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SOme Phases of the Haying Problem.





EARS ago, when natural grasses



'and timothy furnished the main



supply of hay, the harvesting of

the crop was a simple operation with

small exposure to the weather. But

since the more general growth of clo-

ver and alfalfa plants for hay, farmers

are finding it far more perplexing to

secure the crop without damage. Hay

from 'clover and alfalfa cut green and

properly cured, is more palatable and

nutritious than hay dried before it is

cut, and is worth working for. All

kinds of stock relish clever and alfal-

fa hay, and properly used it reduces

the cost and adds to the efficiency of

the ration. Add to this the larger

yield and the permanent enrichment

of the soil by the growing of these

nitrogen gathering plants, and we can

readily understand why the farmers

of America must gradually turn their

attention more and more to the pro—

duction of these proteinaceous hay

crops and grow fewer acres of grass

for winter feeding.





AW Wires-should be





made. for securing the hay crop. The

man ‘ who stands his





it should be cut. If it can be cut when

the. little shoots have started out

about an inch from the crown, it

yields a better hay and grows up

again more readily than if cut at any.

other time. This brings the first cut-

ting a few days ahead of the first cut-

ting of clover. It pays to out these

crops early so that a vigorous second

growth will start up rapidly. Many

farmers sacrifice the real value of

their hay for the ease and satisfac-

tion of cutting and hauling it to the





'barn the same day. Others go to the





extreme of cutting it when its chief

asset is water and an expanding root

system capable of gathering and stor-

ing great quantities of animal food if

allowed to stand a few days longer.

If we have a large acreage we must

begin cutting early before the grass is

just right, but it is wrong to out half-

grown clover and alfalfa;



It is always a perplexing problem

at haying time to keep up the other

activities on the farm so that the

crops andstock will not be neglected.

The efficient farm manager aims to





planted. The interference of haying

with these cultivated crops is very

frequent and disastrous. It is a situ-

ation where one must weigh the val-

ue of his hay and cultivated crops

against the wages of extra men and

get them if he can. As a rule, it pays

to hire extra hands early and get the

work in shape so that the haying may

be rushed to the limit when the great

crush of work comes. It is far easier

to rush the work of securing the hay

crop than it is to have the work rush

you.



In the eastern and middle-western

states precautions should be taken

against an undue exposure of the hay

to weather hazards, especially in the

early summer. At best it requires

skill and sound judgment to make hay

during catchy weather, for in these

localities early haying comes at a

time when the Weather is uncertain.

It is easy to tell how tollinake good

hay when the sun shines and to crit-

icize good judgment that has been

thwarted by rainy weather, but it is

beyond the power of any man to make





cecks, escape drying to brittleness

and breaking off from the stems. 0p-

ened up the morning of the third day

the moisture having gone from the

stems to the leaves during the sweat-

ing- process quickly evaporates and

the hay is ready to haul to the mow

immediately after noon.



Hay cocks and covers are essential

to the proper curing of the first cut-

tings of clover and alfalfa. Clover

and alfalfa cocked and covered with

cloth covers, so far as immunity from

water soaking is concerned, has a

great advantage, but the reason so

many farmers object to this method

is because it precludes the use of the

hay-loader. The additional expense

of curing the crop in the cock will

amount to nearly seventy-five cents a

ton, but it is easy to see that much

difference between bright, clean hay

with the leaves on, and a mass of

bleached, naked stems. Clover and

alfalfa leaves are about as valuable

pound for pound as wheat bran, con-

sequently every effort should be made

to save them in a palatable and nu-

tritious form. The de-

terioration from ex-





 





mower in a fence cor-

ner from July to June

never knows whether

it will run through

another season or not.

Whatever shelter the

mower has had, it

needs an overhauling





before going to the

field. The boxings,

bolts and s c r e w s





should be examined,

everything loose

should be tightened

and anything bent or

sprung out of line

should be adjusted. A

few hours spent in

getting the mower

ready for the field

is cheap insurance

against ruinous delays

for small repairs and

heavy expense for ser-

ious breakage. Get

the machine tuned up

so that the only noise

it makes is a droning

hum. All the power

and wear that goes to

make a riotous noise

when the machine be-

gins to out soon eats

its life away until the noisy thing is

choked into protracted silence. Rakes,

tedders and self-loaders all need a

general overhauling before going to

the fields. ' It is a waste of time and

money to attempt to harvest a heavy

crop of hay with a lot of old, ram-

shackle tools.



Cutting should start as soon as the

most‘ advanced} fields are mature

enough to make good hay. If one has

a largemacreage the work should be

started before the field is in full

bloom so that the bulk of the crop

will be cut in full bloom before» the

heads begin. 5130 gtu‘rn brown. Alfalfa





 





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Convenient Type of Silo Roof Designed by Oscar Olmstead, Shiawassee Co.





have plenty of help and horsepower

available so that the cultivated crops

Will not suffer at haying time. The

number of acres of hay one has to

harvest sets a limit to the acreage of

corn and potatoes one should plant.

Not all of the farmer’s time is requir-

ed to cultivate the corn and potatoes,

and he can, therefore, sandwich the

work together to keep all hands busy

without slashing doWn hay, promiscu-

ously when the weather looks catchy.

Beyond this limit, however, the hay-

ing and cultivated crops conflict and

require considerable labor from out‘

side sources or a reduction in the

area of corn and potatoes that can be





 





first-class hay during wet weather. If

the hay is out there is no turning

back. A rain means extra work and

damaged hay. There is no escape

from labor in extra handling of the

early out hay that must lie in the

cock two or three days before it can

be hauled to the mow.



One practice I have always found

safe isto out only what can be hand-

led the same day. Cut in the morn-

ing and shake out with the tedder in

the afternoon and rake and put in

Cocks before the dew gathers in the

evening. If it is protected in this

manner, the leaves being compara-

tively dry when the hay is put into





(See Page 602).





posure and the risk

of the hay heating in

the mow will more

than repay the cost of

the hay covers the

first season they are

used.



The hay tedder im-

proves the quality of

the hay when the

yield is heavy. It hast-

ens the curing and

enables us to save

many tons that would

otherwise be left out

in the field exposed

to the sun and water.

The tedding of clover

and alfalfa must be

started soon as the

plants are thoroughly

wilted and stopped be-

fore the leaves get

dry and the hay

thrown into windrows.

After going over these

crops once more with

the tedder it is best

to turn the windrows

with a side-delivery

rake, simply rolling

them over and expos-

ing all sides to the free circulation of

the air and sunshine. This reduces

the loss of leaves and the hay is rap-

idly cured.



The drier air and soil of late sum-

mer makes the harvesting of timothy

less hazardous. The handling of tim-

othey or mixed hay is less difficult,

for the hay is ready to go into the

mow in a short time if the days are

hot and the sun shines brightly. Tim-

othy had best be cut when in full

bloom; the best time to cut is in the

afternoon when the plants contain‘

less moisture than at any time of the

day. When it is cut in the afternoon

a rain the same day will not do any





 





 





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serious damage, especially if the ted-

der can be started early the following

day. The sooner we loosen the swath

and allow the air to dry it the sooner

it will be ready for the mow. After

it is tedded a few times it may be

raked into windrows and tedded two

or three more times.





If the weather is right it should be

ready for the mow the next afternoon

after it is cut. It should be cocked

only when there is danger of rains.

When placed in the mow care must

be taken to keep it well spread and

tramped down, especially when a.

horse fork is used in unloading.





The time for cutting timothy should

be governed largely by the animals

that are being fed and the uses that

are to be .made of it. Cows that are

giving milk will thrive best on early

out hay. Horses that are being work-

ed hard will thrive fully as well on

hay that is cut a little out of bloom.

Thus the first cutting will make bet-

ter cow hay and the later cutting

good horse hay. Many still cling to

the idea that because late cut hay

will analyze better than early out hay

it has a higher feeding value, but it

is wrong to view the matter in that

manner.



If we feed late cut hay to young

stock in the winter they will become

thin; then turn them out to pasture

and they will shed off their old hair

and begin to look fat and sappy. How

is this to be accounted for? Not be-

cause the grass contains more protein

or that it is a better balanced feed. It

is due to its better mechanical condi-

tion, which enables the animals to get

more nourishment from it. It is green

and succulent and easier to digest and

assimilate. Grass is nature's stock

food and the more nearly we can ap-

proach to saving it in its natural con-

dition the nearer we will come to

having an ideal feed for our stock. If

we preserve that rich succulence that

nature puts into our grasses we will

secure the highest development that

our animals are capable of reaching.



New York. W. MILTON KELLY.





HAY CAPS.





 





I have read in the Michigan Farm-

er several articles by Mr. Lillie rela-

tive to hay caps. Although harvest-

ing annually over 60 acres of hay,

and this year having in addition eight

acres of alfalfa, I have never owned

any hay caps. We have always made

a practice of curing hay in the cock

and in a season of catchy weather as

this promises to be, it is a matter of

some skill to secure clover hay in

decent condition. I want to know

what he uses for caps. It seems to

me as if I have read his advocacy of

factory cotton. It seems incredible

to me that such sleazy stuff should

have the ability to turn water, but if

I hear favorably I shall believe it.

Does he varnish the factory? What

size does he make the caps? About

what is the cost per cap? How many

do you think best to have with my

acreage of hay? I think I know how

to fasten weights to corners. How

should I store them to protect them

from mice in the winter?



New York. J. H. W.



There isn’t any question but what,

in a catchy season, hay caps are of

great value. They enable one to save

the hay in a wet season and secure

it in good condition. It costs a little

something to get the caps, and is

some little bother to take care of

them and to apply them, but they. as-

sist wonderfully in saving a crop of

hay in a bad season.



The first hay caps we had were

made out of eight-ounce ducking with

brass eyelets in the corners to attach

the weights, but since then we have

simply gone to the store and bought

common cotton cloth 40 inches wide,

and we tear this into squares, making

hay caps 40 inches square. It would

be better if they were a little larger,

but this is as wide cloth as we could

get, and they answer very well. It is

the rain that gets in the center of the

cock of hay that does the damage.

That which is simply on the outside

of the cock seen dries o'ut. It doesn’t





 





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seem that the common cotton cloth

would shed the rain, but it does. A

day after the rain, it you put your

hand under the cotton cloth you will

find the hay is dry. It sheds the

water. You do not need any oil or

varnish of any kind on the cloth. You

can make weights of cement and have

a fence staple in each weight and you

can attach these weights to the cap

by a fine copper wire. In this way

your caps will only cost you 10 or 12

cents each. ¢



Before storing these caps over win-

ter they should be thoroughly dried.

If not they will mildew. Then you

can lay them over a pole, smoothing

them out, and put as many on top of

each other as you desire. They can

be put up in the wagon shed or any

convenient place. If they were all ar-

ranged on the pole and it rained ‘on

them it would do very little damage.

It would not wet through the first cap.

It is some bother to put the hay caps

on and to take them off, but they will

keep the hay from getting wet. The

number of caps you will need will de-

pend on how you make hay. If you

cut down a small amount and get

that in before you cut any more, you

can get along with a few caps, but if

you cut down a large acreage and

cock it up, then, of course, you will

need a good many caps. I advise you

to start in with 200 or 300 and try

them out and see how you like them

and this experience will tell you bet-

ter than I can how many you will

need. COLON C. LILLIE.





A CONVENIENT AND PRACTICAL

SILO ROOF.





 





I erected the silo shown in the first

page illustration, last summer, and as

I could not secure a carpenter to do

the work, I designed and put on the

roof myself. The plan works so sat-

isfactorily that I thought best to pass

it on to other Michigan Farmer

readers. .



When one is filling a silo with an

ordinary roof, the men on the inside

cannot utilize all the space for silage,

as they have no room in which to

work. Then the silage will settle

from six to eight feet, and when to

this is added the space which could

not be utilized in filling, the silo is

only about two-thirds full after set-

tling. I figured out a plan to over-

come this waste of storage space,

which developed a roof 'as shown in

the first page out. The frame of the

roof is securely fastened to the silo,

with about an 18-inch rise in the cen-

ter. No rafters are used, and the only

timber across the silo is a solid ridge

pole in the center. The opening is

covered with doors, the one next to

the chute being divided so it would

handle easily. The doors are held op-

en in the position shown, by ropes

which fasten them securely. When

filling there is no obstruction above

the men who work inside the silo,

which can be completely filled and the

silage crowned up three or four feet

inside the doors. The farmer can

then go up every day to tread down

and in a few days can close the doors

which make a satisfactory roof. He

will also have a full silo when com-

mencing to feed, and can open one or

all of the doors and have plenty of

room to work \in throwing off the

spoiled silage on the top, or such ma-

terial as he has put on to seal it. This

is a great saving of labor compared

with throwing it down the chute and

then removing it at the bottom.



Shiawassee Co. 0. OLMSTEAD.





FARM NOTES.





 





Making I-lay from Winter Vetch.





Will you kindly advise me as to the

time for cutting and manner of cur-

ing winter vetch for hay?—E. D. J.





Those who have had most experi-

ence in making vetch hay advise cut-

ting the crop when the vetch com-

mences to bloom. Where sown in

combination with rye, as is the usual

practice, comparatively early cutting





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makes the rye of greater value for

feed, which is an additional reason

for early cutting. Vetch hay, like

that made from other legumes, is

more difficult to cure properly than is

hay made from grasses, and best re-

sults are secured by curing it partially

in the cook, the same as would be

done in making the best quality of

clover or alfalfa hay.





Plowing Down Rye for Alfalfa.





I am writing for information re-

garding a piece of ground I am pre-

paring for alfalfa. Last fall I sowed

rye, intending to plow it down this

spring, sow lime and work the land

down in proper. shape and sow to al-

falfa the middle of July. I have been

unable to get time to plow it so far

this spring, and now when I am ready

to do so I find it is so tall and heavy

that I am fearful that I won’t be able

to work it into the land so as to make

a good seed bed by the time the al-

falfa would be sown. Would, it be

better to cut the rye, apply barnyard

manure and commercial fertilizer and

sow the alfalfa, or would it be safe

to follow the original plan? The land

has a fair amount of humus.



Lapeer Co. H. F. S.





So many factors enter into the

proper solution of this problem that it

is difficult to advise as to the best

course to follow. It is not only es-

sential that a heavy green-manure

crop should not only be plowed down

when it is in a proper condition to

hasten decomposition, but as well

when soil and weather conditions also

favor this process. In view of our

absolute lack of control over weather

conditions, and the fact that this soil

is fairly well supplied with humus, it

might be a safer proposition to re-

move the rye and plow down the sta-

ble manure as suggested in case it is

available. On the other hand, where

the soil is well supplied with moisture

at the time of plowing and an inter-

val of four to six weeks is available

in which to work the soil before seed-

ing the alfalfa, it is probable that

with a normal rainfall during that

time, the soil could be gotten into ex-

cellent conditibn for sowing the al-

falfa and that the rye, which still

contains a large amount of moisture,

would be so well decomposed as to

not seriously interfere with the capil-

larity of the soil. On the other hand,

if a drought should ensue it would be

difiicult to get the desired result in

fitting a seed bed for the alfalfa. But

the same thing would I,_ true in case

the plowing is delayed until the rye is

removed. It will thus be seen that

this is a matter for the exercise of

good judgment, after the careful con-

sideration of all the factors involved.

If the case were the writer’s he

would follow the original plan, .pro-

vided the field can be plowed at once

and contains a liberal amount of mois-

ture when plowed. It would be an

interesting and profitable experiment

to try out both plans in this field and

note results. This is really the only

way to arrive at accurate knowledge

of problems of this kind, and even

then a method which will give excel-

lent results under given conditions

may fail another season.



Vetch vs. Alfalfa.





I would like to know some things

in regard to sand vetch, i. e., what

time of year to sow; how. much seed

per acre; how often it can be out;

how to cure it; on what kind of soil

does it do best, etc.? My soil is a

clay loam. I have alfalfa, but a friend

thinks it a better, crop to grow than

alfalfa, and he has both.



Hillsdale Co. F. S.





The most useful purpose of vetch

in Michigan agriculture is served by

seeding it on poor sandy land that

will not grow profitable crops of clo-

ver or alfalfa with certainty. On land

that can be successfully seeded to al-

falfa, however, vetch has no proper

place in the crop rotation. It should

not be sown on good soils where

wheat is grown in the regular crop

rotation, on account of its propensity

to become a weed in the wheat fields.

It should be sown as soon after the

middle of August as practical, using

about 30 pounds of vetch seed and

three peeks to a bushel of rye per

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(Continued from last week).

Separator Should be Operated Unl-

formly at Full Speed.



In the first place, probably one of

the factors influencing the test in the

highest degree is the uniformity with

which the separator is turned. This

will apply more especially perhaps, to

hand separators. It makes some dif-

ference as to the total amount of fat

removed from the milk, whether the

separator is run at full speed, and

uniformly so. Experimental results

show that when the separator is op-

erated at full speed the skim-milk

will contain the smallest percentage

of milk fat and the cream will be the

richest in butter-fat. With the sep-

arator running at half-speed a little

more butter-fat is lost in the skim-

milk and the cream has a lower perv

centage of butter-fat. However, while

the cream has this lower content of

milk-fat it is caused not by the fact

that a good deal of fat is lost in the‘

skim-milk, but by the fact that a great

deal of what would otherwise be

skim-milk is run in with the cream,

and we thus have a much greater

quantity of cream'with a lower test.

If, then, we were to compare the but-

ter-fat in cream from a separator op.

erated at full speed with the butter-

fat in cream from a separator oper-

ated at half-speed, we would find the

total amount of fat practically the

same, but one might test not more,

than half as much as the other and'

there be twice as much cream.



Temperature Has its Influence.



Another condition which affects the

percentage of fat in the cream is var-

iations in temperature from day to

day. It has generally been consider-

ed that within reasonable limits the

higher the temperature the richer the

cream. The Missouri Experiment Sta-

tion claims the reverse is the case,

and from a perusal of their experi-

ments we believe their results to be

correct. Therefore, if the cream is

separated one morning at 70 degrees

and another morning at 90 degrees,

or nearly body temperature, there will

undoubtedly be a considerable varia-

tion in fat content, although the sep-

arator may be operated at the same

speed and without any readjustment.



Dairymen must expect a certain

amount of variation in fat in the milk

from their herd from day to day. If

they will take into consideration the

weight of milk at the same time they

are considering the test, or if they

will take into consideration each time

the weight of the cream at the time

they are considering the test, they

will, we believe, arrive at a clearer

idea of the exact daily fat content of

their cream, than in any other way.

Method of Sampling Has an Import-



ant Influence. _



The method of sampling in a great

many creameries is not the most sat-

isfaétory method. It is difficult toget

an average sample of cream or milk

from the original can in which it is

delivered. The milk should be poured

into the weighing can or weighing vat

before the sample is taken for test-

ing. In this way when the milk is

poured from the milk can into the

weighing can, the agitation during the

pouring will do much toward giving

a uniform mixture to the milk- or

cream. If there is any appreciable

variation from day to day in either

the weight of the cream delivered

from the same herd or in the fat con-

tent as shown by the Babcock test, it





would be preferable in the interests ‘

of accuracy to have a daily test of '





the cream instead of‘making a com-





posite test. “It may ‘be readily Seen; . ,

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Fighting the Apple Worm.





HE apple worm destroys, annu-



ally, about ten million dollars



worth of fruit. Each apple he

enters he lowers to the humble posi-

tion of- a cider apple, and the middle

of the barrel has become a place of

suspicion mainly on his account. He

has made apple growing a specialized

business.



His line of lineal descendants is

one that would make envious owners

of large family trees. Two hundred

years before the Christian era Cato

mentions the apple and the apple

worm. Since then Mr. Apple Worm

has been frequently mentioned in the

records of the human family, but it

was not until about forty years ago

that we seriously considered warfare

against him.



Old Method of Fighting the Moth.



At first we tried to scare him by

hanging moth balls in the tree, or

fight him with smudges of ill-smelling

compounds, using lanterns set in pans

of oil as traps, by plugging trees with

substances supposedly detrimental to

the worm, and baiting him with such

delicacies as vinegar and molasses.

All of these antics of wise men must

have made the apple worm, in all of

his incarnations, grin with delight, for

they had no other effect.



It was not until, in the eighteen

seventies, that Dr. Riley, U. S. Ento-

mologist, found that we could kill this

adversary by putting poison on his

food. Paris green was the dope that

made our battle an aggressive one,

and since then spraying has evolved

from a pail of poisoned water and a

broom, to efficient power sprayers

capable of throwing fine sprays of im-

proved poisons.



Printed Directions Not Absolutely



Accurate.



All the state experiment stations

issue spray bulletins now, in which

the directions are down to the fine-

ness of a doctor’s prescription. Mix





Showing Band on Tree.





such and such dope in such a way,

shake well before using, and use ev-

ery so often, sounds beth entomolog-

ical and medical. These prescription-

like directions for spraying, have been

of great help to the fruit grower, in

fact, they have revolutionized the

fruit-growing business. It has, how-

ever, to some extent placed the fruit

grower in the same position as the





patient. The work was done more

through faith than through knowl-

edge. In most cases he knows little

or nothing of the insects and diseases

he was fighting.



While the spray bulletins give the

time for spraying as accurately as it

is possible to give in printed direc-

tions, they, can not make allowances

for variations in the development of

conditions due to weather and local

conditions. To get accurately the

time for spraying for the apple worm,

is a thing for the grower to deter-

mine.



Method of Putting Bands On.



The method of determination is a

simple one, and while it deals with

the codling moth or apple worm it-





hatch,in abodt eight to twelve days,

depending upon the temperature. So

from ten to fourteen days after the

moth‘makes her appearance is the

proper time to spray. The longer

time intervening between the appear-

ance of the moth and the spraying

being used for the spring, or first

brood, of the moth because the days

are colder and the eggs do not hatch

as quick.

'Appearance of Codling Moth.



The moth of the apple worm is a

little over a half-inch long and about

an inch wide with wings spread. She

is of an unpretentious grayish brown

color, and flies only at night unless

disturbed. In the trap she will be





noticed trying to get up the sides of





the lantern chimney.



To determine the time to spray for

the first brood the bands should be

put on the tree during September of

the preceding year, and the cocoons

collected during the next April. For

the second brood the bands should be

put in place by the middle of June or

earlier. Examinations for cocoons

should be made early in July and





 





 





 





 





Inside of Band Showing where the Cocoons were Attached.





self, one need not be an entomologist

to use it. A half dozen burlap sacks,

each folded lengthwise so that it is

about six inches wide, and then. out

just long enough to go around the

trunk of an apple tree, and lap over

about an inch, and fastened as bands

to the trunks of trees in various parts

of the orchard, will make a good start

in the work. One headless nail for

each band should serve to fasten them

to the tree. After drawing the band

fairly snug about the tree the nail

should be driven in where the ends

overlap. The band can then be read-

ily taken off for examination and re-

placed without removing the nail.



This band will be used by the worm

as a hiding place under which it will

spin its cocoon. These cocoons which

are greyish brown in color, and about

three—quarters of an inch long, and a

quarter of an inch wide, will be found

fastened to the bark under the band

or to the burlap of the band itself.

They should be gathered and placed

in a trap or a place for observation.

To gather them without injury the

piece of bark or burlap to which they

are attached should be cut off with

them.



An Efficient Observation Cage.



A simple and efficient trap may be

made of a dish of earth slightly moist-

ened, over which a lantern chimney

is set. Over the upper end of the

chimney a piece of cheesecloth should

be fastened. The cocoons should be

placed on top of the earth in the dish.

This trap should be in a place where

the temperature is equal to that out-

doors. If it is outdoors it should not

be in a position where the sun will

have undue action on it. We have

found that by placing the cocoons on

a shelf in an unheated room, we had

satisfactory results and when the

moths emerged we noticed them fly-

ing about the room. The trap is most

more satisfactory, however.



The proper time to spray is deter-

mined by the emergence of the moth

from the cocoon. Two days after she

appears, she lays her eggs, which





should continue about once a Week

until they are found.



We have found by this method that

there are great variations with sea-

sons in the appearance of the moth.

For instance, one year we found the

proper time to spray for the second

brood to be July 25 instead of August

1, as stated in the spray calendars.

The following year, however, it was

found to be August 15. We have also

found differences in the appearance

of the moth, and therefore differences

in the time of spraying with reference

to locations. A place fifteen miles

from Lake Michigan was a week ear-

lier than one at the lake, and a place

a mile inland, and high, was three

days earlier. These differences are

all due to temperature influences. Ab-

normally warm weather will cause the

moth to hatch earlier than usual, and

abnormally cool weather will make its

appearance late.



Increased Efficiency in Spraying by

Use of Method.



Those who have taken advantage of

this method have greatly increased

the efficiency of their spraying. Equal

success can be had without the use

of the method, but to insure it re-

quires an expensive hit-and-miss pro-

cedure. Numerous sprayings at fre-

quent intervals, one of which hits the

right time are necessary.



The banding method insures both

efficiency and economy as the mini-

mum- number of sprayings at the prop-

er time will give maximum results.

By its practice we also gain an inti-

mate knowledge of the insect we are

fighting that we would not gain oth-

erwise. It is seldom that we can use

an enemy we are fighting to as great

advantage as we do in this method.

We learn from him when we can

fight him to greatest advantage and

he further obliges us by giving us a

ten to fourteen days’ notice in which

we can prepare ourselves.





 





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National Sheep and Wool Conference.





 





try is on the decline. The num-



ber of sheep on farms and

ranges decreased about 15 per cent in

the ten-year period between 1903 and

1913. There was a corresponding de-

crease in production of wool, and the

generally unsatisfactory prices and

systems of selling have discouraged

improvement methods until the qual-

ity of wool is admittedly deteriorating

in large areas of the country. These





THE sheep industry of this coun-





'were some of the prime reasons for





calling the National Sheep and Wool

Conference which convened at Wash-

ington, D. 0., June 2-4. The confer-

ence was called by the Department ‘of

Agriculture and was presided over by

Prof. Rommel, of the Bureau of Ani-

mal Industry.



The attendance was not large, prob-

ably not exceeding 100 persons at any

session, but it was representative of

every branch of the wool industry.

There were growers present from all

the leading wool states, wool dealers

and representatives of large woolen

manufacturers. The growers showed

serious concern in the decline of the

industry and looked to the conference

to bring about some constructive plan

of improvement. It was a distinct dis-

appointment to them that Secretary

Houston did not find it convenient to

attend any sessions of the meeting.

Dr. Galloway briefly outlined the pur-

pose of the conference at the opening

session, but from that time on grow-

ers, dealers and manufacturers were

practically left to fight out matters

for themselves and among them-

selves.



The purpose of the conference, as





‘ announced in the call, was todiscuss





all questions relating to the handling

of wool and the raising of sheep in

range andfarm states. This discus-

sion early resolved itself into a diag-

nosis of the causes of the general de-

cline in sheep and wool production,

and an effort to arrive at some basis

for mutual effort at improvement. The

causes, as brought out in the discus-

sion, were varied, some general and

some dependent upon local conditions.

Low prices for wool and lack of a. sat-

isfactory system of selling, both re-

sulting in meagre profits to growers

and lack of stability, owing to fre-

quent tariff changes, were factors in

all sections. In addition the ranges

were feeling the effect of uncertainty

as to pasture privileges, loss through

predatory animals, injustice of con-

tract system of buying, and curtail-

ment of range area. The special farm

state problems centered in damage

by dogs, absence of discriminating

market, and encroachment of other

systems of farming.





Range Problems.





Much of the time was given to the

discussion of special range problems

not of particular interest to sheep

men of our section, but entering

largely into the industry as a whole.

Mr. J. E. Cosgriff, of Utah, who has

done a great deal of personal work in

the improvement of sheep and meth-

ods of preparation of wool for mar-

ket, discussed the improvement of

wool on the range, in which he cov-

ered the principal range problems. It

is of interest to note that Mr. Cosgriff

is the man who is responsible for the

introduction of paper twine in tying

wools. He conducted an investigation

of the adaptability of various kinds of

twine and first put it into use in 1909.

This innovation, so generally approv-

ed and so vigorously endorsed by the

manufacturers, was thus brought out

and put into use by the growers.



Mr. Cosgriff declared that sheep are





 





decreasing in numbers throughout the





entire west, and western wool is de-

teriorating in quality because net prof-

its in wool growing are decreasing.

Competition with foreign ,wools is the

most frequent cause of decreased prof-

its, but the system of buying western

wools has milked the profits out of

the business. There is no such thing

as preparation of western wool for

market; it is merely preparation for

sale, and this year preparation for de-

livery. As long as all wool of a sec-

tion is bought at one price, there can

be no preparation or improvement.

Wools worth from 12 to 24 cents per

pound are all purchased at one price,

and as the entire clip is usually pur-

chased on the sheep’s back, frequent-

ly months before shearing time, there

is no inducement for growers to at-

tempt improvement of quality, or bet-

ter preparation of fleeces. The prin-

ciple in the west, fostered by their

system of buying, is that the heaviest

fleece brings the most money whether

the weight is made up of fibre or dirt.

Growers are as anxious for a change

as anyone. They will change the sys-

tem as soon as they are paid for their

wool according to its quality. He ad<

vocated skirting fleeces, sorting as to

grade and baling by grades at the

ranch and selling upon quality basis.

As far as growers are concerned, cost

of such work would be saved in

freight, as baled wool can be shipped

for 15 per cent less than bulk wool,

giving a difference of about two cents

per fleece.





Australian Clipping System and

Costs.



W. T. Rich, of Australia, gave a

very complete description of the Aus-

tralian system of shearing, sorting,

classing and marketing wools, and

discussed the adaptability of the sys—

tem to American conditions. The

principal interest in his discussion,

from the farm flockmaster’s stand-

point, lay in matters of cost. The

work of shearing, grading and pack-

ing is all done by contract, at a cost

to the sheepman of 13 cents’ per head

in Austriala and 12 cents in New

Zealand, where fleeces average about

10 pounds each. Shearers average

about 200 sheep per day. A shearing

outfit carrying 22 shearers consists of

50 men, including rustlers, pick-up

men, skirters, graders, etc. The grad-

ers are especially trained men, usual-

ly certified by agricultural or techni-

cal colleges. All fleeces are skirted,

which takes ad from 10 to 20 per

cent of the fleece. Wools are sold at

auction on grading done at. time of

shearing; wool brokers charging one

and a quarter per cent on the first

500 bales and one per cent on all in

excess for selling.



As to the feasibility of skirting do-





mestic fleeces for the home markets:





the manufacturers present were in—

clined to feel that it would not pay

the growers. They contended that,

due to cost of labor and knowledge

of requirements, it was cheaper to

sort wools in the big wool markets

than at the source of production; and

further that there was little demand

for grading of domestic wool. Fre-

quently Ohio Merino fleeces, for em

ample, went into the mills without

any treatment, and any sorting and

skirting done by inexperienced grad-

ers would result in a loss to growers.

The tendency of the discussion on

this point was to indicate that the

manufacturers and dealers were very

well satisfied with wools as they are

receiving them, and that they did not

desire much change in the way of

sorting, grading or trimming... It nis





only fair to say that the manufactur-

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SOILING VS. SUMMER SILAGE FOR

COWS.





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The report of a careful experiment

conducted at the Wisconsin Experi-

ment Station, where the system of

growing and cutting green soiling

crops to feed cows in the summer

time to supplement pasture was com-

pared with corn silage, brings vividly

to my mind my own personal experi-

enCe several years ago with this same

proposition. I read several articles

on soiling crops, and also read a book

on this subject in which this system

of feeding cattle in the summer time,

especially to supplement a pasture,

was very vividly presented. For two

seasons I gave this practice a thor-

ough test, but they were hardly nor-

mal seasons. One was unusually dry

and the other unusually wet.



The two years which I practiced

the soiling system of feeding the cows

in the summer time we had plenty of

red clover. Then I sowed peas and

oats and cut them, an early crop, and

a little after that another crop so as

to have them come in succession. I

also had two plantings of early sweet

corn, and two of the late. I figured

that I had prepared the crops to give

them something green and very pala-

table through the summer time to

keep up the flow of milk. Now the

theory is all right, but in practice

this didn’t work out to advantage.

Since then I have used the summer

silo and my judgment is that to have

silage to feed in the summer time is

far ahead of depending upon soiling

crops.



The First Year.



The first year that I practiced this

system there was an abundance of

moisture. There was a splendid

growth of clover, the peas and oats

grew luxuriantly and so did the corn.

We got along all right with the clover

but when it came to harvesting the

oats and peas the ground was very

soft and to cut and haul them was a

diflicult job. We did manage, how-

ever, to harvest the crops and feed

them to the cows. This, however,

comes right at the time of the year

when you have more than you can do

on the farm. .



The next year was a dry one and

the oats and peas didn’t grow so Well.

The second sowing that we put in

didn’t do well at all, as the ground

was so dry when they were planted.

It was the same way with the second

planting of corn. My theory was to

plow the ground where the first sow-

ing of peas and oats was and put this

into early corn. The first year, as I

say, there was an abundance of mois-

ture and this system worked well, but

the second year when we come to

plow the ground, the ground was so

dry, and what little moisture there

was was liberated when we plowed,

that the corn did not come up well

and we didn’t get very much of a

crop, and as a result we lacked a

sufficient amount of feed to give best

results.



Result of Two Years’ Trial.



These two years’ experience with

this system convinced me that it was

not what some people pretended it to





be. It is so unreliable and it costs so ,





much money to harvest the crops at

that time of the year. This, of course,

was before I built the summer silo. I

resolved then that if I had to depend

upon soiling crops for cows that I

would go out of the cow business. But

if everything works well with soiling

crops, of course you can keep more

stock on a. given area of ground than

you can with pasture, but things don’t

work right. You can’t tell how they

are going to work. You can’t depend





THENHCHI





very much on pasture, and you can

depend less upon soiling crops than

you can upon pasture; that is, that

was my experience upon my soil.

With soils better adapted to soiling

crops the system might work out bet-

ter. For instance, a rather light sandy

loam, or something of that sort.



Then I built the summer silo and

since then we had a great deal better

success carrying the COWS through the

dry weather of the summer. The same

area of land that was formerly used

for soiling crops is planted to ensilage

corn at the proper time of the year

and harvested at the proper time of

the year and put into a good silo, will

keep more cows for a longer time

than the crops cut green, even though

you can double on some of the crops.

For instance, on the early sowing of

peas and oats, when the season

was suitable, you could plow this

and planted it to corn and got a good

fair growth. Even in an instance like

this, a good crop of ensilage corn

would feed more cattle than the soil-

ing crops. Now we plant the corn in

the spring at the proper time, and

properly care for it. In fall we har-

vest it when it is mature and put it

into the silo, and that is the end of it.

There is no going out into the rain

after soiling crops. There is no such

thing as not getting enough on Satur-

day to last over Sunday and have to

go out on Sunday after soiling crops

for the cows. Your feed is right in

the silo close to the barn, handy to

feed, there is plenty of it. Cows eat

it with relish. I don’t know as there

is any way of telling whether they

like it just as well as they would

green clover or green corn or green

peas and oats, or not. They will eat

both of them and seem to relish corn

silage just as well as they do the soil-

ing crops, and you can do it with far

less labor. One man can do the work

with silage, where it would take two

with the soiling crops. When you

harvest the corn in the fall when you

have made preparation for it, it can

be harvested a good deal cheaper

than it can be in the summer time,

and a little at a time.



An Important Factor in Summer



Ensiloing.



One thing should be remembered,

and that is in feeding silage In warm

weather one ought to have a silage of

smaller diameter than is necessary

for winter feeding. If one has a large

herd of cows, 40 to 50 cows, the size

of the silo is not so important. With

35 to 50 cows you can feed in the

summer time from a 15-foot silo and

not have any spoiled silage, but where

you have a less number of cows, then

it is necessary that you haVe a silo

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else the hot weather causes the silage

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palatability, as cows don’t like it so

well. Great is the summer silo. Ev-

ery dairyman should have one. If he

hasn’t made arrangements to put one

up this year he certainly should. It

is not too late. Don’t forget it.





 





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DETROIT, JUNE 13, 1914.





CURRENT COMMENT.





 





 





 





According to a

recent announce-

ment, when the

school year opens

next September some 40 high schools

in the state will be offering regular

courses in agriculture with specially

trained teachers who are graduates

of agricultural colleges. Most of

these schools will offer four year

courses, or have that object in view

when the work is fully developed.

The importance of this work to the

agriculture of the state can be better

appreciated when it is considered that

it is reaching directly about 1,000

young men, and indirectly as many

farms. While the practical work got-

ten in the high school course, with

the field work done on adjacent farms

is of no small importance, undoubted—

ly the greatest benefit which will ac-

crue to our agriculture through the

introduction of agriculture into the

high schools of the state will be the

incentive which this work will give

to the young men who take it to make

a thorough study of scientific agricul-

ture and a practical application of

the resulting knowledge of the busi-

ness. Statistics resulting from farm

surveys in different sections of the

country show that the young men who

have had high school training make a

greater success on the farm, as a

class, than do the young men who

have not had that advantage. When

a good beginning toward an agricul—

tural education is added to that train-

ing they should make a still greater

success of their work. While high

school courses in agriculture were

primarily inaugurated in Michigan

with a View of providing teachers

qualified to teach agriculture in the

primary schools, it seems likely that

the direct benefit to the agriculture

of the state through the technical in-

struction of farm boys along voca-

tional lines will be an even more im-

portant development of the work.



In order to afford

a practical test

of a new idea the

rural organization

service of the U. S. Department of

Agriculture aided the people of an

Alabama county to organize for the

purpose of employing a visiting train-

ed nurse and meeting her salary and

expenses. An organization was com-

pleted and funds raised by the co-op-

eration of the county and the schools

and the‘donations of private individ-

uals. A trained nurse was employed

and works under the direction of a

committee of public officers. Her

work will be as follows: First, to





Agriculture in the

High Schools.





The Visiting Rural

Nurse.





 





THE MICHIGAN FARME'R





visit every rural school in the county;

as opportunity offers and inspect pu-

pils for signs of Contagious diseases

and to discover defects in teeth, pres-

ence of adenoids, diseases of the eyes

or other physical defects calling for

medical attention. In addition she

will inspect the‘ buildings and grounds

with special reference to sanitation

in its relation to the spread of dis-'

ease. While at the schools lectures

are given‘to teachers and pupils on

methods by which communicable dis.

eases are carried or spread. Second,

mothers’ meetings are held as oppor-

tunity offers, at which the nurse lec-

tures and gives demonstrations on

the care and feeding of infants, home

sanitation and hygiene, etc. Third, in

special cases where rural patients are

dangerously ill the nurse, at the re-

quest of doctors, may visit the home

and assist them through the crisis.

This is a new idea in rural commu-

nity work, the future development of

which may fill a hitherto unsatisfied

need, especially in the schools. Re-

ports from the county in which the

work was organized state that al-

though it has been under way little

more than a month, it is meeting

with favor from officials and laymen

alike.

Many epitaphs have

been wirtten which,

in a few words, paid

worthy tribute to the

characters of the men who inspired

them and in whose memory they were

penned. Few, if any, such tributes

have expressed more in fewer words

than the title of this comment, which

is the quoted title of a personal trib-

ute to the late Charles W. Post, writ-

ten by a personal friend. The tribute

of which the above quoted expression

is both the title and the closing

words, is eloquent with feeling appre-

ciation of the worth, the strength, the

justice and withal the gentleness and

brotherly kindliness of the man to

whom this expressive definition of

character is so feelingly applied. That

this sentiment, as well as a keen ap-

preciation of the work undertaken and

accomplished for the benefit of the

community in which he lived, is shar-

ed by his fellow townsmen is attested

by the establishment of a C. W. Post

Memorial Sunday as an annual affair

in Battle Creek, the first tribute of

the kind to be paid in a memorial ser-

vice at the S. D. A. Tabernacle, the

largest auditorium in the city, on

June 14. In his larger relations with

the business world, the strong traits

of Mr. Post’s character as above indi-

cated, were equally in evidence. Here,

too, he was “A Gentleman Unafra-id.”

Truly, those of us who shall merit an

equally complementary epitaph will

have lived to good purpose.





“A Gentleman

Unafraid."





NATIONAL SHEEP AND WOOL

CONFERENCE.

(Continued from page 604).

ers and, possibly, more particularly

the dealers, did not show a willing‘

nose to meet the grOWers half way on

improvement methods. The promise

of improvement in price or proper

recognition of careful packing and

tying was not sufficient to greatly en-

courage the growers in such work.



Farm State Problems.



The discussion on wool production

in the farm states centered largely in

the matter of marketing. While the

contract system of buying, so com-

mon in the west, is not a factor here,

the practices of paying one price for

all wool of a community and selling

through junk dealers and jobbers are

equally discouraging to those who

seek to imprive their wool profitably.

Various phases of marketing were dis-

cussed. Two instances in which the

growers have united for improved con-

ditions along lines which promise fav-

orable results were reported from

Wisconsin and Minnesota.



Mr. P. J. Stevens, of Wisconsin, rep-

resented the wool growers' branch of

the American Society of Equity of

that state. He described the efforts

of the farmers of his state to develop

the best wool possible to grow, only

to find that quality was not recogniz-

ed and prices remained at low levels.

They then organized to market their

own wool. They now have ten wool





warehouses scattered throughout the

wool-producing sections of...the state.

Here wool is collected and graded, a'

warehouse certificate being issued to

the grower upon receipt. These c r-

tificates are accepted at some of t e

banks, as security andthe growers are

able to borrow money until the wool

is sold. The stored wool is held un-

til prices are right or acceptable of-

fers are made from dealer or an in-

ividual mill. Selling thus in 'carload

lots, the association has been able to

make very satisfactorv sales for its

members. The organ zation has en-

rolled about 45 per cent of the wool

growers of the state and prices secur-

ed have ranged from three to six

cents per pound above those secured

by growers outside of the organiza-

tion. In 1913 the association sold its

wool at a date rate of 24% cents per

pound, while the open market price

to people outside the organization was

from 14 to 16 cents per pound. The

Wisconsin growers sell where the best

price is offered, but they hope to de-

velop the association until they can

sell directly to the manufacturers.





The Minnesota farmers have pro-

gressed along different but equally in-

teresting lines. Mr. Magnus Brown,

representing the Minnesota Wool

Growers’ Association, told how his as-

sociation was first organized for the

purpose of improving the quality of

wool; how their state was ranked as

producing the poorest quality of any

of the wool states and prices paid be-

ing based upon that rating. As im-

provement in quality was developed,

the price was not varied. The grow-

ers could get little information from

the dealers or manufacturers as to

what was wanted in improvement,

and prices remained at about 18 cents

per pound. Finally the association

conducted a test of cost of produc-

tion and found that it was costing

them approximately 26 cents per

pound to grow wool. They then do-

cided to market through mills and

finally have turned to making up their

wool into products.



The Minnesota Association receives

$300 per year from the state for ex-

perimental and development purposes.

In addition it has formed a stock com-

pany, capitalized at $25,000, to oper-

ate a fireproof warehouse in connec-

tion with the association. It can store

350,000 pounds of wool at a handling

cost to members of three mills per

pound; there is no charge for storage.

The wool is sold from storage when

prices are favorable. A portion, which

is steadily increasing, is being sent

to mills for manufacture into blank-

ets, trousers, shirts, Mackinaw coats

and wool comfort bats. Wool thus

handled is accepted from the growers

at 36 cents per pound and turned back

in products at list price of goods, less

cost of manufacture. About 20,000

pounds of wool is used annually in

the manufacture of such products.

The association is now arranging for

distribution of such products through

labor unions and is meeting with suc-

cess. It plans to eliminate the deal-

ers as much as possible and deal di-

rectly with the mills. So far the or-

ganization is small in actual member-

ship, but all growers of the state are

profiting by increased prices secured.



An experience along the same line,

but on a small scale. was reported

from Virginia. A farmer made a test

with 17 fleeces for which he was of-

fered $6. He sent it to a mill and had

it made in 45 yards of woolen flannel

cloth. The $6 offered would have

bought eight yards of flannel of same

quality.



Standardization. ,



Despite the discouraging note left

by the manufacturers on the matter

of standardizing of wool and selling by

grade, the growers refused to be dis-

couraged. While it was admitted that

the individual grower could hope to

secure slight return for care in grad-

ing and preparation, the return would

be cumulative and the community that

established a reputation for its wool

upon this basis must eventually profit

thereby. Further, it was felt that if

standardization was persisted in, and

especially if a. federal standard could

be established as is being worked out

for cotton, the dealers and manufac-

turers would have to change their sys-

tem of buying and pay upon a basis

of quality. Until such standards are

established the problem is one for the

growers to work out in organized ef-

fort in states or communities. This

effort should be accompanied by Beek-

ing a market with mills direct as

much as possible.



Dogs.



The depredation of dogs was recog-

nized as- a universal problem in farm

states. The subject came in for gen-

erous discussion, but little of a new

or constructive nature resulted. A

survey of dog laws in various states

showed that excellent protective laws

are now in existence in most sheep

states, but they are not enforced ex.

cept in such states and such communi-





ties as have a sheep population sum-





cicnt to influence public sentiment





against the dogs as against the sheep.





JUNE 13. 1911.





Where there are. but a few, isolated

flocks of . sheep, public, officials will

incur disfaVor with sheep men rather

than With dog owners, and vice versa.

The dog problem is also largely a

local question where federal or even

state laws havelittle influence. '





General Conclusions.



The general trend of the discussion

was not especially favorable to the

future of the industry. 'Shee'p men

are not optimistic and especially so

where ,wool is regarded as the pri-

mary crop. The farm state sheepmen

have an outlet in mutton which gives

best promise of the future. This will

necessitate crossing fine-wool sheep

with the mutton breeds, more care in

feeding with use of forage crops

through the summer, keeping enough

sheep to make their care of prime in-

terest, and a determined fight against

the stomach worm. For men who will

follow these suggestions the industry

promises profits comparable with oth-

er lines of farming.



It is difficult to estimate the yalue





of the conference in the solution of





the Problems for which it was called.

Its result can only be measured by

time. Perhaps its greatest value lies

in showing the growers that improve-

ments must be worked out by them-

selves with such assistance as the De-

partment of Agriculture is able to

give.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





National.





A clash between the United States

and General Huerta, of Mexico, seems

imminent since the latter has ordered

his war vessels to blockade Tampico

to prevent the rebels now occupying

that city from importing guns and

other munitions of war, while on the

other hand Secretary Daniels, of the

United States, has declared that Tam-

pico shall remain open to all com-

merce. On Sunday reports came that

the Mexican Dictator’s gunboats were

on their way to Tampico and would

arrive there early this week. Should

General Huerta persist in blockading

the port it will probably end the medi-

ation effort at Niagara Falls, Canada.





Early this week the United States

Senate will vote upon the repeal of

the law which allows coastwise boats

to pass the Panama Canal free. It is

expected that the repeal motion will

prevail. Last week the House passed

three anti-trust bills, one of these

provided for a trade commission to

look after interstate trade, somewhat

after the fashion that the Interstate

Commerce Commission is supervising

the railroads; a second called the

Clayton bill, contains most of the pro-

visions for regulating the trusts, while

the third gives the Interstate Com—

merce Commission supervision over

the issuance of railway securities.

These bills will likely be next on the

program of the Senate, where they are

expected to occupy considerable time.

If the program is carried out Con-

gress will have to continue in session

through July at least.



The general federation of women’s

clubs gathers in Chicago this week

for, their biennial meeting. An eflort

will be made on the part of the wom-

en of Illinois to have the convention

indorse women suffrage.



Colonel Roosevelt, who recently re-

turned from South America where he

discovered a river in the upper Ama-

zon region, is now in Europe to at-

tend the wedding of his son Kermit,

at Madrid, Spain. ‘



Former Governor Osborn, of Mich-

igan, has returned from a seventeen

months’ trip through Africa and Asia.



Because of the financial difficulties

that have recently hampered the plans

and work at the Michigan Agricultur-

al College, the proposed work of re-

constructing College Hall, the oldest

building in the country devoted to

agricultural educational purposes, will

be postponed a year.



Foreign.





Now that the rebel forces have con«





quered a large portion of Mexico from'





Huerta and carried the campaign to

where it seems that they would be in

full control of that country before

long, trouble is developing among the

leaders of the rebel cause. There

seems to be considerable jealousy to-





ward the military success of General.





Villa and Chief Carranza and his fol-

lowers are now planning on ridding

themselves of Villa. The latter, it is

reported, defies his former chief and

seems determined to go ahead with

the campaign against Zacatecas. Gen.

eral Carranza has appointed Gen. Na-

tera to lead the rebel forces but Villa

will ignore this change.



Last year the railroads of England

were allowed to increase their rates

four per cent to meet higher wages.

and other demands, but after the

year’s trial it has been found that the

advance was not sufficient to over‘

come the added expenses and, the





companies are now contemplating an- .





other ap cal to’ the public for a per.

mit to g'ke another advance in rates.





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A Glimpse at Egyptian Agricultural Practices.





By PROF. ALFRED VIVIAN.





oldest in the world of which

there is any existing record. In

the hieroglyphics found on the monu-

ments and tombs, which are at least

5,000 years old, may be traced a de-

scription of the agriculture of that





THE agriculture of Egypt is the





most wonderful properties. At full

flood when it runs red with mud these

people drink copiously of its water,

for it has marvelous virtues in that

it destroyeth many evil humours and

hath great power to

rout out divers de-





 





 





 





Raising Water for Irrigation with a Shadoof.





day. Here are represented the plow-

ing, sowing and harvesting of the

grain, as well ’as the manner of

threshing, winnowing and preparing

it for consumption, and the interest-

ing feature of it all is that the imple-

ments used and the methods of pro-

cedure followed 5,000 years ago in the

Nile Valley are exactly those in vogue

with the peasants of today. Customs

change but slowly in the Orient.



The Egypt of the map covers an





. area of 400,000 square miles—a terri—





tory seven times as large as the com-

bined areas of the New England

states. The real Egypt——that part

capable of producing food for man

and beast—covers only 12,000 square

miles, a tract of land not equal in ex-

tent to the states of Massachusetts

and Connecticut and less than one-

third of the area of Ohio. In other

words, while Egypt has the tremen-

dous area first mentioned, nearly all

of it is desert, and the only part cap-

able of sustaining "life is the narrow

strip known as the Valley of the Nile.

No rain falls in Egypt~or practically

no rain—for the total annual rainfall

rarely amounts to as much as one

inch. If it were not for the waters of

the Nile, which are due to rainfall

wholly outside of this country, even

the 12,000 square miles which make

the real Egypt would be barren. No

other country depends for its agricul-

ture upon water borrowed, so to

speak, from its neighbor.



Perhaps no river in the world has

been so apostrophized in prose, poetry

and song as has the Nile. For hun-

dreds of centuries it was worshiped

as a god and even today a population

which pretends to worship the one

God, in reality looks upon the Nile





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mons! It is easy to

laugh at the supersti-

tious awe with which

these ignorant people

regard the river, but

after being here the

visitor can better un-

derstand why the early

inhabitants considered

the Nile as sacred, for

without it there would

be neither corn nor

millet to make into

bread; no berzeem to

feed the kine and the

goat; and where now

flourishes the stately

date palm there would

be nothing but a

dreary, trackless waste.



The agriculture of

Egypt, for the most

part, is about as crude

as can well be imagin-

ed, and much of the

work is left to Allah,

who, fortunately for the

Arab, is more kind to

him than he deserves.

As has been said, the

farmers must depend entirely upon

the Nile for the water required to pro‘

duce the crops. Annually, beginning

in August, the river rises in flood

until it reaches a hight varying from

10 to 30 feet above low water level,

depending upon the width of the val-

ley, which, by the way, varies from

less than a mile to 10 or 12 miles.

After reaching itsmaximum the river

quickly subsides until, some time be-

fore the first of November, it is again

within its banks. During the time of

the inundation the Nile is red in color

owing to the enormous amount of

mud held in suspension, and which is

responsible for the high fertility of

this valley.



The flood water of the Nile is util~

ized by the farmers in a variety of

ways. The older method still quite

common in Upper Egypt is to depend

entirely upon the natural overflow or

“flood irrigation” as it is sometimes

called. During the flood the water

reaches back to a considerable dis-

tance, depending upon the hight of

the flood and the rise of the land in

the different parts of the valley. As

the water recedes it leaves a deposit

of silt upon the saturated surface of

the ground, and the farmer follows the

water foot by foot, planting the grain

in the ooze, and stirring it in with his

rude hoe, or in some cases even cov-

ering it by driving sheep or cattle ov-

er the soft soil. Usually the grain or

clover receives no further attention,

and in a good year the soil stores

suflicient moisture to mature the one

crop. As the soil dries out it cracks,

sometimes with openings several

inches in diameter. This results in

large losses of mositure by evapora-

tion. The Department of Agriculture

is now trying to induce the farmers





 





to practice inter-tillage to conserve

moisture, but it is uphill work to in-

troduce any such innovation.



A large part of the cultivated land

in Egypt is under what is known as

“basin irrigation.” In this system the

land is divided into a number of level

areas by means of dikes several feet

in hight. Flood gates are located in

these dikes to admit and discharge

the water. When the river is highest

and “the water is red” (i. e. very

muddy), the gates are opened and the

basins allowed to fill to as great a

hight as possible with the silt—laden

water. The gates are then closed and

the water remains in the basins for

from 30 to 40 days to deposit the

greatly prized Nile mud, and to en-

able the thirsty soil to drink in as

much as possible of its life—giving

moisture. By this time the flood has

fallen and the gates are cautiously

opened allowing the excess of water

to run slowly back into the river.

Sometimes the seed is planted in the

soft mud but more frequently it is

scattered over the dried surface of

the ground and covered by means of

the plow.



The plow used by the Egyptian

farmer is of the same form as that

used by his ancestors 5,000 years ago

and its pictures may be easily recog-

nized on the old monuments of that

period. It consists of a pole about six

feet long attached to the yoke for the

animals which draw it, while at the

other end a piece of wood is fastened

bent inwards at an acute angle, and

shod with a threepronged piece of

iron. Connected with the pole is a

stick used in guiding the plow. This

implement does not turn a furrow but

merely scratches the ground for a

couple of inches deep. Our observa-

tions indicate that fully one-third of

the soil is not disturbed at all in go-

ing over the field with this crude





camels; a camel and a bull; a camel

and a cow; camel and donkey; two

bulls; two cows; cow and buffalo;

bull and donkey. A more ungainly

combination than the camel and cow

would be hard to find, but strange to

say the two animals moved in bar-

mony and kept pace better than is

often done by two horses working to-

gether. A horse, by the way, is sel-

dom seen on a farm in Egypt.



The most efficient tillage implement

possessed by the Arab farmer is the

heavy hand implement which is a

cross between a hoe and a mattock.

Occasionally was seen an entire field

prepared by a line of men using these

hoes. The soil prepared in this way

is in much better condition than that

which is plowed, and man power is so

cheap that the cost of such prepara-

tion is not much greater than plowing.



The basin system, like the older

flood system, permits of only one crop

a year, but so much more mud is de-

posited in the basins, and the subsoil

is so much more thoroughly saturated

with moisture, that the crop produced

is larger than was possible with the

other method. For many centuries

the farmers favorably located near the

Nile or the canals have practiced ir-

rigation to increase the crop. or to

permit of an extra crop being produc-

ed during the year. The methods they

use to raise the water are interesting.

Almost anywhere along the river may

be seen men, with no clothing but a

breech cloth, lifting water for the

crops by means of a “shadoof.’ This

is an apparatus very much like the

old-fashioned well sweep, which many

of our readers will remember. On the

short end of the sweep is fastened a

heavy ball of clay, and on the other a

stick carrying a queer basket-shaped

bucket often made from a goat skin.

The ball of clay is sufficiently heavy

to raise the bucketful of water, and

the man works there by the hour

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Plowing with a Camel and a Cow in the Valley of the Nile.





plow, and that the ground which is

turned is left in large, hard lumps

which often remain without the least

attempt at pulverization.



The farmer plows with whatever an-

imals he chances to possess, and

many strange combinations are seen.

During one day’s ride into the coun-

try the following teams were observ-

ed at work plowing in the fields: Two





bucket fills with water, allowing the

weight to raise it, and then emptying

the bucket into a trough from which

it runs into the little ditches which

distribute it over the field. One shad-

oof permits of raising the water only

a few feet, and it is not unusual,

where the level of the water is much

below the field, to see two, three, or

even as many as four shadoofs in use
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-thirteen alternating stripes,





one above the other. The first worker

empties the water into a small reser-

voir from which the second man dips

it, and so on until it is raised high

enough to flow into the field.



The sandy subsoil of the land near

the river permits of such rapid pérco-

lation of water from the Nile that

wells may be'dug which will furnish

large quantities of water. Toraise the

water from these wells the farmer

uses a machine called a “sakieh.” This

consists of a large wheel over which





which are fastened a number of earth-

enware jars. This wheel is joined

by means of a crude sort of a cog to





Honor to the Stars





ED, white and blue flags are seen

floating in many parts of the

world. These seem to be favor-



ite colors for national emblems, and

well they may be, for nowhere could

be found more suggestive hues than

these. The red of courage, the white

of purity and the blue of Heaven’s

truth.



It remained for the young country

of United States of America, however,

to minglethese colors in the wonder-

ful stars and stripes today known the

World over and celebrated near and

far in song and story.



While the “Colonies" were still col-

onies, and dependencies of Great Brit-

ain, a committee, appointed by the

Continental Congress, decided to re-

tain the red, white and blue of Great

Britain, and to put these colors, in

into a.

colonial flag, because the Young col-

onies numbered thirteen. They also

put into one corner of this flag the

famous union which had been adopted

in England in 1606. This union was

formed by a red cross on a white

field, the St. George’s Cross of Eng-

land. There was also a white 'saltier,

or double stirrup on a blue field, the

St. Andrew’s cross of Scotland. This

emblem is now called.the Union Jack

of Great Britain and her colonies.



On January 2, 1776, a few months

before the adoption of the Declaration

of Independence, this flag with the

“union” in the corner was hoisted in

camp at Somerville, Massachusetts,

and was given a salute of thirteen

guns and as many cheers. After the

Declaration became a fact, however, it

did not seem to these people fitting to





- carry the British Union in their flag,





and on June 14, 1777, this resolution

was adopted by Congress: Resolved,

that the flag of the United States he

thirteen stripes, alternate red and

white, and that the “union” be thir;

teen stars, White on a blue field, rep-

resenting a new constellation.



A flag carrying out this design was

made under the direction of General

Washington, by Mrs. Betsy Ross, who

lived at 239 Arch street, Philadelphia,

and who held the position of flag man~

ufacturer until her death. Historians

tell us that Washington gave Betsy

Ross a six-pointed star as her model.

Betsy objected to this, because Eng-

land used a six-pointed star while all

other European countries used the

five-pointed star, and her womanly in-

stincts deemed it wiser for the new

country to fall in with the majority.

In the beginning of our flag history

every new state admitted into the

Union, caused a new stripe to be ad-

ded, but when this number was in-

creased to-twenty Congress passed a.

new law that the flag should consist

of thirteen red and white stripes in

alternation and twenty stars on a blue

ground and that a new star should be

added on the admission of each state.

Illinois was the twenty-first state ad-

mitted and was therefore the first

state to take advantage of the new

law. -

The first strictly American flag was

hoisted over the capitol at Washing‘





 





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JUNE 13. 1914."





a. horizontal wheel which is. turned

by a. camel, cow, donkey or buffalo.

The jars fill as they dip into the wa-

ter and discharge as they pass over

the wheel in the same manner as the

buckets of the bucket pump frequent—

ly used on cisterns. One of these ma-

chines raises a surprisingly large

quantity of water during a day. The

animal turning the wheel is nearly al-

ways blindfolded as it is said he will

better keep up the monotonous round

if he can not see where he is going.

The task of sitting on the wheel and





prodding the animal into activity, how-.





ever, is admirably suited to the na-

tive temperament.





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flags having been made of English

bunting. This flag was twenty-one

feet by twelve, was the gift of Hon-

orable Benjamin Butler, and was

made by the United States Bunting

Company, of Lowell, Massachusetts.



The name “Old Glory” was first giv-

en to our flag in 1831, by William

Driver, of Salem, Massachusetts, a.

captain of a sailing vessel. He died

in 1886.



Edward S. Ellis, in the “History of

Our Country," Vol. 2, page 482, has

this to say of the’ American flag: “Al-

though we are one of the youngest

of nations, our flag is among the old-

est. The flag of Great Britain as it

appears at present, was adopted in

1801, that of Spain, in 1785, while the

tri-color of France, also red, white and

blue, took form in 1794. Portugal

adopted its present flag in 1830, Italy

in 1848, and the German Empire in

1871. Our flag has been through more

battles and waved over more victories

on land and sea than any other flag

in the world and more than a. million

men have laid down their lives that

‘Oid Glory’ should float aloft.” These

are facts which every boy and girl

and every American citizen should

know and ponder upon.





LONGFELLOW’S FAVORITE POEM.





 





BY ALONZO RICE.





E often speak of our own fav-

orite poems of an author and

it is always interesting to



know our friends’ particular views

along this line. We seldom stop to

think that an author has some poem

of his own composition that he es-

teems above the others.



Among the poems of Longfellow

which were dearest to the poet’s own

heart, “The Old Clock on the Stairs”

held a foremost place, partly because

of the tender and touching sentiment

of the poem itself, and partly because

of its association with that happy

chapter in the poet’s life, his love for,

and the successful wooing of Frances

Appleton. The house of the old clock

belonged to the Hon. Nathan Apple-

ton, of Boston, Frances’ father. It

was his summer home, at Pittsfield,

in Berkshire county, Massachusetts.

There Longfellow first saw the old

timepiece which became the subject

of his immortal poem. He notes in

his journal, under the date of Novenr

ver 12, 1845: “Began a poem upon a

clock, with the words, ‘Forever, never’

as the burden; suggested by the

words of Brindlain, an old French

missionary, who said of eternity, ‘It

is a clock of which the pendulum

says, and never ceases to repeat, amid

the silence of the tombs, these two

words only, “Forever, never! Never,

forever.””’. Out of this quaint and

beautiful refrain,- Longfellow drew his

expulsite poem, which will speak to.

the responsive hearts of men as long

as poetry endures. ’



Although the clock was long since

removed from the Pittsfield house,

the place is still hallowed by associa-

tion with Longfellow’s poem. A [fam-

ily of famous. singers, the Hutchin-





 





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THE GLORIOUS FLAG.





 





B! Z. I. DAVIE.





Unfurl the flag, red, white and blue,

Choice pennant of our home land





free,

Thrill every heart and true,



Oh, emblem of our Liberty!

The cynosure of every eye,



Its stars have never trailed the dust,

But ever floats against the sky,



Affirming that in God we trust.

We think of noble Washington,



01' Valley Forge, those days of old,

0f unseen battles bravely won,



That wrought out courage strong



and bold

Loved legacy of years gone by,



As pledge of victory, still wave,

Where soldiers live and soldiers die.

On plains of Peace and battlefield,

There blaze the way for marching





feet,

And never to the foemen yield,

A hero’s shield and winding sheet.

Three cheers for all the conquests

won,

Columbia united stands,

The greatest nation 'neath the sun,

God’s chosen leader for all lands!





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sons, had the poem set to music, and

once whilein Pittsfield they sang it

in the old house, near the spot where

the famous clock had once stood. In

the absence of all its old inmates,

how tenderly pathetic must have

sounded, in the 01d Appleton house,

the words of the song:

“All are scattered now and fled,

Some are married, some are dead;

And when I ask with throbs of pain,

Oh, when shall they all meet again,

As in the days long since gone by?

The ancient timepiece makes reply,



‘Forever, never!



Never, forever!”





Of the beautiful and historical old

house of the Appletons, at Pittsfield,

which still stands on a low eminence

on East street, “Elm Knoll," Longfel-

low wrote:





Somewhat back

street

Stands the old-fashioned country seat.



Across its antique portico

Tall poplar trees their shadows throw;

And from its station in the hall

An ancient timepiece says to all,

‘Forever, never,

Never, forever!’





The house was built by Thomas

Gold, a prominent lawyer, about the

beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Appletons sold it to Mr. William

Plunkett, who is still its owner. It

was when Longfellow came to visit

his wife’s parents, immediately after

his marriage with Frances Appleton,

that he saw and was impressed by the

stately old clock standing on the

landing of the stairs, which still lead,

as in days of yore, from the lower to

the upper hall of the historic house.





from the village





EARNING MONEY IN VACATION.





 





BY M. PELTON WHITE.





The chugychug of the motor is heard

on nearly every navigable body Of

water in settled portions of the coun-

try. Also, campers are prone to seek

the banks of lake or stream for the

summers outing.



Last year a young friend of mine

took advantage of these two facts to

the extent of earning a sum sufficient

to pay his way through college the

next year. Having often camped in

his early boyhood days he knew that

the most vexatious question his moth-

er and other housewife campers had

to solve was how to dispose of the

family washing. In even a small camp

the work of carrying water from river

or spring for cooking, dish-washing

and personal use is quite hard

enough, especially if the masculine

contingency doesn’t arrive at camp

until after the day’s work in the city,

without the addition of carrying wash

water. Besides the task of boiling

clothes in a. coal oil can (the usual

make- shift for a wash boiler) over a

camp stove, or Camp fire, is no easy

matter.



My friend was familiar with boats

and gas engines. He hunted over the

boat houses in early spring and at

last succeeded in finding a small

launch; 25footer, that suited his pur-

pose. It wasn’t much for looks, but

it was staunch, sea-worthy, had can-





 





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





vas curtains and a canopy top and its

engine was in working order. The

owner was willing to rent it week

days, reserving the right to use it

evenings and Sundays. My friend dis-

covered that many owners of small

pleasure boats who were not at lib-

erty during the week days were only

too glad to let their boats and let

them very reasonably, too, thereby

cutting down their own“ running ex-

penses.



After the boat question was settled

my friend made arrangements with a

first-class laundry to do the work and

allow him a certain per cent. One of

the wagons was to meet his laundry

boat at the dock certain days of the

week. Then as soon as the camping

season opened on the lake he solicited

work from the campers, stating

prices, and time of collection and de-

livery of laundry. He had work

enough to keep him hustling the

whole summer. Not only did he run

a laundry boat, but the campers of-

ten found it most convenient to send

to the city by him for supplies.





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Mr. Reading taught his dog Sport

to carry his basin whenever he was to

be fed. When Mr. Reading milked,

he taught the dog to hold the pan

while he milked his supper into it.

One day he was later about his chores

than usual, and when he went into

the cow-stable, there stood his dog,

holding his basin up under the cow,

waiting for» his portion. It is needless

to say that it was an unusually gen-

erous portion that day.—Miss Clara

A. Baker.





WHEN LILACS BLOOM.





 





BY ALONZO RICE.





When lilacs bloom, their purple

sprays



The garden’s drowsy depths per-

fume





Through all the golden summer days,

When lilacs bloom.





And darting through the fragrant

g,loom



The humming bird, with breast

ablaze,



A shuttle swift,

loom!





Now with their wealth my love ar-

rays

Her sunny locks, while I assume

A lover’s guise! We seek old ways

When lilacs bloom!





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A good imported German Razor at

35 cents sounds impossible, but while

the present supply lasts The Michi-

gan Farmer makes this remarkable

offer.



The razors are made of the best

German steel, five-eighth-inch blade,

and black handle. We will not say

just what these razors ordinarily re-

tail at, as prices on razors vary with

each dealer, but we have seen razors

no better sold at $1.25 and $1.50.



Every man who shaves ought to

have at least three razors as it is a

proven fact that giving a razor a rest

is beneficial to it, and here is your

opportunity to get a supply at very

little cost.



So, only while our present supply

lasts the price is 35 cents each, post-

paid, or a half dozen at $1.70, post-

paid.





threads summer’s





A Strop Bargain, Too.



We also have a quantity of Presto

All-in-One razor strops that dealers

sold at $1.00 each. These strops are

made of finest horsehide leather and

one side is treated with All-in-One

solution which makes it possible to

put a hair splitting edge on the dull-

est razor. It combines the strop and

hone in one.



The special price on the strop

alone while the supply lasts, will be

35 cents, postpaid, but if ordered to-

gether with one of the above razors

the price of both will be only 65 cents

postpaid. Here is your chance to get

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old, defied his father yesterday,



and after a brief session with dad

in the basement, he came up to his

mother, howling for sympathy.



“Why didn’t you mind father?” was

his consolation. “If you had he would

not have spanked you.”



“Why didn’t you say, ‘Aw, leave the

kid alone,’ ” flashed back Johnnie. “I

thought you would.”



With which illuminating side light

on inside family history he howled

afresh.



Johnnie’s plight reveals all too

clearly the condition in many Ameri-

can homes. Instead of a settled pol-

icy of discipline to be adhered to by

both parents, father and mother have

theories as widely separated as the

poles. Mother leans to modern meth-

ods of suasion and putting the child

upon his honor, while father insists

that sparing the rod means spoiling

the child, or vice versa. However it

is, instead of discussing the matter

out of the hearing of the child and

agreeing on certain things, they set-

tle each controversy the minute it

comes up, without regard to the pos-

sible effect on their offspring of these

family squabbles.



Johnnie comes in and asks mother

if he can do something. She, for some

reason best known to herself per-

haps, refuses permission. Instead of

letting it go at that, or calling mother

out of the r00m to take it over, father

demands to know why she “never

lets the kid do anything he wants

to?” and tells Johnnie he can do as

he likes. Next time Johnnie probably

does not wait to have father tell him

to disobey mother. He follows his

own sweet will, trusting to luck to

have one or the other of his parents

save him from the consequences.



It seems queer that so many par-

ents can not see how ruinous such a.

course must be, not only to discipline

now but to their own chances of hap-

piness with the child later. Many a

mother who is today mourning the

ruin of her son, has only herself to

blame. When he was little she

thought him much too wonderful to

receive discipline every human being

needs, and constantly interfered to

shield him from justice as it would be

meted out by father or teacher. Nat-

urally, as he grew older he had the

idea that he was a superior being who

could do about as he pleased and es-

cape the consequences. But there

came a time when mother’s interfer-

ence could not save him, and he had

to submit to-the discipline which

should have been over with years

before.



Mothers are so foolish to stand be-

tween father and child, unless the

father is an acknowledged brute.

They never gain anything by it, not

even the respect of the son they try

to shield, for boys have a sure sense

of justice which makes them despise

the person who babies them, and re-

spect the one who gives them their

deserts. The modern boy is all too





JOHNNIE, my neighbor’s five-years





prone to despise “petticoat govern-

ment” anyhow. Why help him along

by encouraging him to think he can

always pull the wool over mother’s

eyes?



Granted your four-year~old is the

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spoil your child, and your chances of

future happiness, by saying, “Oh, let

the child alone.”_ DEBORAH.





HOME-MADE CHEESE.



In response to an inquiry for direc-

tions for making cheese at home, I

submit the following, which was the

modus operandi used in the home of

our childhood.



At night the milk, as soon as drawn

should be strained and cooled to

about 60 degrees. Add the morning’s

milk, stir thoroughly and heat to 84

degrees; then put in the rennet and

stir for about ten minutes. Remove

the boiler from the range and cover

closely so as to retain the heat.





Enough rennet should be used to

cause the milk to begin to curdle in

20 minutes. As soon as the curd is

firm enough to break clean, that is,

not look milky, when lifted on the

finger, it is ready to cut. Cut the curd

in checks half an inch square. If one

has a horizontal curd knife the curd

may be cut in cubes; if not, diagon-

ally. The curd should be allowed to

settle a few minutes, then place the

boiler over a slow fire and raise the

temperature at the rate of two de-

grees in five minutes; stirring care-

fully with the hands or with a curd

rake, and cutting the larger pieces so

that all the curd will be cooked, alike.

When 98 degrees is reached arrest

the heat and hold the temperature at

that point for 15 or 20 minutes, or

until properly cooked, when it will

have a peculiar springy feeling when

squeezed in the hand. Care should

be used in determining the time of

cooking, as, if cooked too long the

cheese will be hard and dry, if not

enough it will be wheyey and will not

keep well. The curd should be al-

lowed to settle, then dip the' whey

down to the curd and cool to 90 de-

grees. Dip off the remainder of the

whey, drain the curd as dry as pos-

sible in a curd basket or on a cloth

stretched over a hoop; break care-

fully into pieces about the size of a

hickory nut and salt at the rate of

one ounce of salt to two and a half

pounds of cheese. The curd may be

allowed to stand in a warm place un-

til slightly sour or it may be cooled at

once to 82 degrees and put to press.



The Pressing Process.



When the curd is ready for the

press, place a square of white cloth,

wrung from the whey, in the hoop.

Put in the curd and fold over the

corners of the cloth. Put on the fol-

lower (a wooden cover fitting closely

inside the hoop) and press down

lightly, afterwards gradually increas-

ing the pressure. At night take the

cheese out, bandage with cheese-

cloth and replace in the hoop, putting

a cloth under and another over the

cheese and press tight. In the morn-

ing turn the cheese over again, using

fresh dry cloths in place of the damp

ones, and increase the pressure still

more. Let it remain in press till the

next cheese is ready to take its place.





When it is taken out ,rub with a





 





dry cloth, grease thoroughly with soft

butter and place on a shelf in the

curing-room. In warm weather the

temperature of the room may be low-

ered considerably by sprinkling the

floor with cold water and hanging up

wet sheets. The cheese should be

turned over and rubbed every day,

using a. little butter, till they are at

least a month old, when they should

be ready for use or for market.



A richer cheese can be made for

home use than is practicable in a

cheese factory. In many factories the

acid is allowed to develop in the curd

before drawing the whey. It is claim-

ed that this makes a firmer cheese,

which may be the case, but it surely

detracts from its richness.



SUBSCRIBER.





CLEANING A SMALL HOUSE.





 





BY VERNA T. VVONSER.



There is any amount of good advice

as to housecleaning, for the woman

with a nice large house and plenty

of money, but we seldom read any-

thing that is of much use to the wom-

an who does her work alone, whose

strength is limited, and whose home

consists of three or four rooms. Usu-

ally the order is for paints and var-

nishes and all the modern imple-

ments, among the best of which is

the vacuum cleaner. Those things

are all right, but there are any num-

ber of home makers to whom those

things are an utter impossibility.





These home-makers love cleanliness

and daintiness as well as ’their more

fortunate sisters. When one is strong

and well, cleanliness is easy, but when

one’s health isn’t good, housecleaning

is a dread.





A small house isn’t as easy to clean

as many people think, for the reason

that the rooms are pretty well packed

and are in constant use. Let us begin

with an upstair sleepingsroom. First,

move things over and begin at one

side to take up the carpet. After re-

moving tacks fold carpet over very

carefully. If there are papers under

it, lift gently one by one, laying one

on top of another, roll up tightly and

lay one side. Should there be straw

under it sprinkle lightly and take up

in a basket. Sweep the floor carefully,

being careful not to raise a dust, mop

or wash with a cloth, set the things

over onto the clean floor and proceed

in like manner with the rest of the

carpet. The papers rolled tightly can

be burned in the heater without dan-

ger of setting anything afire. Now

perhaps with the everyday work to

do this is a good place to stop. Each

one should use her own judgment as

to when to stop,.but it is the hardest

thing of all to learn, just when you've

done enough. Don’t be silly and keep

going on lest someone think you lazy.

There is no one knows just how much

you can do as well as yourself, and

you don’t always know.





The next thing is the bed. Put all

the bedding out on the line. If you

have help to get the mattress out

doors, all right, but if not, open the

windows, pull the bed out into the

draft and whip the mattress, turn and

whip. Cover mattress, and clean the

walls. Remove mattress and clean

bedstead. Bring in bedding and make

the bed if you wish.



Clean pictures and furniture, being

careful not to make a bit of dust. Fur-

niture may be cleaned and partly





dried, but anything that water won’t

injure I prefer to clean with a cloth

wrung out of water. Wash windows

and woodwork, put down carpet as

you took it up, that is, put down one

side or corner and move things over

and put on the finishing touches.



You have been able to stop at any

time. You could be one day or four

at it, and you have not disturbed any

other part of the house. The one

thing on which success depends, is

being careful about stirring up dust.

Some people seem to think they are

not doing good work unless they kick

up a big dust, one of the greatest of

mistakes—Hope.





THE CLOVER MITE IN THE

HOUSE.





 





I have been troubled about this

time for two or three years in one or

two rooms with a little red bug, or

spider, not much larger than a point

of a pin, in the windows first, and on

an upholstered green plush divan and

ome on carpet. I have tried every.

thing I can think of. They will last

about a month or six weeks, and I

will not see anything more of them

until the next spring—A Household

Reader.





The creature described by A House-

hold Reader, can be nothing other

than the clover- mite, that feeds on

clover and most anything else, and

which, in the spring and fall, is often

driven into dwellings, to the confusion

of the inhabitants. This has been

particularly bad all over the state

this year. Its distribution is some-

what uneven since it appears here and

there in various places without any

apparent reason or rule for so doing.

The only way to avoid the nuisance

is to provide barriers, or to use some

spray which will kill them on their

way into the house. Dilute solution

of nicotine or kerosene emulsion spray

on the foundation walls of the dwell-

ing outside will do the work tempor-

arily, but it must be repeated from

time to time since, when it evaporates

it is, of course, gone. Another way is

to put a half-inch band of tree tangle-

foot, or other stick mixture, on the

foundation walls or water-table, all

around the dwelling. This will prove

a barrier all right, but is objection-

able because it may get on the

clothes, especially if children play in

the vicinity. As the season advances,

these creatures gradually disappear.

We have had them on the Campus

several times, although they have not

been troublesome here this year. They

may appear again in the fall; in fact,

one would rather expect them to.



Mich. Ag. Col. R. H. PETTIT.





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BY MRS. JEFF DAVIS.



Some days when the work has been

unusually heavy, the housewife is very

tired by the time for preparing the

evening meal. At such times clearing

away the dishes and washing them

seems almost an impossible task. This

work may be saved in these times of

trial by using paper plates to eat

from, and also as vegetable dishes.

The housekeeper may then spend the

evening pleasantly with the rest of

the family instead of washing dishes

in the kitchen. These paper plates

may be bought, at a nominal cost, by

the hundred, and saved for emergen-

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GENERAL CARE OF GUINEA

FOWLS.





 





The thing that prompts me to write

upon this subject is because very re-

cently. countless numbers of cases

have been reported of heavy losses of

chicks from crows and hawks. We

have found that the best solution to

this problem is to keep a small flock

of guinea fowls. There is nothing that

will give warning quicker when any-

thing threatens the poultry yard than

guinea hens. Many a time the guinea

hens have scared the crows and

hawks when they were about ready to

steal some of the most promising ones

which are always the ones to venture

the farthest away from home. Some

object to the noise of the guinea fowl

and it must be admitted that there

are good grounds for such objections.

At the same time, just on account of

this noise they may pay for their feed

in a very short time in the many

chicks they will save.





Good to Scare Enemies of Poultry.



Farmers should at least try them

to scare crows and hawks, to see

whether they can be profitably kept

just for this one purpose or not. Ac-

cording to the writer’s experience,

they most certainly can. One of the

greatest reasons why these fowls

might be kept in small numbers on

every farm, is because of the most

excellent flesh that their carcass fur-

The flesh of the

guinea fowl possesses a very good

gamy flavor, and for this reason is

relished by many.



For the farm only a few are recom-

mended, especially for a start, say

fotir hens and one male. Do not al-

low more. than the above number of

hens to a male, otherwise a large

percentage of the eggs will be infer-

tile. I have seen as many as thirty

on one farm and they were doing well

and were paying for their keep by a

large margin. Their breeding season

begins in April and May and they us-

ually lay all the rest of the summer.

As an average, about 50 to 60 eggs

can be expected from one hen, al«

though instances have been reported

where as many as 100 were laid by

one hen. As a rule, they do not lay

in the winter, although some guinea

enthusiasts claim that they can be

bred to lay during cold weather.





Not a Good Sitter.





As a sitter the guinea hen amounts

to but very little, because they are

naturally restless and wild. The best

way of hatching guinea hens is by

placing them under ordinary hens and

allowing about 15 eggs to a hen. As

guinea eggs, as a general rule, are

very fertile, a good hatch can be most

always expected.



Guinea chicks, when just hatched,

are about half the size of ordinary

chicks, but they are more active than

chicks of the same age. For the first

week it is advisable to keep the small

guineas confined, or they will wander

away and get lost. After that, when

the weather is good, they do better

when allowed free range with the

mother hen.



Small guineas, like young turkeys,

are very sensitive to cold and damp-

ness. Their quarters should always

be dry and sanitary. Do not try to

keep either the old or young in con-

finement much, because they will in-

variably not do well under these con-

ditions.



Feed the young guineas the same as

you would small chicks. A variety of

suitable grains for guinea fowls is

recommended. They are, corn, bar-

ley, oats, buckwheat and wheat. Green

food” and grit, 'With plenty of fresh





water are, of course, necessary, and

should always be supplied.

Cost of Keeping Slight.



If they are allowed free range,

which is advisable, the adult guineas

pick up most of their feed, and the

only feeding they need is at night,

which is given chiefly to keep them

roosting at home rather than in the

woods. Guinea hens eat and destroy

a large majority of insects.



One of the best ways of getting a

start is to buy a setting of eggs and

place under a common hen for incu-

bation. If mature stock is bought,

and not closely confined for a period,

they will wander away and may never

return.



The first few eggs laid by guineas,

as a rule, are the most fertile, and

produce the strongest chicks.



New York. F. W. KAZMEIER.





LATE-HATCH ED CHICKS.





 





Though the natural hatching season

usually ends before the middle of

June, still many chicks are hatched

out after that date and when they are

given the proper care these will usu-

ally do very well. The idea that

summer—hatched chicks sleep them-

selves to death is quite prevalent

among those poultry raisers who have

never attempted to rear any summer

chicks, or who, having attempted it,

have neglected to give them the care

essential for success at this season.

But those who are prepared to man-

age the late broods properly will find

them no more trouble than the early

broods and the losses should be no

greater.



The main advantage for the farmer

in early hatches is for winter layers

and for market as friers when prices

are at their best. But it will pay to

hatch late chicks for the home table

as they can be disposed of at any

time after large enough for use. But

with the small breeds of fowls, it is

by no means true that the pullets

hatched in July will not develop into

winter layers. Leghorn pullets have

been known to lay at three months of

age; at four months old, egg produc-

tion with them is not uncommon; and

at five months, even the more slowly-

maturing individuals will be produc-

ing eggs in paying numbers. So the

latter should be ready for laying be-

fore the season of settled cold weath-

er arrives, if hatched in July, suppos-

ing that winter arrives with the first

of December, which is not always the

case. Even with breeds of medium

size, as Plymouth Rocks or Wyan-

dottes, there is a fair chance of se-

curing well-developed chickens before

the arrival of real winter weather. Of

course, the large breeds, Brahmas or

Cochins, which require, as a rule,

seven or eight months of growth be-

fore egg production is begun, cannot

be hatched yet this season and de-

veloped into winter layers. For pul-

lets which do not begin to lay before

real winter weather, will not lay, at

least profitably, until the approach of

spring. But the farmer who has not

already hatched a full quota of chick-

ens of the small or medium sized

breeds need not hesitate about hatch-

ing in July, for there will be ample

time to secure profitable development.



Indiana. W. F. PURDUE.





Eggs should be collected daily and

should be cooled as quickly as possi-

ble. A sweet, fresh basement which

is cool, or a cyclone cellar, makes a

satisfactory place to store eggs. They

may also be kept cool by placing them

in a bucket lowered into a well. Avoid

storing them in musty basements and

keep them away from flies.





 





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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 Nobleman

says; '- ‘.

“The possibilitiesand opportunities offered by ’ ’

the Canadian West are so infinitely greats:

than those which exist in England th hiat

seems absurd to think that people should be

impeded from coming to the country where

they can most easily and certainly improve

heir position. ;



New districts are being opened up.

which will make accessible a great

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ly graded, honestly packed, and cor-

rectly labeled. First cast the beam

out of our own eye and then per—

chance we can get the mote out of the

eye of the middlemen.



Perhaps the largest beam is that of

improper packing. The sheepman puts

taggings in the center of the fleeces,

and the apple grower takes pains to

get inferior fruit where the buyer is

not likely to see it. Both make con—

scious efforts to get money under

false pretenses. It is likely that, if

our courts had taken a stand for

righteousness on this matter many

years ago, the situation would not

have developed into a problem.



The Short Measure.



Then, too, there is the short meas-

ure. On this page is an illustration

ofahamper, the construction of which

was such as to cause a buyer to believe

that he was getting more than he ac-

tually did. The bottom which carries

the contents is a few inches above

the one that rests upon the ground

and the sides have a space that is not

occupied with the product being hand-

led. Then we have berry boxes with

the bottom fixed quite near the mid-

dle of the sides,‘the short bushel bas-

ket, and a variety of containers that

are designed to deceive the buyer.

These things ought not to be. -



And .let us not put too much blame

on the manufacturers of containers.

They are serving those who buy their

wares. If they are in the habit of

making short measures it is largely

because there is a demand for meas-

ures that do not come up to the stan-

dards. It would be foolish business

to make small baskets when standard

ones were wanted. The man who uses

baskets is the one who dictates the

kind.



Government and State Aid.



It is most fortunate that the legis-

latures of the several states, and the

federal government, are taking a hand

in the elimination of this practice of

giving short measure. It is also a





 





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a large class of producers who desire

to do the right thing. They are hon-

est and stand ready to support any

and every movement destined to bring

improvement in marketing conditions.

The government and this class of cit-

izens will need to work hand in hand

to secure the speediest results.

Whether a man is honest or not in

regard to these things, the question

is a matter of his concern, for honest

men must bear the tax the community

pays when a dishonest neighbor sends

out of that community a barrel of ap-

ples with inferior fruit in the center.

or one that is improperly stamped.

Associations in many places are real-





JUNE ‘13, 1914.‘





expression, is in the upper peninsula.

A potato congress will be held at

Menominee, October 20-23, made up

of growers from each of the 15 coun-

ties of Cloverland, and of buyers from

Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities.

The grower and the buyer will be

brought together, the grower having

from two to five bushels of stock, a

sample of his crop, and the buyer will

look over the same and place his or‘

der. Farmers are urged to grow stan-

dard varieties, the Sir Walter Ral-

eighs, Rurals and Irish Cobblers be-

ing recommended, so that buyers may

purchase carloads of one variety with-

out necessitating mixed cars and'low-

er prices. Again, the growers are

asked to sort and pack in boxes at-

tractively. Col. Mott, of the Upper

Peninsula Development Bureau, sug-

gests the use of a uniform label, as

follows: Cloverland Potatoes of Qual-

ity, from John Brown’s Sunnyside

Farm. P. 0. ,State

Where is Cloverland? It is in the





 





The Use of Such a Hamper as this is Apt to Disappoint Customers.





izing this and are spending energy to

formulate a system that will guaran—

tee the products sold,out of the com-

munity to be as represented.



The Practitioners Lose.



But however much the state, the

local associations and innocent men

may be interested in the movement

for more uniform packing and honest

methods of dealing, the individual who

allows himself to do those things that

are dishonest suffers most from it.

His tax exceeds that of any other.

Temporarily he may add to his re-

ceipts, but some time in the future he

is certain to lose what he has gained,

and more. His goods will find him

out and when they do those who

bought in good faith will now avoid

his wares only to make it necessary to

sell at a price that will cover possible

chances of losses through misrepre-

sentations.



So while the din of extortion on the

part of the middleman is being ech-

oed, every farmer should take more

than ordinary pains to put his goods

on the market honestly, and by so do-

ing clear his vision for the work

ahead, since there is evidence that

the new marketing plan will rest more

firmly on the merits of the goods sold

than does the present system.





POTATO GROWERS WILL CO-OP-

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Michigan promises to produce more

potatoes than ever before, this year,

but the tubers will be better graded,

sorted and packed for market and

will bring better prices. More atten-

tion will be given to spraying, culture

and to marketing methods. Michigan

has a state association and now the

counties are organizing local associa-

tions. Wexford county is in line and

is working especially for purity and

uniformity of seed. Grand Traverse

is active, with one of the Traverse

City banks assisting in a campaign

with more intensive culture in view

and the raising of better potatoes. St.

Clair is a leader with a strong organ-

ization of growers. Montcalm, Barry,

Kent and other counties are waking

up, but the big “noise,” to use aslang





Upper Peninsula of Michigan.” There

are 60,000 farmers in Cloverland and

if each one were to use such a label

the advertising power would be tre-

mendous. '



Houghton county growers are or-

ganized and it is estimated the coun-

ty will raise 50,000 bushels of pure-

bred potatoes this year. Leo M. Geis-

mar, head of the farm bureau, has

been working hard to secure pure-

bred and free from disease potatoes

for planting and out of 600 samples

submitted by growers in seven states

he was able to obtain only one car of

seed not infected by diseases. The

county is making an effort to secure

pure-bred stock for seed purposes.

The “Congress” will be held immedi-

ately after the county fairs and prizes

will be 'offered. Farmers making en-

tries will be required to state with

his entry the amount of, that particu-

lar kind of potato he has for sale,

also his nearest shipping point. Much

of this. information will be secured

weeks in advance so that officials may

advertise the number of bushels to be

offered, the kind, etc., in order to

draw the buyers there.



Iron county is planting over 1,000

bushels of purebred seed potatoes

this season.



The cooperation of the Chicago &

Northwestern Railroad has been se-

cured and the road will plant this

spring at each of its upper peninsula

stations a potato patch 30x200 feet,

accompanied by signs which will

read: “C. & N. W. Ry. Experimental

Station. Cloverland Potatoes, Watch

them Grow.”



Kent Co. ALMOND GRIFFEN.





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In the Chicago cattle market the

demand for fat butchering cows and

heifers has been especially good for

several weeks, and they have sold

more readily than beef steers, with

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AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





Woman Suffrage was the chief sub‘

ject at the first evening meeting of

Ganges Grange, and proved decidedly

interesting to a good-sized audience.

The question, “Why was woman. suf;

frage defeated at the last election?

was answered briefly. Two reasons

Were given, viz: the unfavorable ef-

fect on our people of the militant at-

titude in England, and the death-gran

ple hostilityof the wholesale and _re-

tail liquor interests. They recognize

their enemy and realize that the day

that women obtain the ballot the sa-

loon must go. Arguments for or

against equal rights for women seem

to have little effect upon the ordinary

man, for the old maxim is still true,

“convince a man against his will and

he will hold the same opinion still.”

But when you hit him with cold facts

as to the working of equal rights

where it is in operation, no reply 18

possible. The votes of the women

kept Judge Lindsey in office, when

both political parties were arrayed

against him in Denver. Colorado gave

votes to women in 1893 and since that

time practically every public man in

the state has placed himself on record

as commending the measure, .while

not six persons of standing have been

induced to assert over their own Sig-

nature that woman suffrage has

brought one single evil or even that

it has failed to effect improvements.

In 1889 the Coloradoglegislature pass-

ed, by a vote of 45 to three in the

house, and 30 to one in the senate, a

resolution declaring that during the

time that equal suffrage had been in

operation—six years—women had

used the ballot as generally as. men,

with the result that better candidates

had been selected for office, election

methods had been purified, the char-

acter of legislation improved, CIVIC

intelligence increased, and woman-

hood developed, and recommending

the adoption of the measure, by all

the states and territories of the Un-

ion. The more recent effect of the

votes for women in Illinois where 1000

saloons were voted out of existence

in one day, is the “handwriting on the

wall” for Michigan liquor dealers.

Kansas has a record to be proud .of,

due to woman suffrage and prohibi-

tion. She has 105 counties with poor-

houses empty in 38 counties; Jails

without an occupant in 53 counties;

87 without a single insane person and

96 without a drunkard; death rate

lowered from 17 in 1000, to seven;

one pauper to 3000 population. The

state financially $200,000,000 to the

good; dry since 1881.——-M. W. K.





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The quarterly meeting of the Ne

waygo County Pomona Grange, No.

11. was held Wednesday and Thurs-

day, June 3-4, with Ashland Grange,

which proved to be a very good host.



The following program was inter-

esting and instructive and brought

considerable discussion:



Wednesday, 2:00 P. M.



Song.



Recitation.



“What is the most practical power

available to farmers in this vicinity?

What are its difficulties and expense?”

—Roswell M. Hall.



Discussion, Arthur Rich.



“What tools are needed and what

cost is a man on a small farm war-

ranted in putting into them ?”—Homer

Handy and A. C. Flint.



“What utensils and mechanical

helps does a woman on a small farm

need, and what cost is she warranted

in spending for them?”—Mrs. Hand

and Mrs. John McKinley. .



Paper, Mrs. Flora Flint.



“The Junior Agriculture Club—-

what is its mission?”—H. B. Bland-

ford and Geo. R. Warren.



Question box.



Thursday, 9:00 A. M.



“How do farmers co-Operate? What

is the good word today on Grange co«

operation ?”——James Caldwell and Carl

Kimbell.



“Co-operation in Grange Fire Insur-

ance—what is our company doing?”—

Wm. Robertson and J. H. Edwards.



“What would I do if I had two

weeks in which to do whatever I

pleased?”—Mrs. F. S. Hillman and

Mrs. Jenny Dunworth.



Music, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Mills.



“What is the outlook for marketing

the apple crop this fall?”—Neil Mc-

Callum.



Paper, Mrs. Geo. Warren. _



“Are the patrons of district schools

doing all they should to bring them

up to the standard?”-——Miss I. M.

Becker. ‘ " '



‘A ‘ Surprise“





feature by Ashland

Grange. ' -' . -





Address all communications relative

to the organization of new Clubs to

Mrs. C. P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Will Hold Special Children’s Day

Meeti,ng.~——The Hadley and Elba Farm-

ers’ Club were very pleasantly enter-

tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

E. J. Hemingway. Dr. Stewart gave

a fine paper on “Eugenics,” which was

enjoyed by all. Meeting on June 18

will be held in the afternoon; every-

one come, as it is children’s day—at

the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ril-

ey, Delaware Farm.———Flora Pierson,

Secretary.



Adopt Rules for Corn Contest—The

June meeting of the East Nankin

Farmers Club was held at the home

of Mr. J. J. Lathers, on June 2. Sev-

enteen members responded to roll

call, and after the reading of the min-

utes of the last meeting a very inter-

esting question box was opened. The

corn contest committee reported that

they had decided to fix half an acre as

the size of plot to be entered. This

could be selected out of a large field

or planted by itself, as the contestant

might wish. They also decided to

hold a separate contest on the best

ten ears selected from any part of the

contestant’s crop. Two very interest-

ing papers were read, one by Mrs. R.

J. Lathers, on “Why we work so much

harder, with all the labor-saving ma-

chinery, both indoors and out, than

people used to work 50 years ago,”

and one by Mr. H. J. Lathers, on "The

purposes and methods of cultivation.”

A committee was appointed to ar-

range for a Fourth of July celebra-

tion. Refreshments Were served, af-

ter adjournment.——Cyrus J. Lathers,

Secretary.



Will Exhibit at County Fain—The

May meeting of the Essex Farmers’

Club was held on the 28th, with Mr.

and Mrs. N. S. Foss, at “Woodbine

Home.” Autos and carriages, in good-

ly numbers, brought members and

guests from near and far to enjoy the

hospitality of the pleasant home and

to share in the duties and pleasures

of the occasion. The president being

absent, Vice-president Mrs. J. Ble-

master, presided. The Lord’s Prayer

was recited, reverently, in unison by

the entire company, after which the

minutes of the previous meeting were

read. Under the head of miscellan-

eous business, the Club year was

changed and will hereafter begin with

the January meeting, instead of the

October meeting. This was done at

the request of State Secretary Mrs.

C. P. Johnson, whereby the annual

list of officers will be received at a

more convenient time by the state

secretary. The Club is making ar-

rangements to exhibit its products,

agricultural, at the next County Fair,

having been invited to do so. “Is it

possible'for a man who is strictly

honest, to succeed in business at the

present time ?” was the question next

considered, its discussion being open-

ed by Hon. D‘. S. Morrison, who said

no permanent success can be secured

without honesty. The importance of

getting the right definition of “Hon-

esty” and of “Success” was empha-

sized in the general discussion. The

truly honest man will live the “Gol-

den Rule.” He will be honest with

himself and with his followers. Many

other helpful thoughts were brought

out. The announcement of adjourn-

ment for dinner was the pleasant

sound which next greeted the ear, and

brought visions of general sociability

and other “good things” in great

abundance. The afternoon exercises

were opened with a solo by Miss

Gladys Lowe, who sang very sweetly,

“There’s a Land Beyond the River.”

Roll call was responded to with con-

undrums and other surprises. A reci-

tation by Mrs. J. Blemaster, “The

Two Sinners,” gave food for thoughts

serious. “How does the county road

system work out in Clinton county?”

was the question next considered,

and though riot having yet been fully

tried, being so lately adopted, views

were expressed as to its probable re-

sults, some members doubting the

wisdom and value of the contemplat-

ed highway improvements, as com-

pared with less expensive methods.

The next number was a humorous

reading by Mrs. D. S. Morrison, “A

Warning,” in which the tribulations

of a country dame .were graphically

shown, as she sought to purchase

family supplies in a department store

in the city. A recess of 15 minutes

was followed by the question box be-

ing called on and several practical

questions were discussed, among them

that of the desirability and right

conditions for harrowing the young

corn plant. June meeting of’ the Club

will be held with Mr. and Mrs. Elbert

Matter on the fourth Wednesday of

the month—J. T. Danielle, Cor. Sec.





 





 





90 Head Registered Holstein Cows, Heifers





and Heifer Calves

Many that are very choicely bred, and all in the pink of condition. All





animals over six months of age tuberculin tested.





Peninsula is located on the B. a 0. By. 12 miles north of‘Akro d 22 ii .

Trains leave Cleveland at 6:50 and 10:35 A. M.. and Akron 6:25 and 2338A. Ml.ll es south 0! Cleveland

A. B. d: C. Interurban Cars leave Cleveland and Akron every hour. Oi! at etc 60. three miles





from Peninsula. All cars will be met from 7:00A



of sale. Good



answered. CATALOGUE ON REQUEST.

COL. D. L. PERRY, Auct’r.





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





Aberdeen Angus cattle





We have just received a wire to shi all our sur lus

young bulls of serviceable age to M nnesota. ith

grade Angus 'earllngs {selling at $125.00 to 8150.00.

these nung:bu is. closely related to five International

Gran Champions. shou d be worth $200 to Michigan

farmers With a dozen or more grade cows. Wire.

'phone or write at one for reservation.





GEO. B. SMITH

Addison and Somerset. Mich.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS





HERD FOUNDED IN 1900.

Strains regreeented consist of Trojan Ericas. Black-

birds and rides. only. Black Quality Ito. a hull of

rare individuality and merit. heads the herd.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionic. Mich.





 





 





 





M.. up to and includiu the 12:

hotel accommodations for those who wish to come the ay befo





M. car. on day

All inquiries





D. A. ELY, B. if; 'l'O'l‘l'EN.





APLE Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd—Tu-



berculin tested by U.8. Government. Bull calves

from cows in R. of M. test. Heifer calves whose dams.

grand-dams, and great rand-dame are in the Register

of Merit. Ill IN OX. Allegan. Michigan.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

(Tubercnlin tested. Guaranteed free from Tuber-

culosis.) Several good bulls ant bull calves out of

good dairy cows for sale. No .emalea for sale at

present. Satisfaction guaranteed.



001.0 C. LlLi'JE. Coooemllle. Mich.





Yearling and two-year-old. Eli ible

Jen.’ Bulls to register. 8 lendid breeding. rice





 





 





right. Address LEWIS RI EY. Metamorn, Mich-

JERSEY —-Buli calves bred for ioduc.

tion. Also OOWI and eiters.





Breakwater Farm. B. l'. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich.





BUTTER BRED ‘E‘F‘g’itysfiljd‘m





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Auegan County. Michigan.





FOR SALE—14 Pollud Durham &. Shorihorn Bull:





from 4 to 24 months old. 0. CARLSON, LeEoy. Mich.





 





 





Fun SALE—2 Reg. Guernsey bulls 2 and 4 years old

2 bull calves best, breeding. Pedigree oil



a ring show. Berkshire swine either sex.

OHN EBELS. R. R. 10. Holland Michigan.





HEREFORD BULLS assassin

ALLEN 131108.. Paw Paw, Michigan.

GUERNSEY BULL-19:53 satisfies





at a bargain. G. A. WTGENT. Watervliet. Mich.





 





 





“re have for sale a number of pure Guernsey cows.

heifers and bulls. also Berkshire hogs.

VILLAGE FARM. Grass Lake. Michigan.





 





$22 5 Buys a registered heifer 8 mo. old and reg

. istered bull 7 mo. old. both 26 white. no

not akin. B. B. REAVEY. Akron, Michigan.





' —Ofi'er bull calves. choice A.

.dana fierfi' ll. 0. breeding. $100 and up.





COLE BROTHERS COMPANY, Ypsilanti. Michigan.





HolsteinBullcalvesmSale





Very Nicely Marked.

Large Boned and Fine Lines in Every Way.

FOREST SIDE STOCK FARM,





M. H. CHAMBERLAIN. J r.. Proprietor.

R. F. D. No. 3. - Romeo, Mich.





IIOLSTEIN BULLS AT FARMERS PRICES





Sired by one of the best bulls of America.

LONG BEACH FARM, Augusta. Kalamazoo Co..Mich.





OLSI‘EIN FRIESIAN CATTLE BREEDERS of





high record cows. Young bulls at farmers prices.

JONES & LUTZ. Oak Grove. Michigan.





ESPANORE FARM,





LANSING. MICH.





Register’dHnlsteins





Bull Calves $50 to $200.

An absolute guarantee with each purchase.





CHASE 8. 0813mm. L. M. HATCH.

ADAM E. FERGUSON, 30"”91‘9- Supt.





 





 





 





 





H I t ' —11 High Grade Holstein heifers from Heavy

0 8 "Rs Milkers. Also Registered Bull. Price for

the bunch .1000 I“. O. B. J. C. BARNEY, Goldwater. Mich.





BIGELOW’S HOLSTEIN FARMS





Breedsville Michigan.

Breeder of 1high class





Registered Holsteins.

A. R. 0. llOLS'l‘ElN COWS FOR SALE.





6 very fine A. R. O. cows. bred to Johanna Concordia

Champion, and Duke Ormsby Pietertje DeKol. Price

$1850. Service bulls and bull calves.

me just what you want.



L. E. CONNELL. Fayette. Ohio.





I —30~lb. dam. 125 lbs. in

“OI-Stein Bull 30daye. 2-yrs.-old, mostly

white and a beauty. Write for hoto. etc.. or come

and see him. HOBART W. FA , Mason, Michigan.





 





 





Kindly write





 





—Eight choice registered Holstein yoarl ing

For sale heifers. some are bred. iso four cows.

E. A. BLACK. R. No. 6. Lakeview. Michigan.





MICHIGAILHOME AIIII llllllllllli SCHOOL





APEER. MICHIGAN.

Breeder of High Grade Holstein Cattle. Lists and

prices upon application.





A FEW Clo!“ IfHolstéeiln FriAe-iallll Ball g'nlvtkas

GREGORY & BOngHN.aE6Iowell. Michigaiic. '

SIX Choice Holstein Friesian bull calves from one





to twelve months old for sale. MICHIGAN

FARM COLONY FOB EPILEPTICS. Caro,Michiga.n.





.' A ' ' Herd Headed by Albina Bonte

IIolsiein Friesian IlaIIIe 2‘3‘8’ BoytNo. 9.11% 1.2.5....

f d 're's dam . . . at yrs. u or aye

2§§7dlli II'lao sack for sale. W. :8. Reader, Howell, Mich.





“Top-Notch” Holsteins.





Oh i b ll lves from Ito 7 mo. old. of fashion-

ableolfreeedlingcaand from dams with oflcial milk

and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.





"O'NEISOH PARIS co.. Howell. Mlohlgln.





l Purebred Registered





HOLSTEIN CATTLE

The Greatest Dairy Breed





Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets

Holstein-Friction. Ano..Box l64. Bratileboro.Vt.

“SEvs—Bnll calves nearly ready for service.

JE Sired hv Jaoohn's Fairy Emanon 107111.

SUITE 8 PARKER. Howell. Michigan.





 





 





horthorn Bulls For Sale—One roan 3-yr-old weigh-

ingutOu. Price Also 3 calvesfi mo. old, from

good milking cows. M. . BRAY. Okemos. Mich.





Illllll BllEIl SHOHTIIOIIIIS géyi’flg’iafiwt'fiifiia

all sold. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.

Sherman's SBOOliuye two cows three and four yrs..





one yearling heifer and two calves six

month. A. A. PATTULLO. Deckervllle.Michigan.





 





 





horthorns—Bulls and females. all ages. Tell just

what you want. Also . . Hogs, Oxford Sheep.

C. W. (‘rum, Sec. Cent. Mich. Shorthorn Asn'n.. McBrides. Mich.





SHORTHORN CATTLE





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

SHEEP.





IT PAYS TO BUY PURE BRED SHEEP 0F

PARSONS "Th: Eraser:

‘ I; ‘\ I loll and ship everywh‘zar: :nd Say express

)th . charges. Write for club ofi'er and rice list.

"I





 





 





 





 





 

   

   

 





Oxfords. Shropshire» and'Polled- chines.

PARSONS.GrandLedge.Mich. RL





 





 





 





 





 





H008.

I l _A

Durocsi’illclonas $2.“.fi:‘i§.sfit%’i°ifirii“l§.‘Lit“.

M. T. STORY. Lowell. Mich.. Citizens Phone 55.

BERKSHIHE~Choice fall Boars and Gilts of select





breedin .alsos rin i .. P ' dt 1.

WHITE OAK FAlili . H. N8. 4,8 rggrn [Often 3521.1.





BERKSHIRES Choice spring boars and giltsI

stock. ELMHURsirscigotfi g:h‘h?‘2f:bn{ahuic°il





 





' -—Reg. Bred (Hits—Orders taken for

Chad“, Whlles spring pigs and Collie ups. Holstein

Bulls at Bargains. BAY B. PARHAM. ronson, Mich.





—’i‘h l . ' -

cHEsun wmns .





i s.

MEADOW VIEW STOCK FARM. Holland. M ipcgigan.





O, I C’s—Spring pigsi gethmy prichlaerrli-UIR

. you my 9 sew ere.

LEAF STOCK FARM, R. No. 1, Monroe. Michigan.





9 ——I HAVE A NICE LOT 0F



0: l. C 5. LAST FALL GILTS 0N



HAlVD. OTTO B. SCHULZE. One-half mile

west of Depot. Nashville. Michigan.





0 I C —’l‘ake orders forepringgige. One Bmo. fine

- - 0 type Jersey Bull. rice reasonable.

N. H. Weber, OakView Farm, Royal Oak. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





o I c -—-Sows bred for June (arrow. We are

I I I also taking orders for spring pigs.

JOHN BERNER & SON. Grand Ledge. Mlch.





o I c —Bred sows and spring pigs, large and growthy.

I I - Pairs and trios, not akin. W'rite your wants.

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. Zeelnnd. Mich.





 





0 l C — ilts bred. for June and July fax-row. Also

I I - pring gigs, Serviceable hours all sold.

I pay express. . . ANDREWS. Dansvilie. Mich.





o I Cls All sold. Would be pleased to book

I I your order for spring pigs.

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. ichlgan.





O I C —-Three September Boar‘s.

- o o . September Gilts. Am also taking

orders for spring :igs. they are extra good ones.

NEW MAN’S BT00 FARM. R. No. LMarlette. Mich,





O I C ! s—La’rge boned. shipped on approval.

0 0 pairs not akin. registered free.

J. W. HOWELL. Elsie. Michlgan.





0 I C’s—Spring pigs, pairs and tries. no!

0 e akin. from state fair winners.

AVONDALE STOCK FA RM. Wayne. Michigan.





—Boare six months old. sprin ' .

0. lo Co gilts. Satisfaction guaragntpel$.

A. R. GRAHAM. FLINT. MICTIIGAN.





' —May I have the l -

0. 1. Ce SWIne ure of receivingpyfiziaifr

order for a pair or trio, not akin. of April

and May (arrow. They are bred right. Satisfaction

guaranteed. A. J. GORDEN. R. No. 2. Dorr. Mich.





UROC JERSEYS—Fall gilts of th I

boned type, bred for Au . and Sept? (giggihiilg

spring pigs, not akin. F. J. rodt. R.1. Monroe. Mich





——A good growthy fall pi immuned

DUROCS and ‘bred for August %arrow will

make you money. Give me your order now for

May shipment. Also fall boars ready for service.



KOPE KON FARM. Kinderhook. Michigan.





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0R SALE DUROC JERSEYS—Cello e B 138557

farrowed Se t. 7. 1911. Spring pigfi aftgl- June

1. 2914. J. . BANGHAR'I. Lansing. Michigan.





 





nncy bred Dnroc Jerseys—Boats it Gilts of spring it

pummer furrow. Good individuals at reasonable

prices. John McNicoll. Station A. R4. Bay City. Mich.





lllllI-EL STUCK Fillll $2.232: 2.2a: imam:

prices. E. R. CORNELL. Howell. Michigan.

DUROC JERSEYS‘§:£§§.b‘iL” $222.” “53‘ 6”





BTAHLMAN.Cherry Lawn Farm.R.2.S epherd. Mich;





 





 





 





Breeders’ Directory continued on page 615.
THE MICHIGAN «FARMER: ,





JUNE .13, 1914.





 





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Markets.

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





June 9, 1914.

Wheat—The surprising thing about

the wheat market is that the bulls are

able to hold prices at the present

level in face of the great crop outlook

which, according to the government

report. will be the largest ever har-

vested in this country. But there is

a good cash demand, millers and for-

eigners are anxious for the grain and

farmers have practically cleaned .up

their bins. One year ago the price

for No. 2 red wheat was $1.031/2 per

bu. Quotations are as follows:

No. 2 No. 1





 





Red. White. July.

Wednesday . . .9714, 96% 88%

Thursday . . . . 96%, 96%, 87%

Friday .......... 96% 9614 87%

Saturday ........ 96% 961A, 87 34

Monday. ......... 961/.» 96 87%,

Tuesday . . . . .951/2 95 86%





Chicago, (June 9).No. 2 red wheat

940; July 851/2c; Sept., 837/80 per bu.

Corn—A shortage of stocks and a

good demand has advanced corn val

ues. The market is firm. Argentine

shipments are small. A year ago the

price for No. 3 com was 590 per bu.

Quotations for the past week are:

No. 2 No. 2

Mixed. Yellow.





Wednesday ......... 73% 75

Thursday ........... 73 741/2

Friday ............. 73 74 1/2

Saturday . . . ., ....... 731/; 75

Monday ............ 74 75%

Tuesday ............ 74 751/;





Chicago,(.l’une 9).—July corn 71140;

Sept, 681,430; Dec., 591/20 per bu.



Oats.——Prices hold steady, with con-

ditions favorable for a fair crop. Illi-

nois and Missouri report some dam-

age to the grain. One year ago the

price for standard oats was 410 per

bu. Quotations for the past week are:





N0. 0

Standard. White.

Wednesday ......... 43 1A; 43

Thursday ........... 431/2 43

Friday ............. 431/2 43

Saturday ........... 431/2 43

Monday ............ 431/2 43

Tuesday ............ 431/3 43





Chicago, (June 9).—-July oats are

4614c; Sept., 38140 per bu.



Beans—Easy and dull. Quotations:

Immediate and prompt shipment at

$2.05; June $2.07 per bu. Chicago re-

ports quiet trade. Pea beans, hand-

picked, choice, are steady at $2.20@

2.23; common $2@2.15; red kidneys

choice $3.20@3.25.



Rye.——This cereal is lower. No. 2

is quoted at 66c per bushel.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





FIour.—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs. as follows. Best

patent $5.30; second $4.90; straight





$4.50; spring patent $5.10; rye flour-





$4.40 per bbl.



Feed—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $28; standard middlings

$28; fine middlings $32; coarse mid-

dlings $31; cracked corn $32; corn

and oat chop $28.50 per ton. '



Hay.~—Market is strong; offerings

limited. Carlots on track at Detroit

are: No. 1 timothy $16.50@17: stan-

dard $15.50@16; No. 2, $14@15; light

mixed $15.50@16; No. 1 mixed $13.50

@15; N0. 1 clover $13@13.50.



New York—Market steady. No. 1

timothy $22@22.50; No. 3 to No. 2,

$17.50@21.



Chicago—Market is steady and de—

mand good. Choice timothy quoted at

.$18@18.50 per ton; No. 1 $15@16;

No. 2, $13@14.



Straw.——-Steady. Rye $8@8.50: oat

straw $7@7.50; wheat straw $7@7.50

per ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





 





Butter.—Market is firm with prices

unchanged. Extra creamery 251/20 per

lb; firsts 241/2c; dairy 18c; packing

stock 150.



Chicago—Market easy, with prices

unchanged. Extra creamery 261/20;

seconds 20@21c; packing stock 17





18c.



Elgin.-——Market is firm at 26%c per

1b., which is 1&c higher than last

week. .



New York—The market is steady.

Prices slightly lower. Creamery ex-

tras 26%@26%c; firsts 25@260; sec-

onds 23@241,éc; packing stock 17@

17 1A0. . _ .



Eggs—Market is active, With fresh

stoCk selling at 19340 per dozen.



Chicago—Market is easy at prices

averaging 14c lower than last week.

It is not easy to effect sales and any-

thing but the best are dull. Miscel-





laneous lots, cases included 16@18%c





per dozen; ordinary firsts 17@171,éc;

firsts 18@1814c.



New York. Market steady. Prices

are higher. Fresh gathered extras 23

@24c; firsts 20@2lc per dozen.



Poultry.——Market is quiet and prices

are slightly lower. Live—Springs15c;

broilers 28@300 per lb; hens 14@

150; geese 14@150; ducks 17@180.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Potatoes.——Old potatoes steady with

prices considerably advanced. Hold-

ers are optimistic. Quotations are:

88@900 per bu in sacks. At Chicago

the market was strong and prices ad-

vanced considerably. Good Michigan

round white quoted at 85@900 per bu.



Strawberries.—In good demand;

Michigan 16-qt. cases quoted at $1.75

@2. At Chicago berries are arriving

soft and many are showing scald, ev-

en from Michigan. Ordinary to good

Michigan berries are quoted at $1@

1.50 per 16-qt. case.





WOOL.





 





Market is more active and compe-

tition keen at higher prices. Fleeces

are now going forward with prices to

farmers ranging from 20@24c per lb.

Conditions abroad are even more bul-

lish than here. At Boston, Michigan

unwashed delaines are quoted at 26@

27c; do combing 23@27c; do clothing

23@260 per lb.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





Offerings are meeting with good de-

mand. Lettuce plentiful, common 25

@300 and head 50@60c per bu; spin-

ach 15@20c per bu; potatoes $1;

strawberries $4.25 per 24-qt. crate;

loose hay $17@20 per ton.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





This is the real opening week for

home-grown strawberries, the hot

weather having pushed the crop for-

ward rapidly, the berries are selling

around $2 per crate and a big yield is

promised. In the poultry line' spring

broilers have been in great demand

during the past month and poultry-

men have been paid up to 550 per

pound for birds averaging two pounds

or better. An increase in broiler rais-

ing for this market may be looked for

next season. Dressed hogs are bring-

ing around 101/20. The egg market

is quiet at 171/z@180. In grain wheat

is 'quoted at 92c; oats 410; corn 720;

hand-picked white pea beans $2.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





Buffalo.

June 9, 1914.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stev-

ens, New York Central Stock

Yards, Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as fol-

lows: Cattle 155 cars; hogs 120 d.

d.; sheep and lambs 12 d. d.; calves

1700 head.



With 155 cars of cattle on our mar-

ket here today and Chicago reporting

19,000 and shade lower, our best

heavy cattle sold from 10@150 per

cwt. higher, according to quality, but

there were 20 loads of cattle here to-

day that showed the best quality of

any seen here in the past 30 days.

The light butcher cattle all sold about

steady, also the cows and heifers,

with last week. A few loads of very

prime yearlings sold for 90 a pound.

At the close about everything was

sold and the feeling was steady.



We had a liberal supply of hogs to-

day, about 120 double decks, and with

lower markets all over the west to-

day, our trade was quite dull and

prices generally 100 lower than Sat-

urday’s average. Anything decent sold

at $8.55; pig weights generally $8.40;

roughs $7@7.30; stags $6@7. Late

market was quite dull, especially on

light hogs, and it looks very much

like easier trade the balance of the

week and would advise buying to sell

at lower prices.



The market was active today on

lambs and sheep. Prices half higher

than the close of last week. Choice

handy clips selling mostly at $8.50@

8.75. We look for steady‘ prices last

of Week, with moderate receipts.



We quote: Spring lambs $9.50@10;

yearlings $8.50@8.75; cull to fair $6.50

@825; bucks $3.50@4.50; handy ewes

$5.25@5.50; heavy do $4.35@4.50;

wethers $6@6.35; cull sheep $3@4;

veals, choice to extra $10.50@10 75;

fair to good $8.50@10.25; heavy calves

$5.50@7.





 





Chicago.

June 8, 1914.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.





Receipts today..19,000 45,000 15,000

Same day 1913..19,315 53,068 13,290

Last week ..... 37,291 117,725 66,153

Same wk 1913..45,277 155,176 96,710





This is an extremely hot Monday,

and cattle drink so freely that buyers

are late in beginning business, as is

usual at such times. Butcher stock





sells very well, but at a late hour

trade was just starting up in steers,

and they promised to be barely

steady. Hogs are off a dime because

of the big supply, sales ranging at

$7.80@8.25. .Packers received some

10,000 hogs from other markets, these

being included in the receipts as giv-

en above. Hogs received last week

averaged 235 lbs., or one pound more

than a week earlier. Spring lambs

are scarce and a dime higher for the

best, with a $9.85 top, sheep ruling

firmer. No strictly prime clipped

lambs showed up, but'they were quot-

ed nominally higher.



Cattle receip‘ts here last month were

nearly 17,000 less than a year ago,

receipts for the expired five months

of the year falling off nearly 50,000

head, while the receipts for the six

leading Western markets for the past

five months ran 265,000 behind those

for a year ago. With such a show-

ing, it is not strange that sales of beef

steers should be at a range of $7.25@

9.25, compared with $7.10@8.75 a year

ago. Last week’s sales were largely

at $8@9, with the top a dime lower

than a week earlier, none going over

$9.25, While top yearlings sold at $9.15.

Good steers, whether yearlings or old-

er cattle, sold at $8.60 and upward,

with choice beeves at $9 and upwards.

Inferior to fair light weight steers

brought $7.25@8.25, a medium class

of steers fetching $8.30@8.55, and a

good many yearling steers and heif-

ers mixed sold at $8@9. There was

the usual animated demand for butch-

ering cows and heifers at $5.15@8.75

for common to fancy kinds, with cut-

ters at $4.60@5.10, canners at $3.50@

4.55 and bulls at $5.40@7.90.



Hogs have been marketed for a

week past in such small numbers as

compared with recent weeks and a

year ago that the packers experienced

no little difficulty in bringing about

declines in prices, and some good ad-

vances took place. Published returns

show that the combined receipts in

the 11 leading markets of the country

for the first five months of the year

were 476,000 hogs less than a year

ago, and the decrease in May was

very pronounced.



Sheep and lambs have sold much

higher recently than a short time ear-

lier, with greatly reduced receipts and

a scarcity of yearlings. Some belated

Colorado wooled lambs brought $9.60

per cwt. last week, the highest price

paid since May, 1913, being the last

of the season, and clipped lambs and

wethers have been doing better for

sellers, with a good demand from 10-

cal buyers and eastern shippers.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





Michigan. ,



Branch Co., June 4.——Corn is not all

planted, as several hard rains has

kept farmers off the ground, but the

rain gave oats, meadows and seeding

a good start, and they are looking





well. Wheat is looking hard in many

places. But little spraying has been

done. Wheat 94c; oats 380; potatoes





50@750, and in good demand; butter

160; eggs 17c.



Arenac Co., June 3.——The recent

rain was very welcome, as the ground

was very dry. About 20 per cent

more corn is being planted in this

vicinity this year than'ever before,

also more potatoes and a larger

acreage of onions is being put in: Of

beans, the farmers’ “cash crop,” the

acreage is being doubled this year.

Hay will be short; oats are looking

well. Wool 23@26c; eggs 17c; but-

ter 18c; butter-fat 21c. Cattle are

high and buyers are numerous.



Gratiot Co., June 4.—May was adry

month up to the 20th. The last ten

days there were several heavy rains,

which were much needed, as the

meadows did not look promising, but

they are now much improved. Wheat

is excellent, and oats are also doing

well. Corn planting has been delay-

ed; much corn is being sown in drills

to use as silage. No great acreage of

potatoes is being put out here. Al-

though many beans were damaged by

disease last season, the acreage will

be nearly as large this year. A quan-

tity of northern grown seed was ship-

ped in, for which the farmers are

paying $2.75 per bushel for seed. Ap-

ples and small fruit are well set.

There is but little spraying being

done. Reports from various parts of

the county show a heavy loss of

spring pigs. The bulk of the Wool

clip went to market at 23c; buyers

are now paying 24c. Eggs 16c; but-

ter 17c; beans $1.90; oats 390.



Hillsdale Co., June 5.——Rain has fall-

en in this section, whenever needed,

so far, and crops of all kinds are look-





ing fine. Corn came up quickly, and

is growing rapidly. Oats never look-

ed more promising. The earliest





strawberries are ripening, with pros-

pect of a big crop, few, if any, blos-

soms having been killed by frost, and

the vines not having suffered from

lack of moisture. The promise for all

kinds of fruit seems good. Early gar-

dens are well advanced and owners

are realizing returns far their labor





and enterprise. Eggs 18c;'butter 18

@200; Wheat 93c; rye 62c; oats 38c;

cloverseed $7.25; live chickens 14c;

heavy hogs and yorkers $7.75; pota-

toes 50@65c. _



Indiana.



LaGrange Co., June 3.—We are hav-

ing ideal weather for all crops. The

pig and lamb. crop was normal. Not

very many hogs in this section on ac-





count of the loss from hog cholera ,





last year. Wool is selling at 22c and

lots of it for sale. The wheat fields

look very poor and are veing injured

by the Hessian fly. Meadows and pas-

tures are in fine shape. The hay crop

Will be very heavy this year. Fruit

prospects not very good; few farm-

ers practice spraying in this section.

Potatoes are selling at 80c; corn 70c;

eggs 18c; butter 18c; hogs $7@7.50;

cattle $7@7.50.



Laporte Co., May 30.—Heavy rains

the 27th and 28th improved the crops

here, as corn, wheat and oats needed

moisture badly. So far corn is a

good stand and the prospects are

above the average. Stock of all kinds

doing well. In this section fruit prom-

ises to be light except small kinds,

which look to be a fair crop.



Nebraska.



Hitchcock Co., May 28.-——Thus far

crops are just fine and wheat is be-

ginning to head. Corn planting is

done and forage feed is being sowed,

cane and millet being the principal

crops in this part of the country. The

pig crop was not very large this

spring so many had bad luck. The

fruit prospects are good and condi-

tions are fine, though it has been

somewhat cool the past month. The

market prices on farm produce are:

Eggs 150; butter 12@20c; butter-fat

200; barley 40c; wheat 72c; corn 800.



Antelope Co., May 27,—The weather

has been fine; plenty of rain. Alfalfa

is most ready to cut. Corn is all

planted. Hogs are at top' prices; eggs

15c; butter 250; old hens 13c; pota-

toes 1.35 per bushel. We have good

prospects for a good crop.



Colorado.



Western Kit Carson Co.—Weather

still continues fine; ground is in ex-

cellent shape. A larger number of

pigs than usual. A large acreage of

spring grain and it is looking better

than for a number of years. Rye is

extra good; fall Wheat not very good:

pastures good and everything looks

like a good crop for 1914. Eggs 16c:

cream 21c; corn 85c; barley 850;

hogs $7.75; stock all in good condi-

tion.



Idaho.



Cassia Co.—This being an undevel-

oped country, there is not much corn

planted. Several of the ranchers are

sowing spring wheat. Some of the

wheat sown last fall did not come up

until this spring. Most of the people

are clearing sage bush and breaking

ground. Nearly all the government

land in this locality is filed upon.

Flour $2.20; eggs 14c; oats $1.15 per

cwt; wheat $1.25 per cwt.





FARMERS SHOULD REPORT THE

PRESENCE OF HESSIAN FLY.





 





_It appears that an unusual infesta-

tion of Hessian fly is developing in





southern Michigan and states adjaw





cent. For this reason we have been

asked by Professor Webster, of the

National Bureau of Entomology, to

co—operate in collecting data concern-

ing the conditions that have combin-

ed to bring about such a state of af-

fairs. We should therefore like to

obtain samples of fly-infested Wheat

from all parts of the state in order

that we may ascertain what, if any,

parasites are present.



Further, it is essential that we be

informed as to the presence of the fly

and the extent of the infestation last

spring. last fall, and this spring.



In order to facilitate gathering this

information, a franked and addressed

box, together with blank for filing in-

formation will be sent to anyone send-

lng a postal to Prof. E. F. Webster,

gurgau of Entomology, Washington,





It is hoped that there will be many

responses to this request since it is

through such efforts that we may

hope.to gain information of the un-

derlymg principles that control the

outbreaks of this pest, perhaps enab-

1mg us some time to accurately fore-

cast such outbreaks, and give warn-

ing in time to prevent loss.



Mich. Ag. Col. R. H. PETTIT.





CENTRAL MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN

BREEDERS MEET.





The Central Michigan Holstein

Breeders’ Association will hold their

annual basket picnic at Silver Creek

Farm, Dimondale, Mich., on June 19.

All interested in the black and White

cattle are cordially invited to attend.

Conveyances to and from Dimondale

will be furnished. Hon. D. D. Aitken.

of Flint, President of the National

Holstein Breeders’ Association, Con-

gressman J. M. C. Smith, and others

will give short talks.
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JUNE-=13, 1914. 9.:





THIS‘ IS THE FIRST EDITION.





The first edition is sent to those who

have not expressed a desire for the

latest markets. The late market ed1-

tion will be sent on request at any

time.





DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





Thursday’s Market.

June 4, 1914.

Cattle: .

Receipts 794. Market steady to 100

lower than last week.

We quote: Best heavy steers $8.25

@875; best handy weight butcher





' steers $8@8.50; mixed steers and heif-





ers 7.75@8.25; handy light butchers

$7@§l.50; light butchers $6.75@7.25;

best cows $6.25@6.75; butcher cows

$5.50@6; common cows‘ $4.50@5;

canners $3@4.25; best heavy bulls $7;

bologna bulls $6.25@6.75; stock bulls

$5@6.50; feeders $7.25@7.75; stock-

ers $6.50@7.50; milkers and springers

40 80.



$ Bfihop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.

1 cow wgh 1140 at $5.50, 2 steers av





820 at $7.75, 1 bull wgh 870 at $6.25,.





10 cows av 997 at $6, 1 steer wgh 970

at $7.50, 4 butchers av 800 at $7.25,

8 cows av 966 at $6.25, 2 steers av

960 at $7.50, 1 bull wgh 910 at $6.25,

3 do av 1147 at $6.50, 3 steers av- 1007

at $8.15, 3 cows av 1290 at $6.50, 23

steers av 1215 at $8.35, 1 bull wgh

500 at $5.50; to Ratner 2 bulls av

1010 at $6.25; to Home 4 cows av

1022 at $5.50; to Parker, W. & Co. 2

cows av 1020 at $5.75; to Armstrong

2 do av 785 at $4.25, 5 do av 966 at

$5.50, 2 do av 1000 at $5.50, 7 do av

891 at $5.35; to Rattkowsky 2 do av

1080 at $6.15, 2 do av 1160 at $6.15, 2

do av 960 at $6, 2 do av 810 at $6.25.

3 do av 857 at $6; to Bresnahan 2

stockers av 715 at $6.25; to Beach

7 do av 487 at $6.50; to Hammond, S.

& Co. 2 COWS av 920 at $6.50, 3 bulls

av 1080 at $6.60; to Heinrich 24 steers

av 796 at $7.90; to Thompson Bros. 2

bulls av 890 at $6.25; to Newton B.

Co. 11 steers av 780 at $7.40; to

Beach 1 feeder wgh 870 at $6.75; to

Converse 2 cows av 775 at $5.65; to

Mich. B. Co. 9 steers av 966 at $8.25,

1 cow wgh 900 at $4.25, 1 do wgh 1060

at $6.25.



Roe Com. Co. sold Watts 3 steers

av 957 at $8.20; to Bresnahan 5 heif-

ers av 734 at $7.50; to Rattkowsky 2

bulls av 795 at $6.25, 1 do wgh 1440

at $7.25; to Hammond, S. & Co. 4

cows av 1017 at $6; to Home 3 do av

860 at $5.35; to Grant 2 do av 910 at

$6.35, 8 do av 966 at $6.15; to Goose

1 bull wgh 1460 at $6.60; to Kamman

B. Co. 3 cows av 1043 at $6.50, 5

steers av 774 at $7.75, 22 do av 835 at

$7.75; to Mason B. Co. 2 bulls av 1045





at $6.50; to Bresnahan 5 steers av

774 at $7.75. -

Haley & M. sold Mason B. Co. 2





cows av 1260 at $6.75, 1 bull wgh 1280

at $6.70; to Converse 2 cows av 645

at $5.85, 7 stockers av 500 at $6.95; to

Watts 1 cow wgh 1090 at $7. 2 do av

910 at $7.15; to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull

wgh 1020 at $6.50; to Mich. B. Co. 20

steers av 914 at $8.10; to Black 3 do

av 823 .at $7.75; to Chamberlain 17

stockers av 480 at $7.



Spicer & R. sold Sullivan P. Co. 1

steer wgh 1260 at $8.25, 1 cow wgh

980 at $6.60; to Strong 2 stockers av

675 at $7.50, 11 do av 556 at $7, 12

do av 433 at $7.25; to Rattkowsky 1

cow wgh 850 at $5.75, 1 bull wgh 1140

at $7.25. 1 do wgh 1420 at $6.75, 1 do

wgh 1180 at $6.75; to Kull 2 butchers

av 805 at $6, 1 heifer wgh 650 at

$7.25; to Mason B. Co. 20 steers av

1004 at $8.20: to Hirschleman 4 do

av 925 at $6.50, 7 do av 863 at $8; to

Goose 1 bull wgh 1900 at $7, 1~do wgh

1960 at $6.50; to Rattkowsky 4 do av

1007 at $6.60; to Mich. B. Co. 2 do av

675 at $6, 2 heifers av 775 at $7.75, 17

steers av 925 at $8, 1 cow wgh 1150

at $6.50.



Veal Cales.



Receipts 887. Market steady to 250



giggier. Best $10@10.50; others $7@





Haley & M. sold Kull 2 av 155 at

$9.50, 9 av 165 at $9.50; to Newton B.

Co. 9 av 155 at $10; to Shapiro 6 av

155 at $10.50.



Spicer & R. sold Shapiro 4 av 155

at $10, 2 av 145 at $10; to Thompson

Bros. 3 av 150 at $10; to Parker, W.

& Co. 10 av 122 at $9, 1 wgh 220 at

$8, 6 av 135 at $8, 55 av 160 at $10.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 5

av 120 at $8, 14 av 160 at $10; to

Rattkowsky 24 av 160 at $10; to Rat-

ner 9 av 150 at $10.

9YZVSeeks sold Lowenstein 15 av 150 at





. Sheep and Lambs.



.Receipts 1189. Market 10@15c

higher. Best lambs $7.85@8; fair do

$7@7.50; light to common lambs $6.50

@7; fair to good sheep $4.50@5;- culls

and common $3.50@4.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co.

31 sheep av 115 at $5; to K1111 16

lambs av 80 at $7; to Sullivan P. Co.

8 spring lambs av 45 at $9, 10 lambs

av 59st $9, 6 sheep av 120 at $5, 4

do av 95 at $4. 90 lambs av 65 at





$7.75,1 7 sprin lambs av 65; at $10; to

NaglePJ Co."- O-sheep av 1‘35 at’ $4.50,

252 lambs av 78 at. $7.85; to Harland .





'THIAE: "MICHI.





7 spring lambs av 55 at $9.50, 14

lambs av 56 at $9; to Newton B. Co.

113 lambs av 75 at $7.75, 11 do av

88 at $4.50; to Hammond, S. & Co.

97 sheep av 125 at $4.75; to Thomp-

son Bros. 4 sheep av 125 at $5; to

Fitzpatrick Bros. 41 do av 78 at $4.65,

27 do av 80 at $4.50, 14 lambs av 75

.at $8, 36 do av 70 at $7, 32 do av 73

at $1.50; to Barlage 37 sheep ave 80

a .



Haley & M. sold Newton B. 00. 7

spring lambs av 65 at $9, 4'sheep av

145 at $4, 28 do av 115 at $5.





Hogs.

Receipts 5136. Pigs $8.15; others

$8.20@8.25.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Go.

460 av 195 at $8.25.





I

Spicer & R. sold Parker, W. & Co.'





815 av 190 at $8.25.





Haley & M. sold same 227 av 200'





at $8.25.

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

& Co. 2510 av 195 at $8.25.

Friday’s Market.

June 5, 1914.

Cat 1





te.



Receipts this week 932; last week

992; market steady. Best heavy

steers $8.25@8.75; best handy weight

butcher steers $8@8.50; mixed steers

and heifers $7.75@8.25; handy light

butchers $7@7.50; light butchers $6.75

@725; best cows $6.25@6.75; butcher

coWs $5.50@6; common cows $4.50@

5; canners $3@4.25; best heavy bulls

$7; bologna bulls $6.25@6.75; stock

bulls $5@6.50; feeders $7.25@7.75;

stockers $6.50@7.50; milkers and

springers $40@80.



Veal Calves.



Receipts this week 1094; last week

746; market steady. Best $10@11;

others $7@9.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts this week 1323; last week

1561; market steady on good; grass

grades dull; one load good dry-fed

lambs sold at $8.25; best lambs $7.75

@825; fair lambs $7@7.50; light to

common lambs $6.50@7; spring lambs

$8.50@9.50; fair to good sheep $4.50

@5; culls and common $3.50@4;

heavy sheep $4@4.25.



Hogs.



Receipts this week 7111; last week



$3337); market 50 higher; all grades





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Farms and Farm Lands For Sale

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UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES NOW.

State Board of Agriculture. Dover. Delaware.





 





 





 





[FOR SALE, whole or part. 320-acre Southern Mich.

ignn farm. 55 a. fine looking wheat. Immediate pos.

session. Otto S. Schairer. 214 Dewey Ave..Swissvalo.Ps.





FOR SALE FARM and Fruit Lands. also large

tracts for stock grazing and

ranch purposes. Clay loam soil, lime rock subsoil,

near market and railroad. Address R. MITCHELL,

Agent for Thad B. Preston, Onuway. Michigan.





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-— ring boars from prize-win-

“ENC-Jerseys n n6 strains. Sows all ages

Brookwnter Farm. l. l". . No. 7. Ann Arbor.Mich.





POLAND CHINA





Registered Boar Pigs

From Some of the FineSt Stock in Michigan.





FOREST SIDE. STOCK FARM,

M. H. CHAMBERLAIN. Jr.. Proprietor.

R. l". D. No. 3, Romeo. Mich.





L‘BGE IYPE P c —Largest in Mich. Fall pigs all



' - sold. order a spring gig sired

by the largest boar in the U. 8., weight 90 lbs., 24

months old. Come and see. EXpenses paid if not as

represented. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Purina, Mich.





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Prices right. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. M9011.





Poland China Boar; Saws Bred, All of the Big Type.





A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. Michigan.





MY OH MY!

What an Opportunity.





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than with any other breed. We want to place nt

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OLAND CHINA PIGS—~From large Prolific stock.

Shorthorn Bull Calves. Fggs $1 per 1:3 from cholca





Barred Rocks. ROBERT NI‘IVE. Pierson. Michigan.





 





-160 acres best dairy and

80' MIcH- DAIRY F‘BM farming section So. Mich.

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- —300 acres: 122-room good house: burn,

Fine Place 6()x100; horse barn 30x40: other fine

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tools; hay. grain; on state road. an ideal home and

money maker. . art cash. balance 5% interest,

long time. Catalogue o. 1002. IIALL‘S FARM

AGENCY. Owego, T1023 00.. New York.





SUMMER ALL THE TIME!

Firs... cmronm Linn . raga "ants:

grow alfalfa. walnuts. peaches. apricots. cherries.





grares. almost everything. W'rite for information.

:I. D. TOWAR. East Lansing. Michigan.





 





HI S" ~260 a. clay loam soil. 100 n. cleared. mostly



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3f mile to railron .town. well settled farming com-

munity, good standing hardwood timber. Price 8.350(1,

”(DO down. Buy It now. get this year’s crops and make

good payment. Write W. l“. UMPHREY. Evert. Mich.





. Disabled Owner Must Sell

284 Acres, Equipped, $3500





Disabled owner wants to close out at once: remarkable

opportunity for s. hustler: broad fertle fields, immense

crops; pasture for 30 to 45 head; valuable wood and

timber, choxce fruit; close to lake. on state road to

market town; 7-room house. 3 big barns, other

buildings; 5 cows. 2 igs. hens. hay in barn. tools and

furniture included i taken now and only $1200 cash

needed: full details and location. page 28, "Strout's

Farm Ontal 37". Just out. copy free. E. A. STROUT

FARM AG CY. Station 101. Union Bank 131113.,

Pittsburgh, Pa.





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Fun SALE—A choice bunch of March and April boar

pigs. a few herd headers. Prices reasonable.

Satisfaction guaranteed. R. W. Mills, Saline, Mich.





-Bred for July (arrow, boar

PI 0- GIL-rs ready for service, all the

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30 Poland China Fall Pigs—Good ones from immune

sows $10 and $15 each, while they last. Bred sow

sole Fob. 27th.send your name for catalog if you want to

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350 BIG TYPE MULE FOOT H()GS——America's

Champion Herd. Prolific. hardy. Best for Mich.

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





Bred sows. bred gilts and boar

Mllle FOOl piflfi. not related, for sale. Sails

faction guaranteed. G. C. KREGLOW, Ada, Ohio





Yorkshires—Springnl‘izg: OI Excellent Quality.





GUY J. DOTY, Monroe, Michigan.





 





 





 





FOR SALEuYorkshire boars ready for service.

Sows bred for Sept. furrow. Prices

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YORKSHIRE Swine—March & Apr. pigs ready to ship.

Pairs not akin. College Princess and Cooks Bacon

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York hire Guaranteed to not die of Cholera. Prolific,

3 3 long deep and well fleshed. Pigs ready for

delivery. Not akin. Cribbs Broe.. Watervliet. Mich.





YORKSHIRES





The large. long-bodied, prolific kind. Gilts bred for

July. August and September furrow. A choice lot of

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COLONC. LILLIE. Coopersville. Michlgll.‘
616—16





THE VARIATION IN'TEST lN MILK

AND CREAM.





 





(Continued from page 602).

for instance, that if a man has 100

pounds of cream testing 40 per cent,

he should receive credit for 40 pounds

of fat. Suppose now the next day he

has 200 pounds of cream testing 20

per cent. He still has 40 pounds of

fat but his test is 20 per cent instead

of 40 per cent. Now an average test

of a compsite sample made from these

two creams would be 30 per cent and

the total weight of the cream receiv-

ed was 300 pounds. If the composite

test is 30 per cent, as it manifestly

would be, being 40 per cent one day

and 20 per cent the next, and the

total weight of cream received were

300 pounds, then he would receive

credit for 90 pounds of fat, whereas

he actually delivered but 80 pounds.

Composite Sample Should be Taken

According to Volume of Milk

Brought.

Of course, if one is to take a com-





posite sample, in order to have the

sampling correct he should in every





instance take a certain volume of

sample for the volume of milk

brought in, but this we believe is prac-

tically never done and conseqeuntly

there is a constant gain or loss to

either the dairyman or the creamery-

man due to variation in test, which is

natural, or due to variation in vol-

ume, which is likewise natural.



These points have not been given

very much attention, but from our ex-

perience and study of dairy problems

we are convinced that therein is the

source of much of the dissatisfaction

which exists from time to time be-

tween the creamery and the dairy-

man.





THE TRUTH ABOUT SOIL ANALY-

SIS.





 





No one part of the farm concerns

the man on it more than the soil. It

is the storehouse from which all

things must come. The farmer is nat-

urally anxious to know the truth about

the matter of available plant food. In

the effort to find out what elements

of plant food exist in their soils, a

mistaken notion has arisen among

many men as to the value of soil an-

alysis. “The fact is,” says Professor

Alfred Vivian, soil fertility expert of

the College of Agriculture, Ohio State

University, “soil analysis gives prac-

tically no hint as to the immediate

needs of the soil. It gives the total

plant food in the soil but does not

give any clue to its availability. The

most important thing that the chem-

ist can do is to determine whether

the soil is properly supplied with lime

by testing for acidity.” Rather than

make a chemical analysis of a soil,

Professor Vivian has another method

of determining its needs in the way

of fertilizers. He tests for acidity,

notes the physical properties of the

soil and then asks the owner a num-

ber of questions, including such as,

the location of the farm, kind of crops

grown, whether clover can be grown

successfully or not, and the character

of the underlying stone. From the

answers to these questions he can tell

what kind of fertilizer is needed with

more intelligence than when simply

making a chemical analysis. In a gen-

eral way,” says Professor Vivian,

“there are three things concerning

soil fertility, of which every Ohio

farmer can be sure. These are: (1)

There is no soil in the state that does

not need phosphorous. No experi-

ment has ever been conducted in the

state that did not show a benefit from

phosphorous. (2) Soils cultivated for

any length of time are low in organic

matter. Data on virgin and cultivated

soils side by side, show that from 35

to 50 per cent of the organic matter

has been destroyed in the cultivated

soils. (3) Every man can determine

absolutely by test Whether or not his

soil needs lime. -





 





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