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r H E _ M 1 CHI-CAN .ggréi-A- R‘M‘ E r.

Efficiency on the Farm.

PEAK of business efficiency in
connection with the management
of a farm and many worthy per-

sons think immediately of sensational
modern methods. A few farmers be-
lieve efficiency is the solution of all
farm problems, whereas others are
just as certain it is a passing fad. In
some of the counties where experts
have been employed wonder is ex-
pressed that so much fuss should be
made over something that is not even
new. Some of the more progressive
farmers point to the methods of effi-
ciency on their own farms, where they
have been in operation for years. So
with all the explanation and discus-
sion, the whole subject of efficiency is
still surrounded by rather a dense fog.

Today the business farmer is at sea
to know just what to do to put this
efficiency idea into successful opera-
tion on his farm. He has read the
better class of agricultural publica-
tions since the idea became promi-
nent. He has followed the editorials
and articles, and knows instances
where it has proved beneficial or to
the contrary. Now he would like to
know what it can do in his own busi-
ness. Also, he wants to know if he
employs an expert that he is securing
one who is efficient.

The farm is no different from any
other kind of business in the manage-
ment of its everyday affairs, and .in
the general readjustment of farming
going on today better efficiency meth-
ods are being put into practice. The
man accustomed to fighting waste and
lost motion in his business finds plen-
ty of it to be eliminated on the farm.
If a farm is showing an annual deficit,
declining in productivity and falling
behind, the difficulty is usually to be
found in what might be called. with
all respect, its efficient administration.
In some way it is not producing
enough good things for market, or is
not selling them skillfully, or the op-
erating charges are too great. This
view of efficiency shocks the mind
that thinks growing big crops and sell-
ing them to the first buyer constitutes
the sum-total of efficient management;
but a good many farmers are coming
round to the opinion that poor busi-
ness methods have no place on the
farm.

The Functions of a Farm.

Poor business methods often begin
with limited ideas about the functions
of a farm. Even the owners them-
selves may get into the rut of think.
ing it is the hardest business on earth
and regard it only as a place where
they can work and live, provided op-
portunity never knocks at their door
and calls them in some more profit-
able direction; but the farm has much
more than that to offer. Its business,
moral, social and educational phases
are very diversified. Moreover, effi-
ciency is just as necessary on the
farm, and pays as large returns, as in
any other line of business.

Where Efficiency was Applied.

Not long ago failing health prompt-
ed a city man to retire to the country.
He had a good business training—a
partner in a large iron foundry in the
city—and he went about it in a thor-
ough business way. He sat down with
his foreman and compiled a list of ev-
erything needed on the farm for the
first year; opposite each item he set
down a definite sum. It was a long
list and he began to get prices from
dealers and manufacturers. By pay-
ing cash and ordering from only a
few dealers he saved more than 20
per cent on local dealers' prices. Right
at the very beginning he "discovered
that by paying cash and dealing direct
with manufacturers and large city
dealers he could save 20 per cent. All
of the feeds and fertilizers are pur-
chased at times when the markets are
favorable and when the. men and
teams are not busy on the farm. This

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means low. prices and minimum
charges for hauling and storing.

His way of managing the labor and
team work problem was simple
enough. On the principle that idle
men and work horses are two things
that a successful farmer must cut
away from, he worked out a system of
keeping account of tne labor charges
against each crop and branch of his
farming. The system was gradually
changed until a high standard of exe-
cution was set and a big saving made
in men and teams. The account sheet
showed that the men and teams only
reached maximum efficiency for a few
weeks during-the spring. Each crop
seemed to demand attention at that
time and considerable had been lost
by not being able to give them all
proper attention. This necessarily cut
down the yields and consumed what
otherwise would have been a profit.
So in a short time he substituted fall
sown wheat and rye in place of oats
in his crop rotation, and by doing con-
siderable fall plowing disposed of one
work team and an extra hired hand
for several months during the rush
season. Soon more of the land was
drained, and a larger area kept in hay
and pasture. This enabled him to sell
two more work horses and keep the
farm work going with‘one less man.
A still further saving was made by
purchasing a one-half interest in a
farm tractor and using it for plowing
and heavy hauling about the farm.
The use of the tractor makes it possi-
ble to do the farm work with brood
mares and raise five or six colts each
year. This adds a tidy sum to his net
income and the horses are in still bet-
ter shape to do a maximum season’s
work than when they had to do the
plowing and heavy hauling. For the
past two years the cost of operating
the farm has been cut down more than
30 per cent and the gross sales have
increased 25 per cent. During this
time there have been no changes in
the labor force, and each man’s work
is done easier than before the changes
were introduced. Labor troubles are
reduced almost to zero by furnishing
steady work and furnishing neat cot-
tage homes for married men. Plenty
of men are always waiting to fill in
any vacancy, for the discipline,
strengthened by a bonus system, is an
attractive proposition to the thought-
ful worker.

Paying a Bonus for Efficiency.

In discussing his bonus system the
owner said: “After making market
milk for about two years I decided to
overhaul my buildings, have my herd
tuberculin tested and produce certified
milk. The first few months things
went along smoothly, but eventually
some of the men became careless in
their work and at times the bacterial
count would go as high as 50,000 per
c. c. I tried every scheme I could
think of for several months, and I
came near abandoning the business in
disgust. Finally I concluded that some
particular employe was careless in his
work, but to discover the guilty party
was quite another question. After
studying the situation from several
angles I called the boys into the dairy
house and told them that although
they might have the best intentions in
the world, that somebody was care—
less in his work, and that I proposed

to find out who it was if I had to hire.

new men in every one of their places.
I promised them a bonus of $15 per
month for each milker and $20 to the
man who had charge of the milk room
and bottling if they kept the number
of bacteria below 10,000 every day in
the month. They soon discovered the
guilty parties and every man has re-
ceived his bonus every month, except
two, for the past two years. It did
not take them long to trace the source
of trouble when it reflected on their
monthly pay checks. Every man is

working for his $15 bonus and keeps
watch of the otherfellows and quickly
discovers if they become 'slovenly in
their work. By putting a premium on
cleanliness and thoughtful work, a
complicated problem was solved in a
practical way.”
Proper Adjustment a Factor in
Efficiency.

Until recent years it seems as though
even farmers of sound business judg-
ment have hesitated to tackle effi-
ciency problems on everyday business
lines. Many of the farmers look upon
farming as labor rather than business,
and they work for years and never get
anywhere—or get the farm anywhere,
either. There are too many farms that
are being operated with no definite
aim in View for the work and capital
expended. Farm efficiency calls for a
careful adjustment between the dif-
ferent branches, such as are neces-
sary in the factory where the business
is carried out with plain common
sense.

When a trained business man looks
over his farm with an idea of develop-
ing its latent resources he finds it nec-
essary to make ample provisions for
maintaining its productivity. Good
live stock is full of possibilities, both
from the efficiency and from the fer-
tility side. It helps to distribute the
labor evenly throughout the year and
helps to provide a steady income; it
leaves a valuable by-product to keep
up soil fertility and encourages the
growth of crops which improve the
physical, chemical and biological con-
ditions of the soil. The growing of
clover, grass and forage crops and
feeding them out to live stock enables
the farmer to derive two profits, one
from his farming and one from his
feeding, and leaves two-thirds of the
plant food on the farm. 'In order to
make stock farming profitable one
must have efficient animals that are
adapted to his business. Some of the
inefficiencies in herds and flocks em-
phasize beyond any question of argu-
ment the necessity for better and con-
stant selection of animals that are
adapted to the farms and, branches of
feeding that are being practiced. The
feeder should produce such food for
his stock as it is possible to grow on
his farm, rather than pay one or sev-
eral prices to feed jobbers. He should
bear in mind that the indirect benefit
of stock feeding is to maintain soil
productivity and furnish a market for
his crops and he should cash in the
latter by raising his own feed and
feeding it to animals that are capable
of returning more than the market
prices for his feeding materials.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

This is the third of the 52 special
articles announced for the year from
November _1. Other articles on this
special topic will appear in future is-
sues. The special article for next
week .will be “Peppermint in Relation
to 8011 Fertility.”

THE VALUE OF THE FARMER’S
TIME.

 

Everyone who works day after day
should establish a standard of value
for his labor, whether he be doing
office work in the city or merely plow-
ing his own corn field where he be-
gins work when he chooses and quits
at night when'he sees fit to do so.
Perhaps it may not be an easy thing
to establish this standard with ac
curacy but the worker usually knows
pretty well what he can accomplish in
a day and then it is an easy matter to
compare with what others are doing
and the prices that they are receiving.

I am very well acquainted with a.
farmer whose motto is: save every-
thing, even though it may take con-
siderable work. He has plenty to live
on comfortably for the rest of his
days without having to worry much
about his present crop prospects and
attributes his good fortunes all to this
one characteristic of saving, but is be
right? I have seen him spend hour
after hour with a hoe trying to kill
weeds that had gotten ahead ofa cer-

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tain crop due to bad weather condi-
tions when he knew at the time that
his labors would not yield returns
sufficient to pay him seventy cents a
day for his trouble. The only excuse
ofiered was that the crop was nearly
grown and he couldn’t afford to see it
wasted entirely, for want of care.
Again, I have seen other farmers
who never seemed content unless they
were busy at something during every
hour of the day, whether the work
done was likely to yield a profit or be
a loss if judged from the standpoint
of the value of labor. It may bé that
some men can work thirteen or four-
teen hours each day on the farm and
do just as much per hour as if they
worked only ten hours, but such per-
sons are certainly exceptions, for ordi-
narily overwork means decreased effi-
ciency until very little can be done in
the longer than in the shorter time.
Even shOuld this not be the case,
wouldn’t it be better in the average
case to work a little less each day and
spend the rest of the time learning
more about the business that is being

conducted, or else merely enjoying the '

fruits of labors already done? .

We read quite a good deal at pres-
ent about the tendency for the farmer
to go to the city in order to try to
find a business that will require less
work, and at the same time yield larg-
er profits. To what can this sad con-
dition of affairs be attributed? For
the most part I would say that it is
because the farmer has failed. to look
far enough ahead and plan so as to
be able to maintain the soil fertility.
He has worked hard but he hasn’t
placed a value on his time and tried
earnestly to live up to the standard
set. It may be best in a few instances
to do work that will not yield a money
value equal to the value of the labor-
er’s time, but in such cases the re-
turns are ultimately received through
the increased beauty of the farm or
by way of other channels. Make ev-
ery day’s work pay and yield a profit
in addition. Farm life will then seem
easier and a real pleasure when it
may have seemed a drudgery before.

Iowa. F. E. ALLISON.

.—_

STATE POTATO SHOW AND MEET-
ING.

 

The Michigan State Potato Associa-
tion will hold its annual meeting. at
Kalamazoo, December 3 to 5. This
meeting will follow immediately after
that of the State Horticultural Socie-
ty. The first session of the Potato
Meeting will be held Thursday even-
ing at eight o’clock. There will be a.
session Friday morning and afternoon
with a banquet Friday evening. The
last session will be held Saturday
forenoon. A good program has been
arranged and everyone interested in
the potato crop is invited to attend
this important meeting. Write to'C.
W. Wald, Secretary, East Lansing, for
a copy of the program.

Liberal premiums have been provid-

ed through the courtesy of the Kala-
mazoo Commercial Club and others,
amountingto about $150. Premiums
are offered on peck entries of six
types, Early Ohio, Early Rose, Irish
Cobbler, Rural New Yorker, Green
Mountain and Russet Rural. The first
premium in each case is $5, with from
four to seven additional premiums for
each type.

Premiums of $15, $10, $5, and ten

‘of $2 each are offered for the best

10-peck display of any one variety in-
cluded in the six types named in the
variety type exhibit.

Suitable ribbons will be given to the
three counties making the best show-
ing and also to exhibits made by boys
and girls’ clubs. Some special premi-
ums will also be offered. Write the
secretary at East Lansing, Mich., for
the premium list and send in an 'ex-
hibit ' that will take some of the
prizes.

I

. . C. W. WAID, Secretary.

 

 

 

 

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NOV. 21, 1914.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

The Shape of Fields.

 

-N laying out a new piece of land
into fields, or in replacing the old
fences with new, one frequently

has a chance to make the shape of the
field as he wishes it. Shall it be
square, or shall it be rectangular, and
why?

Suppose for convenience in discus-
sion, that a quarter-section is to be
subdivided into four fields, and a four-
year rotation carried .out. Each field
will then contain forty acres. The
first way of laying out the fields that
suggests itself is that of four squares,
made by running fencing so as to bi-
sect the quarter-section in each di-
rection.

Such an arrangement would accom-
plish the desired distribution of the
holdings into fields with the least pos-
sible outlay for fencing. There are
other factors to be considered, how-
ever, besides that of the initial cost of
fencing. Among these might be men-
tioned the accessibility of the fields
without the building of lanes. In this
respect, it will readily be seen that
the square field arrangement is at a
disadvantage, since it will be impossi-
ble to pasture stock in one of the
fields without stopping the rotation or
else running an extra line of fencing
down the center of the farm and so
making a lane. ~

Now if this is done, nearly as much
fencing material will be required as
would be the case if the farm were
laid out into four fields measuring 40
by 160 rods, with one end of each
field abutting the highway nearest the
buildings. And how will it then be
as to accessibility of the fields? With
an arrangement of the gates along the
road, it is apparent that the opera-
tions in each field could very conven-
iently be conducted from the road as
an avenue of approach, rather than a
lane built for that purpose. And since
the lane would never be placed under
rotation, but rather lie as a comp-ara-
tively useless pasture strip of half an
acre or more, it is evident that a
greater amount of land will be utilized
if the fields are laid out according to
the long, narrow idea.

Long, narrow fields also have an ad-
vantage over square ones, when it
comes to plowing, dragging, mowing,
and the like. Take plowing, for in-
stance; if each field is plowed in lands
the furrows will be half a mile long
in the narrow field, and one-fourth of
a mile long in the square field. Then
there will be just twice as many stops
to turn the horses and jerk the plow
around at the end of the row in the
square field as in the long one. Usu-
ally one wants to stop a minute and
rest at the end of the row, and doubt-
less better work is done, both by man
and team, if a brief rest is taken in
this way, but a man who plows two
acres a day will, with a 14-inch fur-
row slice, reach the end of the field
54 times during the day with the long,
narrow field, and 108 times with the
square field. Allowing a minute to
rest and turn the team in each case,
it will be seen that the long, narrow
field will save an hour a day, nearly,
over the square one, in which a man
is compelled to make 54 extra turns at
the end of the field.

The same reasoning should apply to
planting corn, drilling grain, mowing,
cultivating, etc. Furthermore, it would
seem that in marking out for plant-
ing, one could do better work in a
long narrow field where the fence
serves as a. close guide, than in a
square one where the fence is at a
distance.

When it comes to orcharding, there
is again an argument in favor of a
long narrow block of trees of a given
variety rather than a square block. It
is in regard to cross-pollination, and
applies especially to many varieties of
plums, apples, pears, and grapes. It
is a generally accepted fact that the

interplanting of varieties with fruits
is‘ advisable to secure the cross-polli-
nation at blossoming time which leads
to the best results. In the long, nar-
row block of trees, another variety is
bound to be adjacent, while in a
square block, the central trees are not
so subject to cross pollination as they
might be.

On the whole, the advantages of the
long, narrow field, garden, or orchard
over the square-shaped plot seem to
commend themselves very favorably to
the thinking farmer, and wherever it
is possible to choose between the two
methods of management, one should
have little'difiiculty in reaching a de-
cision as to the more practical ar-
rangement.

Benzie Co. E. H. BROWN.

WHY SOILS BECOME SOUR.

 

Throughout large portions of the
United States, especially in the east-
ern and southern states and in the
corn belt along the Ohio river, there
exists at present large areas of soils
that are now sour and have been in
this condition for several years. In

 

 

 

areas. There are a few agencies that
constantly return slight amounts of
lime to the soil in either case but the
quantity is too small under ordinary
farming conditions to equal the
amounts removed annually.

The principal loss of lime is by
leaching as an indirect result of bac-
terial action in the soil constantly
changing the insoluble material to the
soluble form. It is necessary that
bacteria live and multiply so it is not
possible to control this loss to any ex-
tent Without also causing a decrease
in crop production. For most crops
very little lime is required for actual
use by the plant as food. Alfalfa may
be considered as an exception since
for every ton of hay produced about
fifty pounds of lime are incorporated
into the plants as a vital part of their
make-up and as a very essential ma-
terial for proper growth.

Organic matter must be constantly
supplied to the soil which is of no use
to the plant until it undergoes a cer-
tain amount of decay, but in this very
process acids are formed which. are
quickly neutralized by the lime pres-
ent but this means that the time when
acidity will finally show itself is con-
stantly approaching. Here, again, it
is not possible to do more than par-
tially control the losses: by keeping

Making Use of the Farm Workshop on a Stormy November Day.

 

other portions of the country acid
soils are found in many local areas
and nearby soils are now just on the
verge of developing this condition.
The question naturally presents itself,
why is this sourness continually in-
creasing and is there any way to
guard against it?

The natural growth on uncultivated
soils does not seem to deplete the
soils of lime to any extent, but it is
the soils that have been under culti-
vation for several years that are
showing the loss of basic materials
and the resulting increase in acidity.
This may be attributed to two fac-
tors; first, the direct loss of lime
through the drainage water and
through its use as plant food; and
second, the ‘production of acids from
the decomposition of material in the
soil with the consequent destruction
of basic material present. It is true
that the same actions occur in soils
that have never been plowed but not
to such an extent as in cultivated

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the soil in a good state of tilth, insur-
ing proper bacterial action.

On the whole, we see that the de-
velopment of acidity is not always the
result of bad farming practices, but
rather a natural outcome of essential
actions going on in the soil all the
time. However, if this sourness is
not corrected, then we certainly have
a strong indication that the farmer is
a rather poor one. Applications of
various kinds of fertilizers will influ-
ence to a certain extent the loss of
lime, as will also the use of manures.
Likewise the kind of green manures
turned under and the time at which
this is done will have different effects
but in any case a certain amount of
acids will be produced and ultimately
lime in some form, preferably in the
form of ground limestone, must be ap-
plied. The cost is not great but the
benefits derived will certainly be
large if the soil is at all sour at
present.

Iowa. F. E. ALLISON.

3—447

' UTILIZING THE LEAVES.

 

The odor of burning leaves so char-
acteristic of late autumn, indicates
one of the methods of waste in this
country. Farmers and gardeners seem
to forget that the leaf mould which
made the‘new land so fertile, is ex-
cellent to restore fertility to the old,
worn~out soil. In nine cases out of
ten, the leaves ,from the lawn and
door-yard are raked to the roadside or
other convenient place and consigned
to the flames. Doubtless the man with
a hundred-acre farm considers this
leaf crop too insignificant to bother
with, if, indeed, he takes any thought
at all about the matter. Owners of
gardens and small truck farms burn
the leaves and buy fertilizer instead.
The waste of these leaves is a factor
in the .condition of land impoverish-
ment for which America is famous. In
the old world where each acre of
ground is kept fertile century after
century, nothing is wasted, and for-
eign truck gardeners in this country,
do not burn the leaves, but gather
them carefully to enrich the land.

In considering the question of utiliz-
ing the leaves, it is not difficult to
point out ways in which they can be
used to advantage by anyone who
owns a garden. Leaves make excel-
lent mulch for strawberries, raspber-
ries, grape 'vines, or any other small
fruit. Small fruit trees may be mulch-
ed with leaves, and the asparagus bed
may be enriched from the same
source. Leaves afford excellent ma-
terial for use in the scratching rooms
of poultry houses. When the houses
are cleaned, these leaves mixed with
the droppings, afford a garden fertilizer
that will bring back the fertility to
any garden spot. If the leaves are not
needed for any of these uses, they
may be spread over the garden in the
fall and covered with enough soil to
keep them from blowing away. In
these ways, the annual leaf-crop may
be used to advantage by all who pos-
sess a berry patch, a flock of chick-
ens, or a garden spot.

In considering the question of leaf
utilization, it ought to be borne in
mind that the leaves from a few trees
are worth saving, even though the
patch of ground they will fertilize is
relatively small. When other fertiliz~
ers seem of little avail on land that
has been cropped to excess, the leaves
which gave to the land its virgin fer-
tility, may prove the best means of
restoring its fruitfulness. At any rate,
what seems in an individual case, so
slight a thing, amounts in the aggre~‘
gate, to a great deal. Save your leaves
and utilize them. The extra labor is
small, and the influence on land fer-
tility is sufficient to make the saving
worth while. Help to set the example
of thrift in this regard. The waste
which characterizes farming and gard-
ening in this country, may be counter-
acted and checked by the use of the
resources which remain. Save the
leaves, and you will find the trouble
worth while.

Hillsdale Co. J. A. KAISER.

WE HAVEN’T TIME TO “MAKE
PATHS.”

 

Was it Emerson who said that if a
man makes but a mousetrap better
than anyone else, the world will make
a path to his door, though it be in the
midst of a wilderness?

That may have been true when the
world was Within walking distance of
each man’s door, and people had time
to go out and seek the things they
needed. '

Today most of us are too busy with
our own work to make a path to any
man’s door. We expect the man who
has something to sell which we should
have, to let us know about it, and to
see that it is placed within our reach.

One of the purposes of the Michigan
Farmer is to carry such merchandis-
ing messages. Are you reading them?


  

_ 448—4

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

NOV. 21, 1914.

 

 

 

. Put Your Christmas
Money Into Gifts
of Real Va___I__ue

An “Eclipse”
Pumping Engine
for Father

How could you please
him better than to re-
lieve him of the work
of pumping water for
stock and house. The
engine can also
be used for
’ ‘ many other
purposes.

An “Eclipse”
Power Washing Machine
for Mother

will actually lengthen her life by
taking hard work from
her shoulders. Father’s
Eclipse Engine

5 .1. - will runMother's
.9 Eclipse Wash-

. ing Machine.

 

   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

  
  
 
 

 

 

 
    
    

These Machines are ready forChrist-
mas delivery and the prices are
moderate. Information on request.

Fairbanks, Morse & Co.

Detroit - Chicago

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- . ter‘ crop
,1, of wood

t. There’ s a lot
s/ of good mon-
2i ey in it; if
you have a
real good
wood- saw.

WOOD SAWS

are built to withstand the greatest strain
and wear that a wood saw gets. Strong,
rigid frames of heavy steel. or of hard-
wood; bolted, braced and mortised. Non-
rigid boxes—dustproof, non-heating and
self- adjusting. Shafts of lathe- turned steel.

Ten styles: with tilting or sliding tables.
Get Wood Saw Booklet now—also circular
about theAppleton All- Purpose Grinder

Appleton Mfg. Co. 620 Fargo St.,Batavia.lll.

MAPLE SYRUP MAKERS

The Grimm Evaporator

used by principal
maple syrup makers
everywhere. Sav-
ing of time and fuel ' f,”
alme will pay for . '1 :
theoutfit. Write for "
catalogue and stats
number of trees you

 

 

  

p.
GRIMM MANUFACTURING CO.
169-621 Champlaln Ave.. N. W. Cleveland. Ohlo.

LIME

Pnlverized ma esian lime rock for ‘sour” soils.

Write or L0 Summer Prices direct to you from
Muskegon and Benton Harbor. Miohi 3a

SHORE STONE 00.. Milwaukee. Wis.

LIMESTONE

For General Farm Use.
Finely pulverized. made from hi host hi h calcium
stone. iclr shipments in close cars. 1; us send
sample and price.

Northern Lime Go., Petoskey, Mich.

——You should get the highest grade
limestone manufactured. Buy

it upon the basis of analysis. We
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GARDENING IN THE CELLAR.

 

It is not generally known that the
cellar can furnish a pleasing supply
of green products for the table during
the cold months, yet such is the case.
These things are also doubly precious
in the winter when supplies are limit-
ed. Few farmers and fruit growers
have the facilities or time for green-
house vegetable growing, but the
green things I am writing of are
grown without artificial heat of any
sort. Rhubarb is so commonly forced
in. market garden centers that it is
not necessary to dwell on its possibil-
ities to any extent. It is something
everybody should grow, for home use,
at least. I take up the roots just be-
fore the final freeze-up of the ground
and set them in the bottoms of bar-
rels and cover with ordinary garden
soil, packing the roots in closely with
earth. Manure is unnecessary, as the
plant grows from stored—up vitality in
the roots and not from outside “fertil-
ity. These barrels are left on the
north side of a building and roots and
soil are frozen solid. In this condi-
tion they may be left as long as de-
sired. When ready, take them into
the cellar and let them thaw our grad-
ually. Cover the barrels with some-
thing to exclude every ray of light.
Total darkness is needed for the best
product.

A Winter Supply of Asparagus.

Asparagus is sometimes forced in
the same way, except that plants
should be set in boxes of earth and
allowed some light. Where rhubarb
will do well at a comparatively low
temperature, 40 or less, asparagus
will not grow much in a temperature
of less than 50 degrees. In a cellar,
heated by a furnace, asparagus may
be grown to perfection. Even in the
ordinary cellar temperature it will
grow and thrive quite beyond expec-
tation. Experiments with French arti-
chokes have also proven that this de-
licious vegetable can be forced in the
same manner.

Aside from the plants that are forc-
ed from dormant roots, a number of
vegetables may be grown in the cellar
Windows. Make boxes to fit the win-
dows which face the east and south.
These should be about three inches in
depth and six inches in width. Boxes
of zinc will last a number of years and
may be removed to the kitchen in
case of a severely cold day.

Growing Lettuce in the Kitchen
Window.

Lettuce that was planted late in the
summer or in the early fall, and has
made a good growth, may be trans-
planted to such boxes and kept grow-
ing for two or three months. Leaves
may be removed as desired for salads
and others will enlarge to take their
place. I have never had any success
With sowing lettuce seed in cellar box-
es, but in the kitchen window it will
sprout and grow into good-sized plants
in a few weeks. There is no reason
why a supply of lettuce should not be
available at all seasons of the year
on the farm.

Radish seed sown in cellar boxes
will grow readily and furnish a bounti-
ful supply in a few weeks. If some-
thing with an onion flavor is desired
for winter salads, there is nothing bet-
ter than the old—fashioned chives.
Take up a few clumps and set them in
the cellar boxes, wetting the soil
thoroughly, as these plants grow nat-
urally in a moist location. After re-
maining for some time in the cellar,
where they will make a slow growth,
take them into the kitchen and a rap-
id growth will result. Spearmint may
be treated in the same way with the
result that a supply of mint for de-
licious sauces will always be avail-

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better than the crisp dried ones, usu-
ally the only thing to be had in the
winter.

Parsley Easily Grown Indoors.

One of ”the most satisfactory plants
to grow in the cellar is parsley. None
is more welcome in the winter salads
and it is so easy to keep a supply that
everybody should have it. Simply take
up the plants from the garden rows
and set them in boxes, keeping the
soil only slightly moist. Parsley will
thrive even though the earth in the
boxes may chill at night. A sprig of
parsley, fresh and green, will add a
bit of life to the mid-winter dinner
that is quite worth the small effort
needed to grow it.

The kitchen windows are valuable
as auxiliaries to the cellar windows,
as has been stated. They are also of
value to grow other plants that re-
quire more heat than is obtained in
the cellar. I take up a few pepper
plants and egg plants, which have not
fruited heavily, and, after consider-
able pruning, set them out in eight-
inch pots. They are then put by an
open window in an unused room up-
stairs, where they are allowed to grow
until severe weather comes on, when
they are removed to the kitchen. -It
is surprising what a number of fruits
even two or three pots will furnish.
The pepper plants, with bright green
leaves and white flowers, are also of
considerable decorative value; while
an egg plant with large purple leaves
and ripe fruit is something that will
attract a lot of attention. Cuttings
may be taken from tomato plants and
rooted, and make pretty window
plants, but not much in the way of
fruit from them can be expected be-
fore the following spring.

N. H. CHAS. H.zCHESLEY.

PROGRAM OF ANNUAL MEETING
OF STATE HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.

 

Kalamazoo, the “Celery City," is the
city selected for holding the fourty-
fourth annual meeting of the Michi-
gan State Horticultural Society, which
will be held in; the Auditorium of the
Knights of Pythias Temple, on Dec-
ember 1-2-3, 1914. The display of
spray: machinery and materials will be
made in the spacious basement, where
ample room is provided for every-
thing. A good display of fruit is also
provided for.

It has been the desire of the execu-
tive board to place upon the program
topics of vital interest, especially fit-
ting the present needs, and the speak-
ers have been selected with that in
view—good “live men,” all of them.

A Woman’s Session.

As a special feature this season, a
session for the ladies will be held on
Wednesday afternoon, December 2, in
a room adjoining the auditorium,
where they can meet in an intimate
way and discuss matters pertaining
to farm life. Mrs. Munson, wife of
President Munson, will preside.

At the annual business meeting
held in Traverse City in December,
1913, it was decided that hereafter ev-
ery person attending these meetings
be required to pay either the life
membership fee ($5.00), or the annual

annually of its members. Contribu-
tions from auxiliary. societies have
been so small that it was deemed wis-
er for them to retain their own dues,
thereby allowing them larger funds to
conduct their own work, and pay the
expenses of their own delegates to the
State Society meetings.

Changes in the Constitution and
By-laws.

At ”the mid-summer meetings, notice
was given of the necessity for various
changes in the constitution and by.
laws. These were prepared many
years ago, and in some respects are
not adequate for 'the present needs of
the State Society. This matter will
be brought up at the annual business
meeting and all members are urged to
attend the session and participate in
the discussion.

The annual banquet will be held on
the evening of the second day, in
charge of one of the ladies’ societies
of Kalamazoo. The fact that the Hon
Charles Garfield, of Grand Rapids, will
act as toastmaster, is an assurance of
a most delightful affair. The rate is
50 cents per plate.

Potato Growers’ Meeting.

The convention of the Michigan
State Potato Association follows im~
medlately after these sessions and
the display of potatoes and potato
growing machinery will be made in
the exhibit hall of the same building.

This has Uéen a’ prosperous year for
the horticulturist and this meeting
should be attended by every up-to-
date grower.""Come and bring the
boys who are to be the future farmers
of our state. Likewise bring the wife,
who has worked so hard and patient‘
1y for the success of the farm and
family. Get away from home and en‘
joy a friendly exchange of ideas with
your Brotherhood of Fruit Growers;
it will give you fresh enthusiasm and
interest for your own work.

Tuesday, December 1, 10:00 a. m.

“Ten years of fruit growing in Kal-
amazoo County,” Mr. E. F. Stoddard.

“Co-operation that co-operates,” Mr.
Geo. Myhan.

"Growing Small Fruits, ” Mr. Henry
Smith.

Tuesday, 1:30 p. m.

“My experience with many kinds of
fruit on a small farm,” Mr. T. A. Far-
rand.

“Planning the work on a 200-acre
fruit farm,” Mr. Clark Allis, of New
York.

“The marketing problem,” Mr. Rol-
and Morrill.

Tuesday, 8:00 p. m.

Music.

“Community planting and parks ”
Mrs. Henry Hulst.

Music.

“Sights and scenes of the Michigan
fruit industry,” Prof. H. J. Eustace.

Wednesday, December 2, 9:30 a. m.

Students’ speaking contest, Senior
Class in Horticulture, ,M. A. C.

Annual business meeting.

Wednesday, 1:30 p. m.

“Did it pay to plant forty acres of
Northern Spies when I was fifty-two
years old ?” Mr. Nathan B. Hayes.

“Laws controlling the fruit indus-
try,” J. N. Stearns.

“New points in horticulture,” Prof.
H. J. Eustace.

Women’ a Session.

“A woman’ s life on a. farm, ” Mrs. R.
Ballard.

“How I run the farm,” Mrs. C. B.
Cook

“My share of work in handling the
orchard,” Mrs. J. O. Fral eigh.

Wednesday, 7. 00 p. m.

Annual banquet, toastmaster, Hon.
Chas. W. Garfield.

Thursday, December 3, 9: 30 a. m.

“A woman faimer, " Miss Addie Sly.

“The army worm, cutworm, red bug
and a few others " Prof. Pettit.

“Pointers on modern spraying,” Mr
O. K. White.

Thursda,1:30 p. m.

“Value of an experiences with a.

cold storage on the farm,” Mr. Clark

membership fee, ($1.00), by virtue of Allis

which each person is entitled to a.
copy of the annual report and admis-

sion to all sessions of the society. W

Families of members admitted free of
charge.

Through the withdrawal of the state
appropriation, it became necessary to
raise funds in another way, and the
above plan was. devised. If the so-
cietyis'ito, be a force in progressive
horticulture, it must have the support

“The Grape Outlook,” Mr. Hale Ten-
nan .
“Pdickles and melons,” Mr. C. W.
8.1 .

R. A. SMYTHE, Sec.

Use lime-sulphur at one to eight
this fall if the infestation of scale is
serious.

Don’t forget to drain your spray out-
fit of, water before freezing does ser-
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Management of

HERE is a larger proportion of

losses caused by bad manage-
, ment of the brood sow than with
any other kind of breeding stock kept
on the farm. Many farmers seem
very indifferent toward the brood sow,
while they bestow a great deal of at-
tention and care on other breeding
animals kept by them.

The management of the brood sow
should be systematized and carefully
planned to secure the best possible
results. The income and the profits
depend largely upon the management
of the brood sow previous to breeding
and during the period of gestation. To
neglect to give the proper attention
at this important period is to invite
failure and losses.

The time of year when the sows
should be bred to farrow is of prime
importance. Heavy losses very often
come from too early farrowing in the
winter and early spring. In this cli-
mate it is not safe to plan for arrival
of pigs before March. The season
should extend from March to June for
spring litters and from August to No-
vember for fall litters.

It is a great mistake to breed young
sows too young, and it is another mis-
take to plan to have them farrow
early in the spring, or during cold
weather. On account of the lack of
size and lack of quiet disposition usu-
ally possessed by mature animals, the
young sow is likely to be uneasy and
cause the loss of many small pigs.
They should not be bred before they
are eight months old, and ten months
is better, and it is best to encourage
the development of bone and muscle
before they are bred at all, because
they have a double omce to perform,
that. of maintaining themselves and
keeping up the growth of their own
bodies at the same time they are car-
rying the young. Breeding soWs too
young tends to early maturity and re-
ducing the number of pigs in the litter
and the size of the animals them-
selves. To breed sows on the fourth
day after farrowing does not gener-
ally bring satisfactory results, and we
do not therefore recommend farmers
to experiment in that direction.

Diet for Brood Sows.

. The brood sow should have a vari-
ety of feeds and should be in good
condition at breeding time. Sows
when gaining at breeding time will
produce large litters, healthier and
stronger pigs. They should be kept
gaining from time of breeding to time
of farrowing. This is an important
suggestion too often overlooked by
the average individual who has not
had the experience necessary to prove
what is required of the breeding ani-
mal during this critical period. While
we urge the importance of feeding and
feeding well during the period of ges-
tation, we wish to caution against
heavy feeding of feeds that tend to
fatten instead of promoting health,
strength and growth. To get the sows
fat during that period is to invite dis-
aster, because they will become clum-
sy and lazy, which is pretty sure to
bring about disastrous results.

Some succulent feed should be giv-
en during the whole period of gesta-
tion; also some laxative feed like
wheat bran should constitute part of
the ration. Constipation is the cause
of more loss at farrowing time from
a fevered condition, which induces
delirium and the sow to eat her pigs,
than any other one thing we can men-
tion. A small amount of roots can be
fed with safety, but do not feed heav-
ily on roots during severely cold
weather, as it will chill the sow and
often induce premature delivery. -

Forage feeds of some kind should
be furnished during the winter. We
know of nothing better than alfalfa
and clover hay, and if it can be steam-
ed and mixed with a sloppy feed, all
the better.

While ,it may seem to some a large

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

the Brood Sow.

amount of trouble to keep records of-
the breeding animals in the herd, the
careful breeder finds it an absolute
necessity. Designation marks can be
made upon the ear and a record kept
in the record book as to time of breed-
ing and the time when the pigs are
expected. Previous to. the time of the
arrival the sow should be given a
comfortable pen by herself, in which
there is a reasonable amount of fine,
dry litter, but avoid a large amount
of litter, as the pigs are likely to get
entangled in it and laid upon. A rec-
ord of the feed given during the pe-
riod of gestation and during the first
three weeks after the pigs are farrow-
ed will enable one to refer back and
find which methods, if more than one
are adopted, have succeeded best in
former use.
‘ Exercise.

Exercise is of prime importance
with the brood sow, as she cannot be
maintained in a healthy condition
without an abundance of exercise pre-
vious to breeding and during the pe-
riod of gestation. Exercise enables
the sow to keep control of herself, and
if not overloaded with flesh, they will
be nimble, active and strong. Sows of
the improved breeds that are inclined
to take on flesh readily are inclined
to remain in the nest too much. In
order to encourage and enforce the
proper amount of exercise it is a good

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harm during the period of gestation;
and thirdly, it is injurious to the sire.
Then by all means breed the sow at
the proper time and keep her by her-
self during the period of gestation, or
with a herd of sows, and make the
quarters comfortable at all times. The
matter of comfort during this period
has much to do with the disposition of
the progeny. ‘

(Excerpts from an address by Prof.
George A. Brown“ at the Michigan
State Round-up Institute).

Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.

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WINTER FEEDING OF HORSES.

 

On many farms, after the active
working season is over, the horses are
made to rough it, that is, they are
made to eke cut their entire liveli-
hood from straw, corn fodder, or any
other waste food that may be about
the place. While horses not engaged
in active work require less food, the
quality of food supplied should be
kept up, if the horses are to keep in
good order, and be ready for the hard
work expected of them in the spring.

According to the information gath-
ered by the experiment stations, 3.
horse of ordinary size, at rest, or do-
ing light work, will require about 25
pounds of food a day. To keep the
animal well nourished this food should
contain tWo pounds of digestible pro-
tein and about 12 or 14 pounds of car—
bohydrates. An analysis of corn fod-
der shows that each 100 pounds of

 

Feeding the “Mortgage Lifters,” on the Farm of John D. Heer, Monroe Co.

plan to allow the sow to either follow
cattle, or to travel some little dis-
tance to the feeding place at least
twice a day. Exercise is one of the
best preventatives of many diseases
that overtake the brood sow and her
pigs. While we suggest the import-
ance of exercise and the use of cer-
tain kinds of feeds, especially those
that are rich in protein, we will cau-
tion against the use of highly concen-
trated feeds and too much tankage,
which tends to cause the pigs to be
limp and lifeless while young.

Mineral matter of some kind should
be kept where the sow can help her-
self, and we suggest the following
combination of feeds that will serve
as a corrective of many difficulties,
especially internal parasites:

Two bushels of bone meal; three
bushels of wood charcoal; one bushel
of wood ashes; eight pounds of salt;
two quarts of air—slaked lime; half a
pound of copperas, thoroughly mixed.

The Sire. .

With every breeder of hogs on the
farm the sire should be given a great
degree of consideration. As an almost
invariable rule, the mature sire gives
better results than the immature sire.
Sows bred to mature sires of good
form, strong, healthy, and of prolific
families, will give much better results
than when coupled with young, imma-
ture sires, no matter how well bred.
The practice of allowing the sire to
run with the herd of breeding sows
we would discourage for several rea-
sons. First, they are an annoyance.
Second, they are likely to do much

the food contains about four pounds
of protein, and about 35 pounds of
carbohydrates. Thus, it is seen, that
in order to be properly nourished, the
horse would have to consume 50
pounds of corn fodder each day. This,
of course, is impossible, and the horse
roughed through the winter on corn
fodder or straw, without a supple-
mentary grain ration, must gradually
draw upon the stored-up energy in its
body, and thus lose in weight and
strength. When spring opens, the
horse is so weak that he is unable to
do the heavy work expected of him
and the probabilities are that he has
decreased in value two or three times
the value of the food needed during
the winter months to have kept him
in good order.

A farmer of this locality keeps 12
horses and always brings them
through the winter in good shape.
During the heavy working months, he
feeds daily to each horse, 24 ears of
corn and 20 pounds of good hay.
When the horses are idle, he cuts the
usual allowance in two, or to 12 ears
of corn and 10 pounds of hay, and
feeds in addition to this all the corn
fodder the horses will eat. Thus, if
the allowance of corn and hay is in-
sufficient for the needs of the animal,
he can always turn to the corn fodder
to complete the ration.

In winter much of the food consum-
ed by animals is used to keep up the
heat of the body and, this being true,
the advantage of having good warm
barns is obvious.

Indiana. T. Z. RICHEY.

   

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You have spoken several times in
your dairy notes of the “Register of
Merit class.” I would be interested to
know just what that is. We are in-
terested in large producers ourselves.
We have a. cow that in just 12 months
after her second calf, gave 12,047 lbs.
of milk. She has recently closed just
six months since her third calf and
in that time gave 9,381 lbs. of milk.
We have never had her milk tested
but have saved a day’s milk and
churned the cream, and get just five
per cent butter. Do not know the ex-
act per cent of butter- fat in butter but
suppose her milk is somewhere near
four and a half per cent milk. The
largest mess of milk she ever gave in
one day was 74 pounds. H. W. T.

Register of meritrecords are simply
tests of Jersey cows under the super-
vision of the American Jersey Cattle
Club. Other breeds have similar su<
pervised records, but they are known
by different names. Years ago all we
had was private tests; when these
tests proved to be unusually large,
some people would not believe them.
They said that the owner of cows pad-
ded the returns, because the cows

farmer simply has to pay the tester
for one day extra that is required to
make the test, and does not have to
pay the traveling expenses to and
from the experiment “station each
month.

The requirements for authentic

tests are different for the different -

breeds, according to the ruling of the
particular breed assOciation. Mature
Jersey cows must produce 360 pounds
of butter-fat in one year to be eligible
to the Register of Merit. If they pro-
duce that much fat, they can be en-
tered or registered in the R. of M. by
paying a fee of $2.00.

01' course, these R. of M. records
are no better than private records, but
they are above suspicion. This sys-
tem of testing is doing very much for
the various breeds. It encourages
testing, and testing is bound to devel-
op the cows. Since the system be-
came operative, more than 3,000 Jer-
sey cows in Class A have made the
record. Several hundred of them have
produced above 500 pounds of fat, and
as is well known, some have produced
1,000 pounds of fat in one year. Au-
thentic testing is becoming more and
more popular with all the breeds. It
pays, for a cow that will produce
360 pounds or above of fat in a year
is a profitable cow. Her heifer calf is
worth more for a future cow, and her
bull calf is also worth more. Testing
cows places dairying on a. business

 

Kilnford Bell 3d., Grand Champion Ayrshire Cow, and Champion over all

Breeds at the National Dairy Show.

could not produce such phenomenal
yields. Therefore, breed associations
were compelled to devise some sys-
tem so their cows could be tested and
the results be beyond dispute. At
first the A. J. C. C. required that a
representative of the club give per.
sonal supervision to the test to make
it authentic. This proved so expen-
sive to the farmer that he could not
test his cows. Finally the club dele-
gated the supervisor of tests to the
various state experiment stations.
This lessens the expense of testing
very much and puts the cost so that
more can afford it. The farmer must
keep a record of each milking, both
night and morning, and at noon or
midnight if the cow is milked more
than twice daily. Then a representa-
tive of the state experiment station
visits the herd each month and super-
vises'the test for two consecutive
days. Of course, if the yield of milk
each day did not compare favorably,
su5picion would be aroused and the
test rejected. The station representa-
tive samples and tests the milk pro-
duced while he is present, and the

butter-fat for the whole month is esti-.

mated from that.

In communities where there are
cow testing associations in operation,
the experiment station makes the cow
tester their represenative and this
lessens the expense still more. The

Exhibited by Adam Seitz.

basis. You know what your cows are
doing, and by selecting the calves
from the best cows the production of
the breed will slowly but surely im-
prove.

APPLES AND POTATOES FOR THE
COWS.

 

I have a lot of potatoes and apples
that I would like to feed to the milch
cows. Will they decrease the milk
supply? J. S.

Apples and potatoes are both good

succulent foods for cows if fed prop-
erly. When these products are fed to
cows they are usually very cheap, and
people feed them too liberally. They
should be fed in about the same
amounts as turnips or beets. Start in
with. a small amount, just a few, and
eating a peek at a feed. You could
gradually increase till each cow is
feed them twice a day if desired, but
don’t feed more than half a, bushel
daily.

Fed in this way they will not dry up
your cows, but will tend to increase
the flow. Where people have had trou-
ble is by feeding entirely too many
apples or potatoes at a feed. This
gets the cow out of condition and, of
course, decreases the flow of milk.
Care must be taken in feeding apples
or potatoes, or the cows are liable -'to
choke. There is little danger when
fed in their stalls.‘but if fed in the

NOV. 21. 1914. .

lot, one cow drives another, causing
her to swallow the apple before she
chews it.

 

WILL IT PAY TO SELL RYE AND
BUY SALVAGE BARLEY?

 

Will it pay to sell rye for 78 cents
per bushel and buy salvage barley at

$1. 46 per hundred, mixing it half and ~

half with rye?

Ogemaw Co C. W. W.

Salvage barley, or salvage grain of
any kind for that matter, varies so
much in quality that one could not
give an intelligent opinion of its value
unless a sample could be seen and ex-
amined, and even then one can hardly
tell what it is worth compared to first‘
class grain.
salvage grain if they can get no oth-
er, but the question is, how much bet‘
ter would they have done had they
been fed first-class grain?
entirely the cost of the feed; quality
must be taken into consideration.
The better the quality, the more appe-

tizing the feed, and the more appetiz—_

ing, the more the animals will eat and
the faster will be the gains, or in the
case of dairy cows, the more milk they
will produce. If one had very poor,
unwholesome feed it would be possi-
ble that stock would only eat enough
of it to keep them alive. That is,
they will make but little or no gain,
or would produce a. very small yield
of milk. In such a case we would
get practically nothing for the feed,
for feed must keep the animal alive
and also make growth, or there is no
chance for gain or profit. A farmer
once boasted to me how cheaply he
had wintered a bunch of fall pigs, the
pigs, however, had made no growth;
they did not look to me as if they
weighed as much in the spring as
they did in the fall. Now, in this case,
the farmer lost practically all the feed
he had fed to them during the winter,
for he had no increased weight in his
pigs to show for it.

In the same way, if we feed salvage
grain that our animals do not like,

they will not eat enough to produce

milk or to make good growths and we
have little to show for the feed we
have fed. The feed may seem to be
cheap, yet considering the results, it
is very dear in price, and results are
the only correct standard to judge by.

All salvage grain that I ever saw is
smoky and dirty, it is not very appe-
tizing, and must be purchased very
cheaply to make it profitable. The
price named, $1.40 per 100 pounds for
salvage barley is very high; I never
supposed salvage grain sold as high as
that. I don’t believe it is worth this
money. Prime wheat bran can be
bought for $23 to $25 per ton'in car
lots, and I believe it to be worth more
than salvage barley for cow feed. I
am sure it is worth more to mix with
rye than the salvage barley for cow
feed. For hog feed the barley might
be worth the most. Having no oppor-
tunity to inspect the barley, but sim-
ply judging it by samples I have seen
of other salvage grain, I do not hesi.
tate to say that in my judgment it
will not pay to sell the rye and buy
salvage barley at $28 per ton. I
would recommend selling some of the
rye and purchasing some wheat bran
to mix with ground rye for cows, or
wheat middlings to mix with ground
rye for hogs; $28 per ton is entirely
too much for any salvage barley I
ever saw, when other feed is the price
it is at present.

 

SUCCESSFUL HOLSTEIN SALE.

 

The sale of registered Holsteins at
Howell, Friday, October 23, called out
a large attendance, probably the larg-
est crowd that ever attended an auc«

tion in Livingston county. The sale-

began promptly at 12 o’clock and it
was dark. when the 106th cow went
under the hammer. The average per

head for 98 females sold was $226.63.
Albin Pfau topped the sale at 6450'

for a. cow.

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N0v.21..1914. . THE‘MICHIGAN FARMER ‘ 7—451

   

The business
of farming

ARMING as a business calls for
efficiency methods just as much as
any other business, and pays more than
usual returns for care in such matters.

The Panama-California Exposition at San
Diego, which opens January lst and closes
December 3lst, 1915, is going to give more
valuable information to people interested in
farming than was ever before given by any
undertaking in the world.

  
   
 
   
   

   

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Exposition you will be able to see the very latest methods din”
of farming on a large scale, or the intensive farming of a ,“fl...
small tract. WW
You’ll be shown the advantages of each section, [2"
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expenses, conveniences, water needed and available, If
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big and broad scale and examples of intensive farming where
little land, very little can be made to support a family in
comfort and plenty.

An Exposition of your tomorrow

You’ll see what you could do with the means at your
command; not just figures on paper but the actual doing
of it on the farm.

    
       
   
   
     
 

This Exposition is to show what people are doing, what
they can do, what you can do to increase your earnings and
lessen your arduous labors. It isn’t just an Exposition to
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A FEW LEADING ARTICLES OF
THE WEEK.

 

Efficiency on the Farm.———The third
in our series of 52 special arti-
cles to be published in consecu-
tive issues ..................... 446
The Shape of Fields.—~—An argu-
ment for rectangular, instead of
square fields for economy in farm
work .......................... 447
Management of the Brood Sow.»—
Essential points in management
which make for success with the
pig crop ....................... 449
Gardening in the Cellar.——How
many table delicacies may be
growu at small expense during
the winter season ............... 448
Michigan Farmers are Co-operat-
ing.-—A survey of the efforts of
farmers in Michigan to solve
their marketing problems ....... 461
The Contributions of Poultry to
Food and Diet—Dietary consid-
erations of eggs, composition,
quality, preservation, etc ........ 464

IN AMERICA PEACE.

 

For a Thanksgiving cover design
our artist very reluctantly abandoned
at the last moment, a sketch he had
carefully developed in the expectation
born of fervent hope that peace would
certainly, ere this date, have halted
the. unspeakable horrors of the war
that is soaking the soil of Europe with
the blood of its best, its most promis-
ing, manhood and ruthlessly destroy-
ing the products of centuries of civil-
ization’s toilsome progress.

“The light of love is quenched with
hate:
Robbery, fire, murder, rule the state,

Blind crazy, weltering in their gore,
Men see the light of truth no more.”

Peace has not come and the extend-
ing conflict seems about to involve the
Moslem hordes of Turkey, the Orient,
and Northern Africa, to be followed in
turn perhaps by the Balkans, Greece,
Italy and Spain.

In the tragedy of Rienzi, the hero,
lamenting the decadence of the times,
exclaims, “Why! In that elder day, to
be a Roman was greater than a King.”

May we now, not in sorrow and de-
spair: but in joy and exultation, with
pride and thanksgiving, with kindling
eye and warm throbbing hearts, re-
joice that we are Americans?

We may well rejoice that peace
reigns over all our fair land that
stretches from ocean to ocean," un-
ceasing its soug of industry except
while

“Sleep, tired nature’s sweet restorer
Gathers up the raveled sleeve of care,”

and bountifully spread with the riches

 

THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER

’of intelligent husbandry, labor and

commerce.

On our cover design the Goddess of
the Republic stands majestic and ser-
ene, holding aloft in one hand the
globe surmounted by the eagle, in all
ages the symbol of the lofty and noble
in human thought and inspiration;
while the other hand holds upright the
more modern symbol of liberty.

To the people of the old world our
hearts go out in sympathy for the tax-
grinding militarism and its logical se-
quel of cruel, decimating war and
weakened crippled future centuries.

Far sweeter is the picture in our
own land of “armies” of a different
kind—

“I see in tasseled rank and file the
regiments of corn:

Their bending sabres, billions strong,
salute the summer morn.

The harvest fields as round and red
as full grown harvest moon,

That fill the broad horizons up with
mimic good of noon:

I count a thousand villages like flocks
in pastures grand,

I hear the roar of caravans through
all the blessed land.

The country grasps the ripened year
and holds it in her hand,

For daily bread the earth lifts up a
plaintive daily prayer,

America with open palm makes an-
swer everywhere.” '

CURRENT COM M ENT.

 

The campaign
The Foot and Mouth being waged
Disease Campaign. against the foot
and mouth dis-
ease, which has been vigorously pros-
ecuted by both federal and state au-
thorities since the outbreak of the
epidemic is, due to the spread of the
infection to so many localities in so
many states, proving far more strenu-
ous and expensive than was anticipat-
ed. From recent developments it ap-
pears that the available funds which
can now be used by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture for this campaign
are insufficient to cope with the situa-
tion on the plan originally followed,
and the issuing of new orders to the
effect that no infected herds exceeding
$200 in value should be destroyed
without first referring the matter to
the Department, caused a fear in
many quarters that a less vigorous
policy in the extermination of the dis-
ease might become temporarily nec-
essary. Later information,'however,
seems to insure that this will not be
the case, if the owners of infected
herds show a willingness to co-oper-
ate with federal and state authorities
in stamping out the infection.

It appears that under the law no
federal department has authority to
create a deficit, and that the funds of
the Department of Agriculture which
are available for this work are insuf-
ficient to more than pay the salaries
and expenses of the agents of the De-
partment in the work of suppressing
the epidemic. Under the plan which
has been followed in the suppression
of other similar epidemics and which
has been the understanding in the
present campaign, one-half of the ex-
pense of compensating the owners for
the utility value of the stock destroy-
ed is borne by the federal govern-
ment and one-half by the state in
which the owner resides. The solu~
tion of the present dilemma lies in
the willingness of owners of infected
animals to wait for compensation un-
til Congress can make a special ap-
propriation for this purpose, late ad-
vices being to the effect that affected
stock owners are now being asked to
sign such an agreement. This all
should be willing to do,~as there can
be no doubt of the co-operation of
Congress in providing the funds nec-
essary to exterminate this disease and
thus save the country the enormous
future loss to its live stock industry
which any other policy would surely
entail. In any event the owner’s loss
is certain to_ be greater from any at-
tempt to «save his infected animals.
.It is indeed unfortunate that the
outbreak of foot and mouth disease

was not discovered and its extermina-
tion undertaken before the infection
became so widely scattered. But the
discussion of this phase of the situa-
tion at this time is not pertinent. Af-
ter the disease has been eradicated
the responsibility for its spread over
such a wide area may be investigated
and definitely fixed, but just now the
important work in hand is the eradi-
cation of the disease, which good au-
thorities agree must be accomplished
within a year if at all. An investiga-
tion of its origin is, however, a mat-
ter of more immediate concern which
should be determined as quickly as
possible to the end that further dan-
ger from a similar source may be elim-
inated. The last outbreak of the dis-
ease in this country, which occurred
in 1908, is now generally conceded to
have been due to the importation of
vaccine virus from Japan, which was
used on heifers in the commercial pro-
duction of vaccine virus and later
spread to other stock through the me-
dium of these animals which were
thus accidentally infected. The pres-
ent outbreak is thought by some who
have been in close touch with the sit-
uation to have been caused by the im-
portation of hides, either from the
Philippines or from South America.
This is a matter which should be
thoroughly investigated at once, and
upon which Congress should act With-
out delay as soon as possible after it
convenes next month.

In the meantime it is obviously the
duty of every farmer to use every pre-
caution to prevent the further spread
of the infection and to co-operate wil-
lingly with the federal and state au-
thorities in the quick location and
prompt destruction of infected herds.
This can best be accomplished by oh
serving quarantine rules to the letter
and by promptly reporting any sus-
pected appearance of the disease.

Something of the importance of
eradicating this disease before it be-
comes general will be appreciated by
a consideration of the annual losses to
the farmers of the country from hog
cholera, to which foot and mouth dis-
ease is comparable in its infectious
character, especially when it is re-
membered that foot .and mouth dis-
ease is a far greater menace to the
live stock industry from the fact that
it infects both cattle and sheep, and
other stock and humans to some ex-
tent, as well as hogs. Unquestionably
the policy of extermination should be
continued to at successful consumma-
tion, and with the active support of
every live stock owner in the country.

The regularity with which
the general “houseclean-
ing” comes twice a year is
sometimes trying to the
man of the house, but it holds a valu-
able lesson for him in the matter of
method if he would but apply it. The
farm is in just as great need of a good
“cleaning” as is the house, at least
the average farm. Some farmers
make a hobby of keeping everything
picked up about the farm at all times,
but the average farmer, even though
he may appreciate the importance of
a neat appearance about the farm,
finds it impossible to keep all his
premises in “Show” condition during
the rush season. And it must be con-
ceded that from the practical stand-
point there is a “happy medium” be«
yond which it may not pay to go at

The Fall
Clean-up.

NOV. 21, 1914.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.”~

 

Foreign.

TheEuropean Wain—In the western
theatre of the great war no general
operations have been reported but the
violent fighting at the extreme west
end of the line of battle near the
North Sea and on the banks of the
river Yser has indicated a. weakening
of the German position and advantag-
es gained by the Allies. The invad-
ers have abandoned the west bank of
the river and the Allies have gained a.
small wood south of Bixschoote. Dix-
mude, which was taken by the Ger-
mans last week, is stated to be again
in the hands of the defenders. Noth-
ing of import has been reported to the
outside world as occurring along the
remainder of the western line of oper-
ations.
been gaining ground. They - have
driven the invaders practically out of
Russian Poland and have again in-
vested Posen and portions of Prussia.
The latest news from there states that
seven Russian armies are now march-
ing on Cracow, the total number of
men aggregating 2,400,000. Japanese
and English fleets are now moving to‘
ward the south Pacific Ocean to en‘
gage the German fleet believed to be
in that quarter of the world.

Field Marshal Earl Roberts, the fa-
mous English general, died last week
in a British camp in France. He had
just arrived on French. soil a few days
before, and had reviewed some of the
Indian troops and conferred with the
British officers on the night before he
passed away.

The British dreadnaught “Auda-
cious" is reported to have been sent
to the bottom by a mine off the coast
of Ireland. The entire crew of the
battleship was saved.

Reports from Mexico indicate that
the prospects for peace between Car-
ranza and the Aguascalientes conven-
tion are brighter than they have been
at any previous time. The announce
ment thatthe American troops would
be withdrawn from Vera Cruz has
brought protests from Villa and his
followers as such withdrawal would
thr w the port into the” hands of Car-
ran . Villa is reported ready to at-
tack Tampico.

Up to, the end of October, over 15,-
000,000 bushels more grain had been
carried through the Lachine Canal in
the St. Lawrence River than to the
same date last year. Besides the
amount of flour going through had
nearly doubled. This increase is due
almost entirely to the heavy demand
for wheat and flour abroad and for the
large amount harvested in America.
last fall. .

National.

The situation of the foot and mouth
disease epidemic is about the same as
a week ago. Farmers and stockmen
are still anxious about the outcome.
The Chicago stock yards have been
cleaned up and were reopened Mon-
day. The yards at Detroit will prob-
ably be opened for shipments this
week. The authorities state that if
the disease is not completely wiped
out within a year that the country can
never expect to be freed from it and
that the detriment coming to those
who raise and sell stock will be enor-
mous. For this reason every effort is
being made to locate suspicious ani-
mals and the co-operation of. those
who own stock is necessary in the
fight

It is announced that an effort will
be made at the next session of Con-

gress to take the rural'free delivery,

carriers out of the civil service classi-
fication and open the various routes
to competitive bidding. Postmaster
Burleson favors the change because
he believes it will result in a saving
to the government of from $12,000,000
to $20,000,000 annually, and in better
service the country over.

The campaign in the interest of the
proposed amendment to the federal
constltution prohibiting forever the
sale and manufacture, importation and
exportation and transportation of in-
toxicating liquors was started in
Michigan last Sunday, with addresses
given at Detroit by men of national
reputation.

For the purpose of bringing the
bankers of the state into closer touch
with each other a plan of the state as-
sociation .to hold sectional meetings,
IS now being carried out. It is believ-

all seasons of the year in the matter oed that the new arrangement will give

of tidying up the premises. The real
danger in following this practical
course is that one gets so accustomed
to letting the little things which make
for neatness go undone during the
rush season that he becomes accus-
tomed to a somewhat untidy appear-
ance of the farmand neglects to place
it in “ship-shape” condition at regular
intervals. Thus the habit of maikng
a regular fall“ clean-up is ”a good one
to get. ,With,.,the tall crops” secured,
this is a- goodtime‘ to begin to fix the
habit. ' ' ' ‘ -

the financiers a better knowledge of
the wants and strength of their re-
spective sections of the state.

Effort is already being made by Con-
gressional committees to speed the
business of the coming session in or-
der to avoid the necessity of having
another special session after March 4.
Hurrying the appropriation bills will
be significant in this program. .

The United States industrial com-
mission has made known its purpose
of investigating the causes of the Col-
orado miners’ strike. ,

During September there were 195
persons killed in coal mines in the
United States. For the same month
in 1913 there were 173 killed.

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are you crying?‘

Jimmy Jingle £00k his hands
from his eyes and looked about. He
was in a strange place. Everything
was snowy white about him. In fact,
it looked like he was inside of a great
snow drift, but he wasn’t cold. In
fact, he was rather warm.

He looked for the fairy whom he
knew must have called to him, but he
saw no one in sight. He couldn’t look
very far for the white stuff, whatever
it was, walled him in on all sides.
Very soon, he saw the white material
bulging out in front of him. There
seemed to be something within that
was trying to get out.

It reminded him of the dirt being
forced up by a mole as it made its
burrow just beneath the surface.

Jimmy Jingle watched with interest
and soon he saw a tiny head appear.
It was the head of the fairy who had
called to him.

By this time, Jimmy Jingle had for-
gotten all about crying because of the
strangeness of his new surroundings.
He gazed at the fairy for a long time
for something about the fairy's ap-
pearance seemed to attract him. He
had seen fairies before, but never one
just like this one.

The fairy’s head was very thin but
beautiful, and the top of it was cov-
ered with long graceful horns. The
horns were not hard like the horns of
a cow, but they were soft and were
constantly in motion. Although there
were a great many of them, and they
were close together, they did not in-
terfere with each other in their mo-
tions. It was the constant and grace-
ful motion of these horns that attract-
ed Jimmy Jingle.

Finally the fairy spoke. “Jimmy
Jingle, Jimmy Jingle, would you know
how the wheat grows ?”

“Oh, may I really know how the
wheat grows?” questioned Jimmy Jin-
gle eagerly. “I have always wished
that I could make a visit into the
wheat plant and see just how the
wheat from which the flour is made
is produced. I would just love to see
all this, Good Fairy. But when may
I start?”

“You are already in a kernel of
wheat, Jimmy Jingle. This is the im-
mense storehouse where all of the
food is kept. If you will come with
me, I will take you to where the fair-
ies are working and we will remain
in this kernel of wheat until it has
grown into a plant, and you shall see
every process of growth.”

The fairy led the way through a.
burrow he had made in the food and
Jimmy Jingle, crawling on his hands
and knees soon came into a larger
room.

There were immense piles of white
food extending to the roof on all sides
except one. There Jimmy Jingle saw
an opening through which a fairy oc-
casionally passed with a load of food.

These fairies had the most curious
little baskets which they carried on
their heads. When they came to the
piles of food, they would hold the bas-

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and scoop the food in with both
hands. When the basket was filled,
the fairies disappeared through the
opening at the farther side of the
room.

“Where are the fairy workmen go-
ing with those baskets of food, Good
Fairy?” inquired Jimmy Jingle.

“They are taking the food to the
germ of life, Jimmy Jingle,” explain-
ed the fairy guide, “and we must go
now and see this germ life, for before
long there will be so many fairies
working in this room that we will
hardly have a space in which to stand.
The fairies you see working now are
only a very small part of those em-
ployed in the wheat kernel, and this
is not the busy season.

“These .fairies carry only enough
food to keep the germ life living. He'
won’t really begin to grow until a lit-
tle later. Then it will tax the efforts
of every fairy who can get into this
room to keep him supplied with food.
The germ life is the most greedy crea-
ture you can imagine when he really
begins to grow.”

They stepped over to where the
fairies were going out through the
entrance and Jimmy Jingle then saw
that the fairies were moving along
without moving their tiny legs. When
he stepped into the path used by the
workmen he felt himself being car-
ried along by some force which he
could not understand.

“Good fairy, what is making us
move along?” he asked.

“We are on the life railway, Jimmy
Jingle. This is what carries the work-
men fairies to the place where the
germ life receives the food. You have
noticed that the fairies move rapidly,
but do not use their legs. It is this
moving sidewalk that they are stand-
ing upon. In the rush season. this
travels much faster, and it is loaded
with fairies just as thickly as they
can stand.

“You will see just beside it that
there is another which is moving in
the opposite direction. That carries the
fairies back with their empty bas-
kets.”

Soon they found themselves in a
glittering chamber which received its
light through thick amber windows in
the top. Jimmy Jingle saw a large
slowly moving mass at one side and
the fairy guide explained that it was
the germ life.

Jimmy Jingle was pulled aside into
a crevice, and the fairy guide told him
to make himself comfortable for they
.should wait there a long time.

Very soon Jimmy Jingle heard a
rushing sound, and he saw 'a great
stream of water at the opposite side
of the chamber. It appeared to be
flowing into the germ life and around
about it.

Then the fairy workmen began to
travel faster, and there were more of
them, each with his tiny basket well
filled with the snowy white-food. '

The chamber seemed to be growing
larger, the walls were certainly bulg-
ing out. The germ life was swelling

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and growing, and Jimmy Jingle real-
ized that growth had really begun.

As the fairy workmen brought their
baskets of food, they emptied them in-
to the folds of the germ life which
were ever opening and closing and en~
folding the food with an endless appe-
At first it seemed like the germ
life would get so full that it could not
hold more food, and Jimmy Jingle be-
came frightened as he saw the great
writhing body working its way in the
direction of the crevice where he sat.

Finally, however, just as the germ
life seemed to‘ have reached the limit
of its expansion, Jimmy Jingle heard
a loud, long ripping noise. The germ
life moved away from the crevice. The
workmen redoubled their efforts. More
of them brought baskets, and the side-
walk on which the rode moved
faster.

Jinmmy Jingle turned to the fairy
with inquiring eyes and the fairy
guide explained.

“The germ life has broken through
its coating. It has swelled so much
and the coat has been softened by the
moisture without and Within and now
the germ life has broken through. It
is now beginning to send out roots
and a shoot. If you like, we will go
to the front of this chamber and see
the roots grow.”

“Oh, my, yes, I want to see that.
Let’s. hurry, Good Fairy."

The fairy guide led the way around
the great heaving body of germ life
and they stopped at the opening
which had been made in the roof.
There they saw three tiny rootlets
just beginning to assume a form.
Their building resembled very much
the building of a concrete building
which Jimmy Jingle had watched only
a few days before.

Long tubes extended from some
where inside of the germ life and
emptied a continuous stream of mate-
rials into the rootlets. The covering
of these root tubes seemed to grow or
expand as the amount of the materials
increased, and as Jimmy Jingle watch-
ed, the rootlets grew ,to be quite a
length. The skin was transparent so
that he could see the flowing stream
within.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was
a stream within the transparent tubes
that was traveling in the opposite di-
rection.

“Oh, Good Fairy,” he cried, “See,
part of the materials is flowing back
into the germ life.”

“No, Jimmy Jingle, you are mistak-
en. All of the food which comes into
the rootlets from germ life stays there
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how growth is accomplished there?"

“Oh, yes, Good Fairy. I would like
very much to go into the roots, but
how can we get inside, I don’t see
any opening.

“There is no opening, Jimmy Jingle,
and if we cut an opening, the food
would all run out and the root would
die. So we must use a fairy means to
get within. Just close your eyes and
hold my hand and—now open your
eyes. You see, we are inside of the
roots.” ,

“Oh, how wonderful,” exclaimed
Jimmy Jingle, as he gazed about him.
The walls were of the purest crystal
and everything within was sparkling.
There was a restful, subdued light
that came through the walls of the
roots from all sides.

This light rather puzzled Jimmy
Jingle and he asked, “Where does all
this light come from, Geod Fairy? We
are far under the ground, aren’t we?”

"Yes, we are far under the ground.
Jimmy Jingle, but I have cauSed this
fairy light to appear so that you can
see everything about the growth of
a kernel of wheat.

“We will now step aboard this
stream of food and go to the end of
the root to see what we can find
there.”

They stepped off from the little
platform on which they had been
standing and were borne quickly
along on the top of the column of
food materials.

As they proceeded, Jimmy Jingle
saw that every now and then some of
the material would turn off into the
tiniest of openings. Other portions
would lodge in spaces in the walls of
the canal.

'When he inquired about the little
openings, the Fairy guide explained
that these were the root hairs that
wrapped themselves about particles of
earth and absorbed the food within
these to supply the growing parts of
the grain of wheat.

Finally they came to the end of the
canal.

“In front of us you will see the
guard chamber,” explained the guide.
“It is made of very strong material
and as the root grows this guard
chamber protects it. If the root comes
in contact with a lump of earth this
guard chamber breaks a way through
it. If it comes in contact with a rock,
it prevents injury to the root. The
root finally works its way around the
rock. _

“Now we shall go back with the re-
turning stream and see where that is
going.”

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“You see,” said the Fairy, “We are now inside of the roots.”

made of materials taken up from the
soil by these new rootlets.

“The supply of germ food in the big
storerooms where we started is be-
coming exhausted, and germ life is
drawing upon the roots now for part
of his food. After a while he will get
all of his food through the roots, and
the storeroom will rot away for it will
then have done its duty.

“But come, wouldn’t you like to
make a trip into the roots and see

toward the germ life. Jimmy Jingle
was astonished when they reached
the place where the germ life had
been, to find that there was no tract
of it.

"What has become of germ life,
Good Fairy?"

“As you will see, Jimmy Jingle,
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“Now let us go and see what has
been happening above ground.”

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from. It seemed to be coming from
everywhere at once. He thought his
ears would burst with the noise.
Finally he realized that he could
not see. Was he blind? He could

move about and feel the things that
he had seen near him before this oc-
curred.
noise had stopped.
grown deaf.

Then he realized that the
Or else he had
Yes, that was it. He

   
    

  

The Fairy Workmen Carried Food to the Germ Life.

It was roofed with emeralds, and the
restful green color was very pleasing
indeed.

“While we were in the roots, Jimmy
Jingle, this shoot was growing rapidly
and now you see it has reached the
sunlight. This is where all of the
food that the roots take up from the
soil must come to be prepared for the
use of the plant. None of it can be
used as food until it has gone through
this room. Here the hot sun’s rays
change the food particles so that they
can be used by the plant. This is the
leaf and it corresponds to your stom-
ach. Food is digested here.”

Suddenly Jimmy Jingle heard a
mighty roar that seemed to fill every
crevice. He couldn’t tell where it came

shouted at the top of his voice but he
could not even hear himself.

Jimmy Jingle was very much fright-
ened and began to cry. Then he
heard that soft voice he had heard in
the beginning.

“Jimmy Jingle, Jimmy Jingle, why
are you crying?”

Now he could hear. He looked up
and saw through his tears that he was
again a big boy and was sitting in the
wheat field where he had gone to cry
because his mother would not let him
go to his grandfather’s.

He wiped the tears from his eyes
and ran home as fast as he could to
tell his mother of the wonderful ad-
venture he had and what he learned
about how the wheat grows.

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Emily Blackburn’s Thanksgiving.

By LUCILE HOWELL.

WISH you’d let us take you to the
station, Rufe. It looks too bad for
you to set off a foot.”

Rufus Blackburn set down his grip
outside the gate and pushed his hat
back on his head.

“It’s just a mile, Mother 0’ mine
and I need the walk,” he laughed, as
he kissed her. “I tell you that’s not
as far as I hike it every morning for
my breakfast. Hello, there,” he glanc-
ed hastily at his watch, “that train’s
about due right now and it was only
reported ten minutes late.”

A boy of about sixteen was swing-
ing leisurely on the gate, snapping a
switch at the dog that slept at his
feet.

“Yod’d better hump yourself then,”
he advised his older brother, “You’ll
have to catch her on the run for she
just barely hesitates down there.
Nothin’ with any life about it stops
here any longer than it takes to get
away.”

Rufus smiled knowingly. “You’re
not getting infected with the ‘Wander-
lust’ too, are you, Ted. Forget it, old
kiddo, there’s no place like home.
Looks mighty good to me every time

I get a day off, I tell you. Well, good-v

bye, mother. So-long, Dad,” he waved
to the old man on the porch. Take
care of yourselves till I see you
again,” and he was gone.

Emily Blackburn watched the broad
shoulders of the retreating figure with
burning eyes. What a change there
was in Rufe! This was her boy, this
tall, broad, clean specimen of man-
hood, yet as he swung along so easily
down the dusty road there was the
elasticity of youth in his step, and
that subtle something in the poise of
the head, the dark, close-fitting suit,
his white, well manicured hands and
the neat black grip which he carried,
that proclaimed him an alien to the.

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surroundings of his boyhood. This
was her boy, true enough; but how
much longer could she claim him.

“Oh, Rufe,” the boy at the fence
called.

The figure down the road paused
and turned back.

“Tell Bruce if he can get me a job
I’ll come down just as soon as the
corn’s put away. Tell him any old
thing that I can do’ll suit me just so
it’ll pay my board.”

The figure down the road waved it’s
approval and went on.

The mother turned back with a
heavy heart. She had given up the
rest, and now her youngest and the
last was tugging restlessly at the re-
straining hands which held him back.
First it had been Bruce, her oldest
the one in whom her highest hopes
were centered, that had broken the
home circle and struck out for him-
self. He had fought his way through
from the bottom until now the world
called him a successful man, but still
he was gone. And the next year it
was laughing, care-free Rufus who
had felt the lure of the asphalt and he
had left her. And now that awful oc-
topus, The City, was reaching out
with its thousands of alluring arms,
slowly, insiduously, but surely twining
themselves around the last she had to
And he was willing and anx-
ious to go for enough to pay his
board.

“Ted, why do you want to go off to
work? Don’t you have all you want
here at home?” She put her arm
around his shoulder and drew him to
him. “Mother’d hate it awfully bad to
lose her baby, too.” .

The boy pulled away from her and
wriggled his toes down into the grass.

“In the first place, I ain’t no baby,”
he staunchly asserted without‘ raising
his eyes. “I’m sixteen, and by the

time a man gets that old he pretty
near knows what he wants to do. If
you’d go down there an’ see that swell
place where Bruce an’ Rufe live an’
their pretty room with a nice white
bath tub where a feller can take a
bath ’thout carryin’ the water from
the spring an’ makin’ a fire to heat it,
an’ a big brass bed with the dandiest
mattress. Why, mother it’s worth
workin’ all day for nothin’ just to get
to sleep on it. I wouldn’t stay here
on this old farm ’til I was an old man
an’ have my wife live in this old scary
lookin’ house an’ work like you do for
a billion dollars!”

Emily Blackburn gasped. Ted’s
wife! She turned and looked at the
“scary lookin’ house,” as he had term-
ed it, the home which she and the
father had builded by hard work and
perseverance, and slowly the veil fell
from her eyes. Her boys were build—
ing futures and that which they saw
before them had been anything but
tempting. She and the father had
started with nothing, but with health,
happiness and ambition, they had
builded their home and reared their
children, and now their craving desire
was to save everything for the boys.
And while they were doing this they
had neglected to make the home more
attractive and an unseen foe was en-
ticing her boys from her, an enemy
whose alluring bait was a white bath
tub and a fluffy mattress.

She went slowly up the path to the
front steps. She had never noticed
before how narrow and cramped that
little porch was and how black and
dismal the walls looked. Dan had
wanted to paint the house last year
but she had hated to waste the mon-
ey, and they had bought Rufus a
watch instead. She paused with her
foot on the step and looked upstairs
at the little windows, blazing with the
reflection of the last slanting rays of
the late September sun, and the
wealth of purple jasmine that had
reached the upper rail of the sagging
porch after years of patient climbing;
this old scary looking house that Ted’s
wife should never live in. And she
knew every nail, every board and ev-
ery plank that had gone into its build-
ing, knew them and loved them like
some living part of the days of her
youth.

She went slowly about the simple
preparations for supper, silently lay-
ing her plans for the future for, to
Emily Blackburn, to think was to act.
She stood in the back doorway and
watched them let the cows in the pas-
ture and finish their work for the
night, the father stooped and getting
gray, the boy whistling as he put up
the bars and raced his dog up the
lane. As far as the eye could see,
their broad fields stretched to the
right and left. Well she knew the
sacrifices and labor that expanse of
land represented and with what
greedy enthusiasm they had added
each acre so that they would be
plenty for Bruce and Rufus and Ted,
for the boys must have a better start
than they did. And now as they grew
older the land would be all that was
left and the boys would be gone in
search of more cheerful looking
homes.

The supper dishes had been cleared
away and she had narrowed off the
toe of a stocking before she finally
made up her mind as to her course of
action.

“Put down your paper a minute,
Dan, I want to talk to you,” she be-
gan, as she slowly wound up her yarn
and laid her glasses on the table.

The old man smiled in a cheery way
over the top of his paper.

“Why, what’s struck you all to once,
old woman? I’m glad to have you
talk. You’ve been so down in the
mouth ever since Rufe left this after-
noon that I’ve almost wished that the
boy hadn’t a come home.”

He smiled encouragingly at his wife
but she continued to slowly wind the

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a blizzard.
CHAPTER X.——(Concluded).

Winston said nothing, but by and by
poured a little of the spirit into a
rusty can, and the girl, who under-
stood why he did so, felt that it cov-
ered several of his offenses. “Now,”
she said graciously, “you may smoke
if you wish to.”

Winston pointed to the few billets
left and shook his head. “I’m afraid
I must get more wood.”

The roar of wind almost drowned
his voice, and the birch logs seemed
to tremble under the impact of the
blast, while Maud Barrington shivered
as she asked, “Is it safe?”

“It is necessary,” said Winston,
with the little laugh she had already
found reassuring.

He had gone out in another minute,
and the girl felt curiously lonely as
she remembered stories of men who
had left their homesteads during a
blizzard to see to the safety of the
horses in a neighboring stable, and
were found afterwards as still as the
snow that covered them. Maud Bar-
rington was not unduly timorous, but
the roar of that awful‘icy gale would
have stricken dismay into the hearts
of most men, and she found herself
glancing with feverish impatience at
a diminutive gold watch and wonder-
ing whether the cold had retarded its
progress. Ten minutes passed very
slowly, lengthened to twenty more
slowly still, and then it flashed upon
her that there was at least something
she could do, and scraping up a little
of the snow that sifted in, she melted
it in the can. Then she set the flask
upon the stove, and once more listen-
ed for the man’s footsteps eagerly."

She did not hear them, but at last
the door swung open, and carrying a
load of birch branches Winston stag-
gered in. He dropped them, strove to
close the door and failed, then leaned
against it, gasping, with a livid face,
for there are few men who can with—
stand the cold of a snow-laden gale at
forty degrees below.

How Maud Barrington closed the
door she did not know, but it was
with a little imperious gesture she
turned to the man.

“Shake those furs at once,” she
said, and drawing him towards the
stove held up the steaming cup. “Now
sit there, and drink it.”

Winston stooped and reached out
for the can, but the girl swept it off
the stove. “Oh, I know the silver was
for me,” she said. “Still, is this a
time for such trifles as that?”

Worn out by a very grim struggle,
Winston did as he was bidden, and
looked up with a twinkle in his eyes,
when with the faintest trace of color
in her cheeks the girl sat down close
to him and drew part of the fur robe
about him.

“I really believe you were a little
pleased to see me come back just
now,” he said. ,

“Was that quite necessary?” asked
Maud Harrington. “Still, I was.”

 

 

Winston made a little deprecatory

I

been drowned during the smuggling, now
whose life he had blighted and who is now engaged to one
Winston, returning from Winnipeg, finds Miss Barrington
at one MacDonald’s, and in an attempt to reach Silverdale are caught in

Maud Barrington learns mere of her cousin's unsavory
Winston, in the meantime, pushes on to Montana, is held for Court-
horne by an officer, who discloses to him the belief that Winston is the
Mail for Courthorne is opened by Winston. Comply-
ing with instructions in the letter, he meets and confers with a. lawyer re-
specting Courthorne’s inheritance at Silverdale, "visits the colony.
of his actions fail to tally with Courthorne's reputation. He wins the good
The real Courthorne, supposed to have

Some

reappears in Montana, meets

gesture. “Of course,” he said. “Now,
we can resume our former footing to-
morrow, but in the meanwhile Iwould
like to know why you are; so hard up-
on me, Miss Barrington, because I
really have not done much harm to
anyone at Silverdale. Your aunt,”—
and he made a little respectful incli-
nation of his head which pleased the
girl—“is at least giving me a. fair
trial.”

“It is difficult to tell you—but it was
your own doing,” said Maud Barring-
ton. “At the beginning you prejudiced
us when you told us you could only
play cards indifferently. It was so un-
necessary, and’ we knew a great deal
about you!” '

“Well,” said Winston quietly, “I
have only my word to offer, and I
wonder if you will believe me now,
but I don’t think I ever won five dol-
lars at cards in my life.”

Maud Barrington watched him
closely, but his tone carried convic-
tion, and again she was glad that he
attempted no explanation. “I am quite

willing to take it,” she said. “Still,
you can understand—”
“Yes,” said Winston. “It puts a

strain upon your faith, but some day
I may be able to make a good deal
that puzzles you quite clear.”

Maud Barrington glanced at the
flask. “I wonder if that is connected
with the explanation, but I will wait.
Now, you have not lighted your
cigar.”

Winston understood that the topic
was dismissed, and sat thoughtfully
still while the girl nestled against the
birch logs close beside him under the
same furs, for the wind went through
the building and the cold was unbear-
able a few feet from the stove. The
birch rafters shook above their heads,
and every now and then it seemed
that a roaring gust would lift the roof
from them. Still the stove glowed
and snapped, and close in about it
there was a drowsy heat, while pres-
ently the girl's eyes grew heavy. Fin-
ally, for there are few who can resist
the desire for sleep in the cold of the
Northwest, her head sank back, and
Winston, rising very slowly, held his.
breath as he piled the furs about her.
That done, he stooped and looked
down upon her while the blood crept
to his face. Maud Barrington lay very
still, the long dark lashes resting on
her cold tinted cheek, and the patri-
cian serenity of her face was even
more marked in her sleep. Then he
turned away, feeling like one who
had committed a desecration, knowing
that he had looked too long already
upon the sleeping girl who believed

he had been an outcast and yet had

taken his word, for it was borne in
upon him that a time would come
when he would try her faith even
more severely. Moving softly, he pac-
ed up and down the room.

Winston afterwards wondered how
many miles he had walked that night,
for though the loghouse was not long-
er than thirty feet, the cold bit deep;

 


Nov. 21, 1914.

but at last he heard a sigh as he
glanced towards the stove, and imme-
diately swung round again. When be
next turned, Miss Barrington stood
upright, a little flushed in the face but
otherwise very calm, and the man
stood still, shivering in spite of his
efforts and blue with. cold. The wind
had fallen, but the sting of the frost
that followed it made itself felt be-
side the stove.

“You had only your deerskin jacket
——and you let me sleep under all the
furs,” she said. '

Winston shook his head, and hoped
he did not look as guilty as he felt,
when he remembered that it must
have been evident to his companion
that the furs did not get into the po-
sition they had occupied themselves.

“I only fancied you were a trifle
drowsy and not inclined to talk." he
said, with an absence of concern, for
which Miss Barrington, who did not
believe him, felt grateful. “You see,”
—and the inspiration was a trifle too
evident—~“I was too sleepy to notice
anything myself. Still, I am glad you
are awake now, because I must make
my wai'y to the Grange.” .

“But the snow will be ever so deep,
and I could not come,” said Maud
Barrington.

Winston shook his head. “I’m afraid
you must stay here, but I will be back
with Colonel Barrington in a few
hours at latest.”

The girl deemed it advisable to hide
her consternation. “But you might
not find the trail,” she said. “The ra-
vine would lead you to Graham’s
homestead.”

“Still,” said Winston slowly, “I’m
going to the Grange.”

Then Maud Barrington remembered,
and glanced aside from him. It was
evident this man thought of every-
thing, and she made no answer when
Winston, who thrust more billets into
the stove, turned to her with a little
smile.

I think we need remember nothing
when we meet again, beyond the fact
that you will give me a chance of
showing that the Lance Courthorne
whose fame you know has ceased to
exist.” ‘

Then he went out, and the girl stood
with flushed cheeks looking down at
the furs he had left behind him.

 

CHAPTER XI.
Maud Barrington's Promise.
AYLIGHT had not yet broken
across the prairie when, floun‘
dering through a foot of dusty
snow, Winston reached the Grange.
He was aching from fatigue and cold,
and the deerskin jacket stood out
from his numbed body stifl’ with frost,
when, leaning heavily on a table, he
awaited Colonel Barrington. The lat-
ter, on entering, stared at him, and
then flung open a cupboard and pour-
ed out a glass of wine.
“Drink that before you talk. You
look half-dead,” he said. ‘
Winston shook his head. “Perhaps
you had better hear me first.”

 

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to reach the Grange through the snow
would have been perilous?” he said.

“Yes,” said Winston quietly. .

The older man stood very still re-
garding him intently, until he said:
“I don’t mind admitting that it was
distinctly regrettable!"

Winston stopped him with a ges-
ture. “It was at least unavoidable,
sir. The team would not face the
snow, and no one could have reached
the Grange alive.” ‘

“No doubt you did your best—and,
as a connection of the family, I am
glad it was you. Still—and there are
cases in which it is desirable to speak
plainly—the affair, which you will, of
course, dismiss from your recollec-
tion, is to be considered as closed
now.”

Winston smiled, and a trace of
irony he could not quite repress was
just discernible in his voice. “I scarce-
ly think that was necessary, sir. It is,
of course, sufficient for me to have
rendered a. small service to the dis-
tinguished family which has given me
an opportunity of proving my right to
recognition, and neither you, nor Miss

Barrington, need have any apprehen-,

sion that I will presume upon it!”

Barrington wheeled round. “You
have the Courthorne temper, at least,
and perhaps I deserved this display of
it. You acted with commendable dis-
cretion in coming straight to Inc—and
the astonishment I got drove the oth-
er aspect of the question out of my
head. If it hadn’t been for you, my
niece would have frozen.”

“I’m afraid I spoke unguardedly,
sir, but I am very tired. Still, if you
will wait a few minutes, I will get the
horses out without troubling the hired
man.”

Barrington made a littl? gesture of
comprehension, and then shook his
head. “You are fit for nothing furth-
er, and need rest and sleep.”

“You will want somebody, sir,” said
Winston. “The snow is very loose
and deep.”

He went out, and Barrington, who
looked after him with a curious ex-
pression in his face, nodded twice as
if in approval. Twenty minutes later,
he took his place in the sleigh that
slid away from the Grange, which lay
a league behind it when the sunrise
flamed across the prairie. The wind
had gone, and there was only a piti-
less brightness and a devastating cold,
while the snow lay blown in wisps,
dried and dusty and fine as flour by
the frost. It had no cohesion, the run-
ners sank in it, and Winston was al-
most waist-deep when he dragged the
floundering team through the drifts.
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anything worth mentioning, but he
held on with an endurance which his
companion, who was incapable of ren-
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most-buried sleigh must be dragged
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EMILY BLACKBURN'S THAN Ks-
GIVING.

 

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thing that she wanted but it would be
so hard to make him understand
where they had erred.

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dinner this year and have all my chil-
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expected to say.

“That’s the thing to do,” he agreed,
“that is, if you can git ’em all here.
I ’spect Bruce’ll be likely to eat his
turkey with that Hill gall. You know
Rufe says they’ll be married in the
spring.”

Mrs. Blackburn picked up her glass-
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stocking.

“I’m going to ask her, too.”

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this old place would simply fade away
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His mother knit on with provoking
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Bruce says she lives in the country.”

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Blackburn’s eyes. “About how much

ou think ou’ll need,” he bargain-
gd). y“Would ay couple 0’ dollars or so

x ou out?” .

fi She picked up her work again to
ide her confusion. ”

h “It’ll take nearer a thousand, sh’e
confessed, “but, oh, Dan, you dont
understand what it means to the boys
and us,” she hurried on. “It’ll be the
best investment you ever made.

The old man rubbed his spectacles
on the edge of the table cover.

“Well, mother, you’ve never told Us
what you wanted done. _A thousand
dollars’ll buy a heap 0 things. .

“I can tell you some of them right
now. I want some new rooms built
on upstairs and a great Wide porch
down here across the front and down
the sides; one that you could lose the
Hill house in,” she smiled atOTed,
“and I want the whole house painted.
Then we’ll have an engine down at
the spring that’ll pump our water, and
a bath tub put in some where. There
must be a bath tub, Dan, a white one,
and new brass beds With fluffy mat-
tresses, and Ted, we’ll not have a
woman bothering around with our
new things. We’ll just send our milk
to the creamery and let them make
the butter. Now, Dan, that s some of

bin s.”
minim? and son both stared at her
in astonishment. It was the elder
t finall s o e. ~>
thfiWhy, Flmily, I've been a wantin’ to
have the house painted for a long
time but you wouldn’t hear to me

You ought to see the place 11

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

spendin’ the money. at’s changed
your mind all at once?”

“I’ve found out I was wrong,” she
acknowledged. “I’ve been savin’ our
money and losing’ our boys. I knew
there was something wrong that the
boys didn’t want to stay with us, and
this afternoon it come to me that we
weren’t making their home as attrac-
tive as them places in the city. I
know it looks like a pile of money to
lay out all at once, but think what it
means if we can just keep one of
them with us.”

“It means just this,.” he answered
her thoughtfully. “It means we’ll have
to sell off the west forty to do it, but
I never made a mistake yet by follow-
in’ your adviCe an’ if you say so, it’s
a go. If its got to a point where it’s a
choice between the boys an’ the land,
I say sell the whole bloomin’ farm.”

Mrs. Blackburn hesitated to answer.
The west forty; that was to have
been Bruce’s. There was a pretty
shady knoll down there where they
had planned since he was a child that
some day he might build his house.
Ten years ago, with the help of the
boys, she had set out a row of ma-
ples there. But Bruce was gone now,
and the rest were going.

“I’ll tell you, Dan,” she compromis-
ed, “let John Taylor have that patch
of timber land he’s been after so
long. We don’t need that an’ some
way I hate to sell the west forty. It
seems so much like part of the fam-

“Any way you say,” he agreed.
“An’, if I understand you right, this is
all supposed to be done before
Thanksgivin’. Was that what you was
hintin’ at?”

Ted was quick to grasp his mother’s
suggestions. He closed his book and
bounced out of his chair.

“Oh, mother,” he cried, “we’ll have
a house just like Nell Hill’s. An’ I’ll
have one of those rooms upstairs for
my very own, an’ oh, can’t I have the
bicycle? I’ve wanted one for the
longest time.”

It was finally agreed that the timber
land should be sold and the proceeds
used toward repairing the house and
adding such improvements as they
should decide up. The days which
followed were busy ones. First came
the carpenters and the old house,
which had slept undisturbed for twen-
ty years, echoed with the sound of the
hammer. Each new improvement sug-
gested something else. A furnace was
installed and a telephone, and when it
was finally completed and all the new
furniture in place Ted pronounced it
perfect.

“It beats the Hill’s place a thousand
days in the week,” he assured every-
body. “It’s got ’em all skinned a
mile.”

He was-very much interested now in
the preparations for the Thanksgiving
dinner. As all the invitations had
been accepted nothing on the farm
was to be spared to make this event
a success. Ted worked faithfully at
whatever task fell to him, for he felt
that the family’s reputation was at
stake and his greatest ambition was
to outclass the Hills in every way.

“If it would only snow,” he com-
plained as he viewed the row of edi-
bles set out on the pantry shelf. “Here
’tis Thanksgivin’ tomorrow an’ no
snow yet.”

But his mother found no fault with
the weather. She had accomplished
all that she had planned and her chil-
dren were coming home tomorrow.
What more could she wish for.

Ted met the train next morning and
his disappointment in the weather
was forgotten at the boys’ enthusias-
tice praise of the new surrey which
had made its initial appearance in
their honor.

“This ain’t nothin’,” he promised
them mysteriously. “Wait’ til you get
home,” and the proudest moment of
his life was when he stopped the team
in front of the neat iron fence, and
father and mother came running down
the front walk to bid them all wel-
come to the old home, the home that
had the Hill’s house outclassed “a
thousand different ways.”

“Well, Ted, old boy, it’s a good
thing you came for us,” Bruce finally
confessed after a complete tour of the
house had been made and all the im-
provements commented upon. “If we’d
walked we’d ’ve passed right by home
sure, and never known we were here.
And now, mother, if we’ve seen it all
we’re ready for something else. Lead
me to the dining-room.”

Late that afternoon, after all the
good things, which attested to weeks
of preparation had been sampled and
commented on, BruCe and Miss Hill
set out for a walk over the farm.
Emily Blackburn stood in the back
door and watched them as they went
down the lane.

“She’s the finest kind of a wife for
Bruce,” she confided to her husband,
who had joined her. “She’s got so
much good sense. But, Dan, look what
they’ve got to start on and think how
we began, and they can’t live any
happier than we have. I’ve so much to
be thankful for today but it’s [hard to

think it’ll all be over when the sun
goes down.”

“You mustn’t feel that way, Emily,”
he chided her as he started for the
barn. “We’ve got one of ’em left yet
an’ maybe we’ll keep him.”

The boys had finished the work for
the night but the old farmer still tar-
ried behind.

“It’ll be mighty hard to see ’em all
start back tomorrow,” he confided to
the old white mare as he carefully
rubbed her legs. “It wouldn’t do,
though, to let Emily know that I felt
it too.” Through the back barn door
he could see Bruce and the girl com-
ing up the lane and when they reach-
ed the barn- Miss Hill went on to the
house but Bruce came in.

“Chores all rdone, father?” he asked.

“Just a finishin’ up, son. How do
you things look?”

“I would never have believed the
old place could show off so well, fath-
er. What are you going to do with
that piece down there on the west
end. You know where mother and we
kids set out those trees years ago.
That’s an awfully pretty place for a
house.”

The old man’s heart was beating
fast and he knelt under the horse to
hide his excitement.

“Your mother has the bossin’ of
that piece. I wanted to sell it this
fall but she wouldn’t hear of it.”

The boy made no reply but stood
iossing grains of corn to a grateful

en.

“I think she’s always been a savin’
that for you, Bruce,” the old man ven-
tured.

The boy continued to feed the hen.

“We would’ve built down there our-
selves if we’d a owned that piece when
we put up the ‘house. Your mother
was always mightily taken with that
location,” he continued.

“I know mother used to say that
was mine when I was a kid, and Neil’s
just crazy about it. I’m getting aw-
fully tired of being shut up in an
office, Dad. I wonder what mother
Would say to my building a house
down there for Nell and me next
spring.”

“Say, boy!” The old man dropped
his brush and grabbed his hand.
“She’d say to start haulin’ your lum-
ber tomorrow. That’s what she’d say.
Do' you mean it, Bruce?”

“Well, Dad, I’ve got money enough
to build me a house and it seems like
I’ll never be able to buy a place in
town. I’ve wanted to come back for
a long time but I never knew how Nell
felt about it till this afternoon.”

“Three cheers for your mother,
Bruce,” the old man yelled, dancing
up and down the hallway. “If it
hadn’t a been for her you would never
have come home today. Let’s go an’
tell her before that gall changes her
mind.”

But when they reached the house
he knew at the first glance that Emily
already knew the plans.

“Dan! Dan,” she called excitedly as
they entered the kitchen. “Bruce and
Nell are comin’ back home to live.
Think of it Dan, right here where I
can see them every day. Oh, how
(much we have to thank Him for to-

ay.

“You’re the one, little mother, that’s
to blame for it all,” Rufus asserted
himself. “Ted told me all about how
you came to build over the old house
and all I regret is that I can’t stay,
too. But never mind, you’ll not be rid
of me for very long at a time.”

\Vhile they were all engrossed in the
planning Emily slipped out unnoticed,
and in the fast falling twilight, she
crept up the narrow, dark back stairs.
She knew the way well for her feet
had climbed this same path many
times in the past thirty years and,
feeling for the door at the top, she
went into the little back bedroom, the
last remaining relic of the “old scary
lookin’ house.”

Here she knelt beside the little
wooden bedstead, gay with its sun-
flower quilt, and poured out her ear-
nest th‘anks to the One who had sent
her such a multitudinous blessing.
“And I’m grateful, for this fine house
and all the rest of the things that my
children enjoy,” she whispered. “But,
Oh Lord, I thank you more for this
one little room that is left for me out
of my owu old house. Don’t let me
get as tiresome as the house did. Help
me to stay young with them so I’ll be
acceptable even to Ted’s wife.”

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The Domestic Crucible—2.

Wherein Grace Experiences Changed Vision.
By DEBORAH.

, TOLD mother we’d drive around
'John Ludlow called in from the
there for dinner after church,”
shed where he was briskly polishing

'his “Sunday” shoes, after the manner

of the bootblack he had patronized in
the city on his wedding trip. “I’ll soon
get onto the upper—cut that Greek
gave my shoes, and then I’ll go in and
put him out of business,” he added.

Grace, warned by a sinister odor,
that she had held the curling' iron to
her hair a moment too long, darted
from the door where she stood watch-
ing John, hack to the bedroom mirror
to examine the maimed locks.

“Your hair is crinkly enough for the
job, but you haven’t got the right
swing yet,” she said, as John followed
her into the room. “Your elbows are
too stiff and you leave .out all the
dabs he put in for artistic effect.”
Then as John described a series of
curves in the air with an imaginary
brush, she added, “Must we go to your
mother’s today? I thought we’d have
our first Sunday dinner alone.”

“I’m sorry I promised, then,” said
John, diving into a chiffonier drawer
for the especial tie he were with the
gaily striped socks which adorned his
man-sized feet. “Thought you’d be
glad not to have to cook dinner to-
day, and mother was so anxious.”

“Oh, it’s all right, your mother was
a dear to ask us,” said Grace. “Only,"
she added under her breath, “we
could go them anytime, and there’ll
never be but one first Sunday.”

Grace had known comfortable Mrs.
Ludlow all her life, and had always
enjoyed visits to the old brown farm-
house at the end of the locust lane.
But it was with an unexpected and
odd little sensation that she held up
her face for the accustomed kiss that
day. This was no longer Mrs. Ludlow,
one of the neighbors, but Mother Lud-
low, a quite new being. The older
woman had been changed suddenly
into a different entity to Grace, and
even her well-known features seemed
strange, viewed from the standpoint
of a daughter-in-law.

Mother Ludlow, apparently, saw no
change. She kissed Grace just as she
had every week or so for 20 years,
scolded John for tossing his hat on
the sitting-room table, just as he had
done for 20 years, and hustled the
whole family out to dinner as uncon-
cernedly as if the whole world had
not been made over by a marriage a.
couple of weeks before.

In fact, no one seemed to see that
everything was different except Grace.
Even John took his mother’s scolding
as good-naturedly as if he weren’t
now a married man and company.

The Ludlow dinners were famous
and Grace had eaten many a one and
called it good. But today she uncon-
sciously criticized. A six-weeks course
in domestic science had filled her
head with a jumble of proteids, calor-
ies, carbohydrates, or hydro-carbates,
she wasn’t sure which. Her own meals
She planned to have properly balanced
and she decided that Mother Ludlow
ran too heavy to sugar. Why have
apple pie, fruit cake, fried cakes, ice
cream and fruit jelly all at one meal?

But another survey of the table

showed her fried chicken, a roast of ,

lamb and a fish from the brook which
ran' through the farm, so it seemed

there were proteids enough to bal-

319.;

ance. Something was wrong—it must
be there was too much of everything.
They got too many calories.

Father Ludlow interrupted her de-
ductions at this point by putting the
entire breast of a chicken on'her
plate and flanking it with two heaping
spoonfuls of mashed potatoes. She
just caught the last of Mother Lud-
low’s remark,

“You never went hungry at home,
John, I hope Grace will feed you
Well.”

“He’ll get enough,” Grace replied,
flushing. “There's such a thing as
eating too much.”

“Not for John,” Mother Ludlow said
placidly. “Boy and man, I never saw
anyone who could beat him. Every~
thing but onions, he won’t eat them.”

“Well, he has eaten them this
week,” said Grace, icily. The idea of
that woman telling her how to feed
her own husband! Why, she didn’t
know a thing about food values, or
anything scientific. She just dumped
sugar, flour,

in eggs, cream, butter,
everything without measuring and
stirred things up regardless. The ta-

ble showed that everything came out
right, but Grace overlooked that.

“I’ll give him onions every day,” she
vowed grimly to herself. “They’ll be
splendid for his nerves.”

 

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No. 2.

 

N preparing cow’s milk for the in-

fant, the mother must bear in mind

that human milk consists of fats,
sugars, proteids, salts and water in
certain proportions. The amount of
fat in both human and cow’s milk is
practically the same, but human milk
contains seven per cent sugar as
against four and one-half per cent
sugar in cow's milk. As the quality
of the sugar is practically the same,
this modification is the easiest one
made. You have only to add sugar to
the milk in sufficient quantities to
bring the percentage up to the re-
quired amount. For this purpose milk
sugar is best, but if you can not get
this, granulated sugar will do, but you
must use only half as much as of milk
sugar.

Fat is a little harder to add, as the
quality of the fat in cow’s milk differs
from that in human milk, and is, con-
sequently harder to digest. The fat
is added in the form of cream, and it
is for this reason that the mother
must work with separated or skim-
milk, adding to the skim-milk, which
represents the proteids, certain
amounts of cream to give the right
ptroportion of fat. To many mothers
this first removing the cream and

then adding it again seems absurd._

She argues that the cream is already
in the milk and it is a great deal eas-
ier to feed the child whole milk to be-
gin with than to fuss with skimming
off the cream and then pouring it
back in again. The proportion of fat
in milk varies so greatly, however,
that there is no way to tell how much
the child is getting unless you start
with milk from which the fat has
been removed and add the fat as di-
rected. With delicate infants, or those
who have already been damaged by
wrong feeding, this method is abso-
lately imperative. 1

The proteids are hardest of all to

modify so that the child can digest
them properly. The total proteids in
human milk is but one and one-half
per cent, while in cow’s milk it is
three and one-half per cent. The com-
position, too, is different and there-
fore more difficult of digestion by a
young infant. There are many ways
of altering the proteids, but the most
common way, and the one that works
out in most cases except in especially
delicate infants, is to dilute the skim-
milk with boiled water, reducing the
amount of water and adding skim-milk
as rapidly as you see the child can
take more milk.

All of these additions must be made
in tiny quantities, an ounce a day,_or
perhaps only a tablespoonful, a tea-
spoonful or a half teaspoonful at a
time. The busy mother finds the work
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She must remember that the baby’s
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half teaspoonful sometimes means as
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a cupful would to her. In healthy in-
fants who come straight along from
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with delicate infants, or those who
have been already damaged by wrong
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tion to detail will do.

The formula given below is one that
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hours old, and infants who have never
taken cow’s milk, or who are already
suffering from malnutrition. The quan-
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The size of the feed for the infant
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In this way only can you be sure the
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bowels become too loose stop further
additions, and if necessary omit the
last one.

Skim-milk need not be started until
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One cup of granulated sugar, butter
the size of an egg, two tablespoons of
hot water. Boil till it spins a thread,
forming a crisp ball in cold water,
then pour on a buttered tin and mark
in squares before cold.

MANY WAYS WITH SWEET POTA-
TOES.—FROM TESTED
RECIPES.

 

BY MRS. JEFF. DAVIS.

While southern housekeepers are
generally looked upon as experts in
the preparation of a variety of tempt-
ing dishes from sweet potatoes, this
vegetable is appreciated in every part
of the country. Housewives who make
a specialty of appetizing forms of
sweet potato breads, and desserts of
many kinds, find a delightful way of
varying the menu of any meal. The
plain baked, or roasted potato is al-
ways acceptable served with a roast
of any kind, and largely takes the
place of bread.

For breakfast, or luncheon, nothing
is more delicious than rich, sweet p0-
tato bread. Take about three large
roasted yams, the dry, close-grained
potatoes are boiled, or a sufficient
amount to make three cups of mash-
ed potato. Remove skins, and while
still steaming place in a bowl, and
mash very fine. Add, while still hot,
half a cup of shortening half lard and
half butter, and two cups of fine sift-
ed corn meal. After mixing this thor-
oughly, add two eggs, beating into
mixture with a teaspoonful of salt
and just enough sweet milk to make
a stiff dough. Form into small pones,
and place in a hot, greased pan, al-
lowing room for slight swelling dur-
ing the baking. Place immediately in
a very hot oven. When crust is a
rich brown it is taken out and served
at once.

Crackling Potato Bread.

This is prepared the same as above,
except instead of shortening, a cupful
of dry cracklings, chopped fine, is ad-
ded. This makes a lighter, richer
bread than the former.

, Potato Biscuit.

Potato biscuit is another delicious

way of cooking potatoes. These are

THE MICHIGAN FAR'MER .

nice to serve as sweet tea biscuits, or
unsweetened, to accompany the meat
course. To one pint of mashed pota-
toes added three eggs, one-half tea-
cupful of lard or butter, one-half tea-
cupful of sugar if desired sweet, a.
pinch of salt, one pint of ‘sifted flour,
and two teaspoonfuls of baking pow-
der. Beat in lard, or butter, while
potatoes are still hot. Add sweet milk
if needed to make the dough right for
rolling out, and cut into shape. Bake
in a quick oven and serve hot.

Sweet Potato Ginger Bread.

The potatoes are prepared as for
biscuits, with the same preparation of
flour, shortening and baking-powder.
Then two well-beaten eggs and a cup-
ful of brown sugar is added to each
quart of dough, and ginger and cinna-
mon to taste. The stiff dough is thin-
ned with cane syrup until it can be
kneaded and rolled to layer half an
inch thick. The cakes are cut in any
shape desired, placed close in a greas-
ed pan and baked in a hot oven. When
half done brush with syrup and water
and sprinkle over a little sugar in or-
der to give a sugary crust.

Potato Custard Pie.

Bake er boil potatoes until very ten-
der, peel and mash while hot. To
each quart of mashed potatoes add a
generous tablespoonful of butter, the
grated rind and juice of one lemon,
half a teaspoonful of salt, a table-
spoonful each of ground ginger, cin-
namon and flour. Then beat in the
yolks of two eggs, the whites being
reserved for the meringue, a half cup-
ful of sugar, and sufficient sweet milk
to make the batter the right consist-
ency for baking in custard form with-
out a top crust. When the custard
has stiffened in the oven and the un-
der crust is brown, the meringue,
made of the stiffly beaten whites of
the eggs and powdered sugar, is
quickly spread over the custard and
it is returned to the oven to brown
slightly on top.

Custard Cups.

For baking in custard cups the po-
tato custard is made somewhat richer
than for pies. Half a teacupful of but-
ter is mashed through each quart of
hot potato with two cups of sugar and
two eggs. With these have been
beaten smooth the grated peel and
juice of two lemons, and a teaspoonful
of ground ginger or cinnamon is ad-
ded. Thin with sweet milk. When
meringue is desired use twice amount
of eggs, reserving whites.

Potato Pudding.

Pare, and slice raw potatoes. Cream
two cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of
butter, add two cupfuls of milk for
each pint and half of sliced potatoes.
Beat two eggs and stir into mixture,
and pour the whole over the potatoes
in a buttered baking dish. While bak-
ing stir occasionally to keep the po-
tato slices well mixed with the cus-
tard. Lemon juice is an addition for
flavoring.

Candied Potatoes.

This is a splendid relish to accom-
pany a roast. Cut partly baked pota-
toes into quarters, and place in a bak-
ing pan with a pinch of salt. Coat
generously with butter, and cover the
whole with a heavy sprinkling of su-
gar. A very little hot water is added.
When the potatoes have finished bak-
ing soft they are covered with a sugar
coating and there is a rich, sweet
sauce in the bottom of the pan to
serve with them.

THE LETTER BOX.

 

A Note of Appreciation.

Dear Deborah:~—I have been a. sil-
ent and interested reader of the Mich-
igan Farmer for ten years, and do so
enjoy your articles for, like Mrs. F. L.
S. and others, they “hit the spot” ev-
ery time. I am the mother of four
healthy children and-anything that
helps to take care of their. wants,
which I think'sometimes are many, is
a great help to me.

I enjoy very much the letters from

“and ready for use.-——L. M. L.

other readers, and would like to ask a
favor, which I shall return in any way
I can. Will you please reprint the
recipes for tomato relish and the one
for beet salad? The relish is made
uncooked, and the salad is made with
cooked beets, raw cabbage and horse-
radish. They were in‘the paper two
years ago this fall but my paper got
lost. .
I have a good recipe for green toma-
to mince meat and one for red cat-g
sup, like what you buy, if any of the
readers would like them I will gladly
send them in.—Mrs. F. H.

The tomato recipe reouested ap-I
peared in last week’s issue.

 

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HOME QUERIES.

 

Household Editorz—Will ' someone
please give me directions for clean-J
ing a white velvet hat?——M. P. .

There are many patented cleaners
on the market for cleaning hats,
gloves, etc. But unless a woman is
very skilful in work of this sort it is
much more satisfactory to send the
article to a cleaning establishment.

Household Editorz—Will someone
please tell me how to color a soft felt
hat?—Reader.

Has any reader a good rule? It has
been the editor’s experience that such
work is rarely successfully done at
home.

SHORT CUTS TO HOUSEKEEPING.

 

Put a handful of common salt in the
rinse water for men’s shirts and over-
alls, or any colored clothes, and they
will never dry streaked.«—L. M. L.

An almost infallible remedy for a
cold, when taken'soon enough, is a
half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of aro-
matic spirits of ammonia and a half
cupful of boiling water. Take this
when the first creepy sensations are
felt, if possible just before going to
bed, and by the next morning the cold
will have disappeared—Mrs. J. C. T.

Thin drapery curtains have been
the cause of innumerable broken
vases and lamp-shades, as well as of
less frequent but serious fires. Alead
weight, such as is used in dressmak-
ing, slipped into one end of the hem,
will serve to keep the curtain in place
while still allowing it to sway pleas-
antly in the breeze. If the curtain is
of lace, cover the lead weight with a
bit of muslin before tacking it to the
hem.—M. S.

Relief from cold feet at night may
often be secured by simply putting an
extra blanket doubled over the lower
part of the bed. A feather pillow an-
swers the same purpose. It is not
heavy, yet induces additional warmth
to the lower extremities, where the
circulation is not always of the best,
especially with elderly people—E. B.

When there is difficulty about whip-
ping sweet cream so as to have it
stand up stiffly, one of two reasons is
probably responsible. Either the
cream is too thin or it is too warm.
Nine times out of ten it will be be-
cause it is too thin. The top part of
cream that has stood for 24 hours
ought to whip readily if at all cold. It
is useless to waste time on thin
cream. By evaporation the surface
portion becomes thicker and this is
the part to select for whipping.-—E. R.

Keep your silver knives and forks
that are not in every day use, in a
two-quart fruit jar with the cover on
tight and they will always be bright

Some people cannot sleep at night
because of next day’s tasks and dut-
ies, or pleasures, and so lie with
tense muscles and nerves and think
and worry. How much better it would
be to let alone the things of tomorrow
till the day comes, and go about them
refreshed and strengthened for use-
fulness and enjoyment. Life would
mean more, and more be accomplish-
ed. It is folly to be too ambitious
and sheer waste of vitality to antici-
pate, live in days that are not yet
ours.

 

 

NOV. 21, 1914.

Do you know
that—

     

Fresh meats, dusted with Borax, will
keep fresh much Ion er. Rub the
Borax in as you woud pep er and
salt. Wash the meat before coo ing.

Borax, added to the water in which‘
your washing is done, saves lots of!
valuable time. It makes washing 9.

~ simple and easy undertaking withoué:

any attendant harmful resu ts.
three heaping tablespoonfuls or more
to every tub of water.

Bacon curers use Borax in place oil
salt. for curing.

The hands will be kept soft and
white. and free from all chap, redness
and roughness it Borax is used in
Washing them.

If you want your clothes a snow. ,

white—not yellow-white, or gra a
white. but real white—use Borax in t e:
cleansing water. It will also restore
to a. snowy white after two or three
washings. linens that have acquired
an old, yellowish east through frequent
washings with ordinary cleansers.

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Michigan Co-operative Organizations are Active.

O-OPERATION is not coming——

it has arrived. If you must be

shown, go to Litchfield, in Hills-
dale county, and watch the workings
of the creamery organization and the
afliliated shippers’ association. Then
go to the nearby town of Camden,
where the farmers have just organiz.
ed, with F. W. McFadden as president,
John Hooligan as treasurer, and O. K.
Coolman, secretary. A trip to Van
Buren county will show you the Law-
rence Co-operative Association, with
$10,000 capital and a membership of
60. In Northern Kent county we have
the Harvard Farmers’ Produce & Sup-
ply Co., which has recently re-elected
oflicers, with reports showing a good
financial condition and fine prospects
for the future. At Elmdale in south-
eastern Kent we have a co-operative
elevator company, and shatements
show a monthly business running
about as follows: Fourteen cars ship-
ped out, or 14,000 bushels‘of wheat,
1,500 bushels of oats and a car of bal-
ed hay; eight cars received, with sales
to members at retail as follows: Fifty
tons of soft coal, 28 tons of hard coal,
150 barrels of cement, 18 tons of lime,
20 tons of bran and middlings and
18,000 barrels of flour.

Farmers have formed potato grow-
ers’ association at Buckley and Man-
ton, in Wexford county. Emmet coun-
ty supervisors voted to establish a
publicity bureau, the object being to
assist in advertising the county’s
many advantages for general farming,
stock raising and fruit growing. The
Caro Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator
Company started business in Tuscola
county in September, with $40,000 cap-
ital and John McAllister as manager.
Alpena county potato growers have
organized, with the following officers:
President, Chas. Herron, Wilson; vice-
president, W. S. Green, Alpena; sec-
retary, Wm. Kennedy, Bolton; treas-
urer, Rosene Ellsworth, Hubbard Lake.

The Grand Rapids Growers’ Asso-
ciation, which includes the leading
growers of vegetables under glass in
and near the city, has re—elected Reed
3: Cheney as selling agents for 1915.
Practically all lettuce, tomatoes and
other products grown under glass go
out from one central packing and ship-
ping warehouse in a uniform manner,
to‘ markets found by the selling
agents. The Freeport Farmers’ Ele-
vator Company has been formed in
Barry county, with $10,000 capital.

The Michigan State Horticultural
Society will hold its annual meeting
in Kalamazoo, December 1-3, and co-
operation, direct sales and elimination
of middlemen will have a leading
place on the program.

Uncle Sam' is trying to hitch up
closer with the producer and to serve
as the agent in getting farm and or-
chard produce to consumers quickly
and cheaply by mail. Use of the par-
cel post is rapidly increasing. During
the grape season just closed the Law-
ton post office in Van Buren county
sent out 1,227 baskets of grapes, also
many packages of pears, plums, ap-
ples,. cucumbers and tomatoes, ship-
ments going south to Texas, west to
Wyoming( north to North Dakota and
east to Vermont. Postmaster Rickey,
of Dowagiac, has taken pains to write
to manufacturers of parcel post con-
tainers for samples, also to farmers
who are already extensive users of
the new system to aid in an exhibition
of methods of packing fruit and pro-
The display will
include butter and egg carriers, con-
tainers for dressed poultry, fruit, etc.

Chas. F. Openlander, of Clinton
county, read a most valuable paper re-
cently at a meeting of the Looking

Glass Valley Farmers’ Club on “Co-
operation,” in which he said in part:
“Do you know that there are over
2,000 co-operative creameries in suc-
cessful operation in the United States
today? Do you know that there is a.
co-operative elevator in Iowa that has
been paying its farmer ostockholders
good dividends for 25 years? There
are more than 335 co-operative ele-
vators in Iowa, 300 in Minnesota, 250
in South Dakota, 200 in North Dakota,
and over 2,500 in the grain belt doing
business successfully and paying the
middleman’s margin, not to the mid-
dleman, but to the producer, to whom
it belongs. Now what are we going
to do about it? I would suggest, first,
that we educate ourselves on this
question by reading. The farm pa-
pers are loaded with information on
the subject. As soon as we are prop-
erly informed of our needs along this
line we will have a co-operative so-
ciety here in Watertown. Farmers,
co-operation is coming and the sooner
you get in line the less foolish you’ll
feel when it gets here. The farmer
has been dictated to and ruled over so
long that he takes it as a matter of
course. He is asleep and benumbed
to the great possibilities of co-opera-
tion, because he has been a slave and
a tool so long. The greatest fault with
us all is that we try to be too inde-
pendent. Suppose the labor unions
did not oblige their members to sign
a pledge of loyalty, how could they
ever hope to win a point? The farmer
must be pledged by written contract
to stand 'by his fellow farmer; other-
wise he can never hope for success.”
Mr. Openlander took for his text the
third chapter of Mark, 25th verse: “It
a house be divided against itself, that
house cannot stand.”
Kent Co. ALMOND GRIFFEN’.

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Crop and_Market Notes.

Michigan.

Arenac Co., Nov. 10.—Potatoes are
a fair yield. Beans 10 to 12 bushels
per acre; corn good; new .meadows
fair; wheat and rye look fine. The av-
erage number of cattle are being win-
tered, and there is plenty of feed.
Farmers are holding their hay. Beans
$2.05; wheat 900; oats 43c; potatoes
30c; hay $10@12.

Barry Co., Nov. 10.—Farmers have
their fall work well along, though
some corn yet to husk. Corn is an
excellent crop. Buyers are offering
200 forpotatoes, and quite a good
many are being stored awaiting better
prices. This is a good location for
fruit, but orchards are badly neglect-
ed. Farmers are giving some attention
to dairying. A few silos have been
put up, and more will go up next year.

Isabella Co., Nov. 10.——P0tatoes are
not as good as last year, and buyers
are offering 22@250. Beans about a
half crop, bringing $1.95. Meadows,
new seeding and wheat are fair. More
wheat and rye sown than usual. A few
hogs and cattle are being fed for sale.
Farmers have a good supply of feed
for own use. Surplus wheat and rye
mostly sold, and no corn or oats for
sale. Farmers are marketing potatoes
and beans.

Mecosta Co., Nov. 9.——Potatoes,
beans and corn were a good crop.
Meadows, new seeding, wheat and rye
are looking fine. Some hogs and cat-
tle are being fed. Much anxiety is
shown over the foot and mouth ‘is-
ease. An average amount of feed in
farmers’ hands. Potatoes are quoted
at 25c; beans $2; corn 35c per basket.

Shiawassee Co., Nov. 10.——Splendid
weather for farm work, and lots of
fall plowing being done. Potatoes av-
eraging 130 crates per acre, and some
fields yielding as high as 208 crates
per acre. Beans good quality, yield
10 to 12 bushels per acre. Corn har-
vest well under way. Meadows in ex-
cellent condition. New seeding look-
ing fine. Wheat and rye are excel-
lent. A few cars of feeding cattle on
feed. Very few lambs fed. Plenty of
feed in farmers’ hands. Some wheat
being held for higher prices.

(Continued on page 462).

Beans

Creamery

is a PROTECTION
to the Cream Producer

 

You cream—producmg Farmers ought
to know that the Blue Valley Creamery Company. as a
market for your butter-fat, offers you the most absolute pro-
tection for full profit. highest price and prompt pay. Such a
reliable market as that is a great asset to you and your
business because it allows you to sell direct and not through
the middleman. It cuts. out all the element of uncertainty
and does away with the necessity of dividing, your receipts
with somebody else. I

When you figure out what it costs
you to produce cream, the time and money it costs you to
care for your cows, why should you share your profits with
anybody? When you add the middleman’s charges and
profits to cost of maintenance and production, do you get
enough money out of it to pay you for your trouble? That’s why we
adVise you to sell to the Blue Valley Creamery Company and get the
maximum price and the maximum profit both of which are as sure

as the rising of the sun. Any good business farmer will see the value
of these facts at a glance.

And another thing—some of you
farmers who are making butter are operating along the lines
of greatest resistance. You can make more money with far
less labor if you will sell your cream to us and let us make

 

the butter than to attempt to make it and distribute it yourselves.
Distribution costs money and if it isn’t well organized, it’s a waste and
not a profit. F igure both of these points out iii dollars and cents-get
down to brass tacks—icontrast the profits you make now with the profits
you can make by dealing with us, and it will require no further argument
from us. Facts speak for themselves.

The Blue Valley Creamery System
has a remarkably fine standing throughout America. It
makes the best butter and sells to the best trade. It gets
the best price for its butter and can afford to pay the best
prices for cream. That company, therefore, is your logical market.
There isn’t any other market that is anywhere near as good. And every

can of cream you ship to a Blue Valley Creamery nets you your
maxrmum profit. .These statements being facts, what further argument
is necessary? Write us today and get the detailed information.

Better still—ship us a can of your

cream today and see h0_W the trial results. You don’t stand
to lose anything and you Will make a discovery that will put money in
your pocket, and turn present loss into full profit.

 

Blue Valley creameries are
located in Wholesale market centers where
there_are a number of railroads, thus
enabling each creamery to get a large
volume of cream within a reasonable
shipping distance and servealarge number
of cream producers. Creaiiieries are
located at Chicago, 111., St. Joseph, Mo.,
Indiana iolis,Ind., Sioux Cit ,Ia., Detroit,
Mich., irand Rapids, Mic ., Hastings,
Neb., Parsons, Kan, Springfield, 111.,
Clinton, Ill. , Cedar Rapids, Ia. Ours is a
business creamery system built up to meet;
hand separator conditions, thereby paying
highest prices for cream. Your’s truly.

BLUE VALLEY CREAMERY CO.
P. S.~Re1nember each Blue Valley Creamery always

pay: the 3am pnce to a .

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You take no risk in shipping your can of cream to a
Blue Valley Creamery. on are sure of the money for
your cream and our binding guarantee insures the return
cl you! empty can. No farmer has ever failed to get his
pay for his can of cream during all the years we have
been in business. We are proud, and we think justly
so, of this record and it is worth a great deal to the
farmer who is looking {or a high price cream market and
one that is at the same time reliable.

We have thousands of letters on file in our office: from
shippers. We'll send you copies on application. Each
is a glowing recommendation of the Blue Valley System.

Cream is always shipped by baggage or express and
low shipping rates have been fixed for 5, 8 and lo gal-
lon cans. he shipping charge includes the return of
your empty can. Ask your local express agent or rail-
road agent about rates to our nearest creamery.
can't give you the rate: just drop us a postal card and we
will see that he is informed. wagons meet all
trains. Ship on any train that carries express or baggage.

Write for printed shipping ta 3 or use an ordinary
shipping tag and address it to t nearest Blue Valley

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patent $6.20; second $5.80; straight oats 480; rye 90c; buckwheat 800; rye wag sown arbou't gcfiitbghggt :33
$5.35; spring patent $6.50; ryeflour beans $1.90. Reports indicate a light makes a poor showing. Young élover

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; GRAINS AND SEEDS.

November 17, 1914.

Wheat—Unprecedented conditions
prevail in the wheat market. With a
new record established in.the increase
of the visible supply for the country,
last week’s trading was continued on
an almost steady basis. The heavy
marketing by farmers increased the
stores to 5,535,000 bushels more than
was in sight a week earlier, while
prices held to within a rather narrow
range. The reason for the market
continuing so favorable to the farmers
is the foreign demand. Europe must
have wheat and at the present time
America has about the only supply
sufiicient to meet the needs. Last
week fully 10,000,000 bushels were
shipped and America furnished 9,000,-
000 of the amount. Dealers do not
fear the continued demand for while
the crop in Argentine is reported as
promising, the grain will not be ready
for shipment for six months and this
country in the meantime can dispose
of her big surplus. Boats to carry the
grain to Europe is the greatest handi-
cap. Any general cessation of deliv-
eries at country elevators, however,
would likely cause a sharp upturn in
values. One year ago the price for
No. 2 red wheat on the local market
was 96%c per bushel. Quotations for
the past week are:

 

No. 2 No. 1
Red. White. Dec.
Wednesday . . 1 12% 1.09% 1.15
Thursday ...... 1.13 1.10 1.15
Friday . . ...... 1.12 1.09 1.14

Saturday .......1.12 1.09 1.14
Monday ........1.12 1.09 1.14

Tuesday . ..........
Chicago, (Nov. 16).—No. 2 red
Dec., $1.14%;

wheat $1.14%@1.151/1;
May $1.20% per bushel.

Corn.——There has been a depression
in corn values during the week. Be-
sides a let-up in the foreign demand
the weather has been such as to en‘
courage liberal marketing by growers
allowing stocks to accumulate. The
feeding situation is being held in
abeyance by the restrictions against
the movement of stock on account of
the presence of foot and mouth dis-
ease, which with the comparatively
high prices being paid for corn, is
stimulating general selling in those
sections where the crop is ready to
move. The November estimate of the
1914 corn crop by the government
was 2,705,692,000 bushels. One year
ago the price for No. 3 corn was 76 %c
per bushel. Quotationsléiresz

o.

No. 3

Mixed. Yellow.
Wednesday ......... 76 78
Thursday ........... 76 78
Friday .............. 75 77
Saturday ........... 75 77
Monday ............ 75 77
Tuesday ............ . . . .

Chicago, (Nov. 16).’No. 2 yellow

corn 73%@74%c; Dec., 67%0; May
710 per bushel.

Oats.—Business has not been as
animated as a fortnight ago and val-
ues have eased off a little from last
week; however, the trading is on a
firm basis and dealers seem optimis-
tic. Foreign calls continue to come
although early this week the Euro-
pean demand was not so prominent a
factor in the transactions. The gov-
ernment report for November places
the cat yield for 1914 at 1,139,741,000
bushels, as compared with 1,121,768,-
000 for 1913. One year ago the local
price for standard oats was 430 per

bushel. Quotations are as follosz: 3
0.

Standard. White.
Wednesday ......... 50 49%
Thursday ........... 50 49%
Friday .............. 50 49%
Saturday ........... 50 49%
Monday ............ 49% 49%
Tuesday ............

Chicago, (Nov. 16).———Standard oats
49%c; Dec., 49%c; May 53%c per bu.

Rye—This grain is firm at $1.03%
for No. 2, which is 2%c higher than
last week.

Beans.—Trading continues active
and demand good. At Greenville
beans are selling on a $2.05 basis. De-
troit quotations are: Immediate and
November shipment $2.25; December
$2.30. Chicago—Demand is good at
firm to higher prices. Pea beans,
hand-picked, choice, are quoted at
$2.55@2.60; common at $2.30@2.45;
red kidneys, choice, at $3.25@3.50.

Clover Seed.—Demand is good at
steady prices. Prime spot quoted at
$9.20; December $9.30; March $9.50;
prime alsike sells at $8.60.

Toledo—Prime cash $9.30; Decem-
ber $9.32%; March $9.55; prime al-
sike $8.70.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

Flour.—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

 

$5.60 per bbl.

Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $24;
$25; fine middlings $32; coarse corn
ineal $32; corn and oat chop $28 pe
on.

Hay.—This trade is quiet and easy
at lower prices. Carlots on track at
Detroit are: New, No. 1 timothy $15
@1550; standard $14@14.50; No. 2,
$13@13.50; No. 3, $10@11.

Chicago.—Choice grades are in good
demand and firm, while common is
steady. Choice timothy $16.50@17.50;
No. 1, $15@16; No. 2, $12.50@13.

Straw.—Steady. Rye $7.50@8; oat
stiaw $7@7.50; wheat straw $7@7.50
a on.

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

Butter.—Market is steady at last
week’s prices. Extra creamery 32c;
firsts 29c; dairy 21c; packing stock
20c per lb.

Chicago—Market is somewhat eas-
ier with prices slightly changed. Hold-
ers are inclined to force sales a little
more. High prices are curtailing con-
sumption. Extra creamery 32%c; ex-
tra firsts 30@310; firsts 27%@29%c;
seconds 24@27c; packing stock-21%

22c.

Elgin.—Sold at 320, which is the
same as last week.

Eggs.—Market firm with prices
slightly advanced. Fresh stock sells
at 290 per dozen; current receipts
26%0.

Chicago—A firm feeling exists at
prices slightly advanced over last
week. Fresh stock is in demand. Ev-
en some eggs passing as firsts are not
good enough for the good trade. Mis-
cellaneous lots, cases included 20@29c
per dozen; ordinary firsts 26%@27%c
per dozen; firsts 28%@29%c.

Poultry.——-Market is easy but prices
are slightly higher. Springs 130;
hens 12c; ducks 14%@150; geese 14
@14%c; turkeys 18@20c.

Chicago—Springs are firmer but
other kinds are unchanged. The de-
mand is good, there being some spec-
ulative buying. Quotations on live
are: Fowls 11@13c; spring chickens
11%@120; ducks 12@180; guinea
hens per dozen, $3.50; young guinea
hens $2@4; turkeys 151/20; geese 12%
@15c per lb.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Fruits.——Pears, Keiffers 50@600;
igrapes 17@18c for blue, per 8-lb. bas-
et

Chicago—Pears, Keiffers $1.75@
2.25 per bbl; quinces $2@3.75 per bbl,
$1@1.40 per bu; black grapes 14@190
per 8-lb. basket.

Vegetables.——Home - grown cabbage,
750@$1 per bbl; new beets 50c per
bu; onions 800 per 100 lbs. in bulk, 85
@90c per 100 lbs. in sacks.

Potatoes—Carlots 30@35c per bu;
in bulk, 35@400 per bushel in sacks;
at Chicago Michigan white, bulk, are
quoted at 35@45c per bushel; at
Greenville, Mich, 30@33c in bulk.

Apples.—Due to liberal supply the
market is still easy. -Average receipts
50@75c .per bu; $1.50@2.50 per bbl.

Chicago—Fancy goods are in fair
sale and steady. Trade is generally
slow on account of the liberal supply.
Snows, Wageners, Spies and Green-
ings are in most demand. Baldwins
$1.75@2.25; Kings $2.25@2.50; Wag-
eners $2@2.25; Jonathans $3.50@4;
Greenings $2.25@2.50; Northern Spy
$2.25@2.50; Snow $2.25@2.75; bulk
apples 50c@$1 per 100 lbs., according
to quality. Western box apples are
selling for 800@$2.25 per box.

WOOL.

A normal amount of business was
done last week and the deals covered
a wide range of grades; however, the
fleece wools occupied a larger place in
the transactions than for some time
past. Just why manufacturers are not
getting anxious about supplies is a
mystery, for stocks in dealer’s hands
are limited, the British government
has placed an embargo on wools from
her colonial possessions and the ship-
ments coming from South America are
being carried in English bottoms,
these boats going first to England
where the consignments would natur-
ally be offered first to the trade there.
But the manufacturers seem satisfied
to buy for immediate wants only.
However, the demand for finished
goods is of good proportions, making
the volume of sales reasonably large
and the day-to-day buying method
guarantees a more constant demand
than would be the case where stocks
were laid in. Trading in fleece wools
is more animated with delaines chang-
ing hands at 24@24%c, and half-
bloods at 29c. Territory wools are ac-
tive at the best prices of the season.

GRAND RAPIDS.
Wheat is off a cent for Tuesday’s

buying, the mills quotin as follows:
No. 1 red $1.05; No. 2 re $1.02; No. 1

 

 

 

 

standard middlings-

crop of turkeys for Thanksgiving

trade and all poultry prices are firm.

Prices, live weight, at the opening of
the week are: Fowls and springs
10%c; turkeys 17c; ducks 11c; geese
10@120. Not much change in the po-
tato situation, with market at 20@23c
at most stations outside, and'35@400
here. While some potatoes are mov-
ing the bulk of the 1914 crop has been
placed in storage.

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

The cold weather discouraged the
presence of sellers and buyers on the
city market Tuesday morning and the
volume of business 'was comparatively
small. Prices were firm for most
lines. Potatoes were in much smaller
supply and sold around 45c per bu.
Apples are still offered freely but the
quality is improved; values range
from 500@$1. Fresh eggs were held
at 45c; butter 380; celery 20@25c per
bunch; squash 30@60c per bu; there
was no loose hay in sight and the
nominal price is $17@19 per ton for
timothy. ' ‘ .

CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

November 16.

This is the Monday set for the par-
tial reopening of the stock yards for
business, and stock from sections of
the country that are not quarantined
may be brought in, but no live stock
may be shipped from here, and all
stock must be slaughtered within 36
hours. The streets, alleys and pack-
ing house plants are all sprinkled
heavily with lime, and nothing has
been left undone to eliminate all dan-
ger from further spread of the foot
and "mouth disease. Receipts of ev-
erything are on a limited scale, com-
prising about 7,000 cattle, 18,000 hogs
and 22,000 sheep and lambs. Stock
arriving is closely watched by the in-
spectors, and the work of unloading
was so slow that business was neces-
sarily delayed. The packers received
direct about 7,000 hogs, as well as
about 4,500 sheep and lambs, largely
old ewes from St. Paul. After trade
got well started in cattle the market
was fairly active, with irregular
prices, and part of the cattle selling
25 cents or more higher. Two car-
loads of choice yearling steers
brought $10.75, and that was reported
as top for the heavier offerings, there
being no heavy beeves such as sold
before the closing of the stock yards
up to $11. A carload of fancy heifers
brought $9.75. Hogs were approx1-
mately 400 or more higher than the
last day the yards were open for bus-
iness, with sales on a basis of $7.50@
8.25 for marketable offerings, but the
boom was due mainly to early pur-
chases made by speculators. The
packers held back and declined to pay
the full advance, and by the noon
hour most of the improvement had
disappeared, and it began to look like

 

an $8 top. A firm sheep market was
witnessed, with packers buying fat
lambs at $8.50@9. There were re-

ports of a $9.25 top for lambs, but
they could not be verified.

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

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moving freely. Live stock in a heal-
thy condition. Wheat $1.05; oats 43c;
beans $2.05; barley $1.20; potatoes
40c; corn 70c; eggs 24c; butter 28c.

Branch Co., Nov. 7.——Late potatoes
are yielding well. Corn about two-
thirds of an average crop, and some
yet to be husked. Rains last month
damaged beans, which will not yield
as well as expected, averaging only
about seven bushels per acre. Mead-

ows, seeding, wheat and rye are look-.

ing good owing to the late rains.
Some live stock ordered killed in this
county. Many farmers have stock all
ready for market, but cannot sell on
account of the quarantine. Wheat
$1.07; oats 44c; corn 75c; potatoes
30c; butter 260; eggs 300.

Sanilac Co., Nov. 7.—With the ex-
ception of a few showers, we have
had a dry fall, and the roads are ex-
cellent. Wheat looks fine, and a large
acreage was sown. Potato harvest is
about over, and yield is good, price
offered 25c. Bean threshing is about
done, yielding from six to 10 bushels
per acre. Cows are very high, but
horses are plentiful and cheap. There
is a fair supply; of sheep all in good
condition. Hay and oats are being
marketed freely.

Pennsylvania.

Crawford Co., Nov. 10.——Wheat and
rye are looking fine. Meadows and
new seeding are good. Potatoes are
yielding about 70 bushels per acre.
Corn, is good, averaging 90 bushels
per acre. Beans are a light crop.
There is a large amount of feed'in
farmers’ hands for own use, though
not much surplus grain for sale. Most
farmers have dairy stock and hogs to
feed. Farmers are marketing potatoes
at 40c; corn 90c: oats 38c.

1s a good stand.’ Corn is yielding 100
bushels of ears per acre, though some
fields are a failure owing to drouth.
Some are plowing corn ground for
next season. Farmers are marketing
some wheat, milk and poultry. Most

of the oats and corn will be fed on

farms to hogs and horses. Potatoes
are being shipped here from New
York state, and selling at 75c per
bushel.‘ Wheat $1.02; oats 45c; corn,
out of field 650; eggs 29c; butter 24c;
chickens 110.

Ohio.

Ashtabula Co., Nov. 9.——The winter
grams are looking exceptionally well.
New seeding almost a failure. Corn
1s being husked and the yield is fair.
Some. are doing fall plowing. Stock
15 domg well, but not many cattle or
hogs for sale. There is plenty of
rough feed, but a scarcity of all kinds
of gram. Potatoes were a bumper
crop and about all dug; they sell at
38c per bushel; milk at creamery is
$1.70; butter 30@360; eggs 32c; hogs
7@8c alive; veal, dressed 8@10c;
chick-ens 120.

Columbiana Co., ,Nov. 9.—Weather
fine until November 8, when we had
several inches of snow. Farmers have
their work pretty well done up. Po-
tatoes all dug, and a good yield. Corn
is nearly all husked, but not a good
crop owing to the dry summer. Mead-
ows are in fair condition; early sown
wheat does not look good. A good
many cattle are being fed, but there
1s not much surplus feed. Potatoes
are the main crop being marketed,
and shippers are paying 40@450; oats
50c; wheat $1; old corn 900; new 60c;
butter 30c; eggs 300.

_ Madison Co., Nov. 7.—Good progress
1s being made in harvesting the corn
crop, which is an average crop, and
bringing 600 per bushel. New seeding
of wheat and rye looks excellent,
though there is some report of dam-
age by fly owing to late warm fall.
Several cars of potatoes and apples
are being shipped in as these products
were almost a failure in this section.
Illinois.

Perry Co., Nov. 4.——Potatoes were
the most complete failure for many
years, and there will not be enough
for home consumption. Northern po.
tatoes are retailing at 800 per bushel.
There are no beans, and corn is a.
very short crop. Meadows and new
seeding are fine. Wheat and rye are
doing fine. Very little stock being fed,
some hogs. Few farmers have any
feed to sell and many will have to
buy. Wheat sells for $1, and many
farmers are holding the grain for bet-
ter prices. Hay $10@16; butter 250;
eggs 300; hens and geese 13c.

Missouri.

St. Louis Co., Nov. 9.——-Wheat look-
ing fine and more sown than usual.
Farmers held off planting on account
of the fly. The usual amount of rye
sown. Corn averages 25 bushels per
acre; potatoes 35 to 40 bushels. There
are no beans. Pears plentiful, and ap-
ple market unsatisfactory. Eggs 30((D
350. The East St. Louis stock yards
are closed for the first time in many
years.

Vernon Co., Nov. 9.—The weather
is unusually fine. Farmers are busy
gathering their corn. Corn on bottom
lands yielding 40 to 50 bushels, while
on the uplands it is not quite as good.
Lots of wheat has been sown and is
looking fine. There is plenty of hay,
fodder, etc., on hand for stock. Some
hogs are dying with what is supposed
to be cholera. Wheat 90@95c; oats
40c; corn 650; hogs $6.75; chickens
10c; eggs 24c; butter 250.

Kansas.

Trego Co., Nov. 9.—Weather is ideal
but very dry; wheat is needing rain
badly, and some reported dying for
want of moisture. Corn is being husk-
ed and yields from 20 to 25 bushels
per acre. No corn is being marketed
as yet, and only a little over half of
this year’s wheat crop marketed. Feed
of all kinds is plentiful, and quite a.
number of cattle are being shipped in
for feeding. Wheat 94c; corn 60c;
potatoes 750; apples 850; butter 25c;
eggs 20c.

Lincoln Co., Nov. 7.——The wheat
stand is good, some farmers are turn-
ing their cattle on it. Potatoes scarce.
some being shipped in and selling at
850 per bushel. Corn is also shipped
in and sells at 78c per bushel. There
is quite a number of young cattle fed,
and there is plenty of rough feed on
hand. Hogs are scarce. A lot of
wheat is going to market. Oats 48c;
alfalfa hay $11; butter 20c; eggs 20c.

Nebraska.

Scotts Bluff Co., Nov. 6.—Potatoes
yielded 100 to 200 bushels per acre.
The season is short for corn, only the
early varieties being grown. There
are not as many sheep being fed as
usual, and only a few cattle fed. The
range stock is doing fine. No grain
is shipped out; corn is shipped in.
Sugar beets good crop and bring $5.50
per ton. Alfalfa, the leading cro here,
bri‘ngs $8 on track. Potatoes 1 per
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. , LIVE STOCK NEWS.

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Dr. Simon Flexner, the world fa?

mous pathologist and bacteriologist,
who is the. head of the Rockefeller In-
stitute, is going to study the foot and
mouth disease, with a view of isolat-
ing the germ and compounding a ser-
um that can be used as an antitoxin.
Dr. Flexner has at his command the
$100,000 appropriation recently made
by the institute for the study of the
live stock diseases. He and other
scientists have arrived in Chicago to
pursue researches into the disease
that is causing the loss of millions of
dollars. Fifty Illinois counties have
been under observation for possible
traces of the foot and mouth disease,
and 15 counties are under quarantine.
State and nation have clashed as to
the disposition that should be made
of the prize dairy cattle sick at the
Chicago stock yards, the federal gov-
ernment authorities claiming that they
should be killed, while the state of
Illinois, represented by Dr. 0. E. Dy-
son, state veterinarian, sees no rea«
son for such drastic action. It is
pointed out that the greater part of
the 386 head of fancy stock held there
are affected with foot and mouth dis-
ease, that most of these are recover-
ing, and that to slaughter them means
to set back the breeding industry for
years. ‘ . _

There was great surprise at the Chi-
cago stock yards the other day when
it was discovered that thousands of
dollars worth of the serum used for
hog cholera, which is manufactured
there, had become infected with the
germs of the foot and mouth disease.
This serum has been sold broadcast,
and to prevent widespread injury-Dr.
S. E. Bennett, representing the United
States government, has issued awarn-
ing to farmers. A farm to farm can-
vass among the purchasers of this
serum is being made by inspectors act-
ing under orders to examine every
cloven hoofed animal on such farms.

Everywhere great regret is express-
ed because it became necessary on
account of the outbreak of foot and
mouth disease in the Chicago stock
yards and elsewhere to abandon the
great International Live Sstock Expo-
sition this year. Managers of the fa-
mous and popular exhibition state that
the entries for the show were the
largest ever recorded. _

Because of the closing of the Chi-
cago stock yards,afew of the markets
not quarantined received unusually
large supplies of live stock, and the
Kansas City stock yards were glutted
with cattle, resulting in big slumps in
prices, with the smallest decline in
prime corn-fed beeves. Grass cattle
comprised the greatest part of the of-
ferings and sold off sharply. Aggre-
gate receipts of cattle, swine and
sheep at all the western markets were
far less than a year ago. All the mar-
kets reported the cattle stocker and
feeder trade in a demoralized condi-
tion. Some thin cattle have been mov-
ing westward from Omaha and Kan-
sas City, but in territory east of the
Missouri river there is very little call
for thin cattle or sheep for feeding
purposes. Since the outbreak of foot
and mouth disease stocker values
have experienced a big break, but the
demand has been poor. November
shipments of stock cattle and sheep
from the central markets of the Uni-
ted States are going to be the smallest
in 20 years, and fat cattle and sheep
are sure to be scarce and unusually
high. Nebraska’s quarantine against
Iowa has prevented a lot of live stock
from going from the Hawkeye state
to Omaha.

The local office of the Bureau of
Animal Industry has received the fol-
lowing instructions from Washington:
“Owing to scarcity of funds, it is con-
sidered advisable to save as many an-
imals as possible. Therefore, you are
instructed to makelefforts to save an-
imals for food purposes in cases of
large herds where disease has appear-
ed in only a few cases.”

Horses were allowed to be marketed
last week, as usual, at the Chicago
stock yards, and they arrived and were
shipped out in good numbers, the
quarantine not including them, as they
do not take foot and mouth disease.
Expressers and wagoners were most
frequently in demand, next to army
horses, the latter being salable at $130
@140 per head for desirable mounts
and at $150@180 for artillery horses.
During the preceding week the Chi-
cago receipts in the stock yards were
officially reported as 7,031 head, ex-
ceeding all records, but they included
thousands of army horses bought at
various western points and on their
way to the Atlantic seaboard.

Eugene H. Grubb, of Colorado, who
has been in Europe in the interest of
the Panama Exposition, returned re-
cently and predicted that at the close
of the war there would be a great
scarcity of most of the famous, Eng;
lish, French and elgian horses, and
as a result he sai the American studs
of the princi al breeds of Percherons,
Belgians, Sh res and Clydesdales will
enhance enormously in value.

 

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munication should state history and
symptoms of the case in full; also
name and address of writer. Initials
only will be published. Many quer-
ies are answered that apply to the
same ailments. If this column is
watched carefully you will .probably
find the desired information in a re-
ply that has been made to someone
else. When reply by mail is request-
ed. it becomes private practice, and a
fee of $1.00 must accompany letter.

 

Nasal Catarrh.—Two weeks ago I
purchased a calf at public sale; the
calf had been clipped and perhaps
took cold; since then a mucus dis-
charge .has been coming from both
nostrils and so far as I can tell, calf
is no better. E. D. R., Belleville,
Mich.-—-—Give your calf 10 grs. of qui-
nine, a dessertspoonful of fluid ex-
tract of gentian and a teaspoonful of
Glauber’s salt at a dose three times a
day. Keep calf stabled during cold,
raw, stormy weather and in barn over
night.

Poll-evil.—I have a seven—year-old
horse which our local Vet. has been
treating for poll-evil, but the horse
does not seem to recover. J. K. B.,
Falmouth, Mich—Ask your Vet. to
give horse serum treatment, also ap,
ply iodine preparations to bunch ev-
ery day or two and if it is necessary
to do some surgical work on him, he
can do it.

Sprained Shoulder.~1 have a mare .

with what people tell me is a sprained
shoulder, she is very lame and has
not done any work for the past two
months. When on pasture she got in
a ditch and it took us five hours to
help her out; she was then not able
to stand alone and it took some time
before she was able to walk. 'Her
arm and shoulder are some swollen
and the liniment I have applied has
made no impression. When walking
she twists her leg and swings it out in
a sort of rotary manner. A. E. F.,
Custer, Mich—Clip hair off shoulder
and apply one part powdered can-
tharides and five parts fresh lard ev-
ery week or ten days.

Partial Paralysis.—~I have two hogs
a year old that are dragging their hind
parts and have very little use of hind
legs. These hogs ran in orchard all
summer and were in nice condition
up to three months ago, when one be-
gan to drop down behind; a month
later the others showed the same
symptoms. Neither one of them have
ever missed a feed. G. 8., Bannister,
Mich—You have fed your hogs too
much corn and fat-producing food, not
enough of muscle-making feed. Dis-
continue feeding corn, or if they are
fleshy and fit for market, destroy
them; or, fatten them at once, as a
chronic ailment of this kind is not al-
Ways curable.

Indigestion.—~I have a mare twel-e
years old that bloats after eating, oc-
casionally coughs, and her breath has
a foul odor. J. J. T., Belleville, Mich.
Give her a dessertspoonful of hypo-
sulphite of soda and 1 dr. of ground
nux vomica at a dose in feed three
times a day. She should be fed a
(goof quality of food and exercised

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THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF POUL-
TRY TO FOOD AND DIET.

 

BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.
(Continued from last week).

Dietary Considerations of Eggs.
Eggs are probably one of the most
universally used meat diet accessor-
ies. Their food value is quite con-
stant and uniform, but market condi-
tions fluctuate very materially. Like
meat food products the price at which
eggs are sold on the market is usually
entirely out of relationship to the nu-
tritive value of the eggs. In fact,
there is very little relationship in this
country between real nutritive value
of food products in general, and the
price at which they are retailed. It
would seem, with the increased atten-
tion which is being given in our col-
leges and universities to problems of
diet, that after awhile some consider-
ation based upon real relationship be-
tween nutritive values and costs would
evidence themselves in our domestic
commerce. However, the American
people place such importance on fresh-
ness of articles of meat and meat ac-
cessories, and upon purity and high
quality of food products in general
that it is very difficult to establish a.
diet along economic lines. Therefore
eggs are used in dietaries in places
where meat products could be more
economically and just as advantage-
ously used. On the 'other hand, many
times sirloin and porterhouse steaks
and the like are used to the‘ exclusion
of such excellent foods as eggs when
it is decidedly uneconomical to use
them.

Eggs Can be Produced on a Village

Lot.

As we mentioned with regard to
poultry considerations, one very im-
portant reason for the almost univer-
sal use of eggs is that egg production
is about the only animal production
which can be conducted on the small
farm or village lot. This possibly ef-
fects very favorably the American
family diet for it provides a. fresh
meat accessory many times when
meat at all would be impossible.

There are a very great variety of
ways in which eggs may be prepared.
In fact, nearly every housekeeper has
some special way of her own in which
eggs are prepared for food. It is gen-
erally considered from a standpoint of
nutrition that the boiling of an egg in
the shell is one of the most satisfac-
tory ways of preparing it for food. If
an egg is dropped into boiling water,
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degrees, and kept there for two min-
utes, the yolk will be warmed through
but not coagulated, and the White, or
albumin, will be changed to the con-
sistency of What is known as a very
soft boiled egg. Hard-boiled eggs take
usually upwards of four minutes.
Some dietists prefer the prolonged
cooking of an egg below the boiling
temperature. Eggs may be cooked
for instances for 35 to 45 minutes if
the temperature is not raised near the
boiling point and then in this condi-

tion will become very easily digested.

and, if fresh, with no undesirable fla-
vors, very palatable indeed.

, Composition of Eggs.

The Bureau of Chemistry of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture have made some very extensive
investigations on the chemical compo-
sition of eggs. In general, hens’ eggs
consist of about 11 per cent shell, 32
per cent of egg yolk and 57 per cent
white, or regular egg albumin. Eggs
are exceedingly highly nitrogenous
food products. They contain as well,

large quantities of fat, the yolk of the
egg containing practically all of the
fat. Besides protein and fat, eggs also

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contain in the edible portion notice-
able quantities of mineral salts. It is
apparent therefore, that the edible
portion of the egg is a quite complete
food product and inasmuch as it is de-
signed to furnish nourishment and
sustenance to the young bird during
the early stages of its existence the
reason for this food perfection is ap-
parent. In this respect eggs compare
in a general way with milk. Milk be-
ing the complete food for the mammal
for a certain period of its early life
necessarily must be, and is, a perfect
food for the individual during that life
period. Similarly with eggs. The er-
ror in dieting is to assume that either
milk or eggs are perfect food for an
adult. While they contain the ingredi-
ents which for a period of time will
sustain life, at the same time these
constituents are not so balanced that
they constitute an ideal food in them-
selves for adult life.

The Egg Contains the Germ of Life.

From a physiological point of view
the egg is one of the most interesting
life products which we have to study.
It not only contains the, proper food
products for the growth of the young,
but it contains as well the enzymes
and catalytic forces which under prop-
er conditions meet the demands of the
life processes. Biologists therefore
have made a definite study of the egg.
Its protein, or albumin, is very com-
plex and the cell nucleus is most mar-
velous in its physiological and chemi.
cal structure. While great progress
has been made in the chemical study
of the egg, little success has attained
the efforts of the biologists in unravel-
ing through the abundance of chemi-
cal evidence at hand the mystery sur-
rounding the life activity manifested.

In the egg shell most of the mineral
matter is stored up. The egg shell
proper consists in a very large degree
of calcium carbonate, some mag-
nesium carbonate and some calcium
phosphate. Over 90 per cent of the
weight of the egg shell is calcium car-
bonate and about five per cent of it is
so-called organic matter.

How Feed Affects Egg Quality.

The feed given to fowls affects very
materially the flavor of the egg. It is
generally conceded that perfectly
fresh eggs have by far the most desir-
able flavors although there is really
little flavor to the absolutely fresh-
laid egg. On storage for a consider-
able period of time eggs deteriorate
very materially in flavor, although this
deterioration may not be an evidence
of spoilage. The shell of the egg is
very porous and on this account cold
storage men find it necessary to use
great care in the storage of eggs.
They are in a way almost as suscepti-
ble to the absorption of disagreeable
flavors as is milk. The bane of the
cold storage man’s business, insofar as
cold storage is concerned, is the de-
velopment of a must in the egg. No
matter how firm an egg may be, if it
becomes musty it is practically worth-
less and this is the condition which
storage men fight more than any oth-
er condition insofar as egg storage is
concerned.

Vegetable Diet Gives Best Flavored
Eggs.

A vegetable diet seems to produce
eggs of the finest quality. Fowls fed
on grain to a large extent have the
finest flavored eggs. A meat diet, or
a strictly nitrogenous diet where ani-
mal products furnish the nitrogen, is
very apt to develop badly flavored
eggs. Any highly flavored food pro-
ducts, such as garlic, onions, and the
like, exhibit their undesirable influ-
ences after a time upon the flavor of
the eggs. ' ~ '

It has been conceded that the char-

 

NOV. ’21, 1914.

actor of the feed has much to do with
thecolor of the contents of the egg,
particularly with the color of the yolk.
We are not sure that this statement
has been fully corroborated by experi-
mental evidence. It seems reasonable
to suppose that the claims of these
experimenters, that the use of an
abundance of green foods, such as clo-
ver, alfalfa, and the like, will deepen
the yellow color of the egg, is well
founded. On the other hand, we think
that this has not reached such ‘a de-
gree of perfection that the control of
the color of the yolk of the egg can as
yet be said to be scientific.

Preservation of Eggs—How to Keep
them Fresh.

A great deal of attention has been
given to methods for the preservation
of eggs. Generally speaking, eggs are
more subject to seasonable variations
in price than is any other animal food
product. This seems to be because
poultrymen generally have not found
a way to make hens productive at
those seasons of the year in which
eggs now are usually high. The great-
est effort has therefore 'been made to
find some way to properly preserve
eggs so that in-periods of apparent
plenty they may be kept until the pe-
riods of scarcity arrives. This is ac-
complished on a large scale in the cit-
ies by the cold storage houses, and if
eggs are placed in cold storage in per-
fectly fresh condition and the com-
mission merchant will be very relig-
ious in his scrutiny of the eggs before
they go into storage, when they are
taken out of storage several months
later they will be found to be in a
very satisfactory condition. If this
were done we apprehend it would not
be long before much of the prejudice
against cold storage eggs would dis-
appear. The keeping of eggs in cold
storageghowever, is not feasible in the
smaller towns or in the country homes
and various other expedients have
been at times followed, such as pack-
ing the eggs in salt, in bran, in saw-
dust, or in brine. We have not felt
that any of these methods have been
very successful. We understand, how-
ever, that a great deal of success
has followed the packing of fresh eggs
in a solution of waterglass. Water-
glass may be obtained at the drug
store for quite a reasonable price and
is saidio be an excellent preservative
medium for eggs. According to the
reports of the North Dakota Experi-
ment Station a desirable solution for
preserving eggs may be obtained by
dissolving one pint of the syrup-like
waterglassin ten pints of pure water.
The‘eggs may be put into a. crock and
the waterglass solution poured over
them and must cover them complete-
ly. The whole solution should then
be kept in a comparatively cool place.

 

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“Forage Plants and their Culture,”
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After studying conditions and prac-
tices in many places in different parts
of the country, I have arrived at the
cenclusion that but few farmers and
farmers’ wives fully appreciate and
understand all that can be accom-
plished by systematically foddering
the hens in order to secure desirable
results in egg production. In fact,
very many consider the hens distinct-
ly as grain feeding animals, and do
not give the matter of furnishing them
a reasonable amount of palatable for-
age any consideration.

We have’ found that to confine the
hens in a large, roomy park in the
summer time during the, fore part of
the day, and feeding some palatable
green feeds, that they pass the hours
quietly, eating and attending to lay-
ing. There is always a good supply
of pure, clean water within easy ac-
cess. About two hours before night
they are let loose to pick grass and
gather worms and insects of various
kinds.

Too Much Exercise Not Good.

We have secured so much better
results than when the hens were al-
lowed to roam during the day, we
have concluded that too much exer-
cise is a detriment. As too much ex-
ercise reduces the producing capabil-
ities of the dairy cow, so too much
liberty makes the hens roamers,
scratchers and foragers, and at the
same time reduces the number of
eggs produced during the year.

We have found that when hens are
confined in the park, they relish a
"great variety of green feeds. Garden
weeds, like round—top, pigweed, check-
weed, summer grass, when it is small,
laWn clippings in moderate quantities,
when fresh, also make a good feed.
Early in the spring we sow Russian
sweet turnips, and as soon as the tops
have leaves half the width of the
palm of the hand, we begin to pull
them out to thin the rows and feed
them to the chickens. These turnip
tops make good feed up to the time
the winter approaches and the crop is
gathered. Sugar beet tops make ex-
cellent summer feed, and the beets
themselves can be utilized as feed in
winter. Cabbages, sown early, make
excellent summer feed, and the large
leaves and soft heads can be stored
for winter feed.

Some Green Feeds that Are Good.

In the winter time hens take hold
of green feed very freely and are ben-
efited by them. Some early out June
clover leaves will be relished and will
benefit the flock very much. If the
alfalfa hay can not be had, a little
alfalfa meal mixed in the warm mash
in the morning will help much.

A cabbage, gathered leaves, head
and all, hung up where the hens can
reach it, will furnish green feed, and
the hens will exercise while picking
at it. A sweet beet hung up to pick
on in moderate weather furnishes
feed, a comfortable place to roost,
without much air space above them,
ventilation without draught, a variety
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but if practiced in accordance with
good common sense and judgment, it
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THE MICHIGAN FARM-ER

NOV. 21, 1914.

 

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GALA WEEK AT ADRIAN.

Adrian did itself proud, with is
three days of celebration and festivi-
ties on October 7-8-9. It was a success
beyond the expectations of those who
arranged it and was another example
of the value of co-operation for it was
the result of the united efiorts of the
business men of Adrian and the farm-
ers of the community. The Commer-
cial Club of Adrian, represented the
business men and the several live
Granges about Adrian represented the
farmers. The town was in its holiday
attire, and everybody helped to make
this the most successful carnival held
in Michigan, excepting those held in
Wayne and Kent counties. Among the
features of the arrangements was the
interest the bank took in the affair.
It gave up its building for the head-
quarters of the Grange, and also had
a fair and gave prizes for exhibits of
grains, fruits and vegetables.

The big day of the celebration was
Friday, on which (lay a monster par-
ade was held. This parade was divid-
ed into two large sections and occu-
pied the streets for hours. It is esti-
mated that fully 25,000 people wit-
nessed it. The number of floats in the
parade was beyond the expectation of
everybody, there being about 250. All
of the business concerns had floats
advertising their wares, and there
were fully 100 floats of Lenawee coun-
ty farmers" displays. The schools
‘which constituted one section of the
parade had over 30 floats in their sec-
tion. Among the features of the par—
ade were the company of boys and
the boys’ band in white uniforms,
which led the parade, the well-drilled
Clirion Tipton band of 30, and the
beautiful first prize float of Madison
lrange. The latter consisted of a
float 30 feet long, representing a com-
plete wheat field with harvesters in
farm costumes carrying on the opera-
tions of harvesting. To even hint at
the beauty of other floats in the par-
ade would require more than the lim-
ited space we have. The Fairfield
Grange quartet played a prominent
part among the several comic features
of the parade. This quartet, which
has established a reputation over the
county appeared in a dilapidated
farm wagon, with old Dobbin faith-
fully doing his duty in the tugs.

A feature of the Thursday after-
noon celebration was a meeting at the
Opera House, at which Charles N.
Gardner, of the National Grange, and
John Ketcham, Master of the State
Grange, spoke. Mr. Ketcham brought
out two points in his speech, which
were peace and war. He asked the
Granges to see their candidates for
Congress and ask them to match each
dollar spent for army and navy with
one for agriculture and education. He
also stated that we should make war
on such things as the road bonding
and fraternal insurance amendments.

 

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Mr. Gardner as usual delighted his
hearers by bringing out important
truths in a pleasing manner. He
brought out the fact that fundamental
prosperity began with the farmer, and
that Wall street speculations were
based on the condition of the farmer’s
crops. He even spoke of the three
great epochs of rural and agriculture.
history; the first, when the farm boy
did not know the city and was con-
tent to follow his fathers occupation;
the second, when he knew the city
and was attracted by it; and the third
when he knew both city and country
and preferred to stay on the farm.

Thursday night was fireworks night,
and about 15,000 people witnessed a
pretentious display of pyrotechnics.
Fully 500 automobiles were parked in
the pleasure zone, and all available
side streets were also occupied by
autos.

The gala week ended with a mask-
ed carnival, in which 1,500 maskers
participated. Those in masks parad-
ed through the main streets of Adrian
and stopped at the judge’s stand,
where the prizes were awarded. The
first best mask was a man dressed as
Uncle Sam, and the most comical
mask was one dressed as a bum. One
masker who created considerable en-
tertainment was a fellow about six
feet tall, dressed as a clown and look-
ed very much like an overgrown

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

 

Associational Motto:

“The skillful hand with cultured
mind is the farmer’s most valuable
asset.”

 

Associational Sentiment:
“The Farmer: He garners from the
soil the primal wealth of nations."

A WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATION-
AL SECRETARY.

 

The 1914 annual meeting, December
1~2, offers unusually strong attractions
and we strongly urge each local Club
to send delegates, as none can afford
to miss the inspiration of such a meet-
ing.

The boys’ and girls’ exhibits will be
shown in a separate room, with com-
petent judges in charge, and we hope
for a large display as this year’s re-
sponse will largely determine future
efforts in this department.

We suggest the attendance of the
contestants, if possible, as we realize
the comparison and inspiration re-
ceived would prove strong incentives

 

 

 

 

The Bank was Active in

baby. Wandering about the streets
he was crying for his mamma through
a megaphone. After the premiums
were awarded, the maskers unmask-
ed and the band played dance music
and dancing was done on the asphalt
pavement of Broad street.

That this gala week was a decided
success there is no doubt, the crowds
participating in the event being an in-
dication of that fact. If it did noth-
ing more than to display the commu-
nity pride and progressiveness it was
worth the time and effort to get it up.
It was certainly an expression of a
community spirit which is commend-
able and the farmers and business
men of Lenawee county may well be
proud of their accomplishment in this
undertaking.

 

 

- First Prize Madison Grange Float.

the Affairs of Gala Week.

to both individual and Club workers.

The programs have been mailed to
all local Club presidents, and pro-
grams, credentials and report blanks
to all recording secretaries.

Delayed correspondence has made
them unusually late and the Associa-
tional Secretary urges prompt re-
sponse that her report may be com-
pleted by November 28. Please at-
tend to it at once.

MRS. C. P. JOHNSON,
Secretary.

FARMERS’ CLUB FAIRS.

 

Columbia Farmers' Club.

The Annual Fair of the Columbia
Farmers’ Club was held October 10 at
Mountain Ash Farm, with Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Peterson. A large attend-
ance, with much interest displayed in

the. fancy work shown by the ladies,
while the exhibit of farm products
though not as large as usual, owing to
the rainy day, was of splendid quality.
MISS Pauline Raven, of Lansing, gave
an address on “Cellege Extension
and Home Economics.” Her explana-
tion of the work done by the college

0 along this line was of much interest,

much more so as Miss Raven’s former
home was in Columbia, and she is

, favorably known as a member of this

Club. Mrs. Davison gave a vocal solo.
A recitation was given by Raymond
Ladd. Mrs Dunn gave a reading on
the “Benefits of Recreation,” and the
company sang a hymn composed by
Dr. E. N. Palmer, “Michigan, My Mich-
igan.” An invitation was given to
meet with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Halla-
day, former members of the Club, at
their home in Clinton, the invitation
being accepted for the November
meeting—Maude Smith, Reporter.

 

PROGRAM OF TWENTY-SECOND
ANNUAL ASSOCIATIONAL
MEETING.

Tuesday, December 1, 1914.
10- 0 A M.

 

Payment of dues.

' Presenting credentials.
Appointment of committees.
Presentation of resolutions.

1' 0 P M

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Music, School for the Blind.

Invocation, Rev. W S. Steensma,
East Lansing.

Report of Associational Secretary,
Mrs. C. P. Johnson, Hadley and Elba
Farmers’ Club.

Music, School for the Blind.

Reading, Hazel Belle Crosby, Battle
Creek.

Farm co-operation, J. C. Ketcham,
Hastings; Grant Slocum, Detroit; J.
N. McBride, Burton.

. Tuesday Evening.

Banquet, First Baptist Church.

President’s address.

Round table.

Wednesday, December 2.

8:00 A. M.

Conference of local Club workers,
directed by A. B. Cook, Maple River
Farmers’ Club.

10:00 A. M.

Report of Committees: Temper-
ance, honorary members, Club exten-
sion, good of the order, credentials,
national affairs, state affairs.

Miscellaneous business.

11 :00 A. M.

Election of officers.

1:00 P. M.

Music, Eureka Quartet, Greenbush
Farmers’ Club.

Invocation.

Report of committee on state affairs.

Music, Eureka Quartet.

Banking for ,the farmer and farm
credits, Prof. W. O. Hedrick.

Music, Eureka Quartet.

Conservation of farm women, Mrs.
T. W. Hart, Marion Farmers’ Club.
Reading, Mrs. Roy Latson, Howell
Farmers’ Club.

Music, Eureka Quartet.

The historical museum, Mrs. M. B.
Ferry, Lansing.

7:00 P. M.

Music, Eureka Quartet.

Treasurer’s report.

Music, Industrial School.

Reading, A. C. Bucknell, Milford
Farmers’ Club.

Solo, Prof. Fred Killeen, Lansing.

How the working of the tax com-
mission impresses the farmer, Alfred
Allen, Ingham County Farmers’ Club.

Music, Industrial School.

Address, James Schermerhorn, De-
troit Times.

Thursday, December 3.
Visiting day at state institutions.
The ladies of the First Baptist

Church will furnish dinners and sup-
pers at the church.

All exhibits in boys’ and girls’ con-
tests must be entered Tuesday a. m.
if possible. .

Resolutions should be written and
delivered to the proper committees.

All topics open for discussion.

 

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NOV. 21, 1914.

BREWERS’ DIRECTORY. ’
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN ANGUS

d rlin ready for service. Sired

I: Bfijdufilhlfa $1.333“ nl‘ls. Closely related toifive
grand hamp ions—Brother. Sister. Sire, hm S’re s
lBrotherand Grandsire. (InternationalGransdol awm
inch for three years in succession. P-rice: 97811;). t

eet prospective ”JrOhfig: either a cmerse .
1111113113: lbgggdsgggegngod calves from these bulls
even with strongly da ry type grade cows.
GEO. B. SMITH HQ 00..
ADDISON ANDSO MERSET. MICHIGAN.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

HERD FOUNDED IN 191;“? Bl k
consist of Trojan :- one so .
gifii‘i'nREfi‘i‘i‘ifilyh Blaclrt. Qfififlégymlgofiefimll of
i met
ralvgdgdfigg‘Hrlotysrficn FARM. Ionia. Mich.

 

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AIRSIIIIIEsficIIs: ggil‘grnffdaelnilnofiflg?id 110m. SOslve:

. i Le horn occke Duroc Jersey
glntlhirgihggxer Sch%ol for the Deaf. Flint. Michigan.

BEACH FARM

OUERNSEYS

At Three-Fourths to One-Half Price

Owing to the quarantine stopping the moving
of cattle. we will contract our young. pure bred
bulls at the above discount to be delivered as
soon as the quarantine is lifted. (if the State does
not bury them). People who got our price list
can verify the above by dropping us a card. All
will receive a square deal. Three of these bulls
are old enough for service. These prices will not
last. better act quick

CAMPBELL 6: ANGEVINE.
cowwarsn. MICHIGAN.

—-F Ma Bose Strain. A select herd.
Ournfll: Tznlo‘lll‘ested. Several A. B. Cows
J. K. Blatchford. Windermere Farm Watervliet. Mich

e have for sale a number of pure Guernsey cows.
heifers and bulls. also Berkshire ho
VILLAGE FA ARM. Grass Lake.

 

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mun“. 1113311011 [flu sellin is in breeding? Write.
10H EBELS. R. 10. olland, Mic lg n.

 

FOR SALE.
Three Flne Young Bolts

8. 9 and 10 months old. from
20 and 20 pound cows.
each one giving over 10.000
lbs 25:milk a year—prices. 8100.
25and 3150. be two old-
est nicely marked—the other
has black backand sides. with
somBe white. DeKol Zn.d
B9rd. and King of the
Pontiacs’ blood.

BIGELOW'S HOLSI'EIN FARM
Breedsville. Mlch._

ESPANORE FARM, Lansing, Michigan.

Offers for sale

Two Holstein Bull Calves

Excellent breeding and fine individuals. Write
for particulars.

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EASE S. OSBOBN
.0 11. 10".", nunsrgnuu

DAM 11. rnnauso

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

l'O HOLSTEIN BULLS

FROM 1 l0 3 YEARS OLD

Ten Bull calves, two to ten months old.
Ten cows, Your Choice from my entire
herd. Don’t let anybody make you
believe he can sell you a better bull for
less money than I can. Don’t delay the
purchase of bull until the other fellow
gets the one you want. Write me or
come at once. -

Le Es CONNELLg r.yet3°. Ohio.

MIOHIEII llOlIE RIIO IRIlllllls SOIlOOL

LEAP IGA
Breeder of High Grade RHolstein Cattle. Lists and
prices upon application.

m_ a" “Rush ofl'elr ohoioelwlgrulll chfllliolstein
s. o. arrnronnss N 11.1.» M stunner? ich.

First Orall for 3125"“ 01 111313.211" “$31,133:?a
.0, b. CHAS. B.RILEY.R. No.1. Metamora. Mich.

 

 

 

 

egistered Holstein Bull.
18 lbs of butter in 7 days. Sire. Pontiac Korndyke and
King Segis breeding. Mostly white very large. in fine condition.
One of-the best individuals we ever saw. Only 360 delivered to
your town with all pa ers, sate arriv guaranteed. Worth
twice the price. OBART W. FAY. Halon. Michigan.

>A Pure-Bred

 

 
 
    
      

bull counts for more than
the dam in grading up.
You should be developing
some Mpounds-of-butter cows. The thorough-
bred bull is worth all he costs on grade or
full-blood Jersey cows. ‘ Like begets like.
THE AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB
324W. 236 St. New York City.

 
 

 

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

Bulls ready for service. several from Register of
Merit Oows. Four bred heifers. good ones. Herd
Tuberculln tested. Pri rices reasonable.

COLON C. LILLIB. Coopersvllle. Michigan.

THE WILDWOOD HERD

Registered Jerseys. Herd headed by Majest 's Wonder
No. 9071?. Bull calves for sale by Majesty’ s cnder and
from 111 h producing dams. Also a Grandson of Stoke
Pogis of$rospect. Born March 1913. Satisfaction ar-
anteed. Write for prices. Alvin Balden. Capac. ich.

CROUSI'I’S OLD HOMESTEAD JERSEYS

surplus Full Blood Jerseys are sold.

Allm
J. B. "éROU USE, Hartlsnd, Michigan.

Jere. s. Bulls ready for service. extra quality sired
nooba' s Fairy Emanon. No fro mhig
SMITH A PARKER. Howellm Mich.

 

 

 

producing dams.

—-Hoifors from Register of Merit
For sal. 1.3913 Ancestry. Raleigh—King and Exile
of St. Lambert breeding. Also cows with Register of
Merit records. Waterman & Water-an. Ann Arbor. Ileb

HOLSTEIN BULLS Begging?
World record stock 8100 to 3300. LON BEACH
ARMS. Augusta. Kalamazoo 00.. Michigan.

from hi h- roduci d with
III"! BIIII3 II" sale testin “11.5%. recoxlgis..:ll.s'o<m
semi-official test. 0.B .We ner.B . 6.Allegan. Mich.

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE

Ready for light service from a 30-11) sire.

HOLSTEIN BULLS

rich in the blood of Her: erveld De Kol. Friend
Hengerveld De K01 Butter 0y. and Pontiac Korn-
dyke. three his son 11. King of the Pontince. and
Eontinc A8819 Korndyke. Pedigrees on application.

D. 3. LBWI I8, Marshall. Mich.

 

HATCH HERD
REGISTESRELD HOLSTEIII- FROIESurIS

ANTI MICH.
nanny HESAIDIERS 11-0.}. choice A. 11.0

d
King Pontiac Jewel ams and

Kornd yke. 60da1ns in his
pedigree greeavernaf 931.% pounds iny 7 days. Average r
cent of fat of roe nearest dams 4. 37. Sires in if.
three generations in his pedigree have 500A.R
daughters. Prices res: :onable.

flour own so ecticn at Ashmoor Farms.
Tecumee flM‘Hichigan. F D. No. 2. oraddre
D. YPSILANTI. MICHIGAN.

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For Sale Pure Bred

Holstein Heifers and Bolts.

De K01 and Landry Girl Burner Boy strain.
LEWIS NELLER, - Lansing, Mich.

EOISTERED HOLSTEINS—
R Bonte Butter Boy No.93 H'erd headeRLAIDZi-n:

omcial “yearly record. Butter-En lbs. Milk mlbs. as a
No stock for sale. w. 3. Reader. Howell. lick.

FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls

for service. and bl also
FnrlnuAN J. Irrsrinrrwurr.“l 1133.11. m

FOR REGISTE
875 for 3%?) agLSTElN BULL. ready

service.
istered calves. For nick “5:” One month

RIVE BVIEW FAR .3. No.8. Va-nr. Mich.

asel-Let Herd Sires—Line bred Hem!” D03
301b b. dam Line bred Pontiac IKer ke llldlb. 3-1;"!
am flgrvloe {0683505 63%. I4.- fluentllsh.

“Top-Notch” Holsteins.

Exit-slugs fine men bull bcno
nun-omega» reocl'dcriai "m e [01:74.3313

moon-.3 m 31...». a..." ,3.
“flatworms—unseen“

m Ma. ”hm
Hservice out cfA.B.0.ccnmm1-mm
or money refunded Jones rt Lute. Osko Grove. Mi

Holstein-Frieda BreederTh "m "
represented. D. D. urns rr‘ri'ho?rmi3§1gkf1i°d

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NOW IN SERVICEi‘inS‘s'BgfifFSLRJSOAROMELE‘?

GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.

 

MAPLE Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd—Tu-
berculin testedb by Government. For sale

later of Merit cows. also bulls. bull calves and
hei er calves. havinin'rom 3 to 7 Register-of Merit dams
intheir pedigrees R VIN FOX. Allegan. Michigan.

JERSEYS —For list of stock for
sales and Jersey facts
writeA. P. EDISON. Sec. M. 0.. 326W WBridge.
Gtrand Rapids. Mich. If a breoedor and amember
le J. C. 0. send list of stock for sale to the above.

 

 

BUTTER BRED JERSEYS nULu

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCIE FARM.E
611 liver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

LIE RS E YS‘YE‘x'lLNc'R" luckLhfiii‘cDJVSE’R

kwator Farm. B. F.D .7. Ann Arbor. Mich

 

Oloung lhorlhorn Bulls §239132‘S.D°“Y°“““
H. B. PETERS. Burton. Michigan. R B. Elsie.

—Dairy or beef bred Breeding stock all
Shodhoms ages for sale at farmers prices. C. W. Crum.
Sscy Cent. Mich. Sher-thorn Breeders’ Assn.. McBride, Mich.

SRORTRORI BOLLS FOR SILE‘B‘"d “3%,“... 3°“;

10. 1901 lbs. milk and 518 lbs. butter with first calf in“ one
year. Reasonable price. Write. r.w. Jehnson.0aster,lleh.

SROIIRORIS: OOROIOE YOUNG OOLLS FOR SILE

w. w. KNA APP. Howell. Michigan.
SHEEP.

hm—Yeaflinfhsnd ram lambs from Chem ion

mb of MIOLAIBO AInoselect rk-
diise swine. Elmhnret Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.

 

 

 

Rams and Ewes from the first prize flocks of Cot-molds

laieesters, Lincolns and Oxford Downs; two years old rains
Some of these
Harry T. Crandell. Cass City. Mich.

and ewes; yearling rams and lambs. either sex.
areunbeaten this year.

 

RAMS—SHBOPSHIRES OXFORDS AND
HAMPSHIBES. Good strong well
woclod fellows ready for business. pod? you
without he money. Isn.t that fair? f so ”write
K0 PE KON FARM. Kinderkook. Michigan.

POLLEO OELIlllE RIMS FOR SILEbomhifig

s hearers. F. LB B.ROKAW Eagle. Michigan.

m ERNIE: IL1t lflflnfi WW fins“
Yearling: and lamb:

M. F. GANSSLIY. Lennon. Mic

XFOIEI'L)i Down: 1313:; and Eweoiagmobs. and Re E
81' IO!-
carer's s'b'cx um. 11. 1. Plumes?” °“ °

 

 

 

Dams A. R. 0. records neaer

 

 

    

rr rays 10 our rung 1111mm sneer or
, PARSOI‘IEI‘The ho: .1}: soft ..

lbarren-d]. ”d it." for club .3? and $563“ lint.
S.GrandLedge.Mich. B I.

 

 

NGLESIDB FARM ofiers fifteen choice recorded
breeding ewr-s ol‘ good a es. also earlin and
lamb rams. HERBERT E. OWELL. onia, ich.

MAPLESHADE FARM SHROPSHIRES. Ram
Lambs of Choice Breedin . Ewes all sold.
w. P. PULLING s: SON, Perms. Michigan.

_ f
SHROPSIIIRES 3313?? ’Sfih‘h‘h "£33131“
Prices right. WILLISS. M AD ER Lapoer. Mich.

Yearling Shropshire Rams at price: lhal are rlglrl.

RRISH, Flushing, Michigan.

REOISIEREO OXFORO “341.0“, 9° .1-‘15 “am

3. F. MILLER. Flint. Michigan.

SllllOPSlllllE RIMS IllO EWS FOR SALE
DAN BOOHER. R. No. 1, Marion. Michigan.
REG. SHROPSHIR 4.333.320.2313;

HARRY POTTER. B. No. 5. Davison. Michigan.
THE MAPLBS SHROPS—We ofi'er 20 extra yearling

1d to k ram bred by Cam bell. also
loandsrt oSon. 3.11.9 Ann Argos. Mich

 

 

 

 

 

 

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H008.

' -—0rders booked for sows tcbe
BCILSIIIIOS next spring farrowing.
each now. B. B. REA VE EY. Akron, Mi

bred for
n.

 

“OIL II. —Reg. Berkshire Bears ready for services
3 I": also spring pigs either sex at farmer.
prices. White Oak Farm.R ..No 4. Brown City. Mich.

nomrou onro ornrsnlnrrsghj'ésiiz‘u‘. .

finered stock with a at farmers' prices.
ALEN’I‘INE’ Elm-1.. Temperance. Michigan.

BERKSHIRES‘?;‘.‘3:..1..°“°..‘°° 92.,“ has”

A. A. PATTULLO. Deciervllle. Michigan.

Anything“1 1n Reg. Chester White Swine. 10 weeks
old 1%“ Reg. Holstein Herd Bull cheap.
A; POARH AM. Bronson. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

“ESTER WHITES. August and September pigs. firom
sires as Chickasaw Bud. Modeler. Bronson King. Acertificate
of registry with each pig. John Gintllng. Bronson, Michigan.

 

AMPSHIRE Swine-Breedin 11%Vstcck of all ages
from most p cgular strains. rite for breedin.
Inspection invite Floyd Myers. B. 9. Decatur. In.

HAMPSHIRE SWINE-Choice young stock for fall breeding.
both ears. prices reasonable. West \\ ind Farm. Pontiac.
Mich. E. P. HAMMOND. ansr. N. A. WISEB. Manager.

Fall eggs 35

   

  

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ton wsrcnrp 932 us.
A 23 mourns c o

    
 
  

I have started more breeders on the road to suc-
cess than anylmana living. I have thelargeet and flu-
est herd in t Every one an early developer.
ready forthe market at six month s old. I want to
place one hog in each community to advertise my
erd Write for my plan,‘ ‘How to Make Money from .
Hogs " o. a. ermsmnamcac Portland. llsh.

  
      
   
 
    
 

 

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CUISINE OUI SILE 25.3 3113;; fig 1:3] at? bar
JAY .1. NEFCY. 11. No. 791. Lapeer, M131, “a.

' f t f rices. will

Onroc Boar: & Gulls :sgi’:.%...t1“§ot’ib,‘;. 11.. 1...
bone kind. FRANK MATHL E.WS Bristol. Ind.

—15 ring boars and

Duroc Jerseys 1.132.. .1.0 1111.11

1 from the principal strains; pairs andtrios 8.
OHTAHLMAN Cherry Lawn Fol-n1 Shepherd. M'ich.

 

 

 

Duroo Jersey Bears

From Prize-Winning Stock.
Write. or better still. come.

Broohwater Farm, Ann Arbor ,Mlch.,ll.F.ll.7.
llllllOC JERSEYS, Spring Pigs For Sale

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.

DUROC BOARS For Sale, pgfggflggmgtggz
about 1'15 lbss. A ril do Ma fax-row 325 while the last.
H.1-IKEG.LE.RR o. 5. Cassopolis. ich.

 

 

 

_ , s M hilt
Ouroc homo fi??°i.‘t?‘t'..t°“§3.£i..”8.£cei
femur. W.0 AYLOR. Milan. Michigan.
ounoc hoists-surgery.“ so:
BERT SWEET R. R.N udsonvllle. ich.

—Au . pigs. either sex. Also Holstein
nuroc .I.I3.y3 bul calf. and Indian Runner Drakes
at reasonable prices. E. H. MORRIS. Monroe. Mich.
K0". El SIOOK 310"" now oifer Duroo Jersey pi s

' of either sex at reasonabe
prices. ORNELL. Howell. Michigan.
Dunn: JERSEYS—Springi pigs of either sex at reneon~

able prices. Pairs not akin.
W. J. BAUMAN. Burr Oak. Michigan.
—For sale. of the heavy boned type.
DIII'OC Jerseys A few choice boars and fall pigs.
M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Ingham Oo. .. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

   
  
   
      
     
  

Two 0. I. C. Hogs
Weigh 2806 lbs.

Whylose profits breedin
and leodlngo scrub hogs r‘

o of euro Hog;
weigh 2806 lbs. l'VVill sh

{011 sample pair of these

amous hogs on time and

given aency to first applicant. We

are c gitna ore. most extensive breeders
and shippers of thoroughbred hogs in the
world. All foreign shipments

U. S. Govt. Inspected

We have bred the 0. I. C. Ho for 6! years
and have never lost a ho wit cholera
orany other contagious ease.

Wrr te—Todcufi-

for Free Book. "The
Hog from Birth to Sale"

THE L. B. SILVER C0.
196 Vickers Bldg.. Cleveland. 0.

o I c SWIIIe—l stock boar. also 3 and 5 months
' 0 ' old 1%!) from good thrifty stock.
Prices reasonable. REP EBEB. Royal Oak. Mich.

 

 

o I O. —Bred sows and springigs.w large and growthy.
Pairs and tries not Write your wants.
GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. Zeeland. Mich.

March. A ril and May 1 the big.
0- '- cl fl rowthy kfn dthat alwayspnfilres good.
LEMUEL NIC 0L8. R. F. D. No. 2. Lawrence. Mich.

 

—0hoice spring boars of March and
o ril farrow. Prices ri
JOHN BERNIE A AHON. Grand Ledge. Mlchlgan.

—Servioe boars. also tits

0. I. C. SWine of Spring fggrow, p 30.

your order with me before they are sold. Get my

price on girl and triRos of Aug. and Sept. farrow.
ORDEN, No.2 .Dorr. Michigan.

0. l O. and Chester White Swine.

We won this year at Ill. State Fair. nine first
goizes. four second and five Champions including

th Grand Champions; at Wis. we won twelve first
prizes. five seconds and all Champions. We ha ave over
00 pigs on hand of ever age. All stock is sht god
on their own meriRts. . 0. D. R0 LING V
STOCK FARM, ..No 2.01139 City. Michigan.

9 -— rin pigs. in and tries. o.
0. Is 03 3:1 in. 8from lstate fair winndls.
AVONDALE STOCK! . Wayne. Michigan.
01' c! --I have extra line lot of last spring boars
3 and a lot of this r1111 111,11. either sex. not

an.

akin. will have a bred sow sale in
Depot. OTTO

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mile west
3. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

srsready for service. Also sprin
wlfiilts. stock recorded in Goehen In.
ANN. Dansville. Michlm

 

o I COM Choice Gllts for Spring Farrow. Not bred.

May hoioe macs-vice blebo th 1
bodied kind. 1191's v. 11er (11-1... Lilac. 311%“?

0 l.C’s-192mm:mastitirhtimitrrs
G. P. ANDREWS. Dansville. Michlgan.
o. I 0' files. '1"..n‘s..1it.‘1°'..sss.eszs°°
A.B. GRAHAM. FLINT. MICH HIGA AN.

0 l C'—<1!(I)I m bbgars.’g(l)8 to “giaachd One very
or . n
c. J. THOMPSON, nochro'r'dB hamlet“...

MO. I. C! s—Largesbone kind. Tak

0.0.». a. . nowmh' modificlzghnfiapma'

o. l. GS‘MIC‘I‘LY BIO mm!“ 11 yrs-
lengthh weith quality. Len y boo-Prince one oi‘ the largest
boarsth need. heads our herd assisted

byWhite Monarch and Frosts 0110109..an prize under
six Months heart at Mo. Inter State ll‘ai‘re 1914 Stock
for sale at all prices reasons

dm
' NEWMAN'S STOCK “FARM R. No. 1. M‘srlette, Mich.

 

UROC JERSEYS—85 fancy boars and gilts of popular
1) blood lines. good individual quality. Special prices for
30 days. JOHN McNICOLL. Ste. A. E. ,Bay City, Michigan.

POLAND OHINAS

The Large Prolific Kind
V“ 1.... “ SPRING BOARS
nice lot of
At Farmers’ Prices.
ALLEN BROS
Paw Paw. - - Mlchl‘an.
POLLAln WWII—21:3? ypsiggclfighld'lasrex' anglers.
L. W. BARNES SON. Byron. Mici
LARGE IYPE l’. O. ‘31.?” PJ'sS'E‘iifiili‘E '23:
bred gllts. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Auguste. Mich.
Bigiz Type Poland Chins Boers and Gilte lenty of

si no and great ualit I know I can ease on.
ROBERT MARTINJI .F.D .No. 7. East 1139. ioh.

——0ne extra good fall yearlin
“Ix. Slraln P c and the best lot of spring boar:
from large litters of the best breeding; 9 sows farrowing
88 p133. H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Michigan.

POLIllO Ollllll OOIRS‘MSJSEUBRLSE’R".mr‘l'n‘“

right. G. W HOLTON. R. No. 11. Kalamazoo. Mich.

or: me eouro colors For sch-e 1.5.1....

by that great 10001b. boar. Killer-est Wone er.
make great brood sows. ave also some splendid TfaII
pigs. HILLOREBT FARM. Kalamazoo. Mlchlflan.

—Maroh and April furrow. lar
Puland chill" P33“) and well r.own One yearlirzig
boar. H. H. CO arising. Michigan.

11111 sue-e grassesreassess“..

Prices righti YDE FISHER: St. LouisI Michm
For Sals. Poland Ohina Pigs“§.';’” “d m99’hfirml';
point. Carson city. A. O. Shinabargar. Crystal. WILL"
of the bi ty March andA ril
POIIIIII IIIIIIII3 farrow. he piglnd that ploasegur
customers. A. A. WOOD & SON. Saline. Mich.

Poland Chinss, either sex. all ages. Something good
at a low DLflceG Bargains in boars ready for sor-
F. D. 8. Grand Rapids. Mich.

Plum Creek Stock Farm now offer choice heavy boned Duroc
Jersey Boats ready for service. Fall pigs. pairs not akin.
Also Shropshire Rams F. J. Drodt. R No.1.Mon 0e. Mich

THE FARMERS' HOG. -—Butler' 5 Big Boned Prolific
Poland Ohinas grow big. kee easy. mature early.
ready for market at 6 months. by? B

 

vice. P. 9.1%

ecause we' ve
bred them that way for more than 20 years. 50 big
boned long bodiekd. high class boars at farmers' prices.
Buy one and make more money on yuo he s. 0.
History Free. J. 0. BUTLER. Portland. Michigan.

LAIIBE IIPE P. c —Largost in Mich. Fall pigslred all
sold order a sprin i

by the lat est boar in the U. 8.. wet g ht rushed

months 01 Come and see. penses aid if not as

represented. W. E. LIVINGS’I ON. arms. Mich.

LARGE STYLE POLAND CHINA SPRING and FALL

PIGS. Dai r Breed Shorthorn B lls d 0
Buck Lambs. Prices right. Robert ills". Plane-3%)?

BIG TYPE POLAND ClIINAS‘BW, “P

f
nowvl‘ironiesvvA They are corker'e and immuned.°r

AF'FLE. Goldwater. MI 0111 im

Bred sows. bred ilts and be
MUIO F00! pigs, not related. Ior sale. Satai:
faction guaranteed. KRIGLOW. Ada. Ohio

-—We ”havoc some nice May 1 .both
'"hm 8"“"99 Write for descript on and

prices. OSTRANDER BROS. Morley. ichigan.

YORKSHIRES

The! Io bodied. ifi kind. Gilt- bredfo
”egg: anHOetc bewarr‘hw.A Achoioce lot 0;

"MW. nadir.“ u. 42. Ads. 11:111.“.
Lillie Farmstead Yorkshires

81913161“ gilts and gilts bred for September farrow.
pigs either sex pairs and tries not akin.
Satisfae ion guarante te.ed

COLON c. LILLIB. Coopersvllle. Michigan.

 


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o HIS is the first car of its‘
size, capacity, power and
electrical equipment to

(sell below $1000!

Though the price is lower
$ than ever, the quality is main-
tained throughout. All ma-
terials, metals and workman-
lship are of the very best.

This newest Overland has
lthe genuine fashionable
’stream-line body design.

The body color is Brew-
{ster green—always so rich and
attractive. It is neatly trim-
~med with fine hair-line strip-
Uing of ivory white.

' The electric starting and

electric lighting equipment is

one of the most reliable and

.best established on the market.

There is also a high ten-
‘sion magneto which is inde-
pendent of the starting and
lighting 8 stem and requires
no dry ce ls.

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This car rides iust like it
looks—beautifully. The new,
long, improved underslung
rear springs give maximum

riding comfort under all con-‘

ditions. ,
Tires are 33" x 4" all a-
round. Never before has a
car at this price come equip-
ped with such large tires.
It seats five adults com-
fortably, without crowding.

It is a big, spacious five-pas-p

senger touring car.

It has the famous Over?

land 30 h. p. motor of remark-
able strength, speed, durability
and economy, developing more
power than you will ever re-
quire.

This car at this price is

destined to be known as the
greatest motor car achieve-
ment of the season.

Orders are now being

taken for immediate delivery.
Please address Dept. 86.

‘ rice! I7
Stone and Lug-

Following are a few of

the many high-grade
features

30 h. p. motor

Stream-line body

Ample room for 5 passenger.
Electrically started
Electrically lighted

Electric horn

High-tension magneto

All electric switches on
instrument board of cowl M
Ventilating, rain-vision type ’
windshield

High-grade upholstery
Theme-syphon cooling

Five bearing crankshaft

Rear axle; floating type

Rear springs; extra long.
underslung, 3-4 elliptic

106 inch wheelbase

33 inch x 4 inch tires
Demonntable rilns

One extra rim

Left-hand drive

Center control

Body color: Brewster green
with ivory white striping
Mohair top, top boot, robe rail,‘
foot rest, speedometer, tire
carriers, full set of tools. jack
and pump.

The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio

.fifillflllllllllll ‘

Model H Prices :
5 Passenger Toads: Car
2 Pawnee- Roadster

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‘.‘1Illllnnnni¢.\n l'

Model 81 Mess I
I Passenger Touring Car a a
IPassen or Roadster . - a 795
Delivery axon with closed body a 5
Delivery Wagon with open body

Medeleflees:

4 Passe-set C's-90 ' ‘
Alumni. e. 0. Toledo. on.

mo‘