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The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.





 





 





VOL. CXLII, No. 25. ;

Whole Number 3788.





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1914.





50 CENTS A YEAR.

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Why a Farm Cost System isD-esirable.





HE recent articles on Farm Cost

Keeping in your valuable paper

have been read with considera-



ble interest.



I am enclosing a duplicate cost

card on a crop of potatoes and do not

think there will need to be any ex-

planation regarding this card, but

would be very glad to answer any

questions pertaining to same. These

are true costs and whether or not I

am a good farmer is not the point.

The main point is, I know what this

crop cost, and therefore whether I

made or lost money when I sold it.



The article by Mr. C. W. Crum, of

Montcalm county, asks a very perti-

nent question, and one can almost say

he answers it himself. From my

standpoint it makes a great deal of

difference whether it costs $14 or $67

an acre to raise something, and I cer-

tainly want to know just what it does

cost, because if I can not sell that

product at a profit, I am not going to

raise it; and here is the whole value

of cost keeping in a nut-shell. If it

does not pay, do not raise it, or else





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find out how to grow enough to make

it pay. You can write down in your

little book that no farm commodity

is ever going to be generally sold for

less than it costs to raise it, provid-

ing you are anywhere near the top—

notch class in the raising end of the

game, and keeping costs tells you

whether you are or not. By this I

mean, if you raise considerably more

per dollar of cost than the average

farmer it is going to net a profit.



I can conceive no reason why pota-

toes should be raised on Michigan

farms if it does not pay. I may be

such a poor farmer that I do not know

that potato land will not raise any-

thing else, but I do not believe this

to be the case, as I raise the grains,

etc., on the same land that I raise po-

tatoes on, and do not rob the soil as

much either.



There is no line of business which

can stand competition, without know-

ing the cost of production. There is

no business with which I am familiar,

(and I have been a business man all

my life), but what has the price es-





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tablished by some one other than the

producer. The only case I know of in

which the producer fixes the price is

where he is the sole and only manu-

facturer of a patented article. Every

business has to meet prices and they

do it and survive because they know

their costs. When they know them

and they are too high, they find ways

and means of reducing them. If this

cannot be done they get into some

other business.



The maker of a plow does not put

a price on the plow to sufficiently cov-

er his expense. He meets the selling

price of the most expert plow manu-

facturer of the country, and if he

loses money he must either get up-

to-date or quit. This is exactly the

case of the farmer, he must get above

the average in production and keep

his cost of production below the av-

erage or he will lose money.



A farmer should keep stock of some

kind to get plant food at a reasonable

price, and keeping costs properly will

enable him to know if he is keeping

the right kind of stock, that is, the





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kind that makes money, and if not he

should sell it and get the kind that

does make money.



Mr. Crum says: “We know, in a

general way, that we produce crop

after crop for less than cost of pro-

duction when we charge all the items

of cost against the crop. If an agri-

cultural college is privileged to pur-

chase baby beef and sell it for less

than cost, and make money, why may

not we farmers deceive ourselves in

the same manner and with the same

satisfaction?” I was not aware that

the agricultural colleges do this. Any-

way, the farmer can do it if he likes,

but he will not keep it up very long

without having a good mortgage on

the farm, and eventually have to sell

it to pay his debts; people in other

lines of business only criticize the

farmer because of his lackadaisical

method as far as business is con-

cerned.



The average farmer pays no atten-

tion to business at all; this is proven

by the fact that he does not keep

costs. Any business, farming or oth-





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erwise, is on the straight road to

bankruptcy if they do not keep costs.

You may as well sell gold dollars for

any price offered, as to farm or oper-

ate any other business and sell your

product in the market for unknown

prices without knowing your cost of

production.





Ohio. E. C. PECK.





 





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





Alfalfa.



Alfalfa is steadily working its way

in favor at Lillie Farmstead. I now

have 25 acres. That which I sowed

several years ago promises a big crop

this year. The field where the greats

er portion of it is I mixed orchard

grass with the alfalfa, sowing only

five pounds of the alfalfa to the acre.

The rest of the field I seeded to al-

falfa alone. The alfalfa is holding

pretty well. It looks vigorous. I am

going to get a cutting of two and a

half tons to the acre the first cutting

on this field. I am quite sure of this

by the looks of it at the present time.

The orchard grass grows so luxuri-

antly, and has grown so tall, that

looking at it from outside the field

one would think there was very little

alfalfa, but when you come to go

through the field you find out that

there is a good liberal sprinkling of

alfalfa all through the orchard grass.

When the first crop is cut the orchard

grass makes very little growth, but

the alfalfa produces a second and a

third crop. In some places it is rath-

er thin because there wasn’t enough

seed sown. In some places in this

field June grass is crowding the al~

falfa and in other places it doesn’t

seem to crowd it. One portion of the

field was sown to the Grimm variety

of alfalfa and this seems to hold its

own better than the other varieties,

with the exception of a narrow strip

on one side seeded to sand lucerne,

the seed which I received from the

government. This seems to hold just

as well as the Grimm alfalfa, although

this was sown alone without any or-

chard grass seeded with it, and I

think it has had a better chance on

this account.



The 17 or 18 acres of alfalfa that

I seeded last year promises much bet-

ter than I expected the first year af-

ter seeding. It is doing a great deal

better than the first I seeded. In fact,

that did not do very well. Even the

second year it didn’t grow very lux-

uriantly, but since then it seems to

have become established and is vigor-

ous. That which I seeded last year

seems to be vigorous frdm the start,

although it made very little growth

the first year on account of the ex-

treme dryness. It seems to me that

the reason for this is the inoculation.

Of course, I will admit it was seeded

on land that has been in a rotation of

crops and received stable manure and

commercial fertilizer regularly while

the first was on land soon after I

bought the farm before it had any ro-

tation of crops or any commercial

fertilizer or stable manure, although

we top-dressed and used commercial

fertilizer when we seeded it. The

last of the four acres seeded last year

the very first days of July didn’t

promise so well early in the season or

late last fall, but it is coming on won-

derfully now. It is picking up and I

am going to have a good stand on this

late sowing. There are some bunches

of June grass and other grass which

I am going to try to cultivate out af-

ter we cut the alfalfa.



The five acres that I have just fin-

ished, June 4, I intended to sow a lit-

tle earlier and sow it in May, but we

had so much work to do in getting in

the other crops and we have had such

heavy -rains at frequent intervals that

this was delayed. This five acres is

also on rough land, creek bottom and

side hills. I intend to use it in the

future for a hog pasture after it gets

well established but, of course, my

idea is'to not pasture’it so but what





 

 





THE MICHIGAN F'A'VRjMER





we will cut it regularly for hay. we

will not have a great many hogs in

proportion to the amount of alfalfa so





that we will have a crop of hay to





harvest besides pasturing. In this

way I hope to save alfalfa year after

year for a number of years. I have

taken some little pains to prepare this

land for alfalfa. I followed Joseph

Wing’s advice as near as I could. Part

of the land _was in sweet corn last

year and this land was heavily ma.-

nured with stable manure and plowed

down for the sweet corn. The rest of

it was in sugar beets. This also was

heavily manured and plowed down for

the sugar beets and I put commercial

fertilizer on the sweet corn and also

on the sugar beets last year, and last

fall we covered it over again with a

medium coat of stable manure and

plowed it, where the sweet corn grew

last fall. On that portion of the field

where we had beets a year ago the

land was not plowed, but we disked it

and harrowed it thoroughly this

spring. We worked the ground over

carefully when we prepared the rest

of the fields for other crops early in

the year, and sugar beets, and it has

been worked once a week all the

spring, and one reason why I didn’t

care even if we were a little late

about sowing was that by giving it

frequent cultivations after rains we

would destroy a good many weeds

that might be in the soil.

Applying Lime.



I applied lime with a lime distrib-

utor at the rate of two tons per acre.

This was pulverized limestone. Of

course, this was thoroughly cultivated

in. From my use of the small amount

of Grimm variety of alfalfa several

years ago on the first field I sowed,

I am of the opinion that this is hard-

ier than the average alfalfa. As I

wanted this particular field to stick a

long time I made up my mind that I

could afford to pay an extra price for

this variety and so I sent to Mr. Ly-

man, of Minnesota, and bought a

bushel of seed for this five acres,

paying $36 for it. This would seem

like an enormous price to pay for al-

falfa, when you can buy Dakota seed

for $11 or $12, and yet if this is more

hardy it is worth the price. After we

go to the expense of preparing land

for alfalfa the extra price of the seed

doesn’t amount to very much. At any

rate, my judgment told me that I

could afford to pay $36 for a bushel of

genuine Grimm alfalfa seed, and I

did it.



Inoculation.



I believe that inoculation had very

much to do with my getting such a

vigorous lot of alfalfa plants from

last year’s seeding. Of course, I did

not neglect it and I inoculated the

same as I did last year, giving double

inoculation. We went into the old

alfalfa field where the plants were

growing vigorously, and spaded up

some soil. This was screened thor-

oughly and then we mixed one-third

of this soil and two-thirds commer-

cial fertilizer thoroughly together.

Then the drill was set to sow 350 lbs.

per acre. Now, besides this I went to

the drug store and purchased five

cents worth of glue and dissolved this

in about a gallon of warm water and

poured it into the bushel of alfalfa

seed after I had put it into a galvan-

ized iron wash tub, and then I took

some of this soil that we got from the

alfalfa field and mixed it thoroughly

with the seed. The glue preparation

had been mixed with the seed so that

every seed was covered with this

sticky solutiOn. Then much of this

soil stuck to the seed and when the

glue became dry, of course it remain-

ed firmly fixed. Some of the bacteria

stuck to the seed and they are right

in the soil where the young plant,

when the seed germinates, will need

it. We sowed the seed with the grass

seeder attachment of the drill and

sowed a bushel of oats. as a nurse

crop at the same time and used a fer-

tilizer as .I have explained. ,,Now We





 





have got some alfalfa inoculated soil

right under the young plant, we have

got some right with the seed, and as

the roots go down they haven’t got

to' go over an inch or two before they

get to some more soil that is inocu-

lated. COLON C. LILLIE.





FERTILIZING A NEW SEEDING OF

’ ALFALFA.





 





I have a field of alfalfa which I

seeded last fall. It came on fairly

well, notwithstanding the extremely

dry weather. There is a fair stand at

present, but it is Spindling and hasn’t

a good color. Would it be profitable

to sow on commercial fertilizer and

drag in at this time? It was sown

after rye, and quite a heavy growth

of rye has grown up with it. We are

clipping the Whole for hay.



Calhoun Co. H. S.



The trouble with this alfalfa is un-

doubtedly a lack of inoculation, rath-

er than to a lack of fertility in the

soil, although if there were plenty of

available fertility in the soil the al-

falfa would make a good growth with-

out the presence of the bacteria. On

most of our older soils, however, it

will not produce a paying crop with-

out the presence of these bacteria and

on any soil the growth will be much

larger if the plants are inoculated

with the bacteria. The lack of the

bacteria may be due to the fact that

no inoculating material was used at

the time of sowing, but it is far more

likely to be the result of an acid con-

dition of the soil, which will require

an application of lime to correct be-

fore the best results can be secured

with the crop. It would probably pay

to make a liberal application of a

complete fertilizer after the rye and

alfalfa is removed from the ground,

harrowing it in as suggested. This

would prove a permanent benefit to

the soil, as the alfalfa growing on the

land would appropriate this readily

available plant food and prevent any

loss from leaching. The benefit of

the fertilizer would be noted in the

succeeding crop, even if it did not

produce profitable results with the

alfalfa, and there is a good chance

that it might encourage a better de-

velopment of the alfalfa plants which

would enable them to survive until

such time as natural inoculation takes

place, as it will do if the soil is not

in too acid condition to enable the

bacteria to develop and multiply.





DEFINITION OF A GOOD FARMER.





 





Contrary as it may seem, Prof. Al-

fred Vivian, of the College of Agricul-

ture, Ohio State University, has re-

cently defined a good farmer as “one

who does everything he can to pro-

duce acids in his soil,” but he hastens

to add that, “he is also one who learns

how to detect acidity and then uses

lime to correct it.” This is simply a

means of emphasizing the importance

of adopting the best all around farm

practices. Proper drainage, careful

plowing and harrowing, thorough cul-

tivation, the use of green manure

crops and the application of manure

and fertilizers will tend to slightly

hasten the formation of acid. ~How-

ever, this gives no reason why the ap-

plication of acid phosphate, for in-

stance, should be discontinued. All

of our soils need phosphorous and the

way they can get it in sufficient quan-

tities is through the use of some phos-

phatic fertilizer. The farmer should

not hesitate to use acid phosphate

because the effect of the heaviest ap-

plications of this fertilizer would be

neutralized by 20 pounds of lime to

the acre. The most important thing

for the farmer is to know when the

soil becomes sour and then apply the

lime. It is significant in this connec-

tion to note that it is characteristic

of acid soils to be low in the element

phosphorous. Prof. Vivian advocates

the application of lime in small quan-

tities often, rather than apheavy ap-

plication made to last for. a number

of years.





 





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BY FLOYD w. BOBISON.

When the .Practical Science depart-

ment was organized nearly three years

ago, one of the features "which was

most strongly emphasized was the

laboratory feature. There are a great

many problems which come to the at-

tention of the farmer that it is entire‘

ly within the province of a laboratory

to solve.





Laboratory work is more or less ex~ ,





pensive work and when it becomes

necessary for the farmer to pay the

regular laboratory fees for this labor-

atory information he finds it impos-

sible for him to do so. ’ '



During the writer’s experience in

official work, particularly within the

state of Michigan, he found there was

a great need for the establishment of

some laboratory institution to whom

the farmers could look for informa-

tion on various matters which were

problems to them but, as stated be-

fore; for these services to be accept-

able they must be done without cost

to the individual, or at the very min-

imum expense.



Most of the executive departments

of the state are confronted with the

enforcement of laws and with the ful-

fillment of duties especially fixed by

statute. Consequently they are not

authorized and are not warranted in

expending’funds for the solving of

these private problems of individual

farmers.



The Michigan Farmer considered

that it could undertake this matter,

the only consideration being that the

person making inquiries and availing

himself of these privileges should be

a subscriber to the Michigan Farmer.

This really involves a very inconsid-

ate expense, as the subscription price

of the Michigan Farmer is not enough

to pay the cost of scarcely one single

analytical determination in the lab-

oratory.



From time to time matters have

come into the laboratory for analysis

and consultation which have been so

manifestly of a public character that

the results have been published in

the laboratory columns of the Prac-

tical Science department. The great

bulk of this work, however, has been

wOrk which has been of value only to

the individual farmer sending it, and

so has been reported direct to him

and has not been published through

the columns of the paper.





The Laboratory Report Covers Every.

thing on the Farm.



It was designed originally that this

service should extend to the examina-

tion of milk and cream so that farm-

ers might determine the real value of

the cows in their herds; that it would

include also the examination of com-

mercial fertilizers and commercial

feed stuffs which the farmer either

contemplated buying, or concerning

the value of which some question

arose in his mind; questions regard-

ing any materials he was using on the

farm or in the home; the sole idea





being to make this department a ready *





laboratory reference department at

the service of the subscribers to the

Michigan Farmer.



The feature dealing with the testing

of milk and cream, however, has been

the mbst pronounced feature of the

laboratory work. This department has

analyzed many hundred samples of

milk and cream for individual farm-

ers, some to determine the butter-

producing values of their herds of cat-

tle, others for the purpose of mutual

satiSfaction in” relation to cream and

milk furnished to the local creameries.



‘Use Care in Taking the. Sample.



In selecting samples cf any descrip-



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Ward Orchard Notes.





We have had the common human

experience of having things work out

different than planned, in the last

spraying. We had fully hoped that

we would be able to report at this

time on hauling water to the spray

rigs with the tractor, using the thou-

sand-gallon tank we recently received.

But we were considerably delayed in

getting the trucks ready for the tank

and the tank arrived a little later

than we expected, so it was not ready

until the after blossom spraying was

nearly over.



The plan of using three leads of

hose to each tank worked out very

well, although we had a little trouble

at first in getting the men spraying

used to it, as they often got in each

other’s way. When the two men on

the ground took care of their own

rows and the man on the tank sprayed

the tops of both rows, they worked

without interfering with eacn other,

or lapping over and skipping places.

Of course, by this arrangement the

men often got considerable spray on

themselves, but they did not mind it

and went at it cheerfully. In fact no one

can do a good job of spraying in any

way if he is too particular as to get-

ting his clothes soiled.



The System Used in Spraying.



Everything in the spraying worked

off very nicely until toward the end,

when two of the rigs gave out so that

it was necessary to send to the fac-

tory for repairs. When all rigs were

running well we had 12 men spraying,

three on each rig, one man at the

spray shed mixing up the spray mate-

rials and tending to the pumping out-

fit, and one trouble man who kept the

rigs in good running order. He spent

a great part of his time on the saddle

herse, going from one rig to the other,

seeing that everything was in running

order and making adjustments if nec-

essary.



The four rigs' averaged about 37

tanks a day, the greatest number put

out being 391/3, and the smallest 35.

The average time for spraying out a

tankful was 25 minutes, that is, with

three leads of hose and two nozzles

on each rod, making six nozzles to

the rig. None of the rigs had any

trouble maintaining 250 lbs. of pres-

sure with that number of nozzles at-

tached, but we cut the pressure down

to 200 lbs., as the strain on the en-

gine, pumps and hose would not be

as great, and the results were just as

good.



Making the Spraying More Thorough.



A thing we did which We believe

assisted us in getting the spraying

done more thoroughly, was to not al-

low the same outfit spray both sides

of the same row. When they got to

the end they skipped a row in going

back. In this way if a man had any

individual peculiarities in spraying,

the results of it would be spread, and

perhaps overcome to a great extent

by another man spraying the other

side of the row.





We can not recall a blossoming pe-

riod which passed over as quickly as

the one this year. The hot weather

following also made the calyx cups of

the apples close much sooner than

usual, and unless the spraying was

done very quickly the cups Were

closed before it was done. We did

not finish our after blossom spraying

until June 8, and therefore a large

share of the fruit was beyond the

proper stage for this spraying. We

intend to start the second spraying

after the blossoms about June 12, and

as the sprayings have been, and will





be, thoroughly done, we do not antici-





pate any trouble with the codling

moth.

Condition of Fruit and Foliage.



The foliage and fruit look very fine

and healthy, there being very little

evidence of insects or diseases. Oc-

casionally we find a very little scab

on the foliage and sometimes the

work of the green fruit worm and the

apple leaf roller, but otherwise there

is nothing.



Wagener, Wealthy and Duchess

have set heavily to fruit, so that they

will need considerable thinning. The

Jonathan has also set well, but the

fruit is well distributed and will not

need thinning. At present we have

indications for a very slight June

drop. The Baldwin and Shiawassee

are set very light.



Cultivation Delayed.



We are away behind in our'culti-

vation as we have not got over the

orchard once yet. The grass is get-

ting quite high, but we intend to keep

the tractor with the 40-disc harrow

“a-pecking away at it” until about the

middle of July, when we shall cease

cultivation. The disc works up the

heavy sod much better than we had

hoped it would. All we hope to do

this year is to get the sod fairly sub-

dued and then next year start culti-

vation early, and then quit early, say

about the first of July. We feel quite

certain that we could have very eas-

ily taken care of the cultivation as it

should be, with the equipment we

have, had we been able to start in

time.



During the last hot spell, June 8-9,

tractor driving in the orchard, where

the trees are so dense, was unbear-

able, and we had to lay idle during

the ,hot part of the day. On June 8

the spray rigs also had to quit for

about two hours on account of the

heat





SPRING STRAWBERRY NOTES.





 





The plants in our newly set straw-

berry bed are growing nicely, the

best, I think, I ever had them; any-

way, every plant is alive and appears

thrifty. The ground was a clover sod,

white clover mostly; over this was

spread a fair quantity of stable ma-

nure, before plowing; in fact, the ma-

nure was drawn on snow. The ground

was plowed early, as soon as it was

fit for the plow, and kept worked

down, but the plants were not set till





,the middle of May. Usually this would

have been too late to secure good re- ,

sults, but the season is nearly, if not





quite, two weeks later this spring

than usual, so that the delay is not

likely to work harm to the bed of





plants.

Our few everbearing strawberry

plants are already full of bloom,





while there are scarcely any buds in

sight on the plants in the regular bed;

it seems to be in their nature to send

out bloom as soon in the spring as it

is warm enough for vegetation to

make growth. A very few of the blos-

soms have been blackened by the

frost, but there is a large amount of

perfect bloom in sight, and much more

coming out. There is sufficient bloom

in sight to make a large crop of fruit,

if each blossom would mature a good-

sized berry, such‘ as one would expect

of the Warfield or some other reliable

sort. M. N. EDGERTON.





The statement that eternal vigilance

is the price of success holds true in

small fruit growing. While the ene-

mies of small fruit cause considerable

loss, our greatest loss is due to our

own slack methods of fruit culture. In

other words, carelessness and negli-

genes are the most serious pests we

have.





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More Wheat Per Acre





We cannot control the price of a bushel of

wheat, because too many countries raise wheat.

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The resolution that every dairyman

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express purpose of carrying over

enough corn silage so that a year

from this summer he will have corn

silage to feed when the dry weather

comes. Numerous dairymen have

made this resolution before, but they

have failed to keep it. There is no

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good resolutions. The resolution dies

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got a silo then they should build a

silo of large enough capacity so that





' it will carry them the entire year, if





they need it. If, perchance, there is

a proper distribution of moisture this

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I have a cow that has given milk

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of milk a day now. but have, not been

able to get her with calf again. She

is the best. cow I ever had and I hate

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The best advice I can give you is

to consult a veterinarian. Perhaps

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neck of the womb is closed, or some

thing of that sort, which he will be

able to rectify and enable you to get

your cow pregnant again. There are

various powders and other medicines

on the market which it is claimed will

make barren cows breed. I know but

little about these, because I have nev-

er tried them. We are troubled in

this same way very often. We turn-

ed off two cows this spring for beef

that failed to breed, for what reason

I do not know. I simply know that we

kept breeding them regularly, as C.

D. has done with his, and they didn’t

get pregnant again, but gave milk-for

a long time. They finally got so that

they did not give a profitable mess

and they were not with calf and I did

not think I could afford to keep them

any longer, and so turned them off

and got what I could for them for

beef. I really do not know how to

overcome this difficulty. I think if

you would talk with your local veteri-

narian that he could advise you'bet-

ter than anyone else. Perhaps he

knows some remedy or could do some-

thing which would adjust matters to

get your cow pregnant again. It is

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get conditions where it is impossible

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BARN 'QUESTIONS.





 





At what height from the ground

should the windows of a barn be

hung (placed), and what size sash?

Also, about wall; to be concrete‘be-

low the surface nd stone wall above.

How deep belov surface would you

advise making the concrete, one foot

being allowed for grading above? The

stone will be laid to wihdow base.

Does the plank frame barn seem

good to you? Our builder approves,

but thinks them more expensive.



St. Clair Co. C. E.





The higher you canbuild the win-

dows in the building the more light

you can get from the windows. Low

windows do not admit anywhere near

as much sunlight as high ones do.

do not know how high the ceiling of

your basement and stable is. How~

ever, it will undoubtedly be seven or

eight feet, which is usually the height.

If your basement is too high it is like

a room with a high ceiling, it takes a

great deal of extra fuel to keep 1t

warm in cold weather. You can get

good results with a seven-foot base-

ment. An eight-foot is really higher

than necessary, although it will do no

harm, except in extreme cold weather

as I say, it is difficult to keep it at

proper temperature for the comfort

of the animal. If your basement is to

be seven feet in the clear, then I

would have the window sills four feet

from the ground or the floor and have

the windows run nearly to the ceiling.

This would make three-foot windows,

and you can have them single sash if

you prefer. It is a good plan to have

single sash with about four to six

lights in a window. Don’t get the

lights too large, because some of them

are liable to be broken and it is more

expensive to replace large-sized glass

than small—sized. You can have these

windows hung so that the tops can be

tipped in fOr ventilation and preven-

tion of draft. If the windows are

raised or lowered with a double sash

the wind will blow directly in, but

with a single sash the top can tip in,

and when you want ventilation from

the windows the draft will shoot up

to the ceiling and not directly upon

the animals. It doesn’t matter very

much about the size or shape of the

windows. You can put in such as

will suit your fancy. The thing to

bear in mind is to have a sufficient

number of windows and have them

large enough so that you will have

four square feet of glass for each an-

imal that you intend to keep in the

basement. That is the rule for the

amount of glass to use.



The depth of the trench for the

wall of a basement barn or any build-

ing is simply to get down to good firm

ground and down below the frost. If

the ground freezes in the trench be‘

low the wall when it thaws out the

building is liable to settle, that is, the

frost will heave it out of shape. So

we want to go down below the frost

line and get good solid ground. I

think that two feet from the surface,

after you have graded as you intend

to, to the bottom of the trench or bot-

tom of the wall will be sufficient.



The plank frame barn is considered

by many builders to be the ideal

structure now days. Timber is rather

expensive and you can make a lighter

frame out of planks than you could

out of strong timber and you can get

the same strength With a less amount

of lumber so I don’t think a plank

frame costs more than one of timber.

My idea always has been that it costs

less. There is no use in having great

square heavy timbers in a barn. Peo~

ple used to think it was necessary,

and they had plenty of timber and it

was quite expensive to make them

smaller. But experience has proven

that it is not necessary to have such

heavy timbers in a barni You can

get. all the strength that is desired

with less lumber, and theebest way I





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know of to get a nice substantial

frame is with the plank frame. This

form of structure has proven satis-

factory in every way so far as I know

in every instance Where it has been

used and it is recommended by the

very best farm architects.





MICHIGAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB.





 





The summer meeting of the Mich-

igan Jersey Cattle Club was held at

the home of H. B. Wattles, Troy,

Mich., on June 11. Nearly half‘a hun-

dred Jersey breeders were present.

and devoted the. morning to looking

over the fine Jersey herd of Messrs.

Wattles & Sons, and in looking

through their fine dairy barns which

are strictly modern. in construction

and equipment. Proverbial country

hospitality was more than maintained

in the excellent dinner served by Mrs.

Wattles in the spacious dining-room

of their modern home. The business

of the day was transacted “over the

teacups" after the breeders had ban-

queted, and was participated in by the

interested breeders with appropriate

enthusiasm; Mr. Wattles introduced

the president, Mr. R. R. Smith, of

Howell, who presided over the meet-

ing. Mr. Smith addressed those pres-

ent on the possibilities which were

open to the Club to do effective work

for the Jersey breed. Interested vis—

itors, including representatives of the

farm papers who were present, the

manager of the State Fair and oth-

ers, were called upon for brief ad-

dresses, after which the futUre pro-

gram of the Club was fully discussed

by the members. It was decided to

institute a campaign to increase the

membership and to offer something

in return in the way of added pub~

licity for breeders who had surplus

stock to sell. It was also determined

to have a “Jersey Day,” with a ban-

quet in the evening on the day Jer-

seys are judged at the State Fair this

year. President Smith and Secretary

A. P. Edison will conduct an active

campaign in the matter of securing

the co-operation of the Jersey breed-

ers of the state in these objects, and

also in the matter of making exhibits

at the State. Fair, which has offered

a special premium of $100 to any

breeders’ association whose members

enter 50 head of cattle for exhibit at

the fair through the medium of the

Association. An expression of appre-

ciation was tendered Mr. and Mrs.

Wattles for the entertainment offered,

and the breeders one and all advanced

the sentiment that the meeting had

been a most profitable one, and that

the. work outlined would prove effec-

tive in promoting increased publicity

for and recognition of the acknowl-

edged merits of the Jersey breed.





IN SALTING BUT-

TER.





EXPERIMENTS





 





Recent experiments show that salt

added to butter in a wet condition

was better distributed and more in

solution than were the dry salt lots.

The average percentage of moisture

retained in the finished butter was

practically the same with both salt-

ings. Tests on the retention of salt





in the butter by the two methods do

not agree. Butter churned to about

the size of wheat granules contained

more moisture and less salt than did

butter churned to [lump size. Griti-

ness in butter was found to be due to

an overabundance of salt.





ANNUAL MEETING OF DUTCH

BELTED BREEDERS.





 





At the annual meeting of the Dutch

Belted Cattle Association of America,

in New York, appropriations were

made for more publicity and a new

set of rules and by-laws were adap-

ted. The annual meeting which has

been held heretofore in May was

changed to meet in December here-

after. The secretary’s report showed

double the transfers, registrations and

memberships over last year. The fol-

lowing officers were elected: ' Presi-

dent, H. W. Lance; vice-president,

Northrup Fowler; secretary-treasurer,

E. J. Kirby, Covert, Mich. -
JUNE 20, 1914.





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FEEDERS' PROBLEMS.





 





Making up a Ration'for Small Pigs.





How shall we feed our spring pigs?

We have corn, oats, rye and oil meal

and can get good middlings at $30

per ton. We will have alfalfa and

rape pasture, also about 200 lbs. of

separator milk per day for about 80

pigs. How much of this feed will

they require until August 1, all feed

to be ground?



Jackson Co. E. B.





In making up a. ration for pigs, it is

economy to make the best use of the

skim-milk available. Experiments

have proven conclusively that where

sufficient skim-milk is available to

furnish the protein content of the

ration to balance up corn, it is neith-

er necessary or good economy to feed

any kind of high protein concentrates

to growing pigs. The proper propor-

tion in which to feed skim-milk and

corn for best results, is from one to

three pounds of the skim-milk to one

pound of corn meal, using the larger

proportion of milk when the pigs are

young, and gradually increasing the

amount of corn meal in proportion to

milk used. For young pigs, the ra-

tion will be very materially benefited

by the addition of a liberal portion of

middlings, which is a well balanced

feed for pigs. It is a difficult matter

to estimate the amount of feed which

will be required by 80 pigs up to Aug-

ust 1, as very much depends upon the

capacity of the pigs to make rapid

gains. On good rape or alfalfa pas-

ture, however, not more than 350 to

400 pounds of grain, or its equivalent,

should be required for 100 pounds of

gain. The value of skim-milk can_be

reduced to a. grain basis by figuring

350 pounds of skim-milk to equal 100

pounds of grain when fed with corn

in the proportion above advised. Fig-

uring upon this basis, it will not be

difficult to estimate approximately the

amount of feed which will be required

for the time mentioned.



Feeding a Young Calf.



I have a heifer calf two weeks old

which I would like to keep for a cow,

but she will not drink more than a

pint of fresh milk. Could anyone tell

me what to do?



St. Clair Co. A. W. K.



In cases where a young calf refuses

to drink a normal quantity of milk,

the only successful method is to cut

down the ration just a little below

the amount thecalf will consume,

even though it is a very small quan-

tity. In this way the calf’s appetite

will be stimulated, and after a short

time the quantity can be gradually

increased.



The writer once had a calf that had

a similar lack of appetite for milk,

and even though carefully handled,

refused entirely to drink milk after it

was a few weeks old. This calf was

raised by supplying grain in the form

of oil meal and corn meal

small quantities at first, which it

finally learned to eat with relish. On

this ration, and with water to drink,

the calf lived and finally developed

into a fine cow and attained large

size. It is, however, very essential

not to overfeed a calf which has a

capricious appetite.



Tankage vs. Middlings for Fattening

Hogs.





Which would be cheapest to buy

for finishing hogs to be fed with

corn? Common wheat middlings at

$1.60 per cwt., or tankage at about $3

per cwt., tankage, 60 per cent pro-

tein, and what amount of each should

be fed to make as near a balanced

ration as possible?



Washtenaw Co. C. D. B.





As a source of protein to balance

up the ration of corn for the fatten-

ing hogs, tankage at the prices quoted

would be the more economical feed.

It contains more than four times the

protein that would be afforded by

wheat midd-lings, and figured on the

Cost of this element of nutrition alone,





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would be very much the cheaper

source from which to obtain it. Mid-

dlings constitute a fairly well balanc-

ed ration for hogs, but do not contain

enough protein to balance up a. ration

of corn with economy. Where tank-

age is used for this purpose, not more

than 10 per cent of the ration should

be made up of this feed for greatest

economy of results.





Rye Hay for Horses.





I would like to know if rye hay is

a fit feed for horses? A good many

say the beards will kill a horse. I am

short on hay and have four acres of

rye and vetch that I thought of cut-

ting for hay. When is the best time

to cut it to get the best out of both?



Antrim Co. E. A. M.





While rye does not make a first-





class hay for horses, and the beards

will cause sore mouths, especially in

young horses, it can be successfully

used as horse hay where necessary.

The writer has used it for this purpose

without any serious results. It is,

however, about the least desirable

kind of bay for this purpose. Where

grown with vetch the combination

makes very much better hay for

horses if properly cured. It should be

cut as soon as practical after the

vetch commences to bloom.





THE TALE OF THE TAILLESS

CALF.



One of our calves lost its tail in



rather a peculiar manner last winter.



It had a bad spell of scours during





 





the fall, owing to being fed seven or*





eight pounds of milk, when five was

all it could use. Owing to the dis-

turbed condition of the bowels, the

upper portion of the tail became coat-

ed with slime, as is usual in such

cases. This dried and remained two

months or longer, when we tried to

remove it; however, the abnormal ex-

cretions, added layer by layer, had1

hardened like concrete and seemed.l

impervious to soaking, and in an ef-'

fort to chip it off with an old knife,:

we gashed the tail and gave it up in

disgust, thinking that it would loosen

in the spring. But when the coldest

weather came the tightness of the

band on the growing tail shut off the

circulation of the blood and the tail

froze as stiff as a poker. Of course,

it came off, and took with it half the

value of an unusually fine calf.



Moralz—Do as Mr. Lillie advises,

and don’t over-feed on milk, and if

the calves do scour and should retain

“bracelets” on their tails, deprive

them of their jewelry!



Lenawee Co. J. H. WINTER.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





 





Farmers of northern Wisconsin are

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and breeding well-bred mutton sheep,

and they have found that flocks thrive

on the upland or hilly pastures in that

part of the country which are almost

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to produce mutton, the wool clip be-

ing regarded as merely a try-product.

Clover is grown successfully. and in

many places alfalfa does well, while

corn is raised in many sections of

northern Wisconsin. W’ith the object

of encouraging the breeding of high-

class flocks in northern \R-‘isconsin, a

“live stock special” has been making

a tour of the northern counties ex-

hibiting to the farmers of that region

the most desirable types of breeding

sheep.



Wool dealers state that the market

is in firm condition, with higher

prices prevaling than a few weeks

ago and not enough wool to go

around. During the recent London

auction sales wool sold higher than

in March.



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There is a dispo-

sition on the part

of many farmers

to feel that the federal and state gov-

ernments, commercial associations

and others who are active in promot-

ing a betterment in our agriculture

are acting wholly in the interest of

the consumers of the country, and

that as a. consequence their work is

inimical to the best interests of the

farmers as at producing class. This

is doubtless more due to the general

agitation of the subject of the high

cost of living in recent years than to

any other cause. It is true that the

food problem is at present a rather

serious problem to the consumers in

many centers of population, but this

fact is more largely due to inefficient

methods of buying and expensive

methods of distribution than to any

lack in available foodstuffs. We are

just approaching the time when con-

sumption has come sufficiently near

to overtaking production to insure a

fair price for the products of the farm,

a price which will pay the cost of

production and leave a very modest

profit under normal conditions, but a

profit which quickly vanishes with ab-

normal production along any line.

With this fact well in mind, it is lit-

tle wonder that many farmers get the

idea that the activities of the agen-

cies mentioned are intended to stim-

ulate yields to a point which will in-

sure cheaper foodstuffs for the con-

sumer, with no other object in view.





But the fact remains that any edu-

cational work which accomplishes the

result of increasing production with-

out increasing production cost, any

plan which may increase the value of

a commodity on the market through

bettering its quality by more efficient

methods of production and prepara-

tion for market, any practice which

‘will eliminate waste anywhere along

the line, will prove beneficial to pro-

ducer and consumer alike and should

be fostered and encouraged. And

some of the educational campaigns

which have been carried on among

the farmers of Michigan during the

past year have done more than has

been above suggested—they have lit-

erally made two blades of grass grow

where but one grew before. Take,

for instance, the alfalfa campaign.

Who would undertake to estimate the

beneficial effects of the promotion

work which has been carried on in

Michigan to stimulate the growing of

alfalfa on Michigan farms. The re-

sults are incalculable, since the ob-

ject lessons afforded as a direct result

of that work are just so many new





The Food Problem.





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THE ‘MI‘CHI‘GAN ‘FARMIER





centers from which the growing of

alfalfa will be stimulated to the un.

questionable benefit of Michigan agri-

culture. '

And this is but one of many object

lessons which could be cited in proof

of the fact that the farmers of the

state and country are largely the gain-

ers from the missionary work which

is being done in their behalf, .even

though they may be generally sus-

picious, and sometimes, it- must be

admitted, with cause, of the purpose

in view by some of their would-be

helpers. On the whole, however, there

is no question of the sincerity of mo«

tive back of private donor, as there





0 can be no doubt regarding the activ-





ities of the government along this

line. Also, when it is considered that

the population of the earth is increas-

ing at the rate of something like 35,-

000,000 people a year, and that no

undeveloped agricultural empires re-

main, no farmer should be pessimis-

tic enough regarding the future to

feel that he or his contemporaries can

know too much about the science of

production. ‘

In another column

The Why of the of this issue will be

Cost Account. found an article in

which reasons why

the farm cost account is desirable are

discussed from the standpoint of a

business man who has found that the

same general principles apply to the

management of a farm business as to

the successful conduct of any other

business. Accompanying the article

is a detailed record of costs, which

entered into the production of a po-

tato crop in 1912. This record is kept

on a card 9x12 inches in size, and

shows all of the several items of cost

as well as receipts from a. net profit

credited to the crop.



The reasons given by the user of



this system for the keeping of some

such form of cost accounts by every

farmer are such as should engage the

attention of all Michigan'Farmer read-

ers. It is probable that many farmers

will not care to go into this proposi-

tion in quite the thorough manner

here illustrated, but even a simpler

system which will give approximate

costs of all farm crops will be of'great

value to any farmer in the planning

and management of his business, and

it is more than likely that when once

interested in the proposition, 3. more

comprehensive system will be devel-

oped than that which is used at the

start. It is of course true that the

keeping of even exact cost systems

will not insure the farmer who keeps

them any greater net profit at the end

of the year, but he will know where

profit was made and losses incurred,

and will be the better able to so plan

his farm campaign in the future as to

reduce the cost of production or in-

crease net profits by varying his pro.

duction of staples as the cost records

of previous years may indicate to be

desirable.

The people of the

state, as well as

of western Michi-

gan are this year

being introduced for the first time to

the Greater Michigan Fair, the new

title assumed by the West Michigan

State Fair, as it has heretofore been

called. This will be the first of the

big fairs held in Michigan this year,

the dates being September 2-7, inclu-

sive, and from the enthusiastic work

which is being done by the manage-

ment in preparation for the fair there

appears to be no doubt that the merit

of the show will justify the new name

which has been selected for it.



As might be expected from its loca-

tion, special emphasis will be placed

on the fruit exhibit, which is expected

to be the finest that has ever been

put up in the middle west. In addi-

tion to the full cash premium list in

this department, two valuable silver

cups have been offered by the Grand

Rapids Savings Bank as sweepstake

prizes in this division of the show,

the same to be awarded to the indi-





The Greater Mich-

igan Fair.





vidual exhibitor, ocunty association,

or any organization representing a

county which ”makes the best exhibit

of fruit. Liberal increases in the pre-

mium list have been made to stimu—

late a large exhibit in the cattle dis

vision and this department of the

show is expected by the management

to be better than ever. New educa-.

tional and entertainment ‘features 'of

merit have been added.

former will be a good roads exhibit

and demonstration provided by the

federal government, while. M. A. C.

and some of the state departments

will contribute valuable educational

exhibits. In the matter of entertain-

ment exhibits the management an-

nounces that the attractions secured

will be better than anything which

has been seen at previous fairs, and

that every effort has been made to

secure high-class attractions as well

as high-class exhibits. The premium

list is now in preparation and may be

had on application at an early date.-





Last week President

Two Decades of J. L. Snyder, of M.

Useful Work. A. C., tendered his

resignation to the

State Board of Agriculture, with the

request. that it take effect at the close

of the school year in June, 1915. In

his letter of resignation President

Snyder stated that he had for some

time contemplated retiring from the

strenuous duties incumbent upon the

president of M. A. C., and that as the

class of 1915 would be the twentieth

to be graduated under his adminis-

tration, he had fixed on that date as

an opportune time to turn the work

over to another. His resignation was

tendered at this time in order that the

State Board might have plenty of time

in which to select his successor.





The two decades which cover the

period of Dr. Snyder’s work as execu-

tive head of M. A. C., have been years

of marked agricultural development

and of like growth in this pioneer in-

stitution, whose business it is to fos-

ter and encourage the application of

science to agriculture in all its varied

departments. In 1895 there were but

two departments at M. A. C., and the

institution graduated but 25 students

in the class of that year. Since that

time there have been added to the

original departments of agriculture

and engineering those of home eco-

nomics, forestry and veterinary

science, while the agricultural depart-

ment has been extended to include

farm mechanics, poultry, soils, farm

crops and agricultural education and

extension work. This year a class of

200 will he graduated from M. A. C.,

which is the largest class in the his-

tory of the College. Most of the im-

portant buildings on the campus have

been erected under President Sny-

der’s administration, and the college

extension work has been developed

along broad lines during recent years.





For eight years President Snyder

was a member of the executive com-

mittee of the National Association of

Agricultural Colleges and Experiment

Stations, during which time the so-

called Adams Act and Nelson Amend-

ment, which added $40,000 per annum

to the College revenues, were passed

and the original agricultural exten—

Sion bill, drawn along the lines of the

Smith-Lever Bill recently passed by

which Michigan will eventually re-

ceive $133,000 per annum from the

federal government for this work, was

drawn by this committee and was

first introduced in Congress by Repre-

sentative McLaughlin, of Michigan, at

President Snyder’s request.



Dr. Snyder has also served as pres-

ident of the National Association of

Colleges and Experiment Stations, and

is at present a member of the Nation-

al Council of Education, a select or-

ganization of limited membership. In

1908 the University of Michigan con«

ferred upon him the honorary degree

of L. L. D. in recognition of his work

as president of M. A. -C. -



Dr. Snyder has been fortunate in





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{the opportunity afforded him» for the ‘

accomplishment of useful work cur--





ing , two decades, and the state has

been fortunate in that he has so well

improved that opportunity, as is ,at-

tested by the continuous development

of the College along advanced agricul-

tural lines during the period of his

sermon.





HAPPENINGS OF THEVWE‘EK.





 





 





National.





.Last Sunday, four men were killed,

eight. probably fattally wounded, and





nine others seriously injured when a





gas main exploded at Columbus, Ohio.

The men were repairing the main at

the time of the accident.



.‘In recognition of his services at

Vera. Cruz, Rear Admiral Fletcher, of

the United States Navy, is to be pro-

moted to commander of the Atlantic

fleet, succeeding Read Admiral Bad~

ger, in a few weeks.





The La. Salle Street Trust & Savsv





ings Bank, of Chicago, was closed. last





week by the Illinois state authorities





because of alleged violations of the

state banking laws. Former United

States Senator, William Lorimer, is

president of the institution.



After two weeks of activity Mt.

Lassen, located in northern California.

has developed three craters and is

now spouting forth flames of fire that

can be seen a hundred miles from the

mountain.



The Michigan railway commission

has ordered the Michigan State and

the Citizens’ Telephone at Traverse

City to establish physical connection

between the two exchanges. This is

the first time the telephone companies

have been arbitrarily compelled to es-

tablish connections in this state. The

action of the commission is based up-

on the authority of the Baylise law

passed by the last legislature.



It is estimated that fully 80,000 ad-

ditional laborers than are now pres-

out will be required to harvest the

wheat crop in the western states.



The balloon contest of the Ameri-

can Aero Club, which started at Port-

land, Oregon, June 11, resulted in a

disaster, with the_possible exception

of one of the balloons. Four airships

started out and three of them are

known to have been wrecked in a

storm in which they were enveloped

shortly after leaving the earth, and

the third has not been heard from

since it was last seen in the midst of

the storm.



The assistant keeper of the zoo at

Wallbridge Park, Toledo, was killed

Sunday by an elephant. He was ar-

ranging a. box on the animal’s back

for children to ride in, when the beast

turned upon and crushed him.



When diplomas are given out to the

200 members of the senior class of

June 23, the Michigan Agricultural

College will have graduated the larg-

est class since it was founded in 1857.

The number, which is four times as

great as the class graduated ten years

ago, is made up of 77 graduates in ag-

riculture, 59 in engineering, 50 in

home economics, 12 in forestry and

two in veterinary medicine. Nearly

all these young men and women are

from Michigan, although 13 other

states and two foreign countries are

represented.



The district attorney’s office of New

work City continues to find irregular-

ities in the recent election returns,

now being investigated. In one pre-

cinct containing a hospital, there were

found on the election rolls the names

of men who are marked “voted,” that

are shown by the records of the hos-

pital to have died long before the

date of the election.





Foreign.





Col. Theodore Roosevelt is in Eng-

land this week and will speak before

the geological society there regarding

his expedition through South America.



The English polo team won the in.

ternational polo contest from the Am-

erican team at Meadowbrook Farm,

Long Island, last week.



The mediators at Niagara Falls,

Canada, are getting on but slowly

with their work. Chief among the

efforts is the inclusion of rebel repre-

sentatives in the deliberations, but

thus far the attempts have failed, ex-

cept that the rebel chief has sent a

representative to Washington, which

act it is hoped will ultimately lead to

his men appearing before the media.

tors. Another difficulty lies in the

selection of an executive for the

country that will be satisfactory to

the different factions.



The Mexican rebels are reported to

have met with repulses before Zacate-

cas where the federals are strongly

intrenched. Gen. Villa. is now mov-

ing 20.000 soldiers to the battlefront

and will take charge .of the campaign

to capture the city. Gen. Natera who

has had charge of the attack thus far

is being criticized for making a pre-

mature move upon the place. . ,
JUNE 20, 1914.





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headed by Howard E. Coffin, had

devoted three years to the model.

Their effort was to embody here

the final conception of an ideal car.



They established new standards

in Sixes. They brought quality

Sixes, for the first time, into the

price field of Fours.



They brought the weight under

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with extra tonneau seats. That

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Last Year’s Record

3,000 Oversold



That car was the year’s sensa-

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How “Turtlers” Carry on a Queer but Profitable Business.





HERE are many ways of making



money, and sometimes queer,



out - of - the - ordinary businesses

yield better financial returns than a

commonplace occupation followed by

the millions. Few people realize how

much money is spent for turtles by

the great hotels, restaurants, clubs

and cafes of the civilized world.

These turtles are caught and shipped

to buyers by turtle hunters, called





“turtlers.’ Catching turtles is a reg-

ular business with a great many

people.





It is necessary to catch turtles

alive, for they must sometimes be

kept a few days, weeks or a month or

more before they are sold, for it

might not be convenient to ship to

market until a carload has been

caught, or the price might be too low.

For this reason turtles cannot be

caught with hook and line, as fish are

caught, as a turtle. swallows its food

whole, and it is practically impossible

to get a hook out of a turtle’s stom-

ach without killing the turtle. So

they “must be caught in other ways.





Fresh water or snapping turtles are

often caught in the following man-

ner: The “turtler” takes a piece of

raw beef as large as your thumb and

ties it tightly to the end of a piece of

strong fishing line. He ties it about

the middle of the piece of beef, and

casts it into the water, where it sinks

to the bottom. The other end of the

line is fastened to a stake or the root

of a tree on shore. Twenty, thirty or

more of these baits can be set out

close together along the shore of a

creek, slough, lake or pond Where

turtles are known to be.





The lines must be looked at at least

once every twelve hours, for if the

beef is left too long in the turtle’s

stomach it will digest, and when you

come to catch them the line will come

from their mouth. When you go to

look at your lines you take‘hold of

the line and pull gently, and if a tur-

tle is on it you can easily lead him to

shore. But if you pull with a jerk

you will pull the bait from his mouth.

When you get him on shore you put

your foot on his back, take hold of

the line and pull, and the bait comes

from his stomach.



Another way to catch these turtles

is to go into the water after them, for

they feed at night, and the large ones

sleep in day time, in muskrat holes,

under drift piles and similar places.

They lie so the water will just wash

their backs, and leave their heads out

of the water. The hunter reaches in

under drift piles, old logs and musk-

rat holes, and if there are turtles in

the water he always finds them‘ lying

in such places. He doubles up his

fist and feel around. and when he gets

his hand on a turtle he knows it by

the round, oval back. He presses

down on the turtle, and it tries to

move away. He extends his thumb

and finger around the edges of the

shell until he feels where the shell is

scalloped. A snapping turtle’s shell

is always scalloped Where its tail is.

Then the hunter takes hold of its tail

and pulls it out.



It might seem that this would be

dangerous, but bld “turtlers” say a

snapping turtle never bits under wa-

ter. People have hunted turtles in

this way for fifteen years‘and have

never been bitten. .



Many turtle hunters hunt them in

cold weather with a long handled

hook. The hunter feels around ,on the

muddy bottom of places where turtles





By ISAAC





stay in winter, and when he feels one

he gets the hook under it and pulls

it into the boat. Turtles hibernate

on the muddy bottom of streams,

lakes and ponds in cold weather, are

sluggish and much indisposed to move,

and are easily caught. Turtle hunting

is therefore best after the waters be-

come cold in the late autumn. The

hunter drags the turtles out with his

hook and places them in gunny. sacks,

and when this is full he ties them in

and places them under water until he

has a carload. Then they are put

into barrels and shipped to New York

and Philadelphia, where they are re-

garded as delicacies of the highest or-

der, and good prices are received by

hunters who are acquainted with the

market and experienced in catching

large turtles.



These fresh water or snapping tur-

tles are found in sloughs, lakes, ponds,

creeks and shallow, muddy, slow-run-

ning rivers of the United States. The

prices received are generally about

seven cents a pound wholesale, and

ten cents a pound retail. They are

never as large as the green, deep sea

or salt water turtles, sometimes call-

ed marine turtles. As a rule, fresh

water turtles average about twenty

pounds in weight.



Marine turtles reach large size and

a great age. They are found princi.

pally in torrid seas, but in following

schools of fish they sometimes come

as far north as the coasts of Oregon

and Massachusetts. They feed on a

kind of sea grass or sea wreck on the

bottom of shallow reefs, bays and in-

lets. They also eat fish when they

can catch them. Marine turtles have

been found which were seven feet

long and weighed 800 pounds. Such

turtles are said to be from 200 to 500

years old. These turtles have been

used for food from time immemorial,

not only by gourmets and epicures

who frequent the dining rooms of

great hotels, clubs and safes, but by

half-civilized natives and islanders all

over the world, and many strange‘

methods have been employed by these

people in tropical regions for catch-

ing them.



One of these methods is to make

use of that strange sucking fish known

as the remora. They make fast a cord

to a small ring passed around the tail

of the remora. The fish is then al-

lowed to swim out to sea. The cord

is tied to a tree or held by the fisher-

man, and as soon as the remora sees

a turtle swimming along, it makes for

and sinks under him. The fish then at-

taches itself to the bottom of the tur-

tle, and by the pull or feel of the line

the native can tell when it has a bite.

He then hauls in the line bringing

both fish and turtle to the beach,

where by pushing the remora forward

it is made to let go. If the native

tries to pull it off it will be torn apart

before letting go. This method is still

in use by the natives on the east coast

of Africa, by Chinese fishermen, and

possibly along the coasts of Cuba.



A peculiar plan for catching turtles

is followed by native Indians along

the Gulf of California, where marine

turtles are large and numerous. In

the northwestern part of the gulf

these big turtles crawl out on moon-

light nights‘on the sandy beach to lay

their eggs. They come out by hun-

dreds, great sea monsters the size of _

barrels, the moon shining on their

wet shells like dull mirrors, while-the

head and long, snaky necks moving





MOTES.





from side to side as the turtles crawl

about on the sand, digging holes with

their front flippers. In these holes

the eggs are laid, then covered and

left for the sun to hatch.



The Indians along the shore of the

gulf get thousands of small poles,

limbs, etc., sharpen one end and weave

them into fences or wickers, some-

thing like a panel of picket fence. The

panels are about three feet high, and

twenty-five to fifty feet long. About

every ten feet a larger stake or pole

is woven in, so as to be planted deep

in the sand, to act as a post when the

fence is set up.



Then some moonlight night when a

great many turtles are out on the

sandy bank, some distance from the

water, twenty-five or thirty of the In-

dians, ,maybe more, each having a

panel of this fence, slip silently down

along the beach near the water, and

fence in the whole bunch of turtles.

Then with yells and whoops they go

in and kill them with clubs as they

scramble down the sandy bank, in the

effort to reach the water. Many of

them get their heads or flippers

caught in the wicker fence, and while

held fast they are easy to kill. Then

the Indians have a great feast on tur-

tle meat.



In the waters along some of the

coasts of South America the Indians

shoot these turtles with bow and ar-

rows. But as an arrow, or even a rifle

ball will not have much effect on a

turtle’s thick shell when striking it in

a glancing direction, the Indians put

out to sea in a dugout canoe, and as

soon as a turtle is sighted one Indian

in the boat stands up, looks intently

at it, to judge the distance, then

pointing his heavy arrow upward he

shoots it into the air. In failing the

point comes down vertically, and if it

hits squarely on the turtle’s back it

sinks into it. But it takes much skill

to hit a turtle in this way. The ar-

row has a long shaft. When hit the

turtle dives into the water, but not

very deep, and as the arrow is long

the end of the shaft is sure to come

into View pretty soon, as the turtle

rises near the surface. Then all the

Indian has to do is to follow up and

secure his prize, for the arrow is

fastened well in the turtle’s shell.



In the West Indies these green sea





turtles grow to a great size. Here

along the coral reefs and shallow bays

the turtle schooners cruise and catch

them by putting tangle nets or string

nets from rock to rock. Once the tur-

tle feels itself fast it struggles wildly,

only to get more tangled up. The

crew of the schooner then follow along





in small boats, using a sea glass or





water glass which enables them to

look to the bottom of the shallow sea,

and when they find turtles caught in

the nets it iseasy to pull them into

the boats. Then they are placed in

the schooner’s hold and later sent to

some large port and from there ship-

ped by steamer to New York, London

and elsewhere.



Another variety of turtle is the

diamond back, or salt marsh turtle or

terrapin. It is also highly prized by

epicures. It is found along the At‘

lantic coast south of New York, and

also along the Gulf of Mexico coast

in our southern states. It is especially

good for making soup, but it doesn’t

grow as large or live as long as the

marine turtle. More diamond back

turtles are consumed in the United

States than of any other variety. So

great is the demand for them that

they are raised in breeding plants or

artifiicially constructed and heated

tanks, in the United States. In order

to force or stimulate rapid growth and

get the turtles ready for market early

the eggs are secured and put in water

which is kept at a temperature that

experience has proven is best for

hastening the growth of the turtles.



A man near New Orleans has built

up a highly profitable business by

raising these turtles, which he ships

to northern markets, principally New

York City. He hatches the eggs in

warm water, and forces the growth of

the turtles for about six months. This

is the age at which they are best for

food. Then he ships them north,

about 50,000 at a time, in tank cars

filled with filtered cistern water, put-

ting in the necessary food» for them on

the trip. This man has one of the

largest turtle breeding plants in the

world, and his business is quite profit-

able, though unusual, as the demand

for turtles is strong, and his principal

difficulty is that he has so many or-





ders that to fill them he must ship





the turtles before they are six months

old, the age at which they bring top

prices.





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The Last of the Light Brigade.





By PEARLE WHITE MCCQWAN.





Crimean War, but the death on



April 21, of George S. Wilson, a

resident of Mason, Michigan, who

fought in that war, and who was an

eye Witness, almost you might say, a

participator in that Immortal Charge

of The Light Brigade, brings to mind

some interesting facts as told by that

gentleman. Mr. Wilson was undoubt-

edly the last of the survivors of that

time, in this country, at least.



He had joined the army when a lad

of sixteen, enlisting in the Thirteenth

Light Infantry, of which Prince Albert

was then colonel. Three years’ later

his regiment was ordered to Crimea,

but at Gibralter their boat became un-

seaworthy and was laid up for re-

pairs, this causing a delay of some

months, during which time the city

was undergoing one of those terrible

sieges' of cholera which sometimes

attacked European countries. Com-





IT’S a far cry from Michigan to the





rades died about him on every side,

and Mr. Wilson himself had the dis-

ease, but lightly. Finally they reach-

ed the seat of war. '



At the time of the charge of the six

hundred, his company had been de-

tailed to duty on the skirmish line.

He and his companions were lying

low within the grass, or seeking the

shelter of some friendly tree whilst

they took aim. Mr. Wilson was near

enough to see Colonel Campbell when

he received the message from Lord

Ragland, and to note how, after read.

ing it the Colonel turned to his com-

pany .and shouted, “Boys, Life or

Death?” and to hear the “Aye, Aye,

Sir,” that came from those six hun~

dred throats.



There were in reality six hundred

and, forty-seven in the Brigade, Mr.

Wilson has said, and they cut their

way through the lines of Russians





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But out 'of"the six hun-

dred and forty-seven men, two hun~

dred and forty-three Were ruthlessly

slain, to say nothing at all of all the

maimed and wounded. A sturdy com-

pany of Scotchrrsn they were, ac-

cording to Mr. Wilson, and the Col-

and who it is





his order, was the first man killed.

This was at Balaklava, on October 25,

1854. It was a terrible mistake but

who does not thrill at the heroism of

it. Small wonder that the youth of

the town, as well as an older man or

woman, loved to hear Mr. Wilson re-

late his experiences.

Ten days later Mr. Wilson marched

ten miles in the early morning, with

a fifty-pound knapsack and one hun-

dred and fifty rounds of ammunition

upon his back, to fight upon the his-

toric field of Inkerman. Here he was

wounded and taken to the hospital,

where Miss Florence Nightingale

dressed his wounds. She Visited the

place daily, and was dubbed by the

soldiers their “Angel of Mercy.” “My,

but she was a fine looking woman,

and a splendid one too,” was Mr. Wil-

son’s frequent tribute.

.While Mr. Wilson lay ill in this hos-

pital, some one of the patients com-

posed a hymn to Miss Nightingale,

and one morning when she entered

the building she was greeted by it.

“There were over two hundred of us

there,” Mr. Wilson would say. his eyes

shining, “all wounded, some crying

and some even dying, but we made

that old place ring just the same.” It

was sung to the tune of “The Old

water Wheel,” and these are-the first

two verses as Mr. Wilson himself

often sang them:

“T’was a dark and cheerless night on

Crimea’s cheerless shore,

Where had been a fearful battle only

just the day before,



Cries of help from men was heard but

their cries were all in vain,



’Till God sent a human Angel to as-

suage their awful pain.



cuouus:



So it's forward my lads,



hearts never fail,





For you’re cheered by the presence of

a sweet Nightingale.





let your





Oh, her heart it is good and no boun-

ty she’ll take



But offered her life for the poor sol‘

diers’ sake.



She prays for the dying, gives peace

to the brave



For she feels that a soldier has a soul

she may save.



cnomrs:



So it’s forward, my lads,

hearts never fail,



One of Heaven’s best gifts is Miss

Nightingale.





Later, Miss Nightingaleasked each

man in the service to contribute just

one day’s pay toward the building of

a hospital for soldiers in London.

“Just one day’s pay was all she’d

take,” said Mr. Wilson. “I’d have

given her a month’s and given it glad~

ly if she’d have taken it.” And one

day’s pay in those days was just four

pence in English money, or eight cents

as we reckon it here in America. This

however, was increased to six pence

when on board ship or in active field

duty.



Mr. Wilson came of a military fam-

ily, his’ grandfather having served

with Wellington at Waterloo, and each

of his two brothers saw twenty—one

years of service in the heavy artillery

and passed through the great Indian

mutiny. His grandfather possessed

no less than fourteen medals that had

been presented to him for bravery at

various battles in which he had

fought, and Mr. Wilson himself had

received two medals and two Clasps

as rewards for his own bravery and





let your





, efficiency.





After leaving the army he came to





. America, landing at New York City,





on New Year’s Day, 1860, with just

twenty-four cents in his pocket.‘





 





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The actual problem to be solved is

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BY awnzo area.



At Gobain, France, is located one

of the most famous factories in the

world that has for its main purpose

the casting of the rough disks of glass

for the mirrors of telescopes. As

well as being the most famous, it is

also the most ancient.



Among some of its best work in re-

cent years is the casting of two near-

ly perfect disks sixty inches in diam-

eter and eight inches thick, weighing

two thousand pounds each. Of late,

they have been engaged in making a

disk one hundred inches in diameter

and fourteen inches thick, weighing

ten thousand pounds, for the Hooker

telescope.



The same kind of large fire-clay

melting pots which are used for melt

ing and pouring plate glass are used

in the nanufacture of disks up to

sixty inches in diameter. The one-

hundred inch glass proves to be too

large to be poured from the ordinary

pots, and a special furnace is requir-

ed. It has a melting tank capable of

holding forty thousand’ pounds of

molten glass constructed for it. Many

precautions must be taken to avoid

the presence of air bubbles or pouring

marks that disfigure the disks.



When a disk has been successfully

cast and before it has been taken out

of the mould, it is placed in an an-

nealing oven, where disks up to three

or four feet in diameter are annealed

by being slowly and uniformly cooled

for a period ranging from several

days to several weeks, the time de-

pending upon their size. The method

by which the sixty-inch and the one-

hundred-inch disks are annealed was

brought about by long experimenting.

One hundred days is required for the

annealing of the latter.



In the optical room the grinding and

polishing of the glasses take place.

This room must be so constructed

that it can be entirely free of dust

and the temperature regulated to the

desired degree. To Show how close

to perfection this work approaches,

it is said that the glasses are ground

to less than one one-hundred-thou-

sandth part of an inch. The abrad-

ing material used between the tools

and the glass may be sand, emery or

carborundum. Of these materials, the

latter grinds most rapidly. But all

must be mixed with an abundance of

water.



After grinding comes the process of

polishing. To accomplish this, iron

grindings are used with finer and finer

grades of carborundum powder with

the usual accompaniment of water.



The polishing tools or plates are

very different from the grinding

plates. The basis of their

tion being aluminum or wood. One

face is coated with small squares of

soft resin or pitch, to this is applied

a thin layer of beeswax. Soft red op-

tical rouge mixed with an abundance

of clean water constitute the polish-

ing powder. The same machine with

which the grinding is done also fur-

nishes the power for the polishing

process. To obtain a glass free from

scratches, the utmost care and clean-

liness are required, and sometimes

eight or ten hours’ work is required

to obtain a satisfactory result.



As the polishing. process proceeds,

the glass is closely and severely scru-

tinized several times during the oper-

ation. The stroke of the polishing

tools is so directed or modified as to

bring the surface more nearly to the

exact form desired. This operation is

termed figuring the surface. The glass

is polished, figured and tested all at

the same time. The finest grinding

tools would be too crude for the pol—

ishing process, beside to be tested

successfully, the surface must be a

polished one.





 





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LONG time ago, when the world

was new, some wise person

said: “Man works from sun to

sun, but woman’s work is never

done.” The saying made an instan-

taneous hit with martyred women and

it has lived until the present time,

though it long ago lost all its signifi-

cance.



Time was, perhaps, when woman

had to work unceasingly, and then

Was always behind. That was in, the

days when woman must spin and

weave, knit and sew, make candles,

cook in a caldron over a fireplace and

look after a family of from six to a

dozen children. In these days of

ready-to-wear garments, sewing ma-

chines, electricity, gasoline and pre-

pared breakfast foods, the woman

whose work is never done is doing

made work. That is, she is doing

work which is not essential to the

health and happiness of herself or

family, but is done simply because

“everybody does it” and “folks will

talk” if she doesn’t.



Why, for instance, should a woman

alone on a farm, as with the scarcity

of help most women are now, feel

that she must piece quilts and com~

fortables, when she can buy summer

weight blankets for $1.25, and winter

weight ones for double that. She is

not only saving time and strength by

not making the quilts, but the blank-

ets are much easier kept clean, a still

greater saving of labor, which, in

these days of intensive living means

money.



Why should that same woman have

a parlor to be kept clean, with silk

draped windows, rugs and polished

borders? Why, indeed, except to sat-

isfy her pride at the expense of

strength and temper and give her





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





,At Home 3 and Elsewhere





How Much ’of Your Work Is “Made?”





something more to worry and fret over?



Why should the busy woman make

her own work dresses, aprons and

children’s clothes, when for a few

Cents more than the cost of the cloth

she can buy the garments all ready

to wear? And, again, why should the

woman who moans because her ,work

is never done spend the precious m0-

ments in which she might rest, in

making impossible sofa cushions and

other dust catchers popularly called

fancy work?



Mind you, I am not decrying any of

these occupations for the woman who

has time and strength to do them. But

those women are not the ones who

lament because they are overworked.

It is the frail woman who can scarce-

ly do the essential things, that al-

ways insists on tacking on the non-

essentials, and then cries because she

never gets caught up with her work.

It seems as if those women are afraid

they will be considered inferior if

they do not do just a little more than

the woman with twice their physical

strength.



My idea of a sane home for the

woman without a helper, is one where

every unnecessary thing is eliminated.





Plain white curtains for the windows,





curtains which can be laundered with-

out starch; white iron beds, like the

hospital beds; a concrete floor in the

kitchen, if you can’t have tile, with

hose and drain to wash it off instead

of scrubbing; carpets and a vacuum

cleaner, instead of that modern night-

mare, hardwood borders, to eternally

show dust, these, with all “made”

dishes for the table eliminated, would

surely cut down work.



Such a home would.not be artistic,

but at least it would be easy to take

care of. DEBORAH.





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A TEXAS WOMAN'S WEEKLY

PLAN.



My plan for simplifying housework

in family of six, four children under

11 years, doing family sewing, caring

for chickens and occasionally helping

in the garden, is somewhat as follows:



Monday—Straighten down stairs,

bake anything necessary to tide over

wash day, change beds, turn mat-

tresses, air bedding and clean room,

sort clothes and put first white clothes

to soak in clear water. In afternoon

if there is time, I try to cut out, or

plan out, garments to be made during

the Week.



Tuesday—Wash, scrub floors, sort

and fold clothes; sheets, towels, un-

derwear, stockings and nightgowns

folded neatly and put away.



VVednesday.—-As my ironings are

large I sprinkle about half the amount

to be ironed, and usually bake bread

and beans, or anything requiring long

cooking, and can do the half of iron-

ing during morning. In afternoon I

mend any article that needs a stitch.



Thursday is very much like Wed-

nesday, only less baking, consequent-

ly more time for reading or sewing,

or, as I plan to do when possible, go

to missionary meeting from 3:00 to

4:00 p. m.



Friday—Clean rugs, silver or any

other job that needs the looking af-

ter. Sometimes it’s the refrigerator,

and sometimes the chicken coops, if

the good man has been unusually

busy. ,



Saturday—Clean the kitchen and

porches, baking for Sunday. I usually

get everything planned for Sunday as





all go to church. I like to have the

afternoon to finish up odd jobs, so as

to have “orderly feeling” on Sunday

morning.



After Monday morning the ten-year-

old daughter takes charge of upstairs

and her pride is to have it “fit for

inspgction.”



We have no gasoline engine so “the

man” has harnessed the grindstone to

the churn and each morning son

treads pedal and brings the butter.



On Tuesday the children wash the

dishes and do what sweeping and

dusting is necessary. They seem to

think dishwashing a very disagreeable

job so, as I can remember when I

felt the same way about it, I let them

do other tasks which are equally help-

ful and cheerfully accomplished.

What is sweeter to a mother’s ear

than a child singing at his task?



This plan does not fill any day so

full but that a ride can be taken or

an outing, without serious inconven-

ience; all hands soon dispatch neces-

sary part, and then what funl—N. M.

K., Texas.





BOX CONSERVATION.

BY M‘RS. JEFF. DAVIS.



In the attic, or some out of the way

place, keep one large box to be es-

pecially used for storing other boxes.

Put in this, small and larger of all

kinds, from pill and powder boxes to

shoe boxes. Always air thoroughly

before storing, as otherwise there

might be a disagreeable smell cling-

ing to them. Candy boxes come in

handy when making candy for gifts,

and it the contents are emptied into





 





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another box, or dish, after receiving,

or buying, the boxes are as good as

new. The tin biscuit, or wafer box, is

also nice to use for home-made candy.

and is especially convenient for pic-

nic lunches. Powder boxes, if well

made and strong, can be used for

sending small gifts. Cracker boxes

come in handy for school lunches. In

fact, there is always a great demand

for boxes, especially at picnic and

Christmas time. Keep this box well

covered so the contents will always

be clean and ready for use.





HOME QUERIES.





 





Household Editorz—Will you please

tell me what to do for constipation

for a child two years old? He is a

bottle baby and I give him cows’

milk. He doesn’t care for much be-

side the milk.——Mrs. W.





The child needs other food besides

milk. Feed him soft boiled or poach-

ed egg, graham crackers, a very little

baked potato, baked apple, orange

juice in the morning, beginning with

a tablespoonful and increasing grad.

ually; well-cooked farina and oatmeal.

It would be well to put oatmeal water

in the milk he drinks. Cook one ta-





blespoonful of oatmeal in one pint of "





water one hour in the double boiler

and add enough water when done so

that there will be one pint. Use a

quarter of this to the whole day’s

feeding of milk to begin with. If he

has had little but milk so far do not

make any sudden, radical changes in

his diet. Start with the oatmeal wa-

ter and add other things as you see

he can digest them. Do not make the

mistake of letting him decide for him-





self what he will eat. Your judgment





should be better than his in that

matter.





Household Editorz—We would like

to see explained the disease, “Oph-

thalmia.” It was mentioned in the

article, “Catching Diseases,” in the

issue of February 28, 1914. We have

received much benefit from your pa-

per soPdo not wish to lose any copies.





Ophthalmia, or Egyptian trachoma,

is a chronic destructive inflammation

of the mucous membrane lining the

eyelid and covering the front of the

eyeball. It is associated with dirty

conditions and'is most common among

the lower classes of immigrants, es-

pecially those coming from the ori-

ent. As it is contagious strict watch

is kept at our ports of entry to turn

back foreigners suffering from this

disease. It is important that all per-

sons suffering from it should be iso-

lated.





Household Editort—Will you insert

this in the Home Query column of

the Michigan Farmer? Please state

a write-up about small weddings in

next week’s issue—G. S.





Your question is so indefinite it is

hard to answer. Do you mean a home

wedding or one in the church? Are

you to have bridesmaids? Are the

bride’s parents living? Is she a widow

or a young girl? Is the wedding to

take place in the country or in a city?

Is it a morning, afternoon or evening

affair? Is there to be music? Can

the parties afiord decorations, a cater-

er, etc.? It is impossible to tell how

to conduct a wedding, unless you

have some idea of circumstances.





Reader:—For dandelio‘h wine take

two quarts of blossoms, four quarts of

cold water, let stand 24 hours. Put

on stove and let stand 24 hours. Take

off, stand until cool, strain, put in two

and one-half pounds of sugar, one-half

of yeast cake, two lemons, sliced, one

handful of raisins, and two oranges,

sliced if desired.





 





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,Farmers are constantly complaining

of the loss of some of their birds dur‘

ing all parts of the year. The cause

of the loss can be attributed to a

great many reasons. Fowls are liable

to be affected by a considerable num-

ber of diseases, some of which spread

rapidly through the flock and kill a.

large part of the birds. They may

also be infected by various kinds of

parasites, some of which live on the

surface of the body and others in the

crop, stomach or intestines. These

parasites are injurious because they

take a part of the nourishment which

should be used by the bird to put on

flesh or to produce eggs, and also be-

cause by their movements and their

biting, they cause irritation and in-

flammation of the parts which they

attack.



Do Not Crowd Hens.



Too many farmers crowd their birds

in a small place and expect them to

thrive. The greater the number of

birds which are kept together upon

the farm, and the more they are

crowded into one small house, the

greater is the danger from contagion

and parasites. If you want to prevent

disease, start right in the beginning.

In talking with a farmer a few days

ago I asked how he kept his birds

looking so healthy. He said: “Oh,

that is an easy matter. I never gave

them a chance to become otherwise.

Start the flock with birds that are

free from contagion and parasites and

put such birds upon ground which is

likewise free from these causes of

disease. The best way to accomplish

this is to get eggs from a flock which

has shown no indications of contagi-

ous disease for at least a year. Avoid

putting these eggs in any packing,

such as chaff or cut straw, which may

be moldy or musty. Wipe the eggs

with a. cloth wet with diluted alcohol

before they are made ready for inoc.

ulation. In nine cases out of ten the

young chicks will be free from para-

sites ‘and injurious germs of all kinds.

Keep them in this condition by plac-

ing them in new and clean brooders

and permit them to run only upon

ground where poultry has not been

previously kept or which has not been

used for poultry for several years.”



Disinfecting the Poultry Yard Soil.



These directions cannot always be

followed in every respect. If all the

available ground has been recently

used for poultry, remove the fowls

from that part which is to be used

for the new flock. Apply a good coat-

ing of freshly slaked lime to the en-

tire surface of the ground and plow

it a few days later. Cultivate it three

or four times with intervals of four

or five days, and finally sow it to oats

or rye.- In a few months the greater

part of the germs will be destroyed,

but it is best to leave the ground un-

occupied by fowls until a winter is

passed. The freezing and thawing of

fall and spring is more effective than

either the continued cold or warm

weather.



Both incubators and the hen are

used on the farm to raise the little

chicks. There is not as much danger

from the spread of disease from the

incubator as there is from the hen.

The hens that are to be used for

hatching must be selected from a

flock that is known to be free from

other diseases. Select individual birds

that are lively, vigorous and free from

lice and mites. Dust the hen with a





good lice powder before giving her a.

setting of eggs and supply the nest

with perfectly clean soft hay 0r straw.

Place a box of road dust or sifted

ashes under cover, where they can

, dust themselves whenever they come

‘ from the nest.





Carefully examine the





 





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young chicks for lice when they are

taken from the nest, for these para-

sites usually accumulate under the

throat and upon the top and back of

the head. If any are found, rub pure

lard or vaseline, with the finger, over

the parts where the lice are located.

This kills the lice by obstructing

their breathing pores and does not

harm the chicks.

Good Disinfectants to Use.





With careful working, a flock can





be obtained which is free from disease

germs and parasites, but in order to

keep it in this condition the premises

must be frequently cleaned and disin-

fected. A properly applied disinfect-

ant kills the germs of contagious dis-

eases, lice and the embryo of intes-

tinal worm. Disinfect the feeding and

watering troughs by pouring boiling

water into them and then drying them

in the hot sunshine. Make a lime-

wash by adding water to some freshly

slaked lime and then adding several

drops of crude carbolic to the con-

tents of the wash. Apply this by

means of a spray pump or a brush,

for this is a. very easy way of getting

the wash entirely over the house.

Thoroughly apply the spray to the i11-

terior of the house, work it into all

the cracks and crevices, spread it ov-

er the ceiling and floor, the roosts,

dropping boards and the nest boxes.

The compound solution of cresol is a

good disinfectant and can be purchas-

ed ready for use. It contains 50 per

cent of cresol, and one pint of it ad-

ded to ten quarts of water makes a

solution of the proper strength to ap-

ply to the houses or to spray over the

ground.

Indiana. T. W. HARVEY.





LEG WEAKNESS.





 





What makes goslings unable to

walk for a few minutes and then be

all right in appearance, may be, for a.

day, or sometimes a week?



Shiawassee Co. E. H. E.



Some of our chickens are a month

old, some two weeks, and some are

younger. They first act as though

they were hurt, run away, sit dOWn,

get up, tumble over, eat sitting down,

go just a little, and then go down

again. Have lost several and noticed

more this morning. The second or

third day they can’t get out of the

way of each other. They have free

range, fresh water, milk, screenings,

ground feed and are cared for if it

rains. Can you suggest the trouble

and a. remedy for it?



Van Buren Co. Mrs. R. C. V.





The above troubles are undoubted-

ly what is called leg weakness, and

which attacks poultry from two weeks

to six months old. It is said to be

more common among cockerels than

pullets and more frequent among the

heavier breeds than the light ones.



The chief cause of the trouble is

too rapid growth, due to over-feeding.

The weight then increases faster than

the strength. It is sometimes also

ascribed to other causes, such as ov-

er-crowding, over-heating, and close,

ill-ventilated quarters. Too much bot-

tom heat in brooders is said to be a

frequent cause.



The trouble is indicated by an un-

steady gait which, as it gets worse,

makes it such that the bird can not

stand alone. The bird is often seen

sitting while eating, and is little in-

clined to walk. At first nothing but

the unsteady gait is apparent, the

comb is red, and other things indi-

cate health, but later the bird gets

thin, feathers out poorly and is a dis-

tressed object.



The treatment is to reduce the

amount of fat-producing foods, using

bran, wheat and oatmeal in place of

corn and corn meal. Skim-milk should

be given in place of water, if possible,

and it is best to give the foods in dry

for minstead of in wet mashes. Be

sure that the birds get all of the

green food they want, as that is an

important feature of the treatment.

Rubbing the legs with tincture of ar-

nica and adding half a teaspoonful of

tincture of nux vomica to each quart

of drinking water will aid greatly in

the curative measures.





 





 





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Farm Commerccé





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MARKET METHODS IN MICHIGAN.





 





Total receipts at the city market

of Grand Rapids reached about $9,000

this year, or enough to pay the salar-

ies of attendants, the interest on

bonds floated to pay for the market

site, and a profit for the city besides.

The usual fee paid by farmers for a

stall annually is $25. The market op-

ens at 4:00 a. m.,.with grocers, huck-

sters and commission men as the prin-

cipal buyers, and business is practi-

cally over by 7:00 a. m. The number

of households represented, with pur-

chases in a retail way, is rela-

tively small, but seems to be

slowly increaseing. It is essentially a

wholesale market with stuff bought

to be resold once, and in the case of

brokers and commission houses two

or more times. A market rule prohib-

its reselling of stuff on or near the

market space, a practice that huck-

sters.have been known to indulge in.

Hay, straw, wood and other supplies

are also sold on this market later in

the day. In the fruit season loads are

often brought in by growers living 10

to 15 miles away.



Without a doubt farmers can get

more money for their stuff by dealing

directly with city consumers on the

market, and the consumers also profit

by this deal. This problem will no

doubt be fully worked out some day,

but meantime toll must be paid to the

middlemen. It is up to Grand Rapids

and other cities to provide the retail

buyers at the markets in sufficient

numbers so that the producers may

dispose of their loads promptly. The

farmer is a business man and his time

should be as valuable as the banker’s.



Battle Creek is taking first steps

toward a city market. The market at

Jackson continues to thrive, largely

because the city officials are pushing

it. At a recent meeting of the Sum-

mit Farmers’ Club, of Jackson county,

two of the officials of the Jackson

market were present and explained

that they were trying to cater to the

farmers and to secure their co-opera—

tion. After discussion the Club en-

dorsed the market and offered its as-

sistance in making the enterprise 3

success. The market master of Jack-

son also attended the recent meeting

of the Napoleon Farmers’ Club and

assurances were made of co-operation

on the part of members.



Speaking of the possibilities of co-

operation on the part of the farmers

of any community, the editor of the

Jackson Patriot says: “Designate one

member to bring to the market on

certain days such articles as the men

or the women may have for sale. This

man will look after the entire transac-

tion and make his returns to the dif‘

ferent parties having part in the ven-

ture. This would be true economy of

time and effort, and without doubt the

organization would soon establish a

reputation among patrons of the mar-

ket that would make the sale of their

products a certain and quick processd’

The cheese makers, the creamery peo-

ple, the fruit growers and others are

finding great advantage in co-opera-

tive efforts. Why not the farmers?”



Kent Co. ALMOND GRIFFEN.





 





FEDERAL REPORT ON THE CER.

EAL CROPS.





Wheat.



From the condition of the wheat

crop, including both winter and spring

wheats, as reported by the govern-

ment crop reporters, it is estimated

that there will be harvested in this

country this year 900,000,000 bushels.

These figures exceed the yield of 1913

by 183,000,000 bushels’, and the aver-





 





age for five years from 1909 to 1913_





by 214,000,000 bushels. These figures

taken together with those gathered

from private sources, show the wheat





crop to be in an unusually promising

condition and indicate that with con-

ditions continuing normal from now

on the yield will establish a new

high record for the country.



The winter wheat is more promis-

ing than the spring wheat, the condi-

tion on June 1 being 11.9 points above

the ten-year average, while the condi-

tion of the spring wheat is but 2.9

points above the average for the past

ten years. The yield of winter wheat

is put at 638,000,000 bushels and of





spring wheat at 262,000,000 bushels. 38





In 1913 the yield of winter wheat was

523,000,000 bushels and of spring

wheat there were 240,000,000 bushels.



Missouri, Virginia and North Car-

olina are the only states where the

condition is put below 90 points. The

condition of Michigan’s crop is given

at 92 as compared with 88 for the ten-

year average. Her crop for this year

promises to be over a million bushels

greater than it was in 1913. Missouri

is the only important wheat growing

state where the ten-year average is

above the present estimated condi-

tion.



Oats.



According to the government re-

ports the acreage of oats for 1914 is

the same as it was in 1913. The con-

dition on June 1, however, was 2.5

points above the condition on June 1

of 1913, but only 0.9 points above the

ten-year average mark. The yield

promises. therefore, to be 94,000,000

bushels greater than for last year and

85,000,000 bushels above the ten-year

average. Michigan’s crop is reported

five points better than the average for

ten years and her acreage is one per

cent above that of 1913. This gives

her promise of a crop‘ of 50,200,000 as

compared with an average crop of 47,-

021,000 bushels for the year from 1909

to 1913.



Barley.



The acreage of barley for the coun-

try is estimated at 0.4 per cent above

the amount sown in 1913 and the con-

dition is 8.4 per cent higher than a

year ago and 5.4 per cent better than

the ten-year average. This gives a

prospective crop of 206,000,000 bushels

against a yield of 178,000,000 bushels

a year ago, and a fiveoyear average of

182,000,000 bushels.



Rye.



The condition of rye on June 1 was

93.6 compared with 90.9, on June 1,

1913, and 89.7 as an average for the

ten years ending 1913.





Hay.



The condition of hay for the coun-

try is 89.8 for June 1 as compared

with 87.5 for June 1 of 1913, and 87.4

for the six-year average ending 1913.



It would appear from the above re-

view of the government figures that

the outlook for the principal farm

crops for this coming year is the best

in the history of America. Since the

first of June a few reports of damage

have come to hand, but the general

situation is most promising.





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Crop and Market Notes.





Michigan.



Ottawa Co., June 8.—On account

of frequent heavy rains, about 40 per

cent of the corn is not planted at this

date, June 8, and much of the corn

that was planted had to be replanted,

because of rotting. So the prospect

for a good crop in this section is not

very promising. Seine fields of cats

were injured by the wet weather and

wireworms. The prospect for a heavy

crop of hay and wheat was never bet-

ter. There will not be as much clover

as usual because last year’s seeding

was badly winter—killed. Farmers are

increasing the acreage of alfalfa, and

some fine fields can now be seen in

some neighborhoods, which will soon

be ready to cut. A large acreage of

peas was sown this spring for the

canning factory at Coopersville. As

peas have to be harvested in haying

time ,and wheat will be fit to out ear-

lier than usual, it is going to make

farmers hustle some in this vicinity

if they find much time to cultivate

corn when it ought to be done, be-

1cause this crop had to be planted so

ate.



8. E. Mecosta Co., June 4.——A full

acreage crop of corn is being planted

but it is later than usual; some are

just finishing now, June 4. More po-

tatoes will be planted but less beans

than common. Probably less pickles

will be raised this year than last.

Heads showing a little in clover

meadows. Rye is headed and looks

good, as does wheat. A full average

amount of oats were sown this spring.

New seeding is starting 'out‘ fine. No

spraying been done around here but





 





Weather has favored plums as it was '





insect enemies early in

the spring. Apple bloom heavy; cher-

ries fair; strawberries fair; briars

were hurt by winter, as were the

peaches.



Southern Hillsdale Co., June 4.—



Wheat, oats and grass are all in

prime condition and promise a heavy

crop. A large acreage of corn is be-

ing planted, some being cultivated,

and much more to plant. But few po-

tatoes going in as this is not a. good

potato country. The weather is ideal.

Fruit trees badly affected by scale.

Orchards most all dead or dying.

Small fruit also badly affected. But

little spraying being done; but little

after blossoming, if any. 'All farm

crops bringing good prices. Eggs 180;

butter 20@300; cows from $35@150,

according to quality. Hogs 8c; oats

c.

Washte’naw Co., June 6.—At this

date farmers are still planting com.

A large acreage is being put out.

Corn is by far the most important

farm crop here. A large per cent is

up and the stand is extra good. About

the average amount of potatoes are

being planted, most farmers putting

out from one to ten acres. Oats are

coming along fine. Wheat and rye

promise more than an average yield.

Hay prospects not as good, the drouth

of last summer put the old meadows

in bad shape. I think about 75 per

cent of an average yield. Fruit pros-

pects are good. Strawberries are turn-

ing, and a large crop of them. Almost

every orchard is being thoroughly

sprayed. W001 180; eggs 17c; butter

28c; potatoes 75c. The last of the

hay is being hauled to market at $12

@13 per ton. The ground is full of

moisture and crops growing fast.



Mecosta Co., June 5.—June has been

an exceptionally good month. Hay and

rye will soon be out. Indications point

towards a good fruit crop. The usual,

acreage of spring crops has been put

in. Everything looking well. Pota-

toes 600; wool 20c; butter-fat 240;

eggs 18c; veal-8c; hogs 7%c; cows

$40@65; horses $100@250. A large

number of automobiles are being sold

to farmers.



Monroe Co., June 8.——-Corn planting

delayed by rain. Much yet to go in.

Some oats did not come up, but those

that did, and wheat and grass, are

making good growth. Hay will be a.

good crop. Hogs are being marketed

Strawberries are ripening. Not much

fruit sprayed, especially after blos-

soming. Milk at farmers’ stand $1

per cwt; butter 27@28c; dairy 250;

eggs 20c; potatoes $2.50 per 150 lb.

sack; pork 10%@11c; fowls, alive,

150; do. dressed 20@22c; timothy hay

$14@15 per ton; clover $11@12.



New York.



Columbia Co., June 9.——-Corn not all

planted, cats are late, pastures are

fair and meadows poor. Rye looks

well; apples good; pears are dropping

off badly and there are no peaches.

The tent caterpillar is injuring many

apple trees. Hay $20; rye straw $17;

eggs 24c; butter 32c.



Pennsylvania.



Lancaster Co., June 8.—Crops are



promising here. Peaches are a fail‘





too cold fog





ure; plums good and apples scarce.

Not much spraying done. Eggs 18c;

butter 300; calves 90; steers 8%0;

chickens 120; ducks 14c; spring

chickens 250 per lb.



Ohio.





Greene Co., June 8.—May was adry

month for us. Usual amount of corn

planted, but fewer potatoes. Not much

spraying being done and very little

blossoms except on the early varie‘

ties. Wool has advanced in price.

Hogs are down a little. Our wheat

fields are infected with the Hessian

fly quite badly.



Drake Co., June 8.—Tobacco plant-

ing has begun and there is much com-

plaint that the plants are rotting.

Rains have relieved the lack of mois-

ture and corn is growing nicely.

Wheat will be only a medium crop.

The acreage of potatoes will be about

the same as last year. Fruit prom-

ises to be a scarce crop here. Eggs

17c; butter 25c; hogs 8c; cattle 60.



Shelby Co., June 5.—~Fine weather

at present with a little scarcity of

rain for meadows and wheat. A large

acreage of corn. is planted and has

started fine. Potatoes are slow in

starting. Fruit was all frozen in this

section. No spraying done after blos-

soming as the frost killed the blos-

soms. Eggs 17c; butter-fat 23c; corn

960 per cwt; wheat 900; oats 37c;

potatoes $1; hogs $7.80 per cwt.



Wayne Co., June 8.———Have had fine

growing weather past three weeks,

with a hard rain on June 4, causing

some damage to trees and property.

Wheat prospects fair. Corn is‘fine.

Meadows are fair, while oats are look-

ing good. Usual acreage of potatoes

planted. Cherries plentiful; apples

fair, but not many peaches. Not much

spraying done. Locusts are here in

plenty. Potatoes 75c; butter 20c;

eggs 18c. '



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CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Discuss Cash Value Assessments.—

The May meeting of the Assyria

Farmers’ Club was held at the pleas-

ant home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Shep-

ard.‘ Owing to the busy season the

crowd was slow in gathering, but

about 100 sat down to the dinner.

President Hartom called the meeting

to order after dinner and the program

was opened by two songs by* the

Young People’s Chorus which were

greatly enjoyed Following opening

exercises and a good musical and lit-

erary program, which included an ap-

propriate Memorial Day selection, the

discussions for the day were opened.

As Mr. Gibson was not able to be

present with his address, Louis Nor-

ton was called Upon and made a few

general remarks in regard to growing

old. County Treasurer Reams being

called upon, followed with a few re-

marks along the same line, saying in

part that a man who is no older than

he feels. He then introduced the sub-

ject of the new method of assessing

which is causing so much argument





this year. This brought forth discus-

sions from L. Norton, A. T Shepard,

Mrs. C. Cox and others. Mr. A.





Shepard then brought forward the

Decoration Day thought and asked

that while we decorate the graves of

our departed soldiers, We forget not

the handful that are living. ThlS

was followed by a few remarks by I.

W. Cargo. The “Road Bee” question

was then brought up and President

Hartom authorized to call a meeting

at the town hall to discuss the sub-

ject in this township. The Club sang

America and adjourned to hold its

June meeting with Mr. and Mrs. C.

Fruin.—A1ige G. Thomas, Reporter.





Observe Memorial Day.~—The Me-

morial services of the Marion Farm-

ers’ Club were well attended. The

exercises were held in the Lake

schoolhouse and from there the chil-

dren led the march to the cemetery

where the graves of the soldiers were

decorated with flags and flowers. Rev.

L. S. Brooks gave the Memorial ad-

dress which was much enjoyed by all.

Mrs. H. H. Hall read a very interest-

ing poem comparing the battles of

war with the battles of life. Recita-

tions were alsogiven by Clara Pfau,

Irene Smith and Myrtle Beach. The

Club enjoyed the presence of several

visitors. The next meeting will be

held on June 25 at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Irving W. Hart.



Question Box an Important Fea-

ture.—Another very interesting and

profitable meeting . of the Howell

Farmers’ ‘Club was held at the home

of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Thurs-

day, June 4, with President S. M.

Yerkes in the chair. Following agood

program the Question Box, which con-

tained twelve live questions, received

the attention of the members, includ-

ing the following: “What time would

you turn pigs in peas and oats?” On

this question there was a difference

of opinion. Some said when you

needed the feed; others, when they

were podding; others, when they were

just right for table use. “Is the

farmer duty-bound to increase the

production of his acres in order to de‘

crease the high cost of living? On

this question there was quite a differ-

ence of opinion. Some thought that

if all farmers should double the quan-

tity per acre, the price would go

down, and they would have to handle

the extra amount and not receive any

more profit than upon a smaller yield.

while others thought there was not

any danger of raising a surplus.”

“Does it pay to raise a great many

little chicks if you have to buy the

feed?” This question led to quite a

discussion of purchasing feed for all

kinds of stock. Some thought it

would not pay, While others thought

it was the same as cash if you fed

the grain you raised upon the farm.

Still others could not see any differ.

ence between buying feed for hens

and chickens or hogs and Holstein

cattle. While the men generally prac-

ticed the latter, they did not seem to

think it profitable to buy for the

former. To some this reasoning seem-

ed quite illogical. However, they

thought that in the last analysis the

real reason would be that generally

speaking, the men pocketed the pro-

ceeds from the hogs and cattle, while

the women claimed the egg money.

“Would you deem it advisable to re—

turn to the old method of construct.

ing roads under the pathmaster sys-

tem?” This question was thoroughly

discussed. There was some dissatis-





faction'with the new law. and still it

was not thought advisable to return

to .the old system, but rather a return

in the new. law.” .





 





 





Our Motto—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved. ”





 





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





A Penny Social.——A good meeting

is what they all said who were pres-

ent at the first June meeting of Nuni-

ca Grange. After the business ses-

sion, all returned to the lower hall to

enjoy themselves with a penny social

which was given by the Grange. Sev-

eral attractive booths were arranged

among which were a. fish pond, candy

booth, refreshment stand, fortune tell-

ing, and a police station booth. Sev-

eral arrests were made but the Of-

fenders, however, were fined only one

cent each. At the next meeting this

Grange will decide whether it will buy

the hall or not.



Charlotte Grange held its regular

meeting Wednesday evening, June 3,

and aside from a few matters of min-

or importance the greater part of the-

time was taken up in committee meet-

ings in preparation for the big Grange

rally June 13. Mrs. Willis Miller was

appointed chairman of the committee

to look after the selection of materials

for the Grange exhibit at the fair next

fall. The program was in charge of

Miss Lulu Hudson, and that young

lady furnished a splendid evening’s

entertainment. The first number on

the program was a song by Mrs. Ford

and daughter, and so well was the

number rendered that the audience

demanded an encore, which was in

keeping with the first number. Little

Miss Agnes Martin gave a recitation

which made a decided hit, and a read-

ing by Mrs. Volney Palmer was well

received. The Misses Adelaide Hart,

Florence Cole and Catherine Satler

rendered some fine music, including

a violin duet, vocal solo and violin

solo, with piano accompaniment. Mrs.

Klaiss gave a fine talk on flowers and

demonstrated the fact that she had

her subject at her finger ends. Little

Hughy Stall brought down the house

with a recitation and added greatly to

the reputation he has already estab-

lished as a clever little entertainer.





Mr. Henry Zander gave a splendid

talk on the “Social Center of the

Grange.”





New Grange Entertains Pomona.—

Ionia County Pomona Grange met

with Belding Grange, May 28. Beld-

ing is the newest Grange in Ionia

county and the only one organized in

an incorporated city This was a

booster’meeting, as Belding Grange is

only 35 days old. And it can well feel

proud of the good will shown them by

the surrounding Granges. There were

43 visiting members from 18 different

Granges present, who enjoyed inter-

esting and instructive talks by Hon.

Thos. McNaughton and Master J. C.

Ketcham. Bro. McNaughton spoke of

the work in the Legislature and rec-

ommended a legislative committee

for each subordinate Grange to circu-

late initiative petitions in order to

secure some much needed legislation.

Master Ketcham boosted Michigan as

a Grange state. Thirty-two states in

the Union have subordinate Granges

and Michigan ranks third in member-

ship, and has more Granges than any

other state. There are subordinate

Granges in 82 of the 83 counties in

Michigan, Keewenaw being the only

county without a Grange. He recom-

mended the passage of the Torrens

system of land transfer bill, in the

Legislature. Also the Bathrick bill

by 0Congress. The lecturer had a fine

program, consisting of songs and reci-

tations. The Pomona Grange gives a

pennant to subordinate Grange in the

county having the largest delegation

of v1sitors present at a. Pomona meet-

1ng. Banner Grange won the pen-

nant. After singing the following

song the members departed for their

homes, wishing Belding Grange the

very best of success.



What’s the matter with Belding,

She’s all right,



What's the matter with Belding,

She’s all right,



Her Grangers are all a jolly band,



They give Pomona the warm, glad





What’s the matter with Belding,

She’s all right,

What’s the matter with Belding,

he’s all rig h,t

What’s the matter with Belding,

She’s all right,

She welcomes us with face so gay,

We all of us say, as we go away,

What’s the matter with Belding,

She’s all right.





 





COMING EVENTS.





Genesee County Pomona

meets with Burton Grange on

June 26,1914.





range

riday,





 





 





 





of Merit.





 





 





 





BRELDERS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE.





Angus Battle For Sale





On acctgmnt. of other business requiring additional



time and capital we will sell half or entire interest



in 30 head registered Angus cattle. Bull oalves for



three years sold at an avers e of $174. 50. Will sell on



easy terms to right. party. ome help harvest alfalfa



and will 32000.80”, expenses here, and shov you an Opening

per year. profits if you buy.





GEO. B. SMITH ('3 CO.





 





 

 





You can buy cows of

high producingvalueor

you may develop them. The bull is the

most important factor in development.

A thoroughbred Jersey bull pays big returns on his

cost every year. Let us send you someJersey facts.





The American Jersey Cattle Club

324 West 23d Street. New York City





 





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

(Tuberculin tested. Guaranteed free from T-uber

ouloaie.) Several good bulls and bull calves out of

good dairy cows for sale. No females for sale at





 





 





present. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Addison. Michigan. COLON c. 1.11.1 1.11;. Coonerovllle. Mich

Yearling and two—;.'ea.r-old. Eligible

ABERDEEN-ANGUS 137:0] alllls toregister. Splendid breeding. Price

HERD FOUNDED IN 1900. ms t. Address LEWIS lilLluY. Metamoru. M1ch-

Strains re resented consist of Trojan Ericas, Black. _

birds andPrides, only. Black Quality Ito, a hull of JERSEY 2:111]. “Alf: ([11:32 11:10; £33.13

rare individuality and “19th heads the herd. Brookwater Farm. It. F. D. No. 7. Ann Arbor. Mich:





V‘VOODCOTE STOCK FARM. loula. Dlich.





 





Fun s‘LE—Z Reg. Guernsey bulls 2 and 4 years old

2 bull calves best. breeding. “Pedigree off

Berk shire swine eithc





spring show.

10. Holland “Michigan.





JOHN liBELS, R. R.

2six months old





HEREFORD BULL l 18 monthsold.





ALLEN BROS.. Paw Paw, Michigan.

For Sale.Md1-o pod





GUERNSEY BULL CALF March 17 one





breeding dam underA. R. Test, class E. 112 lbs. fat

1n 7?. days. Low Erica if taken at one

J. K. BLATOHFO D Auditorium'l‘ower. Chicago. Ill.





GUERNSEY BULL’fé’Xi‘i; 0T301§3§°hoiii£i§f





at a. bargain. G. A. WIGENT Waterviiet, Mich.





 





 





For Sale— 2 Guernsey Bulls. 2.1nd_1 month old. eligible

to registr. pedigree and priie on application.

JOSEPH W A".lT R. No. 3, Standish. Michigan.





 





We bane for sale a number of pure Guernsey cows.

heifers and bulls. also Berkshire hogs

VILLAGE F.ARM Gross Luke. Michigan.





‘ —-Otfer bull calves. choice A.

CI'CIIJ ficrfi‘ H. O. breeding, $100 and 11p.

UOLE BROTHERS COMPANY. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





HOLSTEINS & BERKSHIRES“§.’.‘.’§§..“‘Z.“.§1





priced reasonable. B. B. BEAVEY. Akron. Mich,





$75





Hengerxold Lad and

RIVERVIEW FARM.





THE THREE BEST ROLSTEIN CATTLE

Poland China Hogs 11nd . White Leghorns.

OREST SIDE STOCK FAR

III. H. Chamberlain Jr. Prop.. llomrluo. Mich.





$25 DELIVEREDMHOIstOIn bull calf, two-thirds



white. By 25 lb. butter bull;



out. of 14000 milk Cow. Thoroughbred, but not;

eligible to registry. Large and handsone.



ROUGEMONT FARMS. Detroit. Michigan.





ll0LSTElN BULLS AT FARMERS PRICES





Si red by one of the best bulls of Ame1ica.

LONG BEACH FARM. Augusta, Kalamazoo 00.. Mich.





 





 





Buys large. nicely marked 9 months register-

ed Holstein Bull. sired by 3300 son of John

from A. ll 0.1)am



R.No. 8. Vassar. Mich.





 





 





OLSI‘EIN FBIESIAN CATTLE BREEDFRS of

high record cows. Young bulls at; farmers prices.

JONES& LUTZ. Oak Grove. Michigan.





ESPANORE FARM,





LANSING. MICH.





Register’dHolsteins





Bull Calves $50 to $200.

An absolute guarantee with each purchase.

CHASEF S. SOB RN "Own r L. M. HATCH.

ADAM FERGUSON. s 9 9 Supt.





——ll High Grade Holstein heifers from Heavy





“OISIOIUS Milkers. Also Registered Bull. Price for

the bunch 810(1) 1". O. B. J. C. BARNEY, Goldwater. Mich.





BIGELOW’S HOLSTEIN FARMS





Breedsville. Michigan.





Breeder Of high class





Registered Holsteins.

“Top-Notch” Holstelns.





Choice bull calves from 2 to 8 mo. Old. of fashion-

able breeding and from dams with Official milk

and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.





MOPHERSON’ FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlohlgln.





A. R. 0. HOLSTEIN COWS FOR SALE.





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

Champ1on. and Duke Ormsby Piotertje DcKoI. Price

$1850. Service bulls and bull calves. Kindly write

me just. what. 1011 want

L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.

125 lbs. in





~30-lb. dam.

HOIStein BUII 30days. 2‘yrs.~old. mostly

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

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





 





 





 





—Ei ht choice registered Holste 1n yearling

For sale helgfers, some are bred. Also four cows.

E. A. BLACK. R. No.6. Lakeview. Michl can.





MlOIIIiilIl HOME lIlII TRAINING SCHOOL





LA PEER. MICHIGAN.

Breeder of High Grade Holstein Cattle. Lists and





prices “non unnl Icnlfiion





A FEW cnolCE Holstein Friesian Bull Calves

for Sale. A. R. 0. Stock.



GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Mlchlzan.

SI Choice Holstein Friesian bull calves from one

to twelve months old for sale. MICHIGAN

FARM COLONY FOR FPILEPT ICS Caro Michigan.





' ' ' Herd Headed by Albina Bonte

Iloislem Fneslan (Iaiile 11...... B... No. 9312.1. Average

for dam and sire's dam A.R.0. at. 4 yrs. butter '7 days

E37 lbl. No stock for sale. W. 13. Reader, Howell, Mich.





14-» Purebred Registered





HOLSTEIN CATTL E

The Greatest Dairy Breed





Sand for FREE Illustrated Booklets

“clutch-Friction. Auc..Box l64. Brettleboro Vt.

JERSEY —Bull calves nearly readv for servinn



Sir-ed bv Jacobn' 3 Fairy Emanon 107111.



SMITH & PARKER. Howell. Michigan.





MAPLE Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd—Tu.

boroulin teetedb .Government. Bull valves

from cows in R. of ytost. Heifer calves whose dams.

grand-dam], and art-ant «rand-dams are in the Register

IRVIN FOX. Allezan. Miohi can.





1 ahlre swine.





 





 





 





 





 





JERS Y L

BUTTER BRE E RSBUE Ls





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





FUR SALE—14 PoIIed Durham & Shorihorn Bulls





from 4 to 24 months old.O .CARLSON. Lelioy. Mich.





 





 





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

111gaton. Price $250. AlsoScaIvesGmo. old from

good milking cons. M. A. BRAY, Okemos Mich.





illIIiI IIIIEII SHOIIIHIIIIIIS Siy?§“§BIlZ§?ief"§i3ié





all acid. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason, Michigan.





 





 





- $500 buys two cows three and f

Shorlllonls one yearllnn heifer and two 0311:“ 951:1:

month. A. A. PATTULLO. Dec ken-ville. Michigan.





 





horthorns—Bulls and females. all ages. ’l‘ ell just.

what \ou want. Also . C. ogs. Oxford Sheep

1". W. (“rum See. Cent Mirh.Shor1hornAss‘..n Mellr dos. Mich.





SHORTHORN CATTLE





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

SHEEP.





1r PAYS TO BUY P111112 11111311 SHEEP or

PARSONS ”’53" 35mg"





, \ Tool! and avhip everywhere and pay express

. . charges. Wnte for club ofi'er and rice list.

0x.fords Shropshire: and Polled- shines.





PARSONS.Gr8ndLedge. Mich. RI.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





‘ —Yearlin and ram lambs from Chem ion

LUICUSIUIS flock of ’Fhumb of Mich. Also select ngr-

Elmhursf. Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.





"005.





' ' —A few extra Sept. Boers and bumh

[III IcS&VICIonas of (iilts for lst of April farrou.

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





 





 





 





 





UERKSHIUE— Choaco full Boars’and Gilts of select.

WHITE OAKMI‘A 1'31? $50133)???" igjénpliifg tIaBiScll'

CUBSIBI' WMhS—Reg. Bred Gllts—~Orders taken for





sprma rags and Collie ups. Holstein

Bulls at Bargains. BAYB PA l.tHAM ronson, Mich.





——Th l t .

51158115113111!“ A 52...?“1’5. tie...‘.’.'.‘.’“fi.€.... ma

1 WSTOCK FARM Holland. Michigan.





 





 





0’ 1 C93 —Spring pigs. get my price before

you bm elsewhere. CLOVER





LEAF STOCK FARM Ii. No.1. Monroe. Michigan.





0 I C’s ~I IIAVEA ANICF LOT 0F

- o o I AS'I‘ FALL GILTS ON



HAND. OTTO B. S( HULZE. One—half mile

west. of Depot. Nashville. Mic hlgan.





0 l C —Takeorders fornpring 1igs.0ne8mo. fine

type Jersey Bull rice reasonable.

N. H. Weber (‘akViow Farm Royal Oak. Michigan.





 





 





O I C Choice piRR tuo to four mos. the long

0 . bodied kind ()nc choice gilt bred for

August. ALVINV. ll l“.A’l'l Grass Lake. Michigan.





 





o. a c. —Sows bred for June furrow We are

also taking orders for spring pigs.

JOHN BFRNER 81 SUN. Grand Ledge. Mich.





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

Pairs and trims not akin. VI rite your 11 ants.

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. Zecland. Mich.





 





0 l C — ilts bred for June and July farrow Also

pring igs. Serviceable boars all sold.

I pay express. G. .ANDREWS Dansville Mirh.





0- '- 055 All sold. Would be pleared to book

your order for spring pigs.

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigan.

0 I C ——'I‘l1ree September Boals. four

September (.ilis. Am also taking





orders for spring 1138. then are extra. ood (nee.

NLW MAN' 8 S'IOCIII FARM. R No. 1. Marigtte. Mich.





 





 





O I C’s Larg( bonedkshipped. on apgrifival.

pairs no a 1n. registcre :68

J. W. HOWELL. Elsie. Michigan.

I C’s —Spring pigs. pairs and tries not

akin. from state fair winners.





AVONDALE STi CK [:ARM. Wayne. Michigan.

I C -—Boars six months Old. spring pigs

. gilts Satisi'm tion guaranteed.





0.

A R. GRAHAM. FLINT. MICHIGAN.

—M.1thave the le -

O. 1. Co SWine ure of receivingpyozliir





order for a. pair or trio. not 11kin.of April

and May (arrow. They are bred right. Satisfaction

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





UROO JFRSEYS Fall gilts of the lar e. h

boned type. bred for Aug. and Sept. farrgow. 3312?;

spring pigs not akin. F. J. Drodt..R. 1. Monroe. Mich.





——A good growthy fall pi immuned

DUROCS and bred for August garrow will

make you money Give me your order now for

May Kshipment Also fall boars ready for service.



OPE KON FARM. Kinderhook. Michigan.





 





 





ounoc mos-1° m... o... a...



growthy. and from big

litters-1.310 to $15 each. registered 1n purchaser‘ s name.

We guarantee satisfaction. Kenwllll Farm, Swanton, Ohio.





FOR SALE DUROC JERSEYS— —College Boy 138557

farrowed Sept. . 91]. Spring pigs after June

J. BANGBART. Lansing. Michigan.





 





 





Fancy bred Duroo Jerseyszcam & Gilts of spring &

summer furrow. Gor individuals at reasonable

prices. John MoNicoll, Stati.onA R4.B11inf.y. Mich.





KOIII-EI. SIIIIIK Hill 32123213321 {2.523311%

prices. 'E. B. CORNELL. Howell. Michigan.

llUllllC JLRSIIYS‘.S.P.’§.§‘.‘.‘.13L"° 3:225.” “‘é’.‘ 8'5

STAHLMAN. Cherry Lawn Farm. R. 2. S epherd. Mich.

Breeders' Directory continued on page 631.
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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





June 16, 1914.



Wheat—The approach of a bumper

crop of wheat has had a depressing

effect upon prices, which show agrad-

ual tendency downward. Weather

conditions have favored the crop right

a‘ong and it will take .changes of un-

usual character to cut into the supply

to an extent that will get values

above the present basis. Europe is

still buying and there is a consider-

able volume of orders waiting for

prices to recede a little more. Ayear

ago the price was $1.05 per bushel.

Quotations for the week are:



No. 2 No. 1





 





Red. White. July.



Wednesday ...... 95 94 % 86%

Thursday . . .94 93% 85%

Friday ........... 93 92 % 85%

Saturday ........ 3 92% 85%

Monday ......... 921 92 85%

Tuesday ......... 92 91 % 8434

Chicago, (June 16) .———No. 2 red





wheat 91%c; July 83140; Sept., 81%0.

Corn.—-—Values have been well main-

tained considering the bearish influ-

ence of wheat and the favorable

weather prevailing over the corn belt.

The shortage of supplies and failure

of Argentine shipments to measure up

to expectations aided the bulls. Last

year’s price was 62c for No. 3 corn.

Quotations for the past week:





No. 2 No. 2



Mixed. Yellow.

\Vednesday . . ..... 74 75%

Thursday 74 75%

Friday . . . . 73 % 75

Saturday . . ......... 73 % 75

Monday . . .......... 73% 75

Tuesday ............ 73 % 75





Chicago, June 16).——July corn 70340

per bu; Sept., 673/30; Dec., 57%c.



Oats.—Market holds about steady.

Crop is suffering in some sections for

lack of moisture. A year ago the

price for standard was 4434c per bu.

Quotations for the past week:





No. 3

Standard. \Vhite.

Wednesday 43% 4"

Thursday ........... 43 % 43

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

Saturday .4 ....... 43 % 43

Monday ............ 43 421/2

Tuesday ............ 42% 42

Chicago, (June 16).—July oats

39140; Sept., 37340; Dec., 57340.





Beans.—Dull and lower. Quotations:

Immediate and prompt shipment at

$1.95; June $1.97 per bu. Chicago re-

$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 steady. No. 2

is quoted at 660 per bushel.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Flour.—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 higher; offerings

limited. Carlots on track at Detroit

are: No. 1 timothy $17@17.50; stan-

dard $16@16.50; No. 2, $15.50@16;

light mixed $16@16.50; N0. 1 mixed

$13.50@14; No. 1 clover $13@13.50.



New York—Market steady. No. 1

timothy $22.50; No. 3 to No. 2 $17.50



21.





Chicago—Market is easier. Choice

timothy quoted at $17@17.50 per ton;

No. 1, $14.50@15.50; No. 2, $12.50.



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





 





10 higher. Extra creamery 26%c per

lb; firsts 25%c; dairy 180; packing

stock 16c.





Chicago—Market easy, with prices

higher. Extra creamery 263/4@27c;

extra firsts 25%@26c: firsts 22@24c:

secgnds 20@21%c; packing stock 17%

@1





c.



Elgin.—Market is firm at 27%c per

1b., which is 940 higher than last

week.



New York—The market is steady.

Prices 1c higher. Creamery extras

27%@27%c; firsts 25@27c: seconds

23@24%c: packing stock 17@17%c.



Eggs.—Market is active, with fresh

stock selling at 19 %c per dozen.



Chicago.——Market steady at prices

averaging 14c lower than last week.

The demand is better and the supply

not as great. Miscellaneous lots,





 





THI‘E M‘ICHIGANFARMER: 1





cases included 16@-18c perdo‘zen; or«

dinary firsts 17@171A,c; firsts 17%@

18%c._



New York—Market is easy. Prices

unchanged. Fresh gathered extras 23

@24c; firsts 20@21%c per dozen.



Poultry.—Market is firm with prices

higher for broilers. Live—Broilers,

30@320 per lb; hens 14c; geese 100;

ducks/14@15c.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Potatoes.—Old potatoes easy with

prices slightly lower than last week.

Quotations: In sacks, 85@87c per bu.

At Chicago prices were lower but

good stock found a waiting demand.

Good Michigan round white quoted at

75@800 per bu.



Strawberries.—-In good demand;

Michigan 16-qt. cases quoted at $1@

1.25. At Chicago berries are meeting

with fair sale. Many of the berries

are poor and have to be sold to can-

neries. Prices unchanged. Ordinary

to good Michigan berries $1@1.50 per

16-qt. case.





 





WOOL.





 





Unusual strength prevails and

prices are advancing, due chiefly to

the realization on the part of manu-

facturers that the supply is short and

that if they are to get raw material

to fill current orders they must buy

now or pay higher. Fleeces are now

going forward and are selling in Bos-

ton at 27@28%c for delaine and

quarter-bloods. Michigan quotations

there range from 26@27c for unwash‘

ed delaines; 26@29c for unwashed

combing and 23@260 for unwashed

clothing.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





Trade is increasing in volume.

Strawberries are coming in freely and

on Tuesday the price ranged from

$2.25@3 per 24-qt. case; lettuce was

selling from 10@250 per basket; beets

7@100 per bunch; asparagus 50 per





 





bunch: radishes 3@4c; green peas

$1.50@2.25 per bu; loose hay $17@

20 per ton.





 





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

June 15, 1914.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stev-

ens, New York Central Stock"

Yards, Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as fol-

lows: Cattle 172 cars; hogs 130 d.

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

1700 head.



With 172 cars of cattle on the mar-

ket here today, weather warm, and

19,000 and lower reported in Chicago,

with the exception of a few strictly

prime heavy weight cattle that sold

here early this morning at about

steady prices, the balance of the heavy

weight cattle, and especially those

that lacked quality and finish all sold

from 20@30c per cwt. lower. How-

ever, the best female stuff sold about

steady, especially the dry-fed kind.

The grass cattle sold mostly from 25

@50c per cwt. below the dry-fed kind.

Heavy dry-fed bulls 250 lower. Light

and common bulls 25@50c lower.

Dairy cows dull and $3@5 off again.

At the close there are about 20 loads

of cattle yet unsold.



We had the heaviest run of hogs of

the season here today, about 130

double decks, and generally a bad

market all around. While the trade

was active, prices were a dime lower

and our market at the present time

looks a little too low compared with

other points, but had entirely too

many hogs, and in order to dispose of

them had to put the price down where

it looked attractive. All good grades

sold at $8.40; pigs $8.10; roughs $6.75

@7.25; stags from $6@6.75. Trade

closed active and we look for strong-

er market balance of week.



The market was active today on

lambs and sheep. Prices steady with

the close of last week. Choice handy

clips selling mostly at $8.50@8.75.

We look for steady prices last of the

week, with moderate receipts.



We quote: Spring lambs $9.50@

10; cull to fair $8.50@9.25; yearlings

$8@8.75; bucks $3.50@4; handy ewes

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

wethers $6@6.50; 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 15, 1914.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.





Receipts today..20,000 40,000 17,000

Same day 1913..18,277 47,006 18,895

Last week ..... 42,509 142,527 76,879

Same wk 1913..42,950 148,170 90,127





The usual Monday slow opening in

the cattle trade was seen today, al-

though as the weather was cool and

cattle did not drink heavily, there was

no reason why buyers should hold

back. Early sales were at steady

prices, but no one could tell how the

market would close. Hogs were ac-





tive at firm prices. Those marketed





last week a/eraged 233 lbs. The

sheep and lamb market Was called

about steady for clipped flocks, al-

though there were no early sales of

prime lambs. Packers were bidding

refusing to pay over $9.25 for prime

spring lambs, but outsiders made a

few purchases early at $9.40@9.50.



Cattle met with a very moderate

general demand nearly all the time,

because of the dearness of beef ev-

erywhere, and summer trade runs

very strongly in favor of handy fat

steers and butcher stock, while only

a few choice heavy beeves are need-

ed. However, most of the long-fed

cattle have been marketed already,

and sales last week of prime beeves

at $8.85@9.30 comprised but a small

number. Steers sold mainly at $7.85

@880, with the best cattle 50 higher

than a week earlier. Common to fair

light steers went at $7.35@8, medium

grade steers at $8.10@8.45, good lots

at $8.50@8.80, and yearlings at $8.50

@9.10 for good to prime and at $7.85

and upwards for commoner kinds.

The market for butcher stock sufier-

ed a decline for the week of 15@25c,

cows and heifers going at $5.15@

8.50, while cutters sold at $4.55@5.10,

canners at $3.50@4.50 and bulls at

$5.25@7.70. Trade in stockers and

feeders was only moderate, although

there Were further reductions in

prices that left them 50@75c lower

than at the high time a few weeks

ago. Sales ranged at $5.90@8.25, with

a few prime heavy feeders at $8.10.

Calves at the best time of the Week

brought $5@8.25 for heavy kinds and

$9@10.50 for light vealers, with the

late top $10.25. Stock steer calves

brought $7.50@8.25, and stock and

feeding cows and heifers brought $5.50

@7.45. A larger business was ac-

complished in milkers and springers

at $60@95 per head.



Hogs are slower to advance nowa-

days after declines in prices than

earlier in the year. Cured meats are

as active as, could be expected, con-

sidering their dearness in the retail

markets. Buyers continue to discrim-

inate against poor to fair “big pack-

ers,” and reject them from lo’ads.

They also discriminate against grassy

mixed lots. Despite much increased

receipts last week, hogs rallied after

the best had sold at $8.12%, with

sales Saturday at $7.80@8.30, compar-

ing with $7.90@8.35, a week earlier.

The bulk sold at $8.10@8.25, pigs

bringing $6.75@7.80.



Sheep and lambs sold last week

very irregularly. Many ewes compris-

ed a large share of the receipts, and

a liberal proportion came direct from

Louisville consigned to the packers.

Prime springs showed more firmness

than anything else in the live mutton

line, and numerous heavy ewes sold

at a big discount. After early sales

of prime spring lambs at $10, prices

broke all along the line, with sales at

$6.50@9.55 for culls to the best. 0th-

er declines left clipped stock selling





as follows: Lambs $5.50@8.60: weth-

ers $5.65@6.35; ewes $2.25@5.35;

bucks $3@4.





“MICHIGAN CROP REPORT FOR

JUNE.





 





Wheat—The average condition of

wheat is 93 in the state and southern

counties, 97 in the central counties,

89 in the northern counties and 98 in

the upper peninsula. The present

condition of wheat is approximately

the same as reported on May 1. The

condition one year ago was 83 in the

state and southern counties, 81 in the

central counties, 85 in the northern

counties and 92 in the upper penin-

sula. The per cent of wheat sown

that will be plowed up because win-

ter-killed or otherwise destrowed is

2 in the state and southern counties,

1 in the central counties and 4 in the

northern counties. The damage by

Hessian fly is 6 per cent in the state,

'10 in the southern counties and 1 in

the central and northern counties.

The total number of bushels of wheat

marketed by farmers in May at 64

mills was 58,262 and at 65 elevators

and to grain dealers 35,843 or a total

of 94,105 bushels. Of this amount 63.-

757 bushels were marketed in the

southern four tiers of counties. 28,297

in the central counties and 2,051 in

the northern counties and upper pe-

ninsula. The estimated total number

of bushels of wheat marketed in the

ten months, August-May, is 8.321.500.

Ninety-four mills, elevators and grain

dealers report no wheat marketed in

Mav.



Rye—The condition of rye in the

state and central counties is 94, in the

southern counties 95, in the northern

counties 92 and in the upper penin-

sula 98. One year ago the condition

was 88 in the state and southern

counties, 86 in the central counties, 90

in the northern counties and 94 in the

upper peninsula.



Corn—The acreage of corn planted

as compared with last year is 101 in

the state, 100 in the southern and cen-

trial counties, 102 in the northern

counties and 105 in the upper penin-

sula. The condition of corn as com-

pared with an average is 99 in the





~ JUNE 20. 1914. ’





state andrsouthern counties, 98 in the

central counties and Upper peninsula

and 97 in the northern, counties.



Oats—The condition of oats as

compared with an average is 94 in the

state and central counties, 92 in the

southern counties, 95 in the northern

counties and 102 in the upper penin-

sula. The condition one year ago was

90 in the state, central and northern

counties, 89 in the southern counties

and 97 in the upper peninsula.



Barley.—-The acreage of barley

sown or that Will be sown as compar-

ed with last year is 94 in the state, 89

in the southern counties, 113 in the

central counties, 90 in the northern

coilnties and 97 in the upper penin-

su a.



Potatoes—The acreage planted or

to be planted as compared with last

year is 100 in the state, 96 in the

southern counties, 109 in the central

counties, 99 in the northern counties

and 106 in the upper peninsula. The

condition as compared with an aver-

age is 94 in the state. 92 in the south-

ern counties, 96 in the central coun-

ties, 97 in the northern counties and

100 in the upper peninsula.



Sugar Beets.~The acreage of sugar

beets planted or to be planted as com-

pared with last year is 83 in the

state, central counties and upper pe-

ninsula, 81 in the southern counties

and 97 in the northern counties.



Colts and Calves.—~The number of

colts as compared with last year is

94 per cent in the state, 93 in the

southern counties, 91 in the central

counties and 96 in the northern coun—

ties and upper peninsula. The num-

ber of calves as compared with last

year is 97 in the state and northern

counties, 98 in the southern counties,

96 in the central counties and 102 in

the upper peninsula.



Fruit—The following table will

show the prospect at the present time

for a crop of the various kinds of

fruit in the state and different sec-

tions:





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Apples . . . . 88 86 87 93 90

Pears ....... 80 78 79 85 100

Peaches ..... 42 43 33 46 . . .

Plums 73 68 71 83 92

Cherries .. . 85 84 79 92 96

St’wberries . 90 88 91 94 93





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





Carroll Co., June 8.—Farmers are

just starting to plow corn, and have

a pretty good stand. Wheat and rye

look good. The hap crop will be a lit-

tle short. We had a big rain on June

4 which washed many corn and oat

fields badly. Had a nice shower last

Sunday.



Hardie Co., June 4.-——Dry ground has

delayed corn planting. Much yet to

plant. Not much spraying done since

the. blossoms fell. Oats and hay are

looking very well. Wool is bringing

around 22c and the supply is short

through here. Eggs 17c; cream 23c.



Sandusky Co., June 5.——Had a terri-

ble hall and wind storm yesterday,

blowing down fruit trees and small

buildings. Most farmers have corn

to plant yet. Oats look well. Wheat

not over 50 per cent of a crop. Spring

seeding is not very promising. Not

much fruit this year, but little spray-

ing being done. Wool selling around

240; corn 95c per cwt; oats 38c; eggs

17c; butter 18c. The production of

eggs is declining.



Indiana.



Daviess Co., June 8.—-Very dry;

seven weeks’ drouth; no prospects of

rain; half crop of hay; wheat badly

damaged; potatoes and oats a failure.

Pastures failing; water scarce. Large

acrease of all crops; corn doing badly;

poor stand; insects working over-

time. Plenty of fruit in most sec-

tions. Second summer spray largely

neglected. W001 200; chickens 10@

250 lb; eggs 16c; butter 20c; hay $18;

com 800 a bushel.



Noble Co., June 8.——The Weather is

warm and there is plenty of moisture.

Crops are looking good. Corn is plant-

ed and few late potatoes are in. Hay

promises well. First crop of alfalfa

will be cut in a few days. Strawber—

ries are being marketed. Crop is

large and berries are of fine quality.

Butter 200; eggs 18c; corn 75c;

strawberries 12c. .



Illinois.



Champaign. Co., June 8.—A normal

acreage of crops were put in. Early

potatoes are poor. Weather has been

dry. Meadows short. Considerable

millet sown where oats and corn were

drowned out by the rain of May 12.

Oats and hay cut short 30 per cent

for lack .of moisture since. Wheat

not damaged. Thermometer stands

between 95 and 100.



Nebraska.



Dodge Co., June 5.—We had a heavy

ra1n today. Farmers are busy culti-

vating corn. The average farmer has

from 75 to 100 acres of corn, 30 to 40

acres of wheat and 40 to 50 acres of

oats. Prospects are good for all kinds



(Continued on, next page).
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, Single deck, hogs and sheep. . ..





JUNE 20, 1914.,





THIS IS’THE LAST EDITION.





The first edition is sent to those who

have not expressed a desire for the

latest markets. The late market edi-

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DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Thursday’s Market.

June 18, 1914.

Cattle.





Receipts 1387. Good grades 25c Iow-

er; others 25@50c lower than last

week; quality common; mostly grass-

ers; milch COWS $5 per head lower.



We quote: Best heavy steers $8@

8.50; best handy weight butcher

steers $7.50@8; mixed steers and heif—

ers $7@7.50; handy light butchers

$6.50@7.25; light butchers $6@6.75;

best cows $6@6.40; butcher cows $5.25

@550; common cows $4.25@5; can-

ners $3@4.25; best heavy bulls $6.25

@6.75; bologna bulls $6@6.25; stock

bulls $5.50@6.25; feeders $7@7.75;

stockers $6@7; milkers and springers

$35@70.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mason VB. Co. 3

steers av 890 at $7.45, 2 cows av 1070

at $6.50; to Breitenbeck 5 do av 912

at $5.80, 3 do av 927 at $6; to Kull

26 steers av 883 at $7.90; to Rattkow-

sky 1 bull wgh 810 at $6.50; to Park-

er, W. & Co. 2 cows av 650 at $4.25;

to Mich. B. Co. 5 steers av 816 at

$7.35, 19 do av 900, at $7.50, 3 do av

1210 at $7.50, 7 do av 893 at $7, 2 do

av 830 at $6, 5 bulls av 1210 at $6.40;

to Kammon B. Co. 14 steers av 1040

at $7.75; to Mich. B. Co. 6 butchers

av 773 at $7.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 11

do av 970 at $7.65, 1 bull wgh 1380 at

$6.50; to Rattkowsky 3 cows av 1000

at $5.50, 2 do av 1065 at $6.



Spicer & R. sold Mich. B. Co. 16

steers av 861 at $7.50, 1 heifer wgh

740 at $6, 8 butchers av 845 at $7.35;

to Grant 10 cows av 910 at $5.25; to

Rattkowsky 2 do av 1100 at $6; to

Mich. B. ,Co. 2 do av 1090 at $5.75, 2

heifers av 760 at $7, 1 cow wgh 650

at $4, 1 do wgh 1200 at $6.50; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 3 bulls av 983 at

$6.25, 1 do wgh 2110 at $6.50, 1 do

wgh 900 at $5.25, 2 do av 1185 at

$5.25, 2 do av 1165 at $6; to Grant 3

cows av 483 at $5.25, 3 do av 1003 at

$6; to Breitenbeck 8 steers av 981 at

$7.90, 1 cow wgh 1140 at $6; to Kull

5 heifers av 794 at $7.25, 1 bull wgh

900‘at $6.50, 1 do wgh 540 at $5.25; to

Newton B. Co. 1 do wgh 1310 at $7;

to Nolte 29 stockers av 686 at $7.



Haley & M. sold Heinrich 26 steers

av 875 at $8, 9 do av 735 at $7.15; to

Thompson Bros. 5 cows av 936 at

$5.90; to Rattkowsky 2 do av 1050 at

$5.25; to Haddrell 14 stockers av 625

at $7.15, 3 do av 697 at $7.15; to

Schlischer 3 do av 733 at $7.25; to

Rohnert 17 stockers av 511 at $8.10;

to Breitenbeck 21 steers av 850 at

$7.15; to Rohnert 5 cows av 1064 at

$5.90; to Sender 30 do av 860 at $5.50.





Veal Calves.





Receipts 1089. Market steady at

opening, closing 25@50c lower; bulk

sales at $10. Best $10@10.25; others

$7@9.50.



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

9 av 150 at $10, 3 av 170 at $10.50, 4

av 185 at $10, 6 av 145 at $10.50; to

Newton B. CO. 11 av 180 at,$10.50, 22

av 160 at $10.50; to Sullivan P. Co.

16 av 155 at $10, 17 av 150 at $10.25,

5 av 155 at $10.50, 2 av 170 at $8.50;

to Applebaum 6 av 165 at $10; to

Parker, W. & Co. 2 av 150 at $10.25,

14 av 175 at $9.50, 30 av 155 at $10,

4 av 185 at $7.50, 15 av 200 at $10.50;

to Thompson Bros. 14 av 145 at $9.40;

to Rainer 21 av 160 at $10.25; to

Nagle P. Go. 9 av 165 at $10; to Me-

Guire 16 av 160 at $10.25, 22 av 155

at $10; to SulliVan P. Co. 27 av 150

at $10, 17 av 165 at $10.25.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 1020. Market steady. Best

lambs $9.50; fair do $8@9; light to

common do $6@8; yearliugs $8; fair

to good sheep $4.50@5: culls and com-

mé)5n $2.50@3.50; heavy sheep $4@

4. .



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co.

12 lambs av 48 at $6.50, 3 sheep av

115 at $4.50. H





ogs.



Receipts 7199. Market 5c higher;

pigs $8.25; others $8.30.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Go.

425 5av 190 at $8.30, 240 av 880 at

$8.2 .



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

& Co. 3000 av 195 at $8.30.



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

410 av 190 at $8.30.



Haley & M. sold same 525 av 190

at $8.30.





Yardage Charges at Detroit Stock

Yards.

Cattle, per head

Calves, per head............... 80

Sheep, per head............... 20

Hogs, per headOOOIQIOOOIODIOI. 30

Hay, per cwt.................. 1.50

Corn, per ,bushel............... 1.50

Commission Charges.



Cattle, per car.................$10.00

Double deck hogs and sheep,



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THE =MICHIGAN FARMER





(Continued from preceding page).

of crops. Wheat is now headed out

and the first crop of alfalfa is cut.

Fruit prospects are good. About two

sprayings are usually done after blos-

soming. Wheat 82c; corn 64c; oats

35c; butter 23c; eggs 180; spring

chickens, over two pounds, 190.



Fostor Co., June 4.——Have had a

two days’ rain besides a heavy one

ten days ago. Crops are in fine shape.

Hay and grass are fine. Grain seed-

ing is all done. Not as much wheat

sown as usual, but there is a large

increase in the acwage of corn and

potatoes. Hogs 70; wool 16@18c;

butter and eggs steady at 20c and

15c respectively.



Scotts Bluff Co., June 6.—Very little

corn planted and about the usual

amount of potatoes. Sugar beets are





slow. Help scarce. Alfalfa haying

will be on in about ten days. Pas-

tures and wild hay are good. Fruit





promises well but trees are too young

to bear much. Plenty of water for ir-

rigation. Eggs 20c; cream 200.



Pierce Co., June 5. Corn looks fine

and oats are growing well, having an

unusually good color. There will be

plenty of cherries and late but har,



Colorado.



Kit Carson Co., June 6.—-Weather

has been fine, with plenty of rain.

A good acreage of corn, potatoes,

cane, millet and other green forage

crops are being put in. But little

fruit here. Hogs $8; corn 85c; wheat

800; oats 65c; potatoes $1; chickens

160 per lb





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with head turned to right and would

soon fall, breathing very rapidly and

only lived 12 hours. What caused his

death? J. J. P., Saginaw, W. S.,

Mich—Very likely a small blood ves-

sel opened in brain, which caused his

death.



Chronic Diarrhea VVorms.—I have

a cat that is very thin; bowels very

loose, passes white worms quite fre-

quently and t“c rmiv rcriedy I have

given him is sulphur. He is a pet

and a very good hunter, therefore, I

would like to save l‘im. W. P., Fen-

ton, Mich—Give your cat 1. gr. of

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Erohuble is corrected. Feed cat some



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Bruised Hock—l have a mare that

was kicked on outside of hock, caus—

ing bunch to fill, giving the leg the

appearance of being affected with

thoroughpin. A blister failed to re-

move or reduce this bunch. F. 11.,

Memphis, Mich—Apply one part io-

dine and ten parts fresh lard to bunch

every day or two and give 2 drs. of

potassium iodide at a dose in feed

night and morning. ’



A. J. S., Monroeville, Mich—Your

cow is incurable, and I would advise

you to either fatten her, or sell her

to someone who is raising beef cattle.



Sore Shoulder.——two years ago my

horse was driven in new leather col-

lar during a rain storm and his shoul—

der was either scalded or poisoned;

since then his shoulder has been ten-

der and inclined to itch. N. ,M. C.,

Blissfield, Mich—Dissolve 14 lb. ace-

tate of lead, 3 ozs. sulphate zinc, 2

ozs. of powdered alum and 2 ozs. of

carbolic acid in a gallon of water and

wet shoulder and neck three times a

day. Give dessertspoonful of hypo-sul-

phite soda at a dose in feed or water

three times a. day.





 





 





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II. louHoud Farm Help? ,0... m... mostly with.

out farming experience, who wing to work on forms. It

you need a good, steady, sober and willing worker

write for an order blank, Ours lea philanthropic

organisation, and we make no charge to emplo or

or employee. Our object is to encourage farm as

among the ewe. The Jewish Agricultural

Society. 714 W. 12th St.. Chicago. Illinois.





Falms and Farm Lands For Sale

FARMS, GOOD. CHEAP, PROFITABLE.





UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES NOW.

State Board of Agriculture. Dover. Delaware.





 





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

igan farm. 65 a. fine looking wheat. Immediate poe-

seesion. Otto S. Schairer. 214 Dewey Ave..Swissvaie.Pu.





FARM 60 ACRES, $20 ACRE





56 mile to one of largest strawberry shipping points

in world. 50 acres under’flcw. orchards. good build-

ing. Views on nest. ‘erms ri ht.



WALLER & WAL UN 00.. ALISBURY, MD.





A PLEASENT SUMMER FARM HOME





Oftibacres‘ for sale at Public Auction on Monday

June 29th, 1914., at. 1 o'clock sharp. 56 mile North of

Breedsville Mich; station. Terms 54 cash, time on

balance. Poor health of owner cause of sale. Good

buildings; water and fences. with fruit. for family, and

in high state of cultivation. F. J. Harrison. Owner.





Stock and Tools Included





 





 





 





With 103 Acres, $2800





A good horse. 5 cows. 2 wagons, valuable farm machin-

ery, tools. etc.. so to quick bu or as owner can no

lon rl care for this farm: 7. acres in productive

lie] 3. 30 acres woodland; only a mile to market (or

all dairy products: good 10cmom house, 2 good barns.

other bui din 8: nice orchard; conveniently reached

from Elmira. inghamtcn and other points; a working

farm for you to take hold of immediately at only



cash; see photograph. read details and

secure traveling directions. page 29, “Strout’s ‘Farm

Catalogue 37," not cut, copy free._ E. A. STROU’I‘

FARM AGENCY. Station 01. Union Bank Bldg..

Pittsburgh, Pa.





' to close an estate at, once.

EXIWIOI' "Mi SIGI’IHGI Listen to this: 114 acres;

7-room house. two stories and porch: barn 40146;

granary: milk house: apples. cherries: 4 miles to

railroad town. Building insured for 31800. Price

$1500. part cash. Catalogue No. Hall's Farm

Agency. Owego, T1033 00.. New York.





FOR SALE FARM and Fruit Lands. also largo

tracts for stock grazing and

ranch purposes. Oloy loam soil, lime rock subsoil.

near market and railroad. Address R. MITCHELL.

Agent for Thad B. Preston, Onawuy. Michigan.





MICHIGAN FARMING LANDS





Near Saginaw and Bay City, in Gladwin and Midland

Counties. Low prices: Easy terms: Oleartitle. Write

for maps and articulars. STAFFELD BROTHERS.





 





 





. 1:”) Merrill Building, Saginaw, (W. 8.). Michigan.





 





 





Breeders’ Directory—Continued from page 629

DUROC J ERSEYSIétl‘Bs‘Sx‘LZ‘io‘lfiii‘éf





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.

——Spring boars from prize-win-

”um-Jerseys uing strains. Bows all ages

Breakwater Farm. R. F. D. No. 7. Arbor. Mich.

LARGE '"PE P c —Largest in Mich. Fall pigs all

I . sold. order a springmsi sired



by the largest bear in the U. 8., weight Ibo” %





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

represented. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Purma. Mich.





— W

POLAND CHINAS €3.33 nlifiiimmfiniiii$°





Prices right. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta, MICh:





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





.- Poiand china Boar; 80w: Bred, Ill oliin Big lypo.

A. A. W0





0D 8!. SON.





MY OH MY!

What an Opportunity.





Starting May lst. we are going to give to the farm-

ers and breeders an opportunity to get started right.

in the breeding industry. We are going to give you

uchance to get hold of foundation stock that. will

give you a nucleus for one of the finest and best



erds in your community. We are going to show you

as we have others, that you will have greater

success with our big type





POLAND CHINAS





than with any other breed. We want to place at.

least one pig, or a pair in every community. to adveru

tise our herd. We will give agency, if not already

taken. If interested. write for our plan and prices.



IIILLCREST FARM. KALAMAZOO. MICH.





Saline. Michigan.





 





 





OLAND CHINA PIGS—From large Prolific stock.

Shorthorn Bull Cain‘s. Fggs 81 per 13 from choice

Barred Rocks. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson, Michigan.





 





—A b ' h h f M - ‘

FOII SALE pigs? 3°13? Milli" heiderlriaiififréfsfii .332?





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





 





BUTLEB'S Big Boned Prolific Poland Chinas. Grow

big, kee easy, mature early. ready for market at

Smonths. by? Because we've bred them that way

for more than 20 years. We have 25 big boned sows

for (all furrow. Buy one and make more money on

your hogs. You can't get any better at. any rice.

P.C. History Free. J. C. BUTLER. Portland. ich.





 





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

buy Big Typeewith Quality. Wm. Wniilo, Goldwater,lioh.





Bred sows. bred gilts and boar

MUIO FOOT plus. not. related, for sale. Satin

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





Yorkshiras—Spring Pigs ill Excellent Quality.





GUY J. DOTY. R. 2. Monroe, Michigan.





 





 





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

Pairs not akin, Colle ePrincess and Cooks Bacon

foundation stuck. Geo. 8, 1V cMullen.Grand Ledge.Mich.





 





Yorkwins Guaranteed to not. die of Cholera. Prolific,

long deep and well fleshed. Pigs ready for

delivery. Not. akin. Oribbs Bros., Watervliet. Mich.





YORKSHIRES





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

July, August and September furrow. A choice lot of

spring pigmpairs and trios.not akin. Prices reasonable





W. C. COOK. R. 42. Ads. Michigan.





Lillie Farmsiead Yorkshire:





Open slits and gilts bred for September furrow.

Spr ng pins either sex. pairs and tries not akin.

Satisfaction mnrnnteod.





COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Michigan.
632.16





‘T'HE. MICHIGAN FARMER





JUNE 20, 1914.





 





THE WORK OF THE PRACTICAL

SCIENCE LABORATORIES.

(Continued from page 618).



tion for analysis in the laboratory we

should like to impress upon our read-

ers that the most essential matter to

be observed is the care with which the

sample is taken. There are probably

more discrepancies in the results of

a laboratory analysis through inade-

quate methods of sampling than in

any other way. The work of these

laboratories is done entirely in dupli-

cate so, therefore, first of all, a suffi-

ciently large sample should be sent

us, so that duplicate determinations

may be made. In the case of milk or

cream, we prefer a bottle of approxi—

mately four ounces full of milk so

that there will be ample for satisfac-

tory analysis in the laboratory. The

milk should be very thoroughly mixed

before the sample is put into the bot-

tle, for the only service a laboratory

can give is to assist in finding the

truth. The dairyman wants to know

the truth regarding his query, wheth-

er in the answering of his question it

shows his cow to be a good one or a

poor one. Strange as it may seem,

many dairymen have not gotten to

the point where they are prepared to

hear the exact truth about the butter-

producing powers of their cows, but

if one is not prepared to receive this

kind of information the laboratory is

not the place to send the product.



Again, in taking samples it must be

remembered that we cannot adjudi-

cate a difference between the cream-

eryman and the individual dairyman

unless an accurate sample of the milk

has been sent to us.



We like to have the bottle full of

milk or nearly so, so that in being

transported through the mails the but-

ter—fat will not become churned in the

bottle, for this procedure makes im-

possible the accurate testing of the

milk.



There are a number of things which

influence and cause a variation in the

fat content of milk and cream. The

main ones were discussed in our pa-

per _of last week.



In order to make more certain the

sending of samples in the proper con-

dition the Michigan Farmer secured a

number of four—ounce bottles and

mailing cases to go with them, so that

they would pass through the mails

without damage. These have been

sent to the farmer for the exact cost

and will then be returned again if the

dairyman will forward the postage at

the time he sends the sample so that

they may be returned.



In this Work we Seek the Truth.



Our experience has shown that most

all of the unsatisfactory and damaged

samples come in cases that the send-

er has improvised and packed in a

more or less insecure fashion. It does

not matter, of course, to the depart-

ment or to the Michigan Farmer how

these samples are sent in. In the in-

terest of truth we simply ask that

they be representative samples taken

with care and that they be packed

and transported in such a way that

when they arrive at these laboratories

they are in a satisfactory condition

for analysis.



Following these precautions and

others which may suggest themselves

to the farmer, there is no reason Why

the results obtained should not be

satisfactory and of great value to the

farmer. It is this service which we

feel is of the utmost value and con-

ducted in the way it is we see no rea-

son why it should not become import-

ant information to every subscriber

to this paper. The freedom with which

particularly the milk testing feature

has been adopted by dairymen has

fully proven that a practical labora-

tory can be of real service to farmers.





Texas grass cattle are moving free-

ly to southwestern markets. It is es-

timated that 100, 000 of these cattle

have been marketed, and the same

number remain to be unloaded before

July 1.





 





 





 





 





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make SURE of a

GOOD .CROP

of WHEAT





 

 





 





OME cannot understand why

a few hundred pounds of our

fertilizer, mixed with the

1000 tons of surface soil

that is cultivated to

the acre, makes

such a wonderful

difference in the

quality and the

quantity of the

yield. The effect

of the fertilizer

is similar to that

Hpinch of salt.”

How would your food taste without it? '





Use A'A-O Fertilizers §





The fertilizer is not a soil stimulant nor p'atent soil

medicine. Absolutely no. It is the most nourishing food

for the plant. It will re-enforce the natural fertility in

the soil and make it more available, and will enhance its

power of productiveness.





If all farmers knew A. A. C. Co. Fertilizers as they

ought to know them, not enough could be manufactured

to supply the demand.





 





Take notice of our special wheat fertilizers, Banner Dissolved

Bone, 34% available phosphoric acid, or our Banner Bone Fertilizer

with Potash, 20% available, 24% total, phosphoric acid, and 4%

actual Potash. Grain Fertilizer, 2-12-3 analysis.





We want agents for unoccupied territory under our consign-

ment contract. Write us today for further information.





The American Agricultural Chemical Co.

Detroit Sales Department, Detroit, Michigan.





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Shows where bl: money-eevlnge can be made

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town houses, etc. Plans extremeeiiyby preotloel,

drawn by expert architects. byimmense

supplies of lumber, all materials and accessories

needed at the loweet prices.



Free plen book gives his cost cutting

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Montgomery Herd I Go. New York clloego Kane-e city





FOR SALE, CHEAP





One 16 H. P. latest

style Buffalo Pitts





Willi EN?!“





Will uh 15 H. .P. Gas Engine as part

payment.





Lock Box 275, Lansing, Mich.





Fastest Hay Press

2'/2 Tons Per Hour





Greater capacity is guaranteed in all Spencer

Presses. The guarantee with our Alligator

Press says “22 tons in 10hours orno pay. ” Large

feed capacity—smooth and compact bales, uni-

form in size. Load full weight into cars. All

Spencer Presses are biggest money makers be-

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Write today for Free illustrated

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Fence 2703 rod. Heavy49 in.

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