5%”?in living quarters. Write..OZMENT. 17 F. St. Louis, Mo. Mention the Michigan Farmer when writing to advertierss. ' 588—42 these powders are mostly-harmful or even pois'ron'ous. VV'ith a dog o‘ne’can give a tar—soap bath, which is sure death to fleas; 'but with a- eat this is different. Tar soap is sickening to a cat, even after the fui has been dried and should lways be avoided Water .is not a naturQelement for a cat. ’ A healthy kitten. well fed, ought to be- come a healthy cat; but if he becomes sick, a good rule to follow is to let him alone, and especially not to coax h'm to eat. It is a mistake to allow children to han- dle a kitten too much. Often kittens be— come very thin from handling. The matter of puniShing a cat is very important. One mus-t be firm with a pet. but always consistent. Do not punish a cut one day for doing something w. you allowed it to do the day before: need— less to say, it will not understand why it is punished. Coffin-g a cat is bad. If the blow of one cat’s paw, slight as it is, hurts another cat—~and it evidently does— consider the effect of cufl‘ing. When a cat is doing wrong it can many times be made to stop by a sharp clap of the hands. shouting its name at the same time. Some cats are greatly humiliated by being forced to Sit. for a few minutes in some special place, choosing always the same spot. such as some particular chair, the top of a bookcase, or a mantelpiece. Another good method is to take a short whip or strap and strike the floor beside the cat. or an object of furniture near where the offender may happen to be. following him wherever he goes and re- peating the blow a few times. THE IMPERVIOUS IMP. (Continued from page 586). remember. he made and spent it Five year ago he made. I think. in that Southwest irriga— tion venture \Ve had no cares and no Worry; perhaps that was the trouble. Then Jim Was caught in a mining specu- lation and we had to learn the new les- son of practicing economy. Two years ago Jim (lied and I am nearly penniless.” may easily. iifty thousand “Butt.” interjected Decring, “wasn’t llherc the old farm?" “That was all my fault, too,” quavered the woman. "I had never lived on a l'al'ni. ] didn‘t know anything about it. Farms are not run nowadays as they used to be. I rented Uhe farm to a man who didn‘t knmvanytihing more about. it than I did. It has gone to rack and ruin. I cannot sell it. It is mortgaged to the hilt. but I am going to try to win it back and when I do I'll know something about farming it as I sal‘ioufd." ‘ The first note of bitterness crept into her voice and lixcd the words in Deer- ring’s mind. “The whole trouble with me." she explained miseralbly. "is that I‘ve been too caief'ully sheltered; I've stagnated. Now at thirty—five l have to earn my living and I am an untrained worker. It“ I had been trained in any one thing i could take care of myself. As it is, I don't know farming, I don't know business, and all the stenography I know has been obtained at night school during the past six months. It was doubly hard because I had even forgot- tcn how to apply myself to mental work. But l’l‘. get my life straightened out if I can just get w‘ork enough to keep me un- til I can become a proficient worker in some one line." “Sure you will~surely, Deering com- forted. rowing himself from a revery and twisting his pen between nervous lingers. “l'm going to get you a_ place. I think I know one that you will like. Will you give me until tumor-row?” n “I didn't mean to make you so much trouble.” exclaimed the woman. “I'llgo and see for myseif' if you will give me the name.” But lleering silenced her gently and it was some. consolation to see that when she left the office she did not seem quite so hopeless. Dcering had lost all appetite for work. He wanted to go home and see with his own eyes that Sancie and her mother were all right. “I'm an untrained work- er." Sancie was of a frail delicate love- liness and had golden hair. That weary woman Jim Ncsb-it’s wife! All the way home the words beat in upon him. “The whole trouble with me is that I've been too carefully shelteimod Im an untrained worker. “Whats the matter, dear?” queried his wife in gentle worriment. He was not as appreciative as usual of the dainty lunch awaiting him. “I wish you would stay home from the office this afternoon. I’m afraid this "heat is too much for you.” “I’m all right!" He tried to laugh THE MICHIGAN .FARMER FOR “1914." 3'! ALICE J. CLEATOR. _ Our “big” resolutions Are apt to be broken And fall like a; bubble ‘ As soon as they re spoken. ~ But here are some small on”. So helpful and dear. To brighten the paflhway Each day of the year. I’ll try to 'be happy And make others so. A smile that is sunny Is “catching,” you know! I’ll cultivate humor. And easily laugh. By laughter our troubles Diminish one half. When tempted to “say things," With criticism free. I’ll think, “Would I like it If said about me?" I’ll try not to worry. That “home-folks" may find I’m pleasant to live with And loving and kind. I’ll look for the “bright side” When dark is the day. We find what we look for Each step of the way. I’ll think, when the storm clouds Are hiding the blue. “The bright sun is shining. Just hidden from view!" Life’s moments unpleasant Far from me I'll ca-‘t. And cheriSh the sunshine Which brightens the past. These things. if remembered And heeded arig‘hvt, VVill make ”1914" A year of delight! jaun-tily. "I’m bothered by an imp, that’s all." “A puny, insistent devil.’ grinned San- cie. “That’s the definition, needn’t look so shocked.” “It fits my state of mind." agreed her father. ' “Good-bye, mother. Good-bye. San- cie," he called, and then came- back to kiss them good-bye. “What is the matter with your fath- er?" cried Mrs. Deering. “Something is worrying him dreadfully." And at Deering’s side stalked the imp Msu-p'pose it was Sancie! Suppose it was Sancie, an untrained worker. He hurried back to the office and plunged into the correspondence left over 'from the morning. But from every type- written sheet glrinned the message of the imp—too carefully sheltered, an untrain- ed worker—Sande? And then it began to elaborate. Sup— pose Sancie married a fellow like Jim. Suppose he and Sancie’s mother and San- cic‘s husband died and left Sancie alone. \l’ould she be hungry and helpless like Jim Nei-bit's wirfe? At last he surrendered. His mind was made up. He knocked off work eaIiiy and started for hOme. In an excess of im: pulsivcness the Whole office force was sent out an hour early. Sancie and her mother were awaiting him on the porch. Mrs. Deering shot one look at .her husband and then laugh— ed happily. “Well," she whispered, as 'he drew her to his side, “you look more like yourself." “Yes, ma’am," he chuckled. “I got rid of that impervious imp.” Then he straightened with conscious rectitude and tweaked Sancie's love-lock. “Daughter." he grinned, "I've Stolen one of your virtues——I've changed my mind. I think you may go to that agri— cultural college if you want to.” mother, you Sancie gave a happy gasp of surprise. “\Vlry-dad—really?” “Reeeeaally!” ‘he mocked. And then he grew thoughtful. “Times are chang- ing, Sancie. A woman as well as a man has to be able to do at least one thing 'Well. She ought to have some special training aside from the old occupation of housework. If scienctific farming is to be your specialty. why. all right. But I hope you won’t forget the good old knack of making beaten biscuit and chicken." “Don't you worry,” chirped Sancie. “I’ll work in diet and scientific cooking in my course, you see if I don’t.” Wild Duck—-“Now, the-n, fellers, make a noise like a gasoline motor, and those, fool hunters will think we’re aeroplanes!" “You talk about men!" exclaimed the suffragette. “What has man ever done for woman?" “He invented the ballot box." timidly from the rear of the hall. came DEC. 27, 1913. special Bargain Combinations: We have arranged here a list of} special bargain combinations which will save you considerable on your reading matter. tutions of other magazines which are the same price can be made. must take the entire combination just as it is. club from the club list if none of these suit you. 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Now I know ,it is the fashion for most of us when 'we have outlived our youth to tell how much better they did it when we were young; to vow that everything is going to the “demnition bow—’bows," as our friend Mr. Mantalini put it. I know I am departing from my solemn vow to be- lieve always that the present age is the best. But a mental comparison of the girls of today with the girls of 20 years ago, compels me to say that as regards what we called ideals. the girls who are living today are minus. Perhaps it is because when I was a girl I lived in the country and hadn't any- thing much to think about but ideals. There were not even telephones and rural routes then to bring outside distractions to our door. and our wildest excitement was a church sociable or evening party occasionally. Perhaps if these same girls I decry now were placed as I was they might perk up and think about some of the real things of life. And perhaps if we of the past generatiIOn were to be surrounded with luxury and excitement as Ithese girls are, we might lose sight of the verities. God knows. Be that as it may, the ideas of sacri- fice, devotion to duty and service for oth- ers seem entirely missing. In their place are the love of clothes. ease and pleasure. The old idea that we were put into the world to develop character, not to pursue pleasure, has never even been heard of by the girls who are to be the mothers of our grandchildren. In fact, character is a word which has become obsolete and there seems to be no effort on the. part of either daughters or mothers Ito direct the lives which are forming. There is a lack of moral backbone, of fineness of soul fibre, which is distressing. Girls are not taught that some things Which are hard to do must be done anyway be- cause it is right. If the thing is disa- greeable or in’terferes with the great god. pleasure, away with it. It is better to do wrong than to be uncomfortable. is the motto of the hOur, rather than that one on which we wei‘e fed, “1 had rather be right than be president." The girls, of course. aren't to blame. 'i‘hey but carry out the mode of life sug— gested by teachers and moral sponsors. The schools set the pace with the idea that everything must be made pleasant for the children. No longer do we hear, “There is no royal road to learning." The now cry is. make the tasks so easy and pleasant the children will not know they are working. Mothers follow out the idea at home when they excuse the daughters from all housework So that they may be free to dress and parade the streets. And who can blame the girls? If you are brought up from baby'hood to thing that life must'be made a bed of roses for you, that real Work is a thing to be shunned as something too sot‘did for so fine a creature as you are, and that the one thing -in life for you is to catch pleasure as it files, can you be blamed if by the time you are sixteen 0r seventeen years old you have learned your lesson? Itrow not. ' Of course, mothers make the excuse that life at its best is hard enough and that they want to make the young lives as eaSy as possible. Granted that life is 'hard, a battlefield if you will. are you training your daughter for the best sort of soldier when you teadh her, to loaf and to shirk? \Vhen you give her no hint of the terrific fight ahead of her. until all of a, sudden it is thrust upon her? Most of us are agreed that sometime or \ itself, “How can she enjoy it?" other in life we get our bumps. If we :uccecd in dodging them for awhile they come to us later as the accumulation of years. Isn’t it better to bring up the children entrusted to us with the idea of getting just a few disagreeable things as they go along? Isn’t it better to let them have a few good bumps while you are around to explain things, rather than to ward everything off while they are with I) you and send them out unprepared for the world to beat them into shape? I repeat, the girls of today havo no ideals. and because they have none they are growing into c0ld.l selfish, unlovely women; women who will shun the real duties of wifohood and motherhood, who, in fact, are in no way fitted to‘ be the mothers of men and women. If service could'only be the watc'hwvord instead of plea/Sure! lint service and sacrifice seem to be as entirely out of date as the gar- ments of 1911. DEBORAH. llllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllilllllllllllIllllllllllIllIll!lll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll illlllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllIllIllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllilll Some Remarks on Sunday Housekeeping By CHARLOTTE BIRD. It has been declared by competent au- thority that humanity needs to rest one day in seven, thait witih this res-t one may do fully as much work and do it more efficiently on the remaining six days than on seven, and that without it he will suffer in various ways. It is surely true t‘ha-t it Sunday is properly spent, as a day of rest, one will be the stronger all the remainder of the week. And what one, who properly honors the day, owes to Sunday in mental and spirituail refresh- ment, only God himself can meaSure. And so our l’uritanical foremothers Who would not even grind coffee on Sunday, were not So far in the wrong. But what is rest to one woman may be anything else in the world to another. So much depends on the individual viewpoint and the degree of mental development. \Who has not again and again seen the young mother down town in} the midst of the crowd on circus day with her baby in its calb! On the. minds of nine wit- nesses out of ten the question thrusts And yet she is seeking her relaxation, and seeking it logically, in a change of physical en— ergy. In the same way many a housekeeper feels the need of a change from her own wok, afforded by going on a visit and eating a good dinner cooked by some other housekeeper. This is mainly be- cause. her degree of culture has never given her a need for reading books and magazines. Her best day for this visit is Sunday, because then the whole fam- ily can go and they can make a day of it. Another house-keeper, not having been brought up with the habit of Sunday vis; iting, looks forward to Sunday as the one day wlhen, besides going to church, she may spend several delightful hours writ~ ing letters, but especially reading some helpful and enjoyable book. Her week is so full that she positively has no other time for the development of her mind and soul and yet Slle is heart hungry for this development. SulpvaSc that, just when she has got herse’uf nicely settled at her improvnig recreation, the other woman with her whole family drops down on he: for a Sunday visit and dinner. She sighs regretfully over her lost day. But she must bear it patiently because these vis- itors are_perhaps her husband's people and she must not offend them. But that does not remove the irreparable wrong done her. The question of Sunday visiting re- mains to many a housekeeper a vexa— tious one. because to no housekeeper can the cooking of a big dinner for a host of visitors be a rest in any sense. All week she has cooked; for years she has cooked till, however good it may be, she is tired of the sight and taste of her own cooking. But this fact is ignored. She must either risk offending this crowd of visitors, so selfish because so thoughtless. or spend her Sunday ina'way which will cause her to meet Monday morning all tagged out and ill—prepared for the com- ing Week's work. ' Now there appears no adequate reason why people of congenial tasltes should not enjoy a social call on Sunday, either in the making or receiving. But why shOuld the call not be made in the aflternoon af- ter the dinner hour, and end before the supper lhour’.’ Even if the visitors had to drive seven or eight miles. still there would. be two or Uhree hours for a genu- ine visit in which all could take part. And in 'these days of the automobile the thing is far mOre feasible. In this way the iitemry housewife-might still have a Short pcriod lelft for her own kind of recrea— (ion. .iut what about the housekeeper who has a large family of her own and yet wishes to avail herself of some rest on Sunday? In any case, whether it be a :‘im'ple repast. involving the least Work. or a burdensome affair, there will have to In: a dinner and its character will depend on he lions-wife herself. The first thing for lher to realize is that it can be made easy and be free. If the family includes one or more young women and they wish to entertain their own company in their own Way, then the tlioug'htiful, unscifish daug'lytcrs will aSSume all the responsibility.of the Sunday dinner and leave their tired moth- er still free to rest quietly in her own room.‘ But a finer thing would be to have the guests share the simple but good dinner 'for so no One need be over— ib'urdlened and the liner hospitality is shown. In the old-At'ashioned way almost the whole of the Sunday dinner may be pre- pared on Saturday. All soups and des— serts should be prepared the day before and the soups reheated on' Sundry. A pan of baked beans, cooked on Saturday. is delicious for Sunday dinner; in a few minutes it can be l‘e'llealted in the oven 0.“ the beans may be eaten cold. The meat or poultry, can be roasted on Satur- (1:in and be served coid on Sunday. But in cold weather there may be ob- jections to a cold dinner for people just returned I'm-in a- drive. No matter, the dinner may still be made easy. Here the iireless cooker is invaluable. .-\ vegeta- blc slew can be started on Saturday and reheated on Sunday morning. The long, slow cooking will only improve the flavor (.f the soup. By being replaced boiling hot in the cooker in the morning by the time the family ("tunes home from church it will; be good and hot and all ready t» dish up. Or, if a lrot roast is preferred, that can also eaS-ily be managed. In cold weather, if one does not use gas, there is common- ly a stove or range kept hlot all the timc. One may then takc a common crock, al- ready annealed, by cooking, put the roast into it and cover it closely with a plate. Then it should be placed on the stove where it will rclceive a slow, moderate lheat. It should be started eirly in the morning to give plenty of time for thor— ough cooking. Then, just before starting vto church, the raw prepared potatoes Should be placed around the meat, the whole salted and the plate replaced. The warm moisture will keep the potatoes from drying out too much. Vl'hen the family returns. a delicious browned din- ner will ‘be all ready to serve. A brown :gnayy may be made or the dinner may be. served with its own juice. YVitJh the exercise of the same fore”- t‘hought, everything possible having been done the day before, the other meals may be made to conform to the same simpli— city. For 'breakfast there should be no wxi’fles or pancakes to prepare. And the su'pper might with a few additions and changes consist mainly of what was left from dinner. 0r there might be a cosy. delightful chafing dish supper and this meal be made the most attractive of tll.‘ whole week. There is no reason why all the meals should not be served daintily. just as when there is an outlay of more energy. This will depend more on the refined in- stinc‘ts of the ‘hous-ekeeper than anything else. Thus in the average home Sunday can be made a day of rest and of growing in- timacy with life's sw'eetest and best things, an uplifting influence which w ll c‘heer the hours of labor throughout thr- rest of the week. And Sunday can be made such a very beautiful day READING FOR THE CHILDREN. BY M'RS. F. N-ISEVVANGE‘R, HERE comes :1 time when children I must be promoted from the verbal story world to the world of his own story getting-Mreading; and this is a time of greater importance than is some— times realized. One of the. most regrettable things of which I know is to hear boys or girls say, “I do not like to read.” for it means that, unlcss their inclinations change, the doors leading to many beautiful and needful things will be Closed to the minds of these young people. Of course. different people differ some— what in their natural liking for reading, but if poperly encouraged and furnished suitable material, young folks will like to read sufi‘lciently well to insure the llet't‘S- Sal'y development along that line, and furnisQ‘h that source of individual entcr- tainment without which a boy or it girl is often restless. tired of companions. and «lissaStistied wit-h cvl-n‘ything arouml‘witli- out realizing what they arc missing and why. Onc's llCSt mature judgment is required to direct reading inclinations for it is fully as wrong, and perhaps even more illzlllllflll, to allow indiscriminate selecting which may easiy lead to injurious read- ing, as not to encourage the good. Int the child Who “does not like to read" and is not encouraged to like it, is growing into a life that will be narrow, and grealtly handicapped by the tendency. Home and school should work hand in hand to hiring about the desired result. Homes should be supplied with regular weekly and monthly literature of the proper sort, youthful, inspiring and edu- cational papers and magazines, also books of hiftory. and proper fiction, and illus- trated books of the true stoiies of the natural world of birds. trees. and elemen- tary science that are so eutertainingly presented as to be moz‘c fascinating than iiction to a healthy mind. Schools should haVe jut as complete libraries as they can possibly, secure. and have them so classified and graded that pupils will read those books suitable for their age. A school of which I know is handling this matter in an ideally prac- ‘tical and satisfactory way. Its library is more complete than is that of many schools, but no more so than could be the (.158 if pupils, parents and teachers were sufficiently interested. There is a care- ' fully selected shelf of books for each grade in the school above first. The little first«graders have Uheii‘ stories told to them, bwt beginning with the second grade, each child in the School is required to read, or to have read to him at home so that he can report upon it, at least one book a month from the shelf belong- hug to his grade. .These range in style and length from the myths, fables, nur- sery classics and farmyard and nature stories of the second and third grades, to “I'ncle Remus," “Hoosier School Boy," “Little \Vomen," “\Yonder Books.” etc., of the sixth grade. with still more ad~ vanced reading for seventh and eighth grades When there are such. This library belongs to the scchool and THE. MICHIGANFA-RMER e DEC. 27, 1913. When you buy roofing from us you know before-hand just exactly what you are going to get. Your order will be filled under Our Guarantee that every sheet must be perfect. full weight. brand now, or it doesn’t cost you a cent. This kind of roofing is always cheapest in] the end. We sell it to you for the same or less money than the ordinary competitive quality roofing. We sell you direct at exactly the same price your dealer would have to pay us» and besides We Pay the Freight Our price list shows exactly what your roof- ing would cost laid down all your railroad sta- tion. Send today for catalog and samples Free. ‘ The Ohio Galvanizing & Manufacturing Company 27 Ann St, Niles, Ohio HAVE} BETTER LIGHT l van: in: PERFECT" mm NO SMOKE Wonderful new invention— NO SMELL turns dim ted flame into big brilliant, white, steady light. As good as gas or electricit . Works on an lam . o smoke. no sme 1. Me. as one lamp 0 work of three. Pro- vents eye strain. Saves oil. Fine for all night: use. Guaran- teed. Price ‘ c for No. 1 or NO. 2 lamp, or No, 2 Cold Blast lantern, by mail prepaid. Agents Wanted. Write quick. Perfect Burner Co. 437 Spitzor Bldg. Toledo, 0- 36UL FEATHER BEDS $635 Ventilated and sanitary. 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In writing give refer- ences and also state whether you have a horse and buggy of your own. Address Box .I. F., Care Michigan Farmer“ Detroit WANT E D—Men and women for Government ted G posittioris. I'llxagainatio'lnsl soon. d overnmen xam no one. r a ex- :gih’agi‘én free. Write, OZMENT, 17 R. St. Louis. By ELLA Here -are some edging which are so simple and dainlty that almost anyone, no matter: how busy, will find relaxation in trying them. Especially is this true of the first, which when made of fine threud, is very dainty, indeed, and always and various» uses It grows so rap- lace. vprctty for towel-ends when made of course. idly we call it the “Mile-a-minute" Mlle-a-minute Lace. Chain 6, turn. First rou'Al tr in (3th st of oh, oh 3, 1 tr in same st of ch, ch 3, 1 tr in same st, ch 3, 1 tr in some st, turn. Second roux—oh 6, 1 tr caught in chain between 2d and 3d tr of 1st row, 3 ch, 1 M in some ch, 3 oh, 1 tr in same ch, 3 ch, 1 tr in same oh, 1 tr in 1 st tr of lst row, 3 ch, turn and repeat from lst rorw. Upon some baby clothes, made about 40 years ago, there were found yards and yards of the twin dainty (-llgings follow— ing. First turn. roiw~ch 4, 1 tr in 1st st of ch, community, but another school, not so Well equipped, still furnis'hes a var-ioty of good reading to its pupils throngh the traveling libraries loaned by the state to any relputalblc group of people, for trans- poultation charges only. The progressive toa't-‘her who began this arrangement paid the transportation charges of the first library horsclf, but Since then the dis- trict had ’been glad to rutitend to the mat- ter itself. These traveling libraries, as many of you know, are composed of 50 or more miscellaneous volumes that may be kept for three montlr-I, renewed upon applica- tion, or exchanged for a now one when- T'hus u ('O‘mvmunity, if so have the use of several during the year, for a money paid out in ever desired. disposed, may hundred books very small sum of rfreig‘ht charges. So wherever we are, there is but little exlcuse for a lack of good reading for our young people. LETTER BOX. A Really Busy Childless Woman. Household liditor:——'l‘he reading of Deb- orah’s “How the Childless Housewife Keeps Busy," aroused my ire as I happen to be a childless mother. My little one of two and one-half years left me a little over two years ago, to blossom in “God’s ‘Garden.” I want to say that, although I, like lots Of other women, have no babies, I am busy all of the time, but not in the way she says. If she should chance to step in my house, a big one, too, I think she would find the air as sweet, fresh, and pure as in her own home. I, too, always draw a thread, as she says, to cut towels and tablecloths by, for it takes very little longer and I do like to see things neat and straight. Now as to how I fill in my spare time. We work 220 acres of land and I ride all of the riding tools, binder, mower and plow, as well as several others. I have my butter customers and make butter the whole year and I do most of the churning. I make porridge for the calves, always make my own garden, care for the hired man’s clothes and do his wash- ing, do all my own sewing, raise lots of chickens, and, last but not least, have lots of company. I still have time to do fancy work, learn lots of good recitations. read, and visit and have a general good time. And I weigh less than 100 pounds, too. Deborah says she knows now how the Simple Crochet Edging of the LOngAgo. L. LAMB. Second row—ch 3, shell 7 tr in 100. formed in 1st row, turn. ' 'Ilii'lrd row—clh 5, skip 1, 1 tr, oh 2, skip 1, 1 tr, ch 2, skip 2, 1 tr caught un- der chain at beginning of 2d row, ch 1, l tr in same place, turn and repeat from 2d row. No. 3.——Fir.:—:lt row—oh 4, 1 tr in let st of ch, turn. Second row—Jclh 4, 2 tr in look formed by lst mw, turn. Third row—ch 4, shell 14 tr under dh of 2d row, 1 Slip st in 1st st of 1st row, 'turn. Fourth rowach 3, 1 (1 st between last two tr Sit of 3rd row, repeat between tr No. 2. in scallop, ch 3, 1 tr under oh at begin- ning of 3rd row, turn and repeat from second row. The edge of the garment to be trimmed may be rolled and the scallop applied (li— It has the effect of a hand-worked edge, especially on iluzmnels, wth-l‘e woolen yarn matching’ the mntc'r‘ial is used, and edged with si'k 0'.‘ sansilk of the same shade or in dainty contrast. rcotly to the 1n~.ute-rial. lllllllliilllllllllllllllllllllllllilll!llllHillliI!lllllilllllllilHllllllllllllllilillllllll'lllll!llllll||llllllllllllllllllillllllllllllilllliilllllllllllllllllllllléllllllilllllllil!Iilll'llllll'éllllllilililllllilllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllilll childless woman keeps busy—it is with puttering with the non-essentials. Now, my dear Deborah, don’t get mixed as to the ways of the whole of the kind known as childless women, or of a part, for I‘ll wager, to take the land through, you are badly fooled—A Young Childless Mol‘hcl‘. Too Much Hard Work. Dear llcborahrv\\'e rwish to thank you for your article in the )rl‘ichigan Farmer. in the \\'~oinan and Her Needs Depart- ment, of November 22, on “Individualism (lone Mud." We cnjooy your writings from wet-k to week. you bring out so many l'clp-ful idcus for Il‘dl‘Ollltm' and the home. You certainly have. struck the ke.\'110te on individualism. We can not help but four for some, 01' our grumllohildrcn, that we so mum-h love, and hope for their we'l- fare' so much, you surely had a vision then. And that article a few weeks ago, in regard to so many giving up the faith of our fathers, especially among our col- lege .sltudcnts and their tear-hers. \Ve see so mulclh of leaving ChrriSlt out, not as one of the Trinity. Some of our B-ap’tists, Presbyterian and Methodist brouglhlt-up boys and girls become unbelievers. You seemed to understand that perfectly. May I make a suggestion? \Ve see plenty of writings on how we, as men and women, should do our work well and tlhoroughly,.-and anything worth doing at all should be done the best we know how. But there is a small class of women, and men, too, who are so particular, painstaking and thorough in their work that they work from early to late and then never get their work done. It may not be that they have so much, to do, but seem to have no time for anything else but work. \\'c believe in doing work well, but a few of us are slaves to our- selves. 1 hope to see an article along those lines some day. Believe it would be a help to many—4‘1. P. M. ' HOME QUERIES. Household Editorz—VVill you kindly tell me if I could dye 'tan silk poplin, blue? 01‘ would it shrink? I do not cure for rt/he color it is. and What kind of dyes would be best to u=se?——Ethel. You could dye the ‘tan blue, but I Slup- pose it would shrink, as moslt goods shrink when dyed. I can not recommend any dye. . Household Editorz—How do you a leg of lamb?—~Mere Man. The meat should be placed on the plat— ter, skin side down. Then carve from the carve hip bone aCI‘OSs the leg. Meat should al- ways he cut across the grain. Household Edi-torz—Can any of the- i-eadens give me a recipe star plum pud- ding?—Sulbsorivber. ’ One pound of raisins, one pound of cur- rents, One pound of suet, one-fourth pound of flour or fine bread crumbs, three ounces of sugar, one and one-half ounces grated lem'on peel, a bit of mace, half a small nutmeg, grated, one teaspoon of ginger, half a dozen eggs well beaten. Chop-the suet finely, and add to the mis- ins ‘jahd currants which are left unchop- ped. Then add the other ingredients in the Order given. ’Work well together and tie in a cloth which has been dipped in ”boiling water, squeezed dry and floured. Boil slowly four or five hours. ”When done dip quickly in and out of a pan of cold water to prevent the pudding adhering to the cloth. sauce. FREE PUBLICATIONS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO FARM WOMEN. The Division of Publications U. S. De- )artment of Agriculture, \Vashington, D. 'C., has the following free bulletins: The cure of milk and its usa in the home; opy milk and cream; bitter milk; 'clean Inilk‘. milk supply of cities; the covered milk pziil; rust of market milk; lat-to, a new and healthful frozen dairy product. I Bulletins on the subject. “Drugs,” are entitled: Harmfulness of headache mix- gturos; habit—forming agents; their indis- criminate sale and use a menace to the public welfare. Particular attention is given to poultry under the following heads: Poultry ac~ counting; A poultry (listeners and pcstS: ducks and goose; eggs; poultry fouling; guinea fowl: incubation; poultry market- ing; pheasants; sounbs; turkeys. Farm conveniences in general have one sot of bulletins to describe them. and Farmers" Institutes another. There are 12 bulletins devoted to canning and pre- serving. Fruits and flowers each receive their mol'itoll share of attention. The housewife who wishes to know about helpful organizations for boys and girls, such as the corn, poultry and cunning clubs, may learn about them by sending for the list of pamphlets included under ,the heading, “Agricultural Clubs." Because of the limited supply, appli- cunts are urgently requested to ask only for those bulletins in which they are par- ticularly in,1e.osted. FASHIONS BY MAY MANTON. Our large Fashion Book—containing 92 pages illustrating over 700 of the season‘s utcst styles. and devotingr several pages to embroidery designs, will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents. L/ K \SQQE ~‘ 7.. y . 1&9 \s . \I . .\\\\ \ Serve with any good pudding. bust. With or witlhou‘; chemisette, with long or short sleeves. No. 8078—B10Iuse in kimono style, 34 to 42 bu-SIt. \Vi-tlh long or three-quarter sleeves. No. 7592—Selmi-Prince‘ss‘e gown, 34 to 42 bust. VVuith two-piece skiirt having in- verted plans at the sides, with or with- out »c-hemlisevtte and peplum, with set-in sleeves in three-quanter or ‘full length. No. 8066~Two-tpiece skint, 22 to 32 waist. VViltlh high or natural waist line. No. 8086—Two-p-iece Shirt, 24 to 34 waist. VVitlh high or natural waist line. The above patterns will Ihe mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of the Michigan Farmer, on receipt of ten cents for each. _.___—__ ——-_.-— 1 1 1 1 I 1 i «.J‘Q one. 21.1513. 17%11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. Farmers Clubs E11111111111|111111111111111111111111||1111111111111111111|1||111|11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111113- OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA. TlON OF FARMERS’ CLUBS. llllflllllllllfl 1.11111111111111111111111111113—] President—Jae. N. McBride, Burton. Vice-president—J. F. Rieman, Elint. Secretary-TreasuIreIr—Mrs. C. P. John- :on, Metamora. Directors—Wm. T. Hill, Cars0n City; Jerry Spaullding, Belding; R. J. Robb, Maison; Joseph Harmon, Battle reek; C. B. Scully, Almont; C. T. Ham-li'ne. Alma. ‘ ' Address all communications relative to the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C. P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich. Associational Motto: ”The skillful hand with cultured mind 1is the farmei’ s most valualble asset.' AssociatIOnal Sentiment: “The Farmer: He garners from the soil the primal wealth of nations.” SIDE LIGHTS ON FARM LIFE. Paper read at the annual meeting of the State Associaltion of FarmerS' Clulbs, ‘by MrEI. W. H. Taylor, of the Ingnam Ooumty Farmers Cllulb. Albout two years ago there appeared an article in the Michigan Farmer signed “A Disiilulsioned Mother,” that was so disparaging to country life and country people, that my indignation was thor- oughly aroused. When asked by a member of the com- mittee of this association Itol prepare something for this meeting I thought. perhaps I’ can say something on the bright side of country life that may coun- teralot that article on the other side. To me, preaclhling without practice doeSn‘t make much of an impression; and in reading any article where the writer doe-sn’lt tell] anything he has done, but gives his remarks all in a general way, I always think he is doing the telling how and letting someone elserdc the work. The person who telis what he has really done is very generally a sane person to follow. I believe the reason why Mr. LiIllie’s articles in The Farmer are so widely read and discussed by the every day farmers of Michigan is because he tells Iulhait he is doing, and not what can be done. So before ,I try to mention some of the good things of the country, I want you to know that I have tried both city and country life and know whereof I Speak. I am now a real liarrmer‘s wife, doing the work that all other farmers’ wives are doing, and curing for-a family of children too large to be fashionable. But we spent two-(thirds of our married life in one of our large cities, and can truly say that for real diving the time spent on the farm, though only half as long in years, has more than doubled in enjoy- went. The famner in his work is at home all 1the time and has his family with him; while the city man is away from home nearly the whole time. W’e smile at the story of the little boy who resented being punished by the man that staid at their house on Sundlnyo‘. But I know a family where the father, when his dhsildren Were small, only saw his little ones awake 011 Sunday. It you mother's will try living in the city and caring for your children, keep- ing them out from under the street cars and automobiles, or your neighbors" cis- terns. almost entirely alone without the [help of the father, becaur-‘e he must work to earn the daily bread, you will find that it is much harder than keeping the chickens out of the garden. We hear so much albout the drudgery of farm life, that the farmer 'is led to think he is the only one in the great army of bread win— ners that; really works. Let me descrilbe to you two Den pic- tures‘f‘A farmer entered the business office of a city man and found him sit- ting on a high Stool, with an electric liglh1t burning before him, a shade over 'his eyes. poring over {his books} with col- umns of figures to make balance and an electric fan trying to make the atmos- phere endlurable. AIfIter gazing a few moments the farmer says, “and he calls that woor .” In the other picture the scene is chang— ed to the country. The city man passes along the road and in a field nearby he sees a man sitting on a machine, driving a team; over him is the clear sunshine, all around is the beautiful clover blos- soms; the sweet smell of the new-mom: hay is in the air, and the breeze is try- 'son. A very fine paper on / THE MICHIGAN FARMER ing to make him comfontuble. The city man' says, “and he calls that work." Don't think for an instant that I do not know there is good, hard, wholesome work, and plenty of it, on a farm. But did you ever stop to think it was easier 1 1 to do work when you can be out in the' pure air and free sun-shine that we enjoy. than if you were shut up in a factory, an office or behind the counter? Buit wfny is our work called drudgery? Webster says, dnudgery is mean, serv-ile work, hard and ignoble la1bor. If our work is drudgery then the far- mer and his family are drudges, and Webster also says, a dl'udge is one em- ployed lin menial work, who toils hard in mean Offices, with ltltle reward or re- turn; a slave. Are we, the great army of workers, Who are helping the Great Crea- rto'r Ito feed the world, willing :to call our- selves d'rudlges? Is our work menial and ignoble? Are we slaves? working 1for lit- tle returns. The greatest slave is the man who lhatw his work. And if the. farmer does- not love this work he had better leave {it and try to find something to his liking. SOmetimes. we do not ap— preciate our blessings until they are tak- en from us. W'ork is not drudgery unless we make it so. If you think there is an easier way of earning your living by reIaIlTy working in the city than in the country. just try it. I really believe if the farmers would stop talking of the hard work they have to do and more about the good things of ’the country, the first and greatest 11tep rtoward keeping the boys on the farm would be taken. (Continued next week). CLUB DISCUSSIONS. Hear Report of State Meeting.~—The Grosse Ile Farmers‘ Club met the eVen- ing of December 13 at the home of the president. The meeting was called to order by the president and the usual form of business transacted. A paper prepared and read by Mrs. O. N. Webb. upon the meetings of Ithe Michigan Farm- ers’ Club Association, -w'hic'h met at Lansing, Dec. 2- 3, 1913, and a letter by Mary Gnoh, giving a description of Lan- sing’s state institutions, furnished the entertainment for one of the most e11- joya-ble meetings ever held by our Club. Will Celebrate Tenth Anniversary. ——The North Marshall Farmens' Club is still flionrishing and the attendance is good. At the November meeting about 80 peo- ple were present and a profitable time was spent at the home of M1. and Mrs Fred Randall. The program consisted of music, readings, recitations, etc. The gentle-men’s topic discussed was “The best time to use fertilizer from the barn- yard.” The Club sent two delegates to Lansing. The annual election of oili— ceis will take place in Junuar_\,w1hcn we celebrate the first decade of the Club‘s organization. It is hoping to have a special piogiam at this time. “Nettie J. Thomas, Sec. Will Hold ter Farmers’ lnstltute.—V’\'ash1ington Cen— Clu‘b held an interesting meeting with Mr. and Mrs. John Tobey, at Pompeii, Dec. 11. After the usual rou- tine of business in the flore11=oon, dinner was served to about 40 people. The 1111‘- ternoon was taken up listening to an ex- cellent report of the delegate to the State Association of Farmers’ Clubs, Mr. L. C Curren. An election of officers was. held. \V. C. Lon-g was elected president; Mrs. O. J. Campbell, recording secretary; Mrs. B. S. Gillman, corresponding Secretary. The Club took a‘CtiOn favoring a one-day institute and voted to assist if such an institute is held at Pompeii this winter. Next meeting will be held at Elmwood. with Mr. and Mrs. S. N. French. Jan. 8. All aTe cordially invited. Hold Annual Meetingr—Tlhe annual meeting 01f the Genoa Farmers’ Club was held at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lawson. Saturday. Dec. 6. About 45 enjoyed the su1mptu0us din— ner. consisting of chicken-pie and all that goes with it. The meeting was op— ened by singing; prayer; reading of min- utes of last meeting. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Jas. G. Hays; vice-president. H. M.H:11- ler; secretary-Itreasu1re.r, Miss EdziIth Law- “The first Tlhanlksgiving,” was given by Miss Buckelen. “Are we thankful?” was the topic of a splendid pauper ‘hy L. R. Richards. Rev. C. A. V‘Vilkie then gave a talk on “The debt of gratitude we owe to God as individuals and as a nation for the prosperity and blessings enj0\ed” \1fter the question box the meeting ad- jouirnIed to meet with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ialtson, Saturday, Jan. 10,1914. BOOK NOTICES. 01:11in ml 1 Jldhrn Bunyan’ 8 Dream Story. By James BaJld-wln. The Pilgrim’s Progress is here retold flor ohlIldren in a form adapted to school reading. Cloth, 12mo. 198 pages. illustrated. Price, 3510. American Book 00., OIg‘ohica Die Seben Reisen Sinhads des See- m-annes. Ed'ioted with notes. exercises, and vocabulary by K. C. H. Drechsel. A. M.. Master of German, Episcopal Acad- emy, Philadelphia, Pa. , The Sinbad star- ies from the Aralbian Nights have a per- ennial interest. Otot‘h,16mo. 180 pages, illustrated. Price, 40c. American Book Your Grana’flzt/zer Read It Y our Fat/1n Read It Ire YOUReaa'ing It? 11111111 1“ 1111 1'11 IHlllllllllll Which Bull’s-Eye Are You-Aiming At? Field Crops? 10,000 Bushels From 100 Acres tells you how one man has made a fortune from a run- -down farm. Starting fiom less than you have, very likely, he has made his farm a wonder in the production of corn; Think what hismethods—we’ll tell you what theyare—might do for you 1 Doctoring Sick Soils is a lesson that will give you a physician’s degree to diagnose the ailments of your land and prescribe for its cure. You can't expect soil that is sick to work for you successfully any more than a horse that is off his feed or a hired man who has a fever. You must give it the proper medicine and nurse it—we'll tell you how. Better Breeds of Com mean better yields of corn and better yields mean mo1e money. The champion corn breeder of the country will tell you how he does it, and you have only to follow his example. Beef Cattle? Replanning the Stock Farm is one answer to your question. As it stands today your farm may not be planned for success with livestock. \Yhy not make it over? Other men have made old farms new—we have the experience of a man who re} )lanncd a place that didn’ t pay $450 a y car so that it now returns him more than $2500 a year. You can do it, too. Cheaper Money—Cheaper Beef is another story you want-to read. Interest charges amount to 42 per cent of the total cost of carrying a four-year-old steer to market in the Southwest. If money could be had at 4 per cent the producer would make more profit and meat would cost less to the consumer. One of the biggest beef raisers in the country tells you why. ' Chickens ? The Little Farm Hen is the series of articles you must read. No farm is complete without its chickens. but many a farm would be better off without the mongrels that it keeps. Here’s a complete course in poultry raising for profit—read it and make the little farm hen fill the family purse. \ Orcharding 3’ Apples Without Plowing, by the sod-mulch system, is a wav 0. growing big apples that you might adopt. You may be too busy to pay much attention to the orchard, but trees on rough land will help to take care of themselves if you follow this method. Farm Management? The Best Farm I Know is a series of articles from the West, the Northwest, the South, the Corn Belt, the Fruit Regions, written by experts who point out why certain farms are better than the general run. It will tell you how to manage your own place so it can get into the “best” class. Better Marketing? Advertising Farm Products is only one of the solutions of the problem of marketing that we shall give you. The manufacturer and the merchant advertise; why shouldn't the farmer? This valuable series of articles means better prices for your products. Better Home Comforts? The Woman’s Department is a weekly magazine in itself for the wife and mother. If you want new recipes we have them. If you want new ideas in fancy work we have them. If you want the latest styles in dress we have them. If you are interested in short cuts in housework we'll explain them to you. Business You need I f farming is your 11111111111 '11: ‘7??? C 0 UN T RY GENT .EE M A N. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 592—16 ' Farm Commerce. Elli“llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllIlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|||lllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfi \ THE MIC'HI‘GAN,FARMER Ellillllll||lllll|llllIllllllllIll”llllllllIlll|lIIIllllllllllIlllll|lilllllllllll|llll|llllll|IIllIlllllllllllllll|IIIIll|IIllllllllIllllllllllllIllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfl Well known fact that these people “think The Requisites of Agricultural Co-operation. HE requisite-s for agricultural co- operation was the theme of a lec- ture recently given by Professor B. H. Iii-board, before the class in agri- cultural economics at the Michigan Agri- cultural College. Professor Hibbvard is Pro-fesfi'or of Agricultural Co-oipe'ration of the economics department of the l,.'niver- sity 0f \\'is-consin. The subject of cO-op- eration is the live topic of discussion tliiese days. and his remarks are very timely indeed, inasmuch as he has stud- ied this phase of agricultural activity in its innerimost details. both in this coun- try and abroad. (,‘o-operative societies are being formed all over the COuntry and many of these become failures through lack of the proper requisites for co-op- cration. lr‘rof. Hibbard prefaced his remarks by saying that it has been assumed in the pact that co—operation will work in all cases, but this is not the observation of experience. Many institutions and pro— meters are going out into the country and trying to promote these organizations, but the I‘niversity of \\'iscon~in does not follow this plan. They do nit try to pro- pagate (ti-operative societies but rather try to repress tiliem because the, out~ growth of their observation is that these «organizations have done an innnense amount of injury in the past and thus injured the cause of the betterment of the agricultural population of the coun— try. The problem then before any com— munity or people who wish to organize a. co-o-perative asskicialtion. is: In what sort of an atmowprhere can we expect a ('o-ope."ative organization to llo-uz‘ish‘.’ The prerequisites for the formation of such a seven are company are many, of which the most important. 1. There Must be Adequate Business. “There must be enough business,” says the p1'0fesso-r, “to compete with other companies of like interests." The lack of enough business has caused many co— openartch establishments to fail; they do not have enough work to keep them going and soon interest in the enterprise wanes and failure is the inevitable result. There must be enough business to keep the em- ployes of the concern busty. From about 1880 up until the present time, more than one-I‘half of the (‘tl-U'Ilt'l‘iltive creaineries lfUl'lnt'd have failed and this may be trac- ed in many cases to the lack of business; tJhat is, not enough -product< were brought in to insure a paying business. Men who have studied the situation and that the formation of such com— panies are not conducive to the welfare of the farmers, are trying to discourage the co—operaxtive attempts at organization. A leading railway of the south has hired a. man whose business it is to help agri- cultural pursuits. The end desired, of course, being that these lwoiple will grow more products to Ship over the rail‘oad of the company. This agent then sees to it that the material prosperity of the farnn ers along the route is increased. In doing ‘this, they are now trying to dismuragc the formation of' co—operative crcameries among farmers thl'e the situations are such that such a company cannot flourish. realiZe Dr. Hibbard explained that many creamcries are organizml by In'oimoters who are hired by unscrupulous creameiy companies in Chicago and given bigr wag- es, sometimes four hundred dollars a month. These men mint be gocd mixers and good talkers and they go out among the farmers and talk upon the benefits of this sort of organization and the ease by Wliiclh it may be accomplished and then finally spring a plan for organization. Their argument is that if a creamery is put into a town, the farmers around about will buy more cows and thus the dairy business will grow into large pro- portions; but such does not seem to be 'the case, and the ultimate result of such procedure is failure. One can readily un- derstand why such schemes are foisted upon the people; the creamery company builds the creame‘ry, equips it, and se- cures a large payment on it. This is what they are after and when once this pay- ment is made. if the organization fails, all right, the plant is torn down and it, tOgether with the machinery, is shipped to another town where it is again install- ed at a slight discount. ThiS, in a meas— ure, accounts for the many co-operatiVe companies which have failed. This also accounts for the fact that the publicity agent of the railroad tries to head off such co-o'peraitive results. On the othe'.r hand, if a co-operatdve creamery were established where there area great many cows and it were likely to remain, the rarilway.is only too glad to help them, because this really means more business. The railroad is really looking out for number one, but in this way, they are helping the farmers. 2. The BusineSs Must be Comparatively Simple. In the mind of Prof. Hibbard, this is one of the cost imperative conditions making for the success of a farmers’ company. A simple process is one that it does not take days and mOnths to com- plete, such as the manufacture of fancy dress goods, etc. Such a process could not well be carried on by a farmers’ or- ganiza'tion, not because the farmer does not have ability for business but because he, in the capacity of a farmer. cannot devote his time to other things also. He is the producer of the product and that is his main interest. If he tries 'to man— age the business, either illle farming or It is not to be that the pcocess may the business must suffer. however, inferred, in terms of apples” and that all of. them raise apples. This, in a large measure, accounts for the success of their co-ovp- eraitive efforts. It will be noticed in this (-onneotiOn that nearly all of the co-oper— ative creamei'ies in Iowa (and Iowa is first in number) are lo'cated in the east- ern and northeastern part of the state. It is also well known that there are many other sections of Iowa where dairying is carried on in a very extensive scale but still there are no co-Qperative concerns because these areas are not compact enough to make it profitable. There are only three or four co-operative creamer- ies in Nebraska. The reason for this is that the people have more diversified in- terests. Most of the beef cattle of the west are fed in the southwestern corner of Iowa and in adjacent portion of Kansas, Ne- braska, and Missouri, and still we do n0t find any co-operartive associations for the handling of these cattle. 0n the other hand, the cattle feeders 0f “'is'eonsin have this phase of cattle feeding pretty Well planned and they use it quite exten- sively. The cause for this difference may be found in the quality of the cattle pro- duced in these different sections. In those portions of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri mentioned above, the most of the prime beef 0f the country is produced and theSe men cannot wait for mail to carry the prices to them. Their cattle is of such quality that buyers want the ani- mals badly. Each man has a carload of his own steers and there is, therefore. no object in co-opera-tion. If, however, a speckled lot of poor quality cattle come DEC. 27, 1913. that it was customary to do this." These grain farmers also complained of the price they were receiving but not to such an extent as they did of the other things mentioned above. Now what did these men do? They went to Work and organized co— operative gralin elevators and there are now about two thousand of then] in .the United States, located in the special grain districts and very. very few of them have failed. There are no other businesses which show so few failures as d0eS the ct —0vpenaltive elevator in the grain sections of the west. ’- 5. Adequate Capital Necessary. .\ co-operaitllve concein in order to be successful must have adequate capital or know where it is fortlhcoming, is the con- clusion of the specialist. There is noth- ing more disheartening than to try to do buSiness on insufficient funds. Still it does not seem that this should be a very serious handicap for farmers’ concerns, for quite often, not much capital is re- quired to start Witlh. The most succe-‘stul mutual benefit as— sociations that can be found in the.- world are in Denmark. The Danes seem to have this phase of agricultural activity down to a science and a failure of one suvch company is a very rare incident. Their plan for the work is this: Since the people live so near together one com- pany may have a thousand or more mem- bers and when the organization is foi‘fn- ed, each member pays on the average $6.25 which gives him a membership card. Further than Lha t, he does not get any- tililnlg. lie never gets his» money back nor any interest for it but the extent of These \Vagener apples, from a conSignmc-nt of 130 carioads consisting of \Vage‘ner. Balwwin and Mann varieties, were recently sold by a Detroit commission concern for $6.10 per barrel. The apples Were grown ‘by E. H. VVilce, of Leelanau county, and he was offered $3.80 per barrel by his local dealer. of the possibilities before our apple growers. fists are doing and hints not involve some intricate and painstak- ing details such as testing milk, packing zip-pies, or grading grain. Since the whole of the supervision of the work depends upon a manager and because the board of directors are Often scattered hit and miss about the community, few farmc'rS’ co—uperative organizations have succeeded when the buSineSs was vei‘y complex. A further argument for the simplicity of the business is that the farmer as an indi- vidual usually grows suclh crops as he chooses, and markets them where he chooses, and since farming itself is not likely to become (Io-operative. all cannot give their attention to a single project at one time. So the board of directors are not able to superintend the work of the manager and it is usually left to his dis- cretion. and good men who can c'arry on a complicatcd process in its every detail are hard to find. 3. The Business Must be Carried on in a Small :Area. “The product which is handled through the organization must be one which is of vital interest to the producerS,” is the statement of Prof. Hibbard; In a com- munity where a few of the people are engaged in horticulture. another few are in dairying and still others are feeding beef cattle, it is impossible to have a suc- cessful co-operative organization; for to (be a success, such a company cannot handle more than one line of product ‘as it takes, all the attention of a manager to tend to one thing and do that well. In short, the area covered by the mem- bers of the company must be small, and it is quite essential that flhey all be en- gaged in the same pursuit. The members must live close enough so that they may become acquainted, for without a com- mon interest, no people will unite and stay united. A well-known example of successful co-operaition is the Hood Riv- er Valley Alpvple Association, and it is a This in from the west, they are called '\Viscon- sin cattle, and since the cattle feeders 1'n “'isconsin do not produce the best qual- ity of beef, the competition is not so keen for the product, and smaller numbers to ship makes it quite important that they co—opcrate. So we are again confronted with the evidence that co-om-ration can- not be successful whcre the product is not of vital interest to all the members, and these interests should be centered in a C(unparatively small community. 4. There Should Be Chance for Gain. In the words of Prof. Ilibbard, “There imust be some chance for gain in the co- operation.” For when the chance for gain is removed, the excuse for the existence of the company is removed. If one can do just as well by selling his product to some store or town nearby, what is the use of joining some co-operative aSsocia- ition? There is none. whatever. A few years ago the farmers in the extensive grain growing regions of the West, became dissatisfied with the meth- ods of the elevator men and there were certain things about which they 00m- plained. The first bf these was that they were beaten on the grade. For instance, they would take their Wheat or barley to the elevator and the dealer would grade it as number two, but when they saw the notiices of the receipts in Chicago or the other market to which the grain was sent, there would be no receipts of num- her two grain, all womd be number one. Then another cause of complaint was the dockage which the dealers always took and considered it a custOm to do so. “No matter how clean my barley was," said the Professor, “many times I have driven up with it so clean that it would make pure pearl barley without any other proc- ess. and still they took 50 pounds for a. bushel when the law says there are 48 pounds in a bushel of barley. When ask- ed why they did this, I was always“ told- rale illustrates what Michigan’s progressive orchard- his benefits from sales and buying are so much tlhat he can well afford to make this slight expenditure. This constitutes their working capital and in a time of need, they have found that the organiza- tion can borrow llloncy more satisfac- torily and at a lower rate of interest tlizin can an individual, So the corporation bor- rows money. They keep an account at the bank and the bank is glad to make them loans at five per cent when it would cost private individuals a higher rate of interest and the money would not be so readily forthcoming. The banker is safe for, when the papers are signed by the secretary and president. it becomes bind- ing upon the members. This furnishes a method by which money can be had without taxing the individuals. This is the way the Danes make it possible to co-operate so successfully. 6. Co-operative Spirit Must Prevail. By the co-opea'aitive spirit, we mean that before co-operation can be a suc- cessful venture, the members of the com— pany must know the benefits of co—oper- ation. In the has-t we have assumed that such men are rare, but in the mind of Prof. IIiUbard, this is not the case. There are few men who will not co-operate when they see that it gets results. Oth- ers contend that you cannot have a. suc- cessful enterprise When patrons are of different politics, nationalities, religions. or races, but this has proven a wrong as- sertion for in many of, the communities of the country where such organizations have proven a. sulccess. the patrons are very cosmopolitan as to nationality, the religions are many and it is quite often that‘. blacks and whites are congenial. If there is something to be gained, we need (have no fear that the co-operative spirit will not abide. There is another phase of this ques- tion, however, and that is a “co-operative man." It is nearly always the case that r N . up W». >*’"‘W' —.—-—.~x \ _ .. ,- .p. ...v .-_.._-_..-,-_.- r.- c.5-‘wu- i i I t l; l l 1 r fives-‘2“. V ‘w- u—a—u-cv» i l l , . ,- *_,__,-,_.,___-_,11-- DEC. 27, 1913. where such an organization is a. success, it has been largely due to the efforts of a single man or a group of men. This man or men has done much work without receiving ample remuneration. has sacri- ficed his work, and in extreme cases has borrowed money and loaned the concern when they were in straightened circum- stances. It is almost impossible .to cite a. single case where w-operatlon has been successful withlout finding that a single individual or group of ‘ individuals has been in a large measure, responsible for the. success. , 7. Competent Manager ls Necessary. Usually with such an enterprise it is more a case of cooperation between the various members and the manager than between the members. It— is important that such a prospect have a manager who 'is a gOOd business head, is a good mixer and who understands the details of the special business which he is to manage. A frequent cause of failure in the past has been the lack of good management. The farmer feels that he works just about as hard as any other man on earth and he thinks that if he pays his repre- sentative in towri twice as much as he pays his farm hands, he is paying him a fine sum. Now if the farmer pays his lhired man $25 a. month, he thinlks he should not pay the manager of the creamery or fruit-selling organization more than $50 a month. As a conse- quence. good managers are soon gobbled up by some private conlcern who can see the real worth of the man and a raw re- cruit is placed at the head of the co—op- eraitive organization. Usually three such changes are sufficient to bankrupt any organization. It, however, gives us some satisfaction to see that this tendency is fast ’bei‘ng overcome by the more pro- .gressive farmers. To sum up, a successful farmers’ mu- tual benefilt organization must have enOug‘h business to keep running, the business must be comparatively simple. it must be held within a small area. there must be some chance for gain in the or- ganization, adequate capital must be forthcoming, co-operaltive men must be had and last. but not least. a competent manager must be hired. Many commu- nities in Michigan who are contemplat— ing the organizatiou of co-operative or- ganlizations would do well to study these requisites and regulalte their actions ac- cordxlnrgly. Ingiham Co. I. J. M. Note—In next week’s iSsue Professor Hibbard’s reasons will 'be given why a co-operative company must control its membership, together with an example of how 43 concerns amalgamated into One great concern under conditions quite sim- ilar “to those prevailing in Michigan, what the status of the community was before organization, and what it now is. Crop and Market N otcs. Michigan. Ottawa 00., Dec. 15.-—'1‘here has hardly been a day this fall, and so far in De- cember, that the ground has been frozen so that farmers eculd not plow. And there has not been so much fall plowing done in many years as there has been this season. Many farmers have nearly all their ground plowed for corn and oats, and for this reason there will be a larger acreage of spring crops put in than usual. Wheat is looking fine, and pastures have kept green so that stock are running out in many fields. The ‘weather has been so warm that the buds have swollen on s0me fI'Ull‘t and other trees. “Whether this Wiilll prove an in- jury, cannot be told. at present. Farmers are marketing considerable wheat. as the price is very near the dollar mark in the local market. The rice of pork is a little on the decline, andipoultry is quite dull. Poultry in this section is getting to be quite an industry, and a number of carloads have been shipped from the vicinity this fall. But “the hay is be— ing shipped as the crop was rather short and there has not been so much call for feed. Sanllac 00., Dec. 12.——Frozen weather arrived Dec. 7. Up to date the Weather was mild and rather Wanm. Clay roads are very bad now, being frozen and rough. Farmers are marketing hay, some oats and a small per cent of beans. Crops Were not any too good. excepting oats. Prices are fair, taking everything into consideration; farmers will come out about even. Wlheat 88c; oats 37c; .beans $1.75; hay $12. Cass Co., Dec. 18.——Fine Weather for the past two weeks has improved the wheat and timothy fields. Very little clo- ver and seeding lived through this sea- son’s drouth. Corn is all! husked, giving a light yield, though the ears are solid and of good quality. Potatoes, corn and wheat, our staple crops, are all lighter than for many' years. There has been a. lot of hogs die with cholera, some whole herds “being wiped out. Wheat 920: potatoes 5566M; corn 55c; butter 32c: eggs 33c: apples were a very tight cum. some alfalfa. was-sown by quite a few THE~MICHIGAN farmers in this county ‘and was nearly destroyed by small green worms. New York. ' Columbia Co.—T.he year 1913 has not been a good year for farmers. Too dry. Rye is the principal crop. Hay did not cut more than half a ton to the acre. Farmers buy mudh of their grain feed and dealers say they will have to carry them until next yea‘l‘. Hay $16; rye straw $14; corn 95c; potatoes $1; butter 35c; eggs 45c. Pennsylvania. Lancaster Co.-Genemll mild weather continues. Some fall plowing is being done by a [few farmers. Pot-a'toes about all sold. Because of the scarcity and high price of hay, many farmers are in- duced to shred their corn fodder. Veal calves are selling at 10@11Ic; fat hogs for the market are scarce. pigs and sheets in demand. Good cow-s selling for about $100. Wlheat 85c; hay $15; corn $1 per cw't; butter—fat 360. Ohio. Warren 00., Dec. 17,—Clorn husking and ~sh-re-dding finished and farmers ready for winter; very little cold weather yet. St0ck of all kinds in good condition for winter; wheart and rye lolok fine. This year has been rather an unsuccessful one for the farmers of this section. Corn only half a crop; oats and potatoes quarter of an average yield; wheat and hay was an av- erage crop and clover seed the best for many years. Fruit about half a cro'p and of poor quality. Hog cholera caused much loss in many district-s. Farmers are now laying new t-i-le drains and some have begun plowing. Local prices: Corn 60c bu; W‘hefllt 93c; oaits 52c; alfalfa :20; mixed hay $14; fodder 10c shock; hogs $7.20; beef $7; veal calves $11; m-ilch cows» $80 each. Clermon-u Co.—-The dry weather this past summer caused a 'big loss to some yet the most of the farmers of this coun- ty have reason to call this a successful year, for the loss on some crops has been more than. over-balanced by the profit on others. The majority of the farmers are well prepared for the winter. Hog kill- ing is occupying the attention of many this cold weather, and many hogs are be- ing shipped to market. Corn husking is over, except .with the laggards. Some have begun stripping tobacco. Tobacco is going slow at 15@180. Corn in the field at 750 per bu; wheat 90c; baled straw $8 ton; timothy hay $16@18; red clover $14; alfalfa. $12; apples $2.75@4 per Ibbli; hogs 7%@8c; chickens 15c; old hens 10c: eggs 36c; butter 30c. Crawford 00., Dec. 15.~—'I‘he mild fall and early winter put the new wheat and new seeding fields in good condition to go under the snow. Speaking generally the .farmers of this locality had a very suc- ceilst‘ul year, crops; yielding well and being of good qu’allit‘y with the single ex- ception of potatoes which were no more than half a. crop. Hog dholera is forcing farmers to Vbutc‘her their hogs prema- turely. The chief products marketed at this time are cattle, hay, hogs and poultry. Grain is being held for higher prices. Local markets are: VVhealt 92c; corn 50c; oats 360; hay $13; hogs $7.50; turkeys 17@19c; geese 120; hens 120; birt- 'ter 28c; butter-fart 34c; eggs 32c. Madison 00., Dec. 11.—The month of December has been Very-warm and‘much fog, which was very dense, occurred dur— ing 'the first week. However, at present we are having brisk clear days. Many favnmers are done huSkirig corn and the most of the hogs have been marketed. Much fall plowing has been done; in fact, more than usual. Farmers have gener- ally had a very successful year as the high price of corn and stock will about offset the loss by drouvt‘n and disease. al- though much hog cholera stiil prevails. HorSes are not so high as the demand will rather cease until early spring. Farmers are generally buoy caring for their breeding stock and improving their winter quarters for more severe weather. Prices to date are: Cattle 76380; horses 951756;»250; hogs '7'7éc: sheep 5@6c; turkeys 18@-19c; chickens 1163150; eggs 400; butt- ter 32c; lard 15c; wheat 92c; corn 62c; oatts 37c; rye 550. Wisconsin. Clark Co., Dec. 11.-—In general, 1913 has been a successful year for the farm- ers in this section of the country; small grain has been the best for many years and prices are conS-idered good. Hay is selling at $12; potaitoes 50c; pouiltry llc; eglgs 28c; butter 32c; holgs selling in the local market for 90 dressed. Farmers are busy baling \hay. sawing wood and de- livering their cattle and hogs to market. Have not had any snow yet, 'but a lot of rain. This fall so far has been the warmest in many years. We have all got our rwork done and things are ready for the winter. WaUshara Co.-—T’he finest Weather one could wish for now 'prevails here. This has helped farmers with their Work: they have been able to Shred thefr corn fodder under ideal. conditions. get many jobs done as well as censlderable fall plowing. On the whole, the past season 'has been a very successful one for the agnicultunists of this section. The crops 'have not only been good. but the pnices are very satisfactory. with the single exception of rye. which has not fallen 'below 70c per bushel «for many years. It is now only 54c per bu. Potatoes are down 100 since November, now ruling at 50c. Eggs 30c; hogs $6.50; cattle $4@6. Illinois. Marlon 00.. 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Hall’s Farm Agency. Owego. Tloge 60.. N. Y. l8 Money Making Farms 9 Truck Farms. 5 Fruit Farms 4 Stock Farms fro 10 to 820 acres each. located in the heart of the 'l‘rucl':E infignd Fruit Belt of the South near the Gulf Coast. 11 htful Climate: growing season 275 days;even rainta . no irrigation; can produce 2 and 8 cm aver- age temperature in Winter 49°. in summer 79"; e evation over 800 feet above sea. level; all kinds of Garden Truck For“ to perfection as well an Oranges. Grape Fruit. 153. Gralpea. 8 w en, Pecans. alto all farm crops, an Catt e Horses, Sheep. Swine and Poultry. Clone tovlvggilroad afid Good Marketa. ' he willie youoneo thesefarmlone me. $50 to $800 down and small monthly paymeilitli.y These arms are Bargains and will be quickly taken. fiend for Book giving Location. Price. and Terms. “dream FARMS. Box 30. Rose Hill. N. Y. ' Please mention the Mich. Farmer when writing to advertisers. . I"; a»: \ X" " j 1‘ . aft} 594—18 THE MICHIGAN FA‘RMER DEC. 27, 1913. LElllllIllllIllllIllllIlllllllllllillllllllIlllllllll||llllllllllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll = g Markets. ElllllllIlllllIllllllllllllllllllllllll||IIllllIllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllIllllllllllllllllllHIllllllllllfi GRAINS AND SEEDS. ~ December 23, 1913. Wheat.—The past week has encouraged buyers, since values .rule lower than those of the previous week. There seem- ed «to be an unwillingness "to take hold of the trade and this lack of support to- gether with a. heavy increase in the amount in sight in this country and in the cargoes going abroad, as .-well as a freer movement frOm Russia and the Danube district, gave buyers courage and influenced prices downward. The dis- traction of holiday interest was also a. bear-15h feature. The trade is not with- out bullish news, however. The rains in Argentine and unfavorable weather in Australia were foreign items helping the bulls, while the exposed condition of the wheat in this country makes possible much crop damage shOuld the weather become suddenly cold. Receipts at pri- mary points are about equal to those of a year ago. The price for N0. 2 red wheat. for this date in 1912 was $1.10 per bu. Quotations for the past week are: No. 2 No 1 Red. White. Dec. May. Wednesday . . “99% 99%, 99% 1.05 Thursday . . .9914» 99%, 991/.) 1.05 Friday .. ....99 98% 99 1.0411,, Saturday ...... 99 98%, 99 1.0414 Monday .9894 98% 98% 1.0411, Tuesday ....... 8% 98%, 98% 1.03 9:, Chicago, (Dec. 23).-N0. 2 red when t, 951/2c; Dec., 88%c; May, 9064c per bu. Germ—Substantial increases in the amount of 'corn on track for shipment to the marketing centers has been :1 decal- edly bullish feature of the corn trade the past 'week. Omaha reports 2,000 000 bu. ready to move forward. A cargo from Argentine also served as a talking point for buyers, but in spite of these facts the position of the grain is so strong that they did not “smash” prices as would have happened under weaker mar- keting conditions. Active buying was a warning to “shorts” to proceed lewly in bearing the market. One year ago the price for No. 3 corn was 49%c per bu. Quotations for the past week are: No.2 No.2 Mixed. Yellow. Wednesday .............. 681/2 701/: Thursday ................ 681/9 701/2 Friday ................... 68 70 Saturday 68 70 Mlonday ..... ........ 66% 68% Tuesday .. 66 68 Chicago, (Dec. 23).—sNo. 2 com, 6963 691/2c; Dec., 695/30; May, 69%0 per bu. Oats—Prices have suffered in sympathy with those for wheat and corn but the buying orders in the hands of dealers has had the effect of rescuing the deal from any heavy cut in quotations. The vol- ume of trade is not large just now. One year ago standard cats were quoted at 35c per bu. During the paSt week prices were: No. 3 Standard. I’Vlilqte. \Vednesday 4% . Thursday 43% 43. Friday ................... 43 42 y, Saturday .............. . . 43 421/? Monday . . . . . ..... . ....... 421,4, 41 94 Tuesday ............ 42 _ 411/2 Chicago, (Dec. 23).—No. 3 white oats, 396140c; Dec., 39c; May, 411/2c per Ibu. Beans—No change, and dealing at country elevators is rather slow. .The 10- cal board of trade quotes immediate and November shipments at $1.75; January $1.80 per bu. .Chicago reports a small trade at steady prices. Pea beans, hand-picked, choice, are quoted at $2.15; common $1.75@2; red kidneys, dhoice, $2.80 per bu. Rye.—Tlhis cereal rules steady. No. 2 is quoted at 570 per bu. Barley.——At Chicago barley is quoted at 55061750 per bu., while Milwaukee quotes the malting grades at from 5660760. CIoverseed.-—A brisk demand for seed holds. prices on a firm basis. Prime spOtis quoted at Detroit at $9.40 per. bu; Dec., $9.40; March, $9.50. Prime alslke steady at $11.25 per bu. At Toledo, December is quoted at 99.52% and prime alsrke at $11. FLOUR AND FEEDS. Flown—Jobbing lots in 14, paper sacks are selling on the Detroit market per 196 lbs. as renews: Best patent, $5.30; sec- ond, $4.80; straight, $4.50; spring patent, $5.15; rye flour, $4.60 per bbl. Feed.—-In loo-lb. sacks. jobbing lots: Bran, $22; coarse middlings, $27; fine middlings, $27; cracked corn, $31; coarse corn meal $30; corn and oat elho-p $25.50 per ton. ' . Hay.—-—All grades are lower. Prices: Carlots on the track at Detroit are: No. 1 timothy, $15@16; standard $146D15; No. 3. 55126014: light mixed $146014.50; No. 1 mixed $13@13.50. Chicago—Choice timot‘hy is ducted at $18.506Dl9.50 per ton; No. 1 $176518; No. 2 $146915. Straw.—Detroi-t.—-Oat and wheat straw is higher. Rye $8609; oat straw $7.50@8; wheat straw $7698 per ton. Chicago.——Quota.ble as follows: Rye, $7607.50; oat $7637.50; wheat $650697. DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS. Button—The local market continues firm for better grades which are scarce. Prices are steady. Quotations are: Extra creamery 34c per lb; firsts 31c: dairy 21c; packing stock 18c per 1b. Chicago—The “butter market is re- flecting the usual quiet holiday trade. There are tfew changes in prices from those of last week; goal stock is still in demand but poor stuff goes begging. Quo- tations are: Extra. creamery 35%@36c; extra firsts 34@34%c; firsts 26@30c; sec- onds 22c; ladies 20@21c; packing stock 18@20c per lib. Elgin.—Market firm at 34c per lb. New York—Market remains firm with prices unchanged. Quotations: Cream- ery extras 36@37c; firsts 28@34c; seconds 24@27c; packing stock 19611191790 as to quality. Eggs.——The local egg market is steady. Prices 10 less than last Week. Current receipts of fresh stock is_ quotable at 31c per dozen. Chicago—The market’ is firm. colder weather in some of the egg-producing centers giving it a stronger undertone. Demand is good for both fresh and stor- age stock. Prices are 14@1/20 higher. Quotations: Miscellaneous lots, cases included 26%@31%c according to quality; ordinary firsts 281/260291/20; firsts 31%c; refrigerator stock steady at 27@27%c for April firsts. New York—Although prices remain the same, the market is gaining tone. There is a better demand for all kinds of stock. Quotations: Fresh gathered extras 35@ 36c; extra firsts 34@341/zcc; firsts 33@ 331/2c per dozen. Poultry.—The local poultry market is active and prices on everything but old hens are higher. Turkeys have advanced 3c. Supply and demand are both good. Quotations: Live—Springs 15@151éc; hens 14@141/20; turkeys 23@26c; geese 16 @1617éc; ducks 18@200. Chicago—Trade good at steady price-s. Cool weather for handling has made the market firmer. All prices have advanced with chickens and turkeys making the largest gains. Quotations on live are: Turkeys, selected young, 22c; others 14c; fowls, choice 220; spring chickens, 131/20; ducks, choice 15@160; geese, choice 14@ 15c per 1b. Cheese.-—Market is steady with values Slightly lower. Wholesale lotS, Michigan flats 15@151/2c; New York flats 17@l71/2c; brick cream 17@171/zc; limburger 141,561) 15c per lb. VeaI.—Ma.r'ket is steady. Prices are unchanged. Quotations: Fancy 131/2@ 14c per lb; commOn 106Dllc. Chicago—Market firm. Demand good and supply only moderate. Prices are lightly 'hvigher. Quoted as follows: Good to ch'oice, 9063110 lbs. 14@141/2c; fair to .good, 60@90 lbs., 121/g@l4c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Apples—Prices firm and market active. Quotations. No. 1, $4@4.50; N0. 2, $2.25 @350 per bub]. Art Chicago the prices rule firm under a moderate demand. Values for country packed range from $3.50625.5O per bbl. No. 1 Jonathan’s are selling best; Spies are $3.75@4.25; Bald- wins are $4@4.25. ' Potatoes.——The ideal market is steady. Demand is fair. Quotations: In bulk 60 @65c per bu; in sacks 70@75c per bu for carlots. At Chicago pnices are without important change. Trade quiet but mar- ket is steady. The less desirable pota- toes are moving more freely. Michigan stock is held at 50626010. Cabbage—Steady at last week’s figures. Good quality quoted at $2@2.25 per bbl. The demand is fair at Chicago with steady prices». Prices on white are higher. Quo- tations rule at. $1.75@1.85 rper bbl. for Holland, and, $2@2.50 for red. Onlons.—On the l‘oeal market prices are steady. Quoted at $1.15 per bu. for ye]— low and $1.50 per crate for Spanish. At Chicago domestic stock is meeting with fair sale. Sacks 656070 lbs., Michigan grown, sell at 5514065150. GRAND RAPIDS. The egg market opens this week at 29 @31c, With outlook for higher prices if the yieat'her turns colder. The butter market is firm, with No. 1 dairy worth 2567260. In poultry live fowls are worth 10@1lc; ducks 12@14c; turkeys 15@16c; Dressed hogs are Worth 9@992c. No special change is noted in the potato market, the local price being around 60c while the outside market is around 450. Large quantities of potatoes are held in storage for higher prices. Grain prices as quoted by the mills are as follows: Wheat 94c; oats 40c; corn 77c: rye 580; white beans, hand-picked $1.606D1.70. Hay is somewhat lower on account of increas- ed offerings, the price paid on the mar- ket ranging from $166019. THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Tgember 22, 1913. Buffalo. (Special Report of Dunning & Stevens, New York Central Stock Yards, East Buffalo, New York). Cattle—Receipts 130 cars; market op- ened slow, Iclosed Weak; 10 cars unsold; best, 1350 to 1450-1b. steers, $8.35@8.65; best 1200 to 1300-lb. steers, $8@8.25; best 1100 to 1200-lb. steers, $8@8.25; coarse and plain tweighty fat steers, natives, $7.25@7.50; best Canada steerS, 1350 to 1450 lbs., $7.75@8; best do 1150 to 1250 lbs” $7.25@7~.50; fancy yearlings, $8698.25; medium to good, $7.25@7.50: choice handy steers, 1000 to 1100 lbs, 97.75698; fair to good steers, 1000 to 1100 lbs, $7.25@7.50: best cows. $6.25@6.50: butcher cOrWS, $5.25 6175.50; cutters, $4.25@4.50: trimmers, $3.25 @375: best heifers, $7.256D7..75: medium butcher heifers, $6.40@6.60; light butcher heifers, $6696.25; stock heifers. $5.25@5.50; common cull heifers. $4694.25: best feed- ‘ing steers, 3725613150: fair to good, $6.25 696.50: fancy stock steers. $6.50: best do, $5.75@6.25: common light stOck steers. $5.25@5.75: best heavy bulls. $6.75@7.25: best butcher bulls. 8625613675: 130102113. bulls. $5.75@6.25: stock bulls $56136: best milkers and swingers, 87560100: medium to good. $50@70. Hogs—Receipts, 100 cars: market ac- tive; heavy and mixed, $8; yorkers and pigs. $8@8.10. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 70 cars; market strong; top lambs, $8.15@8.25; yearlings, $6.25@6.75; wethers, $4.75@5; ewes $4@4.50. Calves steady; tops, $12; fair to good, $10.50@11; grassersa, $4@4.75. Chicago. , - December 22, 1913. Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Receipts today ......17,500 32,000 21,000 Same day last year..10,025 29,121 21,203 Receipts last week...66,557 228,830 125,707 Same week last year.67,248 132,038 126,243 Christmas Week- opens with a. very small cattle supply and a consequent good demand for desirable offerings. and while some sellers can discover no advance in prices for their offerings, others quote the market largely’ a. dime higher for butcher stock and the general run of steerS. Hogs are a good dime higher, with a. strong early demand at $7.456 7.85, tut la-ter trading lacks spirit at ens ier \alues. Hogs received last week av- eraged 215 lbs., comparing vwith 219 leL one year ago, 213 lbs. two years ago, 224 lbs. three years ago and 218 lbs: tour years ago. Because of the moderate run sheep and lambs are selling more readily than usual, and prices are largely 150 higher. the best lambs selling around 38, best yearlings at $6.75, be t wethers at $5.60 and best ewes around $4.75@5. Cattle were marketed with too much liberality for these times during the past week, for beef is largeiy supplanted by poultIy during the Christmas holidays, and aside from high-grade little yearlings, which were in large demand at firm val- ues, the market averaged 256v35c lower. The bulk of the beef steers went at $7.756i28.85, the commoner lots of light- weight steers bringing $6.50@7.75 and the better class of 'heavy steers $8.656v9.10, with some selling up to $9.30 early in the week. Yeanlings brought $9.70@9.85 for common to prime, and a few carloads of fancy Christmas yearling steers and heif— ers went at $10@10.25. Medium grade Steers sold at $7.80 and upward, with a pretty good kind selling at $8.25 and ov- er, while butchering cows and heifers found purchasers at 3846569850. with scattering sales of prime heifers at $8.60 and upward. The worst feature of the market of late has been the tendency to hurry in too many cattle that should have been kept much longer on feed, but bhis is a matter of yearly occurrence, and it is likely to be. kept up for the next 60 or 90 days. The best long-fed calttle have been marketed to a large extent, and much smaller supplies may be expected from now on, but ordinary cattle promise to be plentiful and rather low in price as compared with better offerings. Can— ners sold at $3.256D4.15, cutters at $4.206D 4.60 and bulls at $4.75@7.75. There was a moderate trade in stockers and feeders, the former going at $5607.25 and the lat— ter at $6@7.50, while stock and feeding cowsand heifers found buyers at $48561) 6.50. Calves sold freely, the better class of light vealers bringing 5510691125 per 100 lbs. and heavy calves selling at $4.50 and upward. according to quality. Milch cows brought $60@90 each, with a slow trade and common cows selling for beef. The governor of Illinois has issued a proclamation forbidding bringing into the state any dairy cows from quarantined states unless they bring a. certificate of gleéllztéh. The best veal calves closed at 1 . . ' - Hogs came to market with such a rush last week, with a Monday run of 55,340 lhead and Wednesday receipts of 48,516 head, that it was impossible to avert de- nclines in prices, notwithstanding a good general demand most of the time. Rallies in prices took place, as usual, but the undertone lacked firmness. and on the lowest days average values were the low- est since last January. The spread in prices was very much smaller than ear- lier in the season, but choice heavy hogs continued to bring a. big premium over light hogs, which had to be disposed of art a decided discount. But, even at the reduced prices. hogs still hold much high— er than at corresponding dates in most former yearS, 1909 and 1910 excepted. So many stockmen were letting their under- weights and mere pigs come to market 'to avoid feed bills that there was but a small percentage of maitured hogs of good weight among the daily receipts. Pack- ers are, making good profits. At the week’s close hogs sold at $7.35@7.75, com— paring with $7.506D7.921/3 a week earlier, while pigs closed at $661:7.50, throwout' (packing sows at $7657.40, boars at $267) 3.50 and stags at $7.75618.10. The best light shipping hogsclOsed around $7.60. Extremely large sheep and lamb sup- plies w‘e.“e offered early last week, the Monday run footing up 55,340 head and causing a break of about 25c in lambs, the best included. but sheep Were steady under moderate offerings. 0n subsequent days sheep SllO‘Wed comparative steadi- mess, but laim-bs suffered further declines, norw'tixtihstandinrg receipts: became much smaller, the general demand becoming very limited. as is usual oh the approach of the Christmas holidays. Early sales of lambs took place at $8. a. decline of 250, and later the market was in bad shape, with many lambs that were not fat. owners wanting to save on feed. At the close lambs were salable avt $55063 7.80 for culls to prime, yearlings at anOflRfio, wethers at $4.50@5.50. ewes at $3624.85 and bucks at $3.256zl3'.75. Feeding lambs brought $625627. and best heavy yearlings sold at $6.25. Sheep Showed declines for the week of 15@400. ”Horses are usually in poor demand near the close of the year. and such was the case last week. but moderate offerings tended to prevent a bad break in price Sales were mainly between $125 and $2 . per head, with the inferior class selling slowly around ”569100, while the choicest heavy drarflters, such as bring around $300@350 were scarce. CROP AND MARKET NOTES. (Continued from page 593). county, very few having any stbck for sale. Prices about as follows: Horses $120/@160; mules $1006pl40; hogs 70 on foot; dressed 9@10c; chickens 90; eggs 35c; butter 30@35'c; corn shipped in cost 70637800, depending on quality. Micsouri. Phelps Co., Dec. Ill—We are having a beautiful fall, the snow in October hurt nothing except sweet potatoes. Farmers are feeding very little yet as there are good pastures. There has been a num- ber of silos built this year. Corn is about all husked. Nearly all corn fod- der was taken care of this year. Cattle very scarce and high. Very few hogs, but a good crop of acorns. Farmers‘have had Very little surplus products except eggs, chickens, turkeys, Sheep and goats. Calves. are worth from $15@25; yearlings $306933; w‘heat 780; hogs $7; eggs 30c; ‘hens 71/2c; springers 90; geese 8c; ducks 100; turkeyS, old 130-; first-class wool 181/20. This has not beeni year of great success for the farmers, ut it has not been a. failure. The crops in Phelps av- eraged over half a crop, and this late fall is a great help to tillers of the soil. Warren Co., Dec. 10.-——The year 1913 has not been a successful one for the farm- ers in this vicinity. Wheat was a g00d crop -but the drought cut the corn crop 50 Short that many farmers are buying a part of their feed. No corn is being sold except by those renters who must sell a. part of the crop to pay rent. Corn stover is being sold at 30c per shock and Is of poor quality. Mild weather and abundant rains have made the fall pas— tures very good. There are some fatali- ties among horses from the cornstalk disease. Farmers around here are 'building up dairy herds so that there is more butter—fat being shipped all the time. Butter-fart 33c; butter 300; eggs have gone down from 38010 32c. 81:. Louis Co., Dec. 16,—1 drove across this county on the 14th and observed that wheat is going into winter quarters in exeeilent shape. The past season was a succeszul one for the farmers on the bottom lands but for those on the high- lands the year will not be remembered with as much favor. At the present writ- ing fruit trees are budding and dande- lions are out in abundance. Prices are: Timothy hay $166020t‘; Irish potatoes 80 @90‘c per bu; Sweet potatoes 700; eggs 45c for strictly fresh. Polk Co.-There are not enough pota- toes for home consumption. Old meadows injured by drouth, but more new seeding than for years, and it is in better condi- tion than was ever known. Wheat and rye will furniSh abundance of early win- ter pasture. Pasture doing well. \Varm fall and plenty of bluegrass and clover pasture for stock. Not enough feed rais- ed to take stock through" winter. None sold so far, but farmers will buy as much as they raised. Cattle and hogs fed with view to rushng on the market. Hogs selling for 7140; cattle 13.40 below Kansas City market; eggs 27c; butter 20c. Barton Co., Dec. 6.—Wheat looks fine; the weather has been ideal, warm and jUSt enough rain to supply the necessary moisture. Wheat fields are furnishing an abundance 0f good pasture for stock. Hay is cheaper than it was a month ago. Some corn selling for 750. Stock looks well. Some who have silos have not Op- ened them yet but will do so soon. Lots of fall breaking has been done here, some farmers: have all of their corn ground plowed. Prairie hay $12; tame hay. $15; wheat 80c; potatoes $1.10; sweet potatoes $1.25; butter 280; eggs 27c. McDonald Co., Dec. 9,—This month has been very wet so far. Fair weather at present. Wheat is looking fine. Not all of the farmers have their corn out of the field yet. This year has not been a very satisfactory one for the farmers in this section but still there was lots of feed raised. Horses are cheap but cows are «high, selling from $5061.85. Corn 600; but- ter-fat 32c; fresh eggs 2761.128r; hens 86D 90; turkeys 1161112c; geese 761180. Cass Co.-——Whilc the season not been a complete failure it has by no means been a successful one. The furthers have no grain whatever to sell, and are buying considerable shelled corn. Some poultry, fat catt‘e and fat hogs are here has being shipped out. Hogs are selling at $7.50 and cattle at $7 per cwt. Chickens are averaging about 100 per lb. Cons'id- eraible building and fencing is going for- ward. Kansas. Trego Co., Dec. 15.~V\'e are having unusually mild weather so far this fall and Winter. No snow but plenty of rain, From Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 we had a little more than six inches of rain. The pros— pects for a big wheat crop next year could not be better. The year 1913 was a poor crop year in this and surrounding counties. The dry weather and grass- hoppers together made it impossible to raise anything except a. little tough feed, consequently no grain is being marketed here, but is being shipped in and sold at the following prices: Corn 80c; oats 50c. The following prices are bein received 'by farmers: Hogs $650697; 0 ickens 7 gm; turkeys 130; eggs 30c; butter-fat c. Nehama Co., Dec. 11.—Continuous rains .fell from Dec. 1 to 5, amounting to 0Ver eight inches since laSt report. Ground Well soaked. Wheat, rye, bluegrass and pastures are green and growing: weather is warm: cattle out yet in pastures. Some wheat early planted is good enough to pasture: wheat is in splendid condition to go through the winter. Land sales are slow and prices somewhat lower. Farm- ers’ Institutes here well attended. No grain being Shipped out, nOne to spare. Farmers are buying wheat, oats, corn. oil meal, bran, etc.. for feed. Potatoes are also being shipped in in carioad lots. Cattle, with an occasional ear of horses (Cbntinued on page 595). I l :1 RV " M., one... 37, n13. THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION. In the first edition the Detroit Live Stock Markets are reports of last week: all other markets are right up to date. Thursday's Detroit Live Stock markets are given In' the lastedltion. The first edition is mailed Thursday, the last edi- tion Friday morning. The first edition is mailed to those who care more to get the paper early than they do for Thursday's Detroit Live Stock market report. You may have any edition desired. Subscrib- ers may change from one edition to an- other by dropp ng us a card to that effect. DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKET.- Thursday's Market. December 18, 1918. Cattle. Market very dull at 10@15c lower than Race iota, 131.7. Wednesday’s prices; last week. Nb market here Christmas. We quote: Best steers and heifers. $8.50@8.75; steers and heifers, 1000 to 1200, 87@7.50; do 800 to 1000, $6.50@7; do «that are fat, 600 to 800. $6606.40; do 500 to 700, 85.75636; choice that cows, $5.75; good do, $5.25@5.50; common cows. $4.50 @5; canners, $3@4; choice h-eavy bulls, $6.25; fair to good bolOgnas, bulls, 85.506) 5.75; stock bulls, 85@5.50; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1000, $6.75@7.25; fair do, 800 to 1000, $6@6.50; choice stockers, 500 to 700, $6.50@6.75; fair smokers. 500 to 700, $5.75@6.25; stock heifer-S, $56116; milk— ers, large, young, medium alge, $70©85z common mllkers, $40@50. Roe Com. Co. said Hammond, S. & Co. 2 heifers av 735 at $6.25, 1 cow wgh 850 an: $4, 1 do wgh 920 at 85.75, 4 butchers av 655 at 86, 7 do av 680 at $6; to Goose 4 com av 925 at $4.65, 10‘ do av 1108 at $4.65; to Kamm'an B. Co. 1 do wglh 1030 at $5.50, 3 steers av 990 at $7.35, 4 butch- ens av 837 at $6.50, 3 do av 921 at $6.10, 2 do av 1040 at $7, 1 steer wgh 1010 at $7.75; to Taylor 12 stockers av 820 at $5.75, 5 do av 588 all: $6, 2 do av 785 at $6; to Su‘llivan P. ,Co. S cows av 925 at $4.25; «to Newton B. be. 1 do wgh 1330 at $5.75; to Mich. B. Co. 4 butchers av 787 art $6, 3 do av 810 at $6, 7 doav 744 at $6; to Billmore 9 stockers av 642 at $6.50; to Peck 3 steers av 783 at $7; to Jones 4 stockers av 495 at $5.50; to Beardsley 3 do lav 490 at $5.50. Haley & M. 801d Applobaum 3 cows av 1017 at $4.85, 1 heifer wgh 450 at $5, 1 bull Wg‘h 660 at $5.25, 1 cow Iwgh 1110 at $5.35; to Hammond, S. & Co. 3 do av 853 at $3.85, 2 do av 925 at $3.75; to Heinrich 1 steer wgh 1060 at 88.50, 1 do wglh 700 at $6.75, 1 do W811] 930 at $7.75; to Mason B, 00. 7 butchers av 974 at $5.15; to Ratt- kowsky 3 cows av 977 at $5.10; to Sullivan P. Go. 8 do av 1086 at $5.50, 2 steers av 695 at $6.50, 2 do av 1065 at $7.10, 1 cpw wh 1060 at $5.50, 1 steer wgh 1080 at $7.25, 4 butchers av 822 at $6.35; to Renick 2 cows av 1005 at $5; to Goese 3 do av 770 at $4.75, 2 do av 1002 at $4.75, 2 do av 1080 at $4.10, 1 do wgh 750 at $4.10; to Mch‘h, B. Co. 1 bull wgh 1480 at $6.10, 1 heifer wgn 620 at $6.25, 5 do av 770 at 86.25; to Marx 5 butcher's av 1012 at $6.85, 1 cow 4w-gh 1370 at $6.50; to La- Boe 4 smokers av 700 at $6.50, 2 do av 770 at $5.50, 5 do av 750 at $6.40; to Harn- mond, S'. & Co. 1 bull wgh 1500 at $5.90; to Reaction 8 stockers av 764 at $6.50. Spice:- & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1 cow Wish 1150 at $5.50, 3 do av 983 at $4.25. 2 steers av 1035 at $7.40, 4 butchers av 802 at $6.25, 3 cows av 1013 at $4.75; to Mich. B. CO. 4 bull-ls» av 1185 at $6, 10 cows av 1050 at $5.25, 2 do 0v 930 at $4.25, 1 do wgh 800 at $4. 5 butchers av 696 at $6.25; to Parker, W. & Co. 2 steers av 1415 at $8.25; to Hammond, S. & Co. 1 bull wgh 1810 at $6.25, 1 do wgh 1500 at $6.25, 1 do wish 880 at $5.50. 1»do wgh “1060 at $5.75, 1 steer wgih 1070 at $6.50; to Mason B. Co. 8 butchers av 736 at $6.60; to Bresnahan 4 do av 607 at $5.50; to Rattkorw'sky 7 , cows av 1041 at $4.75. - ' Veal Calves. Receipts, 367. Market steadiy. Best $11; others $8@10.50. , ' Bistrop, . & H. sold Sullivan P. Co. 2 av 210 at $11, 1 wgh 160 at $11,, 5 av 150 at $11, 2 av 130 at $11: to Parker, VV. & 00. 8 av 155 at $11. 3 av 220 at $10.50, 6 av 145 at 30.1; 00 Rather 6 av 115 at $10.50; to Thompson Bros. 2 av 155 at $11, '1 wglh 150 at $11.50, 1 W‘g‘h 110 at $10.50; to Rather 8 av 140 at $10.75; to Parker, w. a db. 7 av 150 at $11; to Goose 6 av 130 at $9. 2 av 205 at $7, 1 wglh 360 art 36; to Naagle P. Co. 11 av 150 at $10.50. Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co. 4 av 140 at 810.50, 1 wvgh 130 at $8, 5 av 150 at $11, 2 av 230 at $7.55. 10' av 145 at $11, 3 av 140 at $11, 3 av 150 at $10.50. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts. 6390. Market steady. Best lanibs, $7.50; fair to good lambs, 87.256? 7.40; light to common lambs. $5.50@6.75; fair to good sheep. “@440: culls and common, $2.50@3. Haley & M. sold Nagle P. Co. 117 'lambs av 75 at $7.35, 22'dheep av 110 at $4, 91 do av 115 at $4.25, 51 lambs av 75 at $7.50. 25 do av 75 at $7.40. 37 do av 78 at $7.50. 26 do av 80 alt $7.40. Srplcer & R. sold Chapmn 4'5 lambs av 65 at $6.75. 81 do av 60 at $7: to Breiten— beck 58 sheev av 80 at 83.75. 33 do av 85 at $3.50. 111 lambs av 67 at $7.25; to Thompson Bros. 18 do av 65 at $7, 12 sheep av 100 at $4.25. Roe Com. Co. sold Bray 195 lambs av 85 at $7.50; to Barwge 27 do av 85 at $7.25, 25 sheep av 80 at $4, 28 do av 115 at $4.10, 36 lambs av 65 at $7.25. 19 d0 av 78 at $7.50. Hogs. Receipts, 0668. None cold up to noon; prospects” follows: _ . Range of prices: Light to good butch- ers. $7.60: piss. $7.60;‘mlxed, $7.55@7.60; heavy. $7.55@7.60. Bishop, B. In H. sold Hunmond. 8. & Co. 4070 av 19.0 at $7.60. . Haley & M. sold same 1040 av 200 at manifesto-amomevmu $7.60. ' , , .. .; .our immediate ecun-ty, TH E «.M..I,C H IG-A NI FA RM E a CROP AND MARKET NOTES. (Continued from page 594). an». mules, are all the flamers are sell- ing. Quite a number of new barns and sheds being erected. I Should not call this a. successful year here, as money is very scarce on account of the failure of the corn crop, which is our main crop. Corn 770; wheat 75c; oalts 47c; fat cattle $6.50@7.50; hogs 7c; pigs 6c. Cloud Co., Dec. 9.—-’1'he general rains for the past week were fine for wheat lbwt ru'iiher bad for stock in feed lot on account of mud. Hay $12@14; corn 75c; oaths 50c; wheat 74c. For the first time Since this part of the country was settled corn is being Shipped in by the grain companies, coming from Nebraska. Wheat farmers and stockmen made good this year. but the corn l‘aisers lost money, most of them heavily. There was a good demand for fodder by the cattlemen, and this has furnished many corn men a lit- tle money to pay taxes and then have some to live over on, but the renter is in a tight place financially. More cows are being milked than usual this Winter, and butter is selling wt 1710-180; butter—fat 24 @260. For 90 per cent of the farmers in this county farming has not been a suc- cess this year. Marlon Co., Dec. 8.—Excessive rains have made the ground too soft for any field work or pas‘tulring of stock. Roads muddy and bad. Much feed has been spoiled and lost on account of rain and the warm weather. Everything is still growing. Wheat growers did well here this year. All other branches of the farm: except d‘airying have been most un- profitable. Nearly all the farmers must buy their grain, seed, provisions. etc, from elevator and store; no profit in feed- ing stock, but there is quite a quantity 'here to be disposed of some way. Prices: Hay $13; hog‘s $4.50@7.25; corn 800; w‘heat 850; oats 46c; bran $1.20; hens 9c; eggs 37C; butter 260: potatoes $1; apples $1.50. Nebraska. - Antllope Co., Dec. Isl—Tine soil in' this part of the county is (either sandy; but stands dry weather. well. The timber is nearly all what has been set out and there are a good many nice. groves. There is about roughage enough to carry tihe etc-ck through the winter. Com all tgdlflhered and not a good crop. Small grain is a. fair crop and of a good quality and brings a good price. Farmers are doing fairly well. But little cholera among the hogs through here. \Vealthcr is fine so far. Not very mudh small grain planted, but what there is looks fine. Dodge Co., Dec. 14.—1‘Ve have had two weeks of rainy, foggy weatlhcr, Which is fine for fall wheat; 1913 has been a suc- cessful peril on for farmers in this sec- tion. They are selling corn at 650 per bu., a good price mor this time of year. The Clo—operative and Ed'umoimai Farm- ers’ Association of Nebraska was ongan- vized this week. Dawson Co., Dec. 15.—December was ushered in with four and a half inches of rain, which broke the longest and sever— est drought sin-cc 1894. All of the mois- ture soaked into the ground, putting the wineait in fine condition to go through the winter. After a series of poor years in this medium this unusual rain causes us- to look forward for a good year. At this time We are having one proverbial “California" weather. Land sales are slow and below the ordinary, and public sales are few. Stock and fat cattle are very scarce. Only enough grain is going to market to meet current expenses. hay 'being the chief crop that, is marketed. Prlces: Hay 8106112; wheat 70c; corn 73c; hogs $6.75; eggs 30c; butter 260. Can Co.—-“’arm and foggy weather continued the first pant of the montih, to— gether with a. rainfall of over five inches which was greatly needed and appre- ciated. The weather is now bright and warm. This has not been a prosperous yea-r for farmers here but about the same as the three (preceding years. Wheat and oats Were a good crop but corn was poor; however, it was better than was promised earlien'in the season. Most of the farmers have feed enough to winter their stock on, while some will 'have a llltrtlle to market. Prices: Wheat 75c; corn 65c; oats 38c; horses lower in price and cattle higher. Hogs sell at 6@ 7c per lb; :poulitry 101,90; .'ha._v $86210; ap- ples 81 per bu; potatoes. $1; butter 25c; eggs 30c. South Dakota. Charles WIx Co., Dec. 14.——Wealtlhler is fine. Stock doing well; feed scarce and high in price. Farmers have not much to sell on account of the poor crop and results from very dry season. Swine plague has hit many farmers hard, some lost herds of 140 with one or two staying healthy. Prices are: Hlogs $7; wheat 73c; corn 65c; oats 40c: flax 81.10; barley 45c; butter 25c; eggs 25c; cream 27c. Mitch cowa high and not many for sale; horses plentiful and cheap. Past season has not been very successful for farmers on account of drought and also swine plague, still everybody gets around nice- iv. and mobiles a-re plentiful. Meade Co.~—This season ‘has been a fair one-for the farmers here, some, of course. flaring better than others. Corn is now selling at 65@75c; seed com 82; pota- toes $1 per cwit; alfalfa seed 12¢ per lb; flax $1.20 per bu: hay 86@7. Fail plow- ing was done as late as Dec. 3. YVe now have albiomt three inches of wet snow on the level. which is going of! rapidly. Stock on the open range is all loo-ldng fine. North Dakota. Foster Co., Dec. 8.——Ae the holiday sea- son approaches. we all begin to feel as if we were going to cast off our summer cares and entoy tilting: Immennelv, as this season has been a very profitable one to for some places were dried out badly. We are feeding more stock than ever. The winter so far has been open. and "we have been making good gains at small cpst. "her 1 dr. gmmmmmmulmmlllummumlmummumuummummmumuml Veterinary. Eil'llllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllIllIIIllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllll CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. 8. Advice through this department is free to our subsmribers. Each communication should state hi.-t0ry and symptoms of the case in full; also name and address of writer. Initials only will be published. Man-y queries are answered that apply to the same ailments. If this column is watched carefully you will probably find the desired information in a reply that has been made to someone else. When reply by mail is requested, it becomes private practice, and a fee of $1.00 must llllllllllllflllHlllll . accompany the letter. Hide-bound—Owt of Condition—I have a mare that is out of condition, losing flesh and when worked perspires Very freely, and she also perspilres when stand- ling in stable. E. S. 8., Fremont, Mich.— Her teeth may need floa-olng, she should be clipped; increase her food supply and give her a dessertspoon'ful 0f Fowler’s solution, a teaspoonful tincture nux vom- i-ca, a. tablespoon-full of fluid extract of agentian and tablespnonful of fluid ex'tnu-t of cirichlona at a dose three times a day. lnflamed Hock.——’I‘he hock of my seven- year-old horSe is swollen, but does not cause lameness. I have been applying wormlwood and vinegar, but it falls to reduce swelling. T. F.,- Port Huron. Mich—Apply equal mrts tincture iodine and spirits of cavm-plior to hOck eVery day or two and if it does not get well, blister join-t, using one part red iodide mercury and ten .parts tincture cantharides every week or ten days. Stocking—I have a healthy appearing four-year-old colt whose hind legs stock whenever he stands in slinble a day or two. Most of this swelling leave-s after [working him for a few hours. W. C. W., Milford, Mich—Give him a dessertspoon- ml of powdered nitrate of potash, a tea- spoonful powdered sulphate iron and a tablespoonful bicarbonate soda at a dose in feed three times a day. Barren Cow.~—I have a cow that keeps in heat moat of time, but does not get 'with calf. Our local Vet. advises me to fatten her. A. S., Lansing, Mich—I am inc‘l'ined to believe your Vet. gave you good advise. She will not get with calf; however, you miglrt try change of bull. Lumpjaw.—VVhat do you advise me to do for cow thn't has ium'pjaw WhiCll started to grow. same months agO? B. N., Ypsilanti. Mich—Apply one part red iodide mercury and four parts lard every few days and give her 2 drs. pctzisslium iodide at a d0se three times a day. Impacbion—J'ertigo.~A seven-Weeks-old bull calf had a sick spell this morning. He ran in a circle. balwling, and with pro- ‘truding eyes; within half an hour he laid down and in five minutes died. He bloat- ed a little and seemed to die without 'pain. 'VV. E W., Devils Lake, Mich.— Your calf suffered from impacthn; per- haps some indigestion, and finally died the result of hemorrhage. If you have another case of the same kind, give full doses of sulphate of magnesia and bro- mide of potash. Barren Tyelve-year-old Cow—I have a. 12-year-old cow which fails to come in ‘heat, but has been giving milk for the «past 18 months. F. C. S.. Ousted, Mich. —:You might as well fatten the ow for I believe her ovaries are now fun ionless. You may try giving her 1 dr. fluid ex- tract damiana. 1 dr. fluid extract nux vomlca and a dessertspoonful of powdered capsicum at a dose in feed twice a day. Hard—milking Cow.—-I recently purchas- ed a hard-milking cow and I find in the two fore teats a hard bunch about the size of a walnut, located at upper part of teat. R. G. 8.. Portland, Mich—In my practice I find it necessary to remove these bunches by a surgical operation, for drugs will not always absonb them. Give 1)Otas:-‘liu=m iodide at a dose in feed two or three times a day and apply one part iodine and 15 parts lard to the 'bunc'hes every day or two. In some cases this medicine will absorb them. \Vcak Heart—Our local Vet. tells met that my cow has ‘he-a'rt trouble and her 'pu‘lse beats 104 times a minute. but this cow is quite thin and has been in low flesh all summer. F. R., L'aSalle, Mich. ———Incr-ease her grain supply and give her '1 (11'. ground nux vomlca and 1 oz. ground lgentivan and 1 oz. of ginger and 1 oz. of charcoal at a dose in feed three times a dai’. contagious Abortion—What is cause of my cows losing their calves? J. B., Ox- ford, Mich.-Your cows suffer from con- tagious abortion. Inject them daily with a tepid solution made by dissolving 1 dr. permanganate potash in a gallon of water and give them each 30 drops of carboiic aiciid highly diluted with water mixed with feed or as a drendh once a day. Clean and disinfect their stables and remember that there is no sure preventative or remedy for this ailment. Indigestion—Articular heumatism.—~I have a brood sow 18 mo the old that is not thriving, but has a good appetite. I also have a five-'year-old cow that has become stiff and sore since I commenlced Evtabling her. J. C. 0., Gnand Rapids. Michr—Gh've your saw a tablespoonfu'l of ~ bicanbonnlte soda, a teaspoonful of ground gentler) and a teaspoonfm of ginger at a dose in feed three times a day. Give your cow 1 dr. sodium salicylate at a dOse three times a day. Chronic Nasal Ca‘tan‘h.—I have a Per- cheron mare six years old that has had a meal discharge since the early part of 1012. She first had a discharge from the night nostril whidh had a very bad odor, then She fhae'some madame from the other. Vet. treated her for months and has lately given her berated-n treatment. hurt it has called to help her. L. E. S., - horses that are coughing? 194—595! Ypsilanti. Mime—Are. you sure that his grinder teeth are sound? ' If so, ask your Vet. to continue the badterln treatment and he will doubtless succeed in effect- ing a cure. - ' - Hog has Rheum'bistnr-‘Have a six- montho-old hog raised in small pen, fed corn until lately, now fed rye. oats and :beans. This Ihog seems to have soreness in one hind leg, causing him to raise it off ground. F. M., White Cloud, Mich.— Give your hog ten grains sodium salicy- lwte at a dose in feed three times a day, and if his bowels are costive give castor oil or epsom salts. Rheuma't'l.m.—Have is lame in right fore sure what causes it. A. H., Redford, Mich—Give your saw ten grains if sodi- um salicylate art a dose‘three times aday and apply spirits of canvphor to shoulder and fore leg twice a. day. Ind'igestion.~—I have four pigs that seem to have lost their appetite and are los- ting‘ flesh. I have been told that they had black teet, but am pretty sure they Were mistaken. for I have failed to find any. W. B., Redford, Mitch—The teeth of some young pigs are dark colored, but liliey do not affect the pigs? health. Mix together equal parts; ground gentian, ginger, bicar- ‘bonavte soda, fenugreek and salt, and give each hog that we.g"ns 100 lbs. or more :1 teaspomui’ui at a dose three times a day. Sow ‘lv‘alils to Come in Heat—I have a 12-month-old snow that falls to come in heat. J. N., Cnrsonville, Much,--Giv9 her lo drops fluid extract of damlana at a (lame in feed twice a. day and let her run with boar. Congestion of L'dder.-——I haVe a cow due to come fresh Jan. 17, that has an inflamed udder. J. l’., Grand Rapids,‘ Mich—anen't her udder with warm water and apply one part alcohol and two parts .warm water three times a day, Cut down ‘ller grain supply and avoid keep- ing her out doors if weather is stormy or cold; besides, you had better keep her well bedded. If her-bowels are cos-tive, givo 1/2 21b. epsnm salts daily until they move fairly free. Chronic Vaginivti9—C‘0uglL—‘Whazt can be dOne for a mare that has the whites. and I would like to know what 'to give my They are eta.- ibled in a warm basement burn. S. (3.. Marion, Mich-.See treatment fer leu- corrhea this column. Let in fresh air, and foul air out of your basement stable and give your horses each 1,4 oz. ginger, 1/ oz. powdered licorice at a dose in feed twice a (1013'. Nasal Caltarrhr—I have a nine—year-old mare that has nasal discharge and l he- l‘ieve she will soon have the hooves. She brea‘t‘hes with difficulty part of time only. L. F. L., Fostoria, Mich.~{r‘ive your mare 1/2 oz. Fowler's solution and 1' dr. tine" ture lOlbel-in at a (lose in feed three times a. day and feed no clover, or musty, dusty a. brood 80W that leg and I am not Ibadlly cured fodder, and exercise her daily. " Nasal Giant—Diseased Molar Toot'h.-—~ For the past two ears my horse has had nasal discharge rom o-ne nostril. Our ‘locai Vet. extracted a toovlih some time :ago, but this failed to effect a cure. J. J. 8., Copemish, Mich.—-ln order to effect a. cure, the bone of face should be tre- 2plhlmcd, then antiseptic as'tringeuts can be applied to diseased portion of the nasal chambers. A weak salt solution, a sat- ‘u'rented solution of bomcic acid, or bomx :and water are proper remedies to We. .Are you sure that the diseased tooth was extracted? B‘arrcn COW.——An eight-year-old cow 't-hatfalls 'to come in heat, but seems; to be in perfect health. F. C., Howell, .Ml-ch.—GlVe her lvdr. ground nux vomica land 1/2 oz. powdered capsicum at a. done fin feed three times a day. 0 Forage- chisoningm—J. R, 11., Port -Hur- ' n, '.—~ our calf di 'h forage ”mg- ed t 8 result of . Rheum-4t rim—Indigestion—Some three tweeks ago e of my cows became stiff land lame, s ingly affected all over. Our local Vet. t at her for indigestion, but she refuses t eat and is no better. W. C., Dansville, Mich—Give your cow 2 «ins. sodium sallcyiatc, 1 dr. iodide of fpotasstum and 1,4: oz. "powdered nitrate of ‘potosh at a dose 'three times a day. . Su’bsicriber, Ludington, Michigan—See treatment for cough, this column. Cow‘G-ives Bloody Milka—I have a cow What gives 'bloody milk from one teat. H. 0., Grand Rapids, Mich.—Y0ur cow has [perhaps bruised udder and will be ben- efited by applying one part tincture ar- nlca and eight parts water three times a day. She should be well bedded. B. M. H., Fowlcrvi’ile, Mich—Dissolve 3 023. sugar of lead in a gallon of water 3nd apply no bruised parts three times a av. r Leg 1Vea-knoss.—My chickens are trou- J’led wuth leg weakness. Mrs. J. S., Jen- dson, Mich—Leg weakness is not a dis- ease, but a remit of other ailments and you had better clean 'their roost, disin- fect it. increase their food supply and make your chickens work. They may be given too much food and not enough ex- ercise; also mix together equal parts of ground genvtian, ground cinchiona, bio r- blonafiulsoda and fcharcoal.——;g~iVe a tile- spoo. 0 every ou ‘. 'twéce a day. _ :- chickens art a done pasmnodl'c Congh.-We have a three— year-old filly that had a. severe attack of What our Vet. calls colic, Which appeared to last for about 12 hours, and her aiplpe- tlte did not return for three days. She eats plenty now. but remains weak, and every Itilme she coughs some urine is dis- charged. . T., wanton, Mich-Spas- modlc colic is a painful affection of the tbowels. without inflammation; but,’ if it lasts. there is always more or less irrita- tl'on of the mucus lining of the bowel. This initiation frequently extends and in- volves the mu r coat of the bowel and of mm this contraction is generally (Continued on page 597) 596—20 s Profits—FREE The new issue of the famous Old Trusty hook is Send Johnson your name and now read to mail. t the drock facts on makin ng roiits with cickens. 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White Rock cockerels. heavy weight. fine quality. $2.50 each. No hens. LYMOUTH Rock cockerels 5 lb. to ll lb. , according to age. Price $2 to $8 Mammoth Bronze 'onn 'lurk- eysB lib. to 35 1b., actigrding to age Price 58m $25. Eggs in season. A. CRAM’I‘.ON Vassar. Mich. R . R. I. R d , h PHIZE WINNING 2:33: 1338mm... 300B Inldign Runner and Pekin ducks.“ er trio. circular free. EMWOOD FARM. R. R.No. 3. Grand Rapids. Mich 011 SAEE-R. 0. Br. Leg. 0' k'r' ls. from Mad. Bill and Ohio and Mich. State Fair winners. $1 ti Jan 1. CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsdale Michigan. OLUMBIA Wyandottes. Winners at Chicago. Grand Rapids. South Bend and St Josgh. Stock and eggs. RICHARD SAWYER. Benton arbor. Michigan. PINE CREST WHITE ORPINGTONS won at State Fair lst and 3rd cockerel.1st and 3rd hen and 1st pullet out of seven entries. Stock for sale. Mrs. Willis Rough, Pine Crest Farm. Royal Oak. Mich. LILLIE FARl’lSTEAD POULTRY B. P. Rooks.R. I. Reds. and 8. C. W. 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Watervliet, Mich. "all“: F0" lllllllllGLF°3ixg°£§1§b81§§mk FERRET: Bond 20 stamp. . Holmesville. Ohio. 2.000 mm:isnm::r.::r:.zzr:.3uli mailed tree. WELL A..KNAPP Rochester. Ohio. THE MICHIGAN FARMER '9 Everything that is grown on the farm has its proper place. “What this is is de— termined by its relative importance in the general working system of each farm. For instance. on one f-arm the hog may hold the meet impoutant position be- cause it is a specialty on the farm, and tlhe dairy cow may be just a side line which furnishes milk for home consump- tion. On another farm the dairy cow may be themain source of profit and lthe hog just be kept to eat up refuse and to fur- nllSh the family's winlter pork. However, if pouota'y is made a specialty it is gen- erally done to the exclusion of other lines of farming and the man who carries 0n the business is not; called :1 poultry farm- er but rather a poultry raiser 0r keeper. Though other lines of farming are usually excluded when the poultry raising is a specialty, poultry is by no moans left out when other lines are the main ones. and Mr. and Mrs. Chicken are in evidence on most every form rcgurdlevs of size. \Vliile great credit muot be given the fauciers and breeders of pure-bred poul- try for tlie beneficial effect they have on the poultry business, the farm hen is the one which is supplying the American breakfast table with egg“. When she tukes a rest eggs are sold at so much apiece; when she gets down to business the hou-cwife docs not care for expenses and uses two eggs where she used only one before. liiddy can break a fixed eg‘g mol'kert quicker than any boycott ever did. \Y‘hile the lien is found 011 most every d‘arm she is not generally given the at- tention due her? The former is very liable to think tlizut tln‘ hen businer's is too small a consideration for :1 normal, well developed man, and therefore he leaves their cure to the women of the house, the children, or someone incapacitated for general work. \Vhile the care of the farm flock is pleasant WOL‘k for those who can not pitoh hay a‘nd do other heavy farm work, the farmer Should not bolittle the c'hickcn business, as he often does. How much of the national $306,688.!)th egg basket h-ls gone to buy farm implements, food for the table. or even feed to winter other stock? How muoh of it gOes to pay the interest on the mortgage? Answers to these questions woud undoubtedly en- lighten us as to the real value of tile lien on the farm. if things are judged from the financial standpoint, and they usually are. the wife‘s il’ock 0f chickens W‘Ould come pretty close to the top of the list on most every farm. Even if the total amount she, brings in may not be large, t‘he fact that the hen’s product is bringing in cash when other crops are spending money for the farmer makes the hen a financial factor on the farm. Aside from its financial value the hen plays an important part in the general working system of the farm. She is busy from daylight to dark, looking for bits of food which would otherwise be waste. SIhe picks 11111 11 little corn dropped in one place. and a little feed left by other 21111— mals in another, and for her meat s-he digs after the worms of the earth. really enjoys the work which she is un- conscious of doing, the converting of waste to wealtlh. lliddy is aflso a valuable assistant to the farmer in keeping the insect pests in control. Numerous worms and bugs Which are detrimental to crops she has a strong appetite for. To the. 'plum grower she is 11 special friend, be- ?caUSe slhe scratches around to find the cocoons of the (’ul‘K'ulio which are just beneath the surface of the soil. Another factor of importance Which should not be overlooked is What the hen supplies for the home table. She is an as- sistant in the fighting of the high c0st of living which is even invading the farm. Eggs can be used in numerous Ways as a substitute for 'meat, and when ltlhe housewife can not think of anything to prepare for a meal, or if she has not had time to prepare anything else, she can run out to the chicken coop foreggs. When the preacher or some other notable company comes, it is just almatter of a short time to run out and decapitate a. chicken to grace the table. Chicken. is not an everyday meat. It is considered Somewhat of a delicacy and is‘th‘erefore ./ .lhou‘se usuully gets around She J|IIlllll|lllIll|llllll|lll|lIllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllflllllllllllllllIIIlllllllllllllllllllillllllllIllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIllllllIIlllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllll|lI|I|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllE Poultry and Bess. EllllllllllIllllllllll|Illlllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllll|IlllllllIlllllllllllIlllllllllllllllll|llllllll|Ill|||llllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllll|lllll|llllllllflllllllllllllllIll|lllll|||l|||l||llll|Illllll|IllIIHllllllllllllllllllll‘illllfi The Hen’s Place on ‘the Farm. llllllllllH. seen on the table only on Sundays and days of special occasions. As a. really source of food the chicken undoubtedly stands foremOst on the farm Judging from the way Mr. and Mrs. Chicken strut about the farm, one would ”drink that they occupied about the most important position on it. After going over the facts of their value, one must come to the conclusion that their apparent self- importance is not a matter of much ego- rtism. In fact, they have an entire right to assume the attitude of se-lfwimportance. This being a fact, it behooves Mr. Farmer to give this important branch of liis business more attention. Even if he wishes to leave the pleasure of taking care of the chickens to others of the household, he should co-oper-ate W‘llt‘h the care-takers in the bottermcnt of the flock. It is not necessary to do this for senti- mental purposes, but rather for cold cash and appetite ‘a‘plpea'sling reasons, for the lien (-znters to the two most vital ports of the modern man, the pocketbook and the swmuoh. The best way that mos-L farmers can help in the ohickeu business is to furnish a better honvhouse. Very often the hen’s place on the farm is hardly no place at all} An old shed which is either too full of holes 01' not full enoug‘ll, often serves for the, hen who is expected to lay eggs in the winter, and the porter of the hell- about twice ;1. year to Clean out the accumulation of mom/ills. _ Cleaning out the coop more often, put- ting roofing paper on the top and sides of the's‘lled to cover tho excessive number of \eutilaiion holes, or, if the crop is too tight: knocking out some of the windows on 'the south side of the coop and cover— ing the space with muslin will (10 won- ders toward helping the farm lien busi- ness. A few changes inside tile coop will be appreciated by your wife and the llCllS. Nests more convouient for the hens to lay in and for the children to gather eggs from. and rousts mOre sub— stantial and sanitary, are, improvements easily made. .-\ little work on improving the floor of the coop will do wonders to- ward Illilklllg‘ the coop 11 more respecta- ble place for the lions. During the win- ter, when the hens can not get out, they need some place to keep busy. The com~ mun euuili flour is not generally an in- viting 'pfucc to Sx‘l‘alt-ll around in. It is generally damp and if litter is thrown on it. it soon mixes with the earrt-h and be- comes damp. A cheap board floor raised a little from the ground and then well covered Wilth litter will make a pleasant scratclhting place for the hens. Such few improvements will pay a large profit. The mast cos-tiy hcnlhouse does not appeal to the lion any more than the shed, if it has a few things arranged for her comfort. The hell’s pl'lL-e on the farm Should not be a housewives‘ proposition, but rather, a farm pl‘OIDOSl‘thl’l. "he farmer should 1112111 for them when he lays the outlines (:f his farm management. Little things often bringbigrcsults and the hen may be one of the neglected opportunities of the farm. BEEKEEPERS’ CONVENTION. (Continued from last week). Mr. J. Pomeroy Munson, president of the State Horticultural Society, gave a. talk on the relation of the fruit grower and the beekee-pe'r. He stated that there were‘many things regarding the relation Of these two industries on which there was conSidera'ble dispute. From the bee- keeper’s standpoint, the matter of spray- ing when the trees were in blossom was :1 clause of complaint. Mr. Munson stat- (d, however, that it was not necessary to spray at that time. One of the bee men ”stated that if the dilute lime-sulphur was used for the sprayings close to the blossoming time, the beer; would not go near the belOssoms on account of the odor. The matter as to whether the bees punc- tured the fruit brought out considerable discussion. The final conclusions of the matter Were that they did not, bu-t if there was a small hole in th’e'fruit the Ibees would enlarge it in their endeavorrrto get the fruit juice. The martter of foul brood, which always brings a. spirited. discussion, was very ' DEC. 27, 1913. ably handled by Prof. F. E. Milieu, .the State Ispector of A'piaries. He clearly explained the‘symptoms and treatment of American and European foul brood. 'As we are promised articles from his pen on this subject, detailed mention of his talk will not be given. Mr. Millen has recently been appointed to his present posidion, wihic-h was created by the/new foul brood law. The- way he handled his subject made it easily apparent that the right man has been appointed for the big bee job of this state. An address on Apiarilcultuml Education, by Prof. Morley Petti't, of the Agricul- tural College of Guelph, On‘n, opened the Thursday morning session. The matter of what education is was first dwelt upon. It is not only a matter of acquiring knowledge, but also of putting it into practice. Science muslt come before prac- tice; if a man does not know the science of cow milking he can not milk a cow; you must know how to rear queen bees ’before you can raise them. One of the most valuable and probably mast neg- lected branches of a'piarviculture is the study of bee psychology or behavior For ’the beginnm the study of a good bee text ' book was firSt essential, then the reading of the bee jOurnals and the attending of .bee meetings. The value of beeke-epers’ societies as an educational factor was strongly impressed and the methods of making such societies of practical value to the beekeeper we're suggeSIte-d. Selling queens to members and the co—operative selling of honey were hints given to ac- complish this aim. Prof. Pevttit, in an- swer to a question s'tated that the low price of honey was due to the lack ad- vertising, 'aud the lack of distribution. There is no food stuff, food value COusid-- ered. that is as low priced as honey. ' The paper on the outdoor wintering of bees, by Ira D. Bartlett, of East Jordan, guve many valuable hints on this subject. Ills mot‘liod was to winter the bees in four colony winter hives in which there was plenty of room for chaff and other packing material. When there was snow 011 the ground he Dilll‘ked it around the hives. He. stated that there need be no i'ear of smothering the bees with the snow as it: contained enough air for the bees use. As Mr. Burtle'tt is one of the most successful in outdoor wintering, his paper was listened to with interest. Mr. David Running, 0f Filion, Mich, spoke of wintering bees in the cellar. His chief point was that the collar should be dry. His cellar was such that a. match could be scratched anywhere in it at any time. He is wintering annually in the cellar about 300 colonies, and he stated that if be bad to resort to outdoor win- tering there would be one less beekeeper in the state. He emphusmed the import- ance of having the colonies well supplied with stores. The management Of 500 colonies for ex- tracted honey, with the least labor, was the subject of C. P. Dudant, of Ham- ilton, 111. He spoke of tons of honey as a fruit grower would of bushels of ap- ples, His» bees were kept in apiaries of about 100 colonies. An automobile was used to get from one apiary to another. A horse and wagon was used in gather- ing the honey, and everything was done to Sluve time and work. The, frames Were put back into the same supcrs they came from so as to prevent the spread of dis- case. After being extracted. the honey was put in barrels for shipment. After short talks on the sole and pro- duction of honey, by A G. Woodman, of Grand Rapids, and E. D. Townsend, who is the editor of the Beekeepe-rs’ Review, a paper by H. C. .A lilers, on “Migratory Beekeeping, was read. Mr. Alilers makes a practice» of moving his bees south in the Winter. He often moves a carload at a. time. In this way he gets results from ibis bees in the Winter when ordinarily they are non-productive, and the colonies are strong and in good shape: when moved back north for the apple bloom. The election of officers occupied the rest of the time of this, the final session of the convention. All of the present officers were re-elected. They are as follows: Jenner E. Morse, Saginaw, president; David Running, Filion, vice-president; O. H. Schmidt, Bay City, secretary-treasur- er. Mr.’ Morse was elected as. delegate to the annual convention of the National Association! After cmrsflerable discus- sion the next meeting piece of the state society was decided to be held at the .»1g- dioultural College, East Lansing. iN NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE. ‘ . The Hen amd‘rthe- Substitute Sitter, an article on incubation, will be the feature of the poultry columns next, week'. This will ’be the second of the series of articles on Farm Poultry, started flh-is week. m. 27. .1918. VETERI MARY, (Continued from page 595). violent, being an effiont of nature to in. crease bowel action to push the irritant or obstruction along, and it dislodged. 1min usually ceases. Colic usually comes 111cm erroas in diet, producing indigestion. Feed food of a laxative nature, exercise your filly daily, but. slowly until she re- gains lher normal strength. Give her 1 dr ground mix mmica,’l oz. of ground ginger and oz. Waite soda. at a. dose in fe three times a. day. She should be fed a good quality of food and not too muCh ‘bulky fodder. lndigestion—Colic.——I have a black mare 16 years old, in foal, that has recently had colic once a week and occasionally per-spires while standing in the stable. '1‘. 0’.,R Gaylord. Mich —-You had better change her feed and give he1 a table- spoonful of ginger, :1 teaspoonful of sai— icylic acid and a. dessertspoontul of salt at a dose in feed twnce a day. her a teaspoonful of nitrate of potash at a dose in feed or water once a. day when she is in need of a kidney stimulant. Leucornhea.—I have a 12-year-old mare which I think of breeding next spring, but she- is troubled with a white 51 my discharge from vagina and I am told she will not get with foal until curtd of this ailment. J. H. .A., Rockford, Mic'h —Give her a teaspoonful of powdered sulphate iron, and a tablespoonful of cooking soda. at a doFe 111 feed Uhree times a day. Dis- .solve 1 d1. permanganate potash in a. gal- lon of tepid water and wash out vagina thoroughly once a day. It is needless to say that she should be well fed. for this ailment is difficult to cure in a debilitated animal. Thrush. -—I have found much vaiiruibie advice in your veterin1ry column, but have failed to notice your tieutment for thrush. I recently purchased a maie that had thrush in hind feet. B B. Reading, \Iich. —Keep the feet dry and ole-1111.911)- ply perox: "do of hydrogen 51011 ly to clean off pus, then apply calomel tuice a day, filling in cleft of frog with oakum to keep dirt out. Pin Vi'.orms ——I have a. four- year—old mare that is troubled with pin worms and I have given her different worm remedies without maul-ts. H. F.,Azalia,Mi«cl1.-— Mix together equal pants of g ound gen- tion, ginger. wormseed and salt and give her a tablespoonful or two at a dose in feed tulce a day. Put one- half pound of quassia chips in a gallon of boiling water, let it simmer for a few hours, strain. then inject this solution into rectum every five or three days for two weeks Partial Paralysis ongind Quarter ——1 have a. two- year—old filly that staggered .md wabbled on hind legs some four weeks ago; has not been right since: she ‘aid down last Thursday night and sinCe then has been unable to stand, but when in sling eats heartily and her bOWel-s and kidneys act in a normal manner. Our local Vet thought she had hurt her back. R. K., Capac, Mich 3-8118 either suiters from an injury or a diseased condition of spinal cord. It is most likely to be the result of an injury. Give her two scrup- les of ground nux v0m‘1ca and 1,4 dr. or potassium iodide at a dose in feed three times a day. The bowels should be kept open and the kidneys active. If the kid- neys do not act free- enoug’h. give her 2 «lrs. acetate ofgpotash at a dose occasion- ally. lndigestion~lmpaction ~—Have a 12- year- old gelding who thrives Well on pas- ture, but as soon as the is put in barn and fed timothy hay or straw he has what a local Vet. pronounces impaction of bowels and acts as though in agony, turning head and stamping feet: kidneys refuse to act till impaction is relieved. This horse always eats rapidly and rav- enously and usually keeps in good condi- tion. D. L. M.. Pittsford, Mich—A horse of this kind shoal'd be fed food of a lax- ative nature; he should not be allowed to eat large quantities of roughage. His mod should be well salted in order to in- crease his thirst, for by drinking plenty of water his bowels will act more freely: besides, he should never be allowed to stand a whole day without exercise. for the bowels of an exercised horse usually act four or five times as often as one that is not exercised. GiVe him 1 dr. ground nux vomica. a table-spoonful of ground ginger and 96 pint of oil meal at a dose in feed two or three times a day. Horse of this kind enculd be fed some silage or1 old > roots during the winter season. Foot-rot—(Thrush).—-I have an horse that is troubled writ-h foot—rot in left fore foot and I would like to know what will cure him. J. L... Fowler. Mich. —lTnless you keep him from standing in, wet and filt‘h, you will find it dificult to effect a cure. Keep the foot dry and clean; also apply equal parts powdered (1ilomel and powdered alum to frog twice :1 day. Periodic Ophthalmia. ——Have —year- -old colt that in summer had one eye that began to discharge. soon be- came cloudy and blind. I applied silver nitrate solution and it soon cleared up. Some time later had a second attack: I applied sugar of lead lotion—eye cleared up. but lately the opposite eye is sore and very cloudy. 0. M. Y., Millington. ‘Mlch. ~Kindly understand periodic ophthalmin is an incurable ailment and the best You can do is to postpone loss of vision b" palliative remedies such as you have been uSing. Foot Serene”. ~——Some time ago I bought :1 six year-old mare that is lame in right fore leg. I blistered shoulder and back tendons and gave her rest. She appeared some better after this treatment. but is 'now as bad as ever. I am told that she was foundered last spring. caused by eating too much Wheat. Her right foot is feverish and hard. II. A.. Walker-ville, Mich—Stand her in wet clay for two hours a day and blister comnet with one part powdered canthnrldes and it part? lard every week. a three- Also give". T HE ”M1011 1‘ G A N F A0 R M E R HEWO B'ELGIANS They Are Here! H. 8: H. Wolf importers of Belgian Horses exclusively advise old and Drospective 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. tym drafters or 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 cenmry with the breed. Metz Bros, Niles, Mich. We have a fine lot of imported and American Percheron §iallions on hand and we can sell them for less money than any other importer. Write in your wants. METZ BROS" Niles, Michigan. JACKS and MULES Raise mules and get rich. k Mule term 1111- Stock wran- tood. Oerte for prices today. Address KBEKLER’S JACK FARM West Elkton. Ohio. Brandi hem (Hinton. Ind. black. 2 yenlrls old. First check ‘ HM Skill“ Polly,fo,1m Also choice ured Book cockemla. Michelson strain. 82 each or 2 I30! 9.“). 3 for $. 3mm FABII. Ill-mam. Mich. I! Pentago- OUREB any can or money refunded g Peeing) OUEES ordination” cues. Mineral Reeve 00.. 463 N. Fourth Ave" Pittsburgh. Pa HEIDI-35’ MIMI. {‘1 CA l'l'LE. Aberdeen-An us. Herd consisting of Trojan Erica. wkbirds and is headodb ignon W.n the GRAND CHAMP ID at. the 8 . Walt Lolita“ and City Fairs o 191’. unit hesireof winnem at. the-e l' to and 5t tETB EENI‘NTEBNATIO lo of 1912. - WOODOOT STOCK FARM. 101118.. 11311. ‘ -—-0 of h oremootd i 1: ed . AYRSHIRES 133161011131: gm- salo. “511-1139 ffi‘d; description. Michigan School of the Deaf.Fl int,Mieh. GUERNSEYS‘EE‘E. Thaw‘imitfigiii‘ia "1331?. J. K. BLATOEFORD. Auditorlun Tower. Chicago. Ill EUERNSEYSM FOB SALE—Tubemulln tested t R 1 cam.4 {Nat old. 2 Bhopilezr calms, Zbu l calves GEO. N. ORA FORD.B 2. Hoiton. Mich. Bull Calves A FEW mmfif Holstein Friesian ock onmonvtnonnmt. a1110mm. RM '- . 101.5115!!! BULLS AT PARMERS PRICES Sired b on of the best. bulls of America Lone 11111011 ARM. Aougusta. Kalamazooflou Mich. BEGII‘IHEU 3018““ 5311.333? Fran-ate arrival gran pdzldignee. HOBART W.F Y. Mason. “Top-Notch" Holstolnq. ”Choice lull calves from ltoB no. Wold. fashion- bnodina and from dens 11th ole“! milk nae butt-er was for sale at rulonabia prices. umu I‘ll! 00.. ”out“. Purebred Registered HOLSTEIN CATTL E!" The Greatest Dairy Breed _ Sand for FREE 11W“! Booklet. Couch-Tm. Amulox I“. “Mob“.Vt. y finest 151% $0 to 8 Writ-0‘ for Bigalow’s Holstein Falms , Breedovlllo, Mich. Have for sale several fine young bulls out of cows with high official butter and milk records. Send for circular. 3 HIE YEIBLIIG BULLS! 1 Son of Sir Jolie Johanna out of an 18th 9- year old daughter of sir May Hartog Posch. 2 Sons of Johanna DeColautha. 51b and out of A. .0 dams 5 Bull Calves. by Johanna. Concordia Chump- ion. No. «1575. A copy of the 24th volurne of the Holstein Friesisn year book 'lth each of these“ bulls. to quick buy L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio 0601' choioel bred oun Holstein “1‘0“ FARM“ cites. 350 to 8¥Z5 each. ywicks-ll p385: 8. 0. BATHFON & SON. B. F. 5.Ypsilanti. , KORN- El. STOCK FARM “312m...“ 11 monthlold forum. E. B. CORNELL. Howell. Mich. Magnificent Holstein 1110111 For Sale Two months old B $1M. butter bull: dam theA. RHO (low Houwte I’. DeKol Albino. None finer Seven-eighth: 11 its. Yellow skin. Only 8'15. _ ROUGBMONT FARMS. Detroit. Michigan. W has Blgislcr Ii lnrii Herd—9“;',;f:m°r tuberculin tested Janey Cattle of all on for sale. [8" FOX. Prop“ Allogan. lchiz-n. Buy Jerseys Dollar for dollar invested. the Jersey will earn back the amount paid for her quicker than other ~~ breeds because her product brings a hitlaer priest-firho quart or pound shcpei; unsu lined. and holler eep makes her most desirable. Write now for Jersey facts. Nocharge. AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB :24 W. ”J St. New York low cost of BUTTER BRED “Eiggfi‘éffé‘l‘s CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM. Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan. JERSEYS"§.¥.‘." “1'3? $33 5231 11.332533 Breakwater Farm. B. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich. Lillie Farmstead Jerseys tented. Gumnteec. free from Tuber- bull calves out of emales for sale at c..Coooeuvu1..m bent hates Strains. Dill" IBED SHMTHDBIS‘gé' yous . breeder of Shorthorns. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan. 9 Shortllorns"3“‘,‘“ "23: so”? 1.2.2.1112” Write (or pedigrees. W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Mich. sneer. 0XFORD RAMS AND EWES ngiAg‘rfieZ? Address 3. F. Miller or Goo. L. Spillane. Flint. Mich. Thru-iear-Old (Mill!!! and SHBOPSHIHE Rams 21—597 RITE Us Your Want! for leg. Chariot Whit. Swine. Bolsteln Bulls. Scotch Collie pups. Sept. pig! now read! for shipment. BAY B. PARHAII, Bronson, Michinu. 0 ' c—Swine. Holstein Bull cult. Bf. R. and v - - White Leghorn Okla. Writemo your wants. FRED NICKEL B. No. 1. Monroe. Michigan 50“ “BONED 952 L38. 23 MONTHS OLD I hmstutedn ”broaden the road tom man living. I have moles-goat and fin- 11.9. Every one an manly developer. “market at six months old. I ml: to filmw one 111;: in each community to advertise my or myplan.‘ How to Make Money from Eoc- ” c. I. ummmmmoa 0 Portland. In... auditor For Sale, of the la a growthy liuroc Jorscy Boar: Mme, .1... 2 9.. archer-on Stallions 1-..yr-old A. BBAY. Okemon. Mich. Fall ‘ either osi‘i‘iim Shepherd. Michigan. 1d. Dufiocrspxflxifi'icefre?‘slon::ble.8 CHERRY LAWN FARM Fancy bred Duroo Jerseys—Boers & Gilts of spring 12 summer furrow. Gocd ividusls at reasonable prices. John McNicoll. Station A. B 4. Bay City. Mich. "vanes—38 High Gloss immuned boars reade'v for Iervice. SpeciBaAl rises for 30 days rite or come and see. . NEY. Goldwater. Mich. to furrow in March DUMB JERSEY MED IILTS .111 ”mom... 1,... blood lines. 0.TA YIMOB Mil.“ Michigan. BIG TYPE DU 8003— March and April Boats. ready {Jr service. Pairs not akin. Also hhropc ire F. J. DRODT R. No. LMonme.Mlch. name for sale. DURBC JERSEYS—20 lied Gills for Sale CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan. 1mm 11111111."13.11.112.112: our 1:; best bred hours in the not» Also a few boars. (all are im- n1u.1e.) Come or write. H. G. KEESLER. Cauopolis. Mich. 008068, Good Enough to Ship Without the lam KOPE KON FA Kinda!“ 00k . Michigan. —Sprlng bone from prize win. ”BTW-Jerseys sin strains. Bows all ages Bmokwater Farm.R . I". . No. 7. Ann Arbor.M1ch Both Western and Home ”LAND CHINAS—Bmd Either not. . l m. Prioes right. W. J. HAGELBHAW. Augudta, Mich. 11111111115111. antitrust Young Hedl‘owy, Big A Wonder and H. 0. SW ABTZ. Schoolcratt. PO LAND C H I NAiffr'é’uJfifiégi in every way and immune. 335. I ship 0. 0. D. and regis- ter tree. write at once. W m. Waffle. Goldwater Mich Poland China: and Single Comb While Leghom. 3.1M. WING & SO Sheridan. Michigan. POLAND CHINA G. Am booking ilts Bred to if“ Defender. M ch Bred sows andi fall ms ‘c ht. W. HOLTOU. R. No. 11. KW? fifth. ~The Large Prolific Kind. We fPUIaNd China: have a nice lot of spring boars at BROS. Paw Paw. Mich. UTLEB' 8 Big Boned Pmlific Poland China. Grow _ big. kee easy. mature earl}, ready for market in (1 months. by? Because we we bred them that way for 20 yours. Buy a bred sow or some new. and make more money. 50 bred sows.100falfplgs. Poland Chum history free. J. C.BU'1‘.LER Portland. Mich. ' ——Sows bred. also summer and tall Po'and chma from lar eh rolific sows. Barred fiiot‘k cockerels. 81 621011.110 '1‘ NEVE, Pierson. Mich. farmers prices. For sale cheap. Parkhurst Bros, Reed Oitv. Mich. IT PAYS TO BUY FUR! BRIO SHEEP 0F PARSONS, the sheep man 0! 1119mm." Shropshires, Rembouillet. Foiled Dohinel and Parana: Oxfords. 3,1.Grud Lodge. Mich. ,Pura Brad JPulami China 2% miles Rand M.U .A. 000K. Eldon-lee. on G.T INGLESIDE FARM’Egifleram recIordad Salad.“ eves brodto chance rams 201115.00 HERBERT E. POWELL lonia. Michigan. -—two boats wei ing 2(1) lb 0. I. Co each. One tang: tine crawl”)? C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan. 11008. ' ° -—A Desirable B ch 0m ll. Victoria: 11.11.... Breed 11321333313.“ M. T. Story. 8 B. eLowell. Mich. lty Phoué 11111115111115 0...... m... 1...... and em- stock ELMHUBS’? $319331? fi’ffi‘hf‘fifgfigafi’ifif m WU“ mills 313(91‘3311’0 mhfié’ilafi'zlie A. A. PATTULLO. Decle 110. Michigan. —-Bred ailts all sold 0. I. C. SWINE 1...... N. o, smut; pigs on hand. Will book order- for Sept. plus. get my Xtice on mini and tries not akin J. GORDON R. No. 2. Don, Inch. cm“ 'h'm—Springh and summer pigs write 11: your want- Prloem dquailty right. Meadow Via'Stock Farm. 3. l". D. No.5 Holland. Mich. a ' 93—03111. his]: fol-[lid ti; and AMI furrow. Ang. ' I D g n GED. P. 1131811 11.11'ws Dansvllle.¥:1zh ”Hoffman. 1 sale. lmpnmd Claim.” I “X" “ "1’1”"3’333? ’°“‘11"e§°°ds‘2’§ Twenty years a breeder. W.O. Wil lson. Okemos. Mich ‘ ‘ priooon tries. (3.60 P. 1:. 11111011 11111 111111 11131523 cum to please. R. W. MI LLS. Saline. Michigan P0 1. A N ll CIIIN 115—331;? .33.? “pliéiiéfii’fi. .BABNES dc SON. Byron, ShiawesseOon . Pom» cums-liar 2%: 21‘ 1‘13. in: P. D. LONG.R. No. 8. Gran Rapids. Michigan. Ltrge Type P. 0. Largest in Mich. Boats all sold. Am bookin orders for Bred Gilts. Come and see Biz Desmoins. at est Boar in U. 8.0! ago weighs 315 lbs. at 19 mnnths. xponege aid if not satiofiod Free Livery from Pal-ma. W. ivingstcn. Parma. Mich. —Pigs fan-owed in A ust fr '4ng lorkshinS— prize winning stoclfig for 1:13: ONES & LUTZ. Oak Grove. Michigan. MULEFOOT HOGS £33. 811233: all ages. C. F. BACON. Milan. Michigan. —All Mule F0 1 Hogs will? $2112.15“. hfifihif°1lil€g for what you want G. 0. KB GLOW Ada. Ohio. 350 BIG TYPE MULE FOOT EGGS—America s Uhampion Herd. Prolific. hardy. Best. for Mich. Also Paula. J. DU NLAP. Bo: M. Willienuport. Ohio FOR SALE YORKSHIRBS Boar piss. Aug. fan-owed from large “then. MEADOW LAND FARM Waterman 81 Waterman. Ann Arbor. Mich. YORKSHIRE SWINE—A8 few Clolce boars left. i BAND BSgeciam prices “languid: Y’OBKSHIBE Swine-Bonn and elite all sold. Aug. fan-owed poise. Eire not akin. (cradle. 8 la! MeMullen. GrandL Ledge ich. YORKSHIRES ”JIM“: Bull lye scold d- Indiana-mm. Brian. zme butter‘idaIvLLLO.W Write!“ - and pros. dius.s much-1m. M 1. REGISTERED HOISI'EIN ”7"” Good or excel‘l‘ohut LL10.“ Dalian-sirloin. W AMER. 81%“. .3 ti bean 1; 1d H fl The large lonpbodled. h boa 0. I. C. print-:91“. 3:91:01 ,g‘fi’fio 3113”,,2: 80110 In £3111”. bred for sprfivf’srrowfid §mlzi1dfi°o figs: akin Longty ce ”0% awe: cm (W ~to(Huber.bet-11111111vaembm-plgo.Pricesreasonable xh‘léto- nun-um.) A. Norman. 11. LNu-letto. Mich. W. C. COOK. R. 42, Ada. Michigan. ~18u Bun-alien] [All .ol 'I c- .slloafewchniced’red lfillfgiizg 'l. m... .0.... ll l8 arms ea ill 8 lies a" 8 “mm“ ”—13.18 O mambo. for 9911th splendid ones. Fall pigs. either sex. Oak View Fun. N. H. Weber. Prop. RonlOdt. Mich. C LON C. for[Jill-ED“? Cooper-ville. Michigan. bans ' l 11:19 ”11:38:11 E11111 .311er O. I.C"'s.£"" new M. OT‘I’OAB. . ,N 'Ono-halt Wg to advertisers please mentlo e Michigan Farmer. a \ . iz‘ed three. 598+22 ElmllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllIIlllIlllll||llllIllllllIllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllfl the present state law providing for the , —=- organization of co-operative associations his conclusions Itouching tlhis vexed, but ral Ige. very live, question are entitled to careful- - g consideration and we present this part of LEIIIIIlllllllllll|lllllllll|llllllllllIllllIllIIlllI|I|lllllllIIllllIllllllll|lll|IllllllIIIlllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllfl the report practically in full: Our Motto—~“The farmer is of more The statements of. receipts and dis— consequence than the farm, and should be ‘bursemen'ts md‘cate m some degree the first improved." a'cthltIES of our Order in the year just oosed. In connection with what We know of its pasthistory, it gives us a basis for computing the pessibilities of the coming THE STATE GRANGE MEETING. year. Perhaps moi-1t important and gratifying But conditions are constantly changing. among reports of the various officers was lag“; field; gnu“ bte (feveloped, blnew ._‘ 7 ,, . 3,. ' . 'c s mu e mas ere, new pro ems mat of ineasurer Coward. Iiinted copies must be solved. Though they are the old of this report were distributed among the in new form, our task is none the legs delegates, making it possible .for Granges real, our duty none the less imperative. in every county to examine this detailed 1t_ may bewe‘ll for us. 'to realize that we .. f t-h e r’s‘fiiiance at their are turning a new mile post in agiicul- smitement 0 e y a S , tural progress. The present is a transi- leisure. Int Shows that the Orders 1111- “9“ period. More than that, it is the nances were never in better condition, the Cl‘lSiS Of American agriCul-ture. Two paths . , . ‘ ' ., , 7 total resources of the State Grange at the ‘ggybefiggg ”5% tilsmgz 0:12:21: nggri‘hdonig “1056 of the fiscal year 011 December 1 withoutigeneral organization, our business being nearly $1,000 greater than at the 0n the small, individualistic planes in corresponding date last year and fell only the 'paSt, and ourselves, the Victims of .-I f l d d dollars 1mm f the $50 000 forces With Wlthh we can not c0pe, much ‘1 9W 1““ re 5 0 ' less control, helpless ibetiWeen the upper murk- T'ha‘t llOi‘tiO'n 0f the report dealing and nether millstones of merciless compe- with the invested funds and securities, tition. (fir wenmay now at. this gglwfrtune ., , . q ., . . mm, W en a‘ are recogmzmg e arm- togl thei WlUil the classnied statement of er’s value to society and the importance of agriculture to national prosperity, take the first steps in the new twentieth cen— tury highway of agricultural opportunity thrown up for us by tJhe force of circum- stances and opened to our advancing feet by the approval of a nation facing a con- the year‘s receipts and disbursementS, is prescnted below, omitting only the some- what lengthy itemized statement of dis- bursements from the general fund: Invested Securities. Bonds and securities on hand dition of increasing demand for the nec- J)€C. 1, 1912...:.:.....: ........ $45,500.00 eSSaries of life and an acreage )ield of Bonds and securities paid ....... 3,000.00 the Stapje grain crops less than that of any civilized country except Russia, to BEES lanilglsecurities on hand. ,00 00 .r‘ay nothing of our diminishing meat c. , . ............. ....... :,:)'_ . _ supply. Lash on hand Dec. 1, 1913....... 0,143.0.) Let me here say, parenthetically, that To 1 'iiveSted funds TM” 6’3 0,) this is no criticism of the American " l ' ............ 1,4..4 ,. . ,. , ' .(r (“ishtdoii h‘llld in general fund 2 117 2'» 1211mm Of the past. 1113 has been lalhely ,7. . " “' "" a pioneer work. \“ltlil new lands c0n-‘ ,, , . . . ., —‘ stuntly being opened -to tillage and com- Jmfn i‘csomccs 0f I‘VIi-Ichigan State. "'90 0 ing into competition with the older por— Grange “"‘3 1' 1"1"""“""“&‘49“” '4 lions of the country. his course has been Invested Funds, Cash Balance. the only and inevitable one of soil exhaus— L‘ash on hand llet'. 1, 1912...”..9 1.979.31 tion and diminished production. -IIence- Jiltel'cSil received ...... ; ......... 2,173.05 forth the farmer’s work must be rejuve- Boiids and securities pa 9”“ 3,000.00 iia-ting and constructive, or disaster, na- i s, \~—————- tional and world-wide, will lie the. ulti- Total ......... ,\.....\. ........$ 7,152.36 mwte result. . Transferred to g iicral ind ..... 1,979.31 But this is a new day. Consumption f . —————-~ of food stuffs has overtaken production. Cash on hand 11cc. 1, 1013 ...... $ 5,173.05 The people must be fed. The 130 sibilities Classlfication of Receipts. of soil and climate are here. The farmer 1 d D 1 1912 $ 1 40416 of tomorrow must make a better USc of 0.1? m“ eel.” ’. " """"""" 6,179.48 these splendid opportunties than his pre- From f’U'OI’fllfifmnle,‘f;"'1."',",z'l‘t ’ "" decessor has done. But this will only be filial. 4’8”. 11“?” ‘ 5‘“: ees 202 ’30 realized when a larger share of that Tings-ref tini‘iaasi'ea' 1111101; 1979.31 “"1110“ is WOW?“ goes ”1‘0 the "0039“ ' 11’?“ 1,, 0f farmers. \\ hen the farmer receives your ""‘1 """""""""""" 'g’m‘flé from his labor as great rewards as the 5,91)” lefirstod 1( fa; '1'; ‘ extension " ‘ some effort will bring him eisewhere, then 1‘19”] ‘ 4 “ma “ lbe ” 21.) 00 science will be applied to the production PWP‘J (.inreoian/ition " of every crop; then the highest skill of ”injma “ 5 h 30 00 agricultural art will find its reward in 1““:le"f.”f'r"‘_',','e':')'t's"1-,'.('n'j'l'}')'u'1_ ‘ this IHUSt necessary employment. This 121.131] sectme ”I“ 'I ' 48 82 does not necessarily mean higiher prices , IL """ , """ , ' nor an increase in the cost of living. it bitiiiiiiiaesflom sale 0f SUffiat’e does mean a broader and more practical knowledge, on the part of the farmer, of LUKE giantg“ ,rnefiffiwdme ('U' 250 the factors and forces with which he has — ewe“ “g" ”n b """" '__ ‘ _ to dea'l. It does mean the careful hus— . Av—banding of ‘l’l‘lUC‘il that todav is wasted ‘ . ...5 . ' . .‘ Total receipts ................. ‘p 2,100 06 through neglect, through ignorance or Classification 0f Disbursements. through imperfect bLiSiness methods, Mil- Sena-inn State Grange, 1!i12......$ 8,176.28 lions could be fed on what, at present, is l-ixpenses execu‘tive coininittcc.. 892.10 lost through wasteful methods of distri- bution. \V‘hcn the consumer's dollar National Gi'aiige——sixtli degree ifces ........................... 73.50 leaches tlhe farmer’s pocketbook with only National Grange dues ......... 2,394.15 reasonable shrinkage from intermediate Fifth degree fees returned to agencies there will be an incentive to Pomona Granges .............. 38.50 better farming that will drive out ignor- \-\‘oman's Work committee ...... 294.15 ance, abolish waste and make farming Supplies purchased ....... ..... 381.43 in the highest degree profitable.” . Printing and stationery ....... 727.15 There are three steps which Will ‘lead Salaries State Grange officers... 1,680.00 us toward this much desired rcsuiIt—edu- (jo-opcration .................... 1,202.21 cation, conservation and co-operation. ()iganiza‘tion .................... 335.81 First, better education, for the farm bOy Supervision ..................... 1,545.88 and girl. an education that fits them for Rallies .................. , ........ 785.90 life in the open country, that gives the Lecturer’s department .‘....}).. 339,07 knowledge to understand and the skill to Secretary's ofiicc expenses ....... 368.72 control the agencies that bring success on Equal Suffrage campaign, spring the farm. Along this line we are making 1912 ........................... 200.00 progress. The teaching of agriculture in Advertising Grange contracts in ’the common schools and the interesting 197.85. of the young people in the everyday af- Micliigan Patron ............. Miscellaneous items ... .......... 3459.01 fairs of life‘ are bringing results. The —-————-— Grange as a School for the men and Total disbursements ..........$19,933-71 women of the farm is aiding to this end. Balance, cash on hand, Dec. 1. Second, conServatiOn. Making the world 1913 ............ ....... ........ 2,117.35 (1 better place in Which to live, looking toward a. definite goal in handling and using the resources which a beneficent Creator has placed in our hands. and that t goal, the .motto of the conservation lead- cit'fi ”The greatest good of the greatest number and for the longest time.” Third. co-operation. This is the day of , . _ 'o‘ ' __‘- ‘rv )‘ (r2 ' f Dues. were paid during the year by 819 his. business, of great aggregitions o , , , capital. The farmer has the capital, but subominnte oranges, these subO-dlthdt‘i‘S it is controlled by thousands of individu- reporting an aggregate membership 0f ale instead of a dozen. or perhaps only $22,100.06 Report of State Secretary. Secretary Hutciiins opened his rcpor with a corroboration of the foregoing statement of receipts and disbursements. 49 929. Only 13 counties lived up to the one. I'nder present conditions he can ’ "On new Grange in every not, compete With the vast organizations slogan of P about him. This proves the necessity of county,” and only one county added more the rte-organization of 'the farmer’s busi- than one subordinate to the roster, that ness. It means cO-operationw—getting.to- ‘hOnOr belonging to Gogei'bic which organ- gether. In the words of Governor’Eber- The counties contributing the hart, “Snuggloef “gr athttltilet 012591“ t Th: : same union e or a 'c arac erize remainder of the 15 new subordinates or- ‘other lines of business must be adopted ganized during the year are: Chippewa, by farmers, not to hinder _or restraig . eola, Mecosta, Cass, Van Buren, Bar- trade but to lessen the expense connecte 2(1):: Hillsdale Menominee IIoughton, therewith. The Grange is domg some fine , work along co-operaitive lines. It has Delta, hIidland and V‘ ashtenaw. TWO preached 'th’is beneficent gospel f0? forty Pomonas were Organized—one in Living~ years. »The results have been most val- ston and one in Gogebic county. The re- uable. We can not afford to stop ‘here. mainder of the Secretary’s report con- Let us profit by past experience and go . on to greater victories and successes. sisted of a well considered statement of But not all that has .paSSed for (to-01')- the‘rapldly changing agricultural condi- eratlon has been worthy of the name. Itions in which he nai‘ned education, con- May ‘I not indicate to you. briefly. the principles recognized as essential to ev- servatlon and co-operaition as the three ery itrue co-operative‘ ‘movement where great essentials t0 the further progress investment mustbe made? These iprln- of this great industry. ‘As sponsor for clples are: First, one vote for every no vote by proxy; investment has been made, doing business in the association, accord- ing to the amount of busineSs done. These are today admitted as necessary to success in any truly movement which requires the inveStmeni .Miichigan now has ‘a law providing for the organization of such associations. But this is on-Zy one Co-operavtion hiust be based on in each other. It must begin with the few who know each other and have similar interests. organization for a definite 'purpOse. The seed has been plant- ed; it must have time to sprout and grow of money to carry it on. step. confidence of people must first be local into blossom and fruitaige. I am told that the past is strewn with iwrecks of co-operative enterprises. amine them closely and you they were built on the monopolistic plan of profits on money invested rather than on business done—with money, T H E M I7C H I’dA'N‘ "FA-liM‘EBR pers0n owning stock in any such co-op- ‘erative association, and no more; second, third, the division of net profits, after a reasonable interest on ciaition. among those own state-wide co-operative poses. should be the the hour. whose Ex- will find that and not I would not be misunderstood. realizati‘On of this is not today. It can not be done for the farmer, he must do this work for himself. It can not be done by government assistance, it must be on his initiative. enterprises. but in neighborhood associations for definite pur- DEC. 27. 1913. manhood, casting the votes of the assoé The It can not begin with small In all these lines the Grange may and leader. Wise, sane and con- scientious leaders-hip is the great need of If the Grange has one function higher than another, it is the education There and development of such leaders among the farmers of America. This concludes the reports of important officers except that of the State Lecturer excellent Grange program will be made a feature of a future issue. tduching the recommendations of the committees will be given next week. model subordinate The action of the Grange EJJJ|IlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllI|llllllllllllllllllllllllllll|Ill|lllllllllllIllHlllIIllIllllllllIillllllIlllIlllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|IllllllllllllllllllllllLlé iNDExe FOR VOL. CXLI. From July],1913, to January 1, 1.914 51;”lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllilllllllilillllllllllfi Farm. Agriculture, outlook for. 22 Alfalfa, lime and inocu— . lation for ......... ..505 questions ............. 167 success with seeding in oats ............. 263 seeding in Emmet (30.383 American Road Congress, echoes of ........... 309 sugge-rtions at recent A Michigan dike farm. . .357 Anthracnose, of cucur- bits, the ............ Baling hay ............. 127 Baled hay, market re— quirements in ...... 414 Bean anthracnose ...... 165 in Genesee county ...126 Bean, diseases of Mich. 90 discasc situation, the.462 Blinl'weed, experience with ................ 26 Capital required to be- gin farming ... ..... 82 Common white grubs. . . 22 Concrete construction .. 65 for a pressure tank...33 silos, building of. . . . .382 Corn crop, harvesti-ng...237 cultivating improving by plant se— leicition Show for St. Clair Co.531 Corner posts, construc- tion of concrete ....166 Crop, a possible new for Michigan, ........... 507 a standard Michigan..285 Dairy farm, equipment of U'D to date ....... 21 labor problem on ...... 213 Disking vs. fall plowing.414 Drainage problems, tile draining a swamp, laying tile in‘ quick— sand ............... 415 Ensilage corn, red cob..167 Experiments on Kent county farms ...... 215 Fall plowing, some dis- advantages of ........ 359 Farmer, some handicaps of .................. 107 Farm equipment and la- bor question ........ 1 'forestry .............. 437 Farm Notes—Perina— neiit pastures for high land, propagating the rhuckleberc‘iies, bromus linermis as. a pasture igrasst, swect clover as a pasture crop, 2; 'the corn worm, eradicat- ing Canada t'histles. cow-peas as a catch crop in corn, 46.; fer- tilizer for alfalfa, erad- icating bindiweed, clip— ping a new seeding of alfalfa, sweet clover, an uneven growth of alfalfa, 67; fitting a. poor sand for alfalfa, 'pea Weevil, a catch crop after barley. sow- ing vetoh with self- Seeding rye, grasses f0r permanent pasture, cinquefoil, 90; harvest- ing millet, eradicating d'odder, fertilizer for wheat, catch crop for fall pasture, wild car- rots, 146: treatment 04’ «smut in seed wheat, making cowpea hay, marl as a soil correc- tive. disinfecting a cel- lar, essential: in ice- liouse construction. 'black medlck, 191; late cutting of alfalfa, 214: seeding Wheat in dry weather, cutting the second crop of clover, deepening a. well, 238: wild carrot, rye and' Ibunckw‘hentails crops for green manure, sweet clover as a pasture crop, 285; cutting vs. shredding corn fodder, the machine husker for farm use, the ser- _um treatment for hog cholera, 310; the King system of ventilation, methods of handling the spraying mixture- for potatoes, eradicat- ing wii‘eiw-orms, 01d vs. new beans for seed, 414; killing English sparrows ashes as a fertilizer, sulzduing the - quack grass, 487. Fertility, source of loss.310 Fertilizer, broadcasting for wheat ........... 239 more farmers should USe ................. 190 Fertilizing the fall-sown grain ............... 189 Fire protection on the farm ............... 438 Good roads, a word for.530 Grain, gtiod yield of....262 Granary floor, cement for the .......... 46, 106 GrasShopper, exterminat- ing in Kansas ...... 382 Hay cr0p, how to have in dry seasons ...... 2 Home improvement is profitable ........... 105 How 1 made my corn crop ................ 5‘55 Husnking and storing fod- der ................. 31 I-ce'house, is 'bain‘eme‘nt pracvtiicail ? .......... 22 for farm use .......... 439 Kalamazoo county corn contest ............. 9 Light seeding and re- sults in the west...358 Lillie Farmstead Notes. —2, 22, 45, 90. 106, 126, 145, 166, 215, 263, 286, 359, 438. Little stories about big farmers _ 4 Lima beans, growing for canning factory.463 Maine potato growing, ................... 438, 462 Making concrete mixer and elevator ....... 487 farming. land in cen- tral Michigan ...... 86 Manure losses .......... 358 Meadows. clipping the..166 Midhigan's new milk and cream law ......... 145 Michigan potato grow- ers organize ........ 486 Moisture, the art of con- trolling ............. 147 Moles, destroying ...... 147 Nebraska and Kansas crop conditions ....214 Notes from Ogemaw 00.530 Opportunities in north— ern Michigan 3 Potato blight ........... ‘89 Potatoes, fusarium wilt.165 how to produce good seed ................ . . 47 spraying .............. 47 Potavto industry, our. . . ..127 Progressive farming .238 Priming Shade trees, . . .384 Quack grass, eradicat- ing 530 Rainfall on crops . . . . . .......... 463 recording amount of. .106 Reclaiming swamp land.486 Road-s, building dirt ..... 23 Saginaw county school fair and exhibit ..... 555 Seed corn campaign in Genesee- county . . . .462 storing ........... 334, 381 another method of cur- ing ................. 486 Seed ear, characteristics of ideal ..‘..........262 Seeding IOSt ............106 Seed potatoes and uh crop ................ 190 obtaining free from bli .....310 w o Silo, filling the ......... 1 Soil fertility and mois- ture, observations . 23 Soil and fertilizer qucs— tions.—Marl, its val- ue and how to apply it, 310; kind of fer- tilizer to use on dif- ferent kinds of soil, 3'11; fall plowing, 335; composted vs. fresh stable ina- nurc, 358; compost- ing manure and weeds, Variation in corn plant‘s, apply- ing fertilizer in the fall, 415; lime for al- falfa, toip-dres'ing wheat with fertilizer, crimson clover for Michigan, 486; apply- ing commercial fer- tilizer by hand, 507; applying lime in win- ter, how much lime to apply, mix the fer- tilizer with the soil, value of muck as a Imanure for sandy land ................ ’55 State Fair, the ........ 262 Straiw problem, the ..... 166 Supplementing a. short Ihay crop ........... 261 Sweet clover, exiperience ‘ with ................ 333 Taxes on cut-over Mich- igan lands .......... 147 The dust mulch. .. . 45 The new seed law. . . . . . 45 The renter and the soil.166 The seed potaito prob— lem ................. 381 Tile drainage, observa- tions on ...........2 5 Township road buiidi'nghzs Turnips, rape and clover seeding ............. 333 Upper Peninsula. Insti— tute train .......... 383 \Vell, deepening a dug..310 an open .............. 335 West Michigan Fair the.238 What is profit in farm- ing ................. 530 W’heat after wheat ..... 106 breeding experimentr’ in .................. 238 preparing for the _ ..... 125 seeding ............... 189 Why boys leaVe the farm ...... 190, 358, 530 Why crop rotation?. . . .438 XVhy we should rotate crops .......... 506. 531 lee Stock. A good flytrap for the. stable .............. 192 Alfalfa, why every stack farmer Should grow. 68 Autumn care of the ewe flock .......... 466 Bu-tcihering on the farm.441 Calculating value of cat- tle feeds ........... 19 Cattle industry, a bright future for the ...... 4 shortage, the ......... Colts, feeding draft the Second winter ...... Cost of feeding store cattle 386 Ensilage, stariting breed— ing ewes on ........ 509 Feeding cows and calvesz66 [0 MIC/D ............... Feed the hay and straw on the farm ........ 168 Feeders’ Problems—A catch crop for the hog pasture, 92; rye vs. corn as a. ho feed, rel-aitive value 0 grass- es for hay, 108; rye vs. rye bnan, 192; al- falfa. vs. timothy hay. sheep racks for hay and grain, 337; buck- wiheat as a feed for live stock, feeding the 5 fix ‘\y £4 .3. .s g“ ,- {43. '\i DEC. 27. 1913. THEMIJCHioAN'FARMER 237599 ' 504 for cow stable .....109 orchard. ‘Tertilizing the 86 voting power in young :38. 9:013:33: cowhegges..l‘ft..%99§ n327 Saws' haste lice .. ....... 573 Repairing a stave 5110.428 Cabbage. black rot of..149 Corn. tentative grades beansmn in royf' beans . gives bloody milk, 59 161 sprained fertlock joint. .504 Romy milk and cream..290 storing for winter use. 432 formulatw --------- 204 218%? feeding an orphan . ; h'lfp . 85 Securing dairy cows ..... 49 Celeiic, or turnip rooted Caste of building a. cream- , as 8. gives Merior quality ligaments W. 85 Silo questions .. ........ 170 celery, culture of . .18 ..........45 0014. 466 gummemohs- milk ......... 329 stifle 1................ 8.) Soy beans for the silo. . 2.40 Cives . ............ 535 Distributing Michigans .- feed for egg}; food, 490 gives stringy milk..... 185 tendon ...............549 Summer dairying being Controlling the apples bean "0p ‘ ”5 as a 3“” 43 41 s mm meningitis 547 favored ............. 15 gleatat enemy 91 Does it Pay ‘0 Prom“ Fly, the stable """"" Cow-pox 4 p I‘ l s‘s - Y 139407 feeding of cows ...‘...151 Cover crops and soil clean milk? H0“ gghouse for ““1209 ggxfigvfi:;s"““l'2f‘igz 81,151,]? y 1 ' 141 Surfacing a concrete building ............ 42 Egg-marggtinfg, a direct 36 eri _‘, ............ ‘ ...... , .......... ... ..... ’ . V ’ l 0 ......‘cn. ................. 7 sort neck ............. 353 block 3110 ...... ._ Cucumber beetles, a rem me , , whfigrdigaganagenient'of 5 1313;311:1332. ............... 17 Stine lameness, 99, 207, 457, Sweet corn for silage...556 edy for ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 131 Encouraging direct sell- H li-tlt t ha dd . .119 weakness .. ..... ..307 Teaching the lieifer.....363 Cultivate the garden,,,_ 91mg ...... ' 01385, a. 511 3 u e y Diseased u or """ ' _ . . 1 w h 421131stallblishing a creamery 348 crop for ............417 Distemper .........121, 504 Stocking ...... 17, 231, 407 The labor DIO’l) em on Lure for’stung peac ... ExpleSS rates to be re- Hor-se breeding for the Dog has tapeworm ......504 Stomach worms ........51'1 T'h the adalrlrl fag; -;n-(-1213 Dalialrcow 011 the fru1t 18 duced ...... 452 farmer ............. 4 Drying up milk flow” .41 SULanales ....... ....... 59 e in r f d 71 l? "“0an Ii‘armeis sell live. stock Horses. colic in . ........ 242 Eczema ......... 85 Stone in bladder ........ cleam ra e ....... Decem e1 sue. 398 S succeSSifully ______ 3 t romote Effect of azoturia. ....525 bummer Clio-era ..... 99 The tuberculin test and _ fruit growers ....... 48 - _ Horseilhoeing. 0 P S . r 13— l-Z— h f r 1 t' de 911- Farm storage for per scientific ........... 198 of distemper .........329 Surfeit ........ 8.), D, o o t‘ e_ arme . --------- I Do apipe lees g ( ishable products ...228 Iii—breeding or in-and-in Elephantiasis .. ..... ....549 Swollen sheath 59 Ultra-Violet rays 110i 7’?“ crate! .............. l . Fhvo of butter injured ' .. .. 69 ‘ . id f tendons .............. 139‘ iSfactory for steriliz- Farm paper the, and the ‘ 1 . breeding ....... . Enlargement on s e o . . . 29 , . _ 03 by metals .. ........ 36 Inspectors are sent to neck ....... 99 jomts .............. ..307 .mg. milk ........ 1__ ' fruit gronel ...2}...4 Formal healing on corn foreign countries to Enlarged glandsn121 504 Sweenied Shoulder -'-7'-g$3 Y?“%‘“gn.‘l’f “31" test-”1’3 Fire ”“5“ 10.3”)” ““1 -. grades announced ..324 study meat . ........ 130 stifle ............. ....119 T‘hrush ..._..........30 . 14l Vitri _e ti‘e Ste 54on near. trees .....l).... .. Free- milk and cream International, the grand myroid glands .. ..... 161 Tuberculous of ese Warning.” 0 re 170 Frmt nickel. d 11 me— , tests, 277, 325. 343' 372, -. .1 Ihi awards 9 t ......... .. ...... 185 of liver of turkeys.- .377 milk m the home-~- made , .............. . .20 .4 -68 champ 0115 p j in s _ 329 X . h‘ m m, 129 l dad 432 429, 501, a , o 4, o . at .................. 571 Epile-p; y ........... ....4117 Turkeys have worms. 28 Vreig lng 19km \ ...... 556 ‘erG, the over— 011 ”432 Fruit exchange at St. Judging merinos at ag- Eversion of uterus......139 UmbLLC‘A'l hernia .. ..85, 1 Vi eight of s1 ag: ....... Garden, fall work 111.... -. Joseph _____________ 372 . . - . ....... uy ...... 418 h .............. 4m. ricultural fairs ..... 385 mostosis ...... 139, 185 Unhealthy fouls 251 “ hat feieds tOf I for t e ..... ‘ . f Fruit grading and mar- Keep the sheep or quit Feeding colt skim-milk. 407 Vertigo ...121‘. 329 431, 461 What knd o c0 11 .418 see-d, destiuctlon o 62 keting lalw criticized which? ..... ...... . hens ............. .34 31 “arts on colts nose....1 ensilage ”Mb-1" by 1110195 ----------- 86 .............. . ........ 324 Lambs, marketing the. .417 Fistula of head ......... 329 on teats, 59, 99, 307, 481, “"hat to bus to aance 87 Heant rot of trees ...... Grain, standardization of 81 nations for fattening of withers ............ 41 549. ratiOn _ ----- -------- Horticultin‘al Society Handling perishable pro— range ............... 48 Figtulous w:thers ...... 59 Weak heart ....... _5J Why (1068 1t9take 90 long 0 meeting, (”Hand ducts ............... 372 Live stock, advantages Food poison ............ 457 Weakness ......... 433. 0‘39 ' to chl.lrn.'...l.).1 ..... 295 county ......62. 149. 483 How Maine farmers sell of on the farm ...... 26 Foot soreness .......... 161 Wind-broken . ..... . ..... 4.17 Width ct" c011 Eta (3....193 HOPthUl'tUI‘lS'tS: import- potatoes ....... . 5.2 and the farm ......... 265 Fungus under belly_,,_, :13 wound on shin ........ 41 .“vlll a Silo pa). -------- 442 ant gathering of....288 How to organize a co- awurds at the State Ganget .............. 59, 255 W0 cums ....... .........231 Vt orld records .......... JOnathan' apple ........ 572 operative creamen 423 Fair, 304. 305. 306. 328-Govitre .................. 161 Wounded fetlock .. ..547 Poultry and Bees. Keep fruyt picked 111).... 91 In quest of a special meeting, lamib show at Hard milke: ............ 457 Dairy. An essential to poultry Lime-SUW‘hUF as a sun" marke-t ............. 276 the ................. 532 HeaVes ................. 121 A balanced ration With- ra‘. sing .... mer spray ........ Jackson citv market. 500 Live St‘mk news, 92' 130' Heifer gives bad mlk 48% out clover hay ..... 556 A peculhii trouble-280 solution, making “‘37,; Jakway fruit packing 193, 242, 266, 328, 361. Hernia .................. A great dairy exhibit...264 Bee’s ltalianizing ‘Or . the farm ........... 14g bill .......... ‘ _______ 30 386, 417, 441, 467, 490, Hide-bound ............ 504 School ........ 12 changing the race 70 Little peach .......... . Losses in marketing of 509, 533. Hip lameness .......... 85 A ninety—day” anllage 94 ' ’ Meeting of Grand Rulinds eggs ________________ 5 Live 5t°°k supply, in- HOg cholera """""" 207 com ........... vex.) firm should have fruit growers ---- 5?" Marketing green toma- creasing the ........ 68 Hole in side of tent ..... 329 Anti-fly campaign orow- e somec Melons in any went... b2 toes ________________ 204 Manure. returns from Holstein heifer leaks ng .‘ ....... 3 ..... 25 transferringllto-modern Michigan fTUIt l’Y‘OETPGCtS 86 Western New York’s Use of .......... 69 milk ............... 9 Baibcock. test instruc- hives .. .258 Muskmelons. experiments 'fi'uit crop .......... 232 Market 0111100k --------- 92 00W fails to come in tion for making ..... 25 reharmg'”t-(J.}”§,;{nté§- Wltll --------------- ,1 SitOrage apples ....... 276 MOdem methws Of pork heat """""""" 457‘ Bean meal vs. cooked 9 ing ...... 8 NOI‘them SPF ------- 9-303 the inferior 'apples....452 growing ............ 168 Horse pants badly 41 beans for catt1e_.n.418 Beekeeiiez‘s;”con-vention 553 Onion sevts, tall plantmg 0 Market milk and cream National breed meetings afraid of automobile Best grain to feed with Brahma the __ 57 ---------- ;----12~ tlude ............ 71 81 at InternatiODaJ, 557, 571 and motorcycle ..... silage etc ........... 36 Ca )aciti‘ of lle'filiéh;é'm ' .548 Orchard.'fall work 1n...480 Vfarkets outside the large Pastures they talk a-bout.27 Impactioii ....... . ....... ration for growing heif— Ch‘icks . care of the late improving one old .428 (”this ............... 402 Pigs and WSW ----1£---130 Imp“? ”god! 85 121 207 ens ................. . 3 {hatched . . “mes { """"" ééééé' "“ ‘Iii‘higan apples. to hem inflammation resu ing 3'7, 4 . - - 110241 , . renoval 01‘, a S“ - ‘ ..— sell ................. 16 Ltrom castrating ....168 Incilp-ie'nt lieaves ....17, 59 Bgltlfgggsifi, fizgicggtgain” 93 Colounlges. “eak‘ buildingnz ful .................. 0.1.1 market centers ......37& Pig Crop, finishing the-..217 Indigestion 59, 139, 207, 307, Certified milk produc- C010“ hOusevunter'lise Peach treeS, to hold in Nomid suggestions .....520 Pregnant animals, tcarge361 3:17, 35:33, $017, 431, 433, tion ................ 0 ()‘fl . 41 culieck ............... 131 No model co-operative and managomen o . 457, 4 a . _ """"""""" Ye ows --------------- organization ........ 04 Preparation for mating..337 Infected hock .......... 141 Cobgotigfi‘teg $3511.23???th conafiltfinfofiggféuon for 70 Pear blight ............ 508 Norah thshlg market . 93 Repairing a stave silo..168 udder ...59, 119 307, 504 Cow does not dry up. “170 Cull hens‘ during 5011116330 thrilps, fig‘hlting ........ 1.11 Observation on shipping Shall we “Save the Inflamed foot .......... 07 Cows aborting ........... Ducks feedin for the Plant lice on cabbage. . corn ................. calves" """"""" 242 Inflammation Of Skin best breed of ........ 511 market g “330 eradication of ------ no? Ottawa county celery Sheep feeding and agri— glands ............. Cow staible temperature impi'operly'ufedul.::. 142 Pop corn for the immenolg men unite W348 “inure ---------- - Influenza --------------- 504 of the ’ .............. 511 Eggs fame", of brguki'n'g' Pot-alto pits. covering.---34~ Dusting the middleman. 476 measle parasite ...... 386 Injured stifle ........... 41 CW“ beans M COWS and ill shipping 94 Pruning, sumlner ....... l’asteuiizinw milk at 10“, Prospects for Michigan udder ................. 17 hog-s ,5 worth of as food """" 7.0 Raspberry anthracnnse, temperatures ...... .140 farmers Knee- -s1)1ur.g ............ 17, Dairies improved through Essential details 01in: the destructive .....20. Potato crop the 1913.1.30 raising, profit_1ri ...... 68 Knuckling on fele fet- education ...... 12 door wintering of San Jose scale, the ...... 1:): prepm-gih poultry for the Shire horses, prizes for.. 69 lock ................ 99 Dairy NoteS.—'93 194‘ 213 Ibees' 482 this year ............. 456 consumel __________ 476 Silage for horses ..... ..466 Dan ngitis .............. 231 264, 338 387, 419 443 Fxperienceuihnoutdooi' parasite to control....508 Producers helieVe in ad— Silo, .tihe as a factor in Leg weakness .......... 141 Does corn ,silage injure ‘ wintering of bees 434 Selection of fruits for vertising the apple..20-i farm equipment 4 L035 0f appetite """" 481 dairy cows? ........ 8 Fall cle‘ining ".230 exihibition ------ 18: Profits on farm pi'od'uce State Fair, see Lve stock of partner ............. 85 Educational scoring c0n- F"esh Lair problemuiri Spraying vs. spurtlng...3lo to be investigated... 16 .a't the """"""" Luimlpjalw, 41 99 161 255’ test ................. 10 ‘ poultry housing 458 Squash bugs --------- ;.. 13 Russia's grain c1‘0ps....120, Swme, fomge crop fox-.337 504. Ensiloing beet tops ...... 290 Feese fattening """ 3.), State Hortwulturah bo- Sacrifices. to help fruit Team, the farm ........ 26 Luxation of stifle joint, 329, cornstalks ............ 313 (green. stuff and grit-”I458 ciety meeting. ,7,34_ 572 growers _____________ The farmer’s pork bar- 377 1 Feeding for bu tterufat.‘ 49 Hive the Heddoncuse'o'f ‘ Strawberries, an exact- Selling eggs through the rel ................. 490- Lymphangi'tls .. ........ 119 meg silo on top of old ' ' 117 ing crop ........... 28' creamerv ,,,,,,, 31 The International, 467, 529, Mare never lays doWn..573 en 'llnge ........... 17 Home-.m'irketin'of'hon- fall bearing .......... 376 f0, future delivery” ”252 532, 557,571. out of condition ..... 573 Finishing oft a, 007w sm- ev L g 491 results of fertilizing .352 the cidei apples ...... 252 The sheep industry and pants ................. 59 he ___________ 387 510 Henéy cropnthé ......... 186 Strialvube r5 bed, ienovat- Sensible LO- opeiation . ..568 the farm ----------- 216 Malignant fungus m n Flaxseed meal for calf. .510 marketing ' """" 410 ing the .............. ‘79 Shipping fluit by mail. .276 Wintering stock without wound .............. 13 Fly repellants ......... 40 proper care. of ”..“280 bed, the .............. 3111 Shoot huckiebeiry crop ............. ....385 Mam-mltisi .........;....433 Free milk and cream securing good 24 mulch ............131, 480 in MlUlllg‘" .........140 Veterinary. Mange ........ 52.1, 049. 571} tests, 218, 240, 290. 464 season closing'th.enu289 seasyu of 1913 ........ 149 Some [3111.895an the sell- Abnormal appetite 41 in cats ............... 25.1 Good prices received by Interest 1m poultrv stead- Summer among the hey- ing problem ........ 300 heat 231 Melano-sis .. ............ 281 breeders ............ 362 “V growing * ‘ 234 ries ................. 18 Students co- ~0perate in Abscess ........ 481 Muco-enteritis . ..... ,..523 Grain to feed to supple- Layers selectingthénumg Sulzer law, how u h - buying ....... 476 In ear 80 Mule has Slugglsh kid-5 ment pasture ,,,,,,, 418 winter selecting and working ............ 456 Studs the efficiency of on dog ----- 457 neyS --------------- with alfalfa .......... 418 mndmomng 210‘ Thorough cultivation is Dickens ..... 160 on hock ....... ..407 Nasal catarilh, 59, 327, 358 with clover hay ...... 439 Winter how té"m'3'ké needed in July ..... 18 Sulzei apple law in force on shoulder . ......... . 59 Navel infection ...... 17,161 with clover hay and pay, 25 Tomaltoes, cabbage and ............... .......120 Acidity of stomach ..... 17 NaVlcular disease ...... 207 com fodder ,,,,,,,,, 511 Laying boxes'for ' the co operation ........ 376 bill a success .........324 Anaemic ............ .. ... 99 Navlcular lameness ...23‘1 ’Wiflth cooked beams for ‘hens 289 Tree gro“ th and p: odul- ’10 orngnizg CO- -opepa- Astlhma ............. 59, 504 Nerv‘Ousnesls . ........ 59, 573 growing heifers ....464 Maintaining- Vigorin the tion ................ 372 tive elevators ......228 Barbwn‘e cut .. ...... 85 Obstruction in teat ..... 549 with corn fodder and turkex flock 524 Treesi imported, nearly Truck crops. handling. .120 Barren COWS» 59.231 407 Occult spavin lameness.353 iltraiw .............. 464 Maturm, puhets gh'e’h; tour million ........ 20$ Value of scales on the heifers --------------- 161 Old cow died of pared)“ with silage, clover hay tion bdemaude'd by 434 Tree surgery .......... 256 farm ............... 228 mare ...99, 139, 207, 255 sis 547 and fodder ......... 464 Michigan poultry show/5.594 Vegetables, full ........ 184 “arming to shippers of Barrenness. ...141, 353, 481 Open joint ......... 85, 327 Hay for ho ges but none Mite.“ new was" of bu t-I “ Vegetable gl-owers' con- fruit .............40.? Blind staggers ”...-”.431 Overlheagted mare ....... 59 for cows ,,,,,,,,,,, 533 tl‘i’ng ‘ .. .. 1 veri-t‘lon ............. 52 “he it right? ...... ....520 Blood pous0n ....... 99 Parasitic worms infes-t- Holsten breeders at (.d. Motilis "wax fiére'h’bohi 57 Vines and rosebushes, “Weights and measures 131de m}1k 1 ----------- 433 ing digestive amiar- Rapids ............. 15 Moultilig of fowls _____ 13 winter protection ..256 lalw enforced Bog spawn, 17. 99. 121, 139 a-tus ’ ................ 377 hold picnic ........... 315 Oaits sprouts 1:0,. winter VS'atering young tree-8.. 62 “‘ho must pay stalte milk Bone spawn ........ 17. 281 Partial dislocation of the How to handle milk de- green food ....... 8.) \‘Vin-ter iI)l‘0¢€'CthIl of license? ............ 37 spavm lameness ...... 549 iltifie joint. 207. 231, 327 livered at the home 194 Old hens unprofitable..‘..482 plants ............. 2408 “When the world’s wiheut Bony tumor ......... 504 Partial loss of DOWer. . 17 Is there danger of milk Open-front house unus: F C crop is harvested ..228 Bots 377 Paralysis .......... 431, 504 sever? .............. 09 ual “when“; “mus ""1 °mmer°°' Why market by parcel Bml‘lCh-i'tls ......u.......481 Partial paralysis .. ..... 57 Jones’ disease ,,,,,,,,,, 418 Poultry feeding, 162 186 :deiges holding beans for post ,,,,,,,,,,,, 544 Bruised knee ------- 547 PIBNOd C Ollh'thalmldu ~57§ Keep stables in sanitary 210' ’ ’ beater prkes ,,,,,,, 4 3 \i orld' s giain production leg ................... 17 Pigs have piles .......... 80 condition ,,,,,,,,,,, exlperimeilts .......... 186 the Nomid plan of sell— ......... .............300 udder - - 17 Tool each other ------- 141 Kingl system of ventila- houses for wintering ing butter .......... 95 Youi crops and your withers ..... .. ...... 481 Poll evil ..17, 121tlon ................ late pullets ......... 410 Apple advcitising stanlps markets ..500 Bursal swelling ..... 41. 99 Premature milk flow... 59 Large or small cows .12!) house, a hexagonal....434 .................... 37, 324 Your methods and your Bunches on COWS leg... 35 Punctured eye --------- 1 Live stock sanitary com- a made-over ......... 53 situation, the ........ 140 maikets ..........'..568 Caked udder, ........... 161 Puffed hock ........ . .161 mission sends cattle building for 100 hens 142 Attractiveness as a fuc- p l I Care of mlire'before and Retention of urine ...... 17 back to Ohio ”___.170 lice powder a. good torr in marketing of fact ca Science. after foalmg ------- Rheumatism, 17. 121. 161. Michigan co-w holds the .home_mad,; ________ 239 fruit ................ 0 Deter‘ior-aited grain for Choking ........... 504, 547 207, 301, 377,433,481,w0r1d’5 record ...... 264 giving the benefit of Canada's hay crop ...... 120 “food ....... ...... 84 Choked on oats ......... 327 504. creamery managers and stubble fie‘ids _______ 24 Carlot shipments, dbser- Eggs as f00d ..526, 550 Chorea ......... 573 Rheumatic cows ........327 owners meet ....... 241 killing and dressing” .186 vaition on .......... 1 rm manuies, waste of 20 Chronic bronchitis ..433 Ridgling ..... 121 new milk and cream mld- season activities” 57 Cereal crop of the north- sanitary ‘problems in— contracted hoofs .. ..307 Right age to breed mare 99 law ....... . . ...... 147 on small areas ..... 94 em hemisphere 37 cidenlt to waste of, 107, cough ........ 17 121 231 Rin-gbone ------ 17. 185. 353 Milking time .. ..... ....442 un-tlhreshed grain 'for ' 13 Chicks, marketing on a 148. cracked heels ----- 1R1ng‘W0rm ..............547 Model c-czW stall, the.....419 Bobbing. a case of .....182 large scale ........ . 36 Fertilizers, home-mixing diarrhoea ............ .3213 on calves ............327 Muitual dairymen’g asso- Squall) raising ......... .117 City markets 0f lV’IiCllH544 0f ............ ......406 fistula of wiflhers ....541 Bearer ...............307 elation meets ..... 218 State Fair’s greajt poul': Cities seeking better and manures ......... 336,. garget ..............207 Scouts ............ 7, .451 National dairy show....388 try show ' ....... 230 marketing conditions Fertility, the mainte- laminitis ....... ......504 in calves ............. 17 Oat and pea silage ..... 533 The average farmer and ................... .372 nance of .. ....287, 312 stocking ...... ...433 Scrotal hernia ......... 85 Old or new cottonseed , the hen _ _. . 432 Collecting money from Forage crops for swine. 40 thickened condition of tumors ...... .........119 meal ---------- -- ~489 Turkeys, breeds.“ """ 410 mail boxes ....... . .228 Giound phosphate rock hind leg Shoulder lameness, 353, 481 Pea meal for cows ...... 464 finishing for holiday Colleges help fnimeis to not an economical Cholera. ............_504 525 weakness .............231 Problems of the dairy trade 453 market products ----- 37 fertilizer ..... ......104 Cofl‘ln joint lameness...231 Sidebone .207 farm ............... 4 2 selecting the hr'éééi'hé'gm Consumers benefit by the Hog cholera, 233, 243, 267 Cold abscess ..........161 Simple catamh ..... ...377 Ptomaine poisoning due Turning hone crops into -‘ Nomid system ...... 16 How to detect adulter— Collar galls 040-0-0--¢--139 catarnl-i or infectious to_unsanitary prac- cash . 'y” Co—operaitlon and busi- ated vevtdh seed ....148 Colt has lice ...........504 mtarrih in turkeys.. 99 tices . ............... 49 Ventilating-the“ poultry ness experience.....180 Laboratorv Report. —Ap- Condition powder for SlaVering ....... 525 Pulttlng cornstalks in 'hOuse ‘ .. ‘begin in small Way... 16 . plying lime after ap- ihorse ...............119 Sore neck ....... ....... 307 the silo ............ 464 Wording offlrolip "‘:"'524 limitation on member- plying clover seed, Conjunctivitis ..........407 tail ..........._. ....... 59 Raising calves without When to introduce. éhe shit) in ...... 81 ropy bread, 209; Contagious abortion .... 59 mm: ..............85, 431 skim- milk ....... .. .315 young queens 57 manager for ....... 160 filters vs. pure wat— or infectious ophthal throat .327, 377 525 Ration, a good ...... ...489 , ‘ "'«"' reoOgnized by leading or, 233; feed defini- mla So. does not come in Reasons why dairying is Hort'W'tw'0-. Students . ......... tlon, 336, 360, 405; Constipation ........_..‘.. eat .......... . 525 a profitable business.339 Apple cider, making.....288~ Schooling members in. 60 - applying lime and Couch .........161 43-1. 457 recovered from c hoist-a. Remodeling a. basement crop, harvesting 313.156 alien-id be areason for 36 » manure. clarl . 120 61111-424 vinega r, cider 440; the overarun prob- lem, keeping cider sweet ............... 465 Manures and fertilizers..416 changes during the 10t- ting of ......... 44,0 465 Oysters as food ........ 502 Phosphoric acid and pot— ash, conservation of.360 Phosphorus, availability of in the soil ........ 84 Plants, water require- ments of ........... 5 Potato diseaSe, ne-w 20 Soil fertility, sodium salts in relation to..171 Tube: '(19 bacilli fate of outside animal body. 559 Tube1culosis . . . . . . . .114, 129 110'“ a herd is infected with EdltOrial. A co-operative mana- gers' convention A farmers’ 12’) co—op- erative association. ..468 A new idea in farmers' meetings ........... Agricultural opportunities lit‘or young men ..... 420 “As others see us" ..536 Back to the lan1l.......390 Bankers organize to pro- mote agriculture. . . . Better '.oads cheaply se- cured .............. 7 Boys' and girls’ clubs...420 for Michigan ....... 492 Boys' corn club work..560 Business and the banks.110 Call when at the State Fair ................ 220 Cause and prevention of fires ................ 340 Congress and the parcel post ................ Crop prospects and prices .............. 268 Currency bill amend- ments .............. 32 Detioit the good roads center .............. 2. Diverting VS. 111mg highways ........... 4112 Economic produttion 28 Educational 11111'1111tuniti ( 1 for faith boys ......220 Expend' tut es for publit roads ................ 1‘11. Farming as 11 busi11ess.]12 Farm management stud— ies ................. 468 Getting the most for the money ..............390 Government regul ition. .110 Health of the country selliool c'hildren ..... 244 Help the f1e>'h ai1' pro- paganda ............ 512 HOW to help a good cause .............. 420 Important to bean grow- ers ................. 220 Land title registration. . 72 Lessons from the road conzgress ...........316 Live stock freight rates.536 Lumber for farm use...]52 Maintenance of the high— ways ............... 196 Meats and food inspec- tion ................. Blichigan i'armcrs’ co-op- erativc association. ..390 Mik-higan’s prosperous agriculture ... .220, 340 Migratory bird protoc- tlttll ................. 340 More educated farmers for Michigan National aid to agricul- ture bird protection crorp asSOciation ...... 536 One pthase of agricultur- al credit Our beef industry... ...364 crop reporting services ....................... 340 Packing Uhe Christmas parcels Parcel post service en- larged .............. 560 Plan to attend the big, fairs ................ Prepa1ing for the insti- tutes ............... 444 Production 11nd prices..244 Progress of the currency bill ................. 268 Profit in farming. . . . . . ..536 Publi1 health 1:111e shoe leg ‘1is11tion l'uial credi t and co— op- eration ............. 268 Santa. Claus in transi- itio11'160 Saving labor in the home. Seeing the State Fail'..196 Sheep breeders tackle the (1115.: question .. ..;13 D C? Shipping products by parcel post ......... 244 Size of farm vs. profits. 72 Social center work in Vi'isconsin .......... South ._'\me1ican liVe StOCk ............... 420 Some C‘hris'tmas don't s.'160 Thanksgiving 468 The American commis- sion ’5 wo1k ......... 96 report ................ 172 The American road con- gress ... ............. 196 The agricultural fairs..3l6 The bankers and the currency bill ...... 172 The bean situation ..492 The currency reform bill 50 The extent of rural in- debtedness ......... 364 The farm water supply. 364 The farmer’s influence. 132 "The farmer and the fairs THE' MICHIGAN FARMER ............. .........162 whys and wherefores The federal government of money .. ...... . .447 and good roads. .292 Spice, the shOpper ...... 539 The live stock situation. 28 Stung, or the trapper‘s The line fence ........ . retaliation ......... . The Mexican problem...468 The alpha and omega of The Michigan alfalfa an apple ........... 445 campaign .......... 6 The awakening of Hilary The need of currency re- Dore ............... tfor'm legislation....6, 28 The birch tree ......... 421 The parcel post situation The Ezekiel strike ...... 317 ....................... 1 The field of stars . . . . . .223 The peddler nui:ance... 96 The pm of of the puddin 1316 The quarantine against potatoes ............ 5 The seed selection cam- paign ............... The State Fair ......... 50 The value of farm pa- pers The veal (alf problem .244 '10 piomote seed selec- tion ................ 15 Town vs. country ....... 316 U. S. approves the cur- rency bill ........... 64 Magazine Section. A boy‘s vacation ........ 75 the deatf.21)5 that Was 4 A business for A composition new A day‘s Oh i e k am a 11 ga. A homesteader's tent... ramble on the .111, 134 112 A neighborly revenge...447 A plea for the Christ— mas tree ........... 540 .\ summe: in the Him- alayas .............. 29 A test of e11duranve.....134 A tippler among birds..223 A “true gentleman's" ths ............... A vanished pleasure of our \'1ster\e:11s ..... 293 All made oi barrels.... 76 An interesting old Scot- tish CkiSth' .......... 31 An unexpected swap. . . .364 Auld Lang Syne ........ 470 lie prepared ............ 201 Betty's art gallery 44.: Birds and the. Weathex'.. 9 in winter ............ 424 ll'ead upon the waters.318 (‘11111111ing with daddy 10 t}.1l_1bagc 'vs. stars and other things ......... 3 92 Chasing the circel ...... 171 (‘oekroat'hes and their behavior ............ 155 Cornstalk furniture for doll's house , ,......;‘1::9 lloetol' Buck .. . . . . . . . . .7116 Dorothy Fluff and the Slyei' Bells ....75. 101 l'lliZabet‘h‘s introduction to Thanksgiving ....4139 Everyday epigramst. . . ...565 Fighting with greater efficiency ........... 153 Find-Eng a fortune in My taming From the tunnel's mouth the forest to Christmas 11111'101' ............... 1162 111011ng back to days of the pioneer ........ 133 Habits of deer in tivity Hillary llawkins‘ crack- ling logs ........... 199 His Majesty, King 1.110.. 32 Holidays of Dominican republic llotw l’erry >‘aV'etl the northwest .......... 197 to train dogs .......... 319 111 default of appearance influence of civilization on birds ............ 515 Jack's victory .......... 31 Johnny Appleseed, apostle of apple growing 2.69 .losia'h‘s housekeeping. .113 '.lustt seeing ............. 495 Knowledge of na1tu1e.. .216 Life ftory of '11. Michigan pioneer ............. 22 Little farm fables, 9, 471, .4 . Little dro-p-tthe—1h;1ndger- eiief ................ 562 Man and beast 1'11 llussia ....................... 51., Marriage customs among the Balkans ........ 74 Marie and 111111 ........ 271 Mai-bin quarrying in \‘er- mont ............... 340 Mishaps of the four 31's Or 11 'l1er nuttiujv' p.11t\ ....365 Mlstteries of bird migra- ‘ tipn ..... . .......... 366 Old friends ............ 223 Unly one ............... 424 (1111' thanks today ...... 472 6 Hutdoor basketball ...... 58 Outwitting a red fox...446 1‘111111'11' furniture for the little folks ........395 Peggy and 1111111....‘135, .363 1‘eru as an agricultural 118501: ............... 173 Portland headlight .493 Preserving the autmun leaves .............. 2 Hueer 11cc1de11ts to hunt- ers ................ Queer farming methods in Latin- America .391 Rose of paradise valley.222 Semi—centennial of an immortal utterance. .446 Shooting squirrels around the cornfield ..... . . Side lights on Lincoln’s c-"hdrac'ter' ........... 446 p'rovokers, 33, 101, Smile . 114,174,344, 540. Some hints for young trappers T‘he four-leaved clove-r.. 9 The boy‘ who was differ- ent ............ 8 The boys’ business ven- ture ................ 177 The cowb'ird a. homeless vagrant ............. 96 The deferred rewatd 245 The first speech ....... 343 The high cost of living. 5.14 The gift of conveisation3 The ingenious Mr. Jelly 10 The lion in the water main ............... 52 The lost opogsum ...... 112 The largest indoor flow- er exchange ........ 153 The little brown bird...271 The living life, line ...... 517 The lonely Miss Bigga‘...5l3 The natiOn’s ultimatum. I The old Saugautuck ferry1 ...................... 3 7 The passing of the old turnpike hotel ..... 133 The revenuer .......... 270 ’l he story of platinum. 421 'l he stozmy tu'lip ........ 259 ’l he schoolhouse a social center .............. The sword of prayer ..134 The speed of bird migra- tion ................ 27] The silver voice ........ 272 The true story that Grandma told ...... 31 The treasure of the fox {den ................. 175 The value of a s111'1e.565 The value oi the ugly toad ................ ’.1‘111- Ward's’ tity prop- erty ................ 5 T'he way of l11111e.......294 The weather eroakcr...342 Taking money from the frog; pond ..........2 5 Tratpping the unsuspie- ions muskrat ....... 42:: the mink 11nd weasel. ....................... 5 5 Two up-to—date weather vanes ............... '14 Two ways of giving....563 l'ntto t‘hyselt‘ be t1'ue...-i22 \\'1h1-n llrady was on the map ................ 71 the ceiling fell ......... :10 the wind played tag... 77 White raiment...' ....... 200 Yesterday‘s luxur.es are today‘s necessi-t1es ..273 POETRY. A desperate character..395 A laddie ............... 31 A little lad's plea ...... 516 A possible reason ...... 225 A way of his own ...... 297 An ea111est i11vitattion..343 .\11 old bureau drawer..222 Aspiration .............. 80 Be kind ................ 247 Berries that are good.. 32 Blackberry time ....... 7" Ohantielter and Sir key- 111 ................ 1138 Childhood' s home ...... 4415 (311111131 weathei coming..296 Don‘t Wait for iu.ek....397 Expert needed ......... 112 Family Christmas greet- ings ........ 565 Grandmother fifty years ago ............. 198 Halloween .............. 367 Her Christmas dilemma. 497 His worth 2 independence Day ... . . 8 Indian summer days. . . .365 Johnny's soliloquy .. . . . 75 Lines on Lincoln ....... 446 Moving pictures ....... 470 Mud pies ............... 76 Not a sane Fourth , , .. 9 ltuination .............. 425 Santa Claus 1913 ....... 562 S11 ighing ............... 449 Thanksgiving courtshirp. 473 time 469 The Xlnas my shop. ..340 ’.lhe classes 2" .................. The day befoze Thanks- giving ..... 473 The deserted mill ....... 75 The list . snowflakes . .423 The golden c'hain ...... 344 The great gift ......... 538 The gun’s range ...... 177 The little things that mother did ......... The quest .............. 368 The rustling of the corn.175 T'he seasons of life 54 The squirrel ........... 293 The tillers of the soil.. 113 The under dotg ......... 495 The worker ............ 271 'l‘htraslh it out .......... 366 To a little maid ......... 223 Troubles ............... 17 Incle Hi’s philosophy. 318 Ye Editor .......... .. .177 Yet a little while ...... 295 Household. ,A baby jumper ........ 400 A busyd woman's flower sard A daintye'n dressing jacket from old shirt waist 34 S A one- -piece apron .....542 A revival of applique quilts ................. 398 A rural, , '3 club” .415‘ A sign ‘ _ 3113111195.. -.._2oz_ ,A toast to old age ...... 541 A word from a. Martha..450 About lemons 12 An easy way to make bread 3 An evening with books. .368 Are We thankful? ....... 450 Are you a street sainlt?.11 Baby in winter '5 Beauty hints that' are better left alone. ...346 Bed bugs, to exterminate ........ ....................... .79 Bell pepper recipes ...... 34 Black biead ........... 451 read, one way of mak- ing .................. 78 Business training of the faim girls .......... 4 Cakes for the holidays.. “Camphor compounds’ without camphor .179 Canning club girls» to visit \Vastiiington .451 Christmas decorations. ..541 gifts for the WOman of little leisure. ....... 541 hints ................. 542 Colds and how to cute them ............... 5 Common sense VS. over- mueh clhild stud\ 7S Corn meal rec pes ...... 497 Critic'izing parents be- fore ohildren ., ...321 (‘roc‘het patterns. . . .56, 102 Day of the jOy o-f giving.566 Department of agricul- ture to improve its service for women..347 Don‘t be in a hurry to “get even" ......... 102 Do you carry a ton of water each week? .370 Economy ............... Education vs. health. . . .298 Enjoying poor health...474 Fa Sh'ions 12, 35, 56, 80, 103. 116,137,179, 203, 227,. 250. 322. 371, 401, 427 475, 497. 519, 542. Fashion hints .......... 299 Flowers for the home in winter .............. 48 for the table ........ 232 For the thin w'o'n11111....‘{"_' Fresh air children a.“ agwin ready for va- cattion .............. l] F11r1‘1islhing the home... .102 Giape and pumpkin but— tti .................. 226 Halloween hints .......371 liaptpy memories vs. a bank account ...... 55 Handy little make-shifts ....................... ..3 Have you found your “c.111ing?” .......... -6 Home piesei‘ves Vs. store products ........... 13 Home queries, 11, 80, 116 1117. 179, 203, 227 275, 299, 399. 496_ )42, 566_ How to be friends with the small tots . 78 to iron ................ ‘22] one mother deseIted 'her child ............ 368 'the motherIeSs house— wife keeps busy .398 liurrying the young folks 111’ the {aim ........ 1:16 If you would be 1101111— lar ................. 1171 lndividudism 1none mad 474 1n the time of colds ..... '23 Instructions on making Clhristmas candies. ..518 Ironing day helps ....... 115 Keetping cool ........... 12 food in summer ....... 80 Laundry day helps ...... 274 Lab01 savus ............. 15 Late autumn gardening. 150 long lints and quiet col— o1s i1111t111 e 111] suits ....................... 22‘ Moira in dresser se: 1rfr'1. 519 Muttliers' eXtt'llSiOll work in Detroit .......... 426 Naming the baby ...... 79 Non-scientific diet sys- tems ................ 400 Novel Xmas gifts ....... 566 (me more e,ult teaching lid“; to e'it .......... 178 ”or mother’ s W'a) of “doing up" fruit.. .103 I"‘e worries .............’.1.‘1 1’1 11 corn edging ...“:47 Preparing fruit for win- ter .......... ........202 l‘um-pkin recipes ....... 211 l’uslhting on the lines... .34 Qtuieter colors in fall styles ............... 116 Rose time in June and I)Qi‘t'nlh€1' Recipes—Lemon sponge cake, baked onions. chicken rolls with peas. 80; lemon cus- tard pic, peas with lamtb. gra ml 111 1 wt 11 er’ s cough: candy, cherry .pie, peach cake, green peas with bacon. mock peach pie, juditha, g00seberry Dulding, fruit cake, my favor— ite cake, uncooked chili sauce or relis’h, pickles cold process, outcu'mtber pickles, to- mate sou'p, 179; waln-u't candy, punmtpkin frit- tens, ctharlotte russe, pound cake, baked egg plant, hot chocolate sauce for ice cream. broiled mackerel, broil- ed lamb chops. boiled meats. dhican livers, cannelon of beef, cof-. feeAwlhitp, devil’s food, 275; baked apples chocolate icing,” moth- .......... 117 er’s cocoanut cake, princess pudding, warm bread, ' sugar cookies, pork cake....401 Sausage for market... 78 Sewing hints Short cuts to house- keeping, 35, 80, 116, 323. 347, 401, 367. Some needs of our rural schools of the fabric terms..102 simple home remed.e-s.136 Something for others. . . .116 Sti'tohes in time ......... 2.30 That greatest household pest 3 The baking of a pie.... blessings of freedom...4136 common mintele ..398 blessing of being busy ................ ....................... 497 emergency shelf . 323 Greek bath ........... 401 high cost of living . . . .567 handy kitchen table..322 'liouSewife’s dreSs. . . ...-174 girl who can‘t go back.136 left-over roast ........ 321 ideal kitchen . . . ...203 joy of living .......... 274 preServation of grapes and unfermentted grape juice ......... 298 right brand Of honesty ....................... 248 most successful man. .226 use of water in sick- ness 'wayside tea room 78 Sand table ............. 370 To save fresh meat in summer ............ 275 Vegetable dishes ...... 475 “‘ha-t to do when you cant sleep \\"hen troubles tr..ouble 116 outdom sleeping is or— dered ............... 248 seeking is not iinding.346 XVlhere the family might help m'ot'he'r . . . . . . . .518 “"hy not be a part of the big world? .... . . . . .566 not make work easy?.l78 VVit'h braid and thread. 34 \\'inter preservation 0f summer bulbs ......347 plants groWn in wartei'.567 Grange. Among the Live Gr-1'1nges. 19. 43. 63, 87, 97, 123. 143, 189, 211, 235, 2.39, 283, 307, 379, 435, 483. 527. 715]. Conducting plowing 0011- tests ................ 189 Duty of a Granger ...... 283 14‘ive—c1'1unty rally at Traverse City .. . . .259 Grange in other S't:lt€'>¢..233 rally notes ........... 189 Helping one aonther in' Grange activities .483 Home gavt’herings .123, 14?. “it can't he done" ...... 19 Leelan:1u l’numona an] its prostpe-tv'ts ........... 5. National Grange notes..551 Hue way one Grange... 1:111th .............. 379 l’etl’ngogs help Grange workers ............ 143 State Grange meeting at Flint .575 Tariff situation from the Granoe standpoint .. 87 broad, unselfish character of the Grange ideal Granger National ‘.range meeting ............ 503 l'tilizing non—talkers 87 Visiting upper peninsula Oranges ......... 43, 63 \\'asthi11g1ton Statt (lounge 1 Th e a: to The Grange and The \\ oik oi anothei Grange \c111 “1th l’lymouth Farmers’ Clubs. Club Discussions. 19, 43, 63, 87, 97, 123, 143, 189, 211, 307, 355, 379, 435, 459, .303, 527, 574. 1‘lub flirs ...... 435, 459, 503 Educational opportuni- rt1es for the Farm— ers' Clubs ......... 189 'val'ue of novels ....... 123 Fal‘niers’ Clubs in Min- nesota 459, 483, 503, 574 Grange. 43 Land 1 tie registration in Ohio~ ......... 43, 63, S7 lllemory day 1111: tory. . . ..259 sentiment ............ 283 Outside talent for the Club program ...... .35 PrOgram for the annual meeting ............ 83 Should the production of pure-bred Stock be encouraged? ........ » 87 The assOeiational meet— ing ............. 543, 574 The Club vacation 1.211 The Farmers' Clutb fair.143 in other states ....... 143 as a co-ovpera'tive unit 19 The Torrens system of land transfers ..... 19 Vallue of education ...... 163 Illustrations. A Christmas hyacinth. .563 Alfalfa field 550 field. farm, of. Henry Brad'hagen Appliances? labm-gaving made of apples. 269 b ossoms _- 4 Articles made from bar- _ rels 1 . .. 76 ........... ....... .DEC. 27, 11913. .1». » ; An earnest invitation. ..234 Baby Jumper, a. . . . . . . .004 Barn, Oakland county..105 Baskets 'for marketing fruit ................ 60 for picking plums. . . . 184 Betty’s art gallery. . . . .445 Bi-llboardS, disfiguring ..101’) Birch trees ............421 Bliss alfalfa club .. . . . . 89 Boy and collie dog...... 9 and his corn field . .423 helping father . . . . .223 w'hittling 9 with corn 31 Bieeding stock need ex- ercise ..... ...... 49 Butte1fly farming .537 Cawdor castle . . . . . . . .. 51 Celery field . . . . ....... 413 Champi'in carioad of fat Steel‘s at Interna- tional ........... .529 fat steer at the Inte1- national ............ 557 Chickamauga, the ......111 Child and pony . . . . .271 Cloverland farm special ttrain ....... 0 Concrete post . . . . . ..... 66 foundatoin for poultry house ............. . 3110, built by Joseph‘ Emery ............... Corn cro-p on farm of J. K. Johnson ..... . . ..238 crib, a metal . . . . . .261 field ............. . . . . .333 stalk furniture for doll house ............... 539 Crochet designS, 34, 56, 102, 156. Cotw stallk a model . 419 Dairy barns ............ 145 herd ............. 21, 213 Deserted mill, the ..... 75 “Doctor Buck" ......... 516 Drain, an outlet ....... 485 Dredging ou'tiit ........ 485 Early potato crop, Kal— kaska county ...... 166 Egg container ......... 568 Fan'm forestry . ......... 437 home, a .............. 309 Flower exchange, the largest ............. 153 Films new Masonic Temple ............. 575 F'y trap for stable ...... 192 Fox terrier, a ....... ...319 Frog pond, Uhe ......... 245 Glenn Frisbie and his pony .......... . .367 Grain stacks ........... 261 1,;1'ange Rally at Trav- erse City ........ .259 llaving run on the farm .................... . ..223 llive. the Heddon ...... 117 ice cream plant and an- to dE'IiVe'y ......... 402 Kitten. a ............... 75 Map of lower Michigan. 372 \la1ble qua: '1'\ing in Ver- mont Old Michigan mill. the.. 31 1,1111 Staugatut'k ferry. . . .317 One-piece apron ....... 542 Orchard at fruit picking time 42 Outdoor basketball, of ............. 11verloz1ded fruit. tree. Peggy and Pekin ducks l’enry. Cmeotlore l’erry memorial column.197 l‘et‘ry's birthplace ...... 199 l‘lymout'h Grange, home of ............... 43 Portland head light. . . ..493 Poultry flock, Mrs. lieemer‘s ........... 410 house ............ 142,410 1101150, a cement bl_.0ck 210 a hexagon: 11 .......... 434 on faim of T‘hos. Smith ....4 ....... game .. 53 .432 Quilt designs .......... 398 Ram, property of E. N. BiFsell .............. 385 Rea-per, an old time....133 11es1.dence of Mr. Howard, Berrien county ..535 ltoad in Hills'tlale county ....................... 25 Road—building ou'tfit .125 Red cob ensilage corn..167 Rye field, Benzie county ....................... 183' Scenes in Russia .......513 in Mexico ............ 391 Scene in farmers‘ store, C‘hicago ............ 2 Scenes in India ......... 29 in Lee'an'au c0ur11ty...459 in Peru ‘ .............. 173 on Michigan (like farm ‘ ....................... 57 Seed corn, devices for storing ........ 382 lack ....... ............381 of ideal tvpe ......... 381 Silo of conmete block.. 55 Spice, the shopper .....539' Squirrel, a pet ......... 293 State agricultural socie- ty officers .......... 45 Sugar beet field, farm of A. Randall ...... 285 Sugar beet field, farm of F. L. OhiSholm ..285 Tent for boys’ vacation 75 a homesteader’s ..... 113 Thanksgiving frontis- ' piece ............... Toulouse geese of Mrs Heemer ............ 354 Turnpike hotel, an old. 133 The Christmas tree. 9 Views on farm of Mr Symes .............. 2‘21 Vinegar, a carload of. .452 Walker, F. E., Sup-t. of State» Fair grounds. 172' Weather vanes ..... 154 lV'heat 11911115211011 Co. .189 Wilken,’ a. aF- A ..... . ., . 408-; f\. N __ 2... A11 “~‘Ity€‘ .1 first“ " 1'4. 1. , . an ”human"? . . ‘..-Wynn. a .